Elevated radiation levels detected in Canada, Globe and Mail, April 12, 2011:
… [Health Canada] initially detected on March 18 that some radioactive material had travelled thousands of kilometres from Japan to Canada’s west coast. It was forced to issue a news release on Tuesday after opposition members raised the matter in the Ontario legislature during Question Period.
France Gélinas, health critic for the New Democrats, asked if government officials were testing the province’s milk supply for radiation levels. Energy Minister Brad Duguid accused Ms. Gélinas of “fearmongering” and did not answer the question. …
New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath told reporters it is surprising that her party could not get answers from government officials during Question Period.
“This is not a new issue,” she said. “I was quite shocked to learn that the government doesn’t seem to be on the ball when it comes to this issue.”
Read the report here.
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I guess it is time to skip the milk. Waiting for store shoppers to bring in the dosimeter before filling their baskets.
It was on my survival list last year, but I bought genset, silver, food supplies first.
I was looking to start testing chemtrail days, not thinking this diaster was looming.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-12/geiger-counters-to-find-radiation-in-meals-may-be-meaningless-.html
These whitewashing shills are the ones doing the fear-mongering, by saying ‘shut up and pay no mind’. Hard to say whether they are deliberately evil or just fools, but this causes individuals to have to assume that precautions are necessary because they have little data and useless reassurances from known liars.
And still the comparisons to background radiation continue … conspicuous omission of bio-accumulation and ingestion. These whitewashers are murderers … they are costing lives via future cancers and disease that won’t be conclusively connected to contamination. The reason it is such a crime is there are simple things the public can be doing to at least reduce harm but this knowledge is being withheld from all but the proactive and intelligent.
And some of the comments on the Globe are frightening … Idiocracy really was a forecast, not a fiction.
Frustration is due to how unnecessary all this is.
Mike, I like the concise summary
“And still the comparisons to background radiation continue … conspicuous omission of bio-accumulation and ingestion.”
This has been and always will be my chief concern, it is the most important point of my posts. You see through the smoke screen (BS) and understand the tragic results.
“These whitewashers are murderers … they are costing lives via future cancers and disease that won’t be conclusively connected to contamination.”
The results of low level bioaccumulation cannot be statistically tracked (all except thyroid cancer.) Most of the results of ingestion will be attributed to other diseases, because it will result in other diseases not consistent with radiation poisoning. As I have stated in previous posts, the initial symptoms of low level bio-accumulation of radioactive particles will be sub-clinical and therefore will never be reported anywhere, most likely some symptoms will be attributed to psychological problems such as increased depression, lack of energy, depressed immune response.
This is the core issue, bio-accumulation through ingestion. Personally, for the sake of my family and the people I am responsible for, I am focusing in on this single problem since 311.
Here’s a nice animation to help the Canadian leader see what’s happening in the Northern Hemisphere:
http://www.irsn.fr/FR/popup/Pages/irsn-meteo-france_19mars.aspx
I think it’s interesting that the whole globe and mail site is down now. If you live in Victoria all you get is a 503 error. Is this a real technical problem or is the story being censored?
I have had to admit my utter lack of preparedness
as far as getting and using radiation-detection devices,
with any kind of faith in the readings I would see.
There has been a lot of criticism of old Geiger counters.
Those who are really in the Know about such things,
a question…
If we are in an area which has already had a plume come over,
and fallouts have occurred, doesn’t that sort of wash out
the results of testings by the new “background” irradiated norm?
Are you detecting anything?
Oh Well!
Is Anybody’s protection regime going to stave off the Pale Horse?
Too late for me, I guess I’m not getting the Call and the Ride
to the great Survival Shelter.
Thank You Jesus
Geiger counters need to be calibrated periodically. The recommendation is annual calibrations. As far as I know older units are fine as long as they are in working order, and recently calibrated. But there is a great deal of variation and information to know about what forms of radiation they detect, etc.
Yes overall background will increase ever so slightly … probably imperceptibly. This is not a good measure of contamination risk in food, which is much more subtle, long term, and requires specialized equipment to reliably detect.
Let me put it this way … if a geiger counter rises when testing food, it is obviously and severely contaminated. But your food can be contaminated and not show up on a geiger counter at all. Since the authorities are dishonest or unconcerned, independent scientists will be our best source of information.
As far as your preparedness priorities … my prioritization was identical to yours. Food and silver was a good call. Who would have thought a nuclear emergency would happen this soon …
Sorry that last paragraph applied to Moco’s comment
Canada’s federal election is May 1st. Every federal Member of Parliament is trying to save his/her seat. (Ontario is a province of Canada, much as California is a state.) On Tues/Wed, April 12-13, we had 2 televised debates with the 4 leaders of the 4 major federal parties (one debate in English and one debate in French, as Canada is officially bilingual). There was not one word whispered by anybody on the subject of the spreading radioactive isotopes from Fukushima. It was surreal. To survive in this society any longer it is necessary to be a schizophrenic — play the ‘denial game’ in public. Meanwhile protect your family any way you can. But actually, if you’re going to keep your children from drinking milk and getting wet in the rain – the officials will eventually come for you because you will be accused by informers (perhaps in your own family) to be wearing a thinker’s hat of tinfoil. Check mine out. Health Canada can lie all they want about radiation exposure, with pseudo-science that has nothing to do with INGESTING RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES. The Canadian Health Care System is already falling apart, and the U.S. Healthcare System is being gutted. Hundreds of thousands of new cancer cases in the next few years will ensure that the current economic collapse becomes what — a tsunami?
P.S. The headline is deceptive. This statement was not made by a “political leader”; Andrea Horwath is, yes, the leader of the New Democratic Party in Ontario, Canada. The New Democrats have a handful of legislators in Ontario, and federally have the least number of Members of Parliament. The New Democratic Party is not taken seriously by anybody in Canada. They are always at the bottom of the pile. Why? Canadian voters are trained to think Left/Right — Liberal/Conservative, which are the two major parties which trade the office of Prime Minister every several years. No forward-looking changes are ever made to the system. No truths are ever told. Just as it is in the old USA, folks.