Published: June 14th, 2011 at 2:26 pm ET
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Radiation ‘hotspots’ hinder Japan response to nuclear crisis, Reuters, June 14, 2011:
[...] “We never thought that that the nuclear accident would affect our products,” said Susumu Yamaguchi, 58, who heads a farmers’ cooperative in the village of Kiyokawa.
Others want answers: How did radioactive cesium from the reactors at Fukushima end up here?
Tetsuo Iguchi, a specialist on radiation monitoring at Nagoya University, says experts don’t know. [...]
Published: June 14th, 2011 at 2:26 pm ET
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It’s called..
Wind.
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“Its an ill wind that blows nobody any good.”
Ill indeed.
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Does anyone here check the webbots reports by cliff high? Very intriguing!
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Agree. This is called logic 101.
Wind blows.
Oceans move.
Fish swim.
Radiation spreads.
Cesium causes bone cancer.
Now for logic 102:
People in Japan evacuate.
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And from the times that i’ve been monitoring the stream for motion around Reactor 3 I’ve noticed that it appears that they release the steam/pressure mostly at night. This could be because it’s far harder without tweaking the webcam image to see this venting. Not to mention if anyone is taking photos or video at the scene they are unlikely to get a good enough exposure to pick it up.
Anybody else noticed this?
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Yes, I mentioned it on a recent message I posted on the yahoo group I set up. Somewhere between 12:30am and 3:30am their time, closer to 12:30 which will be in about 45 minutes. Yesterday all was quiet.
A couple of nights ago it was a lot, and from what I saw it appeared to be a lot of dark grey smoke that was hard to detect or pinpoint against a dark background, and then some people could just say ‘oh no, that’s just fog’ when it completely obscures the view of the reactors in a 30 minute time span!
But on my monitor I could see smoke billowing out from around the area of the number 4 reactor (possibly number 3).
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A bird could have eaten hot bugs and then pooped them out. Thats the problem, things get contaminated, then eaten, then migrated around, then the host dies and there it is….
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Poop happens.
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How many Ocean dwelling creatures migrate between the northern hemisphere and the southern? Birds, whales, fish, the list could be quite extensive…..
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“Experts don’t know” – !!??!! That’s funny. Of course they do. Radiocaesium was found on the US NW coast, why shouldn’t it be everywhere in Japan? Maybe the explosion in the spent MOX fuel pool #3 on March 14 had something to do with spreading it far and wide…wind and water, birds and bees, this mess will be circulating on the whole earth for generations to come…the biggest story of my lifetime, and the mainstream media silence is unbearable…
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[sarcasm
That can't be right Happy people and happy land can not be affected by Radiation and cancer causing things. Only sad and weak spirited people have these problems.
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Ok Sarcasm aside The Ostrich can only keep it’s head buried for so long and then it has to come up for food and water and then it gets to see reality.
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Arizonian – I agree with “the biggest story of my lifetime and the mainstream silence is unbearable”. That says it all.
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Who is going to live in japan? This is not going to stop any time soon releasing radiation, and even if it stopped right now, capped off, you have to remove all the radiation, which we don’t know how to do either.
If I was in japan, my plan would be to move, move as far away as I can.
Maybe japan still can get some clean soil someplace far sound, bring it with you to the desert. Lotta room in the desert…
Japan has alot of $$ maybe they should rent out the desert cheap in africa someplace, start over. Its going to be easier to teraform a small spot on earth, then to clean up what wrong now.
All focus should be preventing the ocean from getting too much, the world then can use all of japan to hold all waste at this point.
Lastly, we all know that in due time, godzilla should be forming someplace… So it’ll be good if they all move out of japan!
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alot of $?
prepare for the dumping of us treasuries.
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time to start killing all the experts who are carrying on with this obscene lie.
as far as the radiation clean up goes..they are burning it sending it in the air out to sea.korea,china the usa the whole fucking world.
million of tons of sludge forget about the reactors,the sludge,mud and human excrement being burnt on a massive industrial scale.
if we were not run by the same old corrupt money grabbing bastards i would say declare war on japan.
if this was a reactor in iran,we would have had the biggest movement of troops since the gulf war.
