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Yay for proportional representation democracy!

leo
thanks for your apology. i have no double standard, human rights for everyone! the "crimes" are current and i wasn't blaming people but nations

Ok HJS, I apologize. I over reacted. But you tend to hold certain people to a different standard. I do agree on your views on Turkey. I just don't want us to blame a certain group of people for the historical crimes that have been committed or for the crimes of specific governments.

The idea of international body to monitor and regulate banks is a worthy idea, but your guest did not address the great potential for corruption and incompetence.

Olivia
don't have an issue with that.

Leo calm down
you missed my point. i'm not asking him to answer for turkey. at the top of this page it says guest will talk about "EU restrictions on Turkish nationals. " which he did not. there are no restrictions on german citzens of turkish desent.
my question was about turkey joining the EU when they deny the "armenian genocide and are fighting an on going war (ethnic cleansing) of the kurds"
what's wrong with that?
don't kurds and armenians have a right to human rights?
god!

Agree Leo.

robert -- uh oh, i don't think i'm going to be able to forget that...

Robert: Cab you cite your source?

hjs: There is a LARGE LARGE LARGE number of Turkish people living in Germany. Many of them are German because that's where they were born.

hjs is a racist.. Should German Americans answer for Hitler and the SS? - SHould American Jews answer for the human rights violations in Israel? Should Irish-American catholics answer for the IRA? Should American catholics answer for the Inquisition and the forced marriage and rape of young African girls condemned to dying of AIDS because the Catholic church promotes the male domination of women without protection?

c'mon rick you probably know that the smart people fled citi, boa, ml, accounting firms etc years ago to the hedge funds Because there is no regulation. you can admire them for their common sense but not necessarily their self regulatory abilities...

Yes adsf, cooked in greece makes me hungary, mmmmmm. doh!

i agree we need 3 more parties!

Rick, is that a trick question? :)

Turkish incorporation into the EU is a long way off; it was essentially taken off the table by a combination of the election of right-wing anti-immigrant leaders in places like France and Italy, and left-wing pro-human-rights coalitions in Germany and other places (two elections ago; the current German government is center-right). Maybe it will come up again in a decade, but I don't think it's a big issue at the moment.

Why pick on hedge funds? They didn't cause this crisis. They are not asking for bailouts.

What is a better country for immigrants. Germany and the rest of continental western europe or USA.

International regulation is completely logical in a world that embraces offshore accounts and out-of-country outsourcing.

mmmmm....turkey

sorry he was not born in turkey but parents were.

Olivia
i think BL and him will be talking about " EU restrictions on Turkish nationals. " as BL said and he was born in turkey. i think its a vaild question.

How come Germany imports electricity from France that generates 75% of its energy from nuclear.

It seems to me that its funny that Germany uses green technologies and has to import energy from a country that has nuclear power.

Its the same thing with Denmark. They did cap and trade and wound up importing energy from Sweden who uses nucelar power too.

If we could tax oil by $30 a barrel and give the money back to the people directly (i.e. cut a check every month), that would put money into consumers' hands.

And thank you to the ECB/Bundesbank for not printing money like the Fed, BoE, and Zimbabwe did.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA - brian lehrer

HE'S GERMAN hjs!

please ask about the denial of the armenian genocide and the on going war (ethnic cleansing) of the kurds. is turkey really ready to join the EU if they can't respect human rights at home?

Germany's Green Party is the largest and most effective in Europe. Can Cem Ozdemir talk a little about how the GP in Germany became so influential and what advice he has for the American Greens?