No Proof of Serious Quake Damage at Fukushima:Government Panel -Nikkei
TOKYO (Nikkei)–The government committee investigating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will report that it has found no evidence of earthquake damage to vital plant equipment, contradicting a strongly argued claim by a parliamentary commission, the Nikkei reports in its Monday morning edition.
The Investigation Committee, headed by University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus Yotaro Hatamura, will issue a final report July 23. It has interviewed workers at the stricken power plant and examined reactor data from the early hours of the crisis that began March 11, 2011, when a massive earthquake struck northeastern Japan.
So far, the committee sees no sign of damage to major plant systems before the ensuing tsunami, although the report will not make a definitive conclusion, since no on-site examination was possible.(we just checked the ouija board)
"TEPCO clearly stipulated that it was acceptable not to think about total loss of power. This is not the responsibility of TEPCO or anyone. The government itself stated that a situation in which all power was lost didn’t need to be considered."
Attributed to Yotaro Hatamura in an interview about his committee's interim report, February 2012.
They tried to interview two robots that actually were in areas that hold clues to earthquake destruction, but unfortunately both robots were dead, dead, dead!
Your Welcome. It is wonderful to have people from around the world watch these. And the more the merrier. Ustream stats will let them know that people from around the world have watched. We do not need to understand the language to know how important these protests are. So I am hoping that encourages those taking part & will let them know WE CARE~!~
Please, if you do not get to watch them Live check out the recordings by following the links above. Your country of origin will still show up, encouraging the Japanese even more.
Just a thought. Shouldn't the total number of viewers of these streams be included in the total of protesters? They do show the number of One time viewers. So you can not fudge the numbers by opening & closing the stream or having multiple streams open at the same time.
Yes, the numbers should be included as an indicator. I'm guessing IWJ will be keeping good records of their success. You may be able to approach them if you want those details.
iwj.co.jp
WEBサイト：岩上安身責任編集 – IWJ Independent Web Journal
プロフィール：Profile – IWJ Independent Web Journal
Twitterアカウント：@iwakamiyasumi
Facebook：facebook.com/iwakamiyasumi
Brilliant team effort by these people.
The numbers I saw for the Oii protests were over 110,000 total viewers across multiple cameras, I'm sure it must have been some kind of a record.
I've written before in the off-topic area, I reckon it's a good skill to get your phone ready fopr citizen journalism.
This is a former NRC guy who seems to have undergone a "road to Damascus" kind of conversion. I do hope he gets the word out to the rest of "the crew":
I have a question I would like some of you to answer. I have noticed this year a drastic reduction in the number of earth worms around my home in Blaine MN. USA. We have had plenty of rain and usualy after it rains the driveway and street have many many dozens of worms crawling around. This year I have made an effort to go out after it rains and have seen a grand total of 2, yes, TWO earth worms this year. I have also noticed far fewer bugs in general around my house. Anyone else noticing anything similar? Thanks.
Have you asked this question on a local gardening blog?
You can also call you county extension service to see what they have to say and ask for the contact info of the local county master gardener (if you have such a program in MN) to get their opinion.
Local farmers at the farmers' market may have some info too.
This worm death plague in a three state grid three months after 311 came after nearly a month of daily rain. How do you spell H-o-t-s-p-o-t?
If researchers looked here at the soil I think they will find ten times the radiation they found in San Francisco.
BTW… The original MSN article about the Ohio worms was removed. Coincidence? I think not.
Also BTW regarding my comments yesterday about about the muttonbirds from New Zealand (estimated population 22 million prior to last years annual trek to Fukushima. Over 7 million failed to return to New Zealand where they breed.
"Recent tagging experiments have shown that birds breeding in New Zealand may travel 74,000 km in a year, reaching Japan, Alaska and California, averaging more than 500 km per day."
SP: The birds rested near Fukushima NPP in late 2011 and were feeding on squid, small fish, and shellfish. I am surprised the New Zealand scientists haven't tested some of the 15 million that made it back in the spring. Maybe they have, but publishing radiation bad news about food sources for the Maori may not be possible in Kiwi land. I thought they are pretty anti-nuke in NZ…
Crickets have played a strong role throughout Chinese, Japanese and Native American cultures as a symbol of good fortune, vitality and prosperity.
I live in Los Angeles county near Malibu and this year we have not had any crickets either. We have had a large amount of crickets in the past. I enjoy hearing their evening cricket "songs" but this year has been silent.
2 StPaulScout re: insects and worms. I'm in San Francisco Bay Area. Yes, there are far fewer worms and insects here than pre-311. Many, many more dead worms at all times of the year than last year. This year they seem to be crawling out of the soil and dying, even during warm weather. It's like they are trying to escape from something in the soil. I've never seen them emerge from cool, damp soil during hot weather, before.
EPA Notice because ""This is a great step toward reducing risk to the Columbia River." HAH! There is a whole BASIN worth of contamination..
BUT by law EPA has to notify community(s) if risk is expected..or possible contamination at certain levels where the contaminates are carried thru..Or so I understand it. Others with environmental law background chime in here..
"..to remove the rest of the sludge from the basin by the end of 2015, the agency said. "This sludge has been stored underwater in the basin for more than 30 years, and today marks a turning point in our cleanup," said Matt McCormick, manager of the Richland Operations Office, in a statement."
So guess this announcement will cover multiple years(2012 thru 2015)???
The Nuclear industry must have a very good safety track. No reports posted on RSOE or from the NRC about Nuclear incidents in recent months. Not like last year. All must be well.
"The tsunami design bases for the Fukushima NPPs were inadequate. If the return period for a tsunami of the magnitude experienced in Japan was as short as reported (once every 1000 years), a risk-informed regulatory approach would have identified the existing design bases
as deficient. Although addressing low-probability events
is very difficult, a risk-informed treatment for naturalphenomenon hazards is necessary…"
Japan won't be able to quit nuclear if they join the TPP. Big problem! The system is conveniently set-up for the US so that they can keep the Japanese NPP going and to be able to trade GM food freely. Evil!
Finland starts uranium mining:
"On 1 March, the Government granted permission to Helsinki Talvivaara mining and processing of uranium.
Environment Minister and his Niinistö Greens were overruled by the cabinet members of a conservative-liberal coalition majority. Euratom has given the green light, but environmentalists are trying to stop the uranium project still in court and using petitions.
With an estimated annual production of 350-500 tons of uranium Talvivaara would in fact be Europe's largest uranium mine. And this, without having been discussed in principle in Finland ever, whether the country should ever become a uranium producer.
The nuclear and uranium lobby has used the back door. "Entirely surprising" they found that the nickel ore mined in Talvivaara contains such a high percentage of uranium that is worth obtaining, said the operator Society 2010.
In fact, back in the 1970s the local uranium deposits have been mapped by geologists and appeared in 1981 in the IAEA and OECD statistics. With the Canadian Cameco there is already a willing provider who wants to process the raw material for use in nuclear fuel rods. Talvivaara and could soon be everywhere in Northern Finland: a veritable patchwork of mineable quantities spread out over Finnish Lapland."
The US nuclear industry’s lobbyists, NEI have a new tactic up their sleeve. Using women to convince the public how “safe” nuclear power is.
The NEI sponsored WINUS conference is going on now in Florida at Disneyworld.
The existence of a women’s professional group for those working in the nuclear industry isn’t much of a big deal. The emerging tactic found weaving
through the twitter posts for the conference hashtag were. Using women as the messenger of an industry’s propaganda is pretty tasteless.
Wow – that's a subtle one. Is it healthy education or nasty indoctrination or both or neither?
I learned the elements from Tom Lehrer in what now seems like such an innocent era. Stuck with me for decades, but I have no memory of how they were presented in high school Science classes.
Enformable Nuclear News has been going through the leaked e-mails from March etc. RE: Fukushima with various agencies. I will just post the site link so that you can go through them.
March 16th, 2011 –
"…No matter what, it is vital that everyone stays on same page regarding the facts,
even as the situation worsens in Japan,
The experts assure us that and I quote the NRC, “You just aren’t going to have any radiological material that, by the time it traveled those large distances, could present any risk to the American public.”
So that means, we should continue to talk about the many ways we are assisting the Japanese and the American citizens in Japan. DOE, NRC, HHS, DOD and State are all doing a great deal IN JAPAN and should continue to make sure folks know that.
