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1,000 Japanese Officers To Participate In "Island Recapture" Drill In California

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More than six months since the Japanese nationalistic escalation over the disputed island chain (that shall not be named) in the East China Sea sent Sino-Japanese foreign relations to a level not seen since a particular territorial dispute over Manchuria, tensions just hit a fever pitch overnight, when an armada of eight Chinese ships entered what Japan claimed were its territorial waters.

China's version of the story is that the vessels were there to monitor the activity of a flotilla of boats reportedly carrying members of a Japanese nationalist group (in what it too, naturally, views as its territorial waters). This was the most Chinese ships to enter Japanese waters near the Senkakus since the Japanese government purchased three of them from what it considers their owner last September and effectively nationalized the chain, a move China has quite vocally disputed and which has led to violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in China, as well as a wide-ranging boycott of numerous Japanese exports.

Japan promptly followed protocol and summoned the Chinese ambassador and lodged a protest over the maritime activity.

“It is extremely regrettable and unacceptable that Chinese state ships continue to engage in intrusion,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference. “We are protesting strictly through our diplomatic channels.”

The intrusion came after around 10 fishing boats carrying members of a conservative political group called Ganbare Nippon left Ishigaki Island in Okinawa and headed toward the Senkakus on Monday night. Things just escalated from there when running in four formations, the eight Chinese ships monitored the Japanese ships from different angles, China said in a statement.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to “expel by force” any Chinese landing on the islets.

“We would take decisive action against any attempt to enter territorial waters and to land,” Abe told the Diet in response to questions from lawmakers. “We would never allow” a landing.

“It would be natural for us to expel by force (the Chinese) if they were to make a landing,” he said.

Obviously, when we first read this latest incarnation of tiny David provoking a massive Goliath, we couldn't help but smile. Yet it turns out that Japan is indeed hell bent on pushing China to the limit, and then some, in this parading around with its best friend: the United States.

Moments ago Kyodo reported that Japan's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that "about 1,000 officers of the nation's Self-Defense Forces will participate in a U.S. drill to be held in California in June involving recapturing control of an isolated island."

Did we mention the drill would be held in California?

It is quite clear what said "recaptured island" is supposed to represent. It is even clearer what the US backing and sponsorship of such a drill on US soil is supposed to telegraph to China, so we won't go into any details.

It will be the first time for SDF personnel to participate in such a drill on the U.S. mainland.

 

Japan's participation could trigger a backlash from China as the Defense Ministry has been strengthening its capability to protect isolated islands amid soured ties with China over territorial issues surrounding the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, experts on defense issues said.

Actually China does not need to to twitch even the smallest military muscle: all it has to do is engage in a perfectly peaceful trade blockade of Japan: halt all exports to the tiny (by comparison) and irradiated nation, while boycotting all imports from Tokyo, which in better days amounted to 20% of all external trade. By doing so, China assures two things: the imminent collapse of Abenomics as even a 1,000,000 Nikkei225 will do nothing at all to prevent the country from entering an energy shortage shock, even as the local manufacturing sector implodes under its own weight, losing a core export market, and be forced to dump products on local soil in the process unleashing hyperdeflation.

In other words, if China wants, it can terminate Abe's career in months. And since the entire fate of the "developed world's" banking system is now in the hands of the BOJ and the successful conclusion of its reflation experiment, China just may just have been given the perfect opportunity to take down the (G-)7 birds with one stone.

The only question is whether Beijing feels it is ready and is willing to now finally truly challenge the Western reserve currency hegemony. Or wait some more.

Either way, it is only a matter of time now.

* * *
And now, we leave you with Abenomics and... girls in miniskirts.

 

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Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:17 | 3491460 Hopium Dealer
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Japan and Abe are cray cray.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:35 | 3491479 wee-weed up
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about 1,000 officers of the nation's Self-Defense Forces will participate in a U.S. drill to be held in California in June

A strongly worded letter might show more balls than this wussy response.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:56 | 3491572 UnpatrioticHoarder
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When the BOJ says their QE is not to weaken Yen, it may be the truth, it may be to save their bond market when the crap hits the fan.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:04 | 3491595 SilverIsKing
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Perhaps they are here to shoot Americans because the American troops can't be trusted to do that.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:45 | 3491671 Harlequin001
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But will it be an accurate re run of Okinawa...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 06:00 | 3491984 Go Tribe
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If that's an armada of ships, then I'm Davey Jones.

