Octafish
Octafish's JournalDo you honestly believe a small group would use power and privilege for nefarious ends?
I do. F'r instance:
Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich
And regarding who really runs things still:
Arrogant CIA Disobeys Orders in Viet Nam
There's not a supergangster alive today who doesn't owe it all to these two crooks:
Between the two (and Pruneface Ronnie, the Cardboard Messiah), they ran the executive for 20 years.
That's more than enough time to pretty much stock each agency with their cronies and unindicted co-conspirators.
Lots of money in war and oil and nooks.
Trivializing Fukushima
Before all the tarps are up, ask: Why would the Washington Post want readers to believe "Fukushima is overrated?"
Why the Washington Post's Description of the Nuclear Disaster as non-catastrophic is both Callous and Erroneous
Trivializing Fukushima
by LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
CounterPunch May 01, 2012
On April 23, 2012, the editorial board of the Washington Post proclaimed that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan was non-catastrophic. The writers eagerly promoted nuclear power while omitting inconvenient deal-breakers such as cost, waste, safety, health risks and human rights. The board taunted Germany and Japan and the anti-nuclear movement for looking to renewables but misrepresented Germanys successes. They showed a shocking disregard for the suffering in Japan due to a very real catastrophe that is by no means over. And they utterly ignored those who have already paid the price for the nuclear fuel chain, like indigenous uranium miners, and its newest victims, the children of Japan whose future has been stolen.
SNIP...
WP: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was scary but ultimately non-catastrophic.
FACT: The Post is writing in the past tense about an accident that is not over. The extent of radioactive contamination is still unknown and growing. Unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi remains precarious and could cause further, and greater, harm, with its high-level radioactive waste pool on the brink of potential collapse.
To the existing human suffering in Japan will be added, over time, countless people who will sicken and die prematurely as a result of their exposure to the Fukushima radiation. In addition to cancer, likely negative health effects can include birth defects, spontaneous abortions, brain tumors, diabetes, heart disease, and genetic and teratogenic mutations. Emotional suffering should not be dismissed. The Post writers would do well to imagine their own children forbidden to play outside; evacuated hundreds of miles away; or shamed into consuming radioactively contaminated food and milk. In Japan, stress, grief and guilt have split families and entire communities apart. Farmers and fishermen have lost their livelihoods due to radiological contamination of land and sea. Thousands are being forced to accept permanent exile from their homes, jobs, friends, land and everything they once knew. With a 20km (12.4 mile) area around the stricken reactors a dead zone for a minimum of decades and potentially centuries, it is hard to know what more the Post editorial writers need to qualify as catastrophic.
CONTINUED...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/01/trivializing-fukushima/
And a PDF from BeyondNuclear.org:
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/Why%20the%20WP%20is%20Wrong.pdf
Move on. Move on. Further! Miles further! Uh. Forget about it!
This.
British commandos arrested in civilian clothes after shooting dead an Iraqi policeman who'd approached their car, which, for some reason, was filled with bomb-making gear. Rather than explaining it to a judge, the British sent in tanks to bust them out of jail.
Iraqi prison stormed by British tanks and helicopters
"It works the same in every country." -- Reichsmarschall Hermann Wilhelm Göring
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