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Japan officials run away from public during meeting about radiation — “Shame on you… Please don’t run away” (VIDEO)

Published: July 25th, 2011 at 2:43 pm ET
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103 comments to Japan officials run away from public during meeting about radiation — “Shame on you… Please don’t run away” (VIDEO)

  • SteveMT
    July 25, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Where are they running to?
    They are also being exposed to lethal radiation.
    What part of the word ‘idiot’ don’t they understand?


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    • charlie3
      July 25, 2011 at 4:29 pm

      This is a very powerful video.


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    • Ramaswami Kumar
      July 27, 2011 at 3:11 am

      @SteveMT
      See today’s report in Deccan Herald, Bengaluru,India:
      http://www.deccanherald.com/content/179372/nine-dead-two-buried-s.html
      South Korea experiencing the collaterals of climate change wrought by its nukes and that of others 447 GW of them all in causing their water needs to be met by dams: Stressing Korea’s soil so there are intense hotspots caused by friction on the rocks beneath S Korea:(Univ of Maryland Web Fire Mapper now in the UN)
      Total number of fires detected : 48
      [ONLY TOP 5 RESULTS ARE SHOWN.]
      Latitude Longitude Date Time Brightness Confidence Scan Track Satellite Version Bright.T31 FRP
      36.112 127.53 2011-07-20 04:35 324.3 77 1.0 1.0 A 5.0 305.4 17.1
      35.955 127.119 2011-07-20 04:35 324.5 28 1.0 1.0 A 5.0 305.2 14.1
      35.957 127.13 2011-07-20 04:35 322.4 37 1.0 1.0 A 5.0 303.4 12.5
      35.949 127.126 2011-07-20 04:35 330.1 61 1.0 1.0 A 5.0 306.9 19.5
      35.94 127.128 2011-07-20 04:35 329.0 59 1.0 1.0 A 5.0 306.9 17.5
      These intense hotspots causing torrents of rain 161 mm in a few hours! And landslides!
      See http://collateralsofclimatechange.blogspot.com/
      See also all the URLs therein.
      There is a similar report in the paper on landslides in Bangladesh at the same time! Dams’ cumulative effects! Completely blind to this and to Fukushima also caused by dams, S Korea and India ink a deal for S Korea to sell Nukes to India! And the foreign direct investment into India immediately shoots up! Unless man changes over to stop being ruled by specialists extinction level events will be triggered every second: See that everything is interconnected and your piecemeal actions spell doom! S Korea’s Ban Ki Moon Head of UN(Sec Gen) see daylight! And stop the man made natural disasters! And as in the video I beg of you!


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  • Nukeholio
    July 25, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    I saw this the other day…and I was wondering if the angry crowd was going to start throwing things. I wish they did!


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  • TraderGreg
    July 25, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    It was depressing to watch it. It doesn’t get any lower. On top of it, they added official censorship.

    Here is how the censorship works in communist China. Below are instructions from the Chinese Ministry of Truth, on how to report the recent high speed train accident (as per zerohedge.com):

    “The latest directives on reporting the Wenzhou high-speed train crash: 1. Release death toll only according to figures from authorities. 2. Do not report on a frequent basis. 3. More touching stories are to reported instead, i.e. blood donation, free taxi services, etc. 4. Do not investigate the causes of the accident; use information released from authorities as standard. 5. Do not reflect or comment.”

    I can see the common thread: Japan, China, GOM disaster…


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    • Spock CIAspy
      July 25, 2011 at 4:06 pm

      “The government charges that the damage caused by earthquakes and by the nuclear accident are being magnified by irresponsible rumors, and the government must take action for the sake of the public good. The project team has begun to send “letters of request” to such organizations as telephone companies, internet providers, cable television stations, and others, demanding that they “take adequate measures based on the guidelines in response to illegal information. ”The measures include erasing any information from internet sites that the authorities deem harmful to public order and morality.”

      http://japanfocus.org/-Makiko-Segawa/3516


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      • StPaulScout StPaulScout
        July 25, 2011 at 4:22 pm

        Makes me believe that worse info will be exposed soon and they don’t want word getting out. Good luck with that. They will need to kill all Japanese phones, email, snail-mail, every mode of communication the average citizen has access to. They have now catagorized the truth about Fukushima as illegal information. Ahhhh yes, the old ‘national security’ bull shit……


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    • arclight arclight
      July 25, 2011 at 5:42 pm

      same pr company maybe?….i guess ogilvy pr international? anybody else got any ideas on this? any pr people here?


