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BBC had a good article about the Aral Sea and what was done there in the Soviet days: http://www.bbc.com/news/busine... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I think that you will find that, on the balance of it, *democratic* capitalist countries are the cleanest. And yes, they can improve and are improving slowly and surely because consumers put pressure to companies to clean up their act. You get what you want and [more importantly] what you are willing to pay for...

Hold my beer...

Fiat Chrysler recalls 4.8 million US cars: http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

Oh?

The creators of the format pronounced the word as "jif" with a soft "G" /df/ as in "gin". Steve Wilhite says that the intended pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand Jif, and CompuServe employees would often say "Choosy developers choose GIF", spoofing this brand's television commercials

So all the "hard G" people are completely wrong AND they sound stupid?

Excellent.

He's not dead - see his press conference on the BBC here:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Whereas, in the US, cops harass, fine, paper-check, even jail people for having a beer on the beach (perfectly normal in most of Europe).

You forgot "beat up".

In India they are paid to not dump in the street

We don't have the most corrupt government in the modern world, but the US is such a big economy that our slide into corruption is really hard for the world to ignore. Authoritarian regimes are typically very corrupt, and when you look at the list of places you'll find a lot of corrupt countries. Russia is a kleptocracy, as are a lot of other ex-Soviet central asian states, and the Yanukovych regime that was overthrown in Ukraine was almost breathtakingly corrupt. States highly dependent on natural resource income for their economy are known for falling victim to corrupt regimes. The Arab spring was also due in large part to corruption, not just the religious and ethnic strife that has taken hold in places like Syria, the initial stages of it that ousted the Tunisian regime were clearly focused on corruption.

I can't disagree with the overall prescription of clamping down on bribery. Corruption almost seems to be an ideology for a lot of people, and the SCOTUS rulings of Citizen's United and especially McDonnell v United States made it easier to funnel money to politicians and much harder to prosecute bribery.

It's not all doom and gloom though, Malaysia's extremely corrupt government was just voted out in a huge surprise result, so they have at least a chance of pulling back from the abyss of corrupt rule.

I, APK, am a retarded spammer
I can't do any actual computer security work so instead I made something that creates a correctly formatted hosts file from other people's already correctly formatted hosts file.
I then pass this off as if it is the greatest single computer security work ever created and use it to tell the world that I am a fucking genius.
I will spam this in every slashdot thread I can and cry like a little pussy when I get rightfully modded down.
I like to call people names like a 3 year old does because that is mentally where I topped out.
My name is APK and I will now go fist my own asshole until I feel better about myself.

P.s. - Why don't my parents love me? I will keep spamming this until my parents stop trying to sue to get me to move out.

immigrants being animals ... anyone referred to as an animal

MS-13 that is what you are talking about. The "immigrants" described as animals by Trump that is being defended by you and the media. Pathetic and disgusting especially when you lump them in the same as other immigrants. MS-13 are not innocent immigrants and should not be characterized as such nor defended.

You and the media are why we can't have nice things. You are literally spreading fake news and lies. You are why politics are getting mean and people would rather turn to Trump than listen to CNN. You will take anything out of context to promote your narrative that you will defend the scum of the earth. You are like Rob Rousseau saying "I would rather my daughter dated a member of MS-13 than a member of the Republican Party.". Because better to date someone that would have your daughter kidnapped and trafficked for sex than someone that disagrees with you politically. No shit politics is getting mean when you can't even agree on who is a bad person any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

What lovely people you mis-characterize as "immigrant". They are literally the reason why we cannot have open borders. Sarah Sanders was right, animals isn't strong enough.

You may not like dehumanizing language but treating them like a dog is better than what they deserve.

That s correct. One of the oddest things about this whole matter though is that in all of the stories about the falling birth rate, the focus is very gynocentric.

Which is a little odd - if you don't consider the other half of the equation, you don't get the whole picture.

That's because the women are the ones who actually give birth. They're also the ones who decide whether or not to have a child the vast majority of the time. It's not like women actually need to be in a long-term relationship to get pregnant. Heck, sperm donors mean she doesn't even have to have sex.

