Published: November 1st, 2012 at 9:28 am ET
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Tsunekazu Takeda is the current President of the Japanese Olympic Committee [... He is] the third son of Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda. His great-grandfather was the Emperor Meiji. -Wikipedia
Title: INTERVIEW: Tokyo 2020 brushes aside Fukushima: “No one died”
Source: DPA
Author: By Sebastian Fest
Date: Nov. 1, 2012
[...] “No one died, no one got injured from this event. No one,” Tsunekazu Takeda, president of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) and head of the bid, told dpa in an interview. [...]
Takeda, who was elected this year as a member of the International Olympic Committe (IOC), stresses that Fukushima is no longer a problem.
“No one is worried about the tsunami or radiation. Last year we had the 100th anniversary of the JOC, 34 IOC members including Jacques Rogge visited us and they understood how is Tokyo now,” Takeda said. [...]
Another Japanese official was speaking overseas and had quite a different view.
See: Mayor: Fukushima "an unforgivable murder's act" -- Reality is the disaster has not been contained
Published: November 1st, 2012 at 9:28 am ET
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sending...
Lets see what he has to say in about 5 years or so…
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If there is no radiation what the hell are they cleaning and burning and sending to the rest of the world????
Stop burning the radiation if there isn't any!!!
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Excellent point many moons.
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"Tokyo was under radioactive plume on March 15"
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/fukushima-nuke-accident-wspeedi-shows.html
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I'm not surprised, as Japan applies for the Olympic Summer Games in 2020……
We'll see what happens with 7 more years of accumulating radiation. I wouldn't be so overconfident, if I was him.
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a pox upon his house.
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amen
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This is just so sad. They are spreading ignorance and Death!
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You know what to do folks:
- blatant disinformation
- endangering the lives of others
- conspiracy to murder and genocide
MR TSUNEKAZU TAKEDA
Telephone+81 3 3481 2286
Fax+81 3 3481 0977
Email jpn-noc@joc.or.jp
Kishi Memorial Hall
1-1-1, Jinan Shibuya-Ku
Tokyo 150-8050
http://www.ocasia.org/Council/Members.aspx?Hz3oDoo1o8+J2ChZBk5tvA==
Might be able to get him under Article 3(e) on the UN Convention on Genocide:
Article 3
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
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Why on earth would you email HIM if you think he's responsible for genocide? Just a guess, but you're unlikely to get his cooperation.
Here's the people you want:
http://www.icj-cij.org/
Get the International Court of Justice (the Hauge) to issue an order to Japan to Prosecute or Extradite Mr. Takeda for genocide. Frankly, I think there's much better candidates for the Hauge than this clown.
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Great idea Paveway but is he really the one we want? They are too many on the list
Anyway, because of his background he'd be protected by his connection higher up that said extradition won't happen. The world is so corrupt…. see CIJ's affiliation with the UN.
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I would nominate Dr. Mengele-san, the thyroid 'expert' from Fukushima Medical University. But by his own account, he'll be dead in a few years so the fate of Fukushima children's health is really not *his* problem.
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I second the nomination of Smiley The Psychopath Yamashita, the apparition from Nightmare Theater.
I'll stop; or-well goes ballistic about him.
Beware his acolytes when he's gone.
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Yamashita sounds good. Someone has to be the test case to send chill to the Nuclear Village money makers. It has been allowed to go on because no one has put a stop to it. It's about time!
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Japan is a closed society and will never respond to the Hague, ever, ever, ever. But, the descendant of the Emperor Meiji? Every citizen in Japan has been collectively raised to consider his words. He is unaccustomed to any negative response from any public quarters and he will ignore any entreaties outside of Japan, but, it may make him rethink becoming a spokesman for the nuclear industry. Japanese society is in social turmoil over Fukushima and how to respond. I think that Pu239 has a great idea. The more polite, but, firm the letters, the more they will be read. Trashing and threats will undercut every effective letter. So, if you decide to write just to seek justice or to release your anger, it will have the complete opposite effect on Mr. Tsunekazu Takeda's secretary, who will be the one reading the letter if that person's assistant thinks it appropriate to pass it along that far up. All rude letters will go into the trash can. But, if enough letters do come in, they will alert Mr. Takeda to the unfavorable response. Some may think that this is a waste of time because it not a harsh approach. I have never seen an angry approach ever shut down a reactor or increase regulatory nuclear safety protocols. Ever. So, the harsh approach will repeatedly fail.
