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Japan Prime Minister orders restart of nuclear reactors under ‘intense pressure’ from banks — “The dustbin of history is waiting for him” says expert — Protests as 70% of public opposed

Published: June 16th, 2012 at 1:39 am ET
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Japan Nuclear Freeze Ends as Voter Backlash Begins for Noda
Bloomberg
By Jacob Adelman and Yuji Okada
Jun 15, 2012 10:49 PM ET

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda approved the first restart of Japan’s power reactors since last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, a decision that could undermine his political support and force early elections.

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A Mainichi News poll shows more than 70 percent of the population opposes restarting the Ohi reactors

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Noda “could end up like all his predecessors in the dustbin of history very quickly,” said Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University’s Tokyo campus. “The dustbin is waiting for him.”

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Noda’s “under intense political pressure from the banks and the utilities who want those restarted,” Andrew DeWit, a professor at Tokyo’s Rikkyo University who focuses on energy policy. “They want to get those income streams back in operation.”

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118 comments to Japan Prime Minister orders restart of nuclear reactors under ‘intense pressure’ from banks — “The dustbin of history is waiting for him” says expert — Protests as 70% of public opposed

  • Truth
    June 16, 2012 at 1:43 am

    This is the insult on top of the injury… Will the people of Japan allow this murder of their children to continue? What happens next will tell how the world will react to similar situations elsewhere.


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  • Max
    June 16, 2012 at 1:54 am

    Banks demand bio genocide must continue.

    What is this thing called 'banks'? Higher than God, above the laws of reason, apparently anonymous and uncountable voice of perceived authority?


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    • Ramaswami Kumar
      June 16, 2012 at 4:03 am

      A grand hard look at income streams:According to the European Committee on Radiation Risk,ECRR, Nuclear Power Programmes,like the Indian, carried out without the informed consent of the people, represents an infringement of the most fundamental natural right: the right to the inviolability of the body. In rights theory, this violation is used to justify the use of violence in self-defence if one's body is under attack. Article 3 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights quoted by the ECRR: 'Everyone has the right to life,liberty and the security of the person'. Further ECRR states: ..there seems a strong prima facie case that the contamination of citizens' bodies with nuclear waste represents an unacceptable threat to the security of the person, and is therefore illegal under international law. From a rights perspective, in order for the nuclear industry to continue to operate legally, all those who might be potentially contaminated would have to be accurately informed about the true risks to their health from such nuclear processes, and would have to agree that the processes should continue.
      Applying the precautionary principle,following Gofman, assuming just 0.1% leak of Cs137 inventory per year of the world's nuke reactors of 350000 MW, for the next one hundred years, 500000 Bhopals will result at the rate of 2043 immediate deaths after Bhopal. Even one Bhopal's Anderson is out of town. See http://isisunveiledhenp.blogspot.in


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      • Ramaswami Kumar
        June 16, 2012 at 4:09 am

        …But how to inform the generations not yet born?This is on top of the fact that the nuclear power programme is a deficit generating system: It consumes five times the energy that it is supposed to deliver during its entire postulated life time. See the energy audit related article reference in the above reference on health. And consider the fact that man himself generates within his body, shockless isothermal electricity at 1.2 Volts and at a peak capacity of 200 watts. At this rate 3.5 billion people represent a peak electrical capacity of 700,000 MW or twice the present nuclear capacity in the world. And they,in sewerless systems and other suited designs, return their wastes which are gratefully accepted by mother earth. And in love they reproduce non-clonally. Scrap the nuclear fuel cycle.


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        • nedlifromvermont
          June 16, 2012 at 10:37 am

          Go Rama! You are on to it.

          The corrupt and victorious United States of Cancer Congress passed the Price Anderson Act, in 1957, which capped liability from nuclear disasters, since the insurance industry did not buy this false-science, business-created hokum, called nuclear power, which in fact is a poison manufactory. You will remember, we were really scared of the Russians at the time: official U.S. military policy held that it took three nuclear bombs to kill any one Russian soldier, it seems. This abominable Act, repeatedly reauthorized by a prostituted Congress, neatly sidelined the U.S. Constitution, by voiding out the clause against "taking without just compensation," so we know what TPTB think of that of that scrap of paper.

          You are onto a line of logic which clearly shuts down this immoral, abusive, wantonly damaging industry … except they've got most of the money, control the presses and the militaries, along with their predator drones.

          Repeating the truths you have uncovered does, however, remove the veil of legitimacy behind which these evil sorcerers malinger.

