AstroTurf
This is why I come here! I learn something new everyday. Fake grassroots campaign huh? Month's ago when I first started visiting the forum it started to feel like Ming the Merciless and his evil illuminated shills had cast their evil and manipulative gaze upon the terrified and huddled masses pushing for all kinds of erratic and drastic behavior. I shrugged the feeling off as paranoia but now I'm not so sure.
Enervated Obama
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So WHY is Barack Obama ‘SHILLING’ for TEPCO security prices?
“This has reportedly led the Obama administration to urge the Kan government to take steps to prevent a further decline in Tepco stock.”
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20110516a1.html
The new enervated Tepco - SENTAKU MAGAZINE -Monday, May 16, 2011
If worse comes to worst, Tepco share certificates would become worthless sheets of paper for 600,000 shareholders as well as for many corporate pension funds that have included Tepco stock in their portfolios. The steep drop in Tepco's stock price has already dealt a blow to investment funds in the United States. Nearly 20 percent of its stock is held by non-Japanese investors. This has reportedly led the Obama administration to urge the Kan government to take steps to prevent a further decline in Tepco stock.
Tepco is now attempting to divert public opinion away from its responsibility for the nuclear crisis to the need to secure a stable supply of electricity. Shortly after its Fukushima power station was damaged, the company announced that it would have to impose "planned rolling power outages" to make up for reduced power generation.
By emphasizing that abandoning nuclear power generation would lead to prolonged outages, Tepco sought to convince the public that it is better to rely on nuclear power generation than endure power outages and that it is time to help Tepco with public funds. This is an ultimate form of defiance by Tepco.
Distrust of GVT Grows
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“Americans’ distrust of government at its highest level ever”
89 percent of Americans say they distrust government to do the right thing
74 percent say the country is on the wrong track
84 percent disapprove of Congress
46 percent think Occupy Wall Street sentiment reflects American views
A deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, with Americans’ distrust of government at its highest level ever. The nationwide telephone poll was conducted with 1,650 adults, of whom 1,475 were registered to vote. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus three percentage points.
In February, a CBS News poll found that 27 percent of the public said the views of the Tea Party movement reflected the sentiment of most Americans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/us/politics/poll-finds-anxiety-on-the-...
By JEFF ZELENY and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN - Published: October 25, 2011
PB reduces trace C-137
Propaganda Press Conference
Contrary to the assertions of the professor, several studies indicate Prussian Blue is effective in reducing TRACE exposures to radioactive cesium.
At a June 30 press conference by the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s disaster response team, Kazuhiko Maekawa, professor emeritus of emergency medicine at the University of Tokyo, said that "the effects (of Prussian blue) on low-dose radiation dosages are completely unknown."
However, per the USA FDA - Prussian Blue reduces trace C-137 doses - Patients contaminated with trace doses of cesium-137, show a similar reduction in whole-body effective half-life with PB.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4997
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110709p2a00m0na024000c.html
http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/03d-0023-nad00001.pdf
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. 03D-O023]
Data from additional literature articles show a similar reduction in whole-body effective half-life after administration of prussian blue in other incidents, including:
A study of 7 human volunteers contaminated with trace doses of cesium-137
see Madhus, 1968
Reports on 19 patients contaminated with cesium-137 , National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement, 1979.
liar or bullsh----r
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Haruki Madarame is now widely called “Detarame” Haruki, meaning he’s a liar or a bullsh----r.
“Newspapers and television shouldn’t say, ‘Don’t worry, it’s safe. You don’t need to run away,’ like Japan’s have.”
http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/life/tell-me-about-it/david-mcneill-whos-tell...
One of the more striking aspects of the local media coverage of Fukushima was the missing word -- “meltdown.” It seemed reasonable to speculate, from March 11-15, that this is precisely what happened. One reason was the repeated news of cesium dispersed in the atmosphere on March 12.
We might also cite the example of MOX fuel and plutonium, a substance so toxic “that a teaspoon-sized cube of it would suffice to kill 10 million people,” in Reactor 3 at Fukushima.
Newspaper and TV reports in Japan essentially banished the words from their reports. MOX is also used in the Hamaoka nuclear plant, which, until Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered it shut last month was largely unknown to ordinary Japanese citizens.
Japanese magazines, however, have been the most critical, unrestrained and informed publications in the world since March. “Shukan Shincho” calls the TEPCO management ‘war criminals’. “Shukan Gendai” dubbed professor Sekimura and pro-nuclear scientists “tonchinkan” -- roughly, “blundering.”
Haruki Madarame is now widely called “Detarame” Haruki, meaning he’s a liar or a bullsh----r. But shouldn’t newspapers and TV news, the public’s watchdog, be timely and up to date?
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Nuclear Shills
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Scandal Taints Japan Nuclear Sector
Japanese officials and electric utilities stage-managed public forums on nuclear power.
Wall Street Journal ASIA NEWS AUGUST 13, 2011 By CHESTER DAWSON
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190482380457649994244200730...
