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Pearl Harbor Revisited

December 7, 2012

It’s a good time to revisit Pearl Harbor on its 71st anniversary of the attack that started America’s official involvement in World War II.

FDR declared the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor “A day that will live in infamy.” Because the Japanese ambassador Nomura delivered the notice breaking off relations with the U.S. after the attack has been carried out.

This angered and roused the American people majority of which were isolationists who did not want to be involved in the war already raging in Europe for over two years. They did not care about the survival of England or the U.S.S.R. (Russia). World War II is the only war the American people unanimously supported.

The Japanese military was demoralized when they found out the attack on Pearl Harbor was launched before war was declared, unlike the wars with Russia (1904) and China (1937). They realized they will be fighting a dishonorable war and therefore it was almost impossible to win.

In the summer of 1939 Russia inflicted a stinging defeat on Japan in a war along the Manchurian-Mongolian border. Russia was looking for payback for their 1905 humiliating defeat. This would influence Japanese militarists’ decision to attack Pearl Harbor.

Up until six months before the Pearl Harbor attack, FDR has been in communication with the Emperor of Japan. When Hitler invaded Russia on June 22, 1941, perhaps inspired by Fascists victory in the Spanish Civil War under Franco, Tojo and the Japanese militarists, decided to cut off the Emperor’s communications with FDR and started preparations for the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Pacific war.

It would have made a big difference if Japan broke off relations with the U.S. and then attack Pearl Harbor. Japanese morale would have been very high because it is an honorable war they are fighting.

As David Krieger of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation would remind us time and again, Japan is still the only country to suffer not one but two nuclear attacks. Prime Minister Tojo and many Japanese officers were tried, convicted and executed as war criminals for waging an aggressive and tenacious war necessitating the use of nuclear bombs.

“Wars are won or lost long before the first battle has ever been fought” – Sun Tzu

Bienvenido Macario

Lemuria

Ancora Imparo

IGA

Gen. Douglas MacArthur – Betrayed – Part 3

What we missed. There is this photo with a caption: “Just in case people forget, there are Amazing soldiers standing at the Tomb even through hurricanes. . . ”

Here’s the thing, how come there NEVER has been a Philippine Liberation Parade EVER? How come few, if any, roads, bridges, parks, rivers have ever been named for Douglas MacArthur?

It turned out the modern Makati was the idea of Lt. Col. Joseph R. McMicking. Yet the streets, boulevards, parks and buildings in Makati & Metro Manila are named after Aquinos, Ayala’s, Zobel’s, Roxas’ and others.

And not a single thing was named after McMicking?Below is the video of Guam’s 68th Liberation Day Parade 2012. Where are the photos & videos of parades in the Philippines? NONE. WHY! Something terribly wrong here.

This is why we need the Philippine History Re-education Project.

Ned Macario
Lemuria
Ancora Imparo
IGA

“EACH YEAR in the weeks leading up to July 21st, Guam CELEBRATE THEIR LIBERATION from the Japanese With local carnivals, feasting and fireworks.”

Guam 68th Liberation Day Parade 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfB-CDEG6h0

Today is the 5th death anniversary of Mariannet Amper. At a young age of 12 she has already lost hope and committed suicide by hanging herself.

Is this what American soldiers fought and died for in World War II when we liberated the Philippines? Did we turn the Filipinos over to traitors and quislings who never even said “Thank you”?

: At age 12 she lost hope and committed suicide on Nov. 02, 2007

Here’s a WAIS post that could inspire a Reality TV Show entitled:

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FILIPINO OLIGARCH?

“Bienvenido Macario writes:

Last Thursday 21 April, I watched Squawk on the Street and the installment “The Risky Business of Endowments” by Frances Denmark, who reported that the financial crisis of 2008 cost the top ten biggest university endowments some $36 billion.

**8 Ivy League Schools’ Endowment losses in 2009 $26.6 Billion1

California Budget Deficit as of 03-29-11 $26.6 Billion++

40 Richest Filipinos–Total Net Worth as of 03-09-11 $26.2 Billion~~

Zero Sum Game of Global Finance 4th Edition 12-29-10 updated 03-29-11

California Budget Deficit $26.6 Billion++ as of 03-29-11

40 Richest Filipinos–Total Net Worth $26.2 Billion~~ as of 03-09-11

California Budget Deficit $20.0 Billion@ as of 03-17-10

40 Richest Filipinos–Total Net Worth $20.4 Billion^^ as of 07-31-10

California Budget Deficit $16.0 Billion* as of 02-20-08

40 Richest Filipinos–Total Net Worth $16.2 Billion+ as of 10-18-07

**Education – Ivy League Endowments Shrink by $26 Billion 2008-2009

(Bienvenido Macario, ) 04/26/2011

http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=020&objectType=post&objectTypeId=55753&topicId=111

Repossessing the Philippines, acquiring Native American Status with representation before the U.S. Congress and dominion status and protection under HRH Queen Elizabeth II as UK’s newest crown colony. . . . . . . . . PRICELESS

Welcome to the Zero Sum Game of Global Finance 4th edition 12-29-10

Updated 03-29-11 and on 04-21-11

So how did Filipino oligarchs started? Here’s a clue.

