Published: June 8th, 2012 at 2:05 pm ET
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June 8, 2012 tweet from FRCSR (Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research):
@ENENews Sparrow w/ albino head in Narita, Chiba yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/…Albinism in birds common after #Chernobyl.news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/0…
— FRCSR (@FRCSR) June 8, 2012
“The sparrow with white feathered head and tail was found in Chiba. It’s living in the entrance of Narita seiryo high school Narita city Chiba.” -Fukushima Diary
As FRCSR points out, National Geographic News’ Kate Ravilious wrote in April 2007:
[...]
Anders Møller, from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, led the team that has been monitoring the barn swallows since 1991 for signs of abnormalities such as deformed beaks, toes, and feathers and unusual coloring.
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For example, more than 13 percent of the Chernobyl birds had partial albinism—tufts of white feathers—compared to levels of around 4 percent in the control birds.
“Abnormal features [like albinism] are extremely rare in nature,” Møller said.
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Published: June 8th, 2012 at 2:05 pm ET
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radiation effects on nature huh??
"Andrei, a farmer from Khoiniki, Belarus, remembers:
'You see, they knew, the bees I mean, they knew something was wrong, but we didn't. Not until it was too late. I remember that morning well. I went out into my kitchen garden as usual; it was a lovely spring day and so beautiful. It was in full bloom; it's my very favourite time. The garden all dressed in wedding white. But something was wrong, something was missing, some old memorable sounds.
Ah, you see, I realised something unusual, it came to me that I couldn't hear the sounds of bees. This was something strange. My hives were over there, see, rows of them under the apple trees; they're rotten now, but not then – we had very good honey to sell and eat. What is it? What's wrong? I said it to Nina, my wife, and she said, "It's bad omen, Andrei; it's not right." I put on my mask as usual and started checking the hives. They were there alright, sitting in the hives, not making a sound. There was no buzzing. So strange their silence I thought. They are sick; maybe they have been poisoned from the fields, I thought. It was only when they came to take us away, three weeks later, that they told us there'd been an accident at the atomic station over there.
You see, that is just 15 kilometres from our kitchen garden. It's no distance for that radiation to come over here. We didn't know that, but our bees did. Something horrible happened so quietly and naturally.'…"…
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http://www.chernobyl-international.com/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster/chernobyl-stories/chernobyl-bee-keepers.aspx
here how the science community is covering it up!! imo
"Bees are important to agriculture for pollinating our food crops and maintaining biodiversity in the rural environment.
A recent Friends of the Earth report estimated bees are worth £510m a year to the UK economy.
Conservationists have blamed other factors for the global decline in bees, including fungi, pesticides and decreased plant diversity. This week, the French government banned Cruiser OSR, a Syngenta neonicotinoid pesticide which has been linked to bee decline.
But Ian Jones, of the University of Reading, said the Sheffield University study suggested that the Varroa mite and the virus were the "main culprit".
"This data provides clear evidence that, of all the suggested mechanisms of honey bee loss, virus infection brought in by mite infestation is a major player in the decline," said Dr Jones.//"
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/08/06/2012/133294/Varroa-mite-39main-culprit39-in-bee-decline.htm
this link says that honey bees are an excellent gauge of pollution even radiation
http://www.apimondia.com/apiacta/articles/2003/porrini.pdf
more here
http://enenews.com/photographer-ray-like-image-shows-radioactivity-spreads-body-fukushima-wildlife-photos
so why no bees in my garden this year??
Radiation Incident!! 800,000 000 nanosieverts/h
cont..
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3NqwGKZ30
only the bumble bees have been pollinating my garden.. so the lack off bees is obvious this year..
heres the link to the historical evidence of high doses in the uk
http://enenews.com/forum-post-radiation-monitoring-data-april-30-2012-present
check out the archive and history sections that go back to september 2011
and some video evidence to back that up from jan 2012
https://www.youtube.com/user/arclight2011/videos
evidence of low dose radiation on birds here…
http://enenews.com/study-increases-in-the-frequency-of-selective-deaths-due-to-mutations-after-fukushima-results-suggest-significant-mortality-costs-of-low-dose-radiation-0-05-microsvh-considered-contami
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Thanks, Arc! That's strange, but I've also noticed a majority of bumblebees this year here in Seattle, rather than the other usual bees. (few and far between too).
