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- Ditto
From Roy at MF:
This is already a week old, but did anyone notice that the very same day US Congressman Mike Honda (D, California) issued yet another call for Japan to issue a more concrete apology to former comfort women, New Jersey became the first Northern state in the United States to issue a formal [...]
- A peek into America’s Latino future
Latin America has often been pointed out as a blindspot for America. The booming latinization of America’s population (both immigrant and domestic) and media has drawn the attention of pundits every year since the 1990s.
This year, the year of the US presidential election, we could get a better idea of what an American Latino future [...]
- The phenomenon of the “flip-flop”
The derogative (ie. political) “flip-flop” is an inconsistent phenomenon of modern day culture. Only in politics (and religion) is it considered a virtue not to change one’s mind despite evidence to the contrary. Watching the political goings-on in US these days it amazes me how the electorate attaches such great importance to the fossilization of [...]
- The Chavez of South Africa
UPDATE: As predicted by all, Zuma wins.
ORIGINAL POST: South African President Thabo Mbeki appears disgusting in the West. He has supported Zimbabwe’s Mugabe without apology, and over the years has made a number of conspiratorial comments on the origins and nature of AIDS. Even so, in the spectrum of South African politicians, he [...]
- A future succession crisis for Tibetan Buddhism
The recent adoption of a law in China prohibiting “unauthorized reincarnation” has made the media rounds for its wackiness. But this law has implications for future Tibetan politics and religion, as alluded to in this week’s Economist magazine.
The current (14th) Dalai Lama is 72 and living in exile in India. When he dies the search [...]
- You can call a cat a duck, but it will not fly
Managing once again to grab defeat from the jaws of victory, Japan’s main opposition party the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has suffered complete chaos over the past several days. After considering alliances with either smaller opposition parties or a grand alliance with the long-time ruling Liberal Democrats, DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa resigned after [...]
- Swiss Elections
Via Maproom comes this interactive map of the Swiss elections from several weeks ago.
Switzerland is a tapestry of languages and heritages, and its politics is equally mixed—the Swiss People’s Party came out ahead with 29% of the vote, followed by the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland with 19.5%, the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland with [...]
- Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize? Cool it!
Saint…? Anti-Christ…? Or neither?
In the public debate on environmental policy and global warming, there appear to be only alarmists and deniers. There are those who feel that global warming is the greatest threat facing humanity today, that we must devote all our resources to countering its effect to prevent utter catastrophe for [...]
- Why is the Democrat Congress batshit crazy?
The Democrats took their new electoral mandate to the legislative branch of government in January of this year and promptly addressed one of the most dire issues facing America in the contemporary age: the alleged (and likely true) complicity of the Japanese imperial government in facilitating forced prostitution for soldiers on the front line during [...]
- End of “beautiful Japan”
At 14:00 this afternoon Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo announced his intention to resign. This comes as a shock since he was so dogged about staying on after a drubbing in the upper house elections last month, not to mention the countless scandals, firings and suicides. Furthermore, Mr Abe recently stated that he would stake [...]
