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US Sailors, Assisting With Fukushima Clean Up, Crippled By Cancer
Back in December 2012, we wrote that it was only a matter of time before Japan's criminal lying about the radioactive exposure in the aftermath of the Fukushima catastrophe caught up with it, as well as with countless numbers of people who would soon succumb to radiation induced cancers and other diseases. What we found surprising back then, before the full scale of the Fukushima catastrophe become clear and before even Tepco admitted that the situation is completely out of control, is that those holding Japan accountable were not its own citizens but eight US sailors who have then filed a suit against semi-nationalized energy operator TEPCO - the company which repeatedly ignored internal warnings about the ability of the Fukushima NPP to withstand an earthquake/tsunami - seeking $110 million in damages.
"Eight U.S. sailors have filed a damages suit against Tokyo Electric Power Co., claiming they were exposed to radiation and face health threats as the utility did not provide appropriate information about the Fukushima nuclear disaster while they engaged in rescue operations on board an aircraft carrier, U.S. media reported.
The plaintiffs who filed the suit at the U.S. federal court in San Diego -- seeking a total of $110 million, or 9.4 billion yen, in damages -- were aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when it was involved in "Operation Tomodachi," a disaster relief effort shortly after a big earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear accident in decades, the reports said."
What is sad is that while everyone in the alternative media was repeatedly warning about the radiation exposure being misrepresented by both TEPCO and various Japanese ministries, it was the mainstream media that was constantly complicit in disseminating official and unofficial lies that there is nothing to fear.
One year after our report, the lies are not only catching up (and overtaking), but are ruining and dooming innocent lives. As Fox reports, dozens of US soldiers who participated in the Fukushima cleanup effort, are succumbing to numerous radiation-related illnesses, including cancer, and their only error was believing the official media lies.
When the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, Navy sailors including Quartermaster Maurice Enis gladly pitched in with rescue efforts.
But months later, while still serving aboard the aircraft carrier, he began to notice strange lumps all over his body. Testing revealed he'd been poisoned with radiation, and his illness would get worse. And his fiance and fellow Reagan quartermaster, Jamie Plym, who also spent several months helping near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, also began to develop frightening symptoms, including chronic bronchitis and hemorrhaging.
They and 49 other U.S. Navy members who served aboard the Reagan and sister ship the USS Essex now trace illnesses including thyroid and testicular cancers, leukemia and brain tumors to the time spent aboard the massive ship, whose desalination system pulled in seawater that was used for drinking, cooking and bathing. In a lawsuit filed against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plaintiffs claim the power company delayed telling the U.S. Navy the tsunami had caused a nuclear meltdown, sending huge amounts of contaminated water into the sea and, ultimately, into the ship's water system.
“At our level, we weren’t told anything,” Plym told FoxNews.com. “We were told everything was OK.” Now, Plym, Enis and dozens of others wonder if their service to their country and to Japan has left them doomed.
“I get so angry," Plym said. "They said as long as the plume was avoided we would be fine. But we knew then that something was going to happen. Common sense tells you that the wind would blow it everywhere. You don’t need to be a nuclear scientist to figure that out.”
Why the anger though: after all everyone lied, starting with those in control, and certainly the media that supports the status quo (one must think of all those advertising dollars) constantly and repeatedly that it is simply preposterous to assume that a benevolent regime which only cares about the wealth effect (of both the US and Japan) would engage in such a vast conspiracy as to hide from the world just how destructive the fallour from Fukushima truly was (even as the fringe blogosphere was warning precisely about this day in, and day out).
But while the lies are easily explainable, what is more surprising is that the soldiers are blaming just Tepco instead of everyone in their chain of command for putting them in the line of gamma radiation fire.
San Francisco Attorney Charles Bonner,who is representing allegedly cancer-stricken sailors, initially filed a federal suit in the Southern District of California more than a year ago on behalf of a dozen sailors. The lawsuit was initially dismissed, when the court ruled that any ruling would hinge on interpreting communication between the Japanese and U.S. governments, which could violate the separation of powers. But Bonner is amending the suit to add new allegations that would fall under the court's jurisdiction. And the number of plaintives has more than quadrupled as more service members come forward with radiation-related illnesses, he said.
“They went in to help with rescue efforts," said Bonner, who plans to refile the suit on Jan. 6. "They did not go in prepared to deal with radiation containment.”
