Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Victory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦 👏
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  2. If you had read the Genocide Convention, as I have, it would be crystal clear that Germany is complicit in genocide, and that this is most certainly a genocide. Go listen to Nicaragua's case; they make it crystal clear why Germany is indeed guilty of both "failing to prevent" and "aiding and abetting" genocide in Gaza.
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  3. This is a great move by Albanese in his campaign to wean the Australian economy off reliance on fossil fuel exports. Goon on ya Albo!
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  4. That is great news!
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  5. Either you are for, or against genocide, Germans. Why is that so hard for you to get right? It doesn't matter who it is - genocide must be stopped. You made a commitment to prevent genocide when you signed the Genocide Convention.
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  6. Below that.
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  7.  @Sarah-vv4eh  They have destroyed several floors, also, they have since destroyed the main surgical centre, and the x-ray facilities. They have also destroyed most of the other medical equipment, dressings and supplies in the supply warehouse, hospital beds and other things vital to a hospital. They intend to render the hospital useless as a hospital. Why? Because they intend to take it over as their own military headquarters in Gaza, as it is a large building in a very central position.
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  8. Good on you Europe! Show your unity and strength to huge countries like Russia, the USA and China! Well done!
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  9.  @gdiwolverinemale3rd  Because land is expensive, and mostly inherited. That's why so many farmers don't bother to educate themselves to a high enough level to understand what the scientists are trying to tell them.
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  10. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍Glory to Ukraine!
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  11. BRAVO!
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  12.  @jackcorbos7676  No it isn't America didn't start the war, Putin did.
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  13.  @rdrgzbrtlm  Hahaha! It actually unites them and makes them stop buying Russian gas.
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  14.  @eugenefirebird8938  That's erudite.
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  15.  @Sarah-vv4eh  Not at all. It was reported by an Al Jazeera reporter on the ground in Gaza. I watch news from people who are THERE.
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  16.  @blardymunggas6884  That's not even remotely clever.
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  17. Thirteen Ukrainian children and a pregnant woman, dead.
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  18. ! Precisely.
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  19. Precisely. Well, times, they are changing. Putler has accelerated that process no end. Wonderful if aggressive Russia goes down, and a country like Chile, who wants to be green energy independent rises up as a consequence.
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  20.  @annalisavajda252  People in history have felt helpless before, until they grew desperate enough to act despite the risk.
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  21.  @hera7884  In an ancient book of fiction written by ancient Israelites to justify ancient genocides.
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  22. No-one I know in Australia agrees with you. NO-ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  23.  @springbloom5940  What are you talking about?
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  24. This is about CO2 increasing global average heat - not generic "pollution"!
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  25. Is Prigozhin still alive?
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  26.  Joseph Stalin  In Putin's imagination only.
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  27.  @bob-p7x6j  He's not a dictator at all. He's actually very popular. It's just that you don't personally like him.
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  28. Why do the Russians forcibly deport Ukrainians? There are plenty of people in Russia. Are they using them as faced cheap labour, or something? It seems very nefarious to me.
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  29. They'd fall apart before they got there; they are down to their last old rattlers.
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  30.  @ionnanskilliorus  😂👏
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  31.  @winniepooh6229  When Zelensky is president of Crimea.
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  32. He's been doing a pretty good job, so far.
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  33. I'm Australian, and I agree . But I don't think we could have said the same thing if the former guy was still in power in the US.
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  34. So that means Germany's government has made Germans complicit in war crimes. Hear that, Germans?
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  35.  @deirdrenugent1887  ❤️🪷🙏
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  36. Germany has committed to accelerate their move to green power generation.
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  37. She is the future of Germany, once the Baby Boomers shuffle off.
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  38.  @appletree6741  Way better.
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  39.  @justice4all719  At least someone knows what they are talking about.
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  40. Putin is a savage. His bridge got broken, so he takes vengeance on civilians asleep in their beds. He's a rabid dog.
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  41. Why the media bothers to quote the IDF statements anymore is beyond me. It's as if these news outlets that are supposed to expose and tell us the truth don't know that words can be used to LIE, and that only actions matter. And we have all seen the evidence of Israel's actions.
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  42. Many Russians, and much of the world, know how bad Putin is, sometimes you just have to take a gamble that the unknown might be better than the (bad) known. People should stop being "worried" about who might replace Putin, we already know he's as dangerous as a cut snake.