And yet - here we are. Seems like there is absolutely no problem at all, men have not one thing to do with the issue, and women can take care of all of this with no issues whatsoever. http://www.bbc.com/news/health... . Seems some places are having trouble getting donors. Perhaps this low birth rate is fake news.

And as passive avoidance, it is becoming a problem.

Citation required.

Okay, let us start. You can get an inkling of the problem just by DDG'ing "Where have all the good men gone?" one of the best links is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...

https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

And here is where things start getting weird. Men are avoiding relationships with beautiful desireable women, and it is the men's fault. So you start blaming people who are avoiding you for avoiding you. Men her age are too fat, and as she calles them "delusional" There is a certain lack of logic in utilizing shaming tactics on people who largely base their lack of interaction on shaming tactics of the past. THese women are whining about how they can't find a good man, then whining about how awful men are. There is a face slapping clue in there, unless one goes through life with the firm conviction that any and all problems are distinctly the fault of males. these women? I woudn't put up with their whiny misandric ways for a minute.

Next up, we get the red-pill movements. This one is a bit worrying. There are a few different types. One is Men's right's activists, or MRA's. These are sort of like feminists. They are more understandable to feminists, because of similar tactics.

The part of red-pilling that has recently become more concerning to feminists and women in general is MGTOW, or men going their own way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... This is because instead of marching to provoke people or agitating for laws, these men simply use passive avoidance. It is a largely online community with no political aims, even when there are people or groups that try to frame it as such. I was listening to an NPR "On the Media" presentation and interview when the woman host was trying to frame MGTOW as an alt-right movement, who was mystified by a felliow who did an analysis that shoed that overall, except for the passive avoidance, these men could largely be called centrist Democrats.

The large concern is because of this passive avoidance. And almost all are completely immune to shaming tactics. https://www.mgtow.com/ Anyhow, I've provided a few cites - there are thousands out there, and a lot of data that indicates that not all problems are the fault of men.

the traditional nerds and otherwise males unattractive to women come to mind.

What, are you 16?

How cute. Something I have written that angers you? Very strange, when I write some non-insulting post, where all you have to do is go down point by point and show me the error of my ways, yet you post this

Coffee is actually good for you; drinking it is correlated with longer lifespan. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40567047

He agreed to come to the table before Trump broke the agreement. And now after he broke the agreement. There may not even be a summit anymore.

Are you starting to learn how time works yet?

He agreed to come to the table before Trump broke the agreement. And now after he broke the agreement. There may not even be a summit anymore.

Are you starting to learn how time works yet?

http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

"Beijing has made resolving the situation with ZTE, which employs about 80,000 people, one of its demands for striking a broader trade agreement with with US."

Trump has no choice, other than to burn the whole deal. We know he doesn't like to lose.

You make it sound like he's walked a red carpet from the cradle straight into power, and his biography doesn't read quite like that:

In 1963, when Xi was age 10, his father was purged from the Party and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan. In May 1966, Xi's secondary education was cut short by the Cultural Revolution, when all secondary classes were halted for students to criticise and fight their teachers. The Xi family home was ransacked by student militants and one of Xi's sisters, Xi Heping, was killed. Later, his own mother was forced to publicly denounce him as Xi was paraded before a crowd as an enemy of the revolution. Xi was aged 15 when his father was imprisoned in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution; Xi would not see his father again until 1972. Without the protection of his father, Xi was sent to work in Liangjiahe Village, Wen'anyi Town, Yanchuan County, Yan'an, Shaanxi, in 1969 in Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement. After a few months, unable to stand rural life, he ran away to Beijing. He was arrested during a crackdown on deserters from the countryside and sent to a work camp to dig ditches.

So... he might have been born a "princeling", but that did not guarantee him an easy ride into the Politburo. (Did you know that his first nine applications to join the CPC were rejected?)

Third, he's a dictator. Dictators are fairly one-dimensional, unimaginative types who have very little to add to the sum of humanity's achievements. They don't do their countries any good and very rarely leave any good legacy behind.

I think you're mischaracterising his desire for stability--which appears to be both genuine and well-founded--as "lack of imagination" and ignoring both his background and its historical context. The Chinese experience of the past 120 years or so has been nothing like the American one.

