Hmm. Well then, I shall say a little about what I think about banking. According to author Robert DeFremery, in _Rights vs. Privileges_, as he relates it on pages 1 & 2, in a conversational style:

"'Would it surprise you to know that two powerful interests other than s***eholders heavily influenced the writing of our Constitution and are still with us today -- more powerful than ever?'

"'It certainly would. What evidence is there of that?'

"'James Madison's extensive notes taken at the Constitutional Convention. I take it you haven't read them?'

"'No.'

"'You should. And read them carefully. Madison left no doubt about the influence of these privileged interests.'

"'Like what? Name them.'

"'Landholders and bankers.'"

I (robertv3) would agree that in the banking system we have today, bankers are specially privileged in a way that they shouldn't be.

In banking, there are different kinds of accounts. I think of them as either investment accounts or withdraw-upon-demand accounts. What I'm interested in here is withdraw-upon-demand accounts. My checking account (and my savings account, if I had one) is a typical withdraw-upon-demand account. I have the expectation (in most normal times) that I can withdraw all the money in my checking account at any time I want, with no delay, and with no advance notice to the bank. This is a proper and normal expectation for checking accounts and most simple savings accounts. However, notice what's happening lately to some savings accounts:

"People are ‘robbing’ banks in Lebanon – to take their own money" ( https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/15/what-is-behind-lebanons-bank-robberies-explainer )

The key problem is "little reserves left". And that phrase is found in the article.

The same problem (not "bank robberies" per se, but rather the problem of not being able to withdraw one's money from a withdraw-upon-demand account) occurs once in a while in the U.S., for the same reason: "little reserves left". It doesn't need to have anything to do with "foreign currency" or any foreign "exchange rate" (although those phrases are also found in the same article). The same problem occurs without those factors. The problem is insufficient reserves. I hope to say a little more about this later, but that's enough for now.

The operations targeting violent criminals and gang members were carried out in California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Washington.
The #FBI and our local and state law enforcement partners across the country arrested nearly 6,000 alleged violent criminals and gang members and seized more than 2,700 firearms connected to criminal conduct between May 1, and Sept. 2, 2022.

How about closing the border?

https://patrioticpost.com/fbi-announces-6000-arrests-in-historic-crackdown/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hJGHCm6Lbw

2bltap, The fact of the matter is that Biden got every v**e that was cast for him, and nothing more. The federal courts have thrown out 59 court cases of sixty that were brought before the courts. This includes both Republican and Democratic judges. Trumps lawyers were warned not to bring cases before the court without any evidence. The one case that had merit was extremely minor, and had no effect on the outcome of that e******n. Republican state e******n officials have said that the e******n was the fairest and most secure in US history.
All of Trumps staff in the White House except Eastman, Rudy and Bannon advised Trump that he lost the e******n.
It's high time the Republicans drop Trump a serious candidate, and go for a man of honor. I don't care if the candidate is conservative or not. Those are the facts. It's time to deal with them, not make up fantasy stories about how the e******n was s****n from Trump.
Please stop the terrible slander that Democrats are some kind of Marxists. I have been a Democrat all my life, and have never met a c*******t member of the Democratic Party. When I went back to school after getting out of the navy, I was surprised to see all the radicles that were created by the Vietnam War were much more angry at the liberals then conservatives. They thought that the VP Hubert Horatio Humphrey was a hypocrite because he wouldn't condemn the war.
The only thing both the Marxists and the liberal/progressives have in common is a concern for the working men and women. The Marxists want to o*******w society, and replace it with an entirely different kind of government. The liberals have never wanted to replace free enterprise for socialism. Recognizing the incredible power of corporate America, they want to pass legislation to level the playing field for ordinary people. Thats not socialism, that's democracy.

Democrats' diabolical plan to destroy America – steps 6 to 10
Larry Tomczak finishes 2-part series on how Biden's party is 't***sforming' the nation
By Larry Tomczak
Published September 27, 2022 at 7:00pm


This is the second part of a commentary exposing the Democratic Party's master plan to bring about the destruction of America as we know it. Previously, I shared the first five reasons, but here is a flyover of the five main points as a springboard for part 2.

1. The l*****t "woke" mentality and morality must continue calling "good evil and evil good" (Isaiah 5:20); defy God, making it illegal to pray, read the Bible, post the Ten Commandments or even mention God in public schools; cheerlead the L***Q agenda, critical race propaganda and pornography. (First lady Jill Biden stated, "All books should be allowed in the [school] library" and that none should be banned.)

2. Redefine marriage to include any and all arrangements capitalizing on the hypocrisy of Barack Obama who said "marriage is a union of a man and a woman that is sacred under God and as a Christian I do not support same-sex marriage" (until he was elected and aggressively pushed homosexual "marriage," t*********rism and the radical gay agenda).

