Look where Carter is today. Top guru dog of "Civil Society" (i.e. Global cabal and Deepstate corrupt system of global governance and to cover their crimes, and to launder money).  He was at the heart of the Jackson Stephens (With Riady) opening their bank in Arkansas, ushering in all manner of vile corruption and spread it around the world.  Ties to: Clinton and Obama and his family.  Stephens was born on a farm near Prattsville in Grant County in south Arkansas, the youngest of six children.[2] and grew up during the Depression. Stephens attended the United States Naval Academy, where he met and became friends with a midshipman from Georgia named Jimmy Carter.[3] Upon graduating he joined the Little Rock investment house Stephens Inc., which his brother W. R. "Witt" Stephens had started in 1933. "Forged out of a Bible, belt buckle, and bond business," by 1994 Stephens, Inc., was listed as one of the biggest institutional shareholders in thirty large multinationals including the Arkansas-based Worthen Bank, Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart, and Alltel. Stephens is the father of Jackson Stephens, Jr. and Warren Stephens.   some old quotes:   the Thompson [U.S. Senate] Committee report that is now being leaked to the press confirms the long-held suspicion that James and Mochtar Riady of the Lippo empire "have had a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency." This confirmation, although the supporting evidence has been excised from the report, adds additional pieces to puzzle of how the Chinese intelligence penetration of U.S. government succeeded, and shows how the seeds were planted well before the 1996 election, even well before the 1992 election.  The story is long. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/01/riady-or-not/  Mochtar Riady’s connection to Arkansas began in 1977. Arkansas-based Stephens Inc., one of the country’s largest investment banks outside New York, was trying to help Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter’s friend and former budget director, sell stock he held in the National Bank of Georgia.  https://info.publicintelligence.net/The-BCCI-Affair.htm  When Olmstead needed to sell the rest of FGB in 1976, he turned first to Lance. At the time, Lance was working to elect Jimmy Carter president. Anxious to join the Administration, rather than to remain in banking, he turned Olmstead down.(11) Lance was formally precluded from engaging in financial transactions while director of OMB. However, according to later SEC charges, Lance continued to meet with General Olmstead regarding the sale of FGB, and put Olmstead in touch with William G. Middendorf, a former secretary of the Navy who ultimately decided to take over FGB. Lance met with both Olmstead and Middendorf at the Washington Metropolitan Club about the proposed sale while director of OMB.(12). As of April 1977, Middendorf and a group of twenty investors purchased Olmstead's interests in FGB, and Middendorf was installed as the chairman of the bank. But the takeover group, including former ambassador to Iran Joseph Farland, Arkansas banker Jackson Stephens, and Occidental Petroleum chairman Armand Hammer, swiftly began to disintegrate. By November, 1977 the shareholders had split, with Stephens heading a group opposed to Middendorf -- even as the Federal Reserve ordered Olmstead and his group to end their dual relationship to both International Bank and FGB by January 31, 1978.(13) Lance was implicated in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal of the 1980s and early 1990s. He was involved in deals with notable BCCI luminaries Agha Hasan Abedi, Mochtar Riady, and Ghaith Pharaon[13] and with BCCI's largest borrower, Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad,[14][15] and joined with Arkansas-based power investor Jackson Stephens in facilitating BCCI's takeover of Financial General Bankshares.[16] Lance and Stephens made millions in the wake of BCCI's collapse.[17] During Carter's run for office, Lance had helped Carter secure funding by using stored peanuts at Carter's peanut business. It was alleged that there were no peanuts in the storage facilities. In January 1978, Lance sold his stock in National Bank of Georgia to Ghaith Pharaon, while on the same day, BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi paid off Lance's $3.5 million loan at the First National Bank of Chicago. Meanwhile the Chicago bank was making huge loans to The Soviet Union with open lines of credit. The following month, Lance helped BCCI with their hostile bid for Financial General Bankshares of Washington. The attempt failed, but three years later, BCCI secretly acquired the bank (renamed First American Bankshares) using 15 Arab investors as nominees. The next year, Lance introduced Carter to Abedi. In 1987, First American Bankshares acquired National Bank of Georgia from Pharaon. BCCI was terminated in 1991, and it was subsequently revealed that the bank had engaged in many illegal activities, including secretly controlling several US banks, in violation of federal banking statutes.[18]   Follow the story of Systematics/Alltel/Promis software, plus BCCI, plus Arksansas, plus Chicago and Shorebank, plus China's early involvement in our so call 'free speech' movement in Berkeley in '64, plus plus plus.  There's plenty of corruption but also there are many connecting communist (foreign and domestic) dots, and the result is what we have now.