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Even while the ground continues to shake, reactors are melting down and rescuers count the dead, men in suits seek to make political capital. Kyodo reports: LDP urges Kan to…
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Even while the ground continues to shake, reactors are melting down and rescuers count the dead, men in suits seek to make political capital. Kyodo reports: LDP urges Kan to…
Quoting from the Grauniad: Barack Obama pledged US assistance following what he called a potentially “catastrophic” disaster. What on earth is a potentially catastrophic disaster? What does this language mean?…
Before even taking office Saint Obama was contemplating his first military action against another country. In this case, it is Sudan. The given reason for the possible incursion into Sudan…
A producer of BBC kids show Blue Peter has just been suspended in the continuing row over phone in and competition deceptions. He fixed a viewer poll to name the…
It is heartwarming to see that the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has installed a cat at 10 Downing Street. The prime minister’s official residence has been without feline charms for…
While popsters around the world are lining up to urge us to environmental action with the Live Earth concerts, cuter-than-kittens J-Pop boy band Arashi are doing their best to destroy…
Canadian sealers have been stranded by unusual pack ice conditions. About 100 boats carrying fishermen conducting the cull of 270,000 seals off Newfoundland’s coast have been trapped by ice. Some…
Today, the Lord God Almighty, a supreme being, told George W Bush to ‘fuck off’. The Good Lord added, ‘you are a lying, dissembling little plonker, and I hope you…
Does Japan’s state TV station suffer state censorship? This is the question that has set Japan’s blogosphere buzzing since the Ishikawa earthquake on March 25. Nagaijin has alerted me to…
There was an interesting piece in the online Guardian recently which explained how in Britain victims of wrongful imprisonment are charged for B&B for the amount of time they spent…