Trillion Dollar Reporter

Trillion Dollar Reporter

(Reporter milliards de dollars)


My idea is as follows:
The US Government prints Japanese yen bills worth 800 trillion yen or $8 trillion and gives them to Japan.

The Japanese Government prints US dollar bills worth $9 trillion and gives them to the U.S.

I call this scheme “The EEE-REPORTER’S Trillion-Dollars Initiative,” since …


(If you doubt, just enter “Japanese Trillion Dollar Reporter” in a key-word field of Yahoo’s Web Search.)

(As many viewers accessed Yahoo, now EEE-Reporter's position has decreased to the 22nd with the keyword; so please try, say, the AltaVista search engine to confirm it...[4/27, eer])


SECTION I: CHINA UNDER FINANCIAL IMPACT

A month ago, a Chinese investment company suffered a loss of $1.4 billion due to a decline of appraised value of its stock holding.

It is because the stocks they hold are of US Blackstone Group that recorded a loss in the fourth quarter of 2007 due to the subprime loan issue, which triggered the steep fall in its stock prices, leading to the big loss of the Chinese investment company and probably the Shanghai Stock Market.

( http://news.searchina.ne.jp/disp.cgi?y=2008&d=0314&f=business_0314_010.shtml )

US Blackstone Group, which recently established a subsidiary company in Japan, is said to be the globally largest investment company with invested assets worth almost $90 billion.

But, what is more interesting might be its founder Mr. Peter George Peterson.


SECTION II: PETER GEORGE PETERSON

If you can read Japanese, you had better refer to p.205 of the following Japanese book by Mr. Yasuhiko Nakata:

(http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/images/4062879271/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=465392&s=books )


However, Mr. Peter George Peterson is globally introduced as below:

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In 1985, he co-founded the prominent private equity and investment management firm, the Blackstone Group, for which his current position is Senior Chairman.
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Peterson has been Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1985, when he took over from David Rockefeller. He also serves as Trustee of the Rockefeller family's Japan Society and the Museum of Modern Art, and was previously on the board of Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc..

He is founding Chairman of the Peterson Institute (formerly the Institute for International Economics, renamed in his honour in 2006), and a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. He was also Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York between 2000 and 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_George_Peterson
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So, Mr. Peterson, with mighty potential that could topple the Shanghai Stock Market, has two influential intelligent tools: Council on Foreign Relations and Peterson Institute (IIE).


SECTION III: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR)

CFR is globally introduced as below:
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Through its membership, meetings, and studies, it has been called the most powerful agent of United States foreign policy outside the State Department.

It publishes the bi-monthly journal Foreign Affairs. It has an extensive website, featuring links to its think tank, The David Rockefeller Studies Program, other programs and projects, publications, history, biographies of notable directors and other board members, corporate members, and press releases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
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We can check one of its reports:
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October 24, 2000
Future Directions for U.S. Economic Policy Toward Japan

But as-or rather if-Japan continues to open its doors to foreign direct investment, American companies are likely to have many more opportunities to foster structural changes through their ongoing operations in Japan than the American government is likely to have through bilateral negotiations.

Some in the Japanese bureaucracy welcomed foreign purchases of bad bank loans at discounted prices to ease the banking crisis. And as foreign capital was attracted for this purpose, foreign direct investment flows into Japan began to increase. Recent high-profile cases of such investment include: Ripplewood's purchase of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB); Merrill Lynch's purchase of part of Yamaichi Securities; Citigroup's merger with Nikko Securities; GE Capital's investments in Japan Leasing and Toho Life Insurance; Nissan's joint venture with Renault; Cable and Wireless's acquisition of International Digital Communications (IDC); and Daimler-Chrysler's partnership with Mitsubishi Motors.

Analysts predicted that approximately one-quarter to one-third of the 106-trillion-yen maturing in the Postal Savings System over the next two years would be invested in alternative higher yield, though riskier, assets. To date, however, investors have shied away from equities, choosing to reinvest most of maturing funds in other types of accounts in the Postal Savings System or at other banks.

Foreign financial institutions are working hard to educate Japanese investors about the rates of return they can expect by investing in equities, and they hope that the need for retirement savings will entice Japanese investors to put a much larger fraction of their savings in the stock market over time. Large U.S. institutions like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Fidelity are using sophisticated advertising, including weekly television shows, to attract Japanese investors.

http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Economic_Policy_Toward_Japan.pdf
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CFR is busy trying to help US financial institutes grab a big profit in the Japanese money market in the manner even the US Government would hesitate to take.

One of strong criticisms against the former Koizumi Administration is that then Prime Minister Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi took too drastic and strong measures in privatizing the Japanese Postal Saving System with help of a notable economist, Mr. Heizo Takenaka who was appointed to a Minister of the Cabinet for this purpose.

Mr. Heizo Takenaka is said to have once worked in IIE, namely, the Peterson Institute.


SECTION IV: PETERSON INSTITUTE (IIE)

Peterson Institute is globally introduced as below:
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The institute chairman is the chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and former United States Secretary of Commerce, Peter G.Peterson…
Other prominent members of the institute's board of directors include:
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Paul O'Neill, former United States Secretary of the Treasury;

David Rockefeller, former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank;

Lawrence Summers, former United States Secretary of the Treasury;

Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve;
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Fred Bergsten (Director),
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson_Institute
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We can check one of its reports:
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October 10, 2007

Recent Financial Disturbances and Risks to
the Outlook Beyond the United States
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Japan: Taking it in stride (for a change)
• Thanks to Takenaka and foreign investors, the core
banking system is well-capitalized

• The financial system is increasingly diversified
– Though more for corporate than household borrowers

• BOJ and FSA may want to be moralistic hazards, but
political and economic constraints will prevent them
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Bottom Line For The Outlook:
Be concerned about European financial risks
• Though the shock originated in the US, the financial and
supervisory structure in the Eurozone is more fragile

• The current recovery is not a robust buffer
– German and Italian recoveries are not sustainable
– British, Irish, and Spanish real estate bubbles are significant

• The ECB’s willingness and room to act will prevent a
persistent downturn from financial troubles, but not some firstround
drag or supervisory problems from local real estate

http://www.petersoninstitute.org/publications/papers/posen1007gep.pdf
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To your astonishment, just several months ago, they did not use the term “subprime loan trillion dollar crisis.”

