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German Government Launches Investigation of Journalists for Treason

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

If it were up to the Federal Attorney General and the President of the German Domestic Security Agency, two of our reporters would soon be in prison for at least two years. Today, we were officially informed about investigations against our Markus Beckedahl, Andre Meister and an unknown“ party. The accusation: Treason.

– From Netzpolitik.org:  Suspicion of Treason“: Federal Attorney General Announces Investigation Against Us In Addition To Our Sources

Widespread outrage across Germany is erupting following the revelation that the nation’s Attorney General has launched an investigation into treason charges for two journalists working for Netzpolitik.

The charge is treason. The crime is journalism.

We learn from The Guardian that:

Germany has opened a treason investigation into a news website a broadcaster said had reported on plans to increase state surveillance of online communications.

 

German media said it was the first time in more than 50 years journalists had faced treason charges, and some denounced the move as an attack on the freedom of the press.

 

“The federal prosecutor has started an investigation on suspicion of treason into the articles … published on the internet blog Netzpolitik.org,” a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office said. 

 

The public broadcaster ARD reported Netzpolitik.org had published an article on how the BfV was seeking extra funding to increase its online surveillance, and another about plans to set up a special unit to monitor social media, both based on leaked confidential documents.

 

"This is an attack on the freedom of the press," Netzpolitik.org journalist Andre Meister, targeted by the investigation along with editor-in-chief Markus Beckedahl, said in a statement. "We’re not going to be intimidated by this."

Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing accurately notes the shadiness and hypocrisy of it all:

The German prosecutors who dropped all action against the US and UK spy-agencies who trampled German law and put the whole nation, up to and including Chancellor Angela Merkel, under surveillance, have decided instead to open an investigation into the bloggers at Netzpolitik, who revealed the wrongdoing.

 

Netzpolitik are an important source of independent news, analysis and campaigning for privacy and freedom in Germany. This is a genuinely shameful moment for the nation. We stand with Netzpolitik and its supporters around the world.

While this is horrible news, there is a silver lining. The main reason the German government feels a need to go overtly fascist, is because they are scared shitless. They are scared of the truth, of the light and of their own citizens. Such a corrupt and compromised government can’t last very long.

Additionally, we should commend the bravery of the journalists involved. As reported by the Intercept:

Asked if Netzpolitik would continue to report using materials gained from whistleblowers, Meister replied, "That’s our job, so of course we will continue to report about publicly relevant information, which obviously includes information from whistleblowers from state and private entities. As a matter of fact, just [yesterday] we have exposed the new ‘cyber strategy’ of the German Federal Military ‘Bundeswehr’ about offensive cyber attacks."

 

"If anything, all the support is showing that we must be doing the right thing, so we will continue what we do and maybe even step up the pace. … To paraphrase a Google engineer after yet another NSA leak: 'Fuck those guys!'"

Bravo. These guys deserve our complete and total support.

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For related articles, see:

Standard & Poor’s Warns on Germany as Anti-Euro Political Party Soars in Popularity

Video of the Day – "End the Fed" Rallies are Exploding Throughout Germany

Martin Luther King: "Everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was Legal"

 

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Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:15 | 6378479 Fun Facts
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The truth is the enemy of the ZWO state.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:19 | 6378492 Publicus
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The Nazis are back. It must be in the genes.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:21 | 6378499 bigdumbnugly
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Papuhs pleez. 

