JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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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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- 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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Eulji_Mundeok
I've been google-ing "Gull Island" for the past hour and all I've gotten are individual blog posts, Alex Jones-style conspiracy sites and various rants in the comments of some major news articles.
Apparently: 1)this island is off the coast of Alaska 2)it's so named for the "rare seagulls" that inhabit the island 3)it's claimed that it holds "more oil than Saudi Arabia" 4)oil is apparently not being pumped out of the field either to protect the "rare natural habitat", or to serve the Carlyle Group
5)Gene Kelly visited Gull Island while searching for Brigadoon
My brain hurts- can I go now?
Posted in: Obama slams McCain, Bush on economy, gasoline prices
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Eulji_Mundeok
He went on to tout Russia as a zone of stability able to help the world economy and took a swipe at the U.S. enthusiasm for biofuels, blamed by some analysts for a global rise in food prices.
While Russia offered global energy security, others “emphasized the production of biofuels—and we’ve seen the results of that,” he added.
I wholeheartedly agree with Medvedev on those points, and though I may disagree with some of his claims concerning Russian/American law and economics, you have to admit that this is a huge step up from simply blaming ex-patriot Russian Joooo-ish bankers/investors for most of Russia's ills. . .
Posted in: Medvedev blames U.S. for global economic problems
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Eulji_Mundeok
People, if you're going to fight a communist insurgency in your country, you need to first develop a marketing plan/branding strategy- otherwise you get labeled a "right-wing death squad" (though it's probably too late for the private farmers/landowners in Columbia to launch their own "peoples war"...).
Posted in: Chavez urges FARC to end armed struggle
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Eulji_Mundeok
Civilian, active duty, in uniform or not, if you're peddling this "epidemic of suicides in the military" story, you're peddling BS.
And since it's been proven by Senator John Kerry that the American soldier represents the segment of the population that didn't even do their homework in high school and got "stuk in Irak", I'm not so sure that JT readers should take seriously the postings of those here claiming to have served in the US military.
But enough of our fuzzy suicide statistics- let's talk about reinstating the draft!
乙支文德
Posted in: U.S. soldier suicides the highest on record
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Eulji_Mundeok
Woowww- the bogus story that refuses to die-
I'm just making it up, of course, that suicides for American males in this age group are high over all- and kinda sorta lower for young males that are in the American military.
And the last time I saw this on JT, most of these suicides occurred among troops that hadn't even been deployed overseas yet. This apparently is the case this time, as well- I'll have to confirm the news piece I just viewed on American television.
Posted in: U.S. soldier suicides the highest on record
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Eulji_Mundeok
Well, it's a bit fishy, but not as pathetic as George Tenet's "At The Center Of The Storm".
Still, this "I just now remembered that my colleagues were committing horrible crimes against humanity" and "I was a sniveling, moral coward until I got this book deal" is getting a bit old . . .
Sorry, folks, but we need to kinda make this up as we go along . . .
Posted in: McClellan says he believed in Bush as war started
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Eulji_Mundeok
Well, I didn't think that the Indian subcontinent tectonic plate continuing to plunge into South Asia in addition to a lack of building-code "enforcement" in southwest China necessarily qualified as "bad (Tibet-related) karma" in the first place, though one can say that the decision to build hydro-electric dams on tectonically unstable land and build flimsily constructed school buildings in Sichuan (as well as Tibet?) has come back to bite the PRC in the behind... I really do want to find out what the damage/casualty count might be in (what's left of) Tibet, though, since the quake happened on the border.
Another PRC/Xinhua/CCTV news blackout?
Posted in: Dior issues Sharon Stone apology for 'karma' remark over China's earthquake
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Eulji_Mundeok
I would probably agree that government subsidizing oil exploration is a waste, but why all the restrictions on drilling? Is the Peoples Republic of China really drilling for oil off the coast of Florida in a more eco-friendly manner than the Americans would be?
And I don't think the number of wells is always the issue- California went through an energy crisis a few years back because they refused to increase refinery capacity.
Also, it's my understanding that America's railroads are in disrepair largely because post-WWII "windfall-profit" taxes discouraged railroad companies from further investment in infrastructure.
Posted in: Oil executives defend profits before irate U.S. senators
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Eulji_Mundeok
It's "perfectly fine" (Sanchez being retired), but like George Tenet's book, it's a bit pathetic.
More importantly, do I vote for them in the first place??
I of course think there should be exceptions in the case where your commanding officer orders you to rape an entire village in Southeast Asia (and I don't think military criminals should be paid "compensation" and have their ringleader put on the cover of Life Magazine).
Posted in: U.S. soldier refuses to serve in 'illegal Iraq war'
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Eulji_Mundeok
If he is who he says he is, he should be taken out and shot for not following a direct order from his civilian superiors. The way I understand it, American soldiers are in the military to serve and protect the civilian populace of the USA, and not the other way around.
It'll be a cold day in Hell before I submit to any tin pot generalissimo- Burmese or otherwise.
Posted in: U.S. soldier refuses to serve in 'illegal Iraq war'