Published: February 18th, 2012 at 7:35 pm ET
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Title: Japan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge
Source: Toronto Sun
Author: Tom Godfrey
Date: Feb 18, 2012
A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada [...]She is among several dozen Japanese nationals who filed refugee claims to stay in Canada following the disaster and is one of the first decisions to be reached by the IRB.
“The claimant feared risks of exposure to radiation,” an IRB member said in a ruling. “She was not convinced by the Japanese government’s assurances of safety from radiation.” [...]
A board member ruled the claimant “feared being a victim of hazards that emanated from a combined natural and man-made disaster.”
The member said the claimant’s risk “is characterized as being widespread and prevalent in Japan.” [...]
She claimed her life was in danger from radioactive contaminants that spewed into the environment from the Fukushima plant. [...]
Read the report here
Published: February 18th, 2012 at 7:35 pm ET
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thats so unfair admin.. how we supposed to keep this classy???
grrr! off to find some internal refugee status links….
but the point will be that
a) the japanese government is trying to get people back to the effected area to use as cheap dispensable labour for there new bigger nuke plans!! and to mitigate the costs to shareholders and the government, well the tax payer actually.
b) internally displaced persons have NO rights under UN charter
c) the only course for the moderate or low income japanese is to escape to another country in order to have human rights (in theory)
d) the pro nuke countries will have to stop this as too many questions would be asked about the safety of nuclear
e) off topic but nuclear investments have dropped by 40 percent since last march!!
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I liked the last point arc,…
"e) off topic but nuclear investments have dropped by 40 percent since last march!!" That is BOTH sizable and predictive!
Good news!
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Great comment about the Nuclear "FIX" that way too many will be in…
Both the Canadian and US Gov't. are in bed with the Japanese Gov't. in an effort to downplay this Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster to help shore up each others economies!
This is all about MONEY, as usual!
What a Nuclear Waste!
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Ten reactors have been stopped in the process of building but well beyound 40 are still on board to build or building so we have a ways to go at informing people, China, Vietnam and Russia are a few still going ahead with !
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I advise all japanese refugees who want to come to australia … get yourself to indonesia and pay for a spot on one of the never-ending asylum seeker boats that our stupid government insists on intercepting in international waters and bringing to our country. Seems that getting here is 9/10ths of the law. It would be good for a change to have some refugees who could do something good for our country, instead of endless parades of folks who couldn't find any success where they were so they come here for our idiotic suicidal welfare system. I say lets have japanese folks come here as invited refugees, they are at least educated and hard working. Frankly I find the flood of fake refugees we get now disgusting, it would be refreshing to welcome people who have some real reason to want to come here.
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LOL !!
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err dont know what happenned there the browser sent the message before i was finished :/
…. i can imagine the look on the pro nuke australian faces when boat loads of anti nukers turn up on their shore.. i think they prefer the financial refugees as they are cheap labour for the mines!! a load of highly educated world wise people would add a different perspective!!
nice advice vivi.. hope people are taking this all in.. visit the immigration blogsphere for more useful tips
i believe your ancestors travel "WITH" you. .. mine do!
banzai!!
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You are right, they can be slave labour in the moronic URANIUM mines that cause this deadly shite in the first place. We have governments all over the country now falling over themselves in the rush to offer us all up for uranium mining exploration, to sell to the poor Indians. I guess we cannot bitch if we get it back as meltdown fallout
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vivvi…You never got back to me, as per my request, for feedback about why you were so astonished that I believe in evolution, and why, why, why you appeared to equate evolution with accidents and random happenings. I'd still like a reply, if you would be so kind.
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oh sorry, didn't see your post, the stories move on so fast here. Why am I astonished that anybody could believe in evolution? why, simply because it is impossible. There is NO way that random chance happenings could EVER result in what is now on our planet. For a simple example, how could it ever happen that GENDER could evolve? Please tell me, cos I have looked at it and see no possibility that life could gradually become two seperate genders and continue to live in the meanwhile. Just nonsense from my point of view. Thats why I think that anybody who could ever actually believe that it rained on rocks for millions of years and the rocks turned into people, has far more faith than I could ever hope to have. Just one strand of DNA is so complex, that to think it to be some kind of fortunate accident, I personally find incredible. I cannot comprehend the kind of faith that says rocks turned into living creatures by a series of accidents.
