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 (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
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weedkila
presto345: "I hear from my acquaintances who visit China regularly that people are surprised when the subject comes up. They don't seem to comprehend the concept of patents and copyright."
Patents and copyrights were introduced long ago by the establishment to protect their monopolies and to ensure their control over people continued. People in the West (especially) have been brainwashed through the media to believe that copyright and the pirating of goods is a crime. But who does it really hurt when some Asian counterfeiting outfit decides to pirate DVDs, Louis Vuitton handbags or Rolex watches?
On a related note, it was in the 1400s to the 1600s and onwards that the Gutenberg printing press was invented and its influence spread. The printing press brought big problems for the establishment of the day through the spread of information about how the Catholic Church was deceiving people. Through the printed word the average person could at last compare the Bible vs the Church's word and see the truth. This initially led to the Reformation and Protestantism (protest) and it changed society for the better in a big way.
Getting back to copyright and patents, the establishment created these legal mechanisms after the printing press had already been invented to try to protect their doctrines so that they could continue their suppression of information and control of people as much as possible. Unfortunately for them the free-flow of information which the Gutenberg press provided led to the opening up in almost every aspect of society; the British parliament was established, religious movements started and people became freer and more innovative.
Like in the old days, this treaty signed in Tokyo to "fight" counterfeit and pirated goods seems to be just another one of the establishment's efforts to reign in people's freedom created in large part by the runaway Internet "reformation".
Posted in: 8 nations sign anti-counterfeiting treaty in Tokyo
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weedkila
More hypocrisy ... It's ok for the privately-owned central banks like the Fed, BOJ, ECB etc to issue counterfeit money and profit from it but when the plebs try the same (printing up cash, pirating goods, whatever) it becomes a criminal offence.
The politicians who are in the pay of the bankers and corporations create legislation to punish anyone who is a potential competitor to them but the big banks and corporations are protected. That's where the REAL organised crime is, at the top.
We need to return to common law (or something similar), not the corporate law we currently have which only benefits the establishment.
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weedkila
Laguna,
I don't denigrate the advances made, far from it. But looking at it from a globalist's point of view doing away with borders is a big deal and as I understand it we are close to regressing back to totalitarianism through this globalisation process. The 'free trade' agreements, currency issues and Unions, such as the EU, are part of this process of centralisation of power and resources. This cabal of fabulously wealthy banking families (and sundry) through their vast wealth create problems such as global warming, central banking, the EU, peak oil, etc etc, and then come in with the solutions which furthers the agenda. Thesis, Antithesis. It's being done stealthily but is now coming much more blatant if you have eyes to see.
You mention colonialism and mercantilism as perhaps something that happened in the past. It's still there but colonialism simply went behind the scenes -- easier to control people when they don't realise they're behind invisible bars -- while mercantilism is alive and well. These banking families have been behind all the major wars for at least the last 100 years or so and probably longer. And yes, all out war is unthinkable, but it's how the PTB reset the system when the global economy fails, as it always does eventually. They finance and profit from both sides of a conflict and control the outcome.
You mention improvements. As I said to ubikwit, take your money out of their banks. Buy from small vendors rather than large corporations. Inform yourself and others about this issue.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." Henry Kissinger
ps; you can call me Roundup if you want.
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weedkila
Laguna,
I don't see it as countries so much as globalist bankers pulling the strings. Countries are part of the dialectic to make it seem as if the politicians are working on behalf of their citizens. For the most part, they're not.
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weedkila
ubikwit,
Good points. As for DOWN WITH THE EMPIRE, you can do something about it by withdrawing your savings from their banks, especially any of the large banks. It's the Empire's lifeblood.
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@beangry
So if the politicians and bureaucrats don't give a toss about the little guy who do they work for? Seriously. (George Carlin once said it's a big club and you're not in it.)
Why is it that politicians (or the economy) always need more money for "their pet useless projects"? Crustpunker (3:45) put it well. But why?
Good luck if you are investing in those currencies.
What is happening is more than a repeat of the 30s, actually it's worse. Or maybe better in a way, depending on how you look at it. The present system is unsustainable and imploding. That's the reason for all the QE; inflate, inflate, inflate to keep the sinking ship afloat. Don't mean to be negative, it's just how it is.
Posted in: Japan to boost currency intervention war chest by Y15 trillion
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weedkila
beangry,
There is no safe haven currency left, even the Swiss franc is now going the way of all other currencies. They tell us the yen is strong but how can that be with all the QE going on? It's just that the Fed is the worst offender. I've read that Japan started its QE program after its economic bubble burst in the 90s. (Had to save the banks somehow.) The yen looks strong but really it's just stronger in comparison to other weaker fiat currencies. Basically they're all being printed into oblivion. That's how I understand it anyway.
Posted in: Japan to boost currency intervention war chest by Y15 trillion
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weedkila
smithinjapan -- So where's THIS 15 trillion going to come from??
