After deeply pondering the general trends of the world and the current conditions of our Empire, I intend to effect a conclusion to the present situation by resorting to an extraordinary measure.
My subjects, I have ordered the Imperial Government to inform the four Governments of the United States, Great Britain, China and the Soviet Union that our Empire is willing to accept the provisions of their Joint Declaration. . . .
--The Gyokuon-hôsô("Jewel Voice Broadcast"), a radio address by the Emperor Hirohito to the Japanese people, August 15, 1945 (August 14 in the U.S.).
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Well, finally! For a while, I thought we were going to have to nuke the stubborn bastards a third time.
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It's still an official holiday in Rhode Island: link. The "Victory Day" thing is a nod to PC moonbats who attempted to kill it, but the alternate name is as far as the state would go in that direction.
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As a past reminder of one possible future, China has reportedly offered the USA to divide the Pacific into two bipolar spheres of influence-control - China will control WESTPAC where GUAM-CNMI + most of MICRONESIA is, while the USA will control EASTPAC. Some Pols in JAPAN are trying to delay the proposed relocation of US Marines and other forces from Okinawa to Guam, by at least /minima of two years. Guam's Govt and many Guam companies are $$$ counting on the US relocation to occur on time. HELL TO PAY LOCALLY IFF THE BUILDUP DOES NOT OCCUR OR ELSE IS NOT AS LARGE AS HOPED. GUAM'S K57 RADIO TALK SHOW > a Call-in reminded host Ray Gibson this AM that Guam's location + military utility in the Pacific was so crucial to the USA that the US at one time considered moving ALL OF GUAM'S NATIVES OFF-ISLAND TO A NEW HOME [RESERVATION?] BACK IN THE USA. GIVEN CHINA'S OFFER, now id RUSSIA vv ARCTIC, as a Guamanian I have to wonder how locals feel now iff China takes over Guam + WESTPAC, espec iff the USA loses the WOT. WOT > WAR FOR CONTROL OF FUTURE OWG-GLOBAL ORDER > IFF THE USA LOSES, IT WILL BE THE USA THAT MAY SAY WHAT HIROHITO SAID BACK IN 1945, i.e. ACCEPT THE UNACCEPTABLE, ENDURE THE UNENDURABLE.
Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue - In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation." But beyond the irony lies China's true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region's Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering.
At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since 1959, is beginning to plan his succession, saying that he refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control. Assuming he's able to master the feat of controlling his rebirth, as Dalai Lamas supposedly have for the last 600 years, the situation is shaping up in which there could be two Dalai Lamas: one picked by the Chinese government, the other by Buddhist monks. "It will be a very hot issue," says Paul Harrison, a Buddhism scholar at Stanford. "The Dalai Lama has been the prime symbol of unity and national identity in Tibet, and so it's quite likely the battle for his incarnation will be a lot more important than the others."
So where in the world will the next Dalai Lama be born? Harrison and other Buddhism scholars agree that it will likely be from within the 130,000 Tibetan exiles spread throughout India, Europe and North America. With an estimated 8,000 Tibetans living in the United States, could the next Dalai Lama be American-born? "You'll have to ask him," says Harrison. If so, he'll likely be welcomed into a culture that has increasingly embraced reincarnation over the years. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 20 percent of all U.S. adults believe in reincarnation. Recent surveys by the Barna Group, a Christian research nonprofit, have found that a quarter of U.S. Christians, including 10 percent of all born-again Christians, embrace it as their favored end-of-life view. A non-Tibetan Dalai Lama, experts say, is probably out of the question.
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Communists don't take a dump w/o Party permission. Anyway, I nominate Richard Gere for the next Dalai Lama. May his reign be mercifully short.
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A friend of mine is Hindu. She thought that this was the funniest story she has read.
At the rate China is going, pretty soon you won't be able to breath the air with out the Chinese Government approval. What a sad state of affairs for the average person in China.