Mach Schnell.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:28 | 6378522 Greyhat
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These are not Nazis, just brave US/NATO Vasalls. Poobama said "no more whistleblowers", they try their best! :)

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:56 | 6378600 Urban Roman
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Long self-driving cars.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:16 | 6379288 monad
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I'm not getting into a car that has a MOSSAD backdoor. Don't even aim one at me. I will shoot it down.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 15:57 | 6379249 Bunga Bunga
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It makes Germany's attorney general Range look like a CIA puppet in a banana republic.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:24 | 6378510 Ignatius
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I have only one reasonably developed genetic/racial theory and that is that you, via your comment, are a total retard.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:35 | 6378544 greenskeeper carl
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To the poster above bring up 'nazis' , you're fucking stupid if you think this is unique to Germany, and it's indicative of a small mind to continuously mention the nazis every time the German govt does something like this. And if you think the US isn't doing the same thing you are delusional, I'm assuming you are American, in which case you are living under the most overtly fascist govt on earth right now. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:32 | 6378694 Dearlydeparted
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Agree with you 100% greenskeeper carl.  I hate individuals using the term inappropriately. Enough already!

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:24 | 6379002 slammin_dude
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Actually Isreal is the most overtly fascist, they even have internment camps called Gaza and West Bank.

Britain ans USSA are tied for 2nd.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 15:46 | 6379213 Farqued Up
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gk carl, I don't think his nationality is the issue but perhaps his ethnicity, just sayin'.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 17:53 | 6379593 lost money
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so america is fascist and germany is doing what america says. so thatmeans germans as fascists. and the last time I checked the nazis were a form of fascists but the germans who are doing what nazi-like fascist usa is doing are not nazi/facists. even though they are doing the same thng as the nazi/fascit usa.

if it walks like a nazi duck, quacks like a nazi duck and sensors the press like nazi duck - IT"S A FRIGGIN NAZI DUCK

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:53 | 6378593 Stumpy4516
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The jew mafia are back in control.  They may not be the little soldiers doing the dirty work but they are in control now. 

The transparent hypocrisy, the trampling of rights, the covert murders, the riduculous absurdity and as always the mass killings are the footprints of the jew mafia who take control.  They have no remorse, no shame, no morals or ethics.  They are sociopaths and psycopaths.  Your complaints about the wrongs are to no avail, they never stop until stopped.  And they get your neighbors to do their fighting for them.

AND this time they have new technology, have become wiser in the use and control of all media, control of all modern data including digital recording of all phone call and internet traffic.

Just look up at how they spray poisons over your heads, and no one pays attention because a talking head on tv does not tell them it is happening.

People cannot believe  they could be that evil.  People even villify those who speak out about them, and the holohoax. 

Not all italians were mafia and not all jews are jew mafia.  BUT, most jews have been trained to think of themselves as the chosen people, they are better and you are inferior, they are the tribe.

As a child I wondered why those in the church taught the story of Jericho as if it was a godly christen thing to be admired.  The jewish justify the story as - "The inhabitants of Jericho had heard about all the miracles God had done for Israel in Egypt. They knew God had given their land to Israel. But they insisted on opposing not only Joshua, but also God."  And the wonderful jewish Joshua proceeded to butcher every living thing.  The jewish will always see any opposing of them as opposing of God and the murder of those opposed to them as rightous.

The warning of that story has not only been ignored but the goy admire it.  They do not even see that they are goy.  (I am not expressing belief in the teaching of the bible but am pointing out the story and how the goy admire it.)

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:22 | 6378994 chunga
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Anti-anti-semitism is the genesis of the phenomen we now call "politically correct". Judging people first by their actions and behavior, then categorizing them into groups for the purpose of making observations is hateful and spiteful. It doesn't make any sense but that's what happens.

Like you say many of the victims of this evil are stalwart benefactors.

It's a brilliant and evil cloaking device and there seems to be no solutions, worldly or otherwise, to preventing the damage it does.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:13 | 6379275 Farqued Up
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It will always be like that as long as dumb-fuck Christians believe that the Jews are CHOSEN. God creates all people and he singles out one tiny minority of 15 million to lord over 7 billion? People really believe that, incredibly. All of you that have a Bible, look in the front and see where it's published. If it says NYC, open your brainwashed eyes and THINK!! Then, look at the copyright dates and scratch your head and wonder why God couldn't get his word correct the first time. Fuck me running.

