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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
(www.irishtimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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There's always ways around those sanctions. As an American that's never held a credit card, it's easy to send money or order things online w/o using one.
What this article reflects is the hardship of a person that uses US based, "convenience-oriented" financial systems.
What blew my mind was when I was traveling in the EU some years ago, were the options for cash cards and how they had more privacy controls on them than in the US. The US offers fuck-all for privacy in way too many instances. Europe is decades ahead of America now in that regard.
Homegirl just needs to change tactics.
Also, Alexa (like Siri and Cortana) is a snoop, NEVER use it.
This is actually one of the kinds of situations that Bitcoin was originally invented to solve, the debanking of "undesirable" people by corporate owned systems. Too bad the entire crypto world has been invaded by huckster scammers.
Yeaaaa.. Once the story with Sam Bankman-Fried and the whole FTX fiasco broke, I kinda figured crypto was done for.
Turns out I was correct. :(
This was on World News yesterday, but I'll repeat my comment to it here:
USA is a rogue state, the fact that they do these things administratively is complete disregard for human rights and complete disregard for the concept of operating within the law.
It is yet another example of how USA does not respect civil rights of people of other nations, and they don't respect the sovereignty even of "allied" countries.
It's disgusting, and it has infuriated me for decades how we in for instance Europe has allowed USA to do this, without as much as criticism.
There is no way it can be considered acceptable that USA can apply pressure on what a judge of a sovereign country or international organization decides. Not a judge or any politician or public servant or any private citizen for that matter.
But the fact that USA has the audacity to go after ICC judges, shows the extreme level of entitlement and exceptionalism USA feel they have in the world.
USA MUST be treated as a rogue nation, and we can't allow them to continue. If Amazon does this, we need to ban Amazon in EU.
And fuck all the idiots that use Amazon cloud services, you should get the fuck away from American services already. It's been crystal clear obvious that they operate illegally according to EU law at least since Obama was president!
Why the fuck are people still using their crap!