JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
-
1
Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
-
2
Confrontation
-
3
U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
-
4
California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
-
5
Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
-
- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
-
- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
-
- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
0
taniwha
Hey Coulro,
How you going?
Yes, the de-stabalization of Iraq is exactly the reason that ethnic cleansing is taking place. The killing of Christians in Mosul by Sunni is precisely an example of that!
Dude, I was on this board back before 2003, based in Japan and with a little free time. Actually right through 2000 until end of 2003. A bit of a sabbatical since then up until a month ago.
I was one of the first here to say outright prior to the invasion it would be a disaster, be unwinnable, destroy Iraq, further destabilize the ME and most likely culminate in Turkey and Iran involved in the conflict and eventual conflagration. That eventually it is likely to develop into a world war with the US being confronted by not only its self-determined adversaries Russia and China, but also Europe which would eventually form a Euro-block of a sort and have it out also. That the conflict could go nuclear at any stage, most likely when the US used some of their new nuclear devices on Iran targets.
The last stage hasn't happened - yet. But it is looking increasingly likely.
Posted in: 3,000 Christians flee Mosul 'killing campaign'
0
taniwha
There will one day be an international tribunal to bring to justice those criminals who have destroyed Iraq. It is a war crime that in scale if not in degree of carnage parallels Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Posted in: 3,000 Christians flee Mosul 'killing campaign'
0
taniwha
The de-stabalisation of Iraq was widely predicted prior to the 2003 invasion. However, the plan to invade and occupy Iraq had been a long time in the planning, years in fact, and well before 2001. There was really nothing to stand between the Bush administration and the plan they intended to action, except the Democrats and the European governments and they did absolutely nothing except prostrate themselves behind the idea to grab the oil seeing the US was going for it anyway.
As for Tony Blair's chummy support of Bush it was Chamberlain colluding with Hitler all over again.
Christians, Shiites, Kurds, and Sunnis, and the rest of the groups definable by the ethnic and religious ties they share, and in no particular order, are all victims of the destabilization of their country. In short, the process of ethnic cleansing now underway is an effect of the balkanisation of Iraq caused by the invasion and continued occupation.
And none of it has been unforseen.
Posted in: 3,000 Christians flee Mosul 'killing campaign'
0
taniwha
An estimated one million people, some of them may have been Christian, who knows now, all of them killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq. And for what?
Three million Iraqi people and counting, some of the are likely to be Christian, refugees since and because of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Enlighten us with your reactionary wit.
Posted in: Anger against U.S. mounts as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP
0
taniwha
What are you posing as here, a drill sergeant?
Condemnation of the initial invasion of Iraq, declaring it illegal under international law has come from he International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Geneva, forty-three Australian experts in international law and human rights legislation, 100 US law professors.
Senior officers in the US military have even accused Bush of war crimes in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (now retired) is one. He served as the deputy commanding general for support for the Third Army for ten months in Kuwait during the early days of the Iraq occupation.
Illegal US facilities such as those detention sites within war zones e.g. Iraq, and at Guantanamo Bay, and so-called CIA black sites around the globe, all violate the US Constitution and international human rights standards e.g. the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention Against Torture. As do the use of chemical weapons and attacks on ambulances and civilians e.g. Fallujah.
As for the reason no charges have been yet laid as yet, the answer is quite simple. The US is the most powerful military in the world, and it has in the last few years behaved as renegade terrorist state. The protection the war criminals currently enjoy will not last. Hitler's didn't, and neither did Saddam's.
Posted in: Anger against U.S. mounts as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP
0
taniwha
The key words, well done.
Your post is a good example of how a lot of voters see the issue - confused. But you know all it really takes is time out to think about what has actually happened just in the time since you graduated from High school, which probably wasn't so long ago. Could be a stretch but give it a go.
Posted in: Anger against U.S. mounts as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP
0
taniwha
The reality is the US led invasion of Iraq was not only immoral but illegal, at least under international law as it stood at the time. No backward re-assessment of morality or legality can change this. But people have been fed an illusion based in large part on complete lies. It was never about bringing democray to the people of Iraq, because improving the lives of Iraqis was never an end goal of the invasion.
Even while the US people are reeling from the shock of realising their dollar is worth next to nothing to them, there are an apparent majority who do not connect their domestic situation with that of the victims in Iraq or Afghanistan. But they are connected. The same bunch in Washington that determined US foreign policy also determined US domestic policy and those reasons underlying both are no different.
The number one aim of America's wealthy elite, the industrialists, the bankers, and essentially the nation's aristocracy making up that thin layer, is to maintain their wealth and power, in short the privilege they have had for so long now.
When Bush, McCain, and the Republicans claimed 'the surge to have worked' what they didn't elaborate on was how drop in violence in Iraq was a direct result of having killed virtually all dissent. They've bled Iraq white, and in the process they have ethnically cleansed virtually the entire nation. Where that was not possible and where conditions meant that they couldn't wait for the proxies they armed to do the job for them, the occupiers erected giant concrete walls dividing up the city of Baghdad.
