NOAA threatens to remove endangered species status from humpback whales — 90-day comment period

Threats to whales, sea life, and the oceans include:

  • The U.S. military is ramping up electromagnetic weapons and explosives testing in the oceans, with sonar buoys deployed along the West Coast.
  • Hazardous pesticides and fertilizers from agriculture, toxic industrial runoff, raw sewage continue dumping into the oceans
  • Fukushima pours greater amounts of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, with impacts through the Bering Strait to the Atlantic.
  • Europe continues dumping nuclear waste into the Atlantic
  • Dead zones are increasing across the globe.

Yet, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA – plans to reduce or eliminate protection to humpback whales.

NOAA spins this as a victory of conservation efforts and increased population levels for the species. Yet, this proposal would reduce or remove current levels of protection at a time when the oceans are in great jeopardy and the Pacific Ocean is dying.

Dead whales are already washing up along the West Coast. NOAA disregards the research on Fukushima and has refused to test the radiation in the ocean or in sea life.

The scientific basis of NOAA’s proposal is non-existent. NOAA is not about protecting the environment.

The real reason NOAA wants to do this is to cater to industry and the military which want less oversight over their already abusive and environmentally destructive activities.

The comment period is only 90 days.

Alert everyone you know who cares about the earth, especially the children. We can make a difference and stop this harmful proposal.

Here is the link to NOAA’s spin article

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/20150420-successful-conservation-efforts-recognized-in-revised-esa-humpback-whale-listing.html

The proposal information from NOAA’s website:

You may submit comments, information, or data on this document, identified by the code NOAA-NMFS-2015-0035, by any of the following methods:

Electronic Submissions : Submit all electronic comments via the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2015-0035 , click the “Comment Now!” icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments.

Mail: Submit written comments to Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

For general information on humpback whales, go to: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/whales/humpback-whale.html

To read the proposal’s Federal Register notice, go to: https://federalregister.gov/a/2015-09010

 

Der Große Hadronen-Speicherring (LHC) – ultimative Massenvernichtungswaffe

English original: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-large-hadron-collider-ultimate-weapon-of-mass-destruction/5442232

Warum das LHC abgeschaltet werden muss

Von Nina Beety, 10 April 2015

Englisches Original auf http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-large-hadron-collider-ultimate-weapon-of-mass-destruction/5442232 

Einführung

Was hätten Sie getan um Katastrophen zu stoppen, wenn Sie im Voraus gewusst hätten, was Sie jetzt wissen?

Jeder Mensch hat die Möglichkeit und die Pflicht, Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, wenn eine Person oder eine Gruppe die Gesundheit und die Sicherheit unserer Gemeinschaften und unserer Welt bedroht, oder wenn unsere Regierungen und Führer Schaden erzeugen.

Wir haben die moralische Verpflichtung auf jede mögliche Weise zu handeln.

Die Zukunft liegt in unseren Händen. Es steht mehr auf dem Spiel als je zuvor. Der Große Hadronen-Speicherring (Large Hadron Collider, auf englisch) ist ein gefährliches Instrument von Männern und Frauen benutzt, die ultimatives Wissen und Macht anstreben. Das Start-up 5. April hat einen rücksichtslosen Einsatz von LHC Fähigkeiten ausgelöst, die alles Leben einschließlich unseres Universums gefährden.

Dies ist die Situation.

Der Große Hadronen-Speicherring – das Grundprinzip

Der weltweit größte Teilchenbeschleuniger ist an der Europäischen Organisation für Kernforschung (CERN) in einem 27 Kilometer langen Tunnel in einem riesigen Kreis gebaut, 100 Meter unter der Erde vergraben. Es ist unter der Französisch-Schweizer Grenze bei Genf. Gesamtkosten: über 9 Milliarden $ (Stand: Januar 2010). Es wird von den europäischen Regierungen und mit 542.000.000 $ von den USA finanziert. Der Große Hadronen-Speicherring (LHC) wurde am 5. April nach einer zweijährigen Abschaltung und einem $ 150.000.000 Upgrade neu gestartet .

