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It must be? So, when team Obama was illegally wiretapping EU leaders it was because it must have been the far right? Or was that republicans? Try thinking critically for once in your life, or download the data and look for yourself. Well you are in the UK, so that's probably illegal anyway for you. There's a lot of people who'd want dirt on the government exposed, everyone from GTFO out of the EU to AFD to people in the UK pissed over Germany's attempts to run the EU like the next reich.

Can anyone comment on the timing too? Seems a bit random, is there something happening I'm not aware of?

You mean besides the only source for the "only AfD wasn't targeted" came from the German media? That's the only source so far, and we're seeing citogenisis in action with all the other media outlets reporting the same thing. As it stands, no proof, no information. Except that cybersecurity in Germany and in many other countries appear to be shit. But keep in mind, that the german media has also recently taken a beating for multiple reporters, editors, EiC's, having fabricated stories or manufactured news. So I wouldn't exactly trust that source.

> The value is in creating chaos. In the Clinton case, in order to believe there was substantive criminal activity, one must believe that the whole of the FBI and intelligence community were in cahoots with Clinton.

No, it's more than that, there's still too many people looking at the whole Russia-Trump-Clinton thing through the eyes of US politics, let's be clear here, the morning Wikileaks leaked the damaging material on Clinton, Nigel Farage attempted to sneak into the Ecuadorian embassy to meet with Julian Assange - the US House Intelligence Committee has since received intelligence that this was to provide Assange with a thumb drive and that Farage was a Russian conduit:

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

https://www.france24.com/en/20...

If you're looking purely through the lens of "My candidate won, you're just bitter" then you're missing the point here. Let's be absolutely clear - Nigel Farage is incredibly friendly with a guy in British politics called Arron Banks. Arron Banks is a guy who no one had ever heard of until he dramatically appeared on the British political scene around 2015 with a story about how he was going to defect from being a major Conservative party donor to being a UKIP donor, despite the fact no one in the Conservative party had any idea who he was, he suddenly had £1million pounds to dramatically donate to UKIP. Since then he has come under investigation, because no one can explain the source of all his wealth as it's hidden incredibly well behind a cascade of fake businesses in places like the Cayman Islands which are well known conduits of Russian money. Of course, you could fairly trivially dismiss this as paranoia if it weren't for the fact that Arron Banks is married to Ekaterina Paderina. Who you ask? Someone a Russian defector described as one of their greatest intelligence assets, someone who had an affair with a much older MP who just happened to be in charge of one of the constituencies where Britain's nuclear submarines are housed:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

On top of that, Farage has consistently refused to condemn Russia even when it annexed Crimea, he has attended Russia's far right convention in St. Petersburg where a number of far right anti-EU parties in Europe were granted support and funding from Russian state entities:

https://themoscowtimes.com/art...

So at this point, if anyone things it's about Clinton or Trump, they really are failing to see the bigger picture. There's a massive web here with ample evidence trailing all the way back to Putin's doorstep, and what's more, it stems from before Trump was even a US political candidate at all, which in itself highlights the fact it's got nothing to do with "bitter Hillary" supporters or whatever justification people like to use for refusing to acknowledge it.

At this point, if you really don't think Russia is involved in interfering in Western politics in an incredibly serious manner, and if you don't think Putin had anything to do with Brexit, Trump, Hungary's Jobbik, France's NF, Greece's Golden Dawn and so on and so forth then you're in denial over such an overwhelmingly large body of evidence that you genuinely only can be either pro-Russian and anti-Western, or the kind of useful idiot that these kind of intelligence operations rely on in the first place.

Assange and Wikileaks are just one part of a massive web

Frances O'Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC)

Doesn't she already have a shorter workweek?

Two years before Macron, the French people had massive demonstrations to reject gay marriage.

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to demonstrate against gay marriage and to call for candidates in next year's presidential election to support "traditional family values".

http://www.france24.com/en/201...

That's not a couple dozens neonazis asking to leave a statue alone. That's tens of thousands of citizens offended at the idea of gay marriage to the point of spending a Sunday protesting. Liberté, égalité, fraternité? Not in recent decades.

Doubt it will happen

Indeed. They are already backpedaling after the marketing department had a talk with the engineers.

I mean, didn't they try this years ago and google stopped listing them. Their traffice went down and they begged to get re-listed?