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vivvi,
If there is a higher power smart enough to create "gender" and "DNA", then that power is smart enough to create and put into motion the process known as "evolution"….
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Jebus, if there is a higher power that could do that, it begs the question, why would that power do such a thing. There is no process of evolution. Here we are on this site discussing how tiny specks of radioactive junk can destroy dna and mutate creatures to their detriment, yet at the same time are supposed to believe that this same dna which is our very life substance, somehow achieved both life and complexity by accident in a hostile environment. Next they will be trying to tell me that radiation is good for us. Oh, sorry, missed that, they are telling us that bullshite, aren't they?
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"why would that higher power do such a thing?"
If we knew the answer to that question and others, WE would be that higher power….
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Vivvi, I think that's one of the central existential questions. How could evolution have happened? Beats the hell out of me. But some type of entity that invented it all, and put it all together, honestly seems just as unlikely. You talk about the process of sexual reproduction, the origin of which is mystifying, but how about vision? I've always marveled at that, too. We could go on and on, there's so very much that, in my limited imagination, is totally inexplicable. But at the same time, so very deeply cool.
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Agreed, Vivvi!
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@arclight
To contaminate life with radionuclides however minute in quantity internally is violation of right to life! Whether in Japan or elsewhere.
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agree rama
i hope the human rights lawyers around the world will work with the childrens groups et al. and pursue those that aided this cover-up!! i can see a "crystal night" in court with nuke executives, university promoters, PR executives, politicians and bankers..
i ilve for the day that the children of the contaminated lands get some justice…..
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And now it begins….Enenewers knew immigration policies were going to be an issue for the fleeing Japanese refugees.
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40 years to decommission the plant.
where do they get this rubbish from??
proper reporting..
this from the bloomberg article
““Now the hardest part starts, which is the cleanup,” said Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Southern California, who worked as a consultant on decommissioning Chernobyl.
Experiences in other countries show the scale of the task still facing Tepco as it begins decommissioning the reactors, and cleaning contaminated waste, even without the complications posed by the damage at Fukushima.”
and what Najmedin Meshkati isnt telling anyone! this
“It will take about 100 years to decommission the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in full, Dmytro Bobrov, first deputy chairman of the State Agency of Ukraine for the Alienation Zone, reported.
“The whole period of decommissioning Chernobyl NPP is designed for a hundred years,” he said. The specialist noted that this is associated with a significant contamination of equipment and grounds.
According to him, the same applies to the Shelter facility over the destroyed fourth power unit of Chernobyl NPP. He explained that the reason for such a significant term is that it is dangerous from the standpoint of radiation safety. According to him, it takes a lot of time to reduce radioactivity of the reactor and other parts of the object.
Dmytro Bobrov said it is now extremely difficult to estimate the total cost of decommissioning Chernobyl NPP during the said period. However, he added that in the next five years, about 1 billion UAH should be allocated for these purposes annually (1 USD – 7.96 UAH).”
http://ukrainianguide.com/full-decommissioning-of-chernobyl-npp-will-take-about-100-years/
link to bloomberg err article
http://enenews.com/gundersen-bloomberg-actually-going-blow-face-extraordinarily-hot-nuclear-cores-cold-shutdown-declared
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Are there no countries who will take in these people fleeing from certain death to a later demise?
Now we understand why the Japanese can't run away.
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Remember that the good old USA refused docking to several vessels carrying Jewish people fleeing Hitler. It's just another example of human inhumanity to fellow human. Still sadly true.
It is this kind of inhumanity which could cause us to be just another dead branch of evolution. Getting over this kind of me-first selfishness is mandated for survival now.
