That brings me to this documentary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VUsNPTAV0
I found it fascinating. I know a lot of the topics were mentioned in Zeitgeist but I feel this documentary was far better presented. I'm no expert in economic matters so I am sure there are numerous errors in it. Still it's well worth a look and if someone on here who understands Economics better than I do can give me an assessment on it, I'd be grateful.
I've only skimmed through it but basically the guy is proposing monetarism as propounded by the great Maggie Thatcher. Control the money supply and the world will be fantastic... err... but it wasn't was it? The fact that inflation doubled and employment soared under monetarist policies is irrelevant I suppose.
If I can find three-and-half hours to watch the whole thing maybe I will but on an initial skip through there seems to be quite a lot of bollocks in there.
The Bank of England isn't privately owned. However it was set up it was nationalised in the 1940s and is Government owned - not run by a Jewish conspiracy.
He quotes Sir Josiah Stamp in the 1920s and calls him
the Director of the Bank of England... he was made
a director of the Bank of England but as far as I'm aware was never the Governor of the Bank of England. Small mistake or a deliberate deceit?...
Guernsey uses the pound and doesn't have a separate currency, though it does have it's own notes. I can't find any trace of his story about Guernsey issuing its own currency in 1815 - before that it used French currency.
His comments at the end (apart from their millennial survivalist overtones) are similarly weird. 20-30 silver coins will be enough for you to survive on because people will know they are worth something apparently... sell your property as well... or open a bank account in Switzerland or Austria... (Austria is in the Euro).
I despise bankers but I really don't know what this is meant to be about and I don't think most people watching it have a clue either.
There are also more than a few unpleasant fellow travellers. Look at Larry Bates who he cites at the beginning - a religious nut who believes in the coming end-times, who believes the US should bomb Iran and hates homosexuals... Have a listen to some of his crazy views here:
http://www.soundwaves2000.com/unwo/insert/A few of the titles gives you a taste. "Obama is Ludicrous" "Democrats, homosexuals and oil" "Pansy preachers and poverty pimps" "Are your kids being raised as prostitutes with special guest Pat Montgomery" great stuff eh?.. and there's plenty more where that came from.
I listened for a bit and I can honestly say I was sickened and appalled by these right-wing Christian bigots. Still if that's the sort of person you want to base your world views on do carry on. Apparently, apart from believing that we are entering the "end times", he also believes that all modern medicine is witchcraft and the answer is actually colloidal silver which kills all bacteria...
I listened to a couple of callers when he was discussing Obama and one woman said she was upset because McCain is a bit too liberal! You should hear them going on about where Obama was born suggesting he wasn't born in Hawaii - I won't try and repeat the slurs and racist nastiness - but Larry Bates actually says that the reason that Obama won't release his birth certficate is because it shows his real name of... you guessed it "Mohammed". Un be-fucking-lievable.
As for "Presidential Candidate" Charles Collins, also cited at the start of the "documentary" is actually twice failed candidate Charles Collins. In the New Hampshire primary of 1996 he received 42 votes and the Republicans barred him from debates. In 2000, the Republicans wouldn't have him so he tried for the Reform party where he got 295 votes to Pat Buchanan's 2,214... So a presidential candidate in the loosest possible terms... a bit like saying Screaming Lord Sutch was a candidate for Prime Minister (though he had a bit more credibility.
By the way... when was this made? The speaker talks about the time when "they", the money-lenders will cause the crash but says it's unlikely to happen before the 1996 elections... so when he said there was a little time to act he was talking about 12 years or more.
He says that when "they" cause the crash it will leave only the very rich and the very many poor as in "most of the world"... oh and "slave labour" in "Red China"will take all the jobs in America...
It's a complete joke and the whole thing stinks of anti-semitism and the old International Jewish Banking Conspiracy.
Of course there is a real danger from over-powerful multi national organisations and the world bank does huge damage in developing countries by monetary policies that allow US and multinational corporations to take control of key industries. I don;t believe we are waiting for "them" (the Jews clearly) to purposely collapse the entire banking system to eradicate the middle classes.
Nasty anti-semitic bollocks...