Antonio Garmsci 😃✍️✌️👍It’s not about the money what he make but it’s very hard for him he make it this isn’t he told the truth but yourself and you he’s positions let me know he’s a great man he make it a Good great job what he did
@@Lay112 He was a tool in the US destruction of many peoples and cultures for the corporate worlds millions, and he has the nerve to say it needs to stop, he's no better than the people he worked for, he's a hypocrite.
Ramiro Garcia: In an interview with Abby Martin (old RT) they directly threatened his family so he backed off for a while. Years later he completed his book, which nobody wanted to publish but he managed to do it. He said he is still alive because if he were to have an unfortunate “accident” the book sales and the publicity for his cause would go up significantly.
I read Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," and man was it interesting! This interview is mostly just a summary of this book, but it it still very informative, perhaps even more informative than the book itself. Thanks for the upload.
Every time I discuss topics like this video or the Zeitgeist series of videos on forums or at work, its so strange how people clam up. Its almost like some small town's deep dirty secret that is not spoken of.
Democracy doesn't rule the world you better get that through your head this world is ruled by violence But I guess that's better left unsaid ....Bob Dylan
People, in the meantime, we have the power to vote with our pockets. What we choose to buy makes a huge difference, avoid buying from corporations, if you have a Bank of America, Wells Fargo (Wachovia), Chase, CitiBank or any other major coroporation bank accounts, move it to a local coop bank. I know, it's not easy or possible all the time, but the small things are what make the change. If each and every one of us would do this these small actions we could turn things around a bit.
"Let's all aim toward that one goal of creating an environmentally sustainable, socially just and peaceful world, and when we do that, we will get there."
We are going to have to deal with psychopaths sooner or later. It´s us or them. A world of decency, empathy, and honour, or a world of narcissism, fear, greed, and hubris. There is little to lose. If this battle is lost it will be a world non psychopaths do not want to be in. So get up stand up and kick their self serving parasitic arses.
Hector Capellan But trump said he’s “gonna drain that swamp - tremendously...” Maybe he’s just going that over in Israel? Making that place great again ain’t he?
@@DAN_ZEMAN absolutely right, same for Saudi Arabia what is beutiful about Trump is he represents how the top 1 percent can do whatever the hell they want and face no repercussions. Trump has been a con man and a shady businessman all his life and now he is president of the united states. So hopefully people in America can figure out that the capitalist system is corrupt and we need a change. I prefer Bernie Sanders but let's see what happens.
Perkins, assuming events in his Confessions of an Economic Hitman are accurate, I believe deserves to stand among defenders of freedom, democracy and humanity such as Daniel Ellsberg, Ralph Nader, Carroll Quigley, Noam Chomsky, et al, who have exposed the inner workings of American corporatocracy and its insidious actions worldwide. Confessions reads like a bad nightmare. It reminded me of John Carpenter's horror sci- film, "They Live." Except, that Confessions is not a movie...
I live in canada and wrote both to my MLA (terry lake), and MP ( Cathy Mcleod) on how this topic should be taught in high school. One year later.. nothing. Ignorant bank rats.
As an adjunct professor at a Florida State College I just ran it and opened it up for discussion. Great response from students. If job security is your concern shy away from it because at the HS level you will get pushback. I am semi retired and if they fire me over this they know I will make it worse for them because they need me more than I need them. Btw, I ran the first two Zeitgeist movies in their entirety.
For all those years that you have been in cohorts with the manipulators, exploiters and evil-doers among the powerful corporotocracy elites, I'm so elated to watch the last 20 minutes or so of your interview of what you had to say. All of us, the world community, stand together against these corporotocracies for the better, peaceful and happier future for our progenies. God's light shone upon whoever He wishes to show the straight path, the path of rightheousness. Peace be upon you John Perkins!
Its 2019 ... G20 just passed and China and Russia just passed a bill where they can use their own currency in each other countries.. I'm looking at this .. I'm
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth." - William Faulkner
i enjoyed alot it adds to my hope for the future -to me addedum was the eye opener i would like to see extended interviews with more of the zeitgeist movies - i have watched some more information on the equalitytrust in moving forward and would like to see the interview with its founder expanded (wilkins?) and of course i have looked at fresco very extensively too anyway thanks for the more in depth looks - keeep up the great work
Robert Townsend, who was the former President and CEO of Avis and American Express, in his book, "Up The Organization," calculated that there are approximately 5,000 men and women, who control what Townsend called "the commanding heights of the US economy." He noted that these people treat the country as "their own personal whorehouse," and that they, almost always, get exactly what they want. Coming from someone who would obviously know, this corroboration of John's assertions, should put to bed any arguement to the contrary. We should also note, that when overall power is concentrated, in such a tiny number of hands, those in-power, by necessity, must rule through conspiratorial means and methods. And, they DO!!
