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Posted in: Trump unable to post $464 mil bond in New York civil case: lawyers See in context

it should be no surprise to reasonable people that those calling a kangaroo court the many trials of the former golfer in chief, are those that have long parroted Kremlin media, perhaps as Kremlin employees or maybe just because they're useful idiots for the Kremlin.

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Posted in: India to begin voting on April 19 in world's largest election See in context

making the minorities 'others' 

And/or dehumanizing them to the point where the despot claims the others are not even people, and they do not speak languages.

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Posted in: Putin basks in electoral victory that was never in doubt even as Russians quietly protest See in context

@JJE: peace candidate" to kow-tow to Kyiv. 

I have not yet heard those claiming they want Russia to 'kow-tow' to Kyiv, but have heard many say they want Russia to stop murdering civilians and making more people houseless, the latter could be possible after Putin pulls his murdering hordes out of Ukraine and back into actual Russian territory, Russia is geographically huge, plenty of land, no need for more.

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Posted in: Putin basks in electoral victory that was never in doubt even as Russians quietly protest See in context

@JJE: The NYT reported

If that's the caae it should have been easy to provide a link. Unless... of course, there was no report. And the NYT is what anti-democracy folks call corporate media, which they cannot trust. So why would you believe it?

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Posted in: India to begin voting on April 19 in world's largest election See in context

A main talking point has also been his party's agenda for Hindu reawakening

I'm sorry to see the world's largest democracy led by a 'strongman' ( a term that has an array of connotations, to me closest in meaning to 'oppressor') like Modi who does what despots have long done which is appeal to the majority, creating a tyranny of the majority, while making the minorities 'others' and positing the 'others' in some hideous way, making it easdier for the others to be scapegoated and marginalized, which is easier to do in an extreme caste based system like India.

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Posted in: Fatal Ukrainian strikes rock Russia as vote cements Putin's grip See in context

@Lincolnman: conduct a series of false-flag attacks on your own people to blame on the enemy to inflame public opinion....and in this case help turn out the vote

Putin was first chosen to be dictator, while blitzing his nation-to-be with all forms of scaremongering, while apartment buildings were being blown up, cowed Russians thought if they got a 'strong' leader, in this case strong is closer in meaning to 'butcher', they could be saved from the others, real and imagined. Not surprising that tactic has been used by despots throughout history, and is still used today, look at the US where a rainbow frightens so many blind sheep, as does saying the word 'border'.

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Posted in: Fatal Ukrainian strikes rock Russia as vote cements Putin's grip See in context

@Taiwan is not China: Putin is bringing only death to Russia.

But they have no alternatives to being led by warmonger Putin, so they will continue being led by the little monster, like their ancestors were by Stalin, the tsars, and other brutal leaders, keeping Russia and its neighbors, plus the rest of the globe at risk of perpetual state of war, which most of them, along with other pro-authoritarians seem to relish.

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Posted in: Judge delays Trump’s hush-money criminal trial 30 days See in context

Lib justice? Once again the X45 cartel boosters shiow their hatred for the US

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Posted in: Judge delays Trump’s hush-money criminal trial 30 days See in context

Dems are not praying for a miracle, they and others that want to see Justice prevail, expect to see the US judicial system left to do its Constitutional duty and treat all citizens, even the privileged elite like Abu Ivanka be treated equally what is the golfer afraid of.

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Posted in: Biden opposes plan to sell U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, citing need for 'American steel workers' See in context

Re foreigners taking American jobs, why don’t US Americans want to be medical doctors or nurses, it’s not just meat plant workers US Americans don’t want to be

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Posted in: Ceremony held to mark 79th anniversary of U.S. firebombings of Tokyo See in context

The fire bombings in my opinion were war crimes that resulted from Imperial Japans hyper aggression and unnecessary violence against others

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Posted in: Trump asks to delay hush money trial until Supreme Court reviews immunity claim See in context

Why doesn’t he want a speedy trial, if he is running for office he should want to clear his name, and show he is innocent. He has claimed to be clairvoyant one of his many wack claims, maybe he foresees his inept decisions have finally caught up with him, but that is doubtful he is unable to think of himself as anything but perfect a person who has been victimized

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Posted in: Japan sees China's military buildup as serious concern See in context

@psuedo: More dialog is needed to avoid unnecessary conflicts

As an old teacher used to say, "in a perfect world I'd agree with you, and then he'd follow that with, but we aren't living in a perfect world are, we?"

