What has happened in Japan in the last several days is horrific and grievous beyond belief. While Japan is reeling from its biggest natural disaster and tragedy since World War Two, we have to consider the manmade contribution to this tragedy of nuclear disaster facing the Japanese people, and all peoples affected by windborne radiation fallout. Last night I watched a long press conference, and the honesty of the engineer who designed the nuclear facilities, and his genuine grief at what has happened, was apparent. So different than here in the U.S. where all is cover-up and we are treated like dumbed-down fattened calves.

While we continue to hold the people of Japan and affected areas (including, perhaps, ours) in our hearts, while we continue to mourn loss of life and loved ones, loss of animals and plants and sea life, in a nation which has been a good friend to the United States, even though our government killed millions of its people; while we find ways to help Japan, while we sorrow with the Japanese people, we also need to educate ourselves to the stark fact that what happened in Japan CAN and likely WILL happen here - and how do we think the US government will treat its own people? Louisiana, Mississippi, and all Gulf of Mexico states and countries should give us a clue; one that affects all life on Earth as we know it. We still are reeling, and mourning those continuing losses.

Japan's technology, highly superior to our own in the U.S. regarding earthquakes, could not contain the force of a 9 point earthquake and tsunami that people had zero time to address. Even the professionalism and dignity shown by Japan's officials cannot help the millions suffering, the many thousands lost.

Please read this article in OpEdNews by Michael Collins, and particularly note the interactive map and graphs further along in the article. Look at your location on this world map. What do you see? These nuclear reactors are ticking time bombs, many on serious fault lines near coastal tsunami areas. To deny that mankind has a part in the potential demise of planet Earth is to either be out of touch with all reality, or unfeeling. The time for pressure on our autocrats, worldwide, is now. We must move toward a nuclear-free world. Just one reactor core has the radiation potentiality of 300 A-bombs. It's time to globally rethink this and even so, our actions in proliferating this poison into our earth, waters, and air, may already be the demise of life on Earth. It is likely already too late. We must do all we can to stop the nuclear madness.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Post-Nuclear-Japan-Pre-Di-by-Michael-Collins-110314-252.html

here's a link to the press conference i watched; probably old news now, since the second explosion happened and core meltdowns are imminent. (long: 1 hr, 38 min.)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13295291?lang=ja_JP