Oh here one for starters:
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

Changes to the law after ww2 in West Germany gave a lot of powers to protect "democracy" from any group wanting to change democracy.
Germany now has the same investigative powers to protect "democracy.".

Why would a strong pro-privacy movement be able to block the police and security forces in Germany from protecting democracy?
Would the police protecting Germany democracy allow a pro-privacy movement to start blocking the police from protecting Germany democracy?
Anyone in a German pro-privacy movement would be identified and their involvement in stopping police work would be investigated.
If such groups keep trying to stop the lawful work of the German police and security services all such groups can be banned and all members investigated.
The laws after ww2 did not allow Germany law enforcement to just sit back and let groups question the workings of democracy.

"Surveillance: German police ready to hack WhatsApp messages" (25.07.2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/surveilla...
Note the part about "at source" on users' screens.
"The leaked document shows that Germany's security services have bought the surveillance software... "
Will the EU save privacy?
"French candidate Macron targets encryption in fight against terrorism" (2017-04-13)
http://www.france24.com/en/201...
"Europe to push new laws to access encrypted apps data" (30 Mar 2017)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

More lies from angle o sphere. France backpedals on pledge to cut reliance on nuclear power Thankfully scientists in France have more political pull.

France will replace a lot of nuclear with renewables in the next years

No they will not. Thankfully. France backpedals on pledge to cut reliance on nuclear power And what strawman? France and Norway are two of the cleanest countries.

Meanwhile in France they realized that they are not doing fine and plan to decrease the use of nuclear substantially.

Someone has not been following the news. Macron backpedals on pledge to cut reliance on nuclear power.

OK, so why not just share every Trump campaign email now?

As if we've seen "every" Clinton email... She kept every work-related email safely protected from any FOIA requests during her tenure as Secretary of State, and then spent two years deleting half the emails that she, or her hired helpers, determined all on their own what was and was not "work-related" and deleted about half of her emails, handing them over to the government just before being subpoenaed...

Or how about that private server that only sends email to Russia?

You mean the server that had malware that pinged a Russian IP address occasionally?

And of course, by "email" you mean "DNS Ping"...

They do. Here is an example. This family is under suspicion - note SUSPICION - of money laundering. There has been no trial. Nothing has been proven. Their name simply turned up in the "Panama papers" a few months ago, and the US Treasury department must have already had their eye on them so they simply issued a statement. Due to that statement, all the credit card companies immediately dropped their services to businesses owned by this family.

The result is a large, successful shopping mall is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy because they owned both the mall and half the stores in it. The mall cannot collect payment from its customers. The stores can no longer accept credit cards. Oh they still accept cash, but I doubt stores the likes of Gucci, Prada and Luis Vuitton are going to walk to the mall and pay their rent in cash. It is a very high end shopping mall.

Since the mall almost went bankrupt, the US Treasury department struck a deal to allow the suspected family to "wind down" operations in an orderly fashion, so the mall now accepts credit cards again. So do pay attention to this. The UNITED STATES TREASURY is applying US law in Panama, telling Panamanian banks what to do, giving authorizations and citing US law, etc. And again I repeat this is merely "suspicion" on the part of the US government. There has been no trial, no sentencing. I'm not saying the Waked family are nice guys or 100% legit. What I AM saying is due process is out the window. Make no mistake, you cannot run and hide from US law even in another country.

http://www.france24.com/en/201...

Voila, mon ami! Vingt turbines françaises sont cassées!

http://www.france24.com/en/201...

Apple has no problems caving to the CHINESE government:

Citing reports by Chinese daily Beijing News and the state-run People's Daily, the article claimed that Cook agreed in January 2015 to allow authorities in China to carry out “security checks” on all iPhones sold in the country to make sure the US had not installed any spyware. But, Apple has never confirmed or responded to the allegations.

The article reported that analysts believe Apple likely handed over its operating system source code as part of the agreement. If true, this would mean that the Chinese government knows how Apple’s software works, including its security system.

User data stored in China

Apple also decided in February 2015 to store local users’ personal data in China. The move was a gesture of good will towards Beijing that other companies like Google, for example, have always rejected for “security reasons”. This is because it is easier for China to request access to personal information that is under its jurisdiction.

Ohhh, Apple is standing up for your rights!!!

BULLSHIT

Apple is doing what it thinks will give it the most money:

1. Putting on a marketing show in the US to FOOL people
2. Caving to the Chinese in order to maintain access to the Chinese market.

How do you fit the fact that all of the identified attackers so far are european nationals into your narrative?

