John

Moved to Japan 1997. Play go (囲碁), tennis, trail running, cycling, writing, thinking, practice zazen. Love mountains.

[John @spiridigliozzi]

My poetic picture book about the importance of accepting your body is available on the Japan’s and other country's Amazon sites! "The Embodiment Book" is about love and self-acceptance. It places humans in nature in relationship with other mammals. https://t.co/umF62mqZCQ

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@kangminlee Nice. But the cameraman made me dizzy🤪.

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@japan_nobunaga “Hospitality is a debt” in Japan, and Asia, is so true! Last summer I gave a 88 temple pilgrim water in scorching heat. He was empty. He tried giving me a treat to erase the debt, but I refused. I knew this troubled him. But I (US) wanted to just give, and preserve my karma. 🙃

[John @spiridigliozzi]

@Noodlepartyfox @japan_nobunaga Delivery services do, at least at times in Japan, leave packages at the doorstep. We live at a very rural location and receive many that way. And it's an option that Amazon customers can choose.

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@Bigstickmarci @ShunWilk77699 @unlimited_ls 😂🤣😂🤣😂

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@BKNol @NBA_NewYork “Scores” is not a precise number. I have friends on the Left, good people, who would love to see Trump taken out. The hatred is off the charts. I’d guess millions would at least quietly cheer his death. The hatred is not rational; they’d then feel the same about Vance.

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@BKNol @NBA_NewYork Maybe the problem is the scores of deranged Leftists who openly call for his assassination?

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@JoshReynolds24 As a Knicks fan this makes me want to see the Spurs win. But the thing is, these hoodlums don’t really care about their local team. They thrive on bullying and can get away with it in NY.

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@ShunWilk77699 @unlimited_ls What the victim said is a separate issue. He might have said something inappropriate or did something criminal even. But beating a man that way, punching him when he’s down even cannot be “defensive” or just. We see and can judge criminal behavior here.

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@MattWalshBlog Individual facts don’t matter to the Left. Victims are pre-determined by identity, and Anthony falls into the “oppressed” group while the young man who was murdered is an “oppressor.” The Left’s views are ideological, divorced from reality.

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

People demanding "proof" of election fraud are not understanding how crime works. I worked at Manhattan DA for over 2 years, one in Homicide. We never had video proof of the crime. We almost never had DNA. These are things that occur on CSI on TV, not in real life. And we still convicted people all the time.

What we had was testimony and circumstantial evidence. Travel times, bank records, cell phone data, gate access codes. Motive, capability, benefit, time and place. Never direct proof. Of course the defendant always denied the crime, but there was enough evidence to show that one had to have occurred nonetheless.

If what we have in the LA Mayoral election is a statistical anomaly that is beyond reasonable explanation with anything besides fraud, that is enough to prove a crime. This has been true since the beginning of Western Civlization.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

NOVEMBER 30, 2010:

Four weeks after losing the election as AG of CA, Kamala Harris wins due to mail-in surge from LA

Harris won by less than 1%

[John @spiridigliozzi]

@japan_nobunaga To an extent. But the bigger reason, IMHO, is staff work tirelessly to clean them. If men peed more carefully, for example, convenience store signs wouldn’t urge men to sit when peeing, and ban us from toilets they save for women only.

[BDW @BryanDeanWright]

Fmr CIA officer here.

Let me share how elections get stolen — and the role of intel agencies.

We all know that the CIA and NSA create and execute clandestine operations that are designed to go undetected. That ranges from recruiting human spies, tapping phone systems, and altering devices of all kinds.

Yes, that necessarily includes voting machines.

The CIA and NSA have teams to execute all of these operations and missions at the direction of a President, even those ops that are deemed impossible… like machines locked in rooms that are inside secure facilities, unhooked from the internet or whatever device that could tether them to the outside world.

Those tough intel operations require extensive planning, exquisite trade craft, supporting operations (HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT), and a degree of luck.

For many years, everything that I’m saying was understood by both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Historic footage from Congressional hearings show both Ds and Rs saying that they were alarmed about voting systems with so-called “unhackable machines.” They knew then — correctly — that such a suggestion or claim was ridiculous. They were briefed by NSA and CIA teams on how they “hack the unhackable” every month without leaving a trace.

This is why Taiwan and others are resolute on conducting elections the old fashioned way: same day voting only, in person, IDs, paper ballots, a counting process that is open to the public to watch and monitor, and results announced that same night.

If Taiwan can do it with ~24M people, any US state can do it. Refusal to do so is an intentional choice to open your electoral systems to vulnerabilities.