3. Support exterminating babies in the womb for any reason at any time up until the very moment of birth, paid for by taxpayers by using the euphemism "women's health care." (Oprah endorsed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams who said, "There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks.")

4. Radical Democratic "progressives" (Marxists, socialists, g*******ts and anarchists) manipulated by malevolent forces continue promoting total disregard for the rule of law with an open border (3.4 million "i******s" since Biden took office have simply walked into America without respect for our i*********n l*ws), undermining our national sovereignty and security by allowing drug cartels, sex traffickers, Islamic terrorists and fighting age men from over 130 nations to invade our country and bring an avalanche of f******l, k*****g over 100,000 annually, primarily young people.

5. Aggressively push ongoing reckless spending to increase our national debt as Biden declares this as the "solution" to his policies that have caused inflation, recession, escalating gas and food prices, plummeting stocks and 401(k)s, essentials and food shortages – all designed to collapse our free market capitalistic system and replace it with failed European-style socialism and total government control.

Part 2

6. Democratic activists and c*****e c****e/g****l w*****g zealots persist to foster a complete disruption of our gas supply and what was energy independence. They promote a radical Green New Deal agenda amidst hysterical fears of our planet ending in 10 years. Cutting the XL pipeline and harsh restrictions for our energy industry set in motion the catastrophic escalation of gas prices, shortages and over 9% inflation!

7. Promote nationwide radical and lax "reforms" in criminal justice with "defund the police," prisoner release, no bail and few prosecutions to inflame unprecedented deadly crime waves across America, primarily in liberal, Democrat-run localities. The narrative pushed is that America is "r****t" and most lawbreakers are "victims." Marxist billionaire George Soros has spent $40 million on campaigns to elect l*****t district attorneys and "anti-incarceration" administrators letting criminals loose and facilitating the collapse of our cities.

8. Continue so-called "v****g reform" tactics with mail-in b****ts, drop boxes, b****t harvesting, no v**er ID and minimal if any surveillance. Under the guise of "v**er integrity," unscrupulous individuals work to bring our democratic v****g system down to achieve their intentions in e******ns at the federal, state and local level. Recall the last p**********l e******n?

9. Support the increasingly growing "police state" with sophisticated surveillance to repress our freedoms and put totalitarian government in place. For six years Donald Trump has been at the forefront fighting the Russian collusion h**x, Ukraine deception, J****** 6 commission and most recently the unprecedented FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home. On a regular basis we hear of how the FBI, Department of Justice, IRS (87,000 new agents) and other government agencies have been weaponized and politicized along with the corrupt media while continuing to ignore Hillary's and H****r's lawbreaking.

10. Keep hammering initiatives to remove our constitutional Second Amendment right to bear arms for our safety and the protection of our personal lives, property and families. How ironic and yet hypocritical that the very Democratic politicians who want to take away our guns all have private armed security guards, justified of course by the argument that they are "elite."

Here's the deal: Everything presented here is based on fact-based analysis from a biblical worldview. On a regular basis Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Karine Jean Pierre (White House spokesperson) and Democratic politicians who have no moral code lie to us. The situation is urgent. May God awaken us into praying, v****g for righteous candidates and cleaning house in the upcoming midterm e******n. The clock is ticking, and our future in America hangs in the balance.

"There is a thin line in society between food and anarchy, freedom and repression, liberty and tyranny, safety and street violence. It's thinner than we want to admit, and it's being pushed to its limits on purpose by ideologues [radicalized Democrats – g*******ts, Marxists, socialists and anarchists] who want to deconstruct our society. Tearing down society is a dangerous game." – William Jacobson

For many years I have noted that criminals tend to brag about their criminality only when they believe there is nothing anyone can do about it. Frankly, in their narcissism, many of them can't help but revel in the moment and let everyone know how "superior" they are to the rest of us. We witnessed many moments like this from elitists within g*******t institutions over the past couple of years at the height of the p******c pandemonium.

There were people like the g*******t academics at MIT proclaiming that we were "never going back to normal" and that we were going to have to accept the loss of many of our freedoms for the rest of our lives in order to combat the spread of C***D. There were people like Klaus Schwab declaring the beginning of the "Great Reset" and the launch of what the Davos crowd calls the "4th Industrial Revolution." There have also been many political leaders like Joe Biden who strut around on the media stage accusing ideological opponents (conservatives mostly) of being "enemies of democracy."

If their vision of "democracy" is medical tyranny and the forced expansion of cultural Marxism through government cooperation with corporate monopoly along with the erasure of our country's founding principles, then yes, I suppose I am indeed an enemy of "democracy."

