My trip to Iceland
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Hello Everyone,
The trip to Iceland was amazing. In 2007 the World Bank classified it as the 3rd wealthiest country on the
planet (per capita). Today it is considered the first developed country to go bankrupt, primarily because it
got “hit” by economic hit men.
Winifred and I were there last week for the premiere of an amazingly beautiful, and sobering, story
of how EHMs destroyed the economy — and many of the natural resources — in this spectacular country.
We were the guests of the producer — a successful and dedicated Icelandic businessman — and also there to speak
to the media and at an overflow crowd at the University of Iceland. The by-invitation-only premiere was held in a
1000 seat movie theatre and was completely packed. We sat next to the president and his wife. The film crew received
a 10-minute standing ovation at the end.
The movie is extremely well-done, has magical scenes of the country and a Dolby
sound-track. Not available to the general public yet, as it will be making the film festival circuit.
Here’s the trailer:
for fellow human phil from Zimbabwe.
by the way Mugabe is a member of the CFR (council of Foreign Relations) which is a well known elitist society where things get cooked up for the world policies.
Thank you David for reading the books. Every single person no matter what their background can change the world for the better.
Thank you for taking time to comment and I look forward to hearing what you think of the books!
John
I confess that I have not read “your confessions” yet , but I have come through many comments about this master piece. It has to be taught to everyone. These so called policy makers; immunized criminals are sheer loss to humanity. Thank you for your confessions sir. Thank you so much indeed.
Hi John,
I quit my job with a large pharmaceutical company recently due to a number of factors. The first agenda items during my time of were to read a couple of your books. They are wonderful, but obviously geared toward a more professional and wealthy audience. I did the right thing for now, my only criticism of your work would be (knowing that it’s easy to be caught up is something much larger than ourselves) that very general advice like “if you are over 50 don’t worry you are an empty-nester” does not apply to all of us. For me, that is true… but many are foot soldiers, too.
Thanks for your good work.
hi john.
do you have any idea if the assasination of Guinea Bissau’s president Viera in 2009 is somehow connected to all of this?
Thank you so much for your support and for taking time to comment.
john, you are great !!!! i respect you.
recently i finished read book your confessions of an economic hit man.
thank you for give me keen insight.
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Dear John, I have only read “The Secret History of the American Empire” and it terrified me. I am an ex-Zimbabwean (Rhodesia) who moved to South Africa when Mugabe came to power having served in the armed forces fighting him.
I have always told my friends that the west intentionally kept Africa in disarray and in a state of war for the purpose of raping her rich natural resources. Your book has confirmed this. The British forced Mugabe into power despite the fact that they knew he was a tyrant and despite the citizens in Rhodesia were mostly British subjects.There must have been an economic agenda. Further, Mugabe is plundering the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Why is he not removed from power by the West? He is obviously one of those who co-operates.
During the reading of your book, I could not but help think about the arms deal which was transacted by the new ANC government of South Africa soon after they took power. Billions it cost us and we did not need the arms. Full of proven corruption as well. Further, we have just borrowed from the IMF billions of Rands for a new power stations. Before the incompetent ANC took over we were a vibrant and healthy economy with no need to borrow.
Why was I scared when I read the book? Because what you have written is happening right now on our doorstep and these clown politicians are going with it. I get scared at the thought that because we have been hit by economic hitmen, our once 1st world beautiful country will be dragged to same level of the ruins we now call Zimbabwe.It is also amazing that if I wrote this in our local newspapers, I would be called a racist.
Thnak you for your inciteful writings. If you have any comments on Southern Africa, I would really appreciate them.
Best Regards
Phil
Dear Mr. Parkings
First of all I want thanks you because the work that you are doing in order to create consciences among the mankind. I just finished reading your book confessions of a EHM, it is a very interesting story , I am very well impressed about it, I have to tell you the true, after reading this book I have this idea in my mind, or you really were a witness of the mentioned acts or in fact you are a very good investigator, but whatever be the case, one thing is truth , you had made a very accuracy picture of real world in which we are living.
