The Times article is illustrated by a photo of Ms. Bortz, standing outside the jewelry store from which she was so unceremoniously ejected. Such a paltry sum is not about to wipe away that smoldering look of perpetual disgruntlement, a resentment which no award or legal remedy could appease. The price Japan will have to pay, ultimately, for such a highly developed sense of obligation may end not only its sovereignty, but also its very existence as a unique realm proudly separate from the global monoculture. The process is kept so exclusive that more foreigners are naturalized each week in the United States than in Japan in an entire year. That's the New York Times spin, a hauntingly familiar refrain that we hear often these days.
Internationalism is modernity, according to their creed.
These failing were in part rooted in a philosophy of neutrality and nonviolence wholly unsuited to the conflict in Bosnia. But the primary law of the Federation, the one principle governing its agents, is that they must never interfere with the cultural, political and technological evolution of the races they establish contact with. In the Star Trek universe, the principle of nonintervention is enshrined as the Prime Directive. This underscores the real he problem with the UN not that it funds abortions, but that it is a malevolent force in the world. With the WTO doling out trade franchises, paying subsidies, granting exemptions, and tailoring regulations to enrich politically-empowered elites, the World Bank and the IMF will impose a single fiat currency and endow themselves with the ability to inflate without limit.