[#291]:9.16=#(60x4+12)[US#72] 911, Pinter, US>Vnzl,Iraq, EU. Pay off LoCredit, Mei off to China! #1. Iraq War legality. 2. Democracy: Japan, E Asia.

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Iraq War Legality: "Rush To War DVD. - Between Iraq and a Hard Place": http://tinyurl.com/7mt9u http://tinyurl.com/ds7c5 "" "Rush To War" examines the issues surrounding September 11th and American foreign policy. Help Support TvNewsLIES.org - Get it here! Click Here! ----------------------------------------------------- Iraq and the Laws of War - LINK - On 19 March 2003 President Bush Jr. commenced his criminal war against Iraq by ordering a so-called decapitation strike against the President of Iraq in violation of a 48-hour ultimatum he had given publicly to the Iraqi President and his sons to leave the country. This duplicitous behavior violated the customary international laws of war set forth in the 1907 Hague Convention on the Opening of Hostilities to which the United States is still a contracting party, as evidenced by paragraphs 20, 21, 22, and 23 of U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956). Furthermore, President Bush Jr.'s attempt to assassinate the President of Iraq was an international crime in its own right. Of course the Bush Jr. administration's war of aggression against Iraq constituted a Crime against Peace as defined by the Nuremberg Charter (1945), the Nuremberg Judgment (1946), and the Nuremberg Principles (1950) as well as by paragraph 498 of U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956). "" #2. Japanese Democracy: 1. "Local Power in the Japanese State" (Contemporary Japanese Politics, 1) (Paperback), by Muramatsu Michio, Michio Muramatsu, Betsey Scheiner (Translator), James White (Translator); University of California Press (December, 1997): http://tinyurl.com/ajogs "" Book Description In 1993, wave after wave of scandals led to the collapse of the one-party system in Japan. Since then, reformers have focused more and more on redistributing power from the highly centralized national government to regional and municipal administrations, just as the United States and other countries around the world move toward increased local autonomy, block grants, and decentralization. But are local entities ready for the new responsibilities? Muramatsu Michio demonstrates that throughout the postwar era, Japanese local governments have exercised far more power than previously understood. He synthesizes theories of central-local relations in Japan and around the world, comparing U.S., British, and French models to his own data on prefectural and municipal governments in Japan. Focusing on housing subsidies, land use regulation, and the development of the welfare state, Muramatsu offers a fascinating reinterpretation of the meaning of local autonomy in a contemporary context. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. "" "" From the Back Cover "Probably the most sophisticated recent treatment of local government in Japan that I have seen. Written with a strong comparative frame of reference, this book is for anyone exploring the relationship between national and local governments in different countries." (Margaret A. McKean, author of Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan) "" 2. "The Enigma of Japanese Power : People and Politics in a Stateless Nation" (Vintage) (Paperback), by Karel Van Wolferen; Vintage; Reprint edition (June 10, 1990): http://tinyurl.com/9xhsb "" Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Few Americans have examined carefully the nation whose economy and industry is bound up with their own, whose future will inescapably shape theirs--Japan, that is. Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen does the job, and very well indeed, depicting a Japan alternately awed and disgusted by the world beyond its shores, governed by a puppet emperor in the service of the zaikaijin, a gerontocracy of businessmen who control the national economy, just as they have done for generations. Their hierarchy is reinforced by the fear that, as in 1945, hostile powers will not only overpower the Japanese economy but denature the Japanese people, introducing foreign concepts of democracy and even the specter of an "impure race." Although Van Wolferen balances his account by highlighting what he regards as positive Japanese traits, including thrift, respect for elders, industriousness, and self-control, The Enigma of Japanese Power remains a controversial text in the nation it assays to describe with discomforting accuracy. From Publishers Weekly "Here at last is a first-rate book by a Westerner on the obfuscations and realities of Japanese politics," praised PW , complimenting van Wolferen's "almost stupefying thoroughness." Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. "" 3. "Japanese Democracy : Power, Coordination, and Performance" (Hardcover), by Bradley M. Richardson; Yale University Press (January 31, 1997): http://tinyurl.com/bqkv9 "" Book Description In this new analysis of democracy in Japan, Richardson reveals a fragmentation and discordance in political life at all levels that refutes the common conception of a semiauthoritarian and consensual Japanese state led by government bureaucracy. He explores Japan`s power relationships and demonstrates how the decentralized political system differs from Great Britain`s and resembles that of the United States and Italy. "" 4. "Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox" (Studies on Law and Social Control) (Paperback), by John Owen Haley; Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (December, 1994): http://tinyurl.com/82wrs "" Editorial Reviews Book Description This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan. Haley argues that the weakness of legal controls throughout Japanese history has assured the development and strength of informal community controls based on custom and consensus to maintain order--an order characterized by remarkable stability, with an equally significant degree of autonomy for individuals, communities, and businesses. Haley concludes by showing how Japan's weak legal system has reinforced preexisting patterns of extralegal social control, thus explaining many of the fundamental paradoxes of political and social life in contemporary Japan. ""