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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-11 05:42 PM
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The Fukushima Crisis Demonstrates how Lowly the Global Elites Hold the Common People
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Edited on Sat Sep-17-11 05:52 PM by Octafish
The owners of TEPCO and their servants, the government of Japan, failed to warn, let alone protect, hundreds of thousands of children in harm's way.

Where’s the compassion? Where’s the admission of guilt for ruining another’s life? Where’s the basic human requirement for a civilized society, that is: to treat every other human being with dignity?



Human life is nothing to them. They see other people as things to be used and tossed aside. They are like solipsists or sociopaths who think other human beings are nothing who exist merely to be used for their own comfort and benefit.



Japan ignored own radiation forecasts

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They were never informed of the predictions that they were at risk. In an interview with the AP, Namie's mayor said it took more than 24 hours for him to realize — from watching TV — that the evacuees were in danger. He sent buses to move some of them out. But, unaware of the risks, they were taken to another part of town also forecast to be in the plume's path. Most were left to fend for themselves.

"When I think about it now, I am outraged," Principal Hidenori Arakawa said. "Our lives were put at risk."

Documents obtained by the AP, interviews with key officials and a review of other newly released documents and parliamentary transcripts indicate that the government's use of the forecast data was hamstrung by communication breakdowns and a lack of even a basic understanding of the system at the highest levels.

It's unclear how much radiation people might have been exposed to by staying in areas in the path of the radioactive plume, let alone whether any might suffer health problems from the exposure. It could be difficult to ever prove a connection: Health officials say they have no plans to prioritize radiation tests of those who were at the school.



Question: Did Corporate McPravda inform you that TEPCO and Tokyo sent out a 200-page form people needed to read and return a major chunk thereof in order to make a claim on their losses? That doesn't include the receipts they were supposed to have held on to during their evacuation.

The owners of TEPCO call the tune. And the government of Japan does go along with it. For shame.



Tepco Compensation Rules Outrageous, Fukushima Evacuees Say

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Evacuees from around Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said the company's 200-page package for compensation claims is “outrageous” and needs to be simplified.

The utility known as Tepco started sending out 60,000 application forms this week to those forced to evacuate after the plant started belching radiation in March. The package includes three forms that need to be filled in, one of which has 56 pages. A 156-page explanatory booklet completes the bundle of documents, while claimants are required to submit receipts and other records to support claims.



Their complete and utter disregard for human life in Japan and around the world is not only a criminal offense, their dereliction of duty constitutes crimes against humanity.

Now, just to make sure everything gets fixed up right, the PTB in Japan have selected to lead the clean up the same guy who sold Japan on the idea that sunflowers will soak up fallout and to to think happy thoughts and remember that plutonium's nothing to worry about.



Japan puts ex-spokesman in charge of nuclear crisis

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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda gave a former government spokesman the cabinet post responsible for the Fukushima nuclear crisis on Monday, acting to limit the damage to his new cabinet after the previous minister quit over gaffes.

Yukio Edano was named trade minister, a job that oversees energy policy, making it a key role in a country still coping with the affects of meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant. The plant was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, causing the world's worst nuclear accident for 25 years.



That's not crazy. That's criminal, in every sense of the word.



I. Kid. You. Not.
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