          More power to you and all the 'newsers, as we shed the harsh light of truth on these child molesters and assassins.

          Maybe some of the new and as yet uncorrupted monied elites, like the Facebook billionaires, will have the moral courage to fight the nuclear lies, which threaten their Californian pipe dreams. We shall see …

          Peace, in truth we live.


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      • faithhopelove
        June 16, 2012 at 4:40 pm

        I commend you on the obvious amount of work you have put into looking at the energy audit. Nonetheless, it is not readily ascertained from the links you provide. (Please don't take that as a harsh critique.) I hope that a more simply-conveyed, yet ROM-accurate, energy balance can be constructed.

        *****************************************
        ENERGY CONSUMED:
        mining, plant building, waste storage and handling

        ENERGY PRODUCED:

        EXTERNALITY COSTS:
        Toxic waste, toxified air and oceans, medical/health costs
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        Constructing such an energy balance may be another poignant factoid to wake up the masses and denounce the lying pro-nukers:


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  • rockster
    June 16, 2012 at 2:00 am

    So, Alex Jones is correct again? More or less? This is like a bad movie.


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  • obewanspeaks obewanspeaks
    June 16, 2012 at 2:17 am

    Big mistake! Huge mistake! He is under pressure from whom? The idiots that created this nuclear nightmare and problem in the first place?

    Mother Nature is watching and I have a very bad feeling about the restart of any nuclear reactors in Japan. This may be these people's last couple of years as a unified prosperous country.

    Soon only a nuclear wasteland will prevail where the Japanese children and generations once played happily.

    Shut them down! Shut them all down and then decommission all of them very quickly before Mother Nature strikes again!

    The death of the entire world is now at hand and we have "elected idiots" in charge everywhere!

    Weep for man kinds future my friends, as it now appears to be a very short one, especially when we have elected people make dire decisions like this one.


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  • VyseLegendaire VyseLegendaire
    June 16, 2012 at 2:25 am

    So Japanese zombie banks gets to dictate energy policy now? Shall the charade never end? Japan's military coup de tat is not far off now.


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    • arclight arclight
      June 16, 2012 at 3:33 am

      hi vyselegendaire

      it looks like the foundations are being set..

      Monday, January 9, 2012
      Noda Administration to Restrict Freedom of Assembly in “National Emergency” from Influenza

      another triumph for ogilvy and maher!!

      “The Japanese government has decided to enact a special measures law in preparation for a new influenza epidemic with high toxicity and infectivity.”

      “The main point of the new law will be the enforcement power given to the national government in an epidemic of a new virulent influenza. If the government declares “a state of emergency”, the government can implement the voluntary ban on leaving home and order the cancellation of assembly. Under the new law, the government will define the preventive measures against the spread of infection and the social disorder as “national crisis management”.

      from the enenews link i provided below as well


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    • farawayfan farawayfan
      June 16, 2012 at 4:35 am

      You do know the military is a major player behind these NPPs, right? There's no coup de tat in sight. They have zombified the public (US and Japanese) so successfully that despite comments of massive protests or 70% opposed the sad truth is the actual strongly opposed public is really <1%. This fight is much harder than your comment implies, I'm sorry to have to say :-/


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    • cossack55
      June 16, 2012 at 5:51 am

      "Japanese zombie banks dictate energy policy"? Why not. Western TBTF banks control ALL (foreign, energy, military, fiscal, monetary, etc) western policies. Forget the nuke industry. The root of ALL the evil is the banks. Andy Jackson was a bit harsh on the Native Americans, but he certainly knew how to deal with the vampire-squids.


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  • arclight arclight
    June 16, 2012 at 3:23 am

    intense pressure from banks and smoothed by…

    The Brand Union/WPP

    “The Brand Union/WPP – a world leading brand design and communications group, which includes Caviar (specializing in premium, leading global innovative brands), Brouillard (global corporate brands) and BIG (global experiential branding). The Brand Union is an agency part of the WPP group, one of the world’s largest communications services groups, employing 135,000 people working in over 2,000 offices in 107 countries. WPP’s advertising agency company holdings include the Grey Global Group, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Young & Rubicam, and JWT (formerly known as J. Walter Thompson Co.), Asatsu-DK (a.k.a ADK).

