"if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit"

NOW HAPPY, MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU DESERVE

Recently the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan for the first time admitted that Japan is undergoing deflation.

According to a report on their internal discussion, some members of the Policy Board held the people so cheap that they actually said that the BOJ should not publicly tell the truth about the state of the Japanese economy being in deflation.

If economists in BOJ are so foolish and arrogant, how terrible the bias of the FRB members might be.

Anyway, it might be a kind of Xmas present that the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan for the first time admitted that Japan is undergoing deflation, so that BOJ must take necessary steps to cope with deflation, which will surely test their ability, including those foolish and arrogant members of the Policy Board.

(It is said that most of economists have never been taught about deflation in school.)


SECTION I: CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

Everybody is working in Japan on this day called Christmas Eve.

However schools are going to be closed for two weeks, one week before January 1 and another after January 1.

It is so, since January 1 is the holiest day for Japan, though Japanese people nowadays do not celebrate Lunar New Year unlike Chinese.

However, why did the son of God come to live on the earth?

Is it because He wanted to enjoy a happy party or a gorgeous feast with happy people?

Did He come to the world to befriend rich and happy people?

Did He come to the world because everybody is happy on the earth?

Indeed, without making somebody unhappy, you cannot be happy.

Without neglecting unhappy people, you cannot stay happy.

If you help poor people, you will be poor, too.

This simple rule makes people hate and despise one another eventually.

Capitalists never love workers; rich men never love poor men; and lucky guys never save unlucky guys.

Accordingly, the human society would collapse through strife, fights, and war.

So, how to avoid this catastrophic situation is a key to success of civilization.

As mankind could not find solutions for themselves, the son of God came to this world simply to teach mankind how to avoid this catastrophic situation.

His teaching is that if capitalists do not love workers or rich men do not love poor men, the God will destroy the world.

His teaching is that if workers do not love capitalists or poor men do not love rich men, the God will not love workers and poor men in return.


SECTION II: CAPITAL FOR PROFITS

Economists do not truly understand that capital is for more money, though labor is not only for humble money.

Capital is for profits. Labor is mostly related to human dignity.

One million dollars capital is for one dollar return or more.

But, one minute labor is worth invaluable return.


SECTION III: CAPITAL FOR PROFITS (2)

With profits "P", capital input "C," costs and expenses "X", and multiplier "k":

P = k*(C - X)

(Note: if both "C" and "X" are very large, "k" can be also very large.)

However "X" is used to purchase labor force "L" and other facilities and means "F":

X = L + F

P = k*(C - L - F)

So, if your religion tells you that the most important thing in this world is to increase profits as much as possible to any given amount of capital input, you would try to decrease "X," especially "L", as much as possible. You will surely do it, since your religion tells you that you do not need to respect dignity of labor by workers.

Ideally, "L" should be zero and "F" should be zero, though we can assume here that "F" has a fixed value. Then only meaningful diagram is as bellow:



This tells what capitalism is. This is the basic for economics to analyze and understand capitalism, since desire for huge money is universal enough to be adopted in non-nonsense theory.

Capitalists love blindly more and more capital, less and less labor costs, and thus more and more profits.

Capital and profits can increase toward the infinite, but labor costs hit the bottom at zero.

In the eye of a capitalist, there are only a huge number for money but no dignity of workers at all.

But, as capitalists are blinded by desire, they do not truly understand workers are also consumers and clients without whom no profits are possible and thus whom they must respect. Otherwise, they think simply that they can find consumers anywhere in the world if they pay small, little, or no wages to workers in their facilities.

So, economics should evolve to teach capitalists how they should respect workers as they should thank consumers and clients in order to protect human civilization.

To maintain civilization, the balance of profits, capital, wages, and consumer power should be carefully adjusted and upheld, taking away the concept of the infinite capital and profits.

Conversely, capitalism is a religion that recommends desire for the infinite capital and profits by decreasing labor costs in their facilities ultimately to zero while pursuing new consumers all over the world.

Consequently, capitalism destroy the world and themselves eventually.

If one ideology is ultimately harmful to mankind, it must be eradicated.

Now you may start to define new capitalism or modified capitalism that is oriented to an optimum profit level with an ultimate purpose for protecting human dignity and civilization and eradicating bad conventional capitalists.

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I saw recently some signs above my head in the blue sky in the daytime and the dark sky at night.

It is not threatening at all, though somehow extravagant for me so humble on the earth.

If you have less money than I have, you would be surely blessed than I in this Christmas 2009.


(Beethoven No.9 Symphony is widely played in Japan at the year end customarily for some reasons. But, Beethoven No.10 Symphony might match the mood in Christmas No. 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYvYZFukRqo )



Joh 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

"Jesus the mediator of the new covenant"

(North of Tokyo)





The year 2009 is Jinmu Era 2669 in Japan, according to the Imperial calendar, since Jinmu is the first emperor of Japan who, as legend goes, assumed the throne on a certain year of the calendar.

This is based on the sexagenary cycle of years first formulated in ancient China.

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The Chinese sexagenary cycle, also known as Stems-Branches, is a cyclic numeral system of 60 combinations of the two basic cycles, the ten Heavenly Stems and the twelve Earthly Branches.

This traditional Chinese calendrical system is used as a means of numbering days and years, not only in China but also in other East Asian nations like Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The Sexagenary system is also important in Chinese astrology and Chinese fortune telling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle
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His Majesty the Emperor is the 125th Emperor of Japan, so that his birthday is celebrated as a national holiday on December 23.

His Imperial Highness of Crown Prince, the Emperor's eldest son, was born on February 23, though his grandfather Showa Emperor of Japan was born on April 29, 1901.

For your reference, Pope Benedictus XVI was born on April 16, 1927; Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom was born on April 21, 1926.

Lord Jesus Christ was born, as legend goes, on December 25, A.D. 1.



SECTION I: CAPITAL & LABOR

A record on the San Francisco's General Strike of 1934:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32912172@N00/2666313912/in/photostream/

A record on the Sitdown Strike at GM of 1937:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYjJxstGl7Y&feature=related

Despite the Great Depression that started in 1929 and continued in 1930's all over the world, no revolution occurred in the United States.

Laborers continued to be laborers and capitalists continued to be capitalists eventually.

It is because nobody ordered capitalists to pay wages to all the workers equally, with authority Jesus Christ had had when He ordered to an owner of a vineyard 1900 years ago.

(Success of American workers in 1930's, regardless of its level, put the U.S. more on the justice side than the Empire of Japan during WWII, in my humble view.)


SECTION II: Prophets and Religion

Will any one want to hear a prophecy a servant of the Devil delivers?

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In religion, a prophet is a person who has been contacted by, or has encountered, the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other humans...

In the late 20th century the appellation of a 'prophet' has been used to refer to individuals particularly successful at analysis in the field of economics, such as in the derogatory 'prophet of greed'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet
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The main function of a prophet is thus to protect people, of course, not for any financial profits.


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I once read that some Japanese pilots, actually university students mobilized for a kamikaze mission during WWII, played the piano in a classroom of a primary school near their air base secretly on the eve of making a one-way sortie to the Okinawa area from Japan proper, since they loved Beethoven or so so much.



(Japanese National Anthem [though not played or directed by a Japanese]:
http://www.daisyfield.com/music/jpm/mp3/ZMS01-Kimigayo.mp3

Source:http://www.daisyfield.com/music/japan.htm)




Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.

"Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat"

(Rice fields in winter, Japan; click for magnification.)


TIME AND TIME AGAIN AS LONG AS ONE LIVES


In TV coverage recorded in Tokyo yet to be broadcast, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, the director-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said that he would accept recommendation to assume the premiership if he is recommended to do so by party members.

When it is broadcast, it will excite political speculation as to how much determined the veteran, powerful lawmaker Mr. Ozawa is to take over from incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.

Yet, it depends on how Prime Minister Mr. Hatoyama will come through the budget committee to be started in next January and gain support from swing voters toward the Upper House election scheduled next July.

(Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, a 40-year-long Lower House member, seems to be strongly backed by officials of the Japanese Ministry of Finance and the Chinese Communist Party leaders, though I think it will be Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan that will eventually succeed P.M. Mr. Hatoyama.)


SECTION I: A RICH MAN AND GOD

One night a rich man was convinced that he smartly secured millions or billions of dollars for himself all through a recession.

So, he started to admire and praise himself, since he was convinced that he smartly secured millions or billions of dollars for himself through a recession.

And then, he started to think that he was really special and destined to be different from others as he could buy high-quality houses, clothes, foods, and other goods and services.

Yet, he felt like earning a bit little more money on Wall Street and in City, since he was convinced that he smartly secured millions or billions of dollars for himself all through a recession.

So, with a plenty of new plans and ideas for tomorrow, he went to bed, saying, "Thank you God, I am so lucky!"

Then the God said to the rich man, "How foolish you are! Your life is going to be taken out tonight."

Indeed, the moment when the rich man died that night, he did not have even a bit little of memory of his having enjoyed a high-quality life.

But, people later coming around his bed were just thinking about where his money was stored and hidden, looking so smartly down on him.


SECTION II: History of Bubble Economy

1637: Durch Tulip Mania
At the peak of tulip mania in February 1637, tulip contracts sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble (or economic bubble)...In February 1637, tulip bulb contract prices collapsed abruptly and the trade of tulips ground to a halt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

1720: The South Sea Company
Joseph Spence wrote that Lord Radnor reported to him "When Sir Isaac Newton was asked about the continuance of the rising of South Sea stock… He answered 'that he could not calculate the madness of people'."...Newton's niece Catherine Conduitt reported that he "lost twenty thousand pounds. Of this, however, he never much liked to hear…"[9] This was a fortune at the time (equivalent to about £3 million in present day terms[10])...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_South_Sea_Company

1720: French Mississippi Company
1719-21 share price
1719 May: 500 livres
1720 February: 10,000 livres
1721 September: 500 livres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Company

1920-1929: American Economic Bubble
Urbanization reached a climax in the 1920s. For the first time, more Americans and Canadians lived in cities of 2,500 or more people than in small towns or rural areas. However the nation was fascinated with its great metropolitan centers that contained about 15% of the population. New York and Chicago vied in building skyscrapers, and New York pulled ahead with the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. The finance and insurance industries doubled and tripled in size. The basic pattern of the modern white collar job was set during the late 19th century, but it now became the norm for life in large and medium cities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties#Black_Tuesday

Around 1990: Japanese Asset Price Bubble
For example, there is no doubt that technology and new-era thinking played a major role in the Japanese bubble. During the bubble, Japan took over leadership of high technology in the areas of consumer electronics, the automobile industry, manufacturing, and even robotics, and was perceived as a major threat to dominate all technological development around the globe – just as the U.S. is today...
In the wake of the bubble and bust, Japan experienced a long series of corruption scandals, a procession of failed prime ministers, the ousting of financial ministers, the conviction of bureaucrats for corruption, and the breakup of their one-party system. However, the Japanese have failed to truly recognize the cause of their bubble and to liquidate their economic mistakes.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/thornton/thornton24.html

Till 2008：United States Housing and Financial Bubble
Bush's 2004 campaign slogan "the ownership society" indicates the strong preference and societal influence of Americans to own the homes they live in, as opposed to renting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_United_States_housing_bubble

However, today, the NYSE Dow Jones Average has returned to the 10,000 level. President Mr. Barack Obama has approached top leaders of China, India, Brazil, and even South Africa even at Copenhagen Conference.

A next possible bubble might include China, India, Brazil, and even South Africa in association with the U.S. if not under the Obama Administration.

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2009 XMAS EXTRA:
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A man's life is short but people are many doing a lot of deeds.

Check how many Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions this year, in tons, have been done and going on. Also check how many volumes of non-renewable sources (MWh), namely power-converted oil/coal/gas, are being consumed now by mankind:

http://www.worldometers.info/

It is more than 21 billion tons and 254,000,000 MWh, respectively, as you see.
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(The Pope must have ever listened to this sound, since it was composed by Georg Friederich Kaufmann (1679-1735):

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/sacmus/sound/Kaufmann.mp3

Source:http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/sacmus/documents/rc_ic_sacmus_sound_en.html)




Luk 12:16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

Luk 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?

Luk 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

Luk 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Luk 12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

Luk 12:23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

"the Gentiles trust"

(Japan: pine trees, zelkova trees, cedars, and a volcano north of the Tokyo Area)


Something Reliable Altogether


Santa Claus is not from Rome, Istanbul, or Jerusalem. He is apparently from the Scandinavian Peninsula or Jutland. But why? Why did the Vatican approve such a legend being revered all over Europe or specifically in the north of the Alps? It must be telling a kind of secret of the Vatican and the European history.

Anyway, the year 2009 has now only one week left exclusively 2009, a year of coping, enduring, and surpassing for President Mr. Barack Obama and Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama of Japan as well as their friends.


SECTION I: Japanese Politicians - Prime Minister

Japan's Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama has broken a record, since he travelled overseas seven times in the first three months after his accession to the office of premiership.

In September, he launched a series of diplomacy heading for America to join the U.N. and the G20 Meetings; in October, he flew to Thailand (ASEAN), Korea, and China; in November, he attended the APEC meeting held in Singapore; and in December the prime minister hurried to the Bali Democracy Forum in Indonesia and the Copenhagen Conference, Denmark.

This is very unusual. It is not so desirable basically, though he might be contributing to enhancement of Japanese international presence.

Indeed, while Prime Minister Mr. Hatoyama was flying to America, Asia, and Europe, his domestic approval rating has fallen from 70% to 55%.

(The most possible next prime minister of Japan would be Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan of DPJ in any case of an unpredictable crisis occurring in the Hatoyama Cabinet.)


