JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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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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GJDailleult
Cheney also saw reports saying Iraq had WMDs. He has a real ability to "see things".
Posted in: Obama open to torture prosecution; Cheney says U.S. gained info from interrogations
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GJDailleult
Waterboarded 183 times and 83 times. Of course former officials oppose the release of the memos, they know they come out looking like idiots. It would have made for a great Monty Python sketch though - Muhammed -"Wait, wait, I've got some information for you". CIA - "Why didn't you tell us this information during the first 182 times we waterboarded you?" Muhammed - "Uh, I guess it slipped my mind! Completely forgot about it till now!"
What a joke.
Posted in: Obama defends release of Bush-era memos during visit to CIA
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GJDailleult
The guy says the CIA agents will NOT be prosecuted, and he still gets slammed by the Obama Derangement Syndrome sufferers. You guys could at least make an attempt to hide your condition by trying to make a little sense from time to time.
Posted in: No charges against CIA officials for waterboarding
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GJDailleult
Actually that is a 100% true statement. That's why Americans have guns. And then because they have the guns, they also end up accidently shooting off their body parts, blowing their brains out after a night of drinking, shooting their partner after an argument, having their kid take the family gun cause he's "angry" about something and becoming a criminal that others need to have a gun to protect themselves from, etc., etc. etc. Or even just ending up shot by that criminal who really only wanted their wallet, and had no intention of shooting them until they tried to "protect" themselves. Human beings are incredibly useless when it comes to assessing risks, and clearly Americans are at the top of the charts in terms of that kind of uselessness. But it doesn't change the facts - they have guns to protect themselves from criminals! Constitutionally protected too!!! (if you ignore that bit about militias).
Posted in: 3 dead in California hospital shooting
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GJDailleult
Pretty pathetic stuff, but also a waste of time. Soon the re-education camps will be up and running, and once the decrackerfication process is complete, all Americans will be able to live harmoniously under liberal tyranny. Nobody will care about taxes then, they will happily hand over their money to their fearless leader.
Posted in: Anti-Obama 'tea party' protests mark U.S. tax day
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GJDailleult
You winger boys will jump at any chance to bang out the word "liberal" on your keyboards won't ya! No leg to stand on this time though. According to traditional Yankee neo-con ideology/dogma/gibberish the "War on Terror" was and had to be a military action and not a police/intelligence action. Treating terrorism as a matter for police and intelligence agencies to deal with was how those namby-pamby Eurowimps did things. Cheney even said so last month - "Cheney said the administration appears to be returning to the pre-2001 model of treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue, rather than a military problem." (CNN) Well, if it's true that it's a military problem then obviously dealing with prisoners should be the responsibility of the US military, and not the CIA or their private contractors. Talk about trying to have your cake and eat it too.
Posted in: CIA fires contractors guarding secret prisons
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GJDailleult
That's a very simple question to answer. Somebody was in the business of selling debt, either to other Americans or exporting that American debt around the world. So they needed somebody to take on the debt so they could sell it, and a bus driver is as good as anybody else for that. They weren't in the business of collecting the debt, so they didn't care about that. That was what the foreign sucker buyer was there for, to hold the bag.
Anyways it was fun while it lasted, having the rest of the world subsidize the USA. Now that is all over, and the USA (consumers at least) will have to "live within its means". Good advice that, and I agree that is what individuals should do. If it is to good to be true, ie. like 800,000 dollar home loans given to you, you are obviously going to get screwed in the end. The problem for the USA and other countries too, is just what exactly are those "means" now in 2009. We're going to find out soon enough, and it might not be very pretty.
Posted in: Obama hails summit as 'turning point' for recovery
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GJDailleult
Well maybe financially Honda had no choice about pulling out, but the timing sure doesn't look good. Looks like they put in a lot more work preparing for the new rules and designs than other teams, and were in a good position to be successful. But maybe that all went over the heads of the bigwigs in Tokyo, and they bailed just before the investment was about to start paying off.
Posted in: Button wins, Brawn one-two at Australian GP
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GJDailleult
If the old folks had had guns under their pillows this could have been prevented. Or does that argument not apply here???
Posted in: 7 residents, 1 nurse die in N Carolina nursing home shooting
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GJDailleult
Teleprompter, teleprompter, teleprompter. He can't speak without it, can't speak without it, can't speak without it. Who's a parrot? who's a parrot? who's a parrot?
At least the guy speaks English, which is a step up for the USA after the last guy. But I guess pointing that out makes one an irrational "Bush Hater" hehe. Much more rational to listen to the fat junkie.