Im Inneren des LHC werden zwei Protonenstrahlen gezwungen bei hoher Geschwindigkeit in einander einzuschlagen. Das ursprüngliche Ziel war es, das so genannten “Gott” Partikel zu erstellen – Higgs-Boson – was im Jahr 2012 erreicht wurde. Jetzt hoffen sie, den Big Bang nachzubilden, die dunkle Materie zu entdecken, andere Dimensionen aufzudecken, und mehr. Um dies zu erreichen, verdoppeln Wissenschaftler die Energie fast, so dass die beiden Strahlen der Partikel viel stärker aufeinanderprallen.

“… Über $ 9000000000 Kathedrale der Wissenschaft, die anscheinend in jedem praktischen Sinn, nutzlos ist… So viele Jahre, so viel Mühe, so viel Geld und Material, so viel Energie und Spitzeneinfallsreichtum . Und doch sind die Zauberer am Steuer nicht wirklich darauf aus, etwas Praktisches zu produzieren, oder dringende Probleme der Menschheit zu lösen … ”

“… Die Physiker am CERN haben ihre großzügigen Gönner in Regierungen auf der ganzen Welt.

… L.H.C. ist eine Kathedrale des 21. Jahrhunderts der Wissenschaft, in der Tausende von leidenschaftlich gewidmeten, fleißigen Physikern – Mönche bei einem anderen Namen – sich versammelt haben, um Erleuchtung und Offenbarung zu erleben und Genesis 2.0 weiter zu schreiben …. ” [1]

Genesis 2.0 ist wahr. Der Rest sind Tünche und Lügen.

Dies ist das größte und aufwendigste wissenschaftliche Unternehmen das je gebaut wurde. Regierungen investieren nicht Milliarden und enorme Mengen an Zeit und Energie für “nutzlose” theoretische Projekte, es sei denn es gibt einen sehr praktischen Grund, eine sehr spezifische nützliche Absicht und Ziel.

“Das Ziel … ist ein tieferes, besseres, wahreres Verständnis der grundlegenden Struktur und Natur der Existenz zu erreichen.“ [2]

Die Projektziele waren immer klar, die ganze Zeit, auch Higgs-Boson das “Gott” Teilchen und ein Experiment Genesis 2.0 zu nennen. Der Große Hadronen-Speicherring ist über das Erstellen von Leben und Steuerung der Realitäten.

Die Associated Press berichtete am 6. April, dass die Dunkle Materie am CERN, an der Internationalen Raumstation, und in einer ungenannten Untergrundmine, erforscht wird. Da scheint eilig zu sein die Dunkle Materie zu fangen, was andeutet dass es sehr wichtig ist.

Zu gewinnen hoffen die Regierungen

  • etwas, was monetisiert und an uns verkauft werden kann, um Geld zu machen für die bereits Reichen und Mächtigen
  • Macht und Kontrolle – in der Lage zu sein Urkräfte zu kontrollieren und diese Kräfte nach Belieben zu entfesseln
  • Waffen, einschließlich Massenvernichtungswaffen, die mit Präzision Vermögenswerte
  • Ressourcen, Eigentum, Immobilien, Grundstücke vernichten können – neues Leben, neue Planeten, neue Universen schaffen, und die mit Vermögenswerten und Grundstücken abzuräumen und zu plündern, Welten zu erobern, zu besitzen, zu beherrschen, zu versklaven, und auch, um dort nach dem Untergang der Erde zu entkommen

Die Geschichte zeigt, dass dies nur für den privaten und staatlichen Nutzen sein wird.

Als ein LHC Sponsor sind die Vereinigten Staaten für mehr Tod, Zerstörung und dauerhafte Umweltschäden verantwortlich als jedes andere Land auf der Erde. Ihre Ziele sind “Command and Control” (Betriebsablaufsteuerung) und “Full Spectrum Dominance” (vollständige Dominanz). Das ist, wie die USA erworbene Technologien und Erkenntnisse nutzt. Was machen die anderen Sponsoren?

