JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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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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This article, like most, downplays and minimizes Charlton Heston's social activism, if only because in the modern world 'liberals' alone can be given the title of activist; conservatives are usually simply labeled 'haters' or 'ultraconservatives.'
Heston picketed a segregated theater premiering his own movie. He accompanied fellow Republican and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr on the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington - at a time when almost no one in Hollywood was willing to speak out against racism.
Posted in: Actor Charlton Heston dies at 84
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"redacted, sorry, I'll answer my own question"
No need to apologize. All but four of your posts on this site are about America.
You answer all your own posts, as far as I can tell.
Posted in: Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of using 9/11 as pretext for invasions
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"If the US really believes in freedom and justice then it would try these suspects fairly rather than practice such gross hypocrisy, fighting for freedom by using cruelty and injustice. If they're guilty, prove it, and jail them..." yeah yeah yeah whatever. They were lucky they weren't shot and left for dead in Afghanistan.
It's pretty clear that no matter what course of action the US takes those who envy us will always find something to whinge about.
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"...when Ahmadinejad says that Bush used the attacks as justification for invading Iraq, are you really disputing that?"
I wouldn't dispute what Ahmadinejhad jad says for the simple reason that I don't believe him to be serious (or sane) in the first place. He plays to a deeply cynical power-hungry media, to political malcontents of different stripes and to self-loathing Lefties - like all demagogues do.
Personally, oh, I'd say the Bush Doctrine was the justification used for regime change and liberation of Iraq.
I basically support it, but would be the first to acknowledge that we are fighting an enemy we barely know and understand, but that knows us very well.
Against any other foe (say China, or Russia) I'd be opposed to "pre-emptive" strikes and or supposedly clandestine incidents of "rendition" but then again we'd be fighting nations (presumably prepared to honor int'l accords on warfare)not a collection of individuals and groups united solely by a hatred of anything not sanctioned by their interpretation of Islam and prepared to commit mass murder of innocents to achieve aims so bizarre and divergent that when they can't kill "infidels" they turn on one another.
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"Meanwhile, your country simply locks up people for years without any proof of their "crimes", limited or no access to lawyers, legal services or the case against them."
All those "locked up" at Gitmo are foreign born. A child could work that one out.
Iran is imprisoning, hanging and stoning their own citizens.
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"But what is proven is Bush's government arranged for members of bin Laden's family to be flown out of the U.S. when there was a complete aircraft flying ban right after 9/11.
Isn't that interesting?" asks sushisake.
Factcheck.org has this to say -
" Media Fund Twists the Truth More Than Michael Moore October 27, 2004 Radio ad claims most air traffic was grounded when bin Laden's family was allowed to leave. Not true. In fact, the FBI questioned 22 of them and found no links to terrorism. Summary
"This anti-Bush radio ad is among the worst distortions we've seen in what has become a very ugly campaign. It states as fact some of the most sensational falsehoods that Michael Moore merely insinuated in his anti-Bush movie Farenheit 9/11.
"The ad was released Oct. 25 by The Media Fund, an independent Democratic group run by former Clinton deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. It falsely claims that members of the bin Laden family were allowed to fly out of the US "when most other air traffic was grounded," though in fact commercial air traffic had resumed a week earlier.
"The ad also falsely claims that the bin Laden family members were not "detained," when in fact 22 of them were questioned by the FBI before being allowed to leave -- and their plane was searched as well.
"And by the way, the man who gave approval for the flight wasn't Bush or even any of his close aides, it was former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, now one of Bush's strongest critics."
You know, for a guy who posts about America as much as you do (exclusively?)you don't seem particularly well-informed...
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Starbucks is a godsend. The absence of chain-smoking oyaji alone makes it worth a visit.
Can anyone confirm the rumor that they even opened an outlet within the Gitmo compound for guards and gov't employees?
Brilliant.
Posted in: Starbucks website flooded with ideas for improving customer service
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"Obama has been against the war from the start."?
You might want to actually do a little research there, sushi sake.
Barack Obama discussed the Iraq War in his book The Audacity of Hope (2006):“I began to suspect that I might have been wrong...”
He told the Chicago Tribune in July 2004: “There’s not that much difference between my position and George Bush’s position at this stage.”
In Nov 04 he gets elected to the Senate and tells the press:
"[O]nce the decision was made, then we’ve got to do everything we can to stabilize the country, to make it successful, because we’ll have too much at stake in the Middle East. And that’s the position that I continue to take."
But once his base on the Left decided that their 08 candidate - unlike John Kerry and John Edwards and Hillary - must be against the war, he then began trumpeting his supposedly prescient opposition to regime change from back in 2002, confident I'm sure that the media would not remind his fans that in the same year in a speech he gave in Chicago on October 2, 2002, he declared that the Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein had “repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity,” and that he “butchers his own people...”
What he says to get himself the nomination and to get elected are obviously different from what he'd do should he win.
He has made that more than clear to any American who has taken time enough to stop repeating the mantra - "change!" - and take a look at the Empty Suit and his record.
Posted in: McCain says rivals' call for Iraq troop withdrawal a 'failure of leadership'
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Ahmadinejhad is one of the heirs to Khomeini's "glorious Islamic revolution." But it hasn't quite delivered. Guess it's just another 30 years away. Meanwhile, he presides over a regime which tortures citizens brave enough to dissent, kills homosexuals and sponsors terror world wide.
