VOTING RIGHTS DISAPPEARING IN AMERICA : SUPREME COURT ENDS VOTING RIGHTS ACT

I'M SURE THE 'FEARFUL OF EVERY RACE NOT WHITE'  REPUBLICANS, ARE DANCING IN THE STREETS.
MINORITIES, THE POOR, THE DISABLED, RETURNING VETERANS, THOSE WHO MUST MOVE FREQUENTLY, PEOPLE LIVING IN REMOTE AREAS OF THE COUNTRY, STUDENTS, AND THE ELDERLY WILL ALL HAVE A HARD TIME CASTING VOTES AFTER THE CONSTITUTION-CHANGING SUPREME COURT RULED ON THE VOTERS ACT THIS PAST WEEK.
THE ROBERTS COURT, WHERE REASON AND LOGIC ARE TWO WORDS NO ONE KNOWS, HAS HANDED DOWN YET ANOTHER HUMDINGER OF A "DECISION" ON DISENFRANCHISING MINORITY VOTERS, JUST AS THEIR PALS ON THE FAR RIGHT HOPED FOR.
AFTER THIS "RULING", IF YOU ARE A VOTER OF "A RACIAL MINORITY", IF YOU ARE POOR, IF YOU LIVE IN A REMOTE AREA OF THE STATE,  IF YOU ARE ELDERLY, DISABLED, HAVE NO VEHICLE OR A RIDE TO REGISTER TO VOTE, IF YOU DON'T HAVE IRONCLAD PROOF OF YOUR CITIZENSHIP, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND MAYBE A HUNDRED OR SO OTHER THINGS, YOU JUST MAY NEVER VOTE IN AMERICA, OR YOU MAY FIND, ESPECIALLY IF YOU EVER VOTED FOR A DEMOCRAT, YOU CANNOT VOTE AGAIN!
THAT MAY SOUND LIKE A JOKE, BUT IT IS NOT!

ABOUT THE BEST WE CAN ALL DO NOW IS TO PUSH HARD FOR AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION, OR UNIVERSAL VOTER REGISTRATION, WHICH WOULD IMMEDIATELY REGISTER THE 51 MILLION UNREGISTERED POTENTIAL VOTERS, AND MAKE BLOODY SURE THAT EVERY ELIGIBLE VOTER IN THIS NATION CAN GO CAST A VOTE.
THE GOP WOULD FIGHT THAT TO THE DEATH!
NOW, ASK YOURSELVES WHY THEY WOULD...WHY THEY HAVE!
AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION COULD BE ACHIEVED FAR MORE CHEAPLY THAN THE SYSTEM WE HAVE NOW!
IT JUST MAKES SENSE THAT AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION WHEN A CITIZEN REACHES VOTING AGE IS THE WAY TO GO.
THAT WOULD STOP ALL LEGAL BATTLES ON THE ISSUE, AND THAT WOULD GUARANTEE NO AMERICAN CITIZEN WAS EVER KEPT OUT OF A VOTING BOOTH.
CALL YOUR REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN AND SEE, SEE FOR YOURSELVES, IF THEY WOULD SUPPORT AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION!
I DARE YOU!

THE SUPREME COURT SUPREMELY SCREWED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WITH THEIR RULING TODAY.

June 25, 2013<<Let's be clear about what has just happened.
Five unelected, life-tenured men this morning declared that overt racial discrimination in the nation's voting practices is over and no longer needs all of the special federal protections it once did. They did so, without a trace of irony, by striking down as unconstitutionally outdated a key provision of a federal law that this past election cycle alone protected the franchise for tens of millions of minority citizens. And they did so on behalf of an unrepentant county in the Deep South whose officials complained about the curse of federal oversight even as they continued to this very day to enact and implement racially discriminatory voting laws.By voiding the legislative formula that determines which jurisdictions must get federal "preclearance" for changes to voting laws, today's ruling enables officials in virtually every Southern county, and in many other jurisdictions as well, to more conveniently impose restrictive new voting rules on minority citizens. And they will. That was the whole point of the lawsuit.
In a 5-4 ruling over liberal dissent, the Supreme Court today declared "accomplished" a "mission" that has become more, not less, dire in the four years since the justices last revisited the subject. They have done so by focusing on VOTER TURNOUT, which surely has changed for the better in the past fifty years, and by ignoring the other ruses now widely employed to SUPPRESS MINORITY VOTES. In so doing, the five federal judges responsible for this result, ALL APPOINTED BY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS, have made it materially easier for Republican lawmakers to hassle and harry and disenfranchise likely Democratic voters. And they have done so by claiming that the Congress didn't mean what it said when it renewed the act by landslide votes in 2006.

To the majority, the fact that "minority candidates hold office at unprecedented levels," was more important than the fact that Section 4 was invoked more than 700 times between 1982 and 2006 to block racially discrimination voting measures.

The Fifteenth Amendment, which decrees "that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race or color," the Chief Justice [ROBERTS] wrote in a remarkable passage, "is not designed to punish for the past; its purpose is to ensure a better future." Yet the Court's ruling today directly contradicts that lofty premise. A black voter in Shelby County today, as a result of this ruling, has a much grimmer "future" when it comes to voting rights than she did yesterday.
Without Section 4's formula, Section 5 is neutered, and without Section 5 that black voter in Shelby County will have to litigate for her rights herself after the discriminatory law has come into effect.

We should also be clear today about who the winners and the losers are in the wake of this opinion.
The primary winners are vote suppressors in those many jurisdictions covered by Section 5, the politicians, lobbyists and activists who have in the past few years endorsed and enacted restrictive new voting laws in dozens of states. The legal burden now will be shifted from these partisans to the people whose votes they seek to suppress. This will mean that discriminatory practices will occur with greater frequency than they have before. The Constitution, the Court declared, must be color-blind and may not discriminate between states even if it means being blind to the political realities of a nation still riven by racial divides.

Who loses today? Not just the tens of millions of minority voters whose ability to cast a ballot now may be more easily restricted by new voting laws. Not just the millions who now will be more vulnerable to redistricting plans that are patently discriminatory. But the poor, the elderly, and the ill of all races, men and women who have voted lawfully for years but who will not be able to find the money to pay for new identification cards, or take the time out of work to travel to state offices to get one, or have the health to make the journey to obtain identification they otherwise do not need. These people, everywhere, were the indirect beneficiaries of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. And today their right to vote is far less secure.*>>

COLOR BLIND??? THE GOP???
WHEN THERE ARE SNOWBALL FIGHTS AND BOBSLED RACES IN THE DEEPEST PIT OF HADES WILL THE GOP BE "COLOR BLIND"!
NO WAY, NEVER, IT'S NOT ON THEIR AGENDA TO SEE EVERYONE THE SAME!
AND "HASSLE, HARRY, AND DISENFRANCHISE" IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY HAD IN MIND. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN THAT WAS NOT THE RULE OF THUMB FOR THE MONIED PARTY, THE 2%.
[AND TO THINK I WAS ONCE A CARD-CARRYING 'PUBLICAN!
CAN THERE BE FORGIVENESS FOR THAT?
WELL, I CARRIED THE DEMOKAT CARD TOO...WOE, OH WOE IS ME!]

BY VOTING RIGHT ALONG PARTY LINES, WHILE SWEARING THEY DON'T, AND I DO MEAN FAR RIGHT, THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS PROVEN TODAY THAT IT'S LOST ALL TOUCH WITH SANITY, BUT THEIR DECISIONS AND LACK OF DECISIONS THIS PAST WEEK OR SO HAS ICED THAT CAKE NICELY.
THE RULING THAT SECTION 4 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IS "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" SHOULD PROVE THAT THE "JUSTICES" HAVE TAKEN UP PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN LA-LA LAND.

THAT SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA WENT WHINING UP TO THE "BIG COURT" IN THE FIRST PLACE OVER THIS ISSUE SHOULD HAVE SCREAMED THAT RACISM IS ALIVE AND VERY WELL IN AMERICA. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THAT, IF YOU THINK THAT IS NOT TRUE, I HAVE A "SPECIAL AWARD" FOR YOU...THE "GOLDEN DUHHHHH".

“The Supreme Court has effectively gutted one of the nation's most important and effective civil rights laws,” Jon Greenbaum, chief counsel for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement. “Minority voters in places with a record of discrimination are now at greater risk of being disenfranchised than they have been in decades. Today's decision is a blow to democracy. Jurisdictions will be able to enact policies which prevent minorities from voting, and the only recourse these citizens will have will be expensive and time-consuming litigation.”
“Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision erases fundamental protections against racial discrimination in voting that have been effective for more than 40 years,” Elisabeth MacNamara, president of the League of Women Voters of the United States, said in a statement. “Congress must act quickly to restore the Voting Rights Act.”
“Today will be remembered as a step backwards in the march towards equal rights,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “We must ensure that this day is just a page in our nation’s history, rather than the return to a dark chapter."
Said J. Gerald Hebert of the Campaign Legal Center, “The Court today declared racism dead in this country despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.”

I CAN HEAR THE BANTER AS THE ALABAMA BOYS MADE THEIR WAY NORTH:
"I TELL YOU WHAT, JIMMY JOE BOB,THEM DAMNED BLACKS, LATINOS AND THEM PORE DUMB COUNTRY BUMPKINS ARE ALL VOTING DEMOCRAT! WE GOTTA STOP THAT!" "DAMN STRAIGHT, RUFUS DELBERT! WE NEED US A POLL TAX AGAIN! THAT'LL KEEP 'EM AWAY FROM THE VOTING BOOTHS!"
[AND, FOR THE RECORD, I WAS BORN AND REARED IN ALABAMA AND THE "DEEP SOUTH", SO DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE! AND THE NAMES I CHOSE TO USE...ALL COUSINS OF MINE, SO HELP ME.]

REMEMBER HOW HARD, HOW DIRTY-TRICKS HARD THE GOP WORKED TO KEEP LATINOS, BLACKS AND POOR AND RURAL WHITES FROM VOTING LAST ELECTION?
WELL, WAIT UNTIL NEXT TIME!
NEXT TIME, WE MAY JUST SEE THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF MINORITIES VOTE IN THE HISTORY OF "PRETEND-VOTING". I SAY "PRETEND" BECAUSE BY NOW WE ALL KNOW THAT THE ELITIST ELECTORAL COLLEGE DECIDES THE TOP ELECTION ANYWAY, AND WE KNOW WHICH SIDE HAS BEEN RIGGING AND BUYING VOTING MACHINES SINCE BEFORE BUSH2, AND WE ALSO KNOW WHO STANDS TO LOSE THE MOST IF EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN HAS THE SAME RIGHT AS ALL OTHERS TO CAST A BALLOT.
SHADES OF HANGING CHADS!
IT WILL BE A FARCE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!
REPUBLICANS HAVE SEEN THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL SINCE BUSH2 MESSED THEIR NEST WITH THAT PATRIOT ACT, 9/11, TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH, TAX BURDENS FOR THE NOT-RICH, THE HURRICANE KATRINA FIASCO RESPONSE/NON-RESPONSE, IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN, AND EVERYTHING HE TOUCHED.
THEY AREN'T "LOVED" BY THE MASSES ANYMORE...THE TIDE HAS TURNED AGAINST THEM, THEY ARE DESPISED FOR THEIR ELITIST ACTIONS, REMARKS, AND THE WAY THEY VOTE IN CONGRESS.
THEY HAVE LONG LOOKED DOWN THEIR NOSES AT MINORITIES, THE ELDERLY AND THE "POOR", BUT THOSE THEY HAVE SNUBBED SEE THAT, AT LAST!

