Published: January 12th, 2012 at 3:18 pm ET
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Louvre ‘courting disaster’ over plans to send works to Fukushima, Telegraph, Jan. 12, 2012:
The Louvre museum has been accused of “courting disaster” over plans to send works to Fukushima in a gesture of solidarity as experts claim they could return “radioactive”
The world’s most visited museum is due to send around 20 works in April to three towns in northern Japan, including Fukushima City, less than 40 miles from [the meltdowns ...]
France’s nuclear safety and protection institute, IRSN, had advised French citizens only to visit the areas for essential reasons and to “regularly pass the vacuum cleaner over the surface of furniture and carpets” in the fallout zone.
“What about the paintings and 16th century Flemish tapestry that the Louvre is sending? Will they ‘regularly’ vacuum these?,” asked Mr [Didier Rykner, head of The Art Tribune website].
Roland Desbordes, an independent nuclear expert
- “Radioactivity, present all around Fukishima, can come into the town depending on weather conditions”
- “It is totally possible that these works will come back slightly contaminated. Then what will they do?”
- Decontamination would be a “complex and delicate” operation
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h/t Business insider
Published: January 12th, 2012 at 3:18 pm ET
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His resigning says a lot to...
sending...
Contaminated art work?
That doesn’t paint a very pretty picture!
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ok, I swore there wasn’t much to smile about today, but I guess your comment proves that idea to be fallacious.
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Tissue holders sold in bed Bath & beyond were contaminated with radioactive material..
http://news.yahoo.com/tissue-holders-pulled-stores-ny-elsewhere-023812730.html
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Toilet paper rollers?
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Hi Cindy
Wonder what else will show radiation? Will we have to check everything we buy?
When are we going to be issued detectors from Nuclear Corporations, not holding my breath that this will happen.. (maybe I should with what’s in the air)?
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Decontamination would be a “complex and delicate” operation
im trying to keep it classy admin…..
f^%*&^% the ART
what about the people? decontaminating them is harder!!!
sorry admin.. thats the best i could do!
heres what the times thinks about the children of fukushima!! grrrr!
“Due to last five weeks, the exhibition will feature François Boucher’s The Three Graces with Amor, François-André Vincent’s Portrait of Three Men as well as statuettes including an ancient Egyptian one of the goddess Isis.
It will be called: “Meeting, Love, Friendship, Solidarity in the Louvre collections.” The museum insists the works are in no danger, that the towns where they will be exhibited “present no abnormal radioactivity levels” and the museums to house the works are “untouched by the earthquake and tidal wave”.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9010750/Louvre-courting-disaster-over-plans-to-send-works-to-Fukushima.html
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hmmm ???
no mention of the tapestry??? LOL!!!!!!!
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c’MON arclight, we are talking about treasured art that has survived centuries. That kind of stuff can’t be exposed to radiation! Think of the consequences. Even if there was no mutation in the oil paint, could those works return to Paris and hang in a museum? If they carried contamination that would possibly effect those fancy young french curators in expensive suits that have to work in the galleries. How is that gonna work out? Lets forget the fact that the Fukushima accident may possibly be destroying the entire world and focus for a minute on these irreplaceable timeless objects of art…that may not have anybody left to appreciate them, none the less they should be preserved!
Now I ask you, if, like a tree, (a painting) falls in the woods (hangs on a wall) and no one is there to hear it,(no one is left living to see it) it doesn’t mean it should not be in a perfect state, preserved for eternity. I say band the art from the Fukushima exhibition!
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the nazis destroyed many, but not the art…
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Your comment gave me chills, the bad kind.
Why are humans so easily disposable?
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sorry, enoughalready45…yes, why kill the artist who made the art?
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The Bush crime family encouraged the destruction of ancient works of art in Iraq, via their Vulcan/Hellfire rape of that real estate…they are at the root of our problems, worldwide (CLinton is part of their clique) (BS drug-runnin, pedophealic secret societies)
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The Code of Hammurabi, the first known recorded (cuneiform) code of laws were also destroyed along with art treasures in the Baghdad Museum.
