@Jec, TIS, shaker1-
Since medical data from Fukushima University is unreliable, blogger
4_sea compiled data using a loophole: by looking up a website 'caloo'
which surveys 'surgery success rates' (kind of like an 'Angie's list'
for surgery) and pulling data of Fukushima University Hospital from
there. http://matome.naver.jp/m/odai/2141784470400989501
This compares 2011, 2012 & 2013 data- charts were created with 2011 numbers as the starting point 100%
(I've been translating what each chart is.. more than halway thru..)
1.Malignant tumors of the thyroid
2.non-traumatic cranial hematoma
3.cataract , the lens disease
4.strabismus
5.retinal detachment
6.Diabetic proliferative retinopathy
7.Macula, Bian of the posterior pole
8.Glaucoma
9.Ptosis
10. Glass body disorders (? Jellyfish babies..?)
11.Disease of the choroid
12. neoplasm of the head & neck
13.Peritonsillar abscess , acute tonsillitis , acute pharyngitis laryngitis
14.Malignant tumor in the lungs
15. Pneumothorax
16. Angina pectoris , chronic ischemic heart disease
17. irregular pulse
18.Valvular disease ( disease of heart valve)
19.Vein – lymphatic disease
20.Occlusive arterial disease
21. esophageal malignancies (including neck )
22. Malignant tumor in stomach
23. Malignant tumors of the small intestine & peritoneal malignancies
24. Malignant tumor of the large intestine (S -shaped colon from the ascending colon)
25. Malignant tumor of rectum anus ( anal from rectum · S -shaped colon )
26. Malignant tumor of the liver and intrahepatic bile duct (including the secondary tumors after remission )
27. Gallbladder , malignant tumor of the extrahepatic bile duct
28. pancreas , spleen tumors
29. Benign disease of the small intestine large intestine (including benign tumors )
30. Esophagus, stomach, duodenum, other intestinal inflammation (other benign disease)
bo that's great…but the list, is it giving a success rate from top
being the lowest success (or highest) or something like that? Anyway,
thank you. Sorry I'm so dense.
Thanks for the question LC – the numbers only show how many
'procedures' were performed to fix these health problems at Fuku Univ.
The blogger figured, that's a good way to peek into how much health issues increased after 2011.
For example the first chart says
甲状腺の悪性腫瘍
26→52→46→66
The number there under the headline shows how many surgeries for
malignant tumors of the thyroid were performed 2011, 2012, 2013 &
2014
( Just this first chart includes 2014 number as well )
Jebus exposed one of the trolls. The good news is that the good folks are getting better tech to expose the trolls.
The bad news is that the trolls are getting more advanced in their trickery. This paid shills to promote the overall lie of nuclear and radiation are really disgusting creatures. Sociopaths at best, psychopaths more likely.
Yep, if you recall, I challenged his first posts as t'ai in the Vancouver Aquarium threads, a while back.
I just wanted to see how far he would go and now I think that he is more understanding of his own plight in these times.
I hope he carries that ball back to his own turf for enlightenment of others…
Palisades, in Holland Michigan, right on Lake Mighigan (One of the Worst Nuke Plants) Run By Entergy (One of the Slummiest of the Slum Lords)
Palisades, as they are under review for a very dangerous brittle core material (see next article, is so compalcent that whilst they are under the microscope they still allow a massive leak to continue unabated for 9 days.
The measurement in the ground water (not at the source of the leak, but far away at a well) was 481,000 Bq/M3
They reported the leak in pCi which is hard for most people to interpret.
And this is tritium, with a long half life, in 25 years, 12.5% of this contamination will still be around, irradiated humans, animals, fish, plants.
They are so decrepit that it took them 9 days to stop the radiation leak into the ground water after they found it.
They found a little dutch boy in Holland Michigan who could have stopped the leak in 5 minutes, but he wasn't a card carrying nucleo-ape union member so the leak continued unabated for 9 freaking days. [that's funny, do you get it?]
