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 <title>America Needs 435 Real Americans to run for Congress - Audio</title>
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 <title>Using their own words against them to prove that they are Lying</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/forum/using_their_own_words_against_them</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;One way to encourage people to investigate 9/11 is to prove to them that government officials are lying. One cannot prove the controlled demolitions in a matter of seconds, but the lying is much easier- especially if we use their own words and contradictory statements to prove that they are lying.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Exhibit 1: Condoleeza Rice to the 9/11 Commission about the August 6th Memo Bush received while on vacation in Texas: &quot;I believe the title was &lt;a href=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/audio/condi-the_title_was.mp3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong &gt;Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; &lt;img src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/nuke/images/mp3a.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Exhibit 2: Condoleeza Rice describing her reaction: &lt;a href=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/audio/condi-terrible_accident.mp3&quot;&gt;&quot;... my first thought was, what a terrible accident.&quot; &lt;img src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/nuke/images/mp3a.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Exhibit 3: Bush: &lt;a href=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/audio/bush-terrible_accident.mp3&quot;&gt;&quot;my first thought was, there&#039;s one terrible pilot...&quot; &lt;img src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/nuke/images/mp3a.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The obvious question is: Why did the President and National Security Advisor both think it was a terrible accident when they had recently received a memo titled &quot;Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Either they are incompetent or lying- period. There is no other explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/911">911</category>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:42:27 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Honky Tonkers for Truth- Takin My Country Back</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/forums/audio/takin_my_country_back</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong &gt;Honky Tonkers for Truth&lt;/strong&gt; with a &lt;big &gt;&lt;em &gt;great&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/big&gt; Country song&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/benfrank101@yahoo.com/1124-1-20060304-takinmycountryback.mp3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong &gt;&lt;big &gt;Takin&#039; My Country Back&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/nuke/images/mp3a.gif&quot;&gt; mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for any country music fan that still approves of Bush....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;please download and share (- ;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the Lyrics:&lt;/p&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/audio">Audio</category>
 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:46:59 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Misc Pro-Peace Audio</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/audio/misc_pro_peace_audio</link>
 <description>Except for the first song, these are all direct links to the mp3s, click to stream, or rt-click --&gt; &#039;save target as&#039; to download.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jynkz&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jynkz.com/turnthisworldaround.mp3&quot;&gt;Turn this World Around&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jynkz.com/yourwar.mp3&quot;&gt;We don&#039;t want your war&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;td style=&quot;width: 30px;&quot;&gt;4:28&lt;br&gt;4:14
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James McMurtry&lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.compadrerecords.com/downloadpages/We_Cant_Make_It_Here.mp3&quot;&gt;We Can&#039;t Make it Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;5:21&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yikes Mcgee&lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.comcast.net/%7Eyikesmcgee/liarsinchief.mp3&quot;&gt;Liars in Chief&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;4:19&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Willie Nelson&lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johnjosephkennedy.com/media/WillieNelson_WhateverHappened.mp3&quot;&gt;Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;2:44&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Army DU Specialist turned whistleblower&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Dr. Doug Rokke- &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/rokke-depleted_uranium-k19b.mp3&quot;&gt;Depleted Uranium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;7:31
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jay Mankita&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://jaymankita.com/they_lied_jay_mankita.mp3&quot;&gt;They Lied&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;4:35&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;27 yr CIA Analyst Ray McGovern&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/download/dsm1/dsm1-mcgovern-k142b.mp3&quot;&gt;on the Downing Street Memo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/benfrank101@yahoo.com/1124-1-20040726-mcgovern-itsthepolicies-k110b.mp3&quot;&gt;It&#039;s the Policies, Stupid!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
7:10&lt;br&gt;
8:15
