JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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Well said, smithinjapan. One of the lessons that can be taken from this sorry saga is the futility of war. NObody wins a war. With the WMD lies that killed so many, and the pigheaded conflict in the hills of Afghanistan that has changed what? Nothing. Reports today say the Taliban have control of over 90% of the country. What was all this blood spilled for? Oil through a pipeline for Karzai's buddies in Texas? And the $$$ cost to the already hard hit US taxpayer for what? Misery, economic disaster and more misery. I agree with you, time to make peace, not war. And Obama will have to move fast. The latest National Intelligence Estimate shows Iran is NOT building military grade nuclear facilities, and he'll have to rein in Netanyahu who's trying like heck to start another war, which, if it happens will affect everyone on the planet. Heckuva task Barack!
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OK, PM-elect: Think Big and Act Bold!
Posted in: OK, Mr Hatoyama, you're in -- now govern
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(1) Eliminate fingerprinting at the border. Period. (2) Issue Permanent Resident Cards, just like Canada. (3) Video/audio-tape all Police interrogations with legal counsel present. (4) Eliminate the "Guarantor" in rental leases. (5) Permit dual nationality. (6) Pass and actually enforce an anti-discrimination law. Really! (7) Decriminalize marijuana possession. Tax it and sell it legally. (8) Restructure the economy and thereby the work day, using daylight savings time etc., so people have time off, and don't define their very lives by their job titles. (9) Enforce existing laws against the bosozoku and the mob. (10) Make an outright ban on those gawdawful goofy hats everyone feels compelled to wear on their days off, or on some group outing. Hideous! These are my ideas, just for starters!
Posted in: For you personally, what changes would you like to see the new DPJ government bring about in Japan?
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Hatoyama can do anything he wants, but until the decision making power, and the ability to use public money unfettered, are removed under pain of death, from the unelected pen-pushers who actually RUN Japan (unaccountable to the people), not a cotton-pickin' thing will change. Trust me.
Posted in: Hatoyama to create economic recovery post
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The Taliban just want Afghanistan back. Al Qaeda just want foreign troops off Saudi soil. Give'em both what they want and all of this is containable. Don't give 'e what they want, and these stupid wars of "liberation" become a deeper quagmire every single day. But, of course, that is logical. The US/UK Govt.s and logic parted ways a long time ago.
Posted in: U.S., NATO need new strategy to defeat Taliban, says general
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This is indeed very interesting, Brown (A Scotsman) distancing himself from this decision. There must be an election due sometime soon. London's "The Mail on Sunday" has just been authorized to reveal the new and compelling evidence which would have proved his innocence. In a submission to the Court of Appeal running to thousands of words, Megrahi’s lawyers list 20 grounds of appeal which include:
was involved but that their reports were not open to the 2001 trial.
The Mail reported that there was rejoicing in the Crown Office in Edinburgh when he was released and the appeal abandoned. The Scottish court was spared the embarrassment of being proven to be liars.
'There may well be political manoeuvres behind his release but at the heart was a decision to save the face of the Scottish judiciary - in particular the Crown Prosecution, who would have been shown to have been involved in an abuse of process by non-disclosure of witness statements. Memos were submitted from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) which suggested the downing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people in 1988, was in response to the shooting down of an Iranian Airbus by the American warship USS Vincennes five months earlier.
In a memo dated September 24, 1989, and reproduced in the appeal submission, the DIA states: ‘The bombing of the Pan Am flight was conceived, authorised and financed by Ali-Akbar Mohtashemi-Pur, Iran’s former interior minister.
Mr Ferguson, who researched this entire saga, said: ‘Megrahi was made the scapegoat for whatever reason and from that point everything went in reverse to try to make the crime fit.’
I am not so much repulsed by Mr. Brown's indignation as I am with what have been his obvious barefaced lies in this whole matter. It does not become a Prime Minister of HM's Government. Thanks "Mail on Sunday" for unearthing the truth. I expect there will be even greater fallout.
Posted in: Brown repulsed by hero's welcome for Lockerbie bomber in Libya
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Well it's not for its service to its customers, that's for sure. NEVER fly JAL, spit!