SECTION II: Japanese Politicians - LDP Members

Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Mr. Ysuhisa Shiozaki complained that the Japan-U.S. relationship could be damaged by the Hatoyama Administration. Lower House member of the LDP Mr. Shiozaki boasts his own international association, including Former Secretary of State Mr. George Shultz, but thinks that mutual trust between the Prime Minister Mr. Hatoyama and President Mr. Barack Obama has vanished, if ever any.

On the other hand, Upper House Member of the former ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, Mr. Hiroshige Seko is busy manipulating a cell phone for Twitter communications, discussing how great "The West Wing" is. There seem to be many fans among Mr. Seko's supporters of this American TV drama featuring the White House.

Mr. Shiozaki and Mr. Seko tried this fall to boost up Mr. Taro Kono, an LDP lawmaker, to presidency of the LDP to succeed former Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso. They failed after challenging big bosses of the party, but Mr. Kono has been busy traveling to Washington D.C. this December. Mr. Kono even visited a balcony of the Russel Bldg. once occupied by Edward Kennedy.
(http://www.taro.org/2009/12/post-672.php)

Finally, Ms. Yukari Sato who lost her seat in the Lower House on the 2009-8-30 general election worried about the future of the LDP, especially after the next national election. Qualified economist Ms. Sato seems to be preparing for the next chance to come back to the National Diet, though she appealed in the last election to a constituency in Tokyo that voters should vote for liberalism but not for socialism the Democratic Party of Japan, an incumbent ruling party, aims at actually.
(http://www.y-sato.org/index.html)

In the early summer of 2010, the next year, the Upper House (House of Councilors) election is to be held in Japan as U.S. State Department officials in charge of Japan must be well aware of.



SECTION III: Miracles by Christmas

It is of course a Pope that decided that December 25 should be celebrated as the birthday of the Lord Jesus Christ, though it was more than 300 years after the death of Jesus Christ.

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In 350 A.D. Pope Julius I decreed that from that time forth the 25th of December would be acknowledged as the date of the Nativity. All of Christendom accepted that decree except for the Armenian church. To that denomination, the Nativity is celebrated on January 6 each year. It should be noted that Julius I's decree came only thirty-seven years after Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Toleration which effectively legalized the Christian religion. Prior to that time anyone who professed the Christian religion were persecuted. In 303 A.D. the Nativity was "celebrated" by Emperor Diocletian by having nearly 20,000 Christians burned to death.

http://www.motherbedford.com/Christmas.htm
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What should be noted is that Xmas was stipulated by the early Vatican during the reign of the Roman Empire.

The New Testament and Xams are two major instruments that connect a Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire to the Roman Civilization, thus providing bases for authority of the Vatican.

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Through the Medieval and Dark Ages, roughly between the 5th and 11th Centuries, the Christian and pagan traditions mingled...

Legend tells us that it was on a Christmas day that Merlin, the reknowned magician of Camelot, called together all of the various leaders of the realms of Britain. Merlin announced that on His birthday, the Lord would reveal to them who would be the rightful king to rule over the entire British Isles. The sign which the Lord gave to the assembled feudal lords and knights was a sword embedded in an anvil. Arthur was the only one who could draw the sword from the "stone" and to him was given the title of the first King of England. The epic story, Le Morte d'Arthur, written in the 15th Century by Sir Thomas Malory, was largely responsible for promoting the legend of Arthur as the heroic Briton who defended the Christian Faith against the hordes of Angles and Saxons who invaded the Isles. Despite the legends of Arthur's prowess in battle, the British Isles were indeed invaded by Germanic peoples who brought with them their particular form of Celtic traditions.

http://www.motherbedford.com/Christmas.htm
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As Anglo-Saxons came from the place today called Denmark or so, King Arthur was not Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Saxons had no tradition to celebrate Xmas. They were Christianized after invading the Great Britain.

As there is an evidence that the Vatican itself diminished to very local religious power after the fall of Rome, Xmas should be reviewed in this historical context.

In my theory, while the Vatican almost gave up hope of recovery from helplessness it had suffered with the fall of Rome losing ancient glory in the darkness of the Dark Ages, those Northern Europeans who accepted Christianity gradually accumulated power and wisdom to establish their own kingdoms so as to respect and revere a Pope still subsisting in the ancient city Rome.

Xmas must have worked as a vehicle for the religion to spread among Northern Europeans who experienced volkerwanderung, since a ritual is always a core of any human community.

Even Anglo-Saxons must have loved Xmas festivity and naturally came to respect the Bible written in Latin.

One of key factors to understanding the Dark Ages, from 500 to 1000, is Christmas.

It is so, since Christmas was so modified to well appeal to Anglo-Saxons and other Northern Europeans, uncultivated tribes before 1000.

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2009 XMAS EXTRA:
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SquareTrade Research's ranking of Notebook PC makers in terms of reliability:
1. Asus (Taiwan)
2. Toshiba (JAPAN)
3. Sony (JAPAN)
4. Apple (USA)
5. Dell (USA)
7. Levono (China)
8. Acer (Taiwan)
9. Gateway (USA)
10. HP (USA)

http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/laptop-reliability-1109/
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In addition, I recently purchased a new printer made by HP...



(With a record snow falling in America and Europe while Copenhagen Conference was in a showdown turmoil, Santa Claus has come...so that I chose one for you among 12 versions of the Santa Song.

http://xmas-count-down.com/10_/12santa2/stclaus6.mid

Source:http://xmas-count-down.com/10_/12santa2/santa2town.htm)




Mat 12:20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Mat 12:21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

THREE MAJOR FACTORS FOR ECONOMY

(Very common local scenery of Japan)

THREE MAJOR FACTORS FOR ECONOMY AND ECONOMICS

Special Discussion for 2009 Christmas
by EEE Reporter


According to Forbes, "the 10 richest Americans lost a combined $39.2 billion in the past 12 months, a 14% decline."

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The Richest People In America by Forbes

Rank.. ...Name.. ...Net Worth ($mil).. .. ...Source
1: William Gates III.. .. ..50,000.. .. ..Microsoft
2: Warren Buffett.. .. ..40,000.. .. ..Berkshire Hathaway
3: Lawrence Ellison.. .. ..27,000.. .. ..Oracle
4: Christy Walton & family....21,500....Wal-Mart
5: Jim C. Walton.. .. ..19,600.. .. ..Wal-Mart
6: Alice Walton.. .. ..19,300.. .. ..Wal-Mart
7: S. Robson Walton.. .. ..19,000.. .. ..Wal-Mart
8: Michael Bloomberg.. .. ..17,500.. .. ..Bloomberg
9: Charles Koch.. .. ..16,000.. .. ..manufacturing, energy
9: David Koch.. .. ..16,000.. .. ..manufacturing, energy
11: Sergey Brin.. .. ..15,300.. .. ..Google
11: Larry Page.. .. ..15,300.. .. ..Google
13: Michael Dell.. .. ..14,500.. .. ..Dell
14: Steven Ballmer.. .. ..13,300.. .. ..Microsoft
15: George Soros.. .. ..13,000.. .. ..hedge funds

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/54/rich-list-09_The-400-Richest-Americans_Rank.html
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Microsoft is a software maker, mainly, of the operating system for PCs.

