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@elainekirk Sadly, I posted that without grasping the full horror of it.

Executives of major US companies and former US government officials have gathered to study specific ways to help Japan rebuild from the quake and tsunami.

The expert panel organized by leading US think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, held its first meeting on Wednesday in Washington.

Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, former assistant secretary of defense Wallace Gregson, and senior officials of Boeing and Lockheed Martin were among the 20 participants.

From the US government, Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell attended the meeting as an observer.
www3.nhk.or.jp

@elainekirk have a nice night........missing you tho on the other board!!!

Areva hopeful of sealing Jaitapur deal by mid-2011 www.hindustantimes.com

Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant must be shut down mdn.mainichi.jp

Sabotaging Alternative Energy

The cynical attitude of the nuclear lobby extends far into the future, strangling at birth the Japanese archipelago's only viable source of alternative energy—offshore wind power. Despite decades of research, Japan has only 5 percent of the wind energy production of China, an economy (for the moment, anyway) of comparable size. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a nuclear-power partner of Westinghouse, manufactures wind turbines but only for the export market.

The Siberian high-pressure zone ensures a strong and steady wind flow over northern Japan, but the region's utility companies have not taken advantage of this natural energy resource. The reason is that TEPCO, based in Tokyo and controlling the largest energy market, acts much as a shogun over the nine regional power companies and the national grid. Its deep pockets influence high bureaucrats, publishers and politicians like Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, while nuclear ambitions keep the defense contractors and generals on its side. Yet TEPCO is not quite the top dog. Its senior partner in this mega-enterprise is Kishi's brainchild, METI.

The national test site for offshore wind is unfortunately not located in windswept Hokkaido or Niigata, but farther to the southeast, in Chiba Prefecture. Findings from these tests to decide the fate of wind energy won't be released until 2015. The sponsor of that slow-moving trial project is TEPCO. www.globalresearch.ca

I was curious about the radiation readings I have read. So I e-mailed some experts to help me figure it all out. They told me that it is impossible to get the reading I sent them, the background radiation made the soil readings impossible. If the soil readings were so low, then there was no way that the background radiation readings could be so high. www.mext.go.jp

[Bingo, @Ralph_Unger. - Alblee]

@Rob in SF : i googled "Eisaku Sato", he is the former fukushima governor. he has become a nuclear critic when he was governor. he blames tepco to falsify and blackmail. he refused to equip daiichi with mox. at the end they send him to prison.

[Also, namesake of the former prime minister who shared 1974 Nobel Peace Prize, first Asian to do so. - Alblee]

For example this reading is very scary to me. it is very low but it will persist for a long time. （About４０kmNorth/West）of Fukushima Weed Leaf Vegitable 4/19 11:23 I-131= 41,200 Cs-137=377,000 7.4

I got those rights! and so does the IAEA, they just soft pedal the info.

Most of my questions are answered by the info I can get, the only problem is how people see it or how it is presented.

I think this is worse then Chernobyl, so what do I do? I send info to people who can make that judgement and see what happens. So far it looks good as the people I send info to are kinda boggled by it. These are experts in the nuke field but maybe not so expert in finding data on the internet.

The Media Corruption that Protects TEPCO

Uesugi Takashi explained the core of the problem behind misinformation and rumors.

"Freelance journalists and foreign media are pursuing the facts, even going into the radiation exclusion zone. However, surprisingly, the Japan government continues to prevent freelance journalists and overseas media from gaining access to official press conferences at the prime minister's house and government."

Uesugi stated that since March 11th, the government has excluded all internet media and all foreign media from official press conferences on the "Emergency Situation". While foreign media have scrambled to gather informationabout the Fukushima Reactor, they have been denied access to the direct information provided by the government and one consequence of this is that "rumor-rife news has been broadcast overseas."

Now the Japanese government has moved to crack down on independent reportage and criticism of the government’s policies in the wake of the disaster by deciding what citizens may or may not talk about in public. A new project team has been created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, the National Police Agency, and METI to combat “rumors” deemed harmful to Japanese security in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

The government charges that the damage caused by earthquakes and by the nuclear accident are being magnified by irresponsible rumors, and the government must take action for the sake of the public good. The project team has begun to send “letters of request” to such organizations as telephone companies, internet providers, cable television stations, and others, demanding that they “take adequate measures based on the guidelines in response to illegal information. ”The measures include erasing any information from internet sites that the authorities deem harmful to public order and morality. japanfocus.org

@Ralph Unger : very long article, people won't read until the important ending.

Anyone who cares will read the article.

"Now the Japanese government has moved to crack down on independent reportage and criticism of the government’s policies in the wake of the disaster by deciding what citizens may or may not talk about in public. A new project team has been created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, the National Police Agency, and METI to combat “rumors” deemed harmful to Japanese security in the wake of the Fukushima disaster." japanfocus.org was what you meant to say?

@Ralph Unger This kind of publicity is the last thing Japan wanted or needed. By cracking down on "independent reportage" and what people may say in public about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese Government has made the one decision that will haunt them over time. This will have serious consequences, both in Japan and internationally.

@Edano It does bear repeating so everyone knows what is going on. I don't know enough about the subtleties of Japanese society and govt. to know if this is as outrageous and unprecedented as it seems. Have they ever pulled this kind of thing before?

@Nancy : “The Japanese media today is no different from the wartime propaganda media that kept repeating to the very end that ‘Japan is winning the war against America,’” Uesugi exclaimed.

But they did win! LoL.