Saturday, 24 May 2014

Perarakan di Seluruh DUNIAa terhadap Monsanto Terkini LIVE

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bOLLy ENn Satu acara global yang mencabar usaha raksasa pertanian Monsanto untuk menguasai bekalan makanan DUNIA yang berlaku di seluruh dunia sebagai berjuta-juta aktivis anti-GMO bergabung tenaga terhadap gergasi bioteknologi.

WORLDWide march Against Monsanto LIVE UPDATES

A global event challenging the agricultural behemoth Monsanto’s efforts to dominate the world food supply is taking place across the globe as millions of anti-GMO activists join forces against the biotech giant.

Sabtu/Saturday, May 24

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Veteran untuk Keamanan, yang beribu pejabat Missouri-anti-perang NGO, berdiri dalam perpaduan dengan Mac terhadap Monsanto, katanya Sabtu dalam satu kenyataan. Organi-sasi ini menyalahkan Monsanto untuk warisan toksik ia telah meninggalkan di Vietnam, yang merupakan pengeluar utama yang defoliant Agen Oren, digunakan secara meluas oleh tentera Amerika Syarikat semasa Perang Vietnam.

Veterans for Peace, a Missouri-headquartered anti-war NGO, stands in solidarity with the March against Monsanto, it said Saturday in a statement. The organization blames Monsanto for the toxic legacy it left in Vietnam, being the prime producer of the defoliant Agent Orange, used extensively by the US military during the Vietnam War.

Veteran Untuk Keamanan berdiri dalam perpaduan dengan Mac Terhadap Monsanto, berlaku pada hari Sabtu 24 Mei. Berjuta-juta . . . [Veterans For Peace stands in solidarity with the March Against Monsanto, happening on Saturday May 24th. Millions . . . ] http://fb.me/3fylb2gTv

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Sekitar 5,000 aktivis merancang untuk menghadiri Mac Terhadap Monsanto di San Francisco, yang dijadualkan bermula pada Union Square pada pukul 12:00 PST. Pihak penganjur menggalakkan pakaian bagi memprotes racun serangga membunuh ramai lebah dan rama-rama ‘populations’.

Around 5,000 activists plan to attend March Against Monsanto in San Francisco, scheduled to start on Union Square at 12:00 PST. The organizers encourage costumes in protest of the insecticides killing many of the bee and butterfly populations.

Global day of solidarity tomorrow! #NoGMO #Monsanto

Untuk menggalakkan orang ramai untuk menghadiri perhimpunan tersebut, aktivis media sosial dibanjiri SF Facebook acara itu dengan video tafsiran mereka peranan Monsanto dalam pengeluaran makanan global.

To encourage people to attend the rally, social media activists flooded the event's SF Facebook page with videos of their interpretation of Monsanto's role in global food production.

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March Against Monsanto with Us on May 24th, 2014 from Peter Menchini on Vimeo

Di ibu North Dakota ini, Bismarck, penganjur juga merancang untuk membuat suara mereka didengar.

"GMO adalah tumbuhan atau haiwan yang telah diubahsuai secara genetik menggunakan bahan DNA daripada tumbuh-tumbuhan, haiwan, bakteria atau virus," kata penganjur Mac Jessica Horst dipetik oleh sebuah penerbitan tempatan." Walaupun terdapat beberapa syarikat bioteknologi pertanian terlibat dalam menghasilkan GMO, Monsanto adalah yang terbesar."

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Salah satu hotspot utama industri arak di DUNIA, Sonoma daerah di California merancang untuk berarak pada Hari Memorial.

Menduduki Sonoma County bekerjasama dengan Mac terhadap tindakan global Monsanto dan merancang untuk menjadi tuan rumah apa-apa yg dan bangsal tarian mengusik acara untuk seluruh keluarga.

Sampel makanan percuma akan disediakan oleh beberapa yang dipanggil oleh organisasi "Heroes Makanan" yang disenaraikan dalam "MO Heroes Makanan dan pengkhianat Maka-nan Kesihatan Panduan Pembeli itu." Bukan-GMO pertukaran benih percuma juga dian-jurkan.

Pergerakan GMO Percuma Sonoma County bekerja tempatan pada ordinan melarang penyebaran, penanaman, meningkatkan dan berkembang GMO di Sonoma County.

