If you are a proud German you generally do not express that by flying the national flag or singing the national anthem, both of which have been more associated with Germany's far-right parties

Mein Gott!! What has happened to this flag to be related to far-right parties?? AFAIK were the liberals the ones that conceived it!

BTW, for us the next match is Saudi Arabia. We don't take it as a geopolitical game, but as internal political game against the Regional Nationalists who are so miserable that hate seeing the Spain flag waving and the Spanish team winning.

Soccer and Politics not so far after all.

I can't say I pay attention to soccer, but the political implications? This got my Jacksoninian up:

The outcome of the game also helps to explain the source of the occasional American impulse towards unilateralism -- when Americans agree to play by the rules, the rules are suddenly changed to stack the deck against the Americans. The U.S. team outplayed Italy in this game, and might have won if the friggin' ref hadn't gotten red-card happy. Apparently the British commentators were even more cheesed off about the bad refereeing in the game than ABC, according to Frank Foer. His comment about the refereeing is on point:

How can we account for his Mickey Mouse performance? What hint of corruption will be turned up? Was this a display of anti-Americanism? Or just sheer incompetence? Clearly, his miscues affected both sides--and clearly they affected one side more than the other.

I implore the referees to announce prior to the U.S.-Ghana game that they will be vigilant and even-handed -- otherwise, I can see either Bruce Arena authorizing a pre-emptive raid against FIFA or George W. Bush authorizing a pre-emptive strike against Ghana.

Truth truly is stranger than fiction...

"Did you ever think you'd see the same people waving Israeli flags and singing "Deutschland über alles"?"

...and good for them, on both counts.

Possibly non-political, but did anyone else see the Confederate flag being waved amidst the sea of red in the Spanish cheering section during the game with Ukraine the other day? Had to back up the Tivo to believe my eyes. WTF?

I saw this happen on TV but didn't realize it was an Israeli flag, as the Star of David wasn't visible from that camera angle. I had assumed the guy was waving the flag of whichever pro club he played for. (IIRC Chelsea's main color is a similar shade of blue.)

As it happens, Ghana is also the next opponent for Team USA. I presume these Egyptians will be rooting for a draw in that match (which would probably eliminate Ghana and definitely eliminate the U.S.).

The official national anthem of Germany no longer includes the verse that starts "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles," the original sense of which was corrupted under National Socialism. It now begins, "Unity and Justice and Freedom . . ."

http://futurist.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/03/the_winds_of_wa.html is increasingly likely that we will be able to indice Democratic reform in Iran without warfare. The forces against the Mullahs are just too great in this day and age.

It is increasingly likely that we will be able to indice Democratic reform in Iran without warfare. The forces against the Mullahs are just too great in this day and age.

A draw between Ghana and the US means Ghana advances unless the Czechs can manage at least a draw with Italy. A draw would give Ghana 4 points overall, and the Czechs would have only 3 if they lose to Italy (which would then have 7), leaving the US with just 2. A Czech-Italy draw coupled with a US-Ghana draw would leave Italy and the Czechs 1 and 2, respectively, and send Ghana and the US home, all because of the 3rd goal scored by the Czechs against the US. A US win and an Italy win gives the US the chance to play Brazil in the next round. I would never wish a loss on the US, but if the US doesn't advance, I hope Ghana does.

"Did you ever think you'd see the same people waving Israeli flags and singing "Deutschland über alles"?"

Do you understand now why it is so hard to write an alternate history novel?

Yehudit,

Slight error - Pantsil plays for an Israeli team (Hapoel Tel Aviv), not the Israeli team.

Colt, someone else caught that when I posted this on Kesher Talk, but I forgot to change it when I posted it here. Thanks!

A win by Ghana ends the US run, and Ching can go back early to the Dyanmo to get them back on track to an MLS title.

Just to confirm what ricg was saying. The First (Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles) Verse was abandoned in favour of the Third (Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit) Verse in the 1950s.

Spoilsports.

PD Shaw (#2)

What I saw from that match makes me think a tie was fair. Playing against Italy is always hard and often bloody, but Americans fought, well, played, bravely.

ricg (#6)

The official national anthem of Germany no longer includes the verse that starts "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles,"

I thought the same, but it seems that it is still sung from the first verse in all but official occasions ( Bei staatlichen Veranstaltungen soll die dritte Strophe gesungen werden. ) Yehudit is right.

