Abe would also become famous for his ‘Abenomics’ economic policies which lifted the Japanese economy from an unhealthy level of deflation. 

The Left’s go-to narrative of gun control couldn’t play out here as Japan has the strictest gun control in the world, and the gun used to assassinate Abe was a crudely constructed Zip Gun made from hardware store parts.

In lieu of a working gun control narrative, leftwing media resorted to their next best narrative. Abe and Trump were pals.

Trump wanted America to have a smaller footprint in Japan’s national defense, whereas Abe wanted Japan to have a larger footprint in Japan’s national defense. Abe was able to read Trump. When Trump visited Japan for the first time in his Presidency, Abe largely skipped the traditions and took Trump to the best burger restaurant in Tokyo.

An alliance hat was made on this trip, which was signed by both Trump and Abe.

Get your own replica of this iconic friendship hat at the AP4Liberty store.

But the left just can’t help themselves. They can’t not piss on something or dance on a grave where they think they’re going to score a point.

Take NPR for example, a supposedly neutral American media outlet which is [wrongfully] funded through American tax dollars.

They simply cannot help themselves. A very non-divisive leader like Abe, is painted as divisive to American audiences because NPR simply cannot stand that Abe had a good relationship with Trump, and that the strong alliance between Japan and America was further strengthened under the Trump Administration. So instead of objective journalism, they choose to lie to you for clicks.

Why are we funding them?

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Anyone who claims that Ivermectin is simply horse dewormer or horse paste can take a hike into the ocean and their opinions can be discarded. Before it was called those things, it was called The Wonder Drug From Japan. Satoshi Ōmura and William Campbell were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2015 for their discoveries in the development of the drug, discovered in the 1970s. It was found to be beneficial to humans in 1988 for treating Onchocerciasis, but has since been used for humans to treat Strongyloidiasis, Ascariasis, cutaneous larva migrans, filariases, Gnathostomiasis and Trichuriasis, as well as for oral treatment of ectoparasitic infections, such as Pediculosis (lice infestation) and scabies (mite infestation).

Per the research paper housed on NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV, 

“Today, ivermectin is being increasingly used worldwide to combat other diseases in humans, such as c (which infects some 35 million each year), scabies (which causes 300 million cases annually), Pediculosis, Gnathostomiasis and Myiasis—and new and promising properties and uses for ivermectin and other avermectin derivatives are continuing to be found.58) These include activity against another neglected tropical disease, Leishmaniasis.59,60) Of perhaps even greater significance is the evidence that the use of ivermectin has both direct and indirect beneficial impact on improving community health.”

But horse paste.

Kitasato University in Japan, where Ivermectin was first developed, has been conducting a clinical trial of Ivermectin to treat symptoms of COVID. 

Japan is a country that has seen far lower COVID rates, along with South Korea. As the New York Times reported in December this year, COVID very specifically targets fat cells, so perhaps Japan’s 3% obesity rate has been a significant factor.

The study consists of 240 participants, half who will receive Ivermectin and half who will receive a placebo. The study actually began in September of 2020, with data collection taking place in October of 2021. It is now in Phase 2 of the study phase, with an estimated study completion date of May of 2022. 

Participants must be aged 20 or older, weigh at least 40kg, have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and may be male or female. 

The brief summary reads: “investigating the negative rate of SARS-CoV-2 PCR by a randomized controlled trial. Subjects are assigned to two groups, the placebo group, and the ivermectin group. The target number of each treatment arm is 120, a total of 240 cases. A single oral administration of 200 ㎍/kg of ivermectin or an ivermectin-free placebo will be administered on an empty stomach. Time to negativization of SARS-CoV-2 PCR as the primary endpoint with additional efficacy and safety of the process will be investigated.”

The study is being conducted by Kunihiro Yamaoka, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases.

While Ivermectin is a relatively recent hot topic in America, this has apparently been on Japan’s radar for quite a bit longer.

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CHIMPO is the Japanese word for penis.

An article from Page Six wrote:

“Prince Harry is drawing some chuckles for his new gig at a California startup, where he is known by the cockeyed acronym “CHIMPO” – which means “penis” in Japan.

