The USA & the eu: of BUGS & power relations between Allies

[jakaswanga]

OF SPY-BUGS, VIP PLANES, EUROPE, THE USA $ POWER RELATIONS BETWEEN STATES.

Europe is the Old World. This, like the case in Egypt, is dangerous in one very important aspect. With a recorded history stretching back to pre-history, too many important men have come and gone, too many great eras with their great leaders come and gone, such that every elite is beseiged with the consciousness of its own transiency.

As recently as the time of Jesus's birth, some emperors in Rome still thought of themselves as Gods. And indeed the remnants of this delusion are still kept in the middle of Europe, a living 'Disney park' to comically remind of the foolish past full of infallible leaders. That museum is called The Vatican, headed by non other than God's representative on earth. And business is not all that bad. Illusions still sell, some.

But those living in the European real world of hard politics, the one of two world wars in one century that ended in near total destruction, know how ruthless the currents that shape European history are, and how these currents can sweep asunder a contented, slumbering elite, with no answer to a historical crisis.

If stories of how Zeus, cloud gatherer, saved the day with his atomic weapon, the thunderbolt, when he rallied a new generation of gods to overthrow the Titans of his father's generation, ---that is where we get the legendary phrase 'battle of titanic proportions' from, only amuse you, then perhaps Jacobinian Paris with its guilotine, and the red-terror of Stalin and Adolf Hitler's antics, may be less amusing if you consider the scales of their purges of the overthrown ruling class.

It is this history of revolutionary take-no-prisoners of Europe, that petrifies every generation of her ruling class. The knowledge, that European popular rage, when mobilised by a politically ripe ideology, is a monster. This according to me, is the fear that has sustained social democracy in Europe for so long.

And so this week something happened which, taking a close look at the European political class, is disturbing them. Not only were they caught off balance, but when they reacted too late, they again were caught off balance by the recoil. The difference between commentary on the free for all net, and the filtered high-brow media has been telling.

1. Obama was dismissive, even haughty in the face of Angela Merkel and her EU orderlies, on the issue of electronic intel gathering. Yes, The USA is bugging every European, from the empress Angela herself, O ruler of Europe, to the lowest greek bum who uses a GSM or the net. And the USA/NIA is storing all that information, and because these are Europeans and foreigners, leafing through them in a way NIA [national intel agency] can not do with American citizens without knowingly breaking American law on the privacy of her citizens.

In other words Europe is 'enemy territory' and the americans do not care for the rights of europeans on matters of their home security. Allies my sh!t. And, true to form, the Americans have heavily spied on European corporations, and used the information to decisively gain competitive advantage in commerce.

Uta do? [ku-move on tu!]

Obama, cold, aloof and indifferent, told Merkel: we actually do it to protect you damn it! where are your thanx? and he mentioned two terrorist plots {one to blow up the EU parliament at Strousbourg France} which had been foiled through American monitoring of EU-zone digital traffic.

German intellectual opinion, which has made a show-case of shame of the 'intrusive' total surveillance perfected in East Germany [GDR] by the STASSI or state security, ate humble pie as they considered their options:

1. totally denounce the Americans as a re-creation of Erick Honecker's all-prying big-brother state, which they had cast as only a shade less horrible than Hitler's final solution, and, by further instinct, ties in repugnance with hyper-inflation! or

2. Mumble something unintelligible, shrug and say: this is the real world folks. Let us move on! ---Now, that banking crisis we were talking about, ... the damn lazy geeks called Greeks, will they ever pay! ziesta obsessed arzzoles!

But the European population on uncesored ventilation channels [radio call-ins and internet panels] were reserving their choice adjectives not for fellow Europeans, but for Americans and their government, and the luckluster if not impotent double-dealing EU elite.

'One can no longer take for granted, in the light of USA behaviour, that Europe and the UNited States share a common destiny. That we have a Union of visions as far as the future is concerned is debatable. They treat us the way they treat the Chinese, an enemy!' ----would be a good summary of the outrage expressed.

The European elite could not do an ostrich on that one. [One remembers British tabloids who baptised the relationship between Tony Blair and Potus Bush, as that between a man and his poodle. An unbreakable bond, even the mighty centre left The Gaurdian sneered, a man and his poodle. It all sapped public support in the UK for the Iraq war]

So as the news broke, EU leaders, including Hollande --the diminished president of the diminishing republic of France, and Frau Merkel, first rose up to give a stiff rebuke to the Americans. But they were merely performing to the public gallery in a usual PR-scripted ritual.

It quickly emerged that EU-intelligence community was not happy with this trend, because it insinuated their incompetence, that they had not KNOWN, nor informed the EU leaderships of these intimate American intrusions; while the truth was Merkel and Hollande and Sarkozy and whoever ever held high office in the EU zone KNEW ALL ALONG what was going on! [and even colluded!]

And worse, the recoil: it emerged the European intelligence organisations themselves are engaged in the same activities on their fellow europeans! --illegally or not!

[Since 05-07-2013, it has been leaked to Le Monde, and confirmed, that the French Secret service is even more intrusive on the French than the Americans, all illegally!]

As they say, Hollande whose outrage at the Americans had been delivered with a foaming mouth, closed his lips as tight as a virgin nun.

There was fear on his face as he scurried past the malicious media.

Angela Merkel --born in East Germany and made a career out of rejecting all that was communist heritage of that failed republic, suddenly looked like a 'sleeper' woken up too early.

In the cold-war, 'sleepers' were spies sent to burry deep and long term at the enemies', rise to the top most, before they were activated by their controllers to trojan-horse. Some version of a Manchurian candidate I believe.

When she regained her wits, Frau Merkel still maintained this level of 'intrusion into other peoples lives' remains unacceptable, by local or international agencies.

But the iron chancellor had been caught lying. Indeed, the goodly dependable and upright mother caught by her children in a compromising pants-off position with the butcher from the other ridge across the valley, and the family bon-hommie ruined.

And as the offices of the Barrosos of Brussels and the van Rompuys of the EC drafted face-saving communiqués, the second torpedo slammed into the flank of the dazed European elite.

The Presidential jet of Evo Morales of Bolivia, on a state visit from Moscow, was denied air passage over Portugal and France, and a few other countries, and forced down ---it is thought by NATO jets. The Bolivian president and his entourage were then forced into a humiliating 13-hour 'unscheduled ' visit to Vienna Austria, as his plane was torn to pieces, in the search for an American bell-ringer named Edward Snowden.

Forcing down his jet and detaining a head of state without a warrant, was this a Lawless act of international terrorism or not? The organisation of Latin American nations thought so. And regardless of the fact that some of the most vocal condemnations came from the usual suspects --Maduro of Chaves's Venezuela and Daniel Ortega of the Nicaragua Sandinistas, one could not ignore that the gentle giant Brazil too, put its feet down. --even if she is internally in turmoil herself.

But Cold-heart Obama had read Europe the law. The one of the jungle I mean. There is a moment a top-dog shows he is the top dog, and the rest of the dogs must concur, or put up a fight. A depressed EU in an undending economic crisis has no fight in her lungs.

Portugal, bankrupt and its cabinet collapsing, desperately negotiating for extra cash from both the World Bank and the IMF was not going to do anything than wag its tail in pleasure to comply. And indeed the cabinet survived the crisis meeting over money yesterday! Miracles happen.

France:
We know of France's quixotic trip to Mali. Playing big boy in the desert in Azawad. Now, were it not for the US-army and NATO, where would that adventure have ended? And when France was running bombing runs in Libya, who was her eyes and ears and protector --jamming Libyan air defence? The USA.

Hollande, or whichever Frenchman occupies the Elysee, is in no position to talk back at Obama or some other POTUS.

NB: I remember a soldiers tale from decades ago in one of the convulsions which shook Ivory Coast after Houmphouet Boigny had gone to the worms. Ivory coast was divided into two in a social upheaval, with the rebels headquartered in Boake up North. France went to evacuate her citizens from Abidjan and elsewhere, but there was a problem in the air.

There was war in Liberia too, and it was rumoured Charles Taylor or somebody had 'given' the Ivoire rebels a stinger missile. [Great long story that one --takes you all the way to latin america, cocaïne, Nicaragua, contra rebels, Col. Oliver North, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and the IRAN-CONTRA scandal]

But the point is, there was an American warship stationed off Liberia --coordinating Charles Taylor perhaps, and it was the american commander of the warship who could make sure the skies over Ivory Coast became safe for the French to evacuate their citizens.

But the americans were politicians. They called the Ivorian commander the airport, whom they knew had surrendered his command to the French expeditionary captain. The americans treated the african as the boss nevertheless. They asked him to put the speaker on loud so that every soldier could hear. The american then gave orders to the French man, calling him fwack-head, then apologised to the Ivorian with sorry sir, I abused your body-gaurd.

The African soldiers read the situation correct. The USA had taken over their country, and France could only run it at the Leisure of the Americans.

The ex-soldier who told me this story, further amused me how the next day they contacted an American embassy official for possible training missions. The Americans responded, 'but guys, we do not speak French you know! cola!?'

But what am saying is: If the USA wants a plane not to overfly France, France will comply. Simple.

What is not simple, is how the the French elite, Always professing their independence of the Americans to their own gamely population, can explain this point to a sophisticated nation that already knows, without making themselves totally ridiculous.

[You know, like the 'gamely' attentive silence in church, when your pastor finally confesses to that affair everybody knows he has been having for 20 years! shetani jameni, iliniingilia! samahani! Amen!]

The point is that they are a vassal state of the united states. IBut if the elite admits this in public and makes itself totally ridiculous by bad PR, the crisis of the nation states of Europe becomes complete.

In keeping up appearances, both the rulers and the ruled tribes of Europe, like to go through the motions of their states as independent powers. Powers operative as powers on a global scale. France even has an independent nuclear deterrent, while Paris munispality can not even repair broken down public toilets!

To crush that illusion openly would have consequences I am sure. Consequences for the elite that brought it to pass WITHOUT ECONOMIC REWARDS.

That is: Germany after her second world war defeat, divided into two separate countries, could tame down her nationalism because of the economic miracle that made her population richer than they had ever been in all her history.

Wealth creates stability and tames extreme nationalism I think.

But now, the eurozone is deep in an economic crisis. And so far this same european elite is clueless on ending it, not to say caused it.

Creating no boom to tame or bribe the population with, then openly being prefects loyal to Washington, may be too much for their grassroots. Instinctively sensing this, is why the European elite has looked so politically dishevelled this week.

At least that is what I think!

[OtishOtish]

Jul 6, 2013 19:34:33 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

As recently as the time of Jesus's birth, some emperors in Rome still thought of themselves as Gods.

No need to go back that far: On 13 Nov 1928, a certain Hirohito entered one of the holiest Shinto shrines in Japan. There he spent the night in prayer and lengthy discussions with one of his long-gone ancestors, the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami. In the morning he came out, as a Living God---he was reborn at some point during the night---and ascended to the throne. Neither he nor his people ever doubted his divine status. (The Sun Goddess had a strong and reliable record, over thousands of years, in the production of Living-God Emperors.) The Living God then went on to establish the showa ("shining peace") era---his posthumous name is Emperor Showa---just in time for the 2nd Word War, during which Japanese soldiers were constantly reminded that "duty to the emperor is heavier than a mountain, but death is lighter than a feather".

As for the spying everybody spies on everybody, to the extent that they can. No secret about that. Been going on for years. But of course the politicians must make indignant noises (and then tell their own spy agencies to work harder). Those "angry" Europeans carefully listened when Uncle Sam said he wanted any plane (presidential or otherwise) that might be carrying a certain naughty fellow. That's because, unlike certain little African countries, they have been sovereign and independent and equal for long enough to know "sovereign and independent and equal" won't do when the other fellow is seriously pissed off and is wielding a much bigger club. Realpolitik.

Said fellow would be young Mr. Snowden. He's been naughty but not very clever, and it's just a matter of time he's back on a plane home, possibly with a black hood over his head.

A recent little story about Obama: He's visiting a fellow world leader, and at the end of a state dinner finds himself alone with one of the family's children.

Little girl: "Mr Obama, daddy says you've been spying on all of us".

Mr. Obama: "Trust me on this one; he's not your daddy. Don't listen to him"

[jakaswanga]

Jul 6, 2013 21:34:03 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

As for the spying everybody spies on everybody, to the extent that they can. No secret about that. Been going on for years. But of course the politicians must make indignant noises (and then tell their own spy agencies to work harder).
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Said fellow would be young Mr. Snowden. He's been naughty but not very clever, and it's just a matter of time he's back on a plane home, possibly with a black hood over his head.

A recent little story about Obama: He's visiting a fellow world leader, and at the end of a state dinner finds himself alone with one of the family's children.

Little girl: "Mr Obama, daddy says you've been spying on all of us".

Mr. Obama: "Trust me on this one; he's not your daddy. Don't listen to him"

THE TALE OF THE SPY-CHIEF WHO TAPED HIS PRESIDENT AND BROUGHT DOWN A GOVERNMENT

Sometimes it is the {at first sight} irrelevant event that later reveals itself to have been the key event that triggered the domino sequence. It occurred to me to keep this in mind, as I took note of one of the most bizarre events in Europe this week. Scene: the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Well, I admit it is not exactly the kind of name that makes one think it is a place where civilised people live, ruled by civilised people. Sounds more like a relic, a dim echo from a distant past! But names can be deceptive. (I am told Yoweri Museveni's official adress is HIS EXCELLENCY, and that goes for Teodorus Nguema the Equitorial Guinea pig too]
......But....
Euro Main-Man Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg resigned. Now many of you probably never heard of Luxembourg --unless you really have had a lot of money to hide from some cannibal tax department somewhere; but this fiefdom of a state is the Lux in the famous Benelux, a triumvirate that was one of the economic miracle blocks of yester years, and one of the locomotives of the now upgraded/defunct EEC.

Luxembourg has less than 600 Thousand people, and they are all richer than the crude oil-pond known as Kuwait! Launched as a competitor to Switzerland for hiding liquid loot and other proceeds of mega plunder, Luxembourg's banks have been legendary at how safe your money is with them. And that credibility turned out to be one hell of a goose, ever laying golden eggs.
At one time these 1/2 a million people were managing money greater than the annual income of the organisation then known as OPEC. [Somebody may need to say that in full to the 8-4-4s amongst us].

Coming from Nyanza, watching Kisumu wilt and rot away, it was in secondary school when Luxembourg caught my imagination. Guys produced nothing you could buy in a shop, but every one of them was richer than Kenya as a whole! I made a mental note to go to that place later in life and seek the holy grail!

There must be something they knew about humanity that no one else knew, otherwise strangers wouldn't be that crazy to trust them with such astronomical amounts of liquified loot.

The answer I discovered was simple, but a shocker. Indeed so extraordinary, only the Swiss beat them to it.

But that was the Old World.

In the New World Order of a busted capitalism, with sovereign defaults threatening both Obamaland and the prefectorates under Angela-Merkel's tutelage, Banks will reveal their secrets pronto, or Obama will declare their [CEO] heads as terrorists, to be hunted down and rendited to the USA for (some good old Dubya style ) waterboarding.

And so Luxembourg has been growing pale.
And her secret service, well, went rogue.

That going rogue has now led to the fall of one of the Greatest Europeans, Mr. prime minister JC Juncker. A real Mr. Euro in blood and bones. Herr Junker he be.

This guy chairs EU finance meetings for a marathon 11 hours, and Always reaches a compromise. The joke goes because everyone else is fallen asleep and he can then write the conclusions without interruptions~, and forgce signatures with only snorish grunts for protest!

And so he steered the EU through the enduring crisis of the past half decade. But in his private time he was mostl the Prime minister of Luxembourg in the past two decades.

While he was busy saving Europe from the lazy PIIGS that are the Euro's achilles heel, his secret service at home was having a ball, literally.

JC Juncker: "I will convene the government ... at 10 a.m. [4 a.m. EDT] and will go to the palace to suggest snap elections to the grand duke," Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday night in announcing his plans to resign after a 7-hour parliamentary grilling over his failure to control Luxembourg's secret service.
Le Service de renseignement de l'Etat luxembourgeois, or SREL, is being investigated by the state prosecutor for illegal wiretapping, corruption and dealing in stolen cars.

"It's true the secret service wasn't my top priority," Juncker, 58, told members of Parliament. "But I did look after it," he said.

Read more: www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/07/11/Juncker-resigns-Luxembourg-to-hold-snap-elections/UPI-46571373520600/#ixzz2YrUtnJLE

Stolen cars! that is just the sanitised version of what SREL [Luxembourg's secret service was up to].

www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/11/us-luxembourg-juncker-idUSBRE96A0MI20130711?feedType=RSS

The catalyst for the resignation was a parliamentary inquiry published last week that said Luxembourg's security agency illegally bugged politicians and members of the public, purchased cars for private use and took payments and favors in exchange for access to influential officials.

In a scene reminiscent of a spy novel, former security chief Marco Mille recorded a conversation with Juncker in 2008 using a microphone in his watch.

Mille told Juncker he had reliable reports that Grand Duke Henri was in constant contact with Britain's secret services, according to one newspaper. The Grand Duke's office has denied the allegation.

The report also alleges that SREL had set up a front company in order to facilitate the transfer of $10 million from a corrupt Russian businessman to a Spanish intelligence operative, as a personal favor to the Russian. The report did not confirm allegations, made in the country’s press, that the Grand Duke of Luxembourg has been a trusted informant of MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service

But that is not all. There is talk of 'edited passages' which would rival the TJRC report of Kenya in the version presented to Uhuru Kenyatta. The SREL reportedly ran call-girl services for the high and mighty, and availed exclusive 'nests', aka brothels!

Marco Mille,



the already sacked chief of the spy agency, comes across as a chip of the old block --the days when Luxembourgers, bankers or not, would keep your secrets to the grave, and not hawk them for cash like the Grand duke is rumoured to have done to the British MIs. So no top politician who has lain in some 'nest' is worried about his indiscretions being used against him, nor are there intimations that Marco was an American errand boy!

Imagine running away from the American IRD [internal revenue department] to hide your loot in Luxembourg, thinking you are safe, while the secret service there is reporting you to Obama!

And him is no longer No longer Obama no drama, but Obama the drone-hit killer! Mr. Merciless himself!

I can only hope when all the criminal money runs out of Luxembourg, my dream county of childhood will not look as dilapidated as the Kisumu of my youth, where I learnt to day-dream of the GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG as a model!

This was the first time in a century, that a government of the grand duchy failed to complete a full term!

perhaps time it became a 'zombie democracy' a la otishotish's link!

[jakaswanga]

THE USA vs THE eu: OF POWER RELATIONS btwn ALLIES

www.news24.com/World/News/Merkel-slams-US-diplomat-for-EU-expletive-20140207

In the recording Nuland and US ambassador to Kiev, Geoff Pyatt, discuss frankly which opposition figures should go into the new Ukrainian government.

"That would be great I think to help glue this thing and have the UN glue it and you know, * the EU," Nuland says, in apparent frustration at policy differences.

The clip went viral after somehow being intercepted and uploaded onto YouTube accompanied by Russian captions.

The US State Department was left fuming after the leak, pointing the finger at Russia for allegedly bugging the diplomats' phones.

Merkel's spokesperson Christiane Wirtz, asked whether a US apology had been received, told the Berlin press conference that "contact was made with the chancellery", without providing further details

Even in the best of loving couples, and between the best of loving friends, there will be iiritations. And they will remain minor, if dealt with maturely, rationally, and with much shrugging of shoulders.

You will remember the annoying remark by George Dubya's secretary for defence, one Donald Rumsfeld: ‘France and Germany? That is old Europe! Dead!’ ---This was a scornful remark uttered in the run to the 2nd gulf war, when Germany and France were proving a bit reluctant if not recalcitrant. Josker Fischer, then German minister for external affairs from the Green Party, barely could conceal the word Gun-ho and cow-boy lunacy. ---Where is the evidence the Iraqis have WMD? he dared aske in irritation, flanked by his chancellor then, Gerhard Schroder.
Dick [US VP] Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld blew their top. Even Old Fox Henry Kissinger chimed in with a derogatory remark about the Europeans.
It set bad blood. Or escalated it in any case.

Later, some European is reported to have said: that black bastard is lying his black ass red! –---this was in response to (secretary of state) Colin Powel’s presentation at the UN, which the General supposed clinched the deal. That was the speech about Mobile anthrax laboratories and the rest!

