Tuesday, April 29, 2014

YOUR MOST PERSONAL DATA BEING SOLD EVERY DAY

"BIG BROTHER IS NOT ONLY WATCHING, BUT LISTENING TO AND READING EVERYTHING WE DO, SAY, OR WRITE ABOUT, AND IS BUYING AND SELLING THE INFORMATION COLLECTED ON ALL OF US.

THIS IS NOT THE NSA  [NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY] , BUT CORPORATIONS THAT COLLECT MORE DATA THAN THE NSA EVER HAS ON EVERY AMERICAN "CONSUMER".

"DATA BROKERS" ARE EVEN SELLING LISTS OF RAPE VICTIMS, THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM AIDS/HIV, LISTS OF CANCER PATIENTS, PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA, NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF POLICE OFFICERS, TEACHERS, ETC, ALL SO CORPORATE AMERICA AND UNETHICAL COMPANIES CAN MARKET REAL OR IMAGINED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO "CONSUMERS". 

SINCE DATA BROKERS REALLY DON'T KNOW THE ONES BUYING SUCH INFORMATION, ANYONE CAN POSE AS A VALID "ORGANIZATION" AND BUY THIS DATA!

<<Currently, data brokers are required by federal law to maintain the privacy of a consumer's data ONLY IF it is used for credit, employment, insurance or housing. BUT while medical privacy laws prohibit doctors from sharing patient information, medical information that data brokers get elsewhere, such as from the purchase of over-the-counter drugs and other health care items, is fair game.

In some cases, such lists could put people in harm's way.

The list of more than 30,000 police officers' home addresses, for example, could put the lives of the officers and their families in danger, said Dixon. Meanwhile, a list of seniors suffering from dementia could open them up to predatory financial offers.>>


YOUR DATE OF BIRTH, YOUR HOME ADDRESS, YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER, YOUR MARITAL STATUS, WHERE YOU WORK, HOW MUCH INCOME YOU MAKE, YOUR POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION, THE NAMES AND AGES OF ANY CHILDREN YOU HAVE, WHERE THEY ATTEND SCHOOL, THE SAME INFORMATION ABOUT ALL YOUR "CONTACTS", WHETHER FRIENDS OR FAMILY, EVEN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEST SCORES, HEALTH INFORMATION, STATUS OF YOUR MORTGAGE OR OTHER LOANS, ALL ARE SOLD OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO ANYONE WITH THE MONEY TO BUY IT!  

"DATA BROKERS" ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE TRACK AND SELL YOUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION TO "PAYDAY LENDERS", DEBT CONSOLIDATION FIRMS, AND OTHER MARKETS. 
SOME OF WHAT THEY TRACK AND SELL IS NOT QUITE LEGAL FOR THEM TO DO, BUT LOOPHOLES ALLOW MORE THAN YOU MAY THINK TO BE COLLECTED AND SOLD. 

SUCH DATA MINING AND DATA SELLING OFTEN TARGETS THE POOR, THE ELDERLY, THOSE IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY, OR YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED STUDENTS AND THE UNEMPLOYED STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET.

SCAMMERS AND UNETHICAL LENDING COMPANIES, THOSE OFFERING "PAYDAY LOANS", WAYS TO "MAKE A QUICK BUCK", "HELP" FOR SINGLE PARENTS, THE RECENTLY WIDOWED, ETC,  MOVE IN QUICKLY WITH ALL THIS DATA THEY BUY AND MAKE BAD TIMES EVEN WORSE FOR MANY OF AMERICA'S MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS.

THOSE WHO USE SCAMS TO TARGET THE UNSUSPECTING OFTEN USE THIS DATA FOR TELEMARKETING TO CONSUMERS, OFFERING GOODS OR SERVICES THAT DON'T EXIST, JUST TO GET THEIR TARGETS TO GIVE THEM THEIR BANKING INFORMATION.

SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST NOT AWARE OF THE OLD ADAGE, "IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS NOT TRUE!"


BUT THIS IS NOT HAPPENING JUST IN AMERICA!

IN MANY OF THE POORER NATIONS, THE POOREST ARE TARGETS FOR EVEN WORSE THINGS, LIKE SELLING AN ORGAN, OR A CHILD FOR MUCH-NEEDED MONEY!

April 29, 2014, CNN NEWS:  

<<Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller of West Virginia, called out one data broker, List Connection, in a February letter to NextMark, a website that advertises a variety of data broker lists.

Rockefeller, who heads the Senate Commerce Committee, is sponsoring legislation that would allow consumers to see and correct the information collected about them and to opt out of the lists entirely.

Wednesday's hearing came after a year-long Senate committee investigation into the $156 billion data brokerage industry. 

The Federal Trade Commission has also called on major data brokers to increase transparency into their data practices.

Committee chairman John "Jay" Rockefeller criticized several of the country's largest data brokers for resisting the oversight and said he would continue to push for information on how they get data and who they sell it to.

In his closing remarks, the senator said he was "revolted" by the lists Dixon had revealed and said the commission would continue to explore the issue.

"I think it's our job as government to... bring into sunlight what is going on," he said. "I think its serious, and I think it's a dark underside of American life, in which people make a lot of money and cause people to suffer even more." 

Another list Rockefeller cited featured leads for sweepstakes offers.
The data broker, Multimedia Lists, markets it as a list featuring "highly responsive opportunity seekers" who are ripe for promotional offers, sweepstakes, contests and other "opportunities to make easy money."

Multimedia Lists did not respond to phone and email requests for comment.

Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, marketers aren't allowed to use your sensitive credit information, like your credit score, unless it's to make a "firm" offer of credit, say for a credit card or auto loan.

But there is a lot of other information -- like whether or not you're facing foreclosure or get denied for a credit card -- that data brokers argue is fair game.

While data broker's lists are often used for harmless purposes, like sending catalogs, the growing use of all of this personal information is raising red flags among privacy advocates.

"We shouldn't use our most private information for just any marketing purpose," said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
 "We need additional protections."
PIRG is calling for increased transparency regarding who is buying our information and how it is being used.>>   

THE VIDEO AT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE SHOWS HOW EVEN YOUR CHILD'S TEST SCORES CAN BE FOUND ONLINE!
http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/06/27/t-cmr-education-data-kids-cloud.cnnmoney/
Ever wonder how it seems that your personal email page knows what you just wrote, what you just viewed and posts advertisements related to that beside your inbox emails?


THERE ARE PROGRAMS THAT TRACK YOUR ONLINE WEB SEARCHES, THE WEBSITES YOU VISIT, EVEN THE SUBJECT LINES OF THE EMAILS WE SEND OR RECEIVE, THAT'S HOW! 
BUT THAT'S JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG!

THIS INFORMATION IS TRANSMITTED INSTANTLY TO ANY POINT ON THE GLOBAL MAP TO THOSE WHO WANT SUCH DATA TO MARKET PRODUCTS OR SERVICES TO YOU.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO IS UP FOR SALE!

THERE ARE PERHAPS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO DO NOTHING ELSE ALL DAY BUT TRACK EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE, EVERY ITEM YOU BUY USING A CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD OR CHECK, ALL YOUR "SOCIAL MEDIA" POSTS AND DATA FROM THOSE.

<<Facebook and Twitter are particularly egregious.
 By scanning posts for a particular individual, you can find out who they are associating with, EVEN what users look like, etc. It's TRULY dangerous>>

<<People who warned us long ago that such data-mining and data-selling would be used by corporate America AND the governments of the world were decried as paranoid tinfoil hat-wearing lunatics again and again.

Looks like they were RIGHT!>> 

SOMEONE REMARKED THAT NO ONE READS THE LEGALESE OF SOCIAL MEDIA'S "TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENTS" , SO FEW ARE AWARE WHAT ALL THEY GIVE UP BY OPENING A FACEBOOK OR TWITTER ACCOUNT.

IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE! 

<<Not reading something is no excuse for blindly accepting it.
 Not understanding it because of the way it's written is different.
 Terms of service are written by lawyers for lawyers, and you're not supposed to understand them. Besides, if the ToS simply said, "You agree to let us do whatever the hell we want with your information", most people would accept anyway.>>

TRUE, MOST WOULD GO RIGHT AHEAD!

<<Your data  was never "yours". Even before computers, you were being tracked.
Your name and number were in the phone book, the police have your license plate number, know where you live and, through toll roads, knew where you went.
Stores would sell client lists WAY before people started screaming about it.
Magazine and newspaper subscription data was all for sale.
Same for catalog shopping (REMEMBER Sears?).
Even Census data was available.

No, you left a trail.
Now with the speed and connectivity of computers and the internet It is even more prolific, but in essence the same.
You want to "Drop Out?"
Try it.
Can't happen if you want to live a "normal" life.>>

DEFINE NORMAL???

September 5, 2013, CNN NEWS

<<[Such PRIVATE info] comes from [companies like] Acxiom, one of the country's largest data brokers, which on Wednesday unveiled a website called AboutTheData.com.

 Punch in your name and a few key stats, and you can see a snapshot of the information sold to retailers and marketers so they can target you with things like catalogs and coupons.
Acxiom claims to have a massive database that holds information on 190 million consumers -- everything from education level and political leanings to ethnicity and income level.
The CEO, Scott Howe, says, “Our digital reach will soon approach nearly every Internet user in the US.2 

"I knew they had a lot of information about me, but I didn't know they knew this much," said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum.
Dixon, meanwhile, noticed that her characteristics changed drastically based on which email address she used to look up her profile.

"One of these identities is not getting the same offers as the other identity," she said. "The concern is that the opportunities that you are being offered in life change based on how you are characterized."
In an informal survey of 10 people at CNNMoney, including myself, everyone reported at least one major inaccuracy in their profile. Most people reported multiple errors, and several people said many of the major personal, economic and other characteristics listed for them were wrong. A few people said their profiles were mostly on target.

Household income and the highest level of education were off for most. Several people were incorrectly listed as parents like I was, while others had the wrong ethnicity based on their "surname."

Acxiom said up to 30% of a person's profile information may be wrong at any given time since it is based on information from a variety of sources, including public records and surveys that may be incorrect or out of date.

Privacy advocates say the inaccuracies are troublesome since there is still little transparency about which companies purchase the information and how exactly they use it.

"It's gotten to the point where the big data machine is churning out profiles of consumers, which not only may or may not be accurate, but might be used for purposes that the individuals never imagined or consented to," said Susan Grant, director of consumer protection at the Consumer Federation of America, a watchdog group.>>

April 2, 2014
Data brokers, analytics firms and retailers are creating hundreds of "secret" consumer scores that rank you on everything from the likelihood you will keep your job to how likely you are to commit fraud, according to a report released Wednesday by nonprofit World Privacy Forum.

Marketers, financial institutions, wireless phone service providers, law enforcement agencies and others use these scores to do everything from promoting new products to investigating crimes.