The g*******ts were really basking in the glow of their assumed victory. They really thought they had us peasants by the scruff of the neck and that their agenda was all but assured. But the money elites may have celebrated a little too early.

The C***D agenda utterly failed if the goal was to implement longstanding mandates and restrictions. If you want to know what success for the g*******ts would have looked like, just examine China with its endless lockdown cycles and digital v*****e passports. The elites wanted that outcome for the west and they didn't get it. They came close, but millions of Americans, Canadians and Europeans stood their ground and the cost to force us into compliance would have been too great.

Even Joe Biden has openly admitted that the p******c is over. They dropped the mandates because they knew if it came to war, they would lose.

If the goal of the p******c fear factory was simply to get the population injected with the m**A v*****es, here they also failed. With many states in the U.S. being 40 percent unv****d (according to official numbers) and many parts of the world having large unv****d populations, there is a massive control group for the C***D v*****es. If there are going to be constantly developing health problems associated with the m**A vax (like Myocarditis) then we are going to know what caused them because of this control group. The g*******ts needed near-100 percent v******tion and they did not get it. Not even close.

There is no escape for them. They greatly overestimated the public's apathy when it comes to authoritarianism. The r*******n is too large, and they will eventually be held accountable for their trespasses.

Case in point: The latest e******n in Italy has resulted in a landslide win for the conservative coalition and the new prime minister (and first woman prime minister), Georgia Meloni, gave a rousing victory speech this week that directly exposed the far-left invasion of western nations, globalism and the poisonous collusion with woke corporations to silence dissent. She called for a return to freedom, and what was the mainstream media response? They are calling her a "f*****t."

The Italian e******n represents an ongoing trend, an awakening of the people to the imminent threats presented by g*******ts, and they can't stop it.

The fear among the g*******ts is palpable. Anti-globalism is now going mainstream, and as it does people are going to start looking for answers. Why have our global economic conditions been so degraded? Why are we facing a stagflationary crisis? Why are prices on everything continuing to climb? Why did we almost lose all of our civil liberties in the name of fighting a v***s with a tiny 0.23 percent official median Infection Fatality Rate? Why are pointless carbon controls being instituted in the middle of a supply chain crisis? Why are politicians and banks making everything so much worse?

The public outcry for a reckoning is growing and it's the heads of g*******ts that will end up on the chopping block. All roads to destruction lead back to them and the policies they have forced upon the populace.

Of course, when criminals feel like they are being cornered they will sometimes set fires and take hostages in a last-ditch effort to stay alive and slip through the net. I believe we are closing in on that stage of this terrible drama. It's important to accept the conditions of the battlefield as they are and not underestimate the enemy. The t***h is g*******ts have extensive means at their disposal to wreak havoc and they have already set some disasters in motion.

Tensions with eastern nations are being used to diminish the role of the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency and the petro currency. The conflict is also causing resource shortages and supply chain weakness, not to mention an energy crisis in Europe.

Also, the Federal Reserve has repeated its pattern of raising interest rates into severe economic weakness causing increased economic turmoil. They used a very similar tactic at the onset of the Great Depression, which former federal reserve chairman Ben Bernanke openly admitted was the cause of the long-term deflationary collapse.

An observation from 2017:

The changing of the Fed chair is absolutely meaningless as far as policy is concerned. Jerome Powell will continue the same exact initiatives as Janet Yellen; stimulus will be removed, rates will be hiked and the balance sheet will be reduced, leaving the massive market bubble the Fed originally created vulnerable to implosion.

An observant person... might have noticed that central banks around the world seem to be acting in a coordinated fashion to remove stimulus support from markets and raise interest rates, cutting off supply lines of easy money that have long been a crutch for our crippled economy.

The Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central banks and the institution that writes global policy initiatives for all other member banks, called for more rate hikes last week. This shows that the g*******ts want a crash and are engineering conditions of instability. They set up the dominoes in advance and now they have decided to knock them down. I think this was a failsafe; a panic trigger in the event that the g*******ts did not get the control they wanted from the C***D p******c.

They will blame Russia, they will blame China, they will blame conservatives, and they will blame anything and anyone besides themselves in an attempt to divert public attention away from the international banking actions that created the crash conditions in the first place. We can't let them. Wh**ever happens next, it is vital that people remember who really did this to us and who needs to be punished.

The establishment power brokers are going to attempt to use a chaos screen in order to sow seeds of fear in the population. They are going to try to exploit that fear to gain even more centralized governance and change the very foundations of our society while suffocating what's left of our liberties. It's the only play they have left, but at least we now know there are millions of us out there... millions of people who will not comply and who will fight back. And we know that the g*******ts are afraid; if they weren't then they would not be falling back to such drastic measures.