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[b]Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We've Almost Lost Nebraska[/b]

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Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry.

We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about it---at least to the extent of what they actually know, which is nowhere near enough.

Indeed, the assurances from the nuke power industry continue to flow like the floodwaters now swamping the Missouri Valley heartland.

But major breakthroughs have come from a Pennsylvania Senator and New York's Governor on issues of evacuation and shut-down. And a public campaign for an end to loan guarantees could put an end to the US industry once and for all.

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The need to stop the madness grows more desperate every day.

From the attached article ^

Oh the humanity! BTW I just tried to call gawd on my cell phone. But even he don’t answer his phone anymore when I pray. Seems he’s-she’s (it’s) is pretty busy these days. Just look at the disasters! Unprecedented in all of global history!

I have it from reliable sources that gawd has now fled to a Small South Sea Island--all expenses included. Issued and paid for by bonds of course--taxpayers want nothing to do with this global abomination. But gawd too is praying that the water don’t rise too far and the dams don’t break before all obligations have been met. To him of course.






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Radiation in Our Food
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Even as thousands of Japanese workers struggle to contain the ongoing nuclear disaster, low levels of radiation from those power plants have been detected in foods in the United States. Milk, fruits and vegetables show trace amounts of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daichi power plants, and the media appears to be paying scant attention, if any attention at all. It is as if the problem only involves Japan, not the vast Pacific Ocean, into which highly radioactive water has poured by the dozens of tons, and not into air currents and rainwater that carry radiation to U.S. soil and to the rest of the world. And while both Switzerland and Germany have come out against any further nuclear development, the U.S. the nuclear power industry continues as usual, with aging and crumbling power plants receiving extended operating licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as though it can’t happen here. But it is happening here, on your dinner plate.
I'd like to see the government test the Gulf of Alaska's radiation levels.

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Interesting. Surf a bit and try to find the latest on Ft. Calhoun. Ain't much. The press can't get close yet the government says there's no cause for concern. Nothing to see, go home. Just to allay everyone's fears there's something close to a press blackout. I actually surfed the Omaha Times-Herald and a few other Nebraska news sources today looking for updated information. There was almost nothing reported. In fact, I found a couple of reports complaining that journalists can't get any information.


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Welcome back, Mick! How's the arm? IMO- I feel that the media is downplaying the potential risk of not only Ft. Calhoun, but also Los Alamos and Fukushima. It is close to a news blackout. I don't believe that "we" can control nuclear fission. It could be argue that the media is downplaying the risk to allay any fears and to prevent general panic. It can also be argued that they're covering for the nuclear industry.

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Fukushima Cover Up Unravels

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...Nishio originally called for “calm” in the days after the accident. Now, he argues, that as the gravity of the situation at the plant has become more clear, the specter of long-term radiation exposure must be reckoned with....

Former Minister for Internal Affairs Haraguchi Kazuhiro has alleged that radiation monitoring station data was actually three decimal places greater than the numbers released to the public. If this is true, it constitutes a “national crime”, in Nishio’s words....

A former nuclear adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan blasted the government’s continuing handling of the crisis, and predicted further revelations of radiation threats to the public in the coming months.

In his first media interview since resigning his post in protest in April, Toshiso Kosako, one of the country’s leading experts on radiation safety, said Mr Kan’s government has been slow to test for possible dangers in the sea and to fish and has understated certain radiation dangers to minimize what it will have to spend to clean up contamination.

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Originally Posted by Joe Keegan
....I don't believe that "we" can control nuclear fission.....


Some of us can't be trusted with matches either, Joe.

By all means repair to your mud/wattle hut with its greasy/smokey cookfire in your luddistic fantasy. But give up your electronic gadgets, refrigeration, processed foods, modern medicine and dental prcedures/medicines, too ! Gaia will love you ! >Mech


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Kinda sad, when you think about it. Japan's "industrial/governmental complex" didn't exert its economic might to develop follow-on generations of nuke power reactors even more resistant to the sort of natural disaster that damaged their old "Model Ts" . Its not like the design(s) and - data from operating units - doesn't exist.

Instead, "Japan, Inc." left all its eggs in one basket and kept on cashing the checks. Even though their own cultural history was rife with accounts of the devastation occurring from past earthquakes. Blaming the industry/science for "causing" this event is like blaming the match maker for arsons. >Mech

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