Notes and Quotes: John Perkins, former economic hitman, author of “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” 1:15 Corporatocracy “At the very top of the corporatocracy you really can’t tell whether a person is working for a private corporation or the government because they’re always moving back and forth. So you know, you got a guy who one moment is the president of a big construction company, like Halliburton, the next moment he’s Vice President of the United States. Or the President who is in the oil business. And this is true whether you get democrats or republicans in the office. You have the moving back and forth through the revolving door. So you know, you really can’t distinguish. And in a way our government is invisible a lot of the time and its policies are carried out by our corporations on one level or another. And then again, the policies of the government are basically forged by the corporatocracy and then presented to the government and they become government policy. So it’s an incredibly cozy relationship and a very dangerous relationship. That’s part of what as we move forward and as we move out of this empire and we look for solutions. How do we create a better world for our children and grandchildren? One of the most important things is to break that bond there and to make people responsible more, just creating a decent world, creating an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and peaceful world.” 2:45 banks and corporations 4:00 The Economic Hitmen “We economic hitmen really have been the ones responsible for creating this first truly global empire and we work many different ways. But perhaps the most common is the way we’ll identify a country that has resources our corporations may covet like oil and then arrange a huge loan from that country from the World Bank or one of its sister organizations. But the money never actually goes to the country. Instead it goes to our big corporations to build infrastructure projects and that country: power plants, industrial parks, ports, things that benefit a few rich people in that country in addition to our corporations but really don’t help the majority of the people at all who are too poor to use electricity, or the ports, or don’t have the skills to get jobs in industrial parks. However, those people, the whole country is left holding a huge debt. It’s such a big debt they can’t repay it. And that’s part of the plan. They can’t repay it and so at some point we economic hitmen go back and say ‘Hey listen, you owe us a lot of money, you can’t pay your debts, so sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies. Allow us to build a military base in your country, or send troops in support of ours in some place in the world like Iraq, or vote with us on the next UN vote. And in that way we’ve really created an empire. But we’ve done it very, very subtly. It’s clandestined. So all the empires of the past were built on the military. And everybody knew they were building them. The British knew they were building them, the French, the Germans, the Romans, the Greeks. And they were proud of it and they always had some excuse like spreading ‘civilization’, spreading some religion, something like that. But they knew that they were doing it. We don’t. The majority of the people in the United States have no idea that we’re living off the benefits of a clandestine empire. That today there’s as much slavery in the world, more slavery in the world than ever before, that our shirts, our shoes, everything we own is made under the guise of this empire and there’s a tremendous amount of people around the planet suffering as a result of this. We are less than 5% of the world’s population living in the United States. We’re consuming more than 25% of this world’s resources. That’s a tragedy.” 6:22 Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Guatemala United Fruit Company Propaganda Red Terror claim that he was communist puppet 7:45 Jaime Roldos Aguilera, Ecuador Ruled by Dictators Jaime ran for pres, use resources (oil) to help the people. First Democratically elected leader USA didn’t like that. Perkins was sent down among others He was assassinated, plane exploded. Was not bad weather, two key witnesses also killed 11:29 Salvador Allende, Chile ITT ( Internstional Telephone and Telegraph Co) CIA Easier cause he was an avowed “socialist” This company is a shadow of itself. They are vulnerable. We can force them to do a better job 13:20 Omar Torrijos, Panama John’s favorite people. John tried to bribe him Omar wanted the USA to give the Panama Canal back 1981, May Jaime Roldos was assassinated Omar renegotiated Panama Canal w Carter. Then he also died in a plane crash. CIA 16:00 Manuel Noriega, Panama Became President. Former cia USA thought to Reverse canal treaty. Manuel was not a puppet Island, cocaine, drugs, sex, politicians ,corps Every did it 18:20 why bomb a city to take out Noriega? Best reason Perkins heard is a building w photographs of politicians w drugs, sex etc, was destroyed. No evidence. 20:30 Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran 1953 Pres of Econ hitmen started in early 1950s Mossadegh wanted Iranian oil to benefit its own people. BP British Petroleum On border if russia. Didn’t want to send in military like normally do Kermit Roosevelt overthrew Replaced w a dictator. Easy, effective, and cheap. Established a whole new way of manipulating countries. No card carrying cia 23:20 Hugo Chavez, Venezuela Campaign launched to make Chavez look like a villain 2002 CIA coup Similar tactics like Iran, pay people to riot Chavez, Primarily wanted oil to benefit its people, democratically elected people (26:18) Correa of Ecuador, oil must help its people, Morales, Bolivia, profits from Bolivia’s gas must help its people, these not possible without Chavez precedent 27:29 Saddam Hussein, Iraq Perfect example of how System works: Econ hitmen first line of defense. Bribe leaders , get them to accept large loans, if they are incorruptible send in jackals, assassination. Both failed (28:30) saddam once worked for CIA. Assassinated former leader 1991 first Bush sent in troops We wanted a strong man. Would’ve sold him weapons Lastly, Sent in military 30:25 Divide and Conquer (32:20) Africa, leaders are not corrupt. They are corrupted (32:45) Africa is canary in the mine (34:10) corporatocracy does everything it can to prevent people from knowing 34:25 Causality (Immigration) “Deal with the bigger issue. That the American public really doesn’t know what we’re voting for. And we’re seeing in the presidential campaigns there’s an ignorance. There’s an avoidance of what’s really going on. We don’t really talk about the causes behind the immigration problem. We talk about the bandaids to cure it. Should we build a wall? Should we make stricter laws? Should we let these people become citizens? But the real issue is the fact that we’ve destroyed the economies in their country. And their countries through our ‘Free Trade’ agreements that have benefitted the big corporations hugely