Published: May 28th, 2011 at 6:51 pm ET
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Radioactive materials found off Miyagi and Ibaraki, NHK, May 28, 2011:
Japan’s science ministry has detected extraordinarily high levels of radioactive cesium in seafloor samples collected off Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefectures. [...]
Radioactive substances were found in all locations, including those off Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefectures, which had not been previously investigated.
Radioactive cesium 137, measuring 110 becquerels per kilogram or about 100 times the normal level, was found in samples collected from the seabed 30 kilometers off Sendai City and 45 meters beneath the surface. [...]
[Professor Takashi Ishimaru of the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology] said monitoring must be stepped up over a larger area, as radioactive materials in the seabed do not dissolve quickly, and can accumulate in the bodies of larger fish that eat shrimp and crabs that live on the seafloor.
Published: May 28th, 2011 at 6:51 pm ET
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Imagine that: heavy isotopes tend to settle on the sea floor. I’m sure if they thought that Cesium would make salt compounds and dilute away. Fat chance. What you have now is an impossible to clean up situation in the sea. Contamination, including ugly long lived isotopes like I-129, Sr-90 and many others, will be there for the long haul, slowly building up the the food chain until it comes back to us people. Not much you can do about it now.
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I think all the people of the world should raid their bank accounts and try to pay off these companies like GE and TEPCO to stop producing nuclear energy and nuclear nature, nuclear water, nuclear food, nuclear everything!
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I think your idea is swell but lets just switch it up a bit- Ahem ok lets all raid Tepco GE et al. and seize their bank accounts release funds to Japan and then California for restitution and clean up and to pay to have the entire Nuke industry decommissioned. Hey BP?! where u going? Yes u 2 disband sell urself off and clean up the Gulf for reals this time…
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Looking at the numbers of people in so many counties (many third world) in the Pacific that are dependent on the sea for food we can see the ELE that will grow in these areas first as they will most likely have NO Knowledge of the problems they and their children are consuming and with virtually no medical care available !
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The Japanese eat anything that swims or floats in the sea.
A major source of food for them.
What are they going to eat?
Some of the rice fields, another major food item,
have also been contaminated.
Import food from China, Korea, Taiwan??
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Its a dead end. Isn’t it?
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I think Twinkies and Cokes might be their
new staples.
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Ya but they cant even get boats in and out due to floating cars and houses in the coastline. Wait till they go to pay their food bill and they have no money to do so. I mean – dead end, its really potentially a dead end.
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Sugar Caine grows in regions also affected so will also become contaminated !
Sugar in both products !
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And bamboo shoots.
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Believe it or not, Japan already has perfected a solution to the upcoming world famine: Solution to the Global Food Crisis
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AWESOME! and when ur body is done with the “burger” u can use the leavings to make a new one!!! Star Trek replicators, eat you hearts out!
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Here’s a start to acceptance, CHANGE THE NAME of it, and I rather eat dirt thank you !
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We will all be facing this problem….we may be already facing this situation and don’t know it. What are we gonna eat?
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they (we) just eat it because the gov says safe.
that’s the momentanous situation.
effects will be visible in ten years.
thank u gov & mass media!!!
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Let’s see…. the ocean dies and humanity runs for the hills…. the hills are radioactive and everyone goes sterile or mutant and then sterile.. Bye Bye humans and much of the biosphere. The Wealthy and educated will leave for better places first leaving behind a group headed for the Nu Stone Age….. Clever humans… Oh sell short on medium and long term from the entire region and put the proceeds into survival tech.
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Just a reminder: Cesium-137 is found ONLY in the core of a nuclear fission reactor. Be careful not to confuse “normal” with “natural” as may be possible with this news item.
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An excellent point!
Via this Enenews, BNC, PF, EX-SKF, and other sites I’m having a crash course on nuclear energy production and it’s easy for me to forget these basic facts.
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Ronald Regan sold Fukushima the MOX fuel, they say it is 500 % more deadly than just uranium, I hope his children are happy.
