Closing Friday at 15,138.12, the Nikkei 225 quote threatens to induce a very embarrassing situation for the girls of Machikado Keiki Japan (Economic Conditions on the Streets of Japan)...
Japan Times: Girl group bases style on Nikkei ups and downs
Kanon Mori, Yuki Sakura, Hinako Kuroki and Jun Amaki have been following the Nikkei 225 stock average obsessively since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December. The oldest of the foursome is Mori, but she is still only 23. The youngest is Kuroki, 16 and still in high school...
“We base our costumes on the price of the Nikkei average of the day. For example, when the index falls below 10,000 points, we go on stage with really long skirts,” Mori explained.
The higher stocks rise, the shorter their dresses get. With the Nikkei index ending above 13,000, the four went without skirts altogether on the day of their interview with The Japan Times, instead wearing only lacy shorts...
It is Monday morning in Japan. As the Nikkei prepares to open, perverts around the world await with baited breath...
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Update: May 23
We jinxed it...
ZeroHedge: Japanese Stocks Halted; Plunge 1500 Points To Close Down 7.3% - Biggest Drop In 26 Months
June 12 - Nikkei dips below 13000, so it's back to skirts...
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Headlines of note for May 2013 (updates throughout)
A plague of scandals upon this administration...
As Fast and Furious languishes...
Examiner (David Codrea): Grassley charges U.S. attorney undermined Fast and Furious whistleblower
While the Benghazi scandal (see our Nov. 27 review of the matter and as it relates to John Brennan) remains stuck on talking points...
ABC: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference
Though perhaps much more is forthcoming...
PJMedia: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama
In the meantime, a panoply of other scandals are arising. This one, surrounding Obamacare, bears a certain resemblance to Iran-Contra, in so far as "creative" - meaning possibly illegal - means are solicited in order to fund a policy when Congress holds the purse strings much too tightly...
WaPo: Budget request denied, Sebelius turns to health executives to finance Obamacare
Now is this any way to treat your biggest salad-tossers? Obama's Justice Department targets the press...
AP: GOV'T OBTAINS WIDE AP PHONE RECORDS IN PROBE
FOX: DOJ seized phone records of numbers tied to Fox News lines, documents show
Politico: Sharyl Attkisson's computers compromised
Of course these are members of the press who neglected to RSVP the orgy.
Then there are those that were considered to be suitably captured Fourth Estate brigades who got VIP access...
ProPublica: IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups
But we are jumping ahead of ourselves here...
Fox19: Reality Check Special - Tea Party groups vs IRS
A curious note on the IRS scandal; though this had originally broken no later than March 1, 2012 on the Cincinnati FOX affiliate that has been host to Ben Swann's Reality Check series, the story suddenly got legs, and piled onto the other scandals, just in time for the 40th anniversary of the commencement of the Watergate hearings. It turns out that the timing was no accident...
Weekly Standard: IRS Commissioner Admits - We Planned When to Reveal Scandal
Which leads us to speculate: has a decision been made to throw Obama under the bus? The comparisons to Nixon are rampant...
Chicago Tribune: Obama Races Nixon to Bottom?
And so the glacial, step-by-step investigations proceed.
From some lowly rouge IRS agents in a Cincinnati outpost, now moving up the chain of command...
Reality Check Exclusive: Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal?
The connection between IRS management Lois Lerner & Cindy Thomas
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May history remember May 5, 2013, a date as auspicious as that of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible, with the publication of Cody Wilson's printable gun, The Liberator.
Forbes: This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)
The futile counter-offensive...
Observer: At the Command of the State Department, Defense Distributed Pulls Its 3D Printed Gun Blueprints
Rare: The government’s lost war on 3D printable guns
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By some accounts, May the 5th might also go down in history in the same category as August the 6th, 1945...
PressTV: Was Syria 'nuked'?
RT: New massive Israeli attack rocks Damascus army research site
A closer look at those videos...
Dramatic video: Israeli missile strike hits Damascus
Jim Stone Freelance: Analysis of the video from Syria proves it to be a nuclear air burst beyond all doubt.
Well, doubt is something we are at pains to part company with; but for comparison's sake, other candidates include versions of Thermobaric, or Fuel-Air explosives...
150kg of Thermobaric Explosive in a Car (By AnonymousUploads)
BLU-96/B 2000lb Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE II) Bomb
MOP...
Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) 37,000 LB Bombs To The USAF - GBU-57
MOAB...
