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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts) Sat Jul 27, 2013, 10:45 PM Jul 2013

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'1984 is now!': Germans protest Berlin's role in NSA spying on Snowden Day

RussiaToday·Published on Jul 27, 2013

Privacy rights activists have demonstrated across Germany against U.S. worldwide surveilance - and Berlin's role in it. The revelations by Edward Snowden, have ignited public anger among Germans who say that their government let them down - as RT's Peter Oliver reports.

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'1984 is now!': Germans protest Berlin's role in NSA spying on Snowden Day (Original Post) DeSwiss Jul 2013 OP

LOL "Yes We Scan" wtmusic Jul 2013 #1

Yes - I noticed that too. dipsydoodle Jul 2013 #2

Years ago this would have made the nightly news in America newfie11 Jul 2013 #3

apparently people do not like being spied on,. who knew? Civilization2 Jul 2013 #4

Germans should know felix_numinous Jul 2013 #5

wtmusic

(39,166 posts)

1. LOL "Yes We Scan"

Reply to DeSwiss (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2013, 01:14 AM

Jul 2013

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

2. Yes - I noticed that too.

Reply to wtmusic (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 28, 2013, 06:21 AM

Jul 2013

Very clever play on words which would be lost if not in English.

newfie11

(8,159 posts)

3. Years ago this would have made the nightly news in America

Reply to DeSwiss (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2013, 06:28 AM

Jul 2013

But now in Amerika we have a joke for news.
The Germans are right 1984 is here.

Civilization2

(649 posts)

4. apparently people do not like being spied on,. who knew?

Reply to DeSwiss (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2013, 08:14 AM

Jul 2013

why do some people think it is OK to spy in non-americans?

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)

5. Germans should know

Reply to DeSwiss (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2013, 06:47 PM

Jul 2013

the 1940s were not that long ago. Who could have imagined after the liberation
of Europe that we forgot all we learned back then.

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