Major Japanese brewers are targeting women to increase beer sales in an effort to overcome sluggish sales of alcoholic beverages, JapanToday reported on July 23. Kirin Brewery Co has assigned female employees to develop cocktails tailored for young women while Sapporo Breweries Ltd. has set up a team composed of seven women to create a new product.Kirin began marketing ”two dogs cocktails” in 350 cc cans on June 18one called ”cassis navel” in a pink can and another called ‘’salty bulldog” in a green canfor around 148 yen. The products were developed by Sakurako Yoshino, 26, and Natsu Mori, 24, who are both in their third year with Kirin. The pair were given the assignment as the company wanted to come up with beers and cocktails that women of the same generation as Yoshino and Mori would enjoy.”I wanted to develop a product that would be more of a pleasure to look at and to taste than the products available, which emphasize ‘osake’ (alcohol),” Yoshino said. Sapporo formed a project team of seven women in their 20s and 30s in the spring of last year to evaluate of product development, market research and public relations from a women’s perspective.Kirin also maintains a group of female employees who carry out sales promotion activities targeted at women. The group participates in the company’s ”Nihombashi Nadeshiko (Japanese women) Project,” holding interchange meetings with women working in Tokyo’s Nihombashi district, and engages in word-of-mouth promotional campaigning. Kirin is aggressively promoting women to higher positions. It is aiming to increase the number of women in managerial positions to 100 by 2015 from about 30 in 2006.The problem, however, is how to elevate talented women employees to executive positions when quite a few leave the company because of marriage or to find a position with another company after for working for Kirin for about five years.

On November 22, 1963 the United States of America was taken over by a powerful group of individuals that included a number of CIA special team operatives, some employees and officials of the government and members of the Mafia. They did this by killing President John F. Kennedy and putting their man, Lyndon Baines Johnson, in the White House. The group included FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Boss Carlos Marcello and Mafia Banker Meyer Lansky. Although these men are dead today their positions of power are well kept by their predecessors. I am not saying that the current FBI Director is one of them only that someone has the power that J. Edgar Hoover had.

They accomplished their feat with criminals and assets inside the government that included J. Edgar’s private army of State, County and Local government employees most of which were convinced it was their job to save the country from the National Security Threat of Communism. The ideology of self-preservation was bolstered by the military-industrial complex that reaped billions of dollars each year from the Vietnam War, something even President Eisenhower warned the country of only a few years back from Kennedy’s execution. Motive for the Mafia came from income to the tune of many billions of dollars each year from heroin sales and black market arms dealings made easy by the cover the Vietnam War provided. Some weeks prior to Kennedy’s killing he sent a memo calling for the return of American Servicemen from Vietnam and ultimately an ending of the Vietnam War. His plan was dismantled by President Lyndon Baines Johnson shortly after the new President took control of the White House.

The war grew and grew after this and thousands of young Americans fought and died for their country. Many who were fortunate enough to return found themselves being hit by rotten eggs as they stepped back onto American soil. Anti-war demonstrators, many who were U.S. Government agents under cover, would meet them with signs and slogans destroying any pride or loyalty they had left for the mission they returned from. College students were killed or beaten from coast to coast who dared to question authority of the corrupt machine running the United States of America. Experimental projects designed to artificially control human behavior by the use of drugs, torture or sexual desire were being implemented around the country leaving hundreds of dead or psychologically crippled American citizens in their wake.

There were two powerful men still alive who dared to speak out against the machine. These men were Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. They were executed in 1968 and since then no one has achieved their status in this country. People who think like they did are kept from achieving any significant power and if they start coming close they are dealt with in any number of ways to make sure that they are relegated as impotent as far as being a threat to the National Security of the United States of America. For many years those who dared to voice the word conspiracy were pounced on by numerous directions and beaten down or classified a nut-case conspiracy theorist. It didn’t matter what party was in political power. Anyone could be killed and their death ruled an accident or a suicide whether they were an average citizen or an important leader of the country. Information was passed through a criminal network that spread throughout our government like a cancer and all threats were terminated one way or another. The laws and the courts of America became a joke and thousands of people were put in prison for crimes they did not commit. Many who did commit crimes were allowed to go free by the manipulations of government and then manipulations of media convinced the public that it was true justice.

