JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
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taniwha
Okay, don't worry about the link. Enough about Mullins already.
I think the US mass media feeds the masses a line, a spin. There was though for a time a workable fourth estate, that did function as a defender of public interest to a point. They probably stopped doing that about 3 decades back. Watergate was probably the last stand of the fourth estate. Certainly since the beginning of the Bush jnr administration the fourth estate can be considered extinct.
The US mass media are now complicit with the worst of Washington's criminality. But that makes sense since the mainstream media at least is now nothing but a platform for the dissemination of ideology, dictated to them by their corporate owners. All discussion is limited by the interests of the ruling class (them again).
Posted in: EU, US call for a global finance summit
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taniwha
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Could you post a link to Mullins.
I agree.
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taniwha
Nice to have such a committed fan as Coulrophobic here on the threads of JT. Especially one with such a need for knowledge, and names.
The ruling elite/financial aristocracy is present in every capitalist country, that's a lot of names.
The US has been at the apex of the world capitalist system since at least the end of the Great Depression, making the ruling class in America and their interests the most affecting for the majority of the world's population. It must be particularly galling then for this thin layer of the American population that now they find they find themselves running to the table when the Europeans call upon them.
This ruling elite in the US are the top 1 % of US households that at least in 2005 accounted for 21.8 % of all pre-tax income, twice the figure in 1970s. This represented the greatest concentration of income since the year before the onset of the Great Depression, 1928, when about 24 % of national income went to the top percentile.
To a large extent, the riches of the wealthiest and most politically influential figures in the ruling elite today are bound up with the decay of the productive base of the United States. The hedge fund billionaires and banking moguls of today amassed in the space of a few years the type of personal fortunes that the Fords, Carnegies, Duponts and Rockefellers took decades to accumulate. They dispose of levels of wealth in their everyday lives that would have been inconceivable a few decades ago. And the manner in which the new financial aristocracy makes its money, apart from the vast sums involved, necessarily imparts to its social being a pervasive element of criminality.
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taniwha
Well, that raises a few questions.
How would you decide who is a criminal? The 'current financial system' has been put in place incrementally, so when are you saying the 'current' version began? The FED has been around for a nigh on 100 years, what does it have to do with the 'current' set up?
You mean get rid of Capitalism with a big 'C', or just American capitalism?
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taniwha
What "emerging markets" are you talking about?
The only possibilities for those to exist is either through world war 3 after which the cake can be rebaked and resliced, or there has been an up until now unknown secret colonization of the moon, or mars, and the population is of a size and desire to buy cars and clothes made in China.
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taniwha
Woo, Terry. Stop right there.
You need only to look across the waters at not just the US but to what is taking place in Europe to know, the markets are not even midway on their slide to the bottom. Its going to be rough, and it isn't going to be over in just a few years.
Siamhappy8
Yes, but this one is a real humdinger of a storm and it will take years to pass by.
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taniwha
The lead Obama has over McCain is huge. Its going to take a bit more than fiddling with the voting polls and the final tally for McCain to become president. But looking back over the past two elections at how voting anomalies delivered the presidency to George Bush jnr both times should be a warning not to not be complacent about the outcome of this election.
As Barrack Obama's speeches have often made clear enough over the past months, both the Democrat and Republican parties represent the interests of two factions of America's ruling elite. They both are political parties motivated by the necessity to best serve corporate America. Its just a question of whether the (slightly) moderate Democrats will finally find within themselves the courage to stand up when the votes are countered and the funny business begins, and fight, or whether they will fold. Obama certainly is more convincing than either Gore or Kerry.
But then he'd have to be to convince the ruling elite that he's got what it takes to look after their interests in this environment when the voting public really are looking for change.
Posted in: McCain, Obama get tough, personal in final debate
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taniwha
You confuse the obfuscation with the lies and coming up with total nonsense.
Posted in: Bailout becomes buy-in as U.S. gov't moves into banking
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taniwha
You are bang on.
October 22, 1999. The day the day the Clinton administration and the Congressional Republicans agreed to legislate to do away with the Glass-Steagall act in place since Roosevelt's presidency. In November 1999 the the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act passed into legislation. It's also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, and that is has likely been the most recent direct cause of the financial collapse in Wall Street.
The bill has been criticized by economists as amounting "to corporate welfare for financial institutions and a moral hazard that will make taxpayers pay dear".
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taniwha
Harold Steptoe
True. Worse though is that the Democrats and Republicans are fundamentally representative of the same interests, the same financial elite that rule the US. Financial elites rule in all the major economic powers, and it is now that the financial system is in collapse that the reality has been rendered visible for all to see.
If this is sarcasm then you are dead on the button, because the two party system is a fraud, in that it fronts just one group al be it two factions of that one group, and they represent the same interests.
There is an alternative, just one that is actually completely outside the influence of the ogliarchy in control of Washington. Jerry White is the presidential candidate for the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in America. You won't see him appear often on mainstream media in the next two weeks at least, but Jerry is on Youtube in several video speeches.
SEP presidential candidate speaks on financial crisis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUtu0o8MSNk
Posted in: McCain offers tougher critcism of Bush economics
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taniwha
But of course, it is very expedient to point fingers at a figure head of the opposition political party to yours. The role of American presidents, and even that of their handlers the ruling elite, is only a part of the story. A good part of what the legislation passed by those presidents, at the time, was perfectly logical given the pressures on the American economy at the time. The truth is nothing they could do could change the fact that there is fundamental contradiction between capitalism and the nation state framework within which capitalist economies must develop.
