Published: January 6th, 2012 at 7:25 am ET
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Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima 科学のねじれ−−チェルノブイリ・フクシマ後の原子力発電産業, JapanFocus, Jan. 5, 2012 [Emphasis Added]:
[...] The Japanese physicians and scientists who’d been on the scene told horrific stories of people who’d seemed unharmed, but then began bleeding from ears, nose, and throat, hair falling out by the handful, bluish spots appearing on the skin, muscles contracting, leaving limbs and hands deformed. When they tried to publish their observations, they were ordered to hand over their reports to US authorities. Throughout the occupation years (1945-52) Japanese medical journals were heavily censored on nuclear matters. In late 1945, US Army surgeons issued a statement that all people expected to die from the radiation effects of the bomb had already died and no further physiological effects due to radiation were expected. When Tokyo radio announced that even people who entered the cities after the bombings were dying of mysterious causes and decried the weapons as “illegal” and “inhumane,” American officials dismissed these allegations as Japanese propaganda.
The issue of radiation poisoning was particularly sensitive, since it carried a taint of banned weaponry, like poison gas. The A-bomb was not “an inhumane weapon,” declared General Leslie Groves, who had headed the Manhattan project. The first western scientists allowed in to the devastated cities were under military escort, ordered in by Groves. The first western journalists allowed in were similarly under military escort. Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, who managed to get in to Hiroshima on his own, got a story out to a British paper, describing people who were dying “mysteriously and horribly” from “an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague… dying at the rate of 100 a day,” General MacArthur ordered him out of Japan; his camera, with film shot in Hiroshima, mysteriously disappeared.
“No Radioactivity in Hiroshima Ruin,” proclaimed a New York Times headline, Sept 13, 1945. “Survey Rules out Nagasaki Dangers,” stated another headline: “Radioactivity after atomic bomb is only 1000th of that from luminous dial watch,” Oct 7, 1945. [...]
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Published: January 6th, 2012 at 7:25 am ET
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oh, thanks for posting this. This is what the army wrotes, ok, ok. Are there other studies? I always wondered how a place that whas bombed with nuclear bomb could be inhabited so quickly.
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for those in america vote in Ron Paul. the only candidate to stop the FED and maybe give america 4 years of real peace. If a candidate talks against the FED i cant imagine what he would do to the nuclear shitheads
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That’s it!!!
Ron Paul 2012!!!!!!!!
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YES! Ron Paul 2012 !!!
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Sorry, my understanding is that Ron Paul is pro nuke like all the rest.
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Ron Paul is the Tea Party.
If you’re for the Tea Party, then you’re for Ron Paul.
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Ron Paul on Nuclear Energy and Japan 03/15/11 [Video]
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?283690-Ron-Paul-on-Nuclear-Energy-and-Japan-03-15-11-Video
Ron Paul says nuclear power is the safest energy there is. He’s afraid that no new nuclear plants will be built. He thinks they should build more. He thinks BP is a wonderful company and shouldn’t be criticized for the BP environmental catastrophe.
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For him no FED means no regulations for companies or banks or investment gamblers, no health insurance at all for you and everyone else, no retirement plans for any employee absolutely.
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Paul Langley just posted something on this.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1373127464/the-new-hibakusha
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/information-control-radionuclide-control-hiroshima-vs-fukushima/
Also Jesse Barrett-Mills emailed Paul about his film The New Hibakusha A Documentary project in Fukushima. But he needs help$. If any of you can, please help by donating. (fixed income here
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“I Am Fishead” Are Corporate Leaders Egotistical Psychopaths ?
A little different than a serial killer, these charming folks that are easy to like and often very charasmatic. They can get jobs in big business, and has NO SENSE OF RIGHT/WRONG, AND NO EMPATHY.
People are just objects to Psychopaths… They can be manipulated, lied to and deceived or killed.
So why are they allowed to be in charge of large companies and governments?
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The same things apply to military organizations, part of the military industrial complex. They have to be psychopaths, because how else can you kill people without blinking an eye, and watch as your own country men also die all around you, without stopping all of it?
To be in a cold, uncaring, non empathic organization, one has to LIKE to kill, just to be in this job. It only attracts certain kinds of people. What little humanity is left is stripped away by the Matrix machine element of the organization.
In the military it is known as basic training. In corporate America, it is called the profit motive, dog eat dog, annual report.
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They are devoid of empathy and conscience in the first place. Then they are the ones who manage, build and deal with nuclear power.
This elemental and fundamental power of the universe is given to people with no heart, soul, or truth in them. The last people who should ever be around it.
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“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.”
quote Wilfred Burchett
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From Pauls: “U.S. authorities responded in time-honored fashion to Burchett’s revelations: They attacked the messenger. General MacArthur ordered him expelled from Japan (the order was later rescinded), and his camera with photos of Hiroshima mysteriously vanished while he was in the hospital.
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
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Multi-generational coverup. Impressive propoganda machine.
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Yes the luminous watch seems a lot like the banana/taking an international flight comparison. When will we ever learn?
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Great point Many Moons. As King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” The same old propaganda, but with a new generation just as surprised and taken in by it.
