B.A.N.K.S – Time to spell it out:

Bad Assed Nefarious Kamikaze Scammers

It’s 77 years since Frank Capra directed A Wonderful Life : his finest hour of defining what made an egalitarian United States always hot favourite to defeat the greedy banker Potter played by Lionel Barrymore (above). Sadly, the nightmare vision of how Bedford Falls never became the depraved, renamed town of Pottersville has been turned by the Banksters into a self-dismissing prophecy. Today, our World is run by Potters.

The Slog examines the cultural damage inflicted by the contemporary banking megalomania, and ponders the alternatives open to those who want a return to decency.

This post isn’t an exhortation: I’m all exhorted out. Today’s piece is written inside an iceberg of steel anger sufficient to sink a hundred Titanics or break up a thousand banking cartels.

Imagine a paedophile has assaulted your daughter and is now taunting you with disgusting phone calls, but the police don’t care. What if your grandson had been beaten up by migrant mafiosi but Keir Starmer just passed a law rendering them all immune from prosecution as a way of saying ”Sorry” for slavery? Think about the depths of ire near to strangling your soul because some muddled shrink declared your schizoid son safe to go back into the community, three hours after which he bought some rope and hung himself.

Well at the moment, I’m much angrier than any of them.

No matter how many traits make up the Alliance for New Normality, ultimately Deep Throat’s adage still holds good: ”Follow the Money”.

The only money that counts in this neoliberal cesspit we inhabit is banker money, multinationally aligned ”Globalist” money, Secret State Control money and hitech billionaire money. Because in a world of Demigod megalomaniacs, it represents power – and most important of all, power that is almost completely unelected and answerable to nobody that matters.

It is Third Reich power in the hands of people who no longer need vast conquering armies: the present day genocidalists do not invade, they simply buy minds by selling fear, and maintaining imagined fear via a continuum of protection rackets that Capone’s South Side Chicago mob could only have dreamt about.

By far the most experienced of all these groupings are the Banks. As long ago as 1916, Henry Ford remarked, ”It is well enough that the people of our nation do not understand the banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”.

Every single element of banking, currency value and gold prices over the last ninety years has gradually made central, investment and retail banking immune to any kind of meaningful law or control. The thinly disguised devaluation of gold in 1932 under FDR and the crookery of Hitler’s books-cooker Hjalmar Schacht (perhaps the most amazing Nuremberg acquittal of all) was followed after the Second World War by a growing relationship between the then OSS (later the CIA) and banking interests that led to the Bay of Pigs Cuban fiasco, almost certainly bankrolled the JFK assassination and in turn paved the way for the Wall Street-Pentagon-Spook alliance finally cemented by Powell, Blankfein and Dimon….and in the EUNATO area, linked the UK military intelligence arm to the Rothschild banking interests, who went on to single-handedly get their protege Emmanuel Macron elected French President in 2017.

All of this power has convinced bankers that they are the most important, vital and ‘too big to fail’ element in the ludicrously entitled ‘Global Village’. In 2008/9, it cost that village $23 trillion to bale out their intra-bank trades, asset valuation stupidities, sub-prime ratings corruption and perverted derivative packages. But almost nobody batted an eyelid when, as Obama’s Coronation unfolded, the senior bankster VPs demanded their pre-agreed bonuses be paid in full.

Now here we are fourteen years later, and it is clearer than ever that the neoliberal financialised world monopoly model is an abject failure. But the sorcerers have teamed up with medical, silicon tech, bio-weaponry Davosite clowns, the neocon military and the useful climate/virus emergency idiots to hide that failure….a failure that can, in their myopic cunning, not only hide the disaster but also justify Sapienocide.

What I’m arguing for today is a focus on disabling the outrageous privilege bankers enjoy. One can summarise these as follows:

1. As long ago as 2010, Forbes Magazine openly admitted that almost everywhere in the World, a far-too-cosy relationship exists between regulators and banks. Forbes was being kind on the whole – like everyone else, it has to be careful what it says.
2. The access of the banks to both the elected and unelected State is something no other grouping or institutional sector can match. When UK bank Northern Rock went sour in 2009, Gordon Brown was obliged to clear his diary for three days while arrogant bankster idiots demanded Action This Day. A Downing Street aide confided to me that ”at no point did [the PM] call the bluff by saying you created this mess, you solve it….it was just a steady stream of ‘bale-us-out-or-you’re-dead’ threats”. Similarly, Dimon, Blankfein and other Wall Street luminaries maintain regular and casually confirmed contacts with the CIA, FBI and EUNATO BSDs – which they position as ”patriotism” and even ”doing God’s work”.
3. All the major merchant and central banks in turn cooperate with Silicon Valley in the development of credible ”glitches” invented to excuse hidden cash-flow issues, or lack of trust when intra-bank trades aren’t going well.
4. The biggest scandal of all is the completely potty quasi-religious ‘transubstantiation’ myth about who owns the money we desposit at banks: the funds in a general bank account do not technically belong to the depositor. At the moment of deposit, the funds become the property of the depository bank. Yes, it becomes, by miraculous means, the body and blood of Mammon. Why is this true? Because the banks have been allowed, by all their many State allies, to be the custodians of citizen money. Citizen money is the residue left after income taxes have stolen 32% of it, and banks have set the price of looking after the residue as We Own it all. ”You vill have nuzzink und you vill be happy”. When I grow up, I want to be a tax collecting banker.
5. Supposedly neutral Ratings Agencies are there to tell investors what is a safe or subprime investment. If they and the investment bank can’t agree, the banksters look for a Ratings Whore who will pass the package as A1. The real provider/assessor relationship is turned upside down to fool any sap willing to believe the whores.

