The US's Economic Hitman w/ John Perkins (BTC181)

John Perkins delves into his past as an economic hitman, explaining the mechanisms and impacts of his actions on global economies. He critiques the fiat system and its role in geopolitical strategies and debt creation. Perkins also explores the potential of Bitcoin and decentralized technologies to challenge established economic controls.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:11 - The role and responsibilities of an economic hitman.
00:05:00 - Specific tactics used to influence foreign policies and economies.
00:07:13 - The significant long-term impacts of these economic interventions on target countries.
00:11:56 - How the fiat monetary system facilitates economic manipulation and control.
00:29:14 - Perkins’ personal journey and motivations for leaving his role and advocating for systemic change.
00:35:01 - A simple explanation of the petro-dollar system and its global implications.
00:46:41 - The potential of Bitcoin and other decentralized technologies to disrupt traditional economic systems.
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[@BlitoEmactao]

People don't understand that the prices of things are never going back down. This inflation is deeper than we think. Those buying groceries are well aware that the real inflation is much over 10%. The increments don't match our income, yet certain investors still earn over $365,000 in stocks and assets. Wish I could accomplish that. Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult

[@CoachStone-py3kb]

Very possible! especially at this moment. Profits can be made in many different ways, but such intricate transactions should only be handled by seasoned market professionals.

[@ChrisStephen-sl1kn]

Having an investment advisor is the best way to go about the stock market right now. I was going solo, but it wasn't working. I've been in touch with an advisor for a while now, and just last year, I made over 80% capital growth minus dividends.

[@Goodskodel]

Finding yourself a good broker is as same as finding a good wife, which you go less stress, you get just enough with so much little effort at things

[@Pelkey71]

Sofia demonstrates an excellent understanding of market trends, making well informed decisions that leads to consistent profit

[@user-mw4nm2di7p]

I'm surprised that you just mentioned and recommend Ms Sofia Rachel. I met her at a conference in 2018 and we have been working together ever since.

[@endthefed5304]

John Perkins is a legend. Brave truth teller. Kudos!

[@BTCTrooper]

Arguably the best conversation I’ve listened to in a long time

[@ltserge3226]

He had me till he brought up climate change at 7:00 min mark notice how snakes crawl from one shithole to another when exposed

[@stanleynnaemekaorajiaka8109]

My God... Preston. This book made me cry 😭 as I am African origin. You have touched me more interviewing John. The whole debt, USAID, debt stealing project. I remember reading this book and asking "how is this man still alive" So much exposition

[@m_sync8234]

I read John’s book back in 2017 - highly recommend- it helped me wake up

[@dr.k.math.777]

I read John’s book and it was truly eye opening and sobering. I highly recommend every reads it.

[@CorwinYoutube]

I agree, it's a must read.

[@BitMilkshake]

Love it!!! 😍 I read the book and was like „this man has to become a bitcoiner asap!!“ great to see him on the podcast

[@Alwayslearning426]

Before I finished the podcast, I had to get the book! ❤ Thanks Preston! 🍻

[@dcntralizedmind2754]

He has a great knowledge of history mainly because he played a massive role in it but its obvious he hasn’t expanded his worldview enough to see that the idea of nation-states existing to cooperate as if a free market is impossible. We need to work towards sovereign individuals and away from sovereign nations.

[@dashiva7069]

This is how change comes about. Thank you for the wonderful interview.

[@motoharimitsu]

Read this book. It's amazing how courageously he came out!

[@wilbe03]

Excellent conversation

[@Acd1217]

What a fantastic interview- thank you gentlemen ❤️❤️❤️

[@Steve.191]

Great show thanks 👍

[@msiziwisemanmalinga5858]

Preston you are a good teacher, Analysis the period you have more followers on KZbin and take you accounting knowledge to real live businesses.the world need you

[@DanielTroySternthal]

Great episode I’ve followed John’s work since 2008 when Alex Jones interviewed him. Knowing how the Fed controls the system definitely helped me understand the value of bitcoin early on.

[@caseyeverett5246]

Really appreciate your candor, John

[@user-99.99]

Amazing interview!

[@skijay2010]

next time someone says America is a democracy or fights for democracy refer him to John Perkins and be afraid of them.

[@TheBitcoinExperience]

Fascinating conversation, gents 🧡

[@Freefirelover-wp8ck]

I love your analysis, always on the point. And yes, Revux is a game changer. Great project!

[@S54VR6]

Great guest. Surprised to hear him concerned about the “climate emergency” after what’s he’s been through. Amazing he hasn’t seen through that scam

[@MrJbennett321go]

Thanks for another great video! Stacking Sats!

