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NSA Secretly Continues Merkel Surveillance

posted by mattie_p on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-directly-spying-on-you dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

"German language magazine 'Bild am Sonntag' reports that, in response to Obama's recent order to stop spying on Angela Merkel and other heads of 'friendly' states, the NSA has instead ramped up spying on everybody Merkel communicates with. Cory Doctorow points out that this action demonstrates that the NSA is out of control and deliberately disobeying a presidential order with a level of duplicity worthy of a four year-old."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by axsdenied on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:31AM

    by axsdenied (384) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:31AM (#6501)

    Bild is a German sensationalist tabloid who had topless girls on its front page until recently.
    Until this story gets verified by a reliable source, it is a waste of time commenting on it.

    For non German readers, Wikipedia sumarises it's value quite nicely:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild [wikipedia.org]:
    "Bild has been described as "notorious for its mix of gossip, inflammatory language, and sensationalism" and as having a huge influence on German politicians.[2] Its nearest English-language stylistic and journalistic equivalent is often considered to be the British national newspaper The Sun, the second highest selling European tabloid newspaper, with which it shares a degree of rivalry.[3][4][5]

    According to Der Spiegel, Bild is a newspaper that flies just under the nonsense threshold of American and British tabloids. For the German desperate, it is a daily dose of high-resolution soft porn.[6]

    According to The Guardian, for 28 years from 1984 to 2012, Bild had topless girls featuring on its first page; the paper published more than 5,000 topless pictures.[7]"

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Bokononist on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:49AM

    by Bokononist (3013) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:49AM (#6514)

    Even better, go to http://www.bild.de/ [www.bild.de] and see for yourself.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by hemocyanin on Tuesday February 25 2014, @12:00PM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @12:00PM (#6688)

      I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled. Not one naked girl. Mr. T was featured in there, but he's just not that hot.

      • (Score: 1) by Bokononist on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:10PM

        by Bokononist (3013) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:10PM (#6749)

        No, but I didn't say there would be either, there were some rather scantilly clad ones though, and you can get the idea of what the general quality of the journalism is there.....ahhhh I see what you did there..If you want to see some naked ladies on the internet you'd be surprised how easy it is to find them, you don't even need to go to a German site either. Just start by going on to a site called www.google.com and type 'naked ladies' or something like that into the little box and they turn up like magic.

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