Don't worry...
Don't worry baby....('Cause pebbles more than for Newton and Shakespeare...;
refer to EEE Reporter on Monday, April 17, 2006, or
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2006/04/newton-shakespeare-and-empire-facing.html )
To America from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman with Extravagant Money
(Pour l'Amérique d'Arabie saoudite, Koweït, Bahreïn, Qatar, les Émirats arabes unis et Oman avec extravagantes argent)
The following facts should be first taken heed of:
1. A high level of oil prices is now pushing up prices of other commodities in Japan, manufacturing of which needs a great amount of crude oil and derivative petrochemical products.
2. A liter (about a quarter of a gallon) of gasoline is sold at 140 yen (1.2 dollars) in Japan today, which is fairly high even in this non-oil-producing second largest economy in the world, since it is more than double-priced than in the U.S.
3. The current balance of Saudi Arabia in 2006 reached its record high.
4. The current-account surplus of Saudi Arabia in 2006 is estimated to become 95.5 billion US dollars, up 6% on year-to-year basis.
5. The trade surplus of Saudi Arabia in 2006 was 148 billion US dollars , up 17.5% on year-to-year basis.
6. Saudi Arabia is the second largest financial resources next to the U.S. for poor nations in the world that send their laborers on a massive scale to foreign countries as guest workers.
Foreign laborers working in Saudi Arabia sent total 15.5 billion US dollars to their home countries. They are mostly from South Asia and the Philippines.
7. Main exporters to Saudi Arabia are the U.S., Japan, Germany, and China in order of export value. Notably, import from China to Saudi Arabia has been increasing drastically.
8. The total amount of possible invest funds, that is, money available for investment, accumulated in the Arab world is now estimated to reach 4.1 trillion dollars.
9. The total amount of overseas assets of the GCC states (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman) is 434 billion US dollars, 20% of which is invested in the US stock market, another 20% of which is invested in the long-term US Treasury bonds, and 7.9% of which is invested in the short-term US Treasury bonds.
In short, 50% of money available for investing abroad by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman is now directed to the U.S.
(Source:
http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/foresight/web_kikaku/h148.html )
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Then, in a non-emotional manner, we must judge the significance of the threat from AlQaeda and the true meaning of the War on Terror, which cannot be in principle addressed fully without determined cooperation from Islamic countries including the GCC states as well as Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia.
In addition to almost 8,000 deaths of Americans related to the 9/11 terror and the US military campaign in the Middle East, you have to also take into account, for example, the following data:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/hmrt.htm#counts
You have to remember also that almost one million Iraqis were killed or injured since the launching of US military invasion of Iraq in early 2003.
http://www.unknownnews.org/casualties.html
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The inevitable conclusion is that the U.S. can be regarded as continuing the War on Terror in Iraq to secure huge investment in US financial sector from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman, while sacrificing so many lives of US citizens and soldiers, which might be plausibly justified in comparison with the death toll in murder cases happening every year inside the U.S., but cannot be in fact so when taking into account lost Iraqi lives including so many children killed haplessly though under the gaze of Allah.
The subsequent moral conclusion is that the U.S. should find another way to secure huge investment from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman, without which a living standard of US rich people will be lowered probably by 10%, even if they want to continue bountiful life.
At least, next US Administration should find another way, except war, to save lives and living standards of poor US citizens.
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As the time goes by, the more crude oil is used and the less its reserves will become, the more war and military operations may be adopted as a means to secure oil and money by the U.S. and other countries.
Japanese Government and politicians should tackle this issue in all seriousness, though they cannot still address the argument about propriety of free supply of fuels and water to naval ships of the U.S., the U.K., Pakistan and so on on the Indian Ocean as a proof of Japan's engagement in the War on Terror in Afghanistan, though the operation has cost more than 200 million US dollars for Japanese tax payers in these four years.
(Crude oil, remrakably looking like black blood of lives and organisms in geological ages, and human blood, red for every race, are now being exchanged with dollars that make rich Muslims and rich Americans richer.
That is why I am telling you that you should not be part of this prosperity.
It is for you not to be held responsible for this global tragedy by the God or Allah.
For example, look at Japan that has become so less sinfully prosperous in comparison with those rich Muslims and rich Americans.
Indeed, you should have been born in Japan instead of the USA.
Truly, you should have been so, if you were born in New York or, say, Paris.)
"...'and whoever lives and believes in me will never die'..."
(...und wer lebt und sich auf mich verlasst, wird niemals sterben...)