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Nuclear reprocessing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
The first large-scale nuclear reactors were built during World War II. These reactors were designed for the production of plutonium for use in nuclear weapons. The only reprocessing required, therefore, was the extraction of the plutonium (free of fission-product contamination) from the spent natural uranium fuel. In 1943, several methods were proposed for separating the relatively small quantity of plutonium from the uranium and fission products. The first method selected, a precipitation process called the Bismuth Phosphate process, was developed and tested at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the 1943-1945 period to produce quantities of plutonium for evaluation and use in weapons programs. ORNL produced the first macroscopic quantities (grams) of separated plutonium with these processes.
The Bismuth Phosphate process was first operated on a large scale at the Hanford Site, in the latter part of 1944. It was successful for plutonium separation in the emergency situation existing then, but it had a significant weakness: the inability to recover uranium.
The first successful solvent extraction process for the recovery of pure uranium and plutonium was developed at ORNL in 1949. The PUREX process is the current method of extraction. Separation plants were also constructed at Savannah River Site and a smaller plant at West Valley, New York which closed by 1972 because of its inability to meet new regulatory requirements.[4]
Reprocessing of civilian fuel has long been employed in Europe, at the COGEMA La Hague site in France, the Sellafield site in the United Kingdom, the Mayak Chemical Combine in Russia, and at sites such as the Tokai plant in Japan, the Tarapur plant in India, and briefly at the West Valley Reprocessing Plant in the United States.
In October 1976, fear of nuclear weapons proliferation (especially after India demonstrated nuclear weapons capabilities…
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using reprocessing technology) led President Gerald Ford to issue a Presidential directive to indefinitely suspend the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium in the U.S. On April 7, 1977 , President Jimmy Carter banned the reprocessing of commercial reactor spent nuclear fuel. The key issue driving this policy was the serious threat of nuclear weapons proliferation by diversion of plutonium from the civilian fuel cycle, and to encourage other nations to follow the USA lead.[5] . After that, only countries that already had large investments in reprocessing infrastructure continued to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. President Reagan lifted the ban in 1981, but did not provide the substantial subsidy that would have been necessary to start up commercial reprocessing.[6]
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Strong moves were made during Carter’s presidency to build the reprocessing facility at Savannah River Plant. This helped mobilize the southern Anti-nuclear power movement. The first large civil disobedience demonstration at SRP opposed the reprocessing plant. Hundreds of people including myself were arrested.
SRP is built very close to the 2nd strongest earthquake (1886) in U.S. history. It was ‘heard’ from NYC to Havana and damaged a brick building as far away as Atlanta. Huge quantities of LIQUID hi-level rad waste were (presumably are stored in weakening tanks at SRP. I’m not familiar with SRP for last 20+ years. In the 1980′s it routinely leaked’tritium into the water more or less continually.
A highway goes through the plant. It was against the law to stop or take photos. Steam billowed off the marshes used as SRP’s heat sink. Blackened dead tree trunks still were standing on the marsh land. “Why don’t they understand?”
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MOX was never used at Fukushima until 2010. So Ronald Reagan couldn’t have sold MOX to Fukushima.
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MOX fuel
Reprocessing of commercial nuclear fuel to make MOX is done in the United Kingdom and France, and to a lesser extent in Russia, India and Japan. China plans to develop fast breeder reactors and reprocessing. Reprocessing of spent commercial-reactor nuclear fuel is not permitted in the United States due to nonproliferation considerations. All of these nations have long had nuclear weapons from military-focused research reactor fuels except Japan.
The United States is building a MOX plant at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The Tennessee Valley Authority and Duke Energy are interested in using the reactor fuel from the conversion of weapons-grade plutonium.[5]
Thermal reactors
About 30 thermal reactors in Europe (Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and France) are using MOX[6] and a further 20 have been licensed to do so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOX_fuel
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Fukushima to Restart Using MOX Fuel for First Time
Sep 17 2010
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said it was preparing to restart the 784 megawatt No.3 reactor at its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant on Friday, at which it is set to burn so-called mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel for the first time.
