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.
Incidentally, Karl is right on target about an investigation, and I am wondering if Darrell Issa has heard about this yet?
I needed to know at that point, if my country and what I believed about my country was real, and I got my answer. It’s not. It’s not. We no longer are a free society. The corporations are the people, and we’re under them. I have no voice. That was the lesson.
I will not, under any circumstances, let my babies grow up in a world where greed and money is more important than their life. – Cherri Foytlin
Cherri Foytlin has joined‘The Road To Washington’walk to make the District of Criminals hear the voices of the stricken Gulf region. Her message is poignant and powerful, and there are the makings of a leader in yet another ‘mom on a mission’.
Bloomberg has put out a report (see video link below) showing that the ‘too big to fail’ banks actually grew into mega-banks during the financial crisis through the gobbling up of rivals.
This is not big news but these facts might be:
The US banking sector has grown 7 times faster than GDP.
The top ten banks hold 77% of the country’s assets.
The five biggest banks hold 58% of the financial system’s assets.
Any bank with more than $50 Billion is ‘statistically significant’ (too big to fail) and there are now 35 of these too big banks.
Banks are larger than pre-crisis levels.
The number of ‘too big to fail banks’ could grow by 40% over the next 15 years.
March 18 (Bloomberg) — The largest U.S. banks have grown larger since the financial crisis, and the number of “too-big-to-fail” banks will increase by 40 percent over the next 15 years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Dodd-Frank law would prohibit the largest banks from merging with one another. The law would not prevent the largest banks from growing in other ways, according to the Bloomberg Government Study, “Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Get Bigger After Dodd-Frank.” Bloomberg’s Lizzie O’Leary reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
You can watch the entire Bloomberg video here, and are you still financially involved with one of these megabanks?
YouTuber ChangeDaChannel has posted the first in a series of informative videos about ‘The Bad Guys’; power-driven globalists that have changed the course of our nation and the rest of the world. This first segment is a twelve minute history of Henry Kissinger’s crimes against humanity. Though there are tons of information about this particular sub-human, ChangeDaChannel covers the decisions and actions made by Kissinger during his time in the political arena. Please forgive the numerous misspellings as they do not affect the relevance of the information.
