MooPig 'Stuff No One Wants to Hear About' Department :: "Fukushima UPDATE"

Rod Removal has Begun by, yes, Amateurs
mashed articles by Pat Darnell | Nov 7, 2013 | Bryan TX

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" ... The shortage of qualified workers has been an opportunity for the yakuza. Gangsters have stepped in to supply labor to subcontract to TEPCO's [Tepco, Tokyo Energy & Systems] contractors. The yakuza's labor pool is the most desperate men in Japan. They are poorly trained, suffer from wage theft, and are over-worked and demoralized. TEPCO is enabling the yakuza because management is unwilling to cut profits to pay competitive wages. (FishOutofWaterFollowforDK GreenRoots. Nov 1, 2013. LINK)..."

" ...Nearly 50 gangs with 1,050 members operate in Fukushima prefecture dominated by three major syndicates - Yamaguchi-gumi, Sumiyoshi-kai and Inagawa-kai, police say.(ibid.)..."

" ... In reviewing Fukushima working conditions, Reuters interviewed more than 80 workers, employers and officials involved in the unprecedented nuclear clean-up. A common complaint: the project's dependence on a sprawling and little scrutinized network of subcontractors - many of them inexperienced with nuclear work and some of them, police say, have ties to organized crime. (Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito
IWAKI | Fri Oct 25, 2013 LINK) ..."

" ...In a rare prosecution involving a yakuza executive, Yoshinori Arai, a boss in a gang affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai, was convicted of labor law violations. Arai admitted pocketing around $60,000 over two years by skimming a third of wages paid to workers in the disaster zone. (ibid.)..."

Daily Kos: "Apocalyptic" Fukushima Fuel Rod Removal Begins Nov. 8; TEPCO Subcontracts Yakuza gangsters: "Worker D: To begin with, it is a mistake to let a company handle the accident when that company didn't even have countermeasures in case of an accident. They are too proud to admit they can't do it under the current condition. Contaminated water keep increasing, workers keep decreasing. There is a law for supporting children and disaster victims, but there is nothing for radiation-exposed workers. Soon, not even yakuza nor amateurs will remain at Fukushima I Nuke Plant."

One-hundred fifty thousand people had to flee from the area around Fukushima I NUKE plant after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami hit the plant on March 11, 2011. The disaster triggered three reactor meltdowns, a series of explosions and a radiation leak.

" ... In towns and villages around the plant in Fukushima, thousands of workers wielding industrial hoses, operating mechanical diggers and wearing dosimeters to measure radiation have been deployed to scrub houses and roads, dig up topsoil and strip trees of leaves in an effort to reduce background radiation so that refugees can return home. (ibid.) ... "

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CONCLUSION
You can get a job at the clean up today, and work there until you are 70 years old and retiring. Cleanup will take that long, over thirty years. Your wages will be skimmed by unscrupulous bosses, you will encounter life ending radiation, and most likely not live to be 70.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/01/1252062/--Apocalyptic-Fukushima-Fuel-Rod-Removal-Begins-Nov-8-TEPCO-Subcontracts-Yakuza-gangsters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-fukushima-workers-specialreport-idUSBRE99O04320131025
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2013/10/anonymous-workers-at-fukushima-i-nuke.html
http://enenews.com/gundersen-200-brand-new-fuel-bundles-fukushima-unit-4-pool-risk-start-nuclear-chain-reaction-close-together-during-removal-will-be-criticality-be-very-very-cautious-audio
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003727905.pdf
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2013/10/setting-record-straight-on-spent-fuel.html
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/24-3
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/19/national/fukushima-2020-will-japan-be-able-to-keep-the-nuclear-situation-under-control/#.UntZJPmUTx6
http://enenews.com/gundersen-200-brand-new-fuel-bundles-fukushima-unit-4-pool-risk-start-nuclear-chain-reaction-close-together-during-removal-will-be-criticality-be-very-very-cautious-audio

MooPig Free Range Grazing Rights Department :: "Unemployment Benefits"

Dire Straits
Captured by Pat Darnell | June 29, 2013 | Bryan TX

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North Carolina Becomes First State To Eliminate Unemployment Benefits: "RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With changes to its unemployment law taking effect this weekend, North Carolina not only is cutting benefits for those who file new claims, it will become the first state disqualified from a federal compensation program for the long-term jobless."

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"Like many states, North Carolina had racked up the debt by borrowing from Washington after its unemployment fund was drained by jobless benefits during the Great Recession. (EMERY P. DALESIO JUNE 28, 2013. LINK) ... "

Whoops! That one slipped by: define "the Great Recession."

" ... A period of economic downturn experienced by the United States beginning in December 2007. The downturn is not described as depression since the severity has not encompassed the levels of the Great Depression in the 1930's. The US market housing decline is pointed out to be one of the causes of the Great Recession. ... "

CONCLUSION
Why is it politicians, in this case the GOP Governor of North Carolina, make policy decisions that adversely impact their very own constituents, their voters? Discontinuance of UC is in fact directly related to the Great Recession, as an after shock upon the demagoguery. Blimey.

The Emergency Unemployment Compensation was due to run out in January in North Carolina. Instead the Governor ended it this month, to "ease the burden on businesses." As in all cases political, two out of three questions are ignored: 1) Is it legal ... 2) Is it the right thing to do? ... 3) Who benefits from this? Follow the money.

MooPig relies on secondary research for its existence. When are we going to see the "free press" digging into the money trails for all these jokers in leadership positions?


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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/north-carolina-becomes-first-state-to-eliminate-unemployment-benefits.php
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/great-recession.html#ixzz2XdhOqohI
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/with-changes-to-its-unemployment-law-nc-becomes-1st-state-to-drop-federal-jobless-funds/2013/06/28/85a8e3a2-dfdc-11e2-8cf3-35c1113cfcc5_story.html

Apology

Issued Apology by MooPig 7:03 PM CST | 02.09.09

We at MooPig Enterprises, all 42,000 of us, who are now unemployed, apologize for misunderstanding on a large scale the so-called "Stimulus Plan..."

As we are set right tonight in this hour, by the first Barry Obama press conference... we now understand it is an "ECONOMIC Stimulus Plan"

Top PHOTO True : Bottom PHOTO False

All this first six weeks of the new year and new administration, we have thought Barry Obama was pushing an "ANATOMIC Stimulus Plan."

Any harm we have caused our patrons and worldwide constituents, we are sorry.

Post-Script: We want to just give a shout out to Prez B Obama for saying "PORK" five times tonight, and also when he said "SHAKY ASSETS" there was an air of forgiveness in the entire moopig distaff ranks...