This is my peaceful, non-violent expression of outrage at the preposterous idea of giving
Tokyo the 2016 Olympic Games.
Ah, that's better! Now that I'm no longer in Japan, and I don't have to see this flag festooned about town, I can continue with a reasoned approach to making sure that these games go elsewhere!
To recap, and for newcomers, I am opposed to these games going to Tokyo because Tokyo in particular, and Japan in general simply do not deserve them. Japan has fallen into its old racist, isolationist and xenophobic ways. Gov. Shintaro Ishihara only wants the games for prestige and profit, all the while unapologetically reviling the international residents of Japan. Well, he can't have it both ways. Either scrap the fingerprinting and photographing of foreign residents, and treat everyone equally, or accept the consequences of racist, apartheid isolation. Human rights and dignity are not a "case-by-case" issue. Period.
He can't run a bank. He can't run a city. That means he can't run an Olympic Games. A proven record of failure.
Ethical failure. Financial failure. Moral failure. The Olympics deserve better!
Again, I assure the reader that I am not inventing the items I post. All the links here...
http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html
....will bring you to the sources I use. This is not a hate site. It is a truth site.
This is the real Japan, up front, raw, in-yer-face and altogether not that pretty!
Without the sugar... http://japanlost.blogspot.com/
Fingerprint this!
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Narita Airport: Rated 38th out of 40 in the world by business travellers! And it is most people's first experience of Japan. It's gonna take a bit more than a cute face!
What a dilapidated, cavernous, uncomfortable, old mausoleum!
http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/kurara-chibana-promotes-narita-airport
Kurara Chibana promotes Narita airport
Tuesday 01st April, 03:09 PM JST
Kurara Chibana, 26, who was the Miss Universe runner-up in 2006, is the new "image girl" for Narita airport during its 30th anniversary celebrations. "The airport is a special place for me because I always have different feelings when both leaving and returning there. Since I often go abroad on business, I would like to report what is happening in the world via Narita airport," said Chibana who also works as a special reporter for NTV.
Narita airport will celebrate its 30th anniversary on May 20. The new Airbus A380 is scheduled to start regular flights between Narita and Singapore the same day.
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The 2008 Nazi Olympics
By CB Liddell
Back in 1936, a certain country used the Olympic Games to showcase the achievements of its totalitarian regime. Visitors were impressed by signs of economic progress, including a new national freeway system; amazed at technological innovations, like the first public use of live TV coverage; and awed by the orderly nature of a society where the police had the whip hand. Even the local athletes put on a good show. Apart from some unpopular successes for certain U.S. athletes of color, the host country easily topped the medal table, with 33 golds to the USA's 24.
Now, 72 years later, we are to be treated to a similar spectacle -- the Beijing Olympics, when another ascendant totalitarian power will pull out all the stops in an attempt to promote its economy, society and political system. But what, exactly, is China's political system?
Although it claims to be a communist country, China can be more accurately described as a fascist state. Due largely to the horrific events of World War II, the word "fascism" and "fascist" are now terms charged with extreme emotions. But looked at in terms of political science, fascism is a system of state power that utilizes nationalism and big business to strengthen a country economically, industrially and militarily, especially when the country feels disadvantaged by the existing global system. In the past, Italy, Germany and Japan turned to fascism in an attempt to redress the power balance of what they saw as a biased international system that favored the main capitalist and colonial powers. Now China is doing something similar.
Chinese soldiers, serving as agents provocateurs and dressing as monks, prepare to "riot" for the CCTV cameras in Llasa.
Oh, yeah, sure! The Dalai Lama is behind this! Gimme a break!
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/30/german_interior_minister_fingerprint_appropriated/
Here is the German Interior Minister's
Fingerprint!