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>Remember that the good old USA refused docking to several vessels carrying Jewish people fleeing Hitler.
SP: Even worse was the failure to bomb the death camps or the railroad lines to the death camps. Big stink about that in the past 20 years for historical revisionists. I wrote several articles about this ugly side of the Allied war efforts.
The Holocaust Museum has a new point of view on this tragic story and the role of FDR and the Allies. Mainly that the Jewish leaders were pretty well in consensus to bomb the camps regardless of the impact on the present prisoners (because of the statistics leaked out about the enormous extent of murdered victims in the crematoriums).
http://www.wymaninstitute.org/
I personally pondered in my articles the Allied armed forces attitudes about the dangers to their own troops and that diverting the Nazi troops who were busy playing executioner for Hitler would have led to a tougher job in the overall war effort. Certainly that would have been true, but was it the moral path for humanity?
Depends on whether the Powers That Be think a human ethnic group is less precious in the grand scheme of life or death. Obviously that decision happens every day somewhere by governments who make important decisions.
In Japan 2012 those life or death decisons are played out with much quicker revisionistic scrutiny by historians on the Internet. It won't take 60 years to determine if Japan's government policies were right or dead wrong concerning the health threats of radiation from Fukushima Daiichi.
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This immigration help page disables right click and copying text, but not for everyone!
Every year millions of people around the world are
displaced by war, famine, and civil and political
unrest. United States considers persons for
resettlement to the U.S. as refugees. Each year, the
U.S. President consults with Congress and establishes
the proposed ceilings for refugee admissions for the
fiscal year. For the 1999 fiscal year, the total
ceiling was set at 78,000 admissions and was
allocated to five geographic regions:
Definition:
A refugee is defined as a person outside of his
or her country of nationality who is unable or
unwilling to return because of persecution or a
well-founded fear of persecution on account of race,
religion, nationality, membership in a particular
social group, or political opinions.
Under U.S. law, a person who has committed acts of
persecution, or has assisted in the commission of
persecution in any way, on account of race, religion,
nationality, membership in a particular social group,
or political opinion, is not eligible for
classification as a refugee.
The steps that refugee applicants follow before
their eligibility interviews with USCIS officers vary.
Other applicants are eligible to apply for the
USRP directly because they are of nationalities
designated as being of special humanitarian
concern and in processing priorities eligible for
resettlement consideration.
http://www.immihelp.com/gc/refugee.html
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..(repost)
got to follow that up with a message to the canadian immigration authorities..(repost)
watch out…
"Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, "are particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings. They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority. Murder; extermination; torture; rape; political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice……."
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/crime-against-humanity#ixzz1mmt10KAu
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US Law should favor these people!
Asylum or Refugee Status: Who Is Eligible?
If you've fled your home country and are afraid to go back, you may qualify for asylum or refugee status in the U.S.
Asylum and refugee status are special legal protections available to people who have left their home country for their own safety and are afraid to return.
What's the difference between asylum and refugee status under U.S. immigration laws — that is, who should seek asylum status, and who should seek refugee status? It's simply a matter of where you are when you apply. People outside of the United States must apply for refugee status. People who have already made it to the United States border or the interior (perhaps by using a visa or by entering illegally) can apply for asylum status.
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/asylum-or-refugee-status-who-32298.html
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More from this page:
Let's look more closely at what these requirements mean.
What Is Persecution?
Persecution means to harass, punish, injure, oppress, or otherwise cause someone to suffer physical or psychological harm.
U.S. immigration law does not list specific examples of the kinds of persecution that would qualify someone for asylum or refugee status. However, from the law that has been developed through court cases, we know that it can include such acts as threats, violence, torture, inappropriate imprisonment, or denial of basic human rights or freedoms.
Historically, the need for asylum or refugee status has been recognized in situations where a foreign government has:
imprisoned and tortured political dissidents
fired on protesters
commited genocide against a certain race, or
made sure that members of a certain religion were left out of the political process.