The government takes out a loan from the central bank who digitally print it from nothing. Basically it's just an entry on a computer terminal and the taxpayer later pays it back with interest. This is how money comes into being, ie; through debt. May be hard to believe but if you look into it you'll find it's a ponzi scheme. That's why there is always a need growth and more money - to keep the thing going! I probably go on about this but it's important. The following animation explains it all with quotes straight from the bankers mouths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3sKwwAaCU
Posted in: Japan to boost currency intervention war chest by Y15 trillion
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weedkila
Why do they need to be tied together? Isn't it better to have a barrier between countries which acts like a bulkhead in a ship's hull so that if, say, one country's economy crashes the damage is contained and doesn't spread to other countries?
On a bigger scale look at what's happening now in Europe and especially Greece. By opening up borders and having a distorted economic union, a small country like Greece (or any of the other PIGS) defaulting on its debt can pull the world economy down with it.
How did NAFTA turn out? As far as I know it's been causing all sorts of problems for the people of the US, ie; high unemployment, outsourcing, cheaper wages, increase in illegal immigration etc.
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@globalwatcher
As I said, look at Iceland. It's doing just fine. With a free market economy and without the shackles that the bankers have imposed on us the economy would bounce back in no time.
As for the too-big-to-fail financial institutions, let them fail. They gambled and lost and are part of the problem. Why should the taxpayer have to keep bailing them out?
@Antonios_M,
That's what the corporate media keep telling us; chaos and depression etc but isn't that what we basically already have? It's a fear based meme which works to the elites' advantage.
I admit that the difference between Europe defaulting and Iceland defaulting is enormous and there will be upheaval, no doubt about it, but what's the alternative? The system we currently have has already collapsed (in 2008). You can't just keep bailing out the banks, oppressing and stealing from the people to create a bigger monster. The plug has to be pulled at some stage. Why prolong it to the bankers advantage?
The depression of the '30s was made worse because the banks triggered and controlled the collapse. It was a huge transfer of wealth then as it is now. The difference this time is that they have the spotlight of the internet on them. Who wants to live under global tyranny because unfortunately that's what it's about; the centralisation of power and wealth and a push for global governance. That's the real reason they are so desperate to keep the EU together.
You're probably right but my point was that it's better than what we have now. The only other real alternative I know of is the Austrian model (a REAL free market) which runs rings around what we have now and I hope it's what we end up with.
Posted in: Japan may buy more European bonds, finance minister says
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@globalwatcher
It's not a necessary action. To the contrary there is nothing wrong with collapse of the Euro and European Union. Look at what's happening in Iceland. They're finally free of the banking cartel and its financial terrorism. The people of the world have been defrauded by these bankers to pay a debt we do not owe. The way out is to not pay, ie, default. Central banks should be owned by the people and loans should be issued interest free.
Posted in: Japan may buy more European bonds, finance minister says
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weedkila
So the government has already thrown away at least 2.68 billion euros of the Japanese taxpayers money without their permission and they want to throw away more. At this point of the game how does buying euro bonds benefit the Japanese? It's simply a transfer of wealth from the middle class to bail out the banks.
There was a money trader on the BBC this morning who was quite candid in saying the euro is finished and that the bailouts won't work. It seems the finance minister does not work for the Japanese people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC19fEqR5bA
I see also that the insiders are pulling out of the stock market for the coming crash.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-the-insiders-have-quit-buying-stocks-2011-09-21?dist=beforebell
Posted in: Japan may buy more European bonds, finance minister says
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weedkila
Good post tkoind2.
The only thing I would add is that the Wall Street protesters should be protesting outside the Fed (and central banks in other countries too). Wall Street investment banks like Goldman Sachs and JPM were blamed and took the hit after the Great Depression but the same old fractional reserve banking system was allowed to continue to the point of what we have today. In other words, the little guys (relatively speaking) got a spanking while the REAL money and root of the problem -- the owners of the central banks -- got away with it.
The way the fractional reserve system was designed is mathematically impossible to support. That's the real problem. How can you lend out money and expect more back than you originally lent when it doesn't exist? Banks never lend the interest, only the principle! Because of this the economic and financial system need to grow and grow as society tries to find the interest to pay back the banks. Basically it's a pyramid scheme. The leveraging along with the fraud (derivatives, housing market problems etc) just makes matters worse.
Fractional reserve banking is the reason why there's inflation, insane money printing and always a need for growth. When I was a kid being a millionaire meant having money. Now it's billionaires and in some cases even trillionaires.
What our leaders are currently doing is plugging one hole in their sinking ship then having to find another one to fill the hole they've just taken the first plug from. The coming crash was always inevitable, especially after the gold standard was ditched.
They mislead and make it sound complex but if you look at the fundamentals it's really quite simple. :)
Posted in: Economic worries escalating around the world
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@globalwatcher
Maybe that's the point. For the most part they simply pretend to bicker and have differences. They wait for the market/public to react and then come in with the solution they prefer. The false Left vs Right paradigm...
