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Today's topic is: How can a US Citizen get Married in the Philippines

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Now, lets talk about "How can a US Citizen get Married in the Philippines"

I am pleased to help my clients get both fiancé and spouse visas

to bring their loved ones to the USA.

Almost half of the couples I work with come from the Philippines.

It turns out that the US Embassy in Manila is THE busiest of all US Embassies in the

world.

Processing 10's of thousands of requests for visas to

travel to the USA every year.

The Philippines is a wonderful country.

The people are very kind, very gentle, they are awesome to know and

be friends with.

English is taught in the schools so most Filipinos can speak

some English, and they like the USA, they like Americans.

And most Filipino Families have some relatives who have

already immigrated to the USA.

This all makes the Philippines a very popular place for

an American to find romance.

I know that I did.

If you have fallen in love with someone from the Philippines

basically you have two choices to bring him or her to the USA.

Either get engaged then apply for a fiancée visa or marry and

apply for a spouse visa.

Most choose the fiancé visa route because it is much faster than the spouse

visa.

Currently (and this changes over time), currently it

takes about 8 to 9 months to get a Fiance visa from Manila, compared

to 14 to 18 months to get a Spouse visa.

That "doesn't make sense" you say.

"Married should be faster", Well, yes, BUT the way these processes work,

a fiance visa is considered a non-immigrant visa, good for

a 90 day visit, to meet potential inlaws and Disneyland, and

IF a wedding occurs to remain in the USA permanently.

But it is a big IF, and the system assumes the fiance might go

back to Philippines, so since it is officially only for a short

stay, the visa does not need to be vetted as much as a spouse

visa.

A spouse visa on the other hand is considered REGULAR immigration.

That means the applicant is not applying for a short

visit, but is applying to stay in USA permanently.

So there is more vetting, more examination, and the final approval includes

approval for the GREEN CARD.

The spouse visa allows your spouse to enter the USA, and to STAY permanently.

Despite the spouse visa needing more time, for many the attraction

of marrying your love sooner, and having a wedding ceremony

in a tropical paradise, among your spouse's family, friends,

and neighbors can be very attractive.

For those here is how to get married in the Philippines.

Getting married in the Philippines takes planning and it takes

some time, and needs a minimum of 10 days.

If you're flying in for a short stay you will have to

plan your time carefully.

The reason it takes at least ten days is because in order to get married one

first needs to obtain a marriage license.

Applying for a marriage license in the Philippines is somewhat like applying

to buy a gun in the USA.

There is a ten day cooling off period between when you file your application until the earliest

you can get to the altar.

Applying requires you and your fiance to go to the court

or mayors office and present the following documents.

Passports.

Birth certificates.

Proof of termination of previous marriages Certificate of Legal Capacity to Contract

Marriage and as in most recent update each applicant

(even the American) must provide a Certificate of No Marriage, (CENOMAR), issued

by the Philippines Government (PSA)

The CENOMAR can be ordered in advance and can be ordered

online and takes about 10 days to be issued.

It's best to order this document well in advance of your

arrival in the Philippines.

But the Certificate of Legal Capacity to Contract Marriage is

not so easy for an American to obtain.

The Certificate of Legal Capacity to Contract Marriage is a document

issued by a government body, that states the holder is currently

not married and is free to marry.

Many countries like the Philippines maintain a central registry of marriages

so this document would normally be issued by a government authority.

However, since the USA does not have any central registry of marriages

it is impossible to find any US Federal, State or local government

office that would issue the statement stating they have checked their

records and you are not married and are eligible to marry.

So what can you do?

Well the US Embassy is there for you.

They can not issue a document that categorically states you are not married,

but what they CAN do is, allow you to raise your hand and swear to

a consular officer that you are not married, and he then can issue

a statement, that he has witnessed you making your sworn statement.

This is called "Affidavit In Lieu of a Certificate of Legal Capacity

to Contract Marriage"

Both the consular section at the US Embassy in Manila, and the consulate's

satelite office in Cebu will do this for you.

Do be aware however, that a very few of the local towns, like Quezon City,

Makati City, and Davao City and others might not accept this Affidavit.

Best is to find out in advance, and if necessary choose another town

to marry in.

Marriage licences are good for 120 days, and the wedding doesn't

need to occur in the same town that issued the licence.

After you bring all the required documents to the court or

mayor's officer, and pay the licence fee, after the ten day waiting

period the marriage license becomes valid and you can marry,

either in church or in front of a judge or mayor.

To marry within only 10 days you must plan your trip carefully.

For the shortest stay, you would plan to arrive in Manila or Cebu

in the morning take taxi from airport to the consulate or embassy,

get the Affidavit In Lieu of a Certificate of Legal Capacity

to Contract Marriage, then pushing on to the local mayors or

judge's office before they close.

On the tenth day you can pick up your approved marriage licence

and marry.

When planning your whirlwind 10 day trip, keep in mind that

government offices are closed on weekends and holidays and

plan your arrival and departure accordingly.

