(The Taishakuten Temple, Tokyo: nationally popular due to the movie "Otoko-wa Tsuraiyo [A Real Man Always Laughs Off]")RISKS: G8, ECONOMIC FORUM, AND NORTH KOREA
This January WORD ECONOMIC FORUM issued an interesting report on a global risk.
http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/risk/downloads/WEF_Global_Risks_2008.pdf
I found some interesting figures in it as shown below:
(Click to enlarge)It looks as though people are all coward and timid. No one seems to be expected to act bravely facing a systematic financial crisis. When their fear overcomes their conscience, they will, I am afraid, even resort to a war or a crime called the subprime loan business.
(Click to enlarge)It seems to miss an important factor: the US policy on corn-based- ethanol. However, when a billion Chinese and a billion Indians start to eat as much as 300 million Americans do today, there will be no food security globally. But who can stop them, while Ameriacns are eating so much...
(Click to enlarge)The above figure is very intuitive for understanding what their priority is placed on. Nonetheless I doubt if the figures shown there truly reflect a real state of their concerns. For example, authors of this WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM report might be pretending as if the "US$ Crisis" has no significant impact. Another interesting point is that "China slowdown" and "Climate change" are almost equally weighed.
(Click to enlarge)This figure is critical, since it estimates the number of casualties and victims caused by "Extreme climate change related weather" is less than "Middle East instability" and "Food insecurity."
Anyway, the report concluded with a candid remark:
"Should systemic financial risk lead to a serious deterioration in the world economy, the prospects for collaborative mitigation may be reversed on several fronts simultaneously as attention turns to more immediate concerns."
Still money is threatening mankind.
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I do not know if global leaders or elites who gathered in Japan early this week had read the above report beforehand.
If so, “money” must have been a main theme of the G8 Summit, since the G8 Summit is a sort of very democratic world-government compared with the paper-tiger group called the Bilderberg.
Anyway, I am very thankful to the G8 leaders who accepted the reference to Japanese abductees by North Korea in its official statement.
Yet, families of the Japanese abductees by North Korea have reportedly showed their disappointment with a weak tone of the reference.
Nonetheless, I encourage them to show gratitude to Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda and US President Mr. George W. Bush for their paying attentions to those victims.
It is because any blame on the Japanese Prime Minister and the US President by families of the abductees will benefit North Korean leaders.
Global citizens must also understand that North Korea has now an ability to sell nuclear-warhead middle-range missiles to any clients if this despotic state thinks it can be completely secretly and lucratively done.
If you laugh at the G8 Summit Meeting, North Korea and terrorists as well as Bilderbergers will also laugh.
Families of the Japanese abductees by North Korea must also join other humanitarian projects to help poor people or victims of wars in the world to prove that they are not self-centered at all.
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Mat 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Mat 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Mat 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.