As Japan Disaster Spreads, Obama Embraces Nuclear Power

[Bluebear]

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Aileen Mioko Smith ( [e-mail] ) is executive director of Green Action, a Japanese environmental group. She has been stating from the beginning of the crisis that the Japanese government has not been sharing critical information with the public. She is analyzing the situation and has been translating reports.

She said today: "We would like to have the international community sanction the Japanese government for wantonly raising the level of contamination allowed for Fukashima citizens. Up until now, it had certain standards for food from the area, but is working to change those standards to make things appear OK. What the government should be doing is broadening the official evacuation zone." http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.org link

Professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, Karl Grossman ( [e-mail] ) is author of "Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power link and "Power Crazy: Is LILCO Turning Shoreham Into America's Chernobyl? link." He just wrote the piece "Obama's Wrongheaded Nuclear Stance -- After Japan Disaster," which states: "President Barack Obama’s support this week for the construction of more nuclear power plants in the United States, amid the ongoing nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, must be considered as among the most wrongheaded and irrational positions ever taken by a U.S. president, against stiff competition.

"As a candidate for president, Obama knew about the deadly dangers of nuclear power. 'I start off with the premise that nuclear energy is not optimal and so I am not a nuclear energy proponent,' Obama said at a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa on December 30, 2007. 'My general view is that until we can make certain that nuclear power plants are safe ... I don’t think that’s the best option. I am much more interested in solar and wind and bio-diesel and strategies alternative fuels.'"

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/46966/

[LaurenG]

1. Great form of power but if we can't master the deadly consequences of its unbridled power

why would we keep using it. Argh

[nc4bo]

Embracing, subsidizing, catering to, making goo-goo eyes at, etc.

Big money always gets the loving touches, us, not so much. :puke:

[FiveGoodMen]

2. And just as with war, people who should know better will agree because they like Obama

(or at least the D by his name)

Nothing to see here, folks...

[Bluebear]

3. 'I am not a nuclear energy proponent,' Obama said at a campaign stop'

I'm sure someone will be along to lecture that we weren't "paying attention" during the campaign!

[AndyTiedye]

11. Disagree Massively on This Issue, but I Still Like Obama

better than anyone else who is likely to be President any time soon.

Those plants will never be built. Nobody wanted one in their backyard
before Fukushima, they certainly won't stand for it now. Even less in
another month, as the radiation continues to spew and those heroic workers
at the plant start dying from the radiation.

The ones in Texas are twice doomed due to the involvement of TEPCO.
Not only is their name now as poisonous as plutonium, they are bankrupt
and the Japanese government is having to bail them out. They have their
hands full at home and will likely be seeking to sell off their share of
this project.

I think the loan guarantees may fall to the budget-cutting axe.

[Newest Reality]

4. Relax,

This is just a bi-partisan effort between all life on the planet and inconvenient nuclear accidents.

We can't understand the genius of the new, six-dimensional chess being played here.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. Well if that news doesn't bring you a warm, fuzzy feeling deep inside,

maybe this will:

Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants
The no-BS info on Japan's disastrous nuclear operators

I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations.

I don't know the law in Japan, so I can't tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the homicides about to happen.

But what will Obama plead? The Administration, just months ago, asked Congress to provide a $4 billion loan guarantee for two new nuclear reactors to be built and operated on the Gulf Coast of Texas — by Tokyo Electric Power and local partners. As if the Gulf hasn't suffered enough.

Here are the facts about Tokyo Electric and the industry you haven't heard on CNN:

The failure of emergency systems at Japan's nuclear plants comes as no surprise to those of us who have worked in the field.

http://www.gregpalast.com/no-bs-info-on-japan-nuclearobama-invites-tokyo-electric-to-build-us-nukes-with-taxpayer-funds/

[Bluebear]

6. Just. Wonderful!

[Rex]

14. Look at it this way.

When the 10 foot long, mutated, nuclear shrimp (with laser beam eyes) comes out of the sea - you and I will be the first to go on the barby! Get it over quick so we don't have to be 'egg hosts' later introduced into the food chain.

Or

We could somehow break them (like horses) early on and ride them onto victory for their shell masters, 'might as well side with the next new dominate species' I always say.

[crickets]

12. TEPCO is backing away from the Texas project for financial reasons

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x284607
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/80619.html

This may mean the project is canceled altogether. *fingers crossed*

[Ignis]

13. It's not fuzzy, but it's definitely a glowing, burning sensation.

[Bluebear]

15. !

[woo me with science]

7. ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=788531&mesg_id=788531

[Egnever]

8. Thank god

I am so glad we dont have a reactionary idiot like the last guy in charge.

[villager]

9. Hope! Change! And the "Tinnest" Ear you ever saw!

n/t

[bvar22]

10. All I can do is laugh.

The farther we fall down the Rabbit Hole,
the more insane it gets.

I'm real close to just drinking the Kool-Aid,
and marching in the idiot parade.

War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
The Invisible Hand will save us all.

[Bluebear]

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