(Around the Tokyo Station)Heroes, Great Powers, and Miracles
Mr. Nelson Mandela was elected as president and took office when he was 75 in 1994 after release from almost 30 years of imprisonment in 1990. However he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize when he was 74 in 1992.
Mr. Barack Obama was elected as president and took office when he was 47 in 2009 after 12 years of lecturing at the law school of the Chicago University. However he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize when he was 47 in 2009.
Of course, there are many people who have seen the glory of the God through the two if not in the two.
To the period from Mr. Mandela to Mr. Obama, one era might be assigned. But, what will come after this Mandela-Obama era? The Era of More Miracles?
SECTION I: National Prayer Breakfast
A few days ago, lawmaker Mr. Taro Kono of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan flew to Washington D.C. to attend the 58th National Prayer Breakfast where about 3,000 people all over America and the world gathered and prayed.
(http://www.taro.org/2010/02/post-710.php)
He was assigned the No. 7 Table among hundreds. At the table beside his sat House Speaker Ms. Nancy Pelosi with whom Mr. Kono talked friendly awhile, since his father was ex-Lower House Speaker of the Japanese Parliament. But the one who overwhelmingly impressed him was Secretary Ms. Hillary Clinton rather than President Mr. Barack Obama.
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In February of 1994, the speaker here was Mother Teresa. She gave, as everyone who remembers that occasion will certainly recall, a strong address against abortion. And then she asked to see me. And I thought, "Oh, dear." (Laughter.) And after the breakfast, we went behind that curtain and we sat on folding chairs, and I remember being struck by how small she was and how powerful her hands were, despite her size, and that she was wearing sandals in February in Washington. (Laughter.)
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Finally, the moment came: June, 1995, and the Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children opened. She flew in from Kolkata to attend the opening, and like a happy child, she gripped my arm and led me around, looking at the bassinets and the pretty painted colors on the wall, and just beaming about what this meant for children and their futures.
A few years later, I attended her funeral in Kolkata, where I saw presidents and prime ministers, royalty and street beggars, pay her homage. And after the service, her successor, Sister Nirmala, the leader of the Missionaries of Charity, invited me to come to the Mother House. I was deeply touched. When I arrived, I realized I was one of only a very few outsiders. And I was directed into a whitewashed room where the casket had already arrived. And we stood around with the nuns, with the candles on the walls flickering, and prayed for this extraordinary woman. And then Sister Nirmala asked me to offer a prayer. I felt both inadequate and deeply honored, just as I do today. And in the tradition of prayer breakfast speakers, let me share a few matters that reflect how I came on my own faith journey, and how I think about the responsibilities that President Obama and his Administration and our government face today.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/04/hillary_clinton_keynote_transcript_the_national_prayer_breakfast_100176.html
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So, I wrote several days ago that it was impressive to see a woman wearing sandals on the cold business street around Tokyo.
Anyway, the combination of Ms. Hillary Clinton and Mother Teresa could overwhelm a future candidate of the prime minister of Japan.
I may overwhelm the future Pope, if the God so wishes.
In addition, if one guest pays 1,000 dollars, the 3,000 audience in total can donate $3 million to Haiti.
SECTION II: G2, G2, and G2
Japan and the U.S. as G2 are now going to enter the state of weariness.
The U.S. and China as G2 are now going to enter the time of trial.
Japan and China as G2 are now going to enter the area of calm.
From a global point of view, G2 of Japan and China could be more supported by peoples of the world. It is mainly to suppress the occurrence of another War on Terror and another Lehman Shock.
Yet, as a triangle stability equation:
U.S. unemployment rate = Japan's unemployment rate + China's city unemployment rate
If the dollar loses the key currency status, the equation will have to be altered.
Yet, it is still very unlikely that Japanese leaders and Chinese leaders get together to hold a meeting where the U.S. unemployment level is decided.
Finally, China must start to stop its military expansion nobody from Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and India welcomes.
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Why will not rich people try to save the poor? This is a question economists cannot answer.
If all the rich people in the world start to save the poor by pouring into this great economic project all the wealth they have, all the poor in the world will be saved. Accordingly, you need no economists.
Conversely, economics is based on acceptance of evil of the human mind or the mind of rich people neglecting the poor dying in poverty. If they cannot accept it, they will surely fight against the evil, which means to stop a study of economics that virtually sustains the rich-man centric economic system.
However, this teaching of the God, save the poor by stop oneself from being rich, is really hard to accept. Accordingly, not so many people share the view of EEE Reporter so far. In my feeling, all over the world just 30 or so people seem to take this view seriously. It is so, since it was in Haiti that 200,000 people died by the Act of God...
However, this is not an elite course for another Mr. Obama and another Mr. Mandela only.
Joh 2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Joh 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
Joh 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
Joh 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
Joh 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Joh 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.