Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "DW News" channel.

  1. I guess this means Russian Flight companies will either no more get leases or for a much higher price in the future.
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  2. Russia: Do you care to surrender your land, freedom, security and sovereignity? Ukraine: No. Do you care to return everyone back to Russia and leave us alone? Russia: No. Meeting concluded.
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  3. The Chinese Government is practically proving the point here. They complaining about it. If there is no link why do they complain?
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  4. They complain diesel is not longer subsidized and paying workers at least the minimum wage is hard. Fine but this is a problem of income. Meaning they not get enough to pay all this. While at the same time consumers complain about high food prices. So what happens between consumers and farmers? Well the food industry. Monopolization, centralization, dividends. They syphoning off the money for stockholders and CEOs.
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  5. Has the German government considered that this would give China access to detailed trade-data destinations, type of goods, volumes etc? Data normally not accessible for a foreign government? Potentially key informations when you want to weaken or damage vital trade connections. It could allow to see which company trades with whom how much.
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  6. Better to delay then to risk blowing the whole thing up which would probably end the Artemis-Program before it even begins.
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  7. Some water is probably welcome after the dry-season but not this much. The ground is so dry that it cannot hold the water. I think we need to re-introduce ancient water and flood management technologies like flood-plains, small local dams and reservoirs to help keep the water in the area. Do it like the beavers do so to speak.
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  8. There can be a debate about conservative policies or liberal policies, about the best way to improve a society, but there cannot be a debate about decency, integrity, honesty and empathy.
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  9. Have you noticed the part about "open traderoutes"? I think what Putin is trying here is to continue selling grain without having to see his ships being sunk by Ukraine and Africa blaming Ukraine for their starvation. Putin needs the grain selling as much as Ukraine and right now is harvesting season for Grain.
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  10. Suggestion: Tell Corporations being less greedy for a while and reduce profit margin for a better tomorrow. Workforce costs are only 7.9% per workunit but 59% are profits. And if they don't force them by legislation and/or higher taxes and distribute the tax-money back to the people to offset inflation.
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  11. Brits are not known to protest easily but I seen similar arguments and discontent before Brexit. And almost all agricultural sectors voted for Brexit and now regretted it because the problems are not caused by the EU or even governments the problem is the food industry itself. It's monopolized and centralized and the money farmers get no longer reflects the work involved. It's not even a problem of the price for the consumers but the sharing of the profits is unfair because most is skimmed of by the corporations to enrich shareholders not farmers. Consumer are unhappy about high prices and farmer about bad revenue so someone has to syphon off the wealth in the middle.
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  12. He is a populist. They tell you what you want to hear and promise everything to everyone deliverable or not. Now that he has the power he has to deliver and most populist fail because their own promises are either undeliverable or even contradict each other. The best you can hope for is a partial delivery.
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  13. A Responsible Gun Owner would be willing to give up his guns for a safer society ... everyone else is a potential problem.
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  14. A brittle partnership between partners who don't have long term cooperation in mind but taking each other over. Countries also which are cultural incompatible to each other who don't like foreigners and harbour hostile feelings to diversity. Countries who are also military active with invasions plans involving NATO and even military disputes between each other over land.
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  15. 25 years ago? Well this was after the re-unification of Germany when West-Germany needed to help East-Germany fixing the consequences of 40 years of planning economy mismanagement and lacking investment into bussiness and infrastructure. It is amazing that Germany managed to recover at all after this and returned as the powerhouse in the EU, a G7 member and 4th largest economy on the planet.
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  16. Ironic reporting this rain-caused flooding from Regensburg (Regen = german for rain).
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  17. Is it possible that without the free grain wagner loses it's grip on these nations receiving free shipments? In that case this is only a cynical move to ensure control and further exploitation.
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  18. There is no other way to maintain regional food production. Without the external tariffs and subsidies to farmer enforced by the EU the markets would be swamped with low-cost low-quality mass-produced stuff from America, Australia and South-America. We would get dependent on trade routes and prone to weather disasters and political conflicts or even simple ship havaries in cannels.
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  19. Here my recommendation: 1) Watch and Listen multiple news sources 2) Watch and Listen multiple news sources from different countries. Some countries provide english speaking sources for foreigners even if the native language is different so you can at least listen to them if you only speak english (like DWNews). If you can than listen in the native language. 3) Check the bias and the funding of the news source. If the news source is transparent and open about it or try to hide, obfuscate or even lie about it. The latter is a very bad sign. 4) If the source is telling the truth do not care about bias use the opportunity to see the truth with an opinion from another perspective ... but ignore the source when you detect intentional attempts at misinformation or lazyness on reseach and/or lack of detail. Bias is not the problem you can always make your own opinion ... only the truth matters (= that the information is truthful AND complete). 5) Do not trust any information blindly. Apply a healthy level of doubt and scrutiny to each information until you get a more complete picture and there are no inconsistencies.
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  20. Wrong Mr. Spahn your most important allies are your european neighbours.
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  21. I just checked a physics calculator. The change from 18° to 38° means the water volume is 0.5% higher. And since there is no space but in one direction the water level is rising ... just by heat. Now 0.5% sounds not much, but imagine that for ocean-amounts of water.