That photo looks like it was taken on Lake Erie.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:56 | 3491574 sangell
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Japanese troops ( for the first time) participated in a Marine Amphibious Landing exercise on Okinawa recently. Japan is invoking its treaty commitments with the US over this and North Korea and the US CINCPAC Admiral and Secretary of State John Kerry have been in Japan in the last month to demonstrate our resolve to Xi Jinpin.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:02 | 3491590 wee-weed up
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Not THE John F'in Kerry?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:30 | 3491651 Oldballplayer
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I hear tell that he is a war hero. Just ask him.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:49 | 3491675 wee-weed up
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Also claims he spent Christmas '68 in Cambodia. If you ask him nicely, he might even show you the band-aid covering the scratch that got him out of Vietnam - supposedly his 3rd Purple Heart. But he can't show you all his medals - he got pissed off and threw them over the fence at the White House. Real patriotism... just what we need in a Sec of State.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 02:30 | 3491796 CompassionateFascist
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No, Sec. Cohen kept his Vietnam decos; the ones he threw over the fence belonged to an anti-war buddy. I believe Prez-aspirant Cohen jingled them around during his "Reporting for Duty" speech at the 2004 Democrat Convention. 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:01 | 3491700 DoChenRollingBearing
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Purportedly fought in VietNam?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 03:15 | 3491841 MrNude
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Probably another Jesse 'I Was In Nam' (Playing basketball on the beach miles away from the action) Ventura. 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:01 | 3491580 mjcOH1
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"about 1,000 officers of the nation's Self-Defense Forces will participate in a U.S. drill to be held in California in June"

Not to fear, leftists. It's in California. We'll have 1 week of practice in how to unilaterally disarm and say 'comrade'. After which the Japanese will shake their heads, go home, and order 40 more plutonium pits be milled up in case their US Allies are as bat-shit crazy as the Kenyan's China policy suggests.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:52 | 3491680 ronaldawg
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Aren't you quite the moron....

California implies Camp Pendleton which implies the 1st Marine Division.

So the Japanese shock troops will be trained and backed up by the best the Marine Corps has.  The Chinese are not that stupid to mess with this. 

Time to wind up the North Korean puppet.........

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:11 | 3491718 otto skorzeny
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call me when the marines are taking on Russian Spetsnaz and not getting fought to a standstill by afghan goat herders

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 12:06 | 3493182 HarryHaller
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Those goat herders' fathers and grandfathers fought the Russians to a standstill as well, if I remember correctly...

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:25 | 3491492 Aeternus
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Don't worry, it's just a 'drill'.

 

Drills never coincide with actual events in real life that mirror the exact same drills taking place on the exact same day in deja vu like proximity to eachother.

 

Keep Calm and Stick Your Head In the Ground!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyklt01lN_I

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:11 | 3491614 Dr. Engali
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He had more than 7 rounds in that Ak. He should have grabbed a big gulp on the way out and really pissed off old Bloomberg

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:51 | 3491678 palmereldritch
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JFC, when is GTA going to get drone strike capability?*

 

*and the optional Rand role-playing character!!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:30 | 3491650 Abi Normal
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Life's a piece of shit, when you come to think of it!

Always look on the bright side of life...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

 

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:17 | 3491461 HulkHogan
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I like boats

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:44 | 3491542 Buckaroo Banzai
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I like motorboating.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:00 | 3491587 Buckaroo Banzai
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Bingo.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:38 | 3492192 Race Car Driver
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Who was the farmer's dog?

Japanese military for a thousand, Alex ... .

 

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:19 | 3491463 reader2010
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let the war begin! Heaven Save the Emperor.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:27 | 3491491 Monedas
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Plebiscite .... Senkakus or Falklands !   China and Argentina .... only got interested .... when gas and oil .... were part of the equation !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:11 | 3491610 Fish Gone Bad
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Money talks.  Countries need oil, gas, precious metals and DRUGS.  The US is in Afghanistan for the opium.  The US will be in Somalia soon enough for the khat.  Bath salts anyone?

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:25 | 3491495 geologyguy
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Why make it a drill?  I'd gladly give Japan all of California.  They can have it.  Haven't they seen the commercials depicting how cool of a place it is?!

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:25 | 3491496 williambanzai7
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The drill will be staged on the old set of Fantasy Island.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:33 | 3491503 Monedas
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The Arboretum .... Arcadia, California !   Da plane ! Da plane !

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:41 | 3491529 Aeternus
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Ahahahaha, Fantasy Island?

 

Let's skip Mr. Roarke and Tattoo and set nuclear powered sail for Never Never Land and get drunk on radioactive pixie dust!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyklt01lN_I

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:46 | 3491536 dick cheneys ghost
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I was thinking Catalina........Catalina wine mixer

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:18 | 3492341 NotApplicable
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Close. It'll be on the next island over, San Clemente.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 12:11 | 3493203 HarryHaller
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So much for fishing the backside this summer.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:17 | 3492157 JOYFUL
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Da planes! Da planes boss!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:22 | 3492651 Lux Fiat
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So glad your here!  We'redoing a remake of Tora! Tora! Tora!.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:31 | 3491508 Divine Wind
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BEWARE.

It is important to remember that many countries (besides the U.S.) have used false flag operations and intentionally manufactured crisis to provide cover for failed economic and domestic policies.

If Japan's recent monetary pumping efforts fail, which looks to be the case, the chance of war in the Western Pacific increases dramatically.

It is also highly likely that many U.S. banks are heavily invested in Japanese sovereign debt given the ties between our two Nations. They are one of the top two holders of U.S. debt instruments, host to a number of U.S. military installations and a close trading partner.

