Radiation impact on Fukushima kids to be monitored, NHK, December 21, 2011:
- Gov’t will monitor the impact of radiation exposure on children
- In Fukushima Prefecture
- Monitoring program will cover 25,000 children
- Will look for any links between the radiation exposure of the mothers and congenital abnormalities, asthma, allergies or other diseases of their children
- Checks will continue until the children reach the age of 13
- Ministry decided to carry out the monitoring amid rising public concern about radioactive contamination
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Until they reach the age of 13? If they reach the age of 13!!
This is like profiteering from the misfortune of others!
Gleaning information!
Let’s monitor them as they die!
Lets see how they die!
But no actual help for them???
No evacuation???
This is fast becoming a very sick and surreal experiment!!
What the fuck is going on guys???
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ahhh!! i see why the noda video was pulled… he said that all under twenties would be checked if i remember correctly.. any else remember him saying that.. im not too sure??
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18 years old and younger.
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thanks dos dos
the video will be re uploaded after some translational tweaks i hear!
peace
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Oh, quick, run! Get those guinea pigs before some other lab does…if they’re anything like Big Daddy USA, there will be contracts flying from hospitals and military installations to be THE research giant that will “monitor” the children till just shy of when any cancers may appear.
See them looking at things like asthma and allergies? We’ll soon hear ADHD and autism added to that list? What about leukemia? There is “rising” public concern? What month is it? April?
Japan will start to observe the plethora of chronic illness, tooth loss, bone loss and rainbow of cancers that the U.S. Currently enjoys, thanks to our abundant radionuclide levels in soil air and water, gifts from burning, enriching, mining, exploding exploding exploding exploding (1,000 more of those…), dumping, shooting-up then pissing Uranium
Unfortunate that we live in the dark here, in the dEnial as millions of Americans need monitoring too…basically everyone currently alive, but more than being observed, the ;apanese and Americans of all ages need to be HELPED and HEALED. That comes from money: for supplements, herbs and fallout free food and water! Keep Your Studies To Yourselves You Dr. Frankenfreaks!!!
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Hi goathead
Agree +100…
Starting to wonder if these people are human with feelings???
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(Facepalm) sOOOO nice of them to start showing some concern after so long. I also doubt for one second that the powers that be in Japan did not have any idea what was going on. Like all great leadership they will pathologically lie to protect their position of power….just sayin’
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and to think this time last year I thought BP was committing genocide, I don’t even know what to call this…
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A renaissance.
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Hi oscar419,
This disaster, makes BP look like a walk in the park, and it wasn’t/isn’t.
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With zero credibility and a record of zero honour why on earth would people believe that any alarming finding would be reported by the government?
The Japanese people should get together and set up a private organisation to do such testing and offer legal assistance for the victims.
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The results are probably written already and will be published a decade from now. “No positive link of sickness to radiation. The End.” That way they don’t have to pay out.
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A very good idea but once again that mean green $ is a problem for many Japanese. would like to leave but income is a major factor. Imagine your home and property are worth nothing and on and on. Wow, this is unreal but a real nightmare.
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Hi moonshellblue
I agree, when you don’t have the green $ try to organize a private anything, and try pulling yourself out of a situation, that you want to get out of.
People there are stuck without the help that they should have gotten from everywhere.
Time to start loving your neighbor, help each other, and stop the macho stuff proving what country is superior.
The Country that shows heart wins in so many ways.
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It is a hopeless situation for the hard struck victims of radiation contamination, I agree. They need help, support and care, not an empty governmental promise to monitor their despair as it progresses.
My point is that there is no point trusting the government to step up to their responsibilities towards the people that need it the most. The “help” they offer is to watch, monitor, observe the victims, while keeping a lid on the truth in regards to the media.
Any real help has to come from a different source. Setting up an organisation to do this will not be easy, but I’m sure that it will gain massive support. I might not need to be built from the ground up, perhaps an existing organisation will assist in building the new network. NGO’s, religious groups, trade unions, political movements, any kind of existing organisation with a network could assist in setting up the new organisation.
There would be so many tasks such an organisation could take upon itself, once it was in existence.