In North Dakota’s capital, Bismarck, organizers are also planning to make their voice heard.

“GMOs are plants or animals that have been genetically modified using DNA material from other plants, animals, bacteria or viruses,” March organizer Jessica Horst was quoted by a local publication. “While there are a number of agriculture biotechnology companies engaged in producing GMOs, Monsanto is the largest.”

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One of the main hotspots of the world's wine industry, Sonoma county in California plans to march on Memorial Day.

Occupy Sonoma County is collaborating with the March against Monsanto global action and is planning to host a potluck and barn dance to make the event fun for the entire family.

Free food samples will be provided by some whom the organization calls “Food Heroes” listed in “GMO Food Heroes and Health Food Traitors Shopper’s Guide.” A free non-GMO seed exchange is also organized.

The GMO Free Sonoma County movement is working locally on an ordinance to prohibit propagation, cultivation, raising and growing GMOs in Sonoma County.

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Kumpulan Hacktivist Anonymous memberi kebaikan mereka untuk Mac terhadap Mon-santo, mengatakan bahawa "mereka yang menentang kesan merosakkan Monsanto pada biosfera dan bekalan makanan kita akan mempunyai suara mereka utk didengar."

Dalam sebuah video yang dikirim lebih awal daripada acara global aktivis menuduh Mon-santo daripada pendekatan keuntungan yang dipacu.

Hacktivist group Anonymous gave their blessing for a March against Monsanto, saying that “those who oppose Monsanto's destructive impact on our biosphere and our food supply will have their voices heard.”

In a video posted ahead of the global event the activists accuse Monsanto of a profit-driven approach.

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Anonymous March against Monsanto from @AnonymousVideo on Vimeo

Aktivis dalam 5 bandar-bandar Ohio hujung minggu ini menyertai sehingga membantah amalan gergasi bioteknologi.

Peristiwa Mac Terhadap Monsanto akan diadakan di Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Day-ton dan Maumee untuk menarik perhatian kepada penggunaan GMO yang dianggap memberi kesan kesihatan manusia.

"Di negara-negara lain, organisma diubah suai secara genetik adalah sama sekali dilarang atau sekurang-kurangnya mereka mempunyai undang-undang pelabelan yang memer-lukan syarikat-syarikat dengan label jika terdapat organisma yang diubahsuai secara genetik dalam makanan," Hannah Daniels, penganjur perarakan di Cleveland memberi-tahu stesen berita tempatan menjelang acara tersebut. "Dan di Amerika, tidak ada yang seperti itu sama sekali."

Chattanooga, the fourth-largest city in the US state of Tennessee is also hosting an anti-Monsanto rally, with face-painting scheduled to begin at 1pm local time, before marching starts through downtown. The organizers will be giving away seedlings and information about Monsanto.

Participants are asked to bring signs, music makers, extra seedlings and a wagon or wheelbarrow. The event is organized to be kid-friendly with chalk art, seed-bomb making, and sliding down a grassy hill.

“I don't think a chemical company known for producing Agent Orange should produce and control the majority of our seeds. It is time we demand transparency and accountability,” Drew Miller, lead organizer of the Chattanooga March Against Monsanto said.

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Beribu-ribu penduduk Arizona dijangka berkumpul di pusat bandar Tempe untuk mengambil bahagian dalam hari yang global terhadap Monsanto.

Activists in five Ohio cities this weekend are joining up to protest the practices of the biotech giant.

March Against Monsanto events will be held in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Maumee to draw attention to the use of GMOs that are thought to impact human health.

"In other countries, genetically modified organisms are altogether banned or they at least have labeling laws that require the companies to label if there are genetically modified organisms in the food,” Hannah Daniels, an organizer of the march in Cleveland told the local news station ahead of the event. “And in America, there is nothing like that at all."

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Thousands of Arizona residents are expected to gather in downtown Tempe to take part in the global action day against Monsanto.

Imej dari/Image from Twitter/@AnarchoAnon

Perarakan itu yang digambarkan sebagai acara keluarga di mana ibu bapa digalakkan untuk pakaiankan anak-anak mereka sebagai ladybugs, lebah dengan sayap dan antena. Dewasa dialu-alukan untuk memakai bahan-bahan berbahaya guaman, topeng gas, dan pakaian tukang kebun.

