JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Beelzebub
It should not be overlooked that Recruit was launching lots of new magazines and cutting into the revenues of the big boys. It was rapidly emerging as a competitor. This story is a reminder that capitalism in Japan is about knowing your place. Or else.
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Beelzebub
When it's all said and done, people will believe what they want. There are still people out there convinced it wasn't really the Titanic that sank in 1912.
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Beelzebub
What you refer to as 'criticising the messenger', I call inductive reasoning. To take a cue from Bertrand Russell, if I recall correctly, proof of something's non-existence is a virtual impossibility. This is why Russell conceded he was unable to prove there was no tiny green leprechaun seated atop his writing table. You are trying to point out the illogic in my refusal to believe in little green leprechauns. Oh, pity to he who refuses to deny himself the pleasures of convoluted scenarios and fantastic tales!
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Beelzebub
Gosh, sabiwabi, you just took the same words right out of my mouth!
Ah, I see you're been doing your research. All right: here's my response: just because I read historical materials responsibly researched by scholars without an ulterior motive, that the US government has used disinformation to create pretexts for going to war (c.f. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution), it doesn't necessarily mean I'm in agreement with certain posters' hallucinatory fantasies of what occurred on 9/11.
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Beelzebub
The sad fact is, and I reiterate, 9/11 was a huge emotional trauma for Americans. The ones unwilling to accept what transpired are in denial because they simply can't handle the humiliation of having their iconic structures successfully attacked by 19 Arabs armed with box cutters. The blame must lie elsewhere. Um, let's see, we've got the CIA, Department of Defence, FBI, National Intelligence Agency, and who else? Of course, those insidious, conspiratorial Jews had to have been in on it right? Take it from Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- he's even set up a web site to disseminate the 'truth'.
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Beelzebub
Right --- or believe anything they read about it on Internet blogs.
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Beelzebub
Wheeee -- this is classic dissembling. You guys are wasting it in JT -- it belongs in a textbook that instructs students on how revisionists attempt to chip away at logic and rational thinking.
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Beelzebub
Erm, actually, nor does it mean that any members of the CIA (or Mossad) were involved or aware of it for that matter!
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Beelzebub
I think Norman Cohn described it best when he wrote, 'It is perhaps hard to accept that scholarly study, and all the time and energy which that implies, can appropriately be lavished on a ludicrous fantasy'. He was writing on another topic, but it fits the 9/11 conspiracy nuts to a proverbial 'T'. Look: virtually any scenario can be produced by means of reverse reconstruction of events; some may even appear plausible; but -- I hate to have to spoil your fun by invoking reality here -- that is simply not the way things happened. The only obvious truth I can see is a huge effort by US security officials, beginning with Condoleezza Rice and George Tenet, to cover their collective butts for having utterly failed at protecting the American people.
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Beelzebub
It is always good to have doubts, and I see nothing wrong with mistrusting the government, but you have to draw the line somewhere. Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of "Why People Believe Weird Things" has some very astute things to say about the flawed arguments of conspiracy nuts and others. His latest book is "Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown" (2010).
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Beelzebub
Sabiwabi, I've been reading your posts in JT for quite some time and it's amply apparent that you are so rabid in your hatred of Jews and Israel, you're intent on blaming them for everything wrong in the world. I don't feel obliged to respond to your follow-up question because I realise it is futile to debate an irrational person. To claim the CIA/Mossad was responsible is to suggest that 300 million Americans are so stupid, even after 9 years they could not come up with the evidence. The reason they couldn't produce such evidence was that US authorities found the smoking gun 9 years ago. Your attempt to mold reality to suit your own hateful fantasies is not the least bit persuasive.
Moderator: Readers, we understand this is an emotional topic, but you all need to keep the discussion civil when you exchange views.
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Beelzebub
It was a traumatic and humiliating experience to see so much devastation wreaked at the hands of 19 men armed with box cutter knives. Many simply can't handle it, and look for other explanations. But the US level of preparedness against such an attack was almost nil. Are the posters in here forgetting the testimony of the Hispanic female security guard at Boston's Logan Airport, who around 6:00 a.m. on 9/11 had a vehement argument with the Arab men who insisted they needed to carry their box cutters on the plane? There is a huge convergence of evidence that cannot lead to any other possible conclusion. The only missing link is why, after Condi Rice and the CIA had swapped intel a few weeks earlier, no action was taken to notify the FAA about raising the level of airport security. My conclusion: criminal incompetence.
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Beelzebub
Perhaps JT's headline writer once worked as a kindergarten teacher. But it's less abrasive than 'Bad Brazilians, awful Afghans running rapacious ripoff ring'.
Posted in: Where, oh where has my little car gone?
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Beelzebub
Writers like Li read the criticism of Goldman Sachs that's going on in the West and then conclude they can make money with a book denouncing GS by working their own country into the equation. If AP's writer had actually read the entire book, which I seriously doubt, he would have seen a structure of basic facts padded with a huge amount of paranoid gibberish. Li has adopted the same strategy that dozens of Japanese nonfiction authors have been following for decades.
Posted in: Chinese bestseller slams Goldman Sachs for crisis
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Beelzebub
'USA! USA!' I just love the jingoistic sentiments that pour from the hearts of sports spectators. Drum it into the kids early, I always say, and they'll make more compliant cannon fodder when they're old enough to enlist.
Posted in: Tokyo beats Hawaii to take Little League World Series title
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Beelzebub
Even Terry Southern (creator of Dr. Strangelove) could not have come up with a scenario as bizarre as what is going on in the United States these days. 'Looney Tunes' is an apt description.
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Beelzebub
If this doesn't serve as proof of irregular warfare I don't know what does. When enemy troops wear your side's uniforms, they waive their right to humane treatment under the Geneva Convention. This is truly crazy stuff...
Posted in: Afghan militants in U.S. uniforms storm 2 NATO bases
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Beelzebub
Americans have been lied to for more like 110 years... and that's a conservative estimate. Even the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbour was -- if you'll excuse the expression -- blown up out of proportion and used to incense the public into going to war against Spain in 1898.
Posted in: America feels ready to snap
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Beelzebub
These are Iraq/Afghanistan casualty rates. The Mexican government had better start using drones armed with missiles if it wants to have any hope of success in reducing the carnage.
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Beelzebub
"We only have a handful of former presidents.”
Yes, not to mention Dubya's become a bit shoe-shy since his last visit to Iraq.
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