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If you were on Zero Hedge on March 11, 2011, you will remember how much I was moved by the whole Fukushima tragedy and how I became very angry at the Japanese establishment within hours following the initial natural events.
I did not repost these images last year, but now on the second anniversary of the disaster, I would like to share these images in their entirety once again in chronological order.
There is a story that unfolds and for the citizens of Tohoku the story is far from over.
To all those lost souls and those who are still suffering, you have my deepest empathy.
WB7
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Regarding Fukushima, as posted on Zero Hedge by WilliamBanzai7...
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"human ERROR
Long ago,
human beings lost their true sense of time,
and because of this, their senses grew dull
and they lost other-dimensional creative powers
that would be unimaginable today,
like telepathy and advanced powers of thought.
Ever since then, evil people
using the science of destruction,
they build civilizations dependent on material things
and created religion to force their self-serving rules
on a bewildered populace,
while behind the scenes, they monopolized energy
and build money-based economies,
snuffing out our powerful natural abilities.
Over thousands of years,
genetic memory loss set in and
after numerous reincarnations,
her we are,
having completely forgotten these abilities.
We all have collective amnesia!
Talking about
four-dimensional science and philosophy
may bore people who have no interest in fantasy
so let me put it simply
..................................." f.d.
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http://www.alchemyoflight.org/2012/02/frying-dutchman-humanerror/
Edit: rather than be scientific, I'll instead be more respectful and extend sympathies to the families of those killed by the tsunami.
And they still have not even found the cores.
Signs of things to come:
"A 75-year-old Saitama man died after 25 hospitals refused to admit him to their emergency rooms 36 times over two hours, citing lack of beds or doctors to treat him, an official said Tuesday."
"One of the paramedics said they had never experienced “a patient being rejected so many times.”"
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/06/national/saitama-man-75-turn...
Report: Now over 44% of Fukushima children have thyroid abnormalities in latest tests
http://enenews.com/report-now-over-44-of-fukushima-children-tested-have-thyroid-abnormalities
Corbett Report: Thyroid cancers skyrocketing right now in Fukushima — Guardian: “The issue is bound to escalate further”
http://enenews.com/corbett-report-thyroid-cancers-skyrocketing-right-now-in-fukushima-guardian-the-issue-is-bound-to-escalate-further-video
The US is the first country downwind.
Wow. William you are like the Henry Ford of visual art... Your productivity and range is truly inspiring, you must be a black belt hot key ninja.
Banzai may well become a hero, looked back at 50 years from now.
your tsunami eye picture I remember from those March 2011 days was one of the most beautiful and poignant photo-shop inspirations I had seen at that time. That feeling still pervades my memory!
TY WB7, keep the drum beat rolling!
Private corporations operate 65 nuclear power plants in the US. Meanwhile, those down wind are busy arguing the efficiency of market capitalism.
Nuclear is not the only problem out there:
http://theadvocate.com/home/3633853-125/deq-wants-sinkhole-scenario
Our past miscalculations and follies are running to catch up to us and they probably will.
Thank you William for your efforts. Humans are remarkably adaptive until they are dead
frying dutchman
( wow, they removed a nice link )
http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/watch-japanese-punk-band-becomes-voice-...
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" oh yea ..human error, long ago human beings lost their true sense of time
and because of this their senses grew dull. and they lost other-dimensional creative
powers that would be unimaginable today ....." f.d.
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w.b.- !
FRYING DUTCHMAN "humanERROR"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5p283KZGa8
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there it is.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/the-japanese-pu...
Thank you for the memoriam WB7.
I was also proud to help confirm that Fukushima was a big thing
I got up at 3AM on 3-16-2011 and decided that I needed to form an opinion about how bad Fukushima really was. We have family on the far other side of Tokyo from the Fukushima, and I wanted to be able to provide an opinion.
Working with the available resources, many conflicted. I determined that this was a serious and large problem.
Read that old story here. Obviously my nuke knowledge was a lot less back then, but the call was correct, and actually it has turned out far worse than I envisioned at the time.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-nuclear-japan-stock-market-h...
I created a nuclear blog after Fukushima
I became amazed at how jokingly poorly the nuke cartel is run
Shocked at how the EPA just stopped taking data, and didn't take the basic precaution of just saying "stay out of the rain"
Here is some calcs I did using EPA data before they stopped publishing it, proving that somewhere between
24 tons
to
196 tons of uranium and plutonium were aerosolized into the atmosphere. Plus all the other nasty stuff, iodine, cesium, strontium
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphe...
Keep up to date with these two:
Support Iori! http://www.fukushima-diary.com
Best news source: http://www.enenews.com
Godspeed people of Japan.
Also a top Japanese source of accurate info:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/
I was in Tokyo that day, and remained during the entire crisis. I remember it very well.
I am still amazed at how the Japanese authorities are badmouthed to this day by people who weren't there and almost certainly would have been one of the many feckless mofo's who left town after Fukushima popped.