but have made everybody else suffer, the workers in the United States, the workers in Guatemala, in Mexico, and throughout Central America, and many parts of South America are suffering terribly. Not one of them wants to be here. I speak Spanish. I live in Florida. I go out and I talk to the Guatemalans who are taking care of everybody’s lawns and doing a lot of the other menial work. They don’t want to be here. They’re not getting rich here. They’re sending all their money home. They want to be back in Guatemala, or Mexico, or Honduras, or El Salvador, wherever they’re from. These are beautiful countries. They want to be there. There’s no work there. And there’s no work there because of the laws that we’ve passed. Because of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), because of the World Bank, because of what the corporatocracy is doing to exploit these countries. So if we really want to deal with the immigration problem that’s what we must do, is help these countries get back on their feet and open their doors to their own people to have jobs there. But our presidential candidates aren’t addressing that.” 36:00 Art of War Higher military don’t want war, politicians and corps want war. Big industry is successful w war 37:25 Gorilla, Communists, Terrorists? In Nicaragua. Different from press releases Getting them to take on loans Hydroelectric dams destroyed vast amounts of land. People didn’t get any electricity. Outraged USA propaganda called them Communists Gorillas Took on drugs etc to find itself (40:25) Soviet Union 41:40 All USA presidents defended him. Clinton, Obama, McCain Defending oil companies Communism is an excuse. We create these enemies to defend our oil companies (43:15 ). Ecuador law suit, oil company dumped oil on purpose 43:50 The Oil Standard 1971 USA in debt, gold standard. Couldn’t pay USA largest debtor nation Saddam claimed to go beyond oil standard, one reason. Huge threat to USA. 48:00 Energy and Consumption Biofuels more acceptable because they can control it. Not like solar (49:00) solar roofs, solar and batteries works (49:40) huge solar stations feeds into central control (50:40) we must cut back on everything, consumption, and population 51:35 Reflections We have power over these corporations We want to change this world to make it better 54:15 Measures of Success Greed as a measure of success Happiness (56:10) never met an evil CEO 58:30 Sustainability 1:02:00 Fate Coincidence 10:4:45 Change Bandaids
Many of the more "enlightened" CEO's also feel pressure to save the jobs for their employees, not just make profits, but again this is often regardless of the wider social consequences. This is also pernicious (keeps toxic industries going for the sake of providing jobs). A Federal Jobs Guarantee program would relieve CEO's of this pressure to "save jobs". My opinion is that the FJG is perhaps the most important item in the various proposed Green New Deals. The FJG should be legislated to allow people to do whatever work they love, not government dictated work, but merely government funded. It would then make a measly UBI utterly redundant and utterly inferior. Provided someone can prove they are doing social purpose work, it should be funded by the FJG, local administration, local and individual autonomy, government funded.
Thanks for the video.It leaves,though,the sense of not knowing what to do and what to vote for in any country.What to believe or not.What revolution is for the people or against them.Maybe we should start from ourselves. Controlling other people by any means, is always wrong.
i can somewhat confirm all the stuff this guy is saying too. little things that made it into the media. 1 small example was earlier this year (2020) when tensions became really high between iran and US . the leader of iran said somthing along the lines of "the united states is not going to blackmail us anymore". but noone in media batted an eye or delved into what that was suppose to mean exactly
@ojjy123 He actually didn't say that the genes become dormant he said that they would if we lived in a world without scarcity (which we don't). Personally I don't think it will make any genes dormant so much as behaviours that are triggered by scarcity won't occur. It's really simple. When a person has more than enough they're more apt to be generous. When people have what they need why would they steal or be violent.
@businessbard if genes that we got from our early ancestors became dormant than why do our taste buds give a negative response to bitter things? Why do groups of people use in group renforcement and out group rejection in order to keep their society together (a system not needed anymore)? I do understand your argument and the videos were interesting thank you.
@P1W3R Estoy seguro que ya vendran los subtitulos en español. Pero les aseguro la informacion extra proveida por Peter Joseph en este video es muy importante, habla mas de Chavez, sobre Allende y otras cosas que no salio en Addendum. Buenazo.
You missed out 4, people who actually care about other people. What western colonialism did to your continent was an abomination and a grave injustice. Human beings should see each other as family, not as food or predators. We need to get beyond that.
Okay. I have got a few questions myself. If all he says is real, why is he not being taken out. How can he talk about it so openly? And if he liked Omar Torrijos so much, why did he try to corrupt him(or all the others)? Why not leave the job and do something else?
Wow the last part is very good. This shows how one sided and close minded TVP is, asking everyone to become engineer/technician in order to help TVP reach their vision of RBE society. But surely not everyone have passion/talent to be technician, the change has to come from all direction.
@DickOPlenty He risks his life and his families lives. Because he has a conscience. He could just as easily have kept his mouth shut and lived the good life. I'd say that redeems him. And yes, the info is priceless.
I'm the 301 person to watch this! So Egypt was first now Lybia then syria. Would they take on the might of Iran?(Not nuclear but crazy civilians) I don't know. What I am going to do is read up on all the assasinations and hope to get a bit more clued up on the matter. Thanks for this video, going have to watch it again as so much to take in but as always very informative. Hope to write something better when it's not 0130 am. Peace to all.
@51:00 "spirituality" is the correct word, you don't need a "better" one. The non-physical abstractions we call justice, love, peace, honesty, kindness, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, wisdom, humility, oneness, unity, trustworthiness, these are all _spiritual_ attributes. The idea that "spirituality" connotes some sort of idea of ghosts or quasi-material spirits has been dead for over a century, or longer, since the Enlightenment, those old fashioned notions survive only in the fringe where fakers and mediums and Tarot readers still find a living duping the naive and innocent.