And of course while a 10 day trip including wedding is possible,

it would be prudent and more relaxing if you give yourself

few more days overall to your visit.

This would give you a cushion in case of delayed flights, traffic

jams, and so on.

When can you bring your new spouse to the USA?

Unlike what we saw in old movies an American can't arrive,

sweep a foreign beauty off her feet then throw her over his shoulder to board a Pan Am jet

back to the USA.

Sorry, but once the honeymoon is over, you will most likely be

returning to the USA alone.

To bring your new spouse to the USA.

You need to apply through US immigration.

Of course I can help.

Usually we start working together well before your wedding,

in order to get "all our ducks in a row".

But the earliest we can actually submit your application

will be a few months after the wedding.

This is because in order to successfully apply, your application

needs to include a copy of your marriage certificate

issued by the Philippines Federal government.

Sadly, in the past the Philippines has been plagued by

fraudulent or counterfeit Civil documents.

In order to make civil documents trustworthy, the the Philippines

government has instituted national government office

called the Philippines Statistics Authority, PSA.

PSA's job is to verify and vet Civil documents such as birth, death and marriage

certificates.

Even though, soon after the wedding, the local judge or mayor has issued

you a local marriage certificate, that document is not

accepted by US immigration.

Instead, only the PSA version is acceptable.

And it takes three months or so for the PSA to issue their

own marriage certificate.

Once the wedding takes place, the time it takes to bring your spouse

to the USA will be about 3 months to obtain the PSA marriage certificate

plus another 14 to 18 months at US immigration before the visa is issued,

and life together in the USA can begin.

Because it takes such a long time to bring your spouse to the USA

many couples, decide not to marry in Philippines, and instead

choose to marry in the USA.

With a Fiance Visa, once a face to face meeting has taken place, a couple can usually

get permission to come to the USA in only 8 to 9 months.

What can you do to speed the process ?

Don't wait to bring VisaCoach on board.

Typically, we should start working together months in advance of your

trip to get married.

This way we can get most of the logistics out of the way, and on your

trip to get married you will be armed with detailed instructions and

checklists of what bases to touch during your trip, and what to bring

back in the way of evidences to make your visa application strong

and likely to be processed as smoothly and quickly as possible.

Then we craft your application to VisaCoach's high standards, leaving

a placeholder to insert the PSA marriage certificate the moment it

is issued.

This was Fred Wahl, The VisaCoach

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What is US Teacher Appreciation Week – Everything You should know about US Teacher Appreciation

Week 2018.

Today Google in USA Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week and published a video regarding US Teacher

Appreciation Week.

Teacher Appreciation Week is a national occasion celebrated in United States of America which

happens in the main entire seven day stretch of May.

Teachers provide so much to our students—inspiration, motivation and, ultimately, their futures.

From May 7-11, 2018.

Teachers change the lives of millions of children every day, and their work and impact extends

far beyond the boundaries of the classroom.

How You Can Thank A Teacher?

1.

Take the time to show your appreciation this week.

2.

Share photos and your activities during the week by using the hashtag #ThankATeacher on

social media!

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US Teacher Appreciation Week , US Teacher Appreciation Week 2018 Google Doodle - Duration: 0:56.

The Search Engine Google is Celebrating US Teacher Appreciation Week 2018 by a Google

Doodle.

Teacher Appreciation Week is a national occasion celebrated in United States of America which

happens in the main entire seven day stretch of May.

What week is Teacher Appreciation Week?

National Teacher Appreciation Day, otherwise called National Teacher Day, is seen on the

Tuesday of the primary entire week in May.

In 2017, National Teacher Day will happen on May ninth.

This day is a piece of Teacher Appreciation Week, which is the main entire week in May

of every year.

What month is Teacher Appreciation Week?

In the United States, National Teacher Appreciation Month happens for the whole month of May every

year, except most of the celebrations base on the principal seven day stretch of May,

which has authoritatively been named Teacher Appreciation Week.

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North Korea says US 'misleading public opinion' - Duration: 0:49.

North Korea said Sunday that claims by the Trump administration are "misleading public

opinion."

U.S. officials have claimed sanctions and increased political pressure forced the North

to the negotiating table, but North Korean officials say that's not completely true.

The North is also reportedly upset by the U.S.' stance that it won't lift any sanctions

until North Korea completely abandons nuclear efforts.

A spokesman for the North told the country's official news agency that the U.S. is QUOTE

"deliberately provoking" the Hermit Kingdom when the situation on the peninsula is moving

toward peace.

The comments come ahead of a historic planned summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

and U.S. President Donald Trump and follow a meeting between Kim and South Korean President

Moon Jae-In.

