Saturday, July 13, 2013

Fukushima Radiation Spiking Suddenly- Media Blackout

Fukushima Spiking All Of A Sudden

"Perhaps you've heard that radiation levels of the water leaving the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear power plane and flowing into the Pacific Ocean have risen by roughly 9,000 per cent. Turns out, that's probably putting a good face on it.

By official measurement, the water coming out of Fukushima is currently 90,000 times more radioactive than officially "safe" drinking water.

These are the highest radiation levels measured at Fukusmima since March 2011, when an earthquake-triggered tsunami destroyed the plant's four nuclear reactors, three of which melted down.

As with all nuclear reporting, precise and reliable details are hard to come by, but the current picture as of July 10 seems to be something like this:

" On July 5, radiation levels at Fukushima were what passes for "normal," which means elevated and dangerous, but stable, according to measurements by the owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

" On July 8, radiation levels had jumped about 90 times higher, as typically reported. TEPCO had no explanation for the increase.

" On July 9, radiation levels were up again from the previous day, but at a slower rate, about 22 per cent. TEPCO still had no explanation.

" On July 10, Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) issued a statement saying that the NRA strongly suspects the radioactive water is coming from Fukushima's Reactor #1 and is going into the Pacific."

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The Fukushima Daiichi power plant blew up two years ago. Only two years ago and yet we are continually given the impression there is nothing wrong. The biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl and the media treats it as if it were a firecracker.

I simply cannot comprehend what has happened to the human race. We seem to care more about what Kim Kardashian or Kate Middleton name their baby rather than one of the worst disasters to ever hit our globe and how it is effecting our lives!

The information in this report is alarming. It needs to be read and researched. People need to understand how much lying is going on in trying to seemingly cover up just how bad these leaks really are and that the water they stated was being contained is still leaking out into the Pacific Ocean.

NOAA animation of US West Coast

Take a look at this and tell me this doesn't alarm or at the very least concern you. Yet, not one word from our own government on this and how it is also effecting our own coastline. All I can say is, if you eat tuna, I would be much more inquisitive regarding where it comes from.

Between this, the Gulf ecocide and the huge amounts of toxins, poisons and greenhouse gases being absorbed into the oceans as well as the plastic cr** clogging up the gyres it is no wonder Mother Earth is rebelling against us.

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Fukushima Diary

Good source for truth.

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One good thing coming from this.

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But again, what are we not being told about contamination of our food and water?



Thursday, July 11, 2013

Days of Torrential Rain In China As Death Toll From Extreme India Monsoon Expected To Reach 5000

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China Flood Death Toll Rises

Floodwaters surging through Himalayan foothills in western China have swept away bridges, houses and hillsides, leaving at least 25 people dead and dozens missing.

Flooding in the western province of Sichuan was the worst for 50 years in some areas, with more than 100,000 people forced to evacuate their homes.

Nationwide at least 44 people have died, around 66 are missing and at least 1.6 million have been otherwise affected since Sunday, according to figures from the civil affairs ministry and the official Xinhua news agency.



Thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged and transportation has been brought to a virtual standstill in hard-hit areas.

Many of the casualties in Sichuan were from a massive landslide that struck a scenic resort outside the city of Dujiangyan. An entire hillside collapsed on to clusters of holiday cottages where city dwellers go to escape summer heat, a survivor told Xinhua.

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Mudslides and flooding are common in China's mountainous areas, killing hundreds of people each year, but in some areas the current floods are the worst in half a century. Reports said the 94cms (37 inches) of rainfall that fell on Dujiangyan over 40 hours beginning on Monday was the most since records began in 1954.

The flooding caused the collapse of an almost 50-year-old bridge in a neighbouring county, sending six vehicles into the raging waters and leaving 12 people missing.

The region lies in the foothills of the Tibetan plateau, where mountains rise sharply from the densely populated Sichuan basin.

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Death Toll To Reach 5000 In India Monsoon Flooding

Haridwar - The ravages caused by monsoon tragedy in the state of Uttarakhand, India, could worsen with the death toll expected to cross 5,000. Rescue workers in northern India are scrambling to save tens of thousands of lives left stranded by devastating floods that have estimated to have killed more than one thousand in the region.

Raging rivers swept away houses, buildings, roads, bridges and entire villages. Dozens of helicopters and thousands of soldiers have been deployed to help people stranded across the state. Kedarnath Valley, the temple town in the state of Uttarakhand which was the epicentre of cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides was on Sunday cleared of all stranded pilgrims, according to reports.

Rescuers battled rains to evacuate more than 3,000 more people in the disaster. On his return from an aerial survey of the affected areas, Disaster Management Minister Yashpal Arya told reporters at the Jollygrant airport:

“At least 5,000 people must have been killed in the deluge that inflicted heavy damage on vast tracts of land especially in Kedarnath valley.” Mr Arya did not specify an exact figure saying extrication of bodies from under debris in affected areas is yet to be taken up. With the emphasis to rescue the stranded, little has been done to recover bodies buried under debris and mud. Officials fear that the number of dead may grow substantially.

“It is hard to come up with a definite death count until the forces can look through the debris and the slush,” said a police officer. The official death toll until yesterday was put at 680 while Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said the death toll is likely to be around 1,000. "Very heavy casualties are feared and I cannot give the exact number without a proper survey" He described the severe flooding as a "Himalayan tsunami."