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Actually japan is a beautifull island, very pretty flowers and peacefull birds and some of the scariest spiders I saw in my life, for many years I thought I would only see these in national geographic lol. actually is was a bright yellow spider, gigantic, looked like it could glow in the dark. guess some do now…
ps: I know I shouldn’t say this but I loved their JR trains station music ahah.
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Well, I think we should be frightened if these “experts” don´t know how the radioactive contamination travels around the environment. In fact, these “genius” are supposed to be the responsibles of solving the Fukushima´s drama.
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Frightened?, Naaa. These people haven’t gotten anything correct yet, but the question is, are they really that dumb? That is really the part the frightens me, that their dumbness is really a purposeful and diabolic facade. These people have at least as good of an education as we do. How can we see so clearly without having access to the data while they repeatedly cannot? Paranoia is alive and well.
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Um…it’s in Vermont and Europe, for god’s sake…how did it get to Tokyo…duh?
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Who are these “experts” anyway? “Experts” at what?
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They clean after everyone else has gone homw….
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Yes it doesn’t take much to figure this out. A real no brainer.
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“Throwing away what you’ve grown with great care is like killing your own children.”
Me thinks this poor farmer should be wondering what the health of his children are.
Save the following link if you like to see how the wind spreads the Fukushima radiation. Click on the down arrow on the bar across the top of the image to select which animation you want to see. I like to watch the fourth one.
http://www.kachelmannwetter.de/japan/japan.html
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Latest report from Alex in Japan (contains some cursing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7_5pa5Ggs&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
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This farmer is 74, his children are most likely in 40′s and 50s.
his grand children are teenagers or in their 20s.
His worry should be his great grand children.
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How shall I carry thee my love. Let me count the ways …..
aeroplanes
ships
boats
hot air balloons
party balloons
weather balloons
wind
snow
hail
rain
birds
shoes
people
subterranean rivers
ocean
air
raccoon dogs
fish
high-flying pink elephants
stray cats
insects
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Pu…LOL – “raccoon dogs” Thanks, I needed a good laugh!
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hope rocky is ok?
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yes. he’s so precious, a symbol of our hopes and a symbol of our dreams.
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this is what the japanese people think of wildlife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKNCN1ESZM
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yes i know, just tragic. supposedly in the name of research and such cowardice and hoffific violence is displayed against the animals. i just watched this last week, don’t think i can do it again.
http://youtu.be/THIODWTqx5E
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Rocky goes where man fears to tread !
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ROCKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_FU8NGhzkdc
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rocky is enjoying the most quite building site in the world.
with the workers 3-5 miles away off site playing playstation,it is fun time for the animals.
playtime before the fall.
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…or a false flag / terrorist operation. Stuff could be dispersed by jetliners. Same for the West coast US. Anything is possible these days.
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When I shop at Lowe’s for lumber to finish my greenhouse, I have to take it home by bus. The bus stop is right by the Hyundai
and Honda dealerships. I know our government is not testing for radiation before letting these new cars into the country.
HELP!!!!!
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It could look just like chem trails, who would know !
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They keep repeating that like some mantra. Despicable liars.
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i’m not the religious type, this is getting beyond fruity and
nutty. somewhere over the rainbow A is for Atom.
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There is always the chance that some of this radiation genuinely is not from Fukushima. Other plants are in trouble too.
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Lol, way to find the nuclear death cloud inside the dark cloud with no silver lining!
You may be right…..
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“The Clouds~..
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/598/757/
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Once the wind changes and it rains on Tokyo, we will see how happy and positive they are.
Hey – they may retract a lie or two
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The reason the authorities aren’t handling the nuclear crisis, except as people who have already been exposed to TOO much radiation, is that they are totally NUTS.
entagon’s New Factory: Your DNA
“D.A.R.P.A. [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] is sick and tired of waiting around for Mother Nature. Instead, it wants to take the life-making business into its own hands — and manufacture new biological forms in a factory of mix-and-match bio-bits.”