We should also talk about the steps we are taking here at home…."
Arc, are these the scanned copies of the actual e-mails, from the first week or so? Yes, agreed, those were chilling. The ones from the IAEA were also, ahem, interesting, to say the least.
The only thing I don't recall them saying was, "we must present a united front." Although that was the gist of most of the communication.
"Circle the wagons, boys," as they supposedly said in the U.S., in the Wild West days.
Doing a little backtracking tonight on the May 2012 report on radiation dose estimation by the WHO (who as we know when it comes to any nuclear health issues they turn into the little bastard step-children for the nuclear cabal).
Of interest to me was not the brouhaha prior to final publishing over their initial high rates of contamination of infants which they lowered after the Japanese government complained and provided new cooked books of fresh "data" (fake shit of course), but the nuggets of information about a couple of things.
Aussies and other On the Beach southern hemisphere folks will be interested in page 42 about the estimated percentage of fallout from Japan crossing the barrier into the lower globe (15%) and when exactly they first discovered Fukushima radiation in the lower countries (April 2011).
On page 43 read how sloppy their research was on tap water. Just atrocious for such a prestigious bunch of nuclear eggheads to whitewash and dismiss the dangers completely.
Some of these scientists are the same bastards who traveled to Belarus 26 years after Chernobyl and avoided visiting the hot spots, brought their own food and water, and then proclaimed all was well, the area was so much better, no medical problems. These naked apes have the compassion of a serial killer.
3 more DPJ members to quit as nuclear power issue fractures party further
House of Councillors members, from left, Yasue Funayama, Kuniko Tanioka and Kuniko Koda speak to reporters at a news conference in Tokyo on July 17. (Mainichi)
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Three more sitting Diet members of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) have announced they are leaving the party, not over the consumption tax hike bill that led to the defection of former leader Ichiro Ozawa and his followers, but over the government's decision to restart nuclear reactors.
"If the administration of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says it will take responsibility for the restarts, then we want the government to take responsibility for stabilizing the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant reactors as well," said House of Councillors member Kuniko Tanioka at a July 17 news conference. "The administration's use of the word 'responsibility' is altogether too flippant."
The departure of Tanioka and fellow upper house members Yasue Funayama and Kuniko Koda points to smoldering differences within the DPJ not just over the tax hike bills passed by the House of Representatives against stiff opposition from the Ozawa camp, but over the issue of nuclear power in Japan. http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120718p2a00m0na010000c.html
Sizewell B nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast has had its second automatic shutdown in four months.
Owner EDF Energy said electricity production had ceased at 17:11 BST on Wednesday and it was investigating the cause of the stoppage.
A spokesman said: "The reactor was safely shut down, with the plant responding as expected and at no time was anyone's safety at risk."
The plant had an 11-day automatic stoppage in March.
EDF said it was not predicting when the plant would begin generating again.
The company said the March shutdown had been the first automatic one in three years and was for an electrical fault in the non-nuclear side of the plant.
There was a controlled stoppage in May to fix a lubrication problem.
Health inspectors have discovered radioactive blueberries on sale in a Moscow region market, local officials have said.
Inspectors from the local animal disease control center found blueberries giving off more than nine times the recommended limit of radiation at the Bazaar food market in Solnechnogorsk, northwest of Moscow, Interfax reported Thursday…
It was not clear where the berries came from or how they were contaminated, but the veterinary department said the owners of the the berries claimed to have purchased them from a company called “Vegetta,” based in the town of Dolgoprudny in the Khlebnikov district.
friday night is protest night….On 7/18/2012, former Japanese prime minister Hatoyama Yukio stated he is going to take part in the protest in front of (his former) official residence in the interview of Iwakami Yasumi.
The protest is planned to start in 15 minutes from now.
Hatoyama commented, most of the major media try to ignore the protest, but it started independently by using Twitter etc.
This is a historical event, if the government keeps ignoring it, that would become such a disaster for the government.
•Areas around PM Official Residence and government ministries in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo
•6PM to 8PM
Yasumi Iwakami's IWJ USTREAM channels:
Ch1—Yasumi Iwakami, in front of the National Diet Building
Ch3—21:30- Aerial video (if it's raining, from the car)
Ch4—at the Diet Press Club building
Ch5—at PM Official Residence, front line
Ch6—at "Family Area"
Ch7—around Ministry of Finance
Ch8—at Ministry of Economy, Annex [That's where NISA is.]
He included a link to the article, which said that the reading was 1 bq per litre of seawater. So if each person's personal space in the water if he justs stands there is about, let me grab a number…100 litres??…does that mean his exposure is actually 100 bq? pardon my ignorance…this is a safe level? Last year I posted regarding the tragedy that the beaches were empty when they should be filled with happy people. In the light of this ongoing debacle I was astounded to hear of this reopening.
the cesium levels were up to 1000 bq/l if i read these charts right.. wheres that coming from… and of course you cant beleieve the figures given.. they will be on the low side "statictically"
Thanks, arclight. AdobeReader tells me your second link (120720)has a damaged file and can't be repaired, so I couldn't open it, otherwise, I was going to compare lists with the other month's readings. You know this field, I don't. That is curious indeed: your questions about cesium rise…where did it come from? and Ag/Mn decrease…where has it gone? Thank you for your input and data, esp. the thought about what's being ingested.
the thyroid doctors are not aware of the true situation in japan..
this article speaks volumes…
Media’s strange silence on thyroid abnormalities in Fukushima children
We also spoke with Dr. Bryan Haugen, president-elect of the American Thyroid Association and head of endocrinology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who hadn’t heard of the report before we contacted him.
Haugen agreed with the Caldicott’s assessment that it is surprising for kids to “have this many nodules and cysts seen, especially this soon after the accident,” and the fact that “this something that is not more widely known.”
articla says: "Since the mission’s inception, experts have checked 500,000 shipments, 908 ships, 473 aircraft and more than '42,000 people' that have arrived from Japan." What do their authorities do with a person that's too radioactive? Grind the poor traveler up into pet food and ship to India?
"General Electric Co on Friday reported a 2.5 percent rise in profit from continuing operations"
Ya, disasters are very profitable…
"topping Wall Street expectations"
I'm surprised!
"as solid demand in the United States and emerging markets offset weakness in Europe."
Yes, two new plants and those star wars medical imaging devices.
Killer sales job there…
And I guess the EU sales are gettin sour.
Fool me once…
And if anyone's wondering if it's really all GE-Hitachi that carries the larger blame for industrial nuclear crimes.
One word, patents…
(Reuters) – General Electric Co on Friday reported a 2.5 percent rise in profit from continuing operations, topping Wall Street expectations, as solid demand in the United States and emerging markets offset weakness in Europe.
The largest U.S. conglomerate by revenue stuck with its forecast for the rest of 2012, saying it would increase earnings at a double-digit percentage rate by pushing profit margins higher.
Enenews have you put any thought into opening your own tv station on you tube, the time is right, you have many educated followers who know their fields, with their help we should be on air 24-7, I have lots of ideas news, weather, report
“The U.S. Department of Energy has testified that there is no level of radiation that is so low that it is without health risks,” Jacqueline Cabasso, the Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation, told Al Jazeera.
Cabasso explained that natural background radiation exists, “But more than 2,000 nuclear tests have enhanced this background radiation level, so we are already living in an artificially radiated environment due to all the nuclear tests.”
“Karl Morgan, who worked on the Manhattan project, later came out against the nuclear industry when he understood the danger of low levels of ionizing radiation-and he said there is no safe dose of radiation exposure,” Cabasso continued, “That means all this talk about what a worker or the public can withstand on a yearly basis is bogus. There is no safe level of radiation exposure. These so-called safe levels are coming from within the nuclear establishment.”
Gofman and Tamplin documented that low levels of radiation can cause cancer and other diseases, and they argued that federal safety guidelines for low-level exposures should be reduced by 90 percent.
A military briefing written by the U.S. Army for commanders in Iraq states:
Hazards from low level radiation are long-term, not acute effects… Every exposure increases risk of cancer.