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Best US coin designs, walking liberty - Duration: 6:39.

hello fellow coin collectors how are you going today and my name is Glenn in

today kind of a conversation about the u.s. half-dollar The Walking Liberty now

this is called The Walking Liberty because on the obverse it has Liberty

and she is walking towards the west towards the Sun and she has the u.s.

play so the Sun actually represents a new day a new dawn for the United States

Liberty well Liberty is pretty popular in the United States it represents

freedom of the United States people from tyranny and well this would be the old

flag it would be missing some stars because newer states were admitted after

this design was actually implemented and she is carrying low of oak Oak leaves

like branches so if I this is a better design or not been designed better

quality coin so as you can see you can see the oak you can see the flag and the

stars better and here the stripes that stars and stripes and the flake actually

goes around in form part of her clothing so the dress and the flag is also part

of the top as well so the flag is her clothing and she has a breastplate and

armor in the typical Roman style and the oak actually represents civil and

military glory so past victories that they have and undi on the river so we

have a needle I'm not too sure on the species are evil maybe could be the bald

eagle which represents the United States in Australia we refer to the bald eagle

and sir the glorified seagull manly because in Australia the wedge-tailed

eagle is a larger bird and it has more power so but anyway this eagle is

beautifully designed it's actually the best designed eagle on US coins the

coins before this design well they're quite pathetic compared to this design

and it coins afterwards now they weren't as good as well even I did current u.s.

50-cent coin is actually quite a good coin this 50 cent coin is the best u.s.

50 cent coin ever issued so the Eagle is actually on a mountain so it's probably

on a mountain ledge in which can actually look over its surroundings and

get a full view and because the eyesight is very good we able to detect predators

and also we have a mountain pine which actually can seize Greg Lee and small

because well in a high mountain range the actual inability to get nutrients

and water in the shallow soils stunts its growth now as you can see on this

coin it has well this is not post mint damage this is a premium damage and it

looks like a flying floor on this actually 50 cent coin I'm not too sure

it's actually pilotis on doesn't look like it is because guys all the way down

here around here or in here and represents in the guys stand yeah no if

I look on average 50 cent coins I don't actually see any evidence of it even

though they're heavily circulated if they had same feature that would be able

to I should be over to see it so you feel look yeah

No especially here I don't see anything so and that's a weird thing in yeah

these coins are actually real did not counterfeit and surprising well you can

look on ebay for pricing but yes I'm not familiar with our US coins I actually

brought these awful 25 Australian dollars so I've seen these on eBay go

for about fifteen dollars in this condition but in this condition actually

goes for a lot more thirty forty Australian dollar so I reckon it's a

good bargain Alcott but if you collect the US coins can you please leave a

message down below what you think the value of these coins and forever people

what do you think of this coin design I actually got it not because a little

walk in Liberty but because the Diego beautiful and hopefully in the future I

can actually get more US coins oh sorry there's some construction work going on

in my house and it's very noisy so if you are in the United States where you

go to the United States hmm you can actually get these coins in change there

are YouTube channels that do searching roles of 50 cent coins also 1 cent 5

cent ten cent and 25 cent coins as well

looking for silver and old coins and you can get coins sir Oh about a hundred

years old in u.s. change so when you do look through and see if you can get

coins so thank you very much for watching I'll leave a link down below to

ebay which is an affiliate link if you would like to purchase any of these

Walking Liberty coins because well they're not too expensive but a very

good design and have a awesome coin collecting they

people

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BREAKING Obama Used State Dept Cash To Fund Massive Illegal Enterprise Nobody Knew About Until Now! - Duration: 14:07.

BREAKING: Obama Used State Dept Cash To Fund Massive Illegal Enterprise Nobody Knew About

Until Now!

$9 million U.S. taxpayer dollars WASTED!

Are you mad yet?Image may contain: 1 person, sunglasses and text

The more we learn about what was supposed to the most transparent and scandal-free presidential

administration in history, the more we learn it was all just a farce narrated by the mainstream

media who was intent on protecting a potentially rogue president.

According to financial records, the watchdog group Judicial Watch just obtained the Obama

State Department used over $9 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help the globalist billionaire

George Soros support the socialist government in Albania back in 2016.

One America News Network reports: "The money was allegedly used to advance his globalist-left

agenda in Albania."The governments there, who are in the middle of these massive refugee

flows from the Middle East, they hate the fact those governments — in Macedonia, Albania,

Hungary.

Object to these flows and have taken steps to police their borders, and that's one

of the key complaints the Soros groups have," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

"And it's being done with your taxpayer dollars, and with the help of your government

officials."Image may contain: 1 person, sunglasses and text

Judicial Watch is also probing possible U.S. involvement in Soros activities in Macedonia

and Romania."Judicial Watch Tom Fitton, in a statement, said the prior presidential

administration quietly spent at least $9 million in U.S.Taxpayer dollars when he colluded with

left-wing billionaire George Soros in an effort to support the government of Albania.

Fitton also added that Sorors is a billionaire that there is no reason whatsoever that he

should be receiving money from the already overburdened American Taxpayer in order to

advance his radical-left agenda in order to undermine the will of free people here, or

abroad.

Judicial Watch obtained these records through FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests,

which confirmed that the $9 million was used specifically to give the socialist Albanian

government greater control of the country's judiciary system, not unlike what Barack Obama

did to the U.S. judicial system here in the U.S.

