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Why has the Abe Assassination Vanished From News?

Posted on 08/13/2022 1:32:18 PM PDT by robowombat

Why has the Abe murder vanished from the news? One of the most important stories certainly of the year if not the decade it is treated like a low level crime story. Abe was truly the best and most powerful friend the US had in Japan and the westpac region. His murder is virtually on a JFK level of importance. However, the media have it seems been given the word to send the event and its possible Chinese connection down the memory hole just like the destruction of Notre Dame de Paris.


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To: robowombat

>> Why has the Abe Assassination Vanished From News?

Until the lemmings wake up and confront the vertical MSM structure, nothing changes.


21 posted on 08/13/2022 2:08:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: robowombat
I came here to make a Lincoln reference, but now that I'm here ... Abe wasn't in power anymore, so his assassination wasn't of JFK importance. Plus Kennedy had the whole charisma thing going. Abe may have been a more consequential figure in real terms, but he didn't have the glamour and the mystique.

Abe's assassination must have been a shock for the Japanese. Was it as much of a shock for them as the Olaf Palme assassination was for the Swedes or the Utøya Island mass murder was for the Norwegians?

Somehow I don't think so. Sweden, Norway, and Japan pride themselves on being peaceful, close-knit countries, but I suspect the Japanese are more realistic and suspicious about what people are really capable of even in peaceful, close-knit countries.

22 posted on 08/13/2022 2:16:20 PM PDT by x
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To: robowombat

“Why has the Abe murder vanished from the news?”
Because the video of the assassination was fuzzy and incomplete.


23 posted on 08/13/2022 2:21:26 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: robowombat

Directives given from above, would be my guess.


24 posted on 08/13/2022 2:23:27 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: x

Government by assasination was common in post-Mejii Restoration Japan (1868) up to almost WWII.

I am sure Japanese LE have that history in the back of their minds.


25 posted on 08/13/2022 2:23:30 PM PDT by Reily
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To: caver; Mama Shawna

I’m pretty tight fisted with my /sarc tags. I only have so many to give out.


26 posted on 08/13/2022 2:27:25 PM PDT by BipolarBob (lazy FReepers don't have a homepage.)
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To: Lower Deck

There are powerful elements in Asia who are not interested in a resurgent Japan, which Abe represented, who seem to be having it their way in every other manner across the globe. His assassination was very convenient for them, and the lying globalist media too interested in the limp explanations offered and too anxious to move on.

IMO


27 posted on 08/13/2022 2:30:07 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: robowombat

What are they supposed to be saying? The guy is dead, the perp is caught. Story over. Also it’s on the other side of the planet and nobody in America gives a damn or even heard of the guy before he got killed. From an American media point of view this story is 150% over. Heck even from the Japanese point of view, there’s nothing to report. Abe is still dead. And no there is no possible Chinese connection.


28 posted on 08/13/2022 2:36:07 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Doctor Congo

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220808/p2g/00m/0na/028000c

From five days ago.

Chinese, or, rather, China might be the wrong country. The assassin had a grudge against Abe related to the Unification Church, which is out of South Korea. The article has details if you scroll down.

Based on a quick search, a lot of the current Japanese interest is focused on the church angle of the criminal’s motivation and that’s where the reporting is focused as well.


29 posted on 08/13/2022 2:37:57 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Doctor Congo

You’ve got a hold in your bucket.


30 posted on 08/13/2022 2:48:18 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: robowombat

Maybe the resignation of the whole government of Japan has a parting it.


31 posted on 08/13/2022 2:48:43 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Lower Deck

See post #9.


32 posted on 08/13/2022 2:57:11 PM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y aa)
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To: csvset

Yes, another mass killer who has just evaporated. Who paid or brain washed or manipulated him?


33 posted on 08/13/2022 2:58:46 PM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y aa)
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To: discostu

Really, see postm27. The Chinese Foreign Minister could barely contain his glee at Abe’s death when making an official response. Abe and Chicoms, Rushdie and Iranian clerics. There truly are conspiratorial elites with long memories and absolute determination. Of course Abe and Donald Trump had a close working relationship dating back before DJT was President so the media have an interest in minimizing the significance of this event.


34 posted on 08/13/2022 3:04:19 PM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y aa)
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To: robowombat

So they didn’t like him. That doesn’t mean they had him whacked. I was quite joyful when Epstein died, doesn’t mean I did it.

Rushdie has nothing to do with conspiratorial elites. If conspiratorial elites had wanted him dead he’d have died 30 years ago. Rushdie is just another example of dumb asses gonna dumb ass. Just an idiot kid deciding now was the time to be a big deal.

There is no more significance to the event. He’s dead. The perp is caught. That is the WHOLE STORY. It can’t be minimized because it doesn’t matter.


35 posted on 08/13/2022 3:19:21 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: BipolarBob

No problem, I have a problem figuring out sarcasm from the real thing!


36 posted on 08/13/2022 3:22:42 PM PDT by caver
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To: robowombat

He wasn’t an adorable animal. Cats and dogs, even goats and horses, get all the news coverage, and people will watch them over and over on Tik Tok videos.


37 posted on 08/13/2022 3:29:47 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: robowombat
Simple.

A message was sent and received by the intended targets. Killed by a nut driven crazy over the Moonies is the cover story for us. The actual message is “This is what happens to major political figures that still support Trump or his policies”.

Same with the Kennedy assassination. Lone gunman was the public cover story. Actual message is that you will do as you’re told. Regardless of your office or popularity.

It’s why they’re out to get Trump. He wasn’t brought up through proper channels and refuses to play by their rules.

38 posted on 08/13/2022 4:20:58 PM PDT by sjmjax
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What else is there to talk about? To keep something in the news there has to be developing events.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was in the news for months and there were no developing events.

It all depends on what the talking heads decide is important.

39 posted on 08/13/2022 4:24:16 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: BipolarBob

Different Abe


40 posted on 08/13/2022 4:55:32 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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