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Japan is ruled by one party: the Keidanren. 100's of Billions of yen are thrown at corporations while the country slides into unrecoverable debt. Taxes on citizens are meaningless except as a device to keep workers from accruing enough savings to escape their enslavement to existing business owners.

@dagon You nailed it. DOn't know why you got downvoted.

Japan's corporations are richer now than they ever were during the bubble. They hold most of their wealth offshore to avoid paying tax and pretend they're poor. Japanese workers are being conned. Their wages are half of Australia but they never question authority so their descent into serfdom under the keiretsu system is nearly complete.

Never going to visit the USA again. Ridiculous "security" and unsafe.

Impressionist.

As a subordinate he cannot assume he is in full possession of the facts and so cannot determine what is illegal or not. He's not a lawyer either. While he's humming and haa-ing, China's missiles could be leaving their silos.

Almost every US soldier I've met is an alcoholic. There's a lot of boredom, booze is super-cheap and the drinking culture is pervasive and lauded as near-heroic. I'll bet there's a moonshine still cooking potatoes already.

I've read that there will be a massive shortage of pilots as their remunerations have been so poor and the entry costs so high that many abandoned a career as a pilot. Good luck filling that gap.

Due to the large scale retail trading law prohibiting supermarkets near my house and working late hours, I ate a lot of 7-11's food over 15 years in Japan. Now I have severe type II diabetes even though I never got fat. Nearly everything is ladeled with HFCS, even dishes that are meant to be savoury.

2 years ago I bought a Toshiba Satellite notebook when in Japan. From day one the thing shorted out and rebooted every time I picked it up or pressed mildly on the trackpad. So flimsy the board warped inside. Removed the HDD and threw it on the bin. Never bought such junk in my life. Ironically, the HDD wasn't even Toshiba. HGST. Should have shorted the stock and made my money back.

Suckerborg envisages a day when robots will read us the real news from approved sources and not all that fake, independent stuff.

@anotherexpat "Anyone ever calculated the price to be paid for escapism? Id guess the sky's the limit when there's no basis in reality. Maybe theyll start a religion."

They did. And you joined. It's called the internet.

I think the name they want is Gaijiniranaium

"Several tentative plans for a visit by Putin to Japan have been put off due to western concerns over Russia’s involvement in such crises."

Why is Japan being dictated to by Neocons like Nuland and Kagan? (A husband and wife team of US war mongers). Their interests are not Japan's. Get a frikkin' backbone.

They knew the boat was Chinese because they had their left indicator on while steaming in clockwise circles..

Unless there's a spike in the murder rate in Antarctica he's gonna have an uphill battle on his hands.

I did some work for Boots when they tried to enter Japan. All their products were very expensive and very "meh" in interest value. Just common creams and lotions you could similarly get at any discount store. The only thing that sold like hotcakes was a little caramel-coloured bear with a Boots ribbon. When they shut up shop finally there was a black market for these bears. They became enormous status symbols for professional women in Aoyama and Harajuku. You'd see them even years later on desks in high-level corporate offices. Naturally Boots just stopped selling them.

Many people in Australia have these LG TV's. I've got a giant one only 2 years old in a furnished house. It pops and bangs loudly and take over 2 minutes to turn on. I visited a mining site and in the accommodation provided I found exactly the same thing with a smaller model. Total junk.

You don't set up your own personal email server from day one unless it's your intention to do something dodgy. Like sell out your position for cash and political favours. And then frantically wipe the servers so any investigating body has nothing for evidence. She's taken millions from Tata and Infosys, 2 of America's biggest H1-B visa mills and talks about Americans needing better employment.

She's taken millions from Saudi despots who behead women for sorcery.. and then spouts on about wmoen's rights.

Millions received from Likud racists to ensure more attacks on Arab nations.. while she talks about a more respected America internationally.

Schmoozes with Goldman Sachs for ginormous speaking fees.. and mumbles about the working stiff needing a fair break.

If you vote for her you'll get the owners you deserve.

Worth every penny.

A lot of bands inspired by Floyd. Alabama Shakes most recently:

https://youtu.be/-oib0a2_itA?t=131

Lucas has to go a long way to make up for Jar Jar Binks...

If Madame AIPAC gets in then you should buy more shares in "defense" contractors. She is a puppet of the hardcore, right-wing zionists. And they want to see their surrounding Arab countries destroyed.

Mission Accomplished. The Japanese government knows full well how useless and off-putting their English syllabus is. That's the whole idea. They want to avoid the inevitable exodus and brain-drain if the population could reasonably speak an international language. There's no other reason for it.

Not surprised. I supported this company's IT dept. They treated the contractors like cr@p. Overworking them on a continual basis while refusing to pay overtime. Got a really bad vibe from this organisation.

“The pings can only be detected within a radius of 500 meters..."

How old is the tech on these things? Maybe it's time to update the blackboxes?

As a Chai Latte slurping, Birkenstock clad, Dirty F. Hippie I'd rather see Mitt as Prez that Madame AIPAC, the Wicked Witch of Wall Street. Better a genuine Republican than one who mouths leftish values while ramming home the Corporate elitists agenda.

Having already officially told Obama that the N.Koreans did it, the FBI is now forced to triple down on the stupid and keep repeating the lie until enough people believe it in order to save several top ranking careers. Remember folks, all the MSM channels that uncritically regurgitated this pablum and learn to never trust them again (especially CNN).

It wasn't the North Koreans who did SONY. The US State Dept. incompetence shines again.

http://fabiusmaximus.com/2014/12/20/rebuttal-holes-fbi-north-korea-sony-attack-74873/

Sounds like this guy is an agent provocateur or at least a useful idiot. The only beneficiary of his ridiculous book would be Israel.