Published: August 2nd, 2012 at 12:55 am ET
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Title: Fukushima octopus shipped to Tokyo, Nagoya
Source: NHK
Date: Aug. 1, 2012 – Updated 04:50 UTC (13:50 JST)
Fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture have shipped radiation-free octopus for sale in the Tokyo and Nagoya areas.
Wednesday’s shipment of some 200 kilograms of octopus is the first batch of marine product from waters off Fukushima to hit markets in large Japanese cities after last year’s nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
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The octopus shipped to Tokyo will be sold on Thursday at Tsukiji market.
Title: Fukushima seafood traded again on Tokyo’s Tsukiji market
Source: Kyodo
Date: Aug 2, 2012
Seafood caught off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture was traded for the first time at Tokyo’s major Tsukiji fish market on Thursday, following last year’s nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
Auctions were held at the world’s largest fish market for octopus from the prefecture deemed clear of radioactivity and safe. Fukushima fishermen resumed their activities on a trial basis in June.
Octopuses caught off the city of Soma on July 30 fetched prices about 20 percent higher than usual amid a festive atmosphere, with one market participant saying, “I’m so relieved that octopuses from Fukushima have finally become available.”
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Published: August 2nd, 2012 at 12:55 am ET
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There has to be certain kind of fatalistic fascination in knowingly eating seafood from the poisoned east coast of Japan. Sayonara octopus lovers!
Madness in Tokyo…
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Like Russian roulette with 5 loaded chambers.
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The first test batch of targeted radiation poisoning has left the shores of the worst nuclear disaster in human history to be sold at market. The individuals involved in this test will be recorded based upon their photo and credit card numbers. Their information will then be stored and tracked for hospital emergencies, and medication purchases. Those who eat this contamination are unknowingly participating in nuclear testing. The largest testing grounds our planet has ever seen.
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I hope that there are folks buying this seafood to thoroughly test for contaminants and if found outing the lies to all.
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It's easy to produce lower than the true figure.
They either come up with 'safe' figures or measure it but remove the parts that's likely to be highly contaminated e.g. Sr-89/90 in bones, guts etc. Also, if they are only measuring for Cs-134 & 137, what about all the other radionuclides that has been flashed from Fuku? It's all false.
Plus, you can shorten the time of measuring to get the lower reading.
What good if they choose one or two kinds of fish out of 100s? Because water acts as shield, radiation detected in water-rich food are generally lower unless you dry the fish first then Bq will shoot up.
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Also, they could have tested 10 batches, and found them all contaminated. This 11th batch "deemed clear of radiation and safe" is the batch they take to market as uncontaminated, with great fanfare. (Next week, after the attention subsides, they will begin to allow a little cesium with the seafood, "but well within safety limits.")
They could be using a handheld geiger counter for testing the seafood. "See, only background radiation detected.". (Handheld geiger counters are useless in testing food for radiation.)
(And, by the way, the 10 batches of contaminated octopus were frozen, packaged, and exported to the United States, which accepts Japanese seafood without testing for radiation. Per an agreement reached with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.)
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Very correct. Yet Japan is just the beginning . . .
A Congressman is sponsoring legislation to allow food to be tagged with a 'cancer-free' label:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/240593-dem-proposes-bill-allowing-some-products-to-be-labeled-cancer-free
Notice how the Dept. of Agriculture and FDA is prominently mentioned. Pure evil.
Sponsored by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), who accepts campaign contributions from NextEra Energy, a nuclear energy company:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2012&cid=N00031317&type=I
They will continue to kill us until there is no one left.
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After all the lies,The Japanese people still believe whatever their government says. CRAZY…..
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You are witnessing the power of hypnosis, brainwashed people rambojim.
If it works for one way, it works for the other way too
Now we must do the counter 
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Crazy people in crazy country under crazy government control
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@shockwave..I could not have said it better..
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The Japanese have long had a fascination with fugu, a fish that is lethally toxic, unless it is prepared properly. Only highly trained chefs are licensed to fix fugu for a restaurant.
