Published: January 17th, 2012 at 2:56 pm ET
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Title: Frontline Doc Looks at Fukushima and Nuclear Energy
Source: The Takeaway
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last year brought attention to the safety risks associated with atomic energy. Before Fukushima, nuclear energy was on the rise and many countries developed plans to build more power plants. But after the disaster, nuclear energy became a subject of international debate and countries like Japan and Germany started to shut down reactors. How should the United States deal with nuclear energy?Miles O’Brien is a Frontline correspondent who produced “Nuclear Aftershocks.”
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Published: January 17th, 2012 at 2:56 pm ET
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What time is this on ET time? on PBS? I am not getting the advert for it like I was yesterday and we’ve been super busy trying like heck to get my health back in some sort of good shape…
xdrfox I want you to please email me… I want to tell you some things in private before I post them here, please. You should remember me from the oilspilllaw site, yes? another.chelsea(at) gmail. com Please Please. Thank you!!
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10:00 PM
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Chelsea,
Yo te has perdido chica, espero que todo ha sido bien contigo!
enviar aquí, lordy sí me acuerdo de TI xdrfox@Yahoo.com
They are not only downplaying dangers, they are surpressing the information period, Not on main stream media ! The information is comming out hard and fast and still nothing in news stories MSM !
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Thanks xdrfox. I’ve missed you too! And B&B and Tacoma. I miss that site, especially because there are still so many things going on in the gulf. I keep track of CoastalJustice on Facebook now.
I’ve emailed you. Please read my email carefully and tell me if you think there’s anything I can do.
Thanks again! You’re such a good friend.
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Chelsea,
Got it, return one to you !
: )
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For all US visitors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD0RtosQPfY
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Thanks Centaur. Posted to HP.
Chelsea, I’m not sure what time.
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Thanks Whoopie,
What’s HP, btw?
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HP is “Huffinton Post” Whoopie usually calls it the “Fluffingtom Post”
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Ah ok, thanks… was there before.
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@Whoopie
Frontline will be broadcast at 9:00 p.m., EST., tonight.
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No it’s 10 est
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This from pro-nuke (whineass) blog on tonight’s Frontline:
“Know this: industry offered PBS inordinate assistance with this project. Both Exelon and Indian Point’s operator, Entergy , afforded “Frontline” generous access to their respective plant sites, and made executives available for reflection about industry in a post-Fukushima world. Exelon spent a full day with Frontline last August at its LaSalle site. The Frontline team was afforded a tour of the fuel pool/building, the B5b equipment stage areas, the cask loading area, dry cask storage, a working hydrogen recombiner, and a number of underground spaces where backup equipment, emergency fuel supplies, and submarine doors were visible. Industry had hoped to preview this program in advance of its airing, but the representative of one of our member companies has yet to hear back from the producers of the program. We will be paying close attention to “Nuclear Aftershocks” to see if the show attempts to achieve some context for decisions made in both Germany and Japan to shutter nuclear plants, such as acknowledging that globally today more than 60 new nuclear plants are under construction. We do know that “Frontline” met with individuals outside of industry concerned by recent decisions by some countries to abandon nuclear power. “We have not yet found a base-load electric power without carbon emissions, other than nuclear power,” NASA’s James Hansen informed O’Brien in an interview.”
The NEI spin doctors are out selling their snake oil, but after this, no one will be buying it anymore I PRAY!
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And for us poor folks that live here … looks like a serious duck and cover. Also, if this Frontline report is anything like the ONE they did last year on the Gulf of Mexico … expect a generalized whitewash for sure.
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Hi Centaur
ichicax4 gives a great radiation report..Something that should be on TV along with the weather.
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MSM like Frontline and weathermen like Miles O’Brien aren’t going to tell enenews readers anything they don’t already know.
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Yes but perhaps it will wake up others to how serious this disaster continues and the dire effects upon the planet? I guess will see.
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Dear Moon, Frontline specials don’t wake people up; that’s not what they’re for. It might make people tepidly curious to learn a bit more; but it doesn’t challenge people to actually do anything.These productions aim to appear to be the sort of thing that might motivate action; but they only get close to the line. The last thing the editors and owners of these productions want is change.
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Dear Charlie: Correct.
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NPR/PBS/PRI, Frontline productions are CIA disinformation aimed at manipulating the collective and individual worldviews, particularly about political viewpoints in how to deal with any crisis. Those targeted by this highly censored media product are the most educated segment of the United States English speaking population of the U.S. This segment as we’ve discussed in here before, doesn’t need much help to be non-revolutionary; but, this doesn’t mean the CIA doesn’t make a sophisticated brainwashing or dumbing production. Frontline is very polished censorship. I guarantee miss-contextualization and minimization, normalization of the epic catastrophic 311 cataclysm. Remember that the “public” aspect of U.S. public broadcasting is dubious at best and the U.S. public is the most prone of any first world nation to believe improbable and often impossible coincidences. Our psychopathic collective cognitive dissonance is, partly, a direct predictable malady of those state where resources are most unequally distributed. This cognitive dissonance is most problematic in such a country among the most educated in such a society. When public broadcasting was initiated in the U.S., it started about 30-50 years later than public broadcasting models of Western Europe and was funded at 1/100th the rate seen in France. U.S. Frontline products, and public broadcasting are tainted by strong influence by corporatist producers of weapons, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, other military weapons, including lethal (labeled non-lethal) crowd control weapons, and, of course, by the major toxic chemical world destroying multinationals like ADM, Monsanto, Dupont and others. Please use your most powerfully incisive, deep and big-picture oriented critical thinking filters to analyze what is presented tonight by Frontline. As mentioned, I guarantee minimization, distraction, outright lying, and miss-contextualization with no call for necessary revolutionary action by the public.
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Yes, Pallas you are right about NPR. Their artful disinfo makes my blood boil, whenever I listen to it, which is rarely. (I do listen to their music.) NPR is indeed aimed at ‘the intelligentsia.’
Years ago, there was this book, REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN – ON THE POSSIBLILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF PEACE – published (look it up on Amazon). It was supposedly from a govt. thinktank on just that – how could we get along without war (remember ‘war is the health of the state’). These high-level insiders discussed various replacements for war (as plausible crisis needing lots of money and govt. controls and controls of the people etc. and generally being very useful to governments in a number of ways).
This publication of the REPORT raised quite a furor, esp. because one of the purposes of war mentioned was population control.
John Kenneth Galbraith, the insider economist, was a participant in the thinktank and he actually said in print, published, that Oh yes, govts think and function on these cold-blooded levels, but the masses are too stupid and clueless to be able to understand the whole sophisticated scenario – I am paraphrasing of course.
Well the ‘blow-back’ from this publication of the REPORT was pretty big and for damage control, they had on NPR news a couple of the participants – by this time old men – actually interviewed briefly by phone, saying, as Kath Graham of Washington Post also said — Oh, the book was just a spoof, like sci-fi, satire – it wasn’t for real… and these two participants corroborated this on air on NPR.
I have it on tape actually. Somewhere in my stuff, being stored elsewhere alas. You should have heard their voices. They were lousy actors! Very wooden and unconvincing – it was actually laughable.
G. Edw. Griffin documents the above in his excellent book on why we need to get rid of the Fed. Reserve and get back to money of substance – THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND.
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Dear Bleep: Fascinating stuff. Thank you very much for the book/report title. FS
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I hate NPR’s smug little themesong ditty. It sounds so smirky and self-satisfied. It raised my hackles before I ever listened to any of their broadcasts …. You know, the thing that sounds like it’s an intro. to a Shakespeare play, or something ….
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Hear the voices singing along, “We’re so BRILLIANT, oh so BRILLIANT, we’re so BRILLIANT, yes we are!”
And doggone it, people like us!
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Ooh, I’m in a cruel mood tonight. Maybe I need an ENENEWS timeout! All this gets to me on some level, and it’s like I overdose on the bad news and get really cynical ….
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+1000
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Pallas,
You are quite right on all of that. I would take it a step further and say that nuclear energy itself is part of the TPTB/CIA disinformation campaign, and was an effort by the military/Pentagon/SAC to avoid the many regulatory proposals to contain nuclear weapons. They purposefully chose proliferation, in the form of Atoms for Peace, and the BWR Plutonium factories/ reactors over regulation.
