half hour the nuclear disaster in japan has mutated into a serious human rights issue i guess panelists share the firsthand experiences and breakdown the real dangers still present for families near the fukushima daiichi plant and later incidents daily take i'll tell you who's the latest victim of the right wing spin machine. that we here at the big picture and on my radio show have been doing our best to keep you updated with the latest developments coming out of japan as that nation tries to deal with one of the worst nuclear catastrophe in the history of the world . help us do that tonight i'm joined by a few special guests in the studio who flown here from japan to share their stories and to warn the world about the dangers of nuclear power and later this week they will travel to the united nations where they were well on the un to recognize human rights violations against children caused by the fukushima crisis and asked the

u.n. to stop its global promotion of nuclear energy here to tell their stories or yoko smith executive director of green action based in kyoto japan and co-founder of stop the manjoo she is also co-author of the book minamata about the japanese methyl mercury pollution ok henri izumi director of should put mari ice in the right that's a mighty shuttle moral. and co-director of save fukushima children. and red ribbon and red ribbon the hokkaido africa support group and kevin camp's radioactive waste watchdog at beyond nuclear welcome to all of you. thank you for joining us. carry id i'm doing ok. i'm sorry i'm late what's the situation in japan it's just so the situation in japan right now is that there are three hundred thousand children living in fukushima and about seventy five percent of the children are going for example to

schools that are so contaminated that they would be radiation control areas in nuclear power plants for adults over eight children over. individuals under eighteen will not be legally allowed to the radiation levels are very high in japan they aren't evacuating people unless it's twenty millisieverts a year exposure now that's incredibly much higher than sure noble when mandatory evacuation was five millisieverts a year and we know that about looking back on the many many people died as a consequence of the true mobile exposure. kerry. what more are the japanese people not being told. but. they've is not the idea for human creation. but they get about it should be able to mediate in the high because it is

there many people today every kid people on the own because the government even but the now the government is even put into bringing these people but. we're getting it tempered healthy real yes bring people back into the yes because the the can really keep the prefix so we disappear and the economy we disappear and that's they hope they say it. is there it is you know after the. after the ocean in our society bombs there was a phenomenon that i guess lasts to the story of people who survived that or their ancestors being. there's a japanese word for it i forget but in english it would be a kind of pariah. because contemporary older interrogate people don't have them marrying into their families things like that are we seeing this all over

again. yes it's happening people who self evacuate they go to a different area in japan and the citizens there are afraid of getting close to them or touching or and children. who these families have self evacuated there's a lot of prejudice against the children that's treasured kevin what what impact you know fukushima has been out of the mainstream of corporate news in america for a long time. what impact is that having in the united states you know i noticed the other day that. rick perry is talking about building a couple of new something close to the gulf of mexico and they've been listed as a partner really no. how to run nuclear power plants to grow. because they're still going on well i think that project took a mighty blow from the fukushima nuclear catastrophe because it was not only tokyo electric power company as a partner it was also toshiba nuclear and it was also hitachi nuclear of japan it

was even the japanese federal government in the form of the japan bank for international cooperation because of fukushima projects in fact the u.s. partner and argy of new jersey they will spend no more money on the project but they're still interested in getting a license from what i call the nuclear rubber stamp commission because they could then sell that license to some other american company who might be willing to take the risk. ok carrie what's the what's the message. as somebody who has seen and experienced this in japan you would the main message you would want to convey to americans you know. the team is not having go people in. you know the only way how. these people the you can you can make some meaning is that we've done now

that we have to stop you could you that that we cannot afford i'm not a christian. and appealing to the world to put an end to their nuclear power we have enough. so that's your if you will get away it's next if we don't stop we need it could be right it could be yes it's it's the same type of reaction but we've it's different as i know it has its own particular pathways to disaster or you have twenty three i got to call twins the fukushima daichi here in the united states though including vermont yankee oyster creek. eileen what's around the world here in the united states. for example there is there was a controversy from a movie called gas land about when they were fracking when we're from gas extraction people as well their water was catching on fire and so now it's no

