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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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no, just fucking no. the population of the ethnic peoples in developed countries are going down, and are being supplemented by immigrants from 3rd world countries that still breed like rabbits. and the populations in the countries they came from are still breeding like rabbits. the world population ISN'T going down, and neither is consumption of resources.
"We can put the worlds population in the state of Texas."
of course, they'd have to execute a lot more
"Populations in developed countries are in decline"
and what's this have to do with a rapidly rising global population (and appetite)
Wedge is on to something important. We dance around the centrifugal debt-based fiat monetary enslavement system as a fundamental problem, but that's just one trick. Nobody is addressing AGENDA 21, the oligarchical collectivist's attempt to HIJACK AND MANIPULATE NATURE in an attempt to find a SUBSTITUTE for genuine global balance and sustainability. Consider the old adage: "The end justifies the means." The Top intends to stay on Top at any cost, including wiping out vast numbers of you in the interest of "Saving the (THEIR) world" -- hence "Global Warming," "Population Crisis," "Debt Crisis," "Terror," and other tried-and-tested bogeymen instrumental for drawing a fearful, intellectually handicapped, dependent populace into waiting techno-statist hands. Looking ahead, the greatest threat to the planet is Technocracy.
That's the kind of mathematically illiterate. juvenile nonsense you would typically hear on the Alex Jones show. Especially that bit about putting everyone in the state of Texas. Yeah, you could put everyone in TX, and they'd all be dead in a week. Brilliant bumpkin!
1/4 million were killed in the 2004 tsunami. It took a day and half to replace them Learn the difference between growth and rate of growth. Also learn sometime about growth rates in general, cause clearly you have no clue about the exponential function, compund interest, or rule of 70/72. I hope you don't have a job in finance, at least not at my bank. I suggest taking a calculus or statistics class at your local community college. Then stop talking shit.
i read some silly thing once that said 'loch ness in scotland is so long and so deep that they entire population of the world could be placed in it'.
i love that. let's give a shot!! i'm going to be the last one in, so that somebody can record the event.
Might wont to remove the log in your own eye before pointing at others.
Let's start with reading comprehension.
"Populations in developed countries are in decline". Key word being developed. FACT. In some cases developing countries birth rates are falling as well. You can find all of this info at CIA World fact sheet.
" Yeah, you could put everyone in TX, and they'd all be dead in a week".
OK, for the sake of argument, how would seven billion people die within a week? OH, you meant that rhetorically.
Besides, that's just not what I meant by fitting the worlds population in the state of Texas. The worlds energy resources, from which everything else springs, are still plentiful enough to easily sustain the population. But it's not distributed equitably and never will. And there lies the real issue. So, sustainable growth is possible just not likely with mans need to dominate others via control of energy. The solution to this Hegelian problem is of course, world governance. Most of our issues lead to supra national solutions. I don't agree with these "solutions". It's a false choice. World Governance just means control would be in the hands of even fewer. I didn't think I needed to explain that.
i've been using cia.gov for a number of years. it is a wonderful site. it really is. and it's great to go 'reverse' to back into what the facts might or might not be. i hope you are the headmaster here: https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/k-5th-grade
birth rates. which is MORE THAN covered by immigration rates from the third world rabbits. dude, just stop. the situation is really one of the reasons for problems in europe, because as the birth rate of the 'native' people for lack of a better word is decreasing, the powers that be need slave and they import adults.
fact - tell me. is the overall population of britain, spain, england, germany, holland, italy, even denmark, sweden, any other country, russia? in decline?? no. no.
stop.
Sustainable: able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
Growth: the process of increasing.
So, if Y is maintaining a SUSTAINABLE rate of 10% GROWTH per year, in 10 years we get: Y x 1.1x1.1x1.1x1.1x1.1x1.1x1.1x1.1x1.1x1.1=2.6Y.
Continue to do your own math. You can do the same thing in reverse for depletion. It's all been done by others. "Sustainagle Growth" is an oxymoron.
As for 7,000,000,000 people dying in a week, that would be of thirst, of course.
Look...They do not understand the Math.
I even know that you are using this Mathematical Expression for your example:
P = (1 + ri)t which is an Exponential Function.
(1.1)10=2.594
You needed to write it that way and demonstrate the EXPONENT.
