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Seeing their students on trains I have got the sense the place is like a military school, females in uniforms with similar hairstyles all walking the same way.

Condolences to her family and friends, rot the rest of your lives to those involved in bullying, and to any in management that might have turned blind eyes.

Congratulations JAXA and especially the SLIM team members!

Slowly but surely the world is trying to move out of the fossil era, backward nations like Iran and backward states like Texas will be stuck in the past, perhaps at a time they thought their places were great. Texans can still get on their ponies and ride.

@rainy day: That is a statement of opinion, not fact.

In the 'minds' of the extreme right, their feels and beliefs in myths, trump evidence.

@bss: You forgot to throw in Democrats to that criticism.

'That would be, and whatabout', no original thoughts beyond an occasional parrot of the extreme right's gross loser, the golf cheater, or Moscow media.LOL

Still, some Republicans

"Republicans', that's a joke of a name, there's little remaining of what was the Republican Party, beyond its members looking out for the wealthiest US Americans, now its leadership and membership are solely loyal to the previous guy, and not the country, especially those Americans and foreigners with the most money, and the corporations they control. The previous guy has scammed his followers into supporting him financially and are leaving the Republican Party to follow him and his whims. All they have left is performance patriotism and angry criticism about the country and a long list of 'others'. They have no policies that benefit the majority of US citizens, and many want to support certain brutal dictators, especially ones the previous guy admires because he says they are 'strong and savvy'.

His credentials aside

Takao will likely be used, then discarded via email, spoken about with disdain, then later might write a tell-all detailing the extreme madness of X-45, perhaps providing details of the various fraud schemes he was forced to be involved in in Asia and throughout the globe.

The CPEC, also known as the One Road Project

As China and its partner Russia continue to expand their respective (collective perhaps) empires beyond their own territorial borders, the world gets increasingly unsafe. This could be especially true in regions where Chinese and Russian spheres of influence overlap. China and Russia are geographically huge, both are resource rich, yet they continue to try to take more land and more resources in their imperialistic grabs

@HopeSE: roads lead to Kiev

the above is another example of disinform and dash, D&D, a hallmark of flamers

@thub: It seems that Russian voters are unconvinced by grainy videos from foreign websites.

But will they continue to be convinced by their Putin who's told so many lies, including 'not going to invade Ukraine'? But cowed Russians have a long history of accepting lies from their leaders, often with a rifle pointed at their head. Many favoring totalitarianism do so because they believe big brother will protect them from their enemies, real and imagined. Sadly in the case of this hideous massacre the state did not protect them, and scores are dead because of big brother Putin's failures.How many more years of Putin as big brother do Russians have? How many more nations will Putin make enemies of, putting Russians at even greater risk of more wars needing to be fought?

"kill everyone involved. Everyone. Those who paid, those who sympathized, those who helped. Kill them all

THe above from Maddog Medvedev, is one more example of Russia remaining led by people who live by rules set by their cavemen ancestors and extreme right supports of caveman values. Or maybe it's just a Russian version of their Christian values.

The article doesn't mention it but the eleven suspects arrested were Tajiks.

How are Russia and its partner China involved there? And could it be that many in Central Asia do not like China and Russia's involvement there, or anywhere else, like Syria, for example?

fleeing to Ukraine.

Of course the Kremlin's propagandists need to feed 'Ukraine bad' to their true believing masses, so Putin can justify keeping his bloody war in Ukraine going.

Who knows who was responsible this barbaric act, and it could be given the Kremlin's inability to be open and transparent the general public will never know. But it can be expected that the Kremlin will milk the tragedy in all ways they can. Putin and the Kremlin failed to protect Russians because of their hubris.

@nik: muddy the waters agai n

icriticizing the 'west' as hegemon, while cheering for China to be hegemonic, that is the muddied 'reasoning' expected from the ovine proponents of totalitarianism.

@Desert Tort:  It seems US intelligence was correct.

I agree, but don't expect the Russiaphiles, some from theUS and elsewhere to believe what comes from the US, for whatever reason these anti-democracy extremists have long believed what comes from the Kremlin, its proxy media and theirFlorida based cult/cartel leader, himself a supporter of Russia and its brand of government.

@Tokyo Living? : Japan, stop doing stupid things

Mighty rich from those that support Russia's invasion, butchering civilians and war Why not 'Russia stop doing stupid things, especially stupid things like murdering children and putting the world at risk of global warfare. Maybe 'Moscow Living' would be better for some? Japan is and has been a peaceful nation for a long time, people actually living here should appreciate of what we have.

Hideous that civilians were murdered. But the Kremlin has to be looked at for possible involvement, as does Putin himself, recall the 'apartment bombings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings

Putin the ex-Stasi/KGB agent knows the power of scaremongering as do all despots and despot-wannabes, even dictators for just for one day. I hope for the sake of ordinary Russian citizens that the Russian state did not once again destroy the lives of hundreds of people who wanted to hear some rock music

the American people overwhelmingly support Israel’s war,

About as many Americans favor (36%) as oppose (34%) sending military aid to Israel. But public opinion tilts more strongly in favor of providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, with 50% in favor and just 19% opposed https://www.pewresearch.org/2024/03/21/views-of-the-u-s-role-in-the-israel-hamas-war/#:~:text=About%20as%20many%20Americans%20favor,favor%20and%20just%2019%25%20opposed.

'Overwhelmingly support? Johnson is Trumplican so he will spin, stretch and misinform in keeping with his master.

Trumplicans who want to break from allies and go it alone in something they call America first', are now saying Israel is an important ally, but then they have shown their flip flopperyness for a long time.

@usreamer; Naive from the sticks meets Shady out of left field

Sadly over the years the above has happened in various entertainment fields, Various fields in general, grifters easily suss out the vulnerable, plenty of marks for sharks to prey on.Often the sharks are politicians from the elite establishment.

I feel bad for Ohtani Senshu, I want to believe he will be cleared, he has been one of the best things to happen to MLB.If he's implicated in gambling his MLB career could be over.

The CCP seem to believe they already are Borg in part because their warmongering vassal state Russia and who knows which other despot ruled nations bow down to them.

"a little bit nasty"

The previous guy has the language skills and debate style of a schoolboy , which is little different from his cult members.

 making a weak argument.

A 'whatabout is among the weakest, right along with 'that would be', basic elementary schoolyard retorts, expected from the rabid cult/cabal parrots.

What 'constitutionalist wants a dictator uber alles? Refer to the actual US Constitution, and US history when the balance of power issues were thoroughly discussed.

Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court

Given Trump and his swamp appointed several justices one of which has a spouse who's long been a 'stolen election' extremist, and other justices who have been shown to be supportive of Trump and his billionaire class by being bought off with expensive gifts, it should come as no surprise if the justices abandon their role as part of the balance of power and find in favor of the loser politician that wants to be king/dictator and who commands a rabid well-armed force willing to commit further violence against anyone that does not support their lord and master, if their cult/cabal leader is deemed responsible for any of his numerous blunders, blunders which would be crimes for ordinary citizens. X-45 and some of the justices believe they are above justice, that laws are for the 'others', not them.

controlled by the elites

To many extremists 'elites' is synonymous with 'bad guys', but for them 'elites' does not include their idols like Putin, one of the richest and most powerful people in the world, nor does it include their US idol, leader of a major political party/cartel, a serial conman with personal and business connections to others among the globe's richest and most powerful. Putin is well known for controlling media in his large sphere of influence and beyond, just like his fellow authoritarians around the world.

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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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.

@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.

@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?

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.

@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'.