Bush never had any respect for either art or law.
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Actually, it was the Iraqi’s who stole the treasures to sell them on the Black Market. The Americans had nothing to do with the pillaging of the museums and the destruction of the art works.
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I watched it on Arab satellite TV.
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Good for you. I watched an alternate version. Okay by me to have both documented here. Perhaps the correct version will be substantiated in future.
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The Americans set up a situation where the Iraqis were enabled to loot the museum!
And in light of what we did to their country subsequently, perhaps this Iraqi criminal element was just thinking proactively! Or perhaps not. In any event, the Iraqi “Shock and Awe” campaign is what wars engender, give birth to, and ultimately enable the use of WMDs, nuclear weapons et. al. Which I thought we here at ene are attempting to circumbent. But perhaps not.
I hope you understand what I am saying, Anne…
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@ many moons
my thoughts on fine art pieces… LOL! we may not be on the same page here! but first the fact that the tapestry would be impossible to decontaminate and would suffer from low dose radiation sickness, atruck me as amusing! the icrp has judged tapestries more delicate than humans obviously! LOL!
ah! a con..ver..sa…tion! how novel!
as to my thoughts on that beautiful old rag! says it best here….
“Early Buddhism dealt with the problem of impermanence in a very rationale manner. This concept is known as anicca in Buddhism, according to which, impermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of human existence from which nothing that belongs to this earth is ever free.
Buddhism declares that there are five processes on which no human being has control and which none can ever change. These five processes are namely, the process of growing old, of not falling sick, of dying, of decay of things that are perishable and of the passing away of that which is liable to pass. Buddhism however suggests that escape from these is possible and it’s through Nirvana.”
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma8/imperm.html
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Reading a new book called the Garden Of the Beasts. It’s about Hitler but could be RE-TITLED to Nuclear Dead Gardens of The Beasts
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Arc posted to HP. Man someone IS NOT MINDING THE STORE THERE. Everything is going up! Shocker!
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“The Garden of the Beasts” is a very subtle, nuanced examination of the psychologies of those who would use weapons of human annihilation compared to those who would resist such evils. It exanines the complexities and grey shadings beyond black and white. It illustrates, in the form of a semi-fictionalized historical documentary, what Hannah Arendt called “The Banality of Evil.” It is an excellent read because it shows how complex our human situation really is.
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INTO ETERNITY (artwork depository)
OT!!
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THAT ONE WENT TO MODS BUT HOPEFULLY IT’LL APPEAR. TY ARC
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YEHAW!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/fukushima-cleanup-environmental-impacts_n_1193938.html
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When I was out of my country(India), I worked with a person who narrated his experience in bomb shelters. He said I would never ever stay in those shelters again and I will see along with similars thaat we never get into a situation like this! And they thank God have said no to nukes and will hopefully phase out by 2020 but now, if possible!. Poor nuclear wastes! What will they be thinking. They will be thinking: “We succeeded in making decent people to collaborate with the witches and the evil doers, the fascists who wanted nukes. We won!” There was one fellow in the video who explained it would be dangerous to separate the nuclear power supporters from others because the wastes require all the people! Please fascists stop this. The moment I came to know about the nukes in 1970(I was 30 and the net was not there and the press all a collaboration of fascists, like even now) I asked a Los Alamos employee who had come to lecture to us on nuclear power. I was the sole person to ask the question, what about the wastes. And he rigmoraled like the video arclight! I did not want this. And later I was taken to visit a coal mine. I refused to go under. When my co-workers came back from the vist : One of them exclaimed,they get good pay but”lieber oben als unten”.
You spoilt my day by bringing me into the reality of nuclear art. But let it be reality rather than the myth we involuntarily are engaged in. Thanks a million arclight.
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It is more than ironic to sugest that this spew of death only resides near this shitbag.
I am living my life and not saving too much money for a rainy day, bullshit. I focus more more financial corruptness than this broadcasted mere artifact of sickness.