The march is being described as a family event where parents are encouraged to dress their kids as ladybugs, bees with wings and antennae. Adults are welcome to wear hazardous materials suits, gas masks, and gardener attire.

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Chattanooga, bandar keempat terbesar di negara bahagian Tennessee turut menganjurkan perhimpunan anti- Monsanto, dengan muka - lukisan dijadualkan bermula pada 1 tengah hari waktu tempatan, sebelum berarak bermula melalui pusat bandar. Pihak penganjur akan memberikan benih dan maklumat tentang Monsanto.

Peserta diminta untuk membawa tanda-tanda, pembuat muzik, anak pokok tambahan dan wagon atau kereta sorong. Acara itu dianjurkan untuk bersama dengan seni kapur, membuat benih - bom, dan gelongsor ke bawah bukit berumput mesra kanak-kanak.

"Saya tidak fikir syarikat kimia yang dikenali untuk menghasilkan Agen Oren harus menghasilkan dan mengawal majoriti benih kami. Sudah tiba masanya kami menuntut ketelusan dan akauntabiliti, "kata Drew Miller, penganjur penyambung Chattanooga Mac Terhadap Monsanto.

Chattanooga, the fourth-largest city in the US state of Tennessee is also hosting an anti-Monsanto rally, with face-painting scheduled to begin at 1pm local time, before marching starts through downtown. The organizers will be giving away seedlings and information about Monsanto.

Participants are asked to bring signs, music makers, extra seedlings and a wagon or wheelbarrow. The event is organized to be kid-friendly with chalk art, seed-bomb making, and sliding down a grassy hill.

“I don't think a chemical company known for producing Agent Orange should produce and control the majority of our seeds. It is time we demand transparency and accountability,” Drew Miller, lead organizer of the Chattanooga March Against Monsanto said.

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Agroecology dan tidak bioteknologi adalah cara untuk pertanian mampan dan untuk menangani kebuluran DUNIA, penganjur percaya perarakan di Ecuador.

"Amalan-amalan berbahaya Monsanto menyebabkan kemandulan tanah, mono-tanaman, kehilangan biodiversiti, kemusnahan habitat, dan menyumbang kepada keruntuhan sarang lebah. Tanaman GMO menyeberangi pendebungaan dengan tanaman tradisional, risiko mata pencarian petani petani, " Josh Castro, penganjur bagi Quito Mac Terhadap pergera-kan Monsanto.

Agroecology and not biotechnology is the way to sustainable agriculture and to tackle world hunger, believes the organizer of the march in Ecuador.

“Monsanto’s harmful practices are causing soil infertility, mono-cropping, loss of biodi-versity, habitat destruction, and contributing to beehive collapse. GMO crops cross pollinate with traditional crops, risking peasant farmers’ livelihood,” Josh Castro, organizer for the Quito March Against Monsanto movement.

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Di India Monsanto menguasai kira-kira 95 % peratus daripada pasaran biji kapas meme-rangkap petani kecil di negara ini dalam hutang tak berbayar.

"284,000 petani telah membunuh diri di India kerana hutang dikaitkan dengan benih dan bahan kimia," Vandana Shiva, seorang aktivis alam sekitar India dan penulis anti-globali-sasi berkata dalam kenyataan akhbar menjelang Mac Terhadap Monsanto.

"Monsanto telah mendakwa lebih dari 1500 iklim paten berdaya tahan, dan berharap untuk menggunakan krisis iklim untuk membuat keuntungan yang lebih besar," kata Siva mendakwa bahawa "Monsanto mahu keuntungan super melalui kawalan mutlak terhadap alam semula jadi dan manusia."

In India Monsanto controls about 95 percent of the cotton seed market trapping the country's small farmers in unpayable debt.

“284,000 farmers have committed suicide in India because of debt linked to seed and chemicals,” Vandana Shiva, an Indian environmental activist and anti-globalization author said in a press release ahead of the March Against Monsanto.

“Monsanto have claimed more than 1500 climate resilient patents, and are hoping to use the climate crisis to make even bigger profits,” Shiva says claiming that “Monsanto wants super profits through total control over nature and humanity.”


Orang2 yang membahayakan nyawa mereka menyelamatkan haiwan daripada banjir dahsyat Balkan . . .

