JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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taniwha
Finger prints on the cell phone?
A mother uses a toilet and leaves a 6 year old waiting for her outside is not a crime. Daytime in a busy park after all.
This is an indictment on society not on the mother who surely along with her child is the victim here.
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taniwha
Why do you apologise?
Its always kinda nice to receive an invitation to reply to, and an poster to interact with, but I don't regard either as necessary before posting here.
We are nothing more than bits of the threads for others to read.
Posted in: NATO denies provoking Russia-Georgia conflict
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taniwha
Public trust in what? A corrupted system that is there principally for the benefit of a very wealthy elite?
When the Chinese government takes a benevolent interest in its own population rather than simply in ever increasing wealth building for the favored few, people will begin to trust it.
Posted in: China seeks public trust after milk scandal
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taniwha
Well spoke Caveman.
The only way people across the globe can live in relative peace and security is to respect the fact we all of equal rights to the resources of this planet. Even Cuba must eventually throw out their nationalist ideology.
The answer to prosperity is peace and the path to both is a united planet that puts human beings before profit. Nation states and Capitalism are obstacles to both goals. Now that the US Congress has bailed out Wall Street the world has evidence enough that the free market ideology was nothing but false ideology. Every painful tweak along the way led us to this, recession across the globe, and depression around the corner.
Cuba now is doing nothing less now that moving toward a 'local form of Capitalism' as did China. Its too late for that at this point. Cuba as a nation would suffer the same problems no matter which of the two 'C's it follows. Yet it has so much it can offer the rest of the world. All we need is a system that actually does work to all of our benefit.
Posted in: Bush team, Congress negotiate $700 bil bailout
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taniwha
Sarge.
Succinct, and I think I agree. Morally bankrupt for years, yes definitely. But that would go for every Western government over the past few decades.
The Capitalist free market may have its own set of ethics but its been entirely morally bankrupt. This financial rescue plan though is almost Machiavellian would it not be that philosopher actually had morals.
The deviousness duplicity by which this so called 'rescue plan' is being sold to the punters/people as the means by which democracy can be maintained is matched only by desperation. That being the desperation to hide what it really means - the failure of Capitalism and the revealing of the greedy parasitic thin layer of society that have sought to hold it together for so long.
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taniwha
Sure did Lib.
It was to focus on the issue of drones in Georgia, which you yourself bought up even as you lay the cause of the conflict at the feet of Russia.
The Caucasus crises story is a little broader than you would have it told.
The grounds for the declaration of independence claimed by anti-Georgian separatists in South Ossetia and Abkhazia are indistinguishable from those behind Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia last February. And let’s not forget that it was the Bush administration that was the prime mover behind Kosovo.
Moreover, the US encouraged and financed the forces that sought to effect the secession of Chechnya from Russia in the 1990s.
It has become quite clear that the US was clearly involved in the Georgian assault on South Ossetia, and really you must ask what were its intentions. Do you really believe that US policy makers thought Russia would take no action in response to such an immense provocation. So why, would they support a move that would bring Russia into a direct conflict with one of Washington’s principal allies in the Caucasus? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact this region happens to constitute a bridgehead between the resource rich Caspian Basin and Western Europe and houses critical oil and gas pipelines.
Perhaps a major escalation of tensions between Russia and the West was the desired outcome, a restarting if the Cold War. Russia remains an obstacle to the geo-strategic aim of the US to secure hegemony over Eurasia. That’s the short of it. In any event, why not deal with all of the facts instead of just the convenient ones that suit one political position? Has anyone mentioned missiles in Poland yet? A deal only just completed, isn’t it? Isn’t Poland pretty close to Russia?
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taniwha
A bankrupt US government means what exactly?
It means sucking in big time which will likely entail all of the following:
Yes, the needs of the corporate world are far far greater than that of the average citizen, and those needs are going to cost you for decades. And that is why US debt is going to rise like its got rockets under it, while the American dollar spirals into free fall.
Posted in: Obama, McCain react cautiously to financial rescue plan
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taniwha
Both of the presidential hopeful, Obama and McCain, have endorsed the big bail out.
