Continuing inspections of rice crops are revealing how pervasive the radiation contamination is. Three more farms have been found to be contaminated above safe limits.
The result is that the national government, on 05 December 2011, banned rice shipments from 406 farms. The farms are located in several districts within the cities of Fukushima and Date, in Fukushima Prefecture.
The latest rice farms to make the list are 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant.
On 01 December 2011, Russian port authorities in Vladivostok stopped a shipment of tires from Japan. They say the tires are emitting beta and gamma rays.
This is not the first time Russian inspectors found radioactive products from Japan. In April, 49 second hand (used) cars shipped from Japan were found to be emitting radiation six times the safe limit. A similar incident happened in June. Eastern Russia is a big market for used Japanese cars.
What about radiation testing in the U.S.? The latest statement from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) claims to have conducted “…28,190 field examinations for radionuclide contamination.” However, they only talk about 1186 samples (out of the 28,190 tests) being safe. The data for the rest of their test is in a format my computer couldn’t open.
The FDA website has some statements that are pure bogusnus. Example: “Little or no harvesting of fish is taking place in the area around the reactor.” This is false! Fisherman in the Fukushima area have been fishing, including around the Daiichi power plant, it’s their only source of income! In fact the latest revelation, that strontium 90 is pouring into the ocean, has the local fishermens’ co-op threatening to sue Tokyo Electric.
Another example from the FDA: “The volume of water between particles and fish absorbs radiation, “shielding” the fish.” Bull Shit! Why have so many fish in Japanese markets turned up highly contaminated with radiation? Why are Fukushima fishermen so pissed off!?
The FDA tries a Red Herring argument by saying: “The half life of I-131 is about eight days.” They’re talking about cesium 131, they’re trying to make you feel safe. Hello, what about the strontium 90, the plutonium, and other isotopes that last virtually freakin’ forever!
They do mention cesium 137 (half life of 30 years), but here’s another amazing statement the FDA makes: “…the radionuclides also undergo biological excretion and do not continue to build up in fish…” Bull shit again! When I was a Cold War soldier, the U.S. Army had us doing yearly training for NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) warfare. One of the things we were taught is that radiation contamination freakin’ builds up over time! The longer you’re exposed the more F–ked up you get, because it builds up! You see when you work around radiative shit, you have to monitor not only the intensity of the radiation, but how long you’re exposed to it.
Finally the FDA passes the buck onto Customs and Border Protection saying they screen the cargo containers coming from Japan. The FDA also says their own people walk around the docks using hand held radiometers, and if they detect high “background” radiation levels then they do more intensive inspections. The problem is that just because the contents of the shipping container are radioactive does not means the thick steel container will emit radiation! The Russian inspectors at Vladivostok must be doing a better job at inspections than our people.
The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is making things more confusing , because they’ve been revising their “methodologies” and policies (isn’t that convenient). They don’t inspect products, but are supposed to be testing air and water. I’ve written about how many of the RadNet sites were not even working during the first few months of the nuclear crisis in Japan.
The EPA has changed how they report their RadNet data. In Idaho there’s only one RadNet site, in Idaho Falls. Their gamma counts show a lot of spikes, but it’s not clear if it’s because of Fukushima or not. On the old RadNet web page there was a detection of cesium 131 (short half life) in precipitation readings on 01 April 2011. However, the new RadNet sites are even more confusing, there is no way the general public can make use of them, what a waste of taxpayer money!
Fend for yourself!
As promised, the U.S. Postal Service made its dreaded announcement on December 5. The USPS filed a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to “move forward” with austerity measures that will not only cut back service, but eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs.
“We’re in a deep financial crisis today because we have a business model that’s tied to the past [ie Congress]. We are expected to operate like a business, but don’t have the flexibility to do so [because of rules created by Congress]. Our business model is fundamentally inflexible [no thanks to Congress]. It prevents the postal service from solving its problems.”-Patrick Donahoe, U.S. Postmaster General, November 2011
The plan, supported by the Obama Administration, calls for cutting U.S.$20 billion from operating costs by 2015. That means closing 252 processing facilities, closing 3,700 post offices, and eliminating 100,000 jobs!!!