Pray. This could get ugly in the coming months.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:01 | 3491589 Divine Wind
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Well that was deep.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:59 | 3491695 Iwanttoknow
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Thank you.Our only protection is to educate each other.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:42 | 3492756 Lux Fiat
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Both parties to this crisis may be looking for cover for failed economic and domestic policies.  I have thought that China's gov'tal legitimacy stems from its ability to deliver growth.  China's successful mercantile approach is reaching (has reached) its natural end point.  The transition period that must occur will make for a much more shaky political, not just economic, environment.  That's what is scary to me about this situation - both parties involved are looking for external scapegoats/diversions. And the war of words is heating up, making it harder for leaders on either side to back down without a potentially career-ending loss of face.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 19:08 | 3495126 asiafinancenews
Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:33 | 3491512 Dr. Engali
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Sometimes I think the whole fucking world is all in on one big joke on the average Joe. The TPTB tell young Kim in Korea to distract the masses and act crazy then he disappears off of the radar. Then they have Ahmadinejad spout off so the sheep look that way then they have Abe do his thing. They keep rotating to keep us off balance while they're all scheming , laughing , and playing with little boys behind closed doors.
I can just see Obummer slapping young Kim on the back saying " thermonuclear war is unavoidable ... That was a good one Kim . You really shook up the sheep. Here have some Benny bucks let's go get us some hookers".

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:39 | 3491526 fonzannoon
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If I was at the tip tip top that's how I would handle it Doc. Call a meeting of world leaders everywhere. Closed doors. Announce drinks are on me.

Actually it would look something like this. "You lose...Eastern Europe!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PJzK35hMrU

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:50 | 3491553 Dr. Engali
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Lol ...Yep that's about it. Things are so screwed up that I don't know which pill was better, the blue or the red.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 06:42 | 3491685 i-dog
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You'll be glad you took the red pill, when it's time to protect your family from accepting free anything at a FEMA kamp, errr, distribution centre. The blue pill mob will have no idea what hit them ... "it's only a shower...please step in, it's for the children...and you get a free meal afterwards".

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 07:05 | 3492045 JOYFUL
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Luckily, being too old, n canny to be a'tall interested in the productions of Hollowood, and havin lost all interest in cin city after Rank closed down...

I never witnessed the pill poppers dilemma...and refer all applicants to the really real to the hoary story of ...

the Lady and the Tiger! http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LadyTige.shtml

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:32 | 3491513 Glass Seagull
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Buy our stocks and bonds, and we'll train your military.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:33 | 3491514 Aurora Ex Machina
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The age distribution of H7N9 human cases is striking -- quite unlike any other flu outbreak. Flu generally infects males and females equally, but H7N9 has struck twice as many males as females. (In the over-60 age group, three times as many males, versus females, have been infected.) Bird flus tend to afflict children in large numbers because the youngsters play among ducks and chickens. More than 80 percent of confirmed H5N1 cases, for example, have been in youngsters under 17 years of age. But very few kids have come down with H7N9, and by far the majority of cases have been in adults over 60 years of age. It is unlikely this is due to a unique vulnerability in the bodies of over-60 males. Rather, this may be another clue to the identity of the mysterious viral host -- behaviorally, elderly Chinese urban men are engaged in some activity that puts them at greater contact with the unknown carrier creature.[source]

 

FP is going with a possible pandemic in China; 108 cases, 22 deaths, 9 cured with a high level of severe complications in those still with it. WHO team is on the ground.  If you read through it, the 5,000 Swallows dropping out of the sky in Vietnam is not great news; H5N1 and the new varient, H7N9 are now both active in the Asia region.

 

 

I'm sure those wargames are more important though. (And yes, the quotation was snark @ ZH demographics)

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:47 | 3491550 wee-weed up
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Dirty old chicken fuckers!

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:52 | 3491567 Dr. Engali
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Hey hu are you carring old?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 03:14 | 3491840 BigInJapan
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Long Chinese chicken porn!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 07:27 | 3492086 BandGap
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Some type of long term drug use. Autoimmune diseases are the scourge of the past 100 years or so.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:37 | 3491519 stock trout
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Do the Japanese have a cruise ship they can rent out to get 1,000 soldiers over to California? You know, like Maggie did to get the British army to the Falklands. 

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:52 | 3491547 Monedas
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That was imaginative and resourceful of Maggie .... did it offend your military protocol sensibilities ?  Those WWII troop transports were vomit buckets .... I'm sure the soldiers enjoyed the comforts of a cruise ship .... they certainly deserved a little comfort before battle !  Bravo Maggie !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:08 | 3491607 mjcOH1
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"That was imaginative and resourceful of Maggie .... did it offend your military protocol sensibilities ? Those WWII troop transports were vomit buckets .... I'm sure the soldiers enjoyed the comforts of a cruise ship"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troopship

RMS Queeen Mary And RMS Queen Elizabeth both served as troop ships in WWIi. The idea wasn't developed in the 80s.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:57 | 3491643 Monedas
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Glad to hear it .... it wasn't a real good time for pleasure cruises anyway !  Maggie was "conserving" a resourceful British tradition .... like the evacuation of British troops at Dunkerque .... with anything that would float !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:01 | 3491698 Iwanttoknow
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Is it sunny or raining in Telaviv?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:22 | 3491630 palmereldritch
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Nothing takes the locals' minds off a cratering domestic economy like the fervent jingoism of territorial self-slaughter.

