Following the latest month abysmal trade and PMI data out of Japan overnight (April exports crashed -10.1 %, worse than the exp. -9.8 and worse than last month's -6.8% while imports plunged -23.3% also far worse than exp. -18.8 and March -14.9%; PMI 47.6, Exp. 48.3, last 48.2), it was supposed to be a straight up for the USDJPY, and its carry linked E-mini.
NATO has deployed military personnel and weapons on the Russian border in readiness to declare war on Russia, according to Mike Billington, Asia editor for the Executive Intelligence Review. According to Billington Russia is making the necessary plans to fight World War 3, possibly as early as this summer. Presstv.com reports: Press TV has interviewed Mike Billington, from the Asia Desk of the Executive Intelligence Review in Leesburg, about Russia condemning NATO for granting membership to Montenegro. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
President Obama will give an historic speech to the entire world in which he will disclose the truth about aliens. According to alien disclosure lobbyist Steve Bassett, the White House is due to reveal the truth about aliens visiting the Earth before the end of 2016. Bassett, who also heads the Paradigm Research Group, has been campaigning the U.S. government to reveal the truth about aliens for over 20 years. And his campaigning, it seems, is about to pay off.
Is America stuck in the Cold War or headed into a new one? Over the last 25 years, American grand strategy has had to do some heavy lifting to address the rise of terrorism—but it may have lost sight of the more dangerous threat posed by great power wars.
Jeffrey Stacey is looking forward to how Clinton will conduct foreign policy, which he assumes would have magically remedied almost all current problems overseas: