On Aug. 15, the Noda Cabinet formed the Nuclear Safety Agency. The Government of Japan and the ” shell ” game. Watch the pea.

October 23, 2011

The Japanese Government under Prime Minister Noda has been working hard to show that they are taking the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident very seriously.  They have been huddled and worked hard to show the world that they aren’t hiding anything.  They have been working hard to show their citizens that they should trust them.

Like the bungling idiots that they are, they show that they have not learned anything.  The problem is that they forget that there just might be people out there that aren’t fooled by their “shell” game.  Please watch the pea.

The Noda Cabinet takes the Nuclear and Industrial Agency (under the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry) and combines it with the Nuclear Safety Commission ( under the Ministry of Environment ) to form the Nuclear Safety Agency ( affiliated with the Ministry of Environment).   Did you follow the pea?   Which shell is it under?

The answer is the pea is under the Ministry of Environment.  The Nuclear Safety Agency ,which one would assume should be independent and not under the influence of any Ministry, is under the Ministry of Environment.  Goshi Hosono is the winner of this shell game.  But, not quite.  The staff of the Nuclear and Industrial Agency that used to promote nuclear power, moved over and became part of Goshi’s new Nuclear Safety Commission.  Win-Win for everybody but the citizens of  Japan.

How funny is that?  Did anything change?  Well, they do have a new name, and some of the workers have to drive a different route to work,but essentially it’s business as usual for the Nuclear Safety Commission.

The Government of Japan insults, yet again, its citizens by doing this.  There is nothing that was gained by creating the Nuclear Safety Commission, unless we are the ones that made a mistake.   Maybe that’s it.  It seems that the Nuclear Safety Commission was created to ensure the safety of the Government of Japan’s nuclear interests.

My mistake.  I had assumed that the Nuclear Safety Commission was created to ensure the safety of the citizens of Japan by making sure that those issues like the TEPCO safety documents that were ” altered” and approved, which resulted in this disaster, would not happen again.  But, I was wrong.

Why would the Government of Japan do anything differently?  They have shown time and time again that they are protecting their interests, not their citizens.

This one is a WIN for the Government and a LOSE for the citizens of Japan.

Cabinet establishes Nuclear Safety Agency

On August 15, a Cabinet decision combined the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) with the Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) to form the Nuclear Safety Agency, affiliated to the Ministry of the Environment. Up to now, the NSC was an advisory committee to the Prime Minister, and NISA had been affiliated to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
For quite some time, there have been strong opinions advocating NISA’s independence from METI, which promotes nuclear power. METI was reluctant to allow the separation of NISA, but the situation took on a changed complexion as criticism focused on NISA’s approach to the crisis during the early stages of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. The separation was accelerated when it was discovered that NISA had instructed electric power companies to arrange for nuclear power proponents to express opinions supporting nuclear power at METI-sponsored symposiums and hearings.
The creation of the Nuclear Safety Agency has raised many doubts as to whether its independence can be protected as a regulatory agency. Also, by integrating NSC with NISA, the double-check function of the NSC will be lost, despite the notion that it might be better to strengthen the double-check function. There also remain doubts as to how moving the affiliation from METI to the Ministry of the Environment will solve the problem. While the Ministry of the Environment may not promote nuclear power as forcefully as METI does, since the independence of the new agency cannot be guaranteed, nothing much will change.
More than anything, the problem is that it appears that the same people who staffed the NSC secretariat and NISA are to be transferred to the Ministry of the Environment. With their engrained attitudes toward nuclear power, it is unclear whether or not they will be capable of assuming the consciousness of a serious regulatory administration.

http://cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit144/nit144articles/nw144.html#cabinet

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Japan’s shame : The good bureaucrat

October 17, 2011

Japan’s shame

The good bureaucrat

Sep 14th 2011, 4:51 by K.N.C. | TOKYO

THERE are many heroes in post 3/11 Japan. The mayor of Rikuzentakata, who ensured the safety of city residents only for his wife to perish, is one, as are the Tokyo firefighters who streamed up to Fukushima to spray water on the out-of-control reactors.  But among those who deserve honour is also a humble bureaucrat at the trade ministry. In a system that prizes remaining nameless, faceless and not rocking the boat, Shigeaki Koga chose to step forward and reveal some of Japan’s ugliest secrets.

After 3/11, Mr Koga decided speak out about the awful practices he had experienced while working on Japan’s energy policy. The disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant, run by TEPCO, is symptomatic of a wider malaise. The utility companies buy the academy by sponsoring research, buy the media through mountains of public-service advertisements and junkets, buy big business by paying top-dollar for everything, buy the bureaucrats and regulators by handing them cushy post-retirement jobs.

Talking to him one gets a chill down the spine. Often, bureaucrats are regarded as lemming-like self-interested do-nothings or devious micro-managers. But Mr Koga’s brave words and deep understanding of how energy companies pad their costs, block competition, keep energy prices high and ultimately strangle Japan is an antidote to that image. Instead, the figure that emerges is a deeply intelligent, hard-working civil servant who wants the best for his country.

In the spring he devised his own restructuring plan for TEPCO that was utterly ignored by the ministry (which has long been in the pocket of the energy companies), though it won him plaudits from a handful of reformist politicians. He advocates opening the energy monopoly to competition and separating the power generation and transmission operations of today’s ten regional monopolies.