Alarmglocken sollten überall läuten.

Können Wissenschaftler vertraut werden?

Der populäre Mythos ist, dass Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftler objektiv und neutral sind, aber die Wissenschaft ist aufs Schärfste kompetitive, sogar halsabschneiderisch. “Wissenschaft” ist oft nicht ein Streben nach Wahrheit, sondern ein Streben der Erste zu sein, um die größten Zuschüsse zu gewinnen, um die besten Vortragseinladungen und Auszeichnungen zu erhalten.

Viele Wissenschaftler und ihre Berufsverbände klammern sich an Überzeugungen aus “Konsensus” trotz der Gegenbeweise. Neue evidenzbasierte Theorien werden hart bekämpft, als ob sie plündernde Piraten wären. Eifersüchtig auf ihren Rang, Privilegien, Laboratorien , Auszeichnungen, Leistungen, und Titel, Männer und Frauen der Wissenschaft können sich dazu herablassen trivial und sogar kriminell zu handeln um ihre Macht und Position zu behalten. Zu sehen wie ein Kollege versagt kann ein Grund zum Feiern sein.

Die Finanzierung kommt in der Regel von der Bundesregierung oder der Industrie. Selten geht es um “reine” Wissenschaft. Es gibt Ziele. Das Gemeinwohl ist weit unten auf der Liste der Erwägungen. Mit der Regierung, wird die Wissenschaft eine Erweiterung, wie bei LHC, nationale militärische und sicherheitspolitische Ziele voranzubringen. Wenn Wissenschaftler außerhalb akzeptierter Studienthemen streunen, oder Informationen finden die unbequem für Sponsoren sind, können sie bestraft werden, manchmal schwer. “Publish or perish” (“veröffentliche oder gehe unter”) bedeutet dort hin zu gehenwo die Finanzierung ist, und Kontroversen fern bleiben. “Überlassen wir es den Wissenschaftlern” ist keine gute Idee.

LHC Bau- und Betriebsrisiken

Die Realität des Lebens ist, dass die Erde und das Universum eingenistete, miteinander verbundene, intime Ökosysteme sind. Was an einem Ort passiert hat Auswirkungen auf Alles, weil Alles miteinander vereint ist.  Continue reading

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – ultimate weapon of mass destruction

By Nina Beety
Posted on Global Research, April 10, 2015
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-large-hadron-collider-ultimate-weapon-of-mass-destruction/5442232

Why the LHC must be shut down

What would you have done to stop catastrophic events if you knew in advance what you know now?

We have the moral obligation to take action.

The future is in our hands. The stakes are the highest they have ever been. The Large Hadron Collider developed by the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) is a dangerous instrument. The start-up April 5 has initiated a more reckless use of LHC’s capabilities. 

This is the situation.

The Large Hadron Collider – the rationale

The world’s largest supercollider is located at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in a 17-mile-long tunnel built in a giant circle, buried 330 feet underground. It is beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva. Total cost: over $9 billion (as of January 2010). It’s been funded by European governments and $542 million from the United States. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was restarted April 5, after a two-year shutdown and a $150 million upgrade.

Inside the LHC, two beams of protons are forced to smash into each other at high speed. The initial goal was to create the so-called “God” particle – Higgs boson — achieved in 2012. Now they hope to recreate the Big Bang, discover dark matter, expose other dimensions and more. To do that, scientists are nearly doubling the power level so the two beams of particles will collide much more violently.

“…Over $9 billion cathedral of science that is apparently, in any practical sense, useless… So many years, so much effort, so much money and material, so much energy and cutting-edge ingenuity. And yet the wizards at the controls aren’t really out to produce anything practical, or solve any urgent human problem…”

“…The physicists at cern have their generous patrons in governments all over the world.

… L.H.C. is a 21st-century cathedral of science, where thousands of passionately devoted, hardworking physicists—monks by any other name—have gathered to experience epiphany and revelation, and continue writing Genesis 2.0….”[1]

Genesis 2.0 is true. The rest are whitewash and lies.