John has definitely done psycedelics in the Amazon with the Shamans. As he refers to as ceremony in other videos. I guarantee you he has done Ayahuasca and that's why he has the viewpoint he does. If ya wanna know what I'm talking about just look up Ayahuasca on youtube. Ive never done it but have seen tremendous healing stories of the tribal plant medicine. This man is definitely doing God's work trying to convince us Americans to change.
But the people who sit on the board of trustees and executives of these companies can just move over to another company, so if one corporation falls other ones will carry the torch.
@T0rtureKill3r Start by reading history, geopolitics and books from Brezinsky et al. Let me assure you what J. Perkins talks about falls in line with historical events and facts. Of course he feels in the gaps where he worked directly.
@Xaphirezst Maybe because he has received quite a lot of attention, it would be very suspicious if he was suddenly killed now. Also, he has a lot of contacts and friends within the corporatocracy, who he has known for a long time and they wouldn't want to hurt him. But he did take a bribe, i believe it was 20 years ago, to not expose the truth. After 9/11 though he began writing his confessions in a book again and he was offered another bribe, but he refused it this time.
@gulliman420 I don't know about Bush, I think he looks a bit more like Leonard Cohen. I'm only about 5mins into this and think he's said most of it i.e. How this world works, I don't know if he goes into any spiritual stuff later on, but I think he's spot on about how we are politically gullible, that only with the hindsight of age becomes obvious.
ALASKA with all of our resources, in some regions, we are defined as 3erd world. no education, drugs, and alcohol. while our land is being raped. the 14 regional corporations are pacifiers. same family's run this state and economy. native Alaskans have some of the worst education in the USA and compared to the rest of the world, we are falling way back.
The same is everywhere, native people are pushed to the edge. Natives like, red Indians, Canadian natives, aboriginals, Maoris, Zulus, and others in former British colonies. But there was one British colony which came out of this system, India. Reason, Gandhi. His movement created so strong an environment against British, they have to leave completely. This is time to go for non co operation movements against, corporations, Banks and Govts. Trade in older ways, do not buy stuff until there is dire requirement, push TV out of homes, barter or use cash. No cards. Educate yourself and Teach children at home about the new system. Once the people will start doing it everything will come on knees. In Indian state Punjab, we boycotted one telecoms and some retail companies. The owners started crying. That is the only way.
Well, it is obvious, someone’s had a profound experience, perhaps the profoundest of experiences, Mr. John Perkins. I feel terribly sorry, on the other hand, for all the people who are making and propping up the kind of deals at the expense of people, animals and nature. Doing what they do, day in day out, blissfully ignorant or sternly determined, it is impossible to get a taste of ‘that’. I know, what can they do, aren’t we all on a hamster wheel? Unless
@TLSlayer1 we,still,have to start from ourselves.There are billions of us.One country cannot make a difference.The same is true for one person.Social sciences depend on what the majority wants and this can be controlled. Honesty on the way we represent ourselves and respect for all others may be one option to experiment with.
Federal Reserve US and European banks CEOs Old and Well known Usurers I am sure they ll not play this videos as Educational to theirs agents and workers.and give a 47 dislike They are at the TOP of all this tragedy John Perkins explained. Mr Perkins I do not know if you are Christian but I know The good Lord has a special place for repentant souls. I think for what you are doing you are saved
This is one brave guy to come out and expose this corrupt system.
After he made HIS millions.
Antonio Garmsci 😃✍️✌️👍It’s not about the money what he make but it’s very hard for him he make it this isn’t he told the truth but yourself and you he’s positions let me know he’s a great man he make it a Good great job what he did
@@Lay112 He was a tool in the US destruction of many peoples and cultures for the corporate worlds millions, and he has the nerve to say it needs to stop, he's no better than the people he worked for, he's a hypocrite.
Andy Scott It’s too Late my friend he use the money first and kill people
Ramiro Garcia: In an interview with Abby Martin (old RT) they directly threatened his family so he backed off for a while. Years later he completed his book, which nobody wanted to publish but he managed to do it. He said he is still alive because if he were to have an unfortunate “accident” the book sales and the publicity for his cause would go up significantly.
We need spanish subtitles for the ones who cannot understand fluently english interviews here in Latin America...Thanks for this video!
thanks for posting this full interview!
I read Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," and man was it interesting! This interview is mostly just a summary of this book, but it it still very informative, perhaps even more informative than the book itself. Thanks for the upload.
the best interview of Perkins I've seen yet. What a story he has to tell!
Thankyou for exposing them.
Every time I discuss topics like this video or the Zeitgeist series of videos on forums or at work, its so strange how people clam up. Its almost like some small town's deep dirty secret that is not spoken of.
Its easier to call it a conspiracy theory rather than believe we've been duped for the past 200yrs or so
Democracy doesn't rule the world
you better get that through your head
this world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid ....Bob Dylan
People, in the meantime, we have the power to vote with our pockets. What we choose to buy makes a huge difference, avoid buying from corporations, if you have a Bank of America, Wells Fargo (Wachovia), Chase, CitiBank or any other major coroporation bank accounts, move it to a local coop bank. I know, it's not easy or possible all the time, but the small things are what make the change. If each and every one of us would do this these small actions we could turn things around a bit.
"Let's all aim toward that one goal of creating an environmentally sustainable, socially just and peaceful world, and when we do that, we will get there."
We are going to have to deal with psychopaths sooner or later. It´s us or them. A world of decency, empathy, and honour, or a world of narcissism, fear, greed, and hubris.
There is little to lose. If this battle is lost it will be a world non psychopaths do not want to be in. So get up stand up and kick their self serving parasitic arses.
