Slightly expanded on a comment under James Roguski’s call for J.C. (no, not that one) to update what timeline and options most governments have regarding the WHO power grab …
Though living in Japan, and far longer than my meager Japanese literacy chops should show, I am not aware of a similar home-grown movement to stop the WHO power grab. Even before Japan emerged as a modern Corporate Nation-State, Japan never went through a period in history where power emerged from the bottom-up through any means, much less democratic processes or institutions.
One measure of concentrations of power is the control of information. Even my most informed, red-pilled Japanese friends depend on the likes of Yahoo News and Twitter. Of course Yahoo comes with all of the biases and dysfunctions of profit-driven information platforms. And Twitter-Japan holds a rather dubious distinction ... "Japan maintains its spot as the top requester of legal demands (for removal of accounts) to Twitter and was responsible for half of all global legal demands received in this period."
https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/removal-requests.html#2021-jul-dec
Still, the following link is what one Japanese friend turned up today. A DeepL/Reverso translation (much better than Google) of the Japanese Tweet is as follows:
“The WHO, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, promotes the creation of a high-tech police state while insisting that vaccines and endless boosters continue to be taken by all, despite clear evidence that they do not work and cause untold harm.”
https://twitter.com/kuu331108/status/1634611954051584002?t=bbeRqvaG-JTE7UfbtpBQew&s=19
And another tweet …
https://twitter.com/kinoshitayakuhi/status/1634551744016547843?t=HkcFSY7Pxfw5HFGU2r0euw&s=19
Though DeepL alone was not quite enough, I cleaned up the tweet a bit further and took a bit of artistic liberty as follows:
“In accordance with the global contract that is being signed in each country, if WHO Director-General Tedros and the heads of member states agree, they will be able to force all member country citizens to be inoculated with the mRNA biological experiment. As we know, these ‘vaccines’ are blueprints for genetically engineered spike proteins encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles. The priority of the agenda is to micro-manage every member of society by taking away our natural biological immunity. It is a protection racket, and the price is high. Our rights to life and property.”
(Side note) … I like that phrase ‘protection racket’, along with ‘scam artists’. From here on, I will make a conscious attempt to use those phrase as a more accurate euphemism for the ‘ruling class’, if for no other reason, I find nothing ‘elite’ about sociopathic predators.
After a brief chat on the phone, I received the following link to an on-line article from the Yomiuri Shinbun (newspaper) dated July 30, 2021.
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/pluralphoto/20210728-OYT8I50103/
Though long, it appears to be a pretty good summary of the legal tricks and hoops WHO and the would-be globalist protection racket is using … pretty much what James Roguski and Tess Lawrie have been telling us for awhile.
But the article is from the most right-leaning Japanese newspaper, and therefore looks a bit askance at this power grab as Anglo / Euro-Centric in origin and closely tied to the CCP. This skeptical distance makes sense because at best, Japan has long had strained ties with China. But a lot has happened in the last two years. WHO knows how deep the big-money rabbit-hole goes, how much the promise of power can entice otherwise competing predators for the lowest hanging fruit … we mere peasants.
In chatting about what is implied between the lines of the article, there appears to be a large faction of the Japanese population who, if they knew what is brewing, would never give up their identity to WHO. Though in some ways parallel to those in America who place higher trust in Trump’s “America First” than a Global-Totalitarian Public Health Surveillance State, the Japanese identity is even more deeply embedded in the Emperor. Centuries of embedded identity at risk.
I would warn Western readers not to mistake ‘embedded identity’ with ‘emperor worship’, if for no other reason than that the typical Western idea of ‘worship’ implies an external, separate object of attention. I think ‘embedded identity’ is a better description of the relationship between the Imperial family and a large percentage of Japanese. A legally convoluted transaction raising WHO to the throne is NOT an option.
If they knew.
As stated from the beginning of this post, to the best of my knowledge, Japanese mainstream media has successfully kept the WHO’s power grab out of the news. I can only guess at conflicting reasons as to why, because this curtain of silence and impending power-shift puts the super-majority LDP government in a bind. (The LDP is the three letter political party that is anything BUT ‘Liberal’ or ‘Democratic’.)
The Japanese Corporate Nation-State has long been a puppet state of the U.S. Corporate Nation-State. Ha. Even the U.S. has become a puppet state of the U.S. Corporate Nation-State. And though not many people will even raise the issue, I think the former Emperor Akihito broke precedence and resigned for more than mere health reasons.
He (and his wife) was a man of the people, immensely popular and pacifist, and I suspect tired of being a puppet of the LDP protection racket and the Japanese Corporate Nation-State. Try as they might, it was impossible for even the formidable Japanese propaganda machine … uh … I mean ‘mainstream media’ … to hide a long running tension between the Emperor and the LDP’s agenda, particularly the rift between those in the government who wish to change the post-war, peace-time constitution to allow for a more pro-active ‘defense force’ (euphemism for offensive military capability).
Now on a permanent visa, but a forever-foreigner outside of a small circle of mostly Japanese friends, I find myself in a bit of a dilemma. If the only thing preventing Japan from succumbing to the Globalist Protection Racket is the resurgence of a right-wing, nationalist movement rallying around the current emperor, NOT the LDP controlled Corporate Nation-State … even if it means my becoming collateral damage … banzai! So let it be. Dead man writing. Better to go down at the hands of impassioned people fighting for their identity, than the cool and sterile, profit-driven predators of the Globalist Protection Racket.