As early in April IMF presented estimation of a total loss related to subprime loan problem to reach $1 trillion, this Peterson Institute’s report looks very strange.

That is why I am telling you that you should not think American elites to be very smart, though famous Japanese economist Mr. Takenaka, reportedly having well practiced his English and knowledge of accounting in the Peterson Institute, also failed in predicting this subprime-loan triggered crisis as he looked so on his TV appearance in the Japan's popular Sunday morning interview program Mr. Soichiro Tawara moderates.


SECTION V: JAPAN-US TRILLION DOLLAR COOPERATION PROJECT

Now, you may come to like to listen to my proposal on the Japan-US Trillion Dollar Mutual Cooperation.

It is to conquer the potential global great depression which could be triggered by $9 trillion deficits in the U.S. and $8 trillion deficits in Japan as I wrote yesterday.

My idea is as follows:
The US Government prints Japanese yen bills worth 800 trillion yen or $8 trillion and gives them to Japan.

The Japanese Government prints US dollar bills worth $9 trillion and gives them to the U.S.

This transaction will take a form of the selling and buying of citizenship entitlement authorized by each Government, so that all the Japanese have a legitimate right to live in the U.S. as US citizens and all the Americans have a legitimate right to live in Japan as Japanese citizens.

The US Government sells this right to Japan at $9 trillion (so as to earn $9 trillion and offset the deficits).

The Japanese Government sells this right to the U.S. at 800 trillion yen or $8 trillion (so as to earn 800 trillion yen and offset the deficits).

Concrete and detailed contents of this “nationality transaction” will be probably defined by CFR, Peterson Institute (IIE), and Japan’s Ministry of Finance.

But, there might be a need to establish a new financial federal system between Japan and the U.S.

Or, we may adopt a secret code for this project, until it is officially introduced to the world, such as “The EEE-REPORTER’S Trillion-Dollars Initiative.”

My request for royalty of the use of the term “EEE-REPORTER” is very humble.

One percent of one percent of $8 trillion plus $9 trillion is, for example, just $1,700,000,000, since $17 trillion is 17,000,000,000,000.



(Joking apart, though you may hate to leave, today a big May Day meeting is being held in Japan.

It is time to sit down and think about a non-nonsense issue, namely US $9 trillion national debt problem and Japan’s $8 trillion national debt problem, since I have a feeling that God has requested me to be in charge though not for a tiny reward such as $1.7 billion…

Forget about it, since it is just $1.7 billion…

So, good girls and Mlles., forget about it, just $1.7...my breakfast...O Lord!


[Listen to the one before I am sniped at, since it is a matter of ten quadrillions if there found is love beyond reasonable doubt:

http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-folk0/nobarasakumichi.html ])




Dan 4:25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

Dan 4:26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.




　

JAPAN-US Trillion Dollar Cooperation Project

JAPAN-US Trillion Dollar Cooperation Project

(JAPON-Amérique milliards de dollars de projets de coopération)



Japan is the only country in the world, except China, that has $1 trillion foreign reserves.

(Japan has the external net assets reaching $2.1 trillion, as of the end of 2006, which is the world largest as Japan has secured this No.1 position for 16 consecutive years since 1991.

Japan’s foreign asset balance is about $5.5 trillion based on a dollar as 100 yen.

( http://www.chosunonline.com/article/20070526000003))

So, it is natural that the exchange rate against dollar gets stronger.

However, it is well known that for so many years or two decades the yen has been appraised lower except in a limited exceptional period.

And, Japanese export has been supported by this exchange rate or the weaker yen favorable for Japanese manufacturers.

But, the success of Japanese products in the global competition, of course, lies in its quality.

The weaker yen together with higher quality of Japanese products eventually has produced $1 trillion surplus in international accounts.

It also means too much reliance on foreign demand rather than on domestic demand.

By putting them in order, we may get the following explanation:

(1) The Japanese consumers come to buy less, especially compared with Americans, though their living space is full of home electric appliances and other humble commodities made in China, thus restricting growth of domestic need.

(2) The need for export gets stronger for survival of companies...

(3) Quality and technical sophistication of products have been further enhanced.

(4) The exchange rate or the value of the yen is set intentionally weaker.

(5) Export and foreign demand have become key factors to bolstering Japanese economy.

And, as I once mentioned,
(0) The Japanese land and its nature cannot accept any more development and destruction caused by industrial activities and people’s greed, so that the Japanese spirits have worked on people’s minds to stop their material desire-driven economic activities as much as possible, resulting in spending downturn after the burst of the bubble economy.

So, it is not CO2 but the whole nature that we should focus on in curbing consumption of crude oil, coal, natural gas, and other fossil energy, though Japanese industry has now the most advanced energy-saving technology in the world which the EU does not like to humbly and heartily admire for some reasons.

Anyway, we can logically analyze and trace the economy in a given time window by correctly taking in consideration the nature of human beings.