And with global leader like Xi and his partner in expansionism Putin, who as you might recall claimed Russia wasn't invading Ukraine, what reasonable person could trust anything said by them, or their favorite western pol, the previous guy, the convicted sexual predator notorious for constant lying.

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Posted in: Ukraine claims it has sunk another Russian warship in Black Sea using high-tech sea drones See in context

@JJE: in even bigger news overnight 

I hve not read that, but I do not read Russian propaganda, any sources for those that do not speak Russian, and do not read Russian proxy media.

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Posted in: China sets ambitious 5% growth target for 2024; military spending to rise by 7.2% See in context

cementing his rule as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong

Cementing his rule over billions stuck under his control for possibly many years to come, giving Xi still more time to destroy the lives of more people than Mao. Mao had progtrams to further restrict the rights of Chinese citizens, plus had China involved militarily in wars in Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia. Will Xi and the CCP with a larger defense budget get involved more in wars to expand China's vast territory, or help his partner Putin with his expansionist aims, or will Putin and Xi be rivals for territories they both are currently involved with, see areas involved in China's Belt and Road and Putin's Eurasian Economic Union, and might want to claim as their own. Are China and Russia acting together to further cement their global power, aided by Iran, North Korea and extreme right politicians and their ovine hordes around the globe?

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Posted in: Putin ally says 'Ukraine is Russia' and historical territory needs to 'come home' See in context

Medvedev ruled out peace talks with the current Ukrainian leadership

The above is a reminder to the Putin-stans posting here, that it's your regime saying no peace talks.Another reminder to the anti-democracy herds; it's your Russia that initiated the military actions, Russia sent its little green men to places near Russia's borders to ramp up hostilities and provide weapons to those that want to once again be controlled from Moscow. Today it's Russia that's the warmongering empire wanting to further expand its vast territories, and that does not want to be part of a world in which they do not control the globe, and Russia has partners like Iran, North Korea, China and right wingers in many western nations supporting Russia's quest to be the borg.

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Posted in: 24 fishermen rescued from half-submerged ship in rough seas off Izu islands; 1 dead See in context

Congratulations to the Coast Guard and the crew involved in the rescue. Emergency services personnel in all fields are heroes.

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Posted in: Haley wins DC Republican primary and gets her first 2024 victory See in context

@HopeSE: globalist donor cash in the process.

Using a Nazi expression like glob.... is consistent with those supporting the extreme right, and their ilk. But not surprising that they support Putin, Xi and their regimes, two of the globe's most powerful individuals leading oppressive regimes not that different from the Nazi's of the last century.

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Posted in: City in Saitama Prefecture to require multilingual trash rules posted for foreigners See in context

Hats off to my neighbors in their 90's that try to ensure the nets are in place early in the morning.

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Posted in: Woman clutching an infant found in rubble of Ukraine building after Russian drone strike See in context

@blaclabel: All of this death could been avoided on both sides by at least starting negotiations after the “spring offensive” failed.

Another stream in the firehose of falsehoods, following the extremist's propaganda playbook. Keep repeating disinformation and suckers everywhere might believe it, whilw buying gold painted sneakers, NFTs or just donating money to a conman.

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Posted in: Woman clutching an infant found in rubble of Ukraine building after Russian drone strike See in context

@thubs: Zelensky is coming to terms with the fact that achieving his aims by force

Someone has forgotten that it was Putin, supported by right wing extremists around the globe, that has been trying to achieve his aims by force. If there is to be peace in Ukraine it might come after Putin pulls his baby killing invaders out of Ukraine, and sends them back to mother Russia, where hopefully the Kremlin's warmongers will keep them in Russia and not try to start another war in any other former SSR or anywhere else around the world.

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Posted in: City in Saitama Prefecture to require multilingual trash rules posted for foreigners See in context

Good because the rules can be confusing. My small neighborhood in Kansai, is 100% Japanese people, minus me, yet often someone has to clean up around the garbage bag disposal area because a person was perhaps too busy and/or too important to properly secure the garbage bag they threw onto the pile. There have long been signs written in Japanese along with pictures advising people. And some people ignore the rules on what to throw away on what day and just dump whatever they want to whenever they want to. It's not always just us foreigners who don't follow rules.

On a recycle aside, have any of the governments issued reports on what is ultimately done with the glass, cans and plastics we put out for recycle?

