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Aussie sums up gun control - a great watch and too true

28/6/2015

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Jim Jefferies - US Gun Control.The latest mass shooting has again brought into focus the issue of gun control in America. There is too much money involved in the gun industry to enact meaningful gun control. While the NRA has  a lot of support from the public, their real backers are the industry surrounding gun manufacture and all the downstream business that goes along with it. The NRA has an incredible amount of influence on politicians of both parties although the Republican party seems to have a lot more invested in the group than the Dems.
The video  above is a good reflection of what some people outside think of the issue of gun violence and gun control in America
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Racism in America

24/6/2015

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After the latest racially motivated mass killing in "Merica" I wanted to post this informing clip on racism and how it works in society. There are many differences from New Zealand and America but also many similarity's. The same sound bites used in the states to describe blacks there are used to describe Maori and other ethnic groups here.
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Fukushima - The worst nuclear disaster ever seen (so far)

8/6/2015

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One of the things that I like to watch is the ongoing situation in Fukushima.for those of you who do not know this is a nuclear meltdown of three reactors on the pacific coast of Japan when the huge tidal wave hit several years ago. The following is an excerpt from a website that I follow called ENE news. It's a great website that reports on all things nuclear around the world.

Gov’t Officials: Fukushima should be declared uninhabitable — “Conditions are getting worse, we have to move people away… we can’t wait” — “Someone has to do something” — “Just like evacuation of children in WWII” — Newspaper: “Fukushima youths ready to desert irradiated hometowns” (VIDEO)
Published: June 5th, 2015 at 1:28 pm ET
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Jiji Press, Jun 5, 2015 (emphasis added): Fukushima youths ready to desert irradiated hometowns, survey finds… a majority of the young people living in 12 radiation-contaminated municipalities in Fukushima do not plan to be living in the same place… The survey, conducted in February and March, covered members of some 13,000 households randomly selected from the 77,600 still remaining in the 12 municipalities… “The results are very shocking,” said Satoshi Endo, mayor of the town of Hirono… Fukushima Prefectural Government will present a clear vision so young people can have hope about their hometowns, a senior official said..

The Asia-Pacific Journal, May 25, 2015:

  • Murakami Tatsuya, former mayor of Tōkaimura (“Birthplace of nuclear power in Japan”): There are 14 reactors on [Japan's Pacific coast] and I wouldn’t have been surprised if all these reactors had ended up failing in some way or another… It tells you how catastrophic it could be for a country like Japan to house nuclear power plants… It is crazy. Right now about 130,000 people in Fukushima have been evacuated from the exclusion areas, although it would be 80,000 or 90,000 people if we do not count voluntary evacuees… Speaking from the examples of Chernobyl, Fukushima should have been declared uninhabitable, especially to raise children.
  • Prof. Katsuya Hirano, UCLA: I agree… families with small children should have been given new land somewhere safe to start their lives again. The government should have provided them with a new village and community to live…
  • Murakami: I thought about the possibility of relocating the entire Tōkaimura myself. The news about the Fukushima crisis chilled me to the bone. As I mentioned, we were so close to having a similar situation, so I started thinking about relocating the entire village and in fact found a place in Hokkaido… and have them start dairy farming and cultivating new land in Hokkaido… I even visited the area. If it doesn’t work, I thought, other alternatives would be Australia or our sister state, Idaho.
Press Conference for Dr. Akira Sugenoya, Mayor of Matsumoto, Japan (AP: Sugenoya is a surgeon and thyroid specialist who left a prestigious Japanese hospital to perform lifesaving cancer surgeries in Chernobyl for several years): “It is clear that a significant amount of radioactive iodine was released from Fukushima Daiichi. It was a huge mistake not to take any measures immediately… There are children in Fukushima diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and the number of cases is increasing… I have said “children and pregnant women will suffer negative health effects in the future, as a result of external — and especially internal — exposure… In order to protect their lives, the government must, as a matter of national policy, move the children out of contaminated regions… The people are being exposed to radiation on a daily basis. Someone has to do something… A good part of Japan has been contaminated with nuclear fallout. This is just like the evacuation of children that took place en masse during the World War II.”

Taro Yamamoto, member of Japan’s Upper House of Parliament: “We have to grasp the real situation of which our children are in… we cannot wait around, because the conditions are getting worse. We have to move people away from the affected areas.


This is a good site for anyone who is interested in this kind of stuff, it also reports on the news releases of radiation related things for the USA. There has been multiple mass die offs on the west coast ranging from Alaska to Mexico. 
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This is one of the best representations of inequality out there

7/6/2015

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Although this represents the USA, there can be little doubt that we are not more than several years behind the bastion of freedom and equality - the United States of America.There have been many different ways to represent data in the ongoing battle to educate the population (where ever they may be ) as to the true distribution of the wealth in their countries. The way that they have conducted this survey with the questions of where do you think the wealth is currently distributed and where should it be in the optimal
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World religious conspiracy that's real!

6/6/2015

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This video really exposes just a little bit of the corruption that effects the ruling class. It comes in all kinds of ways and one of them that is really disturbing to me is this concept that the rulers are better that the rest of us and that the same rule sdo not apply to them that apply to us. This example may be in the US but weather it is religion that is used as the excuse or whatever, it is getting more and more common. New Zealand is not immune to this sort of thing happening and probably happens here a lot more than  we relise.
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My first blog- welcome to anyone and everyone

6/6/2015

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I am a politically interested person who keeps up with local politics and other events of interest but my main interest is the American political system and the effects that it has on our own country. There is a lot happening in the states right now with a presidential election happening next year. The republican nut-jobs are lining up to be the party's nominee and I think that there must nearly be 20 of them now.On the other side the Democrats have Hilary and Bernie Sanders as well as 2 others. It is the crazies verse the regular folks. I just can't wait to see how it plays out. This is truly the most entertaining show on the internet/tv/news right now. Who will the next scandal involve? Will Rick Perry be convicted of the federal charges that he is facing?Yes truly lots to look forward to.
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