I went over new years to florida, to visit my crippled mum. I did not want to stay with her in her demented clutter so I rented a condo on ormand beach. Full view of God’s ocean.
While I was gone, My aunts dog died, My dog died in November at three years of age, My wifes good friend lost her baby after five months of pregnancy, my mums has racked up hundreds of vet bills for her cat for no reason, I sense a depression with people that are growing awareness to propaganda bullshit.
2012 appears to be a banner year.
All the proof you need of propaganda is displayed in this fuk u shitme situation. ANd as bad as it is, it seems a little trivial.
Keep on blog on whatever truth you can drum up.
I will read and look for ways to become comfortably numb.
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Huh?
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Hey, you might understand. In time. I can tell you are young lack the critical part of thinking. That’s OK. The huh shit is the tell.
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PINK FLOYD “COMFORTABLY NUMB” (forget which song)
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my favourite song!
weve all been there ruffcut.. take care!
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Oh…I see. That’s what it’s called.
Ditto Ruffcut. Been there alot lately.
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Too frickin much, Whoopie. Too frickin much.
This shit goes way beyond nuclear.
Never imagined with 52 years on this planet, I would interpet this current situation as the complete clusterfuck, it has become.
Searching for truth, deflecting the bullshit and getting depressed, more aware, pissed off and seeking higher ground, all at the same time.
Let you all be blessed with something good, or at least something worth half a shit.
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Ruffcut 60plus years here and to think I slept right through the buildup. I MEAN SOUND ASLEEP! And now we find out ALL NPP EMIT RADIATION AND IS CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING!! Pissed is a word that doesn’t EVEN EXPRESS MY ANGER. But gotta hope we can leave our Grandchildren a better planet than the ONE WE HAVE NOW. And WE WILL by God…or die trying. Hugs Ruffcut!
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Maybe just maybe it’d help YOU to tell the Pro-nukes a piece of your mind.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/fukushima-cleanup-environmental-impacts_n_1193938.html
IT’S FUN when a thread at HP is not moderated. GET YOUR FRUSTRATIONS OUT. Just a suggestion
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RC – same age, experience and sentiments.
Well said… I would HAVE NEVER IMAGINED
this serious peril humanity is in…
Colossal Cluster 101
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Oh yea, here is to being comfortably numb….
Let’s keep those shopping channels going.
Let’s keep those sports channels humming.
Let’s keep those food establishments open, 24 hours a day
Let’s keep that TV on all day and night.
And so it goes….
comfortably numb.
No wonder kids are starting to cut themselves just to feel SOMETHING real.
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One of my favorites also but I have become uncomfortably numb..
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when I heard the song as a late teen, I didn’t have a clue as to how relevant the song would become to so many (including me from time to time).
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Ditto arclight… ALL
Pink Floyd fan for life here…
The message relavent then and now…
Scary times, insightful lyrics.
By the way which one is pink?
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Floyd.
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“Comfortably Numb” Is what we need to be. Not so screaming in pain that we cannot be rational. Not so hurt that we lash out in unproductive anger.
We need to be sufficiently comfortably numb to realize the full pain and to be totally, completely aware of what this means and to be aware of what must be done. Only if the pain is a little bit sedated can I/(we?) keep from responding out of anger…AND ESCALATING THE SITUATION!
Let us learn the Buddhist way of skillful means. Let us take the anger and make our arguments rational, reasonable, and productive enough to, hopefully, accomplish what we desire!
I LOVE being comfortably numb while still being profoundly aware.
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Interesting paradox.. I had not thought of it that way..
A part is numb…
A part is perfectly aware, just watching…
A part is seeking more information…
A part is diving deeper into the stillness….
A part is taking action….
All parts are in perfect harmony, singing a song about numbness.
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Yes AGR..you understand the paradox…and this is one of the things which can come from a part hurting so badly it can take no more. This is the bottom, at least for me, which can become the epiphany moment.
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Comfortably (situationally) numb
Painfully (decidedly) aware
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That’s the way to be, imo…situationally numb & decidely aware.
There’s a pain in the heart, but satisfaction in the consciousness.
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+ + +
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Great comment. This is the way to go, ty.
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2012 appears to be a banner year.
this will be a good year for the citizen i believe.. the fukushima incident has to be censored or the whole pack of nuclear lies will come fallig down… all the money and the focus from the nuclear advocates is focused on minimising the “illegal” statistics.. i believe that the rest of the scientific community is wondering about this situation.he japanese are not in the same position as the peoples of the old soviet bloc. the information is leaking worse than sp4..
sorry for your troubles.. i hope you find some light in your life to make it all worthwhile… for me it is saving the children living in contaminated lands.. the children are the light that makes it worthwhile!
peace
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@Ruffcut,…I read you LOUD and CLEAR. Much emotion in those ‘sputtered facts’, my friend. I can feel it too. I am very sorry that ANYONE has to go through “THIS”.
Like you, I slip from one ‘comfortably numb’ to the next.
As for artwork,…On topic,…Oh Plaeeease! Worry about “Stuff” Japan,….and all you other ‘artsy-fartsies-fucks,….don’t worry about babies, or children, pregnant women, your FREAKIN’ Motherland’s soil/air,…..but protect those tapestries, by all means.
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CHIN UP RUFFCUT!
ONE DAY AT A TIME!
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
Arundhati RoyJ
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me too, @Ruffcut
Hope you don’t mind that I put your post on the “Anomalies” thread, too.
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Where is that thread? Nevermind, I’ll scroll up and check it out. See what being gone does to a person?
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http://enenews.com/forum-possible-fukushima-related-anomalies-deformations-yellow-rain-metallic-taste-mouth
Sorry, Whoopie, I should have included the link.
I’m a student of yours, just not a very good one!
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TY NONUKES! (LOVE THAT NAME!!)
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No money, no skills, but a living Will and burning Heart that won’t stand still and that’s a start on a journey with Intent.
Iron-clad with no thought of surrender or offer of knee, bent, to those who smite the most innocent, the tender, those who with their humanity shed have lost any hope of defense.
Champions and knights, saviors and heroes don’t count dollars and zeros but Rights and favor the facts of Love and Hope that have let all cope through the miseries of history and oppression, fact suppression, war and aggression against what is good. Where there is light and life there is desire and that is food to sustain the fight in the streets of every neighbourhood.
I don’t know where to put this but I hope you see it Ruffcut.
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We all see it “or-well”, and we are legion my friend!
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So France is worried about a little harmless radiation getting on their pictures? They were pretty vocal about Chernobyl fallout being A-Ok
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Then Fukushima must be 100 times worse and they know it, right?
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Yeah bring more people to a DEADLY WASTELAND, put some art work up there….
Not to mention contaminating priceless artwork so it has to be destroyed.
How about just donate the proceeds instead of putting people and history in harms way!
2X bonus of unbelievable EPIC stupidity.
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UNMODERATED if your interested http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/fukushima-cleanup-environmental-impacts_n_1193938.html
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They better stay out, unless those French want to get fried.
Or attacked and eaten, by deranged racoonbeardogs.
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I think this has brought up an interesting dilema. It’s like a mirror reflection that is describing the situation with clarity. If fukushima is too polluted for expensive artwork, it’s too polluted for smiling people. I love it whaen a situation helps define something that has been perhaps placed in the shadows of doubt.
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+100E+05
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Lol
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“Meeting, Love, Friendship, Solidarity in the Louvre collections.” If they want to exemplify these concepts they should sell off some art work and use the money to help people evacuate their children.
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Now that’s a truth! Good one, ‘enoughalready45′!
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+2!
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How could the Dalai Lama shown here WITH FUKUSHIMA CHILDREN come out saying that Nuclear Power should continue?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=223469287718380&set=a.161559767242666.41099.146594382072538&type=1&l=987bcd394c&permPage=1
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he also said that it should be decided by the people.. he would have to say that about nuclear power because the japanese gov would not have let him in.. the msm would only cut and paste that sentence instead of the whole meaning… thats my take.. and if he had to bend around the rock like a tree root he would! his mission there was to support the people and i think they apprecciated it
“According to the Kyodo news service, the Dalai Lama on Saturday toured areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of March and take part in Buddhist ceremonies for the victims.