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"Controlling his rebirth" > okay-y-y, IOW upon death a true Dalai Lama [= World Messiah-Destroyer of Faith???] is able to be physically reborn, thru woman, wid all the memories + spirituality+ paranormal powers, etal. of Generations past/Lamas past. A Lama = Personage that can control his rebirth by definition also controls his death - achievments and failures, life and death, etc. hence becomes PRE-PLANNED/DETERMINED. OUTCOMES ARE KNOWN LONG BEFORE ACTIONS EVEN ARE DECIDED UPON OR INITIATED. Tibetan Buddhism > "maneuver" thru preplanned outcomes to achieve a higher order???
Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it's nothing but flowers
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Rense says a lot, Joe, but keep in mind, its main function was to be a mechanism for steering people with an interest in the paranormal more completely into magical thinking and into the sort of conspiracy theories the neo-mandarin authority-wannabees find it useful for the rest of us to believe.
It's basically a mechanism for social control, just like Coast to Coast AM and Alex Jones have become.
Kimmie! Make the rain stop!
SEOUL, South Korea - Severe floods caused by days of heavy rains in North Korea have left at least 200 people dead or missing and will hamper the country's ability to feed itself for at least a year, an international aid group operating in the country said Tuesday.
North Korean officials told the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that 200 people were dead or missing across the country, acting delegation head Terje Lysholm told The Associated Press from Pyongyang. They probably all drowned saving the two Kimmie's pictures. I look forward to those heroic tales on KCNA.
"The material damage so far is estimated to be very big," the official Korean Central News Agency said. "This unceasing heavy rain destroyed the nation's major railways, roads and bridges, suspended power supply and cut off the communications network."
Lysholm said a total of 63,300 families had been affected by the weather, which completely destroyed 30,000 homes. Of those, 20,000 houses were in worst-hit Kangwon province, where blocked roads were preventing aid workers from assessing the damage, he said. More than 247,000 acres of land also have been washed away, Lysholm said, affecting the impoverished nation's already limited ability to feed its people. "That really definitely has an impact on the food situation for this year and at least one or two years," he said. Reading between the lines, I see "Humanitarian crisis! Send us lot's of money! It's for the children!"
Lysholm said the floods were the worst in a decade in North Korea. In the mid-1990s, natural disasters coupled with outdated farming methods and the loss of the country's Soviet benefactor sparked a famine that is estimated to have killed as many as 2 million people. I think I see "on the spot field guidance" by...somebody.
North Korea's official media also painted a dire picture of the damage caused by the storms, which continue to soak the peninsula."The heavy rain destroyed at least 800 public buildings, over 540 bridges, 70 sections of railroads and at least 1,100 vehicles, pumps and electric motors," KCNA said.
The International Red Cross was able to visit 14 counties where it counted 2,500 homeless families and was distributing kits of necessities such as blankets, kitchen sets and water purification tablets, Lysholm said. The national and international Red Cross also established a 24-hour crisis center for updates on the situation, he said.
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"This unceasing heavy rain destroyed the nation's major railways, roads and bridges, suspended power supply and cut off the communications network."
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Weren't there devestating floods that washed out the food supply for at least a year, maybe two, just last year? And just what does washing out the food supply mean: did the floods uproot the two remaining bark producing trees?
sorry, cannot work up any sympathy for these folks that haven't enough brain cells to rub together to realize that Dear Leader is forking them......
Former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Gazi Nazrul Islam, arrested on March 9 by joint forces, was placed on a five-day remand yesterday for interrogation in two extortion cases. He faces three extortion cases, filed after his arrest. He is noew in Satkhira jail Gazi Nazrul Islam was elected from Satkhira-5 (Shyamnagar) constituency in 2001 election as a candidate of BNP led 4-party alliance.
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If you believe that then i have a cathedral in Constantinople to sell you, cheap.
A Turkish presidential hopeful whose candidacy raised fears about the possible blurring of the line between mosque and state said Tuesday his goals would be strengthening secularism and the country's bid for European Union membership.
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul spoke after submitting to parliament his application to run for president, pressing ahead with a candidacy that triggered a political crisis and forced the government to call early elections. He is almost certain to win the presidency.
