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Re: "I Have Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
« Reply #60 on: December 20, 2014, 05:01:39 pm »
Back in December 2012, we wrote that it was only a matter of time before Japan's criminal lying about the radioactive exposure in the aftermath of the Fukushima catastrophe caught up with it, as well as with countless numbers of people who would soon succumb to radiation induced cancers and other diseases.

US Sailors, Assisting With Fukushima Clean Up, Crippled By Cancer

US Navy Sailors Have Filed A Massive Lawsuit Against Tokyo Power For Radiation Lies

Here are  some significant 2014 updates, in chronological order.

The first article is an excellent overview of the situation as of February 2014.



(photo: Nicholas A. Groesch)

Contamination of USS Ronald Reagan During Fukushima Response Underreported

6 February 2014
As was reported in 2011, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was exposed to radiation contamination from Fukushima during its earthquake/tsunami rescue operations—“Operation Tomodachi”–off the Japan coast.

The original coverage minimized the significance of the contamination, saying it was equivalent to an extra month’s background radiation.

This narrative was called into question as sailors who had served on the Reagan at that time filed suit, first in San Diego court and then against the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation or TEPCO, for damages relating to health problems they blamed on the contamination. Currently, there are more than 50 plaintiffs and their attorney says he expects the number to grow. Congress recently directed the Department of Defense to look into potential health impacts from exposure during Operation Tomodachi. Stars & Stripes reported the story with this arresting image of a line of sailors pushing soapy water across the Reagan’s flight deck.

First off, the adjective “potential” perhaps conveys a false idea of the level of confirmation that the Reagan was contaminated. The Reagan is nuclear-powered, and chock-a-block with radiation detectors. Indeed, the CBS report at the time acknowledged that the radiation detectors were triggered. So the radiation contamination was “actual” not “potential” unless one wants to engage in word-parsing that there were no radiation detectors on the surface of the flight deck, so there was no confirmation of radiation contamination in the particular locations where the sailors were pushing their brooms at that time.

But it looks pretty likely that there was contamination, for a key and dire reason: the Reagan had experienced a snow storm while it was near the Fukushima reactor, raising the possibility that the plume of radioactive material, instead of dispersing in the higher atmosphere, had been washed down—and all over the Reagan—by the precipitation. Indeed, a sailor who is suing for health-related issues stated that the snow “tasted metallic.”

Not exactly a good sign.


Which meant it is likely that radioactive particulate was all over the ship, and available to be inhaled. So it’s not like the crew simply experienced an increase in background radiation one might associate with a stay on the space shuttle or by standing next to a poorly shielded microwave; it is possible they were exposed to and inhaled radioactive particulate, which is universally acknowledged to be very bad for you.



(photo: navylive.dodlive.mil)

The Stars & Stripes photograph confirms that there was a concern over particulate contamination; otherwise they don’t send out the guys with the brooms. The likely contamination of the Reagan by particulate radioactive material raises another extremely expensive, difficult, and perhaps insoluble problem. I am not aware of current advances in decontamination but, unless revolutionary breakthroughs have occurred, complete decontamination of a vessel exposed to particulate radiation is impossible. In fact, the inability to decontaminate navy vessels guided the evolution of US military strategy.

Faced with the threat to its mission and relevance in the atomic age, in 1946 the US Navy conceived an experiment in decontamination, Operation Crossroads. We know it as the Bikini Atoll atomic test. A flotilla of derelict ships were anchored around the atoll and two nuclear devices were detonated—one, Able, an airburst, the second, Baker, under water—to see how the ships and a few head of livestock would do.

As expected, the livestock did not do well, but the ships did, riding out the shock wave with limited damage and raising hopes that, in a wartime situation, US Navy ships could be experience a nuclear attack, survive, be decontaminated, get a fresh crew, and return to action.

However, the decontamination exercise simply didn’t work. Months were spent trying to scrub down the ships and obtain an acceptable radiation level, but the contaminate (particularly from Baker, which was a spectacularly dirty underwater shot and perhaps analogous to the messy meltdown and explosion at Fukushima) proved far too tenacious.