Good. The original notion is awesome, and deserves to be preserved/resuscitated, whereas the new version sounds like... well, not so good.

"The 2006 World Cup was rife with political symbolism..."

"Was"? It's not even half over yet!

I was just quoting the article, I personally have no idea which verses Germans sing.

THE TOP 40
REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001

... An outline in simple talking points ...

Version of May 22, 2006: This overview is in development. If you use the search function with key words, you will discover that 911Truth.org is home to articles backing virtually every point made below. Much of the basic research is available at the Complete 9/11 Timeline (hosted by cooperativeresearch.org), the 9/11 Reading Room (911readingroom.org), and the Spitzer petition and complaint (Justicefor911.org). For physical evidence discussion, see Point 7.

THE DAY ITSELF - EVIDENCE OF COMPLICITY

1) AWOL Chain of Command
a. It is well documented that the officials topping the chain of command for response to a domestic attack - George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Myers, Montague Winfield - all found reason to do something else during the actual attacks, other than assuming their duties as decision-makers.
b. Who was actually in charge? Dick Cheney, Richard Clarke, Norman Mineta and the 9/11 Commission directly conflict in their accounts of top-level response to the unfolding events, such that several (or all) of them must be lying.
2) Air Defense Failures
a. The US air defense system failed to follow standard procedures for responding to diverted passenger flights.
b. Timelines: The various responsible agencies - NORAD, FAA, Pentagon, USAF, as well as the 9/11 Commission - gave radically different explanations for the failure (in some cases upheld for years), such that several officials must have lied; but none were held accountable.
c. Was there an air defense standdown?

3) Pentagon Strike
How was it possible the Pentagon was hit 1 hour and 20 minutes after the attacks began? Why was there no response from Andrews Air Force Base, just 10 miles away and home to Air National Guard units charged with defending the skies above the nation's capital? How did Hani Hanjour, a man who failed as a Cessna pilot on his first flight in a Boeing, execute a difficult aerobatic maneuver to strike the Pentagon? Why did the attack strike the just-renovated side, which was largely empty and opposite from the high command?

4) Wargames
a. US military and other authorities planned or actually rehearsed defensive response to all elements of the 9/11 scenario during the year prior to the attack - including multiple hijackings, suicide crashbombings, and a strike on the Pentagon.
b. The multiple military wargames planned long in advance and held on the morning of September 11th included scenarios of a domestic air crisis, a plane crashing into a government building, and a large-scale emergency in New York. If this was only an incredible series of coincidences, why did the official investigations avoid the issue? There is evidence that the wargames created confusion as to whether the unfolding events were "real world or exercise." Did wargames serve as the cover for air defense sabotage, and/or the execution of an "inside job"?

5) Flight 93
Did the Shanksville crash occur at 10:06 (according to a seismic report) or 10:03 (according to the 9/11 Commission)? Does the Commission wish to hide what happened in the last three minutes of the flight, and if so, why? Was Flight 93 shot down, as indicated by the scattering of debris over a trail of several miles?

THE DAY - POSSIBLE SMOKING GUNS

6) Did cell phones work at 30,000 feet in 2001? How many hijackings were attempted? How many flights were diverted?

7) Demolition Hypothesis
What caused the collapse of a third skyscraper, WTC 7, which was not hit by a plane? Were the Twin Towers and WTC 7 brought down by explosives? (See "The Case for Demolitions," the websites wtc7.net and 911research.wtc7.net, and the influential article by physicist Steven Jones. See also items no. 16 and 24, below.)

FOREKNOWLEDGE & THE ALLEGED HIJACKERS

8) What did officials know? How did they know it?
a. Multiple allied foreign agencies informed the US government of a coming attack in detail, including the manner and likely targets of the attack, the name of the operation (the "Big Wedding"), and the names of certain men later identified as being among the perpetrators.
b. Various individuals came into possession of specific advance knowledge, and some of them tried to warn the US prior to September 11th.
c. Certain prominent persons received warnings not to fly on the week or on the day of September 11th.

