shoebat--2020-08-19--As COVID-19 Ravages Africa, Now Ebola Makes Her Return

COVID-19 has been ravaging the whole world , and no place has been spared .
As the world continues to suffer , the continent of Africa is set to experience a second wave of tragedy as VOA reports that the deadly illness of Ebola has returned to Congo and parts of central Africa .
The Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ) is facing a growing Ebola outbreak in its northwest Equateur province in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) says .
At his COVID-19 news briefing in Geneva on Thursday , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the outbreak is a “ worrying ” development , with 86 cases confirmed in the province .
He said the DRC government faces significant logistical challenges in trying to rapidly investigate and respond to the outbreak because the cases are spread over a vast area , sometimes separated by more than 250 kilometers , and many areas are accessible only by helicopter or boat .
Tedros said the WHO has about 100 staff in the DRC and is working with the Ministry of Health , nongovernmental agencies , and people in communities to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agency has also released $ 2.5 million in emergency response funds to support the immediate response .
But he said more funding is needed to bring the outbreak under control and urged the international community to contribute .
He said the WHO , working with the DRC government as well as local and international partners collectively defeated a similar outbreak in the eastern part of the country , what he called “ one of the most difficult Ebola outbreaks the world has ever faced.
” Tedros said he knows from experience that this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country ’ s health security .
“ It is a matter of global health security .
Whether it ’ s COVID-19 , Ebola or other high impact epidemics , we must be prepared , we need to be on high alert and we need to respond quickly.
” ( source ) While there is no threat right now to the Western world , it would be interesting if a “ second ” pandemic or other disease outbreak happened on top of COVID-19 .
There have been some scientists speculating about this , saying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of China to spread at the same time , although there is no clear data about probabilities available right now .
What one can say is that Congo has seen many wars and a lot of trouble , and the current pandemic only exacerbates her already difficult situation , and adding a second one to that could further destabilize the country as well as potentially bring about another migrant wave of people seeking better economic conditions , even potentially by seeking Europe as a final destination .
It is also of note @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raw materials which are refined into important substances used in major computing , robotics , and other highly advanced applications .
As such , it will be interesting to see the world response to Congo and the other Ebola-affected areas of Africa , as it just like with the COVID-19 pandemic , it could be or become a crisis that would be exploitable for major economic or political gain that could take place under the name of “ humanitarian assistance ” without regard as to what fundamentally happens with the people .
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COVID-19 has been ravaging the whole world, and no place has been spared. As the world continues to suffer, the continent of Africa is set to experience a second wave of tragedy as VOA reports that the deadly illness of Ebola has returned to Congo and parts of central Africa.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing a growing Ebola outbreak in its northwest Equateur province in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. At his COVID-19 news briefing in Geneva on Thursday, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the outbreak is a “worrying” development, with 86 cases confirmed in the province. He said the DRC government faces significant logistical challenges in trying to rapidly investigate and respond to the outbreak because the cases are spread over a vast area, sometimes separated by more than 250 kilometers, and many areas are accessible only by helicopter or boat. Tedros said the WHO has about 100 staff in the DRC and is working with the Ministry of Health, nongovernmental agencies, and people in communities to address the outbreak. He said his agency has also released $2.5 million in emergency response funds to support the immediate response. But he said more funding is needed to bring the outbreak under control and urged the international community to contribute. He said the WHO, working with the DRC government as well as local and international partners collectively defeated a similar outbreak in the eastern part of the country, what he called “one of the most difficult Ebola outbreaks the world has ever faced.” Tedros said he knows from experience that this is not just a matter for one country’s health security. “It is a matter of global health security. Whether it’s COVID-19, Ebola or other high impact epidemics, we must be prepared, we need to be on high alert and we need to respond quickly.” (source)
While there is no threat right now to the Western world, it would be interesting if a “second” pandemic or other disease outbreak happened on top of COVID-19.
There have been some scientists speculating about this, saying that a possibility exists for similar illnesses out of China to spread at the same time, although there is no clear data about probabilities available right now.
What one can say is that Congo has seen many wars and a lot of trouble, and the current pandemic only exacerbates her already difficult situation, and adding a second one to that could further destabilize the country as well as potentially bring about another migrant wave of people seeking better economic conditions, even potentially by seeking Europe as a final destination.
It is also of note that Congo is a major producer of raw materials which are refined into important substances used in major computing, robotics, and other highly advanced applications.
As such, it will be interesting to see the world response to Congo and the other Ebola-affected areas of Africa, as it just like with the COVID-19 pandemic, it could be or become a crisis that would be exploitable for major economic or political gain that could take place under the name of “humanitarian assistance” without regard as to what fundamentally happens with the people.
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Steve Bannon Arrested

In a story that we will be closely watching , Trump ’ s former campaign adviser Steve Bannon , who @ @ @ @ @ promoting nationalism and working with far-right groups , has been arrested on charges of financial @ @ @ @ @ Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding @ @ @ @ @ through their campaign “ We Build the Wall.
” Bannon , along with three of @ @ @ @ @ investigators at the U.S. Southern District of New York on Thursday .
They allege that @ @ @ @ @ defrauded donors and that led to raising “ more than $ 25 million to build @ @ @ @ @ border of the United States , ” according to the press release .
The United @ @ @ @ @ in the investigation .
The others mentioned in the indictment are Timothy Shea , who @ @ @ @ @ the Acting Administrator of Drug Enforcement Administration , Brian Kolfage , a Iraq war veteran @ @ @ @ @ ( source )

In a story that we will be closely watching, Trump’s former campaign adviser Steve Bannon, who has spent time in Europe promoting nationalism and working with far-right groups, has been arrested on charges of financial fraud according to CNBC.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through their campaign “We Build the Wall.”
Bannon, along with three of his associates were indicted by investigators at the U.S. Southern District of New York on Thursday. They allege that the group of conservative leaders defrauded donors and that led to raising “more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States,” according to the press release.
The United States Postal Inspection Service assisted in the investigation.
The others mentioned in the indictment are Timothy Shea, who in May was announced as the Acting Administrator of Drug Enforcement Administration, Brian Kolfage, a Iraq war veteran, and Andrew Badolato. (source)


shoebat--2020-08-20--Mali Government Overthrown In Military Coup

Mali has been a point of discussion at Shoebat.com as due to her location , power in West Africa , history , and current partnerships with the French and Americans , is a strategic nation that we have been concerned is going to go through a lot of changes .
This recently took place as the government of Mali had a military coup that overthrew the current president , Ibrahaim Keita , and replaced it with a military government , and according to the BBC it says that it will permit elections soon .
The soldiers who ousted Mali ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plan to set up a civilian transitional government and hold new elections .
The spokesman for the soldiers said they acted to prevent the country falling further into chaos .
President Keïta resigned on Tuesday night saying he did not want “ blood to be spilled to keep me in power.
” The African Union , regional leaders , and the UN have condemned the coup .
South Africa ’ s President Cyril Ramaphosa , the current African Union ( AU ) chairperson , urged the soldiers to release President Keïta and others @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Security Council is to hold an emergency session on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments .
Mali , a vast country stretching into the Sahara Desert is among the poorest countries in the world and has experienced several military takeovers .
It is currently battling to contain a wave of jihadist attacks and ethnic violence .
The soldiers , calling themselves the National Committee for the Salvation of the People , said they did not want to stay in power .
“ We are keen on the stability of the country , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to allow Mali to equip itself with strong institutions within the reasonable time limit , ” said the group ’ s spokesman , Col Ismaël Wagué , the air force deputy chief of staff .
( source ) The New York Times points out that for a while , Mali was doing well , before it collapsed back into national chaos , and has been going through continue instability for the past decade .
Likewise , knowing that she borders Burkina Faso , another nation terrorized by violence , and that the violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a driving force behind migration north towards Europe , and considering how the refugee crisis in Europe has been shown to have been tied to western geopolitical manipulation as well as have been aiding the transfer of people to Europe , one must wonder if the current coup in Mali is a part of this .
In other words , as we have seen destabilization take place in other parts of Africa and the Middle East that preceded the refugee crisis , are we seeing another like case of this here ?
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do know is that instability in Mali justifies a continued buildup of the already present French and American military involvement there , and that as always , social chaos leads to population movements as a historical phenomenon .
It will be interesting to see what happens in Mali , and what the US response will be , as American military personnel are already crawling all over Africa in almost two dozen nations , and this coup in Mali will likely only serve to accelerate that trend .
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Mali has been a point of discussion at Shoebat.com as due to her location, power in West Africa, history, and current partnerships with the French and Americans, is a strategic nation that we have been concerned is going to go through a lot of changes. This recently took place as the government of Mali had a military coup that overthrew the current president, Ibrahaim Keita, and replaced it with a military government, and according to the BBC it says that it will permit elections soon.
