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*VIDEO* Shelter Takes In And Helps Deformed Cat
Mar 22, 2012
A Fargo animal rescue has taken in a cat with a twisted story. His name is Corky, and he was born with an abnormality that fits his name.
"He's a sweet little boy and took all of our hearts real quickly," says Gail Ventzke with CATS Cradle Shelter.
"I just love him. He just reaches deep into your heart,"
Every animal that comes through CATS Cradle's doors touches Gail and Carol's souls.
Gail says, "We were almost in tears when we saw him."
"We bundled him up in our arms immediately and said he's ours," says Carol.
If it weren't for the shelter, Corky was destined to be put down. He's like any other cat up top, but on his bottom half you can see where he gets his name. A birth defect caused his legs to criss cross and turn around.
Carol says, "As far as …
http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/17232851/shelter-takes-in-deformed-cat#.T4TRQ0DmsDc.care2
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Wanted to put this down, … Young friend 18 years old, her pet name is "Little Bit" ! … Fit & Healthy and two months along had a miscarriage !
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I am sooo sorry xdrfox!
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I'm so sorry, xdrfox!
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Thx u two, I'll pass both of yours along to her with mine, she has been indoors with her sister being consoled for days, she was looking forward to this baby so !
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The following are excerpts taken from:
http://enenews.com/asahi-cesium-172-times-govt-limit-miyagi-tea-will-health-problems-after-being-consumed-radiation-professor-1100-already-sold
majia
April 13, 2012 at 10:30 pm · Reply
Sorry for the non-sequitor but I wanted to tell you Sickputer about the outbreak of stomach problems in Phoenix.
Severe stomach pain and, to a lesser extent, other GI symptoms lasting from days to weeks.
The strange thing is that they can come and go.
They've been severe enough that people are going to the doctor but no diagnosis of flu has been given yet.
One young man I know lost 20 pounds over a few weeks of this.
No diagnosis.
Please tell me that there is NO WAY this could be radiation.
I am hoping it is a hard-to-diagnose flu.
Am I over-reacting here?
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What-About-The-Kids
April 13, 2012 at 10:51 pm · Reply
Majia, I would definitely say you are NOT over-reacting. After having spent the last month coughing violently, with a virulent cold virus (sinus infection and bronchitis), I can personally attest to the fact that I have never been so sick in my life. I am only just now starting to get some energy back, but it has been slow going. (Sadly, I am also mourning the passing of my dear mother, so it's been especially difficult for me.)
Living in Seattle, with relatives and friends in N. and S. California as well, I have heard too many similar health issues this past year which proves to me our…
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NoNukes,
Hsd a lot of that in March, April and May last year,
GI symptoms about every day each time I would eat and afterwards ! yuk !
So sorry about the passing your mother !
Was it quick or unexspected ?
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Thanks, Dr. Fox. Actually, it was my mother who had passed away in March. NoNukes was just copying a super-long discussion from a different thread which many of us were having last night about so many health issues we've either experienced or heard about since 3/11.
In that discussion, I discussed how my elderly mother, who had been a general good health prior, had a stroke and started to have kidney failure in June last year. She lived next door to Anaheim (California) where the highest levels of 1-131 anywhere in the U.S. were found, and she lived 20 miles south of L.A. where the EPA found 1-131 in the drinking water in April.
So I know intuitively, and based on this information from the EPA, that my mother's stroke was caused by her exposure to Fuku fallout.
After that, her health continued to decline over the past year and she passed away almost a year to the day that the radioactive, MOX-filled plume from the nuclear explosion in Reactor #3's SFP reached the West Coast. 
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What-About-The-Kids,
Yes, WE KNOW many of us felt the effects and the loss of life last year was up some 64,000 more then normal !
Many of us younger people of age felt the effects for months in many ways so it was not our hypochondria !
We are not stupid that have been paying attention and see the murders being committed for lack of honesty by them sworn to protect us under the Constitution, that makes them traders !
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and I read the other comments after I posted !
Love !
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Thanks so much, Dr. Fox. I was hesitant to post this information at first, not wanting to seem like I was fear mongering, and I am a pretty private person as well. But I finally decided that by acting as a witness to what I've experienced and hear about, it might possibly be of help, to someone, somewhere…
I was so humbled and felt so much love and support by everyone's response to my postings last night. Thank you for your kind support as well. xoxo
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Jeff, contact me !
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xdrfox, sorry about the confusion, and sorry about your GI symptoms last year. I had the same pain, what seemed like an ulcer last September for the first time ever, and then it came back mid/late March.
Both times "Mastic Gum" helped it heal quickly. I got it from Amazon. Just in case you ever have it again.
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NoNukes,
Thx, I think we all need to stock up and read the FORUM: Methods for combating radiation and its effects, http://enenews.com/forum-best-practices-combating-effects-radiation
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What-About-The-Kids
April 13, 2012 at 11:22 pm · Reply
1. In April and June last year, during the Fuku fallout, my child had two anaphalaxic type reactions after playing outdoors and after going berry picking. My child had NEVER had any such issues or allergies previously.
2. At various times since Fuku, I have felt my tongue tingling and my body have strange pulsing pains in various organs and muscles, after eating various foods. They were especially strong last spring/summer, but I also felt like I had eaten hot coals for several weeks in the fall as well. I seem to be always tired and have never felt like this in my life.
3. In June last year, my elderly mother who was in general good health suffered a stroke and started to show signs of kidney failure…both are symptoms which radiation exposure can cause. My mother lived in the city just next door to Anaheim, which had the highest I-131 levels and Los Angeles (20 miles north) had 1-131 in their drinking water.
4. My mother and sister (in N. CA) both had pneumonia in January and February. My brother in S. CA had it last year as well. NO ONE in our family has ever had pneumonia.
5. My niece, her husband and toddler in N. CA all had the same virulent cold bug I had and kept having relapses for over a month. Her husband still was coughing after back-to-back regimen of antibiotics.
6. My doctor prescribed a double strength antibiotic for my sinus infection/bronchitis and my child's doctor prescribed an ADULT…
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Thanks for copying all this discussion to this thread, so it won't get buried, NoNukes.
The end of my sentence got cut off: the doctor prescribed an adult dose of antibiotics for my child due to this virulent strain of the cold virus/sinus infection/bronchitis our family came down with.
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Sorry to hear of your families health problems…I wonder how many folks in Europe went through these health problems after Chernobyl?
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Thank you so much, Many Moons. I know the good people of Chernobyl suffered greatly and are still suffering. I know my health experiences after Fuku are far less than what the poor Japanese people are experiencing (except for those in the States who have had strokes or heart attacks, etc.). My heart goes out to them, and to the people affected by Chernobyl. Their lives are forever changed, and the damage to the DNA will continue to show up in generations to come.
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What-About-The-Kids
April 14, 2012 at 12:29 am · Reply
Thank you so much, No Nukes. I am so sorry to hear about your family's health issues too. My sister and her family live in the Bay Area too, and have been having the drug resistent bronchitis issue too,
I forgot to mention about skin issues. I have always had healthy skin, but since Fuku, I too have had strange blister-like occurrences on isolated spots on my skin, that when lightly scratched, the surface layer comes off easily and leaves red,raw skin exposed. These take weeks to heal in some cases. The first occurred last May, while sitting in the sun and a blister appeared. I scratched it, and the melanin (colored layer) never grew back, but a scar appeared that is basically bumpy, scaley skin. The other strange occurrences include a burned off area of skin on my calf after playing in a January 16 snowfall. I had pants and boots on, so not sure how my skin got exposed…but was shocked later than evening when, while sitting in bed, I looked down to see my raw, red skin exposed…It took several weeks to heal and left scar tissue. Also, several times after taking a shower, a red area will show up on my skin and again, scratching it leaves a red, raw exposed layer of skin underneath. What is going on?
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Bobby1
April 14, 2012 at 12:44 am · Reply
What-About-The-Kids,
"Also, several times after taking a shower, a red area will show up on my skin and again, scratching it leaves a red, raw exposed…
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NoNukes
April 14, 2012 at 1:06 am · Reply
That sounds kind of like my daughter's skin. Anytime in the water (even 2-3 minutes) her skin starts to itch, leaving red marks. The thing that helps more than anything is staying out of the water.
Her skin also has fluid filled little bumps, after a while they bleed and take a long time to heal. The doctor said dermatitis, but that means nothing. She is allergic to iodine, so is iodine 131 or 129 in the water?
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What-About-The-Kids
April 14, 2012 at 1:23 am · Reply
I wish I could wave a magic wand and make your daughter's skin issues disappear. Maybe like Bobby1 says, the bumps are signs the body's immune system is working hard to clear out any bad stuff. Children seem to bounce back so much quicker than adults, so I hope her skin issues heal soon.
Your description of water-filled bumps seems to fit my skin issues as well. They seem fluid-filled, as the skin feels almost moist and that is why the top layer comes off so easily when I scratch it…? Like a blister, I guess.
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Bobby1
April 14, 2012 at 1:34 am
The top layer is where the iodine, cesium and plutonium is, when the skin comes in contact with radionuclides from air or water. It sloughs off like a snake shedding its skin, or you have got to scratch it, and then it comes off.
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Sharp2197
April 14, 2012 at 3:53 am · Reply
NoNukes I am 50 and grew up in Wyoming and Colorado, I get the same skin problems you describe several times a year, for over 30 years now, I always thought it was allergies, but it may be from down-winders from the nevada testing.
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Sharp2197
April 14, 2012 at 4:28 am
Tiny, angry, red bumps that itch like crazy, you scratch till open puss, then bleeding, over a month to heal, the shower feels like fire. and inflames the red dots. 3 to 5 times a year for over 30 years now. I have laid in bed with socks on my hands so I dont scratch myself to death by morning. wishing for the end.
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What-About-The-Kids
April 14, 2012 at 12:17 am · Reply
Sorry for the break in my reply. I had to pick my child up from practice.
More incidents to report:
7. There is a whooping cough epidemic in WA state. Hundreds more cases than last year.
8. My ex-brother in law in So. CA (inland and north of San Onofre), late 50's, had a heart attack last December (thankfully, he's ok) and was diagnosed with diabetes (again, organ failure and heart attacks & strokes are all possible signs of radiation exposure.)
