Quite a day for Obama: how he double-crossed the American people, and nailed a good citizen to the cross
The Slog: Yesterday’s news
about the ‘upgrading’ of the fall-out from the Japanese Fukushima
reactor was rapidly followed by the receipt of a timely dossier by The
Slog. There’s nothing secret about it, you can read it in full here
and while I’m not familiar with the site, 95% of it is based on FOI
demanded information in the US, with Xeroxed extracts to prove the
points being made.
The thrust of the piece is that, from the first day onwards, the US
government has massively underplayed the the scale of the disaster – and
its effect in particular on North America itself. In the text of
stenography, there are repeated references to “play down the level of
fallout”, “our line should be there’s no cause for alarm” and so forth.
But the bottom line is that somewhere in the region of 1.3 million Americans will be dead as a direct cause of Fukushima by 2030.