There’s a brilliant book called The Nuclear Barons, from back in 1981, Pringle and Speigelman, that lays out the history of nuclear weapons, and its bete noir, nuclear energy.
Fukushima is the ELE blowback from Operation Nuclear Energy. To protect their nuclear toys, SAC was willing to end the world itself – LeMay and Power were the Two Horseman of the Apocalypse.
They done us all in from the dirty GE bombs they planted around the world. We should call reactors world-mines (instead of landmines) just ticking away waiting to go off.
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Dear Chronic: TYVM for the book title, as well. I’ll definitely check it out. I never thought of the situation quite in that way as in your first paragraph. Very useful. TY
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You might like these, too: The House of Morgan. The Prize. And there’s one on the media control by a small number of individuals. Part of the title is “Power, Privilege, and the Post.” I can’t find the book at present.
Here’s an interesting quote:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php
“You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.” – CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. “Katherine The Great,” by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
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The Prize discusses “oil, money, and power.” It discusses the Rockefellers and other oil baron families at length. The House of Morgan is fairly self explanatory, and follows the family banking dynasty through several generations. Both are excellent and entertaining reads.
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Thanks chronic. Will check it out!
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Yes, chronic, ELE is where I think we are at, at this point. To me it seems slam/dunk.
I have been having a hard time with it. Like, alternating between saying oh what’s the use and being less cautious in diet etc. (indulging in radio-active Haagen Dasz coffee ice cream, and red wine, etc,) and then doing an about-face & getting back into the zeolite and vegan diet and all the things that are spozed to help.
The ‘sci fi horror movie in real life/real time’ moments come too frequently, like when I mention Fukushima to new acquaintances and get the blank ‘Huh/say what?’ look. Life among the clueless.
And… most people actually just don’t want to hear about it.
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YW Pallas.
That was a ‘defining moment’ for me – hearing that bogus stuff on NPR. Those phony phone interviews, so obviously insincere. I had long had my suspicions about NPR, in large part because how could something so big, and getting so much govt. funding, be anything BUT controlled, disinfo.
It still was chilling, and dismaying, to hear that on NPR. Talk about sinister.
These guys play a mean game of hardball. And most (of our fellow citizens, who are the other half of the problem) will go to their graves thinking we are ‘conspiracy theorists’ who ‘bring them down’ with all of this stuff.
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It’s hard to come to terms with this twlight zone/nuclear hell….then you have the don’t ask don’t tell folks that bristle when you speak the n word. I hope they are right, I hope this will all just go away and no one will be effected and I can vote for a candidate who will continue with the nuclear program because that is safe clean cheap American energy, then I can sit in front of the TV and watch lost in space like I did when I was 5.
We all need to get very angry and show it…
I don’t care who doesn’t want to hear it anymore I just rattle on telling the truth and when they say with a whimper “but there is NOTHING I can do” I say “yes there is, vote anti nuke, use as little energy as possible and spread the truth.”
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@many moons
I’m getting there too!
Wish we had more no nuke people to vote for.
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Like Ike stated:President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961:
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction…
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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I have watched this speech over and over in the film “Why We Fight” and thought it so profound of Ike…then recently reading Oppenheimer’s biography, I’ve come to realize Eisenhower was a flip-flopper extraordinaire…he said some pretty creepy things during the earlier part of his presidency re: Atomic power and he approved everything from thermonukes to hiding fallout data from the public to stratospheric puncturing, not knowing the isotopes would fall back down to earth (Duh!) To stripping Oppenheimer of all security clearance in 54, just one year after the Rand Corp/US Gov Project Sunshine, when they first realized Strontium 90 was EVERYWHERE and EVERY BABY was full of it…so sad it had to wait to Kennedy to calm down, though it never stopped.
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Thank you. Yes, great speech.
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He was apparently at the same time manipulated by the people who put the current regime in place …. Yes, talking out of both sides of the mouth.
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I hope this is on topic – it feels like it to me:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_print.html
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Thank you. Good summary. Pretty scarey when it’s in the Washington Post. Like making a national declaration.
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Hi aigeezer
I don’t know if this would be considered on topic, but I am glad you posted it. Thank You
I think HoTaters is right, this is like making a national declaration.
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frontline did as good a job with this report as they did with vaccines. in other words, they spread propaganda. thanks, frontline! (for nothing)
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