Today the CBC had a pretty good article about how the nauseating pieces of shit in the Trump regime are (like all their stinking predecessors) putting sanctions on the International Criminal Court and its justices, for daring to consider whether the zio-nazi scum in Israel, or the USA's own marauding war criminals, should be subject to prosecution for torturing, raping, and killing innocent men, women and children.
Kimberly Prost began to feel the effects of the U.S. sanctions immediately.
"These economic sanctions are not symbolic in any way," said Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), who was sanctioned by the Trump administration last year.
Prost's credit cards were cancelled and her access to banking services hindered, she said, because of the U.S.'s wide-reaching impact on the global banking system.
"Every time literally I go to make a bank transfer, I hold my breath because I don't know if it's going to work," Prost said in an interview with CBC News.
"To order an Uber, book a hotel, buy a theatre ticket — everything requires some form of credit card, and so you're sort of struggling to adjust."
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The sanctions on Prost are part of a larger U.S. campaign to discredit and dismantle the ICC, which began in earnest after a February 2025 executive order imposed sanctions for investigating American personnel and issuing arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant.
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Prost was singled out for her role in judicially authorizing a March 2020 preliminary investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan since 2003, including by U.S. service members.
Since 2021, however, the investigation has deprioritized the role of the U.S., focusing instead on the Afghan government and Taliban forces.
"To my knowledge, there's no active investigation of the Americans in that case, but I'm sanctioned."
Just a few quotes from the degenerates displaying their sickening hypocrisy:
U.S. President Donald Trump has since sustained his attack on the international court, calling on member states to immediately "resign from this rogue institution" in a September UN General Assembly speech. Just last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened to dismantle the ICC "brick by brick" if allies do not "rein in" the court.
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The United States has never been a member of the ICC, and has long expressed concerns that its citizens could be prosecuted.
"As the United States works to bring peace around the world, our diplomats or our soldiers could be drawn into this court," President George W. Bush said the day after the court was inaugurated in 2002. "It's very troubling to me."
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Twenty-four years later, Rubio echoed the same rhetoric about the "dangers" of the global court, warning that American border patrol agents, marines and prosecutors would "be at the mercy of foreign judges," risking imprisonment for defending their own country.
As Ian Welsh says: Banking should be a human right. We should not acquiesce to giving governments the power to cripple us financially, EVER. Especially instantaneously through a financial system that now operates electronically the vast majority of the time.
In Britain and Germany multiple people have had their bank accounts frozen for supporting Palestine. When government isn’t directly involved banks often do the dirty work themselves, for example German banks debanking AfD politicians. The same happened to Farage in the UK. In Canada we had the government freezing accounts of the protestors against vaccines who parked their trucks in Ottawa. (I didn’t support the truckers, but at the time I said the accounts shouldn’t be frozen.)
As the economy moves more and more to electronic payments, being without a bank becomes more and more a sentence to homelessness. And even the small cash window is often closed In Germany, when the government de-banks you they also make it illegal to give the de-banked person any money so they can eat or pay rent.
This method of control makes organizing against the government almost impossible. It’s done to individuals and organizations. It needs to end.
They do this in Europe to journalists who say things that the European Union's imbecilic leadership doesn't like.
The European Union is trying to eliminate sources of information that do not confirm with its official interpretation of real world events.
One of the latest persons hit with official EU restrictions is the former Swiss intelligence official and author Jacques Baud:
Jacques Baud is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations. As a UN expert on rule of law and security institutions, he designed and led the first multidimensional UN intelligence unit in the Sudan. He has worked for the African Union and was for 5 years responsible for the fight, at NATO, against the proliferation of small arms. He was involved in discussions with the highest Russian military and intelligence officials just after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he followed the 2014 Ukrainian crisis and later participated in programs to assist the Ukraine.
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A former colonel in the Swiss Army, Jacques Baud, is also listed for acting “as a mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda and making conspiracy theories, for example accusing Ukraine of orchestrating its own invasion in order to join NATO.” Former French military officer Xavier Moreau is listed for similar actions.
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The European sanctions aimed at the “heads of the destabilizing activities”, in which they propagandize for the benefit of Russia, have been introduced in October 2024. They provide for the freezing of assets of persons sanctioned, a prohibition of entry on the territory of the EU and the prohibition of making funds available to them.
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The sanctions against Jacques Baud were published today and are now official. In Annex 57 the ‘Statement of Reasons’ claims:
“Jacques Baud, a former Swiss army colonel and strategic analyst, is a regular guest on pro-Russian television and radio programmes. He acts as a mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda and makes conspiracy theories, for example accusing Ukraine of orchestrating its own invasion in order to join NATO.
Therefore, Jacques Baud is responsible for, implementing or supporting actions or policies attributable to the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability or security in a third country (Ukraine) by engaging in the use of information manipulation and interference.”
If they felt even the slightest confidence in their own agendas, or in their own moral rectitude, vermin like Trump or the EU-oligarch leadership wouldn't be so desperate and brazen. They only speed the process whereby other actors will design financial systems outside of the reach of these psychopaths.
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