Published: August 1st, 2012 at 5:21 pm ET
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Title: Fukushima residents say resounding no to nuclear energy
Source: Reuters
Author: Kiyoshi Takenaka
Date: Aug 1, 2012 8:21am EDT
Get out of nuclear power and do it fast, angry Fukushima residents told Japanese government officials on Wednesday at a public hearing on energy policy held in an area ravaged by a nuclear disaster that has whipped up opposition to atomic power.[...]
“I want all the reactors in Japan shut immediately and scrapped,” a grey-haired woman, who introduced herself as a farmer living 65 km (40 miles) from the Fukushima plant, said at the public hearing in the prefecture capital.
“Many people are now aware that the government’s talking of ‘no immediate risk to health’ is tantamount to ‘long-term health risk’,” she said to the applause of about 200 residents packed in a small concert hall.
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Published: August 1st, 2012 at 5:21 pm ET
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Finally, someone that understands Japanese.
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No immediate risk means short AND long term risk.
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@Flapdoodle
August 1, 2012 at 6:48 pm
You are consistently keeping me in good cheer by your statements of accurate truisms.
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how did Reuters get through that story without mentioning the words thyroid, health, children up to 500,000 of them (miyagi etc too!)…
smoke and mirrors from the msm.. they are trying to be responsible because everyone is onto their game.. suspicious version…
good to see some stories about the disaster coming out on the msm.. even though they are not allowed to talk about much.. this article looks cut and pasted from the ministry of information's handouts…?
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stick this info up yer snozzle reuters (with a small R)
The forgotten children of Fukushima.. Thyroid radiation dose cover up by the World health Organisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI7g95c1W7M
and another story reuters arent talking about
London olympic radiation pollution alert 29 july 2012 from la hague waste processing edf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn4d1AI_M5E
and this
NY Times Admits: Mainstream News is Basically Censored Propaganda
Posted on July 17, 2012
"..Important article from the NY Times demonstrating how real journalism covering the criminal political elite in America is basically dead. Even better, is Glenn Greenwald’s article at Salon slamming the complete joke that is the mainstream media, and he shows us all exactly why alternative media is taking over. After all, only an incredible 21% of Americans have confidence in television news, a new low according to a recent Gallup poll…"
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2012/07/17/ny-times-admits-mainstream-news-is-basically-censored-propaganda/
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Syria Spin Machine: UK mainstream lies exposed
Published on Aug 1, 2012 by RussiaToday
While Syria's still locked in bloody confrontation on the ground, another war is also being waged – the media one. And as RT has discovered, even the world's most respected media outlets who have huge influence in shaping public opinion, resort to distorting facts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4YcQ_cT1C4
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Fukushima residents say 'no' to nuclear energy
By Kiyoshi Takenaka
NATIONAL AUG. 02, 2012 – 06:46AM JST ( 9 )FUKUSHIMA —
Get out of nuclear power and do it fast, angry Fukushima residents told Japanese government officials on Wednesday at a public hearing o……….."
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/fukushima-residents-say-no-to-nuclear-energy
interesting comments lol!
this story is going viral, predictably!.. but it really doesnt have much substance imo
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The CBC radio show As It Happens did a short piece on the protests yesterday by including a 30 second audio clip of the protest. It was strong.
There are leaks in the dikes.
When someone sticks their finger in the hole, It's our job to kick them in the balls.
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Yes, they report the issue without taking sides. In the end it just makes them look weak and spineless, giving carte blanch to the PTB to continue their pillaging of the planet.
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we 'newsers are on to them …
watch them tumble out of the nuclear tower, like rats leave a sinking ship!!!
Saikado hantai!!! Genpatsu hantei!!!
"Shut down and scrpapped!!!!" Boo yah!!!!
Go japanese granny farmers, GGOOOOOOO!!!! I am in awe!! in love!!
peace …
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Dear nedlifromvermont,
100++++
'Downwinders'
'Under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990, downwinders who are able to show correlations between certain diseases and their personal exposure to nuclear fallout are eligible for $50,000 in compensation from the federal government.[15] Uranium miners are eligible for $100,000, and onsite participants are eligible for $75,000.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders
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'Downwinders'
'However, there are particular obstacles to receiving needed health care and compensation …it is difficult to access the outdated medical and occupational documentation that the government required even though the government's and uranium companies' own records for Navajo miners are sparse and difficult to access.[16'.
Aloha.
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Dear 'Downwinders',
Welcome to ENENews
We welcome you to post with us and share your stories. We are all 'Downwinders' now and wish to learn from you and your experiences. You will help many others and find comraderie here.
