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Tokyo governor Ishihara wants: 1) Olympic games, 2) Foreigners out of Japan or in jail (http://tinyurl.com/72cj6fv),…
Posted in: Rome's 2020 Olympic bid scrapped, leaving Tokyo, 4 other cities
More panels, more talking, no-one being proactive.
Posted in: Gov't panel discusses contaminated crushed stone used in buildings
I would love these announcements to be borne of honesty and sincerity, however, the cynical voice…
Posted in: Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
This reminds me of the Japanese "experts" who, on viewing damaged freeways in Northern California after…
Posted in: Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Madverts: Laugh all you want. I'm not defending anybody. I'm stating the facts about my country. He's squandered nothing! The carpet was pulled from underneath him. Zimbabwe had an artificial economy - by which I mean, all farming was by law restricted to members of the white community, all mines are operated from Rhodesia by the same multinationals that are behind the coup - the same bunch that lost mining 'rights' in Zaire when Mugabe defeated the Rwandan army. Haven't you ever wondered why no white farmer has sued Mugabe for so-called damages? He has all the written evidence against them and it clearly implicates Peter Hain, Tony Blair, Claire Short, Robin Cook, Mandela, Chissano and a bunch of other thugs. Which court in the world will dare make a fool of itself? All the transcripts of communications between London and Harare are available - the Russians. Only two years ago Britain relented that it had miscalculated the depth of Russian involvement in Zimbabwe. Hey, look at it this way - Mugabe was the one that exposed DPRK's mandrax and US dollar bill counterfeit distribution system. Harare has been an asset for the US in its war on terror - thanks to Mugabe. Simon Mann was picked up in Harare because somebody repaid a favor to Mugabe. And let's not forget that CNN was hunting for that Boeing for two years! Executive Outcomes were using it - with Mandela's blessing. There is no saint in Africa. Mugabe is untouchable. Lay a finger on him and watch the suicides in London and Pretoria - the dossier will be published. Sir I have suffered for 22 years. Nobody in Zimbabwe lifted a finger to arrest my persecutors. I lost family members, friends... a whole country. Defend anybody in ZImbabwe? Hell no! Oh, and Gaddafi lodged an official complaint about me to Mugabe in 1987. I'll die without seeing my family again. I couldn't careless about who lives or dies in ZImbabwe. But what I can tell you sir, is that I know where this is all leading to,. Unless the world wakes up to the charade Rwanda is going to look like a picnic.
Posted in: Mugabe vows 'war' to keep opposition out of power
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Madverts: There's no hiding what is being done there (election violations etc.). The problem is that wht we have in Zimbabwe is the proverbial pot calling the kettle black. The MDC is not what the BBC have made it out to be. They are nasty unionists! Brutal! Bank rolled by COSATU another unsavory bunch. These guys up to Nov 1997 controlled the War Veterans. In fact the WV's were there 'Pinckerton men'. Ask Trudy Stevens - google her.
Triumvere: The competent white farmers crashed the agricultural industry deliberatlyfrom Oct 1997 - I have a copy of the letter used by Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa which quite plainly told them "It's an offer you can't refuse - lay down your ploughs for 18 months or else we call-in your loans..."sic On farming the real farmer has been black for the past fifty years!. The white has merely delivered the seed and collected the money from the Farmers Co-op. The Kutsaga Research Station that proved all the seeds was run entirely by blacks - with university degrees - ask Allen Savory - google him. Mugabe's beef with the farmers is that they grew tobacco only from the late 80's causing Zimbabwe to become an importer of food. When he tried to persuade them to parcel out some land for food crops they called London, burnt their harvests on the eve of delivery, doused wheat and maize in DDT... we're not talking about angels here. Zimbabwe is the most dysfunctional nation there ever was and ever will be. Somebody should try calling Suzuki Muneo and asking him about his part in the plot... If Iraq was a yarn, Zimbabwe is the sheep that grew the fleece.
Posted in: Mugabe vows 'war' to keep opposition out of power
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Go on Mbeki - do the right thing. Tell the truth and prevent the carnage.
Posted in: Mbeki meets Mugabe, Zimbabwe opposition chief
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I remember Clayton - my senior year at Texas Tech. COmmenting about rape he said that only idiot kids would do such a thing, pointing out that the kids accussed should do what he did as a youth - hop across the border to Mexico on 'bunny runs'.
