JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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adamantine
Envy of the American system and blind hatred for its democratically elected Republican leader trumps even the evil Robert Mugabe has done.
Simply astounding.
Posted in: Mugabe slams Bush's 'stupid' comments
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adamantine
"Shirtless images of Obama"!
Yes, indeed. Not since the Chosen One sank a 3-point jump shot for the cameras while playing basketball with US troops in Kuwait have the proles been given by the high priests of the fourth estate clearer proof that Obama is, in fact, ready to lead the most powerful nation on earth!
The Lewinskys on the American left and in the nation's newsrooms have really outdone themselves.
Almost makes the many jokes about an "American Idol" presidency seem to have some basis in fact.
Posted in: Shirtless images of Obama cause stir online
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adamantine
A nice try. But mean-spirited pranks won't be enough to keep Caroline from assuming whatever office she feels the party owes her for having been born a Kennedy.
Posted in: NY Times publishes fake letter criticizing Caroline Kennedy
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adamantine
Disgraced former Leftist icon Robert Mugabe, speaking of President George W. Bush:
“Let him keep his comments to himself. They are undeserved, irrelevant, quite stupid and foolish.”
He forgot the "Good Night and Good Luck" bit.
Posted in: Mugabe slams Bush's 'stupid' comments
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adamantine
"...The Arabs, who once upon a time boasted Averroes and Avicenna, are now reduced to eulogizing a boorish act of agitprop as a heroic achievement. America gave us Martin Luther King; South Africa gave us Mandela; India gave us Gandhi; the Arab world gives us … Muntader-al-Zaidi. A people who invented the zero are now reduced, themselves, to zero. Only a people who live under the boots of their rulers celebrate the throwing of a shoe at a guest."
Los Estados Unidos, The Arab Sole, Tunku Varadarajan
Posted in: Iraq shoe-thrower to go on trial amid new torture claims
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adamantine
I can't help noticing that the new Iraq refuses to go back to its Baathist form.
Does this disappoint Muntazer al-Zaidi's fans?
No matter what the outcome of this very revealing spectacle, the fact that the jailed journalist's arrest and subsequent trial arrangements are proceeding openly and according to democratically fashioned law - and that all of this is being closely followed in the region and worldwide - seems to me to vindicate the nimble Texan target of Muntazer al-Zaidi infantile shoe-tossing tantrum.
Posted in: Iraq shoe-thrower to go on trial amid new torture claims
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adamantine
Journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi is a Sadrist and is reportedly very "fond" of Iran.
Iraq has its own laws, written by democratically elected leaders. They will decide this buffoon's fate.
Posted in: Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush asks for pardon
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adamantine
The late Mark Felt could be called many things, as the author Carl Bernstein confirmed:“We had no idea of his motivations, and even now some of his motivations are unclear.”
But having admitted that in the end he went public about his role in the Watergate expose because he (and his daughter) felt entitled to money that would have otherwise gone to the writer Bob Woodward, Mr. Felt cannot be called a patriot.
With Watergate the media in America won an undeserved prestige. Ironically, it was as a result of a cheap, petty act of revenge carried out by a Hoover loyalist in the FBI and directed at his boss, the president. The author of this article, unintentionally I'm sure, alludes to this sad fact: “...All the President’s Men,” which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism."
America, and those nations who become her concerns, still reap the deleterious effects of this unwarranted valorisation of the profession.
The war in Iraq has often been likened to Vietnam. If only those who wrote and broadcast such views knew how wrong that is as regards events on the ground, and how right it is as far as their efforts all too often go.
Posted in: Mark Felt, Watergate 'Deep Throat,' dies at 95
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adamantine
Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne donate millions of dollars to charity. This is an easily verifiable fact, by the way, since like all American politicians their tax returns are made public; but the popular image of Cheney as some kind of greedy mad dog set to flee to Dubai obviously reflects the entrenched bias the corporate US media hold against this man. Judging from the ignorance displayed in some of the comments here it's clear that not many journalists beyond America's shores care much for the truth either.
How much do the incoming Bidens, representing the party that professes to stand for the "oppressed" in America, give to charity? My search produced results that would embarrass and even shock American Democrats and liberals.
Posted in: Cheney blames Congress for failing to help struggling automakers