The Duke of Sussex has been named chief impact officer of BetterUp Inc., an online coaching and mental health firm, where he told the Wall Street Journal that he plans ‘to help create impact in people’s lives.'”

The CHIMPO of BetterUP is quite the title. 

Check out other tweets below from Japanese Twitter users:

“CIO in English speaking countries is apparently CHIMPO. Poor Prince Harry.”

“I just learned about Prince Harry. Help me to not laugh at Royal CHIMPO.”

Translation: “I think it’s OK if we have the job title of CHIMPO.”

“OK.”

“Really. The CHIMPO who is not the Chief is IMPO (impotent). What a mess.”

“It’s been about a year since someone sent “OH! CHIMPO!” in a Zoom Private Chat.”

“The CHIMPO of Sussex is probably a coward.”

“Chief Impact Officer. Short name: CHIMPO. Prince Henry leveled up.”

“So Harry’s title is CHIMPO. That really has an impact.”

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On Wednesday, the company’s Starship test model SN10 made a high altitude test flight to 10 kilometers and landed back on the launch pad. The previous two attempts with SN8 and SN9 reached their test altitude but suffered RUDs (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, or in simpler terms, exploding) at the point of landing.

SpaceX attempted SN10’s high altitude test in the mid afternoon, but was automatically aborted by the system at T-0 due to a detected anomaly.

The second attempt successfully launched, with Starship reaching the 10 kilometer test altitude, freefalling back to earth horizontally, and thrust pivoting back to the vertical position to land. 

You can watch the full launch event here:

Starship SN10 did, however, experience an RUD a few minutes after landing, from what some are speculating to be a methane leak. However this is only a minor problem at this development stage, and landing the Starship without an RUD at the landing stage itself is a gigantic step forward. 

Watch SN10’s RUD below:

This successful test of the SN10 stage comes the day after Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa, who previously purchased a civilian space flight, announced a chance for you to join him on what he calls the Dear Moon Project. The flight will go around the moon and come back to earth. Musk states that this flight will actually go a little bit past the moon in order to be the furthest humans have ever been in space.

In a joint video released with Elon Musk, Yusaku Maezawa details his vision to bring 8 people who consider themselves to be creative or artistic along with him for the ride on Starship in 2023. 

If you describe yourself as creative or artistic, as Maezawa details in the video that anyone can be, you can enter for your chance at one of the seats at DearMoon.earth. 

Judging from his Twitter handle of @yousuckMZ, yes, he’s very aware of what his first name phonetically sounds like in English.

The successful landing of Starship the day after this announcement should hopefully give people confidence that SpaceX is on track for Starship to carry people in 2 years. Under development by SpaceX, it is intended to take humans to Mars and will be the world’s first fully reusable spacecraft.

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Scientists in Japan are making significant progress towards bringing back the Woolly Mammoth.

Libertarians enjoy having conversations about owning Recreational McNukes, but for some of us, a Recreational McPachycephalosaurus is far more practical.

Who better to make such a dream a reality than Elon Musk? Musk has his name in a number of ventures such as Tesla, SpaceX, Hyperloop, and Neuralink. Is Elon an expert in every facet of these projects? Not even close. Musk however can do 4 critical things.

1) Gather the right people for a team who can innovate.

2) Bring down the cost of innovation.

3) Set benchmarks.

4) Meet benchmarks.

No, Musk has not even hinted at this idea as of yet. Sorry to get your hopes up. This is simply me begging.

From autonomous electric vehicles, to commercial space flight, to underground high-speed tunnel travel, to brain chip implants, Musk is quickly bringing the world into the future.

But let’s bring back a little of the past as well. Elon Musk, bring back the dinosaurs. An asteroid is a cheap shot if we’re talking survival of the fittest. Let’s give them another chance. Anyway, it’s 2020—so why not?

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“Even though there is one year to go in my tenure and there are challenges to be met, I have decided to stand down as prime minister,” said Abe at a press conference on Friday. He followed up with an apology as to his inability to see the term through to the end, feeling as though he has let down the people of Japan.

“For almost eight years I controlled my chronic disease, however, this year in June I had a regular check-up and there was a sign of the disease,” he added. “I made a judgment that I should not continue my job as prime minister” said Abe. “I need to fight the disease and need to be treated.”

