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Posted in: Trump releases JFK assassination documents See in context

Right here....

JFK Assassination Records - 2025 Documents Release

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025

Donald Trump keeps is word.

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Posted in: Trump releases JFK assassination documents See in context

A conspiracy theorist wet dream.

Enough, "he's right behind you" political pantomime to keep paranoid suspicious wide eyed blinking foaming deranged, insisting a clandestine government group have a secret agenda, going on for centuries.

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Posted in: Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 413 Palestinians and shatter ceasefire with Hamas See in context

GuruMick,

Netanyahu, Biden and Trump will continue to stumble over the horrors of the harsh consequences, realities of Abrahamic religions, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.

This war is geo politically significant because the options to find a compromise could have reached a point of no return.

In New York students can wave the flag on pro Palestinian protests, in Gaza the profound consequences are measured in the loss of whole families.

Hamas must surrender to a designated UN peacekeeping force.

Now without fail.

leave for the sake of the Palestinian people.

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Posted in: As Trump thaws ties, Russia has a new public enemy number one: Britain See in context

It suits Russia's foreign intelligence service to wallow in the ludicrous suggestion, Britain "a warmonger."

Comparisons with Russia vast milltary prowess,.

UK has pickforks, peashooters, and water pistols, barking the english language out from the white cliffs of dover, whilst waving a copy of the Sun. Daily mail from a legion of white vans.

When I return to the "Perfidious Albion", it is unrecognisable.

I have a ex council flat in Shaftesbury Avenue, The area is blighted by gentrification on a scale that has to be seen to be believed.

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Posted in: Why are there so few benches and garbage bins in public places in Japanese cities? See in context

The community want you to take your rubbish home, dispose in the correct bag, purchased at any supermarket, and deposit in the designated local community "shed" on the correct day.

I write on my waste calendar, all the dates over a month, a discipline your community will politely insist you observe.

It is a religion.

However for foreign tourists, can you see the wrinkle?

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Posted in: Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 413 Palestinians and shatter ceasefire with Hamas See in context

The devastation so brutally portrayed int the article header photograph, indicates harshly without any doubt that this middle eastern war was unlikely to conclude in a long term peace deal.

Certainly any thought of a two state solution is/was always going to be a hopeless delusion.

The end could be whenever every brick, stone is reduced to sand/rubble

What is left of Hamas hiding under, is eradicated. Hezbollah, Iran could follow.

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Posted in: The dark parallels between 1920s America and today’s political climate See in context

Wins Come All Day Under President Donald J. Trump

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/wins-come-all-day-under-president-trump/

President Trump is winning hearts and minds.

Democrats must stop their self imposed insidious, politically wretched self harming "victim", let's give America "a navel-gazing irrational emotionally dysfunctional self-mutilation hell on earth"

And move on, become a credible opposition.

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Posted in: Aum cult member's widow speaks 30 years after subway attack See in context

Yuki Niimi deeinguious refusal to accept culpability, is frankly nauseating, in its cynical duplicitous disregard to the victim, families.

Outrageous, in the belated shock of his atrocities, is further insult to the victims.

Yuki Niimi  is culpable, then and now.

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Posted in: 'Disney's Snow White' gets muted Hollywood premiere See in context

At which point did Disney not stop to think to get the "Snow White Story" on message?

It is a child's wide eyes wonderland of bedtime stories.

I wonder how disney become so dysfunctional?

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Posted in: The dark parallels between 1920s America and today’s political climate See in context

Look, the political belly button gazing must stop, the wound lickig, the sanctimony, the refusal that Donald Trump is the here and now.

Watch this please, and ask how such anger, I suggest is justified, has manifested itself into the political grassroots of the political functionality of a the worlds foremost democratic constitutional federal republic.

Yes the USA

Trump Speech LIVE |Donald Trump Delivers Remarks At The Department Of Justice | Trump News | N18G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU8kzR4m8Y

What has caused such change?

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Posted in: 'Disney's Snow White' gets muted Hollywood premiere See in context

I will pay and watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,

I will not care less, I will separate the Zeigler effect.

I watched the original as a child with Mum. I even asked Mum when Dad was going to change from a frog,

Mum spent how long asking where I got the frog from.

A child imagination is sacrosanct,

DEI why?

I was, am enthralled by the simplicity of such storytelling.

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Posted in: 'Disney's Snow White' gets muted Hollywood premiere See in context

Why would any film studio with a reputation, Disney, ever allow a toxic identify political ideology into a wonderful classical children's fantasy masterpiece Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

Zeigler described the beloved original as "weird" because Snow White's love interest is "a guy who literally stalks her."

"she's not going to be saved by the prince, and she's not going to be dreaming about true love,"

"yes i am snow white no i am not bleaching my skin for the role"

$ 200,000,000, for Zegler to then flush such an investment round the U bend,.

I hope the film is given a second chance though.

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Posted in: 'Disney's Snow White' gets muted Hollywood premiere See in context

I will be taking my nephews and nieces to this live-action remake, "Snow White,"

After all, I am assuming they are all of an age to enjoy.

$200 million to make, Rachel Zegler could have been a tad more subtle,.

Frankly, I have opined on many subjects, upsetting everybody friends colleagues family at one time or another, still do.

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” 

I guess some of will always be seen as the "wicked witch", seriously, Rachel Zegler is not one of us.

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Posted in: Skip the beef this St Patrick’s Day and make corned cauliflower instead See in context

Bye the bye, Colcannon, always a winner.

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Posted in: Skip the beef this St Patrick’s Day and make corned cauliflower instead See in context

I am going to give this Cauliflower recipe a go.

As a move over for J beef, that is a huge "cuisine" challenge.

As a side compliment, a thumbs up

It is the "cookery".

Judging the flavours to the taste.

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Posted in: Skip the beef this St Patrick’s Day and make corned cauliflower instead See in context

kohakuebisu, I ask my local butcher, they don't have a problem.

It is getting the crackling/crackle spot on that I find a struggle. I have been experimenting with an air fryer

Corn is a clever tasty option.

Cauliflower is expensive

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Posted in: Skip the beef this St Patrick’s Day and make corned cauliflower instead See in context

Look corn is cool, for this mouth-watering recipe.

Consider a visit to the local butcher, request the pork skin, trust me they will do the business

Cut into thin strips, crackle, blend, and coat the cauliflower, with a cheese sauce.

Side with a Soubise (French Onion Sauce)

https://www.seriouseats.com/soubise-french-onion-sauce-recipe-7101058

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Posted in: Unification Church faces dissolution in Japan See in context

"Unification Church" has infiltrated government, why attempt to hide the fact?

The question is how far?  

Such horrors, could well have cost Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- Japan's longest-serving leader. his life.

Shinzo Abe's wife Akie Abe has been left bereaved bereft.

Only an independent judge led statutory public inquiry will bring closure.

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Posted in: U.S. strikes Yemen's Houthis as Trump vows end to shipping threat See in context

Joe Biden is yesterday's news.

Its is a worthless road to nowhere constantly "kicking to death" the previous administration.

"Democracy" is not, never has been some ideological concurred hand over, formal arrangement, between political accord entities.

What is crucial is the here and now.

Dealt confront the threat at hand.

Don't tiptoe show leadership

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Posted in: U.S. strikes Yemen's Houthis as Trump vows end to shipping threat See in context

As people we cannot avoid the inevitable, by appeasement, by the pretence of a all will be ok, a political solution, the odd missile here, their.

Only a clear milltary objective, confrontation will expel the threat of religious Islamic terrorism, extremism.

Yes many lives will be lost, sacrificed, it could be long drawn out, ugly.

However necessary.

Don't sugar coat, be totally clear.

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Posted in: U.S. strikes Yemen's Houthis as Trump vows end to shipping threat See in context

I really don't believe "people's" realise the importance, both politically economically, that shipping trading routes represent to the global economy?

Your cost of living, the supermarket inflationary pressures?

The Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Baba al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.

