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Complete fabrication. It's well documented that approximately 90% of garbage is sourced from major Asian and African rivers.

Since we're talking about EU policy, here's a citation from German national broadcaster on the topic:

https://www.dw.com/en/almost-a...

For now... don't forget, children don't place very high on the Victimhood Hierarchy, so this policy is ok as long as it doesn't hurt anyone with a higher rank... and if it does, fuck the children... literally: recall the enlightened progressive European Court of Human Rights, desperate to defend Muslim feelings from those crazy people who for some reason take issue with people having sex with 9 year olds, declared that as long as you keep sleeping with them after they hit puberty, it's not pedophilia, and therefore illegal blasphemy to call Muhammad a pedo. Yes, really.
Well, I guess that at least explains YouTube's inability to do something about all the creepy guys who flood the comments of little girls' gymnastics videos.

Facts say otherwise. I do find some things saying USA is in top 5/10(of ocean pollution, nut specifically plastics), but provide no information on it, and feels more like FUD. (however, New York needs to stop dumping trash in ocean)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.ecowatch.com/these...
https://www.dw.com/en/almost-a...

Europe has freedom I could only dream of?

https://www.dw.com/en/calling-...

I dream of the freedom to call a pedophile a pedophile.

Germany gets 25% of their energy from coal.

Germany is even cutting down forests to build new coal mines.

Why . . . ?

Germany continues to remain heavily reliant on coal, partly to offset Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision in 2011 to phase out nuclear power by 2022.

https://www.dw.com/en/no-chanc...

Story saying only 4 of Germany's 128 Eurofighters is combat ready.

Its really tedious that EVERY FUCKING THING liberals say is a lie. I made a statement, you called me a liar, and a 2 second search showed me correct.

Please stop "protecting" us from Africa like that from our soil.

For what it's worth, German authorities are much too tame about the current threats.

Yes they are! You have the commies protesting for the importation of more migrants while sane, everyday people (the "far-right" according to the media) are demanding mass deportations. Merkel has everything to do with this, no matter what she says!

"Merkel's suspension of the Dublin II accord and her decision to do away with all effective vetting of asylum applications submitted by Syrians looks certain to lead to an unprecedented number of migrants arriving in the country; according to the latest estimates, 1.5 million refugees are likely to have arrived in Germany in 2015 alone."
You are an idiot.
Where should those 1.5million Syrian refugees be? Germany has 80million inhabitants, that is nearly 2 Syrians per 100 people. Last time I walked through the city I did not see 2 Syrians per 100 citizens. As we don't place them in rural areas, it would need to be 4 per 100 citizens in a city. That is one for 25. Do you really think all those Syrians are scared about me and hiding from me?

How can you be such an idiot? But thank you, that you honour our economical power so much that you really believe we would be able to harbour 1.5 million refugees in a single year. I take that as a compliment!

"Mrs Merkel had already taken a unique initiative in announcing that all Syrian refugees would be eligible to claim asylum in Germany - unilaterally, and rightly, waiving the so-called Dublin procedures, under which displaced people must claim asylum in the first EU state that they arrive in."
She did not. That is another internet myth.

You link: EU to sue Poland, Hungary and Czechs for refusing refugee quotas
I wrote: Except for Poland, I don't recall such a country, Hungary or Bulgaria perhaps?
Strange, that I'm so ignorant and got 2 countries right.

Perhaps you want to read this, to get some facts straight: https://www.dw.com/en/germanys...

No they aren't.

Yes they are.

We have no real "immigration policies".

Merkel foolishly or traitorously opened the door to "refugees" after the outbreak of war in Syria. What ensued was a flood of migrants pouring in from countries that had nothing to do with Syria. She and the EU then chastised Europe about how all the countries had to share the burden for her foolish actions, while wise countries with a backbone refused and enforced their border.

Unless you count a room and food and no money welfare.

Yes, free room and board is welfare. What planet are you on that these magically fall from the sky? And you're wrong about not getting money, too. And then there's healthcare.

Unlike that of the USSR, who only supported foreign Leftists, Putin's Russia is non-partisan, looking for support and influence wherever they can find it. In Germany, for example, thay happen to be particularly successful among the Left (no doubt with the aid of the old Stasi files). In France they supported the supposed rightists.

Western societies aren't immune to corruption — if the price is right — and for years Putin could afford bribes on the scale of millions.

Likewise, their targeting computers of all political parties is not at all surprising. That the GOP runs a tighter ship is not surprising either...

Wrong. They emit more than 1/2 of what an American does. They are over 8 tonnes while Americans are under 15. More importantly, they continue to climb, while America comes down.

Wrong. https://www.dw.com/en/dip-in-c...

Except Germany's extremely biased and social class enforcing stratification starting in early education fails to produce the kind of highly skilled workers that the modern economy demands. Germany is experiencing a shortage of workers with the complex skills gained in tertiary education. Specifically "managers, researchers, engineers, doctors, nurses and medical assistants".

Being bracketed into the "easy" path dooms students to failure in the rest of their academic careers. Despite efforts to expand access, drop out rates are increasing especially for those previously bracketed onto lower paths, and total time until graduation is increasing for those who do finish. This is while the same high skill jobs go unfilled.

For the US though, the reality is that making college free in the US would be cheaper for the federal government than its current programs.

they also have trades / apprenticeship Germany is good and it's not college for all.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-...

In 2015 alone well over 1 million net in Germany: "The office registered in 2015 under two million immigrants arriving in Germany, while 860,000 departed again." If anything I'd assume the "over 2 million since 2015" to be very underestimated based on that.

Because they're rightfully horrified by the massive piles of E-Waste gathering around the world.

Then perhaps they should pull their head out of their ass and address the REAL problem; Greedy manufacturers making hardware that is designed to prematurely fail in order to bolster revenue.

Start forcing vendors to make hardware that lasts 5 - 10 years instead of the disposable crap they offer today. That would do FAR more to combat the e-waste problem.

Because they're rightfully horrified by the massive piles of E-Waste gathering around the world.

So with 40% renewables and 10% nuclear we have about 50% left which is produced with various kinds of coal, and half of that is imported: so 25% of our electricity is produced by imported coal. That does not sound so bad, or does it?

That sounds terrible. Germany gets nearly 1/4 of it's energy from natural gas.
https://www.wingas.com/en/raw-...

Nearly all of that natural gas is imported imported, 40% imported from Russia.
https://www.wingas.com/en/raw-...

3/4 of the natural gas is for residential heating and hot water.
https://www.wingas.com/en/raw-...

Germany is highly dependent on imported natural gas for their heat and electricity, and this will only increase.
https://www.dw.com/en/nord-str...

Actually last year it was 38.5% this year it will be above 40%. You probably found links from 2015 or older ...

Okay, smart ass, if you don't like my numbers then show me where you got yours. You told me to look it up, I did, and then you tell me I'm wrong without showing where you got your numbers. So, show me where you got your numbers or shut the fuck up over what is likely just a rounding error on being 35%, 38.5%, or 40%.

I did not lie or omit anything. The talk and your claims where about electricity, claiming we would import a lot, which is wrong, we are a net exporter.

No, my claims were about energy.

Nuclear energy has really only been used for electricity and marine propulsion so far but it doesn't have to be that way in the future. The US Navy has a program researching how to turn nuclear energy into fuel oil and aviation fuel for their ships and aircraft. This would be highly useful for producing fuel at sea on an aircraft carrier to keep the planes flying. It would also be useful in a time of war if scaled up to make up for lost imports of erdgas and mineral oil for domestic transportation, heating, cooking, and industry. Maybe your German navy sailors can talk to our American navy sailors and learn how to do this so if (or when) Russia shuts off their supplies of erdgas, oil, and coal you aren't just shivering in the dark until the US Navy comes to save you.

https://www.dw.com/en/china-le...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

You think standing matters to ICE or Border Patrol?

How credulous can you be?

Dated 2008, but the Collider could save entire countries of people from starving in Africa.

If you give up your internet connection, you can use the money saved to sponsor African children.

It only takes one individual to make a difference.

Also, something for you to think about:

DW special: Why does Africa go hungry?

Why Africa Is Still Starving

No kidding. Similar sentiments can sometimes be heard in the EU Parliament: a desire for more control over undesirable speech, enshrining "islamophobia" into law and equating it with discrimination. This has little to do with the "evil EU" by the way, many national polticians would love to have more control over what is being said online as well.

A nice example: many members of a group protesting against a planned refugee center in a Dutch town received a visit from the police, after a few heated online debates on the topic. The police and the responsible minister claim that the visits were well-meant, aimed at giving protesters a "friendly warning" before they cross the line. Sure. But you can also be sure that such a visit will be felt as deeply intimidating by many. Post something relatively innocuous online and have uniformed cops in your living room the next day? Yeah, those guys will probably be a little but more careful about what they write online. Mission accomplished.

Another example: a cartoonist working under a pseudonym was arrested in the middle of the night by a 9-strong SWAT team, for the crime of making nasty cartoons. In the end they found only 1 or 2 cartoons that actually ran afoul of discrimination laws, but... the guy stopped drawing after that arrest. Mission accomplished.

The real scary part is that few people care. Many might think that such tactics are a little heavy-handed, but then immediately say: "we're better off without that filth online"

The BND has a way into the very end of every DSN.
German quality malware. With extra government and now with 200% more contractors.
No OS, no modem is safe from the reach around of the BND. They will get into any OS.
From space. "German intelligence agency gets spy satellite system funds" (06.11.2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/german-in...
In cyber space.
New surveillance law: German police allowed to hack smartphones (22.06.2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/new-surve...
Welcome to the world of the "State Trojan"
The German gov malware reads plain text along with the user.

The BND has a way into the very end of every DSN.
German quality malware. With extra government and now with 200% more contractors.
No OS, no modem is safe from the reach around of the BND. They will get into any OS.
From space. "German intelligence agency gets spy satellite system funds" (06.11.2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/german-in...
In cyber space.
New surveillance law: German police allowed to hack smartphones (22.06.2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/new-surve...
Welcome to the world of the "State Trojan"
The German gov malware reads plain text along with the user.

What you read
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

Few months later
https://unearthed.greenpeace.o...
http://www.dw.com/en/china-ind...

The spin (no really it is OK they are adding them)
https://www.americanprogress.o...

They are building them. Maybe not in China but all over the place. Their labor pool price is rising. So they are building them in Africa and India now.

If you cleaned up 10 rivers in the world most of the plastic pollution in the ocean would stop. Those rivers are not in the Americas or Europe.

They will be forced to clean up their act. But not by sanctions placed upon ourselves but by their own populace.

Hate to shatter your illusion as an i-Phile fanboy, but it doesn't take a whole lot of research to come to that conclusion: http://www.dw.com/en/foxconn-a... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne... https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/...

So there were a couple of almost 16 year old that posed as 16 year olds to get a job. That kind of "child labor" is common and legal in the US. Boycott US products!

Hate to shatter your illusion as an i-Phile fanboy, but it doesn't take a whole lot of research to come to that conclusion:

http://www.dw.com/en/foxconn-a...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/...

When you sell 10.7 million cars a year, you probably know WHEN and WHY to take a single line (out of hundreds) down for 2 weeks... Consider that all Teslas sold to date - since inception - are less than 3% of what VW did last year. Yeah, there's a reason VW can pull a line down for a few weeks for rebuild/repair - they actually wear stuff out from producing 1 car every 3 seconds.

The control feature would let iPhone users perform some tasks by moving their finger close to the screen without actually tapping it.

So basically, Samsung's Air View which they introduced in 2013.

(I don't think they're really copying, given that proximity is a basic universal concept and thus an obvious choice for an interface. But I figured I'd use the term in honor of Apple fans throwing "copying" around at everything and everyone who does anything remotely similar to what Apple does, even if they did it before Apple.)

It's just in my head? Great comeback: Now go read a history book!

I think that also includes industrial usage as well as domestic usage, with the total averaged over the population. Mexico City has also long been a poster child for mismanagement and waste of water resources (something like 40% is lost to leaks, and they don't use rooftop collection systems (they actally have flooding when it rains heavily, because the water isn't collected) and so on ...).

mexico city water crisis

mexico water shortage

The remaining people are in jail being accused of installing the wrong chat application. Unfortunately the real reason is that they pose a threat to the Erdogan regime.

This initally might not make sense to go into an educated at the moment, however the make up of these people tell a lot. There are thousands of judges, academics, prosecutors, teachers, police officers, journalists who were put away. Looking at this, basically those who can uncover his bad deeds, publish it to the masses, and who can put them into jail for those wrongdoings are taken care of.

It was covered in many places, however the stories are still heartbreaking:
http://www.dw.com/en/turkeys-p...

I'm still optimistic for the future though. The Turkish people have exercised democracy for over a century, and was heavily integrated with the modern society in the recent decades. These kinds of "blips" happen in the history, but hopefully they don't last long.

Where are the gangs of Brits roaming the cities across the nation, hunting down foreigners and assaulting them? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

http://www.dw.com/en/britain-s...

Where are the managers and company owners refusing to hire foreign workers? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Where are the people demanding forced repatriation of anybody not born in the UK? They're meeting in small pub rooms, decried by the general population, gaining no traction politically.

Pants on fire.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

You don't follow world news do you.

China built 25,000km high speed rail in 5 years, through deserts, glaciers, mountain ranges, forests, how many km have the Germans built?

Chinese trains have become so good that Germany's Deutsche Bahn wants to buy them.
According to DW columnist Frank Sieren, the railway can no longer afford to give preferential treatment to German companies.
http://www.dw.com/en/sierens-c...

Chinese train technology rolls into Germany
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/w...

China is on track to build high-speed rail in just about every corner of the world
https://qz.com/292321/china-is...

France and Germany now have to team up to compete with China

France-Germany rail merger aims to take on China
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...
The deal aims to counter China's growing clout in global rail markets. Beijing stepped up its efforts in 2015 by merging two big companies into state-backed giant CRRC, which describes itself as "the world's largest supplier of rail transit equipment."

They have done this before and it was quite successful...and quite humiliating for the people that tried to put Google into a bent-over position. It's a classic case of someone's hubris blinding them to reality; they need Google a LOT more than Google needs them.

When was the last robbery in Germany that involved a weapon (knife or a stick ... most certainly not a gun)? It is December 6th now ... definitely not this year.

Here's an armed (yes, with a gun) bank robbery from this year, as a bonus he got into a gunfight with police:
http://www.dw.com/en/german-po...

Here's an armed (yes with a gun) bank robbery from this year, this one took hostages:
https://www.express.co.uk/news...

Here's a group of armed (yes, with submachine guns) people who robbed several million euros from a bank this year:
https://www.thelocal.de/201702...

I think I have proven my point, just because you aren't aware of armed robberies happening in Germany doesn't mean they don't happen. Get over your self-righteous attitude.

Linux will be at the user app level of a persons phone. Type in all the message and use all the very best, strong, tested encryption that can be found on the internet.
Once the German security services find that account to be interesting they will be "reading the messages "at source" on users' screens." on that Linux software sitting on very commercial cell phone.
"Surveillance: German police ready to hack WhatsApp messages" (25.07.2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/surveilla...
Changes in software on standard hardware do not stop the security services from getting ""at source" on users' screens".

One production line for all nations. Software just sets privacy to nations laws.
With the key, security services can change the settings.
In the past that got seen with collection like in :
Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Germany will just go for software that can read "messages "at source" on users' screens." "remotely record all calls" "turn on its microphone and camera"
"Surveillance: German police ready to hack WhatsApp messages" (25.07.2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/surveilla...

Changes to the law after ww2 in West Germany gave a lot of powers to protect "democracy" from any group wanting to change democracy.
Germany now has the same investigative powers to protect "democracy.".

Why would a strong pro-privacy movement be able to block the police and security forces in Germany from protecting democracy?
Would the police protecting Germany democracy allow a pro-privacy movement to start blocking the police from protecting Germany democracy?
Anyone in a German pro-privacy movement would be identified and their involvement in stopping police work would be investigated.
If such groups keep trying to stop the lawful work of the German police and security services all such groups can be banned and all members investigated.
The laws after ww2 did not allow Germany law enforcement to just sit back and let groups question the workings of democracy.

"Surveillance: German police ready to hack WhatsApp messages" (25.07.2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/surveilla...
Note the part about "at source" on users' screens.
"The leaked document shows that Germany's security services have bought the surveillance software... "
Will the EU save privacy?
"French candidate Macron targets encryption in fight against terrorism" (2017-04-13)
http://www.france24.com/en/201...
"Europe to push new laws to access encrypted apps data" (30 Mar 2017)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

as if their opinions are somehow more valid, important, or enlightened than the rest of us.

"The rest of us" being the minority of the population who votes right wing? Look at the right wing right now. Yes, they are more enlightened than you are.

India definitely needs to invest more in cleaner energy.

I agree, but I will point out that the pollution in question comes from burning fields, not from energy production or transportation.

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/stubble-burning-punjab-farmers-amarinder-singh-ngt-air-pollution-4897240/

  http://www.dw.com/en/burning-fields-in-punjab/av-41233497

Oh... judging by your ID, comrade, I fear that you know the taste of Moscow snow far better than I.
Particularly of the yellow variety.

Which is fitting for a history revisionist Nazi defender pushing a tale of "fine people on both sides".
Too bad for you that people who hung the cunts you defend knew otherwise.

Benjamin Ferencz, a former US prosecutor in the war crimes trials, and one of the few people participants still alive to have taken part in the trials, returned to Nuremberg at the age of 90 to speak at the opening of the museum on the anniversary of the world's first war crimes trial.

Speaking at the inauguration of the new museum, Ferencz said, "When I left Germany for the first time after World War II and left Nuremberg, my biggest regret was that I never heard from any German saying 'I'm sorry.'

You might wanna take a refreshment course in some of the best TV ever made.
Cause it was about real people, real events, real history...
And last but not least, it shows the complicity not only of those "fine people" fighting only "because their country told them to fight" - but of civilians as well.

See... There's this thing about supporting and defending an ideology you might not be aware of... It makes that ideology your own.
You like the ideas - you simply must be thinking them too! Cause that's how that brain thing works!
You thought it - you bought it!

And you know what else THAT means! That's RIGHT! That's very right indeed! Very far right.
It means that you're a Nazi cunt - only more cowardly cause you don't have actual balls to go around shouting "Jews will not replace us."
You only have enough balls to troll online.

Now go back under the bridge you crawled under, you Nazi scum.

Look into some details. The crime reporting rate is higher than for crimes by Germans, and the immigrant camps are stratified by immigration eligibility with only overbearing environmental influences breaking the trend of non-violence for immigration. The idiots who bandy about idiotic nationalist rhetoric are one goose-step away from outright Nazism only because that would put them in prison.

Actually, no one in the Populace voted for Merkel. They could vote for or against her Party. Her party votes her in as leader.

I don't mean some kind of retarded technicality like the electoral college. It's kind of like you couldn't vote for President, rather you could only vote Democrat or Republican on the ballot. If there is a clear leader of the winning Party, then you usually know who will likely be chancellor but sometimes, during or after a vote, there can be a struggle for leadership and parliament elects someone you won't entirely expect from that party.

In that sense, a flamboyant Donald Trump outsider type would never likely come in as PM just from one election, but an unpopular Nancy Pelosi can.

How Germany's Voting Works.

Your story was out of date and wrong even when it was printed. See here and check the end, also note the dates are written differently such that while your article was written later it was also wrong when published.

You are a deluded idiot. Look up the NSU a self-declared Nazi criminal gang with an action group murdering immigrants who were more productive and beneficial to society than those clowns ever could be. They killed 10 including a policewoman, but when those drooling idiots tried to rob a bank they were beaten and were so cowardly they killed themselves instead of surrendering. Ample evidence shows it is a larger group numbering around 200 who must be hunted down and they will be on short notice.

This is, however, a clear warning of how unpopular views are readily suppressed. It's not clear to me what the best answer is.

There is no clear answer. But as a metric, We can compare The activities of the White Supremacists and Neo Nazis to other groups.

Bastille day celebration with a terrorist driving a truck through it. 84 people killed. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

Man drives into crow of people in Israel, killing one http://www.timesofisrael.com/d...

Man tries to drive a car through a crowd in Belgium https://themuslimissue.wordpre...

How ramming cars into crowds became a major terror tactic (London attack) https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Another attack in Stockholm https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Attack in Heidelberg http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo... Isreal again. http://www.westernjournalism.c...

London again: http://www.dw.com/en/terrorist...

And that is just some of them.

So what we have here is a tactic used by terrorists. Pick a crowd, and play Bowling for Humans. Looks like the Bastille Day guy has the highest score so far. This is pretty obviously Terrorism, and the only people who support it is likewise terrorists and their supporters.

So we have a group of people who support supremacy of one race over another - That would be the Klan. They have a history of violence and murder.

We have Neo-Nazis. Another group of people that support the National Socialist movement and all that entails. These two groups dovetail rather nicely together.

Then we have a member of the second group who runs his car through a crowd of people in Virginia.

It all fits. I don't negotiate with terrorists, nor do I wish to appease them. Appeasement doesn't work with Nazis, if we recall our history. And Blut und Boden puts the Neo's directly into Nazi ideology.

Which is why I put support for these people into the support of terrorism, support that it's practicioners desire to become mainstream. And if that happens, what are the odds that they extend anything remotely resembling free speech to others. Historically it has been exactly opposite.

Perhaps my detractors will mod this up to 5 to show their support for free speech that offends them.

Re The government has no legal way to .....
Germany to pour cash into mass surveillance (08.09.2016)
http://www.dw.com/en/germany-t...
"particularly decrypting what the report calls "non-standardized telecommunications," meaning widely-used messaging services"

Re "Conversely, in order to comply simultaneously with this regulation and hate speech and libel laws, wouldn't web sites have to require more identification and authentication?"
Long term the idea is for photo id to access the useful parts of the internet, like when buying any modem, cell phone, ISP account.
That account will then be linked to a person who has registered with photo ID and is then responsible for all search terms, sites visited, comments made by their IP/account.
Encryption will work but be weak and fully open to any EU gov, NATO, the USA.
Every conversation in the EU will lack anonymity and privacy.
Anonymity will be lost to mil grade tracking and ID laws.
Privacy will be between a government and the people who once expected privacy as they had selected encryption.

Encryption sold by big brands will be open to any government. Anyone making or offering they own encryption will have to register and hand over access to a gov or be discovered and face investigations.
"Germany to pour cash into mass surveillance" (8.09.2016) http://www.dw.com/en/germany-t... ".. particularly decrypting what the report calls "non-standardized telecommunications .."

Re "Hopefully European politicians will not be so dumb to break it"
Germany is working hard on that "Germany to pour cash into mass surveillance"
http://www.dw.com/en/germany-t...
"..BND says it needs much of the extra money - some 73 million euros over the next few years - to set up "Panos," a new project specifically aimed at decrypting messaging systems by finding weaknesses in the apps."