Eris Lloyd ~ Cobra The Animation E05
Eris Lloyd possessed by the ghost of Chiri Kitsu. 
The villainness in this episode was just hilariously incompetent. At first it seemed like a nice idea for her to pretend to be nice to Cobra later, but then she actually tried to kill him. By pushing him over the edge of a boat. Despite knowing fully well that Cobra can breathe under water. She never even stops to think, and instead just keeps going on with her imaginary evil laugh, for Cobra to take plenty of time to shoot him. I also loved her reasoning: men are nothing but egoistic pigs. Overgeneralization FTW!
Cobra The Animation – 05, Star crossed Anime Blog, January 30, 2010
Crime and Punishment(罪と罰) by Osamu Tezuka (1953)
Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky Inspiration (1866)
Dostoevsky’s letter to Katkov reveals his immediate inspiration, to which he remained faithful even after his original plan evolved into a much more ambitious creation : a desire to counteract what he regarded as nefarious consequences arising from the doctrines of Russian nihilism. In the novel, Dostoevsky pinpointed the dangers of both utilitarianism and rationalism, the main ideas of which inspired the radicals, continuing a fierce criticism he had already started with his Notes from Underground. A Slavophile religious believer, Dostoevsky utilized the characters, dialogue and narrative in Crime and Punishment to articulate an argument against westernizing ideas in general. He thus attacked a peculiar Russian blend of French utopian socialism and Benthamite utilitarianism, which had led to what revolutionaries, such as Nikolai Chernyshevsky, called “rational egoism”.
Death Penalty – Baka to Test to Shokanju E04
They tortured and crucified Akihisa for a message of love.
A group in class F in the anime who punish Akihisa for getting atttention from girls.
Senjougahara loves to be scared
20 000 or 300 000 ?
A committee of experts established by the Japanese and Chinese governments to explore historical issues between the two countries has failed to agree on the details of the Nanking Incident of 1937, according to the committee’s latest report.
Based on the Tokyo Trials and the conclusions of a military tribunal held in Nanking, the Chinese scholars arrived at the already-established figure of more than 300,000 victims. Japanese researchers opposed this figure, stating, “While the maximum estimate is 200,000 dead, there are also other estimates that put the number killed at 20,000 or 40,000.” Unable to agree on a common death toll, both the Japanese and Chinese estimates were published in the report.
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Regarding the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 7, 1937 — which sparked the full-scale Japanese invasion of China that year — Chinese scholars took a compromise position, concluding the exchange of fire between Japanese and Chinese forces may have been extemporaneous.
1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
The committee report, released Sunday, is divided into ancient, medieval and modern sections, and published under the names of both Japanese and Chinese scholars. Chinese members, however, have demanded that the committee withhold the part on the post-war period, such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, for fear of influencing public opinion in China.
Nanking Incident death toll divides Japanese, Chinese scholars, Mainichi, February 1, 2010
Karin “Zetsubou” Ishida ~Shangri-La E17
The Next Bubble
As journalist Matt Taibbi wrote last year in his celebrated Rolling Stone piece on Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs, the next bubble may well be carbon credits: ”A booming trillion-dollar market that barely even exists yet … a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino that’s been kind to Goldman, except it has one delicious new wrinkle: If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices will be government-mandated. Goldman won’t even have to rig the game. It will be rigged in advance.’
Dealing with life in the carbon trading twilight zone, Sidney Morning Herald, Paddy Manning, January 30, 2010
Wherever there is commercial opportunity, criminality soon follows.
That is the somewhat dispiriting conclusion to be drawn from the annual fraud risk report from consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which will warn later today that the emerging low-carbon economy is facing a growing threat from fraudsters.
The report highlighted the VAT carousel frauds which have affected the European emissions trading scheme in recent months and are estimated by authorities to have already cost EU treasuries over €5bn.
Study warns of growing “green fraud” risk, BusinessGreen, 01 Feb 2010
Green Scam
The European police agency Europol has today revealed that the fraudulent trade in carbon credits that affected a number of countries over the past few months is far more widespread than previously thought and could have cost EU taxpayers up to €5bn in lost revenue over the past 18 months.
