Japan’s Monetary Policies Are Disastrous for U.S. Economy: Peter Schiff By Bernice Napach | Daily Ticker – 19 hours ago Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is determined to revive the country's faltering economy. Today he announced a $117 billion stimulus package and in less than two weeks the Bank of Japan will consider extending its easy monetary policy for the second meeting in a row—something it hasn’t done since 2003. Under pressure from Abe , the BOJ is expected to expand its purchases of government bonds and double its inflation target to 2%. This move is expected to devalue the yen in an effort to boost exports and the broader Japanese economy. Japan's monetary policies will hurt Japan's economy and the U.S. economy, says Peter Schiff , CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals. “Japan doesn’t need more inflation," he says. "They actually need a stronger yen, higher interest rates. They need to allow their economy to restructure…to shrink government. Instead they’re simply going to do more of what’s been failing for the past two decades.” He tells The Daily Ticker that if inflation rises in Japan, Japanese citizens will likely unload low-yielding Japanese bonds in favor of higher yielding precious metals and other assets. That could force the BOJ to buy more Japanese government debt instead of U.S. government debt, says Schiff. Related : "Obscene Stimulus" Will Trigger 'Made in Japan' Crisis in 2013: Mauldin Why is this a big deal? Because Japan is the second biggest foreign owner of U.S. government bonds after China. If the BOJ cuts back on U.S. government bond purchases, the U.S. Treasury will be forced to pick up the slack, says Schiff. “That means more money printing here …so we will have more domestic inflation,” Schiff adds. “Eventually none of the foreign central banks will want to buy more dollars when they figure out the game that we’re playing, continually creating money to buy products we can’t afford.” Related: 2013 Could be the Year Japan's Economy Turns Around: Cumberland's Witherell Former Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner says Japan needs to change policy but not in the way Schiff suggests. In a recent New York Times op-ed he writes, “The highest priority in the economic revival plan of the newly elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is to strong-arm the Bank of Japan into acknowledging that it will do simply 'whatever it takes' to reverse deflation there and allow a recovery to take root." Kroszner recommends that the BOJ continue its aggressive Japanese government bond purchases without signaling that the policy is a temporary one, as it did after the Japanese economy fell into recession in the early 1990s. Will Japanese easing hurt the U.S. Treasury market? Tell us what you think! Got a topic you’d like covered? Have a guest you’d like to see interviewed? We’d love to hear from you! Send us an email at thedailyticker@yahoo.com . You can also look us up on Twitter and Facebook .
