17 March 2016 /21:49 UTC-07 Tango 01 (27 Esfand 1394/07 Jumada t-Tania 1437/09 Xin Mao 4714)
“The market is saying we’re worried no matter what Yellen says and shows there can be no real relief until we can truly see what’s happening in the U.S. economy.”-Wako Juichi, Nomuro Holdings strategist essentially blaming Japan’s investor exodus on the United States
Foreign investors have sold-off a record amount of stocks in Japanese companies. Could this be the final death blow to an economy that’s been struggling since the 1990s?
Foreigners make up 70% of the investments in Japan and for the past ten weeks they’ve been dumping those investments at record rates.
Tokyo Stock Exchange reports that just last week ‘bears’ beat out ‘bulls’ by $10.7-billion USD, beating the last record sell-off from 1987!
The number one concern of foreign investors is the value of the yen (JPY) against the U.S. dollar (USD).
An analyst with Citi Group’s Citi Research also blames the neo-imerialist government’s tax increases (part of what’s called Abenomics).
Others blame the Bank of Japan’s controversial use of negative interest rates. Believe it or not, yesterday Bank of Japan said they could drop rates even more!
10 March 2016 (03:53 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Esfand 1394/30 Jumada al-Ula 1437/02 Xin Mao (2nd month) 4714
For years there’s been advise for cancer sufferers to drop cows milk and start drinking unpasteurized goat’s milk. Now a study out of New Zealand says goat’s milk really can fight cancer, and it’s far cheaper and effective that those expensive corporate drugs.
But wait, the Kiwi scientists aren’t talking about natural unpasteurized goat’s milk, but GMOed milk. They claim their genetically modified goat’s milk produces mono-clonal antibodies (MCA), which are known to fight cancer. The MCAs can then be extracted and used to make cheap anti-cancer drugs.
MCAs are known to prevent cancerous cells from growing bigger and help your immune system better identify a cancerous cell. They also starve cancer tumors of oxygen and other nutrients.
09 March 2016 /18:42 UTC-07 Tango 01 (20 Esfand 1394/30 Jumada al-Ula 1437/02 Xin Mao [2nd month] 4714)
“Our child would never have taken his life if the school’s data management had not been sloppy and the school had not made the mistake.”-Parents of suicide school victim
If the earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear melt downs don’t kill you then Japan’s Jisatsu Junior Highs will!
In Hiroshima Prefecture, a junior high school principal was no pal when he admitted he and his staff’s incompetence might have caused a 15 years old boy to kill himself in December!
Sakamoto Hiroshi, the junior high principal who is no pal of students
The boy thought he was moving on to high school when school administrators denied it on the grounds he was a criminal, and that he wasn’t smart enough for high school entrance exams. It turns out he was not a criminal, he was being confused for another student, but school A-hole officials didn’t realize it until after the wrongly accused boy committed Jisatsu!
But wait there’s more! Up until now school A-hole administrators kept the suicide a secret, telling fellow students and parents that the boy died of “heart failure”. The boy’s father finally went public with the scandal on 08 March 2016. Now school ‘officials’ say they lied about the suicide at the father’s request!
And what about that accusation of the boy being a criminal? Turns out it was totally word of mouth, spread from teacher to teacher until one of them officially entered it in the boy’s school computer records. An investigation after his death revealed the truth, found in the hard copy school records, whom ever entered the data into the computer mixed up the students.
09 March 2016 (12:49 UTC-07 Tango 01) 19 Esfand 1394/29 Jumada al-Ula 1437/01 Xin Mao (2nd month) 4714
In an unexpected development a Japanese court has agreed with petitioners and ordered the shutdown of Kansai Electric Power Company’s Takahama nuclear power plant, in Fukui Prefecture!
Petitioners argued that the nuclear reactors are unsafe and on the verge of a “major accident”. The Otsu District Court agreed. Reactors 3 and 4 were restarted in the past few months, however, reactor 4 shut itself down just three days after startup. Operators still don’t know why.
The pro-nuke governor of Fukui Prefecture, Nishikawa Issei, called the court order “inconsistent”.
And the national government has admitted failure in trying to find storage sites for all the nuke waste building up in Fukushima Prefecture. Their original plan was to pay property owners to store the waste, however, of the 2-thousand 3-hundred property owners approached (in Futaba and Okuma towns) so far only 69 have agreed to the deal.
08 March 2016 (15:15 UTC-07 Tango 01) 18 Esfand 1394/28 Jumada al-Ula 1437/30 Xin Mao 4714
Five years after the ongoing nuclear melt downs at Fukushima Daiichi, another nuclear power plant is in trouble! Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reported the sudden unexplained movement of a highly explosive nuclear fuel rod!
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, in Nigata Prefecture, is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, the same outfit operating Fukushima Daiichi.
Reator 5 of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has 185 explosive fuel rods and during the operation of some valves one of the rods moved out of place. If rods touch each other, that’s all she wrote man! TEPCo administrators swear the operation of valves on the reactor should not cause any rods to move. They say one minute later the rod repositioned itself. An investigation is underway.