“A recent call for research by the Pentagon’s mad science agency proposes a new program called ‘Living Foundries’. The idea is to use biology as a manufacturing platform to ‘enable on-demand production of new and high-value materials, devices and capabilities’.”
http://www.pinewswire.net/2011/06/pentagon%E2%80%99s-new-factory-your-dna/
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Some really good view have been expressed here. It occurred to me that people have been put to death for far less than what these “experts” are guilty of. Japan will likely become the World’s biggest monument to greed.
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5 HOT PARTICLES A DAY “BIG” CANCER RISK FOR WEST COAST
Remember what Arnie was saying about people on average getting 5 hot particles a day on the West Coast? Here’s disturbing news that these things are not as cuddly as we thought:
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Here are some relevant excerpts from the above quoted report (dated from the 1970s but still seems relevant)
http://www.hss.doe.gov/healthsafety/ihs/marshall/collection/data/ihp2/2968_.pdf
Seems to indicate that inhaling 5 or more “hot particles” (as defined below, and including Plutonium, for example) is a huge amount compared to the maximum recommended dose based on research at the time. Cancer risk is extremely big.
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Here’s the link to the Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4459
…talks about getting 5 hot particles a day and the research indicating a high risk, and so on.
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Excellent PU239
Thank you so much!
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See also http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/articles/beta-radiation-in-the-united-states-following-the-fukushima-disaster.html PDF linked in file has very sobering charts, do not know how their data was sourced.
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How is it there is such lack of concern with inhalation of Hot Particles?
Few seem to care about protecting themselves, by using air filtration equipment while outdoors.
Is it embarrassment? Not wanting to seem different?
Are we willing to experience disease to avoid embarrassment?
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“maximum recommended dose” ?????
……. = 0 (zero)
I’m trying to think of some circumstance where I might want to inhale a single hot particle of plutonium…..
….no, it definitely = 0
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when i type in enews in my address page i’m being re-directed to barnes and noble again. it is 2:32 June 14 Pacific time
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Try and make a favorite shortcut or bookmark. That way when you click on that you may have a better chance of getting here.
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I am getting redirected to the bogus “fe” site. The site James2 said was fake.
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Don’t type enews – you need to be typing enenews.com !!!
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“BLOWING IN THE WIND”
- Bob Dylan
Songwriters: SHERRILL, BILLY/RICH, CHARLIE
Blowin’ In The Wind
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, ’n’ how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, ’n’ how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, ’n’ how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, ’n’ how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn’t see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, ’n’ how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, ’n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
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It’s also floating in the sea.
All the earth’s systems have been heavily damaged.
And the sky …
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Well no one told me about her
the way she lied
Well no one told me about her
how many people cried
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How would I know why should I care
Please don’t bother tryin’ to find her
She’s not there
Well let me tell you ’bout
the way she looked
The way she’d act
and the colour of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright
But she’s not there
Well no one told me about her
what could I do
Well no one told me about her
though they all knew
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How would I know
why should I care
Please don’t bother tryin’ to find her
She’s not there
Well let me tell you ’bout
the way she looked
The way she’d act
and the colour of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright
But she’s not there
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How would I know
why should I care
Please don’t bother tryin’ to find her
She’s not there
Well let me tell you
’bout the way she looked
The way she’d act
and the colour of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright
But she’s not there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU
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I suspect I’m being redirected into the seething interior of an eternal vortex, where time slows down and you find yourself on a planet that has flowers and sunshine and happiness – but no radiation.
Then I woke up, and found myself back here.
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You are not awake alone, Pu238. We all took the red pill.
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Maybe time for the peyote ceremony.
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“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
— Carlos Castaneda
Indeed.
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Yes I have a favorite short cut and it usually works even when the re-direct is happening.
However, the problem is that the site becomes unavailable for everyone else.
I’ve noticed that these re-directs happen in the wake of significant events, such as the major steam/smoke release that was documented here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-EDceWFovc
Furthermore, although this may be unrelated, but I’ve also found that I can no longer use google blogger as my login to post comments on other bloggers’ sites, including Washington’s Blog and EX-SKF http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/.
