The 2020 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.

On July 23rd 2021 (23/7/21) the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan formally opened. Having been delayed for a year by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As is tradition it began with an Opening Ceremony.

Officially the Tokyo Olympics picked up the baton from the 2016 Summer Olympics. Held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. A country with the largest ethnically Japanese population outside of Japan.

As is also traditional Japan actually produced a small section of the 2016 Closing Ceremony. As a way to welcome people to the next host and give them a preview of what to expect.

However, chronologically the previous Olympics were the 2018 Winter Olympics. Held in PyeongChang in the Republic of Korea (RoK/South). Japan's sometimes strong ally, other times fierce rival.

The 2018 games marked the start of a long stay for the Olympics in Asia. Including not only those games but also Tokyo 2020 and the 2022 Winter Olympics being held in Beijing, China. 

Really spending nearly a decade in the region before the 2024 Summer Olympics being held in Paris, France.

So the South Koreans used their ceremonies to introduce people to concepts which are common throughout Asia. Such as traditional Asian Animist religions. Such as Buddhism and Taoism.

The South Koreans were particularly focused on Taoism. It is the Taoist; "Ying Yang" which is at the centre of their flag. Even if everyone confuses it with the; "Rising Sun" which is at the centre of Japan's flag.

Common to most Asian Animist religions is the concept of the; "Wu Xing." These are the five fundamental elements/forces which make up everything in the Universe. If they are not kept in perfect balance then things can start going horribly wrong.

The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Tel Aviv, Israel. This massively expanded its viewership. 

To include everybody in the International Community who has ever been forced to have an opinion on the Israel/Palestine Conflict. So everybody.

The Israeli hosts used the event to introduce people to the; "Tree of Life" concept within Judaism.

Essentially this sees God being made up of two halves. The unseeable, unknowable Godhead. Along with God's body. The entire perceptible Universe.

This means that God is the Universe. So everything within the Universe is also God. Unlike Christians and Muslims, Jews have no concept of Heaven or Hell or a Satan-like character.

Made up of 10 nodes and 22 connecting lines the Tree of Life is sort of like God's nervous system. Which can be used to send messages from the Godhead to the other parts of the body. Such as humans living in the Universe.

This past week - July 19th (19/7/21) to July 23rd (23/7/21) - has seen Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice. This saw the Godhead send Abraham a message in the form of a goat. That he had proved his devotion so didn't have to sacrifice his son Isaac.

Alongside Muslims Eid al-Adha or the; "Binding of Isaac" is common to both Jews and Christians. Although they do not celebrate it as a major holiday.

Perhaps borrowing from Judaism there is the Ancient Greek philosophy of; "Stoicism." This includes its own explanation for the physical world. Known as; "Stoic Physics."

As with Judaism Stoic Physics teaches that there is a single God. Every element in the Universe is made up of that God. That rational Godhead (Logos) can manipulate everything within the Universe. Using it's "Pnuema" (Breath). 

For hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Conventional science has taken great pleasure in mocking these traditional religious beliefs. Along with the people who follow them.

However in the last hundred years or so conventional science has started to think in the same way. With the development of; "Quantum Field Theory." Starting with Paul Dirac in the late 1920's.

Quantum Field Theory teaches that the Universe is made up of absolutely tiny, sub-atomic particles. These are all interconnected in a sort of invisible Field, Web or Net. 

String Theorists consider these sub-atomic, quantum particles to be made up of strings of energy. Which all resonate at certain frequencies.

Disturbing particles in one part of this field can knock things out of balance. Causing things to go horribly wrong in another part of the field.

If rumours regarding the ongoing Muon g-2 experiments are to be believed. Conventional Physics might be on the verge of acknowledging that there is a fifth force. Rather than just the four they've been insisting exist.

As I'm sure you've heard by now. In late 2019, around the time of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, COVID-19 suddenly emerged. Plunging the World into chaos. Including the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Whatever the truth. It certainly looks as though.

All the stresses of late 2019 went up. Into the Universe, Quantum Field, Tree of Life, Wu Xing, whatever you want to call it. Then came back down to us. In the form of COVID-19.

One of the main stresses of late 2019 was the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 25th Conference of Parties (COP25).

This would be the final COP Summit before the expiry of the Kyoto (Japan) Protocol to combat Climate Change. Being replaced by the much weaker, less effective Paris (France) Agreement. 