Posted in: McCain cancels fundraiser held by Texas oilman who once joked about rape
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PLEASE LISTEN TO ME
As I've been saying for ten years now: Mugabe has been wronged and he is going to make them pay. Zimbabwe is going to get a massive killing. And it will not be political,tribal or any of that mumbo jumbo the 'europeans' love to use in concealing their dirty deeds in southern Africa. Zimbabwe's distruction is the biggest flop by the multi-national criminal clan - Standard Bank, AA, BAT - some Japanese individuals too. Simply to punish Mugabe for his intervention in the Congo they destroyed the economy of Zimbabwe - call the British embassy in Tokyo and ask about their hand in it circa Nov 1997. Call the British embassy in Harare and ask them about my fax revealing that I was aware of their hand in plotting the destruction of ZImbabwe's economy with the help of Mandela, Mbeki and the usual SADC suspects. I know Zimbabweans and the crises. There is no way what-so-ever that Tsvangirai will be allowed to rule the country. The people aware of the plot are so numerous and their experiences with the hardship he brought through his treason... god help him. I have not returned to ZImbabwe for 20 years because the very same white people that call for so-called rights in ZImbabwe have threatened to kill me every year - simply for going to college in America. My crime? Fraternizing with whites in Texas. Did you know that it took a middle-eastern prince suing another Arab to reveal to us(Zimbabweans) that diamonds were in fact being mined in Zimbabwe? And in huge amounts too. Regardless of what the politcal morons say about Mbeki's so-called silence, the truth is that the minute he opens his mouth to tell the truth about Zimbabwe the whites in Jo'burg will shoot him dead! The only good Mbeki can do about ZImbabwe is to snitch on Mandela and his connections in destroying Zimbabwe, other than that there is zero he can say without Mugabe having his throat. Mugabe knows what each one of them did in 1997.
Posted in: Mugabe vows 'war' to keep opposition out of power
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Saw the Pentagon video - ha ha ha.... someones fixin' to get fired. What a crock! It was the same video they showed about two years ago. I am 100% certain. Besides, the date pops - 2006. This is what happens when you can't speak the same language with your allies and your pilot has no geographic skills to tell where the hell he's taking his drone. DRONE???? I said drone didn't I? SO did the Pentagon's video release. But a day before they said US fighter jets!
Posted in: Pakistan slams 'cowardly' U.S. for killing 11 soldiers
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Get the truth about Zimbabwe before you write. The undiplomatic once are the ones getting arrested. I'm persona non grata in Zimbabwe for 22 years and yet I completely side with the government. Why? Because the British have destroyed the economy and conned the US into their dirty work. It's only a matter of time before somebody gets hurt and then the families start suing their government when they find out that the British government has been fibbing about who the trouble maker is in Zimbabwe. Mugabe is standing more like a freedom fighter because the Mbeki's know that he is paying the price for standing up against the invasion of Congo. The so called NGO's told to stop whatever they've been doing are the scum of Africa. There never has been a white person in Africa that cared for the life of a single black African he'd never met! Africa is an evil place to be black. Regardless of how liberal a white person maybe, the very minute he arrives in Africa he becomes one of "us" and the blacks "those people". It's absolutely disgraceful that the media refuses to address the cause and actual events in Zimbabwe. It's always, "Our reporters are banned...." yet they never say that "We got booted out after publishing one false story after another.." - see Raghi Omar, Peter Byles, Clive Myree, Jeff Koinenge.... their reports from Zimbabwe were so horribly untrue that when given the boot they never bothered to disprove the states charges. If Jason Blair can be vilified in the US why should the same not hold for Zimbabwe? When British agents threatened Mazda Motors for refusing to join the coup against Mugabe in 1997 why did Reuters refuse to print it?
Posted in: Zimbabwe police detain U.S., British diplomats
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I know PR first hand - it is the West Virgina of the Caribean. They are so racist its amazing considering what their racial composition is. Obama wouldn't have stood a chance against a dead white democrat that isn't even on the ballot.
Posted in: Obama expects to claim nomination this week; Clinton wins Puerto Rico primary
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No, they're worse.
Posted in: Are Japanese police really as incompetent as readers on Japan Today make them out to be?
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8 seats? Or is this the usual Mazda scam of 6 seats with two that can be rearranged to give you 2 additional seating positions?
Posted in: Mazda starts production of all-new 8-seat Biante minivan
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ODA is a loan that makes loan sharking look honorable. Japan is amazingly dumb not to realize that everytime it mentions this dirty abbreviation African's say that's even greater proof of why China is our best option.