Oracle is a software maker providing applications for PCs.

Dell is a hardware maker of personal computers.

Google is an Internet service provider specializing in information search.

Bloomberg is a financial information provider based on computers.

So, the first major factor is telecommunications and computing technologies. Wal-Mart and Wall Street hedge funds also highly rely on these technologies.

And thus, you have to well understand history of development of today's telecommunications and computing technologies so as to be a good economist.

The second major factor is, of course, businesses, enterprises, and companies.

Without relying on businesses, enterprises, and companies, no one can be rich. And thus, you have to well understand history of development of today's corporations.

For example, the 9/11 2001 Terror could have been be avoided if America had been able to use more effectively telecommunications and computing technologies and business power.

The 2008 Subprime Loan-triggered Wall Street crisis could have been avoided if America had been able to use more effectively telecommunications and computing technologies and business power.

If you could fully utilize them, most of arguments by today's economists are of no use.

It is so, since no huge debts and deficits, no interest rate problems, and no unemployment problems would become problems at issue.

As for Japan's deflation and other economic problems, one of the major factors is of course China.

No American economists, including Mr. Summers and Mr. Bernanke, have not discussed the influence of China on Japan in the so-called lost decade of Japan.

If China is at the place of Canada or Mexico, America would also suffer deflation and the lost decade.

As such a huge economic potential of China started to rise in 1990's so close to Japan geographically, there must have been a huge influence on Japan in 1990's.

This is the answer to the question on why Japan had to suffer the economic plight in 1990's while China was emerging, which no American economists, including Mr. Summers and Mr. Bernanke, could understand.

It is not because Japanese were fools but Japanese were too smart to help China succeed in 1990's to 2000's.

Anyway, it tells that the third major factor in today's economics is a nation.

But, a nations is conditioned by its history, tradition, culture, religion, etc. which American economists, including Mr. Summers and Mr. Bernanke, could not well understand. Accordingly, they were frustrated so much why Japan could not pull out of the economic plight more efficiently as China was developing so efficiently.

The answer is that as Japan was helping China grow so efficiently Japan itself could not pull out of the economic plight more efficiently.

But, it also tells that Japan thought helping China was better than suppressing China from view points of history, environment, and justice.

Indeed, history, environment, and justice are what American Nobel laureate-class economists cannot well understand.

Or, could any of them tell what China in 1970's should do to be a global economic power in the early 21st century based on their economics theory?

The answer is to recommend the Chinese Communist Party to acquire friends as many as possible from Japan and win favor as much as possible from Japan, which is however what cannot be expressed in their economics formulae.


Truly, no Top 10 rich men in America today have followed economists to be rich and establish influence on the American economy, since "the 10 richest Americans lost a combined $39.2 billion in the past 12 months, a 14% decline."


(To be continued...)



(In Japan, the song "Mollie Darling" was translated as a song for praising sheer beuty of the winter night sky full of stars so far...though it was composed by an American William Shakespeare Hays (1837-1907) as a love song.

http://www.victoriaspast.com/Midis/molliedarlin.mid
Source:http://www.victoriaspast.com/AMomentInTime/momentintime.html)

"because ye know not the scriptures"

(Volcano Asama, 120 Km north of Tokyo)


Maybe You Are in a Christmas Mode as You are Blessed by the Lord...Oh, Holy Night, Silent Night...Yes We Are in a Christmas Mode as We are Blessed by the Lord...Ah, Holy Night, Silent Night...


It has been snowing heavily also in Japan this week. Even a coastal area on the Sea of Japan, just 100 miles north of Tokyo, was covered by a half-meter depth of snow over a night.

(http://mainichi.jp/select/wadai/graph/20091217_2/ )

For homeless people in Tokyo, New York, and other cities in the Northern Hemisphere, global cooling or a coming of the Little Ice Age is far worse than global warming.

The global warming is another form of the problem of poverty: the global gap between rich countries and poor countries.

(The U.S. strategy for the 21st century is to remain rich by tying up with new rich countries of the 21st century, such as China, India, Brazil, and South Africa, regardless of global warming or global cooling.)



SECTION I: COPENHAGEN FIASCO AND SHOWDOWN

The COP 15 Conference revealed something critical as the U.S. with China, India, Brazil, and South Africa lost respect from poor countries while European major nations and Russia were found to be useless.

"There is some anger among [many] ... developing nations. They say that this deal has been done essentially with the Americans, the Chinese, the South Africans and the Brazilians and the Indians and they have had no real input."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/12/20091218224724782996.html

The world is now divided into three groups: Europe plus Russia losing global respect; the U.S. and other mega nations simply respecting one another; and others who respect Japan.

It is neither CO2 nor temperature measurement but the control of consumption and use of crude oil, coal, and natural gas that must be advertised to world citizens.

Big money being generated between the CO2 talk and the oil/coal/gas business must be distributed to poor countries who are facing poverty, starving, and other violence-related crises before worry about global warming.

Copenhagen indeed failed in presenting a forum for justice. Only Japan proposed a concrete plan with true intention to make monetary contribution.

"Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese premier, who has offered nearly $20bn towards a global climate fund, said the summit would deliver a 'robust' if 'not necessarily perfect' statement on fighting global warming."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/12/20091218224724782996.html



SECTION II: POOR PEOPLE IN 2009

FACT 1. Poor Old Workers in America
In America, 4.1 million people at an age of 65 and older were active in the job market in 2001. Today, 6.6 million Americans 65 and older are active in the job market, mostly because they need money for their subsistence.

FACT 2. Poor Farmers and Factory Workers in China
There are more than 40 million poor people in China officially identified as being poor by the Chinese Government. However, Chinese ex-farmers working in factories also face bad conditions, since foreign companies, such as Wal-Mart Stores are requesting cost reduction more and more to Chinese makers.

(http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4822247139.html

http://www.amazon.com/China-Price-Chinese-Competitive-Advantage/dp/1594201579)

FACT 3. Homelessness in Rich Countries
The number of homeless persons as reported in Wikipedia:
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European Union: 3,000,000 (UN-HABITAT 2004)
- United Kingdom: 10,459 rough sleepers, 98,750 households in temporary accommodation

Canada: 150,000

Australia: In total, 99,900 people were homeless in 2001

United States: 671,888 sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons nationwide.
- Sheltered Homeless Persons during a One-Year Period, October 2006 to September 2007, that about 1,589,000 persons used an emergency shelter and/or transitional housing during the 12-month period, which is about 1 in every 200 persons in the United States was in a homeless facility in that time period.

Japan: 20,000-100,000 (some figures put it at 200,000-400,000)[103] Reports show that homelessness is on the rise in Japan since the mid-1990s.[104]

(Note: According to the Japanese Government, there were 18,564 homeless persons in Japan as of January 2007. The data in Wikipedia is apparently inaccurate and anti-Japanese. )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness
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FACT 4. Refugees
According to Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are 42 million refugees worldwide in 2009.

