The Steady Enmity of Powerful People

“Crime doesn’t pay.” Actually it does, handsomely. If you are a banker or large financial player, it pays wonderfully. You get filthy rich committing the crimes and after…you continue to get filthy rich.

What doesn’t pay is reporting crime.

Not long ago I read a rather good book about a small number of honest people who did not understand this dirty fact. It was a book telling the stories of the handful of honest and tragically idealistic insiders who blew the whistle about banking fraud and crime during the Global Bank Debt Crisis.  It was full of disturbing facts. Not the least of which is that not one of their stories ended well.

All of the stories involved the whistleblower following the law and reporting their concerns. In every story the result was being threatened with punitive, some might say vindictive, legal action by the very banks whose wrong doing they had reported.  In every case the ‘Proper Authorities’, in charge of regulating the banks, hung the whistleblowers out to dry.

All the whistleblowers were blackballed from their profession and lost their livelihoods. The majority lost their homes. Another disturbing common thread was that many of the whistleblowers, who had been well paid, and respected employees of the banks, found that as soon as they went public with their complaint, they were accused, by the banks, of being mentally unstable and in need of detention in a mental facility. Many lost their family as a result.  In every case the leading politicians of all the major parties in the whistleblowers’ country, ignored the whistleblower and closed ranks with the banks and the regulators.  Very often they too would join the banks in solemnly suggesting the Whistleblower had had some sort of tragic mental breakdown and was now unstable or delusional.

But the most depressing thing about the book is that it was never published.

One of the stories, in this unpublished book, concerned the UniCredit whistleblower, Jonathan Sugarman, who is a close friend.  I have a detailed knowledge of his case. Over the years I have watched as the Financial Inquisitors repeatedly threatened and intimidated him. And he was intimidated. They are powerful people. Yet I have never seen him silenced nor recant his heresies.

I have seen him unable to keep down his breakfast before yet another inquisition. I have seen him cringe with embarrassment at having to borrow a pair of shoes so he could look smart when testifying, because he had none. I know other friends have helped. Because he cannot do it all alone. It is not possible.

And yet in all the years we have known each other Jonathan has never asked me for anything. Until now…

Something has happened. I don’t know what. Perhaps it is just the steady enmity of powerful people that has finally taken its toll. Perhaps it is trying to attend too many empty and rigged enquiries in too many places.  I don’t know.

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34 thoughts on “The Steady Enmity of Powerful People”

  1. The way things are going I expect a bankers version of Omerta will come into being, just to make it official so people like Jonathon are fully aware of the consequences for doing the right thing – now i finally understand what Michael Corleone meant by going straight.

    Whoever first said ” Honesty is the best policy ” must have lived in a time when we were not so under the control of the equivalent of a bunch of alpha baboons, unless he meant only in the sense that Jonathon refers to as being able to sleep at night.

    Jonathon & Assange being just 2 examples or examples made of what awaits those who are disabled by such conditions as honesty, integrity & a conscience. Not a lot of use in this world which increasingly feels like giant fucking game show in which the only permitted reason for existence seems to be to grab as much stuff & the power that comes with it, before you kick what is always at the end, a seemingly empty bucket.

    Easy for me to say of course because I am not in Jonathon’s borrowed shoes, but thank goodness somebody stands up to these miserable sons of bitches, who for the most part judging by their empty eyes & sunken jowls, don’t strike me as the best advertisements for their own addiction that they are forever pushing. They do however have the salesman version like Blair & Obama, followed by various empty suit pretenders spawned in their own image. I’m sure O sleeps well at night – the cool guy who has thrown his fair share of whistleblowers under a large bus.

    I hope that the Patreon ploy works out – I being totally skint right now cannot participate, but there is quite a lot of pie in the sky & if I actually get to dine on some of it, I shall then contribute. Otherwise I.m in NI, if you need a bed, someone to listen or are in a fix David has my details.

    I’m size 8 btw.

  2. I’m also in N.I.
    I’m not on Facebook, Not going to sign into Patreon, but willing to help.
    Happy to have Jonathon contact me via email.
    I think there is a causal relationship between what happened to Jonathon and Golem XIV’s “Questions for the Near Future. 1”

    1. Within the last few days the UK’s Home Secretary has pushed the proposal to share “intelligence” with Local Authorities. The proposal sounds similar to the USA’s JTTF arrangement set out in their PDDF62. I’d suggest that arrangements such as this opens up too many possibilities for abuse, via entrapment, for example.
      Put simply, just have your word processor swap “whistleblower” for “terrorist”, or “suspect”, in the announcements to see what I mean.
      It’s not as if there aren’t examples of retaliation by UK banks already, matched by a dearth of criminals under prosecution.
      Formalising the arrangement is the logical next step.

