Published: February 10th, 2012 at 9:08 am ET
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Title: [Part 1-1] Nuke Plants and Radiation Seen through the Eyes of Children (Jan. 2012) – YouTube
Source: OurPlanet-TV
Translated by: tokyobrowntabby
Date: Jan. 2, 2012
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This clip is the first half of the Part 1 of the special video program entitled “What Is Our Future Going To Be?: Nuke Plants and Radiation Seen through the Eyes of Children,” uploaded by OurPlanet-TV, a web-based media, on January 2, 2012.
Transcript
A happy new year. This is OurPlanet-TV. I’m Hajime Shiraishi. [...]
Today we bring you a new year’s special edition, a 2-hour program entitled “What Is Our Future Going To Be?: Nuke Plants and Radiation Seen through the Eyes of Children.”
At 5:15 in — Kokoro Fujinami, 9th grade
Host: As I explained earlier, you wrote a book and you also wrote about your feelings in your blog in the early period and had huge repercussions.
Fujinami: Another thing is, I can watch communication-satellite TV programs at home, and in the CS news, they said “The nuclear plant is in danger. Please evacuate immediately.”
On the other hand, when I looked at press conferences in the ground wave news, they said, “There’s no immediate effect. It’s safe.”
Totally opposite.
The difference between the two felt so strange to me and it made me want to write about it in my blogpost.
At 6:50 in — Writer Karen Amamiya
Host: What was your reaction after the accident?
Amamiya: I was simply dumbfounded.
A nuclear disaster occurred, but then they started doing things like dumping water from a helicopter.
Or spraying water by a water cannon.
It all started to look like some kind of a hidden talent show, didn’t it?
And I realized they had never thought about it.
The national nuclear policy had never assumed an accident would occur.
That realization was all the more shocking to me.
I remember them pouring bath salt in the water [as a tracer].
And putting diapers into the contaminated water. Or using soluble glass. It was such a mess. Yes, it was awful.
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Published: February 10th, 2012 at 9:08 am ET
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Why haven’t we all worked harder to prevent this? What a shame.
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B&B, good-and hard-question.
So many possible reasons, so individual, but…
The full story of nuclear stupidity has been kept from us as much as possible.
The activists voices and the truth have been drowned out as much as possible.
The full reality conflicts so much with what we are trained to believe.
Ignorance. Apathy. Blind trust. Retreat from cognitive dissonance.
The suppression of truth – about so much – is becoming clearer.
The realities of manipulation and control are becoming clearer.
There’s a lot of catching up to do, on so many issues, for so many people.
They say you eat an elephant one bite at a time. This is a dragon and they’re inedible.
We must focus on the dragon-masters even as we starve the beast, for they command other demons as well.
Will the older children, evacuated, many forced to return, become anti-nuclear activists in Japan?
Will it take Fukushima being duplicated elsewhere soon to bring a general wake-up?
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Hey or-well, this little video really gets to me – I was 12 when Chernobyl exploded and my little life changed (no more eating from the garden or being outside in the rain), and now I’m an adult and see the next generation experiencing the same and much worse.
I’m very impressed though with thar girl taking action, having a blog, writing a book – wow. Amazing! She’s already an anti-nuker today….
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Hi B&B, I could not agree more. My life is upside down as I scamble to get my kids out. Each day it just gets worse.
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May you suceed quickly & soon to get your kids, yourself, and other loved ones out of danger.
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>Will it take Fukushima being duplicated elsewhere soon to bring a general wake-up?
Yes…many Pharoahs’s sons must die in numerous countries from radioactive nuclear accidents before the dictators will decide it’s too risky despite the money.
Japan’s complete and utter societal destruction (invisible as the cause may be) is the first major martyr of Future Shock toxins in the Information Technology Era (no disrespect to Europe for their terrible effects from the Chernobyl genocide).
Japan’s national tragedies will make Chernobyl look like the common cold when all the grim tallies are counted in the near future, but it will take a near ELE in a larger country like America, China or India to finally shut them all down. Could you imagine the reactions of Americans if Indian Point NPP killed 10 million New Yorkers?
Would any USA form of bureacracy survive from such an event? It might lead to martial law everywhere for years and in the transition back to any state of Hardinesque “normalcy” I doubt nuclear plants would be a favored energy source for boiling water. Anyone agree besides my friends in Germany? *;-)
SP
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Sickputer, I think B&Bs comment points to something important.
For B&B it was personalised.
Not only from being close (closer than N. Amer.) but from behavioral change being imposed.