After a series of disclosures in recent weeks painting government regulators and electric utilities as collaborating to stage-manage public community forums on local nuclear power, efforts to restart idled Japanese nuclear reactors have screeched to a halt.
The flap, stems from an early-morning meeting on June 21 between Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa and three executives of Kyushu Electric. Gov. Furukawa now says that he urged the executives at that meeting to line up supportive voices from the industry in advance of the June 26 event and "use the Internet" during the public forum, to ensure that pro-nuclear views got an airing.
Later that day, the three Kyushu Electric officials discussed the governor's request over lunch in a local soba-noodle shop, where one jotted down notes. That memo called for participation in the forum, ideally "from home personal computers," and was disseminated to 100 midlevel utility employees, who then spread the message to hundreds of others internally and externally.
At the June public forum, there were 286 opinions in support of restarting the reactors and 163 opposed. Japanese media have reported that more than 140 of the supporting comments were directly attributable to pressure from Kyushu Electric, enough to tip the balance. That "consensus" was used by government officials as a reason to move ahead with a restart.
"AstroTurf" campaign
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Now, a total of seven electric utilities have acknowledged they sent employees to make up as much as half the audience in regional community forums in incidents going back to 2005, according to a report by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry issued on July 27.
Chubu Electric Power Co. and Shikoku Electric Power Co. said they were ordered to do so by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), ostensibly the government's chief nuclear watchdog. Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda, who oversees the agency, admitted to, and apologized for, those actions by officials. At a parliamentary hearing where he was berated by opposition lawmakers for his handling of the mushrooming scandal, Mr. Kaieda broke down in tears.
The "AstroTurf"—or fake-grass-roots—campaigns, which ranged from packing events with supporters to planting questions and orchestrating email drives, have now badly backfired, sparking public outrage that has made it difficult to restart any reactors taken down for regular maintenance checks over the past five months.
The disclosures prompted Prime Minister Naoto Kan last week to label NISA a "lobby" of the utilities, and spurred the government to propose breaking up NISA by removing its nuclear industry oversight responsibilities and handing them over to the environment ministry.
Brit Rad-Prop
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Brits Coordinate Fukushima Radiation-Propaganda
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/30/british-government-pla...
British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known.
Internal emails seen by the Guardian show how the business and energy departments worked closely behind the scenes with the multinational companies EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse to try to ensure the accident did not derail their plans for a new generation of nuclear stations in the UK.
Appalling
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The Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, who sits on the Commons environmental audit committee, condemned the extent of co-ordination between the government and nuclear companies that the emails appear to reveal.
"The government has no business doing PR for the industry and it would be appalling if its departments have played down the impact of Fukushima," he said.
Call For Resignation
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Call for Chris Huhne to resign over Fukushima emails
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/01/huhne-fukushima-emails-criticism
Andy Myles, A prominent Liberal Democrat has called for Chris Huhne to resign immediately as energy and climate change secretary after emails were released detailing his officials' efforts to co-ordinate a PR response to the Fukushima disaster with the nuclear industry. Civil servants in the energy and business departments were apparently trying to minimise the impact of the disaster on public support for nuclear power.
"This deliberate and (sadly) very effective attempt to 'calm' the reporting of the true story of Fukushima is a terrible betrayal of liberal values. In my view it is not acceptable that a Liberal Democrat cabinet minister presides over a department deeply involved in a blatant conspiracy designed to manipulate the truth in order to protect corporate interests".
The leader of the Lib Dems in the European parliament, Fiona Hall, said: "These emails corroborate my own impression that there has been a strange silence in the UK following the Fukushima disaster ...
Orwellian Spin
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Fukushima spin was Orwellian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/01/fukushima-emails-gov...
Britain's decision to back nuclear power in 2006 was pushed through government by a cosy group of industrialists and others close to Tony Blair, and a full debate about the full costs, safety and potential impact on future generations was suppressed. But the release of 80 emails showing that in the days after the Fukushima accident not one but two government departments were working with nuclear companies to spin one of the biggest industrial catastrophes of the last 50 years, even as people were dying and a vast area was being made uninhabitable, is shocking.
What the emails shows is a weak government, captured by a powerful industry colluding to at least misinform and very probably lie to the public and the media. Can we ever trust government to tell us the truth on nuclear power, or should we just accept that the industry and government are now as one?
No, I think you have it
No, I think you have it right. Call it "Occupy BRAWM."
Ugh...if you could call one
Ugh...if you could call one dude spamming EVERY FUKU FORUM ON THE WEB with the same B.S. an occupation. Isn't it amazing how many people you can manipulate with a Blackberry, laptop, wireless connection and JUST ENOUGH KNOWLEDGE of nuclear power to be a danger to yourself and everyone who stumbles upon your poisonous posts, Rycknyne.
Oh...My...Gyaad. ANTI NUKE
Oh...My...Gyaad. ANTI NUKE GULF SHRIMP SHILLS! Do you hear that...it's the clicking sound of pieces falling together.
Bamp. Let the battle
Bamp. Let the battle commence!!!