New Report Exposing Cover-Up of Fukushima Proves Conspiracy Theorists RightBy Claire Bernish I would say it was a coverup, Tokyo Electric Power Company President Naomi Hirose announced during a press conference. Its extremely regrettable. Masataka Shimizu, president of TEPCO at the time of the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear disaster, told employees not to go public with the term meltdown allegedly in capitulation to pressure from the Prime Ministers Office. For two months, TEPCO officials euphemized the meltdown in public statements as core damage, even as they had full knowledge of the true extent of the catastrophe. Though a few company officials initially used the term meltdown, it abruptly vanished from public discussions just three days after the disaster struck. According to the report, Shimizu rushed a note to Vice President Sakae Muto as he held a press conference that warned him against using the word meltdown. Considering this fact, it is presumable that the Prime Ministers Office requested Shimizu to be careful about admitting to a meltdown in public, the report states, as Japan Times noted. Though the three lawyers who authored the report did not find direct evidence, they surmised it was highly likely governmental pressure was behind the amelioration of information about the scope of the disaster. As CBS News reported, former officials from the Prime Ministers Office denied all allegations a coverup had taken place. In fact, former government spokesman and current secretary general of the opposition Democratic Party denounced the report as inadequate and unilateral particularly as the lawyer-authors are allied with the current ruling party. Attorney Yasuhisa Tanaka, who headed the panel investigation, admitted TEPCO likely didnt intentionally cover up that a meltdown had occurred, saying, Looking at the situation back then, we think it was too difficult for Tepco to use the term meltdown because even the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency couldnt use it, because of pressure from the government, Japan Times noted. That agency had been Japans nuclear watchdog in March 2011, at the time of the disaster. Notably, five years after the catastrophe, TEPCO revealed the existence of a company manual in which a meltdown is official once 5 percent or more fuel rods have suffered damage. But, as Japan Times explained: As of March 14, 2011, Tepco estimated that 55 percent of the fuel rod assemblies in reactor No. 1 and 25 percent of those in reactor No. 3 were damaged but did not declare they were damaged until May that year. In euphemizing the meltdown, TEPCO and the Japanese government left countless civilians in peril; despite evacuations, many had been reluctant to leave their homes and might have done so sooner had the full scope of a meltdown been clear. TEPCO remains embroiled in controversy over secrecy and alleged incompetent handling of the cleanup of Fukushima. In February this year, three former TEPCO executives were charged with negligence over the disaster. This article (New Report Exposing Cover-Up of Fukushima Proves Conspiracy Theorists Right) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Claire Bernish and theAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. Image credit: YouTube. If you spot a typo, email edits@theantimedia.org. I have evolved from eating only seafoods for the past 30 yrs to zero! Seafoods like salmon tuna swim back an forth on the same longitudinal line as Japan and Pacific NW! Were done! I live on the beaches of the Puget Sound. There have always been mounds of beautiful sea star/starfish everywhere! Yes, from time to time you would have INDIVIDUAL species die off. But never like this! ALL, I repeat ALL sea star/starfish have disappeared from the Puget Sound. Within the past 3 yrs, I saw one last year that was orange and horrible mishappened. This year was the worst, I saw about 3-4 beautiful purple and pink ones as in the past, but the beach was covered in brown splotches where the rest had melted/disintegrated! Are the fish disappearing as well? The fish are still there! It is reported that over 70% of fish (salt water) tested in WA state were + for radioactivity. The largest extinction events in history have already begun. Words cannot express my disgust and fear that people like this run our government. Constantly aided by lawyers who are just doing their job. The pursuit of profit has poisoned the land, sea, and air. We have been taught by the wise ones from ancient days right through the ages that pursuit of material is futile and empty, yet like any bad habit we cannot stop ourselves.There is no wheres else to go, we must make this right or doom ourselves, our children, grandchildren to a slow cancerous death. The Japanese seem to have survived pretty well after WWII. Just sayin What is happing now in the Norhern Pacific Ocean is a massive negative thing. This is no joke. This is real. Wake up, America. You are being poisoned. Any data/reports on west coast radiation levels most appreciated. Will try to keep you posted. Sorry, I mean to look it up at my place, internally. Birds on a wire, black robed vultures an unholy choir No doubt it be the lawyers who deserve pride of place in the guillotine line, they who practice win or lose, whilst they never lose, The Truth they maintain they aim for be just a ruse, today prosecution tomorrow defence, the shekels be well laid out and shared upon the Bar and Bench. Yep, the globalists tell the truth All you hear is about the global warming or climate change scams but not a word about