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Seals, Sea Lions, Polar Bears, Bald Eagles, Sea Stars, Turtles, King and Sockeye Salmon, Herring, Anchovies, Sardines All Dying
We’ve previous documented that seals, sea lions, polar bears, sea stars, turtles, sockeye salmon, herring, anchovies and sardines on the West Coast of North America are all suffering mysterious diseases … which are killing many.
We’ve asked whether this is related to massive releases of radiation from Fukushima. Update.
Sadly, we can now add other wildlife to the list.
EneNews reports:
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 29, 2013: Bald eagles are dying in Utah — 20 in the past few weeks alone — and nobody can figure out why. [...] Many suffered from seizures, head tremors and paralysis [...] Many of the eagles were brought to the mammoth Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah [...] Within 48 hours, most were dead. [...] State wildlife specialists are baffled. For weeks, officials have sent birds for necropsies [...] At first, the agency’s disease scientists guessed the illness could be encephalitis, which is caused by the West Nile virus, but later ruled out that possibility. [...] Officials suggest the die-off is possibly connected to the deaths of thousands of eared grebes that began in Utah in November. [...] Officials still don’t know why the shore birds became sick. [...] Officials at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center have their own theories. Some point to radiation from Japan after the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. [...] A call from Idaho shed new light: A wildlife official said bald eagles there were also getting sick, suggesting the birds were arriving in Utah already in bad health.
Buz Marthaler, Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah co-founder: “It’s just hard to have your national bird in your arms, going through seizures in a way it can’t control — when you can see it’s pain but don’t know what’s happening to it. As a human being, you just have problems with that. And when you lose one, it just grabs your heart. [...] In an average year, we might get one or two, but we’ve received nine so far, and five of those have died. The other four are still in our care. [...] We aren’t ruling out anything.”
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Washington Post, Dec. 30, 2013: [...] “This is really concerning to us,” says [Leslie McFarlane, the wildlife disease program coordinator for the state’s Division of Wildlife Resources]. She has been program coordinator for 10 years and describes the recent deaths as “very unusual.” [...] The symptoms noted in the recent spate of deaths—and the broad geographical area in which they have cropped up—are what has officials concerned.
In a second article, EneNews notes:
Juneau Empire, Dec. 29, 2013: [...] the king [chinook] salmon — has fallen from its throne. [...] Alaska has seen unprecedented declines in recent years [...] scientists like Joe Orsi and Jim Murphy, both fisheries research biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are digging deeper into [...] the cause of the startling downward trend. [...] When asked about the potential impact Fukushima may be having on king salmon stocks in the Gulf of Alaska and elsewhere in the state, Orsi would not comment. “I’ve been told to refer you to the (Environmental Protection Agency),” he said, “Because I’m not an expert on the topic.” Calls and emails to the EPA were not returned in time and digging on the federal agency’s site revealed no current information on radiation from the Fukushima disaster. The last posted monitoring results occurred in June of 2011.
Unfortunately, the American and Japanese governments are doing everything they can to cover up the severity of the Fukushima disaster. Indeed, anytime government or big corporations screw up, the government works to cover it up … instead of actually fixing the problem. And see this.
EneNews continues:
Bellingham Herald, Dec. 5, 2013: “[...] we see from test fisheries that the Chinook numbers returning to the Fraser River system were at a record low,” explained Ken Balcomb, executive director and principal investigator for The Center for Research and a science advisor to the whale watch association. [...] [An] alarming decrease of an important identified food resource [...]
Islander Sound, Dec. 25, 2013: [A] dismal return of Chinook salmon to the Fraser River.
Salmon Fishing in British Columbia, Canada: There are two major salmon runs of Chinook that are targeted by anglers; the Fraser river [and] Harrison River.
December 2013: Previously unpublished map from gov’t scientists shows Fukushima plume already at Alaska coast (PHOTO)
Note from Management: All of these mystery diseases and deaths at the same time are just a coincidence. You are perfectly safe. This is not the Droid you're looking for ...
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I think there was actual measurement of radiation found in sick seals but this was after San Onofre hosed down the decks prior to a (failed) inspection. You see, lots of releases are being done now using Fuckyoushima as a cover. It's exactly like the regular sewer main breaks which occur during storms wherein the local a'holes use the cover, of the storm, to flush out their systems into local water bodies.
Do you know where or when your canned tuna was caught? Could have been just offshore from Fuk. Eat some and turn off the lights. Are you glowing?