Almost invariably, the ones who fled were the ones who complain the loudest. Clowns, the lot of them.
A Japanese professor was just talking about how the government chose to let tens of millions of peope remain in radioactive areas, with full knowledge of their fate:
The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear AccidentMarch 11, 2013, 9:00am to 6:15pm EST
A unique, two-day symposium at which an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts will make presentations on and discuss the bio-medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima disaster, will be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on March 11-12, 2013, the second anniversary of the accident.
A project of The Helen Caldicott Foundation, the symposium is being co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Live:
http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#
I got most of my information from a Japanese journalist who had plenty to say about the misinformation and incompetence of the Japanese authorities: Takashi Uesugi as well as a photographer I know who drove into the hot zones with a Geiger counter.
I also listened to many locals and gaijin on twitter, there were many.
I don't think anyone here listened to what the crisis management buffoons from the Wall Street banks had to say.
The bastards lied and keep on lying. My heart weeps for the good people of Japan. Does anybody know of any sites which monitor radiation levels in Japan and around the world? I want to buy a geigerteller to see the levels at my part of the world but have no clue what kind of teller to look for. Does anybody have any tips?
RADEX 1706
http://www.amazon.com/RADEX-RD1706-Radiation-Detector-Language/dp/B004H5KGO4
Get the Radiation Alert Inspector around $500
I bought one and sent to Japan, have one for my own family in USA too
Cheers! Do you get any feedback from people in Japan using the Geiger teller you sent? How about where you are?
RADEX is used widely in Japan - have a look around youtube - the GammaScout and Soeks models seem popular there too. Lots of info on using them and comparisons (along with some very scary readings taken around Japan with them):
This is an example of a comparison type video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-aafABCdFg
That's funny. I read all the radiation detectors Made in Japan read zero activity...how odd.
The US monitors don't work very well, either. In fact, right after 3/11, most of them were all broken:
Audit Confirms EPA Radiation Monitors Broken During Fukushima Crisishttp://www.nti.org/gsn/article/audit-confirms-epa-radiation-monitors-bro...
And the woman in charge of this disaster is now Obama's pick for EPA head:
"President Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in his second term, plucking her from the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation [...] While her tenure at the Office of Air and Radiation is generally lauded, McCarthy has faced some scrutiny lately. At issue is a warning her office released in March 2011, shortly after a tsunami wrecked Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The OAR announced its RadNet air-monitoring system had detected low levels of Fukushima radiation in the U.S., but a followup report by the EPA’s inspector general found 20 percent of RadNet sensors were broken at the time, and had been for 130 days on average. The report cited subpar upkeep and lack of oversight, noting the problem “may reduce the availability and quality of critical data needed to assess radioactive threats to public health.”
http://enenews.com/obama-pick-to-lead-epa-is-from-office-of-air-and-radi...
Thanks medium giraffe. Plenty of research to do before buying one. Question: the geiger tellers need to be calibrated regurlarly, at least once per year. Is it necessary to have the manufacturer do that or can any reputable nuclear institute around the world do that?
You're welcome :) These small handhelds don't need to be calibrated and should remain reasonably accurate. Whilst they aren't likely to be used as a serious instrument in the lab, they serve their purpose well enough, meaning you'll know when it's time to leave an area for example. They are used for measuring the dose that you are recieving from the environment (which is why they express the measurement in Sieverts, ie 'dose'). It's certainly worth having a look on Wikipedia or elsewhere to understand the different measurements - Rads, Bequerels, Sieverts, Curies etc.
If you want to test food then you should look for a more sensitive device. This video explains this better, but I still think there is value in having a counter despite her opinion to the contrary - it's interesting from a geek perspective :) (this lady's videos are all pretty good though):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Silk2g8fS8Y&list=UU966ccV08PVAmZRhcC0SU8Q&index=75
Yes, I have a bit of a learning curve ahead regarding the different units. I have been thinking of buying one just in case I need to find out if I need to get out of town.
There's no where to go that isn't radiated thoroughly. It circled the globe within 40 days and hasn't stopped since.
'Fukushima Equals 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses'
“Dr Paolo Scampa, a widely know EU Physicist, single handedly popularized the easily understood Lethal Doses concept. “Lethal Doses” is a world wide, well understood idea that strips Physics bare and offers a brilliant, understandable explanation for all the physics gobbledygook Intelligence agencies and their respective governments use to disguise the brutal truths of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster." "Three thousand billion (3,000,000,000,000) Lethal Doses of Radiation means there are 429 Lethal Doses chasing each and every one of us on the planet, to put it in a nutshell. This is up from about 70 Billion Lethal Doses March 23, 2011. It is getting worse everyday without any intervention by the US and the other nuclear powers….”"Note that the lethality of radioactive reactor cores goes up the first 250,000 years they are out of the reactor – not down."
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/28/fukushima-how-many-chernobyls-is...
Spend time with your loved ones and enjoy what we have left.
Thanks for the link.....gulp.
