http://www.cnbc.com/id/100632206

http://conscience-sociale.blogspot.fr/2013/01/gold-renminbi-and-multiple-currency.html

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/toothless-federal-reserve-enforcement-action-hands-citigroupbanamex-a-pass-over-drug-money-laundering/

http://world.time.com/2013/04/05/mediapart-meet-the-upstart-journalists-shaking-up-french-politics/#ixzz2Pf5NWdRu

“including political parties regarded as a threat to the political establishment.”

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/29/crim-m29.html

Kate -It is difficult to give you a concise reply, though having experienced a similar situation I empathise fully with your dilemma and the techniques of banks, and in my case governments, to employ the tactics of legalised attrition.

I learned two lessons – the first is to create a reserve position. Register a new company with a different registered office and a bank account with a different bank (I know there’s little difference between the main banks but there are others out there like the Airdrie bank which hold to the old morals of banking – there’s another called “Investos” that’s a guess since I can’t recall the exact name) Once these are in place start shadowing your business by making the new company your buying or selling agent.(Without knowing your product and set up its impossible to be precise, but I think you’ll get the gist of what I’m outlining) The one thing you do not do, is introduce borrowing to the ‘new’ company. In the meantime for the existing company you draw up a new business plan incorporating the perceived ‘advantages’ of the move. This is purely to sidetrack your existing bank, so the name of the other company involved is not disclosed.

This gets a bit complicated for a comment on a Blog – I’m sure if you contact David direct, he will be able to give you my email address and it can be taken from there if you’re interested.

However I am surprised by the example you have given – provided you were not cutting the liability from some other pot in the same bank – but for them to hold onto an asset when they’re not exposed by either contract nor liability is morally repugnant but unfortunately not illegal until such time as you can break the contract with them and by doing so remove all risk from them.

As for Bitcoin – I don’t know enough about it – but for now its pretty embryonic and I would suspect too fragile and not well enough understood in the commercial world for it to be introduced at the present for the particular circumstance you are presently experiencing.

By the way – the offer of contact has no strings attached.

John and David, as one of the smallish people (with a 30 year old world renown business £1,000,000 turnover) who suffered greatly at the hands of the evil banks and other professionals, the following comment/link by Daniel on bitcoin.org is interesting.

We saw it all – overdraft halved overnight. We were charged £100,000 “penalty” to reinstate an account which a bank suspended illegally. Then they refused to accept our repayment of the full loan amount, plus the “penalty” when we wanted out! Why? Because we had a very valuable asset (worth 10 times the amount of the loan) which they wanted to keep on their books.

Another bank when we took them to court simply lied, using technicalities and perjury to stretch out the court case and never once answered the claim against them.

These were all perpetrated by different banks. There were more, many more outrageous ploys and dirty tricks that we had to deal with time and time again.

We started with nothing and a small loan (at the time when banks were ok guys) and grew our business over 30 years. How can other inspired people with all sorts of wonderful ideas ever get started bogged down in this toxic environment where we all exist. There must be another way. We must take the banks power away by bypassing them.

I would be interested to hear your comments on this alternative system (bitcom.org). Is this the way to take power away from these monsters in order to regain control of our own destiny?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3b780328-9543-11e2-a4fa-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OaJWk49O