  3. I have huge admiration for Jonathan, His case and many like it are memory-holed by the ever turning cogs of the Corporate Machine.

    2 Other cases I have been taking an interest in are.
    Anthony Carlin

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd2PYv_glNk

    Has Johnathan been on UK Report David, They have a largish and growing audience, importantly they are watched closely by mainstream journos in Corporate media. Much of the work still to be done is planting the seeds of Spraul Steps in the minds of the Corporate Medias scribblers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfw

    Lately,2. Noel Edmonds, Noel is from the customer side of things, Defrauded customers are a huge part of all of this. Johnathan as a whistleblower could do a lot worse than touch base with Noel. Noel is a friend of a friend his manager is the Brother of a friend. As a suggestion, Johnathan’s expertise will make him invaluable in the cases of many defrauded customers as an expert witness.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDlCA8Qe9p8

    http://noel.world/noel-news/new-whistleblower-service/

    1. I have read that Brian Gerrish is an ultra conservative, more to the right than Theresa May, but what one seen of UK Column is it very anti establishment and maybe a bit populist. It seems left to me but some blogs can be very anti establishment and be libertarian or even conservative, at least in the US. What do people think of Brian Gerrish? Much of what he covers seems to be good.

      1. I think Brian is a Conservative Christian. I do not know his politics or his faith I think he is a decent Man speaking the truth as he sees it and speaking out against Injustices, he is very strong in seeking justice for victims of Institutionalised state sexual abuse that he speaks out against Institutional Tyranny he will be tarred with any Brush that people can find. He states his claims and offers his evidence and is available to be challenged no one can do better than that Kavy.
        The Left-Right divide and conquer paradigm is employed to the breaking point in these days of a descent into COrporate State Monopoly Capitalism, there is no left and right only Them and Us and guess what They are Us and we are them all Brothers and sisters its just a small minority are acting under whatever mistaken view they adapt to support the current level of massive injustice in the world.
        http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.com/2018/05/left-right-and-other-false-categories.html

      2. For what it is worth – in my opinion it is due to the failure of the Centrists that the Right are able to pick up & run with neglected issues. The US publication ” The American Conservative ” makes a whole lot more sense on geopolitics than the Neo-Con AIPAC run Democrats & in the UK with some reservations, Oborne & Hitchens do the same, as was seen especially in regard to false flags, Skripal etc.

        It’s like a pick & mix in which the choice & the following conclusions are based on your own prejudice or bias, which also applies to me with Gerrish & Co who seem well meaning whatever label they come under. They are keeping things alive like wholesale child abuse which other s would not touch with a bargepole – a good enough reason on it’s own IMO for their continued existence.

        It is a pity I think we don’t get more articles like this, which dare to look at immigration beyond the usual veil of Identity Politics:

        https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/03/italy-the-center-cannot-hold/

        1. Ah, TheAmericanConservative. Great site. Home of some great Paleocons. Not anything close to a conservative myself, being a fringe socialist, but what gets published in TheAmericanConservative is almost always of greater value than anything published in centrist or center left publications.

          1. The Guardian annoys me the most when it comes to geopolitics & it’s almost as if the CIA have them by the balls. Monbiot is a critic of Neoliberalism, but the paper itself supports Blairism & he is fully behind at the drop of a hat the usual cacophony of ” Russia, Russia, Assad, Assad “, without any need for anything that wouldn’t lead to their case being instantly thrown out by an honest judge – assuming such a thing still exists.

            It is a ball of confusion which I think Varoufakis sums up very well in this Salon interview. I think he goes too easy on Lagarde & Summers, especially as he then states that the former seems pretty much fine with the hell the Greeks have suffered, even though she admits that the whole thing from 2008 has been an almighty screw up.

            Collateral damage which of course includes the likes of Jonathon & many others who seek to pull the curtain aside & expose the farce for what it is. Interestingly, he states that his support has due to a Centrist vacuum, much to his dismay come from libertarians & those who think that Ayn Rand was a cool chick.

            https://www.salon.com/2018/06/09/how-the-greek-debt-crisis-exposed-the-global-economy-as-a-giant-con-and-led-to-donald-trump/

  4. I will be happy to donate $10.00 via PayPal. Can he have a “Donate” button that links to PayPal? Or perhaps I can send it to you and you can get it to him?