The powerful Turkish military and secular parties fear that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's and Gul's Justice and Development Party aka the Islamist Party would use control of both parliament and the presidency to chip away at the separation of state and religion and put an Islamic stamp on the state by appointing Islamic-minded officials.
Gul is an observant Muslim whose wife wears an Islamic style head scarf, which many secular Turks regard as a symbol of political Islam and cite as a reason why he should not become president.
Both Gul and Erdogan reject the Islamic fundamentalist label, citing their promotion of sweeping reforms as a means of advancing Turkey's European Union bid. On the other hand, they have also actively sought to improve ties with the Islamic world.
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Gee, he sounds swell.
I don't know about you guys, but I feel better about this now.
Finland will examine the possibility of joining NATO as it reviews its overall defense policy following geopolitical changes since the end of the Cold War, Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said August 14. A commission consisting of representatives of the Finnish presidency and the ministries of foreign affairs, defense and finance will submit its conclusions to parliament sometime next year, Vanhanen told reporters.
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AUSTRALIA has decided to start uranium shipments to India with the condition that Australian inspectors be allowed to check on-site that the yellowcake is used only for peaceful purposes and electricity generation. The Australian nuclear safety inspectors would check the "chain of supply" of nuclear material from Australia to India to ensure none was siphoned off into weapons programs.
The National Security Committee of federal cabinet decided last night, after more than two hours, to allow the uranium shipments to India, despite the subcontinental nuclear power not signing the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Australia has only recently decided to ship uranium to China for the first time.
The National Security Committee discussed ways for Australia to export uranium to India without contributing to nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan or assisting the spread of nuclear weapons.
John Howard will contact his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh, who is also Minister for Atomic Energy, to explain the conditions before formally announcing the agreement.
The cabinet committee was under pressure to both allow India access to uranium - a process the US has offered to assist with - and defend its record on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Labor has accused the Howard Government of being prepared to water down strict controls on uranium exports and move away from the international agreements limiting nuclear weapons.
Pakistan has also asked for uranium to power its domestic electricity grid if India is sold it. The Australian Government wants to help India with its peaceful energy needs but does not want to contribute to the nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan.
The decision comes as the ALP has committed to a scare campaign over nuclear power reactor sites in Australia.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday the fact India already had nuclear weapons meant "there is no risk" of contributing to nuclear proliferation by exporting uranium to the energy-hungry economy. "I think the reverse in fact is the case - that the more you can get the India civil nuclear program under UN inspections and under the UN protocols of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the better," Mr Downer told the ABC. "I think that creates a safer and more secure environment for those power stations."
Labor foreign affairs spokesman Rob McClelland said any step towards uranium exports to India would be moving away from the NPT signed by Australia. "We see that the Government is prepared to further undermine the NPT by selling uranium to India while that country remains outside the non-proliferation regime," he told the UN Association of Australia last night. "The bottom line is that the Howard Government is worse than ambivalent when it comes to nuclear non-proliferation - it is positively obstructive."
Even the uranium industry has reserved judgment on the Government's support for uranium exports to India until it hears how the NPT can be protected. Michael Angwin, executive director of the Australian Uranium Association, said Australia's policy of exporting uranium only to signatories to the treaty had been successful to date.
India now needs to win IAEA approval of its planned safeguards, the support of an international grouping of nuclear suppliers, and ratification of its nuclear co-operation agreement with the US. Only then can it do a bilateral deal with Australia to allow the uranium trade and start negotiating with local miners.
Last week Pakistan's Minister for Religious Affairs, Ejaz ul-Haq, said Australia should consider selling uranium to Pakistan as well. He rejected concerns Islamabad would use the uranium in nuclear weapons. But Mr Downer ruled out selling uranium to Pakistan.
