Icke / Tier 4 — The Captured Institutions and Their Instruments / financial
Banking system
Where each worldview places it
"The fantastic con trick we call the banking system", on which "the foundations of the manipulation toward a world government, army, bank and currency are built"[1]. It creates credit from nothing, lends it at interest and "sucks the world's wealth" into itself: "today's banking system, which controls the world"[2], itself "controlled by the Global Elite"[2].
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Among the first Western bankers were the Knights Templar; then goldsmiths and fractional-reserve banking; then the House of Rothschild and the central banks[2].
- Dates
- 1930s (Great Depression)[1]
- Key events
- 1860s: Abraham Lincoln's interest-free 'greenbacks' threaten it[3]
- 1930s: the banks cause the Great Depression "by withdrawing money from circulation by refusing loans"[1]
- 1963: John F. Kennedy proposes interest-free notes[1]
- Author's claims · 3
- 01Through debt and share manipulation "the same few people have come to own all the major businesses, the media"[1].
- 02"The world financial system and policies of boom and bust are controlled by just thirteen people" on David Rockefeller's International Banking Commission[1].
- 03Working alongside the banks, "and owned by the same people, are the oil companies"[4].