Saturday, December 29, 2007

LONDON BANKERS HAVE LOST THE PLOT

In The Daily Telegraph today there is an arse-licking article entitled "Bankers and Kids", and it goes like this...

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A friend in need on the City's doorstep

Last Updated: 3:20am GMT 29/12/2007

Supposedly hard-nosed bankers are changing the lives of deprived children, and at the same time gaining a new perspective on their own priorities. Josephine Moulds reports

John Bennett, consultant to hedge fund group Man Investments, has seen a lot in his 30-year career in the City. He watched the 1987 market crash and subsequent Names scandal at Lloyd's of London while entrenched in the insurance industry, then he ran the financial advisory business of a top 20 accountancy firm, taking him to his current job at Man.

Volunteers at Kids Company; A friend in need on the City's doorstep
Volunteers can help brighten up the environment, lead drama sessions or simply give the children what they need most - time, attention and something to aspire to

However, despite living in interesting times, one of his most memorable moments recently has not come from the troubled credit markets but from Mark, a young man he mentors.

Despite his crippling shyness, Mark had agreed to make a speech to a crowd of 200 people about Kids Company, the charity that supported him when he was kicked out of home.

Bennett helped him write the speech, and all the way along reassured his charge that he would happily step in at the last minute if Mark lost his nerve, or take over halfway through if necessary.

On the day, a large audience of luminaries gathered, among them Bob Geldof and BBC grandee Alan Yentob. Mark stood up and started to read the speech. But then he stopped, put down his notes and spoke from the heart about this fantastic charity and what it had done for him.

It was a tearful moment, a happy tale of triumph over adversity. "You can't buy that sort of stuff," says Bennett, who has volunteered as a mentor with Kids Company for the past two years. Set up in 1996, the London-based charity has flourished under founder Camila Batmanghelidjh to become a reference point for children's organisations across the country. Batmanghelidjh herself is so well known and commands such respect among politicians that she is helping shape government policy towards children.


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The overall aim of the article is to portray "supposedly hard-nosed bankers" in a very charitable light, and asks the question; How can the bankers be such genocidal bastards if they can fork out thousands to help poor kids just a mile away from their luxurious offices?

Kids Company sounds very much like the Rothschild scheme to help kids. I posted about that scheme after finding a report about corporate social responsibility on the Rothschild website. In their scheme Rothschild employees (though not the Rothschilds themselves) act as mentors to local under-priviliged kids, helping with their maths etc.

If only the teachers involved knew the real power the bankers have, and how that power has been abused for selfish megalomaniac purposes, sending man to fight man in needless world wars in order to gain total control of the world.

One has to ask why such an article has been compiled and published?

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Imagine there’s no bankers
It’s easy if you try
No more wars or hunger
Just peace beneath a pale blue sky

Imagine all the people living life in peace, yoo hoo

Imagine there’s no bankers
Preying on the poor
With their vulture hedge funds
And always wanting more

Imagine all the people living for themselves, yay hay

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
Wanting control over our money
So the world will live as one

Imagine there’s no bankers
Issuing all our money
Which is created out of nothing
So we live in virtual slavery

Imagine all the people living happily, yoo hoo

Imagine there’s no bankers
Financing all the genocide
Creating Hitlers and Stalins
To force us into taking sides

Imagine all the people living life in peace, yay hay

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
Wanting control over our money
So the world will live as one

Imagine there’s no bankers
Wanting to rule us all
Through their blood-soaked UN
From behind a large concrete wall

Imagine there's no bankers
Controlling all of the world
Through their selected leaders
Selected at Bilderberg

Imagine all the people living in freedom, yoo hoo

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
Wanting control over our money
So the world will live as one

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