Fukushima: "If you knew sushi..."

    OMG, I've just finished reading a really scary article about how even the seemingly-too-big-to-fail Pacific Ocean has become pretty much radioactive, thanks to a constant onslaught of 300 tons of nuclear-waste-contaminated water still pouring into it daily from Fukushima's damaged nuclear reactors http://thetruthwins.com/archives/28-signs-that-the-west-coast-is-being-absolutely-fried-with-nuclear-radiation-from-fukushima.
    
    Here's a brief sample of power-points from that article, "28 signs that the West Coast is being absolutely fried with nuclear radiation from Fukushima": 

     4.  Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs.

     7.  Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast.

     8.  One test in California found that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.

     11.  Some experts believe that we could see very high levels of cancer along the west coast just from people eating contaminated fish…

     18. According to a professor at Tokyo University, 3 gigabecquerels of cesium-137 are flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi every single day.

     23. The immense amounts of nuclear radiation getting into the water in the Pacific Ocean has caused environmental activist Joe Martino to issue the following warning:  “Your days of eating Pacific Ocean fish are over.”

     However, as deadly-nightmarish and horrendously future-threateningly-scary as this article may be, I'll bet you anything that it's not going to make even a small change to Americans' current thinking about the Pacific ocean, radioactivity in general or even eating tuna-fish sandwiches.  Why not?  Because whenever we Americans read about some sort of catastrophic generality like this, we tend to just shrug our shoulders and move on.  "Nothing to see here, folks.  Doesn't effect me."

     This is the same kind of thinking that Americans have about climate change.  We view it with alarm for about a nano-second generally -- but don't individually seem to mind a little warm weather in January as it applies to us personally.  And then we happily continue to drive our gas-guzzling cars and let corporations pollute our air.  "As long as it doesn't effect me..."  But the Fukushima disaster IS effecting us now.  Personally.  Apparently there is now even radiation in our own freaking sushi! 
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/397-science/20136-how-science-is-telling-us-all-to-revolt

     Americans also don't seem to care if all those undepleted uranium bombs that War Street drops on Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Libya (and now Syria) cause horrible cancers and hideous birth defects on the other side of the world.  "That doesn't effect me either."

    But what if you love a good salmon dinner or some California rolls or a tuna-noodle casserole?  Are horrible cancers and hideous birth defects going to follow you home now too?

     And are you now going to have to bring a Geiger counter along with you whenever you go to the fish store to shop? 

PS:  Here's even further bad news about radioactivity in the Pacific, from a recent article in CounterPunch: 

     "There are three major problems at Fukushima:

     1.  Three reactor cores are missing [!!!???!!!];

     2.  Radiated water has been leaking from the plant in mass quantities for 2.5 years; 

     3.  Eleven thousand spent nuclear fuel rods, perhaps the most dangerous things ever created by humans, are stored at the plant and need to be removed.  1,533 of those are in a very precarious and dangerous position.  Each of these three could result in dramatic radiation events, unlike any radiation exposure humans have ever experienced." http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/the-global-threat-of-fukushima/

     Holy sheep dookie!  This means that the danger of an atomic explosion blowing up the planet is even greater now than it was way back in the 1950s!  And the only difference between then and now seem to be that now it may actually be happening -- and also that, nowadays, nobody seems to care any more.

PPS:  And while we're on the subject of slow and painful death, let's also talk about the Reagan-Clinton-Bush-Obama administration and their one big interconnected Endless War.  Exactly how are we paying for all this endless and unnecessary blood-letting?  Let me count the ways:

     1.  War Street gets all kinds of money for drones -- and that money comes directly from funds that should have gone to shore up America's crumbling infrastructure.

     2.  War profiteers receive a bottomless budget allowance to blow up and gravely injure hundreds of thousands of women and children in the Middle East -- and that money comes directly out of our budgets for medical care and hospitals here at home http://blackagendareport.com/content/beyond-spin-some-facts-about-affordable-care-act.