I'm sick of any fucking religion that had a single thing to do with Abraham, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and all of their subs and splinters. One semite sewed the seeds of the pollution of humanity's minds.

BTW, all three of those malignancies of the brain deserve to live in peace, secure in their person and possessions. I seem to have read something like that somewhere before. 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:22 | 6378500 realmoney2015
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"The main reason the German government feels a need to go overtly fascist, is because they are scared shitless."

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:33 | 6379024 Bloppy
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When I first saw this headline, my eye tricked me, thought it said "China", not Germany. But Chinese journalists simply self-censor, so this rarely needs to occur. A good lesson for their German counterparts.

 

 

Leftists: MSNBC's Ed Schultz canned for speaking out against Obamatrade

http://tinyurl.com/qyq6z5f


Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:21 | 6378498 TeamDepends
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Well, they SWAT teamed an 80-something year old woman who dared to question the sacred cow known as "the holocaust", so this should not surprise anyone.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:22 | 6378501 Gamma735
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Facists are cowards.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:23 | 6378507 clade7
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Might have been gay German journalists, like that one boy Rachel Maddow...lets withold judgement until all the facts come out..

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:24 | 6378511 Greyhat
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Germany.gov should invest more in cyber defence and less in strange law cases or cybawhoreship! ;)

The poor little prosecutor maximus web page was instantly pen tested

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9980977

Like the German parliament servers

http://www.wsj.com/articles/german-parliament-struggles-to-purge-hackers...

 

This is not Germany anymore, its a federal republic of vasalldom. :)

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:24 | 6378512 22winmag
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Apparently the new boss is much the same as the old boss.

 

Keep stackin'.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:29 | 6378525 Reaper
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The State is the enemy of the People.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:33 | 6378529 Lumberjack
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According to Reuters this morning, Merkel announced she is running again.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Q636920150801?irpc=932

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:10 | 6378644 Anglo Hondo
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Merkel's supplier has run out of Depends?  Shit.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:31 | 6378530 Maestro Maestro
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Go to hell Germans.

You killed Jews, Gypsies and dissidents, only to end up taking Zionist anti-Semite dick up your collective asses while sucking American banker dick.

You decimated your young men by the millions only to end up importing Turkish men so that they could fuck your blond women up the ass long and hard.

Fuck you nazi dogs.

You're trying to screw Greeks and the rest of the Europeans again but it ain't going to work.

Send all Germans to Israel for hand-to-hand mine clearing purposes.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:05 | 6378625 negative rates
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Who died and left you maestro?

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:20 | 6379301 Farqued Up
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Maestro ran out of his meds. Is there a doctor in the house, he's approaching critical mass?

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:42 | 6378727 Dearlydeparted
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I encourage other commentators to report Maestro Maestro for HATE SPEECH at: Abuse/Complaints: abuse [ at ] zerohedge.com


Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:54 | 6378743 Renfield
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Hate Speech? Seriously? Member for 21 weeks and already trying to censor comments. Go back to the MSM where you belong. If you can't disagree without censoring then you've already lost the moral high ground, which is in fact the POINT of the posted article. Irony FTW.

If you don't stand for free expression, ESPECIALLY when you disagree, then you are in the wrong place. If you have a brain, you debate; if you're a goddam sheeple, you censor. Refute or GTFO.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:00 | 6378784 Dearlydeparted
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Renfield, please go to hell! I'm sick & tired of people unjustly villifying German Goys for no reasons. I do not consult 'Les Merdias ' du Mainstream petit connard, t'as rien compris du tout!

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 15:16 | 6379132 Sir Edge
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Dear... Dealydeparted...

Parry Any and All Comments You Disagree With By Using Intelligent Counter Points... But Please Don't Give The Tribe Any Extra Permissions to Do What They Already Are Doing 24/7 By Requesting For More Censorship and Less Free Speech On ZHedge or Anywhere Else... 

