"Be Thou Clean"
(Truth of Politics and Economy: Ethics)
That has been a nice week.
It is so, since I myself feel like a movie star flying over the Middle East, making TV appearances in Tokyo, and kicking financial tycoons on Wall Street with the "Stress Test," in addition to enjoying the freshly leafy month of May with old and familiar figures here and there...
SECTION I: JAPANESE MAGAZINES
One of the most popular magazines in Japan, The Shukan Bunshun, conducted a survey on who female secretaries of national lawmakers recommend the next prime minister of Japan.
(http://www.bunshun.co.jp/mag/shukanbunshun/ )
Today, in Tokyo, there are 400 female secretaries who work for National Diet members of various political parties. They were asked to nominate three candidates among incumbent lawmakers for the next prime minister of Japan.
The result is as follows with five points to the first candidate, three points to the second, and one to the third on recommendation by each secretary.
#....Politician.........Score......Party
1....Katsuya Okada.........73........DPJ
2....Ichiro Ozawa.......67........DPJ
3....Kaoru Yosano..........63........LDP
4....Shigeru Ishiba........36........LDP
5....Taro Aso............33........LDP
6....Yukio Hatoyama......29........DPJ
7....Yoichi Masuzoe........27........LDP
8....Naoto Kan................25........DPJ
Mr. Ozawa is the head of the Democratic Party of Japan, the largest opposition party strongly supported by labour unions.
Mr. Taro ASo is incumbent Prime Minister of Japan, also the head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan consistently supported by major companies, the most pro-America party.
It is a surprise that these female staff, each actually belonging to one of major political parties and working at the political center in Tokyo, overwhelmingly support the two key figures of the opposition party, Mr. Okada and Mr. Ozawa, against the incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso.
However, those female sectaries of politicians do not share the common view on politicians, policies, and politics with a majority of voters.
If those female employees work in local towns with less salary, they would surely change their views on those politicians, a kind of tribe living in the power center of Tokyo dealing with governmental billion yen on a daily base.
In the next general election to be held in August or September, in my feeling, I assume that the LDP will win 220 seats among 480 seats of the lower house of the Diet, though the party has now 303 seats. The DPJ will, however, advance to take 200 seats, though the party has only 113 seats now. The LDP and New Komeito will secure power to form the new Cabinet. Yet, my forecast on the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election was sunk by the Wall Street Debacle which negated the possibility of Mr. McCain's victory due to the racial preference among a majority of European American voters. Yet, a winner should be the spirit of democracy always in any election in Japan as well as in the U.S.
Anyway, the opposition to the coalition of the LDP and Komeito will be on the upturn after the general election, even if they should fail to make their dream come true seizing power, since it is the era of President Mr. Barack Obama.
SECTION II: Subprime Loan Crisis
There is still one doubt about the shock wave from Wall Street in September 2008.
If one million very rich and super rich Americans had purchased all the houses on which poor owners could not pay loan anymore in 2008, could have the 2008 Financial Crisis been stopped?
Are the subprime loan-contaminated financial instruments and goods truly the only decisive factor that caused the 2008 Financial Crisis?
Was their another timed explosion in the U.S. economy or on Wall Street?
One of clues is that even Toyota was duped in 2008 and could only sell one million-less cars in the year.
Toyota is not a band of fools; but the fact is that they failed in sales estimation for fiscal 2008, resulted in one-million less sales in terms of the number of cars.
Toyota must have trusted some analysts and economists the Japanese car giant must not.
Wall Street businesses must have too much pretended to trust some analysts and economists the American financial institutions have never trusted in their heart.
It is a matter of ethics.
In other word, the viruses called greed could proliferate but only until their host die.
If all the ethics have gone out of Wall Street, the greed should be also left alone for self-destruction.
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If you become one of the elite of an organization everybody in the world envies, hates, or despises, you cannot be regarded as a clever man.
However, it is a little difficult to name all such organizations globally spotted.
So, only I can say to you is leave any organization you belong to, running and running far from it until you meet the God or Allah.
It is historically true that only those who fled from, or left, an organization or a community and spent a fairly long time alone in the desert could meet an Angel of a higher rank.
A man does not find an Angel in his brain cells but in front of him when the level of his mind activities is high or deep enough to see a very fine shadow of an Angel.
Anyway, first quit Toyota or GM and go to the desert to be saved eventually.
(Surely there is an Angel in Mexico, si c'est autour de la baie de Tokyo.
http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/Les%20anges%20du%20Mexique%20(Andre%20Bourque).kar.mid
Source: http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/abc.htm)
Luk 5:9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
Luk 5:10 And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
Luk 5:11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
Luk 5:12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Luk 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.