Great Bird comments

Why would left wingers be upset? They lose every 4 years anyway. Elections in the US are between center right (democrats) and right (Republicans) usually. This time around the fascists joined and won.

Incidents, such as this, show how much Japan has morally, educationally, and socially declined over the last couple of decades.

Exceot that in the 70es and 80es Japanese tourists in Asia weren't known for good behaviour either...

As a cyclist, I am very much welcoming autonomous driving. I don't think that it will perfect meaning that it will never cause any collisions, but I am rather confident that the authorities will not allow it if causes even 10% of collisions caused by human drivers. Hopefully it would also require less motor vehicle infrastructure.

As a cyclist you probably should be worried too, though. "Not just bikes" YouTube channel, made a good video on that a while ago. Gets dark very fast...Basically autonomous driving will make cities less pedestrian and cyclist-friendly very fast. Safer yes, which is good, but ... watch that video!

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Time for PM Ishiba to re-structure the Govt., voters want Govt. efficiency, and the PRIVATE sector Unleashed NOT the continued Leashing by the Regulatory State.

There's no indication that that's what the Japanese voters want.

It is not for Zelenskyy to decide that PEACE is a long way away, he had his chance. DJT needs a true partner for Peace, for the sake of Ukraine and the entire World.

Actually it is. First it's Putin's choice, next Zelensky. Not Trump. The "peacemaker" seems a bit upset his master plan isn't working. "Let's have peace and give me money" hasn't worked. Maybe he can come up with a second plan?

Its all about simple economics Supply and Demand, if the demand goes down the supply will increase and the price will go down. But rice is KING in Japan no rice no life!

Japan is managing the supply. And that's the main problem here, not dying farmers, import restrictions, hot summers, cold summers or tourists eating rice. JA is decreasing the production of rice every year. Asking farmers not to use all their fields. To keep the price high, if all farmers produced the max possible, the price would completely collapse. Basically every year there's less rice produced and less rice consumed. The solution simply is to not decrease the production this year, or decrease it by less...If then there's an over-supply the state can still buy more than planned, export it or refill the stockpile. That's really all there is to it. Ok, another solution would be to get rid of JA all together.

Actually it's pretty irrelevant what Japan does.

It's most likely just the usual dance. See Abe and the Kono statement. Show the right, your hard core supporters, the ones with money, that you know the "truth", the one were Japan didn't do really do anything wrong, except losing. And after a long review decide that after all you'll stick with the old stuff. Japan's right wing understands that message, you are right, but can't show it because of those nasty people at Asahi Shinbun etc. And then act all surprise when you realize the China and Korea got it too.

And that is one of the major problems with Japan's apologies. Which are there, but often they are preceded or followed up with little signs, the usual "I apologize, but don't think I should next year"..... it's not really the pinnacle of apologies. It doesn't sound honest, and of course it isn't.

That was all Vance... Ok, some Zelensky.

Trump was mostly happy about rare earth, or "raw" earth as he seems to call it, talking about Biden, and throwing out inflated numbers. Until Vance gave him the cue that it is as time to attack.

Zelensky sure doesn't hold back though. No playing nice. Could let the "novel idea" of diplomacy pass, but no, he is focused on his mission, making his points. Putin can't be trusted, and of course he's right.

Biggest mistake though was not going in a big "thank you" speech after it was demanded. A nice long winded thank you to Biden there would have been perfect.

Let's see what happens Sunday, one thing is for sure, destroying freedom of speech is not democratic and speaking about excessive immigration is FREE SPEECH!

It is of course perfectly legal to talk about "excessive immigration" in Germany. Freedom of speech isn't being destroyed, the laws haven't changed. And unsurprisingly freedom of speech isn't a topic in the German election.

Merz's conservatives will likely work with AfD and form a power coalition, why?

Because AfD main issue is uncontrolled immigration hardly radical, and VP Vance agrees with AfD as do MOST US voters, strong borders & vetted immigrants ONLY!

They won't.

Also there is no uncontrolled immigration.

And finally what Vance and US voters think is irrelevant.

Stupid survey since it mostly doesn't matter.

Last time around Japan didn't even manage to get the implementation postponed, as basically everybody else did. Ok, not China. Despite "Abi" being the great friend that he was... the EU, South Korea and countless others got more time, Japan got the tariffs immediately.

So it doesn't matter how nice Ishiba and Japan is to Trump. The only way to get an exemption is: Trump finally realizes it's not the 80es anymore. Japan isn't taking over anything. Japan is no danger anymore. He clearly hadn't paid attention in that briefing in his first term... doubt he will now. He's too busy doing really important stuff like changing names of mountains and gulfs.