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Federal Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Monday that the Musharraf-Benazir deal had been finalised. He told reporters at a news conference that following the presidential elections, the general elections could be held in this year. He said he was not involved with "the idiots" who had advised the president to impose an emergency. About the reported deal between the Sharif brothers and the government, he said Malik Rafique and the late Ezaj Batwali brokered the deal.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has replaced Iran's key oil and industry ministers, a major Cabinet reshuffle widely seen Monday as increasing his control over industries that are the source of most of the country's revenues. Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh and Industry Minister Ali Reza Tahmasebi have resigned and been replaced by caretaker ministers, the official IRNA news agency said late Sunday. But Iran's major newspapers said Monday the two had effectively been dismissed by Ahmadinejad. State-run media gave no reason for the alleged dismissals and only carried statements from the president, who named the head of the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Gholam Hossein Nozari, as oil caretaker minister, and a Tehran chain store manager, Ali Akbar Mehrabian, as industry caretaker minister.
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And no patients to be fed from sunup to sundown.
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Why not just insist that all staff, patients and visitors follow the rules of Ramadan? In fact, why not insist that all personnel pray to Mecca five times a day, declare that Allah is one and Mohammed is his prophet, give alms and make a pilgrimage to Mecca during their lifetimes.
In other words,just convert to Islam.
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Or all non-Muslims to have their working lunches in expensive restaurants, charging the bills to their departments as an occupational necessity... as it is, under the circumstances.
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OK, can I force the damn EVERYONE to not eat around me on Fridays during lent? (Those are Fasting days for us Catholics).
And while we are at it, can the Hindus force people to be excluded from eating that roast beef sandwich in the office too?
Muslims are a-holes. For people that have such a fierce rep, they sure are a buncha pussies at being able to maintain faith in the face of the secular world. Grow up, deal with it.
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Someone desperately needs to point out to these demurring morons exactly where pandering to Muslims gets you. Enough other Muslim-appeasing cultures have been exterminated to where this really shouldn't be any sort of major mystery.
OK, can I force the damn EVERYONE to not eat around me on Fridays during lent?
Hell no, OS. You Christians are supposed to suffer and endure it in silence. Whereas the poor widdle Muslim crybabies must have their asses wiped for them with velvet. Government officials who cave like this to endless whiney-ass Muslim demands need to be fired on the spot.
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I doubt that the muzlimbs even asked them to do this. R-tard human resources dweebs take it upon themselves to run amok with PC bullshit like this all the time. All it does is create more resentment and perpetuate bad feelings in the workplace. So it's quite possible muzlimbs and dhimmis lose on shit like this.
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#7 OS, what diocese do you belong to? Fridays in Lent where I am are days of abstinence (no meat), but only Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days when we have to fast. Even then we can eat two light meals during the day.
Not like the good old days, when every day in Lent was a day of fast (except Sundays). Plus every Friday meant no meat. And then they would throw in several days a year at random where you were supposed to fast. Good times, good times.
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Sad to watch the self-deluded United Kingdom lose it's way like this. A foretaste for America if we let PC B.S. continue. There is a total culture war being waged against civilization by a 7th century totalitarian death-cult dressed up like a religion. And the spoiled, utterly ignorant children of the West are just slipping under the wave of it because they haven't understood that it's ok to judge things, iudeas and people and find some bad and unhealthy. To give credit to Gregory Davis and the FrontPageMagazine interview: "...the persistence of the multicultural myth that all peoples, religions and civilizations are morally equivalent. despite it's manifest absurdity, the idea nonetheless continues to taint just about every public discussion on Islam and throttles any kind of objective analysis..."
Perfectly stated...and the most frightenly accurate prescription for cultural suicide for Western Civilization.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has replaced Iran's key oil and industry ministers, a major Cabinet reshuffle widely seen Monday as increasing his control over industries that are the source of most of the country's revenues. Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh and Industry Minister Ali Reza Tahmasebi have resigned and been replaced by caretaker ministers, the official IRNA news agency said late Sunday. But Iran's major newspapers said Monday the two had effectively been dismissed by Ahmadinejad. State-run media gave no reason for the alleged dismissals and only carried statements from the president, who named the head of the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Gholam Hossein Nozari, as oil caretaker minister, and a Tehran chain store manager, Ali Akbar Mehrabian, as industry caretaker minister.
