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El Pais Retracts Article Alleging "Merkel, Like Hitler, Has Declared War On Europe"
What does it take for the Spanish "first amendment" journalistic override to kick in? Apparently, in the case of local media leader El Pais, putting up the following in print: "Merkel, como Hitler, ha declarado la guerra al resto del continente, ahora para garantizarse su espacio vital económico." For the Spanish-challeneged this translates as follows: "Merkel, like Hitler, has declared war on the rest of the continent now to secure their economic living space." Ah yes, the touchy verboten topic of German "Lebensraum" - its invocation, and ostensibly the unflattering Merkel comparison (seen so often in Greece) were enough to get the article by Juan Torres López in the Andalusia version of El Pais titled simply enough "Alemania contra Europa" taken down.
Is it perhaps because unlike in Greece, where articles like that are a daily occurrence, Spaniards still have something to lose should they also lose the good graces of the German chancellor? Something that is more than one Spiderman towel per depositor in the nation's just as insolvent banking system, where apparently unlike in Cyprus, the ESM actually does work to preserve liquidity and stability?...
A cached version of the article:
In its place one only now sees the following:
EL PAÍS ha retirado de su web el artículo “Alemania contra Europa”, firmado por Juan Torres López y publicado en su edición de Andalucía, porque contenía afirmaciones que este periódico considera inapropiadas. EL PAÍS lamenta que un error en las tareas de supervisión haya permitido la publicación del citado material. Las opiniones expresadas por Torres López solo representan al autor.
aka:
The country has removed from its website the article "Germany against Europe", signed by Juan Torres López and published in its edition of Andalusia, because it contained statements that this paper considers inappropriate. COUNTRY regrets that an error in the monitoring tasks has allowed the publication of said material. The opinions expressed by Torres López represent only the author.
Oops, there goes freedom of expression. Of course, the full article can still be found on line, here for example.
But don't anyone dare touch Dancing with the Stars (or, in Europe, Big Brother). Then we will have problems.
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Signed, the EUSSR
2ND REQUEST:
WHAT THE FUCK IS BEN BERNANKE WAITING FOR TO SEND THESE RIDICULOUS 5 BLN TO CYPRUS ?????????
AM I IN THE WRONG FILM OR WHAT !!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure it's been sent already. They just have to find a way to make it look like it came from someone else.
I agree. IMO Thats why they are lowering ATM amounts until the boat docks or planes land
Is the backdoor opened for a select few?
If that is the deal then it is by helicopter.
First we have to negotiate another naval base -we only have 135 in the region. We desparately need another one to protect us against the Russian Commie menace.
I think we need to distingusih between Germany on the one hand and its workers on the other. I do not think that most people have anything against German workers as they are hard working and productive. Moreover during the last decade and more their pay increases have been kept to a minimum.
The real gripe is with Germany because she has pursued a policy of getting sales in foreign markets no matter what. When Greece was buying submarines etc from Germany, arranging finance was no problem for Germany. She extended finance all the time and allowed Greece to sink.
Instead Germany and the other European nations could have guaranteed the Cypriot and Greek sea and land claims and therefore improve the lot of Greece and Cyprus who would not have to make staggering payments for armaments.
there has been wage suppression in german auto industry because of the threat to send the work to the US's low paid southern hillbillies that are to germans what mexican auto workers are to UAW
Average German auto worker makes $67/hour. Not sure why Germans are the poorest average citizens in the EU.
too late. they should have kept their pesos. merkel didn't force them to use euros. but if they really want to vent off they can start by hanging their politicians, current and previous, on the lampposts.
Spain didn't have pesos.
They had pesetas.
thanks for the correction. phew, it's been a while.
God Bless the Cache
I guess if anyone pins the blame where it belongs they will be shouted down as anti-semites. Poor old Germans, the scape goat yet again. First they came for the Palestinians....
the new master is the isrealis
Who was the boogie man before Hitler? Satan?
the Great Turk, and the Frenchman's universal despotism i think
lol, you sound very cheesed off Habsburgian; crying over loss of Mexico, Spain, Benelux, Rhineland massacres and Balkans to those other scum.
"Our universalism then was so virtuous; just like Pax Americana today."
Empires come and go!
Good times, from Lepanto to Franz Ferdinand.
Fat ships and conquistador hats for everyone.
In other censorship news:
DH Lawrence's poetry saved from censor's penNew edition of author's work reveals him as a talented war poet who attacked British imperialism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/24/dh-lawrence-war-poetry-censo...
Is Merkel really a Hitler DNA clone?
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/2007/August2007.html
Actually i can understand the Germans being a bit miffed.
Eventhough the weimar hyperinflation had occured, they had not actually defaulted on all of their debt, only in 2010 they have finally repayed their "obligations".
http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=U...
The Marshall plan seems to have been a good investment for the USA seeing there would not have been much to profit from bankrupt countries and the amount
they "donated" at the time wasn't that much compared to their GDP at the time.