So behind the scenes, allies do swear at one another, do tear each others nails out, deeply having gotten under the skin of the other. Wikileaks of Julian Assange gave us quite some choice insights of honest opinion from around the globe.

Viktoria Nuland, Obama’s senior foreign relations woman ---assistant secretary of state, has been caught carrying out the tradition of contempt for the EU. She is there live on youtube using four letter words on the EU. She can not even be bothered to introduce some nuance, to show that there could be fine points of difference between say Germany, France, and Britain, not to mention Scandinavia and Southern Europe. No, it is all a fwacking useless minion EU, scared to death of the fwacking bear Putin: spineless creepy Western Europeans!

The cause of the latest irritation is the The Ukraine. The USA thinks the Europeans are pursuing a clueless policy. The Europeans think, the Americans want some action, but not the bill. And it is no cheap bill.

NB: Yanking the Ukraine off the grip of the Russian bear will cost a tidy pile. A bankrupt nation of 50 million people at the EU doorstep. The mass migration alone, before we talk of subsidising the gas price at the world market, would unhinge the EU whose populations are already anti immigration ---even WHITE immigration! All Courtesy of mass impoverisation due to the banking crisis [bail-out] being passed over to the common man, even as the bankers quadruple their bonuses.

And in the famous meeting in one of the Baltic states where Russia outbid the EU [read Germany] for the favours and loyaty of Yanukovich [the embattled president of Ukraine], Obama’s USA stayed on the sidelines, purse tight shut.
And now they loose their temper! Fwacking dishonest Yankees!

But anyway Viktoria went at it. Abusing the EU with abandon.

It is a ruthlessly honest view, devoid of all diplomatic niceties. And the Russian intelligence service is being blamed for having hacked the secured line. Blamed is not the correct word.

The USA-NSA has hacked everybody’s line, and have recorded even Angela Merkel’s bedroom whispers to her husband! Blatantly put, Obama knows her language at what the French would call ‘’her moment supreme’’!



But what is the truth? The truth is, it has been the European secret services themselves who have cracked the phones of their political leaders, and offered the information to the Americans, without informing the leaders of the various EU states. The European secret services, are in effect, franchises of the American apparatus.

In a powerful essay on the post world-war II settlement, I remember a critic {possibly Leon Trotsky} writing about this eventuality of Western Europe, just like Eastern Europe, being only independent in name in the game of international power,

This one-sided intimate knowledge of European secrets, is why the Americans find it so easy to be contemptible over European leaders. The power relationship is obvious. European security services are American subsidiaries, sharing the same contempt for their democratically elected leaders.

It is of course German intelligence who cracked Angela Merkel’s phone, and handed the codes over to the Americans to tap. It is of course the French intelligence who eavesdropped millions of French peoples metadata, and handed them over to the Americans to monitor. And since then, more information have come up, that it is the Belgians themselves in concert with the British GCHQ, who have cracked Belgacom [the telecommunications company service which also serves the EU bureaucratic apparatus based in Brussels], on behalf of the Americans.

There are many big bad dogs for sure, but only one top dog in the West. For political reasons, the European politicians can not admit in public they are American playthings. It would only exercabate the contempt the citizens of Europe already have for their elite.

A contempt obviously shared by the Americans. Every administration.
Here is how a German paper summarised the conversation when Obama supposedly apologised to Germany.

Obama: I promise it will never happen again, Angela.
Merkel: What exactly, Barrack, will never happen again?
Obama: You will never find out again, that am bugging your bedroom!

[jakaswanga]

The superiority of the American ruling class, in vision, which allows them to maintain world hegemony, is exemplified in ordinary details like investment in the storage of mundane data from across the globe. The world does this more or less voluntarily. By dominance in social-media utility software companies like Yahoo Mail, Microsoft [Hotmail], Google Gmail, Facebook, Whatsapp, and the other GPS wherewithal’s, the USA is the de facto spinal cord of world communication. By dwarfing everybody else in investing in DATA Storage research and technology, software and physical mainframes, and, as a consequence of this, having access to the most mundane of our daily concerns as we use informational technology and apps –-photos of loved ones, e-mails, financial sores, job applications, love quarrels, tax returns, the USA owns our world and souls. Not just those of us from the lesser countries like Kenya ----which, software wise, is an open fishing sea like African territorial waters are to trawlers from far and wide---, but also the souls of their strong allies like the Great Germany, France, Japan and the lieutenant nation Britain. [The defunct Stassi of East Germany would nod great approval at this archive]

With the public revelation of just how intrusive the USA via NSA [national security agency] has been even inside the allied European Top Brass, public and private disquiet has now built up enough to pressurise Kanzelarin Angela Merkel of Germany to mutter something in public about an OWN EUROPEAN INTERNET: The EU storing its data within Europe, going off American servers.

@euronews feb 16 2014: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lent her support to the idea of building out new European data networks to help keep Europeans' email and other data out of the hands of US spies.
In the latest edition of her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel said she planned to raise the issue among other topics in a meeting with French President François Hollande this week.

This balkanisation of the internet I believe, is already operative in China and Russia to some extent. I think I once read somewhere that the leaderships of these two countries, Russia and China, scared of being cracked, desisted long ago from a GPS system anchored by American satellites. This morbid fear of being an open book, is why every nation worth her pride has its space program. To equally spy on the others and not develop and informational deficit on the perceived enemy: Information being power, which is why humans spy. [In Kenya we are a bit late of course in that business of space races: we are still at the Standard Gauge Railway stuff of top speeds 80km/hour, and even then, you never know it that will be for real by the self-imposed deadline of 2016!]

But the European Union elites, while colluding with the USA in the dark, pretended before their people they were be immune from USA intrusion. [Some stuff friends do not do to one another, and there were no better friends in the world than the USA and the EU!]. --Wrong.
The recent revelation TO THE PUBLIC that the NSA spies on every aspect of European life –EU trade delegations to negotiations; EU deliberations in Brussels; EU diplomatic missions abroad; Inter EU Head of State communications; EU Corporate boardrooms; Strategies of Big European companies and the personal finances of their CEOs, is forcing the elite to at least make motions of trying to do something to assert their independence, to mediate public anger if not stifle open contempt.

The realisation too, that the European public thinks the USA is in a state to blackmail any European in high office, public or private, because the NSA has bugged their most intimate moments like they did with the chancellor of Germany Merkel, if forcing the European elite into a pulpable anxiety.
Of course they always knew they were under American Imperial domination, but being so nakedly exposed in public is not good for the business of credibility and hoodwinking the own masses.

A cartoon informed: Our special relationship with the USA is based on the knowledge they own us. And Obama is drawn as a gentle pimp running the street hooker Europe. She hands all her takes, and offers her body too, and Obama after counting, takes the share he wants, then throws a miserable low denomination note on the ground. The subtext is as the who-re Europe shall bend to pick it up, Obama shall enjoy her rear quarters to end the session.
NB: With Obama drawn with characteristic negroid features, and Europe drawn with typical Aryan beauty assets, there is a dangerous undertone captured by this cartoon, which perhaps explains its limited circulation! And with Viktoria Nuland’s recent dismissal of the Europeans as fwack-heads ….

www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/17/angela_merkel_eu_internet_nsa_us/
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lent her support to the idea of building out new European data networks to help keep Europeans' email and other data out of the hands of US spies.
In the latest edition of her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel said she planned to raise the issue among other topics in a meeting with French President François Hollande this week.
"We'll talk, above all, about which European suppliers we have that provide security for the citizens," Merkel said, speaking in German, "that they need not cross the Atlantic with their emails and other things, but we can also build communications networks within Europe."
The extent to which European communications are monitored by the US has come under greater scrutiny, in light of documents exposed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Perhaps the most damning news for Germans was the revelation that Merkel's own BlackBerry had been tapped by US spies, an action the chancellor condemned as "completely unacceptable."
In January, the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee issued a report in which it questioned whether US surveillance activities were really about fighting terrorism, as US officials have claimed, suggesting instead that they were tools for "political and economic espionage."
The report recommended the construction of a European data storage network to help protect EU citizens' data, and it also called for greater scrutiny of the data privacy practices of American internet companies, such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
A group of EU agencies issued new guidance on data protection earlier this month, but its recommendations were non-binding.

And earlier on in 2013 when the Scandal broke following Edward Snowden’s version of WIKILEAKS.

And, from what one can gather from US media commentary on the scandal, Germany's anger has been unambiguously communicated. The phone conversation "must have been just horrendously uncomfortable," wrote Max Fisher, the foreign affairs blogger for the Washington Post. "If indeed American intelligence was listening to Ms. Merkel's phone, or registering calls made and received," the New York Times wrote, "the trust between Berlin and Washington could be severely damaged." The major TV news outlets are also covering the developing scandal in detail -- and repeatedly noting how Germans are particularly sensitive about privacy issues given the two dictatorships they lived through in the recent past.
Merkel Government Downplayed NSA Spying
If the accusations are substantiated, Obama will be in an extremely tight spot. On Monday, the US president spoke on the phone with his French counterpart François Hollande, who also expressed "deep disapproval" after French daily Le Monde reported that the NSA had eavesdropped on more than 70 million private phone calls of people in France. Washington rejected the report as flawed. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the Mexican government also protested alleged eavesdropping on their private communications.
Obama is increasingly putting the credibility of the US on the line, even with the country's allies -- all the while calling for America to go back to using its "soft power."

With USA via NSA having turned the monopoly of her social enterprise companies –facebook, google, Microsoft, yahoo, credit-card companies, and the rest of the data management corporations into effective spy tools for its national interests, the USA companies have been waking up to a world that no longer believes in their version of free trade. And China has been the most ruthless practitioner. For these companies to operate in China –that is to gather Chinese data for the NSA -eeeeh, China herself is said to have forced them into an MOU. An MOU whose full details are unknown.
Perhaps with China installing communication networks in most of the third world where she has traction, and with her upping her space technology to competitive levels, China reckons she can in some way lock the American monopolies off most of the world market if they do not play some secret ball!
Correctly then, Obama has identified China as the greatest existential threat facing the United States. And USA military and cyber might, is slowly turning to focus East. South Korea and Japan, have a situation! For to contain China, the USA needs to lease bits of their territories.
Brazil and Mexico who had their presidents cracked by NSA too, are still considering their revenge. And in Iran, the leading manufacturer of nuclear power plant centrifuges, Siemens of Germany, which had her algorithms cracked such that centrifuges run (rofl)rogue in Iran and China, have had to go naked, to confirm Siemens did not deliberately poison their centrifuge software on orders of the Americans, to derail Iran’s national project. [That Germany was not drafted into the 'Olympic Games' ] ---The consequences of a leading European engineering company being exposed as nothing more than an CIA instrument, has forced Siemens to her math. Word is they told Merkel. If German companies are just American spies abroad, no body will buy us however good we are, and German industrial pre-eminence across the globe, will be dead. ---As if I cannot know that on my own, Merkel dryly retorted.

And so cool Angela is reported by German leading papers to have lost her temper in a phone call with Obama, things are madongodongo and mothorong'ong'o-ng'ong'o!!

I will post some wikileaks links, detailing NSA infiltration and gathering of information on the super USA ally, the European Union. The way it is between friends, nowadays.
From thence, I invite Kenyans to speculate on what kind of information the USA has on the Kenyan PEV. And how they are likely to use it for their own national interests. Those interests of course, as our Keeper and friend Jendayi Frazer ever so reminds us in her foreign policy sermons, may very well be diametrically opposed to Kenya’s! (But Obama is Kenyan, and I doubt he wants to hurt you!)

[jakaswanga]

CRISIS IN THE UKRAINE and OTHER STORIES

OH GOD, HOW I MISS CONDOLEEZZA RICE, THE AMERICAN GIRL WHO SPOKE RUSSIAN!



This statue is of Stepan Bandera. Ukrainian Nationalist hero of some controversy. ---‘I will sup with the devil if that helps me liberate one inch of Ukrainian territory from the aggressor, the invader!’ he cried unapologetically. And thus he allied his [UPA] resistance forces with Hitler’s army against the Russians whom he thought the greater menace. While his place in THE Ukrainian pantheon of history is assured, his meaning is something even leading Ukrainian historians tread with dread. The kind of man then, whose life history approximates closest the tribulations of his land.

And while the nice guys [like ex-boxer turn star-politician Vitalio Klichko] were still heeding EU PR-buros to be careful of adorning Bendera badges since that could be sensitive to the West and provocative to the Russians, raw nationalists like the Maidan group, some of whom have a nasty bend, extremism, had no such calculated hesitations and ran away with business, drenching the capital with cries of Saint Stepan! Sending Russian puppet Viktor Yanukovych fleeing with a classic, textbook case of skulduggery: same hired snipers shooting both police and protesters dead, and the innocent president is blamed. And a warrant issued for a peoples arrest, for a transport to the Hague! ---Even Leon Trotsky would acknowledge the temporary brilliance.

But this revolution is led by a breed from another nest. And Trotsky's farsightedness is no priority.



Svoboda [Freedom Party] leader Oleh Tyahnybok and other party members have been accused of anti-Semitism


And as huge as Conan the barbarian or as tough as the Terminator



Germany’s candidate Vitalio Klichko was 'extinguished' when he went to talk down the ‘radicals’

giving the revolution a bad name!

And Washington’s man Arseniy below, is going places. The Nyapara Prime Minister now ‘running affairs’ in Kiev.



Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of the Ukraine.

He is not running much really. The decisions about the future of Ukraine are not made in Kiev now. They all know it, and this is why Stepan Banderas, the nationalist hero with a fearsome heart, makes every politician uncomfortable in Kiev. ‘All Ukrainian puppets are traitors must be shot or hanged in public!’, Banderas the nationalist hero cried in his days as underground commander of the Ukrainian Patriotic Army in the heat of the 2nd World War.

Currently [2014] it is again Germany (on behalf of the EU) vs Russia Over the Ukraine, with Big Brother the USA looking over their shoulders! ----Fcuck the EU, says the USA. And Putin is Hitler, says the same USA by way of the ambitious latest Clinton, Hilary.

Aah Lord, how I miss Condy Rice! --Condy Who?

---The girl who, then a young professor at Stanford, baby-sat George Schultz’s head as the secretary of state then played midwife to the Ronald Reagan Mikhail Gorbachev romance.

WIKIPEDIA: When Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985, Shultz advocated that Reagan pursue a personal dialogue with him. Reagan gradually changed his perception of Gorbachev's strategic intentions in 1987, when the two leaders signed the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.[15] The treaty, which eliminated an entire class of missiles in Europe, was a milestone in the history of the Cold War. Although Gorbachev took the initiative, Reagan was well prepared by the State Department to adopt a policy of negotiations.[16]
Two more events in 1988 persuaded Shultz that Soviet intentions were changing. First, the Soviet Union's initial withdrawal from Afghanistan indicated that theBrezhnev Doctrine was dead. "If the Soviets left Afghanistan, the Brezhnev Doctrine would be breached, and the principle of 'never letting go' would be violated," Shultz reasoned.[15] The second event, according to Keren Yarhi-Milo of Princeton University, happened during the nineteenth Communist Party Conference, "at which Gorbachev proposed major domestic reforms such as the establishment of competitive elections with secret ballots; term limits for elected officials; separation of powers with an independent judiciary; and provisions for freedom of speech, assembly, conscience ,and the press."[15] The proposals indicated that Gorbachev was making revolutionary and irreversible changes.[15]

George Schultz is on public record, stating that he was dumbstruck when this nobody of a black girl explained to him what the options of the Uncle Sam were, with this our cow boy president from our California!
Schultz or Scowcroft it was, ordered a special airforce jet to kidnap her from Stanford straight to Washington. There is a nice story about Schultz carrying to the Pentagon to convince the Generals that times had changed. Some of those generals did not even bother to look at Condy Rice. They thought Old George had gone Old School, them days when every big politician in Washington openly had a black b!tch as his mpango wa kando.
The rest is history. Miss Rice became the leading American strategist in managing the collapse of the Soviet Union, until History took a sudden corner and Osama Bin Ladin appeared as a pot-hole on the road. Condy and her country swerved unprepared at high speed and somersaulted. But that is another story.

Once upon a time in Moscow, a top US official came visiting.

---You see I have just received news, that Hilary Rodham Clinton, in the race to succeed Barack Obama who floored her last time around for the Democratic ticket, has compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler. O yeah she did! May be it was intended as a joke, but I still find it symptomatic of the mental melt-down of the American political class. (We saw John Mcain on the streets Kiev the other day egging on the democratic forces, as he stood shoulder to shoulder with ultra Ukrainian nationalist who are the heirs to the fascist and Nazi component in that country. We saw Obama box himself in with his red line quip to Assad of Syria, and it was Putin who came to his rescue. We saw John Kerry soil himself over and over again, faced with the Egyptian crisis in which Gen. Fateh Al-Sisi removed IB-elected man Mohamed Morsi.) Those are examples of mental knocks.

But here is a classic item which is a much hilarious moment –The Clinton here is Hilary..
CLINTON: PUTIN HAS NO SOUL. He is a stale old KGB agent!
PUTIN: CLINTON HAS NO HEAD, but her figure is not all that bad!



SO LET US HOPE JOHN KERRY AND VIKTORIA NULAND HAVE BETTER HEADS, as we move from the Middle East to the heart of Europe, the Old Continent. There we shall meet Russian fears, Polish fears, and that O O so important part, the Krimea. That is where you have Yalta, where Stalin, Roosevelt and Chruchil, met to divide Europe after world war II.

----O yeah, I miss Condoleezza Rice.

At a 1985 meeting of arms control experts at Stanford, Rice's performance drew the attention of Brent Scowcroft, who had served as National Security Advisor under Gerald Ford.[21] With the election of George H. W. Bush, Scowcroft returned to the White House as National Security Adviser in 1989, and he asked Rice to become his Soviet expert on the United States National Security Council. According to R. Nicholas Burns, President Bush was "captivated" by Rice, and relied heavily on her advice in his dealings with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.[21]

What? Condy who? Somebody asks?

Well, for starters, she understands matruschkas [or babushkas] as you can see, above.



Condoleezza Rice was Dubya’s last secretary of state for foreign affairs and successor to Gen. Colin Powel, the Great Liar in the run to the Iraqi War over non existent WMD. She, Rice, understood Bears and Babushkas, and where Ukraine fits in, which are the elements of the currently hot crisis which has made us forget about Syria for the moment,

Well, I haven’t put up a map of The Ukraine so already some may wonder what it is with it!? It is a former Soviet Socialist Republic, capital Kiev, and the Krimea historically belonged to Russia until 1954 when the Ukrainian born General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Kruschev, donated it to the Ukrainian socialist republic. This peninsular called the Crimea, or Krim, is home to the Russian Black Sea fleet, ported at Sebastopol.

It is a stated policy mission, or objective of the United States of America, to kill off Sebastopol as a naval port that allows Russia to project power and dominate the Black sea, and threaten the Bosphorus which is the Asia Europe Continental divide, featuring Key NATO member, Turkey.



When you have a man like Vladimir Putin running Russia, the above objective is like a dagger right through the heart of Mother Russia. Simply stated, over his dead body will Russia be neutralised in the Black Sea by the United States.

Well, One part of Ukraine is tired of being a vassal state of Russia, cheap gas or not, and this Western Catholic oriented part, seeks further integration with the EU, and the West in general. The Eastern part, more like Russian Orthodox Church and Russian speaking, is comfortable in the embrace of the Big Paw, the bear Ivan.

They call that kind of thing a major fault line. Reality is never that clear cut of course, but in times of crisis, things get simpler: you are either with us, or against us! So simply put, it is the East against the West, with the Ukraine being the grass on top which the two elephants fight.

And that makes a very untidy sight. And calls for men like Stepan Bandera. Ruthlessly Messianic. Considering the forces arraigned against Ukrainian national independence, I think an element of zealotry is required to fight against them. Otherwise surrender will look a very attractive option. And given the new government has unilaterally accepted all the IMF and EU conditions, called upon NATO to station missiles in Ukraine, and allowed the US Black sea fleet to sail within Ukrainian waters unconditionally, the fiery independent ghost of Banderas will be hard to exorcise anytime soon in Kiev.

So, what the hell has this got to do with Condy Rice? Well, remember the girl in charge of this crisis on behalf of Obama is Viktoria –Fwack the EU-- Nuland, and her direct boss is John Kerry. And that means Obama is in trouble.

