{"id":28403,"date":"2020-03-20T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28403"},"modified":"2020-03-20T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:06:10","slug":"an-economic-hit-man-confesses-and-calls-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2020\/03\/20\/an-economic-hit-man-confesses-and-calls-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube <\/em>has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins | TEDxTraverseCity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJohn Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not \u201cplay the game&#8221; were assassinated or overthrown. He brings us up to date about the way the economic hit man system has spread from developing countries to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world and offers a strategy for turning this around. \u201cEach of us,&#8221; he says, \u201ccan participate in this exciting revolution. We can transform a system that is consuming itself into extinction into one that is sustainable and regenerative.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/btF6nKHo2i0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>You have to understand this topic if you want to understand how we have to reform our country and our corporations.<\/p>\n<p><em>YouTube <\/em>also has a shortened, animated version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=128&#038;v=dNXbzltfBjE&#038;feature=emb_logo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">John Perkins &#8211; Economic Hitman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dNXbzltfBjE\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins | TEDxTraverseCity. John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not \u201cplay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28404,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28403\/revisions\/28404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}