Yet, while these consumer scores are pervasive, most consumers don't know they exist. Rarely are they able to view their scores, find out how they are compiled or used or correct inaccuracies like they can on a credit report, the World Privacy Forum found.

"Consumers have little to no ability to learn when their lives are affected in a major or minor way by a consumer score that they never heard about," the report's authors Pam Dixon and Bob Gellman wrote.
The two are calling for more transparency and government scrutiny of consumer scores.>>

<<Almost every major retailer, from grocery chains to investment banks to the U.S. Postal Service, has a “predictive analytics” department devoted to understanding not just consumers’ shopping habits but also their personal habits, so as to more efficiently market to them.
“But Target has always been one of the smartest at this,” says Eric Siegel, a consultant and the chairman of a conference called Predictive Analytics World.
“We’re living through a golden age of behavioral research. It’s amazing how much we can figure out about how people think now.”>>

CBS NEWS: "The Data Brokers", which aired on March 9, 2014

<<Over the past six months or so, a huge amount of attention has been paid to government snooping, and the bulk collection and storage of vast amounts of raw data in the name of national security.

What most of you don't know, or are just beginning to realize, is that a much greater and more immediate threat to your privacy is coming from thousands of companies you've probably never heard of, in the name of commerce.

They're called data brokers, and they are collecting, analyzing and packaging some of our most sensitive personal information and selling it as a commodity...to each other, to advertisers, even the government, often without our direct knowledge.

Much of this is the kind of harmless consumer marketing that's been going on for decades. What's changed is the volume and nature of the data being mined from the Internet and our mobile devices, and the growth of a multibillion dollar industry that operates in the shadows with virtually no oversight.>>


HOW A TARGET STORE KNEW A TEENAGER WAS PREGNANT BEFORE HER PARENTS KNEW!
[DATA MINING!]
FORBES MAGAZINE, 02/16/2012 

<<Charles Duhigg outlines in the New York Times how Target tries to hook parents-to-be. 

  An angry man went into a Target outside of Minneapolis, demanding to talk to a manager:
    “My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?”

    The manager didn’t have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.

(Nice customer service, Target.)

    On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”

Target was none too happy about Duhigg’s plans to write this story. They refused to let him go to Target headquarters. When he flew out anyway, he discovered he was on a list of prohibited visitors.>>


Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you need, and which coupons are most likely to make you happy.

  Target, for example, has figured out how to data-mine its way into your womb, to figure out whether you have a baby on the way long before you need to start buying diapers.

<<Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ”

Target assigns every customer a Guest ID number, tied to their credit card, name, or email address that becomes a bucket that stores a history of everything they’ve bought and any demographic information Target has collected from them or bought from other sources. Using that, Pole looked at historical buying data for all the ladies who had signed up for Target baby registries in the past.

As the marketers explained to Pole — and as Pole later explained to me, back when we were still speaking and before Target told him to stop — new parents are a retailer’s holy grail.

As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her pregnancy.

Also linked to your Guest ID is demographic information like your age, whether you are married and have kids, which part of town you live in, how long it takes you to drive to the store, your estimated salary, whether you’ve moved recently, what credit cards you carry in your wallet and what Web sites you visit. 

Target can buy data about your ethnicity, job history, the magazines you read, if you’ve ever declared bankruptcy or got divorced, the year you bought (or lost) your house, where you went to college, what kinds of topics you talk about online, whether you prefer certain brands of coffee, paper towels, cereal or applesauce, your political leanings, reading habits, charitable giving and the number of cars you own.
 (In a statement, Target declined to identify what demographic information it collects or purchases.)

All that information is meaningless, however, without someone to analyze and make sense of it. That’s where Andrew Pole and the dozens of other members of Target’s Guest Marketing Analytics department come in. >>

<<The recent revelations regarding the NSA’s collection of the personal information and the digital activities of millions of people across the world have attracted immense attention and public concern.

But there are equally troubling and equally opaque systems run by advertising, marketing, and data-mining firms that are far less known. 
Using techniques ranging from supermarket loyalty cards to targeted advertising on Facebook, private companies systematically collect very personal information, from who you are, to what you do, to what you buy.

Data about your online and offline behavior are combined, analyzed, and sold to marketers, corporations, governments, and even criminals.
The scope of this collection, aggregation, and brokering of information is similar to, if not larger than, that of the NSA, yet it is almost entirely unregulated and many of the activities of data-mining and digital marketing firms are not publicly known at all.

The industry of collecting, aggregating, and brokering personal data is known as “database marketing.”

The second-largest company in this field, Acxiom, has 23,000 computer servers that process more than 50 trillion data transactions per year, according to The New York Times.1 It claims to have records on hundreds of millions of Americans, including 1.1 billion browser cookies (small pieces of data sent from a website, used to track the user’s activity), 200 million mobile profiles, and an average of 1,500 pieces of data per consumer. These data include information gleaned from publicly available records like home valuation and vehicle ownership, information about online behavior tracked through cookies, browser advertising, and the like, data from customer surveys, and “offline” buying behavior. >> 

We asked the most privacy-aware people we could find what it would take to go off the radar. Hint: You're going to need to do more than throw away your laptop.

In a recent Pew Internet study, 37% of respondents said they thought it was possible to be completely anonymous online. From experts like Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr,, you'll get a different range of answers about whether it's possible to live without any data trail: 
"100% no," she says.

Many of her friends once considered her habits to be of the tin-foil-hat-wearing variety. But with this summer's revelations of the NSA's broad surveillance program, they’re starting to look a little more logical. “For the last couple of months,” Sell says, “My friends that are not in the security industry come up to me, and I hear this all the time, ‘You were right.’ ”

The people who have actually attempted to live without being tracked--most often due to a safety threat--will tell you that security cameras are just about everywhere, RFID tags seem to be in everything, and almost any movement results in becoming part of a database. “It’s basically impossible for you and I to decide, as of tomorrow, I’m going to remain off the radar and to survive for a month or 12 months,” says Gunter Ollmann, the CTO of security firm IOActive, who in his former work with law enforcement had several coworkers who dedicated themselves to remaining anonymous for the safety of their families. "The amount of prep work you have to do in order to stay off the radar involves years of investment leading up to that."

YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING, BUT IT IS WELL-DOCUMENTED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA...GO LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELF!

<<A few years ago, a man who goes by the Internet handle “Puking Monkey” noticed devices reading his toll pass in places where there weren’t any tolls. He assumed that they were being used to track drivers’ movements. “People would say, 'Well you don’t know that, because it doesn’t tell you when it tracks you,'” he tells Fast Company. “I said, 'Okay, I’ll go prove it.' ”

He rigged his pass to make a mooing cow noise every time a device read his toll payment tag. And sure enough, it went off in front of Macy’s, near Time Square, and in several other places where there was no tollbooth in sight. 

It turns out the city tracks toll passes in order to obtain real-time traffic information, a benign enough intention.
But what worries people like Puking Monkey about being tracked is rarely a database’s intended purpose.
It's that someone with access to the database will misuse it, like when NSA employees have spied on love interests,

A U.K. immigration officer once put his wife on a list of terrorist suspects in order to prevent her from flying into the country.

Or that it will be used for a purpose other than one it was built for, like when social security numbers were issued for retirement savings and then expanded to become universal identifiers.

Or, most likely, that it will be stolen, like the many times a hacker group called Anonymous gains access to someone's personal data and posts it online for public viewing.

By one security company's count, in 2012 there were 2,644 reported data breeches involving 267 million records.

In order to stop his toll pass from being tracked, Puking Monkey keeps it sealed in the foil bag it came in when he's not driving through a toll.

That only stops that data trail (minus toll points).

  Automatic license plate readers, often mounted to a police car or street sign, are also logging data about where cars appear.
They typically take photos of every license plate that passes them and often these photos remain stored in a database for years.
Sometimes they are linked with other databases to help solve crimes.

Puking Monkey avoids license-plate readers by keeping his old, non-reflective license plate, which is more difficult to read than newer, reflective models.
Others who share his concerns salt their license plates, add bumper guards or otherwise obscure the writing--say by driving with the hatch down or driving with a trailer hatch attached—in order to avoid being tracked.

But that still doesn’t account for the tracking devices attached to the car itself. 

To identify tires, which can come in handy if they’re recalled, tire manufacturers insert an RFID tag with a unique code that can be read from about 20 feet away by an RFID reader. "I have no way to know if it’s actually being tracked, but there are unique numbers in those tires that could be used that way," Puking Monkey says.
He uses a camera flash to zap his tires with enough energy to destroy the chips.

Tom Ritter, a principal security consultant at iSEC Partners, has come up with a creative way to subvert loyalty tracking without giving up discounts. When he sees someone has a card on their key chain, he asks if he can take a photo of the bar code to use with his own purchases.
They get extra points, and he gets discounts without giving up any of his privacy.

What you buy can paint a pretty good picture of what you’re doing, and many people aren’t willing to leave that information in a credit card company's database either.

Adam Havey, an artist who makes anti-surveillance gear, puts all of his purchases on a credit card registered under a fake name.
Then he uses the credit card in his actual name to pay the bill
(Update: Harvey clarified that this is a technique he heard about from Julia Angwin, who is writing a book about surveillance).
Ollmann buys prepaid gift cards with no attribution back to him to do his online shopping.

The most intense privacy seekers have a strict cash-only policy--which can mean they need to get paid in cash.
At Ollmann’s old law enforcement job, one employee didn’t get paid, but vaguely “traded his services for other services.”
“A barter system starts to appear if you want to live without being tracked,” Ollmann says. 

AS I SEE IT...
WE HAVE GIVEN UP OUR FREEDOMS AND OUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY OF OUR OWN FREE WILL.
WE HAVE JUST "ROLLED OVER AND TAKEN IT" FOR SO LONG THAT WE KNOW NO OTHER WAY.
WE ARE WILLING TO BE KEPT LIKE FOOD ANIMALS IN A PEN FOR HOWEVER LONG OUR FEEDERS" WANT TO FEED US UNTIL THEY ARE READY TO BE FED...BY US.

WE ARE USED, WE ARE ABUSED, WE ARE INVADED INTO OUR MOST PRIVATE DOMAINS AND INTO THE VERY RECESSES OF OUR MINDS.

MANY WILL READ THIS AND SAY, "OH, I DIDN'T KNOW! HEY! THEY CAN'T DO THAT TO ME!"
BUT THEN MAYBE ONE, MAYBE NONE, WILL ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS NEW KNOWLEDGE.

WE HAVE BEEN REPROGRAMMED OVER OUR ENTIRE LIFETIMES TO BECOME DOCILE LITTLE SHEEP, TO BLINDLY TRUST, TO MEEKLY FOLLOW, TO NEVER QUESTION, AND TO KEEP PROVIDING SUSTENANCE TO OUR SHEPHERDS...WHO LEAD US OFF TO MARKET, WHISTLING ALL THE WAY, THEN LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK ONCE WE ARE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDERS.

