Pyongyang Calls on Germany to Scrap Taurus Missile Deliveries to South Korea

Totally correct!

it is amazing how much BS is often claimed to be the truth!

WalMart thought in his arrogance that ther complete business model was full suitable for any country and therefore WalMart failed not only in Germany but also in many other countries!

 

Pretty much all supermarket chains flounder abroad.

And yet they all try it.

When you have dominated your home market... where else is there to go?

So we have all yours here too. Walmart (Morissons), Aldi, Lidl. They come, they don't last long. And Tesco didn't last long in America and hasn't blossomed in Japan. I saw one in Germany but only one.

So when Tesco/whoever asks you as a shareholder to vote on "Should we expand into another country?" Always vote no.
Instead spend the profits not on foreign expansion, but on yourselves.

 

To be fair ...
LIDL and another one called "Kaufland" are in other countries as Germany successful as I know ... also Intermarché of France is in several countries successful with their markets. Further should be noted that these larger companies often buy local market chains to as owner, but let them run under old name further ... and often people don't know that another one id ruling them.

 

LIDL is here. I use one.
But it's **** quality. The type of supermarket here, that comes and goes.

And yes, mostly they buy existing chains. But the facts remain, they all fail abroad.

The number of unprofitable or sub-profitable stores you own is not a mark of success.
Money can be better directed elsewhere.

 

ALDI and LIDL are profitable in the UK and expanding while Tesco has problems and is losing market shares. They have some good stuff and some items I prefer to buy in other supermarkets.

 

If you want to study Vladimir Putin, I suggest you read an interesting book by Chris Hutchins entitled, "Putin". Link: https://www.amazon.com/Putin-Chris-...ie=UTF8&qid=1502976312&sr=1-46&keywords=putin .

In my post in this thread I said nothing about Putin speaking many languages, playing chess, or running businesses...(?).

In my post in this thread, my focus is on GERMANY and what I believe to be in Germany's best interests, going forward. But, since you are so interested in Putin, I will give you one other interesting tidbit... his approval rating among Russian citizens has fallen, to a mere 81%, according to the highly-respected, very independent Levada Research Analytical Center: https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/ .

 

Wo sind Ihr? Verschwunden...?! Where are you? Disappeared? No surprise! (Keine Überraschung....)

 

I didn't mean you stated he knew numerous languages, I meant I read other member's postings here about such tripe, but no one could elaborate.

Yeah, his "approval"is around 80%, Russians like their strongmen, outside the RF, he's considered another tyrant by some.

And if I get around to checking that book by Hutchins...I may.

 

???, Are you asking me?....vas is los? Du sprechen zu mich?

 

I have been consistent in my denunciation of violence.

Hate is not in itself violent. Saying hateful things is freedom of speech. Advocating for imminently violent action is not. Fighting words and the such "come here, I'm going to bash you", etc. My opinion has not changed through my adventures from left to right, even as a radical syndicalist. Do not doubt my sincerity.

The Supreme Court has rightly ruled in multiple cases that calling for lawless action at some indefinite point in the future does not justify the state interest in suppressing your speech through force of law. Your speech must both:

a) Call for lawless action
b) Call for imminent action

Without both of those components, the state interest is trounced by the individual rights interest.

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It's important to note that this is why Antifa types can publicly advocate for a Trotskyist revolution at some point in the indefinite future.

I respectfully, but emphatically disagree.

 

Our constitution in Germany begins with the words "The dignity of man is inviolable"!

This dignity makes it clear that every human being is equal and has the same rights ... but when morons like Nazis and White Power, etc., say that people of different skin color, religion and other origin are considered inferior and less valuable, or even indisputable digs The Holocaust as being a fake, then they violate our constitution and are thus offenders - point!

The one who calls for violence and hatred is just as abominable a criminal as the one who is hating and hatred because of the call!

 

You have a pretty document but not free speech

 

We have a free speech, but the smart version and not the USA rubbish ... this is the difference!
We don't allow scum to miss-use freedom of speech and abuse it to fight the democracy and to eliminate this and other rights... you do allow it.... let's the US not look really smart, sorry!

 

I had a friend for pakistan which was basically a dictatorship at the time

He claimed to know what freedom of the press is and believed his country had it

The press is free to print the truth (he claimed)

and the government decides what the truth is

I would not be surprised to hear that he has immigrated to germany since then or some other EU country except Poland

 

Then I emphatically disagree with your nation's conception of the freedoms of speech, expression and assembly, as I do with my own nation's.

 

I like it and rate it as the best ...
Because every democracy has a duty to protect its democratic core values, its freedom and its achievements against attacks.
This also includes the abuse and the rape of these rights by forces of left or right, whose goal is the destruction of this democracy!
This realization has cost millions of dead and murdered... And it is astonishing that those to whom we owe this knowledge and being thankful about, then consider it wrong! But OK ... our Freedom of Speech also allows this point of view of course!

 

https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486421309

If you haven't already, it's a good primer on freedom of speech and the necessity of protecting the most offensive of ideas, even Communism, even Fascism.

 

I know it ... but then I must ask you, why the communist had in cold war no full freedom of speech in the USA again, but were hunted by Joseph McCarthey etc. and any speech they did under freedom of speech was suddenely evidence for their "crimes"?

 

Brandenburg vs Ohio was decided in 1969,which established the imminent lawless action test.

I condemn in the strongest possible terms the McCarthy witch-hunt against those simply expressing their views.

As I said, I have been rather consistent on this issue from my time on the left to my time on the fight and everything in between.

 

Wo seid ihr?
sind would be either the first person plural (wir) or third person plural (sie).
seid is the second person plural (ihr), that's what's needed here.

I think you'll have to keep in mind that some (or maybe even many) people have a normal life outside this forum. I for one am far away from being retired and simply don't have the time to spend a few hours every day on this board. But if you want, I'll get back to you ... later.