Posted in: Japan Airlines wins Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Award
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Nothing in all 114 Suras of the Qu'ran prescribes this. This is a society with problems. Nothing to do with Islam itself. Salem.
Posted in: Malaysia delays caning of Muslim woman who drank beer
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Well, it just gets better and better! No conspiracy theories needed, because the whole matter came up in the British House of Commons! (The Mother of All Parliaments!)Crucial evidence against two Libyans for the Lockerbie bombing was planted by the CIA, it was claimed in the Commons yesterday. Crucial evidence against two Libyans for the Lockerbie bombing was planted by the CIA, it was claimed in the Commons yesterday.
"A fragment of circuit board alleged to have been part of the bomb's timing mechanism is the sole item of physical evidence linking the two Libyans to the December 1988 bombing. But Tam Dalyell, Labour MP for Linlithgow, declared: "I have come to suspect that the timing device in question was not that of Pan Am 103 but a different timing device that the CIA had picked up from the Libyans ... I have been driven to the conclusion that the device was a CIA plant." from The Independent newspaper, Thursday June 15 1995. They already knew! Check: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lockerbie-evidence-planted-by-cia-1586487.html
So, once again, facts and science has outwitted CIA outrage. C'mon, America, face facts. Your whole country is riddled by a disease that begins with "Z" and you're paying for it all with your blood, sweat, tears and hard earned dollar$! As far back as 1995 this Libyan patsie was set up, and YOUR government knew about it! I rest my case, your honour.
Posted in: Scottish government defends Lockerbie bomber's release
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According to the Congressional records in Washington DC, it's all about oil anyway! Check: http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0.HTM So, Karzai is the Unocal puppet kept there so the pipeline can go through using US mercenary Xe Inc. to protect the flow of black gold, Texas tea.....you get the idea. The US Govt. keeps great records, so we don't have to invent conspiracy theories! God Bless America!
Posted in: Abdullah accuses Karzai of 'rigging' Afghan vote
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Canada: 9,984,670 sq km (land: 9,093,507 sq km, water: 891,163 sq km). That's a LOT of scouring!
Posted in: Police scour Canada for millionaire murder suspect
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Athens in particular and Greece in general has no preventive (fire-break) programme in place. The whole effort is reactive, by which, it is often too late! As the proverb goes: "ένα γραμμάριο πρόληψης είναι καλύτερο από ένα κιλό της θεραπείας"
Posted in: Fires reach Athens suburbs; thousands evacuated
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Let's look at this shall we? THE number one user of wind turbines in this area is the Toyota plant at Tahara. Last count as I drove by they have about 15 or 18 of the things, ranging in about 850kW to 1500kW sizes. The town of Kosai in Shiz. Pref. has a couple, as does the Suzuki plant in the town, all smaller 350kW or so output models. In the fall thru late spring the wind coming off the water down there has all of these turbines running full tilt, 16 rpm max-ing out their power generation. Almost all of these machines are fitted with vibration reduction systems, and run at EU standard noise permitted, 50dB/m sound levels, well below the sound that causes the symptoms "experienced" by the complainants. This, in my opinion, is psychosomatic. Just trying to sort out the facts from the easily whipped up baba and jiji hysteria. As for spoiling the view, Tahara is already an eyesore, these birds are poetry in motion set against a backdrop of hectares and hectares of grim corrugated asbestos buildings belching god-knows-what fumes and toxins. Disclaimer: I don't work for Toyota, nor do I work for Nordex (the manufacturer) or any installer.
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And, let's look at how the BBC reported the Lockerbie investigation, and its possible authors way back in 2000: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/777974.stm These folks are hardly given to fantastic conspiracy theories, are they? The Beeb? The MotherCorp herself?
Pan Am's own internal investigation is believed to have concluded that the Lockerbie bomb was targeted specifically to kill a small band of US Defence Intelligence Agency operatives (including Major Charles McKee) who had uncovered a drugs ring run by a CIA unit in Lebanon. According to Time Magazine, Charles McKee's mother suspects that it was a government action that indirectly led to her only son's death.
Beulah McKee is quoted as saying: "For three years, I've had a feeling that if Chuck hadn't been on that plane, it wouldn't have been bombed... I've never been satisfied at all by what the people in Washington told me."