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As I wrote yesterday Japan has 8 trillion dollars national debt and the U.S. had 9 trillion dollars national debt, Japan and the U.S. must together take measures to avoid the possible global great depression.

And, just refer to a certain opinion on the state of pre-crisis in the U.S.:
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America’s $9.3-trillion-and-growing national debt rightly has been blamed for many economic ills that lurk on our nation’s horizon, but it also had the stealth effect of further eroding Americans’ waning belief in the benefits, efficacy, and trustworthiness of government. many other, oft-mentioned factors – Vietnam, Watergate, anti-government rhetoric, and a 24/7 cycle of Washington scandals and blunders – have played a huge role in turning post-World War II pride in our government to present-day disdain for it.
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Opinion research by Public Agenda and others has found the public to be livid about Washington leaders so unaccountable and irresponsible
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Financial mismanagement and lying, indeed, go a long way toward diminishing public esteem for political leaders. But that is only part of the story.

The major drivers of growing national debt, aside from arguably too low taxes on some, are the voracious appetite of entitlement programs and interest on the debt itself. Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and smaller entitlement programs, plus interest payments account for about 63 percent of federal spending, up from 33 percent 40 years ago. In a Newtonian budgetary world of equal and opposite actions, as such mandatory spending has soared since the 1960s, discretionary spending — what Congress and the President actually have control over – comparatively has wilted like an unwatered plant.
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Thus, as a “tsunami” of debt threatens to sink our economy and government, that same tsunami is also feeding a rising sea tide of cynicism and mistrust of America’s central democratic institutions. If leaders and government are to be respected again, a big part of the solution lies with fiscal reform and debt reduction.

Andrew Yarrow is Washington director and vice president of Public Agenda.
By Public Agenda

http://blog.thehill.com/2008/04/24/how-national-debt-is-contributing-to-public-disenchantment-with-government/#more-5869
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As US citizens proved that they could not even coolly and effectively judge and act in the wake of the 9/11 Terror in 2001, compared to the level and standard of the school of Sun Tzu, a notable ancient strategist, I do not expect Americans can solve the problem alone.

They need help from, say, Japan.

But, as I mentioned above, Japan needs cooperation with the U.S. to fix its economic problem.

The two countries have a trillion dollar scale problem, respectively.

So, mutual efforts worth trillion dollars are needed.


(But, of course, it is Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution that has allowed Japan to concentrate resources, namely excellent and diligent workers, on the industry of every size and government office central and local, and eventually win esteem from the world, including American consumers.

Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution is worth thousands of trillion dollars, though your love to Japan might be worth Mt. Fuji or a Cherry blossom.

CHAPTER II. RENUNCIATION OF WAR
　　　Article 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
　　　In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized. )

Indeed, my teaching to soldiers is that the best way to get prepared for war is to renounce the war.

Truly, you had better listen to a peaceful sound in between calmness and a clash, since we may leave today forever at ease like one who has no tomorrow...

(http://utagoekissa.music.coocan.jp/utagoe.php?title=kyounohihasayounara )





1Ki 4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.







　　

The Enemy, US Middle Class?

(The Tokyo Bay and a TV Station)



The Enemy, US Middle Class?

(La classe moyenne américaine est l'ennemi)


Roughly speaking and taking into consideration a recent trend of the weakened dollar, we may be allowed to assume the following:

- The US labor population is 150 million and its GDP is $10 trillion.

- Japan’s labor population is 70 million and its GDP is $5 trillion.

The ratio is almost 2 to 1 between the world No.1 economic power and No.2., though the population ratio is 2.5 to 1 and the land size parity is 24 to 1, which means Japanese are more diligent and smarter, to your surprise.

(So, the EEE Reporter must be Japanese.)

But, there is another hidden great disparity between Japan and the U.S., which is on charity, though it is a reflection of difference in traditional practices for mutual aid, since Japan itself can be regarded as a big farm village where the Christian concept of charity is not fit.

And, also, the exceptional emerging economy China must be another focus in discussing how to avoid future Great Global Depression, which would blow off significance of every argument about the War on Terror, since the concept of mutual aide is so different between Japan and China, almost desperately.

Yet, the key is charity, since it can lead to a US Religious Revolution which would save the world.



SECTION I: Master Sun-Tzu, President Hu and Bush

In 2006, when China's President Mr. Hu Jintao visited the White House, he presented President Mr. George W. Bush with the book, The Art of War, ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu wrote in the 5th century B.C.

I do not feel that Mr. Hu respects Mr. Bush. Mr. Bush should have immediately presented Mr. Hu with the Bible of the King James Version.

It is because,
"Master Sun said:
"Intelligence is of the essence in warfare.
It is what the armies depend upon in their every move."

It is also because the U.S. leads China in terms of charity.

Say “charity” to Chinese leaders, you will see how they will be embarrassed.

Moreover, China's President Mr. Hu Jintao had reportedly built his career through his suppression of Tibetans. But, it is Mr. Hu that should learn the work of Sun Tzu from its preface.
“The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler,
so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.”

Indeed, for Tibetans, there is no moral law in dominance of irreligionists, namely Chinese communists. Therefore, unlike Manchus, Tibetans cannot be absorbed by Han people.

And, the truth of Sun Tzu’s mind is hatred to war, since he wrote:
“All warfare is based on deception.”

http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html

This is the essence of Sun Tzu’s teaching. Therefore, you may apply his teaching to anything but war, very ironically, since Sun Tzu must have wished that every greedy king and general promoting war would be punished by Heaven, in my humble view.


SECTION II: TAX vs. CHARITY

Charity is, unlike warfare, not based on deception. Therefore, Sun Tzu would not hate it. Then we can apply his teaching to charity:
“The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler,
so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.”