More on this via Fox News: "But Judicial Watch said the records revealed that the State

Department gave Soros' Open Society Foundation "direct input" for its own program funding

reviews in Albania.Image may contain: 1 person, sunglasses and text

One report, from Feb. 10, 2017 on "Engagement with the Open Society Foundation for Albania"

stated that "as one of the major assistance providers in Albania, representatives for

the Open Society Foundation are frequently asked to participate in technical reviews

of applications that we receive for funding."

That report noted that the Embassy's public affairs section "has not received any funds

from the Open Society Foundation to support any projects or activities," and that the

public affairs section "has not provided any funds to the Open Society Foundation to

support their projects or activities."

"For decades, there has been broad bipartisan agreement in Washington, DC on the need to

promote democracy and human rights abroad.

Of late there has been an unfortunate and misguided effort to politicize this process,"

a spokesperson for the Open Society Foundation said in a statement to Fox News.

"The Open Society Foundations and the U.S.

Government shared an interest in helping Albania and other similarly situated countries transition

from communism and democracy, and in promoting an independent judiciary."Image may contain:

1 person, sunglasses and text

The spokesperson added: "As the State Department stated in the documents Judicial Watch cited,

the US embassy in Tirana 'has not received any funds from the Open Society Foundation

to support any projects or activities,' nor has it 'provided any funds to the Open

Society Foundation to support their projects or activities."

But another memo obtained by Judicial Watch from April 2016 shows that the U.S. Embassy

in Tirana "sponsored" a survey along with Soros's Open Society Foundation to measure

Albanian citizens' "knowledge, support, and expectations on justice reform."

The poll, according to Judicial Watch, did not specify the type of reform the Soros group

was seeking, but the survey reported that 91 percent of respondents either "fully

support" or "somewhat support" the need for judicial reform in Albania.

Records dated February 2017 show that the State Department used taxpayer funds to co-sponsor

a second poll with the Open Society Foundation."The Public Affairs Section and the Open Society

Foundation Survey each provided funding to a local organization to conduct a public opinion

poll on attitudes toward the Judicial Reform effort," the February report, reviewed by

Fox News, read."Image may contain: 1 person, sunglasses and text

Although the United States gives billions in foreign aid to help poor countries establish

democracies and judicial systems what Soros; open society did in Albania was funnel U.S.

Taxpayer dollars to promote socialism and communism in Albania.

This undermines longstanding U.S. Foreign policy.

But what is perhaps the worst part is that Obama just handed over the money to Soros

so he could distribute it as he saw fit, and since we all know very well who this former

Nazi Youth member is, we know the money didn't go towards anything that would benefit the

U.S. in the long run.

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Trump Driving US Towards Another Great Depression Say 1,100 Economists - Duration: 4:08.

Donald Trump could very likely be sending the United States into another great depression.

And I know that's kind of hard to hear.

After all, we just got the news a few days ago that in April the economy added I think

what, another 139 or 169, somewhere around there, new jobs.

Unemployment fell 3.9%.

That would indicate that the economy at least in terms of employment only, is doing better

right?

So how in the world could it be that we're headed towards another recession/depression?

Well, don't ask me.

How about you ask the 1100 economists, who this week sent a letter to the president of

the United States warning him that his trade wars that he has going on right now, are repeating

the exact same mistakes from the 1930s that made the great depression so much worse.

And of those more that 1100 economists, 14 of them have won Nobel prizes, so I'm going

to go ahead and assume these guys know what the hell they're talking about.

And before you say that this is just a bunch of liberal bull crap, how about you consider

the fact that this letter from 1100 economists was actually put together by a conservative

organization.

It was the National Taxpayers Union.

Conservatives, they're the ones telling us that Donald Trump is repeating the same mistakes

of the 1930s that made the great depression so much worse and he's doing it again today.

One, either because he's stupid and doesn't understand or two, because he simply doesn't

care.

In 1930 there was something called the Smoot–Hawley Act which enacted a bunch of tariffs in the

United States.

They were trying to fix the great depression but according to researchers these tariffs

actually made things so much worse.

In the '30s before this act was passed, the Smoot–Hawley, economists in the country

got together, sent a letter to Congress in 1930 telling them exactly what was going to

happen.

If you pass this act you're going to make the depression worse.

People are going to lose their jobs.

You're going to harm farmers.

You're going to harm industry.

You're going to make things so much worse in this country.

And they didn't listen to the economists.

Those lawmakers in the '30s thought they knew better than people whose job it is to study

what happens to the economy.

So in the new letter today, 2018 they actually repeated the same warnings and in fact quoted

that letter from 1930s that they sent and said, nothing has changed.

These things will still happen if Donald Trump continues this trade war with other countries.

Farmers in the United States today are already starting to feel the squeeze of these tariffs.

Money is being lost every single day.

Large, substantial amounts of money.

Millions, upon millions, upon millions of dollars from the United States economy and

Trump shows no signs of stopping.

And what's even worse is that his idiotic followers think that he's doing this because

he's a great businessman.

He understands what's going on.

He knows how to do this.

Well, no.

