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TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  03:49 am JST

*Myanmar agreeing to elections

Fat chance, snowball in Hades. Get rid of that rotten junta first.

Remember 1990? There were elections that year, and they were cancelled.

> > Myanmar's ruling military declared a state of emergency in multiple regions.

They have declared a 'state of emergency' since 1962. That's nothing new.

"The state will make inquiries on the situation quickly and conduct rescue operations along with providing humanitarian aid," it said on the Telegram messaging app.

Uh-huh. When this huge typhoon hit the region really bad about 10 years ago, relief from nearby US and UK Navy vessels gave assistance to Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Malaysia, etc. But Myanmar wouldn't even let them in. Their excuse was that they 'didn't want it falling into the wrong hands', that is - all those ethnic groups they're waging internal wars against. Those ethnic groups speak languages and use writing systems that the regime doesn't like.

The scummy dictatorship blocked all the ports. Nothing could get in.

And now the question is: Is the Myanmar junta going to pull that rotten stunt again this time? Are they going to keep using those same lame excuses?

1glennMar. 27  10:00 pm JST

Doing his best to destroy the world order. Thanks for nothing, Orange Pumpkin.

Taking it out on everybody else, for no damn good reason. What did Canada, Japan, anyone do to deserve this? And like the fascist pig that he is, he's squealing about 'everybody is against us, waaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!'. Yet WHO is being the aggressor here? Thrashing out against 'enemies' that are not there. Like that 'animal' Hispanic 'invasion' he has constantly bellyached about.

The world economy has become globalized whether we like it or not. The USA has never been a self-sufficient 'island'/geodome-like ecosystem anytime in history. That means we need trade, negotiations, diplomacy. You know, things that Presidents discuss when they go overseas. It's their JOB. Oh yeah, Motormouth Mussolini knows nothing about any of these things. He screams that he is the Messiah in America, yet he is a slave to Putin, and now the Jew-hating zillionaire Muskrat too.

And since the US economy is interlinked with much of the world itself, this evil spoilsport will be the party pooper for ALL concerned. He's throwing temper tantrums and hissy fits like he always does and sticking his tongue out while stretching the corners of his big mouth with his fingers. But there's nothing even remotely 'cute' or close to funny about this. At all.

> 1glennMar. 22  10:32 pm JST

There is an expression along the lines of "Do not judge a person until you have walked a mile in their shoes."

And yet, some actions are so immediately disgusting that I cannot see myself ever trying to "see" things from the other person's point of view. Releasing Sarin gas in public is one of those things that I will never understands, that I cannot try to understand.

Terroristic actions are always disgusting and indefensible because they kill innocent people who did nothing. That same year in the USA there was the OKC Federal bombing, and the NRA head Wayne LaPierre praised it with his lies and hysterical sass and greed for more money.

At least Japan took steps to prevent more of this sick crazy crap. But the US is now a terroristic fearmonger nation run by a motormouth Musk-loving Mussolini full of hatred and evil.

What have we learned, Charlie Brown? It looks like maybe Japan learned something. Maybe.

Big mistake.

Nordegren and Woods separated amid revelations of the golf star's serial infidelity, with reports suggesting he had slept with as many as 120 women during his marriage.

Man alive! Talk about 'golf groupies'. And now somebody who (was) married to a kinfolk of a modern antichrist.

How low can you go, Tiger? SMH

sakurasukiToday  06:42 am JST

Japan always bragging about robot at the end, cheap worker that being used for cleanup.

Bragging nothing. A radioactive disaster is extremely dangerous. It's far better to have robots handle this kind of work than to risk human lives. If something goes wrong, you just lose a robot.

That's why police are increasingly using robots to detect and possibly defuse bombs. And may I mention drone warfare?

Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto for doing all the jobs that could otherwise get people killed.

MarkXMar. 22  07:55 am JST

This band sounds great. I have never heard of them, but why does the headline seem to want to make it into a rivalry or something. Bruce Springsteen is iconic, but when you post a headline like this you ware trying to rile people up, that a Mexican band is replacing The Boss. They are just playing more concert dates, why not say that.

Bruce has many other records set that few if ever will be topped. As for the number of times playing in LA, that's just LA. LA is LA, not the world.

Still, this band does sound pretty good. Just don't let El Pendejo Donald hear about these 'invading animals'.

I'veSeenFootageMar. 22  06:36 am JST

Ah yes, because this is what the world needs: yet another K-pop band...

We can always hope he learns real music and doesn't get exploited by some greedy Svengali like so many of these lip-syncher 'bands' are.

Some kind of friend he turned out to be! Jail, junior!

runner3Mar. 22  09:13 am JST

It's about time.

Welcome to the 21st Century.

> SpeedMar. 22  09:59 am JST

Dang.

C'mon. You can tell the sexes apart even by looking at their outlines and yes, their faces. Women are always 'softer' and more 'tender' than men. Besides, if nothing else women cops wearing women's pants makes doing the police easier for them - less fuss. It's that way in many nations' armed forces so why not police?

Welcome to the 21st Century.

NICE.

I hope so. You sure can't depend on the USA for that, with that Russian sputnik kissass wimp trump back on the loose.

