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- Japan as an Immigrant Nation
During the heady days of the Koizumi era, it was common to see and hear of unusually progressive changes in how Japan worked. That included foreign private equity companies buying and managing Japanese banks, foreign-born naturalized persons elected to the Parliament, and privatization of such public institutions as the post office.
Since Koizumi left, there [...]
- Ahh, Shariah
Thanks to Joe for this legal tidbit (and the translation):
Question
We have reviewed request no. 2556 for the year 2005 coming by fax and which includes a request to clarify the legal opinion on the following:A woman observes the enjoined obligations of Allah, fasts the month of Ramadan, and performs the night vigil prayer. However, due [...]
- Bad News for NATO from Germany
With questions about a two-tier system for NATO and concerns about certain members being unreliable or not sharing the burden, a ruling by the German Supreme Court comes as more bad news. The issue this time was the deployment of German AWACs along the Turkish border with Iraq in 2003. The article notes that:
Germany had [...]
- Delaware Wins!
New Jersey’s hope of profiting from a huge liquefied natural gas processing plant on its Delaware River shore ended yesterday, as the Supreme Court ruled with a vote of 6 to 2 that Delaware has the right to veto the project. You can read the factual background and legal basis for the case in [...]
- Police Officer Dumps Quadriplegic From Wheelchair
Through experience with criminal elements and based on my political philisophy, I am generally a red-blooded pro-law enforcement citizen. But I also fully understand and appreciate the fact that American police culture is dispicable in the way it regularly interacts with ordinary citizens engaged in no criminal act, with reckless abandon of safety and [...]
- Butt-Naked on Trial
Thanks to Eddie for the head’s up. ComingAnarchy’s favorite genocidal Liberian is making headlines again:
Liberian Ex-Rebel Confesses to Killings
January 21, 2008; 3:56 PMOne of Liberia’s most notorious rebel commanders, known as Gen. Butt Naked for charging into battle wearing only boots, has returned to confess his role in terrorizing the nation, saying he is [...]
- New Jersey v. Delaware
The US Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments regarding the New Jersey-Delaware LNG terminal dispute previously covered at the blog here. The dispute centers on a proposed LNG terminal that energy giant BP wants to build on the Jersey side of the river.
Delaware has refused to authorize the construction of a 2,000-foot-long pier, which [...]
- The Mouse that Roared
The Asahi Shinbun has a fascinating narrative piecing together what hapened last year when the US military requested to use the civilian Aomori Airport in the prefecture of Aomori in northern Japan. Using documents recording phone conversations between the prefectural government, the central government and the U.S. military, they provide a blow-by-blow account of [...]
- Legal Systems of the World
Hat tip to Joe, from Wikipedia comes this interesting map of the legal systems of the world.
In brief:
Civil Law is the most widespread legal system in the world, where the central source of law is codified in statutes passed by legislation. This can first be traced to Bablyon and later Justinian Rome, where it [...]
- Mugabe would be proud
Remember when President Robert Mugabe began forcibly expropriating white-owned farms, replacing their owners with his cronies and Zimbabwean civil-war veterans?
State to Confiscate Land of Pro-Japanese Collaborators
A presidential agency Monday decided to confiscate land that is now owned by the descendants of 10 pro-Japan collaborators during the colonial period (1910-1945). It was the second step [...]
