What happened to the respect and honor aspects, traditional in Japanese society? I guess as long at there is criminal elements policing the mismanaged clean up at the Fukushima site: (link)
Homeless men employed cleaning up the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, including those brought in by Japan’s yakuza gangsters, were not aware of the health risks they were taking and say their bosses treated them like “disposable people.”The workers themselves are being denied basic protections and safeguards that are industry standard for anyone working around nuclear or atomic, radioactive materials:
Anonymous former Fukushima worker: We were given no insurance for health risks, no radiation meters even. We were treated like nothing, like disposable people — promised things, and then kicked us out when we received a large radiation dose.
Tomohiko Suzuki, journalist who worked at Fukushima plant: The government called Tepco to take urgent action, Tepco relayed it to subcontractors — and they, eventually, as they had a shortage of available workers, called the Yakuza for help. [...] They were given very general information about radiation and most were not even given radiation meters. They could have exposed themselves to large doses without even knowing it. Even the so-called Fukushima 50 [...] at least three of them were enrolled by the yakuza.
Aleksey Yaroshevsky, RT: There are 25% more openings for jobs at Fukushima plant than applicants, according to government data. Gaps filled, says Suzuki, by the homeless, the desperately unemployed and even those with mental disabilities.
I would not put much stock in Japan's younger, mob element do do the right thing with these workers or even care about the health risks or worker's rights, especially when they are going out and pretty much kidnapping people to work at the severely contaminated site.
History has proven whenever a profit motive is present, worker safety or a living wage are the first things often disregarded and thrown out the window.
These are some of the worst staged images I have ever seen in my whole life. It's quite obvious these images were preapproved and screened or photoshopped before being allowed to be released into the wild:
And as these screencapped comments below easily show, people are wising up to the Japanese Fukushima environmental disaster that is now effecting the health and food chain in the Pacific ocean and innocent bystander's that had nothing to do with this whole mismanaged mess as far away as the Western coast of the US!:
I guess what bothers me the most is the fact that US officials continue to not publicly acknowledge the very disaster that is unfolding right now in front of the entire world with a ton of scientific evidence to back up what is commonly known to anyone who goes out and research for and has a well-functioning brain.
I love the reactions I get from even friends when I try to bring this up in discussions. You are either a tree hugger or "I didn't see it in the mainstream media, so it must not be true."
Newsflash people: there is a deliberate reason this information is not being broadcasted on the likes of Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. The very large corporations that control all of the media in this country are ordering the blackout, themselves probably taking orders from those high in government circles.
Think about this argument for a second, it makes a ton of sense.
The entire Nuclear energy industry has thrived for years with rampant deregulation and even exemptions from harsh environmental laws that would cost them millions in fines from leakage of radioactive materials in holding tanks, drums and even plants that have accidentally released radioactive water into local streams and rivers.
Such a public disclosure would bring new attention to fears that many who care about in the environmentalists world are coming true.
New attention brings stronger laws, more over site and public attention to an entire industry that has shunned
negative incidents like this one and forever pushed the myth of clean, no waste energy.
I call BS on your myth and nuclear waste or rods when a plant goes offline have to go somewhere?
Thanks to tools like blogs, Twitter, YouTube and social networks like Facebook that control and deliberate blocking of any information disseminated is no longer possible.
Poor management, maintenance, construction and lack of over-site lead to the Fukushima environmental disaster the entire world is going to pay for now for years to come. Tepco and Japanese officials still refuse to bring in the smartest minds from the international community, and thus the problem never gets fixed the appropriate way.
Continuous use of photo ops and band aids continue to be official strategies rather than publicly taking blame, punishing those accountable via criminal and civil means and fixing this mess.
I really feel bad for the people suffering from cancer, horrible health problems, or the loss of their entire communities because a greedy energy company couldn't plan for and properly anticipate weather events or earthquakes which are common to the region.
I'm so glad money is more important than people's lives or safety in other parts of the world, not just here in America.
Greed, no matter the costs is plainly a world epidemic!
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