PBS’ New, Clear Nuclear Agenda

A dear (political-junky) elder emails me to say that, since there wasn’t anything political on this weekend, she watched a PBS show on Chernobyl. She wrote, "but in a weird twist the wolves, other wildlife and perhaps 120 species of birds are thriving." It made her happy - well, relative to the scope of the disaster anyway. I didn’t mention that birds have really tiny brains or that, all things being equal, it doesn’t seem unusual that wolves - no longer hunted to extinction (due to being in one of the most dangerous places on the planet) - would experience something of a recovery. I did think that it would thoughtful, perhaps, to remind her that a Bush (Jr.) appointee took over the helm of PBS and NPR so. . . you’re liable to see such uplifting programing regarding nuclear disasters! 

You see, the problem is that it’s not really about whether everything dies instantly in a nuclear "incident" as they call them. It’s about what the incident does to fertility rates. A fertility rate of 2.1 is required for "replacement" value to be reached in human populations. The fertility rate in places like Chernobyl, and a large part of Japan, is now below that number. 

Now, from the perspective of racist population control, you might be inclined to say, "So what?" But looked at another way the populations of Japan, Israel, Iraq (as a result of the US use of radioactive depleted uranium weapons), part of Russia (and other places in Europe) ARE officially (statistically) extinct. Those populations will not survive over the long haul and, to add insult to injury, too many babies will be born with horrible deformities. The pictures of babies born in Iraq after George Sr. sent in DU weapons are, I assure you, the most disturbing images on the planet. 

PBS can no longer be relied upon for anything even remotely resembling the truth. Was there even one scene in the show of a deformed ANYTHING? Did they discuss the cancer or fertility rates of any of the species? 

I didn’t ask. 

One other point that I would like to stress is this: the media CONTINUES to refer to the "crippled" reactor at Fukushima and to call it "the worst nuclear accident SINCE Chernobyl." Three reactors are not crippled, they are dead, and their corpses are spewing the most toxic substances known to all life on the planet. Three more remain in great peril. Japan knows this and they have cut their operating nuke plants to 11 with every intention of closing all 50+. It’s too little too late. Fukushima is the worst nuclear disaster EVER - not "since" Chernobyl. I know that some of you have already read my previous articles on this but this is worth repeating: Fukushima is, by some estimates, 50 times worse than Chernobyl. And please don’t forget that the radiation at Chernobyl is NOT FINISHED. It will likely burn through it’s container, contaminate ground water and aquifers and send steam explosions above ground to poison the area again with it’s obscene toxins.

I’m afraid that Buddhists planting sunflowers at Fukushima and catfish growing to a ripe old age near Chernobyl are just feel-good propaganda.

All nuke plants and "research" (weapons) sites should be turned off forever and the Corps of Engineers (whatever else you might think of them they are efficient and thorough when properly capitalized - remember that it was Junior that cut their funding prior to the deadly debacle from Katrina) should be given a 180,000 year contract (that’s right, one hundred and eighty-thousand years, that’s the half-life of some of these radioactive particles) with unlimited funds (just take the bailout money away from US and Euro bankers) to clean and contain this mess.