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More Fukushima Fallout: UN says radiation exposure worse than first reported!

13 October 2013 (05:10 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/21 Mehr 1392/09 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Recently, Tokyo Electric Power Company reported detecting cesium in the Pacific Ocean, in an area previously free of the isotope!

For the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly, the Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation reported that the initial radiation exposure to humans around Fukushima Daiichi, back in 2011, was at least 20% higher than what TEPCo and the Japanese government reported!

The report stated that “…severe core damage to three of the six nuclear reactors…resulted in the release, over a prolonged period, of very large
amounts of radioactive material into the environment.”

The UNSCEAR investigation discovered that TEPCo and the Japanese government was not able to directly measure certain isotopes, such as radioactive iodine and cesium, in their radiation exposure assessments.  The thousands of employees at Fukushima Daiichi suffered the highest radiation contamination, higher than what the official Japanese government reports say.

The major problem with the Japanese reports of exposure levels is that they are purely “estimates”.  The UNSCEAR pointed out that there were no direct radiation measuring available at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, and therefore corporate and government officials based exposure on “various models”.

(as I wrote back in 2011, they were guessing!)

The UNSCEAR added that “…low-level releases into the ocean were still ongoing in May 2013.”

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 24-26 September 2013: More Green on Blue, local U.S. media hides it! U.S. run hospitals actually NAZI killing fields for Afghan victims? U.S. stabs Afghan interpreters in the back! Will Afghanistan kill NATO?

Helmand Province: Lashkargah City, a car bomb exploded.  Not counting the suicide bomber; one cop killed, one cop wounded, four civilians wounded.

Kunduz Province: Khanabad District, local government officials say Mujahideen captured four Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel.

Maidan Wardak Province: Saidabad District, a U.S. airstrike (aka Weapons Release) killed five people.  Provincial government officials say two of those killed were Arabs.

Nangarhar Province: Chaparhar District, a baby girl was born with an almost complete second head!  Two headed children are not as rare as you might think, but successfully removing a second head is.  Doctors said in this case they were successful.

Paktia Province: A U.S. Army Staff Sergeant from Pennsylvania was killed.  Reports are confusing; local Pennsylvania news media has led the people of Milton to believe he was killed in combat, but in reality he was killed by a “Green on Blue” attack by Afghan government military/police personnel (aka National Security Forces).  Another U.S. troop was wounded.  The shooter from the Afghan government was killed.

The Afghan Ministry of the Interior claims 49 Mujahideen killed in police and army ops in the provinces of Helmand, Farah, Herat, Logar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Kandahar, Balkh, Badakhshan and Kunduz.  Eight Mujahideen wounded, 11 captured.

Pakistan says another artillery rocket attack was launched against them, from Afghanistan.  Two people killed, one wounded.

The U.S. Department of State has been quietly revoking travel visas issued to Afghan interpreters working for the U.S. Department of Defense.  Many interpreters have been applying for Special Immigrant status so they can move their families to the U.S. after the supposed 2014 NATO pullout, because it is common knowledge they and their families will be assassinated for helping U.S. forces.  But, suddenly the Obama regime State Department began revoking those visas.  Is this a stab in the back or is it more proof the U.S. is not leaving Afghanistan?

U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Caldwell, and Major General Gary Patton, are accused of blocking investigations into corruption and abuse at U.S. Army run Afghan hospitals.  This includes the intentional starvation of Afghan patients!  The investigation into the goings on at Dawood National Military Hospital began back in 2011.  The Joseph Mengele (NAZI doctor aka Angel of Death) like conditions of the hospital were revealed in 2011 when an inspector general released his inspection results without the customary notification to generals Caldwell and Patton.  It turns out the two generals had been blocking previous inspection results from public release!  This means the hospital was probably a U.S. run death camp for years prior.

Ignorant U.S. Army Lieutenant General, Mark Milley, recently stated the U.S. presence in Afghanistan was being reduced “…because of the society fundamentals that have changed…”.  Really?  Was he talking about society fundamentals of Afghanistan or the United States?