The processing centers will be closed by spring 2012. Job losses just from the closing of processing centers could hit 28,000! Expect delays in getting your mail.
This after the U.S. Congress decided to ‘delay’ any action on their part until after next year’s Presidential elections. The move guarantees the demise of the USPS, because President Barack Obama set the default date for the Postal Service as December 16, 2010.
In a PBS interview, both the Postmaster General, and the President of the Letter Carrier’s Union said it wasn’t really about lack of business, in fact the Postmaster General said package volume was still good. It was all about the U.S. Congress ripping off the non-taxpayer funded Postal Service: “The Postal Service actually has somewhere between $50 billion and $125 billion in their other funds that is not taxpayer money. They haven’t used a dime of taxpayer money in over 30 years! And the Congress just needs to act responsibly and quickly to give them access to that — those funds.”- Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers
Rolando pointed out that the job losses will go beyond the USPS. It will affect all the companies the USPS contracts with, like FedEx, Siemens, Northrop-Grumman, Pat Salmon & Sons and Campbell-Ewald, to name a few.
Rolando, in the PBS interview, predicted that millions of jobs will eventually be lost because of what’s happening to the USPS!
Merry Xmas Mr. Scrooge, and God bless us, everyone!
“We have been suffering from various diseases for consuming water with fluoride content. We are desperately in need of pure drinking water.”-residents of Jagalur, India
Yet another study proves that fluoridated water makes you stupid, and can cause a life time of pain!
The latest study was conducted in India, and just published in the Journal of Medical and Allied Sciences.
Rats were used, and the results were neurodegenerative and morphological alterations in the neocortex, hippocampus and cerebellum areas of the brain, and in the spinal cord and sciatic nerve.
Neurodegenerative is the progressive loss of neurons, and “morphological alterations” basically means physical mutations.
Researchers say the negative affects with intelligence and pain take place before physical mutations appear: “High levels of fluoride in drinking water (1-12 parts per million) affect central nervous system directly without first causing the physical deformities of skeletal fluorosis.”-K. Pratap Reddy, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
This is not the first study to say fluoride is bad for you. Over the decades dozens and dozens of studies across the world have resulted in the same conclusion. According to the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), there are now 25 studies showing that fluoride makes you stupid.
Studies have also shown a link between arthritis pain, back pain, joint and muscle pains. The research in India was motivated after people in a village named Jagalur, were found to be suffering from all kinds of diseases and chronic conditions. Investigations blamed the fluoridated water.
It’s not just Jagalur. Joint pains, teeth problems, muscular pains, stomach pain and headaches are common among people in Gollaratti, Rajnatti, Gidnatti, Bullolli, Machikere, Marajanmatti, Kechhanahalli, Devikere, Chadaragolla, Gowripura, Kyasanahalli and many other villages who’s water has fluoride in it.
However, the problem in India comes from naturally occurring fluoride in their well water. Here in the United States local and state governments purposely add fluoride to the water.
It turns out that currently, only the English speaking countries add fluoride to public drinking water. In the book The Fluoride Deception, author Christopher Bryson revealed how the push for fluoride use in the U.S. is directly related to the U.S. nuclear program and the pharmaceutical industry.
It turns out there have been many anti-fluoride lawsuits against local municipalities in the United States, however most have not been successful.
Now lets see, English speaking countries are the only ones that intentionally add fluoride to the drinking water, and there’s been a huge increase in chronic pain, and the use of pain killers, among the people of those English speaking countries. Also, there’s been a huge decrease in the overall level of intelligence, no matter how much taxpayer money has been thrown at education programs. And, have you also noticed that the political, business, social and religious leaders of those English speaking countries seem to be making decisions that are more and more irrational? Mmmm, could it be something in the water?
Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say that on 16 December 2011 (the day the U.S. Postal Service will be in official default) they will declare the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Cold Shut Down mode.
The Cold Shut Down could be officially announced by Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko.
Of course this is after they let millions and millions of becquerels of radiation pour out into the air and water, along with the radioactive remains of the melted fuel rods!
Cold Shut Down means that the water being used to flush out, I mean, ‘cool down’ the reactors remains below boiling point, which is an indication that most of the fuel rods are used up.
There must be so little left inside the reactors that the temps have come down. I guess that’s one way to do it, I personally like the way the Soviets handled Chernobyl: Sand, lead and concrete.
The Prefectural government of Fukushima (where the spewing Fukushima Daiichi GE designed disaster reactors are) is asking the Japanese government for logistical help.
Fukushima officials said they want to test one third of their rice farms/crops for radiation contamination, after several rice crops came up highly radioactive. Here’s the logistical problem: One third of Fukushima rice farms/harvests amount to 24,000 crops!
Fukushima Prefecture asked the national government to provide devices to measure radiation, dispatch personnel to expedite inspections, and shoulder the cost.
On 02 December 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company officials admitted that lack of communication resulted in Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 1 melting down and exploding, on 12 March 2011.
Former plant manager, Yoshida Masao (who recently resigned due to health problems, which might be caused by exposure to radiation, which TEPCo denies) said he, and other officials, were not told that Reactor 1’s cooling system was manually shut down. He realized the cooling system was not working a little more than six hours after it had been turned off. By then it was too late.
Just a few days ago TEPCo admitted, after an independent investigation, that 100% of the fuel rods in Reactor 1 melted.
The irony is that Reactor 1 had the only operable cooling system after the 11 March earthquake and tsunami hit the nuclear disaster reactor plant. Reactors 2, 3 and 4 lost their connections to electrical power, but Reactor 1 was still connected.
This could add some fuel to the conspiracy theories out there (that it was intentional, after all, look how long they’ve dragged this out!).
The governor of Fukushima Prefecture, Yuhei Sato, ordered all nuclear reactors in the prefecture, to be shut and scrapped. There are ten nuclear reactors in Fukushima Prefecture.
The residents of Fukushima know that it will have a huge negative impact on their local economy, but they say it’s better than trying to live with an ongoing nuclear disaster!
The Fukushima government is working on a reconstruction plan that will try to create new jobs for those working at the nuclear plants.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been forced to admit that serous melt downs took place in reactors 1, 2 and 3, of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Independent researchers confirmed that melt downs did occur, and were severe enough to melt through the reactor cores into the bottom of the containment vessels. Some melted fuel rods penetrated as much as 57 centimeters (22 inches) into the containment vessels. The bottom of the containment vessel is made of thick concrete, with a steel plate on top.
TEPCo now says 100% of the fuel rods in Reactor 1 melted, all the way through the core into the containment vessel! 57% of Reactor 2’s fuel rods melted, and 63% of Reactor 3’s fuel rods melted.
Many months ago, I posted how nuclear experts, who were being ignored by the main stream media, explained that the amount and type of radiation coming from Fukushima Daiichi could only mean melt down was occurring. Somehow the main stream news media found other nuclear ‘experts’ (including many who work for the U.S. government, and the U.S. nuclear power industry) who countered those claims.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant reactors were designed by General Electric.
There are reports that the tax collector of the U.S. government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is holding back on refunding $153 million in overpaid taxes!
IRS officials claim it’s because of postal addresses they just don’t trust. So they’re not going to mail them out! 99,123 U.S. taxpayers are waiting for those refunds!
Here’s the sinister answer the IRS has for solving the ‘problem’: Everyone needs to stop using the postal system and use direct deposit!
To check the status of your tax refund click on the “Where’s My Refund” at the IRS website.