The plaintiffs don't blame the U.S. Navy, which they believe acted in good faith, Bonner said. It was the plant's operators who sat on the meltdown information during the crucial hours following the March 11, 2011 disaster, he said.
“TEPCO pursued a policy which caused rescuers, including the plaintiffs, to rush into an unsafe area which was too close to the [Fukushima nuclear power plant] that had been damaged,” Bonner charged in an April filing now being updated to add more plaintiffs. “Relying upon the misrepresentation regarding health and safety made by TEPCO, upon information and belief, the U.S. Navy was lulled into a false sense of security.
“The officers and crew of the U.S.S. Reagan (CVN-76) and other vessels believed that it was safe to operate within the waters adjacent to the FNPP, without doing the kinds of research and testing that would have verified the problems known to the defendant TEPCO at the time.”
Nathan Piekutoski, 22, who served aboard the USS Essex, which was in the same deployment as the Reagan, said sailors had no choice but to trust what they were told.
“They did say it was safe at the time,” Piekutoski said. “We had to take their word for it.”
Piekutowski says he suffered from leukemia and, while he is currently in remission, Doctors have told him that he may need a bone marrow transplant.
“Within a few months I started getting all these weird symptoms," he recalled of the months following the disaster response. "Night sweats. Not sleeping. I started losing a lot of weight.
“It’s one of those things," he added. "You’re angry that it happens but we had to go. It was our duty. I joined the military to help people in need.”
A spokesperson for the Department of Defense declined to comment on the pending lawsuit, but told FoxNews.com the Pentagon has been monitoring and collecting data on radiation exposure in the region.
Needless to say, the criminals at Tepco have nothing to say:
TEPCO officials did not respond to requests for comment. But a recent admission before members of the Japanese press on Dec. 12 during a meeting at the Tokyo Press Club, former Prime Minister Naoto Jan said the first meltdown occurred five hours after the tsunami, not the next day as reported at the time.
Bonner alleges that the statement means that the Japanese government knew radiation was being leaked and did not inform the U.S. Navy.
“They knew there was an active meltdown and they deliberately hid it from the public as well as the Navy,” Bonner said. “Those sailors went in there totally unaware and they were contaminated as a result.”
Plym says she is prepared to have her symptoms question in court, should the case go to trial. But with so many U.S. sailors coming forward, she believes justice will prevail.
“People will say that out lawsuit is fake and that we are doing this for money, but it’s really about getting the correct information out there,” Plym said.
And now back to a mythical reality in which insolvent governments tell the "truth" about the true, and very deplorable, state of affairs just behind the peeing facade. In the meantime, to all the sailors whose only crime was believing their criminal, corrupt superiors: our condolences.
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A navy unit that can not detect radiation... not likely at al... they are sueing wrong part.
When cancers spread far and wide, court cases will have little meaning because TEPCO is not a gold mine.
Geiger counter costs about 200 bucks...or one third of the price of a military spec toilet seat.
Tis Solstice Day. Merry Merry to ALL!
There is one place all can gather...let it be the dance place in yer heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfLY0Yh0Hp0&feature=related
Hey, this is a big deal.
Even if the JG lied to the USG, there are detectors aboard ship. They have a rad shop.
Some of you may have seen the raw video shot by a squidley aboard the Reagan, It may still be up on Yootoob. Anyway, it's OSI, so no talking out of turn here, but all I saw were heavy coveralls and what looked like ECWCS gear was worn outside the ship. They were removing and stashing in a remote area the outer gear. They also were washing down. I do not think they were able to take proper precautions and the video partly shows that. One of the sailors filing suit may have even shot it.
Extrapolating from that, it looks like we have all been lied to!
After that event happened, damned if the First Thing that came into my mind was Gregory Fucking Peck in On The Beach (1959).
ELE?
What gets me is if you check out all these conspiracy sites they have these wild stories. But, think about it. You only need to look at the facts. If you build X number of reactors, eventually some kind of natural, unforeseen event will happen, and Poof! Disaster. The odds favor the House (Mother Nature). Couple the Navy with the emerging stories of mariners currently sailing the Pacific. One account from an Australian private mariner quoted him as saying on his last trip to Japan he saw No Birds, almost No Fish.
You can lie about an event like this and if you control the information process you can ignore the event, but you cannot ignore facts. I swear we seem to be entering a Dystopian Future Realm.
