Even though this mantra has been getting old, I notice more and more people now seem to believe in these things from outside Japan. There are some who even want Jim Crow laws to be in place. Infact, I am starting to get more "anti-gaijin" atitudes from the UK and US rather than Japan.Is it not some kind of an epidemic??
Actually the western "anti-gaijin" part came from one fanatic weeabo on Asiafinest.com who claim that the Anglo Saxons defeated the Russians several thousand years ago
So the conclusion I am to glean from this is "I don't like wackos who post ridiculous crap on message boards."
It seems you and I have something in common.
The West took Africa and made the indigenous people gaijin. i.e. ApartheitSome Americans may feel that being labeled gaijin feels as if they are being grouped with mexicans and people of middle eastern decent and tries very hard to revise and re-educate people that they are not just any gaijin but indigenous owners of planet earth, particularily on J-Today website, where a patriot try to exaggerate that the US would be safer than Japan if it had no immigrants at all.
You're forgetting who really operates government. Corporations are heavily invested in politics and if that means keeping one ethnic minority down because they'll be pleased at the prospect of a bit of cheap labour being thrown their way, or if this unpopular and draconian dictator serves a corporations needs better than that one, install him and so be it. It's a much more tangled web than a few nationalistic, hawkish pinheaded throw-backs from the decades past, although they certainly help things along.
Through all this greed and manufactured ethnic inequality you have the current depletion of the middle class in wealthy Western nations, because costs go up everywhere. I truly believe that when the hierarchy of needs isn't being met; that is the food and shelter and happiness requirements of a population are going unanswered, natural competition and group-ism emerges. If things get really bad this further deteriorates into lawlessness and individual/familial survivalism much like many war torn countries and poor nations right now...
Increasingly, corporations and lazy/corrupt government are tipping the scales to manufacture greed, unrest among the world's people and they're creating opportunities for the purpose of securing greater control. Ask yourself how much freedom of choice in the market and how much free information you are getting compared to what you know you COULD be getting. How much of that was via the recent power grabs by corporations and governments over the last little while. Just my 2 cents.
See I wonder how you can actually say that when everything points to the opposite occurring. The great media companies of the 20th century are breaking down one by one. The Tribune company, the New York Times Company, Washington Post Corporation, and News Corp. are all hemorrhaging money. Many are failing. Its a sad reality is that as the great journalist Carl Bernstein stated, we might be watching the slow decline of "the pinnacle of journalistic standards." Sure there have been failings, but overall journalism has been a critical part of free speech in the west. Think about Bernstein: him and Bob Woodward brought down the most egregious abuser of civil liberties in U.S. history; Richard Nixon. This is a person who knows better than most the important role of journalism in holding truth to power.
This isn't some diabolical plot by "corporations." If anything they are the ones losing money. There are several factors, but two are critical; changing market and the so called "democratization of journalism." Both are due to the internet. Newspapers are losing money because their main cash intake, classifieds are no longer brining in revenue because of sites like craigslist and job postings are taking their market. Secondly, people have been turning to Blogs and other online resources to get their news. While some might think this has "liberated" news from the corporations, in reality its diminishing the quality of journalism across the board. Many, if not most bloggers, don't have the education, skill or resources to carry out effective investigations. Opinion now replaces fact.
The reality is that the news corporations like the NY Times company are a good thing. They uphold journalistic standards and ensure that you get quality news. A blogger can fabricate a story once in awhile, get caught, and continue without a problem. A news company can't; its obligated to be impartial and factual in its reporting. Most news companies are generally not beholden to the government or corporations. In the United States, the New York Times and Washington Post have been consistent critics of various administrations, both democratic and republican. Its not free because it shouldn't be; worthwhile things cost money.
Now I brought this all up for a reason... its there IS a difference between Western Countries and Japan. As I've pointed out in other threads, there has been a disturbing trend within Japan where internal criticism of these views isn't as apparent as they are elsewhere. In the United States, Canada and Europe, you have a diversity of views and a healthy debate. There is a constant dialectic occurring within the public sphere that restrains extreme views.At times it doesn't seem to be the case in Japan. I'm not saying that the West is perfect on these matters, nor Japan is terrible; I'm just pointing out the fact in the latter country this debate is weaker, and has consequences for its country's future.
Are they really? Is it any wonder that News Corp bought a controlling interest in myspace.com and are getting their paws into every aspect of popular websites?noyhauser said:See I wonder how you can actually say that when everything points to the opposite occurring. The great media companies of the 20th century are breaking down one by one. The Tribune company, the New York Times Company, Washington Post Corporation, and News Corp. are all hemorrhaging money. Many are failing.