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I do believe there are small private organizations sources that have gotten some people out. There should have been other bigger sources from all over also.
Can we trust any Governments, so far it doesn’t look like it.
I am calling out all Governments and Nuclear Corporations, what have you done lately for these people? You all have allowed these Monster Plants to be built.
Love your neighbor and help them.
END NUCLEAR PLANTS
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WSP, I’m so glad to hear that they already exist. I want to help them grow bigger. Could you please supply a link to one of them?
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Sorry, I just read your question. Here is some Hemisfear311
http://www1.networkforgood.org/help-survivors-pacific-quake-tsunami
You can also contact you local Churches
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Hi Hemisfear311
The more I read, I am surprised to find out that when they say, “They relocate the people”, it means they do it “With in their Country”, and not out of the Country.
Maybe these organizations know where you can help in that area, of moving people who want to leave??
There has to be an organization that handles something like this.
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Thanks for clarifying as I tend to have trouble with MS brain fog. Yes, we must unite and help any way we can which has enormous rewards on a personal level. BTW I just read TEPCO’s new plan to decommission the reactors in 40 years. Here is the video
http://youtu.be/oYtzbKN9BsA
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Hi moonshellblue
I know I won’t be here in 40 years..The way things are going I doubt my kids will either. Who knows about my new Grand-baby?
To me this sounds like, it will go on forever.
Thanks for the link
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Maybe the “nut-job” 2012ers were RIGHT!
I’m beginning to wonder…
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Hi lokay5
I have no idea what year. I just believe, this disaster is not good for any of us.
The reason I said I won’t be here in 40 years, is because I’m already old.
Who knows, they might come up with a solution to this, or a vaccine??
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You’re old? HA!
Let me put it this way;
In 40 years I’d be 106…
You?
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Hi lokay5
HaHa…I’m right behind you..Maybe we’ll be the record holder for being the oldest, but do we want to be??
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My motto all my life was;
Live fast
Die young
Leave a good looking corpse.
Now…I’m too old to die young!
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The Gaza flotilla should come to Japan and start taking people away to a safer place!! Bring some urgent attention to the matter while saving people directly!!
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Somehow I doubt that the ‘official’ government findings from even the worst hit area with citizens living in the highest radiation zone will amount to a hill of beans. Why am I so pessimistic?
Put it this way… the US government, Greenpeace and just about every other rational, human being with a heart has told the Japanese to get these people the H(#* out of there NOW. There is no doubt in a reasonable person’s mind about the harm and deaths being caused NOW, in Fukushima province, period.
For the government to start ‘studying’ and monitoring this situation without doing anything about it, is beyond words to describe, about how deeply in denial that is (to put it politely).
I will bet that they put special ‘doctors’ on this project, who believe that no radiation can harm anyone, and that smiling protects everyone from radiation, and that testing radiation levels is not needed.. Certainly, no need to communicate to these citizens how dangerous their situation is, so they can get out of there… This is the same ‘roadpmap’ that was used successfully around Chernobyl, all the way up to today.
Nope, my prediction is that it will all be found to be ‘normal’ and ‘safe’ all the way from start to finish.. Then the official government report can state that no harm was done and every disease found was due to ‘stress’ or ‘fear’ or ‘psychosis’. There, that takes care of any lawsuits or upset citizens.. It is all THEIR fault, not the radiation.
Just like around Chernobyl, they will come up with a justification for explaining why in the near future, kids born with no problems will drop from 80% or more to 20% or less. Nope, it was not the radiation, that much is for sure.. It must be the mothers fault, because she had ‘infections’. She is j
The real problem is with women and how imperfect they are, but certainly not the radiation. It is all the womens fault, or the trees fault, or the birds fault, but NEVER the nuclear power plant…
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Hello AGR,
You said:
“There, that takes care of any lawsuits or upset citizens..”
And:
“Just like around Chernobyl, they will come up with a justification for explaining why in the near future, kids born with no problems will drop from 80% or more to 20% or less.”
You are right. Good call. They established the precedent already.
“…it is yours once in lands on you and in you and now it is your responsibility to clean it up.”
And,
…you are lucky because you could also be charged with theft!
