A Crash Course in Banking, How it Controls the World and How to Fix it |Knowledge is Power
Why the whole world is in debt slavery. And what we can and must do to fix it and end it. A collection of videos, materials and resources. Have a binge, or dip into different topics as you like.
Why the whole world is in debt slavery. And what we can and must do to fix it and end it. A collection of videos, materials and resources. Have a binge, or dip into different topics as you like.
I am not an economist. This is a collection of videos and articles which inform about the banking system, which I found easy to understand.
I will continue to add to this and sort it, and notify you of updates if you subscribe. In the meantime you will find a lot of very revealing info from highly qualified sources.
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Overview - discussion (To add)
This follows on from my articles
''Our Banking Systems'' Are Legalised Fraud, Run By A Few, For Themselves. |Knowledge is Power
Lending money you don't have was recognised as fraud which causes economic disasters, in the 1600s. Then, fraudsters bought our governments. Now it’s called “creation of money”. And still we are deceived and fleeced by it.
How Big Money Destroys Co-operatives | Knowledge is Power
Co-operatives and worker share structures are the way that wealth is received by those who produce it - not by extractors. Here’s a comparison of success in Italy, and destruction in the UK.
Useful resources
History- how banks got to rule countries
Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogue with Michael Hudson and Ann Pettifor - YouTube
How countries lost economic sovereignty. With Michael Hudson, former US government economist (his background and experience is at Michael Hudson in Conversation with Steve Keen & Ann Pettifor below)
24:40 HISTORY OF SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES’ DEBT #__#<<royal to parliamentary debt systems (Dutch & British models)>> <<financial imperialism via debt enforcement.>> <<international law reform and economic sovereignty.>>
You’ve Been Lied to About the History of Money w/ Richard Werner (WiM576) - YouTube
2.5 hours, worth every minute. (The banker who invented Quantitative easing)
Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world - YouTube
Michael Hudson in Conversation with Steve Keen & Ann Pettifor - YouTube
.MONETARY POLICY, 1.1%, CHINA, DEMOCRACY , clearing union
How banks got to rule the world
WTF Happened In 1971? - YouTube
BRETTON WOOD IMF $ DISCONNECTION FROM GOLD STANDARD
?Why Central Banks Needed Bretton Woods to Control World Money - YouTube
How Central Banks have Seized Power over our Societies - YouTube - BEST DOCUMENTARIES
JAPAN - DELIBERATE RECESSION TO CHANGE WINDOW LENDING TO INTEREST HIKES
?Why Banks Needed World War I to Survive - YouTube
BANKS RULED GOVTS
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How the system works today
The politics of gold: Economist Michael Hudson explains why gold’s price is rising so much - YouTube
The Most Dangerous Institution You´ve Never Voted For ‘- YouTube
IMF ‘The Bank That Secretly Destroys Entire Countries’ →’NZ 0:00 / 34:46
Independent from who exactly? Central Banks and Democracy (Part 1) - YouTube
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?Narco Finance: How Cartels have taken over the World Banking System | FD Finance - YouTube
?Docs Expert on Elon Musk, Vatican Bank & $35 Trillion “Black Hole” | Mike Benz • 309 - YouTube
PRE 1.43.19 HOW US COMPANIES RUN THE WORLD DARPA
What role does foreign meddling play in the Sudan conflict? | DW News - YouTube
SUDAN- CAMERON HUDSON - WHAT HAPPENED
The Balance of Payments Illusion: How America Makes Money Without Paying