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      • arclight arclight
        July 25, 2011 at 7:25 pm

        Hong Kong, China and Tokyo, Japan, January 23, 2002 — Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide has taken a significant equity stake in PRAP Japan Inc., the largest international public relations firm operating in Japan, which is the world’s second largest market for marketing and communications services. The investment brings together one of Asia Pacific’s leading public relations and public affairs networks with Japan’s second largest and fastest-growing public relations firm.
        By Ogilvy PR estimates, Japan is Asia Pacific’s largest PR market with at least US$500 million spent on public relations services.
        I suspect the market is worth more than 500 million now that they are the propaganda arm of the government in charge of dissemination of all internet activity and negative thoughts….best example of corporate facism yet I think…any body think im wrong? Heres the link
        http://www.ogilvypr.com/en/press/ogilvy-pr-forms-equity-partnership-prap-japan%E2%80%99s-leading-international-pr-firm

        Oddly enough their English page website has disappeared! Heres a link that has their website address and a bit of info!

        “Ogilvy And Mather Japan K.k provides brand building services, marketing programs, and public relations services. It also provides print production and sales promotion services, such as platemaking and image manipulation for magazine, newspaper, and commercial printing; demand generation full-service graphics; interactive production from Web sites to customer relationship management; art buying photography; print buying for sales promotion and general printing; and strategic sales promotion project management. Ogilvy And Mather Japan provides its services in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, and Switzerland, as well as Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Phillipines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Africa. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Ogilvy And Mather Japan K.k. operates as a subsidiary of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Inc.”
        http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=5436676
        and the new link for their website
        http://www.ogilvy.co.jp/en/index.html
        one of their employees is probably reading this!… lol
        next the figures that tell us how much the japanese government paid them…will have to wait for the next financial report unless someone here knows an angle??


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        • mikey
          July 26, 2011 at 12:13 am

          Arclight- Are these THE guys the same bloody idgits that came up with Road Map baby killing series first released during bush2 and now polished up for FUKU disaster??


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          • arclight arclight
            July 27, 2011 at 1:58 pm

            well now, i wouldnt want to be casting aspirtions at ogilvy just cos they ran the bp smoothover! i may be way out of line here! but then again maybe not! who knows! just a coincidence the moved in on old japan…in an earlier post i mentioned that american pr guys were dumfounded at the lack of expertise existing in japan in the 1980s… i think that ogilvy or indeed any other or even more indeed that all the pr companies around the world are making a killing keeping old fuku and los alamos and information about contaminated produce… the reason that it will be illegal to talk atom is because it will make it easier to stop the outpouring of news that we presently get….everyone from enenews (except admin of course) will be put in a japanese guantanimo with chris busby and dear sweet arnie will set to making a range of mini nukes for the home (a sort of clean radioactive non tesla like energy :) )

            Dia bless go léir anseo! leanann an Íoslainn agus fáil réidh leis an mbanc!


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      • arclight arclight
        July 25, 2011 at 7:45 pm

        hang on a minute! didnt ogilvy do bps campaign for hearts and mines last year hmmmmmmmmm??


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  • TheWorldIsBlind
    July 25, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    this video…is disturbing..and very sad.


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  • majia
    July 25, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    Bottom Line

    The citizens of Japan do not have basic rights seen as constitutive of liberal democracies.

    However, neither do we.

    We lost habeas corpus and the Obama admin. has done nothing to re-establish it.

    furthermore, the total news blackout on fort Calhoun is a complete violation of our Bill of Rights.

    I’ve been posting the epa’s radnet data and Fort Calhoun is emitting–or something in very close proximity to Omaha is. Yet no news.

    I’ve really had enough and if people start protesting I’m out there with them….


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  • farawayfan farawayfan
    July 25, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    “I have already said all I could say”

    Chilling.

