- "Our children are dying. Help!" -A letter from
the high-radioactivity zone at Chernobyl
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- "We want to live. We want our children to live and
grow up healthy, and for them to have a future. Because of the indifference
and hard-hardedness, and cruelty of these on whom our destiny and that
of our children depends, we are condemned to the most terrible fate, which
we well understand. The only ones who don't understand are the bureaucrats
in their comfy armchairs."
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- -Valentina Nikolayevna Okhremchuk, mother of four boys,
and all the mothers of Olevsk district.
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- (translated from the Russian). -Alla Yaroskinskya, Chernobyl:
The Forbidden Truth, 1995.
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- With the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster,
it is more than appropriate to examine the dreadful consequences that have
ensued, and will continue to indefinitely, given the unfolding horrors
of the Fukushima nuclear reactors disaster that happened on March 11. It
is another shocking theme-and-variations on behind-the-scenes manipulated
"Disaster Capitalism" that Naomi Klein has written about in her
book, "The Shock Doctrine."
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- In essence, one cannot compare Chernobyl to Fukushima.
The scenarios were quite different, though both share the highest emergency
level 7. In fact, Fukushima [with six reactors involved] has already far
surpassed Chernobyl [with one reactor] in its appalling scope. What links
them is: the unmitigated and heart-wrenching scale of these catastrophes;
the devastation to all living creatures and the poisoning now of our entire
food chain; the continued cover-up by corrupt governments; and the reality
of how extremely dangerous nuclear energy continues to be.
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- The complete lack of any real emergency response to Fukushima,
to the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe (now continuing for more than a year),
and to Chernobyl are all horrific examples of not just ineptitude, but
crimes against humanity and nature. All these places are permanently wrecked
and ruined. The toll will continue; and it will continue to be massive
in human suffering.
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- Chernobyl was a fairly new reactor; and radioactive emissions
lasted 10 days. The radioactive particles, however, did travel around the
rest of the planet to cause untold, but invisible, injury and death. The
consequences of long-lived radiation, such as Cesium-137, Uranium-235,
and Strontium-90, still remain. Real and permanent evacuation never happened.
Citizens were expendable, while the Russian government lied to them and
discredited the few physicians who put their own lives at risk and knew
what was really happening medically and environmentally.
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- The area surrounding Chernobyl, a Dead Zone, is still
contaminated with radiation; yet more than 4,000 people continue to live
out their lives in this T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" scenario
of death and destruction. Chernobyl's entombed sarcophagus is cracking
and leaking radiation. It continues to cause severe genetic mutations to
all living things. Kiev, a city 62 miles away, has a population of 2-million,
and very elevated incidences of cancer, as does the Dead Zone. Yet, in
a twisted sense of sheer madness and the macabre, the Ukraine government
has opened the area to tourism: www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-worst-nuclear-plant-accident-in-2011-03-14
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- The "British Medical Journal" has reported
a 12-fold increase in thyroid cancer, since Chernobyl: "Among young
women aged under 14 in higher risk areasthe rates have increased almost
30-fold since the disaster."(1) Similar findings were also reported
in "Nature" with the author commenting that "great strains"
are being placed on the "health services. It also provides an opportunity,
which we hope will not be repeated [author's emphasis], to study the consequences
on major exposure of a population to isotopes of iodine from [radioactive]
falloutthat is a direct consequence of Chernobyl."(2) No one heeded
that warning, because those in charge have no reverence for life.
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- In 2003, geoscientist Leuren Moret was invited to Japan
by "citizens concerned about the dangers of a major earthquake."(3)
Since 2000, she has made 20 visits to Japan. There are 52 nuclear reactors
in this geologically fragile country sitting on "the top of four tectonic
platesand [it] is one of the most tectonically active regions in the world."(4)
As in US, "many of these reactors have been negligently sited on active
faults."(5) These are catastrophic accidents waiting to happen; and
Moret was prophetic and scientifically astute in her warnings about the
real potential for disaster.