9) Able Danger, Plus - Surveillance of Alleged Hijackers
a. The men identified as the 9/11 ringleaders were under surveillance for years beforehand, on the suspicion they were terrorists, by a variety of US and allied authorities - including the CIA, the US military's "Able Danger" program, the German authorities, Israeli intelligence and others.
b. Two of the alleged ringleaders who were known to be under surveillance by the CIA also lived with an FBI asset in San Diego, but this is supposed to be yet another a coincidence.
10) Obstruction of FBI Investigations prior to 9/11
A group of FBI officials in New York systematically suppressed field investigations of potential terrorists that might have uncovered the alleged hijackers - as the Moussaoui case once again showed. The stories of Sibel Edmonds, Robert Wright, Coleen Rowley and Harry Samit, the "Phoenix Memo," David Schippers, the 199i orders restricting investigations, the Bush administration's order to back off the Bin Ladin family, the reaction to the "Bojinka" plot, and John O'Neil do not, when considered in sum, indicate mere incompetence, but high-level corruption and protection of criminal networks, including the network of the alleged 9/11 conspirators. (Nearly all of these examples were omitted from or relegated to fleeting footnotes in The 9/11 Commission Report.)

11) Insider Trading
a. Unknown speculators allegedly used foreknowledge of the Sept. 11th events to profiteer on many markets internationally - including but not limited to "put options" placed to short-sell the two airlines, WTC tenants, and WTC re-insurance companies in Chicago and London.
b. In addition, suspicious monetary transactions worth hundreds of millions were conducted through offices at the Twin Towers during the actual attacks.
c. Initial reports on these trades were suppressed and forgotten, and only years later did the 9/11 Commission and SEC provide a partial, but untenable explanation for only a small number of transactions (covering only the airline put options through the Chicago Board of Exchange).

12) Who were the perpetrators?
a. Much of the evidence establishing who did the crime is dubious and miraculous: bags full of incriminating material that happened to miss the flight or were left in a van; the "magic passport" of an alleged hijacker, found at Ground Zero; documents found at motels where the alleged perpetrators had stayed days and weeks before 9/11.
b. The identities of the alleged hijackers remain unresolved, there are contradictions in official accounts of their actions and travels, and there is evidence several of them had "doubles," all of which is omitted from official investigations.
c. What happened to initial claims by the government that 50 people involved in the attacks had been identified, including the 19 alleged hijackers, with 10 still at large (suggesting that 20 had been apprehended)? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-worldtrade-50suspects,0,1825231.story

THE 9/11 COVER-UP, 2001-2006

13) Who Is Osama Bin Ladin?
a. Who judges which of the many conflicting and dubious statements and videos attributed to Osama Bin Ladin are genuine, and which are fake? The most important Osama Bin Ladin video (Nov. 2001), in which he supposedly confesses to masterminding 9/11, appears to be a fake. In any event, the State Department's translation of it is fraudulent.
b. Did Osama Bin Ladin visit Dubai and meet a CIA agent in July 2001 (Le Figaro)? Was he receiving dyalisis in a Pakistani military hospital on the night of September 10, 2001 (CBS)?
c. Whether by Bush or Clinton: Why is Osama always allowed to escape?
d. The terror network associated with Osama, known as the "data base" (al-Qaeda), originated in the CIA-sponsored 1980s anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. When did this network stop serving as an asset to covert operations by US intelligence and allied agencies? What were its operatives doing in Kosovo, Bosnia and Chechnya in the years prior to 9/11?

14) All the Signs of a Systematic 9/11 Cover-up
a. Airplane black boxes were found at Ground Zero, according to two first responders and an unnamed NTSB official, but they were "disappeared" and their existence is denied in The 9/11 Commission Report.
b. US officials consistently suppressed and destroyed evidence (like the tapes recorded by air traffic controllers who handled the New York flights).
c. Whistleblowers (like Sibel Edmonds and Anthony Shaffer) were intimidated, gagged and sanctioned, sending a clear signal to others who might be thinking about speaking out.
d. Officials who "failed" (like Myers and Eberhard, as well as Frasca, Maltbie and Bowman of the FBI) were given promotions.

