Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "DW News" channel.

I'm Australian but went to college in America and although what's she saying is basically right she's hopeless at presenting it. Yes Trumps a threat, but the way she's presenting that is terrible. Trumps a threat because he was never held accountable for anything he did. He had everyone bluffed. They should have slapped him down on the first impeachment and done similar to what they did with Bill Clinton - guilty but not bad enough to be thrown out of office. Instead they let a malignant narcissist off the hook and he's run rampant through the system. That's encouraged others to do similar on other countries. The fact they DIDN'T even try on the second impeachment and done nothing but come up with excuse after excuse to do nothing since is just pathetic. Thump's real threat is the economic threat a broken America poses. No matter what we do or don't like about America the American economy is still 1/4 of the world's economy and the US $dollar is still the worlds reserve currency that underpins world trade. After that there's issues with tax avoidance, inequality, corruption, CLIMATE and a long list of other issues NONE of which can't be dealt with if there's a second Trump Whitehouse.
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ITS NOT CLOSE AND WE HAVE KNOWN FOR OVER A YEAR To join NATO your borders have to be fixed. None of your borders can be in dispute and its why Putin has stared lots of separatist colonies among Russian enclaves like Transnistria on the western edge of Moldova. Just because of Crimea Ukraine cannot join NATO because its still effectively under dispute.
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According to the Simpson's the French identity is "Cheese eating surrender monkeys"
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For starters be very careful taking CNN or any other main stream American media at its word. Second go and look at the data and the map of Russian gas reserves. 1) Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and its by a significant margin. 2) Russia's main regions are the Urals and Far East (places like Sakhalin Island). Both of those regions have parts of the Russian gas network close to the Chinese Border. 3) Europe and America need to WTFU because Europe needs Russian gas not the other way around. If either Xi or Putin were smart they'd pump Russian gas into the Chinese power stations. Its relatively straight forward to switch from coal to gas and it would substantially reduce China's Carbon emissions. Both Xi and Vlad could wave the middle finger at Europe and America.
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What you just described (deforestation) was almost identical to the description given as reason for floods in a few other places like Bangladesh.
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Agreed. The great cries of "freedom of the press" and "freedom of expression" never seem to include the right to be accurately informed.
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@baxile Well its fairly questionable that 90% of the Chinese population is 100% behind the CCP. I'd grant you its probably pretty high, except in places like Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. But lest face it most Chinese probably know its better to say they approve of the CCP rather than get a trip to a re-education camp. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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The Panama papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. The Paradise papers were released and NOTHING happened and NOBODY went to jail. Anybody who thinks anything will happen or if anybody will go to jail with this load is just wishful thinking.
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Its actually 7.8 billion, but your point is right on the money. 2 of the major problems are food distribution and food wastage along with many others. Where climate change is going to smash the world is in food production which is at risk of collapse. I'm Australian and we are in the envious situation that we have excess food production. We have 25million people and produce food for 75 million. We have a problem coming. Our banks are addicted to home loans and they want our population to climb to 35million then 45 then 55 and maybe onto 65 million. Even at 35 million the problem is obvious if we don't increase our food production from 75 up to 85 million then 10million people elsewhere starve. At that point there will be millions of people looking at Australia with enough food to feed 40million extra people. They wont care that its dropped from 50 to 40 they will just see the excess and jump in boats. That creates the next problem which is at the 25 million we now have we are running out of water. You see our rain fall is falling on some parts and climbing in others and when it does rain its like what happened in Europe, China and India this last week. And that's our next problem. Some of our traditional farmland that's been incredibly productive for decades is now getting LESS water. So that 75 million of food we produce is already at risk. Getting that up to 85 million so we can handle the extra 10 million people the banks want coming here and taking out home loans is a problem NOBODY wants to talk about. Like other places we don't have 1 problem we have a heap of interconnected problems. California which produces 1/4 of America's food an a lot that's exported is another major food bowl at risk.