longer being covered in the american media because you can't turn on a t.v. in the evening without seeing an average sized for the gas companies they are putting so much money into the big networks that the networks are no longer covering the story of gas contamination of the nuclear industry is a large powerful in the united states lots of interconnections with the big media. are are the media of europe for example south america the rest of asia. australia other countries are they is interlocked with the with these industries with the nuclear in them and the fossil fuel industries that i thought she was falling off their radar screen as well as in the united states i think so it's fallen off a lot except some countries you know i mean germany is still doing very good coverage of fukushima and and australia sometimes and other places but in the u.s. it's really fallen off its shopping because the two countries that haven't learned

from the fukushima accident the main ones are japan and the u.s. . and a lot of for the humor people are quite concerned about the reactors here in the u.s. actually the ones that are earthquake prone i think once in california on the san onofre in the upper canyon. they know that you know earthquakes and nuclear power plants don't mix. we just have twenty seconds but kevin the the these nuclear power many of these nuclear power plants and the ones there were designed or built by. general electric. which is forty nine percent owner of n.b.c. i mean this. is that a coincidence well jeffrey i was stunned by obama to japan to help out after the fukushima nuclear catastrophe began but the japanese media report that he largely hid out so that he wouldn't be served liability papers as his product exploded and now it's ruined so many lives i mean thank you very much all of you for coming in

it's much appreciated. meanwhile on the global warming front a new if so this poll finds that a majority of americans eighty three percent now believe global warming is occurring we've been running nuclear plants here in the united states saying hey this is an alternative to global warming causing coal powered power plants and one of the reasons why global warming is happening however differ depending on which political party responds to the poll. thirty seven percent of democrats believe global warming is man made only fourteen percent of republicans believe the same thing as the united states is still and the only nation the world considers manmade global warming out for debate and nuclear power a real viable wonderful alternative so we're really the only country in the world is not doing something serious about this we let our politicians be bought and intimidated by the fossil fuel industry and the big nuclear industry and the same frankly goes for our media the well you know it's it's it's the dollars are are

winning and if the the real state of things is actually pretty grim the supreme court of the united states has given the oil oligarchy like the cokes the power to fund politicians the power to build or destroy politicians and they're using that not specifically the codes but in general the whole the whole industry the nuclear industry the oil industry and i conflate them because the nuclear industry has been presented to us as the way by some by and by the president in fact as a way away from greenhouse great gas producing oil and coal plants and it's just it's not it shouldn't be but instead we see in things like the american legislative exchange council and legislation we see think tanks that are being bought and paid for by all the guards here in the united states that are writing legislation that are literally writing legislation is being introduced in state houses and and hiring people to go on talk shows to be to be experts on television to write op eds

for newspapers to to influence the public debate to suggest that roe you know ok maybe global warming is happening if it is the answer is going to be nuclear power i think not. coming up a recent report uncovers more damning evidence against b.p. for last year's will spill which killed eleven people have destroyed the gulf coast so this is about time someone from b.p. goes to jail. but drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who made decisions through get through and made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to

ask we do our t. question more. plain b.p. in the most detailed report yet on the causes of last year's b.p. oil spill federal investigators found that a decision made directly by b.p. led to the death of a lot of men and ruined ecosystems along the gulf coast as the report says b.p.'s

cost or time saving decisions without considering contingencies and litigation are contributing causes a little condo blow report which was released last week was compiled by the coast guard and the bureau ocean energy management regulation and enforcement and was far more critical of b.p. than an earlier report released in january by a presidential panel of the best of years. and while b.p. shares most of the blame the report also points a finger at trans ocean and dick cheney's calibur for grave errors leading to the oil spill so the most we learn from this latest report into the b.p. oil disaster and is there anything we can take away from it to prevent this sort of thing from happening again dr doug brinkley joins me now he's a senior scientist with the national wildlife federation practically welcome thank you very good to see you after talking with you on the radio the sentence it's good to see again is the gulf. still experiencing oil leaks the gulf of mexico we have

to look at two things here one is there are some natural leaks in the bottom of the gulf but those are relatively my new compared to what happened last year with the b.p. oil spill but people are largely unaware of it is that there is oil spilling into the gulf in large quantities i would time from various pipelines from various wells that are not adequately closed last night excuse me last week the national wildlife federation have a team out to collect a sample where there's been a chronic oil spill going on for months and everyone's trying to figure out exactly where that's coming from how much oil is leaking so there's oil out there all the time and it's a sign that there are problems with the oil and gas industry and keeping our waters of the united states the waters you and i own clean and pure about this during the time when they're talking about drilling in the arctic were the environment doesn't remediate doesn't recover from these kind of things anywhere near as fast because they would have much harder times cleaning up after a big spill like that but not only is that a problem for drilling in the arctic but now drilling in oil and gas exploration in

