JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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kanadamanada
Cleo, I suppose you never wear leather; including belts and shoes, eat 100% vegan, wear no makeup outside of red ochre and don't use modern medicines (all tested on animals - HUMANS!). I admire your use of the anti keywords like "club" (it's called a hakapik, btw) "skinned alive" (DFO officers found no such violations in the last number of years and these men are not on anyone's payroll besides the government's) "thugs" (family men) "wanton abuse" (sustainable, LEGAL harvest).
I stand by my remark that if they weren't cute, you wouldn't be bleating about them. Cleo, can you tell me why the anti-sealing organisations continue to use the whitecoat harpseal as their poster-child when, as I mentioned before, the whitecoat has not been harvested in the last 20 years? Is there any rational explanation other than the fact that it is cute as all get out and it brings in the money? No. It's a simple case of, as Paul Watson, millionaire owner of Sea Shepherd Society said, "It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true."
Moderator: This issue has nothing to do with whether anyone is vegan.
Posted in: Canadian seal hunt begins
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kanadamanada
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888naff at 11:45 PM JST - 26th March
"would have the army marching through the rubble of Seoul" "and would have every right to do so"
answer with your own quote: "This is the real world kiddies"
...no army has "the right" to march through any other territory.
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They have the right if attacked by SK or its ally acting on its behalf. A shootdown of a sat launch would constitute an act of war and would even likely hold up in the U.N. Smooth geopolitical credentials you've got under your belt there.
Posted in: Japan goes into crisis mode for possible N Korea missile launch
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kanadamanada
Crisis? What crisis? The is just media helping Japan's fledgling homeland security industry is all. So KJI is playing with his model rocket. He's gonna launch a little beeper so he can sit back afterward and say "See? I told you so!" So what? Nothing's gonna happen and if anyone here thinks the USN is gonna try and shoot it down, risking the humiliation of a miss above watchful Chinese and Russian warships, they have some reading to do. If that rocket gets shot down by some miracle like the USN launching 50 standard missiles at it and fluking into a hit (one rational reason to have pumped so much hardware into the Sea of Japan in rcent weeks), KJI would have the army marching through the rubble of Seoul before we all wake up the next morning and would have every right to do so. a 1994 U.S. defence department study noted the threat of " ... an artillery attack on Seoul ... that could conceivably kill hundreds of thousands of people in the first few hours ... " They have 500 long-range artillery pieces within firing range of Seoul.
Ah, the fans are out and stoking hard the fires of Japanese militarism. What a joke. This is the real world kiddies - learn something about how it works before you start firing real missiles around.
Posted in: Japan goes into crisis mode for possible N Korea missile launch
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kanadamanada
Cleo, Thanks for the IFAW "data". Like I said, come back with some SCIENCE, please - not heresay from an animal "rights" group seeking more money. I found one quote in particular interesting - the one referring to the skulls that showed no trauma, whatsoever. What was the number? 17%!!! Wow! That sounds shocking to someone who'll take the bait. I wonder how then, did the hunter subdue the seals??? I suppose they just walked up to the seals and skinned it alive, right? Riiiiight. Let rephrase my earlier comment and request some INDEPENDENT scientific data. You know, the type that reasearchers do for scientific journals and not that comissioned by the animal rights lobby. You didn't comment about my definition of whitecoat seals. Thanks for the tacit acknowlegement.
Posted in: Canadian seal hunt begins
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kanadamanada
Cleo, I'm from Newfoundland so I thought that I'd weigh in with a little reality lesson. The fur of a harp seal is only white for the first 2 weeks of its life. WE DON'T HUNT THOSE! Hunting for "whitecoats" was discontinued in Canada in 1987, yet Sea Shepherd et al continue to use the image of the whitecoat seal pup for their propaganda campaigns. Here's a quote ""It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true." Paul Watson, Founder Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS)
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Paul Watson is a multi-millionaire.
