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Jun 6 2025

Citibank Backtracks on Gun Policy


Posted originally on Jun 6, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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US banks were weaponized under the Biden Administration. I reported at length how US banks were required to provide the government with information on anyone suspected of being a domestic terrorist. US intelligence agencies searched through records for terms like “Trump” and “MAGA” to target Americans who they believed may hold “extremist” views. The agencies searched for Americans who purchased religious texts, such as the Bible, and also labeled them extremists. Anyone expressing disdain for the COVID lockdowns, vaccines, open borders, or the deep state was placed on a watchlist. Banks are attempting to change their tone now that there is a new administration.

Law-abiding Americans were punished for exercising their Constitutional right to bear arms. In March 2018, Citibank decided it had the authority to determine what businesses could access their banking services based on their Second Amendment stance. Citibank’s business clients were dropped as clients if they failed to adhere to the bank’s regulations on firearms. Donald Trump accused Citibank, JPMorgan, and others of deliberately discriminating against customers based on political affiliation.

Citibank issued a notice that it would be reversing policy:

“We will update our employee Code of Conduct and our customer-facing Global Financial Access Policy to clearly state that we do not discriminate on the basis of political affiliation in the same way we are clear that we do not discriminate on the basis of other traits such as race and religion. This will codify what we’ve long practiced, and we will continue to conduct trainings to ensure compliance.

We also will no longer have a specific policy as it relates to firearms. Our U.S. Commercial Firearms Policy was implemented in 2018 and pertained to sale of firearms by our retail clients and partners. The policy was intended to promote the adoption of best sales practices as prudent risk management and didn’t address the manufacturing of firearms. Many retailers have been following these best practices, and we hope communities and lawmakers will continue to seek out ways to prevent the tragic consequences of gun violence.”

The banks were caught red-handed discriminating against clients. The documents are clear as day that these institutions were told to search financial records for anyone who could be a potential Trump supporter.

JPMorgan reversed its Code of Conduct back in March 2025 to state that it would protect customers, suppliers, contractors, and employees from discrimination in financial services based on political or religious views. Reporting on whether a person had purchased a religious book is more than intrusive. It is outright discrimination against people who likely hold conservative views.

The government effectively transformed banking institutions into spy agencies, and no one was held accountable. This predatory behavior was certainly not limited to the US, as similar practices were observed in Australia, the UK, Europe, Canada, and other regions. Governments are ready and prepared to silence dissenters by removing them from the financial system. The banks claim they have “opaque” rules that they must adhere to, which cannot always be explained to the public, but this is because the government controls our financial system. The rules can change at any time.

Dec 18 2024

Poland Mandates Firearm Lessons in Schools


Posted originally on Dec 18, 2024 by Martin Armstrong 

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Schoolchildren in Poland are preparing for potential invasion with mandates for firearm lessons. Minister of Education and Science Przemyslaw Czarnek signed off on the new requirement and is considering expanding studies to include preparation for rescue operations and cyber attacks.

Children in primary schools will learn weapons safety and theoretical principles. Secondary school children, girls and boys, will learn how to properly shoot a firearm. Lessons may begin by using ball guns, air guns, or virtual laser shooting ranges before introducing live ammunition.

Poland had similar courses in place for previous generations, and given the nation’s history, it is understandable why they’d want to arm all civilians from a young age. Other Baltic states like Lithuania are considering implementing similar measures while places like Latvia already have this curriculum in place. Defensive training or przysposobienie obronne became less commonplace after the USSR was dissolved. Former generations were trained on the proper use of gas masks and the threats of the day.

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Let us not forget that citizens were extremely restricted from owning firearms in Poland prior to the last invasion. The 1932 Act on Guns, Munitions and Explosive Materials made it extremely difficult for citizens to obtain a license, which they would need to acquire through a starosta or country governor. The public was nowhere near prepared for the Nazi invasion, but on September 12, 1939, the Germany army issued a ordinance requiring all Poles to surrender all firearms within 24 hours. Failure to comply resulted in execution without trial.

One would think that the government would permit the people to protect themselves after the Nazi occupation. Instead, Minister of Public Security Stanisław Radkiewicz invalidated all gun licenses on July 15, 1945. Strict regulations remained in place until 1961 when the government eagerly created a Citizens’ Militia and became a bit more lenient with permits. Still, regulations remain in place and Poland has a low rate of civilian gun ownership. There are only 2.5 firearms per 100 people in Poland, and less than 0.8% have a valid firearm permit. Harsh regulations on firearms result in a weakened populace who is unable to protect themselves against governments, whether foreign or their own.

May 15 2024

Swiss Army Knife to Remove Blade – Worldwide Ban of Knives


Posted originally on May 15, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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Those shouting for the removal of the Second Amendment in America do not realize that violent crime is STILL on the rise in other nations. The difference is that they are using either knives, bombs, or illegally purchased firearms to carry out the crime. Banning gun ownership will not change human nature; in fact, no government ban can possibly curtail man’s innate predisposition toward violence that can only be controlled from within.

Now, the manufacturers of the Swiss Army Knife by Victorinox stated that it would no longer include a knife in its infamous pocket blade design as a result of worldwide governments creating restrictions on carrying weapons. “We’re concerned about the increasing regulation of knives due to the violence in the world,” stated Carl Elsener, Victorinox’s CEO. “In some markets, the blade creates an image of a weapon. I have in mind creating a tool that would be useful for cyclists. Cyclists have a need for specific tools but not necessarily a blade. We already have a tool specifically for golfers.” The CEO went on to say how 9/11 should have been a warning that companies need to shy away from any form of self-defense product production.

Anyone who uses a pocketknife can testify that the blade is an absolutely essential tool. Victorinox sells about 10 million Swiss Army Knives annually, and this change will likely hurt its bottom line. There are far worse weapons at play, but governments worldwide want to prevent all law-abiding citizens from having any form of self-defense. Are they to ban kitchen knives next?

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Norway and Sweden have completely banned knives for self-defense unless someone happens to be camping or using them for a “legitimate” purpose, such as fishing. Switzerland is creating new regulations to categorize knives to determine which are “dangerous objects.” Poland has banned double-edged knives, butterfly knives, and opening assist mechanisms such as switchblades. Switchblades or one-hand opening knives are subject to a penalty in Spain, France, Belgium, and Italy. Ireland has banned importing or carrying knives. As with many other nations, Portugal has a 4-inch limit on blades before they are considered a dangerous weapon. Numerous Asian nations like Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore also have restrictions on various blades.

Human nature never changes; these bans will not prevent a portion of the population from becoming violent. Instead, these bans will cause law-abiding citizens to lose their right to self-defense. Then, these liberal nations have legal systems that favor violent criminals over their victims, and they are set free to reoffend, as we have seen countless times throughout the West, primarily in regard to the migrant crisis. Even our primitive ape ancestors know how to create weapons out of objects found in nature. Governments cannot, have not, and will never change human nature. Deterring violence by punishing the masses does not work. High-trust nations with low crime have certain things in common, but weapon prohibition is not one of them.

Apr 24 2024

Banks Wage War on Gun Ownership


Posted originally on Apr 24, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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The government has successfully weaponized the banks against the people. Major banks are voluntarily sharing customers’ private transactions with the federal government “as part of a wildly overbroad financial surveillance scheme intended to identify domestic terrorists,” a group of attorneys general wrote in a letter to Bank of America in regards to discrimination against Christian organizations. The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) is now exposing how banks are cracking down on legal firearm ownership as Washington moves to nullify the Second Amendment.

“Over the last decade, significant media attention has been paid to the left’s obsession with using banks and asset managers to end fossil fuels. Unfortunately, very little attention has been given on the left’s use of certain banks to chip away at legal private ownership and use of firearms,” the AAF Research Team wrote to Fox Business. “Unfortunately, law-abiding Americans who exercise their 2nd amendment rights have a proverbial bullseye on their backs placed there, in large part, by certain banks and their left-wing comrades who want to undermine Americans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”

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The banks began by targeting gun manufacturers and refusing them the right to take out loans, not because of credit or anything quantifiable, but because banking institutions have taken on the role of judge and juror. “Debanked by the Banks” has called out Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, AMALGAMTED Bank, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Capital One for waging war on the second amendment.

“Due to the legislation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. won’t bid on business with public entities in Texas, a key market where the bank underwrote $3.6 billion of municipal debt sales in 2020. Texas-based borrowers sold more than $58 billion of bonds in 2020, the most of any state after California, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. As part of bond offerings, borrowers often hire banks ahead of time and pay them a fee for underwriting the sales,” the group listed on its website of one example. JPMorgan Chase is eager to set up the Ukraine Reconstruction Bank and had no problem financing the likes of Jeffery Epstein, but legal gun ownership does not align with the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset as any power threatens the establishment.

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This is certainly not limited to the United States. I wrote how the climate change zealots in the UK are prohibiting citizens in South Gloucestershire from lighting firewood, as one of countless examples. Individuals like Nigel Farage have been debanked for speaking against the status-quo, media contacts like Maria Zaric of Australia have been debanked for speaking out as well. The governments are using the banks to quell any dissent, be it through legal firearm protection, free speech, or the freedom of religion.

Governments can view your transactions. Banks globally are voluntarily providing your personal data to the government, but soon, there will be no need for a middleman through the use of CBDC as the governments can track your transactions and debunk you in real time.