Even if a foreign government stands by while someone else commits acts of persecution — for example, if the authorities are unwilling or unable to exercise control while members of a vigilante squad gang up on gays and lesbians or while members of a guerilla group threaten or kidnap people who won't voluntarily join them — this too can qualify as persecution, which would support asylum or refugee status.
Doesn't this qualify?
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Jebus: US Law should favor these refugees. Yes. But we didn't apply it to the Jewish refugees from Hitler. And we've become even less law abiding and righteous since then.
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young peoples advice for the uk from a nifty euro site!!
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http://europa.eu/youth/your_rights/as_an_immigrant_/index_uk_en.html
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venezual!! caramba!!
Tourists and Students
People wishing to visit Venezuela for vacation can obtain a tourist card quite easily. Students intending to remain in Venezuela for education need a student visa that is valid for up to 90 days. Students must have a passport that is valid for at least six more months, a recent color photograph, a completed application form and a letter proving financial support for the duration of their stay.
Read more: Immigration Requirements in Venezuela | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_5453004_immigration-requirements-venezuela.html#ixzz1mmxaf9ZQ
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Chavez at least shows a human side, unlike some wooden posts that pass for leaders, with apologies to any real wood.
Venezuela might not be a bad place to escape to.
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It's about the money, don't you think?
If a country opens its doors to one refugee, then how many will follow – especially if SFP 4 goes – and will there be infrastructure, housing, jobs, food, medical care for them?
Most governments are strapped and in debt as it is (largely because of exploitation by the few at the top, but that is another story).
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I think that any country would be very smart to welcome the Fukushima nuclear refugees since they would be a great addition to any freedom loving Country!
This will be seen by History as a major blunder by Canada, a Country that has a huge land mass and very few citizens!
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Hugo Chavez has tried to be a good guy. That's why the US has tried to remove him. Remember regime change!
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Mose will evac to the southern Hemisphere since the effects there will be less than in North America; plus the standard of living is much less, so their YEN will go much farther!
Good Luck One and All…
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I doubt if the yen will be good for much longer. Already a balance of payments deficit, exports being returned as radioactive, declining order books, importing rice from Taiwan etc.
Then factor in the costs of the disaster – trillions of dollars over the years [as at Chernobyl]
Then then rising health care costs of a sickened population.
I think the only reason the yen is still alive is because finance markets have bought the propaganda [as they obviously don't inhabit this site.]
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CaptD, Canada is mostly uninhabited because mostly uninhabitable.
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Face it…..fleeing from Fuku to Canada to avoid rads is like fleeing from unit 2 to SPF 4. Given 10 more years, whats the difference?
Jet stream = big conveyor belt.
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Yes, there may well be a lot of radioactivity in Cabnada and more on the way…Grrrr
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Don't you just love my country's lack of compassion? I suppose by letting in a few radiation refugees that would mean that there really is a disaster in Japan. Then the flood would begin, and all the lies would unravel. Pretty sad actually.
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Indeed, but one can't help thinking where will the canadians run to when the fuku contamination makes their country uninhabitable as well. australia is still contaminated from the nuke testing the f*cking british dumped on us several decades ago. and we have moron politicians here who want to make us an international nuke puke waste dump if the price is right. Antarctica is looking pretty good about now ….
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We can take over the 100,000 acre Bush estate in Paraguay!!!!!
Terra No-Nukes
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Most of the Japanese people can't afford to leave.
Also, PoorDaddy is right about the pointlessness of fleeing to Canada to avoid the radiation.
Reminds me of the old joke about the guy who changed his name from Joe S**t to John S**t.
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I feel many countries will assume these people have already been exposed to enough to where they will become ill and a cost to the state later in their live's !
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True right xdrfox, and the additional immediate cost to the "clean and green" reputation the nuclear industry is trying at any cost to impose/create/market/socially engineer.
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True. Maybe countries and governments should take Hippocratic Oaths also. First: Do No Harm!
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What if SFP 4 goes and Japan actually tries to evacuate Tokyo? What is that – 30 million people?
