When will we learn?
Not yet, apparently.
It’s still lies-a’plenty-time.
Check out this hustler creep.
Jeffery Immelt, CEO of General Electric…the design company for the currently imploding Japanese reactors.
Further evidence that we have been colonized by hostile aliens?
Sometimes I wonder.
Defending his company.
When asked if the nuclear power accident in Japan could prove to be a turning point for the industry, Immelt said: “There is now almost a 50-year track record of nuclear power that people can look back on and make their own judgments about.”
Nice.
Of course…it only takes once….
Reptilians abound.
Rich ones.
There used to be a Polish joke about a form of Russian Roulette.
Polish Roulette.
Six bullets chambered.
Well now we have Reptilian Roulette.
507 revolvers, each loaded with one nasty bullet.
As of Jan 19, 2011 in 30 countries 442 nuclear power plant units with an installed electric net capacity of about 375 GW are in operation and 65 plants with an installed capacity of 63 GW are in 16 countries under construction.
“Click click click click click click click.”
“See? I tol’ ya there wasn’t any danger!!!”
“Click click click click click click click.”
BANG!!!
“Awww…don’t worry. It ain’t nothing much.”
And still the spokesreptiles hiss their same message:
“There is now almost a 50-year track record of nuclear power that people can look back on and make their own judgments about.”
Motherfuckers don’t even have enough grasp of the English language to avoid dangling participles. The dangling rattle on the tail of the snake. The death rattle.
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick.
Rattle rattle rattle rattle rattle rattle rattle .
The clock’s a’runnin’…
Follow the money to find the real criminals.
Always and everywhere.
Bet on it.
Read on.
The earth is speaking. It is voting in the only way that it can. Shaking the can. The big can. And just as people like Governor Scott Walker, the Koch brothers and Hosni Mubarak simply plod on about their business of corralling money no matter what “the people” might want, so do creatures like Jeffery Immelt ignore the earth’s warnings.
Meanwhile, the consequences of all of these people’s actions build up in the body politic…in the body human and in the very body of the earth…creating cancers that threaten the existence of life itself on this planet.
Do you think that the threat of cancer in the relatively isolated islands of Japan is the real problem here? Sadly, it is not. Of course any number of thousands of people…perhaps more, perhaps many more, and not just in Japan…will have their lives cut short by the cancers unleashed on us by this catastrophe, but in the long run it will be the psychological and spiritual effects on the culture of the entire world that will be the worst “side-effect.” Bet on that as well.
“The psychological effects were the biggest health effects of all – by far,” said Fred Mettler, a University of New Mexico professor emeritus and one of the world’s leading authorities on radiation, who studied Chernobyl for the World Health Organization. “In the end, that’s really what affected the most people.”
Fears of contamination and anxiety about the health of those exposed and their children led to significantly elevated rates of suicidal thinking and anxiety disorders, and rates of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression about doubled, Mettler and others said.
Hmmmmmm…
“…significantly elevated rates of suicidal thinking and anxiety disorders, and rates of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression about doubled…”
Check out the news. So-called “sleep disorders” abound. Check out the Big Pharma moneymakers. Sleeping pills. Anti-anxiety and anti-depression drugs of all kinds. They are already here, these “psychological effects”, and they have been here since 1945. Nagasaki/Hiroshima changed everything, and until we end the nuclear madness once and for all those “psychological effects” will simply continue to get worse.
“The effect on mental health was hugely important,” said Evelyn Bromet, a professor of psychiatry at Stony Brook University who studied the aftermath of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. “People’s fears about getting cancer, or their children getting cancer, and family and friends dying from radiation exposure were very intense.”
In the unprecedented disaster in Japan, where an earthquake triggered a tsunami that was followed by a major nuclear power plant emergency, all those negative psychological effects are being magnified in ways that no one can predict.
“No one can predict?”
I can certainly “predict”. It ain’t gonna be just the Japanese who suffer physically, pyschologically and spiritually here. It’s going to be a world-wide phenomenon. We all now live next to Fukushima, and unless we drag the Immelts and the rest out back and hang them from the nearest tree, this situation is not going to change. They are part of a gestalt, these lizards. They make opinion as well as they do other poisons., Think on it. GE is in the business of producing energy that has as one of its byproducts totally incalculable risk. It is also in the business of media.
