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Tanzania's president, Dr. John Magufuli suddenly died in April 2021. Known as the incorruptable president. Magufuli not only barred China from taking over his country, but ignored all the covid stupid measures that most of the world followed. He is probably the only world leader who had a PhD in Chemistry. Ask any African what happened to him, and they will immediately tell you that he was assassinated. The mainstream Western press loved to paint him as a kook.

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This is a very useful perspective; no one else, so far, has provided it.

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Jul 8, 2022·edited Jul 8, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Commies and fascists almost always try to assassinate their most feared opponents. https://www.usasupreme.com/a-picture-of-shinzo-abe-standing-with-donald-trump-against-the-globalists-puts-what-happened-today-in-context/

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Jul 8, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

My girlfriend (a Japanese native) who first informed me of the incident soon speculated to me that Communists or their sympathizers could have been a major influence here. Looks like there are some signs here that this might be the case.

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I’m reading ‘Shut Down the World’ and the book provides all the reasons why the CCP would want Abe dead. Anyone who thinks the CCP wouldn’t be involved in Abe’s death is naive, especially in light of Abe’s support of Taiwan.

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They should ban guns in Japan to stop these kinds of things from happening. Ahem. (Sarcasm)

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Jul 8, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Was this an assassination or a hit?

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Shocked and saddened to hear about Shinzo Abe. Love to his family and Japan. 🇯🇵 🦋

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Jul 8, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

So very very Tragic. There are but a handful of people in positions of power/media presence that are speaking out against these draconian harmful Covid Mandates. We’ve lost a great voice

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Jul 10, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Not to do with the tragic murder of PM Abe, FYI Michael, I found this post that maybe of interest to you: https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1531587917709205509?s=20

Re: Abe's assassination -who benefits and who loses? In a nutshell, CCP and globalists

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Jul 9, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

As soon as I heard the news this morning--without knowing anything about this man or his politics--I knew there would be something like this with it. Very sad and very scary.

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Interesting context.

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Hopefully his bodyguards will follow Samurai traditions. It will be interesting to learn how they failed.

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I think you're being a bit too nice to Abe here regarding Covid policy. You're right he wanted to downgrade it before he left office, but he did slam the borders shut and declare the first of Japan's four "emergencies" in April 2020. He also wanted to change the constitution to give the cabinet lockdown-style emergency powers. I've written up my thoughts here.

https://guygin.substack.com/p/abe-on-covid-successful-arsonist

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According to reports, Yamagami has told investigators he was not motivated by disagreement with Abe's political beliefs, but "rumors about the former leader's connection to a certain organization that police did not identify." Other reports assert that Yamagami blamed the group for having bankrupted herself by donating to the organization.

Speculation about the identity of this "certain organization" is currently centered around The Unification Church. The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification—formerly known as the Unification Church but perhaps best known as the church that "The Moonies" belong to—was founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in 1954. Although known primarily in the West for its mass weddings (and its ownership of The Washington Times), its Japanese branch has been identified as part of "the grassroots conservative movement in Japan." More to the point, some have noted that "Abe’s grandfather had played a major role in establishing the early Unification Church in Japan," and Abe himself reportedly sent a congratulatory telegram to a "front group" for the church back in 2006, an act which generated some controversy at the time.

Another organization that comes up in association with Abe (and with the Unification Church) is Nippon Kaigi. Described as the "largest and most powerful conservative right-wing organization", Nippon Kaigi (the "Japan Conference") was established in 1997 as a result of a combination of two previous Japanese political groups. It pushes a wish list of Japanese nationalist agenda items—the restoration of the Japanese Imperial family as head of state, the restoration of the Japanese military, constitutional changes and education reforms—that only the hard-of-thinking will fail to notice coincide with Abe's political agenda. This is no coincidence; Abe served as a "special advisor" to the group's parliamentary league.

And then there's 悪の秘密結社 (Evil secret organization). If that sounds like a weird, made up thing from the fringier side of the conspiracy theory world, that's because it is. Apparently the Japanese version of QAnon, 神真都Q (Yamato Q)—which was reportedly established in December of last year with the explicit aim or "protect[ing] children’s lives from COVID vaccination," and which was responsible for storming a vaccination site in April where they demanded to be shown the ingredients of the vaccine—contains some members with some rather outlandish beliefs. According to an investigative report done by some Japanese ambush journalists, Yamato Q believes that "The Yamato people (Japanese) originally inherited the genes of good aliens and dragon gods, but their powers are kept secret through the information control of the deep state (dark power) and Illuminati (secret society of evil)." Naturally, they believe it is up to members of the group to "awaken the sleeping DNA to awaken the true power of the Yamato people."

To be clear, the most straightforward statement about the "certain organization" that has emerged so far is a report that Yamagami "intended to target a senior official of a religious group" who was, apparently, not at the scene at the time, meaning Abe wasn't even the primary target of the assassin. Then again, the same report also indicates that "the suspect has made nonsensical statements, and Nara Prefectural Police are carefully investigating whether he is mentally competent to be held criminally responsible," so take all of this information with a gigantic grain of salt.

In any event, the fact that police appear to be purposefully withholding the name of this organization—ostensibly in order to avoid a religious or racist backlash against the group and its members—will likely only further the beliefs of people like Yamagami who reportedly believe that the group in question controls the media and powerful politicians like Abe.

https://www.corbettreport.com/the-assassination-of-abe/

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Abe’s grandfather had played a major role in establishing the early Unification Church in Japan.

Can you elaborate or provide links? Thank you.

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