Nor are my comments to the NYT nor Propublic published.
I write for a living and am therefore careful what I post (tone, use of references, etc), especially since I use my given name.
Coincidence? I wonder….
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Don’t wonder, entire comments sections on FoxNews have been napalmed by the PTB on the (very) few articles they’ve published.
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Majia: In the comments section on EX-SKF under the post about yesterday’s steam/fog explosion – someone directs to a link showing spikes in radiation readings after the event.
http://guregoro.sakura.ne.jp/thumbnail.php
Unfortunately its entirely in Japanese, and I havent been able to translate via Google, so I can’t really be sure what it says. The lower left graph shows a spike in something around the time of the steam event.
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The upper left one in that is measurements from the prefecture north (I believe) of Fukushima. A large spike in radioactivity was noted at the time of the steam event that preceded the fog yesterday. That realtime graph continually updates and now the spike has gone off, although I’m sure an archive exists somewhere.
Hope that helps a little.
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Thanks Icone
I think i saw the link yesterday and checked it out. I do believe those are radiation spikes.
Blogger Ex-skf has an interesting discussion of this event on his blog in the comment section
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-live-camera.html#comments
By the way, I was locked out of enews about 10 minutes ago for at least 45 minutes…
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“I was locked out of enews about 10 minutes ago for at least 45 minutes…”
lol time warps now. This just gets weirder and weirder.
S’ok I figured out what you meant now, seemed funny though prior to that revelation
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The laddies are out in force.
We must take countermeasures.
LaReSiStAnCe
♥
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Before resistance movement, class and/ or civil movements are an option also. Rampant capitalism lead to this nuclear situation, a balance of power could still be created.
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Capitalism and Nuclearism are incompatible.
Capitalism fosters knee jerk, quick responses like: “I’ve got to hurry and get my product on the market fast, before my competitors beat me.”
Nuclear power, the power of the stars, the power once attributed mythologically only to gods, needs the slow, patient work of evolved consciousness to develop without overstepping nature’s boundaries in our hubris.
May our arrogance, ignorance and pride subside before it becomes too late. A date which is quickly approaching.
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Japan Nuclear Operators want to prevent future Hydrogen explosions? Since they don’t know how the cesium got spread all over, this story is not reassuring.
Nuke operators plan to prevent severe accidents
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 04:20 +0900 (JST)
Japanese operators of nuclear power plants have compiled a set of measures to prevent severe accidents, including hydrogen explosions at reactors.
On Tuesday, 10 power firms submitted reports to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on measures that should be taken immediately to address possible severe accidents like those at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
The reports say that to avoid hydrogen blasts, some utilities are installing equipment that can rip holes in reactor buildings to remove hydrogen.
They will also set up hydrogen density gauges inside reactor buildings.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/15_04.html
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Canada Lifts Restrictions On Japanese Food Imports
Manufacturing.Net – June 14, 2011
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TOKYO (Kyodo) — Canada has lifted all restrictions on food imports from Japan, which were imposed amid fears of radioactive contamination due to the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, saying all products tested were far below radiation limits, the Japanese government said Tuesday.
Canada became the first country to lift all restrictions, while 40 other countries and areas continue to restrict food imports from Japan following the crisis at the plant triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday that following an assessment it “no longer sees the need for routine testing imported food products,” effective the same day, adding Canada’s health authorities will conduct regular monitoring of food sold in the country, including Japanese imports.
Since April 1, the agency had demanded test results verifying the safety of all products imported from 12 prefectures including Fukushima and neighboring prefectures.
The agency had also asked for certificates proving the origin of products from other prefectures.
Japan’s exports of farm and fishery products to Canada totaled about 4.6 billion yen in 2010.