- YouTube, MICHAEL HUDSON BAL OF PMTS, NOTIONAL RENT INCL IN GDP! HUDSON’S CV - STUDIES, US RESOURCES IMPORTS =NOTHING PAID! MIL, FOREIGN AID, 0 PAID ABROAD - ALL SPENT IN US. GIVE $ CREDITS TO COUNTRIE TO SPEND IN USA, REQUIRE EQUIV FROM RECIPIENT IN THEIR OWN CURRENCY. FOR US TO SPEND IN THEIR COUNTRY (ASSASSINS ETC)=MADE MONEY ON AID.. AIM OF IMF=NOT DEVELOPING. PONZI SCHEME. US LOAN TO ARGENTINA TO PAY BONDHOLDERS TO GET MONEY OUT - TO STARVE NEXT LEFT WING GOVT AND FORCE IT TO IMF AGAIN.. 30.30 ECUADOR. 30.34 Q&A ONLY $ SENT TO ARGENTINA, UKRAINE, OTHER FASCIST COUNTRIES. SOCIAL SEC ALL SPENT-OBAMA. ALL SET UP TO PAY THE RENTIERS/STOCK MARKET. 41:00 RESERVE ONLY CREATES MONEY TO GIVE TO BANKS TO INVEST IN STOCKS, NOT TO SPEND INTO THE ECONOMY, THE TREASURY COULD DO THAT - BUT ONLY DOES SO FOR WARS.=FALLACY GOVT HAS NO MONEY TO SPEND. EU PROBLEM- LIMIT ON DEBT+COMMITMENT TO ARMING. 1960= 25% GOLD BACKING REQ IN US. 1980S US GOVT DIDN’T HAVE TO TAX AMERICANS, FOREIGN BANKS BOUGHT US GOVT BONDS.55:0-- US ETC OWN OTHER COUNTRIES RESOURCES, RENT THEM BACK. LAND, RESOURCES, MONOPOLY RENTS=PRICE WITHOUT COST VALUE. Q=WHAT IS NECESSARY COST OF PRODUCTION. CLASSICAL RENT THEORY=MARX+JOHN STUART MILL ETC =HOW TO BRING PRICE STRUCTURE INLINE WITH ACTUAL COST OF PRODUCTION SO NO MORE 0 SUM TRANSACTIONS= ENDED RENTIER=WHAT WAS SO REVOLUTIONARY ABOUT INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM. EVOLVING INTO SOCIALISM BY ABOLISHING RENTIER. 59.00 EARLY 1920S RENTIERS AND BANKS JOINED AND FOUGHT BACK. WHAT YOU GOT = WHAT YOU OWNED=FICTITIOUS NARRATIVE NEGATED A CENTURY OF VALUE PRICE THEORY. 1:01:00 HOW DOES CHINA PAY + TRANSPORTATION ETC SO HAVE COMPETITIVE WAGES FOR EMPLOYEES? A= TAKEN FINANCE, DEBT CREATION OUT OF PVT SECTOR AND MADE IT A PUBLIC UTITLITY. “INSTEAD OF PVT BANKS CREATING MONEY ON THEIR KEYBOARDS, THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA DOES.”
The Most Powerful Bank You´ve Never Heard Of - YouTube.
BIS=BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS, BOOK ‘TOWER OF BASEL’ . 63 LARGEST BANKS BELONG INCL FED, ‘SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY’, 1/10 OF FED, CAN MOVE MONEY OFF BOOKS. 8.24 HISTORY 1930-SETUP TO HANDLE GERMAN REPARATIONS , US YOUNG PLAN
97% Owned - Welcome to the Global Oligarchy | FD Finance - YouTube
1700s bank of engLAND STARTED WILLIAM PATTERSON
The Bank That Secretly Controls All Banks - YouTube
FEDERAL RESERVE =CENTRAL BANK, LENDER OF LAST RESORT =PRIVATE BANKS CONTROL ISSUE OF CURRENCY #__#<<Speculation in stocks, real estate, commodities. Hmm. So, to slow down inflation, there should be a targeted tax on accumulation of those — an excess wealth tax. Not “interest” = a private tax on genuine investors in their own homes and businesses.>>
Economist breaks down how the Treasury rules the UK | Paul Collier interview - YouTube
UK EMPLOYING IDIOTS, ECONOMIC MIRACLE OF CHINA
The Bank That Owns BlackRock - YouTube
Paul Singer Vulture ‘America’s Most Terrifying Investor - YouTube
(Greg Palast) - Cayman hedge fund arresting argentinian ship in Ghana- sabotage tactics to get companies and destroy towns. Congo aid for cholera- pchsed bad debt, 1996 peru-old bonds - 1st to sue in US courts-end of sovereignty - changed champerty law in US=buy distressed debt to sue . 2010 UK bans vulture law suits against worlds poorest nations, 42:30 Argentins - breaks 2011- cut off argentina from world banks
INTERPOL: Hunt down Greedy Corporations, Oligarchs and Terrorists | FD Finance - YouTube
FIFA, COUNTERFEIT TOBACCO, 30:XX GENERIC PHARMACEUTICALS 35:30 84% OF HIV MEDS COME FROM INDIA- TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS KILLING PEOPLE 36:13 working on behalf of the huge pharmaceutical transnational corporations which have a dubious role in uh in in uh compromising the access to affordable medical care all over the world it will soon be called a crime because it is indeed a criminal act in the sense that people are dying in some countries and a very expensive medicine blocks treatment and can cause people’s deaths’. 48:00 STUART GULLIVER CE ENGLISH BANK HSBC PANAMA AC. 50:32 2017 UAE €50M = ALL 192 MEMBERS, UAE OTHER INTERESTS. $50M=COUNTRIES DONT THINK ITS USEFUL
Big Banks Are BIG MAD Over Biden Admin’s New Rules On Overdraft Fees - YouTube
5.08 BANKS R-ORDERED DEBITS TO MAXIMISE OVERDRAFT FEES
Money Multiplier Formula is a RED FLAG: Top Economist warns - YouTube
Prof Steve Keen (CONFIRMS RE COMMERCIAL BANKS CREATING MONEY+RESPONSIBLE FOR CRASHES)
Why most of our money isn’t real - YouTube
Your Bank Account is a Lie - YouTube Johnny Harris, Silicon Valley Bank
HSBC Banksters: The Untouchable Bank (Global Finance Scandal Documentary) | Real Stories - YouTube
I LEFT THIS HERE SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE TRUTH.
