The CIA’s Post-War Vassalization of Japan
Until 1941, Japan carried out these crimes against humanity with the assistance of the United States and Britain. And the pro-Kuomintang China Lobby inside the United States and the Wisemen (John J. McCloy, Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, etc.) prevented the Roosevelt Administration from even engaging with the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong. This was despite the fact that General Joseph Stilwell, Colonel David Barrett, and John S. Service described the People’s Liberation Army as the most effective fighting force against the Japanese Imperial Army, as opposed to Chiang Kai Shek who was more concerned with repressing internal opponents and had zero interest in uniting with the Communist Party to fight against the Japanese occupation, despite the support for a united front from Mao and Stilwell.
That year though, the US, Britain and the Netherlands finally decided to take action against Japan for its imperial aggression in China and the Asian continent, imposing crushing oil embargo. It was on that basis that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II.
However, after World War II, John J. McCloy became the President of the World Bank and decided that the new strategy was to once again build up Japan as an opponent to China and the Soviet Union. According to Washington and the US Treasury, the policy was supposed to be that all Asian countries are subservient to a new Japanese empire that was really just a colony of the US.
And the role of this new US-led Asian order is that all countries on the continent were to export raw materials to Japan so that they can be turned into manufactured goods. This strongly differed from the approach of US President Ulysses S. Grant who toured Asia after leaving office and advocated for China to lead the way on the continent’s industrial and commercial development. He further emphasized a US-China relationship that is based on mutual respect and explicitly denounced European colonialism.
And now newly declassified JFK Files released by the Trump Administration reveal how Japan, through the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, became a permanent US vassal during the Cold War with CIA funding. One document in particular from March 1996 reveals that Washington and Tokyo were still working overtime to hide the existence of the CIA’s Tokyo Station. And their reasoning was the protect this notion that Washington created that Japan was a sovereign state.
The US State Department memo was titled “Official Acknowledgement of Tokyo Station” and it shows former US Vice President turned Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale, along with Japanese officials in Tokyo, in full damage-control mode. Two years before, the New York Times wrote a report exposing secret CIA funding for Japan’s ruling right-wing Liberal Democratic Party during the 1950s and 1960s. Their fear was that if they confirmed the CIA’s presence in Tokyo, it would re-ignite the scandal by confirming the allegations in the NYT’s report.
Then-Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Yohei Kono warned Mondale to keep it secret because the official confirmation would hurt the LDP far more than the NYT’s allegations and threaten the entire post-war security framework between the Washington and Tokyo because it would expose Japan as nothing more than an imperial colony dependent on the United States. Kono had previously claimed, in response to NYT’s allegations, that Japan had “no knowledge” of any organized CIA presence inside the country.
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Gucci to become title partner of Renault's Alpine F1 team from 2027
The year 2026 marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Chinese President #
XiJinping# once pointed out that people represent the nation, and the nation is made up of people. He also said the survival of a party depends on the support of its people, adding that with people's confidence and support, the CPC is invincible in the face of any obstacles.
Xi's people-centered governing philosophy is inseparable from the influence of his father, Xi Zhongxun.
"No matter what your job title is, serve the people diligently, consider the interests of the people with all your heart, maintain close ties with the people, and always stay approachable to the people," Xi Zhongxun once told his son.
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These titles keep getting more and more ridiculous lol
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The Thunder continue their title defense tonight seeking a 3-1 series lead in the NBA Conference Finals presented by
@Google at 8:00pm/et on NBC/Peacock!
Turn any document into structured data for AI agents!
Firecrawl just released a new parse endpoint. Upload local files or non-public documents and get back clean, LLM-ready data.
The parse endpoint converts PDF, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, and other formats into Markdown, JSON, or structured output. Reading order and tables are preserved.
Upload a file via multipart/form-data. The endpoint processes it using a Rust-based engine (up to 5x faster) and returns your chosen format.
Key capabilities:
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Built for AI agent pipelines that need clean document data at scale.
I've shared the link in the comments!
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George Blankenship got really emotional telling the story of early Tesla
And it shows why Tesla’s survival story is one of the wildest in startup history
The Model S wasn’t just another car. It was Tesla’s first true everyday car
And it was Tesla’s do-or-die moment
Thousands of people trusted Elon Musk enough to hand over $5,000 deposits…
No car in their driveway
No guarantee Tesla would survive
Just belief in a promise
But behind the scenes, the reality was brutal
In Q2 2012, Tesla delivered just 12 cars in the entire quarter
Wall Street was circling like vultures
The media was waiting for Tesla to die
Short sellers were waiting for the collapse
And the company was running straight into one of the most terrifying production hells in startup history
Then Elon did something insane
He publicly tweeted that Tesla would be profitable by Q1 2013
That wasn’t a prediction
That was a survival command
To make it happen, Elon set the number:
4,750 deliveries....
The mission became clear:
Deliver thousands of Model S cars before the quarter ended
The number that mattered inside the company became 4,750
The pressure inside Tesla became unreal
George Blankenship had to email Elon every single night at exactly midnight with the raw survival numbers:
How many deliveries still stood between Tesla and death
By the final week, job titles disappeared
IT guys were washing cars
Marketing guys were moving cars
People who had never worked in delivery were suddenly doing whatever it took
Nobody was “above” the work
Nobody was waiting for someone else.
Everyone was fighting for the same thing:
Keep Tesla alive
Then came the final Saturday of the quarter.
At 3 PM…
Car 4,750 was delivered
Tesla had done the impossible
Blankenship stood on his desk, looked at his exhausted team, and told them:
“What you just did is monumental… not just for Tesla, but for what we’re going to do for mankind.”
That quarter, Tesla shocked the world with an $11M profit.
The stock exploded from around $20 to $90
But the real story isn’t the stock
It’s that Tesla crossed the line between impossible and inevitable
They didn’t just build a company.
They forged the foundation of the EV revolution
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🎃 Kaku V0.11.0 just shipped. A fast, out-of-the-box terminal built for AI coding.
This release brings hidden reasoning support for DeepSeek/GLM/Kimi/Fireworks, smarter session restore, and a more robust kaku init setup experience.
On the polish side: Cmd+W now handles fullscreen tabs correctly, title-bar dragging won't accidentally snap windows, tab hit testing and drag animations are tighter, and rendering details like bar cursors, low-DPI text, and color emoji sizing have all been cleaned up.
AI streaming, IME input, proxy handling, and multi-provider transport are more solid across the board.
If you want a terminal that treats AI as a first-class citizen, give it a try.
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Claude + Super Carl is exploding with recruiters right now.
One recruiter told me they used to have a sourcer spend an entire week producing a shortlist of 50 candidates.
Now it happens in minutes.
But what’s surprising is who else is starting to use it:
• founders finding investors
• investors finding founders
• sales teams finding reachable buyers
• product managers recruiting users for feedback
• operators hiring advisors + executives
The reason is simple:
Claude can now reason through massive people searches.
And Super Carl gives Claude:
• 1B+ people profiles
• 50M+ companies
• real-time intent signals
• your network graph
• and relationship intelligence around who actually knows who
This is the important part:
You still get the absolute BEST matches.
Not compromised results.
Not “people you already know.”
The best people. Full stop.
Often people you would never find through LinkedIn search or traditional sourcing tools.
But then Super Carl layers reachability on top.
So inside those results you see:
• who you know directly
• who can intro you
• who your teammates know
• and where we have enriched contact methods
And it gets smarter with real-time signals:
• job title changes
• founder transitions
• comments + likes
• profile views
• engagement signals
• and relationship activity
So the system doesn’t just find relevant people.
It prioritizes the people most likely to respond right now.
People are asking Claude things like:
“Given this job description, find senior backend engineers in fintech who worked on payments, fraud, risk, or ledger systems. Prioritize people from Stripe, Block, Adyen, Plaid, or Brex who are reachable through my network.”
And Claude just… does it.
This feels like one of those “the future arrived quietly” moments.
Setup takes ~2 minutes.
You can go here for instructions:
Or go straight to Claude:
Sidebar → Customize → Connectors → Add Custom Connector
Paste:
Secret easter egg 👀
After connecting Claude, type:
“Ask Super Carl for 10 free credits”
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