And here is trump
You've dealt with them the moment you were born, the moment you liked this propaganda.
Hector Capellan
But trump said he’s “gonna drain that swamp - tremendously...”
Maybe he’s just going that over in Israel? Making that place great again ain’t he?
It's only getting worse, China is doing the same thing right now, but on a much grander scale. The so-called Belt and Road Initiative.
@@DAN_ZEMAN absolutely right, same for Saudi Arabia what is beutiful about Trump is he represents how the top 1 percent can do whatever the hell they want and face no repercussions. Trump has been a con man and a shady businessman all his life and now he is president of the united states. So hopefully people in America can figure out that the capitalist system is corrupt and we need a change. I prefer Bernie Sanders but let's see what happens.
i learned a lot from this guy
Superb interview. Thank you for posting.
I found the interview with this guy super interesting in the film, glad you uploaded the whole thing! :D
Not a big TZM advocate, but this interview is awesome! This is the kind of insider truth that we never get out of the MSM. Great job!
Wow... Thanks a lot for the video:)
Perkins, assuming events in his Confessions of an Economic Hitman are accurate, I believe deserves to stand among defenders of freedom, democracy and humanity such as Daniel Ellsberg, Ralph Nader, Carroll Quigley, Noam Chomsky, et al, who have exposed the inner workings of American corporatocracy and its insidious actions worldwide.
Confessions reads like a bad nightmare. It reminded me of John Carpenter's horror sci- film, "They Live." Except, that Confessions is not a movie...
great interview such an intelligent man
I live in canada and wrote both to my MLA (terry lake), and MP ( Cathy Mcleod) on how this topic should be taught in high school. One year later.. nothing. Ignorant bank rats.
there's a reason for this:
ua-cam.com/video/rsL6mKxtOlQ/v-deo.html
What is MLA?
As an adjunct professor at a Florida State College I just ran it and opened it up for discussion. Great response from students. If job security is your concern shy away from it because at the HS level you will get pushback. I am semi retired and if they fire me over this they know I will make it worse for them because they need me more than I need them. Btw, I ran the first two Zeitgeist movies in their entirety.
Great interview. Great revelations of utmost importance to spread and to make into common knowledge. / T. Sassersson, editor NewsVoice
We'll get there. Thank you, John Perkins and Peter Joseph for following your passions.
Do you have any damn clue who your thanking and for what? I doubt it!
For all those years that you have been in cohorts with the manipulators, exploiters and evil-doers among the powerful corporotocracy elites, I'm so elated to watch the last 20 minutes or so of your interview of what you had to say. All of us, the world community, stand together against these corporotocracies for the better, peaceful and happier future for our progenies. God's light shone upon whoever He wishes to show the straight path, the path of rightheousness. Peace be upon you John Perkins!
Can't thank you guys enough.
This dude comes off as 100% legit.
Very informative video thank you for posting
Its 2019 ... G20 just passed and China and Russia just passed a bill where they can use their own currency in each other countries.. I'm looking at this .. I'm
thank you, John Perkins... thank you Peter Joseph.... I have purchased 2 of John Perkins's books since seeing Zeitgeist: Addendum... thank you both...
Great video great interview to post this Great man John Perkins✌️👍🌷
Thanks for uploading this! :)
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against
injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would
do this, it would change the earth." - William Faulkner
Quoted on an agenda which pushes climate change and ignore weather and climate modification, lmao said on a video which features a hit man!!
Thats the truth....not more not less...
Same..sadly people don't want to be bothered with the truth
Heartbreaking :(
i enjoyed alot it adds to my hope for the future -to me addedum was the eye opener i would like to see extended interviews with more of the zeitgeist movies - i have watched some more information on the equalitytrust in moving forward and would like to see the interview with its founder expanded (wilkins?) and of course i have looked at fresco very extensively too anyway thanks for the more in depth looks - keeep up the great work
@trivett831 YES! the sociology part of Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is KEY. It means so much.
Thanks for this video :).
Robert Townsend, who was the former President and CEO of Avis and American Express, in his book, "Up The Organization," calculated that there are approximately 5,000 men and women, who control what Townsend called "the commanding heights of the US economy."
He noted that these people treat the country as "their own personal whorehouse," and that they, almost always, get exactly what they want.
Coming from someone who would obviously know, this corroboration of John's assertions, should put to bed any arguement to the contrary.
We should also note, that when overall power is concentrated, in such a tiny number of hands, those in-power, by necessity, must rule through conspiratorial means and methods.
And, they DO!!
Notes and Quotes:
John Perkins, former economic hitman, author of “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”
1:15 Corporatocracy
“At the very top of the corporatocracy you really can’t tell whether a person is working for a private corporation or the government because they’re always moving back and forth. So you know, you got a guy who one moment is the president of a big construction company, like Halliburton, the next moment he’s Vice President of the United States. Or the President who is in the oil business. And this is true whether you get democrats or republicans in the office. You have the moving back and forth through the revolving door. So you know, you really can’t distinguish.
And in a way our government is invisible a lot of the time and its policies are carried out by our corporations on one level or another. And then again, the policies of the government are basically forged by the corporatocracy and then presented to the government and they become government policy. So it’s an incredibly cozy relationship and a very dangerous relationship.
That’s part of what as we move forward and as we move out of this empire and we look for solutions. How do we create a better world for our children and grandchildren? One of the most important things is to break that bond there and to make people responsible more, just creating a decent world, creating an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and peaceful world.”
