US Reneges On SWIFT Agreement 394
Windrip writes "It seems the US is not living up to its end of the bargain when it comes to the SWIFT data agreement. When the agreement was signed last year, every EU citizen was guaranteed the right to know if the American authorities had retrieved their banking information, and which authorities had requested the information. Now one European Parliamentarian, Alexander Alvaro says that, once again, the Americans are not honoring their treaties."
Note to Europeans (Score:4, Funny)
We have altered the deal. Pray we do not alter it further.
-- Obama
Re:I'm an American... (Score:3, Funny)
It is possible for Americans to change their government.
Begging the question of why we (Americans) should care what you "expect"... we have changed the Government. If you don't think George W. Bush... followed by Barak Obama... is a change, then I don't know what is!
Personally, as an American, who has never missed a vote, I hope more folks will be voting on a basis other than a strict "D" or "R" basis.
Re:So let's see if I got this straight... (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, there is one country in Europe that doesn't take shit from the USA: Switzerland.
First of all, Switzerland must be the only country who realized the USA is arming itself to conquer the world .While the USA keeps claiming that future conflicts will be against terrorists and fought against guerrillas, they still arm themselves with weapons designed to fight armies, like the Navy's railguns. I don't know why nobody else noticed this discrepancy, but the Swiss certainly did.
Second, the Swiss are preparing to fight back. They have always been good fighters and it's rumored that their infantry can take down AC-130 Specter Gunships with just an automatic rifle. Don't know if it's true, but the CIA does nickname Switzerland "Europe's Bermuda Triangle" so I'm guessing they lost a few planes when violating the Swiss airspace (it could hardly have been boats).
Third, the Swiss also have their entire country made of a) forests b) mountains or c) both. Abrams thanks just can't get in there, and even if they did, two Swiss troopers armed with a single pistol (that's one pistol for 2 soldiers, not one pistol per soldier) can capture a tank and it's crew (the unarmed soldier is just there so the tank crew don't feel totally p0wned, that would be considered unethical treatment under the Geneva Convention).
As for their forests, well have you seen the Empire Strikes Back? Remember the traps the Ewoks set up? Well imagine those traps, but scattered over an entire country, and some of them use explosives for extra effect. And the Swiss also have mountains, which the Ewoks didn't have.
Fourth, a popular activity in Switzerland is hunting US operatives. It's kind of a hobby over there. When the Swiss identify, say, a CIA agent in their country, they usually find an excuse to lure him deep in a forest. Telling him there's an Al Qaeda training camp is usually a great excuse. Then they abandon him there, go home, eat fondue in the evening, and the next morning they go back in the forest with rifles to start the hunt. The Swiss authorities don't do anything against that, it's kind of a national sport. Police reports usually conclude that the CIA agent was killed by a bear armed with a machine-gun. Well Swiss bears could be that badass actually. Oh, and you know the saying "In ... nobody can hear you scream"? Switzerland is full of mountains, so your voice will echo and plenty of people WILL hear you scream. They just won't care.
Fifth, the Swiss have become expert tunnel diggers. In fact they dug a tunned under France, the Atlantic ocean, and all the way to the Oval Office in the White House in Washington. The plot was to use it for an offensive when the USA finally tried to conquer the world. The Americans found it 100 years after it was dug, when they decided to build an escape tunnel for the president.
Rumor has the Swiss also dug a tunnel to Mars and have prepared a surprise party to welcome the arrival of the NASA in 2020.
Sixth, the Swiss have the CERN, which is this high-tech laboratory where they build Black Hole Bombs, Gravity Rifles, Anti-Matter-coated Swiss Army Knives, teleporting grenades, invisible skiis and heat-seeking pistol ammo.
And finally, what makes the Swiss so strong is that they have balls of graphene. They do not bend to the USA, no matter what. Remember they even let a pedophile go free because the US government wouldn't fill and bitched about some paperwork! (Then again, the USA probably would have just given him a job in an airport anyway).
So to answer your question, you are only 99% right. There is at least one country on this planet that does stand up to the USA.