Yet, roughly speaking two billion people in the world are living a rich or comfortable life; other two billion people are living a modest or humble life; and the last two billion people have no hope for living a rich or comfortable life.

How you regard a person poorer than you decides how the God regards you poorer than the God.

If you forsake them while you have life, the God or Allah will forsake you after the end of your life.

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Tonight I saw an NHK TV program featuring Japanese midget submarines having been carried by a large submarine and then released underwater for the Pearl Harbor Attack, the Sydney Harbor Attack, etc. during WWII.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-minisub7-2009dec07,0,6991792.story

(http://www.geocities.jp/torikai007/1945/kouhyouteki.html)

No war is inevitable, which is my understanding regarding the Pearl Harbor Attack. It is so, though 99% of the people think in any era that leaders are doing their best to avoid war. However, leaders would make war if they think they would lose power or reputation unless they open war.

War is only justified when the God specifically tells you to open war, which you must prove before the people. Otherwise, place defense forces within the territory...




(Some people, maybe including you, say this is the best popular Christmas song composed by a Japanese:
http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/kakinoki/midi/midi012.html

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/tatsuro-yamashita-christmas-eve/4081979499 )


Mar 12:19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Mar 12:20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

Mar 12:21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

Mar 12:22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

Mar 12:23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

Mar 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

Mar 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

"Judgment to the Gentiles"

Riches, GDP, Energy, Heat, and Warming


Everybody was afraid of CIA and FBI all over the world.

But, now not so much, since CIA and FBI could not arrest one outstanding terror suspect Mr. Osama bin Laden.

Conversely, if CIA and FBI could take Mr. Osama bin Laden to a court in Washington D.C. or New York to do justice on him, America would be more respected.

Indeed, without Mr. Osama bin Laden around 2000, there should not have been the War on Iraq and the War in Afghanistan.

Truly, one of the biggest news stories in 2009 is, again, the failure in apprehension of Mr. Osama bin Laden.

Or otherwise, will President Mr. Barack Hussein Obama can withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in any future without apprehension of Mr. Osama bin Laden?

Or extremely, can he rely on China and India in this context?

Check Japanese volunteers in Afghanistan (a 2010 Nobel Peace Prize candidate):
http://www1a.biglobe.ne.jp/peshawar/eg/annai.html


SECTION I: CIA's GDPs

CIA adopts a nation's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates which is the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States.

According to it, Top 17 GDP countries as of 2008 estimated are as follows:
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Rank...country.....GDP (purchasing power parity)
1 EU.. ......$ 14,940,000,000,000
2 USA...... $ 14,440,000,000,000
3 China...... $ 7,992,000,000,000
4 Japan...... $ 4,340,000,000,000
5 India.... ... $ 3,304,000,000,000
6 Germany...... $ 2,925,000,000,000
7 Russia...... $ 2,271,000,000,000
8 UK... ... .. $ 2,236,000,000,000
9 France...... $ 2,133,000,000,000
10 Brazil...... $ 1,998,000,000,000
11 Italy...... $ 1,827,000,000,000
12 Mexico...... $ 1,567,000,000,000
13 Spain...... $ 1,402,000,000,000
14 Korea, South...... $ 1,338,000,000,000
15 Canada...... $ 1,303,000,000,000
16 Indonesia...... $ 916,700,000,000
17 Turkey...... $ 903,900,000,000 2008

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html
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I have a feeling that CIA is clandestinely working together with China to prevent world citizens from respecting Japan more than America...



SECTION II: Nominal GDP, Land Size, and Population



(http://ecodb.net/ranking/imf_ngdpd.html )

Here you have to divide GDP by an area and population of each country to see how much potential a country has per area and per person.

Results are:
#---COUNTRY----GDP /(Area X Population)
1...S. Korea.... ... ..1952
2...UK.... ... ..1778
3...Italy.... ... ..1283
4...Germany.... ... ..1252
5...Japan.... ... ..1022
6...France.... ... ..841
7...Spain.... ... ..707
8...Australia.... ... ..62
9...Mexico.... ... ..50
10...USA.... ... ..49
11...Canada.... ... ..45
12...Brazil.... ... ..10
13...Russia.... ... ..7
14...China.... ... ..3
15...India.... ... ..3

You can see the truth more clearly in the figure below:

(Click to enlarge)

Now you must have something to say, think over, or claim.

However, it is apparent that major economies can be divided into the following groups:

GROUP-A: Western Europe and Far East
S. Korea, UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, France, Spain

Group-B: New Continental Region
Australia, Mexico, USA, Canada

Group-C: Mega Countries
Brazil, Russia, China, India

You should not deal with all the economies alike applying the American Standard.

Indeed, economists never conduct this sort of analysis, since they cannot understand importance of features, characteristics, traditions, cultures, environments, and climates of nations in the world. (Do not involve economists in the global warming discussions, since it is a highly religious matter at its core of the issue.)

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2009 XMAS EXTRA:
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Where Chinese Students Go to Study Abroad (as of 2007)?
1. USA...98,958
2. JAPAN...80,231
3. Australia...50,418

Where Indian Students Go to Study Abroad (as of 2007)?
1. USA...85,687
2. England...23,833
3. Australia...24,523

Where Korean Students Go to Study Abroad (as of 2007)?
1. USA...63,772
2. JAPAN... 22,109
3. Australia...5,430

Where Japanese Students Go to Study Abroad (as of 2007)?
1. USA...36,062
2. England...5,706
3. Australia...3,249

Note: Each figure is a number of students learning in the specified country.

(http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/honkawa/8022.html )

Now you know why well educated Chinese and Koreans respect Japan more than Japanese respect England.
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("If I never had a cent I'll be as loaded as old Rockefeller...," since Xmas of 2009 is now within range.

http://midistudio.com/Audio/SunnySide/index.html )



Mat 12:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

Mat 12:18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

Mat 12:19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.



　　

"A fool's wrath"

(Tokyo Subway Map; Not all the Tokyo people are humble, wise, gentle, or courageous...though far better than coward leaders of terror...)


BE A HUMBLE WITNESS IF NOT A DIRECT CONTRIBUTOR


Mr. George Shultz was being interviewed as I observed on a cable TV channel around Tokyo yesterday.

He was talking about something of 1968 and some administrative dealing with a big railroad company of the era, since Mr. Shultz was United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970.

Too big financial companies must be split for corporate breakup so as to avoid such a huge financial catastrophe as observed in 2008, according to my interpretation of his view.

Anyway, the spirit of 1960's might be still alive with Mr. Henry Kissinger and Mr. George Shultz still having something to say, though the former took up the office of Secretary of State in 1970's (1973-1977) and the latter in 1980's (1982-1989), so impressively.

(Secretary General of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan Mr. Ichiro Ozawa was first elected as national lawmaker in 1969, though today he still keeping a Lower House seat looks like an elder brother of P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama...)