WORLD'S LARGEST CONVENTIONAL BOMB - MOAB EXPLOSION
In any case, it was nuclear enough - likely augmented with depleted uranium...
Jerusalem Post: 'Israel used depleted uranium shells in Syria'
A significant game-changer...
Voltairnet (William Engdahl): Israel’s Act of War Against Syria—Madness or Cold Calculation?
Meriting a personal visit from DCI Brennan...
Washington Times: CIA chief John Brennan in Israel on mystery stop
Alas, Israel and Al Qaeda, allies against Assad...
Telegraph: Under the black flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian city ruled by gangs of extremists
AKA "Freedom Fighters"...
LiveLeak: 18+ WTF!? Cannibal Rebel Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier
Things look to go as smashingly as they have in Libya...
Al Jazeera: Deadly Blast Rocks Benghazi Hospital
All Africa: Libya - Security Crisis Intensifies
Prepare for phase two of the NATO intervention in Libya...
Stop NATO: U.S. Moves NATO Troops To Sicily For Libyan Intervention - Italian Foreign Minister
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Elsewhere around the world...
Mother Russia's message to NATO: GO FUCK YOURSELF...
RT: Victory Day Parade 2013 Highlights - Military glory in Moscow's Red Square
As NATO knocks, knocks, knocks on Mother Russia's front door...
RIANovosti: Estonia Holds Military Drills with NATO Allies
Pakistan's new (old) prime minister seems intent on fulfilling a campaign promise...
DNA India: US drone strikes inside Pakistan must end - Nawaz Sharif
Asia Times: Drone strikes on trial in Pakistan
What with talk of Pakistani military shooting down U.S. drones, Obama's celebrated speech was a creature of necessity...
NYTimes (Mark Mazzetti): Analysis of Key Points From Obama’s Speech on Drones
Foreign Policy: Pakistan says Obama's drone speech too little, too late
As is so often the case with his paradoxical rhetoric, it enacts that which he professes to loathe
McClatchy: Obama speech suggests possible expansion of drone killings
This story smacks of some sort of PSYOP (a caveat -World Net Daily has its Zionist leanings)...
WND: IRAN SOURCE - PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD ARRESTED
Algemeiner: Iran Denies Ahmadinejad Arrest
Skulduggeries...
Xinhua net: Two Mossad, CIA "spies" executed in Iran - state TV
Independent: Russian agent claims Ryan Fogle is not the first CIA agent caught this year
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Another apparent production...
Aangirfan: WOOLWICH - FALSE FLAG - INSIDE JOB - FAKE
Boston Marathon bombing and martial law follow-ups...
Infowars: Victims Of Boston Police State Lockdown Speak Out
Another Witness To Martial Law in Watertown, Mass
In the Caucases, this story suggests some kind of PSYOP/reconnaissance effort is under way, insofar as any donation will surely be noted; but noted by whom? -the FSB, CIA, or both?
Gazeta.kz: В Киргизии и Чечне появились листовки, сообщающие о невиновности Джохара Царнаева
A rough translation...
In Kyrgyzstan, Chechnya, leaflets appeared announcing the innocence of Johar Tsarnaeva
In the Kyrgyz capital unknown pasted leaflets called for support and prayers for Johar Tsarnaevu, detained on suspicion of committing a terrorist attack in Boston...
...in the center of Bishkek, including underpasses, there were black and white flyers depicting Tsarnaev Jr., as well as some of his photographs at different ages with the statement: "Johar Tsarnaev innocent."
At the same time, according to information from the Chechen capital, Grozny, on main streets were posted leaflets calling for logistical help of Johar Tsarnaevu...
The leaflets, which published photographs of Tsarnaeva Johar and his mother under an inscription in large letters, "Not guilty!", please provide them with financial assistance, appeared May 2 in the center of the Chechen capital, on the avenue named after Putin. Ads stuck in terminals for payment of mobile communication, the "Caucasian Knot".
Incidentally, Caucasian Knot receives funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA conduit for international NGOs.
Alas, Caucasus jihadis from Boston to Syria...
Asia Times: Caucasus jihadis feel Boston shocks
Family requests for second, independent autopsy of alleged bomber Tamarlan's body go unfulfilled as Uncle CIA shows up in Boston to perform the Muslim washing ceremony after which no autopsy can be performed...
Boston.com: Family may not conduct second autopsy on body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev according to funeral director
Well, R.I.P. - as far as we are concerned, he was innocent until proven guilty...
