Japan is back.
Tokyo now sells its military buildup as “prosperity + security.” The script isn’t new. In the 1930s, Finance Minister Takahashi Korekiyo used deficit-financed spending—including a major arms component—to pull Japan out of the Great Depression.
It worked, briefly, and the country got hooked. The bill? Military spending rose from roughly 4% of GNP in the early 1930s to around 80% by 1944. Takahashi, who tried to apply the brakes, was assassinated by his own military. The war ended under two atomic clouds.
The same country that invaded China and much of Asia in WWII—35 million Chinese casualties, Unit 731 experiments, “comfort women”—still refuses to fully confront its past. It now claims “a Taiwan contingency is a Japan contingency,” shifts from “defense” to offense, all under a “China threat” pretext.
Convenient. Whether this is genuine prosperity or the old path rebooted, East Asians know the difference.
#Japan #Taiwan #China #WWII #Unit731
#Remilitarization #Japanesemilitarism
50.000 personnes déplacées d’un trait, des camions remplis à ras bord les livrant à un point de réception sans réaction des forces de l’ordre, aucune caractéristique propre aux exilés chez les « migrants » (pas même un sac), l’infiltration prouvée d’agents du renseignement marocains dans les foules, l’ouverture des portes par les douaniers marocains filmée et fuitée, l’amplification virale de ces fausses informations par des officines israéliennes préalable à une communication offensive coordonnée entre les cabinets Trump et Netanyahou, l’arrêt soudain des arrivées avant même que les migrants soient expulsés, les témoignages d’incitation venant des forces de l’ordre recueillis par le NYT…
Voilà ce à quoi nous avons assisté en mondovision.
Depuis la guerre de six jours, gagnée par Israël grâce à la trahison de Hassan II, et plus fortement depuis les accords d’Abraham, la monarchie marocaine est la première alliée arabe d’Israël. Les programmes d’entraînement secret, de livraisons d’armes massifs, d’espionnage (Pegasus), l’infiltration grossière du Makhzen facilitée par la compromission de M6 et sa vulnérabilité sur la vie privée ont amené à l’alignement pitoyable actuel et l’acceptation de ces jeux de dupes, quelques jours après l’offrande d’une autoroute à Donald Trump, des chaleureux échanges publics avec les autorités israéliennes, et de la mise en œuvre d’une stratégie partagée concernant l’instrumentalisation de Ceuta et Melilla, via notamment le fils Netanhyahou, en coordination avec Vox (qui a cessé toute critique sur le Maroc depuis quelques mois, après en avoir longtemps fait sa cible préférée, en préparation de ces événements) pour tenter de faire tomber le seul gouvernement européen attaché au droit international et ferme opposant en conséquence des délires ethnoimperialistes de Tel Aviv et de Washington, allant de Gaza à l’Iran.
La récupération immédiate par l’axe collaborationniste européen (Knafo et Bardella reçus il y a quelques semaines chaleureusement par Charles Kushner à Paris ; Méloni et le Danemark) était censée faire le reste, en prenant appui sur la lâcheté et la compromission habituelle des centristes libéraux, et l’ignorance et la bêtise d’une gauche morale pseudodécoloniale complètement compromise et déphasée, en fin de course et prise au piège de ses contradictions.
La manœuvre de Vance, Netanyahou, Smotrich et le Makhzen n’a échoué in extremis que grâce à l’intelligence de Pedro Sanchez dans la gestion de la crise, le point aveugle juridique non-anticipé (contrôles intérieurs à l’espace Schengen à la sortie de Ceuta) mais surtout du fait de la prise de vitesse par les réseaux sociaux de l’opération, qui avait laissé trop de trace forensiques, forçant à une rapide rétractation.
Cet épisode restera longtemps comme une tâche honteuse dans l’histoire du Maroc et pour tous ceux qui se sont plongés la tête la première dans l’exploitation opportuniste de cet événement.
Elle montre à quel point nos dirigeants et notre classe politique sont aisément manipulables et en réalité incapacitées à gouverner.