The US budget revenue in 2004 is $1880 billion.

The Total charitable giving by Americans in 2005 is estimated to have been $260 billion, an increase of 2.7 percent (when adjusted for inflation) over 2004

As the US working population is 147 million in 2004, every worker can be regarded as having paid 12,800 dollars for tax and having offered 1,800 dollars for charity.

This is great, since it matches the principle of tithe.

America can be still saved by holy teaching endowed them with by Jesus Christ.

To put an end to the War on Terror, American people should give charity money to poor Muslims, say, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

If each of 147 million American workers offers 1,800 dollars per year to them as charity, 147 million poor Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan will receive 1,800 dollars per capita per year.

This is the right way to win the War on Terror and introduce true Democracy in Islamic countries.


SECTION III: US Charity Statistics

The following are excerpts from a certain charity-related Web site which, I suppose, are interesting when considering a possibility of a US Religious Revolution:

http://www.generousgiving.org/page.asp?sec=4&page=161#300

- Disaster Relief: Americans gave an estimated $7.37 billion for disaster relief in 2005: $5.3 billion for Hurricane Katrina, $1.92 billion for the Tsunami relief, and $0.15 billion for the India-Pakistan earthquake relief.

- Giving to Religious Groups: Americans gave an estimated $93.18 billion to religious organizations in 2005, an increase of 2.5 percent (when adjusted for inflation).

- Giving to Human Services: Americans gave $25.36 billion to human services in 2005, an increase of 28% (when adjusted for inflation).

- Average Annual Giving: On average, wealthy Americans (annual income of $150,000 or more) give away 1.9 percent of their annual income.

- Under $300,000: American families making under $300,000 a year give away roughly 2.3 percent of their incomes.

- Over $300,000: American families making over $300,000 a year give away roughly 4.4 percent of their incomes.

- Giving by Class: The two groups in the United States that give the highest percentages of their income are the poor (those making less than $20,000 per year) and the rich (those making more than $100,000 per year). Middle-class Americans (those making between $40,000 and $100,000 per year) are the smallest percentage givers.

- Christian Wealth and World Poverty: On average, American Christians enjoy an annual household income of $42,409, while 1.2 billion of the world's poorest people must survive on $1 a day.

- Christians Not Giving: Among adults who attend church regularly, (an average of a least once a month), 37 percent did not give any money to a church in 1996.

- The Great Depression and Today: In 1933, the worst year of the Great Depression, per capita income was at the lowest point it would reach between 1921 and 2000, whether measured in current or inflation-adjusted dollars. Yet per member giving among the 11 primary Protestant denominations (or their historical antecedents) in the United States and Canada as a percentage of income was 3.3 percent. In all the prosperity of 2000, per member giving was only 2.6 percent.
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So, poor Americans should turn to God, Jesus Christ, and other poor people instead to conventional religious organizations and religions, in order to make their charity based on love to the poor more sacred.

That is a key to solution to the War on Terror, expected US economic slump, and so on.



(Another book I bought the other day is the one written by Mr. Kenji Mizutani.

http://www.tokyo-fukushi.ac.jp/english/kantou_ichiran/syousai/mizutani.html )

A decade ago or so, he was a kind of regular commentator in a late-night business reporting TV program called World Business Satellite broadcast by Television Tokyo Channel 12.

I may refer to his warning on Japanese economy soon, since US public debt is $9 trillion and Japan’s is $8 trillion.

You had better invite non-nonsense economist to a TV studio or a congressional official building even to secure your investment, if not yet decided to follow teaching of Jesus Christ or the path for Buddha’s enlightenment…)


Dan 4:24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:



　

Neither Blood Nor Tears in Heaven (Livedoor & Rothschild)

(unforgotten road-side stone monuments in Japan)



Neither Blood Nor Tears in Heaven

(Il n'ya ni sang ni larmes dans le ciel)



I bought two books yesterday.

It cost me 2,430 yen including tax.

However, one of them was priced at 514 yen (five dollars), though it might have triggered the downfall of the Cabinet if written in a different way in case that Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda should have made a wrong decision on it…


SECTION I: Fibrinogen vs. Livedoor

On the eighth floor of a department store, the book I had been long looking for was at last spotted, being hidden at the remote row behind various books laid on a small display counter at the foot of one of hundreds of shelves.

( http://www.7andy.jp/books/detail?accd=32037526)

It was written by a TV-station program director to report the proceeding of lawsuits on the drug-induced sufferings recently spotlighted in Japan. It was so spotlighted since it requested Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda’s decision to officially recognize the Government responsibility and decide a concrete measure to save victims.

One interesting thing is that hundreds of thousands of victims might have been completely left neglected by the society and the Government unless one young staff member of the TV station had proposed in a meeting a strategy to focus on fibrinogen in pursuing responsibility of pharmaceutical companies and the Government.

Among several blood products that posed the danger of infection, they had wisely selected one right brand, Fibrinogen, (and virtually another, Christmassin) so effectively to make the matter understandable to the public, which turned out to be a key to success in court, thus winning the largest drug-disaster case in the Japanese history.

Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda might have become a king who had no clothes on if he had failed in recognizing the broadening of criticism to the Government.

And, more importantly, if the Fuji Television Network had been taken over by the then young president of Livedoor a few years ago through stock purchase being supported by a US security company under control of Rockefeller (and Japanese gangsters behind the scene), hundreds of thousands of victims of contaminated fibrinogen must have been neglected, since the then young president once said that he had no intention to serve a public interest.

So, the victims of the medical scandal must be thankful to those concerned with efforts to prevent the taking over of the Fuji TV by Livedoor a few years ago.