~You & I are the acceptable risk, Army commanders & those that think they are better do NOT take that acceptable risk.~
That the radiation is being released 5,000 miles away isn’t as comforting as it seems…. Every day, the jet stream carries pollution from Asian smoke stacks and dust from the Gobi Desert to our West Coast, contributing 10 to 60 percent of the total pollution breathed by Californians, depending on the time of year. Mercury is probably the second most toxic substance known after plutonium. Half the mercury in the atmosphere over the entire US originates in China. It, too, is 5,000 miles away. A week after a nuclear weapons test in China, iodine 131 could be detected in the thyroid glands of deer in Colorado, although it could not be detected in the air or in nearby vegetation.
The Endocrine Society, 14,000 researchers and medical specialists in more than 100 countries, warned that “even infinitesimally low levels of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, indeed, any level of exposure at all, may cause endocrine or reproductive abnormalities, particularly if exposure occurs during a critical developmental window.
Surprisingly, low doses may even exert more potent effects than higher doses.” If hormone-mimicking chemicals at any level are not safe for a fetus, then the concept is likely to be equally true of the even more intensely toxic radioactive elements drifting over from Japan, some of which may also act as endocrine disruptors.
Ionizing radiation includes beta particles, alpha particles, gamma rays, and x-rays;
Beta particles are electrons — but they differ from the ordinary non-beta electrons in the human body in one important way. Beta particles are endowed with biologically unnatural energy. This energy causes them to travel through the cell (and beyond) at high speed, like tiny bullets.
The biological damage caused by ionizing radiation, including gamma rays and x-rays, is due to high-speed particles traveling through cells and unloading concentrated amounts of energy in unnatural places at random. Each particle creates a very narrow path of disturbance (called a primary "ionization track") as it unloads energy at irregular intervals.
Conclusion: It is factually wrong to believe or to claim that no harm has ever been proven from very low-dose radiation. On the contrary. Existing human evidence shows cancer-induction by radiation at and near the lowest possible dose and dose-rate with respect to cell-nuclei. By any reasonable standard of scientific proof, such evidence demonstrates that there is no safe dose or dose-rate below which dangers disappear. No threshold-dose. Serious, lethal effects from minimal radiation doses are not "hypothetical," "just theoretical," or "imaginary." They are real.
it's beautiful to see all the anti-nuke replies. I'm sure that professor must be wondering what he unleashed
we are a force when we all move in on a forum. this army of anti-nukers can just swamp a pro-nuker and spread our information far and wide on _their_ platform.
George Yoshitake, Nuclear Test Photographer, Recalls Filming Nuclear Blast 55 Years Ago (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Timothy Stenovec Posted: 07/20/2012 9:37 am Updated: 07/21/2012 4:37 pm
****When the countdown reaches zero, one of the jets releases a missile tipped with a nuclear warhead.
"We felt a heat pulse," a narrator says. "A very bright light — a fireball. It is red. The sky looks black about it. It is boiling above us…"****
****It wasn't until after the test that Yoshitake found out he was making a propaganda film meant to demonstrate the safety of nuclear explosions.
"It was a publicity stunt to show the American public how safe it was during an atomic bomb," Yoshitake told CBS, "and if there was a war or something, with atomic bombs going off, that it was going to be safe for the general public."****
****Yoshitake said that of the six who were there that day, only he and Luttrell are still alive.
All of them were diagnosed with cancer at one time or another, CBS reports, although Yoshitake said that after chemotherapy and surgery last year for stomach cancer, he's now healthy.
Yoshitake said he knows a lot of cameramen who filmed nuclear tests died of cancer, adding that he's not certain it was related to the blasts.****
Suffice it to say there are many incidences that can relate the development of cancer to much earlier exposures to radiation. But still no "proof." The Atomic Energy Commission and subsequent Nuclear Regulatory Commission have done their jobs well. In reality, you can't prove the cancer isn't related, and you can't prove it is. All you know, is that radiation can and does cause cancer. And per John Gofman, PhD, MD, all cancers are due to radiation. That would include natural and man-made forms of radiation.
Majia, have been wondering if radiation works in the human body in any manner similar to how GMO's impact the genetic material of human beings. Am thinking on an energetic level, wondering if there is any similarity. That is, a GMO can trigger the DNA in the body to make the cells start producing pesticides. GMO's literally change the manner by which the DNA tells the cells to do their jobs.
I wonder if the information traveling between cells/DNA about radiation in the body (and causing the body to literally damage itself in a distant area) is similar to how cells communicate about the "instructions" given by GMO gene splice material.
Am not sure how to articulate my thought process. Would you please suggest some reading on the Mosaic Effect? Thanks.
Nuclear event in New Jersey USA on Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 at 03:05 (03:05 AM) UTC.
Description
The Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township was shut down early today after a power failure, according to plant owner Exelon. Electrical service from the outside grid was disrupted at around 3:41 a.m., and the plant’s emergency diesel generators kicked in and powered the plant’s safety systems, said a statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The problem appeared to be a grounded 230-kilovolt line, according to the NRC. Jersey Central Power & Light crews fixed the problem a little after 5:30 a.m., Exelon said. Afterwards the plant was taken to cold shutdown, in which the reactor and associated systems are cooled down and depressurized, according to the NRC. The plant will likely start up again in a matter of days, said Exelon spokeswoman Suzanne D’Ambrosio. “We make sure the plant is shut down and cooled down and then if there’s any little maintenance we need to do we may take advantage of down time to do that,” D’Ambrosio said. “Obviously with the hot summer it’s in our best interest to get running as soon as possible, but it’s a very slow and deliberate process.” Oyster Creek produces 636 megawatts of electricity at full power, enough electricity for about 600,000 homes.
Soaring costs for new nuclear power leave UK govt with a dilemma
"..Strike price key to new nuclear plants FT.com By Guy Chazan and Rebecca Bream, 23 July 12, When the Blair government first backed the idea of a new generation of nuclear plants in 2007, energy companies insisted they could build them without any public subsidy. Five years later, that claim seems painfully naive.
In the intervening years, the cost of new reactors has risen so fast that constructing them without any government support has become unthinkable.
The evidence for this change is not hard to find. The first two new reactors to be built in Europe for decades, at Flamanville in France and Olkiluoto in Finland, have suffered repeated delays and ballooning costs, with safety changes in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan a key factor. Flamanville’s pricetag is almost double its original budget of €3.3bn and it is four years behind schedule…"
Gee Whiz billionaires gambling on new untested Integral Fast Reactors
"Virgin Nuclear? Branson asks Obama for reactor help. Sir Richard v Bill Gates? Smart Planet, By Mark Halper | July 23, 2012, Flamboyant British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has written to President Barack Obama seeking help commercializing an alternative type of nuclear reactor known as an Integral Fast Reactor……"
Am considering talking with people representing sister cities in Japan. Nirasaki, Chubu is my cities' sister city. Am thinking partnering with someone there might be a good means of finding out how their area has been affected by the earthquake tsunami (indirectly), and Fukushima. Nirasaki appears to be southeast of Tokyo, so it's some distance from Fukushima and possibly Tokyo contamination.
Would like to know if people as far away as Nirasaki have been impacted by the Fukushima accident.
Just an idea I'd like to float out there for anyone who might be interested in partnering with someone through the Sister Cities program.
Another idea: FUNDRAISERS to aid Fukushima children, and help provide much needed medical care to those impacted by the Fukushima accident. This is an incipient idea, just in beginning stages.
Will post more details at "Political Events" area in Forum.
Have some ideas and met with one of the owners of Dharma Trading Co. of San Rafael, Calif. yesterday. He'll work with any groups interested in doing fundraisers. Dharma Trading imports beautiful, high quality T-Shirts, scarves, and a full line of high quality, non-toxic dyes and artist's supplies.
Idea: have T-shirt design workshops or parties in local areas. Teach people to do tie dye and special dying techniques for a small fee. They design the T-shirts and can take them home. (They're beautiful when done.)
Or have Ikat dying workshops taught by a Japanese person. Part of fees for classes to go to Fukushima relief fund.
Issues: organization, communication, liaisoning between Japanese persons in U.S., suppliers like Dharma Trading, finding trustworthy persons to distribute the money in Japan and handle trust fund accounts. Developing teams to put on workshops on the ground. Accountability of all participants in handling monies, and representing the concept of Fundraiser events properly, i.e., what do we want to communicate? Why are we educating? Agreement of all participants on desired outcome of Funraisers.
