So, I neglected to mention they have no blue water navy, no aircraft carriers or any other ships that could haul a fighting force to New Jersey. Also, no long range bombers, refueling tankers or air transports. And it has not remotely approached the capacity to fabricate a workable, reliable, deliverable nuke, according to consistent reports of the 17 US intelligence agencies themselves.
So anything else we didn't cover? The point is: Iran is zero military threat to the US homeland territory, and all of Washington's ridiculous bases in the Persian Gulf and Europe shouldn't be there in the first place, and should be closed ASAP.
So, really, anything else?
Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.
The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.
I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.
I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.
Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.
Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.
Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.
A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.
This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.
There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.
Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.
I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.
This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.
Three things would change the math overnight.
Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.
End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.
Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.
I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.
Respectfully,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
Kids didn’t ask for drag queens. They didn’t ask for pronouns or gender ideology. Adults brought those things to them. That’s not normal. Never was, never will be. You won’t change my mind. Leave the kids alone.
If Massie were to run for president as a 3rd party, he’d clear 5% trigger federal matching funds and in so doing create a durable new lane in politics, if he got 10% (very doable) that party would legally become a major party.
In the course of getting that 5%+, he’d build an email list of millions and assemble a new donor class.
Could you then from that dataset find 4-5 guys in purple, winnable districts to elect to the house as a wedge that can shut the whole congress down if they dont give us peace and address spending and the debt?
Could you arrange that party in such a way that it could endorse Rs when that makes sense, endorse Ds if that ever makes sense, or run its own people and thus weaponize its ballot presence into torqueable leverage?
I think not only can it be done, but I think it is far more likely to happen and with less effort and money than winning a primary dominated by out of touch boomers and where the coalition that would be assembled in the general is constrained out of the process.
@_ArthurXGreen_ People I know who mostly agree with me don't want to discuss political topics because they are of the opinion that we are powerless to do anything so it is a waste of time to discuss them.
@_ArthurXGreen_ I have had the same experiences. It is not that my friends don't think about things. A lot of my friends are to the left of me and don't want to talk about political topics as they want to avoid a contentious discussion.
@RealScottRitter@sikorskiradek@elonmusk An old joke comes to mind. Hear about the two Pollocks that froze to death at the drive in? They went to see Closed for the Winter.
@ggreenwald@WSJ As long as there is a demand for something then there is going to be a supply. If interdiction does not curb demand then prices will adjust higher. Just the way it is.
We will make our revolution and resistance a subject of study in all universities worldwide, especially among peoples who want liberation from imperialist and Zionist hegemony and guardianship.
We will make them study how to resist and how to progress from Kalashnikovs to ballistic missiles.
We will make the whole world know that resistance can never be defeated as long as the people are determined to triumph, no matter how strong the enemy is.
Rick Wiles of TruNews called it in 2019:
“Our leaders are low-life scum that screw little girls so the Jews can screw America. That’s what’s happening in this country. I just said it. … Little American children [are] being raped for the benefit of Israel. American politicians [are] raping little American girls to be videotaped by Israeli Mossad so that Israel can blackmail American politicians.”
He tried to warn us.
He was called an antisemite.
At the height of Yemen’s support for Gaza, Yemen formally asked Saudi Arabia and the countries bordering occupied Palestine to open land crossings so hundreds of thousands of Yemenis could reach and confront Israel directly. Not one responded.
Today, Islamic countries are responding to Saudi Arabia’s call to fight Yemen. Arab countries support the war and condemn any Yemeni response, even accusing Yemen with false claims, such as targeting Mecca and Medina.
Yet our request still stands. To those who claim to support Palestine, or question Yemen’s position while siding with Saudi Arabia: urge Saudi Arabia and its allies to stop the war on Yemen and open the land borders. Then let the world see what Yemenis will do for Palestine.
The way Israel dismantled and controlled the United States will be studied for centuries.
Bribe politicians
Remove barriers to mass immigration
Establish welfare state for mass immigration paid for by White people
Give low IQ violent retards not only "equal rights" but preferred rights over White men paying for their welfare
Tell violent retards their failures are the White man's fault even though they fail MUCH worse in their own countries without every encountering White men.
Remove the US off the gold standard where you can just steal unlimited wealth from working Americans via inflation
Now that you can just print money, send hundreds of billions to Israel
Who then use that money to turn around and bribe US politicians
Commit false flags in coordination with US intelligence to garner support for forever wars against Israel enemies.
Spend TRILLIONS on forever wars and send thousands of mostly White young men to die while ZERO Israelis fight or die for their own war