[@renzoleon7856]

Hi Preston, thank you for that interview

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Revux's billboard is everywhere! Had to check it out. Presale details look promising!

[@infonome]

Just the greatest interview with adeep understand ofthes and take over the lives of peoples livrs with misery. That you for the increasable insights of power to ruin lives for economic slavlvery

[@willybolt6397]

Mad respect to him for “repenting” and bringing attention to the real motives behind the IMF/World Bank/USGov/Treasury. Us bitcoiners know this and I wish more and more people would realize how we’ve built the dollar system by literally stealing from countries we pretend to help.

[@ge4sa]

One of my first books as I dove into economics learned about it from a finance major that it was a popular book he would hear about in college great read gives perspective on what's really going on

[@lastnamefirstname2390]

You and Alex Gladstein are the only people talking about this. The current model of economic imperialism is awful for human rights. Thank you for addressing this!

[@Alpharizzchad]

Stop with the buzz words and get rid of the fake coins. Only one making money are the people farming and selling the coins. It's fake money and the biggest scam going on. They can hide the money and then sell it. Stop the madness

[@kyleredfearn96]

Immediately reading this book

[@bitSimple]

Essential reading is John's The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman...

[@MrJbennett321go]

Maybe do a Top Ten must read books video?

[@mattison1906]

Un-freaking-believable!

[@charliebrown1435]

Confessions sent me down the rabbit hole after retirement. I never retired but researched. Venus Project. Pawns in the Game. Shock Doctrine Eustace Mullins. CIA mafia War is a Racket.

[@Elian_Dulce]

Im at $30,000 in the bank.. no debt and im loving it.. living on less than you make and believing that you can is one heck of a step in achieving it

[@arturowicz469]

Sometimes I'm not sure how but we do! We're blessed and very thankful. My man, way to go! Just like you, l'm debt-free, living on half my monthly income, and I'm currently at $11,000 in a High Yield Savings Account. Whoop, whoop!

[@Cruzwesthoood]

Any car debt or did you pay that off?

[@Elian_Dulce]

@@Cruzwesthoood Not sure if question was for me, but no. I've no personal or medical debt at all. I drive a paid for 2011 Mazda paid it off August 2023. Haven't looked back since

[@Alejandro_Lorenzo]

Inflation is gobbling up that fat chunk...oops smaller chunk now. Seems like 10% a year to keep pace.

[@Antonella_Carlos]

3-6 month emergency fund should be highly liquid to access which for most is about 10k to 15k

[@phylliswillbur6896]

This is first book I read a year ago when I decided to figure out what in the heck was happening here. Basically, blew my mind. Was in shock… and became mad! Yes, furious at the lies from our government and teachings all these years. Beginning of enlightenment.

[@bitplebleo]

Wow this is such a great episode. Thank you guys

[@casamurphy]

Who is going to help this fine fellow achieve a bitcoin consciousness revolution?

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My father owned a service station in the 70's and I still have a couple photo of the gas lines.

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[@victoriaalai5041]

Wow

[@katskillz]

Great conversation, thanks for making this happen. I respect John a lot for his work and his mission. One thing however is John needs to up his game on climate science. I think he can because his heart for truth and a better society is obvious. But I know that he's on board with the current broken model that selectively excludes a LOT of relevant data, especially wrt the solar impact on our planet's climate systems (high energy particle forcing, electromagnetic excursions with a weakening magnetic field, X-Ray + cosmic radiation are all absent from the basic climate model that all policies and mainstream climate science is based on)... this is because the modeling and subsequent studies and conclusions presuppose a closed system "science of limits", rather than a dynamic open system, when it comes to how we perceive nature and do science. This zero sum model (which ultimately has origins in Thomas Malthus and his British imperial-socialist supporting mathematical justification for top down controls for population management based on resource limits to sustain uncontrolled growth) uses deceptively basic arithmetic to conclude that natural phenomena do not have explanatory power for changing thermal trends in the climate. So human causes are attributed to the gap. The guilt factor is palpable: we are consuming resources at rates we cannot sustain and will not have a future unless we either voluntarily or are coerced to stay within limits. But to this day, there is currently no well known and usable model that includes all the relevant factors. Oh, the studies keep coming in, but they are easy to ignore when scientific zeitgeist is in place. This has to change, otherwise the current institutional capture of broken-model climate science will continue to be leveraged by global zero sum thinking policy makers, think tanks, and politicians, including the WEF and ESG crowds, to continue to propose and/or enforce diminishing of a society's abundance, insults to natural rights, and insults to the ability of humans as reasonable and moral creatures with agency. Scientific governance in the tradition of Malthus has disdain and hostility to the notions that were championed by the likes of JFK who wanted governance oriented towards encouraging the unleashing of innovations and solutionaries to overcome natural limits, to bring about a rising tide to raise all boats that does not decimiate the environment and exploit developing populations and "useless eaters".

