Lightly Come, Lightly Go as if Virtual

(Japan’s spring comes with yearly National Invitational High School Baseball Tournament)




Lightly Come, Lightly Go as if Virtual

(C'est comme la réalité virtuelle)



SECTION I: 100 Yen = 100 Cents??

One dollar was traded at 99 yen in London, last night.

Toyota reportedly announced to reduce its production of SUVs and pick-up trucks in its US plants, this morning.

The New York Times now reads:
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Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once…

On Thursday, the dollar plumbed new lows against the Japanese yen and several other major currencies; the price of an ounce of gold jumped above $1,000 for the first time; and lenders raised home loan rates once again.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/business/14econ.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

But, one Japanese blog on economy has reported on a stock price trend of Carlyle Capital with a remark that though Japan has now more than $1 trillion exchange reserve just like China has, those dollars accumulated at the rate of 115 yen per dollar have now 10% less value in terms of yen, meaning a 10 trillion yen ($100 billion) appraisal loss.

(http://www.financial-j.net/blog/2008/03/000493.html#more )

All I can say to you is that it is not an act of conspiracy by anybody. It must be one effect of Anger of the God or Allah.

Give dollars back to the U.S.; and give what you should give back to the God or Allah back to the God or Allah.

Your life was given by the God or Allah, so that sooner or later you have to give it back.

Yet, before you dispose yen, you had better read EEE Reporter.


SECTION II: Internet Driven Politician (1)

It is not only the trend of the global money market that the Internet and other high-speed telecommunications and high-power computation are accelerating and affecting.

Alarmingly, the Internet can leverage political momentum to any unwanted direction.

One well-known example is found in the rise and fall of the former South Korean President who was elected after the South Korean economy had got into serious recession to be rescued by IMF and Japan.

In 2002, young South Koreans who wanted economic reform and pride in their nation-state and dreamed of unification with North Korea started to use the Internet, e-mails, and other means based on cellular phones and PCs to disseminate an idea that a certain liberal ex-lawyer candidate could break through the wall between the North and the South, bringing about glory of the Korean race.

They succeeded in stirring up the boom for the ex-lawyer candidate as millions of messages were sprayed over the Internet.

But, the South Korean President could not effectively restore the Korean economy. Most of major banks in Korea were still under control of foreign capital. The President was about to completely lose his face and popularity, since his pro-North Korea policy did not work well, either.

Then, he started to desperately accuse Japan of its former occupation of the Korean Peninsula before WWII, which is always an easy policy to be a temporary hero among South Koreans.

It is as if he had not done anything but accuse Japan of its former occupation of the Korean Peninsula before WWII, namely more than 65 years ago, in the latter half of his tenure of Korean presidency.

Nonetheless, some pro-North Korea citizens in South Korea and some anti-Japanese citizens in the U.S. really welcomed this behavior of the South Korean President.

But, his overall popularity among the general public in South Korea plummeted down, which could not be compensated by his official visit to North Korea carried out several months before the end of his tenure of South Korean Presidency.


SECTION III: Internet Driven Politician (2)

If you are familiar with Japan, you must know the one specific name of a politician: Lower House Member of Japan Mr. Koichi Kato.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi_Kato_%28LDP%29
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Upon the sudden illness and death of Keizo Obuchi in May 2000, Kato did not make a leadership challenge, believing that internal strife would not be healthy for a party in mourning. By November, however, displeased with the slow pace of reform and poor public image in the Mori administration, Kato made his move…

Unfortunately for Kato, the LDP Secretary-General at this time, Hiromu Nonaka, was a strong supporter of Mori. Nonaka launched a harsh round of party discipline, threatening to expel any LDP members that voted against Mori…

The damage had been done, however. Kato and Yamasaki were left to bear the full brunt of public humiliation. The aftermath of Kato's rebellion was disastrous. A large segment of his faction split off, weakening his influence in the Diet. Public opinion that had initially supported ousting Mori now blamed Kato for his failure…
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Mr. Koichi Kato, an ex-diplomat, was once regarded as an elite politician who was promised to be elected as the Prime Minister of Japan sooner or later before 2001.

But, he launched an unthinkably poor insurgency to his party, trying to get premiership in vein in late 2000 (since then Prime Minister Mr. Yoshiro Mori was unthinkably unpopular with his classically patriotic stance).

Eventually Mr. Kato lost not only the political battle, but also his political allies, his power base in the party, LDP, and reputation as an elite politician in the public.

Many people wondered then and are still wondering why he could not wait for months or so until the legitimate party conference was held in 2001 to elect the new LDP leader who could become the Prime Minister of Japan (due to LDP’s majority in the Lower House) where he was highly expected to be named so.

I was also wondering who had instigated him to objectively impossible insurgence but subjectively (probably) slam-dunk insurgence in the Liberal Democratic Party in November 2000.

It is former very influential lawmaker Mr. Hiromu Nonaka that has given a clue to this mystery in his memoir published after Mr. Nonaka left the Japanese Congress (the Diet) in 2003 through a fierce fight against then Prime Minister Jyunichiro Koizumi:

( http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E8%80%81%E5%85%B5%E3%81%AF%E6%AD%BB%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9A-%E9%87%8E%E4%B8%AD%E5%BA%83%E5%8B%99%E5%85%A8%E5%9B%9E%E9%A1%A7%E9%8C%B2-%E9%87%8E%E4%B8%AD-%E5%BA%83%E5%8B%99/dp/4163656405 )

Mr. Hiromu Nonaka, a self-made politician in contrast with Mr. Kato's career, wrote that it was the Internet that had driven Mr. Koichi Kato to a desperate challenge against the then party leaders in late 2000.

Mr. Kato then received many e-mails loudly supporting him and asking him to replace then Prime Minister Mr. Yoshiro Mori, the top leader of the faction where Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi, Mr. Shinzo Abe, and Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, who all became the Prime Minister of Japan later, belonged.

Mr. Kato, himself the top leader of other faction in LDP, started to actively operate his homepage on the Internet where he found many online messages earnestly expressing a hope that Mr. Kato became the Prime Minister of Japan as soon as possible.

The Japanese Media also paid strong notice to the boom on the Internet pushing Mr. Kato to the challenge, thus joining it a little frivolously. Then, there was none to stop Mr. Koichi Kato to take a shot at then Prime Minister Mr. Yoshiro Mori and then LDP Secretary-General Mr. Hiromu Nonaka, one of the leaders of other influential faction.

However, Mr. Koichi Kato could not get wider support from a majority of LDP members and the general public; he finally failed in forcing Prime Minister Mr. Yoshiro Mori to srep down, thus losing his face, his political status, and a possibility to become the Prime Minister of Japan forever, which however paved the way for Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi’s accession to premiership in April 2001.

In this way, the Internet once messed up and ruined the career of prominent Japanese politician Mr. Koichi Kato, though he has come back and currently keeps his seat in the Japanese Congress enjoying renewed respect widely as a very experienced liberal lawmaker.

(Now you know in what state Japan was just before the era of the War on Terror in which the strength of alliance between Japan and the U.S. has been demonstrated globally, at least from a certain point of view, since Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi has been a very pro-U.S. conservative.)


SECTION IV: US Presidential Election in 2008

If this trend in the global money market is not taken into account by US voters, it may not be good to the rest of the world.

If the power of the Internet becomes the most decisive factor in 2008 US Presidential Election, it may not be good to the rest of the world.



(Politicians often act like an actor or an actress.

An actor or an actress also plays a role of a politician depending on his or her assignment.

But, one’s true vocation for an actor or politician might consist in very different features.

Can you, Mlles., play a role of a woman following the Messiah most politicians would not rather succumb to even if you find this world to be a political stage?)



“Do Not Make Your Brother Fall”

(Rucksicht auf den schwachen Bruder)





　　

Walls and the Earth Can Fall

(Advancing to spring, Japan)




Walls and the Earth Can Fall

(Les murs et le sol peuvent tomber)



SECTION I: MIRACLES

Once far before the birth of Jesus Christ, Caesar, and Alexander the Great, when ancient Israelites surrounded walls of a city of their enemy, they could destroy the walls just marching around them for days, which became a miracle to prove that ancient Israelites were the people of God.