Almost Everything seems single-sourced.
Who is "ENE news?"
ENE news is a website enenews.com (energy news) that has been following Fukishima since the beginning and has a lot of real, concrete data about hte situation over there. got to check it out.
Next year and several to come, they will report that all the salmon runs are below the expected levels and it must be because of Fukushima.
Never mind that California is in its 3rd year of lower than "wanted" (northern California is not known to be tropical) rain fall and the lakes are low. The low lakes are leaving spawning areas high and dry which will result in fewer salmon in the comming years. ENE could be a shill.......
"The senior wizards of Unseen University stood and looked at the door.
There was no doubt that whoever had shut it wanted it to stay shut. Dozens of nails secured it to the door frame. Planks had been nailed right across. And finally it had, up until this morning, been hidden by a bookcase that had been put in front of it.
'And there's the sign, Ridcully,' said the Dean. 'You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door"?'
'Of course I've read it,' said Ridcully. 'Why d'yer think I want it opened?'
'Er ... why?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.
'To see why they wanted it shut, of course.'
This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.”
? Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
It seems many are in intellectual denial. Sorry folks; this is an end of the planet scenario. Future children in the Northern Hemisphere will be lucky to make it to 50 years of age. Don't forget that humans are at the top of the food chain. Already all Pacific ocean wildlife is unsafe to eat and if the truth is told, so is most California produce. Next will be the land mammals, and then what are we to eat? If you are under 30 get your ass to the Southern Hemisphere, but then you are only forestalling the inevitable by maybe 20-30 years. Ocean and wind currents circulate globally.
I am personally acquainted with King Salmon fishermen and women in the Egegik Bay area of Alaska,
http://www.gosur.com/en/united-states-of-america/alaska/egegik-map/?gcli...
and can report that nothing out of the ordinary occurred during this past season (June to Sept.)
They are, however, very concerned, not only about the possibility of the leak encroaching on their grounds, but also the proposed pebble mining hindering the natural migration paths. The family has fished these grounds for two generations, and has provided them modest wealth and family cohesion.
I expect if shit gets real up that way I'll get it straight from the horse's mouth.
Plenty of other articles floating around the webs providing some facts, and even more conjecture. Difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. I have no doubt that the worst is ahead for N. America.
Hey Tepco, Tepco
Put away your cesium 137 now
Turn my heater down
But leave me the fish in the seas
PLEASE!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Til it's gone?
They killed Paradise
For the price of a kilowatt.
(Apologies to Joni Mitchell)
That hurts. My first attempt at poetry, and you junk me already.
SHEEPLE WAKE UP! The great and powerful GW is leading you to the conclussion he/she wants you come to. Check the sources!
And then there were 4 GWeeple............
Thank goodness I'm not a GWeeple.
Just another scam by the hucksters.
Hey GW and GW sheeple! I can proove that the food you dislike the most is actually the food you like the most.
It's a word game. So is this post! What could it be? It must be this because nobody knows what it is...............
And then there were four (4) Sheeple. Don't you realize that the same MS media that you condemn for hiding the truth about what this administration and NSA is doing, is feeding you lies about what you are doing to the planet? How can you disbelieve one and not the other? Oh.... one fits your belief and the other doesn't? SO SAD!
Follow the link in the post to the blog and then the report. Notice that the State of Oregan has no problems? HHmm!
Too painful for words.
What makes this the worst of hellish nightmares just like the wars that we've create in perpetuity is the indifference and inaction by those Nations who have a vested interest and stake in finding a solution to the catastrophic damage that is only getting much worse.
As I've said here many times before this is an act of war pure and simple by the Japanese and American governments to every Nation that shares that ocean.
Didn't take long for the EPA to silence local officials. Let me guess, the official EPA statement will be along the lines of "radiation is at acceptable levels".
OH MY GOD! ANOTHER "THE SKY IS FALLING MOMENT". GOOD WORK GW! My guess is that it the result of second hand smoke.
Counting Sheeple..... that's 10!
But, how do you know it's 10 individuals? Have you done your research? It may be only one.
Wait, are you really on ZH? Have you done your research? It could be a NSA mirror site.
Just trying to get you to wake up. Just doing my part to get you to question EVERYTHING. You wouldn't want to be a Sheeple, eh?
Let me guess...
You're retired Navy that never served aboard the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan and Hyman Rickover gave you your career in the nuclear Navy!
