Re: <nettime> NSA-spying-on-Europe outrage somewhat disingenuous

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

> Exactly at the tricky juncture of final negotiations for a
> comprehensive trade agreement between US and EU (remember - "it's the
> economy, stupid!"), the US government has probably more to explain
> than it ever be able to. Sortof comeback of Churchill's quip on the
> Balkans, whose problem was that "they produce far more history than
> they possibly can consume"...

There are MANY actors who stand to gain and lose with the EU/US trade agreement 
& one cannot eliminate the possibility of subterfuge arising from this (I 
suspect that the military-industrial actors are in a complex dance of power in 
this situation, not to mention many others...). But I think these are merely 
evidences of more wide-scaled power struggles between a waning superpower and 
other rising/shifting power centers that are re-aligning themselves to changing 
conditions.

JH


--

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
beobachten das Tao, anstatt gerade die Dow
vom Umfang der Ostsee
+49 (0)171 911 4695 (until 04 July)
http://neoscenes.net/
http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime>  is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org