Germany says 'Cold War' behavior by U.S. would be unacceptable

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kenradke60 wrote:

Oh give me a break Germany…laughingstock! You are all in cahoots and you all spy on each other. It is hardly fair to single out the USA. bull crap!!

Jul 01, 2013 6:07am EDT  --  Report as abuse
TBellchambers wrote:

A lobby-controlled US Congress will authorise covert surveillance on anyone or anything that is contrary to its political agenda for political and military hegemony in the Middle East, Europe and around the world. The elected presidency in the US is tragically impotent in the face of such political machinations. America is effectively now as democratic as North Korea. In both cases, actual power is in the hands of an unelected minority.

It will be of no surprise to anyone who is politically aware.

Jul 01, 2013 6:14am EDT  --  Report as abuse
ALALAYIIIAAAA wrote:

As the italians have said it was a matter of time to see germany and united states quarelling in public.united states realized that it was their fault for breaking the wall and germans realized how fraudsters are americans after the fall of leehman brothers by loosing their money.i think germans if they try harder and get the support of greece which plays the role of the german example and at the time doesn’t go so well and italy’s which has close tights with united states the game is over for the americans.

Jul 01, 2013 6:51am EDT  --  Report as abuse
emu wrote:

Oh, well.
My (that is, the german) government pushes formore ane more surveillance, requires internet ant telco providers to provide interfaces for querying and listening and when someone else does it they get all astonished and play the innocent milk maid.

That you guys listen in is obvious, that you won’t make a fuss over it, dito.

In fact the only thing that bothers me is the absolute ineptitude of our secret service (which is, as service in germany generally is, basically nonexistent) who couldn’t do a decent surveillance job if you dropped a money printing machine on its head.

Even as an east german, there are days where I wish we had retained the STASI. Everything but the disgrace of having a “Nachrichtendienst” (literally: news service) like the idiots we have.

Jul 01, 2013 6:57am EDT  --  Report as abuse
kurmudgeon wrote:

The biggest surprise is that the Germans can keep a straight face. Or any of them.The dissapointment is that HSA is so inept that they can’t pull it off. What is happening to our nation?

Jul 01, 2013 6:59am EDT  --  Report as abuse

“Mutual trust is necessary in order to come to an agreement.”

The “Plus” vs. “Minus”

FYI – The “Plus” vs. “Minus” – just about everything “humans” can “choose” in life!
The Old Mountain Goat

Jul 01, 2013 8:10am EDT  --  Report as abuse
get_real wrote:

Don’t let the USA push it’s unlabeled poisonous GMOs or antibiotic, arsenic and ractopamine laced meats on you. So, go ahead, raise any fuss you can to not be bullied by us.

Jul 01, 2013 1:09pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
 
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