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Fukushima is Here.300dpi (2).jpg500 people assembled on October 19th on Ocean Beach in San Francisco and formed the letters with their bodies to demonstrate their growing concern about eventual fallout on the west coast. Credit and More Information: FukushimaResponse.org

An ocean current called the North Pacific Gyre is bringing Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America:

North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone FDA Refuses to Test Fish for Radioactivity ... Government Pretends Radioactive Fish Is Safe

The leg of the Gyre closest to Japan - the Kuroshio current - begins right next to Fukushima:

Kuroshio Current - Colour show water speed.  Blue slowest; red fastest

While many people assume that the ocean will dilute the Fukushima radiation, a previously-secret 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents, and there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation. Physicians for Social Responsibility notes:

An interesting fact for people living on the US west coast is also included in the UNSCEAR [United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation] report: only about 5% of the directly discharged radiation was deposited within a radius of 80 km from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. The rest was distributed in the Pacific Ocean. 3-D simulations have been carried out for the Pacific basin, showing that within 5–6 years, the emissions would reach the North American coastline, with uncertain consequences for food safety and health of the local population.

The University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center created a graphic showing the projected dispersion of debris from Japan: https://web.archive.org/web/20130117080529/http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/users/nikolai/2011/Pacific_Islands/Simulation_of_Debris_from_March_11_2011_Japan_tsunami.gif Last year, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences showed that radiation on the West Coast of North America could end up being 10 times higher than in Japan:

After 10 years the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast with a maximum (~1 × 10?4) off Baja California. *** With caution given to the various idealizations (unknown actual oceanic state during release, unknown release area, no biological effects included, see section 3.4), the following conclusions may be drawn. (i) Dilution due to swift horizontal and vertical dispersion in the vicinity of the energetic Kuroshio regime leads to a rapid decrease of radioactivity levels during the first 2 years, with a decline of near-surface peak concentrations to values around 10 Bq m?3 (based on a total input of 10 PBq). The strong lateral dispersion, related to the vigorous eddy fields in the mid-latitude western Pacific, appears significantly under-estimated in the non-eddying (0.5°) model version. (ii) The subsequent pace of dilution is strongly reduced, owing to the eastward advection of the main tracer cloud towards the much less energetic areas of the central and eastern North Pacific. (iii) The magnitude of additional peak radioactivity should drop to values comparable to the pre-Fukushima levels after 6–9 years (i.e. total peak concentrations would then have declined below twice pre-Fukushima levels). (iv) By then the tracer cloud will span almost the entire North Pacific, with peak concentrations off the North American coast an order-of-magnitude higher than in the western Pacific. ***

(“Order-of-magnitude” is a scientific term which means 10 times higher. The “Western Pacific” means Japan’s East Coast.) In May, a team of scientists from Spain, Australia and France concluded that the radioactive cesium would look more like this: A team of top Chinese scientists has just published a study in the Science China Earth Sciences journal showing that the radioactive plume crosses the ocean in a nearly straight line toward North America, and that it appears to stay together with little dispersion:

On March 30, 2011, the Japan Central News Agency reported the monitored radioactive pollutions that were 4000 times higher than the standard level. Whether or not these nuclear pollutants will be transported to the Pacific-neighboring countries through oceanic circulations becomes a world-wide concern. *** The time scale of the nuclear pollutants reaching the west coast of America is 3.2 years if it is estimated using the surface drifting buoys and 3.9 years if it is estimated using the nuclear pollutant particulate tracers. ***

The half life of cesium-137 is so long that it produces more damage to human. Figure 4 gives the examples of the distribution of the impact strength of Cesium-137 at year 1.5 (panel (a)), year 3.5 (panel (b)), and year 4 (panel (c)). *** It is worth noting that due to the current near the shore cannot be well reconstructed by the global ocean reanalysis, some nuclear pollutant particulate tracers may come to rest in near shore area, which may result in additional uncertainty in the estimation of the impact strength. *** Since the major transport mechanism of nuclear pollutants for the west coast of America is the Kuroshio-extension currents, after four years, the impact strength of Cesium-137 in the west coast area of America is as high as 4%.

Bluefin tuna on the California shore tested positive for radiation from Fukushima, and there are reports of highly radioactive fish in Canada. The CBS show The Doctors warned that we should be moderate with our fish intake, and children and pregnant women should be especially careful:

 

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Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:42 | 4099270 Not Too Important
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There won't be 'peak radiation' for 700 million years or more. As fissioning continues, the material will only get hotter, and as each radioisotope decays, it decays into new daughter products that start the process all over again.

This is a giant science experiment that nuclear physicists never, ever dreamed of happening. Well, some did, but well after they cashed all their paychecks. Fuck that deathbed bleating.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:51 | 4098969 Theta_Burn
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Native Hawiians take the environment very seriously. I haven't been there in a while but I bet they are pissed more than most, but what the fuck can they do?

