Published: June 10th, 2011 at 7:34 am ET
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More on YouTube Rabbit, The Diplomat by Hiroki Ogawa, June 10, 2011:
[...] According to Jana, the rabbit was born in Namie City, just outside the 30 kilometre exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The rabbit belongs to Yuko Sugimoto, 56, who found it ‘born without ears on May 7.’ As indicated in the previous post, one other explanation for a rabbit being earless is overzealous grooming on the part of its mother; but this explanation is discounted at the beginning of Jana’s video, as two individuals indicate that the ears do not appear to have been cut off. Interestingly, the rabbit also appears to have albinism (white coat, red eyes) which is actually caused by a mutation in several genes.
Two key facts have been verified by Jana’s publication of the video: 1) that the rabbit was born in the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, and 2) that the rabbit was born after the cascade of failures at Fukushima Daiichi. Coincidentally, Namie is the same town where on May 6, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology detected 1,500 becquerels of radioactive strontium per kilogram in soil samples, and where back in March, an International Atomic Energy Agency team detected radiation levels of 161 μSv/hour. [...]
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Published: June 10th, 2011 at 7:34 am ET
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Whats been up all night op?
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Unless the site operator was hacked the way Weiner ckaimed to have been, it’s rude not to put notice on their Twitter feed that the site is down for maintenance, eh?
Try to be a little more considerate in the future, Enenews.
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And this sort of thing will just go on for ears and ears.
sorry, couldn’t resist.
(hangs head in shame)
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Well done. The hangs head in shame part. :/
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Steven, that bunny will not hear anymore of your comments.
Make it viral and every little girl will want to adopt it.
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My latest video on Fukushima:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMhuWlhdi8I
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Is the increase in baby deaths in the northwest U.S. due to Fukushima fallout? How can we find out?
June 9, 2011
•4 weeks ending March 19, 2011: 37 deaths (average 9.25 per week)
•10 weeks ending May 28, 2011: 125 deaths (average 12.50 per week)
http://sfbayview.com/2011/is-the-increase-in-baby-deaths-in-the-northwest-u-s-due-to-fukushima-fallout-how-can-we-find-out/
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