When one looks at how long liars like the nuke industry can get away with carrying on such a fraud it can be disheartening. But now we have the net, so that for those who care to look, the truth is just a few key strokes away. The information provided on Enenews has done the whole world a good service.
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This is (of course) outrageous mainstream propaganda from 1945.
What will today’s outrageous mainstream propaganda look like 67 years from now?
It’s very hard to recognize when you’re in the middle of it.
By the way, since that era, radium watch dials were discovered to be lethal to the factory workers who made them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
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I WAS LOOKING IN MY FILES FOR SOMETHING ELSE BUT RAN ACROSS THIS. MAYBE SOME OF YOU NEVER SAW IT:
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Morning, Whoopie. Thank you for bringing this film back again for all to see. For those interested in reading comments from ENE
http://enenews.com/disturbing-short-film-set-future-tokyo-video
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Your welcome chem. Tons and tons of files i’ve kept SINCE 3/11. I’ll never get rid of any of them.
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many moons – i made an image for the banana scale:
http://godzuki76.posterous.com/as-radioactive-as-a-banana
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Oh how clever godsuki! I’ll post that at HP. TY
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That’s neat, godzuki.
You should run a caption contest for it.
I’m not very good at captions, but as a first attempt:
“You think that’s big? You should see the tree it came from!”
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LOL very clever!!!
TY
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+1000
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Nice Banana!
Let us be kind, one to another, for we are each of us together in our pain!
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godzuki – love it!
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Love it.. please add watch and glasses for next version
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When data proves otherwise…and it will…NYT TImes will prove to be blatant shills for the nuke industry..
They are complicit in Crimes Against Humanity…
..and (you guessed it)..MORONS…
Bought and paid for morons…..
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Burchett to Assange: truth tellers face persecution
Sunday, February 6, 2011
By David T. Rowlands
“In the 1930s, Burchett moved to Europe. Appalled by Western government complicity in the rise of fascism, he took many personal risks to help rescue Jews from Hitler’s Germany.
As a frontline correspondent during World War II, he blazed a trail through remote jungle country in southeast Asia.
Shortly after the Hiroshima bombing in August 1945, Burchett’s anti-fascist tendencies set him in opposition to a new bully pursuing world domination, the United States.
In defiance of the US army’s ban on journalists, he made his way to the devastated Japanese city.
What he saw appalled him beyond measure. Burchett’s reports from Hiroshima opened the eyes of the world to the reality of nuclear warfare.
He was the first journalist to expose the truth about the devastating after-effects of the atom bomb.
The US military had wanted to keep radioactive contamination an official secret, concealing the death and suffering it caused for hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians.
Burchett dedicated the rest of his life to exposing the lies told by Western governments.”
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46621
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Reading this while having Iran/Israel/US in the back of my mind really makes me wonder what we might be up to in the not-so-distant future.
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repost to show that the level of sociopathic thinking that comes from the upper etchelons of the military mindset!
Why Nuclear Veterans are Being Silenced, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 6 Jan 12
“The fierce contesting of litigation by the MoD results from the 1950’s cold war Prime Ministerial policy edict of Sir Anthony Eden which decided that scientific warnings of the danger of genetic damage in nuclear test veterans from exposure to radiation could be ignored as
“ a pity , but it cannot be helped.”
This policy edict has been passed down from officials within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to all successive Prime Ministers and upheld for over fifty years . It explains the bizarre backward somersaulting of countless Ministers from their previous firm support when in opposition .
Bizarre, because the only excuse offered is they have become “ privy to new information on becoming a Minister” only they never , ever explain the new information they have become privy to .
This report explains why ……..”
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/01/06/uk-governments-secret-research-on-atomic-test-veterans/
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“a pity, but it cannot be helped.”
excerpts from Oxford Universal Dictionary:
pity – In ME both pite and piete are found first in the sense of compassion, later both are found also in the sense’piety’ -
The quality of being pitiful; clemency, mercy, mildness, tenderness
A feeling of tenderness aroused by the suffering or misfortune of another, and prompting a desire for its relief;
So, just one small example of words misapplied, of meaning distorted, and by the way, aren’t psycopaths neurologically incapable of compassion?
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@or-well,…good catch, ” psycopaths neurologically incapable of compassion?” Yes they are! Notice the quick “But,…after the PROFESSED compassion,…”Can’t be helped”! That is the evidence of a FAKE SHOW of compassion. True compassion can not rest while knowing someone or something is suffering and you COULD help!
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StillJill, brain structure aside, look at the endless formation of phrases like “kinetic action” and “Resposibility To Protect” – R2P such handy meaningless spittle for Media glibbers and glossers – that disguise bombing, killing, maiming, and all the other emotionally neutralising definitions of death, and the grab for power and profit, exploitation and influence !
Rant over. Hope you maintain and triumph!
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If people enjoyed the video I am fishhead that I posted here yesterday and Green Road reposted today and are not familiar with “the corporation” another outstanding video on the topic. You must take the time to experience it. It is 3 hours long and very easy to find. Its getting rather old now and I Am Fishhead makes a good recent companion.
