SOUTH Australia has become one of the few states in the world to censor the internet.
The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires anyone making an online comment about next month's state election to publish their real name and postcode.
The law will affect anyone posting a comment on an election story on The Advertiser's AdelaideNow website, as well as other Australian news sites.
It could also apply to election comment made on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The law, which was pushed through last year as part of a raft of amendments to the Electoral Act and supported by the Liberal Party, also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner.
Isn't 4-ch hosted in Australia?
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Japan
Early in, early out
Jan 22nd 2009 | TOKYO
From The Economist print edition
An economy not hit directly by the financial storm is shrinking much faster than any other developed one
NO EVENT is seared upon Japan’s recent memory like the bursting of the country’s credit-inflated bubble in land and share prices after 1990. Yet, since the autumn, the speed with which Japan’s industrial output and exports have fallen almost certainly signals a slump of unprecedented severity, making Japan’s several post-bubble recessions look mild. In 1998, the worst year, the economy shrank by 2%. Most economists think it contracted by more than that in the last three months of 2008 alone. Goldman Sachs expects GDP to fall by 3.8% this year.
After six years of growth, the longest uninterrupted post-war run, Japan entered a new recession as early as the second quarter of 2008. But in the final couple of months of the year, what at first was a fairly gentle decline morphed into something far worse than that experienced even by countries at the centre of the credit storm (see chart).
Exports account for almost half of Japan’s manufacturing output, which as a consequence is seeing its biggest falls since records began: November’s output was down by 13% on a year earlier. Orders for machine tools in December, an early indicator of things to come, were 72% lower than a year before. Hiroshi Shiraishi of BNP Paribas reckons that by December industrial output had already fallen back to its post-bubble low in 2001, wiping out the gains from six years of what had been thought to be a solid recovery. Before the slump is over, Mr Shiraishi expects production to slide back to levels last seen in 1987.
It has not helped that the export demand that drove Japan’s economic recovery after 2002 was narrowly based on cars and consumer technology, industries that have fallen more than most. Carmakers, for instance, are roughly halving production, with consequences for makers of steel, chips and chemicals.
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12998246
Japan's GDP worst since '74
3.3% contraction in fourth quarter translates to 12.7% annual decline as recession batters export-driven economy.
I for one am glad - almost proud, even - to have supported the Japanese economy in Summer 2k6. Or at least the sector centered around Comiket 70 and Akihabara.
The real problem is that Japan buys the enormous amounts of U.S bonds.
>>5
There is also the unresolved problem of Japan's excessively protectionist economic policies, its crumbling educational system, and the government's seeming hostility to upward mobility. Its no wonder the Japanese have so few children, they have very little to look forward to in terms of a prosperous and happy future.
>>6
"Excessively protectionist?" Tell that to thousands of Sony factory workers who got thrown under the bus when Sony moved its manufacturing to China.
>>7
They wouldn't be in as dire straights as they are if there weren't huge tariff barriers, unreasonably high consumer price indices, laws against foreign capital investment, stagnant social mobility and poor primary and secondary education. Not to mention the disaster that is the Japanese banking system. Yes, protectionism is one reason for Japan's recent underperformance. If the Japanese labor market didn't have such a large pool of unemployed people to draw from the Sony lay offs would not have been nearly as bad as they are.
>>8
Sounds like a bunch of empty rhetoric to me. And Japan's education is poor? Last I checked, it was one of the highest, if not the highest in the world, alongside of Finland's.
STOCKHOLM – A North Korean diplomat and his wife were sentenced to eight months in prison by a Stockholm court Wednesday after trying to smuggle 230,200 cigarettes into the country on a ferry from Finland.
"The basis for the court's decision is that Son Hui Kang and Ung Sik Pak were caught red-handed smuggling (that) amount of cigarettes into the country," the district court said in its verdict.
Ung Sik Pak, a North Korean diplomat stationed in Saint Petersburg, and his wife Son Hui Kang had tried to claim diplomatic immunity.
