Ashahi headline (Google translation):Odawara, Kanagawa coast humpback length of 6m (12/01/01)
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Month: January 2012
Radiation In Japan: It’s All How You Define Radiation, And Koriyama Defines it ‘Out’
– #Radiation in Japan: It’s All How You Define Radiation, and Koriyama Defines it “Out” (EX-SKF, Jan. 4, 2012):
It is just a matter of how you define the problem, and Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture, in the high-radiation “Nakadori” region, has decided to “define out” the problem by drawing the radiation contour map of the city with a new set of color schemes so that people will feel “safe and secure” looking at such “low” radiation levels.
After all, the nuclear accident is “over”, remember?
The map used to have 1.49 microsievert/hour as maximum, in red color. Now, in the new version of the map that accompanies the Koriyama City’s official decon plan, 45 microsieverts/hour is the maximum in red color. 1.5 microsievert/hour area is now in a calming, safe-looking extremely light blue.
Would the residents of Koriyama fall for this trick? Probably yes.
The map from the “Koriyama City Renewal Decontamination Plan version 1” issued in December 2011 (page 5):
And here’s the map in August, showing maximum 1.49 microsievert/hour area in red:
More info:
Read moreRadiation In Japan: It’s All How You Define Radiation, And Koriyama Defines it ‘Out’
Japan To Stop Using SPEEDI To Decide Whether To Instruct Residents To Take Potassium Iodide Pills
See also:
– Japan Government Withheld SPEEDI Radiation Forecast Because The Data ‘Would Cause Unnecessary Panic’
– Japan to Stop Using SPEEDI to Decide Whether to Instruct Residents to Take Potassium Iodide Pills (EX-SKF, Jan. 4, 2012):
Instead, the decision will be made using the air radiation levels and the water levels inside the nuclear reactors.
In other words, when (if) they do distribute the pills to citizens who may be affected by a nuclear accident, it may be too late. If the last year is any indication, such data will be released several weeks to several months after a nuclear accident happens.
As to the water levels inside the reactors, it’s a joke. TEPCO and NISA insisted there was water inside the Reactor Pressure Vessels until mid May.
But no matter, that’s what the Nuclear Safety Commission under Dr. Haruki “Detarame” Madarame has decided and is duly reported by NHK.
NHK conveniently omits the now-known fact that the SPEEDI simulation data was there from the beginning. The politicians and the bureaucrats, in their petty turf war, couldn’t make any use of it. They even had three sets of simulation from three different entities – the Ministry of Education, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, and TEPCO, from the beginning of the accident. Everyone decided to drop the ball all at once.
How did they manage to do that? Asahi Shinbun’s “Trap of Prometeus” has an excellent coverage on that (part 1 here, part 2 here).
From NHK News (1/4/2012):
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In the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, the system to forecast the dispersion of radioactive materials didn’t function, causing the confusion as to what to do with the potassium iodide pills to avoid radiation exposure in the thyroid. So the Nuclear Safety Commission has decided not to use the system any more to instruct residents to take the pills; instead, the air radiation levels and other indicators will be used.
Birds That Are Unable To Fly, Allow Humans To Approach Them … Somewhere in Fukushima (Video)
– Video of Birds That Don’t Fly, in June 2011 Somewhere in Fukushima (Ex-SKF, Jan. 4, 2012):
A video posted by a resident somewhere in Fukushima Prefecture in June last year shows two birds in his/her front garden unable or unwilling to fly even when approached by a human.
The video was uploaded by MAYODORA in June 2011; it was posted at GeorgeBowWow’s blog on December 23, 2011 (his blog is in Japanese only). GeorgeBowWow thinks the birds may be affected by radiation. The bird (bulbul) in the beginning of the video dropped from the persimmon tree, MAYODORA writes in the Youtube description of the video. MAYODORA says he/she measured radiation on the bird with his/her survey meterand it was rather high.
No information as to what happened to those birds afterwards.
Clearly the comment section of the video on Youtube was trashed, and commenting has been disabled.