Laugh if you want, but I am beginning to think we are going into the stuff in John's Revelation written on Patmos. It is highly allegorical as you all know, but it does say 1/3 of the Ocean Life will die off. If God was showing a guy from that century events he was inspired to write down, his account would be strange to us as our technology would be strange to him.
Carry on.
very sad indeed. Noble people being screwed over once again by the criminal elite. Don't see them sending in Senators sons and daughters, not that I wish any harm on anyone.
I am still waiting for more attention to be paid to these little facts: The Fukushima plant is a GE design.
There are many more of these plants all over the world. Not long after the disaster, Obommer and his golf buddy GE CEO Imelt were actively trying to sell the same plant all over the world, Iran excepted of course. The biggest laugh was Obommer touting the plants in earthquake prone areas in South America. Dilma said no thanks. Chile and Peru were politely silent.
And BTW, GE with "record profits" yet again, still pays no - that would be NO - US taxes. Go figure.... and which news outlet does GE own?
There are many very credible scientists and journalists not on the teet of their government or a corporation who insist that the truth of the matter is that this incident in Fukushima is a PLANET KILLER. These are the types of stories I have been following since day one, and little by little, many of the supposed conspiracies are slowly coming true, as the 'official' truth (I love that phrase) is revealed. Fuck the official truth. We are probably fucked. Making all of these back and forth arguements a moot point.
Merry Christmas everybody.
Naked apes have no business playing with the forces of creation...
It does seem like an awfully complicated and dangerous method of boiling water.
This sounds absolutely incredible. A nuclear carrier which is likely to operate under nuclear fallouts in case of war is not taking any samples of water before pumping and distributing it as drinking water?
Worse, the US is wasting untold amounts for useless devices to measure inexistant radioactivity in civiliant ports but a flagship boat cannot measure radioactivity in the air or in the sea around it to assess if the area is safe or not?
The issue here is not TEPCO (which is guilty as hell for the accident) but the competence of the US NAVY which is putting its sailors at risk with or more likely and worryingly without knowing it.
Some comments are that this was a "test" which I cannot believe. But then the alternative is that a nuclear carrier doesn't monitor radioactivity and I cannot believe that either. Both options are unbelievable but one of them must be true...
Exactly, and once inside the air filtration system the ship is permanantly hot. Time to build some more ships and as far as the men go.... history has shown our government finds them easily replaceable. They are sitting with there parents watching Fox News everywhere.
Why weren't Obamas kids sent there with Michelle to help those people....?...he claims to be the savior?? By the way folks, these guys will get reduced pensions because the US goverment wants the money to go to ILLLEGAL Immagrants.
No, they will get reduced pensions because the money will flow up to the Oligarchs. Stop with the "producers/takers" bullshit. It's all of us (99%ers) against the big banks, financial services industry and the lackeys in political offices throughout the world.
Actually, there are takers in this catastrophe. To find out who they are, check out Neil Barofsky's (SIGTARP) congressional testimony from July 21, 2009.
I would imagine the same reason Bush's daughters didn't go to Iraq.
Every citizen should know that joining the military instantly turns them into a lab rat to be used and abused as needed by the corporate/government elites that run things.
How were they assisting, floating around with their boat?
Government kills.
Military men are ‘dumb, stupid animals to be used’ as pawns for foreign policy
Henry Kissinger
I don't see any of these bullshit figures in any of the nuclear blogs I trust. Tyler you have made your reputation in the finance area. Don't think you can step into a scientific area where you obviously know didly squat. Your reputation for objectivity will suffer.
OK for the "bullshit figures", it needs to be confirmed indeed but isn't risk assessment a major part of "finance"? And don't forget that many people in the financial field have a scientific background and do not mix their alpha, beta and gamma be they indexes or radiations. So sorry but no, the article is relevant to ZH. (if true of course)
Doc's point--perhaps--is that by your logic, the Fukushima 50 "got what they deserved"--all the way down to the midling employees who, despite having no authority in establsihing TEPCO policy, nevertheless stayed on site to try and contain the crisis.
Continuing down this path, it's also not a terribly big leap to state that by your logic---and al Qaeda's--the people incinerated in the Twin Towers "were willing participants in a corrupt political system and therefore---got what they deserved."
The "victims" of those London bombings? The U.K is nothing but a US satellite and these people benefited either directly or indirectly from Lodon's role as the Center of Finance, ergo--they got what they deserved.
Of course, I could go on and on listing all those people who "gots to be got", but we've all gots better things to do.
So Doc called you an "idiot", and yes this is not correct--- as it is not what you deserve.
