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Mr. Roboto Overnight Thread

by Phantom Ace ( 357 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Humor, Music, Open thread at October 1st, 2009 - 10:39 pm

I have a question for everyone here. Is it possible that Robots may takeover the world?

Yes it sounds crazy but back in the 80’s Styx had a song about Japanese Robots taking over the world. Now no offense to the great Japanese people, but is it possible that Robots made in Japan might attempt to take over like the Cylons in Battlestar Galctaica?

This is the overnight thread and let’s have fun with this!

For the record, I admire Japanese culture. I love their Dogs, Cars and the Samurais were no joke!

Update: Here is a Video about Akitas.

Yukia Amano To Replace ElBaradei As IAEA Head

by WrathofG-d ( 19 Comments › )
Filed under Iran, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, World at July 2nd, 2009 - 10:31 am

After three previous rounds of inconclusive voting back in March, the UN nuclear agency’s 35-nation board finally chose Yuikya Amano to replace Mohammad ElBaradei as IAEA head.  He will start in November 2009.

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Mr Amano won the required two-thirds majority from the IAEA governing board, defeating his South African rival, Abdul Samad Minty, by 23 votes to 11.

Mr Amano had the support of many industrialised countries while Mr Minty was favoured by most developing nations.

The vote reflected that split, with Mr Amano scraping through to victory by the bare minimum margin, without the support of developing states. There was also one abstention.

Mr. Amano has held senior arms control posts in Tokyo and most recently was Japan’s representative at the IAEA.

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The jury is still out on what type of difference this election make on the agency, if any.  While some are very unenthusiastic about this change, the BBC (as quoted above) seems to consider Mr. Amano to be the West’s guy.

However, insofar that Japan just entered into a major oil deal with Iran, I’m not very optimistic that Mr. Amano is going to be the watchdog we are looking for.

The Continuing Crisis with North Korea and China

by Phantom Ace ( 18 Comments › )
Filed under China, North Korea at March 13th, 2009 - 11:12 am

Well guys tensions are mounting in Asia. Japan is now threatening to shoot down the North Korean Missile. China is worried about the security of their treasury holdings.

China ‘worried’ about US Treasury holdings

BEIJING (AP) – China’s premier expressed concern Friday about its holdings of Treasuries and other U.S. debt, appealing to Washington to safeguard their value, and said Beijing is ready to expand its stimulus if economic conditions worsen.

Premier Wen Jiabao noted that Beijing is the biggest foreign creditor to the United States and called on Washington to see that its response to the global slowdown does not damage the value of Chinese holdings.

Heres’s the Japanese threats to North Korea.

Japan warns it may shoot down North Korean satellite launcher

Japan today threatened to shoot down a satellite that North Korea plans to launch early next month if it shows any signs of striking its territory.

Tokyo’s warning that it would deploy its multibillion-dollar missile defence system raised tensions in the region after North Korea said that it had identified a potential “danger area” near Japanese territory along the rocket’s flight path.

 This is a serious Crisis, the Obama administration should never have started the war of words with North Korea. China will back them to the end. Continue underestimating China at our peril. America needs to get out of Asia.