Published: July 9th, 2012 at 12:10 pm ET
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Interview with Arnie Gundersen
Capitol Forum
July 1, 2012
At 6:45 in
Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Associates: Essentially northern Japan is contaminated… When I was over there I took 5 samples and all of them were contaminated, in public parks in Tokyo. The Japanese are trying to downplay the health significance of that… I’m on record saying we can expect a significant increase in cancers over the next 20-30 years, especially in women and children as a result of this… About 30-40% of people in Fukushima Prefecture have lumps on their thyroid which could lead to thyroid cancer…
Published: July 9th, 2012 at 12:10 pm ET
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Half the country contaminated. So much for nuclear. Time to move on.
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JAPAN VOICES from FUKUSHIMA – English subtitles
Published on Jun 13, 2012 by JAPANVOICES
The Future We Want -Japan VOICES- is visions and proposals
for an alternative future described from voices of people
experienced the Megaquake and Fukushima nuclear accidents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxiystZlegA&feature=related
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nice finish there by seiichi nakake
fukushima network for saving children from radiation
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typo Nakate
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JAPAN VOICES – English subtitles
discussion on purchasing power and the manipulation of corporations by the citizenry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6G67NEzkYE&feature=plcp
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【日本語字幕付】「放射能と子どもたち」/"Children and Radiation"
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpy0mg_yyyyyy-yyyyyyyyy-children-and-radiation_news
Results of Fukushima's Preliminary Exposure Survey Announced
By tokyobrowntabby
Fukushima Prefecture is conducting a health survey with all its 2 million residents to estimate the amount of their external radiation exposure during the first 4 months of the accident. On February 20, the results of the preliminary survey with approximately 10,000 residents were announced.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqwquf_results-of-fukushima-s-preliminary-exposure-survey-announced-what-do-2-experts-say-feb-20-2012-yyyyy_news
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I wonder what I can look forward to after living in Tokyo for the past year.
The sad thing is that I contacted my University concerning the dangers present in Tokyo and above, providing numerous references and access to hard data, and over two months later (after an initial, vague, noncommittal response) I have had no communique from them at all, even after their promising to "look into [it]" and research the data I sent them.
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And by "The sad thing" I mean "One of the sad things", as there are certainly more sad things that my personal situation or what my University does or does not do.
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Live the life you always dreamed of, S. Shoot for the moon, have some fun.
At this point, retirement plans are highly unnecessary.
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Sell it in a way that they will buy it, or else academia will let you down almost every time.
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Save evidence of your contacts to the University re the situation (file with email print-outs, log of phone calls including dates and conversations as best you remember.) You may want to sue the U. some day. The statute of limitations might be 1 or 2 years, and that might start from the time you suspected you should leave, or it might start from the time you find out that you should have left (a future diagnosis). I'm not an attorney. You relied on their assessment and should have been able to trust them to provide a timely, thoughtful response, and to put your welfare before the academic program's. Medical expert testimony is expensive and cases hard to win without it, but the University might settle for at least paying your medical expenses if it comes to that. Here's hoping it won't. Wishing you on-going good health.
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Your university is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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The economics of injury reparations from radiation releases is a huge concern for any affected employer or government. The US government has provided some compensation to uranium miners, nuclear workers, and downwinders over the past 30 years. Probably only in the neighborhood of payouts of 7 billion dollars for all the claimants who successfully overcome the strict qualification criteria. That's about the construction price of a single older single unit nuclear plant.
Nuclear liability acts enacted by the nuclear cabal countries have vigorously protected the industry from insurance claims in case of a Fukushima-type disaster. Limiting total payouts by the companies to pennies on the dollar because private insurers refuse to cover nuclear damages. So if your $200,000 house was a total loss due to radiation contamination you would receive in the neighborhood of $20,000 in the best case scenario. All bets are off however if a population area the size of New York City becomes an exclusion zone from radiation. The property losses would be in excess of 20 trillion dollars and the relocation costs of the population even to third world standard refugee camps would double that amount.
There isn't that much money available in the US so martial law and seizure of unaffected properties would ensue to provide care for survivors. That's a frightening scenario for the privilege of "electricity too cheap to meter".
As for redress from a private employer…not going to happen.