Fukushima is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Okuma in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture. With 6 operating units located on site, Fukushima is one of the largest nuclear plant sites in the world. Fukushima is the first nuclear plant to be constructed and run entirely by TEPCO.
Asia’s biggest utility said if all goes as planned, the reactor will start generating power on Sept. 22 and begin commercial operations on Oct. 26.
It had shut the reactor at the northern Japan plant for planned maintenance on June 19.
During the shutdown, TEPCO prepared for uranium dioxide as well as MOX fuel to be burned at the reactor, making it the first time the company will use the recycled fuel.
Other power companies have started using the recycled fuel as part of Japan’s goal to move towards a closed cycle where it recycles its own spent fuel and then burns recovered uranium and plutonium as MOX fuel.
http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2010/09/17/fukushima-to-restart-using-mox-fuel-for-first-time-091704.aspx
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This is it. Game over for Japan. The entire ocean surrounding Japan is going to be a wasteland for the foreseeable future. Japanese will not be able to eat any more ocean based food again. I will say again, this it.
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I feel the info is all coming out now, why it took so long and the mis-readings and so on, only in years will we know.. perhaps.
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I think ironically they HAVE actually told us the truth we seek. They REALLY meant it when they said they did not want to create a panic by releasing the facts. I’m telling you, that will prove to be the truest statement they have given us. We couldn’t handle the truth without an uprising or in other words, panic, I already feel that in my gut today especially. The exposure to all the facts alone and all the articles is kind of overwhelming mentally. The odds appear overwhelmingly to be stacked one way when you consider the whole picture and details. There are alot of people expressing their insights too on the site for some reason and I think alot of what you are seeing seems true and reasonable given the data digested and shared. Deep day today.
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goldfish crackers are pretty tasty, they come in a variety of flavors these days.
No bones to choke on either….
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Lets drill a hole to the mantle, send it down there to collect to the center.
Once that is done, all reactors will need a hole next to it in the mantle. the basements will have an ally way that when and if it melts, down ~400km to the mantel.
from wikepedia:
A novel method of exploring the uppermost few hundred kilometres of the Earth was recently proposed, consisting of a small, dense, heat-generating probe which melts its way down through the crust and mantle while its position and progress are tracked by acoustic signals generated in the rocks.[24] The probe consists of an outer sphere of tungsten about one metre in diameter inside which is a cobalt-60 radioactive heat source. It was calculated that such a probe will reach the oceanic Moho in less than 6 months and attain minimum depths of well over 100 km in a few decades beneath both oceanic and continental lithosphere.[25]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAU12PiW4NA
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We’s all gone’a Die soon! This Sucks.
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Wow. Sushi that cooks itself.
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lol, tuna comes from the atlantic any way and I guess im fed up of salmon any way, now that white sashimi one… ill miss it
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sushimi?, no can do now!
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Just use Potassium Iodide instead of table salt.
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Maybe soy sauce with potassium iodide will be the next in thing at Tokyo sushi places.
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tom, they are already doing that in canada, its called, fracking!
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they have played it all so well.
drip,drip,drip numbers getting bigger every day then smaller then bigger.
false numbers,fake readings,accurate figures made up calculations true or false it means nothing anymore.
changing 30 year old max dose levels in a day.well the new dose is ok cos the man says.
max-min numbers comatose an already compliant population.
it will all go away if we ignore it
back to the tv ooola ooola la ga ga ga ga.
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popular west coast food takes a new trist, smoked salmon, already smoking when it comes out of the water.
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Any science minded people like to weigh in on the other isotopes in the water besides Cesium 137? Going by this table, how many do you think are present in the water/seafloor that just aren’t mentioned in testing?
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All the rest of them. They gotta say something, but they don’t gotta say everything to fool most of the people most of the time.
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Kinda like finding an ant in your kitchen.
You know you’re gonna find more.
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Japan is run by the mafia
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The Mafia are children compared to the Demons who really run the WORLD.
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Terror, thy name is nuclearisation!
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This put a human face on this EVENT. This French gentleman is living in Japan with his Japanese wife and child.