FUNRAISERS — Freudian slip? FUNDRAISERS. Would really enjoy being on the ground to do S.F. Bay Area fundraisers. Also have experience coordinating teams. Would like to help facilitate a "master plan" of some sort (flexible of course) so we can begin doing fundraisers in our local community.
For me, it's logical to begin with T-Shirt design parties and classes. Probably a good idea to have a speaker explain at some point why the class and fundraiser are being done, or have literature at a table there.
Also have a cousin in Denver who has had a T-Shirt design company for over 30 years. He might be able to facilitate printing of Fukushima T-Shirts for sale.
Would need lots and lots of help to get these things going. Would just like to float this as an idea to see if anyone is interested. For me, San Francisco, S.F. East Bay, Sonoma County, Napa County, and even Sacramento area are logical participants.
San Francisco has a large "Japan Town" and Japanese Cultural Center. Perhaps we here in Calif. could partner with them.
Please write to me at HoTaters@hush.com to discuss ideas. Am thinking we need to find a 503c organization (or organizations) or that kind of counterpart organization in Japan. Lots of "logistical" and organizational details to work out. But am thinking this is a great grassroots way we can have fun, educate people, and provide financial relief to people in Japan.
BTW, what ideas do you have out there for Fukushima T-Shirts?
Please send them to HoTaters@hush.com if you're willing to share your ideas for the common good.
Any graphic designers and artists? I know you're lurking out there! At least one of us is an artist. I'm a painter, graphics, block printing, fiber arts, and music type (aside from the other worldly work things I've done).
Ready to move forward with making a positive change here, and supporting the people in Japan. Pls. let me know if you think we need to partner with others, so we're not "re-inventing the wheel" every time we do something.
Request: please contact me re: interest in Dharma Trading Co. so that we can coordinate this, and not swamp them with too many requests right away.
HoTaters@hush.com Put something in the subject line identifying why you are writing to me, thanks.
The idea is to make a coordinated effort. Better to have one person as the point of contact with them, at first. Not that I want to run things, but until we decide who is the "front person" and point of contact for liaison with Dharma Trading, please let me work with them directly on our behalf.
Dharma Trading will provide support in helping to organize the fundraisers (i.e., the methods groups have using working with them in the past). And they'll coordinate in supplies, etc. Nice group of people.
OK, over to "Upcoming Meetings, Political Activities" area of Forum with this. Just wanted to let people know I'm starting to work on this, and see if there is interest. Or please tell me if you're already doing something like this.
Thanks, HoTaters, and hope you all have a blessed day.
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No Proof of Serious Quake Damage at Fukushima:Government Panel -Nikkei
TOKYO (Nikkei)–The government committee investigating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will report that it has found no evidence of earthquake damage to vital plant equipment, contradicting a strongly argued claim by a parliamentary commission, the Nikkei reports in its Monday morning edition.
The Investigation Committee, headed by University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus Yotaro Hatamura, will issue a final report July 23. It has interviewed workers at the stricken power plant and examined reactor data from the early hours of the crisis that began March 11, 2011, when a massive earthquake struck northeastern Japan.
So far, the committee sees no sign of damage to major plant systems before the ensuing tsunami, although the report will not make a definitive conclusion, since no on-site examination was possible.(we just checked the ouija board)
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120715-700704.html
Report Comment
"TEPCO clearly stipulated that it was acceptable not to think about total loss of power. This is not the responsibility of TEPCO or anyone. The government itself stated that a situation in which all power was lost didn’t need to be considered."
Attributed to Yotaro Hatamura in an interview about his committee's interim report, February 2012.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/japans-nuclear-meltdown/yotaro-hatamura-was-fukushima-an-accident-waiting-to-happen/
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They tried to interview two robots that actually were in areas that hold clues to earthquake destruction, but unfortunately both robots were dead, dead, dead!
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LIVE NOW "July 16 Goodbye Nuclear Protest" in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo
See link for Live Streams of protest.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/07/july-16-goodbye-nuclear-protest-in.html
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'live' 18,000 plus viewers.
protest ustream:ch2
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-%E5%B2%A9%E4%B8%8A%E5%AE%89%E8%BA%AB%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8Bustream
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i'm watching.. thanks MaidenHeaven
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these links work so far ..
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-%E5%B2%A9%E4%B8%8A%E5%AE%89%E8%BA%AB%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8Bustream
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwakamiyasumi4
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwakamiyasumi5
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwj7
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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwj8
chanting down the streets now
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Your Welcome. It is wonderful to have people from around the world watch these. And the more the merrier. Ustream stats will let them know that people from around the world have watched. We do not need to understand the language to know how important these protests are. So I am hoping that encourages those taking part & will let them know WE CARE~!~
Please, if you do not get to watch them Live check out the recordings by following the links above. Your country of origin will still show up, encouraging the Japanese even more.
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This was my humble attempt at being a citizen journalist in Sydney on the weekend ..
http://enenews.com/upcoming-meetings-gatherings-demonstrations/comment-page-4#comment-271154
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Just a thought. Shouldn't the total number of viewers of these streams be included in the total of protesters? They do show the number of One time viewers. So you can not fudge the numbers by opening & closing the stream or having multiple streams open at the same time.
And the FRYING DUTCHMAN is LIVE I recognize his music.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-%E5%B2%A9%E4%B8%8A%E5%AE%89%E8%BA%AB%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8Bustream
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FRYING DUTCHMAN "humanERROR"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q5p283KZGa8
Worth reading…English & Japanese lyrics
http://fryingdutchman.jp/lyric.php#fragment-2
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Yes, the numbers should be included as an indicator. I'm guessing IWJ will be keeping good records of their success. You may be able to approach them if you want those details.
iwj.co.jp
WEBサイト：岩上安身責任編集 – IWJ Independent Web Journal
プロフィール：Profile – IWJ Independent Web Journal
Twitterアカウント：@iwakamiyasumi
Facebook：facebook.com/iwakamiyasumi
Brilliant team effort by these people.
The numbers I saw for the Oii protests were over 110,000 total viewers across multiple cameras, I'm sure it must have been some kind of a record.
I've written before in the off-topic area, I reckon it's a good skill to get your phone ready fopr citizen journalism.
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Toshiba considers buying part of Westinghouse Electric Corp. But the figure doesn't match up. Typical.
10% is owned by Khazaf (sp?)
3% is owned by IHI
That should leave Toshiba 39% instead of 49% mentioned in the news.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-15/toshiba-hires-jpmorgan-to-weigh-westinghouse-sale-express-says.html
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This is a former NRC guy who seems to have undergone a "road to Damascus" kind of conversion. I do hope he gets the word out to the rest of "the crew":
How Fukushima Challenged a Core Tenet of U.S. Nuclear Safety: An Expert's View
"Nuclear power is an unforgiving technology," says Peter Lam, nuclear safety expert, whose thinking was changed by Japan's disaster.
By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News Jul 16, 2012
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120716/fukushima-japan-disaster-nuclear-energy-san-onfore-diablo-canyon-safety-meltdown-peter-lam-expert-interview
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I have a question I would like some of you to answer. I have noticed this year a drastic reduction in the number of earth worms around my home in Blaine MN. USA. We have had plenty of rain and usualy after it rains the driveway and street have many many dozens of worms crawling around. This year I have made an effort to go out after it rains and have seen a grand total of 2, yes, TWO earth worms this year. I have also noticed far fewer bugs in general around my house. Anyone else noticing anything similar? Thanks.
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Have you asked this question on a local gardening blog?
You can also call you county extension service to see what they have to say and ask for the contact info of the local county master gardener (if you have such a program in MN) to get their opinion.
Local farmers at the farmers' market may have some info too.
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SPS sez… Where are the earthworms?
SP: Sleeping with the fishes (bluefin tuna). In other words… Radiation hits worms in the soil worse than shellfish. That's why the birds are croaking.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/229523-US-Earthworm-Plague-Sweeps-Cincinnati
This worm death plague in a three state grid three months after 311 came after nearly a month of daily rain. How do you spell H-o-t-s-p-o-t?
If researchers looked here at the soil I think they will find ten times the radiation they found in San Francisco.
BTW… The original MSN article about the Ohio worms was removed. Coincidence? I think not.