Entergy needs to be suspended as a nuclear operator and their worst plants need to be shut down.
They have had 4 serious leaks in the last 4 years.
But don't worry it was only 13,000 pCi/L of what they found in the well.
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Palisades is already 2 years past its design life. This is a Klunker that needs to be shut down.
It is a risk to the Great Lakes. Dilution is not the solution.
If you have the chance drive to this meeting and let them know what you think about Palisades.
A public meeting
is 6 p.m. April 9 at the Beach Haven Event Center, 10420 M-140 in South
Haven, where staff members from Entergy Nuclear Operations, the owner
of Palisades, will meet with NRC officials to discuss the plant’s
status.
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To estimate effective dose, a commenter at Ecowatch offered to help, lets see what happens. He is a pro nuke commentor.
OK the leak into ground water at Palisades is 481,000 Bq/M3, or 48.1
Bq/L. If a human drinks 8 L per day, and everyday drinks this
radiated water, what is the first day dose, And then what is the equilibrium dose, acknowledging that the tritium doesn't remain in the body permanently. in mSv. How many days to get to equilibrium dose? Please answer any part of those you can.
Listen in to NRC hearing on
embrittled reactor pressure vessel meltdown risks!
On Wed., March 25 from 10 A.M. to noon Eastern,
Beyond Nuclear and allies will testify at NRC's Licensing Board, in opposition
to any further weakening of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) safety standards.
Entergy Nuclear has applied for multiple regulatory rollbacks at its
44-year-old Palisades atomic reactor in Michigan on the Great Lakes shore (see
photo), which has the worst neutron radiation embrittled RPV in the U.S.
Embrittlement risks a pressurized thermal shock (PTS) fracture of the RPV,
which would lead to core meltdown, potential containment failure, and
catastrophic release of hazardous radioactivity. Many other pressurized water
reactors across the country also have serious embrittlement/PTS risks, as well.
Any bad precedents set at Palisades would then be applied elsewhere. Please
listen in to the hearing, to let NRC know it is being watched. The phone number for the listen-only
line is 800-857-9645. The passcode is 9568305. If you want to listen in, NRC
requires you to RSVP by Mon., March 23 by contacting Licensing Board law clerk,
Mr. Sachin Desai, at 301-415-6523 or Sachin.Desai@nrc.gov.More
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2015
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A week ahead of the fourth anniversary of
the Fukushima reactor disaster, five leading organizations fighting for
America's clean-energy future – Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the
Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Public Citizen, and the Sierra
Club – are unveiling an interactive online video, "Our Epic Future:
Create It With Clean Energy."
Available at www.MakeNuclearHistory.org,
the entertaining, fact-filled video allows visitors to explore three
scenarios in the "Epic Energy Labs" with very different future
outcomes: one dominated by fossil fuels, another in which nuclear power
is the focus, and a third relying on renewable energy.
After viewing the video, visitors can get involved in clean energy
campaigns of the five groups, including urging the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) to put in place post-Fukushima safety measures at U.S.
reactors and petitioning Congress to reinstate the Production Tax Credit
support for the wind energy.
If the outcome of an event is infinitely negative, then no matter how small the risk, the expected value is infinitely negative. Accepting an infinitely negative expected value is nothing short of reckless insanity
Example: destruction of humane genome is infinitely negative, there no amount of nuclear power can be allowed.
Example: Carrington event causes 150 nuclear plants to melt down, Acute toxic poisoning of the planet and elimination of almost all life within 5 years, therefore no amount of nuclear power can be allowed.
stock out
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From a poster at ENENEWS lgmz
The day I knew we were Fuku-ed
:
I knew we were FuKed
When I saw that plant blow
When I saw the purple mushroom leave the earth for the sky
I knew we were FuKed when in Colorado, The count
Was 1000 per minute
I knew we were FuKed
When in my garden there grew
A blinding yellow mold which appeared overnight
I knew we were FuKed when the flowers didn't bloom,
And all the bees flew away and died.
