JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Suzu1
Why limit the question to the "Western World"? Nasty conflicts involving Islamic terror are ocurring in Thailand, China, Somalia, Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere. In those places the Muslim populations are converts who have subjugated their history and culture to that of the Arabs. The inconvenient truth is that Islam is now the new colonial power.
Posted in: Do you see a clash of civilizations coming between the Islamic and Western worlds?
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Suzu1
How can an investigation have "run its course" when it disclosed that the subject was in contact with a known Al Qaeda facilitator. Good grief! That is exactly when increased surveillance and monitoring should have been put into place. There didn't have to be a criminal probe opened - this all could have been conducted under the intelligence gathering activity the FBI conducts everyday on potential extremists.
Hasan was most certainly the beneficiary of political correctness - for example the reluctance cited by officers in making a complaint about him due to fear of being seen as discriminatory against a Muslim. Also the way in which the medical department tolerated his refusal to be in a group photo because there were women in it as well.
Of course the decision was made under the Obama Administration. If it had occured in that narrow window between Jan 1 and Jan 20, the mass media would be all over the Bush Administration.
Posted in: Lawyer asks investigators not to question Hasan
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Suzu1
The death penalty is not revenge. It is simply the punishment that fits the heinous nature of the crime. To compare the execution of a man who was found guilty after an exhaustive trial and unlimited resources provided for his defense to his heartless gunning down of innocents doing nothing more than mowing their lawn or waiting for the bus is simply taking moral equivalency to its meaningless extreme.
Posted in: DC sniper John Allen Muhammad executed in Virginia
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Suzu1
Numbskull - You appear to miss the fact that the investigation had already shown that Hasan posed a threat due to his comments and contact with Al Qaeda. Further investigation, including surveillance, would have disclosed his purchase of the notorious Belgium-made FN Five-Seven handgun and his mysterious meeting with an unidentified man at his apartment the day before the shootings - the first time he had ever had anyone over. It would have also disclosed what is now being reported - that Hasan had additional contacts with other terror suspects under investigation. The FBI investigation was not stopped because there was no evidence of terror links. It was stopped due to political correctness. The Obama Justice Department officials who felt that contact with Al Qaeda fell under "free speech" need to be identified and drummed out of government service.
Posted in: Lawyer asks investigators not to question Hasan
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Suzu1
This incident is a reminder that elections have consequences. The Obama Justice Department halted an FBI investigation of Hasan. As Newsweek's Michael Isikoff noted:
Senior federal investigators confirmed Tuesday night that since last December, the FBI monitored from 10 to 20 “communications” between suspected Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan and an overseas terror suspect known for preaching violence and expressing sympathy for Al Qaeda.
But although an FBI-led task force undertook an “assessment” of the Army psychiatrist as a result of those contacts, **counter-terror officials concluded earlier this year **that Hasan’s communications with the terror suspect were “protected” by “free speech” and did not warrant opening up a criminal investigation of him, the investigators said.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/09/fbi-counter-terror-officials-were-never-told-about-hasan-s-gun-purchase.aspx
Geez, what changed between December 2008 and early 2009?
Posted in: Lawyer asks investigators not to question Hasan
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Suzu1
Michael Nehring writes on Facebook: “What says more about America–that we always, ALWAYS manage to refrain from an anti-Muslim backlash, or that progressives are always, ALWAYS, convinced that one is on the way?”
Posted in: Lawyer asks investigators not to question Hasan
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Suzu1
*[Osman] Danquah assumed the military’s chain of command knew about Hasan’s doubts, which had been known for more than a year to classmates in a graduate military medical program. His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan’s “anti-American propaganda,” but said **a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint. ***
Well done, political correctness. Thirteen dead due to sensitivity.
Posted in: Fort Hood suspect was told: 'There's something wrong with you'
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Suzu1
Obama had his "My Pet Goat" moment with this atrocity yesterday. After the White House announced that the President would be making comments on the situation, Obama chose to start his remarks with light, jovail remarks at the event he was at - he even gave a "shout out" to one person in the audience. A few minutes in he switched to a somber tone and gave his remarks on the Ft. Hood shootings. Even the Chicago news outlets couldn't ignore this appalling insensitivity:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html
I was not surprised that within hours of the situation CNN's Anderson Cooper had a discussion going on how Post Traumatic Stress played into what happened. Apparently it didn't matter that this terrorist had NO TRAUMA to be suffering the post effects of.
