CHILD HUNGER IN AMERICA: CHILDREN DENIED FOOD BY OUR OWN CONGRESS

133 BILLION POUNDS OF EDIBLE FOOD IS WASTED BY RETAILERS, FOOD SERVICE COMPANIES AND CONSUMERS EVERY YEAR, ABOUT 1 1/4 POUNDS PER DAY OF EDIBLE FOOD FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN AMERICA GOING IN THE TRASH...MORE THAN ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED ALL OUR HUNGRY KIDS.

ONE IN EVERY FIVE CHILDREN IN AMERICA GOES HUNGRY DAILY.
THEY DO NOT HAVE AN ADEQUATE FOOD SUPPLY.

" Food insecurity exists in EVERY county and congressional district in the country. But not everyone struggling with hunger qualifies for federal nutrition assistance."


TO SEE AND INTERACT WITH A MAP THAT SHOWS, BY COUNTY, THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO MAY HAVE TO GO HUNGRY TODAY IN AMERICA GO TO http://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2014/overall# .


ABOUT 50 MILLION AMERICANS SIMPLY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TO NOT BE HUNGRY.
OF THIS NUMBER, BARELY HALF QUALIFY FOR "SNAP", THE FEDERAL "FOOD STAMP" PROGRAM.


15.3 MILLION AMERICAN CHILDREN UNDER AGE 18 SUFFER FROM WHAT IS TERMED "FOOD INSECURITY", A POLITICALLY CORRECT WAY OF SAYING THEIR PARENTS ARE TOO POOR TO AFFORD TO PROPERLY FEED THEM.

"Stacy Koltiska resigned last week from Wylandville Elementary School in the Canon-McMillan School District after she had to take a hot lunch away from an elementary school student because the child's parent had fallen more than $25 behind in paying for his school lunches."  


AN ONSITE "VOTE" ON THAT ARTICLE'S WEBSITE SHOWS 60% OF AMERICA AGREED WITH THAT SCHOOL'S POLICY OF REFUSING TO SERVE HOT LUNCHES TO ELEMENTARY STUDENTS, AND THE SAME 60% AGREE WITH THE POLICY OF THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SERVING NO FOOD TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHOSE PARENTS DO NOT PAY FOR THEIR LUNCHES.
WHETHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, A CHILD WHO IS HUNGRY NEEDS TO BE FED.
AN EMPTY STOMACH IS NOT SOMETHING CHILDREN SHOULD BE EXPECTED TO DEAL WITH WHEN FOOD IS AVAILABLE.

TO THAT 60% WHO THINK WITHHOLDING FOOD IS FINE OR THAT OFFERING A COLD SANDWICH OVER A HOT MEAL TO A YOUNG CHILD IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY COUNTRY!

TO ANYONE WHO WOULD NOT WILLINGLY, GLADLY FEED ANY HUNGRY CHILD, MAY YOU KNOW THE REALITY OF HUNGER LONG ENOUGH TO CHANGE YOUR MINDS.
MAY YOU BECOME PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH NEED AND MAY NO ONE COME TO YOUR AID UNTIL YOU REALIZE THAT WHEN ONE HAS MORE THAN ENOUGH, ONE GIVES THE EXCESS FREELY TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING.

APPARENTLY, WE CAN COUNT THE GOP SIDE OF THE FLOOR IN BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE IN THE RANKS OF THAT 60% WHO THINK IT'S OKAY TO LET KIDS GO HUNGRY BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT EVEN ONBOARD WITH FUNDING FREE LUNCHES FOR POOR KIDS.

H.R. 5003, WHICH WOULD DECREASE APPROPRIATED FUNDS TO FEED THESE KIDS, IS STILL BEING "DEBATED" ON OLD CAPITOL HILL.
THAT BILL WOULD CUT FUNDING FOR FOOD FOR AMERICAN CHILDREN.
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED?

"Among the groups which have issued statements opposing the legislation are the School Nutrition Association (SNA), American Academy of Pediatrics, American Heart Association, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and the Food Research & Action Center."


