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"Gunmen". LOL Double-Plus-Good Newspeak from Reuters. Sure, they're not "Terrorists" though they attacked a civilian train. Nope, they're not "Islamists" either, though they posted their Islamic reasoning for terrorizing innocent civilians (and fellow Muslims to boot).

Nope. They're "gunmen", you know, just men with guns. Nothing more.

Do you NOT see how you're being fooled, people? It's BY DESIGN. And this "news source" repeats the slop propaganda verbatim.

Understand that you're being Lied To, by Omission. "Soars" to 100 million? LOL With a budget TWICE that? That's a Disastrous opening amount. *As for "global" audiences, you can divide that amount by half, at least, as that's all the movie-maker ever gets to see from foreign showing.

Hollywood press was praying for at least DOUBLE the 100m opening mark (domestic), to be able to even WHIFF making a profit. Ain't gonna happen. They're scrambling to BREAK EVEN at this point. Another Marvel DUD.

A "51% Rotten" is HORRENDOUS. That means that almost an equal amount of full-time SHILLING FOR HOLLYWOOD critic community did NOT like the movie! LOL

And "it's not the worst in the MCU for an opening" is spin for "this movie scored the Third Worst of ANY MCU film EVER. Which is beyond Pathetic. LOL. But hey...if Hollywood wants to spin "Captain America" as "having nothing to do with America"...I guess they got what they wanted, when America decided to sit this Bomb out!

To claim that "America" shouldn't have anything to do with "Captain America" is beyond a stupid assertion, LOL. But we're supposed to applaud this DEI clown like he's just said something world-shaking and profound. LOL.

Meanwhile, let the (lack of audience) do its thing. Don't ask me, ask the decrepit 82 year old Indiana Jones about the train-wreck, money obliterating abomination his last "sequel" also turned out to be...Hollywood sure does love incinerating money these days in support of "tHe MESsAgE", don't they?

Except...they're not really "Grand Champions" anymore, are they? Yokozuna, like Ozeki, have seen their requirements for promotion steadily watered down over recent years.

I remember when a rikishi had to win back-to-back victories as Ozeki to be promoted to the top spot. No more. The last Yokozuna to be required to do that was...wait for it...Harumafuji, way back in 2012! From then on, "runner-up" plus a win started being the new "gold" standard (Kakuryu), and the Association was so desperate to finally have a Japanese Grand Champion again that they threw even that away for the utterly disappointing and unprepared Kisenosato. Terunofuji won back to back Yuushos, but the first was as Sekiwake, so he didn't get it until, suddenly, his next tourney "runner-up" status was enough to qualify?

As for Hoshoryu, his "qualifications" are sub-standard at best. Kachi-koshi records only in 2024 (never winning a single basho), a single victory in January and...he's "Grand Champion?"

LOL No. Nuh-uh.... And the lowering of standards continues....

Nothing to see here. Move along...

Seriously, after literally YEARS of leftist lies, smears, real distortion of and weaponizing of justice for political purposes....the left have....only excuses for this obvious attempt to wipe the left's crimes clean. "Preemptively". LOL.

Their hipocrisy simply beggars belief. If only they hadn't been rank hipocrites all this time, one might actually be shocked at this unprecedented "preemptive pardoning" of the supposedly innocent? As it is, sadly, this was all par for the course!

"The global population is still growing and already is more than the Earth can sustain." Patent nonsense. Plenty of resources. Proving the alarmists wrong over and over and over again, since Malthus and even earlier. It's all about ALLOCATION, NOT supply. Of literally anything. Where there's a will...

"You can discuss the issue of the "no child" nihilism without muddying the waters by bringing in religion." True. Just like you might try discussing the issue of having no children without sloppily misapplying the slanderous term "nihilism" to it, eh? Unless you in fact make your posts simply to grind some moralist axe of yours, that is...

Let me get this "news" story straight. All this story hinges on is "a review" by "a lawyer"? LOL What?!

This guy, Epshteyn, (whom I challenge anyone here of saying they had even know even existed prior to this "report") "isn't accused of doing anything illegal". In fact, the "report" suggests this is standard practice, even going so far as to say "securing fees for access to senior government officials is the bread and butter of Washington's lobbying establishment"! Womp-womp! LOL

The "news" report then uses as an example Scott Bessent, who actually REFUSED to pay, AND is still being nominated? LOL Wow...this "top insider" nobody's heard of (who actually played a...wait for it..quote, "mid level role" in the Administration, LOL) is rather inept, isn't he? Guess his pull didn't work all that well in Bessent's case? LOL

So...is that all you got? LOL Nothing else? LOL SERIOUSLY?!

Ugh. The level of gaslighting here in the "comments" is not surprising. The AP, and its Lebanon-born "journalist" that wrote this "news", help to distort and warp the minds of such hate-filled, gullible people.

