A Wake Up Call From The Japanese People - Snooze Alarm Edition

It's a shame that it takes such an unnecessary and terrible accident as a nuclear crisis in Japan to wake up people into action toward more sane and sensible behavior. I support the people of Japan in their struggle and wish them well.  I hope that something good comes from this tragic event and that perhaps the Japanese lead the way toward an end to nuclear power & weapons and the use of more human and environmental friendly forms of energy.

For those of you from the lower 48 States, I have also included a link to proposed evacuation zones for Nuclear Power Plant Accidents in the event one occurs there and let us all hope one never does.

Again, my best wishes to the Japanese people and my best wishes to all people of all nations that have nuclear power plants.  It's time again to think on the common good and no longer buy into the common greed of today that has replaced the once great vision of long ago.

Japanese drop their traditional politeness over nuclear crisis

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00 CDT

John M. Glionna & Kenji Hall
Los Angeles Times

Protesters in the Japanese capital hold an anti-nuclear rally in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Fishermen, students, workers and small-town officials publicly blame Tepco and the government.

Kenji Kadota long followed the dual credo drilled into him during childhood: Hide your anger and trust the powers that be.

Yet in the wake of last month's triple whammy of earthquake, tsunami and radiation release, the 55-year-old construction chief has thrown all such cultural lessons out the window.

Kadota faults the firm that runs the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant for its mishandling of the nuclear crisis that has followed the March 11 natural disasters. He believes dithering public officials have compounded the public's anxiety by withholding information about the true dangers facing people who live near the plant.

So for the first time in his life, Kadota is speaking up. He's joined a growing chorus of college students, ruddy-faced fishermen, small-town mayors and even a combative prefecture governor voicing dissatisfaction in a manner highly uncommon in a nation known for taking politeness to the extreme.

"Japanese are raised to keep their feelings to themselves, but now that's impossible," said Kadota, who complained that officials failed to deliver water and emergency supplies to his hometown of Iwaki, not far from the stricken plant. "We've been abandoned. And I am angry."

For the rest of the article, please click on the link below:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227861-Japanese-drop-their-traditional-politeness-over-nuclear-crisis

For those living in the good old U.S of A and are concerned, I have provided a link to a proposed 50 mile radius evacuation zone.  The current government proposed zone is only a ten mile circle around the nuclear plant location:

http://www.psr.org/resources/evacuation-zone-nuclear-reactors.html