15) Poisoning New York
The White House deliberately pressured the EPA into giving false public assurances that the toxic air at Ground Zero was safe to breathe. This knowingly contributed to an as-yet unknown number of health cases and fatalities, and demonstrates that the administration does consider the lives of American citizens to be expendable on behalf of certain interests.

16) Disposing of the Crime Scene
The rapid and illegal scrapping of the WTC ruins at Ground Zero disposed of almost all of the structural steel indispensable to any investigation of the collapse mechanics. (See also item no. 23, below.)

17) Anthrax
Mailings of weapons-grade anthrax - which caused a practical suspension of the 9/11 investigations - were traced back to US military stock. Soon after the attacks began in October 2001, the FBI approved the destruction of the original samples of the Ames strain, disposing of perhaps the most important evidence in identifying the source of the pathogens used in the mailings. Were the anthrax attacks timed to coincide with the Afghanistan invasion? Why were the letters sent only to media figures and to the leaders of the opposition in the Senate (who had just raised objections to the USA PATRIOT Act)?

18) The Stonewall
a. Colin Powell promised a "white paper" from the State Department to establish the authorship of the attacks by al-Qaeda. This was never forthcoming, and was instead replaced by a paper from Tony Blair, which presented only circumstantial evidence, with very few points actually relating to September 11th.
b. Bush and Cheney pressured the (freshly-anthraxed) leadership of the Congressional opposition into delaying the 9/11 investigation for months. The administration fought against the creation of an independent investigation for more than a year.
c. The White House thereupon attempted to appoint Henry Kissinger as the chief investigator, and acted to underfund and obstruct the 9/11 Commission.

19) A Record of Official Lies
a. "No one could have imagined planes into buildings" - a transparent falsehood upheld repeatedly by Rice, Rumsfeld and Bush.
b. "Iraq was connected to 9/11" - The most "outrageous conspiracy theory" of all, with the most disastrous impact.

20) Pakistani Connection - Congressional Connection
a. The Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, creator of the Taliban and close ally to both the CIA and "al-Qaeda," allegedly wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta just prior to September 11th, reportedly through the ISI asset Omar Saeed Sheikh (later arrested for the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was investigating ISI connections to "al-Qaeda.")
b. This was ignored by the congressional 9/11 investigation, although the senator and congressman who ran the probe (Bob Graham and Porter Goss) were meeting with the ISI chief, Mahmud Ahmed, on Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11th.
c. About 25 percent of the report of the Congressional Joint Inquiry was redacted, including long passages regarding how the attack (or the network allegedly behind it) was financed. Graham later said foreign allies were involved in financing the alleged terror network, but that this would only come out in 30 years.

21) Unanswered Questions and the "Final Fraud" of the 9/11 Commission:
a. The September 11th families who fought for and gained an independent investigation (the 9/11 Commission) posed 400-plus questions, which the 9/11 Commission adopted as its roadmap. The vast majority of these questions were completely ignored in the Commission hearings and the final report.
b. The membership and staff of the 9/11 Commission displayed awesome conflicts of interest. The families called for the resignation of Executive Director Philip Zelikow, a Bush administration member and close associate of "star witness" Condoleezza Rice, and were snubbed. Commission member Max Cleland resigned, condemning the entire exercise as a "scam" and "whitewash."
c.The 9/11 Commission Report is notable mainly for its obvious omissions, distortions and outright falsehoods - ignoring anything incompatible with the official story, banishing the issues to footnotes, and even dismissing the still-unresolved question of who financed 9/11 as being "of little practical significance."

22) Crown Witnesses Held at Undisclosed Locations
The alleged masterminds of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (KSM) and Ramzi Binalshibh, are reported to have been captured in 2002 and 2003, although one Pakistani newspaper said KSM was killed in an attempted capture. They have been held at undisclosed locations and their supposed testimonies, as provided in transcript form by the government, form much of the basis for The 9/11 Commission Report (although the Commission's request to see them in person was denied). After holding them for years, why doesn't the government produce these men and put them to trial?