I knew we were FuKed when I looked in the eye
My family and friends and saw reflected there the lies
That the media had fed them, and now content they rejected
The simple truth that their truths had now died
I knew we were FuKed when naked and afraid
We turned our backs to the horrors our sciences made
I knew we were FuKed when for money, these slaves,
Hid from our faces that which may have saved
At least some remnent, some effigy, of the splendor that was, before
We came along, and FuKed it all up.
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And some great further research from Bo at ENENEWS, she has been talking to scientists and exposing some of the behind the scene facts.
It seems that many of the lying scientists do have a conflict of interest, in particular scholarships and other funding from IAEA, a nuclear promotion industry.
And what's this thick connection between Vienna IAEA and Colorado
State University.. again, sorry about my lazy posts but I'm only able to
drive by shoot at the moment..but
If interested – dig each name and look under IAEA & Vienna if anybody interested
Kind of goes back to my ruminations on Georg Steinhauser, but I'm just going by a gut feeling..
I'm still grateful for any research btw.. beggars can't be choosers
FDA tested salmon only once in the past 4 years – and that was after
waiting 3 years, while a highschool science project beat them to it, and
when they finally did they only tested 19 samples.
Ooooh here's a map that would make 'the Count' on Sesame Street happy..
'nineteen…NINETEEN.. SOCKEYE SALMON.. Ah-ah-ah-ah.. !!!' (Lightening) http://dec.alaska.gov/eh/radiation/
Name list of researchers – first 2 directly linked to IAEA..
Mathew P. Johansen
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Elizabeth Ruedig
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Keiko Tagami & Shigeo Uchida
National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba-shi, Chiba
Kathryn Higley
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Nicholas A. Beresford
NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster, U.K.
on Tagami & Uchida
I got confused for a moment because there are apparently 2 different organizations under the name NIRS -
NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Service) – these are the good guys who are saying evacuation zone should be expanded.
Keiko & Shigeo are part of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences ( the other NIRS).
I don't know much about them.
Oh ok .. US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy visited NIRS http://www.nirs.go.jp/ENG/news/press/2014/140410.shtml
Apparently NIRS has a cooperative research agreement with Colorado
State University & University of Colorado..the presidents from both
universities are in this photo, visiting IN PERSON.
From "Bo" at enenews.
through personal email I have confirmed that she is not a troll, she really has a cat, and she really has way too much snow, LOL!
And now she has a real geiger counter! The nuke industry is in trouble!
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Norbu & DID..I hope your weekend was good. Since I already wrote to you both over e mail.. instead of spilling an 'OMG thank you!!!!' post here on enenews, I decided to express my thanks to the community by contributing a report of my phone coversation with Dr. D a s h e r from U of Alaska.
Not sure if you saw my post last week but I talked to KB ( from WH0I) on the phone last week – and KB instructed me to call this Dr. D a s h e r. So I left him a message on Monday, not expecting at all to get a call back.. but he called back (!) on Friday, and gave me a generous & sincere 30 minutes on the phone.
If you are not familiar with Dr. D a s h e r, he is featured here ( note esp. Sickputer's post in the comments there)→
http://enenews.com/scientists-link-unusual-alaska-seal-deaths-fukushima-fallout-skin-lesions-hair-loss-lethargy-pulsed-release-built-radionuclides-set-free-ice-melted-discussion-wildlife-health-implications-due
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..Of course I had many questions for Dr. D a s h e r, but I tried to break down the conversation into simple practical 'yes or no' answers.
My main question was: 'will you, Dr. D a s h e r, be interested in doing radiation analysis of the organ samples currently available at the Marin County Marine Mammal Center?'
His answer: No. he's not accepting samples. U of Alaska already has their freezer brimming with organ samples from ring seals to Beluga whales, and nobody has measured them yet – no funding.
'That's BS !!! Just go in there and wave a geiger counter!!' You might say..
but.. as Dr. D a s h e r painstakingly explained - in order to measure organs in a scientific manner, one must grind up tissue then dry them up to yield 1/2 kg. Then, that sample is monitored with a scintillator over a period of 2 full days..the average calculated from the charted numbers spanning 2 days – & THAT is the accepted radiation of the sample tissue.