Jesus Christ told his disciples that though they were amazed at the splendor of the great wall of the great temple all the stones would fall to the ground, which became a prophet that lasted through the fall of Jerusalem in the first century, the construction of the Dome of the Rock in the seventh century, and probably to the fall of the World Trade Center in 2001.

I humbly raised my left arm to the dried-out paddy field the other day and let it down; then I got a news report: The ground above an abandoned coal mine in the Hokkaido Island, where the G8 Summit is to be held this year, fell in with a thundering sound.

http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/society/80948.html

Japan had many live coal mines. Japanese modernization and industrialization that had started 140 years ago was mainly supported by a sufficient amount of domestic coal production till 1960’s over WWII, like the case of England, though few foreign economists and pundits know this crucial fact about Japan.


SECTION II: ISRAELITES DENIED

It is very suggestive that nowadays authoritative Israelites sometimes deny identification of other helpless Israelites as reported in a New York Times report titled “How Do You Prove You’re a Jew?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02jewishness-t.html?scp=3&sq=orthodox+Jews&st=nyt

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…The Israeli government seeks the political and financial support of American Jewry. It welcomes American Jewish immigrants. Yet the rabbinate, one arm of the state, increasingly treats American Jews as doubtful cases: not Jewish until proved so…
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They set very high criteria for an immigrating Israelite to prove himself or herself to be a true Israelite so as to be officially admitted by the state of Israel.

I am strongly against this practice exercised on foreign-born Israelites by privileged Israelites living in Israel.

If somebody is fleeing to Israel from a country occupied by another Nazis, his or her admission to Israel could be simply denied due to insufficient proofs about his or her identification as an Israelite.

It is against the lesson having been learnt during WWII.

Ultimately, if the God says to somebody that he or she is a member of Israelites, he or she is an Israelite, since it is God who chose Abraham as His people.

And, if Israelites in Israel continue to behave like enemies of God or Allah, I suppose they will not look like descendants of Abraham at all to the eyes of God.

Personally, I like Israelites to look like Arabs as Abraham must have looked, though Israelites nowadays strangely look like descendants of citizens of the Roman Empire.


SECTION III: AMERICAN BISON

Americans and Australians must first check the following piece of news:
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THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
LONDON--The International Whaling Commission (IWC) issued a unanimous statement here Saturday condemning the U.S. anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

It referred to the group hurling bottles at a Japanese research-whaling vessel in Antarctic waters last week, injuring three people.

The IWC was meeting to prepare for its annual conference in Santiago, Chile, in June.(IHT/Asahi: March 10,2008)

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200803100047.html

Then we can refer to other information presented by The New York Times:
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An estimated 40 million to 70 million bison roamed North America before 1800. By 1900 fewer than 1,000 remained. Of those animals, 25 were in Yellowstone National Park, protected from poachers by the Army, and another 250 were in Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. The rest belonged to five ranchers, who had collected bison to preserve the species and to crossbreed with cattle in hope of creating a more hardy animal.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E0D9163FF930A15757C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=Bison+are+many&st=nyt
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It is said that among 300,000 bison alive in the U.S. today, only 10,000 or so are pure and authentic bison as estimated by a result of DNA analysis.

Israelites and Americans should learn some lessons here before they turn unfriendly eyes to whale-meat-loving Japanese.

(I am thankful for those concerned with IWC if they ever read the EEE Reporter article on March 10, 2008.)
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So now you know why I have been engaged in this mission: EEE Reporter.

Indeed it is not to destroy walls surrounding any city or temple.

However, it might happen to destroy part of the ground, since I do not like the expression “Ground Zero” which had long meant the hypocenter in Hiroshima and Nagasaki until the 9/11 Terror.

Though you may dismiss these of my remarks with laugh, Mr. Osama bin Laden, too, abused and leveraged the concept of “the ground zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in his address to recall brutality transferred from the ancient Romans to some of the contemporary Europeans and European Americans.

Indeed, if some Israelites continue to treat so badly other Israelites and Americans continue to play with the word “Ground Zero” and accuse Japan of its whaling tradition, the G8 Summit had better be hosted outside Japan just like this year’s Summer Olympic Games be outside China (due to so much contamination even harming Japanese consumers), since walls can collapse and the ground can cave in for believers.

[By way of caution, EEE Reporter never overlooks or condones any terror attempt against the G8 Summit in Japan and the Olympic Games in China.]



(Last night, a late-night TV news program in Japan presented a speculation that former US President Mr. George H. W. Bush visiting South Korea presently might make a side trip to North Korea.

If “Hillary,” “John McCain,” or “Obama” flies to Pyongyang and succeeds in persuading the North Korean leaders to give up their policies on nuclear weapons and Japanese abductees, I suppose the God will give them an honor more splendor than being elected as US President in 2008.

All they have to say to North Koreans is that Japan based on the Peace Constitution can be a better ally of North Korea than China based on armed communist revolution has been.)




“Your Faith Has Made You Well”

(Dein Vertrauen hat dir geholfen)





　　

Who, God Reporter?

(Where Two Rivers Meet, Japan)



Who, God Reporter?

(Le reporter pour le Dieu)



SECTION I: Google Web Search

I simply typed “God Reporter of Japan” in a search-key field of Google Web Search.

Then, “EEE Reporter” was returned at the second position among 505,000 candidate Web sites.

The first one is, as you can verify easily, the following:
“Amazon.com: God Has Ninety-Nine Names: A Reporter's Journey Through a..”


SECTION II: “God Has Ninety-Nine Names”

I have not bought or read this book: “God Has Ninety-Nine Names: A Reporter's Journey Through a Militant Middle East” (Hardcover) by Ms. Judith Miller.

But, as it looks like having been published in 1996, it seems to have its value as a report on the Middle East before the era from the Death of Princess Diana with an Egyptian through AlQaeda’s Terror to the present-day situations in the Islamic World.

But, most importantly, one comment on this book was posted on September 5, 2001, just a week before the 9/11 Terror on New York and Washington D.C.

Therefore I felt like paying a special attention to this comment on the book.


SECTION III: “Flawed but still good”

The reader of the book “God Has Ninety-Nine Names” wrote:
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I do not share the British author's severity of judgement. "God has ninety-nine names" is, before anything, a series of photographs in words. The reader will not get the depth that a profound analysis of the region should have, but we are trading the scholarly insights of a historian (and Miller is not a historian) for the immediacy of a reporter.
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http://www.amazon.com/God-Has-Ninety-Nine-Names-Reporters/dp/0684809737

That is nice. You should not respect words of British colonists anyway. Rather, we can evaluate the level of commonsense of the writer and the reader in the following context:
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The Middle East then appears as a dangerous place where secular and not-so-secular governments, some allied to the West, some its declared enemies, fight mostly vicious little wars against the religious militants who want to overthrow them and impose Shari'a throughout the Islamic world.

The level of nastiness seems to have gone down, curiously, in Iran, where Shari'a is supposed to be working since the Shah left.

Miller writes chapters on ten countries, including Sudan, Egypt, Israel, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. That the only country in the region where fundamentalists can participate politically as opposition, elect mayors, and run their show mostly as they see fit, is Israel, should not surprise anyone.

That as soon as they acquire power (as in Sudan and Iran) fundamentalists make it practically impossible for others to be critical, except in open rebellion, should not be a surprise, either.
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That is also nice to confirm the meaning of the lack of democracy in this modern era if in the Islamic regions.

But, a week after the reader posted his comment, the four US commercial jet planes were hijacked by AlQaeda and the 9/11 Terror was conducted in the sky over the East.


SECTION IV: Mike’s Blog

US Congressman Mr. Mike Pence recently reported on his inspection tour to Iraq and Afghanistan:
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…We arrived at the remote mountain compound of the president of the Kurdish Region of Northern Iraq.