In late May, China said it would partially ease controls on agricultural products from Japan, but the criteria or specific details are yet to be clarified.
http://www.manufacturing.net/News/2011/06/Japanese-Earthquake-Aftermath-Canada-Lifts-Restrictions-On-Japanese-Food-Imports/
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Good old Canada. No radiation monitoring in the entire country ever since this mess began, and now it’s okay to import Japanese products–with no inspection. I never thought any government could be more opaque and misleading than my own, but the Harper government takes the prize.
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I agree milk and cheese! I mean it is numbing considering the radioative tea announcements just last week! Its like the government leaders have decided we WILL be irradiated and that`s that. Given this article, I assume the radioactive Japanese tea is acceptable into Canada for distribution amongst her citizens?
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as far as I know, they DO tests.
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/imp/importe.shtml
atm no food above 2bq/kh is entering the country.
I think this news was just for jp mass media topretend & show the japanese ppl that everything is okay and to pretend that foreign countries have the same opinion.
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It would be pretty great to be from a country NOT INVOLVED in any of this, wouldn’t it?!!
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Japan should send over millions of barrels of ‘spring’ water. That should solve one problem….
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FEATURE-Radiation ‘hotspots’ hinder Japan response to nuclear crisis
Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:18am GMT
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By Kevin Krolicki and Kiyoshi Takenaka
KANAGAWA, Japan, June 14 (Reuters) – Hisao Nakamura still can’t accept that his crisply cut field of deep green tea bushes south of Tokyo has been turned into a radioactive hazard by a crisis far beyond the horizon.
“I was more than shocked,” said Nakamura, 74, who, like other tea farmers in Kanagawa has been forced to throw away an early harvest because of radiation being released by the Fukushima Daiichi plant 300 kilometers (180 miles) away.
“Throwing way what you’ve grown with great care is like killing your own children.”
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL3E7HE1AZ20110614
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As per the free Cernobyl documentary metalic taste in mouth means very high exposure (see after 1 hour of documentary – people sent on roof of reactor) http://networkedblogs.com/j9EDs. All who feel this on West Coast are not safe.
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I agree with you Alexa. I think it is already too late though.
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Anthony, it’s never too late. If you watch the Cernobyl documentary – a percentage of the people exposed to high radiation survived after being exposed to large radiation when they moved away. With detox and if you watch what you eat, you will survive if you relocate/ rent a basement far from West Coast and spend less time outside. Some of the radiation diseases like thyroid cancer do not kill.
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Make like a CHUD from the movie CHUD!
C.H.U.D. (trailer)
C.H.U.D. – in case you are totally retarded – is the special governmental acronym for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. Duh. Jesus, I can’t believe I even had to explain that for you. You should also know that “C.H.U.D.” (the movie) is a knockout of a picture, and was nominated for numerous 1984 Best Picture awards. At fantasy film conventions. Okay it was nominated for two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDToaLuJ7I
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087015/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D.
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Now we have CHUD.
Let’s see, I forgot.
What planet is this again.
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Thanks Alexa again! I am really not afraid of it… more pissed at the unfolding twists and untruthful turns in the overall story. I figure we got blasted already a week after the event in March. For some of us, it will be seen as a fatal omission of facts against us people. I walked in that shit and wondered why my throat ached so bad all of a sudden. I know my body.
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Anthony, Get outta Dodge! If you’re in CA, go to Whole Foods and start stocking up & administering health foods to yourself. Use aged brown Miso and sea vegetables (of course, pre-3/11). These foods have almost magical healing properties…in fact, there are so many things that do in the case of radiation.
I once had an unknowing exposure near a lake (that glowed in the dark, I later learned-unbelievable!) not far from a reactor, which later lost all its Clean Water Act permits. (oh, yes!) I had symptoms right after my brief exposure, including nausea–bad sign! I immediately just started taking miso soup for almost a week, with onions, garlic, cilantro, and whole bags of seaweed thrown in! I’ve turned out fine ever since…
Most seaweeds will keep dried for years. “Eden” brand is high quality at Whole Foods. It does hail from Japan, but most of it had been harvested late last year!…in fact, some species only could be harvested a few seasons ago. It’s loaded with anti-radiation benefits & perfect in soup. Strangely, I just loved that miso soup after my fateful encounter at the lake…& I’ve always been kind of lucky/blessed.