    1. Jonathan Sugarman

      I am very grateful for all the support and encouragement I’ve received.

      Please excuse me for keeping this short, but didn’t want replies to go unacknowledged.

      Jonathan

    1. Nope, we’re not all going socialist. Except the poor saps in Venezuela. Why don’t you join them in building their socialist utopia? Oh yeah, I guess chaos and starvation aren’t as cool as they seem on the internet.

    1. Bitcoin broke government’s and the Bank’s monopoly on the creation of money as credit, but the effects thus for are only at the margins of the banks behaviour. There is a certain irony when bitcoin is linked by the media to money-laundering when so much is going on in the rest of the system.

  5. Sadly, the situation described makes the “mentally unstable” accusation true: anyone blowing the whistle is insane to give up well paying jobs to get thrown out into the wilderness.
    Why would a sane person possibly want that?
    Clearly honesty is not considered a part of sanity.

  6. Well I have donated to Jonathan – I hope it has gone through. Everybody here should donate something no matter how small or large. Look after the cents and the dollars look after themselves The Jonathan’s, the Assanges, the Snowdens, all deserve our support. If it can be money well and good but my god the people need them more than ever.

    1. Dave (frog2at CiF)

      Paypal makes sense .

      I looked a couple of years ago and the Labour Party didn’t use it, but the Tories did !

  7. Seems that Corbyn and the Labour party are now feeling the enmity of a powerful lobby which has worked ceaselessly to undermine the European people’s whether they be in North America or on the continent:
    http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/understandji-1.htm

    Fascinatingly, in the post war era, Labour have been the vehicle for the vast majority of what this lobby has wanted regarding mass non-European immigration, multiculturalism and restrictions on freedom of speech – and no politician has been a greater advocate of those things than Corbyn himself.

    I doubt he will even realise the irony. One of the great things Kevin MacDonald has done is to show the deep evolutionary roots of why north west Europeans are so susceptible to guilt, emotional blackmail and appeals to moral righteousness.

    A further irony is that I came to this after studying Islam.

    Turns out there are two implacably hostile and supremacist religions in our land.

    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-oddities-of-the-jewish-religion/

    https://ifamericaknew.org/cur_sit/shahak.html

  8. https://quillette.com/2018/09/06/the-system-of-diversity/

    Good review here of Ben Cobley’s book, ”The Tribe” – how Labour betrayed its founding people.

    On Rotherham (AKA every town and city in England)

    ”One Labour MP (Rotherham’s Sarah Champion) did do the job of representing her constituents. And the full force of the ‘system’ was brought to bear in a way enormously destructive not only of her political career (which one expects, politics being a nasty game) but also of her ability to function as an adult human being. To outsiders (including Conservatives) it looked like she was in trouble for writing a piece about Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs for The Sun. Not so. She could have written the same piece for The Guardian and the response would have been identical. The system set out to break her. Among other things, she now requires 24-hour security and is routinely deluged with vile abuse. When Cobley then described how Labour’s posh feminists refused to move the levers of power on behalf of poor white girls who formed a genuine (as opposed to political) victim class — despite being made well aware, thanks to Champion’s efforts, of what was going on.”

    On the so-called post-referendum ‘hate crimes’

    ”Rotherham is not, however, Cobley’s most compelling case study of the ‘system’ at work. That appellation belongs to his analysis of the surge in ‘hate crime’ following the 2016 Referendum result. I am now reasonably satisfied the hate crime widely reported from June 23 onwards and seized upon by the Remain camp after its shock defeat was a classic example of moral panic, and that most of the reports were false.”

    Indeed, I was disturbed to watch a video of Golem talking about tax evasion and money laundering where he branched out into talking about ”the racists… the knuckledraggers”: a very disappointing, almost Pavlovian regurgitation of the myth that the English are some kind of Holocaust waiting to pounce when the truth is that it is they who have born the vast majority of racist violence over the last thirty years – and not just at the hands of Muslim gangs but black ones also.

    Where does this indoctrination come from? Well, partly from the media who resolutely refuse to report on racist violence against white people, and partly, I believe, from the lobby referred to in the previous post.

