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i relish the oppuritunity to rant once in a while, let off a little steam.
Qabiil talk is boooring...
a continuation of my previous rant and an answer to abdi-ismail about japan.
Took me a long time but ive come to realize that the japanese have been conning the rest of the world for a very long time.
People talk about the Lost Decades, when Japan stopped growing quickly and had something like 1% growth with near zero inflation and near zero interest rates for the past 20 years.
This was coming down from the 1980's when japan was the big bad unstopable monster that would overtake the US by 2000.
The truth is after a minor recession they recovered quickly in the mid 90's and everything else has been going to plan for them since then.
The have increased their manufacturing exports, and they have captured practically every last technological niche out there and have sucked the US and to a lesser extent the EU dry out of whats left in advanced scientific know how.
Since the 90's they have established chock holds on the entire worlds manufacturing of advanced technology and they spend nearly as much on basic research as the Americans and are more efficient as they get out more patents and research papers from every dollar spent.
e.g. NAND memory, flash memory chips, chipsets and more important the machines responsible for building silicon wafers are called Steppers.
There are only 3 companies in the world that make them now, 2 are Japanese with 70% of the worlds market and the other is a Dutch company.
Galenium arsnide chips is another are dominated by japan, and they are essential for telecom products and millitary electronics.
The US cannot build their F-22 and many many more advanced weapons systems without Japanese sub contractors like Toshiba for example and the American companies that used to build them have all been allowed to die because of the idioting belief in the " Free market"
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The japanese believe in looking less threatening than you really are so as to put your enemies at ease and allow them to see you as weak till you have gained all the advantages.
They have been doing this since meiji restoration 1878 to a small extent but when they got stronger and totally fuked up the chinese and Russians it went all to their heads and they messed up in the end.
Since 1945 they have been following the script, which is to appear to be a weak and vulnerable puppet state or ally of the US.
They have used this successfully to keep geetting enormous amounts of US aid.
They have used this to open up the US economy to their trade, giving them access that other allies like the UK or Germany do not get.
They have even used the US since the 1960's to force the Europeans to open up Europe to them.
and all this time they have sent armies of scientists and engineers to buy, steal and bribe away as much technology as they could get.
Their weakness and vulnerable and dependent status and their clever use of american bases as an example gives them the same level of access to advance US military tech that Isreal has.
This is 2011 and there is little left int he US or Europe to steal or buy, the Japanese finally have all they need or want and they are now the most advanced country in the world technologically.
Another important tactic is profitting from the yen carry trade.
since japanese interest rates have been close to 1% for nearly 20 years people have been borrowing in yen and then investing in high interst bearing bonds in currencies like the australian dollar, sotuh african Rand
and Brazilian real for example which is 13% and used to be as high as 20% in the past.
Ofcourse this is unstable because when the yen rises it will wipe out all your profits and even put you into loss.
The real heavy wieght investors in the world do not follow the hype and after doing their own analysis they come to know that japan is not as sick economically as previously thought but is actually much much stronger than the world realizes, this is why they invest in the yen and the yen rises.
The japanese government uses propaganda to deliberately talk down the strengths of the Japanese economy to keep the yen weak, and to keep exports high.
They give preferential insider information to certain influential journalists and wall street bankers to warn them of future rises of the yen, giving them gaurenteed profits in exchange for
spreading lies and disinformation about the japanese economy.
The whole world buys it, that japan is overdebted and is stuck in a low growth cycle for ever, and that the japanese are weak and not a threat to anyone.
But the reality is that they are heavilly indepbted to themselves not to the world, they have a higher precentage of debt to GDP than Greece or Italy today but the difference is that the debt is internal.
They can write it off whenever it suits them, they do not owe anybody any money, infact allot of the world owes them money and they huge reserves.
They have also mastered every area of technology even previously untouchable areas like Telecom, and Aerospace that the US and EU had a monopoly on.
People dont realize that boieng is 30% owned by the Japanese and nobody knows how much of the work done on the new 787 was done by the Japanese subcontractors!!!
People do not realize that the F-22 stealth fighters avionics and radar will not work without companies like Toshiba, and 3 others .
People do not realize that this low growth, low interest, low inflation economy actually suits Japan quite well with its ageing and shrinking population.
With robotics they expect to keep the current productivity in manufacturing they have today, even with an ageing population.
They are already moving into the new economy, the post finance economy, and are already pioneers in restructuring the economy to survive a worldwide economic collapse.
They are already well on their way with this strategy, and it involves decentralizing japan into dozens of little singapore sized entities that are nearly self sufficient in manufacturing.
They are also pioneers of community currencies and complementary currencies.
http://www.lietaer.com/2010/01/compleme ... pan-today/
