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  mareo2Apr. 23, 2009 - 01:24PM JST

  Oh... about swords and guns, is not like the yaks think that blades are cooler than guns. Is a cold fact that is very dificult get guns in Japan, even for the yaks.

  Posted in: People think of the yakuza as wielding swords and having tattoos and missing fingers. What you should be thinking of the modern-day yakuza is Goldman Sachs with guns.

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  mareo2Apr. 23, 2009 - 01:15PM JST

  Indid... if no american is not going to be prosecuted for torture... Why americans are going to feel that they did something wrong? They can repeat again and again, no one is going to punish them, right?

  Posted in: Unresolved debate: Does torture work?

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  mareo2Apr. 22, 2009 - 12:24PM JST

  I agree with the idea that the real reason for opening talks with Cuba is about Oil. Spain's REPSOL is going to start drilling in the next months, most of the problems for foreigner investment on Cuban Oil is from USA feud with the Cuban revolution, Pig Bay and the Cuban Missiles crisis. Being so close to the USA, like Mexico and Canada, make it cheaper than the cost of import Oil from far midle-east and way less costly than fights with Iran, Irak and so on. Maybe mexicans dont like the idea of another competitor selling Oil to the USA and some americans dont like the idea of the american president smiling to a popululist in Venezuela a teocracy in Iran and a comunist in Cuba. But yeah... is all about Oil, allways.

  Posted in: Obama says reaching out to enemies strengthens U.S.

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  mareo2Apr. 22, 2009 - 10:05AM JST

  I guess that these journalist investigate only the top of the mountain, the guys colecting debts and filling the ranks of the uyoku dantai stil look the same old business to me.

  Posted in: People think of the yakuza as wielding swords and having tattoos and missing fingers. What you should be thinking of the modern-day yakuza is Goldman Sachs with guns.

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  mareo2Apr. 20, 2009 - 06:58PM JST

  I mean, private lifes.

  Posted in: Should media be able to take photos of, or film people in public, without asking their permission?

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  mareo2Apr. 20, 2009 - 06:56PM JST

  No, at least that they are commiting a crime, their personal lifes is not my business.

  Posted in: Should media be able to take photos of, or film people in public, without asking their permission?

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  mareo2Apr. 20, 2009 - 10:04AM JST

  In general, the reaction in Latin america is very positive. It's reverting the unpopularity of the previous administration. In my opinion, these already is reinforcing democracy. By destroying the mith that americans are arrogants that cant' sit and talk a negotiated solution, most demagoges lost the excuse that the root of the problem is "outer" in place of "inner".

  Posted in: Obama says reaching out to enemies strengthens U.S.

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  mareo2Apr. 19, 2009 - 11:50AM JST

  Sarge at 10:05 AM JST - 19th April

  RandomTask - Dream on. There will always be people who gaze at the stars and ask themselves how it is that this beautiful blue planet we live on came into existence, and find that religion gives their lives a sense of meaning and comfort.

  I cant agree more.

  RandomTask: Let` me make an example, my mother is a budist, I despise what the Budisth gov made to the Burakumin and what is still a hiden dicrimination here. But of course I dont think that modern Budism is dangerous. I think that what is really dangerous is fanatism in any form, be religion or politics or anything else like ecology.

  Posted in: Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?

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  mareo2Apr. 17, 2009 - 10:10PM JST

  If Pakistan if doing so well... then you dont really need 1 billion dollars from the USA and another 1 billion dollars from Japan. Keep your nukes and we americans and japanese use that money for help "our" unemployed.

  Posted in: Japan, U.S. pledge up to $1 billion each to Pakistan at donor talks

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  mareo2Apr. 17, 2009 - 09:11PM JST

  The worst thing is that Pakistan and India got 3 wars, both have nukes and both ask foreigner help for combat their poverty. Why you both dont start buriying the hate and mistrust and use "your" money in schools and hospitals in place of nukes?

  Posted in: Japan, U.S. pledge up to $1 billion each to Pakistan at donor talks

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  mareo2Apr. 17, 2009 - 09:01PM JST

  888naff at 07:55 PM JST - 17th April

  lol what a lame argument, plenty of other countries with nukes... also some famous for their shoot first ask questions later mentality.. they used to be more clever.

  Yeah, but the other countries with nukes dont go asking for money, if you need money for your empoverished and underdeveloped country dont build expensive nukes in first place like NK. That is what is realy LAME.

  Posted in: Japan, U.S. pledge up to $1 billion each to Pakistan at donor talks

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  mareo2Apr. 17, 2009 - 02:41PM JST

  kyaqub

  With all due respect. If they are so peace loving, I want to see them give up their nukes. Then we can talk about economic help for develop their economy.

  Posted in: Japan, U.S. pledge up to $1 billion each to Pakistan at donor talks

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  mareo2Apr. 17, 2009 - 07:24AM JST

  There go our taxes. To "help" another underdeveloped nuclear country like NK. If these people just use their money for develop their industry in place of nuclear weapons programs, then maybe they dont need our economic help. In fact, I wonder why the heck, we have to give our money if they dont give up their nukes.

  Posted in: Japan, U.S. pledge up to $1 billion each to Pakistan at donor talks

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  mareo2Apr. 16, 2009 - 02:44PM JST

  Muchakucha at 01:50 PM JST - 16th April

  tclh: an excellent post. I actually think Islam can coexist with non-Islamic world only if it changes. But it's never going to change by itself, so outside encouragement is required. However, while politicians and other ostrich-like commentators perpetuate the dangerous fallacy that Islam is tolerant "religion of peace", no outside encouragement is going to be forthcoming. Therefore the first step in creating the conditions for a peaceful world that includes Islam is for everybody to understand that Islam has terrible problems on a unique scale (intolerance, mysogyny etc) and to address those problems appropriately. Islamic apologists are ultimately doing Islam, themselves, and everyone else, a huge disservice.

