I think that the NYT is reporting more or less the same thing... http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/03/world/asia/controlling-contami nation-in-fukushima.html?_r=0
M -----Original Message----- From: futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of pete Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 3:14 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fukushima, new plume I didn't get around to looking at this til this morning, it's much worse than I expected - that website has less credibility than the supermarket tabloid that regularly runs headlines about aliens mating with Elvis. -Pete On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, D & N wrote: > For some reason, this never arrived two days ago; may have been in the > difficulty in copying the first story, so I'll just forward the links below. > > What's it going to take? Compare--poison gas in Syria is excuse enough > to take US military action, thereby risking another war, and possibly > a larger scale Middle East war, that will unleash unimaginable > harm--and the nuclear boiling pot at Fukushima, which gets almost wholly ignored for over two years now. > > Though the nuclear accident was deemed "unintentional", Tepco and the > Japanese government have been lying to the world about the crisis > situation. The UN has known about the danger all along, and has done > nothing. The US government just can't generate enough of a good buck > helping to clean up, so it focuses, instead, on the comfort zone of a > fresh war-time economy to make the books look better. > > Apart from the inability and lack of political will to act towards > harm reduction, negative global economic impact of the nuclear leak is > far beyond any Wall Street downturn. $Trillions went to banksters, > $trillions for Iraq, and now a possible $trillion or so more to the > new cause, while the world gets saturated in a radiation so costly it > will make the Wall Street bailout bill look like a radar blip. > > Natalia > > > REAKING... Fukushima Crisis Escalates Tons of Radioactive Waste > Released into the Pacific Causes Ocean to Boil... > > Posted about 2 days ago | 227 comments > <http://nationalreport.net/breaking-fukushima-crisis-escalates-tons-ra > dioactive-waste-released-pacific-causes-ocean-boil/#comments> > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@lists.uwaterloo.ca https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@lists.uwaterloo.ca https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
