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Germany Scores First: Ends Verizon Contract Over NSA Concerns
It appears Germany has come out swinging ahead of today's FIFA World Cup match:
- *GERMANY ENDING VERIZON CONTRACT, CITING NSA: AP
Is this the "boomerang" that Putin warned Obama about?
As AP reports,
The German government is canceling a contract with Verizon over fears the company could be letting U.S. intelligence agencies eavesdrop on official communications. The Interior Ministry says it will let its current contract for Internet services with the New York-based company expire in 2015. The announcement comes after reports this week that Verizon and British company Colt provide Internet services to the German parliament and other official entities.
Germany has been at the forefront of international outrage over alleged electronic eavesdropping by the U.S. National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ, revealed last year by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Ministry spokesman Tobias Plate said Thursday that Germany wants to ensure it has full control over highly sensitive government communications networks. Verizon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
And Reuters:
The German government has cancelled a contract with U.S. telecoms firm Verizon Communications inc as part of an overhaul of its internal communications prompted by the row over United States government spying.
Reports last October based on disclosures by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that Washington had conducted mass surveillance in Germany.
Berlin subsequently demanded talks with Washington on a "no-spy" deal, but these collapsed after the United States appeared unwilling to give the assurances Germany wanted.
"The pressures on networks as well as the risks from highly-developed viruses or Trojans are rising," Germany's Interior Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
Time to revise non-GAAP EPS to exclude impact of NSA spying revelations.
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Holy crap. Next?
Can you hear me now....
'Murica's death spiral accelerates like when a turd circles the commode.
More gov't spending on breaking codes leading to more destruction in confidence in USA tech leading to decreasing sales and more stawk buybacks.
oh ho ho ho,
now THIS is a further episode that links back
to Snowden's Secret
and Glenn GreenWald's movie-deal-book
by revealing the NSA to the me-duh
THIS scripted action fits right in with
the narrative.
wonder what the script will leak next????
AT&T Next?
True story. Yesterday a friend called to ask for help w/networking at a pre-civil war home where they're staying with atty friends. He has 4 bldgs on the property, just got what he thought was Uverse broadband & wanted his 4 out buildings (180yrds away) networked for connectivity. My first question was are you on copper or fiber. I waited as he tried to find out by calling T. In the mean time, my buddy said BB was awful slow. Said do a speed test. This poor schmuck was sold the very first bb deployment @ 1.5kbps & DirectTV. T told him that he was on fiber with Uverse a SECOND time.
Now here's the irony. This guy has lived all over the world wkg legal for gubmint on 3rd world projects such as water/sewage/infrastructure. Anyone familiar w/ "Confessions of an Economic HitMan" & how the USSA steals resources can clearly see the esquire just took (if I may borrow from dearly departed Carlin) the big red, white, & blue right up his a$$.
Karma, it's what's for dinner.
GGGGGOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next!!
Oracle Databases and financial/HR Software (anything where the NSA has access through software vendor "SERVICE/MAINTENANCE" agreements"
"CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?!!"
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!!
Hello...who is this?
Call me when Germany starts evicting America and closing all the military bases there. Otherwise, this is much ado about nothing.
Verizon is waiting on their masters in DC to tell them what to fucking say.
"I plead the fifth", "we destroyed our broken hard drives", "what difference does it make"?
"we destroyed our working hard drive" fixed.
Internet censorship coming to the imploding country formerly known as the "Beacon of Freedom". RIP.
Or, in the grand tradition of the United Corporations of America, the NSA will just pay them a "consulting" few equal to what they lose with the Germans. Don't ever worry about an American corporation. They are always taken care of.
every one of 'em has their role to play
and their sell-by date known to
a select few.
so as to place those final bids in the stawk market
gentlemen.
I think you got that reversed.
Corporate is DC's master.
You're confusing DC w/NSA.
Back to enigma machines.
Windtalkers.
I reckon people will also flock to those that speak soothe.
Everyone wants an Oracle!
BaBoomerangrang
http://youtu.be/RWguqJzbSsY?t=10s
Itsben cummin noottin nothin, dumkopf
"...Cut off the nose to spite their faces" - Vlad Putin
You think it looks good, no?
Sorry, pet hate of mine, but you mean to say ' cut off their nose DESPITE their face.'
You're wrong and fly is correct. Your sentence makes no sense.
Pretext to non-Anglo/US networks put in place ... that means Germany retains isolated relay of data ... that data containing transactional information ... which now can't be monitored as easily ...
Balkanization of the Internet soon, I suspect. The Anglo alliance will stay together, but everyone else is going to go to national or regional networks with firewalls to compartmentalize themselves.
Verizon stock must be up about 3% then today right?! #BadNewsIsGoodNews
Okay, so that'll just mean a massive rate hike in wireless and Fios services for the American sheeple to make up the profit loss for Verizon! obama will probably E.O. it to obamacare and subsidize it as an entititlement "right" for the people.
Merica - going to shit at an accelerating rate
The closer you are to the drain, the faster you spin!
I can't think of one instance in the U.S./Russia showdown when Obama and the U.S. have come out on top.
Putin is outmanuevering and outthinking Obama at every turn of event.
At this point in his presidency with over two years to go, I am actually enjoying sitting back and watching Obama's incompetency exposed for everyone to see.
Whoever is giving him advice has no idea about foreign policy and it shows.
Whoever is giving him advice may not know much about foreign policy but I bet she can stuff her feet into overpriced shoes that are two sizes too small.
while i agree, i still think this is a planned take down of the USA.
i can't imagine this isn't going just as TPTB planned. just lke Hannibal says.....
Maybe, maybe not.
Think Rottenfeller planned on losing his son?
VZ makes hefty donations, not to mention THEY have the power to spy on the spies.
I can't see them purposely imploding the company.
It is all about destroying Amerika. He is suck-seeding. Amerika is filled with cowards like General Betrayus.
Obama has successful made the USA the villan! A trully terrible terrible terrible president!
That was his one and only job. "Magic negro," indeed.
He got a pretty good hand-off from Bill and George.
Well, he's taken the baton and ran with it. Maybe Obozo is the anchorman in the relay. He's lightning fast!
racist
Germany trying to save face with it's citizens, nevermind the fact they are explicitly working with the NSA and now they want to act so "offended" that the NSA is also listening to their own officials.
that's not the whole story. it would have been reasonable to adjust the Five Eyes Agreement. but neither the US nor the UK want to. this is just one consequence out of many
The head of the German Commission to investigate the NSA spying .. does not even know how to spell "ASN"(sic.) on public television he could not properly name the US Agency he is supposed to investigate!
All question the reporters asked him, he replied with a single word Yes/No, he acted like he was just recovering from a Stroke, he wasn't even responsive to his own name being called.
German Manchurian lol
Voting with your dollars is the best thing anyone or any entity can do.
Unplug TV and Hollywood is one place to start.
Bring back the '70s guy avatar!
I like seeing the symbolic gesture but let's face it, the cancerous NSA is going to spy with or without Verizon as the avenue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wntX-a3jSY
One more nail in the coffin of a dying empire, however I don't believe for a minute that Germany wasn't in on the whole deal. Like any trapped rat they need an out.
I concur. I smell a rat here.
Germany: "I'll show you seven years for my own friggin gold"
Maybe they just want their non-existent gold.
2015? Well maybe.
Germany has it's internet provided by a company based in a foreign country and is yet somehow surprized they were eavesdropping ? I wonder ! Maybe some in the German goverment knew and were in on it, but now that the listening in is out in the open they are simply forced to do something to make it appear they disapprove. We know that the UK and the US listen in on each other and share tidbits, maybe the US and Germany have been doing so as well and the fact of it hasn't yet been leaked.
Exactly, it's all a big show. I'm so sure they aren't trying to listen to the US traffic...dog and pony show
yah, let's wait & see what GreenWald
channels from Snowden's Secrets leaked.
it must be gettin' close to that epic fireworks display!
Feral Obama Amerika makes spy ware shit from Silicon Valley. Total spyware crap and junk. I talked to a few Europeans and Asians who have corporate jobs. They said their companies are getting rid of things like Cisco's crap, Windows and other junk. They are pushing big on LINUX and other hybrids. The USA makes spy shit.
