taniwha said...

taniwha at 07:29 PM JST - 14th April

Who would want to defend the pirates? I mean so what if they were aged 16 to 19 years old, yanked up to with in pitching distance of the warship and summarily executed by three crack killers from the US armed forces.

In the old days they were at least…

Posted in Somali pirates vow retaliation after captain freed at 07:29 PM JST - 14th April
taniwha at 01:09 PM JST - 10th April

Moderator

Why are the quotes not in the "Quote" format as originally pasted. Makes it look like I am debating with myself rather than with someone with the handle of 'dontpanic'!.

Posted in Foreign financial institutions in Japan slash 15% of total jobs at 01:09 PM JST - 10th April
taniwha at 09:45 AM JST - 10th April

Capitalism is an idea well past its sell by date. Makes as much sense as your inane statement.

The reason Japanese financial institutions are slashing jobs is because the free market model which gave birth to corporations is a myth, an illusion, that only survived for as long as it…

Posted in Foreign financial institutions in Japan slash 15% of total jobs at 09:45 AM JST - 10th April
taniwha at 09:42 PM JST - 9th April

Actually, should make that a 'fact' rather than a fact. There seems to be a lot of variation in the percentages of Arabs said to make up the population in what is now Israel, pre-1948. But one thing is clear, since 1948 the numbers of Christian Arabs that make up…

Posted in Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles at 09:42 PM JST - 9th April
taniwha at 09:17 PM JST - 9th April

Sarge

Here's a fact that might interest you. Around one third and upwards of the total Arab population in what is now Israel were Christian. That was before Israel declared itself a state and set about freeing up the living space by ejecting or killing the Arabs.

Posted in Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles at 09:17 PM JST - 9th April
taniwha at 11:05 AM JST - 9th April

don'tpanic

China and the Soviet Union, and every single other nation run under Communism that has ever existed didn't work. But neither has any Capitalist economy!!!

The key word is 'nation'. Managed economies do not work within nation states. The world's resources are not all found within the territories of…

Posted in Foreign financial institutions in Japan slash 15% of total jobs at 11:05 AM JST - 9th April
taniwha at 08:44 AM JST - 9th April

Sabiwabi Not sure by "a third party" that you were actually alluding to North Korea but anyway.

Posted in Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles at 08:44 AM JST - 9th April
taniwha at 08:38 AM JST - 9th April

Sabiwabi

The situation existing between Japan and China is tricky. Before the 'financial crises' I would have been inclined to believe that most of the nationalistic rhetoric from both sides was aimed at coalescing internal support for the present political structure; maintaining the political status quo. So long as the…

Posted in Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles at 08:38 AM JST - 9th April
taniwha at 08:23 AM JST - 9th April

Madadverts

There are ivestigations into Israeli war crmes....I've already said I'm defending neither party, and yes, it's tit-for-tat.

What investigations are you talking of? So far as I know there are none. Israel's military police closed internal investigation after only 9 days. The talk of investigations from the international arena…

Posted in Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles at 08:23 AM JST - 9th April
taniwha at 10:25 PM JST - 8th April

"Tit for tat"? Lets see, three weeks of attacks on Gaza killed 1,400 Palestinians. How many Israelis killed by Hamas rockets over the years? I will let someone find the figure, the one that comes to mind is 4.

Surgeons working in hospitals have reported that the IDF's own rules…

Posted in Israel tests system to shoot down Iranian missiles at 10:25 PM JST - 8th April