Snowdon is a dummy

Really? How is that possible? Wink

The US certainly qualifies as one of the top agents of Satan.

I said "it was a failure of government." You missed that. Not my problem.

Then Thomas asked you,

"And why do you sneer at people, however colorful and flawed, who expose its abuses?"

and you have completely avoided it, for at least the third time, not counting Thomas's initial asking.

and you completely avoided it, like you are doing here with my question.

Does he understand anything about how governments work? Once elected, they can declare war whether we agree with it or not. I've written to my congresswoman, Diane Feinstein, not to approve the Iraq war, but she told me they had information that required them to approve the president's request for war.

We later found out I was right and the government was wrong; there were no WMD's found in Iraq.

The Kellogg–Briand Pact (or Pact of Paris, officially General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy[1]) was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them".[2] Parties failing to abide by this promise "should be denied the benefits furnished by this treaty".

You better pay attention, C.I., because if there's one thing JTT knows something about, it's avoiding questions.

Here's an article on German intelligence agencies and what they do.

You tell me if they are living under the laws of Germany - and your personal expectations about internal and external coordination of intelligence information?

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Intensive Cooperation with Germany

SPIEGEL reporting also indicates that cooperation between the NSA and Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, is more intensive than previously known. The NSA, for example, provides "analysis tools" for the BND to monitor signals from foreign data streams that travel through Germany. Among the BND's focuses are the Middle East route through which data packets from crisis regions travel.

BND head Gerhard Schindler confirmed the partnership during a recent meeting with members of the German parliament's control committee for intelligence issues.

But it's not just the BND's activities that are the focus of the interview with Snowden.

The 30-year-old also provides new details about Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). He says that Britain's Tempora system is the signal intelligence community's first "full-take Internet buffer," meaning that it saves all of the data passing through the country.
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Quote:

After nearly two years of preparation, the United States and the European Union have finally begun talks on a free-trade agreement. But the talks are overshadowed by a spying scandal and face major regulatory hurdles.

The United States and the European Union on Monday started talks on the so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). While the two major trading blocs have already lowered direct tariffs, non-tariff barriers (NTB) are at the center of the negotiations.
[...]
The London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research in London estimated that TTIP could add about 119 billion euros annually to the EU economy, and 95 billion euros for the United States.

However, the negotiations face significant hurdles, and a series of national sensitivities need to be overcome. ...

Moreover, the talks are overshadowed by a recent trans-Atlantic row over revelations that the US National Security Agency tapped telephone conversations and Internet records in Europe.

Last week, France called for the TTIP negotiations to be put off while talks on resolving the data scandal, which also began Monday, had not yet finished. But ultimately, the 28-nation EU decided to go ahead with the free trade talks.

Source

Although early ultra-nationalists called for a tempering of Japan’s ‘westernisation’, through limits on industrialisation, their focus changed after the First World War. Western politicians criticised Japan’s imperial ambitions and limited Japanese military expansion (in 1922’s Five Power Naval Limitation Agreement). The 1924 Japanese Exclusion Act prohibited Japanese immigration into the US. Ultra-nationalists saw these actions as provocative; they moved towards xenophobic, emperor-centred and Asia-centric positions, portraying the ‘ABCD Powers’ (America-British-Chinese-Dutch) as threatening the Japanese Empire.

Definition of negotiation (n)
ne·go·ti·a·tion [ nə gshee áysh'n ]
resolving of disagreements: the reaching of agreement through discussion and compromise
discussion sessions: one or more meetings at which attempts are made to reach agreement through discussion and compromise