Published: January 28th, 2012 at 7:59 am ET
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Follow-up to:
- Fukushima mothers and advocates living in tents outside METI building in Tokyo face eviction by order of minister Yukio Edano -- What you can do to help (via Beyond Nuclear)
- *UPDATE* Japan Times: Fukushima Moms & Advocates Remain in Tents Outside METI Building in Tokyo, Defying Orders -- Gov't now hoping they will leave "voluntarily"
Fukushima Diary has an informative report on the ‘eviction’ of Fukushima advocates living in tents outside the METI building in Tokyo.
750 Japanese citizens gathered at to protect the tents and because it became too busy, they couldn’t remove the tents. Later, a Fukushima farmer gave a speech. The video and translated transcript is below (Reprinted in full — See article for complete wrap-up of the days events):
Title: JP Gov VS Japanese citizens
Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: Jan 27, 2012
Emphasis Added
I’m the owner of the farm in Namie machi, where still 300 cattle are.
I live in 14 km area from Fukushima plants. I heard the explosion twice.
I saw the splashing ash and smoke with my own eyes.
I couldn’t abandon my cattle in the first week.
On 3/17, I thought my cattle can no longer live long, made up mind going to Tokyo.
I came to Tepco’s head office with campaigner’s car on 3/18. I was the first one to do it in Fukushima.Everyone, my cattle have no value as product. It’s zero. It’s completely meaningless to exist now.
They have been exposed to radiation, can’t sell them out anymore.
I told Tepco, I will definitely claim for damage.
And, pushing all the risk to self defense force and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency to settle it down, how dare you escape.
I claimed them as crying.Stop Fukushima plants to die if necessary.
We need someone to die, someone must die to settle it down.When I left my farm, I left a message, Save our lives. This is our deadly struggle. Unite.
Earthquake, Tsunami, and the nuclear plants to attack us.
Get fully prepared to die if necessary and try to settle it down.
We must fight, how dare you escape.
I still think so.Now my cattle are deeply contaminated by cesium, and my body is contaminated as much as them.
In 6 microSv/h, I feed them everyday.They had a lot of babies.
Because of the lack of crops, and the cold weather, they are dying one after one.Spring will come, Summer will come, grass of ranch will grow again, I believe.
I want people to make the best of them for study of radiation exposure, decontamination, and to have the huge dead rice field come back alive by using my cattle somehow in Futabagun.
I’m now trying to make the government, and The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries develop the project.
I believe my cattle of hope will be useful for the recovery of Fukushima.
No more nuclear power to Fukushima.However, I know it’s too late.
It’s already bad as Chernobyl.
Our town has gotten Chernobyl in it.
Who’s to blame?
Who destroyed our life, and our future?Burning the rest of my life, I will definitely claim for damage from Tepco and Japanese government.
We won’t let them operate the nuclear plants, won’t let them re-start the nuclear plants.
We can live without nuclear plants. Everyone unite and take action.
Read the report here
Published: January 28th, 2012 at 7:59 am ET
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POOR MAN !!!
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If you want to know if Tokyo is save check to see if those rich and powerful people still in there.
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I left Tokyo (and Japan) I did not want to take the risk as the stakes are too high.
I used simple logic in making my decision:
Leaving Japan is not irreversible.
Staying in Japan and becoming contaminated is irreversible.
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Amen! If there’s no negative impacts you can always return.
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I hope you don’t mind my asking –
Where did you go?
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He is incensing on more then just money and shutdowns !
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This is the time where everyone needs to stand together. Governments are ruining people lives all over the world. They are putting people lives at risk. They are stealing everyones money, first step would be getting ron paul in the 2012 elections and voting him into office. He is the only man running who is not a globalist. They want to run the world but they can’t run their own countries. Everything our forefathers warned us about is happening and we all need to be ready! Something has to happen b4 its too late.
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@Ken31ONCA: agreed. Doctor Paul seems to be one of the few politicians who cares for his fellow human being. Doubtless, one of the reasons MSM is completely ignoring him…
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I heard that Ron Paul is actually FOR nuclear power. Do you have any links to stuff he puts out that he is against it?
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Google “Ron Paul + nuclear energy”…
I posted 3 pieces of Paul’s in a thread a couple of days ago. I’ll see if I can find it or retrace and repost the info.