Maggie's ghost will, accordingly, preside.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:30 | 3491648 Monedas
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Tell that to the Argentine generals .... who daintily disappeared 40,000 leftists .... then invaded the Falklands .... to regain their leftist, populist, nationalist support !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:34 | 3491657 palmereldritch
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Left...Right...Left...Right...

The sound of the authoritarian metronome is deafening, know?

They all play the same game but trick us with clever labels!!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:09 | 3492143 ross81
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It's amazing that Maggie didnt get on with the Argentinian fascists....cos she certainly enjoyed the company of Pinochet & Suharto amongst others.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:36 | 3491525 CURWAR2012
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This is a freakin Keynsian wet dream....

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:44 | 3491537 Monedas
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The US victory .... in WWII .... was the greatest military victory in history .... the fiat Ponzi was the spoils of war .... it was a way to collect reparations and husband economic growth world wide .... the Ponzi has served it's purpose .... and must be replaced with PM backed currency .... how about Bitcoins backed by gold and silver and whatnot ?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 04:14 | 3491896 cynicalskeptic
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We got Yashamita's Treasure and some Nazi gold to boot.  The question is :  "what did the US do with it all?"

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:44 | 3491544 q99x2
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Start digging Bernanke, Blankfein and Dimon. Its over and we are hungry.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:48 | 3491554 Antifaschistische
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Japan should make positive gestures to assist China with the H7N9 problem as well as relief for Earthquake victims.   There is a lot of goodwill that can be had on both sides of this fence if they will set their pride and spite aside briefly.

If they don't learn how to set it aside...this is not going to end well.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:57 | 3491578 Monedas
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The generosity of the free world is unparralleled in human history .... since WWII .... Japan has been a force for good in the world .... period !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:02 | 3491591 sangell
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Japan has offered whatever assistance China requires for earthquake relieve. China has sent H7N9 virus samples to Japan for their medical research. That's humanitarian BS. The problem is governments aren't very 'humanitarian' where their political interests are concerned. They'll spend millions to save a few dozen lives and billions to kill millions.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:19 | 3491627 dick cheneys ghost
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:05 | 3491708 wee-weed up
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"There is a lot of goodwill that can be had on both sides"

I would agree, but you obviously don't understand how important "saving face" is in Oriental culture.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 07:48 | 3492119 silvermail
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There is no dispute over a piece of stone in the sea. There is a dispute about oil and gas around this piece of stone.
Japan and China could create a joint venture for oil and gas.
Actually receive 50% of the production is more profitable, than to fight for the right to receive 100%.
But I am convinced that the U.S. will never allow Japan and China agree on this joint project. LOL

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:51 | 3491562 The Heart
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Maybe they can recapture the original photo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsakupVNivE

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:19 | 3491624 PrintPrintPrint
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heart - it is too late to be looking at photos now. everything out there has been corrupted. someone could have altered the image to fuck with everyone. the image could show he didnt have a backpack on.....we will never know because we dont have the original image. heck the gov could have altered the image just to get 'goofy' conspiracy theories going.

 

at this point...we will never know. just like after JFK had his body chopped up in the 'autopsy'. the evidence is no longer valid.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:37 | 3491753 Aurora Ex Machina
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I posted the original picture with a direct link somewhere in the Boston threads.

Note: someone pointing to "things that look odd" is not proper analysis. There are professionals out there who can do it for you. This chap is sponsored by Adobe, which is always a good sign. The days where you could see where Stalin was snipping out people are long gone, and you need proper algos to attack the data.

 

 

I agree that at this point, with a confession from the guy, the energy could be spent better elsewhere.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 11:47 | 3493088 PrintPrintPrint
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aurora - that isnt an 'original' image. the file size is way to low. should be a multi mb size file. i want the original file from the camera......

 

if the days of 'snipping' are long gone then why is this photo manipulation so poorly done.....and i have written programs that calculate dither and noise related patterns on faked images for intelligence agencies and this whole story is amateur hour.

i think this is a joke or dis-information.

Tue, 04/23/2013 - 23:56 | 3491573 PrintPrintPrint
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what...?..we going to show the japs old movies of the marines taking iwo jima...?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:03 | 3491594 Fish Gone Bad
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"... a U.S. drill to be held in California in June involving recapturing control of an isolated island."