This is the largest and most elaborate scientific enterprise ever built. Governments don’t invest billions and tremendous amounts of time and energy in “useless” theoretical projects unless there’s a very practical reason, a very specific useful intention and goal.

“The goal…is to achieve a deeper, better, truer understanding of the fundamental structure and nature of existence.[2]

The project objectives have been clear all along, including calling Higgs boson the “God” particle and calling one experiment Genesis 2.0. The Large Hadron Collider is about creating life and controlling realities.

The Associated Press reported on April 6 that dark matter is being pursued at CERN, at the international space station, and in an undisclosed underground mine. There seems to be a rush to capture dark matter, implying it is very important.

Governments hope to gain

1)              something that can be monetized and sold to us, making money for the already wealthy and powerful

2)              power and control — being able to control primal forces and unleash those forces at will

3)              weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, that can annihilate with precision

4)              assets, resources, property, real estate, land — creating new life, new planets, new universes, with assets and property to strip and plunder, worlds to conquer, own, rule,  enslave, as well as to escape to after Earth’s demise

History shows that this will be for private and government benefit only.

An LHC sponsor, the United States itself is responsible for more death, destruction, and permanent environmental damage than any other country on Earth. Its objectives are “command and control” and “full spectrum dominance”. That’s how the U.S. uses technologies and knowledge gained. What about the other sponsors?

Alarm bells should be going off everywhere.

Can scientists be trusted?

The popular myth is that science and scientists are objective and neutral, but science is fiercely competitive, even cutthroat. “Science” is often not a pursuit of truth, but a pursuit to be first, to win the biggest grants, to get the best speaking invitations and honors.

Many scientists and their professional organizations cling to “consensus” beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. New evidence-based theories are fought off as fiercely as if they were marauding pirates. Jealous of their rank, privileges, lab space, accolades, benefits, and titles, men and women of science can stoop to petty and even criminal acts to retain their power and position. Watching a colleague fail can be a cause for celebration.

Funding usually comes from the federal government or from industry. Rarely is this about “pure” science. There are objectives. The public welfare is far down the list as a consideration. With the government, science becomes an extension, just as with LHC, to advance national military and security objectives. If scientists stray outside accepted study subjects or find information inconvenient to the sponsors, they can be penalized, sometimes severely. “Publish or perish” means going where the funding is, and staying away from controversy. “Let’s leave it to the scientists” is not a good idea.

LHC construction and operating hazards

The reality of life is that the Earth and the universe are nesting, interconnected, intimate ecosystems. What happens in one place effects everything, because everything is unified together.

First, here are some facts and questions about the Large Hadron Collider regarding its construction:

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Tens of thousands of sea lion pups dead or dying off California coast — “It’s getting crazy” “A crisis”

ENE News has a lot of news about the deaths and illnesses in sea life along the West Coast. This was posted on Monday.

Posted on ENE News, March 16, 2015

10,000 baby sea lions dead on one California island — Experts: “It’s getting crazy… This is a crisis… Never seen anything like it… Very difficult to see so much death” — TV: “Numbers skyrocketing at alarming rates” — “Woman is burying the rotting mammals” after digging graves at beach (VIDEOS)

NBC L.A., Mar 12, 2015 (emphasis added): “The sea lion emergency is back all along the California shore“… [Pups] are washing ashore at a rate so alarming, rescuers said Thursday, this year is the worst yetmore than 1,600 marine mammals [have been picked up].

KTLA, Mar 10, 2015: Stranding numbers for the months of January and February were more than 20 times the average [said NOAA].

ABC 10 News, Mar 14, 2015: Friday, Konnie Martinkis was burying her third sea lion… There were at least five within just more than a football field’s length that were dead… she contacted the city… but it just decomposed as more showed up… she will continue building those graves.

Coast News, Mar 12, 2015: [NOAA] said not to feed it [that] will only prolong the animals suffering.

