Art_from_Ark
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Sun Sep-11-05 07:34 AM
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LDP on the way to "historic landslide" in Japan |
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I am watching the returns for the election for the Lower House that Prime Minister Koizumi called in the wake of opposition to his scheme to privatize the post office. So far, the right-center LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) and its right-wing confederate Komei-to together have already been declared the winner of 177 out of 480 seats, with 254 seats left to be decided. In contrast, the left-center Minshu-to has only a paltry 44 seats, and its allies have only 2 seats between them.
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Sun Sep-11-05 07:52 AM
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1. The upper house nixed his plans |
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so he disolved the lower house? :wtf:
And now the people are rewarding this nutjob who refuses to meet his own son?
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Sun Sep-11-05 08:03 AM
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3. If you can read Japanese, |
opihimoimoi
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Sun Sep-11-05 08:02 AM
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2. Is Japan starting to lean RIGHT??? Following America???? Into Delusion?? |
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Kode wa Dame des....
Muito malo
Bad Shit
Farme le Buush
cluster fuck
Holy Crap
Damn, here we go again....
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Art_from_Ark
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Sun Sep-11-05 08:07 AM
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4. I'm at a loss to explain this, opihimoimoi |
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-05 08:08 AM by Art_from_Ark
The newspaper polls a few days ago showed LDP with 33%, Minshu-to with 28%, and nearly all the remainder as being undecided. It's really odd to me that NEARLY ALL of the undecideds would go for the LDP (or Komeito) at the last moment.
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Sun Sep-11-05 08:59 AM
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6. The Mega Rich have contacts and roots in many Nations/Cultures |
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They seem to have influenced yet another nation...part 2 of PNAC??
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Sun Sep-11-05 11:03 AM
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They're saying that more than 70% of the people who generally support the ultra-right-wing Komei-to switched to the LDP. So apparently (and I want to emphasize "apparently"), the right-wingers voted for the party most likely to win, while the left split its votes 3 ways.
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Sun Sep-11-05 01:18 PM
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9. I suspect some kind of hanky panky going on but since I'm not there |
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to really get a grip...and even if I was, unless I'm in the right circles.....I would find shit and reduced to looking for confirming results.....
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Sun Sep-11-05 10:08 PM
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10. I've been looking at Japanese web sites to find information on how votes |
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are counted. There was a law passed back in 2001 that allows for electronic voting in local elections (legislators, councilmembers, mayors, etc.) but I haven't found anything for electronic voting (or tabulating) at the national level. It's interesting that when I searched Google Japan for "Diebold", I got a lot of results for Japanese sites that were asking questions about the reliability of the system.
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Sun Sep-11-05 08:08 AM
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5. How do we know the election wasn't stolen via voting machines |
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Right wingers are the same everywhere
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Sun Sep-11-05 09:34 AM
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but I don't know how they are counted.
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