http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/13/pat-buchanan-land-of-the-setting-sun/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/13/pat-buchanan-land-of-the-setting-sun/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:11:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128426 Townhall: The gravest problem facing the Land of the Rising Sun is that it is dying. The sun that set on the Japanese Empire in 1945 has begun to set on the Japanese nation. A week before the anniversary of 3/11, buried in a story about Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's effort to rally support for a doubling of the 5 percent consumption tax, to preserve Japan's social security system, was this startling statement: "We're faced with an aging society and a declining birth rate unprecedented in the history of mankind." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/13/pat-buchanan-land-of-the-setting-sun/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/a-quiet-revolution-in-asia-demographic-upheaval-realigns-nations/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/a-quiet-revolution-in-asia-demographic-upheaval-realigns-nations/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:57:29 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128062 Human Events: A new government report from Tokyo says the country will lose a million people a year for the next several decades -- plummeting from 127 million to 86 million -- witnessing a 30 percent collapse in population by 2060. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/a-quiet-revolution-in-asia-demographic-upheaval-realigns-nations/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/19/married-woman-in-same-sex-couple-faces-deportation-to-japan/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/19/married-woman-in-same-sex-couple-faces-deportation-to-japan/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:16:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121237 KITV Honolulu: When CNN met Frances Herbert and Takako Ueda this summer, they were newlyweds - legally married in Vermont - but worried that Ueda would be required to return to her native Japan. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/19/married-woman-in-same-sex-couple-faces-deportation-to-japan/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/leaked-cable-japanese-refused-obama-apology-for-use-of-atomic-bombs-in-ww-ii/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/leaked-cable-japanese-refused-obama-apology-for-use-of-atomic-bombs-in-ww-ii/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:21:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115919 Investors.com: Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/leaked-cable-japanese-refused-obama-apology-for-use-of-atomic-bombs-in-ww-ii/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/global-investment-in-clean-energy-hits-243-bn-30-bn-per-year-from-eu-japan-us/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/global-investment-in-clean-energy-hits-243-bn-30-bn-per-year-from-eu-japan-us/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:24:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113634 Times Of India: The European Union, Japan and the United States are already providing $30 billion a year to help poorer nations combat global warming and this Green Climate Fund will be channeling $100 billion a year by 2020. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/global-investment-in-clean-energy-hits-243-bn-30-bn-per-year-from-eu-japan-us/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/16/biden-to-sell-debt-ceiling-deal-during-trip-to-china-japan/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/16/biden-to-sell-debt-ceiling-deal-during-trip-to-china-japan/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:57:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=110869 The Hill: Vice President Biden will tout the debt ceiling deal during a trip to China and Japan, two holders of huge amounts of U.S. debt. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/16/biden-to-sell-debt-ceiling-deal-during-trip-to-china-japan/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/book-details-macarthurs-efforts-to-fill-japanese-spiritual-vacuum-after-world-war-ii/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/book-details-macarthurs-efforts-to-fill-japanese-spiritual-vacuum-after-world-war-ii/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:59:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=105474 ENInews¦ Featured Articles: In the wake of the destruction and surrender of the Japanese empire in August 1945, a "spiritual vacuum" emerged that the country's de-facto ruler, General Douglas MacArthur, sought to fill with religious and quasi-religious beliefs still new to Japan, from Christianity to Freemasonry. That is the focus of a recently published study of the Occupation years of 1945 to 1952 by Japanese investigative journalist Eiichiro Tokumoto. In "1945 Under the Shadow of the Occupation: The Ashlar and The Cross," ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/book-details-macarthurs-efforts-to-fill-japanese-spiritual-vacuum-after-world-war-ii/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/26/first-openly-gay-candidate-wins-in-tokyo-ward/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/26/first-openly-gay-candidate-wins-in-tokyo-ward/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:00:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=101985 Japan Times: penly gay candidate Taiga Ishikawa won a seat in the Toshima Ward Assembly in Tokyo in Sunday's election, marking a historic first. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/26/first-openly-gay-candidate-wins-in-tokyo-ward/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/23/sperm-grown-in-laboratory-raising-hopes-of-male-infertility-treatments/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/23/sperm-grown-in-laboratory-raising-hopes-of-male-infertility-treatments/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:47:01 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=98960 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/23/sperm-grown-in-laboratory-raising-hopes-of-male-infertility-treatments/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/08/in-midst-of-demographic-collapse-japan-approves-%e2%80%98morning-after%e2%80%99-pill/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/08/in-midst-of-demographic-collapse-japan-approves-%e2%80%98morning-after%e2%80%99-pill/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:30:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=97401 LifeSiteNews: "With Japan’s well-below-replacement-level birth rate, and an ever-increasing number of deaths, the country’s population figures showed a decline of 123,000 in 2010, the fourth consecutive year of demographic collapse." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/08/in-midst-of-demographic-collapse-japan-approves-%e2%80%98morning-after%e2%80%99-pill/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/breakdown-of-tradition-family-causing-japanese-birth-rate-decline-not-lack-of-interest-in-sex/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/breakdown-of-tradition-family-causing-japanese-birth-rate-decline-not-lack-of-interest-in-sex/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:46:18 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=91833 Kotaku: "The birthrate in Japan is declining, leaving a big question mark on the country's future. This didn't begin when young males started reading comics or playing video games, but with the breakdown of the traditional family structure in the years after World War II, which meant that grandparents not longer lived with their children, putting an increasing burden on new mothers." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/breakdown-of-tradition-family-causing-japanese-birth-rate-decline-not-lack-of-interest-in-sex/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/12/japan-survey-shows-rising-indifference-to-sex-among-male-teens-couples/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/12/japan-survey-shows-rising-indifference-to-sex-among-male-teens-couples/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:36:42 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=91042 Breitbart: "One-third of Japanese men aged 16 to 19 were uninterested in or even averse to sex as of last year, doubling from 2008, a government survey showed Wednesday." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/12/japan-survey-shows-rising-indifference-to-sex-among-male-teens-couples/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/07/west-loses-edge-to-asia-in-education-top-five-oecd-findings/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/07/west-loses-edge-to-asia-in-education-top-five-oecd-findings/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:05:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=85233 Christian Science Monitor: "'Shanghai-China' outperformed all other global participants in an average of the three areas of evaluation (math, science, and reading). South Korea (2), Hong Kong-China (4), Singapore (5), and Japan (8) also placed in the the top 10. Non-Asian countries in the top 10 were Finland (3), Canada (6), New Zealand (7), Australia (9), and The Netherlands (10). The US was no. 17." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/07/west-loses-edge-to-asia-in-education-top-five-oecd-findings/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/15/china-india-japan-grapple-with-the-quality-of-legal-education/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/15/china-india-japan-grapple-with-the-quality-of-legal-education/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:48:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=76781 National Law Journal: "Other countries face much larger problems when it comes to regulating the number of law students and quality of legal education. Legal educators from India, China, Japan and France spoke at Harvard Law School Friday during a panel discussion about the challenges they face in producing an appropriate number of good lawyers." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/15/china-india-japan-grapple-with-the-quality-of-legal-education/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/23/americas-one-child-policy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/23/americas-one-child-policy/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:15:20 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=73541 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/23/americas-one-child-policy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/17/japans-new-foreign-minister-gets-tough-on-china/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/17/japans-new-foreign-minister-gets-tough-on-china/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:05:18 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=72653 Associated Press: "A security expert and China hawk, Japan's new foreign minister has already taken a tough stance toward Beijing amid escalating diplomatic tension over a territorial dispute between the two Asian giants." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/17/japans-new-foreign-minister-gets-tough-on-china/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/china-overtakes-japan-in-2q-as-no-2-economy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/china-overtakes-japan-in-2q-as-no-2-economy/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:10:07 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68830 Associated Press: "The figures underscore China's emergence as an economic power that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed. It is already the biggest exporter, auto buyer and steel producer, and its global influence is expanding." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/16/china-overtakes-japan-in-2q-as-no-2-economy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/law-review-donor-conception-regulation-in-japan/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/law-review-donor-conception-regulation-in-japan/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:37:03 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68584 Yukari Semba, Kaori Muto, Hyunsoo Hong, Chiungfang Chang, Ayako Kamisoto, and Minori Kokado, Surrogacy: Donor Conception Regulation in Japan. Bioethics, Vol. 24, Issue 7, pp. 348-357, September 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1654083 or doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01780.x As of 2008, surrogacy is legal and openly practised in various places; Japan, however, has no regulations or laws regarding surrogacy. This paper reports the situation of surrogacy in Japan and in five other regions (the USA, the UK, Taiwan, Korea and France) to clarify the pros and cons of prohibiting surrogacy, along with the problems and issues relating to surrogacy compensation." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/law-review-donor-conception-regulation-in-japan/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/24/tokyo-sees-rise-in-divorce-ceremonies/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/24/tokyo-sees-rise-in-divorce-ceremonies/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:44:56 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=63919 Telegraph: "[The divorce ceremony] - a bizarre, but increasingly popular ritual among Japanese couples, who choose to end their marriages with the same pomp and ceremony with which they began them. ... Yet with divorce still something of a taboo in Japanese society, the ceremonies have caught on as a way to publicly formalise the separation in a way that is socially acceptable to friends and family." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/24/tokyo-sees-rise-in-divorce-ceremonies/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/18/japan-stem-cell-scientist-wins-kyoto-prize/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/18/japan-stem-cell-scientist-wins-kyoto-prize/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:45:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/18/japan-stem-cell-scientist-wins-kyoto-prize/ AP: "A Japanese scientist who created the equivalent of embryonic stem cells from ordinary skin cells has won one of this year's Kyoto Prizes and will receive a $550,000 prize." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/18/japan-stem-cell-scientist-wins-kyoto-prize/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/finance-minister-naoto-kan-to-head-japans-ruling-party/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/finance-minister-naoto-kan-to-head-japans-ruling-party/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:34:42 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/finance-minister-naoto-kan-to-head-japans-ruling-party/ CNN: "Both the upper and lower houses of Japan's parliament elected Finance Minister Naoto Kan to be the nation's new prime minister Friday, following the resignation of Yukio Hatoyama from the post earlier this week." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/finance-minister-naoto-kan-to-head-japans-ruling-party/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/japan-child-porn-victims-write-about-their-distress/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/japan-child-porn-victims-write-about-their-distress/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 18:38:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/japan-child-porn-victims-write-about-their-distress/ AP: "Some Japanese women who in their childhood were victims of pornography have written about their fears and anguish in being betrayed by adults they had trusted, and in imagining that lewd images of themselves as young children could be still circulating around the world on the Internet . . . " ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/japan-child-porn-victims-write-about-their-distress/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/japan-plans-to-block-access-to-child-porn-sites-swiftly/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/japan-plans-to-block-access-to-child-porn-sites-swiftly/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 18:24:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/japan-plans-to-block-access-to-child-porn-sites-swiftly/ Breitbart (AP): "A Japanese government working group released a plan Thursday to have Internet service providers block access to child pornography sites as soon as they are found, without waiting for the operators of such sites to comply with requests to delete them." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/japan-plans-to-block-access-to-child-porn-sites-swiftly/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/10/why-life-is-worth-so-little-in-prosperous-japan/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/10/why-life-is-worth-so-little-in-prosperous-japan/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=54911 Chiesso.Espressonline.it: "One suicide every 15 minutes, in the most efficient country in the world. An exclusive survey analyzes the reasons. The bishop and the nuncio: there is an absence of faith in a personal God, in a people that honors eight million gods." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/10/why-life-is-worth-so-little-in-prosperous-japan/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/21/japans-supreme-court-says-citys-gift-of-site-for-shrine-is-unconstitutional/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/21/japans-supreme-court-says-citys-gift-of-site-for-shrine-is-unconstitutional/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:38:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=49219 Religion Clause Blog: "Japan's Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the city of Sunagawa violated the Japanese Constitution when it allowed city-owned land to be used without charge as a site for a Shinto shrine." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/21/japans-supreme-court-says-citys-gift-of-site-for-shrine-is-unconstitutional/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/12/30/japan-panel-eyes-law-for-limiting-parental-rights-to-curb-child-abuses/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/12/30/japan-panel-eyes-law-for-limiting-parental-rights-to-curb-child-abuses/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:22:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=46658 AP: "A study group of government officials and scholars is preparing a report that calls for establishing a legal provision to restrict parental rights as a way to curb child abuses, sources familiar about an outline of the report said Wednesday." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/12/30/japan-panel-eyes-law-for-limiting-parental-rights-to-curb-child-abuses/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/20/abortion-still-key-birth-control-in-japan/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/20/abortion-still-key-birth-control-in-japan/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:18:07 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=39638 Japan Times: "There were about 256,000 abortions in 2007, or 9.3 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 49, the lowest figure so far, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. The number had been decreasing steadily since the 1950s, when there were between 40 and 50 abortions per 1,000 women of child-bearing age." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/20/abortion-still-key-birth-control-in-japan/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/25/us-may-face-armageddon-if-china-japan-dont-buy-debt/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/25/us-may-face-armageddon-if-china-japan-dont-buy-debt/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:40:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=37081 CNBC: "The US is too dependent on Japan and China buying up the country's debt and could face severe economic problems if that stops, Tiger Management founder and chairman Julian Robertson told CNBC." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/25/us-may-face-armageddon-if-china-japan-dont-buy-debt/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/16/cash-for-kids-in-japan/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/16/cash-for-kids-in-japan/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:23:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=36229 Global Post: "In the country with the lowest birth rate in the world, the newly empowered Democratic Party of Japan has proposed a solution: pay to procreate. As part of the manifesto that helped the DPJ rout the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party in last month’s election, families will receive 26,000 yen (about $280) per month for each child through junior high school." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/16/cash-for-kids-in-japan/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/01/japans-underpopulation-crisis-led-to-recent-election-upset-demographer-says/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/01/japans-underpopulation-crisis-led-to-recent-election-upset-demographer-says/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:19:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=34889 LifeNews: "The Japanese people made Sunday's national elections a history one by making it so the ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost power for only the second time in the post-World War II era. A demographer says he thinks he knows the reason why: the nation's underpopulation crisis." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/01/japans-underpopulation-crisis-led-to-recent-election-upset-demographer-says/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/26/japan-political-shift-gives-hope-to-gays/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/26/japan-political-shift-gives-hope-to-gays/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:21:11 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=34368 The Japan Times: "The nation's gay and lesbian community, which has long been calling for an antidiscrimination law to protect their rights, has seen similar bills proposed and scrapped in the Diet for nearly a decade. The likelihood that the Democratic Party of Japan, the last party to submit such a bill, will dominate the powerful House of Representatives in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party, which speaks out for homosexual rights, has raised hopes that the inertia may at last be overcome." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/26/japan-political-shift-gives-hope-to-gays/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/08/japan-bans-sexual-torture-software/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/08/japan-bans-sexual-torture-software/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:27:30 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=26294 Brisbane Times: "A Japanese software industry body has decided to ban computer games in which players simulate sexual violence against females, a spokesman said." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/08/japan-bans-sexual-torture-software/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/24/japans-exam-hell-now-reaches-into-preschool/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/24/japans-exam-hell-now-reaches-into-preschool/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:37:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=22243 Christian Science Monitor: "Japan's juken, or 'exam hell,' has long evoked images of stressed kids competing for slots at top universities in an all-or-nothing exam. But this approach has increasingly moved down the ladder." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/24/japans-exam-hell-now-reaches-into-preschool/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/02/19/japanese-woman-impregnated-with-wrong-egg/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/02/19/japanese-woman-impregnated-with-wrong-egg/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:32:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=15907 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/02/19/japanese-woman-impregnated-with-wrong-egg/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/02/05/discerning-the-religious-spirit-of-secular-states-in-asia/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/02/05/discerning-the-religious-spirit-of-secular-states-in-asia/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:00:19 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=14658 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/02/05/discerning-the-religious-spirit-of-secular-states-in-asia/feed/ 0