Chapter 1538 Caught by the Wind
Not only that, but Americans spend far more time and money on religion than on sports. Just 1992. Americans contribute a total of $56.7 billion to religious causes, 14 times more than the $4 billion spent on the three major leagues of baseball, football and basketball! Baseball, football and basketball are Americans' favorite sports!
The Christian doctrine of the Bible, on the other hand, remains one of the best-selling books in the United States, selling about 9 million copies a year. Christian culture has evolved into the mainstream culture of the United States, and Michael Novak, an authority in the American intellectual circles, once said that in the political, economic, and cultural systems of American society, the cultural system is centered on the spirit of Christian culture.
If all this still does not prove the place of religion in American society, then for the absolute capitalist country of the United States, there is nothing more important than money, which is the foundation of capital, but! Remember this, however, even the US dollar, the currency of the United States, cannot forget to thank God - all dollars are emblazoned with the words "ingodwetrust"!
The influence of American religious culture in American society can be seen from this! Then it is conceivable that the New York Times will be a . Osama bin Laden stabbed God's spokesman in the world: the revival of Pope Paul II has had a huge impact on American society.
But the current US President George W. Bush is depressed! Because he is very clear about the present year. Osama bin Laden's assassination of Pope Paul II was the case of U.S. President Bill B. It took a lot of effort for Clinton to finally settle the matter, and this was before the concept of terrorist attacks was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Osama bin Laden did this before it had nothing to do with the United States.
And at this time, the "New York Times" suddenly turned over this old account at this time, and the American people, who were already holding a fire in their hearts, had to erupt like a volcano that was about to erupt?
The key is not only from the people, but most importantly from Congress, and the day after the New York Times report appeared, 20 angry members of the US Congress jointly submitted a draft to Congress. Demand that the government take immediate action to punish this damned heretic who dares to offend the majesty of God!
"Damn it! Damn it! Bush Jr. could only choose to stand in front of the sandbag for fitness, widened his eyes and clenched his fists, and punched and kicked the sandbag in front of him angrily, "Don't let me know which bastard is behind the scenes, as long as Lao Tzu knows which bastard did it, Lao Tzu will definitely not let him have a good time!" ”
"I'm sorry," Zhang Lan smiled very thief at the moment, "I did this by me, even the photos were actually provided by me to the New York Times, and even the photos were provided by me to Ben. Taken by bin Laden's high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, but ...... The question is, who knows? ”
Under this unprecedented pressure, as a Catholic, facing pressure from different quarters, Bush Jr. had no choice but to give in -- he originally intended to do the same, but there were some things that he was not ready for.
A week later, George W. Bush announced that the US Government was discussing the priorities of its future national defense policy work, that the Government would intensify its crackdown on terrorists in the future, and that the tasks of the US armed forces in the future would include some tasks in combating terrorist forces.
As soon as Bush Jr.'s speech came out. Although various forms of demonstrations and demonstrations are still taking place in various parts of the United States, on the whole, compared with the turbulent public sentiment in the previous period, Bush Jr.'s life has gradually become much better. …,
But some things are always relative, and while Bush Jr.'s life is getting better, Toyota's life is getting worse and worse in Japan, the United States.
Since Toyota appeared in the "11.11 University of California Riverside Campus Terrorist Attack" that caused a lot of uproar in the United States, Toyota's sales in the North American market began to decline all the way.
Seeing that the sales of its cars in the U.S. market have slowly but surely dropped from about 150,000 units per month to an average of about 20,000 units per month, and until now it is not clear when this downward trend will stop, Toyota wants to cry without tears!
You know, the North American market has always been Toyota's largest market in the world, and it is also the market that Toyota attaches the most importance to, and the huge U.S. market can digest at least 1.8 million Toyota's various cars every year, with a total of more than 150,000 units sold every month!
According to a sales report submitted by Toyota to the market in July this year, if everything goes according to the development trend in the first half of the year, Toyota's profit in the global market this year is expected to exceed $10 billion, and it is expected to be among those $10 billion. The U.S. auto market will account for 80% of Toyota's total revenue!
The U.S. market accounts for 80% of Toyota's total revenue, what is this concept? This means that if the sales of Toyota cars in the American market accidentally get windy, the entire Toyota company will suffer from a bad cold!
Now, the time has come for Toyota to take advantage of the wind in the American market.
