Published: September 20th, 2012 at 5:53 am ET
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Title: Angry Crowd Shout “GO HOME! GO HOME!” to PM Noda and Leadership Candidates in Shinjuku, Tokyo
Source: EXSKF
Date: Sept 19, 2012
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Frankly, things like this have never ever happened in Japan before – ordinary people shouting down the leadership of the country.
“帰れ、帰れ！ 解散しろ！” Go home, go home! Dissolve the Diet and hold election! People shouted at the DPJ leadership candidates speaking atop the van, on September 19, 2012 on the street corner in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
According to people who watched the snippet in the evening news in Japan, the television stations all filtered out the angry crowd.
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Published: September 20th, 2012 at 5:53 am ET
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Hopefully we can muster the same spirit here in the US!!
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@6feetunder My thoughts too! As ENEser comments show – there's agreement that the condition of entrenched power attempting to manipulate, hide, ignore, dismiss, "schmooze", and "leverage" the hearts/minds of "regular" citizens is global. The need for regular citizens to assert human dignity is a call to be answered.
In effort to gather 'sense' of our world journey I've viewed lots of history lectures. In this 50min lecture, Yale's John Merriman discusses "popular protest and related violence" – citizens rising against the state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faOi-xjeMoY&feature=share&list=PLEF98A81312162A8E.
(Merriman is a favorite of mine – the entire series that includes this lecture is "European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202)". This is #10 of the course playlist.)
We've been here before. Yet our intuitive understanding of justice and 'a better world' has not been realized. TPTB or their replacements have prevailed. IMO this is partly due to our not yet understanding the potential to become dictatorial is among normal human psychology. Some of us become "the replacements". IMO until we explore this, accept it, and "grow through it" we'll keep repeating.
(Unless we first completely destroy ourselves and earth that gives us life.)
I am deeply moved by the demand for honesty, justice, and intelligent (self)governance by the Japanese. The spirit is built into us – may it endure this time!
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Thank goodness of being a globe trotter thinking to be an in-crowd enenewser!
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Maybe i need to say one or many do not have to be enenewsers to be in the in-crowd on this globe that is effected by radio-nuclides.
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Censorship and the Nuclear industry are one in the same. The governments of the world are criminals, in more ways than one.
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Noda's "Ceausescu balcony moment"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU53qv5aA1M&feature=endscreen
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this one's also worth a watch, m a x l i. You can tell, from its apologist tone, it's a BBC production. This is one of the few instances in modern history where arrogant murderers were held to a 'full accounting'.
Quick aside: I recall a conversation I once had with another long-distance radio operator, who happened to be operating from out-of Romania. This was just two years before their revolution in '89. I 'worked' many operators from around the world, using 'QRP' (low-power) single-sideband HF-band transceivers. Due to solar conditions, you never know who (or where) you might make contact with. So as to avoid spoofs, along with other technical 'evidence', you'd have to come-up with trick questions for the person you were speaking with, which were later used to verify the contact. In this instance, I asked who the leader was in his country, to which he replied "Nicolae Ceauşescu". He accurately spelled the last name to someone I'd never before heard of before. What struck me most was the sad reserve in his voice. He knew he had only a few minutes to talk with me before they'd come kicking his door down. I quickly realized I was talking to someone who was breaking the law by talking to an 'outsider'. I had the sense to limit our exchange to only five minutes. Never heard from him again…
Execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=MhTflHfPhgc
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@AFTERSHOCK – thanks for sharing – I can 'feel' the conditions of the operator, and of your awareness of the same. Thank you too for your interest and skill assisting communication 'off script'.
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Love you too Maggie! Now I gotta go and do a short business related conference call…ciao!
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@AFTERSHOCK, you have an eye for detail. You know how to correctly spell the name of that romanian dictator, and you even managed to properly write my strange nick.
In the videos, there is an interesting difference between Ceausescu and Noda. You can see that the bloody dictator of decades is in the end a human being, when he gets visibly irritated by being heckled. In Noda's case I cannot detect any human reaction in his face in the same situation. He is emitting his speech like a machine.
About your experience with that radio operator… We are getting a bit off-topic here, so I make it short. No doubt that Romania's living conditions at the time greatly resembled North Korea's and probably people like that radio operator could get into trouble for such activities or for no specific reason. What is astounding to me is that you mention that 'breaking the law by talking to outsiders' thing. I heard about that 'law' before, from people outside Romania, but had quite contradictory experiences myself. While visiting Romania before (and after) the revolution, people generally were not hesitant and even made an effort to openly talk to me (an outsider), to put me up for a night in their homes and to feast me like a king – without any expectations for a reward. At least that is how it was in remote villages. I needed to correct that 'kicking the door in after a few minutes' picture slightly, because it sounded to much like out of a Hollywood movie.
