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You know how the scam works, right? One day you are an innocent growing girl who meets a bunch of guys who are just so much fun. They have cars, they have money and they like to party. You are a princess, you can have anything you want but then you get a taste for the free junk and the free blow and then you find out it isn't free at all. A few beatings later and you're paying it back by selling your ass on the streets and you'll be doing that till your ass is worthless and then you'll be tossed on the scrap heap with nothing left.
That's what the US has been doing all over the third world for decades. If you haven't read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" (John Perkins) yet, well maybe you should and it's a quick read. The hitmen go to tinpot regimes, talk the local government into taking out loans for big infrastructure projects and if plain old sweet talking doesn't do the trick then they turn to bribes - and if bribes don't work then your plane will suddenly stop flying one day while you're in in high up somewhere. After that they jerk you around and shuffle the pea so the debt grows and grows and then they start milking until your country is Zimbabwe.
Well, I guess all the third worlders were sucked dry. Seems like the crooks turned to farming the suckers in their own back yards. I'm talking about Birmingham Alabama and the sewage plant debacle. The graphic at the top of that article says it perfectly. Unfortunately I wasn't able to embed it here.
That's what the US has been doing all over the third world for decades. If you haven't read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" (John Perkins) yet, well maybe you should and it's a quick read. The hitmen go to tinpot regimes, talk the local government into taking out loans for big infrastructure projects and if plain old sweet talking doesn't do the trick then they turn to bribes - and if bribes don't work then your plane will suddenly stop flying one day while you're in in high up somewhere. After that they jerk you around and shuffle the pea so the debt grows and grows and then they start milking until your country is Zimbabwe.
Well, I guess all the third worlders were sucked dry. Seems like the crooks turned to farming the suckers in their own back yards. I'm talking about Birmingham Alabama and the sewage plant debacle. The graphic at the top of that article says it perfectly. Unfortunately I wasn't able to embed it here.