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Yes and the next thing that needs to start happening is the EXPOSING the people who do this. These videos don't just fall out of thin air. People KNOWINGLY take footage and edit it and post is claiming its something they KNOW is NOT TRUE. And it wouldn't be a bad thing if governments started making it illegal to create, produce and post FAKED or EDITED video and photographs that are posted as FACT. In the past newspapers used to send out their own photographers so they KNEW the origin of photographs. Other Media used to send out their people with microphones and cameras and they KNEW the origin of the materials they reported on. Plenty of times I have seen photographs or video and there's a label in the corner saying "archive" or "stock footage" and a DATE for when it was taken.
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This is exactly the same answer I just put in another comment: On the basic principal I agree. For example in the case of Timothy McVeigh there was no doubt he did what he did. In the case of John Wayne Gacy there was no doubt. In both those case I absolutely agree that justice was done. They both showed what Americans call "depraved indifference," but in many other cases there is doubt or there is at least the appearance of improper procedure. For example: AFTER Donald Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered the execution of 3 convicted people. Irrespective of what they did or didn't do for over 130 years NO President had allowed a federal execution to take place in the period between the election and the inauguration of the next President. The view was that despite the sitting president having duties to fulfill no longer had the mandate for those sorts of decisions and they were to be left for the incoming president. At the same time Donald Trump pardoned the Blackwater 4 who were responsible for killing 17 innocent people in the Nisour Square Massacre. Those 4 were, at the time of their crime, employees of Eric Prince the brother of Betsy DeVos Donald Trumps Secretary of Education. So were those decisions by Donald Trump for justice or politics? FYI - I'm Australian and the last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan who was hanged for killing a guard during an attempted prison break. It was in my home state of Victoria. There were serious ballistics issues that suggested the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower. The lone eyewitness to the actual shot simply lied. Decades later records were released of the cabinet discussions. These included people telling the Premier (our equivalent of a state Governor) of these serious flaws in the case. He told colleagues he didn't care as there was an election coming and looking tough of crime was always a winner. Sir Henry Bolte won that election in a landslide and one of the main bridges in Melbourne is named after him. Its now fairy well accepted that Ronald Ryan was hung for political not judicial reasons.
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@10speed4 Yep its the one thing the elites have done everywhere. They have given us 3 choices. The person who they control on the left, the person who they control on the right and the person with no hope of ever doing anything useful for the other 99% of us.
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You'd be 100% correct if you change the word "wants" to "needs". Its really a matter of what Germany needs more. Do they NEED America and Western Europe as allies and trading partners who buy lots of BMWs & Mercs or do they NEED cheap Russian gas from a maniac with a gun pointed at their head? Putin himself said "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain." So why does Putin want it back?
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They lost it a long time ago. I'm Australian and had a scholarship for swimming to an American college. An American girl I trained with for 2 summers was cheated out of a gold at the 92 Summer Olympics where the Chinese suddenly appeared with all these Amazonian girls and only the 1 male swimmer. It reeked of the former East German program. Nobody at first could figure out what was going on because there was lots of testing but no positive tests. Then one of the Australian coaches whose swimmer finished 3rd behind 2 Chinese complained that his swimmer was tested but the Chinese weren't. FINA said "NO its just Random chance." Then people started looking at the list of those tested and found that it was mainly Australian's, American's and Brits the 3 nations that tested ALL their swimmers at their pre-Olympic trials. But they only counted for about 1/2 to 2/3 of the list. The list was scattered with swimmers from all over the world. The only suspicious thing was that NO Chinese were tested, but then a few other countries had nobody tested as well. Then one of the British coaches asked one of his swimmers to look at the list. I was at the U. of Illinois and had competed against these Brits who were at Iowa in the same conference. This British swimmer pointed out that many of these other swimmers from other countries were also attending American universities. You see in the NCAA they had begun testing EVERY athlete back in 1986/87. I know that for a fact because I was there and was tested as part of that program. What the officials did in Barcelona was pick swimmers who were Australian, American, British or were at college in America. That way they knew they wouldn't get any positive tests, it would look random and they would avoid any scandals.