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I value your posts, as well m a x l i. You're probably right that our impressions of life behind the iron curtain were (and continue to be) tainted by our own propaganda machine. The so-called Cold War served its purpose well.
As to people's attitudes towards 'foreigners'. This is a difficult issue, as it depends on contemporary issues as well as demographics. Keep in mind, government's are more apt to focus 'resources' where they'll be more effective. For this reason, large population centers are always of greater interest to those who are tasked with socioeconomic control. The only time you need to monitor and control rural populations is if a potential or active threat is hiding in their midst. For all of the above, 'city folk' are more attuned to the consequences of their interaction with outsiders. Country people are more likely to be living under the old code of cooperative interaction, as means of survival. They may not be as suspicious or anxious about outsiders as their expectations are far fewer and less influenced by those in control.
All of the above is admittedly a generalization and only intended as exploratory explanation to what you've personally observed…
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All these Nodas and Hosonos and Romneys and Ryans are sluts … whores if you like … in service of the Pimp in Chief, US Nuclear Cabal and their toadies in Paris and London … and they must all go now … into retirement, underground … anywhere but at the levers of power
the utter helplessness of those in power to fashion a credible response to the travesty of nuclear fission power reveals their utter impotence and incompetence and calls into question their motives …
How are our political and industry leaders not complicit in mass murder and eco-genocide???
these people who are not speaking out are fancy looking Himmlers and Mengeles, and they should face an environmental inquest fashioned along the lines of the Nuremberg show trials …
peace …
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Well said, Nedli! I would offer an edit and an answer.
IMO, "calls into question their motives" should be "reveals their motives."
Q: "How are our political and industry leaders not complicit in mass murder and eco-genocide???"
A: They absolutely are! They are pure evil!
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PM Noda and TEP.gov have utterly and completely failed the Japanese people. No plan, no execution, no evacuation, no information, no leadership. But plenty of nuke apologies, excuses, and inaction. Also plenty of disinformation, contamination, and economic depression. He still wants to restart nukes, even while his people struggle on, trying to live amidst the contamination that is poisoning the nation. People living on tiny islands should avoid nuclear power. (As should we all.) Goodby, PM Noda.
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"the television stations all filtered out the angry crowd". Reflect on that, regardless of the country you live in.
TV is not a source of news, and perhaps it never was.
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I don't watch so don't know what the American population gets for 'news'. From what I can tell, the occasional special heads toward revealing what 'out of sight, out of mind" conditions that we need to question.
But even these occasional 'in-depths' lack thoroughness, don't dig into study of forces that dominate.
The outcome is that interested citizens feel informed and tell themselves media is "not so bad after all". They relax into a sense of trust, while those same sources, (PBS for example?) pour out other "comfortable" programming. OR – they run a "special" giving insight on "conspiracy and alarmist thinking", assuring viewers these have no rational basis!
Soon, the "in-depth" piece fades as a concern and people go about business as usual, "if it were that bad, someone we trust would tell us, wouldn't they?"
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Noda et all is just a puppet for the power brokers. Shadowy figures, some like fearful caricatures of a paranoid Howard Hughes, living in Tokyo mansions eating South American food, Evian water, filtered bathing water and massive HEPA air filters.
Even those useful radiation shields prove to be only marginally successful…they do have to emerge from their fortresses eventually and breathe the same toxic soup as the winos in the Tokyo alleys.
For Japanese social and political to be successful the replacements for the puppets must come from the honest ranks of unbribed Japanese. Politicians need not apply. Tokyo and Japan need new leadership if they want any hope of surviving the black death billowing out of Fukushima Daiichi.
"There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.”
—Howard Zinn
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SP: "Tokyo and Japan need new leadership if they want any hope of surviving the black death billowing out of Fukushima Daiichi."
I truly believe that it is already too late for most, if not all, of Japan. They are the walking dead, and will be until, in a few years, they will actually be dead. So sad.
So sad that the Japanese government has doomed its people to this fate. So sad that the US government didn't have the political fortitude to do the right thing and send technical and engineering help early on in the crisis. Instead they did the chicken-shit thing and looked the other way, while advising all of the news media to do the same thing.
If you American citizens didn't already have good and sufficient reasons to vote Obamma out of office, this horrific negligence, incompetence, and willful crimes against humanity should provide that reason for you.