    Its public relations company holdings including Hill & Knowlton, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Burson-Marsteller (originally part of Y&R Brands) and Cohn & Wolfe. The Brand Union/WPP will be applying its world leading expertise to support Odyssey Moon’s branding, marketing, advertising and sponsorship goals.”

    http://odysseymoon.com/our-partners/128-the-brand-unionwpp.html


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    • arclight arclight
      June 16, 2012 at 3:30 am

      "…In spite of B-M’s claims that the best way to deal with problems is to put one’s own house in order, the usual effect of PR is to maintain the status quo. By manipulating public opinion PR diverts attention away from difficult issues and creates the illusion of change so that a company or government can go about business as usual without having to worry about its reputation. By lobbying government and creating Astroturf campaigns PR helps to maintain a legislative environment on which industry can avoid real change”…."

      This company
      http://www.adk.jp/

      and this quote from falloutman (enenews poster)

      "..WPP has two PR subsidiaries you list that immediately caught my attention. One was Hill and Knowlton PR. Hill and Knowlton were employed by the Kuwaiti government to run a PR campaign in the USA to convince congress and the US nation to intervene in bailing them out of Saddam Husseins invasion. Congress was reluctant to get involved and the American people in general do not want foreign wars. (despite what the media may tell you) So H&K came up with an artifice of slick lies. They got a woman who turned out to be the daughter of a Kuwaiti diplomat to testify before congress that Iraqi soldiers had thrown Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and shipped the incubators to Iraq…."

      lots more on this here…

      http://enenews.com/neurobiologist-could-fukushima-produce-bacteria-resistant-antibiotics-radiation-sure-stimulate-mutations/comment-page-1#comment-183952


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  • Feliks Feliks
    June 16, 2012 at 5:07 am

    What the banks want to atomic energy?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rTbUUqW7o&feature=feedlik

    And this is precisely because everyone is afraid of nuclear energy and do not know it …


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  • skizexq skizexq
    June 16, 2012 at 5:33 am

    [REMOVED, Final Warning]


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  • RememberThis RememberThis
    June 16, 2012 at 5:48 am

    [REMOVED, Final warning.] Rule "4) Not rude or hateful"


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  • skizexq skizexq
    June 16, 2012 at 6:09 am

    ok I guess there are some lines in the sand…


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  • skizexq skizexq
    June 16, 2012 at 6:13 am

    I guess all I hear is a bunch of blah, blah, blah, and noone doing something realistic to contian and mitigate the ongoing wipeout of our N hemisphere.


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
      June 16, 2012 at 7:01 am

      Hi dosdos, right now, Japan has its 34th prime minister since 1945 – so the average PM was in charge of affairs for 1,9 years.
      Which is not a lot to get anything done….wonder if new elections would change anything

      *good to see you back around more often, dosdos. Hope all is good healthwise?


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    • Discordian
      June 16, 2012 at 11:32 am

      Thanks for that, dosdos. Coffee up the nose and on the screen from uncontrollable, hysterical laughter. Elections? It's the world's best one-liner.


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  • andii
    June 16, 2012 at 6:51 am

    Only way to change is, if companies who have dealing with these evil banks were to threaten to close their account. They should do this collectively and all at once. Yes, the business will suffer for a short time but this is the only way to touch the button where it hurts. Choice between money and life. Without heart beats, money won't matter anyway.


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  • Energy
    June 16, 2012 at 6:57 am

    So.. it turns out that:

    1) People would complain nonstop if the companies were moving out leaving no jobs due to lack of power supply;

    2) People would complain if there would be fossil fuel, saying too much of CO2 emissions being released;

    3) People would complain if the for wind power – saying its too loud. Although they are fully supporting it, until its built next to their house.

    4) Noone wants the blackouts, or be burned at home hot summer days.

    5) Nuclear is also not good enough, saying that few old reactors out of 54 got problems, and the land got so radioactive that it doesnt matter anymore if few more meltdowns would take place or no.

    6) As for the banks, banks needs the general population to have the jobs to be able to pay for the bills. Otherwise, just like in the US – the bailouts and secret bailouts would be needed to keep them running. This makes everyone angry as well.
    If banks are doing well – everyone is angry. If banks are not doing well – everyone angry.
    "Because – bank is too rich, and I am too poor".

