Warning on the Ground, Governments, and Global Warming Implication
In these days, heavy snow is falling in the regions facing the Sea of Japan.
Around Tokyo, the sky is clear but it is cold. Winds are taking away any comfort left on the street.
Yet, Haiti is now suffering the terrible aftermath of the great earthquake which hit the very poor Caribbean nation around 7 a.m. of this morning, Japan Time.
So, I request again the U.S. to help poor Central American nations using 1% of the American GDP, namely $140 billion. It is so, since in Haiti those who live under the poverty line account for 80% of all the population.
If I continue to request it for poor Latin American people, Tokyo might be able to continue to avoid a disastrous earthquake worse than the Haiti's...
May peace and prosperity be with Haitians!
SECTION I: Tax On Central Bank
Japanese investors last year invested about $300 billion into foreign countries.
FRB's profit reached $521 million, so that they paid $461 million to the U.S. Government as tax.
My proposal is to allow the Government to impose a tax on the central bank. An item of tax to be applied is not a matter. The Government should get money it needs from the central bank following a provision of a tax law the legislature would prescribe reasonably. It can be a tax not on profits but on potential of financial influence. The balance sheet of a central bank can be accordingly modified.
For example, the Government should be allowed to impose a tax equivalent of up to 5% of the GDP on the central bank, since the central bank can influence 5% of GDP.
This scheme will not cause inflation if an economic size of a nation is as large as Japan's or America's, since this sort of scale effect must be applied to economics. It is so if a national budget is intelligently allocated to effective public projects.
Accordingly, the Japanese Government will enjoy an increase in tax revenues of 25 trillion yen; the U.S. Government $700 billion.
SECTION II: Historical Changes with Climate Change
It is said that the temperature in Japan rose by 2 degrees C during 100 years from 740 to 840.
In this period the Imperial Yamato Regime in Nara and then in Kyoto expanded its territory to the northeast area, including the present Tokyo Area, of the main island of Japan.
The Great Statute of Buddha was also built in Nara in 752.
(http://www.rui.jp/ruinet.html?i=200&c=400&m=184606)
732: Battle of Tours. Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, who is killed during the battle. The Battle of Tours halts the advance of Islam into Western Europe and establishes a balance of power between Western Europe, Islam and the Byzantine Empire.
750: The last Umayyad Caliph Marwan II (744–750) is overthrown and executed by the first Abbasid Caliph, Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah. The Caliphate is moved to Baghdad, within the territory of the former Persian Empire; this would prove to be a momentous event for Baghdad which developed into a centre of trade and culture. The Ghana Empire begins.
781: Nestorian Monument is erected in China.
794: Emperor Kammu moves the capital to Heian-kyō (present day Kyoto), initiating the Heian period of Japan.
800: On Christmas Day, Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_century
During this period of global warming, West Europe was gradually rising again from the disaster following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
The Islamic world was expanding, though having failed in invasion of Europe, around Baghdad as its center.
Japan started to develop its unique culture, leaving the China's cultural dominance.
After this transition period, Europe entered the all-out warming period of the Medieval Times.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record )This period around 800 seems to have been the one with an accelerated change in temperature. The real influence on the nature and fluctuation of the temperature must have been greater than what are assumed from the temperature trend figure, since the figures plotted there are averaged ones in a year or so.
By analogy, the global warming in these decades, regardless of its cause, might be really causing a great change in a wider scope of history.
The economic rise of India and China might be one phenomenon. The political/religious confrontation between Islam and America might be another.
(In the above figure, the yellow curve must be more correct, since the Western Roman Empire must have suffered a large drop of temperature.)
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At warm Hawaii, Japan's Foreign Minister Mr. Katsuya Okada met Secretary Mrs. Hillary Clinton for confirming the Japan's promise to present a final proposal to the U.S. Government in this May on where to move the old and dangerous marine air station at Futenma, Okinawa Island.
As the approval rate of President Mr. Barack Obama is declining, the presence of Secretary Mrs. Hillary Clinton seems to be put a premium on more than ever.
Yet, it is still unknown if Mr. Okada as prime minister and Mrs. Clinton as president to meet again in future in the land of everlasting summer while the snow is falling heavily in the west coast of Japan and the east coast of the U.S.
Jud 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Jud 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jud 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.