…AND The Next Visitor To Antarctica Is…

fleetJoseph P Farrell –  Ok folks, things just became even more bizarre regarding the Antarctica Strange Visitors Sweepstakes. May we have the envelope please… ?

… And the next visitor to Antarctica is…
The Russian Baltic Fleet! (Applause):

Ships of Russian Baltic Fleet to make voyage to Antarctica this year

…uhm… er… really?  I mean… really!?

Now, as I recall, the last time the Russians sent their Baltic Fleet on this kind of half-way-round-the-world junket was in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese war, whereupon Japanese Admiral Togo promptly sank it in the Tsushima straits. Of course, when it comes to the modern Baltic Fleet, the TASS article reassures us that this is all “perfectly” normal and just part of the Baltic Fleet’s usual schedule of voyages and drills and “showing the flag”:

Ships of Russia’s Baltic Fleet, one of the major regional divisions of the Navy, will make several long-distance voyages this year, including a voyage to Antarctica, the official spokesman for the Fleet, Roman Martov told TASS.

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Joseph P Farrell – Japan’s pension megafund to invest in USA infrastructure… but is there another story?

Infrastructure investments in the U.S. by Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund will feature heavily in the economic cooperation package to be discussed at next week’s summit in Washington between the two countries’ leaders.

Japan’s pension megafund to invest in US infrastructure

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Of Japan, Grids, Earthquakes, Geopolitics, And Other Stuff…

earthquakeJoseph P Farrell – This is a strange story, and so many people picked up on it, and sent me various articles, that I have to blog about it. In fact, most people sent me these articles because I had blogged last week about Japan’s involvement in proposals for creating an integrated Eurasian power grid, one able to shuttle excess power from one point of the great Eurasian landmass, and potentially of course, Africa as well.

Anyway, almost as soon as I had blogged about the story, Japan had suffered another earthquake – eerily almost an exact copy of the Fukushima earthquake – rattling the disastrously crippled Fukushima Daichi reactors once again, and sending tsunamis against Japan. Here’s a version of the story:

Powerful quake hits Japan, Fukushima residents urged to flee tsunami

Of course, my impulse to indulge in our trademark “high octane speculation” was certainly triggered by this story, because when the original Fukushima earthquake occurred, giving us the ongoing and continuing nuclear disaster of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactor meltdown, I couldn’t help but notice the strange geopolitical context in which it occurred. For those who don’t recall, however, what my basic “argument” was at the time, the following review may be helpful.

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