THAT'S "JUST THE WAY IT IS....NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT...YOU CAN'T FIGHT CITY HALL...."

HAVE YOU TRIED TO FIGHT CITY HALL?
BAAAAAAAA, baaaaaaaaa, baaaaaaaa....


TO "MAINSTREAM MEDIA"...

"ALTERNATIVE NEWS SOURCES" WERE SO-NAMED BECAUSE NO ONE IN GOVERNMENT NOR ON WALL STREET WANTED PEOPLE TO READ THERE. 
TOO MUCH WHISTLE-BLOWING, TOO MUCH INFORMATION TO INCITE THE SHEEP TO RIOT.

IT'S SORT OF LIKE GEORGE (I CAN'T EVEN READ BY PHONICS ON MY TELEPROMPTER) BUSH, Jr, CALLING EVERY AMERICAN WHO DIDN'T AGREE WITH HIM A "POSSIBLE TERRORIST" AND "UNAMERICAN".

 

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. 
~Edward R. Murrow

AND, SINCE WE GAVE UP OUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND ALL OUR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS..THEY MAY AS WELL HAVE THIS, YES?


OR, AS THE IMMORTAL JANIS JOPLIN SAID:
"I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it,
Take it!
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby!
You know you got it if it makes you feel good..."



LIST OF DATA BROKERS
Here’s a cubic ton of data brokers, direct marketers and data aggregation services, with links to how you can opt your digits out of their databases.

JUST GO TO THE WEBSITE TO FIND CLICKABLE LINKS TO EACH & EVERY ONE OF THESE ON THE LIST: [ http://consumerist.com/2010/06/21/giant-list-of-data-brokers-to-opt-out-of/ ]

YES, DEAR SHEEPLE, ALL OF THESE THAT YOU TRUSTED ARE SELLING YOUR PERSONAL DATA!
SURPRISE!!!


DATA BROKERS

Ameridex
BeenVerified
Email Finder
InfoPay EmailTracer
Intelius, Inc.
LocatePeople.org
LocatePLUS
MelissaData.com
Merlin Information Services
PeopleFinders.com
Peoplelookup.com
PeopleSearchNow.com
People Search Pro
Phone Detective
PrivateEye
PublicBackgroundChecks.com
PublicRecordsNOW
USA People Search
US Search.com
Veromi.net
Westlaw
ZABA Inc.

Marketers, Direct Mail

Abacus Cooperative
Acxiom Corporation
Aristotle / Voter Lists Online
ChoicePoint Precision Marketing
Cox Target Media (Valpak)
DirectMail.com
DMAChoice
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
Epsilon Data Management, LLC
Haines Criss+Cross
Infogroup Inc.
LexisNexis
Money Mailer
Publishers Clearing House
Reader’s Digest
Suarez Corporation Industries
Valassis Communications, Inc.

People Directories

411.com
AnyWho
DA Plus
Fone Cart
Google Phonebook
infoUSA411.com
InfoSpace
Lycos
People Finder
PhoneNumber.com
Superpages.com
SwitchBoard
WhitePages Inc

Social Networks, Data Aggregators

123people.com
iSearch
PeekYou.com
Pipl
Radaris
Spock.com
Spokeo Inc.
Wink Technologies, Inc
Zoom Information Inc

Opt Out of Telemarketers

National Do Not Call Registry

Reduce Unsolicited Mail/Offers

Catalog Choice
Opt Out Services LLC

Opt out of Online Advertising

Network Advertising Initiative
Google’s DoubleClick
Microsoft Advertising

Sunday, April 27, 2014

RADCON 5 ALERT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR U.S. COASTS

 
Jan 2, 2014
Radiation levels were skyrocketing across the West Coast IN JANUARY THIS YEAR, as shown in this video (ABOVE)." It seems that extremely high levels of radiation are consistently being reached on the West Coast now WITHOUT RADCON 5 alert being issued."
THE ABOVE IMAGE IS A "DATA SET" FROM NOAA, THE COLOR RED INDICATING HIGHEST LEVELS OF AIRBORNE RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES, ORANGE BEING SLIGHTLY LESS, YELLOW BEING STILL HIGH, BUT LESS, THEN BLUE AND PINK SHOWING "LEAST" RADIOACTIVE AIRBORNE PARTICLES, http://sos.noaa.gov/ftp_mirror/atmosphere/fukushima/media/thumbnail_big.jpg

Particles caught in clockwise circulations (NEAR THE U.S. WEST COAST) are embedded in fair weather high pressure systems and their radioactivity will persist for longer periods
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE HIGHEST RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES ARE CONSTANTLY DRAWN IN FROM JAPAN TOWARD THE WEST COAST.

The Journal Environmental Science and Technology reports in a new study that the Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California “with greatest exposure in central and southern California”, and that Southern California’s seaweed tested over 500% higher for radioactive  iodine-131 than anywhere else in the U.S. and Canada:
Projected paths of the radioactive atmospheric plume emanating from the Fukushima reactors, best described as airborne particles or aerosols for 131I, 137Cs, and 35S, and subsequent atmospheric monitoring showed it coming in contact with the North American continent at California, with greatest exposure in central and southern California. Government monitoring sites in Anaheim (southern California) recorded peak airborne concentrations of 131I at 1.9 pCi m−3

Instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan, the U.S. and the EU all just raised the radiation levels they deem “safe”.   http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/government-responds-to-nuclear-accident-by-trying-to-raise-acceptable-radiation-levels-and-pretending-that-radiation-is-good-for-us.html

An update to the 1992 manual is being planned, and if the “Dr. Strangelove” wing of the EPA has its way, here is what it means (brace yourself for these ludicrous increases):
  • A nearly 1000-fold increase for exposure to strontium-90;
  • A 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for exposure to iodine-131; and
  • An almost 25,000 rise for exposure to radioactive nickel-63.
The new radiation guidelines would also allow long-term cleanup thresholds thousands of times more lax than anything EPA has ever judged safe in the past.

WHY, WHY, WHY PUT HUMAN BEINGS AT SUCH HIGH RISK ?


The government also changed the testing standards for seafood to pretend that higher levels of toxic PAHs in our food was business-as-usual.

EPA officials, however, refused to answer questions or make staff members available to explain the exact location and number of monitors, or the levels of radiation, if any, being recorded at existing monitors in California.


IN AN INTERVIEW WITH Environmental Scientist Marco Kaltofen PE, with Worcester Polytechnic Institute, HE REVEALED...
<<We all carry around a filter and it is called our lungs. We filter out particles in our lungs the same that a radiation collecting filter accumulates 'hot' particles. We have people sending us air filters from Japan, and we spread them out on photographic Xray film, and it blackens the film due to the radiation. Even samples in the US, there are 1 or 2 particles that blacken the film from a filter, so we know there are more that we are not testing or seeing.

There have been atomic bomb tests, and there are still particles floating around in the air from that time. Fukushima is unique and the particles it gave off are unique. So when you find the shorter lived isotopes, such as Cesium 134, it is from a relatively recent event, like Fukushima. Cesium 134 is a fingerprint for Fukushima, not from Chernobyl, or from the nuclear bomb tests.

We certainly do see hot particles in the US. The winds blow from west to east. We are east of Japan. If you take a big enough air sample, you find a lot more. After the first pulse, it was easy to detect them in the USA. We saw the first pulse show up in Boston, Mass.

We also have what is called a rain out effect. If a rain happens, then 'hot' particles come down in the rain, in a specific place. This can happen in Oregon or Washington, in certain small locations. The rain can create 'hot' spots on the ground. There is no way to find these isolated hot spots all over the US. It is impossible. The hot particle will do the same damage in the US or in Japan.


I just got back from Hanford, where we did testing. At Hanford, the most contaminated site in US, we are going to be dealing with it for THOUSANDS of years. The place is a sieve, and radiation is spreading out into the environment. People doing the remediation work are getting contaminated with radioactive dust, which goes home with them. We are documenting things that go on there, and working with whistleblowers and doing testing and safety issue-related things.

Why wouldn't testing apply to the Dept of Energy as far as safety and testing? How much radiation are families being exposed to? How much are 1st Nation families being exposed to when they eat the fish coming up the Columbia river?
>>

KNOWING FULL WELL THAT PLUTONIUM WAS RELEASED IN GREAT QUANTITY BY FUKUSHIMA'S ACCIDENT, AND KNOWING WHAT ONE PARTICLE OF PLUTONIUM CAN DO TO HUMAN LING TISSUE, I HAVE TO WONDER WHY OUR GOVERNMENT HAS NOT ISSUED HEALTH ALERTS TO AMERICAN CITIZENS ...

NOT ONCE SINCE 2011 HAVE WE HAD A WARNING ABOUT KNOWN HEALTH ISSUES. AND OUR GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO CONSTANTLY MONITOR THIS EVER-INCOMING RADIATION, OR OUR SOIL, OR OUR FOOD, OR OUR DRINKING WATER!
WHY?

           [WHAT 1 PARTICLE OF INHALED PLUTONIUM DOES TO LUNG TISSUE: http://www.nuclear.com/archive/2012/11/23/alpha_tracks_in_lung_tissue.jpg]
REPORTS BY NOAA CONFIRMED HIGH LEVELS ALMOST 2 YEARS AGO , BUT MAINSTREAM MEDIA SIMPLY REFUSED TO COMMENT ON ANY REPORTS OF HIGH RADIATION LEVELS IN THE U.S.

Iodine-131, Cesium-137, and Cesium-134, Tellurium, Uranium and Strontium, AT LEAST 3 "types" of Plutonium, and a POSSIBLE 1000+ OTHER "silent killers" have been sent into the atmosphere from the Fukushima site, & CAN emanate from ANY nuclear reactor site THAT IS LEAKING.

BACK IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR, RADIATION LEVELS EXCEEDED "RADCON LEVEL 4" ALL OVER THE WEST COAST AND FURTHER INLAND.
01/14/2014: Half Moon Bay (Surfer’s beach), California: 374 CPM 
Fresh crab purchased in half-moon bay on that day also measured very high levels of radiation.

ALSO IN JANUARY, IDAHO WAS SEEING SOME ALARMINGLY HIGH LEVELS:
January 14, 2014: Idaho Falls CPM: current 408 Low 237 High 693   

<<Normal background radiation levels should typically hover below or around 30 counts per minute using this type detection meter.>>.

WEST COAST LEVELS IN JANUARY EXCEEDED 500 TIMES THE "NORMAL LEVEL", BUT OUR GOVERNMENT SOUNDED NO ALARMS. 
THEY AREN'T EVEN BOTHERING TO MONITOR LEVELS MUCH ANYMORE.
WHAT'S THE POINT, THEY MAY THINK...THE U.S. IS FRIED ANYWAY!