Did they really? Really? I'm glad you believe that as you are the pinnicle of the person who is to be brainwashed. Do a little Googling, if you dare, and you will discover that it was Henry Kissinger that brought Nixon down with his secret tapings in the Oval Office and, thus, made him a kingpin for the New World Order and Not Woodward and Bernstein. They were just the reporters and sheep and nothing else for which they were well rewarded.Think about Bernstein: him and Bob Woodward brought down the most egregious abuser of civil liberties in U.S. history; Richard Nixon. This is a person who knows better than most the important role of journalism in holding truth to power.
Not true. The major media knows that the internet is the place to be today and that's where they have their claws. Do a little research and you too will discover that IT IS a MAJOR DIABOLICAL plot by corporations. Far from losing money, they are making tons of it. Soon America will be nothing more than a corporate facist state as well as Canada as they lick the boots of the US and follow, much as Japan does, whatever they are told to do or they will suffer the consequences. What consequences you may ask? Well just look at how Japan was taken down when they failed to follow the US and NWO policies. Their economy crashed, they still have not recovered, and their private postal savings was commercialized to be used by the NWO.This isn't some diabolical plot by "corporations." If anything they are the ones losing money. There are several factors, but two are critical; changing market and the so called "democratization of journalism." Both are due to the internet. Newspapers are losing money because their main cash intake, classifieds are no longer brining in revenue because of sites like craigslist and job postings are taking their market. Secondly, people have been turning to Blogs and other online resources to get their news. While some might think this has "liberated" news from the corporations, in reality its diminishing the quality of journalism across the board. Many, if not most bloggers, don't have the education, skill or resources to carry out effective investigations. Opinion now replaces fact.
Do you really believe that propaganda noyhauser? Do they really uphold true journalistic standards? If so then you are just the person they are hoping to persuade as I have said in previous posts. Before you attack me please read this quote from John Swinton, former Chief of Staff of the NY Times and called by his peers "The Dean of His Profession" when he was asked in 1953, 1953! 55 years ago, to give a toast to the NY Press Club. He responded with the following statement:The reality is that the news corporations like the NY Times company are a good thing. They uphold journalistic standards and ensure that you get quality news. A blogger can fabricate a story once in awhile, get caught, and continue without a problem. A news company can't; its obligated to be impartial and factual in its reporting. Most news companies are generally not beholden to the government or corporations. In the United States, the New York Times and Washington Post have been consistent critics of various administrations, both democratic and republican. Its not free because it shouldn't be; worthwhile things cost money.
noyhauser, do you still honestly believe, based on what you know and with no further research, that the NY Times and other publications such as the Washington Post, etc are really giving you the news without "fear or favor"? (To quote from the Japan Times, English Version) and are really a"good thing"?."There is no such thing as an independent press in America, if we except that of little country towns. You know this and I know it. Not a man among you dares to utter his honest opinion. Were you to utter it, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week so that I may keep my honest opinion out of the newspaper for which I write. You too are paid similar salaries for similar services. Were I to permit that a single edition of my newspaper contained an honest opinion, my occupation - like Othello's - would be gone in less than twenty-four hours.
The man who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinion would soon be on the streets in search of another job. It is the duty of a New York journalist to lie, to distort, to revile, to toady at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or what amounts to the same thing, his salary.
We are the tools and the vassals of the rich behind the scenes. We are marionettes. These men pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our capacities are all the property of these men - we are intellectual prostitutes." (As quoted by T. St. John Gaffney in Breaking The Silence, page 4.)
I can add more proof and will if you require it to prove that the media is biased and only reports what "they", the shadow government, want you to believe and see. All my "proof" is on record and verifiable and I have done probably a thousand more hours of research than you have.Representative Callaway discussed some of this press control in the Congressional Record, Vol. 54, Feb. 9, 1917, p. 2947:
"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press..
They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."
I don't think you can honestly say there's much of a debate going on anywhere these days. On the day to day issues sure, there is a facade of democracy and freedom of thought happening because, without these crumbs, the pigeons (us) would really start crapping on the politicians heads. But really, are we freely debating and addressing the issues that matter?
