Lucky Thursday
(Beaucoup de Chance Jeudi)
One of images associated with China is the moon for some Japanese.
One of images associated with Islam is the moon and a star for some Japanese.
One of images associated with the Christian world is stars for some Japanese.
And, one of images associated with Japan is the Sun Flag for some Japanese.
Accordingly, as more and more Japanese join anti-Chinese demonstrations in Tokyo and so on with the Sun Flags in their hands, the Chinese Communist Government seem to be coming back to its senses.
The Chinese Communist Government has proposed to Japan an idea of suspending the issue of the Senkaku Islands, which is however a very bad idea for Japan. China must first pay damages for two of Japan Coast Guard ships an illegal Chinese fishing boat striked itself against.
SECTION I: Mentally-Ill China
There is a Chinese woman who left China to obtain Japanese nationality eventually.
What she wrote about China is so horrible beyond imagination of ordinary Japanese citizens. Some Japanese think that she is a little strange, blaming so assuredly the Chinese Communist Government, the Chinese society and local communities, and even ordinary Chinese having been educated by the Chinese communists.
But, now I understand why she left China to obtain Japanese nationality eventually. Not to be forced into a mental hospital used as a very convenient prison by Chinese authorities.
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REPORT AIR DATE: Sept. 11, 2009
Chinese Dissidents Committed to Mental Hospitals
Transcript
JIM LEHRER: Next tonight, a diagnosis of mental illness for political dissidents in China. Special correspondent Shannon Van Sant has our Global Health Unit story. She has reported from China for our PBS colleagues at the "Nightly Business Report," among other programs...
SHANNON VAN SANT: A former officer in the People's Liberation Army, Qin has been forcibly hospitalized six times, accused of being mentally ill. He says he's not the only one with grievances who's been treated that way...
I traveled to Wuhan to talk with another Chinese activist, Liu Feiyue, but he was under house arrest. Liu heads an NGO that is currently following 100 cases of wrongful psychiatric detention. Over the last three years, he says he knows of 500 more whistleblowers and protesters who have been detained in mental hospitals...
SHANNON VAN SANT: Munro, who is based in Hong Kong, believes that since there are no national mental health laws protecting the rights of people who have been compulsorily hospitalized, but there are rules limiting arbitrary arrest, hospitals are becoming a convenient means of silencing protesters...
When asked at a press conference about the increasing numbers of protesters being put in mental hospitals, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said...
QIN GANG, Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (through translator): It's the first time for me to hear the situation you addressed. I don't know about the situation of psychiatric hospitals, but please believe the related Chinese governmental departments conduct administration according to law...
HU GUOHONG: They gave me one, and then two yellow pills every day. They said they would set me free after the Olympics. They told me to be nice. But after the Olympics and during the Paralympics, they still held me. At the end of September, I escaped. They caught me, and the next day they gave me electric shocks...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec09/china_09-11.html
China has 17,000 certified psychologists, which is ten percent of that of other developed countries per capita.[2] Some 100 million Chinese have mental illnesses, with varying degrees of intensity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health_in_China
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I am afraid that most of Chinese leaders are included in the 100 million Chinese above described.
SECTION II: Economically-Blind America
Unemployment Rate Trend:
....-...-...2007..-..2008..-..2009
USA...-..4.6%..-..5.8%..-..9.3%
JAPAN....3.9%..-..4.0%..-..5.1%
France.-..8.0%..-..7.4%..-..9.1%
Yes, the year 2007 seems to be the last year when every hard-working citizen in America is happy.
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Resolved Question
American unemployment and the causes?
3 years ago
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
First off, American unemployment is quite low, currently at 4.7%, which is one of the lowest in the industrialized world and below average for the past 50 years. (Compare this to Britain: 5.4%, Canada: 5.8%, Russia: 5.8%, Italy: 6.0%, France: 8.1%, Germany: 8.6%, China: 9.5% Belgium: 11.1%)
Anyone who thinks that we are losing a net amount of jobs due to overseas manufactoring does not understand markets or economics. Yes, we are losing some jobs, primarily in low value added manufactoring (apposed to capital intensive manufacturing, where we are actually creating jobs), but the money saved on importing cheaper goods is spent elsewhere in the economy and creates jobs in these other sectors. (For instance consumers have saved a lot of money on clothing and electronics in recent years. Their prices have come down or at least not gone up as quickly as general inflation)...
Assuming that there is not a recession going on, the cyclical unemployment does not exist, but there are always people who fit into the other two.
People change jobs all the time, for good or bad, and there is always a segment of the population that is lazy, incompedint, etc, and just cant hold down a job. These two reasons are why "full employment" is considered to be around 5% or so historically.
But what you have to keep in mind, is that a 5% unemployment rate does not mean 5% of the population can never find work. It includs the temporary people. The average time of unemployment is about 8 - 9 weeks right now.
Only about .5% - 1% of people fit whithin the long term structual enemployment who just cant get and hold onto jobs.
Source(s):
Having an economics degree / having a job as an economic analyst
International unemployment data from the Dec 1st issue of the Economist
3 years ago
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071203151046AAxFZM9
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I am afraid that no rich men feel guilty to see the present day job situation in America, including those in the White House.
SECTION III: The U.S. & China
Since 2001, two distinct phenomena happened on the earth.
America started to be engaged in the War on Terror, which triggered however ever larger money games inside America.
China started to take off as an exporting giant, inflating GDP at an alarming pace.
http://globotrends.pbworks.com/global-imbalances-(finance)
Most importantly this rapid upward change in financial scales in both the U.S. and China were not predicted in 1999 or so by economists.
The key to understanding these two phenomena lies in the paradigm change and the IT technology.
War breaks an old barrier in people's mind sets. The diplomatic policy America adopted in the late 1990's regarding China as a more friendly nation than Japan allowed for China's paradigm change.
In both the cases, the power of computers and the Internet contributed to multiplication of amounts of money involved there.
The relationship between America and China is still the most important factor for G2, though, mostly G2 alone.
(http://wallstny.exblog.jp/ )
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No Chinese have ever lived on the Senkaku Islands.
But, as I wrote yesterday, a Japanese businessman and two hundred of his employees and their families had worked or lived on the Senkaku Islands from 1880's to 1940's.
After WWII, the U.S. Air Forces and Navy used the Senkaku Islands as a shooting and bombing range till 1970 or so when Okinawa was returned to Japan by America.
Between 1500's and 1900's, only a few Chinese official reports mentioned some islands that could be identified as the Senkaku Islands. Yet, they simply meant that certain Chinese missionaries to the Okinawa Kingdom felt the islands somewhat close to mainland China. In this period, Ching and Ming only sent a dozen or so envoys to Okinawa who however in return sent a few hundred envoys to China passing the Senkaku Islands. That is why the old reports Chinese missionaries to Okinawa wrote cannot be any authentic proof for China's occupancy of the Senkaku Islands.
I hope that the Japanese public broadcasting organization NHK will create a verification program on territorial jurisdiction of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea closer to Okinawa islands than to mainland China. NHK and other Japanese media should address the issue to the world more openly.
(http://www7.plala.or.jp/machikun/seika260.MID
Source:http://www7.plala.or.jp/machikun/MIDIseika.htm
Rich men can enjoy good treatments in hospitals. But, some poor men are being insulted by rich medical doctors even in Christian hospitals around Tokyo...
Yet, in case, go and stay in a hospital which means a place you can meat a miracle of healing Christ Jesus especially performs for you...)
Act 10:19 While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
Act 10:20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
Act 10:21 Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
Act 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.