Figures
had a classmate at the citadel that interviewed with rickover for the sub program. in his interview, rickover suddenly ask him to make him mad. chuck picked up his desk and flipped it over on top of him. he was screaming for sp and chuck jumped in his old car and hightailed it back to charleston.
i remember coming back from mess, after dark. and seing a couple of friends from b company over beside the battalion in the dark. i walked over there and chuck was there, told us what happened and finding out if they were looking for him. the next day the sp showed up and took him back to maryland.
next day he came back all smiles and told us he had been accepted, rickover was delighted. lol
Yep. Psychological "brain fuck" from the guy that brought America the nuclear Navy and then made a fortune marketing the same unstable technology for commerical uses.
Many legendary stories on this cheesepope pile of shit's power trip with "the interview" that would mark you for success or failure depending on what you said or did to make your career in the United States nuclear Navy...
The classic that has been reused many times over the years is that the Jew boy would cut a portion of the leg off of the chair the interviewee would be sitting on followed by a barage of caustic remarks by the "interviewer" to set the tone for the "coin flip" on whether you would get the job.
Truly a legend with perfect asshole status.
I also wouldn't be surprised if Dimona wasn't facilitated with his full support without the dual citizenship status.
Close.... I am retired and I have an extensive background in reading BS v Truth. I do not draw lines on a Political basis but on a truth basis. He who tells the truth gets my vote. Same for the posts. GW has a very clever way of stretching the truth and leading people to the preferrred conclusion. If you can't see that, then follow..... sheeple to your hearts content.
By all means explain to us what you know about the unfolding "Truth" regarding TEPCO, GE and Magna BSP's fine effort after nearly 3 years of controling the meltdown of these reactors?
All those kids on the U.S.S. Reagan are a bunch of belly aching liars just like the kids that suffered from Gulf War syndrome. Is this what you're suggesting?
If you can provide the research and evidence to the contrary by all means tell us the "good news"?
We need it before El Presidente Estados Unidos takes us to World War III.
Dear Son of 'I don't have a clue'
I am not here to educate you! That is your job! I am trying to get everyone to educate themselves by asking questions and questioning everything. It appears as though the GW followers feel that they do NOT need to question anything that GW posts. Grow a neuron and question the sources that GW uses. (mostly him/her self) I question everything from the MSM and I question everything from the net. Who is telling the truth???
My criticism is meant to get everyone, idiot, liberal, conservative, sheeple and GWeeple to question the source of the information and NOT to take everything on face value as we have all been taught to do.
If you have noticed, I have been critical of all of GW's posts for the same reason. He/she has a tendancy to use GW as a source. In the sixties we said, "Don't believe anyone over 30." What has changed? GW could be an administration plant.........Hmmm.......
Let's question for sure. Dec 23, 2013. USS Ronald Reagan crew members come down with cancer three years after working off the coast of Fukushima. Do I have to interview all of them and read their tests to believe it?
How about the deaths of the plant managers? Are they really dead?
If all or most of the seals, sea lions, bald eagles, turtles, salmon and what-not die, I'd rather die with them. Its better than living in a world filled with a bunch of humans "surviving" and/or fighting with each other over their "beliefs" and a bunch of obscenely rich and/or political fucks pushing everyone's buttons, talking nonsense about what they are doing and pulling all the strings in their favor... fuck that, its as simple as that.
Governmrnt plant, my money would be on you.
From Web MD:
"Experts do not yet know what causes leukemia.
A risk factor is anything that raises your chance of getting a disease. Risk factors for some types of leukemia include:
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/tc/leukemia-cause
I am amazed that WebMD did not even consider a viral vector.
Everybody dies... on a long enough timeline.
Defeatist. I'm sure my definition of "long enough" is many times yours.
Tomorrow isn't promised to anyone.
It seems to help those jap chicks in the cool new jiggle tits ads to the right. I kinda like the one in overalls.
She reminds me of the farmers daughter that drove the tractor, in a t-shirt with no bra, bouncily hauling trailers full of tobacco to and from the field and the barn. That farmer knew how to keep the young farm hands motivated. A little too much for a hot summer day.
I want your tracking cookies.
You mean hash cookies....
I want to work on his farm.
I wish chicks like that would still follow me around.
My adds are Christian singles and Shocking predictions revealed. What porn sites are you visiting?