Crude Surges On News Europe Agrees To Ban Iran Oil Imports
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Effectively, the measures will force companies and financial institutions throughout the world to choose between the United States and Iran as their business partner.
We are already at war with Iran!
In other news:
– Iran threatens U.S. ships, alarms oil markets (Washington Post):
Iran escalated its war of words with the United States on Tuesday with a warning to Navy ships to stay out of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, remarks that rattled commodities markets and helped send oil prices soaring.
– Iran fires long-range missiles (Telegraph – Video):
Iran has test-fired a surface-to-surface cruise missile in a naval drill, after the country threatened to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for 40 per cent of the world’s oil supply, if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports.
– Iran-US tensions over Gulf send oil prices soaring (Guardian):
Brent crude spot prices rise from $107 to $111 after Tehran threatens US aircraft carrier over use of crucial shipping route.
– Crude Surges On News Europe Agrees To Ban Iran Oil Imports (ZeroHedge, Jan. 4, 2012):
As if the situation in the Gulf was not enough on edge, here comes Europe with news, via Reuters, that EU governments have reached a deal to ban Iranian oil imports. The only thing pending is the determination of the starting date and other details. The result, as expected, is another leg up in crude. Sooner or later, this relentless rise higher will spill through to the pump, which according to the Michigan Bizarro confidence indicator will sent consumer optimism to historic levels. And now, the escalation hot grenade is back in Iran’s court. Expect more missiles to be fired into the water and more rhetoric about Straits of Hormuz closure in 5…4…3…
From Reuters:
European Union governments have reached a preliminary agreement to ban imports of Iranian crude to the EU but have yet to decide when such an embargo would be put in place, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.
Diplomats said that EU envoys held talks on the issue in the last days of December and that any objections to the idea, notably from Greece, were dropped.
“A lot of progress has been made,” one EU diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The principle of an oil embargo is agreed. It is not being debated anymore.”
And the response:
Fukushima Woman: ‘Everyone Feels Absolutely Furious, It Just Bubbles Inside’ – ‘We Feel Like We Could Explode’ (Financial Times)
The people of Japan should have ‘exploded’ a long time ago!
MSM will never tell the truth about (low level) radiation.
See this:
– Studies Prove: Fukushima Safety Level NOT SAFE! (Video)
– Silent Death – Horror Scenario Awaits Japan (The Low-Level Radiation Myth Exposed)
– Farmers in Fukushima count the cost (Financial Times, Jan. 4, 2012):
It was a problem the Saito family had never faced in all their years of farming: what do you do with radioactive spinach?
A few weeks after Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant plunged into crisis on March 11, the Saitos were told their carefully cultivated spinach had been contaminated by radiation. But nobody told them what to do with the suddenly unsellable crop, says Kazuko Saito, who tills rice and vegetable fields near the Fukushima prefectural capital together with her husband and son.
Insane Japan: They Will Grow Rice Again This Year in Fukushima
– They Will Grow Rice Again This Year in Fukushima (EX-SKF, Jan. 3, 2012):
I could almost hear the words: “This time, it will be different!”
Up to, say summer last year, the farmers could have been excused for the lack of information given to them (for those who relied on the government information to be handed to them). But now nearly 10 months after the accident and the radioactive contamination in Fukushima Prefecture cannot be hidden any more (except to most of the residents who have remained, apparently) and some rice farmers are suing TEPCO for the damage, if they grow rice again in Fukushima this year hoping theirs will be cesium-free but knowing full well that they may not be, what do you call it?
Then again, doing what the government tells you to do has been the mode of operation in Japan for such a long time, and the farmers may not see any need to change it now.
First, Yomiuri Shinbun (1/4/2012):
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Regarding the rice harvested in part of Fukushima that was found with radioactive cesium exceeding the national provisional safety limit (500 becquerels/kg), the Fukushima prefectural government has decided to instruct farmers to give more potassium fertilizer when they plant rice for 2012.
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According to the prefectural government, potassium fertilizer works to limit the uptake of radioactive cesium by the rice plant.
