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The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is now in state of emergency, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily

By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

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(NaturalNews) Japan’s nuclear watchdog has now declared the leak of radioactive water from Fukushima a “state of emergency.” Each day, 300 tons of radioactive water seeps into the ocean, and it’s now clear that TEPCO has engage in a two-and-a-half-year cover-up of immense magnitude.

“I believe it’s been leaking into the ocean from the start of the crisis two-and-a-half years ago,” disclosed a 12-year TEPCO veteran named Suzuki-san.

“There are still reactor buildings we haven’t gotten into yet,” said another worker named Fujimoto-san. “So there’s always the possibility of another explosion…”

TEPCO workers sprayed with wildly radioactive water while waiting for a bus

Just how out of control is the situation at Fukushima? It’s so out of control that TEPCO recently had to admit 10 of its workers were somehow — yeah, see if you can figure this out — sprayed with highly radioactive water while waiting for a bus.

“The workers’ exposure above the neck was found to be as much as 10 becquerels per square centimeter,” reports Bloomberg.com

How exactly did highly radioactive water manage to find its way to a bus stop in the first place? TEPCO isn’t sure. It’s confusing with all those radiation alarms going off all the time. In order to concentrate, the company has found it’s easier to just disable all the alarms and pretend nothing’s wrong.

The TEPCO cover-up

To fully grasp the extent of the TEPCO denial, realize that only recently did the company finally admit that radioactive groundwater has been leaking into the ocean. This follows years of stark denials from the company, whose executes have exhibited a remarkable ability to deny reality even when their own workers are dying in droves from cancer.

It’s no exaggeration to say that TEPCO’s downplaying of the full extent of the Fukushima disaster has put tens of millions of lives at risk — people who should have been warned about radiation but were denied that information due to the TEPCO cover-up.

“At this current time in July of 2013, Fukushima is 80 to 100x more expansive and more intense — letting out about 100x more of the radiation of Chernobyl,” reports Dr. Simon Atkins Phoenix Rising Radio on a BlogTalkRadio interview.

“The problem with Fukushima is that it’s not only continuing for 865 days… I mean, let’s wrap our minds around that for a second — it has been leaking out radiation in increasing volumes for 865 days.”

Japan is a society that shuns whistleblowers

Why has TEPCO been able to cover up the truth about Fukushima for so long? Because Japan is a society of mass conformity. The idea of keeping your head down and not “rocking the boat” is deeply embedded in Japanese culture.

Japan is not a nation of “rugged individualism” but of conformist acquiescence.

As a result, whistleblowers are shunned, and there is immense peer pressure to defend the status quo… even when it’s a terrible lie. This culture of conformity at all costs is precisely what allows companies like TEPCO to continue operating extremely dangerous nuclear power plants with virtually no accountability.

While Japan has entire museums dedicated to the horrifying history of two Japanese cities being bombed by the United States at the end of World War II, when Japan’s own power company is involved in a radiological disaster of similar magnitude, the entire incident gets swept under the rug. Radiation? What radiation? If the government says there’s no radiation, then there’s no radiation! After all, it’s invisible!

Why the U.S. government plays along with the cover-up

The U.S. government, of course, plays along with the charade because its own top weapons manufacturer — General Electric — designed and built the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the first place. And the design decisions made by GE, such as storing spent fuel rods in large pools high above the ground, now look not just incompetent but downright idiotic. It turns out there was never any long-term plan to dispose of the spent fuel rods. The idea was to just let them build up over time until someone else inherited the problem.

So while Japan and the USA play this game of “let’s all pretend nothing happened,” citizens of both countries continue to be exposed to a relentless wave of deadly radiation that now dwarfs the total radiation release of Chernobyl (which the U.S. media played up in a huge way because the disaster made the Russians look incompetent).

The only reason TEPCO is finally getting around to admitting the truth in all this is because you can’t rig all the Geiger counters forever. Radiation follows the laws of physics and atomic decay, not the whims of lying politicians and bureaucrats. As a result, the real story eventually comes out as we’re starting to see right now.

The Fukushima disaster is likely to get far worse, if you can believe that

The upshot is that the Fukushima disaster is not only far worse than you’ve been told; it’s very likely going to be worse than you could ever imagine. The radiation leak isn’t plugged, in other words, and another explosion — which many experts believe might be imminent — would release thousands of times more nuclear material into the open environment.

Ultimately, the entire Northern hemisphere has been placed at risk by a bunch of corporate bureaucrats who thought building a nuclear facility in the path of a sure-to-happen tidal wave was a fantastic idea. Instead of acknowledging the problem and working to fix it like a responsible person would, our world’s top politicians and ass-coverers have decided it is in their best short-term interests to play along with the TEPCO fairy tale which ridiculously pretends that radioactive leaks can be controlled by wishful thinking.

Remember: Governments can lie about the national debt, health care costs, inflation and unemployment, but they cannot lie about radiation for very long. Sooner or later the physics of it all simply cannot be denied.

References:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-12/fukushima-plant-workers-raise-safety-concerns/4879960

http://birthofanewearth.blogspot.se/2013/07/americans-are-in-grave-danger-due-to.html?m=1

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-12/fukushima-workers-exposed-to-radiation-from-spray.html

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this article contains references to people who have passed on.