Pekerja perkhidmatan kecemasan Serbia menarik keluar anjing dpd air banjir di bandar Obrenovac, 40 kilometer barat Belgrade, pada 16 Mei 2014 (A Serbian emergency services worker evacuates a dog from floodwaters in the town of Obrenovac, 40 kilometers west of Belgrade, on May 16, 2014 (AFP Photo/Andrej Isakovic)

IMEJ Inspirasi: Orang2 yang membahayakan nyawa mereka menyelamatkan haiwan daripada banjir dahsyat Balkan (Inspiring images: People risk their lives saving animals from devastating Balkans flood)

bOLLy ENn Banjir berlaku sebelum ini telah timbul dikalangan seluruh kawasan Balkan yang melibatkan lebih satu juta orang. Melarikan diri dalam keadaan panik, dalam bot dan trak penuh, ramai pemilik tidak dapat membawa mereka bersama-sama haiwan - tetapi yang lain berani mempertaruhkan nyawa mereka sendiri untuk menyelamatkan haiwan kesayangan.

Unprecedented floods have raged across the Balkans affecting over a million people. Fleeing in panic, in packed boats and trucks, many owners could not bring their animals along – but others courageously risked their own lives to save beloved pets.



Banjir Mengamuk membuat menyelamatkan haiwan dalam bahaya (Raging floodwaters made saving pets dangerous)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@ChaosAddicted

Sebahagian daripada hampir 500,000 kanak-kanak yang menginap di kuarters mempertaruhkan nyawa mereka untuk menyelamatkan haiwan kesayangan mereka (Some of the nearly 500,000 children affected by the flood risked their lives to save their pets)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@GeorgeMorina

Banjir bencana lemas keseluruhan bandar-bandar dan kampung-kampung (The cataclysmic floods have drowned entire towns and villages)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@DarkoJuranovic

Tetapi usaha-usaha telah dijalankan untuk menyelamatkan mana-mana haiwan yang terselamat bencana itu, dan menyatukan kembali mereka dengan pemiliknya (But efforts have been underway to rescue any animals that survived the calamity, and reunite them with their owners)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@KacicaBicBoziji

Orang menggunakan apa2 spontan bermakna mereka boleh untuk menyelamatkan haiwan mereka. . . (People used whatever improvised means they could to save their animals . . . )

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@njofranjofra

Dan berkumpul bersama-sama untuk menyelamatkan pelbagai haiwan peliharaan (And banded together to save multiple pets)

Penyelamat Croatia dengan 2 ekor anjing dalam bot di jalan banjir di Kampung Gunja, di timur Croatia, 18 Mei, 2014 (A Croatian rescuer with two dogs in a boat on a flooded street in the village of Gunja, in eastern Croatia, 18 May, 2014. (AFP Photo)

Seorang lelaki Serbia telah berjaya menyelamatkan lebih 50 ekor anjing (One Serbian man has managed to rescue over 50 dogs)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@hurricanezippy

Sekalipun tentera yg tersebut membantu untuk menyelamatkan haiwan (Even the military is helping to save animals)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@alna_anna

Walaupun sesetengah haiwan telah ditinggalkan untuk menyara diri mereka sendiri (Although some animals have been left to fend for themselves)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@JuliaDavisNews

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@RubenPapian

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@KacicaBicBoziji

Pertanian adalah satu cara hidup kebanyakkan orang yang miskin, kawasan paling teruk . . . (Farming is a way of life in many of the poorer, hardest hit regions . . . )

Kambing biri-biri dilihat di teres rumah banjir di Obrenovac, barat daya Belgrade, 20 Mei 2014 (Sheep are seen on the terrace of a flooded house in Obrenovac, southwest of Belgrade, May 20, 2014 (Reuters/Marko Djurica)

Jadi menyimpan ternakan adalah suatu perkara yang hidup dan mati (So saving livestock is a matter of life and death)

Seorang lelaki memanjat di atas bumbung rumah untuk memberi makan kepada babi mereka yang diselamatkan semasa banjir berat di Kampung Vojskova, 19 Mei 2014 (A man climbs on the roof of a house to feed pigs they rescued during heavy floods in the village of Vojskova, May 19, 2014 (Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@Krle22