People who want to tempt fate for whatever reason would sometimes do so by eating fugu. It was ordered by people ranging from thrill seakers and those depressed to the point of suicide.
Now they have two dishes to choose between. They can order fugu to tempt fate quickly, or they can order Fukushima octopus and live under the sword of Damocles, ready to fall on them at any time.
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After more than a year no one has been arrested, no one in charge has resigned or apologized to anyone, and no one cares about anti nuclear protesters. I am not surprised to hear that foodstuffs from Fukushima are being consumed in Japan. The question is, how many of us are also eating radioactive food from elsewhere?
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exactly….no one can point the finger of ignorance at the Japanesse, none of us has any idea of the amount of radiation is in our food.
Is food from California free from radiation????
Is food from Washington or Florida or France free from radiation?
We hope it is, but that's all we got…hope.
We have no more certainty of any food from anywhere and we do not have any govermant agencies that are testing and telling!
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We know that milk in Hawaii has shown to be 600% above normal radiation limits:
https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/japan-nuclear-radiation-in-hawaii-milk-at-least-600-above-federal-drinking-water-limits/
And who drinks the most milk? Kids. They're killing the kids first.
PS: Some sites with this article are either down or redirected. Time to start saving, as the Net is being scrubbed.
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Fish and oysters from Tohoku (November – December 2011)
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French journalists brought these fishes and oysters back. The concentration in caesium in fishes is lower than the actual limit of 500 Bq/kg. But for two of these fishes, it is higher than the future limit of 100 Bq/kg.
hirame Cs137 60 bq/kg Cs134 48 bq/kg
ainame Cs137 68 bq/kg Cs134 47 bq/kg
scroll down the page for details
http://www.acro.eu.org/OCJ_en.html#result%203rd%20camp1
so there is contamination, it cant all have cleared up as we just recently got news of the hot spot south of daichi.. are they fishing north of daichi? is the limit now 100 bq/kg?
how are they testing? what are they testing for?
is this to combat the alternative news reports.. suppose this story will hit the msm too! hmmm! carefully crafted news releases from WPP and their friends i suspect.. so the new news strategy is to manufacture a "feel good" story and post it in all main stream outlets.. minimise the protests in case the hydraengia "infection spreads" the japanese arent going to take this story seriously.. the western world will!!
in fact im so reassured by this article that now im off to buy some pacific tuna/not
anyone notice that no recent water samples were taken except to say under 1 bq/l
cont..
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"..Normally, one should not be able to measure any contamination of the seawater.
Radioelements found in Soma, located at more than 40 km to the North of the power plant, come from the Fukushima plant. This pollution has the properties to accumulate in the marine life.
For example, iodine densities in seaweeds can be 1 000 to 10 000 times larger in the seawater. This factor ranges from 10 to 100 in fish and shellfish. Caesium can be 10 to 400 times more concentrated, depending on the species…"
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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident
-Update for the
Marine Environment Monitoring
Assessment of IAEA Environment
Laboratories on Data from the Marine
Environment
provided by Japan
Update April 2012
"…TEPCO and MEXT carried out an intensive monitoring programme for sea water
sampling mainly designed for emergency measurements. Small samples volumes
were analyzed only for short measurement time resulting in rather limited
detection limit….."
then the IAEA shows results giving no detection for most of the sea except for just on the plant..
the levels of contaminated fish are on this pdf as is graphs from 2011 to 2012 showing the IAEA version of contamination..
no mention of the recent hotspot here??
the IAEA is rubbish at monitoring… WHO gave them the job????
http://meeting.helcom.fi/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=16324&folderId=1760045&name=DLFE-49941.pdf
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also mext reported Mn54 and Ag isotopes.. not on the IAEA version?
no strontium or plutonium.. on the spectrograph?
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lol they are still getting around to testing the samples from last year
on the update section of the report
"..108 1 L and seven 30 L water samples received from the KOK cruise in October 2011 for analysis on various radionuclides; part of these samples should be shared with Pavel Povinec (Bratislava) and Jürgen Sültenfuß (University Bremen) for tritium determination…."
next year maybe strontium..
dont wait up!!
the IAEA is so SLOW!!
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Arclight..Of course there is strontium and plutonium recorded on the spectrograph.The situation is worse than we all think.
strontium-90 half life-28 years
plutonium-239-half life-24,300 years
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http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0168900210013069-gr2.jpg
to confirm that plutomium was not shown in this pdf.. but they cut of the spectrograph way before the plutonium etc channel range!
it sounds like strontium may be a local soil concern mostly but no testing there..
and plutonium and uranium has not been tested for or the results have been witheld..
except gundie and busby so far
acro france, criirad and safecast have not even tried an explanation of these isotopes?? and the IAEA has misplaced most other isotopes except cesium (as they said way back last year.. "cesium only")
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The great excuse of Pu is said that it is so hard to detect. (And if it is released due to a nuke disaster just stop measuring)!!
Is that why MOX is becoming such a wanted fuel for the shills?
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Plutonium is not any harder to detect than the other isotopes, with moderate quality testing equipment. It is the plutonium and uranium that provides some of the definitive signatures that allow scientists to determine where the isotopes come from. Just like a serial number, fully traceable.
MOX is desirable because they get weaponized material faster. It burns hotter, and almost none of the NPPs are rated for it, so there is a much higher chance of disaster. But when did that stop anyone?
If you though DU munitions are bad, wait until we start using DP rounds.
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"Small samples volumes were analyzed only for short measurement time resulting in rather limited detection limit….."
this says to me that tepco and MEXT arent taking the job seriously, and the IAEA knows it!!
download a copy while stocks last!!
interesting update..
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anyway the reason for the "smoothover" in my opinion is that the news aggregators that the high frequency traders use is effected when someone on the web says something like
".. all nuclear shares dropped by 40 percent after fukushima and EDF are going broke and need a partner to bail them out.."
there edf shares have dropped by a nose as i post
and WPP knows this.. they are clever…
so once a month the "happy" stories come out while the rest of the month is used creating interesting propoganda and general BS on war sport politics etc to stop any thought crimes!…
"EDF are going down the pan!!"
a couple of more points of edf`s share price
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South Korea has banned 35 items from the area.
Octopus..from Fukushima should be banned from sale.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/south-korea-banned-import-of-additional-35-types-of-marine-products/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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And then the banned food is shipped to Taiwan or Thailand, repackaged and now it says 'Product of Taiwan'.
We'll never know.
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Nominee to head new nuclear regulatory body vows higher safety
By Mari Yamaguchi
NATIONAL AUG. 02, 2012 – 03:01PM JST ( 6 )TOKYO —
"….The government’s candidate to head Japan’s new nuclear regulatory body has vowed to impose stricter safety standards on utility companies that run nuclear power plants and brushed off accusations that he has a pro-industry bias…"
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/nominee-to-head-new-nuclear-regulatory-body-vows-higher-safety?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-08-02_PM
the above article is also part of the smoothover..
phew someones going to sort them pesky corporations out!!/sarcasm
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From within your linked story, arclight:
"Shunichi Tanaka is a former executive of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, which promotes development of nuclear energy."
Your sarcasm is indeed justified.
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German Ministry of Environment and Nuclear Safety warns Chamber of Commerce of Co-60 contaminated items from India:
- lots of contaminated goods found at borders of Germany, Netherlands, Belgium (seaports)
- stainless steel items like tea boxes, plates, wine coolers,…
- advises testing, gives 500 microBq/gram as highest tolerable dose (according to German law)
- advises importers to adapt contracts, so Indian manufacturers must take back contaminated goods (to sell them elsewhere or at home, BnB thinks)
- letter refers also to the Home Depot tissue boxes.
Fed up!
http://www.ihk-suhl.de/files/138B918E603/BMU-Schreiben+zu+kontaminierten+Edelstahlprodukten+aus+Indien.pdf
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We must check everything for radiation, not just food…this is madness and I don't blame nuclear unaware people for thinking advice like mine is maddness, cos it is!