The soldiers who ousted Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta say they plan to set up a civilian transitional government and hold new elections. The spokesman for the soldiers said they acted to prevent the country falling further into chaos. President Keïta resigned on Tuesday night saying he did not want “blood to be spilled to keep me in power.” The African Union, regional leaders, and the UN have condemned the coup. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, the current African Union (AU) chairperson, urged the soldiers to release President Keïta and others government officials being detained. The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency session on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments. Mali, a vast country stretching into the Sahara Desert is among the poorest countries in the world and has experienced several military takeovers. It is currently battling to contain a wave of jihadist attacks and ethnic violence. The soldiers, calling themselves the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, said they did not want to stay in power. “We are keen on the stability of the country, which will allow us to organise general elections to allow Mali to equip itself with strong institutions within the reasonable time limit,” said the group’s spokesman, Col Ismaël Wagué, the air force deputy chief of staff. (source)
The New York Times points out that for a while, Mali was doing well, before it collapsed back into national chaos, and has been going through continue instability for the past decade.
Likewise, knowing that she borders Burkina Faso, another nation terrorized by violence, and that the violence and instability in West Africa has been a driving force behind migration north towards Europe, and considering how the refugee crisis in Europe has been shown to have been tied to western geopolitical manipulation as well as have been aiding the transfer of people to Europe, one must wonder if the current coup in Mali is a part of this.
In other words, as we have seen destabilization take place in other parts of Africa and the Middle East that preceded the refugee crisis, are we seeing another like case of this here?
We cannot be sure. What we do know is that instability in Mali justifies a continued buildup of the already present French and American military involvement there, and that as always, social chaos leads to population movements as a historical phenomenon.
It will be interesting to see what happens in Mali, and what the US response will be, as American military personnel are already crawling all over Africa in almost two dozen nations, and this coup in Mali will likely only serve to accelerate that trend.
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shoebat--2020-08-21--Head Of Australian Mint Prepares To Get Rid Of Coins In Favor Of Cashless Society

People have been warning about it for years .
There has been tremendous discussion about this , but with not enough care paid .
Unfortunately , each passing day brings the possibility of a cashless society closer to reality , as Zero Hedge by way of ABC News Australia reports , that the head of the Australian mint is preparing to abolish the production of small coins , but will soon follow with larger ones , thus eventually getting rid of the use of the coin at all .
Australia ’ s five and ten cent coins could bite the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the decline of coin circulation .
Leading up to the pandemic , coin circulation in Australia experienced a sharp decline in the use of 5 and 10 cent coins .
Royal Australian Mint CEO Ross MacDiarmid told ABC News that he expects 5 and 10 cent coins to be phased out of circulation in the coming years , adding that the pandemic has likely shortened the natural life of coins .
“ There ’ s no doubt there has been a significant decline in demand for circulating coin over the last five to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Decline in demand for coins ( is ) roughly 55 to 56 per cent , ” he said .
The Reserve Bank of Australia ( RBA ) recently published data showing the rapid decline of physical currency used in transactions over the last half-decade .
The RBA pointed out an unprecedented decline in the use of cash because of the virus pandemic forced people to transact online and use contactless payments .
“ ATM withdrawals in April were down 30 per cent from the month before and over 40 per cent lower @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Assistant Governor Michele Bullock said in June .
“ Rising inflation , coupled with the growth of online and contactless payments , are rendering the lowly silvers obsolete , despite their place as a mainstay in cafe tip jars , charity tins , and school canteens , ” said ABC .
MacDiarmid said the outgoing coins would be redeemable at banks and can still be used in shops .
He said the government has carefully taken a look at the 50 cent coin : “ We are monitoring its use in circulation to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ somewhere in the future for a different 50c piece to be produced , ” MacDiarmid said .
“ It ’ s not something we ’ ve necessarily raised with the Government but it ’ s something that perhaps could be raised in the future , ” he added .
MacDiarmid cited a figure , pointing to the steep decline of coins over the last five decades .
He said there are only 4 billion coins in circulation , down from 15 billion in 1965 .
The decline of physical money attributed to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US over the last two months .
A coin shortage has forced many businesses to only accept exact change and or only accept credit and debit cards .
The demise of the Australian 5 and 10 cent coins amid the rise of contactless payments , supercharged by the virus pandemic , along with the coin shortage in the US , forcing folks to use contactless payments as well , certainly suggests a cashless society is ahead .
( source ) Moves toward the abolition of cash as a form of payment have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but it is also taking place around the world .
The reasons for doing this are several , and none are for the good of people .
First , cash is not traceable easily .
Therefore , people can buy things with cash or pay people in cash and thus avoid the need for having to deal with taxes .
This is even more so than the purchase of “ illegal ” things , which while cited as a reason for “ tracking ” cash , is less of a real issue for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can not be easily destroyed .
Money as a number on a screen can go to zero with the press of a button .
Cash , while it can lose its value by way of financial policy manipulation , is a physical thing .
To lose it , one has to physically lose the object , or have it stolen or destroyed by mechanical means .
It is a lot easier to rob somebody with numbers and a computer than physically removing and object from his hands .
Third , a cashless society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” to run the processing machines , and thus banks and processing companies stand to make a lot of money from fee surcharges on general purchases .
Fourth , all purchases made in a cashless system can be tracked down to exact times .
Thus people can pry into one ’ s personal business where they have no business looking for their own reasons , and in the hands of a legal situation , it can give a zealous prosecutor too much information , not even so much as to convict a guilty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on an innocent person .
Fifth , and most importantly , it is about controlling people .
All it takes is the press of a button and one either no longer has or can not access his money , and thus is helpless to whatever power in question is and what it wants to do to or with him .
There is no benefit to a “ cashless ” society unless one is one of the individuals involved in controlling the organs that will run the system and which will benefit oneself at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There is no good that “ cashless ” transactions will bring as a universal reality for the common man except to further tighten a choke-hold around the average man until he is fully reduced to the condition of being a slave .
George Orwell , the famous 20th century science-fiction author , said that he saw the future as a ‘ boot stomping on a human face , forever ’ .
Indeed , Orwell ’ s vision is telling , and likewise the fact that Christ said He would have to return @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clear that if things were left to be as they are , eventually , there would come a time at some point when power would be potentially so consolidated that there would be no more freedom anywhere , and that a Hindu-like caste system would emerge for the human race that would separate between a small , elite ruling class calling themselves divine with a mass of suffering , miserable human slaves that serve them , and while cashlessness is not the only option to realize this , it is certainly one part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as it pertains to a global application and scale .
We are truly living in historic times , for little things such as this often have major consequences .
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People have been warning about it for years. There has been tremendous discussion about this, but with not enough care paid. Unfortunately, each passing day brings the possibility of a cashless society closer to reality, as Zero Hedge by way of ABC News Australia reports, that the head of the Australian mint is preparing to abolish the production of small coins, but will soon follow with larger ones, thus eventually getting rid of the use of the coin at all.
Australia’s five and ten cent coins could bite the dust as the coronavirus pandemic has supercharged the decline of coin circulation. Leading up to the pandemic, coin circulation in Australia experienced a sharp decline in the use of 5 and 10 cent coins. Royal Australian Mint CEO Ross MacDiarmid told ABC News that he expects 5 and 10 cent coins to be phased out of circulation in the coming years, adding that the pandemic has likely shortened the natural life of coins. “There’s no doubt there has been a significant decline in demand for circulating coin over the last five to six years,” MacDiarmid said. “Decline in demand for coins (is) roughly 55 to 56 per cent,” he said. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) recently published data showing the rapid decline of physical currency used in transactions over the last half-decade. The RBA pointed out an unprecedented decline in the use of cash because of the virus pandemic forced people to transact online and use contactless payments. “ATM withdrawals in April were down 30 per cent from the month before and over 40 per cent lower than 12 months earlier,” RBA Assistant Governor Michele Bullock said in June. “Rising inflation, coupled with the growth of online and contactless payments, are rendering the lowly silvers obsolete, despite their place as a mainstay in cafe tip jars, charity tins, and school canteens,” said ABC. MacDiarmid said the outgoing coins would be redeemable at banks and can still be used in shops. He said the government has carefully taken a look at the 50 cent coin: “We are monitoring its use in circulation to see whether there’s a need somewhere in the future for a different 50c piece to be produced,” MacDiarmid said. “It’s not something we’ve necessarily raised with the Government but it’s something that perhaps could be raised in the future,” he added. MacDiarmid cited a figure, pointing to the steep decline of coins over the last five decades. He said there are only 4 billion coins in circulation, down from 15 billion in 1965. The decline of physical money attributed to the virus pandemic has also been seen in the US over the last two months. A coin shortage has forced many businesses to only accept exact change and or only accept credit and debit cards. The demise of the Australian 5 and 10 cent coins amid the rise of contactless payments, supercharged by the virus pandemic, along with the coin shortage in the US, forcing folks to use contactless payments as well, certainly suggests a cashless society is ahead. (source)
Moves toward the abolition of cash as a form of payment have been seen primarily in northern Europe, but it is also taking place around the world. The reasons for doing this are several, and none are for the good of people.
