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Mencius, an ancient philosopher of China, said:
"Confucius served the Court when he had to do so.
Confucius left the Court when he had to do so.
Confucius stayed away from the Court when he had to do so.
This is the right way for a master.
When the society becomes depraved, a master should leave it.
When the society becomes quiet, a master should perform his way in it.
This is the right way for a master."
This is a teaching that you should not join any violent social movement, such as seen in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet, and even many local villages and towns in China, though not so much reported.
CHAPTER I: Alarming Chinese News
According to the Chinese site of BBC on November 9, 2008, the Beijing authority announced that about 20,000 officials of the central and local governments of China ran away to foreign countries with stolen public money which surprisingly totaled 800 billion yuan ($130 billion) since the middle of 1990's.
Recently, executives of the major four banks in China also decamped while illegally and secretly transferring funds in their banks to overseas accounts. Specifically, total 42 branch chiefs and branch executives of the banks left China in the disguise of overseas inspection and holiday trips and never returned. They fled to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the U.S., and Western Europe where their family members were already waiting for them. The total amount of money those bank executives took out is more than $2.23 billion.
(http://kkmyo.blog70.fc2.com/blog-entry-680.html)
CHAPTER II: Alarmed Japanese Cartoons
It cannot be a joke anymore, if China's GDP consists of 10 to 30% of contribution from goods and products produced in China while violating and infringing intellectual property rights of Japan.
Nintendo Says "Heyday" of Video Game Piracy Over, Studies Disagree
By Michelle Castillo on January 26, 2011
Nintendo claims that the new 3DS will have the most sophisticated anti-piracy software out there (and is smartly remaining mum on the details). Not that it really matters though: Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton told CVG that because of an influx of laws against piracy, the "heyday" of buying illegal games is pretty much over...
This comes out in the wake of the report that the Association of UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) estimates that for every one game legitimately purchased, other four are being bought illegally. Even at a 1:1 ratio, the organization estimates it will cost about $2.38 billion U.S. dollars in sales a year and about 1,000 fewer jobs for people in the industry...
http://techland.time.com/2011/01/26/nintendo-says-heyday-of-video-game-piracy-over-studies-disagree/
Japan's cartoons plundered by pirates
April 3, 2010
Japan's cartoon industry, a mainstay of the country's bid to revive the economy through "soft" exports, is losing $2.4 billion a year to Chinese piracy.
The number represents more than twice what the Japanese animation industry made from total global exports of cartoons and cartoon-related goods during its best year...
Japanese intellectual property rights in China beyond just cartoons, is expected to cause considerable embarrassment to the Japanese Government, which has set a target of earning Y2.5 trillion (£17.4 billion) per year from exported content by 2020.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article7085459.ece
Those who do not respect the Japanese manga (cartoon) culture do not respect the Japanese super-express train (Shinkansen) technology. Accordingly, China is now selling their version of super-express train systems to the U.S., though the Chinese Shinkansen are based on the technology they stole from Japanese manufacturers.
CHAPTER III: Youth Unemployment Rate
An American professor working in a university in Japan said to The Washington Post recently that Japanese youths have no hope for employment after graduation from colleges, so that the whole Japanese society is in the blue mood and the Japanese people want to put down China rising with great eclat and without any worries, which is a sheer lie.
Employment and labour markets: Key tables from OECD - ISSN 2075-2342 - © OECD 2010
Youth unemployment rate
% of youth labour force (15-24)
.....*....*....2009 (%)
Australia...*...11.6
Austria...*...10
Belgium...*...21.9
Canada...*...15.3
Chile...*...22.6
Czech Republic...16.6
Denmark...*...11.2
Estonia...*...27.5
Finland...*...21.6
France...*...22.8
Germany...*...11
Greece...*...25.8
Hungary...*...26.5
Iceland...*...16
Ireland...*...25.9
Israel...*...??
Italy...*...25.4
Japan...*...9.1
Korea...*...9.8
Luxembourg...*...17.2
Mexico...*...10
Netherlands...*...7.3
New Zealand...*...16.6
Norway...*...9.2
Poland...*...20.7
Portugal...*...20
Slovak Republic...27.3
Slovenia...*...13.6
Spain...*...37.9
Sweden...*...25
Switzerland...*...8.2
Turkey...*...25.3
United Kingdom...18.9
United States...17.6
OECD-Total...*...16.7
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/employment/youth-unemployment-rate_20752342-table2
Then what about China and especially Chinese students? According to a TV report broadcast in Japan, many Chinese students who cannot find jobs on graduation are living with friends and fellows in very humble places in cities, going about getting jobs.
China's Surprising Unemployment Problem
Shaun Rein, 09.07.10, 01:15 PM EDT
The country is failing to properly educate its growing middle class.
Dexter Roberts wrote recently in BusinessWeek that more than 25% of this year's university graduates in China have failed to find a job. Meanwhile executives at nearly a hundred multinationals recently told my firm that their biggest challenge for growth is recruiting and retaining talent. At more than one-third of the big businesses we talked to they said their annual employee turnover is 30%. In the U.S. 11% turnover is considered too costly because of the expense of recruiting and training; 9% is just right for getting new ideas into an organization and getting rid of dead wood.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/07/china-economy-unemployment-leadership-managing-rein.html
Though most of Chinese students today do not join riots and strife caused by poor workers and farmers against corporate management and local authorities in China, there is a very grave possibility for their involvement. Indeed, it is said that the number of clashes that happened between those poor people and the police and so on was 100,000 in China last year.
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According to a theory, less ice in the Arctic Ocean due to global warming disturbs the flow of the air around the north pole, resulting in movement of the cold air mass to the south, namely Europe, North Asia, and North America.
While the temperature in Greenland is relatively high, Europe, North Asia (including Japan), and North America are suffering low temperature.
Anyway, there are some scientists who predicted last October that this winter would be the coldest one in these 1000 years!
Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way
Published: 04 October, 2010, 07:20
Edited: 22 October, 2010, 17:34
After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme.
Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.
The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe.
So far, the results have been lower temperatures: for example, in Central Russia, they are a couple of degrees below the norm.
"Although the forecast for the next month is only 70 percent accurate, I find the cold winter scenario quite likely," Vadim Zavodchenkov, a leading specialist at the Fobos weather center, told RT. "We will be able to judge with more certainty come November. As for last summer's heat, the statistical models that meteorologists use to draw up long-term forecasts aren't able to predict an anomaly like that."
In order to meet the harsh winter head on, Moscow authorities are drawing up measures to help Muscovites survive the extreme cold.
http://rt.com/news/prime-time/coldest-winter-emergency-measures/
Maybe, one reasonable reasoning is that the God is angry at mankind.
Love the God instead of money to get rid of the coldest winter in these 1000 years, at least if you live Europe, North Asia (including Japan), and North America!
Jam 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Jam 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.