U.S. serviceman sprays the surface of an F/A-18C Hornet for potential radiation contamination on board the USS Ronald Reagan. (photo: Melissa Russell)


As was reported in 2011 the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was exposed to radiation contamination from Fukushima during its earthquake/tsunami rescue operations—“Operation Tomodachi”–off the Japan coast. The original coverage minimized the significance of the contamination, saying it was equivalent to an extra month’s background radiation.

This narrative was called into question as sailors who had served on the Reagan at that time filed suit, first in San Diego court and then against the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation or TEPCO, for damages relating to health problems they blamed on the contamination.

Currently, there are more than 50 plaintiffs and their attorney says he expects the number to grow. Congress recently directed the Department of Defense to look into potential health impacts from exposure during Operation Tomodachi. Stars & Stripes reported the story with this arresting image of a line of sailors pushing soapy water across the Reagan’s flight deck.




First off, the adjective “potential” perhaps conveys a false idea of the level of confirmation that the Reagan was contaminated. The Reagan is nuclear-powered, and chock-a-block with radiation detectors. Indeed, the CBS report at the time acknowledged that the radiation detectors were triggered. So the radiation contamination was “actual” not “potential” unless one wants to engage in word-parsing that there were no radiation detectors on the surface of the flight deck, so there was no confirmation of radiation contamination in the particular locations where the sailors were pushing their brooms at that time.


(photo: navylive.dodlive.mil)

But it looks pretty likely that there was contamination, for a key and dire reason: the Reagan had experienced a snow storm while it was near the Fukushima reactor, raising the possibility that the plume of radioactive material, instead of dispersing in the higher atmosphere, had been washed down—and all over the Reagan—by the precipitation. Indeed, a sailor who is suing for health-related issues stated that the snow “tasted metallic.” Not exactly a good sign.

Which meant it is likely that radioactive particulate was all over the ship, and available to be inhaled. So it’s not like the crew simply experienced an increase in background radiation one might associate with a stay on the space shuttle or by standing next to a poorly shielded microwave; it is possible they were exposed to and inhaled radioactive particulate, which is universally acknowledged to be very bad for you.



(photo: navylive.dodlive.mil)


The Stars & Stripes photograph confirms that there was a concern over particulate contamination; otherwise they don’t send out the guys with the brooms. The likely contamination of the Reagan by particulate radioactive material raises another extremely expensive, difficult, and perhaps insoluble problem. I am not aware of current advances in decontamination but, unless revolutionary breakthroughs have occurred, complete decontamination of a vessel exposed to particulate radiation is impossible. In fact, the inability to decontaminate navy vessels guided the evolution of US military strategy.

Faced with the threat to its mission and relevance in the atomic age, in 1946 the US Navy conceived an experiment in decontamination, Operation Crossroads. We know it as the Bikini Atoll atomic test. A flotilla of derelict ships were anchored around the atoll and two nuclear devices were detonated—one, Able, an airburst, the second, Baker, under water—to see how the ships and a few head of livestock would do.

As expected, the livestock did not do well, but the ships did, riding out the shock wave with limited damage and raising hopes that, in a wartime situation, US Navy ships could be experience a nuclear attack, survive, be decontaminated, get a fresh crew, and return to action.

However, the decontamination exercise simply didn’t work. Months were spent trying to scrub down the ships and obtain an acceptable radiation level, but the contaminate (particularly from Baker, which was a spectacularly dirty underwater shot and perhaps analogous to the messy meltdown and explosion at Fukushima) proved far too tenacious.



(photo: fineartamerica.com)


On the military level, the takeaway was that surface vessels did not have a viable survivable role in a nuclear exchange. On the scientific level, the Bikini test—and the revelation that the radiation aftereffects of a nuclear attack could not be adequately remediated, no matter how much time and energy were expended—was an important factory in the growing anti-nuke orientation of many scientists who had willingly worked on the bomb during WWII.

In an indication of trends in decontamination technology, here is a photograph from 1946 of sailors trying to decontaminate one of the test vessels, the Prinz Eugen. Pushbrooms and soapy water seem to be a universal element in decontamination strategy, and it is unlikely that today there is any magic bullet that will allow a ship to be completely decontaminated.

A plaintiff in the TEPCO case claimed that the USS Reagan had been denied approval to dock in Japan or South Korea after contamination and had spent over two months at sea before returning to San Diego.

I would expect those two months were spent in extensive and laborious decontamination efforts that got most of the radiation; but with particulate radiation you can never get it all, and there’s a chance that it can be ingested and cause serious illness.

