{"id":119364,"date":"2018-10-08T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=119364"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:08:36","slug":"confessions-of-an-economic-hitman-short-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/10\/confessions-of-an-economic-hitman-short-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of an Economic Hitman | Short Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Extracted from <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmsforaction.org\/watch\/zeitgeist_addendum\/\" >Zeitgeist: Addendum<\/a><em>\u00a0featuring &#8220;economic hitman&#8221;\u00a0John Perkins.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many North Europeans think Greece and Europe are in crisis because the Greeks lived more luxuriously than they could afford. The truth is far from that. I saw this movie\/documentary before the crisis broke out in Greece. I recognize the pattern that is described by this ex-economic hitman (John Perkins) in this clip, which is a small part of the <em>Zeitgeist 2<\/em> documentary that is REALLY worth watching.\u00a0Now I can tell with certainty, Greece is not paying for its thoughtlessness. Greece is under the attack of economic hitmen. And I&#8217;m afraid so is the whole Europe, country after country.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XWuAct1BxHU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many North Europeans think Greece and Europe are in crisis because the Greeks lived more luxuriously than they could afford. The truth is far from that. I can tell with certainty, Greece is not paying for its thoughtlessness. Greece is under the attack of economic hitmen. And I&#8217;m afraid so is the whole Europe, country after country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}