Something the physical world seemed particularly unhappy about.

It is against this backdrop that the Opening Ceremony for the 2020 Summer Olympics finally began.

Opening Animation: It is a longstanding tradition, born out of a rule, that Olympic ceremonies begin with a countdown from 10 to 1.

This is because the Olympic ceremonies are broadcast live across many different broadcasters in many different nations. In a first there are actually two UK Olympic broadcasters this year. The BBC and the Discovery Channel Online Streaming platform.

The countdown allows all those different broadcasters to synchronise their coverage. Making sure they switch from their own feed, be it from a studio or commercial break, to the Olympic feed at the right time.

Obviously broadcast technology has moved on massively since that rule was introduced. The switching between feeds is now completely automated. If you broadcast a set shade of black for a set length of time the computer will take that as a command to switch the feed.

This is certainly something British people may have noticed. While watching imported US TV shows. There is often a momentary flash of black. That's where a commercial break would have occurred in the original US broadcast.

With technology having made the countdown redundant. In recent years there has been lots of debate as to whether Olympic ceremonies still need to include it. Or whether it should be kept as a sort of nod to history.

As, possibly, the most technologically advanced nation on Earth. Japan appeared to take the sensational decision not to include a countdown. Instead their coverage began with an animation.

The animation starts with what are supposed to represent hand drawings of three dimensional shapes. Cubes, Pyramids, Spheres etc. They are very much intended in the style of a draughtsman's or engineer's Blueprints of Schematics.

Highlighting technological advancement the drawings then develop into Computer Aided Design (CAD) Blueprints. Very much in the style of the Ichimatsu Moyo (Harmonised Chequered)  Tokyo 2020 emblem. With its two-tone - royal blue/purple, white - colour scheme.

The shapes are intended to resemble the sort of toy building blocks you would give a young child to play with. As a way to teach them about shapes and help them develop spatial awareness.

Possibly at a Kindergarten. The educational level that Miley Cyrus and her US captors seem painfully stuck at.

One of the shapes created is that of a ring or; "Doughnut." Officially this is a reference to the shape of the main Olympic stadium where the ceremony is taking place. 

Unofficially it's a reference to Starobinsky & Zeldovich's, now largely discredited, "Three-torus" or; "Doughnut Shaped" model of the universe.

Continuing that cosmic theme the animation then appears to take us to outer space. Showing space rocks and cosmic dust. The building blocks of the universe.

Amongst this cosmic debris there emerges a seed, possibly resembling an acorn.

This was intended to explore The Blueprints and Building Blocks of Life. From the quantum, sub-atomic level. Up to the level that humans can perceive. Such as hands, hair, genitals, buildings and trees.

COVID-19 has rather forced us all to become much more knowledgeable on this relationship between the Blueprints and Building Blocks of life. In one extremely narrow area in particular.

Within the field of; "Physics For Really Stupid People" commonly known as; "Biology." DNA is considered the Blueprints for life. While Proteins are considered the Building Blocks.

Coronavirus cells are too tiny to have DNA. Instead they have RNA. At this level though those terms can be used almost interchangeably. 

The only real difference being that DNA has a double chain (Helix) of Amino Acids. While RNA has only a single chain (Helix).

Those Amino Acids interact with Proteins, often stolen from another cell. Then force them into the shape of a new Coronavirus cell.

What a lot of COVID-19 vaccines - Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/Biontech - have done. Is focus on an extremely narrow part of that Helix of Amino Acids. 

The part that instruct Proteins to form the shape of the; "Protein Spike." Which Coronavirus cells use to force their way into other cells. To steal their Proteins.

The problem is that the Proteins don't always follow the Blueprint correctly. So variants arise and are then copied. With more mistakes and variations occurring. 

It is a myth that Genes/DNA are fixed and unchangeable. They are not.

Due to the narrow focus of the vaccines this variation process makes it easy for the virus to defeat them. 

I'm able to live in an almost COVID-19 free world. If there's a news story about COVID-19 I just ignore it.

However I gather the Beta (South African) variant causes particular problems for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. 

While Israeli researchers are talking about the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine being only about 30% effective against Delta (Indian) variant. Significantly below the 50% it needs to be considered a vaccine.

At around 19:10 on 24/7/21 (UK date) I'll be picking this up later.  

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This issue of the Blueprints and Building Blocks of life. Was a major theme at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Held in Sochi, Russia.