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@mikestrohm3271 Yeah its something that has never been widely told, but those of us who know are still angry. I was never at that level to go to an Olympics (my best was 5th at trials) but I knew people who did and some were cheated. It irks me because I know how hard they worked. Luckily that girl I knew did get a gold in a relay.
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@annecohen8927 The problem with drugs in sport is how the various international sports organizations have been more interested in avoiding scandals rather than having clean sports. I was a swimmer and FINA were terrible back in the 90s. They simple didn't test swimmers from suspect countries. Track and field has been even worse. There was the Ben Johnson scandal at the Seoul Olympics. Within 2 years most of the men who ran in the 1988 final had also been caught. There's an amazing documentary about it and Johnson is totally open about how bad athletics was at the time. It was never cleaned up in athletics which lead to the Sydney Olympics scandal with Marion Jones. It was never cleaned up in cycling even after a couple of riders died from PE drugs. Not until the Lance Armstrong scandal. So long as there is the money and/or National prestige associated with sports there will be cheating.
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I don't know why all these idiotic business analysts keep crapping on about stock prices when it should be obvious to the entire planet its all overblown. The stock market is only indicative of one thing and that is how the top 1% feel about it. The other 99% of us DON'T MATTER and NEVER DID.
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@d.russellmoros7841 Until you've been inside the auto industry and seen the supply chain its hard to get a handle on how much goes into making a car. We also tend to forget that cars have so massive amount of equipment in them compared to previous generations. Just go look at the engine bays of various cars. All that stuff needs energy to be manufactured. Another great issue with general pollution and energy is paint.
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@d.russellmoros7841 There' snot that much anybody can disagree with in that. Maybe people will hesitate on vehicle ownership, because its so circumstantial. If you are a family with school age kids its quite likely you need a car. Its not just going to school its all the other stuff kids do. BUT a lot of millennials are not buying cars because they have options like shared cars or public transport. They don't have kids and can get away without a car. If they are GIG economy then they have even less need for a car. Its actually a major concern to manufacturers. There is a chunk of the market that they thought would start buying cars as they started earning money and they just haven't. They also aren't buying houses and for some economies that's an even bigger concern.
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Congrats at least one person is pointing out the obvious.
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@florianmeier3186 That's a great set of points. Its a very easy thing to lump an entire population in with the political leaders of that nation. I'm Australian and an American friend once commented to me that Australian's were very friendly towards Americans and seemed to like a lot of American cultural things like sports. I actually went to college in America and love the place. That friend pointed out that despite what things about America that Australians like they utterly hate American politics and particularly American foreign politics. Don't forget that Australia was dragged into Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and several other minor events by America. There's also been a lot of American interference in Australian politics over many decades. So there's a certain amount of resentment towards America in Australia. And that's the thing. We try (not always successfully) to separate the people from the politics.
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@sarchisi Anybody who knows what's being going on knows that the there's a lot truth in what you say. For all of its rhetoric about liberty and freedom America interferes with almost every country it deals with. Plus American politics is laced with the influence of its military industrial complex and for that to work they need a threat to point at. For the next jet, the next aircraft carrier, then next gun that industry needs a threat. BUT as Fiona Hill points out it was Vladimir Putin's CHOICE to invade Ukraine, not anyone else's.
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Actually the Americans were saying form the first day that Ukraine wanted F16s that it would take at least a year to train pilots AND ALSO TRAIN GROUND CREWS. This is actually a major lesson in systems like the F35 which is even more complex and requires even higher levels of skills to maintain than the F16. There's several videos on the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen. It was purposefully designed to operate of normal roads and be serviceable by a small crew with just 1 highly trained engineer and a the rest reservists. Because of how they were designed and how they are operated the F16 needs very good runways and a seriously well trained ground crew.
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@CosmicValkyrie We are an island buddy surrounded by LOTS OF OCEAN. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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@josephking6515 NO it was in New Zealand.