The most central issue which North America faces for example is SPP and the unification of the continent. This initiative is one of the most far reaching and hardest impacting things that could happen in our lifetimes but coverage is mostly relegated to (comparatively unwealthy) independent media sources and the internet. All the meetings are held in secret and behind closed doors surrounded by barbed wire. Only the heads of Canadian, American and Mexican state along with corporate brass are permitted to attend. Even demonstration and protest is heavily curtailed, one of the most fundamental rights. News coverage is scant and only does lip service to any semblance of free journalism or press. There was a time when media kept government in check by telling the people flat out precisely what was going on but now they're helping to protect the secrecy.
bakaKanadajin said:If you call the current media industry the pinnacle of journalism you may be right insofar as the media is more far-reaching, technologically advanced and informative when it comes to human-interest stories and certain pieces of investigative news, but really, what we're getting is not the entire truth and this is why with the advent of the internet more people are choosing to search elsewhere for information. They (the media) are the orchestrators of their own demise if you ask me. Corporations will pull ad-money and sponsorship out from under the media's feet if things aren't reported properly. We have a multiplicty of networks and sources but at the top they're all controlled by a handful of sources, how independent can the news possibly be in this condition? It's so not free it's a joke, and the moment any journalist or network tries to really hit the issues and stop towing the party line they'll be shot and their career abruptly ended. They've unfortunately set themselves up for disaster this way.
This is just a general commentary, not directed at Glenski or anyone in particular.
The way I see it conspiracy buffs aren't strange if they present perfectly plausible ideas with a decent amount of material to back it up. Most discussions I've seen here for example involve PachiPro presenting something that's not so far-fetched (governments wanting more power, corporations wanting more money.. the two working together? INSANE!) and providing sources/quotes as good as anyone elses if not better.
Rebuttals usually take the form of 'that's crazy, no way, you're obviously one of THOSE kinds of people', but that's the extent of it. Most times what makes 'conspiratorialists' what they are in the public view isn't their lack of credible evidence, cooky ideas, and lack of respect for the sciences or logic, (in fact sometimes they have more supporting evidence than the status quo's view) as much as it's our aversion to hearing unpleasant truths that would change our core beliefs about the world around us.
noyhauser said:Originally Posted by bakaKanadajin
I don't think you can honestly say there's much of a debate going on anywhere these days. On the day to day issues sure, there is a facade of democracy and freedom of thought happening because, without these crumbs, the pigeons (us) would really start crapping on the politicians heads. But really, are we freely debating and addressing the issues that matter?
The most central issue which North America faces for example is SPP and the unification of the continent. This initiative is one of the most far reaching and hardest impacting things that could happen in our lifetimes but coverage is mostly relegated to (comparatively unwealthy) independent media sources and the internet. All the meetings are held in secret and behind closed doors surrounded by barbed wire. Only the heads of Canadian, American and Mexican state along with corporate brass are permitted to attend. Even demonstration and protest is heavily curtailed, one of the most fundamental rights. News coverage is scant and only does lip service to any semblance of free journalism or press. There was a time when media kept government in check by telling the people flat out precisely what was going on but now they're helping to protect the secrecy.Sigh. The reason why there isn't a story is because there isn't one. There is no "unification of the continent." If anything, since 9/11 we've seen a retrenchment of bilateral relations between Canada and the United States. Trade has been impeded because of new security measures leading to billions of dollars of losses, and surveillance along the border has increased dramatically. And you have member of the U.S. Congress calling for increased measures. Next year you're going to need passports to cross into the U.S. These are real step backwards from any sort of ツ"union.ツ" In reality both sides do well from the current state of affairs.
I really cannot see how you can say there is "no story" to a North American Union (NAU) noyhauser, especially when it is all around you if you will just do a little googling and weeding out the crap. Look at how the European Union was formed and you will see the same exact steps being implimented in North America. This is not a put-down, but I used to think exactly the way you do now, but I learned there is more to what is going on around us than the BS we are being fed on a daily basis from the media and educational institutions. However, you (and myself in the past) remind me of the clergy that refused to look into Gallileo's telescope when he wanted them to to look in and see the moons of Jupiter and that Jupiter was round and that moons did in fact revolve around it. They refused, forbade him from using his telescope or reporting his findings, and placed him in jail until he recanted. Mankind, therefore, remained ignorant to the fact that the earth was not flat and was not the center of the universe for hundreds of years. Finally I decided to look, and sometimes wish I hadn't, as the truth really is stranger than fiction.J.Edgar Hoover said:The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monsterous he cannot believe that it exists.
Knowing the truth is not an impossiblity if one dares look into the telescope. Some like myself question things, do not take things at face value anymore and dare to look in only to discover the truth and then be relegated to the folder of "conspiracy nut" and could even be placed in jail if the Patriot Act was followed to the letter. However, I don't care. I just try to pass on what I, and others, have discovered and if they refuse to believe it so be it. It doesn't matter one way or the other as people will only believe what they want to believe without doing any in depth research.noyhauser said:As I stated above, I don't claim to know the ツ"truthツ"ツ… its an impossibility. However I can judge with a reasonably confidence, what I don't know, where I might be wrong, what claims are realistic, and which ones aren't, given the information I have in hand.