Fukushima and the Nuclear Establishment -- The Big Lies Fly High

[Octafish]

I believe Dr. Weightman of the IAEA is making a point at Fukushima Dai'ichi.

The Big Lies Fly High

Fukushima and the Nuclear Establishment

By KARL GROSSMAN
CounterPunch
June 16, 2011

EXCERPT...

Nearly 100 days after the Fukushima disaster began, with radiation still streaming from the plants, with its owners, TEPCO, now admitting that meltdowns did occur at its plants, that releases have been twice as much as it announced earlier, with deadly radioactivity from Fukushima spreading worldwide, and with some countries now changing course and saying no to nuclear power, while others stick with it, a nuclear crossroads has arrived.

“No health effects are expected among the Japanese people as a result of the events at Fukushima,” the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear industry trade group, flatly declared in a statement issued at a press conference in Washington last week.

“They’re lying,” says Dr. Janette Sherman, a toxicologist and contributing editor of the book Chernobyl: The Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment published by the New York Academy of Sciences in 2009. Using medical data from between 1986 and 2004, its authors, a team of European scientists, determines that 985,000 people died worldwide from the radioactivity discharged from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The Fukushima disaster will have a comparable toll, expects Dr. Sherman, who has conducted research into the consequences of radiation for decades. “People living closest to the plants who receive the biggest doses will get sick sooner. Those who are farther away and receive lesser doses will get sick at a slower rate,” she says.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman06162011.html

Hey, Corporate McPravda! While you're all busy protecting your corporate owners through lies and ommissions, that report shows how a real journalist does it. Rather than protecting the profits of the well-off, Karl Grossman's working to warn the innocent and vulnerable.

[spin]

1. The First Amendment to our Constitution is number one for a very good reason ...

without a responsible free press the citizens of our country lack the information to make wise decisions on who they pick to represent them.

Unfortunately, our free press seems to be bought and owned by the big corporations as is our Congress.

The founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves.

[Octafish]

3. The Constitution mentions only one business by name...

The Press, for a reason:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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We are in interesting times. National security state cough secret government controls the free press and spies on all Americans. That is the definition of a police state.

PS: Agree totally, spin. Unfortunately, our forefathers probably can't roll over in their graves because members of Skull & Bones likely have long ago ripped off their body parts.

[JuniperLea]

8. I say this same thing all the time!

We cannot expect any kind of meaningful change in our government or our politicians until we take back the press! It is the only occupation mentioned in the Constitution for a reason! And that reason is that the press is vital to our survival.

We are owned. Until we take back the press, we remain owned.

[barbtries]

2. i find it amazing,

though probably i shouldn't, that the trade group would make such an obviously bogus statement. thankfully there are some people working to get the real story out and i am thankful for them, including the people who post links. so thank you for posting this.

[Octafish]

4. ''TEPCO: Plutonium is not dangerous''

I can't make this stuff up:

"It is not a health risk to humans," the company said.

Would I had and it all was just fiction. Unfortunately, no, it is real and is happening to the good people of Japan and the world. I've tried to keep my DU Journal updated with news and links.

[yella_dawg]

5. Plutonium: The most toxic substance known to man.

Not dangerous. I feel better now.

[barbtries]

7. thank you Octafish

i work so much and i just basically collapse when i get home. so thankful for DUers like yourself.

[gratuitous]

6. If there was a price to be paid for the lie, they wouldn't do it

But they can lie with impunity, knowing that they'll never be held responsible for either the lie or the damage caused by their negligence. Yeah, it's horrible that a bunch of people they don't know and don't care about are going to die premature, ghastly, lingering deaths, so bad that by the end, they'll be praying for death, but that hardly compares with the prospect that TEPCO or its paid lackeys in government might have to answer for their crimes.

[barbtries]

9. often i wonder

how they sleep, how they look in the mirror. how they live with themselves.