This NBA farce is like baseball in Japan 147 years

CIA's Ten Commandments against China (excerpt).
Be sure to do everything possible to spread the word, including movies, books, television, radio waves ...... and new forms of religious communication. As long as they aspire to our way of clothing, food, housing, transportation, entertainment and education, that is half the battle. Be sure to draw the attention of their youth away from the government-centered tradition. Keep their minds focused on: sports shows, pornographic books, hedonistic pleasures, games, criminal movies to have religious superstitions.Two days ago, I wrote an article about the Rockets' general manager Murray.
Unexpectedly, I just finished writing it in the first foot, and the NBA president Xiao Hua came out to speak out.
There are a lot of various analyses online these days, and a partner in the background shared such an inference with me.
I feel a little surprised, also sent to everyone to see




Of course this statement does not have enough basis. But it raises the following question.
On the surface, it appears that a series of Black Swan events were triggered by a tweet from Murray, but was there a premeditation behind all this?
What I didn't expect was that although this netizen's post was purely inferential, the development of this matter afterwards was unfortunately hit by his words.
First, NBA president Xiao Hua publicly voiced his solidarity with Murray in an interview.
"I've read some media suggesting that we don't support Morey, but in fact we do."
"We have a lot of influence in China, and we have a lot of influence in Hong Kong."
In an almost arrogant manner, it was expressed that this is our "freedom of speech" in the United States, and this is Murray's "freedom of speech."
The subtext is, "I just support Murray, you Chinese fans can put me how, but also to watch my NBA.
This is obviously an attitude to further mess up.




Immediately after, CCTV Sports issued a statement, "suspend the current broadcast arrangements for the NBA preseason (China games), and immediately exclude all cooperative exchanges involving the NBA".
Immediately afterwards, Tencent Sports, which has the exclusive digital media broadcasting rights of NBA for five years, also announced to suspend the broadcasting arrangement of NBA events.
All signs indicate that the boycott is beginning, from official to private.
As a result, as soon as the suspension of broadcasting was announced on the side of CCTV sports, a reporter at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked.
"With China's CCTV now deciding to cancel its broadcast of the NBA, is the Chinese side using its influence to impede freedom of expression?"
Look, less than a few hours before and after, a "hindering freedom of expression" hat has been buttoned up.
And only four minutes after CCTV Sports issued a ban statement, NBA president Xiao Hua spoke out once again.





"One of the NBA's enduring strengths is our diversity of opinion, background, race and religion."
"People around the world, including from the United States and China, have different perspectives on different issues, and it's not the NBA's job to adjudicate those differences. However, the NBA does not put itself in a position to regulate what players, employees and team owners say or don't say on these issues, and we simply can't do that."
It simply can't be done that way.
The question is, what does the NBA do about the "inappropriate comments" of others?
You did that when Clippers owner Sterling made inappropriate comments about black people. Fined him $2.5 million, banned him for life, and prompted him to sell the Clippers.
You did that when Hawks GM Perry made inappropriate comments about blacks. Ferry was suspended indefinitely and subsequently terminated by the Eagles.
You did that when Warriors player Durant made inappropriate comments about India. Durant publicly apologized on social media for his "India is at least 20 years behind" comment, or he could have faced a fine of more than $15 million and a 20-game suspension.




Now, Murray makes inappropriate comments about China, publicly insulting Chinese sovereignty, and you say it's freedom of speech and "you can't do that at all".
Another ploy to use sports as a political tool to achieve your ulterior motives.
It seems like I've seen this scene somewhere before.
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Using sports to influence politics is indeed not the first time the United States has done so.
In 1872, an American, Wilson, who was teaching in Japan, brought baseball to Japan.
At that time, Japan was in the Meiji Restoration period, and there was an almost blind admiration for Western culture, and soon the sport became popular in Japanese schools.




In 1878, Hiraokahi, who had returned from studying in the United States, formed the Shinbashi baseball team, the first regular baseball team in Japan. The opponent they wanted to challenge was the American sailors on the docks.
At that time, the American sailors had already played baseball with many Japanese, but it was basically a "man-machine mode" to pass the time.
Now, the skinny Japanese had to form a regular team to play with them, and the American sailors didn't even bother to play with the Newbridge baseball team.