There are some strikingly significant consequences to the probability that the USS Reagan can never be completely and demonstrably decontaminated. First, sailors may not be particularly enthusiastic about serving on the Reagan, especially since dozens of the crew are blaming their time on the ship for serious health problems. Second, if the contamination story gains legs in the popular media, the US disposition of forces in the Pacific is vulnerable to serious disruption.



(photocredit: U.S. Navy)


The Navy has announced that the Reagan will replace the USS George Washington at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan. Post-tsunami, polls in Japan have demonstrated a predominant dislike for nuclear power in general and Fukushima radiation in particular, and it is unlikely to welcome it into a Japanese port aboard the Reagan.

This is a matter of concern to the Abe government, not for public hygiene reasons—the regime’s foot soldiers are busy trying to sell the local population on the lack of peril and even the health benefits of Fukushima radiation—but because the unconditional welcome that the Japanese government offers to US forces is a key component of its strategy to use an unbreakable alliance between the US and Japan to confront the PRC.

Abe already has enough problems trying to shove the Futenma base relocation down the throats of the resisting Okinawans; he does not need the additional headache of having to rebut the argument that the US alliance brings with it additional nuclear contamination. That is probably why, as CNN put it, “specific timelines are yet to be announced” for when the Reagan will actually show up at Yokosuka.




This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier,
USS Ronald Reagan underway in the Pacific Ocean March 12, 2011 enroute to
Japan to render humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. AP


Third, the most logical way to deal with this issue once and for all would be to scuttle the USS Reagan in some conveniently deep marine trench and hope that the radioactive particulate will disperse sufficiently on the seabed and in the food chain to make the risk acceptable (the contamination issue, I imagine, would make the financial and political cost of scrapping the ship unsupportable). However, I imagine the US Navy is loath to scuttle a $6 billion ship that is also the symbol and instrument of US military hegemony in the Pacific in order to prevent a few dozen potential premature cancer deaths.

Instead, as noted above, instead of shunting the Reagan off to some US base, the US government announced in January 2014 it would station it at Yokosuka. Maybe the Defense Department has decided that the best defense is a good offense, and instead of giving credibility to Japanese nuclear anxieties, it’s just going to say The ship is clean, here’s the ship, it’s not going anywhere else. However, nuclear fears are notoriously difficult to allay and it will be a challenge for the US Navy and the Abe government to use scientific, statistical, and University of Chicago-style cost/benefit analyses to reconcile the Japanese citizenry to the presence of the USS Reagan.

So I predict that the preferred strategy of the US Defense Department and the Abe government will be: first, don’t acknowledge there’s a problem, followed by the usual stonewalling, modified hangout, and suppression of negative information—information like this from Stars & Stripes:

Sailors who were onboard the Reagan have claimed that they were drinking contaminated desalinated seawater and bathing in it until the ship’s leadership came over the public address system and told them to stop because it was contaminated. They claim the ventilation system was also contaminated.

Furthermore, some claim they were pressured into signing forms confirming they had been given iodine pills when none had been provided.

Given the stakes involved—not just the $6 billion aircraft carrier and the health of its crew, but also the implications for the Abe government and the US-Japan alliance if the Ronald Reagan story gets out of hand—it will be interesting to see how the media covers this story.



(photo: navylive.dodlive.mil)

[Update: In 2013, Japan Focus published two superb pieces by investigative reporter Roger Witherspoon on the US military’s response to radioactive contamination during Operation Tomodachi.

His interviews with servicemen and women who served on the Reagan–and in many other locations and capacities during the relief operation, describe the harrowing circumstances of trying, sometimes unsuccessfully, to predict and dodge the Fukushima plume and deal with onboard contamination of people as well as equipment.

Witherspoon’s account begs the question of why the Department of Defense saw fit to discontinue the Todomachi Medical Registry, which would have established baseline data for exposed personnel and monitored them for health problems. CH 2/5/14]



(photo credit: www.c7f.navy.mil)
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Re: "I Have Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
« Reply #61 on: December 20, 2014, 05:39:35 pm »

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USS Reagan Sailors File $1 Billion Suit Over Radiation Exposure (Video) | KPBS

8 April 2014
Scores of USS Ronald Reagan crew members have filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the Japanese utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

The class-action suit, filed in federal court in San Diego, claims the utility lied about unsafe levels of radiation emanating from the plant after Japan's epic 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

A portion of the lawsuit, published by the Orange County Register, reads:
"TEPCO likewise hid, covered up, and negligently concealed these facts and falsely represented the true facts to the U.S. Navy. Plaintiffs suffered harms, damage, and suffered, and continue to suffer, life-threatening injuries as a result of TEPCO’s negligence.”