You're an ignorant smug asshole. And that is what you deserve.
Cogent enough for you?
And the Navy is not culpable, not negligent? Not that TEPCO is not at fault, but am I to believe that a high tech ship like the Reagan does not have the means to detect airborne and waterborne radiation? Baloney!!!!!!
Virtually everyone in our military has been brain-washed since the age of 5 starting with the pledge of allegiance in elementary school; from that point onwards, they have been prodded down the path of "meritorious" military service when in fact they are paid killers and henchmen for our oligarchial elite. It's the oligarchial elite who deserve our scorn and hate, not the patsies who think they are performing honorable service - I have been there, done that under the choice of serve or go to prison....
My 2 cents: *Someone* needed some "guinea pigs" to gauge the (future) effects of this ongoing, unresolved disaster. The results of this unethical experiment are now coming in, are very clear, and should greatly "help".
We will soon have a pill for that, all we need are a few more years and few more trillion dollars. Our elites are that good,...... SARC tag applied.
I'm long iodine pill producers
Robots could probably handle the job to be done, whatever that is, and the idea to build robots to handle nuclear accidents is a good one.
They could save lives. A robot with a geiger counter and telemetry could do some hefty work too.
Everybody could get back to beer drinking.
On December 22, 1968 the crew of the USS Pueblo was released by North Korea. The ship is in North Korea to this day. 45 years and matters are worse.
Radioactive fallout has been monitored since the 1950's. There is a direct correlation of nuclear bomb detonations in Nevada and human cancer. The radioactive cloud's direction and path and the development of malignant neoplasms in humans from the fallout has been a documented fact for years.
It is not an unknown.
So there is a cabal of evil bastards intent on killing all of us? Fargin' iceholes. One for the ponerology books.
There is a company that manufactures underground living spaces that are nuclear bomb proof, or so they say. Most of the sales are to residents in and around Washington, DC.
The evil bastards steal everything from everbody and then kill them all.
What kind of plan is that?
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwinA.htm
It actually stupid one, it's been proved that preventive maintenance is the ONLY way to prevent future human catastrophies in a sustainable way. Anythng less is declaired a winner, if it helps just one person, and they couldn't even get that right.
They tried that. The robots lasted about an hour under the intense radiation. Silicon chips are even more sensitive to destructive, ionizing radiation than DNA. There are no solutions with the physics and engineering they teach in the universities. There are solutions involving scalar wave physics, but we are not suppose to know about that.
Think I'll put the headphones on and play The Final Cut by Pink Floyd, and sink into an epic depression. Fitting after news like this and some of the responses here on my favorite website.
Think bigger picture, people. It's the only thing that will matter. Blaming 18 year olds for the evils in this world is downright retarded. Were you not 18 once? And do you really think there can be a government with no military? And do you really think the majority of military members are trained to do evil things, or that they consiously believe what they do is evil and simply enjoy it?
Most peoples reality is molded just the way that TPTB want our realities to be molded. The blame needs to be placed MUCH HIGHER. Period.
The Fletcher Memorial Home (Waters)
Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.
And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real.
It's the only connection they feel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
"Hello Maggie!"
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
"Scusi dov'è il bar?"
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
"Who's the bald chap?"
"Good-bye!"
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati.
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
They can polish their medals and sharpen their
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile.
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead.
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.
Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.
"Two Suns In The Sunset"
in my rear view mirror the sun is going down
sinking behind bridges in the road
and i think of all the good things
that we have left undone
and i suffer premonitions
confirm suspicions
of the holocaust to come
the rusty wire that holds the cork
that keeps the anger in
gives way
and suddenly it's day again
the sun is in the east
even though the day is done
two suns in the sunset
hmmmmmmmmm
could be the human race is run
like the moment when your brakes lock
and you slide toward the big truck
and stretch the frozen moments with your fear
and you'll never hear their voices
and you'll never see their faces
you have no recourse to the law anymore
and as the windshield melts
my tears evaporate
leaving only charcoal to defend
finally i understand
the feelings of the few
ashes and diamonds
foe and friend
we were all equal in the end
the DOD needs a LEADERSHIP TRANSPLANT and INTEGRITY injection...
peeling facade...
I certainly believe that Tepco did and is lying, but if the Pacific is that poluted, why is Obama willingly spending the next two weeks there?
And our same Navy is supposed to help defend Japan if China attacks? I say we tell the Japanese government to FUCK OFF!