It's one thing when you're a businessman, and move into an area bully everybody out

and you know, get a good price for the building you want to put up.

It's another to attempt to bully countries that have more people, more products and more

money than you do.

Politics, goverment is not a business and you cannot run it as such because when you

do, you lose every single time and that's what these 1100 economists are trying to warn

Donald Trump today.

And I can promise you this.

Having seen what Donald Trump does when people who are smarter than him tell him what to

do, I have no doubt in my mind that Donald Trump is going to ignore this letter and continue

on with his disastrous trade war, regardless of the negative economic impacts that it has

here in the United States.

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More States Trying to End Pray-Away-the-Gay: May 6 Debrief - Duration: 2:45.

A new survey shows that a majority of Americans oppose turn-away-the-gays laws, just as the

US Supreme Court prepares to rule on a major cake case.

Another state is about to ban conversion "therapy" for minors.

And Illinois just passed a bill that will fundamentally change the way schools talk

about queer people.

We'll have the week's top LGBT news and how it affects you on Weekly Debrief.

If you're enjoying Weekly Debrief, help keep it going with a pledge a dollar or more a

month on Patreon.

Visit patreon.com/mattbaume or click the link in the description to join the folks who make

these videos possible.

Let's start with the good news this week: 61 percent of Americans support marriage equality,

according to a new survey.

That's continuing a decade-long trend of steady growth.

The study also shows that 60 percent of Americans oppose laws that allow businesses to turn

away queer customers.

That's going to be a major topic of discussion in the next month, when the Supreme Court

is likely to rule on turn-away-the-gays.

Get ready for a lot of conversations about cakes for gay weddings, and if you need a

refresher about why businesses shouldn't be allowed to deny service on the basis of sexual

orientation, check out the video I made explaining the topic.

Bad news in Kansas, which is about to pass a new bill that would limit adoption by same-sex

couples.

The law would give publicly-funded adoption agencies an exemption to nondiscrimination

laws, letting them turn away qualified queer parents.

If the bill passes, it could face legal challenges depending on how the Supreme Court rules on

the cake case in the next few weeks.

In Hawaii, legislators just approved a bill banning conversion "therapy" for minors.

The governor is expected to sign, making Hawaii the 12th state with such a law.

California is considering going even further, banning the harmful practice altogether.

We'll be keeping a close eye on that effort, which could provide a path to banning pray-away-the-gay

camps nationwide.

And Illinois just passed a new law requiring schools to include a lesson in LGBTQ history.

California's the only other state with a similar requirement.

The exact content of the lessons are up to schools, but they must be accurate and nondiscriminatory.

The benefits of requirements like this are immeasurable: Illinois students will now learn

about people and events that were previously ignored or covered up, eliminating misinformation

and bigotry before it can become fully entrenched in students' minds.

Most of us had little to no formal education when it comes to queer history, so this week's

action item is to do something about that.

Pick up a book, read some Wikipedia articles, or just Google queer history and see what's

out there.

Learning about past LGBT struggles connects us to each other and reminds us why it's so

important to continue fighting to defend the freedoms we enjoy today.

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Going Shopping in Germany vs US - Duration: 9:23.

i'm going to drink coffee too!

hey guys it's Kelly again! welcome back to my channel. I'm

kind of frantically running around my apartment right now to get ready because

I have a manicure appointment and I kind of lost track of time and I'm running a

little late I'm gonna take you guys with me sorry I'm talking so fast it's just

I'm running late so let me throw my shoes and then let's go!

oh my god it is such a beautiful day outside. I love it!

I remembered while I was getting my nails done that I have some shopping to

do and again it's Saturday and I hate shopping on Saturday but I have to

because tomorrow's Sunday and all of the stores are closed on Sunday I've

probably just been really spoiled with living and what I call "the land of 24/7"

and yeah, not every town has those hours like if you live in rural US you probably

don't have stores with 24/7 hour access but everywhere I've lived I've had those

hours and have been able to go out and shop so this is really something I had

to get used to here.

the stores between Germany and the US are very similar of course you can

actually find the exact same stores between the two countries and then there

are some stores available in Germany and not in the US and vice-versa but like the

layouts of the stores are very similar the quality of clothes is very similar

so that isn't really a big difference. I will readily admit that I am not up on

fashion trends. you'll see in my videos I wear pretty plain clothes so maybe I'm

not the best person to comment on fashion between the two countries but I

would say that your average German dresses very nicely whether they're going

grocery shopping or taking their dog for a walk they're going to wear nice casual

clothes whereas in the US, you see a huge range of clothing styles. you'll see

people wearing pajama pants out in public,

sweatpants... you'll see people wearing extremely stylish and fashionable

clothing. so it's just like a way bigger range. there are two huge fashion trends

that I've seen in the US and I've never seen really in Germany. one is wearing

athletic attire or athletic wear as casual clothing. it's pretty common to

see an American walking around in basketball shorts and a girl walking

around in yoga pants as like their normal casual wear whereas in Germany

would only ever see a German wearing athletic wear if they're going to and

from the gym and even then usually they're changing into their athletic

wear at the gym. and even like sneakers I've heard so many people say they can

pick out an American tourist because they'll be wearing sneakers. it's not

that Europeans don't wear sneakers it's just that they're much more fashionable

and casual looking as opposed to straight up Asics

I'm about to go run a dang marathon. and the the high sock trend... there are a lot of

