"whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire"

Politics, Economy, & War

Secretary Mrs. Hillary Clinton arrived at Tokyo today, a very hot day for May.

The Governor of the Bank of Japan, Mr. Shirakawa, said in a news conference that the Japanese economy is on the road to recovery at a steady pace.

But, the issue is what would become of the world No.2 economy if another No.2 economy suddenly emerges.

The imbalance between the scale of the Chinese economy and its average income level has generated a great deflation pressure on Japan, resulting in a huge decrease in tax revenues.

However, no economists in the world seem to be able to understand this truth between the Japanese economy and the Chinese economy.

Indeed, Beijing could be hotter than Tokyo if it ends its short spring after long winter.


SECTION I: Core of IT Industry

There are some concerns among Japanese elites as to whether Japan can cope with the American IT industry in the 21st century.

In terms of hardware, Japanese makers as leading players would tie up with American software/service companies, as so wished by American partners.

(For example, Sony and Google:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10132877.stm )

However, in terms of software and systems, American companies are dominant.

Indeed, it is unthinkable that the U.S. Government and the U.S. military/security sectors will use operating software made by a Japanese company.

The U.S. Government and the U.S. military/security sectors will never use Japan-made OS instead of Windows OS or Mac OS.

The U.S. Government and the U.S. military/security sectors will never use Japan-made search engines instead of Google or Yahoo.

The American owed its victory over the Empire of Japan in WWII to its advanced electric interception technologies, cipher-breaking technology, and high-speed computing.

This tradition still lives in the American IT industry.

As computer programs are mostly written in English, the Internet codes are mostly written in English, and various IT standards are written in English, America has far stronger advantage in this sector than Japan has.

Conversely, to really compete with Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, etc., Japanese and Asian businesses have to study not only English but history.

Today, America's dominating position is secured more by software and systems than by hardware, if not by culture. And, the Internet is not one hardware or software product. It is a system of systems based on those products. And, this paradigm of industry is unique to the European/American civilization, since it is very structural.

Accordingly, to really compete with Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, etc., Japanese and Asian businesses have to study not only English but culture, since its functionality is very Western/American.

Yet, it is easier for Japanese or Asian elite businessmen and engineers to simply adopt American way of thinking and working rather than to create a new leading culture in the IT sphere of the 21st century.

But, Islam and the Buddhism are not necessarily obstructive factors for development of computers and the Internet, as the Japanese language is not.


SECTION II: Crude Oil & The Empire

Before the end of WWII, the Empire of Japan controlled a nation called Manchukuo, presently three northeast provinces of China.

Japanese elites tried hard to find oil fields in Manchuria, in vain. It is after WWII that the famous Daqing Field was discovered by the Chinese communist government between the Songhua river and Nunjiang river in Heilongjiang province.

Before the end of WWII, the Empire of Japan included a southern half of Sakhalin as its territory, though it is presently occupied by Russia.

Though there were big oil/natural gas fields in the northern half of Sakhalin, Japanese elites before WWII did not realize significance of those natural resources while importing oil from America. The Empire of Japan had a special right to import crude oil from northern Sakhalin through an agreement with the Soviet Union, but the Empire waived the right as it signed the Japan-Soviet Nonaggression Treaty in 1941, leading to more reliance on American oil, ironically.

If the Empire of Japan had had full information about oil/natural gas fields in Manchuria and the Sakhalin Island (Karahuto in Japanese) to utilize it fully, it would not have been drawn into war in the Chinese mainland in 1937. There must not have been the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941, either.

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If you have any boss who is more foolish than you, let him act just like a boss.

Serving a fool who happens to be your boss is a great training for you to learn how to realize peace in society, a nation, and the world.

Especially, if you are young, think that your only boss is the God, Allah, or Jesus Christ.

And, your holy mission is to make the number of such foolish bosses as small as possible.

In this context, a regime change or a position change is really needed in each ballot.

Indeed, without the 2001 9/11 Terror on the East Coast, Mr. George W. Bush would have ended as a kind of foolish boss for some in 2004.

Indeed, without the 2008 9/15 Lehman Shock on Wall Street, Mr. Barack H. Obama would have ended as a kind of foolish candidate for some in 2008.

If you happen to become a boss to anybody, you must have already mastered Politics, Economy, & War in your domain.

Remember the top management likes to choose a fool as a leader of workers, since fools blindly respect the top management.



(http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~har-snow/Piano_Concerto_1.mid
Source: http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~har-snow/music.htm

This is not a hymn, though...)


Mat 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

"do and teach them"

(Running through the bridge...)


LIFE WITHOUT GUIDELINES

One's own happiness should not be a target and a driving factor for one's life.

Indeed, to be happy, people will make others unhappy. This is a true cause of competition, since everybody thinks that others will make him/her unhappy according to a situation.

To address this issue, religion, law, administration, democracy, and free market system are introduced. The fair competition is used as a phrase to justify results of competitions.

However, a human life and society must set its foundation at a higher level than that of happiness and fair competition.

Others' happiness should be a target and a driving factor for one's life.

You are expected to make others happy by the God and Jesus Christ.

Yet, the God and Jesus Christ say that there are enemies of the God and Jesus Christ; and they will face eternal death finally.

To your objection, a man is actually forced to be good and kind to others by the God and Jesus Christ, whether he or she is an enemy of the God and Jesus Christ.

Anyway, what you can get finally is a lost memory of a rich life you will have while you are in the hell, or accumulated wealth in Heaven you will enjoy while you are welcomed by the God and Jesus Christ. This is a logical consequence on one's life on the earth, which must be truly determined after one's death by the God.


SECTION I: Government Bonds & Deflation

The amount of circulation of Bank of Japan notes, namely yen bills, is almost 75 trillion yen or $824 billion.

The amount of government bonds the BOJ has purchased and held is almost 45 trillion yen or $495 billion.

Accordingly, the BOJ is thought to be able to purchase further government bonds worth 30 trillion yen or $330 billion.


( http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/pakka_san/35717903.html)

However, according to one theory, the more Japanese businesses and individuals purchase government bonds, the less they can spend their money for consumption, leading to deflation.

Of course, as the Government spends money, being collected through selling bonds, into public work and other expenditures, money is circulating. On behalf of businesses and individuals, the government is spending their money to increase GDP.

It is said that Japan is safe as 95% of government bonds are purchased by domestic parties. But, for this reason, domestic consumption might become weak. Though the government executes public work and other expenditures, it is not an enterprise. Its role in the market might not be so effective.

Or, which will activate economy more: $1 trillion spending by the government or by businesses and individuals?

In conclusion, the government should refrain from selling government bonds but print government bills as a means of budget execution. Then, the state of whole economy will be explicitly and transparently measured by the value of yen in the exchange market.



SECTION II: Chinese Nuclear Weapons

It is said that China has now 450 nuclear warheads.

Among them, 250 are mounted on the inter-continental ballistic missiles and other strategic systems.

Most of these nuclear warheads are stored in tunnels or underground bases built in mountains of specific areas. But, the Chinese military moves them so often from one site to another. A big problem is that this dangerous convoy travels on ordinary highways running through villages and towns.

(The Sichuan Great Earthquake in 2008 reportedly caused a dangerous situation in this context, with scores of nuclear equipment broken.

http://blog.kajika.net/?eid=826745)

Anyway, except Russia and the U.S., China is the most dangerous nuclear-capable nation in East Asia.