@Jarad Norman
It's China that's holding up the world economy by a thread. But they have many problems including runaway inflation and are verging on a collapse at some point too. Again, this eventually happens to all economies based on a system of fiat currency issued from a central bank.
The euro was sold as a way to 'eliminate the need for exchange' but was really put in place as a trial run for a global currency. That's still the issue. At one point there was also a push for a North American union (US, Canada and Mexico). They even had a single currency ready to go called the Amero (google it). Fortunately the NA Union failed to get off the ground although I believe the politicians and others are still pushing for it.
As I said earlier, the European Union is fascist. The people who make the decisions are unelected and they ignore what the public want. But don't take my word for it. That's coming from a MEP, Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage: Greece under Commission-ECB-IMF Dictatorship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pry5iL4TIa8
Farage Kicks EU A**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=S5sVBYUJQOY
Posted in: G-20 tries to find global economic solutions
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weedkila
@JapanGal, Konsta,
I don't think Europe was created to overcome the US, at least that wasn't the main reason. And, Kosta, I feel some sympathy for the German people. They are not going to get any of their hard earned money back. The bailout money was transferred to the zombified banks in France and Germany via the corrupt Greek government. And, yes, that means that none of the bailout money went to the Greek people either. The Greeks are expected to go thru austerity but have no say in what their govt does, their assets are sold off to the banks and they don't see a dime. No wonder they're rioting. The big banks and the governments are all sleeping in the same bed.
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weedkila
Thesis - Antithesis. Our overlords created the problem in the first place with an economy based around privately owned central banks. From what I read it now it seems that they're moving towards a 'global' solution; ie, yet more centralisation of power and a centralised currency, aka SDRs. Out of chaos, order?
For the sake of a freer world I hope the euro and fascist European union implode before the situation becomes worse than it already is.
They talk about "strong, stable balanced growth" while imposing austerity. Why is it that they always need growth?! How much more consumerism do we need?!
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weedkila
nuclear safety = oxymoron
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weedkila
But not the public's safety?! The government recently stated that they're removing radioactive debris from the Tohoku area to burn at waste disposal plants all over Japan. This is actually a brilliant idea! When cancers and other illnesses start to rise in other areas of Japan that'll make it more difficult for the parents of ill children in Fukushima, Miyagi etc to sue. You can check the following link to see if there's one near you.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/radiation-in-japan-list-of-prefectures.html
On a similar note, in order to dispel rumours about radiation contamination of products from Fukushima and neighbouring prefectures, the Japanese government is going to offer these products along with canned fish from the affected areas to developing countries like Pakistan as part of its ODA. They're 'kindly' donating this aid for free. Well at least the government has been more forthcoming about presenting accurate information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKMUH0yECfw
Posted in: Noda tells U.N. Japan will provide accurate info on nuclear crisis
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weedkila
Lol -- I agree with beangry's comment. To achieve a cold shutdown means inserting rods into the fuel to stop the reaction. How is that possible when the fuel has already melted, along with the rods, the zirconium cladding etc to form a molten mess called corium. To make matters worse it's already made its way through the bottom of the containment vessels. Good luck with a cold shutdown by the end of the year, Tepco.
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@teesquared
You say you don't give central bankers that much credit and that they have no idea what they're doing. If you see their job as getting the world economy up and running smoothly again then, yes, it would appear that they have no idea what they're doing. But I don't think that's the case.
Central bankers like Ben Bernanke work for the power elite -- look at who owns the Fed -- and take their orders from them. Since the 2008 crash when the Western banking system became insolvent they have been playing for time and there has been a huge transfer of wealth, virtually interest free, to keep the system afloat. I've read that somewhere between $20 - 50 Trillion has been somewhere injected into the zombie banks and economy to keep them going.
If you consider that the Central Banks, Wall Street and the City of London are on the same team then it's becomes obvious why the central bankers are making the decisions they are. They're saving their own and don't give a toss about misusing the public's money. If you have the time take a look at the following link explaining that the Fed provided $16 Trillion in financial assistance to large banks and corporations. This came light as a result of an audit but was hardly reported on in the MSM.
http://www.thedailybell.com/bellinclude.cfm?id=2729&perpage=20
I don't know anything about the Salomon Bros gold lease scam. But like I say these guys are on the same 'tag team' so it would not surprise me if it was collusion, made to look like incompetence on the part of central bankers. What I do recall is that a large amount of gold bullion was moved and subsequently disappeared from at least one of the basements of the WTC buildings just days before they were attacked on 911 (google it). I wonder whether the gold you're talking about is the same as what disappeared. Curiously, the 3rd NY building to collapse on that day was the Salomon Brothers building (WTC7).
Posted in: Gov't unveils series of measures to deal with strong yen