He told me ( with sincerity, I thought ) he has even taken time out of his work to do volunteer free hours to measure here and there, but that is not enough to create enough data for scientific research.
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..He also told me.. funding for his research on marine mammals and radiation was cut off completely last year, and currently there is also nobody in this country that is receiving funding to measure radiation of the ocean water either. This is why, even KB has to crowdsource each bucket of water from the general public.
I remember codeshutdown pointing out how ridiculous this was: 'when there's 90 MILLION in funding for WH0I last year ( which, apparently was a drastic reduction from 120 million from year prior) , how is it that KB has to ask the general public to test each bucket of water… ???!!'
Well..I started to see this picture through my conversation with D a s h e r… that '90million' given to WH0I, for example, is split into different research themes – like 'ocean acidification' ( a corporate funding favorite) or 'deep water mineral research' ( another fave) and the funders make sure it's used for THAT and THAT purpose only, and…( I'm guessing this last part →) they make sure as HELL NO $$$$$ goes to radiation monitoring.
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Dr. D a s h e r : ' For example, I know the way Ken manages is sometimes he'll piggyback some of his radiation research on boat trips funded for other purposes… '
Slipping a note here: Here's the most recent fund granted to WH0I..
'WH0I Scientists Receive $1 Million Grant from MacArthur Foundation for science-based climate change adaptation solutions for coastal communities'
http://m.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=53004&tid=3622&cid=200169
Perhaps… there are even penalties for those that measure radiation ? (the supposed drastic cuts this year for WH0I?)
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The other question I had was 'why did you measure only cesium in the tissue and not strontium or plutonium?' -
Answer: U of Alaska doesn't even have the proper set up for strontium measurements (nor plutonium, which is even harder)
He told me a long story how in the 60s there were extensive samples and measurements being taken by the government everywhere, and many places did samples of cesium, strontium,plutonium – there was ample funding and equipment back then, and many research programs were being run simultaneously.
Then, little by little that phased out.. until today, for example with Strontium, the only places in U.S. that has capabilities to measure is at Lawrence Livermore or Hanford (he might have mentioned another location Montgomery Alabama).
..However, sadly, none of these federal agencies has shown any interest in cooperating on any fukushima analysis.
I sensed Dr. D a s h e r had his personal opinion about this but withheld that & simply gave the conversation a sad tone.
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..I can't describe everything and my fingers are getting a bit tired for today..( ← then shut up, bo! Lol ) but in this very generous 30 min conversation he conveyed a picture of the federal government stonewalling Fukushima radiation analysis through reward&punishment-funding and non-cooperation.
It seems like…I think.. once scientists in the 60s measured all the radiation in the atmospheric testing era and figured out DIRECT & UNDENIABLE correlation to adverse effects on human health & environment – and probably ESPECIALLY after TMI – they decided to shut down all research and keep everybody, including themselves in the dark ages.
After reading past articles of Dr. D a s h e r's research on marine mamnals, I do believe – (as understated as he was) he may have been one of the scientists that actually were looking into Fukushima.. and even this very moderate position got him in trouble in 2013.
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Thank you again, Norbu, DID.. I really hope to put the machine to good use, share the information, and maybe even measure the organ samples myself one day.
Love & Peace
bo
I usually like a 60 second sound bite type of post. This one is much longer. Start with Matrix and Neo taking the Red Pill. End with George Orwell signing a letter as "Geo". Now you know why we are here, at this juncture. Now we have defined the cause and the problem.
Please drop your own comments here
If you haven't taken the Red Pill, you are part of the matrix. And if part of the Matrix, you will be able to understand how the following writing are relevant to current events. We are perhaps at a tipping point, perhaps at a slow decline to the end whimpering of the human race. stock 2015: If you look around the group there are Sheeple, Shepherds, and Wolves. Like the "mark" at a poker game, if you cannot see the Sheeple clearly, then you are the Sheeple. Wake up, take the Red Pill, and be the Shepherd if you can.