    So as a conclusion, why dont we just move out to the caves? Or why no one is offering any realistic solutions here, instead of talking nonsenses, that we should go back to the medieval times "yet I am still going to use all the equipment that uses power". As you can see writing poems is not working and poems does not power any equipment that everyone is using on here! :-)


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
      June 16, 2012 at 7:07 am

      …there might be some points you didn't fully grasp.
      Try again!
      :-)


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      • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK
        June 16, 2012 at 10:25 am

        you have a good eye B&B. Amongst some of the other postings that were used to mask the importance of this article, this particular one is a confused attempt at support for nuclear power. It's an indication they're initiating a full-bore campaign to reinvigorate public confidence in nuclear power. What they've yet to grasp is how reality has a way of preempting the best of lies…


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    • faithhopelove
      June 16, 2012 at 4:20 pm

      Energy, you state the following, in which you are misinformed:
      "2) People would complain if there would be fossil fuel, saying too much of CO2 emissions being released;

      4) Noone wants the blackouts, or be burned at home hot summer days.

      …why no one is offering any realistic solutions here"

      ***********************************

      With simple safe, truly green, solar tower concentrator power plants, using thermal salt battery storage:

      (1) 24/7 baseload power can be provided.
      (2) A total land-mass less than 80 miles X 80 miles can meet electrical requirements of ALL 100 million US households.
      (3) No excess heat (and CO2 emmissions, etc.) is generated, using only incident solar radiation.

      Throwing in additional energy generation from PV panels, wind turbines, geothermal, biomass, etc., makes it an obvious 'slam-dunk' that toxic, nuke power is not necessary.

      ************************************
      There may indeed be even more-efficient solar power methods than concentrator solar tower plants, but nonetheless, google understands various advantages in this simple-in-concept, safe, 'green' method:
      http://enenews.com/forum-alternative-energy/comment-page-2#comment-262476


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  • WindorSolarPlease
    June 16, 2012 at 7:09 am

    President Kennedy was the last President who was on his way in putting the Federal Reserve Bank out.

    Dept = Power


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    • WindorSolarPlease
      June 16, 2012 at 7:16 am

      Sorry Correction:

      Debt = Power

      Where is my eraser?


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    • 6feetunder 6feetunder
      June 16, 2012 at 9:15 am

      Reagan wanted to change the situation also.
      Ronald Reagan was on his way to understanding which way the wind blows with his Grace Commission Report. http://wearechangecoloradosprings.org/doc/GraceCommission1984.pdf I remember from The Money Masters that Reagan dispatched some people to Fort Knox who found out that the US owned none of the gold there, so he was a loose cannon.


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      • WindorSolarPlease
        June 16, 2012 at 9:44 am

        Hi 6feetunder

        Ronald Reagan "attempted to address" the problem with the Federal Reserve Bank.

        There has been many trying to get control of the country's banking system

        However, On June 4, 1963, President Kennedy "Signed a Presidential Decree", Executive Order 11110. He was the last President who was on his way in putting the Federal Reserve Bank out.
        This order virtually stripped the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to lend money to the United States Government at interest.

        CLICK>> http://www.freegrab.net/Presassins.htm


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      • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
        June 16, 2012 at 10:18 am

        …and Reagan took the solar panels off the White House's roof.
        Wonderful documentary: "A Road Not Taken", see trailer here:
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9VD6MdEt0U

        *we could have been some steps further re. renewables :-(


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        • WindorSolarPlease
          June 16, 2012 at 8:53 pm

          Hi B&B

          If I remember the story correctly, I think for some reason they had to take the solar panels down. Maybe it was that the white house needed a roof, paint, or something?

          Once taken down, I believe he refused them. Maybe it was because he was pressured into that or maybe it was because a democrat put them up there, who knows?
          That's how I remember the story, I could be wrong.

          President Kennedy was on his way putting the motion into gear, who knows how far he would have gotten. He didn't like Nuclear or pleased with the Federal Reserve Bank.
          Last President who did something against the Federal Reserve Bank. "He Signed a Presidential Decree"

          In my opinion Kennedy was our last best President, not saying he was perfect.
          The rest now owes favors, they know what toes not to step on.
          Corporations are Not people.


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          • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
            June 16, 2012 at 9:12 pm

            The pressure came from the oil companies who oppose all things renewable and try and squash them at every turn. How much money did the oil companies give Reagan to get elected?

            Reagan was FOR oil companies as all Republicans seem to be. The Bushes were well known to be intimately tied to oil companies and desperados like Enron.

            Like all Republicans we can think of, Reagan also was against solar and solar companies. They bash them at every turn, and take away all subsidies if they can. But if you ask them to take subsidies away from oil companies they say that is like 'raising taxes'.