🇨🇴 La sede del Ejecutivo colombiano está a punto de cambiar: ¿qué pasará con la Casa de Nariño al asumir De la Espriella?
El presidente electo del país sudamericano, Abelardo de la Espriella, explicó que eligió otro espacio histórico para laborar en cuanto empiece su gestión, es decir, el 7 de agosto.
🔊 "El Palacio de San Carlos, donde funciona la Cancillería, será la sede de la Presidencia en Bogotá. Y ahí voy a estar despachando y trabajando por Bogotá", resaltó en un mensaje publicado en redes sociales.
👉 El destino de la Casa de Nariño fue aclarado por De la Espriella: se convertirá en un museo. Actualmente, este recinto puede ser visitado parcialmente por turistas nacionales y extranjeros, con un previo registro en su sitio web.
💬 "¿Un museo de arte urbano?, ¿de antigüedades?, ¿de historia natural? Lo positivo que veo es que la gente pueda recorrer un espacio que siempre ha estado cerrado por razones de seguridad, pero me asalta la duda de que su cuatrienio no le va a alcanzar, porque el montaje de un museo dura entre cuatro y cinco años", destacó para El Tiempo el historiador Alfredo Barón.
🇻🇪🇺🇸 TIME cover story exposes how Washington effectively runs Venezuela through acting president Delcy Rodríguez, a former Chavista loyalist turned Trump/Rubio proxy.
TIME's Eric Cortellessa sat down with Rodríguez, who took power after a US Delta Force raid kidnapped Nicolás Maduro from his residence in January and flew him to New York to face "drug charges." He's now sitting in a federal jail while Rodríguez, his former vice president, runs the country under what former US ambassador James Story bluntly calls "the Rodrígato": a government that stays in power while carrying out Washington's orders.
The arrangement, per the report: Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally oversees Venezuela's oil revenue and public finances through what amounts to a US-controlled escrow account. Washington collects most of Venezuela's oil export proceeds and releases funds back only as Caracas meets conditions set by the State Department. Rodríguez even consults Rubio on domestic appointments, including her Defense Minister. The two are reportedly in near-daily contact by phone and WhatsApp.
In exchange, Rodríguez gets to keep her seat, American oil majors (ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Halliburton) get back into Venezuela's energy sector, and Washington gets a foothold it's wanted for decades.
Notably, Rodríguez tells TIME elections will happen only "when it is ready," and dodges repeatedly on whether opposition leader María Corina Machado would ever be allowed to run.
Bessent is in panic mode... he intervened to support the yen.
To prevent Japan from selling even more US assets, he joined Japan in a massive coordinated intervention.
But instead of selling USD, the US sold EUR.
To keep this war going, the US has to bail out major holders of US assets to prevent them from selling... especially Treasuries.
The US simply can't afford this war, which is why it only escalates when markets are closed.
This is how CIA operations work 👻
In hybrid warfare you overthrow nations by flooding the region with people from another country, thus toppling the governing body.
Just 3 weeks ago Netanyahu was saying 🇪🇸 Spain was an enemy of Israel 🇮🇱. Shortly after Trump 🇺🇸 spoke out against Spain.
This isn't just about land, it's about cutting off Russia's 🇷🇺 trade routes through the Mediterranean, halting their oil exports.
The next phase is Egypt 🇪🇬 as part of their Greater Israel Project. Israel wants complete control over the Suez Canal and the entire region.
Prepare accordingly Egyptians because we don't know if it will be a kinetic invasion, economic warfare or psychological operations.
This is how world wars begin.
Hace hoy 2 años se celebraron las elecciones en Venezuela en las que se impuso Nicolás Maduro por voto popular pese a las injerencias, el mismo día que Hugo Chávez cumpliría años. Hoy Chávez no está, Maduro está secuestrado por el imperio, y Delcy está a la orden de Trump.
After seeing a post on it yesterday, I’ve looked more deeply into Anthropic’s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books.
They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.
They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.
An internal memo from 2024 stated:
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”
“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”
Why used books?
Companies like Anthropic and Meta found it impractical to gain permission from authors and publishers to use their work.