The Original Meters 5/5/12 New Orleans, LA @ The Howlin' Wolf - 5 songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psPFhu4kKgw
Take the AHOLE who gave the order to send our people to Japan and send them there for the same amount of time and at the same location.
Everyone, from the Japanese and US governments down, knew the severity of the situation from the time the first reports started coming back. The US Navy knew the dangers also, however its mission is not to protect lives of its own, it's to protect the established government. If someone wants to argue this point, then please explain how, in 2011, one is to assume that US Navy vessels do not have portable Geiger counters on board? No attorney will ever implicate the US Navy, and therefore the US government, in any cover up, otherwise they'll find themselves in a horrible single car accident, or commiting suicide jumping off a bridge somewhere.
Nothwithstanding Michael Hastings, the favorite method of suiciding a journalist is two pistol shots to the head. No shit!
Two thoughts come to mind: 1. It is a good thing the .gov.us doesn't lie. 2. Those balloon bombs during WW2 weren't such a stupid idea after all.
Perhaps it would aid alot of folks on the site read Gubbar's post about 1/3 into the comments section. Seems noone wants to put a hand on what is happening TO US VIA OUR CONGRESS N O W!!---- almost 100 years to the day when our Senate in almost the exact senario passed the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act I don't believe too heavily on coindience either
The PTB just shit in our hats to rub it in. Milestones
Judge dismisses sailor radiation case.
casehttp://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/17/reagan-radiation-lawsuit-dism...
When the Japanese Army was in Manchuria during WW2,they experimented with Bioweapons (WMD's) using captured allied POW's for guinea pigs (exposed,killed,dissected).This was Unit 731 out of Harbin,China.The war crimes charges were dropped in return for the surrender of all data and research from the project.Many of these "Doctors" went on to careers in the health sciences field in Japan,suffering no stigma for their work,no prosecution for war crimes,and practically no jail time.Contamination of the environment deadly to mankind has precedents in history.
So basically it was a Jap Paperclip operation. I personally find comfort in the fact that governments have probably perfected boiling human flesh off the bone with radiowaves while puckering our assholes out our noses with delicate combinations of whiskey pete, black death and sound weapons. What's everybodies problem? Eat your dinner!
So how about someone suing the media? They are constantly committing fraud against us so they should be accountable also
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The US Navy ships that were there - exactly what did they do to "help?"
Anybody know?
Try clicking on this-
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/us-sailors-assisting-fukushima-...
They helped by donating themselves to weapons science.
We provided helicopter rescues and moved heavy equipment and people
How do you decontaminate stainless steel water tanks again?
So have these ships been providing water assistance in the Philippines?
It's all going by the book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReevKbb2878&feature=related
I got news for Heart, prepare to go through the tribulation that is rapidly coming upon us. There is absolutly NO BIBLE that supports a "pre-trib rapture".
http://ritualabuse.org/Pre-Trib%20Is%20False.htm
This is a clear case of criminal negligence on the part of navy commanders who failed to apply radiation checks on the water supply, even though there was a clear risk.
Looking at the map. Alaskan king crab fishing holes right in the target zone. Should I be serving this to my family on Christmas or not?
"...it was the mainstream media that was constantly complicit in disseminating official and unofficial lies that there is nothing to fear..."
and that's the real story - the newsfakers are criminal beyond description and should be a party to the defendants.....and their commanders knew the danger and are murderers as well....where were they hiding out?? dugout doug.
and of course the mother of all liars, obama bin laden, lied about the corexit in the gulf and the radiation in japan...
the biggest story of all is that the destruction was caused by the bush crime syndicate which detonated a nuclear bomb in the pacific which caused the tsunami. the science is irrefutable. so there is radiation from the explosion and the leaked radiation from the destroyed reactors.
i feel sorry for the men exposed but my god what fucktards they were. george washington has been on this story from beginning and would have kept anyone with 6th grade education away from that area.
"No good deed goes unpunished" - Murphy's Law and tragically true in the cases of these sailors.
Before blaming anyone, it should be remembered that this was not just an earthquake/tsunami. It was a series of dozens of (mostly undersea) earthquakes over two or three weeks, many over 6 on the Richter scale. I updated the USGS earthquake map several times a day during this period. Almost every time I clicked the 'reload' button, new 'circles' appeared with each respresenting an undersea earthquake - the bigger the circle, the stronger the quake. There were circles on top of circles in the region just east of northern Japan.