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Japan was one of the countries I was researching before the Daiichi nuclear accident along with…
Posted in: Official defends secrecy over worst-case nuclear disaster scenario
The non-profit organizations that Egypt is complaining about are some of the christian programs that go…
Posted in: Egyptian minister's remarks stoke tensions with U.S.
anglootaku - You raise a good point here with regards to the Islands being fully independent.…
Posted in: Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands
What a shocking and sad bit of news :( Fadamor not everyone who has a child…
Untrack, I reccommend your take a serious break from reading on the nuclear disaster. Am I…
Posted in: Official defends secrecy over worst-case nuclear disaster scenario
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illsayit
I dunno about this guy-sounds good. Realestate in Japan needs to focused within and for J. customers. As suggested, working class areas have reasonable community service. Japanese buildings are and will always have a certain re-cycle value to them. Usable, and maintenance. I think better results would be found trying through local builders of the area you are interested in-for land. Real-estates would be the go-between. Handy-man work is definitely where there can be movement. Not sure, but western ideologies regarding real-estate often separate builders and real-estate, whereas it isnt as clear-cut as that.
Posted in: Real estate in Japan: A good time to buy or not?
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illsayit
That diversity seems like it was more economic. And that didnt work, the JETs just sucked it up and set living standards higher-like a child of divorced parents, where they have 2 sets of economic backing, and are allowed to wallow in everybody else's pity. And if pity is not what is wanted then the diversity that was set economically didnt get there did it. So in order to balance the over-diversity, Id say it is time to scrap it-perhaps starting something totally new bringing in ideas suggested here. But Id ask for a leigh time before that started, to allow the dust to settle from the diverse and now popular English community that has been infitrated into the J.community.
Posted in: Grounding the JETs
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illsayit
Maybe it's about showing face, and not just throwing somebodies words around.
Posted in: Do social networking sites such as Facebook make it easier for people to be bullied or slandered?
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illsayit
i dont get this- all I see is gender issues. What is their women doing in Egypt? Give them back and see what happens? Maybe they should include women as well as children in that Hague Treaty. And also police being part of the victims has me suspicious too. And a survivor asks what to do now but to ask for asylum-start praying buddy!
Posted in: Iraqi Christians mourn after church siege kills 58
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illsayit
australia surrounded by water expects you to eat out of the desert^and where the people are, no biodiversity because it is green to have a concrete shack and talk about not getting dirty and touching the resources, though having a garden full with imported plants is said to be okay and fertilizers only come in plastic bags-is it okay to fish off the beaches, surely this is the natural way to obtain fish, wait! you have a boat? lets license you because we cant fish from the beach. well im gonna farm the floating fish then. nemo got away. wow look at all them fish swimming by! What record? Australia has a record for manipulation of its people in such a short period of time.
Posted in: U.N. biodiversity meeting ends with agreements to protect ecosystems
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illsayit
i think they dont want you to use the bank-but then again theyre crappy for getting a loan
Posted in: What do you think of the banking system in Japan? What are the pros and cons?
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illsayit
8 up, 27 to go
Posted in: Last trapped miner pulled to surface in Chile
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illsayit
I see a big generational gap in how it is handled in both the school and health departments. This is a good thing. However the communication between the two departments is not good. I do believe that geographical areas will vary. Ive had phone calls placed on me to the health dept. The health dept authorities visited once. I wouldnt let them see the kids, until my hy husband was here, because they were so pushy, but I also told them to contact the school. They-same young guy, with different older lady- came again, without having contacted the school. The young guy was at fault. My language ability was a blessing. The elder lady was nice, and was happy to leave. The problem was a different dept in the health dept, had visited us days earlier, and there wasnt information being passed in between the 2 parts of the health dept. Also, the local political body's rep. visited our place once with our teachers. No-one seemed to have passed around that information either. Everything is cool for us. But I would say a lack of communication runs things the wrong ways. There is a fine line, a very difficult one. I really think case by case. Children and parents need a environment they can become family.
Posted in: Dragging child abuse out into the open
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illsayit
Their politics cant save them from their spiritual. BUT, Politics is noble. It is a lot more light-hearted.
Posted in: Why is politics, which could and should be a noble profession, conducted so badly?
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illsayit
Mist, youre forgetting quality of life. For both men and women. The Queen harkens about special contribution, as if economics is the issue. She really got herself tongue twisted there, England needs the Church now more than ever. The Scots who are the money bags though, are trying to make out how bad England can be all the time, so they dont have to face their own redemption, where economics is concerned. Go Benedict!
Posted in: Pope, in UK, admits church failures in sex abuse scandal
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illsayit
All that sitting around sure got them wealthy. Claiming not to be a religion, as in an organized spiritual body, is just so not true. While I feel the fashionable interest of now is good for some people, you'd need to have some spare time. And then, because it is a religious body- how do they even handle birth, marriage,death; if they're sitting around so much. Anyway, I thought the most enlightened position in buddhism was lying down? I guess they're just putting everyone who joins 'in their place'.
Posted in: Zazen: There’s never been a better time to try a spot of meditation
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illsayit
I just wish theyd pray about getting them out quicker-surely there is a quicker way?
Posted in: Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds
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illsayit
Art or propaganda
Posted in: Flying high
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illsayit
You could mean pignacious? One lousy comment. Australia has hung out the washing. It's rather exciting actually.
Posted in: 3 kingmakers to decide Australia's next government
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illsayit
It's about time somebody did this. The yukata is also lighter in weight, like cotton, but cotton from African regions tends to have less elasticity, and so sits well on a kimono. Id be interested how it ties together too, is it the same or more street-worthy. For any Japanese styled clothes, what Ive been seeing in fabrics, have been deteoriating in quality. And the better quality J. fabrics are just up-yourself expensive, inflexible on design, and terrible to wear. I love the sleeves!
Posted in: Cameroon designer reinvents the kimono
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illsayit
Im sure his first wife knows a lot about it. Demonstrate that.
Posted in: Paul Hogan barred from leaving Australia until he pays tax bill
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illsayit
I guess he needs to be made a demonstration of.
Posted in: Paul Hogan barred from leaving Australia until he pays tax bill
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illsayit
Well each teacher adds their own flavour-adds their own distinction. Which is probably why Australia should just publish a stack of texts of the core subjects and actually give them to the kids. The system that was always wary of it's people. Who said; There were people sent (there), and the people that were meant to be sent went as their caretakers....or something like that. This way the teachers can keep the facts and throw their opinion-maybe it's time to start thinking about homeschooling. Do they get texts to keep in WA?
Posted in: Australian students assigned to plan terrorist attack
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illsayit
What subject was this in?
Posted in: Australian students assigned to plan terrorist attack
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illsayit
With a name like Lindsay, Id be stepping their fire's widely. I like Katter now. Where's all them noisy Australians gone? Talk about dolphins and their everywhere, talk about the people, and they are very tight-lipped I would say. Repression?
Posted in: Independents meet would-be Australian PMs