OPPRESSION OF THE FILIPINO

henry sy at aquino

What happened to the millions of pesos that were donated by foreign donors for the rehabilitation of Tacloban?? 

Gagamitin na naman ba iyon ng mga Oligarchs thru PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS???

MAGTATAYO KA NGA NG BUILDING SA TACLOBAN PERO SI HENRY SY O RAMON ANG NAMAN ANG MAG MAMAY-ARI, DI NAKAW PA RIN YUN. 

SIYEMPRE  MAG CO-COMMISSION  NA NAMAN MGA KAMAG-ANAK NI NOY COJUANGCO AQUINO. 

WARNING!

BABALA - WARNING

Do not be taken in by the recent announcement of Malacanang that “GOVERNMENT BONUSES to state employees will be released early before Christmas. They just want “US” employees to SUBSIDIZE the incompetent relief efforts made by the AQUINO GOVERNMENT against the almost nationwide destruction made by Typhoon Yolanda to many regions of this country.

Sa madaling salita, they want us to pay for the relief efforts thru our “goodness and kindness” to our neighbors and relatives na sinalanta ng Yolanda, creating an excuse for them to say na ginawa na nila ang lahat. Ayaw nilang gamitin ang perang ibinayad natin para sa buwis at para hindi mabawasan ang perang gagamitin nila sa campaign kitty ni Mar Roxas sa 2016.

Ginigisa tayo ni Florencio Abad at Pnoy Aquino sa sarili nating mantika.

The bonuses of state employees are supposedly used to augment their personal disposable income, and must not be in any way, directed by this government towards the relief efforts. 

Choice na lang po natin if we give or donate to the refugees of Tacloban.

GAMITIN MUNA NILA ANG PERANG IBINAYAD NATIN SA TAXES BEFORE ASKING FOR MORE. THERE IS STILL TRILLIONS OF PESOS UNACCOUNTED FOR BY THIS GOVERNMENT.

HUWAG PO TAYO MAGPADALA SA KANILANG MAKUNWARING SISTEMA.

THE STATE BONUSES RELEASED TO STATE EMPLOYEES MUST REMAIN PERSONAL MONEY OF STATE EMPLOYEES.

LET AQUINO AND ABAD USE THE TAXES THAT WE PAY FOR THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN THE TYPHOON – STRICKEN AREAS IN THE VISAYAS.

HUWAG NATING PAYAGAN NA GAGUHIN LAMANG TAYO NINA ABAD AT AQUINO.