Sebahagian daripada pusat-pusat perlindungan anjing 
di Serbia telah memberi tumpuan kepada menyatukan semula haiwan peliharaan dan keluarga mereka (Some of the dog shelters 
in Serbia have focused on reuniting pets and their families)



Dan haiwan berterima kasih kepada penyelamat berani mereka (And animals are grateful to their courageous saviors)

FOTO dari/Photo from Twitter/@kyrosgranazis_

Terkejut dengan skala bencana semula jadi dan keberanian penduduk tempatan berdagang keselamatan mereka sendiri untuk menyelamatkan haiwan kesayangan mereka, orang yang menyatukan talian di bawah hashtags #HelpSerbia, #HelpBalkans #HelpCroatia, #HelpBosnia dan lain-lain - untuk menyebarkan berita dan cuba untuk mendapatkan bantuan bagi mereka dalam kesusahan.

Banyak organisasi yang mempunyai reputasi yang menerima sumbangan, termasuk Palang Merah Bosnia, Palang Merah Croatia, Palang Merah Serbia, Novak Djokovic Foundation, Kerajaan Serbia dan Persatuan Pomozi. Kedutaan serbian di seluruh DUNIA juga mengumpul derma.

Stunned by the scale of the natural disaster and the courage of locals trading their own safety to rescue their beloved pets, people are uniting online under the hashtags #HelpSerbia, #HelpBalkans #HelpCroatia, #HelpBosnia and others – to spread the word and try to secure some help for those in distress.

Many reputable organizations are accepting donations, including Red Cross Bosnia, Red Cross Croatia, Red Cross Serbia, Novak Djokovic Foundation, Government of Serbia and Association Pomozi. Serbian embassies around the world are also collecting donations.


Datuk Bandar Jepun bunyinya laungan pertempuran atas rancangan pangkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat . . .



bOLLy ENn Penempatan semula sebuah pangkalan Marin Amerika Syarikat dari Okinawa, Jepun ke bandar yang lebih kecil Nago boleh membuktikan yang sukar buat Tokyo dan Washington sebagai Datuk Bandar Susumu Inamine berpegang ikrar untuk pengundinya yang menentang rancangan itu.

Kontroversi ini mengelilingi pelan jangka panjang untuk menggerakkan Marin udara Station Amerika Syarikat di Futenma, yang terletak di kawasan bandar yang padat dengan penduduk di selatan Okinawa, untuk Noga, sebuah bandar kecil di utara yang sudah menjadi tuan rumah Kem Schwab, satu lagi pangkalan Marin Amerika Syarikat.

Penduduk Noga kini mengatakan cukup2lah. Sikap mereka keseluruhan negatif kepada pelan ini ketara dalam pilihan raya semula Datuk Bandar Inamine pada Januari dengan margin yang luas dalam apa adalah untuk semua tujuan dan maksud yang referendum de facto di pangkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat.

Marin Amerika Syarikat Kor Marin, yang berpangkalan di Jepun Okinawa. (Marines of the U.S. Marine Corps, based in Japan's Okinawa.(Reuters/Lee Jae-Won)

Pada bulan Disember, Gabenor Okinawa Hirokazu Nakaima secara rasmi bersetuju untuk penempatan semula asas dalam balasan untuk janji-janji suntikan tunai secara besar-besaran dari Tokyo. Tetapi ia seolah-olah mereka diperkecilkan ketabahan Datuk Bandar Inamine, 68 , yang mengembara ke Amerika Syarikat minggu lalu untuk bertemu dengan pegawai-pegawai utama Amerika Syarikat dalam usaha untuk menggagalkan cadangan itu.

"Mengapa hanya Okinawa harus memegang beban untuk keselamatan semua Jepun, apabila kehadiran Marin Amerika Syarikat tidak memainkan peranan yang besar dalam menghalang China?" Inamine, pada sidang akhbar di Washington. "Saya, sebagai Datuk Bandar, mempunyai kawalan operasi lebih 2 pelabuhan yang diperlukan untuk digunakan sebagai pembinaan tapak pelupusan dan saya akan menjalankan semua kuasa di perban-daran untuk menyekat akses."