Read moreInsane Japan: They Will Grow Rice Again This Year in Fukushima
Greece Will Leave Euro If Second Bailout Fails
Got physical gold and silver?
– Silent Bank Run In Greece: ‘Anxious Greeks Emptying Their Bank Accounts’ (Spiegel)
– Hedge Fund Manager Kyle Bass Explains The New World Order (Panel Presentation):
Don’t believe these governments when they tell you everything is going to fine. The day before Mexico devalued by 60% they denied that they would ever devalue. They can and will never tell you the truth. Find your own numbers.
– Greece will leave euro if second bailout fails, says Kapsis (Telegraph, Jan. 3, 2012):
Greece will have to leave the eurozone if it fails to clinch a deal on a second, 130 billion euro bailout with its international lenders, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
It was an unusually public stark warning from the embattled country, aimed at shoring up domestic support for tough measures and possibly also at the lenders themselves.
“The bailout agreement needs to be signed otherwise we will be out of the markets, out of the euro,” spokesman Pantelis Kapsis told Skai TV. “The situation will be much worse.”
EU Plan To Slap VAT On Food! – Nigel Farage: ‘Everyone Would Suffer, But The Most Vulnerable Would Suffer The Most’
– EU PLAN TO SLAP VAT ON FOOD (EXPRESS, Jan. 3, 2012):
EU plans for a radical tax shake-up could cost struggling families and pensioners £800 a year.
The European Commission wants VAT exemptions on food, children’s clothes and other essentials abandoned in an effort to harmonise the sales tax across Europe.
Its plans come after the Coalition raised the VAT rate to 20 per cent last year but kept an exemption for food, children’s clothes, passenger travel, books, newspapers and other products.
Last night the proposals sparked outrage among politicians and public-spending campaigners who attacked the Eurocrats for trying to interfere in Britain’s tax affairs. Ukip leader Nigel Farage said: “In their desperation to raise cash, the EU is prepared to do anything and hurt the most vulnerable.
“These plans would add up to 20 per cent costs on food and children’s clothes. To put an extra tax on books and newspapers would be a strike for ignorance over education.
“Everyone would suffer, but the most vulnerable would suffer the most.”
Eight Simple Truths You Need To Know About 2012
– Eight Simple Truths You Need To Know About 2012 (ZeroHedge, Jan. 3, 2012):
Yesterday we discussed certain events that, in my view, are nearly mathematical certainties. Things like a restructuring of public pensions and Social Security in Europe and the US. Western governments blocking Internet and mobile networks. War. The US government being forced to issue debt in a foreign currency.
All of these events are underpinned by a simple premise:
Shocking Realities About RON PAUL 2012
When a country embarks on deficit financing (Bush-Obamanomics) and inflationism (Quantitative easing) you wipe out the middle class and wealth is transferred from the middle class and the poor to the rich.
– Ron Paul“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.”
– Ron Paul
Are We ALL DOOMED? Romney Wins Iowa By 8 Votes
Looks like the US …
…and the entire world is DOOMED!
Santorum:
– Rick Santorum Wants To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Facilities (= WW III) (NBC Video)
Romney:
– Mitt Romney’s Staff Spent Nearly $100,000 To KEEP HIS RECORDS SECRET
Obama:
– Myth Busted: Yes, The NDAA Does Apply To Americans, And Here’s The Text That Says So
versus
Ron Paul:
– Rachel Maddow: Ron Paul Is The Only Presidential Candidate That Doesn’t Want To Start Another War!
– Jon Stewart: ‘Ron Paul 2012? (Video)
Download this video before it disappears again (like all pro Ron Paul videos on YouTube!) and play it to your children and grandchildren and let them know what f****** idiots Americans have been:
– Ron Paul On The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (Video) – Listen America!!!
All candidates other than Ron Paul are (100%) elite puppets.
– Romney edges Santorum by 8 votes (The Hill, Jan. 4, 2012):
DES MOINES — Mitt Romney edged Rick Santorum by an eight-vote margin in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday, spotlighting a sharply divided Republican Party headed for an increasingly tough primary battle.
