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...Bush Administration set up the prisons to hold "suspected terrorists" incommunicado, with no due process or the required notification of the Red Cross, and that some have been subjected to torture as defined by international treaties that the U.S. has signed and thus are the law of the land...
...future of two tiny, remote islets almost equidistant between Japan and South Korea might appear to matter only to the black-tailed gull and 21 other species of birds native to their craggy outcroppings. Without arable land or any fresh water, these 18 hectares of rocky mounds are barely habitable by humans. Indeed, the islands' population consists of as few as three dozen people, including some 30 Korean police, one or two lighthouse keepers and a married couple who have lived and fished there for more than three decades. The economic significance of the islands is no less marginal...
...Dokdo is actively promoted in Korea as a prime example of Japanese aggression, with the islets viewed as one of the first of Japan's many 20th century land grabs. Korean kindergartens teach children songs about Korea's glorious eastern islands, the Dokdo. In 2005, almost 20,000 Korean tourists (including one wedding party) visited the islands, even though it's a $350-per-person, five-hour boat trip from the mainland. According to a report by Peter Beck, the Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, "One would be hard pressed to find a single Korean over...
...prohibiting their unsavory habits. Worse, such laws discriminate—in effect if not intent—against ethnic groups that traditionally eat dog meat—namely, some East and Southeast Asian cultures. Dog is considered a delicacy in many Asian countries; unfortunately for new immigrants to the Land of the Free, here any savage who disrespects a dog enough to eat one is not wanted. The message is clear: Your tastes aren’t to Uncle Sam’s liking—assimilate...
...paying the price of the works made against nature." CALIN POPESCU-TARICEANU, Romanian Prime Minister, arguing that dike building and land reclamation dating back to the communist period are responsible for the flooding of the Danube...