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Who thinks this means that a few monstrous births have already shown up?
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Hi Stephengn
I wouldn’t doubt it.
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Just like Fallujah depleted uranium exposure. There are several short docs about the birth defects from our prized bunker busters. Makes you so proud and warm fuzzy feeling, to see such cruel destruction of children. Radiation exposure is a crime against all humanity. I guess greed has won.
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I said (to myself), “Look, this is a slave empire. If you never find radiation harmful, [or if] you can find huge doses harmful, nobody worries you. That doesn’t worry [the] Commission. They can see that. But start to find that low doses are harmful and they’re going to fight you every step of the way. They don’t give two hoots in hell that it kills millions of people or billions. They’re going to fight to preserve the empire. The bureaucratic empire and the bureaucrats cannot tolerate radiation to be harmful. ….I’ve written some things down for you on the fact as a polluter or potential polluter, and radiation is one pollutant. If you say that your pollutant is safe when you know it is unsafe someone can get hurt, and thereby you try to get your pollution accepted at some level, you are guilty of random premeditated murder. That’s a crime. If you say you don’t know whether it’s safe, then you are guilty of a different crime, that’s a Nuremberg crime, experimenting on people. So as a polluter you’ve got to come clean. There is no basis for saying it’s safe when you know it isn’t. That’s a lie and a fraud and a crime.” http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/
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OH SURE, THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT’S STUDY OF IT’S GENOCIDE PROJECT. MONITOR HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS.
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So what could we learn from this? True scientists, researchers and doctors want to know the truth, no matter where it leads. Faux scientists and doctors toe the corporate line, and rarely if ever cross over. They ignore the evidence, cover it up, and deny it exists.
True journalists explore an issue and show BOTH sides in depth. Then people can decide. Long ago, in the US, Republicans got rid of the equal time rule, which was in my opinion, the death of true journalism. Now we have a lot of Faux news and Faux journalists. Often only one side is presented or the truth is given short shrift, while corporate spin is given the most attention and praise.
None of this is new… Very old folk tales talk about people selling their soul to the Devil. Money is the thing… It is a very attractive bait used to hook many a fish. Come over to the dark side.. sell your soul for some pieces of paper.
Once you cross over, the deal is done and the hook is set. It will be much harder to get out, once you are in the net. Now you can be used to increase the suffering and number of deaths. Your work will satisfy the appetites of the dark side hunger for more souls.
Do you believe this fairy tale? Does it have any truth in it for anything going on today?
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Excellent comment.
Scientific ORTHODOXY resists change.
“Science advances one funeral at a time.”
(meaning old guard defenders of entrenched theory)
Happens in many disciplines.
(Added to AGRs’ statement re: false science.)
They aren’t the new high priesthood and “science” is less objective than they would have us believe for many reasons.
Re: fairy tales – I’ll add “and other mythic stories.”
In any story of a human “dark side” we could ask two things -
is someone under the illusion they can have ultimate “control” ?
(money, power, influence, ego defense and gratification, often fear-driven “needs”)
is the tale referring to the tiny subset of humanity that act as predators on the rest of us – psychopaths?
More and more I wonder if the very old (and continuously recycled) stories with a “good vs evil” theme are not based on an old awareness of this predator subset.
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Hi AGreenRoad
WOW you nailed it right on!!!.. +100
Fairy tale is a Horror tale and we’re in it
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Outnow at HP:
“US childhood cancer rates had climbed in the 1950s and early 60s, but scientists were stumped as to why. A 2002 U.S. Centers for Disease Control report calculated that fallout caused 15,000 U.S. canjcer deaths, a figure that many consider a gross underestimate. The following year, a blue ribbon European panel reported 61,600,000 (sixty-one million, six-hundred thousand) cancer deaths worldwide from fallout.
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. Professor emeritus Environmental & Occupational Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health. (Posted at HuffPo last year 2010).
Dr. Magano at http://www.radiation.org explains.
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Japan WE LOVE YOU!! STAY SAFE!!
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+ 1 billion zillion
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TEPCO and Japanese government become one and the same:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/20/us-tepco-bailout-idUSTRE7BJ2CV20111220
Now there is only one enemy.