None of this can last for long. Children grow into youth and want to revenge their families, border wars that are the result of de-stabalization of Iraq mean other countries, Turkey for example enter the picture. Iran is already there, as was always expected because Iraq was supposed to be the staging platform for an invasion of Iran in the first place.
The Shiites then are just one of the main factions of the population that will come back to eject the occupiers. This nationalist struggle has been repeated all over the world. The classic example in American history was Vietnam. History repeats, unfortunately for those who pay no attention to it.
Posted in: Anger against U.S. mounts as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP
0
taniwha
Iraq, Afghanistan, and now possibly Pakistan, the truth is the war on terror has been one huge unmitigated disaster from beginning to end for absolutely everyone. It was always only a smokescreen to hide the true aim of securing ME oil and gas for the profit of a very few wealthy elite through corporate payback, and by controlling access to those resources to enable the US to maintain the dominance of the dollar. The goals remain historically ignoble and the scale of loss of life that has resulted will be yet to emerge in war crimes hearings one day in the not too distant future.
Posted in: Anger against U.S. mounts as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP
0
taniwha
The clearest call for the draft was made by Obama when he spoke in a forum on national service at Columbia university in New York City back in early September. John McCain also spoke at the same forum. Obama's call for the reinstatement of compulsory military service was barely mentioned in the national media.
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
0
taniwha
Everton2
A simple calculation and Obama's own words.
A corporate dictatorship is what is in reality in place now. In 2009 you are going to see social chaos in the US, people are angry now, they are going to be really angry and desperate next year. The US dollar will have plummeted, but prices will still be high for just about everything, AND the corporations will still be deciding what is and is not legislated in Congress where their interests are concerned.
Under these coming extreme condition continued corporate dictatorship will necessitate political dictatorship.
Obama has many times already, most recently during the 2nd debate, re-iterated the harsh cutbacks in social services that will be necessary to make average Americans pay for the greed of Wall Street. He has also along with McCain bayed for more blood to be shed in the name of patriotism on the soil of a foreign state. This is the usual call from capitalist leaders when the economy reels toward depression. It will take the degree of repression that only dictatorship can offer to enable Obama/or McCain to carry out what they have already promised.
Obama is as you say, charismatic and smart. But so were many of the other dictators of the twentieth century. Mussolini, Hitler, and lets not forget Stalin and Mao, to name just 4 that also had those two attributes.
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
0
taniwha
Voting either McCain or Obama for president, means a vote for the continuing enrichment of the already wealthy elite and the complete destitution of the working class of America. The middle class is collapsing into the working class. As people are evicted from their homes and their jobs they fall out of the working class.
Voting for either the Republican or Democratic candidate for president will also mean voting for bigger and bloodier wars, more of them, and starting with their 1st term in office rather than later. Obama has already called for a return to the draft, should McCain get into office (and I am sure he will) there is no way at all his call for more troops abroad can be fulfilled without the draft.
One thing you can do is listen to the only real alternative there is on offer, that is Jerry White the presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party.
Jerry gives his reply to the 2nd presidential debate on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f105OlulLAI&eurl=http://www.wsws.org/
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
0
taniwha
More than a whiff of fascism? Maybe.
The faction of the ruling elite represented by the Republicans are now employing the kind campaign rhetoric Mussolini and Hitler's rode on in their climb to the top office in their nations. There's a lot at stake for this faction, and they will not relinquish their grip on power easily. Desperation has seen a move to whip up the most reactionary sections of the American population.
The calls from McCain's and Palin's audiences to literally terminate the Democratic presidential candidate's life have been directly sought by these two candidates. To say it is astonishingly irresponsible would be an understatement. In this environment of desperation and outrage how long will it be until a patsy is found to ensure McCain takes office?
Because the Democrats themselves represent the other main faction of the ruling elite we can see the same kinds of reactionary politics to be shaking the campaign of Barack Obama. Perhaps it is possible to construe the faction of the thin layer of ruling elite as being the moderate of their number, but most certainly they are every bit as desperate to secure their priviliged class, its power and wealth. What that means is that they too have swung to the right. The choice of Obama the man is indicative of their policy intentions which don't differ significantly from those of the faction represented by the Republican party.
Obama displays all the traits of the kind of leader that would transform president into dictator. So there isn't much to hope for in Obama as president, and a Democratic administraton.
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
0
taniwha
That should be the AIP (the Alaska Independence Party. That ALI is a typo.
Posted in: McCain steps up attacks on Obama over ties to Ayers
0
taniwha
SezWho2
Actually Timothy McVeigh is a name that really needs to be included in this discussion. So good on you for bringing it up here! Why? Because it is Palin who alongside McCain is persisting in connecting Obama with terrorism, which given the current environment takes the mudslinging they are indulging in several steps toward a much more dangerous conclusion.
