JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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Alphaape
@cleo: YOu are contridicting yourself. You stated all the rigours things a person in Norway has to do to get a gun, and the person who did the shooting passed the background checks and did the training. The person in Texas who owns a gun, had to follow the laws that applied to the state and passed.
The bottom line is that the person in Norway was going to kill, and sad to say that the person in Texas after a heated argument with family also killed.
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Alphaape
Correction to my previous post.
Tell that to Norway, where the Viking spirit must still be alive, and since there are more stabbings in Japan than shootings, I guess the samuri spirit is still alive in Nippon too.
If a person is hell-bent on killing someone, they will use whatever is at their disposal to do it, whether it is guns, knives or bombs.
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Alphaape
How come it's so easy to own a gun in the U.S.A.?
Something to do with 18th century militias and the yeehaw factor.
Tell taht to Norway. I guess the Viking factor is still running wild in Norway. And I guess here in Japan, since you have more stabbings than shootings, I guess the samuri spirit is alive and well still today.
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Alphaape
I guess the old saying "The Devil you know is better than the Devil you don't" will probably ring true soon for Egypt. Will Anderson Cooper cover this new development?
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Alphaape
@yabits: If someone does confess to their wrongdoing, they still need to go before a judge or magistrate and get an official sentence. You just can't say "I did it" and get thrown into jail or not pay some fine. Unless that is how you want things to be. There still needs to be a legal process. And so far, no one has been formally sentenced, not even those who say "I did it."
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Alphaape
@chewitup: So when a news organization breaks a story first with an exclusive, or they report from their "insider sources" you are fine with this (i.e. non Murdoch owned business), but just because some of the employees from Murdoch's organzation did it, its bad? What a double standard. If they "BRIEFED COPS" as you post, then I fault the cops for not doing their jobs and arresting those persons, and not coming after some coporate head.
As far as your point of AL-Quaida is concerned, London is sometimes referred to as "Londonistan" and I think that the political leaders of the UK should be more concerned about the direction their country is heading and solving some of those major issues than being concerned with a CEO of a company who some lower employees may have broken the law.
If people have broken the law, then where are the court cases and what charges and most importantly, have they been found guilty or innocent yet?
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Alphaape
What''s really telling about this whole spectacle is that Murdoch employes around 53,000 people world wide. And becasue some don't like his politics, they want to try and run him out of business. Take a look at the hearings, and ask yourself, how many of those persons asking questions are business owners, or just professional politicians, who have not created any jobs only petty rules and schemes to get money from people who do produce the jobs.
I am not saying that wire tapping and stealing personal data is a way to do business, it is not. But what will any news organization do to get the "scoop." I say, the next time a news story breaks with the saying "unnamed sources" in it, then I would say that full investigations should be made into these sources so that we can be sure that nothing illegal was done.
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Alphaape
With all of this talk or Murdoch and Brooks, what about Pierce Morgan when he worked at the News of the World, and how he mentioned in his own book how he was able to hack into phones. But, I guess it is ok since he works for CNN now.
That's why as much as it may seem bad for Murdoch in the UK and as much noise as they may make here in the USA, I doubt if they give him the full court press, since it would also include one of their own (CNN). All Murdoch would have to say is that it was rampant at News of the World and Morgan's career would be done, and CNN tarnished.
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Alphaape
Probably the dumbest thing for them to do right now. All this will do is probably give Murdoch an excuse as to that it wasn't only his people doing the dirty tricks but others also. If Murdoch's case is about illegally wire tapping, then attacking private servers is probably not a good thing to do right now.
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Alphaape
@chewitup: I don't agree. In both cases, someone has violated the privacy of others. There is no difference in someone putting a password on their smartphone or home wifi or a company keeping their records private. Probably the only difference is the level of security that is provided for each.
Just as the media is trying to bring down Murdoch with his problems in England, they are doing the same to Assange. I am not saying what Assange did was right, but they are finding ways to get to him.
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Alphaape
I don't get it. Some people seem to defend Assagne for his actions behind the Wikileaks and exposing government secrets, but as pissed off at the papers that Murdoch controlled for basically doing the same thing. I don't get it.
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Alphaape
There is such a site that has so-called "Japanese Housewives" that you can pay to have video chats with. They get a fee from chatting with you. From what I have read, many of them do so and their husbands don't know.
I find it interesting here in Japan that the husband goes out and works, and is put on a allowance by the wife that doesn't work. I canunderstand dividing up responsibilities, but if I am working, I at least want to know where the money is going that I am turning over. If anything, I would at least look at a bank statement to at least say "it is worth going to work everyday" and not just go blindly on my way.
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Alphaape
@yabits: So you are saying political affiliaton should not matter, I agree. But in real life it does. Just check out the book "Primetime Propagada" and you will see why. There are more conservatives in Holloywood than one may think, but they keep their views to themselves so that they are not blacklisted and not be able to get work. I suggest you read the book. The author may be conservative, but here is one thing. He quotes some of the big names in Hollywood production, and the quotes he gets from them are not made up, in terms of the directions they wanted their shows to go, and how they feel about conservatives.