23) Spitzer Redux
a. Eliot Spitzer, attorney general of New York State, snubbed pleas by New York citizens to open 9/11 as a criminal case (Justicefor911.org).
b. Spitzer also refused to allow his employee, former 9/11 Commission staff member Dietrich Snell, to testify to the Congress about his (Snell's) role in keeping "Able Danger" entirely out of The 9/11 Commission Report.

24) NIST Omissions
After the destruction of the WTC structural steel, the official Twin Towers collapse investigation was left with almost no forensic evidence, and thus could only provide dubious computer models of ultimately unprovable hypotheses. It failed to even test for the possibility of explosives. (Why not clear this up?)

25) Radio Silence
The 9/11 Commission and NIST both allowed the continuing cover-up of how Motorola's faulty radios, purchased by the Giuliani administration, caused firefighter deaths at the WTC - once again showing the expendability, even of the first responders.

26) The Legal Catch-22
a. Hush Money - Accepting victims' compensation barred September 11th families from pursuing discovery through litigation.
b. Judge Hallerstein - Those who refused compensation to pursue litigation and discovery had their cases consolidated under the same judge (and as a rule dismissed).

27) Saudi Connections
a. The 9/11 investigations made light of the "Bin Ladin Airlift" during the no-fly period, and ignored the long-standing Bush family business ties to the Bin Ladin family fortune. (A company in which both families held interests, the Carlyle Group, was holding its annual meeting on September 11th, with George Bush Sr., James Baker, and two brothers of Osama Bin Ladin in attendance.)
b. The issue of Ptech.

28) Media Blackout of Prominent Doubters
The official story has been questioned and many of the above points were raised by members of the US Congress, retired high-ranking officers of the US military, the three leading third-party candidates for President in the 2004 election, a member of the 9/11 Commission who resigned in protest, a former high-ranking adviser to the George W. Bush administration, former ministers to the German, British and Canadian governments, the commander-in-chief of the Russian air force, 100 luminaries who signed the "9/11 Truth Statement," and the presidents of Iran and Venezuela. Not all of these people agree fully with each other, but all would normally be considered newsworthy. Why has the corporate-owned US mass media remained silent about these statements, granting due coverage only to the comments of actor Charlie Sheen?

GEOPOLITICS, TIMING AND POSSIBLE MOTIVES

29) "The Great Game"
The Afghanistan invasion was ready for Bush's go-ahead on September 9, 2001, with US and UK force deployments to the region already in place or underway. This followed the failure earlier that year of backdoor diplomacy with the Taliban (including payments of $125 million in US government aid to Afghanistan), in an attempt to secure a unity government for that country as a prerequisite to a Central Asian pipeline deal.

30) The Need for a "New Pearl Harbor"
Principals in US foreign policy under the current Bush administration (including Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle and others) have been instrumental in developing long-running plans for worldwide military hegemony, including an invasion of the Middle East, dating back to the Ford, Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. They reiterated these plans in the late 1990s as members of the "Project for a New American Century," and stated a clear intent to invade Iraq for the purpose of "regime change." After 9/11, they lost no time in their attempt to tie Iraq to the attacks.

31) Perpetual "War on Terror"
9/11 is supposed to provide carte-blanche for an open-ended, global and perpetual "War on Terror," against any enemy, foreign or domestic, that the executive branch chooses to designate, and regardless of whether evidence exists to actually connect these enemies to 9/11.

32) Attacking the Constitution
a. The USA PATRIOT Act was written before 9/11, Homeland Security and the "Shadow Government" were developed long before 9/11, and plans for rounding up dissidents as a means for suppressing civil disturbance have been in the works for decades.
b. 9/11 was used as the pretext to create a new, extra-constitutional executive authority to declare anyone an "enemy combatant" (including American citizens), to detain persons indefinitely without habeas corpus, and to "render" such persons to secret prisons where torture is practiced.

33) Legal Trillions
9/11 triggers a predictable shift of public spending to war, and boosts public and private spending in the "new" New Economy of "Homeland Security," biometrics, universal surveillance, prisons, civil defense, secured enclaves, security, etc.

34) Plundered Trillions?
On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld announced a "war on waste" after an internal audit found that the Pentagon was "missing" 2.3 trillion dollars in unaccounted assets. On September 11th, this was as good as forgotten.