John Kerry, whose political sensibilities are in question after he described the putsch in Egypt which toppled Morsi as enhancement of democracy, was reduced to a swearing exasperated fuming tower in Madrid, when he could not move the the Russian foreign minister Lazrov to meet face to face with his Ukrainian counterpart. And all this time, the fwacking EU guys were laughing behind his back, because they understood, that after Putin had called the New Ukrainian government a bunch of fascist putsch-ists, there was no way Lzrov could legitimate them by meeting their international face.

The bloody Europeans, knowing this, had left Kerry to hit his head on the walls while they themselves went to barbecue and sample good wine. ----Fwack the EU-ropeans indeed.

Condoleezza Rice would have understood the nuances and implications of Russian vocabulary and historical echoes. Condy Rice was a cold-war Amazone, that is a cold war warrior. She has specialised in everything Russian, and in relation to Western Europe. She spoke fluent Russian, knew her Russian classics ---recited Pushkin and could differentiate Bakunin from Lenin; not only had heard of Dostoevksy and Tolstoy, but she could actually differentiate their writings, and she was conversant with the works of Leon Trotsky too.

She was the kind of girl who would not found mouthing profanities like Obama’s Viktoria Nuland, nor bewildered in exasperation like John Kerry.

What a pity she, Condy Rice, got on her table the crisis of the Middle East, a region of which she knew nothing. No, she could hardly pick up Iraq in a map of the world; she never heard of Arabian 1001 Nights with classics like Ali Baba, Sindbad the sailor, Sheherzade, Alladin and the magic lamp. Omar Khayam meant nothing to her, so did the words Shiite and Sunni! And yet it was he brief to deal with matters Middle East and Islam as the greatest foreign policy challenges. ---A tragedy. Like Clueless John Kerry now!

With this Ukrainian crisis, featuring Russia against the West, Condoleezza would have been a fish in her waters. But yeah, her time came and went, and it is all in the past and wishful thinking now.

We must make do with the bumbling blind duo of Kerry and the b!tchy mouthed Nuland.

THE OTHER PHONE CALL JOKE.

No, not the one in which Ashton the EU minister for foreign affairs ----the one Mohamed El Baradei told she did not know what she meant in Cairo and she abandoned the live press conference on the spot--- comes to realise Yanukovych did not order the snipers to shoot the demonstrators, but her allies did…
This is another telephone call>

Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin were on the phone, talking long. Is Barrack Obama still having his stiffs eavesdropping your voice on the phone, Putin wanted to know from Merkel?

Putin and Merkel are comfortable in one another’s language. Putin worked half his KGB life in East Germany and became fluent in the language. Merkel was born in East Germany when Russian was the second language.
However in public, they rely on translators. With the ubsurdity of occasionally laughing before the translators are done.

May be he will soon be getting married in secret like you coward, Vladimir. When men get their stiffs elsewhere, their Old marriages are dead. Ukraine has the stiffs for me, let it go!

Merkel's barb!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560278/Has-President-Putin-married-former-Olympic-gymnast-Alina-Kabayeva-flashes-wedding-ring-TV-cameras.html

Has President Putin married former Olympic gymnast?
Renewed rumours President Putin has married gold-medalist Alina Kabayeva
Speculation erupted in September that the pair were marrying in the town of Valdai after political opponent tweeted about the nuptials

30-year-old Olympic gymnast filmed this week flashing a wedding ring at TV cameras while she attended an event
Vladimir Putin, 61, was spotted wearing a ring on his wedding ring finger when he met the Egyptian defence minister last week

here is the banned, stolen image from another source!



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And here is the other STOLEN IMAGE! I tried until I found it on a page where it is not censored! --You will notice alot of this banned images when they have to do with Heads of State!



How about this for a stolen content!

[jakaswanga]

Yes, I love tabloid tales, as I confessed at the beginning the amorous escapades of Francois Hollande of France, especially during his bodaboda headlong charge into the gaping thighs of his paramour, an actress who spots a distinguished tattoo on her famous butt. The thing is, in my world, tabloid tales are how you understand a country. For instance, first you read Anna Karenina ---that is the most famous tabloid tale from pre-revolutionary Russia, explaining Old Russia had reached a dead end, and would sink to the bottom of the historical sea; then you go for the economic statistics, and walhala, the chips fall in place –like the boulders of Troy city did as Apollo of the sure darts played the lyre.

For those who have the time, may be you read Madame de Bovary of Gustave Flaubert, and ask yourself, whether it is a predated fable on the tribulations of Elysee consorts of undefined state roles.
The other day too, I marvelled at the waterloo of the famous author of the surge –that is a later day blitzkrieg that stalled, one David Petraeus. The over decorated General was to all effects, a field marshall in marital deceit. Lo! that was where he surged his all. ---Those who monitor Iraq will know it is the Alqaeda which is surging in the battlefields of that country, if not its former ally, the ISIS. [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/Syria]. So Barrack Obama should be careful listening to Gun-Ho Generals who reckon the Crimea would be a piece of cake.

And so today, another tabloid tale which will not go away. Putin and Obama sandwiching Merkel in Ukraine.

Germany is too small to dominate Western Europe, but too big to be equal to the others making up that domain; even if those others are as big as France, Italy and the UK. This means the coy Germany always has this discomforting tint of a domesticated crocodile similing at you. You always have this uneasiness, retain this healthy suspicion, that the coy Merkel smile is an advanced salivation at the prospect of gobbling you up, should you be trusting enough to fall asleep in her thereabouts. This is why the new leaders of the Ukraine instinctively hide under the skirts of Washington, even if it is Germany opening the cookie jar. (The lid in German hands? Sword of Damocles!)

While the German elite has steered off the nationalist drum ---wisely, given the thunderous drumming of World War II, the general population wears this mask of a docile Germany with increasing discomfort. There is a protruding fang, snarling through the mask.
You have to read the great tabloid Bild, to get an inkling. The Highbrow guys –from your Die Welt, Die Zeit, DerSpiegel to the zeitungs.. (Frankfurter Allgemeine and Süddeutsche Zeitung) tend to be .. well.. highbrow. You know, like in Kenya we could say: ‘’the Othaya Narc activist enjoys wide influence, which is thought to have facilitated the tourist visas of the controversial Artur twins, whose business in town is even more controversial!’’ But the Kenyans with less time to do highbrow stuff went: Kibaki’s second wife Mary Wambui brought these Armenians here. They are drug-runners cum mercenaries! B!tch.

So I say, you get your tabloid tales right, you read your country correct. And so I have since confirmed that while it took only a matter of hours for the Kenyan internet rag called the Daily Post to come up with the names of Aladwa, Ndolo and the rest as the men who organised the Men-in-Black interjection at Kasarani, it took the respectful papers the better side of one week to come to that position. More often than not then, highbrow is merely a euphemism for scared sh!tless of the truth. And immobilised in fear of the retaliatory powers of those truth might offend.

---To my beloved Germany then: ANGELA MERKEL AS EVERYBODY’S SPITTING BOWL.

Silvio Berlusconi, in his heydays as a Roman megalomaniac, loved to put Angela Merkel down. Offhandedly, he joked she had a traditional behind that locked the route to her paradise [aka citadel of feminine paramouncy]; and she could wait on him all day as he hung on the phone with his latest hot collection to the bunga-bunga festivals dedicated to the god Pan. And Merkel, being such a patient angel, took it all in step and good humour. That her revenge would later be terrible, forcing Silvio out of office and into political ignominy, did not assuage the insulted dignity of popular German nationalism. And it was expressed ---outside the [pretending deaf] earshot of the highbrow segment of the society with their zeitungs of course

The popular sentiment was, such a lowly and vulgar Roman needed to know his place before the Aryan goddess Merkel, both in public and in private.

Then there were the shameless silly Greeks who, while on their knees receiving German money, carried large posters, and built large effigies of Angela Merkel as a moustached Adolf Hitler. –Freedom of [artistic] expression, yelled the cheeky Greeks! Satire!

Then there was Vladimir Putin who, having read Merkel’s file as a KGB agent stationed in Germany, decided to use a particular entry about her phobias to spring a joke on her. Horrible Horrible. Higher Germany pretended it had not noticed Putin’s blood-curdling insolence. Lower Germany seethed in humiliation.

Then there is Barrack Obama and his NSA peeping-Tom pathology. Them buggers bugged Merkel’s bedroom and Barrack kidded her with I Know how you come! (then disaster struck as it appeared plausible the Americans had had the help of the German secret service themselves to crack Merkel’s phone codes!). It had to take a comedian to release the tension: the scene, a tabloid journalist interviewing the head of security at Siemens. Siemens reckons they are world leaders at encryption.
JOURNALIST: ‘So you are number two .. 3 .4 ..5 etc etc after all!?’
‘No’, answers Herr Professor Dr. Engineer Siemens, ‘It was blackmail. The Americans said: either Merkels codes, or your secret bank accounts and tax jumping records go to the German Fiscus!’

And then there is Obama’s handmaid again with her Fwack the EU outburst, and the contempt with which she [Victoria Nuland] refers to Germany’s golden boy in the Ukraine, Vitaly ‘Klitsch’!

There is just enough belittling a country like Germany can take before her elite is called upon by the people to show some backbone or exit. Everybody recognises Angela Merkel is a formidable chancellor, leader and workaholic who gets things done.
That she is treated as a spitting bowl by every Tom Dick and Harry in town, is wearing her smile thin.

The Crimea crisis may just provide the chance for Germany to assert herself and be a bit more comfortable with her public face. Even as countries like Poland would be petrified of a Germany no longer sleeping in the backyard.
Nobody likes to be insulted. Repetitive insults can work even the Dalai Lama himself to a temper. Pushed, I seen Budhist monks riot. Germany is just a dormant war monger. Her war demons are not dead yet.

One should be wary of ever prodding this monster. When the air is saturated with the pheromones of war, even Retired Old Dogs may rediscover lines of fire in their groins.

[jakaswanga]

When it concerns foreign leaders, popular American pundits cook in steamy commentary, drenching in intimate small talk from bedrooms abroad. So President Dilma Roussef of Brazil it was I think, ---Or was it one-short-term Aussie first female President Julia Gillard?



who was overheard promising her partner hell in bed, if he patiently let her finish off some pressing matter of state? And was it Angela Merkel or not, whom, running late in office running Germany, Obama overheard soothing her partner with a mind-spinning threat, that she was on the way with agile hands, and he was going to hit the roof when she laid them on him, flat on his back!

And here is then secretary of state Hillary Clinton squeezing the juice out of Argentinian President Kristina Kircher, whom she downright sketches as a lunatic!
www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/29/hillary-clinton-cristina-kirchner-stress

Hillary Clinton has questioned the mental health of Cristina Kirchner and asked US diplomats to investigate whether the Argentinian president is taking medication to help her "calm down".
The US secretary of state painted Kirchner as a volatile and emotional leader who suffered from "nerves and anxiety", according to a secret cable sent to the US embassy in Buenos Aires.
Clinton asked diplomats a series of questions in December last year which could infuriate Kirchner and sabotage a recent rapprochement between Argentina and America.
In a section headed "mental state and health" she asked how the first lady-turned president was managing "her nerves and anxiety" in a blunt tone which suggested US concerns.
"How does stress affect her behaviour toward advisers and/or her decision-making? What steps does Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner or her advisers/handlers take in helping her deal with stress? Is she taking any medications?
"Under what circumstances is she best able to handle stresses? How do Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's emotions affect her decision-making and how does she calm down when distressed?"

Then came the blowback. And not just stuff from the Edward Snowden leaks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden . He came to international attention when he disclosed thousands of classified documents to several media outlets.[2][3] The leaked documents revealed operational details of global surveillance programs run by the NSA and the other Five Eyes governments of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, with the cooperation of a number of businesses and European governments.[4]



The release of classified material was called the most significant leak in US history by Pentagon Papers leakerDaniel Ellsberg. A series of exposés beginning June 5, 2013 revealed Internet surveillance programs such asPRISM, MUSCULAR, XKeyscore and Tempora, as well as the bulk collection of US and European telephonemetadata. The reports were based on documents Snowden leaked to The Guardian and The Washington Post while employed by NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

The CIA and earlier variants of the NSA have of course been spying on the top honchos of the USA since their inception, and the legendary late and former director of the FBI Edgar Hoover, is rumoured to have used such info to have leverage over President Kennedy, such that JFK could not fire him, nor any screwy congress committee haul him in for some in-depth.
Sensitive info can guarantee one security of tenure it would appear, or in some cases, an early grave. Kanyotu and Gichangi of Kenya probably fall in the former category, but the late Keregeya of Rwanda and Beria of the Soviet Union definitely the later. Dead mouths speaketh note, and keep secrets the best. But back to the the USA and her Peeping Tom agencies.
Turns out they have quite a library of steamy stuff on their own cheeky political and military elite, running wild around Washington, or anywhere else for that matter. The libidos of senators and congress/women/men is a matter of national security. Before you know it, foreign studs are pumping your congresswomen empty of state secrets, and foreign suckers draining your senators dry of classified info. FBI and NSA gotta keep a tab on such un American activities.

It therefore can be seen as a tribute to the trenchant cheekiness of the CIA, that they welcomed David Petraeus with a straight face, and the 4-star hero of the surge did not hear any untoward jokes about stuff they knew he was doing naked. The company waited for the right moment to give its CEO the boot. The agency has files on congressmen doing their interns (after Bill Clinton gave such a presidential example with Lewinsky), the agency keeps tabs on the shady money various lobby groups peddle around, trawling for influence; the agency does a lot of things it is not suppose to do, all for the good of America and Americans, but really, just because they need to know everything about everybody. The world is a dangerous place. Every Arab, an Osama, every Afro-American, Obama. So one of the favourite pastimes of the company has gotten her into deep Sh!t, literally. Breaking into other peoples computers and stealing data. And what a treasure trove computers are, whether at work or at home!
It has since been reported the Americans managed to crack the source code of Huawei, the Chinese largest Telecom company in the World. And once their Mandarin linguistic department gets up and adequate, the Americans will read (in translation), apart from China's priciest e-mails, some very hot messages between the very top of China and their mistresses which the Chinese people themselves know nothing about! –Then Obama or his successor will give Xi Jinpin that winky, screwy look Obama has been eyeing every world leader with of late.
---‘Damn, that vibrator makes me jelous they way it makes you scream! And God, aint it hard on my ears! Fit a silencer to the damn thing!’’ POTUS, grinned at a naughty notable from a naughty noteworthy country.

But the yankees have not cracked Muscovite Putin yet, so we do not know the depth of his mischief when, unguardedly, with pawy Russian phrases he indulges his balerina passion, Alina-K.

Now, it is all very well for Gringos when the steamy stuff is all foreign! How about when it threatens to be all local?
rt.com/usa/snowden-feinstein-cia-ventura-206/

March 11 2014: Only hours after United States Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) lashed out at the Central Intelligence Agency for allegedly spying on congressional committee members, former government contractor Edward Snowden accused her of hypocrisy.
Sen. Feinstein — the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee — made headlines early Tuesday morning by calling out the CIA on the floor of Congress. Committee member staffers were unknowingly monitored by the CIA while investigating the agency’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques, Feinstein said, potentially violating the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution and a presidential order barring the CIA from domestic spying.
By early afternoon, NBC News had acquired a statement authored by Mr. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who has been accused of espionage for disclosing sensitive documents pertaining to US government’s vast surveillance operations.
“It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern,” Snowden told NBC News. “But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them."
NBC News investigative journalist Matthew Cole was the first to report on the statement, and related Snowden’s remark as being in reference to Angela Merkel — the German chancellor who erupted with outrage last year after finding out that she was apparently targeted by the NSA’s intelligence gathering operations.
Merkel’s complaints last year — and the apologetic response it provoked from the White House — came in the aftermath of reports based off of NSA documents leaked by Snowden in which the US spy agency was shown to be committing widespread, indiscriminate surveillance against millions of innocent civilians around the world.
Feinstein defended the NSA’s domestic snooping last year, calling it a necessary counterterrorism tool with the potential to thwart attacks on American soil.
“The NSA call-records program is legal and subject to extensive congressional and judicial oversight,”Feinstein said last November. “I believe it contributes to our national security.”
At the time, Feinstein admitted that she thought “more can and should be done to increase transparency and build public support for privacy protections in place.”

Diane goes baloney now that her computer has been cracked, and stuff, steamier than thou, nicked. This girl's confusion makes Aden Duale [Gays constitute a danger like terrorism] look not so bad after all!

Let us take a look at American TV star comedian John Stewart.

Jon Stewart Destroys Dianne Feinstein For CIA Spying Hypocrisy

BRETT LOGIURATO ---MAR. 13, 2014, 9:15 AM 11,345 23 ---Comedy Central

Jon Stewart tore into Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Wednesday night's "Daily Show," ripping her for what he perceived as hypocrisy in a burgeoning CIA spying scandal.
In an extraordinary, charged speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, Feinstein levied charges that the CIA may have broken the law and violated the U.S. Constitution when it searched the computer network established for Congress. The incident in question occurred in December, when Intelligence Committee investigators got ahold of an internal agency review casting a particularly bad light on the CIA's Bush-era interrogation and detention programs.

But Stewart took on Feinstein because she has offered full-throated defenses of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs.
"See she doesn't mind that if our security apparatus might be looking at your stuff, cause your stuff is s—," Stewart said. "But her s— is stuff."

Stewart said it was shocking the allegations were not coming from more privacy-focused senators, like Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden or Kentucky Republican Rand Paul. Rather, they came from "Dianne 'so the NSA is looking at your data' Feinstein."
He also didn't hold back on CIA Director John Brennan, who said Tuesday that Feinstein's allegations were "beyond the scope of reason."
"Beyond the scope of reason?" he said. "Y'all overthrew Iran and Chile, orchestrated the assassination of the first democratically elected prime minister of the Congo, wiretapped journalists and anti-war activists, and carried out a mind-control experiment with LSD on prisoners.
"I guess what I'm saying is, you're very busy doing a lot of things. Maybe you didn't steal the files because you were busy. And that's what interns are for.”
Watch the full clip below, courtesy of Comedy Central:

Read more: www.businessinsider.com/jon-stewart-dianne-feinstein-cia-scandal-daily-show-spying-nsa-2014-3#ixzz2x6JH0PRN

[jakaswanga]

How does humble pie taste? I think Angela Merkel will know. But tell us? Nah! Me thinks not. For us she will put up a swashbuckling act, a stern madam making to slap the recalcitrant adolescent bully Putin to order.

For the purposes of this posting, we will go first names, then adopt familiarity. Angela will be Angie; Mrs. Robert Kagan Viktoria ---fwack the EU—Nuland will be Vicky; Vitaly Klitschko will be Klitsh; Arseny Yatseyuk Yats, and Obama Barry or Obash.

Now, when Vicky said fwack the EU, she of course meant Germany, and further, that Angie could be ignored. Would be Top Dog Germany is a Putin infatuate, an untrustworthy ally. And everyone understands France is half dead and can not be considered a factor in power plays. When the EU finances something like the deal offered Yanukovych to keep Ukraine solvent just days before the coup, the paymaster is Deutschland. The big beast in the EU neighbourhood terrorising everyone with its regime of Lutheran austerity – freezing state spending in the middle of a recession, is Germany. So the unpolished Vicky was wagging a b!tchy finger at Angie in a prelude to a cat-fight.

It has been fascinating, watching the German elite pretend their nose is not bleeding, after Vicky sprayed hot pepper in the eyes of the Goliath Klitsh, and up came the David Yats to win the price –temporarily (bcoz these things can go into bouts of rematches####FOOTNOTE). Vicky had an uncanny insight: Klitsch could better go home to nurse his marriage which, according to bedroom intel the American had, was problematic. No, it is not just Angie’s and Francois’s bedroom businesses Barry has been eavesdropping!

PLUGGING THE GAP, THE BASKET CASE OF ‘YAT’S’ UKRAINE.

Ukraine owes Russia, as per 1st March 2014, EUR 1.5 billion in gas revenues, at the old friendly discount price, at about 50% World Market price. Ukraine can not pay that now. Russia can not turn off the taps. Coz pipes to the West run through Ukraine. A twin death-lock which condemns the two to an important relationship.