I told President Barzani of my longstanding admiration for his people, given how difficult a trial they endured under Saddam Hussein. The president seemed most moved when I mentioned our nation's enduring sadness at the tragedy visited upon his people in the chemical attack on the city of Halabja by Saddam Hussein in 1988…

His eyes narrowed and he nodded slowly as I spoke of the justice that will be served on Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as "Chemical Ali". Hours before we arrived, it was announced that the man who organized that attack on defenseless Kurds would be executed before the end of the month.

When I asked him why Iraqi Kurdistan had been almost entirely free of insurgent or Al Qaeda violence, he responded, "the culture is the difference.” He alluded to a long tradition among Kurdish people of respecting religious and ethnic differences…
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http://penceblog.rcsinteractive.com/2008/03/pence-blog-return-to-iraq-and.html

It showed a typical exchange of words between an American with power and a local leader under hegemony of the U.S. military.

An enemy of another enemy might be a quasi-friend. But, it is not a true friend to tell any truth to.

A US Congressman should have rather frankly said: “We have rescued your tribe by suppressing, driving out, and defeating your longtime enemies, Arabs with weapons including AlQaeda. How much are you thankful to us?”

Then, a Kurdish leader might piously say, “Great is Allah!”

But, Mr. Mike Pence presented interesting information, too:
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As we overflew Baghdad, I was again struck by the sheer dimensions of this city of 6 million. Despite its immense population, Baghdad contains very few buildings taller than 10 stories. The streets below us were teeming with everyday life, foot traffic and cars. This weekend, Baghdad plays host to a soccer tournament. Despite the ravages of decades of repression and war, thanks to the sacrifices of American and Iraqi soldiers, this city is coming back…

Our morning began in Kabul, Afghanistan, with a military briefing on the state of the conflict in Afghanistan. The terrorist groups, Taliban and Al Qaeda, have been attempting a comeback in Afghanistan and this spring could prove to be some of the toughest fighting in this country in some time. But our military will not be caught off guard. The majority of terrorist activity in Afghanistan is taking place in roughly ten percent of the country. Our military and our NATO allies are aware of this and are already focusing resources and tactics in these areas…
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Now, you know the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan are yet to recover to the ones in the best days before the Iran-Iraq War and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan around 1980.

And, none seems to believe that they can arrest Mr. Osama bin Laden in any future.

Or, no unarmed American tourists are yet expected to stroll along the Mesopotamia ruins to enjoy seeing relics of the birthplace of Abraham.

Anyway, a nice report, Mr. Congressman.



(I don’t think it is a good idea, “President Hillary” and “Vice President Obama,” either.

But, I support the idea, “President Hillary” and “Vice President Caroline Kennedy.”

And, you can also introduce a Temporary US King for Mr. Ralph Nader.

In addition, you can establish the Department of Media for Mr. Michael Moore.

But, please do not invite Mrs. Margaret Thatcher from England for any new post such as US Ambassador to Paris…)




“WARNINGS AGAINST IDOLS”


(Ein warnendes Beispiel)




　　

"I would believe what she said"

(not a desert but dried up rice field prepared for spring, Japan)



"I would believe what she said" [if not insane...]

("Je crois que ce qu'elle a dit")




SECTION I: Benazir Bhutto

I sensed something akin to an acute concern close to a pain, if not sincere remorse, in a picture of Secretary of State Ms. Rice being seated on an uncomfortable chair, signing the book of condolences for late Benazir Bhutto, in a posture hardened up.

So, you can hear the interview with Benazir Bhutto by an old British journalist associated with BBC and Al Jazeera conducted on Nov. 2, 2007.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7070000/newsid_7075800/7075843.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=7075843&bbcws=1

Then you would wonder as she said, "...Omar Sheikh who murdered Osama Bin Laden..."

But, BBC would not present this video as it is, which caused some criticism:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/01/post_8.html

And you will find two interesting comments in the BBC site:
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24.
At 10:37 AM on 07 Jan 2008,
James wrote:

It was quite obvious that she mis-spoke and the BBC was simply trying to avoid confusion. If you look at other interviews with her before and after the Al Jazeera one she talks about Bin Laden but never claims he was murdered by Omar Sheikh. Get a life people.

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/03/cnr.06.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3676687

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28.
At 11:45 PM on 14 Jan 2008,
chris wrote:

This is clear and obvious censorship,you say it appears that she has mis spoken - this is a ludicrous accusation to make.

Benazir Bhutto was not some conspiracy nutcase that you could ignore, infact in her position of power and integrity I would believe what she said over anything the BBC reports on Bin Laden.

You got busted pure and simple.

I have totally lost all faith in the BBC,you should be ashamed to call yourself a journalist.
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SECTION II: "Osama bin Laden"

Benazir Bhutto mentioned the son of Mr. Osama bin Laden believed to be hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan in her interview.

Benazir Bhutto also mentioned a certain terrorist who killed British tourists and American tourists, pointing at the exact number of those victims in each nationality.

So, it could have been a big news that Benazir Bhutto said on Nov. 2, 2007: "…Omar Sheikh who murdered Osama Bin Laden..."

But, as you know, the mainstream media and the governments in the world have ignored her words delivered in a certain context related to her own security, as if she had spoken something meaningless with minor confusion while being interviewed by "Sir David Frost for the al-Jazeera channel" though she was a Muslim.


SECTION III: A Permanent Stay of US Military in Iraq

Will US voters and taxpayers support the idea, the building of permanent US military base in Iraq?
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By Rep. Ms. Barbara Lee

…While Negroponte denied that the Bush administration is seeking a permanent military presence as part of recent administration discussions about a SOFA with Iraq, just last November President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki entered into a Declaration of Principles, which cites ‘security assurances and commitments’, without the approval of Congress.

…The Bush administration cannot unilaterally establish a long term military presence in Iraq, tying the hands of future presidents, without Congressional approval.

This resolution is intended to hold President Bush accountable to the bills he has signed into law that include provisions prohibiting permanent military bases in Iraq. I will work with my colleagues to generate support to push this resolution through Congress.

http://blog.thehill.com/2008/03/07/my-resolution-opposes-bushs-secret-deal-rep-barbara-lee/#more-5550
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I wonder how the Iraqi people were thinking about Mr. Osama bin Laden.

It is because it was not Saddam Hussein who had triggered the US invasion of Iraq but Mr. Osama bin Laden.

Without the 9/11 Terror in 2001, there should be no present-day Iraqi situations.

Don't they want to pursue Mr. Osama bin Laden for any accounts or reasons?

And, as for US troops, aren't they feeling strange that they are doing hard work in Iraq while Mr. Osama bin Laden is believed to be in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan or just inside Pakistan?

Indeed, people concerned seem to be working as if Mr. Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with their business in Iraq from the beginning.


SECTION IV: Singing President

US President Mr. George W. Bush reportedly recently sang on his future happy retirement in a party held in Washington D.C.

"Mr. Osama bin Laden" might become a thing of the past in the mind of the US President.
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The first agenda for the next US President (yet to be) should be “Mr. Osama bin Laden” as it should be for the incumbent President.

Otherwise, history might be written in future with a remark that "…since then very strangely Mr. Osama bin Laden has never surfaced forever without being arrested by the United States full of wealth, troops, weapons, secret agents, and Nobel Prize winners…"



(The "3 a.m. call" issue is very important, since such a thing would usually happen when nobody expects it, though many expect it at 3 a.m. nowadays.

But, who among US officials would feel proud getting always prepared for such emergency on behalf of “President Hillary” or “President Obama?”

But, we should be on behalf of Jesus Christ until He comes as the second Messiah.)





"FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY"

(Vergib deinen Feind)




　　

Whaling

(a humble compact village shrine used for playground, Japan)






Whaling

(Der Walfang)




Last night, a Japanese TV news show picked up the whaling issue, since European-Americans and European Australians are physically attacking Japanese officials on board a whaling ship:

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THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
In the second attack in a week, activists aboard the anti-whaling vessel of the Sea Shepherd group hurled bottles and packets of white powder at the Nisshin Maru research whaling ship in Antarctic waters Friday.