First, cash is not traceable easily. Therefore, people can buy things with cash or pay people in cash and thus avoid the need for having to deal with taxes. This is even more so than the purchase of “illegal” things, which while cited as a reason for “tracking” cash, is less of a real issue for governments than taxes.
Second, cash cannot be easily destroyed. Money as a number on a screen can go to zero with the press of a button. Cash, while it can lose its value by way of financial policy manipulation, is a physical thing. To lose it, one has to physically lose the object, or have it stolen or destroyed by mechanical means. It is a lot easier to rob somebody with numbers and a computer than physically removing and object from his hands.
Third, a cashless society requires a complex system of “fees” to run the processing machines, and thus banks and processing companies stand to make a lot of money from fee surcharges on general purchases.
Fourth, all purchases made in a cashless system can be tracked down to exact times. Thus people can pry into one’s personal business where they have no business looking for their own reasons, and in the hands of a legal situation, it can give a zealous prosecutor too much information, not even so much as to convict a guilty person, but potentially pin a charge on an innocent person.
Fifth, and most importantly, it is about controlling people. All it takes is the press of a button and one either no longer has or cannot access his money, and thus is helpless to whatever power in question is and what it wants to do to or with him.
There is no benefit to a “cashless” society unless one is one of the individuals involved in controlling the organs that will run the system and which will benefit oneself at the expense of one’s neighbors. There is no good that “cashless” transactions will bring as a universal reality for the common man except to further tighten a choke-hold around the average man until he is fully reduced to the condition of being a slave.
George Orwell, the famous 20th century science-fiction author, said that he saw the future as a ‘boot stomping on a human face, forever’. Indeed, Orwell’s vision is telling, and likewise the fact that Christ said He would have to return at some point, since it is clear that if things were left to be as they are, eventually, there would come a time at some point when power would be potentially so consolidated that there would be no more freedom anywhere, and that a Hindu-like caste system would emerge for the human race that would separate between a small, elite ruling class calling themselves divine with a mass of suffering, miserable human slaves that serve them, and while cashlessness is not the only option to realize this, it is certainly one part in the construction of such a system as it pertains to a global application and scale.
We are truly living in historic times, for little things such as this often have major consequences.
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shoebat--2020-08-21--Japan Now Wants To Have The Ability To Do Preemptive Attacks On Its Enemies. If The United States Fr

Japan Now Wants To Have The Ability To Do Preemptive Attacks On Its Enemies. If The United States Frees Japan From American Control, Japanese Imperialism Will Be Revived

“ The spirit of Japan is the Great Way of the gods .
It is the substance of the universe , the essence of the truth .
The Japanese people are a chosen people whose mission is to control the world.
” — Harada Daiun Sogaku Upon the Allied victory in the Second World War , Japan became an occupied nation of the American empire .
It is still controlled by the US , but the Americans are gradually releasing their grip on the ancient nation of the rising sun .
If the Americans relinquish their leverage over Japan , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the demons that possess the soul of Japan , wreaking havoc and destruction on the earth .
Even the United States government understands that if Japan perceives that the US is indifferent towards Japan ’ s security , the Japanese will pursue nuclear armament .
This issue was made known in a report addressed to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate in 2008 , entitled : Chain Reaction : Avoiding a Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East , in which it says : The US government wants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been a task of the Trump administration as it continues its cold war against China .
According to a recent report from Foreign Policy : Japan is in a predicament : on one side it has China and North Korea , and on the other side there is the United States , whose commitment to Japan ’ s security is not being seen as guaranteed .
To quote the New York Times : “ …Japan finds itself caught between China , whose rising military aggression has reverberated across Asia , and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guaranteeing the region ’ s security has come into question.
” The traditional narrative of US-Japan security cooperation is that Japan holds the shield and houses the sword , while the United States wields the sword .
Japan is suppose to be defensive while the US has the offensive position for Japan ’ s security .
But , in the words of Euan Graham , “ that paradigm has been breaking down for many years , ” especially now with President Trump pushing key American allies to pay more for their own defense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States .
This phenomena is reflected in the words of Mira Rapp-Hooper , a senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York : “ Japan increasingly has to provide for its own defense by Japanese means.
” As the years go by , Japan is taking a more self-determinist view on its security as opposed to considering her neighboring ally , South Korea .
This manifested in a recent press conference in which Japan ’ s defense minister , Taro Kono , told a reporter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is enhancing their missiles , why do we need their approval ?
…Why do we need South Korea ’ s approval for defending our territory ?
” This was said in response to a reporter who asked Kono about fears that South Korea or China may have about Japanese remilitarization due to Japan ’ s past of conquest and genocide .
Kono ’ s answer is reflective of a growing vicious nationalism that emphasizes on militarism and national pride while empowering a military industrial complex , all under the name of national security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due pose problems , and yes the Chinese do want to dominate east Asia , but we must remember that insidious agendas are done under the banner of truth , and destruction is paved on a path of legitimate concerns .
Under the cause of self-defense , Japan now wants to have the ability to launch pre-emptive strikes against her enemies , which is something utterly foreign to the country ’ s post-War constitution which forbids the use of war .
Moreover , if Japan can do preemptive strikes , that means that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order to justify attacking a neighboring country like China or North Korea .
Japan could utilize a strategy of tension in order to create a pretext for attacking another country .
Its not as simple as “ China bad , yay Japan !
” What is occurring in East Asia is a volatile situation in which you have an extremely militarily capable and technologically advanced country — Japan , backed by the world ’ s most powerful hegemony , the United States — wanting to remilitarize itself , in a highly tense atmosphere @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history .
And we can only go back to some decades ago to find the Japanese murdering millions of their neighbors in the name of racial supremacy and the emperor who they saw as divine .
In such a tense climate , with such a sanguinary historical background , optimism is naive .
In July of 2020 the Wall Street Journal published an article by Chieko Tsuneoka which talked about Japan ’ s goal to have the capacity to make preemptive strikes .
In the article it reads : Lets look at what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have a country — Japan — which is very technologically advanced and which has the capacity to be militarily very dangerous and to even go nuclear .
Neighboring with Japan there is North Korea which is a satellite state of China and who is feared to be a nuclear threat ; and then you have a rising China who threatens Japan ’ s preponderating position in the Far East .
In the midst of all this , there is an intensifying nationalism and growing militarism in Japan .
There is an historical parallel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when Japan established itself as a world superpower and as the most powerful country in East Asia .
Let us recount some of the events of this era to see this historical comparison so we can see how history — while not exactly repeating — rhymes .
THE BEGINNING OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE The beginning of Japan ’ s journey towards modern military capabilities begins in 1853 when the Japanese people , for the first time in their lives , saw Western naval ships .
They gazed with amazement and awe upon four @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , actually , were out of service and being towed by the other two ) led by Commodore Matthew Perry .
The flagship , the Susquehanna , was twenty-five times larger than the biggest Japanese fleet that was afloat .
The masses were in awe .
They called it a “ castle upon the water.
” The ships , they said , were “ as large as mountains ” and “ as swift as birds.
” Perry had the ships ’ seventy-three guns fire , roaring with smoke .
It was done to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality was the Americans were trying to scare the Japanese into opening up their country for Western trade .
It worked .
When Perry returned to Japan in February of 1854 , the Japanese were in a panic , fearing that the guns could be turned on them .
They gave Perry the Treaty of Kanagawa , allowing two ports to be opened for American ships .
Thus began Japan ’ s modernization .
There were many Japanese who were resistant to modernization , but the more cunning and prudent saw the necessity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
One of the major supporters of Japan ’ s modernization was Fukuzawa Yukichi , a Confucian scholar who heavily studied the West .
He affirmed that adaptation to Western ways was absolutely necessary for Japan ’ s interests .
He described Japan ’ s “ leaving Asia ” to “ enter the West ” as Bunmei Kaika , or progress towards enlightenment .
He used the analogy of measles to convey his point : Western civilization ( bunmei ) would be like the measles that Japan ’ s immune system would have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stronger .
Some of the brightest Japanese students — called bakufu students — were chosen to go to Europe to learn what Japan needed to know to advance .
In 1868 , the Meiji government issued the Five-Charter Oath reflecting the country ’ s volition towards modernization .
The fifth point of the Charter indicated this road to adapting to the West : “ Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world so as to strengthen the foundation of imperial rule.
” What this implied was Japan ’ s desire to learn the technology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Japan to be at an equal level with them so that she could become powerful enough to repulse the economic imperialism of the US , the British , the French and the Russians ( the British represented four-fifths of Japan ’ s foreign trade ) .
