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I believe the idea of established Japanese wartime military brothels were wrong. Some Women may have…
Posted in: Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran
Resign!!!!!!!
Posted in: Hashimoto regrets meeting cancelation; wants to apologize to U.S.
sfjp330 May. 25, 2013 - 06:33AM JST Abe was right. sfjp330, well i hope you are…
Posted in: Abe, Aso defend economic policies as markets settle
Christ was actually buried in my backyard in Utah next to where we buried my turtle.…
Posted in: The grave of Christ – Japanese town solves many of world’s mysteries
kyleA The holocaust was "systematic" in case you didnt know!
Posted in: Hashimoto regrets meeting cancelation; wants to apologize to U.S.
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AiserX
@ badsey
All the central banks you named are public/govt not private. An institution that is created by Govt y direct legislative means such as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 cannot be a private entity. Their URL ends with ".gov".
Posted in: Austerity is a moral issue
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AiserX
Bringing down the political system itself is part of a self correcting solution as the state cannot meet it's over bloated obligations.
@tkoind2
It certainly is silly to look at it from the left-right paradigm. How ever your wrong on the tax or no tax question. Your also wrong on the magnitude of these issues. They are simple to understand.
A lot of wrong on that paragraph. Even if you have 100 millionaires hoarding wealth, the only to do so is by investments thus of course expecting returns. Which means a product or service has to be created before hand. That's wealth creation. As for a decent wage, well that depends. A decent wage in say NYC is not the same as a decent wage in Moscow. Then you have to take into account what the individual considers a decent wage for him/herself. Also there is an economy no matter what. An economy is not consumption, although part of it an economy is mainly individuals freely interacting with one another without the means of coercion. You can theoretically drive out all the consumption you still have an economy.
What ever wealth is being concentrated and that is assuming that its wealth not wealth politically connected is a good thing. People want to horde wealth because we all know there is so much more you can do more freedom is involved. Currently we have no politicians anywhere in the world enacting libertarian ideas, that is considering the major economies only. But instead statist ideas
A change is certainly needed in the system and a big one at that. But judging by the tone of this paragraph you seem to be implying that wealth needs to be forced to move....somewhere...anywhere..... as long as its moving. Lulz. People need to be allowed to either "horde" (save) wealth or use it freely. BTW did you know that in Taiwan officials want to crack down on anyone hoarding food? perhaps you can give them some pointers.
It's not an idiotic fantasy. People that want to be rich will try to become rich. It is especially a good motivating factor for those less fortunate. I was not born rich, bu if it were not for that drive then I would not have pursue the various technical skills in I.T, Programming and Robotics that I enjoy.
Posted in: Austerity is a moral issue
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AiserX
That's a very strong statement to make.
When someone is legally the property of someone else, then they are considered a slave(s). There is one key word that has to be used here to see if this is true or not, voluntarism. Is the relationship between the master and his property voluntary? well yes. Both parties do not have to associate with one another and no means of coercion is involved but mutual interest.
They are hardly property at all.
Posted in: AKB marches on
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AiserX
Racism cannot be irrelevant and be everywhere at once. Self contradictory. Even if you do compare today to yesterday.
Posted in: Scrambling for the immigrant elite
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AiserX
All monopolies are Govt granted privileges.
> Wrenching control of transmission from regional monopolies to create a national grid
Govt with its laws, regulations and taxation's lobbied by such companies are what give the companies monopolies on the regional level.So long as they control the energy supply at the regional level then they have no need to compete with one another. Competitions must be allowed into this un-free market to allows cost of services to be lowered, for new more effective companies to appear and for a quality product.
Posted in: Gov't takes aim at electricity monopolies
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AiserX
Certainly was not a disappointment for me. I knew there was a massive fraud behind his mysterious character even before 2008. I also knew everyone was in for a big surprises given how everyone around me was infatuated with the man to noxious levels.
What took me by surprise how ever is how much of a sociopath the mean really is. I did not expect him to be any better or worse then Bush or the average politician, but was much worse then I expected.
Posted in: Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties
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AiserX
@Pizzatime
LinkedIn does not necessarily have to be about getting a job via direct methods. It ca also be indirect methods. The site is more of an electronic richer resume then anything else. Some places won't hire if you do not have a LinkedIn account under the guise that you are somehow not up to the the times. This rings especially true where I work at, the tech industry.
Posted in: LinkedIn looks to build on its impressive resume
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AiserX
A lot of anti lolita hatred in this thread. Not a style that I like at all but hey what ever floats ones own boat.
Speaking of irony, the irony in his post is that being an adult is boring. What do you propose is more adult ad a better replacement?
