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Europe Demands Access To All SWIFT Data To "Combat Terrorism Funding"
One week ago, we reported, with little surprise, that just days after last Friday's terrorist attack, the European Commission had "implemented strict controls to make it difficult to acquire firearms."
This followed our take from two months ago, predicting with uncanny accuracy the events of November 13, when we said that "as the need to ratchet up the fear factor grows, expect more such reports of asylum seekers who have penetrated deep inside Europe, and whose intentions are to terrorize the public. Expect a few explosions thrown in for good effect" and we added that "since everyone knows by now "not to let a crisis go to waste" the one thing Europe needs is a visceral, tangible crisis, ideally with chilling explosions and innocent casualties. We expect one will be provided on short notice."
We concluded by saying that one should "certainly expect a version of Europe'a Patriot Act to emerge over the next year, when the old continent has its own "September 11" moment, one which will provide the unelected Brussels bureaucrats with even more authoritarian power."
To be sure, the European crackdown on weapons, if only for those who wish to acquire them legally, took even us by surprise: not even we expected such a fast turnaround.
And now that the latest European powergrab has been unleashed "in response to the terrorist threat", of course, just like the US Patriot Act, the time has come to crack down on all other aspects of personal privacy, starting with financial transactions.
On Friday, we previously reported that "Europe Cracks Down On Bitcoin, Virtual Currencies To "Curb Terrorism Funding."
That was the appetizer because today we read, again with little surprise, that "as part of a push to clamp down on the financing of militant groups" French Finance Minister Michel Sapin European said that authorities need to be able to tap into data from the SWIFT bank payments network.
Actually, no. What authorities should do is find out which Swiss and Dutch trading houses are helping the ISIS oil smugglers deliver their oil to the open market, especially since as we reported previously, they already know all the "third parties" involved in this illegal terrorism-funding activity. Of course, this avenue is blocked since pursuing it would reveal just who at the pinnacles of European bureaucratic (and banking) power benefits the most from closing their eyes to the ISIS oil smuggling trade.
Instead, Europe would much rather just have access to the entire pipe of financial transaction data, which of course is precisely what the Patriot Act spawned in the US. In other words, just like the US in the aftermath of 9/11, so too Europe has decided to not let this "crisis" go to waste and is quietly unleashing the biggest expansion of the government appartus in European history.
More from Reuters:
Sapin said that the SWIFT system had two computer servers, one in Europe and one in the United States, but that Europe currently relied on U.S. authorities to collect and analyze the vast amounts of data flowing through it to detect security issues.
"We Europeans don't have the capacity to exploit our own data. I don't think this can carry on this way," Sapin told a news conference. "Since we do not have the means to analyze the data located in Europe, we transfer all of this data to the Americans, who have the capacity to analyze it."
Efforts to curb financing of militant groups have intensified since the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 by Islamic State-backed gunmen and bombers.
Belgian-based SWIFT, or Society for the Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, operates services transmitting letters of credit, payments and securities transactions among 9,700 banks in 209 countries.
SWIFT says on its website that it is subject to binding requests to provide the U.S. Treasury with data from its European server "for the purpose of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of terrorism or terrorist financing".
And just like that another prediction has come true: first came the crack down on weapons, and now the crack down on all financial transactions. Next: the NSA opens a European branch to make sure that just like their American peers, everything Europeans do will be forever recorded in some massive database for eternity. Why? "To fight terrorism."
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Does Langley use SWIFT?
Nothing in Europe is being done without a nod from Germany, so…
Dear Germany,
You used to hate the STASI for its wiretaps, censorship, propaganda, et al.
So, what exactly have you accomplished since the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Only dissenters’ phones were wiretapped back in the day, and now… now ALL GERMANS are wire-tapped, WiFi-tapped, Internet-tapped, travel-tapped, shopping-tapped, etc., etc.
The censorship and propaganda are at the levels that neither Joseph Goebbels nor Erich Honecker had ever dreamt of.
Congratulations! You owe yourself a hug, a pat on the back, an ass-grab, and a stray finger up your own ass. ;-)
Auf Wiedersehen und viel Glück! (Good bye and good luck!)