Posted in: Army psychiatrist kills 12, wounds 31 in shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas
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Suzu1
According to a recent A.C. Nielsen study the top five occupations of woman characters on American primetime television shows: surgeon, lawyer, police lieutenant, district attorney or cable news pundit.
The top five occupations for women in real life: secretaries/ administrative assistants, registered nurses, elementary and middle school teachers, cashiers/retail salespersons, according to the Department of Labor’s 2008 statistics on women workers.
Posted in: Kidman: Hollywood probably contributes to violence
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Suzu1
I love the way you state "as we all know". You know nothing except rumors you've read on moonbat websites. Obama admits to having been a cocaine user and yet he wants to keep it illegal. That is true hypocrisy in your world, no?
Posted in: Obama administration loosens guidelines on marijuana prosecution
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Suzu1
Obama will go to Hiroshima and deliver a speech about himself.
Posted in: Should U.S. President Barack Obama visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he comes to Japan in November?
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Suzu1
It doesn't do anything of the sort. No one except diehard activists think that what is going on in California - the blantant drug dealing from commercial storefronts under the guise of medical marijuana - is doing anything to reduce crime, drug problems, or the profits of drug cartels.
In my State virtually all home invasion robberies are tied to marijuana grows in the homes that purportedly for medical marijuana but are way beyond the limits of the law.
The new policy just says that Federal action will be taken only when there are violations of both Federal and State law. That was the case in the prosecutions under Bush and will continue to be so for those under the Obama administration.
Posted in: Obama administration loosens guidelines on marijuana prosecution
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Suzu1
This is isn't going to change anything. The new Obama guideline make it clear that Federal agents will go after people whose distribution goes beyond what is permitted under state law or use medical marijuana as a cover for other crimes. The marijuana storefronts in California in clinic largely operate in violation of State law. LA County's top prosecutor said today that he would target stores who are profiting and selling to people who don't qualify for medicinal marijuana. That is pretty much most of the 800 marijuana "dispensaries" operating in just LA County alone.
Posted in: Obama administration loosens guidelines on marijuana prosecution
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Suzu1
The opening paragraph of the Seattle Times article on this says a lot -
Posted in: Jojima opts out of last 2 years of contract
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Suzu1
It is pathetic how desperate the White House has become. Anita Dunn is married to lawyer Robert Bauer, who tried to get the Department of Justice to prosecute conservative critics and punish TV stations for running an ad critical of Obama’s relationship with Weather Underground Bill Ayers.
Posted in: White House advisers say Fox News is not news
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Suzu1
The one nice thing about these cards is that purchases on the card keep your airline miles current. No worry if you don't fly on the same carrier in the next 12 months or whenever else your miles would expire.
Posted in: ANA, American Express to launch co-branded credit cards in Japan
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Suzu1
How serious can you take the opinion of someone who starts off declaring that "Teaching English in Japan was never dignified" and goes on to bemoan her choice of coming to Japan to teach English? Ms. Gay does not exactly seem like a go-getter who is going to make her way in the world through good times and bad. Instead it is the persective of Entitlement.
How much money and benefits do you expect employers to pay someone to teach English conversation? Teaching English conversations is not a bad idea for someone fresh out of school who wants to see a different part of the world and perhaps save some money for the next step in their life. Beyond a couple of years it is time to move on and get into something more permanent like Movieguy who seems to be doing well for himself and isn't full of angst about his career choice.
Posted in: The McJob of Asia
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Suzu1
Two other Canadians, both BC gang members, were killed in a similar manner outside a restaurant in Guadalajara last year.
Posted in: Gunmen kill 2 Canadian men at Mexican beach resort
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Suzu1
In other words....France.
Posted in: Director Roman Polanski in Swiss custody on 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant
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Suzu1
Yabits - Yeah right, Polanksi should get credit that he is only known to have anal raped one 13-year old girl after plying her with drugs and alcohol.
Polanksi is the epitome of selfishness. One would have thought that the murder of Sharon Tate by the Manson Family would have shocked him into a more conscious and reflective state of mind.
Posted in: Director Roman Polanski in Swiss custody on 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant