JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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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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tigris
"hundreds"?? Please check your facts.
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tigris
Sarge It's not the amount of money which stinks - it is the amount of hypocrisy
Posted in: Palin denies accepting $150,000 in designer clothes
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Simon_Foston
I know..., but you completely missed my point: http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/mccaincampaignmocksobamasc.php
Please scroll down and read carefully. Thanks.
Posted in: Palin denies accepting $150,000 in designer clothes
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tigris
Hey, what's wrong with spending $22,800 in 2 weeks for make-up?
Sarah Palin is a celebrity. The biggest celebrity in the world, comparable to Tom Cruise, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
Yet, despite all of the fans, paparazzi and media adoration, the American people still have questions: Is Sarah Palin prepared to lead? Is being famous the same as being a credible commander in chief?
On issues big and small, there is a gap between Sarah Palin's soaring rhetoric and celebrity and the facts behind them. What she says and what she does are often two very different things, leaving the American people to wonder what she actually believes, or if she believes in anything beyond herself.
(Special thanks to Rick Davis, July 30, 2008)
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tigris
From the Asahi Shimbun: [......] On Sept. 9, the suspects ran over the man's right leg with a car and stole his wallet containing about 34,000 yen and cellphone in Onojo, Fukuoka Prefecture, police said. The six are also suspected of later extorting 20,000 yen in cash from the officer and withdrawing 200,000 yen in cash from an ATM using his credit card http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200810220062.html
Posted in: Policeman run over, robbed while on blind date in Fukuoka
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tigris
This so called 'debate' was utterly boring. Without follow-up questions and the participants not permitted to address each other with direct questions, this hardly deserves to be called a debate. It is at best a public interview. Most of the answers were stock phrases we have heard since months or years - often ignoring the question or (changed) reality. A kind of verbal wallpaper, similar to the comments of Sarge and others on this board.
Posted in: McCain, Obama trade barbs in 2nd debate
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tigris
Nippon5, please don't take it personal.
Yes, originally..... But this is a dream every common man has from Africa to the Northpole. Originally it didn't mean to make your first million after 2 years on the job and get filthy rich (or the possibility of it).
George Carlin put it well: "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." According to most comments the reasons for todays problems are caused by the drivers asleep at the wheel. Well, it's not just the drivers, the passengers were sleeping too.
Posted in: Dow plunges after Congress rejects bailout bill
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tigris
They will start printing $$$ till the presses run dry. And maybe, just maybe - when the volume of the money bag exceeds the volume of the groceries you get for it - will the last Americans in denial realize that the American Dream is just a bubble and ultimately parasitic.
Posted in: Dow plunges after Congress rejects bailout bill
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tigris
American capitalism = socialism for the rich
Posted in: Bush warns of recession without rescue plan; invites Mccain, Obama to meeting
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tigris
Creative accounting? These guys create nothing. They are locusts, parasites. Good riddance. Next AIG.
Posted in: Bank of Japan injects Y2.5 tril into markets as Lehman Japan also files for bankruptcy
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tigris
Posted in: Cheney accuses Russia of using brute force, intimidation over Georgia
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tigris
Class, elegance and for that matter confidence don't really come to mind when walking in Shibuya.
Posted in: Young women’s summer fashions show too much, poll reveals
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tigris
From the EIA, Official Energy Statistics from the US Government:
"The United States uses a lot of energy—nearly a million dollars worth each minute, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. With less than five percent of the world’s population, we consume about one fourth of the world’s energy resources."
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/saving/efficiency/savingenergy.html
Posted in: America is the most selfish country.
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tigris
I do not like Ishihara, but...
Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy.
The ecological footprint (resource demand) of the average American is 9,5 hectar per person, global average is 2,2 hectar per person. Most Europeans require about 5 hectar per person to sustain their lifestyle.
The average individual daily consumption of water in the US is 159 gallons, while more than half the world's population lives on 25 gallons.
Americans carry $2.56 trln in consumer debt according to the Federal Reserve Board. The average household’s credit card debt is $8,565. US savings rate, which exceeded 8% of disposable income in 1968, stood at 0.4% at the end of the first quarter of 2008, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Various sources, for more information and sobering numbers: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/index.php
http://www.facingthefuture.org/
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tigris
Yes we can translates as "Ja, wir können" same order as in English. And I still think that Obama was right for not pandering to an audience in Germany in garbled heavy accented German. After all he is talking a lot about dignity.
Posted in: Obama addresses 200,000 in Berlin with message of unity for world's people
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tigris
"Ja können wir" is still nonsense. "Können wir?" is a question and doesn't make sense after "ja". Obama is wise not to make a fool of himself.
Posted in: Obama addresses 200,000 in Berlin with message of unity for world's people
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tigris
RomeoRamenII: You should stop using German in your posts. Not only is it wasted on a lot of folks who don't speak German as adaydream notes, it is wasted also on the ones who do. "Ja! Wier kannen" doesn't make sense. The word "wier" doesn't exist in the German language nor does the word "panderer" in your first post."kannen" is the plural of (cooking) pot. No German will understand what you are talking about. Maybe this is why Obama doesn't bother to speak German. He is too smart to embarrass himself with such garbl.
Posted in: Obama addresses 200,000 in Berlin with message of unity for world's people
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tigris
200,000? Probably all of them American lefties. Can't really be the America hating Germans/Europeans some people on this board are blabbering on about.
Posted in: Obama addresses 200,000 in Berlin with message of unity for world's people
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tigris
Actually the excitement is limited to Mr. Wowereit. A more balanced article about this from the German press: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,564635,00.html
Posted in: Germans get excited over prospect of Barack Obama visit
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tigris
ODA is the transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Posted in: U2's Bono urges Japan to take lead on African development