Published: July 13th, 2012 at 4:58 pm ET
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Ryusaku Tanaka’s Journal from July 13, 2012 translated by Dissensus Japan:
Photo by Ryusaku Tanaka
In front of the Prime Minister’s Office, it became like Palestine. During the meeting against the restarting of nuclear power that happens every friday, the police separated the sidewalk from the roadway with iron fences after having considered it was dangerous that people overflow on the roadway (It happened at the meeting last week and two weeks ago). The jurisdiction, Enforcement Division of Kôjimachi Police station explained in a phone interview: “It’s for the security of the crowd”. But isn’t it the same thing than to surround palestinian people saying that It’s to avoid terrorism? As i went to report about the wall of Palestine since the process of its plan, i couldn’t help comparing it.
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The movement against the policy of Noda’s regime to promote nuclear power spreads. They don’t want people to have this image. It seems that their worries are increasing much stronger because the snap general election will be hold soon. Their plant scheme succeeded at first glance.
The iron fence is the last resort of PM Noda’s regime and of the Police and has a very bad reputation among the protesters.
Published: July 13th, 2012 at 4:58 pm ET
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Barricades = FEAR
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Good one Max.
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Fear = control.
Make the higher authority believe you want to bring back capital punishment and charge them with genocide.
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Have a referendum in Japan on capital punishment, win and charge them with genocide.
Watch them change their tune and come clean
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palestine in tokyo and fallujah in london.. who would have thought…
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May it become the summer of OUR discontent…..
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Oh, Arc, I hope for your sake and the English people, it is not truly like Fallujah in London ….
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hi hotaters
we are not used to the military running things here in london.. and they are doing a bad job of security and a god job winding up the local population..
we do not have the same level of birth defects or the same levels of leukeamia, nor the poverty.. but like fallujah we have a supposed ring of steel around the olympic evebts, … so they say.. others say the security is abysmal.. however, like fallujah the military is all!
all the big "events" include a homage to the military and the wealthy corporations.. and londoners are starting to hate the olympics.. even the daily mail covered the embedded journalist whos video i posted, critical of private security..
you dont want the olympics in your town… its just the upper classes and military bathing themselves in opulence while the average man on the street is suffering because of their mistakes and choices.. like fallujah
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Japan already has capital punishment as part of its legal system. "Apart from the United States, Japan is the only major industrialized democracy to carry out capital punishment."
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Capital+punishment+Japan+sends+three+prisoners+gallows+after+month+break/6378554/story.html
This is not particularly surprising because the Japanese constitution was largely developed by staffers for American general MacArthur, after WW 2.
"MacArthur gave the authors less than a week to complete the draft, which was presented to surprised Japanese officials on 13 February 1946."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan
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Hang them high you have capital punishment Japan, these people new what they were dealing with and through their neglect and greed, millions may die, maybe billions.
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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
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aigeezer, a sidenote — are you anywhere near Toronto? One of the newer people posting here asked if anyone was located near Toronto.
If you are, maybe you could post to Forum area to affirm?
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BTW, aigeezer, I think I understood what you meant by "dirt space" but what is "meat space" ?
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Hi Ho. "Meat space" is where we meat-based life forms are when we're not in cyberspace. It's a synonym for dirt space – just a different focus.
I'm on the Atlantic coast these days. I lived in Toronto a long time ago – liked it a lot at the time. I can't think of any Torontonian posters here offhand, but I'm sure there are some.
Anyone out there from tronna? Cabbagetown? Muddy York? Centre of the universe?… Gotta use their secret codes.
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The iron fence of the Will to Power
will shield no one in their final hour
when radiation comes to devour -
not politicians, not bureaucrats
not religious figures in funny hats
debating beards or how many begats -
it's an all-inclusive deadly killer
even for billionaire bunker builders
with future food in a seed vault chiller -
Oops! Getting off-topic – better backtrack -
the number of protesters in front or back
or however many get their heads whacked
won't matter to bees, the plankton or seeds
on which we depend for all our food needs
sooner or later, on land or in seas.