SECTION I: JAPANESE VIEWS SURVEYED IN 2009

The Japanese Government made public results of its periodical survey on voters' opinion.

To America:
Have a friendly feeling...78.9%
No friendly feeling...19.1%

Concerning Japan's Relationship with America:
Judge to be in good conditions...81.8%
Not in good conditions...14.4%

To China:
Have a friendly feeling...38.5%
No friendly feeling...58.5%

Concerning Japan's Relationship with China:
Judge to be in good conditions...38.5%
Not in good conditions...55.2%

As for U.N. Security Council Membership:
Japan should be a member...79.2%
Japan should not be...6.8%

(By Public Service Section, Minister's Secretariat of Cabinet Office of Japan [http://www8.cao.go.jp/survey/h21/h21-gaiko/index.html, Tel- 03(3581)0070])

As Japanese people who have a friendly feeling to Australia account for about 50% of all, China should make more efforts to gain friendship from ordinary Japanese citizens.

Americans' voting for Mr. Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election apparently had a good influence on the Japanese view on America, since 76.3% of the Japanese judged the relationship with America to be good two years ago, 5% less than today.


SECTION II: Religion as Reaction in History

In 2006 B.C, Elam, an ancient civilization located in what is now southwest Iran, finally destroyed the last Sumerian kingdom 3rd Dynasty of Ur.

Accordingly, Abraham and his father with other members of their clan left Ur to Palestine, though they looked like a kind of nomadic Sumerians living around the great city Ur.

Since the God was not pleased by Elam and subsequent Amorite hegemony, Abraham's God supported him to flee Mesopotamia and further take shelter in Egypt.

Egypt with power of building Pyramids, however, could not satisfy the God. The God chose Hebrews as He saw that Egyptians could not cope with Greeks and Romans.

The God further helped Hebrews since He saw that Persians could not surpass Greeks and Romans, allowing them to compile the Old Testament.

Nonetheless, the God sent Jesus Christ among Israelites around 1 B.C. or 6 B.C., since He found that Israelites could not even check the Roman Empire.

Though Christianity prevailed in the Roman Empire, the God found that the Vatican was useless to spread His glory to the Arab world and Central Asia. He also found grave flaws in European Christianity, so that he sent an Angel to Arabs with His holy words.

So, Islam protected Arabs, Persians, Turks, and others from invasion by European Christians.

Yet, around 1500 when Europeans started to sail to Africa and Asia, the God judged that the Vatican alone was not enough to prevail His glory in the world, so that He set Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) and Martin Luther (1483 – 1546) for two missions: America and Protestantism.

In the late 19th century, the God finally chose Japan to check America and Europe, violently exploiting Africans, Latin Americans, and Asians, while allowing America to defeat Japan in WWII so as to introduce Christian Democracy into Japan.

This is the sequence of incidents spotlighted from a standpoint of religion which was enabled by the God as reaction to destructive force in history.

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2009 XMAS EXTRA:
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Top 10 Car Makers of the World in 2009

Now, the market has data on global car sales in the first half of 2009. Among top 10, Japanese makers have secured 4 seats, while a Korean maker jumped to the 4th position.

1. TOYOTA (Japan)
Japanese car maker Toyota Motor Corporation is the world's largest car manufacturer. It has sold 3,564,105 units in the first half of 2009 compared to 4,815,442 units in the first half of 2008.

2. GENERAL MOTORS (USA)
General Motors could sell 3,552,722 units compared to last year's 4,541,125 units.

3. VOLKSWAGEN (Germany)
It sold 3,100.300 units this year compared to 3,265,200 units of previous years.

4. HYUNDAI-KIA (Korea)
The Korean car maker showed global sales for the first half of 2009 at 2,153,000 units.

5. FORD (USA)
Presently, it is world's fifth largest car maker with 2,145,000 units of global sales.

6. PSA PEUGEOT-CITROEN (France)
The French car company sold 1,586,900 units in 2009.

7. HONDA (Japan)

8. NISSAN (Japan)

9. SUZUKI (Japan)

10. RENAULT　(France)


http://www.carazoo.com/article/0409200901/Top-10-Car-Makers-of-the-World-in-2009
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So, four of the Top 10 car makers in the world are now Japanese makers.
Incredibly, five of Top 10 car makers in the world are now Far East enterprises.
Plus, "the Nissan-Renault Alliance is world's fourth largest car maker if their individual units were taken together."

If you are a rich man, I would not be surprised if you have 10 different cars from each of the above car manufacturer. Then, present them to the poor as it is Christmas.

As for me, I once had a Mitsubishi car and Nissan cars.



Pro 12:16 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

Pro 12:17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

Pro 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

"the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house "

Everybody wants to see His Majesty the Emperor in Tokyo, even the 6th ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's de facto top power organ.

So, Mr. Xi Jinping, China's Vice President, was successfully admitted to the Imperial Palace to have a courteous talk with the Emperor for 24 minutes in Tokyo yesterday.

However, Mr. Xi is a little different from, say, U.S. Vice President, since Mr. Xi is the 6th ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of China.

Anyway, if you want to see in person His Majesty the Emperor in Japan, you have to solicit an imperial favor in this context to the Imperial Household Agency through the Japanese Government at least one month prior to your preferred date, since the Emperor is respectfully old and busy sometimes in holy duty of imperial Shintoism.

Finally, it is Prime Minister of Japan who has the sole national right to collect tax and command the Self Defence Forces of Japan subject to the Constitution introduced after WWII.



SECTION I: America's Place in the World

Unlike members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), ordinary Americans lack correct information and notions about Japan and China, partly because of so much biased Wall Street's advertising of Chinese money to raise expectations among consumers and investors about investment returns.

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The US and the World: as Americans See It - 2009
By Patricia H. Kushlis

...
The Pew Charitable Trusts has been releasing its most recent public opinion polls on how the world sees the United States and, conversely, how Americans see the world and the US role in it over the past few weeks.
...
Although CFR members see China as less of a threat to the US and an increasingly important future ally than they did earlier in the decade, the American public remains wary. Over 53% of the latter group say "that China represents a major threat to the U.S" even though Iran is "mentioned most often" as posing "the greatest danger to the US."
...
In comparison only 30% of the American public believe the US international position has not declined...But both CFR members (92%) and the Americans (70%) surveyed think that the US should be involved in shared world leadership – as opposed to single leadership – whatever that means
...
While China is seen as a growing economic power and 44% of the Americans surveyed named China as the world's leading economic power and only 27% naming the US (sic), the report does not include a comparative figure for the opinions of CFR members. One can only hope that their information is more accurate because the statistics I’ve seen indicate the US – despite all its economic problems and deep recession – remains well ahead of China as number 1. Nevertheless, the Chinese economy is growing rapidly –and has recently surpassed Japan as the second largest economy.
...
But here are the figures as reported in The Economist's World in 2010. For 2009 US GDP totaled $14,840 billion while China’s was $5,588 billion and Japan’s $5,128 billion).
...
Meanwhile, the American public (63%) still sees the US as the world’s leading military power while 18% (sic) think China is and 57% of Americans think the US should "try to maintain America’s role as the world’s only military superpower."

http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledview/2009/12/the-us-and-the-world-as-americans-see-it.html
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It is apparent that the American public is under a bad influence of Wall Street's advertising of Chinese money.