Also BTW regarding my comments yesterday about about the muttonbirds from New Zealand (estimated population 22 million prior to last years annual trek to Fukushima. Over 7 million failed to return to New Zealand where they breed.
"Recent tagging experiments have shown that birds breeding in New Zealand may travel 74,000 km in a year, reaching Japan, Alaska and California, averaging more than 500 km per day."
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sooty_Shearwater#section_3
SP: The birds rested near Fukushima NPP in late 2011 and were feeding on squid, small fish, and shellfish. I am surprised the New Zealand scientists haven't tested some of the 15 million that made it back in the spring. Maybe they have, but publishing radiation bad news about food sources for the Maori may not be possible in Kiwi land. I thought they are pretty anti-nuke in NZ…
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Two years ago, there was a plague of crickets around here (near Baltimore) this time of year. They got everywhere, and I had to lay traps for them.
Last year, they were much reduced. This year, there haven't been any crickets at all.
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Crickets have played a strong role throughout Chinese, Japanese and Native American cultures as a symbol of good fortune, vitality and prosperity.
I live in Los Angeles county near Malibu and this year we have not had any crickets either. We have had a large amount of crickets in the past. I enjoy hearing their evening cricket "songs" but this year has been silent.
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2 StPaulScout re: insects and worms. I'm in San Francisco Bay Area. Yes, there are far fewer worms and insects here than pre-311. Many, many more dead worms at all times of the year than last year. This year they seem to be crawling out of the soil and dying, even during warm weather. It's like they are trying to escape from something in the soil. I've never seen them emerge from cool, damp soil during hot weather, before.
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Environmental pollution..(nuclear)
"The U.S. Energy Department has begun moving highly radioactive sludge away from the Columbia River in Richland, Wash., the agency announced."
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=ED-20120716-35809-USA
Why the environmantal pollution notice?
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EPA Notice because ""This is a great step toward reducing risk to the Columbia River." HAH! There is a whole BASIN worth of contamination..
BUT by law EPA has to notify community(s) if risk is expected..or possible contamination at certain levels where the contaminates are carried thru..Or so I understand it. Others with environmental law background chime in here..
"..to remove the rest of the sludge from the basin by the end of 2015, the agency said. "This sludge has been stored underwater in the basin for more than 30 years, and today marks a turning point in our cleanup," said Matt McCormick, manager of the Richland Operations Office, in a statement."
So guess this announcement will cover multiple years(2012 thru 2015)???
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The Nuclear industry must have a very good safety track. No reports posted on RSOE or from the NRC about Nuclear incidents in recent months. Not like last year. All must be well.
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might be something to do with this.. lol!
ANS Special Committee on Fukushima Update – Dr. Dale Klein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZOVWLcuE4Yk
"The tsunami design bases for the Fukushima NPPs were inadequate. If the return period for a tsunami of the magnitude experienced in Japan was as short as reported (once every 1000 years), a risk-informed regulatory approach would have identified the existing design bases
as deficient. Although addressing low-probability events
is very difficult, a risk-informed treatment for naturalphenomenon hazards is necessary…"
http://fukushima.ans.org/report/Fukushima_report.pdf
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Fukushima Diary reveals giant slug in Japan following discovery of giant mushroom in B.C.
by Charlie Smith on July 16, 2012 at 11:41 AM
http://www.straight.com/article-733491/vancouver/fukushima-diary-reveals-giant-slug-japan-following-discovery-giant-mushroom-bc
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Japan won't be able to quit nuclear if they join the TPP. Big problem! The system is conveniently set-up for the US so that they can keep the Japanese NPP going and to be able to trade GM food freely. Evil!
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jcp.or.jp%2Fakahata%2Faik11%2F2011-11-16%2F2011111603_01_1.html&act=url
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Looks like they are laying the groundwork to back off some this-ain't-nuthin' claims slowly … http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/17/report-fukushima-radiation-could-kill-more-than-1000
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Finland starts uranium mining:
"On 1 March, the Government granted permission to Helsinki Talvivaara mining and processing of uranium.
Environment Minister and his Niinistö Greens were overruled by the cabinet members of a conservative-liberal coalition majority. Euratom has given the green light, but environmentalists are trying to stop the uranium project still in court and using petitions.
With an estimated annual production of 350-500 tons of uranium Talvivaara would in fact be Europe's largest uranium mine. And this, without having been discussed in principle in Finland ever, whether the country should ever become a uranium producer.
The nuclear and uranium lobby has used the back door. "Entirely surprising" they found that the nickel ore mined in Talvivaara contains such a high percentage of uranium that is worth obtaining, said the operator Society 2010.
In fact, back in the 1970s the local uranium deposits have been mapped by geologists and appeared in 1981 in the IAEA and OECD statistics. With the Canadian Cameco there is already a willing provider who wants to process the raw material for use in nuclear fuel rods. Talvivaara and could soon be everywhere in Northern Finland: a veritable patchwork of mineable quantities spread out over Finnish Lapland."
http://www.taz.de/Ressourcen-in-Finnland/!97415/
*No shame. None. Nowhere.
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The New US Nuclear Propaganda Weapon – Women
The US nuclear industry’s lobbyists, NEI have a new tactic up their sleeve. Using women to convince the public how “safe” nuclear power is.
The NEI sponsored WINUS conference is going on now in Florida at Disneyworld.
The existence of a women’s professional group for those working in the nuclear industry isn’t much of a big deal. The emerging tactic found weaving
through the twitter posts for the conference hashtag were. Using women as the messenger of an industry’s propaganda is pretty tasteless.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=6809
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hi MaidenHeaven – I've been noticing this tactic is already established.. Any search for ANuS videos on youtube will mostly show a female presenter.
Starting from the ages of 4 and 7 if would seem ..
2:23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGJK1qQ3Cxs
"A nuclear/aerospace engineer with three daughters plays a game with the two older girls that has resulted in them learning the periodic table. "
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Wow – that's a subtle one. Is it healthy education or nasty indoctrination or both or neither?
I learned the elements from Tom Lehrer in what now seems like such an innocent era. Stuck with me for decades, but I have no memory of how they were presented in high school Science classes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM
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Enformable Nuclear News has been going through the leaked e-mails from March etc. RE: Fukushima with various agencies. I will just post the site link so that you can go through them.
http://enformable.com/
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Thanks, MaidenHeaven. That's quite the stash. Chilling stuff.
"March 25th, 2011 – If we disagree we will say so, but once the decision is made we are good little soldiers and march on."
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March 16th, 2011 –
"…No matter what, it is vital that everyone stays on same page regarding the facts,
even as the situation worsens in Japan,
The experts assure us that and I quote the NRC, “You just aren’t going to have any radiological material that, by the time it traveled those large distances, could present any risk to the American public.”
So that means, we should continue to talk about the many ways we are assisting the Japanese and the American citizens in Japan. DOE, NRC, HHS, DOD and State are all doing a great deal IN JAPAN and should continue to make sure folks know that.
We should also talk about the steps we are taking here at home…."
http://enformable.com/2012/07/march-16th-2011-no-matter-what-it-is-vital-that-everyone-stays-on-same-page-regarding-the-facts-even-as-the-situation-worsens-in-japan/
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Arc, are these the scanned copies of the actual e-mails, from the first week or so? Yes, agreed, those were chilling. The ones from the IAEA were also, ahem, interesting, to say the least.
The only thing I don't recall them saying was, "we must present a united front." Although that was the gist of most of the communication.
"Circle the wagons, boys," as they supposedly said in the U.S., in the Wild West days.
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Excuse me, Maiden Heaven is correct. It was the British government, not the IAEA. Very creepy.
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You are welcome & yes very creepy…more e-mails from the British government.
http://enenews.com/leaked-emails-show-british-govt-worked-with-nuke-industry-on-pr-campaign-to-downplay-fukushima-degree-of-collusion-truly-shocking
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Doing a little backtracking tonight on the May 2012 report on radiation dose estimation by the WHO (who as we know when it comes to any nuclear health issues they turn into the little bastard step-children for the nuclear cabal).
Of interest to me was not the brouhaha prior to final publishing over their initial high rates of contamination of infants which they lowered after the Japanese government complained and provided new cooked books of fresh "data" (fake shit of course), but the nuggets of information about a couple of things.