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"…Japan is a closed society and will never respond to the Hague, ever, ever, ever…"
Absolutely true. They are, however, made quite uncomfortable with outside press suggesting that they lack any compassion for their own people and run their corruption-ridden government with the utmost incompetence. Both are true with respect to the government's response to Fukushima, but they don't like outsiders thinking of Japan in these terms.
And 'quite uncomfortable' may be an understatement. Paranoid, really. That's true of any psychopathic organization and its leaders. They panic and scurry away from daylight like cockroaches.
Japanese leaders must be totally confounded by sites like ENENews. "How is it legal to say there is danger when we have said there IS NO danger? Why don't they obey us like the Japanese people do??"
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Excellent, Pu239, He has just invited public response by making a public declaration.
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JAPAN= TOTAL DENIAL
markww
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Japanese = Totaly Insane
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USA=SELFISH OBESITY
Maybe it isn't the right way to judge over a whole country.
h.
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Meanwhile:
Japan Nuclear Fuel unveils plutonium fuel plant under construction
"Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. on Thursday unveiled to reporters its plant for producing so-called MOX nuclear fuel under construction in the village of Rokkasho in northern Japan.
Its construction in Aomori Prefecture began in October 2010 but was suspended for about a year after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster hit northeastern Japan. Work resumed in April but the facility is only about 3 percent complete.
Its completion is expected to be delayed beyond the target date of March 2016."
Well…I guess so.
Look at the pics for a good laugh. Well done excavation work so far.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/11/191367.html
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The MOX plant was always in the works for Japan's nuclear program from day one. Part of what they see as energy independence.
They're hoping for a mostly-closed fuel cycle so they don't have to rely on any external uranium supplies from the U.S. (because the U.S. is expensive and unreliable). Same reason they'll never stop playing around with CANDU or nuclear power in general. The government sees it as an (eventual) road to energy independence from fossil fuels, virtually all of which Japan imports.
I'm not saying Japan's 'Energy Independence through Plutonium' is a good idea by any means. I'm just observing that it has been the politicians sole motivation (besides the bribes). That is what has really been driving their nuclear program. It was never about what the average Japanese citizen did or did not want.
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This is also the path of the USA, can you say TVA???
Official Republican policy.. "In a relatively brief (two paragraph) discussion, the Republican platform expresses support for nuclear energy, saying that it “must be expanded”. It calls for timely review of new reactor license applications by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It also raises the waste issue, stating that federal government’s failure to address storage and disposal of spent fuel has cost “the States and taxpayers” a lot of money. It calls for a “more proactive” approach for managing spent fuel, which includes the development of advanced reprocessing technologies. Mention of Yucca Mountain is conspicuously absent."
Guess what the "proactive" approach for waste is?? Can you say MOX fast breeders? financed by taxpayer dollars. Less time to renew an procure new licenses? Less oversight? More self regulation of the industry.
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2012/09/18/the-party-platforms-on-energy-and-nuclear/
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I know the U.S. has their fingers in fast breeders too, Cataclysmic. But the U.S. – unlike Japan – has tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium that it needs to do something with.
http://www.shawgrp.com/projects/federal/mox
The U.S. could get by without fast-breeders or spent fuel reprocessing for a long time because they are going to start cranking out tons of brand new MOX assemblies at the Savannah River Site. Yes – even though the licenses for existing nuclear plants that can use them run out in 15 years… or maybe not?
The U.S. nuclear industry is busy building their future right now. Petitions and protests five years from now will be useless.
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@PavewayIII, indeed, We also intend to use laser tech to enrich our own fuel
scares the crap out of me..
http://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac/laser.html
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/laser-uranium-enrichment-makes-a-comeback
DAMN GE AND HITACHI!!! BOYCOTT!
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I agree with your insights about the motivations and plans of both Japan and the US, but, respectfully disagree about the petitions and protests. They may not accomplish all that you would like, but, that the public should remain silent, and those who understand the dangers fail to at least try and alert others is, unthinkable. Protest and public education are just two parts to bringing about change, but, more aggressive approaches cannot succeed without them. Public sentiment MUST be gained for any movement to succeed. This is a significant reason why the antinuclear movement in Germany succeeded. It combined all three – protest, public awareness, assertive action, sometimes illegal action – along with a massive push for green renewables.