The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE), is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in the State of New York.[3] The Company operates through five segments: Energy Infrastructure,Technology Infrastructure, Capital Finance and Consumer & Industrial.[4] In 2010, Forbes ranked GE as the world’s second largest company after JPMorgan Chase,[5] based on a formula that compared the total sales, profits, assets, and market value of several multinational companies.[6] The company has 287,000 employees around the world.
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In 1986 GE reacquired RCA, primarily for the NBC television network (also parent of Telemundo Communications Group), The remainder was sold to various companies, including Bertelsmann (Bertelsmann acquired RCA Records) and Thomson SA which, ironically, traces its roots to Thomson-Houston, one of the original components of GE.
Das’ right, kiddies. NBC. As in the leftinesses’ favorite, MSNBC. Keep sopping up the poison, folks. As long as it’s packaged acceptably, of course.
More from the psychologists?
Sure.
“You can imagine: There was an earthquake, and I survived that. And then here comes a tsunami, and I survived that. And then comes a nuclear reactor,” said Mettler, the U.S. representative to the United Nations who studied Chernobyl. “With that kind of triple whammy, you can only imagine someone is going to be saying, ‘What did I do? What’s wrong with me?’ “
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In the long run, such incidents can negatively transform entire cultures. In the areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, a crippling sense of hopelessness set in and was passed down through generations.
“…such incidents can negatively transform entire cultures.”
OH yes!!!
Rephrase:
There was a terrorist attack, and I survived that. And then here comes a recession/depression, and I survived that. And then comes a nuclear meltdown that threatens the destruction of perhaps the most well-organized and civilized culture on earth. What did I do? What did we do? What’s wrong with us?
Immediately followed by the ingestion of some pills to steady the mind.
“It’s just what the doctor ordered!!!”
OH yes!!!
Doctor Feelgood.
I repeat:
“What we know from experience is the psychological footprint from a nuclear disaster can not only be massive but in many ways greater than the effect of radiation,” Becker said. “On an individual level, these range all the way from anxiety disorders, depression and substance abuse to a kind of culture of fatalism and hopelessness that has gripped the population in many areas, and it continues today, decades later.”
Sound familiar?
It should.
You’re living it.
There are many reasons why humans fear radiation so intensely. One reason is because radiation is silent, invisible and odorless. Another is because radiation is associated with cancer, which itself is one of the most feared words. Another reason is that in accidents, as opposed to medical treatments, exposure to radiation is involuntary. Other reasons are the searing images of victims of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, a generation raised fearing Cold War-mushroom-cloud annihilation and the way radiation is portrayed by popular culture.
“In the movies and in comic books, people getting exposed to radiation turn into monsters,” said John Boice Jr., a radiation expert at the International Epidemiology Unit in Rockville.In fact, radiation is a far less potent carcinogen than other toxic substances. Studies of more than 80,000 survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts have found that about 9,000 people subsequently died of some form of cancer. But only about 500 of those cases could be attributed to the radiation exposure the people experienced.
The average amount of radiation that victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were exposed to would increase the risk of dying from lung cancer by about 40 percent, Boice said. Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day increases the risk of dying of lung cancer by about 400 percent.
“Radiation is a universal carcinogen, but it’s a very weak carcinogen compared to other carcinogens,” Boice said. “Even when you are exposed, it’s very unlikely you will get an adverse effect. But fear of radiation is very strong.”
And there it is in a nutshell.
It’s not just about “radiation.”
It is about fear.
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” FDR
The much-ridiculed Donald Rumsfeld actually pinned the whole thing. Publicly. Here.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
PermaGov poetry.
Truth in lies.
Yup.
How do the controllers control us?
But laying out fears about the things we don’t know we don’t know. The 507 loaded Nuclear Roulette revolvers, for example. And then herding us like the sheeple we are into little protest pens when the fear gets so bad that we start to act out a little.
Senior House Democrats called Monday for an investigation and hearings into the safety of U.S. nuclear plants in light of the ongoing crisis in Japan — a plea that so far appears to be gaining no traction with either Republicans or the White House.
In a letter, four Democrats, including Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts expressed skepticism about industry statements that U.S. plants have adequate protection from dangers such as earthquakes and tsunamis. “We hope the nuclear industry’s self-confidence is warranted, but we should not accept the industry’s assurances without conducting our own independent evaluation of the risks posed by nuclear reactors in the United States and the preparedness of industry and regulators to respond to those risks,” reads the letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, also signed by Reps. Bobby Rush of Illinois and Diana DeGette of Colorado.
The four Democrats added that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved license renewal applications for “several … plants with the same design as the endangered Japanese facilities.” They said those plants include Entergy Corp.’s 40-year-old Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, whose license the NRC agreed last week to extend for 20 years despite objections from environmental groups and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin.
But Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton signaled that he was not inclined to order any immediate inquiries because of the disaster in Japan.“There will no doubt be a desire to question what the events in Japan mean for our nation’s pursuit of safe, clean nuclear energy,” the Michigan Republican said at a markup Monday. But he added, “We will have those conversations in due time.”
“I don’t think we have a nuclear problem just because of what happened in Japan,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).
“Once in 300 years, a disaster occurs and they’re all waiting for it and the Japanese are calm and collected, and only the politicians over here are hysterical,” he added.Separately, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) defended the industry’s safety record and warned against panicked overreaction, even as he said in a floor speech that the nation needs to learn the lessons of the Japanese catastrophe.
“Right now the effort needs to be helping those who need help” in Japan, said Alexander, who called nuclear power “a demanding but manageable technology.”
Alexander added that nobody has ever died in an accident involving a commercial U.S. nuclear reactor or the Navy’s nuclear program — not even at Three Mile Island, the 1979 accident that involved a partial meltdown at a commercial plant near Harrisburg, Pa. He also excoriated the NRC for having failed to approve any construction licenses for new nuclear plants in more than 30 years, even as other countries have leaped ahead.
“The Japanese and the French have surged into the lead in terms of nuclear power,” Alexander said.
Alexander also drew analogies to other technologies that sometimes have accidents, saying people don’t refuse to drive or fly because of bridge collapses or plane crashes. And he added, “We cannot stop drilling after a tragic oil spill unless we want to rely more on foreign oil.”
Over the weekend, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) called for a freeze on permitting new nuclear power plants until more is known about what caused the problems in Japan, while Markey urged the NRC to impose a moratorium on building reactors in seismically active areas.
But in a briefing with reporters Monday, White House press secretary Jay Carney and NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko declined to say directly whether the administration would embrace calls for a moratorium.
“Right now, we continue to believe that nuclear power plants in this country operate safety and securely,” Jaczko said.Carney, meanwhile, said Obama still maintains his support for nuclear power as part of a clean-energy program — a stance that has already drawn much eye-rolling from environmentalists who otherwise generally support the president’s agenda.
In his State of the Union speech in January, Obama outlined ambitious goals for generating the nation’s electricity from clean sources — and explicitly included nuclear power.
“Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal and natural gas,” Obama said at the time. “To meet this goal, we will need them all.”
Can you believe this shit!!!???
I mean…even Lieberman knows better. (Or, of course…the nuke folks simply didn’t bother to buy his voice. Yet.)
More?
Glad to oblige.
On Our Radar: Frog Deformities Tied to Pharmaceuticals and Plastics
Deformities in frogs in the northeastern United States are far more common in suburban and urban areas, not in and around farmlands, a Yale ecologist’s research shows. The findings upend the conventional wisdom that agricultural pesticides are largely responsible for the abnormalities. Rather, the combination of many household chemicals, including pharmaceuticals and plastics that mimic hormones, appear to be the root cause.
Think that’s simply a frog problem?
Hell, folks…they’re only getting the Big Pharma stuff secondhand! What’s in your pillbox?
Be afraid.
Be very afraid.
But by all means…don’t be afraid enough to stop the mad consumption that requires the use of poisonous nuclear plants in order to produce enough energy to support that consumption.
Please.
Thank you….
Unca Jeff
Run, sheeple, run.
That classic Twilight Zone episode?
To Serve Man?
Like dat.
Watch.
Wake the fuck up.
AG
