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Kane should have gotten an Oscar, but lucked out with the more useful penalty he was after.

And nobody goes to jail? That isn't justice.

What the world has seen of America's dysfunctional "justice" system at work during the last 8 years where the suits on trial flanked by a de rigueur phalanx of lawyers all have get-outta-jail-free cards protruding from their bulging pockets, this sweetheart deal between government and corporation comes as no surprise to anyone who has concluded that it's the best "justice" system money can buy.

Kudos to a great actor!

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday he was "relieved" that the eurosceptic far right failed to win a snap election in top ally France...

Hmm, many around the world would be more relieved if the German leader stopped aiding and abetting the even further rightist regime of Netanyahu and his thugs in their genocidal destruction of life in Gaza and the West Bank and closing their eyes to all the IDF war crimes with the lame and untrue (according to international law) boilerplate, "Israel has the right to defend itself" ( as an occupying power it does not). The lawless actions of the powerful Israeli state pose a far greater threat to Europe's security than all the right-wing populist parties combined.

I hate those things.

All animals must eat to stay alive. Being Nature's top predator, humans are incomparably more cruel and bloodthirsty as their victims would tell you, could they speak.

Bringing their chutzpah to Hiroshima to remember the killing of innocent civilians really takes the biscuit, but the world, weary of the horrific scenes of atrocities perpetrated day and night on the mothers and children and men in Gaza since October 7, has already had a belly-full of their hypocrisy and gaslighting. The Japanese authorities should now do the decent thing: in a word to the Zionist war criminals, "muzukashii"!

The Japanese system doesn't require any Supreme Court pantomime. The fix is built in behind the scenes down in the basement with the shredders where corruption goes "to die".

The French Left have headed the racist Right off at the polling pass so for the moment the danger of a French neo-fascist regime has been checked. Vive La Gauche!

Correction:

"but it's a common trait of aging men NOT to admit they've lost their mojo and are losing their marbles."

Biden has always been a shill for the rich and powerful, but now he's become a shell, too. He's delusional to think he can last as a leader until November in a country with a culture that worships youth and vitality, but it's a common trait of aging men to admit they've lost their mojo and are losing their marbles. He doesn't even realize that he's a war criminal - guilty, guilty guilty! (despite the ICC's cowardice in their unwillingness to call out names and round up all the usual suspects.

By bringing charges of corruption against a former president, Brazil's justice system is showing up the 3-tier system now enshrined by law in the USA where, despite the brazen behavior of America's former president whose scofflaw lust for self-enrichment is notorious, the emoluments clause to curb presidential corruption was willfully ignored by those in the DOJ and politicians in Congress and the Senate whose duty it was to uphold the law. Brazilians are giving a lesson in real democracy to the world showing that presidential immunity and democracy are incompatible because justice matters.

I’m a Liverpudlian. I don’t know if ‘fooled’ by Starmer is the right word. Starmer’s Labour Party will take every seat in Liverpool.

Right you are, but the majority of the huge crowd that came out give Corbyn such an unprecedented enthusiastic welcome when he spoke at St. George's Hall will be holding their nose on election day: they will vote Labour because they want to punish the Tories for all the years they were cruelly exploited and lied to by the nest-feathering mafia in the south. Few will feel any warmth for the shifty "toolmaker's son" whose hapless brand is duplicity and "service" to his personal ambitions.

The Sun said in an editorial that "by dragging his party back to the center ground of British politics for the first time since Tony Blair was in No. 10 (Downing St.), Sir Keir has won the right to take charge,” using the formal title for Starmer, who was knighted.

To be endorsed and anointed by the UK's gutter press, especially the malicious and viciously toxic Sun of Murdoch is just one more disgrace Starmer can chalk up for himself to add to his vile public record as a lawyer. Liverpudlians, quite rightly, wouldn't be seen dead with that rag in their hands - and they won't be fooled by Starmer and his right-wing cabal either, the so-called "Friends of Israel" that tossed out more Jews from the party than in all the years of the party's existence while excoriating them and Corbyn as "anti-semites". For the record, Starmer and his donors have dragged the party to the right of the Tories on some issues - the "center ground" is just the usual eyewash from the Murdoch sewer. The writing is on the wall: the social-climbing "son of a toolmaker" with a chip on his shoulder will be another disastrous incompetent following the gormless self-entitled and self-serving public-school Tories he has always envied and aspired to emulate with his whiny fake posh accent.

Starmer is campaigning on "change", but what sort of change? Sucking up his Tory-lite snake-oil will leave a bitter after-taste when the punters are rudely awakened to find themselves once again between a rock and a hard place experiencing post-election tristesse and a whopping hangover from the false hope of their "democratic" Hobson's choice. Blue Austerity Redux is waiting under Starmer's pink cloak provided by his donors.

Capuchin's list = war crimes in spades. We have eyes and are not to be taken in by the lies and propaganda of governments and MSM and, most importantly, the truth cannot be killed by silence for which the Japanese language even has a special word: 黙殺 (mokusatsu). A change does seem to be in the air over Gaza: could the IDF be tired of winning already after 9 months of inflicting death and destruction on a daily basis?

One of the greatest films ever made yet many Japanese remain ignorant of it. It should be a part of the school curriculum to promote Japanese culture and raise the public's abysmally low level of film appreciation. This film has a sting in its tail, however, that can stir up undesirable questions about the Japanese past which some folk may feel could rock the boat of Japan's present hierarchical social structure.

That grin on Starmer's face will be wiped off when he gets what he lusts after and when Karma demands its pound of his flesh during his years in office. A person with a vile record in public office that has been airbrushed out by the PR spin-doctors who have successfully pulled the wool over the eyes of millions. Another fine mess awaits the weary British people.