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ML is coming sooner than you think, and ED is the only answer after the tax base falls apart.
http://www.zerohedge.com – the other Red Pill
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actually the payout from capital property losses of $200,000 would be closer to $2,000 in a worst case scenario …
Where is our wonderful, David Koch-financed, Tea Party on this wholesale prostitution of our sainted "Constitution?"
Wasn't there something in there about "No Taking of personal property without 'just' compensation?"
Oh, right, we suspended that clause with the Price-Anderson Act to aid in the development of a 'critical' industry, which 'private' insurance companies outright refused to cover, and which cannot be 'covered' …
And continue to reauthorize long after the industry has matured into a full fledged, unstoppable monster, which destroys whole countries at a time, cannot bear to look at itself in the mirror, and dispenses cancer causing radiation at will, without compunction … all in the false name of private enterprise (with full government subsidy and sycophancy …)
Oh yeah, and in the case of a Price-Anderson payout, nuclear plant operators and their lawyers are paid first for any losses they might sustain, like loss of reactor, drywell and all … (No kidding here … check it out!)
What a country? The United States of Cancer Empire!
Go Japan — fight this Monster! Here in the good ol' USA we're too busy watching the telly and sucking up lies with our hot particles …
MIT? GE? Your responses are awaited …
Anything gentlemen? Anything at all to say in your defense?
Long live the Nuclear Cabal!…
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Hey Nedli – in case you missed it, here is my article on the design basis, core damage frequency, and collusion:
http://geoharvey.wordpress.com/design-basis-events-and-collusion/
I figure the likelihood of a meltdown from a boiling water reactor in the US is about 20%-25%, if we keep them all going another 20 years.
The idea that we could lose half of Japan, or half of New England, or the whole New York metro area for the sake of nuclear industry profits is sickening.
One thing that makes it especially sickening is that cheaper sources of energy with smaller carbon footprints are widely available. They include hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass, combined cycle natural gas with carbon capture and sequestration, and now, solar photovoltaic (according to the administrator of the US DOE's Solar Shot Initiative, bids to install large scale solar projects are coming in at $1.20 per watt).
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Thnx for that link GH.
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Hi all. Yeah right, seafood is safe. Look what even the bloody IAEA says in their latest status report:
"…restrictions on the distribution of:
Fat greenling, flathead flounder, red tongue sole, Japanese sand lance (excluding juvenile sand lance), stone flounder, gold-eye rockfish, surfperch, brown hakeling, fox jacopever, black cow-tongue, black rockfish, Japanese black porgy, sea raven, ocellate spot skate, cherry salmon, poacher, rockfish (Sebastes cheni), Alaska Pollack, Japanese seabass, nibe croaker, starry flounder, slime flounder, panther puffer, olive flounder, gurnard, spotted halibut, conger eel, little-mouth flounder, marbled flounder, flathead, Pacific cod, shotted halibut, brassblotched rockfish, ridged-eye flounder, Venus clam and northern sea urchin
captured IN or OFFSHORE of Fukushima prefecture."
(emphasis is mine)
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/statusreport280612.pdf
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Way to go Big Nuclear GE Goodthingstolife Idiotcracy …
You've ruined the Pacific fishery … shall we eat irradiated plastic? Or maybe you plan to feed us PCB's directly, which you've fished up from the polluted sediments of the Hudson and Housatonic Rivers?
Nothing to say in your defense? Even Hillary Clinton has learned how to say, "I'm sorry."
Oh right, if you admit to mistake made, you get sued and lose your stock options, pensions and all … So the new "American way" has become to continue the lie, maintain "plausible deniability," in the 'rich' tradition of George Bush and Dick Cheney …
This is not how American leaders have always behaved. At one point, some of them indeed possessed a certain amount of "sacred honor" which they were free to pledge. No more, it seems. Now it is "sacred greed" and a "God-given right to pollute" which they defend all the way to the gallows, from which we, a duped populace, now swing …
Peace to the 'newsers …
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"Even Hillary Clinton has learned how to say, "I'm sorry.""
Since when? She signed all the treaties eliminated rad testing of our imported/exported food supplies.
This really went downhill after November, '63. Ike was right, and JFK and his brother paid the price. Those two lessons are not lost on anyone in politics today. People talk about 'pay to play'. It's also 'play or die'.
