Which is what is happening inside those reactors, such as they are....
It's off the front pages, dear readers.
Tainted food found 90 miles from power plants; Milk, spinach show elevated radiation levels
That's odd, readers; my sub-headline in the printed paper says:
"Little progress in effort to cool nuclear site"
And the article directly below on page A12?
Officials say overheated reactor crisis appears to be stabilizing; Problem still unresolved
Why no rewrite with the headline lie?
Back to the poisoned food:
"A forlorn hunt for food numbs nuclear anxiety" by Andrew Higgins, Washington Post / March 20, 2011
SENDAI, Japan — Eight days after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent a merciless wall of water crashing onto Japan’s northeastern coast, a city once noted for its jazz festival and expansive joie de vivre is reduced to foraging for basic necessities.
In a HOT ZONE!
The descent of a vibrant metropolis toward a state of simple survival has helped numb the population to a further agony. Many here are too preoccupied with day-to-day needs to focus on unseen dangers leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant down the coast.
“Instead of worrying about things I can’t see, I worry about things I can see,’’ said Oikawa, showing off her newly purchased eggs....
I'm kinda of shocked and aghast at the level of Sunday morning propaganda, readers.
Eggs already cooked inside that shell, or.... (sigh).
Weather reports on television are watched anxiously to see which way the winds will be blowing — and which way radioactive material might travel in the event of Chernobyl-style catastrophe.
You think government and corporate media is going to give you the truth? After all the lies?
Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day with cloudless skies, but blustery winds kept shifting.
But the sun was out so it was a beautiful day, ugh.
I'm at a loss for words, readers.
Electricity and water supplies are slowly being restored in the city. Phones are mostly back up. To speed deliveries of food and other supplies, a four-lane toll highway leading west to the city of Niigata is closed to all but emergency convoys and the vehicles of Japan’s Self-Defense Force, which has borne the brunt of relief efforts.
LIE!
"A week after the earthquake and tsunami devastated their communities, the plight of the thousands still stranded in areas near the stricken reactors — many too old or infirm to move — has underscored what residents say is a striking lack of help from the national government to assist with the evacuation of danger zones or the ferrying of supplies to those it has urged to stay inside.... Instead, the task has fallen to some local governments and even private companies and organizations that have made limited but heroic efforts to help those left behind"
Always trying to make governments (at least, friendly ones) look good, huh?
Please, AmeriKan media, what i$ with the lie$?
Much aid is being donated by American groups. During an emergency meeting last week, more than 100 residents of Riverside, Calif., gathered to help Sendai, their sister city in Japan.
Also see: Boston students send messages of compassion to Japan
I'm not saying that isn't a good thing; however, when are we going to start sending them to Muslims we are bombing out of existence and when is the war-promoting media going to cove.... oh, right?
Also see:
Before donating to Japanese relief efforts, be sure the charity is legitimate
Fears over Japan’s crisis batter the market
Maybe the RECORD-REBOUNDING BANKS and their BONUS-GRABBING CEOs could HELP OUT, huh?
It was an effort repeated across the United States, as towns big and small responded to the destruction and lives lost in Japanese cities that participate in Sister Cities International, a nonprofit group funded by the State Department....
Yeah, we are goodhearted people; however, why would you want to donate to something overseen and managed by the corrupt U.S. government?
And is that the BEST USE of TAX DOLLARS as AmeriKa's infrastructure crumbles, its teachers and other public workers are under attack and being laid off, and it's deficits explode through the ceiling?
I wouldn't oppose the sister city thing if the loot came from the WARS, Wall Street, or aid for Israel at all. Seems to be where all the tax loot is going these days; AmeriKan government is borrowing the rest -- to the delight of -- ta-da -- bankers!
Japan has declared a more-limited 20-mile evacuation zone, and Yuji Sugawara, who has taken refuge in a shelter providing regular meals, is alarmed by what he sees as his government’s obfuscations. “I can’t trust them anymore,’’ he said.
I KNOW the FEELING -- and it extends to its mouthpiece media on the desk in front of me!!
But he spends far more energy worrying about when he and his wife will be able to move back into their waterlogged home and what they’ll do for food when they do....
By then Japan will be relegated to the back pages -- if covered at all.
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And the PEOPLE LOST:
"Search for relatives is daunting" by Todd Pitman, Associated Press / March 20, 2011
ONAGAWA, Japan — Eight days after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded unleashed the cataclysmic wave, desperate families are still searching for loved ones in the ruins of lost towns.
The painstaking task must be completed before heavy machinery can be called in en masse to begin the next phase: clearing away the oceans of debris that are all that is left of much of northeastern Japan’s coast. So far, police have confirmed more than 7,300 deaths. More than 11,000 are missing and feared dead.....
The March 11 tsunami was so powerful it sucked away entire towns. With almost no survivors amid the wreckage, rescue teams are searching almost exclusively for the dead....
May their souls find peace.
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And back here at home?
"State officials fear a run on iodide pills; Downplay role in disaster plans" by Jenna Russell, Globe Staff / March 20, 2011
PLYMOUTH — Facing heightened nuclear concerns and a spike in demand for potassium iodide pills, state public health officials are downplaying the importance of the salt-like substance and saying residents do not need to keep the pills on hand.