If you want these videos, download them.
Greensill Capital, David Cameron, a financial scandal and a billionaire’s downfall | Four Corners - YouTube
SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE (AUS FARMER) 21:57 PLAN TO RESCUE AUS STEEL INSDUSTRY -
HOW BANK- INSURANCE NETWORK KEEPS NEW ENTRANTS OUT
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Why people don’t know - how control was obtained and how it is maintained
How the Rich Took Over the Economy - YouTube
(It started much earlier, but this is an easy recent history)
(UK-US) 19:00 POWELL MEMO, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, BUS ROUNDTABLE 1972, HERITAGE FOUNDATION - BY LATE 1970S BOUILT. 1979 PAUL VOLCKER US RESERVE BANK - INFLATION (PROTECTING WEALTH) MORE IMPORTANT THAN EMPLOYMENT. 25:00 20% INTEREST, LATIN AMERICAN DEBT CRISIS → IMF→STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES. USED TO FORCE ONTO GLOBAL SOUTH. ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY→GLOBAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. . 42:00 BRIT BORROWED FROM IMF=AUSTERITY, THEN THATCHER MONETARISM 17% INT, RECESSION, COLLAPSED 15 YEARS B4 CHINESE MFRS. 1984 MINERS STRIKE - REAGAN - 1ST REPLACEMENT OF WORKERS. + SLASHED TAXES FROM 78%-28%, GOVT HOUSING ETC CUT. 43:40 1989 CLINTON UNREGULATED DERIVATIVES MARKET. ->COLLAPSE 2008. HOUSING INVESTMENT INSTEAD OTOF NECESSITY (Anna Bocca).
How Two Brothers Bought American Democracy (With $100 Billion) - YouTube
KOCH BROTHERS INFORMATION CONTROL, SHADOW GOVT
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Alternative models
There are several models, I think I’ll put this in a separate substack. -
commercial banks are limited to lending money created by Government (central banks) and are regulated in whom they can lend to
inflation is stopped by tax, or limiting money creation, instead of putting money in the banking cabal’s pocket, which of course they lend to speculators driving inflation up and buying up the casualties of interest unaffordability
governments directly control both money creation and money lending, providing credit to sound productive ventures instead of speculators.
For any of these to work, governments and elected politicians must lose their impunity, and become personally accountable and liable for their actions. That will attract a different calibre of candidates - people who want to do their job, instead of people wanting self enrichment. It is simple, we already have the laws, they apply to every contractor, employee and holder of elected officer positions - except in our governments.
(This was the fundamental flaw in Plato’s Republic - he couldn’t or wouldn’t envisage a government personally liable for its actions. Maybe the laws of fraud, contract, and fiduciary duty were created much later, a question for another investigation.)
How the world can free itself from US financial colonialism: Economist Michael Hudson explains - YouTube
47.00 RENT EXTRACTING INVESTMENTS=ODIOUS INVESTMENTS, ODIOUS DEBT
?‘Deficits aren’t the danger to the US, THIS is…’ Top Economist warns (Prof Steve Keen)
It’s not government policy that causes wealth inequality and crashes. It’s lack of policy.
Governments cannot give the means to buy up the social common wealth to banks who give it to the Elon Musks.
Political parties supporting banking reform
The Return Of The Alliance 2025 – A Surprise Contender In Local Body Elections | Scoop News #__#<<Alliance is re-emerging to endorse candidates in the upcoming local body elections.#green>> <<past achievements include paid parental leave and the establishment of Kiwibank.#green>>
Distractors (don’t answer the real problem)
? Economist: Why Govt shouldn’t worry about budget deficits | Q+A 2024 - YouTube
#__#<<I find it absolutely incredible that our government gives $20billion windfall to banks. That’s nearly 20% of the govt’s tax take. $76 per week per New Zealand resident. Including babies>> <<Why are our authorities spending money taking away carparking and making speed bumps in instead of fixing potholes? Why do they spend our money on things we don’t want, sell our income earning assets, give our money to banks, then whine there is not enough>>
Jarrod Kerr, Kiwibank Chief Economist,Is this how we reignite the economy? - YouTube
Overview - discussion
TBC.
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Impressive collection of resources on systemic banking issues. Hudson's point about rent-extracting investments being odious really cuts to the core of how debt becomes a tool for control rather than development. Back when I was digging into some development economics stuff, saw firsthand how IMF structural adjustments prioritized bondholders over the actual welfare of populations. The distinction between debts incurred for productive purposes versus those that funnel wealth upward feels increasingly relvant today.