radioactive fall out or environment,food contamination with isotopes Climate Change or Global Warming is not a science. If the world doesnt come together and confront Global Warmings threat, you moron, there will be loss of life on the scale of billions. And if the elite dont have an escape plan, it could even be game over for humanity. LOL! Global Warming is BS. We are facing a big chill, expected to peak about 2055. The Sun is currently at a solar maximum, the weakest in more than 50 years. Do some basic research, and you will find the Global Warming will be a Global ICE AGE. Dubya tried to change the debate to Climate Change, because he was told what the media refuse to publish. Yep, as has been and always will be, ice ages and then warm periods over and over again. You know the earths in an interglacial period ATM? We just need to be able to cope with all the climate change. Aside from that they can generate electricity perfectly clean but they rather sell us this crap. And even with petrol they can do a lot better, like 160 km/litre in 1973, with a modified Opel P1 from 1959 during a Shell milage research project. No need to tell us about real things. Were already seeing deaths, cancers and a list of health problems matching the list of effects from low level ionising radiation fallout. My ex-wife and daughter have both developed problems we attribute to the poisons theyve picked up when travelling in the Northern hemisphere/ Lung cancer, for a woman who never smoked and lives the healthiest life of anyone I ever knew. Hyperthyroidism and some other issues in a girl with no family history of such things. Doctors privately agree with me that Fukushima radiation probably the culprit. In fact many countries experiencing a spike in lung cancers since 2011, despite in many cases the lung cancer rate had been dropping off for years as smoking became increasingly suppressed by health campaigns. After years of decline, were seeing a sharp rise in Lung Cancers and Lung Cancer is the FIRST on the list of symptoms of ingetion of low level ionising radiatioactive particles. Sorry to hear, Muhammad, but then expected in these geoengineered fukushimad days. https : // www. youtube. com/watch?v=Yl8Y8I_TsjI Molasses (organic maple syrup) baking soda also the sea and ocean poisoning of the animals. El Nonsense: Geoengineering meets fission racketeering, all across the plane, insane. Scams within scams, thats how they roll, The Tribe love a laugh at the expense of the proles, Brexit the new game in town, whilst the people distracted are duly culled. Global warming is a strong theory with tons of evidence to back it up. Ignorance is unacceptable. Dont blather on things you dont understand. Find out where the tuna go watch them swim and watch them glow. Anybody seen a recent report on the Fukushima plume hitting the west coast of NA? all the fir trees are dying in Oregon the news on TV say it is a drought i had 60 inches of rain this winter at my place if that is drought then fir trees cant live here ha ha I noticed the change in 2011 people told me I was crazy because the TV told them no radiation has fallen now they get all bent when I bring it up and say the TV said it was drought I also had veggies do crazy things the summer of 2011 male flowers with fruit crazy shaped plants leaves from the side of cucumbers we are doomed Wow. Western part of the state? Got pics? Yes Western Oregon Yes and the smithering thing firstly is that not so many people in NA have been informed about the coming catastrophe. Already the northern part of the Pacific Ocean has been radioactive contaminated. I do not eat anymore fish coming from the Pacific Ocean. Radioactive contaminated. No discussions, scarce information, no information for the people living on the West Coast of NA. West coast detectors were reported pinging over a year ago. Then nuttin. I decline west coast seafood and California dairy/produce now. Hanford downwinders are catching it both ways now. I quit eating a lot of fish altogether even before BP. So much other contamination in our oceans. Quit altogether after BP. Thinking youre safe eating any fish just because its a different ocean is like thinking you can pee in the corner of your pool and itll be alright. IMHO. they shut down the monitors in much of the usa thinking wed never know Did you know that almost 30 years ago there was a mercury in the tuna scare that they later led us to believe was fixed? And when we had the BP oil spill that was one of the re-discoveries? That our tuna, and now other food fish are laced with industrialized mercury. And plastic, and radiation and everything else they told us in the 50s was gonna make life better through chemistry Petrol-chemistry that is Do you think well evolve our way out of it or not? Or will Global Warming make it all irrelevant? I read the plume had begun coming ashore a couple or so months ago. Havent read anything lately though. Always a bad omen when they quit talking about it Fukashima and its creation, and its disaster is the continuation of the deceit of the USA, when they nuked HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI 17 hours after the surrender and cease fire of Japan in the last World War, We can all see this Behaviour of the USA still continuing all over the world today. Rewriting history there a bit Arlene? Somebodys karma ran over your dogma The government and TEPCO also worked to cover up the fact Japan had been attacked by i$rael. Jim Stones summation of Fukushima is valid. Bilderberg is a secretive organization, part of The Cabal. The entire nuclear power