Hetty Litjens: PoliticsNews and views about politics (or what Bush has left of it).YAKUZA- April 20, 2007 JapanTimes: "One of the leading voices against nuclear proliferation was silenced Wednesday when Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito died from gunshot wounds. He was 61. It is part of the job of political leaders in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only two cities to have had an atomic bomb dropped on them, to oppose nuclear weapons. Ito had a particularly high profile as mayor and was widely respected." There is at present a militaristic trend in Japanese politics and one wonders who is behind this heinous...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/04/20.html#a5257 THE POLITICAL ASSET- April 19, 2007 YNetNews: "Documentary shows Israel worst place for Holocaust survivors to live throughout Western world. Hundreds protest outside Knesset, demand goverment help survivors with financial difficulties." Haaretz: "The cynicism inherent in the attitude of the institutions of the Jewish state to Holocaust survivors is not a revelation to those born and living among them. We grew up with the yawning gap between the presentation of the State of Israel as the place of the Jewish people's rebirth and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/04/19.html#a5253 POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK- April 7, 2007 Scotsman: "Lie-detector technology is being piloted by the government in a fresh attempt to crack down on benefit cheats, John Hutton, the Works and Pensions Secretary, announced yesterday." The British government judges other people's character by it's own.http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/04/07.html#a5219 RM NETHERLANDS- April 6, 2007 I have been waiting for more than ten days now for an envelope from England. The same mailing was received in the US, India, Japan and Australia several days ago. And it's just normal mail that goes through the letter box. I live close to Schiphol where airmail is received from Britain and could easily be sluiced to our until now properly functioning TNT (our former Royal Dutch mail service). Mail from England under 50 grams is indeed delivered by TNT within 2 to 3 days. But anything over 50...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/04/06.html#a5218 |