Did anyone learn anything from the bomb drill being carried out at the Boson Marathon?  Anyone?   That's right, a drill is not a drill.  The Japs are invading Catalina!!!!   /<humor>

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:08 | 3491602 Buckaroo Banzai
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The best possible outcome for California is if the Japanese took over.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:11 | 3491611 mjcOH1
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Don't the Japanese have enough non-performing assets?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:04 | 3491596 otto skorzeny
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war w/ japs-good excuse to tell the chinese their t-bills are not worth the paper they are printed on( which they really aren't anyway)

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:04 | 3491598 Monedas
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Japanese espionage was active throughout the war .... remember, the USS Indianapolis was sunk .... a few days after delivering .... the A bombs to Tinian island .... B29 Stratofortress base .... and hundreds of sailors were eaten by sharks !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:18 | 3491613 Monedas
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Foisting all that worthless paper on the Chinese .... was part of the Cold War strategy .... the dumb Commies .... ate 'em up ! The Vietnamese .... are begging us to come back .... and we should .... they have a lot of feminine, Thai like women .... trim built .... with good bones !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:13 | 3491615 sangell
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Actually the 'hot spot' in the world right now is a place called Qusair along the Syrian/Lebanese border. Syrian government forces ( such as they are) and Hezbollah troops are trying to take this Sunni held town before the rebels get better organized and armed ( the Europeans will do that). Problem is the Sunni rebels don't like Hezbollah troops from Lebanon doing this and are firing rockets into Shia areas of Lebanon in protest. These proxy armies are being run by the Gulf Arabs and Turkey on one side and Iran on the other. Its a perfect storm brewing in Syria. Watch out.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:20 | 3491629 Monedas
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Don't let a crisis go to waste .... watch Bernanke .... bitch slap gold .... just when it should be screaming upward ?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:17 | 3492155 ross81
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the word 'rebels' implies they are home grown & organic. The Confederates were rebels, the FSA though are primarily a foreign terrorist army that has invaded Syria.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:16 | 3491617 dick cheneys ghost
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To many moves against Russia/China lately.......this does not smell good, nothing smells good anymore. These fuckers are all outta moves and moving towards WW3.

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:32 | 3491652 sangell
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Well stop and think. While everyone gets all wound up over Kim Jong Un threatening to destroy South Korea or Japan ( with an obsolete army) or China putting to sea with an inexperienced ill-equipped Navy to take some rocks in the Pacific the Japanese can well defend the real storm is gathering in the middle east. Think middling nations. 70 million Turks moving to resestablish the Ottoman Empire, think 70 million Iranians moving to stop them. Shia/Sunni/Kurds/Christians from Cairo to India all going nuts simultaneously.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:09 | 3491717 Monedas
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I love your fatalistic panorama .... a zit can only fester so much .... then you got to pop it in the mirror !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:36 | 3491654 mrmister
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The drill is a Bad idea.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:38 | 3491660 sangell
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Invade what? The Senkakus can't support a garrison. They are rocks with no airstrip or infrastructure.Probably not enough water to sustain a company of rifleman. The Chinese Navy is going to loiter offshore while Japanese F-15 sink them one by one?

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 05:43 | 3491972 MarcusLCrassus
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But they found a ton of oil under these 'rocks'. 

 

This whole crisis was initiated by the tsunami that caused the Fukushima disaster, which destroyed Japan's economic model that was based on cheap, renewable, and abundant energy from its nuclear reactors. 

 

Since then, Japan has been on a mad hunt for alternative sources of energy for its massive industrial base.  And lo and behold, this hunt uncovered a huge deposit of oil and other untapped resources right under these barren rocks.  Rocks that China itself would love to exploit. 

 

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:37 | 3491659 Youri Carma
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Japs love kamikaze so why not attack China? It's honorable.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:43 | 3491667 Joe A
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Why would they wanna recapture California? The state is bankrupt. ;-)

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:54 | 3491686 palmereldritch
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If they were smart they would target Washington...or Colorado if it, too, is also on the coast....

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:51 | 3491767 Joe A
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At the west coast of the US they would encounter the radiation and junk from Fukushima. I think trying to recapture Hawai or Midway would have been a rather sensitive issue.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:58 | 3491694 Bear
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Abenomics ... take over someone who is less broke than you

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:59 | 3491692 Schmuck Raker
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A guy I know's cousin's friend's wife's father has the straight poop on this......

the US & Japan are gonna invade Cyprus.

Believe it! Remember where you heard it first.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:04 | 3491701 jonjon831983
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This is an interesting release... because a "record number" of Japanese lawmakers just visited (yesterday, Tuesday over there) the generally Chinese/Korean/others hated Yasukuni Shrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine#Enshrinement_of_war_criminals) where many say are war criminals are currently enshrined.

 

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130423p2g00m0dm040000c.html

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/japan-s-lawmakers-in-mass-visit-to-war-s/648038.html

 

Also, while searching for the articles above came across: "China sends largest fleet yet to disputed islandshttp://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2013/0423/China-sends-largest-fleet-yet-to-disputed-islands

 

Someone is stirring up shit here.

 

We've got Syria, Iran, North Korea, and China/Japan on the radar.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:08 | 3491711 ebworthen
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C'mon, about time we started a war with China to wipe out all that Treasury Debt to them.