In the end, baseball is also a physical game.
Train, get hung, keep training, keep getting hung ...... became the daily routine of the Shimbashi baseball team.
Finally in 1896, all baseball fans in Japan received the news they had been waiting for - the Shimbashi baseball team, had won.
The pride and pride of an all-Japanese baseball team winning against the sport's founding fathers, the Americans, prompted the news to spread quickly through the streets of Japan.




Along with the news, came the enthusiasm of Japanese people for baseball.
According to statistics, there were 150,000 students registered in Japan that year, playing baseball.
At that time, the young people in Japan, all sing a song.
"The flower is the cherry blossom, the man is the samurai, a thousand young people a thousand samurai's soul, youth should serve the country, the oath floats in the high post of the school, carrying the world's honor. The honor of excellence must not be abandoned, compared to the high mountains of Fuji, where the integrity, righteousness and courage are all together. In order to realize the ideal, we should sharpen our strength against the sun and the moon, and we need to go to the baseball games, such as sword fighting, judo and shooting.



Baseball, too, became the "national ball" of the Japanese people.
They combined the sport of baseball and the spirit of Bushido together, forming their own unique "baseball culture".
But all this, with the haze of war, dissipated.
At that time, the hatred of America in Japan was high, and baseball, as an "enemy sport", was the first to bear the brunt.
In July 1941, the Japanese Ministry of Education even ordered the suspension of all baseball games.




This sentiment reached its peak with the end of World War II and the American occupation of Japan.
In order to rule Japan better, eliminate the Japanese people's hatred of the United States, and reshape Japan's "pro-American" values, MacArthur launched the "Three S's Program" in Japanese society.
Screen, Sex, and Sports.
The third Sport was baseball.
On August 15, 1946, exactly one year after Japan declared its unconditional surrender, the Summer Koshien Conference, the highest honor of Japanese baseball, was re-held after a five-year hiatus.


On hand to deliver the opening address was a man named Paul Rush - a staff member of the U.S. Allied Command in Japan.
The Grand Prix was re-run, but the Japanese public was not very enthusiastic about participating, and the Allied Command remembered another man.
His name was Shotaro, the "Father of Japanese Professional Baseball" and the first person to be inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.


He was the first person to be inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He organized Japan's first professional baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants, which was popular overseas, invited the famous American Major League Baseball stars to play in Japan, and promoted the formation of the Japanese Professional Baseball League.
With Shotaro's help, Japanese baseball was revived after a decade of rest and recuperation from 1946-1957.
At MacArthur's behest, more and more American professional baseball players joined the Japanese professional baseball game. Baseball, in turn, became a link to repair the relationship between Japan and the United States. At the same time, it was also a tool for the United States to strengthen its domination over Japan.




But in fact, Shotaro Matsutaro had another layer of identity - after World War II, he was designated as a Class A war criminal.
It's a term you've probably heard before. An ordinary war criminal does not constitute a Class A war criminal.
For example, the infamous Japanese Prime Minister Tojo Hideki was a Class A war criminal.
But miraculously, Shotaro Matsutaro, who was designated as a Class A war criminal, was not only not tried, but also had a second career after his release from prison - he became the "father of Japanese television", and Japan's first commercial television station, Nippon Television, was founded by him.




It is unbelievable that a war criminal who committed serious crimes was not only not tried, but also became active in the Japanese political and business world after his release from prison.
Moreover, a large number of journalists and entertainers who later served Nippon Television and the Yomiuri Shimbun were former war criminals and escaped trial.
The answer to this question came in 2006 with the unraveling of a batch of secret documents.
Shotaro Matsutaro was in the service of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency of the United States).




In other words, any program broadcast on Japanese TV under him, or any message published in Yomiuri Shimbun, of which he was the president, or even every baseball game played, might have the shadow of the U.S. government behind it.
In that particular era, the very existence of Japanese baseball was a tool used by the American government to eliminate the hostility of the Japanese people.
The Americans were always screaming, "keep sports out of politics," but there was never a moment when the sports under them left politics.
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It's not just sports.
In 1950, two months after the Korean War, Truman claimed that the U.S. Congress would take on millions of dollars in "truth in motion" as a response to global communist propaganda and to create the impression of "full and fair American life and American government. in short, American life and American government.