Let's start with Kennedy's Warning
From back when a Big Mac was the "BIG MAC"
Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur, (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, 1964), First Edition, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-22955, pp. 414-418:
Great
changes have taken place in our military establishment, some good, some
not so good. Materially the improvement has been spectacular,
psychologically yet to be proven. The men in the ranks are largely
citizen soldiers, sailors or airmen—men from the farm, the city, from
school, from the college campus—men not dedicated to the profession of
arms; men not primarily skilled in the art of war; men most amazingly
like the men you know and see and meet each day of your life.
If hostilities come these men will know the endless tramp of marching
feet, the incessant whine of sniper bullets, the ceaseless rustle of
sputtering machine guns, the sinister wail of air combat, the deafening
blast of crashing bombs, the stealthy stroke of hidden torpedoes, the
amphibious lurch over perilous waves, the dark majesty of fighting
ships, the mad din of battle and all the tense and ghastly horror and
savage destruction of a stricken area of war. These men will
suffer hunger and thirst, broiling suns and frozen reaches, but they
must go on and on and on when everything within them seems to stop and
die. They will grow old in youth burned out in searing minutes, even
though life owes them many tranquil years. In these troubled times of
confused and bewildered international sophistication, let no man
misunderstand why they must do that which they must do. These men will
fight, and, perchance die, for one reason only—for their country—for
America. No complex philosophies of world intrigue and conspiracy
dominate their thoughts. No exploitation or extravagance of propaganda
dims their sensibilities. Just the simple fact, their country called.
But now strange voices are heard across the land, decrying this
old and proven concept of patriotism. Seductive murmurs are arising that
it is now outmoded by some more comprehensive and all-embracing
philosophy, that we are provincial and immature or reactionary and
stupid when we idealize our own country; that there is a higher destiny
for us under another and more general flag [the United Nations]; that no
longer when we send our sons and daughters to the battlefields must we
see them through all the way to victory; that we can call upon them to
fight and even to die in some halfhearted and indecisive war; that we
can plunge them recklessly into war and then suddenly decide that it is a
wrong war or in a wrong place or in a wrong time, or even that we can
call it not a war at all by using some more euphemistic and gentler name
[humanitarianism]; that we can treat them as expendable, although they
are our own flesh and blood; that we, the strongest military nation in
the world, have suddenly become dependent on others for our security and
even our welfare. Listen not to these voices, be they from
the one political party or from the other. Be they from the high and the
mighty or the lowly and forgotten. Heed them not. Visit upon them a
righteous scorn, born of the past sacrifices of your fighting sons and
daughters. Repudiate them in the market place, on platforms, from the
pulpit. The highest encomium [praise] you can still receive is to be
called a patriot, if it means you love your country above all else and
will place your life, if need be, at the service of your Flag.
Great
changes, even more comprehensive than in the military field, have taken
place in industry. In its massive and almost limitless potential, the
rugged determination of its leaders, the skill and energy of its
workers, here has been welded an industrial supremacy such as the world
has never before known. It comprises not only a power in being but a
reserve power capable of being quickly mounted to meet and overcome any
eventuality that might arise. This not only ensures a continuity of
human progress but imposes an almost impassable barrier against any who
would threaten the security of the American continent. It has thus
become a leavening influence in a world where war and the threat and
fear of war would otherwise so distort the minds of men as to threaten
the progress of the human race. It represents a condition of
preparedness born of American enterprise and vision, nurtured upon
American energy and incentive, and depending for its ultimate strength
upon American will and determination. It is the result and fruition of
the capitalistic system—a system embracing every segment of American
society—the owners of industry, the workers in industry, the public
served by industry. This free enterprise based upon the right to work
and the right to possess the fruits of that work has created an economic
freedom which is the basis of all other freedoms. But this
very success has created its own perils and harassments, both from
without and from within. For from one end of the world to the other
there is a titanic struggle to seize control of industry and of the
economics. Whether this be in the masquerade of Communism or Socialism
or Fascism the purpose is the same—to destroy a primary element of
Freedom and preempt it for the State. The capitalistic system
has hence become the great target, although it has never failed to
provide the resource for an ever increasing standard for human life, has
never failed to maximize the fruits of human energy and creative
enterprise, has never failed to provide the sinews for victory in war.
