i've always loved her for shaking dubya off her

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But that is not a good basis for judging her as a leader. Still, I can't shake my washing machine mentation as the interests of truth and propaganda compete in every goddam news account I see. I'm heavily in agreement with anti-nukes people everywhere, and always, but I also can't seem to get a fix on Merkel in the scheme of things. At least half the time she seems to be doing the right thing... like yanking all German forces from the Libya war... and, whether it was just political acumen or a genuine rethinking of policy, taking German reactors off line. So I'm ambivalent as heck about this. I'm not ambivalent about al Jazeera becoming as useless to us and as useful to the PTB as any in mainstream media, though. So, consider me still sloshing around in the soap.

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this'll end up being wednesday's libya post

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But right at this instant I'm savoring the dream of NATO disintegrated. Earlier I saw where Turkey was digging in its heels and now I see that Germany has made their position 100% perfectly crystal clear. Goody!

I know, I know, that's going to leave it all—surprise !!!—in our laps... er, our military industrial space lizards' laps, but let me have these few moments of fantasy, will you?

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WHAT IS GOING ON?

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i'm jealous

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Where are we in our opposition to our government's actions?

Big German protests pressure Merkel before CDU meet
By Annika Breidthardt Annika Breidthardt – Sat Nov 13, 12:12 pm ET

BERLIN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched in cities across Germany on Saturday to protest against government policies and social inequality, a day before a key meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).

German union umbrella group DGB, which organized the demonstrations, said nearly 100,000 people had marched in Stuttgart, Dortmund, Nuremberg and Erfurt, voicing their displeasure with Merkel's coalition for offloading the costs of the financial crisis.

"We don't want a republic in which powerful interest groups decide the guidelines of politics with their money, their power and their influence," Berthold Huber, head of IG Metall, Germany's largest trade union, told demonstrators in Stuttgart.

He demanded higher wages and the introduction of a mandatory minimum wage to give workers a share in Germany's economic upswing, which is outpacing those of its European partners.

Merkel's CDU hold their annual congress from November 14-16 in Karlsruhe, which will be watched closely for signs of nervousness in party ranks.

Merkel's center-right coalition with the Free Democrats (FDP) has been dogged by infighting and made little progress on its campaign promises in its first year in power, leading to a slide in its popularity.

CDU delegates will vote to re-elect Merkel as the head of the party on Monday and while the result is not in doubt, a drop in support for her leadership would highlight the level of dissatisfaction with her in the party.

Merkel has been criticized by some CDU members for not being conservative enough. Her center-right bloc now trails the center-left grouping of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in opinion polls.

Merkel addressed that criticism in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper to be published on Sunday, saying: "Those with conservative values have always had a home in the (CDU/CSU conservative bloc) and they will always have it there but they also have to ask themselves about the incredible pace of change today."

Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that the party should consider holding a formal vote when choosing future candidates for chancellor in what could be seen as a challenge to Merkel.

Von der Leyen is a candidate to become deputy leader of the CDU and is seen as a possible successor to Merkel, whose term expires in 2013 but who could decide to run for a third term.

Germany suffered its biggest postwar recession in 2009 but has rebounded strongly this year on the back of robust exports.

She is under pressure from her coalition partners to press ahead with tax cuts promised during the election campaign but shelved as the government shifted its focus to budget consolidation.

Last week, tens of thousands protested against the extension of lifespans of Germany's 17 nuclear power stations, and a plan to build a multi-billion euro rail station in Stuttgart despite widespread opposition has also prompted protests.

Where?

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pro-woman-power, antiwar, fascist media and obama bashing

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Turns out Germany did quite a bit better than the AP could force itself to spit out last night, eh? I find myself today feeling proud of Angela Merkel. Everyone else was out there strutting and posing like a bunch of testosterone-addled monkeys, but Angela got busy. Well, that's not strictly it. She's been busy from the git, doing things to make Germany strong. You know, those boring, far from exotic things, those BASIC things, like making sure the manufacturing base was hale and hearty, that people had JOBS, good jobs.

Why would the AP downplay this? Perception management, trying to minimize the defeats of our bankers, AP stands for Altering Perception. Don't we feel smug for busting them? Almost every snippet of "news" in every paper in America is taken from the AP, not al Jazeera. In fact, most of the American public would be up in arms if their local papers were printing off an al Jazeera wire... unreasonably, as it turns out, because al Jazeera is already not so fascist-unfriendly by a long shot as it once was.