President Mr. Barack Obama should start a talk with China for reduction of nuclear warheads. Only in this wider frame, North Korea will be forced to abandon its nuclear weapons.

It is also said that when Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski did not say in his public appearances that Japan should not have nuclear weapons, Chinese high-ranking officials protested strongly against him, while the former United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter thinks that Japan should have.

There must be no nuclear weapons in East Asia. China should lead the way.

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US strategists, however, suggest that the Chinese position may be ambiguous, and nuclear weapons may be used both to deter conventional strikes/invasions on the Chinese mainland, or as an international political tool - limiting the extent to which other nations can coerce China politically, an inherent, often inadvertent phenomenon in international relations as regards any state with nuclear capabilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army
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China might look peace loving to rich Americans (since China supplies goods to Wal-Mart), while it has an ambition to expand its military power as much as possible, since the Chinese Communist regime relies on military but not democracry.

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If mankind has to control $100 trillion economy, it needs a myriad of computers everywhere in business, administraive, and personal domains.

But, mankind falls into error sometimes.

That is why another economic crisis is expected to happen sooner or later.

The true cause for the start of the Great Depression must be this challenge from a grwoing amount of information in economy. Conversely, if there had been a computer in 1929, no Great Depression would have happened. Or, as we had great computing power in 2008, the Lehman Shock could be contained reasonably.

But, mankind falls into error sometimes.

And, in the next Wall Street crisis, Microsoft, Intel, Google, and Yahoo will contribute little to containt it, probably.

So, learn computers and related technology to be a leader of any sort.



(http://www.just-oldies.com/1966/day_tripper.htm

I didn't know how those in the mother country of the Beatles felt listening to this song. But, it could be a kind of way to take a feeling in a situation...)



Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

"Man, thy sins are forgiven thee"

(Tokyo Bay)


One Step or 56 Steps Short


A Japanese female singer walked the Grand Canyon, following well managed trails with some Americans as televised by NHK tonight in Japan.

As she reached a camp site set on an uphill slope, she checked a pedometer which showed 55499. She, so tired, simply said, "Oh, it is so much! Look, 55,499 steps!"

But, she did not look like realizing that it was one step short of 55,500 or 56 steps short of 55,555.

One's life might be often as such, namely one step short or 56 steps short of 55,555 after ascending 600 or 700 meters taking several hours.

Anyway, the Japanese female singer looked happy, convincing herself that she discovered true American land, though the Colorado River basin cannot be a symbol of America. She should go and walk down the Mississippi from Chicago to New Orleans through Dallas, in my humble view, taking 5,555,555 steps.


SECTION I: Japanese Financial Challenge

At the end of 2009, the total amount of the debts of the Japanese Government reached 592 trillion yen or $6.37 trillion.

There are now many discussions about this issue in Japan, even over the Internet.

Ratios of Outstanding Government Bonds over GDP as of 2009
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JAPAN.........189.6%
USA....;...;..... 87.4
UK.....;...;..... 75.3
Germany.........78.2
France.........86.4
Italy.........122.9
Canada.........77.7

(Source: OECD Economic Outlook 85)
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However, Japan has a huge surplus in the balance of international payments, since Japanese businesses are strong in international-market competition:

Balance of Current Account in 2008
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JAPAN.........(+ 156.6 billion dollars
USA....;...;..... (- 706.1
UK.....;...;..... ( -45.6
Germany......... (+ 243.6
France......... (- 52.9
Italy......... (- 78.0
Canada......... (+ 27.3

China......... (+ 426.1
India......... (- 9.4

(Source: http://www.stat.go.jp/data/sekai/10.htm#h10-01)
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The easiest way to address the Japanese financial deficits is asking more financial contribution from Japanese businesses.

Public financial contribution by businesses in the form of a sum of tax and social security fees is as follows:
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Japan......7.6%
Germany....9.1%
Italy.....11.7%
France....14.0%

(http://www.wako.ac.jp/souken/touzai06/tz0614.pdf)
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A level of corporate tax in Japan is relatively high, but their contribution to social security fees is deplorably low.

If Japanese businesses pay as much as they do in France to the Government, the Japanese Government can collect 32 trillion yen or $344 billion more per year from this revenue source.

Yet, to cope with challenges from foreign businesses in the international market, Japanese businesses are requesting the government to lower corporate tax.

One thing sure is that the Japanese Government alone cannot solve this huge-deficit issue, though domestic parties have 95% of these debt claims and foreigners have just 5% in stark contrast with Greece and the U.S. Japanese businesses must join the government in this effort.

Another way is to adopt EEE-Economics proposing separation of taxation and governmental expenditures. The Japanese Government have to simply buy back outstanding bonds with yen bills exchanged with government bills through the Bank of Japan. The value of yen might fall to 120 yen per dollar, but Japanese businesses will of course survive with more profits from export.

This huge deficit of the Japanese Government can be turned to a huge advantage of Japanese businesses.


SECTION II: Qing (Ching) and Japan

The Ching dynasty (1616-1912) was not established by Han Chinese but by Manchu.

Yet Manchu did not destroy Chinese traditions. Chinese letters and literature were preserved by the Sinicized Manchu government.

But, the literacy rate in Ching is estimated to be about 3 to 4%, partly based on estimated sales of writing brushes.

In the same period, Japan was governed by the Tokugawa samurai clan, specifically between 1603 and 1867. The literacy rate in the last samurai era of Japan is estimated to be about 40% to 51% for men and about 15% to 21% for women.

China has been always a class society where almost no framers could read and write till the 20th century, while Japan has been a more flexible society where 90% of the people could read and write in 1900.

The big difference between the two countries is, from a Japan's viewpoint, that Chinese could not invent kana-alphabets which in Japan have helped children learn reading and writing more easily before using Kanji (Chinese) letters.

Another big difference between the two is that Ching and other classic Chinese dynasties had no paradigms such as sovereign power, territories, national borders, and even clear racial distinction unlike Japan surrounded by seas.

Their main paradigm is the distinction between cultivated China and surrounding wild worlds, though only handful Chinese elites monopolized culture, wealth, and power, suppressing a great majority of farmers. They even despised craftsmen.

In this background, the Ching dynasty fell in the early 20th century, leaving great chaos especially in Manchuria where Russians and Japanese confronted each other, while Manchu and Chinese left in this northeast region of the Chinese continent were mainly poor farmers who had almost no idea about what a nation is.

Then, the very controversial, artificial country Manchukuo was built in this mother land of the Ching dynasty in 1932 by the Empire of Japan as an independent nation outwardly, though Han Chinese also seems to have had no grounds for claiming the region as their own.

(However, today, Manchu people are almost absorbed by Han Chinese in the three northeast provinces of China, better or worse.)

Anyway, whether Manchukuo was included in the geographical concept of China or not had an important effect on the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941.

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Now the Japanese Government is so striving to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease among livestock, mainly in West Japan.

A decade ago, six million cows and other animals reportedly underwent slaughter disposition in England.

Now, 200,000 cows and pigs are expected to go through the same fate in Japan.

This ominous incident could influence the Hatoyama Cabinet.

However, remember the swine influenza has been well suppressed globally and especially so effectively in Japan, while the regime change was going on in Japan.

"Hato" means a pigeon or a dove in Japanese. Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama should be more prepared for security incidents, since the military super-power America cannot be necessarily the only bad guy in the world, even in his paradigm of the East China Sea of fraternity.

Anyway, it is now at 00:09 of Thursday in Japan Standard Time; Thursday is superseded by Friday which is superseded by Saturday, and only Sunday is enough for a thrill, if not in the Grand Canyon, checking every step.




(http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Folk/Bashana.mid
Source: http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Folk/Menu.htm

A traditional "Jewish" or Israeli song is not offesnive at all. But, so different from Arabic melodies it is. )



Luk 5:18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

Luk 5:19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

Luk 5:20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

"But Jesus answered them"

(Harumi Pier of the Tokyo Bay)


SUCCESS, HOPE & BLESSING

Success is not so important as hope.

Hope is not so important as blessing.

Blessing is so important as much as joy.

Yet, the most impressive word of Jesus Christ is "I have already won the world."

Therefore, the above order of paradigms is based on the victory of Jesus Christ.


SECTION I: General View on American History

In the era between Columbus and the Boston Tea Party, Europe did not respect America.

If you are successful and respected in Europe, you will not go to America if America is full of American natives.

Besides, if you go and become a king of America, you have to rely on Europe to have a civilized life. America has no way but follow Europe.

Then, in 1772, the Boston Tea Party occurred, leading to the independence of America.

In the era between the Boston Tea Party and the Civil War, Europe did not respect America.

If you are cultivated enough to abolish slavery, you will not go to America if America is full of slaves.

Besides, if you go and become a king of America, you have to rely on European industry to enjoy material riches. America has no way but follow Europe.

Then, in 1861, the Civil War occurred, leading to the emancipation of slaves.

In the era between the the Civil War and the Pearl Harbor, Europe did not respect America.

If European currencies and troops are so dominant, you will not go to America if America is so local in terms of security and finance.

Besides, if you go and become a king of America, you have to rely on European Christianity to observe non-Judaistic religious traditions. America has no way but follow Europe.

Then, in 1941, the Pearl Harbor Attack occurred, leading to the global deployment of American troops and dollars.

After WWII, some American Presidents started to think that they might be a king in the world, calling America the (sole) super-power.

So, the three magic events are: the Boston Tea Party, the Civil War, and the Pearl Harbor Attack.

In a sense, Former President Mr. George W. Bush addressed the Pearl Harbor Attack through building friendly relationships with Japan. President Mr. Barack Obama has addressed the Civil War through building his own Administration in the White House.

In short, the next American President will have to address the Boston Tea Party.

This is a general view on the American history you must have before going to Afghanistan or coming to New York or Washington D.C.


SECTION II: Japan's Bankruptcy vs. Trade with China

Japan is a kind of facing a potential of national bankruptcy, though it is completely covered by a huge amount of people's assets, unlike the case of Greece, as Japanese national bonds are well purchased by Japanese businesses and individuals.



The main factor for a need of issuing a huge amount of government bonds is deflation which is caused by a rapid growth of the Japan-China trade.



Compare and check the above two figures. Pay attention to the years 1997 and 1998.

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The Asian Financial crisis started and expanded from Thailand in July 1997.

While the world exposition is being held in Shanghai, China, and a new president has been elected in the Philippines, Thailand is amid the rising tension.

What company would rather send an in-house Japanese cameraman to Bangkok from Tokyo while it has a big office in Singapore and Hong Kong?

Even in a private company, there is always a conspiracy, especially if it is in the media industry.

Today, on a cable TV channel, a Japanese ex-politician told that many elite reporters and in-house journalists of the Japanese media have been virtually bought up by high-ranking politicians occupying top positions of the Government for a very long time since 1960's.

He clearly said, "It was a bad thing to make those reporters fall from virtue by money."

But, he also added, "They are after all members of power structure."

(Even only to get this sort of testimonies, the regime change was necessary in Japan in the last summer.)

Yet, they are doing worse things in the world, involving the Western media, without mentioning the Chinese media and the North Korean media. Even Hollywood is out of the question.

So, you have to belong to other industry to make it better.



( http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-folk1/syufunoblues.html

No housewives followed Jesus Christ. However, leaving their children and husbands is what Jesus Christ instructed as a condition to enter Heaven. Even in this context, the era of the Vatican should be closed.

Anyway, His word must have been big consolation for women unfortunately without children or husbands.)



Joh 5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Joh 5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

Joh 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

"he withdrew himself into the wilderness"

(Nippon Maru and a paddle steam boat in the Tokyo Bay as large as the Dead Sea, Israel)


Time to Take Action?

There are many Japanese in Bangkok.

If a large scale clash should happen between the Thai military and the demonstrators, Japanese citizens and businesses might have a grave influence.

Buddhism can be of no help in stopping a civil war as observed in the Japanese history.

The Thai Government should not use military troops for crackdown on civilian protesters.

National bankruptcy is better than a civil war, so that financial means should be applied.


SECTION I: The Last Oil Shock

I read The Last Oil Shock yesterday, though in Japanese.

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Louis Christian, a retired oil company geologist who lives in Dallas, and a map maker with long experience in the Middle East. In the spring of 1998 the United States Geological Survey called to ask him to produce something on Iraq. His new maps would not tell the Marine Corps how to get to Baghdad, but may have everything to do with the reason they went.

http://www.lastoilshock.com/excerpt.html
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An oil peak theory author Mr. David Strahan presents is not so interesting now, due to oil shale and oil sands so abundant in North America expected to be turned to, and used as crude oil.

But, the author pointed at a strong possibility that then President Mr. George W. Bush and Vice President Mr. Dick Cheney had a plan in the spring of 2001 to make war with Iraq.

Therefore, with or without the 2001-9-11 terror, the Bush Administration did most probably launch a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

The shock Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney felt on September 11, 2001, must have come from their realization that somebody did launch a war against the Bush Administration before they started a war. Naturally, they would think that Saddam Hussein who had happened to know the plan of the Bush's War was behind AlQaeda to preempt it.

Like the Pearl Harbor Attack and the JFK Assassination, the truth on the most responsible side was yet to be revealed with the 9/11 Terror.

For your information,
Confirmed Reserves of Crude Oil as of the End of 2008 by BP:

#1...Saudi Arabia...36.3 billion tons
#2...Iran...........18.9
#3...Iraq...........15.5
#4...Venezuela......14.3
#5...Kuwait.........14.0
#6...UAE............13.0
#7...Russia.........10.8
#8...Libya..........0.57
#9...Kazakhstan.....0.53
#10...Nigeria.......0.49
(#11...USA...0.30?)

Source: The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, May 12

In 2004, the amount of crude oil traded globally was 2.1 billion tons. The oil reserves in the Middle East alone could support 45 year consumption if the consumption level should be constant. For the time being (10 to 20 years), the world will not have to worry about the coming oil peak catastrophe, according to the latest data.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_oil .


SECTION II: Japan's Bankruptcy

It is widely known that rich, very rich, and super rich people in Greece have not paid tax sufficiently, causing the national bankruptcy of the nation.

One way to avoid Japan's bankruptcy is to collect tax sufficiently from rich, very rich, and super rich Japanese people.

Another way is separation of tax collection and governmental financial expenditure.

Financial expenditure by the government must be executed with bills printed by the government but not by the central government which is restricted by its nature of being a bank.

The amount of bills to be newly printed by the government must be however controlled by some authentic theory.

The value of yen can be influenced, but with a huge potential of provision by the Japanese industry, no catastrophe is thinkable.

The conventional paradigm of economics has restricted behaviors of the Bank of Japan, leading a huge national debt in the form of huge issuance of government bonds almost all of which are however purchased and possessed by Japanese financial institutes and individuals unlike the case of Greece.