    And also shocking from the other side, at how ill-prepared he was at attempting to placate (we all know the phrases “acceptable exposures” “less than a plane flight”, etc etc). A sign of the desperation slowly overcoming everyone, even the government officials who have no answers.

    Chilling.


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  • NoNukes NoNukes
    July 25, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    That video reminded me of nothing as much as films about the Holocaust, of the scenes when a parent begs an official to spare their child. Not meant to be hyperbole, but that is the genre, the language of this exchange for me.


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  • ali-ali-al-qomfri ali-ali-al-qomfri
    July 25, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    My heart pours out for (all Japan @ World) but the gentlemen pursuing the “authorities” to the elevator had the desperate plea…, you know they know what the situation is. This could be, or rather is, you and me. We have let incompetence/greed rule. The price is humanity. Those gov. reps need to thrown themselves on ginsu steak knives for ignoring the people. This is shameful.


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  • CB CB
    July 25, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    The Government are Greedy Coward savages.


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  • Hemisfear311 Hemisfear311
    July 25, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    That guy, Akira Satoh, knows all the actual readings. He knows that it is already too late to save the poor people pleading for their lives. According to the clip he is the Director of the local Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters so he must know.

    He refuses to answer their questions, and only reluctantly admits that the people of Fukushima do not have the same rights as the rest of the Japanese people. He knows that they are all doomed. No need to evacuate them. No need to test their urine. No need to spend more time with these people.


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    • SnorkY2K
      July 25, 2011 at 4:54 pm

      I concur that they may know the levels of exposure and the severe consequences. Except, they may not feel that there is no need to evacuate them as the exposure now may be beyond hope at least for many of the children. By sequestering as many of the exposed as possible from the lesser exposed population they may be trying to minimize second and third generation health issues if the younger exposed children mate with non-exposed children.


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      • Hemisfear311 Hemisfear311
        July 25, 2011 at 5:02 pm

        Harsh, but perhaps not far from the truth SnorkY2K.

        When do you think they will start building “The Wall” to contain the tainted?


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        • SnorkY2K
          July 25, 2011 at 5:14 pm

          Might not be necessary. Many of those who were not immediately able to bugout with their kids are “economically caged”. Without the cash to move or the governments help in relocating they are forced to remain. As jobs collapse in the area they will even be less able to afford even a single trip out. Any further releases could also leave a barrier from land travel forcing those who do want to leave to spend even more. Those who do leave are also viewed as almost criminal as were the Americans who left when advised and were called “Flyjin”.


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          • Pu239 Pu239
            July 25, 2011 at 5:47 pm

            Like a ghetto under armed guard.


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          • arclight arclight
            July 25, 2011 at 6:12 pm

            also dont forget that prejudice aimed at contaminated people, well documented after hiroshima and nagasaki! it would help stop them getting access to housing and social issues regarding marraige etc.. also its traditional for japanese to honour their ancestors and they are located near their homes in the contaminated zones!
            add to all these things issues around post traumatic stress disorders (i posted some articles about the psychological effects on population within the last week with some interesting findings, somewhere?) to do with the nuclear situation, it makes things very difficult to make what we view as a simple choice…it will be the hardest choice they will ever have to make! :(
            the government lies may cause a serious backlash further down the line! the russians mostly fest up and mostly did the right thing during the chernobyl disaster, it would seem that japan has taken a different route! and a new experiment relating to the socio-psychological aspects of the japanese! i think the government is playing with fire…the treatment of stress disorder is about coming to realise about the situation in a non reactive way. for the individual this is achieved by counselling with terms like truth telling and reconciliation! not obfuscation and denial!! the situation itself can not be dealt within an efficient manner if deception is the common denominator! well thats my two pennys worth! the government in japan needs get their act together and get transparent and beginning the healing process that the japanese people need…not to attack individual japanese citizens because of thier right to free speech and discourse! you couldnt take a more wrong approach to this situation…all for corporate greed…hmmmm! :/


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  • majia
    July 25, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    Your read is exactly the same as mine Hemisfear311.

    I cannot believe this is happening.


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    • Hemisfear311 Hemisfear311
      July 25, 2011 at 5:08 pm

      I belive he must be from the same batch as Dr. Shunichi Yamashita who was quoted for saying:
      “The effects of radiation do not come to people that are happy and laughing. They come to people that are weak-spirited, that brood and fret.”

