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Japan’s Abe Closes Schools Nationwide; South Korea Confirms 505 New Cases, Surpassing China For First Time

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China On Edge Of Chaos: “7 Cities, 23 Million People Under Quarantine” – WHO SAYS `NOW IS NOT THE TIME’ TO DECLARE EMERGENCY (It’s not a time to declare emergency when 7 cities and 23 millions people are under quarantine?) – WHITE HOUSE: AMERICANS ARE SAFE FROM CHINA CORONAVIRUS (By executive order?) – Virus Death Toll Hits 25 As Beijing Confirms 830 Patients Infected – SINGAPORE CONFIRMS FIRST CHINA VIRUS CASE AS OUTBREAK GROWS: CNA – JAPAN HEALTH MINISTRY CONFIRMS SECOND CASE OF INFECTION BY NEW CORONAVIRUS FROM CHINA – Possible Coronavirus Case Under Investigation In Texas, Los Angeles – The Real Umbrella Corp: Wuhan Ultra Biohazard Lab Was Studying “The World’s Most Dangerous Pathogens” – 3 Suspected Coronavirus Cases Identified In Scotland, US Warns ‘Reconsider Travel To China’ – Wuhan Doctors See Coronavirus Cases May Exceed 6,000: Caixin – “Imagine London In Full Lockdown”

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Read moreChina On Edge Of Chaos: “7 Cities, 23 Million People Under Quarantine” – WHO SAYS `NOW IS NOT THE TIME’ TO DECLARE EMERGENCY (It’s not a time to declare emergency when 7 cities and 23 millions people are under quarantine?) – WHITE HOUSE: AMERICANS ARE SAFE FROM CHINA CORONAVIRUS (By executive order?) – Virus Death Toll Hits 25 As Beijing Confirms 830 Patients Infected – SINGAPORE CONFIRMS FIRST CHINA VIRUS CASE AS OUTBREAK GROWS: CNA – JAPAN HEALTH MINISTRY CONFIRMS SECOND CASE OF INFECTION BY NEW CORONAVIRUS FROM CHINA – Possible Coronavirus Case Under Investigation In Texas, Los Angeles – The Real Umbrella Corp: Wuhan Ultra Biohazard Lab Was Studying “The World’s Most Dangerous Pathogens” – 3 Suspected Coronavirus Cases Identified In Scotland, US Warns ‘Reconsider Travel To China’ – Wuhan Doctors See Coronavirus Cases May Exceed 6,000: Caixin – “Imagine London In Full Lockdown”

Record cold in Hungary – July snow in Poland: Nobody expected this! – July Snow in Romania – Another snow surprise in another Turkish city – HISTORICALLY COLD & WET SPRING TO SLASH SOY STOCKPILE BY ONE-FOURTH (USDA)… CORN & WHEAT ALSO SUFFERING – Below average temperatures in Japan

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World News (May 21, 2018 Edition): Russian Airbase In Syria Attacked By Drones Of “Unknown Origin” – Fist-size gunshot wounds, pulverized bones, inadmissible use of force by Israel in Gaza – When 43% Of Americans Can’t Pay For Food And Rent, We Can Say Economic Collapse Is Here – Women Store DNA From Every Man They’ve Ever Made Love With, Study Finds – The #Pentagon Can’t Account for $21 Trillion (That’s Not a Typo) – Inuit Elders Are Warning Humanity: ‘The Earth’s Axis Has Shifted’

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Read moreWorld News (May 21, 2018 Edition): Russian Airbase In Syria Attacked By Drones Of “Unknown Origin” – Fist-size gunshot wounds, pulverized bones, inadmissible use of force by Israel in Gaza – When 43% Of Americans Can’t Pay For Food And Rent, We Can Say Economic Collapse Is Here – Women Store DNA From Every Man They’ve Ever Made Love With, Study Finds – The #Pentagon Can’t Account for $21 Trillion (That’s Not a Typo) – Inuit Elders Are Warning Humanity: ‘The Earth’s Axis Has Shifted’

World News (May 6, 2018 Edition): “This Is As Bad As It Gets”: Magma Flowing From Hawaii’s Kilauea Forces Thousands To Flee – “To His Dying Breath”: McCain Regrets Picking Palin, Wants Pence But Not Trump At Funeral

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– “This Is As Bad As It Gets” – Magma Flowing From Hawaii’s Kilauea Forces Thousands To Flee:

After first erupting on Thursday, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has continued to send molten magma up through the eight fissures that have now opened up in the ground in a part of Hawaii that is home to several ritzy neighborhoods, including the tony Leilani Estates, where residents have been forced to flee as the eruptions, as well as several powerful earthquakes, have destroyed power lines and disrupted and left parts of the surrounding area without water.