Now-former Prime Minister Abe has been the longest serving “PM” of Japan, not to mention it should be considered he is the longest democratically elected leader of the nation. He has been most famous in contemporary Western media for his willingness to involve himself with President Trump on the world stage, most notably at the infamous G-7 Summit where this amazing photo was taken:

The disease which is presently afflicting Mr. Abe is a serious long-term inflammatory bowel disesase, which millions suffer from. Ulcerative colitis is a condition in which disturbances in the gastrointestinal system will randomly occur, with flare-ups resulting in discomfort and pain.

Interestingly, cannabis, which is currently illegal in Japan, is seen as a treatment method for handling the discomfort of ulcerative colitis as well as several other bowel-oriented diseases. Although evidence on the matter is very much inconclusive, it has even been said to help treatment outright. A continentally-originating substance, Abe’s wife Akie has pressured for return of the plant to Japanese culture and normalcy. It can now be speculated that aforementioned reasons may be a part of her “rebellious” advocacy.

Leaving behind a legacy of leadership few will be able to overcome, Abe resigns gracefully even amidst a global health crisis as Japan maintains a relatively low infection rate. As well as being responsible for the continuation of Japan as a commerce powerhouse in the East in spite of the stagnation of the 90’s dotcom bubble, he departs from his position leaving the country in a good position.

Image: 首相官邸ホームページ

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Weihua is the China Daily EU Bureau Chief and columnist.

In the tweet, he called Israel ungrateful, citing that Jewish refugees were given a safe haven in Shanghai during WWII. There was also a large settlement in Manchuria as well.

A glaring problem with this tweet is that the Japanese Empire occupied both Shanghai and Manchuria during this period.

The book Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era written by Meron Midzini documents the refuge of Jewish evacuees in Japanese occupied territories of China.

From the book’s description:

“Even before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese government and people to the Jews was totally different than that of the official German position and that it had no intention of taking measures against the Jews that could be seen as racially motivated. During World War II some 40,000 Jews found themselves under Japanese occupation in Manchuria, China and countries of South East Asia. Virtually all of them survived the war, unlike their brethren in Europe. This book traces the evolution of Japan’s policy towards the Jews from the beginning of the 20th century, the existence of anti-Semitism in Japan, and why Japan ignored repeated Nazi demands to become involved in the ‘final solution.'”

Weihua certainly seems to be using this historical example in a positive light in order to criticize Israel’s current decision.

The Tweet was also noticed by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who called it “quite the take.”

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My name is フィンガーケビン, also lovingly known by many as Squiggly Line Guy. Facebook did not racially discriminate against me. They did however racially discriminate against my wife and children, my extended family, and my real life social circle. Worst of all, they did this to protect pedophiles. This may sound like a stretch to you, but I assure you it is correct. Here, I’ll make the case for it. It’s quite a story; first requiring a backstory, but I’ll keep it as short as I can.

I’m a white male. I’m also bilingual. I speak English and Japanese. Not in the Weeb sense of throwing around a Japanese word or two from the 10 words they know in an English sentence. It’s the primary language we speak in our home.

When I was in middle school, a close family friend was a host family for Japanese international students attending a local college. Every year they would host a student from the Japanese program. They were 19 years of age going on 20 every single year. I was 13 when I took interest. Even being younger, that student was always happy to oblige me in linguistics and pop culture. Every year.

Also around that time my father showed me the miniseries Shōgun which he had recorded on VHS. I would go on to read the book a few years later. Shōgun was a historical fiction book, but based on real people and complicated politics that would eventually end the feudal civil war era and usher in a unified Japan. I would also go on to read the non-fiction book Samurai William, who the character John Blackthorne was based on. I would even later in life visit the Tōshōgu Shrine in the Tochigi prefecture of Japan; the final resting place of Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu, on whom the character Lord Toranaga was based. I’m sorry to tell you that Anime doesn’t really factor in anywhere—though I’ve seen a couple, especially since having children.

