The `Empire'

Books of Account
The Secret History of the American Empire
John Perkins
(http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/)

Bribe engineering

There can be four ways for an engineering company to pay X a `legal bribe' writes John Perkins in The Secret History of the American Empire (www.landmarkonthenet.com). One, the company could arrange to lease bulldozers, cranes, trucks and other heavy equipment from companies owned by X and his friends and pay excessive fees. (X, as you might have guessed, could be a political bigwig who is looking for a `cut' from the `development' project.)

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