According to the OC Register, dozens of Reagan crew members have been diagnosed with cancer since participating in humanitarian efforts to help the Japanese people in 2011. Another sailor's child was born with birth defects.

The Associated Press reports a judge dismissed the Reagan sailors' first attempt to sue in 2012. That's because the initial suit named the Japanese government, which owns the utility in question.

The second lawsuit, with 79 Reagan sailors as plaintiffs, names just TEPCO as the defendant.

TEPCO has responded to the amended lawsuit, according to the A.P., saying in a statement:

"It's wholly implausible that military commanders in charge of thousands of personnel and armed with some of the world's most sophisticated equipment, relied instead only on the press releases and public statements of a foreign electric utility company."

As Home Post previously reported, the Reagan spent three weeks off the coast of Japan participating in a humanitarian mission called Operation Tomodachi. The crew provided food, water, medicine, and clothing to those left destitute by the earthquake and tsunami.
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« Reply #62 on: December 20, 2014, 06:03:25 pm »


Fukushima breaking news: U.S.S. REAGAN Sailors GET A WIN VS. G.E. TEPCO,
WHY WILL THE MEDIA NOT cover and support our troops?

Published on Oct 30, 2014

The U.S.S. Reagan Sailors get GIANT win on the same day
the GIANTS get GIANT win in game 7, 2014 10/29/14

And the SO CALLED MAIN STREAM AND alternative media
refuse to cover it, and the AMERICAN MEDIA refuses to
SUPPORT THE TROOPS IN A REAL WAY, WHY why why ;
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BREAKING: USS Reagan sailors win a victory in court!
Judge rules that lawsuit can proceed and include not only TEPCO
but additional Defendants General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi,
the builders of the Fukushima nuclear reactors.

Here's the full press release, just issued:
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Charles Bonner & Cabral Bonner & Paul Garner, Esq.
760.671.8183 pcg@garnerlaw.com
The Law Offices of Bonner & Bonner
charles@bonnerlaw.com
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U.S. SAILORS WIN KEY COURT DECISION TO GO FORWARD WITH CLASS ACTION AGAINST JAPAN’S NUCLEAR POWER COMPANY
U.S. Navy Sailors have won a crucial battle in the United States District Court in San Diego against Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as TEPCO.

A Federal judge has ruled that the sailors’ class action law suit may go forward against TEPCO and additional Defendants General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi, the builders of the Fukushima nuclear reactors.

The 200 young sailors claim that TEPCO deliberately lied to the public and the U.S. Navy about the radiation levels at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant at the time the Japanese Government was asking for help for victims of the March 11, 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami.

Up to 70,000 U.S. citizens were potentially affected by the radiation and will be able to join the class action suit.

The lawsuit is based on the sailors’ participation in Operation Tomodachi (meaning “Friends”), providing humanitarian relief after the March 11, 2011 devastation caused by the Earthquake and Tsunami.

The lawsuit includes claims for illnesses such as Leukemia, ulcers, gall bladder removals, brain cancer, brain tumors, testicular cancer, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, thyroid illnesses, stomach ailments and a host of other complaints unusual in such young adults.

The injured servicemen and women will require treatment for their deteriorating health, medical monitoring, payment of their medical bills, appropriate health monitoring for their children, and monitoring for possible radiation-induced genetic mutations.

One Sailor, age 22, has been diagnosed with Leukemia and is losing his eyesight. In his declaration to the court he states, “Upon my return from Operation Tomodachi, I began losing my eyesight.I lost all vision in my left eye and most vision in my right eye. I am unable to read street signs and am no longer able to drive. Prior to Operation Tomodachi, I had 20/20 eyesight, wore no glasses and had no corrective eye surgery. Additionally, I know of no family members who have had leukemia.”