      Somewhere down the line, these guys put all their humanity, integrity, honour and empathy aside and became who they are now.


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  • StillJill StillJill
    July 25, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    My new favorite saying: “It is always better to be shot for a goat than sheared for a sheep.”


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  • jtb
    July 25, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Its sad, pathetic, weird…
    “Authorities” alternately presenting themselves as superior experts one moment, and “only human” the next…

    Nuclear energy (and GMO foods) might be fine…
    in a perfect world where humans Never make mistakes and nature is Always predictable.


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    • farawayfan farawayfan
      July 25, 2011 at 6:16 pm

      Don’t forget even without the threat of accidents there’s still that pesky post cycle waste that remains deadly for 1000s-10000s of years….


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  • Mark
    July 25, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    Akira Satoh says “Well you are free to evacuate at your own risk if you want to.” So why aren’t these people jumping in their cars and running away? I wouldn’t be waiting for urine tests for my kids!

    And I ask this question with respect for those Japanese. Maybe there is no place to go? What does he mean by “at your own risk”?

    Akira Satoh says “What I am saying is the government has tried to reduce the radiation exposure as much as it can”. So that means when reactor was in full melt-down they reported a 2 or 3 on severity scale that when USA said evacuate 50 miles they said 12 miles ok.

    But what I want to know is what do the Americans do when they are being lied to?

    And what do the Canadians do?


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  • dharmasyd
    July 25, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    It might help if they all (especially government bureaucrats) would begin to admit that there is

    Nowhere to run to…

    And then work together to improve the present and prevent this from happening again in future.


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  • fuckyoushima
    July 25, 2011 at 5:31 pm

    “issued orders to telecommunication companies and webmasters to remove content from websites that counter the official government position that the disaster is over and there is no more threat from the radiation”

    that is the official position?

    holy fuck. shits going down.

    how long until geiger counters are made illegal?


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  • Lee Binder
    July 25, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    makes me wanna cry. I really hope this video goes viral amap, esp. in Japan, and has consequences incl. lawsuits, demonstrations, riots, etc.


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  • Mark
    July 25, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    [So why aren’t these people jumping in their cars and running away?]: because, if the government says “Evacuate” they have to make payments. If the people leave voluntarily, they do not have to pay.
    That’s all. Money and numbers. Thanks for that Finch.

    So all these people are waiting for a settlement from the government? Which is why their children are being (knowingly) exposed to high levels of radiation? Not sure what to say about those people. I wonder how the real estate office is doing in Fukishima?


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    • TraderGreg
      July 25, 2011 at 6:39 pm

      How many times the goverment lied to the Canadian population, during the multiple snafus while building the Darlington Nuclear Station? How many times the Ontario goverment lied about the releases from the Pickering plant, or its various safety problems?

      Goverments are the same – paid corporate whores. I personally want strong goverment, but goverment by the people, for the people. Can we outsource our goverments to Switzerland, except outsourcing our jobs to India?


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  • TraderGreg
    July 25, 2011 at 6:33 pm

    I wonder – where are the lawsuits filed in Japan against these assholes? Are there any lawsuits?


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  • markww markww
    July 25, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    TIME FOR ALL PEOPLE to rise up and bring truth and honesty back,and JAIL EVERYONE IN COVER UPS WORLDWIDE


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  • Novamind
    July 25, 2011 at 6:53 pm

    A very powerful video indeed. I applad them for not resorting to violence, it must of been hard to restrain. As for the urine sample Test it or Wear it. Though you could not trust any report findings if it was tested. This is just the tip of an iceberg of what is to come.


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  • Jebus Jebus
    July 25, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    Wow!, I can tell you as a father, those people would have not left that room, without, at the very least wearing that urine home, and if no one stopped me, I would have let them have a whole can of whup-ass to go with it. I am ashamed to even be part of the country that sold those plants to them. I am fuckin shakin right now, I am so pissed. No one can even call themselves human and do that to those children. If there is a God in heaven at all, he is checkin his list and gettin ready to go to work on these low life pieces of shit.


