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Business/Economics, International

World War 3, Japan Economic Front: Biggest ever loss for Sharp!

14 May 2013 (12:45 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Rajab 1434/24 Ordibehest 1391/05 Ding-Si (4th month) 4711

“We need to say goodbye to the Sharp that we knew….”-Kozo Takahashi, Sharp executive vice president

Continued crashing LCD TV sales dragging Japan’s Sharp to its death?

Company officials said they lost a record $5.4 billion USD for the last Japanese year (April 2012 to March 2013), much more than they estimated!  And that’s after Sharp sold office buildings, cut salaries and laid off 5400 people!

There will be changes made to the executive board, a new deal with South Korea’s Samsung, and efforts to extended existing loans and get new ones, are part of the electronic company’s plans for recovery.

Somehow company officials think Sharp will actually make a profit this year!

International

World War 3, African Front: Japan increasing troops in Sudan, U.K. increasing troops in Mali!

03 May 2013 (09:47 UTC-07 Tango)/22 Jumada t-Tania 1434/13 Ordibehest 1391/24 Ding-Si (3rd month) 4711

Japan currently has 350 troops in Sudan, working under the United Nations.  The UN has just asked Japan to send more Ground Self-Defense Force personnel.  Japan’s Senior Vice Minister for Cabinet Affairs, Yasutoshi Nishimura, has just started a weekend visit to Sudan, and will discuss the issue with UN and Sudanese officials.

In Libya, a police station in Benghazi was destroyed.  The same police station was attacked last week.  Also, militia groups have surrounded pro-U.S./European government buildings.  They will not lift their blockade until their demands are met.  They want all former officials connected to Muammar Gaddafi to be banned from holding government jobs.

In Democratic Republic of Congo, the March 23 (M23) organization has ended talks with UN officials because they’ve detected that they are about to be attacked by the newly created, and precedent setting, UN Intervention Brigade.  M23 spokesman, Stanislas Baleke, said they “…are waiting for the brigade. We are ready. Our men are on maximum alert.”

In Horn of Africa, Somalia, the government is about to forcefully relocate 80000 people.  A UN spokesman said even though the pro-U.S./European government is instigating the move, the UN will help.  The government claims the refugees will be moved to a larger concentration camp, I mean refugee camp.

In Nigeria, battles have been raging in the north eastern part of the country.  In the past week at least 200 people have been killed.

The United Kingdom announces it will send more Red Coats to Mali. They claim it’s part of the European Union Training Mission to train up pro-U.S./European forces in Mali, for a major offensive: “What we are here to do is form a battalion into a cohesive unit so that it’s ready to go on operations at the end of the 10 week package.”-Major Simon Holden, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment

 

Business/Economics

World War 3, Economic Front: Demand for fuel way down in Japan! Yet prices going up?

01 May 2013 (09:17 UTC-07 Tango)/20 Jumada t-Tania 1434/11 Ordibehest 1391/22 Ding-Si (3rd month) 4711

Japan’s Natural Resources and Energy Agency reporting a big decrease in the number of gas stations.  Almost 20 years ago there were more than 60000 gas stations in Japan, now there are 35000.

Gas station operators blame falling demand and increased operating costs, making the business of selling fuel unprofitable. Yet fuel prices go up for Japanese drivers.

Japan buys its crude oil based on the more expensive Brent Crude price, which has been way higher than U.S. (WTI) Crude.  Some reports say that Japan pays as much as three times what other countries pay, because Japan makes a lot of ‘spot’ purchases.

Another problem is the 11 March 2011 nuclear disaster.  Japan has been forced to switch to other forms of generating electricity, mainly petroleum based.  So while demand for fuel for vehicles might be down, demand for fuel for power stations is up.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, Japan is now the number one importer of liquified natural gas, number two importer of coal and third biggest importer of crude oil.

The result is that the Japanese are paying a lot more for utilities.   Yet Japanese utility companies are losing money!

The major power companies of Japan reported they lost $20 billion USD from 2011 to 2012, and they’ve lost another $16 billion from 2012 to 2013!  So they’ve jacked up their rates, some by as much as 8.5%.

Looks like the only money makers here are the oil companies.

International

Rubella cases set another record in Japan!

30 April 2013 (11:54 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Jumada t-Tania 1434/10 Ordibehest 1391/21 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases reporting a record 500 rubella/measles cases every week in April!

At this point there are 4763 cases in Japan, from 01 January to 21 April 2013! Compare that to the yearly average, between 2008-2011, of 288.

In January 2012 there were 19 reported cases in Japan, in January 2013 there were 254 cases, there were at least 2000 cases in April 2013!

Recently it was reported that rubella was making a come back, and that the vaccine might be only temporary.

International

World War 3, East Asian Front: False Flag attack on Japanese Prime Minister?

28 April 2013 (12:19 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Jumada t-Tania 1434/08 Ordibehest 1391/19 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is OK after his four car convoy ended up in a pile up at a toll booth in Tokyo.  The car he was in was sandwiched between escort vehicles after the toll bar failed to lift, forcing the lead convoy vehicle to screech to a halt.

Two policemen were injured.  Abe was on his way to a meeting with families of people who say their loved ones were kidnapped by North Korea.  He was able to attend the meeting.

Influenza

H7N9 update: 120 cases! The more you’re exposed, the greater your chances of getting sick!

28 April 2013 (00:51 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Jumada t-Tania 1434/08 Ordibehest 1392/19 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

The Chinese province of Hunan reporting its first human case.  A 64 years old woman became sick with pneumonia after working with poultry. She’s in critical condition, but improving.

Travel agencies in Taiwan reporting a 30% drop in bookings to mainland China, after a Taiwan man came back from China sick with H7N9.

