A top bank watchdog said he was making sure big banks have finally ditched those “oops, we just destroyed your business because we don’t like your political beliefs” – er, debanking rather, policies. You remember those, right? We sure do. It happened around the same time Google, Paypal and Amazon all banned us due to our (correct) take on the origins of Covid-19 and because they didn’t like our (correct) take on the BLM movement.
For those that missed it, a slew of banks under the Biden administration outright cancelled people’s accounts and didn’t allow them access to a bank account based on the industry they worked in, or many times their political views (surprise, none of them were Democrats).
Jonathan Gould, head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, told a conference that supervisors are double-checking banks really did stop blacklisting sectors like firearms from banks, according to Reuters.
This oversight follows a June executive order from President Donald Trump directing banks to avoid denying services based on industry type or political considerations. Reuters writes that supervisors are now ensuring that the largest banks are in compliance with the updated approach.
As The Epoch Times wrote back in August, President Donald Trump’s executive order banning politicized debanking is intended to reverse what some analysts say is a trend of banks and payment services refusing service to people and companies for political, religious, or ideological reasons.
Advocates against political debanking cite cases of Christians and conservatives who they say have been victims of this process. This includes allegations by Christian organizations including Tennessee-based nonprofit Indigenous Advance Ministries, as well as Sam Brownback, the chairman of the National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF), and the president himself.
Speaking to bank executives at the World Economic Forum in January, Trump said, “I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank, and that included a place called Bank of America.”
Debanking is one of the most nefarious secrets of the financial system: It is never in public forums, only specialists write about it, yet it is a threat to everyone in the most intensely effective way. The practice denies people access to the basics of life and there is no appeal, no process, no methods of challenge, and no remediation.
In her biography, Melania Trump revealed that she and her son Barron were victims of debanking. This happened in 2021, after her husband had left the office of the presidency. There were concerted efforts at the time to wipe out the memory of his time in office. Here’s more from Eric Trump on what his family endured.
Why One Survival Food Company Shines Above the Rest
Let’s be real. “Prepper Food” or “Survival Food” is generally awful. The vast majority of companies that push their cans, bags, or buckets desperately hope that their customers never try them and stick them in the closet or pantry instead. Why? Because if the first time they try them is after the crap hits the fan, they’ll be too shaken to call and complain about the quality.
It’s true. Most long-term storage food is made with the cheapest possible ingredients with limited taste and even less nutritional value. This is why they tout calories so much. Sure, they provide calories but does anyone really want to go into the apocalypse with food their family can’t stand?
This is what prompted the Llewellyns to launch Heaven’s Harvest. They bought survival food from multiple companies and determined they couldn’t imagine being stuck in an extended emergency with such low-quality food. They quickly discovered that freeze drying food for long-term storage doesn’t have to mean sacrificing flavor, consistency, or nutrition.
Their ingredients are all-American. In fact, they’re locally sourced and all-natural! This allows their products to be the highest quality on the market, so good that their customers often break open a bag in a pinch to eat because they want to, not just because they have to due to an emergency.
At Heaven’s Harvest, their only focus is amazing food. They don’t sell bugout bags, solar chargers, or multitools. They have one mission – feeding Americans in times of crisis.
What they DO offer is the ability for people to thrive in times of greatest need. On top of long-term storage food, they offer seeds to help Americans for the truly long-term. They want them to grow their own food if possible which is why they offer only Heirloom, Non-GMO, Non-Hybrid, Open-Pollinated seeds so their customers can build permanent food security on their own property.
And NO PUNISHMENT for totalitarian Bolshevik democrat fiIth, AS USUAL. Republicans are feckless and weak.
Gold is safer because it’s honest value does not depend on government.
The right to acquire and hold the tools of self-defense does not depend on government, and certainly not even the Constitution or SCOTUS decrees.
The right to loudly dissent des not depend on government.
The right to ownership and say-so over your own body and your natural right to properly supercedes government decree.
Debanking has not stopped. My sister could not access her Co-America bank account nor transfer the money without any explanation from the bank. She contacted her pension plan to change direct deposit and Co-America did let her show up in person to withdraw her money even though she had bio-metrics on her account. She will closed the account once her direct deposit change goes through.
My husband and I have been just absolutely harassed down to parade rest by our credit union. They changed both of our accounts without any forewarning to $12..95 and $20 a month service fees despite there being a free checking account. Then they implemented fraud alerts through a company called Jack Henry for amounts as low as $31 and put a top amount you could use each month to pay your bills. You go to check out and both the debit and credit would be declined, so we would pay another way. Minutes, hours or days later we would get a fraud alert, but it is way too late when buying retail. The account with the $20 monthly service fee would be waived if you did 20 debit/credit transactions, however they made it impossible to complete such transactions. So how is this practice not fraud? To get people paid, we switched to our back up cards and did money transfers. It has been a nightmare on every transaction, and we are fed up.
In changing over to another bank it takes at least two months before our direct deposits will hit the new account. We are all seniors and this should not be happening in the US with no explanation. So Trump’s executive order is not worth the paper it is written on. Cash in fist and money orders are the only way to avoid being targeted, so we are only going to keep the bare minimum in one account.