Japanese pilots in F-22 Raptors with meatballs painted on them; flasks of warm Sake to see them off; salutes, ceremonies, and a few nukes.  Let's see who blinks first.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:26 | 3491726 Monedas
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England and Japan are brothers .... they share their island heritage, respect for tradition, low crime rates .... I think the John Lennon/Yoko Ono marriage .... was a good metaphor .... for the mutual respect and admiration .... at least, until Lennon was shot !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 03:26 | 3491846 Hengist
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Except Liverpool is in the Republic of Ireland.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:20 | 3491729 Seize Mars
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HA HA HA HAAAA!!!

This is like the part in the movie "The Waterboy" when the opposing team gets hold of the playbook.

This playbook is so predictable, it's a joke.

Remember: Crimex deliverable inventory is a serious problem. The only solution is a price smackdown. The best way is indirect: Euro currency tumbles and USD rallies. The way to do that is bet on USD "safe haven" status as was true in the old days.

THE KOREA BULLSHIT DIDN'T WORK. So they threw in a Boston Bomb. (Oh there are sleeper cells, alright. They're just FBI/CIA sleepers, all over the place, ready to go on a moment's notice.) Then they just monkeyhammered Gold outright. Ugly but effective.

Ok, so now try the Japan/China bullshit gambit.

COME ONE you obelisk worshipping scumbags, I am losing respect for you. Your playbook is lame.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:24 | 3491736 Seize Mars
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Hey Obelisk worshipping scumbags: you haven't tried any South American stunts. Why don't you make Venezuela invasion-worthy. Too obvious because of the oil? Have the French do it. A Guyana border war or whatever. Come on, get creative.

Your Crisis Actors are getting boring.

Like Petronius said to Nero:

...I can forgive you for murdering your wife and your mother, for burning our beloved Rome, for befouling our fair country with the stench of your crimes. But one thing I cannot forgive - the boredom of having to listen to your verses, your second-rate songs, your mediocre performances. Adhere to your special gifts, Nero - murder and arson, betrayal and terror. Mutilate your subjects if you must; but with my last breath I beg you - do not mutilate the arts. Fare well, but compose no more music. Brutalize the people, but do not bore them, as you have bored to death your friend, the late Gaius Petronius...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:28 | 3491739 boeing747
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Wrong direction, the disputed islands are off coast of Taiwan, ROC, not California.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:42 | 3491758 Monedas
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Carpet bomb Pyongyang with Twinkies .... they bounce .... that would be the end .... of Kim Jong Un !

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 01:34 | 3491750 Monedas
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Seize Snickers .... that's comedy .... the Mars bar was a strange one .... it was basically .... a Three Musketeers bar .... bland and boring .... tricked out with some almonds .... Milky Way and Snickers outsold both of them .... famous moments in Candy Bar History !

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 07:33 | 3496762 Seize Mars
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Uh...

It's like you dripbbled a little on yourself and then sharted.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 02:13 | 3491779 Clowns on Acid
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Don't worry - when the Nikkei goes back down the chicks in the video will be back wearing the full Geisha outfit. I actually like those better anyway....

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 03:01 | 3491826 BigInJapan
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Banzai!
Banzai!
Banzai!

Lets antagonize China some more, shall we? Not as though they couldn't lock the Japanese economy or anything.
It almost seems that the money printers are angling for moar woar!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 03:32 | 3491853 Sudden Debt
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WHAT ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT?!?!

I THOUGHT THIS ARTICLE WAS ABOUT SHORT SKIRTS IN JAPAN?!?!?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 03:52 | 3491873 q99x2
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What if China isn't subject to treasonous globalists and decides to tough it out by domestic consumption. What if they boycott US companies like APPL and CAT etc?

What then might await those that do God's work?

In this late hour it is easy to believe that justice will prevail.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 05:14 | 3491956 CitizenPete
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United States of Provocation.   Ironic that the same force being used as a Pawn today, was once the brunt of the same emperialistic shenanigans. 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 05:37 | 3491965 MarcusLCrassus
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Japan invading California? 

 

How many veterans of the WWII Pacific campaign are rolling over in their graves?

 

This is bullshit!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 06:03 | 3491988 lemarche
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A WAR WOULD BE GREAT FOR GDP GROWTH !!! GOD BLESS AMERICA

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:55 | 3492511 edifice
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Yeah, it might push us to 2%. Here's to hoping! (not)

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 06:42 | 3492016 Econmike
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I had no idea that one of the Tylers is Chinese.

Cao ni ma!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:12 | 3492148 Winston of Oceania
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It would be like watching the french attack Vikings...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 07:25 | 3492077 shovelhead
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Girroff my rawn.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:59 | 3492093 magpie
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On the conclusion of a temporary armistice in Asian Norway the management has asked me to release this press release since Babaloons, Falselights and of course Subject Zeros counterinformation specialists are on board.

So to speak this is AlexandarCornelius from Radio Freedom lol
or Combine 17 lol Drum roll, a revelation since a Christian mystic and several hobby astrologers were getting close. Kudos to TAAG Team

Our policy is that of minimal hiving, and if necessary technological (at least). Small government, no mutants and worse allowed. Subject Zero huhhhuuh Prometheus well, or Gorden Freeman for the other side, might leave for Tel Aviv anytime so vigilance is required.

