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SWIFT compromised from the start

xSWIFT | 08.07.2010 15:13 | Indymedia | Other Press

I used to work for SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, an organisation most people won't have heard of or won't have registered when they did hear of. Many of my workmates were openly state security from various states. SWIFT is the arterial system of capitalism. Half the money that passes hands everyday, including via traditional Islamic means, passes across their network. It is the most secure network ever in terms of establishment power.

When I was forced to become an activist, through UK state-security incompetence, I came up with a stunt that would temporarily cripple the world economy for a day or two. The risk was this would cause, for a few days, the damage that the banks subsequently forced down all our throats for the past years. An IM Scotland admin called 'Space Bunny' I approached at the time for help at a 'Big Blether' leaked the stunt, so it never happened. He said that he couldn't see how it was important. This Micah is one of many 'deep-agents' within IM-UK.

Today the EU have agreed to share SWIFT data with the US, and it makes for many news-headlines such as-
EU passes SWIFT data sharing agreement
 http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2266171/eu-passes-swift-sharing

This is bullshit journalism, and bullshit independent journalism from IM. In fact, the US security agencies always had access to the SWIFT network because they ran one of the three SWIFT data centres ( in Coulpepper) and had paid agents employed openly by SWIFT in their Dutch and Belgian centres.
The EU parliament therefore is blatantly misdirecting the European public. After all, who has heard of SWIFT? Well, anyone who has transferred more than £25 between banks should have read the SWIFT involvement.

SWIFT was already obviously transparent to all friendly security agencies. It maintians the highest security. Until IM starts investigating and expelling it's obvious agents, then no one here is a threat to anything. IM Scotland was the first IM to be totally compromised, but obviously every UK IM is now mostly dodgy. It's time for a cull of IMCistas if this forum is to be anything but an anchor to genuine activist. I can prove three IM admins have been police informers, but I expect there are many more.

xSWIFT