Conspiracies Routine and Holy

Conspiracies Routine and Holy

(Conspirations de routine et des saints)



It was a hard day yesterday for me, since the sea was not green and the submarine was not yellow.


SECTION I: JFK in 1963 and Terror Victims in 2001

It is the “JFK Assassination” that has made some people believe in the “9/11 Terror Conspiracy Theory” that claims that 3,000 people were killed in New York and Washington D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001, by President Mr. George W. Bush through his plot under the disguise of Islamic terror.

The former is a result of a certain true conspiracy; yet the latter is a combined result of an act of true terror and an act of negligence of the US Government looking for an excuse to launch a military operation against Saddam Hussein’s regime of Iraq.

In order to completely persuade those who still believe in the “9/11 Terror Conspiracy Theory,” we have to probably completely explain how the “JFK Assassination” was planned, carried out, and abused later by whom.

But, commonsense should tell you that it is strange that those who blame President Mr. George W. Bush as a true culprit for the 9/11 Terror never try to study the past and present acts of terror AlQaeda and other terrorists have conducted not only in Iraq and Afghanistan after the US military invasion, but also on a USS naval ship, US embassies in East Africa, US military installations in Saudi Arabia and Palestine, hotels and resort facilities in Egypt and Indonesia, and 1993 World Trade Center bombing, in addition to terror on transportation in Madrid, London, and Mumbai, all of which were engineered in these decades.

It is further strange that AlQaeda has never announced that the 9/11 Terror was an act of the Bush Administration, which could be of course the most powerful attack on the US Government.

In short, the “JFK Assassination” and the “9/11 Terror” are two different things in its essence.

A pin-point assassination and a mass-murder terror act are two different things in its essence, in most cases to which our issue belongs.


SECTION II: Routine Conspiracy

If you really hate an act of conspiracy, you must tackle the routine conspiracy nurtured in the US National Election.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html

In summary, the turnouts of voters in the US Presidential Elections are as follows:
2004 ---- 55.3%
2000 ---- 51.3
1996 ---- 49.1
1992 -- --55.1
1988 ---- 50.1
1984 ---- 53.1
1980 ---- 52.6
1976 ---- 53.6
1972 ---- 55.2
1968 ---- 60.8
1964 ---- 61.9
1960 ---- 63.1

(The voting rates in the midterm electios are further smaller.)

You had better find a conspiracy in the above clear figures rather than in vague pictures used as a proof for the “9/11 Terror Conspiracy Theory.”

Conspiracies have long been carried out far before the September 11, 2001.

Taking into consideration the freedom and ability to take action ordinary Americans are enjoying, it is unbelievable that only such low rates have been recorded in the US Presidential Elections.

Somebody must prevent US citizens from going and voting; otherwise, somebody must have manipulated the counting on votes in their favor, which must be being done routinely to date.

It is because “typically in the United States, about 3 percent of the vote is voided, just thrown away, not recorded.”
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php


SECTION III: “Gore Won!”; “Kerry Won!”

We saw this in Florida in 2000. Exit polls showed Gore with a plurality of at least 50,000, but it didn't match the official count. That's because the official, Secretary of State Katherine Harris, excluded 179,855 spoiled votes.
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The majority of ballots thrown out (there will be nearly 2 million tossed out from Tuesday's election) will have been cast by African American and other minority citizens.
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(In 2004) the total of Ohio votes discarded reached a democracy-damaging 1.96 percent. The machines produced their typical loss—that's 110,000 votes—overwhelmingly Democratic.
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New Mexico reported in the last race a spoilage rate of 2.68 percent, votes lost almost entirely in Hispanic, Native American and poor precincts—Democratic turf. From Tuesday's vote, assuming the same ballot-loss rate, we can expect to see 18,000 ballots in the spoilage bin.
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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php

As exit polls in Florida in 2000 suggested, the winner of the 2000 US Presidential Election must be Mr. Al Gore.

As exit polls in Ohio and New Mexico in 2004 suggested, the winner of the 2004 US Presidential Election must be Mr. John Kerry.


SECTION IV: The 2008 Winner Already Decided?

I hope that some people would stop arguing the “9/11 Terror Conspiracy Theory” but concentrate on the real conspiracy that the 2008 Presidential Election winner has been already chosen and decided by very rich Americans.
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Indeed, one day some Chinese may come to you, saying that they are an independent and secret Chinese organization fighting against super-rich Europeans and Americans who managed and plotted the 9/11 Terror.

Those Chinese would say that Asia and the world would become peaceful if China annexes Taiwan, controls the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula as well as Tibet and Central Asia.