中国近年出现很多描述抗日战争的电影，浙大有个叫河清的教授看了不舒服，说这是“渲染仇日情绪”，“鼓励中国人民仇日”。为此，他写了篇文章《南京大屠杀有美国一份》，大意是日本的罪行都是美国怂恿的。真是这样吗？ 鉴于此，我先把中日从明朝到今天的历史做一回顾。 中日之间不可调和的民族矛盾从明朝就已经开始，当时的日本就已经明确制定灭亡中国，迁徙到中国大陆的计划。当时美国还不存在。甲午战争之前，美国政要多次 提请清政府防备日本野心，但清政府没有警惕。1931年9月18日，两万日军向30万武装到牙齿的东北军发动进攻，谁知张学良下令不准抵抗，日军缴获东北 军大量武器，东北沦陷。 日军不发一枪，从东北三省缴获的武器包括：两百架飞机（包括轰炸机）， 步枪约15万支，子弹数百万发，迫击炮约6百门，炮弹约40万发，山、野、重炮约250门，炮弹约10万发，火药约40万磅。另外，日军前往东北各大兵工厂，东北军均不做抵抗，静候日军接管。其中， 东北军奉天兵工厂，为中国最先进和规模最大的兵工企业，由欧洲引进， 设立枪、炮弹、炮、轻重机枪厂，有机器8千余部。能够量产轻、重机枪。 占领该兵厂后，日军看到厂内正在制作的240毫米大口径榴弹炮炮身后都惊诧兴奋：“支那人有这等精良武器工业却不敢向日本皇军开炮。”日本人将不少东北缴获的武器投入了后来的战争。 （上图：日军在缴获的东北兵工厂留念） 中国国民党政府于1931年9月19日向国联（League of Nations）状告日本侵略。这个国联是第一次世界大战后成立的一个旨在反对侵略、预防战争的国际性机构。但正如历史学者们后来批评的，国联由于缺乏军事干预的机制，只有经济制裁，实际上对侵略者没有约束力。如意大利侵略埃塞俄比亚虽然遭到国联联合制裁，但意大利勒紧裤带也要侵略，国联无计可施。国联的这一缺陷也使它无法阻止第二次世界大战。1931年10月24日，国联做出决议，要求日本从中国东北撤军。对此，日本断然拒绝。1932年1月，美国国务院发布了 史丁森原则（Stimson Doctrine） ：美国不承认日本通过武力获取的中国领土、也不承认中日政府之间以及其代理人之间签订的损害中华民国主权与独立的条约（ cannot admit the legality of any situation de facto nor does it intend to recognize any treaty or agreement entered into between Governments, or agents thereof, which may impair the treaty rights of the United States or its citizens in China, including those which relate to the sovereignty, the independence, or the territorial and administrative integrity of the Republic of China... it does not intend to recognize any situation, treaty or agreement which may be brought about by means contrary to the covenants and obligations of the Pact of Paris of August 27, 1928 ) 美国的这个申明一方面是维护美国的利益，反对日本侵略中国对美国造成的威胁，另一方面，似乎也是针对中国的投降派，因为它也不承认中国政府与日本可能签订的出卖中国主权的条约。 美国这个“不承认"的态度当然不能制止日本人的侵略。但是中美不是军事同盟，中国只是美国的一个市场，30万武器精良的东北军都放下武器、不抵抗日本占领自己的老家东北，美国人更没有义务远渡重洋送自己的儿女到中国抗战。 何况，美国在1931年的军队总人数只有东北军的一半 ，约17万人（到1939年，罗斯福才下令将美军扩张到22万7千人）。 当时，美国并非像今天一样是世界头号强权，相反其经济正处于崩溃边缘。几年前有学者分析，美国的大饥荒饿死了八百万人（对此数字，很多亲美人士极力反对）。就在日军继续侵华的1932年，美国数万一战老兵饿得不行前往首都华盛顿要求发放赏钱，结果被美军用坦克、刺刀镇压，美国老兵死伤上千人。当时美军不但人数少于东北军，军费微薄，其装备也非常陈旧。直到二次世界大战前夕，美国人还在用一战时的武器。太平洋战争爆发后，麦克阿瑟的数万大军在菲律宾被日军屠杀原因之一就是因为美军装备落后。 所以，我们不应指望当时的美国像今天的美国一样承担全球性责任。为了走出大萧条的困境，美国国会在1930年代制定了许多中立法案，拒绝参与其他国家的争端，包括欧洲与亚洲个民族之间的争夺，这本身无可非议。早在1924年，美军就已经制订了橙色战争计划（War Plan Orange），准备对日作战。同时考虑到英国与日本签订了条约，美军制订了红色战争计划（War Plan Red），以及红-橙战争计划，准备与日-英同盟作战（参见 《 红色战争计划揭秘大国之道 》）。但计划必须有实力作为后盾，以区区十几万人的军队，美国不可能有什么作为。 美国政府对中国的处境是同情的。1932年11月，美国借给中国1300万美元，1933年6月，美国借给中国5000万美元，1933年7月，美国借给中国4000万美元，用于建造、购买853架军用飞机。1935年，美国经济恢复到了1929年的76%，罗斯福政府对中国的态度也更趋明确。1937年，罗斯福在芝加哥发表演说，要求爱好和平的国家一起反对侵略，但被美国舆论指责为企图把美国卷入战争的战争贩子。罗斯福只得退让。 1937年底，日军进攻南京。为了试探美国的底线， 日军在1937年12月12日击沉美国炮舰PANAY号 ，3名美国艇员丧生、43名艇员受伤。对此，美国政府也只是抗议索赔了事。但美国舆论开始转向反对日本，美国开始扩军备战，也开始军事援助中国。1939年，罗斯福政府将美军扩充至22万人，同时制定了扩建海空军力的决定。在1939年到1940年期间，美国向中国提供了七笔总计三亿美元的贷款。