25 October 2013 (23:01 UTC-07 Tango 24 October 2013)/20 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/03 Aban 1391/21 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711
“We are allies facing challenges together. But such an alliance can only be built on the basis of trust. I repeat that spying among friends is not at all acceptable against anyone and that goes for every citizen in Germany.”-Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, Merkel used to live in the Stasi police state of East Germany so she knows the U.S. NSA spying ops are evil
“It is inconceivable and unacceptable that there should be acts of espionage of this type.”-Enrico Letta, Premier of Italy
“I cannot imagine to sign an EU-U.S. free trade agreement given that basic privacy rights have been breached.”-Sigmar Gabriel, German Social-Democratic Party
For those who don’t think the U.S. spying on its allies is a big deal, guess what? The U.S. has lost Europe as it’s only major ally!
At least 28 European Union leaders are being spied on by the NSA. The NSA spied on at least 35 leaders around the World.
At least 70 million French phone calls have been monitored by the NSA.
Germany summons U.S. ambassador, John B Emerson, over NSA spying.
The former head of the DGSE (French intelligence), Alain Juillet, is surprised at the scale of “pillage” conducted by the U.S. NSA. The rogue actions of the U.S. against its own allies now jeopardizes the U.S. led War on Terror.
French President Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are working together writing up a joint anti-U.S. statement. It’s reported they will make demands on the U.S. government concerning what it can and cannot do in Europe!
The European Union (EU) has sanctioned the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) agreement with the United States. That’s because the U.S. NSA used it to spy on Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). SWIFT supplies secure messaging services to legitimate financial companies.
The EU now says the World’s biggest free trade deal is now in jeopardy because of the United States! It’s known as TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). At the current EU summit members of parliament will debate imposing sanctions against the U.S. IT companies involved with helping the NSA. The TTIP deal could have benefited the U.S. economy by $150-billion USD.
On top of that, the EU delegate to Iran, Hannes Swoboda, stated that EU sanctions against Iran should be ended “…in a step by step manner…”
Canada and the EU have agreed, in principle, to the historic CETA (Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement). Under the deal the EU will end 100% of its tariffs on Canadian industrial products within seven years! The EU would also accept certification of Canadian products by Canadian inspectors. For the Canadian auto industry it could result in a 12 times increase in exports to Europe (the Canadian auto industry is not happy with the U.S. imposed NAFTA). Canada is supposed to apply the same trade policy to European products. CETA also affects trade of food and intellectual property.