It's lauaghable even here. I see job ads all the time wanting cybersecurity experts, but then go on to demand expertese in Microsoft, Cisco, et al. Not a single one of the job posters (both government and private sector) are looking for true security.
My favorite is the job board asking for cybersecurity experts--and then demanding that JavaScript be enabled in order to function.
LOL! Good stuff. I wonder if the Chinese who cloned Cisco has the spy shit in it. What a joke.
Tylers/ZH Java Script drives me crazy on one machine I use. Locks up Mozailla.
Merkel has been spied upon by the NSA since 2002. Maybe she will intervene and save the contract for Verizon.
Anyone giving contracts to US communication companies and computer companies has probably has a very big file at the NSA.
CIA/Mossad/MI6/NSA like to keep their Stooges on a short leash, anybody who thinks Merkel is an independent Politician is out of his mind, they where simply making sure She was on board with their Programming.
Oh hell yes.
Soooo...Germany canceled their internet plan in the US based consulate. What is that, about .0000001% of Verizon's revenue stream. It cuts them sooo deep. How about Germany cancel their communication plan with Verizon
This just in. Germany awards contract to AT&T
Problem solved verizon will bring them some privacy! Now bring out the sword swallower, the flying trapeze acts, the elephants and the world's fattest man. Let the circus continue.
Oh yeah, so much safer and more secure......
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/12/06/att-says-it-does...
awesome. I cancelled my verizon account 14 months ago for the same reason. Verizon is just a working branch of the NSA.
P.S. I did not switch to another provider. I gave up carrying a US gov spy/tracking device forever. I am cell free.
Not to worry. The magic of the marketplace will fix everything. The craven US telecoms will scurry to protect their government contracts and hide their spyware even deeper in their products. There is no limit to their willingness to lie. It is a naturally renewable resource.
Maybe the Germany decided to do the "Pay-As-You-Go" plan... If you spy on us we won't refill our phone/data cards, and might even switch to another provider.
Hasn't the German government ever seen a movie? Sheesh, just buy some GO phones you idiots
time to short vzw?
you know what would make this story complete?
I mean what would make this story just perfect?
we find out that they singed up with MTS to be their new service provider...
I think I might just literally die laughing if that really happened. and why not? Moscow is way ahead on points in every aspect of this geopolitical/economic prize fight, so this would just be the icing on the cake.
that would be some funny shit though wouldn't it? so much for that new round of sanctions...
Fuckng dup. ipad soft keyboard
They were evidently wondering why they got such competitive data and phone rates. Probably were even paid to use the service.
I hope Germany only buys internet tools from those companies that provide services to "ethical' governments...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/06/more_on_hacking.html
I sure hope we get to bailout Verizon.
Congrats Kprime. I have never owned a cellphone, I am not into brain cancer or a hookup with NSA (not one I can avoid anyway). I have always laughed when people ask you don't have a cellphone? I have never had a call so important it could not wait until I get to the house.
By the way I am totally and without a shadow of a doubt convinced that Merkel hates Germans. She is just playing the game. The knowing demonic smiles she exchanges with Sarko were a dead give away. It was that "boy are we turning this idiots upside down look".
No Germans are pissed about the gold that Germany doesn't seem to even want back from NY. Angie Rothschild had to do something.
Make no mistake the dismantling of America is by design. The UN has it in writing that most of north America will go back to a wilderness area. Our mercenary army is almost spent, the gold and silver are almost mined and shipped to London and now the useless eaters are using too much energy. They don't know what to do with the 200 nuclear power plants on earthquake faults (many of them) with earthquake and volcanic activity at the highest level since records actually began. There are 20 on the New Madrid, Mississippi River area. The Madrid goes every 200 years. We are overdue.The Hoover dam is on it also, it is an earthen dam you know the type that was banned in California. The last flooding moved it forward 6 inches. It will wash out about 17 plants when it goes. They don't talk much about it on Murdoch news.
Most of the plants are in the east, most of the gas, oil and electrical lines cross this fault. Projections are that the explosion will be seen in outer space when it happens. In fact the Ramapo fault in NY state has a gas line over the power line that feeds Indian Point.