Paul Garner and Charles Bonner, attorneys for the sailors, say that additional plaintiffs are continuing to come forward with serious ailments from radiation.

The sailors would like the general public to contact their members of Congress, locally elected officials, and President Obama and implore them to tell the Government of Japan to (1) apply the principles of “Operation Tomodachi” to the Plaintiff-victims and help these U.S. Sailors; and (2) tell TEPCO to stop shirking responsibility for their publicly acknowledged wrongdoings.

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SAN DIEGO CHARGERS ON THE REAGAN AUG 29 2013

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Re: "I Have Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
« Reply #63 on: December 20, 2014, 06:18:12 pm »


Fukushima Breaking NEWS;
11/27/14
MORE U.S.S. REAGAN SAILORS have DIED from exposure.

Published on Nov 26, 2014
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AMERICA CAN GO IN Denial ALL THEY WANT,
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they are sick many U.S. MARINES , NAVY , AND ARMY
are dying from the exposure to radiation AGAIN,

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Re: "I Have Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
« Reply #64 on: December 20, 2014, 07:47:10 pm »
Wonder whatever happened to the many other boots on the ground/First Responders from various fire departments in the U.S.?



File:Operation Tomodachi in Kamaishi.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Members of the Fairfax County, Va., Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue search structures and debris on March 16, 2011 in Kamaishi, Japan.

A 9.0 earthquake hit Japan on March 11, 2011 that caused a tsunami that destroyed anything in its path.
1st Combat Camera Squadron
Photo by Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock
Date Taken: 03.16.2011
Location: KAMAISHI, 23, JPxx
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« Reply #65 on: December 20, 2014, 08:00:52 pm »
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« Reply #66 on: December 20, 2014, 09:07:01 pm »











LIMIT: 3 per household
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Always the prudent holiday shopper, we went looking for the U.S. version.

Could this be it?




Stars and Stripes "Operation Tomodachi" Book







Looked good, so we bought one.





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Re: "I Have Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
« Reply #67 on: January 27, 2015, 05:51:29 pm »
Stars and Stripes "Operation Tomodachi" Book

The quality publication is now possessed by the collective.

If anyone is interested, select portions can be posted.

Thank you for your time and consideration.



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Beyond Nuclear Director-"Fukushima Is Out Of Control"


Debris removal begins along coast of Futaba town

Published on Dec 18, 2014

Work to remove debris from the March 2011 tsunami has begun along the coast of Futaba Town in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture.

An evacuation order is still in place for the town since the accident there at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Japan's government is responsible for removing the debris.

On Wednesday morning, government-appointed workers began clearing the roughly 200-hectare area. They loaded driftwood and housing material onto trucks using construction machinery, and took it to a provisional storage site.

The Environment Ministry estimates the amount of debris in the area at 5,500 tons. The area is designated for preparation for the lifting of the evacuation order, where radiation levels there are relatively low. Removal of the debris would enable decontamination work and hopefully speed up the area's reconstruction.




South Korean experts visit Fukushima Daiichi plant

South Korean experts have visited the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to study the possible resumption of seafood imports from Fukushima and other prefectures.

The 7 experts toured the plant for about 2 hours on Wednesday. They were accompanied by officials from the Japanese government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company. They studied the contaminated water processing system known as ALPS and other facilities.

A Japan fisheries ministry official said he believes the tour helped show the experts that substantive measures have been taken to prevent contaminated water leaks.   :P

South Korea banned seafood imports from Fukushima and 7 other prefectures in September of last year.





Japan changes renewable energy program

Japan's government has announced a major change in its program for asking power companies to buy electricity generated from renewable energy sources.

The new policy was announced at a meeting of an advisory panel of the Economy and Industry Ministry on Thursday.

Under the plan, utilities are to be able to stop buying electricity generated using solar and wind power if they see a risk of oversupply due to unpredictability involved in the 2 sources.

The utilities would turn down offers of solar power produced by households as well as businesses.

Utilities would still be obliged to purchase electricity generated through the more predictable methods of geothermal and small-scale hydraulic power generation.

Utilities have been obliged to accept essentially all offers of electricity generated through renewable sources.

Since September, many of the country's utilities started limiting their purchases of solar power, citing a destabilizing oversupply.

The ministry plans to implement the change in mid-January by amending a relevant ordinance.



