BertieWooster comments

The mass produced "dairy" products in konbini are pure garbage. The "yogurt" is a chemical concoction made from whey, emulsifiers, flavouring agents, preservatives and sucrose. The cheese is an insult to cheese. You can buy the same products in supermarkets, with the only advantage that they are cheaper. If you want yogurt, make your own. It's not difficult and there are artisan cheesemakers in Japan who do make some decent cheeses.

“Her father, 60-year-old psychiatrist Osamu Tamura, allegedly aided in the murder”

A psych, no less. Someone who is supposed to know all about the mind.

Not!

Life is cheap. ¥800,000 for torture and death. That doesn't seem like justice to me.

No mention of taxes here. Japanese taxes right now are crippling. In the boom years there was no consumption tax and income tax was much less. You got to keep the money you earned. Now you don't. It goes for LDP members' "entertainment expenses" and twice yearly bonuses. No wonder fewer people want to start a family. We can't afford it!

The US bases in Asia are all there legally, at the request of the host nations.

Yeah, right!

"What you needs, my friend, is protection. Accidents will happen. (flicks a finger, knocking a glass ornament on to the floor). Big fish eat small fish. Invasions, rape, pillage, know what I means? But don't worry! Uncle Sam is here to protect youse!"

so now a big big big U-turn again

Mark, I think that the independence Mao was talking about was not independence from the CCP, but from the "Capitalist Oppressors."

Hypocrisy, as Jim says. "You can see how aggressive China is by the way they've place their country right in the middle of a ring of US bases!"

Wish the "investors" would get off their rear ends and do a decent day's work for a change!

Blimey! Reading an article like this shows up the painful fact that psych really doesn't have a clue!

Let's face it. TV's on the way out.

I crave the Dutch Squad Solar:

https://www.squadmobility.com/

Cut ALL carbs, no ultra processed food, don't eat anything that you can't immediately see what it's made of. That means you have to cook most of the food you eat yourself.

Why don't they have a go at Katakana while they're at it? English words ending in -er are always given the nobasu mark, indicating a long vowel. Yet I can think of no instance where the -er ending has a long vowel: Mazaah (mother), fuazaah (father), etc. And if I went into a pub in England and ordered a pint of "lagaah," it's doubtful whether they would understand that I wanted "lager," and probably think I was trying to sound posh.

Can you imagine the population of any other industrialized country in the world re-electing these people over and over and over again?

Let's not forget the LDP's origins and covert management by the CIA. This has been going on since they installed a war criminal, Kishi as PM just after the end of WWII.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/20/national/u-s-admits-cia-gave-ldp-money-in-1950s-1960s/

"WASHINGTON – The CIA secretly sent money to the Liberal Democratic Party in the 1950s and 1960s to help stabilize the LDP-led government and prevent a leftist administration from emerging, according to a U.S. document released Tuesday.

The document, titled "Foreign Relations of the United States, Vol. XXIX, Part 2," also suggests that some of the CIA money went to moderate members of the now-defunct Japan Socialist Party, the LDP's rival at the time, apparently to help them form a moderate breakaway.

It is the first time the U.S. government has formally admitted having a covert financial program for Japanese politicians, a State Department official involved in compiling the document said.

The LDP has denied the CIA give the party financial support."

Okinawa - awamori

(Why was it left out?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbEwrMiMBbY

The US seems to be pushing toward WWIII. A hopeless war that they have absolutely no chance of winning. It will make a large dent in world population however and maybe that's the plan.

At least the leaders of China, NK and Russia are visible! I wonder who is pulling the strings in the US? It certainly isn't Biden.

Doesn't sound very democratic to me!

Not surprising considering the crippling taxes. No one can afford to start a family. Get rid of consumption tax!

The movie is going to have to be much better than the book. I couldn't get through it and gave up halfway through.

There is much more about this war and its consequences than we are being told in the media. This interview with Tucker Carlson is very revealing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbEwrMiMBbY

The Unification Church was founded in South Korea by a staunch anti-communist in 1954.

Well, that's not the whole story is it?

The Unification Church was set up by the Korean branch of the CIA.

This "church" also had strong connections with the Bush family and other politicians.

Why isn't the CIA being investigated?

Where are the pics of them without their purple robes?

(disappointed)

Bertie

Looking at the source of the attacks and negative stuff about Trump, I'm beginning to think he must be an alright guy.

"In written submissions, he and Mr Fitzgerald added: "The evidence showed that the US was prepared to go to any lengths, including misusing its own criminal justice system, to sustain impunity for US officials in respect of the torture/war crimes committed in its infamous 'war on terror', and to suppress those actors and courts willing and prepared to try to bring those crimes to account.

"Mr Assange was one of those targets."

The full article (BBC):

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68343097

The U.S.A. with its CIA should head the list. They have no respect for national borders. Al Quaeda, etc., etc.

Odd headline.

Did he make bomb threats in general while he was at the Osaka subway station, or were his threats directed at the station:

"Alright, station! You're going to get it now! I'm going to bomb you and your ticket barrier back to the last century!"

Chided?

He got chided? For what he did?

And he's still on post?

What!?

"In written submissions, he and Mr Fitzgerald added: "The evidence showed that the US was prepared to go to any lengths, including misusing its own criminal justice system, to sustain impunity for US officials in respect of the torture/war crimes committed in its infamous 'war on terror', and to suppress those actors and courts willing and prepared to try to bring those crimes to account.

"Mr Assange was one of those targets."

The full article (BBC):

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68343097

We need more like Assange to stand up to and expose the huge antisocial crimes of the CIA. Putin alluded to this in the recent interview. Of course Assange should be free. Exposing crimes is not a criminal act.