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
Where did 6bncapitalists appear from?
A more accurate name would be zerocapitalists. The big question is whether the bank leaks can bring down the anti-capitalist system, or at least damage it enough to set the ball in motion. Just because you steal a name from somebody, that doesn't mean that you are them. There is no capitalism in the world in 2010. Not anywhere.
Posted in: WikiLeaks chief fears U.S. preparing to indict him
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GJDailleult
While the media spends their time worrying about a computer geek's e-mails, I wonder if anybody in the US government spends any time on the real problem. Or do they really think Bradley Manning was the only one doing this stuff? Or that WikiLeaks was the only place recieveing classified information?
You have to wonder how many other classified documents are scattered on computers and USB sticks around the world.
Posted in: WikiLeaks chief fears U.S. preparing to indict him
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GJDailleult
A Glenn Beck viewer eh. There is a lot of good stuff to think about in Austrian school economics. Unfortunately that all gets ignored by people waving a book around that they don't understand, and which is not relevant to the present situation.
Agree with your sentiments Foxie, but you are assuming that they want to fix the problem. What they are trying to do is save their butts.
Posted in: EU agrees on rescue plan for future euro crises
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GJDailleult
My friend once fell asleep on the sofa at the old Lexington Queen in Roppongi. Didn't get him any admirers though.
The guy is a geek who spends weeks looking at a computer screen, and who barely went to school. It would be a surprise if he wasn't a bit (or more) of a creep. None of that is the point, which of course explains why it is in the news. Reminds me of the old Milli Vanilli scandal, "oh my God they are not the real singers, I want my money back". The CD sounds the same, it doesn't matter who sung it. And the info is the same, makes no difference who brought it.
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder freed on bail
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GJDailleult
She always looks good, but in this photo she looks even better. Great smile, she is one photogenic girl!
Posted in: Aya Ueto is commercial queen for 2nd year in a row
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GJDailleult
Well after wasting my time searching for an article that would answer my question above, I got the bright idea of going to the Guardian website and, uh, looking at the cables. What a genius! All three categories are there, secret, confidential, and unclassified. And unlike members of the State department, and also the USAF, I am able to read them! Not going to comment on that though, there is some legal stuff going on (ie. this one,"Classified documents remain classified until they are officially declassified. Just because they are publicly available does not declassify them.") as to why they are not permitted to read their own documents.
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder freed on bail
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GJDailleult
Some interesting numbers. According to Der Spiegel, out of the 250,000 cables WikiLeaks have, over 50% of them were not subject to classification, 40.5 % were classified as "confidential" and only 6% classified as secret. There are no "top secret" documents.
So far, as it says here, 1,621 cables have been published. So which classification were the published cables? If only unclassified material has been published then he can't be charged with releasing secret information. Whether the US has legal grounds to charge him if he does/did release secret information is a different question, but they can't charge him for something if he hasn't done it. They would have to come up with something else.
By the way Gadsen, "Obama Care" will be operated by private health insurance companies. And nobody has any intention of killing that gold mine.
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder freed on bail
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GJDailleult
Debts that can't be paid back won't be paid back. It is pointless to try and deny that. Also pointless to try and pretend you have a currency crisis when you have a debt / insolvency problem. The Euro makes the situation worse, but it is not the root cause of the problem. They would have screwed things up even if every country still had their own currency.
Posted in: EU agrees on rescue plan for future euro crises
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GJDailleult
You really think electing the other party will change anything? Twenty of the last thirty years have had Republican presidents.
Posted in: Obama-GOP tax bill clears Senate hurdle with ease
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GJDailleult
Appears somebody was doing their job and I got deleted. Broke my own personal rule - "Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars, oak tree you're in my way" - about internet posting after drinking. But whatever I wrote, it doesn't mean I was wrong.
I have no South Florida real estate, but would happily collect a fee for putting people in touch with people who have some to sell. The US government has only one purpose and objective, and that is to prop up and protect the financial elite. It will end in disaster, so get prepared and protect yourself.
Posted in: Obama-GOP tax bill clears Senate hurdle with ease
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GJDailleult
Of course it is unpaid for. There would be no point in doing it if it was paid for, it could only be paid for by increasing taxes on everybody except the rich. Which they would do if they could get away with it no doubt.
