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
Let's start throwing the pejoratives around eh. Being angry at your government is not the definition of an anarchist.
"They say two thousand one zero, party over, oops out of time. So tonight I'm going to party like it's seventeen eighty nine."
Seriously, it is not going to take much for things to get out of control, not only in the UK but in many countries. Japan may end up not being such a bad place to be.
Posted in: Royal attack prompts big questions on UK security
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GJDailleult
I have no problem with Sweden having such laws. I have a problem with the same word being used for different crimes. Not wearing a condom when you are with someone who you have a romantic relationship with is not the same crime as following a woman home from her work and holding her captive in her apartment.
They are different crimes, so stop using the same word to describe them.
Posted in: Despite arrest, Assange extradition faces hurdles
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GJDailleult
TR - you really have no idea what is going on here do you. This tax business has nothing to do with fairness. It is about the fact that an economy is a system, and that certain things are required to keep it alive or it will collapse. That has been learned over hundreds of years of economic thought, thought that the USA threw away just because some bad guys started charging them more for oil, and then they built the biggest economic bubble in human history.
Supporting shifting the tax base off those who, as said above, are looting the treasury onto those who are not is basically the same as actively cheer-leading for the economic collapse of the United States. There is a certain middle eastern organization who does that too. As for those "gifted" individuals who actually earn their money, they have more at stake here than anybody. It is time for them start making a stand, although it is probably too late anyways.
Posted in: White House says tax bill to pass despite Democrats' revolt
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GJDailleult
The solution to loans not being repaid is to make people borrow even more money? Learn something new everyday on this site.
And could not-Brits on this site stop chanting "hooliganism" every time there is a UK related article. Take a look at your calender, it is not 1985 anymore. If people don't even know that much, then their opinions aren't going to be much worth reading.
Posted in: Students attack Prince Charles' car after fee hike
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GJDailleult
It doesn't say student, it says podiatrist. Those trouble-making Islamic immigrant podiatrists eh, witnessing an event and then talking to reporters. What will they do next???
Posted in: Students attack Prince Charles' car after fee hike
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GJDailleult
Sorry, but I can't take anybody seriously who clings to this silly idea that the USA has a free market economy. In a free market economy you can not have an industrial and economic policy based on creating an infinite amount of debt (the unstated economic policy of the USA since the Reagan administration), for the simple reason that the free market will destroy the banks that lent out more money than can be paid back. You do not have a free market in any country where the price of money is set through central planning, and set artificially low to maintain the size of the money supply. You do not have a free market in any country where government subsidizes zombie banks and transfer trillions of dollars (estimated true amount is $12 trillion) from the productive economy to keep them alive. And then spread nonsensical propaganda like "they paid back the TARP", that was just pocket change, and the idea that things will change if you replace one useless, clueless fool in the White House with another useless, clueless fool.
As for the Tax bill, a successful parasite is one that does not kill its host. Obviously there are few things in the world dumber than a "rich" American.
Posted in: White House says tax bill to pass despite Democrats' revolt
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GJDailleult
That is what they thought they had, and why they voted for the guy and party who said they would fight any fee increases. Not any different from what will happen to the Tea Party voters, once the pols get the votes they don't care. They count on voters having short memories, and that they will fall for the new bag of goodies next time.
This time they might have pushed the envelope too far though.
Posted in: Students attack Prince Charles' car after fee hike
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GJDailleult
Let's see, $14,000 a year, $56,000 a year for people to tell you what books to read. Just so you get a piece of paper saying you read the books, and then you will be so well paid by the economic system that screwed you out of the $56,000 in the first place that you can pay it back. Right.
This is just a pretty transparent attempt to get people into debt and prop up the system. What all UK students should do is take the next school year off. Sit on a beach in Thailand, work at a fast food place, anything, just shut the system down. Watch Cameron and Clegg come begging and on their knees, as they try to save their empty universities. In the post-capitalist, post-production, fiat currency world we live in now, the "rich" get their money by putting other people in debt. No debt = no money = no rich people. Obviously Cameron and Clegg think that system is more important than the infrastructure and future of the country. Great couple of leaders you got there UK.
Posted in: Students attack Prince Charles' car after fee hike
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GJDailleult
The only problem with that is that he hasn't published "troves" of documents. It is pretty clear that PR hacks like Lieberman and Palin have no idea what they are talking about and are not paying attention.
Less than one percent of the documents have been published so far. The documents do not go up on the WikiLeaks website until after they have been gone over and written up by the newspapers the information has been shared with. Exactly how can the US can charge him with publishing the documents without charging the news organizations who published the information before WikiLeaks? Also, any action against Assange runs the risk that the password for the encrypted file containing all the documents will be released. Meaning that all the information will be out there without any editorial decisions to withhold information (.ie. that will get people killed) being made by the newspapers. Gee, that is a great idea!
Otherwise, two more problems with this article. One is the offensive parroting of the word "rape" being used to discredit Assange, without putting in context that it is "rape" only in the unique Swedish definition of the word. Two, it ignores the real scandal here, that being that the US security complex was not secure. Robert Gates said every government in the world knows the US government leaks like a sieve. The Shell rep in Nigeria didn't want to talk because she thought the US government was leaky. It was common knowledge. All Assange did was direct the leaks he received to the media. Where all the other leaks went to you can make some good guesses, but seems most Americans would prefer to keep their heads in the sand about that.