It is so, since they do not know that in China there is no freedom to freely express individual view on government policies, politics, politicians, and international relationships, say, with America and Japan.


SECTION II: The (Religious) Reformation

Between the First Crusade and the 21st century lies the Reformation, since it was set off around 1500, somehow significantly.

Yet, you must realize that Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) preceded Martin Luther (1483 – 1546) though both the heroes lived around 1500.

Here we can find the very miracle of history.

The root of the United States is older, though slightly, than the first Bible book published in a language other than Latin.

In other word, the root of the United States is older, though slightly, the root of Protestant churches.

Extremely, the history of the United States is older than that of Protestant churches.

What I mean is that the U.S. does not necessarily have to be a protestant country, according to the will of the God being manifested in the concrete sequence of facts in history.


SECTION III: The (Religious) Reformation 2

It was money that finally triggered the revolt against the Pope and the Vatican around 1500.

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In 1516-17, Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar and papal commissioner for indulgences, was sent to Germany by the Roman Catholic Church to sell indulgences to raise money to rebuild St Peter's Basilica in Rome.[27] Roman Catholic theology stated that faith alone, whether fiduciary or dogmatic, cannot justify man;[28] and that only such faith as is active in charity and good works (fides caritate formata) can justify man.[29]

The benefits of good works could be obtained by donating money to the church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
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So, the last semi-millennium period began with Columbus' discovery of the American Continent and Luther's revolt against the Pope with the underlying crisis of contamination of the Christian world by money.

This 500-year period is going to end with America's rise and change, Protestant power's rise and change, and the Vatican still being unable to solve the money contamination issue.

The new semi-millennium period is however already emerging with the new nation Israel established around Jerusalem, direct confrontation between Islam and Israel/America, and global awareness of possible destructive money power as observed on Wall Street and City.

China rising and undergoing a change, too, without democracy and freedom of religion cannot be a savior of the Christian world, including Wall Street and the American labor market.

Nonetheless, holy reformation can be possible even in Japan, the greatest contributor to today's China's rise, since Japan alone has unique historical tradition in terms of coins and money.

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2009 Xmas Extra:
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This November the most distant miracle happened for mankind, namely at a point in the space as far as the Sun from the earth:

Hayabusa, a space craft launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in May 2003, is now flying back to the earth with a sample of material taken from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa (dimensions 540 meters by 270 meters by 210 meters) on which Hayabusa had landed as the world first trial. But, one of the world most advanced ion engines stopped.

On November 4, 2009, the ion engine D automatically stopped working due to the anomaly from degradation.

On November 19, 2009, JAXA announced that they managed to combine the ion generator of ion engine B and the neutralizer of ion engine A. It is suboptimal but expected to be sufficient to generate the necessary delta-v. Out of 2,200 m/s delta-v necessary to return to the earth, about 2,000 m/s had been performed already, and about 200 m/s still necessary.

And, this needed orbit modification, 200 m/s, is estimated by JAXA to be automatically achieved sooner or later; Hayabusa is scheduled to return to the earth in June 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa#Scientific_and_engineering_importance_of_the_mission

http://www.isas.ac.jp/j/topics/topics/2009/1126.shtml
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Have you encountered any miracles this November, if not so far from the earth?

Believe in Japanese technology in 2010, too.




Gen 12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Gen 12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

Gen 12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

Gen 12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Gen 12:19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

Gen 12:20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

"cast unto the earth"

(Tokyo Shinjuku Railway Terminals, an old and nostalgic place for some Japanese in a foreign country...; click to enlarge)


FACTS, DATA, FORMULAE & THEORY


Total export of the Japanese listed companies (excluding the financial sector from the total 3700 businesses) to Asia between April and September has surpassed that to America for the first time by quarter basis.

Taiwan and Korea now export to China more than to America or Japan.

In this context, significance of American military presence in Japan and East Asia must be reviewed, since Japan spends a defense budget equivalent to only 0.9% of its GDP while the U.K. 2.4%.


SECTION I: GLOBAL WARMING

The year 2009 is not the hottest year in history, according to the Japanese Meteorological Agency.

Difference in Temperature from Standard Year:

Year---Global---N.Hemisphere---S.H.
1989 ... +0.05. .. +0.10... 0.00
1990 ... +0.19. .. +0.30... +0.08
1991 ... +0.12. .. +0.16... +0.09
1992 ... -0.02. .. -0.04... 0.00
1993 ... +0.01. .. -0.01... +0.03
1994 ... +0.08. .. +0.15... +0.01
1995 ... +0.16. .. +0.27... +0.05
1996 ... +0.06. .. +0.06... +0.05
1997 ... +0.24. .. +0.31... +0.16
1998 ... +0.37. .. +0.45... +0.28
1999 ... +0.15. .. +0.24... +0.04
2000 ... +0.15. .. +0.24... +0.05
2001 ... +0.27. .. +0.35... +0.18
2002 ... +0.31. .. +0.39... +0.22
2003 ... +0.31. .. +0.42... +0.19
2004 ... +0.27. .. +0.41... +0.13
2005 ... +0.32. .. +0.47... +0.16
2006 ... +0.31. .. +0.45... +0.16
2007 ... +0.28. .. +0.46... +0.09
2008 ... +0.20. .. +0.34... +0.06
2009 ... +0.31*. .. +0.40*... +0.22*

Note: The data of 2009 is on the temporary base.
(http://www.data.kishou.go.jp/climate/cpdinfo/temp/list/an_wld.html )


It can be interpreted that the global warming hit the peak in 2006, but it is still under the influence of the momentum of the temperature rise in 1990's and early 2000's.



SECTION II: UNEMPLOYMENT

There are many factors that decide an employment rate of any given era:

R = F(I, W, C, O, P, D, IE, CE, BP, II,...)

R: Unemployment rate of any given period
I: Inflation rate
W: Wage level
C: Domestic consumption level
O: Industrial output
P: Productivity
D: Deflation pressure
IE: Industrial expectations
CE: Consumer expectations
BP: Business potential
II: Industrial innovation

You have to decide or find the function with the above parameters which does not only give a forecast of future unemployment but also a clue to decrease unemployment.

However, once or till 1968, economists solely relied on the following function:
R = F(I), that is only unemployment vs. an inflation rate or a wage level

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The long-run Phillips Curve was thus vertical, so there was no trade-off between inflation and unemployment. Edmund Phelps won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2006 for this.