Body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried at undisclosed location
We referred to Ruslan Tsarni - uncle to the Tsarnaev brothers - as Uncle CIA, based largely on Daniel Hopsicker's recent articles connecting Tsarni to Graham Fuller...
Mad Cow Productions: ‘Uncle Ruslan’ aided terrorists from CIA official’s home
Here is the denial...
The Back Channel: Former CIA officer - ‘Absurd’ to link uncle of Boston suspects, Agency
But see also Wayne Madsen at...
Strategic-Culture: Washington’s «Civil Society» and CIA Financing of Chechen and Other Caucasus Regional
Graham Fuller certainly would qualify as a subscriber to Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" paradigm; but in reviewing Fuller's 1992 The Democracy Trap for the NYTimes, Alan Wolfe remarks that Fuller would appear to show a preference for other peoples' civilizations, particularly that of the Muslim world...
Superpower Blues
Intrigued by Muslim notions of determinism and the frailty of man,
he suggests, with some seriousness, the virtues of an Islamic republic for
America.
Should we not regard Fuller as a "person of interest" in the Boston bombing then?
Along with Brian Glyn Williams...
Traces of reality: The Tsarnaevs and the CIA–Part 2 - Who is Brian Glyn Williams?
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Miscellania...
Followup on two stories that were not published in 2008...
Cease Fire Magazine: Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?
While we are reluctant to accept hypotheses that are said to conclusively "solve" these persistent mysteries, this has its merits...
Veterans Today: Mystery Solved - The WTC was Nuked on 9/11
Rense's Yoichi Shimatsu measures microsieverts along the West Coast as the Tohoku tsunami debris arrives...
San Onofre Edison...
West Coast Radiation Crisis - Part 1
Olympic Peninsula: West
Coast Radiation Crisis, Part 2
Hanford Site: West
Coast Radiation Crisis, Part 3
Wired: Pentagon Wants ‘Human Surrogate’ for Ray Gun Tests
Who needs a surrogate when they can use CBS's David Martin?
Food news...
Global Research (Engdahl): “Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic
Entropy: Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome - Pathways to Modern Diseases
Activist Post: Farmer Faces Over 2 Years Jail, $10K Fines for Feeding Community
A tasteful tribute to Qadaffi's female body guards with photo-montage...
Lame Cherry: The Obama Chained Women of Libya
We should add: our friend Tecca Zendik received brief fire-arms training from one of the guards, as photographed by Muir Vidler.
History lesson from "Dr. P" (see also "MITmichael" in comments)...
STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS: In Defense of an Italian “Stronzo” [Dung!] with Respect To His “Non-Involvement” in the Aldo Moro Kidnapping!
They just won't give up pegging Frank Marshall Davis as Barry's daddy...
Fellowship of Minds: Obama’s disturbing poem on man-boy relationship
A plague of scandals upon this administration...
As Fast and Furious languishes...
Examiner (David Codrea): Grassley charges U.S. attorney undermined Fast and Furious whistleblower
While the Benghazi scandal (see our Nov. 27 review of the matter and as it relates to John Brennan) remains stuck on talking points...
ABC: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference
Though perhaps much more is forthcoming...
PJMedia: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama
In the meantime, a panoply of other scandals are arising. This one, surrounding Obamacare, bears a certain resemblance to Iran-Contra, in so far as "creative" - meaning possibly illegal - means are solicited in order to fund a policy when Congress holds the purse strings much too tightly...
WaPo: Budget request denied, Sebelius turns to health executives to finance Obamacare
Now is this any way to treat your biggest salad-tossers? Obama's Justice Department targets the press...
AP: GOV'T OBTAINS WIDE AP PHONE RECORDS IN PROBE
FOX: DOJ seized phone records of numbers tied to Fox News lines, documents show
Politico: Sharyl Attkisson's computers compromised
Of course these are members of the press who neglected to RSVP the orgy.
Then there are those that were considered to be suitably captured Fourth Estate brigades who got VIP access...
ProPublica: IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups
But we are jumping ahead of ourselves here...
Fox19: Reality Check Special - Tea Party groups vs IRS
A curious note on the IRS scandal; though this had originally broken no later than March 1, 2012 on the Cincinnati FOX affiliate that has been host to Ben Swann's Reality Check series, the story suddenly got legs, and piled onto the other scandals, just in time for the 40th anniversary of the commencement of the Watergate hearings. It turns out that the timing was no accident...
