{"id":4392,"date":"2003-08-07T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2003-08-07T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/07\/4392\/"},"modified":"2003-08-07T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2003-08-07T19:02:50","slug":"our-dark-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4392","title":{"rendered":"Our Dark God"},"content":{"rendered":"

News from Hiroshima: ‘Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said the United States worshipped nuclear weapons as “God” and blamed it for jeopardising the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.’<\/p>\n

Note there is some cultural significance to death anniversaries at this time of year, because it’s around now that you have Obon, which is when traditionally the ghosts of the dead come back to visit the living.<\/p>\n

\nBut you know what this reminds me of? The psychic mutants in “Beneath the Planet of the Apes<\/a>” who don’t have any skin and worship a nuclear weapon in their underground ruins of the New York subway system.<\/p>\n

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There is also a short by Philip Hunt called “Ah-Pook Is Here<\/a>,” featured in the Spike & Mike Festival of Animation<\/a> which is a short poem\/dialog written by William S Burroughs about authority and control… The short is a stop-motion animation with these talking spleen things with Burroughs’ voice… in the beginning he enumerates a variety of Aztec (Mayan?) goddesses of destruction (including “Ah-Pook”) and they are all represented by falling bombs. Here’s a link to the German propmaker who made the “bombs”<\/a>. Listed below is the news article about the Mayor of Hiroshima.<\/p>\n

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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) – Hiroshima’s mayor lashed out at the United States’ nuclear weapons policy during ceremonies marking the 58th anniversary of the city’s atomic bombing, which caused the deaths of over 230,000 people.<\/p>\n

\nMayor Tadatoshi Akiba said the United States worshipped nuclear weapons as “God” and blamed it for jeopardising the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.<\/p>\n

\n“The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the central international agreement guiding the elimination of nuclear weapons, is on the verge of collapse,” Akiba said Wednesday in an address to some 40,000 people.<\/p>\n

\n“The chief cause is US nuclear policy that, by openly declaring the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear first strike and calling for resumed research into mini-nukes and other so-called ‘useable nuclear weapons,’ appears to worship nuclear weapons as God,” he said.<\/p>\n

\nThe mayor also slammed as unjust the US-led war on Iraq (news – web sites), which he blamed for killing innocent civilians. “The weapons of mass destruction that served as the excuse for the war have yet to be found,” he said.<\/p>\n

\nAkiba strongly urged US President George W. Bush (news – web sites) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to personally visit Hiroshima and “confront the reality of nuclear war”.<\/p>\n

\nAs the clock clicked onto 8:15 am (2315 GMT Tuesday), the exact time the United States dropped the bomb on August 6, 1945, those at the ceremony at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park bowed their heads for a minute’s silence in memory of the victims of the attack.<\/p>\n

\nDuring the 45-minute ceremony, officials added 5,050 names to the register of victims who died immediately or from the after-effects of radiation exposure in the bombing, bringing the total toll to 231,920, an official said.<\/p>\n

\nThe Hiroshima bombing was followed by the dropping of a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, which killed another estimated 74,000 people.<\/p>\n

\nPrime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told the service that Japan would stick by its pacifist constitution and its non-nuclear principles because the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki “can never be repeated.”<\/p>\n

\nThis year’s ceremony came ahead of six-nation talks over North Korea (news – web sites)’s nuclear weapons development programme, which Pyongyang agreed to last week.<\/p>\n

\nKoizumi told reporters after the ceremony that North Korea’s abduction of Japanese nationals would be a high priority at the talks.<\/p>\n

\n“At the six-nation talks, obviously, nuclear weapons will be the focus, but for Japan, the abduction issue is just as important,” he said.<\/p>\n

\n“We will naturally have close cooperation with the United States and South Korea (news – web sites), but we must make efforts to have China and Russia understand our position as well,” he said.<\/p>\n

\nLast week, North Korea said it would accept six-way talks to include North and South Korea, Russia, Japan, China and the United States to end the nuclear crisis that began in October last year.<\/p>\n

\nWashington had accused the Stalinist state of reneging on a 1994 bilateral nuclear freeze accord by running a clandestine nuclear programme based on enriched uranium. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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