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#673: The Art of the Steal | John Perkins (Clip) · Macroaggressions

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  Let's talk about this, because you mentioned in the book, and I thought it was kind of
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  interesting for people to understand that there is a formula when you are an economic hitman.
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  There are four pillars, you so to speak, that you focus on when you really want to put a
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  country into a bind and you describe them as fear, debt, DEBT, debt, not death, I
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  anxiety over scarcity and divide and conquer. When you have those four nailed down, the few
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  can control the many, can they not? That's those are historical pillars and yes,
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  and throughout history fear has been one of the strongest ones, you know, fear your
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  neighbors, fear invasion, fear us, you get aside with us, you got to work with us,
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  you got to trade with us, we'll invade you, you know, that's been a big one, but
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  also debt and debt is not just money debt, it's, you know, your daughter, Mr. King,
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  I've taken over your lands, I've taken over your regime and your daughter's
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  now going to marry my son and we have this, you know, indebted to me kind of
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  thing, you know, the Godfather, you know, like here's $10,000 for your daughter's
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  wedding, now you owe me. And so there's this debt, debt takes on many
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  different perspectives and, and of course, anxiety over scarcity, over
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  insufficiency. You just don't have enough, you're not good enough, you need
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  us to pull you out of, you know, the shithole countries, you know, when you
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  tell a country that they're a shithole country, the people of vermin, my God,
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  what have you told them? And then you turn around and say, but we can pull you
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  out of this, you know, you're living in the dark ages, but you've got, you've got,
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  you just, you just, you don't have enough education, you don't have enough
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  money, you don't, you're overrun by crime and drugs and so on and so forth.
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  But, but we can pull you out and then divide and conquer, you know, it's
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  so old, the classic examples in recent history have been the colonialism of
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  Africa and Latin America and the Middle East by European countries. And
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  today in the United States, we've, we've got, we've got gerrymandering and
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  racial and religious discrimination, ideological divide and conquer and
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  red states versus blue states, you're either for me or you're against me.
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  And the fact of the matter is unified groups are hard to defeat. As the
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  13 states in the United States, 13 colonies showed during the American
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  revolution, you know, and at first they were, they were all split up.
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  They didn't, they couldn't agree on anything, but when they finally came
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  together, they were awesome. And now on the other hand, if you, if you've got,
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  if you can get states competing, like we've, like the colonial powers
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  have done in Africa and the Middle East and Latin America, then they're
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  easily bribed, manipulated, suppressed one at a time.
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  Hey, thanks for watching that clip. If you want to watch the entire video,
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  it is available as well, or you can check it out as an audio podcast,
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  wherever podcasters serve. Thanks a lot.