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  • StillJill StillJill
    July 25, 2011 at 7:30 pm

    “Test it or Wear it”. LOVE your Novamind! +10


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  • StillJill StillJill
    July 25, 2011 at 7:31 pm

    I think we have our “new tee-shit” LOGO,…what say you guys? A beeker of pee, with those words below it!


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  • StillJill StillJill
    July 25, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    Some countrys throw shoes at politicians,…think I throw some of my radioactive pee on them.


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    • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
      July 25, 2011 at 8:01 pm

      Ummmm..this is not a political protest..this is a REVOLUTION.
      http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=15992


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      • arclight arclight
        July 25, 2011 at 8:14 pm

        che … i mean heart lol…nice post…can you imagine that lot of young people will do when they find out theve been contaminated??? and lied too??? good time to take that trek across the arctic tundera that you always wanted to do meethinks!
        :)


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        • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
          July 25, 2011 at 8:20 pm

          A trek across the tundra….what a fine dream.
          Perhaps think of that while being ‘kettled”.


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          • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
            July 25, 2011 at 8:23 pm

            I’m not here to do the scientific play by play…despite what some may think.
            I am a warrior for the revolution..
            What we want is mercy for the people.


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          • arclight arclight
            July 25, 2011 at 9:21 pm

            I am a warrior for the revolution..
            What we want is mercy for the people.
            should read
            I am a samurai for the revolution..
            What we want is mercy for the people.
            sounds more appropriate (sumarai have levels of culture that better represents thoughts on humanity) peace and gnight


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          • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
            July 25, 2011 at 9:34 pm

            @arclight.. Thank you for such kind words.
            ….. sweet dreams of liberty.


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      • majia
        July 25, 2011 at 9:30 pm

        I’m doing everything I can to get people I know active, angry, involved.

        NO one seems to care or they just shake their heads in sorrow.

        I am so frustrated. I want people to rise up in anger and demand that the people in Japan be helped

        I want the DU use to stop along with the blatant imperialism in the Middle East

        I want the war mongering in Africa driven by resource grabs to stop

        I want the environmental destruction worldwise that could be stopped to be stopped.

        Everyone says I need to “stop worrying” and “take a break”


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        • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
          July 25, 2011 at 9:37 pm

          I could take a break and stop worrying..but my heart flames up on it’s own.


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        • Jebus Jebus
          July 25, 2011 at 10:48 pm

          hehe, I took my GC to work today and checked some areas, I spoke with everyone in the shop, explaining the different kinds of radiation and how it is detected. Then I went on to tell them about the people and children of japan and how they are being systematically murdered by thier government. They saw the anger in my eyes and commented. I saw the fear in thiers.


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          • majia
            July 26, 2011 at 1:18 am

            Do you think they fear for the Japanese or for themselves?

            When they fear for themselves, do they think risk is imminent?

            Do they understand that although our situation is no where near as bad, our government lies just as much….


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          • Jebus Jebus
            July 27, 2011 at 3:57 am

            majai,
            I truly believe they are in denial. To have ones sense of force fed reality shaken to the core by another, who is not the pseudo established authority on the matter, is impossible for a sheeple to accept. They are not free thinkers. Trying to inspire a person to learn, when all their life is spent being taught, is impossible.


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          • Jebus Jebus
            July 27, 2011 at 4:00 am

            I apologize, I meant majia…


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        • xdrfox
          July 25, 2011 at 11:00 pm

          I just keep seeing the children of Japan I used to post pic links to, these little ones in a link&story someone posted the other day, They are cherubs, the closest thing we have on earth to heaven, the recent ones of innocents and they are killing them !


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  • arclight arclight
    July 25, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    http://fairewinds.com/content/contact-us
    ! this is what i posted
    “dear Maggie i realise your busy so i will be brief..

    CRIAAD request release of air quality data being withheld!

    http://petitions.criirad.org/?For-a-total-transparency-on-the
    this is a petition worth supporting maybe with a link on your website?

    thank you for your inspirational achievements.. god bless you both!”
    only 307 signatures, copy of my email to Maggie gunderson… the more who post the better chance they will put it up on their website or even mention it on one of the videos as well! Lets fight the propaganda machine!! (however “they” are?)
    love light and peace


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  • arclight arclight
    July 25, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    anybody seen vexille film japan 2060 or something around there… an animee..good graphics. good soundtrack and the story line…..its starting to come to mind! :(


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  • xdrfox
    July 25, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    IS Our Goverment doing this to us too ????


