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</html><description>No debacle is allowed to interfere with Chancellor Angela Merkel&#x2019;s efforts to hang on to her job, and any debacles get swept under the rug at least until after the elections on September 22. Every time uppity opposition voices stir up some controversy, it&#x2019;s brushed off, denied, ridiculed, or minimized &#x2013; and it has worked admirably well so far.  Even Edward Snowden&#x2019;s revelations day after day in Der Spiegel &#x2013; which had received copies of documents detailing German involvement in NSA spying activities, among other sins &#x2013; were successfully shuffled off. Though the discussion continues to be heated, it is, like in the US, a bi-partisan debacle, compromising political figures from both sides. The scandal is spreading and festering, but apparently without political fallout.</description></oembed>

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