Europol said that suspicions of carousel fraud, so named because the fraudster can often buy back credits and then repeat the practice several times over, first arose in late 2008.
Europol said that after the reforms the market volume in each country fell by up to 90 per cent, indicating that the problem was extremely widespread.
Police claim EU carbon credit fraud has topped €5bn, BusinessGreen, 11 Dec 2009
[Slowpoke] By Terminal71, Comrade Mario
Goombas, known in Japan as Kuribō (クリボー, lit. Chestnut Kid), are a fictional species from Nintendo’s series of Mario video games. They are brown and are most commonly seen walking around aimlessly in video games. They are based on shiitake mushrooms, and were included at the last minute in Super Mario Bros. in order to create a simple, easy-to-defeat enemy.
One Piece OP12 ~ Kaze wo Sagashite by Mari Yaguchi
Hora mae ni taisetsu na kimi ga matteru.
Hajimatta bakari no nagai tabi.
Yuki to ai to yuujou to.
Sukoshi no asobigokoro dake
mochi tsuzukete iyou
Bokura wa chikyuu no hitokakera
nakama ga atsumari sukoshizutsu
katachi ni natte yukundayo
soko ni kanarazu kaze wa fuitekuru
woo woo woo (yeah)
Kaze wo kanjijyou kaze wo kanjirunda
namida kawakashite kureru kaze wo sagashi ni yukou
Bouken no tabi dareka to deau tameni
Tachidomaranai sa Hora mae ni taisetsu na kimi ga matteru.
Namida wo nagasu tabi hito wa tsuyoko naru
Namida wo nagasu tabi omoide ga
dondon dondon dondon fuete yuku
woo woo woo (yeah)
Kaze wo kanjijyou kaze wo kanjirunda
namida kawakashite kureru kaze wo sagashi ni yukou
Bouken no tabi dareka to deau tameni
Tachidomaranai sa Hora mae ni taisetsu na kimi ga matteru.
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Miyafuji’s Fortune
Death (XIII) is the thirteenth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
Sources of the Waite/Smith Tarot Symbols
The Death card commonly depicts a skeleton riding a horse. Surrounding it are dead and dying people from all classes, including kings, bishops and commoners. The skeleton carries a black standard emblazoned with a white flower. The reaper carries a black banner emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which according to Waite symbolises life or rebirth. The bishop may represent faith in the face of death, faith in the divine plan, and faith that “God works in mysterious ways”. In the darkness behind, according to Waite’s PKT, lies the whole world of ascent in the spirit. Atop the cliff in the background we see a path, towers, and a sun that silhouettes a city, i.e., the mystical journey to the New Jerusalem. In Renaissance art, the “new earth” (i.e. following the apocalypse) is typically represented as a city, the New Jerusalem. This representation appears on 15th-16th century World cards.
Death from the Rider-Waite tarot deck
The Strike Witches Tarot was a bonus item included with the first DVD compilation of the Strike Witches anime TV series.
Certy Sturluson ~ Durarara!!
“Then wonder not at headless folk,
Since every day you greet’em;
Nor treat old stories as a joke,
When foots you daily meet’em”
The Legendary
Dullahan
A few hundred feet from the place where this occured, is a lane Oldfield Lane, Wortley, near Leeds, which was noted many years ago, as the best of one those somewhat rare spectres, a headless ghost. Some are living even now who have known those who had seen this phantom. When last seen, it appeared as a comfortable-looking man, dressed in a drab-coat, and carried the head under the arm. As a Yorkshire version of a very ancient and wide-spread superstition, its memory is worth preserving. The belief in headless ghosts is found in many parts of England, Ireland (the Dullahan or Dulachan), Wales, Scotland, Spain, France, and Germany.
Fiends, ghosts and sprites: including an account of the origin and natura of belief in the supernatural, John Netten Radclíffe, 1854, p111
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