"I'd rather die from radiation than live in a shelter. I don't think the police know I'm here."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

An empty street runs through the deserted town of Minami Soma, Japan, which is inside the nuclear evacuation zone.

MINAMI SOMA, Japan — The Odaka neighborhood seems frozen in time since it was abandoned after the tsunami nearly a month ago: Doors were left hanging open and bicycles were abandoned. A lone taxi sits in front of the train station. Mud-caked dogs roam empty streets, their barking and the cawing of crows the only sounds.

***

Government officials have said it is important that the 70,000 to 80,000 people living in the zone stay away, but there are few roadblocks and police occupied with other duties have, for the most part, not been forcing people out.

Some never left.

"I'd rather die from radiation than live in a shelter," said 55-year-old Mitsuo Sato, who has food and electricity at his home in the evacuation zone but was riding his bike to get water from a well. "I don't think the police know I'm here."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42478877/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

[aquart]

1. I understand and he will.

And so will the dogs.

[Warpy]

2. Pripyat outside Chernobyl is showing signs of being looted

for scrap metal and other items. In addition, a few squatters have moved in. If they survive for a long enough time, the whole area will be repopulated. Humans have short memories.

A lot of people don't believe radiation is dangerous since they can't see it, feel it, smell it or taste it.

At my age and in my rotten health, I'd probably stay rather than evacuate. Shortening my life lived the way I want to rather than being in a school gymnasium with a bunch of strangers and no privacy looks like a good deal.

However, people with kids had better choose that gymnasium.

[Newest Reality]

3. I would rather radiate

a die-in than shelter a massive lie. I don't think the police want us to know where we are.

An empty, American populace runs through a deserted representation which is inside the politically evacuated zone.

Government officials have said that it is important for the poor, seniors, and children to give-up everything they can in order to support and hold-up the deadbeat rich, the famous and the most powerful. They must stay away from gated communities and places that the real and important people congregate and live in.

You can put it all in the Scrabble bag and toss out new permutations, but the rules are still the same and we see them revealed in one emergency or situation after another.

Thank your industries for the results they bring. Support them with your so-called lifestyle decisions and choices that they gave you. You end-up being a pawn who complies with what is inculcated into you, even though you are assured, (unto death and deprivation) that you have free will and are responsible for all the current results in your life.

Edit: One word omission.

[freshwest]

4. Thank you so much for expressing that for me, that is the truth.

[Newest Reality]

5. I, in return,

thank you for acknowledging that. It means a lot to me when others see and respond and find consensus in any truth available to us. That is, especially so, when it comes from the mind and heart, rather than a corporate media outlet working to manufacture our consent.

Keep on keeping on and never give up your quest for what is true.

[Mimosa]

6. +1,000 (great description of life in disaster capitalism, Newest Reality!) n/t

[Newest Reality]

7. Thanks, so very much!

Yes, disaster capitalism is a most appropriate term and I truly understand your reference to it.

It is good to hear from those who seek understanding and do their homework. That's the power of diligence and being informed. That is what was expected of us in order to retain our freedom and progress. I don't think we should ever underestimate it. If we had more of that, we wouldn't be in this dire situation we find ourselves where we have to consider the rational obligations presented by our opposition in order to reestablish our rightful place and power as a people.

[babydollhead]

9. you are a very eloquent writer.

write write write! I would read anything you wrote. Thank you!

[cutlassmama]

8. +1000