The general public? how much news about this, other than ZH have you even seen on this disaster?

Heres a simple test anyone can do...ask 3 people about fuku and do they understand how bad it is...

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 00:01 | 4100292 Freddie
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Well Hawaii did a good job of covering up for you know who.

No one knows how bad it is because almost no one talks about it anywhere.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:27 | 4099070 Son of Captain Nemo
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It's beyond sick.

Where is the U.S. Government in assisting with and forcing the Japanese into an investigation?  What does Secretary of State Hillary Clinton do less than 1 year after it happens?  Signs new agriculture and fishing trade deals with Japan with no warning and no restrictions of the contamination to these products coming into the U.S.  If that is not criminal nothing is.

Their should have been criminal indictments through both the Japanese and United States Government(s) starting with TEPCO, GE and Magna B.S.P.  That last Company is the smoking gun (no pun intended) that is getting ignored with the exception of the "bravest of the brave" who have gone above and beyond to report it.  It goes to show you how powerful the NRC and DOE truly are in keeping nuclear commerical technology alive no matter how great the cost. 

You can say all you want about the Japanese Government being at fault but there is too much proof of American influence controlling nuclear commerical technology in that Country since the 1960's among our military presence which is despised and rightly so.

The only two viable lobbying efforts that I know about, and if anyone else knows of others please provide a list: is Harvey Wasserman's petition and a clean up response from Dick Eastman. 

The fact that all the major EU and Latin and Asian powers aren't screaming to demand efforts into the investigation and cover up of this will inevitably be the worst crime in history if it's allowed to continue.

http://therebel.org/news/eastman/fukushima-too-late-hell-no-here-is-what-all-of-us-must-do-now/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/more-than-80000-demand-a-_b_4020673.html

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:46 | 4099287 The Burning Planet
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How do lawsuits and indictments and investigations stop the plume spreading across the Pacific? Provides some headlines on the nightly news, that's about it. We need a worldwide mobilization, an engineering task force the size of the Manhattan Project. If the UN had any value to humanity it would have done that. But the UN is too worried about delivering food aid to parts of the world that are already overpopulated, so the starving people can eat, make more babies, and require more food aid. Brilliant!

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:00 | 4099374 Son of Captain Nemo
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+100

You are absolutely correct. 

I guess what I was attempting to point out is that if you want to keep something like this from EVER happening again you have at the very least 1) an investigation and 2) criminal indictments both during and after said apocalyptic nuclear meltdown.  If people see others going to jail or worse -stuff has a tendency of getting done.

I've come to the conclusion as of (2 1/2 years ago) that the psychopaths that have been running our governments came to the conclusion after it occurred that they can do absolutely nothing to fix this and they are willing instead to do the unthinkable and that is GIVE UP.

It truly is the end of days.

 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:06 | 4099022 medium giraffe
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I've long since given up wasting my breath on people who are too ignorant to even discover these truths.  They ARE to blame for not knowing, for not questioning, for being so pig-ignorant.  These nanny western states have you believing that no one has any personal culpability for anything.

At best I supply them with the following two links and let them get the hell on with it.

http://www.enenews.com

http://www.usdebtclock.org

We found out, we watch, we dig, we discuss, we try and understand.  I'm not special, I'm very fucking ordinary.  If I can know, anyone can.

 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:12 | 4099196 Not Too Important
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If you're talking about Americans, we're pretty much dumb as a box of rocks. 'America's problem: We're too dumb' "The OECD findings seem to be consistent with that of the U.S. Department of Education, which estimated back in 2009 that some 32 million adults lacked the proficiency to read a newspaper. This was captured by a witty USA Today headline about the findings: "Literacy study: 1 in 7 U.S. are unable to read this story."" http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/14/opinion/granderson-dumb-america/

And getting worse, even without the radiation lowering everyone's IQ.

"Literacy study: 1 in 7 U.S. are unable to read this story."

1 in 7, or 15% of the US population. 47,541,111 Americans are unable to read Enenews (let alone ZeroHedge) articles. And we are trying to get people to understand the ramifications of catastrophic nuclear failure?

I'm just going to go over here and bang my head against the wall for awhile.

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 21:45 | 4103491 Flagit
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I'm just going to go over here and bang my head against the wall for awhile.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEj6b5ZS0tA

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:57 | 4099355 Parrotile
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It's not just he "unable to read", but also the much, MUCH greater population that "can't be bothered to read" since "they know it all".

Ignorance may be bliss, but the day of reckoning is approaching fast.

