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Posted in: Man arrested for scouting Japanese woman to be prostitute in U.S. See in context

The woman entered the U.S. as a tourist and returned home with an income of about 9.6 million yen in one month. Ambitious received 15% of that as compensation.

Seems like a victimless crime. He told the truth about the job and the money, and all sides were OK with the deal. Why is the government even prosecuting this?

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Posted in: Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? See in context

Yrral

A Federal judge will.be the ultimate decider of DOGE

DOGE was a campaign promise, and activist judges should have no business interfering with the executive branch performing an audit.

How it plays out depends on how politicized the legal branch has become under the Biden regime.

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Posted in: Trump pushes for plastic straws as he declares paper ones 'don’t work' See in context

lincolnman

Don...threaten tariffs on straw makers....then call them "straw men "....

Don did not do anything of the kind. He is reversing a federal policy he correctly says is stupid. How about reading before writing?

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Posted in: Top climate scientist declares 2-degree C climate goal 'dead' See in context

1glenn

I read that for the past 25 million years CO2 levels in the atmosphere have never exceeded 250 ppm

Where did you read that? And did that source also mention that for plants, the ideal level is around 2000 ppm (which is why they pump CO2 into greenhouses)?

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Posted in: Top climate scientist declares 2-degree C climate goal 'dead' See in context

Great Bird

In the 80s the "climate crisis" was global cooling. Hansen should make up his mind.

No it wasn't. And Hansen clearly has made up his mind.

Yes, there was the global cooling panic. And they had "science" on their side. I am old enough to remember it, having lived through it, and you are literate enough to research it if you did not know.

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Posted in: Countries staying committed to climate plans after U.S. Paris pact exit, UN climate chief says See in context

GBR48

If European regimes inflict any more damage on their economies and citizens, they will be out

Hopefully so.

and Trumpesque replacements will copy the US (and the Third Reich).

World upside down again. It is the leftist elitist regimes that want to control speech, outlaw opposition, and use violence against dissidents. The Trump movement and its European counterparts like the AfD, Reform UK, Sweden Democrats, Le Penn etc are populist, basically wanting a return to sanity. The name-calling is getting old.... remember Godwins Law.

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Posted in: Almost all nations miss U.N. deadline for new climate targets See in context

kibousha

I dislike XiXiPee, but I also dislike how dishonest western countries are. You love to outsource your pollution to "3rd world country", call yourself "clean", while ordering billions of billions of soon-to-be garbage from China.

Exactly. It is NIMBY on on a continentall scale.

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Posted in: Almost all nations miss U.N. deadline for new climate targets See in context

Almost all nations miss U.N. deadline for new climate targets

Of course they do. The idea of bureacrats setting artificial numbers for a worldwide geological situation is so bizzare, in a sane world it would not neve have taken off.

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Posted in: Missing truck cabin located in sewer pipe near Saitama sinkhole See in context

All What was needed is a cable / cables hocked to the truck to lock it in place and prevent it from sinking further at first, then rescuers could have been safely lowered by a Helicopter or a large crane from a Safe Distance to free the man from the cabin.

You do realize that the walls of the hole collapsed and buried the cabin? And that when they pulled the truck out with cables as you brilliantly suggest, the cabin separated from the truck? There is no "all that was needed" here, good grief.

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Posted in: Missing truck cabin located in sewer pipe near Saitama sinkhole See in context

WoodyLee

The first 2 hours were the most critical and precious moments to save the driver life and were missed because there were NO HEROS around and lack of preparations for such events.

How exactly do you "prepare" for this particular event? The fire department was on the scene very quickly, but exactly what "preparation" do you have in mind for them?

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Posted in: Missing truck cabin located in sewer pipe near Saitama sinkhole See in context

Missing truck cabin located in sewer pipe

That means they located the driver. What a horrible way to go for the poor guy.

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Posted in: What would happen if Japan is attacked? See in context

Yrral

Japanese would be sitting duck, especially since Trump is President

That would be the best armed duck in the world, and Trump has nothing to do with that.

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Posted in: Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? See in context

For the writer of this opinion piece, "cybersecurity" seems to mean "keeping waste, fraud and abuse secure from being discovered" and shown to the public. Not the kind of "security" that I am wildly in favour of. Swamp beneficiaries see that differently of course.

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Posted in: Facing 40 lawsuits, Trump blasts judges, fueling fear of constitutional clash See in context

U.S. President Donald Trump slammed "highly political judges" 

Why the quotation marks? That those activists leftist judges who have been going after Trump and the Trump team are highly political is not in doubt.

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Posted in: Facing 40 lawsuits, Trump blasts judges, fueling fear of constitutional clash See in context

Another day, another Trump bashing article. It is interesting to check how many of these legacy media institutions were subsidized via "USAID".