THIS RULING WON'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT THE GOP HAS GONE TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET.
THIS RULING MAY KEEP ELIGIBLE VOTERS FROM VOTING, BUT THE BACKLASH FROM THIS WILL SURELY TURN EVEN MORE AMERICANS WHO DON'T "MOVE IN GOP CIRCLES", THOSE WHO FALL INTO ROMNEY'S "47%" CATEGORY, AND SURELY ANY INDEPENDENT, THINKING CITIZEN AGAINST THE "GRAND OLD PARTY".

OF THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES, BOTH OF WHICH DISGUST ME, BOTH MAKE ME WANT TO THROW UP, THE GOP HAS THE MARKET CORNERED ON DEEP, COMMITTED RACISM AND THAT SPECIAL ELITIST ATTITUDE THAT MITTENS ROMNEY SHOWED US TIME AND TIME AGAIN LAST ELECTION.
THE WAY REPUBLICANS TALK, THE GAFFES, THE DIGS, THE "OOPS" MOMENTS THAT SO MANY HAD TO GO BACK AND "APOLOGIZE" FOR, THE LONG LIST OF BIG MONEY WALL STREET NAMES AND BANKS WHO BACKED THEM AND TO WHOM THEY REPAY THE FAVOR EVERY TIME A VOTE IS CAST ON "THE HILL", THE INCREDIBLE BLATANT DISDAIN THEY SHOW FOR ALL "NOT US" "MIDDLE-LOWER-CLASS" CITIZENS, FOR ALL WHO DON'T FIT THEIR PRECONCEIVED MOLD OF A "GOOD AMERICAN", ALL THAT SHOULD DO NICELY TO PROMPT MORE AND MORE AMERICANS TO ABANDON THAT TIRED OLD SHIP, TO GET AWAY, FAR AWAY FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
[THE DEMOCRATS ARE NO BETTER, JUST IN DIFFERENT WAYS, SO DON'T RUN THERE!]
THE DIRTY TRICKS THE GOP USED ON RON PAUL AND HIS DELEGATES AT THE CONVENTION LAST YEAR SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THEM JAIL TIME!
THEIR BACK-ROOM, OFF-THE-RECORD, OPEN-MICROPHONE BANTER ABOUT MINORITIES, THE JOBLESS,  SENIOR CITIZENS, WOMEN, THE RETURNING VETERANS AND THE NOT-SO-WEALTHY SHOULD BE PRIME EXAMPLES OF WHAT NOT TO BE IN A 'MELTING POT NATION'.
THE GOP HAS A PLETHORA OF "PREREQUISITES" BEFORE THEY WILL SUCK UP TO YOU AS ONE OF THEIR OWN! BEING IN THAT TOP 2% OF THE WEALTHY GETS YOU THE RED CARPET TREATMENT!

THE "JUSTICES" (WHO WOULDN'T KNOW JUSTICE IF IT BIT THEM ON THEIR BEHINDS) ARE AS OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY AS HUMANS CAN GET...SURELY.
<<The Court's majority is wrong. Terribly wrong. The Voting Rights Act isn't outdated. Its vitality was amply demonstrated in the years before the 2006 renewal, and in the years since. What has become outdated is the patience of a certain political and legal constituency in this country that has decided for itself over the past few years that there now has been enough progress toward minority voting to justify the law's demise. To this constituency, it is enough that more blacks and Hispanics now vote or are elected to office. To them, Section 4's actual burdens on officials -- petty little bureaucratic burdens when compared to the burden of losing one's right to vote -- suddenly are burdens so unreasonable they cannot be constitutionally borne.
Today's decision is the legal sanctification of an ugly movement that has brought America a new generation of voter suppression laws. It is the culmination of an ideological dream of a young Reagan Administration official named John Roberts, who sought 30 years ago to block an earlier renewal of the law. It is the latest manifestation of America's unfortunate eagerness to declare itself the grand victor even when a fight is clearly not won. Indeed, as today's  setback demonstrates, the nation's fight for voting rights will never be over because the effort to undermine these rights is ceaseless. Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act was so strong that it took 48 years and this dubious ruling to bring it down. But down it has come.
For these reasons and many more, the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County is one of the worst in the history of the institution. As a matter of fact, and of law, it is indefensible. It will be viewed by future scholars on a par with the Court's odious Dred Scott and Plessy decisions and other utterly lamentable expressions of judicial indifference to the ugly realities of racial life in America. And to those tens of millions of Americans whose voting rights were protected last year by Section 4, it is a direct slap in the face rendered by judges who today used the banner of "states rights" to undermine the most basic right any individual can have in a free society -- the right to be able to vote free from racial discrimination employed by public officials. 
The America described by the Chief Justice, the one in which "blatantly discriminatory evasions of federal decrees are rare," is an America which has never once existed and which obviously does not exist today. The America the rest of us see so clearly with our own eyes, the America in which officials all over are actively seeking to suppress black and Hispanic votes, is the one that tens of millions of the rest of us have to live with, at least for now, without the protections of Section 4 of the venerable law. When rights are weakened for some, they are weakened for all. We all are much weaker today in the wake of this ruling.

Losing today also are citizens of all races in Texas who work for a living but cannot afford to travel hundreds of miles to state licensing offices. They were spared last year by Section 5 when a federal court declared, among other things, that officials intentionally limited the hours of operation for offices available to issue new identification cards so as to preclude the working poor from getting there. "A law that forces poorer citizens to choose between their wages and their franchise unquestionable denies or abridges their right to vote," declared a federal court last year. Today's ruling in Washington stands for precisely the opposite proposition.

*Update: For example, to get a sense of how swift will be the descent into unequal justice, just hours after the Court struck down Section 4, Texas declared that it would immediately move to implement its restrictive voter identification law, the one that a federal panel of judges declared last year to be discriminatory and violative of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, a voter identification law that had been stalled out of concerns that it is racially discriminatory will also now move forward. These laws will ultimately be challenged in court--at great expense to minority citizens, who now have the burden of demonstrating that that they violate the Constitution.>>

<<In her written dissent, Justice Ginsburg said that Congress was the right body to decide whether the law was still needed and where. Congress reauthorized the law in 2006 by large majorities; the vote was 390 to 33 in the House and unanimous in the Senate. President George W. Bush, a Republican, signed the bill into law, saying it was “an example of our continued commitment to a united America where every person is valued and treated with dignity and respect.”

“For a half century,” she wrote, “a concerted effort has been made to end racial discrimination in voting. Thanks to the Voting Rights Act, progress once the subject of a dream has been achieved and continues to be made.”

“The court errs egregiously,” she concluded, “by overriding Congress’s decision.”

The Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of the 2006 extension of the law in a 2009 decision, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder. But it avoided answering the central question, and it seemed to give Congress an opportunity to make adjustments. Congress, Chief Justice Roberts noted on Tuesday, did not respond.>>

ROBERTS, THE REPUBLICAN APPOINTEE THAT HE IS, DID ADMIT THAT RACISM/DISCRIMINATION  STILL EXISTS IN AMERICA...
<<For nearly 50 years, the law forced certain, mostly southern states to seek permission from federal authorities in Washington for any changes to electoral rules, such as introducing literacy tests to reduce voter registration among minority groups.
However, chief justice John Roberts ruled on Tuesday that although there were some signs of continued racial discrimination, it was no longer sufficient to justify legal discrimination against the southern states caught up by the rules.
"Voting discrimination still exists; no one doubts that," Roberts wrote, in the majority opinion. "The question is whether the act's extraordinary measures, including its disparate treatment of the states, continue to satisfy constitutional requirements.">>

THANKS TO THE 5 JUSTICES WHO SIDED WITH ALABAMA TODAY, AMERICA JUST RAN BACKWARD TO THE DAYS BEFORE ALL CITIZENS WERE FINALLY GUARANTEED THE RIGHT TO VOTE...BACK TO THE DARK DAYS OF EXCLUSION.

IF THAT'S JUST FINE WITH YOU, YOU ARE EXCUSED FROM THE TEA ROOM...BUT THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS RETURN TO SUPER-ELITISM.



SOURCES:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/so-the-voting-rights-act-is-gutted-what-can-protect-minority-voters-now/277232/

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/on-voting-rights-a-decision-as-lamentable-as-plessy-or-dred-scott/276455/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/voting-rights-act-supreme-court_n_3429810.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jun/25/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-obama

AMERICA'S 'MEGA-FUKUSHIMA' LEAKING AGAIN. MANHATTAN PROJECT WASTE SITE

53 MILLION GALLONS OF NUCLEAR WASTE, STORAGE TANKS YEARS PAST THEIR EXPIRATION, SHODDY STORAGE MATERIAL, DRY DOCK FOR 114 SPENT NUCLEAR SUBMARINE REACTORS, AND OVER 200 SQUARE MILES OF CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER!
WELCOME TO THE HANFORD, WASHINGTON NUCLEAR WASTE SITE!

Nuclear Waste Site in Washington State Leaking Again
June 25, 2013
The U.S. Energy Department said workers at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation detected higher radioactivity levels under tank AY-102 during a routine inspection Thursday.
http://www.wunderground.com/news/nuclear-waste-site-washington-state-leaking-again-20130625

THIS IS AN ONGOING SERIOUS AND DEADLY PROBLEM, ONE THAT COULD MAKE FUKUSHIMA LOOK SMALL IN COMPARISON...
HANFORD ALSO HAD THE WORLD'S FIRST PLUTONIUM REACTORS, YOU SEE, AND HANFORD IS A MASSIVE WASTE SITE.

In September 1942, the Army Corps of Engineers placed the newly formed Manhattan Project under the command of General Leslie R. Groves, charging him with the construction of industrial-size plants for manufacturing plutonium and uranium. Groves recruited the DuPont Company to be the prime contractor for the construction of the plutonium production complex. DuPont recommended that it be located far away from the existing uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The ideal site was described by these criteria:

    A large and remote tract of land
    A "hazardous manufacturing area" of at least 12 by 16 miles (19 by 26 km)
    Space for laboratory facilities at least 8 miles (13 km) from the nearest reactor or separations plant
    No towns of more than 1,000 people closer than 20 miles (32 km) from the hazardous rectangle
    No main highway, railway, or employee village closer than 10 miles (16 km) from the hazardous rectangle
    A clean and abundant water supply
    A large electric power supply
    Ground that could bear heavy loads.

In December 1942, Groves dispatched his assistant Colonel Franklin T. Matthias and DuPont engineers to scout potential sites. Matthias reported that Hanford was "ideal in virtually all respects," except for the farming towns of White Bluffs and Hanford.

Established in 1943 as a vital part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale PLUTONIUM production reactor in the world. Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear bomb, tested at the Trinity site, and in Fat Man, the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.