Weekly Standard: IRS Commissioner Admits - We Planned When to Reveal Scandal
Which leads us to speculate: has a decision been made to throw Obama under the bus? The comparisons to Nixon are rampant...
Chicago Tribune: Obama Races Nixon to Bottom?
And so the glacial, step-by-step investigations proceed.
From some lowly rouge IRS agents in a Cincinnati outpost, now moving up the chain of command...
Reality Check Exclusive: Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal?
The connection between IRS management Lois Lerner & Cindy Thomas
+
May history remember May 5, 2013, a date as auspicious as that of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible, with the publication of Cody Wilson's printable gun, The Liberator.
Forbes: This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)
The futile counter-offensive...
Observer: At the Command of the State Department, Defense Distributed Pulls Its 3D Printed Gun Blueprints
Rare: The government’s lost war on 3D printable guns
+
By some accounts, May the 5th might also go down in history in the same category as August the 6th, 1945...
PressTV: Was Syria 'nuked'?
RT: New massive Israeli attack rocks Damascus army research site
A closer look at those videos...
Dramatic video: Israeli missile strike hits Damascus
Jim Stone Freelance: Analysis of the video from Syria proves it to be a nuclear air burst beyond all doubt.
Well, doubt is something we are at pains to part company with; but for comparison's sake, other candidates include versions of Thermobaric, or Fuel-Air explosives...
150kg of Thermobaric Explosive in a Car (By AnonymousUploads)
BLU-96/B 2000lb Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE II) Bomb
MOP...
Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) 37,000 LB Bombs To The USAF - GBU-57
MOAB...
WORLD'S LARGEST CONVENTIONAL BOMB - MOAB EXPLOSION
In any case, it was nuclear enough - likely augmented with depleted uranium...
Jerusalem Post: 'Israel used depleted uranium shells in Syria'
A significant game-changer...
Voltairnet (William Engdahl): Israel’s Act of War Against Syria—Madness or Cold Calculation?
Meriting a personal visit from DCI Brennan...
Washington Times: CIA chief John Brennan in Israel on mystery stop
Alas, Israel and Al Qaeda, allies against Assad...
Telegraph: Under the black flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian city ruled by gangs of extremists
AKA "Freedom Fighters"...
LiveLeak: 18+ WTF!? Cannibal Rebel Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier
Things look to go as smashingly as they have in Libya...
Al Jazeera: Deadly Blast Rocks Benghazi Hospital
All Africa: Libya - Security Crisis Intensifies
Prepare for phase two of the NATO intervention in Libya...
Stop NATO: U.S. Moves NATO Troops To Sicily For Libyan Intervention - Italian Foreign Minister
+
Elsewhere around the world...
Mother Russia's message to NATO: GO FUCK YOURSELF...
RT: Victory Day Parade 2013 Highlights - Military glory in Moscow's Red Square
As NATO knocks, knocks, knocks on Mother Russia's front door...
RIANovosti: Estonia Holds Military Drills with NATO Allies
Pakistan's new (old) prime minister seems intent on fulfilling a campaign promise...
DNA India: US drone strikes inside Pakistan must end - Nawaz Sharif
Asia Times: Drone strikes on trial in Pakistan
What with talk of Pakistani military shooting down U.S. drones, Obama's celebrated speech was a creature of necessity...
NYTimes (Mark Mazzetti): Analysis of Key Points From Obama’s Speech on Drones
Foreign Policy: Pakistan says Obama's drone speech too little, too late
As is so often the case with his paradoxical rhetoric, it enacts that which he professes to loathe
McClatchy: Obama speech suggests possible expansion of drone killings
This story smacks of some sort of PSYOP (a caveat -World Net Daily has its Zionist leanings)...
WND: IRAN SOURCE - PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD ARRESTED
Algemeiner: Iran Denies Ahmadinejad Arrest
Skulduggeries...
Xinhua net: Two Mossad, CIA "spies" executed in Iran - state TV
Independent: Russian agent claims Ryan Fogle is not the first CIA agent caught this year
+
Another apparent production...
Aangirfan: WOOLWICH - FALSE FLAG - INSIDE JOB - FAKE
Boston Marathon bombing and martial law follow-ups...
Infowars: Victims Of Boston Police State Lockdown Speak Out
Another Witness To Martial Law in Watertown, Mass
In the Caucases, this story suggests some kind of PSYOP/reconnaissance effort is under way, insofar as any donation will surely be noted; but noted by whom? -the FSB, CIA, or both?