Aussies and other On the Beach southern hemisphere folks will be interested in page 42 about the estimated percentage of fallout from Japan crossing the barrier into the lower globe (15%) and when exactly they first discovered Fukushima radiation in the lower countries (April 2011).
On page 43 read how sloppy their research was on tap water. Just atrocious for such a prestigious bunch of nuclear eggheads to whitewash and dismiss the dangers completely.
Some of these scientists are the same bastards who traveled to Belarus 26 years after Chernobyl and avoided visiting the hot spots, brought their own food and water, and then proclaimed all was well, the area was so much better, no medical problems. These naked apes have the compassion of a serial killer.
Check it out yourself:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2012/9789241503662_eng.pdf
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3 more DPJ members to quit as nuclear power issue fractures party further
House of Councillors members, from left, Yasue Funayama, Kuniko Tanioka and Kuniko Koda speak to reporters at a news conference in Tokyo on July 17. (Mainichi)
拡大写真
Three more sitting Diet members of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) have announced they are leaving the party, not over the consumption tax hike bill that led to the defection of former leader Ichiro Ozawa and his followers, but over the government's decision to restart nuclear reactors.
"If the administration of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says it will take responsibility for the restarts, then we want the government to take responsibility for stabilizing the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant reactors as well," said House of Councillors member Kuniko Tanioka at a July 17 news conference. "The administration's use of the word 'responsibility' is altogether too flippant."
The departure of Tanioka and fellow upper house members Yasue Funayama and Kuniko Koda points to smoldering differences within the DPJ not just over the tax hike bills passed by the House of Representatives against stiff opposition from the Ozawa camp, but over the issue of nuclear power in Japan.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120718p2a00m0na010000c.html
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Sizewell B nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast has had its second automatic shutdown in four months.
Owner EDF Energy said electricity production had ceased at 17:11 BST on Wednesday and it was investigating the cause of the stoppage.
A spokesman said: "The reactor was safely shut down, with the plant responding as expected and at no time was anyone's safety at risk."
The plant had an 11-day automatic stoppage in March.
EDF said it was not predicting when the plant would begin generating again.
The company said the March shutdown had been the first automatic one in three years and was for an electrical fault in the non-nuclear side of the plant.
There was a controlled stoppage in May to fix a lubrication problem.
EDF Energy said Sizewell B produced enough electricity for two million homes, or about 3% the UK's electricity needs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-18899367
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Nearly 36pc of Fukushima children diagnosed with abnormal thyroid growths
Nearly 36 percent of children in Fukushima Prefecture have been disgnosed with abnormal growths on their thyroids, although doctors insist there is no link between the "cluster" of incidents and the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in March of last year.
[By Julian Ryall in Tokyo6:14AM BST 19 Jul 2012]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/9410702/Nearly-36pc-of-Fukushima-children-diagnosed-with-abnormal-thyroid-growths.html
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Radiation in Russia
http://optimalprediction.com/wp/radiation-in-russia/
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Radioactive Blueberries Found in Moscow Region
Health inspectors have discovered radioactive blueberries on sale in a Moscow region market, local officials have said.
Inspectors from the local animal disease control center found blueberries giving off more than nine times the recommended limit of radiation at the Bazaar food market in Solnechnogorsk, northwest of Moscow, Interfax reported Thursday…
It was not clear where the berries came from or how they were contaminated, but the veterinary department said the owners of the the berries claimed to have purchased them from a company called “Vegetta,” based in the town of Dolgoprudny in the Khlebnikov district.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/radioactive-blueberries-found-in-moscow-region/462361.html
Dolgoprudny is just north of Moscow.
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friday night is protest night….On 7/18/2012, former Japanese prime minister Hatoyama Yukio stated he is going to take part in the protest in front of (his former) official residence in the interview of Iwakami Yasumi.
The protest is planned to start in 15 minutes from now.
Hatoyama commented, most of the major media try to ignore the protest, but it started independently by using Twitter etc.
This is a historical event, if the government keeps ignoring it, that would become such a disaster for the government.
He admitted he is against the restart of Ohi nuclear plant.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/07/ajisai-revolution-ex-pm-hatoyama-will-join-the-protest-in-front-of-official-residence/
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Same place, same time:
•Areas around PM Official Residence and government ministries in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo
•6PM to 8PM
Yasumi Iwakami's IWJ USTREAM channels:
Ch1—Yasumi Iwakami, in front of the National Diet Building
Ch3—21:30- Aerial video (if it's raining, from the car)
Ch4—at the Diet Press Club building
Ch5—at PM Official Residence, front line
Ch6—at "Family Area"
Ch7—around Ministry of Finance
Ch8—at Ministry of Economy, Annex [That's where NISA is.]
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http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/its-friday-and-protest-is-on-rain-or.html
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saikado hantei!!!
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Yasumi Iwakami, in front of the National Diet Building
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwakamiyasumi
21:30- Aerial video (if it's raining, from the car)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwakamiyasumi3
at the Diet Press Club building
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwakamiyasumi4
at PM Official Residence, front line
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwakamiyasumi5
at "Family Area"
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwj6
around Ministry of Finance
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwj7 (bad sound)
at Ministry of Economy, Annex [That's where NISA is.]
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwj8
all working well
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i love the weekends..
@ admin we need a "kick tepguv butt" protest thread to direct some attentions to!! please..
oh and henry has some comments on the beach party …
Fukushima beach reopens to the public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpojNYuY1lo
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He included a link to the article, which said that the reading was 1 bq per litre of seawater. So if each person's personal space in the water if he justs stands there is about, let me grab a number…100 litres??…does that mean his exposure is actually 100 bq? pardon my ignorance…this is a safe level? Last year I posted regarding the tragedy that the beaches were empty when they should be filled with happy people. In the light of this ongoing debacle I was astounded to hear of this reopening.
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hi crystal wind
i read reports that there was no bequerels too.. it might be that they read under detectable levels as under 1 bq/l..
interesting point you make about accumulating bequerels to surface area..
the dose equations used by nuke corp are staggeringly complicated and based on the icrp model..
i feel the real problem would be inhaled particulates or swallowing just a small amount of the wrong isotope..
such as Mn54
an isotope that is a large part of the shut down of a reactor..
actually 83 percent
page 41
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/pdf/fdm1412.pdf
found here (higher in sea sediment than in water)
Definite Results of Nuclides Analysis at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Announced on June 16- 30, 2012)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/2012sampling/kakuhou_120720-e.pdf
higher amounts were found in the previous month.. so where is it gone?? as well as the Ag110m..
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/2012sampling/kakuhou_120704-e.pdf
and thats not all
the cesium levels were up to 1000 bq/l if i read these charts right.. wheres that coming from… and of course you cant beleieve the figures given.. they will be on the low side "statictically"
page 11 on this shows the 1000 bq/l rise
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/2012sampling/intake_canal_120721-j.pdf
wonder where thats coming from??
oh and theres this too Mn54 the facts..
cont
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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/researchlab/radlaser/RSDS_sheets/Mn-54.pdf
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Thanks, arclight. AdobeReader tells me your second link (120720)has a damaged file and can't be repaired, so I couldn't open it, otherwise, I was going to compare lists with the other month's readings. You know this field, I don't. That is curious indeed: your questions about cesium rise…where did it come from? and Ag/Mn decrease…where has it gone? Thank you for your input and data, esp. the thought about what's being ingested.
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hi crystal
the link is working for me.. maybe a temporary web glitch??
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the thyroid doctors are not aware of the true situation in japan..
this article speaks volumes…
Media’s strange silence on thyroid abnormalities in Fukushima children
We also spoke with Dr. Bryan Haugen, president-elect of the American Thyroid Association and head of endocrinology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who hadn’t heard of the report before we contacted him.
Haugen agreed with the Caldicott’s assessment that it is surprising for kids to “have this many nodules and cysts seen, especially this soon after the accident,” and the fact that “this something that is not more widely known.”
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/07/20/medias-strange-silence-on-thyroid-abnormalities-in-fukushima-children/
this is a staggering rlevation on how effective nuke censorship has been.. and its been aimed at health proffessionals too!!
caldicott has been vindicated once again!!
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Non-NPP source for medical-use isotopes (2 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDV3AIb5agg
Safer…cheaper…easy to produce in each hospital…can't be used for WMD.