Subcontractors might study sigilimaking in the mean time for possible application of warplans against Aelia, yes i really said that, Retribution of Cyrene, the Defense of Cyprus, }Clandathu+, nay even mighty Klendathu itself. 1Rome on guard of imaginational damages. Anduin and Paladin should however raise alert levels. FalseWave technology aka the Deathstar still runs on older technology since development instead datapoints vital for jamming or even deflection operations. Fuck you Wapanese - Champions hit team is to be lauded for brilliant actions in face of adversity while minimizing collateral damage. MISR raises readiness and logistical probability operations - Operation Samson Agartha lol. $FU units recruitment to begin - QA study to commence but to remain in psyop stage. Strategic relocation of Beck and Gladio Zvezda Ukraine to be feared.

Gaza as always foil for operations of Their CinC

Of course any point of the Al Quaida Zone is within operational radiuses a valid Target for counter terror sweeps.

117 Salve Kelkelkel

(horry shit, it's like aliens, Sama-san. No fucking shit Sherlock)

Monedas you liky Harmageddon or pick a place

yesyes you know already i am like Nebuchadnezzar

conquering the planet Saturn is not an option today lol

i dont know is appl code for Falselight ? Babaloon likes Deathstar

there are "neutral" stars as in subcontractor from "beyond"
its like those powerups from C&C

i am not BestKorea as Babaloon is not Netanyahu

yes the angels are shapes from beyond prohection

call the medic great joke from way way back lol

ladybug indeed book of hiob land and sea monster those are just one of the prohections available

there are lots of products

who wants to be an architect

indeed ritual murder is real well sometimes it is not

a big fuck you to the Christian trinity that is all things mean

evil justice league i like that

HAARP or MISR you decide earthling !

ah ha yes half life lydda life eternal the warriors walk in armor with sigils galore

no monthes with 33 days lol

data mining dont stress yourself GLA mission to liberate Alaska rofl,

safety play City of Angels

since time works for humans yes there are many worlds in stasis

i well armistice holds stink bids are a favourite tactic but normally applied in galactoral zoning

they need 100 years for Subject Zero to get up and walk or something rofl

yes i have bind elementals but they have secret weapons too

or they are waitng for a convoy to arrive with "Kryptonite"

i am not a technocrat factory worker or a soldier strictly speaking

do we all end as Arachnoids no not really it is the constellation of the enemy that believes in that form

Moon223 of course

yes it was a false flag attack by me lol

the game is better with competion from the policy of the Companies management that is why it is very very rare that we land on these kind of planets no risk

ugh elite space from the perspective of the medic we are pearls pushing a string or several

klendathu will try to consolidate its real estate for now so its "strategic relocation"

yes its in moo2 you send the colonists somewhere you get them out of the way if there is something nice at the other end good karma if not well....

you are ukraine to them nothing else

summon aliens lol

life force bend form kill

many many ways and the medic of course knows them all

thats why cornelius is called like that

two horns from the very very good the middle to the most darkest evil

i like "High Middle Class Classic Game" against massive competion

they think in soccer

but "who wants to be windows to the world"

google glass lol

Subject Zero gets to put them on

if you dont see the battle lines its planets man the constellations are cool but auxilliries they will attempt kryptonite play against me

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:25 | 3492266 magpie
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its like hidden player revealed you know those cities

ahaha yes i like containment against

but if you have better ideas AQZ is always open for testing lol

yes energies are shifted between obama subject zero and bibi

like on our side

oh common you like the dajjal play it was really really cool maybe if the medic arrives he will bring you there to watch

but not today and here

yes obama will get upgrades via taxes and strategic relocation

einherier silver of the chidr

so they start with forced loans on their banks again

hfts are your friends

legiona X11

hehe more tips on the odin terror game

caliph falselight needs a 'reactionary uprising' you know that

everybody churning now lol

gaddhafy's league of gentlemen of course

indeed assad

light of arya that's very very old

yes china that was awesome if you want more get some chariot race

nice...i actually thought at first you were a hidden player

yes nice nice they wiped him out with their favourite chem/bio attack combo

ahahaha MyEmpire you know the story then suddenly DNA tests show up to prove whole Germany was jewish or something

aha yes Vikings to Minnesota and when in a slightly modified game the African expediton there lol

hehehehehe that was the best one ever

there are endless variations just consult with the allies though

back to psyop it then until Falselights "battery recharges"

yes Jews are Aryans and Africans lol

they can always good bye la anytime

daw

nice try Falselight you also try to get both

indeed spectator give Zohar a punch on the way out lol

that sounds right out of my playbook if la falls

multipronged though you know how the jews were deported by assria and babylon

white man bantustan

kenyan party time indeed

africans to brazil or africa muslims to labrador jews to baffin island

we shall see

or we get world of starcraft

moon will try to fuck you over

highly interesting

aha so that is the convoys destination

So far it is the High Middle Class game

hehe how about star convoy spotted lol

interesting that explains that forgery i must say quite cunning

satanist containment field lol

well that depends on what you and Falselight decide on

or only you ?