What is a fact is that Palin's husband, and so possibly Palin too, is associated with an organisation that parallels the right-wing militia movement. It is this organization that is far more in kind than the Weatherman with these extreme neo-fascist groups, the kind that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols belonged too. The 1995 Oklahoma city bombing killed 168 people, and while the ALI have not done that, it has been associated with bomb making activities which has led to one death.
So it is perfectly apt for Sarah Palin to have similar connections with terror. Obama, though has not yet made those accusations. I imagine the hypocrisy of Palin's stance given her associations is ripe for the picking though. Watch out for tomorrows news coverage of fueding candidate.
And
Posted in: McCain steps up attacks on Obama over ties to Ayers
0
taniwha
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1847793,00.html?imw=Y
Time sees it differently. So do most other media with an online site, but I'll leave you to google them.
And, um, did anyone tell you that anyone can put what ever they like on Wiki. It is up to the next contributer to edit if they don't agree.
Ye-ahh, I promise I will try. Sorry.
Posted in: McCain steps up attacks on Obama over ties to Ayers
0
taniwha
Nippon5
You are right! It should have no bearing at all on the man now. Except for the role Ayers has been placed in, as his title "distinguished professor" clearly determines. Perhaps you would prefer they gave him the title "notorious professor".
Oh, and other than that being the entire substance of McCain & Palin's and the Republican claim that Obama is connected with a terrorist.
No, that's not what I said, and you are sounding a bit shrill.
No, two of the organisation are not in jail for that reason.
I'm talking about what we know. Facts. Not here-say or reactionary accusations. If you are talking about pipe bomb placed on a San Francisco Police Department window ledge in February 1970, which did result in death. That was NEVER conclusively attributed to the group. Certainly never by a court of law. You are sounding a lot like McCain & Palin.
In fact it was their modus operandi to bomb buildings that were closed and where there would be no people within harms way. They were interested in the media attention, not a death count.
Posted in: McCain steps up attacks on Obama over ties to Ayers
0
taniwha
Hahahahaha, Coulro, if you only knew.
Posted in: McCain steps up attacks on Obama over ties to Ayers
0
taniwha
Two points to note here about the McCain & Palin witch hunting sessions over a supposed Obama-Ayers connection.
Point 1: William Ayers now holds the title of 'distinguished professor" in the Education department at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Would he have been given the title if he had truly been the mad bomber McCain & Palin paint him as? The answer would have to be a big fat NO. That is unless you thought these kinds of institutions are above the law.
The truth shows just how ludicrous is the charges McCain & Palin/the Republican campaign levy against Ayers.
The total death toll attributed to the organisation Ayer's was part of, the Weather underground, amounts to 3. That's 3 people as compared to the 3 million estimated dead Vietnamese killed during the war the Weather Underground protested. And get this, those 3 people, who accidently blew themselves up, were all members-of-the-group-itself!
Point 2: this demonstrates the incredible hypocrisy of Palin's involvement in connecting Obama with 'terrorist Ayers'. Sarah Palin's husband was a member (and she herself a political sympathizer) of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP). The AIP call for the secession of Alaska from the union. They formed the Alaskan chapter of the Constitution Party, and it is this extreme right-wing organization advocating Christian theocratic rule in America. But here is where Palin's hypocrisy kicks in. In 1993, its founder, Joe Vogler, was killed when he blew himself up in what was described by the media as a “plastic-explosives sale gone bad."
Jerry White is the presidential candidate for the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in America. If you are looking for real change take 8 minutes and watch Jerry reply to the 2nd debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f105OlulLAI&feature=related
Posted in: McCain steps up attacks on Obama over ties to Ayers
0
taniwha
Hey Coulro,
I'm seeing Obama being fixed with quite a few labels at the moment. But you know my guess is he'd find being labeled a socialist to be the most offensive of them all.
Its because so many people are needing a political saviour and Barack Obama is the most articulate and charismatic politician to have run for president since JFK the disappointment is going to be massive, if he does get the presidency. In short, Obama is a nightmare waiting to happen.
Posted in: Race little altered by 2nd McCain, Obama debate
0
taniwha
Over in a site called Information Clearing House, there's an article by Adrian Salbuchi, "a prominent author and economic analyst based in Argentina." Apparently he "is part of the Argentine Second Republic Movement", so no, he is not a socialist.
Anyone who is wondering about the likely options the administration could well settle for should give this short article a read. It sets out the three most likely scenarios, and here you need to keep in mind that this is an economist who has worked in a country that suffered at the time one of the most devastating financial crises to hit any single nation.
The title ~~~ 'Get Your Dollars Out Now! FAST!!!'
You can find it here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20939.htm
Posted in: White House considers ownership stakes in banks