Terrence Reed's 2012 Presidential Platform for genuine change:(excludes any congressional support)1) No Inaugural Celebration party.2) Refuse the Nobel Prize if offered to me.3) Retire Air Force One ($181,000+ per hour) and pay off the mortgage on the home of an unemployed...
opinion by tlreed | 1 year ago 93 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
June 23, 2010 is the 65th Anniversary of end of the Battle of Okinawa (what the Japan central government calls it), L-Day (what the US military called it), or the "rain of iron" (what the Okinawans experienced). By the end of the battle almost a quarter-million people had...
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I am not so naive as to say that Google is a "do-gooder," as they like to claim, but their long term business interests in China hinge on its ability to operate uncensored. Google is not any more ethical than other corporations; it just sees the world unclouded by the much...
opinion by tlreed | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 208 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
I was watching NHK World and they reported how Israeli troops just shot and killed some Palestinian farmers while they were walking to rake their fields. The troops claim the victims were Palestinian Terrorists attacking them with rakes. All right, so if the farmers didn't...
opinion by tlreed | 2 years ago 167 views | 12 recommendations | 13 comments
On March 16, 2010 The Yomiuri Shimbun reported "An American who runs an English conversation school in Fukuoka Prefecture has been arrested on suspicion of sexually molesting a primary school girl whom he taught, according to investigation...
opinion by tlreed | 2 years ago 566 views | 6 recommendations | 2 comments
Inspired by George Lucas' Star Wars, Reagan proclaims the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire" on March 8, 1983.Bush and Rumsfeld continue the accusations in 2001 - 2006 harkening back to the Axis in WWII and to Hitler,...
opinion by tlreed | 2 years ago 822 views | 5 recommendations | 9 comments
A picture is truly worth a thousand words. It is The Year of the Tiger according to the Chinese calendar, but it is also the year of Tiger Woods as a a public figure on the international stage. It reminds me so...
opinion by tlreed | 2 years ago 88 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
February 26, 1952 Winston Churchill announces Britain's production of its first atomic bomb. Unfortunately nations still think this is a worthwhile endeavor (North Korea & Iran). How much better to see a news release that says: Gordon Brown announces the elimination of...
opinion by tlreed | 2 years ago 470 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
From its inception Taiwan has been besieged by Beijing and with the aid of US military and political support has held out for 65 years, but its days are numbered. Taiwan was the "Real China," while Uncle Mao was...
opinion by tlreed | 2 years ago 155 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
I just watched a short video "How to Use Social Media To Get a Job", it is one of many pieces of advice we hear about getting a job through Social Networking. What I get from these pieces is that you have to be fake. No one wants to know the real you, they...
opinion by tlreed | 2 years ago 211 views | 6 recommendations | 2 comments
Japan’s Constitution was a bold experiment on the part of the office of “Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.” It holds many of the ideals that are present in the US constitution with one major...
opinion by tlreed | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago 723 views | 48 recommendations | 5 comments
One has to wonder what will happen as the soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq return home and try to re-assimilate back into civilian life and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appears to be taking...
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You would be hard pressed to see any dancing in the streets, tickertapes streaming from skyscrapers, or sailors kissing ladies in the streets, but The Global War on Terror is over (not that anyone knew what a Global War on Terror really meant in the first place). On Monday...
created by tlreed | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 233 views | 16 recommendations | 6 comments
I find it interesting that most reviews I have seen of The Watchmen, including reviews in Hong Kong, assume that the audience has already read the novel. But everyone I know, myself included, has yet to read the novel. One of my associates decided to read the novel before he...
opinion by tlreed | 3 years ago 105 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
I just had an interesting conversation with a young college student here in Hong Kong. It started simple enough, “you sure are tall, you must be 1.9m tall, are you an American?” (1.88m actually, and yes I am an...
opinion by tlreed | 3 years ago 153 views | 20 recommendations | 5 comments