9. Friends in WA state had relatives dropping dead out of the blue from heart attacks: a 30-year old, a 50-year old, a friend's mother died suddenly after Fuku last year and a friend's grandmother just had a stroke.
10. Also in December, I learned of a friend from So. CA who had been in a parent…
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Another sentence cut off:
My friend in her late 40's from a parent playgroup in Los Angeles died of a sudden, massive stroke last December, leaving behind two small children.
Such a tragedy. Too many sudden deaths from strokes and heart attacks in younger people this past year. (young athletes and marathoners, too, etc.).
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What-About-The-Kids, I'm sorry that your posts ended up getting cut off, they looked fine and under limit before I posted, but I should have checked afterwards, thanks for adding.
I'm so sorry about the loss of your friend! My godson and goddaughter lost their mom when they were young too and it is heartbreaking. After Enenews, now I realize that her death is probably from the NPP with a hideous record in Sacramento.
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Thank you for your words of sympathy for the loss of my friend. It is mind-numbing to keep hearing about so many people with heart issues or strokes. Fukushima Diary posted another article today about yet another person in Fukushima dying of a stroke, a 58 year old radiation specialist who was working on the "decontamination" issues in Fukushima. So sad.
No worries about the cut offs of my sentences. I just am appreciative of your efforts to document our discussion by transferring it to the more appropriate thread.
Thanks again!
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NoNukes
April 14, 2012 at 11:32 am · Reply
Sharp2197,
You are incredibly strong to endure 30 years of this kind of suffering, I'm sorry that you have had to. I did take her to the top dermatologist around, but of course, that day, there weren't a lot of the little blisters, so the dr. said dermatitis because of the rash. The next day she had 7 new blisters! We go back next week, so maybe we will find out more. In my next life, I am going to be a dermatologist, there aren't enough of them around, at least in San Francisco.
When I started putting a tiny bit of Lugol's iodine on her skin, the next day her whole body was covered with these tiny bumps and an incredibly itchy rash, it was hard for her to sleep. Allergies to iodine are pretty common, so I wonder if it is causing these rashes. Iodine 129 lasts for millions of years.
Sharp, is there any possibility that you are a Celiac? 25% of Celiacs have Dermatitis Herpetiformis, a rash reaction to wheat, but also a blister-like rash reaction to iodine. My daughter has had this a very itchy rash reaction to wheat, but only the really intense blisters with the Lugol's and now water. So, I wonder if maybe you too are celiac, and your system gets overloaded in part by iodine.
Celiac is genetic. I ate wheat for 34 years, but stopped when I stopped it for my daughter, and we both were better very quickly. Iodine is increased in certain foods, including those grown in fields that have increased Iodine 129 from…
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Bobby1
April 14, 2012 at 1:00 am
The CDC mortality data I looked at wasn't broken down into heart attacks and strokes, just influenza and pneumonia (which were increased). But it seems likely that those conditions were a part of it. Early on, it seemed to affect 65 and older the most, but it transitioned to the 25-44 age range toward the end of the year. It affected the mountain states from Montana down to Arizona more early, but by November and December, the west coast from Washington down to California was worst.
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Sickputer
April 13, 2012 at 11:10 pm · Reply
No you are not mistaken…this GI "flu" is strange. I have it myself… Been sick for three to four weeks. I blame it on the bad fallout in the first three weeks of March. I have gone to some new and varied herbal remedies and actually feel much better today for the first time in three weeks. Had some killer headaches also and heard a lot of anecdotal discussion about similar headaches.
Could be also my improvement is because the haze has been less for several days now. The thing is I have been indoors a lot with HEPA filters and had safe foods. Very little outside traveling. Had a very weird sensation today in my upper side torso area today just for 4 or 5 minutes. Kinda unnerved me a bit because it was painful, dizzying, but not in a vascular way. Seemed in my muscles and all I could think was maybe this is what cesium feels like when it bioaccumulates in your muscles. Felt better in five minutes…
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One final observation I forgot to mention last night: While in Riverside, California attending my mother's funeral, three family members had nosebleeds. One on a separate day, then two the following day.
Riverside is known for being smoggy as it is inland, away from ocean breezes, and the smog backs up against the San Bernadino mountains. There was a lot of chemtrail planes spraying while we were there and the air felt acrid and dry and hurt to breathe. As many here know, nosebleeds are also a symptom of radiation exposure.
Very strange, as my family members never get nosebleeds. The dates were March 23 and 24. I wonder what might have happened 4 or so days prior at Fuku, that might have wafted over to So. California on the Jet Stream that week?…
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Found this on the net !
I'm sure there are other PIers that will find this interesting, especially those into pathology and veterinary medicine.
Apr 14, 2012
I just began to breed my own rats, I have been breeding mice for awhile now, and I occasionally sell some and also use some to provide my snakes with well-raised and cared for food.
This is the second litter of rats I've had born, the other being just a few days earlier. Sasha, my black berkshire dumbo just gave birth to 10 babies + this interesting little nugget…It was dead when I found it, and I'm sure it died as soon as she gave birth because it has no airways.
Pictures Below! May be disturbing to some!
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3478833
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Compelling prospect… xdrfox
Thx for sharing.
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Guys, if you want to save your health…make a move! I'm on the s. east coast USA and have not had any real symptoms or illness (with the exception of an upset stomach after an ill-timed plane flight out West in April 2011). Not a cold, not an infection, not a nosebleed, no metallic tastes, no lack of energy, no rash, no hair loss, etc.
That was a wake-up call!…)
Food and water are the big issues going forward one year later….
I'm not crazy about the water quality and do plan to install a water filter soon. I still shower in tap water & then dry quick. :/ I also notice a huge improvement in air quality since the Jet Stream moved north for the season! Things seem almost back to normal?? The wildlife seems ok, too, all things considered? I find that encouraging and hopeful.
However, I'm very worried about FOOD into the future, since we get much of our foods from the very places on the West Coast where many are falling ill and there is such a measurable layer of radioactive fallout!!.. (I did feel gross & had to detox one time after eating cookies with post-accident W. coast dairy.
I just wanted to give some hope to people who are getting too ill! We definitely have less fallout out east or I'm just a tough old bird!
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alasanon, I live in the DC-Baltimore area, and it's horrible here. You must be one of those people who is relatively insensitive to toxics. Unfortunately I am not.
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Bobby1, I was in your area this past December and I have to agree. I could feel the radiation in the air (human geiger counter here…) and watched loads of chemtrail planes doing a lot of spraying every day I was there.
The fact that there are so many NPPs near there, as the Eastern seaboard states are all small and close to each other, they all share their ongoing radiation releases…Too close for comfort!
And as someone else mentioned here, the PA radiation monitor on RadiationNetwork.com is usually ALWAYS much higher than the other monitors around the U.S. (And who knows what TMI's gifts are possibly still circulating there?),
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I have a good immune system, but I do try to protect it. I just honestly wanted to offer the info. that you can be healthy, even though this is a horrible disaster with long-term effects. I believe that the East Coast of the U.S. is not nearly as hard hit as the Pacific coasts that we share with Japan. Also, I think the worst of it will arrive in future years when our exposures may come home to roost in a big way! Moreover, being healthy and very active, I have a huge appetite, so it is hard to stay fed, safely. It's kind of scary how much food I can put down, although I've never been overweight. I don't know how eating right these days is going to work out! I'm an eater!
p.s. I think Baltimore/DC can get more of a smog heat inversion than where I am in VA. It's still pretty good. Keeping a spiritual perspective, close family ties & friendships-even pets, and a determinedly positive outlook really helps, too!
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I honestly don't have any noticeable health issues yet from this nightmare and I do NOT live in a bubble either!~ I have not heard of anyone in VA/DC suffering any suspect deaths, miscarriages, illnesses, or worsening conditions since 3/2011, as Bobby deduced from his U.S. CDC statistical study, thus far. (I heard of a 99 year old man dying of old age in summer 2011, but that's about it-?)
I'm not making light of the real problems and pollution that we get out here, but trying to share my observations, straight-up!
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I think we are having problems in Arizona. We had much higher fallout than many areas of the country.
People are having alot of stomach problems and no diagnoses have been made of viruses.
Someone i know has lost 20 pounds in a couple of months with no diagnosis.
At first I thought it might be a food born virus (and it still might be) but at 7 1/2 background radiation in our dust over 1 year after the event I suspect our food on the west coast is now quite contaminated.
I've researched this as plants confuse cesium with potassium and they circulate the cesium throughout the entire plant.
My stomach has a hot coal in it…
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Majia, I'm sorry to hear your stomach is still giving your problems. Just a thought: how far away are you from Palos Verdes NPP, the largest NPP in the U.S.?
I am now forever suspicious about the safety of our own 104 commercial NPPs in the U.S. (not to mention the other "research" and military related reactors) since hearing about all the leaks and "events" in our NPPs this past year. Their ongoing "permissible releases" of radiation must also affect our food chain and water systems, don't you think?
It is hard to say and harder to trace (at least for the time being), but I hope someday we'll be able to trace all radiation contamination should it appear in our food or water back to it's original source. (And I hope by then, all NPPs will be shut down around the world, of course!)
I hope you're felling better soon! My cough is almost gone, finally.
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Palo Verde has been poisoning us with tritium for years.
What has happened this year is different.
In december I lost hair and nails. Many of my female students reported the same.
Now we have massive stomach problems with no diagnoses.
Could be viral and hard to detect.
We also have very sore throats. Could be allergies but people who normally don't have allergies are also having these symptoms.
Could all be coincidence. Then again, maybe not.
I just don't know.
However, with Collins finding I think that levels outside must be not so good for human health…
Our food is eventually going to be more contaminated than the air
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So sorry to hear of these issues. I too noticed my hair thinning, though did not lose any nails.
These symptoms do seem to follow the progression described in people after being irradiated after Chernobyl. Are you using probiotics to insure the health of your digestive track? I am using non-dairy based probiotics.
