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EU Committee Says No To Bank Data Sharing
krupert writes to let us know that the civil liberties committee of the European Parliament has voted to revoke the data-sharing arrangement by which US intelligence agencies have access to EU banking data via the SWIFT system. The US has threatened to withhold cooperation on terrorist intelligence if the bank data deal now in place is canceled, which it will be next week if the full European Parliament votes in line with the committee's recommendation. US intelligence agencies clandestinely tapped the SWIFT interbank clearing data from just after 9/11 until 2006, when the secret arrangement was made public. After that, Belgium-based SWIFT pulled their servers from the US and set up shop in Brussels, and the US had to negotiate with the EU to keep tapping the data.
A senior NATO Air-commander claims that a special 747 equipped to remote control airplanes was in the airspace over NY at that time.
We here on the eastern rim of the big pond think that the US fed Osama and the Taliban as long as it served their wish to get the Russians out of Afghanistan.The US has a history of making allies with whoever is helping them at the moment, without any thought of the day after.
The US declared a borderless world - dropped Visa applications and has now re-invented them with the data-transfers of every passenger.
I recently visited China. Their Immigration Officers make you think you come into a civilized country.
I have been also to the US. Their Immigration Officers make you think came from the Gestapo or the SSD
LOL. I have an automatic replacer for bullshit words like “file sharing”.
Guess what it replaced “consfile sharing theory” with:
I have a funny consfile sharing theory for you: :)
Damn. I have to get into consfile sharing business!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
I recommend moving to Switzerland. As long as you can limit the alcohol drinking... ;)
They are not in the EU, it’s warmer, the food is better, the scenery is beautiful, they have a great air force, and nobody is going to put the country under pressure, that has all his money, anyway. ^^
Plus, you get a (partially?) direct democracy with referenda. Which is the most valuable of all properties.
Yeah, I hear it's a great place to live if you're a white, christian, non-slavic person of northern european descent with a lot of money.
Replace "person" with "male". Women don't get to run for elections, although they did get the right to vote in 1971. And are generally (especially outside larger cities) considered inferior. Running a small business as a woman is quite difficult since you have to deal with males who won't accept the fact you're giving them directions. No outright discrimination, just a lot of difficulties that add up.
On the other hand, the standard of living is quite high. Perhaps it's correlated :)
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
well, less nazis than the US (per capita)
Is that an insult? Nazis may be IMHO inherently wrong in their worldviews, but at least in US it's nothing close to a crime to be one. That's a guilt ridden German/Austian thing.