Published: August 30th, 2012 at 12:08 pm ET
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(Subscription Only) Title: Fukushima blasts environmentalist’s remark about marriage, deformed babies
Source: Asahi
Date: Aug 30, 2012
Fukushima city assembly members lashed out at the leader of an environmental group who said people who live in radiation-affected areas should avoid marriage to prevent births of deformed babies.
The four assembly members, including Kazuyoshi Sato, told reporters on Aug. 29 that Hobun Ikeya’s remarks were “inappropriate and discriminatory” and should not be tolerated. They demanded Ikeya, president of the Ecosystem Conservation Society-Japan, retract his comments, which were made in a lecture in July on radiation contamination from the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
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The Fukushima assembly members sent a letter to Ikeya, asking him to explain his comments. But they said Ikeya countered that his words had been twisted in an act of defamation.
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The Fukushima prefectural government is struggling to stamp out what it calls “harmful rumors” concerning the nuclear accident while trying to prevent a population decline.
On Aug. 29, the prefecture estimated that its population would decline by up to 38 percent by 2040 if the current outflow of people continues.
If all people who evacuated to other prefectures remain outside of Fukushima Prefecture, its population in 2040 would be 1,225,000, compared with 1,989,000 in October 2011, the prefectural government said.
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What Ikeya said according to the Fukushima officials:
“You’d better not marry anyone from Fukushima” and “Cancer rate may rise in Fukushima, and deformed babies may be born”.
What Ikeya said according to Asahi:
“People in areas over which the radioactive plumes passed should not marry [...] If they give birth to their children after getting married, the incidence of deformities will become way higher,” the society quoted him as saying.
An audio recording by the society that an Asahi Shimbun reporter listened to confirmed Ikeya’s remarks.
What Ikeya said according to Fukushima Minpo:
According to the transcript, he said, “It’s not just Fukushima, you know, people in Tochigi, Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa, people who were there should not marry at all costs”, and “If they get married and have children, the rate of deformity in babies will skyrocket.”
Published: August 30th, 2012 at 12:08 pm ET
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Many hurdles to get those CHILDREN evacuated to safety ,one such hurdle is the mass censorship of the truth.there's a new short film out called "BLIND'" ,please search for it and make VIRAL!!!!!!!!! it talks about the silence- truth aspect of this Nuclear crisis,and how the children are going to perish,if it stays " business as usual" .watch any one of a dozen documentaries about ,Chernobyl, and it's very clear to know the net outcome,Deformed children,stillborns,mutants,all of god's children will come in many forms.and love will be poured on top of them .i beg the Proud people of Japan to act now ,and not let these gov't goons brainwash them to sleep "magnify the small ,the weak" -words of Lord Buddha
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You'll note the messenger is always shot first, the guy telling them the truth.
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To get a marriage license you will have to get your DNA examined and if above standards you will not be allowed to marry and will be sterilized immediately…..proof that radiation is effecting their brain matter..
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Easy enough to fix. Just send emails with full color photos of Chernobyl babies to everyone involved, as many as your mail server will let you. Then send more. Let the bastards explain that.
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To Tepkill (and all nucleocrats in Fukuinsanity):
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks.". –Hamlet's mother
Save some of that angry energy. You will need it as your own DNA explodes.
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Harmful rumors?
I commend Mr.Ikeya.
This has to be told.
This is the effect of Chernobyl on children.
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl
Chernobyl Survivor Flags Women's Radiation Risk
http://womensenews.org/story/environment/110426/chernobyl-survivor-flags-womens-radiation-risk
Some hard data on the genetic consequences from Chernobyl.
http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr21/kr21pdf/Lazjuk.pdf
Couples considering marriage and children..must be made aware of the risk.
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What is 'discriminatory' about the truth?
Just because it doesn't paint a pretty picture doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss it.
What is 'inappropriate' about it?
The fact that it sheds a negative light on the Nuclear Industry is more what the issue is. Discussion of facts is never inappropriate.
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+100 to that ChasAha! Something we should all remember when such labels are used to avoid rational debate.
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At Chernobyl, we had one Rogue Nuclear Reactor.
At Fukushima, we have three Rogue Nuclear Reactors.