This isn’t the first time Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has been in trouble. Back in 2007 a transformer exploded and caught fire due to an earthquake, which also released cobalt-60 and chromium-51 into the air.
More proof why you can’t trust TEPCo: Five years after promising the world that it could handle the nuclear disaster, TEPCo administrators are now going to the government of Fukushima Prefecture for help! Specifically they’ve admitted to the local government that they can’t handle the ongoing contamination of water, to the tune of 5-hundred tonnes per day! TEPCo’s Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Officer Masuda Naohiro made the revelation during a recent interview with NHK.
And several anniversary reports by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reveal that thousands of homeless disaster survivors are being screwed over not only by the national government, but by local governments as well.
Several prefectures are forcing survivors out of taxpayer funded temporary housing into non-subsidized permanent housing. Many surviving families are concerned as they have yet to find permanent jobs and can’t afford to pay rent. One news reports revealed that disaster survivors are intentionally being shunned by employers! Some prefectures are playing a shell game, shuffling survivors from one housing project to the next, claiming it’s part of a plan to provide them with permanent housing.
07 March 2016 (13:37 UTC-07 Tango 01) 17 Esfand 1394/27 Jumada al-Ula 1437/29 Xin Mao 4714
“…how many species of native bats and rodents we have….We know so little about them…..But everyone knows what a koala and kangaroo looks like.”-Trish Fleming, Murdoch University
A new study from the British empire’s Land Down Under reveals extreme bias when it comes to studying, and even saving, the Earths non-human animals: Even biologists and philanthropists avoid the ugly ones!
THE GOOD:
“Since European settlement (in Australia) we have lost about 20 species of mammals, we have about another 20 odd in grave danger of extinction. I think it would be tragic if we ended up causing the extinction of even more without even knowing anything about them.”-Bill Bateman, Curtin University
In another proof that there is such a thing as Uglyism, researchers discovered that the people who fund scientific and conservation research avoid ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’ animals. Yes, with all that hype about “saving the planet” animal saving charities actually ignore the ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’ ones! Discrimination!
THE BAD:
The study is to be published this week in the Mammal Review. Researchers discovered that Uglyism makes up the majority of beings on planet Earth (45% of animals reviewed in the study are considered ugly).
THE UGLY:
Perhaps that’s why Kawaii is so popular, cuteness in nature turns out to be a rarity. But be warned, too much Kawaii from Japan will make you wanna beat those giggly-jiggly-overly-optimistic-beings with an ugly stick!
05 March 2016 (11:45 UTC-07 Tango 01) 15 Esfand 1394/25 Jumada al-Ula 1437/27 Xin Mao 4714
Five years after the March 2011 quake-tsunami-nuclear disaster the Japanese Reconstruction Agency revealed that more than 3-thousand 4-hundred “survivors” have died. Not surprising, 56% of those deaths took place in the nuclear disaster reactor prefecture of Fukushima!
Other data proving the failure of Japan’s response to the 2011 disasters; by mid-February this year more than 174-thousand people are still in temporary housing. I should point out that back in 2011 government officials were expecting the ‘temporary’ housing to be used for no more than six months! Many administrators were not prepared for the radiation levels that, in some areas, are still preventing people from returning to their homes. Another 156,234 survivors are living in homes/apartments that are being rented by local governments. 18,237 survivors are living with relatives. All together about 349-thousand people are living as refugees in their own country!
For more proof that living as a refugee, even in your own country, is worse than staying put NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) surveyed more than 5-hundred survivors: 42% said their standard of living has not improved. 37% said their situation is worse. 11% said they are struggling.
In a sign of some improvement, children in Fukushima are no longer fat? After fours years of gaining weight school aged children in the nuclear disaster are suddenly losing it. That’s according to the Ministry of Education. It’s assumed that reason why school kids got fat was because they were not allowed to play outside due to the radiation contamination. In the past year the ban on playing out side was lifted, and education administrators think that’s why the kids have suddenly lost weight. It must be pointed out that being fat in Japan does not mean you’re actually fat, it’s based on the government standard for being overweight. The government has somehow determined how much a person should weigh, and if you’re 20% or more over that limit you’re a fatty!
But don’t credit declining radiation contamination for the lifting of the outside play ban, the real reason is that the number of parents keeping their kids out of Fukushima schools has jumped; 1-thousand 785 children were kept out of school in 2015, that’s 2-hundred more than before the March 2011 disaster!
02 March 2016 (15:05 UTC-07 Tango 01) 12 Esfand 1394/22 Jumada al-Ula 1437/24 Xin Mao 4714
“And he will be established like the moon for eternity, a faithful witness in Heaven.”-Psalms 89:37, Aramaic Bible
Israeli tech company SkyFi claims it is on the verge of completing a “nano satellite” system that will be able to connect to any internet based device anywhere in the world, even locations that are currently ‘out of service’.