XI is a very smart guy, and he's got balls. Do not underestimate him.

People can "claim" a lot of things but where is the proof to backup their claims?

I can find at least 3 articles claiming that the Indian spaceflight to Planet Mars cost only $7.5 Milliions

http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

https://economictimes.indiatim...

http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

Can Space-X launch a space mission to Planet Mars for less than $7.5 Millions ??

The Turing Test only requires keyboard interaction and has already been passed though there is argument about it. http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

you don't think that's stuff matters? And this has nothing to do with isolationism. It's the exact opposite. We're prepping for a war. How is that isolationist?

As for the Trade Deal, Trump already supports TPP and literally said he wants guest workers to do your jobs to a bunch of supporters at a rally (that went over about as well as you'd expect, but his approval rating still hasn't budged).

America is exactly what it's always been, a global empire by and for our ruling class. Trump didn't change that, but no, we don't want it. Trump I'll remind you didn't win the popular vote. We are not a Democracy

" it's no longer acceptable to just have a ticket, but you must (as a group) have the ID of who purchased the ticket(s) on you"

And I'm out.

Fuck. This. Shit.

Why do we as a society tolerate it?

Everyone is going to get pushed harder, and harder, and harder for additional information, scanned ID, scanned personal imagery, matches in Government endorsed facial recognition databases (have you seen the Chinese social credit system? Scary as hell!), until what? Where do you stand? I sure as hell won't tolerate being treated like that to go to some event that may make for a cool memory with bragging rights, but it'll all be over in a few hours and at the end of the day, is just entertainment. My entertainment is supposed to be easy, fun, and frivolous. Draconian security and BS like the ID checks above absolutely suck, and if this means I never go to a concert or big game again in my life, then so be it, I just don't care.

That's where I stand on the matter. What about you?

They are starting to build wooden skyscrapers http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

Found this recent story utterly fascinating.

Because America is not a Democracy. I don't think it ever was. But for some reason we insist on the charade.

Isn't just Japan. Children and other relatives have been collecting dead pensioner checks for ages. Here are some recent examples...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-sco...

https://www.thelocal.it/201609...

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

The ones who vowed to leave the country if Trump got elected.

Did any Republicans leave the country when Obama got elected?

No, they just stirred up hate for the uppity black man for 8 years, led in part by the chief birther himself. Trump is in many ways a result of their efforts. Hoist by their own petard indeed. I believe stopping Obama was Mitch McConnell's first stated goal, and they certainly stayed focused on it.

Personally, I've long thought about saying the hell with America. This right wing crazy shit is a sickness, and sometimes the only solution to a virulent epidemic is to get out and let it burn itself out. You certainly can't fight this crap with reason. No these things are turning on emotional crap. That being said, I still have hope for my country, though not much family left in it, which is about my only reason to stay. Canada may yet get another engineer.

I just ordered a book by a couple of Harvard professors called How Democracies Die. I'm half afraid to read it. It is likely to be too depressing to see a country with such potential fall so far. This is the country of Lincoln. Why the hell did we go from such a great man to the festering pile of shit who's chief slogan was, "And who is gonna pay for it?"

Everyone is getting so numb to all of his outrageous acts. Many republicans love them, simply because they piss off the other party. Is that really what we have come to?

If Diogenes was still around with his lamp he sure as hell aint finding an honest man in our president. The light from his lamp would vanish into blackest night anywhere near the guy.

The ones who vowed to leave the country if Trump got elected.

Did any Republicans leave the country when Obama got elected?

NewsCorpse doesn't have any content any more, beyond Fox News. They sold out to Disney.
See: Walt Disney buys Murdoch's Fox for $52bn

GP will probably claim that this was photoshopped.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

You are very confused. The RtbF is the right to demand that others remove or delist content that they created about you. For instance, let's say a journalist from the BBC wrote an article detailing your white collar fraud conviction and subsequent appeal. In any reasonable sense, we could say that this article belongs to the BBC.

The Right to be Forgotten says that John Disley has the right to make Google delist this article so that it does not show up when someone searches for his name. It's not his article, it's not Google's article -- the article belongs to the BBC but the RtBF says that he has the right to have Google delist it.

