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July 3, 2007

JAPAN, Shinzo Abe slow going down to Hell

After the gaffe of the Japan minister of Defence, Fumio Kyuma and his forced resignation, the Prime minister Shinzo Abe is in a more and more difficult posture before the July 29 election.

After the scandal of the loss of pension records affecting millions of cases and the suicide of the Agriculture minister, his poll rating has been a free fall to a 27 % record.To name a woman as Defence minister will not change a lot.

Even weakened, the LDP is no to losse his majority in the diet, but the political future of Shinzo Abe is more and more endangered.

July 4, 2007

First, I wanted to talk about the Red Mosque in Islamabad, but the case is not yet finish tonight. I will come back to this topic tomorrow. So today it will be :

ONCE MORE THE MALAYSIAN JUSTICE IS THE POLITICAL POWER'S PUPPET
Once more, Anwar Ibrahim has his case thrown out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6268108.stm

Anwar was the deputy of the ex-prime minister Mahathir in the running party, the UNMO, and in the government as vice-prime minister and minister of Finance. But when came the financial crisis in 1997, the two men differed on the way to solve the problem for Malaysia.

The following year, during the annual UNMO congress, a pamphet named Fifty reasons why Anwar Ibrahim cannot be Prime minister accusing him of corruption and sodomy. Few after, in early September 2008, he has been epulsed from the government and from the UNMO.

He then launched his own party, the People's Justice Party, the first inter-racial party and reformist party in Malaysia. But he was arrested and condemned in a highly polically motivated try that provocated a lot of protest of officials in Asean and elwhere in the world.

On september 2 2004, he was cleared of sodomy charge and freed but he continues to be barred from office until 2008, after the next general election because the High Cour refused to reconsider his appel againt his corruption sentence for corruption.

Despite the fact that Anwar has been cleared of sodomy in
2005, Mahathir talking on Anwar in late 2005 said "Imagine having a gay prime minister, Nobody would be safe" When Anwar filed his diffamation suit, Mahathir then submited a petion to the High Court to prevent it from going to trial.

Today, a judge granted Mahathir that application, saying tha the former prime minister's remarks were fair comment made in the public interest !!!!<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/07/04 22:16

To complete what I said on July 3, 2007 on Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe slow going down to Hell, look at Chris Hogg article on &quot;the sinky popularity of Japan's Abe&quot;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6270104.stm

... and he finely resigned on September 12
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6990519.stm
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp; task=view&amp;id=699&amp;Itemid=31

Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/09/12 10:11<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/09/16 23:45

July 9, 2007

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TOWARDS THE END OF MONARCHY IN NEPAL ?

For his 60th birthday, the king Gyanendra felt very isolated. On more than 1000 guests invited, only 200 came. All the members of the government and the diplomats declined.

The very impopular king came to power in June 2001 when prince Dipendra killed his father the very loved king Birendra all almost the members of his family before killing himself.

Gyanendra, the brother of the king, was a businessman dealing mainly with largely hated India. The night of the killing neither him or his relatives were in the palace. Rumours was runing in Khatmandu that he was the one who organized the killing.

Very authoritarian, he suppressed the democracy before to be obliged to restore it under massive street demonstrations. After 10 years of civil war with 12,500 deads, the maoist guerilla signed a peace accord and, in April 2007 joined a provisional government.

The communists want the abrogation of the monarchy. The king has been striped of almost his powers, including on the Army.

Ether the new constitution will maintain the monarchy with a king with no power at all, or the proclaim the Republic.

The problem for the royalists is that Paras, the son of Gyanendra is even more hated in the country than his father.

In addition this article published on 9 september 2007
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/ subcontinent/2007/September/subcontinent_September348.xml§ion=subcontinent&amp;col=



Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/09/10 22:16

Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2008/03/03 01:25<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2008/03/04 14:47

July 10, 2007

HOW TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN INDONESIA ?

Indonesia files a civil suit against former president Suharto accused of stealing US 441 million from foundation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6283322.stm

How to stop the running corruption in Indonesia. During the 32 years of when Suharto was in charge it got a very high level. Mrs Suharto was nickname 'Mrs 10 %. His two successors, Habibie and Sukarnoputri made nothing to stop that.

But maybe the first question could be : Who will judge the judges ?

July 12, 2007

WHAT AFTER THE RED MOSQUE ?

So, the Red Mosque has been taken by the Pakistan forces.

A lot of thing have been said or written about that.

Sure, we have now wait the next revenge attacks. But the victims number has not been too hight and except in the traditional islamist areas, the majority of the Pakistaneses sided with president Pervez Musharraf's decision.

What is for me an enigma is why so many girls are engaged in the radical islam. Yes, I can understand the weight of the fathers and brothers, but when we saw what the condition of women was under the Taliban in Afghanistan (and even now when they recently killed small girls going out from a school)

Is that their ideal ? to be banned from education, obliged to wear the gurga and to go outside only if accompagnied by their husband or a male member of the family.

Do they agree to be raped for the honor of a family or a clan, and also been given as the paiement of a debt ?

July 17, 2007

THE BUSH'S FAULT ON NORTH KOREA

At the end of the presidency of Bill Clinton, the US and NK were closed to an accord and to establish diplomatic relations, but after GW Bush has been elected, he wanted to come back to the starting point and put NK on a list of evil states.

After a grave naval incident between the two Koreas on 29 June 2002, Pyongyang for the first time since 1953 apologized for the incident and asked to resume the inter-korean dialogue.

The talks were working well and in September the border has been symbolically opened and a northen soccer team went to Seoul. Also, the Japanese Prime Misiter Koizumi, on 17th September 2002, made the historic first trip of a Japanese PM to Pyongyang.

Just a month after that, on October 17, James Kelly, in charge of Asia, announced to the US Congress that NK was not playing with the rules established in october 1994 and was secretly continuing its military nuclear secret programm.

So started the second nuclear crisis and five years after just one nuclear reactor has been shut down and instead of obtening 500.000 t. of oil a year, Pyongyang in february got an amount of 1 million t.

For giving up totaly its nuclear programm, it is shure that NK will rise more and more demands.

Jacques wrote:
[quote]Jacques wrote:
[quote]22 July 2007

AFTER 60 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE, INDIA CHOOSES A WOMAN AS PRESIDENT

For the 60th annyversary of its independence, India has chosen a women as a president, Mrs Pratibha Patil.

This event has been largely praised. Certainly it is a good news in a country where the women condition is generaly so bad.

But we have to to revitalize the importance of that event because in India the president has just a ceremonial power. As in almost this ex British colonies, the power belong to the Prime Minister, and this happended in India on 24 January 1966 when Indira Gandhi, the daugther of Nerhu (the first Prime minister after independence) was elected PM.

And today, the more powerfull women in India is her daughter in law, sonia Gandhi, president of the Congress Party who rules the country.

24 July 2004

THE DEATH OF KING ZAHIR SHAH OF AFGHANISTAN

I have been sad to learn the death of the French educated last king of Afghanistan Zahir Shah. He did so much for his country.

He has been ousted in a coup by his cousin and Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud with the help of the People Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), In fact the communist party.

But Douad din't take adventage of his bad action. On 27 April 1978 PDPA did a coup against Daoud who was killed.

It was on 27 december 1979 that Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan for giving its support to Babrak Karmad, its favorit inside the Communist Party. So started the ten years occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet. The USA helped all the ones fighters against the Soviet occupation. Among then was a certain... Ben Laden
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2333833.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2333833.stm