Japan saw their neighbor China , how she was utterly controlled by the British , and did not want to end up like that .
Instead , Japan wanted to become the superpower that would control China .
In 1871 , the Emperor Meiji commenced the Iwakura @ @ @ @ @ @ @ envoys and fifty-four students would travel to Europe to absorb the military and governmental knowledge of the West .
From the French , they learned a system of law ; from the British , they learned about a navy ; and from the Germans , they learned about an army .
The Japanese wanted to learn merely what was useful to Japan , and nothing else .
Technology , military tactics and knowledge , this they desired to imbibe .
But Christianity , they despised .
It is a fact that Japan secluded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ centuries as a response to the expansion of Christianity , and only opened themselves up to the world to gain money and learn technology in order to become an empire .
The Japanese intellectual , Kuga Katsunan , made the warning that foreign ideas should only be accepted if they benefit Japan .
He emphasized on retaining Japanese nationalism : Japan ’ s position “ among the great powers ” was soon to rise in the late 19th century , when she began to expand into Chinese territory as a result of tensions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a ship from the Ryukyu islands was attacked and its entire crew massacred by Taiwanese aborigines .
Japan immediately demanded reparations from China , but the Chinese argued that they had no responsibility over the eastern coast of Taiwan where the murderous aborigines were .
As a response the Japanese launched an attack on Taiwan in 1874 , but the outbreak of disease forced them to rescind their expedition .
This was the beginning of Japan ’ s seizure of Taiwan .
China at this time was actually weak and crumbling and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a war with Japan .
Nonetheless , China tried to give off the impression to the Japanese that it was a strong country .
In 1886 , China showed off its two new German-built fleets : the Dingyuan and the Zhenyuan , to the Japanese by parking them right on the coast of Nagasaki .
The ships were much bigger than any fleet the Japanese had .
Chinese sailors , upon arriving , quickly started trouble with the populace .
According to locals they were pursuing women and children and sparking outrage .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ with local officers .
The officers pulled out swords , and the Chinese officers also had swords , and a bloody fight ensued , leaving eighty people dead .
While the Chinese were trying to scare the Japanese with their big ships , the Japanese would soon find out that China was really not all what they presented themselves as .
Captain Togo Heihachiro , dressed as a civilian , spied on the Chinese sailors and reported that they were sloppy , unkempt , and their deck was filthy .
In other words @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this report , the Japanese increased the budget for their navy .
The Japanese also got a dictionary from a Chinese sailer which was filled with odd numbers .
This was actually a book filled with signaling codes , and the Japanese managed to unlock their meanings .
Knowing the disorganization of the Chinese , and knowing their signaling codes , put the Japanese at an advantage above their neighboring enemy .
Tensions between China and Japan intensified further , especially over Korea .
The Japanese wanted the natural resources in Korea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the country .
Korea was also very important strategically speaking .
If Japan controlled Korea , she could easily invade China ; and if China controlled Korea , the Chinese could invade Japan , since Korea was , in the words of a Prussian military advisor , a “ dagger pointed at the heart of Japan.
” In the 1880s Korea was quite a turbulent place .
The country was split between those who were pro-China and those who were in favor of Western modernization .
It reminds us of how today , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with the North being a satellite of China and the South being a satellite of the US .
Those who wanted Westernization looked to Meiji Japan as their inspiration , and thus Japan saw in these reformers prospective proxies through which to influence and control Korea .
An 1884 the reformers attempted a coup against the pro-Chinese government , and this was backed by the government of Japan who promised the rebels military support .
This led the Queen of Korea , Empress Myeongseong , to request military intervention from China .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Seoul , and they had to fight against 140 Japanese troops who they easily defeated and then restored power back to the pro-Chinese faction .
During the fighting the Japanese legation building was burned down and 40 Japanese were killed .
Tensions continued to intensify , and years later , by 1894 , a war broke out between China and Japan over Korea .
But the Japanese had an advantage : they were able to read the Chinese ’ s coded communications .
A revolt from the pro-Chinese faction in Korea broke out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ squash it .
By July of that year , the Japanese captured the King of Korea , Gojong , and forced him to rescind any treaties he had made with China and to declare a new , modernist regime adaptable to the innovations of the West , and to order the withdrawal of all Chinese soldiers .
Japanese forces repulsed Chinese troops and chased them across the Yalu River and continued to pursue them all the way to Chinese territory .
Days before a truce could be established , General Togo seized Taiwan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1945 .
Korea was now occupied by Japan .
But Japan was assisted , by the United States .
Foreknowing that Japan was going to invade , the king of Korea , Gojong , asked the United States for protection , but as is typical of how America treats its allies , the Americans ordered all of their troops to pull from Korea , and convinced the Western powers to withdraw their forces as well .
Korea was a helpless victim .
The Japanese swallowed all of Korea , completely deprived it of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Within a very short time , the Japanese hung thousands of Korean nationalists from the gallows .
( See Bradley , Flyboys , ch .
3 , p. 31 ) By defeating China , Japan believed that they had solidified their place as a modern nation .
The British , seeing the Chinese utterly vanquished , respected the Japanese and formed the Anglo-Japanese Alliance , which promised that Britain and Japan will defend one another in the case of either one of them being in war with more than one enemy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it allowed them to redeploy ships from the China seas to European waters where another powerhouse was rising , Germany , who would end up being the most dangerous threat to Britain .
The alliance was of great advantage to Japan because , in the case of Japan going to war with Russia , no one would come to the assistance of the Russians in fear of getting in a war with Britain .
Confident under the protection of the British , the Japanese eyed the biggest threat to her goal of being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Japanese commenced an unprovoked attack on the Russian navy at Port Arthur ( just like they attacked the American navy at Pearl Harbor ) .
The British watched with joy as the Russians were slaughtered .
The London Times even called the attack “ an act of daring.
” Russia ’ s Pacific Fleet was trapped in Port Arthur by Togu ’ s forces .
Tsar Nicholas had no choice but to deploy the Baltic Fleet , which had a long way to travel to the battlefield .
The problem was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to resupply , they were only given a day ’ s worth of support .
The reason for this was that countries were terrified that if they helped the Russians it would be seen as an act of war of against the Japanese , and since the British had an alliance with Japan , they were horrified at the prospect of getting into a war with Britain .
The British publication , the Daily Telegraph , reported publicly that the Baltic Fleet was illegally waiting in Cam Rahn Bay in Indochina , thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Japanese know of their coming .
Since the Baltic Fleet had very little fuel — due to not getting inadequate supplies — the Russians could not travel the safer route through Vladivostok , but instead had to go through the Korea Straight where they were ambushed on both sides in the Battle of Tsushima in which over five thousand Russians lost their lives .
( See Clements , A Brief History of Japan , chs .
7-8 ) One of the results of the First Russo-Japanese War was the Japanese taking the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Second World War , the Russians would take the Sakhalin back from the Japanese and to this day there are tensions over that region .
The Japanese had now defeated the two powers that worried the Americans and British , China and Russia ( with the help of both the US and the UK ) .
This now solidified Japan as the most powerful nation in Asia .
Even after the Second World War , these victories are celebrated by Japan ’ s Right-wing .
In 1966 , the Japanese Buddhist monk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supporter of Imperial Japan ’ s military conquests in WW2 , wrote in 1974 : President Theodore Roosevelt praised the Japanese for their slaughter of the Russians , and at the same time expressed his contempt for the Chinese : Roosevelt believed that he could now control a “ civilized race ” to dominate their neighboring Asian countries , and essentially dominate Asia so the United States would not have to , “ with , of course , ” said Roosevelt , “ a paramount interest in what surrounds the Yellow Sea ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
3 , p. 31 ) .
This is similar to today , where the US thinks it can use Japan to keep in check China , North Korea and Russia .
So in this history , what do we see ?
We see a Japan that wants to break free from American and Western control ( the Meiji Era ) ; we see a rising China who is perceived as strong but , once pushed , shatters in war ( First Sino-Japanese War of 1894 ) ; we see a Korea divided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see Russian-Japanese tensions with eventual war breaking out between the two .
Today , what do we see ?
We see a Japan that wants to break free from American control and wants to determine her own military ambitions without the dictates of US decisions ; we see a rising China that is worrying the world ; we see Russia and Japan having tensions over the Sakhalin , which is the very territory that Japan took from Russia during the First Russo-Japanese War .
We also see the United States relaxing her military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of troops from Germany and giving much leeway to Japanese military pursuits .
If the Americans eventually give Japan full military independence , the Japanese will go full throttle in their military goals .
When the Japanese invaded China , they butchered millions and even believed that such genocide was doing their gods — such as Avolokiteshvara , or Amitabha Buddha — a service .
In the worlds of General Matsui : A country with such a history , once released , will spark only a conflagration of blood .
Demonic forces are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unleash the old dragons on mankind .

