False Pundits: Lack of Conscience or Devil's Wisdom
All I can do nowadays is going to bed early, say, before 11 p.m., since I cannot bear reading, seeing, and hearing what false pundits present.
PART I: Foolish Self-Definition of the Right and the Left
There are various ways to explain truth.
In analogy with various paths reaching the summit of Mt. Fuji, there are various ways to enhance and improve one's personality and character.
(The best way is of course forgive your enemies and love them, as Jesus Christ so ordered.)
So, you may wonder if EEE Reporter is speaking with a forked tongue when handling, say, religions, history, economy, and politics.
As critics and pundits whose soul and brain are damaged by sweet alcohol, delicious foods, and gorgeous bars and restaurants in addition to money-based romance cannot even cope with God's foolishness, they blame EEE Reporter as falsely right-wing or falsely left-wing.
However they themselves look rather childish than being right-wing or left-wing.
(Taking a specific example in Japan, if some Japanese journalists are truly right-wing, how can they be engaged in character assassination of top conservative leaders in the Japanese political circle for the reason that those leaders personally dislike them and have once hurt their pride?)
Good or bad, being right-wing or left-wing does not matter among top leaders in history. Everything depends on situations. They are expressing themselves while trying to attain the highest status of their own in any given circumstance.
If JFK had been born in China, he must have tried hard to be a top leader of the Chinese Communist Party while blaming America.
If Chou En-lai had been born in America, he must have tried hard to be US President while blaming China.
Even in this context Jesus Christ is the greatest, since He must be just being Himself, namely Christ, if born in China or America, surely scolding top leaders in China and America.
From a different point of view, you can deny 100% neither the ideal of the Chinese Communist Party nor the American Dream.
Be wise rather than being right-wing or left-wing based on personal vengeance; but do not trust Japanese liberals who neglect Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea, since in Japan liberals mean those who neglect Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea (mostly in a tie up with the Social Democratic Party of Japan who is supported by ethnic Koreans in Japan mostly making business in the pinball entertainment industry).
PART II: IBM and LENOVO
There is still misunderstanding about IBM’s transfer of its PC division to China though it happened several years ago.
First of all, the U.S. Government should not have approved the transfer.
The judgment of the U.S. Government is based on the notion that even if IBM’s PC division was sold to China, China could not overcome Microsoft and Intel in technical competition.
“China would simply have to buy Windows OS and Intel’s CPUs to assemble a PC.” “It is just selling a computer assembly factory or a software application business.” This judgment by IBM is wrong.
But, the reason why the US Government made a big mistake is that in the past Japan with capability to invent and commercialize other type of OS and a CPU for a PC was almost completely suppressed by the US Government who applied a severe political pressure on the Japanese Government.
China has even no scientific and technical base to invent and commercialize other type of OS and a CPU for a PC. China is more cooperative politically with the U.S. nowadays than Japan. So, the US Government thought that as IBM said it was OK, it must be OK to allow for the transfer of IBM’s PC division to China, since IBM could not earn big profits from the PC business.
By allowing for the transfer of IBM’s PC division to China, the US Government allows for the gap between poor Americans and rich Americans to get wider. It also makes wider the gap between poor Chinese and rich Chinese.
The industry should develop along with accumulation of technical experiences and research history.
Having Chine produce cheap products more efficiently by leveraging power of PCs will make US big businesses more profitable as they can import useful products at low costs from China. This is the interests at the core of their judgment, which however is against the interests of poor Americans.
This is a typical example of false wisdom in business and politics.
SECTION III: False Global 2.0
One Japanese amateur critic was highly moved by a trend called Global 2.0.
He was really assured of the great power of Western businessmen actively and internationally working and promoting further globalization based on the new paradigm called Global 2.0.
It is because he read the following writing by Lenovo’s CEO:
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GLOBAL 2.0
Interconnected we prosper
By William J. Amelio
Published: June 25, 2008
The World Bank recently revisited its "dollar a day" global poverty yardstick and came to a startling conclusion: It was wrong when it said some 250 million people in China had escaped from severe poverty between 1990 and 2004.
Instead, by its latest count, some 407 million Chinese citizens rose out of poverty during those 14 years - roughly one-third of the entire population of the most populous country on the planet!
This upward shift is being repeated around the world with amazing implications for society. The Brookings Institution recently forecast that one billion people would join the ranks of this rising middle class by 2020.
This is cause for global celebration: The world's riches are being opened to all of its citizens, who in turn are contributing new value and advances that will propel the world economy to greater heights of shared prosperity.
Why, after centuries of human endeavor, is this amazing transformation happening now?
Because we have moved decisively from what we called "globalization" into a new era of global inter-connectedness, where not just goods but information and ideas flow across borders constantly and (for the most part) freely as near universal access to Internet-enabled communications moves closer to reality.
This is the world of "Global 2.0," and it is transforming our economies, our businesses and how billions of people live. We are all part of this change that has the potential to win the war on global poverty and deprivation in our lifetimes…
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/25/opinion/edamelio.php
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First of all, the author does not understand that China is an exception in the world, though it is a huge exception.
What can apply to China cannot apply simply to any other nations.
Simple contrary evidence can be found in the ILO paper:
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Global Employment Trends 2007
Global unemployment remains at historic high despite strong economic growth
Modest gains in reducing working poverty
Thursday 25 January 2007 (ILO/07/02)
GENEVA (ILO News) - The number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historical high in 2006 despite strong global economic growth, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends (Note 1) released today.
The ILO's "Global Employment Trends Brief 2007" reported that even though more people are working globally than ever before, the number of unemployed remained at an all time high of 195.2 million in 2006 or at a global rate of 6.3 per cent. This rate was almost unchanged from the previous year.