But eventually, I would reach the age myself where that Japanese exchange student being hosted by our family friends would be my age, when I reached the age of 19. The student staying with my friends became both a friend and a peer, as I was his age. We had by that time developed a tradition of taking them out for their first night in America. We told the student and their host family we were going to the billiards. So off we would go with the student to the billiards, except instead of making the right turn into the billiards, we would make a wrong left turn into the strip club. Of course this was on purpose, but they were never disappointed. They always had some superior bragging at their college orientation the next day. They would rub it in to their buddies from the program about their first night in America. This year’s student was the 2nd annual.

At that time, finally being the same age the students were, I was taking classes at the same community college. Including Japanese courses. That would give me a much more solid foundation that I needed to continue learning organically. But one girl I met, well, she happened to be from the same program as my host student friend. The man put in a good word. She and I began dating, and the following year when she went back to Japan, we kept a long distance relationship. Emails, international phone cards, and taking turns visiting each in their country. For eight years.

Today, we are married with three children, right here in America. Our children learned Japanese first as their primary language. Of course, this puts them in ESL, (English as a Second Language), or EAL (English as Another Language) or ELL (English Language Learner) depending on whatever the hell your school calls it. 

They each began a local Japanese children’s language school when they were 3 years old. This leads us to our social circle. Their primary friends are other children they know from the school. They focus on socializing with whom they can communicate. These other children are good kids with good parents. So our social functions are in the local Japanese community.

フィンガーケビン is not only a name I use in real life, it’s what I’m most commonly called. Everything you have read so far testifies to this. Simply because others may find it unusual, does not mean it is incorrect.

Now we get into what this has to do with Facebook. On Facebook, my name was フィンガーケビン. It is the pronunciation of my actual name in the Japanese phonetic alphabet Katakana. It’s written as it would sound when a native Japanese speaker pronounces my name. Why was my name written on Facebook this way? Before I joined Libertarian circles where my page expanded and I became known as Squiggly Line Guy, the majority of people on my page were local Japanese contacts, family in Japan, and a large number of former students from the program I’ve known from over the years.

They may not be the majority anymore on my Facebook list since friending so many Libertarians, but that doesn’t factor into what your name is allowed to be on Facebook. They only require that you go by a name you use in everyday life, per their own community standards. For me, that is フィンガーケビン. 

Here is the page from Facebook’s Community Standards that constitutes what your name is allowed to be:

To be clear, symbols are things like [$#@?!.], and this name is written in only one language, not multiple.

Yet, my Facebook page is currently down due to my name being written as フィンガーケビン. This is also a little bit of a story.

Many on my page know me as a Pedophile Hunter, alerting people to groups that share photos of children and allow pedophiles to network, so they can be mass reported and removed. There is absolutely no shortage of failures here either, with Facebook stating continuously that sexualized pictures of children do not violate community standards.

[Read more about my findings of Pedophile activity on Facebook in this article where I’ve chronicled pages I found, where users who reported the pages were told that these pages did not violate community standards]

During this process, I was retaliated against by pedophiles. No more than 10 minutes after a raid, Facebook suspended and deactivated my profile and required me to submit a Photo ID. This was due to someone from one of those groups reporting my name as fake. I submitted my photo ID three weeks ago, but Facebook has left me on ‘read’. They don’t seem to know what to do with it.

The raids consisted of reporting these groups (though Facebook often declined to remove them), and scrolling the profiles of group members, commenting on photos that they are tagged in from friends and family. We would alert those people that the individual is a pedophile. These comments would generally be accompanied by disgusting and sexual comments they made about children in the group we found them in.

[For a much more in-depth report on this incident, read my interview with TLR Writer Caleb Shumate]

In removing my account over the name フィンガーケビン, per Facebook’s own community standards, they have discriminated against my social circle. They are invalidating what I am called in real life, and in breach of their own policy. While I have been operating through an Alt Account, I made the decision to terminate that as well. I will no longer actively be a part of a platform that protects pedophiles, allowing them to keep sexualizing children and allowing them to keep their groups where they network. I will no longer be an active part of a platform that discriminates against my entire real life social circle by stating how they say my name is invalid and not real. I will not attempt to rebuild on this platform.

