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After 2000 years of poverty the Japanese people will just have to keep sucking up this steady fall in their living standards as another "lost decade" looms - the military is back with an appetite and must be fed with the people's hard-earned money. The Japanese ruling class reluctant to share the spoils of their system wouldn't want it any other way.

The trial and verdict have the strange taste of "low-hanging fruit". The motive is still murky. I doubt if Baldwin will be willing or able to shed any light on this shooting death.

In international law, nowhere can one find that the occupying force has a “right” to defend itself. Instead, it is explicitly written that an occupied nation has the right to fight by any means necessary for its freedom.

United Nations Resolution 2621 XXV of December 12, 1970 affirms : “the inherent right of colonial peoples to fight by all necessary means against colonial powers which repress their aspiration for freedom and independence”.

Now if only the self-styled "international community" would have obeyed the law (to the letter), they could have written a completely different playbook for the Zionists and themselves and then the world could have put an IMMEDIATE stop to all the Israeli war crimes that have been perpetrated against Palestinians since many decades and thus prevented this latest Gaza and West Bank Holocaust which has traumatized and destroyed the lives of more than 2,000,000 people who, like all normal human beings, just want to live in peace in their own lands with their neighbors.

So to no-one's surprise Trump supports genocide, too. We all know that only money and votes not lives, freedom and human dignity matter to this man without qualities or principles so now we now find ourselves living again in an era when fascist monsters, this time in suits, roam the earth devouring women and children as the frightened masses fall gaslit under their evil spells allowing those shameful acts of history to rhyme, if not repeat, with more blood of the innocent.

The DOJ's chickens are now coming home to roost with a bullet and before November there's going to be feathers a-flying and mighty squawking in America like nobody has ever seen or heard before.

Normally used for two battling armies "cease-fire" in Gaza (not to forget the daily deaths with malice aforethought in the West Bank) is a weasel-loaded term to describe this sadistic one-sided mass-murder of civilians (plausible genocide) being perpetrated by the Israeli state and their enablers. The only meaningful final solution to put an end to the slaughter of civilians and bring peace is bring force and pressure to bear on Israelis to end their racist Zionist dream of a "Greater Israel" that has become our world's nightmare.

These two cognitively-challenged geriatrics tiresomely vying for another shot at the top job in the land are the perfect poster-geezers for the corrupt scelerotic state of the American election system that is taking the country to hell in a handbasket filled with the dark green stuff. People please wake up!

Without knowing the details of the case, to any reasonable person this merciless sentence given to the doctor seems waaaay over the top when we compare it those handed down for other far heinous killings. Again the state reveals its teeth and claws to keep control and repress the freedom to die. We, the people, need to take back control and force them to legalize euthanasia. My body does not belong to the state!

The intelligence and bias of the members of Scotus need not be wondered at after their ridiculous answers to the arguments put forth by the state of Colorado in demanding the scofflaw Trump be removed from their ballot and now after their unanimous ruling that allows him to run again. If the Supremes had considered whether an insurrection had taken place and if Trump had been responsible for it, a hot potato they pointedly avoided, the justification for letting Trump loose on the electorate would have been much more acceptable. What we are now seeing are the dire consequences of Biden's DOJ's failure to go after and prosecute Trump immediately after January 6 instead of giving him free reign to sow mischief and mayhem in the country for 4 more years. The lesson and warning from history should be how the kid-glove treatment given to Hitler by the right-wing authorities in Germany after his attempted insurrection let the evil genie out of the bottle. Jack Smith and what remains of America's justice league hurry to the rescue of the Republic before it's too late!

I don't know this young woman so I cannot comment on what she did to win the award, but the photo of her standing next to Blinken (!) with his rictus smile jabbed my eye while her comment jarred my ear:

"Together, we will keep chipping away at the quiet that haunts our world, and while there may be those who wish for us to fall silent, we will never fall because the steepness of the struggle will not stop our ascent,"

like, how can our world listen calmly with self-satisfaction to these words standing for 5 months at the foot of the Mt. Everest of the Sound of Silence from the ICC and the powerful leaders of the West as the massacre of the 30,000 women and children continues unabated with only a mouse squeak from the ICJ to echo through our "quiet-haunted" world helped by the MSM on bended knee struggling to muffle the cries and screams to high heaven of the victims and to hide the tears of rage of the insulted and humiliated voices of all the people in protest around the world.

Nobody has studied the Nazis and their methods more than Israelis who, as we all know, owe their addresses in Palestine in large measure to their former satanic persecutors. The hell on earth that the Israelis have made of Gaza is a bloody testimony to having mastered the playbook of that theater of cruelty and having surpassed their own notorious King Herod himself in another massacre for the history books.

The gerrymandered rickety and unreformed condition of US democracy and its loaded-dice election system open windows wide for charlatans and demagogues to slip in and work their nefarious conspiracies to undermine people's freedoms. From the shenanigans of one such opportunist the justice system, too, has been exposed as an egregious enabler opening the door to mischief and mayhem and putting the skids even under democracy itself.

More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began, around two-thirds of them women and children,

Or in other words and grammar, using the active voice to name names and put face on those doing all the killing, Netanyahu, the IDF, Biden, Sunak et al. have killed them all and so should be fast-tracked to the Hague. ...according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters.