industry is one giant scam and a complete disaster. nuclear toxicity takes hundreds of years to diminish They wouldnt even have this problem if the loop was completed. The closed loop (spent fuel to replenished) was developed during the Carter administration, but he being the wise guy killed that technology. Why is the term Conspiracy Theorist used in this headline? Why is this kind of obvious propaganda garbage suddenly appearing on selfnews Post? Your choices are: conspiracy theorist (some two or more had a plan) or coincidence theorist (it just happened). Watch it Sparky the article is open source but not the comments Watch it??? Why would you imply such a thing and why would you personally behave that way yourself? And what do you mean by the article is open source?? How can any site be considered an alternative news site if you are not allowed to point out obvious and blatant perceptive failures by an article or the particular leanings of the author. If I wanted to censor myself intellectually in the comments section I would go to one of the countless corporate media sites owned by the criminal cabal. How can you justify telling anyone to censor themselves similarly here on a site like this? In other words.if ANYONE gets banned from the comments section on an alternative news site for simply posting criticism of the article then it is NOT an alternative news site anymore and is now little more than simply another outlet that has been captured by the usual corporate suspects. In recent months many sites have suddenly started blocking people whos only crime was to point out how that particular site has all of a sudden switched over to supporting the official government party line. Thanks for your advice but I will not watch anything that I say and Im pretty certain that I will be voluntarily unsubscribing from selfnews Post very shortly because of the several blatantly BS articles that Ive seen them put out in the last week or so. What were witnessing here is an obvious sign of the thin edge of the wedge of infiltration of a once legitimate website that will become so overwhelmingly obvious that eventually even oblivious people like yourself will finally clue in. Well, well. It appears Japan has learned well. theyre right down here with Sewer Nation. A dubious honor at best. Most everything else since the disaster has also been hushed up, minimized or convoluted. If not also outright concealed from the public. Someday well know exactly, and all of what happened. The regional and hemispherical, if not global ramifications, and who was responsible. It will be more than we believe now. We will know who was ultimately responsible, what part(s) each played, and with who the buck finally stopped. Of course by then, most will have died and whatever posthumous justice there is will be soon forgotten or garner little attention. There will probably have been many more various disasters around the world by then, with respect to the mishandling of the energy paradigm that the elite power structures are so stubborn to let go of. I would think that the U.S. Should have been even more aware of the disaster than even Japan since we have a greater level of technical knowledge. Yet we did nothing early on when preventing a total meltdown was still possible. And this does make me think that for some strange reason, that they just let it happen or actually planned the whole thing.bEven the earthquake and effects could have been triggered with a nuke or some type of large mega weapon. Every activist Ive been around is an immature, sensitive, emotional headcase who really only cares about attention and status (power) within the activist community. The mod of this website is no different. Still a coverup going on. These lying swine are talking about meltdfowns, when the truth which is now irrefutable is that they had complete melt-throughs, which is what happens after a meltdown has happened and continues to react. Indeed the cores are STILL REACTING and they havent got a clue where they even are.except down there under the reactors and going deeper. We called it China Syndrome back when it was only a theory. As in burrowing through to China from the other side of the planet. I am going to bother. I still have a problem with your reasoning? I think maybe youre allowing your suspicions, albeit as justified as they may be, to cloud your logical judgement. And I probably wouldnt have bothered. I called you a moron because you came across like a right-wing climate denier. I have more respect for you now than that. Still I have been looking at stuff like Harrp for years. YEARS. I have some close-up history with climate manipulation. But I have seen more credible evidence that Global Warming is real and caused by the burning of fossil fuels than Harrp in Alaska or in space being in any way responsible. With regard to scale and proportionality. Not to mention the physics involved. Now thats not to say I dont also suspect that there are attempts to fiddle around with Earths natural physical properties such as the Magnetic Field. But again Im more inclined to believe that what is more likely going on are geoengineering projects being conducted hand-in-hand with private industry. Like the ongoing finger-pointing at airline chemtrails, which I am not convinced are anything more than vapor trails (contrails). Though I do believe the Coast Guard and Air Force were conducting night dispersent spraying over the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill. I believe I witnessed some of it myself. Whatever population control benefits there are in your theory, if