JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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GrouchyGaijin
kinniku, looks like our place on the page is about to drop off. Hopefully I'll get to "chat" with you again.
(Sorry Moderator, I'm signing off now. No more off topic comments.)
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GrouchyGaijin
SuperLib, Putting a big, accurate picture together is hard. So, I try to draw the strings of truth together by surfing a few sites where, although they have strong opinions, I think they're genuine about their reporting. Sometimes I'm wrong, but mostly I do OK. Here's my list to skim through: http://whatreallyhappened.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/ http://www.robert-fisk.com/ http://www.antiwar.com/ http://americanjourney.blogspot.com/ www.waynemadsenreport.com (pay site) http://www.buzzflash.com/ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/ http://mparent7777-1.blogspot.com/
Follow the links, just surf away, and try to make some sense of it all. This one is good, but difficult to navigate: http://www.tbrnews.org/ This one has, somewhere, actual US casualty numbers, close to 70,000!
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GrouchyGaijin
kinniku, Many thanks for the clarification. I'm typing on the run. Life is getting in the way of a good chat, sorry! The piece I'm referring to about accepting a 1967 bordered Israel/Palestine solution I got from: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/cat_israel.html#081974 and especially this piece: April 3, 2008 Hamas Accepts State Within 1967 Borders Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said that his movement supports the united Palestinian position that calls for the establishment of a fully sovereign state within the 1967 borders, including Jerusalem, and refugees' right to return. In an interview published yesterday in Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, Meshaal referred to the 2006 prisoners' document as proof of this. "There is a Palestinian document and in it all organizations say they agree to a state in the 1967 borders."
The web hoster's comment says it all, "Guess who the holdout is?" (I have to admit my bias, I don't trust Olmert.) It's also interesting to note your comment on the demographics. I understood that the state was to have been a secular state, but even a cursory reading of Haaretz or the Jerusalem Post and I get the impression that even non "true blood" Jews (ex diaspora from Africa, say) are being severely discriminated against. Conflict within, and conflict without. It can't be a happy place to be! And it isn't going to get any better anytime soon, by the looks of things.
Posted in: 9 killed as Gaza militants storm Israeli border
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GrouchyGaijin
KFC would be bad for the diet, trans fats etc!
Posted in: Porn producers arrested for filming at McDonald's in Saitama
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GrouchyGaijin
Actually, that is inaccurate. The constitution of Israel, and a condition of its founding, was the right to return of the displaced Palestinians. Israel has refused that. Both Hamas and Fatah have accepted the return to the borders of pre-1967, and a recognition of Israel, for peace and coexistance. Israel has refused that too. It is the Zionist Likudniks (not the Jews) who want to eliminate the Palestinians, and it looks like they're proceeding apace! Read the latest UNHCR report on the sate of Gaza right now. Although shrouded in the mist of religion, it is a political issue, as were the wars fought against Israel. Israel won only because of US support. But think about it, why should the Palestinians be forced off their land as recompense to Jews who were killed by the Nazis in Germany? A recipe for eternal strife if ever there was one. Fundamentalism, of any stripe, will only serve to prolong it.
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GrouchyGaijin
Respectfully, skipthesong, I agree that the US should follow the advice of your former president: "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801. ME 3:321 What America needs is a president who will put America 1st, 2nd and 3rd heeding Jefferson's counsel.
Posted in: McCain refuses to rule out pre-emptive attacks
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GrouchyGaijin
romulus3: I wasn't in McD's during the shooting of the film. This was a couple of weeks later when the girls were dealing with the results. They just happened to be in a gaggle at the table next to mine. It was impossible not to see what they were up to. They had the pregnancy test packs on the table, and were reading the instructions aloud, much as you would on how to assemble a model airplane or something. Very 'matter-of-factly'. They were fully dressed and not "acting." Same for the groups at the other restaurant on the later occasions. I saw nothing lurid, just the look of horror on the poor kids faces when their sticks turned blue. And kids they were, 16, 17 or so.
