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Lets celebrate the the women's game ascending through performance and increased returns and rewards.

There is no such equal pay model in the beautiful game regardless of gender.

The pay and rewards are contractual and based solely on revenue based modeling.

https://thepfsa.co.uk/football-wages-how-much-do-footballers-get-paid/

Good footballers are in high demand because they increase the likelihood of a team winning a title, which means the team will make considerable amounts of cash by selling broadcasting rights, tickets and merchandise to its fans.

It’s all about supply and demand. Believe it or not, there’s a shortage of players that can hit the same mark as the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. What this means is that clubs need to bid for players, outbidding each other to ensure they win the best players who, in turn, will take the club further and earn it money. It’s a win-win situation – for those directly involved, at least.

Wallace I would like to dodge your point of German rectitude, as having financial consultative dealings with populist political party AfD.

Where indeed the germen education system has embraced the extremities of national socialism, the AfD is another matter.

Can actions speak louder than words?

Yes I believe so, the trips to the Yasukuni Shrine to offer prayers is a case in question.

As much as the heartfelt display of the people releasing Doves of peace at the same Yasukuni shrine 

Which holds ones attention a political apology or a genuine declaration of peace and remembrance.

I would like to separate the advent of the first use of atomic warfare.

And how all nation commemorate as one we are now all potential victims are we not

Its destructive force, to annihilate whole cities, catapulted every nation to accept that future world wars could be the end of human life.

Total obliteration.

It is such a horror scenario, that needs its own understanding and significance.

wallace, yes a dark page in history for the POW's appalling suffering.

The annual political apology is lost in its own necessity to recite an obligatory display of rectitude.

It can be a false premise, without any commentative reflection other than a display of acquiescence, a forced requirement to wallpaper over historic wrongs.

Solemn remembered must become a shared experience, and the most poignant place is inside the classroom.

Which I believe a point we both agree on

Wallace Japan is a paradox, we have this debate every so often.

To probably go back and forth trudging through the pollical quicksand of guilt and my I suggest the absence of pardon or absolution.

What does the future have to offer the present and future generations having to bow incessantly at the alter of an age of the political apology, from a country now close to eighty five percent of its population not even born when imperial Japan existed?

Lessons need to be commemorated in classrooms, an historic understandings of past grave hostilities and conflicts left to historians educators not the murky world inhabited by politicians.

It is in the realms of the Countries education system that past and future lessons will be learnt.

The constant insistence that the people of Japan prostrate themselves in humiliating amende honorable whilst dictatorships, the governments of China and North Korea threatens nuclear Armageddon is the case in question.

Japan will “stick to our resolve to never repeat the tragedy of the war”.

I am afraid, sadly the governments of China and North Korea are along way from such declarations of peace.

Emperor Naruhito the true beating heart of the nation reflects wisdom on this day of remembrance

"Reflecting on our past and bearing in mind the feelings of deep remorse, I earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never again be repeated,"

I know where the 21st century J people stand, side by side next to the group releasing Doves as a gesture of peace at Yasukuni shrine.

As for the so called Rightwing group members leave after paying tribute to the war dead at Yasukuni shrine.

As expected, always on the wrong side of history, a posturing embarrassment to themselves as much as the bullet headed dress code that attracts the ridicule it deserves.

I would love dearly to witness a group of high school students in there school uniform with water pistols soaking the boneheads.

Visitors clad in outdated military uniforms enter Yasukuni Shrine.

Well I cant help wondering if they are a war reenactment group just descended from a tree after just realizing the war is over, it is almost comic in a Monty Pythonesque way.

I have always believed that there should be reflection, a complete and unflinching appraisal to the history of War in Japan and how such a war occurred and why.

So .....

Diaries shed light on plight of foreign nationals in Japan's internment camps

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1281/

US knew of Japanese American spies

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000202030026-8.pdf

A 1941 FBI Raid Reveals a Network of Japanese Spies in LA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpsA-bxl-A

I feel it crucial to separate the US government suspicion of an Japanese Imperial Government/Army/Intelligence services placing spy’s prior to Japan Airforce attack on Pearl Harbour and the E. O. 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.

All persons of Japanese ancestry, 120,000 interned, in many instances proud American patriots, that felt ostracized from society deemed as potential fifth column saboteurs.

No evidence has eve been submitted that any of those interned participated in spying or sabotage.

The harsh really of internment is fully analyzed and documented including actual family life experiences interned Heart Mountain Wyoming….

Voices from the Archives

Japanese American Internment, 1942–1946

 https://histories.hoover.org/Japanese-American-Internment/

Truly worth a review and read. A sometimes heartfelt detail of the human cost.

“I Wish Free My Life.” Taketaro Azeka, June 18, 1942

"Japanese young people need to open up their minds and know what is going on in the world, and more importantly, know their history -- good and bad -- of Japanese in America"

I couldn’t agree more.

Antiquesaving my friend, we are both flogging a dead horse.

How the UK treats their obligations under ECHR, and implementation, is not straightforward.

The red herring is attempting to categorize an interpretation into a judicial legislative process.

Antiquesaving, you may believe that Abolition of the death penalty is circumspect irrelevant.

I can assure you where ECHR is concerned it certainly isn't far from it.

The UK court will view an extradition on the country applying judicial system in respect of across the board application of human rights laws.

Human right lawyers will waste little time on the fact that Japan prosecutors and judiciary will refuse to fully comply with ECHR strict rules on interview and interrogations.

The UK and Japanese Judicial systems are chalk and cheese.

Yes Antiquesaving, that could be a cost of laws that cover homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime.

Officer dibble, can misinterpret these complex laws, and the results are horrendous.

Yet at the same time just stop the oil can bring London to a stand still preventing emergency services from saving lives, the police powerless standing by.

Japan has a balanced and respectful police force.

I have no complaints.

Now just to give you a idea of the restrictions the police are under to quote.

PACE is clear.........

There are limits on how long the police can hold you at the police station before they charge you. You can be held for 24 hours if the police think that you have committed an offence. Another 12 hours can be added onto this if the offence they think that you have committed is serious.

Sometimes, but not often, the police will ask the court whether you can be held for longer. The court can only allow the police to hold you for an extra 96 hours (4 days) before you are charged. You can be held for up to 14 days if you are arrested under a Terrorism Act.

It is quite straightforward.

UK is bound to ECHR, it articles/protocols.

European Convention on Human Rights

https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/convention_ENG

Please read, Article 6 The right to a fair trial is incorporated into Abolition of the death penalty

The death penalty shall be abolished. No one shall be condemned to such penalty or executed.

UK court are bound to the Policing and crime bill, including extradition.

The three suspects will be protected by the UK courts, judiciary.

There is a compromise, the J prosecutors can apply to the UK courts to interview the suspects in the UK.

However there lawyers will be present and the interviews will be recorded and conducted in accordance with Police and Criminal Evidence Act.

I guarantee it will be a learning experience  

The European convention on human rights and policing

A handbook for police officers and other law enforcement officials

https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/handbook_european_convention_police_eng

Just to provide a head up/overview on how high the human right/policing bar is set for all European Convention on Human Rights signatories.

UK Human Rights lawyers and there are legions of them will be queuing up represent all three suspects.

Keir Starmer KC MP, Leader of the labour opposition. is a former Human Rights barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions. UK is still a full signatory to the ECHR.

All three suspects will not be extradited, unless Japan judicial system is proven to be fully compliant with all articles of the ECHR.

Evidence into the abusive manner of interrogations of Carlos Ghosn, Greg Kelly is enough to obstruct any possibility of extradition.

Wallace,

Thank you, I hope for limited release in Japan sooner or later.

Your wife, I understand the subject with neighbors and friends wont rush to the cinema to relive a period when the country was subject to unimaginable destruction.

Wallace I will not enquire how, I understand there are private streaming services from Dubai.

Gossip you understand.

Ok can you review without spoilers. What do you think about the film.

I just am not so engaged with a Mattel toy.

I actually was sent a video clip of a meme of Barbie and Chucky

Totally created by a disturbed, unhinged unsound mind, in fact psychotic certifiable.

If I was able to cast a vote in the 2024 US elections i was put my cross next to Biden, I would do so because of Bidens unwavering support for the people of Ukraine.

Biden laid US economy on the line.

Action speak louder than words. That cannot be said for EU France and Germany.

Ukraine has been devastated by atrocities and war.

Donald Trump could and I believe would have attempted to negotiate, with a tyrant dictator aided by his faceless henchman pulling the strings.

To jail Donald Trump is a fools emend.

The midterm elections proved that polls are not cast in stone.

Biden needs to stand toe to toe with Trump at the ballot box.

Have the confidence to stand by your convictions, not the courts.

Trump will come back stronger

The US democracy is bomb proof, constitution was never at risk.

If Trump is convicted pardon him, blindside, insist never being afraid of a political ballot box duel,

Win hearts and minds first.

lincolnman, I think you may have misunderstood.

My opinion is not clouded by the belief that Trump legion of advisors will not ruthlessly make political hay whilst the sun shine.

I certainly don't espouse to Donald Trumps native of make America great again.

Its a rather illogical theory, as America has always had a democracy, not perfect, however a beacon of a nation regardless of political debate the unwavering promotion of democracy worldwide.

In my opinion American in all respects great

To underestimate Donald Trump rhetoric is foolish beyond contempt.

“In 2016, I declared: I am your voice, today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution” *

The tone is highly provocative, the message is agitational, can prevail if prevented from the ballot box

lincolnman,

Politics is not for the faint hearted, its neither honest honorable unbiased or unprejudiced, objectives are laced with politically motived innuendo, assumption, did he, didn't he, hearsay and gossip, perversity that in many respects creates a life of its own

The Hunter factor, is a gift to run up the flag poll.