According to the BELRAD group someone linked to here yesterday, internal contamination showed up in children living in both "clean" and "fallout" hotspots, via the food they ingested. (something like 80-90% came from the food!) Sigh…
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It's quite apparent to me what is happening. Fallout from Fukushima has destroyed the good bacteria in the guts of victims. A super bug from hell if you will.
Being married to a nurse I have been aware of the dangers of c.diff infections in the past few years. MRSA and c.diff normally occur in medical and nursing home settings, but these types of superbugs have mutated with the new danger of radiation in our guts.
100 trillion bacteria exist in your body.. about 3 or 4 pounds if we weighed them. Doctors have virtually no understanding of how these bacteria interact.
One thing they they have utilized in life-threatening bowel distress illnesses us FMT (fecal microbial transplantation). You will be hearing much more about this little-known treatment in the coming years as the adverse effects of global radiation worsen. Without healthy donors the human race faces a pandemic that alters drastically the reign of the naked ape.
A little background reading: http://m.npr.org/story/150003129?url=/2012/04/17/150003129/the-race-to-create-the-best-antiviral-drugs
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Thanks, SP. I am doing much better now that I am (among other things) taking a good probiotic every day (not based on dairy products). My probiotic is completely vegan.
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Thanks for this fascinating information, SickPuter. It definitely occurred in people after Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Chernobyl, so I can only assume that is what the Japanese are experiencing, and some of us in the U.S. to a lesser extent.
Also, please see my posting way below I just posted about the new study on fungi that appeared in Nature. The scientists are estimating that 70% of all extinctions in plants and animals due to infectious diseases were due to an underlying fungus! Makes me want to read up on good anti-fungal diets and supplements!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120411132000.htm
"Tackle Fungal Forces to Save Crops, Forests and Endangered Animals, Say Scientists
"ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2012) — More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world's five most important crops, according to research published April 11 in the journal Nature.
"Furthermore, data reviewed by scientists suggests that in 70% of cases where infectious disease causes the extinction of a type of animal or plant, an emerging species of fungus is behind the problem. Evidence suggests this figure is increasing."
Radiation exposure helping it along???
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Thanks for sharing the positive news, Alasanon!
I am so glad to hear you are healthy and not noticing any increase in illnesses in your family and friends.
I don't think Fuku-related health issues will necessarily affect everyone in the U.S., at least not in the near future (and if we are fortunate, not in the long-term too!). Rather, just like the way the fallout rained down on us, in pockets of activity, randomly and not completely nor uniformly blanketing everything, the health issues that do crop up will also be sporadic, not blanketing entire swaths of the U.S. population (at least, this is my hope!)
The human body is amazing in its ability to rid the body of unwanted invaders and to heal. However, as it's been said before, it is those who are frail, elderly, or with already compromised immune systems that would be most affected in the first days, months and years. Children and women are also more vulnerable, and last and least affected by radiation exposure are men. Cancers usually don't show up until 10-20 years or more, so it is more heart and circulatory issues and blood cancers and thyroid issues that show up first.
Anyway, I don't think anyone should talk themselves into getting sick from Fuku! If it happens, it happens, but in the meantime, go out and live your life to the fullest and surround yourself with lots of loving, positive people (and pets) as you are already doing!
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One more point: This forum can have a depressing effect on one's spirit, if all we read about here is sickness and anomalies…so please feel free to check back in with more positive health reports from time to time, Alasanon!
It just may help everyone else feel more hopeful and positive and yes, even healthy!
Thanks again!
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Thanks for your suggestions, Alasanon. It's a real conundrum. Moving isn't so easy for many reasons. And where to move to? Given the highest numbers of nuclear power plants in the U.S. are East of the Mississippi, (have you seen the map?), East would not be the first place on my mind. I believe NPPs are all ticking time bombs, each day they stay in operation is just adding to the risk of something major going wrong. And knowing that U.S. NPP spent fuel pools hold an outrageously far greater amount of spent fuel assemblies than Fukushima, my instinct would be to move as far away from NPPs as possible.
Not sure what the answer is, or if there is one at this point…? I do believe you are fortunate, however, not to have any health issues. As Dr. Helen Caldicott explains, women and children are so many times more vulnerable to radiation exposure than men. Embryos are most susceptible, then babies, then children, then women, then men. Also, people with compromised immune systems, autoimmune diseases, elderly, frail, are also much more susceptible and it is in these groups where the illnesses first show up (thyroid disease, strokes, heart issues, etc.) Then, the rest of the population starts to show signs of exposure a year or two later, with cancers usually not showing up for 10-20 years or more.
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I live on the West Coast and have been diagnosed with thyroid issues recently. I am considering where to move, but as far as the East coast is concerned, that is where all the power plants are. There are far too many nuclear plants on the East coast for me to consider moving there.
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WorseThanChernobyl, I am so sorry to hear about your thyoid issues. Did these show up after Fuku or before? (You said "recently", so I'm guessing this was since 3/11?)
Do you live near a NPP? It would be helpful for anyone who like you has been diagnosed with thyroid issues to describe them and document them here. It may help shed some light on whether it is due to being exposed to fallout from Fukushima or some other reason…
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Yes, I live 11 miles from the Columbia Generating Station. I have not lived here all my life fortunately, though for about ten years. I think I have been prone to thyroid issues in the past, as I have had a couple symptoms, but now it seems to have manifest in my blood tests and physical examination, which took place in February. I have had tests done in the past which didn't show a problem.
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alasanon – I own and .love. my Berkey filter…
http://www.berkeyfilters.com/waterfilters/big-berkey.htm
Live in the Midwest, not really sure where
is actually safe.???
Global dispersion prosect
eventual : ( : ( : (
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My clients here in the midwest have complained of GI and flu like symptoms, and one client, exposed to massive radiation in Afghanistan while in the US military, reported cadiac pain, only to discover he is reportedly had 20 or more minor heart attacks, and a hole in his heart. he was not wounded by du ammunition or any other ammunition. he simply walked the land for months. He also works outside a great deal as a cement and foundation contractor, and last summer, complained of skin and energy and cardiac symptoms mentioned in this thread. i recommended he consult with his medical practitiioners and enquire as to low dose radiation poisoning. There is a huge issue with returning military, and the unexplored radical excessive waste and exposure in the continent of Africa's jungles will be the issues of the next decade as well. Meanwhile, remember that exposure is not the same as internal contamination.
Exposure can develop into cancers in 6 to 30 years in adult, but internal contamination (swallowing through foodchain or breathing hot particiles in the air) can kill in days, weeks, or months. Miserable way to go.
The medical community has turned a blind eye. Hey, you got a tumor here; let me irradiate you…and then the patient later dies of what? another cancer. let's wake up.
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That is so sad to hear, Sonnen-Blum. I shudder to think what our poor military folks have had to deal with, health-wise. We need a more loving, compassionate, peaceful world and more positive solutions to solving conflicts that don't involve killing others or ourselves or doing irreparable harm to our environment.
Speaking of cement, I had a random thought last summer after doing research on how countries like the U.S. allow mixing of radioactive waste into metals and other materials which then get used in creating consumer products like utensils, furniture, etc. (See report done by Enviroreporter.com on the subject). A "clever" way to make a quick buck and not have to deal with finding a permanent storage place for the nuclear waste. Needless to say, I was shocked and APPALLED to hear this was legal and being done here in the U.S. and around the world, without our consent or knowledge!
I also learned that radon seems to be a serious issue in homes around the U.S., due to what the EPA claims is naturally occurring radon in our ground. They have a map showing hot spot areas where it is more prevalent than other areas in the U.S. (i.e. Spokane is a hot spot, as they have uranium mines nearby.) But, I wondered, what if the VERY CEMENT we use to lay our homes' foundations with is contaminated with the radiation waste allowed to be mixed into products for sale??? Would not that be a scary thought, that we are all living on man-made/contaminated radioactive…
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…Would not that be a scary thought, that we are all living on man-made, purposefully-contaminated radioactive cement? Now there's a pleasant thought. (NOT!)
Anyway, It was just one of my many random thoughts. It would be interesting for the Geiger Counter detectives among us to do a bit of sleuthing to see if my suspicions/questions about cement used in building homes have any basis in truth (and perhaps might answer the question of why your client felt sick after working with cement?)
…Are we all living in homes sitting on radioactive cement, or is the radon in homes coming from naturally occurring uranium and its radon daughters in the ground beneath the cement pads? Curious to know…
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I also have to post this anecdote: I was talking to someone who does not take precautions and lives in the mountain states, next to CA. After trying to convince him not to take unnecessary business trips into Asia, etc., I wasn't getting a lot of traction. (He recently got back from Taiwan & had a very brief layover in Tokyo.) Yet, I made my case and I knew that the Jet Stream was overhead for him off the Pacific at that time… And, sadly, while we were talking, he started to have a nosebleed! He attributes it to the mountainous altitude, but who knows??
It seems nosebleeds are becoming common for many adults/kids in Japan and on the US West coast, too. 
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…talking on the phone, I should say. I haven't been out west since April 2011.
But, even if I am not in the direct line of fire, I know it's filtering out and about and it can kill you….
I'm grateful that so many things are flourishing around here, for now.
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(here for me being VA/DC, East US region–bring on the tourists!
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Sorry, I have to ask .. what's GI ?
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richard,
Welcome !
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thanks for the info and Welcome there xdrfox.
although, I've been watching and lurking since the beginning, so it seems strange to get a 'welcome' after over a year
all good.
i've wanted to comment many times over the year, but only recently signed up.
i'm in sydney. i can't say we've had GI here.. there was certainly a bad cough getting around after last March, but most of it has cleared.
and to be honest, i've had the tiny teeny nose bleed (about 4 times since 3/11). i never had those before then. no one around me has admitted any nose bleeds. they certainly wont tell me about GI
i carry my rad meter and check imported products. it's all okay so far. should that change.. then i'm going on a very long vacation. (oh, and i'll tell you all about here on enenews.com)
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richard,
seen your name before. first time we communicated, sorry to hear from the health, 'ie nose bleeds' Yes from what we have on file, it got to you good folk down under too early on !
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Fought with some of your boys in VN, they were some of the toughest, bravest men I'd every meet !
Sorry your boys got pulled into a lie as we did in VN !