President Trump must, I suggest should without fail consider full confrontation with the Islamic extremist fundamentalists.

Hamas, Hezbollah, mostly Iran.

No options here, NOW extreme prejudice.

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Posted in: Without fundamental reforms like integrating farmland and recruiting young cultivators, rice prices will keep soaring. See in context

I think Speed is referring to the Acreage-Reduction Policy?

The Pros and Cons of Japan's Rice Acreage-Reduction Policy

https://www.tokyofoundation.org/research/detail.php?id=86

Every morning I view the undeniable fact that my farming neighbours could end up buried alongside their agricultural machinery.

Must be a new government led sponsored push to encourage a youth that the land, agriculture is essential to every community nationwide, food security, economic future.

The way forward could start with a debate action on integration.

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Posted in: Trump blasts foes and media in speech at 'Department of Injustice' See in context

President Trump delivers a speech at the Department of Justice, amid Ukraine peace negotiations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQV6CiI5L-g

Well he promised, on his US 2024 campaign, Donald Trump pledged change on a unprecedented scale,

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Posted in: Iwaya calls U.S. tariffs 'regrettable' in talks with Rubio See in context

iron man.....

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https://www.honda.co.jp/CIVICTYPE-R/

Maybe not to your tastes but I find the car quite exhilarating.

I think President Trump approach, if he wants a level trade playing field, falling back on brute force is a fools errand.

Trump has made detailed some fair points though.

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Posted in: Iwaya calls U.S. tariffs 'regrettable' in talks with Rubio See in context

I do enjoy the Civic, Namahage, I kept my Suzuki wagon R for local tips.

I drove the Civic recently from Kochi to Nagoya,

I don't feel swindled, I did splash out I bought a Type R.

It doesn't disappoint.

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Posted in: Trump threatens retaliatory 200% tariff on European wine after EU proposes American whiskey tax See in context

There is some reasonable Californian Wines

Want to Understand California Wine? These 11 Bottles Will Teach You Everything

https://www.foodandwine.com/california-wine-essential-bottles-8713823

I will pass on the "Whiskey" and the fast food.

BBQ is outstanding

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Posted in: Iwaya calls U.S. tariffs 'regrettable' in talks with Rubio See in context

It is simply impractical, frankly preposterous to force consumers in Japan to buy high cost item products they simply don't desire.

I have brought a new Honda civic, I brought the car because out of all the makes and models I test drove I found the civic a nice fit.

It is that simple.

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Posted in: Trump threatens retaliatory 200% tariff on European wine after EU proposes American whiskey tax See in context

There does not have to be a "Trade War".

Negotiate a constructive agreed trading system through compromise.

All parities.

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Posted in: Trump threatens retaliatory 200% tariff on European wine after EU proposes American whiskey tax See in context

I spent my secondment opportunities in Lyon, short time Paris.

A wonderful time, the people, french cuisine.

Economically, taxation, the cost of living, all enshrined in the principle of subsidiarity.

Article 5(3) of the Treaty on European Union, dictates that the EU should only act when it's more effective than Member States acting alone at national, regional, or local levels, except in areas of exclusive EU competence

Federalization on a scale, that would be unthinkable to the US developed mixed economy, purchasing power parity.

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Posted in: Trump threatens retaliatory 200% tariff on European wine after EU proposes American whiskey tax See in context

Donald Trump wants permanent lasting radical change quickly.

Economic, militarily, every sector....

President Trump will secure such change, however with chaos.

Listen please.....

Trump vows response to the EU's retaliatory tariffs: 'Of course I'm going to respond'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1hSh_-EGCM

2nd April I understand reciprocal "tariff" will introduce, force change .

To understand why i suggest EU member states could well have to sooner or later comply

EU regulatory framework protects the "producer/lobbyist" not the consumer.

All right here

EUR-Lex

Access to European Union law

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM:regulation

Common agricultural policy

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy_en

These laws, regulations inflexibility have, and will continue to be EU “Achilles' heel” .... Add in the gross ring fenced single currency.

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