KABC: Numbers are skyrocketing at alarming rates…Sunday, six sea lions were found dead

NY Times, Mar 12, 2015: “It’s getting crazy,” [Wendy Leeds, animal-care expert at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center] said… Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist with [NOAA said] “We do expect the population to take a drop… probably a really good hit”… Michele Hunter, the center’s director of animal care, said, “It’s very difficult to see so much death.”

Sacramento Bee, Mar 7, 2015: Tens of thousands of pups birthed last summer are believed to be dying on the islands… some [are] desperately trying to climb onto small boats or kayaks… Scientists noted a worrisome anomaly in 2013, when 1,171 famished pups were stranded… scientists blamed the phenomenon on unseasonably cold watersOn San Miguel… Melin said researchers believe “probably close to 10,000 are dead, and we expect more to die over coming months”… the mortality rate is similar on San Nicolas.

Time: Experts at NOAA say that the culprit is rising ocean temperatures [note “unseasonably cold” ocean temps were the culprit during the record strandings in 2013]… a NOAA climate expert said that they do not believe the stranding increase is tied to climate change.

Marine Mammal Center, Mar 5, 2015: It’s clear these sea lions are trying to tell us something. Their very presence here in such great numbers at this time of year is sounding an alarm up and down the coast… it signals something complex happening in our ocean… sea lions are very sensitive to their environment… alerting us to major changes in the ocean… The scene on the Channel Islands this year is grave, worse even than what researchers saw in 2012, before the Unusual Mortality Event in 2013… “What’s scary is that we don’t know when this will end,” says Dr. Shawn Johnson, Director of Veterinary Science at The Marine Mammal Center. “This could be the new normal—a changed environment that we’re dealing with now.”

LA Daily News, Mar 13, 2015:  “By the end of January, we had as many as we did in (all of) 2013,” [Marine Mammal Care Center’s David Bard] said… “We’ve never seen anything like this with back-to-back events that are affecting the same part of the population,” Melin said.

Dr. Melin: “Based on what we are seeing… we should be bracing for a lot more animals

CBS Los Angeles, Mar 9, 2015: [California Wildlife Center’s Jeff Hall] says the event has escalated into a crisis. “I would personally consider this a crisis,” Hall said… The epidemic has prompted a number of volunteers to step forward, including… television personality Kat Von D [who said] “I think there’s a lack of awareness of what’s going on in the environment.”

TV broadcasts here: NBC | KTLA | ABC | ABC | CBS

 

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Diablo Canyon: PG&E secretly used wrong design data for key safety equipment for 30 years

Press release from Friends of the Earth

Utility misled California PUC, seeks to pocket $133.5 million in ratepayer revenues

SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Gas & Electric Co. used incorrect earthquake and accident data when building crucial safety equipment for the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, according to information released by Senator Barbara Boxer. Friends of the Earth said the revelation suggests that PG&E has acted with gross negligence and that the twin-reactor plant on California’s Central Coast should be immediately shut down pending a public investigation.

Correspondence from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission — released by Sen. Boxer in a recent hearing and reported Sunday on Page 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle (PDF) — shows that since Diablo Canyon’s first reactor came online in 1984, PG&E failed to use updated seismic and loss-of-coolant-accident data, known as LOCA loads, for replacement equipment. Failure of such equipment in an earthquake could lead to a catastrophic release of radiation. PG&E should have used new data after a previously unknown fault, the Hosgri, was discovered during initial construction, but violated its federal operating license by failing to use the updated data in conjunction with loss of cooling accident data in designing and constructing replacement steam generators and reactor vessel heads for the reactors.

In 2011, PG&E notified the NRC of its decades-long negligence, but incredibly, the NRC failed to cite PG&E for any infraction. Instead NRC and PG&E worked together to secretly and illegally alter the plant’s operating license in September 2013. Friends of the Earth has a case pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals asking that the illegal license revision be thrown out and that Diablo Canyon be shut pending public review to determine whether or not the reactors can withstand the forces of newly identified earthquake faults that surround the plant.