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  • paulie906
    July 26, 2011 at 12:52 am

    corporations rule,no ifs ands or buts.


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  • paulie906
    July 26, 2011 at 12:55 am

    revolt,its the only way.


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  • paulie906
    July 26, 2011 at 12:57 am

    but that wont happen.so suck it up folks,sorry to say.


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  • alasanon
    July 26, 2011 at 1:26 am

    I feel really bad. Here in the U.S., I am quite accustomed to the U.S. Govt. jerking us over, tossing out our Constitution, debasing valid federal law, human rights, and treaties in recent years. (and then sticking us with the bill!)
    I saw scenes like this in Ohio, when qualified Americans were inexplicably denied their Right to Vote and taken off the rolls…Veterans, students, poor blacks, elderly fighting for their rights at the polls, waiting for hours in the bleak rain!… “Here’s my ID! Here’s my address! Here’s my utility bill! What else do I need?? I voted here before!!? What’s going on?? I just checked my registration!! I’m a life-long citizen and disabled Vet. This machine is not right!!?”
    All they could do was file a provisional ballot and hope the Bush Election Committee Co-Chair (literally)/Secretary of State might choose to count it. The same raw passion was there!! Scary in the U.S.A.

    ….And then the universal despair & disbelief when ultra-corrupt Bush/Cheney “won” again!!… Black day! Even at the grocery store, people were aghast…a day of confusion & mourning.

    I’m a native Ohioan. And I don’t know ANYONE who voted for Bush in 2004. I do know of a lot of other stuff that went on back then…setting the stage for our present crises today!!..(ahem)

    Welcome to what we’ve had in the U.S., good citizens of Japan!! You have to wise up now. They are NOT there to look out for you, comply with the law or common sense. And do so quickly!!!


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    • majia
      July 26, 2011 at 1:51 am

      Alasanon

      you write, “what we had in the US…”

      But I think Obama is just as bad, he is just doing it much more smoothly.

      The ACLU was recently complaining that Obama has infringed on civil liberties just as much, if not more, than Bush.

      Obama operates more smoothly and was obviously selected for this skill or we might have had more open rebellion.


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      • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
        July 26, 2011 at 2:00 am

        As I’m not American citizen, I’m not qualified to comment on internal politics in the U.S.A.. But as a citizen of “the rest of the world” I say that I was relieved when Obama won the election. I don’t agree on many decisions (new nukes being one of them), but I think the international “tune” has become a lot more positive than with the Texas dumbass.


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        • majia
          July 26, 2011 at 2:18 am

          That is why Obama was elected.

          However, he has expanded the wars in the Middle East to include Libya and Syria and Yemen are on the desert menu.

          Furthermore, we do not know if torture continues.

          The media blackout on Fort Calhoun has been absolutely perfect. I’ve never seen such a thing ever in my life.

          The media blackout on Fukushima radiation isn’t quite as good but there are more sources of information for the media to go to on radiation and they can get local testing.

          Obama has failed to prosecute the banks and his administration is essentially no different at all in handling the bailouts


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          • anne anne
            July 26, 2011 at 2:28 am

            Obama in the debates prior to the nomination said that he would expand nuclear power. His campaign manager Axelrod used to work for Exelon (nuclear power owner in Illinois and Exelon was largest author for Uucca Mountain). Senator Hillary Clinton, his opponent, said she was against expanding nuclear power. The press never picked up on these statements as the MSM is owned by the nuclear industry.


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  • xdrfox
    July 26, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    Santa visits children at shelter in Japan

    Santa Claus has made an unseasonable visit to Japan to encourage children affected by the March 11th disaster.

    Santa arrived from Finland at a shelter in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Tuesday. Residents of Futaba Town in Fukushima Prefecture have been staying at the shelter after the nuclear power plant accident.

    About 50 children cheered when Santa arrived and handed them presents.

    The visit was arranged by Japanese mothers living in Finland.

    A Finnish airline covered the airfare for the trip, and a confectionery maker provided the children’s presents.

    http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/26_28.html


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