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  TumbleDrySep. 21, 2011 - 02:00PM JST

  Come... on...

  Posted in: Lucky girl

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  TumbleDrySep. 21, 2011 - 12:47PM JST

  And yet, the government will just give subsides to "help" companies survive...

  Posted in: Japan records huge trade deficit as imports soar

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  TumbleDrySep. 21, 2011 - 11:17AM JST

  So, the government admits they have no power at all and they will give up trying to manipulate the yen.

  The government will risk to have the yen rising ad eternum.

  This plan won't work either. Peg the JPY to a fair 100yen for a US dollar and wait.

  Posted in: Gov't unveils series of measures to deal with strong yen

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  TumbleDrySep. 21, 2011 - 10:01AM JST

  This is completely dumb. The scientists never said they are able to predict earthquakes nor that they will save anyone.

  Instead, build your buildings to withstand strong earthquakes and always keep food/water in reserve.

  Posted in: Scientists on trial for manslaughter in Italy for failure to warn residents about quake

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  TumbleDrySep. 21, 2011 - 08:59AM JST

  Technology hurdles aside, the work suffers from lack of funding. The USGS has spent $2 million on the project and is seeking help from private foundations and industry groups. Scientists estimate it will cost $80 million over five years to create a statewide public alert system and millions more annually to maintain it.

  Some people will whine about the costs for poor results because no strong earthquakes have happened for a while.

  Nobody should put a cost on a human life.

  Posted in: U.S. scientists testing earthquake early warning

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  TumbleDrySep. 20, 2011 - 07:56PM JST

  Foxie: Greece should join Turkey.

  Posted in: Nikkei closes 1.61% lower as Asian stocks dented by pessimism over Europe

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  TumbleDrySep. 20, 2011 - 07:18PM JST

  "dollar strengthened against the euro but slipped against the yen."

  All currencies continue slipping against the yen.

  "Finance Minister Jun Azumi told reporters Tuesday that the recent sharp rise of the yen has slowed the pace of the country’s economic recovery from the March earthquake and tsunami. Tokyo has not ruled out intervening in the currency market to stem the yen’s rise against the U.S. dollar and other major currencies."

  Heard that from the previous finance minister. Wait... Is the PM now.

  Both are sitting on their hands.

  Posted in: Nikkei closes 1.61% lower as Asian stocks dented by pessimism over Europe

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  TumbleDrySep. 16, 2011 - 08:15PM JST

  I'm not a trash.

  ... Mr. Ocean

  Posted in: Sailor in Hawaii finds message in a bottle from Japan

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  TumbleDrySep. 16, 2011 - 08:25AM JST

  Israel has other concerns as well. It fears the Palestinians, with an upgraded status at the U.N., could join various international bodies and pursue action against the Jewish state. One of the biggest fears is that the Palestinians could join the International Criminal Court, a special body set up to prosecute war crimes.

  The licenses to kill, seize land and oppress are at risk.

  A UN membership and other international bodies for the Palestinians will bring a bigger responsibility on their part. Wake-up call?

  In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney emphasized that negotiation with Israel was the only viable path to Palestinian statehood.

  BS... It threatens their "control" over the situation.

  Posted in: Defying U.S., Palestinians press forward with U.N. bid

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  TumbleDrySep. 15, 2011 - 05:58PM JST

  Tomorrow: down on profit taking, then down on worries, then up on marshmallows, then blablabla. yyaawwnn...

  Posted in: Tokyo stocks rebound 1.76% on European news

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  TumbleDrySep. 15, 2011 - 04:38PM JST

  Week 1: Sitting on my hands.

  Week 2: Ganbare Nippon!

  Week 3: My hands hurts...

  ...

  Week x: It has been an honor to serve you.

  Posted in: Noda's blog now available in English

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  TumbleDrySep. 15, 2011 - 12:19PM JST

  How can you negotiate when one party is still eating territory and the other one is still firing rockets.

  If Palestine is declared independent, this should freeze all settlements and maybe even helps to dismantle some. In the other hand, if rockets are still fired, well, any incursion in the Palestinian state will be an invasion of a sovereign country and rockets fired will be seen as an attack of an another sovereign country (which is not the case now because Palestine has no status)

  One could hope that a Palestinian state would stop rockets or other terrorist attacks. The next challenge is to let Palestinians build a real economy and get away from fundamentalism. Hope it is not only an utopia...

  So, who has more to loose? Israel.

  The US should step aside and let them resolve their problem themselves. Yeah... well... won't happen. Same for the rockets...

  Posted in: Diplomatic flurry ahead of Palestinian U.N. bid

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  TumbleDrySep. 12, 2011 - 05:16PM JST

  taj: I'm with Piglet. Just don't rebuilt there. Japan will still be facing countless tsunamis and earthquakes in the future (count on a large scale). People just never learn...

  Posted in: Only 4 of 31 tsunami-hit sites have finalized reconstruction plans

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  TumbleDrySep. 12, 2011 - 04:46PM JST

  Pure irrational greed. The Chicago school of economics failed. Bye and thank you for the fish.

  Posted in: Tokyo stocks end at 29-month low on Greek fears

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  TumbleDrySep. 12, 2011 - 04:39PM JST

  Since the article was written, it got even worse. EUR went under 104

  Let's all buy yen!

  Posted in: Euro slumps to new 10 year-low against yen

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  TumbleDrySep. 12, 2011 - 12:44PM JST

  "Dead wood" would be best description for the successive governments...

  Posted in: Noda apologizes after minister quits over 'town of death' remark

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  TumbleDrySep. 12, 2011 - 12:42PM JST

  With all the money she will eventually make with that book, I hope she would take acting lessons. Beautiful woman but the acting bit is bad...

  Posted in: Actress Yuko Takeuchi releases cookbook

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  TumbleDrySep. 12, 2011 - 12:40PM JST

  ... Al-Qaeda militants ...

  Militants? Murderers is right word.

  Posted in: 'I miss you so much': 9/11 kids tell of heartache

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  TumbleDrySep. 07, 2011 - 12:52PM JST

  Unnecessary deaths. R.I.P.

  Posted in: 4 dead, 8 wounded in shooting at IHOP restaurant in Nevada

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  TumbleDrySep. 07, 2011 - 12:19PM JST

  GlobalWatcher:

  1)Japan needs to take an initiative seeking China to go to a currency floating system again, again and again. China is exporting unemployment and recession to the world. I do not know if G20 are willing to go with G7 agenda, but we need to address this issue again. If China is not willing, we may have to impose a trade tariff against CHINESE products made in China. I am sure China will fight back hard, but so be it.

  This is business. Companies want to make profit. Nobody forces anyone to manufacture goods in China. You can say that the market does but we are the market. You can choose between cheap and low quality or slightly more expensive price for you and lower profits for the companies.

  2)Lower the corporate tax is a great idea. This had to be done a long time ago. It is over due. Japanese corporate tax is the highest in the world. Let's lower that first, so that some of these manufacturing jobs are coming back to Japan.

  Well, no. Because if you don't pay the investors their dividends, they will likely take their capital away, threatening the company itself. The money goes to the stockholders first.

  Posted in: Finance minister to detail yen threat at G7 meeting

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