The key to the solution is a paradigm change from conventional economics accompanied by an enhanced level of ethics among the people.

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I might be just playing a role of somebody for a very long time.

I feel this way sometimes. But, if I can control that somebody fully, there are no problems.



( http://www.just-oldies.com/1965/act_naturally.htm

Look at that Chaplin acting naturally!)



Luk 5:16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

Luk 5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

Un Voilier

Once the Bay of Tokyo was so close to the Edo (Chiyoda) Castle, presently the Imperial Palace, where the head (shogun) of the Tokugawa samurai government resided.

Today, a vast coastal area into the Tokyo Bay was reclaimed and used as industrial/business districts and the residential space.

I saw young children walking and riding on a bicycle on the street of such a residential quarter, musing, "Ah, this reclaimed ground full of high-rise condominiums a few kilometers south of the Tokyo Station has become their home town!"

Afterwards, I saw one homeless man resting at a corner near one entrance to the Tokyo Station. Then I saw another begging money from foreigners passing by. Yet, they were all the confirmed homeless persons today.

So logically, I peacefully got on a train to come back home, though today a notable Japanese sailing ship (un voilier) did not spread sail since it was an event of yesterday as I checked it with a staff member at the pier.

In short, I did not encounter a provoking affair today around the Tokyo Bay, since I took 400 pictures in four hours, consuming fully four 1.5V alkaline batteries though I carried another set of four in the pocket of my suit.

But, how grandly nice it would have looked if she had been with all the white sails set, even in my pictures (matching Mt. Fuji)! Oh, you should have watched the state.



(...Now, it is time to turn off the television as it is 00:04 of Monday in Japan Time.)

"the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea"

(Don't you know I'm flying!)



TRUE HEROES IN CHANGE

Some Japanese think that voters have to support P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama and his de-facto boss Mr. Ichiro Ozawa no matter what they have done, though an approval rate of the Hatoyama Cabinet fell to 19.1% according to a survey by Jiji Press Co.

The regime change the two heroes realized last year is the greatest event in half a century. Besides, it is just eight months since they took power; they cannot perform well in national administration as they have no experiences. Let's protect the two from our enemies so friendly to America and Wall Street.

But, Mr. Hatoyama and Mr. Ozawa started their career as lawmakers of the now opposition LDP. Mr. Hatoyama was once Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Hosokawa Cabinet when he left the LDP during one-year opposition period for the LDP around 1993. Mr. Ozawa was a Cabinet minister of an LDP regime in 1985. They cannot be naive armatures in politics.

Mr. Hatoyama has big personal fortune. He does not need salary as prime minister. Mr. Ozawa seems to have cash of $4 million or twice in his home.

Japan is different from the world. There are ten thousand people who are qualified as prime minister in Japan. Japan can change the prime minister at any time, without causing troubles. Rather, this Japanese way must be introduced into the U.S. and China in future. "Eight months is enough for you, President! You should leave now, since your approval rate has fallen to 19.1%!"

Anyway the DPJ has 400 and more national lawmakers. They can keep power at least as long as three years partly by law. And, it is non-affiliated voters that realized the regime change last year. If P.M. Mr. Hatoyama looks like losing respect for those voters, they will want him to step down.

(More importantly, I think the judicial authorities should not prosecute Mr. Hatoyama and Mr. Ozawa for currently or once alleged violations of law. We have to forgive the two, though the current political situation in Japan looks like that in 1976 when former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was arrested for the Lockheed bribery scandals.)



SECTION I: The Internet

I would rather teach young students in school.

If you want to understand what the Internet is, you had better work in a factory where telephone sets and exchange machines are designed and manufactured.

Then, you had better work in an telephone central office where wires, cables, and lines connecting every phone in home and office are switched and linked.

Then, think that a telephone set grows to be a PC. Instead of using voices you speak to or hear from a telephone set, you use input from the keyboard or letters in a field on the PC screen, or a file itself to send your message or information over the telephone line.

Yes, the Internet is a kind of telephone network. Or, once a human being was a PC, and a telephone network was an Internet. And, human voices were a keyboard and data. But nowadays, you have a PC, outside your brain, linked to the network, in addition to a cellular phone.

But, it is not easy to perfectly use a PC and software as part of your brain and voices.

Anyway, I would rather teach young students in Harvard or MIT that the Internet is a kind of telephone system. It is yet to be a kind of a TV set due to Erlang and traffic congestion in principle. Work in a factory where telephone sets and exchange machines are designed and manufactured, before becoming an economist of any sort.


SECTION II: Chinese Real-Estate Bubble

There is some concern about the Chinese bubble in Japan.
(http://tamurah.iza.ne.jp/blog )

Some Americans are also concerned:
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The Great Bubble of China?
March 11, 2010 by Brian Summerfield

As NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun points out, they don’t have subprime loans in China, and the downpayment requirements are much higher in that country: 30 percent for primary residences, 40 percent for second homes, and 50 percent for raw land.

1.The potential economic fallout. Business and finance are more global than ever, and economic problems are rarely confined to a nation’s borders. If the downturn in U.S. housing could cause the government of Iceland to collapse (to cite just one problem), then a severe dip in China’s real estate market could do some amount of economic and political damage internationally as well.

http://speakingofrealestate.blogs.realtor.org/2010/03/11/the-great-bubble-of-china/
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China is an autocratic state where the government and politics can control businesses and investors as it wants.

It can even order citizens not to sell their invested real estate if its price plummets or buy further till a price fall stops. The Chinese Government will settle real estate prices at a reasonable level eventually, though it will lose huge potential to manipulate currency in the international market.

However, even China with 1.3 billion population cannot be exempted from a primitive economic phenomenon, a recession or slump.

Japan should be more involved in control of the Chinese economy.

*** *** *** ***

Everyone has thirteen cards from 1 to 13 or an ace to a king.

But one has a joker implicitly, exceptionally.

Another has a joker explicitly within the thirteen, exceptionally.

But, the color is different between the two card sets.

So, there are two issues: whether a joker is stronger or weaker than any other card or which is superior black or red.

Finally, what does this sort of redundancy mean (though this is not a survival game)?

Anyway, let's suppose that everyone has thirteen cards from 1 to 13 or an ace to a king. You can be qualified as an ace or a king.



(Don't you know I'm flying!
http://bettylou.zzruss.com/heytonight.mid
Source: http://bettylou.zzruss.com/heytonight.htm

So, I like to go, taking some pictures of the Tokyo Bay tomorrow, since the Google input with "Tokyo Bay Reporter" indicates EEE-Reporter. )



Mar 5:13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.

Mar 5:14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

Mar 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

"many signs and wonders wrought among the people"

TURN, TURN, & TURN

In late August 2005, during the reign of President Mr. George W. Bush, Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. coastal line on the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in a total economic loss of $150 billion.

Apparently, this was a sign from Heaven to warn American voters. Then, a turn started.

In April 2010, during the reign of President Mr. Barack Obama, a massive oil spill and oil gusher in the Gulf started, resulting in an estimated loss of $21 billion for BP and others.

Apparently, this is a sign from Heaven to warn American voters. Then, a turn must start.

In 2007, a Cabinet minister of Japan committed a suicide while being attacked by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), presently a key ruling party led by P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, for his alleged violation of the Political Funding Regulation Law. Then, a month later, the then ruling Liberal Democratic Party led by P.M. Mr. Shinzo Abe lost the Upper House election. A few months later, Mr. Shinzo Abe falling ill spontaneously stepped down.