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;War Veteran Aidan Delgado on his Iraq experience&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/download/iraq_war_veteran/aidan_delgado1-k14.mp3&quot;&gt;1 - What I saw in Iraq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/download/iraq_war_veteran/aidan_delgado2-k129b.mp3&quot;&gt;2 - Abu Ghraib&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/download/iraq_war_veteran/aidan_delgado3-k79b.mp3&quot;&gt;3 - War Makes Beasts of Men&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
4:04&lt;br&gt;
6:23&lt;br&gt;
6:09&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Howard Zinn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/zinn-cspan1-patriot.mp3&quot;&gt;1. unAmerican?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://twincities.indymedia.org/usermedia/application/13/zinn-cspan-patriot2.mp3&quot;&gt;2. Shameful&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/zinn-cspan-patriot3.mp3&quot;&gt;3. unAmerican pt2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indybay.org/uploads/zinn-cspan-patriot4.mp3&quot;&gt;4. Media Lies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(204, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&quot;No WMDs, no imminent threat...&lt;br&gt;
and the US is still there&lt;br&gt;
killing people in large numbers...&lt;br&gt;
there is something shameful about that.&quot;&lt;/span&gt; (mp3 #2)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;5:35&lt;br&gt;5:00&lt;br&gt;3:25&lt;br&gt;4:30
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&lt;strong&gt;Col. Robert Bowman&lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/col_bowman-treason.mp3&quot;&gt;Treason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;5:50&lt;/td&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/audio">Audio</category>
 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:26:30 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Selected Audio Clips from JFK and the Movies</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/audio/selected_audio_clips_from_jfk_and_the_movi</link>
 <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class=&quot;alt&quot;&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/jfk-never_start_a_war.mp3&quot;&gt;JFK - Never start a War&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;width: 30px;&quot;&gt;0:18&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/media_perpetuates.mp3&quot;&gt;Media Perpetuates&lt;/a&gt; a clip from the movie Waking Life
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;0:36&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;



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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/jfk-peace_for_all_time.mp3&quot;&gt;JFK- Peace for all time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1:02&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/ants_riseup.mp3&quot;&gt;Ants riseup&lt;/a&gt; from A Bug&#039;s Life

&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1:50&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/mad_as_hell.mp3&quot;&gt;Mad as Hell&lt;/a&gt; from the movie Network
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;3:29&lt;br&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/audio">Audio</category>
 <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:21:58 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>BushCo Audio</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/bushcoaudio</link>
 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:dm(&#039;bushshort&#039;);&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;themes/civicspace/images/star.png&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;big&gt;Short Clips&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Someone told me they like to play these on a mini boombox walking up and down  subway cars... (- ;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;bushshort&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;files/audio/bush-war-peace.mp3&quot;&gt;War equals Peace&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;width: 30px;&quot;&gt;0:03&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;files/audio/1stwar_of_21st_century.mp3&quot;&gt;1st war of 21st Century&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;0:04&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;files/audio/bring_em_on.mp3&quot;&gt;Bring &#039;em on&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;0:07&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;files/audio/beacon_of_freedom.mp3&quot;&gt;Beacon of Freedom&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;0:09&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;files/audio/Cheney-no_doubt.mp3&quot;&gt;Cheney - No Doubt&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;0:15&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;files/audio/500_tons_chemicals.mp3&quot;&gt;500 tons chemicals&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;0:18&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;files/audio/Bush_UAVs.mp3&quot;&gt;UAV Claim&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;0:23&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/threats.mp3&quot;&gt;Who is terrorizing America?&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;0:33&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:dm(&#039;bushlong&#039;);&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;themes/civicspace/images/star.png&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;big&gt;Long Clips&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Even though these are longer, the largest file size is only 2MB, ie a quick download for all (-;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;bushlong&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;table&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/bush_social_security.mp3&quot;&gt;Bush on Social Security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3:21&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikemalloy.com/audio/lies.mp3&quot;&gt;Mike Malloy collection 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;width: 30px; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8:39&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/mike_malloy-bush1984.mp3&quot;&gt;Mike Malloy collection 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;17:41&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:dm(&#039;bushsong&#039;);&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;themes/civicspace/images/star.png&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;big&gt;Song Clips&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Do these make you laugh, cry, mad as hell.. ?&lt;br&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;bushsong&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;table&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chrw.usc.uwo.ca/mp3/2003/Scott%20Walmsley%20-%20Scott%27s%20Cut%20and%20Paste%20Project%20Phase%204/Scott%20Walmsley%20-%20dumb%20bombs.mp3&quot;&gt;Dumb Bombs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;width: 30px;&quot;&gt;3:25&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chrw.usc.uwo.ca/mp3/2003/Scott%20Walmsley%20-%20Scott%27s%20Cut%20and%20Paste%20Project%20Phase%204/Scott%20Walmsley%20-%20the%20imperial%20march%20to%20war.mp3&quot;&gt;Imperial March to War&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;4:30&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.radio4all.net/pub/archive/05.29.04/sound_intelligence.mp3&quot;&gt;Sound Intelligence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;6:21&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twincities.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/why_do_they_hate_us.mp3&quot;&gt;Why do they Hate Us?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;9:33&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/benfrank101@yahoo.com/1124-1-20050201-bush-fisk-k22.mp3&quot;&gt;GW Bush vs Robert Fisk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;3:31&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/how_much_proof_do_you_need.mp3&quot;&gt;How Much Proof Do You Need?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;3:04&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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 <category domain="http://benfrank.net/patriots/audio">Audio</category>
 <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:58:51 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Confessions of an Economic Hitman</title>
 <link>http://benfrank.net/patriots/forums/audio/confessions_of_an_economic_hitman</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;John Perkins is a whistleblower.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen &amp;amp; &lt;em &gt;Download&lt;/em&gt; his story at DemocracyNow.org&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251&quot;&gt;part 1&lt;/a&gt; ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/15/1436221&quot;&gt;part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;JOHN PERKINS: Well, while I was a senior in business school at Boston University, they came to me and suggested that I take their test. I had connections through my wife with people in the agency, and they put me through a series of tests, personality tests, lie detector, several days, and concluded that I would make a good economic hit man, and they also discovered a number of weaknesses in my character, which they could use then to hook me into the business, and then I ended up working for a private corporation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AMY GOODMAN: Why didn&#039;t you work for the N.S.A.?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;JOHN PERKINS: Because these days it&#039;s not done that way. Nobody wants to be able to connect the dots. So the N.S.A., the C.I.A., these types of organizations often recruit economic hit men and the jackals, the assassins, the 007 types, but &lt;strong &gt;they will recruit us, maybe train us, and then turn us over to a private corporation&lt;/strong&gt;, so that you really can&#039;t make the connection, so that if I were caught at what I was doing in one of these countries, it would not reflect on our government; it would only reflect on the corporation that I worked for.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AMY GOODMAN: And who did you work for?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;JOHN PERKINS: I worked for a company called Charles T. Main, a big consulting firm out of Boston.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AMY GOODMAN: And your job?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;JOHN PERKINS: Well, I started off as economist, became chief economist, and my job really – I had a staff of several dozen people. My job was to get them, and for me to convince these countries to accept these very large loans, to get the banks to make the loans, to set up the deal so that the money went to big U.S. corporations. The country was left holding a huge debt, and then I would go in or one of my people would go in and say, “Look, you know, you owe us all this money. You can&#039;t pay your debts. Give us that pound of flesh.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The other thing we do, Amy, and what&#039;s going on right now in Latin America is that as soon as one of these anti-American presidents is elected, such as Evo Morales, who you mentioned, in Bolivia, one of us goes in and says, “Hey, congratulations, Mr. President. Now that you&#039;re president, I just want to tell you that I can make you very, very rich, you and your family. We have &lt;strong &gt;several hundred million dollars &lt;span class=&quot;blue&quot;&gt;in this pocket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; if you play the game our way. If you decide not to, &lt;strong &gt;over in this pocket, &lt;span class=&quot;red&quot;&gt;I&#039;ve got a gun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with a bullet with your name on it, in case you decide to keep your campaign promises and throw us out.” &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen &amp;amp; &lt;em &gt;Download&lt;/em&gt; his story at DemocracyNow.org&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251&quot;&gt;part 1&lt;/a&gt; ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/15/1436221&quot;&gt;part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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