It has built this nation far beyond the wildest dreams of its
architects; it has through the scientific means of communication closed
the international geographic gap to permit rapid and effective trade and
commerce among the people of the world, has elevated the laborer, the
farmer and the tradesmen to their rightful station of dignity and
relative prosperity, and has established the pattern for modern
industrialization and scientific development. The first
prominent component of capitalism was Karl Marx who shunned the use of
violence and sought the voluntary acceptance of the principle of
communal ownership of the sources and means of production. The innate
common sense of the human race, however, rejected this principle and the
element of force was injected by the Bolshevik after the close of the
first World War. Then was combined the theory of Karl Marx with the
principle of Nihilism [anarchy; revolutionary insurgency] under which
the control of public policy was sought through terrorism and violence.
This combination known as Communism has had many successes. The
minority, the Communist Party, in many sectors of the globe has been
able to establish its rule over the majority. Only where the concept of
human liberty was most deeply rooted and greatly advanced were such
minority pressures decisively thrown back. Such was the case
in this nation where our economy, built upon the principle of private
capitalism, became recognized as the great barrier to the universal
enforcement of the theories of modern Communism. There followed repeated
and diversified efforts to reduce and destroy it. Resort was had to the
control of private profit by the Marxism-inspired device of
confiscatory taxation and the levies upon privately accumulated
resources. It began in this country with the Federal Income
Tax Law of 1914 which gave unlimited access to the people's wealth, and
the power for the first time to levy taxes not for revenue only but for
social purposes. [The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, 1848,
Chapter II, Proletarians and Communists, plank #2: "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."] Since then the sphere of government has increased with a kind of explosive force.
Karl Marx, while planning the destruction of all constitutional
government, said: "The surest way to overturn the social order is to
debauch the currency." And the Russian dictator, Lenin, that implacable
foe of the free enterprise system, predicted as early as 1920 that the
United States would eventually spend itself into bankruptcy.
Karl Marx referred, of course, to the process of inflation, induced by
extreme taxation; the process of "planned economy" [known today as
social engineering]; the process of controlling economic conditions and
thereby controlling the lives of individuals—a control of fiscal,
monetary and general economic forces which produce higher prices and a
gradual devitalizing of the purchasing power of money. The continuing
rise in the cost of living is due to our drift deeper and deeper into
inflation [the hidden tax] until today our whole economic, social and
political system is infected by an inflationary mentality. "Taxation
with its offspring inflation," said Lenin, in support of the basic
thesis of Karl Marx, "is the vital weapon to displace the system of free
enterprise."—the system on which our nation was founded—the system
which has made us the most prosperous people of all history—the system
which enabled us to produce over half of the world's goods with less
than one-seventeenth of the world's area and population—the system which
gave our people more liberty, privileges and opportunities than any
other nation ever gave its people in the long history of the world. To
destroy it is the sure road to Socialism. And by Socialism is meant the
forcing of a centrally controlled economic life upon all persons in the
nation under an authoritarian monopoly that is politically managed.
Actually, there has been through the direction of our own public policy
an incessant encroachment on the capitalistic system. Most officials of
our government over the past years will deny, and justifiably, any
intent to establish in this nation the basis for the emergence of a
Socialistic, much less a Communistic State, but the course of fiscal
policy has done just that. The fact is unmistakable and clear that if
the capitalistic system—free enterprise—is to be preserved to the future
generations of our people, the course of government must be oriented to
foster and preserve adequate incentive to encourage the thrift, the
industry and the adventure which brought our nation to its present
pre-eminence among all of the other nations of the earth and which alone
can carry it forward in peace and security and progress.