NOW WE KNOW, WHY NOYNOY WENT TO SOUTH KOREA

Aquino makes U-turn on nuke plant budget

By Christine F. Herrera | Posted 5 hours ago | 226 views
Manila Standard

Defyng his Cabinet officials’ advice, President Benigno Aquino III ordered the restoration of the P50-million budget to maintain the mothballed 620-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant shortly before his state visit to South Korea, which operates 23 nuclear plants.
The budget restoration was confirmed by Pangasinan Rep. Kimi Cojuangco, who was officially informed by Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, who withdrew his order to the National Power Corp. to recall the personnel in charge of maintaining the facility.
Cojuangco said the removal of the maintenance budget would have paved the way for the permanent closure of the plant in 2014.
Cojuangco said Abad had told her that the President’s order was made while the President was in Zamboanga supervising the siege on Moro rebels there.
Lidy Nacpil, lead convenor of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice and vice president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, and Francis dela Cruz of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, protested the budget restora-tion.
“We have been demanding that the BNPP be decommissioned a long time ago. We are only being saddled with a totally useless and dangerous nuclear plant,” Nacpil told the Manila Standard.
Nacpil said there was no technology that could ensure the safety of the plant, citing the recent Fukushima tragedy in Japan as a result of the tsunami that hit the country two years ago.
Cojuangco’s BNPP bill in the 15th Congress had already garnered the support of some 197 congressmen when the nuclear plant accident in Fukushima, Japan occurred.
“No one died from the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. We have learned a lot from it and we want to reassure the public that it will not happen to us in the Philippines,” Cojuangco’s husband and former
Pangasinan congressman Mark Cojuangco said.
In fact, he said, two of South Korea’s nuclear plants the Kory1 and Kory2 used a similar design but cost $6 billion.
The BNPP, he said, had been fully-paid in 2007 at a total cost of $2.12 billion.
The Cojuangcos said the BNPP, once rehabilitated and operating, would bring down the cost of electricity to as low as P2.50 per kilowatt hour, as against the prevailing P11 per kwh in Luzon because the coal or diesel fuel was expensive compared to the more efficient and cleaner technology of the BNPP.
“It is about time that we run the BNPP. It is unfair to the future generations if we throw away the $2.1-billion asset that the Filipinos now own and deprive our children of good future,” the congresswoman said.
But Nacpil was adamant.
“When then President Cory Aquino decided to honor the debt, it was like we had thrown good money after bad. Now that the son, President Noynoy Aquino decided to continue maintaining the plant, instead of de-commissioning it, we are being thrown from the frying pan into the fire,” she said.
She and Dela Cruz demanded an explanation from Mr. Aquino.
“The President ought to clarify why he favors the reinstatement of P50-million maintenance of the BNPP. Does it mean that this administration is considering the resurrection of this monument to man’s folly? We certainly hope not,” Dela Cruz said.
Before the President countermanded his order, Abad had reminded the National Power Corp. that no more maintenance funds would be released for the nuclear power plant.
The BNPP is manned by nuclear engineers and a staff of about 30 with 28 security guards protecting the entire 356-hectare complex and the nearby 44-hectare Nuclear Village.
During a budget hearing, Cojuangco invoked Executive Order 55 issued by the late President Corazon Aquino “assigning the National Power Corp. as caretaker of the BNPP until the national government shall have studied on what to do with it,” Cojuangco said.
“I don’t think that EO 55 was ever superseded or repealed,” she told the House committee on appropriations.

MGA KAWATAN SA MALACANANG! - WE KNOW BECAUSE YOUR PEOPLE TELL

MUKHANG NAHULI NILA TAYO PARE. . . .

 

EH IKAW LANG NAMAN ANG NAG-UUTOS SA AKIN MAGNAKAW AH . . . ?

EVEN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS NOT SPARED BY PNOY

State colleges, universities protest P146-M budget cut

By Tarra Quismundo
Inquirer Bureaus
 

5:52 am | Saturday, September 24th, 2011 

 

‘HISTORIC SHOW OF RAGE’. UP students march to Don Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola) bridge in Manila to protest the budget cuts of state universities and colleges. Other Metro schools involved are Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Eulogio Amang Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology and Philippine Normal University. MARIANNE BERMUDEZ

Students of state universities and colleges (SUCs) led by the University of the Philippines (UP) on Friday walked out of their classes and conducted protest actions in Luzon and the Visayas against cuts in subsidy.
“UP is a state university and cutting its allocation can be considered abandonment. That is why we are staging this strike,” said Mark Simbajon, spokesperson of the League of Filipino Students (LFS) in Tacloban City.
In Baguio City, about 600 students and teachers of UP Baguio blocked the noon traffic for 10 minutes by lying in the middle of Session Road.
The protesters, representing almost 40 percent of the UP Baguio population, were led by three college deans and professors.
At the Don Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola) Bridge in Manila, more than 1,000 students staged what they called “a historic show of rage.”
The students were from UP Diliman, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology, and Philippine Normal University.
They were joined by members of LFS, College Editors Guild of the Philippines; the party-list groups Anakpawis, Bayan Muna Alliance of Concerned Teachers and Gabriela; and the labor alliance Kilusang Mayo Uno.
“This day is the culmination of the weeklong … protest activities against the social services cutback. The P146-million cut on the budget for [SUCs] will lead to higher tuition rates and bloated miscellaneous fees, making education a privilege exclusive to those who can afford [it],” Vencer Crisostomo, spokesperson of Kilos na Laban sa Budget Cuts, said in a statement.
Crisostomo warned that the congressmen passed the budget “like a thief in the night” when everyone was asleep, and that the Senate was sure to do the same.