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Hillary said, "I'm sorry" to Pakistan, so we could continue to supply our legions in Afghanistan via Karachi and the Khyber Pass, after having blown up an entire platoon of friendlies with one of our latest "smart bombs" … probably manufactured by GE … maybe you missed it …
You had to be paying really close attention … she only said it once … the audio was really poor … they covered it up with more important things like the biggest loser … and they made the girl say it (cause they didn't mean it) … oh yeah, and would you like a little cancer and birth defect with your smart bomb???
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Tea, bamboo shoots, shitake mushrooms..have made the restriction list produced in certain areas.
What is next..rice,soybeans..etc?
The food supply in the Fukushima is severely threatened.
The Japanese government may be free to place restrictions..but
they are also responsible for feeding the people.
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Hi Heart, I remember very recently someone posted about the food marketing push re Fukushima. Even on railway stations in Tokyo, there were booths offering Fukushima produce as ok, safe, and delicious. It was clearly a gubment push to spread the lie that all is normal, safe, friendly, soft and cuddly.
Propaganda is winning out over technical restrictions, it seems.
The Japanese will be eating grossly contaminated stuff in the belief that it is wonderful, and if anything else ever crosses their minds, then their patriotic duty to ignore the dangers will kick in.
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@ apostrophes.. I recall that now..I wish we had a link.
It seems that the Japanese government has taken up its
"responsibility".
It is clear for all the world to see.. by the promotion of food from Fukushima..the Japanese government considers its responsibility..the maintainng of a cover-up of this disaster to the point of openly promoting the people of Japan to eat contaminated food.
This is clear treason to the people of Japan by their own government.
PS. It's as though.. we are subjected to watching mass murder day after day…and the rest of the world whistles a merry tune.
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Goebbels would be watching in awe.
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P.S. They were also advertising Fukushima hot spring "health" spas!
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Yes, yes he would.
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correction … Goebbels IS watching in awe …
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hi apostrophies
thought this might help with the food adverts but some were taken down as the contamination became apparent
By tokyobrowntabby
This video clip is from a TV news program "news every" aired on Nihon-TV on March 28, 2011. The expert in the program is Dr. Keiichi Nakagawa, Associate Professor in Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital.
Despite the expert's claim that radioactive iodine would not be ingested in fish, it was detected in some fish just several days after this program was aired. There are no news that he has ever apologized for his false remark. He's still preaching safety at leactures.
For what he says about plutonium, please go to: http://dai.ly/Jg0g8j
Translation and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqz7xk_radioactive-iodine-won-t-affect-seafish-an-expert-says-mar-28-2011-yyyy-yyyyyyyyy_news
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lol
JP Govt's TV CM: "Let's Support East Japan by Eating!"/「食べて応援」CM（農水省）
By tokyobrowntabby
Following
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqt7kt_jp-govt-s-tv-cm-let-s-support-east-japan-by-eating-yyyyy-cm-yyy_news
and after anntokyo did a bit of sleuthing the trail led right to wpp (ogilvy maher) from detsu/adk if you dont understand what i am on about here id the thread with links.. some links might be dead as we did bash this campaign over the head with some common sense and the adverts just look embarrassing now/then…
http://enenews.com/forum-discussion-thread-november-8-14-2011/comment-page-1#comment-153158
and a bit further down the thread…
http://enenews.com/forum-discussion-thread-november-8-14-2011/comment-page-1#comment-153356
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Hey Heart, I just marked the prefectures named in the IAEA report in a Japan map…..not nice.
And as we know, it's far worse than that…
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/53903742/No%20food%20from.PDF
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@B and B..Thanks for this. Yes..we know it is worse..in the size of area and numbers species of both fauna and flora contaminated.
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30-40 percent with thyroid lumps? WTF are they still doing there? Anymore, I have absolutely no faith in mankind, none-what so ever, as given the choice of licking their masters boots or saving themselves from metabolic pathology they choose their masters! All I can Say, “ GOD, I WANT A REFUND!”
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Here is the article posted to enenews
http://enenews.com/govt-thyroid-cysts-nodules-detected-35-children-18-years
Apparently, based on the Chernobyl incident, there is a progression of cancers the population affected experience. The first is childhood thyroid cancer followed by others appearing more or less an overlapping succession. I head this in a documentary from one of the doctors treating people in one the areas not evacuated, but probably should have been.