The court said the pair "did not have any diplomatic accreditation in Sweden" and that the Vienna convention did therefore not apply.
The pair was arrested upon their arrival in Stockholm after getting off a ferry from Helsinki with the smuggled cigarettes in their car on November 18 and has been held in custody since.
Sentences for cigarette smuggling in Sweden can range from six months to six years.
I was quite shocked to hear that the North Koreans actually have diplomats.
I agree. It is a shame that Switzerland let DPRK have its own embassy there.
Baby boy born with penis on back in China |
http://lix.in/-59c8b3
This will make masturbation very difficult for the poor child.
Is that a decorative penis or does he pee from there?
Is there an article or news story to go along with this unusual and strange occurrence?
Can you imagine what life would be like with penis on back?
>>5
Like, sitting on a chair and getting a hard on. That'd look awkward. Until it falls down you'll have to be leaning with a thing sticking out your backside.
Here's how I imagine him as a teenager, doing you-know-what:
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How does this make you feel Japan?
Go to meiwasuisan.com and hone your photo-collage skill with them.
made by Gelman and Japanese.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 20, 2009
BELGRADE — The European Union has improved its ties with Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia by dropping a 20-year-old visa requirement for more than 10 million citizens in the three countries.
Apparently encouraged by the decision, which took effect on Saturday, the government of Serbia announced that it would formally apply for E.U. membership. Montenegro and Macedonia are already candidates. The E.U. visa requirement remains in place for Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania, but it will be reviewed next year.
THIS IS SIMPLY GREAT ><
On a totally unrelated note, the crime rate in Western/Northern Europe went up 5%.
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CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/03/japan.sexslaves.ap/
Lee Yong-soo, 78, a South Korean who was interviewed during a recent trip to Tokyo,
said she was 14 when Japanese soldiers took her from her home in 1944 to work
as a sex slave in Taiwan.
U.S. House of Representatives:
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/110/lee021507.htm
In the autumn of 1944, when I was 16 years old, my friend, Kim Punsun, and I were
collecting shellfish at the riverside when we noticed an elderly man and a Japanese man
looking down at us form the hillside......
A few days later, Punsun knocked on my window early in the morning,
and whispered to me to follow her quietly. I tip-toed out of the house after her.
A crime to relate to Korean sex prostitution and sex in the evidence holds most of world it.
>>97 there are plenty of white people who do that too.
>>97 Aww... I think someone is a little angry they got passed up for a promotion because a harder workin' black guy was there...
>>101 yep, and we call them wiggers.
>>104
i'm sorry but we cannot read moonspeak
please translate
The fakes of South Korean slaves.
At the end of world war 2,the many of Japanese must went to the Japan as their homeland, but there was a large problem. It was Korean murder. The problem of Korean murder had been discussed by their relations of war which South Korean slaves joined. Like Korean war, and Vietnam war, and Nanjing conflict with Japan. Until the Korean war continued, the many of people which was regarded as a north Korean communist or their familiar relations were killed by South Korean army and officers.
South Korean military police had been killed their own nation's for about 200000 peoples as "north Korean relations "for their fakes and US military forces had regarded as nothing had happened.
So South Korean slaves's criminal had been varnished from their dirty plan and their fuckin history, but North Korean didn't accept it. They insisted why the South Korean slaves's criminal was not discussed to correct under the international conversation like the mass media and the world wide web.
And Vietnam war, South Korean slaves rape the prisoner of Vietnam’s females and children. And many of Vietnam’s orphans made by south Korean slaves had been appeared at that time.
But league of nations didn't discussed this problem, and present this time, South Korean slaves behave as though nothing had happened about those problems.
