welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour workers at another nuclear power plant in japan are racing against the clock to prevent yet another catastrophic nuclear disaster there's quite a large hurdling at the john three tons. and as you hear about the statewide ten day manhunt here in the united states for a known terrorist i'll tell you all about it and the terrorist who is still on the loose and tonight still a take. it japan didn't have its hands full with one melted down nuclear plant six at

fukushima it certainly does now with another nuclear power plant on the verge of melting down about three hundred miles southwest of fukushima since the manjoo nuclear reactor prototype fast breeder reactor filled to the brim with plutonium the deadliest element on the face of the earth and last year a three on device of some sort fell into the manjoo reactor blocking access to the nuclear fuel rods in the reactor core and despite several attempts as yet to be recovered another attempt will be made next week to clear this three ton object from the reactor the critics question that the procedure is extremely dangerous and can trigger it could trigger an explosion in the nuclear fuel rods one ominous sign of just how dangerous the situation is a top manager at the plant just recently committed suicide. think of the damage manjoo planned as a nuclear bomb just waiting to go off it could take out the city of kioto which is

just sixty miles of the plant that has a population of one and a half million people and japan's largest city tokyo is downwind from the crippled manjoo plant so what does all this mean and what's the latest with the two nuclear plants right here in the united states that are in danger in nebraska here offer some answers as kevin cans nuclear waste watchdog at beyond nuclear kevin welcome back to the program first of all fast breeder reactor what's that this one you and your family it's an experimental reactor that's actually designed to generate plutonium which would then be extracted from the high level radioactive waste and then used this reactor fuel so it's it's an experiments a grand experiment we had one fermi unit one near detroit and the famous book is called we almost lost detroit they had a partial meltdown in one thousand nine hundred eighty six yeah i was going to say i remember that i remember that the. normal nuclear power plants there basically just giant furnaces and they heat water in the water turns a turbine and it's basically

a steam operation and you take the nuclear plant out and stick in a coal fire or a gas fire and pretty much the same thing but i understand that this fast breeder reactor is not is not heating water it's using sodium that's a part of the danger sodium is intensely reactive with water or air it's liquid sodium liquid metal and so on contact with water or air it could explode or catch on fire so it's a very risky reactor design they've had fires manjoo they had a bad fire in one thousand nine hundred five that's been largely shut down ever since and the danger of this procedure it's so unnecessary they could just shut the reactor down and not try to extract this thing it's in the extraction of this three point three ton weight that they could set the dominoes falling that could lead to disaster what is this three and a half ton thing i didn't know what it was used to be honest i don't know it's a newer series any the. they are saying i fell in there and yeah ok it plays a role in the reactor and i'm not sure what it is but it weighs three point three

tonnes they don't need to remove it but they want to operate this thing this experiment is twenty years old it's cost twelve billion dollars and a part of it is support it's supposed to generate electricity for society it's generated electricity for one hour in those twenty years. isn't isn't one of the other reasons why countries build fast breeder reactors because they can create plutonium that they can use for nuclear weapons well any country that has a plutonium supply extracted especially weapons usable could put it into weapons and there are a number of countries that do have fast breeder reactors they're called police only and breeder reactors russia's one any country that decides to use the plutonium for weapons could do so through a workable turn our attention the united states we have two nuclear plants here that we've talked about several times i've talked to a surprise and here in nebraska that are within a few feet of water levels swapping them out which is basically what happened fukushima the water swapped out the diesel generators that were providing the

backup and power in the oddly enough you would it sounds crazy but a nuclear power electrics electricity generating station has to have electricity coming to it or they can melt down and what's what's the deal with the ones in the brass the very well the four calhoun nuclear power plant which is north of omaha is the one getting most of the news coverage right now it looks like a nuclear lake with the vital areas the plant in the middle surrounded by an eight foot tall. rubber wall that's filled with water sort of the last line of defense for this nuclear power plant and the other one is the cooper nuclear power plant which is south of omaha and it is a twin to the fukushima daiichi units one through four it's a general electric boiling water reactor of the mark one designed california calhoun is a pressurized water reactor so yes if you were to lose the electrical grid. and the emergency diesel generators it would plunge these reactors into a station blackout they only have four hours of battery as opposed to fukushima