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300 radioactive Japanese cars stopped at Russian border
http://www.rt.com/news/radioactive-japanese-cars-russian-border-624/
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The people who tried to export them will probably now resort to plan B, melting them down and sending them as scrap metal to India.
There's not going to be any end to this in the foreseeable future.
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articla says: "Since the mission’s inception, experts have checked 500,000 shipments, 908 ships, 473 aircraft and more than '42,000 people' that have arrived from Japan." What do their authorities do with a person that's too radioactive? Grind the poor traveler up into pet food and ship to India?
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What do we think of this? A camera that can photograph radiation.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/07/tepcos-space-age-decon-tool-can.html
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"General Electric Co on Friday reported a 2.5 percent rise in profit from continuing operations"
Ya, disasters are very profitable…
"topping Wall Street expectations"
I'm surprised!
"as solid demand in the United States and emerging markets offset weakness in Europe."
Yes, two new plants and those star wars medical imaging devices.
Killer sales job there…
And I guess the EU sales are gettin sour.
Fool me once…
And if anyone's wondering if it's really all GE-Hitachi that carries the larger blame for industrial nuclear crimes.
One word, patents…
(Reuters) – General Electric Co on Friday reported a 2.5 percent rise in profit from continuing operations, topping Wall Street expectations, as solid demand in the United States and emerging markets offset weakness in Europe.
The largest U.S. conglomerate by revenue stuck with its forecast for the rest of 2012, saying it would increase earnings at a double-digit percentage rate by pushing profit margins higher.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/20/us-ge-results-idUSBRE86J0FE20120720
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China plans to build five new nuclear plants in great britain…
http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Fchina-will-in-grossbritannien-fuenf-akw-bauen-a-845634.html
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Enenews have you put any thought into opening your own tv station on you tube, the time is right, you have many educated followers who know their fields, with their help we should be on air 24-7, I have lots of ideas news, weather, report
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''Radiation causing mutations''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLrMS_zs1kE
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The Malaysia Nuclear Power Corporation (MNPC), has identified seven sites for twin-unit nuclear power plants.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/ngos-govt-secretly-pushing-nuclear-plants-051816205.html
The petition to STOP NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN MALAYSIA
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/745/599/785/public-petition-to-stop-nuclear-power-plants-in-malaysia/
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“The U.S. Department of Energy has testified that there is no level of radiation that is so low that it is without health risks,” Jacqueline Cabasso, the Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation, told Al Jazeera.
Cabasso explained that natural background radiation exists, “But more than 2,000 nuclear tests have enhanced this background radiation level, so we are already living in an artificially radiated environment due to all the nuclear tests.”
“Karl Morgan, who worked on the Manhattan project, later came out against the nuclear industry when he understood the danger of low levels of ionizing radiation-and he said there is no safe dose of radiation exposure,” Cabasso continued, “That means all this talk about what a worker or the public can withstand on a yearly basis is bogus. There is no safe level of radiation exposure. These so-called safe levels are coming from within the nuclear establishment.”
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Gofman and Tamplin documented that low levels of radiation can cause cancer and other diseases, and they argued that federal safety guidelines for low-level exposures should be reduced by 90 percent.
A military briefing written by the U.S. Army for commanders in Iraq states:
Hazards from low level radiation are long-term, not acute effects… Every exposure increases risk of cancer.
~You & I are the acceptable risk, Army commanders & those that think they are better do NOT take that acceptable risk.~
That the radiation is being released 5,000 miles away isn’t as comforting as it seems…. Every day, the jet stream carries pollution from Asian smoke stacks and dust from the Gobi Desert to our West Coast, contributing 10 to 60 percent of the total pollution breathed by Californians, depending on the time of year. Mercury is probably the second most toxic substance known after plutonium. Half the mercury in the atmosphere over the entire US originates in China. It, too, is 5,000 miles away. A week after a nuclear weapons test in China, iodine 131 could be detected in the thyroid glands of deer in Colorado, although it could not be detected in the air or in nearby vegetation.
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The Endocrine Society, 14,000 researchers and medical specialists in more than 100 countries, warned that “even infinitesimally low levels of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, indeed, any level of exposure at all, may cause endocrine or reproductive abnormalities, particularly if exposure occurs during a critical developmental window.
Surprisingly, low doses may even exert more potent effects than higher doses.” If hormone-mimicking chemicals at any level are not safe for a fetus, then the concept is likely to be equally true of the even more intensely toxic radioactive elements drifting over from Japan, some of which may also act as endocrine disruptors.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/low-level-doses-of-radiation-can-cause-big-problems.html
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Ionizing radiation includes beta particles, alpha particles, gamma rays, and x-rays;
Beta particles are electrons — but they differ from the ordinary non-beta electrons in the human body in one important way. Beta particles are endowed with biologically unnatural energy. This energy causes them to travel through the cell (and beyond) at high speed, like tiny bullets.
The biological damage caused by ionizing radiation, including gamma rays and x-rays, is due to high-speed particles traveling through cells and unloading concentrated amounts of energy in unnatural places at random. Each particle creates a very narrow path of disturbance (called a primary "ionization track") as it unloads energy at irregular intervals.
Conclusion: It is factually wrong to believe or to claim that no harm has ever been proven from very low-dose radiation. On the contrary. Existing human evidence shows cancer-induction by radiation at and near the lowest possible dose and dose-rate with respect to cell-nuclei. By any reasonable standard of scientific proof, such evidence demonstrates that there is no safe dose or dose-rate below which dangers disappear. No threshold-dose. Serious, lethal effects from minimal radiation doses are not "hypothetical," "just theoretical," or "imaginary." They are real.
http://www.ratical.com/radiation/CNR/NoSafeThresh.html
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10-year forecast Pacific Ocean spreading radioactivity Fukushima Cesium Dispersed Pacific Ocean (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAU00aL-_ic&feature=youtu.be
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Incredible video CB
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Whoopie posted it earlier today on Twitter, I was waiting for it to come over.
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I'm battling away at MIT's Lessons Learned
The thread is active and so anyone who has some data worth sharing there should post
http://www.technologyreview.com/notebook/428209/lesson-learned/#lf_comment=32444352
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got your back majia
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Thank you Richard!
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it's beautiful to see all the anti-nuke replies. I'm sure that professor must be wondering what he unleashed
we are a force when we all move in on a forum. this army of anti-nukers can just swamp a pro-nuker and spread our information far and wide on _their_ platform.
great work friends, let's do this more often.
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Well I messed that up.
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majia
July 23, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Thank you Majia. I have.
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Great job!
It is a beautiful thread.
I wonder how long before MIT takes it down….
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George Yoshitake, Nuclear Test Photographer, Recalls Filming Nuclear Blast 55 Years Ago (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Timothy Stenovec Posted: 07/20/2012 9:37 am Updated: 07/21/2012 4:37 pm
****When the countdown reaches zero, one of the jets releases a missile tipped with a nuclear warhead.
"We felt a heat pulse," a narrator says. "A very bright light — a fireball. It is red. The sky looks black about it. It is boiling above us…"****
****It wasn't until after the test that Yoshitake found out he was making a propaganda film meant to demonstrate the safety of nuclear explosions.
"It was a publicity stunt to show the American public how safe it was during an atomic bomb," Yoshitake told CBS, "and if there was a war or something, with atomic bombs going off, that it was going to be safe for the general public."****
****Yoshitake said that of the six who were there that day, only he and Luttrell are still alive.
All of them were diagnosed with cancer at one time or another, CBS reports, although Yoshitake said that after chemotherapy and surgery last year for stomach cancer, he's now healthy.
Yoshitake said he knows a lot of cameramen who filmed nuclear tests died of cancer, adding that he's not certain it was related to the blasts.****
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/george-yoshitake-nuclear-test-five-5-men-nevada_n_1687233.html?utm_hp_ref=science
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Suffice it to say there are many incidences that can relate the development of cancer to much earlier exposures to radiation. But still no "proof." The Atomic Energy Commission and subsequent Nuclear Regulatory Commission have done their jobs well. In reality, you can't prove the cancer isn't related, and you can't prove it is. All you know, is that radiation can and does cause cancer. And per John Gofman, PhD, MD, all cancers are due to radiation. That would include natural and man-made forms of radiation.