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I would add the major mass media as well.
It is a trifecta; Government, Large Corporations, and Large Mass Media Outlets….. ALL ONE MATRIX MACHINE..
Watch the movie ‘The Matrix’ if you want to see where this can go if we allow it to. It is also a good movie on another level; to interpret what is going on spiritually inside everyone.
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I would add the Educational system in Japan as well.
Homerun.
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Hi Guys, please tell me if there are better places to post this sort of slightly unrelated statement. But “Scientific” (yeah… right) American has just posted another puff piece slamming the idea that Fukushima’s radiation caused a spike in infant mortality. (of course that entirely ignores miscarriages and infertility, that is harder to capture statistically)
I made a posting there based on the very good work that both Joviation and Captain Dave did the last time Scientific American wrote on the topic.
Counterpunch ran a very good analysis of Mangano and Sherman’s intial report showing that while the report had plenty to criticise about it, when looked at in more depth by a statistitian they hired, the situation was worse than Mangano and Sherman had indicated. Furthermore, the analysis made more sense. Counterpunch of course has not axe to grind in this saga.
I’ll repost the comment I made to “Scientific” American below this comment. If done properly, a statistical analysis of still births, birth rates, death rates, deformities and heart disease pre and post Fukushima in the USA would be very interesting.
Note on this forum information has been posted from a University professor studying birds in the USA that showed areas affected by rain when fallout from Chernobyl came over the USA had huge mortality rates for baby birds. Mangano previously wrote a book about the same effects on infant mortality in the USA after Chernobyl and how after major radiation releases, the US govt revises statistics, adding births in to cover over the sudden drop in fertility.
Anyway, comment posted below.
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First, thanks to Captain Dave and Joviation…
Hi, Counterpunch ran an article looking at Mangano and Sherman’s report and also found problems with it. However Counterpunch hired their own statistition to investigate. It turns out that while there were flaws in the way Mangano put things together, on analyzing the data properly, and pulling in data from other cities, there were clusters where large spikes in Infant death occurred. Counterpunch statistition Pierre Sprey found a cluster of cities with a 42% spike in infant mortality over the prior year which tailed off over a period of weeks that had 25% increased mortality. One would expect the plume not to affect all areas evenly, and areas with open dam water supply to be affected worse than those with wells. Rain outs as a plume passes overhead are another factor. Counterpunch does not have an axe to grind either way and made a very reasonable case.
A good summary can be found here by a poster “Joviation”
http://enenews.com/fox-affiliate-seattle-northwest-sees-35-infant-mortality-spike-post-fukushima/comment-page-1#comment-95609
The original counterpunch independant professional analysis of Mangano’s work can be found here. Just search the page for “Post-Fukushima Infant Deaths in the Pacific Northwest” to find the story halfway down a page of other postings. Their analysis is much more in depth than Mangano’s or Moyer’s.
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06172011.html
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And here is the link to the “Scientific” American article
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/20/researchers-trumpet-another-flawed-fukushima-death-study/#comment-9864
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I am adding info on Mangano to the thread:
FORUM: Effects of low level radiation
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Enenews previously featured this video on what happened to bird populations in the USA immediately after Chernobyl fallout came over. Its absolutely chilling, well worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcBGSr9QGk
And read my previous comment about its implications.
http://enenews.com/huge-spike-in-us-infant-mortality-in-the-four-months-after-chernobyl-video/comment-page-1#comment-93282
NOTE TO ADMIN – I linked to that video directly rather than through your article as the video link in your article now has a typo in it – someone has altered it. Note you now have HTTPV instead of HTTPS at the front of it. Its such a great video I think its worth correcting the link. Here is the page to fix.
http://enenews.com/huge-spike-in-us-infant-mortality-in-the-four-months-after-chernobyl-video
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Ok, final apology for hijacking the thread. If there is a better place to put this “breaking news”, please let me know.
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I have been living in Sendai, Miyagi which is north of Fukushima.
For the sake of my children, we will soon move to western Japan.
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@sendaimom
Wishing you safety, peace and love !
