Category Archives: Hi-tech
NSA Now Building Spy Centers All Over Everywhere Anywhere You Can Think Of In Germany As We Speak
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.
I Know Nothing (Again)
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.
Indignant Response Pure Hypocrisy?
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.”
The Lives Of Others
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.
Our Energy Turnaround Will Work
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.
More Cutting-Edge Berlin Fashion
And we’re really talking cutting-edge here, people.
I think you have to have a freakin’ fashion Waffenschein (weapons permit) to wear one of those. Or at least you ought to.
Berlin Fashion Week is THE international location for fashion and lifestyle topics.
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
No, not that. Russian spies don’t have heads (here in Germany).
Wait a minute. I thought only Americans did all the spying around here these days.
Germany rejects Edward Snowden’s asylum request
Visit Germany!
If you dare. Then enjoy your short stay here before your extradition back home (home?) to the USA.
The Federal Republic of Germany can offer asylum to someone who is being politically persecuted, not to someone who is being sought for criminal offences.
And I if you want to try the refugee angle, Germans define refugees as being those who have a justified fear of being persecuted because of their race, religion, nationality, affiliation to a specific social group or political persuasion. So good luck with that, too.
Of course Germany could let you stay anyway. But that would be it then. With their pious preaching about the Rechtsstaat (rule of law) and how the NSA spy scandal demonstrates how the US does not respect it, I mean.
Ecuador und Island in Österreich, Bolivien, Brasilien, China, Kuba, Finnland, Frankreich, Deutschland, Indien, Italien, Irland, Niederlande, Nicaragua, Norwegen, Polen, Russland, Spanien, der Schweiz und Venezuela.
Die Linke hatte bereits in der vergangenen Woche die Bundesregierung dazu aufgefordert, Snowden Asyl zu gewähren. Am Montag hatten dies auch die Grünen in Spiel gebracht. Snowden solle in der EU oder sogar in Deutschland “sichere Unterkunft haben, denn er hat Europa einen Dienst erwiesen”, erklärte Fraktionschef Jürgen Trittin.
Outrage: Registered
Now this is what I call a news item. Who would have thought that? The NSA, a US-Amerikan cryptologic intelligence agency expressly responsible “for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence” has been found to be collecting and analyzing foreign signals intelligence. In ze Europe, of all places.
Europeans would never do such a thing, you see. Nor would the governments of the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Britain among others ever never ever admit to having secret agreements with Washington to hand over their citizens’ private data to said agency.
Outrage: registered. Now, the issue of how far spy agencies in other countries actually knew, participated in or made use of the NSA’s surveillance program is another question entirely.
Observing Hermann 