So if a media corporation is full of like minded individuals, they will shift the way the news is presented.
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Alphaape
@yabits: I have not heard of that story, since I am really not a Hannity fan. But I will research on my own to find out.
However I did come across a particular item. The media were in the tank for Barack Obama in 2008 is almost a given. But how much they favored him is now being quantified, and the margins appear to be even wider than those for liberal candidates of the past.
Thanks to the Washington Examiner, which analyzed data from the Center for Responsive Politics, we learn that "senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC" were overwhelmingly in the Obama camp.
Overall, 1,160 employees of the big three networks gave Democratic candidates and campaign committees $1.02 million, while 193 contributed $142,863 to Republican candidates and campaign committees. That's a 7-to-1 ratio.
It pales against the imbalance at the candidate level. Obama took in 710 such contributions worth $461,898 compared with the $26,926 that his GOP opponent, Sen. John McCain, got from 39 contributors. That's 18-to-1 contributors and 17-to-1 contributions.
We can even step into the "wy back machine" and see that in 1964, journalists from the top newspaper, magazine and TV outlets voted for Democrats 94% to 6%, according to a study by political scientists Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman. They also found the same "media elite" voted 86% for Democrat Hubert Humphrey over Republican Richard Nixon in 1968, when Humphrey pulled just 43% in a three-man race that included George Wallace.
In 1972, when Nixon beat liberal Democrat George McGovern in a 62% landslide, Lichter and Rothman determined that 81% of top journalists voted for the liberal McGovern. The percentage was the same in 1976, when the media backed Democrat Jimmy Carter over Republican President Gerald Ford.
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Alphaape
@ Molenir: That's the truth!
Good points on the rest of your post. I have seen the much hated O'Reilly make a retraction. The two that I remember most was the one with Shirley Sherrod, the woman from the Dept of Agriculture who people demanded she should be fired from her post due to the out of context clips of her speech. And, O'Reilly did an about face on Bush and the US involvement in the Iraq War. I even believe that he didn't back "W" on the Dubai ports deal, and the nomination of Harriet Meyers for the Supreme Court.
Just from those few points alone, any normal thinking person would be able to see that Fox News is not just a "shill" for the GOP. But I have not seen the media (MSNBC, CNN, ABC, etc) really go after the Dems when they make mistakes. I'll admit, we are starting to see some of it now, only becuase things for the Dems are really getting out of control, and there is only so much spin that you can do.
So, once again I ask yabits: "Where's the Beef?"
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Alphaape
@ yabits: To my previous post, I would like to add: "The world wonders" (I am sure you may not know this, but it is a reference to ADM Halsey in WW2, look it up).
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Alphaape
@yabits: If I am so easily duped as you say, then whatever you put up I should believe then since you think I can be so easily duped.
So again I ask, "dupe me" and provide proof.
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Alphaape
Steele appeared on Fox News and still does from time to time as a commentator. I still seem to remember many people on the left giving Fox charges of leaning right because he showed up there numerous times.
But once again, you try to snipe at someone with sarcastic comments, and still have not shown me the three cases of where Fox News made up stories as concrete proof. I mean, you liberals went ballistic when we went to war in Iraq because of the information that was presented, so I am asking you for proof so that we will not be duped again. Show me the evidence.
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Alphaape
@yabits: If you think that Fox had a conflict of interest having Michael Steele on their airwaves, then how about this:
Should CNN be using President Obama's pollster as a paid contributor to its network?
A Washington insider says dapper data guru Cornell Belcher represents a potential conflict of interest for the cable network, now that he's reportedly going to work for Obama's reelection effort.
In February, CNN announced that Belcher - who did polling for the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2008, including Obama's presidential campaign - was joining its team of on-air political contributors.
I found that article on the web. So I guess you are going to say that it is fine for this guy to work for CNN, even though in the part I didn't quote he says that he is not being paid by the Obama campaign and if he does take the job will cease to be on the air for CNN when the campaign starts.
So do you think that this pollster will say anything negative about the current administration leading up to the time that he has to quit to help out the campaign? Will that really be a fair and balanced approach to news? Or am I just delusnional?
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Alphaape
@yabits: Then you need to direct those comments to chewitup. He was the one who started it. I only mentioned my comments due to the fact that we may disagree, I feel no need to call you names or think that your thinking (or lack thereof) is some sort of defect on your mentalitiy.
So once again, give me an exact example of the bias in Fox News. If you put the truth out there for all to see, then I will be able to see for myself. If I make comments to the contrary, at least give me the opportunity to do so. But to state that "you know what's best for me" and others who disagree is a bit self serviing on your part.
Give me the numbers.
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