Swill for the Swine in the NSA: Long Conversation with Phil (in Germany) last night....

We were both, Phil and I, similarly appalled and shocked by the fact that the recent interview with Edward Snowden, aired on German television, was virtually ignored and blacked out in the mainstream media in the United States:  Have the Powers of Evil and Darkness so absolute a grip on our very internal communications?  It was (Allah be praised) available on the Internet (Information Clearing House) where I saw it, but to the vast mass of (elderly, reactionary, lumpen) Americans (with no Internet access and no desire of having any) it was as if this extraordinary interview had never happened.  And extraordinary it was:  Snowden was at his most damningly articulate, substantive, persuasive.  His brave, brief account of the death threats he's received from U.S. government officials was, as the French say, tetanizing; while his precise, measured, deliberate revelation of the espionage by the NSA of Germany industry and the aids and functionaries of the Merkel government (not just of Merkel herself) must have blown a lot of Germans' minds.  "But why," I asked Phil, "do you damned dumb Krauts allow your Chancellor, in utter defiance of proper German national self-interest, to proclaim the United States as "Germany's best ally?  What the fuck is the matter with you?"