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Mike Huckabee The Paranoia Is Strong In This One

Many rightwing adherents have come to view the coronavirus or covid19 outbreak and pandemic with a lot suspicion and paranoia thanks to Donald Trump diminishing the severity of the crisis and rightwing media telling their listeners, readers and viewers that it's all hoax.  Or that it was a biological weapon created in China with funding from the Democratic party.  This is how far into denial these people are.  Remember these are the same people who believed there was a child sex ring being run by Bill and Hilary Clinton at Comet Ping Pong a pizzeria in suburban Washington D.C., after the Sandyhook school shooting that those who died (using their term) were crisis actors and that it was a false flag operation created by the Obama administration to take away their guns and the flu and covid19 were the same type of virus. They are not.

Now former Arkansas governor and failed presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has wade into the stupid with his conspiracies and paranoia. In the excerpt below he implores mayors to direct their citizens to buy firearms. Why? Because all of your constitutional rights which haven't been taken away are being taken away.

  

Two Universities In Japan Recieve Bomb Threats Over Asahi Shinbun Articles

The Asahi Shinbun on 5 August admitted that several articles published in its pages about the veracity of Seiji Yoshida's information concerning Japan's use of Comfort Women during World War II.  Many on the Right in Japan are historical revisionist's and war crimes deniers.     

Since that time conservatives in Japan have applied considerable pressure on the newspaper to cease publication including conservative publications.

In a Sept 21 news conference, Asahi president Tadakazu Kimura admitted the wrongdoing and announced that executive editor Nobuyuki Sugiura would be resigning to take responsibility.
Asahi’s apology appears only to have added fuel to the fire of the ongoing campaign, spearheaded by the Sankei and Yomiuri newspapers and the weekly magazines Shukan Bunshun and Shukan Shincho, to harangue Asahi by, among other things, urging its advertisers to drop their ads and readers to cancel subscriptions.
And indications are that the campaign may be having some impact on the Asahi’s bottom line.
But this approach, warns Nikkan Gendai (Sept 23), represents an “enormous miscalculation” on the part of Asahi’s rivals, and explains the reason why.
“The Yomiuri has launched a one-week trial campaign aimed at exploiting the Asahi’s current woes to its advantage, by use of a four-page leaflet titled ‘How did the Yomiuri Shimbun verify reportage of the comfort women?’ a source at the Yomiuri told Nikkan Gendai. “It also produced a 20-page booklet for distribution in the 23 Wards of Tokyo, where there are many Asahi subscribers.”

According to the fools who sent these missives the universities in question must fire these professors or get blown up.  Let all of that pent-up hate out you'll feel much better. Until the police come.

Two universities, in Osaka and Hokkaido prefectures, have received letters urging them to fire former Asahi Shimbun reporters working for them, threatening to plant explosives on their campuses if they don’t, police said Tuesday.
Tezukayama Gakuin University in Osakasayama, Osaka prefecture, said it received a letter on Sept. 13 saying it must dismiss a professor who had been working for the university since April 2012 because he wrote, while working at the Asahi, erroneous articles that were based on claims by Seiji Yoshida, a man who said he was involved in the kidnapping of Korean women who were then forced into sexual servitude for the wartime Japanese military. The victims came to be known euphemistically as “comfort women.”

Tokyo's racist governor resigns to form racist rigthwing party

The outspoken governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, is to launch a political party, raising the possibility that a new rightwing force in Japanese politics will emerge in time for a general election due by next August.

Ishihara, an unabashed nationalist, sparked a diplomatic crisis with China in April when he announced plans to buy the Senkaku islands – which are claimed by both countries – and bring them under the control of the Tokyo metropolitan government.

The move forced Japan's prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, to offer a rival bid to buy the islands from their private Japanese owners and prevent them from falling into Ishihara's hands.

Ishihara is unrivaled in his ability to antagonise Japan's neighbours. He has described the Japanese army's slaughter of as many as 300,000 civilians in Nanjing in 1937 as a fabrication, and called on Japan to develop a nuclear deterrent against China and North Korea.
Last year he drew widespread criticism after describing the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, in which almost 20,000 people died, as divine punishment for the "egotism" of the Japanese people.
During his term as governor, he has made derogatory remarks about women and foreigners, and insulted Francophones by dismissing French as a "failed international language". In 2010 he suggested gay people were "deficient", after watching same-sex couples take part in a parade in San Francisco.

I'm sure he would have been right at home in America's Klu Klux Klan or any right wing racist party in Europe.