"On April 22, 2016, the First Focus Campaign for Children sent a letter to members of the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee strongly stating its opposition of the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016.
We believe healthy nutrition is an essential building block of a healthy childhood and that no child in America should ever go hungry. Students who have access to healthy and nutritious food perform better in school. Twenty percent of American children live in poverty and more than 15 million children live in food-insecure households. Child nutrition programs play an essential role in providing healthy meals to kids both in and out of school.

As introduced, the House Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016 (H.R. 5003) would put access to many essential children’s food programs at risk. The bill also weakens nutrition standards that help children thrive academically and developmentally. Specifically, the provisions to increase both verification requirements and community eligibility thresholds will undoubtedly result in children losing free and reduced price meals during the school day.

We must continue to improve access to healthy and nutritious foods for all kids, rather than create additional barriers for the families who need it most."


WHAT KIND OF HEARTLESSNESS EXISTS IN THE SOULS OF SUCH POLITICIANS WHO OFFER HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN WELFARE (SUBSIDIES) TO BIG CORPORATIONS AND TAX LOOPHOLES AND PORK BARREL FUNDS TO WALL STREET NAMES BUT WILL NOT ALLOW FUNDS TO FEED AMERICA'S HUNGRY CHILDREN?

"If this bill becomes law, 7,022 schools now using community eligibility to simplify their meal programs and improve access for low-income students could have to reinstate applications and return to monitoring eligibility in the lunch line within two years.
  These schools serve nearly 3.4 million students. 
Another 11,647 schools that qualify for community eligibility but have not yet adopted it could lose eligibility.

 Access to healthy meals at home and school can help children overcome some of the negative consequences of poverty and food insecurity.  Yet the bill would eliminate the option of community eligibility for thousands of schools serving some of our highest-poverty communities, imposing more paperwork and administrative burdens on under-resourced schools. 

The bill would limit community eligibility to schools or groups of schools with ISPs of 60 percent or more, rather than the current threshold of 40 percent. 
The schools that would no longer qualify for community eligibility serve predominantly low-income students in some of our highest-poverty communities.

Meanwhile, educators report that children who eat breakfast at school are more likely to arrive at school on time, behave, and be attentive in class.

Community eligibility enables schools to deliver, with minimal red tape, a critical benefit that can have lasting positive impacts for children in high-poverty neighborhoods.  Severely limiting eligibility for the option would impose burdens on schools that already struggle to educate children despite limited resources and the additional hurdles posed by operating in a high-poverty neighborhood.  With community eligibility only in its second year of nationwide implementation, its benefits are just beginning to ripple through schools and low-income communities.  Policymakers should leave this option alone and give thousands of schools and the children they serve a better chance to succeed."

[ END NOTE: This paper draws heavily on data gathered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, CBPP, and the Food Research & Action Center published in “Community Eligibility Database: Schools That Can Adopt Community Eligibility for 2015 – 2016,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Food Research & Action Center, revised May 13, 2016, http://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/community-eligibility-database-schools-that-can-adopt-community-eligibility, as well as discussions of community eligibility in Becca Segal et al., “Community Eligibility Adoption Rises for the 2015–2016 School Year, Increasing Access to School Meals,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Food Research & Action Center, revised May 13, 2016, http://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/community-eligibility-adoption-rises-for-the-2015-2016-school-year.]


DID YOU REALIZE HOW TIGHT-FISTED THE MAJORITY OF CONGRESS IS WHEN IT COMES TO FEEDING KIDS, AMERICA?

THEY'LL OKAY FUNDS FOR $34 BILLION IN FOREIGN AID FOR 2017, SPEND $1.1 TRILLION ON FEEDING OUR MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX THAT RUNS THE WARS WE LOSE LOVED ONES TO, BUT WILL NOT APPROPRIATE ADEQUATE FUNDS FOR FOOD FOR KIDS.
(OR PROPER CARE OF OUR MILITARY ABROAD OR OF OUR RETURNING VETERANS, BTW.)  
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS? 

WHAT THEIR ATTITUDE AMOUNTS TO IS BOTH CHILD NEGLECT AND CHILD ABUSE.

