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Posted in: Another top donor says it will resume funding U.N. agency for Palestinians as Gaza hunger grows See in context

US blows you up (by proxy, so it's not their fault, right?) then hands you a Band Aid.

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Posted in: Execs at 4 major Japanese insurers to take pay cut over price fixing See in context

Do this elsewhere in the OECD and you're fined a hefty percentage of company earnings. These practices and the piss-poor penalties prevent Japanese companies from knowing how to compete in global markets.

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Posted in: Antitrust watchdog to warn Nissan for underpaying subcontractors See in context

Standard operating procedure: force your suppliers to become 'black kigyo' so that you can be Snow White. The same sleight of hand happens inside organisations between contract workers and seishain. There's a lot of Tatemae out there.

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Posted in: Japan refuses to grant visa to ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee now author See in context

Go plot to blow up a subway station in somebody else’s country instead.

What a clever boy! You tell 'em.

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Posted in: Japan refuses to grant visa to ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee now author See in context

His association with al-Qaida will always be a black mark against him.

"Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west."

Robin Cook

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development

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Posted in: Japan refuses to grant visa to ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee now author See in context

What do we expect from the country that awarded Donald Stuff Happens Rumsfeld the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun?

The movie's great, by the way.

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Posted in: Ian Lavender, the last surviving star of British sitcom 'Dad's Army,' dies at 77 See in context

So Ian Lavender arrives at the pearly gates and St Peter consulting his list says,

‘What is your name?’

From a nearby fluffy cloud comes a gruff voice,

‘Don’t tell him, Pike’

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Posted in: For the first time, an Irish nationalist will lead Northern Ireland's government See in context

Congratulations, Michelle.

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Posted in: Tokyo government to release official dating app See in context

Overreach doesn't begin to describe this.

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Posted in: Japan Airlines gets first woman president See in context

More of this, please.

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Posted in: The best 7 destinations in Japan’s least popular prefectures See in context

Hitachi Seaside Park feels like a repurposed old slag heap or landfill site.

Just sayin'

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Posted in: Japanese travelers more stressed than others sitting next to strangers on planes: survey See in context

Do you get into arguments with countries you share the planet with?

U.S.: 100 percent

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Posted in: Ireland takes UK to European court over 'Troubles' amnesty law See in context

Can you also put a list of crimes the IRA did commit, just to put true perspective and colour on your very biased post. It'll be quite an extensive list.

Thank you for your question.

Both Irish republican and British loyalist paramilitaries were sentenced and imprisoned for their indeed extensive crimes throughout the duration of the conflict. Many of those cases remain unsolved.

This British government legislation *ends ***ALL** historical investigations, including IRA, etc. bombings and shootings, leaving victims' families, regardless of their identities and affiliations, with no hope of closure or justice.

Between 2011 and 2021 Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service convicted 3 republican suspects, 2 loyalists and 0 military. There remain 2 active cases against republicans, 2 against loyalists, and 4 military.

Source: https://factcheckni.org/topics/law/a-british-army-veteran-who-served-in-ni-during-the-troubles-is-54x-more-likely-to-be-prosecuted/

At stake are the grave civil rights implications allowing the extrajudicial killings of UK citizens on UK soil.

Perhaps the Ministry of Defence fears that a legal precedent might embolden the families of Afghans executed in cold blood by the SAS?

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Posted in: Irish PM 'deeply concerned' by fire at property earmarked for migrants See in context

I hope Ireland does not introduce the draconian system that the UK is planning which is aimed at splitting up Married Couples with a partner of non-Irish origin.

Why would it?

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Posted in: Japanese singer marks 30 years of visiting leprosy colony See in context

Scary that a 1907 quarantine law with no medical basis was only scrapped in 1996.

Mind you, many reading this would have been separated from our loved ones only a short time ago, too.

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Posted in: Ireland takes UK to European court over 'Troubles' amnesty law See in context

The Troubles is a sordid and cynical euphemism for a late 20th century civil war within the UK, ignited by the charismatic populist Ian Paisley's campaign of sectarian hatred against minority Catholics in the mid 1960s.