One area resident summed up the neighborhood’s plight in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.

“This is as bad as it gets,” said John Bennett, 61, a resident of the Leilani Estates neighborhood forced to evacuate. “We can’t go back in yet. I feel lost. I don’t know what to think. I’ve never been in this situation before.”

The estimated 1,800 people who live in the affected area have sought temporary respite in government shelters. Others have moved in friends on other islands. 

– FBI Refuses To Pursue Personal Strzok-Page Texts; Grassley Goes Nuclear

– Hedge Fund CIO: “This Is The Greatest Challenge In Asset Management Today”:

“Today’s greatest challenge in asset management is that the biggest pension funds need to generate 7.5% returns in perpetuity or face insolvency. An annual loss would be debilitating, a multi-year loss devastating.”

– “To His Dying Breath”: McCain Regrets Picking Palin, Wants Pence But Not Trump At Funeral

– NSA Spying Explodes: Over 530 Million US Phone Records Collected In 2017

– Paper Gold Market Normalizing, Silver Getting Even More Extreme:

“… gold’s technicals are improving and silver’s are so positive that you have to wonder if there’s a catch, though what that would be isn’t obvious…”

– Trump Reportedly Not Invited to Senator McCain’s Funeral

– Erupting Volcano in Hawaii Releases Life-Threatening Toxic Gas (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Read moreWorld News (May 6, 2018 Edition): “This Is As Bad As It Gets”: Magma Flowing From Hawaii’s Kilauea Forces Thousands To Flee – “To His Dying Breath”: McCain Regrets Picking Palin, Wants Pence But Not Trump At Funeral

Japan Is So Broke That Its Prisons Are Full Of 80+ Year Old ‘Felons’

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– Japan Is So Broke That Its Prisons Are Full Of 80+ Year Old ‘Felons’:

‘Mrs. F.’ was 84 years old the first time she ever went to prison.

Her crime? Petty shoplifting. She stole rice, strawberries, and cold medicine.

She served her time. Got released. Then shoplifted again so that she’d go back to prison.

She’s now 89 years old serving out another 2 ½ year sentence, not too far away from where I am right now, at a women’s prison about 60 miles outside of Tokyo.

She’s not the only one.

Read moreJapan Is So Broke That Its Prisons Are Full Of 80+ Year Old ‘Felons’

Japan seeks help to block North Korea’s smuggling at sea

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– Japan seeks help to block North Korea’s smuggling at sea:

Asia-Pacific countries will work together to block sanctions evasion

TOKYO — Japan wants help from partners, including the U.S. and South Korea, to keep an eye on North Korea’s maritime smuggling and hold the hermit state to international sanctions.

To that end, the Tokyo government will hold working-level meetings with Washington and Seoul officials. The goal is to involve countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region to monitor internatioanl waters for sanctions evastion by Pyongyang.

Read moreJapan seeks help to block North Korea’s smuggling at sea

JAPAN: American tourist with a ‘Turkish surname’ beheads a Japanese woman. Is he a Muslim?

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– JAPAN: American tourist with a ‘Turkish surname’ beheads a Japanese woman. Is he a Muslim?:

American tourist Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar taken into custody and questioned in Japan after missing woman’s severed head is found in a suitcase. Video footage from a surveillance camera showed the woman entering a flat with the man, before the man was later seen coming in and out alone several times, carrying a large bag.

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H/t reader kevin a.

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Fukushima nuclear disaster: Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak seven years after plant meltdown in Japan

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Fukushima Turned Japan Into A Shithole 1-18-2018 | Organic Slant (Video)

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Fukushima continues to be ignored by the press, but on site the Category 7 disaster only warrants 6 days attendance per week.
That’s right folks, we’re not open Sundays despite ongoing meltdown of 3 reactors! Duh!!!”

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$500 MILLION Crypto Heist: Japanese Exchange Coincheck Halts Trade, ‘Deeply Sorry’ For Users’ Loss

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– $500mn crypto heist: Japanese exchange Coincheck halts trade, ‘deeply sorry’ for users’ loss:

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has suspended trading and withdrawals, saying it “deeply regrets” the loss of tokens worth some $500 million in what appears to be the biggest crypto heist in history.

Coincheck confirmed late Friday that the unknown hackers might have stolen some 500 million NEM tokens (worth up to ¥58 billion or around $532 million at the time of the incident), which makes it the biggest ever theft from a cryptocurrency exchange. The previous record-holder was Mt.Gox, a world leading bitcoin exchange, in February 2014 when some 850,000 bitcoins (worth $390 million at the time) were stolen from the platform, preceding its eventual demise.