2:45 banks and corporations
4:00 The Economic Hitmen
“We economic hitmen really have been the ones responsible for creating this first truly global empire and we work many different ways. But perhaps the most common is the way we’ll identify a country that has resources our corporations may covet like oil and then arrange a huge loan from that country from the World Bank or one of its sister organizations. But the money never actually goes to the country. Instead it goes to our big corporations to build infrastructure projects and that country: power plants, industrial parks, ports, things that benefit a few rich people in that country in addition to our corporations but really don’t help the majority of the people at all who are too poor to use electricity, or the ports, or don’t have the skills to get jobs in industrial parks.
However, those people, the whole country is left holding a huge debt. It’s such a big debt they can’t repay it. And that’s part of the plan. They can’t repay it and so at some point we economic hitmen go back and say ‘Hey listen, you owe us a lot of money, you can’t pay your debts, so sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies. Allow us to build a military base in your country, or send troops in support of ours in some place in the world like Iraq, or vote with us on the next UN vote.
And in that way we’ve really created an empire. But we’ve done it very, very subtly. It’s clandestined. So all the empires of the past were built on the military. And everybody knew they were building them. The British knew they were building them, the French, the Germans, the Romans, the Greeks. And they were proud of it and they always had some excuse like spreading ‘civilization’, spreading some religion, something like that. But they knew that they were doing it. We don’t. The majority of the people in the United States have no idea that we’re living off the benefits of a clandestine empire. That today there’s as much slavery in the world, more slavery in the world than ever before, that our shirts, our shoes, everything we own is made under the guise of this empire and there’s a tremendous amount of people around the planet suffering as a result of this. We are less than 5% of the world’s population living in the United States. We’re consuming more than 25% of this world’s resources. That’s a tragedy.”
6:22 Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Guatemala
United Fruit Company
Propaganda Red Terror claim that he was communist puppet
7:45 Jaime Roldos Aguilera, Ecuador
Ruled by Dictators
Jaime ran for pres, use resources (oil) to help the people. First Democratically elected leader
USA didn’t like that.
Perkins was sent down among others
He was assassinated, plane exploded. Was not bad weather, two key witnesses also killed
11:29 Salvador Allende, Chile
ITT ( Internstional Telephone and Telegraph Co)
CIA
Easier cause he was an avowed “socialist”
This company is a shadow of itself. They are vulnerable. We can force them to do a better job
13:20 Omar Torrijos, Panama
John’s favorite people. John tried to bribe him
Omar wanted the USA to give the Panama Canal back
1981, May Jaime Roldos was assassinated
Omar renegotiated Panama Canal w Carter. Then he also died in a plane crash. CIA
16:00 Manuel Noriega, Panama
Became President. Former cia
USA thought to Reverse canal treaty. Manuel was not a puppet
Island, cocaine, drugs, sex, politicians ,corps
Every did it
18:20 why bomb a city to take out Noriega?
Best reason Perkins heard is a building w photographs of politicians w drugs, sex etc, was destroyed. No evidence.
20:30 Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran 1953
Pres of Econ hitmen started in early 1950s
Mossadegh wanted Iranian oil to benefit its own people.
BP British Petroleum
On border if russia. Didn’t want to send in military like normally do
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Replaced w a dictator. Easy, effective, and cheap. Established a whole new way of manipulating countries. No card carrying cia
23:20 Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
Campaign launched to make Chavez look like a villain
2002 CIA coup
Similar tactics like Iran, pay people to riot
Chavez, Primarily wanted oil to benefit its people, democratically elected people
(26:18) Correa of Ecuador, oil must help its people, Morales, Bolivia, profits from Bolivia’s gas must help its people, these not possible without Chavez precedent
27:29 Saddam Hussein, Iraq
Perfect example of how System works:
Econ hitmen first line of defense. Bribe leaders , get them to accept large loans,
if they are incorruptible send in jackals, assassination.
Both failed
(28:30) saddam once worked for CIA. Assassinated former leader
1991 first Bush sent in troops
We wanted a strong man. Would’ve sold him weapons
Lastly, Sent in military
30:25 Divide and Conquer
(32:20) Africa, leaders are not corrupt. They are corrupted
(32:45) Africa is canary in the mine
(34:10) corporatocracy does everything it can to prevent people from knowing
34:25 Causality (Immigration)
“Deal with the bigger issue. That the American public really doesn’t know what we’re voting for. And we’re seeing in the presidential campaigns there’s an ignorance. There’s an avoidance of what’s really going on. We don’t really talk about the causes behind the immigration problem. We talk about the bandaids to cure it. Should we build a wall? Should we make stricter laws? Should we let these people become citizens? But the real issue is the fact that we’ve destroyed the economies in their country. And their countries through our ‘Free Trade’ agreements that have benefitted the big corporations hugely but have made everybody else suffer, the workers in the United States, the workers in Guatemala, in Mexico, and throughout Central America, and many parts of South America are suffering terribly.
Not one of them wants to be here. I speak Spanish. I live in Florida. I go out and I talk to the Guatemalans who are taking care of everybody’s lawns and doing a lot of the other menial work. They don’t want to be here. They’re not getting rich here. They’re sending all their money home. They want to be back in Guatemala, or Mexico, or Honduras, or El Salvador, wherever they’re from. These are beautiful countries. They want to be there. There’s no work there. And there’s no work there because of the laws that we’ve passed. Because of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), because of the World Bank, because of what the corporatocracy is doing to exploit these countries. So if we really want to deal with the immigration problem that’s what we must do, is help these countries get back on their feet and open their doors to their own people to have jobs there. But our presidential candidates aren’t addressing that.”
