JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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GJDailleult
Two offenses here, running a red light, and running onto a sidewalk and crashing into a power pole. Seem unrelated if there is no alcohol involved, unless he suddenly realized there were pedestrians in the crosswalk and veered to try and avoid them. Just a guess here, but some people may have stepped out into the crossing when the light changed without checking the traffic and didn't see the car coming.
Don't mean that to blame any pedestrians or the victims in any way. Just that I came about half a meter from getting killed a few years back by an idiot speeding the wrong way down a one-way street in my neighborhood when I stepped out looking in only one direction. A reminder to try to stay alert at all times, there are unfortunately a lot of this idiots on the roads, as this sad accident shows again.
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GJDailleult
A quick look around the internet shows Charles de Gaulle airport - privately owned. Brussels airport - privately owned. Dublin airport - state owned but run on a commercial basis. Dusseldorf appears to be 50/50 state/ private, with one of the private owners being Dublin airport! Meanwhile Manchester airport, publicly owned has apparently had no shutdowns. Anybody else see a pattern.
Anyways maybe people will wake up to the fact that they have been sold a load of BS. Privatization is not the right vs. left, private vs. public battle it has been sold as. Infrastructure is not a business, if it was a business then it wouldn't be infrastructure in the first place to then be privatized. Business would have built it. Infrastructure is the necessary stuff which can't be built or operated at a profit by the private sector (unless of course you don't buy any deicing fluid he he).
The idea that there is any ideological basis behind privatization is a total scam and con. It is just ignoring basic rules of business and economics in order to line somebody's pockets.
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GJDailleult
I can answer that from the comfort of my home in Tokyo. It's called asset stripping and raiding the cash flow. The whole purpose of "privatization". Don't hold your breath waiting for the panel to come out and say that though.
Posted in: Heathrow launches inquiry as flights resume
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GJDailleult
Big wins??? More like stage managed nonsense. They have to give him some wins to keep alive the illusion of democracy. But actually tax cuts was not a win, it was a loss now being spun as a win. The other stuff is considered acceptable and so goes through to give Obama some credibility. Very predictable.
Oh, sorry I forgot I was on Japan Today. That is conspiracy theory stuff for another website. On Japan Today the conspiracy is between liberals, socialists, and poor people gaming the system! That is why the poor got so much money har har.
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GJDailleult
More like he is much more sympathetic to them that seek to allow him to make his hard earned money. It is in Murdoch's interest to promote right wing politics because that will result in more right-wing politicians in power who will allow him to do what he wants.
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GJDailleult
Actually, no they don't have to. Their job is to set out the probabilities and do a risk assessment. The have no obligation to prove the theory is fact for the simple reason that it is an unprovable theory. There can be no baseline measurement of what the natural climate activity would have been without the human activity of the last 200 years, so therefore you can't prove a variation from it. And you can't prove there is no variation from it either. Now it appears that molenir did not actually claim to know that it was not happening, and I just assumed that is what he was saying, but the main point still stands. Deniers and skeptics are equally unable to prove their position, but they don't seem to care about that. They want proof that they themselves can't provide either.
Posted in: European weather chaos spawns outrage, questions
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GJDailleult
Japan's problem is basically the same as the rest of the world, it is just a few years further down the road. The transformation that is needed is for money and credit to be targeted for productive use and away from unproductive use. There is a very interesting article by a guy named Richard A. Werner called "Understanding and Forecasting the Credit Cycle" which I would recommend to klein2 and anybody else willing to give it a shot. The basic point he makes is that Japan's and other countries' problems are not unsolvable, and that the solution is quite simple and not a secret.
Which goes along with what is becoming more and more obvious to me. Economic problems are completely unnecessary and exist only because mainstream neo-classical economics is nothing more than a religious cult, and that the solution to the problems would mean the end of the private bank money creation system, which forces us to pay for the privilege of using money. That is the system that those in charge are trying to save, not the economic system.
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GJDailleult
Molenir is clearly unable to see the hypocrisy of his position. He claims to know that man made global warming is not happening, and demands that scientists prove that it is. Problem is he claims to have knowledge that scientifically, logically, and rationally he can not possibly have. Whether he is right or not is beside the point. It is impossible for him to prove his own position and back up his own claims, but he thinks everybody with a different view must provide him with proof.
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GJDailleult
I think you completely missed the point. No problem with making a buck. Problem is pretending you have some other motivation for what you are doing when ALL you are doing is trying to make a buck.
Personally, I don't think that Murdoch cares one bit about the political views that he claims to have or that his outlets promote. They are just the most profitable views to have and promote. But he can't very well come out and say "the reason I started Fox News (or any other outlet) is that I figured there was a big market for this kind of stuff and I could make a ton of money." He has to say it was for a reason and principles more than that.
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GJDailleult
Sorry Mike, but monopolies are not capitalism. They are anti-capitalist organizations. If Murdoch's purchase creates a monopoly it should not be allowed. That is understood even in the most right-wing, free market economic theories.