同时，美国将大量军事装备（包括数百门大炮）当做过时物资廉价卖给中国（但国民党政府管理不善，大量物资堆积在码头而未能运往战场）。1940年，美国经济终于恢复到1929年的水平。当年底，罗斯福发表谈话，表示美国要成为民主兵工厂，反对法西斯侵略战争。 同年，罗斯福同意由中国购买约100架战斗机，从现役美国空军中招募飞行员前往中国参加对日作战。这就是著名的飞虎队。第二年，也就是1941年，美国升级对日的经济制裁，与英国与荷兰一道停止对日本的石油出口。美国对日本提出的要求之一是：撤出中国。 日本对于美国的回应众所周知：那就是轰炸珍珠港，试图迫使美国屈服。日本这一行动虽然导致其最后遭受两颗原子弹的核爆，但在最初的几个月内，它在军事上可谓所向披靡。日军迅速占领了美军基地关岛与威克岛。在菲律宾（当时为美国殖民地），几万美军被日本人屠杀，在新加坡，十多万英军投降，世界反法西斯阵营在远东几乎面临全面失败。美军是在后来的对日战争中成长起来的。 美国从1939年开始扩军到22万人，到1941年其军队人数已经达到140万人，虽仍然低于日军的170万人，但也相当可观。即使如此，日本人仅仅是因为美国不肯卖石油、废铁就向美国大打出手，杀死美军数万人，可见日本人的疯狗特性。由此可以推断，假如1937年底日军炸沉美军炮舰之后，美国如果对日采取强硬的对策，势必遭致日本疯狂的攻击，而美国以其当时的军事、经济实力，可能根本不是日本军国主义的对手，反而刺激日本提早发动太平洋战争，而使盟军在太平洋完全失去依据，历史可能完全改写。 从美国的角度，赢得时间，等实力壮大之后再对日本摊牌毫无疑问是正确的选择。即使从中国角度，也不希望自己可能的援军在实力不足之际被敌人打垮。 我们必须承认这么一个历史事实：那就是美国在珍珠港事件之前就已经开始援助中国，而且不顾苏联与英国的强烈反对，建议将中国纳入世界5巨头之一，管理战后国际事务。没有美国的支持，中国就不会有这个联合国常任理事这个地位。无论中美关系如何改变，不应否定这个历史事实。相反，中美两国人民过去的战斗友谊应该作为寻求中美合作与持久和平的参照。 对于美国为中国抗战做出的贡献，特别是在日本偷袭珍珠港之前美国对中国的支持，中国人民不应否定。 日本人在中国犯下的罪恶罄竹难书，中国人仇日是正常的正义感与民族情感。日本屠杀中国平民数千万，在中国广大的土地上杀光、抢光、烧光，强暴、残杀中国妇女数百万，只要不是汉奸或哈日族，都会仇恨日本。 有些亲倭人士知道日本人的罪行很难抵赖，于是就采取转移目标的方法，移花接木，把日本人的罪行转嫁到他人身上，以达到替日本人减罪的目 的。我们见得最多的就是将日本人的罪行转嫁到美国身上。这些倭伥的用心极为险恶：当今的中国灭除倭寇没有问题，可以零伤亡解决，但美国是核武大国，若中国 与美国彼此仇恨而大战，则中美将走向毁灭，日本将坐收渔利。 那种诋毁中国二战的盟友，甚至将日本人的滔天罪恶转嫁到二战盟友的身上的企图是典型的为倭做伥。
Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent Police used teargas to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI , the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, in a groundbreaking scoop that should once more shame major US media outlets (why are nonprofits now some of the only entities in America left breaking major civil liberties news?), filed this request. The document – reproduced here in an easily searchable format – shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. And it reveals this merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens. The documents, released after long delay in the week between Christmas and New Year, show a nationwide meta-plot unfolding in city after city in an Orwellian world: six American universities are sites where campus police funneled information about students involved with OWS to the FBI, with the administrations' knowledge (p51); banks sat down with FBI officials to pool information about OWS protesters harvested by private security; plans to crush Occupy events, planned for a month down the road, were made by the FBI – and offered to the representatives of the same organizations that the protests would target; and even threats of the assassination of OWS leaders by sniper fire – by whom? Where? – now remain redacted and undisclosed to those American citizens in danger, contrary to standard FBI practice to inform the person concerned when there is a threat against a political leader (p61). As Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF , put it, the documents show that from the start, the FBI – though it acknowledges Occupy movement as being, in fact, a peaceful organization – nonetheless designated OWS repeatedly as a "terrorist threat": "FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) … reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat … The PCJF has obtained heavily redacted documents showing that FBI offices and agents around the country were in high gear conducting surveillance against the movement even as early as August 2011, a month prior to the establishment of the OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park and other Occupy actions around the country." Verheyden-Hilliard points out the close partnering of banks, the New York Stock Exchange and at least one local Federal Reserve with the FBI and DHS, and calls it "police-statism" : "This production , which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI's surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy movement … These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America." The documents show stunning range: in Denver, Colorado, that branch of the FBI and a "Bank Fraud Working Group" met in November 2011 – during the Occupy protests – to surveil the group. The Federal Reserve of Richmond, Virginia had its own private security surveilling Occupy Tampa and Tampa Veterans for Peace and passing privately-collected information on activists back to the Richmond FBI, which, in turn, categorized OWS activities under its "domestic terrorism" unit. The Anchorage, Alaska "terrorism task force" was watching Occupy Anchorage. The Jackson, Michigan "joint terrorism task force" was issuing a "counterterrorism preparedness alert" about the ill-organized grandmas and college sophomores in Occupy there. Also in Jackson, Michigan, the FBI and the "Bank Security Group" – multiple private banks – met to discuss the reaction to "National Bad Bank Sit-in Day" (the response was violent, as you may recall). The Virginia FBI sent that state's Occupy members' details to the Virginia terrorism fusion center. The Memphis FBI tracked OWS under its "joint terrorism task force" aegis, too. And so on, for over 100 pages. Jason Leopold, at Truthout.org , who has sought similar documents for more than a year, reported that the FBI falsely asserted in response to his own FOIA requests that no documents related to its infiltration of Occupy Wall Street existed at all. But the release may be strategic: if you are an Occupy activist and see how your information is being sent to terrorism task forces and fusion centers, not to mention the "longterm plans" of some redacted group to shoot you, this document is quite the deterrent. There is a new twist: the merger of the private sector, DHS and the FBI means that any of us can become WikiLeaks, a point that Julian Assange was trying to make in explaining the argument behind his recent book. The fusion of the tracking of money and the suppression of dissent means that a huge area of vulnerability in civil society – people's income streams and financial records – is now firmly in the hands of the banks, which are, in turn, now in the business of tracking your dissent. Remember that only 10% of the money donated to WikiLeaks can be processed – because of financial sector and DHS-sponsored targeting of PayPal data. With this merger, that crushing of one's personal or business financial freedom can happen to any of us. How messy, criminalizing and prosecuting dissent. How simple, by contrast, just to label an entity a "terrorist organization" and choke off, disrupt or indict its sources of financing. Why the huge push for counterterrorism "fusion centers", the DHS militarizing of police departments, and so on? It was never really about "the terrorists". It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens – it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages,whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. --THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 因为印第安人对我们实施灭族，所以我们也要对他灭族。 表面上是以牙还牙，实际是为了美国和美国人更好地生存！（美国眼里最好最重要的理由）
锅盖写道：美国 “1挑动国共内战，几百万弟兄厮杀，是美国提供的装备吧。2抗美援朝，杀掉的几十万中国人民志愿军。” 对这种侮辱解放军、诋毁解放军辉煌战胜的说法，本人坚决反对。长期以来，日本人喜欢夸大美军在朝鲜对我军造成的损伤，好像是美军屠杀解放军，借此贬低解放军。这我在1999年著有《朝鲜战争常见问题解答》（The Korean War FAQ)进行解答与驳斥。我指出，我军虽然装备落后，但在毛泽东、彭德怀领导下一直是压着美军打，打得联合国军满山跑。统计结果表明，我军与美军伤亡人数相当，我军阵亡、病死人数为13万人， 我军击毙美军5万多人，击毙南朝鲜军20多万，战绩辉煌 。详细统计在 The Korean War FAQ有，至今无人能提出异议。锅盖与倭人一脉相承，夸大美军造成的我军伤亡，好像解放军只是任凭美军屠杀的对象，是违背历史事实的对我军光荣战史的诋毁。 需要指出的是，锅盖曾对叛国未遂、坠机身亡的林彪念念不忘。众所周知，朝鲜战争时林彪畏惧美帝强大的火力不敢上，毛泽东只好找回彭德怀上阵。这一仗，把美帝从鸭绿江边打到汉江，确立了中国在世界的地位。 至于国共内战，罪魁是日本人及其豢养的走狗。抗战期间，蒋介石把美国提供的用来打日本的武器藏起来，不向日本人进攻，留着打内战，这是常识。蒋介石与倭寇的勾结，我在前面有过论述，相关内容重贴于下： ////////////////////// 蒋介石留日，南京大屠杀主犯松井石根是其担保人，抗战期间，蒋介石还与日本人暗通款曲，时常以与日本单独媾和威胁美国；二战结束时，美国两次要把整个冲绳交给中国，蒋介石两次拒绝，而且实行所谓以德报怨，放弃对日索赔。 日本投降时， 侵华日军表示听从蒋介石指挥，参与对中共的内战，蒋介石准备接受150侵华日军参与剿共，但美国对这种无耻行径极为震怒，蒋介石不得不作罢 。 但武装日军直到1947年还留在中国，部分日军仍被蒋介石用来对中共作战 。蒋介石还把一干日本侵略军头子，包括进行三光的侵华日军司令聘为高参打内战。对蒋介石的行为，美国人是极端鄙视。当时的美国总统杜鲁门评论道：”蒋介石、宋美龄等都是贼；他们从我们援助的350亿中偷了7亿5000万美元投资房地产... 我不想再跟这样的人有任何交道”（"Chiang Kai-shek and the Madame and their families, the Soong family and the Kungs were all thieves... They stole seven hundred and fifty million dollars out of the thirty-five billion we sent ... and invested in real estate ... And I don't want anything to do with people like that."）鉴于蒋政府的腐败，在国共内战期间，美国多次拒绝向蒋介石政府提供援助。南京解放时，美国驻华大使司徒雷登没有随同国民党撤退，而是留下与中共接洽（当时的美国政府的报告把中共列为民主力量）。但最后中共选择一边倒向苏联，美国“失去中国”，美国国内政坛一片愤怒，乃至怀疑杜鲁门政府之所以拒绝援助蒋介石是因为美国政府内存在共产党奸细。其实，是蒋介石素质太差。 更早的孙文，就想出卖蒙古给日本换取日本援助北伐。 珍珠湾全球网： 日本人豢养走狗是有一套-珍珠湾全球网-岳东晓 - http://www.zzwave.com/blog-2-10093.html#.UM5Jqm_BFBM#ixzz2FFwxuxFJ
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