I
realize full well that the restless spirit of the times seeks change.
But change should not be made for the sake of change alone. It should be
sought only to adapt time tested principles which have been proven in
the crucible of human experience to the new requirements of an expanding
society. To do otherwise is not true liberalism. The Constitution is
not to be treated as an instrument of political expediency. Every move
that is made to circumvent its spirit, every move that is made to
over-centralize political power, every move that is made to curtail
individual liberty is reaction in its most extreme form. For the framers
of the Constitution were the most liberal thinkers of all the ages and
the Charter they produced out of the liberal revolution of their time
has never been and is not now surpassed in liberal thought.
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of
governmental power. Through the ages the constantly expanding grasp of
government has been liberty's greatest threat. Daniel Webster once said
on the floor of the Senate: "Our security is our watchfulness
of executive power. It was the Constitution of this department, which
as infinitely the most difficult part in the great work of creating our
present government; to give the executive department such power as
should make it useful, and yet not such as should render it dangerous;
to make it efficient, independent and strong, and yet to prevent it from
sweeping away everything by its union of military and civil authority,
by the influence of patronage, and office, and force. . . . I do not
wish to impair the power of the President as it stands written down in
the Constitution. But, I will not blindly confide, where all experience
admonished me to be jealous; I will not trust executive power, vested in
the hands of a single magistrate, to keep the vigils of liberty." He spoke those words 129 years ago; but they could as well have been spoken but yesterday.
There are many who have lost faith in this early American ideal
and believe in a form of socialistic, totalitarian rule, a sort of big
brother deity to run our lives for us. They no longer believe that free
men can successfully manage their own affairs. Their thesis is that a
handful of men, centered in government, largely bureaucratic not
elected, can utilize the proceeds of our toil and labor to greater
advantage than those who create it. Nowhere in the history of the human
race is there justification for this reckless faith in political power.
It is the oldest, most reactionary of all forms of social organization.
It was tried out in ancient Babylon, ancient Greece and ancient Rome; in
Mussolini's Italy, in Hitler's Germany, and in all communist countries.
Wherever and whenever it has been attempted, it has failed utterly to
provide economic security, and has generally ended in national disaster.
It embraces an essential idiocy, that individuals who, as private
citizens, are not to manage the disposition of their own earnings,
become in public office supermen who can manage the affairs of the
world. The fundamental and ultimate issue at stake is
liberty, itself—liberty verses the creeping socialization in every
domestic field. Freedom to live under the minimum of restraint! A least
common denominator of mediocrity against the proven progress of
pioneering individualism! The free enterprise system or the cult of
conformity! The result will determine the future of civilization. It
will be felt on every human life. It will be etched in blazing rainbow
colors on the very arch of the sky.
------------------------------------------------ And from George Orwell, the Author of "1984"
To Noel Willmett
18 May 1944
10a Mortimer Crescent NW 6
Dear Mr Willmett,
Many thanks for your letter. You ask whether
totalitarianism, leader-worship etc. are really on the up-grade and
instance the fact that they are not apparently growing in this country
and the USA.
I must say I believe, or fear, that taking the world
as a whole these things are on the increase. Hitler, no doubt, will soon
disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the
Anglo-American millionaires and (c) all sorts of petty fuhrers° of the
type of de Gaulle. All the national movements everywhere, even those
that originate in resistance to German domination, seem to take
non-democratic forms, to group themselves round some superhuman fuhrer
(Hitler, Stalin, Salazar, Franco, Gandhi, De Valera are all varying
examples) and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means.
Everywhere the world movement seems to be in the direction of
centralised economies which can be made to ‘work’ in an economic sense
but which are not democratically organised and which tend to establish a
caste system. With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a
tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all
the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some
infallible fuhrer. Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie.
there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be
universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as
military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. Hitler can say
that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become
official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for
the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort
of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great
superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could
become five if the fuhrer wished it.1 That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible.
Two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it.