AGAIN IN FEBRUARY, THE WEST COAST WAS SHOWING READINGS ABOVE "RADCON 5". 
AGAIN, NOTHING FROM GOOD OLD "HOMELAND SECURITY", EPA, DOE, NO ONE.
NO ALARMS WENT OFF TO ALERT THE PEOPLE...

WE KNEW IT WAS BAD 2 YEARS AGO!
NOAA ISSUED ITS REPORT THEN:

A team of scientists led by Joke F Lübbecke of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory have published the 2012 findings of an experiment recently conducted to measure the impact of last year’s nuclear disaster and the results are eye-opening to say the least. By simulating the spreading of contaminated ocean waters and seeing how currents could carry them across the Pacific from Japan to the US, scientists believe that the worst might be still on the way.
“Within one year it will have spread over the entire western half of the North Pacific .” Claus Böning, co-author of the study said.
Böning adds that “The levels of radiation that hit the US coast will be small relative to the levels released by Fukushima,” yet he fails to exactly stand by that statement in the fullest.

But we cannot estimate accurately what those levels will be because we do not know for certain what was released by Fukushima, the doctor adds.

In fact, others fear that contaminated ocean waters may collect in packets and produce waves of highly concentrated nuclear toxins that could pose a dangerous toll to Americans.
The paper itself reads, “After 10 years the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast off Baja California.”
“The magnitude of additional peak radioactivity should drop to values comparable to the pre-Fukushima levels after 6–9 years (i.e. total peak concentrations would then have declined below twice pre-Fukushima levels),” it continues.

“By then the tracer cloud will span almost the entire North Pacific, with peak concentrations off the North American coast an order-of-magnitude higher than in the western Pacific.”
“The total peak radioactivity levels would then still be about twice the pre-Fukushima values,” the paper’s abstract reveals, discussing what long-term impacts could come to America’s West Coast.

THE AIR, THE AIR AND THE FALLING RAIN!!!
THE SOIL CONTAMINATION FROM THE RAIN!!!
TELL US ABOUT THOSE!!!
 
ELEMENTARY SCIENCE LESSON 101: Water from the ocean evaporates, later precipitating (RAINING) into the mountains, getting into the rivers and underground water banks. It is called the Cycle of Water, it is elementary school information.
NOT UNTIL THE EAST COAST STARTED GETTING THOSE HIGH LEVELS AS THE FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT DRIFTED ACROSS THE NATION TO THE EAST COAST DID MAJOR NEWS SOURCES BEGIN REPORTING THE RISE ON THE WEST COAST! 

EVEN THE MINDLESS JOKERS AT FOX NEWS CALLED THE GOVERNMENT OUT ON THE LIES AND DISTORTIONS OF TRUTH WHEN IT PRESENTED THE VIDEO YOU CAN SEE BY CLICKING ANY OF THE LINKS BELOW:
http://youtu.be/8ybcWxHDOxc


http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-news-fox-news-anchor-admits-fukushima-radiation-north-america

http://enenews.com/fox-news-anchor-fantastical-incredible-lie-govt-told-fukushima-reached-shores-north-america-gift-japan-keeps-giving-video

Shepard Smith, Fox News, Feb. 25, 2014: “What a fantastical incredible lie” the government told over Fukushima, “It’s now reached shores of North America” — “We knew… and simply could not prove” it."
NO, YOU KNEW AND WOULD NOT REPORT IT!

The East Coast got lit up by RADCON 4 alerts issued for Washington DC and Richmond, Virginia.

AND LEVELS REMAIN HIGH TODAY!
(CLICK ON LINK BELOW)
http://netc.com/

Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan — “The Correspondents’ Table” podcast, March 2014:

  • At minute 52:00 of the interview —
    Host
    : Is there an untold story about Tohoku that you… believe should be told?
  • Martin Fackler of the New York Times Pulitzer-Prize nominated reporting team: Yeah… it’s so hard in Japan to talk about the radiation issue, like how bad is it really… There is a sense that if you even talk about these issues, you’re hurting the poor people of Fuksuhima. Therefore, we shouldn’t talk about it. That’s just not right… The folks who don’t want us to talk about it are the government, because they don’t want to pay compensation… I feel like there is a lot going on in Fukushima that just doesn’t get talked about in the local media, not necessarily for government cover-up sort of issues, but self restraint or self censorship. Even papers that are pretty strong in their reporting on Tepco in some ways, like the Tokyo Shimbun, won’t talk about these issues because they’re afraid that somehow its unpatriotic to talk about radiation. There’s a lot of questions and issues that are not being talked about, and I think they should be talked and if there is damage to the people of Fukushima that’s the responsibility of Tepco…
  • Host: Are you at all afraid of this new secrecy law affecting your sources, for example, on the nuclear issues?
  • Fackler: Yeah, I am — the government gives us reassurances… My biggest concern is none of these protections of journalism that bureaucrats give you, these verbal reassurances that journalists won’t be affected by the law, none of them are in writing. The law itself doesn’t contain any of these reassurances, so we get these verbal reassurances: “It’s not aimed at journalists; it’s not aimed at journalism; it’s not aimed at transparency and public discourse.” But if you look at the law, none of that is in there. The law actually leaves a lot of leeway, that if somebody else were to interpret that a different way, you actually could throw people in prison.
    All the government has to do is say this is a secret and your source gets put into prison and perhaps you as well. It does worry me that the language is so broad and so vague that it could be taken a different way very easily.
February 26, 2014
Researchers have announced that radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima nuclear disaster have been discovered in seawater west of Vancouver off the coast of Canada, confirming predictions that the radiation would reach the west coast by early 2014 [INSTEAD OF 2015].
The findings were announced at the annual American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences meeting in Honolulu yesterday (02/25/2014).
Fukushima’s radiation reached Canada before the US on the powerful Kuroshio Current. It’s predicted to flow south and then circle back to Hawaii,” reports Planet Save.
The Department of Health and Human Services recently ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide (SOURCE:https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=5cd0c1800435272c80ad292aeb9d1ba7&tab=core&tabmode=list&) , the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, but a DHHS official denied that the purchase was connected to the Fukushima crisis.
High levels of radioactivity have already been detected on beaches in San Francisco, although officials were quick to assert that the findings had no connection to Fukushima.

SO, WHAT ARE THE HIGH LEVELS ATTRIBUTED TO?
SURELY THERE MUST BE SOME PAT ANSWER PROVIDED BY THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY GUYS, RIGHT?
OR MAYBE FROM TEPCO, THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT?
YEAH, WE'VE SEEN HOW HONEST ALL THOSE HAVE BEEN....NOT HONEST AT ALL!
 
Now if we listen to Dr Helen Caldicott, many, many other top-name scientists,nuclear experts,  and physicians, including West Coast PEDIATRICIANS, perhaps we will realize what Leuren Moret claimed, THAT "HAWAII & THE PACIFIC ISLANDS WILL BE UNINHABITABLE BECAUSE OF FUKUSHIMA"  is very much on the mild side ,

LEST WE FORGET: <<The thyroid cancers & leukemias from the Chernobyl disaster did not appear until 4 years LATER! THEY ARE STILL MANIFESTING IN TODAY'S POPULATION NEAR THE REACTOR SITE AND DOWNWIND FROM THERE.>>


IN THEIR "FAQs", WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE HAS THIS TO OFFER:
<<The effects of Chernobyl were felt well beyond Ukraine in part because the amount of radioactive material released was large and because it also included substances such as plutonium that have very long half-lives. >>

FUKUSHIMA HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS AT LEAST 10 TIMES WORSE THAN CHERNOBYL, AND SEVERAL "TYPES" OF PLUTONIUM WERE RELEASED AND HAVE BEEN DETECTED MANY MILES FROM THE DAIICHI PLANT THERE!
WHEN THE MULTIPLE EXPLOSIONS HAPPENED AT FUKUSHIMA, NO ONE YET KNOWS WHAT WAS RELEASED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.

<<The coastal fisheries remain closed in Japan near Fukushima, where there is a concern for some species, especially the bottom dwelling ones, which are being tested and many have been found to be above the Japanese government's strict limits for cesium in seafood.>>

OUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT EVEN TESTING FISH/SEAFOOD IN OUR WATERS BECAUSE NO FEDERAL "DEPARTMENT" CLAIMS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT!

AND, I BELIEVE THE "ACCEPTABLE LEVELS" FOR RADIATION IN FOODS HAS BEEN RAISED TWICE NOW, BOTH BY JAPAN AND BY THE USA...IT MAY BE MORE THAN TWICE...  

Radioactive elements have not only been detected in the food chain, radioactive rain water has been recorded in California:
“Hazardous radioactive elements being released in the sea and air around Fukushima accumulate at each step of various food chains (for example, into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat and milk, then humans). Entering the body, these elements – called internal emitters – migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, continuously irradiating small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years often induce cancer”. (Helen Caldicott, Fukushima: Nuclear Apologists Play Shoot the Messenger on Radiation, The Age,  April 26, 2011)


<<However, crops and other vegetation near the reactor site (including grass that cows eat to produce milk) that receive fallout from the atmosphere, build up radioactivity, can remain contaminated even if washed.

When these foods are consumed, a person receives much of this dose internally, often a more severe pathway to receive radiation than by external exposure.>>

AND WHAT ABOUT AMERICAN CROPS THAT ARE GROWN IN CONTAMINATED SOIL?
TRY THIS...DO A GOOGLE SEARCH FOR THIS SPECIFIC PHRASE:
CROP MUTATIONS FROM FUKUSHIMA IN THE U.S 

ALL ACROSS AMERICA, ALL ACROSS JAPAN, ALL ACROSS THE WORLD, THIS IS HAPPENING NOW, ALREADY.


ANALYSIS: Avoid Pacific Bluefin Tuna, Radioactive or Not

"The fact that there's no significant decline in these fish AFTER 2 YEARS suggests that the fish are being exposed to a constant supply of cesium either from their food or from the water."
Because bottom-dwellers contained more cesium than fish living higher up in the water column, cesium may have accumulated in sediments on the seafloor or in the worms and other invertebrates that live in the sediments. And because it takes 30 years for half of a sample of cesium to break down, Buesseler speculated that decades could pass before exposure levels decline significantly.
It's not clear exactly what the results mean for human health.
Units of Radiation are confusing. When you start reading the news/literature/blogs, there are what seems like a billion different units to explain radiation.