The $1 bn offered by the USA so far, does not even cover winter heating then. The EU has offered a temporary salvage package of Eur 11 bn, but German calculators think the Ukraine will need at least Eur 25 bn/year to keep afloat. That needs a serious juggling with budgets at the European Investment Bank (EIB); the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development; the IMF, and the ECB.
It is not like that money is sitting on the shelves of the banks, waiting to be cleared. EU taxpayers will have to cough it up, and their belts are already very tight. Going to economic war with Russia simultaneously as Saving the Ukraine by picking the tab from oligarchic loot, research shows, 65% of the German electorate thinks an unwise course.

Angie should stay stingy and mean: counting every cent spent, calculating how it will come back doubled, before embarking on its export!
And the Ukraine and the Crimea look for now, like bottomless pits. Black holes where even German prosperity could disappear. And actually Ukraine's Oligarchs who have ripped her off, have stashed enough loot in Western Investments to pay for the bail out!

But the NATO, under Sheriff Obash, is already flying fighter Jets over the Baltic States to warn off the Bear Ivan. And Vladimir may not necessarily cower, nor scamper away, back to his cave of hibernation beyond the Urals, where Alina shall comfort his broken ego.

There is mischief in the air. And it would be best if Angie maintained her renowned calm, caution, and real politic, and not joined Gun Ho Barry and his NATO war-mongering flights.

But since when, does Human History go by sense?

Passion O Passion! For you Ilios was destroyed
And the Greeks sailed back with a Pyrrhic victory!

FULL TEXT MERKEL’S SPEECH IN ENGLISH:
www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/Infoservice/Presse/Meldungen/2014/140314-Merkel-Ukraine.html

FOOTNOTE abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/klitschko-backs-billionaire-ukraine-president-23111058

29-03-14: Ex-world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, considered a strong contender to become Ukraine's next leader, upended the country's presidential race Saturday by announcing he will throw his support instead behind a billionaire candy maker.

Klitschko told his UDAR party that he plans to run for mayor of Ukraine's capital city, Kiev, paving the way for current presidential favorite, businessman Petro Poroshenko, in the May 25 vote.

The move is likely to ensure that both men cement powerful positions in Ukraine's new government and block the chances of a full return to power from the country's former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko.

Vicky hatches other plans for Yats.

[jakaswanga]

USAandGermany

It has been long in coming. Angela Merkel making an appearance in Washington DC to pledge her loyalty to The Boss, after the chill of the mobile and bedroom bugs.
There is still no bipolarity of power in the West. The USA is the top dog. Lower lips must be bitten, and bitter seed swallowed.
That be as it is, the eventuality of a meek-ish Angela Merkel before an American prezzo who spies on her cell phone, with the dubbed Iron Lady publicly servicing the trans-Atlantic relationship as if it were the best thing since sliced bread, is not something German nationalism can generate a fluent consensus about. In deed, an equivalent of a middle finger in the air, or a quenelle in her direction, has been the act of former German Chancellor, and her immediate predecessor, Gerhard Schroder. The Merkel government has of course distanced itself from the St Petersbug birthday bash. ---But, markedly, the government has not distanced itself from the ‘GAS arrangement’’ which flows through the Nord Stream directly into German homes, and which forms the basis of the Schroder-Putin tandem!

At a first glance, Merkel is eating cake, and wanting to have it all at the same time. Schroder is eating cake and enjoying it, and openly too. I mean there is not talk from the Merkel government of boycotting Russian gas! ---May be that is Merkel’s middle finger in the air at the Gringos! Appearances can be deceptive, and harsh public talk merely a thumping of empty chests.

If I have my instincts correct, Angela’s shrewd ruthlessness will calculate nobody in Washington can SERIOUSLY accuse her of cosing up to a monster like Putin for gas. The USA has been one of the greatest Lord Protector of the Wahabi sect that runs Saudi Arabia; and to defend her interests, evil has never been a basis of an American rejection of a strategic ally, especially one that supplied energy.

I want to hear somebody out there tell me that sect is more renaissance than Putin’s authoritarianism. The difference is Putin wont be a puppet, but the House of Saud were always dogs, puppies in fact.

Merkel, being European from the land of Hegel and Kant, will have the grit to go through the motions of affirming USA superiority over Germany in raw power, but she will smile politely, recognising the intellectual inferiority of the Americans. ---Russia remains the natural supplier of cheap gas to Germany, and no LPG from Alaska can replace that. In fact, a pipeline from the Islamic Republic of Iran, running through another Islamic republic Turkey, would still be a better second in place of Alaska LPG shipped across the vast Ocean!

Apart from raw power, there is always something called common sense. It is called Ostpolitik, here below.



www.dw.de/german-government-distances-itself-from-schr%C3%B6der-after-putin-embrace/a-17600263

The event, held in honor of Schröder's 70th birthday on Monday night, was hosted by Nord Stream AG, a subsidiary of Russian gas monopolist Gazprom. The former chancellor is the chairman of the shareholders' committee of the company, which operates a gas pipeline that directly links Russia and Germany.

And this is the trans-atlantic ritual of pleasantries.

here is an unnamed German official.

there do exist plans to build autobahns and new railways connecting Europe directly and cost effective with the Far East plus Central and South Asia like India but also Iran and Iraq. In short a good relation with Russia can provide jobs and income for Germany for the next fifty years, but also the rest of Europe can benefit from such a development.

[jakaswanga]

Somewhere, I can not remember where, I tried to make the point of an increasing skepticism of the younger generation of Germans, toward the official narrative of the second world war, and its terms of settlement. Blame it on internet and social media, which are availing blasphemous readings of history, readings hitherto only the domain of the margins.

The Post World War II settlement, thrashed out at Postdam in 1945, sentenced Germany to a protectorate of the Allied Powers, represented by the big three. ---Spot the difference!



Germany was split in a victory share-out, and the Federal (Republic of) West Germany would emerge as the dominant part of Germany (over the Eastern backwater known as the GDR); and, tethered to the West and anchored in the EEC and NATO alliance, she would guarantee the post war stability in Europe which has lasted so long, and is indeed a staggering achievement within the war-like tribes of Europe.

But after the mechanised, industrial disposal of human beings as was witnessed in the Holocaust, perhaps people have had enough of war for a while, and several generations have to pass before war-drums can be danced to with abandon.

Iron Angela Merkel is a committed trans-atlanticist, and this blind commitment which is distancing her from popular German opinion which she has always commanded in her economic and social policies, may owe to the the fact that she grew up in the un-free East Germany [the German Democratic Republic] and developed a subconscious anti-East trauma. So while Germany has re-united and is normalising, she remains psychologically unhealed, a pious American supplicant.

What is a normal Germany?

A normal Germany is a central European power that straddles East and West, and is a bridge between the two. A normal Germany is non-aligned, and maximises her unique geographic and economic influence. Russia is her historic and traditional partner with which she does deals and pacts. A normal Germany is not a supplicant to three big men treaties thrashed out at wars she has totally lost.

A normal Germany is the nightmare of European pretender powers like France and Britain (who themselves have back yards and fiefdoms in Afrika where they can extract bonuses to shore up their treasuries). It was always a whale of a joke that Britain and France were part of the allied powers under whose wings Berlin brooded since the Victory Day 1945. A bit like two dogs guarding a tiger and her cubs, then you wonder who is keeping who prisoner.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty_(1990)

Oder-Neisse line between Germany and Poland

The German-Polish Border Treaty of 1990 finally settled the issue of the Polish-German border, which in terms of international law had been pending since 1945. It was signed by the foreign ministers of Poland and Germany, Krzysztof Skubiszewski and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, on 14 November 1990, ratified by the Polish Sejm on 26 November 1991 and the German Bundestag on 16 December 1991, and entered into force with the exchange of the instruments of ratification on 16 January 1992.
The full title of the treaty is "Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland on the confirmation of the frontier between them, 14 November 1990"[1] (Vertrag zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Republik Polen über die Bestätigung der zwischen ihnen bestehenden Grenze in German, and Traktat między Rzeczpospolitą Polską a Republiką Federalną Niemiec o potwierdzeniu istniejącej między nimi granicy in Polish,[2] the order of the countries being reversed in the Polish name).

Yes, agreed in Postdam in 1945, semi officially recognised by West Germany in 1970, but only settled hurriedly in 1990! ---[And what a story behind the scenes in the run to the re-unification, and Chancellor Kohl’s attempts to sooth nerves like those of the Germanophobe Margaret Thatcher! Like party-mate Winston Churchil, she loved her twin Germany’s so much she could not bear the thought of one disappearing!)
Anyway that dragging of feet, that delay of the formalisation of the Oder-Neisse border, needs an explanation! And trust me to have asked German historians, if German nationalism had some lingering doubts? wanted that border further East back to where it was before 1937? Before the advent of the Polish terminology of ‘’recovered territories’’, and later operation Vistula?
I found out there is schizophrenia. Like in most countries, history is taught in two versions. ‘’To pass your exams these are the right answers’’, winks the professor at his bemused students. ‘’But as for the search for the truth, this is a considered opinion! To make those areas Polish, they ethnically cleansed them of Germans! Now Poland wants to join the EU, we should not be shy asking them for an apology!’’
Clue: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/5687591/Angela-Merkels-party-backs-homeland-for-Germans-expelled-by-Poland.html

By Matthew Day in Warsaw
5:25PM BST 29 Jun 2009
Angela Merkel's party backs 'homeland' for Germans expelled by Poland
The party of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared that its countrymen expelled by Poland after the Second World War have a ‘right to a homeland’ and said the deportations should be condemned under international law.
Wartime animosity between Poland and Germany could resurface after a new election manifesto published by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) pledged to promote the cause of those expelled.
In 1945 millions of ethnic Germans were forced from their homes after a redrawing of the border resulted in their lands becoming part of Poland.
The CDU has yet to say what compensation it wants for the expellees and the demand could simply be symbolic

Yes, dig through the surface in Germany, you would be surprised at the issues than concern her soul! It is not even Russian gas. Germany is a Nuclear Technical Power. In an energy crisis, a simple emergency law in parliament and they would build 15 super reactors in 6 months, just operative before the gas stocks run out. Putin would be a lunatic to switch off GAZPROM taps! That is why Germany, at 33% dependence on Russian gas, appears the least worried about Russian switch offs!
And anyway, those reactors Angela Merkel decommissioned just before her re-election are not yet cannibalised. They can be switched on for electric power at a finger click! So, let us leave such little problems alone, and do more history, more soul searching, as is good for a Sunday.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_from_Poland_during_and_after_World_War_II

The German population east of Oder-Neisse was estimated at over 11 million in early 1945.[3] The first mass flight of Germans followed the Red Army's advance and was composed of both spontaneous flight driven by rumours of Soviet atrocities, and organised evacuation starting in the summer of 1944 and continuing through to the spring of 1945.[4] Overall about 1% (100,000) of the German civilian population east of Oder-Neisseperished in the fighting prior to the surrender in May 1945.[5] In 1945, the eastern territories of Germany as well as Polish areas annexed by Germany were occupied by the Soviet Red Army and Polish Communist military forces. German civilians were also sent as "reparations labor" to the USSR.[6] The Soviet Uniontransferred former German territories in the east of the Oder-Neisse Line to Poland in July 1945.[7] In mid-1945, 4.5 to 4.6 million Germans remained on the territories under Polish control.[8] Early expulsions in Poland were undertaken by the Polish Communist military authorities[9] even before the Potsdam Conference ("wild expulsions"),[10] to ensure the later integration into an ethnically homogeneous Poland[11] as envisioned by the Polish Communists.[12][13]

No wonder the tensions underneath are revealing fatigue in Merkel’s iron mask of a face. Even iron rusts in the natural savagery of harsh elements, and the Iron Kanzelarin is no longer putting up a convincing act to her subjects. Nor to Washington.

Obama must keep bugging her phone! And bedroom. She could be talking in Russian tongues there! The weight of history, bending her.

And I will be back!

[jakaswanga]

The last 2.5 weeks, two pieces of powerful information has been availed to the German public through popular, mass circulation papers, especially the tabloid BILD on Sunday, with the journalists all saying it is courtesy of the BND. ---The BND?? in English, that abbreviation BND works out to FIS. Smile (rofl)smile, is that the short for Front for Islamic Salvation? once upon a time the winners of a famous election in Algeria, a sad episode that utterly annoyed the military? No, this one is the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, known famously in any language with its German shorthand, BND).

1. Kiev is crawling with FBI and CIA operatives, giving technical support to the putsch government.
2. 400 mercenaries from the Academi company are operative in East Ukraine, shoring up the Ukrainian army in her fight against the separatists.

NB: Academi used to be known as Blackwater

About 400 elite mercenaries from the notorious US private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater) are taking part in the Ukrainian military operation against anti-government protesters in southeastern regions of the country, German media reports.
The Bild am Sonntag newspaper, citing a source in intelligence circles, wrote Sunday that Academi employees are involved in the Kiev military crackdown on pro-autonomy activists in near the town of Slavyansk, in the Donetsk region.
On April 29, German Intelligence Service (BND) informed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government about the mercenaries’ participation in the operation, the paper said, RIA Novosti reported. It is not clear who commands the private military contractors and pays for their services, however.

Now, there is a separate problem here. That is what I think. I also think the BND is playing a good game. Well, all intelligence services are always playing games, the point is to deduce, from the piecemeal information they release, which game it is they are on to: Evil or not.

Now, I have no idea who the head of the BND is ---that is more due to my failing and bias, that once you know the head of the CIA, it is not necessary to know the many operatives who serve under him. This is a game of power, and there is only one super power in the West, the rest of the pretenders are supplicants, lesser dons who must bow to the Main Don, or the Boss USA. The British head of GCHQ or the MI’s, the French head of whatever the French call their secret service, whatever their various forms of qualms or reservations are, they must kowtow to the CIA/NSA when the chips are down. Simply a rule of power.

ANGELA MERKEL AND THE NSA PHONE-CODE SCANDAL.

Why did Chancellor Merkel not press the point with Potus Obama on her trip last week to Washington, that the bugging of her phone by the Americans had irritated her to fuming point? The correct answer for students of international politics is: because the trans-atlantic relationship is the foundation of current Western global dominance, and that is a fundamental too important to be irritated by childish games like the CIA/NSA peeping through Merkel’s pants to count her grey hairs there, so that the POTUS can kid her some.

My considered opinion is different. The Americans did not bug Merkel’s phone. The BND did, and tacitly informed the Americans that they had discovered a security leak that endangered Western security, could they help plug it? There are no fools in this game, and the Americans certainly not: they would recognise The Germans have their honour to mind.
Angela Merkel, a keen and solid politician and a top-notch scientific mind, would have deduced the situation in a few seconds when the story broke. She would have summoned the best encoders of Germany –probably at Siemens, and asked them if the Americans had done them in like they reputedly had done with Huawei source code.
Then it would have become clear to her, that her own people had set her up for whatever reason. To go to Washington then, and display a tantrum at Obama and his spies would make her ridiculous, would paint her as nothing but a hysterical b!tch unable to deal with facts at home! The truth would boomerang at her, her government, and her control of the intelligence services.
The BND, as roguish as the Stassi she hated! O Almighty God! I thought history does not repeat itself, she would cry!

MANAGING PUBLIC DISCOURSE

The BND knows the dangerous blowback potential of this phone-bug scandal, and has to do some PR with the German people, like provide them with some choice information to catalyse the public debate which is going on in Germany right now, on the nation’s options vis-a-vis the crisis in the Ukraine.

The Americans have all along insisted, to an increasingly sceptic German audience, that the villainous Russians are the ones meddling and fanning the fire in Ukraine (even as Senator John Mccain and SD top diplomat Viktoria –fwack the EU— Nuland distributed biscuits at the Maidan square to stiffen the resolve of the anti-Yanukovich stormtroopers )



So Russian special forces are DIRECTLY facing American marines aka Academi mercenaries in the Ukraine?
Spetsnaz

That would be a very dangerous situation. I can not remember when they ever did, except in the Cuban Missile crisis. This serious combat situation in the middle of Europe, I think, is grave and scary enough for the BND to warrant a flow of credible information to their citizens.
The game is de-escalation. To make sure decisions are based on facts on the ground. That uttermost care is exercised, because the situation is deadlier than may people think.

Russia is a villain inside or outside the Ukraine, but currently in the Ukraine, everybody is a villain. And somebody has to get sane quick.

[jakaswanga]

NORMANDY D-DAY COMMEMORATIONS, 70yrs ON.



Read carefully, because I want to take you to the underbelly of Europe. Only yesterday, the world spectacularly watched the celebratory video-games version of the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944. But the main side-story was the isolation of Vladimir Putin of Russia, the new Hitler to the West. At the same time, if you really want to know where the fighting was, it is to the EASTERN FRONT you must go. Umaha beach is a picnic if the gauge is the siege of Stalingrad.



Now, the read with care bit:

Instead, among the many cemeteries for the 100,000 or so soldiers killed in the mammoth seaborne invasion on June 6, 1944 known as D-Day, and the three-month Battle for Normandy that followed, the biggest number of graves by far honor 21,222 soldiers who fought on the losing side: The Germans.

Yes, the German death toll is heavier: as usually is in the economics of death, the loosing side paying higher.

For many modern Europeans, the well-tended cemetery seems to symbolize a unified continent—a sign that old enemies are now allies within the 28-nation E.U., ironically, with the strongest and biggest nation being Germany. And yet, it was only in 2004 that a German leader, then Gerhard Schroeder, was first invited to attend the D-Day anniversary ceremonies.

www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/eastern-front-greater-role-d-day-german-memories

Kohl had rejected invitations in 1984 and 1994, arguing that "for a German chancellor, there is no reason to celebrate when others mark their victory in a battle in which tens of thousands of Germans died a miserable death".

Important to note too, is that Francois Hollande broke a taboo, when he paid a tribute to the French civilians killed in the ALLIED BOMBING. This is a sensitive issue in the writing of the appraisal of the war. Like the hell-inferno bombing of Dresden in the final months of the war, which is openly debated in Germany as a war-crime or not.

Gerhard Schröder became the first German chancellor to attend the commemorations in 2004. In his speech, he called D-day "not a victory over Germany, but a victory for Germany", in bringing the war to a close and the Third Reich to an end. He made a point of not laying a wreath at the German cemetery, La Cambe, in case it could be interpreted as honouring the SS soldiers buried there. Instead, he attended the Commonwealth cemetery of Ranville, where 133 German soldiers were laid to rest. Merkel will follow his example on Friday.
But in Germany, the ceremony is unlikely to register much with the wider public.

This year, Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend Friday’s international ceremony for 17 world leaders, including President Barack Obama.
But unlike Obama, who will lay a wreath at the U.S. cemetery, Merkel is not scheduled to visit the graves of her countrymen who died fighting for Normandy. And unlike the U.S., British and Canadian war cemeteries, whose funding comes from independent commissions of those governments, this one is maintained through voluntary donations under a private German association.

yes, that is the key statement I wanted you to bear with me. MERKEL, PRESIDENT OF GERMANY –SO CALLED CHANCELLOR, WILL CONTINUE THE allied-enforced BOYCOTT of THE GRAVES OF HER FELLOW CITIZENS, perished long ago.
My travels and fierce engagement with Germans have left me convinced there are two Germany’s here. Two! just the way Winston Churchill allegedly loved them, and would be later used by the odd couple Margaret Thatcher and Francois Mitterand to block any talk on a possible re-unification of the GDR and FDR, even as a tired Gorbachev had already nodded yes and closed the deal with the Yankees.

COMMEMORATE HITLER'S TROOPS OR NOT? ---see how China hits the roof if a Japanese premier chants a dirge at all men who died in service of the flag and emperor!

For the German elite, this is no big deal they pretend. They ignore and acknowledge not the troops that served under Hitler’s armies abroad, even when they know many were but mere boys drafted per force. However, for the relatives and wider German folklore, these were fellow blood and bones, fellow genes and flesh: family! And Wrong or Right they will be honoured on two planes:
--1. they served their country and paid the ultimate price.
--2. As family, their loss is individual and painful to the hearts of their kin, and loved ones.

Therefore, their (eternal villification) official erasure from national consciousness, is the propaganda reality of a cowered and bent elite. Kanzelerin Angela Merkel and her elite boycotting German graves is political correctness yes, but there are few Germans she represents with this PC official politics on the international stage. Many Europeans who have daily contact with ordinary Germans know this, and that is why there is a huge latent fear of the Powerful Germany dominating the EU. They sense behind Merkel's docile mask, lies a fury --one they only know too well!