: Oligarch-traitor Roxas becomes president of the 3rd Philippine Republic

Manuel Roxas died on April 15, 1948, two and half months after signing Proclamation 51 granting amnesty to all oligarch-traitors, quislings and collaborators.

Elipidio Quirino Roxas’ vice president took over. Here’s what he did.

Globalization & the Insurance Industry (The Perfect Storm Update) – June 20, 2006

Globalization & the Insurance Industry

(The Perfect Storm Syndrome) – June 20, 2006 Update

On June 3, 2005 in an e-mail to a friend in the Philippines I discussed the Perfect Storm Syndrome.

The Actual Perfect Storm E-mail
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 22:46:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bienvenido Macario <laspinassja@yahoo.com>,
Subject: Re: new development here
To: macario@stanfordalumni.org, b_macario@hotmail.com
CC: Las Pinas <laspinassja@yahoo.com>

What’s important is the formulation of a national economic blueprint based on instituting the needed reforms. I’d say 6 to 9 months to prepare a draft and for the first two years it will be reviewed every 6 months or whenever certain domestic or international event would dictate a review or re-assessment of the national- regional economic program based on the economic blue print.

I hope I am wrong but your region is quite vulnerable to three things that’s on the global economic horizon:

Components of the Perfect Storm – International Edition

1.) Dollar appreciation (strong dollar/currency).
2.) Interest rate fluctuations. (it could only go up.)
3.) Oil price hike.

Of these three (3) managing the dollar is the most complex and challenging.

Components of the Perfect Storm – Domestic Version

1.) Health Care
2.) Pension / Retirement
3.) Education (in general including the next work-force generation, present generation, retiring generation)

Of these three, education would be or should be the main focus and would be the most interesting.

However remote there is a possibility that all three could hit you in close succession. It is quite difficult to see how any country in Asia could be spared from this contagion.~

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~ – HSBC sees Asian ‘bubbles’

By Jimmy C. Calapati – Monday, July 20, 2009

http://www.malaya.com.ph/jul20/busi2.htm

Excess liquidity and record-low interest rates in Asia raise the specter of asset bubbles, especially in the property sector, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) Global Research said. As a crisis erupts, the markets panic, and policy-makers, reading the news along with everyone else, slash interest rates to pump up growth, says Frederic Neumann, HSBC economist.

“In principle, this is perfectly all right. The trouble is, however, that if policy stays too loose for too long, it will blow bubbles,” Neumann said.

In Asia, Neumann said liquidity is far too abundant, keeping interest low. Yet, it appears unlikely that the region will strike out on its own and tighten while everyone else is stuck in the emergency room.

“In short, the seeds are being sown for Asia’s next bubble+. The world has not changed, it just moved places,” Neumann said.

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Later on June 20, 2006, I wrote to another friend the impact of globalization it being the beings of the Perfect Storm Syndrome and how it will affect even the insurance industry. This is the forecast I made regarding the insurance industry using Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. whose main business is insurance, as an example.

At this juncture the roots of the financial crisis of 2008 has started to take hold but it was still possible to do something to mitigate the impact of the crisis. Unfortunately like 2010 and probably 2014, the mid-term election politicking will remove any chance of resolving the most pressing issues.

Short Paper – Perfect Financial Storm
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Ned Macario <ned.macario@gmail.com>	Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:04 AM
To: Bert ArevaloCc: macario@stanfordalumni.org, laspinassja@yahoo.com,Bcc: Ned Macario <ned.macario@gmail.com>, Ned Macario , b_macario@hotmail.com

June 20, 2006

Bert,

My position is simple. Because of globalization brought about by the collapse of the Berlin Wall^ and the end of the Cold War, anything we do must be taken in global as well as domestic terms. I say it is simple because I think no business or economic undertaking could escape the direct and indirect effects of these developments.

My papers almost always consider global and national implications. To make this e-mail brief, I will concentrate of my paper of June 3, 2005 “Perfect Financial Storm” – International edition and domestic version (dated May 21, 2004).

As you will see, oil price hike is one item, why I want Elena and myself to be involved with energy and geothermal industry again. Mortgage, real estate and even the insurance industry**will definitely be affected by dollar appreciation and interest rate fluctuations.

So no matter what business, field or work you and Chona are in, even if one is working for the state or local government, this paper could be of use.

Components of the Perfect Storm – International Edition

1.) Dollar appreciation.
2.) Interest rate fluctuations. (it could only go up.)
3.) Oil price hike.

Components of the Perfect Storm – Domestic Version

1.) Health Care
2.) Pension / Retirement
3.) Education (in general including the next work-force generation, present generation, retiring generation)

Of these three, education would be or should be the main focus and would be the most interesting.

Ned