JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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nandakandamanda
Are the Sea pirates going to pay the land pirates afterwards for 'protecting' them, ie for NOT attacking them, I wonder?
Some people are hoping that the land Shebabies will attack the sea Shebabies, and they will reduce each other satisfactorily, but, hold on a minute here... who are the real goodies and who are the baddies? Wasn't it the Shebabies who stoned a 13 year old girl to death last month for erm... 'adultery'???...for reporting to the police that she had been raped by three men? So, maybe I don't want to know.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081104/twl-stoned-somali-teen-was-raped-41f21e0.html
Posted in: Tension mounts in Somali pirate lair as ransom clock ticks
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nandakandamanda
Yup, kavikahi, even with multiple airbags, and super road-hugging safety, (much safer than most of the cars on the road today), it's a 'vette killer, too. :thumbsup:
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nandakandamanda
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nandakandamanda
There is a good overall summary of the difficulties faced in dealing with pirates, in the Sanyo Newspaper, for those who read Japanese. http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081122-00000501-san-int
Posted in: Somali pirates build up defenses after making ransom demand for Saudi tanker
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nandakandamanda
Get the oil booms ready to contain the spill. Then get all the vultures in one net. Strike hard and fast before they have time to build elaborate defences.
Posted in: Somali pirates build up defenses after making ransom demand for Saudi tanker
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nandakandamanda
YangYong, how can you be sure?
Posted in: Sea Santa
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nandakandamanda
Looks like they won the contest, but there was no-one else taking part...
Posted in: Miki Mizuno and Masato win 'Fur of the Year' Contest
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nandakandamanda
Back to the article at the top of the page for a quick second, you will notice that it says 'global warming' at the beginning without specifically mentioning the causes.
Thus, countries like Tuvalu will increasingly find their waters rising, and we will increasingly need to think about how to help such low-lying areas and their people.
If the cause is man-made, then that is one angle to attack.
If the cause is increased sun activity gradually releasing CO2 long-term from the oceans, then we will need to consider how to live/ride with that. Perhaps we need to address both sides.
Meanwhile, this year has been exceptionally cold so far...
Posted in: What climate change? Meltdown trumps fears at APEC
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nandakandamanda
Good for Nagoya! :clap: At least the police there seem to be taking a lead.
When my 7 yr old daughter was molested I took her to the police station but they were singularly uninterested.
The times they are a'changin....
Posted in: Nagoya man arrested for indecent behavior with 10-year-old girl
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nandakandamanda
Er... rurika, it was the British that started the tough action a couple of weeks ago. Or haven't you been following this too closely?
Posted in: Indian navy sinks suspected pirate mother ship
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nandakandamanda
rogerhavis. What is KY? (And "tero" means "terror"?)
So, you are saying that the media should watch their mouth saying this might be a terror attack? You believe absolutely that this is revenge by a member of the general public who is angry about how the government has mismanaged so many people's pensions?
Posted in: Health ministry gets more than 100 prank calls, email threats
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nandakandamanda
Well, OK, but these boats look like thousands of other fishing boats, moving in unsuspicious patterns, and their flags will be more than likely dirty (freshly washed?) underwear.
In the recent British and Indian cases, it was only when guys started swarming the decks with rocket launchers, that they opened fire 'in self defence'.
Posted in: Indian navy sinks suspected pirate mother ship
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nandakandamanda
But then you take out the boring old-fashioned honest hard-working fisher families too... a little collateral dam OK, Altria???
Posted in: Indian navy sinks suspected pirate mother ship
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nandakandamanda
From the pirates' point of view, it must be an adrenalin rush. All or nothing. Glory or death. The local villagers stand in awe of the pirate deeds, and young people are unwilling to stay in traditional fishing, I read in the papers recently. Apart from a few boring old die-hard fishermen, everyone wants to be a pirate and make money and live the high life. Their real enemy will be the hard-line religious extremists who will want to milk this luctrative trade, I suspect, if this is not indeed already happening.
The West is still afraid of killing someone by mistake or without plainly viewable and justifiable cause.
From the pirates' side, a few killed or wounded every so often would merely add to the fun and excitement. No qualms about petty human life here, hahahahaha. Once they release a ship, however, the port might get attacked, so they will need to replace the ship immediately with the next one(s).
Reminds me of the gloriously catchy children's song, "A Pirate's Life for Me!"
... When I was two, I buckled my shoe, the day I went to sea. I jumped aboard a pirate ship, and the Captain said to me: We're going this way, that way, forwards & backwards over the *Irish Sea, A bottle of rum to fill my tum, and that's the life for me, har, har, har!
*Substitute Aden (for Irish).
Posted in: Indian navy sinks suspected pirate mother ship
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nandakandamanda
Cannot say yes. Cannot say no. Yes, I do know.
Therefore I cannot answer this poll. The results will be from simple and point-blank people of both sides.
Posted in: Is smoking pot harmless?
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nandakandamanda
Drive up the price of oil! This has the hallmarks of Al Qaida thinking, or even the Saudis themsleves hijacking their own ship... LOL.
Posted in: Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker
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nandakandamanda
Jam tomorrow.
Who does business in three-month chunks nowadays?
Posted in: JAL to decrease international fare fuel surcharge from Jan 1
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nandakandamanda
Gutsy girl. I feel for her. Thank goodness she had someone to turn to. But to walk more than ten miles to find someone who would lend her a sympathetic ear.... wow.
Perhaps parents should prepare their kids for those back-up times. Spare cash for bus, mobile/cell, and maps to relatives' places.
Posted in: Girl, 10, turns up at grandfather's house after kidnap fear
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nandakandamanda
Get a rival gang of pirates to hijack it back again and pay them a coupla mill. for the job.
Posted in: Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker
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nandakandamanda
Agreed ionobugs, haven would be more natural. I tried to find the original article by Friday but gave up.
Occasionally I have sniffed a familiar waft of suspicious smoke in recent months, and I live way out in the bundu, so it must be spreading under the surface...
Posted in: Is Japan becoming a 'drug heaven?'