35) Did 9/11 prevent a stock market crash?
Did anyone benefit from the destruction of the Securities and Exchange Commission offices at WTC 7, and the resultant crippling of hundreds of fraud investigations?

36) Resource Wars
a. What was discussed in the Energy Task Force meetings under Dick Cheney in 2001? Why is the documentation of these meetings still being suppressed?
b. Is Peak Oil a motive for 9/11 as inside job?

37) The "Little Game"
Why was the WTC privatized just before its destruction?

HISTORY

38) "Al-CIA-da?"
The longstanding relationship between US intelligence networks and radical Islamists, including the network surrounding Osama Bin Ladin. (See also point 13d.)

39) Historical Precedents for "Synthetic Terror"
a. In the past many states, including the US government, have sponsored attacks on their own people, fabricated the "cause for war," created (and armed) their own enemies of convenience, and sacrificed their own citizens for "reasons of state."
b. Was 9/11 an update of the Pentagon-approved "Project Northwoods" plan for conducting self-inflicted, false-flag terror attacks in the United States, and blaming them on a foreign enemy?

40) Secret Government
a. The record of criminality and sponsorship of coups around the world by the covert networks based within the US intelligence complex.
b. Specifically also: The evidence of crime by Bush administration principals and their associates, from October Surprise to Iran-Contra and the S&L plunder to PNAC, Enron/Halliburton and beyond.

REASON NUMBER 41:
RELATED MOVEMENTS AND PARALLEL ISSUES

Ground Zero aftermath movements:
- Justice for the air-poisoning cover-up (wtceo.org)
- "Radio Silence" (radiosilencefdny.com)
- Skyscraper Safety (www.skyscrapersafety.org).

Election fraud and black box voting, 2000 to 2004. (nov9truth.org)

Lies to justify the invasion of Iraq. (afterdowningstreet.org)

Use of depleted uranium and its multi-generational consequences on human health and the environment.

Longstanding development of contingency plans for civil disturbance and military rule in the USA (See, "The War at Home")

Oklahoma City Truth movement. (okctruth.org)

Whether you call it "Globalization" or "The New World Order" - An unsustainable system of permanent growth ultimately requires warfare, fraud, and mass manipulation.

GOING FORWARD ...

"But an inside job would involve thousands of people! How could they keep a secret?" Counter-arguments, red herrings, speculations and false information.

Selected essays, books and websites that make the case for 9/11 as inside job. (See Resources)

Demanding a real investigation of the September crimes - Not just a patriotic duty, but a matter of survival.

Hey "Bo",

Your tinfoil hat is looking crumpled. Time to put down the joint, and re-read the topic.
Just to remind you... (keeping in mind the short term memory impairment) This topic is about the WORLD CUP, and the antics of the players and fans, in regards to Israel and Iran.
Got that?

We now return to what the rest of humanity is thinking about.

Bo is pretty revealing. THAT is the "heart and soul" of the Democratic Party.

Note the obligatory "the JEWSSSSSS!!!!!!" ranting etc.

How did that Party degenerate / devolve from Harry Truman bucking all the Democratic Party advisors to recognize Israel because it was the right thing to do ... to guys like Bo?

Can Dems root for Team USA? Israel?

Please, send soccer home. It's Euro-boring and if you value "diversity" you'll be happy the US mostly could not care a whit about a bunch of guys in shorts chasing a ball, with intermittent riots and hooligans.

I mean what's more important, World Cup or that Shaq has another World Championship?

Mein Gott (again), Bo! Just tell you that your conspiracy theory falls quite short and it lacks imagination. It is technically incongruent and it covers up facts that are against it, such as the assassination of Massoud by the Talibans on September 9th, 2001.

If you want to enjoy a real conspiracy, something that even Hollywood script writers cannot conceive, I invite you to come to Spain.

Oh, I forgot to tell you, the bad guys are from the left. Any problem with it?