Arnie says that the West Coast should also be evacuated in that eventuality. How many million people is that?
Just how is that going to work?
Seems the way it will work, is, mum will be the word, officially, and all those exposed people will stay right where they are unless they have the personal means to move.
The Japanese government will fuss and do studies and make the token gestures, etc. Unless word gets out, most people don't know/won't know about SFP 4 and what Arnie and Leuren Moret and others have said.
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it will at least be cosy…
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I don't think they will ever call for an evacuation no matter what happens. Chernobyl wasn't evacuated until the other countries came down on Russia and said "hey your leaking radiation" then they mobilized the people when other countries were watching. 3 mile island wasn't evacuated. Fukushima was slightly evacuated and then the people were told to return to their homes. I think this evacuation idea is just written in to seem like there is something that can be done…they really have no intention of ever doing it…cause really it can't be done anyway….so you know it's not really in the cards. Evacuation is left up to the individual…to a point. I'm sure if lots of people tried to evacuate they would be stopped…"return to your homes, you will be safe there…" No evacuation…it's part of the grand illusion. i live 100 kilometers from a reactor, i have a plan mapped out for whatever may happen there at the plant…I'm not waiting. The problem is, as a friend tells me who works at the plant…they never let anyone know when there is a problem. They quietly call the NRC to come in and help the situation…nothing is ever reported, announced in the news etc.
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Agreed, and the Japanese have gone for "decontamination" as opposed to "evacuation". They are trying to con the evacuees into returning to their homes after "decontamination" and "now that it is safe". I guess that the gubmint actually regrets evacuating them in the first place, what with all the problems it gave them.
In any repeat disaster it will be secrecy, denial, shelter-in-place and don't complain or we will label you "unpatriotic".
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I can only suggest that the would be japanese refugee do their utmost to romance somebody single in a less contaminated country. Looks like marriage is the only kind of visa you are ever likely to get. Sorry if that sounds cynical, but lets face it, our governments are not famous for having normal decent human compassion for victims of man made nuke disasters. Might save a few young people, and possibly save the future of the japanese race, which would be a very good thing in my humble opinion.
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having said that, maybe it would help if japanese people in other countries staged some kind of public event to bring attention to the plight of their countrymen. Media attention often helps. Not necessarily a protest, more of a public awareness event.
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Since Fukushima, I think the Japanese have lost any appeal they might have had in the marriage market. After all, breeding has to be on the mind, and think of the condition of the offspring. The Japanese are fundamentally damaged, and it can only get worse the longer it goes on. [see the youtube videos of ukrainian and belorussian children]
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Couldn't let fear of something real cause panic.I knew this would happen and I'm sure there will be more of it in the near future.
And so it begins…….it's said alot but this will be the standard.
I hope it doesn't turn into a big political issue to divide the masses.All that fuel isn't as valuable as people!
What happens when the next one explodes ?The odds are it'll happen before this one is buried.What a stupid way to boil water.
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I read awhile back that Japan is actually building a Japanese city in India. I wonder if this is a "Noah's Ark" for Japan or a source of cheaper labor for the manufacturing?
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I read this, too – don't remember where; sorry – but nothing since.
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@trinityfly
Is it one which will be built with wastes imported from Japan? If not will Japanese populate that ? Yes no more info.
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Canadian government is trying to avoid high maintenance, high health care costs of endangered innocent environmental refugees from Japan.
Canada has acted above and beyond in supporting the news blackout in Northeastern Japan. Forcing Japanese civilians to stay and 'share the pain' is the way we operate now.
Ashamed and powerless, but not surprised.
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If the Canadian government were to allow refugees from radiation to gain that status, they'd have to admit that Fukushima is happening. It's up to us to make sure that that happens.
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@the_deacon
February 19, 2012 at 2:22 am
The whole of modern civilization is this history of falsehoods and make believe in falsehoods. Mahatma Gandhi saw this in a jiffy in 1908: Given enough time modern civilization will destroy itself. End now we are reaching its nadir.