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- From almost the first day, Fukushima's epic calamity
continues to pose a major threat to the Japanese population and then to
the rest of our planet. The handling of the response has only prolonged
the disaster. Boron, which could have absorbed and contained radiation,
was never used. As it stands now, more than 27,000 people have died, and
the figure may yet be far higher. The added nightmare of 600,000 spent
radioactive fuel rods collecting at Fukushima for 45 years has only exacerbated
an already terrible situation.
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- Massive amounts of radiation continue to be emitted,
and accurate reporting of these extreme dangers has not happened from mainstream
media. The fuel rods are yet another reminder that there is no safe place
to store nuclear waste any place. Accidents happen, or are deliberately
created. The very worst storage place is where there is a large population
nearby. This storage "solution" can be considered criminal negligence.
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- The magnitude of Fukushima's radiation is now off the
scale. So, conveniently, neither Japan nor the US is reporting the real
amount of our radiation exposure. According to Leuren Moret, six reactors
are involved. This, too, is not being reported by mainstream media. Three
of these reactors have been in meltdown, now partially admitted by Japan's
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency: www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110419004267.htm
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- Some new pictures from the "Dead" Zone are
here. The accompanying text is by Yoishi Shimatsu: www.rense.com/general93/deadz.htm
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- There is no acceptable or safe level of radiation exposure.
Period. Anyone who believes the lies that officials continue to tell us,
and get away with it, is already at a huge disadvantage. We have been cannon
fodder for centuries for the wealthy elite in their various wars, rigged
events, and planned deceit behind closed doors. Since the splitting of
the atom, the supposed nuclear age was going to bring tremendous wonders
to society. In fact, what it has brought us is unmitigated devastation.
It began when the US destroyed the civilian populations of Nagasaki and
Hiroshima, and then there was continued radioactive ruin, long-term highly
toxic ionizing radiation, genetic mutation and mutilation wrought on subsequent
generations. Now, with this gruesome nuclear disaster in Japan, their entire
population is again at high risk for more cancers and radiation-caused
diabetes; and their children are in jeopardy for increased rates of thyroid
cancers, leukemia, and genetic mutations. It is one deliberately created
epic tragedy on top of another.
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- There are also many other forms of radiation to which
we are exposed daily; and this adds other dimensions of danger to our deteriorating
health. · Depleted Uranium bombs continue to be illegally used
in unlawful warfare against innocent civilians. So, chronic radioactive
poisoning has become a ghastly part of living throughout the entire twenty-first-century
world. However, it is not just the DU bombs, but also the cumulative and
on-going effect of all low-level, chronic nuclear ionizing radiation poisoning
to which we are all exposed for the past 65 years. Dr. Rosalie Bertell
has written extensively about this. Her book, "No Immediate Danger,"
is a must read to understand the magnitude of the harm to which we all
have been exposed. · This radiation poisoning also includes the
electromagnetic frequency [EMF] spectrum. In a highly informative 2007
article, "The Radiation Poisoning of America," Amy Worthington
wrote that billions of humans are now exposed to the invisible dangers
of cell phones (and all their permutations, i-pods, i-phones, etc.), cell
phone towers, Wi-Fi internet connections, computers, and nuking our food
with microwave ovens [This destroys any nutritional value of the food].
She notes:
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- "Our addiction to cell phones has led to harder
'drugs' like wireless Internet. And now we are bathing in the radiation
that our wireless enthusiasm has unleashed. Those who are addicted, uninformed,
corporately biased and politically-influenced may dismiss our scientifically-sound
concerns about the apocalyptic hazards of wireless radiation. But we must
not. Instead, we must sound the alarm."(6)
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- The chronic exposure to these electromagnetic frequencies
has already caused an epidemic of brain cancers and other serious cognitive
damage most especially to our children. Parents' concerns, regarding
cell phone towers built close to schools, frequently have been ignored.
Conveniently for the corporations, illnesses have not been reported except
in the medical journals. With more than 4-billion cell phones in use, it
is a lucrative business, even if, along with the nuclear industry, it was
never safe from the beginning.