Instead of addressing its malfeasance, PG&E launched an internal effort to try to show that despite using the wrong design data, the equipment it had installed was OK. PG&E has asked the California Public Utilities Commission for $133.5 million from ratepayers for what it calls a “Licensing Basis Verification Program.” The utility did not explain that they were asking to bill their customers for a paper exercise to cover up its negligence in the faulty design of well over $1 billion worth of equipment, also paid by customers.

Since the Hosgri Fault was discovered, new research has revealed that at least four faults surrounding Diablo Canyon are capable of causing earthquakes more powerful than the reactors were designed to withstand The plant’s former NRC senior resident inspector, Dr. Michael Peck, warned last year that the increased risks from earthquakes meant that the plant was operating outside of its license and should be shut pending review — a warning that came before the revelations about PG&E’s use of outdated safety data.

“This shows gross negligence by PG&E and a shameful lack of oversight by federal regulators,” said Damon Moglen, senior strategic advisor to Friends of the Earth. “It’s terrifying to think that for 30 years PG&E used the wrong numbers for vital equipment at the U.S. reactors most at risk from earthquakes.”

“No one would dream of putting nuclear reactors in that location today,” Mogen said. “Diablo Canyon should never have been constructed in the first place, and now it is clear it should not be allowed to operate another day. Diablo Canyon must be shut down now, and there should be both state and federal investigations into PG&E’s negligence.”

Dave Freeman, former head of the federal Tennessee Valley Authority, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, said PG&E’s negligence fits the utility’s pattern of cutting corners on safety, which led to the fatal gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno in 2010.

“There they go again,” said Freeman, now senior energy advisor to Friends of the Earth. “Just as with San Bruno, PG&E has again put profits before safety, has misused ratepayers’ money and misled state regulators at the PUC.”

Expert Contact: Damon Moglen, (202) 352-4223, dmoglen@foe.org

Communications Contacts: Bill Walker, (510) 759-9911, bw.deadline@gmail.com (West Coast)  Adam Russell, (202) 222-0722, arussell@foe.org (East Coast)

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http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2015-03-diablo-pge-secretly-used-wrong-data-for-safety-equipment#sthash.8DQl1ReI.dpuf

San Francisco Chronicle article:
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/PG-E-overlooked-key-seismic-test-at-Diablo-Canyon-6
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Mocked and attacked, sick US Navy sailors disappear as government doctors bury truth about Fukushima radiation

Posted on Global Research, March 10, 2015
By David Gutierrez

U.S. Navy sailors exposed to radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster have been falling ill, even as the Defense Department insists that they were not exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Many of the sailors have now joined in a class action lawsuit against Fukushima operators and builders Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), Toshiba, Hitachi, Ebasco and General Electric.

Even if they wanted to — which many do not — the sailors would be unable to sue the Navy. According to a Supreme Court ruling from the 1950s known as the Feres Doctrine, soldiers cannot sue the government for injuries resulting directly from their military service.

Mocked and attacked

On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. It was the worst nuclear disaster in history, releasing twice as much radioactive material as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

That same day, the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was redirected to the coast of Japan to participate in relief work for tsunami survivors. When sailors from the ship later began to fall ill, Congress asked the Defense Department for a report on the issue. The Pentagon report concluded that the sailors had not been exposed to enough radiation or contaminated water to cause health effects.

Yet in the four years since the disaster, at least 500 sailors have fallen ill, and 247 of them have joined the class-action suit. The 100-page legal complaint chronicles their symptoms: an airplane mechanic suffering from unexplained muscle wasting; a woman whose baby was born ill; a sailor told his health problems must be genetic, even though his identical twin is perfectly healthy; and case after case of cancer, internal bleeding, abscesses, thyroid dysfunction and birth defects.

The defendants initially claimed that they could not be sued in a U.S. court, so plaintiffs’ attorney Paul Garner asked the sailors to come to a court hearing in San Diego, to offer moral support.