Russia has a massive problem with Homophobia. Particularly in its Muslim regions.

In 2019 it was reported that gay people were being kidnapped and murdered by the police. In the Muslim Chechnya region of Russia.

In response the Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said that there was no need for the police to arrest gay people. Any gay person would be murdered by their own families.

Appalling as that defence was. Having worked with Chechen forces in Syria I had absolutely no problem believing it.

So the International Community conspired to award the 2014 Winter Olympics to Russia. Specifically to tackle Homophobia within the country. Sochi being Russia's gay capital. For what being Russia's gay capital is worth.

The Russian hosts focused heavily on the Endocrinologial cause for homosexuality. 

As opposed to the suggested Genetic cause for homosexuality. Or the suggested Mental/Moral illness cause for homosexuality.

Such was Russia's commitment to this point. That they turned the entire athlete's village into a metaphor it.

Humans are obviously a lot more complicated than Coronavirus cells.

However if DNA is the Blueprints for life. While Proteins are the Building Blocks. 

Then the Endocrine system is the site foreman or project manager. Tasked with making sure the the Building Blocks are assembled according to the Blueprints.

As the Sochi athlete's village demonstrated. When the foreman/endocrine system is having a bad day. Things can get really weird.

Suddenly you have things like electrical fuseboxes appearing in shower cubicles. Radiators randomly attached to ceilings.

Russia and the International Community's efforts to improve gay rights in Russia were totally ruined. By the US, the western gay community and the American gay community in particular.

At the time, under former President Obama and former Vice President Biden. The US was supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated groups in Syria. 

Goups so violently homophobic. They make Kadyrov and the Chechen Military Police seem like flag-carriers for gay rights.

Russia however was opposing ISIL and associated groups in Syria. Putting it in conflict with the America of Obama and Biden.

Not even, the apparently shameless, Obama and Biden could openly admit that they were supporting ISIL. So they needed to invent other reasons to attack Russia for its opposition to ISIL.

A large part of this was partnering with Nazis and neo-Nazis to overthrow the government of Ukraine. Just before the 2014 Winter Olympics. Held in Sochi, Ukraine's Black Sea neighbour.

This plunged Russia's direct neighbour into a constant state of civil war. Which continues to this day. That civil war triggered a mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine into Russia. Some 1.5 million people and counting.

That is a far greater proportion of the population being forced to become refugees than from war torn nations like Syria and Libya. The refugee flood from which has seen the European Union (EU) nations buckle under the weight and declare a crisis.

The US also punished Russia for its opposition to ISIL and associated groups in the world of sport. Particularly at the Olympics. Accusing them of doping and drugs cheating. Leading to a ban which still sees Russia absent from these Olympics.

Although not strictly speaking at the Olympics. America's snide behaviour was really highlighted by the targeting of Maria Sharapova in 2016.

I hate to spoil the magic. However all the athletes you will see at the Olympics will be using every drug they can to gain an advantage. Expect for those ones which are explictly proscribed on a banned list.

Maria Sharapova was using a drug called Meldonium which was not on the banned list. Then 21 days before the 2016 Australian Open it was suddenly added to the banned list. So Sharapova stopped using it.

However Meldonium takes 28 days to completely leave the body. So it was impossible for Sharapova to avoid being caught in a trap that had been designed exclusively for her. Seeing her banned for two years.

As part of this dispute the records of Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TEU's) granted to Team USA athletes were made public.

They showed that apparently Team USA athletes are allowed to take just any Performance Enhancing Drug (PED) they like. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will just let them do it.

While everyone else has to stick to the rules. Then act surprised by Team USA spectacular medal winning prowess.

We're all desperate to see how the supposed; "Greatest Of All Time" Simone Biles will do. If she ever stops taking all those Amphetamines.

The US also attempted to lead the global gay community in a boycott of the Sochi games. Officially in protest against homophobia in Russia.

This actually was gay rights being used as a western plot against Russia. 

It utterly destroyed efforts to improve gay rights in Russia. Efforts people had spent much of the previous decade working on.

The damage from this is still being done today. In Russia, it's allies and basically everywhere that isn't a White, western liberal country.

As with the gay community's recent decision. To force the EU into an extremely bloody fight with itself. Over pandemic recovery funds.

Or the gay community's recent decison. To force the EU into another extremely bloody fight with itself. Over Belarus. During the intense year of Brexit negotiations.

The US-led gay community's behaviour over the Sochi games. Really only strengthened the argument for the supposed Mental/Moral illness cause for homosexuality.

Japan seems to be showing support for Russia. Through its own athlete's village. Which seems plauged by Sochi Problems of its own.

Things like the cardboard beds. Or vital things such as TV's, fridges and toilets being excluded through some mysterious clerical errors.

In July 2019 US President Trump set foot in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK/North). Being the first US President to do so.

At this point one of the lunatic leaders of the anti-Trump brigade, Rachel Maddow. Noticed that the DPRK shares a land border with Russia. 

She then suggested that the visit was all part of the vast Trump/Russia conspiracy. That people like Rachel Maddow have just invented for themselves.

Leading some people to wonder what would happen to Rachel Maddow's head. 

If she ever realised that the group of islands which make up Japan. Also manage to share a land border with Russia. The Kuril Islands.

Not that the Japanese have ever been particularly pleased. With how they came to share a land border with Russia. 

Something to do with America dropping Atomic bombs on them. 

At around 21:20 on 24/7/21 (UK date) there's still so much more to come. 

Edited at around 16:30 on 25/7/21 (UK date) to tidy up and copy & paste;

As the animation ends we then return to the stadium. Where a single androgynous figure stands. Alone in the spotlight.

Recently the chattering and ruling classes in White, western nations have become obsessed with the issue of Transgenderism. 

An obsession which has really taken them beyond issues relating to actual Transgenderism. Into nonsense about gender fluidity and self-selecting gender pronouns.

Really this is because in those countries the legal and political battle for equal rights for gay people has been won. 

So they've had to find increasingly elaborate new ways to draw attention to themselves. A way to signal just how virtuous they are.

The Olympics has actually been a major driving force in the global struggle for recognition of Transgenderism and rights for Transgender people.

In August 2009 South African runner Caster Semenya won Gold in the women's 800m at the Athletics World Championships. This led to accusations that Semenya was actually a man. So was cheating by competing in the women's event.

To answer this accusation the Olympic delegations from all corners of the World gathered their best scientists together. To poke, prod and study Caster Semenya. In granular, quantum detail.

Their conclusion was that Caster Semenya is not fully a woman. Nor is Caster Semenya fully a man. Caster Semenya Transcends both genders.

As a result even the most socially conservative nations could no longer deny that Transgenderism is an actual, real thing.

In the much the same way that Cerebral Palsy is an actual, real thing. Or Epilepsy is an actual, real thing. Rather than something they're just doing for attention. Or as the result of demonic possession.

It must be said though. That many of the nations you would think of as being socially conservative. Such as Thailand, India, Pakistan and even Afghanistan. Have never really had much of a problem with Transgender people.

It really only seems to be an issue for White, western virtue signallers.

In his personal life Caster Semenya chooses to be a man. Marrying his wife, Violet Raseboya, in 2015. 

However in her professional life Caster Semenya chooses to be a woman. Demanding to be allowed to compete in women's events.

Neither of those choices are a lie. Transcending both genders Caster Semenya is, simultaneously, male, female and neither. 

However the contrast does make it look like Caster Semenya is cheating. Trying to exploit the system to gain an unfair advantage over other competitors.  

This has led to a long-running argument within the Olympic movement. Over how to classify Transgender athletes in competition.

As far as I'm concerned this isn't really much of an argument.

Once this tedious warm up act has finished. We'll take a short intermission. Then move on to the main event. 

The Para-Olympics. A competition built entirely around people with unusual physical characteristics.

At the Para-Olympics there is really only one doping offence you can commit. Finding a drug that improves your performance. Then not sharing it with everyone else.

The type of cheating everyone is concerned about at the Para-Olympics is what Caster Semenya is doing. Having your unusual physical characteristics mis-classified, allowing you to compete against less able athletes. 

Trying to be the big fish in the small pond, as it were. 

The virtue signallers will argue that having Transgender categories included at the Para-Olympics would somehow be looking down on Transgender athletes. That though betrays a very outdated attitude to disability and disability sport in particular.

Certainly since 2012 there has been a concerted effort to achieve parity between the Olympics and the Para-Olympics. Putting them on an equal footing, for want of a better term.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics exactly the same topics were used in the ceremonies at both the Olympics and Para-Olympics. Almost elevating the Para-Olympics above the Olympics. Giving you time to study up on big topics like Wave/Particle Duality.