The news is catching up with the facts.

At least two Paris attackers ‘travelled through Greece’

Yep. Whether you want to destroy your kids lungs in London, choke on lovely smog in Paris, or give yourself cancer by walking around the polluted streets of Rome, Europe is definitely your go-to destination for people who want to walk around in cties.

I'm wondering if Greece will help itself to the lavish and rich Greek Orthodox Church possessions to help repay the debt, since "the Greek Orthodox Church owns property worth some €700 billion - more than double the country’s national debt." (source, dated 2011-06-27)

overtake the USA power and begin a real massacre of white Alaskans

Yes, an actual massacre (like this) might be a good enough justification for foreign intervention — though not for an annexation.

But no massacre has happened — not in Crimea, not in Kharkiv, not Lviv, not Zaporizhya, not in even in Mariupol and Slovyansk (the two towns that fell under Russia's control briefly but were retaken).

Entire national guard battalions are formed in the East from people, for whom the first language is Russian — if they are willing to die for their country, maybe, the allegations of the country's plans to "hang them" over their language-preference aren't entirely truthful, huh?

Your fears might've been justifiable for a victim of massive state-propaganda a year ago, but by now — with Ukrainian "junta" in power for over 12 months and yet not one concentration camp, gas chamber, nor even a one-time mass-execution of Russian-speakers in evidence — the excuse is no more.

If you continue to believe — and even parrot — this crap, there must be something seriously wrong with you. Either you are brain-dead stupid, or a (paid) Putin's troll...

There are afaik no Ukrainian schools in Crimea

Not any more, that's for sure — because Russia shut them down.

All of your justifications are repeatedly demonstrated as non-sense and, even if they were valid, they would've justified only a wrong-righting invasion, but not a permanent annexation of any land.

Vatnik much?

> Who ISN'T on a terror watch list these days ?

Actual terrorists. The boston bombers were reported to the FBI by Russian security services but nobody was watching them. One of the Hebdo shooters was known to have gone to Yemen and studied with the underwear bomber the other had been to jail for recruiting extremists and still nobody was watching them.

They bombed the London Tube for Allah

They bombed the Madrid train station for Allah

They crashed planes into the World Trade Center at NYC and at the Pentagon for Allah

A film director was murdered in the Netherlands for Allah

Hostages had been killed in Sydney for Allah

And now, at least 12 person have been cold-bloodedly slaughtered, in Paris, for Allah

In the name of "Allah", who will be the next victim ?

A woman police officer in Paris this morning, Paris time:
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

Not directly related but I'd be surprised if this wasn't also done in the name of Allah.

It is like you don't even know France... Obstructing traffic is against the law, but also a thing that happens routinely as a part of demonstations. Usually it is farmers though.

The reason it is common, is that the French government routinely caves in to the demands of whomever throws the biggest tantrum, and the French voters routinely support the appeasement. In America, causing disruption and chaos is the best way to lose public sympathy for your cause. In France it is the best way to get it.

You mean like this?
"Paris bans UberPOP as taxi drivers stage protest"
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

Yes, let's use a single letter of leader of rebels who know they're outnumbered, outgunned and will be purged to anyone willing to listen to implicate that they are the terrorists. Ignore the rest as irrelevant because, well, it doesn't fit the whole "oo, evil muslim terrorists" narrative.

Also many left over? Really? Because Human Rights Watch disagrees with you there. Pretty much the only reason why they weren't completely cleansed was because French actually got their shit together and started putting themselves in harm's way. For all their craziness, Christian mobs understood that it was best not to attack their former colonial masters. Especially with them having those mining interests in the region.

Chadian peacekeepers weren't so lucky.

Here's a direct quote from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antoinio Gutierres talking to UN Security Council earlier this year when conflict was on:
"Since early December we have effectively witnessed a cleansing of the majority of the Muslim population in western CAR, tens of thousands of them have left the country, the second refugee outflow of the current crisis, and most of those remaining are under permanent threat."

That was before the worst hit. Bangui, the capital city had some 145.000 muslims. Today, it has effectively none. Here's France24, French English language state news site on the topic:
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

You're going to have a really hard time explaining how this wasn't a purge in true Stalinist fashion. Unless of course you're psychotic enough to claim that these aren't people, since they are muslims.

More recommended watching: http://www.vice.com/video/the-...

There was nothing stored at this school.
http://time.com/3076108/gaza-i...