            Reagan said he took the solar panels down so that 'free markets' could rule, even though oil companies are a monopoly, and there is no more 'free' market in most market segments.

            President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels on the presidential mansion amid the Arab oil embargo, which had caused a national energy crisis. The Democratic president called for a campaign to conserve energy ( 1 million solar roofs) and to set an example to the American people. He ordered the solar panels erected in 1979, according to the White House Historical Association.

            http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/tp/History-of-White-House-Solar-Panels.htm

            Reagan also made a secret deal with the Iranians, to give them the military technology they wanted in exchange for them NOT releasing the US Embassy hostages until AFTER the election. This assured the defeat of Carter, and…


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  • patb2009
    June 16, 2012 at 9:11 am

    The banks who hold the debt on Nuclear Power Stations are not the same bankers who hold the debt on Fukushima farms and businesses.


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 16, 2012 at 9:20 am

    I'm posting a few comments…to keep from cursing..
    Restarting Oi, while not sure about cold shut down in Fukushima
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFAThfio-Q4&feature=watch_response


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 16, 2012 at 9:32 am

    Post facto…now…
    This is a bit of a ramble…but then I'm kind of in the mood.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ON6bW1nn4
    Kudos to this cat.


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 16, 2012 at 9:46 am

    Noda failed to listen to leaders of faith..displaying clear opposition to nuclear plant restarts.
    http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=44,10927,0,0,1,0

    This is to be remembered.


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  • TheBigPicture TheBigPicture
    June 16, 2012 at 10:10 am

    Citizens of Japan must not back down. The radiation plants must not restart. The world is counting on you.


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  • dodge
    June 16, 2012 at 10:23 am

    It's the hair of the dog, thinking that the morning drink will mask the effects of hangover. The sad reality in Japan is that they have no way to pay for the ongoing costs of the problems created by these meltdowns, and worse than the bankruptcy financially is the ongoing damage to environment and health. There is no other financial stream able to fund the ongoing howbeit losing battle against worldwide nuclear disaster. Tragically in the United States we also are financially dependent on continuing nuclear power generation — when all goes well it pays for itself, even returns a profit, however we can not afford to stop and pay the costs of "cold shutdown". We are like a drug dependent person, constantly using a bit more, wealthy enough to mask our dependency, but rapidly risking the deadly overdose. Some have survived cold turkey, endured the withdrawal, rebuilt their lives, some succeed with treatment, many relapse, many die. History will a conclusion to this chapter in the next decades. Will we quit cold turkey, go into treatment, relapse, succeed, or die? Addiction is a progressive thing, it always demands more, not less — we are addicted. It is killing us, it already has taken all our resources… Japan will model the worlds future. Will the industry, wealth, power and greed of leaders surpass the wisdom of the population? What does it take for common sense to break through a drug (nuke) clouded mind? Be silent no more, It's a choose your own…


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 16, 2012 at 10:42 am

    What kind of joke is this?
    Japanese Mainstream Media Report on Jume 16 Protest,Pretend As If the 11,000 Strong Protest on June 15 Never Happened
    From EXSKF:
    http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-kind-of-joke-is-this-japanese-msms.html


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 16, 2012 at 10:53 am

    The Economist magazine calls Noda..an unlikely hero for doing what is best for Japan.
    What a deception..when Noda is quiet the opposite.
    He is one them..one of those that would rather lie to the people and allow them to be exposed to high doses of radition and the consequences to their health and mortality.
    He is one of them. Those..that have sentenced their people to "absorb in place"…for MONEY.
    http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/06/economist-magazine-praises-japans-pm.html


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 16, 2012 at 10:54 am

    PS..perhaps he could door to door and explain that to the children…


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  • nedlifromvermont
    June 16, 2012 at 10:57 am

    GO 'NEWSERS!!!!

    What a great thinking, loving community we have on here.

    The truth screams out loudly from your postings, in all ways. The meek attempts to corral us with outright lies and malicious insinuations ring hollow by comparison.

    Nukes are Not Safe, Not Necessary, Not Profitable (if whole life accounting done), and Not Moral. All lies and jests from the Banker Man "forcing on us the devil's illusion" (thank you Bob Marley.

    Jefferson would be disgusted! We, today, gladly imbibe the sports/sex/drug articles and "news" reports which clearly are designed the "tyrannize the mind of man" (and woman.)

    Loud shout out from the United States of Cancer. SHUT THEM DOWN!

    We don't want this bad drug no more! Yowser.