Only two things can be done with money. It can be spent or saved, rich people obviously save theirs. If it is saved it must be lent to somebody - no bank can pay interest on deposits and not have an equivalent loan, they would automatically be in the red. Once the private sector borrowing hits the saturation point and they can't borrow anymore, then only the government can borrow the money. And then they stand around screaming "oh my God, we are in debt!!!" Of course you are you fools.
Posted in: Obama-GOP tax bill clears Senate hurdle with ease
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GJDailleult
The line in the news reports last night was that this trend of the "lone wolf" style of terrorist is strategic, because an individual acting alone is a lot harder for law enforcement to detect than a group is. That might be true, but it also might just mean it is difficult to find enough guys willing and with the ability to carry out an attack. It also might mean that the terrorists figure that big attacks are not necessary anymore, that they just need to keep the heat on low, and they will get the reaction they want.
Posted in: Stockholm bomber seen as radical by UK Muslims
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GJDailleult
If that is the case then why have ANY tax. Why is some money "rightfully theirs" and some money not?
Perhaps Japan Today could start running translations from the American language for us non-Americans. In English, the ideas that wealthy people should pay tax, and that governments' role is not to help the wealthy pay as little tax as possible are not "liberal" ideas.
Unless we want to. Like for the military, like for the financial bailouts, like for pork. And people actually take this clown seriously.
Posted in: Obama-GOP tax bill clears Senate hurdle with ease
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GJDailleult
Actually that is not true. Western countries have suffered very little. Almost all major terrorist attacks have been in Muslim countries or other non-Western countries. You could include Russia too but those are domestic politics related. From 2002 on you have London and Madrid, unless I am forgetting something that is it.
Posted in: Swedes shocked by 1st terror attack in 3 decades
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GJDailleult
What do you expect? Many Republicans dismiss evidence of anything.
Somebody who is so naive that they think countries "earn" their wealth is an expert on climate change and knows it is not happening. Good one.
Accuse people of being zealots and then write a sentence showing that somebody has no clue what the question is. "The climate has always changed". As we used to say in elementary school "like DUH!!!".
More high level rocket science please!
Posted in: On climate, the elephant that's ignored
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GJDailleult
What is with all these unsuccessful terrorists recently? As the years go by they seem to be getting less competent, not more as you might expect. Is it just because it is hard to find people with the right combination of indoctrination, craziness, and intelligence to carry out the attacks without getting caught or blowing only themselves up? Those guys don't grow on trees.
As long as this pattern continues we are going to see more and more conspiracy theories. Note that I am not saying there are conspiracies, just a prediction that the theories and the number of people who believe them is going to increase.
Posted in: Swedes shocked by 1st terror attack in 3 decades
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GJDailleult
Chill out Sushi. There is as much chance of Sarah Palin becoming president as there is of her becoming a member of AKB48. Right now she fills a useful role, that is all she is there for. If she gets any ideas that she is about more than that, she will receive an offer she can't refuse.
Posted in: Sarah Palin arrives in Haiti with mercy mission
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GJDailleult
Well if he turned his father in, he might have had regrets about that or been blamed by other family members. They are not exactly arresting lots of guys who don't voluntarily turn themselves in and confess. Madoff may have been able to wiggle out of it or at least get a much lesser punishment if he had played his cards differently, and that might be a factor in the suicide.
Posted in: Madoff's eldest son hangs himself in NYC apartment
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GJDailleult
Exactly. The refusal of most Americans to face up to the real scandal is truly amazing.
They received the information. Perhaps the reason the reason they didn't release info from other countries is that other countries are not so stupid that they leak like a sieve.
Posted in: Spam downloads surge among WikiLeaks supporters
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GJDailleult
What is this thread, a sheep convention or something? Myself I am not at all anti-monarchy, as a Canadian I take the usual Canadian attitude that the Queen seems to be a nice lady so if she wants to be our Queen that is OK. But if you can't get the symbolism of people being told that the state has no money for them then meeting up with somebody whose life is paid for by the state, what exactly do you get?
By the way, whoever was in charge of Prince Charles' security should be fired immediately. And my first post was right, the party is over. The thirty year binge is finished, and the damage will get worse the longer it takes for John Q. Public and Joe the Plumber to figure that out.
Posted in: Royal attack prompts big questions on UK security