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  22. The problem with isolationism is you have to keep up the barriers indefinitly. If you remove them and you compete with the world market again your own industry suddenly becomes too expensive and thousands of people losing their jobs again. It would be much cleverer to keep barriers down with markets with similar cost problems/production prices to have extra capacities available to you if needed.
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  23. Fun Fact: Do you know why Trump is suddenly against banning after asking so long for it? Because one of his newest donors owns 15% of the holding company ByteDance.
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  24. We should see this as an example how all countries are affected by this sooner or later. And how the costs of emissions who were tanked by the planet for over 100 years come back to haunt us. Not that cyclones are in North-America and Europe but that some extreme weather events happen more often and being stronger raising the costs it has on a country each year until one day it is more in total than fossil fuel ever created on profits.
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  25. Why is this step even debated? Last week the company itself showed the problem. They send a message containing a misleading message to all users giving them the impression TicToc is banned (not sold) with the request to call Congress immediatly to protest even with a button on it to do it immediatly.
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  26. Narcissistic Behaviour 101: Projection - Blame the other side of doing what you are doing. Once Putin start mentioning it you must consider the opposit of what he is saying.
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  27. I wonder how people in Mariupol think over points in Putins speech (I know they have other things to worry about) about beeing "freed" and "uplifted" from their former life.
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  28. Good. That way the price-setting can be controlled and the profits stay in the ownership of the people and not flow to some obscure offshore account in a tax-paradise.
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  29. I would prefer it nationalized (if not already is). The profits from making trade with Germany should benefit the German people and stay in Germany and not used to make weapons to invade Taiwan one day ... or even attacking the west.
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  30. I not really understand the contra side here. Most of the rainwater will not end up in the basin just the water falling over it. Regarding the groundwater: Would a basin not allow more water to seep into the ground over time? I think artifical lakes are a brilliant idea more people should do it. Since rainfalls are less frequent but often way too intense we need ways to collect it and hold it back.
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  31.  @Marulauriu710  So in other words Putin is occupying moldovian territories already.
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  32. Finally he calls it out and the Whitehouse later dropped a ton of names in their Twitter Feeds. America was never more determined to fight for it's soul and the principles it was founded on.
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  33. Good. The industry in Germany needs hydrogen. So far they used gas imported to 42% from Russia to generate so called "blue hydrogen" which unfortunatly creates CO2 in the process. But green hydrogen from renewable energy sources is much better. Thankfully the newly opened LNG terminals currently used for gas can be retrofitted for hydrogen. A wise investment by Germany since the need for hydrogen will just increase over the next decades.
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  34. It's time the manufacturing returns home. We buy those products, they should be made by people working in our economy so the money stays in the system. Every worker is also a customer ... but not if the employment is barely enough to surive. Put up tarrifs for outside manufactured goods so producing here is on par with producing outside.
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  35. Am I right to assume Turkey has the problem as Russia in that the young and educated leave to live aboard leaving an aging boomer generation behind leading to brain-drain and a tendency to conservative thinking (including hate towards everything which differs from the norm) and wish for authorian leadership to deal with the problems [the leadership created itself]?
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  36. Fertilizer + Fuel = ?
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  37. I wonder how a drone strike on Moscow and a sudden crackdown on dissent fits together. Unless of course these drones did not managed to fly miraculously throught 500 km of the best secured air space and way past a drones usual range but were launched from dissidents in Russia perhaps even Moscow.
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  38. Yes please. The money should stay in the EU.
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  39. Why not just raise the solar arrays to 5m and plant olive trees or other suitable plants below it? Dual use so to speak. The solar arrays could also be used to catch water for long term storage.
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  40. Russia is close enough to Europe to use convential means. I think anything from space is meant for others to reduce response-times.
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  41. According to whom? And please don't tell me according to their own data. That would be naive.
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  42. Maybe El Nino has also something to do with the outbreak. It changes humidity and heat locally for a while.
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  43. Humans are tribal and when there are problems and crisis the tribe shrinks. If you want to reduce this lower the problems people have. Less problems, less anxiety more tolerance.
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  44. Hypersonic missiles are also extraordinary expensive and there are not that many of them. It will only accelerate the Russian bankruptcy and provide little or no strategic advantages.
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  45. China can do bussiness with Germany fine without profiting as well from a part-ownership of the very harbour this bussiness is going through. I suggest to have a look at Africa and the Belt-and-Road initiative and how terrible it ended up giving China too much influence over vital infrastructure. Fair enough this would be a minority ownership but what happens when China finds another 10% ownership and attain a majority? Maybe there is already a 5-10% owner who would be willing to do what China wants.
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  46. So Belarus is doing exatly what Putin is accusing Ukraine of but never did: Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons. Calling this hypocrisy is an understatement.
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  47. The coup is only half the answer. What comes after is more important. If they manage to establish free and fair elections, introducing measures to protect the democrary and the country from counter-attacks and authocrat takeovers and deal with the problems in the country so people not get dissatisfied again.
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  48. Watch this space. Taiwan may share the same fate unless protected by the Free World.
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  49. What I dislike with this story is it comes very conveniently just one day after the international court (ICJ) founds the Israelian government potentially doing genocide and requests Israel to prevent such actions and come back in a couple weeks for being asked about progress. These suspects are known by Israel since the beginning of january and it looks very strongly like a well timed diversionary tactic.
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  50. Good luck getting a passport from a mosquito.
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