Aloha.
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"Get out of nuclear power and do it fast."
I love the sound of that statement.
"‘no immediate risk to health’ is tantamount to ‘long-term health risk’"
Now they are starting to see through the information doublespeak.
doublespeak: – typically includes the changing or switching of words to make an unpleasant, tricky or otherwise negative situation not sound as awful.
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Reactors everywhere must be shut and scrapped. Meltdowns ruin everything.
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I accident affects the next 22 generations…
… Do that math, Japan.
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Thanks Max 1,
We need to show up and support these fierce folks!
Aloha.
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Applause!!!
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The assumption by government that people are essentially stupid is supported by statistics. However, the exceptions to the mean are the ones who eventually bite them on the rear whenever they try to take advantage of the curve, because they are inevitably heard through the censorship from unexpected sources.
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nearly 50% of people are below average. now that's a fact.
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Like you.
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some people who use assisted thinking may not understand the maths and the humour in my previous post.
it's like there are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don't.
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and that post was paid for by IBM.
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@richard
August 1, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Provided the distribution is normal! In this case it may be more non homogeneous than that like Poisson Dist. There are still a number of people who are willy nilly normal, some normal and modern and others just modern.But Richard stop the brain damage at the source, like not mining uranium and succeeding in making people refuse nukes. Please let me know how the activity is proceeding in Australia in the direction of no nukes. I heard some Indians have bought off some mines there.
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Richard, Ramaswami Kumar has a point. Change your quip to "mean" instead of "average" and I think it becomes bulletproof.
For your collection:
"Why do computer scientists always confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because OCT31 equals DEC25!"
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5683&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=80
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Japan is being taken out by a single nuclear power plant. Who's next? ..France, Germany, East Coast U.S?
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@TheBigPicture
August 2, 2012 at 12:24 am and sickputer immediately following.
Its true and its not entirely true. Because following Gofman even normally operating nukes are putting life on the planet out incessantly, if you look for it. See
http://isisunveiledhenp.blogspot.in/2012/05/normal-operations-of-nuclear-fuel-cycle.html
This is cumulative given the half lives of artificially created elements(Cs-137 30 y) and because of the mountain of ignorance of people regarding the energy audit of energy intensive methods of meeting electricity and energy needs. See how nuclear power programmes go on consuming more energy than they deliver to society outside the nuke cycle and industry, year after year and find out that they consume infinitely more of the resources than they ever give to society during their life time. This means poisoning of the earth for ever by nuclear power programmes because ignorantly the rulers go on supplying energy by all means to meet the demands. This means ever more risk of nuclear reactor explosions and exposure of life to hazards of mining uranium. Note that to meet rapid changes in demand hydro power is needed which means dams and climate change and nuclear effects of dams blowing up the reactors, whether fast or light or heavy. Life is not NORMAL in modern civilization. Break the specialist society now and create a normal way of life. Which means enjoyment of living energy, deep and awesome respect for the negentropic wonders of life(no GM…
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TBP sez…Japan is being taken out by a single nuclear power plant. Who's next? ..France, Germany, East Coast U.S?
SP: Yes, people around the world (and to some extent in Japan itself) have a hard time grasping the massive environmental impact of a nuclear plant disaster.
Fukushima Daiichi was 6 power units in one small coastline location and 4 of the 6 are still emitting radiation at an alarming rate. At least 3 melted down and escaped the reactor vessel and the secondary layer of containment. 3 blew their buildings beyond repair. The massive amounts of excess fuel (aka "spent fuel" which is a misnomer as the rods are deadly for millions of years) at Fukushima made it rank in the top 2 % of all plants worldwide for amount of dangerous fuel.
So yes, a single huge megaplex has brought Japan to the brink of extinction. The megaplex arrangement which is vaunted for efficiency is now revealed as a deathtrap for cleanup crews who must face multiple issues side by side vastly complicating any regain of control.
Fukushima Daiichi is not close to being under control and still has a sizable chance to re-fission and amplify the disaster 100 times current releases. Even at current release levels Japan will be contaminated three fold from today by 2015. Don't expect the Olympic Committee to be picking Tokyo for future Olympics in the next 500 years.
As for other countries who may be next for big plant blowups… I think India and China are the next likely victims.
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How i read this article? A handful of Japanese citizens are moving mountains.
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"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito".
The Dalai Lama
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Dear VicFromOregon,
Right On!!
Aloha
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@VicFromOregon
August 2, 2012 at 2:38 am
That was beautiful, powerful and apt.
Vietnam defeated the USA the mighty nuke!
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