The bottles were filled with chemicals, officials said.

Japan Coast Guard members aboard the Nisshin Maru issued radio warnings before responding with seven flash grenades, one of which landed on the deck of the Sea Shepherd's vessel.

No one was injured, Japanese Fisheries Agency officials said.

But a Sea Shepherd member said one activist was slightly injured.

On Monday, activists of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a U.S. anti-whaling group, hurled similar objects at the 8,044-ton Nisshin Maru, slightly injuring a crew member and two Japan Coast Guard members.

"It cannot be forgiven that they try to injure humans in order to protect whales," Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said Friday. "As a government, we must take necessary measures. We could fire tear-gas bombs if necessary."

The Nisshin Maru is the mother ship of a fleet of research whaling vessels operated by the Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research, a body authorized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to conduct whaling-related research.(IHT/Asahi: March 8,2008) http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200803070323.html
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BBC online presents some information on whaling:
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WHALE FACTS
The IWC moratorium on whale hunting was established in 1986. Since then Norway and Japan have continued to hunt whales.

- Greenpeace estimate that more than 1.5 million whales were killed between 1925, when the first whaling factory ship was introduced, and 1975.

- In 1994 the IWC established a whale sanctuary which permanently banned whaling in the waters around Antarctica.

- The United States lists nine species of whales as endangered.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/whale_hunters.shtml
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However, it is very insufficient and biased, since it lacks the following information:
(1) In late 1970’s, anti-whaling scientist Sidney J. Holt estimated the number of minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean to be just 20,000. However, the International Decade of Cetacean Research conducted by IWC since 1974 found that there were 300,000 minke whales; thus a scientific committee of IWC concluded that there was no need to ban the capturing of minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean.

( http://luna.pos.to/whale/jpn_zat_minke.html )

(2) When US Secretary of Commerce Mr. Norman Mineta visited Japan in January 2001, the Japanese Government told him that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. presented on its Web site the estimated number of sperm whales to be between a million and two million (which is large enough to allow for whaling). But, the next day of this official meeting, this information was deleted from the US Web site. 　

( http://luna.pos.to/whale/jpn_zat_research.html )

I also recommend BBC staff to check the following site presented by Microsoft:
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“Yankee” or American whaling began about the same time that colonists began to settle in America in the 1600s…

The peak year for American whaling activity was 1846, when 736 vessels and 70,000 people were engaged in the industry. In terms of production, however, sperm oil peaked in 1843, at 19,910,000 liters (5,260,000 gallons), whale oil at 43,884,000 liters (11,593,000 gallons) in 1845, and whalebone at 2,564,000 kg (5,652,000 lb) in 1853.

A gradual decline in whaling activity, which began in 1847, was hastened by the reduction in the numbers of whales of many species, including right whales, gray whales, and humpback whales. This reduction was due to significant overhunting. The decline was also hastened by the introduction of kerosene as a cheap illuminating fuel, the sinking of numerous whaling vessels by Confederate commerce raiders during the American Civil War (1861-1865), and two disasters that destroyed nearly 50 vessels in the Arctic Ocean. The last American whaling vessel sailed in 1928…

n 1931 the 41 factory ships operating in the Antarctic took more than 37,000 whales. This overharvesting led to a catastrophic decline in the price of whale oil. By 1939 the primary whaling nations included Norway, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and The Netherlands. In the early 20th century more than 2 million whales were killed by the modern whaling industry…

The IWC Scientific Committee has stressed that while properly regulated hunting would not represent a threat to the survival of whale populations, other issues must be addressed. These include the by-catch of cetaceans in fishing gear and a number of habitat-related factors, including pollution and habitat degradation, which affect all species, including those for which catch limits would be set to zero given their low abundance.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572529_2/Whaling.html
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Before starting to import and consume a large quantity of beef from the U.S. and Australia, Japanese people traditionally ate meat of whales.

In contrast, US whaling was just aimed at getting whale blubber for use of industrial oil; they dumped meat of a whale to the sea after having taken whale oil.

Generally speaking, cattle look more intelligent than whales; it is truly horrible to kill such an animal, namely a cow with a level of intelligence of a dog and a cat, just for human consumption if you don’t eat a dog or a cat.

A whale returned to the sea from the land tens of millions of years ago to have a shape, which was completed 19 million years ago, as we see today.

Or, you had better think that any cow for beef is as intelligent as a whale for meat.

You should not kill a cow, since Jesus Christ never ate beef though He ate fish often.
* * *

Last night, a Japanese news show program presented a video showing a young Australian activist, though dressed decently, approaching the Japanese Ambassador to Australia at night and speaking to the Ambassador: “Sir, may I kill you for research as you kill whales for research?”

The young European Australian looked like believing himself that he was acting like a man and a hero, though he looked extremely foolish to million TV audiences in Japan, last night.

The New York Times should also take full background research when mentioning this sort of thing.


(Have you ever taken meat of whale flesh?

Apparently, it is more decent than beef, in my opinion.

It will take millions of years more for mankind, except Japanese and other people called Aborigines by biased European races, to really appreciate its taste and quality.

Indeed, great taste cannot be appreciated so easily just like great beautiful of the mind and heart.)



“..it will show all my work and effort is not wasted…”

(Tout mon travail et l'effort ne soit pas gaspillé)





　　　

Sinners Lend to Sinners

(In the end the love you take is equal to the love you didn't fake...)




Sinners Lend to Sinners

(Pécheurs prêtent aux pécheurs)



I really send a message of condolence to those recently victimized in Jerusalem and Palestine as well as Iraq and Afghanistan.


SECTION I: Dancing President

Yes, I saw US President Mr. George W. Bush dancing comically at a porch for seconds while waiting for a car carrying Mr. John McCain to the White House.

Mr. George W. Bush is the first US President in history who has made an honest effort to look humble by dancing comically to the public, which will be one of big legends of his Administration in history

I don’t think President “Hillary” or President “Obama” is yet to be matured to dance comically at a porch of the White House just to look humble to the public.

In addition, The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, a Japanese newspaper claiming its sales of 10 million copies per day, this morning posted an editorial casting its doubt on economic policy of “Hillary” and “Obama,” since the conservative Japanese newspaper is strongly supporting free trade.

Indeed, except the mad-cow meat trading issue, there have been no serious problems between Japan and the United States in terms of economy and general diplomacy under the Bush Administration, as contrasted with the Bill Clinton’s Administration that virtually overlooked anti-Japanese policy by the Chinese Communist Party.

Finally, I suppose that President Mr. Bush is the largest factor for the success Mr. Barack Hussein Obama has achieved so far politically.

Mr. Bush’s decision to let Mr. Powell and Ms. Rice command the State Department for eight consecutive years has really influenced US voters’ paradigm on the US Administration and their view on African American elites.

The sequence, “Powell” --> “Condoleezza” --> “Obama,” now looks so natural due to the great personnel policy pursued by President Mr. George W. Bush, which will hence be also one of big legends of his Administration in history.


(Mr. George Walker Bush might be praised in the fture text book for children in line with Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Baines Johnson.)


SECTION II: Carlyle Capital

The New York Times reported on a touchy situation of Carlyle Capital, the investment fund linked to the private equity firm Carlyle Group.

The Carlyle fund, which invested about $22 billion in mortgage debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, said on Thursday that it had missed four of seven margin calls worth a total of $37 million and said it expected to receive at least one more default notice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/business/07cnd-carlyle.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

This report by The New York Times might turn to be prophetic just like a book on the Carlyle Group written by Mr. Dan Briody, “The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group.”

http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Triangle-Inside-Secret-Carlyle/dp/0471281085


SECTION III: "Latest News on Sub-Prime Loans"

Mr. Ben Shalom Bernanke of FRB reportedly said on May 21, 2007 that the influence of the subprime loan issue on the US housing sector was limited, and it would never significantly affect the whole US economy and its financial system, according to a certain useful Japanese Web site titled "Latest News on Sub-Prime Loans."