Mushroom-shaped “pink cloud” seen at Fukushima after Reactor 3 exploded

— Film: Nuclear bomb explosions caused “pink clouds of radiation”; “Clouds were pink from fallout… They told everyone there’s nothing to worry about” (VIDEO & PHOTOS)
http://enenews.com/new-book-pink-clou...


Tritium density rose up 10 × since July in seaside of Reactor 1
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/12/tr...

The Fukushima Endgame: The Radioactive Contamination of the Pacific Ocean
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-fuku...



Army Claims it’s too Dangerous to Clean Up Radioactive Weapons Test Site in Indiana

Fifty years of firing radioactive munitions by the U.S. Army has left a large swath of Southern Indiana toxic and dangerous: More than 160,000 pounds of depleted uranium projectiles and millions of artillery shells have been left behind, unexploded, at the firing range.

The Army, however, is showing no signs of cleaning up the mess. In fact, it appears to be trying to walk away from the problem altogether, leaving local residents at potential risk.
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-storie...


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« Reply #69 on: March 05, 2015, 11:06:48 am »
Rocky Flats was a disaster waiting to happen from day one.  It was also a major player in Denver's economy because of the number of jobs it provided.   Now it's been bulldozed and is a National Wildlife Refuge that is not open to the public.

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Fukushima Update - The largest mass die offs of Sea Life ever recorded” now underway on West Coast

Published on Feb 9, 2015
Sick, abandoned pups have shown up in alarming numbers on beaches in January.




US University Testing Animals in Pacific for Fukushima Radiation Get Shocking Results

Published on May 7, 2015
www.undergroundworldnews.com
Apr 13, 2015 (emphasis added): CSU partners with Fukushima University to study radiation effects… Many CSU faculty and researchers are contributing to radiation research in Japan… including Thomas Johnson… professor of health physics, who is testing trace radiation samples in seal populations in the northern Pacific Ocean, where radiation from the Fukushima disaster was released.

Digestive system: microdontia teeth smaller than normal, chronic interstitial pancreatitis inflammation of pancreas, hepatic cyst liver, cholestatic jaundice yellowing of skin caused by thickening of bile or problems in liver, geophagia eating dirt, and primary diffuse peritoneal tumor membrane lining abdomen.

A variety of the observed disease conditions are reported for the first time in ice seals and/or walruses.


from poster 'LastbutNotFirst' 1 year ago

An MSNBC article in April of 2012 reported that seals and polar bears were found to have “external maladies” that consisted of fur loss and open sores, obvious signs of radiation burns from the Fukushima meltdown, despite the conclusions of the article.

Fukushima radiation appears to be causing an epidemic of dead and starving Sea Lions in California and the FDA has refused to test for radiation.

Update: Huffington Post reports that the reactors used “dirty fuel,” a combination of plutonium and uranium (MOX), which means we can never return to this place again. This comes from a Russian nuclear physicist who is an expert on the kinds of gasses being released at Fukushima.

Almost a third more US West Coast newborns may face thyroid problems after Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Contaminated water from Fukushima reactors could double radioactivity levels of US coastal waters in 5 years — “We were surprised at how quickly the tracer spread”




Fukushima Radioactive Mutations

Published on Jun 19, 2014
Fukushima Mutations plants and humans
Radioactive Mutants




Fukushima fallout deaths concerns worldwide 2015
Published on Apr 26, 2015





Fukushima Update -The largest mass die offs of Sea Life ever recorded” now underway on West Coast

Published on Feb 9, 2015
Fukushima Radiation Pacific Ocean Apocalyptic California sea lions Shellfish Die Off West Coast Canada blood moon Illuminati mark of the beast

Sick, abandoned pups have shown up in alarming numbers on beaches in January.






Mass Animal Deaths Worldwide 2015 (since 2012 and escalating)

SPIRITUALWARRIOR TRUTHSEEKER
Published on Mar 28, 2015

Hosea 4:2-3(KJV)
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.




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NASA No Life On Earth - Fukushima 2050

Published on Dec 4, 2014
According to NASA, Fukushima will be an extinction Level Event by 2050 - Physicist Dr. Richard Alan Miller - there will be no life on earth according to NASA war document by the year 2050.

