Manhattan is West Tokyo (including Ginza), Brooklyn is East Tokyo (Sumida/Koto) with a side of Shimokitazawa/Koenji, Queens is Chiba, while Jersey City is Saitama
Spoke to the only American who tested positive for hantavirus (he’s in biocontainment unit). Of significant note: He & others on ship had illness w/night sweats, chills, & fatigue (fatigue lasted 2.5wks) after interacting only socially w/patient zero.
The 11 disappearing scientists and their field of research:
1. Amy Eskridge - anti gravity propulsion and electrostatic propulsion systems
2. Michael Hicks - Earth space observation systems
3. Frank Maywald - planetary robotic systems
4. Anthony Chavez - research classified, clearance at Los Alamos National Lab
5. Monica Reza - orbital communication systems
6. Melissa Casias - research classified, high security clearance at Los Alamos National Lab
7. Steven Garcia - nuclear weapons engineer
8. Jason Thomas - chemical biology and experimental drug development
9. Nuno Loureiro - plasma physics and fusion science
10. Carl Grillmair - exoplanets, stellar streams and near earth objects
11. William McCasland - Director of Air Force Research Lab, hypersonics, directive energy systems, and advanced propulsion tech
BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market.
Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, a $760 million bet that oil would go down.
These orders were much larger than anything else at the time.
The traders made huge gains.
Unusual.
CNN will never show you this : An Israeli settler pointing a gun at a Palestinian farmer.
"This land is mine now. Get out. Never come back"
The farmer's family worked that land for generations.
The settler flew in from Eastern Europe.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN IS A DESCENDANT OF GUSTAV RITTER VON EPSTEIN!!!
NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHY HE IS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ROTHSCHILDS!
The Epsteins were one of the oldest, most powerful, families in Prague.
His real name is Jeffrey Ritter von Epstein!!!
https://t.co/ogGqXYsyvH
Oh how the tables have turned - Beijing must be fuming.
A stronger Japan🇯🇵? Most of Asia is straight-up welcoming it with open arms now.
China keeps weaponizing history screaming "Don't let Tokyo remilitarize!" like it's still 1945.
But nobody's buying it because of Beijing's own aggressive tantrums: coercive trade bullying, ramming and harassing ships in the South China Sea, artificially militarizing reefs and islands that belong to other countries, destructive fishing practices (even poisoning the seas around the Philippines with cyanide), claiming territory that isn't theirs, and then weaponizing commerce - banning tourism, choking off critical minerals, whatever petty punishment fits the schizo meltdown that week.
It's backfiring spectacularly. Countries aren't suddenly forgetting Japan's past; they're just doing basic survival math in the present.
Unbeknownst to most because Japan doesn't boast about it: after World War II, Japan quietly rebuilt trust and ties with Southeast Asia through massive, low-key economic support that started as war reparations (paying out around $1 billion total to countries like Burma, the Philippines, Indonesia, and South Vietnam in the 1950s–1970s, often in goods, services, and infrastructure projects which evolved into one of the world's largest Official Development Assistance (ODA) programs.
They did this without much publicity or fanfare or political strings attached, pouring trillions of yen into roads, ports, power plants, and other economic infrastructure across ASEAN nations, helping fuel their growth while conveniently opening doors for Japanese businesses.
Compare and contrast with how China runs its Belt and Road Initiative - economic development with lots of strings attached, loans with interests that must be repaid lest having to cede to China a port or two.
Beyond all of this, everybody just loves Japanese soft power, which makes the rest of Asia appreciate its reliable, non-aggressive presence even more.
@skinnyprinsess Japanese here. Lots of girls in their twenties looking for girly but elegant clothes go to “SNIDEL” (スナイデル).
It’s one of the most popular brands.