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The Economist: The German problem:Why Germany’s current-account surplus is bad for the world economy

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Washington Post: The United States and Europe are on a collision course...

Yawn. This is par for the course when G20 Summits come to town. It's a traveling circus. I'll stick with what Herrs Maassen and de Maziere are saying, thank you.

The head of the BfV, Maassen, stated that Islamist terrorism is the BfV's "biggest challenge", not right-wing or left-wing terrorism, or foreign intelligence operations such as Russia's active...

From Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-idUSKBN19P1MY

According to Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt...

Nevertheless, this state of affairs did little to assauge the U.S. with regard to Pollard, or Germany et al with regard to the NSA. I didn't realize that the U.S. had 17 intelligence communities; I...

From Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intelligence-also-snooped-on-white-house-a-1153592.html

But I thought that spying "among friends, that isn't done"? Well, what...

Yes, and the fact is that Germany does have a very anti-Muslim and very violent far-right fringe.

I said “most” not “all” and was mistakenly referring to Frans Timmerman, although Thomas de Maziere seems to share Timmerman's view. Yet on balance of the migration flows and rejected asylum...

Certainly the M.O. of this attack is curious and it would be premature to attribute this to Islamists. Note that until the December atrocity in Berlin, far-right political violence directed at...

Yes, after centuries of German imperialism, and after a German attempt to exterminate the Slavic peoples, albeit with a few dozen million to be kept as slave labor.

The Germans received their...

Well, your insinuation is in the realm of conspiracy theory I'm afraid. It isn't even in the same dimension as Ockham's Razor.

Amri may well be self-radicalized, which would not be unusual. ...

Did they have a sale on tinfoil at Aldi?

You are making so many logical fallacies, I don't know where to begin.

You are starting from a desire to make the perpetrator not:


A practicing...

What does this have to do with your insinuation that the Berlin attack was a false flag by a Russian agent attempting to influence European immigration policy?

Thanks David.

I'm afraid that there is some denial about Muslim supremacist terrorism here. I add the "supremacist" label, because that is what it is. We don't call white supremacist terrorism...

Are you saying that Russia would stage a terrorist attack in Berlin in order to ensure Merkel's electoral defeat?

Are you serious?

To what end? Sanctions relief? Is there no other way for...

The truck had Polish plates and apparently the driver has gone missing...

The transport company is frantic that the driver was waylaid and killed.
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