09-05-2014, 08:49 AM
The hidden punch line is this is NOTHING NEW!...although this is the first time the US has made such a public pronouncement. I wonder why the hand wringing now, as Israel has been doing massive spying on the USA for decades [and the US has known about it, at times allowed it, at times facilitated it, and usually not said peep about it!]. It sort of reminds me of the famous line in the film Casablanca, where the Prefect of Police needs a reason to close down Rick's, so he says 'I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that there is gambling going on here!' [just then the croupier approaches him and says 'Here are your winnings, sir."]
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass