As more and more pages of the forum become polluted with the name of a Ronald Bernard a.k.a. Ronald B de Blij, a.k.a. ex-top/ex-elite banker, I think it’s high time to note that there is no evidence for anything he claims about himself, and many indicators that he may just be another conman.
No one noticed that RB is remarkably vague about everything? He uses all catchy phrases, but there is no meat to it, nothing that would suggest he knows anything of value that was not available wildly before his ‘disclosure’? Any names? Any CV confirmed in any valid way? Nothing.
Here goes a brief history of his online presence as a rising star that I’ve managed to collect. (Some sources are in Dutch, so for quotes, G-translation is used)
Somewhere around
2009, a ‘Happy Party’ (
De Blij Partij) in The Netherlands was
founded, most likely by RB himself
Become a member of Happy/Joy Party
The Happy Party was founded on November 11, 2009 as a Mirror Party (Spiegel Partij). An investigation into the ins and outs of the Netherlands has already begun before that time. From the findings of the investigation we can state the following: "we are everything except a normal political party". The current traditional political party system is rotten to the bone. Unfortunately, we cannot put it differently. ... Should our Mirror Party exceed 7 million members, then it is time to fully take over the political party system as Happy Party members. We will then rule the country together.
Subsequently, new members of parliament will be appointed to implement the desired changes. ...Our new representatives will be obliged to implement sound and equitable management. Participate and become a member now !!!
of which RB became spokesperson “
at the request of the current members”. Note, that the website carries a “© 2009
Jozeph Muntenbergh” signature.
Under the latter link, the first mention of a bank appears:
To stop vaccinating our population if it damages our health or immune system or is based on anxiety. Remove the harmful substances from our food, beverages and utensils. Stop fluoride for human consumption. Remove all harmful or ineffective medicines. Set up a banking system that works for everyone out of abundance. Resolve the national debt. Stop cooperating on land and raw material harvesting in other countries. Abolish unnecessary European and National rules and taxes.
Within the Party, The Mirror Program 2010 was developed for then upcoming
Dutch general election of June 2010. Apparently,
no success here, and the party is not listed as taking part in the election, if even it had ever been registered as such.
As for the bank, my guess is, that RB could get the idea from
Rudo de Ruijter’s writings. Coincidentally, a couple of RR’s videos are made by the same Jozeph Muntenbergh.
2011 -
Enter the “bank”. At the beginning, the website was named
deblijebank.nl and the first archived appearance dates 07 January 2011
Welcome to De Blije Bank (DBB) of society. DBB is a cooperative association i.o. of which every resident of the Netherlands can become a member. ... DBB is operated from a good stewardship as an investment, trading, savings and credit bank. DBB works 100% interest-free, provides a return on capital and uses a complementary currency (CM).
The CM derives its value from investments in raw materials, natural forces, natural entrepreneurship and people.
Unfortunately, in 2003 RB was
ordered to remove the misleading and illegal use of the word ‘bank’ from the website, so they replaced ‘bank’ with ‘b’ and as a result, it became:
deblijeb.nl
ANNOUNCEMENT, 01-08-2013. The Central Bank of the Netherlands has requested, based on article 3:7 subsection 1 of the Dutch financial supervisory law, that United People Foundation remove the word bank from the business name Bank of Joy. Also, the name Bank of Joy may not be used on this website. We will carry on as B of Joy [De Blije B]. The word bank will be re-instated as soon as this citizens initiative by professionals has acquired a banking license.
It was only then, that the below note appeared in their self-presentation:
De Blije B is a citizens' initiative of professionals. We are introducing the fixed-value currency URA and as soon as we have more than 10,000 members, we apply for a banking license. A bank of, for and by the people, where we will manage our money ourselves. You can be a member for 25 euros [per year]. For 100 euros it also becomes your bank.
So we are supposed to believe that the ex-top banker was unaware of legal requirements for an entity to be able to call itself a ‘bank’? I don’t know about you, but I don’t buy it. It's even worse if he did know.
Above we have another entity, United People Foundation, which is, according to its website, a no-profit foundation registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number
56595220. I tried to find the date of its creation to no avail, but the first
archived appearance is of 20 Aug 2013, and its
English version – of 02 March 2017, and De Blije B seems to be part of UPF.
Out of 10K members needed, in
this interview of Jan 2017 he claims 6.5K, and on the UPF website, after saying that they keep the information confidential, an update of 2020 announces 8.5K “
connected to their initiative” which can mean anything. And all we have is his words, as usual.
So we’re in 2013, the word ‘bank’ is removed in August, and in November the first interview with RB is done and published by a
Paul van der Sluijs and his
EarthMedia BV. Then things are quiet until January 2017 when one of the main Dutch newspapers,
de Volkskrant, interviewed RB (surely nothing about ‘evil banking’, Illuminati, Satanists and child abuse was mentioned there)
From citizen to banker is not a piece of cake
The financial crisis has inspired ordinary citizens to take matters into their own hands. But the obstacles for do-it-yourself bankers appear to be great.
It's not an uplifting conclusion for do-gooders. To prevent a recurrence of the crisis, politicians have introduced top-heavy regulation. With the paradoxical, unwanted result that the established banks have little to worry about new competitors.
The candidate bank is looking across the border for a permit. To Malta, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom, among others.
The article (in Dutch) is behind a paywall now but is archived
here. In August 2017, an article (in English) was posted on pepijnvanerp.nl website, with an attempt to debunk the ‘rising star’, where among other things, we have this:
Academics leaving the International Advisory Board of B of Joy
Before publishing my article (on Kloptdatwel) on Bernard’s interview and the research I did on his background, and that of other people involved, I contacted the two people in the International Advisory Board [B of Joy], who hold academic positions: Jan Rotmans (professor in transitions and transition management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Marleen Janssen Groesbeek (lector Sustainable Finance and Accounting at Avans University of Applied Sciences). Me and Verhoft had repeatedly asked them questions on this matter via Twitter, but they seemed to ignore us (although they did notice our remarks).
In reply to my email, they let me know (clearly annoyed by my questions) that they didn’t believe anything of the stories told by Bernard. But apparently, it didn’t seem to bother them too much as they both continued to support the B of Joy.
After the publication of my article, however, other journalists got interested as well. And only now Rotmans and Janssen Groesbeek decided to step down. De Volkskrant (the same newspaper that had published the uncritical interview with Bernard in January this year) wrote about the matter on Saturday, August 26th 2017 and apparently, this attention made them take the wise decision to cut ties with the B of Joy and Bernard in the end. [unfortunately behind a paywall and not archived]
Smells Fucilla?
to be continued...