Looney
P.S. Oh, and bring your gold back from New York and start building a New Berlin Wall, before it is too late. ;-)
Awesome! And they can compliment this order to access financial information from the SWIFT system by creating an EU specific Bank Secrecy Acts for all EU region depository institutions! Yes! We! Can!
Next: the NSA opens a European branch to make sure that just like their American peers, everything Europeans do will be forever recorded in some massive database for eternity. Why? "To fight terrorism."
We are the terrorists.
who is "Europe" ?
Buh Bitcoin with cash == no paper trail.
And allow you to pocket the 20% premium? Nice try fucker.
Buy silver and gold with cash, no paper trail.
I'm sure these guys using their PS4 to communicate within cells are quite worried about this new effort to tap into SWIFT data.
William Binney was correct to state a few years ago during an interview:
"The problem goes deeper as the West, including England, has created a model for this type of illegal surveillance and it is spreading. The ideology that we have made policy since post-Sep. 11th is now in real danger of contagion in Europe."
Two or so years later, after having watched this interview, I am witnessing what he knew was happening; I am observing the ossification of policy into an objective worldview. This is not going to end well, nor easily.
By the west, I think they should restate that as the communists among us. Perhaps state that this stuff all came out of Israel.
It will end peacefully, because the people that produce will simply leave them behind and continue moving forward. The statists and the paranoid banker class will simply not be able to keep up because there will be too much information for them to deal with. Their reality distortion fields have been doing nothing but deteriating for the past 15 years now. They've been losing this battle for almost two decades now.
Europe is that dumb broad she thinks is so popular just because she's fucked by everybody
http://goo.gl/V3tFPT
I thought trolls had to be over the age of 13.
They are still asking this question themselves
Of course we're the terrorists, we always have been. The only thing the government fears is an armed population that can overthrow them......
The only thing that a collective group of humans fear is the truth and its effective uses.
Those big weapons are an inverted conidtional reflex to the environment; the enviornment is free, one applies an ideology that becomes actualized as a concrete force, now the enironemnt seems controlled, but the truth is that it never was and that will set you free.
If they want to 'clamp down on funding terrorism'... then they should simply stop their own funding of terrorism. QED.
But obviously, that's not what they want.
Langley's system is called GRIFT.
bravo, sir/maam! well done!
OK, now that's funny (and fitting). :) Good one x 2
To find out who funds "terrorism", simply get the routing numbers of the central banks...
In other news, the Paris attackers also used body soap, tooth paste and clothes in the lead up to their operation. Some even ate (halal) burgers. All such items should now be closely monitored and reported to the proper authorities should something suspicious be detected.
Easy, the FED routing number is 666.
The war on terror must be revived!
Who benefits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTcidJRv7kQ&feature=em-subs_digest-g
Serious question: IF the SWIFT system is comprehensive ( I'm of the opinion that it cannot be ), then ALL illegal transactions can conceivably be traced within that system.
WHY is policing of SWIFT not done already if it is indeed viable? WHO allows a porus unregulated international clearance system to perpetuate criminal transactions and crime proceeds movements?
Are the owner/operators of SWIFT and/or Banks criminally liable for acts perpetrated by their customers? Premeditation = conspiracy. Drivers of get-away-cars are criminals, so why aren't the pilots of financial vehicles designed to spirit stolen/illegal proceeds away from crime scenes?
Are the Banksters in charge of SWIFT and the major/TBTF Institutions going to be held responsible for domestic and international crimes and the costs of prosecutions, penalties, compensations, etc ..?
WHAT systems of payment exist beyond the SWIFT perview?
Will prsecution/regulation of these be on par with SWIFT and other so-called 'legitimate' alternatives used in regions such as the Middle East?
SWIFT was basically routing all transactions through NY and with the dollar as reserve currency, not many cared in the past but as gov.us hunts for new ways to tax, other governments are starting to take exception.
Reading forums like this, it is easy to fall into a type of monolithic thinking, especially when people use expressions like "Deep State". One gets the idea of this super-organized, seamless futuristic operation. The problem is that all human systems are run by humans. As such, people grab their own piece of power wherever they can, leading to turf wars, power plays, etc. Most of us probably have no idea how Machiavelliian all this is behind the scenes. What we see in public is just the tip of the iceberg as we watch a few struggles played out using public opinion/pressure as leverage.
