Oh ok.

Well i at least gave him a quick overview of some of our bigger issues.

I would go to Bavaria or Austria.

B.t.w vitaliy it is not, the pension system will break down in 20-30 years leaving millions without money when they retire, the pension age for people from my generation will also go up to 75-80(from currently 67), meaning that you will work till you died or till you break down, we will have to pay into it even if it breaks down and everyone knows that they wont get any money if they should reach pension age.

Germany is also losing 100000 people every year due to the low birthrate so it is kind of shrinking, this problem kinda comes from the fact that almost every german girl is bitchy as hell.

We work 42-45 hours a week to pay for the rest of europe while sales assistances are starving because they make less than minimum wage, working 42-45 hours a week.

We also got the worst kind of school system separating children at the age of 10 after 4 years of school into 3 kind of Schools : Gymnasium : 8 years of school in which they have no childhood and have to learn all the time but they will get a good job and life later on. Reakschule : 6 years of school in which they have some free time and get a chance to get a decent (not well paid job). Hauptschule : 5 years of school in which they have a lot of free time but they will have almost no chance to get a job making more than minimum wage.

Once you are in one of the schools getting into a higher school is very hard and impossible for most, gymnasium is also the only school which enables you to study and get a degree.

We got a huge problem with foreigners which come to our country without learning the language and once they are here some of them are insulting Christians, trying to force people to believe in Muhammad or Allah.

This country is not the best but pretty fucked up since the 90's and its getting worse and worse.

empire send me a pm if you need any help.

Been drinking for too long which made me to stay away from computer. Very interesting exchange between the US and Germany:) Okay now we are either going to Germany/Greece or to one particular place in the ME (still waiting for the visas). Hard to decide. And the pressure is growing

Right on.

@kurolaw Here in the US we think that Germany is the strongest of all economy's in all of Europe, for the moment they well could be, but in similar fashion, we the US have taken on the roll of peace marker and democracy, through war and capitalism. The military says, "win the hearts and minds of the people" when it should be BUY the hearts and minds of the people" One of the problems here is we do in fact try to buy not try and understand a culture or know its history. The wars of Bush are killing our economy, our young, their young and our futures together. If you read about the wealthy in the US they pay very little tax and nothing when their money is hidden around the world. This is the new story, but no one here will talk about it. They will vote for the people their parents voted for. Leave Europe for America or Canada? Why, it is the same.

Good morning from California. Yeah, Europe is a mess and then some, but if you look back to the cradle of the problem, the US, you will begin to see that a political war is about to begin. The elections now have 2 distinct platforms. Those 2 opposing systems will become more obvious as the machinery kicks in. Voter suppression, the demands of the gun lobby, the corporate oligarchy, our tax laws and so on....but now the people will awaken to the broader injustices that are being pushed from places when we can not see. This system is on the verge of huge changes and it will be played out over the next few months, this is the story. The wealthy do not want to take care of the 99% they want more money and more control. Do the German people really want to take care of the Greeks or the Spanish, do the French want to continue on their austerity programs? Do the miners in South Africa want to continue to work as the wealthy plunder the resources and not allow them a dignified life, What's happening in America is happening in Europe and all over the world, it is cancerous. Political change is now the story. When we find Marie Antoinette she will certainly have the answer.

Got stuck with the visas again. August isn't the best time for shooting. @janis I spoke with a guy last week who said that the depression in Latvia, Lithuania and other new European states is very revealing of the broader picture. Meaning the countries lost their industrial base and were not given what they expected to get in return. I was also strongly advised to go to Germany. Trying to build connections there too.

Anyhow it's moving on. One problem we are experiencing now is that the crazy bitrate we are using with one of the newest GH2 hacks is already overloading my machine (not a weak machine I need to mention).

@janis Maybe. I heard it's really rough in the Baltic states now. @lisergicsyn Just got back from there. Of course we couldn't cover the whole country. What is going to be hot in particular?

Let me know when you plan to pass through Italy. This autumn will be very hot!

Depends, netherlands is undergoing some major changes, maybe not as harsh as other countries but i can most likely give u a story.

If so contact me @ hello@sicovdplas.com

I doubt that it is capitalism.

Most of the positive changes that we saw in 20th century are attributed to science, resources and cheap energy.

Right now population became very big and resources become harder and harder to get, as well as energy.

Most people thing very positive still because all mass media very elegantly block information how huge number of people live actually.

I believe what we are seeing now is the latter (the one claiming that humans are in fact animals) falling apart. I also tend to believe people are not animals even if they are pushed downwards on the ladder of evolution.

I think exactly reverse. That we are going to see animal side of people.
As soon as resources and life quality will be dropping it'll happen for certain.

Was stunned to learn that while the last remaining state mines in Spain are dying out, Goldman Sachs is beginning to ship coal to Europe from Colombia.

Nothing surprising. I am just not sure that it is completely true. Most probably state mines have something that require big goverment spending, may be some pension money or some financing.