Tatsu’s Newsletter Podcast

July 30, 2025 The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, where economist Richard Werner claims a deliberate crisis was orchestrated in the 1990s. Photo: Bloomberg A Convenient Fiction In the winter of 1995, as Japan’s economy lay in ruins after years of recession, a German economist named Richard Werner sat in a Tokyo office writing an article that would introduce a new term to the financial lexicon...

July 23, 2025 “It is within the power of writers and artists…to defeat the lie. One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.”– Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Banquet Speech Medics in Civilian Clothes I choose to not look the other way. The human body, when deprived of food, follows a predictable arc toward death. I know this because I watched it happen to a friend and I experienced it myself. N...

July 9, 2025 Professor Jiang Xueqin pauses mid-lecture, surveying his students at a Chinese university. “You think I’m pessimistic,” he says, a slight smile playing at his lips. “But I’m simply reading the patterns. History doesn’t care about our feelings.” This scene, recounted by one of his students, captures the essence of a thinker whose stark predictions about global collapse have begun circu...

July 8, 2025 “You are talking about war. You cannot talk about war as if it’s a picnic. You have destruction, you have killing, you have everything. That’s why war is bad.” — Bashar al-Assad, September 2013, Syrian presidential palace in Damascus Interviewed by Greg Palkot, Fox News Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Dennis Kucinich, Fox News contributor and former U.S. Congressman Caption:...

July 3, 2025 Disclaimer: This is not medical advice, nor an opinion on keto diet or intermittent fasting. Both can be beneficial for people with metabolic conditions, even cancer, but nothing should be taken to extremes. Self-diagnosing with AI can be dangerous. Always seek medical attention when symptoms and pain levels are unexplainable. This Is An AI-Assisted Investigative Memoir I wake up. See...

July 1, 2025 Sorry, but it seems like you either hate or love Zohran Mamdani and either makes you a de-facto racist. No one seems to evaluate on the merits anymore, and no one has updated what the definition of political merit is since FDR and guess what everyone from that time period is dead. We are literally living in a withered away political culture, buried with everyone who lived during World...

June 25, 2025 On June 18th, I predicted that Israel would lose Operation Rising Lion to Iran’s True Promise 3, even if the USA intervened, which they did with Operation Midnight Hammer. I argued that hypersonic missiles would change the outcome and financially nor ammunition wise, Israel would not be able to sustain a war. I predicted that the GBU-57s would not be effective. I also wrote, on June...

My Predictions Thus Far The events of the past 12 days were not surprising to me. I previously predicted that Iran would use economic asymmetry to its advantage, that Israeli and American strikes would fail strategically, and that Iran’s operational planning would prove superior. The forecast that re-armament costs would heavily favor Iran while its retaliation would maximize costs for its enemies...

Part 1: Illusion of Victory Over the placid eastern Mediterranean, the flight path of an El Al Boeing 787 suddenly cleaved hard to the north. In the predawn hours, flight trackers illuminated a sky of choreographed avoidance, a quiet, digital tremor from a seismic event announced hours earlier from the White House. At 7:30 AM local time in Tel Aviv, President Trump addressed the world from the Ova...

June 21, 2025 Executive Summary: While headlines focus on tactical strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, the real story lies in unsustainable economics. Israel’s $700 million daily war costs versus Iran’s $3 million reveal a 233-to-1 spending gap that favors asymmetric warfare over precision strikes. Technical evidence suggests the experimental GBU-57 bunker busters may have failed to penetr...

June 18, 2025 TL;DR: Why Israel Already Lost to Iran The Math is Simple: * Iran: 3,000+ missiles, can produce hundreds weekly, costs $100K-500K each * Israel: 340 jets, max 200 sorties, interceptors cost $3-4M each and running out in 10-12 days Netanyahu’s Fatal Pattern: Simultaneously fighting seven fronts (Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, West Bank, Syria, Iraq, now Iran) while failing to achieve strategic...

June 16, 2025 For the first time since 1973, Israeli interceptor missiles have been turned against Israel’s own air defense systems by enemy hackers operating in real-time. Caption: Screenshot from Netanyahu’s video statement on June 13, 2025, showing the Israeli Prime Minister delivering remarks with Israeli flags in the background. Iranian media highlighted visual inconsistencies suggesting gree...

