John Perkins
John Perkins
business initially largest national private school sixties spy ultimately understood worked
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
drunk passed
I thought he was drunk or passed out or something.
met
We never met Kirby, we didn't know Kirby, but you feel like you know him. He was part of our lives, with going to games.
fate choices who-we-are
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
fate exercise choices
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
broken empowering greed
No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.
people terrorism desperate
I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
war iraq water
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.
call economic fail hit hussein implement iraq men next policy saddam tried
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.