Even if there had been, Israel could have sent in foot soldiers who could use those super weapons called eyeballs to decide who to kill and who not.

Instead, as Israel does not want to incur military casualties of their own which would cause political backlash in Israel itself, they shell at a distance - easy for them but incurring, overall, seven times as many dead Palestinian children as there have been Israeli military and civilian casualties combined. Dead Palestinian children being more acceptable in Israel, obviously, than dead Israeli soldiers.
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

You have the right to make the analogy less realistic, but I don't see how that's helpful. The reality is not a mere suspicion of rockets in a school, it's actual rockets in at least three actual schools:

(Reuters) - UNRWA said it found a rocket cache in one of its central Gaza schools on Tuesday, the third such incident.

http://www.france24.com/en/201...
Here Israel shelled a school because, they claim, they were returning fire on Hamas mortar positions, which may or may not be true. The problem with this, generally speaking, is that the warzone is so small and densely packed with civilians that there is nowhere that Hamas can attack from that isn't near, more or less, civilian installations and if Israel attacks or returns fire and isn't very exact with it then they will kill civilians.

There are also attacks where no valid military excuse has been given.

This is a bit dated, but worth a look:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/0...

Israel calls ceasefires and then doesn't honor them, which is disturbing to say the least.
"At least 17 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a packed Gaza market on Wednesday that followed soon after Israel said it would observe a four-hour humanitarian ceasefire beginning at 12pm (GMT)"
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

Here's another one during a supposed truce:
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

If Israel cared about Palestinian civilian casualties they would use ground forces to attack specific targets rather than shelling approximate locations.

Israel attacks anything, anytime, anywhere and doesn't care about the civilian casualties caused. They do what they want and they get away with it.

You have the right to make the analogy less realistic, but I don't see how that's helpful. The reality is not a mere suspicion of rockets in a school, it's actual rockets in at least three actual schools:

(Reuters) - UNRWA said it found a rocket cache in one of its central Gaza schools on Tuesday, the third such incident.

http://www.france24.com/en/201...
Here Israel shelled a school because, they claim, they were returning fire on Hamas mortar positions, which may or may not be true. The problem with this, generally speaking, is that the warzone is so small and densely packed with civilians that there is nowhere that Hamas can attack from that isn't near, more or less, civilian installations and if Israel attacks or returns fire and isn't very exact with it then they will kill civilians.

There are also attacks where no valid military excuse has been given.

This is a bit dated, but worth a look:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/0...

Israel calls ceasefires and then doesn't honor them, which is disturbing to say the least.
"At least 17 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a packed Gaza market on Wednesday that followed soon after Israel said it would observe a four-hour humanitarian ceasefire beginning at 12pm (GMT)"
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

Here's another one during a supposed truce:
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

If Israel cared about Palestinian civilian casualties they would use ground forces to attack specific targets rather than shelling approximate locations.

Israel attacks anything, anytime, anywhere and doesn't care about the civilian casualties caused. They do what they want and they get away with it.

The problem is that in terms of mathematical relativity, the fighting in Gaza is not a terribly important ongoing conflict.

There are an *exponentially* larger number of ongoing casualties in Syria. Where is the outrage?

There are more ongoing casualties in Sudan, Pakistan and other non-reported conflicts as well. Where are the street protests?

Selective outrage is inherently indicative of a motivation *other* than humanitarian concern.

Great stats here: http://notquant.com/the-israel...

We must care about civilian casualties. But we must not care more about some casualties over others.

You are right, there should be outrage wherever there is holocaust and genocide. I think the difference here is in the hypocrisy of the Israelis given their own treatment at the hands of those more powerful than themselves. Or perhaps the difference is in how one sided this conflict is, with Israel effectively slaughtering the Palestinians like cattle in a pen.

"More children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in the offensive on Gaza, according to the latest United Nations statistics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

"...a conflict that has claimed more than 1,000 Palestinian lives, mostly civilians. Around 40 Israelis, most of the soldiers, have also been killed."
http://www.france24.com/en/201...

The Israelis are doing to the Palestinians what the Germans did to them, if in smaller numbers.

I do not support Hamas' methods at all, and so I do not support Hamas.

I also do not support Israel's complete disregard for (non-Jewish) civilian human life.

Yes.

Here's one example of several average, innocent Europeans severely affected by extraordinary rendition. CIA "woops grabbed the wrong guy".
There are several examples of this.

http://www.france24.com/en/201...