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- Chronic exposure to these other forms of radiation causes
lung, brain and neurological damage, paralysis, bone pain, brain dysfunction
(including dementia), and DNA injuries. Early on, the invisible brain damage
is quite subtle, so people do not realize that they are being hurt, until
it's too late. An excellent source of information is available from a series
of interviews with Prof. Olle Johanssen of Denmark's prestigious Karolinska
Institute:
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- www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS7YIZ1x0r8&playnext=1&list=PL434FAFD70A66A05F
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- These are other forms of the far larger picture of radiation
sickness that combine regularly with the unceasing ionizing radiation we
get from nuclear reactors. Our immune systems and now compromised cognitive
abilities are under daily and continuous siege that has taken a huge and
cumulative toll.
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- There was no massive evacuation at Fukushima; and so
now six weeks since the tsunami and nuclear reactors collapse and meltdown,
things are dramatically worse. People throughout Japan have been at acute
risk since the first day. The poor-to-no-real-evacuation plan has put everyone
in extreme danger, while the ineptitude and criminality continue.
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- The lethal amounts of internal body radiation to which
the Japanese are exposed, have already caused the deaths of several people
who were inside the reactor at the initial explosion. Several "clean-up"
people [an oxymoron, as I have previously written in my article on Chernobyl
(7)] have already died. This is now tragically playing out at Fukushima
with high levels of radioactive isotopes of Cesium-137, Plutonium-239,
Iodine-131, Strontium-90, Uranium-235, and Cobalt-60. At Chernobyl, anyone
who worked there in the supposed "clean-up" also died within
a very short time.
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- Those in charge, no matter which government or what political
affinities, have absolutely no concern or interest in protecting any of
us from these hazards. The corruption is endemic to these totally broken
systems. Our society is now militarized at the expense of every other gutted
social service and at the expense of our very future. We just don't seem
to get that collectively. We continue to be lab rats for the latest extremely
dangerous (and now often deliberate) catastrophic event, orchestrated clandestinely
that will have persistent deadly repercussions for everyone. The radiation
is now worldwide and poses extreme threats to all of us. Children, the
elderly, and pregnant women are especially at risk. Yet, because it is
not reported, millions of people go about their daily routines totally
oblivious of the immediate radiation dangers.
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- How can anyone, still capable of thinking clearly read
this and NOT understand that ALL our lives are at risk? Although it is
invisible, our food chain has been poisoned. Not just from the continuous
but invisible radioactive releases coming through the air, as well as the
chemically laden snow and rain; but also from the tons of radioactive water
criminally dumped into the Pacific Ocean traveling toward North America's
West Coast! Radiation continues to envelop us. Our weather is geo-engineered
and travels on the global winds, now with the toxicity of both Chemtrails
and radiation. Do we comprehend what this means, when we take a bite of
radioactive food, chew it, and swallow pieces of death? Day in and day
out? For the rest of our lives? Where does this leave a whole generation
of millions of vulnerable children?
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- Water and milk are now also highly radioactive. So, we
cannot go shopping any more for food on automatic pilot. Here is a short
list of safer areas for food products not grown in the Northern Hemisphere
or coming from the Pacific: www.rense.com/general93/rad.htm
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- Here is a link to some information on protection for
your immune system: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24101
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- As I have already written, since there have been unexplained
malfunctions or breakdowns of numerous government radiation monitoring,
it is urgent that communities begin to monitor their own exposure. This
can be done with a more sophisticated Geiger counter and we also have daily
reports from the Norwegian Institute for Air Research's Radiation Map that
has been reporting online for several weeks. Accurate reports of high radiation
exposure (not reported by the media) coming to North America and Europe
are available here: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BnRMS71OpCY
and http://transport.nilu.no/browser/fpv_fuku?fpp=conccol_Xe-133_;region=NH
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- In addition, the Radiation Network has also been reporting
online since last month. Radiation throughout the US is updated every minute
in real time: www.radiationnetwork.com
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- The above is confirming evidence that the entire continent
of North America is already experiencing widespread Radiation Poisoning.
However, with the media silenced and compliant, most people will not even
know they've been exposed or be diagnosed properly by health-care providers.
Over the past two weeks, I have spoken with more than 30 doctors, dentists,
OMDs, NDs, nurse practitioners, and two veterinarians in several states
around the US. Not one person had any training in radiation poisoning and
did not know the symptoms.