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hi watk
looks like they are manipulating the data from the science community to suit…
smoke and mirrors like the big ejection in europe just AFTER a europe wide (except england) pollution monitoring to see what was causing climate change?? the nuclear companies in europe had to behave themselves leaving mainly the uk sellafield, dounray, sizewell, hinkley and oldbury to spew there contents!!
nice pollution management that makes a mockery of the project to find the air contaminants that might be jointly responsible..
it shows utter contempt for any real science on this subject as long as nuclear censorship and manipulation of data continues!!
grrr
busby is right about the state of modern science being based on statistical and algorithmic bullshit !!
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Grrrr is right!
(And Chris Busby too, one of my heroes in this fight…)
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arc humming…."every body knows the dice are loaded…" lol!
Dr Chris Busby at the Royal Society: Scientific Dishonesty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOI-wpMlq28&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLAYm_MeZd16g5tOlHn35Stg
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coincidentally i was bashing the imperial college london at roughly the same time!!
funny world..
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I have had only bumble bees in my garden for the last 3 years now. Something more than radiation is killing the honey bees.
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Roundup ready crops. Made by Monsanto. Soon to own our food supply. Roundup pesticides are what's killing the bees. Plus the rads of course.
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http://www.petitiononline.com/Bees/petition.html
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Thanks Arc for sticking the course, and all the interesting items,they are so valuable to get the WHOLE picture!
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your most kind jayjay
i have 350,000 reasons to continue.. to start with
peace
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Very nice! It is hard to dismiss a firsthand account. Can I get a source on that quote, please?
[ Cool Japan ?]
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hi unsub it is early in the morning ….which quote are you referring too?
i think this is the one you mean
and heres another link to the bee story ,, not the bbc version to show how copy and paste is used in the media industry.. wonder who provided the copy originally??
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/08/06/2012/133294/Varroa-mite-39main-culprit39-in-bee-decline.htm
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That's the one I wanted. Thank you!
Continuing with the topic of bees: Here are some links that show that honey bees are effective biological monitors of environmental contaminants over large geographic areas:
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/227/4687/632.short
and
http://americasbeekeeper.org/land_mines_honey_bees_ccd.htm
I get two things from these; testing bee hives is a very good way to test for radiation and don't eat Japanese honey. If anyone is in a position to test a Japanese bee hive for radiation levels I would be very interested to hear the results.
[ Cool Japan ?]
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Link to the above "Andrei, a farmer from Khoiniki, Belarus, remembers" bee story.
http://www.chernobyl-international.com/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster/chernobyl-stories/chernobyl-bee-keepers.aspx
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Ants usually move in to my house 3 days before rain. Since Fuku i've noticed that they move frantically in to the house as rad clouds are passing……then i made a search and found this, from research carried out in the 50s by the iaea, which also proves effects of low level radiation and their knowledge of it for the past 56 years…..
"We were able to demons- trate in particular that many invertebrates react with reflex motions to astonishingly small radiation doses. For example, snails retract their feelers, clams shut their shells, and actinia, those beautifully coloured sea lilies and anemones, retract their crown of ten- tacles. A few seconds after the beginning of the ir- radiation, small barnacles stop their rhythmic gras- ping actions. The behaviour of insects can be dis- turbed by irradiation as well. For instance, ants show a lively disturbance immediately after irradia- tion; they act wildly in an attempt to flee rapidly
from an irradiated area into a "radiation-proof shel- ter".
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull011/01105890711.pdf
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Wow, good find, Matina. I am not surprised.
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Well THIS is interesting. Thanks for the post, Matina!
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RE: low dose radiation. CT scans and dental xrays TRIPLE or higher the chances of brain cancer in children.
http://naturalsociety.com/ct-scan-radiation-triples-brain-tumor-risk-in-children/#ixzz1x9girjKH
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Check out Mutation Watch on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mutation-Watch/330100447017280?ref=ts
or Tumbler for mutation submissions:
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/fukushimafacts
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I got off the phone with a professor from a University in Alaska about an hour ago. A Botanist. I contact them via e-mail to inquire of unusual observations made by myself, and if any unusual observations were recognised in Alaska. The contact stated he would give a brief via e-mail. The professor stated only safe, miniscule levels of radiation were reported. No source of info was given when asked. Waiting on e-mail and I invited the professor here. My attemt to understand the changes in my surroundings.
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Good for you, CB. Keep searching and probing. Perhaps you just may be the one to "educate" the professor.
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I wiil school him from MIT to Oxford! Lol. Laugh unto cry. We need more folks.
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:'(
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Posted to many times. "um, that was Hawk-ward." lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn7-fVtT16k
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There is an ongoing, never ending stream of evil, from man's extravaganza with the atom.