 

 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:31 | 6379331 Dearlydeparted
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Sir Edge

I know what you mean, but the PC poison they're submerging us with needs a counterpart. Don't you believe so?

Anyways sorry for being too candid!

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 20:07 | 6379918 Renfield
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DD, no-one here gives a shit what you're sick and tired of. Actually, it is kind of hilarious how easily you lose your temper.

You obviously have no solid arguments to refute the commenter above. If all goy were as stupid as you, then he would have a point. As it is, he can safely ignore your screams for Big Brother Censor to come along and help you out, by silencing people who get under your very thin skin.

As CW said, do us all a favour and be your alias. Off to the MSM with you, since censorship is what they do best. You'll fit right in -- until you run afoul of their censors of course. Which I doubt will take long. But the comments section here will be much improved without your idiotic 'hate speech' screaming.

Again -- since you seem slow to get the message -- this is a place for debate, not tardly cries for big brother. Refute or GTFO.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:07 | 6378958 cheech_wizard
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May you soon live up to your ZH alias. Failing that, A good kick in the nether regions might do you a world of good.

 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:28 | 6379325 Dearlydeparted
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cheech_wizard

Don't use such vicious threats towards me, I don't believe I deserve it.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 01:25 | 6380567 Joe A
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This is an article about freedom of speech and press and what you want is censorship? Did you get it at all? Perhaps you should be reported for sponsoring censorship. At ZH there is hatespeech all the time against Jews, black, Christians, Russians, Americans, Greek, etc. That is too bad and whereever and whenever should be countered by words, not by censorship.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:31 | 6378531 rwe2late
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Germany has a ways to go to catch up with the USA and UK.

 In the USA,

the journalists would be jailed if they refused to reveal their sources,

and their whistleblower sources would be punished with lengthy prison terms.

or driven into exile to escape harsh imprisonment.

(Assuming the US government didn't just "detain" everybody and hold them incommunicado for "national security" purpose. In the USA, the "nation" now means the government, and "national security" means protecting the government, especially from its own citizens.)

The UK is much the same as the US, but with even tighter control.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:35 | 6378534 TalkToLind
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Remote controlled cars and planes keep the journalists in tight check in Murica.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:33 | 6378532 TalkToLind
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The presstitutes are not there to report the "news".  They are there to report what TPTB tells them to report and nothing more.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:34 | 6378540 chosen
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The Fourth Reich continues to grow.  But maybe Germany is still the Third Reich, it was just underground for 70 years or so.  Werwolf.  Let's see what happens to the Jews who are still stupid enough to be living in Germany

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:58 | 6378605 Stumpy4516
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The jews control Germany.  It is the jews who are cracking down on opposition and the truth.

Go to Germany and publicly question the holohoax.  Just voicing is a felony and you will be prosecuted by the jewish controlled machine.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:05 | 6378626 Freddie
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How many centuries have Christian Germans, French, English, Russians and many others been murdered by killing each other for the banksters wars? 

We are seeing it today in the Ukraine where the more Catholic Christians are killing Orthodox Christians. 

And who is behind it as usual?  Nudelman/Kagan family, Soros, the Ukraine zoligarchs and others.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:45 | 6378734 Dearlydeparted
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TO: Stumpy4516 &
Freddie

I give the two of you 1000%

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:46 | 6378737 chosen
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While the Jews control the US government and economy, and as a consequence at one time controlled the US satellite state of Germany, I don't think the Jews control Germany now.  Sure if you deny the holocaust in Germany or Austria, they will put you in jail, but that's just the kind of fascist law that Nazis like.  The German Empire is rising again, as we have seen with the way it treated Greece and slapped France down.  I imagine what few Jews are left in Germany are feeling uneasy and may be making a move to Israel, like some in France have already done.  Just as well.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:08 | 6378801 Dearlydeparted
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@chosen

Please don't pull your Hasbara card on me. Germany is controlled by the Saturday People, and don't give me this Bull about French Jews feeling uneasy. The false flags are just what they are - FALSE.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 15:19 | 6379141 Sir Edge
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+1

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:28 | 6378849 smacker
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"I imagine what few Jews are left in Germany..."

