Today on my show on KPFK (L.A.’s Pacifica Radio affiliate), we covered the latest news out of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, recent setbacks, and the reports of radioactive iodine at dangerous levels to infants now discovered in Tokyo.
We followed on The BRAD BLOG’s earlier report today, updated with new details from Desi Doyen in studio, and then live from Tokyo in an interview with Voice of America’s VOA News’ Northeast Asia Bureau Chief, Steve Herman.
Herman, who has been reporting from the Fukushima prefecture and in Tokyo since the March 11 quake and tsunami, brings us up to date with the latest on Friday morning in Japan: including news on “panic” buying of water in Tokyo; reports of “neutron beams” — yes, “neutron beams” — seen near the crippled power plant, as indications that nuclear fission may be occurring within the damaged fuel rods at one or more of the reactors; the often slow, sometimes contradictory information being given by the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), and whether it is to be trusted; and the way Japanese citizens from Fukushima to Tokyo are handling all of the “fallout” in the wake of this extraordinary, and ongoing disaster.
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The BradCast with Brad Friedman 3/23/2011My KPFK Interview with VOA Asia Bureau Chief Steve Herman: Latest out of Fukushima & Tokyo | 'Neutron beams,' water 'panic,' black smoke and the responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo... · · · · · My KPFK Interview with VOA Asia Bureau Chief Steve Herman: Latest out of Fukushima & Tokyo | 'Neutron beams,' water 'panic,' black smoke and the responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo...0:00 0:00
NOTE: If you missed my KPFK interview last week with BBC journalist Greg Palast on TEPCO’s plan to build two new nuclear reactors on the Gulf Coast of Texas, it’s right here…
We’re all gonna die. I can feel it. Can you feel it?
These people don’t even have water to drink. … TEPCO did say reactor temp in R1 went down to 263 degrees C from 400 C and that …. Radiation scare sparks run on bottled water in Tokyo.
Reporting about the nuclear crises in Japan and around the world is getting curiouser and curiouser. Western media are heavily downplaying the threat of radiation in what amounts to an Alice in Wonderland fable of disinformation straight out of the rabbit hole.
Worried about profits and the the destabilization of the YEN and NIKKEI Index, the media is doing damage control to help keep people from flooding out of Japan and further destabilizing the Japanese economy. Given the evidence, the history of disasters and epidemics of disease, reporting that downplays Japan’s radiation threat is criminal.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S.A., frightened investors are seeking protections and insurances from industry and government. Wall Street is worried. This is getting curiouser and curiouser.
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No, Tunga.
A lot of what we think about this comes from the mouthpieces of “Here Is What You Believe Today” a.k.a. “thuh news” …
You guys out there in Cali received an interesting decision out of the Ninth Circuit … would like to hear Brad Blog’s take on US v Alvarez.