They are incredible, aren't they?
Yes, global warming and terrorists are maximized, but don't worry about that radiation cloud over your head.
The 18 Massachusetts communities located within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant.... the towns include others close by Vermont Yankee.... will continue to provide the tiny white pills to residents who request them, as they have for almost a decade.
(Blog editor raises hand; not for their pills, mind you, but because that's where he's typing from. Before I'm a goner someday I want you readers and followers to know that I love you. It is you that has kept me in this chair for so long. It has been a pleasure to serve you)
But in a concerted effort to quell demand and head off a run on the supply, the leader of the state Bureau of Environmental Health stressed that the pills counteract only one of the dozens of radioactive isotopes that could be released in a nuclear accident, and said they play only a minor role in disaster plans....
Really? Keeping them all for yourselves, huh?
The push to educate the public about the limited effectiveness of potassium iodide comes almost a decade after Massachusetts became the first state in the country to stockpile more than half a million of the pills, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....
The "push to educate the public" is corporate media code-speak for PROPAGANDA!
Yeah, this LYING GOVERNMENT is going to "ejerkate" us!!
And ONCE AGAIN the 9/11 LIE i$ at the ROOT of it ALL!!!
So WHICH PHARMACEUTI¢AL manufacture$ the $tuff?
“We would discourage people from picking pills up, because there is no need,’’ said Plymouth Fire Chief G. Edward Bradley....
Oh, yeah?
the owner of the Pilgrim plant, Entergy Corp....
You know, the same guys running Vermont Yankee that lied about the leaks.
Potassium iodide, also known by its chemical abbreviation, KI, is a salt-like compound that works by flooding the thyroid with harmless iodine, keeping out harmful radioactive iodine, which could be released in a nuclear accident. Radioactive iodine can cause cell damage and cancer, especially in children. A single pill, taken within four hours of exposure, offers protection for 24 hours, said Suzanne Condon, the state Bureau of Environmental Health’s director.
But there is widespread misunderstanding about potassium iodide’s powers, she said.
And reading this isn't helping.
“It’s effective against one isotope, but in the event of a nuclear emergency, it’s highly unlikely only one isotope would be released,’’ she said.
Trouble with a capital T then.
Shut 'em down.
Stop making wars on Arabs for oil and Israel and pay 'em a fair price, 'kay?
In China last week, panicked residents fearful of radiation drifting from Japan stripped store shelves of iodized salt, mistakenly believing that it could protect them.
Well, I WOULD BE VERY CONCERNED where I a CHINESE PERSON!!
Heck, I'm concerned as an American and I'm over here on the East Coast!!!
In this country, suppliers of potassium iodide have reported an unprecedented surge in demand, mostly from private individuals on the West Coast, as events in Japan have escalated.
They are not listening the the authorities. Why would you?
Asked about KI stockpiling by a reporter last week, US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin called it a “precaution.’’
Yeah, I plugged that into one of my posts to point out another AmeriKan media lie -- and NOW they FINALLY BURY, I mean, MENTION IT here upon a Sunday!
The Department of Health and Human Services later issued a statement that said she was not suggesting people should buy personal supplies.
No, leave them for the elite pukes who set this whole system up so they can save them, right?
The federal government first offered potassium iodide to states in 2002, in response to concerns about nuclear plants becoming terrorist targets. Massachusetts became the first state to request pills....
Yeah, we are a nice little laboratory of liberalism up here.
Pills taken incorrectly, in too high a dosage, can cause adverse reactions such as vomiting, she said.
That's why I'll avoid them anyway.
Allergic reactions to the pills are possible in a small percentage of the population, and they should not be taken without consulting a doctor, said Plymouth officials.
Yeah, if you die it's your own fault. Wouldn't want any thoughts of lawsuits.
But Becky Chin, a Duxbury resident who has long pressed for better preparation for disasters, said residents should be encouraged to be self-reliant.
I can not argue with that last statement.
The cochairwoman of the Duxbury Nuclear Advisory Committee and a former leader of the town’s Board of Health, Chin led campaigns to buy protective masks for the town’s 3,000 schoolchildren and stock schools with liquid KI, in addition to pills, to make it easier to give children small doses. Duxbury is about 10 miles from Plymouth.
I'd rather she worry about the mind-altering, mood-manipulating pre$cription drug$ being $hoved down our kid$' throat$, but...
“Most people don’t want to think about it, and many think the government will help them out,’’ said Chin. “The government will do the best it can, but you’d better be prepared to help yourself.’’
That's what the gun is for.
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And look what the Globe came up with for Ideas:
"Why did the reactors use a cost-saving containment vessel whose disaster-worthiness had been repeatedly questioned by scientists? The answer to that doesn’t lie with Japan, or the way the plant was built. The problem lies deeper, and concerns the entire nuclear industry....
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It certainly doesn't lie at the feet of GE, says the corporate paper.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Bubbles in the Bathtub
They polluted and lied about that, too.
"A new book points out.... --more--"
I'm tired of agenda-pushing book promotions turning up as Ideas.
Related: Temblors in region are rare, but shook Boston centuries ago
There is your front-page piece, folks!
You know, I'm not going to worry about it.
Take your fear somewhere else, Glob. Also s