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  43. And those Russians believe themselves to be civilised people. I've met civilised Russians - they left Russia not long after Putin got his claws on power. They certainly aren't among the 70% of Russians who supported the illegal annexation of Crimea, or the 56% of Russians who support the illegal annexation of Donbas.
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  44. Yes, they're worried they'll actually be financially punished for clearing right up to the edge of rivers and streams, or up hillsides, or for clearing every single tree on grazing land, or for never leaving land fallow with nitrogen fixing plants on it to help the soil. They want to squeeze every cent from the desperate soil.
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  45.  @sarahbrown5073  And without the problem of where to place the toxic waste, or the problems they are having at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, which, in an unstable future full of unrest due to hordes of climate refuges, is a given.
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  46. What a letdown.
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  47. What empty words, Mr Biden. We all know Ukraine isn't part of NATO territory. Jens Stultifying (or whatever his name is) was lightning fast to come out and declare that this wasn't NATO's fight. In other words, these "strong" words are the equivalent of a dog running up and down inside the fence, barking. And Putin knows it.
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  48. Look up GAZA MARINE GAS FIELD and you will know why the Israelis, Germans and the US are trying to wipe out Palestinians from Gaza.
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  49. They already have.
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  50. Netanyahu is DESPERATE to start a large war so that he isn't ousted and must face the music for failing Israel. Doesn't he realise he can't keep the region in warfare until he dies of old age?
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  51. I agree, and I will forever be grateful to the Chinese for making so many solar panels and batteries, and EV's, so that their price has come down so far, and made solar and batteries the cheapest way to generate reliable power in the world (according to the International Energy Agency figures). As a consequence, there is now more investment in NEW solar power generation, globally, than new investment in ANY other form of power generation. They've done the world a massive favour, and actually given us a chance to save ourselves from the worst of climate change projections.
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  52. The placement of weapons on the hospital shelves look like ornaments arranged in a window dressing display, not a military headquarters. Further, the IDF haven't claimed to have captured any Hamas operatives at all. Stop fabricating. You're not good at it.
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  53. Most of those Russians didn't bother at all when it was rural Russians from far flung villages who were being sacrificed. They were all for it, then - for the glory of Russia. Now, when it could be them dying, they suddenly feel the need to protest!
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  54. They need to start cutting electricity to the headquarters of these transnational fossil fuel corporations, and the corrupt politicians who are enabling their deadly crimes.
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  55.  @truthaboveall7988  Ukraine isn't a part of Russia's "empire" to save.
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  56. I hope they turn on each other.
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  57. See those drought pictures of Somalia? See those starving women and children? That is going to happen to us. To your family.
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  58.  @Sin3xtreme  All of them.
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  59. 🙏
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  60.  @Henry-me5ln  Excuse me, but I don't understand German, sadly.
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  61.  @kikoexteberria8668  Your brain has rotted. Lie down.
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  62.  @araara4746  Energy prices have gone up all over the world due to Putin's bloody war. So have food prices. Blame him.
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  63.  @Alexandra-zp3gr  I agree.
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  64. Pathetic reporting here on DW. Don't these reporters even know that it is absolutely unprecedented to bomb an embassy. It wasn't even done during the First or Second World War! But in Germany, when Israel does so, completely unprovoked, DW reports it as if somehow Iran is the threatening party! Shame on Germans and Germany! Where is a free, and honest press? Bought by Israel donations and junkets!
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  65. One day the majority of people alive will look back at these reports, search databases for the names of those arrested, and award them the status of heroes. Once the Baby Boomers are gone, governments in corrupt league with transnational fossil fuel corporations will be relying far more on their private armies of police, because there will be far more people protesting their corruption. By that time they will change the laws to allow police to shoot climate protesters with bullets, no doubt.
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  66.  @sergpie  And then one day, they'd shoot your family.
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  67. There is a EASY way to stop this escalatory path to wider war, US! Just stop bankrolling the ethnic cleansing/attempted genocide of Palestinians!
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  68. Putin may have to draw his army from Ukraine, and closer around him, if he wants to survive, long term.
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  69. The Azov heroes of Mariupol have been freed in a prisoner exchange! That is good news! A million young Russian men conscripted as "cannon fodder" for Putin's delusions of grandeur, and his greed. Very bad news.