I will watch for you here and hope you will post often !
A large community means a large awareness !
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@fox ..
the nose bleeds were ultra minor .. but unusual to say the least. My health is first rate A1 otherwise (except for self inflicted damage
)
i do believe i had the metallic taste last year… it didn't seem possible so soon after 3/11, so far away, but really, i did taste it.
as for Nam, well, you have my respect, I'm just a little too young to have gone. if you ever see me didding the war machine, i never mean disrespect to the soldiers.
it's the governments, the corpoarations, the ogranised crime – they are the ones ruining our world for greed. do not ever trust any one in 'authority'. they'll walk all over you – and they trully have no authority, except for the corruption and leverage.
so you don't need to apologise, i know which group to target and it's not the general population or the soldiers – it's the politicians and mobsters who need to be brought down.
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richard,
Enjoy your very long vacation mate !
: )
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastro-intestinal
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Gastro Intestinal
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thanks.. to you and fox for that. excuse my non-medical knowledge
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No problem Mate,…last year about this time I had to ask what TPTB (the powers that be) meant! I still blush about that one!
Yes, welcome long-time lurker richard!
(That's my favorite!)
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StillJill,
Hi, Baby Girl ~
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Hiya Doc! How's "Little Bit" doin?
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StillJill,
Still out of pocket !
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She is/was always so bubblely !
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I only pray she's not blaming herself in any way,….but sadly,…I know differently. (Not that anything was her fault,..it's what 'we' do)
With friends like you though Doc,…she'll reach for healing!
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She dose come and talk to me about many heartfelt matters and life, very open mind, she listens better then my own grown children ! LOL
She'll be by soon, I am sure !
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Then I shall not worry about "Lil Bit"!
Perhaps you're the Father she never had,…to some extent. At any rate,…..to have a 'trusted someone', who WANTS to listen,….remembers,….and cares with LOVE?
Well,….that's for the lucky few!
Lucky 'Lil' Bit!
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richard,
We are all here to learn, we all started somewhere and have learned much about much om many areas !
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My family and I went on a trip to Seattle at the beginning of March. My husband had a massive head ache on the drive over. He was very nauseous as well, especially after we got to the hotel, then he suddenly got a nose bleed. I have been with him for many years and never has he had a nose bleed! Anyway, he is normally very ruddy complexioned but looked as pale as a ghost at that time. It may not sound like a big deal, but it was pretty frightening to me at the time, considering what I have read about hot particles, etc. in Seattle. He seems fine now, but I am not so sure about our health.
I was recently diagnosed with an enlarged thyroid in addition to pretty severe anemia and have not been feeling so stellar. Hopefully, supplementation and dietary improvements will help me, although I have been on a very strict, healthy diet for at least 12 years. Anyway, I went to the Hanford rally in Richland, WA today, and it was great to see all the people. I also saw Dr. Caldicott speak. She did mention plutonium being taken in as iron by the body, which makes me nervous.
There was also a woman reporting on cancer in the Tri-Cities, WA area and said that it is under-reported in the area for some reason but that there are many cases, including herself and many friends and family members.
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WorseThanChernobyl,
Thx for your report, Hope he is doing better !
Good you went to rally, yes there are them that are aware !
THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU FROM ALL OF USE HERE !
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Thanks drfox!
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Thanks so much for sharing this, WTC. I am sorry to hear about your family's health issues. The nosebleed in March in Seattle seems so strange. They do a lot of chemtrail spraying here (never noticed this phenomenon until doing online searches after Fuku, as like most people, I guess I never looked "up" much…?) They did a LOT today…Anyway, breathing aluminum, silver oxide and barium (and who knows what else) certainly can't be helping our respiratory issues either.
I tried asking the King County Health Dept. about the spraying, but they said they were not allowed to investigate a Federal initiative, and suggested I contact the EPA and FAA.
Anyway, I think it's great you attended the rally at Hanford! Good for you! It is horrendous, the amount of radioactive pollution that was left in Hanford from the Manhattan Project ( and the NINE nuclear reactors that used to operate there!) I have read a lot about the health issues of the "downwinders" there. And given Hanford is the #1 Super Fund clean up sight in the U.S., which will take 1,000s of years to clean up (if ever!), it makes me shudder. I know WA has a high prevalence of M.S., with the highest rate being in Eastern WA, downwind of Hanford. I for one am convinced it is due to radiation exposure.
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…And sadly, another health issue observation I forgot to mention the other night on this thread: a friend of mine who has M.S. has had increasing problems after Fuku, so much so it has affected her cognitive ability and she had to quit her job recently where she's worked for 20 years because of it!
Though no one surely would ever admit it, I believe our water shed has been affected by Hanford too, as since moving to Seattle a few years ago, I had NEVER heard about so many children having brain tumors. I am very concerned at the amount of radiation contamination WA state already had, prior to Fuku. And now…well, I shudder to think. What's a person to do?
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Are you serious, Children with Brain Tumors !!??
You people in the USA are toast as well as the Japanese.
Through enenews.com I've come to realise you people seem to have two reactors for every state. In Oz, we have zero (a medical 'research' one).
And I keep reading about water run-off, air leakage, general aging and poor maintenance of US NPPs.
Crazy.. friggin crazy.. and the general population goes along with it.
I used to wonder why Homer Simpson had a job at a nuke plant, now I know it's because almost everyone does in the USA.
Children with Brain Tumors .. you guys have got to wake up!
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I hear ya, Richard. It does seem as if we all (not just in the U.S. as many nations are entrenched in all things Nuclear) have gone insane.
But speaking from my own experience post-Fuku, it is easy to see how our blindness was due to a well-orchestrated, and well-financed effort to lie, cover up and obscure the truth about the dangerous folly nuclear was and is. I had NO IDEA, as our MSM surely didn't inform us of nuclear's dangers. We didn't get it at school. And so it goes, the biggest boldfaced LIE perpetuated for what must be a record amount of time.
But if any good can come from the tragic catastrophe called Fukishima, it is the fact that more and more people ARE waking up, late as it may be. So there is hope. And thanks to the heroic efforts of people like Dr. Helen Caldicott, Arnie Gunderson and Robert Alvarez, who are tireless troops spreading the word to growing numbers of people, the numbers of "awakened" people will continue to grow.
Regarding the blindness in WA state, I've pondered this question ever since moving here 3 years ago. How could a state filled with so many seemingly environmentally-conscious people who recycle, do composting, grow their own food and commute to work on bicycles or using public transportation, how could they be so unaware of the nuclear mess we've gotten ourselves (and the world) into?
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(continued from above)
Again, I'd have to answer that the information Washingtonians has received regarding nuclear has been incredibly controlled, perhaps more so here than most other states due to the long-history of the Manhattan Project being based here, and the Bangor Trident nuclear sub base being here. (Try reading any nuclear news of substance in the Seattle Times for instance, or even worse, the Tri-City Herald in E. WA which is where Hanford is. Most readers either work at Hanford or know someone who does.)
The "awakening" is slow going, but thanks to online forums like Enenews, it IS finally happening…So again, there is hope…
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You're right, the Fuku madness has peeled back the curtain.
Let's hope we can sustain this battle to purge the world of nukes – we are up against a VERY wealthy, entrenched and powerful system. They will obviously kill if you start making too much progress against them..
I seriously believe that organised crime has taken over all the inner workings of government. Mafia in the USA, Yakuza in Japan.
Watch your back, these criminals have no qualms killing people for profit. Just look at any NPP.
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Thanks, Richard. Well, now, THAT's a pleasant thought. (Not!) LOL But if your suspicions are correct (and I certainly hope they are not), those "Big Guys" have much bigger fish to "fry" (pardon the expression) than just the average Joe or Josephine speaking their minds freely in an online forum. Talk about a waste of their time and resources…
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Oh Yeah richard,…'we've' got babies with holes in their hearts,…..the list is simply horrifying!
And like you said,….the people go right along with it.
Moooooooo!
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Thanks for the report on the Hanford Rally! I think there has been a cover-up of the numbers of cancers and other health effects around Richland for many decades now. Many locals can't admit that Daddy Guvment would do anything to harm them though, so many have that pride that Los Alamos people have, of having helped to win the war, of being there when their country needed them. It is a rude awakening for many that Daddy Guvment isn't helping, and in fact is actively hiding radiation truths in many cases, and hiding and under-reporting health effects as a matter of course, as if they were harmless lies that cost no one their health or their life. The Iraq wars vets contaminated by depleted uranium go through a similar trauma, when they realize that someone they thought was there to back them 100% in fact considers them expendables, and then goes on lying about those health effects. It makes people feel victimized, and no one wants to admit to that. Radiation seems to be weird that way in many human communities; for some reason human beings feel shamed by it, rather than seeing it as a direct attack they need to vigorously respond to. The silence, the taboo on speaking – it reminds me of the literature on incest. Denial is far preferable to the human psyche. As one woman in a store near the Nevada test site and Yucca Mountain said to me once, many years ago, when I asked how people felt around there about the tests and the waste site; she answered, "Well, we ain't glowed…
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"We ain't glowed yet."
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Astute observations, Arizonan. Couple that with health professionals who have not been properly trained to recognize or even look for radiation contamination in their patients, then you begin to see how this problem has long been institutionalized in our society (GE owns the imagery equipment they use to diagnose the cancers caused by being irradiated from their nuclear power plants, and they own the radiation "therapy" machines too…the perfect trifecta…talk about job security!)
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@WorseThanChernobyl,
Thanks for the first-hand updates! The one about you and hubby's health is alarming. I was likewise just diagnosed with an enlarged thyroid and the start of an inflammatory disease.
I guess we'll all be, 'waiting to see',………:-(
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Yes, I hope the health symptoms are just a coincidence and not a sign of being contaminated. I have been concerned though and feel sorry for my kids, as I won't let them play in the rain anymore. They probably know more about Fukushima, nuclear issues and radiation than most other kids their age now. lol
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SJ – bath you in blue/white light.
(my healing protect visualization)
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truthseek,…I appreciatively accept your loving blue/white light of healing energy!
And,…I thank you so!
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Hi StillJill, How are you feeling today? I hope you found something nourishing and non-irradiated to eat. Gotta keep your strength up my friend. We need your wonderful energy and input here!
