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drives the economy, wholesale. Their assertions that the markets will panic
without a budget deal that cuts social security and Medicare have no
apparent foundation in reality. It is just a threat that they have concocted to
advance their agenda. Now, that would make for a very good news story.
Environment:
Government and Industry Still Denying Science at Fukushima
Deception Confirmed by UN
by
John LaForge
When the Fukushima-1 reactor complex in Japan went into
radioactive apoplexy on March 11, 2011, the Japanese government and the
Tokyo Electric Power Co. — like the Russians at Chernobyl before them
— began minimizing the risks of radiation and the known and potential
effects of radiological disasters.
The principle mouthpiece for this well-rehearsed minstrel show was
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano who told the world that evening,
“Let me repeat that there is no radiation leak, nor will there be a leak.”*
Edano is now the Trade and Industry Minister and oversees federal
cleanup and recovery efforts.
Independent observers like Dr. Chris Busby, scientific secretary of
the European Committee on Radiation Risk and a founder of the Low-
Level Radiation Campaign in England, warned four days into the disaster:
“Reassurances about radiation exposures issued by the Japanese
government cannot be believed.” Likewise, physicist Nils Bøhmer, with
the Oslo-based environmental foundation Bellona, insists that throughout
the crisis Japan has been withholding information about radiation dangers.
Even the New York Times reported Nov. 30 on “The gap between the
initial assurances given by company and government officials, and the
ultimate scale of the nuclear disaster…”
Deception confirmed by UN
Now 20 months later, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the
right to health has issued a draft report charging that Japan “has adopted