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  70. Germany has a clear obligation, under the terms of the Genocide Convention, to do all it can to stop the commission of genocide at the earliest point that it is aware of the risk of genocide. The point at which the ICJ ruled that there was a clear risk a genocide may be happening is the clear point at which the German government should have ceased all arms trade to Israel. By ignoring the finding of the ICJ and continuing to arm Israel the German government is complicit in the genocide, by the fact of knowingly aiding and abetting it.
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  71. Bull.
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  72.  @harukrentz435  😂
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  73. Most of the solar panels are made in China, and it is a good job for them, helping raise them out of poverty, and power their economy.
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  74. Untrue. Most of them are against the war. Most of their forefathers were against the formation of Israel.
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  75.  @dng6121  He is about to be served with an arrest warrant for "crimes against humanity."
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  76.  @dng6121  🤣
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  77.  @TranscenGopher  That's a raindrop in a monsoon.
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  78.  @needmorecowbell6895  Exactly. Russia cares nothing for those they are supposedly "freeing." Russia cares nothing even for its own people - now, hidden in paragraph seven of Putin's decree of mobilisation, is the repressed information that he has approved conscription of a million (not 300, 000) Russians for his greed and delusions of grandeur. And his police force gestapo will enforce it. Already the first young men to protest have been conscripted. What a pathetic joke Putin is.
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  79. Actually, there is a field of science now that specialises in linking natural disasters with climate change.
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  80. I hope they don't round those Ukrainian citizens up onto buses and abduct them into Russia against their will once they are on the bus...
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  81. I didn't think he would do it, but having since learned a lot about him, I realise he cannot stand to lose, and will doing absolutely anything to prove his power, even if it means his own death.
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  82. So, in fear of being voted out, some NATO members are happy to give Ukraine some limited munitions and weapons so that Ukraine can hold Russia back from Eastern Europe. Yet it is Ukraine who must sacrifice a generation of their young, strong men. Is that fair? Is it just?
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  83.  @Angry_Dinosaur  Well I think NATO should give the Ukrainians much better weapons if they expect Ukraine to hold back Russia alone.
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  84.  @Angry_Dinosaur  NATO and the EU want Russia held back from their borders. They shouldn't expect only Ukrainians to die for that. Sometimes spare change isn't enough, and the cost is higher.
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  85.  @Angry_Dinosaur  Say "so what" to Ukraine's mothers and fathers. Good-bye.
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  86.  @INTJ791  So?
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  87. Notice NATO isn't stepping one foot into Russian territory, although with their combined might they clearly could? Meanwhile, Russia has invaded another country and is committing war crimes against the citizens on a daily basis.
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  88.  @ohoangthien8090  But nowhere to be seen.
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  89. I wonder if the window is coming for Prigozhin.
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  90. To encourage citizens to put solar panels along their whole street, like this, government should pay for a community battery large enough to store all the daily power so it can be used at night. That is, if the government was really genuine in wanting to tackle the emergency of climate change...
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  91.  @TheRustyLM  You speak as if batteries had never been invented.😂As if the neighbourhood battery would be the size of a house! Besides, wind and solar complement each other at different times of the 24 hour cycle. You really would be surprised at how effective solar and wind and battery combinations are if you had a look at the huge installations in Australia, Texas, California, and the like. Batteries have come down in price by more than 600% over the past decade or so, and they are still decreasing in price the more demand for them there is, as solar is increasingly deployed. Coal, nukes, and even gas just can't compete anymore. They are all in their death throes. You'll probably even live long enough to see it, even though you sound like a an old boy. There is now more new investment in solar, globally, than in ANY other form of energy generation.
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  92.  @macmcleod1188  Great.
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  93.  @jamantial  If Netanyahu sets foot in any country member of the ICC and signatory to the Rome Statute he will be slapped in handcuffs and imprisoned until trial. Cope.
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  94.  @blardymunggas6884  That one's better.
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  95.  @andreasmissiroli6915  What criminal record did he have?
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  96. Elite jets were flying out of Moscow in droves, yesterday, including Putin's. Then Prigozhin backs off to save the people from "bloodshed"... I reckon that murderous psychopath was preparing to send missiles into Moscow, in order to keep his power, just like he bombed apartment blocks of Russians (and blamed it on Chechnya) in order to get into power.
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  97. But Russia IS a threat. Putin has been threatening the world with nuclear war.
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  98. Ever heard of dry lightning?