In 2014, the top five states with the highest rate of food-insecure children under 18 were Mississippi, New Mexico, Arizona, Alabama, and Arkansas

In 2015, approximately 20 percent of children in the U.S. lived in poverty.

NOT BY CHOICE!
NOT BY ANY FAULT OF THEIRS!
IT IS NO CHILD'S "FAULT" THAT THEY ARE IN NEED.

"Feeding America" undertook the Map the Meal Gap project.
AND THE TEA ROOM SALUTES THEM FOR THAT.

FOR EVERY $1 GIVEN TO THIS ORGANIZATION, THEY SAY THEY CAN OFFER 11 MEALS TO HUNGRY KIDS.
OR, WE CAN TAKE IT UPON OURSELVES, AS A COMMUNITY, TO FEED EVERY HUNGRY CHILD IN OUR OWN TOWNS AND COUNTIES, SAY 'TO HELL WITH CONGRESS' AND JUST TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN AS WE HAVE SO OFTEN IN THE PAST.

BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE CONGRESS TO FEED OUR NATION'S CHILDREN, MAYBE WE DON'T NEED A CONGRESS AT ALL?
MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST SHUT THAT WHOREHOUSE DOWN, SEND THEM ALL HOME, AND RUN THIS NATION OURSELVES?

IT'S NOT LIKE WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.
MILLIONS WERE TAKING CARE OF EACH OTHER LONG BEFORE WE HAD A UNITED STATES, LONG BEFORE WE HAD A PRESIDENT OR A CONGRESS.

THOSE MILLIONS WERE CALLED "INDIGENOUS TRIBES", AND, AFTER THE BOATS CAME, WE CALLED THEM "SETTLERS" AND THEY MANAGED TO MAKE IT ALMOST 200 YEARS WITHOUT A "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT".

IF THOSE WE ELECT TO SERVE OUR BEST INTERESTS INSTEAD SERVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS AND THE INTERESTS OF THOSE WHO FINANCE THEIR DAMNABLE CAMPAIGNS, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST END THAT AND START, ONCE AGAIN, DOING WHAT'S RIGHT, DOING WHAT WE KNOW NEEDS TO BE DONE, AND STOP DOING WHAT WALL STREET AND THE BANKING CARTEL WANTS?

A MAN OR WOMAN WHO WON'T GLADLY FEED A CHILD, WHO WANTS TO DECREASE FUNDING FOR THAT, DESERVES TO BE DEPORTED.

AS I HEAR OFTEN SAID HERE IN THE SOUTH.... "HELL AIN'T HALF FULL."

PLENTY OF ROOM FOR POLITICIANS.....


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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking? This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Read more about the findings of Map the Meal Gap in our Executive Summary, access local food insecurity data tables by state or learn how we got this data.

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION FOR 100,000 YEARS: SARCOPHAGUS COVER POINTLESS

PLEASE WATCH THE SHORT VIDEO BELOW AND HEAR WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN JAPAN HAD THE COURAGE TO STAND UP AND TELL THEIR GOVERNMENT BACK IN 2013, THE FARMERS, THE PEOPLE BEING FORCED BACK ONTO RADIOACTIVE LAND AND BACK INTO RADIOACTIVE VILLAGES, PEOPLE TRYING TO LIVE WITH THE AFTERMATH OF PERHAPS THE DEADLIEST DISASTER WE'VE KNOWN..  

https://youtu.be/dfaPhmFGvt8

THE VIDEO IS SUBTITLED, BUT THEIR EMOTIONS CROSS LANGUAGE BARRIERS.
THEY ASK GOOD, VALID QUESTIONS AND GET...NO ANSWERS. 
DID WE AMERICANS SEE THIS IN ANY OF OUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
HOW MANY AMERICANS ARE UNAWARE OF THIS?

THE MAP BELOW IS FROM 2011, BUT IF ANYTHING HAS REALLY CHANGED, IT IS THAT NOW WE KNOW THAT A SARCOPHAGUS WILL NOT WORK FOR THE FUKUSHIMA PLANT AS IT DID FOR CHERNOBYL, AND THE JAPANESE OWNERS AND GOVERNMENT AXED THAT IDEA ANYWAY.