the gulf of mexico is back to the same level it was just two years ago before the oil spill so we're doing the same very thing congress has made no reform of the laws and regulations regarding how oil and gas is developed now this is this latest report indicated that there was some problem with the cement in the lining of the. of the drilling. hole i guess and that so many was done by halliburton and i don't know if the report pointed it out but it certainly greg palast and others have reported in detail about how the exact same halliburton with the exact same kind of drilling technology using similar so many operations created an absolute disaster in azerbaijan actually in that in the caspian sea off the coast. and that blew out before this one did haven't there been. any efforts to at least

say sorry you can't do this anymore well that was another country so i think it might have made it a little bit more difficult here but we must learn from our mistakes oil and gas industry must learn from mistakes on our regulators must learn what's important now is for congress to take action to dedicate all the fines that b.p. will have to pay under the clean water act to dedicate that to restoration of the gulf of mexico right now would go elsewhere to general treasury and not at all into the gulf of mexico so we're asking congress to dedicate those funds from gulf coast restoration to same things like sea turtles and not to mention the livelihoods and the lives of the humans down there as well absolutely wiped out by those from the second i saw from the fishermen so b.p. is pain what ten billion thirty billion of her different numbers we know we won't know for a long time because the fight it as they have been fighting it and the government the attorney general has yet to actually levy goes fines and indicate what those fines would be a really i thought they were already. oh no there is some money that b.p.

has put out front but they're still investigating the entire spill and the damage that it is cause we now know the causes from those reports but the damage continues to continue in a will for years and into the future is called seafood safe. well you know we have to continue testing to make sure that it is safe or are we testing it will be it is being tested in certain ways national wildlife federation has advocated that all of the information that the government and b.p. are collecting be open to the public so they can see what is truly going on one of the huge problems we had in this oil spill and everything became close door and held close to the chest the administration by the administration and by b.p. by the unified command we had a terrible time getting information about the deaths of sea birds and marine mammals like office and we had to file freedom of information act requests and appeals when they were denied just to get that information released but you know

b.p. doesn't own those dolphins are sea turtles you and i do they're a public resource we have a right to know about it but so far we haven't gotten the information still to this day we now know we now know the numbers we got them to release that but the cause of death is being held they say because investigations underway a judicial proceeding and so they're not releasing that information remarkable what's the what's the most important was we have a bottom out left here with the most important lesson for america from this the most important lesson is that we need a clean energy future you know there are tremendous costs human lives riled i think impacts money in terms of our continued dependence our addiction to oil and gas we need to get to a clean energy future that relies on wind energy that relies on solar energy and relies on other safe forms of energy that keeps more of our u.s. dollars at home as well rather than going overseas. absolutely thank you very well

thanks so much for being with us tonight we report clearly states he is to blame for the deaths of eleven men and the incalculable damage to the gulf of mexico it's time for corporate criminals to go to jail not just for the environmental damage they caused but also for. who's the latest victim of the right wing spin machine the entire news media itself today president obama unveiled his deficit reduction plan to force millionaires and billionaires to pay the same tax rates as average hardworking middle class americans but if you were listening to the mainstream media's take the play was a bit more one sided here's how n.p.r. national public radio so-called left wing radio put. its recommendation mr obama is

expected to spell out a plan for a big increase in tax revenue the white house is saying that that his if these visions going to be balanced what does that mean i mean is that a code for tax increases it is that's the that's the expression he's used to say that you've got a tentative set not only on the spending side but also on the revenue side and he'll be calling for one and a half trillion dollars in additional tax revenue today and most of that would come through higher taxes on the wealthy now tax the rich now to sell you left off the critical second part of the sun stacked the rich so they pay the same rate as the rest of us working stiffs i don't even think they realize it anymore the right wing talking points of infected newsrooms all across america so that even n.p.r. can't distinguish between actual honest reporting and frank luntz is poll tested right wing message we saw this on clear israel last week and the entire news media jumped on president obama and so called cilantro gate the media suggested that the

