JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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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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GJDailleult
Whatever the positives and negatives of unions, and there are both, the only important fact is that the USA's problems have absolutely ZERO to do with unions. Anybody who thinks they do is delusional, anybody who is taking advantage of the present situation to push the same old crackpot ideological agenda is just plain nuts, and anybody using this stuff as a diversion from the real problem is a criminal.
Posted in: 14 Wisconsin lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill
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GJDailleult
Ok, have it your way. A woman who just happened to live near the protest site, and just happened to be terrified of the protesters and think the protesters were horrible, violent people, and who just happened to be saying the same things as the Bahrain government, just happened to think that what she should do about the situation was get herself interviewed by the BBC. Because that of course is what concerned citizens do when violent people are getting shot and beaten up outside your house.
Sure, I'll buy it.
Posted in: Bahrain locked down after 5 protesters killed
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GJDailleult
I suspect the engine malfunctions are a result of driver error.
Posted in: Honda recalls nearly 700,000 vehicles worldwide due to faulty engines
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GJDailleult
I love the "scientists said in the 70's that global cooling was coming" shtick. My wife never believes me when I tell her I love her either, seems some guy in her university days said the same thing and it wasn't true. Therefore whatever I say must also not be true.
And mikehuntez, stop pretending you don't know what the internet is and what is on it. You are on it so we all know you know about it.
Posted in: Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain
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GJDailleult
Code for the usual motley crew of corporate welfare bums and inherited wealth dorks. Probably the only person there with any business sense at all was S.P., and she has tons of it.
It will be such a shock and so disappointing when she doesn't run for president next year.
Posted in: Palin rejects gun law changes; stays vague on 2012
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GJDailleult
Bahrain government has obviously been spending the last few weeks working out their plans and propaganda. Had to attack people while they were sleeping, they were getting out of control!!! And the "concerned citizen" woman interviewed on the BBC last night was a total embarrassment, clearly she was a government stooge or agent.
We'll see what happens Friday, but probably will not be good. Looks like the Saudi's want to "fight them over there so they don't have to fight them at home", and they want to stop this stuff now before it spreads any further.
Posted in: Bahrain locked down after 5 protesters killed
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GJDailleult
Afraid WilliB is right, these countries have been run into the ground for decades, and now the oil is starting to run out. Getting rid of the corrupt stooges is just the start, they still have to replace them with somebody better and start fixing the problems, if they are even fixable in the first place. Can't even imagine how bad things must be if they are so desperate that they choose to get on a boat thinking they will maybe find something better when they get off.
Posted in: Protest wave grows: Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and now Libya
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GJDailleult
That is what I said Sarge. I was talking about the why.
Wish that was true, but unfortunately it is not, for two reasons. One, everybody is affected by the USA's insane response to its self-inflicted problems. Two, the insanity is not limited to the USA, it is all over the world, Canada included. Just wait until everything hits the fan in Canada, all the same "mistakes" will be made.
Posted in: Obama, GOP on budget collision course
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GJDailleult
Agree with your sentiments but afraid you have not got it completely right. The bankers don't actually have any money. Every major US and world bank is totally bankrupt if they were subject to honest accounting. Total government and private debt in the USA alone is 65 trillion dollars, which is bigger than world GDP. Who knows what world total debt is. If even a small fraction of that is not paid back (and it will be a lot more than a small fraction) then they are wiped out.
Food prices are going up because central banks are counterfeiting money to try and cover that fact up. It won't work, but things are going to get much worse before that is admitted.
Posted in: World Bank: Food prices at dangerous levels
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GJDailleult
Oh the unfairness!!! Of course they pay the tax, they have the money. They have the money because they rigged the system so that the money flowed to them. You have massive deficits because they think they can continue to keep the money flowing to themselves.
Banking and capitalism are not the same thing. Until you understand that you will understand nothing.
Posted in: Obama, GOP on budget collision course
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GJDailleult
Congrats to Arcade Fire, but what is up with them winning best album? A bit of a shocker, sounds like they were shocked to. They are very, very good, but since when was that important at the Grammys? Well deserved win, but big surprise.