( http://subprime.seesaa.net/ )

This Japanese site also reported on May 24, 2007 that a total 37,000 house-loan fraud cases were reported to the Department of Treasury in 2006.

This Web site tracking and presenting detailed movements related to the sub-prime loan problem, however, suddenly stopped its update on May 30, 2007.

Its last report was about a schedule of US Congress to have an official hearing from FRB on this large-scale criminal housing-loan scheme.

Since then, the landscape of the US housing-loan world changed drastically as everybody knows.

But, since May 30, 2007, the very informative Japanese Web site on the subprime-loan issue has kept silent.

Indeed, some experts in Japan must have been involved in real efforts to cope with this issue, while the US Government, the Japanese Government, and the US/Japanese Media believed or were pretending to believe that the subprime loan issue was minor one.


SECTION IV: Jesus Christ Said, “Sinners Lend to Sinners”

I really read the following part of the Gospel as a principle of Jesus' Economics:

Luk 6:30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

Luk 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Luk 6:32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

Luk 6:33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.

Luk 6:34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
* * *

Now, look around.

This is the reality in the world where one-third of people are a kind of fiddlers, another one-third of people are self-seekers, and only the last one-third of people honestly feel or acknowledge sins in themselves and the society they belong to.

Good vs. evil is the main theme for human history but not material success vs. failure.

Be good and poor so that you can be part of victory of the history of mankind.

Conversely, if all the people in this world share the common heart and mind of super-rich people, there would be no sustainable peace in the world, since everybody would start to join any conspiracies to be richer, including such a conspiracy as to make people believe that the 9/11 Terror was an act of conspiracy by the Bush Administration the main purpose of which must be just making people blind and confused and also averting pursuing eyes from the key issues such as huge accumulation of oil dollars in the vicinity of AlQaeda's home ground.

[The US Government has spent $737 billion on the War on Terror since 2001. But they could not arrest Mr. Osama bin Laden. The true conspiracy might lie here. US voters should make the next President (yet to be) officially committed to arresting Mr. Osama bin Laden who is also responsible for score of Japanese killed in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.]



(…
Have a nice weekend!
…)



“To Those Who Belong to Our Family in Faith”

(Dies ist an diejenigen, die gehören zu unserer Familie im Glauben)




　

Helen Keller, Kumagusu Minakata, and Ancient Egyptians

(A Japanese dining car 100 years ago…)


Helen Keller, Kumagusu Minakata, and Ancient Egyptians

(Helen Keller, Kumagusu Minakata, et ancien Egyptiens)



A late-night news program in Japan showed a rare picture: Helen Keller at age eight being taught by her female teacher.

Then I checked a book written around 1920 by a famous Japanese biologist, Kumagusu Minakata, since he had extraordinary visual power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minakata_Kumagusu

Kumagusu Minakata introduced various anecdotal accounts
in his book on the twelve animals, such as a rat and a snake, or horary (time-period) signs of Oriental Zodiac: “Jyu-ni-shi-Kou.”

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%8C%E6%94%AF%E8%80%83%E3%80%88%E4%B8%8A%E3%80%89-%E5%B2%A9%E6%B3%A2%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E5%8D%97%E6%96%B9-%E7%86%8A%E6%A5%A0/dp/4003313917

According to this book, he happened to find that he could see movements of molecule-size of snow, which were so dramatic like movements of players in some Japanese traditional theatrical art, in a dark room when he was studying at the Michigan State School of Agriculture, the U.S., in late 1880’s.

His extraordinary visual acuity was reported at page 40 in the 1914 Edition of the Bulletin of the British Mycological Society as he also studied and worked in London in the early 20th century; Kumagusu Minakata could see a spore case of a spore bearing plant without using a microscope , which bewildered some Bristish scientists at the era.

He wrote, in a chapter dealing with the swine as one of the twelve signs of the Chinese (and Japanese) zodiac, that there was a report at page 126 of the 1864 Edition of The Year Book by Hone (?) that a swine could see a wind.

Kumagusu Minakata was not only a world-class biologist then, but also has been regarded as one of the most knowledgeable men in the Japanese history.

His activities, though as a private biological scholar and researcher in a local prefecture in Japan before WWII, are today regarded as those of early initiatives for environmental protection and preservation of the original nature in Japan.

It is also said that Showa Emperor, having been guided on the nature of Wakayama Pref. by Kumagusu Minakata when the Emperor had been young before WWII, later dedicated his poetry to Minakata as the first mentioning a private person in the Emperor’s poems after WWII, namely 30 years after their meeting on board an Imperial Navy’s battle ship near the Kashima Island both as a specific type of biologists:

“Through the rain I see the dim figure of Kashima
in the distance which reminds me of Kumagusu
who was born in Wakayama”
(as translated in the above Wikipedia site...)

Indeed, it is very extraordinary that a name of a private person is referred to in a poetry rendered by the Emperor of Japan.
* * *

Kumagusu Minakata wrote thousands of worldwide anecdotes in his books and some magazines.

I was especially interested in the following:
“Ancient Egyptians thought a man consists of five elements: his soul, his sub-soul, his name, his shadow, and his body.”

Minakata also wrote that ancient Egyptians had believed that a god appears when his name is called.

It means that gods hide their names, but when called by their name they have to fulfill a wish of a man who has called their name.
* * *

So, calling Yahweh or El, or otherwise Allah, has a significant meaning.

But, Jesus Christ only called God Father in Heaven.

There might be a key to understanding the religion of Jesus Christ as a man, though I am respectfully afraid in saying this.



(Now, you know why they presented the picture of Helen Keller in the late-night TV news program.

Even a swine can see a movement of wind.

A genius can see a molecular movement of snow flakes.

But, who is allowed to see truth beyond time and space?

Read EEE-Reports though you do not have to call the Repoter's name at all.)



“Go back home, and tell what God has done for you…”

(Gehen Sie zurück zu Hause, und sagen, was Gott für Sie getan hat.)






　　

Policy on Money

Policy on Money

(La politique sur l'argent)


Do you feel something is getting stronger nowadays?

Should the intensified US Primary alone make headlines around the world?

Indeed, the battle between good and evil must be further intensified.



SECTION I: HILLARY 2008-2012; OBAMA 2016??

Roughly speaking, the parity in the number between “Hillary’s” supporters and “Obama’s” is +/- 2% in favor of “Obama,” namely 100 among currently focused-on 2500 official Democrat delegates for their summer convention.

But, for “Hillary” to surpass “Obama” in the coming competitions over 500 delegates, she has to secure the parity of +/- 10% in favor of herself namely 100 among 500.

In other word, so far as now, 52% support “Obama” and 48% support “Hillary.”

But, she has to turn it to 40% for “Obama” and 60% for “Hillary” in order to secure her Democrat nomination for 2008 Presidential Election in November, which most of journalists and analysts regard now as something impossible.

However, the key is of course in the media who would report the truth of the background of the two candidates: how they have become successful and famous in their lives while so many others have not, which most of journalists and analysts are avoiding discussing publicly.

There are many comments and opinions about the present situation. The one I am most interested in is the following that was posted to an online site of The Jerusalem Post.
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3. Obama 2016
It's hard not to be impressed with Barak Obama. He has charisma, poise and sincerity. The one thng he does not have is experience. For those of us who toyed with the idea of jumping on the Obama train, this was the kicker. And, for those who have questions about his comittment to a secure Israel, truly, only time will tell. So for now, I am backing Hillary for 2008 - 20012. For Barak Obama, his time may well come - in 2016. Either way, good riddance to GWB and his disaterous policies that will continue to cost us all for years.
David - Israel (03/05/2008 12:33)

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPTalkback%2FCommonFrame&tbId=1204494709161&tbNum=3&type=Show



SECTION II: Sovereign Wealth Fund

Mar 12:14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

Mar 12:15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.

Mar 12:16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.

Mar 12:17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.
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So, you have to provide money to the government. But, how should they use the money? Actually some governments in the world are turning over the money, one form of which is called the Sovereign Wealth Fund.