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GrouchyGaijin
Apparently this same 'contraption' had similar incidents in 2005.
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GrouchyGaijin
greenteaonsens: I assure you I speak the truth. And I've seen similar happenings twice since, in Mosburger, all while fully caffeinated and awake. "Fool me once....heh, heh, well you can't get fooled again!" to quote a certain Texan.
Posted in: Porn producers arrested for filming at McDonald's in Saitama
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GrouchyGaijin
The fog of war....but it might be a while before all that smoke clears!
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GrouchyGaijin
Morals Japan Style: Rule#1: Do anything you want. Rule#2: Don't get caught! I guess they broke Rule#2. Making porn movies must be popular at Rotten Ronnie's. Before I saw "Super Size Me" I used to eat their "food". Last time I was there I saw a group of High School girls in uniform, all taking turns going to the bathroom, each with a pregnancy test stick. They told me they'd made a group-sex movie "in the store" a week or two before with men "whose names they didn't know" and as their cycles were a bit weird they decided to "run the check". Two of the six sticks came up blue. Aahhh! Mc. Donald's, "I'm lovin' it!" (Somebody is! Or was anyhow!)
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GrouchyGaijin
Correct, Monsieur Jambon, that was nothing like a little accuracy. Check the REAL numbers: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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GrouchyGaijin
Deep breath, nobody's falling in love with the idea of being attacked first. Islam didn't declare war on the west a long time ago. Islam only got really radical as we know it 60 years ago, when the "State" of Israel was declared. A limited and clearly targeted pre-emptive strike when there is clear and present danger, and demonstrably so, would be justified to most thinking individuals. So far these conditions have not been met. Certainly not in Afghanistan, and definitely not in Iraq. Unfortunately the White House has L I E D the USA into war. And John McCain is one of those who lied the USA into war. And there is good reason to suspect that he would glibly and without a second thought lie the USA into war again. THAT is why the doctrine of pre-emptive strikes is so contentious; it's the liars who strike pre-emptively under false pretenses. And, no OBL sitting in his cave did not do 9/11. THAT is a story beyond the topic of this discussion.
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GrouchyGaijin
Fires and explosions mid-air over densely populated cities......Hmmmmm, I'd ground the planes too! A bit of pro-active planned scheduled maintenance, though, could have averted this kind of fiasco.
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GrouchyGaijin
Just saying that they're being squeezed every which way and they're desperate. Desperate people do desperate things, like blowing down the wall and getting into Egypt like they did a while back to buy food and medicines. But, it IS an occupation and Gaza IS the world's largest and longest existing concentration camp, and the conditions are similar to a war, all be it officially undeclared. And, as we have just seen, war is ugly. Thankfully, I don't have to make, under duress, the decisions that they do, however I feel about the situation. And, ideally, they shouldn't have to either. But there is no doubt about it, they are being treated in a way by Israel that mirrors Nazi treatment of 'undesirables' during WWII. Just check the stats on that site.
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GrouchyGaijin
I agree folks, Mr. "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" McCain is one very scary dude! If Diebold has the Mossad's way, they'll rig the voting machines again to put him in the White House, just like "W" and that's when I think many people will be thinking, "Stop the world, I wanna get off""
Posted in: McCain refuses to rule out pre-emptive attacks
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GrouchyGaijin
Don't people ever read labels? Regrettably, in the past few years I've learned not to trust what I see on a label in Japan.
Posted in: Dogs battle lifestyle diseases, mirroring human society
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GrouchyGaijin
I'm sorry, but I don't know any "refreshing minds" in Japan.
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GrouchyGaijin
My question is, if it's going to continue in "an undisclosed location", how will we know where to go? Will Dick Cheney be there too? He's always being whisked away to that same place, "an undisclosed location!"
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GrouchyGaijin
I'm reminded of Jack Nicholson in "A few good men"..."Aizu-wakamatsu, you can't handle the truth!"
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