This Week on GR
October 3, 2019
September 11th past marked more than the eighteenth anniversary of the day western democracy died, it also commemorated the eight and a half years passed since a tsunami slammed into Japan's Fukushima prefecture.
Today, though not as intended, Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station chugs on,
still creating the byproducts if not the benefits of the atomic revolution.
Till now, most of the contaminated water used to continually cool the melted-down cores of the wrecked plant has been stored in a massive tank field, stretching as far as the eye can see. But after eight and a half years, Tokyo Electric, aka TEPCO says they're running out of storage room. Fortunately however, TEPCO's got a plan.
Listen. Hear.
Robert Hunziker is an environmental journalist whose climate clarion calls appear in numerous journals and multiple languages around the World and across the internet. He’s also appeared in a variety of electronic media to talk about global climate change, penned numerous articles on the ever-quickening polar ice melt, and written extensively about the
ongoing aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. His latest article on that near-forgotten catastrophe, '
Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Crisis' appears at
CounterPunch.org.
Robert Hunziker in the first half.
And; those who reveal unwelcome truths are seldom rewarded. Whether receiving the punishment of whistleblower Julian Assange, languishing yet in British solitary confinement, or
threats of similar treatment made by the government of Japan should any journalist there for example have the temerity to dig up dirt on the corruption at the core of its nuclear power industry, these are indeed
dangerous times for truth-tellers. Now, America has deployed
another answer for troublesome pests in the press and other cage rattlers.
Dave Lindorff is a publisher, investigative journalist, and author. The former Los Angeles Daily News government bureau chief and freelance reporter now writes for and publishes the multiple Project Censored award-winning online news website,
This Can’t Be Happening, where a transcript of his recent NPR interview, '
Dave Lindorff Tells about Finding Himself on the US Government’s Terrorist Watch List' appears. Lindorff's book titles include, ‘This Can’t Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy,’ ‘Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains,’ and ‘Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.’
Dave Lindorff and what it takes to make the US Terror Watchlist in the second half.
And; Victoria-based activist and long-time Gorilla Radio contributor, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour with the Left Coast Events Bulletin of some of the good things to be gotten up to in and around our town in the coming week.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
Bill Maher rose from being an “edgy,” opinionated comedian to becoming one of the most influential and recognizable faces in our media.
