Politics

NSA leaker Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee is a celebration of socialism, and the NSA is as socialist as it gets, so I doubt he'll win.

Luxembourg's prime minister resigns over domestic spying. Our president will never do that.

"Europe, however, is not laughing. Recent revelations of massive, ultra-intrusive US electronic spying in Europe by fugitive National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden have ignited a firestorm of outrage – and hypocrisy – across the European Union."

Hypocrisy for sure.

"Germany, with sinister memories of the Gestapo and East German Stasi, is particularly incensed.  The magazine “Der Spiegel” says documents shown it by Snowden show that NSA read half a billion phone calls, emails, faxes and bank communications in Germany alone – in a month.  German officials called this spying “disgusting” and “intolerable.”"

The Germans may save us all.

"Second, Europe’s politicians are loudly denouncing the US for spying on their people.  But Britain, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain and Belgium signed secret pacts with the US decades ago allowing NSA and CIA to spy on their citizens, and to share intelligence with Washington.   The largest NSA listening post in Europe is inside NATO HQ at Brussels."

Every time the level of hypocrisy exhibited by government officials reaches a new height, they quickly surpass it.

Eliot Spitzer uses Orwellian language to hide his socialism.

"The book, titled "Protecting Capitalism Case By Case," suggests that Mr. Spitzer would use the city's $140 billion in pension funds, which the comptroller runs along with independent trustees, to try to force changes at companies on issues ranging from executive pay and the makeup of corporate boards to bank lending practices."

That's funny.