Never mind the AC. He simply spouts a talking point of the extrem German right.
What used to be the stab in the back myth in the run up to WW2 is now the obsession that Germany never truly became a sovereign state after reunification because it didn't give itself a new constitution.
This is of course completely divorced from reality, but goes to show that the US doesn't have a monopoly on wingnuts.
.... Werner von Braun's slide ruler in a display case. It was exactly the same one that my grandfather used to own, and that I got to play with when I was a little boy.
"Late-afternoon data from a NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft in Patricia indicates that the hurricane is forming concentric eyewalls, presaging an eyewall replacement cycle, where the inner eyewall collapses and is replaced by an outer eyewall that forms out of a spiral band. This process typically weakens the peak winds of the hurricane by up to 20 mph, but spreads out the highest winds of the storm over a larger area. This process typically reduces the wind damage from a storm, but makes a larger storm surge, leading to more storm surge damage."
CANDU is a very smart reactor design, not only because it can use natural, unenriched uranium, but also because this gives it inherent security features (natural uranium ore really doesn't like to entertain a fission reaction, so the reaction shuts down quickly when things start to go awry).
Nobody like to have a nuclear power plant in their backyard, but if I had the choice I'd always opt for CANDU over any other reactor (unless it's was an experimental spallation reactor, can't beat the safety of those).
Canada has a lot of very innovative start-ups such as D-Wave and General Fusion, the former received some federal venture capital, but with regards to fusion Canada turned out the lights long ago. There isn't even anybody designated anymore at the federal level for that file.
Pathetic given that Canada used to be a pioneer in nuclear technology as evideneced by the CANDU reactor design.
Have you ever watched that guy in a talk show or giving an interview?
Of course you didn't.
He plagiarized his Ph.D. for a quick win, which tells you all you need to know about his morals, but he was anything but talent-less. He was also comparatively young and good looking, with instant name recognition (although no relation to The Gutenberg).
The CSU is devoid of political talent. Of course he was a rising star.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, you mean the guy who got completely disgraced due to his plagiarized Ph.D. thesis? Who was booted out as defense secretary? The guy who had to accept third rate EU admin jobs afterwards?
Yeah, that really makes your point very convincingly.
At least German laws aren't written by ALEC.
Find your stance absolutely comical. Kinda like when the US nowadays complains about torture in some other second rate countries.
... it's an index of what reporters in a country believe press freedom to be
Good thing then that you are here to tell them what it really means.
You claimed that the laws of the Weimar Republic guaranteed freedom of speech, and they clearly did not.
Yes, it did as interpreted by the courts at the time. And during most of the republics existence this facilitated a much broader political news spectrum then what the average American Joe is nowadays exposed to. To say that there wasn't freedom of speech in the Weimar Republic is simply a falsehood.
It requires you to define the term to your liking to make it fit. But then again you also think you can tell journalists what press freedom means, just so that you don't have to concede a point.
Sorry to say, but I think you'd be as quick to redefine "up" as "down" as long as it allows you to win the argument.
As to the banning of newspapers, as the article you link notes, most of these were after 1930, when the republic was already on the ropes and in its death-throws.
Hugenberg on the other hand looks positively harmless in comparison to Murdoch.
For most of the time the Weimar Republic had a thriving press, which much more diversity than what you get in the US these days, running the gumut from Communist to Nationalist media.
To quote from Peter Humphreys book "Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe":
"During the Weimar Republic's short lifespan, there flowered a rich diversity of political reporting." (p.22)
And while press freedom wasn't as effectively protected by article 118 as it should have, personal free speech certainly was.
"... has time and again failed at democracy and that still idolizes authoritarianism."
Right, like the time that the highest court in the country, that had been stacked by the previous right wing governments, decided the election against the popular vote.
Where districts are constantly gerrymandered to engineer the desired voting results.
Voter roles are getting purged and the identification requirements made ever more difficult to ensure only the right people get to vote.
Lines for polling stations wind around city blocks in the "wrong" part of town.
A recent impartial study concluded that the system is not democratic but constitutes an oligarchy, and a former president concurred that this is indeed the case.
Germany has a nice mix, that allows for local candidates as well as proportionality (two votes system).
Extremists are kept out via a 5% threshold that a party need to clear to get into the government.
German governments tend to be very stable, and the count of conservative chancellors outweighs the left of center one (they also tend to govern longer, i.e. Merkel, Kohl).
Also political aristocracy like you have in Japan is quite alien to Germany.
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Never mind the AC. He simply spouts a talking point of the extrem German right.
What used to be the stab in the back myth in the run up to WW2 is now the obsession that Germany never truly became a sovereign state after reunification because it didn't give itself a new constitution.
This is of course completely divorced from reality, but goes to show that the US doesn't have a monopoly on wingnuts.
If you're not funny, try to at least get it right. That would obviously be a linear scale.
.... Werner von Braun's slide ruler in a display case. It was exactly the same one that my grandfather used to own, and that I got to play with when I was a little boy.
... is only rivaled by the sophisticated thinking that goes on in the 114th United States Congress.
Anon comment nailed it, from wunderground:
Famous for its rodeo and mayor :-)
The oil prices alone are doing plenty of damage to the oil patch. The Libs can just sit on their hands and let the market sort it out.
That genie has gotten out of the bottle a long time ago.
Don't blame Canada.
Renewable power is quite competitive these days, and there's huge potential for it in Canada, but it's an illusion to think that it isn't big business these days..
At any rate, General Fusion is a start-up, and very much not big business.
CANDU is a very smart reactor design, not only because it can use natural, unenriched uranium, but also because this gives it inherent security features (natural uranium ore really doesn't like to entertain a fission reaction, so the reaction shuts down quickly when things start to go awry).
Nobody like to have a nuclear power plant in their backyard, but if I had the choice I'd always opt for CANDU over any other reactor (unless it's was an experimental spallation reactor, can't beat the safety of those).
How dare you?
Justin has much better hair.
Canada has a lot of very innovative start-ups such as D-Wave and General Fusion, the former received some federal venture capital, but with regards to fusion Canada turned out the lights long ago. There isn't even anybody designated anymore at the federal level for that file.
Pathetic given that Canada used to be a pioneer in nuclear technology as evideneced by the CANDU reactor design.
What AC said :-)
Must cause some major cognitive dissonances that the "socialist" EU allows for more economic freedom that the US.
Have you ever watched that guy in a talk show or giving an interview?
Of course you didn't.
He plagiarized his Ph.D. for a quick win, which tells you all you need to know about his morals, but he was anything but talent-less. He was also comparatively young and good looking, with instant name recognition (although no relation to The Gutenberg).
The CSU is devoid of political talent. Of course he was a rising star.
Yes, it did as interpreted by the courts at the time.
This is verbatim in the German article you linked. I take it you can't read German.
Grosz was later again dragged to the court in 1926, but was then acquitted, so the Republic grew up a bit before it collapsed.
Anyhow, it's heartening to see that you take up the case of this communist painter, whose art at the time was widely perceived as propaganda.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, you mean the guy who got completely disgraced due to his plagiarized Ph.D. thesis? Who was booted out as defense secretary? The guy who had to accept third rate EU admin jobs afterwards?
Yeah, that really makes your point very convincingly.
At least German laws aren't written by ALEC.
Find your stance absolutely comical. Kinda like when the US nowadays complains about torture in some other second rate countries.
... it's an index of what reporters in a country believe press freedom to be
Good thing then that you are here to tell them what it really means.
You claimed that the laws of the Weimar Republic guaranteed freedom of speech, and they clearly did not.
Yes, it did as interpreted by the courts at the time. And during most of the republics existence this facilitated a much broader political news spectrum then what the average American Joe is nowadays exposed to. To say that there wasn't freedom of speech in the Weimar Republic is simply a falsehood.
It requires you to define the term to your liking to make it fit. But then again you also think you can tell journalists what press freedom means, just so that you don't have to concede a point.
Sorry to say, but I think you'd be as quick to redefine "up" as "down" as long as it allows you to win the argument.
Aristocrats? Seriously?
How about the one who would have been emperor, lovingly know as "Pinkelprinz".
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I give you that, if Germany is just yet another oligarchy they are much more skillful at hiding it.
In the here and now Germany is doing just fine (much better than the US I may add).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As to the banning of newspapers, as the article you link notes, most of these were after 1930, when the republic was already on the ropes and in its death-throws.
Hugenberg on the other hand looks positively harmless in comparison to Murdoch.
For most of the time the Weimar Republic had a thriving press, which much more diversity than what you get in the US these days, running the gumut from Communist to Nationalist media.
To quote from Peter Humphreys book "Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe":
"During the Weimar Republic's short lifespan, there flowered a rich diversity of political reporting." (p.22)
And while press freedom wasn't as effectively protected by article 118 as it should have, personal free speech certainly was.
"... since Germans never had enjoyed free speech rights before."
Look, it really isn't that hard to educate yourself on the facts before posting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"... has time and again failed at democracy and that still idolizes authoritarianism."
Right, like the time that the highest court in the country, that had been stacked by the previous right wing governments, decided the election against the popular vote.
Where districts are constantly gerrymandered to engineer the desired voting results.
Voter roles are getting purged and the identification requirements made ever more difficult to ensure only the right people get to vote.
Lines for polling stations wind around city blocks in the "wrong" part of town.
A recent impartial study concluded that the system is not democratic but constitutes an oligarchy, and a former president concurred that this is indeed the case.
Oh, wait a second, ...
Thanks for pointing out that the parent poster has obviously not the faintest knowledge about the Weimar Republic constitution.
General news it is.
Nevertheless it's nice to get such good news for a change.
True American heros.
Germany has a nice mix, that allows for local candidates as well as proportionality (two votes system).
Extremists are kept out via a 5% threshold that a party need to clear to get into the government.
German governments tend to be very stable, and the count of conservative chancellors outweighs the left of center one (they also tend to govern longer, i.e. Merkel, Kohl).
Also political aristocracy like you have in Japan is quite alien to Germany.
As somebody who grew up in a country with proportional representation I find the notion that this is somehow "left" rather bizarre.