Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Aldwick,

I do take your point, but I seriously don't think it's the type of comment that is for this time and situation.

Sorry that is your thought for the day. Mine is, thank god that my family has never had to face such horrors.

greekman,

The point is it would have saved more lives in the country's they invaded, also our service men who were killed and tortured by those sadistic bastards then would have died this week.

bb

Your family would face horrors if they lived in Singapore or china and the other country's they invaded.

aldwick- Coincidently just finished reading 'Slaughter at Sea' by Mark Felton, the story of Japans Naval War crimes. No doubt some veterans and theire families especially the Chinese were not shedding any tears and I'm ashamed to say initially neither was I.

It is horrendous, but I wonder if it will be the stimulus to their economic recovery.

Ie. QE, and social and infrastructure investment.

But still horrible when considered in the immediate.

Imagine having the responsibility for dealing with the ongoing catastrophe.

I think it time that the United Nations has a look at its structure and accepts its responsibility to the World as a whole, rather than that of the original powerful 5/15 members.

(The protection of the veto has to be reviewed, although. I can't see a sensible way around it, in the present political world.)

Chris

If it was the 1940's nor would i , but times change, Germany and Japan are now totally different country's.

aldwick - Exactly!

Being the age I am, I have had conversations with ex POWs and yes their stories of the treatment they received were beyond belief. But we are human beings and they are human beings and as such we should do anything we can to help. Let us not forget that it was a english boyscout who invented concentration camps. If we dont change our attitudes to each other then the human race is ultimately doomed as we will destroy one another if mother earth does not do the job for us first.

Being the age I am, I have had conversations with ex POWs and yes their stories of the treatment they received were beyond belief. But we are human beings and they are human beings and as such we should do anything we can to help. Let us not forget that it was a english boyscout who invented concentration camps. If we dont change our attitudes to each other then the human race is ultimately doomed as we will destroy one another if mother earth does not do the job for us first.

Being the age I am, I have had conversations with ex POWs and yes their stories of the treatment they received were beyond belief. But we are human beings and they are human beings and as such we should do anything we can to help. Let us not forget that it was a english boyscout who invented concentration camps. If we dont change our attitudes to each other then the human race is ultimately doomed as we will destroy one another if mother earth does not do the job for us first.

sorry folks finger trouble!!

There is nothing wrong with concentration camps its the way they are used . we had the H block internment camp in NI , we have camp's for illegal immigrants in the UK .

BB,

"But we are human beings and they are human beings"


Consider us as socialised animals.

I can't believe people dragging up World War Two. Completely no relevance to events now. Most people in Japan now weren't even born then. Still waiting to hear if my wife's relatives in Northern Japan are ok and hearing comments like those above make my blood boil.

Anybody else watching 'Boardwalk Empire' and the adventures of Nucky, Jimmy and Co., on the new Sky 'Atlantic' channel (Ch. 108)?



Quote:

"This epic drama about Atlantic City at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties seamlessly blends a fascinating cast of complex characters as they're swept into and help guide the hurricane of changes swirling around them.

That includes Prohibition, women's suffrage, ethnic tension, organized crime, the horseless carriage and the economic bubble whose deflation a decade later would change the course of American capitalism."

There's such a lot going on in the story and also such a lot of fascinating characters, I felt I needed a bit of help with the problem of 'keeping up with the story so far'.

I found a very helpful synopsis facility at http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/about/slideshow.html#/boardwalk-empire/episodes/01/01-boardwalk-empire/index.html (Just click on 'Synopsis' when you get there)

Tokyo Electric Power now saying fuel rods fully exposed.

Japan earthquake: Meltdown alert at Fukushima reactor

Issacs,

Posting 10744.

The thought of your blood boiling does have some appeal to me.

It almost makes me repeat the offending remarks.

That doesn't surprise me , we all know you find a peverted pleasure in doing it.

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1653: Yukiya Amano has confirmed that Japan has asked the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to provide expert help at its damaged nuclear plant.

Why have they waited so long ?

They seem to have prepared for a large earthquake at their nuclear plant but not the problems that a tsunami would bring like the damage to the cooling pumps and back up generators , if the pumps and the water supplier kept working they would not have such a massive problem.