Romney received 30,015 votes to Santorum’s 30,007 votes, according to the Iowa Republican Party—and six votes less than he received in 2008, when he finished second in the state to Mike Huckabee. Romney also won 25 percent of the vote in 2008.
The virtual tie elevates Santorum into serious contention as the latest, conservative alternative to Romney, capping a surprise, last-minute push in the Iowa caucus he had pinned the entirety of his campaign on. He said it was now “game on.”
The Ministry Of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul ‘Unelectable’
And ALL the other cadidates are (to 100%) elite puppets (like Clinton, Bush, Obama etc.)
– The Ministry Of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul “Unelectable” (ZeroHedge, Jan. 3, 2011):
The Ministry of Propaganda has chosen to suppress the only dangerous-to-the-Power Elites candidate by declaring him “unelectable.”
The Status Quo’s Ministry of Propaganda has a single political task for 2012: eliminate the sole threat to the Status Quo (Ron Paul) from the running, leaving voters with a “choice” of clueless stooges for the Power Elite.
That roster includes President Obama and the daytime-TV/soap-opera field of Republicrat contenders.
The Ministry of Propaganda has settled on a ludicrous strategy to eliminate Ron Paul: declare Paul “unelectable.”
Read moreThe Ministry Of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul ‘Unelectable’
Yokohama: Is Radiogenic Lead Hidden Or Missed?
– Is Radiogenic lead hidden or missed ? (Fukushima Diary, Jan. 4, 2012):
Following up this article http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/fukushima-news-8400-bq-kg-lead-210-measured-sample-yokohama/
At first, a Japanese lab (Isotope research institute) measured Strontium-90 from the sample.
However Yokohama city government asserted it has nothing to do with Fukushima and the lab released this report after the announcement.
Yokohama Sample: 8400 Bq/Kg Of Radioactive Pb-210!!!
– 8400 Bq/Kg of lead-210 was measured from sample of Yokohama (Fukushima Diary, Jan. 4, 2012):
Following up this article about soil contamination in Yokohama…
Having measured Strontium-90 from the soil of Yokohama, we suspect it may contain plutonium too.
We took 200g of the same sample and sent it to Dr C.Busby.
As a result, it was not positive for plutonium nor americium but surprisingly 8400 Bq/Kg of lead 210 (pb-210) was measured.
Honestly we are puzzled by the result and don’t know what the potential risk will be.
Dr Chris Busby comments:
Read moreYokohama Sample: 8400 Bq/Kg Of Radioactive Pb-210!!!
Japan: Worst Vegetable Mutation So Far (Photo)
– The worst vegetable mutation (Fukushima Diary, Jan. 4, 2012):
Vegetable mutation: sample taken in June, Saitama.
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This is horrible. (7/13/2011) Harvested in June, Saitama.
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I suppose it’s a tomato.
Radioactive Rain At 20 MicroSieverts/Hour In South Korea (Video)
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– South Korea: Radioactive Seaweed At 0.76 MicroSieverts/Hour From East Coast
2011 Nov 30th South Korea rain radiation 20 microSv/hr from joytek on Vimeo.
Description:
rain sample collected from a car hood in Chuncheon, South Korea on November 30th, 2011. All cars were covered by a powdery substance that fell with the rain.
2011 Nov 30th radioactive rainout in South Korea 16 microSv/hr from joytek on Vimeo.
Description:
radioactive rain sample from South Korea, Chuncheon collected from a car hood on November 30th, 2011.
South Korea, Chuncheon, Dec 13, 2011, neighborhood radiation (0.7 microSv/hr +) from joytek on Vimeo.
Description:
This is the reading on my street in Chuncheon, South Korea, on December 13th, 2011. The pavement is reading at more than 0.7 microSv/hr while the at chest height the reading is about 0.4.
measuring device: Inspector Alert
Walmart Bringing ‘REAL’ Japanese Food To The United States
Is the food coming from Japan???
I don’t know.
Anyway, bon appétit!