Bandar Nago, katanya, mempunyai kuasa untuk melambatkan atau menghalang pembi-naan asas dengan membuat keputusan yang jalan raya atau pelabuhan boleh digunakan, dan dengan kekuasaannya untuk meluluskan atau menafikan permit tertentu. "Apa yang saya benar-benar mahu untuk menyatakan di sini adalah jika mereka secara unilateral menggerakkan pelan ini terhadap rakyat tempatan, ia tidak akan berfungsi dengan baik," kata beliau menerusi seorang penterjemah.

Protes Inamine, bagaimanapun, sedang dinyanyikan pada satu masa terutamanya berge-lora dalam hubungan geopolitik: Tokyo adalah cemas untuk mengekalkan hubungan yang sihat dengan Washington seperti Jepun dan China mengalami berturut-turut wilayah dengan China ke atas Kepulauan Senkaku tidak didiami di Laut China Timur.

Susumu Inamine (Susumu Inamine (AFP Photo/Toru Yamanaka)

Pada 24 April, Perdana Menteri Shinzo Abe dan Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama "tegas keazaman di kedua-dua belah pihak" untuk membuat "kemajuan yang mantap" pada memindahkan pangkalan Marin di Futenma.

Walau bagaimanapun, Datuk Bandar Inamine telah menunjukkan dia memahami kuasa pendapat awam global kerana dia dilamar kumpulan pencinta alam sekitar Amerika Syarikat berkenaan tentang "ancaman kemudahan itu akan menimbulkan kepada bio-diversiti di kawasan Henoko Nago, termasuk untuk ikan dugong terancam, mamalia marin sama dengan Manatee," menurut Times Jepun.

wilayah Okinawa, strategik penting untuk tentera Amerika Syarikat berikutan lokasinya yang hampir ke seluruh Asia, mencakupi kurang daripada 1 % peratus daripada jumlah wilayah Jepun, tetapi menjadi tuan rumah kira-kira setengah 38,000 anggota tentera Amerika Syarikat ditempatkan di Jepun.

Dengan Abe menikmati majoriti dalam Diet, Perdana Menteri akan mempunyai sedikit kesukaran menolak melalui rancangannya bagi pihak tentera Amerika Syarikat. Inamine mengakui kepada apa-apa kemungkinan, manakala amaran bahawa langkah itu akan mempunyai implikasi yang mendalam mengenai keadaan demokrasi di Jepun.

"Majoriti jika tidak semua penduduk tidak mahu asas di bandar kami dan apakah mak-nanya bagi kedua-dua Amerika Syarikat dan Jepun untuk mengabaikan suara-suara rak-yat," tanya beliau.

Japanese mayor sounds battle cry over 
US military base plans . . .

The relocation of a US Marine base from Okinawa, Japan to the smaller city of Nago may prove an uphill battle for Tokyo and Washington as Mayor Susumu Inamine upholds pledge to his constituents who oppose the plans.

The controversy surrounds long-term plans to move the US Marine Air Station at Futenma, which is situated in a densely populated urban area in southern Okinawa, to Noga, a smaller city to the north that already hosts Camp Schwab, another US Marine base.

The residents of Noga now say enough is enough. Their overall negative attitude to the plans was apparent in the re-election of Mayor Inamine in January by a wide margin in what was for all intents and purposes a de facto referendum on the US military base.

In December, Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima formally agreed to the base relocation in return for promises of a massive cash injection from Tokyo. But it seems they underestimated the fortitude of Mayor Inamine, 68, who traveled to the United States last week to meet with leading US officials in an effort to thwart the proposal.

“Why should only Okinawa hold the burden for security of all of Japan, when the presence of U.S. Marines doesn’t play a big role in deterring China?” Inamine, told a press conference in Washington. “I, as mayor, have operational control over two ports that are needed for use as construction landfill and I will exercise all powers in the municipality to block access.”

The city of Nago, he said, has the power to slow down or block construction of the base by deciding which roads or ports can be used, and by exercising its authority to approve or deny certain permits. “What I really wanted to express here was if they unilaterally push forward this plan against the local people, it will not work well,” he said through an interpreter.

Inamine’s protests, however, are being vocalized at a particularly turbulent time in geopolitical relations: Tokyo is anxious to maintain healthy relations with Washington as Japan and China experience a territorial row with China over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

On April 24, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Barack Obama “affirmed the resolve on both sides” to make “steady progress” on transferring the Marine base in Futenma.