Dear Perking I am a Venezuelan citizen with a master degree in finances and the business and I would like to start a similar work here in my country but I go to need your help by doing that. Please could you give me the general guideline that I need to follow in order to accomplish this goal?
You can contact me through my personal email.
Best Regards.
F. P
Phil
Thank you very much for taking time to write this. We all can keep up the revolution and change the world for the better.
John
Hi John,
I too have read your book. You have made a remarkable about turn and become a whistleblower. You have shied away from a priviledged life style and spilt the beans!
I just wish there were more people like you with courage and determination to expose the truth. The truth is very frightening and most people shut their eyes and ears to it, for they cannot face it.
It is only men like you who can spread the knowledge that ultimately will give power to the people when finally they wake up, hopefully before it is to late.
Keep going John!
Up The Revolution
Kindest Regards
Phil
sri lankan tamil genocide based on an economic hit man? your book confessions of an economic hit man give us more information. thank you sir!
dear sir! I read your book of the confession of an economic hit man. thank you ….
Google http://www.frontlineblackmoney.org and
http://www.frontlinethewarning.org
to learn in depth about the economic crash of 2008, 2010.
Frontline has many interesting documentaries, along with KQED.org
and NPR.org
http://www.johnperkins.org is an important website to read.
Readers should try to read http://www.ida.org and http://www.peta.org
to link these issues to what corporations are doing to animals,
such as rounding up and killing wild horses in Nevada,
all over the West now, probably to get control of land for corporations to make money off of the beef industry (eating vegetarian/vegan keeps money away from these animal abusers) and the oil, gas, nuclear industries.
Boycott companies that trap and use animals for entertainment, such as SeaWorld, BevMo, Ringlin Brothers Circus, etc. and buy your pet from a shelter, not a pet shop where they do breeding (really it is rape) for profit. Everyone should try to see the documentary film, The Cove, about many issues John Perkins covers, basically bribery in international law, which ends up killing thousands of dolphins and whales every year. Go Sea Sheppard! See the web site http://www.seasheppard.com on saving whales from slaughter.
Interesting .. I look forward to hearing more!
Thank you for taking time to comment.
Many thanks to Mr. Perkins for all of the great work that he’s done in exposing some of the secrets of the empire. His great work has helped countless thousands to better understand some of what is going on in this screwed up world of ours.
I am writing to share that there seems to be a light at the end of this tunnel of horrors. Benjamin Creme has been talking about Maitreya for about 30 years, but 2010 promises to be a very special year.
In 2008, Maitreya said: “This is the year of the Rat; 2009 will be the
year of the Bull; and 2010 the year of the Tiger. The year of the
Tiger is always special, but 2010 will be really a special year – it
will be a really extraordinary year!”
So happy new year everyone, don’t let the bast___ds grind you down!
John
“Maitreya is awaiting the best timing to go public… when the crumbling economic system is bringing the West to its knees… We think… we can go on in the old ways… more competition, more greed… It is not so… If two-thirds of the world’s population are living in poverty then the economic system does not work. If we think that they will go on without asking that it work for them, then we are sorely out of step with reality. Maitreya will make that clear… People will begin to understand that humanity is travelling together as one huge group, at different stages of the evolutionary journey. We are all travelling together along a path of evolution to something tremendous which our minds at present find difficult to truly understand.”
Benjamin Creme
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Here’s an interview with John Perkins that Benjamin Creme’s organization published:
http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2005/apr_05.htm#economic_
Mr. Perkins,
I have had the same impressions about Rev. Ian Punnett as has been stated by other posting. I love him for his intellect but for his wimpy comments and logic leaves me cold and questioning the foundation for some of his digs.