Ron Paul was Pro-Nuke power (as opposed to nuke war) all his life up until a day or so before the early Iowa caucuses, when he said he’d changed his mind. So? Are these his real feelings? Or smart political campaigning? I don’t know
However, there are other issues which turn me against Paul besides the nuke power issue. There is more to him; he is a complex man. And his changed position on nuke power is contradictory.
Actually, you can find many articles on this by googling:
“ron paul + nuclear energy” ! Hope this helps.
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Nobody ever gets to know what a politician’s ‘real’ positions are until they’re in a position to do a lot of damage. But Ron Paul is most definitely FOR “Free Market Capitalism” and AGAINST any kind of reasonable regulation of industry.
Now, it’s not like we’ve got anything approaching a real regulatory agency in this country for nuclear power’s excesses, but I sure don’t get the feeling that would change for the better in a Ron Paul administration. He was once a doctor, and Lord knows they’re all over the map on nuclear – love all the Rads they can pass out indiscriminately to their patients (at large profit margin), and have never much been known to publicly oppose anything that sends lots of patients their way. But then there’s Caldicott and PSR, so a few exceptions to the rule.
He doesn’t practice medicine anymore, he wants to be the Most Powerful Politician On Earth. Buyer beware…
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Hey fellers,
Kind of sad to see you coming down on Ron Paul like this. Bring in to the present.
Tell you what, it is all going to come down to some simple reasoning. Do we want more war after 12 years of wall street profiteers and a bush/obama agenda, GE profiting etc from war making it 16 years of war, or not? The next war is not about attacking another middle eastern country for isreal who is owned by the rothschilds that created them, it will be about attacking Russia, and China.
Simple. Dang simple.
Would you really advocate for any pundit of the world war III agenda, compared to one that was strictly anti-war?
Tell ya something. After you have had to do the unthinkable and have seen to much death and bleeding parts in your face and make it back from all those years of that experience, the last dang thing you want to see is more war! And you especially DO NOT want to see it in your own back yard where you just planted your tomatoes and the children play, or see your own family done up like so many countless others in war torn countries. You might even do all you can to stop that or avoid it again entirely.
You can always tell the maturity of the people that comment here when it comes to simple reasoning from a place of experience and say, a place of no knowledge.
Personally, my well earned and fought for free knowledge tells me plainly, war, or no more war. Who profits in war anyways? You? Me?
Choose well and then prepare for the choices you make. Times of reckoning are coming soon and our only hope for free and liberty loving America is to restore what we had and only one man will do that. Ron Paul will stop the useless baseless endless wars for the banksters babalonian eugenicist population reduction agenda. Bet your life on that.
Any other choice will be a choice for more war and more nuklear explosions in the earths atmosphere that will make this radioactive fallout from fukushima pale in comparison to the real deal floating…
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(Grrrrr…)
Cont.
Any other choice will be a choice for more war and more nuklear explosions in the earths atmosphere that will make this radioactive fallout from fukushima pale in comparison to the real deal floating…DOWN ON US ALL.
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Dr. Paul got TREMENDOUS flak at his website and from posters at The Daily Paul. The feedback re: Fukushima and nuclear energy there was overwhelmingly negative.
I have no doubt his advisors informed him of this. Perhaps he has reconsidered. He is, after all, a medical doctor, and seems like an ethical man.
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I posted some very anti-nuclear reactor comments about Fukushima at his RonPaul.com fansite.
BTW, even if Ron Paul appears more anti-regulatory than his opponents, there is no way that the free market could dictate the billions of dollars needed for nuclear reactors and the billions needed to insure these monsters. Let Donald Trump invest all of his hard earned money into a nuclear power plant. And if something goes wrong with the plant, guess what? NO BAILOUT for Mr. Trump. He just lost all of his money. And if the Federal Reserve even tries to bail out Donald Trump or print more money, Ron Paul will stop them.
As an ethical man, Ron Paul has also bashed the FDA for allowing dangerous drugs onto the market. I remember an allergy drug, Seldane, that was approved by the FDA and caused several deaths before it was pulled. Look at Lipitor! Taking this FDA approved drug renders one a 50% higher rate of diabetes.
Ron Paul’s comments fit right in with the comments at this forum. Like Tepco and the Japanese government, Ron Paul states that government gets too cozy with corporations.