That's what we’re now seeing across the United States, and primarily in Democrat-dominated locales. Including Los Angeles. Those politicians choose broken systems.

California’s ~30 day process to tally votes is obviously and intentionally vulnerable that a reasonable person understands that it allows for manipulation and assured electoral outcome by a dominant power (Democrats, in this case).

And like any good intel op, you do it such that there are no fingerprints left behind — whether that be with machines, mail-in ballots, harvested ballots, etc. If you own the ops environment, anything is possible.

Still, mistakes happen in any op. In the event of disclosure, you do what we often see Democrats and the media do: deny, smear, and make counter-accusations to preserve intentionally broken systems.

Folks, this is not about Spencer Pratt. This is about the future of what’s left of our Republic.

Evil, seditious forces have broken our electoral systems and gained great power using them. Mayor Bass is but one, using the machine that her Democrat Party has built to sustain her and Leftist power. It’s the modern, Golden State version of old Chicago, NJ, or Huey Long corruption.

They will deny it, obviously. Because admission means loss of power, money, and likely prison time. There’s no incentive for them to clean up what’s broken.

Bottom line: Mr. Pratt’s earnest desire to run a righteous race to fix his city faces long odds. He didn’t just run against Karen Bass. He ran against a corrupt machine.

But if nothing else, he has shown his fellow Angelinos and the nation that, once again, we have an existential problem in our electoral system with intentional vulnerabilities and electoral fraud that naturally flows from the brokenness.

Now it’s up to the rest of us to fix it.

There are solutions, none easy or polite. But we must do so — and by whatever means necessary — or the Republic falls to Communists and Cuba-trained agitators like Karen Bass.

Those are the stakes. Time is short.

[John @spiridigliozzi]

@SamaHoole Those who have been reading you carefully know these were the points you’ve been making, sensible points, all along. Keep it up and more and more will open their eyes.

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@Riley_Gaines_ Even more than loving death, the radical Left hates humanity. Those who resist their cult doctrines are especially despised.

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@BillboardChris Have you tried counting? I don’t know. I’ve followed you for quite awhile now and deranged men getting nasty seem well represented.

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@japan_nobunaga Foreigners in Japan often have potlucks. I can’t imagine anyone sharing an instant dish. Others must spend hours to show off their culinary skills. Mine is delicious but laziest: bread baked in a bread machine. The host’s family must eat for days after from all the excess food.

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I don’t want to think I’ve become prudish in old age—but what sort of trashy entertainment is this for lawmakers in city hall? Are there no standards? It’s juvenile, laughable. By all means, go out and pay for this on Friday night while drunk (tho I wouldn’t). Disturbing.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

A statue of Thomas Jefferson was permanently removed from council chambers because its very presence was apparently far too offensive for our government to tolerate.

Instead we get this.

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@japan_nobunaga 😂 Americans are a little carried away with holding doors open. Lots of cultural pressure to be “nice”.

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Americans are a little carried away with holding doors open. Lots of cultural pressure to be “nice”.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will hold a door for a man who is nowhere near it.

And that man is then expected to run.

I was thirty feet away. The man at the door saw me coming, took hold of it, and held it. For me. Arm extended. Waiting.

We do not hold gates for strangers we will never meet again. So I understood at once. This was an honor, and a raised arm is a debt that grows heavier by the second.

I could not let his arm fall. To let it fall would be to let his honor fall.

So I ran.

Not a sprint. A man in armor does not sprint. A dignified, urgent shuffle. Quick steps, straight back, grave face. The sacred jog of a man who must not keep a gatekeeper waiting.

I reached the door and bowed. "Thank you for holding the gate."

"No problem, man."

No problem. He had strained his arm in my service and called it nothing. The humility of these people.

But here is where it turned.

He was so pleased by my bow that at the next door, he ran ahead to hold that one too. Now I owed him two debts. So I jogged faster.

A woman saw us and held the third door. I jogged to her. A teenager held the fourth, grinning. I jogged to him. Word, it seemed, was spreading.

By the fifth door I was no longer walking anywhere. I was simply being passed from held door to held door across America. Jogging. Bowing. Jogging. Bowing. A man forever thirty feet from where he meant to go.

I have not reached my destination.

I do not expect to.

A held door must never wait. This is the law now. I did not write it. But I will die defending it.

So tell me, America.

When you hold a door for a man far, far away, and he breaks into that little run,

do you know you have just placed him in your debt forever?

I think you do.

I think that is why you smile.