Tag Archives: education

Life In Japan: Music Education

Posted on December 18, 2023 by johnrachel

I continue to be amazed at the level of education here in Japan. Continue reading →

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Life In Japan: Excellence

Posted on October 24, 2022 by johnrachel

Whether you like, love or hate classical music. Please watch at least one of the videos here. I have things to say about them which I think will astonish you. Continue reading →

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Life In Japan: A Generous Spirit

Posted on November 24, 2021 by John Rachel

We have a nickname for our friend Keiko Iwashita. My wife and I call her “Bangladesh Lady”. There’s a very inspiring story behind this. Continue reading →

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Life In Japan: “Please use it for children.”

Posted on February 28, 2021 by John Rachel

An anonymous old man on a bicycle in Nara, Japan gave 30 million yen ($282,000) to three local schools. Continue reading →

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Press Release: National Council on Political Correctness

Posted on December 16, 2015 by johnrachel

The cultivation of sodomy and other same-sex perversions is all around us. Most frighteningly, it is taking place right in our schools, subverting the innocent minds of our vulnerable youth. This press release from the National Council on Political Correctness offers some hope that this problem is being tackled with a thorough and aggressive “cleansing” of our culture, making it clean and wholesome again in the eyes of God. Continue reading →

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How Bernie Sanders Can Win and Turn America Around

Posted on November 7, 2015 by johnrachel

Here is a video of the announcement Bernie Sanders needs to make in order to win the presidency and turn the country around. Continue reading →

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What if you . . . ?

Posted on July 19, 2015 by johnrachel

What if hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of voters did the same as you and voted for someone they could trust, even though that person was not a Democrat or a Republican? Continue reading →

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From the – to the +

Posted on March 27, 2015 by johnrachel

As citizens, we must decide how we are going to go about shaping our society and country, how our democracy will function, how the decisions get made, how much of the responsibility to ourselves and future generations we’re going to entrust and delegate to our leadership elite, the elected or de facto pillars of society, and what remains inviolably ours. To implement those decisions and new alignment of power, the sane and sensible majority must wrest the power from the misguided, greed and hubris-driven 1%, and put ‘We the people’ back in the political equation. My new book, “Candidate Contracts: A Manifesto (A New Front and Perhaps Last Stand at Establishing Representative Democracy in America)”, arriving in late May or early June, will point the way for American citizens to establish their rightful place in shaping the future of our nation for themselves and future generations. Continue reading →

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Perspective

Posted on January 21, 2015 by johnrachel

Books or bombs? America makes its choice and puts in perspective how twisted we have become. Continue reading →

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Rod Serling Is Alive!

Posted on September 21, 2014 by johnrachel

Rod Serling is alive and well! With the Twilight Zone, he was just getting warmed up. Look around! His new high concept reality TV show is our reality. “Picture if you will . . .” Continue reading →

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