#the self anointed

[infinitysisters]

“Moral grandiosity seems to have infected the nomenklatura class of giant corporations. It is not enough for them to ensure that the corporations make a decent profit within the framework of the law; they must claim to also be morally improving, if not actually saving, the world.

So it was with Alison Rose, the first female chief executive of the National Westminster Bank, a large British bank 39 percent owned by the British government. When first appointed to the position, she said that she would put combatting climate change at the centre of the bank’s policies and activities. Whether shareholders were delighted to hear this is unknown.

But the bank, under her direction, went further. Its subsidiary, Coutts, founded in 1692 and long banker to the rich, compiled a Stasi-like dossier on one of its customers, Nigel Farage, before “exiting” him from the bank, to use the elegant term employed by Ms. Rose. (Defenestration will come later, perhaps.)

Farage is, of course, a prominent right-wing political figure in Britain, as much detested as he is admired. There was no allegation in the dossier that he had done anything illegal; indeed, in person, he had always acted correctly and courteously toward staff. What was alleged was that his “values” did not accord with those of the bank, which were self-proclaimed as “inclusive” (though not of people with less than $3.5 million to deposit or borrow). Farage was depicted as a xenophobe and racist, mainly because he was in favour of Brexit and against unlimited immigration. That anyone could support Brexit for any reason other than xenophobia, or oppose unlimited immigration other than because he was a racist, was inconceivable to the diverse, inclusive thinkers of Coutts Bank.

Ms. Rose saw fit to leak details to the BBC about Farage’s banking affairs, claiming to believe that they were public knowledge already. She did not mention the 40-page dossier that her staff had put together, about Farage’s publicly-stated views. The Stasi would have been proud of the bank’s work, which comprehensively proved him to have anti-woke views.

Whatever else might be said about Mr. Farage, no one would describe him as a pushover, the kind of person who would take mistreatment lying down. Even the Guardian newspaper, which cannot be suspected of partiality for him, suggested that the bank and its chief executive had questions to answer.

It was not long before Ms. Rose had to beat a retreat. She issued a statement in which she said:

I have apologised to Mr. Farage for the deeply inappropriate language contained in [the dossier].

The board of the bank said that “after careful reflection [it] has concluded that it retains full confidence in Ms. Rose as CEO of the bank.”

The following day, Rose resigned, admitting to “a serious error of judgment.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 $𝟏 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧.

The weasel words of Ms. Rose and the bank board are worth examination. They deflected, and I suspect were intended to deflect, the main criticism directed at Ms. Rose and the bank: namely, that the bank had been involved in a scandalous and sinister surveillance of Mr. Farage’s political views and attempted to use them as a reason to deny him banking services, all in the name of their own political views, which they assumed to be beyond criticism or even discussion. The humble role of keeping his money, lending him money, or perhaps giving him financial advice, was not enough for them: they saw themselves as the guardians of correct political policy.

It was not that the words used to describe Mr. Farage were “inappropriate,” or even that they were libelous. It is that the bank saw fit to investigate and describe him at all, at least in the absence of any suspicion of fraud, money laundering, and so forth. “The error of judgment” to which Ms. Rose referred was not that she spoke to the BBC about his banking affairs (it is not easy to believe that she did so without malice, incidentally), but that she compiled a dossier on Farage in the first place—and then “error of judgment” is hardly a sufficient term on what was a blatant and even wicked attempt at instituting a form of totalitarianism.

This raises the question of whether one can be wicked without intending to be so, for it is quite clear that Ms. Rose had no real understanding, even after her resignation, of the sheer dangerousness and depravity of what the bank, under her direction, had done.

As for the board’s somewhat convoluted declaration that “after careful consideration, it concluded that it retains full confidence,” etc., it suggests that it was involved in an exercise of psychoanalytical self-examination rather than of an objective state of affairs: absurd, in the light of Ms. Rose’s resignation within twenty-four hours. The board, no more than Ms. Rose herself, understood what the essence of the problem was. For them, if there had been no publicity, there would have been no problem: so when Mr. Farage called for the dismissal of the board en masse, I sympathised with his view.

There is, of course, the question of the competence of the bank’s management. Last year, the bank’s profits rose by 50 percent (I wish my income had risen by as much). I am not competent to comment on the solidity of this achievement: excellent profits one year followed by complete collapse the next seem not to be unknown in the banking world. But the rising profits under Ms. Rose for the four years of her direction seem to point to, at least on some level, of competence. How many equally competent persons there are who could replace her, I do not know.