Though the above case concerning the suicide involved $55,000, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama's tax evasion case, which was not prosecuted, involved $12 million; a DPJ Secretary-General Mr. Ichiro Ozawa's suspicion about a violation of the said law involves $4 million and more. If one of the two top leaders of the DPJ steps down in near future, it might be just an indication of another turn.



SECTION I: P.M. Hatoyama and China

When Mr. Yukio Hatoyama was elected as prime minister of Japan last September, the Chinese media extremely praised Mr. Hatoyama in stark contrast to the case of Former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi.

P.M. Mr. Hatoyama also told in an interview by the Chinese media that his grandfather and father had contributed to improvement of diplomatic relationships with China.

China showed a strong expectation that P.M. Mr. Hatoyama would visit the Shanghai Exposition and further Nanjing to apologize the Chinese people for the so-called Nanjing massacre allegedly conducted by the Imperial Army in 1937. (The truth of the so-called Nanjing massacre however seems to be mingling a huge number of deaths of Chinese troops in battles between Shanghai and Nanjing, that is, 300,000 or so, and citizen casualties left on the street while 250,000 people were protected by Westerners in a special district of Nanjing in 1937.)

However, since the U.S. Government and the U.S. media started to criticize P.M. Mr. Hatoyama, the Chinese media started to whistle a different tune.

Chinanews reportedly wrote on April 15 that Washington Post had laughed at Mr. Hatoyama; Mr. Hatoyama would have to resign if he could not keep his promise that he would completely bring the U.S. Marine Base issue to an end by the end of May. (http://news.searchina.ne.jp/disp.cgi?y=2010&d=0415&f=politics_0415_006.shtml)

China is paying strong attentions to the movement around P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama:
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China.org.cn

Japanese PM: moving U.S. base fully out of island difficult
May 4, 2010

Hatoyama also said he will apologize to the people of Okinawa over his government's handling of the Futemma relocation issue.

Since his rise to power last September, Hatoyama has met with staunch resistance from local citizens and officials in Okinawa over the relocation issue and his seeming failure to stand by his election pledge to move the base out of the island has fueled local opposition against the central government's latest plans to slightly modify the existing accord with the U.S. and keep the majority of Futemma's facilities on the island, although the premier contends a final plan has yet to be reached.

http://www.china.org.cn/world/2010-05/04/content_19966346.htm
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China of course cannot help at all Mr. Hatoyama in terms of the security partnership of Japan and the United States.

China needs a Japanese prime minister who is respected by America and who respects China more.

Anyway, Mr. Hatoyama has millions dollar personal assets. He does not need friends in China as well as in America. He should sacrifice himself for Japan.


SECTION II: Goods & Marx

The theory built by Karl Marx started with goods.

What are goods, however, for you?

For a bad man, goods are a tool with which to be rich.

For a poor man, goods are what is needed for his life.

A good man would provide goods to the poor as cheap as possible, since doing so would help the poor live a reasonable life.

But, a bad man would provide goods to the poor as high as possible, since doing so would help himself live a rich life.

So, the issue is how to build economics which would increase a number of good men who offer high-quality goods to the poor as cheap as possible to make the poor happy.

But, Karl Marx decided to build economics which would increase a number of haters of the European Christian capitalist society.

Economists must first address this point clearly.

Ethics must be first learnt before studying economy. Then, there will be no arrogant economists in the world, since they are all to serve humbly the poor.

*** *** *** ***

If Former President Mr. George W. Bush had changed the way of supervising Wall Street in 2005, the Republicans should have won the 2008 Presidential Election.

If President Mr. Barack Obama changes the way of the war in Afghanistan in 2010, the Democrats would win the 2012 Presidential Election.

As for Japan, if Premier Mr. Yukio Hatoyama should accept the old agreement with the U.S. on the new U.S. Marine base in Okinawa, including V-shaped runways on the reclaimed land, he would be able to survive. But, his attitude on his position itself would cause a 10-seat increase or decrease for his party in the coming national election. At least, the DPJ is more important than Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.

Indeed, if then premier Mr. Taro Aso had resigned before the 2009-30-8 Lower House election, the Liberal Democratic Party should have 40 or more seats (160/480) despite falling down to the opposition.


(http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/amazing.htm

It is not beauty that remains in mind but grace...That is why they have misunderstood it all.)



Act 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

Act 5:13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

Act 5:14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

"Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him"

(Just around Tokyo)



SAVING FACE

If you become prime minister of a country with the world's second largest GDP, you cannot save face sometimes.

Japan's Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama was praised eight months ago domestically and globally as a kind of genius who realized once half a century regime change in Japan with a revolutionary mind set.

But now, he is recognized as a man of addictive breach of the policy pledge. His approval rating has fallen to just 20% from 75% in last September.

If he cannot save his face, how can he save the face of Japan?

If he resigns today or tomorrow, he will be still remembered as a kind of genius who realized once half a century regime change in Japan with a revolutionary mind set.

But, if Mr. Yukio Hatoyama advances into the summer election and loses it, how will he be remembered in history? It can be a suicidal fight.

And, in fact, former Korean President Roh Moo-hyun actually committed a suicide after resignation in 2009 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roh_Moo-hyun.

Even former Taiwan President Mr. Chen Shui-bian was arrested and put into a jail after resignation in 2008 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shui-bian).

Or, what lessons will P.M. Mr. Hatoyama give to the world?


SECTION I: Second Stage of Regime Change in Japan

In 2009, Japan had a new prime minister someway anti-American; and the U.S. sent a new ambassador to Tokyo who had no career in diplomacy before.

Something terrible could have happened; and it has happened.

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NPR
September 1, 2009

U.S. Relationship To Test Japan's New Ruling Party
by Louisa Lim

No Changes Expected By U.S.

John Roos, the new U.S. ambassador to Japan, does not think the U.S. will have a new type of relationship with Tokyo.

Roos spoke by phone to the incoming prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, and says that, after the conversation, he is unconcerned about any lack of clarity in the DPJ's stance toward the U.S.

"I will tell you that the deep commitment of the relationship between the U.S. and Japan is there, on behalf of the DPJ, and just in the last 24 hours has been confirmed to me," Roos tells NPR.

"I really don't have the concern. The proof will be as our relationship continues to deepen, and we continue to work together on a whole load of bilateral issues going forward," he says.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112445057
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Eight months after, Ambassador to Japan Mr. John Roos has reportedly said, "P.M. Hatoyama is untrustworthy; Foreign Minister Okada is unable to fix the matter; and Defence Minister Kitazawa is out of the question!"

(http://east.tegelog.jp/index.php?itemid=4964)

But, Japan is to hold an Upper House election this July or in August at the latest. After this election, it is likely that there will be no national elections till the summer of 2013, namely for three years.

So, the coming election is so important that people concerned try various prediction.

A majority of those concerned think that the ruling Democratic Party of Japan will lose seats and face. The current coalition with the Social Democratic Party and the People's New Party will also lose a majority in the Upper House.

The most likely scenario is that Mr. Hatoyama will resign before or after the election. Liberal Mr. Naoto Kan, presently Finance Minister, will assume premiership. The Buddhist New Komeito Party or/and the anti-bureaucratic Your Party will join the coalition.

But, the biggest concern is whether Mr. Ichiro Ozawa will continue to stay as Secretary General of the DPJ, since he leads the largest faction in the DPJ and has a strong influence on Mr. Hatoyama and even on Mr. Kan.