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Cataclysmic, both Dems and Reps support fast breeders and Obama gave more to fast breeder research than Thorium reactor research. They see it as a sure way to burn up the growing stockpile of spent fuel rods.
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What burns me even more than this:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201210310021
Money tagged for reconstruction of the tsunami damage is spent on the whaling fleet. A quarter of the funds earmarked for reconstruction ha been spent on unrelated projects, and half of it hasn't been spent yet. Criminal!
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…and this will be exactly the way it plays out in the U.S. when there's a nuclear disaster. Especially if its not an election year.
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Then he should have no problem volunteering to clean the mess up at Fukushima NP and to save commute time move his family there.
Upper class twit of the year, what a moron and he may be Japan's future figure head,
what does that say about japanese society, it is deeply flawed and corrupt.
The divine wind saved your country again as most radioactivity end up in sea and north america, but your ancestors are at thier wits end,
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All of the above perhaps, and I will add they are in total survival mode, with an emphasis on denial. While I find that troubling considering their denial negatively affects us and puts us at risk, I would find deliberate actions more concerning.
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"Of course, the long-term consequences of the radioactive leak are yet to be fully determined. According to Japanese authorities, the situation is under control, but some experts warn of the danger that the plant‘s fourth reactor may yet collapse."
- from article
Of course…
Under Control means…
1. No further major explosions or collapses. (at this moment)
2. We cannot enter reactors 1,2 or 3 and have no idea when we can do so. (a very long time)
3. NON-STOP releases of gaseous emissions and accumulated radioactive contaminated cooling water with NO END in site.
4. The potential for additional contamination with an increased threat of catastrophic global consequences hanging by a thread.
5. etc… The list goes on and on.
There is no date listed on the article, but I would say it's recent.
"…And it‘s already more than one year," Takeda said.
Note: (Already?) The prince thinks it's only been more than a year, when in reality it is closer to 2 years.
* Since 3/11/11
[[[[ 601 days ]]]
19 months, 21 days
1 year, 7 months, 21 days
Are people, like Takeda, misled (brainwashed) or do they know the truth yet continue to use 'deniable credibility' to protect their own selfish interests?
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the Prince is a dumbass,that is what we call them around here.
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I know you can't really get anywhere with a psychopath, but I had to send this guy an email. Now, I feel a tiny bit better.
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At least you tried. You can die knowing that I guess.
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Good. Thx, michellemamarn. They will be surprised to get such a response as he and his staff are unused to receiving any constructive criticism of any kind. There are many instances of leaders who realized they were going in the wrong direction and reversed course. It's hard and unlikely, but, not always impossible.
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I think 'Under control' has a different meaning… not the situation but people
In the meanwhile, I read that, quietly, brand spanking new fuel rods have been delivered to the Tomari NPP in Hokkaido.
No matter how many people die from sudden heart attacks, cancer, leukemia, Japan will keep on selling the safety myth. They are so keen and enthusiastic about hosting the Olympics in 2020 and people will fall for it. After all, gaijins are still living in Japan and they will post youtube video 'n' say "hey everything is OK, I love Japan!"
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That's a really valid observation!
People, 'Under Control'.
hmm…?
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Hey I'm willing to allow and watch Japan unfold her situation as they want to or have to. I just get batty when those plans involve me and the people I love who don't think it all OK like it is.
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Anthony, i do hope you get back to this post and see my reply. I won't be able to blog much with work schedule changes so i'm going around leaving messages for folks. First, thank you for defending me and saying good things about me. It really meant a lot. You often border on the irreverent, and that is a gift in and of itself. Well, an art form, too. I appreciate that you get a little techey, and then make amends. The problem with witty irreverence is the easy slide into irritation. But, being cranky is appropriate given the nature of the topic here. It can be down right depressing. But, you always try to own it and try to keep from projecting your fears onto others here. Most people can't do that, and well, we all need to learn how to do that because we need to examine our deep feelings and emotions about such serious issues or they will overrun us. I don't know if you will find the answer, but, i know you are trying. You have the intelligence and personal insight to do it. Thank you for doing this process outloud
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Thank you vic for this post, I appreciate your words. I hope your journeys do not take you permanently away from us. You are a true voice of reason in a storm.
