2226: The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, quoting a senior official of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said the US made the offer immediately after the disaster damaged Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant. According to the unnamed senior official, US support was based on dismantling the troubled reactors run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) some 250 km (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo. However, the government and TEPCO thought the cooling system could be restored by themselves, the report said.
Our government demanded that the Japanese dismantle - that is, permanently remove - over five gigawatts of power in order to help them with a critical safety problem that had the potential to destroy 100 square miles of land and kill or injure thousands of people?
That as compensation for helping them we demanded that they cripple their electrical generating capacity on a permanent basis?
You have to be kidding me.
This is an extremely serious charge. If it's true it stands alone as grounds for impeachment and dismembering every single federal agency involved.
Perhaps this explains why the US Military and/or civilian authorities didn't stick a couple of big-ass generators on a transport plane and get them over there, restoring power to the reactors within hours of the incident and avoiding all of the serious radiation and physical damage at the plant.
This allegation is ridiculously incendiary and demands an immediate and complete Congressional investigation. Not only do the citizens of the United States deserve to know the truth (or falsity) of this charge (and who initiated it if it is false), but so do the Japanese people.
If this is how this man treats our friends - attempting to use a crisis threatening the lives of civilians to score a political point and advance his "green" agenda.....
Incidentally there are reports that The State Department has denied the original story from the Japanese paper. I still argue we need answers - real ones - and an immediate Congressional investigation is called for.
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Geckolizard
Posts: 189
Incept: 2011-02-16
Your Monitor
Good Job, Zerobama, for the Change we don't need. Let's risk turning part of one of our biggest trading partners, who had TWO major disasters in the span of 2 hours into a Nuclear no-mans land because you want fewer Nuke plants on the map.
BTW, what other options do the Japanese have? They don't have any significant FF- do you WANT them importing MORE oil from the friendly Saudis (who by the way this week sent their forces to Bahrain to smack down the protesters, leaving Secretary Clinton rightly*****ed off)?!
If you want to give us Change we can believe in, don't pull a Katrina like Bush and get assets where they belong NOW, not a month from now. Ditto for Libya- Ghaddafi is an evil bastard and deserves every second of hell that awaits him. Don't let Benghazi fall- don't waste another hour. You have a once in decades window to deal with this asswipe- take it.
BTW- how's the Barack bracket in NCAA doin, big O? Welcome back to reality.
Finally- nice offer of support. Too bad you can barely hear it over the camera shutters...
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The preacher man says it's the end of time. He says that America's rivers are going dry. The interest is up, The stock market's down. You guys have to be careful walking around here this late at night. This-this is the perfect place to get jumped. ('Providence', Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Lowbeyond
Posts: 17119
Incept: 2008-02-11
CO aka West NJ/East CA
WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true. WOW if true.
If true we have another thing to thank the Left and Progressives for. Never let a crisis goto waste. Right
Render aid. and you can get some ugly ass nuke plants off the grid. Who cares if there is no replacement. That is not the point.
They don't go for the deal, and the other one goes Tango Uniform, well then that serves them right for building nuke plants to begin with. And its great propaganda to never allow another nuke plant again.
For the Progressive Environmental Statists it is a Win Win. Congratulations. You guys are my heroes.
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Maybe it was a birdy bread-bomber from the future?!
Please don't be true, or our relationship with Japan is pretty much ****ed.
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"Until we look beyond the throne where the power structure lies, we'll fight amongst ourselves as freedom dies. The only hope for human kind lies in solidarity. The strength in our numbers sets us free."
Can Obama be impeached if proven to be insane based on psychiatric, and psychological profiling by medical experts?
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"The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything." - George Carlin
I hate to say it.. but it would explain a lot. There were a lot of questions about where US support was during the beginning of this crisis... maybe now we know...
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"Until we look beyond the throne where the power structure lies, we'll fight amongst ourselves as freedom dies. The only hope for human kind lies in solidarity. The strength in our numbers sets us free."
oh my God. This cannot be true. I felt the same way when I heard about the ATF approving straw sales to Mexico to bolster the administrations argument to tighten gun laws.
What is left to surprise me? Killing US citizens in their homes who dissent?
Asimov
Posts: 104646
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
It definitely explains a lot, and I believe it.
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity. If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
This is like calling a plumber, and he'll agree to fix your stopped up sink if you'll agree to burn your house down, only at a much higher - more sinister level.
During the past couple of years, I've grown to expect nothing but the worst from 0bama, and even I have a difficult time believing they could do something so outrageous, given the circumstances. If this happened as the official explained, then..... Holy ****! This would be the very worst foreign policy blunder I've seen during my lifetime. Just damn....
Asimov
Posts: 104646
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
It wasn't a blunder, it was intentional.
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity. If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
Yomiuri Shimbun (the source of the story) isn't some little small town rag:
Quote:
Founded in 1874, the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world having a combined morning and evening circulation of 14,323,781 through January 2002. The paper is printed twice a day and in several different local editions.
Now the paper is considered center-right, but with that kind of circulation you bet your ass the story'll get legs.
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"Until we look beyond the throne where the power structure lies, we'll fight amongst ourselves as freedom dies. The only hope for human kind lies in solidarity. The strength in our numbers sets us free."