During the Cold War, the project was expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the 60,000 weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The weapons production reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, but the decades of manufacturing left behind 53 million US gallons (200,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste, an additional 25 million cubic feet (710,000 m3) of solid radioactive waste, 200 SQUARE MILES (520 km2) of contaminated groundwater beneath the site and occasional discoveries of UNDOCUMENTED contaminations that "slow the pace and raise the cost of cleanup".
The Hanford site represents 2/3rds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste by volume. Today, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and is the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup. While most of the current activity at the site is related to the cleanup project, Hanford also hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station.
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km2) in Benton County, Washington (centered on 46°38′51″N 119°35′55″WCoordinates: 46°38′51″N 119°35′55″W), roughly equivalent to half of the total area of Rhode Island. This land is currently uninhabited and is closed to the general public. It is a desert environment receiving under 10 inches of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation. The Columbia River flows along the site for approximately 50 miles (80 km), forming its northern and eastern boundary. The original site was 670 square miles (1,740 km2) and included buffer areas across the river in Grant and Franklin counties.

Some of this land has been returned to private use and is now covered with orchards and irrigated fields.
[DO THESE ORCHARDS AND FIELDS PRODUCE "GLOW-IN-THE-DARK" FRUITS AND VEGETABLES? DO PEOPLE KNOW THE SOURCE OF WHAT THEY BUY IN THAT AREA?]
Most of the reactors were shut down between 1964 and 1971, with an average individual life span of 22 years. The last reactor, N Reactor, continued to operate as a dual-purpose reactor, being both a power reactor used to feed the civilian electrical grid via the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) and a plutonium production reactor for nuclear weapons. N Reactor operated until 1987. Since then, most of the Hanford reactors have been entombed ("cocooned") to allow the radioactive materials to decay, and the surrounding structures have been removed and buried. The B-Reactor has not been cocooned.
The United States Department of Energy assumed control of the Hanford Site in 1977.

AS IF ALL THAT ISN'T ENOUGH TO GIVE LOCALS NIGHTMARES...
It's also a US Navy nuclear submarine reactor dry storage site,  located at 200 East Area Tank farms Trench 94, a trench containing sealed reactor sections of 114 US Navy submarines (as of 2008. The site now stores reactors for USS Seawolf (SSN-575) and USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599).
114 reactor sections!
Boggles the mind how much radiation is up there!

CONTAMINATED WATER RELEASE KEPT SECRET BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
A huge volume of water from the Columbia River was required to dissipate the heat produced by Hanford's nuclear reactors. From 1944 to 1971, pump systems drew cooling water from the river and, after treating this water for use by the reactors, returned it to the river. Before being released back into the river, the used water was held in large tanks known as retention basins for up to six hours. Longer-lived isotopes were not affected by this retention, and several terabecquerels entered the river every day. These releases were kept secret by the federal government.
Radiation was later measured downstream as far west as the Washington and Oregon coasts.

IT'S IN THE AIR AND FOOD SUPPLY
The plutonium separation process also resulted in the release of radioactive isotopes into the air, which were carried by the wind throughout southeastern Washington and into parts of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and British Columbia. Downwinders were exposed to radionuclides, particularly iodine-131, with the heaviest releases during the period from 1945 to 1951. These radionuclides filtered into the food chain via contaminated fields where dairy cows grazed; hazardous fallout was ingested by communities who consumed the radioactive food and drank the milk. Most of these airborne releases were a part of Hanford's routine operations, while a few of the larger releases occurred in isolated incidents.

In 1949, an INTENTIONAL release known as the "Green Run" released 8,000 curies of iodine-131 over two days. Another source of contaminated food came from Columbia River fish, an impact felt disproportionately by Native American communities who depended on the river for their customary diets. A U.S. government report released in 1992 estimated that 685,000 curies of radioactive iodine-131 had been released into the river and air from the Hanford site IN JUST 3 YEARS, between 1944 and 1947.

The Washington State Department of Health collaborated with the citizen-led Hanford Health Information Network (HHIN) to publicize data about the health effects of Hanford's operations. HHIN reports concluded that residents who lived downwind from Hanford or who used the Columbia River downstream were exposed to elevated doses of radiation that placed them at increased risk for various cancers and other diseases. A mass tort lawsuit brought by two thousand Hanford downwinders against the federal government has been in the court system for many years.
 The first six plaintiffs went to trial in 2005.

On February 15, 2013, Governor Jay Inslee announced a tank storing radioactive waste at the site is leaking liquids on average of 150 to 300 gallons per year. On February 22, 2013, the Governor stated that "6 more tanks at Hanford site" than previously thought were "leaking radioactive waste"
ONLY 7 LEAKY TANKS? REALLY? EVEN WHEN HE SAID IT WAS "JUST ONE", NO RISK?
NO RISK?
WOULD INSLEE LET HIS FAMILY LIVE NEAR THAT THING?

As of 2013, there are 177 tanks at Hanford (149 having a single shell). Older single shell tanks were initially used for storing radioactive liquid waste. The tanks were designed to last 20 years.
ONE TANK contains an estimated 447,000 gallons of radioactive sludge!
149 TANKS THAT WE KNOW ABOUT, ALL STORED IN INEFFICIENT MATERIAL KNOWN TO DETERIORATE IN JUST 20 YEARS...TIME'S UP ON THOSE!
There are concerns about contaminated groundwater headed toward the Columbia River. There are also continued concerns about workers' health and safety.
YET THEY OFFER "GUIDED TOURS" OF THAT PLACE?
"COME GET YOUR MAXIMUM LEVEL RADIATION EXPOSURE IN LESS THAN AN HOUR"???
NO, THANKS!
In early 2008, a $600 million cut to the Hanford cleanup budget was proposed. Washington state officials expressed concern about the budget cuts, as well as missed deadlines and recent safety lapses at the site, and threatened to file a lawsuit alleging that the Department of Energy is in violation of environmental laws.

$40 billion already spent on a FAILED clean-up, and an estimated $115 billion more required.
KNOWING IT JUST CAN'T EVER BE CLEANED UP....WHY BOTHER?
JUST SIT BACK AND WAIT FOR THOUSANDS MORE TO DIE AS SO MANY HAVE ALREADY.

AT LEAST 60% OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER IS CONTAMINATED, BUT IT TOOK AN INDEPENDENT TESTING GROUP TO UNCOVER THAT HIDDEN FACT!
http://www.clarku.edu/mtafund/prodlib/gap/round1/2001-12-19.pdf
AT LEAST 42% OF LOCAL WILDLIFE AND VEGETATION, 45 SPECIES OF ANIMALS, 30 SPECIES OF VEGETATION, TESTED POSITIVE FOR HIGH LEVELS OF RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATIONS. HIGHEST LEVELS WERE FOUND IN SPECIES OF MICE AND THISTLE.
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=10191138

MANHATTAN PROJECT ERA PLUTONIUM SAMPLE WAS FOUND BURIED IN ONLY A GLASS JUG DURING INITIAL CLEANUP ATTEMPTS!
IN A GLASS JUG!

Two radionuclides comprise much of the radioactivity in Hanford's tanks: cesium-137 and strontium-90. Both take hundreds of years to decay, and exposure to either would increase a person's risk of developing cancer.

IT WOULD BE WISE OF ALL WHO LIVE IN THAT AREA TO GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!
THE FEDS WILL NEVER, NEVER GET THAT SITE CLEAN AND THESE NEW LEAKS ARE JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG.

Meanwhile, the Energy Department recently notified Washington and Oregon that it may miss two upcoming deadlines to empty some single-shell tanks and, amid the technical problems, to complete construction on a key part of the plant to handle some of the worst waste.
"WORST WASTE"?
WHAT IS WORSE THAN ALMOST 150 LEAKING TANKS OF RADIOACTIVE SLUDGE?
WHAT IS WORSE THAN A CONTAMINATED RIVER, CONTAMINATED HUMANS?
MAYBE WE'LL FIND THAT OUT IN ANOTHER 50 YEARS?

PEDOPHILES IN BUSH1 WHITE HOUSE, MALE PROSTITUTE IN BUSH2's

HEADLINE, JUNE 1989

MISSING FROM THE BOLD TYPE...CHILDREN WERE INVOLVED.

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HAS PEDOPHILIA BEEN THE "DARK SECRET" AMONG AMERICA'S ELITE CIRCLE OF THE RULING CLASS ALL ALONG? DO MEN IN POWER USE CHILDREN TO MAKE THEM FEEL "MORE POWERFUL"? IS WASHINGTON RIFE WITH SUCH SINISTER SECRETS?

WHO WAS NAMED AND UNNAMED IN ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHILD SEX SCANDALS EVER SUPPRESSED IN AMERICA?

WHY WAS NOTHING DONE TO PROSECUTE ALL THOSE WHO HAD ABSOLUTE PROVEN LINKS TO THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN, TO THOSE "MIDNIGHT WHITE HOUSE TOURS" BY A "CALL BOY" SERVICE, TO WASHINGTON PARTIES WHERE CHILDREN WERE TRADED OR BOUGHT, OR RENTED FOR THE NIGHT?

WHY WERE THERE SO MANY SUDDEN DEATHS/SUICIDES AFTER THIS CAME OUT IN THE OPEN....EVEN THOUGH IT WAS HUSHED VERY QUICKLY?

AND WHAT ABOUT THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP OF THE YOUNGER BUSH WHILE HE WAS IN OFFICE WITH A MALE PROSTITUTE, "JEFF GANNON", aka, "JEFF/JAMES GUCKERT"?
 [GUCKERT IS THE MAN BUSH IS SHOWN KISSING]

THIS JEFF GANNON/JIM GUCKERT...WHO COMMANDED VERY HIGH DOLLAR FOR HIS "SERVICES".
MORE ON GANNON AND BUSH JUNIOR LATER.

June 29, 1989
"Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush administrations. ‘Call boys’ took midnight tour of White House."
"A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and US and foreign businessmen with close social ties to Washington's political elite. Reporters for this newspaper examined hundreds of credit-card vouchers, drawn on both corporate and personal cards and made payable to the escort service operated by the homosexual ring."
-- Washington Times, 6/29/1989

THE FULL TEXT OF THIS ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND AT http://www.wanttoknow.info/890629washingtontimesfranklin


<<Among clients who charged homosexual prostitutes services on major credit cards over the past 18 months are Charles K. Dutcher, former associate director of presidential personnel in the Reagan administration, and Paul R. Balach, Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole's political personnel liaison to the White House.

In the 1970s, Mr. Dutcher was a congressional aide to former Rep. Robert Bauman, Maryland Republican, who resigned from the House after admitted having engaged in sexual liaisons with teen-age male prostitutes. Mr. Dutcher also worked on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle when he represented an Indiana district in the House.

A charge also was discovered against the credit card of a former White House staffer who prepared the president's daily news summary in the Reagan administration. Todd A Blodgett said he had not made the charge.

One of the ring's big spending clients is Craig J. Spence, Washington socialite and international trade consultant, according to documents and interviews with operators and prostitutes who say they engaged in sexual activities with Mr. Spence.

Mr. Spence spent upwards of $20,000 a month for male prostitutes who provided sex to him and his friends, said to include military personnel who also acted as his "bodyguards." It was Mr. Spence who arranged the nocturnal tour of the Reagan White House. Repeated attempts to reach Mr. Spence by telephone, fax machine and personal visits to his home, were unsuccessful.

Members of major news organizations also procured escort services from the ring, credit card documents show. These include Stanley Mark Tapscott, who was an assistant managing editor of The Washington Times.

Mr. Tapscott, whose resignation on June 20 was accepted, said he had not procured homosexual escorts or sexual services of any kind. He said in an interview that he had talked to two women he arranged to meet through the escort service as part of an investigation of a dial-a-porn services he had initiated a year earlier when he was editor of the newspaper's Money section. The charges were made against his company American Express card. His editors knew of no such investigation.

Before joining The Times, Mr. Tapscott worked for the Office of Personnel Management in the Reagan administration.

Managers of the escort ring said that "a few women" were used for clients who called with specific requests but that the regular stable was altogether male.

The documents show that a number of clients — lawyers, doctors and business executives — used corporate credit cards to procure escort services and that a number of military officers from the United States and allied countries — including one foreign officer using a "Department of Defence" credit card — charged male escort services.

One former top-level Pentagon officer said that for the past eight years, military and civilian intelligence authorities have been concerned that "a nest of homosexuals" at top levels of the Reagan administration may have been penetrated by Soviet-backed espionage agents posing as male prostitutes, said one former top-level Pentagon official. "We have known for many, many years that there is a department of the KGB [Soviet intelligence] whose job it is to prey on sexual deviants," said retired Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Because "closet" homosexuals in government service can be easily "turned" through blackmail for espionage purposes, Gen. Graham said, "we have always in intelligence tried very hard not to be giving classified information to known homosexuals."

Although the confiscated material was turned over to District police on the scene, witnesses and law enforcement agents say the Secret Service kept one box containing names and other information about high-level government officials who were clients of the male escort business.

District police officials say that, to their knowledge, this is the first time the Secret Service has ever become involved in such a raid in this area.

Initially, the Secret Service denied it was involved in the raid, but after a second raid of the 34th Place house on May 18, the agency acknowledged its involvement in the investigation.

Secret Service spokesman Bob Snow said the agency participated in the search and seizure operation because of its jurisdiction over credit card fraud. "We come into such operations usually at the request of a U.S. attorney … if the fraud involves $10,000 or more … We are not involved in any local prostitution investigation," said Mr. Snow.

Witnesses to the February raid said 12 Secret Service agents in blue parkas entered the house and spent several hours collecting and removing boxes of files.

In addition to credit-card fraud, the investigation is said to be focused on illegal interstate prostitution, abduction and use of minors for sexual perversion, extortion, larceny and related illicit drug trafficking and use by prostitutes and their clients.

One of the chief operators of Professional Services Inc. and a regular client of the service speculated in separate interviews that the investigation would be restricted because "big names" were involved.

"Henry Vinson [the operator] said a high level official is going to try to block the investigation and may succeed," said Mr. Balach, the labor secretary's liaison to the White House. Mr. Vinson said he believes a highly placed federal official, whom he would not name, is working to derail the investigation, but he would not elaborate.

Operators of the ring told The Times that videotapes, audio tapes and still photographs were made of sex acts performed by clients and the call boys, including perverted acts.

Documents show that customers were charged for "videotapes" from the operation.>>


FROM GEORGE BUSH #1's FIRST YEAR AS PRESIDENT , "CALL BOY" SERVICES WERE DISCOVERED VISITING THE WHITE HOUSE AT ODD HOURS, SOME WERE SIGNED IN, BUT NOT OUT, OTHERS WERE NOT SIGNED IN BUT LATER SIGNED OUT.

SECRET SERVICE AGENTS LOST JOBS, THE FBI WAS INVOLVED, BUT WHY WAS IT THEN JUST ALL SILENCED?

LAWRENCE E. KING, A REPUBLICAN HIGH IN THE RANKS IN THOSE DAYS, WAS PROVIDING CHILDREN AND YOUNG MEN, EVEN A FEW WOMEN, AT PARTIES ALL OVER THE NATION. KING WAS ALSO BUSTED FOR HIS PART IN THE FRANKLIN COMMUNITY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION SCANDAL, WHICH ALSO LED TO A SEX SCANDAL OF GIANT PROPORTIONS.

KING WAS EVENTUALLY ARRESTED AND CHARGED, BUT ONLY FOR THE CREDIT UNION CRIMES, WAS CONVICTED OF MULTIPLE COUNTS OF CONSPIRACY, EMBEZZLEMENT, AND FALSIFYING ACCOUNTING BOOKS BUT ONLY SERVED A PORTION OF HIS SENTENCE (JUST 18 MONTHS!) OF 15 YEARS.

Paul A. Bonacci, one of the children who swore he had been "offered" to Washington pedophiles numerous times by King, won a default judgment of $800,000 in compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages in a civil action against King in which the petition alleged kidnapping, mind control, satanic ritual abuse, and sexual abuse, and alleged various personal injuries, both physical and psychological.

The Judge did not rule on these allegations, but merely ruled on the motion for default judgment.

The judgment in U.S. District Court in Omaha, Nebraska, on February 27, 1999 was a default judgment following defendant King's failure to appear to respond to the charges. At the time, King was in prison having been sentenced in June, 1991 to 15 years.

Paul Bonacci has drawn a floor-plan of the inside living quarters of the White House, an area not available to the public. It has been confirmed that he must have seen these quarters first-hand.

Paul and other children told about youngsters, both male and female, being taken from orphanages, foster-homes, and Boys Town, Omaha, Nebraska, driven to Sioux City, Iowa (184 miles) and then flown to Washington, D.C. for sex orgy parties with dignitaries, congressmen, and high level public officials at Larry King’s Embassy Row condominium. 
Larry King rented this condominium for $5,000.00 per month while earning a salary of only $17,000 per year.

Bonacci also stated that pictures were taken at the parties by Rusty Nelson, Larry King’s personal photographer.
According to Bonacci, many of the surreptitiously photographed public officials were thereafter blackmailed by Larry King and others.

WHY WAS THIS YOUNG MAN SLANDERED AND KING WAS SET FREE AFTER SERVING NO TIME FOR THE VERY ACTS BONACCI WON THE JUDGEMENTS FOR?

WAS IT BECAUSE NO ONE IN WASHINGTON WANTED A JURY TO HEAR THE NAMES OF THOSE BONACCI HAS SAID ATTENDED THESE CHILD MOLESTING ORGIES?

THE NEWS HIT THE MAJOR MEDIA IN JUNE,1989....THEN, JUST AS SUDDENLY, ALL WENT QUIET.
IT WAS 6 MONTHS AFTER GEORGE H.W. BUSH WAS SWORN IN.

"The almost endless DOCUMENTATION paints a chilling portrait of what is really going on in the upper echelons of what is often called the "ruling elite" here in America. The story involves children from orphanages in Nebraska, from Boys Town, from "foster care" being flown around the United States by top Republican officials in order to engage in child sex orgies with America's politicians, news media employees, rich contributors to both parties, high-level military, foreign "dignitaries", and even a few religious leaders.

It is a fact that during the 1980's, child sexual services were provided by top Republican officials to key bureaucrats and diplomats but most importantly, there is a chilling proximity of all of these events and personalities to the President of the United States at the time, George H.W. Bush.

There have been victims who, under oath and in interviews, claim that the President himself engaged in the illicit, perverse activities.

It is a tale of child sex, murder, espionage, blackmail, and huge payoffs. And all the players involved, from the White House to the CIA to the media barons to the Republican elite - right down to the orphanages and foster homes where they procured their victims, have gone mostly unpunished and the names of those involved have, in several instances, been "CLASSIFIED".
One repeat offender whose passport had been confiscated was given back the passport and left the United States.

This story was the second biggest scandal of the 1980's but media coverage was rapidly and completely obliterated by the Bush1 White House... a complete coordinated blackout by the ruling elite in cooperation with the American television networks and almost every mainstream media source in America.

Boy prostitutes, 15 years old (and younger) were taking midnight tours of the White House. 

There are 19 more Washington Times articles in full text about this case available here http://web.archive.org/web/20010801215144/http://newsmakingnews.com/sexandcapitol7,18,01.htm

The book, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1986), states that in 1985, Eulice (Lisa) Washington, told Youth Care Worker, Julie Walters, as documented in her Department of Social Services March 25,1986 report, that Larry King ran a massive child sex, homosexual, and pornography industry.
 She described how beginning in tenth grade, she had been taken by plane by Larry King, with other youths, to be used as a child prostitute at parties in Washington, Chicago, and New York. Lisa said that at these parties, she sat "looking pretty and innocent" and guests could engage in any sexual activity they wanted except penetration.

Lisa named Vice President George Bush as in attendance at least twice, according to Walters’ report. Lisa said she had first met Mr. Bush at the Dallas 1984 Republican Convention.

She also saw Vice President George Bush , Sr., at a party in Chicago in September or October of 1984, accompanied by two large white males.

Walters’ report states; "She [Lisa] indicates that she sat on a table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George Bush saw her on the table.

She stated she saw Vice President George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent."  

According to the Chicago Tribune of October 31, 1984, George Bush, Sr., WAS in Illinois campaigning for congressional candidates at the end of October, 1984.

Fortunately not all people in Washington are in on the crimes of the elite.

Now and then, a person comes along who sees these things being done and fights to end this evil force which is destroying the lives of innocent children. In this case, former Republican Senator John Decamp was involved in the production a documentary called "Conspiracy of Silence" it was to air May 3, 1994, on the Discovery Channel.

 This documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies.

As the story goes, at the last minute before airing, there was a massive effort from key Washington politicians who were implicated in the scandal to exert pressure on the channel to threatened the TV Cable industry with restrictive legislation if this documentary was aired. 

Almost immediately, the rights to the documentary were purchased by unknown persons who had ordered all copies destroyed.

A copy of this videotape was furnished anonymously to former Nebraska state senator and attorney John De Camp who made it available to retired F.B.I. chief, Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster in what is revealed by the participants involved.

Conspiracy of Silence (55 minutes) is now available for free viewing at the links below: 

http://personalgrowthcourses.net/video/conspiracy_of_silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBSIDQt5Dwc 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcB1Nb7bbu8

....  

You may find yourself becoming angry or upset while watching Conspiracy of Silence.
Many people do.

Why the children who wanted to testify were harassed and terrified into silence, into recanting their explicit and detailed original testimonies is disgusting, to say the least.

The way those who did not recant have been treated by the press, by the courts, by society in general is criminal.

The pure, raw POWER that can stop investigations, make people "disappear", silence those who have been so wronged, and stop justice from being achieved for so many children is a sign that we live in a nation run by the wrong people!

That THOUSANDS of high-ranking, influential people used children for sex and got away with it sends the message loud and clear that ANYTHING GOES IN AMERICA...DO WHAT FEELS GOOD...SOMEONE WILL GET YOU OFF SCOTT-FREE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, IF YOU KNOW THE RIGHT "SOMEONE".

For an excellent website filled with information about the Franklin case child sex abuse ring: http://www.franklincase.org/

A DOCUMENTARY ALSO EXISTS ON VIDEO ABOUT THE FRANKLIN/KING SCANDAL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWrrBceuP4

PDF OF REPORT OF INVESTIGATION
http://www.wanttoknow.info/mind_control/finders_foia_report_child_abduction.pdf
PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE LAST PAGE.

REMEMBER CRAIG SPENCE?