The U.S. Department of Defense announced the deployment of about 75-hundred to 8-thousand U.S. Army troops to Afghanistan, to take place in October.

U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, from Illinois, revealed that the United States is trying to hand over military control of Afghanistan to India: “I have long felt that the best way out of Afghanistan is through New Delhi, is to have a military alliance with India that we encourage India to roll into Afghanistan….”

In New York, U.S.A., a U.S. citizen was found guilty of trying to sell weapons, including guided missiles, to Mujahideen.  He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.  However, the federal trial was a sham.  It was only two weeks long and did not involve a jury (called a Bench Trial)!  It was part of a sting operation set up by U.S. government.  Sting operations are government set ups of people who normally wouldn’t have committed such crimes on their own.  At least five other people are being railroaded.

The Washington Times reports that the U.S. Army’s cyber intell ops in Afghanistan are so open to hackers that the DoD has given it 60 days to fix or replace the system.  Specifically, the Distributed Common Ground System (aka D-sigs, DCGS) failed a readiness test.  The warning on the cyber intell system’s failure was issued on 05 September by U.S. Command in Kabul, and made public by The Washington Times on 24 September.

According to the Fiscal Times, the high cost of U.S. led NATO operations in Afghanistan, and the bad economies of most NATO members, will kill the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  Currently, only three NATO members are meeting their payment requirements for membership: United Kingdom, United States and Greece.

Business/Economics, Opinion, U.S.

Blue State-Red State: Idaho vs Illinois, or Why the United States is more divided than you think, and in more ways than one!

12 October 2013 (16:44 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/20 Mehr 1391/08 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Today, I was questioned by yet another newbie to the Gem State of Idaho, this time they were from the Prairie State of Illinois.

They were looking for the DMV (Department Motor Vehicles) and the local Currency Exchange office.  Mmmm, there ain’t no currency exchange around here, oh but they weren’t taking about exchanging foreign currency (money).  It turns out that Currency Exchange is a private company in Illinois that not only offers check cashing service but lends people money for such things as vehicle registration.  You can also get your car registration completed at the Currency Exchange.  Ain’t no such thing in Idaho.

In Idaho it’s only been relatively recently that a DMV system was adopted.  Up ’till a few years ago vehicle registration was handled by the counties.  Our so called conservative republican leaders pushed the DMV system, which is actually proving to be less efficient, and more costly, than if they kept it at the county level!

The former Prairie Stater seemed confused at the lack of available services in the Gem State, but what do you expect when you move from a Blue state to a Red state?

This brings me to the point I’m trying to make, about how divided the country really is, and not just because of political/religious/social differences.  Most Blue states receive the lion’s share of federal government funding, most Red states west of the Mississippi receive a relative pittance.  The result of this is uneven and unfair distribution of federal funds for social programs, many Red states have far fewer government funded social services compared to Blue states.

One reason for this is that Blue states are more population dense than Red states.  Let’s compare Illinois to Idaho:  Illinois is considered the 5th most populous state in the U.S., with almost 13-million people crammed into an area of 149998 square kilometers (57914 square miles).

Idaho has 1.5-million people spread over a spacious area of 216632 square kilometers (83570 square miles)!  For more perspective; Idaho is a larger state geographically than Illinois, yet has a million less people than the city of Chicago!

How does that affect federal funds for social programs in Idaho?  There is no taxpayer funded housing assistance, there is no taxpayer funded legal aid, there is no taxpayer funded utility assistance, most school districts do not have federally funded Head Start programs, etc.

“….inequalities arise from uneven administration….recipients…may not receive assistance because funds may have been exhausted…Competition for…funds…may result…limited appropriations are still common and are likely to continue to be so….distribution of these funds because of the absence of standard concepts of need and of standardized methods for determining the amounts of assistance grants, and because of the lack of uniform policies with
respect to the acceptance of applications…..Inequities in administration of
public assistance will arise if inadequate funds are available…”-DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC-ASSISTANCE FUNDS WITHIN STATES, Joel Gordon & Olivia Israeli

Before the Obama Care fiasco adult heads of low income Idaho households (meaning they have children) did not get Medicaid (if they were not disabled) and were not counted in Food Stamps, because the federal funding going to Idaho for the programs had been cut drastically. (I know about this because I tried to get help and was told that because I was healthy only my children were being given Medicaid and being factored for food stamps, and then they cut them off food stamps after 18 months anyway, despite my income still being poverty level. This was back in 2000-2001).