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GJDailleult
The writer makes some good points, especially the one about exporting technology, but not sure that Japan can learn much from Germany. Conventional wisdom is that Germany is a roaring success. But Germans banks lent billions, probably trillions to the smaller Euro economies creating real estate bubbles and propping up the Greek government, and creating demand for all those German exports. Now that those loans can not be paid back, these banks are getting bailed out by the ECB and IMF through supposed bailouts of Greece and Ireland, with others likely to follow. Basically Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain have to suffer so that German banks and the German people don't. If you ignore all that then Germany is a big economic success. If you don't ignore it, they are probably a basket case.
Also the writer does not mention the long term effect of the 80's bubble. About ten years ago at the gym I was on a bike next to some hedge fund/private equity guy, and he was going on about how Japanese business people are always blaming everything on the bursting of the bubble instead of getting on with it. At the time I thought he was a pretty smart guy, but now I think he didn't know what he was talking about. Financial bubbles do an incredible amount of damage, both because of the stupid things done during the bubble (misallocation of capital) but mostly because of the stupid things done after it bursts by making the real, productive economy cover the losses of the idiots. That just damages the real economy and sets a downward spiral in motion, and one that Japan still hasn't escaped from. That is the number one problem.
Posted in: How Japan can turn the tables on its economic decline
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GJDailleult
Murdoch would buy WikiLeaks if he could make a buck off it. Just another money junkie getting his fix. The idea that he is a right-wing ideologue is just his cover, he can't go around telling people the real reason for what his company puts out is that people buy it. If they bought something else, he would fill that market too.
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GJDailleult
This article is about weather not climate. They are different words with different meanings. I know English is a difficult language, but it is not that difficult.
Posted in: European weather chaos spawns outrage, questions
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GJDailleult
Yet another person who is still asleep and doesn't know what is going on. Heathrow airport is owned and operated by a company called BAA Ltd. which in turn is owned by ADI Ltd., an international consortium led by the Spanish construction company Grupo Ferrovial SA. It has nothing to do with the UK government.
Gee, it sure is a good thing the private sector is in charge, think how bad it would be if the government was running things and a few centimeters of snow fell. We all know that the private sector is always so smart and efficient, and the public sector so stupid and inefficient. Maggie said so. She read it in a book you know. It had nothing whatsoever to do with some guys wanting to get their grubby little paws on the cash flow.
Private ownership of public infrastructure is a violation of the basic principles of capitalism. Instead of blaming the government of today, she should blame the sleazeballs who claimed that it isn't.
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GJDailleult
Oh no, News Corp is not being treated fairly. How unjust! Tears must be flowing.
A nice quote from "Dave" Cameron's right hand man George Osbourne in 2006. "“Ireland stands as a shining example of the art of the possible in long-term economic policymaking.” In other words, I am an ideological moron who lives in a Harry Potter book and has no idea what is going on, but you can trust me and Dave to reform the public sector.
Cable should stop apologizing and do what he said he could do.
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GJDailleult
Inamoto is probably the wrong comparison to be making. Kagawa and his success for Dortmund this year is more relevant than the generation of the '02 World cup team. The European teams are thinking that there may be something there in the young generation. There was expected to be a big boost for Japanese soccer after the World Cup was held here and it didn't really happen, but maybe it just took time for it to kick in and the new generation gets it more than previous ones. Anyways, Kagawa and also Suzuki have maybe opened some eyes, and the European teams are now more interested in Japanese players. We'll see how it goes.
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GJDailleult
You could at least try to make a coherent comment you know, and not just bang out buzzwords on your keyboard. Or is this just a repeating of today's "reporting" on Uncle Rupert's vacuum-up America's money network?
Bet it is, usually when I read a "what is that guy smoking" comment I later see that that is what they talked about on Faux News on that day.
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GJDailleult
Who said anything about a conspiracy? I am talking about a mass slow motion lemming-like leap off a cliff. Lemmings don't need to conspire, they know what to do and think naturally. I never get tired off watching lemmings or other outbreaks of mass insanity.
Posted in: Bank of America stops handling WikiLeaks payments
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GJDailleult
This a bit like trying to explain what KFC stands for to a chicken with Stockholm Syndrome, but here goes.
In 2008, when the US financial system went belly up, the US government had two choices. One, let the people who lost the money lose the money. But that ran into the "too big to fail problem". Two, save the banks and dump all the debt and losses on the country. They chose number two. But this leads to the "too big to save" problem. To avoid the short term pain, and save the "rich" financiers who just happen by coincidence to control and bankroll every US politician except Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul, they tried to keep all the plates spinning. The probable outcome of that choice is a long-term collapse in the standard of living, and a long term collapse in the US dollar, both in the exchange rate and purchasing power.
What every American with his brain plugged in should be hoping is that the WikiLeaks banking leaks will have something, anything that forces the government to change course. What people in every other country should be hoping is that the leaks will force their governments to change course too. As a Canadian, I can already hear PM Barney Rubble's "everybody must share in the sacrifice" speech coming.
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GJDailleult
Anybody who has an account at Bank of America is in effect bankrolling criminal activity.
An economic system where banks are not held accountable for losses they incur is not capitalism. It is organized crime. Each day that people pretend their problems are caused by some hyped-up, imaginary "liberal" vs. "conservative" battle and not the corruption and intentional destruction of the economic system is just another day closer to the end.
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