I too listened to C2C, 28 Dec 09, I did not hear the entire program but for the bits and the pieces, I come to the conclusion that there are pieces of this puzzle still missing. I need to know which of the terrorist was illiterate and impoverish. Where is Saudi Arabia in this equation. I believe SA is the beginning. Radical Islam should not tar the devout Muslim and their true faith and belief any more like tarring Christians for what fallen so called Ministers and the falling from grace. Corruption at all levels of government and in every country of this world has a bad effect on the citizenship because they feel like they have no recourse and lose any trust or faith they may have in their elected and mostly unelected rulers. So they take matters into their own hands. Good or bad, mobs are single issue oriented. Just as most special interest groups and most political movements.
Sadly, I do not have your book(s), yet but I will have this solved soon.
Thank you for your forwardness.
Mr. Perkins, I heard you and Ian on Coast to Coast last night for as long as I could possibly stay up. Many people in the US do not want to believe in some of your comments. But few have walked a mile in your shoes or feel your guilt that you’re trying to remedy. We do need to seek a better life and a better world for all, and we do all need to work together. I will read your book.
Mr. Perkins,
I remain shocked at your glib presentation regarding just about everything. For some reason, you appear somewhere in the world and at times at wonderful ’state-run’ events, billed as ‘by invitation only’, and sometimes, as in this Iceland debacle, are seated nearby if not on the lap of the ‘President’. There is something rather wrong with the picture, I can only wonder if your ‘followers’ are as adept as I at picking out the bore-holes in your story.
You made some awful claims regarding Honduras. In fact, you claim to have ‘been there’ and went on to say the incident was a ‘bloody coup’, not once, but several times. Kind of reminds me of Al Gore in his ancient book regarding the Ozone-layer issue… all third party, most of it conjecture and all of it suitable to his personal investment in the outcome. You are no different.
The Honduras Coup was reported by the Canadians, the BBC, the French and yes, the Russians as ‘bloodless’. Piecing together the story from those sources, all of them by different writers, which is far and away unlike anything printed in the United States as it is nearly ninety-five percent Associated Press release and not in any way original… for the obvious reason. Zelayah was taken from his home by the military and sent out of the country without a shot fired and of course with nothing but the clothes he was wearing at the time. I’m quite sure he would have been sent out naked, but that wasn’t the case.
You then stated that you ‘were in’ Ecuador and ‘witnessed’ some crap about “U.S. oil companies” and “pollution”. You referred a very old legal tussle in which a subsidiary of a U.S. oil company had claimed to have remediated a polluted area, now abandoned, and squarely plan to blame the spurious acts of a U.S. company. I’ll bet, because like Al Gore, it suits you and your agenda.
The question I have for you is just what the hell are you aiming to prove? As a follow-up, I request to know who it is that funds your many trips that magically permit you to be in so many places to witness so many ‘crimes’ and then have the time to write it all down. Some of your academic colleagues are proud of you I am quite sure since you write books, some of which are published and some of those are actually purchased by some, and even fewer are read.
I’ll bet a dollar to donuts that most of the copies of anything you print are given away, not sold, and in no way profitable, just like the un-truths you spew. You stated that you ‘were in’ Panama regarding the overthrow of Noriega. I remain amazed. So many places at so many ‘right times’ bearing witness to the travesties you bill as ‘U.S.’ or ‘C.I.A.’ involvement and then have the audacity to compare them in some sick rationale to Hitler and Stalin during the 1930’s. I’m very sure that you ‘were there’ at those times too, which appears to be the way you attempt to persuade the weak-minded people that may actually read your publications.
You give even late-night AM radio a bad name. I also note your web site is full of vidweo blogs of you talking, which is what you like to do and perhaps it is a good thing that you are the only one that enjoys listening to yourself talk.
I would appreciate your time and perhaps a visit from you with an authentic Passport to prove that you ‘were in’ so many key places at so many precious moments. I fear that you will not, because you cannot prove you were anywhere at any of those times or any of those places doing any of those things you claim.
Just like Al Gore, you may know somebody who knows somebody who said they knew somebody who was there and feel it is up to you to enlighten the world.
You should be ashamed of yourself… now go to your room and stay there until you apologize.
