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The Moment of Revenge for S. Korea's G20 Glory
(l'heure de la vengeance pour la gloire du G20 de l'ennemi?)
North Korea envied South Korea for any success and glory of the latter.
Before the Seoul Olympic Games, North Korea targeting a S. Korean airliner and a S. Korean envoy to Myammar carried out horrible terror only AlQaeda would adopt due to its atrocity.
Now after G20 in Seoul the U.S. so strongly backed up, North Korea must be highly embarrassed because its future dictator looks like a bad joke of a lonesome poor country.
So, the North invited American elites to show them 2000 centrifugal separators for uranium enrichment.
So, the North shelled a border island on the South side.
I think it is motivated by shame and envy of North Korean leaders and elites, so that the situation will not progress to all-out bombardment on Seoul over 55km distance by the N. Korean army.
Yet, everything in the Far East depends on the relationship between Japan and the U.S., though some media nowadays stick to the unlearned, irresponsible, or malicious US-China G2 paradigm.
SECTION I: Review of GM
The following figure of profit margin on sales of major car manufacturers tells the situation GM was in before the bailout by the U.S. Government.
It shows that more they sell products, the more they get money or lose money.
(http://aruconsultant.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/06/gmfordtoyotahon.html)
One of the most stupid incidents in America in these years is the bankruptcy and the recovery of GM management.
It symbolizes the relationship between industry and finance. It suggests how wasteful capitalism is in terms of book keeping. But, the core of this historical event is degradation of ability and moral of American business elites.
A business is only allowed to exist if it proves that the organization is not a mass of gangsters.
A gangster laughs at and despises the concept of public interest and good.
GM is suspected of having violated this implicit code of conduct.
Joy of workers at any tire in GM should come from contribution to public interest and good but not from a big bonus.
Now that GM sells more cars in China than in America (1.21 million cars vs. 1.07 million cars in the first half of 2010), it needs this implicit code of conduct more.
It is so, since those who can buy GM cars in China look like a kind of gangsters in the eyes of 220 million poor Chinese workers who have come from rural areas to cities to earn humble living.
SECTION II: Review of Japan-US War in 1940's
Some stupid and arrogant European Americans still think that the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 as Japanese were stupid and arrogant.
But, the following must become the standard knowledge and understanding of the Japan-US War of 1940's.
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How Roosevelt Provoked Tokyo's Attack On Pearl Harbor
By C. Frank Glass, The Militant, Vol.59, no.46, 11 December 1995
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1. That President Roosevelt, while proclaiming his love of peace and hatred of war, was embarked on a deliberate course of war with Japan (and Germany) long before Pearl Harbor and that this was the conscious policy of his Administration.
2. That Roosevelt's policy toward Japan was one of systematic pressure to force the Japanese imperialists to commit the overt act which would touch off a war explosion. Roosevelt was obliged to pursue this strategy in order to be able to brand Japan as the aggressor and stampede the people of the United States into a war to which a majority of the nation had been steadfastly opposed. The peace-loving President had assured the American people that their sons would not be sent to fight in foreign wars. This made it necessary that the United States should be attacked so that the drive of American imperialism for mastery of the Pacific could be presented in the guise of a war of national defense and survival.
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The vast economic power of the United States, and the economic frailty of Japan guaranteed the success of Roosevelt's strategy of provoking war by tightening an economic noose around Japan. The sanctions imposed on Japan in 1940-41 are referred to in the Army Board's report. The Army's investigators understood their drastic character and had no doubt that the Roosevelt policy led only to war. The pertinent section of the report reads, in part, as follows:
It was in the fall of 1940 that we cast the die and adopted economic sanctions. And we find it significant that about June 1940 General Herron as Commanding General of the Hawaiian Department upon Washington orders went into an all-out alert into battle positions with live ammunition for six weeks.
In September the export of iron and steel scrap was prohibited. The effect of the United States policy was to cut off from Japan by the winter of 1940-41 the shipment of many strategic commodities, including arms, ammunition, and implements of war, aviation gasoline and many other petroleum products, machine tools, scrap iron, pig iron and steel manufactures, copper, lead, zinc, aluminum, and a variety of other commodities. . . . Nor was this all. These disastrous embargoes were supplemented by Washington's abrogation of the U.S.- Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation which deprived Japan of most favored nation treatment in her remaining trade with the United States, and by the freezing of Japanese credits in this country. Among the most important consequences of these moves was the destruction of Japan's lucrative and vital silk trade with this country, upon the proceeds of which Japan largely depended for the financing of her imports...
