(Around the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Yesterday; Click to enlarge.)"Great is Your Reward in Heaven"
(When the Empire Falls)
Do you want to see the complete fall of the American Empire or the coming of the Ice Age during your lifetime on this earth?
You may be able to, but what does it mean if you die before the 22nd century?
Indeed, without your belonging to history, all of your brain work will be absorbed into the concept of money and self-defense.
Yet, if you belong to history, which is ultimately God, all of your brain work will be related to the universal value system of mankind, which means you are no more a helpless swimmer in the temporal flow of time.
What I want to emphasize is that the lack of effective philosophy during the past Great Depression in 1930's is one of the decisive factors of the tragedy leading to the rise of Nazis.
And, the lack of effective philosophy today can be one of the key factors of the future tragedy involving global warming, cooling, and pandemics.
SECTION I: Two Different Economies
Many American economists and politicians do not still understand something simple and significant while they referring to the Japanese financial crisis in 1990's so often nowadays.
Even in the global era of the 21st century, Japan and America are still two different economies and markets.
If the land of the U.S. was the size of combined California, New York, and Michigan with the same number of the population and GDP, American financial crisis would be more closely related to real estate properties than to financial instruments, making the time for solution longer and the solution itself complicated due to various stakeholders and layered security warranties if not assessment of the value of damage money.
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The Japan Times
May 9, 2009
Japan relieved by ‘stress test’
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The bulk of bad assets held by U.S. banks, however, are in securitized financial products and derivatives, while the troubled assets in Japan were mainly real estate properties that plunged when the speculative bubble economy imploded in the early 1990s. It is much more difficult to assess the value of the complex financial products and wipe out losses on them than it is with real assets, an FSA official admitted.
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Put simply, the American financial crisis could be ascribed to the Mafia-like mind sets of the Wall Street elite, but the Japanese financial crisis was concerned with the national policy of Japan.
As American economists and politicians have no knowledge and education on the Japanese history and politics, they wrongly assume that the Japan's case must be also related to the Mafia (Yakuza)-like mindset, which is very inappropriate.
That is why Japanese people concerned can learn more than Americans in the same trade do in this global financial crisis.
SECTION II: Little Ice Age to Come
It was hot yesterday and today around Tokyo.
But, it might not be part of global warming but part of instability of ambient temperature decreasing toward a new Little Ice Age.
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December 6, 2007
Could Solar Inactivity counteract Global Warming?
After a period of very high solar activity (high numbers of sunspots) in the 20th century, our sun has suddenly gone exceptionally quiet, according to astronomer Dr. David Whitehouse...
Sunspots - dark magnetic blotches on the Sun's surface - come and go in a roughly 11-year cycle of activity first noticed in 1843. It's related to the motion of super-hot, electrically charged gas inside the Sun - a kind of internal conveyor belt where vast sub-surface rivers of gas take 40 years to circulate from the equator to the poles and back...
During the 17th century Maunder Minimum, when sunspots were rare, it was also the period of time when the earth's northern hemisphere was sent into what scientists call the "Little Ice Age."
http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2007/12/could_solar_inactivity_counter.html ------------------------------
The month, August 2008, might be recalled in the future as the month when global cooling has started, since no sunspots were observed in the entire month.
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Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century
Michael Asher (Blog) - September 1, 2008 8:11 AM
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century/article12823.htm
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It is still hot around Tokyo as the month May. But, it looks like a remained effect of accumulated heat during the past decade when the sun's activities were at a higher level as shown in the above figure.
Some Japanese scientists seem to have openly started to take a stance against the prevailing theory that CO2 emission has caused the global temperature rise.
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Blog: Science
Japanese Report Disputes Human Cause for Global Warming
Michael Asher (Blog) - January 14, 2009 8:43 AM
Akasofu countered with the statement, "CO2 emissions have been increasing, but the rise in air temperature stopped around 2001. Climate change is due in large part to naturally occurring oscillations". Akasofu says the earth's warming trend began prior to the industrial age, and believes much of the warming seen may simply be a natural recovery from the so-called Little Ice Age, that ended in the 17th century.
http://www.dailytech.com/Japanese+Report+Disputes+Human+Cause+for+Global+Warming/article13934.htm
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The Wall Street money believers tried crude oil and subprime loans only to fail and face the "stress test."
But, they have still CO2. They might fully invade the CO2-emission right market with an intention to recover the huge loss they have suffered in the oil and the mortgage markets.
Anyway, investors relying on Wall Street must cool their head. Since a financial crisis would even harm the sound pursuit of scientific truth.
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According to a theory, the Roman Empire fell due to a climate change.
At least, it was proven due to the cold temperature in the period immediately after the fall of Rome, no one could build and found another Empire, say for example in south France, to succeed the Roman Empire.
And, when Renaissance began, there was no air of sub-tropical flavor of the past Roman Empire even in the Italian Peninsula.
Indeed, the Roman Empire was an empire of the sub-tropical climate.
Truly, it was the last sub-tropical empire in Europe in history.
P.S. Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, the head of the largest opposition party of Japan, today officially announced his planned but imminent resignation from the post of the DPJ, though he would continute to be a national lawmaker.
So, he will not be appointed to the Japanese premiership if the DPJ should beat the LDP in the next general election.
Incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso of the LDP might have to meet a more formidable, new rival, if the LDP should secure power...
And, now, friends, you know why I recently rather purchased Japanese magazines each of which cost four dollars or five dollars...
Anyway, this is the biggest news in Japan today as the media have issued extra editions in hasty.
Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Mat 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Mat 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.