That is why the underground city in Denver Colorado, there are far less nuclear plants in the west. Good night and good luck.
now that is some home truths laid bare, Dublinmick.
most avoid thinking about the inevitable even as it speeds along towards that impenetrable wall-crash.
map the nuclear plants on the Homeland.
and realise the future, as they wind this nationstate
down.
The European empire is to be back in charge. Note that Germany is in the process of actually closing nuclear power plants. That is the sine qua non of a people who are actually cognizant concerning survival. Of course next door France has over 50 of them. Another clue is now the banning of GMO is taking place in Eiurope, especially Germany, fluorice was also banned years ago. All of the slaves are not slated for extinction it appears.Just whipping up animosity between newly arrived immigrants and the natives will reduce population as needed in the future. All it needs is a match. Of course they still push vaccines, but the culling can be bettert controlled here. A health note from the favorite doctor can probably get the elite off the hook here. They reportedly have access to a different level of health care anyway.
Americans make a lot of Polish jokes but GMO is banned there. Tip your hat to your betters Americans.To date they have sense enough not to poison themselves.
"They reportedly have access to a different level of health care anyway."
All these buggers live into their 90's. Only 2% of the populace makes it to their 9th decade. It aint Rottenfellar medicine, that's for sure. GMO - There's a reason their moniker is MonSatan.But but but...
German, US intelligence to boost cooperation: For the last four years the amount of information shared between German and US intelligence has increased fivefold.Then again moving out...
Washington is to upgrade RAF Croughton, one of its UK bases allegedly involved in mass surveillance and drone strikes, to make it the largest intel hub outside mainland US and a center for its operations in Africa, The Independent on Sunday reports. RT
United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM) is one of nine Unified Combatant Commands of the United States Armed Forces, headquartered at Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany. Wiki
"When it comes to spying, surveillance, and privacy, a simple rule applies to our world: however bad you think it is, it’s worse. "
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175861/tomgram%3A_peter_van_buren%2C_wha...
I have a sick sort of satisfaction in watching the world's opinion of Obama go from Messiah to Pariah. I know this affects me too, as well as every US citizen, but to see it happen on the world stage is kind of sweet.
The same sort of pride you feel when your long time girlfriend drunkenly projectile vomits on the buffet table and then proceeds to have diarrhea in her pink party dress.
Yessir...that's my baby.
That is why the backbone of the internet was happily transferred back to the UN. The empire is consolidating. Rants by the likes of Craig Roberts, entertaining as they maybe, about how the US is dragging those poor Eiuropeans along the highway of death is just so much hot air.
I have to wonder if the installation of obama was to show Americans once and for all, (hey we are in charge and there is nothing you can do about it). But like they say, people get the kind of representation they deserve in most cases anyway.
Great to see entities worldwide fighting back against tyranny!
Don't worry Verizon shareholders.
Verizon will just increase prices on its largest customer of last resort.
The U.S. Government (i.e. idiot taxpayers)!
It looks like GDP may increase after all in Q2.
Thank you Germany.
Not real growth, but we'll take what we can get.
Speaking of NSA, I hit the edit button and it said access denied. I refreshed the site and there is no longer an edit button I can see. I can comment however with no problems.
Now the edit button is back? Carry on
Ahhh, but what does that new edit button do?
Now they're REALLY not getting their gold back!
No Shit. Let's see. A rogue criminal murderous corporation wants to record everything so they can use the information to attack. Their products are banned. Kind of a no brainer.
A deeper reason may be Obama's siding with Saudi Arabia and the joint supplying of Al-Queda by US and Saudi Arabia to establish a muslim world order could also be entering the minds of european oligarchs.
Obama has not been acting rational lately.
First they want US gold back and now they do not want the NSA.
Funny people , the Germans.
ANd yes, for those, who do not read german newspapers, last 3 days I read nothing else, but Verizon-NSA-Deutsche Telecom in the papers.
The Russians and Chineese do not want the USD...
What happens in the world?
At the end the US government will have to stick to UK and AQ only, 'cause Saudis already negotiate with Russia and China.
Yes, we can still hear EVERYTHING!