Well, right, Throxx. When you see the photos of Columbian drug kingpins with pallet-loads of US $100 bills, where the hell did they come from? Where does the international drug trade get the cash, and dispose of the cash? Where do the international arms peddlers get their cash, and then spend it? How does IS get all the money they're throwing around? Who is buying the oil they're selling, and what are they using for those transactions?
So SWIFT and all the other instruments are clearly weapons to be used only selectively, to advance certain policy agendas. And not to be used in ways that inconvenience those agendas.
SWIFT is just 1 channel. Illegal drug and arms money flows into USSA real estate with no oversite at all (by design and approved by Congress). This is the easiest money laundering system in the USSA. The FED also has separate conduits for special partners (Sinaloa, CIA, etc.) and will even rent office space at the NY FED in downtown NYC equiped with backdoor VPNs into participating banks so that black $ can move efficiently through the system and everyone gets a cut. I have spoken to a former 20-year FED veteran who at one time worked with members of the Medellin Cartel during the 80's in an office at the NY FED. They routed $ from SA to various community banks in Harlem and the borroughs which were then funnelled to the major money center banks and back to SA. The FEDs facilitation in this was key. Any datamining in SWIFT regarding this sanctioned money laundering will reveal nothing as the original $ outflow came from the FED.
Haha. they are just hunting for tax money..
As always, terrorism is used as the excuse to crack down on and extort those who are just trying to mind their own business and get ahead. Because terrorists would never circumvent the normal consumer-level system and local laws, would they? I mean, even when they're blowing themselves up they make sure their passports remain unblemished.
They just wanna know what we know about what they know we know about you-know-who.
Which is just one more reason why I am still stacking.
I've lost track of the reasons why.
Just keep stacking...
In gold we trust.
Time for the common person to buy all the physical metal they can get their hands on. Then you can buy and trade and pay with it. This action alone will destroy the stupid bank system. No third party risk, etc.. Black markets always pop up when governments pull this shit.
next - ban cash
Good luck with that. History shows that that is when the sheep figure out they have been lied to. All things physical become exponentially more valuble overnight. Including physical cash.
The game gets funnier by the second. The false flag in France used to destroy the lives of all Europeans and no one will stand up and say the truth. Merkel desrves to be imprisoned. Coming soon a similar situation by Soros/Obama in the US.
looking for a swift demise
You know who really gets off on doom porm? Bad governments do. Banksters do. Economists do.
All the regular folks get tiered of the lies pretty quickly. Most of us are busy doing productive things.
Yup, this is how the government controls us using Hitlerisk fear...and the sheep fall for it.
It's not "doom porn" when it accurately describes reality.
Please define reality. Im having a hard time with the concept these days. Its would seem there are several different realities flying around. In one reality powdered concrete is flamable. Its all very confusing.
What is important for the TPTB is the Sheeple Matrix reality. Now they are experiencing a proliferation of glitches in this matrix and it is causing them to panic and move up their agenda. Of course, we can step out of their matrix anytime that we want and create our own reality. What is interesting is how many people prefer the Sheeple Matrix and are scared to death to create their own.
Good luck with that LOL!
"To be sure, the European crackdown on weapons, if only for those who wish to acquire them legally, took even us by surprise: not even we expected such a fast turnaround."
Well if Tyler and the ZH crew and the commenters here didn't foresee it then you know it was PLANNED for a LONG, LONG time.
ZH is the PLACE to know what is really going on, accept no substitutes.
The EVIL will always seek to disarm their future victims, always.
Orwell predicted what is happening NOW and is already in place.
OBAMA COMING FOR GUNS IN FINAL YEAR
The NRA will fall. It’s inevitable. Just look at the demographics. The Washington Post, October 19, 2015
by Adam Winkler professor at UCLA School of Law
See also:
Jews and Jewish organizations lead the gun control campaign by Professor Kevin MacDonald
Jews and Gun Control: A Reprise by Andrew Joyce, PhD
What the fuck does increase in hispanic population in the US have to do with European fiscal control and SWIFT???