Do you know about things to eat which have anti-inflammatory properties? I know there are lots of recommendations out there, as many believe that a lot of disease is caused by inflammation in our bodies. So it would make sense to find food and supplements that help soothe the inflammation.
Let me know if you have any good suggestions! Sending healing (((hugs))) and energy your way, my friend! xoxo
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What-About-The-Kids,..Bless you for the kind and wonderful energy and suggestion. I am a firm believer in diseases being either brought on, or helped along, by inflammation. However,….I am still so new to healthy eating, believe it or not. Having been raised in Akron/Cleveland, Ohio,….and having New York dairymen in my bloodline, if you will, I was raised on "wonder white bread, baloney, ho-ho's, a bag of chips,….and maybe an apple". (This I traded for candy.) I say that I earned my past tumors,…which people shreek at,…'Tis true, none the less. (I also, likewise EARNED my recovery from cancer!)
So,..long story short,…No,I don't know much about anti-inflammatory foods. Grains may swell one up,….I know that much,…but I hate like hell throwing out my grain mill and home baked ezekiel breads I bake. I have two in the oven as we speak in fact,….they smell delightful!
Back later! Tips on foods GLADLY accepted here!
Thanks again my friend!
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You are very welcome, StillJill! I too had my share of such junk food growing up (and we all shared in the glorious-NOT!-fallout of above ground atomic testing during their "heyday", yes?
I bet Anne and others will have some good suggestions for foods and supplements that are anti-inflammatory. I need to do my own research as well! We can share our findings in the "radiation remediation" thread, yes?
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P.S. Can I come over for some of that fresh baked bread and a cup of anti-inflammatory tea? Sounds yummy!
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What-About-The-Kids,..That would surely make my year, at least! Please God, from her lips to your own ears. Tea with my soul-sister? Sign me up!!!!
Wish I could share a pint with my soul-brothers too,….but will have to stick with the tea!
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Oh, wouldn't that be loverly, StillJill??? It would be so great to share some rip roarin' stories and tons of belly laughs in person with my soul sista!
(And I'd definitely be up for sharin' a pint with ya too! ;-D LOL)
Who knows? Maybe I can steal away some time and drive down to N. CA this summer and visit family and friends? If I can, I will let you know, my dear friend!
Sending big healing {{{hugs}}} your way! G'nite.
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Many have spoke elsewhere about physical /health matters…
(feel bad saying this) I am not fishing for sympathy, more
trying to note my state of being as others have,
put it out there.
One of the most odd to me is .weird. twitching, non-painful
spasms randomly all over my body, the muscle will pulse
and twitch for a couple of seconds to even minutes.
*I'm a lifetime advanced athlete, most conscious
and aware of my body & being. Much of what I feel
is just not right. It scares me beyond the simple
prospect of aging (50 y/o, live in the Midwest)
I have shared in the malaise and periodic fatigue, for me
the tendency to doze off, even sleep hard, randomly…
recharge (a little). Today I had serious spatial, visual
nearly felling like I was gonna fall and had to hold on
to steady myself so as not to fall.
Lastly, to mirror others, have had odd and very random
GI tract issues which contrast my general and mostly
consistent bowel habits with a disciplined.
Lastly, prolonged (since FUKU) wretched sinus drip.
Very odd to me…
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Sorry to hear about your health issues too, TruthSeek. Yes, I can attest to the strange spasms/pulsing in various muscles and organs from time to time. Never had these either, prior to Fuku. Thank you for taking the time to document these issues here. We will be able to compile this information here over time in hopes it will somehow be useful somewhere, someday…
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W A T K, thank you for sharing, your expressions and everyone's collective friendship here… (said it before) we are .indeed. in this unfortuante mess together… Thankful to everyone here from which I draw balance and sanity among this insane world.
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You are so welcome. Thank YOU, TruthSeek!
I had a thought: You mentioned you live 11 miles from the Columbia Generating Station. Perhaps if you have the time, you can try and find out how much "permissible levels" of radiation they release in their ongoing venting of radioactive steam. (Studies show children have elevated rates of leukemia living in a 10 mile radius from a NPP, and women have higher rates of breast cancer living within 50 miles.)
I think the NRC may have this info about the NPP releases on their website, (though we can't exactly be sure these numbers are completely accurate, given the history of lies in the Nuke industry…)
But it would be a start, and help you get a citizens group going to try and shut down Columbia.
As I understand, due to our incredible rainy climate, we typically have EXTRA energy each year, and they can't store it all. So shutting down a radiation spewer that is really not needed in WA state would be a no-brainer.
I know there are citizen groups like Heart of the Northwest you might join forces with too? Just a thought. Any steps you can take to save you and your family and neighbors from having to breathe in extra radioactive noble gases like Xenon or Tritium-laced fog, etc., beyond what is already circulating the planet, would definitely be worth the effort, IMHO!
And if you do get something like that going, please let me and others here know!
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That was me that lives 11 miles from the CGS. I am involved with the local occupy movement, and some of us are interested in shutting down CGS, but activism in this community is very difficult, as this whole area was built because of the Manhatten project plutonium processing, and they are very proud of it! There are some very hostile people here even within the Occupy movement, and I have had a hard time meeting those that would be with me on shutting down the CGS. There are plenty I think in other areas around the state and in Oregon, especially Portland. That is why it was so nice of Occupy Portland to organize the Hanford rally, because we here in this area are met with quite a bit of hostility and resistance, and we have to live here after the rally is over.
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Oops! Sorry for confusing you with Truthseek, WTC!
Yes, since moving to WA, I quickly sensed that the entrenched community of Hanford workers in E. WA cherish their employment (which I don't blame them for), so naturally, they don't want to say anything that could rock the boat and jeopardize their jobs. Plus, like most Americans, I am guessing they have been spoon-fed the NB (Nuclear Baloney, as CaptD calls it) for so long, they are likely blissfully unaware of the real dangers of radiation exposure.
Bravo to the Portland activists for picking up the ball and running with it! Good for them. A very smart move, and as you say, obviously much needed as the local community near Hanford and Columbia Generating Station most likely would resist such protests by locals in their community (or fear of being ostracized if they speak up themselves).
But what the Hanford workers don't realize is that they are jeopardizing their very DNA and offspring. Their entire lineage for 10+ generations could be affected by the mutations to their DNA which radiation exposure causes.
But they will still be able to keep their jobs too, if they still wish to risk exposure, as the clean up at Hanford will take 1000+ years, plenty of jobs for generations to come. So they can still speak out against any new nuclear power and join the anti-nuclear activist calls to shut down all existing NPPs while still getting to keep their jobs at Hanford.
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Someone just needs to share this news with them, so they "get it." They just need more education about the true dangers of nuclear radiation exposure. It's their children and grandchildren who will be affected too!
Only then will the ranks of anti-nuke activists in E. WA will start to swell, slowly but surely.
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I guess being a worker at Hanford would by necessity create a type of cognitive dissonance, if they allowed themselves to learn the truth about the dangers of radiation exposure while still working in a place that is so highly contaminated. I can understand how someone couldn't let themselves believe it was dangerous if they relied on their job to survive and take care of their family… But if they only realized the risks they were putting their family through by working there.
..Still, like at Fukushima, SOMEONE has to do the clean up. Such a sad, terrible mess we've created. Shame on our nuclear fathers and grandfathers for creating this nightmare.
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Well, the ones I have met have the "I worked with nuclear waste/nuclear energy/etc and I am fine, so there is nothing to worry about" attitude. It is difficult to argue with that, when their evidence is right there in front of them, so it seems. I know that radiation causes more than just dropping dead instantly and cancer, but they say all that evidence of other health problems is all fear mongering. For example Tri-Cities made the top 10 list for the fattest cities in the US! What is one of the main causes of obesity in the US? Thyroid problems! I tried to point this out gently, but I don't think they really got my point. We also seem to have alot of kids with learning problems and physical disabilities. Way more than I have seen anywhere else! Also, I have known two children recently diagnosed with cancer in the West Richland area. I have never known any child with cancer before this! I know two women who always pipe up when the subject comes up about radiation being dangerous to say that they have lived around nuclear facilities their whole lives due to their parent's work. They both actually have major problems and problems with either their children's health or their own reproductive health in addition to major obesity! I of course am polite to them, since I have to live near them, but you know, sometimes I would like to point that out!
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It is sad to hear about the children there with cancer and the parents' health issues. And as you alluded to, radiation exposure is known to cause learning disabilities, lower intelligence, as well as physical disabilities (and I believe autism too, based on the latest study showing a link between genetic mutation and autism.)
Here are some sites with info about Hanford "Downwinders" (lots more on Google too):
Personal stories: http://www.angelfire.com/art2/downwinder/
Site for Downwinders, describes history of what radioisotopes were released from Hanford and health affects:
http://hanford-downwinders.tribe.net/thread/348105ce-8a4b-4573-8e80-e71da14cb1b1
About the "Green Run", purposeful release of radiation as an experiment to see what affects it would have on the nearby population:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Run
Lawyers handling Hanford Downwinders lawsuits: http://www.downwinders.com/
Also, do a YouTube search for first-hand accounts from both Downwinders and former workers at Hanford. Plenty of testimonies as to the harmful health effects due to radiation exposure. Perhaps you can print some of these links and hand them out to people who claim radiation is harmless? I wonder if someone is doing studies on the health of people in E. WA today? (Surely there must be, but the results may not be publicly accessible…it's that "liability" and "accountability" issue…too costly to have to pay all the people whose lives…
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Got cut off:
"too costly to have to pay all the people whose lives they've ruined…"
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there are studies on the health of nuclear power workers and they do show an increased incidence of cancer and radiation related problems. the thing is is that while workers of nuclear plants get tested and if need be scrubbed and decontaminated until they reach a safe level of radiation, the general public does not. i would imagine that their health checks also prevent at least some of the effects as "lumps" can be removed before they become cancerous … my thyroid lumps wont get removed until they become "sinister". my son's blood did not get screened until he found the growth himself.
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Snowwy, I am so sorry to hear about your lump on your thyroid and your son's suspicious growth.