Nevertheless, Mayor Inamine has shown he understands the power of global public opinion as he courted US environmentalist groups concerned about “the threat the facility would pose to the biodiversity in Nago’s Henoko area, including to the endangered dugong, a marine mammal similar to the manatee,” according to the Japan Times.

The Okinawa prefecture, strategically vital to the US military given its proximity to the rest of Asia, accounts for less than 1 percent of Japan’s total territory, but hosts about half the 38,000 US military personnel stationed in Japan.

With Abe enjoying a majority in the Diet, the prime minister would have little difficulty pushing through his plans on behalf of the US military. Inamine admits to such a possibility, while warning that such a move would have profound implications on the state of democracy in Japan.

“A majority if not all of the residents don’t want the base in our city and what does it mean for both the U.S. and Japan to ignore citizens’ voices?” he asked.


Pasukan Pertahanan 'Self Defence Force' Jepun memegang latihan untk mempertahankan pulau2 yg dipertikaikan . . .



bOLLy ENn Gerudi, sebahagian daripada latihan yang bermula awal bulan ini dan berakhir pada 27 Mei, yang bertujuan untuk menunjukkan bagaimana Pasukan Pertahanan 'Self Defence Force' (SDF) akan melindungi sekumpulan pulau-pulau terpencil di Laut China Timur yang kedaulatan dipertikaikan oleh China dan Jepun.

Gerudi SDF melibatkan lebih daripada 1,300 anggota SDF, 8 kapal terbang dan 4 kapal, dan diuruskan dengan senario yang dibayangkan di mana pulau-pulau tersebut yang diambil oleh kuasa asing, menurut laporan media tempatan.

Kementerian Pertahanan Jepun sedang mempertimbangkan mengukuhkan keupayaan per-tahanan di bahagian selatan Jepun, di tengah-tengah ketegangan yang meningkat antara negara untuk menghadapi tuntutan wilayah ke pulau-pulau, yang Jepun memanggilnya Senkaku dan China memanggilnya Diaoyu.

China terlibat dalam suatu persengketaan berbahaya ke atas pulau yang tidak didiami di Laut China Timur yang dikawal oleh Jepun tetapi dituntut oleh kedua-duanya.

Japanese Self Defence Force holds drills for defending disputed islands

The drill, part of an exercise that began earlier this month and ends on 27 May, aimed to show how the Self Defense Force (SDF) would protect a group of remote islands in the East China Sea whose sovereignty is disputed by China and Japan.

The SDF drill involved more than 1,300 SDF personnel, eight airplanes and four vessels, and dealt with a hypothetical scenario in which the islands were taken by a foreign force, according to local media reports.

The Japanese Defence Ministry is considering strengthening its defence capability in the southern part of Japan, amid rising regional tensions over territorial claims to the islands, which Japans calls Senkaku and China calls Diaoyu.

China is engaged in a dangerous feud over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that are controlled by Japan but claimed by both.

'Keterlaluan !' Moscow balas balik Prince Charles keatas Putin - perbandingan dgn Hitler . . .



bOLLy ENn - Moscow telah menuntut penjelasan rasmi dari UK atas komen dilaporkan di mana Putera Charles, pewaris takhta British, berbanding tindakan Vladimir Putin di Ukraine kepada mereka Adolf Hitler dalam jangka masa sehingga Perang DUNIA II.

"Jika apa-apa ulasan telah benar-benar dibuat, mereka tidak baik tentang Raja masa depan England. Kami tidak bimbang, kami marah, "kata jurucakap Kementerian Luar Rusia Aleksandr Lukashevich.

"Sebagai salah satu daripada ahli-ahli Parti Buruh di UK berkata, kaum kerabat perlu dilihat dan tidak pernah mendengar, "sambung rasmi Rusia, yang mengatakan bahawa mana-mana tindak balas bergantung kepada penjelasan yang diberikan oleh pihak British.

Duta Rusia di London bertemu dengan wakil-wakil Pejabat Luar Negeri pada hari petang Khamis, tetapi pihak British enggan mengulas mengenai apa yang dipanggil sebagai " perbualan peribadi".

