"A qui profite le Kim…?" c'est un documentaire sur la Corée du nord rediffusé sur une grande chaîne de TV française, et cela donne de l'urticaire sur le web (Bakchich notamment). Je ne comprends pas en quoi consiste le dezinguage d'une rediff sauf quand on commence a lire les commentaires sur ce cas-la... Bref, en effet, bien souvent, merci Internet et les blogs car des journalistes avec de grands effets de manches se lancent, parfois malgré eux, dans des projets tirés a la ligne ou repompés sur d'autres collègues et ca fait peau de chagrin. La rediffusion cache aussi un manque de rigueur, de mise a jour, de connaissances, et de moyens.*
Or, le plus bête dans cette histoire exposée brièvement par Bakchich, c'est que l'on ne s'est pas interrogé sur l'essentiel du sujet: La Corée du Nord depuis l'automne 2008.
Sur la Corée du Nord (DPRK en anglais), on a bien été au coeur d une sérieuse manipulation ces derniers mois. Des medias d'agences ou des quotidiens (ex: Daily Telegraph, London Times) ont parlé tour a tour de la grave maladie puis de la mort du dirigeant Kim Jong Il (le fils de Kim Il Sung mort en 1994), ou prétextant que le Kim était remplacé par une ou plusieurs doublures (pratiques courantes dit-on) ou qu'il avait été assassiné ou qu'un règlement de compte était en cours a Pyongyang, qu'un triumvirat était aux affaires, que l'une des maîtresses, des soeurs, et ensuite l'un des fils de Kim Jong Il étaient adoubés etc... Les bookmakers pariaient sur sa mort a tous les coups.
Jusqu'au jour ou un dirigeant chinois de haut vol est allé se faire photographier récemment a Pyongyang avec le "Cher Leader". Coucou le revoila le Kim Jong Il, sorti de son bunker.
Kim Jong Il dans sa vareuse et Wang Jiarui, dirigeant du Département International du PCC, le 22 janvier 2009 a Pyongyang (Xinhua courtesy)
Tout est possible dans ce pays en marge. Et plutôt que de jouer les héros, ce qui aurait été intéressant aurait été de savoir ce a quoi la Corée du Nord a échappé ces derniers temps et ce qui a été fait pour la "diminuer", la "Gazater" ou la maquiller?
A-t-elle risqué un scénario Irakien dans les derniers mois de Bush? Y a-t-il eu une tentative asiatique de régler son cas en douceur au régime "Stalinien"? Et aujourd hui, Obama va t il poursuivre le travail de Bill Clinton et Madeleine Allbright, inscrivant une action diplomatique a 180 degrés de celle dévastatrice des Bush père et fils? Evidemment les réponses sont a Pekin a Seoul et Tokyo. Pyongyang sort deja ses fusées Taepodong lit-on ce soir dans les journaux de Tokyo. Vrai ou faux? Effet levier?
Quant aux élucubrations en rafales entendues vues et lues sur l'impossibilité ou les "risques gigantesques" d'entrer en Corée du Nord? Foutaises! Je citerai le cas d'un ami journaliste photographe et écrivain Italien qui est entré en Corée du Nord le plus simplement du monde... sans visa ni parrainage, simplement en franchissant la frontière Chinoise. Il lui est ensuite arrivé une aventure extra-ordinaire. Ce collègue n'est autre qu'Antonio Pagnotta, célébrité en Asie pour ses "scoops". Ces temps-ci de passage en France pour ceux et celles que cela intéresse. Lui n'a jamais eu besoin de "bidonner" ou repiquer dans le travail des confrères et consoeurs pour sortir ses exclusivités, et je lui tire mon chapeau (fait rare).
* Travaillant avec la TV japonaise et des boites de prod, j'ai souvent eu l occasion ici et la de rappeler les moyens impressionnants dont dispose la TV japonaise par tous temps et toutes crises, surtout en crise, pour faire son boulot et surtout pour donner des faits bruts au lieu de déjanter dans le genre des commentaires de cafe du commerce.
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Imagine how to kick the crisis out...
A Tokyo University professor who heads a government panel that dates the economic cycle, Professor Hiroshi Yoshikawa of the University of Tokyo, is working nowadays on how to fight the global economic crisis by elaborating new incentives for consumption and tries to find new ways to maintain a more sustainable economy. I met him recently at a briefing and study meeting thanks to the FOREIGN PRESS CENTER in Tokyo.
He said that "Japan's present recession may become the longest in the postwar era, we had better get ready for a 3 year recession as the decline will be very severe, not only in terms of duration but also depth."
How to fight back? Japan's true resources are in its domestic markets. The country has enormous capital reserves, which are well hidden under mattresses or in bank accounts. "To get those out, the country would have to tackle large-scale structural reforms", dpa agency wrote.
Easier to say than to do? Structural reform led by what philosophy? How? Japan GDP equals the Gargantuesque amount of 500 TRILLION YEN! But Japan's debt equals 700 TRILLION YEN, 150% of GDP, Yoshikawa said. Japan appears as a Mediterranean nation in term of healthy economy and would not fit in the Maastricht criteria, set at 60% of debt versus GDP.
Then imagine how to kick the crisis out...
"My Job at the Government is to think and find how one could boost consumerism in Japan" Professor Hiroshi Yoshikawa answered. He added to my question regarding the effect of a consumption tax plan that "it would benefit to the social security service."