If Webster Tarpley was right, that our plutocrats have purposely been trying to kill off the Euro to keep our dollar alive, they have been roundly defeated by a stubborn, sensible woman willing to pour her energies into boring old basics. This is in stark contrast to our completely useless reified orator whose only pleasing attribute turns out to be his skin tone. If he ever even sort of hoped to mean his shtick about "change", which many now do not believe at all, his capitulation to the power elite has been so seamless and complete that it is better seen as ABDICATION, the fastest abdication in American History. He got down off the podium from his inaugural speech, Dubya hugged him so hard he almost fainted, and immediately ceded everything remotely resembling an actual American Presidency. His sole actual function now being more akin to that of Miss America than President of the United States. Only, his term of office is longer.

Of course, Angela Merkel has now set herself up to have Germany be the cause of another world war....

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i don't trust germany or israel with this

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There were ancient masters who forbade their students to write down anything they said, but some did, covertly, anyway, and it has ended up helping future generations... while probably NOT helping the cheaters. There are many, many writers with the sense to burn the stuff they don't want surviving them BEFORE they check out. There are some who only say it on their deathbeds, knowing full well it will only goad their survivors the more to publish it. There are some unlucky stiffs who realize too late they're too feeble to do it themselves, or are killed before they can do it, and the world has to suffer the wreck of stuff they did not publish for very good reason. I don't know which of these applies. I just know I don't trust either country with the call. I especially dread Zionists—from wherever—whether the good-hearted kind or the sociopathological kind—having control over any translation of his stuff. It might take centuries to undo the harm that might be done.

It could become downright Kafkaesque.

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no more shorting derivatives in the nude

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At least in Germany. The physicist Chancellor Merkel says nicht to financial terrorism.

You know, listening to Stacy and Max regularly really does give one the general idea, helps one keep a bead on who the bad guys are and why. Plus the RT break in the middle of this one is worth the price of a click all by itself.
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buy it and KILL it

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No. Really. It's for sale and it's already started WWIII... it's already done enough damage to extinctify the human race... and hypnosis is not the optimal state to be in when needing to wake up to reality.

yes, put your money where your mouth is, barack

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Putin: Russia might abandon nukes if others do
By DAVID NOWAK

MOSCOW (AP) — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is willing to abandon nuclear weapons, if the United States and all other countries that have them do the same.

"If those who made the atomic bomb and used it are ready to abandon it — like, I hope, other nuclear powers officially and unofficially owning them — of course we will welcome and facilitate this process in all ways," Putin said, according to state-owned RIA Novosti news agency.

Putin spoke at a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who said earlier that the idea of scrapping nuclear arms altogether rather than limiting their proliferation was a real prospect.

"The goal of global zero is not a game for utopians, but will be taken up by the doyens of U.S. foreign policy as well as by German and Polish politicians," Steinmeier said.

In a joint declaration on April 1, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered negotiators to start work on a new treaty reducing their nuclear stockpiles as a first step toward "a nuclear-weapon-free world."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in televised comments added that no unilateral steps on the nuclear issue were foreseen.

Eliminating the nuclear threat held by the former Cold War enemies was raised at a 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Putin's announcement came on the same day as a top Russian general warned of the dangers of cutting the number of nuclear warheads possessed by Russia and the Unites States to less than 1,500 each.

Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, the chief of the military's Strategic Missile Forces, said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that it will be up to the Kremlin to make the final decision on how deep the cuts should be.

"We believe that we mustn't go below 1,500 warheads," Solovtsov was quoted as saying. "But in any case the issue will be decided by the political leadership."

Russian and U.S. officials are currently negotiating a successor deal to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START I, which expires in December. Negotiators are to give a progress report to their presidents by the time Obama visits Moscow on July 6-8.

Steinmeier met Medvedev on Wednesday and was expected to discuss economic ties and human rights. The trial of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky is being watched in Germany with particular interest as a measure of Russia's commitment to the rule of law.

Steinmeier also met with editors at newspaper Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining media outlets critical of the government.

Personally, I just love the irony of that last graph, don't you? Is Novaya Gazeta the FOX News of Russia? Just asking.

simply mahvloozsh

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and it wasn't just merkel and sarkozy

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Seems it is only our fascist media in the west that wanted to omit mention of the Russian solidarity for better regulation... they, of course, having dasted to suggest the dollar stop being the world's reserve currency. Gonna get the cold shoulder for that in our press for sure.

it is incumbent on me to point out

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...that these are the words of a truly decent man. The truth is never bad. He is rock solid in terms of good faith here, and everyone, everywhere, of good faith should hear him. Hear him.

Compare and contrast, please, if you would be so kind.

[This is right on point and worth at least a good skim.]

congratulations

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And the Dalai Lama approves of her too.