NASA Fukushima radiation.
Dr. Richard Alan Miller - Fukushima Radiation
http://richardalanmiller.com/breakingnews/radiation-fukushima

Fukushima Update
http://fukushimaupdate.com/

Fukushima T-Minus 00:00:00 Checkmate






Fukushima NEWS; the PACIFIC GENOCIDE,
THE GLOBALIST GENOCIDE HAPPENING NOW 6/5/2015

Published on Jun 5, 2015
The Opposite of the Manhattan Project IS I AM POST IGNORANCE

http://www.thepostignoranceproject.com/ http://www.gofundme.com/sdc76s
Where the Deer and the Antelope use to PLAY;;
Where the whales and the Children USE TO PLAY,,, BEFORE THE NUCLEAR CARTEL KILLED THE THERE MOTHER MY WET NURSE, kevin D. blanch 6/5/2015

The Opposite of the Manhattan Project IS I AM POST IGNORANCE http://www.thepostignoranceproject.com/
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ALL LIVING THINGS WET NURSE BEING MURDERED;;


"According to information received from the members of the CMS expert mission, it is becoming clear that two secondary opportunistic pathogens, specifically Pasteurella and Clostridia, are contributing to the rapid and wide-spread die-off. However, the hunt for the fundamental drivers behind the mass mortality continues since these bacteria are only lethal to an animal if its immune system is already weakened."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06...
"Ukraine's president says his forces have ousted pro-Russia rebels from the eastern town of Maryinka and captured 12 "saboteurs", including one Russian.

Petro Poroshenko's claim has not been independently confirmed.
Heavy fighting erupted on Wednesday in Maryinka and Krasnohorivka, west of rebel-held Donetsk.

The opposing sides have accused each other of shattering February's Minsk ceasefire, requiring them to withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline.

The Donetsk rebel leader spoke of huge losses in the Ukrainian army.
Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-styled "Donetsk People's Republic", said the Maryinka fighting had left about 400 Ukrainian troops dead and up to 1,000 wounded." bbc
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One of my (real world) friend Kevin's best.  :P



Fukushima news; 5 YEARS LATER CNN ADMITS CRIMES
FOX NEWS BBC TEPCO as kevin D. blanch predicted
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Children near Fukushima likely to suffer | Colombo Gazette
, May 24, 2016:

Children near Fukushima more likely to suffer from thyroid cancer… The rate of children suffering from thyroid cancer in Fukushima Prefecture was as much as 20 to 50 times higher than the national average as of 2014, three years after the disaster, said Toshihide Tsuda, professor of environmental epidemiology at Okayama University…

More than 160 teenagers in Fukushima Prefecture had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, including suspect cases… The Fukushima prefectural government doubted the cases were related to the nuclear disaster…

Some nuclear experts were surprised by the Japanese government’s irresponsible and indifferent attitude… According to research by Fukushima University, about 3,500 trillion becquerels of radiative cesium-137 were discharged into the sea with toxic water since the disaster broke out and radioactive material reached as far as the western coast of northern America.


File photo: People shout slogans and hold placards to protest against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), owner and operator of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in front of the Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, March 11, 2015. (Xinhua/Stringer)

Xinhua, May 23, 2016: Truths deliberately covered about Fukushima surface over five years —

Facts about the Fukushima nuclear disaster… kept emerging over the past five years after the mishap took place, revealing the real face of the disaster. In front of the local government of Iidate Village in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture [a device reads] 0.38 microsieverts/hour…

However, volunteer Yoichi Tao - who majored in physics - said the figure of radiation on their own device is 8 to 10 times of the official one. According to Tao, the government dispatched the military to wipe out the nearby nuclear radiation on the ground in advance, so the official figure looks very low. “That’s how the government did it,” he said…




Photo Caption: 104 cases of thyroid cancer have been identified, a far higher rate than the national average.

The Times, Oct 8 2015 (emphasis added): Child cancers up fifty-fold after Fukushima disaster — Cases of thyroid cancer among children living close to the Fukushima nuclear power plant have increased fiftyfold since the meltdown in 2011, according to Japanese scientists… in one of the most pessimistic assessments of the health implications of the world’s second-worst nuclear disaster. He urged the Japanese authorities to stop quibbling over the interpretation of cancer statistics, and to muster medical resources. “We need to prepare for leukaemia, breast cancer and (remainder of article only available to subscribers)…

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