They would encourage you to further study the 9/11 Terror conspiracy planned and carried out by the Bush Administration.

They would, then, ask you to tell Japanese to respect China.

But, first of all, there cannot be any independent or secret Chinese organization that can operate effectively inside and outside China, since the Chinese Communist Party will not allow existence of such a political organization.

It is the nature of one-party dictatorship.

It is truly a black joke that a Chinese Communist Party agent is encouraging some Americans and others to believe the 9/11 Terror conspiracy allegedly driven by the Bush Administration, while China has openly usurped Tibet.



(Last night, I saw first on TV how “Mao” won the female figure skating world championship contested in Sweden a few days ago. In the Sunday night news show, I then saw her having slipped, falling on the ice rink, sliding on the belly to a fence, but coming back with determination to perform beautifully during the rest of her time on the rink.

I don't know if “Mao” some minutes before her appearance on the rink saw her senior rival “Miki,” the defending champion, having retired due to persistent injury on the leg in the middle of her performance, since I don't know the order of their performance.

But, if "Miki" had been first, it must have raised a sense of complicated fear and pressure for the victory in the Japanese teen aged girl, skating-queen hopeful "Mao."

But, when she fell on the ice, “Mao” must have thought that the two Japanese girls failing miserably in the world championship in Sweden must hurt the dignity of Japan.

“Mao” must bear herself honorably for the sake of not only herself and “Miki” but also the Japanese.

Yet, if "Mao" had skated out before "Miki," she still must have need strong motivation as a Japanese heroine as well as super confidence in her skating ability to continue the performance after such a disaster.

Then, the God helped her win the championship, since "I was surprised myself," Asada said.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=3304057

This is truly a holy conspiracy, isn't it?)



“Have Salt of Friendship”

(Sie müssen Salz der Freundschaft)





　　

Such Great Faith Not Found Even in Israel

(Yokosuka, Kanagawa Pref., Japan, last Sunday)



Such Great Faith Not Found Even in Israel

(Cette grande foi n'a jamais été retrouvé, même en Israël)



A movie depicting former South African President Mr. Nelson Mandela is going to be screened in Japan, too.
(http://mandela.gyao.jp/ )

However, the British media is not necessarily in full favor of this type of movies:
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Fiennes said it had been a challenge to play James Gregory, who originally believed Mr Mandela should have been hanged as a terrorist…

Gregory, who died in 2003, worked in the office that handled prisoners' mail and was responsible for censoring Mandela's letters…

Mr Mandela has never confirmed Gregory's claim that they had become friends and it was reported that he considered suing the jail warden over his book…

Fiennes said he regretted not having met Gregory "because it is hard to know where the truth is".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6353471.stm
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Anyway, you had better check other heroes selected by The Time:

"Leaders and Revolutionaries – Twenty people who helped define the political and social fabric of our times"

http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/index.html

Then you should check “Unknown Rebel (in Beijing in 1989)”:

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Almost nobody knew his name. Nobody outside his immediate neighborhood had read his words or heard him speak. Nobody knows what happened to him even one hour after his moment in the world's living rooms. But the man who stood before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square — June 5, 1989 — may have impressed his image on the global memory more vividly, more intimately than even Sun Yat-sen…

When American newsmen asked Chinese leader Jiang Zemin a year later what had happened to the symbol of Chinese freedom — caught by foreign cameramen and broadcast around the world — he replied, not very ringingly, "I think never killed”…

http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/rebel.html
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Now in VOA broadcasting over the Internet, they are repeating a news report on Tibet and the visit by Ms Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to the Dalai Lama.

Indeed, all I can say to you is that when your parents were happy singing, dancing, eating, drinking, chatting, and busy spending money for entertainment, Mr. Nelson Mandela was suffering in a prison.

Truly, while you are happy singing, dancing, eating, drinking, chatting, and busy spending money for entertainment, Tibet needs somebody who can stand and stop the convoy of tanks and police vehicles sent by leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.


(At any rate, even if you are a master of interviewing, further learn lessons from holy heroes as well as EEE-reporting and taking nice shots.)



Luk 7:1 Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

Luk 7:2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.

Luk 7:3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.

Luk 7:4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:

Luk 7:5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

Luk 7:6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:

Luk 7:7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.

Luk 7:8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

Luk 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

Luk 7:10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.





　　

How to End the War on Terror

How to End the War on Terror

(Comment mettre fin à la guerre contre le terrorisme)


As even the Vatican has to now ponder over the contemporary implication of emergence of Islam 1300 years ago, I have to deliver some statement or discourse with a wish that Muslims will not use any violence in competition with the Vatican for winning a Holy favor from the God or Allah.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/world/europe/21pope.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin


PREFACE:
I typed the phrase "how to end the war on terror" in a search key field in Google Web Search.