ALSO, alpha radiation from naturally occurring Polonium-210 is more damaging to biological tissues than gamma radiation from Cesium-137. Even if you absorbed the same number of Grays from Cesium or Polonium, you would still effectively receive more damaging radiation from Polonium because the number of Sieverts is higher for Polonium than Cesium.
THE DEFINITIONS, SIMPLIFIED:
Becquerel[Bq] or Curie[Ci]: radiation emitted from a radioactive material  (1 Ci = 3.7 × 1010 Bq)
Gray [Gy] or Rad[rad]: radiation absorbed by another material (1Gy = 100 rad)
Sieverts[Sv]* or “roentgen equivalent in man”[rem]: how badly radiation will damage biological tissue (1 Sv = 100 rem)

Local Official: Japan government did not reveal plutonium-241 detection — Radiation dose was 50 times higher than total of other three plutonium isotopes that were mentioned.


Reactor Designer: “It was a nuclear explosion” at Fukushima Unit 3 after ‘supercritical condition’ — Sudden increase in plutonium, uranium recorded by U.S. at several EPA stations
Plutonium scattered after blast — ABC: “There’s willful denial and lying going on here, even at the highest levels”
[Ken Buesseler, at Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution, researched this subject and also found plutonium. It may be hard to believe that all of this can be covered up, but the history of nuclear disaster coverups is also clear. ]

Plutonium ratio 200 times higher than government says. 

What prevails is a well organized camouflage
The public health disaster in Japan, the contamination of water, agricultural land and the food chain, THE ENTIRE PACIFIC OCEAN AND EVERY NATION BORDERING IT, not to mention the broader economic and social implications, have neither been fully acknowledged nor addressed in a comprehensive and meaningful fashion by the Japanese authorities NOR BY THE UNITED STATES. 

Japan as a nation state has been destroyed. Its landmass and territorial waters are contaminated. Part of the country is uninhabitable. High levels of radiation have been recorded in the Tokyo metropolitan area, which has a population of  39 million (2010) (more than the population of Canada, circa 34 million (2010)) There are indications that the food chain is contaminated throughout Japan:
Radioactive cesium exceeding the legal limit was detected in tea made in a factory in Shizuoka City, more than 300 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Shizuoka Prefecture is one of the most famous tea producing areas in Japan.
A tea distributor in Tokyo reported to the prefecture that it detected high levels of radioactivity in the tea shipped from the city. The prefecture ordered the factory to refrain from shipping out the product. After the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, radioactive contamination of tea leaves and processed tea has been found over a wide area around Tokyo. (See 5 More Companies Detect Radiation In Their Tea Above Legal Limits Over 300 KM From Fukushima, June 15, 2011) 

WILL THIS BE US IN A FEW YEARS?
IS THIS WHAT WE CAN ALL LOOK FORWARD TO HERE?

ALASKA ASKS FOR GOVERNMENT MONITORING AND FULL DISCLOSURE OF FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN ALASKA.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Mar. 12, 2014: [...] By a unanimous vote Monday, the Fairbanks City Council passed a resolution urging the state and federal government, as well as the United Nations, to do more radiation testing in Alaska waters. The resolution was introduced by Fairbanks City Mayor John Eberhart and had the support of the council and several people who came to testify.

Concern about Fukuskima radiation also was raised at the Tanana Chiefs Conference convention Tuesday in Fairbanks. P.J. Simon, a delegate from Allakaket, said possible radiation in migrating salmon posed a risk to subsistence activities. [...] “We need to be vigilant on this,” [Senator Lisa] Murkowski said.

  • WHEREAS, available information from scientific sources, the government of Japan, and the corporate operator of the facility, reveal unprecedented large and ongoing releases of extremely dangerous radioisotopes to the atmosphere and the ocean; and
  • WHEREAS, there are no safe levels of radiation emitted from manmade isotopes, and human and animal ingestion and/or contact with them constitutes grave risk for many forms of cancer and multiple dysfunctions in biological systems [...]
  • NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City Council of the City of Fairbanks, Alaska, urges the federal government, State of Alaska, and the United Nations to begin a thorough and ongoing monitoring program of Alaska’s coastal water resources, its major fresh water streams and lakes, particularly surface waters that supply potable water to citizens. The monitoring program should be adequately funded to accomplish scientific analysis at the University of Alaska, wherein it will identify and quantify levels of radioisotopes in commercial seafood and subsistence foods. Data should be published on a web site dedicated to that purpose.
  • Section 2. PASSED and APPROVED this 10th day of March 2014.
NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO ASK, BUT, EVEN IF WE DO ASK, WE WON'T BE GETTING THAT MONITORING UNTIL ENOUGH PEOPLE DEMAND IT...WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!
AND IF YOU THINK THE EPA IS ON OUR SIDE, THINK AGAIN!
WHISTLEBLOWERS WITHIN THE EPA HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT THE EPA IS "SOLD OUT" TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER! 

The EPA has become thoroughly politicized, and has been instrumental in many recent cover ups. For example, as Newsday noted in 2003:
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to give the public misleading information, telling New Yorkers it was safe to breathe when reliable information on air quality was not available.
That finding is included in a report released Friday by the Office of the Inspector General of the EPA.
The senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and former the EPA ombudsman’s chief investigator accused the EPA of “doing a cover up” regarding the use of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico, and said government agencies such as the EPA have been “sock puppets” for BP in this cover up”.













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Friday, April 25, 2014

CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL, THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR POWER [WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS]

IF WE CARE, WE ACT.
IF WE CARE, WE CHANGE THE THINGS THAT HARM THE INNOCENT.




PAUL FUSCO DOCUMENTED FOR ALL TIME THE RESULTS OF A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT ON YOUNG HUMAN LIVES, ON THE ONES WHO CANNOT ESCAPE CHERNOBYL'S UGLY LEGACY. 


The above video is a compilation of some of this extraordinary, caring man's photos.
He CARES.


THERE IS A FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY RELEASED IN 2007 BY THE SAME NAME, "CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL" BY JOURNEYMAN PICTURES.
PLEASE, GO READ AT THEIR WEBSITE HERE:  http://www.journeyman.tv/57557/documentaries/children-of-chernobyl.html


NO, NONE OF THESE PHOTOS ARE ALTERED, ALL ARE OF CHILDREN AFFECTED BY THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER. 

THE RADIATION FROM CHERNOBYL IS PRESENT STILL TODAY AND THAT IS WHY THESE CHILDREN LOOK AS THEY DO. 
THEY ARE LIVING PROOF THAT RADIATION, ANY RADIATION, ALL RADIATION CAN TRANSFORM NORMAL DNA, NORMAL CELLS INTO NIGHTMARES. 

SPIEGEL ONLINE DID AN INCREDIBLE SERIES OF ARTICLES WITH PHOTOS OF SOME OF THE AFFECTED CHILDREN.
THEIR 3RD ARTICLE, <FOUND HERE>  TELLS OF ONGOING RESEARCH AND AID FOR THESE VICTIMS, FOLLOWS UP ON SOME.
GO. READ. LEARN!
DON'T LET FEAR KEEP YOU FROM FACING FACTS.
NOTICE: PAY ATTENTION!


NOTICE, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION:
TO "ANONYMOUS COMMENTER" WHO THINKS, LIKE TERRIFIED OTHERS, THAT THIS IS "FAKE", THAT NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS DON'T CAUSE NIGHTMARE, THAT I AM JUST "FULL OF B-S, AND UNEDUCATED".


1st, I HAVE BEEN THERE, SEEN SUCH THINGS, TALKED TO SOME JUST LIKE THE ONES PICTURED, THOSE TREATED FOR AFTER-EFFECTS!


2nd, PEER-REVIEWED EVIDENCE ABOUNDS, SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, LONG-TERM GOVERNMENT STUDIES, PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, ABSOLUTE PROOF OF EVERYTHING WRITTEN HERE.


THE "IDIOTS" 'ANONYMOUS COMMENTER" REFERRED TO ARE NOT THE ONES IN THE FIELD, NOT THE ONES WHO CAPTURE SUCH PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, BUT THE SCARED-TO-DEATH, UNREAD WISHFUL THINKERS WHO DENY NUCLEAR ENERGY IS A MASS-MURDERER. 


YOU SEE, THE SO-CALLED KNOWLEDGEABLE ONES, THOSE WHO FIRST EXPERIMENTED WITH NUCLEAR POWER TO MAKE THE BOMB, KNEW WE'D SEE THESE EFFECTS ONCE WE HAD NUCLEAR ENERGY TO CREATE IT, BUT THEY WENT AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY.

FEDERAL DOCUMENTS ABOUND, FREE FOR THE READING, THAT SHOW HOW WELL THEY KNEW WE'D SEE SUCH AS THESE CHILDREN IN OUR FUTURE!
THEY KNEW!


HAVE YOU, "ANONYMOUS COMMENTER", EVER TREATED FOR RADIATION SICKNESS? 

I HAVE!
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SPONTANEOUSLY ABORTED FETUS, WHO DIED INSIDE THE MOTHER'S BODY BECAUSE OF HER EXPOSURE TO RADIATION?
I HAVE!
HAVE YOU SEEN THE NUMBERS ON BIRTH DEFECTS, CHILDHOOD CANCERS, SYNDROMES, ETC, CAUSED BY RADIATION LEAKS, EXPOSURE, OR SEEN THE DATA SENT OUT TO PHYSICIANS, AVAILABLE TO THOSE WITH A "DEA NUMBER" ONLY?
I HAVE!

HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO A MILITARY FAMILY WHOSE CHILD IS DYING BECAUSE OF DAD'S EXPOSURE IN IRAQ TO DEPLETED URANIUM, AND DAD WILL SOON SUCCUMB TO THAT AS WELL?
I HAVE!

HAVE YOU BEEN TO CLINICS NEAR THESE HORRORS WE CALL "NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS" AND LISTENED TO PHYSICIANS THERE GRIEVE OVER SO MUCH LOSS OF YOUNG LIVES, SHOW YOU THEIR RECORDS, ASK WHY NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING, WHY NO ONE IS LISTENING TO THEM?
I HAVE!

I'M SORRY FEAR MAKES YOU NEED TO BELIEVE ALL IS WELL.

ALL IS NOT WELL!
ALL IS NEVER GOING TO BE WELL.

FEAR IS NOT WHAT MEN LIKE FUSCO ARE SELLING...THEY'RE TRYING TO SHOW US THE TRUTH, JUST THE TRUTH, SO WE CAN STOP BEING AFRAID AND DEMAND SOLUTIONS!


THESE ARE DOCUMENTED RESULTS OF CHERNOBYL, BUT WE HAVE PERHAPS WORSE THAN CHERNOBYL RIGHT HERE IN THE USA!

WE HAVE HANFORD IN WASHINGTON STATE!