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This is made ever more complex because a person's cancer could be caused by past radiation damage to their grandparents' germ line cells…
Maybe we've already accumulated enough genetic damage to make reproduction impossible in future generations…
I'm fascinated by genetic mosaicism…
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Majia, have been wondering if radiation works in the human body in any manner similar to how GMO's impact the genetic material of human beings. Am thinking on an energetic level, wondering if there is any similarity. That is, a GMO can trigger the DNA in the body to make the cells start producing pesticides. GMO's literally change the manner by which the DNA tells the cells to do their jobs.
I wonder if the information traveling between cells/DNA about radiation in the body (and causing the body to literally damage itself in a distant area) is similar to how cells communicate about the "instructions" given by GMO gene splice material.
Am not sure how to articulate my thought process. Would you please suggest some reading on the Mosaic Effect? Thanks.
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Nuclear event in New Jersey USA on Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 at 03:05 (03:05 AM) UTC.
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The Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township was shut down early today after a power failure, according to plant owner Exelon. Electrical service from the outside grid was disrupted at around 3:41 a.m., and the plant’s emergency diesel generators kicked in and powered the plant’s safety systems, said a statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The problem appeared to be a grounded 230-kilovolt line, according to the NRC. Jersey Central Power & Light crews fixed the problem a little after 5:30 a.m., Exelon said. Afterwards the plant was taken to cold shutdown, in which the reactor and associated systems are cooled down and depressurized, according to the NRC. The plant will likely start up again in a matter of days, said Exelon spokeswoman Suzanne D’Ambrosio. “We make sure the plant is shut down and cooled down and then if there’s any little maintenance we need to do we may take advantage of down time to do that,” D’Ambrosio said. “Obviously with the hot summer it’s in our best interest to get running as soon as possible, but it’s a very slow and deliberate process.” Oyster Creek produces 636 megawatts of electricity at full power, enough electricity for about 600,000 homes.
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So does this sort of unexpected shut down typically result in the dumping of (tritium-laden) steam?
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The Watchers~
Nuclear power plant in New Jersey offline after power failure http://bit.ly/Mkl644
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Soaring costs for new nuclear power leave UK govt with a dilemma
"..Strike price key to new nuclear plants FT.com By Guy Chazan and Rebecca Bream, 23 July 12, When the Blair government first backed the idea of a new generation of nuclear plants in 2007, energy companies insisted they could build them without any public subsidy. Five years later, that claim seems painfully naive.
In the intervening years, the cost of new reactors has risen so fast that constructing them without any government support has become unthinkable.
The evidence for this change is not hard to find. The first two new reactors to be built in Europe for decades, at Flamanville in France and Olkiluoto in Finland, have suffered repeated delays and ballooning costs, with safety changes in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan a key factor. Flamanville’s pricetag is almost double its original budget of €3.3bn and it is four years behind schedule…"
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/07/24/soaring-costs-for-new-nuclear-power-leave-uk-govt-with-a-dilemma/
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Gee Whiz billionaires gambling on new untested Integral Fast Reactors
"Virgin Nuclear? Branson asks Obama for reactor help. Sir Richard v Bill Gates? Smart Planet, By Mark Halper | July 23, 2012, Flamboyant British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has written to President Barack Obama seeking help commercializing an alternative type of nuclear reactor known as an Integral Fast Reactor……"
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/07/24/billionaires-gambling-on-new-untested-integral-fast-reactors/
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A tiny AP article about a huge problem for future generations:
''NRC holding public meeting over MOX plant''
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/ap/south-carolina/nrc-holding-public-meeting-over-mox-plant/nP2q8/
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no way! it just gets dumber….
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A newsflash from the NEI:
''Stanford Fukushima Impact Study Bears Flawed Analysis, Is Premature''
http://www.nei.org/newsandevents/newsreleases/stanford-fukushima-impact-study-bears-flawed-analysis-is-premature/
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France’s radium craze still haunts Paris:
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/news/france-s-radium-craze-still-haunts-paris-1.1347324#.UA6bY9FT_Z4
Trying to imagine women with radium on their lips..
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10 Radioactive Products That People Actually Used
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/10-radioactive-products-that-people-actually-used/1388?image=0
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Am considering talking with people representing sister cities in Japan. Nirasaki, Chubu is my cities' sister city. Am thinking partnering with someone there might be a good means of finding out how their area has been affected by the earthquake tsunami (indirectly), and Fukushima. Nirasaki appears to be southeast of Tokyo, so it's some distance from Fukushima and possibly Tokyo contamination.
Would like to know if people as far away as Nirasaki have been impacted by the Fukushima accident.
Just an idea I'd like to float out there for anyone who might be interested in partnering with someone through the Sister Cities program.
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city's sister city, that is.
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Another idea: FUNDRAISERS to aid Fukushima children, and help provide much needed medical care to those impacted by the Fukushima accident. This is an incipient idea, just in beginning stages.
Will post more details at "Political Events" area in Forum.
Have some ideas and met with one of the owners of Dharma Trading Co. of San Rafael, Calif. yesterday. He'll work with any groups interested in doing fundraisers. Dharma Trading imports beautiful, high quality T-Shirts, scarves, and a full line of high quality, non-toxic dyes and artist's supplies.
Idea: have T-shirt design workshops or parties in local areas. Teach people to do tie dye and special dying techniques for a small fee. They design the T-shirts and can take them home. (They're beautiful when done.)
Or have Ikat dying workshops taught by a Japanese person. Part of fees for classes to go to Fukushima relief fund.
Issues: organization, communication, liaisoning between Japanese persons in U.S., suppliers like Dharma Trading, finding trustworthy persons to distribute the money in Japan and handle trust fund accounts. Developing teams to put on workshops on the ground. Accountability of all participants in handling monies, and representing the concept of Fundraiser events properly, i.e., what do we want to communicate? Why are we educating? Agreement of all participants on desired outcome of Funraisers.
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FUNRAISERS — Freudian slip? FUNDRAISERS. Would really enjoy being on the ground to do S.F. Bay Area fundraisers. Also have experience coordinating teams. Would like to help facilitate a "master plan" of some sort (flexible of course) so we can begin doing fundraisers in our local community.
For me, it's logical to begin with T-Shirt design parties and classes. Probably a good idea to have a speaker explain at some point why the class and fundraiser are being done, or have literature at a table there.
Also have a cousin in Denver who has had a T-Shirt design company for over 30 years. He might be able to facilitate printing of Fukushima T-Shirts for sale.
Would need lots and lots of help to get these things going. Would just like to float this as an idea to see if anyone is interested. For me, San Francisco, S.F. East Bay, Sonoma County, Napa County, and even Sacramento area are logical participants.
San Francisco has a large "Japan Town" and Japanese Cultural Center. Perhaps we here in Calif. could partner with them.
Please write to me at HoTaters@hush.com to discuss ideas. Am thinking we need to find a 503c organization (or organizations) or that kind of counterpart organization in Japan. Lots of "logistical" and organizational details to work out. But am thinking this is a great grassroots way we can have fun, educate people, and provide financial relief to people in Japan.
Your ideas please?
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BTW, what ideas do you have out there for Fukushima T-Shirts?
Please send them to HoTaters@hush.com if you're willing to share your ideas for the common good.
Any graphic designers and artists? I know you're lurking out there! At least one of us is an artist. I'm a painter, graphics, block printing, fiber arts, and music type (aside from the other worldly work things I've done).
Ready to move forward with making a positive change here, and supporting the people in Japan. Pls. let me know if you think we need to partner with others, so we're not "re-inventing the wheel" every time we do something.
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Request: please contact me re: interest in Dharma Trading Co. so that we can coordinate this, and not swamp them with too many requests right away.
HoTaters@hush.com Put something in the subject line identifying why you are writing to me, thanks.
The idea is to make a coordinated effort. Better to have one person as the point of contact with them, at first. Not that I want to run things, but until we decide who is the "front person" and point of contact for liaison with Dharma Trading, please let me work with them directly on our behalf.
Dharma Trading will provide support in helping to organize the fundraisers (i.e., the methods groups have using working with them in the past). And they'll coordinate in supplies, etc. Nice group of people.
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OK, over to "Upcoming Meetings, Political Activities" area of Forum with this. Just wanted to let people know I'm starting to work on this, and see if there is interest. Or please tell me if you're already doing something like this.
Thanks, HoTaters, and hope you all have a blessed day.
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