(A Japanese Garden in Winter)Glory to be Manifested
Even in Japan they broadcast over a satellite TV channel the interview with Former Presidents Mr. George W. Bush and Mr. Bill Clinton setting up an online contribution site for Haiti people.
http://clintonbushhaitifund.org/
Mr. Bush said, "The most fundamental thing is to care"; Me. Clinton said, "I called 55 NGOs and wealthy donors."
Yet, it can be "www.microsoftwallmarthaiti..."
Indeed, as 15 years ago 6,000 people were killed around Kobe City, West Japan, by a great earthquake on January 17, some responsible Japanese feel the tragedy in the Caribbean Sea on the other side of the world is profoundly and alarmingly significant.
Several weeks ago, I was watching a movie on a cable TV channel in which a suspicious American agent and a female drug dealer on board a very fast motor boat were racing over the sea to Cuba for entertainment, though I turned off the switch in the middle of the story as it was late in the night.
Truly, Haiti is the only country in Americas where French is dominant more than English, Spanish, or Portuguese; Haiti is the only country where French is the only formal language in addition to a local language. Haiti is the only true French-speaking country in Americas.
And, Haiti is the only country where tens of thousands of people die from an earthquake since Columbus reached part of Americas.
Why must it be Haiti instead of adjacent Dominican Republic, or Cuba on the largest island in the Caribbean Sea?
SECTION I: Hatoyama-Ozawa Leadership (2)
In Japan, some liberal people and socialist/communist groups were fighting against the LDP, and especially the Koizumi Cabinet, so enthusiastically since 2001.
Eventually, their dream came true in the 2009-30-8 general election where the Democratic Party of Japan led by Party Head Mr. Yukio Hatoyama and Party Secretary-General Mr. Katsuya Okada thoroughly overwhelmed the Liberal Democratic Party.
However, after the election, it became apparent to the people that new Secretary-General Mr. Ichiro Ozawa (a lawmaker since 1969) has strong sway with P.M. Mr. Hatoyama.
Then, money scandals which had already surfaced before the August election gathered momentum with Tokyo District Public Prosecutor Office in hot pursuit of the two big targets:
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Mr Ozawa, who as secretary-general is second in command of the DPJ, lashed out at Tokyo prosecutors after they arrested his third aide on Friday.
"I will stay on to fulfil my given duty, and squarely fight against such an exercise of power [by prosecutors]," he said.
"Our funds have nothing to do with money that is illegal."
The BBC's Roland Buerk, in Tokyo, says Mr Ozawa is so powerful in the DPJ that some have called him the "Shadow Shogun".
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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has said he is standing by Mr Ozawa.
"Secretary-General Ozawa has said that he has not broken any laws. As the leader of the Democratic Party, I believe in Secretary-General Ozawa," he said.
Mr Hatoyama has himself been caught up in an alleged scandal over funding.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8463112.stm
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Anyway, the yearly session of the Japanese Parliament called Diet has started today.
Japanese politicians will be very busy through the scheduled end of the term in June and further to the Upper House Election in the early summer.
Yet, I really hope that Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, making efforts to connect to the people through his personal blog (http://hatocafe.kantei.go.jp/ ), will attend the next G8 Summit as prime minister of Japan.
SECTION II: Columbus from 1451 to 1506: A Judaist?
Columbus, whether a Christian or a Judaist, is the first European that visited the present-day Haiti as a key island for his explorer into the New Continent he wrongly thought to be part of Asia.
Yet, there is a big enigma about his signature, since he never plainly and honestly signed. One example of Christopher Columbus' signature is as follows:
http://www.christopher-columbus.eu/birth-1492.htm Yes, he put a slant behind his name at the bottom line of the above figure, which tells he was a Judaist.
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Columbus Was a Catalan-Speaking Jew, Scholar Says
By Cesar Muñoz Acebes
EFE, the leading Spanish language news agency
Published: October 16, 2009
WASHINGTON–Christopher Columbus' origins are not obscure by chance, but rather the result of the famed explorer’s having purposely hid the fact he was a Jew or "converso" (convert to Christianity) whose native language was Catalan, a U.S. scholar told Efe Thursday.
Estelle Irizarry, a linguistics professor at Washington’s Georgetown University, reached that conclusion after examining his writings in detail and discovering a simple but important clue that had escaped other researchers: a slash symbol – similar to the ones used in Internet addresses – that Columbus employed to indicate pauses in sentences.
That symbol, also known as a virgule, did not appear in texts of that era written in Castilian nor in writings from any other country, but only in records and letters from the Catalan-speaking areas of the Iberian peninsula, namely present-day Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, Irizarry said.
"The virgules are sort of like Columbus' DNA. They were a habit of his. Columbus was a punctuator and was one of the few of that era," the professor and author of 34 books on literature said.
Irizarry uses that metaphor as the title of her latest book, "Christopher Columbus: The DNA of his Writings," in which she pored over the language and syntax the Great Navigator used in more than 100 letters, diaries and documents.
She also found in her research of documents from that era written on the Balearic island of Ibiza that 75 percent contained virgules similar to Columbus’.
At the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th, authors normally left punctuation for publishers and even Cervantes' "Don Quixote" was only filled in once and for all with periods and commas in the 19th century, making Columbus’ virgules all the more noteworthy, Irizarry said.
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In addition, these peculiarities of his writing and other linguistic aspects associated with Ladino, a Jewish ethnolect in late medieval Spain, suggest that Columbus was Jewish, Irizarry said.
"Columbus even punctuated marginal notes and he included copious notes around his pages. In that sense, he followed the punctuation style of the Ladino-speaking scribes," the professor said.
http://www.bechollashon.org/resources/newsletters/10-09/columbus.php
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So, Columbus who reached the island of Hispaniola and voyaged around this island on the Caribbean Sea four times was a Judaist as he used the slash symbol in his writing so often like following an honorable rule.
The recent Haiti's great earthquake-triggered tragedy might be linked to this truth in a religious context.
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Once His disciples asked Jesus Christ why such innocent people had to suffer such tragedies as a terrible disease, a horrible accident, and an awful death.
Jesus Christ told that it was all for God's glory to be manifested.
Indeed, God's glory has been manifested by the great elections in America and Japan since the last year.
I hope that Haitians will find a new great leader who can inherit the spirit of Columbus.
Al The Al
EE(E)-Reporter
Jud 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
Jud 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Jud 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Jud 1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.