I think there are quite a lot of jews in Germany. A lot of them repossessed central downtown apartment blocks in East Berlin when The Wall came down and kicked out the tenants.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:34 | 6378541 Tinky
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"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will knock down everything that stands in its way."

– Émile Zola

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 20:52 | 6380031 conscious being
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That would be awesome.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:40 | 6378545 JustObserving
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German Government Launches Investigation of Journalists for Treason

Germany is America's vassal.  It will do what its masters ask it to do.  Truth is treason in an empire of lies.  

Der Spiegel is a propaganda outlet for the CIA:

Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of the United States, Britain, and Germany—Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel—have published cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown with Russia.

The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same fabrications. They denounce Putin’s “web of lies.” The Russian president is portrayed as a “depraved” mass murderer

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/pers-j30.html

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:36 | 6378548 Flounder
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Germay Halts Treason Inquiry Into Journalists After Protests

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/germany-halts-treason-inqui...

 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:23 | 6378831 smacker
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Looks like Harald Range, Germany’s prosecutor general got a call...

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:38 | 6378553 Atomizer
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Somehow the headline is reversed. Shouldn't it read, Journalists find Treason within Germany EU Government? 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:40 | 6378557 Amish Hacker
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Good thing for Edward Snowden that he didn't seek asylum in Germany.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:43 | 6378566 gwar5
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USA told Germany to charge the online journalists else they'd leak Merkel's dirty deeds and pictures from the library the NSA has already gleaned.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:36 | 6378863 Pure Evil
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So you're saying we might have a chance at getting a peek at Merkel's perkle?

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:48 | 6379068 Row Well Number 41
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That truely is Pure Evil.

Ahhh.

#41

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:46 | 6378576 knuppel
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End the american occupation of germany. Kick all boats back to africa.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:54 | 6378595 Ms No
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Welcome to the Thunderdome..... Bitchez.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 11:57 | 6378604 BruntFCA
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Meh, you can be arrested in Germany for simply not beleiving in a number (6 million), pathetic.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:20 | 6378824 smacker
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Or for making any gesture (eg Nazi salute) or wearing clothing (eg swastika badge on a jacket) from the Nazi era.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:07 | 6378633 gmak
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"They are scared of the truth, of the light and of their own citizens. Such a corrupt and compromised government can’t last very long."

 

History would disagree. It is rife with despotic corrupt leaders that stay in power forever. They always start with muzzling the press.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:10 | 6378645 PrimalScream
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WHERE are Chuck Norris and Sly Stallone?

Apparently the mission to free MIA's in the Asian jungle was aborted.  They are actually trying to free two German news reporters from a pastry shop Berlin.  :-)

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:15 | 6378658 CHC
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Sounds errily familiar.

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"...government feels a need to go overtly fascist, is because they are scared shitless. They are scared of the truth, of the light and of their own citizens. Such a corrupt and compromised government can’t last very long."

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:32 | 6378668 Chuck Knoblauch
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Jesus is the King of Germany.

Arrest me.

He is the King of the Earth.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:30 | 6378692 Keynesians say ...
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Goebbels is back in business! Rev up those Seig Heils!

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:37 | 6378711 fatlibertarian
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Someone's gotta crack down on "extremist speech" and "non-loyalists". Just ask Wesley Clark..

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 20:55 | 6380039 conscious being
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Wesley Clarkstein?

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:46 | 6378735 maxwellsdemon
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From Wikipedia:

"Joshua sent spies to Jericho, the first city of Canaan to be taken, and discovered that the land was in fear of Israel and their God. The Israelites marched around the walls once every day for six days with the priests and the Ark of the Covenant. On the seventh day they marched seven times around the walls, then the priests blew their ram's horns, the Israelites raised a great shout, and the walls of the city fell. Following God's law of herem the Israelites took no slaves or plunder but slaughtered every man, woman and child in Jericho, sparing only Rahab, a Canaanite prostitute who had sheltered the spies, and her family"

 

The message of the old testament is that if you have low morals and spy for the chosen, you may be spared.   