Posted in: Despite arrest, Assange extradition faces hurdles
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GJDailleult
Nice to see Rudd say the obvious, but then I guess after you have already been stabbed in the back you don't have much to lose. But he is right, the blame lies with the American government.
Good long article on the New Yorker website on Assange by the way. Whether you love him, hate him, or are in the middle, it is interesting stuff. He has a led a pretty strange life, and the article gives some background on what is going on.
Posted in: Hackers strike at MasterCard to support WikiLeaks
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GJDailleult
Comically stupid politics, comically stupid economics. God bless the corporate welfare state, for blessed are those with their noses deepest in the trough. And to The Ben Bernank, please deliver us from the evils of bankruptcy by sending us more free money. But we don't want to pay any tax on it, because that be socialist, and we are capitalists. As in, you give us capital and we enjoy it.
Just another nail in the coffin.
Posted in: Obama facing tough sell in own party on tax deal
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GJDailleult
@manfromamerica- spend some time learning the difference between communism and capitalism. And I mean real capitalism, and not the corporate socialist welfare state that Americans, in true Orwellian style, call "capitalism".
And watch your wallet, the socialists are coming for it too.
Posted in: Irish lawmakers offer initial OK for brutal budget
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GJDailleult
Whoops indeed. That might be the biggest leak yet if the dots connect to Scotland, although it is what was suspected.
Looking over some website article on the charges, this is pretty bizarre stuff what with the sequence of events and the identity of the accusers. But whether or not some kind of sex offenses were really committed or this was entrapment and a set-up, there is one thing I do know. That is that as somebody who has known two women who were victims of violent rape and sexual assault, one of whom did not survive, I am starting to find the casual way the word "rape" is being thrown around so casually in relation to this case very offensive.
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder denied bail; jailed on Swedish sex crime charge
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GJDailleult
Coming soon to a plantation near you. The sheeple are going to get fleeced.
Ireland is not broke. The Irish banks, the European banks, the European Central Bank, and the IMF are the ones who are broke. This is extortion pure and simple.
that should be changed to "several hundred non-sheep protesters". If left wing-right wing has come down to who is willing to be robbed and who isn't then there isn't much hope of getting out of this mess without a disaster.
Posted in: Irish lawmakers offer initial OK for brutal budget
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GJDailleult
The world media's insistence on calling this an allegation of rape is a bit, uh, troubling. What it is is an allegation of rape as rape is defined in Sweden but not as it is defined in other countries, in particular in the country where Assange is being held, the UK. Other people might know more about the legality of extraditing people for things that are not offenses in the country doing the extraditing (seems pretty dodgy). But this is pretty sloppy journalism in any case, and that is putting the best possible spin on it. It may be more than just that of course, and the misrepresentation is intentional.
I still think this all might all be about the banking document release and not the diplomatic stuff, and that they have to get this stuff shut down quick. We shall see.
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder denied bail; jailed on Swedish sex crime charge
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GJDailleult
Totally predictable cave-in, and economically stupid as well.
Is there not a single person left in the US government who understands how economies and monetary systems actually work? Or are they all just errand boys for the suicidal American financial elite?
You can pay me now, or you can pay me later, as they say.
Posted in: Obama, GOP reach deal to extend tax cuts
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GJDailleult
And in the last 20 years, terrorists have attacked the kinds of places in this hit list how many times? Terrorists have attacked trains, buses, planes, embassies, theaters, office buildings, hotels, and restaurants. They don't seem to have shown any interest in attacking things "critical to national security". Is that because they don't know about them, they are too difficult to attack, or they just don't care about them? And why would they care, they are not trying to get political or territorial control, or overthrow the USA. They don't need to attack them to meet their objectives, and the softer targets are all they need.
You have to wonder if some people actually understand the war they are fighting.
Posted in: WikiLeaks release gives hit list to al-Qaida, says U.S.
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GJDailleult
In that case somebody should have thought of that before invading Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place. Not a recipe for success.
The "innocent" lives were put in danger by the decision to invade, and nobody cared much about it at the time. Whether WikiLeaks released the information in a responsible manner is a legitimate question. But to go and start wars and then complain that some other group is putting people in danger, is nonsensical and hypocritical. WikiLeaks is not responsible for the lives being in danger, they are danger due to the decisions of the US government. That should be obvious even to people who support the decisions.
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder turns to Switzerland for help
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GJDailleult
He has not been charged with rape. He has been charged with sexual offenses which legally exist only in Sweden.
He is not on the run from the law. The British police know exactly where he is.
Enormous damage? Examples please. Showing the world that the State Department staff is actually pretty good at their jobs is damaging how? Showing that things are actually as screwed-up as they appear is damaging how? Endangering the lives of "innocent" people I guess. But if they were innocent why are they in the position to be endangered in the first place?
The over-the-top hysteria may just be over-the- top hysteria, or they might be more going on. We will see when the banking files come out. if it all hits the fan, we will know why they tried so hard to stop him.
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder turns to Switzerland for help
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GJDailleult
The US constitution sets out the relationship between the government and citizens. Assange is not the US government, so the constitution has nothing to do with him.
Or put it this way, Americans have freedom of speech. That means that the US government is, according to the constitution, not supposed to infringe on that freedom. The guy at the bar who just smashed your nose in because you shot your mouth off is not bound by the constitution to respect your freedom of speech. Different laws apply to him.
Posted in: WikiLeaks loses major source of revenue