There are few things I enjoy eating more than I do seal. It is, simply put, a sublime dining experience. Soft and juicy with a strong gamey flavour. It's like the world's best whalemeat, only 5x better. I eat alot of seal when I am back home. I also have a pair of sealskin mukluks that were gifted to me by my late grandfather that are warmer than any modern boots I have tried. On my shelf here in Sapporo is a bottle of seal oil capsules. Seal oil contains high levels of vitamin A and D in the best ratio (as compared to fish oils) and is the best source of Omega-3 fatty acids. Seal oil is also not as succeptible to rancidity when exposed to Oxygen and is therefore safer. Seal oil is richer in both DPA and EPA. You can google "n3 PUFA sea oil" for scientific studies that support this assertion.
The trouble wih anti-sealing activists is that they don't know how to separate the wheat from the chaff as they just react emotionally and have zero real science to back themselves up.
Cleo, I know they're cute, but can you honestly tell me that if they weren't adorable, you would still be angry? There are animals in the world that are actually ENDANGERED yet Sea Shepherd and anti-sealing activists are not screaming to save them....... I do so often wonder why...
Posted in: Canadian seal hunt begins
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kanadamanada
Completely wrong. The movie so far has grossed more than 182 million dollars. Production cost 75 million dollars. Maybe that is not a huge success, but very far from 'complete failure'.
NO. With a 70million dollar promotion budget, it is hardly a success and has not made money, once distribution is factored in.
Posted in: Cruise has the Reich stuff
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kanadamanada
Ah yes, laying the groundwork for when the Ministry of Justice takes over the manufacture and administration of foreign I.D. cards this or next year. This article is appearing today for no other reason than to soften up the public. In 5-10 years time, the Japanese themselves will be carrying biometric RF i.d. cards so the government can keep an eye on them. Japan will become so much like China in this regard that those of us living here now will look back and laugh.
Think I'm wrong? Start looking up on the lightpoles in cities and note the incredible number of suveillance cameras. What are they there for? To stop all the crime, I suppose??? Think the police don't have access to anyones internet? Tell me then, how a guy makes an anonymous death threat against Asa on 2CH and is arrested hours later. Police state 2.0 is here and as the Japanese have always believed what their governments tell them, there will be no resistance against it, so long as a handful of "gaijin" criminals are served up for the media sharks every once in a while.
Posted in: Forging false IDs for foreigners a flourishing trade
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kanadamanada
This is the last time you'll see this for a while. Valkyrie is a complete failure at the boxoffice and Cruise is on his last legs as a movie star. Cuise, thankfully, has no other movies lined up for 2009 and it's unlikely we'll see him in 2010. I'd bet ￥50,000 that he starts MI:4 ASAP! It's interesting how "Valkyrie" and "Australia", both HUGE flops everywhere else, are being marketed in Japan as "DAI HITTO" movies.
Posted in: Cruise has the Reich stuff
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kanadamanada
Go te Sweden and you'll see Wireles LAN in busses, trains, and taxis. They've had it for years. Japan isn't nearly as advanced as ppl here tend to think.
Posted in: NTT Com to offer wireless LAN service on bullet trains
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kanadamanada
Does anyone under the age of 60 actually care about this non-issue in Japan? Nobody I've asked seems to care, yet it's on the tv everyday.
Is it not painfully obvious that the government mouthpiece, NHK and the other "networks" are just pushing this to cover up the gross negligence which passes for governance in Tokyo??? Heaven forbid the masses awaken and catch the burglars in the act of robbing their country blind. They'll be fanning the flames of nationalism/fascism hard and fast here once economic shock takes hold.
Posted in: Do you believe some Japanese abductees are still alive in North Korea, and if you do, why do you think North Korea hasn't come clean on the issue?
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kanadamanada
Interesting that NTT is developing apps for Softbank's Iphone. Perhaps there is something more to the recent recall on Blackberries than meets the eye.
Posted in: New WLAN service feeds location data to mobile devices
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kanadamanada
Ah yes, anything to keep the immigrant hordes at bay. I guess Hitachi too will be upset that the government is going to shelve their elderly care robot design in favour of any down-on-his-luck-Taro.