The spiritual leader of Tibet 76 years offering words of encouragement to survivors during service in the Temple of Saiko in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.
The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on the Tōhoku Shinkansen bullet train and baby held by mother touch through the window at the railway station North, Koriyama, Japan, November 6, after delivering a speech with due tortured people of Fukushima tsunami, March 11, and radiation damage caused by the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
With about 1,000 people attending, the Dalai Lama said that as he shares the pain of victims who lost their loved ones, and that he hopes people will be able to overcome their sorrow and rebuild their lives.
Ishinomaki, about 3,800 people were killed or went missing in the disaster, the number of casualties in a single municipality.”
http://www.ttgaa.com/kindergarden/dalai-lama-visits-japan-meets-with-disaster-victims.html
he was there for that not to promote nuclear.. so ask yourself , why did he mention it?
my conclusion is that was the deal!! he had to “bend” and that is ok with me
save the children had to “bend” too! see their japanese annual report.. very little mention of nuclear except some timid examples.. want more examples of how its done in japan?
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http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/%7B9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a%7D/EARTHQUAKE%202011_0906_FINAL1.PDF
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oh and save the children were given a small position on the disaster team in my opinion especially considering the resources that they could have brought to the table.. thats my impression.. and they did a brilliant job of their limited remit! but as they say
“Six months down the road, we are proud of our successes. We recognize, however, that this is only the beginning, and serve in part as a period for building the foundation for long-term relief and recovery work.”
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6621121/k.3D08/Japan_Earthquake_Tsunami_Relief.htm
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OH! Thanks Arc. I posted that and LEFT. Thanks for the links.
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great job whoopie!! your the best!! comfortably numb playing in background as i type!
peace!
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I looked, but couldn’t find where HH the Dalai Lama said nuclear power was acceptable. If you have a link, please give it because I believe HH’s thoughts and speech would be much more subtle.
As for myself, I believe that we human beings have evolved our weaponry and, therefore, nuclear power, the power of the stars! Nuclearism has evolved as the final mirror to our hubris, our egos, our wars, and our greedy thirst for domination.
The nuclear age is the most important part, or mirror, of our evolution. Nuclearism demands that we evolve spiritually, ethically in a way to balance our technological, but ammoral, acuisition of the taking of the power of the gods, of the stars!
Comfortably Numb playing during this also!
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Hi arclight, you & many others have posted interesting comments & I follow most links posted in order to learn. This link for Save the Children I followed too. The first thing I did was to check their Corporate Partners….
One most outstanding is guess who? GE~!~ And all the Save the Children has managed to raise is 25 milion?!?!
With partners like GE, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Cisco Systems, Pfizer, Inc., PepsiCo, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Foundation…and Goldman Sachs…just to name a few.
Companies that I have followed for years as they create conglomerates ect. I will not go into all the history behind each of just the few I listed as most here likely know most of it.
So I have to follow the money & find that it is contaminated with the highest doses of poison that no amount laundering will remove.
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6148397/k.C77B/Corporate_Partners.htm
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all the NGO`s have to work through the un.. they have to tow the line and part of their funding will come from corporate companies reducing their tax burdens and creating some good PR! save the children also have to tow the japanese corporate line too otherwise the children would have been even worse effected by this triple whammy of a disaster! im no fan of big buisness as you may have guessed already
but the big NGO`s have to act diplomatically or they will not be able to do ANY of the jobs they are set up to do!
just adding that to support the work of these charities and have a bit of understanding to the pressures they have to overcome! as long as the press doesnt cover this nor mainstream science challenge it, the charities can not move in any other direction
just my take.. great research your involved in.. look forward to your posts!
peace
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@”Maidenheaven”-Thank you,…I did not know that.
Stinks like washed up fish,…to me anyway.