I knew that the Fukushima reactors radiated the whole Northern hemisphere but no idea it was that bad. Chernobyl killed thousands and this one will be worse.
If you're really serious about it, you probably might want to look into scintillators, instead, if you can afford one (4 figures, for a portable one): they're much more sensible and accurate and can also identify particular isotopes.
http://polimaster.com
Testing Radioactive Things!
Geiger Counter vs. Scintillator
The Polimaster 1703MO-1B Gamma Spectroscopic Dosimeter (Review)
Well I research just about everything I buy, especially electronics so my purchase of a geiger counter was no exception. After all was said and done I purchased the Images Scientific one as it fit the bill, price, capability and software and was accurate enough for NRC certification. There is a website that rates counters and this one stood in the top 5 and so far I don't have any complaints. The IS website url is: http://www.imagesco.com/
Came in handy when they turned our rad monitors off shortly after the crisis started and then also quietly upped the "safe" dose of what we useless eaters can tolerate.
Not associated with, but believe these are probably the best choice around (although still not yet mass-market price): http://www.dosimeter4you.com/
Pretty sure it'll soon be on every new cellphone and a sales argument.
Thanks!
William,
I know exactly how you feel. I lived in Aichi-ken and Shizuoka-ken from 1999-2008. It kills me. I love Nihon, and part of me always yearns for the peace of the countryside there. I spent huge ammounts of time off in the countryside of Gifu, Nagano, Shizuoka. Have many good friends still there. Now I cannot ever return. I always planned to bike from Hokkaido down to Kagoshima over a spring, summer, and early fall, and now its an impossibility.
I have followed this daily since it began. I'm furious at the PTB, Tepco, but also at the neutered men of Japan. Where has Bushido gone? This is proof positive it has truly become annihilated. I guess societies, like individuals, birth, shine, and then finally fade away.
Been living in Chongqing, China since then. I like it here, but China, thus far, has never captured my heart. Probably never will.
Cheers,
Tsukato
"Now I cannot ever return"
My god man, the air in Chungking is a hundred times worse for you. Get a grip.
It's not as radioactive as Japan's air, percentage wise.
Now, if they start finding dead diseased pigs in the public water supplies, I might be more concerned.
I do believe that this work will stand the test of time as among the best testaments and expressions on this tragedy.
With enduring gratitude for your work William,
0010010010010010001010Jim in MN010100010100010101010101001
Prolly right. Who will be there to read it?
"Tears for Nippon", indeed.
those poor bastards.
"those poor bastards."
We ALL poor bastards. The active radioactive fallout from fukushima and other hot spots continues unabated every day. The yearly accumulations of radiation poisoning are climbing. North America is going to eventually be as bad as japan is now. After the solar EMP strikes disable all electricity for who knows how long, the remaining reactors in the USA could melt down and the planet will be killed by the massive uncontrollable radiation thereafter, if there are not stops put into place today to stave off such a nightmarish scenario. There is a great possibility of an EMP happening somehow.
The radiation check we did a few days ago after a rain that turned into snow was off the chart for our already high area. We took a swipe off the truck front window with a paper towel and placed into a plastic bag. The total count was 170 counts per minute after a ten minute check. The bottom line is, STAY OUT OF THE RAIN OR SNOW. The radioactive fallout is accumulating and hitting the earth after every rain or snow now. Ba aware.
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2796/rainck170cpm3813.jpg
Balls. Where was that reading taken?
Thats high, but common for a hot rain, all over US and Canada
Check at ENENEWS if you want to run down the rabbit hole a bit
http://enenews.com/forum-post-radiation-monitoring-data-april-30-2012-pr...
willie B
Fukishashimi part deux is rolling up on canadian shores as we speak, unspeakable horror is about to descend onto one of the most pristine parts of the world and both the japanese and canadian govts are hands in pockets dumb with silence. Totalius shitshowicannicus
nothing but inertia rules the world
'DEBRIS UP TO 100 TIMES NORMAL RADIATION LEVELS WILL BE IGNORED, LEFT TO BE GATHERED BY TEENAGE VOLUNTEERS, DESTINED FOR OUR LANDFILLS, PER INTERAGENCY GOVERNMENTAL GUIDELINE'
"If you find tsunami debris, DON'T TOUCH IT. Don't touch it with your bare hands or even with gloves. There will be debris items that will be explosive. There will be items that will be chemically hazardous. There will be items of a radioactive nature. YET NONE OF THESE ITEMS WILL BE MARKED IN ENGLISH AND, UNLIKE IN THE MOVIES, YOU WON'T SEE ANY SUBTITLES. There will be items marked with radioactive letters IN JAPANESE but if you can't read JAPANESE then HOW WILL YOU KNOW THAT IT DOESN'T SAY 'THIS IS RADIOACTIVE STUFF'???! To be safe, don't touch anything that washes onshore!!!"
http://enenews.com/afp-disturbing-relentless-flow-tsunami-debris-last-ye...
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/spikes-in-japanese-tsunami-debris-...
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