And holy crap, "he could actually fight the decision after they broke into his home with heavy assault weapons, and so on, and almost got him extradited post haste". Clearly a sign of benevolent US not threatening citizens of other countries.

Hey dumbass. It may be normal for insane person like you that police can smash its way into your home with assault weapons, beat you up, smash your place and break your business. It's not normal around here however. We are not anywhere near as deep into the police state insanity that US is, and it would be really nice if you stopped imagining that "just because we do it to our own people, we're entitled to do it to everyone else as well".

Why the assumption that it is good for for-profit companies to find loopholes and avoid the will of democratically elected governments.

Democratically elected does not equal democratic.

The most democratic place I know of is Switzerland, where there is an absolutely constant stream of referendums on absolutely everything, mostly things that in other countries would be all be lumped under an umbrella vote for left or right. For example the Swiss recently voted on the question of whether to buy new Gripen fighter jets. The French, in contrast, have a system so undemocratic that the President doesn't even need the authority of parliament to start a war!

I think it's very corrosive to imply that people a huge bloc of people get a vote between two or three possibilities every four or five years, that somehow legitimises everything that government does in the meantime. It doesn't. The system of voting we have was decided on hundreds of years ago when most people couldn't even read and letters took days or weeks to cross countries. Representatives chosen locally every few years made total sense in such a world. It's now obsolete, much better possibilities can be imagined or even implemented. Western democracy is merely the least worst system tried so far, not the best.

In this case, there's no justification for the French government to be messing with Amazon. As pointed out in other replies to your comment, if the French people truly prefer their local bookshops over Amazon then they'll vote with their wallet, a far fairer and more democratic way of doing things than central government mandate. This idea isn't stupid, there are parts of the world that places big chain stores and brands don't make much progress in because of local culture. But times change and countries are very large. Take McDonalds in France. In 2013 we have this story about an anti-McDonalds protest and the local government attempting to block construction of a restaurant there. But then in 2014 we have another story where the French are protesting for a McDonald's, they're upset because it's been delayed and they want it to open.

These sorts of disputes are best left to ordinary people to work out economically.

Good news: they've found a cure for niggers.
Bad news: it's the chinky's!

So you think they suddenly stopped? Here's one from 2009. http://www.france24.com/en/20110104-france-industrial-espionage-economy-germany-russia-china-business

While they are making a public fuss, France and Germany are not really surprised the U.S. is spying on them, just as we are not surprised they spy on us. Business is still pushed forward as usual.

http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarcini-dcri-hollande-ayrault-merkel-usa-obama

And the french DSGE has been doing Economic INtelligence (Industrial secrets) for decades. For example in 1991 they were caught bugging all the seats in Air France jets.

Mon Du, Gambling at Ricks!

Friendly? France is well known for its industrial espionage.

"...the head of a German company was quoted as saying..."

And how fucking accurate do you assume this statement to be?

It is idiotic to claim that France is worse than China for industrial espionage.

Friendly? France is well known for its industrial espionage.

Chinese never denied spying on everyone

Are you fucking serious?

How is this unusual?
Don't French websites have the same provisions? How about France24 a popular news site:

These Conditions of Use will be subject to and interpreted in accordance with French law. Any dispute which cannot be resolved by agreement will be referred to the courts of Nanterre. In the event that any of the provisions of the Conditions of Use is held to be null or void, the remaining provisions will automatically be deemed to apply.

How about Russian web sites? Yandex for instance:

10.2. This Agreement shall be regulated and interpreted according to laws of the Russian Federation. Any issues not regulated hereby shall be settled according to Russian law. Any disputes arising out of relations regulated by this Agreement shall be settled as prescribed by applicable Russian laws according to Russian legal standards. In any part of this Agreement, unless otherwise stated, the term “law” shall mean laws of the Russian Federation as well as laws of the country of the User’s location.

People choose these types of restrictions EVERY TIME they sign up or use any site. Its the same everywhere in the world. You play in their arena, you play by their rules. And its not like neither of those examples or 100 others have foreign offices. They both do.

There is no reason Google should have to do anything other than that. The international standard for governance of web sites is that the Home Country Rules.