Not knocking the others either, I think Eminem is very good at what he does. Not my cup of tea exactly, but I still like his stuff, and Lady Gaga and Katy Perry are decent pop singers. Don't get the Lady Gaga stripper image thing, also don't get why Katy Perry gets knocked for her looks (ok, not a knockout, but still looks pretty good to me), but as "pop" music both are good too. No comment on Lady Antebellum though. If you can't say something nice...
Posted in: Grammys sing the praises of independent labels
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GJDailleult
In other words, sitting on the fence and placing bets on both sides. Maybe the right way to go, but not very inspiring. What happened to spreading the flowering of democracy? Or was that just a line to pull out when convenient?
Posted in: Obama calls for peaceful response in Middle East; slams Iran
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GJDailleult
This is a farce, the deficit is about $1.5 trillion just for one year. The politicians are arguing over peanuts. It is just for show, behind the scenes the two parties are obviously in complete agreement and working together. Why do you guys put up with this crap?
Posted in: Obama, GOP on budget collision course
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GJDailleult
Completely agree with OssanAmerica's comment. China produces more than it can consume to keep the billion plus population employed, and the rest of the world needs cheap stuff to keep prices down and avoid inflation. A symbiotic relationship, and not a healthy one.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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GJDailleult
Oberst- have you ever watched the first Die Hard movie? There are no foregone conclusions. Japan didn't take over the world, China won't either. A bubble is never acknowledged until it is too late.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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GJDailleult
Both parties are so far detached from reality, either because they are stupid or they are paid to be stupid, that it has become a complete joke. The amounts of money they are talking about are trivial compared to the size of the total economic problem. But as long as the sham of socialized pain continues, and the people who lost the money don't have to lose the money, and those who screwed up the system can get away pretending they didn't, then things are just going to get worse and worse.
Posted in: Obama official says new budget won't be pain-free
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GJDailleult
Actually, I am referring to every country that uses a private central bank system where the government pays interest on the money it issues. China appears to operate outside the international capital market racket, and simply issues the money debt-free. I'm not exactly an expert on China, so correct me if I am wrong, but China is doing things the way they should be done in keeping the creation of money under government control. But that doesn't mean you don't have to create the right amount of money, still going to have bubbles and problems if you create too much.
There is also the theory out there that China doesn't actually lend any money to the USA. It is more like the USA doesn't pay full price for the goods it buys from China, and the money it doesn't pay is kept in the USA and put in bonds that give China a bit of interest. All to keep US / world prices down, and the Chinese currency weak so they can keep people busy making stuff. If they didn't keep the money in the USA, or "lend" it to the USA, the Yuan would rise so much that the whole thing would fall apart.
Not claiming to understand what is going on, just claiming that there is a lot of really weird stuff going on.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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GJDailleult
On previous comment was talking about the real estate bubble, if spudman was talking about how the Chinese government finances itself then he was right. They just print up the money, real mysterious how there are never any articles about Chinese government debt problems, ain't it. Looks like they just issue enough bonds to control interest rates. But even if they are using cash and not debt, the money still has to be used productively and sustainably, not just endlessly building empty condominiums or on other make-work projects.
As for Japan, the things that are supposedly wrong with Japan today are the same things that were supposedly right about Japan 20 years ago. Management style, government structure, group orientation. But it always is about the money; how much of it there is, and how it is used. Japan screwed that up, China probably is heading for the same result, and maybe with a much messier outcome.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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GJDailleult
I am with zenny11, I would bet Japan will be back in second place by default before the end of the decade, probably much before that. China is going to blow.
spidman-cash IS debt, they are the same thing. In a sane world that wouldn't be true, but we don't live in a sane world, we live in the debt/credit money one, China included.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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GJDailleult
You are being too generous. They will amount to nothing.
I will just point out that from 1945 to into the 1970's, Americans had a very solid understanding of how economics works and were able to build the most prosperous country in world history. But then some bad Arab guys decided to raise oil prices, and the self-appointed "special" people decided they wanted a bigger piece of the pie, so they started to abandon everything that had worked up until then.
Stop listening to morons like Harold Rogers guys. What he is saying is no different from saying that humans no longer understand how to send a rocket to the moon. The solutions are common knowledge, it is the corruption that prevents them from being implemented that is the problem.
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