Published: August 2nd, 2012 at 3:50 pm ET
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Title: Noda to meet with antinuclear rally organizers
Source: Kyodo News
Date: Aug. 2, 2012
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will meet the organizers of the antinuclear rallies attended by tens of thousands of protesters every Friday outside his office, possibly next week, according to government sources.
Members of the Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes, which vocally protested the July restart of two reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, earlier this week asked former Prime Minister Naoto Kan and other Diet members to arrange a meeting with Noda.
The prime minister has been reluctant to meet with them until now, but the growing scale of the protests has apparently forced a change of stance. Noda intends to listen to the activists’ views but will reiterate his support for restarting the two Oi reactors and explain the safety measures taken, the sources said.
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Published: August 2nd, 2012 at 3:50 pm ET
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There's no debate. And nothing to negotiate.
People want the extremely dangerous and uncontrollable reactors out of their country. All our countries.
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Noda needs to watch the films of reactors 1, 2 and 3 blowing their tops. The Prime Minister must be a fucking retard.
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It's a little insulting. So the PM will meet with the protest organisers and tell them the same lies he's told the media – nuclear power is safe, no NPPs will be restarted unless the experts deem them safe and Japan needs nuclear power. He may even (just quietly) throw in a few threats regarding the safety of the protest organiser's families. It's a little harder to guess what the protest organisers will say….
Does anyone really believe he's actually listening?
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A little show of camaraderie..a soothing tone..several well placed lies…a gracious bow or two.
Noda is not to be trusted.
We have an expression around here.
"He has a split tongue."
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Well, keep in mind that the protests will keep growing if Noda doesn't show some honest intention to shutting down the Oi reactors as soon as the peak of summer heat passes. If he keeps them running after the "emergency period", it's going to get ugly. Noda has already committed political suicide by permitting the restarting of the reactors, this meeting will determine how quickly he comes to realize it.
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@dosdos, i heartily agree. In fact, i think that both Noda and TEPCO will both be out by this time next year. This movement is only at its beginning. The protesters are informed and wary. The media is beginning to relate with them. Workers are leaking new details every week.
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"they" fear civil unrest, they fear the loss of their power.
They can be persuaded to wake up or lose their job and their future.
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It's all about the money…in Japan and most of the big powers. They are teetering on becoming the next Greece and just can't seem to realize an important fact. Mainly that their economy was bad even before Fukushima.
The question is, what would a second nuclear blowout do to Japan or just an acceleration at Fukushima? Their will be far more than just protests, probably mass evacuations to other countries (assuming they will accept nuclear refugees).
My advice to Noda. Stop the nuclear plant restart immediately. Negotiate with a new brain trust of citizens on how they can conserve energy, start up green energy projects, and most importantly raise a super fund (taxes, donations, whatever it takes) to cap Fukushima Daiichi. If they can sheath the Damocles sword hanging over Japan, then the country can revive.
But delay is going to make recovery so much more difficult. Japan faces an enormous loss in world confidence for their exports. Foreign tourism is going to be severely impacted. All economic recovery roads lead straight to the hellhole at Fukushima.
They must resolve the issue of deadly radioactive emissions or Japan will become a toxic wasteland from top to bottom. There is no backup plan. Cap Fukushima soon or make plans to evacuate the island. The clock is ticking…
When everyone can view the lack of workers at 7 AM and see no activity on weekends then they know the government has betrayed them:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ME8HQijVj_I
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Sickputer is very wise.
When a government does not represent the wishes of those they govern, then the government should be abolished and replaced, just as Sickputer has so eloquently stated.
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HE DIDN'T DO IT!..he chickened out.
Noda provides proof of the accusation of coward.
Ajisai] Noda didn’t meet the organizer of protest. “Not in the far future”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/ajisai-noda-didnt-meet-the-organizer-of-protest-not-in-the-far-future/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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I would guess it is tactical… Remind the protestors who is in charge, see if the protest is any smaller this week, prepare other damage control measures, implement whatever just got discussed with American bigwigs this week… that sort of thing.
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Tactical..indeed..
Someone might ask about alarms going off ..Ooi unit 4..137 times in 10 days.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/08/ooi-nuke-plant-reactor-4-had-137-alarms.html
Someone might think to ask..how anyone in their right minds..would restart a reactor..displaying unsafe conditions such as this.
Is he out of his flippin mind?
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PS…pfftt.
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Noda actually thinks that by simply listening to the protesters that will be enough. Wow!
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blimey.. japan today admits to 170,000 AND reports on one of todays protests .. blimey again!
"Thousands stage anti-nuclear rally outside Noda's office
NATIONAL AUG. 04, 2012 – 06:22AM JST ( 2 )
TOKYO —
Thousands of people staged a rally in front of the prime minister’s office Friday, maintaining anti-nuclear sentiment triggered by last year’s atomic crisis at Fukushima.
It was the latest in a string of protests in Japan, which has seen a rising tide of anti-nuclear momentum since Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in June ordered the restart of two reactors…."
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/thousands-stage-anti-nuclear-rally-outside-nodas-office?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-08-04_AM
blimey… ;o
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