Video: Airborne transport of cesium-137 from Fukushima to North America
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2011/09/video-airborne-transport-of-cesi...
A vast, swirling miasma of airborne cesium 137. Sickeningly hypnotic to watch
Meanwhile, closer to the plant, many reports of soil showing over 3 million b.
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2011/09/extreme-radioactive-soil-contami...
RADIATION DISPERSION MAP
Here is the LATEST (September 2011) radiation dispersion map from Kyushu University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuUYUJwNmag&feature=player_embedded
And still, no one seems to
And still, no one seems to care.
If you bring this topic up at the bbq this weekend, the family and / or neighbors will look at you like you have 2 heads.
the convenience of denial and personal tragedy
Your right on the money with your prediction of the responses of the uninformed masses. Even worse for myself personally after having turned my facebook wall into a portal for the best sources of info on the subject and being laughed at behind the scenes and with nobody ever even attempting to challenge my stance on the issue or the sources I quoted & linked to. Then amidst possibly the worst period of my 48 yrs of life I got news that my 19 yr. old daughter Alli was going to make me a grandpa. After the initial fears subsided and I thought I could conveniently push Fukushima out of mind and regain some sense of normalcy back into my life as her first several trips to the Dr. indicated everything was fine and going well as should be expected from my non-drinking or drug using daughter. Ten days ago a call at 4:00am preceding a trip to the ER and then back to the family Dr. changed all that as the news emerged that the 8 week old fetus did not have a heartbeat and my daughter is still going through the process of her miscarriage physically and will be emotionally scarred for eternity I'd imagine. I KNOW in my heat that Fukushima and or the numerous domestic events that go unreported are behind her losing that baby!! I just know it inside somehow and I can't explain why...I worried about the baby being born with some sort of birth defects when everything was supposedly going ok,but I'm convinced that the foul crap still blowing in from Japan and God knows where else killed that baby and changed the future of our family and the continuation of our bloodline forever and if I'm still alive when the truth finally comes out and the statistics show exactly how many others went through this-I hope there's someone in particular to hold responsible for it although I won't go into detail what my statement(promise)means just yet. In closing and even worse is that I'm torn between the pain associated with the loss and pain my little girl & her mom & I are going through and the guilt of also having thoughts that maybe that baby was somehow better off not being born into this foul,dirty world and there's probably a high chance that he or she would've been mutated or likely to develop cancer at an early age had it survived. I hate myself for saying this-but I'm so afraid that she might get pregnant again and go through this again or have my other worst fears realized. I feel horrible right now and I probably deserve any nasty thing anyone wants to say after reading this too. I haven't been able to get these thoughts or feelings out otherwise anywhere else and I'd never have this conversation with anyone in the family because not only would it offend them-but most of them don't even know what Fukushima is or what happened,they either ask what I'm talking about or stare blankly ahead nodding & patronizing me as if I was telling them the mothership had come to take us back to the home planet. Sorry about the length of this-but it's eating away at my soul and has been an issue of concern since the hours after the quake & tsunami struck and I'd learned of the loss of cooling systems when I also "just knew" it was an event that would change the face of our planet forever. Sorry I'm such a downer-hope evryone has a nice holiday weekend anyway....John
John's daughter's miscarriage
I have a 18 month old grandson who turned one just before 3/11. I understand perfectly what you are saying. I don't know how long I will have him to love and enjoy and it is very painful. I don't know how to protect him. I realize that I can't protect him which devastates me .I wonder what his life will be like. I worry about how long I will remain healthy to take care of him. I worry what is the radiation doing to his little body.
I know it's not much of a
I know it's not much of a consolation, but miscarriages before 12 weeks are fairly common. It's seen as a taboo subject so few people talk about it, but the rate is quite high in the first trimester. This is why many women don't share the news until the second trimester. It's very possible that it would have happened regardless of Fukushima. I understand you concerns though, my baby was just 3 month old in March, he's so small and fragile and I worry constantly how all this will affect him.
http://miscarriage.tripod.com/first_questions.htm
Sorry for your loss.
John, over the past months
John, over the past months as I've utilized this forum for information (much thanks BRAWM and so many other good people), I realized that some of us need it to vent on occasion - an outlet for unexpressed emotion or frustration, since we've been pretty much shut down in other venues. As pointed out, if the MSM doesn't cover it, then those of us following this issue are considered odd for discussing it with our family, friends, neighbors, groups, etc.
As also pointed out, miscarriages are more likely to happen before 12 weeks. However, there has also been lots of discussion on this forum about rising # of miscarriages. Good arguments and refutations.
We all need to reserve some good healthy skepticism and not necessarily accept pat explanations. Post Fukushima, it will serve us well to look at everything in a new light; that is, "could xxx have been caused by/related to Fukushima?" Not in a paranoid manner, but good old objective analysis.
John., please know that everyone here understands your pain, fear and worry. We're right there with you. FWIW, we have a large family - lots of births and also some miscarriages. For those family members who do not survive to birth, we name the child and have a service. This seems to bring peace to our hearts.
Remember you are not alone. At least we have each other here on this forum. Information keeps fear at bay.