That’s it. Legislation will be passed quick smart by the end of the week. But how could it be any other way?
After all, Obama and McCain both are funded by the financial industry, 22.5 million US dollars for Obama, and 19.6 million for McCain. Guess that tells you which candidate the Street prefers.
There has been some good news though.
Well, news of the government intervention did give the share market a big boost, anyone holding Morgan and Stanley stock might be very happy. The super-rich will be happy to know they actually got wealthier out of this mess. Paulson himself as chairman of Goldman Sachs made hundreds of millions. Pelosi apparently has major investments in AIG. Little wonder the ruling class looked after their own interests.
Who could blame them for that?
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taniwha
Henry Paulson announced the taxpayer will foot the bill, “hundreds of billions” of dollars to bail out the banks and financial institutions on Wall Street. So, what do you get for your tax bucks? Well, what you get is worthless mortgage-backed assets no one wants to buy anymore.
Oh, and lets not forget what else you will get --- a bankrupt government.
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taniwha
Skip
The 14th amendment might have been used to allow corporations the same rights as citizens, but that doesn't mean individuals and corporations reaped the same benefits as a result. Clearly this has not been so except for the most part in the case of very rare and well celebrated class action suits.
The US Constitutions applies to US citizens not to "persons", and we are talking about the very same Constitution that has been dismantled in good part by the Bush Administration. When you are talking about the rights of US citizens lets remember these are now subject to removal by executive decision.
A company is indeed owned by its shareholders, in principle, until the government steps in and nationalizes it! Then, in theory, it ought to be owned by the nation.
BTW, this is what has just happened. Right?
The Capitalist concept of a 'free market' has been proven to be ideology, and Capitalism itself deserves to be put to rest, before in its death throes it destroys us all.
No idea what 'shouting' you are on about. You are still not making sense.
Posted in: Obama mocks McCain's call to fire SEC chairman
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taniwha
The two party system is outrageously fraudulent. Someone gets a lot of fun out of the whole charade, and in the end it isn't the voters. But hey, doesn't the whole fraud depends on voters who don't pay attention to history, who can only remember what they read in their TV guide two days ago, and who have the analytic abilities of 3 day old marmots.
The real issue with this financial rescue plan is that something very similar was attempted before as in an attempt to rescue financial institutions just prior to the Great Depression. No one is talking about what happened next back then. The reality is the amount of debt to pay off now is far greater, and so is the relative amount of money needed to be injected into the financial system. They are forty years too late for any solution of this kind to work.
They may as well be attempting to revive the dead corpse of Lazerus.
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taniwha
Well that is one side to the story. Then you need to ask how did Georgia get its drones, and why would it need to have that kind of sophisticated weaponry in the first place?
Another fair question you might ask is why Georgia dispatched its army into a city and start firing at civilian apartment buildings. It wasn't as though the targets were military to begin with they were not. Unfortunately for the spin on the story you favor that fact that Georgia did as you say fire first, and on civilian targets simply adds weight to the Russian excuse that they simply went in to protect their own citizens from being murdered by Georgian government forces.
Posted in: NATO denies provoking Russia-Georgia conflict
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taniwha
And so we go on in ever tighter little spirals.
Hey guys, its like a Punch and Judy show.
There's the punchy Republicans and there's the Democrats, probably they are ones with their white gloves forever in front of their horrified faces. Not ever having seen a one of those puppet shows I can't say which of the political parties best fits which puppet. But you probably get the picture without me needing to explain it any further.
Posted in: Obama mocks McCain's call to fire SEC chairman
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taniwha
Okay, since "the fundamentals" have been bought into the discussion.
Fundamentally, it would be easier for the US to find a way to shrink itself so it could fit the entire country and its hollowed out economy into the Large Hadron Collider and hope the time machine potential of that device was able to zap itself back forty decades at least to pay back all the debt when it was able.
Better still go all the way back to 1934 and convince president Franklin D Roosevelt to ditch the '2nd New Deal' in favour of a 'Real Deal' that instead of saving Capitalism as even then it was beginning its slow death, and begin to work on a rational planned world economy by starting with the US. Then it was that Socialism had a very strong following not only amongst America's intellectuals but also the public itself. Perhaps we never would have gotten to where we are heading now.