You agreed to that.

lol, yeah link to a piece on eco-spying on Fance; a country with a long history of doing the exact same thing. I hate to tell you this but the US didn't invent this. It's been going on forever and EVERY country is guilty of doing it. I know this is probably shocking because, after all, you probably think the US is responsible for all the evil in the world but you'll get over it. Oh, here's a fun link for you: http://www.france24.com/en/20110104-france-industrial-espionage-economy-germany-russia-china-business

While China tops the list of countries engaging in cyber-espionage, according to a report published February by the US secret services, France shares second place with Russia and Israel, leading Foreign Policy to describe Hollande's outrage as "pretty hilarious".
Colourful stories about the lengths the French secret services would go to emerged in the early 1990s, such as the bugging of seats on Air France planes to eavesdrop on American business leaders.

At the time, then-CIA director Stansfield Turner qualified French intelligence as "the most predatory service in the world, now that the old Soviet Union is gone".

And the Americans are not the only country to have complained about French espionage.
In a 2009 US diplomatic cable revealed by Wikileaks, an unnamed German CEO of a satellite manufacturer was quoted calling France "the evil empire, stealing technology, and Germany knows this", adding that French industrial spying was doing as much damage as anything coming from Russia or China.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130702-france-usa-spying-snowden-hollande-nsa-prism-hypocritcal

The world is a big place with a lot happening.

China Admits Selling Prisoners’ Organs

As far as things being "stepped up a notch recently" ... that also applies to the massive theft of state secrets of multiple countries which are being distributed like party favours to one and all, including enemies and adversaries. (When you make something available without discrimination, your enemies and adversaries get it too.)

There are people out there just waiting to exploit that sort of information to slip by unnoticed: Al-Qaeda 'targeting European rail network'

Things will get figured out in some form eventually.

Re 'Those countries have denied doing so."
http://www.france24.com/en/20130705-spain-says-it-was-told-snowden-bolivian-flight
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/05/3486761/how-the-hunt-for-edward-snowden.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2013/0705/Faulty-lead-linked-Snowden-to-Bolivian-jet-European-officials-say
France apologises in Bolivia plane row
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23174874
"France has apologised to Bolivia for refusing to allow President Evo Morales' jet into its airspace, blaming "conflicting information"."

The exact phrase I used was: "would be genocidal Iranian regime"

Evidence?

UN chief denounces Iran to its face over calls to destroy Israel
Iran Steps Up Threats to Rub Out Israel

At present they lack the means, such as working nuclear weapons, not the desire. I have to say that I find it astonishing that this might somehow be news to you. It is a fairly widely held goal in the region.

The Jews Were Brought to Palestine for the Great Massacre
Hamas video: Killing Jews is 'worship that draws us close to Allah'
Judgment Day - When the Muslims Kill the Jews

After all, the book by you-know-who is disgustingly popular in certain circles among kindred spirits.

Cut-rate 'Mein Kampf' sells well in Turkey, spurring concerns
Mein Kampf in pride of place on bookshop shelves
Their Kampf - Hitler’s book in Arab hands

Unrelated, but since I have your attention - I expect these topics percolate at the back of your mind:

Jenin: Palestinian Myth Machine
Goldstone: Fighting the Lies Harder Than Fighting the War

You also realize that Israel continues to be one of the most negatively viewed countries in the world according to a BBC World Service poll [bbc.co.uk], so you can cry all you want but when so many people dislike a country over so many years, something's wrong with that country and not the people.

The problem in those people's eyes is easy to identify: Israel is full of Jews. That is a huge problem for some people. It is sort of like the problem that many Germans had with Jews in the 1920s-1940s.

And don't overlook the fact that the reading tastes are similar:

Cut-rate 'Mein Kampf' sells well in Turkey, spurring concerns
Mein Kampf in pride of place on bookshop shelves
Their Kampf - Hitler’s book in Arab hands.

By the standards of pretty much every other country in the G20 (including Russia), Obama is a conservative. He only appears a liberal when compared against your own right-wing.

That assumes that if Obama were in another country that he'd pick the same positions. It's pretty clear that he picked some of his positions purely for political purposes. For example, his relatively moderate position on gay marriage from 2008 that he dumped as soon as it looked like he had political cover. Incidentally, even his 2008 position was to the left of Russia's position that same sex couples should not be able to adopt Russian babies.

Citation: http://www.france24.com/en/20130426-russia-putin-adoption-gay-marriage-france

When I first saw the headlines for this story I immediately went to a much darker place. I envisioned doctors going into the morgue and borrowing a few digits for use in fooling the machines. I mean, it's not like those guys needed them any more. Things like this have happened before.