Yes,i did see that confederate flag at the spain game,i too was in shock,after doing some research it appears the spianards are very racist people,the coach is an open racist and was caught calling HENRY from France a BLACK SH*T,there has also been mention of Raul from Spain using facist gestures,Spain should not be allowed to play in the world cup.In a twist of fate it turns out France will be playing spain in a knock out game,Henry will go up against the same coach that was racist against him.I hope France beats Spain really bad and send those dirty nasty Spianards,FANS COACHES AND PLAYERS BACK TO SPAIN.

Please correct your mistake.

The Independent is totally wrong. Compared to the British media's attitude to Germany, the German papers are not Anti-American at all.

You write: "Did you ever think you'd see the same people waving Israeli flags and singing "Deutschland über alles"?"

Nobody is singing that! Due to Nazi misuse of that verse, nobody is singing it anymore. Only other verses of the national anthem are sung.

Thanks for setting us straight on that, Atlanticist. Unfortunately, the Instapundit picked up on that phrase and now it's gone out across the blogosphere. If I could call it back, I would.

Serves me right for relying on the Independent, for anything.

PS I like your blog, I'm going to put you on my blogroll.

Thanks Yehudit, for going to add us on your blogroll. We already have Winds of Change on ours.

I have not found that phrase on Instapundit. Did he delete it or did you mean another blog?

Instapundit linked to this post by quoting the line about: "Did you ever think you'd see the same people waving Israeli flags and singing "Deutschland über alles"?"

Thanks! Now I found it.

He wrote: "BAD NEWS FOR AHMADINEJAD AT THE WORLD CUP: "Did you ever think you'd see the same people waving Israeli flags and singing Deutschland über alles?" No, but I wouldn't want to get on their bad side..."

What's the last sentence supposed to mean?
Does he think we are Nazis deep down?

You wrote in your post: "Did you ever think you'd see the same people waving Israeli flags and singing "Deutschland über alles"?"

What's the surprise? Why wouldn't we wave Israeli flags?

You wrote in your comment: "If I could call it back, I would."

Well, you can! You could update your post and write a correction.

You could email Glenn about the mistake he made.

That would be the right thing to do, because you are responsible for spreading the wrong information from the Independent.
We all make mistakes sometimes. That's not the problem. What counts is how go about our mistakes. Whether we correct the mistake and try to undo the harm as much as possible or whether we just ignore it.

I hate the spread of stereotypes.
We work hard on our blog to fight against Anti-American stereotypes, for example here: German Media Blames Haditha on White Trash and Minorities or Anti-American History Textbook or Abu Ghraib but not Darfur etc

It makes me said to see blogs that I like (Instapundit and Winds of Change) to spread prejudices, stereotypes, anti-German misinformation or however you want to call it.

Yehudit,

I am going to write a post in a couple of hours. I would appreciate it, if you could email Glenn about this post.

Please wait till I have it online.

Don't worry, I will be nice and fair.

I'll write a post linking to your comment here or to whatever you write on your blog, and I'll try to get Glenn's attention, and whatever else I can do.

Thank you! That is very kind of you.

I have send you a draft at admin-at-keshertalk-dot-com

Please let me know what you think.

Will the average American ever know his enemies when he even doesn't know his allies?

The German Foreign Minister doesn't have to admit 'thousands of mistakes' in Iraq.
It wasn't Germany's idea to install a shiite government in Iraq.
It wasn't Germany's idea to restore, after infidel decades, sharia in Iraq again.

It wasn't Germany that made the USA dependent on Iran's peaceful ambitions as never before - one snap from Teheran and Iraq is burning.

It was the Bush administration alone that ran the USA into this most bizarre situation - will America's right wing kindergarten sissies ever realize this? We are not the directors of Operation Iraqi Slapstick! =D

To make one point clear:

Being German, I never ever heard anyone sing "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" to the tune of our national anthem - except for people showing their support of extremely right-wing political groups. The third verse, "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" is always sung, whether in official or non-official settings.

If anyone in a german stadium (except some rightwing-weirdos) openly had sung the "Über alles"-Verse, the papers and news would be full of it, because that would be a big scandal for weeks.

This verse you will not hear from anyone in Germany other than some NeoNazis. I didn't saw anything mentioned in the news. So this did not happen.

did they sing the USSR national anthem in the world cup? i can truthfully say i head it several times during the game.

i think i know the answer to that now