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Shinzo Abe, Japan’s former prime minister, dies after being shot
The Guardian ^ | 8 July 2022 | Staff

Posted on 07/08/2022 2:07:11 AM PDT by BlackVeil

The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died, aged 67, after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abe; assassination; banglist; japan; japanpm; shinzoabe; trumpforeignpolicy
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To: Spktyr

They wore masks even here in the USA. When I lived up in Wazoo State of WA for 14 years, I saw a lot of Asian type peoples, male and female who wore the masks. Crooks here in the USA love mask mandates because they can enter a store with only the eyes showing and the owner of said store thinks nothing of it. Mask, sweatshirt, sunglasses at 11 p.m. at night, hey no problemto!! and just rob the guy blind. Then they ask the guy who did it and he can say, how the hell should I know this all these Dimocratic rules because of Covid I could not see a damned thing of this person’s face, eyes, anything!!!


141 posted on 07/08/2022 7:52:50 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: Ikeon

I’m sure it’s not simple, but I’m not planning on blowing anyone up in the foreseeable future. But whoever did this managed to get the right ingredients together in the right proportions. If I were out to blow anyone up, or make a homemade shotgun shell, I’d manage, too. But that’s unlikely.


142 posted on 07/08/2022 7:58:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: BlackVeil

Did Xi order the hit?


144 posted on 07/08/2022 8:08:22 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: Phoenix8

Too bad China and Russia have no intention of minding their own business.

If you believe neither Vladimir Putin or Xi Jiping (or their successors) have not this nation’s destruction as their primary standing order, I advised reconsidering your position in the light of history.

The only thing that stands in the way of China conqering the entirety of the Asian Pacific Rim, or Russia taking all of Europe, is the United States.

Russia has no hesitancy with using nuclear weapons. “MAD” doctrine was never any real obstacle for them, because they have no repect for human life. Their mindset makes no provision for such “impractical” considerations. All that matters to the Russian psyche, and all that has ever mattered to their leaders, is power and global dominance.

The Russians are still as much the souless communist barbarians they were when existing as the Soviet State. Nothing changed in their mindset with the end of the Cold War and the fall of the USSR. They simply put on a different face for the purpose of deception. Russians are incapable of instituting or living under democratic principles. Their history is one of constant aggression against neighboring countries, and the subjugation and enslavement of peoples. The Russians will never change their stripes, because they are incapable of being anything other than a warmongering people - it is their basic nature.

Ditto for China, a state that has existed for millenia, and never peacefully. China’s history is also one of warlords and conquest. Their ambitions for global power are more ruthless that that of Russia - and the Chinese are much more insideous in their methods. They are better skilled in the art of espionage, economic subversion and cultural infiltration.

The unfortunate circumstance of having a leftist sock-puppet vegetable for a US president only makes our situation ten-fold more dangerous. At least Ukraine’s comparatively small military is making Putin’s forces pay a high price for the “special military operation.” I would wager too that China, seeing Russia’s inability to competently fight a conventional war, has its eyes set on Russia’s eastern provinces - which did at one time belong to China.


145 posted on 07/08/2022 8:10:44 AM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: Fury; mewzilla
Re: 22 - oh good grief. Go back to sleep.

I took the poster's comment as speculation and a reasonable speculation at that.

146 posted on 07/08/2022 8:19:05 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: JME_FAN

Well I actually agree with a lot of that. Ex communists in Russia and active ones probably/no certainly do want to see our destruction. As well as the laughing stock of an administration we have.

I think my point is still valid, in some ways whats it matter if we are destroyed by them or by being overwhelmed with 3rd world immigrants? To the point where our native population, system of law, culture, language , customs are assimilated onto some weird new polyglot blend.

I think there needs to be some balance of looking after our own affairs then seeing to international crisis that threatens our existence. As it is we seem to be overdoing the second and ignoring the first.


147 posted on 07/08/2022 8:31:08 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

“active ones”…in China I meant to say….


148 posted on 07/08/2022 8:32:00 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Qiviut
They still have capital punishment and use it. It won’t take 20 years or more either.