Then I realized this wouldn't work. For one thing, they'd have the wrong prints. For another, they'd be, well, a bit chilly.

Most current fingerprint scanners have technology that can detect whether the finger has a pulse, and some read fingerprints at a depth below skin level, which would render the silicon fingers useless. Apparently, that hospital is using an older type of scanner.

Giving biometric scanners the (fake) finger

Inside job.

The perfect example of corruption and conspiracy that begins --- and must begin --- at the top.

Another television network said it was the head of the emergency room that ran the scam and that his daughter had not worked a day in three years but got paid all the time.

Fake fingers to fool the boss at Brazil hospital

Ferreira confessed to using different fake fingers bearing the prints of 11 fellow doctors and 20 nurses in order to pretend they were showing up to work five overnight shifts each month, instead of just one, police said.

Ferreira also said the staff at the Ferraz Vasconcelos Hospital paid $2,400 per month to participate.

The doctor will face charges of falsifying a public document and could get two to six years in prison.

Brazilian doctor caught using fake fingers in biometrics scam

Do you see a problem with your rationalization? Who's studies show that GMOs are safe? Who's studies show that they are harmful?

Yes, please, answer those questions. Because if you did, you would actually have to look at those studies and read something rational for a change, and you would realize that you are wrong.

GMO saves lives is straw man fallacy at best, and a complete fabrication at worst.

It could save millions of lives if ignorant people like you didn't get in the way.

Eating natural corn does not cause us to have a rapidly growing cancer that can not be cured. Eating GMO Corn on the other hand has been shown to have that effect.

Are you referring to this poorly done study?.

Actually I'll bet you get all your knowledge from bad propaganda sources, and that's why you draw such bad conclusions. If you had better sources, you'd have a much more rational view of it.

But now, because of your lack of knowledge, you've become anti-scientific.

Turkey sales of Mein Kampf running high, a major Egyptian publisher mentions Mein Kampf as "being a big part of their success" among young readers, Mein Kampf is among top five bestsellers in Indonesia...

In most EU countries, higher education is either free or cheap. That makes it available to practically everyone, which makes the EU countries the true lands of equal opportunity.

Spoken like someone who doesn't live there and is speaking from the outside. Education is not free, it's paid for by taxes - which Europe has no lack of and are far from cheap. If you think Europe is a bastion of opportunity and equality you're sorely mistaken. Racism and Nationalism are alive and well, if you're an outsider you will forever be a foreigner there. Look at France, Germany, Norway.

All countries have their faults, this isn't some broad claim that Europe should be avoided, far from it. This is like someone misunderstanding the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit.

http://www.france24.com/en/20121010-restaurant-removes-urinals-shaped-like-womans-mouth

AFP - A sumptuous new French restaurant in Sydney said Wednesday it would remove two urinals designed to resemble a woman's lipsticked mouth, apologising for any offence they have caused.

The Ananas Bar and Brasserie said the bright red-lipped urinals shaped like an open mouth were "a commonly used European design piece from female Dutch artist Meike van Schijndel".

"We sincerely apologise if they have caused offence. They are being removed today," a spokeswoman said in a statement.

The stylish restaurant opened three weeks ago, with the Sydney Morning Herald's food reviewer describing the urinals as "no real surprise here at Ananas, merely adding to the extraordinary collision of statements and intent".

But feminist, former political adviser and writer Anne Summers said the design was offensive. "Misogyny is very widespread, and this is just an example of misogyny," said Summers.

"The concept is pretty challenging and confronting. They're asking men to put their d(expletive) in these mouths as urinals."

Australia is the grip of a fierce political debate about sexism after Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the nation's first woman leader, accused opposition leader Tony Abbott of being a misogynist.

The unmarried Gillard said Tuesday she had been personally offended by many of Abbott's remarks over the years -- from urging her to "make an honest woman of herself", to his cat-calling at her in parliament.

"If he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn't need a motion in the House of Representatives, he needs a mirror," she said in stinging comments.

If the Chinese aren't careful, they're going to have a communist revolution on their hands. Sorry, I might have trotted that one out before; but it has fit so perfectly the past decade or so.

It fits this decade better than you might have thought, actually.

Israelis were pissed about the price of cottage cheese.

In many countries, food shortages are aresult of the government's misallocation of resources-- misplaced subsidies, inflation, inefficient infrastructure, excess militry spending, and so on.