Standstill in quality
As the students held their protest actions, the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) expressed support for calls to raise the budget for public tertiary education, saying the proposed 2012 allocation would serve only as a “survival budget.”
CHEd Executive Director Julito Vitriolo said SUCs would be unable to afford “ambitious projects” to raise their quality on the proposed P26.1-billion budget for some 110 schools.
“Because there is no dramatic increase in the subsidy, there is a standstill in quality… It is only enough for their subsistence,” Vitriolo told the Inquirer.
“The budget is just to maintain a certain level. It’s not even a development budget. It’s a survival budget. It’s not the kind of budget that could dramatically improve [the quality of education in SUCs],” he said.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) had said the proposed budget for SUCs was already higher by 10.1 percent from the current year’s P23.7 billion.
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said the Aquino administration had raised the aggregate budget for SUCs from P23.7 billion in 2011 to P26.1 billion in 2012.
Abad said this amount included P23.6 billion, inclusive of automatic appropriations itemized per SUC, a standby fund of more than P2 billion under the Miscellaneous and Personnel Benefit Funds for unfilled positions in SUCs, and an additional P500 million under the CHEd for SUC development.
The P26.1-billion proposal is still facing deliberations in Congress.

Barely half the need
But Rep. Raymond Palatino of the party-list group Kabataan said the proposal was at P21.8 billion, or barely half of what SUCs actually required for effective operations in 2012.
The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) said roughly 50 SUCs would suffer cuts of up to P569.8 million under the 2012 budget, per its estimates.
For instance, NUSP said, Malacañang’s proposed P5.54-billion budget for UP in 2012, already higher than this year’s P1.39 billion, was still far from the estimated P18 billion that the UP system would need to properly run its campuses nationwide.
As for PUP, its proposed P737-million budget is less than half the P2 billion it would need to educate some 65,000 students across the country, NUSP said.
Estimating that SUCs should receive a total of P45.8 billion in 2012, Palatino filed this week a petition at the House of Representatives’ committee on appropriations seeking a P24-billion raise in the tertiary education budget.
Budget pie limited
Cuts in subsidy come amid increasing enrollment in public tertiary schools, a trend CHEd has observed in recent years as students move to state schools with the rising cost of tuition in private institutions.

“We support the call of members of Congress, the House of Representatives, lobbying for increase in the budget. But to get it, we’ll have to go through the bicameral committee,” CHEd’s Vitriolo said.