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have read nasty bits about Save the Children and Unicef, too, Maidenhead…no links now, but your money laundering reference sure rings a bell…
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“Maidenheaven,” sorry!
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Okay, “MaidenHeaven,” I think that’s finally right, sorry. The sad thing is that I am completely sober.
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Ten Strikes Against Nuclear Power
http://www.greenamerica.org/programs/climate/dirtyenergy/nuclear.cfm
It used to be three strikes and you are out.
Now it is ten strikes and the game is still going on as usual.
Well, maybe not..
FUKU DAINI and FUKU DAICHI together makes ten reactors, plus ten SFP’s, making TWENTY Potential disasters in the making, even today… Cold shutdown?
First Chernobyl… ONE reactor blown up
Second Fukushima; 2? reactors blown up, 1 spent fuel pool blown up, at least 3 more melted through or down out of 20.
No one knows yet, because the press is locked out, no scientists are allowed in, no one is reporting any total radiation releases, and no one knows where the melted corium in all of these 20 reactors and SFP’s is, YET.
We will see what Mama Nature has up her sleeve, coming soon… because Ego/Hubris seems to have no limit, and people are STILL not paying attention.
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I appreciate you so much here AGR.
Posted here AND IT APPEARED http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/fukushima-cleanup-environmental-impacts_n_1193938.html
LET’S SEE THE RISE WE GET OUTTA IT!!
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Im thinkin 4 reactors blown or a spent fuel pool popt the last one…
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I’ll begin my first-ever post on enenews by saying Thank You to Admin. I respect what you do in a way you could never comprehend. The commenters, though we have never met or spoken, I consider my friends. You have been my guides since the end of April, when I first discovered this treasure. Whoopie, xdrfox, Tacomagroove, Pu239, or-well, arclight, bmurr, sickputer, StillJill, Professor Neutron (a while ago)…the list goes on. I respect each one of you so much. I haven’t participated at all in this forum, but I check this site at least 8 times a day. I liked the page on Facebook many months ago, and I’m also a frequent visitor to Enformable, Fairewinds, ex-skf, fuku diary, and several of the other sites listed at the bottom of this page. I’ll start commenting more and more and maybe I can bring something to the discussion.
Sincerely,
Room101
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your avatar scares me…
Thoughtcrime welcome here!
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I’m sure we’ll all meet in Room 101 soon, by the looks of things.
I really enjoy your poetry. I’m not sure if it just rolls off your fingertips, or if you spend a great deal of time on it, and it doesn’t matter. I’m a fan. You get it.
I thought you might be the first to reply.
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The bait was tempting -
I laughed, then shivered.
If we overcome Fear
They can’t make us quiver
or turn to false Others.
We just have to remember
we’re ALL each others Lovers,
little seeds of Humanity,
so I turn to rhyme
instead of profanity.
Mostly.
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I guess that answers my question. Brilliant. Honest. Loving. I’d hug you.
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Room101,…you are delicious already!
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That should have been my enename!
I feel good.
Hope you do, too.
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Indeed,…I really do. You ‘friends’ coming in from off of the COSMOS,…adding to the melody,…simply electrifying! Me likes!
A gal could heal around this type of energy!
Bottle THIS tepco!
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SO GLAD YOU JOINED US!!
What DOES Do It to Julia mean? NOMATTER! I LIKE IT!
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Whoopie the Tireless. You are awesome. Perhaps the most huggable of them all.
At the end of Orwell’s 1984, through electric torture, constant beatings, mental anguish, isolation, degradation, disfigurement, constant pain, threats of death, and finally…rats…, the lead character, Winston Smith, is made to betray and renounce his love, Julia.
We’ve almost arrived.
Love you.
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OOOOhhhhh Boy! You FIT RIGHT IN HERE Room101!
I think of all the wonderful posters here and damn, I’m left with ONE question:
WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?!?!
no reply needed
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“Julia” was already HERE. We just couldn’t see ‘her’ yet, eh?
There are MORE of you out there,…you lovely lurkers! I feel you!