On November 10, 1989, JUST 5 MONTHS AFTER THE SCANDAL BROKE, Spence was found dead, dressed in a tuxedo in Room 429 the Boston Ritz Carlton, the city's most expensive hotel with three dollars in his pocket.
In black felt-tip marker he had written on a mirror of his room:

<<Chief, consider this my resignation, effective immediately. As you always said, you can't ask others to make a sacrifice if you are not ready to do the same. Life is duty. God bless America.

As a postscript, he wrote, "To the Ritz, please forgive this inconvenience.">>

In January 1985, Spence registered with the U.S. State Department as a foreign agent for Japan and began lobbying for Japanese interests. Throughout the 1980s, Spence built a reputation as an influential lobbyist who represented many Japanese concerns and established close friendships with a number of leading Japanese politicians.

During a lengthy interview at a Manhattan apartment a few months before his death, Spence alluded to more intricate involvements.

 "All this stuff you've uncovered (involving call boys, bribery and the White House tours), to be honest with you, is insignificant compared to other things I've done. But I'm not going to tell you those things, and somehow the world will carry on."


Spence entered a downward spiral in the wake of the Washington Times exposé, increasingly involving himself with call boys and crack, and culminating in his July 31, 1989 arrest at the Barbizon Hotel on East 63rd St in Manhattan for criminal possession of a firearm and criminal possession of cocaine.

Months after the scandal had died down, and a few weeks before Spence was found in a room of Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Boston, he was asked who had given him the "key" to the White House.

Michael Hedges and Jerry Seper of The Washington Times reported that "Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged by 'top level' persons", including Donald Gregg, national security adviser to Vice President George H. W. Bush at the time of the tours were given.

When pressed to identify who it was who got him inside the White House, Spence asked "Who was it who got [long-term CIA operative] Félix Rodríguez in to see Bush?", agreeing that he was alluding to Mr. Gregg.


GEORGE W. BUSH AND THE MYSTERIOUS JOURNALIST WHO WAS ALSO A MALE PROSTITUTE

"Pedophilia and male prostitutes in the White House: the Franklin Affair and Bush's Jeff Gannon"

April 16, 2010
http://www.examiner.com/article/pedophilia-and-male-prostitutes-the-white-house-the-franklin-affair-and-bush-s-jeff-gannon

<<Most Americans are unaware that a gay male prostitute was allowed over 200 visits to the Bush White House between 2003 and 2005 with a “press pass” issued by White House leadership. According to Secret Service public records of check-in and check-out dates and times (here and here), most of the prostitute’s visits included several hours of time before and/or after press conferences, 32 times on days without press conferences, and 14 visits without checking out in apparent overnight stays at the White House residence of Mr. Bush.

The prostitute, Jeff Gannon, had no previous experience as a journalist and no association with any media when he began attending White House press conferences. 

The 3-minute video [link below] shows pictures of Mr. Bush kissing, fondling and embracing Mr. Gannon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DB0CiVMCjw>>

[NOTE: FOR DOUBTERS THAT GANNON WAS AN ADVERTISED PROSTITUTE, THE GUARDIAN GAVE LINKS TO EXPLICIT WEBSITES SHOWING A NUDE JEFF GANNON AND THIS SITE http://americablog.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff.html ELABORATES CONSIDERABLY ON THAT.]

The White House is the most difficult press conference in the world to attend and only open to the most credentialed professionals from major media, yet Mr. Gannon received special White House permission without any connection to any media. 

 Months later, Mr. Gannon created a website with feeds from Republican news sources.  
Secret Service would ordinarily declare a security emergency and conduct a full search of the White House if their records indicated a person hadn’t checked-out at the end of a press conference.

 ALLEGEDLY, GANNON BROKE THE NEWS OF THE ATTACK ON IRAQ 4 HOURS BEFORE THE INVASION BEGAN.

ONE MAJOR NETWORK PRODUCER COMMENTED THAT GANNON OFTEN KNEW THINGS IN ADVANCE AND WONDERED ALOUD HOW SUCH A "SMALL-TIME" REPORTER GOT SUCH "SCOOPS".

THERE ARE REWARDS FOR BEING "SPECIAL FRIENDS" TO ANY PRESIDENT, AS WE'VE SEEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

I AM UNABLE TO FIND THE ACTUAL COPIES OF THE "THE NEW JOURNAL:

The Magazine about Yale and New Haven, since 1967" WHICH REPORTEDLY MENTIONED BUSH JUNIOR AS A YALE CHEERLEADER LIVING WITH ANOTHER MALE CHEERLEADER, VICTOR ASHE II.

I CAN'T IMAGINE BUSH LEADING CHEERS AT YALE AS HE DID AT HIS PREP SCHOOL, YALE IS A MORE DEMANDING VENUE, BUT HE DID FURTHER ASHE'S POLITICAL CAREER, AND THEY DID ATTEND YALE TOGETHER, AND BOTH WERE MEMBERS OF SKULL AND BONES.

VICTOR ASHE II later became the mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, and WAS the American ambassador to Poland, 2004-2009.

Sex and corrupt politics in DC is nothing new. 
For example, during the Civil War there were 450 brothels in the capital. 

Part of the mythology of Washington, however, is what might be called 'the Jim Lehrer Illusion', which is to say that all people in DC do is sit around and rationally debate policy alternatives.

In fact, Washington politics is also heavily driven by cowardice, bribery, blackmail, deceit, fear, loyalty to old buddies and even older bodies, cooptation, sex, and just plain crime. Journalists who pretend otherwise either don't understand what is going on or are covering for someone.

WHAT MAY BE A "SIMPLE DALLIANCE" TO JOE Q. PUBLIC IS NOT THE SAME WHEN POLITICIANS OR ANY WHO ARE FAMOUS ENGAGE IN IT....THAT CAN LEAD TO BLACKMAIL.

LEST WE FORGET, WASHINGTON IS NOT SOME RURAL LITTLE TOWN FULL OF "EVERYDAY JOES". 
THERE IS A LOT MORE GOING ON!
 
"The public often misunderstands the importance of Washington scandals, assuming them to be a simple dalliance, individual failing, or private offense. 

What makes both sex and crime in DC different, at least when those in power are involved, is that there is far more opportunity for blackmail and far more skill at covering things up.

The blackmail may be used by members of one branch of government against those of another, by lobbyists against members of Congress, by the police against whomever they wish, and by foreign powers. 

For example, one way to keep a congress member bought is for a lobbyist to provide him with high class prostitutes. 
And it is noteworthy that both the Israelis and Boris Yeltsin apparently knew about Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky before the American public did.

The city's ecology lends particular importance to gay sex simply because greater public antipathy makes it an even easier target for the blackmailer;witness the case a few years back when DC police officers were found to be running an extortion racket against those who visited gay bars.

The ability to cover up scandal or crime is also much greater in Washington. 
This may be accomplished by relying on the social club rules of the federal city, through the aid of acquiescent journalists, by official spin or censorship, or by resort to the capital's various law enforcement agencies, each one beholden for budget and top appointments to some federal department.

For example, both the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney (who handles all DC crimes) are appointed by the president. 
The FBI, DEA, National Park police and the Secret Service, not to mention the Aqueduct police, all work for the president. 
And the Metropolitan Police Department and the Capitol Police are under the thumb of Congress, which approves their budgets and exercises behind-the-scenes authority. 

There is not a single police agency within the boundaries of Washington that does not report to the politicians of Congress or the White House.


AFTERMATH

SOMETHING TO REALLY THINK ABOUT...

The Guardian reported in January 2001 that Interpol, the international police agency, “has agreed to set up an electronic library of child sex victims at its headquarters in Lyon, France.” 

The first images that were to be processed into that database were 750,000 photos seized by British authorities in the Wonderland raids. 

In April 2003, Britain’s The Register reported that the U.S. Justice Department was setting up an even larger database:

A huge database system designed to find sexually abused children is under development in the US … The US Justice Department’s Child Victim Identification Program will include a catalogue of thousands of illicit pictures seized from suspects and collected from the Web. This could make the Justice Department the “owner of the world’s largest collection of child pornography,” AP reports.

According to that AP report, child pornography investigators in several countries had already contributed images to the database, as had “the FBI, Secret Service, Postal Inspection Service and exploited-children groups.” 

The goal is for the system to “eventually include most of the illicit photographs in circulation on the Internet.” 
Advanced image recognition software will be utilized in an attempt match and identify the children in the photographic images, which will, as The Register noted, make it easier “to identify and locate sexually abused children.” 

 [BUT HOLD ON! WON'T THAT SORT OF DATABASE ALSO COMPROMISE THESE CHILDREN? COULDN'T THE DATABASE ITSELF MAKE THEM TARGETS?]

It is certainly within the realm of possibility that the high profile child pornography raids in recent years, which invariably result in relatively few arrests and even fewer prosecutions and convictions, are not intended to punish the victimizers, but to identify and compromise them.

 And is it not inconceivable that the databases being compiled will be utilized as something of a recruitment list to identify those persons who have been ‘preconditioned,’ so to speak?

One thing can be stated with certainty about the thousands of victims of today’s child pornography and child prostitution rings: some day, many of them will come forward to tell harrowing stories of their early childhood abuse. 

They will speak of acts of depravity committed against children that are so heinous as to be almost beyond human comprehension. 
And yet, as difficult as their stories will be to believe, they will be documented by the images stored in Interpol’s computers, and in the U.S. Justice Department’s computers.

But how many of these victims will be believed?"

HOW MANY WILL BE SILENCED BECAUSE OF WHO USED AND MOLESTED THEM?

HOW MANY DIDN'T LIVE TO POINT A FINGER?





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SOURCES NOT CITED ABOVE:

http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-ConspiracyTheory&NWO/+Doc-ConspiracyTheory-NWO&Pedophilia&Homosexuality/PedophocracyPart6.htm

http://prorev.com/sexindc.htm

http://www.american-buddha.com/pervert.indeathspencetrueform.htm

TRANS-PACIFIC TREATY ERASES AMERICAN JOBS

WHY ARE SOME SENATORS FURIOUS, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP, A 'SUPER-NAFTA' TREATY!
IT'S GOING TO CRACK DOWN ON THE INTERNET IN WAYS YOU JUST WON'T BELIEVE, AND IT'S GOING TO COST AMERICANS JOBS...AGAIN!
The US entered into negotiations for a regional trans-pacific trade agreement in March 2008. As of mid-2012, there have been 13 rounds of secretive negotiations, 5 leaks of proposed text, and very little involvement of the public.

Everything we know about the TPP, we know from leaks.
The negotiators have not once willingly given the public, or public interest organizations, any information.
WHY NOT?
BECAUSE IT'S THAT BAD A DEAL FOR AMERICANS, THAT'S WHY!
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/first-congress-member-allowed-to-read-secret-treaty-says-there-is-no-national-security-purpose-in-keeping-this-text-secret-this-agreement-hands-the-sovereignty-of-our-country-over-t.html
<<First Congress Member Allowed to Read Secret Treaty Says “There Is No National Security Purpose In Keeping This Text Secret … This Agreement Hands The Sovereignty of Our Country Over to Corporate Interests.”
CORPORATIONS WIN BIG, AMERICANS LOSE...THE REPUBLICANS MUST BE IN PURE ECSTASY ON THIS ONE! THE LITTLE MAN LOSES, THE ELITE WIN...WHAT A GREAT DAY FOR THE GOP!
An international treaty IS NOW being negotiated IN SECRET which would not only crack down on Internet privacy much more than SOPA or ACTA, but would actually destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. and all other signatories.