James Tekton, I agree with you 100%. I am totally fed up with these brainwashed, mind controlled, anti-freedom, anti-liberty puppet NWO population control bastard status quo politicians who don’t give a dam about the 99%. I will very proudly vote for Ron Paul.
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That’s what I heard too, AGreen. Paul is pro-nuclear.
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Actually, and more shockingly, it appears to me that the nuclear-industryal complex is running the governments of the world, dictating both domestic and foreign policy. Scary.
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“industrial”
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@ AN …You’ve got that right!
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100% Ron Paul 2012!!!!!!!
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Ron Paul on Nuclear Energy and Japan 03/15/11 [Video]
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?283690-Ron-Paul-on-Nuclear-Energy-and-Japan-03-15-11-Video
Ron Paul says nuclear power is the safest energy there is. He’s afraid that no new nuclear plants will be built. He thinks they should build more nuclear power plants. Thinks Fukushima won’t be that bad.
He thinks BP is a wonderful company and shouldn’t be criticized for the BP environmental catastrophe.
Therefore his highest priority is subsidies to oil and nuclear power.
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Awakening to Ron Paul’s Crony Capitalism
http://libertyrevival.wordpress.com/
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Anne,
He says at 30 seconds in, we still don’t know what the deal is here, so he was mostly coming from a place of no knowledge about how bad this was going to turn out to be. Not many did and as usual, the zio-media is doing its best to make him look bad somehow. Do you really believe everything you see on the drug TV? It’s all an illusion girl…take it easy…path of least resistance.
If he was plainly told the truth, he would react like anyone else here, only the thing is, he would really do it. He would DO the right thing.
Imagine if you could advise Ron Paul about this subject to bring him up to speed about what the entire group here knows and thinks is best, and then know that he would take your advice if it was sound and sane and of real substance rather than a hate filled attack in your energy around what he said last year from a place of no knowledge. How would you say it?
We all change our minds you know. What if he was in a place of power and unlike the other wall street puppets, he actually did something that only a Real President could do?
I can’t wait till we get to that part on the cnn and fox news debates when they ask, CAN WE ALL SEE ALL OF YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATES…and what are those requirements to run for President?
Lol…those debates…better than watching football! Make the popcorn and call the neighbors over for the debates and then wait for the reruns on u-tube and watch them again. Hooo ha…Monday night at the Debates!
America….Yeah!!
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@JamesTekton: Sorry for not having jumped into this thread sooner. I’ve been with the girlfriend over the last day-plus.
As to Ron Paul: I’ve told people that should he be elected, doubtless there would be policy-directions that a Ron Paul administration would take that I won’t agree with. (I’d heard awhile back he was pro-nuclear.) What’s become more important to me is his intent on representing the will of the people and adhering to rule-of-law (constitutional law).
To the chagrin of many well-meaning activists, we’ve discovered that the current resident in the White House cares nothing for the American people and only does the bidding of his masters. Prior to his residency, we saw the same acquiescence to special interest agendas. We’re looking at generations of corruption and guile.
I’m hoping a Ron Paul administration would reflect the will of the people first. If the American people can be apprised of the realities of nuclear power, a Ron Paul administration would do our bidding. Add a return to states rights and you’ve the making of an empowered people. Centralized policy making through the federal agencies like the NRC and DOE, has resulted in little protection of the public or environment. (Vermont?!)
Admittedly, this may be hopeful thinking, on my part. But I’ve also witnessed what preceding administrations have done, in their slavish servitude to special interests. For such reason, many on the left (as well as the right) are beginning to see Ron Paul as the last chance for this nation. I’m willing to support any rational attempt to free our nation from special interests and a century of devastating foreign policies. Those who don’t get this, will be left with more eternal promises of change…
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IMHO the difference between Ron Paul and many of his opponents is he really DOES LISTEN to his constituents.
Young people and many in the military love him, so that can’t be all bad, right?
BTW, he hasn’t advocated just dumping Social Security or other such nonsense. He’s not stupid. He favors privatizing it, which has been done in countries like Chile — quite successfully, I’d add. Chileans get much more bang for their buck when it comes to payouts from their system — because there is a much higher rate of return on their “investment” in the system.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5981
Dr. Paul has extensive knowledge of economics, so when he makes statements about things like social security, please temper your understanding with this …. He’s not out to wreck the well being of the poor or needy. He just thinks “outside the box” on most things.