Does your revelation about your own health issues after your comment about the studies done on nuclear workers mean to imply you and/or your son have worked at a nuclear power plant previously?
My best wishes for the improvement of your and your son's health.
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Sadly, my family came from E. Washington..in the 1940–to 1980s. Uncles died from cancer, aunts had cancer, grandmother died at 30 from cancer, mother had cancer, birth defects in almost all offspring–reversed heart, missing hip sockets, immune diseases, thyroid cancers/hasimotos disease, birth defect/fetal deaths, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancers k–just sad and on going.
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Oh my goodness, Jec, I'm so sorry to hear about all your family's ongoing health problems. The connection to Hanford, the #1 EPA SuperFund site in the nation, is glaringly obvious, knowing what we all know now about the harmful effects of radiation exposure/contamination.
I hope your family has been able to join the class action lawsuits or file their own suits to get compensation for their health woes. I know they say it is hard to prove, but with modern genetic testing, I think it will soon become much easier to prove the connection to radiation exposure and genetic damage. (Did you see that study done last year by the German scientists who discovered a genetic "fingerprint" which proved a connection between thyroid cancer and children's exposure to Chernobyl fallout? I expect many more such studies will be done, making the cause and effects of exposure to specific fallout and resulting health issues more clear as time goes by…)
Wishing you and yours well!
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~Was it from Nuke testing in the Pacific ?~
Pacific Proving Grounds – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pacific Proving Grounds was the name used to describe a number of …. Seventeen nuclear weapons were detonated on the Bikini and Enewetak … in the Marshall Islands, they are officially considered part of the Pacific Proving
Grounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Proving_Grounds
~ Or All the Nukes they dumped in the Pacific for years ? Much of it right off your shoreline !~
Ocean disposal of radioactive waste: Status report
dumped at more than 50 sites in the northern part of the. Atlantic and Pacific … MAP
Pacific Ocean, about 80 kilometres off the coast of … They were fission and activa – …
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull314/31404684750.pdf
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jec,
Breathing that ocean air off the Pacific and perhaps in the rains that came off the oceans !
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Hanford in Eastern WA isn't very close to the ocean. It seems a lot of the air and rains bringing in toxins end up dumping on the Cascades rather than travelling past to eastern WA.
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Yes jec! That goes way beyond the suspicion stage! Clearly too many health abnormalities to NOT be from the environment,…and what could have CAUSED ALL of that? We know!
So very sad! Hell, sounds like a MIRACLE that you are here with us at all!
Stay strong friend!
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I am also sorry to hear of all those ailments.
Can I suggest you contact http://nuclearliteracy.org/ and ask them to explain how they intend to avoid health impacts in the future.
Ask for Kallie Metzger, she seems to be a great nuke puppet. I'd really like to here her explainations. I'm sure she is a well practiced liar.
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Two things jump out truthseek,…the sinus drip,….I am told (Dr. Busby I believe), that cesium mimics histamine,…meaning one will feel the need for an anti-histamine. My roommate is outside A TON. He seems to always have a 'clear' discharge out of one nostril or the other.
Secondly,…Dr. Mark Sircus says that we are all deficient in properly absorbed magnesium. He lists the symptoms as the tingling you describe. (Just a thought.)
The GI that I have this week is from California veggies. I thought a good scrub was enough. I was most dreadfully wrong. Again.
So you're in good company, my friend! (Sorry!)
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I spend and have spent my time in my yard, landscaping last year, planting and maintainence. I have had significant exposure… Unfortunately.
Thank goodness, I only shoveled snow 3 times this very mild winter. Have avoided fog, rain (when I can) and snow exposure as much as I can. I work from home when not traveling and may not leave the house for days on end. At times am almost "scared" or reluctant to leave the house…
While I eat vegetable and limited fruit, root uptake from the soil and general dispersion means this IS EVERYWHERE. Have .almost. nearly surrendered considerations to avoid.
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truthseek,
Some of our strongest being affected ! Stay strong !
As this is the way it will be, StillJill gives good inf.
I bought a juicer, and been drinking carrot and apple juices, also syill doing my Baking Soda ( 1 tea soon a day for three days a week ) with glass of water, white meats only, variety of vegetables, whole grain crackers !
Vodka ! LOL
: D
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xdrfox, while I seldom drink… hearty red wines are my favorite. As an exposed fruit, I have grown to limit consumption.
I vote for scotch… : ) tip my glass to yours my friend!
and friends here…
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red red wine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Psu8bHEhOsk
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BRAVO Doc,…….! I mean it! I'm so JAZZED when I hear 'teachableness', eh? Screw spell check,….that's my new word!:-)
So who says you can't teach an ol' dog, new tricks?
(Speaking of this ol'gal only, of course!)
Nite Doc,….even with a time change,…you run circles around this ol' gal!
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I travel extensively for a living and CANNOT factor elements of my diet, not eant as an excuse. Eating a wretched meal on the run and in many airports. Eating at restaurants and introducing unknowns… Hell, I have spent most of my life avoiding hydrogenated, hardened and fried fats. While I DO NOT routinely eat them, I no longer worry as much about them… My concerns have evolved significantly.
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truthseek,
There are always Subways nearby ? stay away from processed meats, solami types !
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Thanks xdrfox, I typically avoid lunch meats due to sodium content. Little at Subway that I can eat…
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Mutated dandelions, Belle Isle Detroit 4.15.2012 by RadChick ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemKSoo0rc8&feature=relmfu
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At lunch today I noticed a mutated flower. I would have thought anything of it if It hadn't been for ENENEWS.
https://twitter.com/#!/iundrestmatdyou/status/192348318586773506/photo/1
https://twitter.com/#!/iundrestmatdyou/status/192348786151010307/photo/1
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CB,
These below were found in Virginia.
April 17, 2012 at 4:39 pm
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Dog Finds a Home Through Splints, Casts and Support
Dr. Caroline Thomas and the veterinary technicians did anything they could to give this little guy a chance at a normal life.
http://bloomingdale.patch.com/articles/dog-finds-a-home-through-splints-casts-and-support-2d15d01e#photo-9563936
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Awwww…Dr. Fox, you have such a kind heart. Your love for animals is so apparent in your many posts about how these innocent beings are so vulnerable to man's polluting of our environment.
It is so heartwarming to know there are still people who care so much about animals. Thank you for all of your posts about our beautiful animals (both heartwarming like this one, as well as the sad stories about how they are being hurt by radiation and pollution).
I hope that through your acting as witness here on Enenews, you will inspire all of us to double our efforts to help protect them and save them from extinction. Big hugs!
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What-About-The-Kids,
Thx My Lady, It's easy,…
The animals are doing what they are supposed to and in harmony and step with earth, … It's us humans that are horribly miss-stepping in every way and out of control manipulating and changing for the so called betterment of man, unfortunately mans foresight often is not beyond profits !
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So sadly true, my dear Dr. Fox.
If we could just remind ourselves/and each other to be still, breathe slowly, listen to the wisdom of Nature and learn to "let it be…":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHgZCrAoqKk
Let It Be
(The Beatles)
When I find myself in times of trouble,
Mother Mary comes to me
speaking words of wisdom, let it be
and in my hour of darkness
she is standing right in front of me
speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
whisper words of wisdom, let it be
And when the broken hearted people
living in the world agree
there will be an answer, let it be
for though they may be parted,
there is still a chance that they will see
there will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
there will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
whisper words of wisdom, let it be
And when the night is cloudy,
there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music,
Mother Mary comes to me,
There will be no sorrow Let it be..
Let it be, let it be, Let it be, let it be.
There will be no sorrow. Let it be.
Let it be, let it be, Let it be, let it be,
Whisper words of wisdom let it be…
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On Now* Rense Radio "Jeff Rense Program" here's the App, live feed for …
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/livefeeds/16k.asx
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HoTaters
April 18, 2012 at 1:12 pm · Reply
Later to Monitoring forum …. drove through Sonoma Valley on Monday. Unless massive Sudden Oak Death has struck 1/2 of the smaller oaks, they have been killed by radiation. Hoping I'm wrong & they are just slow leafing out.
It seems like the leaves are stunted on a lot of the trees here this year. In the tree across from me, 3/4 of the branches look blasted as though they were burned. The other 1/4 of the tree has normal leaves. The other 3/4 is just now getting leaves.
I found a variety of redwood tree here on which all the tiny pine cones are fused together. They definitely look mutated. Am going to take my camera everywhere now and will start documenting this. Unless tree diseases are causing a lot of issues, many trees are showing mutations.
Am going to check with County Ag people around the area to try to get a sense of what tree diseases they may be dealing with. Will do own research. My gut tells me a lot of the trees are damaged and dying.
Per Ruth, trees @ North Coast of CA (north of Eureka to Crescent City) are showing white on their branches. Someone from Arcata, CA, also posted pictures of damaged plants, white on the trees.
A wave of radiation is "going to hit" the West Coast? Contamination from the Pacific? It's already here!
Will post to Photobucket with links as soon as I can get some good pics. Seeing the damage to all the pine cones on the redwood tree was really sad. Cones w/o any…
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hmmm…the trees look really well here on the other coast. (?) I hate to think that the giant sequoias and redwoods could face such a threat.
I thought small birds had dropped off a bit, maybe, at one point? I'm not a bird-watching expert, by any means. But, I'm still seeing and hearing many birds this season. (yea!) Not to mention snazzy squirrels–there's no lack of them.
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alasanon,
It's all about location, locations and Jet stream fallout !
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Pygmy Sperm Whale Washes in On Cocoa Beach, Florida *PIC*VIDEO*
Mass Animal Death Wednesday, April 18, 2012
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2043/771/
very close to home folks !
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wronge post, stuck in mouse, grrr
37 week ultrasound pic looked deformed!!!
Has anyone had an ultrasound around 37 weeks and the baby's pic looked deformed? Is that common for ultrasound pics? It says 4D Real Time on the pic, but was done at the local hospital just to be checked for fetal growth, not a 4D ultrasound I paid for. HELP, I am freaking out!!!!!
http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/65263034.aspx
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Is anyone noticing health issues with their ears? Our particular small community in central California, seems to be having an unusual issue with what doctors are calling water on the ear.
