I watched the Icke video and he did have some good points for sure regarding the economy and small businesses and a few other things. Hes is probably right that we will lose some freedoms by the end of all this as well. But one thing that makes me very leary about him and others who think like him is - he says things like (I'm paraphrasing here) "if you know the final outcome of the scenario then there are no coincidences." Basically he is saying that his lifes philosophy is based on confirmation bias. He uses any and all related information to prove his theory while simultaneously ignoring all evidence that disproves it. That is just bad science, to say the least (its actually not scientific at all its the pseudoscience methodology).
There will always be evidence to prove any theory a person has, no matter how illogical or crack pot it may sound. In Ickes case he actually came out and said definitively that his methodology for analyzing data and thinking critically about a topic is to seek out only the information that confirms his preconceived notions of the world. That alone should make anyone take his ideas with a grain of salt. Its good to hear multiple perspectives for sure, because there will always be grains of truth in all of them. But also dont believe everything you hear just because it fits into your preconceived notions about the world.
Just my thoughts on the subject.
Yes, he does not have a perfect understanding of logic and I have pointed that out in comments under his facebook posts from time to time. Even though I happen to think that a lot of what he points out does fit in with the evidence - in terms of the intentions for totalitarian control, I do know he doesn't question enough. That being said, he is identifying a possibly chain of connection that needs to be disproven and it would be just as ignorant to deny those connections as it would be to deny other possibilities. All possibilities need to be considered.