For fucks sake, try to stay on topic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now we're seeing the purpose of this attack in Paris: for the moronic socialist Hollande to ratchet up the big surveillance state with indecent haste. The War of Terrorism must prevail.
How long before France gets its own Patriot Act?
How long before Europe adopts Cameron's crazy idea to outlaw encryption? Even though the Paris terrorists sent bog standard unencrypted SMS message to each other that day.
Banning encryption is a solution looking for a problem.
All y'all bitchez are now considered terrorists...all of you...except politicians and bankers. Oh, you're also exempt if you hold an Israeli passport.
Meawhile, Uncle Putin, having gone for a walk, lies in a ditch on the outskirts of Latakia.
According to a Stratfor situation report time-stamped this morning, the EU will extend sanctions against Mother Russia for another 6 months.
I wonder if those sanctions ever come up when people (like Obama) sit down and chat with Putin - as he did last week.
Yeah... stil criminal putin regime is invloved in Ukraine occupation and part of it annexation .. so.. yeah... sanctions will stay.
It's funny that from ruskies point of view these sanctions are:
Unfair, totally pointless economic measures that will in no way harm Russia’s economy. In fact, they are actually helping Russia! They are so absurd and ridiculous the West should totally remove them as soon as humanely possible. Please.
so, in order to
"clamp down on the financing of militant groups"?
Does that include NATO, the Pentagon, CIA, Mossad, et al,
or are those groups not considered "militant"?
Same goes for stopping "terrorism". Are we to believe NATO/Pentagon/CIA assassinations, bombings, invasions, and tortures
never terrorize or kill civilians?
Anybody who stops to think can see what a pack of lies the public is given for the endless wars.
The US supports wahabbist sheikhs, drug cartels, expansionist apartheid, 'moderate' jihadists, military dictatorships, and wannabe nazis
NOT because of some benevolent interest in stopping "extremism" and disorder.
The wars, invasions, and occupations are about maintaining the petrodollar financial racket; about full spectrum dominance to prevent the rise of any potential adversary; about warfare profits, pipelines, and oil; about controlling resources or else denying use to others; about the hubris of empire and expansion.
The US, EU, & co. have done way more destruction, terrorism, and killing to foster extremist hatreds in the ME than have the jihadists ever done to the West,
The problem is no more about stopping "terrorism" than it is about stopping "surprise attacks", or stopping "fear".
LOL!!! The world finds itself in this circumstance because of FINANCIAL TERRORISTS!!!!!
How funny, I am sure that no wrongdoing by any western bankers and financiers will be uncovered, they will continue to have access to free money at the expense of savers and producers of real products...
roll the motherfucking guillotines, nothing changes otherwise.
Asking to review SWIFT data will get you nail-gun suicided just as fast as proposing a gold/silver standard for currency.
Who paid for all the white Toyotas with weaponry in Syria and Iraq? I doubt it was "Europe". All this is pathetic as fuck. USA should die, die quickly.
Was it Russia that introduced an alternative to the SWIFT system ?
Yea it's called: PJTYM
standing for Putin Just Took Your Money.. so far no-one is using it.... I don't know why...
Was it Russia that introduced an alternative to the SWIFT system ?
Not Putin per se... but BRICS will be using a new system soon.
Zinu
BRICs is far from broke, just look at what countries have been HOARDING gold in the last three years. Hint: it's not USA.
But yea, you go ahead and believe Goldman Sux.
"Sapin said that the SWIFT system had two computer servers, one in Europe and one in the United States"
please tell me this is a fucking joke by a clueless pointy-haired idiot! TWO servers?!? for a system of this importance?!? I'm not sure whether to laugh at such an obviously erroneous (or at least not properly qualified) statement or be terrorified at the possibility of it being true...
It is actually possible. What?? you think SWIFT runs on Windows or even LInux??
I would bet it runs on an old fashioned mainfame with redundant systems built in.
Ou my... than what!? Everyone will find out that Deash aka ISIS is financed by criminal putin regime.
ZINU: "Ou my... than what!? Everyone will find out that Deash aka ISIS is financed by criminal putin regime."