     3.  Wall Street sends American soldiers all over the world to act as its global corporations' extortionists, enforcers and thugs -- and this Mafia-like "protection" racket is paid for by drastic cuts to American veterans' benefits.

     4.  Israeli neo-cons get billions of $$$ to endlessly reign white phosphorus down on school children in Palestine http://www.usslibertyveterans.org/files/Title%2018%20Chapter%20118%20War%20Crimes.pdf --  and America's budget for schools here at home shrinks drastically in order to pay for this illegal and brutal Occupation.

     5.  Oil companies steal oil routinely from other countries by using "preemptive war" -- and Americans pay for these wars with $$$ cuts to our hometown fire department budgets and police funding.  And now corporate lobbies are once again putting pressure on their (not our) Congressional representatives to make very serious cuts to our Social Security and MediCare in order to pay for even more endless wars for oil http://www.alternet.org/economy/nine-democratic-senators-side-gop-entitlement-cuts

      6 thru 666.  In the last 30 years, your lifestyle and my lifestyle have been greatly diminished in many many many other countless ways -- so that Wall Street and War Street can live out their fantasy lives of aggrandizement and wealth beyond our own wildest dreams.  And this sordid list of money-grubbing by the wealthy shadow figures who have their greedy fingers clandestinely dipped into America's pockets goes on and on and on http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18278-let-the-young-and-middle-aged-tea-partiers-pay-their-own-cash-for-parents-medical-care-and-retiremnt. 

     But at no point, ever, do the American people ever come out on top.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/denmark-happiest-country_n_4070761.html

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Murder mystery at the NY State Museum: A 9-11 whodunnit

     While I was in Albany, NY recently, I heard about a museum exhibit called "The Mystery of the Albany Mummies" and, according to the museum's brochure, these two mummies have been put through every scientific test known to science so that we can now know everything about them that there is to know.  Mystery solved.

     And at the New York State Museum, also in Albany, there is also a huge exhibit regarding the World Trade Center and 9-11.  But when I went to see that exhibit, I got more confused instead of being less confused.  Two major questions immediately stood out in my mind.  Or perhaps three.  Or more.

     First, one part of the exhibit stated that lots of personal items were found in the rubble -- including jewelry, gold rings and even credit cards.  Huh?  Steel melted on 9-11-01 but credit cards didn't?

     Second, the exhibit made a big point about the Towers being held up by exterior steel beams, and also that the interior floors collapsed onto each other because of their weight.  So the interiors of the buildings collapsed, according to the exhibit.  But then why did the exterior steel girders collapse too?  Under the pressure?  Because they melted? 

     Then why didn't the desks and toys and other paraphernalia at the exhibit collapse and melt too?

     I'm confused.

     Third, a lot of the items on exhibit were all covered by gray ash -- but not the kind that results from burning office paper.  So what kind of ash was it?  The kind caused by thermite?  We may never know.  But some enterprising curator could solve this mystery for me in a New York minute -- by just testing that freaking ash for traces of explosives.  Sherlock Holmes would have done that.  Or that guy from CSI.  With all of those forensic crime-scene shows on TV, one would think that Americans would demand at least the same level of inquiry that Ted Danson would have delivered.  But no.

     Why haven't the Twin Towers been put through the same rigorous scientific scrutiny as the Twin Mummies of Albany?

     Darned if I know.

     And also, if they had all those girders and fire trucks and photos on exhibit, why didn't they also have the airplanes' black boxes and the NORAD reports on exhibit too?  And the NSA reports and the "chatter" from Dick Cheney's war room?  I wish they'd had a section devoted solely to "conspiracy theories".  And a section devoted to means, motive and opportunity as well!  And why did this museum stick so closely to the "official story" even though the exhibits themselves contradicted each other?

     There was also some verbiage at the exhibit about how the Twin Towers held up for an hour or so at first -- until the heat from the fires melted the steel even though the jet fuel had immediately burned off.  So the burning jet fuel didn't cause the meltdown?  Huh?  What did I miss?