Musk works for Musk mostly. Not for China, not for the US. And yes, he's a business man, so he takes business approach to government. Problem is: government isn't a business.

There were Palestinian-Americans or Arab-Americans who were unhappy with Biden?

France doesn't have a far left migration policy either.

You mean they have an extreme far left migration platform?

No, I mean that simply lining up buzzwords, like "far left" "migration" doesn't make for a coherent argument. Changing "far" to "extreme" wasn't an improvement either.

The German people btw "must" do nothing at all, they will do what they like. Which unfortunately is voting for the center right CDU mostly. Or for the deeply misguided ones for the AfD.

The SPD has no far left migration platform.

I would much prefer a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement

There was a nuclear agreement, ok no peace, but when the Donald took over there was a nuclear agreement. Trump the wise negotiator decided to break the deal. Expecting Iran to come running and begging for a new deal, which unsurprisingly hasn't happened.

The SPD and CDU as far left parties! Too funny. What's next, Reagan and Thatcher, the far leftists of the 80es, next we get Trump and Putin, the far leftists of the present?

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.

The usual talking points. North Korea, abductees, Russia, northern territory. Those 4 islands are Russian and will stay Russian, whatever Japan tries. Putin made it pretty clear to Abe already that nothing at all was going to happen there, certainly he hasn't changed his mind since then. Ishiba knows that too, but it's what he has to say, so he says it.

As has been pointed out already, the "global warming" changed to "climate change" when the earth was not warming as expected.

Except this isn't what happened. You are not yourself any favors by posting clearly false information.

The far right is upset at Canada reacting? The expectation that other countries just do whatever the American president says is hilarious. Of course there's retaliation. Completely normal, 25% ok, let's do it, 25% tariff both ways.

Elitist power grab?

There is no elitist power grab, the elites, big oil and their lackeys have held the power for decades.

See some of the non-violent "Just stop Oil" protesters in the UK getting longer prison sentences than the good rioting guys throwing stuff at people in asylum centers.

The only elitist power grab going on might be Thiel with his boy Vance being one little death away from the most powerful position in the world. For the rest, power is firmly in the hand of the oily guys.

Any UN body, cannot simply insist values can, in some case must, be followed, seemingly imposed without question, in an indignant self rigorously, sanctimonious hissy fit.

The hissy fit is all yours. Or no, Japan is having one too. It's exactly the role of the the different UN bodies to issue recommendations, to criticize, to show ways to improve the situation.

Japan is a democracy about to make political choices, rightly or wrongly, must be through Japan peoples choice pathway.

Completely irrelevant. Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, and they still don't follow, or need to follow the recommendations of the UN women's rights panel. Every sovereign country decides by itself. The panel just issues recommendations. If it was only allowed to make recommendations that don't run contrary to what the sovereign countries are already doing... well, not much of a panel, is it?

It's a Japanese overreaction, criticize others, not us, or no more money. Japan is free to completely ignore the recommendation, but prefers to make it an issue.

There's no UN climate propaganda. There's the globalist elite, big oil, that wants to protect their interests.

And the German green-red-yellow coalition simply continued Merkel's climate policy, without many changes.

The radical right at it again.

Ardern's success really hurt you guys eh? 2 years after she left office, an article that has nothing to do with her, the obsessed radical right has only one comment: Ardern! Woke woke woke woke! Brainy stuff, really brainy.

The WHO’s handling of the pandemic, from delayed responses to questionable vaccine mandates, caused unnecessary economic and personal suffering. Vaccine injuries, coupled with heavy-handed lockdown policies, revealed the organization’s inability to act transparently and effectively.

Delayed response? Could have declared it a pandemic earlier, true. But it's not like governments acted faster. February 2020 was basically everybody doing nothing and waiting. Until it exploded.

Vaccine mandates? The WHO has no power to issue mandates. Vaccine injuries? Nothing to do with the WHO

Heavy handed lockdown policies? The WHO only issues recommendations.

It should also work closely with trusted allies to build an independent health coalition focused on addressing pandemics effectively without the WHO’s bureaucracy and political entanglements.

So the solution is to leave the WHO and then create another organization with the same goals, but less members. Which means less access, less information, less coordination, worse results.

The problem is that some people don't actually understand what the WHO does. Then accuse it of stuff it didn't do and as solution propose... a new WHO! Smaller less effective. A health organization without China would have had 0 access to China and information. That new organization would have had to rely on.... the WHO! Spending money for a liaison office, etc. etc.

I’m just surprised that the media is making such a big thing out of this, and when liberals were doing it, not a single word

Because they weren't doing Nazi salutes.