THE JAPAN'S UPPER HOUSE TOTAL SEATS: 242
-----------------------------------
After the 2010 summer election as predicted:

The DPJ Coalition Camp: 115 (or 105)
The LDP Camp: 71 (or 81)
The New Komeito: 20
The Your Party: 15
The Communist Party: 10
Tachiagare Nippon: 4
Others: 7

(http://qa.fresheye.com/qa/view.php?qid=1139656641&kw=%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8B%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)

The DPJ will drastically lose the election, but by expanding its coalition membership to other/new parties, the DPJ will secure a majority in the Upper House while securing a 2/3 majority in the Lower House.

While the DPJ is losing confidence of voters unbearably in a large scale, it will consolidate its power base in the National Diet through expanded coalition, which is the most likely scenario.

But, this is a similar case to the ruling by the Liberal Democratic Party after the 2007 Upper House election, which actually paved the way for the 2009 regime change.

The significance is that Japan will be still reluctant to support America militarily in the War in Afghanistan but continue to be politically tolerant toward China and North Korea, which might be all however the secondary matter for Japan with a mandate for introducing more justice domestically.


SECTION II: "Osama Can Be In Washington"

One thing sure seems to be that Mr. Osama bin laden is atill at large.

---------
SAMAA News (International)

Osama can be in Washington: Ahmedinjad

Upadated on: 05 May 10 11:09 PM

TEHRAN: Iranian President Ahmedinjad rejecting the presence of Al-Qaeda Leader Osama bin Ladin in Iran said that he can be in Washington as he was close to President Bush, SAMAA reported Wednesday.

In an interview with American TV in answering a question he said Osama was doing oil business with George W Bush therefore he can be in America.

He stated that the stance of Iran with regard to Afghanistan and terrorism was very clear and news of presence of Osama in Iran was strange.

http://samaa.tv/News19802-Osama_can_be_in_Washington_Ahmedinjad.aspx
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Saddam Hussein tried to save face without fleeing to Paris, though France invited him before the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Can America eventually save face if CIA and FBI cannot find where Mr. Osama bin Laden is or whether he is alive or dead forever?

On the other hand, it is unthinkable that both Iran and Pakistan have no decisive information about Mr. Osama bin Laden.

What is then at stake in their policies pursuing war or nuclear weapons? Does it deserve their losing face each?


*** *** *** ***

It is said to strike while the iron is hot.

An old sword should be struck and burnt again.

A new sword should be also struck and burnt again.

The, you can have two newer swords.



(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-sengo1/daigakukazoeuta.html

Education must be designed with reverence for life and God. In this context, universities in America look more authentic than Japanese ones. But, failed American education is useless as failed churches.)



Rev 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

"for great is your reward in heaven"

(Who loves Tokyo more than New York, London, and Paris?)


WHY DID THEY NEED ECONOMICS?

There are no coins and bills in this world that can suffice for dealers and brokers who would claim that they need $605 trillions at hand rather than in computers.

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Bloomberg

Derivatives Reform Would Have Dissuaded Greece, Gensler Says
March 02, 2010, 1:11 PM EST

By Dawn Kopecki

March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Greece would have been dissuaded from using swaps to obscure the country’s deficit if the $605 trillion derivatives industry were properly regulated, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said...

Gensler is gearing up for a fight in the Senate, where lawmakers are working to come up with legislation this week reining in the $605 trillion over-the-counter market.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-02/derivatives-reform-would-have-dissuaded-greece-gensler-says.html
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As the U.S. annual federal budget is only $3.5 trillions, just an accrual of interest at 0.6% of the $605 trillion derivatives can cover the whole expenses of the U.S. Government. Probably, dividend on interest at 3% would cover the whole global governmental expenses.

This is one end where economics disappears.


SECTION I: Status Of The UK

American elites think Japan's anti-American Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama will lose face sooner or later.

But, it is UK P.M. Mr. Brown that has lost face first. And, President Mr. Barack Obama gladly called new U.K. P.M. Mr. Cameron as the prime minister is younger than the president.

The truth of the United Kingdom is as follows in terms of an unemployment rate and an (3-month) average wage change year on year:

(http://www.jri.co.jp/MediaLibrary/file/report/ber/pdf/4744.pdf )

In short, you can see a pattern here which is a kind of similar to the one in the U.S. which indicated inevitability of the realization of President Mr. Barack Obama, that is a "change!"

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The UK, with gross debt of 72.9% of GDP and a deficit likely to reach 12.6% this year, the largest in the European Union, has no such capacity – and only the IMF to turn to for a bailout.

As Moody's points out in a new report, what makes the UK so vulnerable to a sovereign debt crisis is the weakness of its banking system. Including private and public sector debt, the UK is one of the most leveraged countries in the world of debt equivalent to [400%] of GDP and a banking system still highly dependent on wholesale funding.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704370704575228493522274272.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines
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Now, many British citizens poor and rich are trying to get out of the Great Britain, either to avoid future higher taxation or to find jobs.

The Anti-Japanese Financial Times has recently laughed at Japan, saying "Ask China for financial help!"

The Anti-Japanese Financial Times has to now laugh at the U.K. or itself, saying "Ask China for financial help!"


SECTION II: Marx and Keynes

In 1971, a Japanese businessman visited the Soviet Union. While sitting on a seat in a bus during a tour, he found that a landscape looked askew through a windshield. He realized that the windshield was not uniformly thick; it had no uniform thickness. As filling one's quota was the most important thing in the communist society, such defective products were widely circulated in the Soviet Union, while Japan came to be more respected even by American consumers for high quality of Japanese products.

But, it took 20 years, since then, for the Soviet Union to totally collapse.

But, why has not the capitalism world fallen and developed into the socialist society, as predicted theoretically by Karl Marx?

It is because Karl Marx thought that citizens should be categorized effectively into the capitalists and the laborers, while there are other type of citizens like Americans and Japanese.

It is not a matter of economics but underlying or superior issues concerning the nature, environments, culture, religion, and history that decide the fate of a human society.

However, some people who learnt Keynes would say that it is because democracy forced governments in the world to continue public investments without interruption year after year, while Keynes recommended only temporary execution of public investments. A government in a democratic society needs a majority of votes from citizens, who never vote for ruling parties if put into unemployment, so that public investments cannot be stopped regardless a debt-ridden financial state of the government.

Consequently, the capitalism world has however survived so far to date, owing to great innovation in technology directly linked with production and productivity and continuous growth in demands.

But, as you see, the greatest financial crisis of the century has occurred every three years nowadays, which implies that this sort of capitalism might be finished, say, in 20 years.

By the way, do you think that Keynes really despised Marx? If so, his reference to Karl Marx is too little.

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Keynes and Marx — Keynes is totally dismissive of Marx; in the GT there are three brief very negative references to Marx...

page 355; I believe the that future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx...

http://people.ucsc.edu/~nuclear/econ189/lectures/keynes.htm )
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From Gesell, you have to advance to the non-money economics before the Kingdom of God.

*** *** *** ***

If you are now rich enough to view this blog.

It is time to make up your mind to live an equivalent life to that lived by those who lost it in Sumatra, Sichuan, Haiti, Chile, and Quinhai.

Living such a life equivalent to that of a poor victim is the only way to justify your living now.

But, how can it be measured as being equivalent? This question requires theology but not economics, though we have still only the Bibles and the Koran in addition to Buddhist scriptures.