Posted in: The government is encouraging unemployed people to become health care workers because there is a chronic shortage in the nursing care business. Do you think that is a good idea?
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kanadamanada
GJD The bass player of THE FACES (Faces) wasn't Sting, it was Ronnie Lane. Faces were one of the best groups, ever.
Posted in: Rod Stewart kicks off Japan tour after 13-year absence
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kanadamanada
Oh man, the rhetoric flies thick and pasty tonight, doesn't it?Smithinjapan, are you doing consulting work for SDF and can you tell me exactly how would NK annhilate Japan's major centres? Whith what, exactly? Oh, riiight, with all those missiles that the West needs to spend so much money on defending itself from. Well, Seoul doesn't stand a chance from the artillery, but the war ends there. That's SK's problem for locating its capitol within artillery range of its greatest enemy. NK has nothing with which to threaten us in Japan and to think otherwise is to subscribe to the same neo-con bombast that has the world in the state it's in, a state of perpetual war driven by the industries it supports. The SCUD missile derived TD2 has never had a successful test and what's more important, has about a 400Kg payload towards the limit of its range, which is not enough to carry the crude atomic warhead NK potentially has, even to Tokyo. I'm in Sapporo, so maybe I ought to get some Potassium Iodide pills, but the rest of you, sleep easy, please. What's more is no NK missile has a sophisticated guidance system above the inertial guidance types we saw back when we were in highschool watching Saddam's SCUDs blow up on their own over Kuwait and Saudi, missing cities and COUNTRIES altogether, at times, landing in the Gulf. With only one launch site, and a multi-day prelaunch, how exactly would they orchestrate this attack against Japan? Pure propaganda. NK is no threat to anyone.
Posted in: N Korea threatens 'war' if satellite is shot down
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kanadamanada
It's a joke to even think the U.S. capable of shooting down this missile. All of the missile defence shield tests over the last number of years involved shooting down missiles on pre-determined courses with homing beacons attached. Lockheed puts on a good show for the media. I wonder how much money Lockheed will pay to KJI in his Swiss bank account for this. Lockheed is the only winner in this. Lockheed's value makes it the world's 25th biggest economy. Does anyone believe they are not stoking this fire in the interest of the missile shield they want to put in Europe? The media associating Iran's and NK's missile programs prove this theory. NK's business is the threat of missiles, real or imagined - either one will do for Lockheed.
This is a non-issue. Besides that, Japan and the U.S. both test-fire various missiles all the time.
Nobody is gonna fight a war in NK. There are simply no commodities there and China would get all the reconstruction contracts, anyway. China is NK's patron and China's most valuable trading partners are Japan and the U.S. To attack either would destabilize China's economy. I can't see either scenario playing out.
NK's "missile" is launched from a permanent test bed and has to be wheeled out into the daylight for days to fuel... REALLY DANGEROUS, that.
Posted in: N Korea threatens 'war' if satellite is shot down
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kanadamanada
It all depends on who is holding the shotgun!
Posted in: What do you think about shotgun weddings?
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kanadamanada
I'm spending the family handout on Ebay. The rest will go into a Canadian bank account via paypal. In your face, Taro! The LDP will see not a single yen of benefit from this scheme from my household.
Posted in: Cash handout? Stupid, wasteful idea, Japanese say
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kanadamanada
Well, she certainly raised a pile of money. Who else is doing anything right now that is raising this much money? Go girl. TAKE IT OFF!
Posted in: TBS turns viewers off with its topless T-shirt project
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kanadamanada
Bolt Krank's comment was interesting in that I've noticed that Japanese living abroad (Canada) are seemingly eager to shed their "Japaneseness" and get right down to the business of assimilating into their adopted cultures. This includes everything right up to adopting a suspicious view of the media and griping about the government.
Posted in: Beyond a world of stereotypes
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kanadamanada
Style? What style? Style is style, fashion is fashion. There are about 5 women in this whole country who have what I would call "style". Fashion comes from magazines - style, you either have it, or you don't.
Posted in: What do you think of young Japanese women's fashion style this winter?