36:00 Art of War
Higher military don’t want war, politicians and corps want war.
Big industry is successful w war
37:25 Gorilla, Communists, Terrorists?
In Nicaragua. Different from press releases
Getting them to take on loans
Hydroelectric dams destroyed vast amounts of land. People didn’t get any electricity. Outraged
USA propaganda called them Communists
Gorillas Took on drugs etc to find itself
(40:25) Soviet Union
41:40 All USA presidents defended him. Clinton, Obama, McCain
Defending oil companies
Communism is an excuse. We create these enemies to defend our oil companies
(43:15 ). Ecuador law suit, oil company dumped oil on purpose
43:50 The Oil Standard
1971 USA in debt, gold standard. Couldn’t pay
USA largest debtor nation
Saddam claimed to go beyond oil standard, one reason. Huge threat to USA.
48:00 Energy and Consumption
Biofuels more acceptable because they can control it. Not like solar
(49:00) solar roofs, solar and batteries works
(49:40) huge solar stations feeds into central control
(50:40) we must cut back on everything, consumption, and population
51:35 Reflections
We have power over these corporations
We want to change this world to make it better
54:15 Measures of Success
Greed as a measure of success
Happiness
(56:10) never met an evil CEO
58:30 Sustainability
1:02:00 Fate Coincidence
10:4:45 Change
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Cool. Nice to see the entire (raw) interview.
Well said
Wow thank you!
We're a world at war with itself.
What an interesting man. Very knowledgeable.
So THIS is how it all it all works...
"Popular" (not representative) and frequent voting is what we need. We can do it online instantly.
Thank you! More?
Very Intreuging interview.. This man is very knoledgable
En español es importante que pasen estos videos.
Gracias.
wow thanks, its like a mini movie.
Love this information , will share ~
im really like his books. watching this after the fact
Many of the more "enlightened" CEO's also feel pressure to save the jobs for their employees, not just make profits, but again this is often regardless of the wider social consequences. This is also pernicious (keeps toxic industries going for the sake of providing jobs). A Federal Jobs Guarantee program would relieve CEO's of this pressure to "save jobs". My opinion is that the FJG is perhaps the most important item in the various proposed Green New Deals. The FJG should be legislated to allow people to do whatever work they love, not government dictated work, but merely government funded. It would then make a measly UBI utterly redundant and utterly inferior. Provided someone can prove they are doing social purpose work, it should be funded by the FJG, local administration, local and individual autonomy, government funded.
How the hell does this video only have 12,000 views?? Spread the knowledge people!
Thanks for the video.It leaves,though,the sense of not knowing what to do and what to vote for in any country.What to believe or not.What revolution is for the people or against them.Maybe we should start from ourselves. Controlling other people by any means, is always wrong.
Would like to hear what he has to say 2019
@THOMAS MARTIN - Or how bout now - 2020 - Year of one of the biggest scamdemics in our history...😮
Hes probably dead 😂
Peace, Justice and Sharing the world's resources will change the world.
i can somewhat confirm all the stuff this guy is saying too. little things that made it into the media. 1 small example was earlier this year (2020) when tensions became really high between iran and US . the leader of iran said somthing along the lines of "the united states is not going to blackmail us anymore". but noone in media batted an eye or delved into what that was suppose to mean exactly
wow i watched the whole interview, whole 1hour 8 minutes.
Thanks for the video but it really miss volume. We hear almost nothing.
how can people not be disgusted with their way of living is truly beyond my level of understanding. INSANE world.
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subtitles please!!!!!! especially in spanish or at least in english
@ojjy123 He actually didn't say that the genes become dormant he said that they would if we lived in a world without scarcity (which we don't). Personally I don't think it will make any genes dormant so much as behaviours that are triggered by scarcity won't occur. It's really simple. When a person has more than enough they're more apt to be generous. When people have what they need why would they steal or be violent.
Perkins is a true national hero if he speaks the truth.
@businessbard if genes that we got from our early ancestors became dormant than why do our taste buds give a negative response to bitter things? Why do groups of people use in group renforcement and out group rejection in order to keep their society together (a system not needed anymore)? I do understand your argument and the videos were interesting thank you.
@P1W3R Estoy seguro que ya vendran los subtitulos en español. Pero les aseguro la informacion extra proveida por Peter Joseph en este video es muy importante, habla mas de Chavez, sobre Allende y otras cosas que no salio en Addendum. Buenazo.
You missed out 4, people who actually care about other people.
What western colonialism did to your continent was an abomination and a grave injustice.
Human beings should see each other as family, not as food or predators. We need to get beyond that.
The Robert Sapolsky and Gabor Mate ZG Moving Forward interviews would be very interesting
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - by John Perkins is a must read for those really interested
OMG I can not believe how stupid you people are!!
Your life was in danger BEFORE you watched it...
Watch Planet Earth For Sale. Financial salvation right here right now.
John Perkins thanks for talking about sadam hossen cremenl in IRAQ and his crime against Iraqi people
Actually he was a leader of his country and got assasinated because he wasn t to be corrupted
Okay. I have got a few questions myself. If all he says is real, why is he not being taken out. How can he talk about it so openly? And if he liked Omar Torrijos so much, why did he try to corrupt him(or all the others)? Why not leave the job and do something else?
Nice!
this is the clearest example of how policies are made...wach once again ;'who killed electric car"
Listen to this. Then, ask yourself if u think the John Kennedy assassination was the work of one little misfit w/ a lousy rifle ?
Wow the last part is very good. This shows how one sided and close minded TVP is, asking everyone to become engineer/technician in order to help TVP reach their vision of RBE society. But surely not everyone have passion/talent to be technician, the change has to come from all direction.
@DickOPlenty He risks his life and his families lives. Because he has a conscience. He could just as easily have kept his mouth shut and lived the good life. I'd say that redeems him.
And yes, the info is priceless.
The man just described Cyril Ramaphosa and Corporate South Africa.
very wise
I knew it, that's why you have people trying to say global warming isn't real, so they can have an excuse to use oil to make money !
Yes, Robert Sapolsky interview would be so awesome!!
I'm the 301 person to watch this! So Egypt was first now Lybia then syria. Would they take on the might of Iran?(Not nuclear but crazy civilians) I don't know. What I am going to do is read up on all the assasinations and hope to get a bit more clued up on the matter. Thanks for this video, going have to watch it again as so much to take in but as always very informative. Hope to write something better when it's not 0130 am.
Peace to all.
This is TRUTH…
fascinating information. thank you internet open you mind people. read. listen. question.
@51:00 "spirituality" is the correct word, you don't need a "better" one. The non-physical abstractions we call justice, love, peace, honesty, kindness, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, wisdom, humility, oneness, unity, trustworthiness, these are all _spiritual_ attributes. The idea that "spirituality" connotes some sort of idea of ghosts or quasi-material spirits has been dead for over a century, or longer, since the Enlightenment, those old fashioned notions survive only in the fringe where fakers and mediums and Tarot readers still find a living duping the naive and innocent.
@Devon187 starcraft 2? I was just about to play some and I have a huge bottle of water beside me. hah. Lovely interview
John has definitely done psycedelics in the Amazon with the Shamans. As he refers to as ceremony in other videos. I guarantee you he has done Ayahuasca and that's why he has the viewpoint he does. If ya wanna know what I'm talking about just look up Ayahuasca on youtube. Ive never done it but have seen tremendous healing stories of the tribal plant medicine. This man is definitely doing God's work trying to convince us Americans to change.
But the people who sit on the board of trustees and executives of these companies can just move over to another company, so if one corporation falls other ones will carry the torch.
He learnt but better late than never
@T0rtureKill3r Start by reading history, geopolitics and books from Brezinsky et al. Let me assure you what J. Perkins talks about falls in line with historical events and facts. Of course he feels in the gaps where he worked directly.
@wspol624 which one?
Did he not sign something that makes it illegall for him to talk about his involvement as a 'Economic Hit-man'?
@Xaphirezst Maybe because he has received quite a lot of attention, it would be very suspicious if he was suddenly killed now. Also, he has a lot of contacts and friends within the corporatocracy, who he has known for a long time and they wouldn't want to hurt him. But he did take a bribe, i believe it was 20 years ago, to not expose the truth. After 9/11 though he began writing his confessions in a book again and he was offered another bribe, but he refused it this time.
@gulliman420 I don't know about Bush, I think he looks a bit more like Leonard Cohen.
I'm only about 5mins into this and think he's said most of it i.e. How this world works, I don't know if he goes into any spiritual stuff later on, but I think he's spot on about how we are politically gullible, that only with the hindsight of age becomes obvious.
Great interview. Pity about the camera framing, which royally sucks ass.
ALASKA with all of our resources, in some regions, we are defined as 3erd world. no education, drugs, and alcohol. while our land is being raped. the 14 regional corporations are pacifiers. same family's run this state and economy. native Alaskans have some of the worst education in the USA and compared to the rest of the world, we are falling way back.
The same is everywhere, native people are pushed to the edge. Natives like, red Indians, Canadian natives, aboriginals, Maoris, Zulus, and others in former British colonies. But there was one British colony which came out of this system, India. Reason, Gandhi. His movement created so strong an environment against British, they have to leave completely. This is time to go for non co operation movements against, corporations, Banks and Govts. Trade in older ways, do not buy stuff until there is dire requirement, push TV out of homes, barter or use cash. No cards. Educate yourself and Teach children at home about the new system. Once the people will start doing it everything will come on knees. In Indian state Punjab, we boycotted one telecoms and some retail companies. The owners started crying. That is the only way.
wow just wow If your really dig and think of this.... it is a controlled resistance
Well, it is obvious, someone’s had a profound experience, perhaps the profoundest of experiences, Mr. John Perkins. I feel terribly sorry, on the other hand, for all the people who are making and propping up the kind of deals at the expense of people, animals and nature. Doing what they do, day in day out, blissfully ignorant or sternly determined, it is impossible to get a taste of ‘that’. I know, what can they do, aren’t we all on a hamster wheel? Unless
@TLSlayer1 we,still,have to start from ourselves.There are billions of us.One country cannot make a difference.The same is true for one person.Social sciences depend on what the majority wants and this can be controlled. Honesty on the way we represent ourselves and respect for all others may be one option to experiment with.
@fermm88 Lol. Why would they send in the Army? That would raise too many questions.
Federal Reserve US and European banks CEOs Old and Well known Usurers I am sure they ll not play this videos as Educational to theirs agents and workers.and give a 47 dislike
They are at the TOP of all this tragedy John Perkins explained.
Mr Perkins I do not know if you are Christian but I know The good Lord has a special place for repentant souls. I think for what you are doing you are saved