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    • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK
      June 16, 2012 at 11:18 am

      love to you as well nedi! Yes, we must all be on guard…


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    • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
      June 16, 2012 at 1:17 pm

      Why do you think they call it

      TV PROGRAMMING?

      TV PROGRAMS people.

      The 1%; they see the public as just a bunch of pretty simple computers, that they can upload programs into, via TV, radio, newspapers, magazines.

      The skin bag computers will just play the programs back, word for word, without ever looking behind the curtain to see who is pulling the strings and paying the money.

      The only 'dissent' in the Matrix seems to be coming from a few people living 'underground' who browse the Internet, who talk with other 'non programmed' people, and those who question authority.

      Hopefully, someday, more will wake up and yank out the 'programming' tube.

      How Corporations Control Governments, Media, Politicians; Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-corporations-control-governments.html


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  • W8R W8R
    June 16, 2012 at 11:10 am

    Hello,
    Greed does indeed drive the small players..
    But the big boys have another agenda..
    How do you reduce the population, not short term,
    but over generations, in a way that prevents rebuilding?

    Sterilization..


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  • W8R W8R
    June 16, 2012 at 11:15 am

    From another thread:
    "Maybe we should have studied this stuff a bit more before we started 'throwing rocks at it'.. We do not seem to be able to repair the 'window' nor even 'clean up the glass'..
    We should be Evicted..
    The Landlord is coming on a Pale Horse..
    Better clean the place up, if we can..
    Or face the music..
    Its not like we can leave in the middle of the night.."


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    • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
      June 16, 2012 at 1:21 pm

      No where to run, no where to hide..

      It used to be a person could move out of the range of the dictator, war or despotic 1%, but no more.

      The invisible life destroying dictator is ruling the Earth, spreading invisible suffering globally…

      Then the medical Gods in the white temple robes can use more radiation and chemical weapons of mass destruction to try and destroy what was caused by radiation, for a very high price and profit… no sense in an insane world.

      Violence all around, in all directions.

      Where is the peace?
      Where is the joy?
      Where is the love?
      Where is the happiness?


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  • obewanspeaks obewanspeaks
    June 16, 2012 at 11:53 am

    The choice was simple, life or death!

    They have chosen a slow death not only for themselves, but also for the rest of world living downwind from their tiny radioactive island nation.

    Sickness and disease always follows such nuclear radiation contamination release events like Fukushima, especially for any biological life form found living under the jet stream or around the ocean current fallout distribution paths.

    Japan and the other Nuclear countries are killing the only inhabitable planet we have called Mother Earth!

    Where have all the wise men gone?


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
    June 16, 2012 at 11:53 am

    Some voices from NHK:
    "The mayor of Namie said the accident at the Fukushima plant has not yet been contained and government and Diet panels have not compiled reports on the Fukushima disaster.

    An 80-year-old woman from Futaba town who has been forced to evacuate 6 times so far said she is willing to cooperate in conserving electricity if nuclear plants are stopped and she is asked to cut back on power usage.
    She said that the government put priority on the economy and ignores the sanctity of people's lives."

    "Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe has asked Japan's government to end its policy of dependence on nuclear power.
    Oe and 3 others handed an anti-nuclear power petition to Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura in Tokyo on Friday.
    The petition was signed by nearly 6.5 million people across the country.
    He told reporters that the Fukushima accident has shown that people cannot coexist with nuclear plants.
    He also said adults are responsible for opposing the restart, to maintain a healthy environment for children.

    Oe and his fellow campaigners plan to hold an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo on July 16th. 100,000 people are expected to attend."


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  • arclight arclight
    June 16, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    The “Nuclear Renaissance” – dead in the water

    "…Germany and Switzerland have decided to phase out nuclear power,
    despite their substantial dependence on it. Israel abandoned its year-old civilian nuclear programme after Fukushima. Belgium revived a pre-Fukushima decision to phase out nuclear power, using the Japanese disaster as a reminder. Italy and Kuwait gave up their nuclear debut by abandoning plans for 10 and four plants respectively. Mexico dropped plans for constructing 10 plants. All of Japan’s 54 reactors are now closed, and plans for 14 new reactors killed.
    The story of nuclear energy’s unviability is told not just by the
    actions of naysayers, but also by the experiences of those — like
    Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran, Turkey, Vietnam and South Africa —
    pursuing nuclear programmes. All of them want the nuclear option, but
    have no idea how they will finance it…."

    http://nuclear-news.net/2012/06/16/the-nuclear-renaissance-dead-in-the-water/#more-24946


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  • arclight arclight
    June 16, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    Chief temple priest of Fukui Prefecture speaks out against nuclear reactor restarts

    Tetsuen Nakajima: Japan must thoroughly re-examine nuclear energy policy THE ASAHI SHIMBUN 16 June 12

    "…The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came at the
    end of a war that was carried out as national policy.