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The Japanese are already prejudiced against other Japanese. When "north-easterners" evacuate to the "south-west", they are met with:
"I'm not letting my kids play with yours, they might catch something"
and the kids get bullied by other kids
"Stay away from us, you are radioactive"
This is reinforced by the gubmint's policy of "stay-in-place, die-in-place" because that is the patriotic thing to do.
Funnily enough, it works the other way with tsunami waste. That gets shipped everywhere for burning "to share the pain". But what's a bit of double-standard to a gubmint?
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Canada is huge and vast, and Japanese would bring good things to it. But why a country in the path of continuous dangerous fallout? ..and with nuclear power plants? . .Seems they'd want to flee to somewhere safer, if there is such a place.
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Yes, Canada is vast. On a map.
The reality is our population is confined to small cities and towns. Population is about 35 million for that whole map, about the same number as the city of Tokyo.
To allow nuclear disaster refugees to come to Canada, would be seen as a diplomatic incident by the Japanese government. Japan seems to want civilians to suffer together in Japan.
'Share the pain' is the 'Newspeak' term of our times. Apparently Canadian grain rail cars are rumored to be rolling around the usual rail routes empty. Who knows, I don't work for the railroad, so I wouldn't know. A very quiet partial crop failure in 2011 blamed on other causes?
Another crop failure may happen in North America this spring during germination. Several months of snow out and frozen ground may release nucleotides to damage germinating grain seeds. Seedlings are vulnerable; even discharged 'alpha' particles would be able to penetrate those fine tissues of embryonic plants.
Will we see an effect on wheat, canola, soy bean, oats and barley?
Pasture grass was all I had personal access to in Ontario, There was a a lot of non-viable, 'dead' seed husks left on the stalks of a ubiquitous pasture grass called 'Timothy'(Phleum Pratense)' last autumn.
So Canadians may have our own problems from Fukushima in 2012. A possible crop failure in 'the breadbasket of the world' is no joke.
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Patman,
I can support that with anecdotal evidence. I have a field behind my house that I have to mow in the summer. It is about 20 yards by 100 yards. In 2010 I had to mow it 4 times throughout the summer with a brush mower from work. It was so thick and lush that I could barely get the mower through it each time. Last year I mowed it in april and it never came back enough to mow it again. I look out right now and it is still as short as I left it last spring.
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Late blooming flowers in Ontario autumn, even as the first bit of snow arrived.
2011 crop of Canadian McIntosh apples? I still have four of those nasty, bitter things I bought last December. Red and delicious looking, sour and 'dry' to the pallet.
These apples are premium McIntosh out of a store bin, kept in a plastic bag at room temperature. All these weeks and still firm, not sweetening up or rotting, just slowly drying out.
Yes, these are the very same apples I mentioned on a comment section of an Enenews story last December(date/subject???? don't remember.)
At this rate they are good on the counter for another couple of months.
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if i were a resident of Fukushima, i would have left for South America a very long long time ago. I would travel on a vacation, a tourist visa, and then i would just sit there in the jungle and eat a tiger. i am sure that you dont need squat to just show up in Peru or Bolivia. bring a few grand and open a chinese restaurant… very popular down there.
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Cut the comedy.
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I hear everyone talk about what we would do if we were in Japan. Everyone says they would flee the island. Well it really is not that easy. Personally my friends have thought about this for a very long time and we still are thinking about it. One of our choices is Ecuador or Argentina. The draw back is how is one to live in "the new country". If you have big bucks or a "one percent-er" you could do this. If you are working till the never ending retirement date as in Canada (I live here on the west coast), and you are not there yet, how can you afford to just arrive as a refugee and live? We think about this all the time. One thing we have done here is buy a Geiger and join a network to monitor what is happening. If it does get bad then it is everyman for himself. We do have bug out plans….just do know how to afford the landing spot in another country. Last thought: Will the other country allow us as "radiation refugees"? I am pretty sure there would be a lot of bias to us where ever we go?