In Beirut, McKee was a military attache assigned to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
In his book, Lockerbie: The Tragedy of Flight 103, Scottish radio reporter David Johnston described how CIA agents helicoptered into Lockerbie shortly after the crash. They were looking for McKee's suitcase.
"Having found part of their quarry," Johnston wrote, "the CIA had no intention of following the exacting rules of evidence employed by the Scottish police. They took the suitcase and its contents into the chopper and flew with it to an unknown destination."
The drugs-ring is said to have been set up by Israeli Mossad agents.
Reportedly, the drugs ring involved 'CIA-asset' Monzer al-Kassar, a Syrian with links to the brother of Syria's President Assad.
Reportedly Monzer al-Kassar was involved with Lt-Colonel Oliver North, of Iran-Contra fame.
Victor Marchetti, former executive assistant to the CIA's deputy director, and co-author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, said of the plot against PanAm 103: "The Mossad knew about it and didn't give proper warning."
Anyone who thinks that some (now prostate-cancered) geezer blew this plane up on a whim, of for Mo G. in Tripoli, needs to do more homework.
Posted in: Lockerbie bomber release stirs diplomatic dispute
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I have a dream, of a ICJ hearing on live TV, with all of America's actual and proxy war criminals in the dock. But, would they admit? Even when we show them the videos? Probably not.
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The "convicted" Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, says that he will prove his innocence in the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland that killed 270 people.
Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent, said that he has sufficient evidence that would exonerate him from any involvement in the bombing.
"If there is justice in (Britain) I would be acquitted or the verdict would be quashed because it was unsafe. There was a miscarriage of justice," said Megrahi.
I, for one, am prepared to hear that evidence. "Convicted" doesn't necessarily mean he did it. Nor does "believed to have done it." Take L.H. Oswald for example.... Surely we can apply science and let the evidence tell us what really happened over Lockerbie, and by whom it was done.
Posted in: Lockerbie bomber release stirs diplomatic dispute
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"Three intelligence officials" who "spoke on condition of anonymity" are most likely Blackwater Inc. thugs. (So I'm not accused again of inventing fantastic conspiracy theories, here's the source.) A fresh report by the New York Times revealed on Friday August 21st 2009 that Blackwater USA has been contracted to work with the unmanned Predator drones that carry out assassinations and terrorize villages in eastern and southern Afghanistan and the border regions of Pakistan. It added that Blackwater personnel also 'assemble and load Hellfire missiles and 500-pound laser-guided bombs' -- a work formerly carried out by the CIA.
Blackwater, which has changed its name to Xe Services LLC, began assisting the CIA in Afghanistan after gaining a contract to protect a new intelligence station in Kabul in 2002. The multimillion-dollar covert contracts had enabled the North Carolina-based group to execute its military tactics generally accepted as 'excessively' forceful.
In its most infamous episode, in September 2007, Blackwater agents killed 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in an 'unprovoked' attack, after opening random fire on pedestrians with machine guns and rocket launchers.
The bloody incident drew the public's Ire in Iraq and worldwide condemnation, forcing the company to change its name to be able to return to Iraq.
However, even though the current US administration has barred Xe Services LLC from carrying guns in Iraq, a considerable number of former CIA authorities continue to work in collusion with the notorious security provider.
These relationships reveal that what has so far been exposed regarding Washington's pacts with Blackwater -- pacts concluded behind the backs of the American people -- is only the tip of the iceberg.
So, Mr. President, where's our change?
Posted in: Death toll from U.S. missile strike in Pakistan increases to 21
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""Convicted" as has been shown many times in the US justice system, doesn't mean he did it. Beyond reasonable doubt? No.
Posted in: Lockerbie bomber freed; returns to Libya to die
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Isn't it interesting that in the countries which actually have universal publicly funded health care nobody is arming themselves in the streets shouting for its abandonment and dismantling? Only in America, I guess! Time to watch "Sicko!" again, people.
Posted in: Obama woos right, left on health care
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A farcical election in a non-existent democracy. I love the smell of deception in the morning!
Posted in: Low turnout in Afghan election; 26 killed