It is very confused to equate this with the idea that if John Disley writes an email, it's at least plausible that he could request that it be deleted by the recipient after reading it.

[ Note: the BBC helpfully publishes a list of all RtbF articles so you can see for yourself what sort of things are requested to be delisted and make your own informed decision. ]

The US and Australia are actually leading the way in renewable energy production. Google and Apple just went 100% renewable with their energy use. Other US companies are looking do the same

Individual companies aren't a good guide for what is happening. In this case, government policy matters a lot. It is true that Australia has a boom in solar power, but that's despite the current government https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/11/australias-solar-power-boom-could-almost-double-capacity-in-a-year-analysts-say https://www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/ffs/ not because of it. And in many respects Austarlian coal plants are producing all sorts of pollutants that wouldn't even be allowed in most of China https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/15/australian-coal-power-pollution-would-be-illegal-in-us-europe-and-china-report.

On the other hand China and India are ordering more coal plants be built than any other counties. China is taking a look at scaling back coal use but still major cities in China are simply unfit to live in because of pollution.

It is true that China and India are building new coal plants also, but that's only a fraction of their new grid production. In fact, Chinese cities have become substantially cleaner in the last few years https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-beijing-insight/beijing-may-be-starting-to-win-its-battle-against-smog-idUSKBN1EN0ZJ.

Africa is scheduled to become major problem in the next ten years too as more power is needed to provide for their growing economies. Coal is the only source of fuel for Africa that is cheap enough for them to exploit.

Actually, there are a lot of solar projects in parts of Africa also. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/the-race-to-solar-power-africa, but if you note in the comment you are replying to, I specifically included a link to the Solar Electric Light Fund; as I explained in that comment, it is particularly important to help get solar panels for Africa precisely so they don't turn to fossil fuels. So if you are concerned about Africa's fossil fuel production, then by all means donate to SELF.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

This is old news.

did you read the article you posted?

white-on-black killings spiked by 22.5 percent between 2014 and 2015 after years of mostly trending downward. Killings of whites by African Americans increased by 12.2 percent

White people killing blacks is increasing at a higher rate than the other way around. But that said _both_ are increasing. The point the article is hinting at is that the toxic atmosphere created by the right wing (especially Trump and the alt right) are increasing racially motivated violence. The article also points out that a record number of young black men were killed by police officers.

The Article supports the "world view" that blacks are getting the short end of the stick. Also that we (the working class) are being made to fight among ourselves while the rich and powerful take everything for themselves.

And yes, totalitarianism is a problem. But it comes in many forms. here's one of them now.

You _are_ being oppressed. But it's not by Trotskey & Lenin's ghost or the fat chick who runs your Community College's women's study's program and gets all SJW up in your grill. Billionaires and multi-millionaires like the Koch Bros, Bloomberg and yes the Clintons & the Trumps are the ones oppressing you (and me). I wish folks like you could wake up to that fact so we could stop fighting among ourselves and fix these damn problems once and for all.

Or... possibly... unbeilvieable... we are just killing each other, with no regard for race, and less regard for race as time goes on.

Almost like, this extreme racism everyone talks about, doesn't exist in the real(criminal) world! A black sees a white, he doesn't see a "white", he sees a pay day. A white sees a black, he doesn't see a "black", he sees a pay day.

They don't care what race their target is, and care less and less as time goes on.

Incredible. The utopia is upon us!

white-on-black killings spiked by 22.5 percent between 2014 and 2015 after years of mostly trending downward. Killings of whites by African Americans increased by 12.2 percent

White people killing blacks is increasing at a higher rate than the other way around. But that said _both_ are increasing. The point the article is hinting at is that the toxic atmosphere created by the right wing (especially Trump and the alt right) are increasing racially motivated violence. The article also points out that a record number of young black men were killed by police officers.

The Article supports the "world view" that blacks are getting the short end of the stick. Also that we (the working class) are being made to fight among ourselves while the rich and powerful take everything for themselves.

And yes, totalitarianism is a problem. But it comes in many forms. here's one of them now.