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welcome 101.. cool handle.. talking to orwell .. lol..
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I’d hug you, too, arclight. Such bright people in here. Out there. Right here. Right now. These are the good old days, I think. Nice to meet you.
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“Those were the days my friend…
“We wished they’d never end…
Now were on the road to destruction
Our Fate Lies in our OWN HANDS!
Right people!? RIGHT!
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RIGHT ON!! WHOOPS!!
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I’ve got to get off here soon.
Love to all!
A GREEN ROAD
YOU GOT “BITES”!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/fukushima-cleanup-environmental-impacts_n_1193938.html
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Love back Whoops,…missed you while you were down. Grateful as ever that you’re back!
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‘The Ostrich’ lyrics by Steppenwolf come to mind…
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Welcome, I couldn’t agree more, Room101! The world could do worse than to have rely on the people you mention. The knowledge, talent and intelligence of the people collected here surprises me each day. Plus, they often make me laugh, too, like you just have, thanks.
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You are so welcome, NoNukes. You always have interesting points, and a nice way with people. Glad to meet you.
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Well said… Welcome to the family, Room101
Kind of got a chill reading your post.
We are all we have, a tremendous resource,
which (I too) am immensely grateful for…
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Thank you truthseek. I’ve read many great points and followed quite a few links you’ve posted. Apologies for not listing you in my first comment.
Great to meet you. The pleasure is all mine.
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I lurk (assimilate) far more than post…
too much informed perspective here.
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Ur style reflects Human0…just sayin
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I think human0 is quite a bit more optimistic than I am. It’s his/her strength. I like the point of view, but I don’t share it. Not anymore.
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When works of art become a symbol of the historical value of the human race and those art works are threatened with an invisible enemy…what else is there to say except that Japan has unleashed a monster.
Historical art should be protected for future generations just as humans should be protected from the same dangers.
The French are correct to save their art. This action should be a clear warning to every inhabitant on earth… Not just Japan. A deadly radioactive mixture of toxins that can contaminate art works is a grave threat to all of humanity.
I call on China, India and Russia to step up and help Japan because they are in harm’s way far more than the rest of the Northern hemisphere. The assistance from North America has been abysmal so it’s clear the real super powers of the world need to take the lead in helping Japan or they are going to suffer the dire consequences of destruction of their populations that is comparable to global thermomuclear war.
World War III has begun in Japan and the enemy is the nuclear cabal that has absolutely zero control of the dirty bombs going off 24 hours a day. The human race is facing the worst threat to its existence in 25,000 years. Which superpower will step up and try to save the human race? The Doomsday clock should be set to ten seconds before midnight.
SP
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wow! amazingly expressed observation
thanks for sharing that sickputer
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X 100! EXCELLENT!
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Dr. Manhattan is on Mars, and he is definitely not coming back.
Hi!
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X 1000
An army can move into a country & in a very short amount of time, build their own secure, well fed city. So why haven’t the Armies around the world provided that knowledge to not only house those already evacuated but be able to support 1000′s more. We all know of how well funded the War Machines are. Here is the opportunity for every country in the world to redirect all that expertise & money from wars towards helping people. Also include all the Warships that could house & feed more people.
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Yeah Baby,…real solutions,…nuts and bolts,….give ‘it’ the Ol’e college try,…and all that! THAT is who we are,…and we are from everywhere!
Nice ideas MaidenHeaven!
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Ooopppsss.. the secret is out. We are not supposed to know that we since can house and feed an army of one million or more, that we can also do it for our own homeless, hungry and poor.
If we cannot feed, house, clothe our take care of our own homeless children and families, what makes us think we can do it in other countries for families of other cultures, beliefs and religions?
We have the capacity.. huge ships standing idle. Huge planes sitting around rotting away. Thousands of FEMA Trailers sitting around unused. As the poster above said, the armies of the world have the money, resources, labor and materials to build whatever is needed that is not available.