Radiation won't care what gets reported -
it's uncaring about genetic distortion,
so best nuclear power gets an abortion.
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a very beautiful deadly poem….or-well! do you mind if i print some up for bus stops/telephone-street poles…etc
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To pepperland:
Be my guest!
No attribution needed or desired.
Thank you.
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I wonder if Japan would have been better off it if hadn't been made into a puppet for the USA. Japan has become an intellectual wasteland ruled by consumerism, with a population so out of touch with issues that matter most. Art and good taste is non existent and can only be seen at the Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines.
There's a lot of discontent among artists and intellectuals, but they are the minority.
I believe the problem in Japan stems from the educational system, which aim is to dumb down people, eliminate curiosity and critical thinking, and make them subdued, resigned, and easy pray to control and manipulation.
The responsibility goes to the Japanese government who in the 70s decided they couldn't have an intellectual population after the student riot. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA was right behind pushing the Japanese government to act fast.
The Japanese Constitution, handed out by the Americans and accepted by the Japanese with no resistance to this day, should be the first thing the Japanese should question unless they want to remain puppets.
For instance, the anti-narcotic laws resulting from the pharmaceutical and oil lobbies in the USA, were applied the same way in Japan after world war 2. While Japan was a society of hemp since time immemorial, all the fields were burn by the Americans and today, there is no trace of this past culture, and almost not a single person in the population is even aware of it. Talk about rewriting…
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If you have a look at the Atomic Bomb Dome (aka Hiroshima Peace Memorial) on Google Earth, you'll see what's right across the street…a baseball stadium.
Seems odd to me, that's all I'm gonna say.
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Oh, so that's the other place in the world that plays baseball.
@jonjon, I suppose it's to the victor go the spoils. Japan's price for defeat.
Curious how different it is for Germany though, nearly 60 years later.
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Doh, make that 70 years later. Sorry. Lost a decade there.
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Morning richard, as Germany was neatly divided into 4 different occupation areas after the war (US, French, Russian, English), we didn't get a baseball stadium, lol! American sports are quite uncommon here.
We love soccer
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Viva, Das Vegas.
evening b&b.
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here is kevin.. he has something to say and this thread is purrrfect…
he might have a point?
strong language and best you dont look at this one arnie
or chris or helen…. or greenpeace uk or friends of the europe or cnd etc etc 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRZkyM6e3pQ
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is kevin right?
this is all they have on nuclear on the friends of the earth site..?
Five need-to-know facts about nuclear power
23 March 2012
Think you know the facts about nuclear power? Not sure? Here's the low-down on the key issues.
Some people argue nuclear power is a solution to climate change. Here are 5 facts that show it's a gamble we don't need to take.
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/issues/nuclear_index.html
hmmm!
and greenpeace uk?
LIVE: Greenpeace activists shut down Centrica HQ
"It seems ironic that Greenpeace are complaining about energy bills being too high when this is a way to reduce energy consumption. Particularly when one of the reasons energy bills are so high is the increased money spent on green energy, such as the windfarms that Centrica have been one of the primary advocates of. You would think that would make Centrica popular with Greenpeace, but these protesters obviously have nothing better to do than disrupt other peoples jobs.
By John1980 – 30 April 2012 at 8:53am"
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/live-greenpeace-activists-shut-down-centrica-hq-20120430
and this
The case against nuclear power
Posted by bex – 8 January 2008
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/nuclear/the-case-against-nuclear-power-20080108
2008?
and cnd uk
2010
http://www.cnduk.org/campaigns/nuclear-power
no way am i getting started on the only visible fukushima aware trio though
sorry kev…
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@ kevin
just found the itinery for cnd
NOT A FEKKIN THING ABOUT THE CHILDREN AND FAMILILIES IN FUKUSHIMA THOUGH HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI GET A FEW MENTIONS IN JULY AND AUGUST ARGHHHHHHH!/rant
http://www.cnduk.org/get-involved/events
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IM SO EMBARRASSED TO BE BRITISH.."
G`NIGHT ALL!
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