As to the comparative immunity of Britain and the USA. Whatever the pacifists etc. may say, we have not gone totalitarian yet and this is a very hopeful symptom. I believe very deeply, as I explained in my book The Lion and the Unicorn, in the English people
and in their capacity to centralise their economy without destroying
freedom in doing so. But one must remember that Britain and the USA
haven’t been really tried, they haven’t known defeat or severe
suffering, and there are some bad symptoms to balance the good ones. To
begin with there is the general indifference to the decay of democracy.
Do you realise, for instance, that no one in England under 26 now has a
vote and that so far as one can see the great mass of people of that age
don’t give a damn for this? Secondly there is the fact that the
intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people.
On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at
the price of accepting Stalin. Most of them are perfectly ready for
dictatorial methods, secret police, systematic falsification of history2
etc. so long as they feel that it is on ‘our’ side. Indeed the
statement that we haven’t a Fascist movement in England largely means
that the young, at this moment, look for their fuhrer elsewhere. One
can’t be sure that that won’t change, nor can one be sure that the
common people won’t think ten years hence as the intellectuals do now. I
hope 3they won’t, I even trust they won’t,
but if so it will be at the cost of a struggle. If one simply proclaims
that all is for the best and doesn’t point to the sinister symptoms, one
is merely helping to bring totalitarianism nearer.
You also ask, if I think the world tendency is towards Fascism, why
do I support the war. It is a choice of evils—I fancy nearly every war
is that. I know enough of British imperialism not to like it, but I
would support it against Nazism or Japanese imperialism, as the lesser
evil. Similarly I would support the USSR against Germany because I think
the USSR cannot altogether escape its past and retains enough of the
original ideas of the Revolution to make it a more hopeful phenomenon
than Nazi Germany. I think, and have thought ever since the war began,
in 1936 or thereabouts, that our cause is the better, but we have to
keep on making it the better, which involves constant criticism.
No time to report in depth on this now, but the bottom line in that in the last 4 years, a lot of radiation has been placed on the world, and those with replicating cells will be the hardest hit.
Now human mutation rates are up to 2%, that is not a good thing.
And the Media that Be refuse to talk about radiation and heavy metals.
If interested – dig each name and look under IAEA & Vienna if anybody interested
Kind of goes back to my ruminations on Georg Steinhauser, but I'm just going by a gut feeling..
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FDA tested salmon only once in the past 4 years – and that was after waiting 3 years, while a highschool science project beat them to it, and when they finally did they only tested 19 samples.
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'nineteen…NINETEEN.. SOCKEYE SALMON.. Ah-ah-ah-ah.. !!!' (Lightening)
http://dec.alaska.gov/eh/radiation/
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Mathew P. Johansen
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Elizabeth Ruedig
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Keiko Tagami & Shigeo Uchida
National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba-shi, Chiba
Kathryn Higley
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Nicholas A. Beresford
NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster, U.K.
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http://ne.oregonstate.edu/caffrey-and-ruedig-attend-modaria
“The IAEA is committed to helping train young people, and also believes that they bring a fresh approach to safety work,”
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http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/StaffProfiles/JOHANSEN-MATHEW
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I got confused for a moment because there are apparently 2 different organizations under the name NIRS -
NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Service) – these are the good guys who are saying evacuation zone should be expanded.
Keiko & Shigeo are part of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences ( the other NIRS).
I don't know much about them.
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http://www.nirs.go.jp/ENG/news/press/2014/140410.shtml
Apparently NIRS has a cooperative research agreement with Colorado State University & University of Colorado..the presidents from both universities are in this photo, visiting IN PERSON.
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http://www.researchgate.net/publication/260173018_Distribution_of_Plutonium_Isotopes_in_Marine_Sediments_off_Japan_Before_and_After_the_Fukushima_Dai-ichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant_Accident_A_Review
'Our results suggested that there was no detectable additional Pu injection from the FDNPP accident in the marine environment 30 km off the FDNPP 1 year after the accident.'