The basic idea of this EEE-Reporter Project is related to the above notion.

Accordingly, I do not even ask you to pay a tithe to this blog. It is free. Yes, what is free has another price tag you cannot read until enough time goes by. In principle, as long as I can pay the price put on the hidden price tag of EEE-Reporter, this goes on. In short, it depends on how rich I am, to our surprise.



(Arabesque No.1:
http://www.midiworld.com/midis/other/c1/arabesqu.mid
Source: http://www.midiworld.com/classic.htm

Not to suffer from a nightmare...)


Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Mat 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

"they forsook all, and followed him"

(Not a third-world city but part of Great Tokyo)



Civilization of Iron and Oil

If you have never heard or read that mankind has been in the era of iron and oil, you have not been given first-class history lessons.

(Iron rusts, so that it needs paint made of crude oil. [However, if we can apply pure iron that does not rust onto the surface of ordinary iron, we can save a great amount of crude oil all over the world.])

Accordingly, what has built and formed your view on history and the world is not excellent.

Therefore, you must not work or live in a first class environment, since what has built and formed your view on history and the world is not sufficient. If you have $10 billion, give it up. If you have $1 billion, give it up. If you have $100 million, give it up. If you have $10 million, give it up. If you have $1 million, give it up, since what has built and formed your view on history and the world is not sufficient.

But, as I have written, mankind has been in the era of iron, oil, electronics, and computer software nowadays as observed in a car, a jet plane, a building, a city, or the U.S. military.

The point at issue is that ultimately we do not need money and economists. We need scientists, engineers, production workers, sales persons, and computer programmers to run this civilization.

(Lawyers, medical doctors, professors, bureaucrats, financial sector experts, and entertainers of any sort must serve those mainstream citizens and consumers for free if possible.)

It is so, since we have had religion from the time before money and economics were invented.

(Money and economics have their ground on the failure and sins of mankind in terms of religion. Or to prevent further evil money and economics cause, Confucius, Buddha, and Jesus Christ appeared in addition to the Bibles and the Koran.)


SECTION I: Soft Iron Never Rusts

Iron is a soft metal in its pure state, which has been confirmed by a Japanese scientist a decade ago:

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The secret life of iron. (NEWS).
Date: Thursday, February 1 2001


Associate professor Kenji Abiko and his team at Tohoku University Institute for Materials Research have found that ultra high purity iron could be processed into giant crystals.

According to a report in The Nikkei Weekly, Japan, when a rod of 99.6% pure iron is heated and pulled in a tensile strength test, the rod at first resists the force but then gradually elongates and eventually breaks, leaving a smooth surface and a conical tip.

But when the same test is performed on a similar rod made of pure 99.9989% iron, the reaction is different. The rod suddenly elongates when pulled with a relatively weak force, then stops stretching for a time before resuming the elongation and then snapping, deforming in a way never before reported for iron.
http://www.allbusiness.com/primary-metal-manufacturing/foundries/827403-1.html
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By 2009, it is also confirmed that iron with purity of 99.9998% or more, namely one foreign atom among one million iron atoms, never rusts and dissolves in an hydrochloric acid solution. It has just one fifth of hardness compared to ordinary iron.

(https://aspara.asahi.com/blog/science/entry/rKuoOp6aLM )

What makes iron hard is existence of impurities, which has been well known. But, the fact that pure iron is not only so soft but never rusts is for the first in human history confirmed by a Japanese scientist. He deserves a Nobel Prize.

Yet, practice of religion is a process to make one's soul pure.

Accordingly, the mind, heart, soul, and spirit of a saint is so soft and never rusts.

At the door to Heaven, every man is measured in terms of purity of his inside. Only those with purity of 99.9998% or more can be admitted, in my theory.

What beings impurity in the human mind is of course gold and its derivative money.



SECTION II: 2008 Crude Oil Production & Consumption

The top 5 countries in terms of crude oil production in 2008 are as follows:
#1...Russia......9.76 million barrels
#2..Saudi Arabia...9.18
#3...USA......4.9
#4...Iran......3.9
#5...China......3.8

The top 5 countries in terms of oil consumption in 2008 are as follows:
#1...USA......19.42 million barrels
#2...China.....8.0
#3...JAPAN......4.85
#4...Russia......2.8
#5...Germany......2.51

(Source: http://www.kawade.co.jp/np/isbn/9784309497617 )

Note that the year 2008 is the year when the Lehman Shock occurred and the crude oil was manipulated by money gamblers.

Anyway, the U.S., China, and Russia are grouped into, say, Group-A; Iran and Saudi Arabia into Group-B; and Japan and Germany into Group-C.

Group-A is oriented to military super-power. Group-B is oriented to Islamic power. Group-C is oriented to peace and prosperity.

So, the world should listen to Japan and Germany rather than the U.S., China, and Russia, or Iran and Saudi Arabia.

*** *** *** ***

Economists say that a price of goods is an expression of value of goods using money.

They say it is the spirit of economics since there is a high-level of abstraction in it.

Now you know how biased economists are, since that sort of abstraction is a mere fraction of truth about money as you know in your daily life.

A price of oil is an expression of a power balance between innocent consumers and greedy money handlers.

Karl Marx used economics as a means to drive people to destroying the European Christian society. Fools are still learning economics instead of Judaism and Christianity...since economists respect rich people while despising poor people.





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Source:http://www.midimole.com/lyrics.php?no=3597

When dancing in the spotlight, everybody tries to look proudly nice so as not to be laughed at. Indeed, you must not be looked down upon if you dance.)



Luk 5:9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:

Luk 5:10 And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

Luk 5:11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.

"Blessed are the peacemakers: the children of God"

(Bonjour, Tokyo!!)


Small Wisdom and Large Wisdom


This is the season when everybody is tested.

From Thailand to the Philippines, further Japan to the U.S. and the U.K., and all around Greece, every party concerned is tested.

Even U.S. Secretary of the Transportation today visited the headquarters of Toyota Motor Corporation in Toyota City, Aichi Pref., Japan.


SECTION I: Japanese Security

During World War II, the Empire of Japan fought against the United States to do its justice, no matter how it was judged by history, since the U.S. helped China who had first started a military attack on Japanese and Western citizens living in Shanghai in 1932 and 1937.

Even during the Battle of Okinawa (Mary 16 - June 23, 1945) 12,520 U.S. and allied soldiers were killed (including one commander general) and 72,012 U.S. and allied soldiers were wounded, while 94.000 Japanese civilians were killed.

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

I-1. Japan's Enemy

The countries which would invade the Japanese economic waters are Russia, South Korea, China, and Taiwan if Japan should not try to defend itself by foolishly interpreting its Pacifist Constitution (which cannot be a suicidal constitution).

The countries which would apply military pressure and extract a political concession from Japan are the U.S., Russia, South Korea, China, and North Korea if Japan should not try to defend itself by foolishly interpreting its Pacifist Constitution (which cannot be a suicidal constitution).

The countries which would like to make Japan a historical enemy so as to turn attentions of their people from their domestic problems are the U.S., Russia, South Korea, China, and North Korea if Japan should not try to defend itself.

However the security partnership of Japan and the United States could solve most of the defense issues against the U.S. itself, Taiwan, and Korea, since it implies a Japan's choice for mutual prosperity with those countries based on the principle of American-Christianity-based democracy and Anglo-Saxon-Judaistic economic paradigm.

