Located 2420 results from search term 'Germany'
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Commented in Destroying Gaza’s Health Care System Is a War Crime
Most things done to the Palestine people the past 76 years by Israel are warcrimes. And not just Israel, the countries that support Israel with politics, money and weaponry are guilty also. It's Zionism, not Judaism, which is at the base of all of these atrocities. And a large dose of colonialism, not just by Zionists, but the countries that used their veto to start all this in 1948, read USA, GB, France and Germany. They all wanted to "get rid of the Jews" way before the second world war and saw this as their chance to do it "legally", with the extra prize of political and military influence over the region. But, come on, let's all vote for these motherfuckers and criminals.
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Commented in Civil rights groups warn tourists about Florida in wake of 'hostile' laws
I think everybody has heard of the "Don't Say Gay" law, but I did not realize there were so many other laws being passed in Florida to restrict freedom of thought, expression and even health care. This all starts to feel like the beginning of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.
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Commented in Some Russian Troop Companies Down 94% in Ukraine, U.K. Intelligence Says
I feel sorry for the cannon fodder. The sooner this is over, the better. Hopefully the world will devise a post-war plan similar to what it did for Germany and Japan after WWII. Wouldn't it be great is 30 years from now Russia was a thriving, nation playing amicably in the world sandbox?
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Commented in The Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site Still Can't Find a Host
When I was young, losing wars got you some great consolation gifts. Japan and Germany got the Marshall Plan and brand new economies. When the U.S. lost Vietnam, they got Pho and Bahn Mi. Now, they lost Afghanistan to the Taliban and the Taliban gone on and taken over Texas and the U.S. Supreme Court. Someone didn't cut a very good deal this time around.
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Commented in MyPillow CEO said he was recently 'attacked' and implied that Antifa may have played a role. It was actually a fan who poked him while taking a selfie.
Antifa is a political movement in Germany composed of multiple far-left, autonomous, militant groups and individuals who describe themselves as anti-fascist.
Some "attack"...He's such a spinless weenie. I'm all for anyone who fights these fascists,even though that's not what happened.
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Commented in Facebook threatens to ban Australians from sharing news
It's not really a world first attempt. It was tried in Germany, then Spain. Google stopped listing Spanish news sources in Spain, so that went well. If this one passes we would expect something very similar to Spain.
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Commented in 'Go Back Where You Came From': The Long Rhetorical Roots Of Trump's Racist Tweets
They said it to the Jews, they said it to the Irish, they said it to the Italians, the Poles, the Mexicans, the Africans...virtually every ethnic / national demographic that has ever come here from afar. It was wrong then, and its wrong now.
By the way, lets not forget Roosevelt's internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans (he called them Japs), didn't do anything for the Jews in Germany, opposed anti-lynching laws and publicly expressed he felt whites were intellectually superior to blacks....and a whole lot of Americans loved him to death.
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Commented in Muslim American Society chapter's video of children speaking about beheadings was an 'oversight'
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Commented in Germany: Trump is 'destroying economic growth' with trade war
Frankly speaking we are yet to see the effects of the trade war, so speculating right now is a bit of an overreach. So if Germany minister is so concerned about growth right now, I guess he might actually be concerned about Germany's growth, rather than US.
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Commented in Trump reportedly said he wants to stop German luxury car imports in the US
Germany charges a 10% import tariff on cars made in the US....it has an additional 19% VAT charge, which is an internal thing, not an import charge. The US charges 2.5 % on cars coming from Germany. It would be fair to tell them to match the US rate or the US will raise to the same as theirs....but saying he will stop German cars from coming to the US is just plain silly....ever the drama queen this guy.
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Commented in The U.S. is trying to kill a major gas pipeline between Russia and Germany
Free market nothing, I wanna know if this is still even World War V we're in anymore!
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Commented in Merkel Says Europe Can't Count on U.S. Military Umbrella Anymore
Never let a crisis go unused, the US government is currently a shit storm so it's time to start massively pushing the common EU Military. Then you get the fun part, who gets to control this new super military? I bet Merkel thinks it's Germany. Also, how do Western bloc members like Poland feel about this, I bet they would probably be slightly worried about giving the EU Parliament that power.
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Commented in Lessons from history
I think I'd stick with Germany this time around. They are a powerhouse in Europe.
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Commented in Donald Trump threatens to impose tax on European cars
If you import a car into Germany you get hit with a 10% import tax...plus a 19% VAT tax. Most of the EU is that way. They don't get hit with that sending their cars to the US though.
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Commented in White South African farmers to be removed from their land
I want countries to institute the right of return laws. If they're going to be massacred and the leaders of South Africa want to play their little race game like Hitler then we should be able to save them just like the Jews who were killed in Nazi Germany. 2018 and I thought we'd see progress
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Commented in US stealth bombers in Guam appear to be readying for a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea
By "progressive", I was referring to the self-described status of our education system. It is a fact that most 4-year Uni professors here have political beliefs that range all the way from from left to hard-left. I'm experiencing it now, any classes that aren't directly STEM related are as much about indoctrination as education. Their views infect what and how they teach. My views in this discussion in a US history 1112 class would likely lead to my failing it.
I think our viewpoints are irreconcilable. I'm second generation career military. My early reading was 30 Seconds Over Tokyo and the Time-Life series on WW 1 and 2. I later got into my father's books, Ghandi, Arendt, Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz and Kipling were the topic of many dinner table discussions. I've read a bit of the actual source material that your links are based on. Lengthy reading lists were part of the 4 different levels of PME I attended.