Looking on the bright side (for the US), Down Under in the Land of Oz, the National obsession with navel contemplation, and the firm conviction that" It's Different Here" (hey we "weathered the Financial Crisis with no problems, Mate" means that about 90% of the population will be completely blindsided by any major crisis.

You'll easily hear the whingeing in the Southern part of the USA!

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:08 | 4099388 Not Too Important
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Australia did OK in 'On The Beach'. Seemed to have quite a bit of class about it all.

Although I think we're going to end up like 'The Road'.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:20 | 4099052 Tinky
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On to more pressing matters: Why the new avatar?

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:58 | 4099150 medium giraffe
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Hey Tink, just a reminder to self when surfing for doom porn - it's all just a big circus ;)

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:50 | 4099318 Parrotile
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ZH is hardly "Doom Porn" (except in the mind of The Great Unwashed).

If you want serious doom porn - you might need to look elsewhere (e.g. The Economic Collapse, and the multitude of "Survivalist" websites!)

Enjoy, and safe surfing (remember, NSA is keeping a close eye on all us "subversives" - for our own good of course!!)

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:36 | 4098881 medium giraffe
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That's great, it starts with an earthquake,
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs,
Dummy serve your own needs
Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no,
Strength, no, ladder start to clatter with fear
Fight down height
Wire in a fire, representing seven games,
A government for hire and a combat site
Left of West and coming in a hurry
With the furies breathing down your neck
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low playing!
Fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do
Save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs,
Listen to your heart bleed
Dummy with the rapture
And the revered and the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,
Feeling pretty psyched
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:17 | 4099043 11b40
Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:30 | 4098876 Tall Tom
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Soylent Green. The Oceans are dying. The plankton kill off will cause Atmospheric Oxygen depletion. The wide swath of radiation will kill off the Bottom of the Oceanic Food chain.

 

You know that 98% of all Mutations are fatal. Radiant Energy overdoses cause DNA breakage.

 

I am not as worried about Radioactive Waste harming Humans through Cancers and other autoimmunity problems.. What is more concerning is that Humans are more likely to die off because of starvation and Atmospheric Oxygen Depletion. Plankton are responsible for 70% of the available Oxygen in the Atmosphere.

 

Look at the Surface Area of that plume. Wow. So this is how it ends.

 

Now to make the story complete we need the Euthanasia Centers, the Soylent Corporation, Global Warming, and a lot of Homelessness with an Oligarchy.

 

Hmmmm....Yes...Expedience. How it ends. It ends with secrecy and expedience.

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 16:36 | 4106323 Flagit
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Element says, you are full of shit and fearmongering.

the pacific ISNT dead.

this isnt the END of Japan.

but then again he also has a tendency to be a condescending asshole.

and he dosent explain why there are no fish or birds from japan to san fran, or why the beach is clear of snails and other lifeforms. no seagulls. or why the sardines and whales moved away from the BC coast. or why the starfish are melting, or why the cesium readings in fish keep increasing. or why there are new HI'S across the fucking board at http://www.netc.com/. or how the jet stream has placed the absolute highest reading in the country on top of my FUCKING HEAD!!!!

 

907 MOTHERFUCKER. where's your fucking dispersion theory now, douche bag!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 16:45 | 4106359 Not Too Important
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Anyone that knows anything about oceans and ocean life will understand this:

'The Ocean Is Broken'

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1848433/the-ocean-is-broken/?cs=12

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:54 | 4100279 Freddie
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We were warned.  Not perfect but idiots preferred Star Trek and Star Wars so they could dress up like dorks.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckJBvl_uT0

I like the scene where he dumps cargo to fake the explosion and one of the cargo boxes have the Dow Chemical logo.  Talk about irony.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:00 | 4100141 Kassandra
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Tall Tom...you speak the truth. I hope everyone's listening.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:43 | 4099261 Not Too Important
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"You know that 98% of all Mutations are fatal."

You mean the billions of children that are going to be born like this?

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chernobyl+babies&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=c...

Thank you, GE. We end good things in life.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:00 | 4099000 Joenobody12
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The human race is so fucked up it desrves to go extinct.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:10 | 4099188 Not Too Important
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Fucked up or not, this is an ELE in slow-motion.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:29 | 4099076 Escapeclaws
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You're not human.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:28 | 4099073 MisterMousePotato
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I feel like I should be consulted on this.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:22 | 4098822 Non Passaran
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Get lost GW your clickwhoring sensationalist, your BS is more sickening than Fuckushima radiation!
PS - What's up with the keyword spam - Jim Rodgers, Spy.. WTF is your problem??? Spammer!

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:37 | 4099177 Not Too Important
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And who signs your paychecks? Does your health insurance cover removing plutonium and uranium from your and your family's lungs and organs? Because mine doesn't. Please let me know if your company is hiring.