I-2. Japan's Responsibility for Far East Security

South Korea needs the U.S. military support and Japan's backup to maintain peace with North Korea, while leaders of China needs North Korea as their military vanguard, and leaders of North Korea needs enemies out of South Korea and its allies to maintain its dictatorship.

Taiwan needs the U.S. military support and Japan's backup to maintain peace with China, while Chinese leaders justify their rule based on the historical war and victory against those who fled to Taiwan from the Chinese Continent after the civil war in 1940's.

As Taiwan and South Korea were ruled by the Empire of Japan before the end of WWII, they do not like to solicit military aid directly from Japan. They rather opt for the combined support from Japan and the U.S.

I-3. The United States

The U.S. cannot neglect a potential that Japan or China might become a sole major military power in the Far East, driving out the U.S. military presence.

The Far East is the truly hot zone with Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan where many world-leading businesses are established like Toyota, Honda, Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, and so on. Friendly relationships with the Far East is now essential for the U.S. economy.

To make business smoothly and favorably, the U.S. must be respected as the most influential player in the Far East. China only respects a stronger and richer country than itself. The U.S. must keep strong military presence in this region in this context.

As the Chinese Communist Party does not even allow American Christian missionaries freely act and work in China, it is out of question for the U.S. to trust China 100% while expanding its economic tie with China.

If America has no military bases in the Far East, will China observe any political rules the U.S. has so far introduced and promoted? Chinese Naval fleets will dare to patrol around Hawaii and off California, requesting every concession from the U.S. Government and American businesses. Every violation of international trade rules and treaties might be the first step of China's future lawless economic invasion of mainland America.

If China regards the U.S. as a coward, they would even sell out all the U.S. Treasury Bonds it has now, causing the collapse of the U.S. financial system and the value of dollars as the first step of China's future lawless political invasion of mainland America.

The United States needs military bases in Japan and South Korea if not in Taiwan. But the cause lies in China rather than in the U.S.: its anti-Christian philosophy.


I-4. Interim Conclusions

Japan should not take lightly American military presence in the Far East.

However, relocation of one or two divisions of the U.S. Marine Corps can be completed in a few days during times of war.

In principle, the U.S. Marine Air Station with a mile-long runway can be moved to anywhere with a comparable size in a few days during times of war.

If the U.S. President orders a commander of a Marine division to move anywhere as soon as possible, the commander will find a mile-long runway in any appropriate location to move there in a few days, which is essential for military capability.

So, ideally, President Mr. Barack Obama should order the commander of the Marine division stationed in Okinawa to move immediately to South Korea and Taiwan, since Okinawa itself can be protected by the Japanese Self-Defence Forces.



(Note: The approval rate of the Hatoyama Cabinet has fallen to 20.5% this weekend. If the U.S. should reject any proposal from P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama on the U.S. Marine base relocation within or outside Okinawa at the end of May, his approval rate will surely touch a 10% level, since this relocation was promised 15 years ago to make residents around the base live safer from accidents or crimes by U.S. Marines.

In either case, it will be difficult for P.M. Mr. Hatoyama to keep his position till this autumn when President Mr. Obama plans to come to Tokyo for an APEC conference and further visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki.)



SECTION II: Acts of God over 200,000 Years

I purchased a book yesterday that discusses eruptions of volcanoes, termination of animals, and outbreaks of human population over 200,000 years.

(http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/486248543X.html )

For example, the ancient Mesopotamian Civilization started to collapse 4000 years ago due to brine damage. At the time, the Euphrates could not carry out sufficiently salty compounds of the ground to the sea any more. The size of crops drastically decreased. Cities could not be sustained any more. The clan of Abraham and others were forced to move, eventually, to Palestine.

Even today, the salinity of the Persian Gulf is 4.2% or more, the highest in the world as with the Res Sea!

As for volcanoes, a famous picture by Edvard Munch reflects the effect on the sky over Norway of a great volcanic eruption in Indonesia in May 1883, which caused an average temperature drop by 0.5 to 0.8 degrees Centigrade in the north hemisphere.

Today, there are three great dormant volcanoes which could cause a similar devastating effect:
1. Yellowstone, USA
2. Yosemite, USA
3. Naples, Italy

Especially the volcanic area near Naples has a 15-km diameter crater, 150 times larger than Mt. Vesuvius.
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0101-01=

Mankind should be prepared for the coming great eruptions each of which would half destroy U.S. economy or European economy.

Unless Mt. Fuji responds to anger of the God, I suppose, the Far East is the best place on the earth for prosperity of mankind.



SECTION III: Greek Crisis

The Greek Crisis is not a crisis of capitalism like in the case of the Lehman Shock.

It is a crisis of seeking selfish riches and pursuing irresponsible money by, or involving, a majority of citizens as well as capitalists.

If a man, a worker or a capitalist, leaves God, only money can be his destination. And, money can be obtained without hard working, easily through consumer credit.

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The other weakness of Greek capitalism is revealed by its heavy dependence on the state. The Greek bourgeoisie developed much later than the stronger more powerful national bourgeoisies of countries like Britain, France and Germany. The backward nature of Greek capitalism has always meant therefore that private capital required massive subsidies from the state...

The then deputy governor of the Bank of Greece (the central bank), Panayotis Thomopoulos, was boasting that, "Greece has 55% of the European average in relation to consumer credit as a percentage of GDP, so there is still some way to go...

Now these two sources of economic growth, state spending and credit from the banks, have dried up. They have gone beyond the limit of what is materially possible. The banks are in crisis and the state is overburdened with debt.

http://www.socialist.net/the-crisis-of-greek-capitalism-2010.htm
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The Greek Crisis is not a crisis of capitalism, since there is no such a thing as capitalism.

There are only willingness, desire, planning, actions, and pursuit of happy, very happy, and super happy life by citizens, rich people and capitalists neglecting the poorer.

Historically, the concept of capitalism helps citizens, rich people and capitalists pursue money and a legally unlimited amount of money neglecting the poorer.

They say, "This is capitalism not my wrong doing!"

But, there is no such a thing as capitalism, since there is only pursuit of money and a legally unlimited amount of money neglecting the poorer.

Economics should stop serving capitalism, if any.


(No discussion about a legally allowed limit on money in capitalism means economics is incomplete and thus its subordinate concept capitalism is. It is a kind of description of reality and possibility without any guiding principle. The status of economics and capitalism must be first questioned. Do you call your desire capitalism using logics and formulae?)

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Yesterday, a diplomatic expert said in a TV program, "President Obama showed signs of temper or an anger when he talked with Prime Minister Hatoyama in Washington D.C. recently (since Hatoyama did not keep his words)..."

But, notable Japanese journalist Mr. Soichiro Tahara wrote, "P.M. Mr. Hatoyama is going to fix the Futenma issue on the U.S. Marine base and then fire the Secretary General Mr. Ichiro Ozawa (since Mr. Ozawa is so unpopular while so influential in the ruling DPJ)...and only one of Mr. Hatoyama and Mr. Ozawa seems to be able to survive this season..."

Indeed, Japanese journalists are also being tested as with the Obama Administration in the era of three G2s (Japan-USA, USA-China, and Japan-China).

It is so, since this is the era that a crisis once in a century occures every three year surpassing each preceding one.



(For Siciliano in the 17th century,
http://www.ic-net.or.jp/home/ikeshu/sisili.mid

Source: http://www.ic-net.or.jp/home/ikeshu/folksong.htm)



Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Mat 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.