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Edward Snowden’s Enigmatic Letter “To Whom it May Concern”
Germany’s Green Party member of parliament Hans-Christian-Ströbele returned from Moskow yesterday with a letter by Edward Snowden [pdf]. The purpose of his letter (co-signed by Ströbele as “witness”)...
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German Television Interview With Snowden
Update below. http://vimeo.com/85155619 Whether German television channel ARD intentionally hid its interview with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden Sunday night is not clear. That it was immediately...
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No ‘Plausible Deniability’ Anymore
Immediate comments debunking litany-like claims by President Barack Obama about aim and scope of overall inoffensive NSA’s mass surveillance, made in carefully staged public speeches such as...
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Troubled German-American Relationships And the Upcoming War With Iraq
Yesterday, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had been wiretapped by NSA in late 2002 when former President George W. Bush had been angered by Schröder who had...
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Another Friendly Leak?
Just in order to put Germany in its place? Yesterday, Germany’s leading tabloid BamS had reported that, after President Obama had banned in January U.S. eavesdropping on leaders of close U.S. allies,...
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Dubious Company
Based on documents which had been leaked by Edward Snowden to reporters of the Guardian and Washington Post in June last year in Hong Kong, Der Spiegel reports today, among other widespread spying...
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Merkel Seems to Know Every Trick in the Book
German Chancellor Angela Merkel who has arrived in Washington to meet President Obama and talk about the crisis in the Ukraine has at least tried to calm down expectations that whistle-blower Edward...
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Who Else?
After having delayed for more than a week a much awaited The Intercept publication on who has been unlawfully spied on surveilled by NSA, yesterday’s revelation by Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain...
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German Parliament’s Board of Inquiry – A Charade
Glenn Greenwald has declined to testify for the German Parliament’s Board of Inquiry which is supposed to clarify extent and background of foreign espionage, in particular that of NSA after Edward...
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“These Are the Worst Times Since the Nazi Era”
Dieter Graumann, president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews recalled Kristallnacht when interviewed by The Guardian. Inappropriate Nazi comparisons have also been made as regards Israel’s newest...
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Auschwitz and the Germans
After World War II, a Russian, a Pole and a German are asked by a journalist, “Excuse me, what is your opinion about the current meat shortage?” The Russian asks, “What’s an opinion?” When the...
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PEGIDA Shows its True Colors
With abhorrence I have followed the reincarnation of racism in Germany this year. Pegida (“Patrioten Europas gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes”, or Europe’s patriots against Islamization of the...
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When Angela Merkel Changed Her Mind
In July last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel shocked the public with a cold-hearted response to a Palestinian refugee girl who expressed (go to 0:30), in perfect German after having lived there...
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German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and head of the Bavarian CSU, Horst Seehofer, have agreed to cap the annual number of refugees at 200,000. As the Guardian comments, the “refugee cap deal is widely...
View ArticleChief Whip of European People’s Party Evokes Wannsee Conference
When chief whip of the accumulation of conservative and right-wing populist European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, uttered his expectations for 2018 on the occasion of...
View ArticleNow They Gas Monkeys
The real shocking news about Volkswagen’s ongoing scandal about exhaust fumes is that the Germans are now gassing monkeys. (Humans were only tested for adverse effects nitrogen oxide.) The news broke...
View ArticleA Significant Emotional Event
Significant emotional events you won’t forget. Nor where you’ve been and how you felt. I remember as examples 9/11 and Kennedy’s assassination, Princess Diana’s funeral, my father’s passing and maybe...
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