Icke / Tier 4 — The Captured Institutions and Their Instruments / organization
GATT
Where each worldview places it
"An Elite front to bring down trade barriers and put all countries at the mercy of the Elite-controlled world economy"[1]. Icke calls it one of the "money police" set up at Bretton Woods, now coordinated by the World Trade Organization, and part of the economic dictatorship of the New World Order[2].
- Aliases
- General Agreement on Tariffs and TradeGeneral Agreement on Tariff and Trade
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Created at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 with the World Bank and IMF; now coordinated by the WTO[3].
- Dates
- 1944 (created)
- June 1994
- 21 May 1995 (the Uruguay Round)[4]
- Members / notable people
- Author's claims · 6
- 01"The GATT policy is there to create dependency on the world economic system" by forcing countries to drop the trade barriers that protect them[3].
- 02The Uruguay Round increased the hold of companies like ICI (supported by BP) over global seed varieties, and its farming policies destroy small and medium-sized farmers[5].
- 03Bush pushed it, and Clinton, Gingrich and Dole passed it through Congress; David Rockefeller publicly praised Clinton for his support for GATT[6].
- 04"Virtually no MP or member of Congress actually read the detail of the GATT agreement"[7].
- 05By removing tariffs, people are "subsidising the New World Order"[8].
- 06A US Treasury report of June 1994 estimated the GATT tariff cuts at $750 billion[8].