The depth of political corruption can be measured by the silence of this swamp creature, Menendez. This all smells like the fall of the republic, the stinking city on the hill that the SC has just torched by creating an unassailable third tier of justice for an imperial presidency. It can't happen here? It has!

“I hope the people will like the new bills, and they will help energize the Japanese economy,” 

Hmm, it will take more than a new paper issue to energize the sinking Yen. Somehow I can't get into a celebratory mood especially given the state of the world when the morals of our leaders are circling the drain and so many cannot tell fact from fiction.

We have the right-wing Biden & Garland schlemiel schlimazel team of institutionalist milquetoasts to thank for the lawless state of America after the disastrous decision of the SC turned out the lights on the Constitution. Instead of going hard after Trump's crimes, they let the orange jin out of the bottle to steal democracy. Biden failed to redress the imbalance in the SC by taking no action to add 4 liberal justices. Instead, by failing to go after the prima facie corruption of the court, the Dems emboldened 45's 3 right-wing extremists and their ilk to hogtie the court and trash the institution. Heck of a job, Joe!

The present political state of the world with the right-wing on the rampage is what happens when people forget the lessons of history: fascism has crawled out of the grave and is returning as a revenant wrapped in a flag and carrying a bible.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the new evacuation order “just shows yet again that no place is safe in Gaza” for Palestinian civilians. “It’s another stop in this deadly circular movement that the population in Gaza has to undergo on a regular basis,”

This enormity is so much more: it's prima facie proof of Israeli intent to commit genocide. The daily death toll and scale of human suffering is an obscenity. Why is the ICJ and ICC dragging its feet? Why still no charges against Biden and others who have been instrumental in the massacre of mothers and children and the cold-blooded execution, detention and torture of all Palestinian males of "fighting age".

What self-respecting person who has sworn to uphold the law could ever accept an appointment to the SC made by a life-long scofflaw with the morals of an alley cat acting as president? This is the result of the failure to rein in the vicious right-wing cabal in the SC after it arbitrarily threw the election to Bush over Gore in the Florida vote-count debacle. This decision delayed until the last day of the court's session can be construed as a deliberate act to obstruct justice, an impudent intervention to sabotage the government's attempt to bring accountability to a rogue ex-Potus for the myriad crimes he has committed. The 6-3 decision made by the most morally compromised SC in recent times has just driven another nail in the coffin of the republic, as old Ben Franklin had once feared, by creating a third tier of justice for an imperial presidency: Dictatorship 1 - Democracy 0.

I’m excited to see how Hamas supporters try to cope with the fact that it’s been proven yet again that Hamas operates out of civilian areas

Apart from operating in Israeli territory (Lord forbid!) where else can a resistance movement operate from? So it's humanly reassuring to tell us that you do have emotions, if only excitement and gloating glee over the genocidal destruction of a people's right to life.

The right-wing DNC and other party bigwigs thought establishment career politician, G-Joe, would be safe hands keeping out the "left" by leaving Bernie Sanders out in the cold, a man who even today is still mentally fit for the presidency and could clean Trump's smirking clock in any debate. Four years ago they made the wrong choice with Biden and doubling down on their superannuated candidate for a second run has backfired in their faces. As I predicted last year, Biden will probably suddenly drop out when his declining faculties can no longer be hidden. Hubris exacts a heavy price and we will soon see it cruelly play out for both of these flaky contenders.

Trump, the "Projection Meister of Meisters", repeatedly accused Biden of making America a laughing stock in the eyes of the world and responsible for the country having lost the international respect when that happened in 2016 and the world doubled down on the disrespect on the day of the January 6th riots. Biden has also brought the country into a rogue status with his genocidal policies against the Palestinians. The fact that a convicted felon is allowed onto the stage to pose as a decent candidate for president puts the cherry on the disgrace.

The doctors' strike is a symptom of the deep malaise afflicting the tattered social fabric of the country which the elites have brought about through their greed, incompetence, mismanagement of the economy, lack of a future vision and resistance to changing the superannuated class system of monarchy, aristocracy, private education and crumbs for the plebs.

Sunak & Starmer - two cheeks of the same sleazy backside of the UK's ruling duopoly whose deep corruption and mismanagement of the economy in order to profit special interests, both domestic and foreign, and feather their own nests has led the way to trashing the social fabric of the country with the impoverishment of the middle-class and the creation of a desperate underclass that is providing fertile ground for a nasty outbreak of British fascism in a grim future that may be closer than many think.

Assange had to wait 14 years before he got a kind of justice when he was released from the hell-hole of Belmarsh after being stitched up by vindictive high government figures in the US.UK for exposing their war crimes to the world. When will the victims' families of "Collateral Murder" and other homicides and torture see justice? This Assange case exposes the ruthless hypocrisy of governments when any individual citizen gets in the way of their exercise of violence. Clearly the citizenry of our world needs more effective tools of deterrence to force government officials to obey the law and respect the principles of democracy they cynically proclaim to uphold. We are now living in a manifestly lawless world.

The "most moral army in the world's" bombing, shooting, killing and starving civilians, destroying their homes, hospitals, universities, libraries, historical buildings and monuments, mosques, churches, and waging a campaign to assassinate journalists, aid-workers, intellectuals, mothers would never be able to give birth to grow the population, children who would never be able to grow to adulthood, men who who would never be able to procreate to increase their numbers, all males of "fighting age" killed on sight or abducted by their thousands to be tortured, starved, abused and held indefinitely in Israeli prisons, all these crimes against humanity proven by a mountain of evidence, would never be called a "war" were the perpetrators not Israelis, Americans, Germans and British etc. So when do we stop calling these genocidal enormities "plausible"?