Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "DW News" channel.

This was idiotic. Rational people close unused facilities, Irrational people close needed energy facilities. How small a percentage was being contributed to the nation is irrelevant, they all add up.
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8:50 - “corporations… always want to pay the minimum tax” Duh… because there are laws which say corporations must do what is best for the shareholder, which means paying the least amount of tax. If corporations do not do this, they can be sued by their shareholders.
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@starlightHT - “behind bars…” Doubt it, these are trumped up charges 😂
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That is why a discussion must occur before a crisis
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“What’s wrong with Germany?” Media & Politicians calling people with rational concerns pejoratives, like Radical Right Wing 🪽 , creates the problem in Germany 🇩🇪 — the far left is radicalizing Germany’s own population
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As soon as you are in outer space, it is extremely cold, much colder than Sweden. With the space shuttle, the Primary & Redundant O rings both failed. It was due to a design flaw that was known since 1977, which could make it susceptible to cold, but never escalated to a high enough level to get fixed. The O Ring was redesigned and the failure did not re-occur.
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The Democrat minority leader was pushing for delays in the budget continuing vote. One of the far left Democrats pulled a fire alarm, to keep the budget continuing vote from occurring. Democrats did not like linking Domestic Southern Border Security to Foreign Ukraine Support - so the Democrats & a few Republicans were able to vote him out. Democrats historically voted against the Equal Protection Amendment in the US Constitution, which forces equal protection under the law for all citizens, which meant freed slaves. Illegal immigration at the southern border is an end run around Equal Protection, since they are not citizens, so Democrats want to get their slaves back.
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15:50 - “pretty right wing president in power… right wing radicals questioning the entire system” The problem is that Far Left Liberals had called: - freedom of speech 🎤extreme - people losing their jobs over 2000 year old religious belief - body autonomy of people not wanting to get injected with an experimental vaccine 💉 shown to cause heart damage (while liking other vaccines) - the state mandating people lose their jobs for not taking an experimental vaccine 💉 which has shown to cause heart damage - the state telling social media for the banning 100 year old news papers from distributing their articles - red Chinese news during the pandemic being erased from social media & search engines Sorry, if the Right swing does not like despotism. When Left Wing Germans call despotism normal & call liberty 🗽 Extreme Right Wing… then everyone who wants to talk, have a job, read a news paper, keep track of world events is categorized as Extreme Right Wing
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Hi @vonnikon - Spain is pretty North, even it’s most southern points.
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Seeyou Seemee - “twice as heavy or go half the distance” It does not take much fuel to slow decent of a mostly empty cylinder and keep it from crashing… certainly not half the fuel! It would likely take more energy to create a new disposable rocket, than reuse an old one.
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@Worldaffairslover - “loyal to… Trump” Is that why the Democrats voted with a few Republicans to oust the speaker? Because the Democrats are loyal to Trump? 😂 ROTFL 😂 This is foreign media, but the Democrats who voted out the speaker are of an opposing party to Trump! 😂 LOL 😂
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GPS, satellite phones, satellite internet, temperature measurements, space imagery of the earth surface, etc
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@profounddamas - “clothing shelter food… heating” A shovel, garden, and sheep solve all of those things… if people can’t supply their own needs like this, the problem is bigger than government can handle, because government is likely getting in the way.
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@profounddamas - “European country, whatever that means” It should mean you have options. Honestly, we all have options, as long as government does not get in the way. If you have land, you can farm & raise animals… you can live & sell your products. The first hydrogen air vehicles held hydrogen in Ox bladders. If you have trees, you can cut them down, make lumber, and create things. The first airplanes & vehicles were made of wood. If you have wind, you can build a windmill, to capture energy and do something with it. If you have a stream, you can build hydro power and do something with it. Old discarded washing machines, being discarded, provides the raw materials for many things todays. I have watched plenty of YouTube videos on rewinding washing machine motors to create hydroelectric generators or windmills. You can collect old solar panels & create your own energy, to do create solar energy and do something with it. I have been collecting, and now building a structure to support them on. If you can’t find old discarded stuff, shop around for it from other places, trade for it. If you decide you don’t want to DIY anything, you can always move to a city & have someone pay you to do something. If you decide that it is too hard to go it alone, get married, share the load, have children, and those new people can help build wealth! Money is merely a representation of human work and wealth is the aggregate of that work. When I was in Moldova, some years back, I really saw a market for electric bicycles, or custom carts using electric bicycle wheels, where intermittent energy sources could be used to charge those batteries. I also saw a market for internet access, where WiFi could connect houses and centralize on a single good feed. Now a days, not sure what options were in your area. Barter for what you need, to save money for what you can resell. Honestly, we are only limited by our imagination. Poor is a state of mind, not a state of being. I grew up poor, collecting what others called garbage, but they were my treasures, and I built things with them. I still do. People value my skills. Now, I am not.
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@Diana1000Smiles - “Define: Russian bots” Russian government agents posing as regular citizens of foreign countries, paid in disinformation campaigns by Putin’s Chef (he was freed from prison with the fall of the Soviet Union, and literally cooked food for Putin… as well as countless government contracts), to respond to social media posts, and sway public opinion with Russian disinformation. “I have a bot in my family” Likely, not. People have opinions, I suspect you don’t have a paid disinformation agent in your family, where you are advertising it on the internet. If you did, it would get you killed.
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@christigoth - “dems would never vote him [trump] in. or would they?” They [Dems] deserve to have the Republicans vote him [Trump] in, after [Dems] siding with a very small number of Republicans to oust the former speaker, who worked in a bi-partisan way.
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@LarryMendaros - “Russia… oil” Russian sanctions should be heavier on Russian Oil, including resold Russian oil, to bring down world prices even more. Then, pressure the US to increase it’s oil output. The US is artificially keeping supply low. Some of their politicians are being paid off by China.
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0:15 - “billionaires pay less tax than…” Progressive Income Tax is regressive. 1:12 - “very wealthy… structure your wealth” Progressive Income Tax laws are meant to control behavior of wealthy. Government should not care about income, government should care about mutual services which can not be handled by individuals (ie police, military, weight/length/etc standards, etc.) Once Government is “right-sized”, the need for this taxation discussion disappears, and income tax should disappear.
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As China moves towards state controlled monopolies, Germany’s investments will disappear, and Germany’s intellectual property will be sucked away.
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This launch site existed for awhile A southern tip of Spain or Portugal would be interesting, they should open a launch site, like Sweden did some years ago
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@profounddamas - “focus more on clothing shelter food… heating” If people don’t have clothing, shelter, food, heating, there is clearly a bigger problem… likely government is causing the problem. Individuals can do clothing & shelter, with a shovel, growing cotton, and raising sheep. These 3 things solve all the problems mentioned above, with a little bit of effort.
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“republicans are seriously weakening the…” Ummm… the Democrats nearly all voted with a small number of Republicans to eject the speaker, so it is the Democrats who are weakening the geopolitical position of the US. Democrats were upset with the speaker linking linking border security funding with Ukraine security funding. Democrats traditionally want world wide chaos, it drives illegal immigration, and Democrats can get the illegal workers they want [cheap labor] without the equal protection that is afforded to US citizens [Democrats blocked passage of the US Equal Protection amendment to the U.S. Constitution, once Republicans ended slavery.]
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