Plus, MOVE!!! Your body is trying to help you!…
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Earless rabbit net sensation and ‘symbol’
5:30 AM Tuesday Jun 14, 2011
A YouTube video of what purports to be an earless baby rabbit born near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant has gone viral on the internet, having been seen more than two million times.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10732070
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The more that know the truth, the more may tune in for more truths !
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I personally am expecting to see birth defects, sooner than later. Unfortunately, I think also it will be a painfully long period of our future experience. We will never know the truth of this little guy, but, he just may literally be a (the) sign of things to come.
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Soon laws to abort deformed children in the womb !
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HOw about those 2 typhoons that went along the pacific coast? The latest was a category 5 super typhoon before it transitioned to an extra tropical low, with still very strong winds. With a counter clockwise rotation of the spiral, winds turn north, for the area located west of the eye (tokyo, fukushima). It was almost evident those typhoons would spread radioactive particles in a very wide area, no just via the wind, but the heavy rains!! No one was warned as usual… I couldn’t believe it!
I did my best to warn my sister in Tokyo not to let her kids go to school around the 30th of May, but I doubt she or anyone cared about my concerns in the absence of official government warnings.
People need to start thinking for themselves and use they own judgement… instead of waiting to be told what to do or worry about.
Quote from WallStreet: Ever wonder why fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500? ‘Cause they’re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.
Another take on this could be: Ever wonder why people in Tokyo hang around? Cause they’re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.
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jonjon
I know you must be besides yourself with worry for them. Are you in the States here ?
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Japan’s Radiation Sleuths Toil With Borrowed Geiger Counters
By Shigeru Sato, Sachiko Sakamaki and Tsuyoshi Inajima – Jun 13, 2011 12:02 AM PT
A resident, evacuated from the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, undergoes a screening test for possible nuclear radiation after a brief visit to her home, in Minami Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. People living in certain areas of Minami Soma will receive 23.8 millisieverts of annual cumulative exposure at current radiation levels, exceeding the yearly safety limit of 20 millisieverts, according to a report by Japan’s science ministry earlier this month. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
Japan Amateur Radiation Sleuths Toil With Borrowed Geigers
Residents evacuated from the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, including Nao Yoshida, center, lit candles during an event marking three months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Minami Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Children and unborn babies are more sensitive to radiation than adults because their cells are dividing frequently as they grow. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
Japan Amateur Radiation Sleuths Toil With Borrowed Geigers
Hiroko Yamada shows her cell phone-sized dosimeter in Minami Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. “I don’t trust the government or Tepco after they hid information,” said Yamada, who lost a relative in the tsunami. “But there’s nothing we can do until the nuclear crisis is resolved.” Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
Makoto Tonami starts his workday by slipping on a white surgical face mask and then drives around with a borrowed Geiger counter, taking radiation readings. Three months ago, he was sorting garbage claims in Minami Soma, a city north of the Fukushima nuclear plant.
“It’s usually two or three of us and we drive till sunset,” said the 43-year-old city official, who grew up in the coastal town. His group takes readings at 35 locations with equipment loaned from the Fukushima government, he said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-12/japan-amateur-radiation-sleuths-using-borrowed-geigers-seek-hidden-dangers.html
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Thousands protest against nuclear power in Japan
Mark Willacy reported this story on Monday, June 13, 2011 08:26:00
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3242209.htm
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FACTBOX-Japan’s disaster in figures
Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:55am GMT
TOKYO, June 11 (Reuters) – The following lists the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan three months ago. An asterisk indicates a new or updated entry. DEATH TOLL
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL3E7HB02420110611
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Unthinkable nuclear woes may yet become normal in Japan
The Irish Times – Saturday, June 11, 2011
Not much is worse than children having radiation metres strapped to their chests, writes DAVID McNEILL in Tokyo
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0611/1224298735954.html
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Logical thinking (these scientists should take some logic classes) indicates much worse things could happen.
