Published: February 25th, 2012 at 9:27 am ET
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Title: Italian photographer chronicles nuclear disasters
Source: Asahi Shimbun
Author: By HIDEHARU NISHI
Date: February 25, 2012
Italian photographer Pierpaolo Mittica['s ...] photo collection, “Chernobyl 20: The Hidden Legacy,” has been published in English, Spanish and Japanese.
Recently, Mittica has visited Fukushima twice. In one eerily silent town, he recalls that not a sound could be heard. A child’s doll was left on a chair in an empty house, and dead cows had been left to rot in their pens. [...]
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Published: February 25th, 2012 at 9:27 am ET
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Quote from WHOOPI's article post above,
"So there was a choice in a "worst-case scenario", evacuate Tokyo (which might have led to the collapse of the Japanese economy) or risk collateral damage among the populace. All of which raises a fundamental question — What gives unelected bureaucrats the right to decide what the public is told (or not told), particularly when issues of health are at stake?
Just as with the tale of the boy who cried wolf, many people in Japan no longer trust what they are told. It is now to the point where even if the truth is told, few believe it."
They would have us believe that this disaster ISN'T the worst case senario?
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I wasn't real impressed by this article either. Enenewser's know the truth so whenever someone writes about Japan, we can dissect every single line. But it is a start. Part 2 coming Monday. Notice how writer is remaining ANONYMOUS/pseudonym. Cant say I blame him.
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The sad state of intellectualism today. It is just like school where the nerds or smart people are constantly bullied for being intelligent by simple minded jocks. Now that is a gross exaggeration of stereotypes, but I am talking about America. lol
This his webpage I believe:
http://www.pierpaolomittica.com/home/english-1/chernobyl-the-hidden-legacy/
That page contains images from the book. You can also buy his books from links on the site.
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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 De-populated!
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 at night 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, I'm in awe at the ability to do that.
I wonder how many young people with this level of skill that could make our future world even greater are being snuffed out right now.
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Me too James. How does or-well do that? and so well, quick, SPOT ON. Or-well needs a Blog where all these poems would be in one spot imo.
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Hi you two. I worry sometimes that folks miss the "knives" because it's "just" rhyme. I almost didn't post this one, just started it for me really…"on topic" is sort of a challenge…
I fear the circumstantially-forced returnees will come to be not unlike those in what have become de facto "permanent" refugee camps elsewhere in the world, displaced from health and safety, if not "place".
And as always, the most innocent suffer…
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I really wish you WOULD join HP or-well. So much of what you post would be a welcome addition. But…I understand. Many here feel it's fruitless posting there. I do too because for the most part, threads become DEAD after only a little while. No New Eyes reading articles and commenting. Like now, the "new" article seems dead already.
we'll see how it goes throughout the day.
NEW COMMENTS MEANS MORE BECOMING AWARE. Doesn't happen
long tho
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Hi Whoopie. And All. Apart from some other issues, it's the juvenality of the comments format at HP that disgusts me.
I mean really, "fans", "super users", allowing commenters to moderate? Hey fanboyz an' grrlz…bullshit.
To withstand that – YOU ARE IRON ! And I love you for that.
Threads die here quickly too, but this site itself has a focus, so…
I am not present online anywhere else except as a news reader, VERY occassionaly a comments section lurker, and that's on less than a half-dozen sites.
You see, I don't want MORE reinforcement of the abysmal lack of awareness I already know exists all around me.
I know I'm "preaching to the choir" here, but we all need to remember the silent "congregation" of lurkers who visit here, whether regularly or even once.
That's why I wish it was more respectful, less inflammatory in terms of personal interaction.
Just don't tell or-well not be inflammatory, hehe…
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http://www.pierpaolomittica.com/home/english-1/fukushima-no-go-zone/
Go here to see the collection. I recommend the Chernobyl collection as well. Haunting and tells of what is to come for the area of Fukushima.
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Thanks Maxxforce. Those photos are haunting, and the text reveals details I had not seen before – very different from what we usually see.
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HI, ALL
As for me, or-well, I wish you'd repost your reincarnation poem periodically–it was extraordinary.
Found a new interview on Fuku today/ICTV*; I believe it would be a great intro for newbies in the dark on all this:
http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/11051-facing-fukushima-still.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PacificFreePress+%28Pacific+Free+Press%29
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*I.C.T.V. Victoria is comprised of concerned citizen volunteers whose mandate is to bring edifying and challenging topics to the public eye; topics that the mainstream media ignores or deems too intelligent for the general public. I.C.T.V.'s intention is to break this myopic stranglehold and put vital information back into the rightful hands of the public.
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openeye, I'll look. I have some on paper now. Old school! Like the Egyptians! It's hard to replay and be on topic tho !
(or-well doesn't care, it's all the same topic to little "o"!)
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Here openeye!
Noda the Yoda, Buffet and Gates
died, went to Heaven and
stopped at the Pearlies.
"Guess what?" said St. Peter,
"There's reincarnation!
You're all going back
to be radiation!
It's never too early
to start your half-lives, but
you'll live to the end of earth
watching it die!
And then, in the next lengthy
Age of The Brahma,
you'll be Hare Krishnas
chanting the Mantra -forever!
But wait! There's still more!
In an alternate universe
with di-mensions six,
you'll all be whores
forced to turn tricks
for beings possessed of
HUGE and multiple "bleep"!
That one?