On top of that, potential visitors to Taiwan, from Japan, have also been canceling their trips: “…the number of tour groups composed of Japanese corporate employees has declined remarkably.”-Mori Chen, Star Express

Researchers in Canada think the reason so many old men are getting sick, is because of their life long exposure to H7 strains of the flu, as a result of their work with poultry.  A similar antibody-dependent enhancement has been confirmed with dengue fever, and studies have shown that lab animals exposed to flu are more likely to finally get sick than “influenza-naïve animals”.

Basically the more you come into contact with a disease the weaker your immune system gets, even you if you never show symptoms: “…..we should also stay open to the possibility that pre-existing cross-reactive antibodies may actually facilitate the viral infection process, a phenomenon best recognised for dengue through the mechanism of antibody dependent enhancement.”-Danuta M. Skowronski, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Virus-host interactions and the unusual age and sex distribution of human cases of influenza A(H7N9) in China, April 2013 

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Japan shoots self in foot, says there was no World War 2, while prepping for invasions with U.S.!

24 April 2013 (13:04 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe keeps pissing off China and Korea, this time saying there is “…no clear definition of an invasion internationally…” by Japan at the beginning of what is called the Second World War.

In the mid 1930s to early 1940s Japan invaded mainland east Asia from Russia, Manchuria, China all the way down to Vietnam (Indochina).  Now Japanese leaders are denying it ever happened!

On top of that the Japanese government is considering issuing new school books which will claim many islands lying between Japan, Korea, China and Russia, to belong to Japan, as well as change the history of the Second World War to claim Japan was fighting a defensive war from the start. (most Japanese don’t even know about their attack on Pearl Harbor).

This move will destroy efforts to create a military pact between Japan and South Korea against North Korea.

Prime Minister Abe, just yesterday, threatened China with military action if any Chinese set foot on any of the islands Japan considers theirs: “….we have made sure that if there is an instance where there is an intrusion into our territory or it seems that there could be landing on the islands then we will deal with it strongly.”

Today, Japan’s Kyodo news agency revealed that Japan has conducted war games with U.S. forces on an island off the California coast.  The scenario involved Japan invading and capturing an island!

Here’s what U.S. officials said about the whole thing: “Our position is that we don’t take a position on territorial issues. In the case of Japan……we do have certain treaty obligations with Japan that we would honor.”-U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey

International, U.S.

H7N9 update: First case outside China! Japan preps to quarantine airports!

24 April 2013 (11:12 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Taiwan has confirmed their first human case of H7N9 ‘bird’ flu.  A 53 years old man became sick three days after returning from a trip to Jiangsu Province on mainland China.

The man says he had no contact with birds!

California governor Jerry Brown was recently in China, as well as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker.  Last week the U.S. CDC warned health officials to be on the lookout for people coming from China who might be infected.

In Japan, researchers have been warning how bad the H7N9 virus is, and now the government is preparing for a pandemic.  Plans are to establish quarantine areas in airports, where compulsory examinations of airline passengers will be conducted.

International

H7N9 update: More evidence human infections not from birds! False Flag human made virus?

24 April 2013 (00:18 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Researchers with the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) released the results of their study of the new H7N9 ‘bird’ flu.

They tested 970 poultry from farms and markets.  Only 20 were positive, and those were from poultry markets.  None of the poultry from the farms, in Shanghai City and Anhui Province, were infected.  This suggests the birds got sick after being brought into contact with humans at the markets!

Three weeks ago Japanese warned that this ‘bird’ flu had mutated into a human flu, and that culling of poultry wouldn’t stop its spread.

The CAAS researchers basically confirmed what Japanese researchers discovered at the beginning of April, that the gene sequence is unique for a H7 flu.

They identified genes from several different viruses, but the HA and NA genes are not identifiable.

It’s interesting that two weeks ago health officials in Thailand and China stated that H7N9 is new to continental Asia, and that it came from the U.S.  A Chinese PLA Air Force officer accused the U.S. of biological warfare.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: North Korea is worth $9.7 trillion USD!!! Now you know why The U.S. is war mongering over the DPRK!

23 April 2013 (21:14 UTC-07 Tango 22 April 2013)/12 Jumada t-Tania 1434/03 Ordibehest 1391/14 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

“In my analysis North Korea could survive for the next hundred years just by exporting their underground resources….”-Yang Moo-jin, University for North Korean Studies

In August 2012, the South Korean based think tank,  North Korea Resource Institute, estimated that the DPRK is worth almost as much as $10 trillion USD, because of what lies underground.  This estimate is $4 trillion higher than the estimate given by Korea Resources Corporation back in 2010.

The estimate has gone way up because prices for mineral resources (like gold) have gone up.  Put in another way, North Korea is worth 21 times what South Korea is worth, mineral resource wise.

According to a 2011 article by EastAsiaForum, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has some of the World’s largest deposits of coal, iron ore, magnesite, gold ore, zinc ore, copper ore, limestone, molybdenite, and graphite.

Recently I heard that North Korea is third in the world for rare earth minerals (China is first and South Korea is second), you know, that stuff in the dirt that’s become worth a lot of money because it’s used in all you all’s cell phones.

China has invested big time in helping North Korea develop its mining industry, which would seem to dictate that China continue backing up North Korea against the United States.

The reason why North Korea is so poor is because of decades of U.S. led economic sanctions.  Those sanctions are part of the reasons why the DPRK’s mining industry operates at only 30% capacity.

So all that rhetoric from the U.S., Republic of Korea and Japan about not allowing North Korea be a nuclear power is just False Flag bullshit!  As usual it’s about controlling natural resources.