Posted in: Gunman fires into crowd outside Philadelphia bar; 4 critically wounded See in context
Maybe it has something to do with the Philadelphia District Attorney's policy of releasing violent criminals into the community. The DA, Larry Krasner, was elected with funding from one of George Soros's front organizations.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/06/27/larry-krasner-reforms-philadelphia/
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Posted in: Myanmar junta puts on show of force as protest-hit nation resists See in context
Toasted HereticToday 04:11 pm JST
I have no doubt that the people will eventually triumph.
Not just over this terrible junta, but over all the dictators like Xi, Putin etc.
The Myanmar military has murdered 330 people. The US has murdered millions in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... and most here are OK with that.
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Posted in: Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks See in context
JsapcToday 10:59 am JST
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_February_2021_v6.jpg
Roy Spencer is a kook who supports "intelligent design" over the theory of evolution. I would rather trust the vast majority of the scientific community than what he says.
This is just a graph, raw data only--no commentary or narrative.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_February_2021_v6.jpg
More data is available at https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
You can rely on narratives supplied by known fools, like Al Gore, according to whose predictions we are already extinct, or examine the data and draw your own conclusions.
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Posted in: Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks See in context
JsapcToday 08:21 am JST
You obviously have no idea what your grandchildren will have to face if climate change isn't stopped. There is no hyperbole here. Please educate yourself.
Reliable satellite data on average atmospheric temperatures, available since 1979 show a one-fifth of a degree temperature rise (over 40+ years)..
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_February_2021_v6.jpg
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Posted in: Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks See in context
PTownsendToday 08:00 am JST
Good on Biden! However, he must know Russia's wealth and power is based primarily on its huge oil, gas and coal reserves, and on its global expansion aimed at increasing its control of oil, gas and their shipment.
Thankfully, US and EU sanctions have forced Russia to diversify its economy away from energy production.
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Posted in: Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks See in context
itsonlyrocknrollToday 10:10 am JST
In the Government of China case, it is fully at ease in choking a sizable proportion of city dwellers to death
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/reference/japan-continues-rely-coal-eyes-coal-fired-plants-despite-global-criticism/
The pollution from Japanese coal-fired plants generally blows eastward, into the Pacific. Japan has also increased its exports of coal-fired plants to developing countries, providing ODA for financing.
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Posted in: Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks See in context
proxyToday 07:55 am JST
Why would Putin be interested in anything Biden has to say?
The answer is to resurrect George W, whose Bushisms made all his atrocities almost bearable. Remember, "The future will be better tomorrow."
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Posted in: With anti-Asian hate in U.S. rising, parents grapple over whether to talk to their children See in context
Burning BushToday 07:04 am JST
Is "anti-Asian hate" really rising among everyday average 9 to 5 Americans or is the media just trying to make it seem like it is.
I think it's mainly envy, but sometimes hate.
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Posted in: With anti-Asian hate in U.S. rising, parents grapple over whether to talk to their children See in context
PTownsendToday 07:55 am JST
The above a perspective of those from a majority culture (somewhere) refusing to accept the reality racism permeates US society.
Once again the global far right are denying racism is real.
Once again the global far right are making claims reasonable people wouldn't believe.
The only discrimination/racism I see is against Asians, who, for example, are excluded from elite US universities by quotas. Other groups get preferential treatment--affirmative action. (except working-class white males)
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Posted in: China sanctions UK lawmakers and lobby groups over Xinjiang as rift widens with West See in context
Desert TortoiseToday 01:43 am JST
It is a free country with a free press, religious freedom, a vigorous political opposition and highly contested elections. In short, Taiwan is everything mainland China isn't but could be absent the CCP.