Local not-for-profit organisation Micah Projects officially launched their Reconciliation Action Plan last week at Kuril Dhagan Indigenous Knowledge Centre at the State Library of Queensland.

In 2011 Micah Projects started working on their Micah Projects Reconciliation Action Plan and their book Kurilpa: A learning resource, so the organisation can continue the ongoing journey towards reconciliation and equip their employees with tools to better help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people when they contact Micah Projects.

Micah Projects chairperson Michael Kelly introduced the Micah Projects Reconciliation Action Plan and Kurilpa: A learning resource at Kuril Dhagan Indigenous Knowledge Centre, saying it will let the organisation to better respond to their needs in a positive way.

“To be more mindful of how we connect with them,” Mr Kelly said.

Uncle Stan Smith of the Brisbane Council of Elders said in his speech that it is important that we all learn from each other, to have a better understanding of the cultural background of everyone that lives within Australia.

“Education is the key,” Uncle Stan said.

Kurilpa: A learning resource is a great book that covers the history of Indigenous Australian from the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip up till now, with a focus on Kurilpa (West End) in Jaggara country. On the cover is the painting Coming Together by Luke Roma, Rocky Boy, Jagalungi man from Rockhampton region.

The painting represents all Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians coming together without malice or discrimination. The four circles in each corner represent the North, South, East and West of this amazing country. The middle circle represents the Elders directing the young ones both black and white to sit and talk together at the watering hole. The figures along the outside edge are the members of the Micah Projects RAP Committee reaching out and bringing the people in.

Mr Kelly said there is consideration to publish the book if the organisation notice there is an interest for it from the public.

Micah Projects: www.micahprojects.org.au

Australia’s Councils of Social Service (ACOSS) has challenged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to put homelessness back at the top of the federal election campaign agenda and halve the rate of homelessness by 2020.

ACOSS’ Fernando de Freitos says that more than 100,000 Australians are homeless each night.

In 2008 the Federal government under Prime Minister Rudd committed to halve this number. Federal and state governments’ have agreed fund a Partnership Agreement on Housing and Homelessness, until 30 June next year.

“A long-term approach is critical if we are to truly tackle homelessness and provide safe and secure homes for all Australians,” Mr de Freitos says.

Environmental Activist Group Stop Brisbane Coal Trains has today criticised the findings of an Air Pollution Monitoring Study released on Monday by the Queensland Resources Council.

Group Spokesperson and former Environmental Engineer John Gordon says, ‘This monitoring program has been a complete sham from the start,’

The group is calling for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the truly bizarre state of affairs that has allowed the Coal Industry to conduct it’s own air monitoring program using Government scientists.

Mr Gordon says the Senate Inquiry hearing in Brisbane where his group gave evidence found that ‘air pollution standards are nebulous to the point of useless.’

True crime author, Tony Reeves addressed a packed meeting of West End’s 17 Group last week with new evidence in the Whiskey Au Go Go fire bombing. The 1973 fire bombing murdered 15 people and Mr Reeve’s new evidence implicates police, clears John Andrew Stuart who died in Boggo Rd jail while serving time for the crime and identifies a person of interest.

The manuscript is under consideration by the Queensland University Press and pending legal clearance may be released in time for Christmas.

Due to the reclassification of the Fitzgerald Inquiry documents last year, much of the evidence in this case has been locked up for another 65 years.

Readers interested in more information should let the Westender know via the comments form below as it may be possible to provide extracts of the book once a publishing deal is in place.

Socialist Alternative hosted an anti-surveillance meeting at their West End office early last week.

After the release of information gathered by Edward Snowden there has been a growing worry that citizens are under mass surveillance by their own state. This fear seems to have reached Australia due to its close relationship with USA at the Pine Gap.

Socialist Alternative‘s Jessica Payne said the collection of metadata is done on an enormous scale, not just in the USA, but also in the UK.

“GCHQ can collect 21.6 petabytes a day,” Ms Payne said.

“In comparison that is [approximately] 2.5 million DVDs.”

Ms Payne also mentioned that Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and USA is known for their cooperation in the intelligence operation Five Eyes. It has its origin from a 1946 intelligence sharing agreement between USA and UK.

“Bob Carr has denied that Australians are being surveilled and that everybody should not worry,” Ms Payne said.

Attendees at the meeting were invited to add to the debate regarding the alleged mass surveillance that is going on in western countries such as Australia.

Steve Barnes said Australia allegedly installed listening gear alongside with the communication equipment when cooperating with other countries to install submarine communications cables.

John Lamb said the Australian government was well aware what was happening in East Timor in 1975 and they also knew about the slaying of The Balibo Five long before the public was told.

“Who are they targeting [with this mass surveillance],” Mr Lamb asked.

In regards to the case against Bradley Manning Sarah Giles said he is accused of aiding the enemy, but questioned how that is possible.

“Who is the enemy,” Ms Giles asked.

Which is an important question to be ask if most countries operate under the idea that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. It is difficult to fathom a state is willing to view their own citizens as enemies, even though it is not unheard of.

At the end of the meeting Tor Browser was mentioned as a good piece of software to safely access the web.

Editor’s note: Since late last week, after this meeting, Bradley Manning was found not guilty of aiding the enemy.