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I just looked at polling for the next federal election, and the green party consistently runs ahead of the AFD. And it's not surprising that she Weidel does best in the east. After all, that's where neo-Nazis are the strongest.

What they know, as do lots of other people, the Russians are important players in the mideast, especially Syria.

Well, if you were a gay person in one of those largely Catholic countries, you'd be a lot less likely to miss the point.

And keep in mind that it was Deripaska to whom Klimnik, a Russian agent, passed the campaign documents that he received from Manafort.

Or you pardon them.

You're kind of missing the point. In some countries where the Catholic Church is powerful, gay sex is illegal and can result in serious punishment. In the past, the Church opposed the elimination of these laws. So the Pope's words undercut those Catholic clergy who still support continuing the branding of gay sex as a crime. It should make removing those laws from the books a lot easier.

As per usual, your explanations of the economic system are simplistic and lack reference to actual facts. Companies like Apple and Alphabet have accummulated huge cash reserves because they can't find investment opportunities. And what's even worse, huge amounts of corporate cash go to stock buybacks. This used to be illegal because it was considered stock price manipulation. Thanks to the Reagan administration, that's no longer the case. .

If the popularity of a government was based on that single issue, you would have a point. Clearly, that's not the case. So you don't.

Same broad generalizations. I'm guessing you graduated in the mid 1990's. Prices have risen considerably since then.

Somebody already has Ukrainian Fighter Pilots Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8144/text?q={"search"%3A"Ukrainian+fighter+pilots"} The money appropriated is being used to train Ukrainian pilots to fly US fighter aircraft including f-15s and f-16s.

The Tories undermining of the social good began long before the Ukraine War.

A combination of enhanced air power and more and better tanks sent to the Ukrainians would be devastating to Russian troops.

actually https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-bills-support/energy-bills-support-factsheet-8-september-2022

More ridiculousness. The government pays a percentage of the costs. To those people with a reasonable command of English, that means "subsidized". It doesn't mean "free". And what makes it worse is that the subsidy the same percentage no matter what your income. In other words, the government is subsidizing the heating costs of billionaires at the same percentage as it does for working people at the lower end of the wage scale.

You said that heating was "free" in the UK. It was not free. It was subsidized. And even after the subsidies, the cost was still at historically high levels.

Really? Thanks to the government, In the UK people no longer have to pay for heating? Because that's what "free" means.

Unlike in the US, in the UK it's incumbent upon the party being sued for libel or slander to prove the truth of their words. This, of course, is immensely useful to the rich and powerful in discouraging criticism of their actions. A case that comes to mind is that of Robert Maxwell, who was robbing his workers of their pension monies in order to fund his extravagant way of living. Journalists didn't dare report on it for fear of being sued.

You did miss the point. Congratulations on joining that exclusive club made up of every member of aseannow.com! A designer dunce cap will be sent to you shortly.

That's true but that's always been the case. What hasn't always been the case is that the net rate of loss of antarctic glaciers has increased by 6 times over the space of the last 30 years.

It's a good thing energy costs haven't skyrocketed in the UK. Because in that unlikely event, people might have to choice between death by exposure or death by starvation.

I don't know about you but when I was a kid in primary school, I learned about something called the water cycle. And I learned that the reason it's called a cycle is that when water evaporates, it's not a one way trip. It actually returns to the land and the oceans as rain, snow, hail, sleet. You know, precipitation. The point being it doesn't just stay up in the atmosphere forever. NASA offers a site for children that explains this in some detail: https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/water-cycle

What exactly would stop Germany from sending existing battle tanks to Ukraine? You think Ukraine won't accept any tanks except those that are factory fresh?

And, of course, this is your way of distracting from misleadingly representing the varying cases. It's not about "not as bad as" it's about criminality.

A misleading partial quote from you. I was responding to this assertion: "Sounds like you are saying possessing classified docs is legal until one is caught. I'm no lawyer, but it sounds a false assertion." Obviously this was false and what better way to set this person straight than to cite the current overwhelmingly salient example. Not that that was on their mind in the least.