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- Most did not even know that radiation was already here
from Japan. These professionals also have little training in environmentally
caused illnesses. Only one dentist knew about the devastation of Chemtrails
aerosol toxicity and was spending time doing research. Therefore, it is
up to us to become well informed about what life-threatening hazards we
are all facing. This is the worst man-made catastrophe that our planet
has had in our lifetimes.
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- The severity of radiation poisoning symptoms depends
on the proximity to the source and the duration. The greater one's radiation
exposure, the more severe one's symptoms are. With ionizing radiation (from
radioactive particle bombardment), this goes directly into tissues and
bone (human and animals). The causes can be acute (as in a single dose)
or in the case of the people in Fukushima, close and regular exposure over
a longer period of time. Here are some symptoms:
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- · Nausea and vomiting · Bleeding from the
nose, mouth, or rectum [NOTE: Chemtrails exposure also causes chronic,
"Waterfall" nosebleeds.] · Bruising, tenderness, and skin
swelling and burn of exposed areas · Diarrhea and bloody stool ·
Extreme fatigue, weakness, and fainting · Open skin sores that do
no heal [Note: Morgellons also have these symptoms] · Thinning of
hair and loss
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- As noted above, many of these symptoms also have other
causes. It is also imperative that we understand that with daily Chemtrails
aerosol spraying for more than a decade, and our air that is now a plasma
state, there will be a real and synergistic potential for even greater
harm with an unknown combining of radioactive particles and the Chemtrails
toxic brew. Again, it is extremely important to consult a health care practitioner
who has training and knowledge of nuclear ionizing radiation exposure.
This is now a worldwide hideous experiment with unknown but potentially
grave consequences. Tests of white blood cell count and hair analysis can
also confirm and determine exposure.
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- How many more nuclear reactor "accidents" do
we want? Have we not had far too many? Even one, is one too many. There
are numerous reactors in the US that are built on geologically unstable
areas, as is the case at Fukushima, and also at San Onofre, CA. They were
built with known and serious design flaws. It doesn't seem to matter. For
example, on March 21, the Nuclear Regulating Commission (NRC) issued a
20-year renewal for operating the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, even
though last year, the Vermont Senate (in a vote of 26 to 4) voted to block
operation of the power plant after 2012.
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- Vermont citizens didn't want the reactor there either.
Built in 1972, the reactor (one of the oldest in the US) has had numerous
serious problems including: the loss of radioactive fuel rods, a transformer
fire, dangerous contamination levels, and a cooling tower collapse. Wells
around the plant have been poisoned with radioactive Tritium. Inspections
of the plant have been deficient. Valid appeals from concerned citizens
not to renew their license were ignored. See:
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- http://vtdigger.org/2011/03/21/nrc-issues-renewed-license-for-vermont-yankee
and www.greenmountainfuture.com/TheDanger
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- Here are other serious reactor problems: (1)There are
computer viruses that can and do infect operating facilities at nuclear
plants. (2)The fuel used, known as MOX (mixed oxide), is highly dangerous;
and 6 percent of it is present in the fuel rods. 1 mg (milligram) of MOX
fuel equals 2-million mgs of normal enriched Uranium. The decades-long
storage of 600,000 spent fuel rods at Fukushima makes this catastrophe
even worse. (3)Storage containers for nuclear waste continue to develop
cracks and leaks.
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- None of these containers have ever been safe, nor do
they have a long life. According to Leuren Moret, some develop leaks after
five years. She told me: "Since before World War 2, the United States
has been producing nuclear waste with nowhere to store it." The issues
surrounding nuclear waste usually are not reported; but the dangers have
never disappeared. Like cancer, they have only metastasized with the decades
passing and new facilities built. There are now thousands of contaminated
sites around the planet that are deadly; and they will continue to be so
forever.
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- Hanford (in Washington state), the oldest facility and
now a horrifically contaminated Superfund site, continues to poison the
entire population of the Pacific Northwest. For that area, the troubles
are compounded because of five years of the burning of VX nerve gas (at
Umatilla, the US army site, south of Portland) and, unconscionably, releasing
this HazMat into the air!