Nearly all of them refused, for fear of public attack. Initial plaintiff Lindsey Cooper, for example, had already been mocked by atomic energy experts on CNN and by conservative radio hosts. Others were afraid of being perceived as anti-military, or un-American.

Powerful interests at stake

Only one plaintiff was willing to show up: Lieutenant Steve Simmons. Once a triathlon runner, Simmons fell ill a year after returning from Japan, suffering from hair loss, muscle wasting, migraines, bloody discharge and incontinence. His fingers turned yellow or even brown, and his feet have now turned dark red. He suffers from whole-body spasms and must now use a wheelchair.

He has never received a diagnosis for his problems, and sometimes he wonders if his Defense Department doctors are deliberately withholding one, so that the Department need not be held responsible. One doctor, he said, told him it would be better if he didn’t know the cause of his illness.

Disturbingly, Spiegel Online reported:

Early on, [Simmons] was in a military hospital in Washington DC together with three other men who had similar symptoms, he says. They had served on nuclear-powered submarines, but they disappeared from one day to the next, and when he asked what happened to them, everyone acted as though they had never been there in the first place.

Simmons believes that the Navy meant to do good with the mission to Japan, and does not blame USS Ronald Reagan‘s commander, Captain Thom Burke, for what happened to him. But he is troubled by Burke’s silence now, he says. He believes that Burke will not speak out about the case because he hopes to become an admiral.

“Personal, diplomatic and economic interests are all at stake,” Simmons said.

“They’re leaving us alone. They’re closing their eyes, keeping quiet and waiting for it to blow over. There are sick soldiers everywhere, many in the hospital in San Diego, or in the medical center in Hawaii. They are ordinary folks who are poorly insured, with family and kids. Loyal and scattered. Most of them don’t know how to react. Those who raise their voices are denounced in the Internet for being unpatriotic. You have to put up with a lot.”

Sources for this article include: 

http://enenews.com

http://www.spiegel.de

http://www.naturalnews.com/048942_US_Navy_sailors_Fukushima_radiation.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/cover-up-us-navy-sailors-disappear-as-government-doctors-bury-rruth-about-fukushima-radiation/5435745

‘Fallout signatures’ on radiation monitors suggest Fukushima is still going re-critical underground

Citizen researchers can be the best at assembling and analyzing data, and then alerting the public about an issue. Why? Because university credentials and their mystique are not necessary to understand and communicate many issues. In addition, the public may not be prone to the same conflicts of interest as those whose income or career depend on what they find. Finally, there is the issue of community stewardship and care that many so-called scientists seem not to feel. And it is an issue of heart.

The disaster at Fukushima continues to be redacted from the mainstream corporate news.

In the exceptional column below and in his other recent articles are in-depth investigations by Michaël Van Broekhoven on recent radiation spikes in Europe and the search for their source. His articles are important, and the evidence indicates Fukushima as the source. Throughout, he shows the international radiation monitors that are “off line” when radiation spikes are present, keeping critical information away from public view.

The detection of Iodine-131 is alarming because it indicates that there is active fission happening now, almost four years after the initial accident.

Until most of our governments are willing to face this situation, it will be up to the rest of us to learn, educate others, and pressure our countries to take action.

DATA of ‘Fallout Signatures’ on Radiation Monitors Suggest Fukushima Still Going Re-Critical Underground At Times. Airborne Fallout Continues To Come Down Across the Northern Hemisphere.
January 31, 2015
by Michaël Van Broekhoven

Excerpts:

Limitations

We, the lay public, don’t have access to all the data, and no access at all to the most precise data.  Our best guess for a radiation spike is in most cases, ironically, an absence of data (a data gap in public monitor data). That’s how dismal the transparency and integrity of the governments’ radiation monitoring actually is these days:  When it matters most, they simply turn the monitor off.  This is as true for the US and Canada, as for Europe, Russia and Japan.  Some of the emerging nuclear powers, like India and China, do not even have a public-access radiation monitoring network.  It does not need to stay this way, but as it is, we are essentially ‘on our own‘…