On September 11, 2001 this powerful group continued to run the government of the United States of America but National Security wasn’t really what they were most concerned with. They were using their assets to protect the security of their private power base and not the National Security of the United States of America. They did not expect an attack by the terrorists. On the day of the attack Americans and friends of freedom all over the world realized that a war had truly been waged on the United States of America. We all accepted the call to engage the enemy whenever and where-ever found. New laws have been passed including the Patriot Act that changes the legal landscape making it much harder for the illegitimate power brokers to control things the way they had. The enemy abroad and within is now finding it harder to find cover anywhere in the world. Slowly but surely the American Government is becoming a government of the people, for the people and by the people just like it is supposed to be. I know that a great many of you who read this will completely disagree with most everything that has been said. That’s fine and I understand completely how difficult it is to digest. If I had written on September 10, 2001 that; “Tomorrow terrorists will fly commercial airplanes into buildings in New York City and the Pentagon.” you would have disagreed with that too.

What has happened is we have engaged an enemy we can see instead of a shadowy puppet-master working behind the scenes all the time. This one is truly at work in sleeper cells and hides very well amongst us but is not part of the corrupt power that ran our country for so long. Due to new laws and a new fervor in America to protect our homeland from all enemies both foreign and domestic the old power base is finding it hard to keep control. It is because of this that I can write this tonight and you will be reading it. Before 9/11 no such thing could have happened. You may disagree but you must admit that it makes for; an awfully interesting or possibly insane but then again maybe brilliant observation. Do we really know who runs the government of the United States of America? If I remember correctly we really didn’t even elect our current President. The honest truth is he was put into office by the Supreme Court. Nine men and women told almost 300 million people who their President would be.

About the Author

Gary currently lives in the Los Angeles, California area and recently published his first of three autobiographical works planned. The book, ‘To Live or Maybe Not’ tells some of his story related to his military service in the US Navy during the Vietnam War Era and his investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Leadership and Overcoming Adversity: Senator Orrin G. Hatch
story, United States Senator (R-Utah)

By Howard Edward Haller, Ph. D.

This groundbreaking leadership research by has received
extensive endorsements and enthusiastic reviews from well-known
prominent business, political, and academic leaders who either
participated in the study or reviewed the research findings.

You will discover the proven success habits and secrets of
people who, in spite of difficult or life threatening challenges
shaped their own destiny to become successful, effective
leaders. The full results of this research will be presented in
the upcoming book by Dr. Howard Edward Haller titled
“Leadership: View from the Shoulders of Giants.”

The nine initial prominent successful leaders who overcame
adversity that were interviewed included: Dr. Tony Bonanzino,
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, Monzer Hourani, U.S. Senator Daniel
Inouye, Dr. John Malone, Larry Pino, U.S. Army Major General Sid
Shachnow, Dr. Blenda Wilson, and Zig Ziglar.

The data from the above nine research participants was
materially augmented by seven other successful leaders who
overcame adversity including: Jack Canfield, William Draper III,
Mark Victor Hansen, J. Terrence Lanni, Angelo Mozilo, Dr. Nido
Qubein, and Dr. John Sperling.

Additionally, five internationally known and respected
leadership scholars offered their reviews of the leadership
research findings including: Dr. Ken Blanchard, Jim Kouzes, Dr.
John Kotter, Dr. Paul Stoltz, and Dr. Meg Wheatley.

This is a short biography of one of the principal participants
who generously contributed their time and insight for this
important research into the phenomenon of how prominent
successful leaders overcome adversity and obstacles.

This Senator Orrin Hatch’s story: Orrin Hatch is the surviving
son of a lower middle-class Mormon pioneer family from Utah.
During the Depression, his family, though penniless, moved to
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Orrin’s older brother was killed in
Europe while serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II.