He is leaving Japan, and these are two of the last videos that he recorded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADuKRvDE1ws&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMq893jz174&NR=1
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Good find. Very moving. Thanks.
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about darn time! i’ve watched his vids from the first week and then on and off
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Power outages, downed communication lines knocked out most radiation monitoring systems in disaster areas
Kyodo Sunday, May 29, 2011
Most radiation monitoring systems in Fukushima, Miyagi and Ibaraki prefectures broke down temporarily after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, preventing local authorities from gauging the ensuing nuclear crisis, prefectural officials said.
Monitoring systems in other prefectures with nuclear power plants also face similar risks of a breakdown, requiring an urgent review, analysts say.
Twenty-two of the 23 round-the-clock radiation monitors installed around the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and at the nearby Fukushima No. 2 nuclear complex stopped sending data to the prefectural monitoring center about three hours after the quake, officials said.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20110529a4.html
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“It is a general rule that radiation levels near the facilities are always monitored. It is a problem that all the equipment broke down,” said an official of the prefecture’s radiation monitoring center.
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This will degenerate to a scenario after nuclear winter soon?
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Ramaswami, we already have the isotope fallout equivalent of a nuclear exchange, just without the ash cloud.
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Charlie, it was meant more for essential services breakdown like non availablity of appropriate health care when meters which monitor breakdown,one gropes for data to get at the right strategy, one does not know whether to eat bucklings filet and so on…equipment does not work because the power supply is off…in a nuke winter scene, you find it hard to find docs such a scary situation without ash but the ash can pur in form Indonesia or Japan or Iceland topped with radionuclides…see how monitoring of radiation is a political game? its naked terror
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I have not been able to get this statement out
of my head.
The equivalent of a nuclear exchange.
And not one word of advice or help
from our government.
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@Cassie – I suspect you are speaking rhetorically?
It has been demonstrated over and over again since JFK (heck, even Eisenhower warned you!) that your govt has been hijacked by dark forces. It is now out in the open for all to see that your District of Corruption cares not one jot about anyone outside their power-belt. Fact.
Facts that brave voices in the wilderness have been screaming at you all for at least 70 years now. Eg:
Carr
Pound
Mullins
JFK
Quigley
Zundl
Tarpley
Springmeier
Coleman
Ruppert
M L King
Hicks
Carlin
Rivero
Paul
These authors and their torch bearers did their level best to inform you of your coming slavery but their potential readers chose the pursuit of illusions like money, power and American Idol instead, aided and abetted by the ingestion of poisons like aspartame, fluoride, mercury – all designed to put you to sleep.
The American Dream has turned to nightmare; your Constitution has been rendered NULL and Void by the Patriot Acts, your natural resources have been polluted, your freedoms vanished – time to snap out of it…?
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Yes I know Joeb.
It is no accident, just the thread
being played out to its logical
conclusion.
We were all on borrowed time and
did not realize it.
C
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True..years and years have gone by …many people have tried to awaken the people to the actual state our government.
It’s been and is going to be a long haul.
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Many have been duped, complicit, or disappeared, but not all!….
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This is a suspicious breakdown isn’t it? I saw video today that mentioned a computer virus that targeted the Siemens OS in Fukushima & other Japanese nukes control rooms. I think it was this video Caution, it is a conspiracy theory, but rather well documented.
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stuxnet is the name of the program.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be0ow2Jjs9E&feature=related
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Yes, that is one of the EXCELLENT Leuren Moret lectures.
I reject the phrase “conspiracy theory.” Doubters (not you)
use that phrase to diminish our arguments. What we all know is the GOVERNMENTS CONSPIRE. That’s why whenever an EVENT happens, it’s the GOVERNMENT who withholds information. All we ask for (and never get,) is the TRUTH.