It returned 80,200 results, but the number one site is a kind of jokes, offering an idea that the U.S. should adopt Islam as its national religion.

So, I will write some on the subject for the sake of poor Americans and Muslims.


INTRODUCTION:
The War on Terror can be discussed from various standpoints.

But, if you blindly follow the 9/11 Terror Conspiracy Theory, you cannot go anywhere. You will just start the circle around vague photos and videos endlessly without arguing poor Muslims, the situations in the Middle East, steeply increasing oil dollars, and other diplomatic issues related to Israel and Iran. You cannot be engaged in the real world.

If you are too much engulfed by the 2008 Presidential Primary, you will be also trapped by superficial controversy as to when to withdraw US troops from Iraq without delving into all the other aspects related to the presence of US troops in the Middle East. As an example, after US troops were withdrawn from Vietnam in early 1970’s, the Pol Pot faction based on the same principle as that of the Chinese Communist Party purged and killed more than one million innocent Cambodian citizens in the process of establishing their ideal nation, which could be only stopped by the military invasion by Unified Vietnam that rejected the influence of the Chinese Communist Party after the victory of the Vietnam War.

If you are involved in business with Saudi Arabia or other oil-producing Arab countries, you will just accept the request from those Islamic countries that are enjoying a relief from the past potential menace of the Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime. You will like US troops to stay in Iraq as long as Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing Arab countries want and wish.

Nonetheless, if you look around to see poor Americans, such as Iraq War veterans in a state of homelessness on US streets, you will find a narrow gate leading to the answer to the question, "How can we end the War on Terror?"


HISTORICAL INQUIRY:
It will be a long discussion covering the Sumerian Civilization, Abraham, ancient Israelites and ancient Persians, Alexander the Great, Caesar and Cleopatra, Jesus Christ, establishment of Christianity and its derogation in the Roma Empire, endowment of Islam to Arabs, crusade and colonization by the Western powers, discovery of huge crude-oil fields in the Middle East, and the new nation-state of Israel after WWII; so I skip all the arguments but present a summary.

The God must wish peace and prosperity in the regions around Jerusalem and Palestine, since it is at those places that He directly sent His Son and His Angels.

For peoples in the above regions to enjoy prosperity, they seem to need the authentic religion(s), the crucial natural resources, and the democracy as has been developed in the American Continent.

If terrorists among Arabs and Muslims are obstacles to achieving the above goal, they must be removed.

If the God or Allah gives such a glorious mission to US troops, they have to stay there and sacrifice themselves until the goal is achieved (in spite of the initial triggering of the war by the US President based on his personal motivation).

But, if US troops are not chosen ones, they had better go back home in the United States of America as soon as possible, since the subprime loan problem is going to persist and the US economic bubble backed by a huge credit fiction is going to be reasonably subsided.

OTHER DISCUSSIONS:

(omitted)


CONCLUSIONS:

(omitted)

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I watched a Japan’s NHK TV news program this noon. They reported on a murder case of a Japanese taxi driver that happened the night before last or so in Yokosuka City, near Tokyo. They said today that the police found a credit card in the cab. And, the card belongs to a missing US sailor of a US Aegis warship at anchor in the Yokosuka US Naval port.

It may be a kind of miracles for warning, since I went to a seaside park in Yokosuka City to observe a Japanese Aegis warship though by train.

All I wish is of course your safety on a train, in a taxi, or in any party in a four-star hotel in Tokyo, Paris, New York, Baghdad, or Lhasa.



(According to the NHK news, a Japanese girl has got the gold medal in the world championship of figure skating held in Sweden.

The silver medal winner is an Italian skater; the bronze medal for a Korean skater.

Anyway, it is not a sport Muslim girls are allowed to practice, if not so sinful.

What do you think about it?)



"Each one of us has a special gift…"

(Jeder von uns hat seinen besonderen Anteil an den Gaben erhalten…)





　　

The War on Terror and The Affected Subprime Loan Problem

The War on Terror and The Affected Subprime Loan Problem

(La guerre contre le terrorisme et le problème de prêts au logement)


SECTION I: Against Insulting Cartoons

Yes, I heard the new audio message claimed to be from Mr. Osama bin Laden on the ABC Web site, “accusing Europeans of abandoning the ‘etiquettes of disputes and morals of fighting.’”

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4484466&page=1

According to Al Jazeera,
Wednesday's message is believed to be bin Laden's first for 2008 and follows up an hour-long, audio missive from December 27 in which he warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq and vowed new attacks on Israel.

