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AWRTR said:
The atrocities in China and the rest of Southeast Asia just aren't as well known because they happened outside the West, and the Japanese didn't have the leader or underlings like Hitler and his band of maniacs that are so well known and so easy to hate.
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This is really the core of it. The rape of Nanking isn't as well-known as the Holocaust. The belief system lying behind each is the same - they are the superior race and all others are "subhuman." Japan had its crew of maniacs, again not as well known. However, during the war, I heard the name "Tojo" often (Prime Minister and many offices before that). We also heard the emperor's name, "Hirohito." I don't think more than a handful of westerners knew that he hadn't made a decision in 3000 years. However, the war ministers carried the final one to him and he made the right one.

Japan has plenty of foreign workers, over 4 million. However, the path to citizenship is notoriously difficult - hundreds of pages, educational and cultural, etc. Finally, you have to give up any prior citizenship - no dual citizenship there, just as here before 1967 and the Afroyim decision...
 
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Tidewater said:
The European Union is a complicated deal. If I was a European, generally, I'd favor the EU. There are economic benefits to a continent-wide customs union. There are also costs. And Brussels seems hell-bent on making membership as burdensome as possible, and ironically, over relatively minor and unnecessary things. Brussels seems to have convince themselves that EU membership is such a good deal that they can impose any burden, no matter how large, on member states.
I would not be surprised if more member states decided the costs of membership outweigh the benefits and secede from the Union as Britain did. And Brussels needs to pause to consider whether this particular policy is worth risking another secession or not.
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Here is a small, relatively benign example. While the EU is facing some serious challenges, they decided to ban single-use condiment sachets.

EU bans single-use condiment sachets at restaurants from Aug 12​

You can still get them from takeaway restaurants and in stores, but not in sit-down restaurants.
Sure reducing plastic waste is a good idea, but how much of the EU garbage comes from single-use condiment sachets? I would bet not much.
Given the larger issues the EU faces, this seem frivolous.
"Sure, that iceberg looks big, but look at how these deck chairs are arranged!"
 
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CrimsonJazz said:
www.dailymail.com

Sikh man stabbed student, 18, with ceremonial knife, court hears

Finance student Henry Nowak, 18, was on his way home from a night out when he was attacked by stranger Vikrum Digwa, 23, with the eight inch 'Shastar' blade.
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The U.K. is irredeemable, I think. Those people need a miracle.
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Riots are breaking out all over Southampton. Police are being forced to retreat and the police station is practically under siege. I'd post the video, but as you can imagine, the rage includes some colorful language. Nevertheless.................

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Sudanese migrant arrested for allegedly trying to behead victim in middle of Northern Ireland street

A knife-wielding man believed to be a Somalian migrant has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in Northern Ireland – and horror video appears to show him trying to behead his victim in t…
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The suspect was living in the UK “under a five-year visa,” Gavin Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party leader, told the House of Commons — calling for him to be “convicted and deported on the first flight out.”

Police are still unsure of of a motive for the barbaric attack, but so far have “no information to suggest that this was a terrorist-related incident,” Ryan Henderson, the assistant chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said in a press conference later Tuesday.
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Damn fine detective work there, boys. Very impressive. Meanwhile, riots are breaking out in N. Ireland.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
This is really the core of it. The rape of Nanking isn't as well-known as the Holocaust. The belief system lying behind each is the same - they are the superior race and all others are "subhuman." Japan had its crew of maniacs, again not as well known. However, during the war, I heard the name "Tojo" often (Prime Minister and many offices before that). We also heard the emperor's name, "Hirohito." I don't think more than a handful of westerners knew that he hadn't made a decision in 3000 years. However, the war ministers carried the final one to him and he made the right one.

Japan has plenty of foreign workers, over 4 million. However, the path to citizenship is notoriously difficult - hundreds of pages, educational and cultural, etc. Finally, you have to give up any prior citizenship - no dual citizenship there, just as here before 1967 and the Afroyim decision...
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Iris Chang's The Rape Of Nanking was a haunting read.

The author unfortunately committed suicide at an early age(38). It has been reported that she was deeply disturbed by the subject matter of her research. There is no way to know if that was the reason, but it would certainly be understandable.

The Japanese were on par with the Nazi's horrific crimes against humanity. Which makes it all the more ironic that, with the surrender after WW2, the old bushido code in their military was expunged.
 
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Its On A Slab said:
The Japanese were on par with the Nazi's horrific crimes against humanity. Which makes it all the more ironic that, with the surrender after WW2, the old bushido code in their military was expunged.
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Obviously murder is murder, evil is evil - but if you compare the ‘medical testing’ the Japs did on POWs they make Mengele look pretty tame. Just absolutely brutal.
 
