11 septembre 2001
I was working around Tokyo at the night of September 11, 2001. It was probably past 10:40 p.m. of Japan Time.
TV suddenly took my attention, since a news program reported that there was a big fire in Washington D.C. and a World Trade Center tower in New York was already on fire.
I checked the screen to see fire and smokes on a US Federal Government building.
It was the beginning of the long night. The NHK TV satellite channel relayed live broadcasting from New York, being presented by Peter Jennings of ABC.
Now, Peter Jennings has long gone, Saddam Hussein has long gone, but Mr. Osama bin Laden is believed to be still at large. Yet, the subsequent war has taken hundreds of thousands of lives of Muslims and Christians in Iraq till today.
Then, the Sumatra Great Earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami took away more than 220,000 lives in 2004.
Then, the Sichuan (China) Great Earthquake took away more than 70,000 lives in 2008.
Then, the Haiti Great Earthquake took away more than 220,000 lives in 2010.
This decade has been truly under anger of the God and Allah.
Poor Muslims, Christians, Hindus, and Chinese victimized must have all entered Heaven, since glory of the God is now being manifested...
SECTION I: Global Competition
The Global Competitiveness Index 2010-2011 rankings and 2009-2010 comparisons
(Click to enlarge)http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Competitiveness%20Report/index.htm
The Order among Major Economies and key nations is as follows:
Rank...Country
-------First Group-------
4. United States
5. Germany
6. Japan
-------Second Group-------
10. Canada
12. United Kingdom
13. Taiwan
15. France
16. Australia
-------Third Group-------
21. Saudi Arabia
22. South Korea
24. Israel
25. United Arab Emirates
27. China
-------Fourth Group-------
38. Thailand
42. Spain
48. Italy
51. India
-------Fifth Group-------
58. Brazil
63. Russia
66. Mexico
69. Iran
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So, forget about economists who cannot design Windows OS, Intel PCs, iPod devices, GM electric cars, Boeing jets, Hollywood films, Wall Street business systems, and Google search engines. Indeed, American economists have never contributed to incomes of American workers in the industry, except minor interferences. Without those products so well designed, America today must be ranked within the third group as I put in the above table, though as successful another Brazil.
Now, the future of real economic state of mankind will be led by the U.S., Germany, and Japan. In this context, America is still happily No.1. But it has many problems.
The U.S. has tens of millions of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and immigrants from China, the Middle East, East Europe/Russia and other regions. American Protestants (mostly Anglo-Saxons or wider WASPs) account for about 50% of residents in America.
Among 80 million population of Germany, 16 million are from immigrant families. However, two-thirds of 16 million immigrant-origin German citizens think their mother land is Germany. The number of Muslims living in Germany is about four million, a half of whom have German citizenship. Germanic Germans account for about 80% of residents in Germany.
In addition to the about 127 million Japanese population, almost 2.2 million foreigners live in Japan. However, almost 99% of 127 million Japanese belong to the Japanese race, including the Ainu tribe. So, the Japanese race accounts for 98% of residents in the Japanese islands where only 100,000 Muslims and 20,000 Africans live.
(http://todofuken.ww8.jp/t/kiji/11639)
In this context, the merit of the U.S. lies in its scale of population and ethnic diversity of people living in its vast land. The richer an American is and the higher his social status gets, the more an American accepts this merit.
Accordingly, Judaist mayor of New York allows for a new mosque being built near the Ground Zero with support from other America Christian leaders including the President.
So, economically America continues to be No.1 as it accommodates various races, tribes, and cultural/religious groups from all over the world. But, America lacks something forever, that is, pure Germanic and pure Japanese talents and geniuses.
(As for Chinese, they just want to have a rich life. There is no concept of contribution to mankind in their mind, since they have been just educated to hate Japan and abuse America and Europe.)
SECTION II: Hatoyama the Fifth Columnist?
Mr. Ichiro Ozawa like a Big Brother has reduced Former P.M. of Japan Mr. Yukio Hatoyama to obedience.
Mr. Ozawa looks like having pressed polite Mr. Hatoyama to fully support him in the 9/14 election to choose the head of the DPJ.