I understand you correctly, are not the primary intent of Harrp or geoengineering. In my opinion. Except perhaps as a field-model to conduct test studies. Likewise the space version (if it really does exist). You can say a lot of things about our fu*ked up democracy, but as far as killing off the population, theyll save us for last in order to preserve that very illusion of democracy. The more they abuse us the harder for them to PR spreading it around the world, dont you think? And so endless war serves the population control element just fine for now. We can kill all the foreigners we want, especially in the 3rd worlds of central and south AM and the Middle East. And in case you havent noticed, were working hard to add Asia and Eastern Europe to the menu. We could put a pretty big dent in the Georgia Guidestones recommendations before nuking a single US citizen. And so maybe they are saving that for last. Maybe thats the idea with China and Russia; to provoke their 1st strike. Oh, and I have some up-close history there as well. Not academically mind you. But in proximity. So lets look at this from another angle. You believe that a single site in Alaska or a satellite in space has been able to somehow cause the planet to warm at an increasingly fast pace by climate change standards, but over 200 years of burning fossil fuels on a global scale has somehow had a negligible or benign effect on greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere? Even with the fact that burning fossil fuels does release CO2, a greenhouse gas, and there has been a coinciding increase in atmospheric concentrations of CO2, during the entire industrial age. And which scientifically coincides with what would be expected according to the modeling for what weve seen result. And BTW, Exxon was busy covering up all this greenhouse-gas-emissions-equals-global-warming, as early as 1977. Has Harrp been in operation for that long? Or anywhere near as long as weve been burning oil, coal and gas? But really Im not even sure I understand what it is youre getting at, with respect to Global Warming. Because honestly you arent being real clear on that part. Even though you might think you are. I hope therefore that Ive responded in some coherent fashion. Since as I said, now that I realize youre not a wing-nut from the right. You do agree they are pretty much all morons? Not ready to call it a pleasure yet Wow. Allow me some time to respond. Thank you. Are you being terribly obvious or terribly vague? As your comment reads, you are literally saying the same thing I have. Global Warming is man-made. I assume the elite are presumed to be human beings? And Im pretty sure I never said they were pulling out all the stops to challenge it. And Im not going to read your linked article. I dont care if they are all Masons or Illuminati. or lizard Mason Illuminati aliens. I dont care their motive or agenda. I am only concerned with the majority of us that do not deserve to be denied our lives and our rights. I believe global warming is a real threat. I believe that the same Elite you mention (though I am loath to capitalize the e as you did) are responsible. Not in practice; we all burn fossil fuels, we are all at fault in that regard. But I agree with you that it continues unabated in all regards because of their perpetuation and inaction. How that makes me a moron and not you as well, or even why it would either of us anyway, youre gonna have to elaborate on. And if you want people to take you seriously, you need to spend a little more time on describing your convictions. Rather than just throwing around accusations with no apparent reason why. Other than youre clearly sporting a chipped shoulder. You know since it wasnt you I directed the comment to that brought me your buttin-in attack. Thats why the elite call us all fringe you know Were you not a member of Alice Coopers band? I am Alice Cooper Arent you? None of what you mentioned has secret agendas attached. This does. Google nwo agendas. So do we worry about pesticides in our food? Any precautions ? The pharmaceuticals in our water? And sea? Nwo fixing it? How about the waste from the mining and fracking industries, All that waste being stored correctly? Oil and nuclear accidents? They do little to mitigate the damage done to the environment. Seems natural climate change is the least of our worries considering how poluted our planet is. Globalists love making laws and carbon currencies to profit and work towards implementing their carefully and long time secret society planned agendas. You watch alot of tv or are a nwo sayanim hasbara. A faith based argument if ever there was one. 98% of climate scientists dont agree on anything you clown except the need for funding research.. Im less concerned about global warming, more about pollution in any form. I just dont think a carbon tax will benefit the environment in any substantial way. I suspect it is mainly designed as a instrument for control. News is controlled period. another conspiracy theory proved true. On the one hand they want to introduce carbon tax, and on the other hand they allow massive fracking for gas leaking methane all over the place. There are clouds of methane above some fracking areas. Also Im not at all convinced that the temperature is rising, beside the usual fluctuations. It the past millennium there have been colder period that froze the river Thames in London and the Seine in Paris and the ice was used as a market square to house the booths. Also there have been warmer periods. So the temperature rise we see today is nothing special. 