(I’ve been asked by some Mormons why I don’t get charity from church.  I’m not a Christian and that’s my gott damned Right as a U.S. citizen, just like owning a military grade weapon! Which I admittedly don’t have but wish I had the money to do so)

But it’s not just populations that are the reason for uneven federal funding.  Many studies have shown that more populous states get more federal funding because of corruption in Washington DC.  The more populous states actually have more pull, in the form of lobbyists who represent private organizations and corporations.

This is why so many sparsely populated states are going their own way, pulling away from federal control, and working hard to stop the major screw job that is Obama Care.

By the way, despite my low income, for the past three years I’ve had to pay federal income taxes at the end of the tax year (my children are adults and living on their own now, so no more dependent deductions for me), and currently I’m back due on taxes owed to Uncle Sam (remember, there is no taxpayer funded legal aid in Idaho).  At the state level Idaho does not have an Earned Income tax credit for poor people, like many Blue states.  In Idaho if your income is below a certain level then no state income tax filing is required, but it means they keep all the state income taxes your employer deducted from your pay.  It’s rare for an Idahoan to get a full refund of state income taxes.  When I was a Californian I actually got more than a full refund of income taxes, because of California’s own Earned Income Credit for low income workers.  Since moving to Idaho in 1996, I’ve gotten only a fraction of a fraction of an Idaho state tax refund, and that was only a couple of times. One year I paid extra income tax, and since 2000 my income is too low to file a refund request under Idaho tax rules.  Also, Idaho taxes groceries, which shocks many newbies. But we can blame that on the fact that the federales unevenly distributes funding for federal programs, Idaho getting relatively nothing.

Now to another point: People are moving to Idaho because it looks like the economy is good here.  That’s a mirage caused by the small scale of Idaho’s economy.

I’ve written before about the economic decline in my part-o-the state.  Idaho’s economy has actually been on a slow down hill roll ever since the conservative republican leaders turned Idaho into a Right to Work you over state back in the mid 1980s.  But because Idaho’s economy never came close to rising to the high power economies in more populous Blue states, Idahoans didn’t have far to fall.  The higher you are the farther you’ll fall.  So it ‘looks’ like Idaho’s economy is good to a newbie from a state like California, Michigan or Illinois.

The major layoffs and business shut downs are taking place in tax sucking Blue states (to be clear, there are plenty of tax sucking Red states east of the Mississippi).  But layoffs and business shut downs are also taking place in federal funding deprived Red states, it’s just not as noticeable.

Why the F-ck should we in the sparsely populated states go along to get along when we’re getting F-cked over on our taxes paid to the federales, who then turn around and give most of it to Blue states and the more populous Red states?!

So why am I living in a sparsely populated state that has little services or help for low income people?  ‘Cause I hates populous states.  In California I was getting all kinds of social services, I was even getting free college!  But the system made me feel trapped and controlled.  The system was set up to screw over anyone who went over the income limits for social services, because those limits were still too low for you to actually support yourself.  On top of that California has imposed too many laws against guns and cars.  I also got tired of paying hundreds of dollars per year to register my car.  Then there was the time the city council of Los Angeles created a law banning cars more than 10 years old (back in the early 1990s).  People were being told to buy new cars or take the bus.  The only thing that stopped the law was all the upper middle class who had sunk tens of thousands of dollars into restoring their classic cars.  The law did not differentiate between a junker and a restored classic!  In other words, the tax sucking Golden State of California was going nuts!   I was offered a job in Idaho and I took it (three years later a management change, and the political games involved, resulted in me losing the good paying job.  But you couldn’t pay me enough to move back to Blue California)!

U.S.

Media Coverup: Snowden honored by former CIA, FBI, DoJ and NSA employees!