In November, he urged European countries to end military participation with US forces in the Afghan conflict.

The Saudi-born al-Qaeda leader, blamed for the September 11, 2001 attacks on US cities, issued a number of messages late last year after a hiatus of well over a year raised speculation that he might be dead or incapacitated.

He is believed to be hiding in remote areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ED5D9DB3-BC76-4BFA-B562-1D1AF6E36BBA.htm


BBC also reads:
It is not clear when the message was recorded. The last audio message attributed to bin Laden appeared in November but he has not been seen on video since October 2004.
He is believed to be in hiding on the rugged border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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SECTION II: Another Cause of Subprime Loan Problem

BBC posted two pictures one above the other in its Web page: US President Mr. George W. Bush and AlQaeda Leader Mr. Osama bin Laden.

They might be being displayed with ironic intent, since both have remarks: “Bush speech hails Iraq 'victory'” and “New ‘bin Laden tape’ threatens EU,” respectively.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

After six and half years since September 2001 while spending billions of dollars and sacrificing 4,000 US soldiers among hundreds of thousands of US troops mobilized, the US President cannot arrest Mr. Osama bin Laden who is believed to be hiding in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan by everybody.

No Al Qaeda leaders have been brought to justice in a US court in public.

This can be a source of moral hazard in the US public at large.

It will affect psychology of workers in the US financial sector, too.

Mr. Osama bin Laden responsible for the 9/11 Terror has not been arrested. But, US President Mr. George Bush in fact captured and executed then Iraq President Saddam Hussein. And, US President Mr. Bush has claimed that he has won, while Mr. Osama bin Laden has been sending messages for the attack on EU.

As US President cannot achieve his main goal but is allowed to claim his victory, US financial sector workers would not feel the pricks of conscience if they do not achieve expected performance but claim that they are not responsible when their selling sub-prime loan embedded commodities has caused such a big turmoil in the US economy.

In 1980’s and 1990’s, it was impossible to mobilize so many financial sector workers to deal with such high-risk financial commodities in a large scale against their conscience.

But, in 2000’s, suddenly the climate in Wall Street has changed along with the proceeding of the War on Terror, and some leaders of financial institutes, responsible for the subprime loan problem, get used to all the more show little pang of conscience as if they were the US President who is proud of having executed Saddam Hussein but letting Mr. Osama bin Laden get away as a matter of fact.


SECTION III: Redefinition of the War on Terror

According to “Bush at War” by Mr. Bob Woodward, President Mr. George W. Bush truly delved into implication of some word he was going to use in his speech in the wake of the 9/11 Terror:

“That’s way too vague,” Bush complained, proposing the word “harbor.” In final form, what would later be called the Bush Doctrine said, “We will make no distinction between those who planned these acts and those who harbor them.” It was an incredibly broad commitment to go after terrorists and those who sponsor and protect terrorists, rather than just a proposal for a targeted retaliatory strike. The decision was made without consulting Cheney, Powell or Rumsfeld.
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It is not wise at all to use an official phrase that will make more enemies than friends.

Even if the policy is set along with the determination, “We will make no distinction between those who planned these acts and those who harbor them,” an official address should not adopt such a phrase, since it will most probably make more potential enemies than actual friends among foreign countries.

But, as it was Iraq that US President Mr. Bush must have been always thinking about, he chose the phrase and its official proclamation.

US President Mr. Bush adopted the expression and disseminated the idea into US citizens, so that the people would easily accept the plan to attack Iraq later and take on Saddam Hussein eventually, since it was his longstanding pending issue.

US President Mr. George W. Bush must have wanted to put a final end to the Persian Gulf War his father had fought as the US President but left with a kind of half way solution.

So, in his defining the reaction and countermeasure against the 9/11 Terror, it must be “war (that would lead to invasion of Iraq)” but not “crackdown on terrorists (focused on only AlQaeda in Afghanistan).”

My proposal is to redefine it from “The War on Terror” to “The Law Enforcement on AlQaeda and Mr. Osama bin Laden as well as the Collateral War on Terror.”

Then, financial sector workers will also redefine what they have been dealing with as not only (too) highly rated commodities but also too-high-risk subprime-loan embedded commodities.
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In addition, I cannot fully accept the audio tape as a real and true proof of lively activities of Mr. Osama bin Laden or even his existence.

Would somebody who ever ordered the kamikaze attack on the US Department of Defense proclaim a war on cartoons?

Would not such a big-time player try to find other graver cause when proclaiming a war on EU?