Hunter is fair game to beat Father Joe over the head with.

Yes I agree the Governments of China and Russia will waste little time if Donald Trump is forced to run 2024 US election campaign from prison, screaming political persecution through the bars of his cell to accuse the whole US democratic system of rank hypocrisy.

Can't beat Trump at the ballot box, let make sure his can never runs.

Tuesday, US election, November 5, 2024 is rapidly descending into a politically poisonous toxic cesspool.

Trump, the overwhelming front-runner in the crowded Republican presidential nomination fight, used the opportunity to put his likely general election opponent on the defensive, referring to the “Biden crime family” and the “Biden cartel.”

Biden is politically exposed thanks to his feckless son Hunter.

No matter how much Biden distances his campaign from the media circus that will follow, hapless Hunter failings will stick to the President like superglue.

Donald Trump has already hinted at a possible campaign strategy march, ‘I am your retribution’ framing the 2024 election as “the final battle” for America.

And then the spectacle of Donald Trump a political prisoner jailed simply for his 1st amendment right to free speech.

Trumps team will milk this for all its worth.

For the sanctity, the respect and confidence that the US election system portrays the image with every passing day, the contrariness that no amount of exposure to Donald Trump could ever quite normalize, 

Trump in jail, campaigning from a prison cell would be politically unthinkable

You can see the poo storm arriving from space.

Donald Trumps self righteous virtue, a victim of political persecution, in ⁠O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave, at the hands of a radial socialist left wing extremist government unable to fight an US 2024/25 election in a open and honest, face to face, the politically incendiary social media firework display that will inevitably follow.

And then to frame the entire grotesque spectacle to a potential televised show trail is beyond insane lunacy.

Lovely sunny afternoon, dogs Soy and Bailey filled there boots with a duel runabout.

20;16 it intermittent heavy rain again.

I can hear the rain running into barrel number eight now.

Remember footy legend Greavsie

Jimmy Greaves Football Is A Funny Old Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcDb-fwkuGg

Japan had chances that could have turned the game, Sweden were the stronger team on the day.

I lament what could have been.

Kochi, Ino has experienced 5 or so days of heavy rain, overnight.

Drainage was fully repaired and ungraded 3/4 years ago, 6 barrels of rain water so far..

No storm force winds to mention though.

My humble opinion is to understand or have a perspective to where the Asia-Pacific Region future security is destabilizing under the constant threat from the Government of China

Why China-Taiwan Relations Are So Tense

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-relations-tension-us-policy-biden

How did the region reach this point succumbing to a regime that is prepared to threaten world peace.....

China’s Military Aggression in the Indo-Pacific Region

https://2017-2021.state.gov/chinas-military-aggression-in-the-indo-pacific-region/

Both Trump and Biden agree on the need to take action.

Both Presidents at least maintained a policy that recognizes this fact.

Support and unity, regionally globally go hand in hand with the recognition that the Government of China is fully intent to implement its One China policy/principle with military action.

Hong Kong is evidence that the Government of China can never be trusted to abide by even rudimental rules based international law.

To quote......an agreement to acknowledge...

Human rights protection is enshrined in the Basic Law and its Bill of Rights Ordinance (Cap. 383). By virtue of the Bill of Rights Ordinance and Basic Law Article 39, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Never materialized.

The threat of an invasion and seizure Taiwan Strait, must be met with a statement, that the global community will unequivocally defend Taiwan with military action, ground sea and air, no less.

Yes up to a declaration of war.

We have history to teach us the consequences of appeasing dictators.

It is a fact that with all the talk of nuclear proliferation, the Government of Japan will need to consider its own off shore strategic/tactical deterrent.

Whatever ones opinion of Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso as a politician.

Taro Aso assessment of the threat to Taiwan, its people, the essential global shipping lanes through the Taiwan Strait, South/East China Sea is undisputed.

An invasion of Taiwan will have unthinkable global consequences.

Of course diplomacy is an essential tool, at least communicate with the government of China.

However the government of China continuing failure too respect any globally agreed law-based governance model.

Front center is trust in it basic form, government of China is a dictatorship.

Most worryingly is a fundamental refusal to respect and limit unfair government subsidies, overcapacity, intellectual property (IP) theft, a whole range of protectionist off market/rail policies leading to clear distortions to the global free economy. 

Then the we get to the China’s social credit system

In the Chinese media own words....

What is China’s social credit system and why is it controversial?

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3096090/what-chinas-social-credit-system-and-why-it-controversial

Some state, well at least they are being open about this pernicious form of behavioral surveillance.

I say this is a warning, a threat to every Chinese citizen, every aspect of your families wellbeing is at stake if you do not kowtow.

I Dad corrected me 1987....ho hum