The ILO also reported only modest gains in lifting some of the world's 1.37 billion working poor - those working but living on less than the equivalent of US$ 2 per person, per day - out of poverty, stressing that there weren't enough decent and productive jobs to raise them and their families above the US$ 2 poverty line.
"The strong economic growth of the last half decade has only had a slight impact on the reduction of the number of workers who live with their families in poverty and this was only true in a handful of countries. In addition growth failed to reduce global unemployment", said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. "What's more, even with continued strong global economic growth in 2007 there is serious concern about the prospects for decent job creation and reducing working poverty further."
The report said that in order to maintain or reduce unemployment rates, the link between growth and jobs must be reinforced. It said creation of decent and productive jobs - not just any jobs -was a prerequisite for reducing unemployment and slashing the number of families working but still living in poverty. This in turn is a precondition for future development and economic growth.
Other findings in the trends report showed that:
- For the last decade, economic growth has been reflected more in rising levels of productivity and less in growing employment. While world productivity increased by 26 per cent the global number of those in employment rose by only 16.6 per cent.
- Unemployment hit young people (aged 15 to 24) the hardest, with 86.3 million young people representing 44 per cent of the world's total unemployed in 2006.
- The employment gap between women and men persists. In 2006, only 48.9 per cent of women aged 15+ were working compared to 49.6 per cent in 1996. The comparable male employment-to-population ratios were 75.7 in 1996 and 74.0 in 2006.
- In 2006, the share of the service sector in the global employment progressed from 39.5 per cent to 40 per cent and, for the first time, overtook the share of agriculture that decreased from 39.7 per cent to 38.7 per cent. The industry sector represented 21.3 per cent of total employment.
Regional trends
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The study said that in most of the regions, unemployment rates did not change markedly between 2005 and 2006. The largest decrease occurred in the region of the Developed Economies and European Union, where the unemployment rate declined by 0.6 percentage points between 2005 and 2006 to 6.2 per cent. East Asia's unemployment rate was 3.6 per cent, thereby remaining the lowest in the world. South Asia's unemployment rate was 5.2 per cent and South-East Asia and the Pacific's was 6.6 per cent.
According to the report, the Middle East and North Africa remained the region with the highest unemployment rate in the world at 12.2 per cent in 2006. Sub-Saharan Africa's rate stood at 9.8 per cent, the second highest in the world. The region also had the highest share in working poverty, with 8 out of 10 women and men living on less than $2 a day with their families. This underscores that tackling the decent work deficit in Africa is a regional and global priority.
The report also specified that employment-to-population ratios - the share of people employed within the working age population - varied between regions. The Middle East and North Africa region had the lowest ratio, at 47.3 per cent in 2006. East Asia had the highest ratio with 71.6 per cent in 2006 but its ratio dropped by 3.5 percentage points over the last 10 years. If caused by an increase in educational participation - as is the case in East Asia - a decrease of the employment-to-population ratio is a good thing. In Latin America the ratio gained 1.8 percentage points up to 60.3 per cent of people employed within its working age population in 2006.
The ILO estimates showed that in all regions, the total number of working poor at the US$1 level declined between 2001 and 2006 except in Sub-Saharan Africa where it increased by another 14 million and in Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa where it stayed more or less unchanged. Over the same period the total number of US$2 a day working poor declined in Central and Eastern Europe (non-EU) and CIS, and most significantly in East Asia by 65 million. On the other hand, it increased in South-East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa with the biggest rise, of 26 million, occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa.
"Every region has to face major labour market challenges", says the ILO report, "young people have more difficulties in labour markets than adults; women do not get the same opportunities as men, the lack of decent work is still high; and the potential a population has to offer is not always used because of a lack of human capital development or a mismatch between the supply and the demand side in labour markets."
"Nowadays the widespread conviction is that decent work is the only sustainable way to reduce poverty, which is why the target of `full, productive and decent employment´ will be a new target within the Millennium Development Goals in 2007. Therefore it is now the time for governments as well as the international community to make sure that the favourable economic conditions in most parts of the world will be translated into decent job growth", concludes the report.
http://www.cinterfor.org.uy/public/english/region/ampro/cinterfor/news/trends07.htm
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Global 2.0 is not the paradigm to make the poor people in the world richer.
But, it is primarily designed to streamline the way of business so as to win competition and increase profits while expanding a market size.
Global 2.0 does not need a billion of elite workers who can fully and skillfully manipulate PCs and the Internet.
In an advanced IT environment of Global 2.0, you need only a handful of elite employees to operate and manage big business, a huge supply chain or sales chain, and handle huge funds while absorbing useful ideas from many low-wage workers.
Global 2.0 does not need poor Americans but Chinese factories and the Chinese market.
Any good ideas contrived by competitors will be swiftly suppressed even politically.
With so much evil entailed by Global 2.0, as proven by so many poor Americans neglected, it will not help poor Americans at all.
(Do you really think that "Global Obama" will really help poor Americans?)
It is just like the transfer of IBM’s PC division to China has not helped poor Americans at all.
They are all for conveniently developing Chinese factories and cheaply cultivating the Chinese market.
It is a false scheme, since they have never seriously considered the cultural and historical aspects of China and the critical contribution by Japan to the leveling up of Chinese industries in these decades.
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When I was young, I saw colleagues and workers around me take a week-long summer vacation twice, say, in July and August.
It is not bad at all for you to follow suit when you are young. I really recommend you to, since I saw unbelievably wonderful sunset yesterday where a jet plane was flying against the background of softly orange, pink, and red clouds.
(But, national lawmakers or congressional representatives are different.
It is so because a war or other crisis can occur at any time.
All they can do is going to bed early, say, before 11 p.m. nowadays especially in Japan.)
Luk 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Luk 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Luk 7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
Luk 7:32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.