Anyway, if the concrete fact is that after six and half years since September 2001 while spending billions of dollars and sacrificing 4,000 US soldiers among hundreds of thousands of US troops mobilized, the US President cannot arrest Mr. Osama bin Laden, some workers in the US financial sector may find an analogy with, or an excuse in, the proceeding of the War on Terror for their irresponsible practices of selling high-risk commodities under the disguise of highly-rated securitized commodities.


(Today March 20, the Vernal Equinox Day, is a national holiday in Japan.

But, the Wikipedia shows some interesting incidents that happened on March 20:
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".

1995 - A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.

Indeed, it is the day of war and terror. But, good or bad,
1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20

I wish it would be one of best days in your life projected to 365-day circle every year.)




“LET US PRAISE HIS GLORY”

(Lassen Sie uns Lob seiner Herrlichkeit)





　

Truth and Theory (on US Wealth)

Truth and Theory (on US Wealth)

(Vérité et théorie)



SECTION 1: Truth of $800 Billion Deficit

IMF has estimated the the total amount of the subprime loan related deficits to be about $800 billion dollars.

My rough estimation was $400 billion dollars as two million US poor house-owners cannot pay their obligatory 200,000 dollar loans.

I also suppose non-subprime housing-loan deficits might be mingled, and a magnified loss leveraged by option transactions might be also included in the IMF calculation.

Investment and dealings on credit based on expected profits from owing securitized subprime-loan-embedded financial commodities might trigger another default, adding another amount to the deficits at issue.

Anyway, $800 billion is a scale of the Japanese National Budget.

And as I wrote yesterday, specifically everything began with false (too high) rating on the subprime-loan-embedded financial commodities.

It is because the false (too high) rating worked as an excuse for financial sector workers to deal with such dangerous financial commodities as if they had been something like Japanese high-quality industrial goods.


SECTION II: Another Theory on US Housing Loan Bubble

Since Europe and Asia have financed most of the US Treasury's budget deficits in recent decades, Americans haven't had to do this. As a result, their bond market has been freed from government bond issues, so US investors have been able to put their money into the stock market and real estate, for better or worse. As these markets rose during the 1980s and '90s, they attracted foreign private-sector dollars into the US market. This helped finance the bubble.

(A discussion with Michael Hudson over his book Super Imperialism)
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http://www.michael-hudson.com/books/super_imperialism_alist_discussion.html


Put more correctly, it is Japan that have mostly financed most of the US Treasury's budget deficits in recent decades (though China is now following suit of Japan).

(Japan and China are now only two countries that have more than $1 trillion foreign reserves, purchasing mostly US Treasury bonds, the fact of which most of US citizens unbelievably do not know.)

But why?

Mr. Michael Hudson correctly pointed at the fact that Japan has had to do so because Japan must secure the U.S. market.

In other word, for Japanese companies such as Toyota and Sony to freely play in the US market, the Japanese Government has to buy the Treasury bonds as a quid pro quo.

Anyway, consequently, without worrying about a need to bolster the US Government by purchasing Treasury, US financial institutes and private investors could concentrate on more profitable sectors, such as the housing loan market, which excessively exploded to trigger the sub-prime loan bubble accompanied by excessive competition for higher performance among financial sector workers in Wall Street.


SECTION III: A Forbidden Book

Mr. Michael Hudson is a uniquely insightful author; but his book was forbidden being published in Canada or being fully translated in Japan.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/Super-Imperialism-Origin-Fundamentals-Dominance/dp/0745319890

I do not trust those who advertise a conspiracy theory, using big money that can be only provided by a big organization.

But, we may have to check again “A discussion with Michael Hudson over his book Super Imperialism”:

The recent investigations and prosecutions of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer have shown that the largest financial institutions have operated much like criminal enterprises, from Citibank/Travellers and Merrill-Lynch on down. They've come under indictment, but when the problem is so widespread they've decided that the only reasonable response is to begin enforcing a new set of rules, and let bygones be bygones. The bygones in this case have netted them billions of dollars, which they will be allowed to keep. The small investors who've been cheated will not get much after attorney's fees are paid.
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And, we are seeing various related facts in the news nowadays that tell everybody involved in the dark side of Wall Street can be contaminated, too, thus making it impossible to sternly regulate and prevent criminal financial schemes, such as sub-prime loan embedded securities, from being widely traded.


SECTION IV: The Bank of Japan Governor

In Japan, “Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) decided Tuesday to reject the government's latest nominee for Bank of Japan governor, leaving the central bank chief's seat vacant for the first time since the end of World War II.”