Did you know that 98% of all people do not understand the Exponential Function? They are not capable of understanding it.
They are incapable of understanding that if;
y = Aekx +c + B;
which is an example of an Exponential Function, that;
dy/dt = Akekt + c ;
and;
d2y/dt2 = Ak2ekt + c
Why fault them for what they are incapable of understanding? What I wrote looks like gibberish to them.
Of course you may understand the meaning behind the First Derivative and the meaning of the Second Derivative.
They never will. Perhaps it is best that they do not. At least they might be able to enjoy what little time that we have left. It will explode so rapidly that they will not ever know what hit them.
Exponential Growth leads to Exponential Collapse in any adiabatic system. It is a Natural Law.
Very elucidative.
in fact the did:
http://mathisencorollary.blogspot.com/2011/09/dendera-zodiac-and-panel-of-wounded-man.html
Thanks for the link. Good read.
In the evolutionary time line since life first appeared on this meaningless speck called Earth there have been multiple ELEs that occurred prior to the emergence of our simian ancestors. Mankind is nothing in relationship to the power of nature. It is comforting to believe otherwise but it is hubris and nothing more.
Oh my dear dear boy. I debated with myself whether I should reply to someone who has such obvious problems with simple concepts like cause and effect, here goes.
Yes there were many such ELEs throughout the planet's history, but they didn't "just happen". We know that meteor impacts the size of a large city may have been the driver in at least two ELEs, we know super volcanic eruptions may have been the driver in others.
When your mummy leaves breakfast for you in the morning and you find it on the kitchen counter when you wake up at noon, do you reason that the breakfast "just happened" and will continue to "just happen" because it happened before? Do you think it is "comforting and hubristic" to infer that your mummy made it for you? Do you really think the planet can magically clean up all the crap we throw at it, in the same way your bedroom magically cleans itself when your mummy comes home from work? Things don't just happen by magic. There is always a cause to an effect, and since we haven't been hit by a city sized meteor lately, the cause must be something else of equal magnitude in energy, say something like the industrial energy output of our nations for the past century, and the billions of gallons of pesticides that have wiped out insects which pollinate the plants and feed larger animals. Maybe that's the cause, instead of magic.
I know, the penguins' nukes are pretty impressive.
Tell me the last species who got themselves off this planet
and you're telling us we can't affect it
Nice post YHC
How many tons of greenhouse gas do the millions of wildebeasts on the plains of Africa produced each year?
If greenhouse gas are responsible for climate change is not this source important?
FYI they have not made it off the planet yet but they do contribute to the environment.
All this info is readily available. Why ask this stupid question when you obviously have command of a computer? Look it up.
Those million farting wilderbeasts have been replaced by a few billion farting cows and 7 billion farting people.
There needs to be a Fart Tax. We can name it the Flatuence Reduction Act Undermining Delinquents. (FRAUD) Yes. There needs to be a FRAUD.
Besides when you smell a fart you do know that it is evidential that you have just inhaled gases that were previously deep within someone else's Rectal Cavity.
So much for the Clean Air Acts...
Flatuence tax need implementation today. /sarc
(Of course all taxes are merely Flatuence and do nothing to stop behaviors.)
He's trying to tell us he's vegan
It is probably not Fukushima, yet. It has been more than two Centuries of the destruction of the oceanic ecologies, at an exponentially accelerating rate, that is behind all of these symptoms of the oceans dying.
It started with hunting whales almost to extinction. That set the pattern. It was possible to make money faster than the whales were able to reproduce. The money made could then reproduce itself faster than the whales could. Therefore, every possible incentive was present to hunt the whales to nearly become extinct.
The same social and economic driving forces were then systematically behind wiping out all the other keystone species in the oceanic ecologies, working their ways down through destroying one trophic level after another. (The biomass of oceanic ecologies tends to be inverse to the terrestrial ones, and therefore, even easier to destroy, by wiping out the biggest animals.)
Fukushima is, so far, merely symbolic of everything else taking place, from the most basic changes in chemistry, to the most crucial decimation of the species that used to be vitally necessary to the previous oceanic ecologies.
People generally were not aware of the degree to which the oceanic ecologies were being devastated, which has been happening far worse than the terrestrial ecologies (although those too have been drastically destroyed as well.) The real situation is that the major oceanic ecologies were already about 90% destroyed decades ago. They were already being destroyed at exponentially accelerating rates for a couple of Centuries.