WHILE THE GOVERNMENT THERE, FOR THE MOST PART, NO LONGER DENIES THE EFFECTS OF CHERNOBYL, OUR GOVERNMENT HERE DENIES THAT HANFORD, OR ANY OTHER NUCLEAR ABOMINATION, HAS ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH BIRTH DEFECTS, CANCERS, DEATH AMONG THE POPULATION LIVING NEAR THOSE SITES.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA REFUSES TO DOCUMENT THE "AMERICAN CHERNOBYLS".   PEOPLE LIKE "ANONYMOUS COMMENTER" ARE THE MAIN REASON FOR THAT... THE ONES WHO WANT TO DENY THAT DEATH LIVES NEXT DOOR.
THEY ARE THE ONES WHOM OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS AFRAID WILL PANIC IF THEY REALIZE THE TRUTH.
THEY'RE ALSO AFRAID THOSE OF US WHO KNOW THE TRUTH AND DON'T PANIC WILL DEMAND ALL NUCLEAR FACILITIES BE CLOSED, SEALED, HEAVILY GUARDED AND CONSTANTLY MONITORED.
THAT WOULD COST BILLIONS, TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER THE COURSE OF THE NECESSARY CENTURIES TO THOUSANDS OF YEARS, AND THE COST TO CLOSE THOSE LEAKING ABOMINATIONS WOULD BE ENORMOUS.
THEY PUT MONEY OVER HUMAN LIVES.
ALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILL.


AND NOW WE HAVE THE ADDED FUKUSHIMA RADIATION POURING INTO OUR NATION DAILY!


UNTIL YOU HAVE GONE TO THESE PLACES AND HAVE SEEN WITH YOUR OWN EYES AS I HAVE THE RESULTS OF GOOD OLD NUCLEAR ENERGY, SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, AND NEVER DARE SPEAK OF WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW, WHAT YOU FEAR, ON THIS SITE AGAIN!


I DON'T ACCEPT FEAR.
IT ROBS THE MIND.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER...WE NEED SUCH POWER.


GO, STICK YOUR HEAD BACK UP THAT BEHIND OF YOURS, "ANONYMOUS COMMENTER", OR IN THE SANDS OF YOUR IGNORANCE.

 IF THAT IS HOW YOU HANDLE THINGS, THAT'S CERTAINLY YOUR RIGHT, BUT DON'T BOTHER ME WITH YOUR DENIALS BECAUSE OF YOUR FEARS.  

I'VE STUDIED SUCH AS THIS FOR 10 TO 20 HOURS A DAY SINCE I WAS 23 YEARS OLD BECAUSE IT TOUCHED ME DEEPLY EVEN BACK THEN.

 I WILL SOON BE 70. 

AND I STILL DEEPLY CARE WHAT BEFALLS THE CHILDREN OF OUR PLANET, ALL CHILDREN, NO EXCLUSIONS.

WHEN YOU'VE MATCHED MY "CREDENTIALS", GET BACK TO ME.
MAYBE BY THEN YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD.

I WILL LIST MANY "SCHOLARLY, PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS" *** AT THE END OF THIS BLOG, SO PRINT THOSE OUT, YOU "ANONYMOUS" WHO FEAR SO MUCH THAT YOU DENY THE EVIDENCE, AND FEEL FREE TO PLACE THOSE IN YOUR ANAL ORIFICE AS WELL, TO KEEP YOUR HEAD COMPANY.

I WANT TO SAVE LIVES, NOT DENY THAT CHILDREN NEED SAVING!
 

<END NOTICE, WITH APOLOGY TO NO ONE>


FROM A PEER-REVIEWED INTENSE STUDY OF THE CHERNOBYL CHILDREN:   

 

"The Chernobyl radiation accident is undoubtedly the greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of mankind. Vast areas of Europe were contaminated by radioactive fallout. In the Ukraine alone it is estimated that more than 4 million people were exposed to radiation. While this accident happened over a decade ago (26 April 1986), it will be several more decades before the exact health consequences are known."

YOU SEE, DNA DAMAGE SPANS GENERATIONS.


WE'RE SEEING THIS IN AMERICA AS RETURNING VETERANS, EXPOSED TO DEPLETED URANIUM, ARE FATHERING CHILDREN WITH THE SAME BIRTH DEFECTS WE SAW AND STILL SEE IN THE CHERNOBYL AREA.  


WE SEE IT AND ARE STILL SEEING IN THE MANY "BABY CEMETERIES" NEAR HANFORD IN WASHINGTON STATE.

THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING TO SOME BABIES BORN THERE TODAY...IT'S CALLED ANENCEPHALY.

WE HERE IN AMERICA CAN ALREADY SEE SIMILAR CHILDREN, VICTIMS OF OUR OWN NUCLEAR "ACCIDENTS" AND LEAKING NUCLEAR REACTORS.. 


THREE-MILE ISLAND, HANFORD, THE PILGRIM FACILITY, THE YANKEE FACILITY...THE LIST IS LONG AND GROWING DAILY AS OUR NUCLEAR FACILITIES ARE FALLING DOWN FROM AGE , POOR DESIGN, UNEXPECTED EFFECTS OF MASSIVE RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS ON CONTAINMENT METALS THAT CANNOT WITHSTAND THE OVER-LONG AND CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT.  


WE HAVE CHILDREN LIKE THESE, AMERICA, AND WE WILL SEE MANY MORE UNLESS WE ACT AND ACT QUICKLY.




"I
n a dark, emotional account, Magnum photographer Paul Fusco visits the region, where a whole generation has been born, lived, and died amid such life-destroying pollution.
They have eaten it in their food, drunk it in their water, and breathed it in the air. Simply going outside to play remains a life-threatening activity."


(see the movie - http://www.mediastorm.com/publication/chernobyl-legacy )



Boy with growth containing his kidneys. Children's Home, Minsk, 1999. Paul Fusco / Magnum Photos

Title: The Legacy of Chernobyl

Source: The Nation Blog
Author: Laura Flanders
Date: Apr 26, 2012  

"To get a sense of just what tens of millions live at risk of, take a look at these photographs by award winning photographer Paul Fusco.

APRIL 2012 the fourth Schuneman Symposium held at the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. 

Among the speakers was Fusco, an extraordinary MAGNUM photographer who traveled to the Ukraine to see the legacy of Chernobyl after twenty years. Fusco expected to stay two weeks. 
He stayed for two months, following parents, children, nurses and cancer patients.

 “It changed my life. I couldn't leave. It was so immense in its implications. There is so much damage to so many people in so many ways…” says Fusco. "



Nurse Alla Komarova hugs 3-year-old Yulya, whose brain is in a membrane in the back of his head. Paul Fusco / Magnum Photos


Vova, 15 years old, Children's Cancer Hospital, Minsk, 2000. Paul Fusco / Magnum Photos




Boys who are unable to walk. Birth defects caused by Chernobyl radiation.
Novinki Asylum, Minsk, 1997.
Paul Fusco / Magnum Photos http://www.c-20.org/



1986. In the early hours of 26 April 1986, one of four nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl power station exploded.   


WHAT HAS CONTINUED SINCE THEN IS A NIGHTMARE. 


PEOPLE EXPOSED TO THE INITIAL RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT AND PEOPLE STILL BEING EXPOSED ARE LIVING WITH CRIPPLING BIRTH DEFECTS, CANCERS, AND MANY ARE TOO POOR TO ESCAPE.  


LIKE THE JOURNEYMAN WEBSITE STATES, THE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T ESCAPE AND WHO CAN'T AFFORD IMPORTED FOODS, WATER, ETC, MUST CONTINUOUSLY EAT PRODUCE GROWN IN THAT SOIL, EAT FOOD ANIMALS THAT ARE RAISED THERE. SUCH DEFORMITIES WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS THAT IS THE CASE.  


THE RESULT OF THAT IS CONTINUED HORROR FOR THE PARENTS OF EACH NEW GENERATION OF CHILDREN AFFECTED BY CHERNOBYL'S CONTAMINANTS IN THEIR PARENTS' DNA, WHICH BECOMES THEIR DNA, THEIR BIRTH DEFECTS, THEIR ILLNESSES, THEIR CANCERS, THEIR DEATH.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN AMERICA AFTER THREE-MILE ISLAND, AFTER HANFORD, AFTER EVERY NUCLEAR FACILITY THAT HAS FAILED IN SIMILAR WAYS HAS FAILED. 


NOT EVERYONE CAN MOVE AWAY FROM THE CONTAMINATION. 

AND WE JUST AREN'T TOLD THE ENTIRE TRUTH ABOUT HOW MUCH CONTAMINATION SURROUNDS US, NOR HOW LETHAL A "SMALL AMOUNT" IS ONCE IT IS INSIDE A HUMAN BODY. 


THIS IS WHAT THE FUTURE GENERATIONS IN JAPAN AND WORLDWIDE WHO ARE DAILY AFFECTED BY THE FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT ARE GOING TO FACE, WHAT RESIDENTS NEAR THE HANFORD, WASHINGTON SITE HAVE FACED AND ARE FACING NOW AND WILL FACE FOR HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO COME. 


SO GET USED TO SEEING CHILDREN LIKE THIS IN AMERICA, IN JAPAN, ANYWHERE THERE IS A "NUCLEAR ACCIDENT"...IF YOU CAN EVER GET USED TO THIS...I CANNOT. 




I don't know about you, but I have to ask myself, "What if this was my grandchild?"
What would I want to say to the world?

Weary eyes, a child with an "old soul". 

Saying we're sorry won't make these children healthy, but if enough of us say, 
"NO MORE! NEVER AGAIN!", then maybe others WILL be spared. 

PEOPLE OF EARTH, WE MUST PROTECT OUR CHILDREN!
WE MUST DO ALL WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO MORE CHERNOBYLS.

THESE PHOTOS OF THESE CHILDREN ARE MEANT TO DO ONE THING, JUST ONE...CALL ATTENTION TO THE NEED TO PROTECT FUTURE GENERATIONS, TO MAKE CERTAIN WE'RE ALL AWARE WHAT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN.

I CAN'T IMAGINE THE PHOTOGRAPHER HAD ANYTHING ELSE IN MIND.

I ALSO CANNOT IMAGINE SEEING THIS AND NOT HAVING A HEART THAT ACHES FOR THESE INNOCENTS, BUT AN ACHING HEART AND TEARS MUST TRANSLATE TO ACTION.
WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING BESIDES WEEP.

[SEE: Chernobyl Legacy – Paul Fusco Photography,  
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=29YL5304T2G4 ]


Twenty-six years after the meltdown at Chernobyl, the legacy of the 1986 explosion lives on. 

"It is a disaster that left a 30-kilometre uninhabitable exclusion zone, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and still threatens the lives of tens of thousands," writes Greenpeace today. 


All these years and a triple meltdown at Fukushima later, the industry and its supporters have yet to learn. 

"The nuclear industry still hasn't realized or admitted that its reactors are unsafe. Reactors are vulnerable to any unforeseen combination of technological failures, human errors and natural disasters. That puts the tens of millions of people living near the worlds more than 400 reactors at risk." 