[@ivorytickle]

14:00: omg the diabolical pre-planning!! It is so infuriating

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[@jad1497]

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John 14:6❤

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[@VEGANWARRIOR]

If he was in the PeaceCorp he was CIA I bet. 😂 😂

[@DavidLawrenceDaley]

This is fuckin epic, too bad people are interested in waking up. Also I would say, it’s all compartmentalized and every layer down doesn’t know what’s above so even this being pretty deep, it’s still surface layer matrix

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[@casamurphy]

Ecuador is repudiating Chinese loans because the quality of the Chinese construction companies was so shoddy that it has led to serious environmental problems.

[@NappyWayz]

China’s Belt & Road

[@nickynada-btc]

I had a bit of a different view on John than most people. I don't like his ideas, his goals or vision of the future.

[@brettonwoodsvsbtc1217]

It scales all the way down to SME. Hedge funds invest in start ups to drive SME out of market by undercutting then oligopoly established. Destroys middle class. BTC is a life raft

[@jad1497]

This conversation shows how incredibly EVIL fiat is.....wish more people could make the connection. The future will be extremely difficult for those saving in a fiat currency.

[@janemichael5740]

What's the plan for Panama from the man who approached the General who refused the offer and the US military deleted him and installed their puppets Noriega and Motta, his Financial Partner ? Mr. Perkins now has a change of heart, is studying the Mayan traditions and is ready to help Panama regain its independence. Panama lawyers supported by the people will declare the Odious Debt

[@janemichael5740]

What's the plan for Panama from the man who approached the General who refused the offer and the US military deleted him and installed their puppets Noriega and Motta, his Financial Partner Mr. Perkins now has a change of heart, is studying the Mayan traditions and is ready to help Panama regain its independence. Panama lawyers supported by the people will declare the Odious Debt

[@user-fx6vk3pp5o]

is this guy aware of the social credit scores and totalitarianism in china? how are they not the enemy of mankind in general? I feel sick.

[@katskillz]

When you ignore the American propaganda (Red scare 2.0), China is pretty much just trying to be a sovereign socialist nation. They strategically and aggressively invest abroad, but their geopolitical and foreign policy indicate a philosophy of willingness to engage in win-win cooperative relationships, not undermining and enemy making. What is underappreciated about China is, even though their governing entity is called the CCP, they are characterized by an anti-imperialist branch of socialism, which is incompatible with the hegemony+coercion model of American democratic empire, as welll as incompatible with the WEF's own socialist vision of a New World Order (which has its roots in so called British imperial socialism).

[@Faithsxx]

Seriously not only that they’ve stolen intelligence data from the US for decades now & the regime is communist & if you studied Mao they’re liars etc it’s sick.

[@RPalo71]

the FED and TREASURY are doing the same thing to Americans that the World Bank or IMF are doing overseas. Benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class and poor to soverign debt.

[@benetaue]

Tell us about the Harvard Gang and Russia 😂

[@benetaue]

Tell us who hijacked USIC 😂

[@willybolt6397]

@prestonpysh full time listener and long time bitcoiner. Every single commercial on here was the Micheal Saylor scam giving away btc and “ether”. Just thought I’d bring some awareness so maybe KZbin can get rid of that crap love this and all your content

[@chiru298]

Ethereum will outperform Bitcoin in the following year, Revux will outperform them both by far.

[@benetaue]

Written 20 years ago😂

[@soulechristopher]

DO NOT BUY ON RIVER!! THEY WILL CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT FOR TRYING TO WITHDRAW TO COLD STORAGE!!

[@nhexplorers]

he spent his career using government power to steal from poor people and can’t see the climate “crisis” is government power grab. 🤣🤣

[@Chiro_ASMR]

Had same thought

[@bgdrt561]

Smart guy AND clueless with understanding bitcoin. Plus he’s bought into the environment bs.

[@johnhumphrey515]

plata o plomo (as corrected), the game never changes

[@casamurphy]

I think you meant to use the Spanish phrase, Plata o Plomo (Silver or lead).

[@johnhumphrey515]

@@casamurphy lol, next time I will check my poor memory/education before I post

[@user-bs7pq2yg9z]

is this fiction ?

[@edbehan1306]

Fine he appears to have a consuiance. He's still a psychopath.

[@jacknaneek1681]

You lost me at climate change. Talk about a control mechanism.

[@scottbambacigno3066]

Pay them with what? Fiat paper? A fiat government “crypto”? Bitcoin ≠ “crypto” Bitcoin > “crypto” “crypto” = currency Bitcoin = money