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- Many reactors are old and have had other severe problems.
None of this is even remotely safe. Here are two maps showing geologically
unstable areas around the US and the sites of nuclear facilities superimposed
on the map:
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- These, including Fukushima, never should have been built.
But, as Dr. Helen Caldicott has said in several of her recent public comments,
with so much money at stake for the entire nuclear industry, they will
do everything they can to keep this deadly industry going, no matter what
the cost. Greed continues to be the watchword for many decades. This is
an industry based on harm. It is not safe. It never was. It is not cost
effective.
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- Think about what this has meant to the many millions
of people who have been contaminated and killed by radiation! Millions
of families have already been affected. The genetic damage is in our DNA,
and has continued to plague all living species for the last six decades.
How many more eons will this go on with the latest massive radioactive
assault throughout the planet? It's all incalculable; but, in the realities
of our short lives, eons are irrelevant. The genetic damage is already
enormous, and the tragedies of lives wrecked by it continues apace.
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- How many millions of people around the globe will contract
diabetes or cancer directly related to the radioactive fallout that has
contaminated the entire Northern Hemisphere? How many of our precious children
or grandchildren will get leukemia and die young their lives cut short,
due to the criminality of those in charge? How many will become sterile?
This is what nuclear radiation does.
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- Before it was compromised in 1959, the World Health Organization
(WHO) issued the following statement: Genetic heritage is the most precious
property for human beings. It determines the lives of our progeny, health
and harmonious development of future generations. As experts, we affirm
that the health of future generations is threatened by increasing development
of the atomic industry and sources of radiation We also believe that new
mutations that occur in humans are harmful to them and their offspring."(8)
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- This public statement, as with so many others, was just
Orwellian doublespeak.
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- Before Fukushima, Japan had the world's third largest
economy. Now the epic tragedy that has befallen its entire population is
immeasurable and very long-term in its devastating implications. Yoishi
Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times, has been covering this since
the first day. In a radio web interview on April 18, he said the situation
at Fukushima is "virtually hopeless":
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- www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpSv9qRObBU
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- As with Chernobyl, but far worse in its global radioactive
proportions, Fukushima's wrecked and highly radioactive reactors will continue
to ravage everyone throughout the entire country and beyond. The genetic
consequences are grave, given that the Japanese were already at such high
risk because of the long-term consequences of US atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
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- Japan has an ancient culture. Yes, it has been a warrior
society. However, there is much more on a positive and creative level.
Japan has also given us far more than high-tech gadgets. The magnificence
of Japanese art and calligraphy go back millennia. Lady Murasaki Shikibu's
classic "Tale of Genji" was written during the Heian period (794-1185)
in about 1100, while most Europeans were still illiterate.
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- Sophisticated Noh theater from the Muromachi period (1336-1573)
predates Shakespeare. Chanoyu, their ritual tea ceremony, is elegant and
timeless. The magnificence of Japanese gardens (both ancient and modern)
has become part of an international design lexicon that is practiced by
millions of gardeners around the world. This is also true of Ikebana, the
ancient art of flower arrangement. In its beautiful simplicity, heaven,
earth and man are represented proportionally by flowers and greenery. Japanese
buildings have influenced architecture and design worldwide. These are
marvelous cultural gifts to us all. What will be left that isn't radioactive?
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- The Japanese are fit and trim and generally have a good
and healthy diet. Millions of Americans eat junk food that has absolutely
no nutritional value and is filled with poisonous ingredients (from aspartame
to Genetically Engineered) that totally wreck our immune systems. A staggering
49-million Americans are obese due to this unhealthy food.
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- The Japanese are far more well educated than Americans.
Education is held in high esteem in Japan; and this is essential for any
society to survive and flourish. In the US, over the past more than three
decades, education has been trashed, along with every other social service.
I have seen this repeatedly with my university students. We live in a dumbed-down,
easily manipulated, corporate-run society, where millions no longer can
think clearly or critically, due in great part to our air rife with deadly
toxins and EMFs, all of which we have exported. Now the entire Japanese
population is in extremis, as long-lived radioactive particles spread their
invisible tentacles far and wide.
