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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.

They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.

This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.

Madness!

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João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)

@jan there are banks in the EU issuing non-US flag payment cards, and systems that, if the EU banks wanted, could work without cards from VISA/Mastercard (because they don't need the physical cards anymore and are mostly interoperable already): Wero, MB Way, Bancomat, Bizum, etc.
People need to go to their banks and refuse, en masse, to have US-linked cards. I've already contacted by bank and told them the second some other bank makes those cards available, my money (and all the business) goes there, never to return again.
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Billy Smith

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The EU banks are already working on the needed systems. I've met people from the UK's City of London, who are working on the contracts for creating this. The City operates internationally, so won't be tied to any single power block.

And the EU countries are realising that even when Trump is voted out, the USA will still want the un-balanced power-relationships that only benefit the USA.

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João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)

@BillySmith unfortunately they are taking their time to make things interoperable with a physical card (with apps it already works, with online payments too, even if fragmented).
As for not trusting the US? After Trump got elected (the very next day) me and some friends started leaving US tech, products and services. I ended the transition by March 2025, our companies and personal contracts, pooled, meant a loss of at least 3M€/year for US companies. Personally, I have paid around 180€ for US products or services since November 6th 2024 (because of contracts ending in March 2025).
And we're not going back even if Trump and his ilk go away. Not until the USA pays for all they've done and they show us, in no uncertain terms, that they have reformed themselves (major political, legal and judicial changes). Just like with russia, it isn't going to be "business as usual" right after the madmen go away, at least not for me and many others.
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Human Rights in Finance (EU)

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We are working on EU-solutions for OFAC sanctioned people as we speak and start with the solution space in legal and technical terms.

If you go to the upper right part of our website-(not on mobile but on desktop) you see a QR code. This is a SEpa INST QR code generator which can be the basis for any payment - done via SEPA-EU (and ECB exclusively).

There is much more to tell. Mail us at legal@hrif.eu and See also hrif.eu/en/?s=sanctions

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Human Rights in Finance (.EU)
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Martin Taibr

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Voted out or dies. The good thing about old dictators is they might die soon without external help.

Of course we can also hope a stroke and total paralysis as his own body is the only prison he's likely to ever face.

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João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)

@martin_t right now, J. D. Vacuous takes his place if he croaks, and he is Peter Thiel's lap dog. The Orange Romulus Augustus' death doesn't stop the oligarchy from keeping the power. They have to be voted out, ousted to never even think about taking office anywhere. If not, things will get even worse.
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txtx 🇪🇺

@jan @wordstitcher Even if in the "worst case" I had to keep one card for travel, until there's a truly global alternative, I'd still be making 95% of my transactions with a European card. So that's fine.

But I wouldn't underestimate what Europe can do: we're a much bigger market than the US.

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Wordstitcher

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It's coming. The US is not going to control money for much longer. Their debt is enormous and they're a poor investment risk.
I use Interac in Canada for transfers and some payments. Cards are so last century. Everything is digital now. We can do better. Debit cards services must be expanded. Every bank has one.
But we must get our data off US servers first, or none of this will mean a damn.
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kevin

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Curioso

Let's not forget that the US have been on the ICC eyes many times.

The main reason the US is not in it is because they not want to be bound by international law.

The current president have already violated it so many times that his hate for the ICC is not surprising at all. By ICC standards, he should be in jail.

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BeHappy

I have good news for all of you:
The Netherlands is building its own desktop based on Linux and will deliver this to all offices of government and administration.

The Netherlands learned from this lesson. When will the other EU countries follow?

techspot.com/news/114018-netherlands-building-own-linux-os-break-free-microsoft.html

The Netherlands is building its own Linux OS to break free from Microsoft

The Dutch government is trying to solve its digital sovereignty problem with its own Linux operating system. A local source recently highlighted the development efforts being poured...
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Nicole Parsons

theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/benjamin-netanyahu-worst-prime-minister-israel-history…

nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/trump-legacy-history-presidents.html

jacobin.com/2026/06/iran-oil-profits-supply-shocks-wealth-inequality

bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pyyz5e0ro

Remember the names of the billionaires backing both Trump & Netanyahu's multiple corrupt criminal enterprises.

The Gaza genocide has patrons.
oxfam.org/en/press-releases/g7-energy-billionaires-pocket-300-million-day-start-unlawful-us-and-isra…

taxjustice.uk/blog/the-rich-are-getting-richer-from-the-war-on-iran/

The war on Iran has profiteers.

Miriam Adelson
Jeff Yass
Zak Gertler
Simon Falic
Robert Kraft
Elon Musk
Ron Lauder
James Packer
Larry Ellison
Arnon Milchan
Len Blavatnik
Spencer Partrich

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The rich are getting richer from the war on Iran - Tax Justice UK

Why the UK must curb corporate profiteering, help people struggling and invest in ending our dangerous dependence on foreign fossil fuels.
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Nicole Parsons

War? Deficit? There are enough billionaires in Israel. Take from them

Israel Tax Authority report confirms what we have known for years: super-rich people in Israel pay lower taxes than the middle class. Why do Netanyahu and Finance Minister Smotrich leave them untouched?
Eytan Avriel (Haaretz)
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luca

Note that it's not because someone else wouldn't do it himself. This is because he had good accomplices helping him being elected to that role.
Let's never forget that it's not like his narrative to be there as the only man in command.
Had him to disappear tomorrow, or loose midterm, would you really believe *everything* to change?
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Kerplunk

Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.

They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.

This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.

Madness!

The real Madness is the EU allowing that to happen and not moving fast to rid us of american dis services.