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Posted in: Netanyahu threatens to resume fighting in Gaza if hostages aren't released Saturday See in context

resume fighting in Gaza if hostages aren't released Saturday

That should be a matter of course. Who in the world advocates for Hamas to keep the people they kidnapped indefinitely and declare victory?

Hamas must release the remaining living hostages and come clean about the ones they murdered, period.

The bias in the article is mind-boggling.

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Posted in: Trump presses Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza; king opposes displacement See in context

Palestinians from Gaza; king opposes displacement

Of course he does. Jordan has enough problems with radical islamists, and influx of another million would make that worse. Same situation in Saudi Arabia.

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Posted in: WHO worker aims to raise $1 bil to cover U.S. pullout See in context

When the World Health Organization's top donor the United States announced its withdrawal, one employee launched an online fundraiser to plug the gap -- and her efforts have already raised more than $100,000.

Any fool who wants to give money to the corrupt WHO is free to do so. Taxes collected by governments should not be abused like that.

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Posted in: Six million people could die from HIV and AIDS if U.S. funding stops, UN agency warns See in context

Peter14

USAID represents 0.22 percent of income. Australia also donates 0.22 percent of income as aid,

USAID does not stand for "US AID" as you too seem to mistakenly believe. The danger of not reading further than legacy media headlines...

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Posted in: Six million people could die from HIV and AIDS if U.S. funding stops, UN agency warns See in context

wallace

People in need of the USAID will suffer from canceling it.

Like the 50 mio USD for condoms for Hamas, or the 10 mio USD in DEI grants for colleges to study transgender lab mice? Please tell us who suffers if that stops.

In the event, it seems you do not even realize that "USAID" has nothing to with "aid". The abbreviation stands for "International Development" and as we now find out it was an uncontrolled slush fund for all sorts of insane projects. The article is in fact about US donations and not about the USAID as you seem to believe.

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Posted in: What would happen if Japan is attacked? See in context

Primusinter

Russia has no territorial claims against Japan. So sleep well. Don't scare your people

Exactly. To the contrary, Japan has territorial claims against Russia (they want to the Kuriles back). Thankfully that is all theatrical posturing, and everybody knows it.

The idea that Japan need American bases with all the problems they bring is ridiculous.

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Posted in: What would happen if Japan is attacked? See in context

It is not easy to attack Japan, and nobody has any intention to do so. However, I agree that bilingual communication from the authorities should be promoted.

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Posted in: Knife-wielding Swiss man arrested at train station in Kyoto Prefecture See in context

Sounds like drugs. But w/o more details we can only speculate.

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Posted in: 2-week search ends for trapped driver inside sinkhole in Saitama See in context

towingtheline

Using a search and rescue helicopter, they could've lifted him and/or the truck out in the first few hours.

No they could not. It is quite astonishing seeing armchair experts here giving simplistic advice on an extremely complex situation.

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Posted in: Trump plan to end Ukraine war must prevent new Russian aggression, Zelenskyy says See in context

Underworld

Incorrect. Undertaken by Russia against Ukraine.

Incorrect. Without irresponsible Nato expansion, the disastrous Bucharest declaration, the Maidan coup, and the massing of Nato supported troups at the Dombass none of this would have happened. An endless number of senior diplomats have explained this. You really might want to look outside the legacy media bubble with their Victoria Nuland narrative.

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Posted in: Trump plan to end Ukraine war must prevent new Russian aggression, Zelenskyy says See in context

Zelenskyy says

It is irrelevant what Zelensky says. The only acceptable he could say is "I will hold elections".

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Posted in: Trump says he is committed to owning Gaza, but could let Middle East states help rebuild See in context

Trump says he is committed to owning Gaza, 

That is of course overblown rethoric, but as usual it works, and as usual the legacy media does not get it and reacts like a kindergarten.

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Posted in: Trump says he is serious about Canada becoming 51st state See in context

Wasabi

and Greenland, Panama, Gaza... What's next donald? You do not want Japan too?

This man is seriously crazy.

Some people really do not understand rethoric and the news cycle. It is a bit like tic-tac-to players watching a chess game.

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Posted in: Japanese woman found dead in Hungary had sought embassy help over DV See in context

They said she sought help from the Japanese embassy last summer, reporting she had been the subject of domestic violence and requesting documents to facilitate her children's return, but was instead advised to negotiate with her ex-husband.

That part floored me at first, but then I considered that from the embassies point of view this could be seen as a case of child kidnapping by one partner. Something we have heard before. How were they to decide?

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Posted in: Top climate scientist declares 2-degree C climate goal 'dead' See in context

ifd66

Hansen has been warning 'leaders' since the 80's about the climate crisis. And still they aren't listening.

In the 80s the "climate crisis" was global cooling. Hansen should make up his mind.

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