Even a nation as rich as the US was unable to resolve the problems of global capitalism.
Blaming a president without considering the wider environment they stood in at that time is like blaming the captain of the Titanic for the outcome of the final voyage. Sure he was probably arrogantly and blindly proud and driven to make good speed, but he was under clear orders to make haste, and the ship had rivets made of substandard soft steel, the ship design impressed but in fact could not do what it was cracked up to, there was never an intention to save all lives aboard in the event of a disaster, in fact the only ones likely to be saved were the wealthy who mostly had access to lifeboats. Then there were the icebergs.
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taniwha
Ye-up, And it goes way back.
Between them both, Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton would arguably have to shoulder the biggest part of the blame for the destruction of American capitalism. The legislation they passed as well as that passed during the terms of presidency of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush jnr led directly to the smoking embers of what was once the economic engine of the world.
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taniwha
Superlib
No, just a month ago.
Posted in: 3,000 Christians flee Mosul 'killing campaign'
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taniwha
WilliB
Hahaha, I guess you never bother to look past your service manual, whatever that is.
Yeah well. Here's a list of the 'propaganda' I used regularly as evidence for pretty much every claim I ever made on JT - check them out, my old posts are still there in the JapanToday archives. I'd call these sources evidence myself.
These are from memory and starting with those I referred to the most descending to those referred to the least. The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times (usually to point out the 'liberal lap doggyness' of its editorials and columns, The Economist, The Washington Post, Asahi Shimbun, Asia Times, The Economic Policy Institute (US), the International Monetary Fund reports (mostly for the press), The Australian Financial Review, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Japanese magazine Weekly Asahi.
Of course also, various government draft reports and UN reports (various) For analysis, yes, I did my own, but depended mostly on that from the WSWS.org which as I have already pointed out was pretty much always correct, as it has turned out.
You can argue if you want, but pal, the record is what it is. And you can just howl into the wind if you like.
Posted in: 3,000 Christians flee Mosul 'killing campaign'
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taniwha
Actually the US dollar was not in "ascendancy" then, the word should be 'dominance'. That sentence should read so; "This would reap huge profits for the US corporates and most importantly the hope was to maintain the dominance of the US dollar.
Posted in: 3,000 Christians flee Mosul 'killing campaign'
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taniwha
This is just further in response to your petulant protest that the predictions were 'cherry picked after the event'. Well, no, for the record that is totally incorrect, chump.
These sectarian killings, the topic of the above article, were so totally predictable that the warnings were given years ago back as far at least as the time of the invasion. I passed these warnings on myself in my posts on the JT boards.
I also posted and debated on JT that the war in Iraq would financially destroy the US before they managed to secure the oil reserves in the ME. The reason being the US was loaded with so much debt, its loans from Asia in particular would demolish the US if those countries ever decided to pull their investments out of the US. I posted all this in 2004 on JT repeatedly over that year.
I posted cyber-mountains of supporting evidence for all of the above claims I made on JT. I pointed out the reason the US was in Iraq was not to bring democracy, nor to avenge the Twin Towers, that was all bald lies as well as obfuscation. The real reason was in the first stage to gain strategic localities for military bases with the purpose of destroying all opposition (e.g. Iran) to its goal of controlling access to the ME oil and gas reserves. This would reap huge profits for the US corporates and most importantly the hope was to maintain the ascendancy of the US dollar.
'Hand picked predictions' you propose? Well, only in so far as I harvested the research of others (for mostly the analysis done by wsws.org). Those researchers were correct, and that meant that more than 90% of my 'predictions' on JT were also correct. Including who was going to be president in the last two elections - and most importantly why!
So dude, I came back. Just prior to the next election and as it turns out the next big depression (which I also warned was coming). If anyone has read the sources I have put up here they could also have made the same statements, and indeed may have. I've been away for almost 2 years so wouldn't know. I can tell you one thing, as you are not an International Socialist you probably make investments don't you? Like the stock market, currency markets, maybe commodities?
Acting according to the info that was in my posts, and doing it wisely of course, would have made you a bundle. Ironical isn't it. That would have been verification of the analysis I used, the 'cherry picked predictions' if you like.
Its all their in the JT archives. Enough said.
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taniwha
Mind translating all of that, for the rest of us. Like, what exactly do you think 'dialectic materialists' means? You know, really means?
Posted in: Anger against U.S. mounts as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP
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taniwha
Well, that's because I don't think I need bother convincing you, Coulro.
Posted in: 3,000 Christians flee Mosul 'killing campaign'
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taniwha
No, well, yes and no, here's the funny bit. The US got some of the oil in Iraq at least, but the cost was their banks. Finance was so tight, they couldn't even stomach the threat of another field of military involvement so the gave North Korea, get this, they gave North Korea what it wanted. They took it off the list of the 3 biggest baddies.
Its probably worth considering also how the US has also lost a good chunk of their collective soul.
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taniwha
Haaa. Nice, yes, real nice.
And on your knees financially at least, is likely where you and /or your kin and/or your neighbors will soon be. And guess what, you will never even understand why this is happening to you and yours. But that is the nature of allowing yourself to be sold an illusion, and then clinging to it even when the lie is revealed.
Posted in: Anger against U.S. mounts as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP