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He is smart. I don't think that he believe on what he says but maybe he…
Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse
lol... this just proves that most powerful Japanese politicians hang out at Japan's 2ch and Youtube…
Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse
In History, Philippines was been under Spanish rule for 300 years and less than 5 or…
Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse
"Iraq's political instability" Saddam had things all nice and stable there until Dubya came in and…
Posted in: Attacks kill 95 in Iraq
"Job done, George Dubya?" Or, job done, Islamic nutcases?
Posted in: Attacks kill 95 in Iraq
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ubikwit
The British woman looks like a gaunt desperado stuck on so-called heroin chic.
The Japanese woman is clearly a compassionate sentient being.
Posted in: Stella show
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ubikwit
Obama pays lip service to "American values", but he promotes people with an empire mentality.
Posted in: Obama names Japan expert as top Asia diplomat
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Hollywood sucks, as do the movies discussed in this article.
Posted in: JJ Abrams boldly going from 'Trek' to 'Star Wars'
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ubikwit
@presto Yes, that and also having the leverage to exert pressure to force some action on the part of Sony. He is trying to promulgate and exploit a weakness of Sony that he can actually make worse by applying pressure, forcing them to (re)act in response to his high-profile prevarications.
The phrase
is indicative of the fact that the finance industry stands to profit if such a course were adopted, but no one else. The so-called "hidden value" would simply be funny money swept up and away in trading transactions, with no impact on the real economy.
Posted in: U.S. hedge fund boss lobbies for breakup of Sony
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Like all war mongers, Hashimoto is a sociopath.
Posted in: Gov't - but not Ishihara - backs away from Hashimoto's comfort women comments
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Aso is still an idiot and he proves to the world that he knows next to nothing about the history of his country or the region.
China and Japan had rather productive relations between the Qin and Tang dynasties, and was particularly influenced by Chinese culture during the Tang dynasty, when many Japanese diplomatic missions were made and many books, etc. were brought to Japan from China.
Students of Buddhism will know that Kukai, Saicho and Esai Zenji all traveled to China and sent time there studying and being ordained, with Kukai being made the leader of the Shingon sect by his Chinese teacher. There are many other examples of positive interaction. China feel into decline toward the end of the Tang, and that is when Japan stopped sending diplomatic missions and scholars, but trade continued.
@House Atreides The 1274 invasion may have been something of a departure, but that was after China had been sacked by the Mongols, who then attempted to invade Japan.
Posted in: Japan has never had smooth ties with China: Aso
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ubikwit
It was obvious that the ridiculously overvalued yen had to (and could) be reigned in.
Noda was a tool, allowing the US Federal Reserve to act in a manner that unilaterally inflated the value of the ye, and Wall St. capitalized on that.
Noda's idiocy allowed the LDP to sweep back into power.
The real problem with Abe is that he is aligned with factions of the US establishment connected to the military industrial complex.
Posted in: Japan's neighbors cautiously welcome 'Abenomics'
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ubikwit
An exchange rate of 100 yen to the dollar is what the policy should be geared toward at present. This is more about international balance than domestic inflation, though the two are obviously connected.
Posted in: BOJ minutes show some members wary of risks of bold easing
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There's nothing wrong with the Constitution.
These troglodytes don't have the cranial capacity to actually accomplish something within the light of day in the modern world of democracy, so they want to throw things back to the good old days of FEUDALISM!
Posted in: Abe's 'stealth' constitution plan raises civil rights fears
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ubikwit
@kurisupu From the salaries of the newly employed, for one. The overvalued yen hits the manufacturing sector and puts people out of work. That creates added strain on the social welfare system at the same time as resulting in reduced income from taxes. The American QE is all about keeping the economy afloat and reducing unemployment. The Empire Finance sectors of the US and UK and their crony politicos are responsible for the present debacle.
Posted in: 'Abenomics' detractors brace for 'I told you so' moment
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The only thing that Abe has done right thus far is to take on the no-brainer task of addressing the ridiculously overvalued yen. Reversing the damage caused by Noda under the yoke of his Goldman Sachs handlers is the easy part.
Posted in: 'Abenomics' detractors brace for 'I told you so' moment
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ubikwit
Would be nice to have captions for the photos.
Posted in: Good gardening
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ubikwit
Interesting. Where will this go from here?
Posted in: Italian judge rejects Nomura funds seizure
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This is something I've been pointing out here since the onset of the TPP fanfare.
TPP is a divide-and-conquer wolf in sheep's clothing.
Why can't we work withing the GATT framework? It would seem that the TPP will have to be in conformance with GATT, at any rate.
Tarrifs are not necessarily a bad thing. For one, they protect small countries from larger countries in many ways. That is why GATT has provisions that prevent economies of scale from dictating trade policy.
Neo-liberal free-marketism is a smoke-and-mirrors screening of corporate activity against small enterprise around the world.
Posted in: WTO faces irrelevance: NZ trade minister
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ubikwit
shut down the funny money express.
Posted in: Italian police seize JP Morgan records in Monte Paschi probe
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ubikwit
lock 'em up.
Posted in: Italian police seize 1.8 bil euros from Japan's Nomura
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ubikwit
Like Reagan, she was a tool of the ruling class.
Rest in ...peace?
I doubt it. She had a negative impact on many more peoples lives than she had a positive impact on.
It makes me ill to look at her photos. I loath the sector of Britain she represents.
Sorry to speak ill of the dead, but the pomp was not deserved.
A much more low key affair was in order, and it probably represents partisan opportunism and a lack of respect that it wasn't otherwise.
Posted in: Thatcher's body lies in chapel as funeral debate rages
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ubikwit
The problem with this report is that there is no mention of the collaboration between the crime organizations and Western intelligence agencies interested in leveraging the criminal organizations to destabilize the respective societies alla mode Laissez-faire.
Posted in: Organized crime worth $90 bil a year in East Asia, Pacific
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ubikwit
Well, the West was aiming to displace a thorn in its side in the form of an Iranian-allied Syria, but the lack of foresight backfired, just like with Iraq.
Now it's a total calamity, and the only way out has to be elections, which Assad will probably win.
So the best the West can probably do is to gain concessions on reform from Assad in return for helping halt the violence.
That's what they should have done in the first place, instead of trying to discredit him.
Posted in: West struggles for Syria strategy
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@Hikozaemon
The point you miss is the burakumin and yakuza connection, for which he himself, and not just his father, is well known.
According to most studies on the yakuza, approximately 60% are burakumin.
The main point should have been (if it wasn't) the potential of an organized-crime connected politician rising in popularity.
Posted in: Hashimoto's feud with Asahi resurfaces