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I love even the creepy crawling unknown black powder that is everywhere!
Haven't heard much about that topic lately…could it have mysteriously disappeared????….being that it has a very mysterious nature…anything is possible when you don't know what you are dealing with.
Maybe they could work the black powder motiff into there olympic mascot!
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Hi many moons,
The black materials are still there. It's just that novelty has worn off
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WHO is this guy? does he work for WPP?
and his reason for playing down the disaster??
Hitachi, desperate for nuclear sales, will own Britain’s nuclear power enterprise!
"The $1.1 billion deal announced this week propels Hitachi into the ”new and uncomfortable” role as the owner of an entire atomic-power enterprise instead of just a contract reactor builder, says a report in the Financial Times.
Domestically, in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan aims to phase out nuclear power by 2040.
Masaharu Hanyu, head of Hitachi’s nuclear division, hinted that the Japanese conglomerate had little choice but to win business abroad.
“We aren’t doing it this way because we like it,” he was quoted as
saying by the Times. “We want a place to build nuclear reactors.” The
deal comes amid uncertainty about the level of support nuclear
developers can receive from the U.K. government, which has explicitly
ruled out public subsidies for nuclear power."
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/01/hitachi-desperate-for-nuclear-sales-will-own-britains-nuclear-power-enterprise/
Nuclear worker takes legal action against TEPCO, for radiation negligence
“So I decided I’ve had enough of this unjust treatment. That’s why I decided to come forward,”
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/01/nuclear-worker-takes-legal-action-against-tepco-for-radiation-negligence/
and thats fox news for ya!
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Equestrian princeling
traitorous quisling
Nuclears' stooge
elitist schmooze
ignoring news
consequence grisly
kids' health blues
his value measly
he's best removed
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Holy. Good one!
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Thank you, or-well!
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got to post this
did the young prince comment on this breaking situation?? wpp wouldnt let him! imho..
Public Outcry! -Japan nuclear and tsunami victim aid spent on whalers, officials and fighter pilots -RT
“Yoshimitsu Shiozaki, an academic specializing in urban planning at Kobe University, who has conducted his own survey of the spending, believes that little will be done to reverse the spending priorities.
“Legally speaking, there are no problems with these projects,” Shiozaki told the Japan Times, noting that before signing off on huge subsidies, bureaucrats only had to prove that a company was in some way connected to the disaster area, even if it is through a single supplier.
He also pointed out that previous relief efforts in the country, such as the Kobe earthquake recovery in 1995, have also been marred by similar scandals.
“But this time the funds are being used in a more deceptive way,” said Shiozaki.”
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/01/public-outcry-japan-nuclear-and-tsunami-victim-aid-spent-on-whalers-officials-and-fighter-pilots-rt/
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Actually, the prince is 65 years old, well steeped in privelege.
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65 years old
thats young for enenews readership (err except for all the young ladies of course /diplomacy)
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arc, and the men younger in heart when among the ladies.
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word!
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Elitist tosser!
Suffering glosser!
Useless fossil!
Human offal!
He should grovel
with a shovel
stripped of privilege
clearing rubble.
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The prince has done his royal duty.
History will find him one of the greatest deceivers the world has ever known.
Nobility lost…
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For the prince, his father and grandfather -
Has he spoken for the displaced
pressured to return?
Has he spoken for the women
with new life inside their wombs?
Has he spoken for the children
humiliated in school,
untested and at risk?
Has he spoken yet
of victims to be
or the plight of a nation
held tight in nuclears' fist?
Oh venerated figurehead -
where has been your voice?
Complicity in silence
has been your duty and CHOICE!!
Please stay well
so you can meet
your accusers in the docks
of an international criminal court
on your way to hell.
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If Tokyo gets the Olympics, this will be a nice sidetrip:
Visit the island of Honshu, Japan,
on our Adventure Holiday Plan!
Destination: the Region, once named Tohoku,
since Fuku renamed Dead Region No-Go-To!
With side trips all around
The No-Kan-Go Plain
as our well-trained Guides
keep an eye out for Black Rain!