One thing will becomes other things, the man of South Korean slaves's criminal appeared the side of those war, but only a few people know what they were, and to regret to say, the many of American trust the south Korean slaves's fakes and regard as their criminal as Japanese did until the present time. For example Yoko Kawashima had written the some novels which described the south Korean slaves's rape the foreign females during the end of world war 2 ,but many of South Korean slaves try to destroy this novels for fear to appear the truth which their crime like rape, murder, stealing at the present time. And they made California congress erase those novels and the yoko's story becomes not adopt their school books for fuckin South Korean slaves’s faking history in California. And the story has gone. It means that South Korean slaves made the fakes in the world history as south Korean slaves is goddamn innocence neither to blame nor to do and rapes the all of student’s brain of California at the point of destroyed their own history of truth by fuckin South Korean fakes.
>>106
citation needed
Japanese are liars. They steal American technology and then they think Japanese cameras a pure Japanese creation, when in reality they are stolen technologies taken from American companies. I do not trust the Japanese because of this. Why did Fuji feel the need to steal American technologies without the use of license?
Why you japanese are always say that korean rape is a fake?
Korean rape is something that you should BE PROUD OF!
This is another example of typical Japanese Korean Racism.
Please, both of you, bury the hatchet already.
Living in Japan, I am used to seeing the "No English please" signs in bars and the likes. Some people just cannot speak english and it is reasonable to make sure there is no tension due to cultural gap. But when there are signs which say "English ok no gook" (a polite translation of the sign) as well as the stigma evident of Japanese and Koreans marrying, then I have a problem.
So please, work to better yourselves and each other rather than this petty thing.
Granted america isn't always better, but at the least, we can admit to our mistakes as a whole.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon South Park, calling the series "extremist" after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
South Park, a cartoon aimed at adults and featuring a group of nine-year olds in a Colorado ski town, has courted controversy from its 1997 debut, parodying celebrities, politicians, religion, gay marriage and Saddam Hussein.
Basmanny regional prosecutors office spokeswoman Valentina Titova said investigators filed a motion after deciding an episode broadcast on Moscow television station 2x2 in January "bore signs of extremist activity."
"In accordance with the conclusions made by experts from the court investigations committee, a claim has been filed against 2x2 for its broadcast of an episode of South Park," Titova said.
South Park has won two Emmy Awards and was first shown on the U.S. Comedy Central network. It is dubbed into Russian and rebroadcast on local networks, including 2x2, a channel which broadcasts animated series in Moscow and St Petersburg.
This is funny..Isn't Russia is communist country and religious leaders has a small voice in their government?
>>2 Well, the Communist Party is still #2, but no, not really.
If they're serious about this, it's because the government itself doesn't like what's being said. This will either go through smoothly because the Russians have no sense of humor or it won't go through at all because, although it hates on everyone, the show is highly critical of US policy, and therefore indirectly friendly to Russia.
If either or anything is to survive, they [RUSSIA AND USA] must find a way to create an appropriate partnership. To avoid things like this.
It is kinda like cold war 2.
Talking is better than trading threats, something the two have done all too frequently in recent months.
So basically James Murdoch (son of Rupert Murdoch) of News Corporation bitches that the BBC is being too dominant and expansionist in the markets, and that that threatens independent broadcasters, such as Sky (which is owned by his father). He also wants people to pay "a fair price" for their news.
This is incredibly ironic, of course, since News Corporation itself is a huge corporation with many publications and TV channels.
What I'd say is "chilling" is the extent of the media News Corp owns, which you might very well describe as "expansionist" and "dmoninant." Have a look for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corporation
What the BBC owns and controls is nothing compared to that.
The article is in the next post.
Big news carrier wants to get bigger and richer. Nothing new here.
>News Corporation has said it will start charging online customers for news content across all its websites.
Good. I hope their sales plummet even further.
During my latest fit of paranoia, I had convinced myself that Rupert Murdoch had sent Tom Cruise and his minions to kill me for disagreeing with him whilst holding a subscription to Sky TV. Man, am I glad that's no longer one of my deepest-held beliefs. Been hitting the marblecake too hard ... I hope.
>CONCORD, N.H. – Prosecutors in Massachusetts say the woman found with an infant who had been cut out of her friend's womb had convinced her family and friends that she was pregnant.
Link: Yahoo! News
This is definitely not the right way to form babby.
This story was ripped from the headlines, amirite guise?