Read more$500 MILLION Crypto Heist: Japanese Exchange Coincheck Halts Trade, ‘Deeply Sorry’ For Users’ Loss

Social Security Proposes “Immediate And Permanent Reduction” In Benefits

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“The Social Security Administration itself reports that 62% of recipients rely on the program for at least HALF of their income.

And further research by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows that, without Social Security, 22.1 million Americans would fall below the poverty line.

Needless to say, major cuts to the program would have nuclear effects.”

– Social Security Proposes “Immediate And Permanent Reduction” In Benefits:

On a deep, dark evening last June in the spectacularly celestial deserts of northern Chile, scientists made a phenomenal discovery.

It was a supernova… one that they named ASASSN-15lh.

This wasn’t just any supernova. It was the BIGGEST and BRIGHTEST supernova ever recorded.

Read moreSocial Security Proposes “Immediate And Permanent Reduction” In Benefits

Japanese renewables firm takes on Tesla in solar panels tech, says it can replace building materials

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– Japanese renewables firm takes on Tesla in solar panels tech, says it can replace building materials:

A Japanese firm intends to give Tesla a run for its technology, by making solar cells in designs that can make it building material substitutes.

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H/t reader kevin a.

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Tokyo-Bound Flight U-Turns To LAX To Remove “Unauthorized Person” Due To “Mix Up”

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– Tokyo-Bound Flight U-Turns To LAX To Remove “Unauthorized Person” Due To “Mix Up”:

An All Nippon Airways flight en route from Los Angeles to Tokyo was forced to turn around four hours into the eleven hour journey to remove an “unauthorized person” from the flight, angering passengers who were told by the airline that passenger had a ticket for another airline.

A twitter user claiming to have been on board flight ANA 175 said that four people were questioned and detained; “1 Muslim,2 white, and 1 asian lady.” 

Police said the massive U-turn was due to a “mix up, and was straightened out,” according to ABC7, and that the flight has been rescheduled to depart Wednesday morning.

Model Christine Teigen was aboard and documented the incident over Twitter. 

Read moreTokyo-Bound Flight U-Turns To LAX To Remove “Unauthorized Person” Due To “Mix Up”

China To Overtake US As World’s Largest Economy By 2032

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– China To Overtake US As World’s Largest Economy By 2032:

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Case in point: A report published by a UK think tank posits that China will surpass the US to become the world’s largest economy by 2032. Meanwhile, Asian countries will comprise four of the world’s five largest economies, according to Bloomberg.

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The report, published by the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research, also sees India leapfrogging the U.K. and France next year to become the world’s fifth-biggest economy.

By 2027, it will have moved to third place, moving ahead of Germany.

In 2032, three of the four largest economies will be Asian – China, India and Japan. Interestingly, India’s advance won’t stop there: According to the CEBR, the South Asian country will steal the No. 1 spot from China by mid-century. Also by 2032, South Korea and Indonesia will have entered the top 10, supplanting Italy and Canada – two members of the Group of Seven.

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One Bank Believes It Found The Identity Of Who Is “Propping Up The Bitcoin Market”

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– One Bank Believes It Found The Identity Of Who Is “Propping Up The Bitcoin Market”:

Back in May when the Chinese domination over Bitcoin was ending, we predicted that it would shift over to Japan, specifically, we said that “just as the Chinese bubble frenzy in bitcoin is fading, it may be replaced with a new one, in which thousands of Mrs. Watanabe traders shift their attention away from the FX market and toward digital currencies” and added that “If the transition is seamless, there is no telling just how far this particular bubble can grow.”

Judging by the exponential price surge in bitcoin in the subsequent period, we were clearly right on the latter, and now, according to a new analysis, we were also right on the former, because as Deutsche Bank reveals in a new report by Masao Muraki, “Japanese men in their 30s and 40s who are engaged in leveraged FX trading (or who used to trade but have stopped) are driving the cryptocurrency market” and who according to DB, happen to be more or less idiots, arguably because for the time being they are outperforming every other asset class… in history, to wit: “Japanese retail investors are less financially literate than their US peers across all age groups. Compared to the US, financial literacy is particularly poor among people 35-54 years of age. The poor literacy of Japanese retail investors also stands out beside UK and German investors.”

Ah yes, by contrast the financial literacy of the world’s central-planners is off the charts. Look where that got us…

Read moreOne Bank Believes It Found The Identity Of Who Is “Propping Up The Bitcoin Market”

Fukushima Cover-Up: “Keep cancers a secret” say doctors — “We’re getting leukemia and cataracts and we die suddenly” — “Students having sudden heart attacks” — Officials “actively ignoring” reports of illness and death

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– Fukushima Cover-Up: “Keep cancers a secret” say doctors — “We’re getting leukemia and cataracts and we die suddenly” — “Students having sudden heart attacks” — Officials “actively ignoring” reports of illness and death

H/t reader squodgy.

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