This culminated in false flag bombing attacks on Northern Ireland's infrastructure by British-identity gangs, but blamed on the (then very) dormant Irish Republican Army (IRA). Radicalised by what they believed to be acts of 'Irish' terror, working class Protestants attacked their Catholic neighbours, and our dark days descended.

British troops were welcomed into the Catholic Falls Road as peacemakers, but weren't long in deploying Major Frank Kitson's 'Gangs and Counter-gangs' playbook of running 'friendly local agents' in counter-insurgency operations against the Mau Mau in Kenya.

Crimes the British government seeks to avoid prosecution for include but aren't limited to:

Ballymurphy Massacre, Belfast, August 1971: 11 civilians shot dead by British Army Parachute Regiment;

Bloody Sunday, Derry, January 1972: 14 civilians shot dead by British Army Parachute Regiment;

Dublin and Monaghan bombings, May 1974: 34 killed by bombs too sophisticated for NI's gangs to build;

Glenanne Gang killings, 1972-1980: (includes Dublin and Monaghan bombings) 76 mostly Catholic civilians killed by an unholy alliance of British military intelligence, formal militias and gangs.

'Stakeknife:' a British Army Force Research Unit agent in the IRA - did the British government knowingly allow 40 people to be killed by the IRA's Internal Security Unit to protect his cover?

The majority of these well documented killings were perpetrated in the UK by British government agents.

Then Prime Minister David Cameron apologised in Parliament for Bloody Sunday in June 2010. The official coroner's report on Ballymurphy finally cleared the victims' long-impugned names a whole 50 years later. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, perhaps with an eye on this article's topic, made no public apology.

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Posted in: Israeli airstrikes kill dozens across central and southern Gaza See in context

Create a secular state that respects - but isn't subordinate to - the Abrahamic faiths the land gave birth to.

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Posted in: Oil firm ENEOS president dismissed after hugging woman while drunk See in context

Don't fuel the fossils.

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Posted in: Irish PM 'deeply concerned' by fire at property earmarked for migrants See in context

The Irish people know when they are being conned

Indeed. There's a powerful backlash against Tommy Robinson, Britain First and other fascist agitators.

¡No Pasarán!

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Posted in: Stay warm with heating wrist rest See in context

Instant landfill that'll be shiny with sweat in no time.

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Posted in: Sunak gambles on return of Cameron to win over moderate voters See in context

Remember when he was the worst PM in history?

He'll never be forgiven for Brexit or the Bedroom Tax.

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Posted in: Man arrested in Japan for stealing credit card info via web skimming See in context

Only in Japan:

Hacker faxes bomb threat

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Posted in: Car rams into barricade near Israel Embassy in Tokyo; man detained See in context

...a member of a right-wing group

Curiouser and curiouser.

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Posted in: Publishing exec gets suspended sentence over Tokyo Olympics bribery See in context

“The belief in the fairness of the Law has been damaged,” Nakao never said

Tax authorities will hound you for a pittance, but blatantly steal from the taxpayer and you get a suspended sentence.

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Posted in: Top-ranked Ireland beats South Africa 13-8 See in context

What a sublime start to Sunday.

Go Ireland!

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Posted in: Shibuya mayor says 'Don't come' for Halloween See in context

Find a big corporate sponsor to pay for bins, crowd control and first aid stations.

Stop every other Yamanote Line train from stopping at Shibuya at the first sign of dangerous congestion.

Manage pedestrian flows at potential bottlenecks.

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Posted in: William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' dies at 87 See in context

Doyle: Gimme a Jack Daniels,

Barman: Jack qui?

Doyle: Yeah, gimme a Jackie Daniels.

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Posted in: Thousands of UK hospital doctors walk out in latest pay dispute, crippling health services See in context

What about the loadsamoney Brexit was going to give the NHS?

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Posted in: Man arrested over death of 65-year-old father in Fukuoka See in context

a dispatch worker, 

Koizumi's legacy: companies sitting on mountains of cash preying on dispatch workers who struggle to make ends meet.

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