According to The Economist, SWFs market capitalization is about $2.5 trillion. However this number is highly uncertain because of the difficulty of counting SWF holdings. For comparison the total market capitalization of hedge funds might be only $1.6 trillion, although this figure is also highly uncertain (these are not assets, so in principle it excludes leverage).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund

In Japan, lawmakers are now considering a scheme to actively use Japan’s foreign exchange reserve that reaches about 1 trillion dollars.

But, precisely speaking, this $1 trillion is not a proprietary asset of the Japanese Government. They are in fact borrowed money from the private sector in exchange of short-term yen-based commercial paper.

Therefore, in the Japanese case, formulating a scheme to transfer $1 trillion to a pure national asset is the first issue.

There are 17 ex-bureaucrats of the Ministry of Finance among 304 Lower House members of the Liberal Democratic Party, the ruling party of Japan (the total prescribed number of Japan's Lower House is 480).

They may find a reasonable way to persuade the private sector to give up their ownership of this $1 trillion for the Japanese Government or the Bank of Japan.

Anyway, I suppose the best way is to establish another IMF in Japan. Inviting Sovereign Wealth Funds from all over the world and building a new IMF-like organization in Tokyo may pave the way for promotion of peace and prosperity in the world in the 21st century.


SECTION III: HIGHEST HOURLY PAY

I recommend US Presidential candidates, voters, and Japanese ex-bureaucrat lawmakers to check the following article of The New York Times:
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Washington pays the highest in the nation, just under $8 an hour, and Idaho has among the lowest, matching 21 states that have not raised the hourly wage beyond the federal minimum of $5.15….

Idaho teenagers cross the state line to work in fast-food restaurants in Washington, where the minimum wage is 54 percent higher. That has forced businesses in Idaho to raise their wages to compete.
Business owners say they have had to increase prices somewhat to keep up. But both states are among the nation’s leaders in the growth of jobs and personal income, suggesting that an increase in the minimum wage has not hurt the overall economy…

But the state’s major business lobby, the Association of Washington Business, is no longer fighting the minimum-wage law, which is adjusted every year in line with the consumer price index.

“You don’t see us screaming out loud about this,” said Don Brunell, president of the trade group, which represents 6,300 members.

“It’s almost a no-brainer,” Mr. Brunell said, that the federal minimum should go higher.
Association officials say they would like to see some flexibility for rural and small-town businesses, however.

Washington’s robust economy, which added nearly 90,000 jobs last year, is proof that even with the country’s highest minimum wage, “this is a great place to do business,” Mr. Brunell said…
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/us/11minimum.html?ex=1326171600&en=c2afdb2d7e43c6b5&ei=5088

Funds and budgets must be used and invested in order to increase income of people.

Politicians including US President should adopt this policy which is part of Jesus Economics.



(If you are a competent official, you cannot be a competent leader of a nation.

If you are a competent candidate, you cannot be a competent leader of a nation.

If you cannot be a good servant, you cannot be even trusted as a leader of a nation.

And a servant often works at a minimum hourly pay in a humble workshop.

We have to vote for a candidate who would declare that he or she will receive nothing more than a minimum hourly pay if he or she is elected to an official post regardless of prescribed official salary.

Do you still like to run as a candidate for any official post in future or on the next occasion, whether you are an incumbent one or not?

That is truly one of my concerns, since bad voters dislike a good candidate just like good voters dislike a bad candidate; don’t you think so?)




“Elijah is indeed coming first in order to get everything ready…”

(Elija kommt zwar zeurst, um das ganz ganze Volk Gottes wiederher zu stellen… )

　　　



　　

"You Had Five Husbands"

"You Had Five Husbands"

("Vous avez eu cinq maris")



The Gospel of King James Version reported on a private conversation between Jesus and a Samarian woman conducted when no one was around to hear it.

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Joh 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

Joh 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

Joh 4:8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

Joh 4:9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

Joh 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

Joh 4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

Joh 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Joh 4:15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

Joh 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Joh 4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

Joh 4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

Joh 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

Joh 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Joh 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

Joh 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Joh 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

Joh 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

Joh 4:27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
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Indeed, a woman who had five husbands must have a troubled mind and heart.

She must have a perverse mind like a wife of a member of gangsters or the Mafia.

She must not have believed in Jesus Christ like so many women each of whom has had five husbands today.

And, a man who makes such a woman his wife, with or without knowing her past and the fact, must not believe in Jesus Christ alike.

Today, there are full of men and women who have had five spouses officially or unofficially, respectively, while they are making the fact secret to their spouse.

That is why no problems can be solved in this world, since those husbands and wives do not believe in Jesus Christ.

Conversely, if you want to make this world better, do not have a spouse who had five husbands or wives previously.



(Now, here in Japan before the noon of March 5 (Wed.), we are yet to have a result from Texas and Ohio.

But Jerusalem Post wrote:
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Berger said that the intense focus on these issues was also telling about the Jewish community, whose contributions - both in votes and donations to campaigns - represent a far larger amount of candidate support than their actual numbers, some two percent of the country's population.

"The community always had influence beyond [its] numbers and this is another sign of that," he said.
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546391318&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

I suspect that the winner in November at the end of 2008 Presidential Election will be again the Israeli Lobby in the U.S.

Or, can you carry it until November?

Now, an FEN radio program is playing an old song, “Desperado”…)




“New Truths and Old”

(Neue Gesetzslehrer)



 
　　

The 900-Years Rules

(Ginza again…)



The 900-Years Rules

(Le "900 Ans" Règles)


Please expand the "Page" view to 125% or so in your "Internet Explore" setting for a larger view of figures.

SECTION I: America in Christians’ Paradigm
The above figure shows historical deployment of Christianity as far as to the African American Community.

1) Christianity expanded to the Roman Empire out of the ancient Israeli world around Jerusalem due to disbelief of ancient Israelites.

2) 900 years later, Christianity expanded to North Europe out of the Roman Empire due to disbelief of some Roman citizens.

3) Then 900 years later, Christianity expanded to freed African American Community out of the European American Community due to disbelief of some European Americans.


SECTION II: America in Muslims’ Paradigm
The above figure shows historical deployment of Islam that emerged and developed in the regions Alexander the Great had conquered and its historical function to allow for discovery of America by Columbus.

1) Allah prepared the future Islamic regions by allowing Alexander the Great to conquer those areas and domains today called Egypt, Palestine, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

2) 900 years later and afterward, Allah vouchsafed Islam to Arabs, Egyptians, Persians, and others living in the above indicated regions.

3) Then 900 years later, Allah allowed Muslims to protect themselves from European invasion but made Columbus find the New Continent for future deployment and expansion of Islam.

(You may even think that Allah prepared America this way as a future guardian or protector of Islam, which would set America apart from England eventually.)


SECTION III: Paradigm of Hegemony in the Middle East
The above figure shows historical deployment of hegemony in the Middle East.

1) Iranians or Persians established hegemony in the Middle East before they were conquered by Allah through Islam.

2) 900 years later, European Christians led by the Vatican invaded Palestine and Jerusalem to establish hegemony there.

3) Then 900 years later, Israelites returned to Jerusalem after WWII and Americans have also tried to establish hegemony in the Middle East with cooperation from Saudi Arabia vying with Iran and Muslim insurgents.

* * *

Now you can get closer to truth of history the God and Jesus Christ have been overlooking from the high above.

You may realize the significance of existence of America and the Middle East that covers Mesopotamia and Jerusalem with the peripheral areas of Egypt and the Indus Valley.

The security of Israel, prevalence of Islam, discovery of crude oil, and recent surge of oil dollar power must be considered in the above context.

Put simply, America should become a platform of a new movement of Christianity carried by African Americans, and America should also offer a chance of further growth of Islam on its land and in the Middle East and its adjacent regions.

In addition, we may be able to find the meaning of the “holy 900 years” as a base time span to measure the progress of history, sooner or later.



(As for “Hillary” vs. “Obama,” only I can say is that if “Hillary” fails her husband is very much responsible.

It is tantamount to denying Mr. Bill Clinton’s credibility, integrity, and faith.

