Billionaire investor Bill Ackman calls on the US government to consider a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank if private investors won’t step up [More]
Tag: banks
House of Cards
Visa, Mastercard Pause Work on Code Aimed at Tracking Gun Purchases [More]
Let’s hope one of the “legal concerns” is what their liability would be should one of their “suspicious activity report” snitch tips result in customer death(s) from an overreacting SWAT response.
[Via WiscoDave]
Bank Un-American
Whistleblower: FBI’s D.C. Office Tried To Sic Local Agents On Innocents After Bank Of America Volunteered Gun Records… ‘Bank of America, with no directive from the FBI, datamined its customer base,’ whistleblower George Hill told the House Judiciary Committee. [More]
Who’s still doing business with them?
I wonder how many “staunch defenders of the Second Amendment” are on this list and ready to vote “bailout” when called upon…
[Via Michael G]
You Weren’t Going to Need That Money You Worked For Anyway
Hemorrhaging losses, the Fed’s problems are now the taxpayer’s [More]
They always have been.
That those calling to audit the fed are either ridiculed or ignored should tell us everything we need to know about our “representatives” and the “watchdog press.”
Merchant Codes Show for Gun Owners It Doesn’t Pay to Discover
But if the merchant codes don’t go to the SKU (stock keeping unit) level and identify specific items purchased, some may question what the big deal is. For that, look to the proponents of the codes and how they have announced they intend to use them. [More]
The rope-selling “capitalists” don’t seem to realize what historically happens when their usefulness is up.
When the Lights Go Out on the Citi
Tales of Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Cancels Prominent Florida Gun Dealer’s Accounts, Implies it Won’t Work With Gun Companies [More]
Dale Robertson shakes his head.
So why continue to bail out frauds?
[Via Henry Bowman]
Code Red
Florida’s new agriculture commissioner proposes ban on Merchant Category Codes for gun, ammo purchases [More]
ICYMI:
- Proposed Banking Merchant Category Codes Latest Backdoor Ploy to ID Gun Owners
- Radical Push on Card Companies to ID Gun Store Purchases Goes Mainstream
- ‘Progressive’ Bank Developing ‘Department of Precrime’ ‘Snitchware’ on Gun Owners
[Via Jess]
Choke Point
NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, condemned the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Martin J. Gruenberg as Chair and Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Gruenberg led the FDIC from 2011-2018, during which the Obama administration conducted the illegal Operation Choke Point scheme to deny banking services to firearm businesses. NSSF opposed his confirmation in the strongest terms as he has already demonstrated a lack of respect for the law and unparalleled disdain for the Constitutionally-protected firearm and ammunition industry. [More]
Confirmed by voice vote to protect the Vichycons from accountability. Any gun owner familiar with the Hughes Amendment knows the type of treason that allows the self-serving tyrannical bastards to get away with.
See any Senate Republicans demanding to end that practice and record all votes?
Messing with the Wrong Elites
The removal of Denise George comes just days after she filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase in New York and accused the company of helping Epstein finance the illegal exploitation of women and children in the U.S. Virgin Islands and beyond. Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. did not provide a reason for relieving George of her duties… [More]
You mean the Democrat governor…?
I don’t suppose powerful connections have anything to do with it…
Lawsuit Alleges Connection Between Anti-Gun Bank & Epstein Sex Trafficking
It’s confusing, though, if JP Morgan really did profit from Epstein’s escapades, why did it reportedly take such a blue-nosed approach during Operation Chokepoint and try to … uh … stiff porn stars? [More]
Not all perversions are sexual.
‘Progressive’ Bank Developing ‘Department of Precrime’ ‘Snitchware’ on Gun Owners
For some reason, the IT term “GIGO” (Garbage In, Garbage Out) comes to mind. That and Priscilla Sims Brown sitting at her desk in a trance asking, “Magic 8 Ball: Should I report this purchase to the feds?” and then acting on its response. [More]
Who knew Amalgamated kept a trio of precogs in a tank over at HQ?
Marxist Category Codes
Gillibrand calls upon feds to implement advisory for financial institutions to report suspicious gun purchases [More]
What an evil political whore.
And I can prove it.
I’ve got a new AmmoLand article on the bank codes I have yet to promote here. I had solo granddaughter duty for 3 hours today and I’m behind on everything.
[Via Jess]
From the Department of Pre-Crime
Banking on Disarmament
AMEX DENYING 2nd Amendment companies accounts because of their “industry”[Watch]
It’s a developing story so he’s still checking into that conclusion.
We know they willingly piled on to the leftist scheme.
[Via Jess]
PreyPal
PayPal has backed away from fining its own customers up to $2,500 for promoting whatever it determines is “misinformation” … PayPal has reportedly repudiated its planned AUP revision and characterized the snafu as an error. [More]
More like a balloon prematurely floated…
I was looking forward to the lawsuits…
And to more excitable people getting their money’s worth out of these scoundrels in other ways…
[Via Jess]
Follow the Money
Ken Burns Holocaust PBS Doc Ends With Calling Republicans Nazis [More]
And look who funded it.
Funny, they weren’t so picky about whose tax dollars funded them.
[Via bondmen]
All of Them?
Over 100 GOP Reps. Sign Letter to Credit Card CEOs: Which Gun Sales Do You Plan to Flag? [More]
My guess is they’ll play it on the risk management CYA side and not want to be accused of being negligent for NOT reporting someone who later creates a liability. That, and politically powerful tyrant wannabes will be putting on the squeeze.
It’s typical Opposite Day “progressivism,” really– they bow to an ISO category “standard” with no clearly defined and legally supportable standards for snitch triggers.
[Via bondmen]
This is CNN
- Global standards body approves new merchant code for gun sellers
- Credit card companies will adopt new sales code for gun transactions
Neither one mentions the communist solidarity marchers behind Amalgamated. I wonder why they don’t think it important for people to know who our Democrat politicians and woke banks are listening to…
And the only one nominally on “our side” who is talking about it and who makes the Google News feed is Glenn Beck.
Metastasizing
A little over a month ago, merchant category codes for guns were still a little-discussed backdoor ploy.
Now they’re pounding on the front door with ISO announcing a global standard. (I know a bit about the process from a past life, back when everybody thought it was just about quality standards.)
Just a month and a half since my initial Firearms News warning, look at how this is dominating the narrative. Bottom line, if you want to do business, bureaucrats in Geneva say you have to turn snitch.
Funny thing about all those headlines spreading the same talking points: None of them are documenting the communist front groups behind the demand for this.
[Via several of you]