Ike went as far as he could, and lost. But that's what military leaders are supposed to do. Do what your stripes or stars can carry, pick your hill to die on, then shut up and color if/when you are overruled. History is written by the victors, true. but it also evolves over time as society changes. People in any era disagree on decisions made, especially in war. Later generations latch onto those disagreements as proof of their own thoughts. Times, morals, values change.
War is the natural extension of failed diplomacy. As long are there are humans with different ideas or ideology, there will be war. Don't misunderstand me, I was a war fighter, not a warmonger. I saw more than I wanted in '91 and didn't retire in time to avoid post 9/11. (I was retiring that December and had orders in hand when they went to stop-loss...I didn't get out until '06). The two-dollar bits of colored ribbon they pass out afterwards are expensively bought. I lost friends.
The fetishization of the military post 9/11 is sometimes hard to deal with, but people who have never seen the elephant will never understand those who have. I can't read this without crying
Let's not confuse targets with valid targets,
Civilians became valid targets in WWII the moment a lost BF-110 jettisoned bombs over London. That likely saved Britain and probably the war, because it shifted Hitlers focus. Because of the limits of air power that became evident in Europe, that didn't change between theaters. Today, with our smart bombs and GPS, drones and satellite surveillance capability, one plane with 2 250-pound bombs (with a CEP of inches) can take out a target that 500 planes with 1200 tons of bombs might have taken out then. And when, with all our gee-whiz capabilities, we still hit a wedding instead of a high-level meet of the bad guys, it's an atrocity. And because it is so, we put that on people who didn't have those capabilities.
There were so many pressures at the end of the war. The US didn't want the Russians in Japan, it was already apparent they weren't leaving eastern Europe. They (and the western powers) were already fully mobilized for total war and geography didn't favor the west. There was a lot more real estate to push them back than there was for them to push the allies back into the Atlantic. Russia got some of Germany's rocket, and nuke program scientists , and Truman wasn't sure how far along they were. It was inevitable that Russia would have nukes, possibly soon and a nuclear stalemate would have put the allies at an impossible disadvant...
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Commented in Why Scientists Think a Tax on Junk Food is a Splendid Idea
It makes me think of the Danish fat tax that failed.
While there is only limited evidence to suggest that the tax was significantly hurting Danes in the wallet, a number of Danes have been crossing the border to Germany (where prices are as much as 20 percent cheaper) or Sweden. Along with rescinding the fat tax, the ministry also said that it scrapping plans to introduce a sugar tax.
Of course, they swore that they ended the tax because it was hurting businesses and the high prices were putting jobs at risk.
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Commented in Facebook Can Now Find Your Face, Even When It's Not Tagged
New my Aunt Fanny. In the Free World, which now more than ever before means Germany, people know FaceCrook needs to be composted into a new body of privacy law. Wired is running especially facile business-’friendly’ PR here.
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Commented in AOL Instant Messenger is no more, but the memories will last forever
AIM was how my grandmother kept up with family in Germany for a long time. I always preferred MSN though, all around I just thought it was better.
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Commented in Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
Nope.
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Commented in Americans are willing to pay $177 a year to avoid climate change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country
It's not huge, I agree, but it is growing, and faster in some countries than others.
It has grown quite a bit in the past several years though, US is now 1.4% and globally 1.8% . Worth noting, Japan @ 5%, Germany @ 6%. Italy @ 7.5%, UK @ 3.4%....and they don't have the great expanse of the badlands of the US. I would imagine that with proper incentive, the US could be much bigger with advancements to harvesting making it even more attractive.
Anyway, as far as taxing, companies won't get the bill, you will, and as long as you pay, you'll be getting your energy from fossil fuels,because you can't choose an option. Uncle Sam will get more revenue to fund it's Club Med.
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Commented in German girl, 16, who fled to join ISIS 'could yet face death penalty'
The 16-year-old, who left her home in Pulsnitz, eastern Germany, last year to join the terror group, is desperate to return to Europe amid fears she could spend years in jail.
Awwww, poor girl. She just committed treason to her own country by joining an enemy army and killing or contributing to kill Europeans. They should definitely welcome her back!
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Commented in Far-right group set to become 'Germany's third largest political party'
Is this surprising?
Four major islamic terror attacks in 2016 there, and AfD is advocating for safer streets and safer schools for children. Schoolchildren are having to walk past dangerous refugee camps, people were raped en-masse, primarily women.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8279/islam-germany-may-2016
Germany has to start making drastic changes in order to survive, the average German citizen is realizing this.
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Commented in Cheering Iraqis march arrested German ISIS teen through Mosul
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I wouldn't let her go back to Germany. For starters, she committed treason by joining an enemy army.
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Commented in Erdogan says Germany is 'committing suicide'
Here in Belgium he was also not allowed to give speeches a few months back. Which is how it should be, I think.
So, to be on the same line, Germany has to follow suit or else it will not show any unity with Europe, which will be against their own politics. That's how Germany can keep quite some territory under control (together with France).
Edit (after some thinking): My guess is that Erdogan wants to get a firm control over Europe, but he clearly forgets the influence of his country by the start of pretty much both world wars. I am not sure if he does know his country's history, but if so, it looks like he is out for something really stupid.