And neither does the Israeli government & friends of Israel abroad, but we can assume that among all the indescribable carnage HAMAS has suffered some collateral damage.

Rehabilitating Abe with over-the-top claims of his opposition to corruption is a gas-lighting stretch that beggars belief.

First deliberately starved and then killed for their hunger reminds us of those 20th century European sadists we all hate. Israel has created worldwide revulsion against itself and now must bear responsibility for the inevitable surge of anti-semitism among the ignorant who conflate hating Jews with hating the Zionists who run their terrorist racist "democracy". I do feel sorry for those young men of the IDF who know not what they do - there will be an awful lot of PTSD among them as they grow up, marry and have children of their own. The best will realize with deep regret the atrocities they inflicted on defenseless women and children, the total destruction of Gaza while the worst will insidiously infect and corrupt their own society with the rage and violence they bring home.

Much to do about nothing (Japanese kids attracted to things American experimenting with another American pastime). The overreaction of the adults in charge banning this "football den of evil" is, as Joe Biden would say, "over the top" (like, way over!)

Isolationist? Trump would have to locate a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word. Why is the MSM normalizing this freak GOP candidate by talking about the re-election of a man under indictment for 91 felony accounts? Who seriously believes this shameful fact together with his past incompetence as 45 that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans qualifies him for the highest office in the land? Is the country mad?

Isolationist? Trump would have to locate a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word. Why is the MSM normalizing this freak GOP candidate by talking about the re-election of a man under indictment for 91 felony accounts? Who seriously believes this shameful fact together with his past incompetence as 45 that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans qualifies him for the highest office in the land? Is the country mad?

How does anyone in their right mind believe that the "most (im)moral army in the world" is "covering itself in glory by killing and maiming another 100 plus starving Palestinians to add to the 40,000+ (including the uncounted for rotting under the rubble) and maiming and wounding tens of thousands more women and children, not to forget the men, too. This biblical "Amalek" slaughter must stop, but who in the West will put an end to this living hell before our eyes?

Removing this indicted career lawbreaker from the ballot is the only sure way to remove the danger of a second Trump term since Biden's physical and cognitive decline and his prima facie complicity in genocide make him a most unsuitable person for managing the affairs of the country.

This latest outrage, the IDF firing live bullets into a seething mass of defenseless, starving people cries out for us to seek a comparable precedent in history and, to nobody's surprise, one is hard to find in the pre-internet era. The obvious comparison is the persecution of European Jews, first under Apartheid laws and then finally their physical extermination. However, the Germans and their European accomplices were so ashamed of what they were doing to remove Jews from the lands they occupied that they kept the killings top secret and forbade photography and filming to hide the horrors of the Holocaust until they lost WW2 and the world could not believe the sadistic cruelty it discovered whereas now in Gaza and the West Bank the Israelis are absolutely shameless and merciless in destroying human life, property and all the social infrastructure that supports human life in full view of the world's gaze and in contemptuous violation of all measures for the protection of human life that the ICJ interim ruling stipulated. This time much of the bestial inhumanity and many of the horrors and atrocities perpetrated by the MMAITW ("most moral army in the world") that have made a hell on earth of Gaza have been captured on film and photograph for all the world to witness in real time and provide prima facie evidence of heinous war crimes. Netanyahu's people and his Western enablers in genocide will go down on the blackest pages of history, if not down into hell.

This will be the very last chance for Scotus to redeem itself, and especially a test for the three picks of a scofflaw, criminal president to erase those grubby little orange thumb prints on their appointment. Disqualifying Trump from the ballot allowing him to face accountability for his corruption will be the "Deep State's" trump card to rescue the wobbly status quo.

Transnistria may be Putin's ace-in-the-hole and in his pocket already from where he can kick in Ukraine's back door to seize Odesa and link up with the swath of land in Ukraine's south the Russians used to call "New Russia" in the 18th century. This vision of "Vlad the Terrible" may yet become NATO's nightmare.

This trend is a reminder that "THE ENEMY IS ON THE RIGHT" a slogan often heard in pre-Nazi Germany and that fascism always comes to bail out a bankrupt socio-economic system and rescue its ruling class: liberal democracy was good while it lasted, but perhaps history may be about to rhyme again.

It would be elementary to assume that the trajectory of Kirishima's youth as a radical activist must have been, apart from the background of his personal circumstances, blowback from America's war in Indo-China that left 3+million dead in its wake and his country's complicity in those war crimes.

The tea leaves of rising prices suggest that the Tokyo metropolis will sooner or later descend into the rot of a parasitical rentier society.

Dumb and crazy. And what did he get out of it in the end? Absolutely nothing but a toe tag.

Has Aaron Bushnell been a German protesting in Nazi Germany against concentration/death camps, there would be statues of him erected world-wide and he would be a star attraction in Yad Vashem and the Vatican might have even canonized him to assuage their own guilt.

Israel didn't start the war. Hamas did.

Not true - open a history book or if that's too much trouble, just google. And btw, I kid you not, but under international law occupiers have NO RIGHT to "defend themselves" against a people they occupy. What's so hard to understand? It's simples - no law degree needed!

A punch is a punch and it's called assault, but big Daddy Swift has the moolah to make it all go away.

Right-wingers are always in somebody's pocket. The health of the nation is never a priority for them and their ilk. Following the money just comes natural.

"We will try to prevent a recurrence.”

Nice try, but too late.