Shinzo Abe, Former Japanese PM, Assassinated During Rally

[9ideon]

このたびはご愁傷さまでございます。

:bowing:


Shot in the back 3x1 times with a Shotty during a speech. In the article they speak of 2x1 shot, others say 3x1, doesn't really matter in the end.

Question remains as to...

Why?

Article BBc (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62089486)

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As PM, Abe was not very eager to speed up the Militarization of Japan, after he left office in 09-'20 the expansion of the Nippon armed forces took off like a rocket.

Examples (latter two are post Abe):

Abe avoids timeline (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-politics-abe-idUSKBN1FB0H8)

Budget (https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2021/11/30/japan-may-surge-68-billion-in-extra-military-spending-due-to-china-taiwan-north-koreaand-covid/)

Double Budget (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/11/japa-j11.html)

I would really like to know if his "protege's" stance on Pacifism in relation to Japan and for instance China would have lead to a more held back policy on Military spending.

To me it seems that he has been Ghandied and or Rabined. It is text book assassination by 3rd party. Find some sort of extremist, make burn bright that little flame and have 'm act. It will never come back to those initiated it.

[Mashika]

Shot in the back 3x1 times with a Shotty during a speech. In the article they speak of 2x1 shot, others say 3x1, doesn't really matter in the end.

Question remains as to...

Why?

Article BBc (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62089486)

8Tv3NSpnAP8

Abe was/is not very eager to speed up the Militarization of Japan, after he left office in 09-'20 the expansion of the Nippon armed forces took off like a rocket.

Examples (latter two are post Abe):

Abe avoids timeline (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-politics-abe-idUSKBN1FB0H8)

Budget (https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2021/11/30/japan-may-surge-68-billion-in-extra-military-spending-due-to-china-taiwan-north-koreaand-covid/)

Double Budget (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/11/japa-j11.html)

I would really like to know if his "protege's" stance on Pacifism in relation to Japan and for instance China would have lead to a more held back policy on Military spending.

To me it seems that he has been Ghandied and or Rabined. It is text book assassination by 3rd party. Find some sort of extremist, make burn bright that little flame and have 'm act. It will never come back to those initiated it.

He had a 'growing up' policy of accepting Russia as a 'partner' and not as an enemy as he was continually forced to do by 'the western partners'. Back also when he was in government he kind of accepted that a lot of people were demanding the US to remove themselves from the military bases, but he did little to change that. It's possible he was expecting to pick on those things to help himself up the scale the next elections. He became "difficult trouble" in this times of 'war'

[9ideon]

Shot in the back 3x1 times with a Shotty during a speech. In the article they speak of 2x1 shot, others say 3x1, doesn't really matter in the end.

Question remains as to...

Why?

Article BBc (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62089486)

8Tv3NSpnAP8

Abe was/is not very eager to speed up the Militarization of Japan, after he left office in 09-'20 the expansion of the Nippon armed forces took off like a rocket.

Examples (latter two are post Abe):

Abe avoids timeline (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-politics-abe-idUSKBN1FB0H8)

Budget (https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2021/11/30/japan-may-surge-68-billion-in-extra-military-spending-due-to-china-taiwan-north-koreaand-covid/)

Double Budget (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/11/japa-j11.html)

I would really like to know if his "protege's" stance on Pacifism in relation to Japan and for instance China would have lead to a more held back policy on Military spending.

To me it seems that he has been Ghandied and or Rabined. It is text book assassination by 3rd party. Find some sort of extremist, make burn bright that little flame and have 'm act. It will never come back to those initiated it.

He had a 'growing up' policy of accepting Russia as a 'partner' and not as an enemy as he was continually forced to do by 'the western partners'. Back also when he was in government he kind of accepted that a lot of people were demanding the US to remove themselves from the military bases, but he did little to change that. It's possible he was expecting to pick on those things to help himself up the scale the next elections. He became "difficult trouble" in this times of 'war'

That be a reason in the line of whacking someone, first thing I said to my Cats was, "nobody in security noticed a shotty? I mean really? The Assassin was wearing a T-Shirt and jeans, someone inside that sec detail has some explaining to do.

[Jamie]

This is horrendous news... so sad.
I hadn't realised the official news is he has died from his wounds. Truly awful.

[9ideon]

This is horrendous news... so sad.
I hadn't realised the official news is he has died from his wounds. Truly awful.

Yes it is, and yes he has unfortunately.

