Growing list of countries protest U.S. spying

Edward Snowden is changing both American intelligence gathering and  trafalgar law costume  American foreign policy.
Germany is only the latest country to protest U.S. surveillance tactics, the result of news reports based on leaks provided through former National Security Council contractor Snowden.
Brazil, France and Mexico have lodged similar complaints, and could well be leading a parade of protests from other nations in the weeks ahead.
A day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel called President Obama over reports her cellphone had been bugged, the German foreign ministry in Berlin summoned U.S. ambassador John Emerson for an explanation.
After the Obama-Merkel phone call, the White House issued a readout with a carefully worded denial: "The President assured the Chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of Chancellor Merkel."
White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to say Thursday whether the U.S. has monitored Merkel's communications in the past.
"We are not going to comment publicly on every specified, alleged intelligence activity," Carney said, while adding: "We have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations."
Carney also said that, at Obama's direction, the United States is "reviewing the way that we gather intelligence to ensure that we properly balance the security concerns of our citizens and allies with the private concerns that all people share."
There is something of the diplomatic dance to all this.
STORY: Europe responds to spying claims
Most nations have spies, and most of them spy on each other — not the kind of thing one discusses in polite company.
But with the Snowden-fueled stories now public, governments have to respond to allegations of the United States' spying, and the reports are having a pronounced effect on American foreign policy.
On this past Wednesday night, President Obama was supposed to have hosted a state dinner for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff — but Rousseff canceled the state visit amid reports of NSA surveillance.
The NSA story has also led to new friction with Russia, which agreed to grant temporary asylum to Snowden rather than deport him to the United States to face espionage charges.
Now, German-American relations may turn frosty.
Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere told ARD television that, if the allegations are proven true, "we can't simply return to business as usual."
De Maiziere also said, however, that "relations between our countries are stable and important for our future; they will remain that way."
Meanwhile, the world awaits the identity of the next nation to protest National Security  fairy tail cosplay costumes   Agency surveillance tactics.

New Jersey court to allow same-sex marriages

TRENTON -- Gay couples in New Jersey will be able to marry  vocaloid cosplay costumes  starting Monday.
The state Supreme Court Friday turned down Republican Gov. Chris Christie's administration request to delay same-sex marriages, clearing the way for the weddings to begin Oct. 21.
A lower-court judge had earlier ruled that same-sex weddings must be allowed starting Monday, and the administration requested a stay.
The Christie administration has also appealed a lower court decision that the state should allow same-sex marriages, and the high court is expected to hear arguments and render a decision on the broader issue over the next three months.
The ruling by the justices against the motion was unanimous, a sign that the administration's prospects for the full appeal are bleak.
"The State has advanced a number of arguments, but none of them overcome this reality: same-sex couples who cannot marry are not treated equally under the law today. The harm to them is real, not abstract or speculative," wrote Chief Justice Stuart Rabner in the decision.
"We applied settled legal standards and determined that the state has not shown a reasonable probability it will succeed on the merits,'' Rabner wrote.
Steven Goldstein, the former head of Garden State Equality, which filed the original lawsuit with other parties, said the court's decision on the stay allows the same-sex couples to "begin to tear down its Berlin Wall separating straight people who have had total freedom and LGBT who have not."
"Imagine the happiness you'd feel if you won the Super Bowl, the Nobel Prize and an Academy Award all in a single moment, and multiply it by a million. That's how we LGBT New Jerseyans feel right now," Goldstein said.
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, a Mercer County Democrat who is openly gay, said he hoped the Christie administration would move quickly to provide guidance to municipalities dealing with an influx of same-sex couples seeking to get married.
"Equality has won out once again and I thank the Supreme Court for ruling on the trafalgar law costume   side of justice," Gusciora said.

Ovadia Yosef, influential Israeli spiritual leader, dies at 93

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Hundreds of Israelis on Monday bid an aladdin magi cosplay  emotional farewell to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 93, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel.
The spiritual leader died at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after medical complications from a stroke he suffered at the beginning of the year.
Yosef was considered the leading authority in religious rulings in the realm of Jewish law. He was revered by many Israelis, both secular and religious, in particular those of Eastern origin. This popularity led him to play a unique role in Israel's nation-building.
He will be remembered for his pivotal influence in Israeli politics after he formed the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party in 1984. Since its founding, the party has almost always been part of the governing coalition, and the rabbi had been a confidant of Israel's prime ministers.
In September 1993, Shas, under Yosef's leadership, played an integral role in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's peace initiative that led to the forming of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza. He interpreted the Halakhic, or Jewish religious law, principle of Pikuach Nefesh to mean that lives that are endangered by the Arab-Israeli conflict can be saved by overruling the commandment to settle the land. His interpretation was taken as the religious endorsement of the two-state solution, which calls for an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
The rabbi's political weight in the party's move to the right was reflected in his opposition to the Israeli government's decision to disengage from Gaza in September 2005. This time, his interpretation of Pikuach Nefesh led him to conclude that a unilateral withdrawal would threaten the lives of Israelis, and thus the state should abide by the commandment to settle the land.
Today, Shas' political influence wanes as it sits in the political opposition.
Controversial statements
In a 2001 sermon, according to Israeli media, he referred to "evil and damnable" Palestinians, adding: "You must send missiles to them and annihilate them."
And in August 2010, Israel Army Radio quoted Yosef as saying that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas "and all these evil people should perish from this world. ... God should strike them with a plague -- them and these Palestinians."
He was denouncing then-upcoming direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians in Washington. The Palestinian government condemned his statement, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said: "These things do not reflect  asuna cosplay costume   PM Netanyahu's approach nor that of the Israeli government."
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis are expected to attend Yosef's funeral.

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