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200803190082.html

You had better consider this rare blunder in the government performance in the context of the above “A discussion with Michael Hudson over his book Super Imperialism”:

People are now beginning to raise the question of whether countries really need their central banks, which are essentially lobbyists for the Washington Consensus, as are the World Bank and the IMF...

Central banks are staffed by Chicago School monetarists, and are allowed to take only a 3% deficit whereas in the US it is limitless. Europe and Asia should abandon the false start with their central banks and should rely on their Treasuries, which are Keynesian or could be Keynesian. The national Treasuries should set up a credit system with bonds and IOUs based on euros and other currencies...”
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Mr. Michael Hudson also issued a warning to Japanese scholars and economists who have learnt in universities in the U.S. to get doctor’s degree.

( http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/corporate/totten/column/1176317_629.html , Our World of Ashisuto K.K.)

Those Japanese like to behave like Americans, believing that Americans are friends.

But, the truth is, according to Mr. Michael Hudson’s theory, that US leaders in politics and economy intend to brainwash Japanese elites on purpose, so that they support the scheme of trading the purchase of US Treasury bonds with free access to the US market.

But, such a scheme has eventually led to laxity in moral of US financial sector workers, since more and more dollars are provided by foreign countries such as Japan for Wall Street.

It is indeed difficult for Japanese citizens to choose a non-brainwashed Governor of Bank of Japan who can sternly regulate and prevent criminal financial schemes, such as sub-prime loan embedded securities, from being widely traded in Japan in case.
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Finally, Jesus Christ said that if you were a soldier, you must not bully citizens to offering money and goods for you.

If you are a financial sector worker, you must not try to gain any profits through an act in bad faith or against your conscience.

If you are US elites, you must not try to brainwash young Japanese elites learning in Universities in America.



(Truly, everything is related to one another.

So, good girls and Mlles., that is why I am sending an alert so that you will not access the wider way for wealth, relying on workers in Wall Street or brainwashed Japanese elites.

Indeed, you had better walk under the sun with full freedom, say, on a boardwalk of a port.)





“Do Not Judge Others, so that God Will Not Judge You”

(Verurteilt nicht andere, damit Gott nicht euch verurteilt)




　　

Money or Ethics to Solve Money Problems?

Money or Ethics to Solve Money Problems?

(D'argent ou de déontologie pour résoudre des problèmes d'argent)



A female suicide bomber blew up killing some 40 people in a holy city in Iraq while the US Vice President was visiting Baghdad.

But, the U.S. and Europe would not use billions of dollars in peaceful manners to solve the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan while they supply billions of dollars to bail out financial institutions from the quagmire of the money market in New York, London, and Paris.

Economy is indeed sinful as so many poor people are very unduly suffering and dying outside the money market.


SECTION I: Television Tokyo

Last night Mr. Eisuke Sakakibara, a notable former executive of Japan’s Finance Ministry, said in a TV Tokyo channel it was not a disastrous situation, showing a trend chart on the yen-to-dollar exchange rate and adding that the rate could further go down to 80 yen per dollar.

It is because domestically Japan has been experiencing a kind of deflation mainly due to a huge influx of cheap Chinese commodities, so that a real exchange rate effect is softened.

But, of course, the issue is a steep rise of prices of natural resources globally observed.

The increased value of the yen against the dollar can be easily overwhelmed by the surge of prices of iron, crude oil, and other indispensable resources.

Television Tokyo Station once contributed to making Mr. Heizo Takenaka, a prominent economist and ex-minister of the Government, popular in the public; but Mr. Sakakibara in the TV channel looks like more remote from graveness of the situation on the street than some easy vendors of economic theories in market.


SECTION II: A “New York Reporting” Blog

Mr. Lawrence Henry Summers, highly appreciated by Mr. Eisuke Sakakibara, presented some prediction of the vicious circle triggered by the recent Bear Stearns crisis:
(1) Decline of stock prices and bond prices
(2) Borrowers asked for more additional cover and collateral by banks
(3) Borrowers selling their assets at a loss
(4) Another cycle of decline of stock prices and bond prices
(5) Banks getting more reluctant to lend money

( http://mori-monologue.seesaa.net/article/89902264.html)

It is reported by the media that some financial institutions are actually selling their assets at a loss as they anticipate more loss due to sub-prime loan-related transactions.

So, Mr. Mori in his “New York Report“ blog wrote that another witch-hunting or witch-searching would begin in Wall Street in the wake of JP Morgan’s purchase of Bear Stearns.

He also stressed the need to fix the amount of the subprime-loan related loss in the whole financial sector so as to increase liquidity of the financial goods at issue, wiping out concerns on additional deficits to be registered or margin calls to be extended.


