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nandakandamanda
Whoever did the initial frisking obviously missed the concealed weapon, but it is winter and cold outside and people will be wearing layers of thick clothing.
Re this comment, quote: “It is really regrettable that the suspect killed himself,” said Tokyo police in a statement.
It sounds roundabout and distant to the Western eye/ear, but it contains a heavy hint that few Japanese would miss, more so a Nagoya cop facing the Tokyo cops.
Posted in: Taiwanese man sought in connection with murder of two students kills himself
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nandakandamanda
There are any number of interpretations of this story.
For many years NK has tested the winds for sending poison balloons to Japan, and these have been reported in the Japanese press whenever they have landed.
I can imagine that someone feels the need to test the ocean currents too, to see where objects might float to at a given time of year. Perhaps they asked for 'volunteer' prisoners to do some drifting on the winter seas. The expensive tracking equipment would be a nice recording device, and they could save on fuel by giving them very little. It could be that one of their poor number couldn't hack the job though.
OK, that is one scenario, and I can think of others, but the story as it stands with no other explanation makes too little sense.
Posted in: 3 N Koreans sent home after 'drifting' to Japan
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nandakandamanda
What was fine 100 years ago is not fine today.
Posted in: 35-year-old man arrested for paying 15-year-old girl for sex
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nandakandamanda
The piates not necessarily Shiites, Willi.
Talking about the Gulf, TinMadDog, I once had a class of Iranians and Iraqis all wanting to learn English. I put up a map of the Middle East and at one point mentioned the Persian Gulf. "No, it's NOT the Persian Gulf!"... The Iraqis jumped up in anger and a huge fight broke out. LOL
Posted in: U.S. Navy rescues Iranian fishing boat from pirates
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nandakandamanda
None of this makes any sense. How can you survive snow storms and winter seas for THREE WEEKS in a small open boat. There must be more to this than meets the eye, though I doubt they will be telling anyone the truth.
Posted in: Three North Koreans, one dead body found in small boat off Shimane
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nandakandamanda
Very wise move.
Posted in: Officials call off sixth leg of Dakar Rally
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nandakandamanda
PS Partitioning off and creating a kind of Pakistan in Northern Nigeria will never lead to good things. There will be much blood shed from now on, I fear. I really pity the ordinary people trying to live in peace there.
Posted in: Boko Haram threatens Nigerian Christians and troops
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nandakandamanda
From what I have read over the years, WilliB is right on these two points.
Blaming America is a bit weak, too. Sure they would like to get the oil, but their influence has never been strong in these matters.
It is 100% up to the native population to become strong and sort this out.
Thank you for posting, Shriff Yilmaz. We need to hear voices from as many sides as possible. I agree that being one-sided never helps. M.Youssef was shot probably unlawfully, a bit like Colonel Gaddafi, and no court case was ever heard.
Posted in: Boko Haram threatens Nigerian Christians and troops
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nandakandamanda
No, futomomo is not butt. That would be oshiri.
He repeatedly touched her thigh(s), it says in the quote above.
Posted in: Chunichi reporter arrested for allegedly molesting woman on train
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nandakandamanda
hahaha, presto345 you beat me to it.
No-one wants to touch the guy, so why the rhetoric about defending him, let alone to the death? LOL
If you look closely at the text, however, anyway in another translation that I saw, it is linked to defending the party leadership, ie all of the power elite. By allying themselves with him, they are covering their own asses.
Posted in: N Koreans urged to defend Kim Jong-Un 'unto death'
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nandakandamanda
What Europe has now they caught off America.
Who will be able to cure the disease first?
Posted in: Romney warns 'we don't want Europe here'
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nandakandamanda
This is one of the problems with drones, operated remotely by armchair console players.
Posted in: Turkish Kurds vent fury over botched air strike
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nandakandamanda
If Takeuchi was really duped then she sounds like a dope. People like this are a headache for the authorities.
Hope no-one you know is traveling/travelling to/through Malaysia this week!
Posted in: 'Red alert' in Malaysia over drug trafficking
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nandakandamanda
DPRK Quote A: “We will surely force the group of traitors to pay for its hideous crimes committed at the time of the great national misfortune,” it said, accusing Seoul’s government of insulting behavior during the mourning period for Kim. A “sea of tears” shed by the North’s army and people would “turn into that of retaliatory fire to burn all the group of traitors.” Quote B (Commentator): “This is a message to the world that there will be no change in its policy and system. It is warning the outside world not to interfere with its internal policy.”
Wow, this translation business sounds like hard work!
Posted in: N Korea says policy won't change, threatens Seoul
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nandakandamanda
Someone in Japan still believes that (some) whales will one day in the future become a major food source, possibly under 'managed' farming. Based upon this belief, they are probably trying to keep open the only 'legal' window they have, knowing that if they stop any aspect of this activity it will be lost for good. They know they have to be just as tough and bloody-minded as the other lot since there can only be one winner.
Poor old Brigitte Bardot has cracks in her hull.
If the whalers heard her cries for help, they would surely have little reason to believe them. There was once a boy who cried 'wolf' too often...
Posted in: Huge waves damage Sea Shepherd boat during chase
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nandakandamanda
Quite a good video here guessing the situations inside reactors 1, 2 & 3 and why three is still pretty much unapproachable. I wish TEPCO would produce something easy to understand like this.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/movie/feature_nuclear.html
Posted in: Japan's response to disaster confused, full of errors, report says
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nandakandamanda
I wish they wouldn't call it a 'service'. These drivers are already way overpaid and the way they go about the job is haphazard, casual and unprofessional. 'London's underground train lottery' would be a better description.
Posted in: Strike paralyzes London underground train system
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nandakandamanda
There is now a temporary barrier that has been thrown up against the sea.
This Fukushima nuclear mess will take at least 40 years to clean up. Maybe they haven't published the plans yet, but I sure hope they are hard at work designing a new wall to protect the fragile emergency system now in place.
If another tsunami comes along and washes away this barrier tomorrow or the next day, I really do not want to hear anyone say: "We never imagined in our wildest dreams!".....souteigai, again.
Posted in: Japan's response to disaster confused, full of errors, report says
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nandakandamanda
So childish... adult children who have rejected education. Taking everyone backwards at a rate of knots...
Posted in: Fear grips Nigeria after Christmas attacks
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nandakandamanda
By 'proving' to new recruits that Islam is under attack all over the world, (DVDs of global fighting) propagators are able to quote the Qu'ran showing how M allows for retaliation. I thought this was a central tenet of Al Qaida recruitment policy.
Posted in: 40 killed in Christmas Day blasts in Nigeria