In addition, I have a feeling that the then young president of Livedoor must have wanted to justifiably access a certain female announcer of the TV station, since once top three of the most popular female announcers in Japan all belonged to the TV station.

(And some reporter of a newspaper company or other media must have inspired the young president of Livedoor with the idea of taking over the TV station through stock purchase, probably because the TV station building on the Tokyo Bay looked so fancy to the Media gangs, though the young president was indicted on charge of illegal transactions of stocks and driven out of Livedoor, still contending in court…)


SECTION II: Rothschild vs. Japan

One of interesting business reports recently issued by the Media in Japan is a decision by a Japanese Government panel to reject The Children's Investment Fund’s (TCI’s) acquiring of a larger stake in Electric Power Development Co. that owns a significant public infrastructure in Japan.

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September 19, 2007

TCI's other campaigns have had mixed success. The hedge fund drove Mittal Steel Co., the world's largest steel maker by output, to pay $2 billion more than it planned to shareholders of the Brazilian unit of a company Mittal had agreed to take over in June. But this year TCI lost a public fight to force Electric Power Development Co. of Japan to pay a big dividend as the former government-owned company marshaled support from establishment shareholders.
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Mr. Hohn has also tapped an influential acquaintance: Lord Jacob Rothschild, a London businessman from the famed European banking dynasty. Lord Rothschild's investment company or his family have put money into both Parvus and TCI. Lord Rothschild calls Mr. Hohn a "harsh and brilliant critic." He says, "We heard about Parvus through TCI. We have him to thank for that."

In January 2005, Mr. Hohn started his first big public fight: trying to force Deutsche Börse to drop its $2.46 billion offer to buy London Stock Exchange PLC. Mr. Hohn thought Deutsche Börse was overpaying. By the end of February, TCI had acquired at least a 5% stake in Deutsche Börse.

Following the TCI move, a New York hedge fund in which Lord Rothschild's son is a partner chimed in with its own public protests. Around the same time, Lord Rothschild's fund, of which Mr. Hohn was later named a director, acquired a stake of about £31 million, or about $62 million, in Deutsche Börse, according to that fund's annual report.

A spokesman for the son's fund, called Atticus, said in an emailed statement that the fund makes "independent investment decisions." Lord Rothschild says his fund acted independently of both Atticus and TCI.

The pressure worked. After months of trying to fend off the hedge-fund campaigns, Deutsche Börse Chief Executive Werner Seifert withdrew his offer.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB119015661593331691-S3C7IeAIt9CH_jfWyTZLFu2M0qk_20080921.html
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However, Japanese newspapers avoid mentioning the background of TCI.

But, why must the Japanese media avoid mentioning any deeds by, or connections with, Rothschild or Rockefeller?

Is it because Rothschild and Rockefeller are a kind of friends of the Imperial Family?

The Japanese media should remember the Death of Princess Diana, since she had a close tie with Rothschild and Rockefeller.

( http://amesei.exblog.jp/7756323/ )


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Now, NHK TV’s noon news program reported that “Hillary” got 54% and “Obama” got 46% in the Pennsylvania primary.

This phenomenon of a female President candidate and an African-American candidate has also an influence on Japan.

Japanese voters may all the more come to vote for unique candidates in elections for whom they would never vote before, though Japan has already some unique Governors in Prefectures, such as a former TV comedian, Sonomanma-Higashi (now called Governor Mr. Higashikokubara of Miyazaki).

Indeed, we may have a Diet lawmaker being an ex-Fibrinogen-induced disaster victim so recovered or an ex-Rothschild-controlled-fund’s manager so repenting.

In fact, blood and money are two important elements in many episodes the Gospel depicts.

A miracle should really work on incidents related to blood and money.

But, how many poor Americans and Japanese will believe if EEE Reporter is so involved there?



(I think sometimes that certain people die for me if not logically linked to my existence in this world.

In turn, I may be living poor for certain people.

But, I have never thought any intangible or tangible connections possible between followers of Jesus or the Buddha and those super-rich people who can even deal with Royal or Imperial assets.

Nonetheless, do you feel that you have such a bond beyond any rational explanation?

So, the religion must teach that a tie based on blood or a relation drawing tears is only restricted in the human world...since money goes to the hell and the love goes to Heaven under protection of Angels...)



Mat 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.



　

Everybody Knows Nothing

Everybody Knows Nothing

(Tout le monde sait rien)


The 9/11 Terror and the present and future economic situations in the world seem to be linked together inevitably, since the level of intelligence of US elites and super-rich Americans counts in both the cases...

The Bush Administration is promoting use of corns and resultant ethanol for car fuels, causing a kind of food shortage panics in the world.

The key concepts must include the expected depletion of crude oil, the control of oil producing countries, and the huge oil dollars being spent in some Arab countries prosperous with a strong tie with the U.S. even without a fear of attacks by AlQaeda.

But, we had better review the 9/11 Terror so as not to be influenced by political hubris, often found in journalists and politicians here and there.



SECTION I: A Japanese Politician since 1977

There is an ex-politician in Japan who first became a member of the Diet, Japanese Parliament, in 1977 after putting an end to his career in the Japanese Government he had served since 1964, that is, coincidentally one year after the JFK Assassination in the U.S.

Until 2003, that is, two years after the 9/11 Terror, he was an active lawmaker in Tokyo, becoming a Cabinet minister a few times and playing a major role in politics especially during 1990’s when the incumbent ruling party LDP was in unstable conditions, having lost its ruling position for a year or so but gained it back again to sustain it to this day.

