JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Official defends secrecy over worst-case nuclear disaster scenario
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Firms plan to build floating wind farm off Fukushima coast
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Apple dethrones Google as company with most respected image in eyes of consumers
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Nancy Pelosi, whose firm but pragmatic brand of liberal leadership was integral to the success, should perhaps go down as the greatest progressive speaker the House of Representatives has ever known.
The first reviews are coming in and Nancy is looking like a champion. Perhaps more than Obama she made this landmark bill come alive.
Posted in: U.S. Congress clears historic health care bill
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and yet another victory for america and a rollback of the bush pandering to big banks . . . with taxpayers savings in the billions. Just like healthcare bill.
Along with the major health care legislation, the House on Sunday approved a major revamping of federal student loan programs that eliminates fees paid to private banks to act as intermediaries.
House Approves Health Overhaul, Sending Landmark Bill to Obama (March 22, 2010) Instead, the government will expand a direct lending program, a step that the Congressional Budget Office said would save taxpayers $61 billion over 10 years, and use the money to increase Pell grants for students.
The student loan bill is a centerpiece of President Obama’s education agenda, and it was included in the budget reconciliation measure that also made final revisions to the Senate-passed health care bill.
Posted in: U.S. Congress clears historic health care bill
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Hey, isnt that bob dylan there.
Posted in: Heart of the Hatter
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Obama says this is what change looks like. American believed him and now he has delivered. And the country is better for it.
Posted in: U.S. Congress clears historic health care bill
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obama victory speech is live now
Posted in: U.S. Congress clears historic health care bill
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45,000 americans will be saved each year now that this bill is becoming law. Republicans do not care about anyone who makes less than $500k as their working papers clearly show, they care even less about saving the lives of the uninsured.
Posted in: U.S. Congress clears historic health care bill
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no surprise. israel is all in for apartheid.
Posted in: Israel: No building restrictions in east Jerusalem
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Every year the blossoms come earlier. Thank you coal industry and the oil industry.
Posted in: Blossom time
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VICTORY. After a year of the just say no republicans as usual blocking progress in the USA.
Posted in: Struggle over health care reform tilts Obama's way
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Molenir wants insurance companies to decide his healthcare options, cause they love his so much. That is why healthcare programs are cancelled when people get sick. Or they are denied coverage if they have a chance of getting sick.
Yes, that is the great rigged free market the no nothing republicans want. That is the same free market illusion that led to the bush depression Obama is now fighting. Yes, its all so perfect in their little minds how the free market works until it fails and the banks, the car companies, the insurance companies all come running the the taxpayers to bail them out. Republicans love depressions, they have started all of them while worshipping a false god of free markets. Get over it, its a myth that only the stupid believe and the corrupt republican elites use to fool the stupid.
Like Moore said and so many others, right wing republicans hate democracy and the other 98% of American citizens getting a fair deal.
Posted in: Democrats start countdown toward health care vote
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Obama has given up on trying to work with the just say republicans as they have no plan or agenda at all themselves, other than to accuse Obama of being born in Kenya. Fact is that the republicans are very happy to let 45,000 people die a year in the US because they do not have helath insurance. Or to let families go bankrupt when insurance companies pull their policies when a son or daughter gets sick.
Molenir is a very typical republican. He only cares about himself until he gets sick and then he will come begging for the government to help him.
Posted in: Democrats start countdown toward health care vote
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earth to chotto, beckham has been a scrub for a decade now.
Posted in: Beckham to miss World Cup after injury
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Above is a typical christian rightwing response to calling out Israel for what it is, a jewish rightwing religious state that indeed practices apartheid and state level terrorism.
No one should be surprised by the latest activity in Israel. Bush and his band of rapture nutties let Israel run wild for the last decade and now no reasonable approach is possible at all for peace there. Israel is the problem now, not the oppressed Arabs. Israel is hounding its own Jewish citizens now, like Iran, who do not agree with the state terrorism that is their fundamental policy toward all of its neighbors other than Egypt. There they were bought off by the genius Carter in the late 70s, before Israel turned into a what it is today. A huge failure.
Posted in: Clinton slams Israel on housing announcement
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If you live in Tokyo, forget about it. Move to Kansai where people are much more friendly.
Posted in: Growing number of men have no close friends
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republicans like spies. They want to tell everyone what to do and make sure you do it by spying. Its in their blood.
50% of funds in healthcare in the USA is wasted, by fraud or useless paper shuffling. That is the system that kills 45,000 people a year and that is the systems the republicans want to keep for their masters, the insurance companies. Its that simple.
Posted in: Obama decries waste, fraud in gov't health system
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If the million wasted on storing whale meat that is not eaten by Japanese were instead given to the citizens of Taiji they would have far better lives than now. And they would not die of mercury poisoning as well.
But now, the apologist was useless slaughter would rather the local people carry out a practice that no one wants any longer in Japan or elsewhere.
Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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Expect the rightwing nutters/yaks in Taiji to say the killing is done for research purposes.
There is no doubt that the whale and dolphin slaughters are embedded in the far right of the LDP and their sponsors the Yaks.
Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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republican ideas on healthcare
1) do not get sick 2) if you do get sick die quickly 3) suck up to the corrupt insurance industry 4) do everything we can to screw the middle class 5) make rich people richer by screwing the middle class
why anyone who is not a banker would support the republicans is insane or delusional or both.
Posted in: Obama open to adding GOP ideas to health plan
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wow, that all children left behind bush program has really been another iron-clad failure. Even the hardcore conservatives now are saying that the program was a huge waste.
Another example of how Obama has to clean up after the bush trainwreck adminstration. Yes, and its so trite for the palinistas to blame teachers. All of you arm chair nerds, get a job teaching. Then talk about how its all the teachers fault.
Do republicans do anything other than complain and whine and then in the end do nothing at all?
Posted in: Obama seeks money, interventions to stem high school dropouts
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Obama is healthy enough to last as President for another 7 years.
Get ready low bridgers on the right. I only hope the real quiter runs against Obama in 2012. If she does then it is lights out. Even the McCain types left in the dying republican party will vote for Obama.
Posted in: Obama told to kick smoking habit, eat better