The phenomenon of Facebook ignoring these reports of groups and profiles that network pedophile content has also been reported on by Heavy:

“The commenter told Heavy about the page they reported, asking that their name not be included: “It’s so sick I can’t even write it,” they wrote to Heavy. “Looked to be a young person being made to do something to an adult. And then I got freaked out that I was even on the link to report it, and jumped out fast.”

They were later told by Facebook, as shown in the screenshot above, that the page didn’t violate Facebook’s standards. Several other people came to Heavy sharing that they too had reported disturbing groups to Facebook, but the groups had not been removed.”

When people left Myspace in favor of Facebook, it was during the time period of the 3G iPhone. Video wasn’t a thing. Video messenger nor livestreaming were things. The entire selling point was that Facebook displayed more aesthetically on mobile, despite how primitive mobile was at the time. Myspace was still a superior platform technologically when people started making the switch en masse. 

Maybe people will start making a switch again. Perhaps not even over aesthetics. Perhaps they will be simply fed up with trivial bans while pedophilia is allowed to run rampant.

I’ve taken a page out of the playbook of Elon Musk, and have exited Facebook.

Find me on Twitter: @GuySquiggs

Find me on Parler: @SquigglyLineGuy

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Watch the video below:

Tarō has had long-standing sympathy for Taiwan and their desire to remain sovereign from China.

These harsh words came following an interview with ‘CHO’ Official Bruce Aylward hanging up on a Taiwanese reporter and dismissing Taiwan as a Chinese territory. This is despite the fact that Taiwan has seen some reliable success in fighting COVID-19 that the ‘CHO’ could stand to learn from. 

From BBC News:

“In the segment, Ms Tong asks if the WHO [sic] would reconsider letting Taiwan join the organisation. She is met with a long silence from Mr Aylward, who then says he cannot hear her and asks to move on to another question.

Ms Tong presses him again, saying she would like to talk about Taiwan. At this point, Mr Aylward appears to hang up on her.

When the journalist calls Mr Aylward again, she asks if he could comment on Taiwan’s response to the coronavirus.

Mr Aylward then replies: ‘Well, we’ve already talked about China.'”

Since the time of this writing, a petition has surfaced on change.org calling for the resignation of the ‘CHO’ Director, which has garnered over 684,000 signatures.

The problem has nothing to do with Taiwan’s success in this pandemic, but because the ‘CHO’ is kowtowing to China’s position that Taiwan belongs to China, in which neither the UN or the ‘CHO’ will allow Taiwan admittance so long as they’re independent from China.

The initial reporting coming out of China has largely guided the ‘CHO’s recommendations. However, now long standing suspicions have been confirmed that China has been purposefully hiding their case and death count, according to the US intelligence briefing.

Anyone who has had their ear to the ground has known for a while that Chinese residents, particularly in Wuhan, do not believe China’s numbers – especially with crematoriums running 24/7 where they previously ran 4 hours at a time, 5 days a week.

The recent reports of stacks and stacks of thousands of urns outside of Chinese funeral homes appear to corroborate this.

As the COVID-19 cases in Tokyo appear to have started climbing, and fearing for their heavily aged population, Japan has now enacted entry bans from 73 countries including China, USA, South Korea, all of Europe, and many other Asian countries. Tokyo, in particular, is a lot like New York City (the largest COVID-19 hotspot in America), except Tokyo is much bigger and more densely populated. This is not encouraging, as we’ve seen bodies getting loaded into refrigerated trucks in New York.

The death of Japan’s beloved comedian Shimura Ken to COVID-19 has encouraged even the more careless youth to be more careful. They’ve learned quickly that the minimizing of the situation by the ‘CHO’, and their reluctance to call it a pandemic until it was already there was designed to try and save face for China.

Rest in peace, Shimura Ken.

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Happy Sunday, Liberty Lovers!

Ever since seeing the trailer for Midway, I have been so excited for the movie to be released in theaters! I got to see it during Veterans Day weekend, which made it even more powerful. The movie characters and special effects truly brought World War II, including Pearl Harbor and The Battle of Midway, to life.

In this movie review video, I will tell you my takeaways from the film. Midway is great for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of what war was like during the 1940s.

I 100% recommend the movie – even to Millennials!

Visit the official website for Midway here: https://midway.movie/

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