I have attended birthday bashes in small town Germany, with poems recited by local students lauding the sacrifices of their ‘’grandfathers’’ lost in Stalingrad, the deserts of North Africa, Normandy, unknown U-boat graves, the Crimea and more. In the hearts of Germans, there is no such boycott, neither from their kith and kin, nor from the wider community. Duty is Duty! The boycott, --the ostracism, is the mythology of the political-economic class sworn to the Postdam settlement, like their predecessors generations earlier were sworn to the Versailles settlement. ---This is why German voluntary donations flow to maintain the war-graves of their fellow Germans, exorcised by their elite in a ritual of political supplication to the so called allied powers, 3 of them now openly the inferiors of a risen Germany. 70 years on, this comedy has run its course and needs a modernised script.

When Angela Merkel refuses to acknowledge her war-dead, there is a name they colloquially call her in her own language, and it is not flattering. O No, that is one area German language does not call her Iron!

I do not think the Ukraine is the issue below in this caption from Normandy, D-Day, 2014. Deauville. Putin, a fluent German speaker, must have fenced, --a vicious drive to Merkel’s exposed flank.


Putin: We are all here to urinate on German graves, and you lead the way, my angel!
Merkel: And you, Vladimir, will both shit and piss on Russian graves as you recognise our boy Poroshenko!

NB: A student once told me in their village had been a metal band called GRAVE PISSERS. It was quicly banned after a radio show: The band explained Grave pissers is the baptism of German heads of state who refuse to honour the German war-dead abroad, or at home! --Therefore I know, within German culture itself, the Iron chancellor, most powerful woman in the world (recent ranking), un-official Premier of the EU and the wider Europe, can simply be referred to as GRAVE PISSER!

Yes, the other Europe!

[jakaswanga]

GERMANY EXPELS CIA STATION CHIEF, DISCARDS VERIZON CONTRACTS.

In the original script of burying bad news, by now things should have died down and life gone back to normal. That normality would be the continual collusion of the German elite, through the government, in the monitoring of her citizens by a foreign power, majorly by letting the secret service, the BND, be a subsidiary of American intelligence gathering. So it was much more annoyance at Eduard Snowden who blew the whistle, than discomfort at the bugging of Angela Merkel’s phone, that marked the reactions of the ruling bureaucracy.

In this, they fatally underestimated the sensibilities of their people. Now, after yet another outing of an NSA mole deep in German intelligence, not only has the CIA station chief in Berlin been expelled, but, in addition, an American Telekom company named Verizon,has lost a lucrative business position in Germany, in retaliation. Those are firm public steps, but they do not tell half the story. ---Verizon did stuff for NATO too, and Germany is a central/key NATO nation.

www.valuewalk.com/2014/06/verizon-loses-german-contract-nsa-ties/

Verizon’s business to be transferred to Deutsche Telekom
The German Interior Ministry said they will transfer all business done with Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) to a German-based competitor, Deutsche Telekom AG (ADR) (OTCMKTS:DTEGY) (ETR:DTE), by 2015. The controversy was ignited recently by reports in Germany that the NSA had access to Verizon’s data, which fanned outrage in Germany, a report in the Wall Street Journal noted.
“The relationships between foreign intelligence agencies and companies revealed in the course of the NSA affair show that especially high demands must be made of federal government communications infrastructure that is critical for security,” the Interior Ministry said.

And
online.wsj.com/articles/german-government-ends-verizon-contract-1403802226

An Interior Ministry spokesman declined to specify the size of the Verizon contract. He said Verizon ran the network interconnecting some government agencies, though not ministries or security agencies. Parliament was expected to sever its relationship with Verizon as well, he added.
To critics in Europe and elsewhere, the NSA leaks showed that U.S. companies weren't to be trusted with sensitive data. Non-U.S. technology companies have tried to capitalize on the revelations to gain market share. Increasingly, there are signs that U.S. companies face real problems.
Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.90% General Counsel Brad Smith said last week the business troubles stemming from the Snowden leaks were "getting worse, not better." Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO +0.28% Chief Executive John Chambers has said the disclosures have hurt sales in China. AT&T Inc. T +0.17% executives have said some of their international customers were being urged by overseas competitors to use non-American service providers.
But with the German government's decision, Verizon is taking a more direct, public hit. The New York-based company has played a central role in the past year's government snooping debate. The first reports based on the Snowden documents, published in June 2013, said Verizon was passing along the phone records of millions of U.S. customers to the NSA under a secret court order.

Those disclosures resurfaced in recent days as German media reported that Verizon had been providing Internet service to the German parliament. The new reports touched a nerve in Germany, a country whose experience with Nazi and Communist dictatorships has made people particularly sensitive to spying and where furor over the NSA disclosures has been raging for a year. Snowden leaks made public last fall indicated the NSA was monitoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone.
On Thursday, the Interior Ministry said the German government would stop buying service from Verizon and cited the NSA revelations in its explanation.

Americans have always been spying on every aspect of German life, and the German government bureaucracy has always known and aided it. Even helping the amerians to spy on German technological firms like Siemens on their delivery of centrifuges to Iran.
But these things, routine as they are, have been kept under lock and key, and the blissfully ignorant citizens profess their undying love for the trans-atlantic bondage or alliance. This alliance has of course firmly anchored Germany in the Western orbit after her defeat in the 2nd world war, a situation in which Germany has very much prospered indeed. The elite which has made the most of that deal, can of course be expected to worship the Americans. A slavishness which has now hit a raw nerve with their … less sophisticated population.
It was small town Germany, Christian, conservative and historically loyal to the ruling party where the break hit home.
A top German politician, could be the defence minister Ursula von-der-Leyen, though I do not remember



Christian Democrat current Prime Minister (Chancellor) Angela Merkel is on record describing the secret service intrusions in East Germany where she was born in the most reprehensible terms. Those moral depravities of the STASSI were captured so well in the film The life of others.

The Lives of Others
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen) is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, about the monitoring of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police.

Small town Germany asked: So Germans spying on Germans on behalf of Russians is morally depraved, but Germans spying on Germans on behalf of Americans is kosher, --huh!? Slavish GDR girl just changed masters, but is still in her old family game of spying on Germans, No!?
And they spat at the politician, and left unceremoniously, not bothering to offer her the flowers that are customary in such orchestrated meet the people in a town-hall event.

When ordinary Germans spit at their elite and call them running dogs of foreigners, that is a bolt of lightning, and the politicians sit up to listen. That is the equivalent of a Chinese emperor loosing the mandate of Heaven.

And so a few strong steps proved inevitable to try and appease the enraged German senses.

But politicians will be politicians though. Take a look at the following pretences to bewilderment.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he could not comprehend why the U.S. would spy on his country.
"We speak to each other all the time, and nobody keeps their views secret," he said in an interview published Wednesday by the Saarbruecker Zeitung.

The USA conducts industrial espionage to gain competitive advantage for her companies and interests. From the Snowden revelations we now know this is routine.

Shortly before Thursday's announcement, Merkel told reporters that Germany and the United States had "very different approaches" to the role of intelligence agencies, and she insisted that any spying on allies is "a waste of energy."

“That’s so stupid that one can only cry at the foolishness of it,” the influential German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said, adding in televised comments that Chancellor Angela Merkel is “not amused” by the latest scandal.

The USA tries her best to thwart a Russo-German pivot. Is a well known geopolitical consideration after the cold war.

the Russian President, Putin was asked about the tone of his conversations with European leaders. He gave a wry response. “It’s hard to talk to people who speak in whispers to each other even when they’re at home, because they’re scared the Americans are eavesdropping,” Putin said, causing a wave of laughter spread across the studio audience. “Listen, I’m being serious,” he deadpanned. “I’m not kidding.”

he he! That Obama listens to private conversations between Merkel and her partner! And with the so called Prism monitors, they even manipulate the handset to record the intimate scenes of the German leader, making out with her man in their abode!
I is quite a partnership, USA Germany!

Critics attack NSA’s Prism monitors
The controversial NSA program called Prism monitors phone calls and can enter into individual smart phones and turn on microphones to eavesdrop. This is routinely done overseas without a warrant, and critics charge this is the case in the US as well. The program, which was said to be well known in the intelligence and terrorist community, was later revealed in widespread fashion by Edward Snowden.

Frau Merkel has always had high reputation as a manager of Germany. The iron chancellor she went. But events non economic have conspired to cut an image of her as a weak leader secure in the ritual humiliation of herself, her government, and her people at the hands of a trusted friend.
This time it is the German people leading her, and with gritted teeth the iron lady melts. And here is another contradiction. As the USA Asia pivot assumes war posturing against China, for Germany it means gaming for more bilateral trade! ---Darling Barrack, we are both looking East, what is the problem dear?

www.dw.de/trade-tops-agenda-for-germanys-angela-merkel-on-china-trip/a-17761479

Trade will be the main priority during Merkel's visit, the chancellor having in tow a high-powered business delegation, which German media say includes Siemens, VW, Airbus, Lufthansa and Deutsche Bank.

Germany and China: A special relationship?

How much China means to Germany is obvious given the number of trips Chancellor Merkel has made to the country: seven. But that number also shows just how hard it is to deal with the increasingly assertive Asian giant. (04.07.2014)

After the European Union as a whole, China is Germany's third-largest trading partner, behind the US at number two. In 2013, German companies sold goods worth 67 billion euros ($91 billion) to the Asian giant. Imports from China totalled more than 73 billion euros.

[jakaswanga]

SPECULATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF ANGELA MERKEL SURFACE IN GERMANY

The German Power bureaucracy may have terminated the contracts of the American high-tech Telecoms company Verizon, but I am afraid it is little more than a face-saving, choreographed tokenism. Germany is not looking for a trade-war with her benefactor, the United States of America. The German commercial and business elite, like her political and state bureaucrats, is basically impotent in the face of raw Yankee [dollar transactions monopoly] power, and other covert arm-twisting prowess. To illustrate that point, we take a detour, to France, Paris, and to the bank BNP Paribas. (Later we will investigate just how much of a godsend the downing of Malaysia flight MH 017 has been to the Yankees, in their geopolitical moves to isolate Putin and tame Russia).

But first the French Banking gigant BNP Paribas.

 BNP Paribas Caves On US Pressure, Will Pay $8.9 Billion Fine

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE JUNE. 27, 2014, 7:25 AM

US authorities are set to announce Monday a deal in which the French bank BNP Paribas pleads guilty to helping some countries to avoid US sanctions and agrees to pay an $8.9 billion fine, the New York Times reported Friday

It is a ruthless and savage attack at the French financial system. And France being one of the supposed motors of the EU economy, this was a stabbing charge at the heart of the EU economy. The Yankees are sending messages.

Watch how nervous President Francois Hollande of France got. Given the Yankees have also been frowning in the background, about the French arms deals with the Russian Federation.

French officials have spent years defending a $1.7 billion arms sale to Russia, a deal Paris won after beating out rival nations like Germany and Spain. The United States and its Baltic allies have spent just as long warning that selling powerful amphibious warships to the Kremlin risked giving Russian strongman Vladimir Putin powerful new weapons to use against his neighbors.

www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/01/us-bnp-paribas-settlement-idUSKBN0F52HA20140701

Worries about the future of France's biggest listed bank and the knock-on effect on the fragile French economy prompted President Francois Hollande to express concern to Barack Obama and a French threat to derail U.S.-EU trade talks.

One must understand, and therefore never underestimate the stranglehold the USA, through the dollar as the reserve currency, exerts on her allies at large. They will mumble, but they will bulge. That was the defeated-men’s agreement when they accepted the Marshall Plan to reconstruct Europe after their stupid continental tribal war.

Actually BNP neither broke French nor European laws! But she disobeyed the boss, and must pay.

The case concerns charges that BNP Paribas breached US sanctions against Iran, Sudan and Cuba between 2002 and 2009 by handling $30 billion worth of transactions with them.
The admission of guilt could have meant the bank would lose its license to operate in the United States.
Instead, the New York state financial regulator, Benjamin Lawsky, has taken aim at the bank's ability to engage in dollar clearing -- processing payments in dollar denominations. This key to dealing with international clients, the paper said.
Some units within the bank's headquarters in Paris, and in its offices in Geneva and Singapore, will be barred from clearing dollar transactions for at least six months, the Times said.
The bank's oil and gas unit is among those that face the suspension. It was involved in many of the illegal transactions in this case.
Read more: www.businessinsider.com/bnp-paribas-caves-on-us-pressure-will-pay-89-billion-fine-2014-6#ixzz37Z4nZ0QI

I am always fascinated at what FIN-SEC Henry Rotich really thinks, when he hears local 'dollar millionares' in Uhuru Kenyatta entourage, threaten the USA with sanctions of our own! I always imagine the Havard kennedy man sighing with his head deep in his chest: we do not do our transactions in KERICHO-GROWN GREEN LEAVES, SIRS!

Germany may be up there at top 5, vying with Japan for the number 3 spot behind China, but her competition with the USA remains very much in the mode of never bite too much the hand that feeds you. The dollar monopoly is a deep dependency, that creates a dog that would never dare test the end of the leash. That is why, that she cut Verazon contracts is more of a public relations exercise, an appeasement bone tossed to the enraged German nationalism to gnaw.

Yes. popular German nationalism has had her sensibilities thoroughly rattled by the NSA spy scandals, thanks to the much publicised Eduard Snowden revelations concerning the GDR-like official paranoia at the top of the Unified Germany, ---and all on behalf or at the behest of her best friend, the USA!

The German national interest served has not been clearly demonstrated by the security establishment, nor the political elite. And so a mild scepsis has turned into open animosity.

It can be argued, that imbecilic nationalism-cum-fervent patriotism has led to the total destruction of Germany twice in one century; but at the same time, the subservience of the current elite, even as the best friend USA treats Chancellor Merkel with open disdain and contempt, incenses the sensibilities of the populace enough to rebel and ask fundamental questions about the nature of this friendship. Is it still the defeat signed in Reims, as the total and unconditional surrender, over half a century ago, still being rubbed in?

Hmmm

(Fwack the EU, a b!tchy American official well known to bad boy b6k said. Well, everyone understood she meant Germany, and that meant Merkel’s golden gloves boy, Klitsch, was dust in the Ukraine prime minsterial race! –-Well, Klischko withdrew his support from Viktoria's golden boy Yats, and Yats resigned yesterday with a bang! So the shadow boxing between the allies continues in Ukraine!).
For Merkel, ensconced between these two forces –the necessary subservience to the USA and the necessary posturing to assuage German public opinion national dignity is not sold, we read the strain cracking the Iron lady's face. Her prestige and social standing in Germany ebbs, and an unease slowly gathers over the land. Bets are out on her departure date.

The economy goes good and the world cup has been won, but the scepticism within the heart of her people is a worry. Her departure is being discussed. We are World Champions! The crowds sang unconvincingly, and the victorious MANNSCHAFT danced woodenly: ''we are too docile to other powers to be true world champions!'', a nationalist breathed rain on the party.

NB: That the USA has to use these kind of heavy weapons on allies to keep them in cheque, is a statement on the actual power of the USA. Minions no longer censor themselves in advance in awe at the Lord of all lands, no, they wait to see what he will do. May be the big stick he wields is just flaccid cellophane. The dominated are learning to take their chances! Manning up!

[jakaswanga]

OF WAR MEMORIES AND THE MONSTER'S BALL IN MOSCOW 09-05-2015.



It was a beautiful pre-summer day in May. Moscow was clean like it used to be in the Soviet days, when members of the public at large were mobilised to sweep clean the streets in advance of the Labour day celebrations.
Gorki Park was awash with veterans and people. The veterans, in the prime of their youth 70 years ago, are today aged and frail, and most of the once lithe able bodies could barely displace themselves in space without a second, and in some cases, a third party. But their blood-earned medals they wore in pride, full in ornamented uniform and regalia, showing of the honorary trappings of a now dead Soviet republic, the once mighty USSR.
Boris Sokolov was honoured. His weapon was the camera. He shot reels and reels of film and stills at the front, documenting the experience for posterity. A veteran looked up at the new jets flying over Gorki park. ''We did what we had to do. It was a terrible sacrifice and Russia bled to near death. The German enemy, I have respect for them too. Their determination was demonic, their tactical skill ferocious, their loyalty to their Fuhrer and his wrong ideas, resolute and total. It was a painful, painful time. Children, believe me you do not want to go through it. But if called upon to defend Mother Russia, do what you must. Pay the going price the way we did. It is the only way Russia survives forever, proud and free to chart her own path in the world.''
Then looking to salute a slow moving aircraft dragging a large Russian flag, the old soldier predicted his death: ''By this time next year, I feel the grips of death on my old bones, I doubt I will still be seeing the sun. So, children, let me tell you one more time: Russia did not come here by weak resolve. The Americans and our European allies have boycotted Russia today. Find it in your hearts to face them off, should they come to put Mother Russia down!''
The youthful Russians around him found flowers and handed them respectfully to the old soldier waiting for his grave: ''Hurraa! Hurrah!'' his listeners greeted him with their eyes at a Russian flag show-cased in the wind nearby. The old soldiers tears flowed, with the painful memories of sacrifice to Mother Russia, with the thoughts of his coming demise, with the emotional satisfaction the new generation will pay the price if necessary for Russia to be …. ? .. who knows why old soldiers weep in public on memorial days!? May be they instinctively weep in advance for the pain of future wars?

No Western leader attended the this last parade for a generation of soldiers. Hmmm. A chill.

End part 1.

[jakaswanga]

70TH anniversary victory day, Moscow, Russia. Part II.

© Sputnik/ Host Photo Agency.

According to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, leaders of China, India, South Africa, Venezuela, Vietnam, Germany, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Macedonia, Mongolia, Palestine, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Cyprus, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have confirmed their participation in the commemoration events in the Russian capital.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova will also take part in the celebrations.
According to the Russian president's aide Yuri Ushakov, the event will also be attended by foreign ministers of Italy and France. The United Kingdom, according to Ushakov, will be represented by Winston Churchill's grandson.
Read more: sputniknews.com/russia/20150509/1021900126.html#ixzz3ZefjpmH7

For the NATO-allied medium and small powers of Western Europe, they hearkened to POTUS Obama's orders not to attend. (there are other convoluted ways of saying that. But I am short of temper now!)

For those who have paid attention to it, it has been a fascinating ride. From the celebration of the drunk clown Boris Yeltsin at the end of the cold war, to the confrontation with the brooding bear Vladimir Putin in his annexation of the Crimea, events have kept a dizzying pace. But we have hit the wall. And broken apart. Europe is in troubled waters. And I do not see a harbour in site yet. But that could be the mist, or my sore eye sight.
Well
No western leader will attend the celebrations in Russia, today 09-05-2015, to mark the defeat of the German Nazi Army. That was way back in 1945. In the war called the Great patriotic war in Russia, the Soviet Union lost an excess of 30 million people, and bore the brunt of the fighting against the German army.

Hitler's defeat was majorly an Eastern Front affair. But fact can get in the way of a good tale, and, after all, politics as we know these days, is an image affair, yes, a public-relations exercise. Now, in such an era photo-shopped images communicate best, they say, and politicians are running advert shows. That being the case, faith to facts is very bad for business. So forget the facts.
Who cares if it was Ivan the Bear who broke the back of the Nazi monster!? the western leaders mock the Russians and their Putin now. Western cartoonists have all but turned into Charlie-Hebdoo Islamophobe clones, ridiculing Putin and his Russian military parade.



The West Europeans ganged up in the EU and NATO, are re-writing, re-interpreting their own tribal history of warfare in the past century. And nobody West remembers exactly what the Russians did then, apart from annexing the Baltic States, colonising large swathes of Eastern Europe, decimating their elites and keeping them mum behind an iron curtain, until the Berlin Wall broke and sunlight entered the dungeon. And Kingdom came.
I believe this deliberate historical marginalisation of Russian sacrifice is one of the most dangerous and callous insults in modern European history. I believe it is a psychological break with apparent decency. ---Not that these Western nations have been decent, seeing their colonial adventures AFTER the 2nd world war across much of the globe, nay, but for their own European population, these elites have tried to construct a decent narrative of a common European home, and, cold war or no cold war, the EEC [precursor to the current EU] was a pretty sexy effort at tribal get-togetherness. But now they have blown that euro-cold war decency apart, though it can also be explained by this: it is no longer possible for the medium European powers to EXPORT their internal contradictions, given the change in the international power equation. So chickens must roost at home where they are brood.
It means ancient tribal rivalries re-emerge in middle-eastern sectarian fashion!