Jim Buba
Lowell, MA
Ian Punnett is naive. George shoots 50 caliber rounds, Ian shoots peas. I never listen to Ian but for the fact that you were on. Last time.
Peace JP,
I read your previous book, and have gotten into your newest book. I”m an African American Muslim, better known as “Undercover Muslim.” I am involved in several projects to engage dialogue about the the Muslim Image, but I am also executing initiatives to combat predatory capitalism. I would like to talk with you if at all possible about some of these initiatives, specifically regarding Iceland Please reach out to me on my listed e-mail. I am inspired to go out an inspire. Thank you sir.
Preacher Moss
Hi Amin,
Thank you for your kind note.
John
Hi, John
Thanks for running this blog. I have read your book “Confessions of EHM” and it’s astonishingly good. Although prior to that i had similar understanding (unlinked pieces) from my own observations, that book put the things in proper historical perspective.
trying to get your new book “Hoodwinked”, hope to enjoy it very soon..
Wishing you good luck
Regards
Hi John, I strongly recomended you to look for Pino Solanas, an Argentinian movie and documentary director, who is, step by step, trying to get the people awake from lots of years of corruption and vulnerability in Argentina, my country, and he is doing it by the way of understanding an information.
This is his site: http://www.pinosolanas.com/
Good work you, congratz!
Saludos! (Bye)
Everybody should do HIS job well as long as it is a good one.
This is the only way to change anything.
There are enough people – who are intelligent and not only materialists – to make this earth a better place. It needs time, we need swift changes.
hello john, i have read ur first book confession…by the way my name is Samar Khadas, i am an indian i live in financial capitol of india that is MUMBAI…i work as a political journalist in one of the leading news paper in regional language. just 2 days before i baught ur new book hoodwinked..i have started reading it completed 1st 2 chapters. its realy nice. bt thing is do u still realy think that capitalism is the best economic system which can give justice to the people of the globe? becoz what u said is the problem started from regan’s era when he started persuing freidman’s theory unlike of previous presidents who were on the path of john meynards keyens general theory…becoz keynesian theory was the out come of a fear of soviet union & its increasing impact in eastern europe & many more continets. the thing is whether it is keyens or freidman the sole motive in capitalism is profit maximisation when soviet union collapsed & capitalism doesnt have any fear from the left of the centre they have reveled their original face in front of everybody.bt i must congratulate u & thank u as a reader & being a worker in left movement & a citizen in one of the countries which is on the verge of collapse & tremendous exploitation of working class that u r the one in this era who has opened eyes of many people who were taking side of structural adjustments…our prime minister dr. manmohan singh is in washington & when IMF said everybody in the world should rethink about their savings they should convert their savings in euros or some other cyrrency from dollars. even though our prime minister said no dollar will never lose its weight & power…i think one of the topmost postholder in the world who was previously an ECONOMIC HIT MAN is manmohan singh. sir i realy appreciate u & indeed want u to come here & communicate with various people. i actualy discuss this with many of my friends since last 2 days that we should arrange ur trip to india. will collect some money for ur trip from our sympethisers & will tell u..will u please let us know how to communicate with u..i mean can we get ur mail id…thanx very much..
Hi, John
My name is Eddie Sibiya from South Africa.Obviously,I want to start by congratulating you for a good work in your book,” Confessions of an Economic Hitman”. I can tell you, after reading your book,I felt vindicated because I always advised my friends about the dark side of US dominance.
Sadly, one get labelled as a theorist when mention illuminati and their secret activities.In your bour you intensely covered Southern and Central America.
But felt that Africa had suffered big time more than any other continent.I am thinking about what is currently happening in DR.Congo.It started long ago when a democratic elected president Lumumba was assassinated until today the mineral resources are plundered in the name of democracy.
I am not sure what you refer as corporatocrats is what I understand as “Illuminati”.Again I still argue that South Africa is part of the list of those countries targeted.Sadly, my friends again they just hear a theorist.
Africa remains vulnable because of high level of illitaracy and poverty.Dictators and juntas are out there to deliver this continent to these people.
Thanks