So, good girls and Mlles., your choice of your husband can really influence not only your personal integrity but also the glory of your country in some case.

So look around and consult the God who ordered me to write EEE Reports, as I often do for my integrity.)




“Happy Are Those Who Believe Without Seeing the Miracle”

(Sie sind gesegnet, wenn Sie der Meinung sind, ohne das Wunder zu sehen.)






　

Lessons in Shanghai in 1930’s

Lessons in Shanghai in 1930’s

(Les leçons apprises à Shanghai dans les années 1930)



Since 2007, we have had new leaders coming up from potent countries to the global stage one after another.

Japan, France, the U.K., Russia, and Australia have new leaders; even in the U.S. the possible next Presidents or Presidential contenders have drawn more attentions than the incumbent President.

Indeed, this year’s G8 summit to be held in Japan from July 7 will surely make US President Mr. George W. Bush outstanding, since he has kept his position since the 9/11 Terror in 2001.

In addition, South Korea has now new President, Mr. Lee Myung-bak who unlike his anti-Japanese predecessor looks sound and responsible, since he honestly expresses the importance of friendly relationships between Japan and South Korea.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/world/asia/26korea.html?ex=1361682000&en=518f941250ca7780&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Though some Americans might believe that most of Korean people hate Japanese due to Imperial Japan’s occupation of the Korean Peninsula before WWII, the fact and truth is that most of Koreans like Japan and Japanese at heart. But, due to Japan’s occupation of the Korean Peninsula before WWII, they have to condemn Japan sometimes at least on a superficial level for their nationalism; otherwise their nationalism is suspected by others.

It is said that the poorer a Korean is, the more he or she likes Japan and Japanese.

But it is not the new Korean President that took my attention on a TV program showing the inauguration ceremony of President Mr. Lee.

It is Japan’s Former Prime Mister Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone who led Japan from 1982 to 1987.

While most of former Prime Ministers of Japan are gone, he still acts as a politician, attending this 2008 Korean President’s inauguration ceremony held in cold Seoul.

Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone was no more Japan’s Prime Minister when the father of the incumbent US President, namely Mr. George H. W. Bush came into the White House as the 41st US President in 1989.

So, observing Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone in Seoul in 2008 is something moving, though he has now no official post in the Japanese Parliament and the Japanese Administration despite his presence still occasionally felt among the incumbent ruling party of Japan.

(Even one relatively young lawmaker of the opposition party of Japan wrote in his blog about his attendance to the ceremony in Seoul accompanying Mr. Nakasone with delight.)

So, I checked the book written on the network of personal connections behind the scene of the Japanese political world since the era of the Sino-Japanese War or the Manchurian Incident in 1930’s.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E4%BA%BA%E8%84%88%E2%80%95%E6%88%A6%E5%BE%8C%E3%82%92%E3%81%A4%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F%E9%99%B0%E3%81%AE%E7%94%B7%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A1-%E7%A5%A5%E4%BC%9D%E7%A4%BE%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E3%81%84-15-1-%E5%B2%A9%E5%B7%9D/dp/4396333684

The incumbent Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, is a son of the former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda who was the successor of Nobusuke Kishi (Prime Minister between 1957 and 1960), a grandfather of the former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe (Prime Minister between 2006 and 2007).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi

The most interesting part of the above book is that it reveals how influential figures who acted after WWII on the stage or behind the scene of Japanese political circles had established their fundamental relationships in Shanghai and Manchuria, currently the northeast territory of China, in 1930’s.

The human network covered not only politicians but also businessmen, journalists, and various types of fixers.

It also reveals that how those Japanese were influenced by Chinese in Shanghai.

When those ambitious Japanese came to Shanghai they found how naive they were, though they had been regarded as shrewd and hotshot successful politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen, journalists, and various kinds of fixers in Japan.

It is said that those Japanese learnt every dirty trick they had not dreamed of in Japan in addition to how to use money, power, and conspiracies, which traditional samurai code of conduct had never permitted, from Chinese counterparts working covertly and overtly in Shanghai in 1930’s.

Chinese politicians, businessmen, fixers, and activists living in the great social turmoil and upheaval since the collapse of the Qing Dynasty were in a different class or poles apart from those Japanese counterparts who accordingly decided to learn every dirty trick and method of conspiracy from those Chinese.

The Empire of Japan had then far advanced and modern industry, society, and military than Chine that promised Japan’s final military victory in 1930’s; but the depth of evil in the Chinese society was beyond imagination of those Japanese elites.

The point of issue is that those Japanese who had experienced Shanghai life in 1930's survived WWII and formed the influential human network as part of mainstream or underground one in the Japanese society.

They also combined with those who also built their careers in Manchuria or Manchukuo, like former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, and in official circles of the Japanese Government as elite bureaucrats since WWII, like former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda and Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone.

So, the ugly vice some Japanese had learnt in Shanghai in 1930’s survived and influenced the politics in Japan after WWII, though fully democratized Japan after WWII became an ally of the U.S. especially against communists in the Soviet Union and China, which made the human relationships in the political and business communities more complicated.

But, in 1970’s, along with the coming of era of global expansion of the Japanese economy, a new group of people got political hegemony in Japan relying on huge money produced through the economic growth, the leader of whom was former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

The Japanese people also supported this new political faction, feeling a sense of relief from a kind of old regime governed by old elites, though it was often criticized as money-driven politics as exemplified in the Lockheed scandal in early 1970’s which deprived Kakuei Tanak of honor and respect, though he and his successor maintained hegemony in the political world.

But, this hegemony virtually ended when Mr. Yoshiro Mori became Prime Minister of Japan in 2000 and Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi launched a fierce political fight, since 2001, against the remnant of the group Kakuei Tanaka had founded 30 years ago.

Finally, the group Nobusuke Kishi had founded 50 years ago with a help from those coming back from Shanghai after WWII established and consolidated its power base again, a result of which is the incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda.
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It is hard to tell how much evil and vice of Shanghai in 1930’s is alive and working in the present Japanese Government and its Parliament called the Diet.

But it is surely a fact to take note of: In 1930’s, many ambitious Japanese went to Shanghai, China, to take an evil course, growing up from country players to continental-class players in politics and business.

In 1990’s, ambitious Japanese went to London and New York, to take an evil course, growing up from country players to world-class players in the money market.

And, even in 1930’s, some Japanese elites in various fields were moving from Tokyo to New York, and then New York to Shanghai to build their careers, good or bad.

Today, as the recent Davos conference suggested, many players of various nationalities in the global money market are building their career through travelling between London, New York, and Shanghai.

Even Japanese with such respectable culture and history were contaminated by such evil in Shanghai in 1930’s.

Other people of various countries today could be also highly and negatively influenced by such vice in London, New York, and Shanghai. And, they will surely influence politics and business in their home countries.

That is why you have to just ponder on the order of Jesus Christ: Do not access foreigners’ way.




(There are some Japanese critics, such as Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, and politicians, such as Ms. Yuriko Koike, who probably by instinct are on the alert for Chinese way of diplomacy, politics, business, and human relationships.

One of big worries of such Japanese people about the next US President lies in this concern and context.

My concern is however that there might be some affinity between Chinese and people who belong to the Latin cultures, say, such as French or Italians rather than Anglo-Saxons, since some founders of Chinese Communist Party experienced studying in Paris also in 1930's, and the Mafia might even today become an easy partner of a secret agency of the Chinese Communist Party.

Indeed, Shanghai in 1930’s was also full of Europeans and Americans, maybe, like you, in addition to Japanese, maybe, like you.)



“His answer made his enemies ashamed of themselves…”

(Als Jesus das gesagt hatte, waren seine Genger beshamt…)


　　　

　　

Yearly Request to the US Government (Draft)

(beyond time and space though yet in Tokyo in 2008 for you)


Yearly Request to the US Government (Draft)

(Annuel demande à l'administration américaine)



The following is part of a draft of our yearly requests to the US Government:

1) Make the infant mortality rate equal between European American infants and non-European American infants, which is currently 6.6 and 17.0 per 1,000 infants, respectively.