In the general election in 2003, he failed to be elected and was replaced by a younger ex-diplomat conservative candidate who however lost an election in 2005 by a margin to be replaced by a female ex-executive of the Ministry of Finance of the Japanese Government.

In Japan, it is said that a monkey is still a monkey if he accidentally falls from a tree, though a politician who has failed in an election is just a plain human being on the street if not so sadly.

But, it must be a big chance to start to live as a human being decent and pious.

(That is why Mr. Carter and Mr. Gore can be respected more than in their days in the White House as long as they are playing their roles as leaders in the American society.)

Indeed, if somebody had been in politics since 1977, you would surely think he must have various reliable information sources, so that he must know every truth behind the scene domestically and internationally.

But, the case is the opposite.

Mr. Hiroshi Kumagaya, a Japanese ex-lawmaker, reads the Economist and the notable book “Imperial Hubris” to understand the world and the U.S., which cannot be however a shame, since the world is so complicated with a myriad of systems, schemes, and people and their activities while not being totally managed by anybody but history itself.

( http://www.kumagai.ne.jp/column/entry.php?entry_pkey=835 )


SECTION II: Imperial Hubris

To our surprise if we are not brainwashed by the Era, the US troops are still engaged in combats in Afghanistan and Iraq while Mr. Osama bin Laden is still at large and Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are so impressively competing in the Primary.

And nobody is yet to explain exactly why and how what happened and is going on since the 9/11 Terror Incident.

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Ediorial Reviews
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One essential point of agreement: al Qaeda specifically and radical Islamism in general are stirred by a hatred of modernity. Or as President George W. Bush has articulated repeatedly, they hate freedom. Nonsense, responds the nameless author of this work…

Indeed, he grimly and methodically discards common wisdom throughout this scathing and compelling take on counterterrorism. Imperial Hubris is not a book that will cheer Americans, regardless of their perspectives on the post-9/11 environment. We are, the author notes, losing the war on terror….

Imperial Hubris clearly wasn't written to win friends, though the author believes it's essential that his words influence people at the top…


Most Helpful Customer Reviews
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"Anonymous" has certainly accomplished his stated goal of contributing to a debate in the U.S. over foreign policy. He was the head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit in the late '90s, was interviewed as "Mike" in Coll's book GHOST WARS (see my 4/14/04 review), and is still a CIA analyst. Most of us by now have figured out that he is Mike Scheuer.

Sun Tzu said "know yourself, know your enemy," and Scheuer's main goal in IMPERIAL HUBRIS is to share what he knows about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, arguing that the official view is totally and dangerously wrong. It seems to me that Scheuer is for the most part right on target with his critique. There is one major problem with his proposal for what to do about it, which I will address below.

Here is a list of Scheuer's main points:

1) ...

2) Al Qaeda is not a terrorist organization, but is rather part of and attempting to lead a global Muslim insurgency.

3) …

4) The doctrine that informs OBL/Al Qaeda is that of DEFENSIVE JIHAD -- they see the Muslim world under attack by the U.S., ...

5) OBL has repeatedly stated five demands for changes in U.S. foreign policy: i) end all aid to Israel, ii) withdraw military forces from the Arabian Peninsula and all Muslim territory, …A sixth point is to replace U.S.-backed regimes in the Muslim world with Islamic regimes, but that is really a demand on the Muslim population.

6) The war in Afghanistan was a failure from the beginning, because OBL & the other leaders were allowed to escape at the beginning, ...

http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Hubris-West-Losing-Terror/dp/1574888498
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SECTION III: Richard Clarke

Mr. Richard A. Clarke, so far the most and only reliable source who worked in the White House on Sept. 11, 2001, commented on IMPERIAL HUBRIS in 2004.

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Anonymous has painted a detailed picture of that enemy -- and, despite the administration's ubiquitous phrase, it is not "terrorism," faceless and abstract.

Terrorism is a tactic. The enemy is "an Islamic insurgency," a multinational movement to replace governments in the Islamic world with fundamentalist theocracies.
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Like President Bush, Anonymous argues that we have made the mistake in the past of thinking about these enemies as criminals. But unlike Bush, Anonymous argues that having thus isolated the threat as an Islamic insurgency, the appropriate response is to fight not just with bullets and warrants, but also with ideas -- politically and socially.…

Anonymous is bitterly critical of the leadership of the CIA, but the most remarkable thing about this book is that the director of Central Intelligence allowed it to be published. Since Imperial Hubris is an important contribution to a necessary debate, we should be grateful to the agency for that clearance -- and for its anonymous author's considerable courage and insight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3989-2004Jun24?language=printer
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SECTION III: Tora Bora in 2001

Probably, the most breathtaking moment in these six years and more of the War on Terror is surely the battle at Tora Bora in 2001, since Mr. Osama bin Laden might have been killed there actually by US air raids, though he could manage to escape if wounded.

Mr. Clarke recalled the days:
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KOPPEL: Do you think we'll capture bin Laden?

CLARKE: I think we'll get him eventually. We could've gotten him in 2001 with the operations at Tora Bora. I know there's a controversy about that, but I was in the [Bush] government then and I know what went down. We let him get away. And now we're paying the price.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/10/30/clarke/
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It looks like the great story, say, “The 9/11 Terror and AlQaeda,” came to a pause forever since the battle at Tora Bora.

The issue is, of course, whether Mr. Osama bin Laden’s escape was a conspiracy or a mere mistake, if not ordered by the President himself as the President is the supreme commander in cheif.

The fact may be that the elite Americans and super-rich Americans are not so smart and thus they failed at Tora Bora.

It also means that they have no smartness to carry out the 9/11 Terror Conspiracy, though they may be smart enough to launch the 9/11 Terror Conspiracy Theory.