I hope you come here more and give us your view of things, if it isn’t too stressful for you that is.
Be well.
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Hi or-well,
Thank you!
It is good to know that someone cares. And if you care, please help Japanese children by supporting citizen’s groups like these.
http://en.crms-jpn.com/
http://sokuteimiyagi.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-2.html
In a way I was lucky that my parents live in western Japan. But I heard that many people in Fukushima Prefecture have relatives all living in the area, so it is not easy for them to move away.
Mothers in Sendai and elsewhere in Japan are creating grassroots groups to protect children from radiation. I’ve joined one of them.
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@ALL, see sendaimom post Dec21,4.28pm
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Hi sendaimom
Good luck to you and your Family. If you have room to take anyone else, please think about it. Thank you.
Does anyone have Geiger Counter readings in western Japan for these people?
We all will have to help each other the best we can.
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Congenital abnormalities could very likely be increasingly screened for, and mothers “encouraged” to have abortions.
(possibly under a new gov’t “health” program, reducing the chance of an evidentiary link to Fuku)
The trend is declining birthrates in Japan anyway, and the growing bulge of old folks won’t be having babies. It won’t be hard for them to manipulate this aspect.
But I wonder how they will hide the effects on kids already born ?
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It is already known that deformed children go on the books as stillborn and never brought to life after birth. How are they going to check for congenital deformities if no deformed children are ever born?
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Health ministry seeking stricter food-cesium rules
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111221x2.html
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DosDos, infancide is practiced already–as you said. What is not highly advertised..those children of Fukushima or any radiation exposure who want children–and have thyroid cancer..its going to be hard to do. The MALES -well that not as difficult-they can be fathers unless the high radiation makes them chemically sterile. But the girls, its very hard to get pregnant..and then carry a child to term when you are on thyroid replacement therapy. So even if a woman becomes pregnant and the fetus is free of disabilities and not aborted–then the risk due thyroid causes miscarriage. Thyoid cancer is NOT a easy and curable disease, its life altering.
Where are the scientists on all the figures about thyroid cancer, surgery, treatment, daily medications, continuous testing for med levels and for cancer return, and then..day to day life. Sad.
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“congenital abnormalities”, arn’t these happening when the chid (fetus) is still in the mother’s womb? What is the use of testing in children? Shouldn’t the governement tests while the fotus are in the womb and either at birth or when the fotus is lost at or before birth? Not including these in testing is equivalent to almost not testing at all.
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some base lines here
Mr. Ryou Andou – Japan’s Disability Statistics.
This slide and the next two show statistic figures for disabilities in Japan.
Japan’s total population – 126,000,000 people (in 1999)
Handicapped population – 7,510,000 (5.9%)
Physically handicapped – 2,933,000 (in 1996) 67% of those are over 60yo.
Visually handicapped – 305,000
mental handicap- 410,00 people as of 1995
CNS handicap- 1,570,000 people as of 1993. The law of 1995 recognises these people as not only sick, but also disabled.
In 1998 there were 360,000 people in Japan classified as having intractable disease.
http://www.behcet.org.il/japdisablitystatsE.htm
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Fall out man you radiate! Thank you, this is just the info I have been seeking. This whole thing is surreal, are we being attacked? Not behind our backs but before our very eyes.
NO NUKES!!! Put earths reactors in a cold shutdown now!
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Japan still has a dozen facilities, built during the 1920s to house lepers, capable of holding at least 10,000 total with room to expand.
In Okayama, there is an entire island secured to do that, something not too many people know about even though it is in the web page of Japan’s Ministry of Health. Korea also has a similar facility, which housed as many as 5,000 just after the Korean War, as well.
Before 1950 most of the residents soon expired due to TB. A few who were resistant to that disease lived out their entire life; in Japan and Korea, there are still a few hundred who came to these places before 1945 and never knew life outside of the facilities.
These are the fate of the children selected by the government to be ‘treated’. In Asian culture, disabled children are encouraged to be sent away, never to be seen again. Walk through the streets of Tokyo, Seoul or Shanghai, and you won’t see too many disabled people.
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They did the same thing in the US. Read about Kaulapappa
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