12 October 2013 (10:44 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/20 Mehr 1391/08 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

For some odd reason, most of the main streamer U.S. news media (especially the television media) is ignoring or downplaying the fact that former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice and National Security Agency employees have honored NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden.

They had to travel to Russia to give Snowden the Sam Adams Award.

The award has been given out since 2002.  It was started by former CIA employees, who created the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence.  The organization is not named after one of the founders of the United States, but after a CIA agent who blew the whistle on evil U.S. government ops in Vietnam.

People of the United States need to wake up!  If former intelligence agents felt it necessary to create an award for people who blow the whistle on the evil doings of their government, and corporations, then something is gott damned wrong!

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Government of United States about to cease to exist?

11 October 2013 (17:07 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/19 Mehr 1391/07 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“…..this [possible end of government shutdown] will not stop the breakdown of the actual physical economy that is underway in the United States, because we have here less and less physical production of food and machinery and water projects and necessities and more and more gambling with financial instruments…..there is no solution to this even if the government in Washington resumes, unless there is an action of restoring the law we had for sixty years from the 1930’s Great Depression which is a law called after its sponsors, Mr. Glass and Mr. Steagall, and that would disallow backing up gambling debts by major banks by federal money [bailouts]…we are at a turning point for the existence of the United States not merely the question of whether the government will go back in session.”-Marcia Backer, Executive Intelligence Review interviewed by Press TV

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? 700 million+ dollar white elephant for sale in Idaho! I’ve been warning you!

11 October 2013 (16:48 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/19 Mehr 1391/07 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

It’s now official; Idaho’s Hoku Materials polysilicon factory is now up for auction, in whole or in part, without ever making one production run.

The “bulk or piecemeal” auction runs for 24 hours, beginning on 23 October 2013.  Visit www.hgpauction.com for more info (under In Progress and Upcoming Sales) .

I’ve been following this disaster for years, here’s more on the demise of Hoku Materials:

Idaho Falls company needs your support…

Idaho Electric rates going up, blame the demise of Pocatello’s Hoku silicone factory!

Capitalist Commodity Markets to blame for Pocatello’s Hoku Polysilicon near abandonment!

U.S.

World War 3, U.S. False Flag front: Radical Christians controling U.S. nuke arsenal? Government leaders trying for False Flag nuke attack?

11 October 2013 (11:44 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/19 Mehr 1391/07 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“As part of our nation’s military instrument of power it is our responsibility to support accomplishing the tasks necessary to shape the global environment…..the need for a single Air Force airman….to plan, coordinate and integrate Air Force space capabilities, and cyber, at the strategic level…we need to squeeze every ounce of  strategic level capability out of Air Force, Space and Cyber assets.”-Major General Jack Weinstein, USAF Space Command

“It won’t come to America on top of a missile, it’ll come in the belly of a ship in the Charleston or New York harbor.”-Lindsey Graham, evil U.S. Senator from South Carolina in September 2013 talking about nuke attack on U.S. if Obama does not openly attack Syria & Iran

“Dyess [Air Force Base, Texas] is beginning to move out nuclear war heads today. I got a tap from DRMO [Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office] earlier. He said it was the first time they have been even acknowledged since being put there in the 80′s. No signature was required for transfer… There was no directive. He said that Dyess Commander was on site to give authority to release. No one knew where they were going really, but the truck driver said to take them to South Carolina and another pick up will take them from there.”-Unnamed USAF source quoted by Infowars.com in September 2013

The U.S. Department of Defense has revealed they’ve fired a USAF Major General and a USN Vice Admiral who were in charge of nuclear ballistic missiles and nuke bombers.

Unconfirmed reports say nuke warheads have gone missing (this is not the first time it’s happened).

Reports say the fired commanders have been replaced, temporarily, with Major General Jack Weinstein (Air, Space and Cyberspace Operations for the USAF Space Command).  Weinstein already assists the USAF Global Strike Command in organizing, training, equipping and maintaining ICBMs, B-2 and B-52 bombers.

On 10 October 2013, the USAF removed Major General Michael Carey from command of the 20th Air Force, for personal conduct while on temporary duty assignment.  Investigation ongoing.

