Climate Change Update (03 August 2012) "It's a lot worse than they're telling you"

Sunday's episode was set during the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. Sloan — who, like Munn, speaks fluent Japanese — learned from a spokesperson of the nuclear plant, off the record, that the problems with the reactor would likely be upgraded from a Three Mile Island-size disaster to a Chernobyl-size one. Filling in for an anchor on one of the prime-time news shows, Sloan, all fired up by a pep talk from Will McAvoy, manhandled and bullied her two guests, the spokesperson and his translator, repeatedly correcting the translator's translations, eventually breaking into Japanese herself, and finally revealing the information she had gotten off the record without any on-air confirmation that this was actually true. enenews.com Fears grow for rise in food prices www.sott.net Scientists probe link between magnetic polarity reversal and heat in planet's interior theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com Tropical Storm Ernesto on the path for the Caribbean thewatchers.adorraeli.com Tokyo Paper: Thick iron shielding placed below radiation monitoring post — Dose was double 5 meters away enenews.com The US government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium has been temporarily shut after anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, breached security fences, government officials said on Thursday. WSI Oak Ridge, the contractor responsible for protecting the facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is owned by the international security firm ...
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