PS:(No, that is not a comment on the results of the UK GE, where Scotland has virtually become another country with the Scottish Nationalists converting her into a one-party tribal state, and down south, the victorious Tory party just the English tribal equivalent. Labour is a curious outfit for the urban and cosmopolitan, avant garde and bohemian freaks! A disunited kingdom)

But that is a story for elsewhere.

As far as Russia goes, these European sub powers who endorse rigged elections around the world and praise terrorist regimes allied to them, now cite Novorussia –-there were actually elections held there--- and the Crimea, there too was a referendum held, as reasons to boycott the celebrations in Moscow marking the defeat of Fuhrer Hitler. (Novorrossiya is that part of East Ukraine where we have the Donetsk peoples republic, and the Luhansk equivalent. And another Yugoslav-like civil war).

What does these boycott say about the narrative of the holocaust? The great ultimate evil perpetrated by the Nazis on Jews majorly!?

Who cares!? Commemorate it yourself if you want. It is apartheid!

Auschwitz Holocaust memorial ceremonies begin without Putin, Obama. January 28, 2015

An international gathering at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland is missing the leader of the nation, whose predecessor liberated its prisoners 70 years ago.
The event is being attended by 12 presidents, five prime ministers some 300 survivors of the camp, where more than 1.4 million people, most of them European Jews, were killed over five years of Nazi rule.
This year’s commemoration of the Holocaust tragedy is of special significance, since it’s likely to be the last major anniversary which most survivors will be able to attend. The youngest ex-prisoners of the death camp are now in their 70s.
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The quiet diplomatic scandal is aggravated by controversial statements made last week by Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna, who gave credit for liberating the prisoners of the death camp to Ukrainians, because the force that did it was called the 1st Ukrainian front of the Red Army.
The statement is historically inaccurate, since the front was named after the territory where its operations were conducted and composed of soldiers of numerous ethnicities, including Ukrainians, Russians, Tatars, Chechens, Poles and many others. Many people criticized Schetyna, who had to explain that he unintentionally generalized an episode of the liberation – the gates of one of the death camp’s facilities were torn down by a tank driven by a Ukrainian soldier. @euronews

www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/world/europe/putin-wont-attend-auschwitz-liberation-commemoration.html?_r=0

Putin Won’t Attend Commemoration of Auschwitz Liberation
By RICK LYMANJAN. 13, 2015

WARSAW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia will not be attending the 70th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camps, his spokesman told a Moscow radio station on Tuesday. The spokesman said that the president’s schedule was too packed and that he was not invited.

Europe has run aground in a certain way, or rather, the premise … and consensus... on which they based the new morality post the Fuhrer republic –-where the holocaust was defined as the ultimate historical evil, is now shattered. 30 million Russians, who cares, 6 million Jews, who cares, Rwandan genocide, so what? Just another ''historical detail'' as the extreme right wing French politician Jean LePen once said, and was roasted alive.
This is the same old dark world. Terrifying and dangerous. Sectarian and denying a common humanity of the species. This is a suicidal mentality.

NB: The Belgians –-who are a people who do not exist because they are Balkanised into French Flames and Germans--- have a saying: the soup is not eaten as hot as it is served. So I will let you take the above statement about the collapse of post-war European civilisation with a pinch of salt.

Ever since Obama was elected President of the USA, there is a detail I have been following keenly. Does a modernist Harvard-trained professor at law know the definition of a GENOCIDE? And would he help Europeans out?

For Anniversary of Armenian Genocide, Obama Calls It an ‘Atrocity’ Instead
President Obama called it “the first mass atrocity of the 20th century,” “the horrors of 1915” and “a dark chapter in history.” But one thing Mr. Obama did not call the century-old Armenian genocide was genocide.
In a much-anticipated statement marking Friday’s 100th anniversary of the start of the slaughter of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks, Mr. Obama on Thursday skirted around the word that has caused so much backlash from Turkey every time someone uses it.

You see, most of us from the third world who have been to history class in Europe really can be driven to the edge of our intellectual patience on this word. I am talking about ARMENIA, and the Ottoman army. 1914 or thereabouts.
Shiiiiiiiit! Europeans are not sure that was a genocide. Those 1.4 million Armenian's massacred. At the same time denying a genocide, or a holocaust, is actually a criminal offence in the European Union. Opinion is of course divided –--even among historians. In the NATO country called Turkey, opinion is more like consensus: no genocide. On the other side in Armenia, the opinion tends to be consensus to the contrary. Yes, a genocide. Toss a coin then.

How about the leading lights of civilisation –--France, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia!?
Armenia: Genocide or not? It is a bit like Eastern Congo and her estimated 5 million dead. Whether it is a genocide or not is a matter of opinion, African folklore really. (I characterise that as a collapse in civilisation when leading lights no longer know the definition of a genocide! But as I intimated, that is hot soup, better let it cool!)

The new question then is: if you know not the definition of a genocide, would you know well the definition of a holocaust?
A holocaust is industrialised genocide. But if you know not the meaning of a genocide, surely that statement is meaningless.
Mesays the European elite has now manoeuvred their continent into a place where their right wing can now officially deny the holocaust. They have blown up the consensus of civilisation and opened the gates for all wild seeds to flower. In the Ukraine, the Western alliance with Neo-Nazis is now obvious. Hitler rules.

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/63f1c11e-a319-11e4-9c06-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3Pfe5vv9R
January 23, 2015 5:39 pm
Dispute between Russia and Poland overshadows Auschwitz tributes
Henry Foy in Warsaw

A political war of words between Warsaw and Moscow has overshadowed the planning of events to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz, as Europe’s Jewish community prepares to mark the anniversary amid rising trepidation.
Heads of state from across Europe will attend events at the site of the death camp, in Poland, on Tuesday, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be present after a diplomatic snub from Warsaw and allegations of “anti-Russian hysteria”, as the conflict in Ukraine looms large over the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation.
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Poland has been one of the harshest critics of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, and the almost year-long conflict was thought to be behind the decision by Warsaw not to extend a formal invitation to Mr Putin to attend the events at Nazi Germany’s most infamous death camp.
Invitations to the event were sent out by joint organisers the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and International Auschwitz Council, but Moscow was affronted by Warsaw’s decision to not also issue a personal invitation to Mr Putin, who made a speech at a similar event at the camp 10 years ago.
The row over Mr Putin’s involvement in the ceremonies escalated this week when Poland’s foreign minister suggested that Ukrainian troops should be celebrated for liberating the camp, and not the Soviet Red Army, drawing strong condemnation from Russia.
“It is well known that Auschwitz was liberated by Red Army troops that consisted of all ethnic groups participating in the heroic fight . . . One should cease to mock history and extend anti-Russian hysteria to disrespect the memory of those who did not spare their lives for liberation of Europe,” the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said in a statement.
In response the Polish foreign minister Grzegorz Schetyna on Friday clarified his comments from earlier in the week by saying that he had meant that Ukrainian soldiers were the first to break down the gates of the camp, as members of a larger, multinational unit of the army.
Mr Putin’s chief of staff will represent Russia at the ceremony, which the presidents of Germany, France, Poland and Ukraine are among the heads of state expected to attend.
The events at Auschwitz, where over 1.1m people were exterminated, has also focused attention on the attitude towards Europe’s Jewish population after the recent terror attacks in Paris, and similar attacks on Jews in Brussels and Toulouse in recent years. The majority of those killed at Auschwitz were Jews.
At the same time as the ceremony at Auschwitz, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) will hold a conference in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, just a five-hour drive from the former extermination camp, where European politicians and senior Jewish leaders will debate policy proposals to defend against fears of rising anti-semitism.
“All Jews in Europe are thinking about danger. They are frightened to practise Judaism openly . . .  a common feeling,” said Moshe Kantor, president of the EJC. “People going to Auschwitz are doing their symbolic duties, and I think that is good . . . But it is not enough. We need to do something more, something real, something institutional.”
Following the attack on a Jewish supermarket as part of the terrorist siege of Paris this month, Mr Kantor says legislative steps such as establishing a European Union special envoy responsible for acting against anti-semitism and the codifying of a “model law” of tolerance in Europe are needed.
“European Jews are under threat like never before. And there is the very real possibility that another Jewish accident in Europe could happen,” Mr Kantor said.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker are scheduled to attend the conference, which is also hosted by the Czech government.
Earlier this week the UN General Assembly held its first meeting focused on global efforts to tackle anti-semitism, to address what delegates described as an “alarming outbreak of anti-semitism worldwide”.

Stunned by internal German questioning –--Germany can occasionally take herself to the couch with a gusto that reminds of shiite self-mutilation (flagellation) in solidarity with the murdered Ali----- Chancellor Merkel conjured up a compromise.


Ashura, the self-flagellation of shiite.

Angela Merkel to boycott Russian war commemorations in May

Stefan Wagstyl in Berlin ©Bloomberg

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has joined the growing list of western leaders who will boycott Russia’s May commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war in protest over the Ukraine crisis.
But, in a delicate diplomatic manoeuvre, she will visit Moscow the day after the Red Square military ceremony on May 9, and, together with President Vladimir Putin, lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The plan, disclosed on Wednesday by Die Zeit newspaper and confirmed by a government spokesman, follows months of agonising by the German chancellor since Mr Putin’s invitation last summer.

There! After a session at the couch, Germany will delegate her chancellor to Russia, the morning after!
Hmmm! And my tribesman Obama? No, as president of the USA he wont used the word genocide on the Armenian-Ottoman episode at the end of world war I. As candidate he once saide he could think about it, as ex president soon, may be he will use the word. Meanwhile, he is trying to find out what that word means. One can not be too careful with big words.
Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Sudan … any opinions?

Although Mr. Obama called the acts against the Armenian's genocide as a presidential candidate in 2008 and vowed to do so once he reached the White House, he once again chose not to follow through on his promise for fear of offending Turkey, a NATO ally that denies that the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenian's constituted genocide. Instead, Mr. Obama implied that he still thought it was genocide even if he did not say so directly.
“I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view has not changed,” he said in the statement, without explicitly repeating what that view was.
@newyorktimes

That is Harvard being a fraud. We will handle that aspect when he comes to Nairobi!

Next: BETRAYAL IN THE CITY: Angela in a quandary. Hunted and cornered.

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The German secret service, the BND, was willingly annexed by the American NSA and used to spy on German domestic targets as well as other European targets, not only politicians, but companies and their executives as well!

You heard that before: THE STASSI were a KGB department!

Angela's office knew all along, even colluded by looking the other way, but kept up appearances of hurt feelings when the scandal broke! The iron chancellor does not appear to be of a steely mind no more. Just another American conquest.
Der Verrat! The Betrayal: even pro-government, conservative papers could not avoid the word. If they did, they would be laughing stock like British pollsters after the May 8 General election result.
As she meets Putin tomorrow may 10 2015 after boycotting today's grand parade, I am sure the cynical Russian will take pot shots at her with mocking quips: ''I should of course not forget to compliment your dominator Barrack for blessing me with your presence here, my Angel!''

[jakaswanga]

THE WOLF SCHAUBLE RUNS AMOK, BUT WHAT IS COOKING UNDER?

The callous ruthlessness with which the popular vote has been crushed, the nonchalant vindictiveness with which the democratic wishes of the Greek people tossed aside, all in a would-be leading light of modern civilisation and open society called the European Union, needs to be noted as a watershed. Hitherto, it had been in the third world where 'White Mischief'' ran amok and, for instance, The 'Company' changed regimes with murderous impunity regardless of their democratic mandate. From Jacobo Arbez Guzman (Guatemala 1954) via, continents apart, Lumumba of Congo (1961), to Chile's Salvador Allende (1973), that was just the way white mischief was. –-Of late we have had the thwarted attempts at Venezuela's late Hugo Chavez, and the curbed tenure of Rafael Correa of Equador (2010). —I am avoiding current Egypt whose monster is NOW the toss of Berlin, thanks to a gas deal with Siemens.

Now, anno 2015, the game is played right at home. Greece. Well, bloodless coup then. There is no where to hid the simple truth. I dread the cynical, dreadfully mocking look on Paul Kagame's face, should, now that he is becoming Eternal Paul, any Western leader dare give him a lecture on DEMOCRACY and its principles!

Something, or things, are really dead with this Greek thing. I am not sure European leaders recognise what they have lost. But Europa has squandered her political relevance to the world as a force for good (for example those working for western-funded NGO's in say Africa, become even more of sitting ducks!)

But unaware, them Europeans are still huddled in their domestic poses. Let us take a look at the lead actor gods in the Greek drama.

SCHAUBLE THE TYRANT

He is the baddest cop of them all, a role he relishes. And he pushed it until it came to blows. There was a complete meltdown within the Eurogroup meeting in Brussels, as Wolfgang Schauble showed his utter contempt and disdain for the Italian chair of the ECB, Mario Draghi. The Italian recently had a famous victory over the wheel-chair bound German, when the Bundesbank was forced, caveats yes, to accede to (QE) the limitless printing of Euros, making the currency a suspected paper-tiger.

Here is the sanitized version (of the Brussels 'fistfight') as the mouth piece of global capital would run it:

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f908e534-2942-11e5-8db8-c033edba8a6e.html#ixzz3fneM6Npi

Michel Sapin, the French finance minister, suggested they just “get it all out and tell one another the truth” to blow off steam. Many in the room seized the opportunity with relish.
Alexander Stubb, the Finnish finance minister, lashed out at the Greeks for being unable to reform for half a century, according to two participants. As recriminations flew, Euclid Tsakalotos, the Greek finance minister, was oddly subdued.

The wrangling culminated when Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister who has advocated a temporary Grexit, told off Mario Draghi, European Central Bank chairman. At one point, Mr Schäuble, feeling he was being patronised, fumed at the ECB head that he was “not an idiot”. The comment was one too many for eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who adjourned the meeting until the following morning.
“It was extremely hard, violent even,” said one participant.

It reminds of those now forgotten classical Arab League summits, where shoes and ash-trays would be flying about, as various Arab heads of states called out the private parts of their opponent's mothers for things very bad and smelly.

Tsakalotos the Greek was 'oddly subdued!' How very delicious! But wait for it when old rats of the trade, with much more brutal turns of phrase, remove the gloves and report the punch!

Anyway the crisis over Greece must have stirred something so deep, must be so important, otherwise tempers wouldn't fray, much less at this intensity.

So what is really up? (apart from the twin pent up fury of a humiliated Germany finding some weakling to sadistisize, and neo-liberal Rome making an example of Socialist-clad Spartacus).

WE MUST GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SIN.

What was the real reason for the obsession with European integration? What was the real rationale behind the grand project which birthed the EEC, then the EU, then the single currency?

It was not the desire for democracy. Rather, it was the desire for peace. An important distinction.

It was the fear of another intra-European tribal war. The best way to do this was to find a new way of containing Germany. Old punitive ways of neutralising Germany, like reparative humiliation after defeat in war, had proved just preludes to the same. There needed be a New Deal after the horrors of the second world war. The answer became European integration, a political project to be given an economic base. (This was quickly hijacked by the IDEOLOGICAL demands of the cold war. –-Containing Germany began to masquerade as liberal democracy, advertising its superiority over the dark East.)

When the geo-politically street-smart Americans entered the equation, the imperative became not just containing Germany, but making sure 'Germany' and Russia did not link up to carve out Europe for themselves, leaving the rest with scattered bones. (Why did German re-unification take so long? –-you are free to think because Germans did not want it!)

This is a kind of Germany after World War I.



Below is 'another Germany' after world War II.



DEFINE GERMAN REUNIFICATION now!

Is Angela Merkel the chancellor of a ''Unified Germany' or not? (I used to ask this question of Germans as a joke until one day, a bit tipsy, I asked for a show of hands whether Helmut Kohl was the chancellor of half or quarter unification, or total or whatever! –--I had stumbled on a trip-wire!)


The Oder-Neisse Line: Agreement with Poland that recognized Poland within its borders, recognized the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland. That was one of the keys that unlocked the way to unification.

So mesays the European Union Project was built on the fear of 'Germany' –-whichever one had in mind. The Union was not stooled on the love for democracy, nor the fellowship of freedom, since the post-war settlement left Western Europe an 'American protectorate' –-a kind of colony with wide terms of autonomy. But accepting the current Germany as a normal and healthy state with no hidden, germinating trauma, still leaves room for other fears of the future, like this one articulated best by Germany's Chancellor, Merkel.

andrewgavinmarshall.com/2015/07/07/between-berlin-and-a-hard-place-greece-and-the-german-strategy-to-dominate-europe/

As Chancellor Merkel and other German leaders would frequently remind the rest of Europe and the world, with 7% of the world population, 25% of global GDP and 50% of world social spending, Europe’s economic system was unsustainable and uncompetitive in a globalized economy. Germany’s vision for Europe was aimed at introducing “rules to force Europe’s economies to become more competitive.” But competitiveness was defined by Germany, and thus, “the rest of Europe needs to become more like Germany.”

How does Europe look like in a NORMAL world where Europa is 5% population and accounts for less or about 10% worth of world GDP?

It would need a revolutionary reorganisation so radical it is barely conceivable. Otherwise Greece as we see now, is the future of that Europe. Diminished, forlorn, unrecognisable as once a great civilisation! That is the fear settling in. The spectre haunting Europe as it were!

FOOTNOTE: HUMILIATED GERMANY?

Yap. In recent power-plays, the United States has shown Germany her place, confirming the ruling D-Mark-obsessed elite in their vassal position as tribute payers to the dollar. It took elite commentator magazines like Derspiegel a whole year to use the term verrat, a term which German tabloids, much more in tune with the basic instincts of their land, had used immediately when the scandal of NSA intrusions broke and the devil in the detail was the German intelligence service itself, unsupervised nor prodded by the German political masters, was, on orders of the Americans, domestically spying on Germans, German companies, their European neighbours, and even Chancellor Merkel's own phone! That is deep rogue!

The German Intelligence Agency (BND) assisted the US National Security Agency (NSA) in spying on European targets, including German interests, according to a report in Spiegel Online on Thursday.
The BND provided signals intelligence (SIGINT) for the NSA in more than 40,000 instances, according to the report. One of the targets was the Airbus Group, an aerospace and defense manufacturer.
The type of information the BND is allowed to collect is said to be strictly regulated by German law. The German spy agency is reported to have passed on Internet IP addresses as well as mobile phone numbers to the NSA.

In ordinary German that is called THE BIG TREACHERY! In High German spoken by the US-dominated elite, this is called cooperation! Still, Angela Merkel was forced by public pressure to … reluctantly kind of confront the spymaniac Obama. It was a foolhardy move, since the American cold-blood was a mixture of complicated responses which only worsened the alienation back home in small town Germany. What the Germans got was the mockery, like –-'me? your phone!? That is outrageous Angela! Your own BND listened and shared gossip with my NSA! Boys will be boys! They will tape their own parents bedroom to have an idea of stuff!'


THE BETRAYAL

Then the German legal experts under political direction like in banana republics, decided there was no case to answer. In any case the Americans told them they did not know what they were talking about, so how could information be verified?

The German government plans to limit their level of cooperation with a recently formed parliamentary panel investigating mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency, Der Spiegel reports.

The 8-member panel of inquiry, comprising six lawmakers from the ruling coalition and two from the opposition, will only be given limited access to a so-called bilateral no-spy agreement currently being negotiated with Washington. Access to relevant documents will be limited as it is considered to be “an ongoing process” regarding “a core area of government responsibility” which is constitutionally protected, a senior government official told the German daily.

Not all the facts availed, case closed. But there was the Bear Putin having a laugh, discretely mocking Merkel too. 'Angela, Russia hopes German manufacturers are not as shoddy as German legal experts! We intend to continue buying lots of German stuff you see!'
On top of all these, adding insult to the injury of Germany as a banana republic, was the memory of the state department's Viktoria Nuland. Over the Ukraine crisis she famously dismissed the EU, and thus Germany and Merkel, as 'irrelevant pin-heads nobody should care a fcuk about'. This public dressing down of Frau Merkel by an American upstart was not lost on German public opinion, just like when former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi mused Angela's rears were an unassailable fort for a quickie!