"According to Lebanese sources"...(controlled by Hezbollah). Don't believe me? They run the government. They choose its leadership! Try to claim otherwise and be laughed out of the room. Also in the same article, it clearly states that Hezbollah's main negotiator is none other than the puppet HEAD of Lebanon's parliament! ("...Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who has been negotiating ON BEHALF of Hezbollah...") Lebanon is a failed state controlled directly by terrorists. Gaza is a failed entity controlled directly by terrorists. This is incontrovertible, and has been for years now. Yet the willfully ignorant partisans of Islamic terrorism and terrorists continue to close their eyes and ears so they don't have to "know" what is plainly FACT...

There is PLENTY of proof that Islamic terrorists in Lebanon AND in Gaza HIDE in residential areas both in this "news" story and in plenty more besides ("Beirut’s southern SUBURBS known as Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah STRONGHOLD.") There is likewise PLENTY of proof, and literally YEARS of evidence, that the UN front organizations as well as many of its locally-recruited staff are routinely used as INFILTRATORS and BASES OF OPERATIONS for the Islamic terrorists as well. "Human shields" and "suicide bombers"...are these Islamic tactics? Yes, yes they are, have been for DECADES now. And for more proof of terrorism? ("Hezbollah fired more than 60 projectiles INTO Israel on Saturday" alone.) Yet some here stubbornly refuse to understand and internalize all these FACTS, as it hurts their shoddy "narrative" of...LOL...the "genocide" of, what? "Gazan Arabs" (and their rapidly growing populations) AND "Lebanese" (and THEIR rapidly growing population) now? LOL. Please....Get Real!

People in the media keep saying DPP "quadrupled" its vote share...while conveniently leaving out the fact that that "massive" increase in seats led the party to score...barely 10% of the total house seats up for grabs? *By the way, by my count, they had 11 seats before the election, and 28 after...how is that "quadrupling" again?

Far from being a "kingmaker" like the left-leaning has been crowing for days now, Tamaki's DPP seems stubbornly happy to keep the crown on the reigning king's head, and that is none other than Mr. "Lost The Majority" Ishiba.

According to my count, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it would take literally every party not presently in the ruling coalition (non-LDP, non Komeito) to agree just to barely scrape up a highly unstable majority of...5? And that's if you lump parties like the "right wing and conservative" Ishin Party, the "rightwing populist" Sanseito, and the "ultranationalist and rightwing populist" Conservative party in with the Communists and "leftwing populaist" Reiwa party. In other words...it's a pipe dream concocted by fantasizing leftleaning journalists born out of desperation, and it ain't gonna fly in the real world.

The REAL "kingmaker" (and it's obvious why the media would never say this, given the role of the Isshin party in wiping out the leftist CDPs hopes of ever having its own majority thanks to Kansai voters) is...Baba Nobuyuki.

"We were far from gaining the public's 'understanding'", says the hapless, unliked Ishiba. NO. The public understood very well that as soon as the election was over, those caught breaking the law in your party would be welcomed back as "valued" members with ZERO consequences.

Unfortunately, the Opposition is so weak and such a hodgepodge of characters and beliefs, that the LDP will get first crack at forming government again, hence Ishiba's refusal to take responsibility for his failure to keep even his first promise to the people. Rather than resign, he's planning to stick around. This, too, the public "understands".

Anyone else still waiting for that rollout of the LDPs "New Capitalism"? LOL. Neither am I.

What politicians do here beyond run for elections, feather their own beds with siphoned public cash and invent new, inane slogans for policies they will never inact, is beyond me.

26.4% deciding who gets a "majority."

Also known as the "Tyranny of the Minority."

One wonders under what rock has this weenie been living under for so long?

I would respond that Shibuya's "culture" has NOTHING to do with the authoritarian inclinations of a pathetically weak "mayor" who obviously has no clue what Shibuya is or will continue to be, in spite of his whims.

"The touchdown of the unmanned lander in January was a success, but it landed at a wonky angle that left its solar panels facing the wrong way."

LOL And that deserves the title "moon sniper" because...? Oh, right. Because of the "soft wonky landing"...facing the "wrong way". LOL.

I guess if I park my car perfectly inside the lines with no trouble...but then discover I have to climb out of my window to exit because I didn't take into account the surrounding cars...I, too, am a "sniper"? LOL I'm just having fun. Keep reaching for those stars, guys...

I can't think of a more overrated band, can you? (Spice Girls comes to mind, LOL. Same era, same hysterical British corporate marketing hype).