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crimsonaudio said:
Obviously murder is murder, evil is evil - but if you compare the ‘medical testing’ the Japs did on POWs they make Mengele look pretty tame. Just absolutely brutal.
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And not a single member of Unit 731 (responsible for chemical/biological testing on involuntary subjects) were ever prosecuted.

MacArther granted covert immunity to Gen. Ishii and his top scientists in turn for knowledge gleaned for our own chem/biological weapons programs.
 
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UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse

Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.
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“Think of the children” is the oldest skeleton key in the political toolbox and the British government has just jammed it into the lock on every phone in the country.

Ministers are reportedly drafting a law that would force Apple, Google, and the rest to make it impossible for a child to send, receive, view, or share a single nude image, with the executives who refuse facing up to five years in prison.

The children are the headline but the surveillance is the product.
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crimsonaudio said:
Seems like the UK and Ireland are both riiiiiight on the edge of seeing the push back to these policies blow up in their faces...

I sure hope so.
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I could have told those Orwellian governments that the pipe-hittin bois from Belfast weren't going to tolerate this much longer. It seems they have hit their breaking point. I saw a video this morning where one of them was being arrested by the police, but they didn't secure him and he took off. Someone overlaid Chariots of Fire to the video and it just made my day. I'll see if I can find it again.
 
BREAKING: THE UK GOVERNMENT IS COMING APART

John Healey resigned.

Al Carns resigned.

Now Pamela Nash resigns from the Defence Ministerial Team.

Her warning?

"The trust of the public" is being damaged.

When ministers start walking out and talking openly about collapsing public trust, you know this is no ordinary political crisis.

The pressure on Keir Starmer is intensifying by the hour.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2065163532128113080
 
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CrimsonTheory said:
Karmelo Anthony's family and stans are completely unhinged.
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Yeah, the first thing I did when I got to the office the morning after the ruling was send a department email to everyone that between the hours of 7:30 am and 5:00 pm, any open conversation in the department needed to be about work-related issues. My department is split almost evenly regarding race (Caucasian and African American) and I wasn't even going to give the opportunity for any open department discussion where something got out of hand. Our handbook specifically states that during "company hours" everyone's activity needs to be about "the company". So I leaned on company employee policy to justify my actions.
 
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The European Parliament has just voted in favor of the Return Directive, which will make it easier to start mass-deporting illegal migrants.

Chants of “send them back” echoed in the chamber after 418 MEPs voted in favor, while 218 were against.

Once passed by the Council, this new regulation will establish a common, more efficient system for deporting illegal migrants, boosting the currently very low deportation rates of around 20% of those who have had their asylum application denied and been issued a deportation order.

The new law will implement the following:

- Mandatory cooperation with obligations and penalties: Individuals subject to a return decision must actively cooperate (such as providing documents, information, and remaining available) with non-cooperation leading to detention.

- Extended detention periods: Detention can last up to 30 months to prepare for deportation.

- Mutual recognition of return decisions across the EU: A deportation order from one Member State will become more easily recognized and enforced in others, preventing migrants from evading deportation by moving between EU states.

- Return hubs in third countries: Allows transfers to "return hubs" in non-EU countries via agreements that respect human rights.

This expands options beyond direct return to the country of origin, enabling more flexible and potentially faster deportations.

- Faster enforcement and investigative tools: Shorter voluntary departure windows (generally ≤30 days, or immediate), quicker forced removals for non-compliance and security risk migrants, and new powers for searches and seizures to gather evidence against illegal migrants combined with longer entry bans of up to 10 years and stricter rules for migrants classified as security threats who try to re-enter Europe after a previous deportation.

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Mrs. Basket Case and I were in France while the British local council elections were going on. They're different from the US in that all elections for what we would call city and county commissions / councils take place at the same time nationwide.

The Reform Party won substantially more seats than either of the legacy parties (Labour, roughly equivalent to our Democrats and Conservative / Tory party, roughly equivalent to our pre-Trump Republican party).

In fact, Reform got within shouting distance of winning as many seats as Labour and Tory combined. As portrayed by the BBC and Sky Networks -- who I don't really trust, but they were all the English-speaking TV we had over there -- the dominant issue was immigration policy.

Now, this election was for their analogue to our city and county commissions and councils. It wasn't about Parliament / Prime Minister. But if I were a leader in either Labour or Conservative, I'd be highly concerned. The people aren't just speaking....they're roaring.

The Starmer / Labour government is a dead man walking. It was never a majority anyway. It had to cobble together a shaky alliance with other parties, and that's now splintering. Anybody even remotely competent would rather resign than be associated with this train wreck that started a dumpster fire being circled by a clown car.

The government can't stand much longer. Starmer will have to dissolve Parliament and call for new elections....which will be most interesting.

Also remember that the Brits don't have a Constitution. Which means there are far fewer guardrails to keep public opinion (notoriously fickle) from overriding precedent.
 
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