The Power of Banks

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I worked with a fella a few weeks ago who was really clued up on the way banking and national banks are run etc.. It was pretty confusing to me at the time, but he made some points..

Like that The Bank of England, isnt actually ran by england.. like the large banks of america, the mint, main german banking etc, all ran by international bankers or something. Like JpMorgan.

He also reckoned that the presidents of america most likely got assassinated because they had planned on introducing new currencys, which would mean the people printing the money would lose their power.

Is any of this true?, if so.. im gonna read up on it. Sounds interesting!

(sorry my thread isnt full of info, im just writing breif from memory)
 
watch a film/documentary called Zeitgeist

It explains the banking thing, mainly US banks, and is very worrying (should you take it all as the truth)

Also explains religion etc, but spends ages on the fact that US banks artificially created all the major market conditions, that US will never get out of debt (ie. the Federal Reserve that makes the money isn't actually a government owned agency, but creates the money and sells it to the government at a cost straight away)
 
Thanks ill look into that.

the guy i was working with brought a lot of stuff up that made sense, it had never crossed my mind.

the power to print money, and stop printing money would totally control the whole economy, if you hold back on it, rates would increase etc, then they can just print more money and bring rates down... or something like that anyway haha :)

bloody interesting, and like you say worrying how much they control everything
 
i've also heard somewhere that the currency used to trade oil in the middle east was going to change or had changed from dollars to euros, obviously weakening the us position. how true this is or was i've no idea but it was said in this programme (it was Rob Newman on the radio) that it was being looked at around the time of the gulf wars.
 
nin9abadga said:
i've also heard somewhere that the currency used to trade oil in the middle east was going to change or had changed from dollars to euros, obviously weakening the us position. how true this is or was i've no idea but it was said in this programme (it was Rob Newman on the radio) that it was being looked at around the time of the gulf wars.
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Thats another thing the guy i was with mentioned!, it made a hell of a lot of sense too!

suprising how much stuff we dont think about.
 
One thing the banks did was offer some sort of share purchase scheme, where you pay 10% of your total purchase and the banks fund the rest, but is recallable with 24 hours notice.

When the banks were getting independant competitors and the economy was healthy, they recalled every loan - depression, recession and meant all their small bank competitors went bust
 
Hedge said:
I worked with a fella a few weeks ago who was really clued up on the way banking and national banks are run etc.. It was pretty confusing to me at the time, but he made some points..

Like that The Bank of England, isnt actually ran by england.. like the large banks of america, the mint, main german banking etc, all ran by international bankers or something. Like JpMorgan.

He also reckoned that the presidents of america most likely got assassinated because they had planned on introducing new currencys, which would mean the people printing the money would lose their power.

Is any of this true?, if so.. im gonna read up on it. Sounds interesting!

(sorry my thread isnt full of info, im just writing breif from memory)
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This fellow - he didnt happen to be wearing a shiny metallic helmet by any chance?
 
Visage said:
This fellow - he didnt happen to be wearing a shiny metallic helmet by any chance?
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Haha, i see where you are coming from, i cant really convey what he said (he boxed my head for bout an hour while i drove lol)... what he said made a lot of sense though really, although i guess some of it might just be conspiricy type stuff.

The power of international banks and religious bodies is pretty phenominal though to be honest
 
trescodrucey said:
yeh it goes on for a bit, keep watching though

i love religious conspiracy theories, even though some are a little tooo stretched
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Im about 20 minutes in now, very interesting stuff, thanks for pointing me at it. I enjoy stuff like this.
 
trescodrucey said:
watch a film/documentary called Zeitgeist

It explains the banking thing, mainly US banks, and is very worrying (should you take it all as the truth)

Also explains religion etc, but spends ages on the fact that US banks artificially created all the major market conditions, that US will never get out of debt (ie. the Federal Reserve that makes the money isn't actually a government owned agency, but creates the money and sells it to the government at a cost straight away)
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Zeigeist is *******. Click here and here to learn why.

No swearing
 
trescodrucey said:
i do like the way they "make" their theories work
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For a film about deception it really does use a lot of it itself. Unfortunately it is telling a bunch of people what they already want to believe so it gets brought out as "Truth" in far too many discussions.
 
Hedge said:
I worked with a fella a few weeks ago who was really clued up on the way banking and national banks are run etc.. It was pretty confusing to me at the time, but he made some points..
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How do you know he was really clued up?

Like that The Bank of England, isnt actually ran by england.. like the large banks of america, the mint, main german banking etc, all ran by international bankers or something. Like JpMorgan.
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The Bank of England is a government institution, and acts as the government's banker. The Royal Mint is currently in the process of being taken over by the British government. I don't know what the arrangement is in Germany, but I'm willing to bet that it's nothing like what you've been told.

The old "secret international-bankers-who-own-and-control-everything" conspiracy is an old one, which has appeared in many different forms over the decades. It is also completely false.

Yes, there are large financial corporations who do have massive holdings (merchant banks and private equity forms are a classic example) but their relationship with state-owned institutions is not as it has been described to you.

He also reckoned that the presidents of america most likely got assassinated because they had planned on introducing new currencys, which would mean the people printing the money would lose their power.
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Complete nonsense. It's not even logical. The money is printed by the mint, and the mint only prints money as instructed by the government because the mint is a government institution. And guess who's the head of government? That's right: the president. So nobody loses money if the currency changes; they just produce a different type of currency!

I'm an Australian. When we switched to a decimal currency in the 60s, the government simply changed to dollars and cents from pounds and pence. No drama; no conspiracy; nobody "losing money" as a result of the new currency, and no assassinations. So... where's the beef?

Is any of this true?, if so.. im gonna read up on it. Sounds interesting!

(sorry my thread isnt full of info, im just writing breif from memory)
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The guy you were talking to is completely clueless and doesn't know the first thing about currency, let alone anything else. Give him a slap and send him on his way.
 
There may be questionable info in some of these subjects but it doesn't mean there are no truths in them that may still be considered fringe by many people.
 
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