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openeye,
Thx for jumping in here last week with all you have to offer !
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The ghost city of Chernobyl: Eerie pictures that show abandoned disaster zone as world marks 25 years since worst nuclear meltdown in history
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380432/Chernobyl-Pictures-abandoned-disaster-zone-25-years-nuclear-meltdown.html
How many times till we learn ?
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xdrfox, those remind me of pictures by Elena Filatova aka "KidofSpeed". Do you know of her? She's gone into the Chernobyl abandoned zone several times.
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KIDDofSPEED – GHOST TOWN – Chernobyl Pictures – Kidofspeed …
Collection of photos of the Chernobyl area including walkdown comments, accident information and radioactivity data measurements.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
GHOST TOWN – KiddofSpeed – Chernobyl Pictures – Kidofspeed …
Ghost Town – Introduction. My name is Elena. I run this website and I don't have anything to sell. What I do have is my motorbike and the absolute freedom to ride …
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html
Chernobyl Revisited – Ghost Town
Ghost Town – Introduction . My name is Elena. I run this website and I don't have anything to sell. What I do have is my motorbike and the absolute freedom to …
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/
Kid Of Speed – KIDDofSPEED – GHOST TOWN – Chernobyl Pictures …
Good bye, Ghost Town. It's time to leave. We are heading up North, towards the Belorussian border. Belorussia is a separate country. PLEASE NOTE, the …
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/chapter28.html
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Thanks xdrfox! You are also a "kid of speed" !:)!
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The Chernobyl Disaster: 25 Years Ago
Mar 23, 2011 | 59
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The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is next month. On April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 station and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world in the worst-ever civil nuclear disaster. More than 50 reactor and emergency workers were killed at the time. Assessing the larger impact on human health remains a difficult task, with estimates of related deaths from cancer ranging from 4,000 to over 200,000. The government of Ukraine indicated early this year that it will lift restrictions on tourism around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, formally opening the scene to visitors. It's expected, meanwhile, that a 20,000-ton steel case called the New Safe Confinement (NSC), designed as a permanent containment structure for the whole plant, will be completed in 2013. [39 photos]
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/the-chernobyl-disaster-25-years-ago/100033/
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One year after 3/11: First Anniversary of the Fukushima Catastrophe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcqBDnVhAj4
Public Conference 7th March in the European Parliament.
One year after the disaster of Fukushima it is time to analyse its profound consequences, both, in Japan, but also in the rest of the world. With the help of experts from Japan we will assess the situation on site and in the region around the Fukushima reactors. This should help to understand the health consequences as well as the social effects the accident had on the people that are still living in the area and those that had to leave their homes.
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Tell me, Dose this horse look like the lambs being deformed and dead in these articles of late :
Thousands Virus kills and deforms, Cows, Sheep and Goats, Spreading Quickly !
To Mass Animal Death on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1729/546/Thousands_Virus_kills_and_deforms,_Cows,_Sheep_and_Goats,_Spreading_Quickly.html
http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/chernobyl-still-affects-norway/
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Schmallenberg virus A risk assessment in December 2011 did not consider it likely to be a threat to human health[4
They ALWAYS say that. I call BS.
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90 percent + white-tailed deer populations dead, Northern Plains
To Mass Animal Death on Monday, January 09, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1599/838/90_percent_white-tailed_deer_populations_dead,_Northern_Plains.html
Did anyone see this on MSM ???
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#Fukushima – worse than Chernobyl http://sfbayview.com/2012/fukushima-worse-than-chernobyl/#.T0kT4TM6MbM.twitter via @AddThis
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That's the one, or-well! I have to confess I'm not sure I'm getting the full meaning of this line:
for beings possessed of
HUGE and multiple "bleep"!
If it's what I think I have a phrase to send you.
Thanks to all those who have welcomed me! I was doing deep research on DU when Fuku hit, and switched gears so as to warn everyone I could how to stay safe, including, Still Jill, the health food stores (so much ignorance even there).
The most heartbreaking photo I found in my earlier work was of the most severely deformed DU baby out of all the photos: it was barely recognizable as human, raw open red everywhere,, but it was sucking its thumb.
My work before the Depression hit was animal and nature therapy/equine-assisted activities for kids in need. So how to bear this????
The rage in or-well's poems and all the other posts here help to keep me going minute by minute.
BTW Whoopie, the link you sent for a DU site still takes you to democratic underground/DU in that meaning. Help!
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openeye, the missing word rhymes with "tricks". You have two choices. Both refer to a component of male genitalia.
How's that for circumspect!
I do at least try to remember the sensitivities of the audience.
Mostly.
Except sometimes I don't.
Then I blame "or-well'.
I can't even look at those pictures anymore.
Too much sadness and rage.
Check back with you later…
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Thanx or-well. I get it now–awesome.
The phrase I've been trying to find is Latin for dying during sexual intercourse–anyone know it? I can't find it online.
But of course dying would be too kind.
Sorry, Lord, there are just some things I find unforgivable.
I agree about the photos–I just can't make myself look at deformed horses, or any other animal victims.
Where I am the wildlife and local lifestock seem OK so far; I even had an elk doe visit one morning. I'm trying to savor this while it lasts.
BTW my one pet has a year's worth of pre-Fukushima dry catfood. One precaution I could afford at the time!
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"delicato flagranto morto"
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THAT'S THE ONE!
MERCI BUCKETS, AIGEEZER!
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