“The [budget] pie is limited to a certain size and more and more schools are sharing it… Enrollment is increasing but the size of the pie remains the same so the budget is diluted,” he said.
The London-based research and ratings firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) recently released its world university rankings, where no Philippine school made the top 300.
Only four schools—UP, Ateneo de Manila, De La Salle University and the University of Santo Tomas—barely made it to  the top 600 list. NO SUC save for UP made the list as QS noted the declining state spending on education.
Cause for alarm
“What’s a bit alarming is that, for instance, in the case of UP, they want to pursue projects to be able to compete in the world rankings [of top universities], but they cannot pursue ambitious projects with limited funds,” Vitriolo said.
He said the budget for SUCs was calculated based on the principle of “normative financing,” where spending priority was given to performing schools while cuts in the operating budget were made on underperforming schools.
“It’s performance-based. So it depends on your research output, enrollment, passing rate in licensure exams,” Vitriolo said.
He said plans were underway to rationalize the system of tertiary education, such as the “clustering and amalgamation” of SUCs in certain regions with a number of institutions offering the same courses.
He said schools in northern Luzon, the Cordillera Administrative Region and Northern Mindanao were already “warm to the idea” of amalgamation, which aims to more efficiently distribute and maximize limited state subsidy.
3 times higher
Prof. Celia Austria of UP Baguio’s College of Science said the deans were backing the protest action owing to a statement earlier made by UP president Alfredo Pascual that while the cuts in the proposed 2012 UP budget appeared deep on paper, what the DBM had removed from the allocation was three times higher.
Austria said UP Baguio was able to squeeze funds from savings when contractors were hired for unfilled positions. “Contractors are paid less, so what is saved from the salary allotted for their positions is realigned to pay for operational costs. But the DBM under Budget Secretary Abad does not even allow this practice,” she said.
At UP Los Baños in Laguna province, around 500 students, teachers and university employees joined the protest rally, according to Ma. Cristina Madeja, chair of the student group Sakbayan.
Humanities instructor Laurence Castillo, 21, said he took part in the rally.
“Some teachers dismissed their classes so the students could join the protest,” Castillo said. “We in the academic union support the call for a higher state subsidy for education. [Budget cuts] may mean lower benefits for us but the students suffer more because these may mean higher tuition for them.”
The UPLB students held a program while around 100 of them joined the mass “planking” in front of the Oblation statue.
They also burned a makeshift coffin symbolizing “that Philippine education has died,” Madeja said.
Shifting the burden
In the Visayas, over 1,000 students of UP Tacloban also marched on the city streets to protest the cuts in the SUC budget.
Around 600 students of UP Visayas, Western Visayas State University (WVSU), and Western Visayas Colleges of Science and Technology marched from their campuses and converged at the Iloilo Capitol grounds for a rally.
They were backed by school administrators and employees.
“We decry [President] Aquino’s shifting of the burden of subsidizing education from the government to the students and their families,” said Krisma Nina Porquia, officer of the WVSU Student Council.
“By gradually reducing the budget for SUCs, his government compels school administrations to implement austerity measures and tuition and other fee increases,” she said.
But Abad said in a statement: “Clearly, the state subsidy for SUCs is higher next year. But more important than the increase, this proposed budget supports the development of SUCs as responsive to the government’s five priority areas for growth and employment.”
He said these priority areas were agriculture and fisheries, tourism, general infrastructure, semiconductors and electronics, and business process outsourcing.
Abad said Mr. Aquino had directed CHEd “to work together” with SUCs, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and the labor department “to align their curricula to these priority areas.”
“There is an immense opportunity in these areas but they are lacking in qualified manpower,” he said.  With reports from Norman Bordadora and Jeannette I. Andrade in Manila; Vincent Cabreza with contributor Markfil Tersol, Inquirer Northern Luzon; Maricar Cinco, Inquirer Southern Luzon; and Nestor Burgos Jr., Joey Gabieta and Jhunnex Napallacan, Inquirer Visayas
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ANG BINUBUSOG NI PNOY AY YUNG MGA NASA ITAAS LAMANG

Workers protest MWSS board's 'excessive' allowances

By Alvin Elchico, ABS-CBN News

Posted at 08/13/2012 5:41 PM | Updated as of 08/14/2012 8:24 AM

MWSS chairman denies allegations

MANILA, Philippines - Employees of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) on Monday held a protest rally to denounce what they call are "excessive" benefits given to members of its board.
Holding placards and streamers, around 30 MWSS employees protested during their lunch break. They claimed that each board member is paid P9,000 per regular committee meeting and P 15,000 for board meeting.
Nap Quiñones, MWSS Labor Association president, claimed MWSS officials and consultants are violating the new government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) law.
The group said MWSS trustees would schedule 4 committee meetings in a day, which would total earnings of P36,000 a day.
The group also accused the new MWSS management of hiring 36 consultants at P30,000 each.
They noted while the board members slashed their meal allowance of P150 a day to P3 a day, they feasted on excessive allowances.
The protesters were joined outside the MWSS by consumer group Water for All Refund Movement (WARM) who also denounced the hefty allowances and demanded the ouster of MWSS officials.
WARM also insisted on the refund of around P2 billion in collections to fund the cancelled Laiban dam and Bulacan irrigation projects initiated by the MWSS during the previous administration.
'Baseless accusations'
MWSS chairman Ramon Alikpala said all the accusations of the group were not true and have no basis. While Alikpala did not dispute the P9,000 per diem for each committee meeting, he insisted that the board members do not receive compensation or salary package.
He said this amount is within bounds of the law. Alikpala said it is not true that members of the board had meetings held 4 times a day.
There was an instance in April that several committee meetings were held but Alikpala said these were attended by different members of the board.
Compared to the previous chairman of the board who received P5 million a year, Alikpala said he only gets an income of P500,000, just a fraction of what his predecessor got.
Alikpala admitted the reduction of the meal allowance but stressed the additional compensation has no basis in law. He also defended the hiring of consultants which he claimed are needed in specialized area concerns of the MWSS but the number did not reach 36 at all.
When asked if he will resign, Alikpala said "if I do leave MWSS, it won't be because of this."
Meanwhile, Alikpala said the collected amount for the shelved Laiban and Bulacan irrigation project will not be refunded since the government will push through with these projects anyway. Any over- or undercollection can be remedied in the current rate rebasing done by the MWSS regulatory office for both Maynilad and Manila Water, he added.

