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Thread #136314   Message #3119385
Posted By: Donuel
22-Mar-11 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Nuclear plant disaster looming
Outlineing the obvious may seem siphmoric but I have seen proof there are people who do not know the fundamental problems at the heart of past present and future man made disasters in the making.


Japan's agency to monitor and enforce safety concerns is the same agency charged with promoting nuclear energy and international sales of reactor parts.

The US has the Nuclear Regulatory Agency which for legal reasons is called an independent agency. The only time it was even slightly independent of privatizzed nuclear companies was for 3 years following 3 mile Island. After that the 191st (Newt Gingrich COngress) told the NRC that if they didn;t stop fining companies for safety hazards and incidents the Congress would defund them forever.

They behaved well ever since.


The enemies of the ownership society, AKA the Billionaires club, are anyone who supporsts labor rights, social justice, economic justice, democracy, goverment regulations, Product safety laws, EPA, consumer rights and or anything that minimizes profits no matter what the consequences,

Sure it seems irrational to most of us to allow such extreme sacrifices of lives, land and sea for so little profit in the grand scheme of things.