Anyway, a future history textbook may read:
"When looking back from today, everything was over when Mr. Osama bin Laden ran away in one piece from Tora Bora in late 2001; and the rest has remained mystery forever..."


SECTION IV: LESSONS

As I presented above, one of the most experienced and educated ex-politician in Japan needs to rely on information offered by Imperial Hubris.

And, one of the most reliable person concerned with the War on Terror praises Imperial Hubris.

And, the author of Imperial Hubris wrote that Mr. Osama bin Laden’s aim was to replace U.S.-backed regimes in the Muslim world with Islamic regimes, which however is really a demand on the Muslim population.

Put simply, AlQaeda and Mr. Osama bin Laden had no intention to invade and occupy America more than the Empire of Japan in WWII. It must be from the beginning beyond their imagination.

They are not even a non-nonsense enemy of America, as AlQaeda has only tens of thousands of followers while the U.S. has 300 million population and strong military that can topple one regime in any country, including Iraq.

Then, what was the 9/11 Terror and the War on Terror?

However, at least as the consequence, American people are now going to choose an African-American President or a female President, which was a matter of madness before 2001.

Indeed, history is always a master of mankind.

(Without doubt, the history is God or Allah in the coolest form though still mankind-connected...)

Truly, leaving Mr. Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora forever, history is going to have Americans enter the new era with an African-American President or a female President who is faced with the weakened dollar, the subprime-loan triggered slump, the surge of prices of oil, and an ever increasing number of non-European-Americans among the US population.

So be humble to history to understand all the facets of the 9/11 Terror and the War on Terror, no matter if you are a well experienced and educated politician or a reliable ex-insider in the White House or the Office of Prime Minister, if not real or Jewish American Princess or Her Majesty.




(There is one Japanese book I have not been able to find in any book stores.

But each time I went out to find it, I discovered other interesting ones.

Today, too, I may find it or something else, such as the King James Version of the Bible.

Arrogant journalists who were drinking with a kind of prostitutes while poor women were desperately doing a hunger strike before a Government building in a cold night rain had better go and buy it. )



“Do not give what is holy to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces” (Matthew 7:6).”

Another Look at Yakuza

(Saitama Soccer Stadium far, just north of Tokyo)
(Expressway around Tokyo passing through Urawa Area, just north of Tokyo)


Another Look at Yakuza

(Un autre regard sur Yakuza)


When President Mr. Bush was competing with Senator Mr. Kerry in 2004 US Presidential Election, the President, to our surprise, approved use of the term “Yakuza,” meaning Japanese organized crime or its members, or the Mafia of the Japanese version, in a certain video used in his election campaign.

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A look at "Yakuza":
Script
President Bush (as he's seen moving around the White House): "I'm George W. Bush, and I approved this message."

Narrator (while the cover of a book written by Kerry in 1997 appears on-screen): "John Kerry says he's 'author of a strategy to win the war on terror'?"

Narrator (as the image changes to a cartoon of Japanese gangster, with a World War II-era Japanese flag in the background): "Against the Japanese yakuza."

Narrator (photos of Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat emerge): "Never mentions al-Qaeda. Says nothing about Osama bin Laden. Calls Yasser Arafat a 'statesman.' "

Narrator (Kerry's photo reappears, with a magazine cover in the background): "The New Republic says Kerry's plan 'misses the mark.' "

Narrator (while the words "Kerry's focus?" "global crime" and "not terrorism" are shown): "And Kerry's focus? Global crime, not terrorism."

Narrator (as Kerry's face reappears, a "thought bubble" connected to his head with a question mark inside): "How can John Kerry win a war if he doesn't know the enemy?"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-07-01-bush-ad-analysis_x.htm
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So, an inner circle of President Mr. Bush seems to be well informed of Japanese organized crimes.

According to a certain notable Japanese critic, the Bush administration adopted a policy toward Japan that was intended to eliminate influences of “Yakuza” on the Japanese economy, since the grave economic slump in Japan in 1990’s was apparently aggravated by involvement of, and interference by, Japanese organized crimes (maybe just like there is a shadow of the Mafia behind the US subprime loan problem).

According to his comment, in April 2002, CIA, FBI, and other US agencies had studied, as a kind of full-scale research and investigation, covert and secret connections and associations between Japanese politicians and organized crime.

Based on results of the investigation, the Bush Administration secretly requested the Koizumi Administration to purge politicians who were identified as having taken an interest in dark business for dark money, actually leading to downfall of some anti-Koizumi politicians mostly in the ruling party, LDP.

What is peculiar in this operation is that the clandestine operation against the Politician-Gangsters Symbiotic Relationship targeted also the politicians who had a strong tie with North Korea, since a majority of members of Japanese gang groups were identified as ethnic Koreans living in Japan.

Consequently, several conservative politicians were arrested or indicted, driven out of the stage of national politics, or forced to resign from, or neglected in appointment to, influential posts in the Japanese Government, while several liberal politicians, especially with a strong tie with North Korea, were also forced to suffer exposure of their doubtful or unlawful conducts that had been long concealed from the eye of the public.

( http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~mor97512/C0355.HTML )

However, the dark relationship with “Yakuza” in the Japanese society is not the monopoly of some politicians; traditionally, the entertainment business has been regarded as being inevitably linked with organized crime just like in the U.S.

Further it is said that, especially in local communities of Japan, there is a kind of a dark triangle of power balance among politicians, the police, and organized crime; when organized-crime members are targeted by the police, they ask a friendly politician for help since they can in secret help the politician in election and fund-raising for so-called political activities, according to some allegation.