    Last year, the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
    came at the end of promoting nuclear energy that was also considered
    national policy.

    To me, those two occurrences overlap. Neither happened overnight.
    There is a need for a sense of history that allows us to reflect on
    why these two phenomena occurred.

    If a hasty resumption of operations at the Oi nuclear power plant is allowed, that could lead to a “second Fukushima” accident…"

    "… In that sense, those governments were
    victims who were trampled on by the gigantic nuclear energy promotion
    system…….
    One part of the ethics that is taught in Buddhism is to learn about
    the pain and suffering of others and accept that as one’s own. In that
    sense, people should not pursue their own happiness by having others
    make sacrifices.."

    http://nuclear-news.net/2012/06/16/chief-temple-priest-of-fukia-prefecture-speaks-out-against-nuclear-reactor-restarts/


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    • Pu239 Pu239
      June 16, 2012 at 1:13 pm

      Good find arclight.

      I'm with the buddhists.

      It's that interconnectedness thing again.

      "Cut a blade of grass, and you shake the universe."
      "Accept the pain of others as your own."
      "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
      "Love one another as you love yourself."

      9 Japanese nuclear plants yet to get quake-proof buildings

      By Jason Huth / June 16, 2012 / No Comments

      http://japandailypress.com/9-japanese-nuclear-plants-yet-to-get-quake-proof-buildings-164430


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      • Pu239 Pu239
        June 16, 2012 at 1:14 pm

        Thou shalt not post off-topic!
        /guilty

        http://www.createandshare.es/lifestyles/happy-living/golden-rule-essence-interconnectedness.html

        Buddhism: “Hurt not others with that which pains yourself.” (From the Udanavarga 5.18)

        Christianity: “In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.”(Matthew 7:12 – NRSV)

        Hinduism: “Do naught to others which if done to thee would cause thee pain.” (From the Mahabharata 5.1517)

        Islam: “No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.” (Sunnab)

        Jainism: “In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.” (Lord Mahavir 24th Tirthankara)

        Judaism: “What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow human beings. That is the law; all the rest is commentary.” (Talmud, Shabbat 3 l a)

        Confucianism: “Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.“ (Analects XV.24)

        Native Spiritual Traditions: “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.“ (Chief Seattle)

        Shintoism: “Be Charitable to all beings, love is the representation of god.” (KO-JI-KI Hachiman Kasuga)

        Sikhism: “Don’t create enimity with anyone as God is within everyone.” (Guru Arjan Devji 259. Guru Granth Sahib)

        Taoism: “Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain; and regard your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.” (Tai…


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  • Pu239 Pu239
    June 16, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    Tokyo may already be in a period of increased quake activity

    Researchers urge survey of possible active fault under Oi plant
    June 17, 2012
    http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/analysis/AJ201206170006


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  • CB CB
    June 16, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    Protesting the banditry of the Banks. Uranium and Zirconium found in Tokyo's residents fingernails.
    http://goo.gl/YRJEl


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  • ChasAha ChasAha
    June 16, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    "…the same destiny awaits those who live in other countries when the Japanese tragedy is repeated…" – Alice-Sofia October 26, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    It does not matter if 95% of the people protest against Nuclear Power. They, (the Nuclear Overlords), will continue to FORCE this nightmarish agenda upon us or ALLOW it to happen until such time as an equal or greater FORCE is applied TO STOP the planetary genocide.

    How many DAYS of Fuku:
    463 days and counting…
    1 year 3 months 5 days
    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=march+11+2011


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  • Jebus Jebus
    June 16, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Never Give Up, Never Give In…

    COMMENTARY/ Ryuichi Sakamoto: Japanese will have to continue raising voices against nuclear energy

    "Public opinion polls show many people still hold doubts about nuclear energy. If decisions to resume operations at nuclear plants are made in such a manner, we cannot say that democracy in Japan has matured.

    At the same time, I also felt hope because people began acting and speaking out as individuals after the nuclear accident.