Posted in: Japanese Lolitas plan world domination
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AiserX
Penalized? More like a priv company wanted to keep more of its earnings. While another party wants to steal more at gun point and call it a "tax".
Posted in: NTV penalized for concealing Y150 mil income
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AiserX
IMO the biggest horror of Gitmo is a little section called Camp Iguana where minors of ages 16 and below are kept. Few people are actually aware of this fact.
Politicians are masters of Orwellian double speak. If a politician says "unnecessary" he means the opposite. If he means "necessary" then also the opposite. Leftist are totally infatuated by this man that they fall in love when he says hes going to do such things and does the opposite while they turn a blind forgiving eye to him. Scary.
Posted in: Obama can close Guantanamo
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AiserX
No, its not. And thank goodness it's dysfunctional.
Posted in: A failure to lead at the U.N.
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AiserX
I think many commentators are missing out on the big picture here which is
Why is this? Well it's because too many people believe that you can somehow promote economic growth with a weak yen. Or that a strong and valuable yen is somehow bad for Japan. Trashing your currency means you ultimately have to pay more in that unit for even basic necessities. Ad to make people suffer this way is wrong on all levels.
Posted in: Women use smartphone games to lure men into paying for their food expenses
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AiserX
Crime does not pay.
Posted in: 2 inmates hanged, bringing number of executions to 5 under Abe
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AiserX
While I agree with the view that Islam is part of the problem, it is important that we investigate thoroughly as to why these two Chechen brothers did what they did. It is very odd that Chechen Muslims would bomb a U.S even when were used to them bombing Russians instead.
Posted in: For American Muslims, dread
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AiserX
Strange how we never actually get to see what actually goes behind these "peace talks". Yet the outcome of these talkis is always negative. Kind of makes one wonder.
Posted in: Japan, U.S. agree on Tokyo joining TPP talks
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AiserX
Lulz.
If they were in charge, they would just parade themselves. Also why is it "unfair"? since when were these practices about fairness/unfairness? let alone archaic?
Posted in: Why do sports use women as eye candy?
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AiserX
@Per Christer Lund
There was an incident a few years ago on a Spanish Island where a mentally unstable man was walking in the streets with the decapitated head of a human e being. The man was previously put through the all compassionate and oh so 21st century "rehabilitation" treatment of the modernized 1st world admirable European justice system. Even Anders Breivik was given a sentence of 21 yrs and 10 yrs minimum.
Spare us your BS about how Japan and the U.S are somehow barbaric and underdeveloped for allowing the D.P.
Posted in: U.N. criticizes several countries, including Japan over death penalty use
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AiserX
There are a lot of QQ comments on this thread about monopolies. What these people don't realize is the original definition of a monopoly, which is a Govt granted privilege in the given industry. Monopolies don't occur and have never occurred in a free market. What actually happens is that with less competitors in the market, the big kid in the block will then have to pay more money to buy out the remaining competitors. At some point it becomes far too expensive to buy the few competitors left in the market that such a free market monopoly becomes impossible. Then there is the fallacy of over charging consumers as a result of such monopolies. Well that means a new competitor can enter the market with fresh new ideas and technology at lower cost because of the new tech. thus chewing away at the monopolists profits, along with the compounded effects of a loss of consumers because of high prices..
Posted in: Gov't OKs plan to liberalize power industry
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AiserX
Mana-Chan is kawaii. :)
Posted in: Rising stars
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AiserX
No, Democracy is a experiment that failed for thousands of years. Democracy in a nutshell is rule of the mob. It's the idea that the majority can vote to tax, genocide, marginalize and and regulate any group of people simply because its "the democratic principle". It's a collectivist form of though. Communism, Fascism, Nazism, Divine-right are all forms of Democracy as odd as it may sound to some here. Under Nazism for example the majority chose to get rid of the Jews. Same to what happen with the Turks and Armenians in Turkey.
Now what about the U.S? The U.S was not founded on democracy, it's constitution regarded the country as a Constitutional Republic. Not representative Republic or Democratic Republic but simply as a Constitutional Republic. These are all not the same thing. A C.R provides the rule of law for all and the majority has no say against any group of people. That's why Hitler had to suspend and null the Weimar Republic, because it was a C.R and even the anti-semetic populace could oppress minorities under C.R principles.
Although in the past 100 years or so the U.S has certainly drifted from a C.R to a true-democracy. Although I personally don't like a C.R because of the tendency of Govt to attracted the worst types like horse dung to flocks of flies. Thus transforming a C.R to some form of democracy. I would advocate instead for Anarcho-Capitalism.
Posted in: Do you think democracy is the best form of government?