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This video is 11 days old. Which is actually good.
4:09 Reviewer says "My sources tell me the military will be on the streets of London inside a couple of days". Did that happen?
Icke starts with the "For 30 years I have been warning that the world is run by a cult. A cult with no borders". He claims that the cult is at the core of the system in China and the US.
* This doesn't explain why the US and China have completely different economic and political models. It doesn't explain those countries posturing in the Philippine Sea and the Pacific.
He claims that the cult wants to create a global state in which a tiny group of people dictate to everyone else. He talks about a pyramid where there are "people connected to the cult". He calls them the 1%. However, this is no different to how things have worked for the last 2000 years. Is it?
He then goes on about technocracy - that is the world being run by "experts, scientists, engineers" and "Technocrats". But, surely we prefer this than in the old days where leaders were chosen on a principle of nothing other than being the first born son? What is wrong with major decisions being taken after consultation with people who know the subject?
He then makes some crazy claim about AI - how people's perceptions will be controlled at a central point. I watched with baited breath expecting him to explain how it works. He tried, and he used a lot of ambiguous terms like "smart grids" and he also confused what the "Internet of Things" actually is. However, it's unlikely that you bothered to research any deeper into either of those things, and just took Icke's view as being correct. I wonder if you still subscribe to his talk of lizard people?
He then talks about a "cashless" society as if that is something new. We have already established, through your subscription to a supermarket's delivery service, that you don't practice what you preach on this. The question I have is "what would be the major disadvantage of a cashless society"? I suspect your answer will be along the lines of "Government surveillance" and you may be surprised to find that I agree with you, to an extent, on this.
He then goes on to talk about artificial problems created by Government and relayed by the Mainstream Media. He's been banging this drum for 30 years but, as far as I am aware, he hasn't actually been able to produce a single piece of evidence on even one single artificial problem in all those 30 years. The only thing he came up with were the "Weapons of Mass destruction" which, whilst being a good example of misinformation being used to further political aims, is not exactly an example of how society has been forced to change.
He then says, and this is absolutely brilliant, that change is brought about by either an unsuspecting public being outraged OR by apathy. He makes it sound like this is Government driven but, in essence, he has just described how Governments have operated since the dawn of time. Whether that is through the Roman Empire, or local tribal leaders - what is different in the last 30 years compared to the preceding 30 years, 300 years or 3000 years?
That took me to 9:30 on the video.
I'm happy to go through the rest but I know that the way these things are "debated" by the Icke Cult is that for every reasoned counter-argument, another theory is produced forcing the counter-arguer (in this case me) to run around in circles trying to pin the Icke Cultist (i.e. you) on to one specific subject.
So - let's see your response to the above. When we've thrashed out the 9:30 so far, we'll then look at the subsequent 10 minutes.