In short, that American life and American government were the best, and that the world would aspire to it.
So, in 1951, the U.S. Congress tripled its budget in this area from $32.7 million to $121.2 million.
That's $120 million 68 years ago. All this money, where is it spent?
Japan, naturally, is second to none.
This is because, originally, after World War II, Japan was the defeated country and the United States was the victorious country, and Japan was also dropped two atomic bombs by the United States, so the Japanese people are very hateful to the United States.
But when we look at it again today, Japan is not only America's staunchest ally, but the entire culture has an extremely high status for whites, sometimes incredibly so.
Today, the Japanese have fully embraced the value that
American culture and even Western culture are more advanced and fashionable, and the people are kinder, freer, more forthright, more civilized, and better looking.
How did this upheaval come about?
It came with money.




As we mentioned earlier, after World War II, MacArthur introduced the "Three S's Program" in Japanese society -
Screen (screen = watch movies), Sex (sex industry) and Sports (sports).
Sports, represented by baseball, was only one of them. The entertainment industry, the sex industry, have been greatly affected.
First, in the press industry, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo began to operate, and they actively fought to reach out and bring in leaders in the press and radio stations to promote their own ideas through their caliber, and in doing so, to influence the minds of the Japanese.
And once they controlled the press propaganda, they were in control of what the Japanese could and could not watch, and everything was under control.
In the first S, the entertainment industry represented by Screen.
My friend Captain Crow once wrote an "Do you know how hard the CIA works to get you to like fresh meat? The article, detailing the CIA spent a lot of money to support a Japanese pedophile named Kita River, making him step by step the godfather of Japanese fashion, but also step by step the Japanese macho aesthetic into today's fresh meat aesthetic journey.




And the second S, Sex, the sex industry.
After the Allied forces entered Japan, at the behest of MacArthur, in 1945, the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a circular asking police departments around the country to establish comfort stations that provide sexual services for the occupying forces.
Under pressure, the Japanese government had to recruit a large number of good women into the comfort stations under the name of "labor recruitment".
These women, numbering as many as 70,000, were subjected to physical and psychological abuse by the Allies. This also caused great discontent in Japanese society.




Photo: Japanese prostitutes entertaining American soldiers after World War II
After the implementation of the 3S program, the comfort stations were desperately needed to be cleansed in order to preserve the image of the United States.
On March 10, 1946, the Allied Command in Japan requested the Japanese authorities to close the comfort stations immediately and convert them into private brothels.
The 70,000 comfort women who were forced into the comfort stations were then turned into street prostitutes.




Photo: "Pan Pan" girls on the streets of Tokyo after 1945
But it did not matter to the U.S., because as long as it was not an official brothel, it could claim that "it was their choice".
At that time, Japan was in a state of recession, and there was no money for food and no work to do.
A large number of these prostitutes became the source of income for the whole family. When some Japanese families saw this, they also started to set up their own businesses and engage in the flesh trade.
In time, the sex culture spread throughout Japan.
To a certain extent, the value of "sex for pleasure", which is often found in Japanese sex culture today, can also be traced back to that period.
Outside of Japan, the U.S. has never been shy about spending money in the 3S field.
Screen (screen) in the United States, led by Hollywood and Oscar, has extended to every corner of the world with the American values, and has spread all over the world.




In fact, as early as the 1940s, the film export agency in Hollywood once called itself a "mini State Department", that is, the U.S. Foreign Service.
The Washington Post once published an article entitled "American Pop Culture Permeates the World", which said.
"America's biggest export is no longer crops in the ground or products in factories, but mass-produced pop culture products, including movies, TV shows, music, books and computer software."In this sense, Hollywood has "conquered the world. Our planet is becoming a "Planet Hollywood.




American Sex, and its attendant Western sexuality and aesthetic, is becoming more and more mainstream in the world.
Victoria's Secret, an American lingerie chain, has created the "V.I.P. Angels", models with a completely American aesthetic, which have become models for women around the world, and are even called "the most beautiful flesh on earth. It is even called "the most beautiful body on earth".
White skin, large breasts, long legs, these originally belong to the Western white female body characteristics, is increasingly desired by women around the world.
And now, Sports in the United States, after successfully becoming one of the hottest sports leagues in China, has also turned into a sting in the eyes
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