Although he denied it, Obama has instructed the NSA to bug the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and pipe the results directly to the White House.
As it became clear half a year ago by the documents of Edward Snowden, that the German people and the German industry have been spied on by the NSA, Angela Merkel was not interested. Now that she realizes that she also (primarily) was bugged, Merkel has expressed shock – read more comments via
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/frizztext/us-spying-angela-merkel_n_4166326_295598020.html
related:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/26/us-spying-angela-merkel_n_4166326.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.de/2013/10/27/obama-merkel-nsa_n_4167291.html?utm_hp_ref=germany
Son House sang:
“…Don’t you mind people grinning in your face
Don’t you mind people grinning in your face
There’s one thing to bear in mind
A true friend is hard to find…”
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P.S.:
The Pope in Rome said: “We often participate in the globalization of indifference, we instead should try to live a global solidarity.”
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Super-powerdom is always fueled with deep insecurities. I think this is proof again that the world is not a democratic but a hierarchical set-up and countries with power will play dirty to keep the power. More over unless the global set up is democratic how can nations be true democracies?
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