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FBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:06 AM
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Radiation detected in rice
Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo, says it has detected small amounts of radioactive cesium in rice plant samples taken at a rice field in the prefecture. The prefecture tested rice taken from rice plant samples from 3 locations in Hokota City.

23 becquerels of radioactive cesium 134 and 29 becquerels of radioactive cesium 137 were detected in rice from one of the 3 locations. It is the first time that radioactive cesium has been detected in rice after the March nuclear accident.

The agriculture ministry says radiation detected in rice from the city is well below the government limit, and that it poses no health risks. The prefecture plans to conduct radiation tests again after rice from the city is harvested.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/19_23.html
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SpoonFed Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-11 06:37 AM
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1. Another case of under-reporting...
the actual values? I mean that might fit with what someone would suspect is your agenda.
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FBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-11 01:55 PM
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2. A pretty massive conspiracy
Those nuke wizards sure have incredible control over not only the industry and national government, but also local policy, universities, hospitals, and prefecture governments and health agencies.

They must use brain control technologies that can get past everything but tinfoil, eh?

Guess you're safe.
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SpoonFed Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-11 03:00 PM
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3. There is no tinfoiled conspiracy... it is quite plain what has been going on...
There has been selective reporting and lying by omission from day one. There has been unbridled PR and spin-control on the net. There have been prominent members of Japanese intelligencia getting up in front of their parliment to scream about the incredible past, present and future exposures and ongoing danger to, among other groups, Japans mothers and children.

I do not see you starting informative threads about the gross misconduct and massive, unacceptable exposures to Japanese from the direct malfeasance of related power companies and regulatory bodies.

I see you cherry picking stories about limited exposures which appears to me to be a very straight line with clear intent to downplay the effects of the ongoing unprecedented nuclear disaster in Japan.

It is not a massive conspiracy. It is just the banality of evil.
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FBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 07:14 PM
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4. How strange
That reads exactly like a conspiracy theory.

Of course the company is lying... and the Japanese government... and the US government is in on the game (from a secret agreement that Sec Clinton signed). The local hospitals, universities and prefectures are all in on the game too.

But hey! Once in a while an unsourced tweet breaks through the lockdown and tells us all the real story.

:sarcasm:
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SpoonFed Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 04:36 PM
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5. Did you miss the part...
where I said you were banal, predictable, and boring?

You can add criteria to my description if you want and call it a conspiracy if you want and you can try to knock down a straw man argument of your own construction if you want or as you are want to do.

*yawn*

Try sticking to spinning in a pro-nuke light what *I actually said*, it is more fun that way.
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