" ....Profits are OK within the context of a world with a level playing field."
philippe diaz
$200 billion/year - follow the flow - south finances the north
30%> consumption than planet can replace
need 6 planets for all to live like we do in the U.S.
each 3.6 seconds, person dies of starvation.
how many people will we kill before we wake up to facts? RESOURCES ARE LIMITED
1492 - europe decided to expand.... french brits dutch to indonesia, africa
take away land... create a slave... cannot grow food, so must sell labor - then take water, timber, minerals....
must create more poverty in south to fund the north
17 died on the job - 419 died as a result of their work
documented cases of slave labor in sugar cane industry......health, food, shelter used to be provided by slave owner! now they load up the truck and take day labor....
create fake debt AND force privitization - THIS IS THE FORMULA
jeff sacks - ruined bolivia’s economy by forcing privitization.
--- intro John Perkins’ story......
MORE than global warming is going on!
FILM IS DEDICATED TO THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD
20,000 die each day.
IDEA: tax property, not labor!
work less, consume less but better......
it is a mathematical problem......
------ clip of the film END OF POVERTY john perkins interviews vice-president of Bolivia for the film --------
bolivia has many natural resources, and lots of poor people. “colonial condition” a paradoxisn’t it? - colonialism is part of development of capitalism, NOW we MUST globalize in a way other than accumulation of capital!
what should bolivia do to make change? 9 million people. 62% indiginous. city and farmland. 32 indiginous groups/nations. in 181 years of political rule, have never been recognized as citizens with rights! past 5-6 years in latin america, movement of world citizenship and planetary responsibility, is beautiful, bolivia wants to live a better life. 58% live on < $2/day
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amy goodman interviews john perkins, new book “Hoodwinked, an economic hitman reveals why world imploded and what is needed to fix them.....
explains what an economic hitman is.....
(build infrastructure in the 3rd world; put country in debt..... go back later to get a pound of flesh, oil/build military base/ or jackals come in and overthrow those in power....
mutant, viral form of capitalism has developed in last 30/40 years, late 70’s..... beginning with Reagan and Milton Friedman: MAXIMIZE PROFIT is their objective. Regulation is bad. Privitize. Is predatory capitalism - unjust/dangerous world results.
Sick Things:
```goldman sacs,
```jack welch (Mfg. to Fin. Srv. company transition.... got rid of 25% of staff...),
```citi group,
children all across the world must have a level playing field.
internet. cell phones. democracy now. are all around the world!
we are one now.
recent hondorus coup:
perkins was in panama when it happened
Zalia, the democratically elected president wanted new constitution, and 60% > in wage rate
Dole, Chiquita (formerly United Fruit) objected!
(Aristead in Haiti did something similar)
school of americas grad brought in to overthrow Zalia (United Fruit did this in guatamala in the 50’s.)
in the southwester hemisphere, 10 countries, new leaders......
corporations draw a line in the sand HERE.
the swirling clouds are the big corporations......
geopolitics...... they call the shots..... know no national boundries...... market/resources rule...... obama is in, and corporations are still calling shots, so PEOPLE MUST RISE
Profits are OK within the context of a world with a level playing field.
Our HOMELAND is this planet.
Melting Glaciers - tibet several years ago, glacier was at road and @ that time was then a mile away. supplies water to china and india. lead to 5 major rivers..... what if they dry up?
one of root causes of terrorism: results from starvation, desparation. driven off farmlands by hydroelectric plants....
perkins has interviewed many of them.....
somali pirates - can no longer fish in their waters to feed people..... fished dry or nuclear contamination from u.s. military vehicles.....
need set of laws: businesses must be environmentally and socially responsible. give them a charter - must prove they serve the public interest ... (late 1800 court decision, corporations are “entities” - Rockerfeller took it and ran with it!. Must change this law.) CORPORATIONS are there to serve THE PEOPLE. Charter can be REVOKED if public interest is not served....
End-of-Interview
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