What are we lacking? First many lack the belief that it is possible. Second, many lack the desire to help others.. as in the Libertarian philosophy.. If someone is in the ditch, do not help them. Third, many blame the victim. Part of this is a Capitalist belief system which believes that anyone suffering deserves it, and no help should be offered since that is (evil) Socialism.
Finally though, it is really just a lack of will.
To overcome the above takes faith, love, positive thinking, possibility thinking, and the ability to shift paradigms of others. It can be done… I have been part of making this shift happen in several communities.
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Good for you greenRoad,…you are soooo right!
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Thanks StillJill & AGreenRoad +1000 Excellent points.
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This is what I think, and I am usually right about these things. The owners of the art insure the garbage, or whatever the hell it is. They send it into the fires of hell so they can harvest some ill-gotten gains when the zombies eat the pictures or the canvas disintegrates in a year or so. The walking dead are just looking for a little peace and quiet, imho.
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It is interesting that Fukushima is TOO DANGEROUS for precious artwork from France.
Yet the children, our precious bundles of miracles, are not worth enough to move out of danger.
Hmmmmm…. well, surprise, the same thing happened around Chernobyl.. Yea, they did move some.
But many hundreds of thousands more stayed in hot zones, and up to 80% of babies born in those areas have issues that will haunt them the rest of their lives. This is happening today. Chernobyl happened forty years ago.
The hospitals there do not test for internal radiation.. I will bet that the same thing happens in Japan as well.
The chief medical doctor in Japan is already weighing in; didn’t he say that there is no internal radiation sickness, only ‘stress’ and ‘worry’? This is just like around Chernobyl, in their hospitals and with their doctors.
They say; If only everyone will smile more, then the radiation will not hurt them… just like around Chernobyl.
Meanwhile, the children keep on dying, and smiling, bravely, innocently, all for the chief medical doctor.
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An Ode For The Children
The streets are empty, silent and cold.
The children are no longer laughing and playing
as in the days of old.
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And the children are the future artists of Japan that will make the precious artwork that will be treasured and studied as a mirror on and into the time in which it was created. It is people after all that make art. So why aren’t the children being guarded as national treasures? They carry all of Japanese culture and life within them. Without that kind of realization and action, Japan will have no art, culture, or life from this generation of children or those that follow.
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http://news.yahoo.com/tissue-holders-pulled-stores-ny-elsewhere-023812730.html
Contaminated tissue holders sold in the US …
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happened forty years ago.
The hospitals there do not test for internal radiation
hi AGR just a quick correction
chernobyl happened26 years ago and the hospital have scanners for cesium.. thats how they know when to send the kids abroad for a cesium break.. nice picture of the DIY chaitr somewhere on video.. works on food to!! you place the food on the chair and it will find the cesioum.. not sure about other isotopes though!! could really do with something like that in fukushima! cheapish, nasty nut works!!
peace
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKQ7HdpE9E
Dr. Chris Busby:
“… and it’s already happening, I get e-mails regularly telling me that people are just dropping dead, in a school children are dropping dead, one minute lay there and then their heart stops and they fall down dead and this is exactly what we found in Chernobyl because the Cesium gets into the heart muscles and it destroys heart muscle …”
Starts at about 12:38.
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I am one of those “lurkers”, I have been here since 3/14. Room 101 said it all…thank you to all of the people here who have given so much of themselves to get the word out. I would include JoyB in that list as well. I have been an Organic Farmer for 15 years now, shocked to the core by the level of misinformation and outright lies from the start. Thanks enenews for holding the light of truth. Also shocked by the lack of interest and outright denial even amongst my peers who should know better. Easy to talk about catastrophes that might occur in the future, but in real time people become like turtles in their shells. Good to know their are still some lions out there.
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Welcome!
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I’m an artist and my first thought after reading this article was “and they’re worried about art pieces?!…what about the people, the human-beings affected since day one, ALL OF US!” This isn’t isolated to Fukushima or Japan, we’re all taking in radioactive particles. We need to hear more about the ways to detox and protect. I’m all about the healing clays – Bentonite and Zeolite. Blessings to all.
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