 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:46 | 6378736 Consuelo
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“If something is classified as confidential, that also applies to journalists, as well as would-bes, he wrote on Twitter, referring to the fact that Netzpolitik.org is not a traditional newspaper."

 

Didn't an esteemed politician from Kafkafornia say something similar not long ago about alternative news sites not being 'mainstream' and therefore, not credible...?

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:52 | 6378758 JR
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Treason is betraying your country. That’s US citizen and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. That’s not the German journalists who like Snowden are betraying and exposing the treachery of their government; and a country is not its government, it is its people.

Here’s Paul Craig Roberts on the severity of the Pollard case:

“It seems to me that if Pollard who spied for Israel can be set free, so ought to be Manning, Snowden, and Assange who spied for the American people and reported the illegal activities of the US government and the dangerous impact of Washington’s illegal activities on the liberty of Americans. Pollard is a hero to Israel, not to America, and it is Pollard who is released. Manning, Snowden, and Assange are heroes to America, and they continue to be confined.”

Writes Roberts (July 31):

“Jonathan Pollard, a paid spy for Israel described by Michael D. Shear as 'one of the country’s most notorious spies,' has been pardoned from his life sentence. It strikes me as hypocritical for the US government to sentence anyone to prison for spying when the government itself spies on everyone everywhere. All Americans including members of the House and Senate, congressional staff, military officers, foreign governments including the leaders of Washington’s closest allies, and foreign businesses are spied upon. No one is exempt from Washington’s spying. ...

“What disturbs me about the case is that it is Pollard, who spied for a foreign country, who is released. In contrast, Manning and Snowden who spied for the American people are locked away, Manning in a federal prison and Snowden in his Russian exile. Julian Assange, who merely did his job as a journalist and made available to newspapers documents leaked to him, is confined to the Ecuadoran embassy in London.”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/07/paul-craig-roberts/release-foreign-spy-pollard/

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:33 | 6378861 Earl Slaughter-...
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Real journalists are literally a dying breed, and they are heros for our time and certainly deserve any support we can give.

 

The "news"-readers who try to pass as journalists... ...I have trouble articulating my feelings towards them.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:55 | 6379084 Rastech
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"The "news"-readers who try to pass as journalists"

Nothing but couch pussies.

And the women are nearly as bad.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 21:46 | 6380156 lordbyroniv
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what?  u guys dont like Business Insider?

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:43 | 6379050 monad
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fwd soviet

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 12:55 | 6378767 Ginsengbull
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Germany is so uptight...

 

they won't let a one armed man on a roller coaster.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:08 | 6378802 Bopper09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KENZD6IjDYI

South Park is the answer for everything

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:04 | 6378795 Spivmeister
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As a Kraut, I can safely say that, the day when one siegheilist gets a chance to run this place, hell will freeze over. The media has us firmly under control....maybe not a bad thing?

 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:50 | 6378914 JR
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We are not talking about a successor to Hitler here. But who in the world can doubt that the Zionists control the German media, hence, the charge of treason.

And further, the power of the Federal Reserve Bank reaches right into the boardrooms of the Frankfurt banks. And, then, envelops the politicians and the media.

Germany needs nationalism; America needs nationalism. It’s the international banking cartel that is attacking the sovereignty of every western nation.

Robert Hickson notes that “Germany is now in a life and death struggle with Jewish finance, and as of now it looks as if New York is winning…”

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts explains that “Germany, which has been browbeat since its defeat in World War II, has been made constitutionally incapable of strong leadership. Any sign of German leadership is quickly quelled by dredging up remembrances of the Third Reich."

