Post-Fukushima masquerade

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Richard Wilcox, Ph.D.

The Japan Times July 3 editorial “DPJ ruins chance at power reform” perfectly summarized Japan’s farce of cardboard cut-out clowns masquerading as a political process.

The Democratic Party of Japan and other opposition parties abandoned their mission of serving the people. Instead of revising the Electric Utility Power Industry Law, they devoted themselves to protecting their own political power.

Politicians lost the chance to reform the energy monopoly — the very system that led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster two years ago. Lawmakers have not advanced the nation toward embracing more “dynamic market competition” that would lead toward decentralized and greener energy systems. Instead, the decrepit dinosaurs in the nuclear and oil cartels have won again.

How ironic that as some estimates put the cleanup costs of Fukushima at a staggering $500 billion, risky schemes are being led by the Japanese government for infrastructure projects in the United States and Europe. What about investing in resolving the Fukushima nightmare so that the 160,000 people who have been displaced by the accident can live free from radiation fears again?

All-Time Darwin Award: The Nuclear Industry

Rady Ananda

Gar Smith’s Nuclear Roulette: The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth is a 14-point condemnation of President Eisenhower’s “peaceful atom,” an exposé of official and corporate lies, and a multi-pronged platform of alternatives.

When Ike okayed nuclear power, “they screwed the pooch,” says political cartoonist Mike DiBari. Ike’s military-industrial complex wrote our death sentence when the US authorized the development of nuclear energy: humanity will not survive this technology, nor will most other species.

“In 2000 alone, civilian reactors produced enough plutonium to make more than 34,000 nuclear bombs,” writes Smith. [1]

This is what the nuclear energy industry is about – producing plutonium, tritium and other ingredients for nuclear bombs. [2]

Nuclear Experimentation: Year 67

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Ethan Indigo Smith

Here is an extremely brief overview of the physical destruction of nuclear experimentation:

Nevada Test Site, multiple detonations. Hiroshima Japan, detonation. Nagasaki Japan, detonation. Bikini Atoll, multiple detonations. Hanford, Washington, storage becoming impossible to contain and? Russia and China and all nuclear nations of Europe have their own containment problems. Simi Valley, California, experimental meltdown and? Madagascar atmosphere, SNAP 9A plutonium powered satellite crashes. Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, meltdown. Chernobyl, Ukraine, meltdown and? Fukushima, Japan, multiple meltdowns and? (Sources here and here)

The question marks above are because not even supposed nuclear scientists know exactly what is occurring in these places.

Over 2,000 experimental nuclear detonations have battered the most amazing place in the solar system, Mother Earth. Aside from the major nuclear experimentation accidents and detonations which have occurred, that we are aware of, there have been countless leaks and lost materials during the last 67 years of nuclear experimentation, mainly in the fields of power generation and martial detonation experimentation. Some releases were less notable as far as the amount radioactive particles released, and some have been kept secret. Omitting information and keeping secrets is typical for the nuclear experimentation industry, it was incepted in secret; and because of its close ties to the global military industrial complex, and because of how insanely dangerous it is, it operates secretively to this day. 

Survival tips for the urbanite: Part 1 – Nuclear Radiation

Rady Ananda
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Though many survivalists like to prepare for TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it), joblessness and homelessness have led me to the end of the world as I know it. With coffee in hand, I opened the warehouse door of my temporary digs to greet the dawn. Only, it’s noon, there’s a downpour, and the smell of rubber from a pile of decomposing tires greets me. This marks Month 4 in New Orleans and two years since I was laid off.

In this vein, I finally started reading Mat Stein’s two survival books, When Technology Fails (2008) and When Disaster Strikes (2011). I also headed over to Jim Rawles’ Survival Blog and Mat’s website, whentechfails.com.

Instead of a lone-wolf, Mad Max world which plays well on film, Stein reasonably argues that individual survival relies on a community of like-minded folks. So plan your survival migration or shelter with room for your core group. The essential wisdom from both books and most survival websites is to plan a strategically sound survival budget, taking into account the climate of where you expect to be after you hit the road.

Few experts would call the US a failed or fragile state given to eco-migration, but most Americans already live in toxic zones, with our land, air and water being systematically poisoned by industry. New Orleans is only one of many areas suffering from hyper-industrialization and weather destruction. Locals call the corridor from here to Baton Rouge, “Cancer Alley.”