2) Educate US children so as to respect the foreign countries from which their ancestors immigrated to the U.S., years ago, decades ago, or centuries ago.

3) Establish a new Department, such as the Department of the Treasury, in the Federal Government dedicated to promoting welfare of African Americans and declare the War on Enemies of African Americans (if not like the way Abraham Lincoln did in 1861).

4) Disseminate democracy in the Middle East, China, and North Korea in a peaceful manner using peaceful means.

5) Cooperate with the Mexican Government to eradicate violence and crimes in boarder areas between the two countries; for this purpose, transfer some army divisions from Iraq to Mexico subject to necessary international treaties to be concluded.

We hope that the US Government will fulfill the above requests this year on behalf of every believer of God, Allah, and Yahweh or El.

And, though I think it is very difficult for Christian Americans and Israelite Americans, I hope that they will forgive their enemies, including AlQaeda and other Arab terrorists, since Jesus Christ ordered mankind to forgive enemies and love enemies, while the US military have had to arrest and torture 98 innocent Muslims before they took on two insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan who had no intention and means to travel to the U.S. and carry out systematic and suicidal terror.

Indeed, how many Americans have a member of their family or a friend who was actually killed by AlQaeda or Arab terrorists before and after Sept. 11, 2001?

Definitely there must be more Americans whose family member or friend was killed by other American who did not believe in God.

6) Do not laugh at the Gospel, Jesus Christ, Moses, Abraham, and God with so many foreclosed houses of poor Americans and fabulous churches for rich Americans widely displayed, under the gaze of God, on the land of the New Continent the God intended to give mankind for a Religious Revolution.

(Remember the calculation: two million [poor men] multiplied by $200,000 [default], namely a total $400 billion loss which must have been used as leverage for $4000 billion investment and speculation globally.)

I will present the second version of the Draft later or discuss the last issue soon.



(Indeed, gentlemen, March has come to test you who have sovereign right each in democracy, since you are not allowed to live and die rich leaving the world full of crimes, tragedies, conspiracies, corruption, moral leprosy, Mafia-like madness, terrorist-like heinousness, and despise to everybody including the dead rich.)



“Whoever wants to boast must boast of what the God has done.”

(Wer will rühmen darf stolz von dem, was Gott getan hat.)





　

"The God indeed exists, Sir"

"The God indeed exists, Sir"

("Le Dieu existe en effet, monsieur.")




I stepped into a train.

There were a western father and an infant girl sitting on the seat. As the opposite side seat was almost occupied, I sat on their side over some space.

The western infant girl, however, spoke something as if she had been in bad mood missing her mother, since she spoke Japanese to herself and her father tried to soothe her with Japanese and English.

Then I faced a strange man with a big suit bag, who didn’t look like somebody that earned money the way ordinary citizens did though he put on reasonable clothes to look like an innocent citizen.

The man looked like being impressed by a western infant girl speaking Japanese to herself and her western father who spoke ambiguous Japanese and honest English.

After having passed a few stations, there came a relatively young man well tanned who looked like having spent a night or two on the street as a temporary homeless though his hair was cut short and nice and he put on reasonable clothes to look like an innocent citizen.

He walked in front of me and took a seat between middle aged women sitting in a row facing the western partial family and me.

Now all the space on the seats of both the sides of the train car was occupied.

Then the well-tanned, temporary homeless man started speaking in a large voice, though not shouting, “I have found that the God indeed exists, sir. I have found that the God truly exists, sir. No, no! He might not exist.”

Everybody in the train car, except the western father, pretended as if having heard nothing, while the relatively young temporary homeless was speaking to somebody standing before him that was however unseen to everybody, probably.

He continued to speak, “You would become a mummy while you are on the train.” Then he giggled at his own joke, just looking at me sitting silently on the opposite row.

Then, the well-tanned, temporary homeless man spoke to the western father over somebody unseen, “I have found that the God indeed exists, sir. I have found that the God truly exists, sir. No, no! He might not exist.”

The western infant girl grumbled in Japanese.

The strange man with a big suit bag facing me over the aisle silently stood up and walked to the door while the train was running toward the center of Tokyo.

A few minutes later I also decided to leave the seat and got close to another door to get a view outside more clearly through a large window on the train door.

Then I moved to the opposite door to get other view on the opposite side of the railway. But, the strange man with a big suit bag was still standing there.

At the next station or so, he got off the train. I also looked around to see the well-tanned, temporary homeless man to find him nowhere.

Then I heard the western infant girl speaking Japanese to herself cheerfully; probably she must have spoken with her mother through a cellular phone her father had.

I was standing and watching the scenery out of the door-window of a train running into the center of Tokyo on one cold day in winter.
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I got off the train, leaving other passengers, since I found that I was not going further on the day.

The train advanced to the center of Tokyo, leaving me alone on a highly raised concrete platform being blown by a cold wintry wind that made even Mt. Fuji so far looking cloudy and dimm.


(So, now you know words of an Angel can be heard, if not finding them on the subway wall in New York, in some train around Tokyo, though not so apocalyptic due to my personality.

And, you will also play a role in that sometime soon, Mlles.)


Rev 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

Rev 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

Rev 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Rev 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

Rev 10:2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

Rev 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.





　

On the Hill or the Rock

On the Hill or the Rock

(Sur la colline ou de la roche)


In the Japan’s Fuji TV late-night news program, last night, they presented an interview video of Ms. Condoleezza Rice by Ms. Yuko Andou, a notable Japanese newscaster.

Ms. Rice looked relaxing in Tokyo and said that she would not run for Vice President this year and wanted to go back home after spending this year in Washington D.C.

It is also said that the US Secretary of State met with the Prime Minister of Israel in Tokyo yesterday.

The TV news program also introduced the next possible Russian President, yet to be elected by voters, who invited the rock band Deep Purple to Russia by leveraging funds of Gasprom.

(When Deep Purple first sprang to life on a North Sea ferry in 1968, not even Nostradamus could have predicted that the band would be headlining a gala show in Moscow Kremlin 40 years later. Yet here we are —...)

http://www.thehighwaystar.com/

The TV news program also presented the debate between “Hillary” and “Obama” being so intensified over the Medicare issue.

Indeed, we can see the world changing.

But, do you know the song "The Fool on the Hill" Mr. Paul McCartney sang decades ago.

http://www.iamthebeatles.com/article1149.html

Indeed, "but the fool on the hill, sees the sun going down, and the eyes in his head see the world spinning round."

(Yet, who do you think Paul met with on a hill looking down on London who magically disappeared while the young good-natured singer was looking for his stray dog?)

As I saw news enough last night on TV, I do not have much to say today, but please ponder the implication of one remark on oil prices posted on the Hill Blog by the president of a prominent US think tank:

As oil approaches $100 a barrel some pundits contend the price could reach $200 a barrel and could undermine western economies, involving an historic transfer of capital to oil producing nations. While this could happen, I remain unconvinced, maintaining several logical expectations…

http://blog.thehill.com/2008/02/26/seven-reasons-why-we-can-expect-a-drop-in-oil-prices/#more-5439

For your reference, I am now checking the Japanese version of the book “Histoire du petrole” by Etienne Dalemont et Jean Carrie.

It apparently tells that the enemies of Arabs have been more the U.K., France, and Germany than the U.S.

AlQaeda really tried to take a wrong target, probably, due to Mr. Osama bin Laden’s personally held grudges, in my theory.

Now, Arabs and Russians should act definitely as an intermediary between the U.S. and Iran without relying on the US Secretary of State busy for the North Korean issue or waiting for the next US President to be elected, since in Japanese crude oil is expressed as “rock (stone) oil” and the rock might destroy anything as the Gospel tells.




(Indeed, this is my conclusion from observation of the world last night like spinning round, round, round, and around a snake on the rock before, say, a rabbit…See the news on Friday, too!)



“CHRIST’S SACRIFICE TAKES AWAY SINS”


(CHRISTUS DAS EINMALIGE UND WIRKSAME OPFER)