JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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yabits
A highly qualified judge who is also a Latina means that all of the US wins -- not just white people.
As for partisan points, I have noted a number of posts which crowed about how the previous administration put minorities in key positions.
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yabits
So he has. So he has.
How much farther can the Republicans sink?
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yabits
Yep. It's going to get a lot harder to attract a lot of non-white takers to the Republican white supremacy tent.
There are some decent Republican/conservatives left. Not, however, the ones who cry and scream "bigot!" over anyone who expresses pride, as Sotomayor does, over the many beauties of her Latino heritage. (As well as the advantages in making judgments her knowledge of two cultures gives her over the similarly educated non-Latino who knows only one.)
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yabits
That is one of the most laughable lines I've read in a long time.
Posted in: No filibuster, but Sotomayor battle still looms
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yabits
I've read quite a bit. Prior to the debate, what do you recommend?
Moderator: Stay on topic please.
Posted in: Iran's Ahmadinejad wants to debate Obama at U.N.
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yabits
If Ahmadinejad and Obama debate at the UN, there will be no better commentator and forum host than Zakaria. He is FAR more intelligent and insightful than the average American citizen about Ahmadinejad and Iran.
If we was Iranian, you'd find some other reason to dismiss him.
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yabits
Yes, Republicans can't come out and openly call her a "bigot," the way that some conservatives have done here on JT.
For one thing, they would be laughed out of whatever public place they uttered it.
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yabits
Like the article says, WilliB, everything you think you know about Iran is wrong.
Simple as that.
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yabits
Good article! Seems like a fun outing.
Posted in: Yoro Park and the Site of Reversible Destiny
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yabits
A former chief interrogation officer for the US is shown rebuking Cheney's notion that torture has kept America safe.
According to this senior interrogator, Cheney's style of mistreatment has cost Americans hundreds if not thousands of lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYov5o5_2s
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yabits
The US edition (June 1) of Newsweek magazine -- the latest one -- has a major section on Iran and the cover is titled: "Everything You Think You Know About Iran Is Wrong." Main points:
Iran indeed may NOT want nuclear weapons. Ayatollah Khomeini declared them to be "un-Islamic." The current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei in 2004 issued a fatwa describing the use of nuclear weapons as immoral, and that the "development, producing, or stockpiling of nuclear weapons is forbidden under Islam."
Iranians are not suicidal.
Iran is not a dictatorship.
Iran may be ready to deal.
Former president (and leading reformer) Mohammed Khatami had this interesting reply, when asked what he thought about President Obama and his policies: "I think Mr. Obama wants real change, both inside America and in terms of America's relations with the rest of the world. The question is whether these reforms will be cosmetic changes or substantial ones. I'm sure he will face many obstacles, the same way we reformists have problems in Iran."
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yabits
WhiteHawk asks: "So if the laws of other lands should hold precedent in America, then the reverse should be true, right? My carry permit should be good in Japan, following your logic. Or was your idea a one-way street where the U.S. is the submissive one? ... could you explain how other countries' laws should apply to America, but ours shouldn't apply elsewhere?"
The differences are elementary. For example, a domestic law which permits a US company to pollute should be able to be overridden by another country's law banning the pollution if that country is on the receiving end of a brunt of it. It goes back to the principle of one entity's freedom ending where another's begins.
This bears little relation to Ginsberg's quote about looking to other nations as a source of information and inspiration for how they handle legal issues -- something that raises the xenophobia of US conservatives.
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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yabits
It appears that Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court will be Sonia Sotomayor. A very good choice.
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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yabits
In a debate, how would any rational world leader, Iranian (not including the current president) or otherwise respond? Maybe like this: "Well, President Obama is good to express his regrets, but we who observe the US can't help but note how the policies of the US are often two-faced and lacking integrity, if not completely schizoid. You seem to have one faction amongst you who says and does violent and evil things, and then the other rational side which comes out and expresses regret for those things much later. We are amazed at your seemingly endless ability to create new enemies in this manner. Such an approach to the world only appears to benefit your defense industries."
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yabits
Actually, we get a preview of a debate with a hardline Iranian every time a conservative responds to a political topic on JT.
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yabits
WilliB wants to believe that there are no liberals in Iran. (Much the same way that his ideological soulmate, Ahmadinejad, would have us believe there are no gays there either.)
That way, folks like WilliB can stereotype and dehumanize everyone in Iran into an "Islamic entity" worthy of destruction. Much the same as WilliB's hardline counterparts in Iran deem for Israel.
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yabits
Of course, the irony in WilliB's statement is that, to hardline Iranian conservatives, the only difference between the reformer Obama and hardliner Bush is one of style and not of substance.
I mention the former president because it is very clear that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is Iran's version of George W. Bush.
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yabits
Surely you can't be that ignorant. (No need to answer that.)
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yabits
It stands to reason that some US conservatives will buy -- lock, stock and barrel -- what Iranian conservatives will say when it comes to undermining a US president who isn't of their party. Both sides will place loyalty to party ideology and love of their own power over the best interests of their nation.
Thank you for making my point yet again.
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yabits
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected and became president of Iran in August of 2005. This is quite a few years after President Carter left office. (Was Carter also responsible for the reformer, Khatami, and his suspension of Iran's nuclear weapons program? Maybe so, only as citizen-Carter through the peace center.)
What makes you funny is your apparent belief that Iranian history began with Jimmy Carter. If one goes back a bit farther, they will find that, through the 50s and 60s, the conservative Shah built up the power and influence of the very conservative clerics as a way to counteract the influence of liberal reformers against his regime.
This is pretty much what American conservatives wanted to happen. After all, they helped overthrow a democratically-elected, nationalist government in Iran and installed the Shah in the first place.
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