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On the basic principal I agree. For example in the case of Timothy McVeigh there was no doubt he did what he did. In the case of John Wayne Gacy there was no doubt. In both those case I absolutely agree that justice was done. They both showed what Americans call "depraved indifference," but in many other cases there is doubt or there is at least the appearance of improper procedure. For example: AFTER Donald Trump lost the 2020 election he ordered the execution of 3 convicted people. Irrespective of what they did or didn't do for over 130 years NO President had allowed a federal execution to take place in the period between the election and the inauguration of the next President. The view was that despite the sitting president having duties to fulfill no longer had the mandate for those sorts of decisions and they were to be left for the incoming president. At the same time Donald Trump pardoned the Blackwater 4 who were responsible for killing 17 innocent people in the Nisour Square Massacre. Those 4 were, at the time of their crime, employees of Eric Prince the brother of Betsy DeVos Donald Trumps Secretary of Education. So were those decisions by Donald Trump for justice or politics? FYI - I'm Australian and the last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan who was hanged for killing a guard during an attempted prison break. It was in my home state of Victoria. There were serious ballistics issues that suggested the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower. The lone eyewitness to the actual shot simply lied. Decades later records were released of the cabinet discussions. These included people telling the Premier (our equivalent of a state Governor) of these serious flaws in the case. He told colleagues he didn't care as there was an election coming and looking tough of crime was always a winner. Sir Henry Bolte won that election in a landslide and one of the main bridges in Melbourne is named after him. Its now fairy well accepted that Ronald Ryan was hung for political not judicial reasons.
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AEROSPACE engineer here who works in industrial automation and is familiar with Siemens industrial products. Finally someone in the media has summed up the "AI" claims. Are "AI and innovation more than just buzz words" because so far all I have seen is a mountain of buzz and almost ZERO substance. Its quite possible Siemens will do this a lot better because they have people able to utilise software algorithms in new areas and new ways. One area I think they might suddenly get very good at is predictive failure analysis that can prevent unexpected failures that cost billions every year. Its hard as an engineer to actually explain to non-engineers just how much it costs to have unexpected breakdowns. We really do experience preventable multi-million dollar shutdowns for parts worth only a few $100 or just doing regular maintenance and inspections. The real problem with doing good work in maintenance is that there's almost no evidence its being done because things are working. Its only when you cut maintenance that its value hits home and sometimes that's big $$$.
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Another Victorian here. I think what we are going to find out is how much price gouging was going on. As I just said in another comment I'm an engineer and we have a horrendous epidemic of government project gouging at the moment. Its been there for a while in both government and in the corporate sector, but its now totally out of control. Other than many of the infrastructure projects the Navy's submarine and ship programs are totally out of control. I've spoken to some other engineers about some of this because we've seen a fair amount of this sort of price gouging during the mining boom and some of that was pretty bad, but this stuff is totally out of control. Here's a simple example. The Navies new Arafura-class offshore patrol vessels are $300 million each and that's more than 10x what the Armidale-class boats they are replacing cost. You'd expect some increases due to inflation and that they are bigger, but 10x the cost is ridiculous. Also the new frigates are more than 3x the cost the British are paying for the same ship. There's no explanation other than we are being ripped off. I strong suspect we'll find out that these issues with external consultants has a lot to do with it. What most people don't realise is that these consultants are NOT there to provide solutions. Their obligation is to their employer and their employer's profit. I think Dan Andrews has simply said "We've had ENOUGH and are not going to be ripped off any more." I absolutely support that thought. I have seen lots of people get kicked off projects for the simple fact they got the job done or wanted to get it done instead of joining in the gouging.
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@sourabhthakur6064 I think you will find that most participating nations do pay something in these large events. Its might not be direct as in here's the entry fee for this person or team in that event but there's fees for belonging to organisations. The real question in this is what was costing so much. And so you know right now we have massive issues with large projects and its not just government projects but also military and private sector projects. FYI - I am an engineer and have personal experience with some of what's going on.
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@JamesSmith-je7vf Do you know how many other countries that logic can be applied to? Here in Australia the Prime minister only has to win his electorate and then win control of his party which is done INTERNALLY to that party. So 99% of Australians don't actually get to decide who our Prime Minister is. In many countries where they have a plethora of minor parties those parties often are required by a major party to form government. So you get these small parties with extraordinary leverage and power over the rest of the country. Israel, Greece and Italy are 3 examples. Yes the American system is NOT perfect, but then nobody else's is either.