Sellafield swallows contaminated by radioactivity
Birds nesting by the nuclear power plant have traces of radioactivity in their droppings.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/08/radioactive-swallows-sellafield?CMP=twt_fd
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Sadly, I remember reading recently that the swallows who used to regularly return to Mission San Juan Capistrano every year when I was a child are no longer returning…
They continue to have their yearly parade in their honor, despite the fact that the guest of honor is so conspicuously missing.
http://www.freep.com/article/20120520/NEWS07/205200588/A-town-s-sorrow-over-missing-swallows
Not so incidentally, San Juan Capistrano is just 10 miles north of the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station.
To those of us who have been here on enenews since 3/11, there is no mystery why these birds have gone missing…
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WATK At home here in Wales we have Swallows every Spring, always look forward to seeing them and sad to see them leave. This year they were later than usual as it has been such a cold spring!
Good you are holding the Fort as I check many times a day for updates.
The whole planet is slowly becoming poisoned from plants to fish to birds to humans.
Lets keep eating from the TREE of LIFE.
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Thanks for your reporting, too, JayJay! Together, we can insure our children and the birds, animals and insects will indeed be able to continue feeding from the Tree of Life long after we leave this planet.
That is interesting to hear you have swallows there as well. Perhaps instead of returning from their yearly migration to Argentina, the San Juan Capistrano swallows have decided to take a detour and head to Europe. Perhaps the air is cleaner there, so far from Fuku?
I wish it was just as simple as that. I too am very concerned about some of the mass die-offs we've been hearing about over the past year. (though there likely have been die offs prior to Fuku adding its own deadly contribution to the mix of toxins and radionuclides we've already had circling the globe since the beginning of the Industrial Age.Sigh…
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Irradiated insects and bees? Please no disrepect, but this is childs' play. You want to talk about aberations and birth defects, I suggest you view what radioactivity means to humans. This is the future of the Japanese people and many in the rest of the world.
See… http://photodoto.com/chernobyl-legacy-photo-essay-by-paul-fusco/
And then, pass this link along to the brain dead that think nuclear power is green and the solution to climate change.
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hi cisco
thought we could add this on behalf of the 1,000 000 eugenics controlled polygon victims of khazakstan to support your point if i may..
the video gallery is worth looking at for confirmation…
http://www.dinarasagatova.com/polygon/
and some other pictures of the effects of depleted uranium and phosphorus on a civilian population (banned pics in most pro war/pro depleted uranium and complex weaponry systems here..
http://alexmasi.photoshelter.com/gallery/War-Defects-The-Fallujah-Legacy/G0000R_mOC8iXBCg/
the fallujah link gives details of the babies etc if you hover over the picture.. a good photographer this.. imo
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correction
weaponry countries not systems
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Thanks Arclight for your post and links.
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We are all interconnected in the Web of Life, Cisco. So even damage to the smallest and seemingly "inconsequential" amongst living things will eventually come to effect us here at the top of the food chain.
Large and small, let us seek to protect all life on Earth for as long as we can.
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"Inconsequential", I would never suggest that. Yeah, when the bees are gone, that the end of our food.
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the bumble bees did a pretty good job in my small garden though.. rasberries ok… gooseberries ok… sunberries ok.. grapes ok…dandelions ok
(but its good for insects 
and arthritis if roots made into tea 
)
now to the 2 apple trees
got apples but when flowering all the small birds in the spring decided to peck all the petals as part of their mating rituals and a few single birds that were doing it because of rad rage imo
well documented in chernobyl and in the blockbuster film "the birds" a story of isotope enraged birds on the rampage.. ! lol!
so not so many apples this year
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You sound like you have a lovely garden, Arc.
May your important work, true to your name, shining an Arc of Light on the truth about the nuclear contamination of the UK and Europe and the planet, help keep your garden growing strong for many years to come.
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Yes, I agree, Cisco. Those little bees are so important to us.
(I knew you understood that, too. Just reminding us all about the importance of our wonderful but delicate and fragile Web of Life.) 
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Here's a couple of sad bird stories from observations made via the Fukushima Webcam just the other day.
(scroll down)
by ChasAha
http://enenews.com/forum-fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread-dec-14-2011-present/comment-page-78#comment-258922
…and a falling backwards bird (?)
by nuckelchen
June 7, 2012 at 4:58 pm (18 sec)
http://enenews.com/forum-fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread-dec-14-2011-present/comment-page-78#comment-259410
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