TAIPEI (Reuters) NOVEMBER 18, 2020- Taiwan refused on Wednesday to renew the license of a news channel widely seen as pro-China, effectively shutting it down, citing evidence of interference from a Beijing-friendly tycoon amid fears over China’s campaign to win support on the island.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-media-china-idUSKBN27Y0YA
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Posted in: China sanctions UK lawmakers and lobby groups over Xinjiang as rift widens with West See in context
Desert TortoiseToday 12:48 am JST
Tulsi Gabbard: “She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.”
The facts: It’s false to say Harris kept prisoners incarcerated beyond their sentences. Lawyers in Harris’ attorney general office did unsuccessfully argue against the early release of prisoners, citing needed inmate firefighting labor — but Harris said they did so without her knowledge and publicly criticized the statement at the time.
The facts; Harris’ lawyers insisted that the order would cause a void in the prison labor pool that paid incarcerated people between 8 and 37 cents an hour, the Times reported.
https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-federal-judges-order-state-to-release-more-prisoners-20141114-story.html
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Posted in: China sanctions UK lawmakers and lobby groups over Xinjiang as rift widens with West See in context
Boycott all companies that use prison slave labor. Here's the list.
https://www.buycott.com/campaign/companies/504/boycott-companies-that-use-prison-labor
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Posted in: China sanctions UK lawmakers and lobby groups over Xinjiang as rift widens with West See in context
The US oligarch-controlled media goes on and on about 'forced labor' in Xinjiang. The US prison system, by far the largest in the world, dominated by private prisons, pays prisoners $10-$20 per MONTH for slave labor jobs! K Harris, vice president, prevented prisoners from being released from jail after completing their sentences because California had a contract with private prisons to provide a minimum quota of prison slave laborers to the private prison companies.
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Posted in: Muji store operator says it is 'deeply concerned' about forced labor reports in China See in context
So, I guess they'll move their slave-labor factories to Myanmar, or North Korea.
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Posted in: Japan says North Korea missile launch threatens peace See in context
I guess hating, isolating and sanctioning North Korea doesn't work.
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Posted in: Gov't to use ¥2.17 tril from reserve funds for virus-hit businesses, households See in context
"reserve fund" ? They can print any amount of yen they choose. They can make us all trillionaires, just like in Zimbabwe.
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Posted in: China crackdown cuts Big Tech down to size See in context
In China, the government controls the oligarchs. In the US, the oligarchs control the government.
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Posted in: 26th anniversary of Aum subway gas attack observed in Tokyo See in context
EvilBuddhaToday 05:55 pm JST
"Komeito, run by the Buddhist Soka Gakkai, and a member of the government at the time was sensitive to issues of religious freedom and resisted more aggressive action against AUM."
Pulling things out of thin air.
Aum's animosity towards the Soka Gakkai is well documented. Some Aum members had tried to assassinate Soka Gakkai leaders earlier, and the initial plan for that fateful day was to wrap sarin gas vials in Soka Gakkai newspapers so that suspicion falls on them instead of Aum.
Your knowledge of this subject is far superior to mine. I admit I probably got this one wrong.
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Posted in: 26th anniversary of Aum subway gas attack observed in Tokyo See in context
P. SmithToday 04:59 pm JST
A great read about Aum is Cult at the end of the World. It details the rise of Aum, the NPA’s failure to take action despite being begged to do so by people kidnapped by Aum, the attack, and its aftermath. It’s sickening how many chances the NPA had to take action that would have prevented the gas attack.
I think there are two reasons why the NPA were reluctant to take action against AUM.
AUM bribed many politicians. You don't get permission to import 2 Russian military helicopters (for the purpose of spraying sarin) without high-level support, for example.
Kometo, run by the Buddhist Soka Gakkai, and a member of the government at the time was sensitive to issues of religious freedom and resisted more aggressive action against AUM.0 ( +4 / -4 )
Posted in: Athletes anticipate duller Olympics but still with a glint of gold See in context
A Japanese-only Olympics means all medals will be won by Japanese. This will do a lot to boost national self-esteem.
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Posted in: BOJ holds negative rates; tweaks monetary easing policy See in context
Print, print, print money until you can print no more. That's not a policy, it's desperation.