So instead, they stole their work to train their product through mass purchases of used books and through pirating them from the internet.
The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.
Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann personally downloaded countless books for this purpose from LibGen, a book pirating website.
When a new book piracy website debuted in 2022, Mann sent an email sharing the link with his employees stating: “just in time!!!”
Meta employees were wary about the piracy of books, with one engineer writing, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”
Anthropic purchased millions of books, in batches of tens of thousands from Better World Books and U.K.-based World of Books.
They then used a “hydraulic powered cutting machine” to slice off the spines of these books before scanning them. Finally, the remains of these books were picked up for recycling.
Feel free to use AI, it’s a free country.
But remember that, if you use Claude, that Anthropic has committed a great wrong, and they knew that they were doing it from the beginning.
Below is an image, from a court case, of a warehouse full of used books, that instead of being held and read by you and your children, have been destroyed forever.
AI is inevitable, but spend your money on the companies who do good, and do not knowingly commit evils.
May the most moral company win.
After seeing a post on it yesterday, I’ve looked more deeply into Anthropic’s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books.
They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.
They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.
An internal memo from 2024 stated:
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”
“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”
Why used books?
Companies like Anthropic and Meta found it impractical to gain permission from authors and publishers to use their work.
So instead, they stole their work to train their product through mass purchases of used books and through pirating them from the internet.
The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.
Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann personally downloaded countless books for this purpose from LibGen, a book pirating website.
When a new book piracy website debuted in 2022, Mann sent an email sharing the link with his employees stating: “just in time!!!”
Meta employees were wary about the piracy of books, with one engineer writing, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”
Anthropic purchased millions of books, in batches of tens of thousands from Better World Books and U.K.-based World of Books.
They then used a “hydraulic powered cutting machine” to slice off the spines of these books before scanning them. Finally, the remains of these books were picked up for recycling.
Feel free to use AI, it’s a free country.
But remember that, if you use Claude, that Anthropic has committed a great wrong, and they knew that they were doing it from the beginning.
Below is an image, from a court case, of a warehouse full of used books, that instead of being held and read by you and your children, have been destroyed forever.
AI is inevitable, but spend your money on the companies who do good, and do not knowingly commit evils.
May the most moral company win.
VIDEO | Scenes from the funeral procession of veteran resistance fighter and solidarity activist Kozo Okamoto, also known as "Ahmad al-Yabani" (Ahmad the Japanese), in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Okamoto, who lived in Beirut in exile after being freed in a 1985 prisoner exchange, passed away yesterday at 78 after a prolonged illness.
In attendance is liberated Lebanese fighter and activist Georges Abdallah, released in July 2025 after 40 years in French detention.
Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese Red Army fighter who joined the PFLP, died on 23 July in Beirut at 78.
Known as "Ahmad the Japanese," he was Lebanon's only recognized political refugee.
Japan demanded his extradition until the end. Beirut never gave him up.
Resistance fighter Kozo Okamoto passes away in Beirut's Dahiye at 78
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Kozo Okamoto, a veteran resistance fighter who participated in a joint 1972 Lod Airport operation in Tel Aviv alongside the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has passed away in Beirut at the age of 78 following a prolonged illness.
Named in vengeance for the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre carried out by Zionist death squads, the 1972 operation was planned by tactician Dr. Wadie Haddad as part of the global revolution against imperialism. Okamoto spent thirteen years in solitary confinement and twelve years total in Israeli detention before being freed in a 1985 prisoner exchange.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirmed his passing, honoring his decades-long commitment and sacrifices on behalf of the Palestinian liberation struggle after settling in Lebanon following his release from an Israeli prison.
The PFLP said in a statement that Okamoto's life was "marked by immense sacrifices spanning for decades on the battlefields of struggle in support of the Palestinian cause."
Okamoto spent twelve years detained in Israel for his role in the operation before being freed in a 1985 prisoner exchange. Remaining steadfast in his political principles throughout his life in exile, he stayed under the protection of Palestinian factions in the Lebanese capital where he was affectionately known by comrades as Ahmad the Japanese.