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Manga as a Messenger: Moderna targets Japanese kids with mRNA comic   As I’ve   extensively documented , Japanese kids have had a pretty depressing time since 2020. But at least they have one thing to look forward to: education publisher Gakken has collaborated with Moderna to produce a new manga aimed at elementary school students called “Secrets of mRNA”. According to   the press release   by Gakken and Moderna, a copy will be sent to all 20,000 elementary schools and 3200 public libraries in Japan. People who are proficient in Japanese and have nothing better to do can also read it for free on   Gakken’s website . Spoiler alert: the manga unfortunately doesn’t reveal the secrets to how mRNA injections cause   heart problems ,   menstrual irregularities , and   autoimmune conditions . The story, such as it is, starts with Haruto (the boy on the cover) going to bed with a fever. While asleep, he dreams about his immune system, portrayed as a security force, responding to an unrecognis

  Nuclear Smoke and Mirrors HANS VOGEL Just a few days ago, marking the 78 th  anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ordered his Japanese Under-Secretary General Izumi Nakamitsu to read a  statement  in his name. Curiously, no mention is made of of the perpetrator, the US. Nor was the US mentioned in  Japan  during the commemoration of the Hiroshima bombing. Nevertheless the whole world knows that on 6 August 1945, the crew of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay” dropped “Little Boy,” the nuclear device that devastated Hiroshima, killing at least 135.000 of its inhabitants. Little Boy fell from his mother’s womb and helped the US win the War in the Pacific (no pun intended). The name of the airplane, Enola Gay, after its commander’s mother, seems chosen with remarkable foresight, since today eight decades after the Second World War, the US is the self-proclaimed champion of gay rights, as well as of those of all other sexual deviancies. A f