By Theodore Shoebat
“The spirit of Japan is the Great Way of the gods. It is the substance of the universe, the essence of the truth. The Japanese people are a chosen people whose mission is to control the world.” — Harada Daiun Sogaku
Upon the Allied victory in the Second World War, Japan became an occupied nation of the American empire. It is still controlled by the US, but the Americans are gradually releasing their grip on the ancient nation of the rising sun. If the Americans relinquish their leverage over Japan, they will be unleashing alongside with it, the demons that possess the soul of Japan, wreaking havoc and destruction on the earth. Even the United States government understands that if Japan perceives that the US is indifferent towards Japan’s security, the Japanese will pursue nuclear armament. This issue was made known in a report addressed to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate in 2008, entitled: Chain Reaction: Avoiding a Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East, in which it says:
“In the cases of Germany and Japan, both countries can easily obtain nuclear weapons but have chosen not to because of their integration beneath a NATO (Germany) or an American (Japan) security umbrella. Today, all of these countries have the technical capacity to obtain nuclear weapons in a matter of months or a few short years. Yet, they chose not to because of their respective cost-benefit analyses. Pursuing nuclear weapons demands a large amount of finite money and other resources and could invite punishing international political pressure and economic sanctions. At the same time, little need exists to pursue such an undesirable policy because these countries do not view nuclear weapons as necessary for their national security. This belief derives primarily from the fact that these countries rest comfortably beneath a U.S. or U.S.-led security umbrella. If these countries ever begin to question the reliability of this security umbrella, they would almost certainly reassess past nuclear weapons decisions.”
The US government wants Japan to boost its military. This has been a task of the Trump administration as it continues its cold war against China. According to a recent report from Foreign Policy:
“Trump wants allies like Japan to spend more on defense to acquire higher-end platforms that could help the United States keep the military edge it has had in the Pacific since 1943 but which is now threatened.”
Japan is in a predicament: on one side it has China and North Korea, and on the other side there is the United States, whose commitment to Japan’s security is not being seen as guaranteed. To quote the New York Times: “…Japan finds itself caught between China, whose rising military aggression has reverberated across Asia, and the United States, whose once-ironclad commitment to guaranteeing the region’s security has come into question.”
The traditional narrative of US-Japan security cooperation is that Japan holds the shield and houses the sword, while the United States wields the sword. Japan is suppose to be defensive while the US has the offensive position for Japan’s security. But, in the words of Euan Graham, “that paradigm has been breaking down for many years,” especially now with President Trump pushing key American allies to pay more for their own defense and to stop relying so much on the United States.
This phenomena is reflected in the words of Mira Rapp-Hooper, a senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York: “Japan increasingly has to provide for its own defense by Japanese means.” As the years go by, Japan is taking a more self-determinist view on its security as opposed to considering her neighboring ally, South Korea. This manifested in a recent press conference in which Japan’s defense minister, Taro Kono, told a reporter: “At a time when China is enhancing their missiles, why do we need their approval? …Why do we need South Korea’s approval for defending our territory?” This was said in response to a reporter who asked Kono about fears that South Korea or China may have about Japanese remilitarization due to Japan’s past of conquest and genocide. Kono’s answer is reflective of a growing vicious nationalism that emphasizes on militarism and national pride while empowering a military industrial complex, all under the name of national security. Yes, China and North Korea due pose problems, and yes the Chinese do want to dominate east Asia, but we must remember that insidious agendas are done under the banner of truth, and destruction is paved on a path of legitimate concerns.
Under the cause of self-defense, Japan now wants to have the ability to launch pre-emptive strikes against her enemies, which is something utterly foreign to the country’s post-War constitution which forbids the use of war. Moreover, if Japan can do preemptive strikes, that means that she could devise a false-flag attack in order to justify attacking a neighboring country like China or North Korea. Japan could utilize a strategy of tension in order to create a pretext for attacking another country. Its not as simple as “China bad, yay Japan!” What is occurring in East Asia is a volatile situation in which you have an extremely militarily capable and technologically advanced country — Japan, backed by the world’s most powerful hegemony, the United States — wanting to remilitarize itself, in a highly tense atmosphere of tribalism that goes back centuries into history. And we can only go back to some decades ago to find the Japanese murdering millions of their neighbors in the name of racial supremacy and the emperor who they saw as divine. In such a tense climate, with such a sanguinary historical background, optimism is naive. In July of 2020 the Wall Street Journal published an article by Chieko Tsuneoka which talked about Japan’s goal to have the capacity to make preemptive strikes. In the article it reads:
“Ruling-party lawmakers are pushing for Japan’s military to have the ability to strike foreign missile-launch sites to improve deterrence against potential attacks from North Korea and China. A proposal released Friday by the Liberal Democratic Party’s defense policy committee is set to be a new test of Japan’s pacifist constitution under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has sought to loosen restrictions on the military in response to rising challenges from Beijing and Pyongyang in recent years. … Japan relies heavily on the threat of U.S. military retaliation for its defense under a security alliance formed after World War II. But Tokyo has been boosting its own military capabilities in recent years, such as the development of aircraft carriers and purchases of cruise missiles, as well as the creation of a Marine-like amphibious troop unit.”
Lets look at what we are dealing with here: We have a country — Japan — which is very technologically advanced and which has the capacity to be militarily very dangerous and to even go nuclear. Neighboring with Japan there is North Korea which is a satellite state of China and who is feared to be a nuclear threat; and then you have a rising China who threatens Japan’s preponderating position in the Far East. In the midst of all this, there is an intensifying nationalism and growing militarism in Japan. There is an historical parallel to this: the Meiji era, when Japan established itself as a world superpower and as the most powerful country in East Asia. Let us recount some of the events of this era to see this historical comparison so we can see how history — while not exactly repeating — rhymes.
THE BEGINNING OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE
The beginning of Japan’s journey towards modern military capabilities begins in 1853 when the Japanese people, for the first time in their lives, saw Western naval ships. They gazed with amazement and awe upon four American warships (two of the ships, actually, were out of service and being towed by the other two) led by Commodore Matthew Perry. The flagship, the Susquehanna, was twenty-five times larger than the biggest Japanese fleet that was afloat. The masses were in awe. They called it a “castle upon the water.” The ships, they said, were “as large as mountains” and “as swift as birds.” Perry had the ships’ seventy-three guns fire, roaring with smoke. It was done to supposedly celebrate Independence Day, but the reality was the Americans were trying to scare the Japanese into opening up their country for Western trade. It worked.
When Perry returned to Japan in February of 1854, the Japanese were in a panic, fearing that the guns could be turned on them. They gave Perry the Treaty of Kanagawa, allowing two ports to be opened for American ships. Thus began Japan’s modernization. There were many Japanese who were resistant to modernization, but the more cunning and prudent saw the necessity and the advantage for Japan to adapt. One of the major supporters of Japan’s modernization was Fukuzawa Yukichi, a Confucian scholar who heavily studied the West. He affirmed that adaptation to Western ways was absolutely necessary for Japan’s interests. He described Japan’s “leaving Asia” to “enter the West” as Bunmei Kaika, or progress towards enlightenment. He used the analogy of measles to convey his point: Western civilization (bunmei) would be like the measles that Japan’s immune system would have to adapt to in order to become stronger. Some of the brightest Japanese students — called bakufu students — were chosen to go to Europe to learn what Japan needed to know to advance.
In 1868, the Meiji government issued the Five-Charter Oath reflecting the country’s volition towards modernization. The fifth point of the Charter indicated this road to adapting to the West: “Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world so as to strengthen the foundation of imperial rule.” What this implied was Japan’s desire to learn the technology of the foreign invaders in order get Japan to be at an equal level with them so that she could become powerful enough to repulse the economic imperialism of the US, the British, the French and the Russians (the British represented four-fifths of Japan’s foreign trade).
Japan saw their neighbor China, how she was utterly controlled by the British, and did not want to end up like that. Instead, Japan wanted to become the superpower that would control China. In 1871, the Emperor Meiji commenced the Iwakura Mission, a project in which forty-eight envoys and fifty-four students would travel to Europe to absorb the military and governmental knowledge of the West. From the French, they learned a system of law; from the British, they learned about a navy; and from the Germans, they learned about an army. The Japanese wanted to learn merely what was useful to Japan, and nothing else. Technology, military tactics and knowledge, this they desired to imbibe. But Christianity, they despised. It is a fact that Japan secluded itself from the world for over two centuries as a response to the expansion of Christianity, and only opened themselves up to the world to gain money and learn technology in order to become an empire. The Japanese intellectual, Kuga Katsunan, made the warning that foreign ideas should only be accepted if they benefit Japan. He emphasized on retaining Japanese nationalism:
“If a nation wishes to stand among the great powers and preserve its national independence, it must strive always to foster nationalism (“kokuminshugi”)…If the culture of one country is so influenced by another that its completely loses its own unique character, that country will surely lose its independent footing.”