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Posted in: Woman clutching an infant found in rubble of Ukraine building after Russian drone strike See in context

“Delays in the delivery of weapons to Ukraine, as well as air defense to protect our people, unfortunately result in such losses,”

But the extreme right in the US under the direction of a serial failure and conman could not care one rat's about it because the convicted sexual predator told them not to. They are willing to see democracies around the world be further threatened by expanding fascist regimes. They claim they don't want US dollars spent to protect the notion of democracy, while they send their own dollars to a politician that wants to be dictator like Putin - the fascist, and many of his followers are like their idol in that they refuse to pay federal taxes, at least some of them are honest and admit they do not like the US, they actually want, like their heroine Margie Q Green says, to separate red rom blue states, i.e. see the country broken up like their ancestors who lost the US Civil War, while claiming to be 'patriots'.

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Posted in: Oil spill, fertilizer leak from sinking of cargo ship highlight risks to Red Sea from Houthi attacks See in context

@blacklabel: why don’t we focus money and resources on these types of issues

Which 'we' this time? It seems the Iran/Russia side the global right supports is focusing money and resources there, or do you want them to spend less money trying to destroy Ukraine and expand farther into other parts of Eurasia?

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Posted in: 21% of quake-hit Japan area hospital's nurses may quit amid crisis See in context

The potential exodus poses challenges for the hospital

Given Japan is earthquake and natural catastrophe prone, it should be assumed similar problems could occur elsewhere in the archipelago. Though Japan has done a lot to prepare for catastrophic events, it needs to factor in problems like the Noto Peninsula is currently trying to deal with in future planning; instead of taking what appears to be a variation on a just-in-time response.

Find more ways to keep emergency services workers satisfied with their careers, and make careers in emergency response more appealing to Japanese. Plus give more reasons for qualified emergency workers to want to come to Japan and further develop their skills here.

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Posted in: Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa kills 7 See in context

Pro-Russian warmongers continue to support Putin's War, even applauding civilian deaths and the destruction of civilian residences in a war which Putin started and can finish by pulling his baby-killing troops out of Ukraine and sending them back into Russia.

Russia is a huge country and does not need more territory, Putin and the Kremlin need to focus on solving the many problems within recognized Russian territory, not create problems near Russia's borders. Russia needs to learn to live on a planet which they do not fully control. Same with Russia's enabler China.

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Posted in: Trump is not isolationist, former U.S. envoy to Japan believes See in context

"Trump has been clear

'Clear' perhaps to his MAGAs that are for whatever reason able to interpret the gibberish he spews, and perhaps to the aging populations in the US, who like him are dealing with advanced stages of dementia, and have lost their ability to reason beyond parroting something heard or read by a poorly educated Internet influencer who might not be a US citizen.

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Posted in: Hungary's Orban says Trump's comeback as president 'only serious chance' for end of Ukraine war See in context

@strangereL: t looks like he may get 5 or 6.

The 'he' in the above refers to the failed insurrectionist, the guy from Florida that called the mostly Black election workers 'Riggers' which made his lilly MAGAs titter, any other reasonable person see him for what he actually is, which is the gross divider, a guy doing the bidding of despots around the globe

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Posted in: Hungary's Orban says Trump's comeback as president 'only serious chance' for end of Ukraine war See in context

@toblerone: the US look old, weak and decayin

In general I agree, and the globe's authoritarians via theirand MAGA's authoritarian wannabe the TP Guy, his GQOP lemmings and his rabid idolators are doing whatever they can to weaken the country even more by further dividing it. Spare me your 'that would be's'. MAGAs have the freedom to move to a country like Belarus, where they can be controlled by an authoritarian directly controlled by the far right's uthoritarian in chief. The grand Kleptocrat, the baby killer itself, Vlad the Barbarian. MAGAs like their idol and his media express their hatred of the US, while somehow claiming to be something they call in their lexicon 'patriots'

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Posted in: Hong Kong's plan for a new national security law deepens fears over eroding civil liberties See in context

@Protest:  once the CCP is given the boot

That would be nice to think, but I worry that large numbers of individuals in countries like Chin, and its partner authoritarian states, want to be controlled by big brother in some form; that they might even fear personal freedom, which they've never dealt with nor have many of their ancestors. What worries me even more are those living in democracies that want to be ruled by an authoritarian regime, even though some of their ancestors might have fought in wars against authoritarian regimes.

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