At Chernobyl, the government acted decisively to control the disaster.
At Fukushima, the government has yet to act.
At Chernobyl, thousands were sent in waves to do the work.
At Fukushima, very little is being accomplished with very few workers.
At Chernobyl, the reactor was encased in a steel, lead, and concrete sarcophagus.
At Fukushima, 3 Rogue Nuclear Reactors are in the bedrock, cooled only by groundwater, without containment.
I ask you: Which accident will end worse: Chernobyl or Fukushima?
I believe we all know the answer to this question.
In Japan, we are only just beginning to see the scale of the human tragedy unfolding before our eyes.
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PuN: +311
The true leaders in Japan are the intellectuals the government condemns.
Japanese nucleocrats care nothing about the helpless people…only their fat paychecks.
The irony is they won't live long enough to collect retirement.
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TIME TO SPLIT ATOMS
That is the title of a letter appearing this week in our local free paper in Grand Traverse County, MI. According to the writer: "The articles about Fukushima still stoke fears half a world away. Nobody got seriously hurt, despite three meltdowns, but 761 died in the hurried evacuation to escape the deadly-threat-that-wasn't. It was a false panic on the scale of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds"."
Will this man be believed, and is he on the payroll of the nuclear energy industry? He is a distributor of the proponents for nuclear energy as "clean and safe" which "has been vilified and least understood." The low information reader will not have the background of those who have had to dig for the truth and research the scientific papers for a subject that is being purposely ignored to stop negative information against nuclear energy.
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Michele Which freebie? I'll make sure to grab one Sounds like a good one to reply to the editor about…
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When the Japanese government decides to stifle speech when they themselves are a propaganda machine it is a sad day for it's people. When the government becomes transparent, keeps it's people safety as a top priority, and becomes a responsible government, then maybe it can be righteously concerned about harmful rumors. Until then STFU.
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Is the govt caught in the 'censorship' web?
We have seen a raging controversy around the government decision over the last week to ten days to block a few hundred web pages and some Twitter handles. After many protests, the government insisted that it had only clamped down web pages that actually were capable of inciting communal violence or contributing to the unrest. But is that really the case, or is this the case of the government blurring the lines between free speech and hate speech? Is this about political censorship?
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/we-the-people/is-the-govt-caught-in-the-censorship-web/244248
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interesting how the blocking works… the websites were not warned and they still had some hits depending on isp`s and other factors..
wow!
seen some of that meself…
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Coming to a neighborhood near you.
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hi time is short
its already here.. ask miss milky and chris busby.. looks like they can turn it on and off too! no evidence..
busby had to repost his video 3 times and i couldnt get icnj website on a google search earlier? i had to go through one of the video links?
lot of stuff like that happening.. very subtle.. might explain about the lack of interest in a reactor about to go meltdown near norway.. you would think someone might be a bit worried? not many hits on it..
the norwegian front page version of NRK didnt mention the submarine reactor, the full bellona report was elsewhere on the web page with no easy link.. the redacted story was at the bottom of the long page..
yep! already here
oh and no other mad mercedes drivers..
one thing to note that is worth mentioning.. after anonymous hacke dthe uk police SOCA etc.. the computer returned to a fast and better condition for 2 days.. now it is a bit glitchy..
i think that the police have limited survielance staff and the brief cyber attack was enough to stretch the resources.. imo… if their were more online activists the government couldnt cope..
people just have to get brave and get blogging.. these super computers arent all they are cracked up to be.. imo
peace
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Nuclear reactors have caused the mess we're in.
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Hi TBP,
The nuclear plants are aging and breaking down. Many built on the cheap, with the industry and nations unwilling to spend the huge amounts of monies to maintain or close them. What has always been the problem is what to do with the radioactive waste. Ronald Reagan was quoted as stating, "All the nuclear power waste for a year can be stored under a desk." The plants at Fukushima were built with the nuclear waste kept on the upper levels….it makes no sense for the removal and we were kept concerned with those rods while in fact there were three meltdowns.
In Bayou Corne, Louisiana, the radioactive waste has been stored in a salt cave along with petroleum product; and the area is 15x higher than the safe level. The salt cave has given way for a sinkhole/slurry and with Isaac dumping water it may be resolved by flooding the area. The planet has been poisoned in so many ways and now Mother Earth is vomiting it back at us.