Good luck getting Obamacare to pay for this.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:42 | 4099490 Terminus C
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Hah, the little troll downvoted you... awe isn't that cute.

We are all fucked, which is why, I think, I spend less time on this site.  It don't fucking matter anymore as we are all dead soon.  So, to Non Passaran above, I hope you enjoy your last few months on this planet because... whoever is paying you to be a fuck ball isn't going to save you or your family.

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 10:34 | 4101256 shovelhead
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Some people play fuck ball for the excercise.

He ain't good enough, by a longshot, to be a pro.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:35 | 4098897 George Washington
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California nuclear expert Daniel Hirsch says:

Look at what’s going on now: They’re dumping huge amounts of radioactivity into the ocean — no one expected that in 2011.

 

We could have large numbers of cancer from ingestion of fish.

(Even low levels of radiation can harm health.)

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:46 | 4100255 Freddie
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I upvoted you but the guy is stupid because about a week after it happened most of here knew where this was headed.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:12 | 4098818 RaceToTheBottom
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It is too bad that more radiation does not stay around Japan to help influence decisions.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:55 | 4098910 Theta_Burn
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It is around Japan..and it wont influence decisions, because there is nothing they can do. with all of the bullshit like the radiation being spewed, they can't be seen as loosing face, even as there faces are melting off..

As Akak says, no news, no crisis. besides those cores are about a mile (them going critical aside) into the earth now, the spent fuel pools, is a whole other unsolvable problem.

I would have liked to have visited Japan at some point in my life...not now though

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:05 | 4099173 Not Too Important
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The cores/coriums/corii are most likely deep, but they are still fissioning, and spewing to atmosphere through giant fissures on-site at Daiichi.

In the meantime, they're radiating the groundwater flowing over them and into the Pacific Ocean. As above, so below, so to speak.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:10 | 4098812 SILVERGEDDON
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The time line is short, dropping to zero.

Japanese revenge for Hiroshima and Ngasaki.

All of our GE radiation belong to us - a . 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:15 | 4098826 Freddie
Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:33 | 4099242 The Burning Planet
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What a stupid fucking article. I question the sanity of anyone who gives this one iota of credibility. 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:36 | 4099253 Not Too Important
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People said that same thing about in-house 9/11 theories on 9/12.

A year or two later . . .

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:15 | 4099413 Popo
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9/11 was caused by people. It caused an immediate change in foreign policy.

Fukushima was caused by a tsunami. It will kill people in 30 years. Not quite the same thing...

These 3/11 theories are batshit crazy.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:29 | 4099450 Not Too Important
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Fukushima was caused by a tsunami and earthquake destroying an incompetently built NPP complex sitting on a major faultline. Massive corruption in construction and design.

It started killing people right away. Thyroid cancer is up over 20,000% in children in the larger Fukushima area, and moving into Tokyo.

Infant Mortality Rates, both in Japan and North America, while dropping prior to 3/11, started to climb significantly after 3/11, and haven't slowed down. That's millions of infants dying above average.

9/11 only killed a few thousand.

People said 9/11 theories were batshit crazy, too. I can't see the Israeli connection myself, but give it a few years. We've got lots of time, and when engineers and upper management start dying from cancers, they'll have a lot to get off their chest.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:01 | 4099160 Not Too Important
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I won't up or down vote that article, but it's all too possible after 9/11.

Bastards everywhere.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 16:05 | 4098785 LeisureSmith
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While the studies focuses on the first large releases, the fact remains that Fukushima is leaking and will continue to do so for long time, with a strong possibility for major new releases in the future. It's not pretty.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:59 | 4099156 Not Too Important
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Those pretty color charts above? Where the orange blob is moving to the NA West Coast, with lots of blue behind it? Like maybe it's only a singular amount coming this way?

Fuck that. It's all orange coming from Fukushima, and it will eventually turn the entire Pacific Ocean - then the rest - orange. We're not even three years in to a 700 million year event.

 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:28 | 4099228 The Burning Planet
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Figure 4 was the most alarming. Shows you at a glance what is happening.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 15:53 | 4098736 Emergency Ward
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For Sale -- Lead lined wetsuits for California surfers!  Gnarly!

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 15:49 | 4098711 ALANBEEKMAN
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Living near SF, guess I should start bringing my Geiger counter to the fish market.

 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 21:22 | 4099831 Yenbot
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Fuck the fish market. I can see it now: "Hey, Joe, hand me some more of those MADE IN NORWAY stickers to put on these here Pacific fish, heh, we're makin bank Joe!".

And yes, I (WAS) a fish eater before this epic clusterfuck.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:55 | 4099146 Not Too Important
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Pretty much eveything we eat or drink is contaminated at this point. Pre-3/11 wine, old stale beer, that frozen hamburger in the bottom corner that's three years old, that's about it.

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