Hey don't ask me, it's not my point of view.

The older generation seems to think so, the stupid media continues to make this case again and again, so no wonder our government is repeating this stuff.

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"bellum omnium contra omnes; atque in eo bello jus esse omnibus in omnia."
Thomas Hobbes

"Homo Homini Lupus"
Thomas Hobbes

The media loves conflict and causing trouble. If nothing bad is happening sometimes they make something bad happen or they just talk about something bad that happened in the past.

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"These two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis,"

"The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies,

the less we will see in terms of affordable housing." - Rep. Barney Frank (D)

Tell me ,why my reply is deleted???
"WHen a moderator deletes a thread, and gives reason why - do not repost thread."----but I did not received any reason from anyone!!!

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I am a Chinese and I am proud to be one

Your reply was deleted because it was a cut and paste of someone else's words.

This is a discussion forum. Just posting a quote from someone else, without adding your own thoughts, isn't really discussion.

Matt

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OK, can you just google my reply statement? And see if you can find anything!

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There're even more deleting threads than forums of China!
Sometimes ,the modrator doesn't like our views!
Sometimes , we don't abied by the rule here!
whatever reason for, the modrator should told us!

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OK, I accept. rule..rule..rule.....I will read it

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That's the reason why he has no ass:

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Scientia et potentia humana in idem coincidunt, quia ignoratio causae destituit effectum
Sir Francis Bacon

On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

34% women? Never Women defended Germany with weapons in the past. Nearly no woman ist looking for a job in the German army. 55% of all Germans are impractical for the army - Germany has not even enough money for the army, that is only able to defend Germany in the same way like in the cold war. Please what a bullshit are people talking about? The german army is so lousy that it is not even able to defend a molehill in a practicable way. There's no concept and the material of the army is old stuff. In this situation people are talking about to defend Israel? If the army of Israel would like to conquer Germany it would need one or two weeks for this job. And some absolute stupid Germans are discussing about wether the German army should defend Israel??? That's crazy - nothing else than complete crazy and irrealistic. Antisemitic bullshit.

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Scientia et potentia humana in idem coincidunt, quia ignoratio causae destituit effectum
Sir Francis Bacon

On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Never heard about. Why should someone forbid this picture from chancellor Willy Brand?

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Scientia et potentia humana in idem coincidunt, quia ignoratio causae destituit effectum
Sir Francis Bacon

On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Very interesting and enlightening post.

That is my general impression of Germany as an outsider.

Your last comment, which I have bolded, is exactly my impression as well - yet produced angry disagreement from several Americans here in another thread when I said something similar. It is interesting to see it repeated here by a German poster.

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"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1

Not quite the same thing....

As for Russia, they owe an apology to plenty of nations. In that case, it hasn't been that long since they attempted to destroy whole groups of people and smash whole cultures.

Germans have taken responsibility and apologized. Russians have not.

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"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1

Oh, that would be terrible for a nation. What's wrong with germans?
But Stapo showed another survey. Who is correct?

What's wrong with them?

I wouldn't say there is something wrong. It is unquestionably true that the evil unleashed by the Nazis remains almost unique in history, although Stalin and Mao were comparable, as were Pol Pot and Idi Amin on a much, much smaller scale. The events of history last a long time.

I spent a few days in Berlin at Christmas, 2006, as part of a month in Germany. I thought of all that happened in that fascinating city in the last century: the Kaiserzeit; WWI; the end of the Hohenzollern dynasty and revolution; the Great Inflation of 1923; Weimar; Hitler's regime and the Nazi era; WWII; the boming of Berlin; invasion; the division of the city; the Soviet rule; the collapse of the Soviet Union; the restoration of a united Germany and a resurgent Berlin as capital.

Only one century.

The history of the city is everywhere - it is really too much to grasp. It's quite overwhelming. I walked from the Reichstag to the Brandenburg gate, and then visited the underground Holocaust museum. From there I saw what is left of the Checkpoint Charlie, looked at the small, very beautiful restored old city, walked down the Unter den Linden and visited the restored Berlincathedral for a concert. Then I looked at the Hohenzollern crypts in the cellar.

Remarkable experience. Every American should visit Berlin. I intend to return myself.

I don't think it is all that surprising that Germans are generally pacifist.

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"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1

I would love to, but the polish database for PAP-Photos which were forbidden up to1989 is no longer online.

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"I do not believe that gay marriage should be legal."
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- Tucker Bounds, Spokesman of the John McCain presidential campaign.

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