Germany has been seething, abused left and right even by things she historically considers her natural inferiors, a wounded beast looking for anything to vent. Poor Greece served itself. The German elite, exposed internationally as political second fiddler nobodys, fearful of their domestic standing, would make a point on Greece. Like a wrathful Peleide Achilles desecrating the body of Priamide Hector, Wolfgang Schauble set upon Alexis Tsipras with a pathological fury. Anything sellable in Greece would be sold to offset debt, and the kitty stashed in an account in Luxembourg, in a bank in which Wolfgang personally has control over! In other words, like Old King Leopold of Belgium once owned the Congo, her people and all, Wolfgang Schauble would personally control Greece's reserves!

All that In the year of our lord 2015!

Yes, I consider that a pathological fury. An unhinged Germany. That kind of rage can not be explained by small Greece threatening the adored Euro, no, that is a seething Germany gone beserk, exorcising other demons far from Greece! Greece is peanuts.

Wounded pride.

There was this seditious cartoon in which two big bullies, Obama and Putin, are arguing about a demure, smallish Merkel waiting her fate to be decided. Who will have the rights of first entry and abuse?
Obama: Damn it, Vladimir, there are several holes there. We share!
Putin: No, Barrack, I want her all for myself first. This is a European affair!



Everybody is amused, except the Germans.

[podp]

Jul 19, 2015 9:29:23 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

THE WOLF SCHAUBLE RUNS AMOK, BUT WHAT IS COOKING UNDER?

The callous ruthlessness with which the popular vote has been crushed, the nonchalant vindictiveness with which the democratic wishes of the Greek people tossed aside, all in a would-be leading light of modern civilisation and open society called the European Union, needs to be noted as a watershed. Hitherto, it had been in the third world where 'White Mischief'' ran amok and, for instance, The 'Company' changed regimes with murderous impunity regardless of their democratic mandate. From Jacobo Arbez Guzman (Guatemala 1954) via, continents apart, Lumumba of Congo (1961), to Chile's Salvador Allende (1973), that was just the way white mischief was. –-Of late we have had the thwarted attempts at Venezuela's late Hugo Chavez, and the curbed tenure of Rafael Correa of Equador (2010). —I am avoiding current Egypt whose monster is NOW the toss of Berlin, thanks to a gas deal with Siemens.

Now, anno 2015, the game is played right at home. Greece. Well, bloodless coup then. There is no where to hid the simple truth. I dread the cynical, dreadfully mocking look on Paul Kagame's face, should, now that he is becoming Eternal Paul, any Western leader dare give him a lecture on DEMOCRACY and its principles!
.......

Here is the sanitized version (of the Brussels 'fistfight') as the mouth piece of global capital would run it:

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f908e534-2942-11e5-8db8-c033edba8a6e.html#ixzz3fneM6Npi


Everybody is amused, except the Germans.

1st red high light

if one reads current Times issue on Greece it gives one a view of the lazy good for nothing Greeks. in a way if one has been to say Germany, Spain, Ireland and Greece one cannot avoid noticing the work ethics of Germans is miles apart from that of Greeks. cheap money and joining the EU made the Greeks access 'cheap' loans which they used to indulge their senses instead of being productive. it is almost like the 'Footsteps of ....' the late Congolese kleptomaniac Mobutu Seseseko stealing reloaded. so for democracy try elsewhere not the EU as Noam noted..."the goal of production is to produce free people," -- "free men," he said, but that's many years ago. That's the goal of production, not to produce commodities. He was a major theorist of democracy. There were many different, conflicting strands of democratic theory, but the one I'm talking about held that democracy requires dissolution of private power. He said as long as there is private control over the economic system, talk about democracy is a joke. Repeating basically Adam Smith, Dewey said, Politics is the shadow that big business casts over society. He said attenuating the shadow doesn't do much. Reforms are still going to leave it tyrannical. Basically, a classical liberal view. His main point was that you can't even talk about democracy until you have democratic control of industry, commerce, banking, everything. That means control by the people who work in the institutions, and the communities.

www.chomsky.info/books/warfare02.htm

2nd red high light

the paper you quote is for the masses otherwise for the elite the aim is different. again Noam says....the educational system is divided into fragments. The part that's directed toward working people and the general population is indeed designed to impose obedience. But the education for elites can't quite do that. It has to allow creativity and independence. Otherwise they won't be able to do their job of making money. You find the same thing in the press. That's why I read the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and Business Week. They just have to tell the truth. That's a contradiction in the mainstream press, too. Take, say, the New York Times or the Washington Post. They have dual functions and they're contradictory. One function is to subdue the great beast. But another function is to let their audience, which is an elite audience, gain a tolerably realistic picture of what's going on in the world. Otherwise, they won't be able to satisfy their own needs. That's a contradiction that runs right through the educational system as well.

www.chomsky.info/books/warfare02.htm

[jakaswanga]

IS NETZPOLITIK.ORG the bananasplit that took out Angela Merkel' remaining credibility?

Merkel has really been riding high, riding the wave of nationalism Schauble unleashed with his crushing of the Greek attempt to rebel against Germany. So popular in the polls she has been, Ijzeren Kanxelerin, that she had shelved talk of calling it a day after over a decade as head of state! --Like our old friend and rogue Robert Mugabe of yonder, or Kaguta Museveni, or Paul Kagame, notions of immortality and indispensability began to condense in her mind.

Then she collided head-on with her people on another matter, minor at first!

NETZPOLITIK.ORG: Andre Meister and Markus Beckedahl, and here they are ...



IS NETZPOLITI.ORG the bananasplit that took out Angela Merkel?

For over two years since the Eduard Snowden leaks, the transantlanticophilic German elite pretended it did not know the meaning of the word VERRAT --treason or treachery!

The German secret services had spied on Germans, German companies, and even on the leader of Germany herself, Angela Merkel, and all of it on the orders of a foreign intelligence agency, albeit a key ally.



Small town Germany and the rest of the people to whom German is a language which conveys meaning, thought the word treachery was adequate. Non, not the elite. This was cooperation with the USA for the benefit of Germany as a whole, the guarantee of her security.

But it would appear, the German elite too know the word, verrat –-treason, and can use it to devastating effect. And they used it on two journalists, actually bloggers, Andre Meister and Markus Beckedahl, running the website "Netzpolitik.org" .

So what did the duo do to warrant the epithet traitors?

www.dw.com/en/germany-halts-treason-proceedings-against-bloggers/a-18620737

Germany halts treason proceedings against bloggers

Germany's top prosecutor has halted proceedings against two German bloggers who run the digital-rights blog "Netzpolitik." They were accused of treason for reporting on government plans to spy on social media.
Press Freedom
Germany halts treason proceedings against bloggers
Germany's top prosecutor has halted proceedings against two German bloggers who run the digital-rights blog "Netzpolitik." They were accused of treason for reporting on government plans to spy on social media.
German Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range on Friday said he had decided to halt investigations against journalists Markus Beckedahl (above, right) and Andre Meister (above, left). He said his office would not initiate criminal prosecution, taking into account Germany's legacy of press freedom.
Instead, initial investigations would try to find out whether the material published in Netzpolitik's website was classified as secret in the first place. "Until the expert opinion comes in, the investigations will be stopped," Range told the "Frankfurter Allgemeine" newspaper.
Prosecutors began investigating Beckedahl and Meister after the German domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, filed a complaint against the two.
The complaint accused the journalists of publishing two articles on Netzpolitik.org earlier this year that quoted from a highly confidential parliamentary committee report on a new unit to monitor the internet, especially social media. If found guilty, the two could be imprisoned for at least one year.
A state secret?

The constitutional protection office's head, Hans-Georg Maassen, said he did not want "internal papers to be made public and that is why we are now trying to hang these journalists out to dry," news agency dpa reported.
However, Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas said he doubted whether the leaked documents were a "state secret" whose publication would endanger German security.
Netzpolitik has won several awards for its journalism and digital rights campaign. Beckedahl and Meister received a lot of support from politicians and their peers in the industry after news of investigations against them became public.

The article was so detailed and thorough, and, by some accounts, so wonderfully written it contained, subconsciously or otherwise, a rejectionist aesthetic critique of the establishment.

And the establishment went for the jugular. But they found small town Germany in their path. The streets of German towns exploded, waving placards in defence of PRESSE FREEDOM, and yes, denouncing the establishment itself for, yes, O God, VERRAT!



Suddenly the word TREASON is as arguable in German as the word AUDIT REPORT in Kenya!

Who is the traitor in Germany? Those who, using security as an alibi, tap their citizens phones and electronic traffic with impunity on behalf of foreigners, or those who reveal in detail and chronicle these dark practices for the people to know? (glasnost!)







Caught pantsdown, the government of Angela Merkel had to find a bone to throw to the pack. A fall guy! (remember only yesterday Germany detained a famous al-jazeera journalist on special request from the Egyptian dictator Al-Sisi, perhaps a goodwill gesture to oil a lucrative gas deal for Siemens in Egyptian waters!)

The federal prosecutor was fired with immediate effect to placate the peoples temper! But what a cock-up of an explanation.

German Justice Minister Maas terminates Federal Prosecutor Range

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has sacked federal prosecutor Harald Range, after Range complained of political interference in the treason investigation of two journalists.

www.dw.com/en/german-justice-minister-maas-terminates-federal-prosecutor-range/a-18625000

The announcement came just hours after Range surprised many by going on the offensive in a row between himself and Maas over treason charges launched against two journalists who had published excerpts of classified documents.

Range said the Justice Ministry had ordered him to withdraw an independent expert from the investigation, who had determined that the leaked documents in the reports amounted to a "state secret," one of the requirements to pursue a treason case.



"To meddle with an internal review on the basis that the results might be inopportune is an intolerable interference with the independence of the judiciary," Range said.

Maas, though, denied this, saying that the decision to withdraw the expert had been made in consultation with Range last Friday.
The classified documents in question were about plans by Germany's domestic spy agency to expand the surveillance of online communication.

Jul 19, 2015 9:29:23 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

THE WOLF SCHAUBLE RUNS AMOK, BUT WHAT IS COOKING UNDER?

The German Intelligence Agency (BND) assisted the US National Security Agency (NSA) in spying on European targets, including German interests, according to a report in Spiegel Online on Thursday.
The BND provided signals intelligence (SIGINT) for the NSA in more than 40,000 instances, according to the report. One of the targets was the Airbus Group, an aerospace and defense manufacturer.
The type of information the BND is allowed to collect is said to be strictly regulated by German law. The German spy agency is reported to have passed on Internet IP addresses as well as mobile phone numbers to the NSA.

In ordinary German that is called THE BIG TREACHERY! In High German spoken by the US-dominated elite, this is called cooperation! Still, Angela Merkel was forced by public pressure to … reluctantly kind of confront the spymaniac Obama. It was a foolhardy move, since the American cold-blood was a mixture of complicated responses which only worsened the alienation back home in small town Germany. What the Germans got was the mockery, like –-'me? your phone!? That is outrageous Angela! Your own BND listened and shared gossip with my NSA! Boys will be boys! They will tape their own parents bedroom to have an idea of stuff!'


THE BETRAYAL

Then the German legal experts under political direction like in banana republics, decided there was no case to answer. In any case the Americans told them they did not know what they were talking about, so how could information be verified?

The German government plans to limit their level of cooperation with a recently formed parliamentary panel investigating mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency, Der Spiegel reports.

The 8-member panel of inquiry, comprising six lawmakers from the ruling coalition and two from the opposition, will only be given limited access to a so-called bilateral no-spy agreement currently being negotiated with Washington. Access to relevant documents will be limited as it is considered to be “an ongoing process” regarding “a core area of government responsibility” which is constitutionally protected, a senior government official told the German daily.

Not all the facts availed, case closed. But there was the Bear Putin having a laugh, discretely mocking Merkel too. 'Angela, Russia hopes German manufacturers are not as shoddy as German legal experts! We intend to continue buying lots of German stuff you see!'


Everybody is amused, except the Germans.

[jakaswanga]

OBAMA GOES TO EUROPE TO FLOG TIPP, BUT EUROPE HAS OTHER PRIORITIES

Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TIPP, is the buzz word; Brexit the headache.


A few days ago in this his final lap visits to key allies, Obama waded into the Brexit debate in Britain, formerly invariably 'epithetised' Great, and he took the side of Premier Cameron who is fighting for continual membership of the European Union. In this, the POTUS drew the wrath of the spoilt brat Boris Johnson, an insolent aristocratic snob with a populist drive. Boris is the current mayor of London which, to become, he slew the aloof Ken Livingston whom Margaret Thatcher once christened the little red monster of London. Boris will soon challenge David Cameron for the Tory party leadership, and for the keys to No. 10 Downing Street.

Mr. Johnson publicly blasted Obama for a British hater, a man holding a Kenyan ancestral vendetta against Britain, something which had led him to throw miniatures of Churchill out of the oval office into the junk can!
Barrack Obama responded he considered Winston Churchill his hero. A joke I would think; unless Obama, coming from Harvard where the history course is below par, is just plane ignorant. Of that he would of course be excused, reading law is not reading history, truly truly! He would therefore not know Churchill was a man who habitually referred to blacks as wogs, and is a documented white supremacist. If he knows this, a man of his intellect (and conceit as always the smartest in the room) would be expected to find a way, to thinkingly manoeuvre himself out of this spot without identifying with a vile racist however great! –-This feat in emotional masochism is therefore a mental meltdown in my books!

Obama hits back at Boris Johnson'salleged smears

22 April 2016. Mr Obama made clear his admiration for Britain's wartime leader in pointed remarks at a press conference.
He did not mention Mr Johnson by name but said he had a bust of Churchill outside the Treaty Room - his private office on the second floor of his official residence.
"Right outside the door of the Treaty Room, so that I see it every day - including on weekends when I'm going into that office to watch a basketball game - the primary image I see is a bust of Winston Churchill," he said.

"It's there voluntarily because I can do anything on the second floor. I love the guy."
'Delighted'
It had been in the Oval Office, he said, but: "There are only so many tables where you can put busts otherwise it starts to looks a little cluttered."
As the first African American president, he said, a bust of Martin Luther King would be "appropriate", to remind him "of all the hard work of a lot of people who somehow allow me to have the privilege of holding this office".

He added: "That's just on Winston Churchill. I think people should know that, know my thinking there."

False or true, the removal of the Bush-era Churchill bust from the oval office when Obama came in?

Not his finest hour: The dark side of Winston Churchill

by Johann Hari . Thursday 28 October 2010


www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/not-his-finest-hour-the-dark-side-of-winston-churchill-2118317.html

Winston Churchill is rightly remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour – but what if he also led the country through her most shameful hour? What if, in addition to rousing a nation to save the world from the Nazis, he fought for a raw white supremacy and a concentration camp network of his own? This question burns through Richard Toye's new history, Churchill's Empire, and is even seeping into the Oval Office.
George W Bush left a bust of Churchill near his desk in the White House, in an attempt to associate himself with the war leader's heroic stand against fascism. Barrack Obama had it returned to Britain. It's not hard to guess why: his Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was imprisoned without trial for two years and was tortured on Churchill's watch, for resisting Churchill's empire.
Can these clashing Churchills be reconciled?

All the same, Obama confessed his love for Churchill.

Many of his colleagues thought Churchill was driven by a deep loathing of democracy for anyone other than the British and a tiny clique of supposedly superior races. This was clearest in his attitude to India. When Mahatma Gandhi launched his campaign of peaceful resistance, Churchill raged that he "ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back."

As the resistance swelled, he announced: "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." This hatred killed. To give just one, major, example, in 1943 a famine broke out in Bengal, caused – as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proved – by the imperial policies of the British. Up to 3 million people starved to death while British officials begged Churchill to direct food supplies to the region. He bluntly refused. He raged that it was their own fault for "breeding like rabbits". At other times, he said the plague was "merrily" culling the population.

Churchill believed that Kenya's fertile highlands should be the preserve of the white settlers, and approved the clearing out of the local "blackamoors". He saw the local Kikuyu as "brutish children". When they rebelled under Churchill's post-war premiership, some 150,000 of them were forced at gunpoint into detention camps – later dubbed "Britain's gulag" by Pulitzer-prize winning historian, Professor Caroline Elkins. She studied the detention camps for five years for her remarkable book Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, explains the tactics adopted under Churchill to crush the local drive for independence. "Electric shock was widely used, as well as cigarettes and fire," she writes. "The screening teams whipped, shot, burned, and mutilated Mau Mau suspects."

Hussein Onyango Obama never truly recovered from the torture he endured.

etc etc.

So which is which? People should know his thinking there! –-Luther King and Churchill together cosy together in his mind, or not.

Anyway, superficial ruffling of diplomatic feathers apart, in so far as Boris Johnson showed conduct unbecoming toward the American heavyweight, the woe-stricken Europeans will be lobbying hard for American cover. This is as far as their Libyan strategy is concerned.

Understandably, the Europeans do not feel confident enough to occupy Libya even by proxy. The need both diplomatic (UN) and military cover, air cover. This also means they need the US to pressure its Arab vassals to acquiesce to European designs in Libya.

Obama, it will be remembered from a recent notorious interview, wearied of Libya, going as far as to dub it his greatest foreign policy mistake. He also famously blasted the EU powers as free-riders on American power. These adventures are expensive. The good news is president in waiting Hilary Rodham Clinton disagrees. Which means the EU can breathe. Barrack is that famous duck.

WHY DOES THE EU WANT TO MEDDLE IN LIBYA SO MUCH?

There is of course the issue of instincts. A predatory organism or system is doomed to plunder the resources of others. That is its evolutionary dead end. The higher the price of plunder, the nearer the wall in sight.

Libya is a rich picking. And especially now that the EU economic recovery is not as quick as ought, Libya is even more appetising. There are also bills to pay in Ukraine, Greece where the vultures are already quarrelling amongst themselves, and chaos knocking on the doors. Yet the hardy and faithful donkey Germany is tiring too, seemingly doing the lifting alone. This is how it comes that even Angela Merkel, whose judgement Obama says he trusts, too is pushing for military adventurism in Libya. She has a perfect alibi though: preventing refugees from drowning!

Germany, and in deed white Europe, has had enough of non European beings thronging their lands. The migration issue is even threatening to cost Merkel her presidency (Chancellorship). More of these brown people must be prevented from reaching European shores or, of course, from dying in the Mediterranean deeps and exposing the moral corruption of civilised-faced European Union.

This humanitarian cover is an opportunity too good to be missed to launch a grab at Libya's resources, by installing a puppet regime. That can not be done without American support. It will be the duty of Merkel to get this support out of Obama.

TIPP?

The German public is hostile, and France has been in labour turmoil all March. There is just so much Hollande and Merkel can ram down the throats of their electorate. TIPP wont be where they will be shedding tears in private. Libya it will be.

WHY DID GADDAFFI DIE?

FIRST, let us listen to Obama on trade deals.

Obama pushes for global trade deals in face of opposition


KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and DARLENE SUPERVILLE. Associated Press. April 24, 2016


HANNOVER, Germany (AP) — President Barack Obama mounted a strong defense of international trade deals Sunday in the face of domestic and foreign opposition, saying it's "indisputable" that such agreements strengthen the economy and make U.S. businesses more competitive worldwide. But he acknowledged that the clock is ticking on his faltering trade agenda.
Obama, on a farewell visit to Germany as president, is trying to light a fire under stalled talks about a trans-Atlantic trade deal, a massive pact that would rewrite the rules for the billions in trade and investment between the European Union and the U.S. At a press conference, a trade show and a private dinner with chief executives, Obama tried to counter public scepticism about the unfinished deal with Europe, while also brushing off opposition from the 2016 presidential candidates to a pending Asia-Pacific trade pact.
Despite all that, Obama said, "the majority of people still favor trade. They still recognize, on balance, that it's a good idea."
"If you look at the benefits to the United States or to Germany of free trade around the world, it is indisputable that it has made our economies stronger," Obama said.

And now the gold dinar currency for Africa, and the murder of Gaddafi.



This calls for a dark parable on Barrack Obama.

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ANGELA MERKEL BREAKS NEW GROUND --Trump as the last straw!

Those who have been to Germany, those who pay attention to German lit and feel, always knew Angela Merkel's hitherto public face was fake. Germany has a seething patriotism which instinctively scares neighbours like Poland and the Tczek republic which, Postdam capitulation terms, sit on large swathes of historical 'Prussia'. That will be Sudeten and the rest, east of the



Oder-Neisse line.

The United States, the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Poland were signatory countries to the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, in which the signatories agreed to `regard as inviolable all one another's frontiers as well as the frontiers of all States in Europe and therefore they will refrain now and in the future from assaulting these frontiers'.