     The museum's graphic photos of the Twin Towers collapsing in on themselves showed what had to be a controlled demolition -- because if even a few of the 237 steel girders holding up Towers 1 and 2 had melted even a fraction of a second faster than others, the WTC would have toppled over to one side like a child's stack of blocks, possibly taking out the Wall Street stock exchange with it -- or at least a bunch of churches, hotels, office buildings or banks.  And we all know that didn't happen.  http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-shutdown-of-the-u-s-government-and-debt-default-a-dress-rehearsal-for-the-privatization-of-the-federal-state-system/5354066

    And then there were those horrible photos of people falling from windows, windows that would had been impossible to open by human hands but which had possibly been blown out by the explosion of the airplane fuel, taking hundreds of unwilling human beings with them too.  But how many more survivors of the original explosions had been blown out through even more usually-unopenable windows when Tower 1 and Tower 2 suddenly pancaked down, evenly and synchronistically destroying 237 steel girders per floor as they went? 

     By this time I was almost in tears.

     I finally left the exhibit sorely saddened by all those lives that had been lost -- but also scratching my head in confusion.

     Next I'm going to go visit the Twin Mummies -- where there are scientific methods at work that I can actually follow and understand.

PS:  What the freak would be the motivation for creating a "Second Pearl Harbor" and then covering it up?  Perhaps it was six TRILLION dollars?  That's the amount of money that war profiteers have made (so far) from the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Gaza, Egypt, etc.  Means, motive and opportunity.  No mystery here.

     That's $75,000 that has been paid to War Street by every single man, woman and child in America.  Sounds like a huge incentive to me.  And oil companies' motives?  The oil fields of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc?  And the bees still all buzzing around the oil in Iran?  With Kuwait and Saudi Arabia next?

     "But, Jane," you might say, "Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are our allies.  An attack on them would never happen."  You think not?  Well.  Saddam Hussein used to be War Street's ally too and look what happened to him.  And America used to be Big Oil's ally as well but with six trillion dollars at stake, Big Oil clearly would have had no problems selling America out.  It's a dog-eat-dog world out there.  Anything's possible.

PPS:  By asking just a few simple questions, Paul Craig Roberts does a much better job than the NY State Museum of describing what happened on 9/11/01:

     Question 1:  "The national security state was defeated by a few rag tag Muslims with box cutters and a sick old man dying from renal failure while holed up in a cave in Afghanistan, and no heads rolled."  Why wasn't anyone in our government ever held accountable for this spectacular failure?

      Question 2:  "Do you know what temperature self-cleaning ovens reach?"  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36195.htm

PPPS:  According to investigative reporter Russ Baker, "George H. W. Bush may be one of the few Americans of his generation who cannot recall exactly where he was when John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963."  And Poppy Bush had all kinds of reasons for wanting Kennedy dead.  http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/10/02/bush-and-the-jfk-hit-part-3-where-was-poppy-november-22-1963/  Plus Poppy Bush was working for the CIA at the time of Kennedy's death.  And the CIA hated JFK!  http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/09/16/part-1-mr-george-bush-of-the-central-intelligence-agency/

     Baker also states in his articles that Grandpoppy Prescott Bush, that guy who chose being a cheerleader for the Nazis over cheering for America during WWII, also hated JFK.  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar 

     So.  If Grandpoppy Bush had no qualms about siding with the Nazis over his own country, and Poppy Bush apparently had no qualms about participating in the assassination of a sitting U.S. president in cold blood, what makes us think that Baby Bush would suddenly develop qualms about assassinating the Twin Towers for fun and profit?  The apple never falls far from the tree.

PPPPS:  So.  Twelve years later, what are we Americans finally planning to do about all these clearly still-lingering and strong doubts and suspicions?  Open a new and impartial 9-11 commission scientific investigation run by Ted Danson, one that is not afraid to ask the big questions no matter where the answers might lead?  A truly unbiased investigation that would finally put all of our minds to rest?  Or should we just continue to do nothing and merely be grateful that we each got to pony up $75,000 to War Street -- and not even more than that?

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