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  99. In dry conditions, dry thunderstorms, in which any rain evaporates before it reaches the ground, are a common occurrence. If that happens in tinderbox conditions of drought (as caused by climate change) a fire can easily start, and the hotter the land is, the stronger the winds off the ocean will be at night, causing wildfires to spread out of control. No single human is needed. Rather, every human using fossil fuels is responsible for the Hawaii fire, and the Grecian fires, and the Canadian fires, and the Australian fires etc...
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  100.  @aprilgeneric8027  I like that - at least you have clear eyes. Both have flaws.
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  101.  @metugeekane8454  Why is that? The corrupt rich have done everything in their power to circumvent the power and will of the people in the US.
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  102.  @JonathanB138  Gender is a social construct, the problem is when people confuse biological sex characteristics with gender, or deny biological sex characteristics even exist. No amount of hormones and surgery and socialisation can change that. I don't care if women want to pretend to be men, or men to be women; one of my favourite male friends sometimes wore a dress to uni 35 years ago. But you can never change your chromosomes.
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  103. No. I just saw a video of how it was reported in Russia. The vast majority hears nothing of that. Only those with Telegram have any inkling of what really happened. A lot of them think it was Ukraine marching towards Moscow. A lot didn't even know anything was happening at all until Putin's speech.
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  104.  @EveryoneIsStupidButMe  They aren't pet animals to be punished or rewarded. They are humans with the HUMAN RIGHT to freedom and autonomy. Why do you think people can be treated like Pavlov treated his experimental dogs?
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  105. But solar, wind and batteries are the cheapest means of fuel generation in the world now. The problem is corruption whereby fossil fuel companies negotiate taxpayer-funded subsidies in order to keep themselves afloat into the future, rather than become stranded assets. Those exorbitantly subsidised gas and coal power plants are what is driving up energy prices. Stop the corrupt subsidies and the problem of expensive energy prices will disappear.
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  106. Finally. Well, I suppose those in the German government invested in Russia is finally seeing how it is all backfiring, especially after Nordstream was blown up.
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  107. @Dante Quantum foam Well, at least when Germans do do something they do it very well.
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  108. 😑
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  109.  @RedTape812  This one is working well. Didn't you just hear? We learn and make progress. Early electricity plants that ran on coal had developmental hiccups, too, ya know.
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  110. I know, but what's the alternative?
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  111.  @hartunstart  The problem with that is that climate is controlled by planetary systems, not regional ones. Also, how do you propose they" mix heat and cold"? Thirdly, the coldest areas in the world are heating fastest, for example the Arctic is heating 6 times faster than the rest of the planet, and the polar ice caps are critical in regulating the world's temperature via ocean and air currents that circulate temperature around the globe already.
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  112. Hah! You're a joke! Down with Russia and its gas!
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  113.  @danielmutafcheiv4858  He's not smart. He's come to where he is by being the man who will do whatever inhumane and corrupt deed will get him what he wants, including stabbing his mentors in the back and using them as stepping stones, and killing and stealing from his countrymen on a stupendous scale. That's all he is - the equivalent of a cannibalistic lizard.
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  114. I hope Putin comes to the same fate as Osama Bin Laden.
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  115.  @benelliott4765  No. I'm just saying that Europe could strengthen its power and influence by co-operating like the states of the USA do. They derive their power and prosperity from their size.
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  116. @R Read my recent comment as to why the USA was included in the list.
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  117.  @benelliott4765  Apology accepted.
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  118. The latest I heard from the lead lawyer of the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes in Ukraine, is that Russians have been raping a torturing children as young as four in Ukraine. Russian soldiers are a disgrace to humanity. How can ordinary Russian men become so monstrous, so quickly?
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  119. What an inhuman disgrace to our race that reptilian Putin is, he reminds me of a Komodo dragon. He is nothing but a swaggering, narcissistic organised crime boss who has been bleeding Russia of its fossil fuel profits for decades, and wants to do the same to Ukraine, with the hope of intimidating Europe into continuing to buy Russian gas in an era on the brink of horrible climate change. I hate him.
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  120.  @primus1377  Putin will fall. Didn't you hear? Ukraine has retaken Lyman, and its rail hub - and they aren't stopping there. Meanwhile, Ukraine is getting its largest supply of tanks and other weapons from the Russians who abandon it and run, far more than what they get from the US even. Thanks for supplying them with weapons. Meanwhile, Putin's pressgangs are arming the ethnic minorities of Russia and sending them for cannon fodder in large numbers. He might find those guns turned back on him and his tyrannical regime before long.
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