Orrin noted, “I was always someone who was kind of strange to
them, in that sense, but they still liked me, because I was a
good student, and a good athlete. But there were things I just
wouldn’t do.” Orrin and his family belonged to the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as
“Mormons,” which was a relative rarity in Pittsburgh at that
time. “I had to prove myself, always being kind of a ’square.’ I
had to set certain things aside, because of my religious
beliefs. I never drank, I never smoked, I never caroused, [and]
I never committed sexual sin.”

Orrin said, “My parents scraped together a little money, bought
a wooded acre of land, and then purchased secondhand materials,
including partially burned lumber . . . and built their home,
board by board with their own two hands.” His father was a
“union-card carrying” wood lather.

Orrin learned his father’s trade and worked as a wood lather
while still in high school. Later, Orrin worked his way “through
Brigham Young University as a janitor.” He interrupted his
education at BYU to serve a two-year unpaid mission for the
Mormon Church. He then returned to BYU, got married, graduated,
and returned to Pittsburgh to work at his union construction
job.

He got a scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh, College of
Law, and worked his way through law school while providing for
his growing family. When Orrin was in law school, he said that
he and his “wife and children literally lived in a converted
chicken coop” behind his parents’ home.

Hatch and his young family returned to his parents’ home state
of Utah so that Orrin could accept a corporate legal position.
Shortly after arriving in Utah, Orrin left that corporate job
and opened a law firm in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the senior
partner.

Although he had absolutely no political experience, Hatch
decided to pursue the Republican Party nomination for the United
States Senate race in 1976. He was up against an experienced
Republican politician. Hatch won the Republican nomination for
U.S. Senator.

Now the difficult part began, as he “ran a campaign against a
well-entrenched Democratic incumbent, U.S. Senator Moss.”
Senator Hatch shared with me that his “confidence was not
improved” by the fact that in 1976, “Moss was a three-time
incumbent who could not be beaten. U.S. News and World Report
that year had said that Senator Moss’ seat was the ‘most safe’
seat in the Senate.” But Orrin won the battle against the
incumbent Senator, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976.
Senator Hatch has since been re-elected by his adopted state of
Utah four times.

It is customary for new U.S. Senators not to speak out in their
freshman terms, but Senator Hatch did not follow that custom. In
his first term in the U.S. Senate he led a filibuster to defeat
a major labor bill that was heavily backed by the Democrats.

The proposed labor bill, before the U.S. Congress, was critical
to the union movement of the late 1970s. “Union membership was
starting to decline, and this bill would have legislatively
forced more union membership.” Hatch was very concerned about
what some had referred to as the most important labor union bill
in four decades. The bill was strongly supported by George
Meany, head of the AFL-CIO, and was supported by President Jimmy
Carter, as well.

Hatch took on the defeat of this bill as his own “personal
cause.” He said, “I strongly felt that the proposed labor bill
was not in the best interest of the country and would be very
detrimental to the U.S. economy, which was already starting to
see high inflation entering the picture in the late 1970s.”
Hatch added, “I believed that if this labor bill passed that
millions of workers could be forced to join unions and inflation
would skyrocket.”

Since 1976, Orrin has been a key member of the U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee. He has served on that Committee during his
entire tenure in the United States Senate. Senator Hatch and his
wife Elaine live in Vienna, Virginia, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Hatches are active in their Mormon faith; they are happily
married with several children and many grandchildren. Orrin, a
returned Mormon missionary, also served as a Bishop in the
Mormon Church before being elected to the U.S. Senate.

His insightful and informative biography, “Square Peg:
Confessions of a Citizen Senator” (2002), provides a unique
inside perspective of Capitol Hill.

Copyright 2006 © Howard Edward Haller, Ph.D.

Howard Edward Haller, Ph.D. Chief Enlightenment Officer The
Leadership Success Institute

www.TheLeaderInstitute.com