India manufactures many products along with China and it is worrying. I believe India bought loads of contaminated (cheap!) aluminium after Chernobyl. Chinese investors have been buying up Japanese forests so who knows 'Made in China' could actually mean raw materials from Japan. Also, many car parts, electricals still comes from Japan, who knows they are made from recycled radioactive metals!!
While geiger counter isn't good for measuring food, it is now an essential item for situation like the above. If it beeps high, chuck it away or send them back to where it came from. Not a good time to work as a package handler for an internationa courier company, postal services or being a baggage handler.
What's scary is that India's experienced powercuts….I hope their emergency generators work cos ones in Japan didn't!!
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These are man made power outages, India requires more power to modernize, going to use this for a excuse to build more nuclear power plants but relly want more bombs, corruption is rampant in India.
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Spot on, weeman!
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Dear God.
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If any amount of radiation is harmful, shouldn't the limit be zero?
Why are we letting agencies get away with this?
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heres the press in action
al jazeera and cnn being the bullies, no less!
Rand Paul Tries to Intimidate & Harass Journalist After A Youtube Video
"..Published on Aug 1, 2012 by wearechange
Luke Rudkowski talks with Abby Martin of MediaRoots.org and RT about
U.S. Senator Rand Paul's attempt to get her arrested and stripped of
her press credentials for asking him tough questions in the Capitol
building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtO5INu-VY4 A week after our video with Abby Martin came out on YouTube,
the RT office, where Abby works, got an ominous phone call from the
Senate Media Relations Committee. The Committee was acting on behalf
of Rand Paul and threatened both Abby and the entire RT news
organization. The threats included ambiguous "charges" for violating
the rules of the Committee floor, Abby's possible arrest and the
termination of her and the entire office's press credentials.
After a month of meetings and deliberation, the Senate Media Relations
office backed down and did not make good on any of their threats.."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UKXpzdFQ_I&feature=player_embedded#!
seems on topic on this thread
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"Radiation-free octopus"
Some day it's gonna say that on tuna cans .. and that won't be true either.
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Did you all catch the story of Alaskan Pollack testing high. Stay away from that. I've stopped eating all seafood except for shrimp.
Not sure how they are testing it but Arnie G. said awhile back that they boil it first then test it. But they don't test the water. Knucklheads! Just had my degree assesed by New Zealand for immigration.
Should I stay or should I go nowwwwww!
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If you go there may be trouble, but if you stay…
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This seems like the right thread to mention that where I now live, in Eastern Canada, produce that used to be marked "product of California" or "product of Washington State" is sold this year only as "product of USA".
The store clerks/managers claim to know nothing about reasons for a change. Perhaps it's just a bean-counting thing.
As for fish… modern deep-sea fish boats may fill their holds hundreds or even thousands of miles from their home ports. National labels are meaningless in such circumstances, at least for radiation issues. Furthermore, there have been many media stories claiming that approximately half the fish sold is mislabeled as to species! It will keep getting worse, I imagine.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/10/25/141682168/a-dna-check-reveals-widespread-fish-mislabeling-in-massachusetts
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/sushi-frequently-mislabeled-in-restaurants-stores-study-finds.html
One of the ironies is that when you think you may be eating radioactive tuna (say), you may actually be eating a harmless substitute. On the other hand… "white tuna was often actually escolar, a snake mackerel with known diarrheal effects. The fish has been banned in some countries."
I imagine we'll eventually get horror stories about (your favorite food here). I doubt that this is just a "fish story".
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"…produce that used to be marked "product of California" or "product of Washington State" is sold this year only as "product of USA"."
The coverup of radiation in our food has begun. Here in the US, more and more products say 'Distributed by', rather than list state or country of origin, in direct violation of food product labeling laws. Clearly our governments are allowing this to happen. Otherwise, there would be a huge legal liability on the part of the labelers.
We have to assume, at this point, everything is contaminated, and purchase accordingly. In Eastern Canada, I'd spend my grocery money at local farmer's markets and butcher shops. It'll cut down on your available variety of foods, but there isn't any alternative.
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Otopuses?
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kkkkkk
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