On 09 October 2013, it was revealed that StratCom commander Vice Admiral Timothy Giardina was removed from his command after being accused of using fake poker chips in a Council Bluffs, Iowa, casino last year!  He was also demoted.

On 07 October 2013, civilian employees for StratCom returned to work despite the federal government shutdown.  According to Representative Lee Terry, of Nebraska, the furlough of civilian employees at StratCom was actually in violation of current laws: “It is very important as Commander-in-Chief to direct all of the combat commands to follow the law and bring back the workers who have been furloughed and do it as soon as possible.”

In August this year, a USAF commander was fired at a ICBM base in Montana for failing a security inspection, meaning anyone could have walked off with a nuke!

In April this year, Weinstein discussed how USAF Space Command was shifting from a “service command” to a “warfighter” operation, linking with (taking over?) StratCom.

In May this year, 19 USAF officers at a North Dakota ICBM base were forced to undergo re-training.  One officer was accused of intentionally violating ICBM launch rules.

In 2007, live nuke cruise missiles were loaded onto a B-52 which flew across the U.S.  Nobody reported the missiles missing.  An investigation revealed that USAF nuke units are intentionally not following official procedures.

Several USAF whistleblowers have stated that the nuclear weapons units of the U.S. Air Force have been taken over by radical Christian groups that want to bring about Armageddon.

I was stationed at Dyess AFB (a SAC base) in the mid 1980s, as an C-130 iso-dock crew chief for the 463rd MAC, which was the MAC unit involved in transporting cocaine to the U.S. from Central American under the Oliver North led Iran-Contra scandal (Central America was the 463rd’s theater of operation).  I lost my job as a result of questioning operations.  It wasn’t until the Iran-Contra trials, and night vision video, which showed on of the 463rd C-130 loaded with cocaine landing at a Florida airport, was made public that I realized what was going on.  So I know Dyess AFB is home to strange goings on.  And don’t get me started about Edwards AFB in California!

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Government Evil: U.S. sanctions Iran over nuke industry, yet makes deal to sell nuclear tech to Vietnam! More proof the U.S. is the patsy of Israel & Saudi Arabia!

11 October 2013 (23:33 UTC-07 Tango 10 October 2013)/06 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/19 Mehr 1391/07 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Only days after General Giap died (the man credited with forcing the U.S. out of Vietnam) the Obama regime signed a deal to sell nuclear technology to Vietnam!  This while the United States has steadily increased economic sanctions against Iran, supposedly because the U.S. doesn’t want Iran to have nuclear technologies!

The U.S. and Vietnam fought a tens years war with each other (before that the U.S. supported France in its eight years war against Vietnam), and yet the Obama regime will allow the private sector to sell off its nuke tech to the South East Asian country?

Iran has never attacked the United States (to be clear, Vietnam never attacked the U.S. either)!  Yet the United States shot down Iran Air flight 655 killing 274 Haj pilgrims and 16 crewmen, launched a tens years war against Iran via Saddam Hussein of Iraq, launched recon drones and even special forces/CIA ops inside Iran, and has imposed economic sanctions for the past 30 years!

Can you say “What a bunch of bullshit!”?

Why can the government of the U.S. be so eager to sell nuke tech to a former enemy, Vietnam, yet continue to warmonger against Iran?  The answers are Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Saudi Arabia and Israel are afraid of an independent and strong Iran.  Never mind the fact that in ancient times the Semites seemed to always find a friend in the Iranian empire (aka Persian empire).

Israel’s NAZI Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, just days ago gave the European Union an order during news media interviews: “Stop it [Iran] now while you’re in a strong position to do so.”

Nut job yahoo then went on a lying rampage that was just amazing, basically blaming Iran for every act of terror and accusing Iran of wanting to destroy the World!

Nut job yahoo’s spoiled brat tantrum could have been the result of being informed by the Obama regime that the U.S. and the EU might ease sanctions against Iran.

Then there’s the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (K.S.A.), who benefits from the U.S. oil sanctions on Iran.  Note that the U.S. buys from K.S.A. what it would have bought from Iran, although Saudi officials deny a connection.