See Cities Deserted and Depopulated!
See Nature Gone Rampant
and Creatures Mutated!
See Strange Glows at night
while you fight off your fright!
(We'll help you avoid becoming Radio-noid!)
You'll wear "culture-traditional"
rice-paper suits!
(Must be fit enough to run in melting boots!)
You'll thrill to Adventure
in finding Lost Treasures
while smiley-face dosimeters
your limit measure!
At the end of your visit
you'll be flown over camps
lit by the Still-Living
Human Glow Lamps!
You'll never forget
the sight of kids swarming
as they shout at your 'copter
their anti-nuke warning!
And when you go home
from this post-nuke disaster
we hope you'll have learned
that you must act faster
because if you don't
this won't be the last one!
Brought to you by NITCO,
the No Imminent Threat Company.
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or-well
Young at heart until his dying day
EneNewsers would be wise to listen to what he has to say
More than a grain of truth he speaks
As he strives to be a protector of the mild and meek
The words slide smoothly off his silver tongue
It is this talent that has kept him young
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I'm hoping that some one or some group MADE HIM issue this PR statement, "Because it is BEST for Japan" either that or he is in training to assume his future position as the Public Face of the Utility Gangs in Japan…
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The spectre of economic collapse may look far more frightening to him than a few hundred-thousand deaths that will unfold over decades and be unnoticed and absorbed into the overall death rate by a few percentage points. They have been irradiated before, quite heavily, and survived with the lowest cancer rates of an industrialized country. Since cancer is the least occurring of the illnesses caused by radiation, it is too bad it is the most talked about. Radiation induced heart disease, diabetes, scourges – he is as unaware of these as are 99% of the world.
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Completely on point – thanks vic.
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The prince is a fucking imbecile, anyone that listens to him is a bigger one.
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Could this have been a mistake in translation? Everyone got injured from Fukushima… Everyone is worried about radiation?
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Boycott Japan whilst they spout this trash
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Re-write of history it sounds like. All nations do it.Japan, for example, and the "Comfort Women"–or the terrible medical experiments done on innocent men/women/children during WWII in the camps in Asia. Or in having Japanese citizens think they should attack with bamboo spears..during WWII. Reading history is interesting as long as one knows what the truth is…Fukushima will be the start of tremendous illness/deaths in Japan. Personally, I do not think this should be an approach for downsizing a population…which is what is going to happen…
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Concerning the tsunami debris that is washing up on the shores of the U.S., a poster on another thread noted that not to worry about it being radioactive because it was on lost prior to the meltdowns, so it would be "clean." NO, I disagree, it has had all of the time at sea to be rained down upon with all sorts of radionuclides, so it WILL be bad stuff. And, the thoughts of incinerating it should be abolished for this reason.
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Sol Man, Coast Guard must have agreed with you, this is why the ship that showed up first, was not boarded, was not scraped, even though, it would have been worth a small fortune, was not returned to it's rightful owner, but rather sunk by missile to Davey, no talking, Jones locker.
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A little background reading about the 2020 politics for the bid:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/so20120912a1.html
SP: The three candidates are Tokyo, Istanbul, and Madrid. The packaged bids must be sent to the IOC by January 2013. The winner will be announced in September 2013.
Lots of potential corruption in the committee process, and I won't be surprised if the nucleocrats on the committee pull a victory for the home team. A sympathy vote if you will. The wild card is that there is still ten months to go before the vote. Lots of potential for some really bad news out at the coastal nuclear hellhole.
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Did anyone listen to the 10/29 interview with Rense and Michael Collins?
Rense says that Yoichi Shimatsu believes the Japanese are involved in nuclear weapons manufacture…
Took place at Fukushima Reactor 4.
And on 3/11, a helicopter flew over Reactor 4 and picked up by way of a cable a large black-colored container and sped away with it.
Weird, huh?
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_102912.mp3
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Ever wonder why the people killed off the monarchy, with an axe? This is a good reason! Ever wonder why the Chinese would not sell the Japanese their abandoned cities? They remember Nanking! http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust-World/dp/0140277447
What goes around comes around. China would love to see Japan drop dead. The trouble is all of the Northern Hemisphere is down-wind from Fukushima. http://www.radiationhealthnews.com
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