You _are_ being oppressed. But it's not by Trotskey & Lenin's ghost or the fat chick who runs your Community College's women's study's program and gets all SJW up in your grill. Billionaires and multi-millionaires like the Koch Bros, Bloomberg and yes the Clintons & the Trumps are the ones oppressing you (and me). I wish folks like you could wake up to that fact so we could stop fighting among ourselves and fix these damn problems once and for all.

We Have a winner takes all political system instead of a parliament. This is by design, it makes it easy for the ruling class to maintain an illusion of democracy while having a practical oligarchy.

Anyway, we have what's called an "Electoral College" where if you get a majority of the votes in a state you win the entire state. Most states can be counted on to vote for a certain party's candidate. For example, California always votes for the Democrat. Arizona always votes for the Republican. Etc, etc.

There are a handful of "Swing" states that decide who gets the presidency. Ohio is one of them. Winning Ohio was instrumental in Trump winning the presidency. Trump spent a lot of time appealing to a handful of coal miners there (and in a few other states like Virginia) which pushed him over the edge. It was also great "optics" (e.g. it made him look good) for the other swing states; who have similar problems with job losses.

tl;dr: America has an incredibly fucked up political system.

1. 1. Humans can engineer random mutations to create a viable population. I'd bet a lot of those variations are just going to be immune factors (we can also engineer mono-culture like bananas, apples and lab mice if needed.) The world of genetic engineering post CRISPR is never going to be the same again.
2. 2. Humans, unlike every other species, has both the capacity and intention to craft a custom environment to ensure continence if not flourishing of a revived species (insert rants about the Zoo here.) Darwin built an ecology out of imported species on Ascension Island over a hundred years before Jurassic Park was filmed.
3. 3. There is limited time, space and ability to 'save' everything. We can save and store what we can. The common (incorrect) statement is that there are three widely used crops that feed the world but around 50,000 edible species of plants. Even if you could ensure a solid founder population with only 10 diverse seeds that's a half-million storage containers you have to manage. This is not even touching on how to preserve the gametes, blastulas or embryos of the animal kingdom.

As for the question of should one only has to consider the fossil record. If you do not learn how to bring the extinct back then the best you can hope is that someone somewhere stepped in the wrong sand pit and it currently leaving a really nice impression as they petrify.

I expect that once field ready PCR is available some kind of public Merkel tree of DNA codes should be assembled. (Insert DNAcoin cryptocurrency joke here.) Just the deltas need to be kept like in this "Git repository of code" the same way we do with human DNA records. It's a literal tree of life. Then the race is on to scan in everything you can before it dies.

After that it is just a matter of making tools that can turn the DNA back into living stuff. Now you have an instant backup of the planet's ecosystem, from bacteria and virii and molds to your neighbor Steve and his dog. Throw it in a can attached to a light sail. Stop worrying about the death of the Sun.

Start worrying about competing with other species that had the same idea and are about to show up on your doorstep.

You are correct.

The suggestion is to make toast only 'lightly golden'

Per the BBC: "Bread, chips and potatoes should be cooked to a golden yellow colour, rather than brown" http://www.bbc.com/news/health...

No one really knows what what the remaining members of the current "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" would be called after Scotland leaves, but my votes is for the "United Kingdom of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland".

More commentary here but the experts believe the term "UK" will probably be retained in some fashion.

Do you **REALLY** think these companies are going to put up a legal fight for you when your DNA is requested by the government?

A.C.#2

They don't have to. The multiple layers of anonymizing means nobody can provide anything useful. Besides which, there's nothing in there the government can use. Paranoia is a psychiatric disorders, not a political stance.

If you cared to Google it, you would find that, with a search warrant, law enforcement can obtain genetic information and material from places like 23andMe and Ancestry. In fact, the link below confirms they already have at least once. You can use a pseudonym. Maybe it and the corporate anonymity maze will be enough to slip through the sophisticated clutches of the Law's big data algorithms. GLWT.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/can-police-legally-obtain-your-dna-from-23andme-ancestry/8eZ24WN7VisoQiHAFbcmjP/

BTW, Paranoia is a political stance. It's so obvious, you don't really need a link, but even so:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/20...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35382599

(sarc)Trading the Gilded cage in the embassy for a British jail cell? Yea, he's "free" to choose. (/sarc)

That is what happens to people who jump bail.