I know in N. Amer. nuclear accidents have been personal for people, but, so far, there hasn’t been one with Chernobyls’ high profile.
Please note, I am NOT saying people haven’t suffered from all the various radiation releases!
But due to the machinations of “Authority”, the impact that SHOULD HAVE BEEN resulting,
hasn’t been.
In N. Amer., we have been deflected, distracted, propagandised, misdirected, disenfranchised etc. and lied to.
The “authorities” have managed to minimise and FALSELY localise the consequences of previous events that SHOULD HAVE been wake-up calls, continent-wide!
So, I do think it MAY take a N. Amer. Fuku-type event to get the attention of the “comfortably numb”.
That is, if the Fuku situation continues on the track it is apparently on, with our Medias’ inattention and J-govs plans.
Then again, the Internet may change everything…
Re your question: IMO a USA FUKU would kill PUBLIC acceptance of NPPs, but not “official” acceptance.
Martial law as a result? Not by itself, but that could be moot if hyperinflation happens…
“Officially”, not so.
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I think when they realize that the global population has been reduced by half in say 20yrs, maybe sooner and mutations are rampant within every culture and species they will have no other choice but to except the inevitable. That is that the planet is dead, it died when the plutonium Jeanie was loosed. That monster doesn’t care about ones class, strength or wealth. It just waits for an entry into biological lifeforms where it can fire a million bullets a minute and it can perform this destructive feat for the next 200,000yrs.
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Just an 1/8 of teaspoon of plutonium evenly distributed around the world can kill every human on Earth. When #3 exploded it blew 15yrs worth (tonnes) of vaporized and spent uranium+plutonium (MOX Fuel) rods into the environment. It’s not “if” the world will be contaminated by the Fukushima disaster, but how long will it take!
“RADIATION IS FOREVER”
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Nuclear Baloney (NB) is not good for children or adults!
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“Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”
Theodore Roosevelt
These children are smart, they will understand. When the time comes…
Let us be kind, one to another, for we are each of us together in our pain!
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Children growing up in a culture that lies to them daily
A revolution is coming
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Especially when they see through it and understand as quickly as this wise child!
Hey Tepco: Are you smarter than a 5th or 9th grader? NO. Turn off your TVs and learn, or be sure to have reputable sources like “communication satellite” in order to balance the propaganda from the clown channels, as did Kokoro.
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Well of course, we here in the US have been under martial law since the passing of the Patriot Act and, unless there is a major mishap in your own back yard we will not know about it. I just read a report by, get this, The Department of Homeland Securitys’ Behavioral Science Division and it was unbelievable. I have seen quite a bit of Japan bashing in these pages and people wondering when the MSM or the government or some infrastructure is going to start dealing with this situation. Well forget it. If you want to bash someone or some group we first should look in a mirror so we can put a face on the true culprit. It is us. The situation we find ourselves in is a direct result of decisions we all collectively made in the past 60 years. To my mind it is long past the time to decide who is to blame. There is no saving tech. that will fix this. If perchance we survive this ordeal I can only hope we as a species will choose more wisely. Maybe we will finally understand that we share this planet with all life and that our actions have a lasting effect. Maybe not……….
Tom
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Equal and generous bashing for all!
However, there are many civil institutions in Japan that are very bashworthy.
It IS unfortunate WE (every society) weren’t more politically active, civilly assertive, even revolutionary if need be to stop nukes.
To that we could add much besides nukes.
We could also extend the timeframe back, oh, centuries, even millenia, and wish we had been smart enough to never allow two-legged jackals to stand up and howl and drive masses to war.
Too bad we never called bullsit on the Pharaonic model.
But who can enforce taxes and provide them as subsidies? Who by law can regulate? Who can back the will of the power elite with trained soldiers?
The situation we find ourselves in has a much longer history than 60 years.
Granted, Media has let us down for the entire Atomic Age. We fell, as usual, for the seductions of comfort, the deflection of blame, the illusions of the “other” and infinite growth on a finite planet, we bought the lies Power always peddles and turned deaf, dumb and blind away from the answers to the question “Who benefits?”.
In the “First World” we accepted the notion there IS any world but one and that billions of humans should be used as fodder for the machinery of profit, power, and influence for a few.
There is blame enough to go around, but it cannot be apportioned equally among all.
I agree, there is no cornucopian pixiedust techno-fix and unicorns don’t piss diamonds for those who aren’t cronies and their horns are for dis-embowelling those who dissent.
But there aren’t that many unicorns and there ARE a lot of us. If you get my drift.