Americans that wear their socks up to like mid-calf. I have never seen that in

Germany. another trend that I see all the time in

the US and I never see in Germany is wearing sports team merchandise you will

oftentimes see Americans wearing sweatshirts, jerseys, ball caps... all sorts

of clothing bearing their favorite team name whether it's college or pro NFL or

whatever it is. they will wear this stuff quite commonly whether it's on season

off season... if there's a game that night it doesn't matter.

whereas in Germany the most I've seen is people going to and from their soccer

games their football games and they might be wearing you know the colors or

have like the scarves are really popular for whatever team that they're rooting

for. another big difference that maybe a lot of you are aware of is that there

are huge size differences between the US and Germany so whenever I go shopping in

Germany I'm having to constantly like Google size conversions between Europe

sizes and US sizes because it's different for pants, dresses, for shoes

all of it is different. sometimes they will have tags that have both the

European and the u.s. sizes which are awesome because then I don't have to do

this conversion. of course a lot of the stores in Germany, especially the bigger

ones, will accept international debit cards, credit cards but there are still

some stores that will only take cash which is why you might hear people

saying cash is king in Germany. or they'll take the German debit card

system and from what I understand Germany had its own debit card system

before it became popularized on a global international scale and so these are the

cards that a lot of the stores will take and are slowly transitioning to the

international system. I'm gonna go try on these clothes now.

and I'm back home! before I let you guys go there was just one more thing I

wanted to talk about but couldn't get to while I was in the store and it actually

happened. so if you have like a long line a lot of stores will open up like an

additional you know cashier line to try to expedite everybody being able to

checkout and here in Germany it's just like the people that are last in line so

the people who have been waiting the least amount of time will without a

doubt just hop out of that line and be the first one in to the cashier line

that just opened up. they go from being the people that were last in line to

being the people that were first in line. I've never really seen it so pronounced

like that in the u.s. it's usually the people that are last in line noticing

the line open and they will look at the people in front of them and say hey go

ahead you clearly have been waiting here

longer than me you know and offer it up to someone but it's just not... it's

not like that here. it doesn't make their way wrong or my way right you know it's

just different and that's... I think a lot of the fun in traveling and experiencing

other cultures is seeing those differences and especially to try to

figure out why those differences may exist so I'm just kind of curious to any

Germans watching this and I don't know if this happens in other European

countries I don't really go shopping when I go traveling in other countries a

lot to be able to notice it so anyway if you've seen this in Germany and you have

a reason as to why you think this happens I'm really curious as to what

the explanation is because it's something that maybe people just don't

even notice happening here I don't I don't know maybe they don't notice

but I definitely notice that. alright guys that's all I have for you today! I

hope you enjoyed this video and got something out of it and if anything was

just entertaining seeing me go through my day and hearing what I have to say

about the differences between shopping in the US and shopping in Germany if you

haven't subscribed to my channel yet make sure you hit subscribe I'll be

posting videos every week see you next time bye! i'm gonna go do stuff now...

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GERMAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM VS US (FROM AN ASIAN 😂) - Duration: 9:49.

hi everyone I'm back and today video is bit weird right the health care system

in the US versus the health care system here in Germany so why would I, an Asian

and never been to the u.s. be interested in their health care system

well, the reasons are the combination of so many things. firstly, as a came here in

Germany I started paying $90 per month for my health care insurance I was like

why do I have to pay that much of money for only the insurance because I paid 20

euros less than 20 euros for my insurance in Vietnam and it was not only

for a month that was for the whole year. so I was intrigued by the health care

services in Germany which is known as the national healthcare system. secondly

my professor at the university to be honest is not be fan Donald Trump yeah

he usually occasionally inserted his opinions on how the American government

is regulating their country and recently it was about his trip to Chicago during

the last Easter holiday and he said that a lot of homeless people staying outside

and frozen to death because the American government let them be

responsible for their own health care and I was like what is going on there? to

be honest I'm not a big fan of America, sorry but yeah I'm not really into the

American dreams and all the sort of things so I have no idea about their

health care system. and the last but not least the health care system in the u.s.