(Mr. Ozawa said politely in a news conference held in late August that he decided to run for the party-leadership election because Mr. Hatoyma had a kind of pressed him to do so with a primise to support Mr. Ozawa fully.)
Among 410 national lawmaker who belong to the ruling DPJ, Mr. Ozawa holds 150 and Mr. Hatoyama 50 under command. Combined together, it looks like questionless that they win the contest against incumbent P.M. Mr. Naoato Kan who only directly controls his group consisting of 40 national lawmakers.
(http://mainichi.jp/select/seiji/graph/minsyujinmyaku/index.html)
If Former Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama had not joined Mr. Ozawa's camp, this political event could not happen in Japan. The new head of the DPJ will surely be nominated as new Prime Minister of Japan in the Lower House of the National Diet. So, Mr. Hatoyama has actually decided who the next P.M. would be, if Mr. Ozawa should win the election scheduled on this September 14 (Japan Time).
Mr. Hatoyama, still a parliament member, assumed the office of premiership in September 2009 after the great regime change in Japan. He quit it in June 2010 for his too-low approval rating before the Upper-House election. So, Mr. Naoto Kan is in the office of premiership in just three months. Mr. Hatoyama's announcement made several weeks ago that he supports Mr. Ozawa as new prime minister is a major cause of this political turmoil in Japan.
The New York Time, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economists, etc. all have voiced exceptionally strong concerns about this mostly unjustified challenge by 40-years-long lawmaker Mr. Ichiro Ozawa who is under suspicion of illegal political fund reporting and handling. Those mainstream Anglo-Saxon/Judaist media must well understand that P.M. Mr. Kan is socialistic and Mr. Ozawa is basically conservative as he was once on good terms with Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Kissinger.
(Russia always welcomes Mr. Hatoyama on his visiting Moscow. China has many old friends in the opposition LDP who visit Beijing as often as Mr. Ozawa.)
The DPJ leadership election is joined by national lawmakers of the DPJ, local lawmakers, and general party members and supporters. But, its national lawmakers have in total 67% of shares in counting and weighing votes.
The estimated numbers of Upper/Lower-House members P.M. Mr. Kan and challenger Mr. Ozawa have already won as of Sept. 10 are:
Jiji Press Co.
P.M. Naoto Kan: 177
Ichiro Ozawa: 179
The Asahi Shimbun Newspaper
P.M. Naoto Kan: 183
Ichiro Ozawa: 193
As local lawmakers and general party members and supporters are expected to vote in favor of P.M. Mr. Kan in a ratio of about two to one, Mr. Naoto Kan is expected to win the 9/14 election and continue his premiership.
Though Mr. Kan and Mr. Hatoyama founded the DPJ a decade ago through their close cooperation, they do not look like friends to each other in real terms now.
(Yet, Mr. Hatoyama, a super-rich man, will surely act like a friend of Mr. Kan's after the election, as is usual...)
Note: When Mr. Naoto Kan stopped facing police squads on the stree and campus of Tokyo as a member of the anti-Vietnam War movement in 1970, Mr. Yukio Hatoyama was flying to the U.S. to learn in a graduate school of the Stanford University where he actually spent seven years to take a doctorate. Mr. Ichiro Ozawa was then in his second year as a national legislature member.
(http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/feature/20090916-896412/fe_090916_pr_hato.htm)
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When Jesus Christ was 10 years old, it had passed only 40 years since the death of Cleopatra who once travelled through Palestine to fight Romans.
People around Child Jesus must have been talking about Cleopatra (and Caesar) sometimes.
But, in the Bible, there was no mentioning Cleopatra and her great war against the Roman legions led by the First Roman Emperor.
It looks very strange to me. Very very strange!
Anyway, I have also work to do tomorrow, like on September 11, 2001.
(http://villavicastur.com/midi/badfinger:day-after-day )
lundi Monday
mardi Tuesday
mercredi Wednesday
jeudi Thursday
vendredi Friday
samedi Saturday
dimanche Sunday...
hier midi? yesterday lunchtime?)
Mat 9:11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
Mat 9:12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Mat 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.