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Now a bit about the Japanese Corporate Nation-State’s propaganda machine …
Although the consolidation and capture of American "Corporate News" (see 'oxymoron') is well documented, a brief look at Japan's Freedom of Press ranking by Reporters Without Borders reveals some insight into the insidious, sociopathic success of this government's long-game. Ironic, because by some measures, Japan has been ranked as one of the most literate countries in the world. But that was before the commuter trains were packed with so many eyes glued to smart-phone video games.
https://www.dw.com/en/why-japan-ranks-poorly-in-press-freedom/a-65549778
Most of my career has been involved with community outreach and teaching in American and Japanese universities. But my last few years has been as an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) for public schools, grades 1 through 12. I could not help but to observe a big difference between how elementary school students are taught, and what begins in Junior High. But it would take more reading and thinking than can be expressed in a single book to distinguish this from what I experienced growing up in the U.S., or as something unique to the Far East in general, and Japan in particular.
Although the Prussian model of public education can be found world wide, once the kids enter Jr. High here, and the standardized exam-wars (juken senso) of boot-camp-brute memorization really begins to set in, a culture of compliance is arguably even more thoroughly pounded into the future work-force than can be found in often more subversive and individualistic Chinese counterparts. No amount of periodic corporate or government lip service pleading for more diversity, creativity, compassion, or equal opportunity can erase years of efficient indoctrination. I would argue the rigid institutional indoctrination even has some effect on the rapid decline of marriage and fertility rates in Japan, and the ludicrous increase of taxation to fund yet another committee or think-tank to address the problem as a solution to a decrease in the quality of life. Case in point …
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14782105
Granted, the above case made mainstream media because the plaintiff went to an elite school. But the principle is the same. Another tip of the iceberg …
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/world/asia/japan-hair-school.html
I would argue a high degree of standardization occurs even among Western working-class counterparts … https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/articles/opting-out-of-standardized-testing-what-to-know but also has its nearly sub-conscious rituals and traditions which prioritize compliance over critical thinking skills.
Another point of similarity between East and West, is even a passing familiarity with anime or samurai period dramas is enough to realize that both East and West give similar lip service to the ideals of empowering the marginalized and holding authority accountable … as well as the virtue of meritocracy as the best way of achieving these ideals.
But Michael Sandel’s latest book “The Tyranny of Merit” does a good job of looking beneath the paper-thin veneer of meritocracy and seeing uncomfortable truths about the animal in our human nature … how the moral arc of meritocracy descends into nepotism and cronyism, and finally ends in corruption and decay. He has another arrow in his quiver in having a Japanese spouse and giving frequent guest lectures in Japan.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Michael-J-Sandel-ebook/dp/B084M1W9WB/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
As for those ideals, if meritocracy and institutions are no longer viable heuristics, the ruling classes of the Far East trot out neo-Confucian social-engineering of top-down, ‘imposed harmony’ (though this oxymoron is closer to the musical equivalence of singing in unison), while the Western ideal (and conceit) is through moral autonomy, the flip-side being dog-eat-dog, prosperity theology.
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For a more nuanced, academic dissection, check out "Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan" ... a series of academic essays edited by Stephen Vlastos,
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Stephen-Vlastos/dp/0520206371
Or his “Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan”.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Stephen-Vlastos/dp/0520072030/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1685246385&sr=1-1
To the relief of the Corporate Nation-State, neither book has been translated into Japanese. And neither is available in English as an e-book or in any other digital form.
“Invented Traditions” would especially be a perfect bookend to Herman and Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent", but that is too close to an uncomfortable oxymoron of the West for the Japanese ruling class’s … oops … ‘protection racket’ … comfort. Though I do not claim to be either a Japanologist or a skilled researcher, I have yet to find a Japanese counterpart to Zinn’s History.
Come to think of it, the velvet glove of authoritarians might be covering only a rigged and rigid oxymoron of a fist. Meh, I never was good at anatomy. Maybe it is a velvet boot? “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.”
Shortly after ending this post, I will be sending off an e-mail to Stephen Vlastos regarding the possibilities of bringing his work to a wider audience.
In the meantime, for those pressed for time, one could do worse than forgiving Hollywood of its ‘great white hope’ trope and take another look at “The Last Samurai” through the lens of the Satsuma Rebellion. With a few artistic liberties, it is surprisingly accurate regarding the birth of the modern Corporate Nation-State of Japan.
For better or worse, til death do us part, home.
Kishida is all in on the globalist agenda. Just look to his support of the LGBTQWTFO agenda.
Interesting, as only the other day I was reading a comment on another blog that said the plan is for engineered populist, nationalist revolutions.
Complexity theory makes it abundantly clear that increasing cultural and technological complexity during energy decline/collapse is impossible, so there will be no 'fourth industrial revolution'.
By exceeding peoples' political expectations it will greatly soften the blow of the collapsing standards of living that are coming. If the younger generations think that the elites have been overthrown, then chaos might be averted.
So those globalists who pull the strings will still be in the background but hiding behind national socialist governments. After all, the New World Order that is global control is actually what we have been living in, not something in the future to be resisted.