40 (or more) years here in California. There are men on Death Row who were sentenced in the early 1980's and are not even close to their execution dates. A travesty, an outrage.
149 posted on 07/08/2022 8:40:28 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Japan has guns it’s a 13 step process with a three year licence. Shotguns and air rifles only. This guy had a homemade shotgun no shells needed probably muzzleloaded. Black powder can be made by a grade schooler with the proper knowledge. Someone with second year chemistry at University can make nitrocellulose in their kitchen those genies left the bottle in 1000BC and 1800s respectively. Brazil also has very restrictive gun laws and Brazil has a huge black market for shop made gun. Mostly submachine guns in pistol sizes. Jamaica has some of the most restrictive in the western world they have no private ownership. You can get a knock off of a S&W J frame for $200 American in Kingston I. 38 spl I won’t confirm nor deny personal information on that. Point is where there is a will there is a way. Shells are tightly regulated in Japan you have to return the hulls to get new ones. Hence the muzzleloader you only need powder ,cardboard and lead which doesn’t even need to be round lead wire of 1/4” diameter cut into small cylinders makes for nasty buckshot at shotgun ranges.


150 posted on 07/08/2022 8:41:47 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: JME_FAN

If you have patience and somewhere to hide the smell you.can use human urine or animal urine to make a niter bed let it ferment with natural airborne bacteria for 6 months then wash that bed with woodash water. The effluent will crystallize as it evaporates in a tray, those crystals will be nearly pure potassium nitrate. This is how it was made for thousands of years before commercial sized deposits were found in the Chilean desert and later modern chemical synthesis. It’s not ha rd people in BC times did it.


151 posted on 07/08/2022 8:49:58 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Phoenix8

Do you not think it possible, if not likely, that the Russian and Chinese governments have a hand in what is happening at our border? I do.

Who stands most to gain in seeing the United States overwhelmed with illegal aliens - including those who are likely terrorist infiltrators?

Recall too that many of those individuals illegally crossing our southern border are not of etnicities that make up the nations of Central and South America.

It is my understanding that the Russians are seeking to conduct joint militarily exercises in Venezuela, and the Chi-coms are well established throughout South America.


152 posted on 07/08/2022 8:51:29 AM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: BlackVeil

Rip


153 posted on 07/08/2022 9:02:18 AM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” -The Taliban / “Thanks Joe!” -Putin)
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To: Jaysin

What did Jeff Dunham Achmed said. Premature Explosion?


154 posted on 07/08/2022 9:13:11 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/5/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: Ikeon

A witness mentioned a white cloud of smoke. Home made black powder?


155 posted on 07/08/2022 9:15:12 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: mewzilla

Japan is a very law-abiding culture. Murders are rare. Suicides are much more common.


156 posted on 07/08/2022 9:18:07 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: DCBryan1

Forget the guns, if they got rid of the Japanese people except the ones they keep in chains for house cleaning and food production that would be the perfect liberal solutioum.


157 posted on 07/08/2022 9:23:45 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: RayChuang88

Some people are thinking internal politics. The upcoming election was getting heated, it’s on fire right now.


158 posted on 07/08/2022 9:28:57 AM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: Ikeon

Internet?


159 posted on 07/08/2022 10:17:37 AM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Smokeless powder is just that relatively smokeless. Black powder makes a thick grey cloud that hangs around for a few seconds as it disperses. This was almost assuredly homemade powder, the images show the hanging smoke and he used electric ignition you can see the batteries under the wooden plank of the “gun” you also can see the breaches capped off this was an electric fired muzzleloader. Potassium nitrate is not a controlled substance in small quantities, you actually could use sodium nitrate or ammonium nitrate as well. Charcoal is the fuel, with sulfur or sugar as a catalyst. Aluminum powder brings up the brilliance and also make a thick white smoke, magnesium as well. Black powder is a invention from BC times you literally can make potassium nitrate from your own urine if you had the time and could take the smells. In the middle.ages the Kings would send out their niter men to gather the stable earth as in horse stables they would take the dirt and straw that the horses had pissed on and mile.it up in niter piles a year later after it ferments you wash it with water mixed with wood ash and set the funk liquid to dry out. Midway through it’s drying crystals will form harvest those as they are nearly pure potassium nitrate it’s how gunpowder was made for thousands of years.


160 posted on 07/08/2022 10:28:28 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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