is now a controversial topic in Reddit I saw a lot of posts about it

recently there was a guy posting the bill of curing his eight inch cut on his

wrist and it costed him like almost 36

thousand US dollars seriously is this insane so I made up my mind that I got

to know about their healthcare system like what is happening over there and if the

quality of services is worth what American citizens pay for them and as

I'm living in Germany I hope that I could have a chance to make a reasonable

comparison with the German healthcare system which is a representative of the

national healthcare system. however before start I'd like to say that I'm no

expert in this field I'm just a tiny person who is curious about this topic

and trying to wrap my head around it so if you're also like me that let's go. so

the first thing I noticed was that the health care in America is mostly

provided by the private sector, only some hospitals are run by the government also

almost all the physicians work for the private sector - and other components

like pharmaceutical companies or the medical device providers also in the

private sector. whereas in Germany the government runs the health care system

and as German citizens and people living in Germany you have to pay a monthly

statutory contributions in order to ensure the free health care for everyone

well as a student under 30 I have to pay 90 euros per month for my

contribution at TK. secondly in Germany around 87% of German population get

the statutory health insurance and it provides you with the same care whenever

you get ill whereas 11% of those get the private insurance those people are

probably really rich because it provides them with special treatments so to say

upon their requests like special treatment my senior doctors or private

hospital rooms and other sort of thing and yet you need to have the income

which is above 59,400 euros per year or 4950

euros per month as in 2018 to get that kind of private

insurance and in America around 10% of the under 65 population are

uninsured the data from 2016 and why they excluding the over sixty-five

because they have something called Medicare for those people which is

considered the closest thing to the single-payer system that American people

are insistently asking for. well and the 10% we are talking about equals

like 27 million people they are uninsured what a big number! as a

result of our private health care system the health care in the u.s. is extremely

expensive well let's take a look at the Bill of the guy from reddit he claimed

that he had an eight-inch cut and it costed him like nearly thirty six

thousand bucks let's pay attention to the x-rays tests they costed him 340

459, 590 bucks for

those I haven't had a chance to take an x ray here in Germany but I watched

this video from this dude he said that it costed him only 20 bucks 20 euros

sorry for the X ray in Germany Möchengladbach in particular he didn't

have any insurance at all and he's an American and also he was really

surprised because his visit to the emergency room only costed him like

60 euros more so 80 euros in total for the x-ray test

the emergency room and he also mentioned that if he was in America without any

insurance it would have been like 500 bucks for the same procedure the same

things that he had in Germany and like the emergency room costed this dude over

5,000 bucks unfortunately I didn't know like how long he stayed there or what

made that cost so much. so now I'm concerned here because with such high

prices for the health care and 27 million people without any insurance how

would they pay for the health care when they're in need? what actually drove the

US health care price that high? maybe because of the thought that if you want

something done right you give it to the private sector. but in this case it

doesn't work as efficiently I really like how VOX explained it they basically

say that when it comes to health care we consumers have the least bargaining power

like we come to the hospitals when we're ill and we can't say no to that sort of things.

As in Germany the government says no for us like they negotiate the price with

the pharmaceutical companies and stuff and if those companies want to provide

services to German people they have to accept that price. and meanwhile in the

u.s. that bargaining procedure belongs to the private insurance companies and

yet they can't be as powerful as the government. as a result the drugs and

health care services are much more pricy in America. some examples:

some more facts about the u.s. healthcare system as a percent of the economy

American spends much more on health care than Germans 17.7%

versus 11.3%. however they visit doctors less than

in Germany but they pay more for the drugs and health care services as I said

earlier. and one more interesting fact I read that they pay the doctors based on

the number of services that the doctor provides not the outcomes of the

patients like or according to VOX that their income largely depends on whether

or not they perform the surgery regardless of the patient outcomes. and

finally let's look at how the health care system in the US and Germany

perform. as I know more about it the health care system in America and here

in Germany I feel even luckier to have a chance to live here in Germany. thank

you guys for watching my youtube video if you liked it please give me a big

like and don't forget to subscribe see you next time :)

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US Navy Announces Resurrection of Second Fleet As Russia Tensions Linger - Duration: 3:38.

US Navy Announces Resurrection of Second Fleet As Russia Tensions Linger

The United States Navy will re-establish the Second Fleet to oversee Naval forces in the

northern Atlantic Ocean as part of its new military strategy aimed at countering Russia.

"Our National Defense Strategy makes clear that we're back in an era of great power

competition as the security environment continues to grow more challenging and complex," Chief

of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson announced Friday, according to the BBC.

"That's why today, we're standing up Second Fleet to address these changes, particularly

in the north Atlantic," he said.Richardson announced the return of the combat organization

that oversaw naval forces in the North Atlantic throughout the Cold War while he was on board

the USS George H. W. Bush in Norfolk, Virginia.

"Second Fleet will exercise operational and administrative authorities over assigned

ships, aircraft and landing forces on the East Coast and northern Atlantic Ocean,"

Richardson said, according to Reuters.The Second Fleet will also oversee maritime, joint

and combined operations and training for those operations.Who will command the fleet and

which naval assets have been assigned have not yet been announced.

Initial accounts said the fleet will be staffed with 15 people to start.

Also on Friday, the Pentagon said it has offered to host a proposed NATO Joint Force Command

at Norfolk.NATO is refocusing on the Atlantic in recognition of the great power competition

prompted by a resurgent Russia," said Pentagon spokesman Johnny Michael, according to CNN.