Apr 13 2024

How to Defend Your Home Without a Gun


Posted originally on Apr 13, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Part 1

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-DzginiUVUY%3Fstart%3D1%26feature%3Doembed

Part II – More effective techniques:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=b-7A6s6KN2w%3Ffeature%3Doembed
Mar 24 2024

Biden Justice Department Launches National “Red Flag” Center to Track Sketchy Gun Owners


Posted originally on the CTH on March 23 2024 Sundance

The DOJ has announced [SEE HERE] a national center to monitor and assist states with Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO), otherwise known as “Red Flag” laws and procedures to monitor gun owners and confiscate firearms from sketchy owners.

According to the announcement, the intent is to help states remove dangerous firearms from people who are identified as “at risk” to perpetrate violence.

“The launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.

“ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups (in some states) to petition a court to temporarily prohibit someone at risk of harming themselves or others from purchasing and possessing firearms for the duration of the order.”

[…] Through the Center and its newly launched website, states, local governments, law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service providers, and behavioral health and other social service providers will have direct access to critical information that will enhance their ability to reduce firearm homicides and suicides. (read more)

With Johns Hopkins and the Bloomberg School of Public Health in control of the database, and with the Dept of Justice – which includes the FBI in full support, problematic white males will likely be identified as the gravest threat requiring immediate supervision.  Be careful what opinions you post on social media.

From the Resource Center – “As of March 2024, 21 states and the District of Columbia have enacted ERPO laws. Though the names of these laws and the laws themselves vary by state, the process is similar for most petitioners. In all states, ERPOs are civil, not criminal, court orders. However, violation of an ERPO law may be a criminal offense depending on state law.

ERPOs temporarily prohibit a person from possessing or purchasing firearms and provide a process for the removal of firearms already in the person’s possession. The possession of a firearm is not required for an individual to be an ERPO respondent. An ERPO also temporarily prevents someone who is behaving dangerously or at risk of committing violence from purchasing and possessing firearms.” (Read More) 

Always remember, in modern America words the leftists don’t like are considered violence.  If you live in one of these 21 states, know your pronouns comrade citizen.

Oct 31 2023

Weird Story – Colorado Man, Diego Barajas Medina (20), Found Dead Loaded with Heavy Weapons in Amusement Park


Posted originally on the CTH on October 30, 2023 | Sundance

This is an alarming and weird story.  A man was found dead in the women’s bathroom at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Colorado.  He was later identified as Diego Barajas Medina, 20-years-old, from Colorado.

Apparently, he entered the amusement park overnight, on October 28, and was loaded with weapons and bombs.  However, his body was found the next morning with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Read the story, it just sounds crazy weird – emphasis mine.

COLORADO – A man died at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park over the weekend after he illegally entered the park in the Colorado high country after hours when no employees or people were present, law enforcement officials say.

The man has been identified as a 20-year-old from the nearby town of Carbondale, although officials did not immediately release his name. A cause of death has also not been released but the Garfield County Coroner is investigating the death as a suicide.

His body was found in a women’s restroom next to a message written on the wall that read, “I am not a killer, I just wanted to get into the caves.”

According to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, the man was dressed in black-colored tactical clothing, with patches and emblems that gave the appearance of being associated with law enforcement. The suspect was heavily armed with a semi-automatic rifle and semi-automatic handgun and multiple loaded magazines for both weapons. The guns were ghost guns or self-made weapons.

He was wearing body armor and what appeared to be a ballistic helmet, according to investigators. Multiple improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, were discovered with the suspect and a vehicle associated with him. Authorities also found several fake hand grenades in addition to the real and fake pipe bombs. The Grand Junction Bomb Squad responded to the scene, and they rendered the devices safe.

The Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park was swept by members of the bomb squad as well as operators from the Garfield County All Hazard Response Team to ensure no other IEDs were planted around the park or rides. Investigators said that no one in the public was at risk and that his actions were limited to the property of Glenwood Caverns.

“While this investigation is still ongoing and very active it is important to realize that given the amount of weaponry, ammunition, and explosive devices found, the suspect could have implemented an attack of devastating proportions upon our community and first responders,” said Garfield County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Walt Stowe.

The man trespassed onto the property overnight while it was closed and was discovered during the park’s pre-opening maintenance and security inspections, Glenwood Caverns said in a statement. The death did not take place near any of the park’s secure areas and was not related to any rides or attractions, the statement continued. (read more)

Homemade semi-automatic rifle and handgun (Ghost Guns).

Several fake hand grenades, fake pipe bombs and real pipe bombs.

He killed himself.

[UPDATE – Source]

A 20-year-old Latino man with fake grenades, real pipe bombs, a homemade rifle and handgun.

Thankfully, whatever happened he chose not to go through with his ‘plan’ – or something.

Garfield County Sheriff Update Here

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Studious Suspicious Cat remains, well, studious and suspicious…