I keep meeting locals with the same problem as myself. Just seems weird. (a non-medical, general observation only)
This article got me to thinking. Sinus, mouth, ears, it's all connected.
http://enenews.com/japanese-doctor-childrens-health-problems-increasing-incurable-stomatitis-chest-pain-nosebleeds-that-don%e2%80%99t-stop-diarrhea-dark-circles-under-eyes
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ChasAha, yes, I have an infection or some kind of an issue in the left ear. Picked it up 6 weeks ago but it has gotten worse the last 2 weeks.
My psoriatic arthritis symptoms are way out there now, it is really something else.
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Mine started with the left ear in January. Initially took allergy medication and there was no affect. Then took antibiotics. Didn't help much. Then took steroids, 3 weeks, and it improved but it refuses to go away. Going on 4 months seems like a long time. Hurts/kind of itchy, not bad, mostly annoying in the morning.
Thanks for the reply.
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ChasAha,
Do you suppose it could be related to the hydrogen balls created of salt water on reactors, They will be near coastlines, can't remember the name of them ???
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That's Bucky balls I believe. Don't know for sure?
The plausible credibility thing is always in the back of my mind. I don't like jumping to conclusions, but sometimes an educated guess is all we've got. We don't have time for double blind peer reviewed studies on this stuff.
The CDC, doctors and other medical professionals need to be communicating on these issues in a timely way. They need to start considering FALLOUT. Then, better/faster decisions can possibly be determined.
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Buckminsterfullerene or Buckyball.
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Tumrgrwer,
Thx for the full forgetful name ! LOL
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ChasAha,
DING ! You Win !
Bucky balls is what I was reaching for and was at ends wits !
Thank you !
To many side distractions around here yesterday !
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Davesgrl20…
04-18-2012 at 4:49 PM
Joined on 10-31-2010
I'm only at 31 weeks, but I had that 4D/3D u/s and yes, baby looked totally deformed. Sounds like you have a very active baby! The way 4D/3D works is it sends sound waves into the uterus. Your baby has to hold VERY still so that the high frequency sound waves have time to form around your baby's features. If your baby moves, even just a little, even just a smile or grimace, it will blur the results, creating blobs, bumps, multiple noses, you name it. It looks like the back of my baby's head is made of cauliflower and that his ear is an elephant ear. He was moving a lot, so the only part of his picture that has any clarity is one hand and a bit of his face.
I think when they get those awesome shots of babies smiling or sucking their thumb they were lucky enough to catch baby while it was asleep.
Also- I am sure the u/s tech didn't run screaming for a doctor, so I wouldnt worry too much! If you are still concerned, call your OB. But I really think you don't need to worry!
http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/65263034.aspx
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Copying this from the thread about Asahi TV showing mutated plants in Tokyo, as it fits here as well:
What-About-The-Kids
April 19, 2012 at 11:53 pm · Reply
Also forgot to mention the strange white fungus-like substance that grew all over some plants that were growing next to and below our deck and the water spouts last Spring and Summer after 3/11: Never had seen that before, and this year, have only seen a small bit of it on a couple plants.
I read somewhere about a fungus that actually ate radioisotopes, so I am assuming that was what it was. But have not had it tested so I don't know for sure.
What-About-The-Kids
April 19, 2012 at 11:56 pm · Reply
Just riffing on that idea of the fungus eating radiation: What if a lot of the ill health we've been seeing in people, plants and animals is due to this type of fungus growing in/on the host organism? Not a pleasant thought I know, but I just read an article in a Health column in the news this week about fungi and its affect on health. Just some random thoughts…
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What-About-The-Kids
April 20, 2012 at 1:20 am · Reply
Here's an article mentioning the new study just published in Nature about the fungus issue affecting so many food crops and animals, etc. worldwide. Amazingly, they believe 70% of extinctions from infectious diseases are caused by a fungus!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120411132000.htm
"Tackle Fungal Forces to Save Crops, Forests and Endangered Animals, Say Scientists
"ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2012) — More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world's five most important crops, according to research published April 11 in the journal Nature.
"Furthermore, data reviewed by scientists suggests that in 70% of cases where infectious disease causes the extinction of a type of animal or plant, an emerging species of fungus is behind the problem. Evidence suggests this figure is increasing.
"The scientists behind the study, from the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and institutions in the US, are calling for new solutions to prevent the proliferation of existing and emerging fungal infections in plants and animals in order to prevent further loss of biodiversity and food shortages in the future."
more at the link above…
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that is interesting, i have had powdery mildew on my mj plants for the first time ever last year… didnt smoke it tho…..
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What-About-The-Kids, What do you think ???
Vietnam Mystery illness killed 19, Sickens 191, A calls for help !
To Alternative on Friday, April 20, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/2053/449/
As you know there were things there like Jungle rot and warnings for Travers for years of fugues and skin ailments that one could encounter, but this seems to have turned, radiation enhancement or weakened immune system ?
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So sad to hear. I hope they all recover fully. Strange that while the article states the doctors and authorities didn't or couldn't identify the cause of the illness, they do state that it responded well to treatment if done early on. Well, how do they know what kind of treatment to use if they don't know what the illness is caused by? They must at least figured out if it was a virus or bacteria or fungus, or a toxin, etc., yes? Guess we'd need to follow this up and see what updated information they have.
I keep hearing more and more about these strange illnesses, but not sure if it just the fact that I've become more vigilant and aware of these things as I'm actively looking for signs of illnesses caused by radiation exposure…?
What ever happened to that group of girls who all came down with strange tics (their school was on land where there had been fracking done)? Too many of these stories to keep track of, really.
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(I meant to say, I hope the 119 who became ill, but didn't die, recover fully. It is sad to know people died from this.
One other thought: this seems to be localized to one particular area where indigenous people live. Knowing what I know now about how industries and governments have taken advantage of indigenous people, having them do the dirty work of uranium mining, for example, I wouldn't doubt their lands were used as dumping grounds for toxic wastes (like Agent Orange?) Perhaps like those poor, unsuspecting road construction workers in Australia the other day who unearthed radioactive waste that had spilled off a truck in a traffic accident, and was buried on site, perhaps these poor people in Vietnam somehow unearthed some toxic substance (like radioactive waste, etc) and were exposed?
Nothing really surprises me anymore in this strange post-Fuku world we find ourselves in.
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What-About-The-Kids
These people are on the coast about 3,500 km from Japan !
Yes my ear is to the ground too !
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Massive dead Great White shark caught in Sea of Cortez, Mexico
To Mass Animal Death on Friday, April 20, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/2050/999
Dolphins dying before seismic tests started, 877 more dead Peru
To Mass Animal Death on Friday, April 20, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/2050/762
Polar Bears Show Signs of Mysterious Illness, Radiation ?
To Mass Animal Death on Saturday, April 07, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1992/681
Disease is Unknown hiting Alaska ringed seals, elsewhere also
To Mass Animal Death on Friday, October 14, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1233/861
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At lunch again today, another mutated flower ~
https://twitter.com/#!/iundrestmatdyou/status/193437426444812289/photo/1
https://twitter.com/#!/iundrestmatdyou/status/193395061084524544/photo/1
https://twitter.com/#!/iundrestmatdyou/status/193437548889124866/photo/1
https://twitter.com/#!/iundrestmatdyou/status/193437647140700161/photo/1
https://twitter.com/#!/iundrestmatdyou/status/193437829089591297/photo/1
https://twitter.com/#!/iundrestmatdyou/status/193392303648407552/photo/1
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CB,
One has to have an account !
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You should get one xdrfox.
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CB,
This and others are corp/&/gov. owned/&/operated !
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Shit! I guess I'm really doomed now. It's OK I only have 4 followers anyway. Tireless fruitless efforts to help people.
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Deformed cat gets life straightened out
Friday April 20th, 2012
A cat that dragged his hind legs due a congenital deformity gets a new lease on life thanks to the CATS Cradle Shelter. The feline, named Corky, was scheduled to be euthanized at a pound in North Dakota after a boy spotted the abandoned animal dragging himself on the side of the road.
The 7-month-old cat suffers from Bilateral Arthrogryposis; translated, it means that Corky’s hind legs are like a corkscrew – backwards and crisscrossed. The cat was fairly …
http://cattime.com/deformed-cat-gets-life-straightened-out.html
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VIDEO of Corky at top of this page, link !
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StillJill
April 20, 2012 at 11:27 pm · Reply
Yes, WATK's,..Twilight Zone it is!
I'll post this on anomalies thread also,…just got off the tele with my best friend, (one of my son's old buddies whom I helped raise-26). I asked him about the 9 vials of blood his Dr. drew from him last month,…and I knew in advance,…but WTF. These were his words,…"I have bad T-3 and T-4 numbers,…something about my thyroid. And I have too many of one kind of blood cell, and not enough of the other. I have no testosterone, and my cholesterol is way off, whatever ALL that means".
I am going over there tomorrow to have a look at the blood work reports and try to talk to him.
I asked him if his hair is falling out, and he got deadly quiet. He said, "Yes, as a matter of fact,…especially in the shower when I wash it. My drain has never had this much hair in it in four years I've lived here". So it begins!
I am numb. I truly have no feelings right now–like I've been stripped! I know the DAY/NIGHTMARE we are entering,…as do most here. We could write the bloody script! But, not the ending! I'll see Gary again no matter what happens. His sister Cara is waiting with my Ashley,…..so we'll all be fine.
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Hi StillJill, I replied to this on the other thread. Here's my reply:
Oh my dear, StillJill. My heart is so saddened to hear this latest news about your friend, He is just 26 and is experiencing these things? How can this be?
You say you helped raise him, and that both his sister and your daughter have passed on. Did they have similar illnesses?
I'm wondering, with all these health issues your family and close friend have been experiencing, if you and your family hadn't been exposed to radiation many years ago, when your children were still young?
I remember you mentioning your ex-husband had worked on a nuclear submarine. Could he have been exposed and somehow brought radiaton home where you and your children became affected by it?
Or did you live at any point near a nuclear reactor? Where were you living while raising your children?
