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Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

Ahh - thanks for clarifying all issues that might be viewed as problematic so elegantly. lol.

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

I didn't know that military tribunals allow for detainees to be detained for months on end, even more than a year, before they have their tribunal. I don't want to start a debate about military tribunals or enemy combattants and the rest of it. I still find it fishy, but that's my personal pov. I don't really think about the whole issue very often because Cuba is far away from Germany and the issue isn't very present here. All the different implications of the military commission act

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

Easy with the horses. It is quite possible to describe it as such if you squint or just use facts without context that are convenient for your argument. I disagreed with the comparison in my post. Enemy combatants appears very loopholish to me - either you are an enemy in a war, then you have soldiers who become prisoners of war, or you aren't - and then you have civilians. Picking up a rifle and planning an attack sounds very military to me, but I am no expert. "Encamping" civilians

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

I think that germans in particular don't like the use the nazi's as comparison for anything. Hitler is not a normal figure of history for us, nor are the 12 years of nationasocialist reign a normal historical period which can be talked about neutrally. Some people compared Bush to Hitler after he opened Guatanamo Bay. It is a concentration camp, if you will, where people were and are held against their will and without a trial. The legal loophole of enemy combattants doesn't really change th

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

Interesting. Here, Wolfang Schäuble has similar ideas for the police - but he is very conservative. The ones who criticizse too much power for the police or intelligence services are the liberals and the green party. The US government didn't take over the carcompanies because they wanted to control that industry. I thought GM and Chrysler were all but bankrupt.. without nationalization thousands would have lost their jobs, and that would have been worse. As soon as they are back

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

The partition of the political system into judicative, executive and legistlative bodies is well suited to prevent anything from happening that isn't sanctioned by the voters and violates the consitution. Even as the president, supposedly the most powerful position in the world, it isn't possible to just decree laws - but that is what Hitler did. After he threatend or arrested or even killed the political opposition the parliament, if you can still call it that, every law was jus

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Whats next, tell some black people that they are trivializing black slavery by calling socialism a form of slavery? [/quote] It depends entirely on the degree of comparison. Comparing nationalsocialist methods used by Hitler like forcible coordination that established a totalitarian regime, extensive use of secret police to enforce said regime, a private security force to intimidate political opposition, extensive censoring of all media, mandatory membership in the ruling party

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

Prisoncamps for undesirable political opponents, intellectuals etc. were around since year 1. They were among the first things that were established. A concentration camp is not automatically equal to a deathcamp, even though distinguishing here seems awful as thousands of people died in "regular" camps as well. [quote]2. Be a teacher - that is currently the case in the USA. I constantly hear praise of obama during college lectures from half my teachers (physics class, biostatistics class). T

Reply to Haiti : Limbaugh, shut the F*** up! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Never heard of it before, and now I never will. But I don't like the liberal version of talkradio or tvshow either. I like accurate, moderate and fairspoken media and personal ramblings and jokes should be reserved for the pub.

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[quote]Your example was that if you were an approved member of the party you could not: 1. Publish books - While you could still publish books in the USA, those books will never be used in a classroom.[/quote] Bottom line: everybody is able to publish. Your claim about a liberal nazi like dictatorship doesn't hold up because you would already be in prison, and sites like this wouldn't work at all, a lot like it is in China today. Anybody in a public function who had a

Reply to Keith Olbermann is a Sadistic, Narcissistic, Misogynistic, Plagarising, Hypocritical, Lying, Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

Sounds like a typical talk radio show to me.

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

Well, recently I researched the connection between environmental ethics and economy - they have amazingly much in common, but going through all the econimc theory that explained how a cost benefit analysis worked to evaluate the intrinsic value of something like a meadow or forest was tiring. At least the text was in english and so the style was enjoyable. Angloenglish scientific writing is alot different from german scientific writing. Here, you have to use complicated language and technical

Reply to Liberalism is Immoral in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'll have you know that hair stylists complete a 3 year apprenticeship in Germany and have a journeyman's certificate in the end. It's isn't really a minimum wage entry job here - as a matter of fact Germany doesn't have a minimum wage at all. There aren't really many jobs that function as stepping stones because most every job/professions require a certificate, be it builder, carpenter, clerk, shopassistant, cook, hair stylist, etc. The unions negotiate for tariffs in the different sec

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What do you do when there simply aren't enough jobs to go around for everybody? Population growth vs. ongoing computerizing and automating in the production of goods,produce and administrative work also means that nonskilled workers hardly find a job at all anymore. The service industry can't compensate for the loss of jobs in factories or agriculture forever. Unless you proclaim the survival of the fittest which could result in a population decline or make a very restrictive family policy yo

Reply to Haiti : Limbaugh, shut the F*** up! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

What does OP stand for? I am not up to speed on all the acronyms and abbreviations in american politics. Air America? Wasn't that a CIA run operation out of Cambodia or Laos during the Vietnam war.. or maybe I am just confusing something here.