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Hello The Big Picture…I must dissent. It is human consciousness which has caused this disaster. To survive we must evolve out of our limited, greedy, dominator consciousness to encompass much, much more. Homo-Unsapiens must evolve to be truly Homo Sapiens. We arenot there yet. We are toddlers. We must grow up.
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Dharmasyd, I agree. From all I've observed we won't "cure" problems of nuclear without finding another way to re-introduce the same horror unless/until we better understand ourselves in relation to all dynamics of all life. I sometimes feel such disappointment that our rate of maturing into our potential seems wildly out of sync with conditions we've created. I can't imagine how we'll avoid realization at a "too late" moment! All our systems and practices are oriented for us to think in terms of "tweaking"! (The task of imagining an entirely different kind of world is pretty daunting; I understand how preposterous it must sound to many – yet if we believed it necessary and believed it would lead to a different definition of "prosperity", I think we could make amazing changes in a relatively short time!)
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JP Gov will start genomic analysis for Fukushima people
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/jp-gov-will-start-genomic-analysis-for-fukushima-people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
"They also plan to invest 6.1 billion yen on Fukushima medical university for the new facility of perinatal and pediatric medical care."
Yes ..but why.?A
International
[edit] Nuremberg Code
In 1948, German physicians who conducted deadly or debilitating experiments on concentration camp prisoners underwent criminal proceedings in the Nuremberg Trials. That same year, following the Nuremberg Trials, the Nuremberg Code was established. The Nuremberg Code was the first international document that supported the concept that "the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential".The emphasis that was placed on individual consent in the Nuremberg Code was aimed at keeping participants informed of the risk-benefit outcomes of experiments.
[edit] Declaration of Helsinki
The Declaration of Helsinki was established in 1964 as a means of governing international research. Established by the World Medical Association, the declaration recommended guidelines for medical doctors conducting biomedical research that involves human subjects.Some of these guidelines included the principles that “research protocols should be reviewed by an independent committee prior to initiation" and that “research with…
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(cont.)..(Declartion of Helsinki)
.."with humans should be based on results from laboratory animals and experimentation”.
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(cont).But why a study ..an experiment?
Why the secrecy?
Fukushima Medical Hospital..should open it's doors and show the world..what top notch treatment..the victims of Fukushima exposure are getting? (sarc)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_subject_researchS
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Repost..The wild 'S' is still about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_subject_research
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Is the intention to provide health care when women have been denied testing and the government downplayed the cysts on the thyroids of children? Certainly, there has been enough research on the effects of radiation on animals and on people to fill a roomful of research documents. The leaders of Japan in government and medical fields have denied that the Fukushima plants have contaminated the water, air or soil; so there should be no concerns. This would be considered a waste of monies.
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All the "smile and be happy" doctors are going to have to explain what they have done to children. I dont think they and their families will be welcome in Japan or in any country when the public wakes up to the damages of radiation. Wonder if those doctors families are living in Japan at the present time….
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So, according to the censors, what the doctor actually said (and is documented by a reliable news source – Asahi Shinbun), but their garbled version of what he said, which THEY are trying to spread, is a harmful rumour! Talk about doublespeak.
People don't want to talk about it. In the vegetable section of the supermarket yesterday, the labels said 'place of origin on box'. Usually it says 'on the packet', so you just have to pick up the lettuce or whatever, and read the label (everything's wrapped in plastic here). But to read the place of origin on the box, I had to twirl it round. This got the goat of the veg stall arranger (he had his tomatoes in soldier-like rows). I thought I saw the kanji for Yamagata, but the assistant confirmed they were from Fukushima. He was all stroppy with me for asking.
It's very hard for us in Japan, as there's very little choice. If you live in Kanto, most of the stuff comes from north of Tokyo. Not that I think it's safe, but in order to eat, we're buying stuff from south of Tokyo. That includes Kanagawa, where I live.
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Fukushima city assembly members lashed out at the leader of an environmental group who said people who live in radiation-affected areas should avoid marriage to prevent births of deformed babies.
I do not see them say it will not happen, just do not say it.
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