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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Sun Jul 20, 2014, 07:47 AM Jul 2014

Japan should honorably resign as host of 2020 Summer Olympics

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Japan-should-honorably-res-by-carol-wolman-MD-Fukushima-Cover-up-140719-646.html

Japan should honorably resign as host of 2020 Summer Olympics
By carol wolman, MD
OpEdNews Op Eds 7/19/2014 at 11:19:20

July 16, 2014: http://enenews.com/japan-doctor-tokyo-longer-be-inhabited-everyone-living-victim-fukushima-disaster-began-notice-childrens-blood-test-results-around-mid-2013-time-running-short-physicians-save-c

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/352/112/859/radioactive-tokyo-resign-as-host-of-2020-olympics/

In September 2013, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) met in Buenos Aires to elect a host city for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assured the IOC that "the situation (at Fukushima Daiichi) is under control", and convinced them to hold the Games in Tokyo .

Abe was lying. Unforunately, the site is nowhere near "under control."Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear reactor complex damaged by the earthquake/tsunami of March 2011, continues to spew forth radioactivity today. The groundwater, which connects with the Tokyo aquifer, picks up unacceptable levels of radiation from the molten reactor cores. There are radioactive hot spots all over northern Japan, including Tokyo. http://enenews.com/officials-radioactive-substances-released-from-fukushima-plant-areas-far-away-being-contaminated-govt-tracking-plumes-using-emergency-prediction-system-large-amount-of-radioactive-substa

The practice field for athletes is only 20 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi. If the 2020 Olympics do take place in Tokyo, Japan will be exposing the world's finest young athletes to potentially harmful soil and water. http://rt.com/news/173048-tepco-disclose-fukushima-contamination-agriculture/ TEPCO failed to disclose crops over 20KM from Fukushima were contaminated.

Siting the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo involves a huge risk. There are so many things that can still go wrong at Fukushima Daiichi over the next 6 years, that one wonders why the IOC was willing to go along with the obvious lies told by Abe-san. The answer is also obvious- the world economy and current political makeup depends on Japan's stability, as Japan has the third largest economy on the planet, and is the linchpin of US policy in the Far East. Moreover, the powers that be are heavily invested in nuclear power, and want it to appear safe. The Olympic decision is meant to reassure everyone that Japan is fine and nuclear power is not to be feared, so as to maintain the status quo. http://enenews.com/japan-correspondent-very-scary-officials-trying-brainwash-public-about-ongoing-fukushima-crisis-professor-wrapping-heads-around-fukushimas-legacy-human-impact-becoming-clear-very-big-serious-issue
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Japan should honorably resign as host of 2020 Summer Olympics (Original Post) unhappycamper Jul 2014 OP
Olympics are all about 1 thing- money n2doc Jul 2014 #1

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
1. Olympics are all about 1 thing- money
Sun Jul 20, 2014, 11:08 AM
Jul 2014

Abe is willing to pay the bribes. He doesn't care about any consequences.

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