Because we've tried Capitalism without the "free" market and with it. This is the result. What has been the dream of the very wealthy has always been the nightmare for the rest.
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taniwha
And here’s the other side of the story.
On Wednesday 3 TRILLION yen was injected into the domestic money market by the Bank of Japan, bringing the total amount this week to 5.5 trillion yen. But then they were just following the same course of action as other central banks around the globe.
The truth is, Japan is still the world’s 2nd largest economy but it is in deep deep doggy do-dos. Only last week official figures showed that in the Japan’s economy in the 2nd quarter of this ear had shrunk by 3% (on the annualizes basis). In Tokyo, just as elsewhere around the globe, share prices are taking a dive following the crash of AIG.
Japan's economy is particularly vulnerable to a recession in the US, because that will badly impact on its exports to not only the US but also to China. And exports, particularly to China are the one reason that Japan has been able to make some recovery after those long two decades plus of stagnation.
Posted in: Japan's banks have $3 bil in Lehman debt
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taniwha
Skip You don't make a scrap of sense.
A 'corp' as in corporation is a company its owners and its shareholders.
When the government steps in and bails out a failed corporation like AIG (and it wasn't even mentioned in any of the above) it is the taxpayer who is paying for the loan or the bailout. Meanwhile the owners and the very top of management have their financial rumps saved from the kicking the majority of Americans who pay for receive instead, that is everything they thought their taxes were supposed to be paying for, i.e. public services.
Look at it this way, what has happened over the last few days is just this, profit has been privatised and losses have been socialized. Great to see how the "free market" Obama enthused over in his speech in Nevada on Wednesday, has actually accomplished, isn't it?
Those people you mention who will be without a job, not paying taxes, and marching down the streets protesting will soon be a sizable portion of the population. What you are about to witness is the Great Depression all over again. Only this time things will be likely be worse.
Hope you are ready for it.
Posted in: Obama mocks McCain's call to fire SEC chairman
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taniwha
Just to clarify. I call him 'dishonest Barack' because he is just not being upfront at all about his motives.
Well, that's just sweet isn't it. That's coming from the candidate who's number one campaign fund provider is Goldman Sachs. Hey, lets say it like it is, Wall Street you own that man.
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taniwha
Taxes, now there's an interesting concept. These past few days the US government has used billions of dollars of taxpayers money to bail out some of its biggest financial institutions. Taxes used to be used to be spent on improving public transport and this and that to enable the institutions of state for its citizens.
Now taxes rescue Wall Street.
Yee-up, this time next week its lower living standards for the majority of Americans, destruction of their jobs, gutting of their social security, Medicare and whatever else it will take to ensure that corporate CEOs will still be able to rake in their 8 figure salaries.
What a choice for candidates, eh?
On one hand, here is dishonest Barak who postures for the workers, and on the other hand there is honest but confused John who jumps from seeing the economy as fundamentally "strong" one day to it being just one big "casino" the next.
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taniwha
Badsey
You have GOT to be kidding. The Iraq war over? I don't think so not by any stretch of the imagination. Iraq is extremely unstable.
Posted in: Bush scraps comments on financial crisis
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taniwha
Badsey
"All" people would not be drafted, and neither would just anyone. Historically those that get drafted are the ones that lack the means to avoid it. The other point is most Americans are against the war now. Polls clearly showed this to be the case just prior to the last presidential election.
Obama began by playing to the anti-war sentiments expressed by the majority of Democrat supporters. But it was evident even then he had no intention of pulling out of the 'War on Terror'. His calls for change are meaningless in any anti-war context. So far as the economy goes Obama equally has nothing to offer the average American.
The whole deal about Bush not being able to comment on this financial crises is because no comment a president can make is able to undo what is already done. This crises is symptomatic decades of political decision making that has always served the interests of a financial elite. The results have got us all into deep doggy do-dos and it is the average citizen who is going to be forced to pay.
Bush, McCain, or Obama, no president can fix this mess so long as they are upholding the interests of a financial elite above the interests of everyone.
I sympathize with your sentiments.
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