There are estimates that 4-billion people on Earth cannot access the internet due to lack of local service (this seems high as it would mean only 3-billion people are connected to the internet, belying all that main stream media hype about everybody being online-social media-bullshit).
The official motivation for the new all powerful eye in the sky nano satellites is to bring those 4-billion unfortunate off-gridders into the web of the beast: “We are planning to launch 60 nano-satellites that will cover the entire planet, working together in constellation that will offload tasks to each other as needed. Each satellite will cost a million dollars, so 60 nano-satellites will cost the same as one full-sized satellite, with the advantage of being able to spread them around the globe and connect them in a network that can work together.”-Raz Itzhaki Tamir, SkyFi ceo
SkyFi claims their nano-satellites have incredibly fast communication speeds, a gigabyte per second! That’s far faster than any satellite in orbit now: “This type of solution will conquer the market, because it addresses some of the most serious and bothersome issues for satellite operators.”-David Pollack, Spacecom ceo
A proof of concept launch will be conducted next year. Chinese news reports said the SkyFi system could eventually think for itself, Reuters calls them “smart satellites”. If it works then just imagine what could be done with a potentially autonomous satellite network that can access everything, everywhere on the planet!
01 March 2016 (07:13 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Esfand 1394/21 Jumada al-Ula 1437/23 Xin Mao 4714
“It was discussed two weeks ago in Brussels… …Once this is organized, and decided how many troops and how they will go and where they will go, we will participate in that.”-Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia discussing U.S. led NATO invasion plans for Syria
It’s not just generals of U.S. ally Kingdom of Saudi Arabia admitting to a done-deal-U.S.-NATO invasion of Syria, but Iran’s war office says the whole Russian/U.S. imposed ‘ceasefire’ is a pretext to get rid of the elected Syrian government, and warns of all out regional war: “The Americans’ objective in supporting ceasefire in Syria is not benign, and their main aim is to change the legitimate government in the country. The Americans failed to remove Bashar Assad through the war waged by their proxies. They have now taken the issue to the UN Security Council and decided that Assad must not remain in power and a hand-picked American regime is installed. The Islamic Republic of Iran is absolutely opposed to the Americans’ plan.”-Ali-Akbar Velayati, adviser to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Ayatollah is the Commander in Chief of Iran’s military
The Russian’s accuse the Obama regime’s so called “Plan B” as being nothing more than False Flag ops to violate the ceasefire to justify U.S.-NATO intervention: “As for Plan B, we know that our American colleagues and especially their security agencies would devise various scenarios in case of this or that development……to disrupt the [ceasefire] process that has begun.”-Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister
Russian news media covering the war in northern Syria/Rojava reporting new artillery strikes coming from NATO member Turkey. About eight artillery rounds impacted near the town of Kessab (Kesseb), Latakia Province. Kessab has a large Armenian Orthodox Christian population, who have strong connections to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Syrian military says the artillery was being fired by U.S., U.K., Israeli, Saudi created Al-Nusra Front from the Turkish side of the border. There are reports that journalists from Bulgaria, Canada and China are among the wounded.
Reporters noted that the area targeted by the artillery in Turkey not only had Syrian military forces, but Russian military advisors. Latakia Province is also home to a Russian Navy port, as well as the air base used by the Russian Air Force. Only civilians and journalists were hit: “We spoke to local residents, they spoke about their hopes for peace, and it all changed in the blink of an eye, we heard what could be artillery fire, or maybe they were grenades. Everybody fell to the floor.”-Boris Kuznetsov, reporter
It should be questioned why an area with a largely Armenian Christian population, with connections to Russia, is constantly being targeted by insurgents coming from NATO-Turkey (and don’t forget Turkish genocide against Armenians 101 years ago, which Turkey still denies).
Yemeni Mujahideen with a French made Leclerc tank, which they captured from invading Saudi forces.
“…the G20 recognized that while the global recovery continues, it remains too weak and uneven–and falls short of our collective ambition for strong, sustainable and balanced growth. To confront this challenge, we need action now.”-Christine Lagarde, IMF
If Walmart is the canary in the coal mine for the U.S. economy, then China is the same for the entire world economy. China’s Ministry of Human Resources says factory orders are so low there is no justification to keep 1.8-million steel and coal workers employed! They gave no date for when the massive layoffs will begin. Ministry of Human Resources calls the layoffs “resettlement”.
The announcement came after Premier Li Keqiang revealed that the equivilant of $15.27-million USD is being set aside for expected mass unemployment!
On top of that, the People’s Bank of China is dropping the amount of cash commercial banks must keep in the vaults, for the 5th time since February 2015! Analysts say this 5th drop in the reserve ratio is meant to inject the equivilant of $100-billion USD into the Chinese economy. This comes after members of the G20 revealed the global economy is actually crashing, not recovering.
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the U.S. based International Monetary Fund (IMF), blamed the lack of global recovery on the lack of implementation of past G20 agreements: “…bold multilateral actions. This requires following through on past G20 commitments and, in particular, renewed momentum this year to deliver on the goal of achieving 2 percent additional growth by 2018.”
