We have a real problem brewing with the "Board of Peace" and it needs much more attention.

1) There is no legal entity for "Board of Peace" organized under the laws of any country, meaning it is subject to NO country's laws.

2) Trump is acting like the US is party to it as a treaty organization, but only Congress has the power to approve that.

3) BoP is collecting and distributing funds (JP Morgan playing as banker) but this must be in violation of Know-Your-Customer laws since BoP *doesn't exist*. It is a transnational mafia backed only by the executive power of its members.

4) Since BoP doesn't exist, USPTO is illegally holding its trademarks on its behalf, violating the Lanham Act, which requires that holders intend to use marks in commerce.

5) Trump signed Executive Order 14375 protecting BoP under the International Organizations Immunity Act, but this merely protects from interference

This thing needs to be challenged legally and practically. If it is not stopped it will quickly evolve into a world takeover mechanism, and indeed it is already usurping US sovereignty as well as sovereignty in Gaza and of participant countries.

Seriously, this is no joke and intervention is necessary NOW. The illegal trademarks are one pathway in. There are others. But whatever you do don't brush this off as one of Trump's follies. It's anything but.

@davetroy I am glad you posted this. I was just trying to explain this to a colleague as a gut feeling I had, and relating it to SCOTUS' tariff decision (related due to ensuing lawlessness). You have put better words and sense to my gut feelings.

There is only one reason to do things in Trumplandia. To benefit Trump.

@Brad_Rosenheim @davetroy With all the publicity and photo ops, it will not be hard for ICC in Hague to search for people to accuse for crimes against humanity

@ashtime
ICC is toothless against US hegemony since the whole of Europe, including the ICC runs on US-owned payments systems.

The US can just blacklist the ICC and payments providers/banks will jettison them faster than you can blink, as has already happened to judges working to prosecute Netanyahu's regime.

@Brad_Rosenheim @davetroy

@joykill @ashtime @Brad_Rosenheim @davetroy We use Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) system in EU, which is totally separate. The funds will flow. They can block credit/debit cards, but it would be a suicide for the US payment owners. We already have different solutions that work (like Blik in Poland), and that would end in a quick ban of US systems and switching to EU based solutions. Example: Blik already achieved 50% payment versus 43% card usage in e-commerce and I can use it in every store.

@zelgaav
Sure "funds will flow" from one bank to another, except you will need to personally go to your bank and retrieve cash directly from them, because none of your online payments/ATM cards will work.

And while you can use some national payments systems as long as they have wide enough adoption, there are no international payments systems that span the whole of the EU, much less anywhere else in the world.

@ashtime @Brad_Rosenheim @davetroy

@joykill @zelgaav @ashtime @Brad_Rosenheim @davetroy
Most UK bank apps have a direct payment function using "Faster Payments" (replacement for CHAPS) and/or SEPA & many EPOS systems can send a direct payment link- I'd be surprised if the same doesn't apply to most EU banks.

Not as convenient as tapping your card, but it wouldn't take much to issue non Visa/Access cards with similar functionality given the banks saw a need to do so.