– Walmart bringing ‘real’ Japanese food to the United States (CNN GO, Sep. 12, 2011)
Millions rejoice on discovering it’s not going to be sushi rolls again
Spend any time in Japan and you’ll soon realize that the local cuisine is the Best In The World (there, we said it). But return home and the old “What next?” question arises all too soon.
Luckily, if you’re in the good ole U.S. of A, Japanese catering giant Ajinomoto is riding to the rescue and pushing its Japanese culinary expertise to the masses through a new deal with Walmart.
Country-wide deal
Later this month, Tokyo-based Ajinomoto will start selling its existing “Simmering Samurai” range at 2,500 Walmart outlets across the United States, giving it what it hopes will be a fast track to the American stomach.
The frozen lineup will include Chicken Fried Rice, Orange Chicken and Beef Broccoli, each selling for about $9, and enough to feed three or four.
Read moreWalmart Bringing ‘REAL’ Japanese Food To The United States
Mysterious Nodding Syndrome Spreading Through Uganda
– Nodding disease (Wikipedia)
– Mysterious nodding syndrome spreading through Uganda (New Scientist, Dec. 23, 2011):
Large areas of northern Uganda are experiencing an outbreak of nodding syndrome, a mysterious disease that causes young children and adolescents to nod violently when they eat food. The disease, which may be an unusual form of epilepsy, could be linked to the parasitic worm responsible for river blindness, a condition that affects some 18 million people, most of them in Africa.
The current outbreaks are concentrated in the districts of Kitgum, Pader and Gulu. In Pader alone, 66 children and teenagers have died. More than 1000 cases were diagnosed between August and mid-December.
Read moreMysterious Nodding Syndrome Spreading Through Uganda
Israeli Soldiers Talk About The Occupied Territories (Breaking The Silence)
– Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories (Breaking The Silence)
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. We endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price paid for a reality in which young soldiers face a civilian population on a daily basis, and are engaged in the control of that population’s everyday life.
Read moreIsraeli Soldiers Talk About The Occupied Territories (Breaking The Silence)
South Korea: Radioactive Seaweed At 0.76 MicroSieverts/Hour From East Coast
2012 Jan 2nd, South Korea, Seaweed radioactivity test (part 1) from joytek on Vimeo.
– Breaking News: 0.76 microSv/h from Seaweed from Korean east coast (Fukushima Diary, Jan. 3, 2012):
On 1/2/2012, they measured 0.76 microSv/h from seaweed, which is from the east coast of Korea.(Unopened)
The background was 0.227 microSv/h. It picked up around by 0.53 microSv/h immediate on the package.
This suggests the sea contamination has spread to not only Pacific ocean but also the Korean / Japanese sea.
Related article http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/tsunami-boat-found-in-korean-japanese-sea/
Fukushima Whistleblower: Container Vessel Melting Like Honeycomb (Photos)
From the article:
“It’s beyond the max reading of 500X100 CPM. These yellow concrete slags come out from under the building one after one. It means that the container vessel is melting like honeycomb at least – doesn’t it? Otherwise why would metal uranium comes out of there?”
– Breaking News: Whistle-blower talks, container vessel is melting like honeycomb (Fukushima Diary, Jan. 2, 2012)
A whistle-blower of Tepco leaked the actual situation of Fukushima plant.
He left his comments on a Japanese forum. Here are the messages.
Read moreFukushima Whistleblower: Container Vessel Melting Like Honeycomb (Photos)
Is A German Super-Volcano About To Erupt?
If the Laacher See eruption is as powerful as the last one, volcanic material could land over 600 miles away
– Is a super-volcano just 390 miles from London about to erupt? (Daily Mail, Jan. 2, 2012)
- It’s similar in size to Mount Pinatubo, which in 1991 gave us the biggest eruption of the 20th century
- Billions of tons of ash and magma would be ejected
- Southern England would be covered in ash
A sleeping super-volcano in Germany is showing worrying signs of waking up.
It’s lurking just 390 miles away underneath the tranquil Laacher See lake near Bonn and is capable of ejecting billions of tons of magma.
This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years and last went off 12,900 years ago, so it could blow at any time.