Recent World Championship events have seen Olympic and Para-Olympic competitions take place as part of the same event. Rather than separate, parallel events.

The idea being to show that these unusual physical characteristics are not good or bad. Better or worse. Just different.

Unfortunately some of the slower nations will be trying to make a thing about Transgender issues at these games too.

The Canadian Women's Football Team includes an openly Transgender player, Rebecca Quinn. Who insists on using some of those ridiculous self-selecting pronouns.

In his personal life Quinn likes to be considered a man. However in her professional life Quinn doesn't want to bash it out in the six yard box with the likes of Harry Maguire or Giorgio Chiellini.

The US Women's Football Team will be using a special App, "Fitrwoman", to monitor their menstrual cycles during the games. In an effort to gather data on the question of why female athletes are more prone to Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tears.

Is it due to hormonal differences? The ACL being reactive to Oestrogen. As a 2013 Swiss study of Alpine Skiers suggested.

Or is it due to physiological differences? Such as woman having smaller, flatter feet. Generally poorer balance, on account of their breasts. Along with factors such as women's quad muscles generally being stronger relative to their hamstrings.

New Zealand have sent the weightlifter Laurel Hubbard who claims to be Transgender. But I think we all acknowledge is just a middle-aged man who finally realised he was terrible at weightlifting.

Like Caster Semenya Laurel Hubbard takes drugs to suppress his male hormones such as Testosterone. To keep them at the upper level of what would be typical for a woman. 

However waiting until to middle-age to do this has left him with all the physiological advantages of being a man. Such as greater muscle and bone density. Allowing him to lift much heavier weights.

This has actually been a long-running issue within Gymnastic events. It will certainly become one within Skateboarding, now it has been included as an Olympic event. 

Human bones don't reach their full density, and therefore weight, until a person is in their mid twenties. 

This is why Gymnasts must be at least 16 years old to compete at the Olympics. Younger than that and their lighter, underdeveloped bones give them an unfair advantage.

Britain's 12 year old Skateboarder, Sky Brown, is undoubtedly going to be controversial. Not that that controversy will ever penetrate the skulls of idiots with self-selected gender pronouns.

The spotlight in which this androgynous figure stood alone was white an oval shaped. 

Intended to give the impression of a human egg or; "Ovum." In shadow a shape emerged from it intended to resemble a human Sperm.

Together the Ovum and Sperm contain the; "Chromosomes." The 23 packets of DNA which are the Blueprints for human life. It is the 23rd of these packets of DNA that determine sex or gender.

The female Ovum contains only "X" variants of the 23rd Chromosome. While the male Sperm contains either "X" or "Y" variants of the 23rd Chromosome. 

It is which type of Sperm that combines with the Ovum that determines the sex or gender of the offspring. Female (XX) or Male (XY).

The shadowy sperm then took on the shape of a seedling. A plant beginning to emerge from its seed. Finally this developed into a "Y" shaped seedling.

Intended to give the impression that the androgynous figure was made up XY Chromosomes. So male.

The notion of a seedling growing into a plant was reinforced. With lots of green imagery of grass and plants being projected onto the empty stadium.

This could certainly be taken as a reference to the so-called; "Green Shoots of Recovery." Society and, particularly, the economy recovering for the pandemic and the Lockdowns.

Primarily though it was intended as a reference to the commonality. Shared between Asian Animist religions, with the Wu Xing, and Judaism with the Tree of Life.

Essentially God is the Universe and the Universe is God. So everything in the Universe is also God. 

Including all the Homosexuals. Including all the Transgender people. Including all the other people with unusual physical attributes, such as Cerebral Palsy.

The metaphor of a flower, the Lotus flower, sprouting forth to the light is particularly important in the Asian Animist religion of Buddhism. As will become important in a later sequence.

However I think the Tree of Life metaphor from Judaism is probably the easiest to portray and explain in the medium of Olympic Opening Ceremony.

For all of Israel's many, many appalling crimes against the Palestinians. 

It must be said that Jews do tend to be a lot more laid back about things like Homosexuality and Transgenderism than Christians and Muslims.

They won the Eurovision Song Contest with the Trans woman Dana International. Back in 1998.

And with that the opening animation ended. As must this part.

17:30 on 25/7/21 (UK date).