Japan’s position “among the great powers” was soon to rise in the late 19th century, when she began to expand into Chinese territory as a result of tensions between her and China. In 1871, a ship from the Ryukyu islands was attacked and its entire crew massacred by Taiwanese aborigines. Japan immediately demanded reparations from China, but the Chinese argued that they had no responsibility over the eastern coast of Taiwan where the murderous aborigines were. As a response the Japanese launched an attack on Taiwan in 1874, but the outbreak of disease forced them to rescind their expedition. This was the beginning of Japan’s seizure of Taiwan.
China at this time was actually weak and crumbling and did not have the capacity to handle a war with Japan. Nonetheless, China tried to give off the impression to the Japanese that it was a strong country. In 1886, China showed off its two new German-built fleets: the Dingyuan and the Zhenyuan, to the Japanese by parking them right on the coast of Nagasaki. The ships were much bigger than any fleet the Japanese had. Chinese sailors, upon arriving, quickly started trouble with the populace. According to locals they were pursuing women and children and sparking outrage. The situation eventually escalated into a fight with local officers. The officers pulled out swords, and the Chinese officers also had swords, and a bloody fight ensued, leaving eighty people dead.
While the Chinese were trying to scare the Japanese with their big ships, the Japanese would soon find out that China was really not all what they presented themselves as. Captain Togo Heihachiro, dressed as a civilian, spied on the Chinese sailors and reported that they were sloppy, unkempt, and their deck was filthy. In other words, the Chinese were disorganized. Regardless of this report, the Japanese increased the budget for their navy. The Japanese also got a dictionary from a Chinese sailer which was filled with odd numbers. This was actually a book filled with signaling codes, and the Japanese managed to unlock their meanings. Knowing the disorganization of the Chinese, and knowing their signaling codes, put the Japanese at an advantage above their neighboring enemy. Tensions between China and Japan intensified further, especially over Korea. The Japanese wanted the natural resources in Korea, and also feared Russian interference in the country. Korea was also very important strategically speaking. If Japan controlled Korea, she could easily invade China; and if China controlled Korea, the Chinese could invade Japan, since Korea was, in the words of a Prussian military advisor, a “dagger pointed at the heart of Japan.”
In the 1880s Korea was quite a turbulent place. The country was split between those who were pro-China and those who were in favor of Western modernization. It reminds us of how today, Korea is split between north and south, with the North being a satellite of China and the South being a satellite of the US. Those who wanted Westernization looked to Meiji Japan as their inspiration, and thus Japan saw in these reformers prospective proxies through which to influence and control Korea. An 1884 the reformers attempted a coup against the pro-Chinese government, and this was backed by the government of Japan who promised the rebels military support. This led the Queen of Korea, Empress Myeongseong, to request military intervention from China. At least 1,500 Chinese soldiers garrisoned in Seoul, and they had to fight against 140 Japanese troops who they easily defeated and then restored power back to the pro-Chinese faction. During the fighting the Japanese legation building was burned down and 40 Japanese were killed.
Tensions continued to intensify, and years later, by 1894, a war broke out between China and Japan over Korea. But the Japanese had an advantage: they were able to read the Chinese’s coded communications. A revolt from the pro-Chinese faction in Korea broke out, but Japanese forces were able to squash it. By July of that year, the Japanese captured the King of Korea, Gojong, and forced him to rescind any treaties he had made with China and to declare a new, modernist regime adaptable to the innovations of the West, and to order the withdrawal of all Chinese soldiers. Japanese forces repulsed Chinese troops and chased them across the Yalu River and continued to pursue them all the way to Chinese territory. Days before a truce could be established, General Togo seized Taiwan which would become a Japanese territory until 1945. Korea was now occupied by Japan. But Japan was assisted, by the United States.
Foreknowing that Japan was going to invade, the king of Korea, Gojong, asked the United States for protection, but as is typical of how America treats its allies, the Americans ordered all of their troops to pull from Korea, and convinced the Western powers to withdraw their forces as well. Korea was a helpless victim. The Japanese swallowed all of Korea, completely deprived it of independence, and threw the king out. Within a very short time, the Japanese hung thousands of Korean nationalists from the gallows. (See Bradley, Flyboys, ch. 3, p. 31)
By defeating China, Japan believed that they had solidified their place as a modern nation. The British, seeing the Chinese utterly vanquished, respected the Japanese and formed the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which promised that Britain and Japan will defend one another in the case of either one of them being in war with more than one enemy. This was beneficial for the British because it allowed them to redeploy ships from the China seas to European waters where another powerhouse was rising, Germany, who would end up being the most dangerous threat to Britain.
The alliance was of great advantage to Japan because, in the case of Japan going to war with Russia, no one would come to the assistance of the Russians in fear of getting in a war with Britain. Confident under the protection of the British, the Japanese eyed the biggest threat to her goal of being an empire: Russia. In 1904, the Japanese commenced an unprovoked attack on the Russian navy at Port Arthur (just like they attacked the American navy at Pearl Harbor). The British watched with joy as the Russians were slaughtered. The London Times even called the attack “an act of daring.”
Russia’s Pacific Fleet was trapped in Port Arthur by Togu’s forces. Tsar Nicholas had no choice but to deploy the Baltic Fleet, which had a long way to travel to the battlefield. The problem was that every time the Baltic Fleet stopped to resupply, they were only given a day’s worth of support. The reason for this was that countries were terrified that if they helped the Russians it would be seen as an act of war of against the Japanese, and since the British had an alliance with Japan, they were horrified at the prospect of getting into a war with Britain. The British publication, the Daily Telegraph, reported publicly that the Baltic Fleet was illegally waiting in Cam Rahn Bay in Indochina, thus breaking the Russians’ cover and letting the Japanese know of their coming.
Since the Baltic Fleet had very little fuel — due to not getting inadequate supplies — the Russians could not travel the safer route through Vladivostok, but instead had to go through the Korea Straight where they were ambushed on both sides in the Battle of Tsushima in which over five thousand Russians lost their lives. (See Clements, A Brief History of Japan, chs. 7-8) One of the results of the First Russo-Japanese War was the Japanese taking the Sakhalin island from the Russians. In the Second World War, the Russians would take the Sakhalin back from the Japanese and to this day there are tensions over that region. The Japanese had now defeated the two powers that worried the Americans and British, China and Russia (with the help of both the US and the UK). This now solidified Japan as the most powerful nation in Asia. Even after the Second World War, these victories are celebrated by Japan’s Right-wing. In 1966, the Japanese Buddhist monk, Omori Sogen, who was a supporter of Imperial Japan’s military conquests in WW2, wrote in 1974:
“As for a ‘strong military,’ this was a demand of the Meiji state. It was precisely the step by step realization of this goal that made it possible, thanks to both the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars, to smash the surging waves of European expansionism, thereby enhancing the radiant glory of our nation before the world.” (Arahara Bokusui, A Major History of the Right Wing, in Victoria, Zen War Stories, ch. 4, p. 44)
President Theodore Roosevelt praised the Japanese for their slaughter of the Russians, and at the same time expressed his contempt for the Chinese:
“Bad as the Chinese are, no human beings, black, yellow or white, could be quite as untruthful, as insincere, arrogant — in short as untrustworthy in every way — as the Russians under their present system. I was pro-Japanese before, but after my experience with the peace commissioners I am far stronger pro-Japanese than ever.” (H.W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic, ch. 20, p. 540)
Roosevelt believed that he could now control a “civilized race” to dominate their neighboring Asian countries, and essentially dominate Asia so the United States would not have to, “with, of course,” said Roosevelt, “a paramount interest in what surrounds the Yellow Sea” (See Bradley, Flyboys, ch. 3, p. 31). This is similar to today, where the US thinks it can use Japan to keep in check China, North Korea and Russia.
CONCLUSION
So in this history, what do we see? We see a Japan that wants to break free from American and Western control (the Meiji Era); we see a rising China who is perceived as strong but, once pushed, shatters in war (First Sino-Japanese War of 1894); we see a Korea divided by pro-Chinese and pro-Western factions; we see Russian-Japanese tensions with eventual war breaking out between the two. Today, what do we see? We see a Japan that wants to break free from American control and wants to determine her own military ambitions without the dictates of US decisions; we see a rising China that is worrying the world; we see Russia and Japan having tensions over the Sakhalin, which is the very territory that Japan took from Russia during the First Russo-Japanese War. We also see the United States relaxing her military hegemony, such as with the withdrawing of troops from Germany and giving much leeway to Japanese military pursuits. If the Americans eventually give Japan full military independence, the Japanese will go full throttle in their military goals. When the Japanese invaded China, they butchered millions and even believed that such genocide was doing their gods — such as Avolokiteshvara, or Amitabha Buddha — a service. In the worlds of General Matsui:
“The China Incident [of 1937] has resulted in massive lost of life through the mutual killing of neighboring friends. This is the greatest tragedy of the last one thousand years. Nevertheless this is a holy war to save the peoples of East Asia. …Invoking the power of Avalokiteshvara, I pray for the bright future of East Asia.” (See Victoria, Zen At War, ch. 9, p. 142)
A country with such a history, once released, will spark only a conflagration of blood. Demonic forces are at work in the world, to unleash the old dragons on mankind.