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See my reply below at 1:18 am.
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Well said!
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NEW JAPAN S.KOREA INDIA – The “moneyed” people are leaving, probably sitting in a safe area until the citys are finished-in 2013!
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@jec: you should try to find some reports to support this trend. I believe, those with the means to do so, have taken to the lifeboats and left Japan and adjacent regions.
People must understand, those who derive financial gain from investments in nuclear power, are the first to bail when the consequences of this technology’s failure come to bear. We know (intuitively) that this is has been the case in Japan, but actual reports (demographics and such) would do much to solidify the thinking on equity, nuclear power and the safety of our families…
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And it is even much worse than we could even think:
http://www.potrblog.com/
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@jec & aftershock…
I agree. See if you can find any documents or articles on this. Although I don’t think they would want to leave a trail. It will probably take a good investigative reporter, like Greg Palast, to find this.
But give it a try jec!
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My heart goes out to this man. How sad.
He farms and feeds his countrymen, yet they have turned their backs on him. I look at the farmers and fishermen and know how hard they have worked – it’s not an easy life – and they have been abandoned. It’s too surreal to sit an ocean away and listen to his pleas for help, unable to do anything. I have yet to come across one person who is concerned about Fukushima to the point of introducing it into a conversation. At the same time I have become bored by most conversations, as everyone is talking about a future that will not exist because of the GOM and Fukushima. I want to scream in their faces, “Wake up!”, but then I will be labeled a buzzkill.
I hear the word Facebook probably 100 times a day. (I don’t have a Facebook account, btw.) I never hear the word Fukushima unless I happen to be listening to a YouTube video on the subject.
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I hear people talking the same, about a future that we know won’t exist because of the destruction of the planet which is our life base. It’s so strange to hear them talk about plans and the years ahead when it’s all falling apart, and they seem to have no idea at all. Like Fukushima never happened, in their world, so they’ve made no adjustment in their lifestyle at all. Imagine the shock when they realize the gravity of it all? If they ever do realize, before the bad medical news arrives. I wonder when these oblivious folks will put it together why everyone knows someone with cancer.
When I overhear someone talking about yet someone else who has cancer, when I’m out in a store or something, I don’t mention Fukushima. It would be rude in their eyes to try to blame it on some event so far away, when they are usually more concerned with getting their friend or family member through chemo and radiation and don’t much care how they got cancer in the first place.
So I become numb at the moment and go about my day, rather than have some stranger get mad at me for telling them things that will make them turn and make me the enemy.
To be received with blank stares is one of the more pleasant outcomes, I find, in talking to the uninformed.
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@GoFro… This is very well said. It is so sad to watch the surreal pantomime of people going about their usual lives, not knowing everything has changed, and being unable to tell them for all the reasons you name.
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@Kelly there are times when I hear the petty stuff or someone I know who spends their time fighting with cashiers about something that they should get at a sale price…Use that anger & that drive to at least fight for something that can Help people.
I can not go shopping with this friend anymore because it ends with her screaming at the poor cashier, & because I do not, I now get to listen to an hour long story about the latest fight. ugggg
My tongue is so sore from biting it that I wonder how I manage to speak. And at some point I hope to have the resolve & anger & determination to say that out loud.
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I know Kelly Ann,…..I know. Sorry you are inundated with ostrich people. We’re here,…stay close, K?
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This is a storm of human pain…Those who make decisions will not understand him, man who risks his health for his animals. They betayed children of their own nation!
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NO MORE NUKES! The evactuated need to pack up the government/rich and move them to Fuku. Things would change in short order.
Let us be kind, one to another, for we are each of us together in our pain!
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What does this farmer mean by ‘splashing ash’?
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I’m thinking it is ash on the ground that is then rained on.
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Splashing ash….It’s cesium…why do I have to keep saying it?..God help me…
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A very inspiring story. I wish him the best.
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I too have seen the glossy eyed stare,
but I must speak up now because I care.
If we do not, who will?
& how many more will the cancers kill?
I may only whisper a word,
yet little by little I know they heard.