    The National Front was infiltrated by MI5 from its inception and deliberately steered towards ”neo-Nazism” in order to discredit it / create a bogeyman. What British person, in the country which defeated the Nazis, would support British Nazis?

    On white working class men

    ”Cobley builds up a detailed portrait of systemic discrimination against an already disadvantaged group (poor whites, particularly poor white men). He may well have proven that social policy around ameliorating disadvantage has been misdirected, even flat wrong, for something like 20 years. Along every metric that matters — education, wealth, life expectancy, suicide rates — poor white men and boys are at the bottom of the heap, yet are weirdly written off as ‘privileged’ by the system of diversity.”

    Hard to imagine a more catastrophic betrayal. Truly the steady enmity of powerful people.

  9. The Jewish writer Ron Unz asks here why the very powerful Anti-Defamation League have not come after him after his series of highly controversial essays this summer:

    https://www.unz.com/announcement/has-the-adl-gone-into-hiding/

    With Israel having its wings clipped in the Middle East and the Corbynistas, to their credit, showing no sign of backing down over Palestine, it will be interesting to see what happens next with this most influential of lobbies.

    Here are those articles:

    The Remarkable Historiography of David Irving
    http://www.unz.com/announcement/the-remarkable-historiography-of-david-irving/

    American Pravda: The JFK Assassination, Part II – Who Did It?
    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-jfk-assassination-part-ii-who-did-it/

    American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion
    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-oddities-of-the-jewish-religion/

    American Pravda: The Bolshevik Revolution and Its Aftermath
    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-bolshevik-revolution-and-its-aftermath/

    American Pravda: The Nature of Anti-Semitism
    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-anti-semitism-a-century-ago/

    American Pravda: Jews and Nazis
    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-jews-and-nazis/

    American Pravda: Holocaust Denial
    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-holocaust-denial/

    American Pravda: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-911-conspiracy-theories/

  10. And more illuminating insights from The Duran Youtube page on the realisation that MI6 may have been interfering in Trump’s election:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gVx_D8Q2M8

    While the interesting V-blogger Simon Harris looks at the QAnon phenomenon which looks like a Trump faction within the US deep state. Not so much ‘a plan to save the world’ but a pro-Trump propaganda outlet which nonetheless is releasing some fascinating snippets:

    Intro to QAnon
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drvOBNWCuyw

    The First Side of the Q Triangle: The Rothschilds Part One
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14212EiteZk

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppeteers: The Rothschilds Part Two
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGtxQQOVRs0&t=341s

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppeteers: The Rothschilds Part Three: Vatican Connections
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7IvV7_eZxA

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppet Masters: The House of Saud Part One #BloodyWonderland
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KzMTOUzlU

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppet Masters: The House of Saud Part Two: US Saudi Relations Before The Purge
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLb1rsMGVc

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppet Masters: The House of Saud Part Three: Mohammad bin Salman and The Purge
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxLFPkiSGos

    Whistleblowers: Trump, QAnon & Project Veritas Against Deep State: Do You Believe in Coincidence?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kT9Gvfe5Tw

    So lot’s of very interesting developments recently.

    What a pity that our new Messiah is hanging out with that globalist fraud Varoufakis

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLLoSzNn6xg

  11. Meanwhile, the always interesting ‘The Duran’ Youtube channel looks at the allegations that the Trump administration believes that MI6 may have been interfered in his election:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gVx_D8Q2M8&t=5s

    And the V-blogger Simon Harris examines the QAnon phenomenon. Looks like there really is a Trump insider in the NSA who is posting some incredible things, though it is perhaps less “a plan to save the world’’ and more a propaganda tool for Trump and his allies.

    Introduction to QAnon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drvOBNWCuyw

    The First Side of the Q Triangle: The Rothschilds Part One

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14212EiteZk

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppeteers: The Rothschilds Part Two

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGtxQQOVRs0&t=342s

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppeteers: The Rothschilds Part Three: Vatican Connections

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7IvV7_eZxA

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppet Masters: The House of Saud Part One #BloodyWonderland

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KzMTOUzlU

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppet Masters: The House of Saud Part Two: US Saudi Relations Before The Purge

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLb1rsMGVc

    QAnon’s Triangle of Puppet Masters: The House of Saud Part Three: Mohammad bin Salman and The Purge

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxLFPkiSGos

    Whistleblowers: Trump, QAnon & Project Veritas Against Deep State: Do You Believe in Coincidence?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kT9Gvfe5Tw

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