The Purge has Commenced!

Nearly 82,000 suspended or sacked within the Turkish government after last months failed coup some 5,000 state employees have been sacked and 77,000 suspended as the president tightens his grip on power.  More then 3, 000 of those sacked were members of the armed forces. The mass suspensions and sackings are suspected to be of…

The Rising Sun

Emperor Akihito of Japan gave for the second time in his reign a televised national address to his subjects urging that he no longer feels capible of fulfilling his duties as Emperor. While the emperor is forced by the pacifist constitution from engaging in any kind of politics this creates a constitutional crisis as Japanese…