Imposing increased VAT, while the world's finances were in turmoil, had tough consequences in the past. Here, various methods and ways are considered, one of them in delivering messages to the people, corporations, small and medium industries, local communities:
How to tax some economical entity and citizens' actions while alleging burden on others, local communities, weak entities and socially held vulnerable by the crisis? Failing to analyze the crisis impact, the ruling LDP is threatened, alarming media say, to loose its powerful hand on the archipelago's affairs and let an unprepared opposition, the petulant Democratic party of Japan, take power of Nagatacho, the political hotbed of politics.
Some critics say Japan could very well imagine how to tax excess consumption and we hear serious voices nowadays who favor a more sustainable consumption advantaging green economy and inland solutions, giving a pause to massive globalization.
Conveniences stores killing cities "chome" (local) small shops would be an easy target for being imposed heavier taxes. Takkyubin companies spending lots of fuels energies should be advised to shift to nature friendly delivery cars, otherwise taxed! -I just checked prodigious hybrid and electric cars Prius, iMiEV, Pivo-. Industries cheating customers and nature, taxed. Cities buildings illuminated all night, taxed etc...
Reporting all around Japan the whole year and visiting extraordinary scientists and sociologists, I have a clearer idea of what can be done by Mr Yoshikawa's panel to develop communities by advocating a better, healthier, advanced life style. Critics (still) say Japan's best commitment to the international society is not to play the "va-t-en-guerre" (war addicted) but could become a model laboratory, thanks to its high-technologies synergies that are still sleeping in Labs' desks.
Yes indeed, if not, what an awful waste of energy!
He said that "Japan's present recession may become the longest in the postwar era, we had better get ready for a 3 year recession as the decline will be very severe, not only in terms of duration but also depth."
How to fight back? Japan's true resources are in its domestic markets. The country has enormous capital reserves, which are well hidden under mattresses or in bank accounts. "To get those out, the country would have to tackle large-scale structural reforms", dpa agency wrote.
Easier to say than to do? Structural reform led by what philosophy? How? Japan GDP equals the Gargantuesque amount of 500 TRILLION YEN! But Japan's debt equals 700 TRILLION YEN, 150% of GDP, Yoshikawa said. Japan appears as a Mediterranean nation in term of healthy economy and would not fit in the Maastricht criteria, set at 60% of debt versus GDP.
When the crisis looks like the "villain" Sephiroth, he is regularly featured in top positions on many "best villain" lists and character polls assembled by game publications and fans, Sephiroth is well known for his attempts to become a god by absorbing the planet's energy. It is a character designed by Tetsuya Nomura.
Then imagine how to kick the crisis out...
"My Job at the Government is to think and find how one could boost consumerism in Japan" Professor Hiroshi Yoshikawa answered. He added to my question regarding the effect of a consumption tax plan that "it would benefit to the social security service."
Imposing increased VAT, while the world's finances were in turmoil, had tough consequences in the past. Here, various methods and ways are considered, one of them in delivering messages to the people, corporations, small and medium industries, local communities:
How to tax some economical entity and citizens' actions while alleging burden on others, local communities, weak entities and socially held vulnerable by the crisis? Failing to analyze the crisis impact, the ruling LDP is threatened, alarming media say, to loose its powerful hand on the archipelago's affairs and let an unprepared opposition, the petulant Democratic party of Japan, take power of Nagatacho, the political hotbed of politics.
Some critics say Japan could very well imagine how to tax excess consumption and we hear serious voices nowadays who favor a more sustainable consumption advantaging green economy and inland solutions, giving a pause to massive globalization.
Conveniences stores killing cities "chome" (local) small shops would be an easy target for being imposed heavier taxes. Takkyubin companies spending lots of fuels energies should be advised to shift to nature friendly delivery cars, otherwise taxed! -I just checked prodigious hybrid and electric cars Prius, iMiEV, Pivo-. Industries cheating customers and nature, taxed. Cities buildings illuminated all night, taxed etc...
Reporting all around Japan the whole year and visiting extraordinary scientists and sociologists, I have a clearer idea of what can be done by Mr Yoshikawa's panel to develop communities by advocating a better, healthier, advanced life style. Critics (still) say Japan's best commitment to the international society is not to play the "va-t-en-guerre" (war addicted) but could become a model laboratory, thanks to its high-technologies synergies that are still sleeping in Labs' desks.
Yes indeed, if not, what an awful waste of energy!
Presse et crise
(Courtesy picture)
BBC World, Davos, dans une séance de lamentation et d'auto flagellation télévisée:
- Jakob Frenkel vice-chairman de AIG: "Je ne crois pas que les membres du conseil d'administration étaient capables de comprendre ce qui se passait".
- Laura Tyson, membre du conseil d'administration de Lehman Brothers: "Les membres des conseils d'administration (les Board members) ne pouvaient pas avoir les informations nécessaires pour déterminer que le système en était arrivé a ce point-la".
N'importe quoi.
Je zappe sur Youtube...
BBC World, Davos, dans une séance de lamentation et d'auto flagellation télévisée:
- Jakob Frenkel vice-chairman de AIG: "Je ne crois pas que les membres du conseil d'administration étaient capables de comprendre ce qui se passait".
- Laura Tyson, membre du conseil d'administration de Lehman Brothers: "Les membres des conseils d'administration (les Board members) ne pouvaient pas avoir les informations nécessaires pour déterminer que le système en était arrivé a ce point-la".
N'importe quoi.
Je zappe sur Youtube...
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