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Bringing Politics to the Streets: August 5th, 2009By Jessica Korteman; An election cannot pass you by quietly in Japan. Even those not particularly interested in politics are constantly reminded of the impending poll with intermittent announcements blasted from vehicles equipped with roof-mounted megaphones. Larger cars, vans and even minibuses are busy spreading the word for prospective candidates, announcing their arrival » Continue Reading; CommentsComments

North Korean Launch Has Many Faces: April 7th, 2009By drifter; We may never know for sure if Sunday’s launch was a Taepodong-2 missile, as the media prefers to report, or if in fact it was just a satellite as North Korea claims. Regardless, we can be sure that the fear such a threat creates will be trumped up by the US, » Continue Reading; CommentsComments

Market Talk #4 – Blackmail on an Institutional Scale: February 17th, 2009By Tokyo MadHatter; Well, we’ve had an interesting couple of weeks. In my mind, the biggest event these past two weeks was definitely the admission that Bank of America got cold feet over the Merrill Lynch takeover and the chief executive had to effectively be blackmailed by Paulson and Bernanke to continue with the » Continue Reading; CommentsComments

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