Yet his extraordinary photographs, which you can see here in a short promotional slideshow, aren't printed in US papers. 


They're like his pictures of US military funerals, his current project, which is called Bitter Fruit

"The pictures are printed a lot in Europe. Never here," Fusco told the Scripps students. "Why do you think that is?"


Ironically, like Chernobyl, Three Mile Island's Unit Two was a state-of-the-art reactor.  Its official opening came on December 28, 1978, and it melted exactly three months later.  Had it operated longer,the accumulated radiation spewing from its core almost certainly would have been far greater.

Some of the disturbing experiences of survivors and their families through the years were collected in the book Three Mile Island: The People’s Testament, which is based on interviews with 250 area residents done between 1979 and 1988 by Katagiri Mitsuru and Aileen M. Smith.

WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?
THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AFTERMATH, THOSE BATTLING THE EFFECTS EVERY DAY, OR SELF-SERVING GOVERNMENT DENIAL?


IF YOU EVER ONCE TALK TO VICTIMS, LOOK THEM IN THE EYES, LISTEN TO THEIR ANGUISH, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND!

IT IS A HELL OF A THING TO KNOW THAT HUMAN LIVES COME SECOND TO MAINTAINING NUCLEAR FACILITIES, THE ETERNAL "ARMS RACE", THE BATTLE FOR "KING OF THE HILL", AND PROFITS.

I SINCERELY HOPE YOU TAKE THE TIME TO READ A VERY SHORT PDF FROM THE BOOK.
(http://www.greenaction-japan.org/internal/090217_tmi_testament.pdf


 Every reactor now operating in the US is much older than THREE-MILE—nearly all of them are fully three decades older—than TMI-2 when it melted.  They have reached the end of their design limitations, and they are just falling apart.
Their potential fallout could dwarf what came down in 1979.  



People died–and are still dying–at Three Mile Island.  

Click on the above link to read the study.  

There is documented proof of a fifty percent increase in childhood cancer incidence in the Three Mile Island area for each 10 millirem increase in radiation exposure per year. 

Baseline: Children living with different radiation levels are compared for evidence of disease. 

http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radchart.htm 

(Hatch M. et al. “Background Gamma Radiation and Childhood Cancers Within Ten Miles of a US Nuclear Power Plant.” International Journal of Epidemiology, v 19, no 3. 1990)


YES, YES, BYALLTHEGODS, EXPOSURE, EVEN "SHORT-TERM" EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION  CAN, HAS, ALWAYS WILL CAUSE CANCERS AND THEREFORE DEATHS. 


THERE IS MORE PROOF OF THIS THAN I CAN LIST HERE, BUT HERE IS A SHORT LIST.


[PLEASE NOTE: THIS ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW, AFTER THIS LIST.

IF  YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT SOURCES, JUST SCROLL PAST THE MANY NUMBERED CITATIONS.]

“Percent Increase in Cancer Incidence, Cancer Mortality, and Other Health Effects of Human Exposure to Ionizing Radiation”

  1. 1500% increase in incidence of testicular and ovarian cancer in children on Navajo reservation in uranium mining area
  2. 500% increase in bone cancer in children affected by uranium
  3. 250% increase in leukemia (all ages) in the Navajo population
  4. 200% increase in each of the following non-cancer effects: miscarriage, infant death, congenital defects, genetic abnormalities, learning disorders.
    Baseline for 1-4: Navajo residents living near Uranium facilities were compared to Navajo residents in non-uranium areas
  5. 500% increase in birth defects when compared to the national average.
    (Southwest Research and Information Center. “Uranium Legacy.” The Workbook, v 8, no 6. Albuquerque, NM: 1983)
  6. 400% increase in leukemia incidence in the population living downwind of the Pilgrim nuclear power reactor in Massachusetts in the first 5 years after fuel was know to have leaked excess radioactivity.
    Baseline: Disease in population before and after Pilgrim radioactive releases and comparison to upwind population.
    (Morris M. Knorr R. The Southeastern Massachusetts Health Study 1978-1986-Report of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. October 1990. See also: Clapp R. Cobb S. et al. “Leukemia Near Massachusetts Nuclear Power Plant.” Letter in Lancet. December 5, 1987)

    THREE-MILE ISLAND
  7. 300—400% increase in lung cancer in the general population within the plume of the Three Mile Island accident releases
  8. 600—700% increase in leukemia in the general population within the plume of Three Mile Island accident releases
    Baseline: Disease in population upwind (out of the radiation plume path) is compared to disease in population downwind (in the pollution plume.)
    (Wing S. Richardson D. et al. “A Reevaluation of Cancer Incidence Near the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant: The Collision of Evidence and Assumptions.” Environmental Health Perspectives, v 105, no 1. National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, Maryland. January 1997)
  9. 50% increase in childhood cancer incidence in the Three Mile Island area for each 10 millirem increase in radiation exposure per year.
    Baseline: Children living with different radiation levels are compared for evidence of disease.
    (Hatch M. et al. “Background Gamma Radiation and Childhood Cancers Within Ten Miles of a US Nuclear Power Plant.” International Journal of Epidemiology, v 19, no 3. 1990)


  10. Further effects found in victims of the Chernobyl accident less than ten years after the meltdown


  11. 500% increase in thyroid cancer in Ukrainian children.

  12. 75% increased incidence of heart disease
  13. 200% increase in respiratory and digestive disease
  14. 200% increase in birth defects
  15. 200% increase in spontaneous abortions
  16. Baseline: Comparison of population health before and after the Chernobyl explosion
    (Rupert J. “Illness Tied to Disaster Still on Rise.” The Washington Post. June 24, 1995. The reporter was quoting Britain’s Imperial Cancer Research Fund, The Ukrainian Health Ministry and the United Nations.)

    8000% increase in thyroid cancer in Belarussian children living near Chernobyl, reported 6 years after the meltdown.
    Baseline: Comparison of population health before and after the Chernobyl explosion.
    (Hudson RL. “Child Cancers Found to Rise Near Chernobyl.” The Wall Street Journal. September 3, 1992. The article they quote was published in Nature on the same day and was researched by the World Health Organization.)



    BACK IN THE USA
  17. 63% increase in leukemia incidence among workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratories(US) who received very low doses of external (gamma) radiation on the job.
  18. 123% increase in leukemia incidence in the same population where there were also very low internal doses of radioactivity
    Baseline: Cohort comparison of worker deaths and radiation exposure levels
    (Wing S. Shy C. et al. “Mortality Among Workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Evidence of Radiation Effects in Follow-up Through 1984.” JAMA, v 265 no 11. March 20, 1991)
  19. 80% increase in eight types of cancer deaths in Department of Energy atomic workers exposed to external doses of radiation.
    Baseline: Various baselines. Usually cohort comparison of workers with various doses and their deaths from resulting diseases were used.
    (Mancuso TF. Stewart A. Kneale G. “Radiation Exposures of Hanford Workers Dying From Cancer and Other Causes.” Health Physics, v 33. Pergamon Press, Great Britain. November 1977)


    IN BRITAIN
  20. 200% increase in leukemia in children of atomic workers
    Baseline: The parents of children with cancer were compared for occupation to discern if those adults who worked with radiation had more children with cancer than those who worked in other jobs.
    (Roman E. et al. “Case-control Study of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Among Children Aged 0-4 years Living in West Berkshire and North Hampshire Health Districts.” BMJ 1993 #306)
  21. 287% increase in cancer incidence in children of nuclear workers who received internal radiation in England
    Baseline: The parents of children with cancer were compared for occupation to discern if those adults who worked with radiation had more children with cancer than those who worked in other jobs.
    (Sorahan T. Roberts PJ. “Childhood Cancer and Paternal Exposure to Ionizing Radiation: Preliminary Findings From the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers.” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, v 23: 343-354. 1993)
  22. 250% increase in all cancers among atomic workers.
  23. 190% increase in leukemia incidence
    Baseline: General Population
    (Kendall. GM. et al. “Mortality and Occupational Exposure to Radiation: First Analysis of the National Registry for Radiation Workers.” BMJ v 304: 220-5. 1992)

    FROM FRANCE
  24. 500% increase in childhood leukemia in children visiting the beach once a week near the French nuclear reprocessing facility at LaHague
  25. 760% increase in childhood leukemia if they ate the local fish regularly
  26. 345% increase in childhood leukemia associated with drinking well water from the vicinity of the nuclear facility
    Baseline: Observed leukemia cases were compared to expected leukemia cases.
    (Viel JF. Pobel D. Incidence of Leukaemia in Young People Around the La Hague Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Plant: A Sensitivity Analysis.” Statistics in Medicine, v 14: 2459-2472. 1995)
  27. 1200% increase in all cancers exist around the Sellafield, (formerly Windscale) reprocessing facility and of these.
  28. 600-1000% increase in leukemia of children whose fathers were exposed to certain amounts of radiation prior to conception
  29. 1000% increase in lymphoma was found in children near a reprocessing facility in Cumbria
    Baseline: Local and Area Controls
    (Gardner et al. “Results of Case-control Study of Leukemia and Lymphoma Among Young People Near Sellafield Nuclear Plant in West Cumbria.” BMJ v 300. February 17, 1990)
  30. 1000% increase in leukemia incidence in children living near a nuclear reprocessing facility
    Baseline: Children of the same age in the same area prior to the facility’s operation.
    (Heasman et al. “Childhood Leukemia in Northern Scotland.” Lancet, v 1:266. 1986)
  31. 27.3% increase in all cancer deaths among atomic workers exposed to internal doses of radiation
    Baseline: Comparison of worker deaths and radiation exposure levels.
    (Morgenstern H. Froines J. Epidemiologic Study to Determine Possible Adverse Effects to Rocketdyne/Atomics International Workers from Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. State of California Health and Welfare Agency. June 1997)
  32. 500% increase in leukemia among Utah nuclear bomb test Downwinders
  33. 121% increase in thyroid cancer incidence in the same group
  34. 200% increase in breast cancer
  35. 700% increase in bone cancer
    Baseline: Utah Mormons exposed to bomb fallout are compared to all Utah Mormons.
    (Johnson CJ. “Cancer Incidence in an Area of Radioactive Fallout Downwind From the Nevada Test Site.” JAMA, v 251 n 2: 231-6. January 13, 1984)
  36. a greater then 120% increase in thyroid cancer in those who drank milk laced with Iodine-131 from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests
    Baseline: Estimated cases are based on dose reconstruction where estimated exposures were between 6-112 rads per individual child in the bombs’ plumes.
    (Ortmeyer P. Makhijani A. “Let Them Drink Milk.” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nov/Dec. 1997)
  37. 200% increase in lung cancer in women who received radiation treatments for breast cancer
    Baseline: Breast cancer patients treated with radiation were compared to those who were treated only by other methods.
    (Bishop JE. “Study Links Breast Cancer Treatment to Higher Risk of the Disease in Lungs.” The Wall Street Journal, May 14, 1993: B6)
  38. 66—96% increase in early cancer deaths due to background radiation
    Baseline: Deaths of children living with different radiation levels are compared for cancer.
    (Kneale GW. Stewart AM. “Childhood Cancers in the UK and their Relation to Background Radiation.” Radiation and Health. 1987)
This list was compiled by Cindy Folkers & Mary Olson on 4/24/98, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, 1424 16 th St, NW Suite 404, Washington, DC 20036 (202)328-0002 -- it is arbitrarily based on what studies are on file at NIRS. 