Ucapan diraja itu, didakwa dibuat kepada warga Kanada berusia 78 tahun semasa lawa-tan rasmi ke negara ini, timbul awal minggu ini.

Apabila Marienne Ferguson melarikan diri Gdansk di Poland 1939 lebih awal daripada pencerobohan oleh Nazi Jerman, putera dilaporkan berkata "Dan kini Putin lakukan hanya kira-kira yang sama seperti Hitler," merujuk kepada penubuhan baru-baru ini sebelum ini Ukraine Crimea ke Russia.

Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin membuat ucapan semasa acara untuk menandakan Hari Kemenangan di Sevastopol 9 Mei 2014 (Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a speech during events to mark Victory Day in Sevastopol May 9, 2014 (Reuters/Alexei Druzhinin)

Ferguson, yang mendedahkan perbualan kepada Daily Mail, berkata kenyataan muncul "tulus dan jujur."

Pejabat akhbar The Royal Keluarga tidak menafikan kandungan perbualan, tetapi mene-gaskan bahawa "Prince of Wales tidak akan menolak membuat kenyataan politik orang ramai dalam perbualan peribadi."

Komen-komen yang menimbulkan tindak balas bercampur-campur daripada kelas politik di UK.

"Jika Putera Charles mahu membuat kenyataan kontroversi isu-isu nasional atau antara-bangsa dia harus turun takhta dan bertanding. Dalam raja berperlembagaan, dasar dan diplomasi perlu dijalankan oleh parlimen dan kerajaan. Monarki perlu dilihat dan tidak pernah mendengar, " kata tweet daripada Mike Gapes, MP kanan Buruh dan bekas penge-rusi Negeri Jawatankuasa Pilihan, badan dasar antarabangsa Parlimen UK.

Tetapi pemimpin partinya, Ed Miliband berkata bahawa Raja-dalam-menunggu "telah mendapat satu titik tentang tindakan Presiden Putin dan dia benar2 layak untuk menga-takan bahawa terdapat kebimbangan sebenar tentang itu."

Sama seperti Pejabat Luar Negeri, Perdana Menteri, David Cameron berkata, bukan per-niagaannya mengulas perbualan peribadi, tetapi menyatakan bahawa "semua orang berhak kepada pendapat peribadi mereka."

Jerman Nazi Canselor Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) memberikan ucapan pada tahun 1937 di tempat yang tidak dikenali. (German Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) gives a speech in 1937 in an unidentified place.(AFP Photo/France Presse Voir)

'Outrageous!' Moscow hits back at Prince Charles over Putin-Hitler comparison . . .

Moscow has demanded an official explanation from the UK over reported comments in which Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, compared Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler in the run up to World War II.

“If such comments were genuinely made, they do not reflect well on the future King of England. We are not concerned, we are outraged,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich.

“As one of the members of the UK’s Labour Party said, royals should be seen and not heard,” continued the Russian official, who said that any response will depend on the explanation offered by the British side.

The Russian ambassador in London met with Foreign Office representatives on Thursday afternoon, but the British side refused to comment on what it termed a "private conversation".

The royal’s remarks, allegedly made to a 78-year-old Canadian during an official visit to the country, surfaced earlier this week.

When Marienne Ferguson described escaping Gdansk in Poland 1939 ahead of the invasion by Nazi Germany, the prince reportedly said “And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler,” referring to the recent incorporation of formerly Ukrainian Crimea into Russia.

Ferguson, who revealed the conversation to the Daily Mail, said the remarks appeared “heartfelt and honest.”

The Royal Family’s press office did not deny the content of the chat, but insisted that “the Prince of Wales would not seek to make a public political statement during a private conversation."

The comments provoked a mixed response from the UK’s political class.

"If Prince Charles wants to make controversial statements on national or international issues he should abdicate and stand for election. In a constitutional monarchy, policy and diplomacy should be conducted by parliament and government. Monarchy should be seen and not heard," said a tweet from Mike Gapes, a senior Labour MP and former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, the UK parliament’s international policy body.

But his party leader, Ed Miliband, said that the King-in-waiting “has got a point about President Putin’s actions and he is absolutely entitled to say that there are real concerns about that.”

Just as the Foreign Office, Prime Minister David Cameron said it was not his business to comment on private conversations, but stated that “everyone’s entitled to their private opinions.”


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