Just as Airstrip One was nuked before it turned to oligarchical collectivism in 1984, in reality, Japan turned to oligarchical collectivism after the Fukushima disaster. And to its own end, the United States EPA restricted the flow of information thereafter. In essence, the environment was destroyed and basic human freedoms removed across numerous national jurisdictions. Yet strangely, no one wants to talk about it! No one wants to address it. Instead we just fight on, not in the heroic manner of the Rainbow Warrior, but like ignorant slaves for the Ministry of Peace (aka the Military) in 1984, accepting the status quo, and the rhetoric of those complicit in creating it.
Nuclear experimentation is entropy. It can kill us all. But the nuclear issue can also unite us all; all people of peace, all people who appreciate basic freedoms of speech and the right to clean water, all people who are pro-individual, whether the individual is from China, Japan or the U.S., and all who are skeptical of institutions, no matter where they are from or what they claim to represent. Our survival as a race seems to depend on it.
If the events of 1984 continue to hold true, at this rate words will soon become not only censored, but illegal and eliminated, controlled by increasingly totalitarian governments. Today sharing information on institutional activity that harms individuals is already punishable, and the sharing of ideas that challenge the status quo is becoming more heavily censored. Japan's censorship of matters deemed "secret" (but still globally critical), and the UK's attempt to prohibit "esoteric' information within Airstrip One (or England, I mean, the land of Magna Carta) are prime examples. Soon writers like me will only find work eliminating (or in 1984 "newspeak', "rectifying") information and news, instead of sharing and interpreting it.
For more information, please see: The UK's Proposed Ban on Esoteric Knowledge: Why Institutions Seek to Limit Access to Information
Enabled by institutional thinking, the nuclear/military complex continues to grow, despite its failures in Chernobyl, Hanford, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima. And governments continue to benefit politically.
On 4th November 2013, Bloomberg news reported that the United States government has offered to assist Japan to decommission the Fukushima reactors and address the ongoing leakage of radioactive water into the sea. But does this action demonstrate the benevolence of the US government, and its dedication to rectifying the world's biggest and most immediate environmental threat?
No -- it does not.
As reported by Bloomberg:
Japan will receive international help with the cleanup at the Fukushima atomic station once it joins an existing treaty that defines liability for accidents at nuclear plants, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said.
So the United States' "offer" of assistance is in fact conditional. So let's look at those conditions:
The treaty, known as the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, assigns accident liability to plant operators rather than equipment and technology vendors, Moniz said in a Nov. 2 interview in Tokyo.
It seems the real aim of the Convention, as well as other international conventions on nuclear liability, is to protect the nuclear industry.
Under the Convention:
- The total compensation available after a nuclear accident is capped at a level far lower than the actual clean-up cost.
- The companies that supply nuclear reactors and other materials are exempt from liability in the event of an accident.
- The operators of nuclear plants are left accountable for paying damages, however operators are not required to maintain adequate financial reserves to cover the cost of an accident.
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