Posted in: Obama unveils agenda for first overseas trip
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GJDailleult
USNinJ2 - hehe, you're the guy who said things were going down when they were going up. But don't worry, they were down again Friday, so I guess that makes you happy now. And my SA don't need any help, I can look beyond the last three weeks and I think the worst hasn't even started yet. The USA is toast, and it doesn't matter who is in charge.
Posted in: Geithner unveils sweeping overhaul of U.S. financial system
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GJDailleult
Hey stereoman, I didn't ignore anything. The guy blamed Geithner for the fact that the "market continues to plunge". Of course the market plunged before and it is likely going to plunge again, but it's not plunging now. Either he didn't know that or he is just another guy who doesn't let reality get in the way of his opinions.
Posted in: Geithner unveils sweeping overhaul of U.S. financial system
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GJDailleult
Best month on US stock markets since 1974, so that is interesting use of the word "plunge" by USNinJapan2. I didn't know things can plunge up.
Posted in: Geithner unveils sweeping overhaul of U.S. financial system
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GJDailleult
What are you guys on about here? This about putting the shadow banks under the same regulations that the commercial banks have operated under for over 70 years under both Democrats and Republicans - regulations that they were able to avoid through the efforts of bought and paid for politicians like Phil Gramm. Somehow I think if the system was unconstitutional somebody would have won a case by now, in other words the seizure was considered warranted not unwarranted. Now if you guys want to criticize the way your country has worked for 70 years, that's your business, but it is pretty clear that the lack of regulation is what allowed this mess to happen. And made it more difficult and expensive to deal with when it did.
Posted in: U.S. gov't officials seek new power over financial companies
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GJDailleult
At first glance, this looks like a no-brainer. The US government has the power to walk into any insolvent commercial bank and take it over to prevent damage to the overall economy, and they do it all the time. If that is the way things should be done, then having a double standard for insolvent investment banks, insurance companies, etc. doesn't make much sense.
Posted in: U.S. gov't officials seek new power over financial companies
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GJDailleult
The red herring point is technically correct, but it ignores the fact that most people can't really get their heads around what AIG did. Not because they are stupid, but because what AIG Financial Products was doing was very complex and totally INSANE. But people can understand that it is pretty weird to be getting a bonus for destroying a company, and might get pretty angry when they realize the bonus is coming from their own money. So the backlash was predictable.
As for the "if they ever want to be seen as a respectable, IE profitable, corp again" post. Huh? AIG is a corpse, it is dead, it has ceased to be. While that is unfortunate for the other, legitimate parts of the company and the people who work there, that's the reality.
And Phil Gramm should have been sent to Guantanamo years ago. A financial terrorist.
Posted in: 15 of 20 top AIG execs agree to return bonuses
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GJDailleult
Wow, one whole comment so far. It is a bit of an important topic you know. Anyways, good luck to Geithner, but we will see if he has any idea what he is doing. The "as a nation we borrowed too much" comment after saying there are no simple causes, and his desire to get securitization going again don't give a lot of confidence. Borrowing too much was not the problem, that is what powered the US economy, it was the inability to continue borrowing too much that was the problem. And the trick of securitizing American debt and getting foreigners to subsidize the American economy is dead. He seems to want to get things back to the way they were and keep the status quo alive, instead of dealing with the possibility that those days are gone forever. Maybe a very expensive mistake.
Posted in: My plan for bad bank assets
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GJDailleult
That's like an alcoholic complaining that he never had liver problems until after he stopped drinking. You can't turn the richest country in the history of the world into a house of cards in two years. It takes a lot more time and "effort" than that.
Posted in: Obama regroups, fine tunes financial overhaul
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GJDailleult
Fannie and Freddie were symptoms not the disease. The disease was an out-of-control, unregulated financial system which found ways around the reserve requirements of the banking system. Once they came up with all this extra money to lend out, of course they gave it to unqualified borrowers. They are lenders, they had to lend it to somebody, so they could sell the debt to foreign banks and then create even more money and imaginary wealth.
Posted in: Obama asks Americans not to expect too much from gov't; appears on Jay Leno show
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GJDailleult
Maybe they are not being transparent because they, uh, can't be. AIG sold over 500 billion worth of credit default swaps. Do the math, if they have to pay out on a big chunk of that insurance, how many trillions are they (they now meaning the USA) on the hook for? How many banks will be able to survive if they don't get their insurance money and have to write-off their AIG backed assets? Geithner and Bernanke seem to be just trying to buy time and hoping for a miracle, they just don't want anybody to know that that is their "strategy".
Posted in: Taxpayer fleecing must be stopped