There’s a post somewhere here today that says a whisper can start a landslide that turns into a roar, or something like that.
It’s a place to start, if nothing else, to turn away from an Orwellian future, or worse.
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Well said. Hat off to you!
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@ blackbeer & @ or-well…
…lines from a book of poetry”
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Well or-well, your word smithy leaves me in the dust. I picked 60 years simply because that’s as far back as I can remember. I would of course agree with almost everything you mention except where you state there aren’t that many unicorns and there ARE a lot of us. You would think that to be true but that has not been my experience. I have always felt pretty lonely when confronting the system. Those nightsticks really hurt. But we will see. I hope your right about the whisper thing, although, again, that has not been my experience. It seems to me that the illusion of a blissful and beautiful world has been excepted over the reality of what we have created, much like the illusion of freedom in my own country has been excepted over the reality. I have no doubt that people like me and most of the people I have met on this forum will continue to fight till the death over these issues and we will see what the outcome will be. Japan was hit with a major whammy, maybe 30,000 people killed outright but it could have happened anywhere and the results would be the same. I just think it’s time we got to work, in a very serious way, to not only save ourselves but the planet that nurtures all life. Maybe this is where the whisper begins.
Take care;
Tom
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Hi blackbeer, hopefully our discussions here and elsewhere on the ‘net are the hiss of air leaking out of the present system, the pop of the illuson bubble, the smack of reality and a sign it is time for all to do what one can to save our planet.
I think we’re about out of options and time.
That influences what I think our remaining options are.
I equated 60 years to the Atomic Age, but of course it’s more than that.
Our bliss has been a promotion, a blight for others, and is turning out to be less satisfying than many expected.
I meant there are a lot of “us” in the sense of the “99%”, but the discontent grows, more are informed and growing aware.
I don’t think it’s enough, as we in the west are still too comfortable for the most part, but I don’t think that’s going to last.
I don’t think we’ve seen what martial law really means here yet either.
There may be a long way to go to improve, but it’s a longer way down. Saving ourselves, and a humane future, seems the shorter route, albeit not one without pain.
With Hope.
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It’s the whole evolution of life, of the universe from the big band, or whatever you want to call it. For many years, I have seen the splitting of the atom as the trigger for the next phase of evolution, the evolution of consciousness which implies ethics and morality, the realization that we are all part of this unfolding, ongoing process. We are all in this evolutionary process together; and, imo, it requires becoming free of blame both of oneself and of others. Awareness of where we have gone wrong is not blame; it is the path forward. And there are different perspectives.
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Yes, LIFE DOESN’T HAVE A REMOTE. GET UP AND CHANGE IT YOURSELF!
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Amen or-well, I believe we are an the same page……….
Tom
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It is a shame that such an intelligent, innocent generation must suffer because of the greed and selfish acts of their elders. It is said by the older generation that the youth are humanity’s greatest asset, but what do they see?
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If you look at history not much has changed. Most people have always been happy to live a comfortable life raising children and making an honest living and a small minority I believe to be psychopaths, are never content with that and are addicted to power whether that means commanding a large army or controlling financial institutes or owning a nuclear power plant. The difference is all industry up to now doesn’t pollute for generations to come or leave rubbish that needs looking after for generations to come. But just like the Romans the populace is given bread and circus’ call it McDonalds and TV/Internet facebook distractions. At least in Canada there is a three party system. But still as in the states, voter turnout is low and those who vote are not voting for who they like but voting against who they don’t like and in any case its all a charade because we are all living in a plutocracy. The politicians are lap dogs of big business. If not why is the economy the biggest issue for most people and not the environment?
As far as martial law goes, there are too many guns owned by average citizens in the states. Check your history why the right to bear arms is in your constitution. Law abiding citizens use guns for hunting, target practice or collecting and obtain the required permits and/or licences. Criminals simply buy guns on the black market and that won’t change irregardless of any gun control. I hope you peace loving hippies are listening. If they ever take your guns away you will find out very quickly what marshall law is all about. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Germany#The_1938_German_Weapons_Act
Jewish citizens were banned from gun ownership and we all know what happenned to those poor souls.
God Bless all
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Locked and loaded my friend!
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Dito StillJill although now I refer to myself as a counterculture grey beard…………
Tom
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The truth in Japan is as simple as this 9TH Grader can see with her eyes, but unfortunately ,all the 9th Grade+ is below 1st Grade IQ.
That is the results of modern slavery system in Japan.
It keeps all the Japanese under 7 years below mentality.
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Quite a rude comment, I think.
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