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It is not only an Inhumane form of weaponry, it is inhumane as an energy source. Dangers from nukess are apparent even to the blind… No ☢’s – ☮& ❤ to all on Earth!
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I agree with the sentiment DD (and assume the “blind” reference is not meant literally).
May I draw attention to the questionable practice of describing weapons as humane or inhumane. I suggest there is no such thing as a humane weapon. Some weapons are better at doing what weapons do than are others – weapons wound and kill, some more effectively than others. Neither wounding nor killing is a humane activity.
A typical definition of “humane”: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/humane
A phrase like “humane weapon” originates somewhere in the military/industrial world, from people who want to promote one weapon over another or people who want to lull other people into approving one kind of weapon but not another. Consider the current widespread rhetoric that “nation X must not have weapon Y” usually coupled with “only nations A, B, and C may have weapon Y”. That is an example of modern-day propaganda, in my opinion.
When we talk about “humane weapons” we have already gone halfway down the garden path. (English language metaphor, hopefully not obscure to ESL readers).
NO NUKES (they are all potential weapons, none is humane)
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In Fukushima and Kanto district, the radiation level now becomes as same level as in March. Kanto district: Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Chiba.
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/monitoring_by_prefecture_environmental_radioactivity_level_prefecture/2012/01/1010_0106.pdf
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What? Huh? This is a surprise to both the government and the company… The radiation readings are all ‘normal’ and ‘harmless’, remember? No matter how high they go, that is the official response.
Officially, there is no record of radiation anywhere that is harmful. Only safe radiation is being found by all of the official parties involved.
If harmful radiation is found, please report this terrorist radiation to the police, and it will be arrested.
FUKU has not released ANY radiation, as NONE has been reported. Total amounts have only been ‘estimated’ since none was measured. Radiation is STILL NOT BEING MEASURED DOWNWIND or at the ‘VENT’ stacks.
Continue smiling as any radiation found by ordinary citizens will not hurt you…
If you believe all of this, I have some property on the moon I want to sell you.. Seriously people…
Check into Hotel Reality and take a breath, rather than holding your breath and believing the propoganda put out by self serving psychopaths only interested in appearances.
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In 1962, as a 10 year old boy I was given a radium watch by my grandmother. I used to place it over my right eye at night to see a “faint fireworks display” of the “nuclear noise” causing a flickering glow in my eyeball. Maybe the retinal rods and cones were also being stimulated by ionizing radiation. Now I have a developing cataract in my right eye, and lots of mustard-coloured string-like floaters in the vitreous humor (the clear jelly inside the eyeball).
I also used to wear that watch in bed at night on my left wrist. As a child I would often awake at night with a numb, paralysed arm, from sleeping with the arm above my head (bad sleeping posture pinches or stretches the brachial plexus nerves causing temporary loss of function). So the watch very likely spent long periods of time “resting” on my scalp. At about age 14 I developed a lump on the left side of the head near the front. Mother, a nurse, said it was “just a bony lump after you fell off the back porch”. Many years later, aged about 40, the lump became tender, and was obviously growing. It was diagnosed as a convexity meningioma, and after two recurrences, three craniotomies and three cranioplasties, I made a full recovery. Gratitude to my neurosurgeon Professor Andrew Kaye.
So who says luminous watches are so safe? It is entirely possible that my meningioma was caused by me innocently wearing a radium watch in bed at night as a kid!
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@voltscommisar – I’m sorry to hear you’ve been through so much. Stay well.
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@voltscommisar – Wow, ditto Mack’s comment. Really fascinating cautionary experience there. Very glad you took the time to pass that on here.
>>“faint fireworks display”
Wow, that really is interesting, and does not surprise me. Its against an even background colour (eg, black from shutting eyes for example) that someone would most likely notice the pin pricks of light from individual neurons being stimulated. In your case, with such a dose, it would have been a fire works show…
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090514163759AA41tqX
“We know that astronauts, outside the protecting atmosphere, “see” pinpricks of “light” while their eyes are shut, as cosmic ray photons excite their retinas ( or their brain cells ) directly. Enough gamma radiation could very likely stimulate small current flows across synapses.”
Radon and its daughter products mostly give off alpha particles, but also some beta and gamma. Supposedly its the gamma you must have seen. (but maybe beta as well?) Alpha particles are stopped by a sheet of paper, but beta and gamma are more penetrating and could be “seen” by your nerves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_particle
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Hi voltscommissar. I’m a few years older, and I also had a radium-dial watch as a child. You probably also remember the common practice then of using X-ray machines in shoe stores to check whether a child’s foot was fitting a shoe properly – my mother (also a nurse) wouldn’t allow them to use those on my feet, but she was unaware of the watch-dial issues. As I recall, most people were unaware of any risks. I’m sorry you may have paid a heavy price – so far I seem to have escaped consequences like that.
In the years since, people have become aware of the risks of so many once-ubiquitous things: radium dials, routine frequent TB chest X-rays for children, asbestos, DDT, lead, mercury, thalidomide… on and on.
I wonder which things from the present era will be viewed with horror 50 years from now. I’m sure nuclear power will be among them.
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