which had eight hours of battery hopefully they will keep the grid going out there hopefully the emergency diesels are ready to go but just last year the nuclear regulatory commission cited for calhoun for being unprepared for a flood they gave them a yellow finding which is the second highest another violates flood fortunately the n.r.c. caught it enforce their regulations last year or we could be in march or they wouldn't have the rubber dam around there and perhaps so the devil's in the details luckily they enforce that regulation today we were looking at the n.r.c. said intercede. in the nuclear regulatory commission and weighed very deep down inside it is like the daily consumer reports i didn't even know about this somebody called into my radio show today and said you see this that and just yesterday i mean it just in the last twenty four hours the millstone in connecticut the columbia generating station in washington limerick and pennsylvania area in ohio all had incidents do you know anything more about those and what's the deal what's

going on here this is a daily occurrence if you visit this page at the n.r.c. website every day you will see there will be a few or many incidents all over the country some more serious than what else was a complete shutdown of the cooling system. yes and there was another one that was a loss of communication of ability to run computers that would be needed in an emergency and this does go on all the time there are literally millions of moving parts and nuclear power plants that many times have to work especially during an emergency and sometimes these systems are down one of the worst cases that comes to mind is a twenty year lack of emergency diesel generators at the fermi two nuclear power plant michigan the largest fukushima style design in the world twenty years without emergency diesel generators so that if that one got knocked if a tornado went through vision i grew up in issue with we had tornadoes all the time tornado went through ripped up the high tension lines coming into the plant it could melt out they discovered the problem in two thousand and six and just

a few years later they did have a tornado at fermi so fortunately they caught the problem before they needed their emergency vehicles a lot of times it's sheer luck that we almost lost detroit twice exactly seventy five percent of us plants at least radiation in the united states is that true or that statistic that i've seen or if so. why are we having the kind of scene we were pursuing here while the leaks are epidemic as the plants age them underground. corrode and then fail you've got massive tritium leaks at places like braidwood in illinois but actually one hundred two reactors in this country have leaked radioactivity into the environment in one way or another and then there's the routine releases the n.r.c. permits releases of radioactivity on a daily basis from nuclear power plants into the air into the water as long as it's below a certain concentration tritium is a case in point we have these tritium leaks underground water but where is that leaking from it's leaking from pipes and systems designed to dump it in the river

with permission raising and just to put a final punctuation point on this there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation you know the national academy of sciences reported for decades that any exposure to radioactivity carries a risk the higher the exposure the higher the risk of these risks and. there is no zero over a lifetime kevin thank you for being with us extra pressure. as two nuclear power plants nebraska are at risk from for rising floodwaters the associated press just released a new report about the cozy relationship between nuclear power plant operators and government regulators according to a report in order to keep eighteen nuclear plants open the n.r.c. often eases regulations for plant operators and overlooks potential problems and clues letting leaks or cracks in the reactors slide by even though they pose a real risk as equipment fell into disrepair and no longer satisfied safety standards the n.r.c. would actually lower the standards so that the plants could remain open because of this lax oversight the report noted that seventy five percent of all u.s.

nuclear power plants have leaked radio after active substances a corporate capture of government regulators as officially spread to the nuclear industry the most dangerous of all industries in america we saw a corporate capture of oil drilling watchdogs due to the gulf of mexico with the b.p. disaster and with coal and the massey mine disaster sadly it may only be a matter of time before we learn the same lesson with our very own question. it's the good the bad of the very very orion curiously oddly first good sergeant major michael barrett the top noncommissioned officer in the united states marine corps spoke at a military base in south korea last week on the issue of repealing don't ask don't tell and sergeant major barrett's words were to the point and poignant he told the

troops stationed at the base to. get over it let's just move on treat everybody with purpose fairness dignity compassion and respect let's the marines and approach . morton step is all about civil rights for gay soldiers and it is a long. bat but scott walker what's wisconsin's republican governor up to now more of the same screwing over working families earlier this year walker's republican cohorts in the state legislature passed a budget bill gives walker the authority all by himself to cut four hundred sixty six million dollars out of the state's medicaid program screwing over poor people without any input from state representatives but to do bill did require public hearings to be held in new medicaid proposals so at least the public squares can be heard right not so much that was until last week when the new budget bill was passed again by republicans and now drops the requirement of public hearings so now

walker can destroy medicaid from the comfort of his own office without answering to anyone in the state it's unclear when walker's coronation will be held and when he'll start demanding a red velvet throne in the governor's mansion oh it was last week and a very very ugly supreme court justice clarence thomas or more details are coming to light about how just how corrupt justice thomas is as think progress is reporting today back in two thousand and one thomas accepted a fifteen thousand dollars plus. abraham lincoln is the gift from the conservative think tank the american enterprise institute promised then went to hear three separate cases in which the american enterprise institute filed briefs on behalf of one side and in each case not only did justice thomas not recuse himself but he sided with the american enterprise institute every single time so i couldn't carve three more notches in a justice thomas' corruption he's officially the best supreme court judge money could buy and that's very very. details on how apple may