Reply to Haiti : Limbaugh, shut the F*** up! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I don't haf a german accent.. but I can cut off heads with the best of them when adquatly motivated. The Mas. vote was a big theme in the news here as well - the tenor was that the Republicans were seeing daylight with the ability to block the Senate but that not all is lost for Obama. He will have to do some major political manouvering and compromising as a consequence though.

Reply to Haiti : Limbaugh, shut the F*** up! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Entertainment is a big thing in america - you got infotainment, edutainment, militainment and probably other tainments as well. Rush is probably entertaining, as are all the other hosts from all the different political corners. I just don't like their methods and style. Maybe I just have different expectations (german here) of the role the media should have in society. Or maybe I am just too serious and grouchy - a stereotypical german trait I've been told lol

Reply to Haiti : Limbaugh, shut the F*** up! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Talk Radio is a cynical form of entertainment which only seems to live off glib derision and humiliation of others. Making fun of Haiti in any way or form at this moment when so much tragedy has befallen thousands of people just shows what sort of impious etertainment talk radio can be. Who makes a living off the misery of others who just have lost everything and are still digging out their dead by turning everything into some form of satirical comedy? I don't really care to know more about a

Reply to Made in USA in Misc JoeUser Forums

Consumers are not willing to pay the price a good product should be worth, and because the market is regulated by demand, somewhere down the line people are exploited. Kathy Lee should pay the price a good pair of shoes is worth, she would get the good quality then as well and the worker would possibly get more than a buck a day. Anyway, textiles from overseas are unrivaled cheap but the quality is awful. Sweatshirts and Tshirts lose form or fall appart at the seams after washing a few times.

Reply to Made in USA in Misc JoeUser Forums

I am not an activist by any means, but there are many issues that can be found to be connected if you bothered to look into "globalization". Most people act like you do, Chuck. I do so myself with certain things like cheap vegetables in the supermarket - nobody can produce food that cheap and still sell it for a profit, there have to be some serious problems for the farmers and workers at one point. I once heard a radio feature on migration in west africa. Many people from african nations try

Reply to Made in USA in Misc Stardock Forums

I always try to buy stuff that was NOT made in China or Bangladesh or elsewhere in southasia because among other things the workers there are exploited and/or have to work under very hazardeous conditions. Then there are environmental issues - I doubt that they rank very high. China is polluting the environment in an alarming rate - almost every river is polluted and I've heard that they have a severe problem with drinking water. They have so many people that a few million here or there don't

Reply to Haiti : Limbaugh, shut the F*** up! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

France hosts the former haitian dictator Baby Doc Duvalier. He leads a happy live in Paris, together with his colleagues Omar Bongo from Gabun and Joseph-Désiré Mobutu from Zaire. Tht about sums france's attitude towards dictators up nicely, and im not surprised that nobody else likes french rule.

Reply to Haiti : Limbaugh, shut the F*** up! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The carrier USS Carl Vinson had just started its deployment on the 12th of January and was immediatly diverted to Haiti the next day. I guess it was really lucky that it was relatively close by and able to be on site in a matter of days - usually carriers don't stick around to the US coast line for long. I think the US will gladly share the long term effort to rebuild Haiti with europeans this time around. The humanitarian tragedy in the US's front yard compelled the administration to

Reply to Haiti : Limbaugh, shut the F*** up! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I read an article in the paper here about the bickering of who is in charge of the aid efforts in Haiti. Apparently, there is some jealousy to go around about that title. Here, especially France sort or detests the US "taking over" their former colony, and there are other voices in the same category from Brazil. Well you can't just charge in and take things in your own hand. I suppose that the order was given to wait until clearn permission was given by the Haitian government, or what

Made in USA in Misc JoeUser Forums

My sister has a little son and everybody knows that little kids love toys. But my sister is quite peculiar about toys because she hates, really really does not like toys with electronics or made in China. There aren't really that many alternatives - but there are the old Fisher Price toys, especially the Little People series playsets from between the 60ies and 90ies.. I am sure many had those when they were young or had them for their own children. Fisher Price had the parking garage, the riv