Secretive Nippon?

Japan creeps closer to uncontrolled fascism, as the new "Special Secrecy Law" -- 特定秘密の保護に関する法律 -- comes into effect from today.

The Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office has already begun review and purge of people suspected to be sympathetic to anything outside Japan (link). Japanese people who've studied or worked abroad are now under suspicion.

This year's Nobel Laureate Physics, Shuji Nakamura, was stripped of Japanese nationality on becoming a naturalized American (he's a Professor at UCal Santa Barbara in the USA). Is Japan's government embarrassed? Most news in Japan simply ignores the inconvenient truth.

(Nobel co-laureate for Physics Kasumi Amano's wife has been working this year in Russia. Do foreign contacts make her less-pure & suspect?)

The rot (?!) reaches to the very top. Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife, Princess Masako, were both sent overseas to study at Oxford University. Is such excellent background now a negative liability?

Surely something is rotten in Japan -- but it is short-sighted domestic xenophobia. Japan's politicians, sad & feeble, seek Remilitarization -- against the wishes of most of the population. Narrow-focused domestic politicians & bureaucrats are once again secretly able to drag the nation to fascism & ultimate destruction.

One loud winter yell
As darkness falls on Japan.
Yoshi goes to war...

Now under Official Suspicion for Non-Japanese Experience?

Crippling Business in Korea

Korean newspapers have recently been full of allegations of horrible pricing. Foreign auto parts can be expensive if bought in Korea (link). Even the yet-to-be-opened Ikea has been criticized with front-page news stories: some product prices may be higher in Korea than elsewhere.

Korea: Welcome to Capitalism!

This populist criticism is stupid, and a form of protectionism. Korea embarrasses itself. Foreign companies wanting to do business in Korea must recognize the discriminatory system. Kentucky Fried Chicken and Lone Star (link) have suffered from this xenophobia and foreigner-bashing.

Of course prices are different internationally. Companies typically seek to charge whatever they can get - and they price strategically. Some products are cheap. Others are expensive - Don't buy when you don't wish to pay...

Outside Korea, small dishes of kimchi, namul and banchan (반찬) cost money at Korean restaurants -- inside Korea, these side dishes are usually free - provided at no cost, and with generous refills.  Should restaurants worldwide be forced to give those foods away, because they're free in Korea? Does this mean Korean restaurant owners operating in Europe and the USA are evil and should be punished?  Surely not - pricing is a business decision. When a business operator asks too much, they cannot sell their products, and soon will need to close. Search for profit is the (only) reason foreigners launch commercial activities in difficult Korea. That's business.

Wake Up Korea !

Free veggies  (Korea only?)

Shameful Triumph Japan

Three Japanese-born researchers this week will receive the Nobel Prize for Physics, but one is now an American. Japan's government forced Dr. Shuji Nakamura to give up his Japanese nationality on becoming a naturalized US citizen.

Though news reports in Japan crow noisily about the three Japanese laureates, Prof. Nakamura is not Japanese, and in some sense is an OUTCAST. So sad, shortsighted and unnecessary!

One day Japan will recognize multiculturalism has many strengths, and global individuals will not need to give-up being Japanese. Japan today remains inward-looking, often xenophobic and racist... Nobel prizewinner Nakamura is American, no longer a son of Nippon. Fiction hides fact, even in Japanese science & technology.

War on Islamic States

Our War on Islam ?
Syria, Iraq, Iran
And whoever else!

Zionist soldiers
Or American Defence?
Got Hagel Fired.

Japan Goes Postal

Japan's Postal Service has become a bureaucratic nightmare.

The old dependable Japanese post office is dead. Now we suffer under Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. (日本郵政株式会社), a new and wholly government-owned administrative frankenstein.

Squadrons of robotic & obstructionist younger workers have been hired to reeducate the population on the authority and primacy of bureaucrats.

Japan is still rigid & semi-feudal. The population must regularly petition officials for all sorts of silly permissions, who then must stamp OK on every page. Such antics keep Japan uncompetitive.

Yesterday I was part of an uncomfortable group watching a worker individually weigh 94 business letters (all same weight & price). I've experienced bureaucracy in mailing a postcard. Japan's bureaucratic time-wasting need not account for itself.

These nutty officials are polite but firm - Just what Japan needs in its brutal drive to Remilitarize under Abenomics.

Stuffy officials handling people as dirt...
Wielding "Essential in Japan" permissions.

Fear - Gear - Profiteer!

Fear Gear Profiteer
Make-a-killing endless war
Industrial Schmucks

War Economies!
Obama Netanyahu
Can't Consider Peace ...

              by Genki

Japan's Blinded Citizenry

Many recognize efforts to restart Japan's atomic reactors as profit-motivated, even in the face of TEPCO Fukushima having run from disaster, abandoning many financial responsibilities. The Fukushima disaster leaves a NO-GO wasteland, a still-evacuated local population, and a continually poisoned ocean. Some elements of the food supply and environment are now highly toxic & deadly.

Japan's PM Shinzō "Sonny" Abe is a former Kobe Steel industrialist, whose grandfather was a major architect of World War II. Sonny seeks to re-militarize Japan.

How much do Japanese citizens know, and how much information is withheld from them? It's surprising that during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear explosion & meltdown, news footage in Japan was heavily censored. For many months, official channels covered-up the scale & horror of what happened because it was 'disturbing' -- people elsewhere in the world watched much more of the disasters live on television.

Japan's ultra-right (and corporate sponsors) now stifle discussion of Sonny Abe's attempts to remilitarize.

  大日本再軍 ? 
     Target Remilitarize Japan

Do Good

Our communities need energies & investment to prosper.

I believe communities cannot be responsible for each new arrival. Newcomers without resources are not society's responsibility. Sadly, the world has many homeless - but they've no right to demand entry to my home. If they sneak inside, they've no permit to stay.

US Immigration is not broken. Guests & intruders have no valid continuing business in the USA. People admitted temporarily can be sent away. A few positive stories about illegal visitors masks huge costs and corruption. The 'friendly' gate-crasher is not a legitimate resident, and has no right of abode.

aWARica

aWARica is a rogue nation savaging the world.

Don't be deceived. Genocide of local populations throughout the Americas... to Vietnam massacres... to ethnic cleansing of oil-rich regions:  aWARica kills & conquers.

Mickey Mouse & McDonalds are the soft side of waterboarding, torture, and civilian massacres.

Beware.

chelseamanning.org

Undeclared War

Few people recognize we're engulfed in undeclared war - on us.

Some would enslave us as passive & easily-manipulated consumers of their products & services. These creeps include:

•  richies wanting more
•  wannabe richies
•  richies protecting their wealth

Unfortunately, these scum own big media, and actively undermine & corrupt our public servants. Military serves them - not the 99% general population. War is Hell.

Net Neutrality Irks Censors

Big corporate bosses should not be censoring your internet access.

US broadband providers are part of huge conglomerates. These media business interests want to capture your home and your attention. If possible, they will decide what to feed you and they'll control what information you can receive.

Censorship Sucks.

Net Neutrality is the answer - treat the internet as a utility and don't allow businessmen to cutoff your services they dislike.

Because most media is owned by Big Business, news reports color this battle as contentious - it's not. This is a no-brainer: 99% of people don't want broadband providers fucking with their access. But media cultivates doubts, and deceives you. Bullshit about jobs and WWI-period legislation are smoke & mirrors. If your media is against net neutrality, you need better sources of real news: abandon that newspaper or TV channel; change now.