SECTION III: The New York Times

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As President Bush welcomed the Federal Reserve’s sweeping intervention in the financial markets, his administration faced accusations Monday that it supported the bailout of a prestigious investment bank while doing little to address the hardships faced by Americans facing foreclosures on their homes…

The Fed’s intervention in the case of Bear Stearns intensified calls for the administration to reverse Mr. Bush’s well-known embrace of laissez-faire economic policies.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/business/17cnd-bush.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

It looks like the same attitude as that on the Terror issue. Before Sept. 11, 2001, President Mr. Bush showed no interest in pursuing AlQaeda. But after the 9/11 Terror, he sent troops even to Iraq, in addition to Afghanistan.

The White House must now realize that the sub-prime loan problem has triggered a huge crisis not only in the housing sector but also whole Wall Street where the US President seems to have many friends whose wealth are being accumulated there, just like he has many friends in Saudi Arabia and the adjacent areas.


SECTION IV: A Japanese Magazine

Yesterday I happened to buy a magazine issued as an extra edition of “Shukan Bunsyun” featuring salvation of Japanese Economy.

In that, Mr. Jyun Mizusawa argued uniquely:
In the capitalism society, a demand can be surely matched by supply. Workers in the financial sector want immediate results and appealing performance, no matter how high related risks are. All they need is a persuasive excuse for dealing with high-risk commodities, which is offered in the form of rating.

If high-risk financial commodities, after producing short-term profits, have turned into junks, those financial sector workers can claim that they are not wrong as they honestly trusted the high ratings of the commodities.

This ugly psychology is the source of the sub-prime loan problem, since dealers and fund managers as professionals must have been aware of the accompanying risks being so high from the beginning, though some service companies handsomely offered higher ratings involving the monolines.
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Put simply, 99% of workers in the financial sector seem to have been dealing with the subprime-loan-embedded financial commodities against their conscience if they have any, since temporary and immediate profits were so large, even if they do not belong to Mafia-like housing-loan companies.

Bad minds have generated bad consequences in the money market as has been usual in history.

The subprime-loan problem is related to professional ethics more than financial systems and monetary schemes.



(The extra edition of the Japanese magazine is also introducing examples of competent bosses and incompetent bosses in office of Japanese companies.

As an example of good bosses, a reader has reported that his boss sometimes takes the blame on himself when his staff member failed.

If the number of bosses who would take pity on his failing subordinates with poor performance in Wall Street increases, the global money market will be able to avoid a possible or an expected catastrophe in the situation drifting towards the era of high oil prices and the weak dollar while US troops are everywhere in the Middle East.)


“Do Not Cast Pearls Before Swine”

(Sie müssen nicht geben Perlen zu einem Schwein)




　　

Lhasa, Beijing, New York, Atlanta, and Israel

Lhasa, Beijing, New York, Atlanta, and Israel

(Lhassa, Pékin, New York, Atlanta, et en Israël)


Now, one dollar is being traded around 96 yen.

But, you should laugh at neither the dollar nor yen.


SECTION I: Tibet

Some people say that the U.K. once tried to colonize Tibet.

But, most Japanese think that China illegally occupied Tibet, though Chinese economic boom is allowing even Tibetan farmers to get more money nowadays.

And, a singer sang a prophetic song in Shanghai early in March.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003719243

Tibet must be free from the U.K. and China.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/16/tibet.china2


SECTION II: Ancient Israel and Tibet

It is well known that Jesus Christ did not work in Rome, Athens, or Alexandria, namely glorious cities in the ancient world.

He started to preach in a local region of Palestine governed by a king controlled by the Roman Empire.

In other word, Jesus Christ started as a country homeless preacher.

Then He ordered some men to follow Him as far as to Jerusalem, the capital of ancient Israelites.

It might be as if a country homeless preacher with some of his followers advanced to a big city to succeed in his business, religion, in vain.

But, eventually, Jesus Christ through His holy death proved that He was in truth and reality the King of Israelites and Romans.

All Tibetans need might be their version of Jesus Christ who would become the King of Tibetans and Chinese.


SECTION III: Israelites Relying on American Christians

I suppose that contemporary Israelites, namely non-Christians, believe at the bottom of their heart that Jesus Christ was the King of Israelites and Romans.

The state of Israel today can get support from the Christian country, the U.S., mainly because the Israeli Government implicitly admits that Jesus Christ was the King of Israelites and Romans, since such a big issue requires a clear attitude of yes or no while no Israelites say to American Christians that Jesus Christ was neither the King nor the Messiah.

If the state of Israelites truly believes that Jesus Christ was neither the King nor the Messiah, they will not ask help of the Christian country, the U.S., whose citizens believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Son of God, or the God.

