In Japan there are people seriously questioning their politicians and the corporations pulling the strings. After a devastating earthquake exposed failures in nuclear plant design and has exposed large portions of their country to elevated radiation levels the people are angry at the cover up regarding this exposure and the lies that accompanying it.
Again we must be reminded that just like globalization these protests are global.
Our complaints may on the surface seem to be disjointed and applicable to local conditions but what we are all objecting to is the exploitation of our planet and our people for profit.
You've heard about the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Berlin, Tel Aviv and elsewhere around the world. But did you know that huge demonstrations have been taking place in Tokyo as well? We certainly didn't until a SOTT forum member sent us the details. The general lack of awareness of the protests in Japan is probably due to the fact that there has been zero coverage of 'Occupy Tokyo' - which has grown out of the country's large (and growing) grassroots anti-nuclear movement - in Japan's mainstream media.
Several large demonstrations have taken place all over Japan in recent months, especially in Tokyo. The general mood is the same as elsewhere: ordinary people in Japan are fed up with their leaders' lies, particularly the lies told by TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and how the government has handled the Fukushima disaster. Or rather, how it has avoided handling it. This should all be eerily familiar to Americans of course; BP's lies and the US government's enabling role from the moment the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April 2010 has continued to this day, with the tragedy continuing to unfold in deathly silence. What is happening in Japan is almost a carbon copy; denial, smear campaigns, heavy-handed tactics and, of course, total media blackout. Up to one million people may have died as a result of Chernobyl, although we'll never really know the true death toll. Fukushima is many orders of magnitude worse...
The following is a video of a discussion regarding the radiation levels:
Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.