But hey, why should that stop "progressives" from identifying with him?
If he's invoking the WTC and Pentagon attacks and trying to come off like a 9-11 Troofer doofus he really must be pretty desperate.
I'm guessing recent reports that Israel will soon release details of the raid they made last Sept on Syrian nuke facilities account for the faux condemnation of the liberation of Iraq.
From what I have read the reports claim to offer proof that Iraq's WMD material was in fact ferried to Syria before the 03 invasion.
We'll see.
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sushi sake 2/3:"I challenge any Republican to post answers to these questions."
Are you going to tell us McCain's opponents have answered those questions to your satisfaction?
McCain, as most diehard Republicans would tell you, is basically a centrist. Don't forget - even the openly partisan liberal media like this guy. He's "the Maverick."
Over the last five both Barak Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have quite casually changed their positions on the Iraq War whenever it suited them.
It's obvious your posts aren't about the War on Terror so much as they are about attacking US Republicans and or conservatives.
Is it because they are the party that even you recognize seeks to keep America strong?Or is it that they're the party you blame for your country's demise?
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Australian papers claim the gang in question was made up of Maori and Pacific Islanders who were aping American "gangstas" - even using on the web pages where they boast of their exploits the same retarded spelling rappers in the States like to use. How pathetic. Even the criminal element has to imitate America.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23503519-5001021,00.html
Posted in: Teenagers rampage through Australian school with baseball bats; 19 injured
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"Whereas war mongers make no mention of the fact their support for the WOT has already cost the lives of more than 500,000 Iraqis..."
500, 000? Can we have the link for that one? With a figure that inflated you give al Qaeda, the Mahdi Army, and the various Sunni and Shia death squads reputations and a ferocity that would keep even the most paranoid neo-con awake at night. One minute you are a pacifist, the next you appear as some sort of alarmist...
Kindly explain how American support for a war against militant Islam is the direct cause of Muslims killing Muslims. You allow Muslims no free will of their own.
"...6-7,000 Americans, wounded and permanently maimed untold thousands and will ultimately cost north of $3 trillion."
And yet, US armed forces keep meeting and even exceeding their enlistment quotas...
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The little regard pacifists have for the lives of those whom they want so badly to believe they are saving never ceases to amaze, and disgust.
Even Time magazines's Mid East correspondent, no doubt opposed to a war on terror - and to all wars, on "principle" and because it's hip to be "anti-war" - concedes that in Iraq they are watching very closely how the US election shapes:
"The Baghdadis caught between these extremes know that the only thing standing in the way of another sectarian conflagration is the U.S. military. This may explain why every Iraqi who offers me a view on American politics seems to be praying for a McCain victory. "
Apr 3 2008
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1727692,00.html
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"McCain has a lot to answer for.
His blind support for the "war on terror" has led in no small part to the current dangerous state of the U.S. economy. "
You definitely sharpened that ax for a long while. Judging from the tone of your posts swinging it so blindly is making you very tired, not to mention tiresome.
I think any reasonable American who looks at McCain's record and listens impartially to what he has to say understands that his commitment first and foremost is to the men and women that Congress sent to war.
Clearly, he knows more about terror, its causes and its cure, than either of his Democrat opponents and probably more than any candidate the Democrats (who won't even discuss militant Islam in their staged and hollow debates) could even field.
Luckily for America - and the rest of the free world - it is from the ranks of the soldiers now in Iraq and Afghanistan that will come politicians who will revitalize both our deadbeat political parties.
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Great stuff.
Make it weekly:
"Henry Hilton and His High Horse"
dashing towards the cliffs of the obvious...
Posted in: Troubled times in Yokosuka
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A great deal of the poignancy surrounding Diana Spencer's death was connected with the fact that most Birtish citizens (subjects would be more precise) understood that England itself,like their favorite princess,was also a goner.
The maudlin hysteria and the prolonged simpering following Diana's death/murder/manslaughter gave many a clueless, repressed Brit out there the opportunity to realize this, at least at an emotional level.
Posted in: Princess Diana unlawfully killed: inquest jury
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Obama's father, loser commie:
"Problems Facing Our Socialism"
By Barak H. Obama
http://gregransom.com/prestopundit/2008/04/gregs-guide-to-barack-obamas-d.html
Posted in: McCain hits general election trail, as Democrats battle
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Zawahri is merely stating for his dwindling Muslim audience what many fundamentalists believe: Anyone who is not Muslim is not innocent. Killing infidels is akin to a sacrament in his version of Islam.
Posted in: Al-Qaida's Zawahri says his organization doesn't kill innocents
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The AP reports (Apr. 6) that things aren't looking too good for Mooky:
"Iraq's major Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties have closed ranks to force anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to disband his Mahdi Army militia or leave politics, lawmakers and officials involved in the effort said Sunday.
Posted in: Hundreds flee fighting in Baghdad
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"Is McCain actualy (sic) American? His bio says he was born in Panama, probably aboard some container ship."
Hmmm. So there's a McCain bio out there which says he was "probably born aboard some container ship" eh?
Got the link for that one?
Posted in: McCain says presidential campaign should be like a respectful argument