And how has that all worked out for the German people. According to the ECB’s recent survey on household finances and consumption, the average German household has less wealth than the average Mediterranean household.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 05:21 | 6380745 supermaxedout
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I agree with your post and want to add something:

Nobody in Germany dares to say anything in public about the true situation in Germany except the group defined by the MSM as the "far right" which is pushed by them towards the corner "Nazis". So everybody who is not political correct and dares to speak about real German interests is more or less branded as a Nazi.

I'm optimistic and pessimistic at the same time. Because by no doubt it has to come to a showdown one day, because the German governments since 1989 have made permanently, small, tiny, tiny steps to change the situation towards more freedom and independence. Now this development has reached a point of no return. Whether the US stops it now or Germany (= continental Europe = Euroland) is lost for the empire. But to loose Germany which is now an integral part of the empire would end the empire economical within a short time. Once a dyke is broken everything is washed away

I do not expect that this is going to be bloody because the Germans may not know much but they feel it who is their real master.  70 years of occupation and indoctrination has left its marks. And of course it should not be forgotten that Germany prospered under US occupation like it never did before. So among Germans the drive to change something is there but not at any price. The Germans do not want to return into chaos as its nowadays a rampant occurance coming closer and closer towards Europes heartland.

The Germans can only become free when the US is letting them go, just like the Soviets did give up Eastern Germany in 1989 when the wall came down. But this is the last thing the US do have in mind because by no doubt it would trigger a breakdown of the US economy comparable to the Soviet Union at that time. Imagine peace is breaking out and the financial sector is loosing its military backing. 

But the truth is something has to happen, whether letting Germany go or tightening the screws. But tightening the screws on Germany does also not save the US on the longer run but is firing anti American emotions.

 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:30 | 6378856 Lux Fiat
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Would love to see William Shirer's "Berlin Diary" on the gymnasium curriculum in Deutschland.  Ditto for high schools stateside.  It will be on my kids' summer reading list next year.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:34 | 6378866 RaceToTheBottom
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The goal:
All journalists should be "Liesmaned" 

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 13:46 | 6378904 RaceToTheBottom
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Now if they applied this technique to Tom Brady, fine, frag his ass.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:37 | 6379343 Farqued Up
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Yeah, that Brady cunt cost me 10 Benjamins with his flat balls (pun intended).

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:11 | 6378964 monad
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All MSM journalists in Europe are on NWO payroll.

Hang 'em high

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 14:27 | 6379012 q99x2
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Return the money stolen by the fascists to the people.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 15:52 | 6379236 PoasterToaster
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Is it possible to commit treason against the treasonous?

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:11 | 6379269 Peter Pan
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I salute the little guy/gal who at great risk to their life and liberty continue to expose the dark side of nervous and evil governments who have deviated from protecting their citizens to treating them like mushrooms.

In ancient times it was the tyrannicdes who assasinated tyrants and today it is the whistleblowers who help society steer through the psychopathic maze of power hungry, agenda driven maniacs.

As long as these people do not endanger the "well being" of their citizens and the borders of their nations, we should all realize that they are true heroes.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:33 | 6379336 Rusputin
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The German 'lawmakers' have over-stepped their mandate, that mandate is democracy, and the EU's clear freedom of speech laws etc.

Where is the enforcement of EU law? Enforce it!

Lets us see it in action... to retain confidence in the EU system we valued.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 16:54 | 6379384 cowdogg
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Stuff the puppet Merkel and send her back to her CIA bosses in Langley.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 18:14 | 6379629 Seychelles
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Siegin' on the Rhine, just Siegin' on the Rhine

The Zios are ja-in, so don't you think nein

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 18:53 | 6379749 falconflight
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.001% of the German population are the Chosen.  Man, I need to network better ;)

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 19:11 | 6379785 falconflight
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Cause 

Deutschland über alles

has such a long storied history of promoting Liberty...Ja Ja!  They even sing about it:

 

Deutschland, Deutschland, before everything
Before every other land
When for freedom and for liberty
We together always stand
From the Meuse to the Memel
From the Adige to the Band
Deutschland, Deutschland, before everything
Before every other land

German women, German fealty
German wine, and German song
Will for generations coming
Be remembered far and long
And inspire us, to greater deeds
For our land, our legacy!
German women, German fealty
German wine, and German song

Justice, freedom, and our unity
For the German Fatherland!
Let us strive for these together
Brotherly with heart and hand
For our liberty, justice, and unity
Let our pledge, of fortune be!
Flourish in the grace of divinity
Flourish German Fatherland!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pEdoLKknCi0

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 19:36 | 6379862 JR
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Deutschland uber alles

uber alles

uber alles (correctly written in German "ueber alles") has nothing to do with the Nazis, but was a line of a poem written in 1841 which was used for the German National Anthem. It does not translate as "above all" (that would be "ueber allen") but rather "more than anything else", as in "ich liebe Dich ueber alles in der Welt" (I love you more than anything else in the world). A misleading translation was purposely chosen by the Allies during the second world war for propagada purposes.

by M. Wolf March 10, 2006

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uber+alles

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 20:07 | 6379941 falconflight
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thx

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 00:33 | 6380487 BlussMann
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That's a Bullshit mis translation.. Germany is, or at least was, (and probalby will be again) a much better nation than the blood soaked and corrupt USA will ever be - unless it goes down with the USSA Titanic - which is carrying Western Europe down with it for sure.

The Russian  anthem is much more inspiring as well - far superior to the ridiculous and boring groan that Americans call their anthem (and nobody knows anyway).

The American Blacks have even changed the words to reflect the new American Spirit, to match their crap version of  American history and changed the US  flag colors to a black field, red stars and green and red stripes (no white) - flying it in Baltimore.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 19:30 | 6379838 honestann
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In case anyone was confused up to this point, outright fascist Germany is back.  All Merkel needs is a mustache and the picture would be complete.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 20:06 | 6379939 falconflight
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To be honest, I'm having a harder and harder time of distinghishing between a fascist-socialist and a socialist-fascist state.  

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 22:53 | 6380305 honestann
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Personally, I don't care.  Any variant of authoritarianism is still authoritarianism, and is therefore utterly evil.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 00:22 | 6380471 BlussMann
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That's because it's neither, it's just plain sicko Jewish control.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 03:30 | 6380667 smacker
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The entry point into fascism is invariably from the socialist Left "socialism+capitalism=fascism" (see Hugo Chavez). But it can also be from the political Right, because in truth, there are a lot of politicial elites who claim to be on the Right and have deep connections with Big Money/banking etc or may even be a member of a Right-wing party (eg John McCain and Cameron in the UK) but they are actually authoritarian corporatist Lefty wannabes, hiding their real allegiance.

The only solution is to hang the lot of 'em.

Sat, 08/01/2015 - 21:25 | 6380108 BlussMann
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Treason ? How ?  Poor Germany is still an occupied US territory - I've been expecting the US to make Germany a "State" - but I guess they still don't have enough "immigrants"  to satisfy the Ami's racial prefrence.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 04:03 | 6380686 supermaxedout
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Tiny, tiny demonstrations by netzpolitik follower bearing signs "Nazi" and so on were shown on all news channels and newspapers yesterday in Germany. other prominent news yesterday in Germany: Putin poisoned Litvineko with Pollonium and Russia vetoed the UN tribunal regarding the Malasian Airline plane shot down over Ukraine.

hmmm, something is going on

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 08:20 | 6380860 The Abstraction...
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Lived in Germany from Nov 2008 to Oct 2014. Wonderful people, wonderful country, but their legal system is totally corrupt. The Frankfurt prosecutors, the Frankfurt courts, BaFin, the Frankfurt police - all slaves of Deutsche Bank.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 00:42 | 6383741 onmail
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All orders come from Nazi Obama 

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