**Mods** Might the title be changed to this one (final change).


Shinzo Abe, Former Japanese PM, Assassinated During Rally

Thx.

:-)

[Bill Ryan]

An excellent, concise 10 minute analysis and historical commentary from Alexander Mercouris. Every time I listen to him, I learn more about things I didn't even know I didn't even know.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EozNixNWRiI

[9ideon]

An excellent, concise 10 minute analysis and historical commentary from Alexander Mercouris. Every time I listen to him, I learn more about things I didn't even know I didn't even know.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EozNixNWRiI

The whole time when looking to the left I thought that I was looking at Scott Adkins (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2U0ZTVkZDktYWM0ZC00YmVkLTlkZjktZWRkZDMxNDIxZWM2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODg1MTc3MTM@._V1_.jpg), so weird.

What the one Alex on the right says at the end concerning placing nukes is very interesting. With Shinzo Abe still in the picture, placing nukes in Japan would be a lot more difficult, if not impossible. We'll see I guess.

[Spiral]

TBH the weapon doesn't look like a shotgun, more like a pair of pipe bombs taped together with duct tape. The amount of smoke also suggests this was some sort of improvised "gun" that was only going to work at very close range, so just how did he get THAT close ???

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Interesting article, https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/07/08/former-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-67-assassinated-during-speech/

[9ideon]

TBH the weapon doesn't look like a shotgun, more like a pair of pipe bombs taped together with duct tape. The amount of smoke also suggests this was some sort of improvised "gun" that was only going to work at very close range, so just how did he get THAT close ???

sputnik/8264

Interesting article, https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/07/08/former-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-67-assassinated-during-speech/

Yes, exactly the question I asked my Cats... Some's def smelling in Denmark here.

[Spiral]

Best pic I've seen of the shooter

[9ideon]

Best pic I've seen of the shooter

That would stand out wouldn't it? I mean if you're in security and all.

[Michel Leclerc]

An excellent, concise 10 minute analysis and historical commentary from Alexander Mercouris. Every time I listen to him, I learn more about things I didn't even know I didn't even know.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EozNixNWRiI

Well... excellent... I am for once not that impressed.

The evocation of the 30s was to the point, but the elephant in the room was not mentioned, i.e. that in the 80s Japan was on a similar course as China has been for quite some time now: of bypassing the US as the leading world economy. That was prevented by the world of international finance engineering a financial crisis that took steam out of the Japanese economic engine in the 90s and kept it more or less stagnating while China took over. “Don't you dare!”

China, Russia, India etc., i.e. the BRICS nations took the cue and organised their finances otherwise as we are witnessing now. So the obvious thought – which is only slightly hinted at by both journalists, is that there must be powerful circles in Japan who may finally see the way of getting rid of the US, by moving towards switching loyalties. “If you can’t beat them” (the Chinese, that is), “join them”.

Such extraordinary "cordial entente" would certainly be in line with Japan’s history and destiny, and Japan’s example might help the reunification of Hegemon-divided Korea as well as their joining the new dominant pole.

At the same time other forces in Japan would have all interests in preventing such a scenario. For the Hegemon a renascent and unpredictable Japan would already be a headache, but the country actually becoming an Eastward extension of the Eurasian backbone, and a naval, insular, power to boot would be a deadly blow.

Abe would then have been feared to be the politician who might be daring enough to bring that about. So he had to be killed – and the assassin then conveniently belongs to the far right.. but which far right is it: Nippon nationalism against the Americans or Nippon nationalism against the Chinese? One hiding the other?

A patsy?

The reference to Palme however is very much to the point. The deconstruction of Sweden belonged to the Northern branch of the Galileo undermining of Europe, the Southern branch of which had prevented Italy from initiating a startling experiment of collaboration between “Christian” liberal political forces (of the Democrazia Christiana) and the Italian Communist party by killing Aldo Moro. The central branch launched a flurry of terrorist attacks that secured Belgium (in the eyes of the Hegemon those 30,000 square kilometres of land around NATO HQ) firmly on the "Atlanticist" side and militarised police as early as in the 80s.

By that hint at Palme, I think, Mercouris may have covertly specified the "geopolitical turmoil" he evokes as oriented towards the developments sketched above.

[Whiskey_Mystic]

Zeihan's take.

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[mojo]

RIP Dear Prime Minister Abe...

