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TOKYO — Dozens of protesters shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant as it restarted Sunday, the first to go back online since Japan shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Ohi nuclear plant’s reactor No. 3 returned to operation despite a deep division in public opinion. Last month, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restarts of reactors No. 3 and nearby No. 4, saying people’s living standards can’t be maintained without nuclear energy. Many citizens are against a return to nuclear power because of safety fears after the Fukushima accident.
Jul. 1, 2012 - Dozens of protesters shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant as it restarted Sunday, the first to go back online since Japan shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. (AP)
… Today is just an unbelievable day… yesterday we had massive, massive protests in front of PM Noda’s… and the news, nothing. There was very short news on Miyagi TV… not even 1 minute… nothing about size… just tried to ‘mild up’ why the people were protesting… No other news… almost 24 hours after the big demonstration begins and yet we don’t have news in Japan about the massive demonstration. Can you believe this?
Inside the Tokyo Protest: “People are piping mad… they finally got angry” — Police barricades collapsed one after another — Riot buses blocked crowd from entering Prime Minister’s office (VIDEOS)
I started to run to the roadway. As my friend told me, the roadway was filled with people and vehicles couldn’t pass through. Policemen repeated “Please go on the sidewalk!” but he couldn’t control people. A protester with white hair shouted “It’s the first time since the campaign against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in 1960!”. 200000 people (Issued by the promoter) advanced little by little to the direction of PM’s office. Within some minutes, the barricades of police collapsed one after another and were pulled back. A commandant of the police shouted “Protect the Prime Minister’s office!”.
The people are in the streets… The people have taken over the highway now… I don’t know what the police are going to do about this.
Originally posted by Destinyone
reply to post by jude11
The lies could only stand for so long....good the people are opening their eyes. The black out by the Government and media will only flame the fires. TEPCO should be hiding under their desks...the PM too.
I see the same happening soon here in the U.S. Maybe we can learn from Japan how to protest in a less violent way.
Des
Originally posted by Ashertron
Good for them, at least they're doing SOMETHING about their corrupt government...unlike America who seems to think change can be achieved only through bitching and moaning.
Time to grow a pair America.edit on 1-7-2012 by Ashertron because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by detachedindividual
Seriously, this is great. People are becoming empowered all over the world. If you're still wondering, this is the REAL reason your government wants to monitor, control and restrict the internet. It has nothing to do with crime and terrorism and everything to do with them sh*tting their pants at the thought of massive protests against them.
Originally posted by hoochymama
Is this protest over?? The stream looks to be offline so not sure if there is another one going on right now.
This is the first time since 1960 that a protest this size had gone on in Japan?? Wow. This is big time news and I cant find a stream anywhere.
Good for the People of Japan. The Government better be carefull since you know the saying still can exist...."dont wake a sleeping Giant".
Originally posted by FissionSurplus
I have always admired the Japanese people, and now I have to say, that admiration has been ratcheted up quite a few notches. My husband has been watching the news all day and there's not been one word about this here in the US. I guess TPTB don't want us to see how people in other countries fight corrupt, dangerous systems. Here in America, they want us to believe that only kooks and hippies protest things.
Good thread!
I posted my first article on Fukushima radiation alarmism (which currently floods the Internet) just 8 days after the March 11, 2011 attack on Japan. Titled, Japan Radiation Scare Hugely Overblown by Western Media (Mar. 19, 2011), I pointed out in that article that there was a HUGE disconnect between the actual background radiation readings measured in Tokyo (and within the 12.5 mile radius zone around the Daiichi nuclear station) and the absurd, irresponsible ("foreigners should leave Tokyo"), and grossly exaggerated 'dangers' being fomented by alternative news media (Amy Goodman, et al), Internet web sites, Youtube, and leftist leaning radio stations quoting and interviewing anti-nuclear energy propagandists like Arnie Gundersen, Christopher Busby, Leuren Moret, Yoichi Shimatsu, and later, Robert Alvarez, Kevin Kamps, Paul Gunter, Stephen Jones, Mark Sircus, and John Apsley among many others. Youtube presenters or media interviewers are treating these people as if their wild exaggerations, overstatements, and outright fabrications possessed scientific validity and factual certitude. And I've yet to hear or see one of these Youtube Fukushima radiation fear fest (or radio interviews) include an opportunity for someone from the other side of the fence to counter or challenge the statements from these nuclear energy critics. It's been a one-sided radio/Internet media barrage since mid March of 2011 and it's more intense now than ever.
Rense.com
Within a few days of the 3/11 attack on Japan, it became clear that rense.com was destined to become Command Central for the Fukushima radiation fear promotion campaign. I can't get over how many the-sky-is-falling, Fukushima radiation 'catastrophy' aticles (and radio interviews) are posted to that web site on a daily basis. I've had many people send me e-mails to tell me that they can no longer go to rense.com because the Fukushima fear mongering is simply too much to put up with.