In November 1990, Germany and Poland settled this protracted historical dispute by signing a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as a permanent border. Germany having invaded Poland, there needed to be a German-Polish agreement on the border. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had to do a very adroit dance, and German Foreign Minister Genscher also played an important role. They succeeded in negotiating an agreement with Poland that recognized Poland within its borders, recognized the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland. That was one of the keys that unlocked the way to unification.

But watch the video of the Big Man, Unification chancellor Helmut Kohl, crying like a baby as the Berlin Wall fell!

Lots of Eastern and Central Europeans harbour the suspicion German nationalism conceals a dam of tears waiting to flood open on the day of the 'final Unification'! Recently, to test European brotherhood and EU peaceful coexistence forever, some grandchildren of those Germans expelled from Sudeten went to legally claim their homes and lands –--'Heimat rights', but Milos Zeman the then Czech President didn't wait for the courts!

MAY 07-2013: During a visit to Austria last month, Mr Zeman told Austrian reporters that the so-called Sudeten Germans, or former Czechoslovakia's three-million-strong ethnic German minority, should have been happy to be merely expelled from their homeland in the wake of the second world war.
"When a citizen of some country collaborates with a country that has occupied his state, an expulsion is a subtler [form of] punishment than, for example, a death penalty," he told the APA news agency

I think the courts ruled they couldn't remember any expulsions! 'all records destroyed in the Churchillian fireball bombardments'? or, should they remember, the issue of COMPENSATIONS would arise! And then arguments about interest rates over 70 years!

Angela Merkel stayed out of the argument. But a philosopher or literati whose name I now confuse –--Kafka or Nietzsche, had some interesting deliberations on the silence of politicians on issues! I will one day find the time to report for Jukwaa what underground German rappers, and heavy metal rockers, yell about 'HEIMAT'! And Postdam borders!

Germany is a harsh blunt place, competitive, ruthless and cold. Nobody buys German because they love Germany. Your sensitive feelings aren't their greatest business. Their business is to excel at making stuff, so if you have the money you will buy them as your first preference. They can be blunt to the point of sadism. But German politicians are ever engaged in a competition to be the most cuddly race on Earth! But, cursed like like the Greek nymph Echo, What they achieve is to make their neighbours even more nervous. For most of these neighbours are small shambaboys squatting on temporarily occupied German estates, waving treaties written on papers signed by defeated dead politicians. Watch the Pol Donald Tusk with Merkel. As Merkel puts up her act of docile puszy, Tusk shrinks in fear and the hateful realisation he is what he is in Europe because Merkel made him. It is uncomfortable to watch.

You don't become president of the EU if Germany doesn't say so! Nor the chairman of the ECB for that matter.

But the brutality of Germans in private conversations make them a lovable people for those with thick skins like me. It was in Germany where I first was confronted with the criticism, that Kenya is a stupid state! Millions of tourist come for the sun, sand and wildlife –----free nature things no Kenyan did anything to bring about, yet, for all the earnings, the Kenya municipalities are still too lazy (and corrupt) to keep the beaches clean! Nor have the Kenyans an institute of wild animals veterinary sciences! Kenyans should win prices in bio-pumping technology, having unravelled how giraffe hearts pump all that blood kilometres into the sky!

The man speaking had visited Malindi beach where he had experienced a section of the beautiful beach which was an open-air toilet! A decade later, what am suppose to say, seeing that the Luo capital of Kisumu cannot collect rubbish, needs a German company to do so! At a cost above the SGR overprice!

And that is just one example of plane German speak. There is a rumour the current finance minister, The Big Wolf Schaeuble, tormentor of the Greeks, conqueror of Varoufakis the great, refused to accompany Merkel to Angola: 'Even if they are going to buy all the Mercedez Benzes we produce until their oil-money runs out, I wont hide my contempt for their squalid corruption and financial primitiveness!'

So goes the story.

I therefore do enjoy German diplomats and diplomacy. Never can a man run far from his true self than a German putting up a nice diplomatic show –--I wont say especially in Africa! But even a prostitute servicing her most smelly client suffers less, I thought, watching Angela Merkel sitting meekly by Trump in her first visit to the USA. It was widely reported Trump had subbed her attempt at a handshake. Must have been a very hard swallow. And she must have drawn deepest on her iron discipline.




But Trump's recent behaviour at the NATO summit in Brussels where the new multi-billion NATO headquarters was unveiled, then the g-7 summit in Sicily (where among other infamies he shoved aside the Macedonian president blocking his photo-op), followed close by Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, have pushed the German pretender sub over the edge. The claws which everybody knew were just under the cat's paws, the ready teeth which everybody waried were covers for man-chopping sabres, have flashed. It is a hint the world has taken note of.

Angela delivered the historical shift matter of factly in a German campaign hall.

"I've experienced this clearly in the last few days. The times in which we could completely rely on others are over to a certain extent. That is what I experienced in the last few days," Merkel said. "That is why I can only say: We Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands."

The German chancellor went on to say: "Of course in friendship with the United States of America we remain, but we have to fight for our own future, as Europeans, for our destiny."

On Nato, here is an enlightened comment.

Observers noted the American President Trump neglected to publicly endorse the pact's Article Five, which guarantees that member countries will aid the others when they are attacked.
The omission was especially striking as he unveiled a memorial to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the US, the only time the mutual defence clause has been triggered.

And elsewhere the firm tidings of a trade war

Trump also described German trade practices as "bad, very bad," in Brussels talks last week, complaining that Europe's largest economy sells too many cars to the US.

as they say, Angela Merkel smelled the coffee. Well, just as she was forced by German nationalism to confront Obama on his eavesdropping on her phone, so too did German pressure force her to make the undeniable point official. Germany has breathed a sigh of relief, and who!

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Merkel in Berlin as Europe pivots to Asia
In a week during which a Europe-US rift seems to be deepening, the Chinese premier became the second major Asian leader to arrive in Berlin. Talks will focus on closer cooperation on trade and climate issues.

And changing world power balances no doubt.

Mr Li's joint news conference with German chancellor Angela Merkel, endorsing the Paris Agreement, was seen as another example of Beijing stepping into the world leadership space vacated by the United States, similar to China's championing of global trade.

Talks on trade

The EU has also been increasingly looking to China for support on free trade, after a shift towards protectionism from the US. Last week German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel met his counterpart in Beijing, and signed a joint commitment on promoting free trade.
The head of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business, Hubert Lienhard, called on China to make good on its commitments to open markets.
As Li arrived in Germany, the country's biggest lender Deutsche Bank announced US$3 billion (2.7 billion euros) worth of investments in cooperation with the China Development Bank as part of the Belt & Road Initiative.
The two banks signed a memorandum of understanding expressing "interest in promoting the renminbi's internationalisation and in financing economic cooperation between China, Germany and other Belt and Road Initiative countries," according to a statement.

–-NB: where is that Opus Dei CBK boy in Nairobi!? Loafing and not accompanying president Uhuru to the OBOR fanfare in Beijing!? Hail Mary! still married to the IMF and the WB like a programmed robot!? (Smell the coffee boy, go East with Kibaki, the Othaya genius now unfortunately mentally cabbage at the hands of old age in combination with chronic substance abuse over time!)








The new Franco-German romance, fair winds under the wing of the EU?



Merkel has cut loose from the transatlantic fiery embrace. But what can Europe do abroad without American military power? One, become a military power too I suppose. In any case, all options are on the table as they say!

Interesting times.

[jakaswanga]

BEHIND THE NORD STREAM TWO SCARE, A EURASIAN AXIS?

The total capacity of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines combined would equal to 110 billion cubic meters annually. The fact that Europe faces a decline in gas production and its rising demand for gas imports also play an inalienable role in building the Nord Stream 2

However, since recent U.S. bill on sanction in July 2017, the project itself is to the great extent under the threat of falling apart!

More than a 'trade war' threat!? Keep Big Zbigniew in mind.

The following GEO-POLITICS OF THE NORD STREAM TWO needs a careful read. But first, an appetising loose-end.

Donald Trump threatens German carmakers with tariffs

March 5, 2018 By Ilona Wissenbach, Michael Nienaber

US president’s measures draw unexpected support from some Democrats


Trump trade threats alarm German carmakers, hit investor morale

FANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - German car companies urged policymakers on Monday to avoid a trade war with the United States “at all costs” after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to tax car imports from the European Union.

The United States is the second-biggest export destination for German auto manufacturers after China, while vehicles and car parts are Germany’s biggest source of export income.
“Punitive duties can’t be the answer,” Bernhard Mattes, president of Germany’s VDA automotive industry association, said in a statement.
“A trade war between the USA and Europe must be avoided at all costs. In such a trade war there are only losers on all sides.”

Analysts fear a full-blown trade war between the United States and Europe could cut growth in Germany, the biggest EU economy, by up to 1 percentage point.
This concern was also mirrored in a Sentix survey on Monday that showed investor morale in the euro zone fell further in March due to concerns about rising protectionism under Trump.

Recently, begin Mei, Angea Merkel was in DC to dissuade Trump from breaking the Iranian Nuclear deal, also known as the JCPOA. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Trump delighted in humiliating the German Kanzelarin. Very stoic, she took it all in without a flinch. But the Germans who know their Lady, and once called her Iron, hinted the old cold-blooded witch may still have a trick up her furious heart. It is a great story in Germany, and not always told in hush, how Merkel politically murdered her political godfather, Helmut Kohl. The Unification Chancellor.

Within her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Merkel’s rise to political prominence was aided by two factors: she was both fiercely competent and inconspicuous. She was underestimated, even patronised, by party colleagues. Helmut Kohl, the long-serving CDU prime minister who presided over German unification, referred to her as “the girl” (das Mädchen). He never seriously rated her as a challenger for his role.

When Kohl became embroiled in a party funding scandal it was Merkel who represented the new face of the CDU, free of the taint of past party sleaze. Kohl apparently never forgave her for usurping him.

As every ambitious male around Kohl hesitated, Merkel came forward and told him he was too corrupt to take Germany and the party anywhere but down. Go! –-The gloves were off. The public fell for the Iron Lady even as the men sulked. And past a decade they are still sulking at the witch.



I thought of Merkel's renowned workaholism and hoped, for the sake of Luoland, Miguna Miguna's famed work ethic is that German, Iron model. I thought of Merkel's fame at work and thought, her contempt for Donald Trump must even be more than Rex Tillerson who billed him a fukin' moron!

Here is the import: NORD STREAM TWO

Germany Moves Forward With Controversial Nord Stream Two

By The Jamestown Foundation - May 12, 2018

Vladimir Putin started his fourth term as Russia’s president by promising ambitious new social programs (Kremlin.ru, May 7). He may be able to deliver on these promises because the price of petroleum, one of the mainstays of Russia’s state budget, has risen steadily. A barrel of oil, which was $30 two years ago, fetched $70 this week.

Another reason Putin may be optimistic is Germany’s unswerving support for Nord Stream Two, the undersea Baltic pipeline that will supply Russian natural gas directly to Germany and other parts of Europe.

Nord Stream Two will double the capacity of the previously built Nord Stream One pipeline from 55 to 110 billion cubic meters per year. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has backed the Russian-led project, despite protests from the European Union and several EU member states. At the same time, Russia’s state-owned Gazprom is building a pipeline that will supply Europe from the south, as well.

The goal is to prevent Europe from developing alternatives to Russian gas, which gives the Kremlin important political-economic leverage over the continent (see EDM, April 11).

the last line needs re-reading! Just how blind and stupid can these Europeans be! Surely love for the Bear Ivan, is blind!

Germany Moves Forward With Controversial Nord Stream Two

On May 3, Germany became the first EU country to begin building its portion of Nord Stream Two— in its Baltic Sea port of Lubmin (Pipeline-journal.net, May 3). The construction started before Sweden and Finland signed off on the pipeline running through their waters. The Lubmin work was a poke in the eye to both the European Commission and European Parliament, both of which oppose the project (Europarl.europa.eu, April 11).

Related: Did Trump Just Kill The OPEC Deal?

By pursuing the pipeline, Germany is also defying the United States and Ukraine. Washington has threatened sanctions against the Nord Stream Two project’s five European partners—Engie, OMV, Shell, Uniper and Wintershall. Moreover, US President Donald Trump called Berlin hypocritical for supporting a Russian revenue project while enjoying the benefits of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) protective umbrella against Moscow (Whitehouse.gov, April 3).

Russia embarked on Nord Stream to reduce its reliance on gas pipelines to Europe that run through Ukraine.

If Russia is able to entirely shift its export volumes away from the Ukrainian pipeline network, Kyiv stands to lose billions of dollars per year in gas transit fees.

On a trip to Berlin in early April, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko again failed to persuade Merkel to pull out of the Nord Stream Two project (Kyiv Post, EurActiv, April 10). She has continued to try to soothe both Ukraine and those EU countries worried that Nord Stream Two will not only undermine Ukraine’s economic viability but also keep the European continent dependent on Russian gas. In a meeting with Slovakia’s Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, Merkel tried to square the circle by calling for “constructive and long-term solutions aiming to keep Ukraine a transit country for Russian gas” (TASS, May 2).

Meanwhile, Russia has chosen a general contractor for its segment of Nord Stream Two—Stroytransgaz, half-owned by President Vladimir Putin’s billionaire friend Gennady Timchenko (RBC, May 3). And Gazprom’s deputy CEO, Aleksandr Medvedev, has even said on Russian TV that he would not rule out a Nord Stream Three, if there is European demand (Vesti, April 24).

Along Europe’s southeastern flank, Gazprom has also completed the first segment of the Turk Stream pipeline, which will send Russian gas under the Black Sea to Turkey and on to southern Europe (Rian.com.ua, April 30). It completed the 900-kilometer segment in less than a year—a record pace for laying complicated deep-water pipeline infrastructure (Gazprom Official Website, Gazprom.com, April 30).

In contrast, it took almost three years to build the 1,345-kilometer Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), which will deliver gas overland from Azerbaijan through Georgia (via the South Caucasus Pipeline) to Turkey and beyond to Europe (Natural Gas World, May 2). Work is set to begin June 19 on a pipeline connecting TANAP from the Turkish border to Southeastern Europe.

Germany’s continued support for Nord Stream Two and Washington’s failure to make good on its threats to sanction major Russian gas projects are key reasons why Gazprom continues to build pipelines to Europe. EU member states are not only divided on Nord Stream Two, but also on policies to decrease the continent’s dependence on Russian gas.

Related: Iran Accuses U.S. Of Pushing Up Oil Prices

Germany wants to import more Russian gas as it phases out coal and nuclear power. And a combination of Russian gas and planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities will make Germany an important European gas hub (Oil Price, March 20). Germany’s support for Nord Stream Two is a double-edged sword for the rest of Europe, however. On the one hand, its plans to become a natural gas hub would boost the EU’s largest economy; and both Berlin and Moscow claim the pipeline will make Europe as a whole more energy-secure. On the other hand, these plans will clearly undermine the EU’s energy-supply diversification efforts by flooding European gas markets with Russian supplies.

The completion of Nord Stream Two, expected for 2019, would increase Moscow’s stranglehold on the continent’s energy supplies. It would also provide Russia with a useful tool to put greater pressure on Ukraine. Given the long-term threat that a number of European leaders say Nord Stream Two poses to the continent, Germany may someday have to choose between its own Russia-related economic and political ambitions and the continued viability of Europe’s political and energy unions.

By The Jamestown Foundation

Germany and Russia will effectively be deploying submarines and other weaponry along the watery pipeline route, to prevent the USA and the UK from sabotage! Last time around, a government in the Ukraine was convinced to cut off the overland pipeline, to the cost of Russia. May be the Yankees are already busy with the Baltics and Scandinavians to throw a spanner inthe works! It is after all, a ruthless world of sinister power games.



footnote

The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) includes a section forbidding EU companies to make big investments in the Russian energy sector. It targets any moral or physical person that “contributes to the Russian energy export pipelines, goods, services, technology, information, or support” (US Congress, 2017). For instance, this means that any European companies working with Russia (such as British-Dutch Shell or French Engie) in the physical or chemical resources energy sector, even legally under EU law, would be penalized by the US.

The punishments would be fining them or limiting their access to US banks.

The angriest EU member state seems to be Germany, to which Russia is a crucial business and energy partner. Indeed, several EU companies, including big German ones (BASF and Uniper), are currently working with Russia on the Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline (J.M., 2017).

And now the total and comprehensive sanctions re-imposed on Iran.

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JULY 11 2018 BRUSSELS, ELEPHANT TRUMP AT THE NATO SUMMIT




When you consume it in English, it all looks very meek. That is the response of the German leader, Kanzelarin Angela Merkel, to the blistering attack delivered on her land and government by the POTUS, Herr Donald Trump. On the opening day of the NATO summit in the EU capital, the American leader of the free world so said, declared loudly Germany is a Russian colony, and Merkel, a Putin puppet. ###footnote

It was a rude pitch between the best of allies, and of course the politicians had to fall into their lines, pretending shock in public. Elsewhere it was of course all laughter. Merkel chose her words carefully to respond. Before the world she had to play the leading Western Leader, far above the jests and antics of silly-to-moron adolescent boys throwing barbs at her butt from behind tree parks, while, on the other side, to the sensibilities of her German populace, she had to rebut the public humiliation with ruthless export. Germany did loose up to two million men on the Eastern Front, and the siege of Leningrad was a terrible toll; and the Red Army did in deed move all the way to Berlin and occupy the Eastern part where Merkel was born, and grew up.

Trump was lunging deep, scraping bone with his charge: this former soviet girl does not mind keeping Germany a Russian vassal, the way the Germany of her youth was! Away with her!



Merkel seethed blue. But her iron discipline held. But she hinted, political alliances and the expediencies of international relationships may force one to embrace morons who one rather had locked in a mental asylum. Germany makes her independent decisions.

That last one means you all know at 5% (of GDP) defence expenditure, Germany would be a terrifying military power at the centre of Europe, capable of not just defending herself from anybody, but also terrifying the global military balance into a new order.

Case closed.

And therefore back to the trade war. Trump, instinctively feeling the decline of the USA, senses the two greatest threats: China and Germany. In this he is correct. China's global pre-eminence is assured, soon followed by India. For the West, Germany will be the most important country, liasing between the East and West, using her unique geographical position and relationship with the white eastern, Russia, to be the fulcrum of the new world order.

The United States has only one option, to incorporate Africa and Latin America and build a counter block. Forget NATO. Europe is lost to Eurasia. Even the historically always subservient political and economic elite of the EU is grown wary enough of the USA to openly talk plan-B.

(NEXT: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC WAR ON EUROPE: Nord Stream II, Iran Nuclear deal revisited.)

###footnote Meanwhile back in DC, the Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, on behalf of special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III, issued a 29-page indictment against 12 Russian military officers who are accused of conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.

Tomorrow 16-05-18, Trump meets Putin in Helsinki, Finland. The art of the deal!?

[jakaswanga]

HELSINKI: WHEN TRUMP MET PUTIN

A vocal sector of the American elite is furious beyond sufferance. I suspect a picture of the future has shattered their sensibilities of superiority.

Russia is some third-rate raw(-energy) finance dependent power, below Saudi Arabia in arms and defence expenditure, and here was POTUS, after the injury in Singapore with the North Korean dynast, Kim, adding salt to the wound. Yes, Kim can destroy one half of the USA one time over, and that is if his lucky shot gets a lucky hit. Putin's Russia is of course more monstrous on the nuclear scale. Russia is competent of destroying the USA x300 over even if the USA would destroy her x1000 over. That edge is fertile ground for lots of delusion, but also for lots of paranoia. Trump's behaviour does not re-enforce the illusion of the exceptional land of God, no he clearly says the USA is no longer supapawa na biso, or sole super power.

At another level, the Helsinki show was as striking in its ooze of an ancien regime as the recently concluded G7 summit in Canada was. (It ended in a fiasco with Trump insulting the host, Justin Tradeau, for a weak and dishonest creep! Disgustingly cheap!)



Helsinki were two white men armed to the teeth pretending to rule and run the world and handle her internecine problems. The state was full of the elephantine holograms of the absent men: Xi Jin Pin of China and Narendra Mordi of India. I wager Trump and Putin fidgeted because they instinctively imported this significance. Helsinki is far from the centre of the world, it is really a backyard.

Trump and Putin were so scared nobody really knows what they discussed alone. Very private it was! A bit like what Uhuru and Raila discussed behind closed doors, without William Ruto and Kalonzo Musyoka!