Yes, sorry I didn't see the underlying site... which seems to be (sort of) satirical?
M -----Original Message----- From: futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of pete Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 10:28 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fukushima, new plume Look closer. The site seems to be a cross between the worst kind of lying tabloid, and a deadpan satirical site like the Onion. The story includes things like 300 tonnes leaking per day, rather than leaked in total, and then a "plume of death" travelling (by unspecified means) from Hawaii to California in 90 minutes - that's mach 2.2, and nothing travels anywhere near that fast - the jetstream goes about 1/12th that. Also, look at this headline page, and you'll get the idea of the sort of content being offered there: http://nationalreport.net/category/world/ -Pete On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, michael gurstein wrote: > I think that the NYT is reporting more or less the same thing... > > http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/03/world/asia/controlling-c > ontami > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