In the New York Times, the Ben. After listing all the things bin Laden has done over the years, the figures of Toyota cars in the newspaper photos make Americans sigh when they see the newspaper: "Huh? It's so familiar, why is it a Toyota car this time? Well, it's still landcruiser! ”
How does Toyota explain that countless reporters from the American media have flocked to Toyota's branches in the United States to ask for interviews about Toyota's repeated association with terrorists and even with terrorists under the crown of Pope Paul II, who attacked the representative of the American nation's spiritual faith?
But just like several major fatal mistakes in their history, at this critical time, although they were already anxious at this time, the Toyota executives with stubborn personalities who fought with the smelly and hard stones in the pit chose the stupidest one among the countless responses: avoidance!
For reporters who asked to interview themselves, Toyota chose the party's shrunken turtle.
Of course, for the reporters who live on the pen to eat, you avoid disagreeing with our interviews? OK, that's not a problem at all, isn't the attitude of "avoidance" also your attitude from another point of view?
Our most proficient reporters returned to their offices full of resentment and resentment, sitting at their desks thinking about the grievances they had eaten outside Toyota in the cold wind today.
In the United States, it is normal for a media to denounce a company, but if the vast majority of the media in the United States, whether it is the influential Washington Post or the gossip tabloids that report celebrity scandals all day long, all speak ill of the same company, then the company's life is ...... So there is a saying that public anger should not be offended, but apparently Toyota has not realized this at this time.
With the concerted efforts of all American journalists. Toyota's previous "bad deeds" were shaken out by reporters who had never been so united before: the Toyota Land Cruiser was involved in the school shooting, and then the Toyota Land Cruiser was the world's best terrorist. Osama bin Laden's terrorist cause "added to the bricks" and helped him, and Toyota played a very disgraceful role in the democratic and liberal United States. …,
Now Toyota, especially the Toyota Land Cruiser off-road vehicle has become completely popular, and the Toyota Land Cruiser off-road vehicle has greatly increased its fame in the European and American markets around the world, especially in the European and American markets that Toyota covets! So much so that even the little kid who was still walking and staggering in open crotch pants would shake his little ass when he saw the Toyota Land Cruiser, pointing at the car and saying to his mother in a milky voice, "Mom, look, that's the car driven by the big bad guy." ”
Affected by this, the sales of Toyota's various cars in the European and American markets have declined to varying degrees, especially the Toyota Land Cruiser, which has not even sold a car in many cities in the United States and Europe within a week! At the same time, the Toyota Land Cruiser has become the favorite model of the American disgruntled youth, and of course, during this time, the owners of the Toyota Land Cruiser rarely dared to go out in the car they usually flaunted - if you want your car to be burned to a pulp, that's a different story.
Of course, in such a situation, Toyota's stock has absolutely no strong reason, in the world's three stock markets: the New York stock market in the United States, the Tokyo stock market in Japan, the Nikkei index in Japan, and the London stock market in the United Kingdom, Toyota's stock has been plummeting, no matter what kind of rescue move Toyota makes to save the market, the performance of the crazy Toyota car in the stock market is like a train full of derailment, crazy to hell in the endless darkness of the rapid fall.
If you had to add an adjective to the speed of the plunge, there would probably be only one sentence that could accurately describe it: the flying stream went straight down to 3,000 feet.
Although Toyota, which has been slow to react at the moment, has only come to its senses and wants to take some remedial measures through the media. But here it has come to this, and it is too late for Toyota to remedy. No matter what Toyota means to remedy it, it seems to anyone that Toyota is nothing more than a dishonest lie to save itself, and there is no sincerity at all - if you want to apologize, what are you doing?
Affected by this, in recent times, Zhang Lan, this kid, has been in a good mood. After all, for any person, it will not be bad to see their opponents unlucky one after another. Especially when this opponent is unlucky because he is making trouble behind his back.
Looking at his opponent's blank face, at a loss for these knives that he didn't know where to stab, that huge sense of accomplishment made Zhang Lan feel extremely excited.
It's just that Zhang Lan is in a good mood, and Little Japan's mood is obviously very bad.
Of course, at this time, the most unfortunate are still those Japanese who stay in the United States, after the appearance of Japanese in successive terrorist attacks, there is a wave of extreme hatred of Japanese in the United States, and these forces have only one thing to do: attack the Japanese in the United States, frantically attack the Japanese in the United States, and among them, the famous American underworld organization: the Ku Klux Klan Party, which has always preached extreme whiteism, is the most!