The Second Fleet was disbanded in 2011, during the Obama administration, as a means to reduce

costs. At its peak, the Second Fleet was made up of 126 ships, 4,500 aircraft and 90,000

personnel.However, when Defense Secretary James Mattis presented the nation's new

strategy, which sets the stage for all policy decisions, he said China and Russia were "revisionist

powers" that "seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models."

"The re-establishment of the US Second Fleet is part of a wider strategy of re-orientating

the U.S. armed forces towards a world of renewed big power competition and away from the counter-insurgency

campaigns they have been fighting over recent decades," noted Jonathan Marcus, a defense

and diplomatic correspondent for the BBC.In this case, the focus is Russia — a response

to its stepped-up naval activity of recent years. The new headquarters will give more

coherent command arrangements for U.S. warships operating in the Atlantic," he said.

Administration officials have voiced concerns over a more bellicose Russian attitude toward

naval power in the Atlantic.

"They have launched a new submarine that I can safely say is closing the gap on some

of our technologies," Navy Secretary Richard Spencer told Congress last month. "But,

we are hard at work, also, to make sure that gap does not close and that the rate of the

gap does not increase."

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North Korea Says US Ruining Mood Of Detente Ahead of Trump-Kim Summit - Duration: 3:14.

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Iran warns US of 'historic regret' ahead of deal deadline - Duration: 2:17.

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HOW CHINA IS PROVOKING BY DEPLOYING MISSILE IN SCS & TARGETING U.S AIRCRAFTS WITH LASERS ? - Duration: 5:38.

US news network CNBC reported yesterday that China had installed anti-ship cruise missiles

and surface-to-air missile systems on 3 outposts in the South China Sea, citing sources with

direct knowledge of US intelligence.

A US official, disclosed on condition of anonymity, that US intelligence had seen signs that China

had moved some weapons systems to the Spratly Islands in the past month or so, but offered

no details.

Reports suggest that the missiles were moved to Fiery Cross Reef, Subi Reef and Mischief

Reef in the Spratly Islands within the last 30 days.

China defended the deployment of missile systems in the South China Sea.

It said that it has "indisputable sovereignty" over the area.

Unconfirmed reports indicate the missiles are YJ-12B anti-ship cruise missile and HQ-9B

surface-to-air missiles.

This deployment comes as China has stepped up its mischiefs in Horn of Africa.

The United States has officially complained to China alleging two U.S. airmen were targeted

with military grade lasers by China in Djibouti.

In this video, Defense Updates analyzes how China is provoking by deploying missile in

South China Sea & targeting U.S aircrafts with lasers in Djibouti?

Lets get started.

China claims most of the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have disputed these claims.

The route is significant as about $5 trillion (wrong in audio) in trade through shipping passes each year.

Countries like US, Japan and India have no claims in the area and want 'Freedom of

Navigation' as per international maritime laws.

China has tried imposing a unilateral decision as per which all ships navigating in the area

needs to identify itself to the Chinese Navy.

According to Chinese sources, the YJ-12 has a speed of around Mach 2, if launched from

low altitude and up to Mach 3.2, if launched from high altitude.

It has maximum range of 380 km depending on launch altitude so it can fired from far off.

In the terminal phase the missile can travel at a very low altitude of 15 m, which makes

it hard for the sensors to detect.

When this missile appears over the horizon and gets detected by ship's sensors, the

ship would only have some 45 seconds to intercept it before impact.

The speed, range and ability to skim close to the sea surface makes it one of the most

deadly anti ship missile in world.

A saturation attack by YJ-12's will be hard to defend against even by sophisticated defenses

of US military.

The HQ-9 is China's new generation medium- to long-range, active radar homing surface-to-air

missile.

The most fundamental formation of a HQ-9 batteries consists of multiple radars, command control

center, supporting vehicles and 8 Transporter erector launchers (TELs) each with 4 missiles,

totaling 32 rounds ready to fire.

To maximize the combat effectiveness of HQ-9, dedicated Fire Control Radar is present.

Designated as HT-233 it has a range of 300 km.

Similar to the Russian S-300V, the HQ-9 is a two-stage missile.

The missile has a total mass of almost 2 tons and a length of 6.8m.

The missile is equipped with a 180 kg warhead, has a maximum speed of Mach 4.2 and has a

maximum range of 200 km.

The system could target aircraft, drones and cruise missiles potential making it dangerous

for the US Air force to enter the airspace protected by it.

Eric Sayers, a former consultant to the commander of the US Pacific Command, called the missile

deployment "a major escalation".

Mr. Sayers said, "When China sees that it can get away with these types of actions with

little cost — as they did all through 2015 and 2016 — it only makes it more likely

they will keep pressing,"

US Admiral Philip Davidson, recently nominated to head US Pacific Command, said China could

use its "forward operating bases" in the South China Sea to challenge the US regional presence

and "would easily overwhelm the military forces of any other South China Sea claimants".

Pentagon spokeswoman Dana W. White said that the United States has asked China to investigate these incidents.

She said the Pentagon was confident that Chinese nationals were responsible.

She said there had been more than 2 but fewer than 10 such incidents.

and these attacks have increased in frequency in recent weeks.