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Merkel: Germans must learn to live with Russian cyberwar
AFP via TheLocal.de ^ | 29 Nov 2016 14:12 GMT+01:00

Posted on 11/29/2016 5:27:58 PM PST by Olog-hai

Cyber attacks from Russia are now so common that Germany must learn to cope with them as part of daily life, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday, after Europe’s top economy suffered its largest ever online assault.

Almost one million Deutsche Telekom clients were knocked offline from Sunday, with Germany’s online security chief describing it as “a hacking attack”.

Merkel said she did not know who was behind the strike, but added that “such cyber attacks, or hybrid conflicts as they are known in Russian doctrine, are now part of daily life and we must learn to cope with them”.

“We have to inform people, and express our political convictions clearly,” she said, calling on the population to “not allow themselves to be irritated” by such rogue operations. “You just have to know that there’s such a thing and learn to live with it,” she told journalists. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Russia
KEYWORDS: cyberwarfare; deutschetelekom; eussr; merkel
Yeah; that’ll get you re-elected, Dr./Mrs./Ms. Merkel.
1 posted on 11/29/2016 5:27:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t she just get through telling the Germans that they “have to learn to live with” the Muslim invasion?

What exactly is her job description?


2 posted on 11/29/2016 5:31:00 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Leading and waving the white flag.


3 posted on 11/29/2016 5:32:07 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (MSM = HOME OF FAKE NEWS)
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To: BenLurkin
What exactly is her job description?

The same as any politician. Draw salary for public office and then abuse that office to personally enrich oneself by gorging at the trough of the public largesse.

4 posted on 11/29/2016 5:33:43 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: BenLurkin

Doormat In Chief. Human white flag. Her Royal Cuckoldress. Adolf’s Revenge.


5 posted on 11/29/2016 5:41:10 PM PST by I Hired Craig Livingstone (The Trump Train is rolling through, and it has no brakes...)
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To: Olog-hai

Merkel seems intent on running Germany from a position of prostration.


6 posted on 11/29/2016 5:51:46 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Olog-hai

Ignore the Muslim invasion I started.


7 posted on 11/29/2016 5:53:51 PM PST by McGruff (Mitt Romney - The Vicious Snake)
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To: Olog-hai

This woman is a one woman national nightmare.

For heaven’s sake Germans, get rid of this enemy of your nation.


8 posted on 11/29/2016 5:54:34 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: BenLurkin

Quisling


9 posted on 11/29/2016 5:57:53 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: BenLurkin

> What exactly is her job description?

to play her part in delivering the human race as slaves to the new global aristocracy


10 posted on 11/29/2016 6:24:55 PM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: Olog-hai

Just like Germans have to live with their women and girls being raped by the moslem hordes. They’ll get used to it, because it’s easier than fighting for the virtue of their wives and daughters.


11 posted on 11/29/2016 7:49:07 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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