Since moving to The Gambia, the two biggest obstacles I’ve faced to humanitarian aid and economic stimulation have been Government corruption and Banks.

The former of those two is easy to simply ignore and avoid. The problem with Banks is that their infinite hypocrisy and control of all the money-related levers gets in the way all the time.

Wise Bank, for example, has screwed up every transfer made from my funds there to any bank with an African address – be they for guitar repairs, charitable donations, backing for a transport business or a motor bike redesigned to help a small retailer buy more stock in bulk. The bank insists it must obey EU rules on secondary verification, but I haven’t been resident in France for eighteen months, and none of the banks involved are. I tried seventeen times to take a picture the AI bot liked, then I gave up and refused to comply. All these measures (we hear) are to protect ”our” money; but as we’ve seen already, the law says it’s THEIR money….hence the concern. Meanwhile, every month a fraudulent $40 standing order goes through. They ignore every message I send them to stop it.

When one tries to open a foreign currency account in Gambia, nothing happens. You wait around for hours, make a deposit and then….nothing. Trust Bank, Access Bank and Zenith have all done this to me. They don’t want private bureaux de change stealing their business by changing currencies into Dalasi – both faster and at a far better rate for the customer.

Furthermore, US, EU, British, African and Asian banks indulge in a sort of pass the parcel game by telling the customer that the recipient bank said ”the details were wrong” when they clearly weren’t…then the recipient bank denies sending the money back. So one gives up and pays in cash…having paid an outrageous bank charge for withdrawal from the ATM.

It’s greedy financialised service monopolism par excellence – I have taken to calling it Neoliberal Communism: for that is obviously the end objective.

All that said, much of Africa (and the Gambia in particular) offers the Westerner a fascinating glimpse into the future of what happens when all the State owned services have been privatised, little or no defence is provided against banker crime, there is no social safety net, no State education worthy of the name, and a Government filling its boots entirely at the expense of the already impoverished citizens, most of them employed by foreign capital investment companies owned by the First World.

Very few in the West take this opportunity, even though the general good nature of most employees here makes it a still inexpensive and enjoyable destination to explore, enjoy good food and leave refreshed with a sun tan and happy memories to go with it.

But if the banks get their way when it comes to naked theft of wealth – and their NWO allies freeze all air travel – this little country will quickly be Gone with the Wind.

It feels odd as an old-fashioned Englishman to wish for the bankster hegemony to fail because of BRIC aggression against it, but while Western populations remain distracted and apathetic about the obvious takeover of National Sovereigns by financialised technocratic globalism, the BRICS are the only real chance I see of anyone spiking their rumbling wheels.

The move by the PRC to ”democratise” citizen gold ownership is an interesting case in point. There are a thousand theories about this, but by far the most likely (and smart) is that China wants to enter the digital money era with a bid to have tradeable gold as a currency in its own right both at home and internationally.

Siding with the Chinese-led BRICS can of course be interpreted as ”jumping out of the frying pan into a sizzling Wok” in terms of individual liberty and the rule of Law – and on the whole, I buy into that. But my position now is very clear: I just want the power of bankers gone forever, and their correct position re-established as being in the scoreboard box rather than batting at the wicket.

There are obvious ways for thinking Westerners to stop the lunatics tomorrow, but (a) very few show any sign of wanting to carry them out, and (b) I’m not going to describe the required tactics in this medium….I’m in enough trouble with the Superstate fascist mentality as it is.

….and while we’re close to the subject of charitable donations, a great many Sloggers gave up on Operation Boreholes given the obdurate attitude of B.A.N.K.s.

Yet despite that, I have been able to forward from my account to the HTV&FGA very nearly enough further funds for a second borehole. If you still want to contribute, then sending your donation to the account below is by far the quickest and most reliable way to make this small Gambian village both healthier and self-sufficient as a community:

Send the money direct to me: you can do so by sending to Wise Bank, John Anthony Ward, Account number 92365866, Sort Code: 23-14-70, IBAN Code GB52 TRWI 2314 7092 3658 66. If you send in GB Pound sterling, it’s free, quicker than Swift – and will be in my account within seconds.

Thanks again.

John Ward lives in the smallest country in mainland Africa, and is a bit of a nuisance: argumentative, grumpy, suffering from sharply declining sexual performance and yet pleasantly staggered by the speed at which such a condition decomplicates every relationship with the opposite sex, his ambition is to live long enough to see Jeremy Hunt, Grant Shapps, Keir Starmer, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Emmanuel Macron, Anthony Fauci, Matt Hancock, Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson go to the guillotine.