{"id":187704,"date":"2011-03-29T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/29\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T01:15:00","slug":"187704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/29\/187704\/","title":{"rendered":"<facepalm>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the nuclear disaster in Japan, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collapsenet.com\/free-resources\/collapsenet-public-access\/item\/723-fallout\">EPA is looking to increase the amount of radiation deemed safe for the American public to be exposed to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>March 24, 2011, 12:30 EDT, NEW YORK CITY\u2013 In the wake of the continuing nuclear tragedy in Japan, the United States government is still moving quickly to increase the amounts of radiation the population can \u201csafely\u201d absorb by raising the safe zone for exposure to levels designed to protect the government and nuclear industry more than human life. It\u2019s all about cutting costs now as the infinite-growth paradigm sputters and moves towards extinction. As has been demonstrated by government conduct in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of Deepwater Horizon and in Japan, life has taken a back seat to cost-cutting and public relations posturing.<\/p>\n<p>The game plan now appears to be to protect government and the nuclear industry from \u201cexcessive costs\u201d\u2026 at any cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This would involve raising the acceptable levels of things like radioactive Cesium, Iodine and Nickel by up to one hundred thousand times \u2026\u2026\u2026 Yes, that&#8217;s <b>times<\/b>, not percent.<\/p>\n<p>This is not without precedent.&nbsp; Following the Deepwater Horizon blowout, they raised the acceptable levels of toxic chemicals for fish from the gulf, as &#8220;George Washington&#8221; notes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2011\/03\/guest-post-government-responds-to-nuclear-accident-by-trying-to-raise-acceptable-radiation-levels-and-pretending-that-radiation-is-good-for-us.html\">Naked Capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not feeling hopey changey about Barack right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the nuclear disaster in Japan, the EPA is looking to increase the amount of radiation deemed safe for the American public to be exposed to: March 24, 2011, 12:30 EDT, NEW YORK CITY\u2013 In the wake of the continuing nuclear tragedy in Japan, the United States government is still moving quickly to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1079,969,1051,1163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-environment","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}