Childhood thyroid cancer is normally extremely rare.
I will try to find it again on youtube.
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The thyroid exposures occurred primarily during the first 2.5 months, with a bit continuing from ongoing fission events, but not nearly as high as in the first 4 weeks. After 8-10 weeks the iodine was decayed away and the damage was done.
Remember how complete the lies and coverups were in those first weeks (continuing, of course, to today except that more and more keeps coming out anyway). So those 30-40% would still be suffering the same thyroid damage if they now lived in Okinawa or elsewhere. That's the deal with exposure to radioisotopes. By the time you know there's a problem, it's too late to prevent it.
That said, nobody should still be living in the extended contamination zone or any surrounding environs. Especially not families with young children. There is no decontamination of this crap, it's just going to spread things around more and further expose people. Nor should there be any crops grown in any of this area. If they aren't grown (or harvested, like fish and livestock), then people wouldn't be exposed further through the food supply.
The fact that this isn't happening tells us the government is still firmly involved in crimes against their own citizenry.
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hijoyb
heres a video with one of the japan chernobyl nurses talking about the symptoms that were being found in a program aired after the worst of the iodine 131 was depleted.. the same symptoms found in belarus.. the same symptoms that many japanese health professionals had written of as psychosomatic.
By tokyobrowntabby
This video is from a webcast program called "ContAct," webcasted on July 14, 2011 by OurPlanet-TV (http://www.ourplanet-tv.org/?q=node/287), an independent net-based media.
Translation by EX-SKF( http//:ex-skf.blospot.jp ) & tokyobrowntabby and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqvy6f_radiation-causing-unusual-changes-what-s-happening-to-children-now-jul-14-2011-yyyyyyyyyyy_news
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Some reading for you–
>>>In a book about Three Mile Island: ‘They Say Nothing Happened’
“Harvey Wasserman, co-author of Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience With Atomic Radiation, stressed that the what happened account comes amid virtually complete inactivity by U.S. media in following up the Three Mile Island accident. (Wasserman has written about the aftermath of TMI for Harrowsmith—5-6/87—and other publications.)” (This same thing happened after Chernobyl, and is now happening after Fukushima. This same scenario seems to happen after EVERY SINGLE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT.)
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/04/post-4.html
Some of their disturbing experiences were collected in the book Three Mile Island: The People's Testament, which is based on interviews with 250 area residents done between 1979 and 1988 by Katagiri Mitsuru and Aileen M. Smith.
It includes the story of Jean Trimmer, a farmer who lived in Lisburn, Pa. about 10 miles west of TMI. On the evening of March 30, 1979, Trimmer stepped outside on her front porch to fetch her cat when she was hit with a blast of heat and rain. Soon after, her skin became red and itchy as if badly sunburned, a condition known as erythema. About three weeks later, her hair turned white and began falling out. Not long after, she reported, her left kidney "just dried up and disappeared" — an occurrence so strange that her case was presented to a symposium of doctors at the nearby Hershey Medical Center…
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All of those symptoms are consistent with high-dose radiation exposure.
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Similar stories surfaced in The People of Three Mile Island, a book by documentary photographer Robert Del Tredici. He found local farmers whose cattle and goats died, suffered miscarriages and gave birth to deformed young after the incident; whose chickens developed respiratory problems and died; and whose fruit trees abruptly lost all their leaves. Local residents also collected evidence of deformed plants, some of which were examined by James Gunckel, a botanist and radiation expert with Brookhaven National Laboratory and Rutgers University.
"There were a number of anomalies entirely comparable to those induced by ionizing radiation — stem fasciations, growth stimulation, induction of extra vegetative buds and stem tumors," he swore in a 1984 affidavit.
Scientists say these kinds of anomalies simply aren't explained by official radiation release estimates.<<<
Yep. Crimes against their own citizenry.
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Thanks, Flatsville,
This is Horrible! Thyroid CA is Rare and Very Problematic. These Spikes are Indicators of Necessary Evacuation Zones. These people have to leave and Never Return. Any Children Born in these Areas will Suffer Tremendously!
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