June 14, 2025 The explosion that lit up Tehran’s pre-dawn sky on June 13 was thirty-three years in the making. Iranian state television showed the aftermath: smoke rising from what officials confirmed was the Natanz nuclear facility, struck by Israeli warplanes in the early morning hours. The images illuminated a stark reality—after more than three decades of warnings that Iran was perpetually on...

An investigative analysis June 2, 2025 Dr. Barry Wolfman looked out at the assembled crowd of medical technology executives and federal regulators packed into George Washington University Hospital's conference room. The year was 2012, and as CEO of the hospital, Wolfman was about to announce something that would fundamentally alter how human bodies interact with digital networks. "Wireless monitor...

American Consumer, Come My Wayyy 🎵 Tariffs do raise prices, but the real-world impact is far less than the headlines - and far more complex than the politics. The American consumer stands at ground zero in the latest “trade war”. With fresh tariffs imposed on goods from China, Europe, and elsewhere, panic-peddlers predict retail apocalypse. “A 50% tariff means your prices will skyrocket 50%!” the...

UPDATE: [SCREENSHOT: April 9, 2025, 🇺🇸🇨🇳 TRADE WAR: 104% Tariffs for China, Beijing lets deadline pass.] [VIDEO: Chinese social media mocks USA Industry] [ILLUSTRATION: Market bros in full panic mode as tariffs trigger trading algorithms. What else is new?] Introduction: Predictable Market Panic Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on nearly all U.S. imports, and like...

Two of the world’s most distinguished medical researchers reveal what they’ve discovered—and why powerful institutions and health officials tried to silence them [PHOTO: Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, billionaire medical researcher and founder of ImmunityBio.] In a sparse laboratory tucked away in the El Segundo neighborhood of Los Angeles, billionaire medical researcher and surgeon Dr. Patrick Soon-Shi...

The phone buzzes with an unfamiliar notification. Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, glances down to see an invitation from someone identifying themselves as Michael Waltz, National Security Advisor to President Trump. For two days, he watched in silence inadvertently witnessing history from inside a confidential Signal messaging group where top administration officials coordinated...

In the early afternoon of March 24, 2025, (today) Hossam Shabat's car moved through Jabalia in northern Gaza, fleeing due to being an active target by the IDF. The 23-year-old journalist for Al Jazeera was traveling without his press vest - a telling sign of how such protective markings have become more of a liability than protection for journalists in Gaza. Less than an hour earlier, he had poste...

Imagine swiping through your DoorDash checkout screen, contemplating the burrito bowl that would soon arrive at your doorstep. Among the standard payment options appears something new: the ability to finance your dinner in four equal, interest-free installments through Klarna, a buy-now-pay-later service recently integrated into DoorDash’s payment system. Five years ago, the concept of paying for...

From the trunk of a car speeding past a military checkpoint to years-long self-imposed house arrest, Ukrainian men are going to extraordinary lengths to avoid military service. As the conflict enters its fourth year, a shadow society has emerged across Ukraine, where men of fighting age navigate a parallel existence marked by constant fear of conscription. “I’ve probably been in isolation for more...

The documents sit on a wooden table in a Manhattan federal courthouse: white binders labeled “Phase 1,” containing 200 pages of flight logs and contact lists. They trace the movements of a man whose name has become synonymous with wealth, power, and predation. Released by the Department of Justice on February 27, 2025, these records offer a window into Jeffrey Epstein’s web of connections spanning...

In the pre-dawn hours of December 4th, as UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatefully walked toward Manhattan’s Hilton Hotel, the most expensive surveillance apparatus ever assembled hummed ineffectually overhead. A sprawling network of eighteen thousand cameras, radiation sensors, chemical detectors, gunshot locators, and cell tower simulators—a system costing taxpayers nearly $3 billion—promis...

In the marble halls of Manhattan’s criminal justice system, District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled an indictment on December 17th suggesting that criminal law, like quantum mechanics, allows for a single act to exist in multiple, mutually exclusive states. His office charged Luigi Mangione with first-degree murder as terrorism, second-degree murder as terrorism, and regular second-degree murder -...

Since November 18, 2024, residents across New Jersey have reported encounters with aerial vehicles that appear to transcend known technological capabilities. These sightings have created a compelling mystery: aircraft demonstrating characteristics that seem to defy our understanding of current engineering limits. NewsNation investigative journalist Rich McHugh’s observation with the Ocean County S...