Stacy Summary: Very interesting study.
How did the CIA persuade these friendly governments to “Buy American”? A pair of additional analyses in the study provide some answers. First, the researchers find that the boost to imports came from CIA operations that helped to install or maintain U.S.-friendly dictatorships—it seems that the will of the people in democracies was effective in counteracting CIA influence. So U.S. exports didn’t benefit from “softer” interventions like the ones in postwar Japan or failed attempts at regime change, as in Syria, for example. (This may explain why CIA operations so often promoted dictatorships at the expense of democracy, a finding that a subset of the same authors report in a separate study.) Further, the authors report that the CIA-produced increase in U.S. imports is greatest for countries with government-dominated economies. It’s not that dictators were foisting U.S. toasters or microwaves on their people. Rather, U.S. interests were served primarily through the export of American-made power plants, fighter planes, and other government purchases.
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Thanks for the tip. As I read Confessions of an Economic Hitman, it dawned on me that he couldn’t be the one-and-only, nor could his projects be the only ones. Making me want to know, who TF are the rest of them, and WTF are they up to right now?
Naomi Klein deserves some type of Nobel Prize for her Shock Doctrine, IMO, for revealing the psychology behind Shock & Awe. My own work (I’m a psych grad school drop out, all but thesis) has focused on the psychophysiology of empathic altruism. More recently, I’ve been working on a thesis that I think you and Max will very much enjoy: it’s the mythology!
Did you know that Joseph Campbell lectured for the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute for decades, beginning in 1956? That should send a chill up the spine of anyone familiar with the Power of Myth.
Anyway, I’ve been meaning to email you. Especially ever since that line Max used the other day, to define the otherwise inexplicable impunity of financial terrorists: “innocence by institutionalized solipsism.” They play both Creators of the Known universe, gods among mortals; and when there’s hell to pay, they play the victim of that same Creator, they claim to be just “creatures,” just like the rest of us. Won’t you have pity on our poor MOTU?
As you may have realized, by now, this is the same dynamic in play with their “market-maker market-maker market-maker” defense, as used to a fair thee well while testifying to Congress. And now pity poor BP, who knew such a thing could happen?
I spent a long time looking for experts, like yourselves, making the obvious comparisons, between “perfect storms” that happen every other freakin’ week, and economic hit jobs. I’m so glad I’ve found you!
I bow in your virtual directions (Coriolis correction requested; not responsible for lost or stolen salutations or invitations; this offer self voids upon reading).
Dave “knowbuddhau” Parker
Oak Harbor, Washington state, USA
CIA or no, the US stopped producing goods of consumer or other — so essentially this intervention idea became less and less useful after the Nixon Shock.
Ergo, this kind of intervention will eventually backfire and it will not be pretty for the US at all.
A lot of these tactics were learned from the British Empire, but the British Empire had limits on perusing policies like this.
Why should anybody be suprised that our political leaders are so corrupt since they are absolutely bought-n-paid-for by Wall Stret/City of London?
It’s a mafia empire where it’s important to have ‘friendly’ politicans for bail outs.
I always heard that Slate had CIA connections itself.
Who better to influence both sides of the debate?
The Shah of Iran tried to buy Italian… once.
Very creative and imaginative works. So much so, that the question must be asked: “Can this be true?”
“Two weeks later, (Mr.) X – wholly unaware of the events of that evening – was visited in Nicaragua. He was presented with a copy of the video footage, along with instructions. Tatum says that X can never allow that video to be seen: “Not only does it reveal his homosexuality, but it also reveals his bestiality and satanic worship rituals.” As frame after frame flicked by, X reportedly wept, forced to watch himself kill his homosexual “lover” and then engage in the most grisly cannibalistic ritual imaginable.
Neutralized, Mr X became a leading member of the Nicaraguan government a few short weeks later.”
http://www.whale.to/b/guyatt.html
Mike Ruppert LA Town Hall meeting with CIA Director
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-476854098331433503#docid=-7726031384917866364
How did the CIA persuade Ross Perot to drop out of the Presidential race?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn-qAb3x9-4
Interview with Former CIA Operative Chip Tatum
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8127
Chip Tatum’s Widow
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-476854098331433503#
Was Chip Tatum murdered?
“He disappeared in 1998 and his body was found in early 2007 on a beach in Panama. He was tortured to death.”
Howard … now I get it. Tanks!
Stacy said:
“@Happy Dick – I think it’s more about securing an extension to Okinawa base.”
Bullseye Stacy! And it’s SO obvious, that it gives a perfect window into the “mind” of the American facist politico-criminal collective masquerading as Government Sachs.
I wish I had a big red button to hit that would end this disgusting era of human depravity…
Having lived in Japan for a year and South Korea for four, I can, without the slightest reserve, say that if this charade is carried out to the seemingly inevitable end where North Koreans and South Koreans are duped into killing each other so that U.S. corporate interests can maintain an illegitimate base on Okinawa, I will VERY PUBLICALLY apply for political asylum to either South Korea or Japan as a political refugee…
Any lawyers out there reading this? I’m VERY willing to be proactive in this regard.
Its ANAL I tell yas figurin stuff out
lololololololol
ROFL
Hic
Well Doubled Checked both exist but I was tote analysis
Ooops
I am wrong just checked Ms Werd
Ya happen to be correct
How did the CIA persuade these friendly governments to “Buy American”? A pair of additional analyses in the study
ya spelt analyses WRONG
Hic
@ Stacy
I coulda written tis article
Hic
Off ta poker
PS do I have any chances as a Journalist ?????
Lets take a rain Check
Peeps who tink “I” say “I” peeps who tink “Nay” say “Nay”
Ofc I will be loosely staelin info from a bunch of guys
But aint tat what Journalisim boiled down to nows ???????????
PS I will use MsWord fer Grammer
lololololololololololol
ROFL
Hic
Well off ta Zynga poker
@sh
They are brewing some war profiting tea brew. You know more about current events than I can keep up with … One item of concern are the amount of soldiers (several personal acquaintances) that have been deployed to S Korea within the past 3 months. Posturing for profit …
we are few in a world of many and demand to take more than we give so….”To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic-military
supremacy)… we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and
day-dreaming…. We should cease to talk about vague and… unreal
objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standard and
democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to
deal in straight power concepts…. The less we are then hampered by
idealistic slogans, the better.” -George Kennan [Director of Policy Planning U.S.State Department 1948]
CIA is Wall Street
Wall Street is CIA
CIA?? really?..noooo! cannot believe this..
Of Course Naomi Klein’s 2007 bestseller The Shock Doctrine provides a pretty good history on this subject
@Happy Dick – I think it’s more about securing an extension to Okinawa base.
Clinton Condems Attack on South Korean Ship
Already, there is evidence that the tensions have influenced security calculations in the region. After declining for months to work out a deal to move a Marine Corps air base on the island of Okinawa, Japan now appears to be working toward a resolution, driven in part by a reaffirmation of the role the United States military plays in Japan’s security, officials said.
Mr. Okada said his government was trying to convince residents of Okinawa that “in the current security environment, the presence of U.S. forces is indispensable for the security of Japan.” He said he hoped a deal would be reached by the end of May, the government’s self-imposed deadline.
The timing of this is somewhat slant eyed.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37309788/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
The volatility of the markets has been staggering, now they toss in the diversion.