THE REPUBLIC IS DEAD

   ".. DARK STILL THE FUTURE HOLDS...............HMMMMM.."

 

       "CONSUMED HE IS OF HATE.....VILE HIS HEART IS...."

           "HIS FORCE IS STRONG...WITH THE DARK SIDE."

               "THE ENEMY HAS SPIES EVERYWHERE....."

                   "IN FEAR OF THE FUTURE HE HOLDS ......." 

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        "HOPE IS NOT SOON.  NO... NOT YET."

THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE........GREAT MANIPULATOR

I DO NOT FUCKING CARE ABOUT THE COUNTRY. WHAT I FUCKING CARE ABOUT IS MY MONEY!!!

NOBODY AND NOBODY DOUBLE-CROSSES ME.I SERVE AS THE ADVISER OF NOYNOY. I AM THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE.

 

 AND DON'T YOU FUCKING MESS WITH ME.  I CONTROL THIS COUNTRY...,.......

        THE PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC IS MINE!!!

JESUIT MANIPULATION

source:www.globalresearch.com

The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Un-Censored Version

68 years ago, at 11:02 am on August 9^th, 1945, an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. That bomb was the second and last atomic weapon that had as its target a civilian city. Somewhat ironically, as will be elaborated upon later in this essay, Nagasaki was the most Christian city in Japan and ground zero was the largest cathedral in the Orient. 

These baptized and confirmed airmen did their job efficiently, and they accomplished the mission with military pride. There was no way that the crew could not have known that what they were participating in met the definition of an international war crime (according to the Nuremberg Principles that were very soon to be used to justify the execution of many German Nazis).

It had been only 3 days since the August 6th bomb, a uranium bomb, had decimated Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bomb was dropped amidst considerable chaos and confusion in Tokyo, where the fascist military government had been searching for months for a way to honorably end the war. The only obstacle to surrender had been the Roosevelt/Truman administration’s insistence on unconditional surrender, which meant that the Emperor Hirohito, whom the Japanese regarded as a deity, would be removed from his figurehead position in Japan – an intolerable demand for the Japanese that prolonged the war and kept Japan from surrendering months earlier.

The Russian army had declared war against Japan on August 8, hoping to regain territories lost to Japan in the disastrous Russo-Japanese war 40 years earlier, and Stalin’s army was advancing across Manchuria. Russia’s entry into the war represented a powerful incentive for Japan to end the war quickly and they much preferred surrendering to the US rather than to Russia. A quick end to the war was important to the US as well. It did not want to divide any of the spoils of war with Russia.

The Target Committee in Washington, D.C.  had made a list of relatively un-damaged Japanese cities that were to be excluded from the conventional fire-bombing (using napalm) campaigns that had burned to the ground 60+ major Japanese cities during the first half of 1945. That list of protected cities included, at one time or another Hiroshima, Niigata, Kokura, Kyoto and Nagasaki. These relatively undamaged cities were off-limits from incendiary terror bombings but were to be preserved as possible targets for the new “gimmick” weapons of mass destruction.

Scientific curiosity was a motivation in choosing the targeted cities. The military and the scientists needed to know what would happen to intact buildings – and their living inhabitants – when atomic weapons were exploded overhead. Ironically, prior to August 6 and 9, the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki considered themselves lucky for not having been bombed as much as other cities. Little did they know.

Early in the morning of August 9, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress that had been christened Bock’s Car, took off from Tinian Island in the South Pacific, with the prayers and blessings of its Lutheran and Catholic chaplains, and headed for Kokura, the primary target. Bock’s Car’s plutonium bomb was in the bomb bay, code-named “Fat Man,” after Winston Churchill.