Just trying to understand how so many illnesses could affect one family. Exposure to Fuku radiation fallout since 3/11 certainly doesn't help, but if your young friend had already been exposed to radiation prior to Fuku, then any additional radiation exposure from Fuku could be that additional "dose" that is the tipping point for his immune system.
Just speculating, but seems that such a young person (outside of Japan) would not already show signs of radiation exposure so early on in this Fuku disaster…I'd be interested to hear your thoughts…Sending BIG {{{hugs}}} & keeping you & your friend in my thoughts and…
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Got cut off:
…and keeping you and your friend in my thoughts and prayers. xoxo
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This must be my night. Just discovered that one more of the four goslings is messed up. This makes 3 out of the 4,…or 75% F'd up!
They came by air from S. Cal. They 'flew' at 18-24 hours old. Two were viably messed up upon arrival. One pulled out of it, one died. Now, of the two 'well' birds, we just noticed one has a VERY deformed left foot. It is all 'put on wrong'-bent, curving WAY out like 'pigeon-toed', not 'duck feet', eh? The one that pulled out of it, if you will, is NOT RIGHT,…but she'll likely survive.
Handicapped geese. How nice. They are 18 days old and just coming out of the cage to roam the kitchen! Cutest darned things,…think I'm their Mum! (They walk like kids in swim-fins!
God bless the little ones tonight,…human, plant, and animal alike–Amen.
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Oh dear, StillJill. This is definitely not your night.
So sorry to hear about the goslings (though they sound sooo cute, deformed foot or not!)
How fortunate you are to live in a rural area where you can do things like raise geese! It is just so strange (again…I seem to keep repeating this about so many things these days!) that they would be deformed.
When you said they "flew", do you mean you bought them and they were delivered air mail? If so, the radiation in the airplane could have affected them. Or perhaps their mother had been exposed to Fuku fallout (well, duh, if she was in California too, she was quite likely exposed!)
Hope the remaining ones survive and bring you many hours of joy! I love animals and being out in Nature. Yes, many blessings to all the dear innocent little ones, and to you as well, StillJill. As Tiny Tim says, "God bless us, everyone!".
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Great questions, WATK'S! On both posts from last night,…got me thinking,…Oh NO!
Yes, the goslings were shipped by plane at 18 hours old. I thought right away that they'd been 'gassed' in flight. But, they sure could have been born this way. The 'lefty' goose was born this way,…we just didn't notice until now.
The co. is considering delivery changes I'm told due to high death counts. Ya think?
Yes, God bless us everyone!
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I think Gary got FUKU'd,…but I also know that he had been raised in S. Cal before I met him, when he was very young. I further think that to be 'this sick, this fast',….a 'life-long exposure, intermittent at least, is usually at play also. Just my opinion.
Cara and Ashley Noel were not killed by radiation,…although both were affected by it. Certainly I blame environmental toxicity for Ashley's down syndrome,…Cara died in a jeep roll-over, her boyfriend was the driver and too drunk to lift the jeep off of her skull. Ashley Noel died of undiagnosed pneumonia,…they said she had simple bronchitis and had her on that stupid pink stuff. She drowned in her own phlem.
This morning I feel surrender. Sweet surrender. I shall exercise the Serenity Prayer and accept what I can not change.
This ugly last chapter has to play out,…I get that. Many things WILL SEEM unfair,….as has been the case in this fallen world. But,…with God,…things are RARELY what they appear!:-)
I can sense and feel what's happening UNDERNEATH it all,….and IT's GOOD!
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Thanks for your reply to my questions, StillJill. I am sorry to hear that about your sweet Ashley. But as you say, sweet surrender, knowing somehow there is a greater wisdom in a Higher Power is a wonderful way to feel at peace even in difficult times.
I also like to reserve a healthy skepticism about any future predictions. No one, save the Lord above, really knows what is going to happen tomorrow, or the next day, or next year, or in 1,000 years. So I take comfort in the freedom of not knowing, as it helps offer hope. As they say, "Keep the faith!"
Love ya, sis! Have a blessed evening and weekend and have fun playing Mama to your adorable little goslings.
Good night! xoxo
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I found a yellow bellied marmot today that was dragging its hind quarters along the ground. It stopped on some dirt and gravel and was sunning itself as I walked up to it and shoved it in a cardboard box. The little guy seemed like it was in a daze and just sat in the box shaking slightly. I closed the lid on the box and after about 10 minutes it started whistling off and on for 15 minutes. I then released it back unto the grassy area where it continued to drag itself around the grass seemingly unaware of my presence. I am not familiar with this animal so I do not know if that was normal behaviour. Anyone?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-bellied_marmot
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Brave kitten born with deformed 'corkscrew legs' has a new lease of life after pioneering surgery corrected his deformity
24 April 2012
We've been following this story, now …
A kitten born with his legs back to front has been given a new lease of life after pioneering surgery.
Corky was found by little boy dragging himself along a pavement in Fargo, North Dakota, and was brought into an animal shelter, where he was due to be put down.
But Gail Ventzke and Carol Stefonek, co-founders and directors of CATS Cradle Shelter, heard about the brave moggy and were intent on saving his life.
Scroll down to see video of Corky …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134417/Brave-kitten-born-deformed-corkscrew-legs-new-lease-life-pioneering-surgery-corrected-deformity.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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Thanks Doc!
This story ROCKS!
Seeing him up on the new legs drinking or eating like a normal cat,……what an incredible bunch of HUMANS he found his way into! How RARE is that?
Thanks,…my heart needed this!
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Two new news articles which could possibly be related to Fuku:
1. Healthy 30-year old runner collapses and dies during last Sunday's London marathon (Arclight, how were the radiation levels in London that day?):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/24/claire-squires-donations-london-marathon?newsfeed=true
2. New case of Mad Cow disease discovered in California, First incident in U.S. since 2006:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57420320/new-case-of-mad-cow-disease-discovered-in-california-first-since-2006/
"This was an atypical mad cow case," said Jim Roth of Iowa State's Food Safety and Public Health Center, in an interview with CBS News. The cow's own brain proteins "misfolded" and caused the disease spontaneously and the cow did not catch the disease from bad feed or from another cow.
"Atypical mad cow is not known to be transmissible, so neither animals nor humans could get sick from this cow.
"Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. The World Health Organization has said that tests show that humans cannot be infected by drinking milk from BSE-infected animals."
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Hole in the heart = 1 in 5 Americans.
When a person has stroke or transient ischemic stroke (TIA) "out of the blue" with no obvious risk factors, doctors often check to see if the event was caused by a "hole" in the heart called a patent foramen ovale (PFO)? About 1 in 5 Americans has a PFO.
http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PFOpatent
I post this because my friend's 48 year old husband suffered a massive stroke on April 7 and is still in ICU (Texas). Yesterday it was determined that he has "holes in his heart". Thank you Federal Government, for all your fucked up radiation testing – you have screwed us all.
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So sorry to hear about your friend's husband, Kondy.
As you may have read in some of my earlier postings on this thread, my circle of family and friends along the West Coast (WA to CA) have had too many heart attacks, massive strokes, etc. since 3/11 to be coincidental.
And so many previously healthy, relatively young people worldwide (like the 30 year old marathon runner in last Sunday's marathon in London) dropping dead from heart attacks this past year…so strange and sad.
What monsters have we unleashed upon the world??? Who is responsible and will they be held accountable???
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KONDY!
My prayers and condolences to you, your friend, and her beloved hubby! The waves of grief and anger must be quite distressing, (understatement-I know).
None the less,..please know that prayers work, they help,…and I shall go pray in the sauna for "perseverance for us all"! Amen.
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'It is darkest before the dawn'.
Not this time! 
'Don't quit five-minutes before The Miracle'–Gosh I hate that one,…seems I OFTEN do just that!
Endure,…or, like Winston Churchill once said, "If you're going through hell, KEEP GOING."
LOVE is the answer!
I love you ALL.
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Love you too, StillJill! Yes, love IS the answer. Amen to that!
xoxo
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Genius scientist says chill! Radiation that reached other countries is miniscule. Check out Wikipedia and scroll down for "SI multiples and conversions" to "get" the math for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert
I'm not saying it's not unhealthy, and that there won't be thousands, maybe millions, of resulting cancers etc. But it's not nearly as dire as we'd thought. Even if unit 4 goes, it won't be the end of the world. So cheer up, wake up, and fight like hell to get all nukes shut down because they are all dangerous, even tho it turns out that the situation is not as dangerous as some of our commenters believe.
About unit 4, I'd been pushing for a team of international experts, but Halliburton and GE would jump in if there are profits to be snagged, which'd be more dangerous than the Japanese figuring it out for themselves.
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"not nearly as dire…" hmm…???
….unless YOU, or your loved one is the statistic that suffers or dies. Then, number crunching becomes meaningless.
I guess "Good Luck" takes on a whole new meaning.
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Mutated Dandelions in Schoolyard Dearborn MI 4.23.2012
Apr 23, 2012 by ichicax4
Third time I've looked for mutations in a week, and found them. Since posting 1st vid I have had numerous comments, emails, and photos sent to me about mutations occurring in Canada, the US & Europe found in the past week, some from last summer. And not just in dandelions, but in other flowers, fruits, vegetables, and vegetation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzizbIKga5k&feature=player_detailpage
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MUTATION ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!! – DANDELIONS ARE NOW SHOWING TREMENDOUS DNA DAMAGE!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lGiREVjZEQ&feature=player_detailpage
Published on Apr 16, 2012 by adrumzzify
Mutated dandelions are popping up all over my street! There are more to come! Please share this video. Go outside and look for yourself! YOU DON'T NEED TO GO ON THE INTERNET TO FIND THESE ANYMORE! IT'S RIGHT IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD! Share this video!
Vancover Can.
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More Michigan Mutations from Fallout 4.21.2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AupyLDGHKk&feature=player_detailpage
Published on Apr 21, 2012 by ichicax4
Dandelions found today in a parking lot in Rochester Hills Michigan, about 20 miles north of Detroit, where I found mutations last weekend.
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Palm springs ca. Just did yard work and, at least for now, no mutations. Giant weeds due to lazy home owner. Nothing would grow for a while and I was concerned.
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