International Banking & Whistleblowers: The more we stand up, the quicker we change our world
Many people were hesitant and suspicious when we first learned of Edward Snowden’s actions. Some hardcore “patriots” thought he should be jailed for breaking his oath to keep government secrets. It’s been labelled treason. He’s been called a traitor.
And yet, herein lies deep ethical issues. Doesn’t the safety and advancement of the human race supersede keeping secrets for your government who are condoning and executing actions which clearly take advantage of the people and their trust. In other words, if you learn your government truly does not have your back, isn’t that a damn valid reason for breaking your oath. Afterall, we took the oath believing this is a symbiotic relationship –not one-sided.
To me, it’s the NSA who has broken our contract first: They are doing things, holding secrets, storing personal and private data about us when our Constitution blatantly states that such activities are illegal. So, it is they who have in fact made our contract to keep secrets null & void. We did not breach our contract, but they did, which frees us, literally, to report illegal activity.
It seems we have a similar situation occurring in South Africa, as Snowden modeled: Learning that the bank is out of integrity and reporting it. Former independent non-executive director of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), Stephen Goodson, adamantly states he has committed no crime, and details five reasons explaining how this is so. Boy, I like this guy –go Mr Goodson.
“[Interviewer] Colonel Schilz clearly struggled to follow Mr Goodson’s explanations. Mr Goodson was able to express himself in a vigorous manner. Unfortunately Colonel Schilz was ill-prepared and appeared to be out of his depth on the knowledge about the true nature, origins and ownership of the SARB…. After an extended interview, Schilz terminated the meeting out of sheer exasperation.”
“This action simply highlights the secretive activity of SARB and the secrecy clause that protects this establishment from being exposed, and prevents ordinary people who have been harmed by its actions from attaining justice. Furthermore, it clearly highlights the fact that the SARB operates above the law and masquerades as both a private corporation and a government institution protected by legislature.”
Well now, doesn’t that sound familiar. Sounds exactly like our Federal Reserve Bank. Oh guess what? It sounds so familiar, because it is: The same people who own our private banking institution pretending to be public, the FRB, are the same people who own the SARB in South Africa: The Rothchilds, the Rockefellers, and the rest of their crew. Are you surprised?
Let’s be honest, time and time again, we’ve witnessed how governments are out of balance… and now we are starting to see why: It’s the same corporate cabal running the world. Fortunately, the era has arrived where people are finally standing up to them –go average citizen! The problem truly arises when we become complacent, forgetful, and then we give our governments the benefit of the doubt as we’ve done since they “took over.”
The true crime would be is if we looked the other way, as we’ve done for decades. We need to remember day after day, we learn more and more that our governments, corporations, and their leaders are out of integrity (I’m generalizing to make a point).
We trusted them for centuries, and it hurts to learn of their nefarious goings-on they do against us. I’m of the belief that the time has come to give Citizen Joe and Citizen Jane the benefit of the doubt, instead of our governments. Hear what they have to say. Allow them to prove their point by providing evidence, and then we can reassess the situation with a better understanding, instead of immediately arresting them for treason. Of course, they’d be arrested … to keep them quiet.
Press Release: UBUNTU Party Candidate Threatened With Arrest
International Banking & Scandal: They seem to go together like “peanut butter & jelly …always good in my belly!”
Let’s stick with international banking for our next story … it seems corruption is running rampant in this industry these days. Or rather, the exposure of the corruption is finally running rampage –go, “people of the world …unite!!” It seems HSBC head is of the generation who preaches to “do as I say, not as I do.”
“Stuart Gulliver, the HSBC chief executive who has vowed to reform the crisis-hit bank, sheltered millions of pounds in a Swiss account through a Panamanian company and remains tax domiciled in Hong Kong. Leaked files show that the Derby-born Gulliver, who is due to present HSBC’s annual report on Monday in the wake of the international controversy over its Geneva-based private bank, was also one of its clients, holding about £5mil in a Swiss account.”
It turns out he was listed as beneficial owner of an account from an anonymous company registered in Panama holding a balance of 7.6mil in 2007. It is from this account that he paid himself his bonuses. “The documents, covering 2005-07, detailed how the private bank was complicit in tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance, doled out bricks of cash in mixed currencies to clients, and provided banking services to criminals, drug smugglers, and friends and families of dictators. Gulliver has already personally signed a ‘sincere apology’ which appeared in three newspapers last Sunday, saying ‘the standards to which we operate today were not universally in place in our Swiss operations 8 years ago.'”
Revealed: Swiss Account Secret of HSBC Chief Stuart Gulliver
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Gavin