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- No one is safe from this kind of horror. The place of
humans in the scope of life and evolution is quite short. Yet, humans in
their rapacious corporate practices, have deliberately harmed and altered
our climate, the entire biosphere, and decimated our entire genetic pool.
In our corporate-based unethical and massively corrupt societies, where
we are all expendable, avarice trumps everything else. Malevolence is another
watchword, where dollar signs have now replaced human eyes. This is an
unsustainable, self-destruct scenario for all of us.
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- The radiation from the Fukushima Reactors nightmare is
far from over. Radiation exposure and subsequent illnesses will possibly
last the rest of our lives (as with the tragedies of Chernobyl, Bhopal,
and now the Gulf of Mexico compounding it); and the radiation damage will
be passed on genetically to our children. The social and medical costs
are staggering. Do we think there will be any protection from any governmental
agency ANYWHERE, when they have already raised the level of radiation exposure
for food (given that NO level is safe)? www.activistpost.com/2011/04/eu-follows-epa-raises-acceptable.html
This is to keep the corporations free from lawsuits and any accountability.
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- Questions to contemplate: Collectively, what have we
wrought for the almighty buck? When will this nuclear insanity stop? Now
that the entire food chain is contaminated, how long do we want now to
eat radioactive food? Do YOU want to eat this? Do you want to feed these
poisons to your children? With each bite of radioactive food, do you truly
comprehend what this actually means? Can we collectively save what is left?
Chernobyl is a continuing radioactive nightmare; and now we have a far
more cataclysmic event at Fukushima.
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- When will we hold these criminals accountable? For years,
we have already been lied to and bamboozled while they continue to steal
trillions of our taxpayer dollars. We've been fleeced, so CEOs could buy
multi-million dollar mansions, while millions of our homes have been illegally
stolen, and millions more of us have been put out of work, while jobs go
offshore; and everything but the military is gutted.
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- Earth Day, April 22, has no meaning if we have a planet
that is wrecked beyond salvation. This is not about the contrived scam
of global warming, or about CO2 reduction. Carbon Dioxide, CO2, is indispensable
for our life cycles, and the exchange between plants and animals: The plants
give us Oxygen and we exhale CO2, which they, in turn, need. This is about
the elite's hidden agendas that are destroying the viability of living
on our planet. Reverence for the sacredness of life, in all its myriad
forms, is gone. We cannot, and MUST NOT, use our planet as a personal
toilet or sewer. We cannot continue to breathe air filled with more than
a hundred thousand hazardous chemicals, and that is now a plasma state,
as outstanding researcher Clifford Carnicom reports: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVpsmBNvL8&feature=player_embedded
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- There are two ESSENTIALS for our basic survival: air
to breathe and a safe food supply. Both of these human basics are now so
tainted and rife with thousands of deadly toxins, and now a spew of radiation
and plasma has been added.
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- Our health and well being cannot be left to government
agencies' corporate decisions or corrupt public officials. Nor can we any
longer rely on the various groups and organizations that are supposed to
be working for a safe and healthy planet. They all have been bought off
and co-opted by elite money. It is likely that millions of well-meaning
people who support these organizations do not even know this. See Michel
Chossudovsky's article, "Manufacturing Dissent": www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21110
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- This article is not some academic exercise. It is written
as my continued way to educate and inform. It is my lifelong social conscience.
As the survivor of the 2003, 1-million-acre southern California FIRESTORM,
I know in the deepest part of my heart what the people of Japan are experiencing.
Having lost several friends who were burned to death and everything I had,
I know what trauma is all about. The day we were forced to evacuate our
homes with only 15 minute to take anything, little did we know that when
we were "allowed home" almost a month later [that's how long
these 14 arson fires burned out of control], there would be nothing left
of our community of 2,000 but burn, and ash, and blackened skeletons of
trees, and hot soil. We had almost no help.
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- Government agencies did not help, but rather made everything
so much harder for us. No one was ever held accountable. This is the way
our totally broken system "works." From personal experience,
I know that any public official, or agency, or the legal system no longer
works for us. Officials lie all the time; and corporations have done all
they can to damage and destroy our planet and our health. The mass media
is complicit. Greed reigns.