Denial,tragedy & loss
Hello again, I want to thank those of you who responded with compassion regarding my daughter & our family's recent loss. I knew there was a certain point in the early stages of pregnancy that coincided with a higher percentage of miscarriages-I was just so sure in my own mind that she had already gotten past that time frame that I felt 99% positive that man-made radiation was behind it. Now I guess I'm leaning a bit above 50/50 that it had something to do with it-mainly because my intuition about the disaster was dead accurate in just about every other regard beginning with the very 1st report on 3/11 that they'd lost their primary and backup cooling systems. At least I don't harbor the feeling that I did regarding the need to grab someone by the throat from the long list of incompetent corporate & govt. officials who are responsible for our loss and everyone else's,real or imagined,after the forces of nature initiated the event they handled so poorly. I am grateful for the responses I received here as I always am when I learn something new that helps me to deal with a personal tragedy. I still haven't found anything here that can change the way I look at the world now though. I distrust the food,water,air and now I no longer believe our own govt. cares in the least about regular people or what is in the food chain,etc. I won't go into detail or go back to my previous state of continuous self-pity,etc.-but I also have something happening personally that started with a small bone tumor on my hand a few years ago that I never followed up on with biopsies,etc. that has grown in the last 5-6 months and spread from my finger to mid-forearm now and I can't even open a bottle of pop or carry a gallon of milk in anymore with it and it keeps me awake it hurts so bad now. I can only describe it as being similar to the worst toothache I ever had only it's in my bones instead. I can still type but can't even write my name anymore. I was going to go back to the Dr. about it but I keep thinking about the comparisons to annual doses associated with x-rays,etc. and I have a feeling they will prescribe radiation treatment and I can't help but think that might be the last thing I need is more radiation both inside & out! Maybe it sounds stupid and maybe my theories are wrong in part or whole-but I'm not trying to be a moron or instigate debate here,it is what it is and if I die because of radiation exposure to my body or because of what Fukushima and pro-nuke govt.s lies,cover-ups and the psychological effect the whole issue and event had on me and others then at least I've provided another example and aspect that should be brought into the discussions here and maybe force the powers that be to acknowledge ALL of the ways that nuclear power and this issue in particular are hurting people in different ways that aren't usually brought into the spotlight on this forum or elsewhere. I'm also pretty that my health issue is directly related to my activities and ground water at the sight of the former Radium Dial Corp. in Ottawa,IL when I spent a lot of time at a campground shooting firearms in recreational events at what is now Buffalo Rock State Park. Two of my best friends also have Leukimia and transcarcinoma something or other. One of them died already and the other is still holding on after being gutted like a fish and irradiated and chemo'd out and they started out their long illness with the exact same thing I'm going through now,except I'm making up for lost time and going downhill faster now that it caught up to me too. I was trying the holistic,positive thought,nutritional food method along with the alternative medicinal theory regarding medical marijuana's active ingredient THC reported to have tumor-killing qualities up until the Fukushima crap came up. Now I'm about done even trying anything since it seems like a lost cause and everybody's screwed!! I apologize for putting this whole thing out here like I just did. I'm overtired and disgusted & depressed & my wife of 20 years has been having seizures almost every day and I'm about at my wits end here. Come to think of it she tested negative for epilepsy and the seizures started in mid-April. I'm about to blame that on radiation too!! I'd add an lol,but it's not even funny. I might be ridiculous but my wife's seizures are anything but humorous. I'm gonna get away from the keyboard and try to sleep for the first time in two days if my damned hand & arm will let me without waking me up ready to chop it off!!lol!! now that might be kinda funny... Anyways thanks for the sympathetic response to our family loss and for anyone who wasted so much of their time reading my ramblings here. Happy Labor Day~PEACE~
You can say that again!
Yes, if/when I bring this up, people do look at me like I am some sort of nutcase. It is truly shocking to me that people are naive, blase, apathetic, resigned...I just don't know what!
This cannot simply be explained away by the "normalcy bias."
I have heard people say that there is no use worrying since there is nothing that we can do...but they say this to me more as if they are consoling someone with some sort of anxiety disorder!
Of course, then I talk about food and water choices....but, by then, their eyes totally glaze over.
The bottom line is that unless it is being covered by the major media, it is a non-event.....
I do believe normalcy bias
I do believe normalcy bias can fully explain your experiences. Our societies operate with each individual existing within a trance-like bubble all around the clock. Until normalcy is disrupted, significantly, you'll notice only a pronounced and predictable autism to the aspects of the world discussed here on the forum.
Hey, maybe we could start a
Hey, maybe we could start a thread on DWTS! I'll bet that would increase traffic to this little corner of the interwebs!!!
Seriously, I agree. The American public is so stupid, I almost think that they get what they deserve. Sadly, I am on the same boat with them....
I'm so out of the loop... I
I'm so out of the loop... I had to look up what DWTS meant!
I know you wrote it in jest, but you might be on to something my friend! I'm listening to Leo Laporte and he just had a segment on how to increase traffic to your website or blog... (yea, and I missed it!) Perhaps implement these techniques to bring more traffic here.
As to your statement: "I almost think that they get what they deserve. Sadly, I am on the same boat with them...." man, does that succinctly sum up my feelings!