FUKUSHIMA, RADIATION and YOU

There are mothers on Earth
Preparing their children
For an irradiated future
There are no bomb shelters in this scenario
Just life with Mother Nature
On the run
And a growing taste for Prussian Blue
Fukushima, Radiation and You

There are irradiated COWS running the roads leading in and out of Fukushima.
It is beef that NOBODY wants, since it has been tested as LETHAL, with 500 times
the Caesium 137 that is safe for the human body to consume.

1, 257 of these cows were shipped all over Japan. People ATE them. The government has done little. Farms have been abandoned. Cattle and Horses are running free, and being run over by the TEPCO workers....

There is a safe amount of radiation that we can eat.... LESS than the amount of radiation that is now in the environment, courtesy of our friends at TEPCO. Everyone seems to be blaming the Japanese. Well, those reactors, particularly Reactor #4, the villain of today's tale, was designed and assembled in America....

Reactor #4, folks, by all current indicators, is about ready to BLOW. This is no paranoid alert. Seems that all the emergency work that was done, when the attitude was that the people at Tepco just HAD to do something to staunch the flow of radiation into the atmosphere....

All those slapdash, harried, haphazard, CLUMSY attempts at sticking a finger into a nuclear dike....

Are contributing to the problems of TODAY. All that shielding is failing, and so much pent-up radiation is spewing forth that no one can get close enough, even with machines, to do anything about it.

One would think that a lesson has been learned by ALL because of the hostile, volatile events at Fukushima. NO.

The Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority has stepped in and halted the opening of a NEW Nuclear Plant in Japan, the MONJU fast breeder reactor Facility. Over 14, 000 parts that are CRITICAL to the safe running of a nuclear reactor were NEVER tested. Not by any governing body in Japan. The facility failed 4 crucial Anti-Terrorism tests. The grounds are streaming with unidentified visitors. No identity checks. No background checks on those with access to sensitive material...

Say, just how deadly can radiation be? Back in 1958 at the Los Alamos Nuclear Facility in New Mexico, an unlucky chemist named Cecil Kelley was exposed to a 200 microsecond blast of neutrons and gamma rays. He collapsed to the ground screaming that he was on fire. He turned purple and died in agony within 35 hours.

It is too late for fall-out shelters. Reactor #4 has been spewing radiation into the air 24 hours a days, every second of every day since the accident. And it is just getting worse.

In fact, it is coming to a head. All that water. All that radiation. All that STEAM. Something's gotta give. Where will YOU be when it happens?

The farmers with the irradiated cows in Japan, those that have chosen to STAY on their farms near Fukushima, loyal to their animals and to their way of life till the end, must be checked daily for radiation poisoning. Still, they won't leave. One farmer loaded his irradiated cattle onto a truck, drove to TEPCO Headquarters and DEMANDED more testing be done at his dairy.

Legendary Japanese politeness, patience and respect for authority, especially the authority of major corporations, is being tested to the limit. But, in Japan, just as in America: Who stands up for the farmer? Who stands up for the mother? Who stands up for the working family? The displaced?

NO ONE. 

You lose your insurance and get an apology and a pat on the head, without a single assurance that you will have your problem handled in a satisfactory manner.

There is an ongoing NUCLEAR situation in the world, and America becomes embroiled in a spat over chemical weapons. A spat America loses. The same America that laughed at the Russians for their failed efforts in Afghanistan, only to make the same attempt a few years after the Russians pulled out...

The same America that glossed over Three Mile Island. The same America that dropped a few Nuclear Bombs over Savannah, Georgia and quite a few other places back in the fifties and sixties, then lied and covered up every incident and threatened witnesses into SILENCE, since there were no detonations.... 

The SAME America that ran a few stories on the accident at Chernobyl, then forgot about it.

The same America that has a permanent Nuclear Arsenal on TRAINS, constantly moving them through the neighborhoods they are made to PROTECT.

We are storing MILLIONS of spent fuel rods in mountains and land fills all over this country....

The same type at fault in the Fukushima incident.

There are contaminated COLTS sick on farms near Fukushima
In pre-apocalyptic Japan
Farmers making speeches and checking themselves for bleeding
Women in America and their children
Living in tin houses
Like Kansas Dust Storm Mothers
No way to keep the sickness out
When the only thing that gets one
though the day is Prussian Blue
It's Fukushima, Radiation and You.....