!–> This blog post builds upon the previous blog post (Jan 24, 2015), “Did Germany just get a Massive Amount of Fukushima Fallout and “No One Noticed”? (A Eurdep-Nullschool investigation of the Nov. 16, 2014 radiation Upticks…)“, which grew out of the 4-part series (long-term data for  The Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland and Germany) that preceded it, which grew out of my investigations into the officially-denied radioactive cloud that moved from Zaporizhia, Ukraine (ZNPP) into Latvia and other parts of Europe at the end of Nov. and Dec. 2014.  (See my 2011-2015 Nuclear Blog Post Archive and look in the period Dec. 2014 – Jan. 2015 for much more on all that).

Examples of Recent Radiation Upticks

Bulgaria, Cyprus, USA, Japan,…:

!-> IODINE-131 DETECTED AGAIN?!
   I’ll start with the very striking I-131 data from Cyprus, then I’ll check on a ground-level gamma radiation uptick in Bulgaria the other day, the highest in the past half year; I’ll look at Radmon.net’s recent highest spike in Georgia (USA), to continue looking deeper into the shifting NETC.com alerts from Japan, and much more.  This is a smorgasbord of radiation uptick reports, which I will investigate, one by one, using Nullschool super-computer-powered meteorological data to search for clues on these radiation upticks’ more likely origins…

For the complete article:

https://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/fukushima-radiation-europe-unitedstates-pacific-eurdep-radnet-nullschool-endjanuary2015/

Declassified in France: Tricastin nuclear waste buried directly in ground, green-washed with sheep pasture

From Next-Up.org

[Translated from French] The mound of radioactive waste from Tricastin of a pile of radioactive waste more than 500 m long containing tons of enriched uranium to military isotope 235 which is directly buried in the ground without confinement of the Basic Nuclear Installation Secret (INBS) Tricastin.

The land base has been declassified in Classified Installation for Protection of the Environment (ICPE) under pressure from environmental organizations by theNuclear Safety Authority(ASN).The downgrade forced the manager to AREVA expensive Tricastin Actions Plan (PAT) unique in the world up to standard for 2016 of treating radioactive waste on site for the mound excavations carried out under cover of a containment structure to prevent contamination for their sorting, their packaging in packs and their evacuation to a storage ANDRA.

Notification by bailiff Bertrand Toulouse, Director of the Departmental Directorate of Protection of Populations, Directorate General of Food of the Drôme on food safety in relation to the “green-washing” ongoing carried out by a sheep pasture the edge of the radioactive burial mound located at the Secret Basic Nuclear Installation (INBS) Tricastin.

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Japanese prosecutors refuse to charge TEPCO executives in nuclear disaster

From  Phys.org, January 22, 2015
Fukushima executives to be spared charges over nuclear disaster

Japanese prosecutors said Thursday that executives in charge of the Fukushima nuclear plant will not be charged, setting up a possible showdown with a citizens’ panel that wants someone brought to book for the disaster.

The move is the latest in a tussle between legal authorities and an angry public over who should take responsibility for the tsunami-sparked reactor meltdowns in 2011 that forced tens of thousands from their homes.

A parliamentary report has said Fukushima was a man-made disaster caused by Japan’s culture of “reflexive obedience”, but no one has been punished criminally.

“We conclude that there is not enough evidence to suggest that Tokyo Electic executives could have predicted or could have avoided (the accident),” said Ryoichi Nakahara, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office.

He said prosecutors had questioned a wider group of experts following the July panel ruling but reached the same conclusion.

Under Japanese law, if the judicial review panel challenges that decision a second time, a group of court-appointed lawyers would then be compelled to press charges.

The three are former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, then-vice president Sakae Muto and former vice president Ichiro Takekuro.

Campaigners have called for about three dozen company officials to be held accountable for their failure to take proper measures to protect the site against the tsunami, which sparked the worst atomic crisis in a generation.

Source:
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-fukushima-nuclear-disaster.html

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