I've been feeling a little somewhere between a herring, a polar bear and a bald eagle lately. Maybe I have it too. If that is the case the disease is related to bitcoin.
It's an additional pressure to the planet currently undergoing mass extinction. It may sound like hyperbole, but do look it up if you feel like having an excuse to gobble up antidepressants.
It is rarely touched on the msm except to use as propaganda pieces to blame someone else for the problems and "charities" to grow rich pulling on heartstrings, but the truth is, we are losing species at a rate of 1000 to 10,000 times the natural rate (1-5 species per year). That's a thousand species going extinct at the minimum per year, and with it who knows what benefits to mankind and this planet lost forever. FOREVER. We are living through an age of disaster on a monumental scale.
Some blame climate change, the consequences of growing populations, industrialisation, farming methods and so forth, but the gist of it is, humans are causing this ELE. There shouldn't be any doubts about that. I know the environmentalists and charities have earnest intentions, but I have to laugh every time I see another, "save the panda/whale/elephant/rhino/leopard" poster appealing for donations. We are losing species left, right and centre AT HOME in our own fucking backyards and they want to swan around the globe telling other people what to do with their own natural resources. It's the height of insanity, arrogance, and hypocrisy unparalleled in any other activity except perhaps in extremist religion.
It's also the height of cowardice too. Because the real causes: pesticides, industrial waste, industrial farming, abuse of antibiotics, our cars, buildings, and homes as well as our lifestyles in the west. Well, they are never going to be tackled by them. They are never going after big pharma, energy, agro, and the corporatists because they are either too scared or have been bought. So the fuckers go after the poor people in the world to blame knowing full well that the biggest killers and polluters per capita are also their meal tickets. It's why I stopped giving to environmental causes awhile ago, because they are yet another arm of the criminals that cause all the problems and do essentially nothing to stop it except divert blame, make money, and keep our attention away from what is happening to us at home.
Http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_bio...
That was a fantastic post YHC-FTSE. I disagree with several of your distinctions, but that's for another discussion.
For hope's sake: We are sequencing a larger number of species every year, there are seed arks, and who knows if there are undisclosed frozen animal sample arks for future sequencing. In parallel, there is work on ways to create living organisms from sequences and simulate life in computer. We will survive the radiation long enough to complete these back-up technologies as we approach the Singularity. Never the less, I am taking a potasium-iodine pill as part of my dialy longevity stack.
I look at my garbage can and wonder why I only fill it once a month, when other homes have multiple cans filled every week.
I wonder why everything has to be packaged and wrapped.
I see people riding their cars to a store only a few blocks away and wonder if walking or cycling wouldn't help our planet more. I wonder why we require controlled climates indoors when we could wear sweaters or put up with a little heat once in awhile.
Then there is all the stuff we accumulate, from appliances, electronics, vehicles and unused spaces in McMansions.
I agree, we are at fault. We do more damage to our world than many would have us believe. Roads and fences prevent animals from migrating.
Animals and humans used to be free to roam at will, not anymore....
cause free time is valuable people pay for convienence and then spend the free time reading zero hedge. which is a vehicle for advertisers to sell more convienent stuff... hey we are in a virtous circle here...or a downward spiral or viral spire or spiral gyra or vaginal canal
"Some blame climate change, the consequences of growing populations, industrialisation, farming methods and so forth, but the gist of it is, humans are causing this ELE."
Well I know one thing that it fucking aint. It aint do changes in FCB policy or a reduction in cash outflow to 3rd world nations. Which is what one asinine commentator wrote in the November 2013 Z magazine. The problem is actually quite simple and straighforward.
A caveman could figure it out. You can have a sustainable planet or you can have growth. You can't have both. Sustainable Growth is a non sequitur and an oxymoron.
No, just NO. Hardly any of what you wrote is true. Populations in developed countries are in decline. I know scarcity is a reality in places, usually by design but there is sustainable growth. I also know that it's been quite popular to espouse this idea that the planet is being destroyed but reality just doesn't agree. Real observed conditions just don't match the meme.
"You can have a sustainable planet or you can have growth. You can't have both. Sustainable Growth is a non sequitur and an oxymoron".
Complete non-sense. Complete propaganda. This is what you are led to believe but just not the case.We can put the worlds population in the state of Texas. Certainly not comfortably but it could be done with the rest of the US providing food. It is possible, not recommended of course.
The sky is not falling. Vigilance is better than alarm-ism, just gotta be able to recognize the difference.