New Vision
A jet plane where the president of Poland and other high-ranking officials were on board crashed near the forest where tens of thousands of Polish officers had been executed in the era of WWII by the Soviet Union.
Such an accident is very rare in the advanced countries or European nations. It might be a warning about Russia for Japan, since Japan has a territorial dispute with Russia.
However, this territorial issue might be the last chance for the ruling DPJ and the Hatoyama Cabinet to restore confidence among Japanese voters.
Yet, one forecast of the coming Upper House Election (for 121 seats among total 242) is as follows:
DPJ: 42; LDP: 53; New Komeito 9; Japanese Communist Party 4; Minna-No-To: 10; Social Democratic Party: 1; Others: 2.
(http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~mor97512/C06259.HTML)
SECTION I: Bye-Bye Space Shuttle
It is said it takes $1.5 billion for one launching of the current Space Shuttle which is regarded as a total failure.
So, the New Space Shuttle A must have a function to carry 2 men in launching, but to have 7 men on board for their return to the earth. It can also stay long in the space attached to the New Cargo Vehicle where necessary.
The New Space Shuttle B must have a function to carry 5 men in launching, but to accommodate 7 men during its long (or forever) stay in the space or to have 7 men on board for their return to the earth.
The New Cargo Vehicle will stay in the space forever with attached Shuttle A or B to form a space base with an additional Vehicle to be launched in every successive mission.
After 10 missions, there will be 10 Cargo Vehicles connected in the space to form a space base, the span of which will be 10 x 40 meters = 400 meters or 12,000 feet, where some Shuttle Bs are attached. One of the base can even travel to the moon or Mars to fly around its orbit.
This system allows for a quasi-mass-production of rockets, engines, vehicles, and shuttle As and Bs.
I hope that President Mr. Barack Obama cancel every existence space program and contract with Japan for this New Space Base Project.
SECTION II: History of Shanghai
It is a long and complicated story that City Shanghai presented about its miracle era between the Great Depression and the end of WWII.
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During this period, Shanghai was known as "The Paris of the East, the New York of the West"[2]. Shanghai was made a special city in 1927, and a municipality in May 1930. The city's industrial and financial power increased, because the merchants were in control of the city, while the rest of China was divided among warlords...
Economic achievements include the city becoming the commercial centre of East Asia, attracting banks from all over the world. When movies and literature depict the golden days of Shanghai of the past, it is generally associated with this era...
In 1927, communists tried to end foreign rule, officially supported by the gangsters and the Kuomintang (KMT) nationalists. Leaders of the Green Gang however entered into informal alliances with Chiang Kai-shek and the Shanghailander capitalists acted against the communists and organised labour unions...
The power of the gangsters rose in the early 1930s, especially the power of the Green Gang leader Du Yuesheng. Du started his own native place association. Mobsters stormed the Shanghai Stock Exchange to gain control over it. The police did not interfere, since they had been dominated by the mobsters since 1919. Shanghailanders did not interfere either, since it was an internal Chinese affair. The nationalist government did not interfere, because it tried to break the power of the entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs were forced to make a deal after a second storming of the mobsters...
The Japanese Navy bombed Shanghai on January 28, 1932, nominally in an effort to crush down Chinese student protests against the Manchurian Incident and the subsequent Japanese occupation. The Chinese fought back in what was known as the January 28 Incident. The two sides fought to a standstill and a ceasefire was brokered in May. In the Second Sino-Japanese War, the city fell after the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, and was occupied until Japan's surrender in 1945...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Shanghai#Shanghai_Grand
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It can be a long and complicated story that City Shanghai will present about its magic era between the Lehman Shock and the end of the Chinese Communist Party.
However, please note that after the Japanese-Sino War (1894-1895) Japanese were given the same right of residence and occupancy in Shanghai as Westerners living in the special districts or settlements of the city. There were 20,000 Japanese living in Shanghai. Accordingly, the Empire of Japan sent a fleet and Imperial Marines to Shanghai to protect those Japanese people as well as Europeans and Americans in 1930's.
Yet, the 1932 incident in Shanghai is said to have been triggered by some Japanese general with his spies, in the city full of Chinese and foreign gangsters and terrorists.
In addition, the description "the city fell after the Battle of Shanghai in 1937" might not be so accurate, since the Imperial Military was then defending Shanghai actually, defeating Chinese troops coming from outside the city whose size was 10 times more numerically.
(However, it was November 1941 that U.S. Marines having been stationed in Shanghai left for the Philippines...
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My standpoint is that if anybody thinks anything before thoroughly studying the Bible and the Buddhist Scriptures, it is useless.
But, I have met so many people who told proudly their views on people, life, and society, as if they had been smarter than I.
Of course, Jesus Christ told me not to scold them.
Indeed, some of them were betraying their wives or others' wives while telling something to me as if they had been smarter than I.
Being too foolish sometimes makes a person outwardly safe. But, if that someone is one of leaders of a nation or a country, he or she must be forced to leave his/her position, since such a person sometimes tells something to me as if he or she had been smarter than I.
(http://www.menziesera.com/midi/twistsh.mid
Source: http://www.menziesera.com/media/music_jukebox.htm
The tone interval is a key, isn't it?)
Mat 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Mat 4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Mat 4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.