Boring, uninspired lyrics, bland, stolen riffs and chord progressions, terrible, almost childish solos and musicianship, blatantly false packaging as "the next Beatles" when that's one of the worst insults to the extremely talented and important latter band, and with one of the lamest "frontmen" in the history of pop music. Please continue to stay "Half The World Away"! LOL

What are the inverted quotes for? China either VIOLATED Japan's sovereign airspace, or they did not.

(And they did) Just like they do everyone else's airspace and EEZ. China's disregard for the Rule of Law is all Asia's, and indeed, the entire World's, problem. China drives the World into Opposition. They need to be taught a lesson, like every bloated schoolyard bully does.

So Japan. LOL. Media screams about "MEGA-QUAKE" and (Japanese) people stock up on...(rice). Media screams about a "rice shortage" and (Japanese) hoarders stock up on rice. Media reports that (Japanese) companies have jacked up their prices by a fifth(!) from normal prices...and Japanese blame....*foreigners"!

Passive Aggressive Japan to the extreme. They crow how much money they're making off foreigners, but then slap them in the face with backhanded insults at every turn once they arrive, and seek to blame them for every (Japanese-sourced) ill known to man. Smh.

So, according to Nielsen's viewership ratings, there's been a 25% drop in viewership on Day 1 through 3 compared to Biden's snoozefest back in 2020.

Everything's fine. The new "standard bearer", a sitting incumbent VP who pretends to be running against the incumbent? who only last month half the Democrats themselves wanted to see dumped from the ticket (you remember, surely? LOL), today is the "Second Coming of the Messiah". LOL.

Worst Democrat ticket since Mondale-Ferraro. By far. Let the exposing of the long history of radical voting and Left-of-Left statements begin!

WoodyLeeToday 07:29 am JST   Isn't 7/11 a U.S. company to start with so what it is wrong with bringing it back home in north America ?

Peter NeilToday 08:17 am JSTlol, no woody.

You might want to check your facts, Peter. Operative phrase of the initial post is "to start with". And yes, Peter, 7-11 started as an American company, in 1927, becoming 7-11 in name in the US in 1946 to "reflect the new extended business hours".

It's owned by a Japanese firm now, but "to start with", as Woody rightfully stated, it, and the convenience store concept itself, started as an American creation back when Japan was still a nation in ashes post-war.

So...after screaming in the press about the legitimate and legally-required scrutiny of a Japanese firm's acquisition of a corporation, US Steel in America, suddenly the Japanese mis-apply a national security clause related to "technologies that could be diverted for military purposes" as a way of halting an acquisition...of a convenience store chain by a "foreign corporation"? LOL

Which products in convenience stores can be converted for "military purposes", pray tell? Maybe those sneaky foreigners can slip some yogurt onto the enemy's tank tracks to hinder mobility? Or perhaps the open-air stewing of day-old, sodium-bomb oden might cause tummy trouble if consumed by the unwitting opponent?!

Do as I say, never as I do. - Japan, probably

"Ex-main opposition CDPJ chief Edano eyes comeback..." Meet the New Boss....Same as the Old Boss...

After the CDP's Renho was humiliated (there's no other word) in the Tokyo Elections? And with most of politically crucial Osaka are having flipped from CDP support to the right-wing "Isshin Party"? And with support for this party at half, I repeat, half the support of "scandal-ridden" outgoing Kishida? LOL. There is no electoral math that gets the Opposition close to control of anything in 2024. (And notice I made no mention of Komeito and its 32 seats sticking with the LDP!)

But Edano, if I could offer some advice? This time, don't align your party with the Communists? Their 10 seats are not worth tainting your supposedly "moderate" party with radicalism. You already brought the quite hard-Left SDP into your fold. This move absolutely destroyed your chances the last time around, gifted Osaka to the Right, and if polls are anything to go by, August 5th saw an NHK poll where fully 64% felt "unfavourable" or "no opinion" on your party's tying-up with other opposition parties. Care to guess why??

LOL When the best thing supporters of this disastrous "games" can say is...insults for the next games not four years in the future? LOL Well...sorta says everything you need to know about the Parisian Nightmare of 2024, now, doesn't it?

Epic Fail. As overrated at the City of Lights itself. But hey, I just found more lipstick for your pig project! Keep spinning the "dream", LOL.

"Puff Piece" Personified! LOL

"Dazzling". "Enchanted". LOL Rubbish.