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shoebat--2020-08-21--Doctors “Grow” A Miniature Human Heart In A Laboratory For The First Time

Genetic engineering is going to remain a major trend for the future , as with technology and the management of data .
According to a release from MedicalExpress , researchers at the University of Michigan have now grown a small but fully-functioning human heart in a laboratory dish .
Michigan State University researchers have created for the first time a miniature human heart model in the laboratory , complete with all primary heart cell types and a functioning structure of chambers and vascular tissue .
In the United States , heart disease is the No .
1 cause of death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ models in which to study all kinds of cardiac disorders with a degree of precision unseen before , ” said Aitor Aguirre , the study ’ s senior author and assistant professor of biomedical engineering at MSU ’ s Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering .
This study , “ Generation of Heart Organoids Modeling Early Human Cardiac Development Under Defined Conditions , ” appears on the bioRxiv preprint server .
The human heart organoids , or hHOs for short , were created by way of a novel stem cell framework that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Organoids—meaning ‘ resembling an organ ’ —are self-assembling 3-D cell constructs that recapitulate organ properties and structure to a significant extent , ” said Yonatan Israeli , a graduate student in the Aguirre Lab and first author of the study .
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Genetic engineering is going to remain a major trend for the future, as with technology and the management of data. According to a release from MedicalExpress, researchers at the University of Michigan have now grown a small but fully-functioning human heart in a laboratory dish.
Michigan State University researchers have created for the first time a miniature human heart model in the laboratory, complete with all primary heart cell types and a functioning structure of chambers and vascular tissue.
In the United States, heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death. “These minihearts constitute incredibly powerful models in which to study all kinds of cardiac disorders with a degree of precision unseen before,” said Aitor Aguirre, the study’s senior author and assistant professor of biomedical engineering at MSU’s Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering.
This study, “Generation of Heart Organoids Modeling Early Human Cardiac Development Under Defined Conditions,” appears on the bioRxiv preprint server.
The human heart organoids, or hHOs for short, were created by way of a novel stem cell framework that mimics the embryonic and fetal developmental environments.
“Organoids—meaning ‘resembling an organ’—are self-assembling 3-D cell constructs that recapitulate organ properties and structure to a significant extent,” said Yonatan Israeli, a graduate student in the Aguirre Lab and first author of the study. (source)


shoebat--2020-08-21--In A First Since The Great Depression, Two Tropical Storms Prepare To Hit The US

Major storms from the ocean are known to hit the US and sometimes cause serious environmental destruction .
However , sometimes too many storms all at once can cause not just environmental problems , but utter chaos .
In what weather experts are saying is a first since the Great Depression , two tropical storms are preparing to hit the US according to Weather.com .
For the first time since the Great Depression , it ’ s possible that two tropical systems could make landfall in the mainland United States at virtually the same time .
There will be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bookmark this landing page as your go-to for important information and maps on both tropical systems .
Tropical Storm Laura Tropical Storm Laura will affect the Leeward Islands , Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as a tropical storm with rain and gusty winds by this weekend .
This system may then head toward Florida and the Gulf of Mexico early next week , possibly as a hurricane .
However , its forecast intensity and track at that time are highly uncertain .
Tropical Depression Fourteen Tropical Depression Fourteen has formed in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impact parts of Central America and Mexico as a tropical storm or hurricane before emerging into the western Gulf of Mexico .
This system faces an uncertain future in the western Gulf of Mexico , but it could affect parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast next week as a hurricane .
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Major storms from the ocean are known to hit the US and sometimes cause serious environmental destruction. However, sometimes too many storms all at once can cause not just environmental problems, but utter chaos. In what weather experts are saying is a first since the Great Depression, two tropical storms are preparing to hit the US according to Weather.com.
For the first time since the Great Depression, it’s possible that two tropical systems could make landfall in the mainland United States at virtually the same time. There will be a lot to keep track of, so bookmark this landing page as your go-to for important information and maps on both tropical systems.
Tropical Storm Laura
Tropical Storm Laura will affect the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as a tropical storm with rain and gusty winds by this weekend. This system may then head toward Florida and the Gulf of Mexico early next week, possibly as a hurricane. However, its forecast intensity and track at that time are highly uncertain.
Tropical Depression Fourteen
Tropical Depression Fourteen has formed in the Caribbean Sea and is expected to first impact parts of Central America and Mexico as a tropical storm or hurricane before emerging into the western Gulf of Mexico. This system faces an uncertain future in the western Gulf of Mexico, but it could affect parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast next week as a hurricane. (source)


shoebat--2020-08-21--It Is Very Difficult To Believe That Navalny’s Illness Was Not An Assassination Attempt

Right now , there is a lot of talk about Aleksy Navalny , the largest anti-Putin politician in Russia , following claims that he may have been poisoned , a claim which Russian authorities have denied .
Medical tests on Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny have found no traces of poisoning , Russian doctors said Friday .
Navalny remains in a coma in a hospital in Siberia after his supporters say he was poisoned .
They are urging authorities to allow him to be transferred to Germany for medical treatment .
“ Poisoning as a diagnosis remains on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t believe that the patient suffered from poisoning , ” deputy chief doctor Anatoly Kalinichenko at the hospital in Omsk told reporters Friday .
Alexander Murakhovsky , head doctor at the hospital , later said Navalny had been diagnosed with a metabolic disease that may have been caused by low blood sugar , adding that traces of industrial chemical substances had been found on his clothes and fingers .
Navalny ’ s wife , Yulia Navalnaya , published a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on social media , requesting that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany , where a Berlin-based humanitarian organization said it would facilitate his medical care .
Speaking before the letter was sent , the Kremlin said Friday it was up to the Russian doctors treating Navalny to decide whether he was stable enough to be transported by a German air ambulance .
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also said the German doctors who arrived Friday had been invited to join the Russian doctors treating Navalny .
The 44-year-old lawyer fell ill on a flight to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk on Thursday and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plane made an emergency landing in Omsk .
A prominent member of Russia ’ s opposition , Navalny campaigned to challenge Putin in the 2018 presidential election but was barred from running .
He has frequently been detained by law enforcement and in 2017 was attacked by several men who threw antiseptic on his face , damaging his eye .
Last year , Navalny was rushed to a hospital from prison with what his team said was suspected poisoning .
Doctors said he had a severe allergic attack and discharged him the following @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to be clear , I am not looking to defend Navalny .
Slavic nation politics at large is a very messed up thing , and Navalny is no wholesome candidate .
To that , I am not seeking to discuss any of his positions because I am not concerned with them .
My only interest is noting that Navalny was most likely in an attempted assassination by the Russian government .
Now , there is no “ clear proof ” of this , and the Russians ( of course ) have denied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to be expected .
However , given that Russia is known for being great at bluffing but terrible at lying , there are more details of the case that point to this being an episode of poisoning .
One should recall that while the CIA and KGB both had their own “ poisoner ” divisions , the emphasis on either one was different .
The CIA tended to use poisons as a matter of research , and in the tradition of the National Socialists which they hired following Operation Paperclip , poisons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of interest , or just unwitting third-world suspects as a part of bizarre forms of human experimentation .
Many of these were carried out on behalf of the CIA under the direction of the American Jewish “ Poisoner in chief ” Sydney Gottlieb .
Gottlieb believed that poisons and other forms of physical abuse could be used to seize full control over a person ’ s mind and turn them into a slave , and based on uncovered documents , Gottlieb ’ s work from about 1950 to 1973 was the basis of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Some of Gottlieb ’ s experiments were covertly funded at universities and research centers , Kinzer says , while others were conducted in American prisons and in detention centers in Japan , Germany and the Philippines .
Many of his unwitting subjects endured psychological torture ranging from electroshock to high doses of LSD , according to Kinzer ’ s research .
“ Gottlieb wanted to create a way to seize control of people ’ s minds , and he realized it was a two-part process , ” Kinzer says .
“ First , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mind .
Second , you had to find a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void .
We didn ’ t get too far on number two , but he did a lot of work on number one.
” ( source ) This is not to say that the CIA did not kill people with poisons .
Rather , from what information we know , the emphasis on poison was different .
In the case of the CIA , it seems to have been used as a scientific “ pursuit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and they used poisons , generally speaking , as means of assassination .
For example , the infamous National Socialist backed and Volhynian Genocide perpetrator Stepan Bandera was assassinated at the order of KGB head Aleksandr Shelepin acting on the command of President Nikita Khrushchev with cyanide .
