Thom Hartmann & Greg Palast: Is Tokyo Power going to build reactors in TX?

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 06:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_wwkyvLb30   Posted on YouTube: March 16, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 61   Posted on DU: March 16, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 911

 
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[Ian David]

1. If we can't turn Texas blue, let's just make them glow in the dark? n/t

[freedom fighter jh]

5. Good one n/t

[abqmufc]

2. Follow the money trail......n/t

[JJW]

3. Shame

Shame on you, Barack Obama.

[Marblehead]

4. greg is the best

[bobbolink]

6. I'm surprised ABC is reporting the resignation of the designers.

That gives people to much information to start connecting dots.

[90-percent]

7. ABC

They would mention it because the Nuculur power company GE also owns their NBC competition.

I wonder what sorts of lives the two courageous whistle blowers went on to lead?

-90% Jimmy

[JohnyCanuck]

8. Truthout article by Greg Palast on the same topic. (He is not impressed)

Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants: The No BS Info on Japan's Disastrous Nuclear Operators

I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations.

I don't know the law in Japan, so I can't tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the homicides about to happen.

But what will Obama plead? The administration, just months ago, asked Congress to provide a $4 billion loan guarantee for two new nuclear reactors to be built and operated on the Gulf Coast of Texas - by TEPCO and local partners. As if the Gulf hasn't suffered enough. Here are the facts about TEPCO and the industry you haven't heard on CNN:

The failure of emergency systems at Japan's nuclear plants comes as no surprise to those of us who have worked in the field.

http://www.truth-out.org/tokyo-electric-build-us-nuclear-plants-the-no-bs-info-japans-disastrous-nuclear-operators68457