even be working for you from taking pictures of misbehaving. and getting. into it only when there were three mechanisms google would come to bring justice or . i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as

the charismatic version of american exceptionalism. well so much for use here i found a record concerts and sporting events in order to stop people from posting videos of live events online some keep. somebody may have exclusive rights to apple says that they're working with commercial broadcasters to disable the i phones and video recorder at such events infrared sensors mounted these live events will scan the audience for i phones and then disable the video recording feature it's unclear if apple is doing this so they can sell more stuff like licenses to record certain live events or if apple just wants to lend a helping hand to rip record companies and exchange for better deals in the i tunes store one thing is clear this technology could have devastating effects on citizen

journalism because more and more people are using their cell phones to record breaking news for more on what this new camera disabling technology could mean for all of us i'm joined by ginger mccall electronic privacy information center and your welcome back thank you for having me first of all i started this out by saying apple said apple actually hasn't said anything they haven't had a press conference on this they just it's been discovered that they filed a patent application is that correct yes they have a current software they haven't commented on this as as far as what i read in the news or earlier this afternoon this came out in the press that there was a patent application that was the violence and this patent application this this technology that apple has apparently developed would allow what it would allow it's as apple say as the patent stated that it's designed to be used at sporting events at concerts of course there are other applications but basically the set up is there are infrared sensors that can then shutdown the camera function of your cell phone if you pull that cell phone out out at those events so infrared is outside

the spectrum that we can see so if you were running a rock show or you know whatever it is and you had it in for a pulse up there and it was just filling the room with infrared light nobody would notice it nobody would see it but if you pulled your phone out your phone would immediately know and it would turn off the camera on the phone so you could take a picture it's that sense of this is just right you would know by the effect what is to prevent. the police department from putting an infrared. pulse light like that which nobody could see on top of their squad cars or to put it as a as a little light on top of the clip on microphone the police officers were so that we'll never again see a picture embarrassing picture like the rodney king cam video nothing the other issue is these can be installed at protest events they could be used by oppressive regimes all over the world to keep protesters from participating in citizen journalism yes i mean this. there would be would be no

tahrir square if mubarak had access to this technology it would be. just you know it goes on and on and that there we wouldn't know about what's going on you know we can't underestimate the importance of citizen journalism in the democratic efforts that we've seen in the middle east and even here in our own country and the macaca moment yeah it's a video that we saw of the young protester neta in iran who was shot by the police those were citizen journalists are the videos that we've seen of protesters being abused here in the united states we need to have this information in order to hold our governments accountable. and once it seems that. i'm thinking of the technologies associated with target three. most cameras now have built into them g.p.s. units that embed into the digital photo that you take where you get to where he tries to sell phones yeah as to cell phones so that technology once it was

developed i don't know frankly whether it was developed first for cameras or for cell phones probably for cell phones has migrated right across the board is that it seems to me probable reality check this with me that once this technology has has gotten out into the wild shall we say and particularly if apple is relatively cheap about license you know i mean if they make it available to others or if other people can figure out ways to reverse engineer it and have their own patents to something that does something very similar that every camera in the world every cell phone in the world has a camera could end up equipped like this and then literally we'd have no more macaca moments not just cell phone ones but even people with flip cams or people with over the shoulder any kind of you know your basic can't i mean is that possible it's there i have possibility and it has very troubling implications for freedom of expression and for government accountability so. is there anything that can be done. in this this reminds me of the technology i mean we know that.

many governments for example monitor all communications they block websites they're using things like you know good old fashioned cisco routers to do it and technology built the united states or engineering here. is being used by many other repression regimes to to so ferret out there are protesters and things. is there any way to stop us consumers need to demand that apple not implement this sort of technology. the company is only going to have to provide the protections for consumers they consumers demand consumers need to step up and they need to say this is just not acceptable we won't buy your product if this is what you're trying to do with them wasn't there was there is some. of a few are like that though about you know the g.p.s. and coding things i mean it was in here before yeah there was a backlash recently when people found out that apple phones had actually been tracking their movements and it triggered a change in apple's policies and you do that's the sort of thing that we want to