The Afghan communist politician Hafizullah Amin was assassinated by KGB agent Mikhail Talybov with poison in his soda , and Bulgarian anti-communist dissident Georgi Markov was killed with the famous “ Bulgarian umbrella ” that fired a bullet of cyanide into him .
More recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yushchenko , known for his anti-Russian stances , survived a poisoning attempt by means of Agent Orange .
The well-known case that remains unsolved of the murder of former FSB officer Aleksandr Litvinenko is another type of radiation poisoning a-la the “ Bulgarian umbrella ” example , and while Russia has continued to deny involvement , all evidence strongly points to her .
Both the CIA and KGB use poison , but the KGB ( now FSB ) has a history of being publicly tied to assassinations with poison .
It is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a well-known one , and thus are suspect of doing this again .
Second , Navalny is a major critic of Russia , and this comes at a time when Putin has been consolidating power , and as a part of any power consolidation , especially among despot-type governments ( of which is the whole history of Russia ) , major leaders tend to eliminate any “ opposition ” , especially vocal individuals .
This is not proof in itself , but is consistent with world and Russian history , such as with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Bolsheviks and then the NKVD purges during the Stalin years .
Remember that Stalin had most of his political dissidents put to death , and the rest fled for their lives or barely survived very abusive punishments in prison .
We know for a fact that Putin sees himself and models his leadership style after that of Stalin , so it would not be a surprise to say that he is following Stalin in more than just his economic or social views .
Third , there is no clear answer as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Navalny says poisoning , possibly in his tea .
The doctors at the hospital where he is in Omsk say that it was “ low blood sugar ” .
So who is telling the truth ?
Navalny or the doctor ?
Honestly , the “ low blood sugar ” sounds very suspicious .
This also comes at a time when in May 2020 , I reported that evidence has emerged that Russian authorities were threatening and murdering healthcare workers who talked about COVID-19 outside of the official government line .
I don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible he is lying .
However , neither is the FSB a fortress of truth , and they also have a long history of lying .
That said , it is likely that , in this case , it is more likely that Navalny is telling the truth than he is not , and more likely that the FSB is trying to assassinate him than they are not .
If this is the case , which it seems to be so , then we are seeing a repeat of twentieth-century patterns , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ USSR in a quest to “ remake ” herself .
However , this comes at a time when she is weaker than she has ever been and more in danger of collapse , and possibly a permanent loss of large parts of her nation .
Navalny aside , the future of Russia is going to be something to watch over the next decade .
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Right now, there is a lot of talk about Aleksy Navalny, the largest anti-Putin politician in Russia, following claims that he may have been poisoned, a claim which Russian authorities have denied.
Medical tests on Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny have found no traces of poisoning, Russian doctors said Friday. Navalny remains in a coma in a hospital in Siberia after his supporters say he was poisoned. They are urging authorities to allow him to be transferred to Germany for medical treatment. “Poisoning as a diagnosis remains on the back burner, but we don’t believe that the patient suffered from poisoning,” deputy chief doctor Anatoly Kalinichenko at the hospital in Omsk told reporters Friday. Alexander Murakhovsky, head doctor at the hospital, later said Navalny had been diagnosed with a metabolic disease that may have been caused by low blood sugar, adding that traces of industrial chemical substances had been found on his clothes and fingers. Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, published a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on social media, requesting that he allow her husband to be transported to Germany, where a Berlin-based humanitarian organization said it would facilitate his medical care. Speaking before the letter was sent, the Kremlin said Friday it was up to the Russian doctors treating Navalny to decide whether he was stable enough to be transported by a German air ambulance. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also said the German doctors who arrived Friday had been invited to join the Russian doctors treating Navalny. The 44-year-old lawyer fell ill on a flight to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk on Thursday and was taken to a hospital after the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk. A prominent member of Russia’s opposition, Navalny campaigned to challenge Putin in the 2018 presidential election but was barred from running. He has frequently been detained by law enforcement and in 2017 was attacked by several men who threw antiseptic on his face, damaging his eye. Last year, Navalny was rushed to a hospital from prison with what his team said was suspected poisoning. Doctors said he had a severe allergic attack and discharged him the following day. (source)
Now I want to be clear, I am not looking to defend Navalny. Slavic nation politics at large is a very messed up thing, and Navalny is no wholesome candidate. To that, I am not seeking to discuss any of his positions because I am not concerned with them.
My only interest is noting that Navalny was most likely in an attempted assassination by the Russian government.
Now, there is no “clear proof” of this, and the Russians (of course) have denied anything of the sort, as it is to be expected. However, given that Russia is known for being great at bluffing but terrible at lying, there are more details of the case that point to this being an episode of poisoning.
One should recall that while the CIA and KGB both had their own “poisoner” divisions, the emphasis on either one was different. The CIA tended to use poisons as a matter of research, and in the tradition of the National Socialists which they hired following Operation Paperclip, poisons were used on prisoners, captured persons of interest, or just unwitting third-world suspects as a part of bizarre forms of human experimentation. Many of these were carried out on behalf of the CIA under the direction of the American Jewish “Poisoner in chief” Sydney Gottlieb. Gottlieb believed that poisons and other forms of physical abuse could be used to seize full control over a person’s mind and turn them into a slave, and based on uncovered documents, Gottlieb’s work from about 1950 to 1973 was the basis of the MK-ULTRA program as NPR reports.
Some of Gottlieb’s experiments were covertly funded at universities and research centers, Kinzer says, while others were conducted in American prisons and in detention centers in Japan, Germany and the Philippines. Many of his unwitting subjects endured psychological torture ranging from electroshock to high doses of LSD, according to Kinzer’s research. “Gottlieb wanted to create a way to seize control of people’s minds, and he realized it was a two-part process,” Kinzer says. “First, you had to blast away the existing mind. Second, you had to find a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void. We didn’t get too far on number two, but he did a lot of work on number one.” (source)
This is not to say that the CIA did not kill people with poisons. Rather, from what information we know, the emphasis on poison was different. In the case of the CIA, it seems to have been used as a scientific “pursuit”.
The KGB was different, and they used poisons, generally speaking, as means of assassination. For example, the infamous National Socialist backed and Volhynian Genocide perpetrator Stepan Bandera was assassinated at the order of KGB head Aleksandr Shelepin acting on the command of President Nikita Khrushchev with cyanide. The Afghan communist politician Hafizullah Amin was assassinated by KGB agent Mikhail Talybov with poison in his soda, and Bulgarian anti-communist dissident Georgi Markov was killed with the famous “Bulgarian umbrella” that fired a bullet of cyanide into him. More recently, the famous Ukrainian opposition politician Vikor Yushchenko, known for his anti-Russian stances, survived a poisoning attempt by means of Agent Orange. The well-known case that remains unsolved of the murder of former FSB officer Aleksandr Litvinenko is another type of radiation poisoning a-la the “Bulgarian umbrella” example, and while Russia has continued to deny involvement, all evidence strongly points to her.
Both the CIA and KGB use poison, but the KGB (now FSB) has a history of being publicly tied to assassinations with poison. It is not the only means, but it is a well-known one, and thus are suspect of doing this again.
Second, Navalny is a major critic of Russia, and this comes at a time when Putin has been consolidating power, and as a part of any power consolidation, especially among despot-type governments (of which is the whole history of Russia), major leaders tend to eliminate any “opposition”, especially vocal individuals. This is not proof in itself, but is consistent with world and Russian history, such as with the infamous Cheka purges after the rise of the Bolsheviks and then the NKVD purges during the Stalin years. Remember that Stalin had most of his political dissidents put to death, and the rest fled for their lives or barely survived very abusive punishments in prison. We know for a fact that Putin sees himself and models his leadership style after that of Stalin, so it would not be a surprise to say that he is following Stalin in more than just his economic or social views.
Third, there is no clear answer as to what the medical condition actually is. Navalny says poisoning, possibly in his tea. The doctors at the hospital where he is in Omsk say that it was “low blood sugar”.
So who is telling the truth? Navalny or the doctor? Honestly, the “low blood sugar” sounds very suspicious. This also comes at a time when in May 2020, I reported that evidence has emerged that Russian authorities were threatening and murdering healthcare workers who talked about COVID-19 outside of the official government line.
I don’t like Navalny. It is possible he is lying. However, neither is the FSB a fortress of truth, and they also have a long history of lying. That said, it is likely that, in this case, it is more likely that Navalny is telling the truth than he is not, and more likely that the FSB is trying to assassinate him than they are not.
If this is the case, which it seems to be so, then we are seeing a repeat of twentieth-century patterns, with Russia attempting to become again like the USSR in a quest to “remake” herself. However, this comes at a time when she is weaker than she has ever been and more in danger of collapse, and possibly a permanent loss of large parts of her nation.
Navalny aside, the future of Russia is going to be something to watch over the next decade.
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