"the slimeballs at GE who went over to Japan with Bush officials in 2006"

[bananas]

A couple of posts by truedelphi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4784776&mesg_id=4784802

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The only people this might be over for in two weeks are the slimeballs at GE who went over to Japan with Bush officials in 2006. Then and there they saw to it that the popular mayor of Fukushima was removed from office, and his goal of de-commissioning the plant was no longer attainable. Then they installed a pro-nuke industry guy as the new mayor, and made sure that this poorly designed plant kept on a-running.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=654498&mesg_id=656158

13. Plenty of shenanighans went down to insure that the GE-built Dump of A Plant continued to
to operate despite how the local citizenry in Fukushima was opposing it.

Back in 2006, the Bush Administration sent in American officials to "re-vitalize" the Japanese economy with the use of --

You guessed it! Nuclear power.

The mayor of Fukushima, Mr Sato, he was dead set against having nuclear power. He wanted the nuclear power plants to be decommissioned. He wanted the entire prefecture to go into alternate energy production, with a wind/solar combination. (Fukusima has enough wind energy, being so close to the sea, that it would have worked out quite well.)

Instead of this mayor making an impact and changing this, which by the way was supported by his citizenry, some trumped-up charges of his accepting bribes came into play.

He was ousted from his office, and a different man, who was very pro-nuclear energy, was installed in his place.

The nuclear industry went full steam ahead. These past few days, you can see the consequences of that disastrous turn of events.

And of course, the charges against Mr Sato were proven erroneous, but the whole purpose was simply to get him out of the way.

(None of this would not have happened if the trumped up charges had not been given enough power by the more powerful governmental authorities, to take Mr Sato down.)

And something by Mycle Schneider:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-03-23/nuclear-cloud-comes-with-aura-of-arrogance-commentary-by-mycle-schneider.html

Nuclear Fallout Comes With Aura of Arrogance: Mycle Schneider
By Mycle Schneider - Mar 22, 2011
Bloomberg Opinion

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As far back as 2005, I warned Eisaku Sato, governor of Fukushima at the time, about the dangers of letting spent fuel accumulate in cooling ponds at the prefecture’s nuclear plants and the need to put it into much safer dry stores as soon as possible. He seemed to be the only one who listened. But clearly there were people who always knew better and whose arrogance characterizes the nuclear industry.

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[sabrina 1]

1. Isn't it time that the world starts rooting out these corrupt

greedy, criminal entities that are going around the world creating havoc in every country they manage to get their thieving, murderous hands on?

How many more deaths and destruction before we start getting serious about ending deceptive practices like those used against good people, like Sato?

Rovian tactics, instead of being universally condemned, we are told they are 'brilliant'. As if we are not all capable of such despicable behavior IF we had no conscience.

This should get wide publicity and laws need to passed that cover these deceptive practices and the punishments need to be severe.

I hope there is some way to charge them for what they have done. THEY are guilty of at least, manslaughter imo.

[tabatha]

2. The frat brat Bush leaving his grubby fingers

all over the damn world. The Gulf is his problem, too. Killing the world so that his ego could strut the world.

[flamingdem]

3. Bush, figures nt

[sabrina 1]

6. Yes, that family has destroyed this country, but they are not the

only ones. If we had a real news media, these dirty tricks perpetrated on a regular basis against anyone who is decent or tries to do some good in this world, would be exposed as soon as they began. But the media is fully owned by the same people and until that changes, nothing else will.

[hlthe2b]

4. OMG... this is beyond belief

Absolutely... I have to admit the very first (awful) thought I had was how unfortunate we couldn't send these cretins to let the Chinese deal with as they do regulatory corruption there.

I am beyond aghast and feeling incredibly shamed at the role our country's corrupt government and corporations may have had in the Japanese people's suffering.

This needs to get out there.

[Abq_Sarah]

5. Charges against Sato proven erroneous?

He was arrested and convicted of accepting bribes on a public works (Dam) project.