look for so what if apple says ok fine we want to do this we'll soul we'll solve the patent too to a company base to go and all of a sudden every phone in the middle east is equipped like this is it is the cat out of the bag here is that it is it is it conceivable problem and we can pressure companies to act in a certain way a broader that's that's really the best that we can hope for here unfortunately rather than sooner is need to make that demands on the time are there any is there any legal way that we can prevent the deployment of this kind of technology in the united states or at least regulator control it or is that something you know have you do you know of any legislators who have this on their radar screen it would be very difficult to monitor the activities especially of companies abroad we've seen a real reluctance in our courts here to enforce any sort of even human rights like very strong human rights norms basic things such as you can't use pesticides that

will cause people to be sterile or to die the courts are very reluctant to actually enforce those rights. and here in the united states it would require legislation yeah and we would need some sort of legislation and then i would have to get past the supreme court. possibly yad l'achim ginger thank you so much for being thank you very much and for waking us all up to was really struggling to keep an eye on this one this could be the next step or the george orwell affair cation of america. i'm sure you've all heard about this unfolding story of a terrorist manhunt in montana the f.b.i. is searching for osama mohammed hussain the former leader of

a terrorist organization known as project seven that amassing ashur machine guns and explosives in order to kill government officials declared war on the national guard and plot the overthrow explicitly plot the overthrow of the u.s. government hussein was last seen ten days ago when he exchanged gunfire with sheriffs' deputies and fled into the woods of missoula county montana he's believed to still be holed up there likely plotting his next attack he previously told officers that he wasn't going to be taken down like the last time which could mean that he's considering suicide attacks in the future police found guns and ammunition packed into the engine compartment of hussein's left behind jeep and police fear that hussein stashed away gear food and more weapons like explosives in the woods to continue his terrorism all these on the run police consider rossano muhammad hussein armed and it's really dangerous and it's just

a matter of time before he strikes again you've heard the story right i mean the guy's been loose for ten days he tried to kill several police officers it's been wall to wall coverage on a.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. c.n.n. and s n b c and of course fox is devoted virtually every segment every day to a real live genuine you're not going to take me alive terrorist is on the loose in the united states and still hasn't been caught it's all over the news right when it's like i'm being told i got there i've got the guy's name wrong excuse me it isn't osama one homa hussein it's david burgert is name is david burgert and he's a white guy and american. and i was out of town last week for netroots nation and missed the news so what there wasn't well all coverage of an at large terrorist. now i understand since the terrorist is a white american with

a familiar name it's no big deal but you can bet if the explosive toting gun slinging terrorist was hell bent on the destruction of the united states government and this guy is and currently on the run from cops in montana and this guy is was an islamic militant then it would definitely be wall to wall breaking news on every cable network and plastered across the front page of virtually every single american newspaper so why is that why is our news media foaming at the mouth when it comes to stories about islamic terrorists but not like by terrorists is that because muslims are a bigger threat in fact between one nine hundred eighty and two thousand and five ninety four percent of all the attempted or successful terrorist attacks on us soil were not carried out by islamic radicals but instead by non muslims mostly white guys so then why the obsession i think frankly it's

a side effect of george w. bush's decades long war on terror and cheney had to queue up this is a rational fear of the other to justify the invasions of afghanistan and iraq and by other i mean someone who doesn't look like the majority of other americans specifically someone who is not white and not judeo christian there's not a left or right bias in our news media today it's a bias against people of minority races and religions. you see it the media's decision to not report on stories about right terrorists but you go nuts over a story about arab terrorists and there are people who win big from this bias who use it to advance their political careers like john mccain saying that the drought induced wildfires eating his state right now are really because of illegal aliens from mexico or congressman peter king investigating muslims in our prisons well

ignoring issues of gangs and overcrowding in our prisons or herman cain saying if he is elected president he would require most of us take a loyalty oath and he has no problem christians jews or normans this is the sort of bias that our founders were horrified by is the sort of bigotry that many of the early settlers in this country were fleeing from in europe is what president john adams opposed when he opened the treaty of tripoli ratified by the united states senate and signed in seventeen ninety seven ad of their second president with the words as the government of the united states of america is not in any sense founded on the christian religion as it has in itself no character of empty against the laws religion or tranquility of muslims and as the said states never entered into any war act still ity against anymore how to be a nation it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious

opinions show ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries or when thomas jefferson wrote the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious to others but it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god ignited picks my pocket nor breaks my leg the founders understood religious intolerance and how dangerous it is which is why the establishment clause in the constitution makes permanent gains religious test for office illegal. this kind of scapegoating and bigotry is fundamentally on america and it's time to call it out and start reporting out of white christian terrorists this is much as we do on terrorists of other races and other religions. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website. r.t. dot com also check out our you tube page as youtube dot com slash for sure r t u two dot com slash mark and this entire show is available as

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