  Interesting idea, are you are going to ask to the USA gob to "encourage" the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to hold elections, dont say that the Koran is the national constitution, droop the Sharia and get a secular society? After all ranked the 7th most autoritarian regime in the world in The Economist 2008 Democracy Index.

  Posted in: Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?

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  mareo2Apr. 16, 2009 - 09:06AM JST

  I think that people keep avoiding the real roots of the extremism. Oil, interventionism, client states, represion, poverty. Let me make two examples about terrorism that can look like religion driven but most likely is about social problems. "The Troubles" in Northen Ireland. It was all western and christian, catholics against protestants, killing themselves and perhaps not so different of the Irak near-civil war in Irak, all midle-easterns and muslims, Sunnies against Shiites. The truth is that God have few to do in these conflicts, but some people can try to paint things in a religious way. Terrorists, try to provocate heavy handed reactions by painting a picture where the target believe that every muslim is a potential terrorist. If you buy that tale, they win, because then you are terrified enough for deportations and concentrations camps, even if the people is innocent. I have relatives in the USA and the older one got in a "War Relocation Camp". The 442nd Infantry “The Purple Heart Battalion” was made of japanese-americans fighted with courage and honor in europe, there is muslim-americans soldiers fighting in Irak. I think that people must to judged their compatriots for their actions, not for their color, religion, social class or ancestry.

  Posted in: Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?

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  mareo2Apr. 16, 2009 - 05:16AM JST

  WilliB at 10:09 PM JST - 15th April

  Toecutter: You are free to say that openly in Israel, in the post-Christian societies of the West, in Hindu India, and even in Buddhist Thailand. In a Shariah country, saying the same would cost you your head. Thanks for making the point.

  I dont question that in some countries there is no freedom of practice of religion. What I question, is that people put in doubt that the same religion can be practiced in the free modern societies in a moderate and peaceful coexistence with other religions.

  Posted in: Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?

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  mareo2Apr. 16, 2009 - 05:10AM JST

  Do you remember the World Cup? All the money poured in the new stadiums that now we under use and keep losing money. I dont live in Tokyo, but if the people there dont mind pay more tax for held a party, is up to them, just dont ask any extra money from the central gob.

  Posted in: Would you like to see Tokyo get the 2016 Olympics? If your answer is no, then why not?

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  mareo2Apr. 15, 2009 - 07:40PM JST

  WilliB at 06:52 PM JST - 15th April

  Whatever you "honestly think" does not change the reality. The French suburbs where this happens are muslim ghettoes, not a happy collection of Christian, Buddhist, Jewish or whatever residents. And the French intifada really does not look different from the identical riots in Luton, Antwerp, Amsterdam, and other European towns blessed with their new muslim populations, which (surprise!) refuse to integrate into the kuffar society. As the islmamic presence grows in the US, you´ll get the same, don´t worry. There are muslims-americans in the USA armed forces, do you imply that That the Washington Post stays with the politically correct party line, is no surprise. In fact, blanking out "islam" from islamic riots is pretty much SOP for Western media.

  I think that the Washington Post mention that the majority of the people in that ghettoes are muslims, but not all of them. But you say that western media cant be trusted. Then, what serius and well respected no-western source of news you recomend that we read so we can understand the true reality that you explain to us?

  Posted in: Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?

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  mareo2Apr. 15, 2009 - 06:34PM JST

  WilliB at 05:40 PM JST - 15th April

  mareo2: " Neighborhood Muslim leaders have campaigned hard to make it clear that the urban unrest had nothing to do with Islam, radical or otherwise, and that many of the country's rioters came from Catholic or animist backgrounds. " That is typical procedure. While the young are on their intifada, the elders deny that islam has anything to do with it. Look up the concepts of "taqqiva". Meanwhile, the French riots are really not much different from the intifada riots going on in other European cities with their bulging muslim suburbs. Plenty of videos where you can hear the rioters should "Allah Akbar"... typical for Catholics and Animist´s n´est ce pas? You might also wonder why the French government negotiated with muslim imams to get the intifadists to stop... I guess the imams have a great influence on "Catholics and Animists", LOL. Of course, count on the NYT to report the politically correct story.

  Fair enough, then Washington Post is fine? If it not, please tell me what well respected american newspaper is good in your opinion.

  "France is in a social and economic crisis," said Michelle Rosso, a 43-year-old music teacher from the town of Bagnolet in the northern suburbs of Paris, where the unrest has been most intense. "It's similar to the U.S. civil rights movement in the '60s. The integration policies of this country clearly do not work." Some analysts blame the government's weak responses on an attitude of diffidence toward communities that most French officials and middle- and upper-class residents never see. Unlike in the United States, where most low-income housing projects are located in inner cities, French subsidized housing was built in the suburbs, out of sight of the historic and charming town centers that draw millions of tourists each year. The politicians in Paris, as well as many Parisians, feel immune to the rioting in the suburbs and elsewhere, said Guillaume Parmentier, who heads the French Center on the United States, a Paris-based research organization. "So a few cars are burning in the suburbs," he said. "This is the sort of thing that happens; it's very unpleasant, but you can't put a policeman behind every car."

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/07/AR2005110700295.html

  I honestly think that it was a problem of "racist discrimination" against a french minority, not a "holy war" drived by the Koran like some people think.

  Posted in: Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?

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  mareo2Apr. 15, 2009 - 05:33PM JST

  USARonin, you are welcome. I want to beliebe that the longer that we all respect each other, understanding is possible.

  Posted in: Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?

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