and it really explains your hate for Paladin

indeed Erdogoon can always be treated as a traitor defector or victim

highest level secure comm

yes megiddo you want

well know everyone can

you also gave yourself away

tell me pappus what is this "silphium" exactly

do you want to know more lol

you know this is deity level

you can't run around killing people or stand on a chariot and con everyone

so Falselight hm well back to square one

es ist seine Entscheidung oder deine Leute die von Japan übergeblieben in Los Angeles herumhampel

einen Guten TAG wünsche ich.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 11:48 | 3492697 magpie
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highly interesting karma move

very interesting hiving motions

i can also come up with charities you know

spread the love

lol that's good enogh for Falselight

jump or fall

still we are in this thread

Baffin or Ukraine

stalemate you send hq the market is saturated lets go galactic lol

wonderful bluff against bluff convoy convoy strike

asshole

so now that we both are poorer we progress

good play on myself and Falselight

prince of the air indeed

same shit different day

dr bluthgeld really

moon strong lol babaloon

this aint a vampire and werwolf movie bubi

yeah grab karma from me and the caliph

and do you rape Zohar everyday in the ward

yosemite sam

?

gin stays in bottle lol

a well medic always decides and wins

loloolll you already dumped your karma for fanaticism

hjahahhaa big in japan you bullshitter

consequences will never be same lol

keep your chin up even if you don't have one

how about that bubi

maybe i needed an Erdogoon in Tokyo or something lol

ten thousand years

the chinese have very good ideas about this

shut the line down you are making a nut out of yourself

lollllloolllllloll

well cheap bribery and treason never benefitted anyone

today we play solar lottery

heiko tenno banzai ratfucker

the spell is called save innocent in conflagration

the fire that burns ten thousand suns

saves

the cherry cheery blossom

oh noes you dont read

or cant you

bubi's plan explodes again lol

say my regards to Falselight and be off

trickbetrug 101

lol now airforce 1 will try to crash itself into Pyonyang

troooooollllolll

holy shit even kkk members would think obama would look cool

LOL

your welcome

you are welcome it takes quite while to get it right

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 07:35 | 3492108 Never One Roach
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All of you are too serious. Lets just sit back and enjoy those short skirted nymphs and pray their stock market goes very hiiiiiiiiiigh.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:07 | 3492139 optimator
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How many cerimonial belts of 1000 stitches will be weaved from one of those skirts?

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:07 | 3492140 Ranger4564
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Speculations from the Deep End...not sure about this obviously, just testing out different connections to the same dots.

It seems pretty clear Japan is to be sacrificed... Fukushima attack, threats if they actually repair their nuclear problem, North Korean threat to nuke Japan if the US embargo is not loosened, China and Japan antagonism... all weapons are pointed at Japan. What I don't think people understand yet, is just like the EU was emblematic of how the West would be financially crippled, how the Middle East was emblematic of how the world would be politically / militarily crippled, how the Chernobyl / Fukushima are emblematic of how regions would be devastated, Japan is emblematic of how the population will be diminished by the lunatic oligarchy. Whether it's through germ warfare or radiation contamination, the populations of the world will be eliminated by region, like Japan. The only questions are when and under what pretest.  In the US, I fear it will be nuclear / pollution a la the plant failings in the west and the sinkhole contamination scenario of the south.

 

 

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:12 | 3492150 magpie
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We nuke Japan, they nuke themselves or both.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:53 | 3492499 edifice
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They'll be doubly Fuku'd!

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:22 | 3492164 Frastric
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Americans... Pissing everybody off since 1917...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 08:45 | 3492204 FJ
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Terrorist Training Camps in California? WTF...

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:28 | 3492678 lolmao500
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Good thing that Abe is a moderate... oh wait.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/04/24/2013042401169.html

Abe Denies Japan Invaded Asian Neighbors

In a further lurch to the far right, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told lawmakers on Tuesday that he does not believe Japan's occupation of other Asian countries during World War II can be considered "invasions."

Abe claimed there are no set international or academic definitions of the word. "It depends on the point of view of individual countries," he said, referring to a statement in 1995 by then-Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, which apologized to all Asian victims of Japanese aggression and from which rightwingers are scrambling to distance themselves.

Japan occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945 and invaded China and several Southeast Asian nations during an aggressive expansion to create what was billed as the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."

Experts here slammed Abe's remarks. Ko Sang-tu at Yonsei University said, "That is simply absurd. It's like saying Hitler's invasion of Poland wasn't really an invasion. If a German chancellor had said the same thing, he or she would have had to resign."

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 13:15 | 3493449 Tulpa
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Why do they have to do it in California?  Iwo Jima is a lot closer and we already know how that's done.

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 16:05 | 3494309 asiafinancenews
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Overview of the dynamics at work in both Daioyu / Senkaku Islands dispute and the North Korean crisis in 2 pages of narrative + graphic: http://www.scribd.com/doc/137297706/The-North-Korean-Crisis-Commentary-and-Perspective

 

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