It's called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Ron Wyden is the chairman of the trade committee in the Senate … the committee which is supposed to have jurisdiction over the TPP. Wyden is also on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and so he and his staff have high security clearances and are normally able to look at classified documents.
And yet Wyden and his staff have been denied access to the TPP’s text.
Indeed, the decision to keep the text of TPP secret was itself classified as secret.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden – the head of the committee which is supposed to oversee TPP – is so furious about the lack of access that he has introduced legislation to force disclosure.

Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is so upset by it that he has leaked a document on his website to show what’s going on. [He obviously decided to pull that...I didn't find it on his site.]>>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/darrell-issa-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal_n_1521035.html
Issa, who endeared himself to the tech community in 2011 by speaking out against the Stop Online Piracy Act, is again taking up Silicon Valley's cause in the talks surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multilateral free trade agreement currently being negotiated between the United States and eight Pacific nations. His move follows a barrage of criticism over U.S. demands in the talks, which have alarmed global health experts, domestic labor unions and government transparency advocates.
On Tuesday afternoon, Issa published the entire intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific agreement as drafted by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the White House agency responsible for negotiating trade deals. The document was previously available online through unofficial channels of questionable legality, but Issa's posting of the document dramatically increases the political pressure on USTR and the Obama administration.

But a common complaint from nearly every non-profit group monitoring the Trans-Pacific deal is the intense level of secrecy surrounding it. The governments of every nation involved in the talks can see the draft proposals offered by the Obama administration, as can American corporate officials serving on government advisory boards. But the proposals are shielded from the general public, with many nonprofits only made aware of the potential impact on jobs, health or technology through leaked texts.
NOTE: ISSA MUST HAVE TAKEN THAT IP DOWN...BUT HERE IS THE ENTIRE THING ANYWAY, FROM ANOTHER SITE, WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO ITS ACTUAL GOALS:
http://keepthewebopen.com/tpp
<<Closed-door negotiations are continuing on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which could potentially impact the way the Internet works for American taxpayers, innovators and the global Internet community. Because the Obama Administration has kept citizens, many-stakeholders and Congress in the dark, little is known about the intellectual property (IP) rights chapter of TPP beyond rumors and a February 2011 U.S. draft proposal. While we share the agreements stated goal of strengthening IP rights protections, the process should be done openly and collaboratively, with any outcome protecting individual rights and the expanding vibrancy and growth of the Internet. To date, we believe that TPP falls short.

With careful consideration, and in response to the Administration’s continued refusal to negotiate transparently and inclusively, we have opened the February 2011 United States TPP proposal for public comment, edits and improvements here in the Madison platform. We invite the Administration and other TPP negotiating countries to listen to your input, because we believe you deserve better than more back-room deal-making that could result in a legally-binding product that harms the Internet, does little to enhance IP protections, and further erodes your ability to freely access information. And as we have learned from SOPA, PIPA and ACTA, the public has a strong desire for the Federal government to engage in an open and collaborative process on matters impacting the Internet. Listening to your input and working with you can lead to better results for stakeholders, innovators and individual Internet users.>>

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement ("TPP") is a free trade agreement currently being negotiated by nine countries: The United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Although the TPP covers a wide range of issues, this site focuses on the TPP's intellectual property (IP) chapter.
http://tppinfo.org/
The TPP suffers from a serious lack of transparency, threatens to impose more stringent copyright without public input, and pressures foreign governments to adopt unbalanced laws.
The TPP needs public input.
The TPP intellectual property chapter isn’t limited to provisions on trade and tariffs—it would implement substantive provisions of copyright law, which affects users, technology companies, and creators. Despite this, the US hasn’t meaningfully tried to inform or engage the public. Only large companies—not public interest advocates—are allowed to view and influence the US’s negotiating positions.
The TPP should not kick people off the internet.
The TPP would encourage ISPs to institute measures like “three strikes”—which kicks users off their internet connection after three infringement accusations—and deep packet inspection.
The negotiators are also holding off-the-record "intersessional" meetings between official sessions.

ON JUNE 18, FLORIDA REPRESENTATIVE, ALAN GRAYSON, ALSO BLEW THE LID OFF THIS SECRET DIRTY DEAL GOING DOWN:
<<Last month, 10,000 of us submitted comments to the United States Trade Representative (USTR), in which we objected to new so-called free trade agreements. We asked that the government not sell out our democracy to corporate interests.
Because of this pressure, the USTR finally let a member of Congress – little ole me, Alan Grayson – actually see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a large, secret trade agreement that is being negotiated with many countries in East Asia and South America.
The TPP is nicknamed “NAFTA on steroids.”  Now that I’ve read it, I can see why. I can’t tell you what’s in the agreement, because the U.S. Trade Representative calls it classified. But I can tell you two things about it.

1)    There is no national security purpose in keeping this text secret.

2)    This agreement hands the sovereignty of our country over to corporate interests. >>
[SEE http://alangraysonemails.tumblr.com/post/53325968066/i-saw-the-secret-trade-deal]

IN SPITE OF THESE OUTCRIES, IN SPITE OF KNOWING THIS WILL BRING AMERICA TO ITS KNEES FINANCIALLY, AGAIN, JUST LIKE NAFTA CLOSED BUSINESSES ALL ACROSS AMERICA, AND SAW MILLIONS OF JOBS GO OVERSEAS, CONGRESS JUST MAY PASS THIS THING!
THE REPUBLICANS WILL LIKE IT BECAUSE IT REDUCES COSTS FOR THEIR CORPORATE FINANCIERS, THOSE WHO FILL THEIR "WAR CHESTS" WITH MONEY
EVERY NEW ELECTION, THEIR PALS WHOSE NAMES THE STOCK MARKET LOVES.

DEMOCRATS MAY LOVE IT BECAUSE IT CONTINUES THE CHIPPING-AWAY AT THE INTERNET, SOMETHING THEIR BOSS IN THE OVAL OFFICE SEEMS DEDICATED TO CONTROLLING.

BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES WILL SELL AMERICANS OUT YET AGAIN, AND, AS USUAL, WE, THE PEOPLE WILL GET A ROYAL SCREWING-OVER.
THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS MUST REALLY ENJOY SUCH THINGS AS NO ONE MUCH DOES ANYTHING TO CHANGE IT....EVER.
"SECRET TREATIES"...NO WORRIES!
UNCLE SAM LOVES HIS BRAIN-DEAD, VOICELESS, CHILDREN, HIS COMPLACENT L'IL SHEEP.
RIIIIIIIGHT...SURE...OK.
WHEN THE FREE, UNFETTERED INTERNET IS A DISTANT MEMORY, DON'T COME CRYING HERE!
WHEN MORE JOBS SHIP OUT OF AMERICA, JUST EAT IT AND SMILE...UNLESS YOU DO SOMETHING TO STOP IT.

24 TIMES WORSE THAN CHERNOBYL, FUKUSHIMA RADIATION SPIKES AGAIN!

HOW FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION OF THE PACIFIC WILL SPREAD OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS. THE TIME LAPSE IS SEEN IN THE UPPER LEFT PORTION OF THE VIDEO.

"Fukushima has nearly 24 TIMES more nuclear fuel than Chernoby!
"NUCLEAR FUEL, ANY NUCLEAR FUEL, IS ESSENTIALLY A FIRE THAT NEVER STOPS BURNING."

Nuclear Engineer, September 6th, 2013: Fuel appears damaged in Fukushima Unit 4 pool and will fall apart if they pull it up. Fukushima Unit 4: the plans are in November to start removing the fuel. The question is always, ‘What’s going to keep the fuel sub-critical as you’re withdrawing it from the pool?’ That hasn’t been answered to my satisfaction yet because — although there are a lot of spent fuel assemblies in there which could achieve criticality — there are also 200 new fuel assemblies which have equivalent to a full tank of gas, let’s call it that. Those are the ones most likely to go critical first.Some pictures that were released recently show that a lot of fuel is damaged, so when they go ahead and put the grapple on it, and they pull it up, it’s going to fall apart. The boreflex has been eaten away; it doesn’t take saltwater very good.
AUDIO HERE: http://enenews.com/nuclear-engineer-fuel-unit-4-pool-appears-damaged-will-fall-apart-pull-make-sure-radiation-monitor-working-whats-going-when-drops-audio
RECENT PHOTOS, September 7, 2013, TAKEN OF THE INSIDE OF UNIT 4 SHOW VERY LITTLE WATER COOLING THE SPENT RODS.They expected to find 4.5 meters of water and only found a few inches.
http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cameras-show-fukushima-reactors-have-virtually-no-water-inside-it-pours-out-as-fast-as-it-goes-in/

ANOTHER IMPORTANT UPDATE ON CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER JUST 4 INCHES FROM SURFACE, SURE TO INUNDATE THE AREA WHERE ALL THE STORAGE TANKS ARE AND FLOW CONTUNUOUSLY INTO THE PACIFIC. ALSO, AERIAL VIEW OF INCREASING CONTAMINATED STEAM RISING FROM THE SITE.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/nuclear/just-how-dangerous-are-the-fukushima-leaks-15855360?src=rss
AUGUST 27, 2013
<<The water that leaked out of the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors sank through the ground until it reached the water table, and then merged with the water there and began flowing to the sea. (This is in addition to manmade flow paths—pipes, culverts, etc.—through which some water has flowed). This groundwater brings with it any of the dissolved radionuclides it carries. Not only that, but any attempt to block its path can only be temporary—eventually the water will back up, as water will behind any dam, until it flows around the obstruction or overtops it. This is why contaminated groundwater is rising toward the surface. It has effectively been dammed and it's acting like any dammed stream.>>

IMPORTANT UPDATE AUGUST 18, 2013!

"FUKUSHIMA APOCALYPSE:Years of ‘duct tape fixes’ could result in ‘millions of deaths’ "
August 18, 2013, An interview by RT News with Christina Consolo, a former clinical researcher supervisor with NIH credentialing, an expert on radiation, mitigation, and other nuclear issues.
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-apocalypse-fuel-removal-598/

'The site has been propped up with duct tape and a kick-stand for over two years'
 There is no example historically to draw from on a scale of this magnitude. Everything is theory. But anyone who says this can't happen is not being truthful, because nobody really knows how bad things could get.

The most disturbing part of all of this is that Fukushima has been this dangerous, and precarious, since the second week of March 2011. The ante will definitely be upped once the fuel removal starts.
'The mainstream media, world governments, nuclear agencies, health organizations, weather reporters, and the health care industry has completely ignored three ongoing triple meltdowns that have never been contained'

An obvious attempt to downplay this disaster and its consequences have been repeated over and over again from 'experts' in the nuclear industry that also have a vested interest in their industry remaining intact. And, there has been a lot of misleading information released by TEPCO, which an hour or two of reading by a diligent reporter would have uncovered, in particular the definition of 'cold shutdown.’

Over 300 mainstream news outlets worldwide ran the erroneous 'cold shutdown' story repeatedly, which couldn't be further from the truth…[it was] yet another lie that was spun by TEPCO to placate the public, and perpetuated endlessly by the media and nuclear lobby.