Here we go again. Hey Kimmyboy, shaddup you face. Just go away and shed your skin.

Does anybody remember the YUGO cars?

Joke 1: 'YUGO nowhere'

Joke 2: 'How do you get a YUGO car over the hill? Answer: Push it up on top and shove it down! '

Muskrat wants to rule the world so much, he's got Traitortrump on his leash, he wants the whole damn pie!

And he can't even keep his own house together. What a joke.

One day when EVs are predominant, I will buy one myself. That'll be in maybe 20 years or more.

But it'll be a Ford, GM, anything but Tesla. Tesla to me is a rock group named after Nicholi Tesla (an immigrant, oh no!) who invented the AC generator. Those Tesla cars are ugly, junky, sucky.

No matter how you slice it or in what format it comes in, journalism will never die.

He was a good spokesman for Midas too. 'Won't pay a lot but you'll get a lot!'. I remembered that while I was vacationing in Sault Ste Marie, Canada and my Pontiac's muffler blew out. My warranty for it was good when I returned to the USA too.

A true champ in so many ways, sports and character. And a graceful loser when he didn't win. That's what makes the real CHAMPS in this life. Now he's with God, may he RIP.

dbsaiyaMar. 22  11:17 pm JST

Foreman, Ali, and Frazier will forever be intertwined in history, the three kings.

Let's not forget Larry Holmes and Buster Douglas (he beat the criminal Mike Tyson in 1990, and I met him. Nice guy.). Those two gentlemen champions are still living and are just as important.

Erdogan is an egghead dictator and he needs to go. And the same goes for Treasontrump too. All these scumpots.

Hey, if the Syrians did it late last year, we can do it too. What's stopping it?

This is just another towards our evolution and progress as a species.

I remember seeing live on TV the second mission John Glenn took going to space. He was 80-something years old, and NASA wanted to see how space travel affects people during their whole lives, even when they get old.

And we keep on researching and learning. One day in the future mankind is going to evacuate Earth and there's a lot that we're going to need to know.

WA4TKGMar. 17  10:33 pm JST

In line with a previous comment above, just putting this smirking face on the front page of JT, is nothing more than an insult to those affected by these loonies

It's a major slap in the face to everyone who witnessed this horrible cowardly act. And the worst part of it all is that Yuki (and the rest of Aleph) doesn't even seem to be sorry for it. Well, I have no sympathy for this devil. Terrorism + violence is unjustifiable. And those Aum terrorists fled the subways because of cowardice.

> USNinJapan2Mar. 17  10:56 pm JST

A sick sick woman. The idea that she met and married Niimi after all that he had done is insane and unbelievable. The posters above are right, she shouldn't be given any platform to talk about her husband or what their cult did.

A total dimwit for sure. Easily impressionable and absolutely Dee You Em Bee.

MilesTegMar. 18  05:07 pm JST

She's absolutely right. How Aum is allowed to continue to exist is a farce and an insult to those who died, remain injured, their family members, and Japanese society as a whole. Yet the Moonies may be banned? I say get rid of them all.

The same way that other cults continue existing. Not to mention, they also murder those who leave them, just like gangs often do. After all, the NOI murdered Malcolm X Shabazz when he left, and it still exists with that Screwy Louis Farrakhan as its head. And allowing these gang/cults to carry on IS an insult to the innocents they kill. And didn't a Moonie murder the Japanese PM a few years ago? Well, these subway survivors count too!

KuribozuMar. 18  08:20 pm JST

Religion vs a cult: what's the difference? Might it be that decent religious believers should be able retain a personal sense of morality and responsibility, and be able to resist when, for example, their leader prompts them to do something morally wrong? Whereas with a cult... If you find yourself devoted to a leader to the point that your own moral principles begin to deteriorate, and you begin to echo immoral positions of the leader, you might be on a slippery slope.

Religions are meant to better a person in this life and prepare him/her for a better eternity in the afterlife after surviving the trials and temptations of material life. Religions advocate morality, concern for others, good deeds, good acts, peace and LOVE. Any religion that doesn't promote these things is a false one. And for that same matter, every religion (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Baha'ism, the various forms of Hinduism + Buddhism, folk religions, any old thing) has its true moral practitioners and their fanatics who distort religion for their selfish hateful violent agenda.

1995 saw this sick terrorist attack and the OKC Federal Bldg. bombing. Some of the ones who endorsed that evil deed were 'Christian' fundamentalist fanatics who would later on join the MAGA cult.

And in early 1993 there was the Christian fanatic Branch Davidian cult standoff, a failed attack on the World Trade Centers by a small Islamic fanatic gang and a trashing of a historical mosque in India by Hindu fanatics.

In the previous three cases the terrorist cults were led by 'gurus'/false messiahs/phony gods. That's what makes them different from true religions.

At the height of its influence, the cult counted more than 10,000 followers, mostly in Japan but also in Russia, the United States and elsewhere.

Aum has since disbanded, but its hanged guru is still worshipped in Japan by an estimated 1,600 members of successor groups.

Experts warn that the groups are reaching young recruits in secret both in person and through social media and messaging apps, where they are also spreading posts saying that Aum's crimes were misportrayed.

