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6. The hosting of SWIFT in Belgium, and SIX Interbank Clearing in Switzerland, who are both pinnacles of the inefficient, rent-seeking, environmentally and socially irresponsible, protectionist financial establishment and its surveillance abuses. The former's main guilt is in centralizing data on all global interbank transfers and passing it off to allied governments (particularly the US, even after rage against matters surfaced in the EU parliament, a 'SWIFT2' was designed, and new regulation nominally put in place... in response, the very structure of the EU conveniently changed - creating the Directorate of Home Affairs (sound like "Homeland Security" to anyone else?), which rubber-stamped their surveillance requests, and actively sidelined the European Data Protect Supervisor, who were tasked with protecting citizens against such abuses). [Note: The above was volunteered on official letterheard in response to FOIA, straight from the agency in question]. Longtime aspiring to be perceived as politically non-partisan (self-described as an "international cooperative"), they shred any pretensions recently to ban Iran outright from the entire network in a move even the incoming director shockingly described as "unprecedented" (reading between the lines, I believe he perhaps personally honestly didn't support it and his hand was forced). The second operates as a deniable financial NGO on the part of the global financial establishment for petty protectionism with minimal transparency.

7. The illegal rendition of The Pirate Bay's anakata from Cambodia to Swedish solitary confinement (himself a Swedish citizen) - without charge or process - for a term said to constitute torture even under UN definition.