Blind Leaders Leading Blinded People
Africa is not on the path for prosperity to be another Japan, since Europe is exploiting Africa.
The Middle East is not on the path for prosperity to be another Japan, since Europe and America are exploiting the Middle East.
Central America is not on the way for prosperity to be another Japan, since America is exploiting Central America.
But, East Asia and South East Asia are on the way for prosperity to be another Japan, since Japan has been helping them in these decades.
That is why European elites and American elites do not admire Japan unlike East Asians and South East Asians.
It is time to accept the truth.
SECTION I: Dollars and Gun Around Kabul
A veteran Japanese professional cameraman climbed one of mountains surrounding the city Kabul for the purpose of taking pictures of the capital of Afghanistan.
As the banking system in Kabul does not work well today to serve foreigners, he was carrying all the money he had in his purse and also in a special belt.
Then a gunman appeared, pointing the gun at the cameraman and searching his body for money. The armed robbery soon found the purse with full of crisp bills. Then the Afghan brandished his gun to the Japanese who immediately ran down the rocky mountain.
However, the smart Japanese saved most of his money, since only 10 of U.S. $1 bills and only 10 of Afghan $1 bills were in his purse the Afghan robbery took out of him. But, they were all crisp bills without any stains and blots. Accordingly, the robbery misunderstood that the parse contained 10 of U.S. $50 bills and 10 of Afghan $100 bills, since it is unthinkable that any one is carrying 20 crisp one-dollar bills in his parse in Afghanistan or anywhere in the world.
His assets in his money belt were surely secured and preserved.
(http://blog.goo.ne.jp/leonlobo2 )
The Japanese cameraman recently posted his idea about money in general in his blog.
The issue is that while the Bank of Japan has issued only bills worth 80 trillion yen ($0.8 trillion), total deposits in commercial banks in Japan reached 1000 trillion yen ($10 trillion). It is because money has been created by commercial banks through credit creation in the concrete form of lending money into accounts of clients.
Put simply, if a bank judges that you are a man who can return money or pay interest, it will lend you money. Yes, the bank will lend you money if it does not have cash at all. But, it causes no troubles, since all the banks follow this scheme. Banks are transferring and receiving this transparent money in the concrete form of figures and numbers in computer files nowadays.
The point at issue is whether you are qualified or not in the credit appraisal by a bank. To be qualified, you have to be rich. You must have credit or social status a poor man however cannot enjoy.
If you are rich or a person of position, a bank will trust you and lend you money if the bank does not have any money or cash, since all the banks follow this scheme, transferring and receiving transparent money through computer systems using figures and numbers.
Indeed, it is time to review this scheme: Is it quite sound or sophisticated otherwise so laughable and nonsense?
SECTION II: Jesus Christ and Global Warming
We may say that the easiest way to reduce CO2 emission is to limit the amount of oil/coal/gas all the countries are allowed to use.
So, COP-X arguments should be focused on what percentage of total reduction should be adopted.
If you like, each country should reduce its amount of oil/coal/gas to be consumed in its territory by 1%, 2%, 3%, 5%. 8%, 13%, 21%, or 34% so as to prevent global warming.
This is the surest way to reduce the total amount of CO2 mankind emits to the air.
To do this, all the countries must lower their living standard. For example, America must lower its living standard to the level of Afghanistan's. All the advance countries must be as poor as the poorest country is. This is the last solution for reduction of CO2.
But, America and other rich countries would not accept this solution: lowering the living standard to the level of Afghanistan's.
Instead, America and other rich countries would try to prevent poor countries to be rich, try to make poor countries continue to be as poor as they are today, or try to make poor countries poorer, so that CO2 emission is a little suppressed.
America and other rich countries would even try to make some rich countries poor and poorer. No rich countries want to be poor if it is necessary to reduce CO2 emission, but they will make some rich countries poor and poorer, so that CO2 emission is a little suppressed.
In this situation, a country should stand against one another with clear intention to have other countries bear the burden of reducing the amount of oil/coal/gas to be used for maintaining material civilization.
This is the very situation Jesus Christ prophesied: "When the end is near, a country should stand against one another."
Yet, artificial CO2 emission might not have a decisive influence on the global warming as well as global cooling, scientifically.
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Today's material civilization is like the Great Pyramid.
However, 2000 years after the completion of the Great Pyramid, it had no value. Accordingly, the Old Testament was compiled, leading to the beginning of the New Testament 600 or 500 years after, namely the birth of Jesus Christ.
Today's material civilization must look like the Great Pyramid in future.
It is so, since 2000 years later, it will have no value.
Justice and love to the poor must become foundation to the next 2000 years of mankind.
Today's war, terror, global warming, financial crises, and so on must be viewed from this viewpoint.
2Co 1:8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
2Co 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
2Co 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;