Logically, with significance of the religious implication taken into account, as the nation Israel today never refuses aid and help from American Christians, Israel cannot regard Jesus Christ as their enemy, for they recognize power and authority of Jesus Christ in their seeking help from American Christians, which means Israelites also recognizes Jesus Christ as the King of Romans and their descendants, namely Europeans and European Americans.

Put simply, Israelites today are all a kind of Christians who do not know they are virtually Christians, since Christians are those who recognize power and authority of Jesus Christ.

If not so, Israelites should declare that Americans are enemies of Israel, since Americans say that Jesus, one of their ancestors, who cannot be God is the God.

If Israelites today cannot be pious and religious enough to declare so, what are they? A religious body? A tribe with a religion? What are they?

This is why the world is losing confidence in Israel, Israelites, and Israelite Europeans and Americans.

If the main justification of existence of the nation-state Israel today consists in their unique religion but the world finds them not to be so religious in their manners asking help of the U.S., the nation-state might disappear sooner or later as a logical conclusion.


SECTION IV: Holy Fate of Israelites

If Israelites continue to receive tremendous help and aid of American Christians, it is interpreted as Israelites’ de-facto recognizing Jesus Christ as God.

So then, Israel must be annexed to the U.S.

If Israelites piously stick to a belief that Jesus Christ is not God, Israelites must break the bond with American Christians but tie up with Muslims who do not recognize Jesus Christ as God, either.

So then, Israel must be allied with all Arab and Islamic countries.

Indeed, Israel should do so, if its people are honestly living on their religion, no matter if you think it is impossible from a worldly point of view.
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What do you think about the recent tragedies in New York and Atlanta?

I suppose that somebody laughed at the God and EEE Reporter in New York, where The New York Times is based, and then a tall crane collapsed to destroy a building.

I suppose that somebody laughed at the God and EEE Reporter in Atlanta, where CNN is based, and then a powerful tempest destroyed buildings in Atlanta.

So, I am afraid that somebody was laughing at God and EEE Reporter in Beijing or Lhasa.




(Money-saving is a difficult issue for followers of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ ordered not to accumulate wealth in this world but in Heaven.

Young people should be completely and correctly taught on this teaching before they start to save up.

But, I am afraid that too many American Christians are accumulating wealth neither in this world nor in Heaven while spending so much, which is the main cause of collapse of the value of the dollar.

So, good girls and Mlles., saving is one of topics in our conversation that should never be brought up.)



“They Do Not Even Lift Up a Finger to Help Carry a Burden”

(Sie haben nicht einmal eine Last tragen helfen)

Human Rights

(I looked around to find neither splendor of cherry blossoms nor ablaze autumn leaves around the pond where gemmy smiles must be all around if in an appropriate season…)


Human Rights

(Le Droits de l'homme)


In Japan nowadays, one of main political arguments is the one related to fundamental human rights.

Even in Japan, low-teen school boys and girls are making and managing thousands of personal or secret Web sites, without under supervision of school or parents, where bullying and tease sometimes break out targeting some weak pupil.

The world of children and minors reflect manners of living of majors and situations of the society.

In a today’s newspaper in Japan, I found a report telling that a schoolgirl of a certain junior high school committed a suicide within school.

Perhaps, all over the world, children and young students should be compulsory educated on human rights and civil liberties, if authority in each country cannot correctly and completely present to, and provide for, pupils the teachings of Jesus Christ or God or Allah.

So, I’d like to introduce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights specified by the United Nations.

http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm

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Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

(The rest is temporarily omitted, though...)

Article 17
1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
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The imminent issue is whether these articles should apply to terrorists or insurgents.

The U.S. President has apparently denied the idea in his recent administrative decision on prisoners of the War on Terror.

Chinese Government has apparently denied the idea in its recent military operation against Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans in its long-occupied Tibet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7296837.stm

As Japan has long been the second largest financier to the U.N. next to the U.S., Japan has a right to remonstrate with the U.S. and China about their non-humanitarian decision and operation.

So we do it here now.

Treat captured and arrested terrorists humanely so as to make them repent; and respect Tibetans so as to allow them to gain complete independence from China controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

Finally, you know now how terrible it would be if the U.S. and China plot together for any conspiracy to establish and maintain their power of domination on weak people and tribes in the world.

That is why a Religious Revolution is needed in China and the U.S. to realize the ideal of Universal Declaration of Human Rights specified by the United Nations.




Luk 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Luk 6:40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

Luk 6:41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Luk 6:42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

Luk 6:43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Luk 6:44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

Luk 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.





　　

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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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)