If you have ever dreamed of being a startlingly effective secret policeman in a paranoid German Communist dystopia, I mean.
The Stasi fashion collection was extensive. The agency sent thousands of spies into West Germany and had access to vast amounts of cash to buy western goods to equip agents with.
“For me, the banality of some of these pictures makes them even more repulsive.”
No, wait. It’s the German coal-fired power revival doing that.
Green shift? Sounds more like a green shaft to me.
Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel and is blamed by scientists for contributing to global warming. Merkel opted to shut nuclear power plants after an earthquake in Japan two years ago resulted in meltdowns at reactors owned by Tokyo Electric Power Co.
“Climate protection is a key target of the government and greenhouse gases should fall, not climb.”
Why aren’t there zillions of highly qualified foreigners standing in line to come to live and work in Germany (but not like forever or anything if you don’t want to) as expected when the German blue card was introduced a year ago?
This blue card holder above (the person on the right) is only about one of only about 2500 who have expressed an interest in doing so since the card was introduced – and 70 percent of those 2500 were already living in Germany under a different status at the time of the card’s introduction.
I don’t get it. I thought Germany was so well-loved in the world and all that (there are at least 100 reasons for this I am told). There seems to be some kind of a disconnect here. Why are so many foreigners still insisting to prefer going to such yucky places like US-Amerika instead? Don’t they ever read the papers or anything? Hey, if you’re that uninformed pal, Germany probably doesn’t want you in the first place. So there.
Die meisten Blue-Card-Besitzer kamen aus Indien (1971) – gefolgt von China (775) und Russland (597). Das Bürgerkriegsland Syrien ist mit 389 Akademikern ebenfalls stark vertreten.
It’s better to be a “prolific partner” than no partner at all.
“The ends don’t justify the means.”
I honestly had no idea that Germans were that interesting to spy on, but German journalists certainly seem to think they are these days.
Word is that a new and thoroughly evil spying facility is being built in Wiesbaden which will be a base for US intelligence operatives from the NSA itself.
Too bad those party poopers over at there Germany’s BND are already denying it. Not that that matters.
Nach einem Bericht der Frankfurter Rundschau soll es sich beim neuen Komplex in Wiesbaden um ein Abhörzentrum des US-Geheimdienstes NSA handeln.
Well, maybe I do know a little bit more than I would like to admit to. But still.
Like how shocking or something: “The Bundeswehr has known about Prism since 2011.”
Die deutsch-amerikanische Schnüffelkooperation läuft offenkundig wie geschmiert.
Here? In Germany?
An interview with historian Josef Foschepoth published in the online edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung makes clear that US intelligence agencies have a free hand to do what they like in Germany, with the knowledge and blessing of the federal government.
The historian regards the indignant response of the German government regarding the spying activities of American and British intelligence services unmasked by Edward Snowden as pure hypocrisy. For a Western intelligence agency, such as the National Security Agency (NSA), there are in principle no limits in Germany.
“The NSA can do everything in Germany. Not only because of the legal situation, but above all because of the intensive collaboration between the services, which was always desired and always politically acceptable.”
One in two of the country’s (Germany’s) citizens regard Snowden as a hero, according to a June 29 survey of 504 people by Emnid for Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
“It looks like the NSA picked up where the Stasi left off.”
PS: Didn’t this German cop know about his country’s gun control laws?
He murdered his ex and then killed himself. All of this strictly illegal, of course.
But only as long as we keep using the nuclear energy we supposedly turned around from.
According to an analysis by the Breakthrough Institute, Germany’s current installed solar panels will end up costing ratepayers $130 billion over the next 20 years through above-market-rate feed-in tariff contracts, compared to $15 billion for a state-of-the-art nuclear reactor that will generate over half the electricity of Germany’s entire solar fleet over a similar 20-year period…
The largest advantage of nuclear power is its ability to provide reliable, baseload power year-round 24 hours a day. Solar and wind can be economical as distributed energy resources, whose greatest value is suppressing demand load on the grid. But nuclear power provides baseload power and will therefore be the most technically optimal replacement for large fossil-fueled power stations like coal plants.
Nice try. But we all know that it was Obama who deflated the Obama euphoria.
In 2008 Obama was “the vessel into which liberals all over the world poured their fantasies.”
“It has gradually dawned on President Obama’s foreign fan club that their erstwhile hero is using methods that would be bitterly denounced if he were a white Republican.”
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