Although most of the Japanese who were attacked quickly reported the case to the US police at the first time, and the US police quickly filed a case for investigation in accordance with standard working procedures, almost all Japanese victims asked the US police about the handling of the case, and most of the police gave the same result, "I'm sorry, the case is being handled now, please wait for the police to hear from you." ”、
Usually this incident means that the police are in: drag!
Toyota followed the bad luck, the performance of Japanese cars in the U.S. market as a whole was weak, the Japanese car brand in this period of time to the Americans caused an extremely bad impression, for ordinary Americans, just don't buy Japanese cars, but for those in the U.S. auto market to fight many auto giants, this is an opportunity to expand their share of the U.S. market is an excellent opportunity, in line with the principle of taking advantage of your illness to kill you, no automobile factory business association let go of this excellent opportunity! As for the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Business Association, it will not be depressed? …,
Well, the question, for these guys, the more depressed the Japanese, the happier they are.
General Motors, Ford Motors, Chrysler Motors, Alice Motors, Daimler Automobiles, Volkswagen and many other European and American auto giants have taken advantage of this to launch rounds of promotional activities with various tricks, intending to invade the market occupied by Japanese automobiles for a long time under the overall weakness of Japanese automobiles.
In the U.S. auto market, Japanese car brands occupy about 27% of the market share, including Alice, a semi-local version of the foreign car brand, the four major American car brands GM, Ford, Chrysler and Alice occupy about 60%, and the remaining 13% or so of the market is occupied by European car brands. As for the share of the stick car in the American market? That little market share is negligible for the time being.
While everyone tacitly reached a tacit agreement to suppress the market share of Japanese cars and desperately expand their market share, the North American branch of Alice Group found inspiration in the campus terrorist attack that Toyota Land Cruiser had "participated in" before.
In a promotional advertisement urgently produced by the North American branch of the Alice Group, an FBI agent Tom who is the embodiment of hero and justice, handsome and intelligent, accidentally discovers that a group of terrorists lurking in the United States want to detonate the news that they are secretly hiding in a secret location in New York City, USA, in a vain attempt to contaminate New York City with a large area of radioactive nuclear materials.
The so-called dirty bomb is to use spherical or powdered cobalt-60, cesium-137 or strontium-90 and other radioactive substances to wrap TNT, C4 and even military black powder and other explosives, and make the so-called "dirty bomb", the production is absolutely simple, the detonation requirements are simpler, just like ordinary bombs can be detonated, and compared with plutonium and uranium, cobalt, cesium, strontium and other radioactive substances are relatively less controlled and easier to obtain.
However, although a dirty bomb is simple to make, it is much more powerful than a conventional bomb, especially the radioactive contamination caused to the environment, which is an unusual headache.
Tom, the FBI agent who got the news, reported to the FBI headquarters while driving an ultra-luxury Longxuan S7 full-size multi-purpose off-road vehicle, chasing the car driven by the terrorists he encountered. The terrorists who found out that the matter was revealed naturally did not just be willing to be so restrained, and also drove a high-performance off-road vehicle to escape, and the two sides staged a wonderful car chase in the streets and alleys of bustling New York City!
During the period, various advanced equipment on the two vehicles kept unveiled, and the six-barreled Gatling rotary machine gun with automatic target tracking ability, the miniature missile with self-guidance ability, the prevention and control system with automatic air defense ability, the infrared heat tracking system, the unique stealth system and the M2 heavy machine gun and rocket launch system equipped on the off-road vehicle driven by the terrorists carried the mysterious and high-tech of the FBI.
And Longxuan S7 showed unimaginable stealth ability in the advertisement, and it was used by the director in the new 007 series of movies "Die Another Day", becoming the Aston in that movie. One of the highlights of Martin's sports car, even after the screening of "Crisis of the Chosen Day", the screenwriter of the script openly admitted in an interview with reporters that he gave the film Aston . Martin's stealth ability was inspired by the Alice Group's Longxuan S7 advertisement.
With the help of the handsome and high-performance Longxuan S7, FBI agent Tom, the terrorist made a mistake under the dog jumping over the wall and finally installed the roadside guardrail, FBI agent Tom successfully caught a terrorist who tried to create a terrorist attack time in the United States, and returned the "democracy and freedom" of American society to a peaceful and blue sky.
In the end, the handsome FBI agent driving the Cadillac Escalade successfully defended the peace of the earth, maintained the peace of mankind, and got the beauty as he wished, and the two kissed ......together happily in the wide and comfortable Escalade.