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4Jul06

06 September 2005

Chernobyl, disdain for the victims.

The apt comparison for New Orleans is of course Chernobyl, where authorities waited 4 days before evacuating people. Four years later the Union fell.

Withdrawal of confidence is the only but sure way to topple an irrigation state. External enemies can only assist, principally by following JPII's advice in Poland: Lend large sums to an elite, and insist the loans are repaid by cutting popular entitlements.

Something like 180,000 people will die from Chernobyl, but their deaths will be swamped amongst typical cancer deaths, particularly since Ukraine standard of living and life expectancy have plummeted since Capital conquered them.

Note in this NYT article the demeaning language used
4,000 admitted deaths are called a "smattering" and the larger number of eventual deaths are lost against "background noise"
According to "Chernobyl's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts," a total of 4,000 deaths will probably ultimately be attributable to the accident ..
...Only 50 excess deaths.. can be directly attributed to acute radiation exposure after Chernobyl's reactor 4 exploded in April 1986, according to a panel of more than 100 experts convened by United Nations agencies. The remainder will be due to a smattering of excess cancers in people exposed to radiation near Chernobyl..

In Ukraine, the number of people designated as permanently disabled by the Cherniobyl {sic} accident (and their children) increased from 200 in 1991 to 64,500 in 1997 and 91,219 in 2001 -.. Both Ukraine and Byelorus still spend about 5 percent of their annual budget on Chernobyl victims.

..a small core {sic} of people, probably numbering 100,000 to 200,000, who continued to be severely affected by the disaster. These include poor rural dwellers who live in the few severely contaminated areas, people with thyroid cancer and....
..Other cancers and adverse health effects, when they occur, may be particularly difficult to link to the Chernobyl accident, because life expectancy dropped dramatically in the region after the fall of the Soviet Union. "The effect may be difficult to detect against the background noise," Dr. Mettler said.


In Ukraine, the counter-intelligence propaganda is even tougher: you can get sued by the state if you refuse to admit that radiation is actually good for you.
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in Bangladesh after a 1991 hurricane created huge storm surges that killed more than 130,000 people. World charities helped build hundreds of concrete shelters on stilts, which in recent storms have saved thousands of lives.
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