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/20/001.html
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The true point at issue is why it came to that "President Roosevelt, while proclaiming his love of peace and hatred of war, was embarked on a deliberate course of war with Japan (and Germany) long before Pearl Harbor and that this was the conscious policy of his Administration."
Did President Roosevelt know that European Judaists were all to be killed by Nazis?
Did President Roosevelt think that the U.K. would be conquered by Hitler sooner or later?
Or, did President Roosevelt think that the Chinese market should be secured for America before the conquer of China by the Empire of Japan?
Yet, President Roosevelt was persuaded by a Soviet spy to enter the war against Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, according to a theory. Yes, in order to save the USSR from the danger of facing attacks and invasion from both the sides of its west and its east.
Ironically, after the Japan-US War, Japanese industry leveraged its free access to the U.S. market and the American Government leveraged its tie with Japan during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
Indeed, if there are 1,000 potentially influential people in a capital of a big country, nobody alone can be convinced of what decisive factor would really decide the course of the country.
As a Japanese, I am very sorry that the Empire of Japan had no spy or friend in Washington D.C. in 1941 who would kindly inform that Roosevelt and somebody had finished their scenario of the coming war with the Empire of Japan which was expected to end in several months around the Philippines, since the Imperial Navy could not have the then world's most advanced fighter plane "Zero."
Anyway, today, Japan and the U.S. are both bound by the Japan-U.S. Security Arrangements, not only for Toyota and Honda in the American market but also for GM and Ford in the Chinese market whose growth was in Japan's debt.
SECTION III: Nobody Trusts China except The New York Times?
Chinese newspapers do not inform Chinese citizens that North Korea first opened fire over the sea border onto the tiny island of Yeonpyeong. They wrote that North and South Koreas are bickering about which side started to conduct the deadly bombardment.
Chinese newspapers also always inform Chinese citizens that the Senkaku Islands belong to China since (only a few) old books have descriptions about them, though they were written in the era of Columbus. They also wrote that Japan Coast Guard ships violently rammed a Chinese shipping boat having operated around the Chinese sea territory around the Senkaku Islands.
The New York Times always believes what China says.
But, truth is that North Korea started to attack like AlQaeda yesterday as it did in the Korean War in 1950; and the Senkaku Islands belong to Japan since Okinawa people have been sailing around the sea area at least in these 1300 years whiled no Chinese ever lived on the Islands.
The New York Times always believes what China says. So, the American media never checks, probably, authenticity and accuracy of data the Chinese communists present in terms of economy.
But, there is data that cast doubt on China's GDP reporting.
China's Energy Use Trend:
China's GDP Trend:
http://www.starmass.com/china_review/economy_overview/economy_gdp_trends.htm
Correlation between energy use and GDP in a country is strong. In this context, China's GDP trend and energy consumption trend should be confronted with each other.
If we cannot trust China, we cannot trust The New York Times when it quotes China's claim in a strangely friendly manner.
Now, as the USS aircraft carrier George Washington stationed in Japan is heading for the Yellow Sea and toward the sea area around Yeonpyeong island of South Korea, The New York Times' easy friendship with Chinese communists might result in something of a scale of the 9/11 Terror for which actually the American media might be accountable due to its watchdog function.
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Parallax is an apparent displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
By applying binocular parallax, autostereoscopic display becomes possible. Accordingly, you can observe and enjoy 3D images without a special pair of glasses.
When you hear a piece of news, it should be understood in 3D structure. It is not easy, but a historian must be able to observe things in the past with effective binocular parallax in his brain.
So, it is not easy for ordinary people, so that the Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 Terror resulted in tragedies multiplied by the stupid and arrogant will of American leaders.
Anyway, the year end is near in Japan. The Kan Cabinet looks like making way to 2011, though with shaky footing. President Mr. Obama will have to make a great decision next year, too.
Indeed, a regime change must be crazy and wonderful for experimental political scientists.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsSjQ54jdz0&feature=related
A piece of realistic humor cannot be so easily appraised by audience sometimes...
Anyway the Japanese show business looks like being at its summit in 1960's... )
Mar 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.