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daddyfixit,…you're a GREAT Daddy,…good answer!–"then i would just sit there in the jungle and eat a tiger."
I'm with you there,…I can even see myself doing that very thing!
Don't think we'll need chopsticks!
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How offensive.
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And in India they kill the tigers, take away their, skin and claws and teeth and sell to the criminal Chino-tibetan monsters and because its offensive, they dont eat tiger meat.
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I agree they will never issue evacuation orders for Tokyo despite the worst scenario possible happening. They will offer free advice (stay indoors during rainy and windy days) and possibly try to bring in "safer" food and water to distribution centers. Other than that there will be no help.
Oh… And they will declare martial law with curfews, road blocks, and armed soldiers. Don't expect to be able to leave easily from Tokyo after these procedures become law.
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And I would be most interested in seeing how the ongoing protests at Kudankulam shape into. The disc here at enenews should turn to how to end the nuke mess.
No more nukes.
Stop existing nukes.
Let the pronukes busy themselves with safeguarding the mess including a world body to do so and that should be IAEA with a changed constitution only to safeguard the wastes. All the present nuke employees should have only this as their function including all things associated.
The people at Kudankulam are busy belling the cat. Hope they will succeed in ending the nuke business. The cancer death load alone from the planned explosion runs into an estimated 40 Bhopals every year(@each Bhopal = 2256 immediate deaths).
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In ten years this atrocity will be as meaningful to people, as the mass killings of Armenians in the beginning of the Twentieth Century or the mass killings of Gypsies, Catholics and Jews in the Second World War.
Observe that lives do go on and time does heals all wounds; we have terrific memories, just short.
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Sorry! Expansion!
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Agreed Ramaswami,…that has to remain our focus,….back to it!
Did others here watch that long movie in German/French yesterday? It was posted,…….all about nuclear waste around the GLOBE? I sent it on,…so I have it if anyone would like. It's INCREDIBLE!!!
It was aired one time,…at 3AM! (How very sad,…as a lot of INCREDIBLE work went into it!)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEbjYr8rubA&feature=youtu.be
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@StillJill
Thanks for the long film! But infintely longer is the responsibility of nukesters. I see that its a big problem for the West. India, when the problem is of 20 nukes with a total capacity of 4 GW, should be sensible enough to change her civilization to a NORMAL one! NOW they must start. And others must stop producing more waste. These are not empty words but full of import.
I am full of admiration for the nuke protesters at Kudankulam, Kaiga, Jaitapur, Gorakhpur, Kovvada. They must succeed in seeing the end of nukes. Thats the only way for us all to lead healthy lives.
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@StillJill
February 19, 2012 at 11:32 am
I have posted the film to many friends and adding how ominous these curves are(since the outfalls are still dumping raddirt into the oceans):
http://deathdealersnukes.blogspot.in/2008/04/fish-catch-and-radioactivity.html
Hard work will never go waste even regarding nucular(!) waste!
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great comments by delusional gaijin on the site reddit.com:
http://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/px6ud/japans_nuclear_evacuees_denied_refugee_status_in/
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Anne Murray Says Wind Farm Is Having A 'Catastrophic' Impact On Economy
First Posted: 02/21/2012 2:51 pm Updated: 02/21/2012 4:25 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/02/21/anne-murray-wind-farm_n_1291588.html?ref=canada
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Hi, all
Great info in these posts, thank you.
Let's ask: how much of the planet is already contaminated just from DU, never mind all the other nuclear sources: DU shells are now being used in small arms in military posts all over the U.S. Hawaii is highly contaminated from military DU. These aren't even the war zones where it's been used en mass, starting with Iraq.
Imagine, a species that makes its own habitat uninhabitable.
I read an alternative news political writer say that until humans admit we are helpless to stop all this, a Higher Power will not step in. But how to get psychopaths to admit they are helpless????
I truly believe they have secret antidotes for their own use–antidotes for all the killers they are unleashing on the rest of us. Including GMO canola and soy, BTW, along with corn, beets, now alfalfa–and on and on.)
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