I too want to scream at everyone to WAKE UP~!~ Instead I take the opportunity to speak a brief sentence on some new story about Fukushima & then quickly change the topic or let others do it. Those are the friends who will not debate or ask questions about important issues. But I am lucky too to have a few friends that are interested & discuss & debate new information. They do not go online looking for information as I do but are open to discussing & debating.
There are times where I do not say a word & I feel guilty for not doing so.
I truly appreciate everyone who shares information, gives support, debates an issue or simply reads.
We are the media & whatever knowledge or information we can share is one more Light. Dim at first but brightens when others realize they are not alone & that Hope does exist. I am here because I have Hope, even if the only hope is that one more person awakens, & takes one step in STOPPING Nuclear power. Each of us has a part to play, maybe not obvious at first. It may be to simply share or be supportive but that part is as important as anyone else s. So do not diminish your own light by thinking you are not helping.
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~Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around…
“I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
—Stephen Grellet, 1773-1855
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People in the Western World, need to reexamine the “way” they view Japan and that includes not only how that Country is governed but what actual “say” the Japanese people have in their Governments process!
It has taken almost a year to realize that Japan is actually being “run” by its Powerful Utility Companies and this “business” relationship extends in a “Control Continuum” that extends at one end, from actual Utility direct financial support of the highest Government Leaders in the Country, to the widely known use of organized gangs to keep citizens in line at the other!
The idea that individual Japanese people actually have a say in how they are governed, much less the way their Energy is generated, is just a well publicized fantasy that the Utilities uses to put a nuclear “smily face” on the grim reality that ever facet of Japanese life is less important than what is good for these Utilities! These Powerful Utilities ARE Japan, and the Japanese people are only “forced” customers of these Utilities since they have no other choice of providers when it come to basic needs like electricity, at lest until now! Solar panels have allowed many to get the electricity they need and this is a huge threat to these Utilities, that must be “crushed” ASAP if they are to maintain their complete control over the Japanese people!
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Ever since 3/11, the rest of the World’s attention has been focused on the Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster at Fukushima and Japan’s response to their triple melt down. What we have learned is that the Government has allowed TEPCO to not only remain in Control of this debacle but they have actually enabled the Utility to place huge numbers of Japanese citizens at risk rather than demand that the Utility think first of human health instead of Corp. shareholder profits. The fact that radioactive pollution has now spread Globally and is affecting the rest of the Planet is hardly mentioned in MSM which points to an even greater problem for the rest of mankind; we are helpless and as yet unable to demand any “better” treatment from Japan because our own Leaders are for the most part are in full support of the those Utility backed Leaders in Japan.
Kudos to Germany and many other Countries for pointing the finger at Nuclear Power and the Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster RISK every nuclear complex now represents! People globally now are becoming informed and starting to demand answers to basic questions and once people start asking questions perhaps change will occur, even if not for the Japanese themselves… one thing is for certain, the Japanese people will be affected by their Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster for much longer than the estimated 40 to 100 years that it will take to “tidy up” after Fukushima…
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What is wrong with this “Picture”:
1. Tepco is one the “GANGS” that runs Japan.
2. What is good for TEPCO is good for Japan.
3. The Japanese people MUST OBEY TEPCO for the “GOOD” of the Country.
4. The financial health of TEPCO is more important than the Physical health of the People!
5. Only TEPCO knows what is best, all others must BOW to TEPCO’s rule.
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Ron Paul & Nukes or No Nukes…
I’ve twice posted Paul’s opinions on this subject. But, unlike Anne, I included both of his opinions. Paul was Pro-Nuke even post Fuku until just before the Iowa caucases. Then he switched, said Fuku had given him a change of opinion, and is now against nuclear power. This was just before the Iowa caucases.
I leave it to you to decide whether this is really his current view, or whether it reflects the realities of politics in the United States of Amnesia.
Look again, folks, look at his other ideas. There is much that frightens me.
Sorry, it’s too late to look up the links again. I’ll probably post them again to the Gen Comments Forum tomorrow. Anne only gave one side of the isssue; I’ve given both. And one of my best political heroes, Paul Craig Roberts, is a Paul supporter. This is perhaps the only disagreement I have with PCR.
Better than my posting again tomorrow—Do the easy part yourselves: Google “ron paul + nuclear energy” — you will find both opinions within the first few references.
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