Umm.. not really.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36024690

Among the crimes people had been accused or convicted of were murder, sexual assault, rape, grievous bodily harm, drugs offences and child abuse.

Millions of pounds expended to capture a non-British citizen who sought (and was granted) political asylum to thwart a warrant for extradition that is invalid, yet thousands of bail jumpers in Britain wanted for murder, assault, child abuse, rape, theft, etc.. go free because local police depts don't have the resources to track them down.

Until the March 2019, 2019 Brexit date, the UK is still part of the EU http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol... EU privacy laws/regulations are much tougher than US. I could easily see charges being laid in the UK over the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I'd avoid setting foot anywhere in the EU. For that matter, I'd probably stay inside the US until things blow over.

China's social credit system:

By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database that compiles fiscal and government information, including minor traffic violations, and distils it into a single number ranking each citizen.

Chinese are already loving Big Ching.

It's amazing and terrifying to consider over a billion humans living under this dictatorship driven, Orwellian nightmare of total surveillance and control.

There is so much petty crime in London that the police don't bother recording reports of robberies, muggings, or 'simple' assault - if it takes more than a few minutes to solve, they won't bother. Similar policies are in place elsewhere in the UK, too; if there is no death or maiming, then the police don't care. In 2013, before these new polices took place, they already dropped 50% of all property crimes - now they won't even pretend to solve them.

Career criminals with 70+ convictions walk out of court on your "suspended sentences", sometimes serving three or four at a time.

Meanwhile, in Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford, the UK "justice system" spends thirty years covering up hundreds of thousands of gang rapes of thousands of young girls (as young as 12!) because the police and judges don't want to look racist.

That's his second lead attorney...

And he apparently plans to "fucking do it his way".
You know... his way.

Trigger warning: You may get an urge to put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger from all the cringe in that clip.

...there's just no credible alternative yet.

There's PornHub.

I recall being quite irritated about the story printed in parts trough the Playboy magazine of which I missed ending because it was printed on the other side of a photo the censors did not like. That was in UK 1998 and I had to ask for the magazine in a kiosk because I could not find it along 'normal' stuff on the ground floor. It was sold in dark plastic bags obscuring all but the top line with the name on it.

That was back then and quite innocent as it seems today. I guess you can get arrested for it now or? I mean metoo and all.
I had to laugh yesterday when I saw this. Something is wrong with the West when this is happening. The funny (if you can laugh at it that is) thing is that the so called progressives enforce this silliness. Bigotry from the right and bigotry from the left. The guy on the wheelchair had at least sense of humour.

No, jay walking was invented by car companies and entrenched through a massive advertising campaign. It's not the as simple as you think it is.

“It is helping to save the Small Aral sea,” says FitzGerald. “But it was also a death warrant to the Big Aral, on the Uzbek side. People on the Uzbek side are very angry about it. The dam shut the only source of water that was entering their sea.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/resour...

You could look at Australia which has wind, solar and a big battery stabilizing the grid and supplying backup power for South Australia. So far, the battery has surpassed expectations by preventing power outages and is even proving to be a money maker.
https://futurism.com/teslas-au...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Renewables plus battery storage are more reliable and less expensive than fossil fuels.

It is not clear from the article whether the NFC chip was working correctly and could be read by the inspector, or not.

BBC reports the implanted chip is still readable.

If you think this situation started with the refugee crisis, think again.

Completely agree. I'd also add that Germany has had a long existing Turkish minority in the country which has created tensions for a while. In fact, before the refugee crisis, Chancellor Merkel had a speech in which she declared failure in Germany's efforts at multiculturalism and integrating its minorities. Mind you, we should also remember the German context in that it imported Turkish workers and effectively ghettoized them, making only token efforts to integrate them in hopes they'd go back home when no longer needed. Instead, three generations later, Germany is waking up to the fact that maybe they should have been more proactive in bringing them into the fold. This tension was already there, and the refugee crisis simply blew it up even further.