Now with the dollar being a "global reserve currency" Ben has the ability to inflate debt away , therefore it makes sense that Germany would want their gold back and
is not amused the rules to which they have been held to are now changing rapidly.
The whole thing of the EU creating peace and stability seems to be founded for a large part on controlling Germany.
Depending on the stance , the trade agreements created throughout Europe have been a source of prosperity by doing away with a lot of
internal competition, yet it could also be viewed as trade barriers looking from the perspective of developing economies.
So now their prosperity is in jeopardy because the rules they have been forced to play by for so long keep changing all the time.
They should however acknowledge that this global ponzi has brought them a great deal of their prosperity.
The Germans bear all the responsibility for not taking into account .... what loveable Niggers .... southern Europeans are ! Loaning money to niggers .... is not a good business plan !
Germany can't win, if they hadn't loaned out money and goods they would have been evil Nazis who don't want people to ahve what they do and if they want repayment they are evil Nazis.
Makes alot more sense for them to get out of the Euro, bring back and devalue the Dmark to stay competetive, and continue on while southern Europe falls apart.
These GEEK SQUAD ads are fucking pissing me off! DEATH to GEEK SQUAD!
Merkel, good luck dividing the populated vote. The only way to win your election. Hire <cough> Kenyon guys <cough> group.
Hal 9000 Feat EU sings Daisy
How funny. Ten years ago, Germany was the ill man and everybody was demanding that we reform our country. Well, we did so.
I don't care anymore. Let them burn our flag. If that helps them. Just don't send them any money. The European project has failed. For more than fourty years we've paid through the EU. The average person in Italy or Spain is now richer than the average German. Still these people demand that we continue to pay for their lifestyle. And if we refuse, drowning in our own debt, with an aging population, they call us Nazis, barbarians and whatever pleases them. Well, here is news for you: party is over. Now reform your countries. Become more competitive. Be inventive. Do what we had to do. We all know that your nations can do that. Ancient Greece, city states of Italy, the Isabellian seafarer, the Portuguese merchants. Just needs a total restart and you will get one.
the US will bail them out- of that there is no doubt
We are bailed out out. and we are next for this shit going on in cyprus. The shit storm cometh. Even my wife gets it now...
This guy puts the horrendous US economic numbers in our faces.
"There will be no economic recovery"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bYkl3XlEneA#!
Worth the watch...
Excuse me Mr. Hulk -can you please identify who "we" is?
Northern Hemispherians...
No problemo. Bernanke can just trade a trillion or so of U.S. debt (of which He conveniently has plenty in inventory), for southern European debt, which can then be used as collateral to borrow a trillion + euros. He doesn't even need to ask anyone (besides His banker/owners) if He doesn't want.
and there it is folks, PY-129-20 has described the bottom line perfectly...
For a century Germany has been the whipping Boy of Europe witht he United States- the enforcer of the corrupt decadant British--Maybe the germans should ally with Russia, China and the rest of the Asians - they have to do something as they are without nukes and pretty much defenseless because of this -something bad will happen soon -world war sees invevitable within the next decade-It will be interesting to see how the alliances shape out-
No, they call you Nazis because Merkel refuses to let any country get out of the euro, while she spends the assets of the German people to prop up the euro. Politicians in euro countries are bribed and threatened to keep their countries in the euro.
When Papandreou mentioned a referendum, Merkel had him immediately ditched. When Berlusconi would not follow Merkel dictated policies, the ECB stopped buying Italian bonds and Merkel had a word in the ear of the Italian president to replace Berlusconi with someone more compliant. When banks in Ireland failed, owing large sums to German banks, Germany insisted the Irish taxpayers bail out those banks to bail out the banks that lent to them and Merkel threatened the Irish PM that if they did not, then Ireland would sell nothing in the EU.
Germany is governing the EZ and the EU like a bunch of thugs. Don't ask us to weep for the poor Germans who are supporting these politicians.
Yahoo!Finance: Wall Street Week Ahead: Cyprus deal could spur S&P 500 to new peak
What does a Cyprus deal mean? Steal $6 billion euro from people with savings/cash in the banks and then go $10 billion further in debt. Good deal? For who?
That's it Europe - don't remember the past.
Forget all about Hitler and Mussolini and Franco - and pretend that stealing depositor savings is different than stealing their land, their child, their country, their life.
I don't like Merkel any more than any of those other Euro 'techno shits'. At least she has kept a lid on the pathological klepto EU PiiGs.
Starvation from lack of money to buy food with kills far more people than Hitler ever did. The world's biggest killer by far is poverty.
Some Spaniards still remember:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica
Hilter would be so jealoues; Instead of Bankers financing power hungry burreaucrats who send in their armies and tanks to invade neighboring European countries to steal their Gold, Treasure, and Labour to pay-back their war loans/debt (disrupting/killing millions in the process).... the Bankers now just selectively play a game of shorting Credit Default Swaps and Bonds - and nobody comes out with even a bloody nose (other than a few rowdy protesters) - how the art of war has evovled; much more cleaner, and with much quicker profits.
That doesn't stop the bitch from looking like Hitler. She resembles Hitler.