Gazeta.kz: В Киргизии и Чечне появились листовки, сообщающие о невиновности Джохара Царнаева
A rough translation...
In Kyrgyzstan, Chechnya, leaflets appeared announcing the innocence of Johar Tsarnaeva
In the Kyrgyz capital unknown pasted leaflets called for support and prayers for Johar Tsarnaevu, detained on suspicion of committing a terrorist attack in Boston...
...in the center of Bishkek, including underpasses, there were black and white flyers depicting Tsarnaev Jr., as well as some of his photographs at different ages with the statement: "Johar Tsarnaev innocent."
At the same time, according to information from the Chechen capital, Grozny, on main streets were posted leaflets calling for logistical help of Johar Tsarnaevu...
The leaflets, which published photographs of Tsarnaeva Johar and his mother under an inscription in large letters, "Not guilty!", please provide them with financial assistance, appeared May 2 in the center of the Chechen capital, on the avenue named after Putin. Ads stuck in terminals for payment of mobile communication, the "Caucasian Knot".
Incidentally, Caucasian Knot receives funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA conduit for international NGOs.
Alas, Caucasus jihadis from Boston to Syria...
Asia Times: Caucasus jihadis feel Boston shocks
Family requests for second, independent autopsy of alleged bomber Tamarlan's body go unfulfilled as Uncle CIA shows up in Boston to perform the Muslim washing ceremony after which no autopsy can be performed...
Boston.com: Family may not conduct second autopsy on body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev according to funeral director
Well, R.I.P. - as far as we are concerned, he was innocent until proven guilty...
Body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried at undisclosed location
We referred to Ruslan Tsarni - uncle to the Tsarnaev brothers - as Uncle CIA, based largely on Daniel Hopsicker's recent articles connecting Tsarni to Graham Fuller...
Mad Cow Productions: ‘Uncle Ruslan’ aided terrorists from CIA official’s home
Here is the denial...
The Back Channel: Former CIA officer - ‘Absurd’ to link uncle of Boston suspects, Agency
But see also Wayne Madsen at...
Strategic-Culture: Washington’s «Civil Society» and CIA Financing of Chechen and Other Caucasus Regional
Graham Fuller certainly would qualify as a subscriber to Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" paradigm; but in reviewing Fuller's 1992 The Democracy Trap for the NYTimes, Alan Wolfe remarks that Fuller would appear to show a preference for other peoples' civilizations, particularly that of the Muslim world...
Superpower Blues
Intrigued by Muslim notions of determinism and the frailty of man,
he suggests, with some seriousness, the virtues of an Islamic republic for
America.
Should we not regard Fuller as a "person of interest" in the Boston bombing then?
Along with Brian Glyn Williams...
Traces of reality: The Tsarnaevs and the CIA–Part 2 - Who is Brian Glyn Williams?
+
Miscellania...
Followup on two stories that were not published in 2008...
Cease Fire Magazine: Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?
While we are reluctant to accept hypotheses that are said to conclusively "solve" these persistent mysteries, this has its merits...
Veterans Today: Mystery Solved - The WTC was Nuked on 9/11
Rense's Yoichi Shimatsu measures microsieverts along the West Coast as the Tohoku tsunami debris arrives...
San Onofre Edison...
West Coast Radiation Crisis - Part 1
Olympic Peninsula: West
Coast Radiation Crisis, Part 2
Hanford Site: West
Coast Radiation Crisis, Part 3
Wired: Pentagon Wants ‘Human Surrogate’ for Ray Gun Tests
Who needs a surrogate when they can use CBS's David Martin?
Food news...
Global Research (Engdahl): “Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic
Entropy: Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome - Pathways to Modern Diseases
Activist Post: Farmer Faces Over 2 Years Jail, $10K Fines for Feeding Community
A tasteful tribute to Qadaffi's female body guards with photo-montage...
Lame Cherry: The Obama Chained Women of Libya
We should add: our friend Tecca Zendik received brief fire-arms training from one of the guards, as photographed by Muir Vidler.
History lesson from "Dr. P" (see also "MITmichael" in comments)...
STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS: In Defense of an Italian “Stronzo” [Dung!] with Respect To His “Non-Involvement” in the Aldo Moro Kidnapping!
They just won't give up pegging Frank Marshall Davis as Barry's daddy...
Fellowship of Minds: Obama’s disturbing poem on man-boy relationship
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