( http://www.news.janjan.jp/living/0304253271/1.php )

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But, what I am concerned much about is that this triangle has been expanded to include those working in the media industry in Japan, including newspaper companies.

(Even in the Livedoor incident in Japan, the young president of Livedoor, an IT company, is said to have tried to purchase in an unlawful manner, though supported by Lehman Brothers Holdings, a majority of stocks of a subsidized radio broadcaster of Fuji Television Network and thus Fuji TV itself, so as to control the TV station, while his original capital source was reportedly rooted deep in the underground world. However, as I wrote in the EEE Reporter blog at that time, the God interfered and the young billionaire's dream was broken as he was prosecuted and brought to justice, so that Fuji TV is now enjoying its independence. But, a TV station could be abused at any time by those ambitious people or shady groups.)

It is because when I was reading Japanese blog comments by a certain newspaper reporter on the Internet, I had some uncomfortable feeling, since the reporter used the specific first person in his writing, “Washi.”

In English, the first person is always “I.”

But in Japanese, there are some different expressions to mean "I," almost 22 different words including dialectal, local or obsolete ones; but major ones are,

Watakushi (decent), Watashi (normal), Boku (for boys, young males, or pompous males), Ore (for young males and grow-up males talking with friends), and Washi (for ordinary grown-up males in their own communities in Western Japan and gangsters).

The use of “Wahi” for the first person is very controversial, since one of the largest organized crime is based in a Western Japan city and their members are mostly well known for using “Washi” as their own first person, though it is common for grown-up males in Western Japan to call themselves “Washi” in private conversations.

Especially, this dialect expression became notable nationwide when a culprit called himself "The Monster with 21 Faces" used this first person in many intimidation letters he sent to certain companies and the police in a famous extortion case around 1985. In the letter, the use of "Washi" really gave an impression that he was associated with Yakuza members prone to do any harms to citizens if necessary for money or such.

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

With these facts, “Washi” somehow invokes a dark image especially when it is heard in Tokyo, the central city of Eastern Japan where “Washi” has not been traditionally used.

So, it is a big surprise that a certain reporter of the first-rate newspaper company uses this first person even in his personal blog.

( http://blog.livedoor.jp/toshiaki399/ )

The reporter is somehow prominent in Japan as he published a book on off-the-book money for covert operation by the Japanese Government.

But, as he also presented his detailed knowledge on “Yakuza” in his blog, he might get too much accustomed to such an environment where relationships between some politicians, some ex-public prosecutors, some lawyers, some elite police officers, some businessmen, and gangsters are deplorably interwoven.

Indeed, the newspaper company should instill discipline to their staff writers and reporters, so that they will never use any first person that would create discomfort among readers and subscribers. Otherwise while they are imitating gangsters’ tone, they might become a kind of gangsters in their profession like some of their sales persons

( https://www.mynewsjapan.com/reports/122 )

Truly, even the US President seems to be concerned sometimes with involvement of gangsters in Japanese economy, mostly the money market and the property market, while US financial institutes are eager to more freely enter the Japanese money market without any obstacles from “Yakuza” people.

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Japanese stand-up comedians from Western Japan casually call themselves with the first person “Washi,” but foreigners must not use it even if they master Japanese conversation skills, since Japanese gangsters often use it.




(That is why some old wise men in Japan often advise that you should not join politics as it is tantamount to swimming with the dangerous tide full of dark mud of desire of people.

Yet, you may be saved, if you have nothing to do with gangsters…)



“The Famous Prostitute Is to Be Punished”

(Die Grosse Hure bestraft wird)





　　

GET BACK, JOE, JOE (To Tibet)

GET BACK, JOE, JOE (To Tibet)

(Vous devez récupérer, Joe!)


I do not expect hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide to be now accessing the EEE Reporter blog.

(Yet, I have feeling some from Hollywood, Atlanta, Washington D.C., New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, and even Hungary, in addition to Beijing and Tokyo, of course, are waiting for the next miracle...)

Since one, two, three, or ten or 30 believers, and further 60 or 100 followers of God, Allah, or Yahweh are what is expected here, I am also waiting for the next miracle to be reported happening somewhere on the earth through the media, just like the Tibet independence movement before the 2008 Olympic Games as I gave a warning on the Beijing Olympics last year sometimes.

One man goes before the Capitol or the State Department in Washington D.C. and carries out a hunger strike for Tibetans until the 2008 Olympic Games are over……Then the US diplomacy starts to help poor Tibetans acting like poor and helpless troublemakers targeting a pagan torch Moses, Jesus, and Angels of Islam would never pay attention to.

So, two believers go to the Vatican and carry out a hunger strike for Tibetans until the 2008 Olympic Games are over……Then the Vatican diplomacy starts to help poor Tibetans acting like poor and helpless troublemakers targeting a pagan torch Moses, Jesus, and Angels of Islam would never pay attention to.

Further, 100 followers go to the United Nations and carry out a hunger strike for Tibetans until the 2008 Olympic Games are over……Then the United Nations start to help poor Tibetans acting like poor and helpless troublemakers targeting a pagan torch Moses, Jesus, and Angels of Islam would never pay attention to.

I suppose that that is enough. EEE Reporter must contribute to one man, two believers, and 100 followers who must go back to the Bible, Gospel, Angels for Islam, and the Buddha’s enlightenment.

But, just for your reference,

http://kenloo.com/blog/May05.php

http://archive.japantoday.com/forum/tm.asp?m=946826

http://www.talk-sports.net/soccer/blogs.aspx/Yoshikatsu_Kawaguchi

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And, also for your information, in May, the third, the fifth, and the sixth days are national holidays in Japan.


Mat 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Mat 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.