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Posted in: U.S., China wrap up testy face-to-face talks See in context
viking68Today 09:58 am JST
The US cannot compete with China. Period.
Agreed, the average income in China is about USD10k compared with USD30K in the US. Hard to compete with that as a cost base. That is even excluding the spill over costs of pollution that companies there don't need to pay, the stolen technology, and disposable workforce.
Cost of living is also far lower in China. Disposable workforce? China has nothing to teach the US on this.
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Posted in: U.S., China wrap up testy face-to-face talks See in context
viking68Today 10:57 am JST
You can start with your smart phone.
Assembled in China. Not made in China.
Apparently, the US cannot manage to even assemble phones or computers. 80% of the components of medicines produced in Asia--who needs medicines, anyway?
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Posted in: U.S., China wrap up testy face-to-face talks See in context
sunfunbunToday 11:03 am JST
America doesn't need any help making a mockery of itself.
Americans don't worry about getting poisoned and killed if they happen to say so, themselves.
China and Russia? SHHHHHH!!!! Or you know, they'll convince you otherwise.
30% of young Black Americans in prison, daily police shootings, declining life expectancy, widespread homelessness, 7 ongoing wars... And the US lecturing the world about human rights?
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Posted in: Biden, Harris offer solace to Asian Americans, denounce racism in Atlanta visit See in context
bass4funkToday 10:58 am JST
I'd hardly call what Tucker Carlson says as newsworthy or honest
You don’t, but 9 million people do.
You can watch Tucker Carlson and not believe everything he says. Likewise other media.
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Posted in: Biden, Harris offer solace to Asian Americans, denounce racism in Atlanta visit See in context
P. SmithToday 10:49 am JST
Discrimination restricting Asian students in top US universities comes from so-called 'liberals'.
No, it doesn’t because there is no racism restricting Asian students from top US universities.
Simply not true. The limit is 20% and includes both Asian-Americans and foreign Asian applicants. In the 1930's to the 50's, the limit on Jews in Ivy League universities was 5%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_quota
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Posted in: Biden, Harris offer solace to Asian Americans, denounce racism in Atlanta visit See in context
JimizoToday 10:45 am JST
A Tucker Carlson monologue is not a serious thing to refer to in a adult discussion. This is right wing Sesame Street. Same goes for monologues from CNN talking heads.
Tucker Carlson is right about 50% of the time, whereas CNN is close to 0%.
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Posted in: Biden, Harris offer solace to Asian Americans, denounce racism in Atlanta visit See in context
AttilathehungryToday 10:17 am JST
In reality a lot of the attacks, perhaps a majority, have nothing to do with 'white supremacy'. This sad case may be more to do with sex addiction than anything else.US
US fake news media propaganda line--whenever a Black is the victim of inter-racial crime, it is a hate crime. Whenever a white or Asian is the victim, it is something else. A Twitter tweet by the murderer in the Atlanta shootings (since disappeared) indicated he hated Asians.
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Posted in: Biden, Harris offer solace to Asian Americans, denounce racism in Atlanta visit See in context
PTownsendToday 10:04 am JST
Words have consequences. Especially when those words are intended to be heard by America's easily angered far right, white nationalists.
Trump’s ‘Chinese Virus’ Tweet Helped Fuel Anti-Asian Hate On Twitter, Study Finds
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/03/19/trumps-chinese-virus-tweet-helped-fuel-anti-asian-hate-on-twitter-study-finds/?sh=3d87948c1a7c
Anti-Asian racism in the US is not right-wing or left-wing, it is both wings. Discrimination restricting Asian students in top US universities comes from so-called 'liberals'.
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Posted in: Biden, Harris offer solace to Asian Americans, denounce racism in Atlanta visit See in context
They can start by eliminating quotas which limit the number of Asians in US top universities.
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Good for him but his latest movie has hit Japan like a bomb
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