In the diagram, the long-run Phillips curve is the vertical red line. The NAIRU theory says that when unemployment is at the rate defined by this line, inflation will be stable. However, in the short-run policymakers will face an inflation-unemployment rate tradeoff marked by the "Initial Short-Run Phillips Curve" in the graph. Policymakers can therefore reduce the unemployment rate temporarily, moving from point A to point B through expansionary policy. However, according to the NAIRU, exploiting this short-run tradeoff will raise inflation expectations, shifting the short-run curve rightward to the "New Short-Run Phillips Curve" and moving the point of equilibrium from B to C. Thus the reduction in unemployment below the "Natural Rate" will be temporary, and lead only to higher inflation in the long run.

Since the short-run curve shifts outward due to the attempt to reduce unemployment, the expansionary policy ultimately worsens the exploitable tradeoff between unemployment and inflation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve
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It is not R = F(I) but R = F(I, W, C, O, P, D, IE, CE, BP, II,...) with specific weights on specific parameters according to characteristics of a given period of history.

Most simply, R = F(B) where "B" is a potential of businesses to employ workers; and
B = G(CP, FP) where "CP" is a current profit and "FP" is a future profit; and
FP = H(SC, TC, NC) where "SC" is social conditions, "TC" is technological conditions, and "NC" is the natural conditions while SC includes international conditions.

You may find a great relationship between F and ,say, "I," or a great behavior of F against, say, "I," but it is just a part of far more complicated features of the function F.

What an economist should say is to achieve what for the rich or the poor what must be done to what extent by the government, businesses, and consumers.

Conversely, if all the rich men in a nation decide to increase unemployment "R," they can do it very easily, since R = F(Will to make poor people unhappy).

They might do it, since, after that, they can hire workers at lower wages...



SECTION III: UNEMPLOYMENT (2)

It is said that the unemployed were almost respected in Europe during the Middle Ages, since the poor are blessed by the God, according to the doctrine of the Vatican.

However Protestant Reformation changed this view, so that the poor and the unemployed came to be despised and hated because idleness came to be regarded as a sin like greed.

So, it is apparent that religion comes before economics.

Accordingly, you had better wonder what Islam and Judaism say about the unemployed.


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2009 Xmas Extra:

TIME's choice of Top 10 gadgets in 2009:
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Top 10 Gadgets
1. Motorola Droid
2. The Nook
3. Dyson Air Multiplier
4. iPhone 3GS
5. Canon EOS-1D Mark IV (Canon of Japan)
6. Dell Adamo XPS
7. FinePix Real 3D W1 (Fujifilm of Japan)
8. Casio G-Shock GW7900B-1 (Casio of Japan)
9. Beats Solo by Dr. Dre
10. Panasonic G10 Series Plasma HDTVs (Panasonic of Japan)

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944278,00.html
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Gadget makers should employ more workers for 2010 sale.





Rev 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

Rev 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

"Jesus was coming to Jerusalem"

(Shinjyuku, Tokyo)

ECONOMIC CRUSADE OR CYBER CRUSADE


It is time for the Japanese Government to issue government notes but not government bonds.

The Ministry of Finance must create and prepare a 100 trillion yen ($one trillion) bill and deposit it into its account in the Bank of Japan.

Then the Ministry should withdraw BOJ notes worth 100 trillion yen ($one trillion) from the account to use them for its budget compilation.

Inflation will not occur in the domestic market; the value of yen will not fall in the exchange market; and the mind of consumers will be brightened to behave in a forward-looking manner.

Juts a sheet of paper with the number, a 100 trillion yen, and a signature of the Minister of Finance would solve the decades-long financial problem of Japan.


SECTION I: PEOPLE

Mr. Susumu Nishibe was talking with Mr. Makoto Staka on a cable TV channel I viewed on the weekend.

As they are very popular critics and authors in Japan, I listened to them while.

Ex-professor of University of Tokyo Mr. Nishibe was praising Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

He also rebuked the Cuban regime before Mr. Fidel Castro's.

Then, on Sunday night, I saw Mr. Lawrence Summers presenting his own forecast of the American economy.

Then this Monday morning of Japan, I found that Paul Anthony Samuelson, a Mr. Lawrence Summers' uncle, just died, though the first American Nobel Prize winner in economics was born in 1915.

And, I checked an article Mr. Paul Krugman wrote on The New York Times to find something reasonable, since he meant that transactions tax could thwart ultra-short-term run financing.

The possibility to earn a huge return using ultra-short-term run financing must turn an ordinary citizen into a greedy Wall Street guy.

There is of course something that turns a hero in revolution or economics into a half-rotten rich man in any era or any country.


SECTION II: CRUSADE

Believe or not, 1000 years after the great war between the Roman Empire and Israelites, Jerusalem was again turned into a bloody stage of war.

Believe or not, close to 1000 years after the first crusade, the truly only successful crusade among several, Jerusalem has been again turned into a bloody stage of war.

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The First Crusade was a military expedition by European Christians to regain the Holy Lands taken by the Muslim conquest of the Levant, which resulted in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to the appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexius I...


Given that the First Crusade was largely concerned with Jerusalem, a city which had not been under Christian dominion for 461 years, as well as the crusader army's refusal to return the land to Byzantine control, the status of the First Crusade as defensive or as aggressive in nature remains controversial, both within academias and without.

Although these gains lasted for less than two hundred years, the First Crusade was part of the Christian response to the Islamic conquests, as well as the first major step towards reopening international trade in the West since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade
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This first crusade heralded the coming of the new millennium for Europe, passing through the intermediate era after the fall of Rome.

However, the Pope did not move his church or the Vatican to Jerusalem on this occasion, which set the course, the fate, and meaning of existence of Europe for coming 1000 years.

Believe or not, the Age of the Crusade ended when Israel survived the 20th century to the 21st with help from the U.S. in my historical view.

Believe or not, we are in the middle of the most decisive situation in these 1000 or 2000 years.

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2009 Xmas Extra
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The World Safest Internet Domains:

Country/Name....TLD.......Score...Tested Domain Number
1. Governments.....GOV.......104...... ...4,345
2. Japan...........JP........103..... ...395,615
3. Education.......EDU.......102...... ...9,584
4. Ireland... ..... ....IE........101...... ...27,683
5. Croatia..... .....HR........100...... ...18,781
6. Catalonia.... ...CAT.......99...... ...3,460
7. Luxemburg.......LU........98...... ...5,750
8. Vanuatu.... ..... ..VU........97...... ...13,604
9. South Africa......ZA........96...... ...60,400
10. Switzerland.....CH........95...... ...197,361

By McAfee: http://www.mcafee.com/japan/security/mtmw_2009.asp

Note: TLD - Top level domain name
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So, if you access a Japanese domain ".jp" in the Internet, you are almost as safe as you access a Web site of your government.

The Cameroon domain ".cm"; the China domain ".cn"; and the Samoa domain ".ws" are the most dangerous domain names in 2009.

However, you may find nice people in Cameroon, China, and Samoa like you do in Japan.

It is so, since Japan is the only major country in the world to be honored over the Internet cyber space in 2009, too.




Joh 12:12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Joh 12:13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Joh 12:14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,

Joh 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.