It was "amazing" that the best "stars" they could find for the opening were foreign imports 40 and 60 year olds who haven't had a hit in over 10 years. (Not really)

It was "astonishing" that the drag queen show "shocked" the world by mean-spiritedly mocking Christianity while steering well clear of the "religion of peace" for obvious low-hanging fruit reasons. (Not really)

It was "unbelievable" that no one at all were made ill by forcing athletes to compete in the industrially polluted and totally unsafe-to-swim Seine out of Parisian "pride". (Except many were, and some still are, sick because of it)

And it was "surprising" that a "female" boxer, disqualified by the actual sports authority in boxing from competing in their sport because, well..."she" is a MAN, with male chromosomes and filled with male testosterone, yes it was "surprising" that this person ended up pummeling every true biological female "she" matched up against, sending "feminism" ten steps back so that a patently fake "trangender" could destroy the real ladies' dreams and crushingly prove once again, that physically, a biological male IS superior to a woman. (Except is was a surprise to no one with even half a brain)

Worst Olympics Ever. Good riddance to the horrid, degenerate rubbish masquerading as "games".

"Talks tough" LOL. Meanwhile, she runs from her "Czar" label (though it's been in every major news outlet for the world to see that her campaign is, once again, lying), as she runs from her lack of interest in her border responsibilities Biden gave this inept incompetent, just as she runs from her disastrous former interview with Lester Holt (as she now runs, for the fourth week running, from ALL press interviews, though "nominated" by her party to be president) when she flippantly defended her refusal to even visit the border, smugly saying "And I haven't been to Europe, either!"

All we need now is for Harris to put aside her phony, suddenly-appearing, African-American "y'alls" and start babbling with an "authentic" Mexican accent to highlight for all her chameleon-like inauthenticity and slipperiness. LOL.

Incompetence and gaslighting defined: "Border Czar" Kamala Harris "talks" tough about an issue she didn't bother to lift a finger to do anything about for these four long years! You can "talk", but you cannot hide from your record of abject failure.

This is HUGE, HUGE news. For many reasons. The actual leader of Hamas, who celebrated the October 7th massacre from his exile, has been taken out...in Iran's capital city?? How safe do you feel, Ayatollahs, knowing that one of the most wily terrorists under your protection, inside Iran and out, has just been eliminated right under your noses?

This guy purportedly had stolen hundreds of millions, some say billions, of dollars off the "poor" Palestinian people he was supposedly "helping" through his terror and his tunnels. In the end, all that stolen money couldn't buy you a good enough hiding place, now, could it?

Israel IS dismantling Hamas, terrorist by terrorist, day after day, one by one. The "resistance" has lost, by their lights, a "giant" (even if he did spend over half his life cowering in terrorist-harboring capitals like Doha and Tehran. But hey...that's what terrorist "leaders" usually do!

"....offerings at steak-and-lobster prices"

LOL. Hyperbole much? Come on, get real. "Steak and lobster prices". LOL. Yeah, 200 yen for a cheeseburger can get you how much lobster again? Smh.

Is my math correct? At the above listed "street price", a single kilogram of coke successfully smuggled into Japan would earn (at 155 JPN/1USD) over 160,000 USD?? That would be, on average, over FIVE TIMES more lucrative than a kilo of coke smuggled into Europe or North America.

If true, one should expect many, many, MANY more attempts to cash in on this particularly lucrative, er..."yen carry trade". Demand creates supply, and the uber high prices people here are willing to pay will drive even more to try their luck.

Disgusting. Degenerate. Boring. Self-Important. It exposed how little French culture and France itself actually influences anything of real value in the present day. Throw in some trans activism, outdated and imported superannuated "stars", cheap insults of Christianity, and a splash of rain and train terrorism, and voila, you have described Angry, Irrelevant Paris 2024 in a nutshell!

Celine Dion, the Canadian? Lady Gaga, the American? LOL. Wow, talk about retro "stars". How "French". Fail.

Up until a week ago, these "lovers of democracy" were gaslighting anyone who actually listened to their own ears while the "president" exposed his absolute and indisputable cogitative decline for the entire world to hear. "We beat Medicare", Biden declared, and the "lovers of democracy" said "he's perfectly fine!!!"

Today, these "lovers of democracy" rally behind a person who, when she herself ran for president in 2020, could not get even 1% of Democrat votes, to say nothing of the nation's. She dropped out of the race before losing in her home state! Yes, Vice President Trump (oh, sorry, that's what Biden just called her only last week), Harris, the standard-bearer of less than 1% of her party's support, will "save democracy", through...a palace coup, followed by an undemocratic coronation by her party's professional bigwigs without a single democratic vote! Now a person who, by every metric, voted to the Left of Socialist Bernie Sanders while in the Senate, who Biden admits was chosen not based on the "content of her character," but on her being a non-White and female, and who now runs away from her astoundingly unsuccessful role as "Immigration Czar", has become the standard-bearer of "democracy". LOL. And 2 plus 2 is 5.

Nothing matters at all to these power-hungry people anymore...except power. Power at all costs. Power for the sake of having power. And notice: the Cadaver In Chief, having exposed his cognitive inability to function, continues to "run" the country...from 10am till 4 pm at the latest on his best days, and with weekends and holidays off! LOL.