A partial list of non-cancer health effects of human exposure to radiation:
Downs Syndrome
Hydrocephaly
Microhydrocephaly
Cleft Lip and Palate
Epilepsy
Kidney and Liver Damage
Thyroid Disease
Low Birth weight
Increased Infant Mortality
Increased Stillbirth
Genetic Mutations/Chromosomal Aberrations
Spinal Defects
Congenital Malformations

NUCLEAR POWER JUST KEEPS ON KILLING!

March 24, 2009 : As the thirtieth anniversary of America’s most infamous industrial accident approaches, we mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history.

As news of the accident poured into the global media, the public was assured there were no radiation releases.

That quickly proved to be false.

The public was then told the releases were controlled and done purposely to alleviate pressure on the core. 
Both those assertions were false.  

The public was told the releases were "insignificant." 

But stack monitors were saturated and unusable, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission later told Congress it did not know—and STILL does not know—how much radiation was released at Three Mile Island, or where it went.  

Using unsubstantiated estimates of how much radiation was released, the government issued average doses allegedly received by people in the region, which it assured the public were safe.  

But the estimates were utterly meaningless, among other things ignoring the likelihood that high doses of concentrated fallout could come down heavily on specific areas.  

The public was told there was no melting of fuel inside the core.
But robotic cameras later showed a very substantial portion of the fuel did melt. 


The public was told there was no danger of an explosion. 
But there was, as there had been at Michigan’s Fermi reactor in 1966.

In 1986, Chernobyl Unit Four did explode. 

The public was told there was no need to evacuate anyone from the Three Mile area.  
But Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh then evacuated pregnant women and small children.  

Unfortunately, many were sent to nearby Hershey, which was showered with fallout. 

In fact, the entire region should have been immediately evacuated.  

It is standard wisdom in the health physics community that—due in part to the extreme vulnerability of human embryos, fetuses and small children, as well as the weaknesses of old age—there is no safe dose of radiation, and none will ever be found.   

The federal government did nothing to track the health histories of the region’s residents.  

 
In fact, the most reliable studies were conducted by local residents like Jane Lee and Mary Osborne, who went door-to-door in neighborhoods where the fallout was thought to be worst.  

Their surveys showed very substantial plagues of cancer, leukemia, birth defects, respiratory problems, hair loss, rashes, lesions and much more.   

Data unearthed by radiologist Dr. Ernest Sternglass of the University of Pittsburgh, and statisticians Jay Gould (now deceased) and Joe Mangano of New York have led to strong assertions of major public health impacts.  


On-going work by Sternglass and Mangano clearly indicates that "normal" reactor radiation releases of far less magnitude that those at TMI continue to have catastrophic impacts on local populations.

A series of interviews conducted by Robbie Leppzer and compiled in a  “a two-hour public radio documentary VOICES FROM THREE MILE ISLAND give some indication of the horrors experienced by the people of central Pennsylvania."


PLEASE, PLEASE , WATCH THAT AND PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.

VICTIMS HAVE NO RECOURSE. 
Some 2,400 area residents have long-since filed a class action lawsuit demanding compensation for the plague of death and disease visited upon their families.  


In the past quarter-century they have been denied access to the federal court system, which claims there was not enough radiation released to do such harm.  

TMI’s owners did quietly pay out millions in damages to area residents whose children were born with genetic damage, among other things.  

The payments came in exchange for silence among those receiving them.  

But for all the global attention focused on the accident and its health effects, there has never been a binding public trial to test the assertion by thousands of conservative central Pennsylvanians that radiation from TMI destroyed their lives.  


So while the nuclear power industry continues to assert that "no one died at Three Mile Island," it refuses to allow an open judicial hearing on the hundreds of cases still pending.  

Meanwhile, the death toll from America’s worst industrial catastrophe continues to rise.  

More than ever, it is shrouded in official lies and desecrated by a reactor-pushing “renaissance” hell-bent on repeating the nightmare on an even larger scale.

IT HAS BEEN THE SAME AT THE HANFORD SITE IN WASHINGTON, THE SAME AT FERMI NEAR DETROIT IN 1966, THE SL-1 REACTOR NEAR IDAHO FALLS IN 1961...


AT LEAST 3/4ths OF ALL U.S. NUCLEAR PLANTS HAVE LEAKED! 

THE REST ARE FAILING QUICKLY.

Like rust under a car, corrosion has propagated for decades along the hard-to-reach, wet underbellies of the reactors — generally built in a burst of hasty construction during the 1960s and 1970s.



The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across America. 

Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants.  



Over the history of the U.S. industry, more than 400 known radioactive leaks of all kinds of substances have occurred, the activist Union of Concerned Scientists reported in September.

Nuclear engineer Bill Corcoran, an industry consultant who has taught NRC personnel how to analyze the cause of accidents, said that since much of the piping is inaccessible and carries cooling water, the worry is ,if the pipes leak, there could be a meltdown. 

[READ THE REST OF THIS USA TODAY ARTICLE HERE http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2011-06-27-nuclear-plant-leaks_n.htm ]

NOW...NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I SO OFTEN WRITE OF SUCH THINGS AS FUKUSHIMA, HANFORD, WIPP, AND THE OTHER NUCLEAR FACILITIES THAT CREATE THE HELL THESE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE LIVING? 

CHILDREN DON'T MAKE DECISIONS TO LIVE NEAR SUCH PLACES...ADULTS DO.
CHILDREN DON'T BUILD SUCH THINGS...ADULTS DO.

AND THE DEAD HAVE NO VOICE...EXCEPT MINE AND OTHERS WHO CARE.



[Two videos, for all who care, are available for viewing beneath my list of sources....]



_________________

SOURCES ...PEER-REVIEWED...
***"SCHOLARLY, PEER-REVIEWED" EVIDENCE:
I FOUND THOUSANDS, LITERALLY THOUSANDS!


BELOW ARE JUST A VERY FEW.


READ! LEARN! THINK! 


1, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2011/257943/

External exposure to ionizing radiation produces DNA 
damage and increases the rates of cancers such as 
thyroid, lung, and breast cancers and leukemia [5]. 
The most dramatic effect on physical health resulting 
from exposure to fallout from the Chernobyl disaster 
has been an increased incidence of thyroid cancer [67]. 
These thyroid tumors have a particularly high rate of 
rearranged during transfection (RET)/PTC 
rearrangements (57–67%, mainly PTC3) [689].

2. 
Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special 

Health Care Programmes, Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum, 
Expert Group “Health”, World Health Organization, 2006.

3. 
K. Hamatani, H. Eguchi, R. Ito et al., “RET/PTC 

rearrangements preferentially occurred in papillary 
thyroid cancer among atomic bomb survivors exposed 
high radiation dose,” Cancer Research, vol. 68, no. 17, 
pp. 7176–7182, 2008.
 View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar ·
 View at PubMed · View at Scopus 

4. M. C. Mahoney, S. Lawvere, K. L. Falkner et al., 

“Thyroid cancer incidence trends in Belarus: 
examining the impact of Chernobyl,” International 
Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1025–1033, 
2004. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar ·
 View at PubMed

5. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3579003
The thyroid gland of children is especially vulnerable

 to the carcinogenic action of ionizing radiation. 
To provide insights into various modifying influences 
on risk, seven major studies with organ doses to 
individual subjects were evaluated. Five cohort studies

6. 
http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/141/1/101.full.pdf+html 



7. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/1/125.long  

Patterns of acute leukaemia occurrence among children
in the Chernobyl region

To ascertain the effect of in utero radiation exposure
and the development of leukaemia
The Chernobyl
radiation accident is undoubtedly the greatest environmental
catastrophe in the history of mankind. 

Vast areas of Europe were contaminated by radioactive fallout.
In the Ukraine alone it is estimated that more than 4 million people
were exposed to radiation.
1  While this accident happened over a decade ago (26 April 1986), it will be several more decades before the exact health
consequences are known.


8. http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/HEofC25yrsAC.html 

International Advisory Committee. The International Chernobyl Project.
Technical Report. IAEA, Vienna (1991)

De Cort M, Dubois G, Fridman ShD, Germenchuk MG, Izrael YuA,
Janssens A, Jones AR,
Kelly GN, Kvasnikova EV, Matveenko II, Nazarov IM,
.Pokumeiko YuM, Sitak VA, Stukin
ED, Tabachny LYa. Tsaturov YuS and Avdyushin SI (1998)
Atlas of Caesium Deposition
on Europe after the Chernobyl Accident. EUR Report 16733.
Office for Official Publications
of the European Communities, Luxembourg


Populations which were particularly exposed to radiation 
by the Chernobyl catastrophe
  1. Clean-up workers (liquidators):
    830,000 (Yablokov 2010)
  2. Evacuees from the 30 km zone and other highly 
  3. contaminated zones:
    350,400 (Yablokov, 2010)
  4. The population of the heavily irradiated zones in Russia, 
  5. Belarus and Ukraine:
    8,300,000 (Yablokov, 2010)
  6. European population in zones with minor exposure to radiation:
    600,000,000 (Fairlie, 2007)

NOTHING WRITTEN, NOT ALL OF IT TOGETHER, COMPARES TO EVEN ONE DAY SPENT WITH FAMILIES LIVING THESE DISASTERS. 


IF YOU REALLY WANT THE TRUTH, GO TALK WITH THOSE WHO ARE SURVIVING THESE "ACCIDENTS" AND "LEAKS".  


PLEASE VISIT "CHERNOBYL CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL"... PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE, ARE THERE NOW AND WHO WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THE TRUTH SO THESE FAMILIES CAN BE HELPED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, WILL EDUCATE YOU, IF YOU WISH TO FACE THE FACTS WITH THEM.   



FOR ANY WHO PREFER TO "HEAR IT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS", THEY, TOO, HAVE A LONG, LONG LIST OF ARTICLES, DOCUMENTATION, ETC, ABOUT THESE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, ABOUT THE ONGOING SAGA.

GO <HERE> AND CHOOSE A FEW TO READ.

FOR THOSE WHO PREFER VIDEO, THERE ARE PLENTY OF THOSE, BUT WILL A VIDEO CONVINCE YOU?