Also see:

Record Flooding In Alberta, Canada

Record Floods In Central Europe

This is heartbreaking. All over the world we see this same pattern. These same extremes. Droughts, floods, storms, wildfires more extreme. And yet, the oil orcs and their minions still deny because money means more to them than a habitable planet.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

America's 21 Most Endangered Rivers

Map: America's 21 Most Endangered Rivers

If you're one of 142 million Americans heading to the outdoors this year, there's a good chance you'll run into one of at least 250,000 rivers in the country. Much of the nation's 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams provide drinking water, electric power, and critical habitat for fish and wildlife throughout. If you were to connect all the rivers in the United States into one long cord, it would wrap around the entire country 175 times. But as a recent assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency points out, we've done a pretty bad job of preserving the quality of these waters: In March, the EPA estimated that more than half of the nation's waterways are in "poor condition for aquatic life." (See them at the link.)

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For a country that touts having such riches we sure do not understand the meaning of that word. While our rivers and infrastructure are in dire need of attention members of Congress do nothing but debate wedge issues meant to pander for campaign dollars.

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 designated free-flowing rivers that have "outstanding remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural and other similar values." The act states these rivers "shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations." However, by 1998 only 154 rivers had been designated covering only 10,000 miles of the 3.5 million total U.S. river miles. I find that to be sad and alarming.

I also find it ironic that the EPA would put out this report as if they are absolved from any blame at all. They are just now allowing the amount of Glyphosate sprayed on crops to be increased- Glyphosate which in tests has been found to be toxic which with nitrogen runoff and other pesticides used in great number is making the largest Gulf dead zone yet seen. The entire point of the legislation passed years ago was to protect our rivers, not subject them to the whims of corporate takeover.

I have little patience anymore for government agencies that continue to put out these reports while doing just the opposite regarding protecting our water. Let's see a bit more work on the EPA's part to then reign in corporate pollution of our waterways (and that includes fracking waste) and work to designate many more miles of rivers as part of this act.

Our rivers are our heritage and our lifelines. If they die so do we.



Also see:

The Clean Water Act: A Legacy Worth Saving

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Gasland II: This is about clean water and democracy



I'm with you sir!

After watching Gasland II I am more convinced than ever that we must stand up as a people across political and economic divides to save this country from being turned into one giant toxic pock mark. Josh Fox takes you into the world of those Americans and those living in Australia, Europe and globally who are now being assaulted by the worst environmental devastation to ever hit us and the political cronyism and dark side of industry that would stop at nothing to secure profit at the expense of our very planet.

The disclosures regarding EPA tests that took three years to divulge reveal an industry steeped in corruption with willing accomplices at every level of government from both parties. Pennsylvania's story involving Governor Tom Corbett and Ed Rendell is particularly disarming as we see that politics is trumped by greed and that truth is the first casualty. These are real people experiencing real consequences from this rush to suck the very life out of this Earth as the last gasp of the fossil fuel industry blows hard and toxic over this planet. The first scenes showing the true damage done to the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 are sad and alarming. The stories of people in Wyoming, Texas, Pennsylvania should outrage you if you are an American with a pulse and a human being who knows how important water is to our lives.

What these companies are doing to the landscape of America in a concerted effort to spread it globally is nothing short of criminal and reveals a lack of regulation that sees them doing all in their power to toxify water supplies, exercise imminent domain and buy off the very people who have sworn an oath to uphold a constitution that to them is secondary to campaign contributions. Their huge budgets that stream misinformation and doubt, the secret memos, the spying on activists in an attempt to label them terrorists and the closed door Congressional sessions where journalists exercising their right to free speech are arrested paint a picture of an America which is in total antithesis to what America was meant to be.

There is no other way to phrase it: Fracking is killing America and it is the wrong choice for our country and is in no way a "bridge fuel." It was never intended to be used as such by the oil and gas industry. They never intended to see renewable energy sources that can power our world increase to a level that would see their profits decrease. Their plan is to addict us to natural gas as they did to conventional oil and keep us addicted for decades while prices rise due to peak oil and our environment is destroyed for all time for their short term gains. The here and now is all they care about and they have convinced the Obama administration that this is true as well. The immense amount of power and money possessed by the fossil fuel industry is now holding America hostage to a false choice that in the end will bring us over the climate and Democracy tipping point as well as toxifying our national water supply.

However, there is also a bright spot to this film: the huge amount of awareness and activism taking place in the US as well as globally gives us all hope that this fight is just beginning. We can and need to all be a part of it because this effects all of us. It effects our farmland, our animals, our ecology, our water, our health, our climate balance and our very lives.

Gasland II is currently being shown on HBO and is also available on HBO Demand and HBO GO. I highly recommend you going to wherever you can to watch this film and to share it with those you love, particularly your children and to then pledge you will fight for your water and your land. This is about the very soul of what humanity is and will become.

My thanks to Josh Fox for having the courage to stand up for all that is good about this Earth and to fight for the most precious resource we have that is a public trust- Our Water.

WATER IS LIFE.

Also See:

Fracking Across The United States

Gasland II: Telling Truth About Corporate Crimes Against Our Water And Democracy

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