Just a couple of days ago, Reuters reported that the Saudi monarchy is having a shit fit over the possibility that the U.S. and EU could ease sanctions against Iran: “The Saudis’ worst nightmare would be the administration striking a grand bargain with Iran.”-Robert Jordan, former U.S. ambassador to K.S.A.

“I am afraid in case there is something hidden. If America and Iran reach an understanding it may be at the cost of…..Saudi Arabia.”-Abdullah al-Askar, chairman of foreign affairs K.S.A. Shoura Council

The U.S. wants to jump on Vietnam’s estimated $50 billion USD nuke industry market.  You know, Iranian officials have stated, in the past, that they would love to do open business with U.S. nuke corporations.  Japan and Russia have already been awarded contracts to build electricity generating nuclear factories in Vietnam.  The Obama regime took Vietnam’s word that the nuke tech won’t be used for making bombs, yet U.S. can’t take Iran’s word that they are not making a bomb?

 

U.S.

Martial Law Police State: Attack on SUV led by New York cops?

09 October 2013 (12:47 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/17 Mehr 1391/05 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

The New York City District Attorney has arrested one cop, and is investigating another for their involvement with the harassment and beating of a man driving a Sport Utility Vehicle.

You might have heard about it, you know, the rice burner motorcycle gang that corralled the SUV, twice. The first time was because the driver threw a water bottle out of his vehicle and it hit a motorcyclist, according to the biker that recorded the incident on the infamous video.  At that first corralling they started slashing the SUV’s tires, which caused the driver to panic, he then ran over a rice burner biker.  They corralled the SUV a second time, this time nearly beating the driver to death.  Witnesses say the bikers tried to attack the passenger in the SUV; the driver’s wife and two years old daughter.

Turns out the rice burner gang was possibly being influenced by some undercover police stateist cops!  NYPD claims the undercover cops were off duty at the time of the incident.  The arrested cop first told his bosses that he was not involved in the incident, but he couldn’t hide from the fact that he was captured on video smashing in the windows on the SUV!

Interestingly, the biker who stopped his motorcycle in front of the SUV claims he does not know any of the other bikers.  Apparently he was acting alone and just decided to kill himself by stopping his bike in front of an SUV?  Yeah right!

 

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Contracted “throwaway” workers burning out! Being blamed for leaks!

09 October 2013 (12:17 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/17 Mehr 1392/05 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“…..if even the workers who are risking their lives are demoralized and have no trust in TEPCo…….why should the Japanese citizens or international public at large have any confidence in the Japanese government or TEPCo?”–Dave Lochbaum, UCS Nuclear Safety Project

Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority is blaming crashing worker morale for increasing radiation leaks. However, that low worker morale can be traced right to Tokyo Electric Power Company, and the elitist attitude of the entire nuclear industry in Japan (remember, an elitist Bilderberger recently took over TEPCo’s public relations and safety operations: “..radiation is scary. It’s like magic, it’s mystical…”-Lady Barbara Judge).

The majority of TEPCo’s workers at the melting down Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant are contracted and subcontracted, with little or no training.  I’ve seen documentaries that show that some subcontracted nuke workers, in Japan, are paid even less than the standard minimum wage with no benefits, many never finished high school.  It’s like running your nuclear power factory with illegal migrant farm workers.

In June 2011, Reuters revealed that Japan’s nuke industry workers are considered the lowest of the low, even an ‘untouchable’ class in Japan known as “throwaways” by their elitist employers: “This is an unfortunate thing to say, but the nuclear industry has long relied on people at the lowest level of Japanese society.”-Fujii Kazunori, retired nuclear project manager

Back in August 2012, the Japanese Labor Ministry warned there were not enough “qualified” nuclear plant workers in Japan.

Just last month, the Japanese Health Ministry reported that white blood cell counts for workers at Fukushima Daiichi were up.  That’s an indicator of cancer. And in the past three months there’s been increasing incidents were workers were contaminated directly with radioactive water.

Gee, I wounder why workers at Fukushima Daiichi are so demoralized?