ENE News logo
Another web site that leads the pack in pounding away at the Fukushima radiation party line is enenews.com. This web site ONLY posts articles exclusively devoted to driving home the Fukushima fear package. According to Whois-search, this web site was created on March 16, 2011 and quickly zoomed to a very high alexa.com traffic ranking of 26,000 for world traffic and 7,700 for the USA (by comparison, educate-yourself.org currently ranks 61,000 world and 21,000 USA; while rense.com currently ranks at 7,600 world and 2.800 USA). How is it that a web site that is only one year old, and devoted to one topic, could rise to such a high ranking plateau without lots of money, technological savoir faire, and busy worker bees to make that happen so quickly? (Hint: Oil & natural gas energy companies that want to push nuclear energy competitors out of the way)
So who's behind this web site? No one knows because the identity of the owners are hidden. The Administrative Contact given at WhoIs is "DomainSecrecy.net, Private Registrant ([email protected])" located in Providence, Utah. The Technical Contact is "UK2 Group, Technical Support ([email protected])", also located at the same address in Providence, Utah. The Registrar is ENOM Inc.; a seller of domain names and security services.
Here's a smapling of the "Latest Headlines" at enenews.com:
Ambassador’s comments translated by Asahi: Another accident at No. 4 reactor building could cause the “final catastrophe of the world” (03:43 PM EST on May 21st, 2012 | 3 comments)
Gundersen: Pyrophoric fire if fuel rods in Unit 4 pool are not cooled — Potential contamination of entire northern hemisphere (VIDEO) (02:30 PM EST on May 21st, 2012 | 9 comments)
Reporters repeatedly ask gov’t why it does not consider worst-case scenarios at Unit 4 and get help from foreign experts (01:39 PM EST on May 21st, 2012 | 8 comments
There are hundreds of articles posted at enenews.com with similar fear-invoking titles. The message?
Get out of nuclear energy as fast as possible or we're all doomed to die from radiation poisoning!
The Game Plan
It's important to realize that the 3/11, attack on Japan and the sabotage of the Daiichi nuclear power station was intended by the Rockefellers to both cripple the Japanese economy (which was heading towards a giant leap in new technology) and to disassemble the entire nuclear power industry - worldwide - in order to consolidate the energy market down to oil and natural gas. It's not an accident that all of that natural gas "fracking" that we've been hearing about for the past year or two, would need to create a new market to sell all of that newly extracted natural gas to, and what better way than to shut down all of those 'dangerous', radiation-spewing, dinosaur nuclear power plants and convert them over to "safe" and "clean" natural gas power plants using that new spiffy German design gas turbine that Merkel is so proud of. Gee, isn't it simply wonderful how the fracking gas solution just happened to show up at just the right time to save the day from the perils of the deadly Fukushima radiation 'catastrophy' ("many times worst than Chernobyl" according to Leuren Moret and Christopher Busby)?
Resistance
In this Youtube video posted on Feb 23, 2012, Rod Adams explains the ruse to replace the nuclear power industry with natural gas power plants by pumping the Fukushima radiation psyops to the hilt in order to stampede the Pajama People into demanding an end to all nuclear power plant facilities (our own ZS Livingstone, bless his uncannily accurate and intuitive soul, was first to bring to my attention the natural-gas-to-replace-nuclear-power ruse in articles and radio interviews presented at this web site in March and April of 2011).
www.youtube.com...
[Update Note, May 25, 2012. This web page was hacked on May 25, 2012 and the video from Rod Adams which I originally placed at this location was removed and the video seen below (with Senator Carper sitting at a committee hearing) was substituted in its place. Apparently, this article is hitting a nerve with someone since they're willing to hack into my server and change the embedded video of Rod Adams. I'll leave this hacker's embedded video in place for now, but re-insert the Rod Adams video immediately below this one. ..Ken Adachi]
Originally posted by VoidHawk
Even if we havent got the balls to do it, it gets me hopefull when I see others rise up.
This makes me prowd of them, those HUMANS who wont take it anymore.
Originally posted by jude11
I think the balls are just gearing up in the US. Something will push those final triggers to make people stand.
Originally posted by DerepentLEstranger
reply to post by jude11
:jesus wept: :shk:
where are the thousands of sick, dying, and dead people from radiation poisoning??
nowhere
fukushima is a psyops
Originally posted by Ashertron
Originally posted by jude11
I think the balls are just gearing up in the US. Something will push those final triggers to make people stand.
Bu-but that would mean missing the latest Americas Got Talent & Big Bang Theory!
Japan relies on LNG imports for virtually all of its natural gas demand and is the world’s largest LNG importer.