    Feeling they can no longer trust those in government or the mass media, people have begun using dosimeters to measure radiation levels and creating databases by entering such information on maps. Young people have become connected through the Internet and have organized a new style of demonstrations.

    This may be an unprecedented expression of individual initiative in Japan."

    "I believe the only way to change society in the end will be to continue to raise our voices without giving up or becoming disappointed, but with perseverance."

    http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/opinion/AJ201206150073


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 16, 2012 at 5:02 pm

    This is a compilation of various government statements…in the lead up to the restart of Ohi..It can be noted..that blame for the disaster was placed on the tsumani..almost know discussion was given to the damage to the reactors before the tsunami struck.
    Emphasis was placed on the incovenience of the heat of the summer months and loss of local jobs.
    Radiation is invisible..and so is the knife the Japanese government is sticking in the back of the people.

    Inanely Intense Push To Restart Nuclear Reactors – Modern-Day Mass Harakiri

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwmcHeXOew


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  • arclight arclight
    June 16, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    Banks & people's deposits-On the Edge with Max Keiser-06-15-2012

    banks or gambling dens?? with Nomi Prins

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sPeRXvOswLM


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  • arclight arclight
    June 16, 2012 at 9:17 pm

    from the same greenpeace that ignored a big spike in france on 1 june and another on the 4th june that polluted european airspace.. just after the manipulated european atmospheric climate change project (not including the uk as sizewell was spewing all over ireland and later norway) .. while norwegian scientists were getting awards for there work on pollution in the arctic while not mentioning radioactivity once!! (niiiice pr! should get them more funding ??)

    the same greenpeace with a million dollar budget that doesnt respond to emails.. (to clarify, i am not bitter ;) )

    the same greenpeace that got this news wrong, soon to be replaced with

    54 reactors down: Japan breaks free of nuclear power
    Blogpost by Justin McKeating – May 4, 2012

    liked this though..

    "…People still holding on to these nuclear assets may lose even more; the industry ministry has said nuclear utility losses could nearly double from 1.5 trillion yen to 2.7 trillion this year…"

    http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/54-reactors-down-japan-breaks-free-of-nuclear/blog/40238/

    ps if anyone from greenpeace reads this.. answer your emails, your just too rude!! imo

    got the same reception from edf! expected that though

    just saying!!


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 16, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    This needs posting here.
    Japan Times: Oi Decision Draws International Outcry
    http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/06/japan-times-oi-decision-draws.html
    We must stop nuclear power in Japan.


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    • MaidenHeaven MaidenHeaven
      June 16, 2012 at 10:31 pm

      EneNewers can go to their own Green Party website in their country & use the contact form to send the links Heart of the Rose posted above & Anthony posted below & ask them to send a protest letter to Prime Minister Noda.

      It took less than 5 minutes using a contact form. You may have to send an e-mail if no contact form. Simply put in the Subject line Protest of Nuclear Restart in Japan. Simply ask then to send in a letter & also refer them to this site as well for more info on the Ongoing Fukushima disaster.


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  • Anthony Anthony
    June 16, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    *** Radiation levels were so high, the NBC News team on the ground had to wear face masks and full body suits. Even as NBC News drove half a mile from the reactor, radiation monitors were screaming in alarm.***

    http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/16/12249740-japan-approves-reactor-restarts-more-seen?lite


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  • dodge
    June 16, 2012 at 11:25 pm

    To those who replied, that nuke power does not pay for itself… I agree with you, as you are talking about profitability. What nuclear energy provides, is a temporary cash flow which pays the bills. This is why I compare it to a drug addiction, for the casual or beginning user, the drug high seems worth the cost, they speak of the euphoria, the beauty, the high, the insights, but the longer you use, the more you need, the less positive it returns. Nuclear energy cash flows its operating costs as long as the license is renewed, the larger plant constructed, the long term waste left in its temporary storage. Will we address the problem of the long term risks/costs of nuclear energy, and go through the economic pain of stopping? Hundreds of plants are running on borrowed time, while new construction cash flows the operation, it is the hundreds and thousands of years of risk management which even newer nuclear plants will soon be unable to cash flow. It is a bankrupt industry, but an industry begging for government to allow to operate in a desperate hope to continue to cash flow the operation. My point is that not only is there not the money to clean up Japan's disaster, the disaster itself is but the tip of the iceberg. Our own industrial/corporate/military/political leaders are every bit as foolish and dangerous as Japans leadership calling for the restarting of their power plants. We all will share the burden — health, financial, environmental.


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