Then the cult really isn't 'disbanded', is it? As long as they have these social media posts, contacts in prisons and denials of Aum's crimes (or any other crimes, such as the Holocaust) then the problem isn't 'solved', is it?

The Moonies worship the dead Sun Myung Moon even now, just like Aum does Asahara. The danger remains.

blue in greenMar. 16  10:49 pm JST

Trash cans are still gone from train stations, yet the living victims from this attack are told to ‘move on’.

You can never 'move on' from it. It never leaves you no matter how hard you try. You just try to live with it.

wallaceMar. 16  05:43 pm JST

PTSD never goes away. You just live with it. I know.

In some cases it 'stays' in the 'back of the head' (conscious) until something from the 'outside' sets it off and it resurfaces. Then when it does, you need to get help, pronto. I know that myself.

Who the hell wants to watch even more shows where this screaming geek bellows out to others? Who needs another 'Triumph of the Will' for the 21st century? Enough of this egomaniac!

Revolting, nauseating and disgusting.

> lincolnmanToday  01:36 pm JST

One of the fundamental MAGA-truths....

"You have to keep 'em dumb...science makes them smarter - they start to question some of the more outrageous lies we tell...and may stop sending us money"...

'Give me men who are fat, contented. Sleek headed men....' - Julius Caesar

Tokyo GuyToday  01:02 pm JST

From "one small step for a man", to "one step for such a small man".

Flat Earthers of the world, unite!

> theFuToday  01:07 pm JST

Science deniers shouldn't be in control of science budgets, especially when their primary goal is to shove their heads into the sand so they can't learn anything.

Kissy kissy kissy der Fuehrer's buuuuhhhhh-uhhhhhhhhttttttttt. That's right now.

Deo GratiasToday  08:58 am JST

May God rest her soul.

From Wikipedia:

Trachtenberg, who had appeared jaundiced in a 2024 social media post denying any health problems at the time, underwent a liver transplant shortly before her death, and sources who reported the death to ABC News speculated that her body may have rejected the transplant.

Sad if that's true. Much too young. May God rest her soul.

Tokyo GuyToday  09:24 am JST

Nonsense. Nobody "screws" the US better than the man currently sitting in the Oval Office.

What would you expect from a convicted RAPIST?

> lincolnmanToday  08:34 am JST

Yea, unlike Russia and China, the EU has all those nuclear weapons aimed at us...

What an absolute Moron...

He's nothing but Putin's lapdog - and get ready for him to flip and call Xi a "genius" too...

Kimmy boy too. 'I wanna be like him, I love him soooo much! Mu-mu mu-mu-mu!'

wtfjapanToday  11:55 am JST

Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his plan to end the war in Ukraine. He will save hundreds of thousands of lives.

how about his plan to kick Palestinians from their lands, they occupy, do you think thatll get him the peace prize LOL

Ethnic cleansing of Gaza so he can build a selfish 'Sun City' type resort there to glorify his vile ungodly ego. That's real a 'Peace Prize' agenda, isn't it?

It normally would be a laughable notion but in this case I don't know whether to cry or throw up.

> theFuToday  09:00 am JST

What are the names of the other 43.3% companies? I'd like to know.

Yes, so we can boycott their products and make these greedy corporations go along with the UN sanctions and stop feeding the Putinist Russian economy.

Tokyo GuyToday  10:37 am JST

No civilised country should be doing any business at all with Russia until Russia ends its acts of aggression.

No, they should not. The UN boycott of South Africa eventually made them end their apartheid crap, and they were effective at least in getting Moammar Qaddafy to pay reparations to the survivors of his terrorist shenanigans.

It worked on South Africa, it worked on Libya, it worked somewhat on the former Yugoslavia and we need to totally enforce it on Russia with no excuses or exceptions.

factcheckerFeb. 26  09:23 pm JST

" It's a sin. "

Yep, this Pet Shop Boy knows what he's done to deserve it, in jail.

It's a, it's a. it's a...

It's a CRIME.

And if you do the crime, you do the time!

PrimusinterToday  09:17 am JST

One can easily see Russia invading Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia or Poland if they weren't members of NATO.

Don't carry the nonsense! There is no reason for Russia to invade these small, worthless states. They're just a hassle and have no use. Russia has plenty of such "goods" of its own. Your untrained, ignorant readers (not all, of course) believe you with their mouths open. But you're lying without limits

Then why has Russia been committing cyberwar against those nations for over a decade now? That's how they installed the quisling fascist puppet trump into the WH. Putin has a sputnik running the USA and he wants sputniks in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Finland, just like he has in Georgia, Kazakhstan, etc.

Look at Vile Vlad's face, he's grinning from ear to ear. He's got the USA under his thumb as Khrushchev once boasted about, and he wants to rebuild the czarist Russian Empire for the 21st Century with himself at the helm. He wants it. He wants it all, man. All of it. ALL of it!

And of course that includes the Ukraine. That's why Russia started this stupid war in the first place no matter what the Incestuous Iscariot 'I-Can-Never-Be-Depended-On-For-Anything, Let-Alone-Tell-the-Truth' says.