When Cernobyl happened,where I lived in Europe, my parent’s friends had a 2 year old son. He died a few years later of leukemia, after the parents tried to save him desperately (sold their house to pay for treatment, took him to Italy for treatment, etc).
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that’s sad T_T
how far were they away from chernobyl if I may ask?
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Family friends were 500 km from Cernobyl also. Their son was one of the percentage increase in cancer kids due to Cernobyl.
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My latest video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soYYeUTAyvA
Evidence that Tokyo is contaminated. Documentation from a radiation measuring centre at a hospital. I bet they didn’t think people would be looking at this!.
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@AustralianCannonball:
Hard data..excellent.
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http://www.renseradio.com/listenlive.htm
Comming on !
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Hi there, I’ve been following the stories here for a while and have a comment regarding the ‘experts’ at the universities being confused. A few hours after the ‘event’ (fog) cleared up a couple nights ago, I noticed an air monitor being deployed after the winds had shifted to the other direction. It was barely on the lower left of the screen for a second and first I thought it was a mutant crow, but freezing the frame could tell it was a long cylindrical object about 3 ft long being carried by perhaps a helium balloon. Hadn’t heard anyone else mention it, but it occurred to me that TEPCO is waiting until the plume is miles away in the other direction, and then providing info to support ‘no radiation was released’.
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This is the way all “measurements” are made: Nuclear Plant radiates about 50 different radiations – some directly through all material 500 miles around. Only four are measured…
Remember, Fukushima reactor, General €lectric Mark 1. 0bummers adviser, G€ CEO Immmmelt the j€§uit. Isnt it funny how from very same company – came the CEO, advising US prez into WW-I, €Upapal mrder Mass…
Pappal Nuke Rad secrets http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)
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“Experts don’t know” how radioactive cesium from Fukushima ended up so far southwest of Tokyo”
I live in East Coast Florida and have dealt with the BP Gusher and the Chemicals used to sink the Oil.
During the days the smell of fuel from vapors were there as well as not smelled but effects were felt. During and after the gusher and the fogs and mist during the nights have drifted over waters and the lands in the evenings and early mornings carrying all that is out there to my area, it condisation on the inside underroof of my pourch.
My lungs could taste it the moment I opened the door many mornings enough to where it stop short natural breathing and made to be forceful if I did not step back into the house and shut the door. (Blogged on record many times – http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/)
If these particles from the The Fukushima Plant are emanating they enter into the air and all the characteristics as such and flow over water or land with temperature warm or cool and as the air heats in the morning sun many particles will drop to the grounds and the moister is warned dropping the heavier particles and some lighter will rise with the heat ! The atomic weights of each type of Isotope may be taken in here for a guide !
I feel that no noticeable winds needed be recorded or noticed during this process of delivery as I noticed here !
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Electrically charged particles shoot via globe magnetic fields – freely.
HAARP-like radio transmitters can guide these also into a politically desired spots (read:j€suit )… see the Mass mrder machine for pappal servings: DUGA3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqX6bXYnNFA
Air currents are just one conveyor, rain one way how theses are dropped/concentrated.
Natural air currents can pic sand from the ground, lift it from Sahara, carry it over Atlantic and cause sandstorms in Florida. Mind u, SAND. Sand is heavy AND neutral used as isolator/glass …sand particles, picked from ground…
See satellite pics, Fact Linkys here http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)
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That’s so frightening xdrfox! A friend’s daughter just lost a 7 month gestation pregnancy,…after having two healthy, full term children in the past decade. Not this time. No word was said about what the fetus was like, or why the pregnancy failed!
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@ StillJill
When my grandson was born a few weeks ago, His head and face turned blue twice causing concern for him, the second time rushing him out of the birthing room ! I told my daughter it happens sometimes when they learn to breath, not to worry, but I went to see her today and told her the news that is coming in now and my concern then !
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We have so much smoke here today in Fl. from all the fires and the winds bringing it to the coast, One can see how small particles can be transmitted via air, wind, moister or rain !
You can see it and smell the smoke, it’s the nukes you can’t so much !
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