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[Arcturian108]

This morning I asked one of my Japanese students, a graduate of Todai (Tokyo University--the Harvard of Japan) his take on Abe's supposed assassination, and this is what he wrote to me:

The murderer, Yamakami (山上; mountain up), said that he hated a certain
religion as his mother had gone bankrupt for contributing so much
money to it. The assassin also said that he had killed our former PM
because Mr. Abe has a strong relationship with that organization.

It has not yet been confirmed, but many people suspect that the
organization is the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and that organization have had a
close relationship for many years, and Mr. Abe and his father were
said to have strong connections with it. This is the elephant in the
room for the Japanese government and media.

He was killed two days before the Upper House election. Knowing that
it may sound imprudent, the timing was too good. It seems that the LDP
will win the sympathy vote. Also, they taped the decisive moment when
he was shot and there are some weird points in that. Therefore, some
people think that this murder case was totally fake. In fact, I
suspect so too, but I keep silent as this idea sounds too indiscreet
now. Nobody will tell the truth.

[9ideon]

He was killed two days before the Upper House election. Knowing that
it may sound imprudent, the timing was too good. It seems that the LDP
will win the sympathy vote. Also, they taped the decisive moment when
he was shot and there are some weird points in that. Therefore, some
people think that this murder case was totally fake. In fact, I
suspect so too, but I keep silent as this idea sounds too indiscreet
now. Nobody will tell the truth.

This has happened in Holland before, the Fortuyn Killing. LPF (the party he erected) won the elections (sympathy vote) thereafter sank like a whore on crack due to internal problems and whatnot, I left my country after he got murdered so I did not get the whole story, but safe to say that this Party was not only leaderless, it was being dismantled from the inside as well, perhaps Exo might have something more lying around on this, in any case, the entire set of ideas, basically solving problems, got buried in Holland, the so called elite had their politics back and were going to make sure it would not get out of hand again, I will not get into it too much, but there's a strong sense that Wilders is taking one for the team and has been put in opposition to get votes, but to never rule. Not only that, election fraud seems normal these days.

With that in mind, where does this put Abe's party? Is a scenario like in Holland possible here? I do not have enough knowledge of Japanese Politics, on the other hand, time will tell I guess.

[9ideon]

Very strange development.

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[TomKat]

Definitely murder, but we don't yet know it was an assassination, do we?

[9ideon]

Definitely murder, but we don't yet know it was an assassination, do we?

Dunno, definition seems pretty clear.



Murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons : the act or an instance of assassinating someone (such as a prominent political leader)

Checks all the boxes doesn't it and "often" doesn't mean exclusive either.

[Mashika]

Odd to think about, but his murder aligns very much with the Reiwa Ush*itsu Abare "violence" festival. It does almost seems like he was sacrificed on the general feeling of it, the violence and death festival got his prime victim? Feels a lot like a giant sacrifice of some sort, everyone seems to be going along with it, and the festival went through as usual, after some time it had been postponed for one reason or another, this year it went through as in the old times.

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Watch that video, and it seems odd that after years it just happens to be planned again. Almost like a blood sacrifice, i wonder...

Incidentally, at minute 25:35 or so, two Yakuza girls show up lmao, a very rare view these days :P

[Inversion]

I've been waiting for Benjamin Fulford's take on Shinzo's death. He lives in Japan and is something he follows.

Shinzo Abe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe) 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022, he was 67 years old.

benjaminfulford (https://benjaminfulford.net/)

In any case, we will start with an in-depth look at the assassination of Abe because there is a lot more going on here than has been reported elsewhere. In fact, what happened to Abe can even, without exaggeration, be described as biblical.

To be specific, it represents a move by the Three-Legged Crow (Yatagarasu八咫烏) a Japanese secret society that shares at least a 3000-year history with the people who wrote the Old Testament of the Bible or the Torah.

There is only so much background we can get into here so, we will provide a very rough sketch. Members of the Japanese imperial family and of the Yatagarasu say they are descended from the Pharaohs of Egypt just as are the members of the Swiss-based Octagon group who control monotheism. As evidence of this, the earliest parts of the Bible and the oldest Japanese writings are basically the same.

These groups went their separate ways thousands of years ago but agreed to form an alliance during the Meiji period, when Japan began to modernize. The public shooting of Abe was meant as a signal the deal made between the Octagon group and the Yatagarasu was no longer in force.

Abe belongs to the Southern Choshu clan that has sub-contracted the ruling of Japan from the Octagon group. The Choshu clan are the people behind the Mitsubishi group that controls 10% of the Japanese economy and is close to the Rockefeller and Rothschild families.