Still, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬, as illustrated in this episode, is worrying. Would one trust such people if the political wind changed direction? Their views would change, but the iron moral certainty and self-belief would remain the same, like the grin of the Cheshire Cat. How many meetings have I sat through in which some apparatchik has claimed to be passionately committed to a policy, only to be just as passionately committed to the precise opposite when his own masters demand a change of direction?! The Coutts story is one of how totalitarianism can flourish.”

—

Theodore Dalrymple

[odinsblog]

Bootlicker 🥾👅

[hersurvival]

You bite the inside of my thighs,

Piercing fangs through flesh,

Gasping.

And you sink to the bottom of the sea,

Treading.

Until you break the surface coming up for air

Lips glistening, dripping.

Anointing both your mouth then mine

With drops of another world.

Marked and bound.

@nosebleedclub July 31st - Hedgehog

[wocwithmentalillness]

Whether you belive in God or a higher-power, the foremost and most undeniable thing you must believe in is yourself.

[g33manxp]

What is being a G mean to you? Does it mean being a hoodlum and running the streets?

Does it have to?

Being a G means G checking your life and handling your business.

Being a G means saying fuck what's everybody thinks is acceptable in society and being who you truly are as long as your not hurting or disrespecting anyone along the way.

No one can be you better than you. So keep it real yawl. Keep it G

[sweetblkhottie]

Mesmerizing + Mind FREEING 🛸✨

This ain’t a skate page, but it’s lookin like it’s tryna be. I am GIFTED in the art of Self healing. & recently, hobbies have become 1 of My fav go-to healing tools… so, moving forward, I think that’s all I’m pretty much gone be documenting. We know ion just skate 😏🌟. It’s just Me + skating got a thing goin on & we go together real bad 🤞🏾. Real healing & grounding too ❤️‍🩹🌳.

I’m in the midst of (My many) transformations/metamorphosis. It don’t feel the same. This one feels extremely intense & personal. I’m deeply CULTIVATING My relationship to MySelf. I feel all the feels: grief, joy, anxiety, hope, doubt, etc… but I know that I’m going to get where I desire to be. I see signs of My Higher Self frequently, even when idk I’m seeing Her 🪞. Skating is becoming My baby. The cinnamon apple 🍏 of My Eye. I am falling in Love with it. This hobby got Me feeling in ways I’ve never felt before. It’s helping Me reach a flow state I’ve never seen before. I’m watching the start of that flow, trickle in other areas 💧🌱. I’m excited ❤️‍🔥.

I feel like I’m reaching a plateau tho.. I could be learning sm more! I hunger to. I need community to help Me 🧩. Cuz these video tutorials only do so much.

Sweet Black Hottie xoxo

[isurrendertoclones]

the Galactic Empire, ruled by the self-anointed Emperor Palpatine.

Me:

[helpfromheaven]

A Fresh Anointing of the Holy Spirit: Thursday Devotion

Courbevoie, France, May 2023 Ezekiel 36: 26-27 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations. No matter how long one has been worshiping the Lord, the trials and struggles of life tend…

[the-tell-tale-poet]

A little of chelles backstory

Lachelle was once a lost soul in heaven with no real memeories of her own life, that is until chuck needed a way to slow down the winchesters. chuck wiped all her memories of heaven and the broken memories of her life lived previously then planted fake ones into her head before giving her a gift and sending her to them.

what chuck had gifted chelle effectively gave her the powers and abilities of his angels without any of their weakness or short comings. The other supernatural beings have annoyingly titled her and her kind as the anointed, only problem is he has trouble keeping her in line unlike the others of her kind which for him proves harder than it sounds.

[starhog]

takes a cigarette

puts the whole thing in his mouth & chews on it

[judahmaccabees]

Matt 25:41-46

Jude 1:8

TOODLES

[provenaence]

tag drop part two .

[kdmiller55]

Their God Is Their Appetite

16 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you. 17 And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the…

[fotozap]

Unction to Function

Unction to Function 1 John 2:19-21 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.  I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and…

[bvthomas]

"The Search Within: Discerning the Priority between God's Presence and Anointing"

Seek the ANOINTING/BAPTISM of the Holy Ghost or His presence! Recently, I finished reading Dr. David Feddes’ book “Seeking God’s Face,” and I think you would find it helpful as well. Instead of focusing on the Holy Ghost baptism and other experiences you might desire, I would counsel you to fix your eyes on Jesus Christ, who is the provenance of life or the wellspring. Give all of it to God in…

[regularbeans]

have a new year, everyone!