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- Jim Kirwan has written that "the personal is the
political"; and this is how we all MUST see this catastrophe: it affects
each one of us. YOU. This means 310-million Americans; and Canadians, and
Mexicans. Just look at the maps and links above and watch the radiation
travel across our countries. This means all the people on the entire North
American continent, and then the radioactivity goes to Europe. Again: there
is NO SAFE LEVEL OF RADIATION. It is affecting my precious grandchildren,
the youngest of whom turns three shortly. It affects my children, and me,
as well. However, as someone with a very strong social conscience for my
entire life, it has always gone way beyond me.
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- As a teacher for decades, my students will tell you,
I have always taken a personal interest in them. I am always there for
them. This continues to be my focus. This is why I am a teacher. The trust
between teacher and student must be there. Not just for the subject matter;
but, in the bigger picture of education, also to share a life perspective,
and encourage them to think critically, do their very best, and shine.
Truly, this makes me happy.
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- I would urge everyone who still can think (and understands
that simply breathing the air now compromises our cognitive functions and
well being), and comprehends the enormity of what is at stake, to join
peacefully together and help stop this nuclear insanity. It is not safe
energy. There are other sources of safe and sustainable energy (wind and
solar) that don't maim and kill us. Several US groups are calling for no
more nuclear plants. For example, see: www.calpirg.org/in-the-news/more-issues/more-issues/us-group-wants-no-new-nuclear-plants-end-to-relicensing
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- However, we need more than this. We need a complete change
of head space, no longer one that shrugs and says, "Oh well, that's
the price we have to pay for living in the modern world." This is
a cop-out. We do have ethical and moral responsibilities, even if our society
and leaders are devoid of them. We cannot fix this nightmare, unless each
and every one of us takes this personally. Whether we understand individually
and collectively these implications, and whether we choose to act on them,
remains to be seen. Given the invisible but daily radiation to which we
are all exposed, the time is quite short.
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- We need a Peaceful Grassroots Movement that is not tied
to the elite's pocketbooks. This may seem like a complex undertaking. However,
it is do-able; and it is not that difficult. Together, we can rise heroically
to this occasion, and join together, united in peace, for our very survival!
We have the potential for tremendous compassion and working together that
builds trust and harmony for the very highest good.
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- This is part of the best of the human condition. We do
have a choice of not being part of the culturally and politically sanctioned
divisiveness. We can do it; and we are not alone! The continued eloquence
and courage of Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Dr. Nick Begich, Dr. Chris Busby, Dr.
Helen Caldicott, Dr. R. Michael Castle, Professor Michel Chossudovsky,
Jim Kirwan, Stephen Lendman, Leuren Moret and millions of others of good
will must light the way for all of us. "We've been nuclear guinea
pigs since 1945. Nuclear power, nuclear weapons are not compatible with
life." Leuren Moret
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- NOTES
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- 1. Roger Dobson. "Thyroid cancer has increased 12-fold
in women since Chernobyl." BMJ. Vol. 328 (2004): 1394.
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- 2. K. Baverstock. "Thyroid Cancer after Chernobyl."
Nature. Vol. 359 (Sept. 3, 1992): 21.
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- 3. Leuren Moret. "Japan's deadly game of nuclear
roulette." Japan Times. May 24, 2004: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html
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- 4. Moret, ibid.
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- 5. Moret, ibid.
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- 6. Amy Worthington. "The Radiation Poisoning of
America." Global Research. Oct. 7, 2007: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7025
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- 7. Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri. "Chernobyl: The
Horrific Legacy. 23 Years and Counting." April 25, 2009: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13349
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- 8. Quoted by Dr. Helen Caldicott in "How nuclear
apologists mislead the world over radiation." London. The Guardian,
page 3, April 11, 2011: www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/11/nuclear-apologists-radiation/print
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- Educator and environmental writer Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri
is the author of the highly acclaimed book, "The Uterine Crisis."
London's "The Ecologist" calls this book "an inspiration."
She is an Associate of the Carnicom Institute.
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