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Hey one-percenters
and
top-of-the-heapers -
wanna get real and play for keepers?
Wanna play against more than common sheeple
or prove yourself against those not feeble?
Bored with beating the rabble
and bleeding-heart bleaters?
Care to contest your peers and emerge the Leader?
THEN CHALLENGE EACH OTHER AND THE GRIM REAPER!
Free transport provided to Arena Island
and the ultimate game of Who's A Survivor!
You'll get a sphere of Influence and Power,
guns, minions, resources to devour!
Prove you're the best withion a time limit!
Win and your prize? The skys the limit!
We've all agreed to One World Leader!
It'll ALL be yours! Could we be clearer?
Now you're all here we're changing the rules -
no guns, no ammo, no resources or tools!
Just you and none to play for fools!
Bare hands and wits is all you've got!
Last one alive gets to claim the pot!
So play or die! See ya later! Or not.
Folks we have a Winner! Hmm…looks kind of manic.
When the prize is announced watch the eyes for panic!
"Hey Winner we're back to give you your prize!
It's life on Prison Island! HAHA! Big surprise!
Did you really think we'd let you live free
after proving your inhumanity?"
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Agreed! Send all money-greedy, nuke-happy, power-hungry, war-mongering psychopaths one-way to a remote island where they can beat each other blue, green and black. They will just love it, and the rest of mankind can life in paradise, too.
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All of you here can organize a grass roots movement and go to your local news sources and demand they tell the people of the tragedy that is ongoing in Japan. Demand they turn on their geiger counters. Demand, for Godsake to report the imminent destruction of life on earth. Demand that responsible adults be put back in charge of afairs. Demand that foreign corporations stop raping the land of its resources. For the love of God and all that is good and wholesome on our lonely blue planet, evil must be banished NOW and FOREVER. Write in Arnie Gundersen for the next President of the USA. Arnie! Arnie! Arnie!
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keeping the time-stamp of this post in mind, I just want to say…I love all of you guys! Your insight and fiery-courage fills me with hope for our species…
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This moment does seem to be a kind of "goodbye", doesn't it Aftershock? As a biologist, by education, I can clearly see what is to come. Nor will we have long to wait. For Fuku has its claws well into the people of Japan, and is coming for all of us, elsewhere. Many thanks to ENEnews, Admin., and all you regulars who have shared as this tragedy unfolds. Get out in the sun today, and hug a loved one. Peace out.
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be assured Philip, as long as we all continue passing the lamp of truth on-down the line, we will make it out of this dark forest…
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It is time for reform in governments worldwide. Years of pressure to be passive and "politicaly correct" have taken it's toll on the effectiveness of the public to influence the law-making process. Politicians have struggled to pacify the public in order carry out their crooked proceedings behind the public's back.
We should all applaud Japan for stepping outside the cultural tradition of compliance to speak out against the inconsistencies and regulatory capture.
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@thuddds: Hear, hear!
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When the news of the quake and tsunami was broad casted on the US news, one of the comments was addressed to the "calmness" of the Japanese people. The lines of polite people waiting for food and water, the fact that there was no looting (of course, with the destruction, what could be looted), additionally, we were informed that the respect for authority was a part of the Japanese cultural. What was not mentioned was that the people were suffering from shock and they believed that their leaders would have the answers to the crisis. They were, also, unaware of the nuclear nightmare that had been unleashed at the Fukushima plant. It has taken time for the people to understand the deceit and betrayal of their government and its partnership with the TEPCO energy corporation. In the US, that same corruption of business taking more importance over people is the same. If not for sites such as this, we would have no information because the government has decided to protect the nuclear industry from any adverse news.
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@Michele: Am thinking too – just wondering – the time of quiet might turn out a good thing. Gives people time to let reality soak in, so when they rise to speak out they've got clarity.
Re: "It has taken time for the people to understand the deceit and betrayal of their government …. In the US, that same corruption of business taking more importance over people is the same."
So true IMO, in spades! Yet here in the US, responses seem to either burst out in hair-trigger anger or to assume "nothing much here to see" or "this is just humans doing what they/we can't help but do".
(I realize I'm over-generalizing .. but there's so much it seems we need to reflect on, to understand, if we're to ever find our way to a better world. I know in the wake of Fuku "a better world" may sound "too little, too late", but I opt for possibility over probability.)
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It's just, that the Japanese are dying by the most poisonous plague in human history, and they have just started realizing it.
They would need 'Kamikazes' again for getting into the nuclear plants and remove the sinking cores.
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