Hey Mr. 3 weeks, got one iota of evidence to back up your absurd POV?
“… It is clear that Putin knew of the terrorist attacks in Paris in advance, because it has a vast agents of ISIS. This extensive guide agents in ISIS arose from the fact that the ISIS militarily were led by Baathists, that is, former members of Saddam Hussein’s troops. And it is very close to the Soviet Union and the Russian people actually. The Russian security services have extensive agents in this environment, since the days of the Iran-Iraq war and even earlier. And this is supervised by Yevgeny Primakov”.
Zinu,
Well, I read that whole article and Stanley, like you, has not a shred of evidence either. Are you holding out? So Putin "knew about it" because he was aligned with Baathists, Saddam Insanes troops?
Should I remind you that Saddam was OUR GUY that WE (USA) put into power?
Jesus.... do a little research troll.
Is that why US was training them in Jordan and Israel was/is treating their wounded??
Is that also why in the early days they would attack Syria from Turkey and then when needed to retreat they would run back into Turkey (because Syria could not enter Turkey without risking a war with NATO)???
Try your stupid bullshit somewhere where people are clueless. I would suggest you go back to Huffington Toast.
WHOA... NOWWWWW we get to the meat and potato's.. Putin called out 40 + nations AND INDIVIDUALS who are funding ISIS.
Ha ha ha - that is funny :D Only 40? Why not 45 or 65? ha ha ha
As Merkel said about criminal putin: out of touch with reality'
"Ha ha ha - that is funny :D Only 40? Why not 45 or 65? ha ha ha"
Why not ask him Mr 3 week troll?
Yeh, lets get to the bottom of who bought all those nike fucking trainer's eh?
The .gov tyrants need to try to be a little less transparent. Newsflash - the amount of money required to outfit 7 goons with AKs and some couchsurfing accomodations is so small that it can be handled within the average European's discretionary income. If identifying this type of threat were the real objective, the .govnors would need to track EVERY quantity of currency down to the 100 euro level. In other words, it aint gonna ever function effectively, even if they banned cash. Until corrupt politicians meet the gibbet in the public square, the tyranny will only increase.
They are great at finding guys getting out of Italy with bearer bonds, but not so good at finding Islamic radicals. I think there is a reason for that.
Kind of hidden in this is the inevitable for debt ridden countries - namely the need to track down anyone avoiding taxes.
WTF, how the hell something like that was allowed to happen in the first place?! Europe is truly a fuckin' joke now... what an embarrassment!
Agreed, because there are no computer nor computer programmers in Europe.
I hear that they do not even have electricity nor indoor plumbing.
Must be where all these Amish are coming from.
Well, if the European central government did not create the environment for refugees and instead worked on creating a world that we could all live in, they would not have any need for SWIFT data or data collection of any kind.
Maybe they should just admit that their goal is total subjugation, followed by total destruction.
Why is no one asking about Western Union? Why are the big CC sponsors US companies?
Well it sure took them a long time to figure this out after several decades
When Excel cells are redcacted, does it show up as a black square? Or do they delete the incriminating data, keeping them just blannk? Or do they delete the line altogether?
No direct access since the USSA must filter out financing their state sponsored war crimes?
Perhaps Europe should consider joining with the BRICS (CIPS network) and dumping SWIFT.
The SWIFT is actually headquartered in Europe.
European politicians don't understand that the Martingale system, where upon each loss one repeats the same bet with twice the money, only works if that bet has a chance of winning. Chasing after individual terrorists and disarming the native population didn't work, so let's do it even more!
Do you remember how much money and manpower America expended to find, arrest, and prosecute Japanese terrorists during World War II? Very little, because Roosevelt decided that it would be safer and cheaper to house and feed all ethnic Japanese at government expense for the duration of the war.
If France were to surround all its "zones sensibles" with razor wire, allowing a few hours' liberty only to individuals with a clean record who've posted a large bond, this terror would end immediately.
Control.We got the swap lines and we're bailing you basturds out,now shut-up and take your orders European slaves.
<-- Satan America controlled by cabals, is the source of all Terrorism in the world
Thats what anyone will find from SWIFT data