The only field test (blasphemously code-named “Trinity”) of a nuclear weapon had occurred just three weeks earlier (July 16, 1945) at Alamogordo, New Mexico. The molten lava rock that resulted from the heat of that blast (twice the temperature of the sun) can still found at the site today. It is called trinitite.

The reality of what had happened at Hiroshima was only slowly becoming apparent to the fascist military leaders in Tokyo. It took 2 – 3 days after Hiroshima was incinerated before Japan’s Supreme War Council was able to even partially comprehend what had happened there, to make rational decisions and to discuss again the possibility of surrender.

But it was already too late, because by the time the War Council was meeting that morning in Tokyo, Bock’s Car and the rest of the armada of B-29s was already approaching Japan – under radio silence. The dropping of the second bomb had initially been planned for August 11, but bad weather had been forecast, and the mission was moved up to August 9.

With instructions to drop the bomb only on visual sighting, Bock’s Car arrived at the primary target, but Kokura was clouded over. So after futilely circling over the city three times, there was no break in the clouds, and, running seriously low on fuel in the process, the plane headed for its secondary target, Nagasaki.

The history of Nagasaki Christianity 

Nagasaki is famous in the history of Japanese Christianity. Not only was it the site of the largest catholic church in the Orient, St. Mary’s Cathedral (completed in 1917), but it also had the largest concentration of baptized Christians in all of Japan. It was the megachurch of its time, with 12,000 baptized members.

 Nagasaki was the location where the legendary Jesuit missionary, Francis Xavier, established a mission church in 1549. The Christian community survived and prospered for several generations. However, soon after Xavier’s planting of the church in Japan, it became obvious to the Japanese rulers that Portuguese and Spanish commercial interests were exploiting Japan, and it didn’t take too long for all Europeans to be expelled from the country – as well as their foreign religion. All aspects of Christianity, including the new Japanese converts, became the target of brutal persecutions.

 By 1600, being a Christian was a capital crime in Japan. The Japanese Christians who refused to recant of their new religion suffered torture and even crucifixions similar to the Roman persecutions in the first three centuries of Christianity. After the reign of terror was over, it appeared to all observers that Japanese Christianity was extinct.

 However, 250 years later, in the 1850s, after the coercive gunboat diplomacy of Commodore Perry forced open an offshore island for American trade purposes, it was discovered that there were thousands of baptized Christians in Nagasaki, living their faith in a catacomb existence, completely unknown to the government – which immediately started another purge. But because of international pressure, the persecutions were soon stopped, and Nagasaki Christianity came up from the underground. And by 1917, with no help from the government, the growing Japanese Christian community had built the massive Urakami Cathedral, in the Urakami River district of Nagasaki.

Now it turned out, in the mystery of good and evil, that the massive Cathedral was one of two Nagasaki landmarks that the Bock’s Car bombardier had been briefed on, and looking through his bomb site 31,000 feet overhead, he identified the cathedral through a break in the clouds and ordered the drop.

At 11:02 am, during morning mass, Nagasaki Christianity was boiled, evaporated and carbonized in a scorching radioactive fireball that exploded 500 meters above the cathedral. Ground Zero was the persecuted, vibrant, surviving center of Japanese Christianity.

The Nagasaki Christian death count

Since the Cathedral was the epicenter of the blast, most Nagasaki Christians did not survive. 6000 of them died instantly, including all who were at confession that morning. Of the 12,000 church members, 8,500 died as a direct result of the bomb. Three orders of nuns and a Christian girl’s school disappeared into black smoke or chunks of charred remains Tens of thousands of innocent Shinto and Buddhist Japanese also died instantly and hundreds of thousands were mortally wounded, some of whose progeny are still in the process of slowly dying from the trans-generational malignancies and immune deficiencies caused by the deadly plutonium.

What the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 200 years of persecution, destroy Japanese Christianity, American Christians did in 9 seconds. Even today those who are members of Christian churches in Japan represent a fraction of 1% of the population, and the average attendance at Christian worship services is 30. Surely the decimation of Nagasaki at the end of the war crippled what at one time was a thriving church.