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@JamesSmith-je7vf Its actually one of the most forgotten warnings that Orwell gave us. Too many people think he was only concerned with the Soviet version of socialism. He wasn't really condemning socialism but TOTALITARIANISM and cults of personality like his stylised character "Big Brother" as well as INFORMATION CONTROL. Sorry to rant about it but blame my high school English teachers.
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@JohnHenryEden2277 Yeah I don't get why people seem to have forgotten that Biden threatened to do it BEFORE it happened.
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Have you all forgotten what the American's did to Nordstream.* That was $US20 Billion worth of damage and cut Europe off from cheap energy. It made it really easy for American companies to be competitive with shipping LNG to Europe.
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@morsmordre3459 Pirate economy? Buddy it was the Europeans who invented the Pirate Economy centuries ago. The British, Spanish and others even formalised it and regulated it during their many wars.
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@freemanol Agreed on all but the word technocracy. I get the idea but its not as much about technical education as education based on honest historical assessment. I'm an aerospace engineer by training but work in industrial control systems AND I HATE the lack of technical education. Particularly among people with arts degrees who think because they did a science class or 2 they actually understand how things get done. My mother was a high school teacher who taught home economics but her favorite subject was history. And she taught me to put things into historical context, because it allows you to see how you arrived at a point. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. My classmates and frat bothers had all done CIVICS. So they all had an education on WHY the US Constitution was what it is. So I got an explanation on why certain things exist from them. BUT Dub-ya Bush and his clowns defunded civics and now there's an entire generation of Americans who THINK they know their constitution and just don't. The incredible decline in the American people understanding their own country is a great case study in the consequences of defunding education.
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@reveng6705 Very sad and very true.
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@KbB-kz9qp Are you seriously asking that? The EU has some of the largest wind farms on the planet and incredible amounts of solar. The real problem is the world has been stalling on new power generation for over 20 years. A lot of the developed world has not built any new major base load power stations in that time, yet populations have kept growing. I'm Australian and we are no different to many other places. We haven't built a major base load power station since the 1990s. In the same time our population has gone up 25% and with it a higher demand for power. I'm an engineer and have been looking into this for a few years now. A major problem is that a lot of people think we can just build a power stations the same way we cars and its just not that simple. Power stations are complex and linking them into the power grid isn't like plugging in a toaster. Its actually very frustrating at just how bad people are educated about this subject. Making it worse are those people promoting stupidity and fantasy.
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@geoeconomics5629 Way to point out the obvious. You sound like a 5 year old pointing at the sky and yelling about the clouds.
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I'm Australian and watch DW all the time they are one of the last vestiges of journalism left in the world.
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@jasonzhang7347 Good point. Now please go tell that maniac in charge of China to stop shooting missiles. Because in a conflict right now he will lose and lose badly.
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You forgot to add the word "YET" to the end of that. Who will be surprised when China makes ANOTHER man made island up that way and declares they own everything? There's a chunk of the Antarctic that nobody has claimed, maybe they'll claim that next. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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Its standard political distraction. When your economy is in the gutter and you have no way out of it - start a war. Go look at why the Argentinians invaded the Falklands. Why do you think America is sword rattling over Taiwan and Ukraine? It makes it so much easier to ignore the wealth gap, health care and other issues in America.
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The most dangerous aspect of this technology are the clowns who keep claiming that we can make computers that are smarter than we are and grossly misleading the general public which has happened way too much with technology in recent years. Do not misunderstand me, these are incredibly complex systems that have processed incredible amounts of data to set up their models of how to respond, but they do NOT think and they are NOT smart. They are basically statistical engines in that they derive all their responses from statistical analysis of massive data sets.
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YES it has become crystal clear that ANYTIME somebody claims "this is a game changer" then what they claim is BULLSHlT. It doesn't matter what the technology is or if its military or civilian. If people are claiming game changer then its BULLSHlT.
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