- Anti-Japanese nationalist riots erupt in cities across China
- California hopes to stop bankruptcies by anticipating bankruptcy
- Real-money bets on poker, slots and other Vegas games coming to iPhones
- Credibly charged serial rapist Julian Assange gains worldwide support as U.S. victim
- Finance Minister says debt crisis can't become 'bottomless pit' for Germany
- Turkey becomes overwhelmed with refugees from Syria
Anti-Japanese nationalist riots erupt in cities across China
Thousands of anti-Japanese protesters took to the streets in cities
across China on Sunday, demanding that Japan concede sovereignty of
the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands to China. In Shenzhen, protesters
vandalized and overturned Japanese cars and attacked Japanese
restaurants. Some used bare fists to smash in the windows of a white
Honda Chinese police car as others rocked and pushed the car over to
jubilant cheers. Others stomped on the overturned vehicles, screaming
and waving the Chinese flag. Police arrested several protesters in
Shenzhen after the demonstrations. The protests came after Japanese
nationalist activists aboard a flotilla of 20 ships sailed to the
Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, arriving Sunday morning, in order to establish
Japanese sovereignty. China's Foreign Ministry is condemning the
visit to its "sovereign territory." Reuters and Xinhua
California hopes to stop bankruptcies by anticipating bankruptcy
California cities Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes have all
declared bankruptcy in the last seven weeks, and Moody's Investors
Service issued a report on Friday saying that a number of additional
cities are approaching default. California's cities are particularly
vulnerable because a very large real estate bubble is bursting,
because huge benefits to retired union workers were granted during the
bubble years, and because Governor Jerry Brown last year cut state aid
to cities. California Treasurer Bill Lockyer has announced that he's
exploring a "new system" for identifying financially stressed cities
and to take steps to keep them from going bankrupt, presumably by
allowing them to raise taxes as much as necessary.
Bloomberg and
Reuters
Real-money bets on poker, slots and other Vegas games coming to iPhones
Game developers are building digital versions of Las Vegas casinos as
users of smartphones and tablets wagered $20 billion in real money on
slots, poker and other games of chance last year. Online gambling is
legal in the U.K., and game developers hope to make the internet
casino games available to Americans one way or another, either legally
or illegally.
Bloomberg
Credibly charged serial rapist Julian Assange gains worldwide support as U.S. victim
Alleged serial rapist Jullian Assange pokes his head out of London's Ecuador embassy on Sunday to give a speech. If he leaves the embassy, he gets arrested. (AP)
Once again, we're watching the spectacle of feminist and left-wing
political groups supporting an alleged serial rapist, Julian Assange,
as he uses anti-U.S. sentiments to escape being questioned in Sweden
over credible charges that he raped two women.
This was the biggest such spectacle since Democrats paid millions of
dollars to NOW to support President Bill Clinton after he'd been
credibly charged as a violent serial rapist in 1999. What was
particularly poignant was watching Democratic operative Susan Estrich,
herself a rape victim who had crusaded for twenty years for the
protection and support of rape victims, to sell herself out as a woman
and rape victim to give full-throated support to alleged rapist
Clinton. And these were the same feminists who, just a few years
earlier, pilloried Clarence Thomas for the "crime" of having asked
someone out on a date. But feminists throwing rape victims under the
bus is nothing compared to how feminists threw their own children
under the bus in the 1980s. Every feminist policy was geared towards
financially rewarding mothers who practiced the most debauched and
destructive behaviors. Gen-X kids in the 80s usually had no "father"
except for a string of men in their mothers' beds. The kids didn't
read feminist press releases, and so they knew that their mothers were
lying about violence to get rid of their real fathers and to get as
much money as possible. When they grew up, they created and sold tens
of trillions of dollars in intentionally fraudulent synthetic
securities, creating the global financial crisis which today is far
from over. Gen-X kids learned from the masters, their mothers, how to
get rewarded for the worst debauched family behavior, and they grew up
and proceeded to get rewarded for the worst debauched fraudulent
financial behavior.
The Swedes are furious that they're being lectured to by Ecuador, a
country with a history of kangaroo courts and jailing journalists. So
what should the Swedes do if they want to bring the alleged serial
rapist to justice? My suggestion is this: The Swedes should make a
big monetary donation to feminist organizations in Ecuador in return
for pressuring the government to turn Assange over to Sweden to answer
for the rape charges. Feminists don't hesitate to throw rape victims
and children under the bus for money, so they certainly won't hesitate
to do the same for Assange. And who knows? Maybe there'll be some
justice for some Swedish serial rape victims as a result. Wired and Washington Post (1999) and Committee to Protect Journalism and The Local (Sweden)
Finance Minister says debt crisis can't become 'bottomless pit' for Germany
Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble ruled out another aid
package for Greece, saying, "It can’t be helped -- we can’t make yet
another new program. There are limits." This would seem to close the
door to Greece's coming requests for a 2-year extension on its
austerity program, which require an additional aid package of at least
20 billion euros. According to Schäuble, the sovereign-debt crisis
mustn’t become a “bottomless pit” for Germany, even though it's
Germany that would pay the highest price for a breakup of the euro
region.
Bloomberg
Turkey becomes overwhelmed with refugees from Syria
Turkey is setting up four new refugee camps to cope with the sharp
increase in recent weeks in the number of Syrians fleeing to Turkey.
There are now 70,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey, with a cost of caring
for them now at $167 million. More than 170,000 Syrian refugees have
been registered in neighboring countries - Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and
Turkey. Some 1.2 million people are uprooted within Syria, many
staying in schools or other public buildings.
Zaman (Istanbul) / Reuters
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