As always, the basic driving forces have been advances in science and technology, without any comparable advances in human ethics and morality, expressed through politics. Indeed, the ways that the fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems, and the natural world, ALWAYS interacted were insanities. People make money committing collective suicide, within the established systems. The more money they can make, the better, even while they destroy the natural resource that made that money in the first place, because that money then reproduces faster in the banks than the living things that were liquidated to make that money in the first place. Thus, that money which was made destroying the oceanic ecologies was able to move on, to abstractly be used to destroy even more.
Since we operate a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system, which is based on the triumphs of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, EVERYTHING WE DO IS CONTROLLED BY FRAUDS, WHOSE LONGER TERM CONSEQUENCES BECOME SUICIDAL.
However, so far, the Fukushima disaster has only been symbolic of that overall trend. The ways that the oceans are dying had been accelerating long before the Fukushima radiation started spreading around. That radiation is going to make things worse, however, I do not yet think that that is to blame. Rather, the intermediary variables are the same monetary systems, driven by the same sorts of triumphant organized criminal insanities dominating the funding of the political processes, to drive suicidal policies pretty well with respect to everything we are doing.
Since our fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems are based on legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, everything, from the ways that atomic energy was developed, to the ways that the fishing industry operates, are ALL based upon deliberately ignoring the laws of nature, and the limits of natural ecologies, as much as possible. Those who make the most money killing off the planet are then most able to continue to influence the political processes, in order to enable our civilization as a whole to behave in even more insane ways, which are suicidal, and in the case of the oceans, headed towards becoming almost omnicidal.
It is said that maybe some grasses and some insects could survive too much radiation. In the oceans, the equivalent will be a drastically reduced oceanic ecology, where organisms like jelly fish will be the dominate survivors, while most other advanced beings will perish. ... I wish that there was some way to prevent this, however, the fundamental driving force is our fraudulent financial accounting systems, which are able to abstractly operate in ways which get away with evil deliberate ignorance towards the laws of nature, and especially by acting through evil deliberate ignorance towards natural ecologies.
After all, since our real human ecology and industrial ecology are based on triumphant runaway financial frauds, whereby the money that pays for everything we do gets made out of nothing, as debts, which flagrantly violates the most basic laws of nature, that nothing can be made out of nothing, and nothing sent to nothing, NEVERTHELESS we continue to operate that fraudulent financial accounting system, since those who make the most profits from those frauds then continue to be able to reinvest some of those profits through funding the political processes, in order to legalized more frauds, and have those backed up with more legalized force.
Overall, our entire civilization is set up to make the biggest killing possible, as fast as possible, in order to make the most money for those doing it. All of those trends together result in killing off the planet. However, stating that seems practically pointless, since those who make the most money out of nothing will still be able to dominate the funding of the political processes, and thus drive the vicious spirals of paying for the human species to collectively agree to behave in even more suicidal, and eventually almost omnicidal, ways.
Overall, one of the worst ways that the natural environment gets destroyed is through our civilization operating its fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems. However, as almost everyone else on Zero Hedge already knows too well ... pointing that out really does not do anything effective to change that ... The established systems only continue to double down on making more money out of nothing, in ways which will generally destroy the future of life on this planet.
Can you please limit your dissertations to a few small sound bites. I really don't want to work that hard ...
apply a rate of decay that can lay blame well past inseption or even a blame at all as so many complict.
ongoing til drops dead(or 20 feet below the surface).
Nah, this isn't more representations of representations of representations being monkey danced around according to insider whim. This one's real.
This one's real physics affecting real biology affecting real civilization.
Nothing subjective about it. Not video. Not computer simulation.
Real as it gets, as long as you can't get away.
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.” ~Cree Indian Proverb
That is falsely attributed to the Cree, but like so many "Abe Lincoln" quotes, it is given a pseudo-authorship in order to make it more acceptable.
It actually isn't even an Indian statement. It was printed on a Greenpeace banner in the early 1980's and is put together from various quotes and statements going back to the turn of the century, the earliest allegedly being that of a Game Warden in North Dakota (circa 1900).
Fucks sake...
Why ruin a good story?