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Yeah, Blackmoon, I didn’t specifically mention whose conspiracy. It boggles my mind to think about whoever is responsible for a) using weather as a weapon of mass destruction, b) deliberately setting off earthquakes and cyclones for profit, c) purposefully compromising all ability to monitor or control nuclear reactions set in motion, d) seeing to it that most of humankind is kept in the dark about the invisible destruction. These conspirators either 1) truly believe they and theirs will escape from being included in the affected class of humans (moving to bunkers in southern hemisphere?), or 2) are members of a class of suicidal mass murderers who pride themselves on how big a killing they are committing, possibly in the name of their favorites-playing god. Eat miso, paint neck with iodine tincture, stop dairy, filter water, do tai chi, stay out of the rain if possible for short term, is the hope I got out of that video. And pray the intelligence of quantum physics is indeed the power that can save us, or as John Coltrane played, A Love Supreme.
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Your expression ‘moving to bunkers’ caught my eye.
In a world so steeped in the negative, it is heartening to know that disappearing underground is not a good option, however much of our money they spend on doing so. If the alpha psychopaths in their midst don’t do them in, geological changes in the Earth’s living crust will. The deeper they go, the worse it gets
Dr.Strangelove didn’t factor THAT in with his 10 women for every man post-apocalyptic underground cities scenario!
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As things currently stand the Japanese have no choice but to keep pouring water on the melted down reactors. That water will keep building up until there’s another accidental, or intentional, dump into the sea. This may go on for months to years and the amount is already in the millions of gallons (they’ve been releasing the figures as tons, because it makes the numbers smaller.).
If the radio nuclides don’t quickly precipitate out (I hope they do) then in a few months time this radioactivity will reach the Bering Sea and then the Gulf of Alaska. (Because that’s how the currents run off the Japanese coast.) These are some of the richest fishing areas of the world. Of course that’s the first US territory that the airborne fallout hits, too.
By the way, Sarah Palin and family just bought a mansion in Arizona. Do you think their timing is just a coincidence?
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my old neighbor across lake lucille gots a clue then does she. good for her. i met her twice and liked her. (ex wasilla boy)
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The AK snowbird home in the SW is very common.
She’s rich enough now to get in on the Paraguay refugee
mansion club.
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LOL! Fat lot of good Paraguay will do all those Bushite maniacs.
“If the American people ever found out what we have done, they would string us up from the nearest lamp posts” – George H.W. Bush – 1989ish
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I swear that I had seen a diagram showing the Japanese currents heading to the northeast and Alaska. Where upon they then bend down and head south along the North American coast. But this paper indicates that the currents head mostly due east.
http://www.irsn.fr/EN/news/Documents/IRSN_Fukushima-Accident_Impact-on-marine-environment-EN_20110404.pdf
I’ll have to check into this one some more. The above paper is a good one even thought it’s dated now. If only there was more such information made available on this mess. Can’t remember if I found the above link on this site, or another one. If it was this one, much thanks to the provider.
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Update about Fukushima:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEpXYTNHog
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It seems highly probable that a new element will be born out of this. I wonder what the name of it will be?
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Fukuium
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Here is the latest interview with Geo-Scientist Leuren Moret from May 20. People, she is the ONLY SCIENTIST who is telling us the COMPLETE TRUTH.
She explains WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE COMING YEARS!
Fukushima Tectonic Nuclear Warfare Monitored By World Haarp Partners.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ExopoliticsTV#p/u/2/Z95xcFW8lPU
In a few of her interviews and lectures, Leuren Moret said that Fukushima’s control center was infected with the StucksNet virus, to insure that this HAARP generated EVENT would have the maximum impact.
Here in some info on the StucksNet virus, and judge for yourself.
The article is titled – World encounters a new type of global terrorism.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/02/18/44989190.html
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We discuss a lot of HEAVY topics here and sometime we might experience negative overload.
For those of you who might like a SPIRITUAL interlude, I think that you might find this video SPIRTUALLY UPLIFTING.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by49lr28zLk
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Dr. Rima Laibow from the Natural Solutions Foundation, discusses Fukushima:
http://www.oraclebroadcasting.com/archives.php?stream=/Rima/Rima.2011-05-29_16k.mp3
Here she gives information on how to protect ourselves from radiation:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=8838
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