If only his country would listen. His private views to colleagues landed him in the wilderness. Superiors told him to resign. Yet since going public with his revelations and criticisms, he has been placed into an even darker solitary confinement. His current assignment is, well, nothing. When he asked the previous trade minister, Banri Kaieda, for a meaningful post, Mr Kaieda was noncommittal. (When The Economist asked Mr Kaieda about Mr Koga’s views, the then-trade minister dismissed it as something for “the long term”. Translation: “Never”.)

“I believe this is the final chance for Japan to change,” Mr Koga said in May, when I asked him during a wide-ranging interview why he was speaking out. “If I shut my mouth and obtain a good post in the ministry—even if I did that, in a few years Japan’s economy would plunge,” he said. “That is why I am taking on risks, and I don’t care if I have to resign. Because if I don’t speak out, Japan will not change. It is meaningless for me to be in the government if I cannot advocate reform.”

On September 14th, Mr Koga was poised to send an e-mail to his latest boss, the trade minister Yoshihiko Edano, asking for a real post. If he fails to get one, he says he will retire later this month. It will be a true pity if Japan loses one of the few men who could actually improve the country considerably. It will be a shame; a self-inflicted wound.

If Mr Edano has any sense—and courage—he will promote Mr Koga to vice-minister (the highest civil-servant position in the ministry) with a remit to see through his wise reforms. Japan needs its leaders just as it needs its heroes. The country’s haplessness is precisely because people like Mr Koga, who strive for what is right despite the personal consequences, are banished rather than elevated.

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Using muscle relaxers to Euthanize an animal is not humane nor is it without pain and it DOES COME WITH AWARENESS.

September 19, 2011

So, when the Government of Japan would like for you to think that it was euthanizing animals, and the animals suffering would end painlessly.  THAT WAS A LIE.  Here is a simple question for you –  when you hold your breath, can you still think, feel, and be aware of what is happening around you?  This is what is happening to the cattle.  They are essentially being suffocated.  Like drowning, but without the mess.  So, while the animal is becoming panicked because it can’t breathe, do you think that since it’s panicking, it doesn’t count as suffering to the Government of Japan?

The description below if for a human but the effect would be the same for an animal.

Yes, you can overdose on muscle relaxers. It is always recommended that you follow the dosage recommended on the bottle, these dosages aren’t guidline…they’re lifelines because overdosing on any drug can be lethal.

Muscle relaxers when taken correctly can relieve a person from pain…either from tension or some other injury. Taking more than recommended however, puts your body in serious danger.

Breathing is done through a person’s diaphragm (the muscles between the ribs and the abdominal muscles), heart and lungs. Since the diaphragm is a muscle (as well as the heart and the lungs) overdosing on muscle relaxers (of any kind) can relax these very important muscles to the point where they are no longer working or no longer working hard enough to meet the body’s needs.

This is why it’s very important to pay attention to what your exact dosage is and any side effects you may have while on it (difficulty breathing, chest pain extreme drowsiness or dizziness etc.)

If a person suspected of muscle relaxer overdose is admitted to the ER it is considered a very serious thing (as with any other drug OD). Blood will be taken immediately to determine how much the person took and how much of the drug is in the blood stream. Breathing and heart rate will be closely monitored and oxygen will be given to make sure enough is getting to the brain. Since it takes 24-48 hours for the drugs to exit your system (though it relies a lot on how much was taken, how close together and when) hospitals will want to admit the patient to the ICU so that they can carefully monitor them for the duration recommended by the attending physician Large overdoses can cause a person to go into a coma and/or leave them with permanent brain, heart or liver damage.

It is a very serious thing. We are fortunate to be able to buy and use these drugs to help us when we need them however, we need to remember that we also have a responsibility to take any form of drug.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_you_overdose_on_muscle_relaxers#ixzz1YOmVBkdE

 

The HSUS considers the following euthanasia methods to be inhumane:

  • Intracardiac injection on conscious animals.
  • Carbon Monoxide (CO) where sodium pentobarbital is legally available.
  • Gunshot—Gunshot is absolutely not acceptable for routine shelter euthanasia. Gunshot is only acceptable in an emergency field situation where an animal cannot be confined and transferred to the shelter, sodium pentobarbital is unavailable, and the personnel are well trained its use. This method is highly dangerous to personnel.
  • Carbon Dioxide (CO2)—CO2 is not acceptable for use in animal care and control facilities for the euthanasia of dogs and cats. CO2 produced from dry ice or generated from any other method is unacceptable.
  • T-61—T-61 is an unacceptable injectable drug combination containing a local anesthetic, a general anesthetic, and a neuromuscular blocking agent. It has been withdrawn from the market and is no longer manufactured or commercially available in the United States, but is still available in Canada and other countries. If improperly administered, T-61 can cause animals intense pain after administration and a curare-like paralysis of respiration (suffocation) before the animal loses consciousness.
  • Other methods that The HSUS considers inhumane—and which are illegal in many if not most jurisdictions—include decompression, the use of kill traps, nitrous oxide, drowning, freezing, decapitation, cervical dislocation, thoracic compression, pithing, exsanguination, electrocution, air embolism, nitrogen flushing, strychnine, chloral hydrate, caffeine, nicotine, magnesium sulfate, potassium chloride, succinylcholine chloride (Sucostrin, U-Tha-Sol, Anectine, Quelicin Chloride, Scoline Chloride), and any combination of sodium pentobarbital with a neuromuscular blocking agent.

 

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