 Unfortunately, TEPCO waited until a severe emergency arose to finally report how bad things really are with this latest groundwater issue...if we are even being told the truth. Historically, everything TEPCO says always turns out to be much worse than they initially admit.
'Unfortunately there is no one better qualified to deal with this than the Russians, despite their own shortcomings'

I think the best chance of success is…that experts around the world drop everything they are doing to work on this problem, and have Russia either lead the containment effort or consult with them closely. They have the most experience, they have decades of data. They took their accident seriously and made a Herculean effort to contain it.

Just how profound the effect will be on down-winders in North America, or the entire northern hemisphere for that matter, will literally depend on where the wind blows and where the rain falls, the duration and extent of a nuclear fire or chain-reaction event, and whether or not that reaction becomes self-sustaining.

 As a comparison: Chernobyl was one reactor, in a rural area, a quarter of the size of one of the reactors at Fukushima. There was no 'spent fuel pool' to worry about. Chernobyl was treated in-situ...meaning everything was pretty much left where it was while the effort to contain it was made (and very expeditiously I might add) not only above ground, but below ground.

At Fukushima, we have six top-floor pools all loaded with fuel that eventually will have to be removed, the most important being Reactor 4, although Reactor 3 is in pretty bad shape too. Spent fuel pools were never intended for long-term storage, they were only to assist short-term movement of fuel. Using them as a long-term storage pool is a huge mistake that has become an 'acceptable' practice and repeated at every reactor site worldwide. 

 'If and when the corium reaches the Tokyo aquifer, serious and expedient discussions will have to take place about evacuating 40 million people'

We have endless releases into the Pacific Ocean that will be ongoing for not only our lifetimes, but our children’s' lifetimes. We have 40 million people living in the Tokyo area nearby. We have continued releases from the underground corium that reminds us it is there occasionally with steam events and huge increases in radiation levels. Across the Pacific, we have at least two peer-reviewed scientific studies so far that have already provided evidence of increased mortality in North America, and thyroid problems in infants on the west coast states from our initial exposures. We have increasing contamination of the food chain, through bioaccumulation and biomagnification. And a newly stated concern is the proximity of melted fuel in relation to the Tokyo aquifer that extends under the plant. If and when the corium reaches the Tokyo aquifer, serious and expedient discussions will have to take place about evacuating 40 million people from the greater metropolitan area. As impossible as this sounds, you cannot live in an area which does not have access to safe water.

The operation to begin removing fuel from such a severely damaged pool has never been attempted before. The rods are unwieldy and very heavy, each one weighing two-thirds of a ton. But it has to be done, unless there is some way to encase the entire building in concrete with the pool as it is. I don't know of anyone discussing that option, but it would seem much 'safer' than what they are about to attempt...but not without its own set of risks.

And all this collateral damage will continue for decades, if not centuries, even if things stay exactly the way they are now. But that is unlikely, as bad things happen like natural disasters and deterioration with time...earthquakes, subsidence, and corrosion, to name a few. Every day that goes by, the statistical risk increases for this apocalyptic scenario. No one can say or know how this will play out, except that millions of people will probably die even if things stay exactly as they are, and billions could die if things get any worse.

The fuel rods are in danger every day they remain in the pool. The more variables you add to this equation, and the more time that passes, the more risk you are exposed to. Each reactor and spent fuel pool has its own set of problems, and critical failure with any of them could ultimately have the end result of an above-ground, self-sustaining nuclear reaction. It will not be known if extraction of all the fuel will even be possible, as some of it may be severely damaged, until the attempt is made to remove it.

 RT: Finally, what is the worst case scenario? What level of contamination are we looking at and how dire would the consequences be for the long-term health of the region?

CC: Extremely dire. This is a terrible answer to have to give, but the worst case scenario could play out in death to billions of people. A true apocalypse. Since we have been discussing Reactor 4, I'll stick to that problem in particular, but also understand that a weather event, power outage, earthquake, tsunami, cooling system failure, or explosion and fire in any way, shape, or form, at any location on the Fukushima site, could cascade into an event of that magnitude as well.

 At any time, following any of these possible events, or even all by itself, nuclear fuel in reactor 4's pool could become critical, mostly because it will heat up the pool to a point where water will burn off and the zirconium cladding will catch fire when it is exposed to air. This already happened at least once in this pool that we are aware of. It almost happened again recently after a rodent took out an electrical line and cooling was stopped for days.

Once the integrity of the pool is compromised that will likely lead to more criticalities, which then can spread to other fuel. The heat from this reaction would weaken the structure further, which could then collapse and the contents of the pool end up in a pile of rubble on the ground. This would release an enormous amount of radioactivity, which Arnie Gundersen has referred to as a “Gamma Shine Event” without precedence, and Dr. Christopher Busby has deemed an “Open-air super reactor spectacular.”

This would preclude anyone from not only being at Reactor 4, but at Reactors 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, the associated pools for each, and the common spent fuel pool. Humans could no longer monitor and continue cooling operations at any of the reactors and pools, thus putting the entire site at risk for a massive radioactive release.

'The northern half of Japan would be uninhabitable, and some researchers have argued that it already is'

 The nuclear industry needs to come clean. If this leads to every reactor in the world being shut down, so be it. If the world governments truly care about their people and this planet, this is what needs to be done.

Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku stated in an interview a few weeks after the initial accident that “TEPCO is literally hanging on by their fingernails.” They still are, and always have been. The Japanese have proven time and time again they are not capable of handling this disaster. Now we are entrusting them to execute the most dangerous fuel removal in history.

We are extremely lucky that this apocalyptic scenario hasn't happened yet, considering the state of Reactor 4. But for many, it is already too late. The initial explosions and spent fuel pool fires may have already sealed the fate of millions of people. Time will tell. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not being honest.
<END INTERVIEW>

AFTER 2 1/2 YEARS, THIS IS THE "PROGRESS"?
http://rt.com/files/news/20/20/e0/00/3.jpg

WHY DIDN'T TEPCO COME CLEAN A YEAR AGO? TWO YEARS AGO?
WHY IS THE WORLD STANDING BACK AND IGNORING THIS?

[THE ORIGINAL POST IS BELOW, BUT NOW THAT TEPCO HAS ADMITTED IT'S BEEN LYING QUITE A LOT ABOUT THINGS I CAN'T VERIFY WHAT IS TRUE, SO ASSUME NOT MUCH THEY SAID PRIOR TO AUGUST HAS BEEN CORRECT....IT IS MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN THEY TOLD US PRIOR TO AUG.1, 2013.]

Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day.
Specifically, Tepco very recently transferred many more radioactive spent fuel rods into the storage pools. According to Associated Press, there were – at the time of the earthquake and tsunami – 3,400 tons of fuel in seven spent fuel pools plus 877 tons of active fuel in the cores of the reactors.
That totals 4,277 tons of nuclear fuel at Fukushima.
Which means that there is almost 24 times more nuclear fuel at Fukushima than Chernobyl."
http://vernonradiationsafety.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/fukushima-update-61113/

"'Fallout levels measured at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) appear to be the highest since shortly after the Fukushima crisis occurred.
Should Hawaii be concerned? Is our Department of Health still measuring fallout regularly?'"
http://www.disappearednews.com/2013/04/radioactive-fallout-from-fukushima.html

THE ANSWERS ARE YES, HAWAII SHOULD BE VERY CONCERNED, AS RADIATION LEVELS THERE ROSE 20% IN ONE MONTH, AND NO, IF THE U.S. IS MEASURING THE CHANGES, NO ONE IS SOUNDING THE ALARMS, ALTHOUGH SEAL PUPS, FISH, INFANT WHALES, EVEN SEAWEED DYING OFF THE WEST COAST HAVE SHOWN VERY HIGH LEVELS OF RADIATION IN THE PAST MONTH.
FARMERS, RANCHERS, GARDENERS ALL ACROSS AMERICA ARE STILL FINDING MUTATIONS IN CROPS AND ANIMALS, IN INSECTS AND LOCAL PLANTS FROM THIS CONTINUOUS RADIATION, AND WE STILL HAVE AN INCREASE IN BIRTH DEFECTS IN AMERICA, ESPECIALLY ON THE WEST COAST.
WHAT DO THE SO-CALLED SCIENTISTS IN AMERICA THINK...THAT IF THEY IGNORE THIS, IT WILL GO AWAY?
IT'S JUST GETTING WORSE!

"'Fukushima fallout appeared to affect all areas of the U.S., and was especially large in some, mostly in the western part of the nation, the study said. Even worse, other conditions affecting babies born in that time frame may have been caused or worsened by Fukushima, the researchers said. Experts suggest that parents of children born in the western United States or Pacific regions in March or April 2011 get their children checked by a pediatrician for congenital hypothyroidism.'"

http://healthyliving.msn.com/blogs/daily-apple-blog-post?post=7e99ec99-b07c-4784-937c-b71c94fa6788&_nwpt=1

14,000 AMERICAN DEATHS BLAMED ON FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT!
THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY AND HEALTH HAS A PDF STATING THIS NUMBER...
http://www.radiation.org/reading/pubs/HS42_1F.pdf
This is the first peer-reviewed study published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima.

WHY IS NO ACTION BEING TAKEN BY THE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR COMMUNITY TO INFORM US EACH DAY ABOUT THESE SPIKES AND THE INCREDIBLE LEAKS AND/OR INTENTIONAL DUMPING OF CONTAMINATED MATERIAL INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN?

JAPAN HAS RUN OUT OF ROOM TO STORE THE CONTAMINATED WATER FROM THE DAMAGED POWER PLANT AT FUKUSHIMA AND HAS "ASKED PERMISSION" TO DUMP IT INTO THE OCEAN.THEY EVEN APOLOGIZED TO LOCAL FISHERMEN FOR HAVING TO TAKE THIS STEP!
THEY HAVE BEEN STORING THIS CONTAMINATED WATER IN EARTHEN POOLS WITH A THINNER PVC LINER THAN IS MANDATED FOR HAWAIIAN KOI PONDS, A LITTLE THICKER THAN AMERICAN GARBAGE BAGS! WHEREVER THE "CONTAINMENT POOLS" ARE DUG, HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WATER IS GETTING INTO THE SOIL AND TEPCO KNOWS THIS!
HOW MUCH LESS CAN TEPCO CARE ABOUT WHAT THIS IS DOING TO EVERY BIT OF WATER, AIR, OR SOIL THIS CONTINUING RADIATION IS LEAKING INTO?
PROBLEM IS, IT'S BEEN LEAKING AT AN ADMITTED RATE OF 75 GALLONS PER MINUTE FOR A VERY LONG TIME, BUT SOME SAY IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN THAT.
JAPAN HAS NOW RAISED THE "ACCEPTABLE LEVELS" OF RADIATION TO DANGEROUSLY HIGH AMOUNTS.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/government-reacts-to-fukushima-radiation-crisis-by-raising-acceptable-radiation-standards-instead-of-fixing-anything.html<<Government Reacts to Fukushima Radiation Crisis By Raising Acceptable Radiation Standards … Instead of Fixing Anything
So what has the American government done to protect us?It has pressured the Japanese government to re-start its nuclear program, and is allowing Fukushima seafood to be sold in the U.S.
And U.S. nuclear regulators actually weakened safety standards for U.S. nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster.
Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found.
Examples abound. When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit. When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised, so plants could meet standards.
Failed cables. Busted seals. Broken nozzles, clogged screens, cracked concrete, dented containers, corroded metals and rusty underground pipes — all of these and thousands of other problems linked to aging were uncovered in the AP's yearlong investigation. And all of them could escalate dangers in the event of an accident.
Yet despite the many problems linked to aging, not a single official body in government or industry has studied the overall frequency and potential impact on safety of such breakdowns in recent years, even as the NRC has extended the licenses of dozens of reactors.
Medical doctor Helen Caldicott notes:
The radiation guides (called Protective Action Guides or PAGs) allow cleanup many times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted. These guides govern evacuations, shelter-in-place orders, food restrictions and other actions following a wide range of “radiological emergencies.” The Obama administration blocked a version of these PAGs from going into effect during its first days in office. The version given approval late last Friday is substantially similar to those proposed under Bush, but duck some of the most controversial aspects:

• In soil, the PAGs allow long-term public exposure to radiation in amounts as high as 2,000 millirems. This would, in effect, increase a longstanding 1 in 10,000 person cancer rate to a rate of 1 in 23 persons exposed over a 30-year period;

• In water, the PAGs punt on an exact new standard and EPA “continues to seek input on this.” But the thrust of the PAGs is to give on-site authorities much greater “flexibility” in setting aside established limits; and
• Resolves an internal fight inside EPA between nuclear versus public health specialists in favor of the former. The PAGs are the product of Gina McCarthy, the assistant administrator for air and radiation whose nomination to serve as EPA Administrator is taken up this week by the Senate.
• Despite the years-long internal fight, this is the first public official display of these guides. This takes place as Japan grapples with these same issues in the two years following its Fukushima nuclear disaster.

“This is a public health policy only Dr. Strangelove could embrace. If this typifies the environmental leadership we can expect from Ms. McCarthy, then EPA is in for a long, dirty slog,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that the EPA package lacks a cogent rationale, is largely impenetrable and hinges on a series of euphemistic “weasel words.”>>
TEPCO AND THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT ARE DOING THE SAME, OR WORSE OVER THERE!
THEY HAVE RESORTED TO GETTING WORKERS FROM AMONG THE HOMELESS TO "REPAIR" THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, FUKUSHIMA! UNTRAINED BEFORE THEY ARE HIRED, THE NEW WORKERS KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT HOW TO HANDLE A DISASTER OF THIS SCALE! PROBLEM IS, WHO, IN THEIR RIGHT MIND, WOULD EVEN ATTEMPT "CLEANUP" ON A SITE THAT "HOT", THAT CONTAMINATED, THAT DEADLY?
Prior to the accident, the maximum permissible dose for Japanese nuclear workers was 100 mSv in any one year, but on 15 March 2011, the Japanese Health and Labor Ministry enforced the permitted 250 mSv limit, in light of the situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
[Bradsher, Keith; Tabuchi, Hiroko (16 March 2011), Asia, "Last Defense at Troubled Reactors: 50 Japanese Workers", The New York Times (NY, USA)]
WHAT DO THEY THINK HIRING UNTRAINED HOMELESS MEN WILL SOLVE?
NURSING HOME RESIDENTS NEAR THE PLANT ARE DYING AT RATES THREE TIMES THE PAST "NORM", AND THE EVIDENCE OF HOW THE "HARMLESS LEVELS" ARE AFFECTING CHILDREN ARE INCREASINGLY EVIDENT, EVEN DOWN TO FLATTENED FEET, A SIGN THE CHILDREN ARE WALKING ON VERY CONTAMINATED, RADIOACTIVE SOIL

TOKYO RESIDENTS ARE ALARMED AT THE HUGE SPIKES IN RADIATION THERE, INCREASES THAT WILL ONLY CONTINUE AS FUKUSHIMA CONTINUES TO BE THE UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM.

YOU MAY VIEW A LARGER IMAGE OF RADIATION SPIKES HERE:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNRgewqzYyVkuXdImhqPkCLwEfWsBcSa98AQKQ7tcvxIKEgtxAfXcufl7_jyjmbq-Js43hzn2NCtcYN8mJsNJ82UZIxhcN4RyHEATdUWEyFG4RyDlrEcfR8xTYJlrwB8JufUkuyWhbyOL/s1600-h/Radioactivity%25255B5%25255D.jpg

TEPCO, WHICH OWNS THE PLANT, HAS KNOWINGLY HIDDEN SUCH SPIKES, HIDDEN THE FACT ON AT LEAST THREE OCCASIONS THAT THEY LOST POWER TO THE COOLING UNITS, AND SQUELCHED NEWS OF THE LEAKAGE, EVEN AS MANY CITIZENS OF THE DISASTER AREA REPORT THAT TEPCO AND LOCAL OFFICIALS ARE PUSHING THEM TO GO BACK INTO THE RADIATED ZONE TO LIVE, AND TO TAKE THEIR CHILDREN BACK.
THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS EVEN SEEMS TO BACK THIS IDEA OF SENDING PEOPLE BACK TO TOXIC HOMES TO LIVE!
http://vernonradiationsafety.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/fukushima-disaster-may-13-2013/

ONE RESIDENT WROTE:
http://vernonradiationsafety.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/fukushima-update-61113/

“The message being passed around is that worrying too much about radiation and the safety of our children actually has a negative effect on them, and that by removing their children from the area mothers run the risk of breaking up their families. People have begun saying ‘For the sake of my child’s health, I’m not going to think about radiation any more.’

“Those who have questions or doubts regarding the information given to them by the government and local authorities come to be thought of as intentionally going against the system. Meanwhile, the people who dare to speak of moving away for their own safety are often considered to be selfish, egotistical beings who are doing little more than abandoning  their home towns. I feel like we are all being led in one, incredibly restrictive, direction. We find ourselves in the bizarre situation where those who – without bias or intent – simply want to know more about the current situation and what will happen next, or to learn from the events of the past and go forward, are seen as individuals to be wary of. Thinking independently, experiencing things first-hand, raising issues or making suggestions that go against the grain; it almost feels like all of these things have come to be prohibited.”

“The government has created an environment wherein people are going about their daily lives, all the time wondering whether their child will develop cancer or leukemia, yet conditioned not to breathe a word about it. It’s like living in wartime Japan again.”

WHY ARE THEY TREATING THEIR OWN PEOPLE LIKE THIS?

WHY ARE AMERICA'S OFFICIALS DOING THE SAME HERE? 14,000 AMERICANS DIED FROM FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATION?
May 14th, 2013
A creeping and never ending deadly fog of radiation, invisible to the eye but not to the immune system, continues to blanket the West Coast while its human cost is just beginning to be perceived.

The Washington Blog posed the question on April 13, 2013 ~ Is Fukushima Leaking … Or Are the Reactors Wholly Uncontained?
“You may have heard that Tepco ~ the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants ~ announced a large leak of radioactive water….. You may have heard that the cooling system in the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month. "

Associated Press notes: ” Experts suspect a continuous leak into the ocean through an underground water system, citing high levels of contamination in fish caught in waters just off the plant. (Tepco graphics of the Fukushima plants even appear to show water directly flowing from the plant to the ocean. And see this.)  In fact, Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day. ”

“A quick calculation shows that Chernobyl released around ten thousand times more radioactive cesium each day during the reactor fire. But the Chernobyl fire only lasted 10 days … and the Fukushima release has been ongoing for more than 2 years so far. Indeed, Fukushima has already spewed much more radioactive cesium and iodine 131 than Chernobyl. The amount of radioactive cesium released by Fukushima was some 20-30 times higher than initially admitted.

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION WAS/IS 24 TIMES THAT OF CHERNOBYL!
Fukushima also pumped out huge amounts of radioactive iodine 129 ~ which has a half-life of 15.7 million years. Fukushima has also dumped up to 900 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium-90 ~ which is a powerful internal emitter which mimics calcium and collects in our bones ~ into the ocean. The amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl … and so could keep leaking for decades, centuries or millennia.”

SO, I SUPPOSE WE JUST SIT ABOUT AND WAIT FOR....WHATEVER....?
IF YOU CARE, CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMEN...THEY MAY DO NOTHING, AS THEY HAVE FOR OVER 2 YEARS NOW, BUT IF WE KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THEM, MAYBE SOMEONE WILL LISTEN.
OTHERWISE, AS RADIATION LEVELS CONTINUE TO CREEP UPWARD, RADIATION-RELATED ILLNESSES, MUTATIONS, AND DEATHS MAY BECOME THE NEW NORM.

IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE, NO OTHER LINK, AMERICANS, DO READ THIS ONE, AND DO LOOK AT THOSE MAPS...WE MAY BE THE NEXT FUKUSHIMA!
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43455859/ns/us_news-environment/#.UcfKSdiO6dm

A VERY TECHNICAL REPORT, BUT NOT BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING IF WE JUST LISTEN CAREFULLY.
Fukushima radiation dispersal area part/1
http://youtu.be/6PrhG5gmVb8
PART 2
http://youtu.be/ayKbIUkHXdE

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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43465689/ns/us_news-environment/#.UcfK1NiO6dk

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43455859/ns/us_news-environment/#.UcfLENiO6dnALSO FROM AUGUST, 2013....
Latest Headlines:http://enenews.com/
Japan's Top Nuclear Official: Tepco will never be able to store all the radioactive water at Fukushima plant — They'll end up dumping it into ocean

Wall St. Journal: Official warns Fukushima reactor buildings could "topple" — Tepco's work to change flow of groundwater can form pools below surface that soften the earth

BBC: Water crisis at Fukushima has only just begun — "Plant sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer" — It's rapidly being overwhelmed deep beneath ground (VIDEO)

Wall St. Journal: Fukushima leaks are "massive public health issue" — Obviously this could spread throughout Pacific and get into food supply (VIDEO)

Oregon Health Officials: We are actively monitoring the situation in Japan — We are not 'yet' mobilizing in response to the news — We will respond with enhanced efforts as appropriate

Vice Governor: "Emergency situation" at Fukushima; Tepco has increased the risk of further leaks; Gov't needs to take over — NHK: Officials make "emergency visit" to damaged nuclear plant (VIDEOS)

TV: Nuclear expert says Fukushima "is already beyond Tepco's control" — Gov't concerned leakage to rapidly accelerate (VIDEO)

Asahi: Radioactive contamination 'soaring' in Fukushima groundwater — Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% — Tepco says it doesn't know why levels spiked (VIDEO)

Tepco Press Conference: The situation at Fukushima is bleak — "This discharge is beyond our control"

The Times: "Lethal threat" from Fukushima's highly radioactive water flowing into Pacific Ocean — "A threat to life"

BBC: Flow of radioactive water into Pacific could 'accelerate rapidly' now that barrier is breached at Fukushima plant — Tepco clearly in 'deep trouble'
AP: Strong M6 quake hits Northeast Japan — Rated Upper 5 intensity on scale up to 7 — Tepco says no reports of problems at Fukushima Daiichi (MAP)
Tunnels under Fukushima plant suspected to have quake damage — Allows radioactive water to 'move' into ground — Still holding over 15,000 tons — High-level contamination flowing in from turbine buildings — Tepco "couldn't afford to work on tunnels"