Week 9

Kinzer: "United Fruit rose to its mythical status in Guatemala under the leadership of Sam Zemurray, the visionary 'Banana Man' who had organized the overthrow of President Miguel Davila of Honduras in 1911"

Kinzer: "During the early years of the twentieth century, four American corporations gobbled up most of Puerto Rico's best land. On it they planted sugar, a crop suited to large-scale farming. The big losers were families who grew coffee, which is known as the 'poor man's crop' because it can be cultivated on small plots. By 1930, sugar accounted for 60 percent of the country's exports, while coffee, once the island's principal crop, had fallen to just 1 percent... With little access to land, ordinary Puerto Ricans became steadily poorer. One study found that while 17 percent of them were unemployed at the time of the American invasion, 30 percent were unemployed a quarter century later"

One should not look for deep "strategy" behind US / Anglo actions.. these people are all about money. You see, the first US invervention, Hawaii, was literally triggered by the planters there, for economic interests, because the planters did not want to pay import duties while selling to US. It is that simple.

Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: "The influence that economic power exercises over American foreign policy has grown tremendously since the days when ambitious planters in Hawaii realized that by bringing their islands into the United States, they would be able to send their sugar to markets on the mainland without paying import duties. As the twentieth century progressed, titans of industry and their advocates went a step beyond influencing policy makers; they became the policy makers. The figure who most perfectly embodied this merging of political and economic interests was John Foster Dulles, who spent decades working for some of the world's most powerful corporations and then became secretary of state. It was Dulles who ordered the 1953 coup in Iran, which was intended in part to make the Middle East safe for American oil companies. A year later he ordered another coup, in Guatemala, where a nationalist government had challenged the power of United Fruit, a company his old law firm represented."

Reminder, the first casualty of the latest revelations was Larry Summers, a Democrat, one of those "New" ones, a Clintonite. They hate the poor and love their innuendo.

Santa Fe New Mexican: "Records show [Democratic] Gov. Richardson met with Epstein for years after conviction"

Imagine the connection mucker had to have to pull off something like this..

Money laundering?

"A mail found in newly released Epstein documents claimed that Jeffrey Epstein won a $80 million lottery in 2008. Public records show that Zorro Trust, the legal entity connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s 10,000-acre Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, collected a 29.3 million after-tax lump-sum payment of the 80 million from the July 2, 2008 Powerball drawing."

BBC: "Jean-Luc Brunel: Epstein associate found dead in Paris prison cell"

Debt to GDP now reached WWII levels.. One expert says gov wants to fix that, and via Warsh (plus Treasury) USG will have FED buy bunch of government debt on the cheap just like they did after the 50s Accord..

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Wut? Did someone say "Treasury-Fed Accord"?

Bloomberg: "Warsh Call for Fed-Treasury Accord Stirs Debate in $30 Trillion Bond Market"