white house cut an ill advised five hundred million dollars check to the solar company saranda which eventually went bankrupt in exchange for campaign contributions. but. they did go bankrupt for the campaign contributions they cut the check that was the argument even jon stewart fell for the media's narrative. so does the failure of one company discredit the entire idea of a green energy economy of course you bought. if in let's say one thousand thirty six you spoke about the growing importance of air travel in front of i don't know the. you write about the future of air. which you. are. but now is think progress one of the last bastions of investigative journalism has uncovered the slander alone had more of bush's fingerprints on it than obama's it

was bush who created the long program and spent two years urging the department of energy to approve this law under law which it only did for finally did only two months into president obama's term and media ignored that and one of slanders top investors got their money from the walton family as in the people who own the wal-mart and are notorious contributors to the republican party not exactly fans of the obama presidency but putting all that aside slander of represented represented just one point three percent of the entire department of energy's long or for leo and is the only company receiving loans to fail a little piece of information the media left out while trying to manufacture a scandal at the behest of their corporate shareholders. here's another example and you know that bows of people took to wall street over the weekend and are currently camping out there as we speak to demand reforms to our economy and demand the banks

to be held accountable for their high crimes no i could that's because they're pretty much wasn't from the mainstream media about it but if a few dozen tea partiers held a rally in kansas then expect fox so-called news to give it wall to wall coverage which will then get picked up by the rest of the media from c.b.s. to n.p.r. now is the right wing spin machine is storing news stories it's also selecting which stories are and are not considered news. i was a keynote speaker at the fighting bob rally in wisconsin over the weekend surrounded by ten thousand progressives and didn't see one member of the mainstream media there covering the event not one which is a shame because if they were there and they were heard these words by investigative journalist greg palast about how the media isn't doing its job anymore and how it's more worried about protecting its corporate donors and spend. oh it's crying or

screaming. running for the exits but he the. public broadcasting doesn't always tell you the full truth now when p.b.s. ran its grants program it said literally in my quote that the b.p. culture is unlike the culture of chevron and shell. what they didn't tell you. what they left out of the story. well let me see if you can guess i'm going to bait you your ken burns cd d.v.d. sets if you can tell me the name of the number one corporate sponsor of keep the s. own progress b.p. that's why pedia as he says drop the ball in covering the corporate crimes of b.p. crimes the left eleven men dead in the gulf of mexico last year was heard pallas

went on to say. eleven guys didn't die because of bad cement they died because of a lie thank god you're here because you're not going to hear it on the petroleum broadcast system you're going to hear it here it's time for the rise of corporate media and our news dependent on turning a profit investigator it is investigative journalism just isn't profitable anymore especially when you take on profitable and powerful industries that may advertise on or sponsor or underwrite your network we do solos oil and gas ads for example recently and all the nuclear industry has been keeping their heads down and they are huge and influential as well for example did you see this protest over the weekend it was more than sixty thousand people taking over and shutting down a large part of tokyo chanting psion are not nuclear power good by nuclear power and you probably didn't hear that two nuclear reactors are being built in the gulf coast of texas with rick perry's enthusiastic support and one of the major partners

is tokyo electric power company tepco as the owners and operators of fukushima more people want to hear about which movie star broke up with the group where their boyfriend in hollywood and about how some trans national oil corporations poison the water supply in anytown usa so news bureaus reacted accordingly and devote more resources to entertainment reports than actual journalists like greg palast and what do we get. low information voters people who usually call themselves independents but in fact are just largely uninformed where the biggest part of our electorate for the part that buys into the lies of a so-called job creators of the president's birth certificate and socialism and keeps electing republicans and even a few democrats who push these lies year after year after year real news media's job isn't to give us the news we want to know it's to give us the news we need to

know the news that's crucial to keeping our democracy intact and functioning and tragically that's the news that their corporate donors today don't want us to know as the man who wrote the declaration of independence thomas jefferson said whatever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government but everything's good so far wrong as to attract their notice they may be relied on to set them to rights if we want a functioning and successful democracy in this republic we need to bring back programming in the public interest the way it used to be before reagan blew up the fairness doctrine in the one nine hundred eighty s. and bring back the investigative journalism that once shone a light on our guards and corporate corruption in america only then will we the people have enough information to hold our politicians to account and truly make this country work well. as the big picture for more information on the stories we covered this is it our web sites of samarra dot com free speach dot org an r t dot

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what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions come to grips with it thirty three may who can you trust no one who is imbue it with a global mission or is it where we had a state controlled capitalism it's called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.