Posted in: U2's Bono urges Japan to take lead on African development
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Triumvere:
Mbeki isn't kissing anybody's you-know-what. He is too busy covering his predeccessor's backside - Mandela! See the morning paper? 84% of Japanese investment in Africa is in SA and Egypt. In 1997 Mandela came to Tokyo to ask Koizumi to make a deal - move all Japanese firms in Africa into SA and to then make Africa a market controlled by Japanese companies with goods assembled in SA. The problem is SA blacks aren't the SA industry's first choice of labor. So now SA's economy is booming but no jobs go to local blacks. Mugabe for his part pissed off Koizumi and Mandela when he saved Laurant Kabila. Kabila knowing that SA had played a hand in the Rwandan invasion of the DRC (SA supplied the arms) cut all mining concessions held by SA companies and an anonymous Japanese consortium - see Koizumi's July 23 1997 mystery visit to Mugabe when he was health minister. The direct payments of cash to Mugabe's neighbors for assisting in the crash of Zimbabwe's economy in 1997 and 1998 is the most important factor into why Mbeki or any other African leader from that time can never say one bad thing about Mugabe. And on another point, despite all the screams about Mugabe's so called evil in Zimbabwe not a single shred of evidence has been produced! And I'm a Zimbabwean exhiled by the commissioner of police in 1988 speaking here. The point is that I was in on the offer to destroy Zimbabwe. I saw the British agents visiting Mazda in Hiroshima on 2 occassions to demand Mazda's support for the coup against Mugabe. And they clearly implicated Mandela, Koizumi and Peter Hain. Mazda turned them down including their 32 million US for leaving ZImbabwe for 18 months beginning in Nov 1997. Their exact words were (on the second visit) "Your government has agreed to support us in the destruction of ZImbabwe's economy. Mugabe has to go... he has crossed too many of our people. ANd now he is talking about imposing tax on tobacco production in Zimbabwe to finance his war in the Congo. To show him our power we have taken the All-African soccer championships away from Zimbabwe - which were due to kick-off in 2 weeks time - and given them to South Africa (a fact which earned me ridicule from the Zim embassy in Tokyo when I relayed the news to them upon Mazda's request, "You're a nut, the championships are all set and why would Mandela do such a thing..."
Before you go on contributing to the evil being perpetrated against my country I suggest you do your homework or shut up.
Posted in: South Africa mob violence spreads
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Hey was McCain's sidekick - Joe "I'd sell my own grandmother if the price was right" Lieberman, ever in uniform?
Posted in: Obama, McCain reach out to veterans
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Let's hear McCain/Lieberman use that against Obama.
Posted in: Castro criticizes Obama plan to keep U.S. embargo
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Besides this sudden change in mood by the US - planting black ambassadors in southern Africa, isn't doing much for the objectives. A black guy off the streets of Zip-code USA dropped into the Zimbabwe crisis with a dossier provided by the state department is going to fly home (ala Colin Powell) with a sense of utter disbelief for being so gullable. Tsvangirai has never been a democracy advocate. Never! Remember him on the eve of the land repo? He was the chief architect of the black empowerment drive - forcing Mugabe to take possession of all white or foreign owned companies in Zim and giving them to blacks. I just read that he surivived three assissination attempts. Who wants to kill him? In Zim a traitor is simply shunned - see Nyati. Oh don't know who he is?
Posted in: Mugabe threatens to expel U.S. ambassador
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Taka - you should see him with Tiny Tim.
Posted in: TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86
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Mbeki must take the opportunity in Japan to talk to Koizumi - the architect of Zimbabwe's destruction. The two of them are the only ones that can end the crises and tell the world the truth. The so-called immigrants in SA are there because of the British African Husbandry Act circa 1923. It's by time Zimbabweans fought back.
Posted in: South Africa mob violence spreads
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Nothing about Africans here. The Brits, South African whites and Koizumi destroyed Zimbabwe to satisfy their greed for our resources. They arranged for all the Zim blacks to wait in SA... unfortunately they did not consider the problems that would cause for SA blacks - poorly educated having the Zims come in and become the employee of choice. Look, they so docile they don't even fight back.
Posted in: S Africa apologizes as anti-immigrant violence spreads
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This moronic woman is the pits. One innuendo after another and peoople still give her the benefit of the doubt... please spare us. What she clearly wanted to say was that if I stay in and Obama gets cut down I and not any other Dem gets the nod.
Posted in: Clinton apologizes for Robert Kennedy assassination remarks
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Alphape: I don't your reasoning in defense of McCain. The GI bill as it stands right now is more scam than reality. Most of the veterans that apply for it get stiffed through one way or another. It's so full of sudden clauses that most GI's end up with offers to enroll in night school or community college. McCain should be ashamed of himself.
Posted in: Senate deals Bush a defeat on Iraq war spending