I suppose next you're gonna tell us that Iron Eyes (Crying Indian) Cody was an Italian from Louisiana...
It isn't a "good story" if it's diseminating a falsehood. Most readers on ZH would be self-confessed seekers for truth. These kind of quotes make out the Indians to be great caretakers of nature, whereas the facts of history are not so much in their favour.
E.g. killing hundreds or thousands of buffalo to harvest a small fraction at the bottom of the cliff.
The evidence for the origin of the quote above is actually in favour of it coming from a non-Indian person (using the PC term here).
Well mr all knowing who said what 120 years ago. I think you are full of shit. And, your comment about indians killing the buffalo is totally absurd. They were hunted to damn near extintion because of a bounty placed on them by yours and my favorite government in an effort to starve the indians out and make them agree to go to reservations.
And if you dont think American Indians did not live in harmony with their environment you are even sillier than you sound, which is substantial
I aint buying the 1900 game warden BS either. Truther- lol.
P>S> nipshit. Most of the non bagheads here that have been at this site a few years know i am an indian and have a ranch in Oklahoma and I raise, guess what,- Buffalo -you baffoon. Thats one animal I forgot more about than you will EVER know.
First of all, I'm not selling anything, so there's nothing for you to buy.
Secondly, you should actually read what someone writes before you respond. Makes you look silly.
I didn't say the Indians hunted the buffalo to extinction. Go ahead, look at the post. Now read it again. See? I never said that.
What I said was that a common manner in which Indians hunted buffalo was an EXAMPLE of my statement that the Indians were not the Disneyesque caretakers of nature they are made out to be.
Your choice of history revisionism doesn't change history. It only changes what you choose to believe it was.
Drawing a conclusion without proper investigation is at best self-deluding and at worst self-destructive, so I will give you a headstart about tracing the history of the saying you quoted; try this:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/
Never be afraid of where the truth might lead.
"The truth will set you free".
I don't have to investigate what an indian does or did rockhead. I AM one. So go do some more of your internet investigating and tell me all about it again. Or better yet a comic book.
after all it has to be true, the internet said so. Baaaaaaa Sheep.
"The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to examination." ~ William Paley (1794)
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation." ~ Rev. William H. Poole (1879)
Far too many here are only interested in far too many falsehoods and far too few facts.
It only takes one to be just far too many. Keep on publishing the truth. Keep on publishing the Truth.
"You can't handle the truth" Jack Fucking Nicholson
But I guess you wan to believe ole honest Abe or some often quoted game warden said that too.
Can you read? I was supporting Deo vindice's argument.
Yea, I can read. Better than you apparently.
Not good news either:
http://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/fukushima/radiation-station...
I like this guy. He bases his reports on scientific measurements and actual field data. Not on quackshit conspiracy theories, some of which I see floating around here on ZH.
Next time name the B.S. conspiracy theories, otherwise you just come off as an establishment boot-licker.
That just has me shaking my head in disbelief. Whatever dude. Crazy as a rat in a coffee can.
Geez, I know what cha mean, but curiously, I've not seen any posts like usual showing the 'truth,' you know cheese popes, zionists, and jews in general are at least in part responsible, or maybe just some 'Jews dancing' at the scene of the atrocity, crime...tragedy. Just say'n.
I hope FEMA camps for people are better than those FEMA camps for birds
FEMA camp - dream on! Dissidents will be send to the nuclear desaster sites to do the cleanup.
Depends on their usefulness. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote The First Circle about Zeks in the Gulag who were trained scientists and engineers. The were still prisoners, still starved, but instead of cutting trees and mining they were doing technical research.
English majors (Russian majors) were sent to Siberia to cut trees.
Listen carefully. Can you hear it, very faintly, could that be the fat lady singing?
Yes, it sounds like...a Walmart ad.
So, is this How It Ends?
Since the Ibaraki faultline has shook the living shit out of Fukushima, and thus those idling pickup stick masses of spent fuel rods in the vaporizing pools, look next for the human population to feel the effects of radiation poisoning.
Deniers be damned to living hell.
(oh, and have a happy new year!)
Oddly all of the radiation, atomic bomb testing, nuclear waste etc... is never linked to climate change. Would that be impossible scientifically speaking? My guess is that if there was a political benefit for there to be a link, a link would be made.