DO READ AT THE WEBSITE AT THAT LAST LINK.
SOME OF THEIR REASONS ARE CHILLING.

"The governor commented building a sacrophagus in Fukushima is “unacceptable”. Fukushima prefecture would have to give up returning the residents and it would also affect the harmful rumor."

"HARMFUL RUMOR?"
IT'S NO RUMOR, IT'S RADIATION!

THEY'D HAVE TO GIVE UP ON SENDING THOUSANDS BACK INTO THAT CONTAMINATED HELL-HOLE.?
BUT NOT ONE TEPCO OFFICIAL OR NATIONAL POLITICIAN WILL GO LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR THERE!

ABE AND TEPCO JUST DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO CONTINUE "SUBSIDIZING"ALL WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED.
IT'S CHEAPER AND MORE CONVENIENT TO SEND THEM BACK, LET THEM DEAL WITH IT.

THE PARTNERS IN CRIME TELL US IT WILL BE AT LEAST 40 YEARS BEFORE THEY CAN HOPE TO EVEN BEGIN THAT MASSIVE CLEANUP AND FINAL SHUTDOWN OF THIS MONSTROSITY.

FUKUSHIMA LEAKS MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER DAILY. THE NUCLEAR WASTE THAT THE CRIPPLED PLANT PUTS OUT EACH MONTH IS MIND-BOGGLING.  
NO, PEOPLE OF EARTH FUKUSHIMA WILL BE WITH US FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, AND WITH OUR GRANDCHILDREN'S GRANDCHILDREN, AND WITH THEIRS.


"Radioactivity in the sea around the plant are not falling as expected. The run-off from rivers, as well as continuing leaks from the plant may be to blame and contaminated sediment and marine organisms could also be involved."

EVER SO SLOWLY, THE TRUTH FINDS A WAY TO COME OUT AND WE MAY BE SEEING THE DAWN OF TRUTH REGARDING THE 2011 DISASTER AT JAPAN'S FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
IT IS, HOWEVER, MERELY THE DAWN.  
THE TITLE OF THIS BLOG ENTRY STATES "FUKUSHIMA RADIATION FOR 100,000 YEARS", BUT WHAT FEW SEEM TO BE AWARE OF IS THAT EVERY REACTOR ON PLANET EARTH WILL PRODUCE NUCLEAR WASTES THAT MUST BE BURIED, MONITORED, FOR AT LEAST 100,000 YEARS.

OUR "PROTECTION AGENCIES", OUR "REGULATORY COMMISSIONS" AND OUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND THEIR HIRED "EXPERTS" ALWAYS SEEM TO NEGLECT THAT BIT OF FACTUAL INFORMATION.

NUCLEAR FISSION CREATES ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE, YEAR AFTER YEAR, DECADE AFTER DECADE, MILLENNIUM AFTER MILLENNIUM.

IT IS NEVER "SAFE", IT IS NEVER 100% "CONTAINED", IT LEAKS, AND IT WILL KILL LIFE FORMS, ALL OF THEM, THAT COME IN CONTACT WITH IT...IF NOT IMMEDIATELY, THEN OVER TIME, BECAUSE IT NEVER STOPS, IN ANY HUMAN'S LIFE SPAN, BEING RADIATION.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, PERHAPS THE MOST WELL KNOWN OF THE SCIENTISTS WHO GAVE US THE BOMB, WHO WORKED SO HARD ON THAT MANHATTAN PROJECT, SAID IT BEST, AND SAID IT HONESTLY, WHEN HE FACED THE CAMERA, MISTY-EYED, AND APOLOGETICALLY TOLD THE TV AUDIENCE, "I AM BECOME DEATH....".
AT LEAST, AND AT LAST, HE WAS HONEST....BRIEFLY OR NOT.


AS ONE OF JAPAN'S LEADING NEWS MEDIA, ASAHI SHIMBUN,  WROTE,
"THERE IS NO END TO FUKUSHIMA CRISIS WHILE MELTED FUEL REMAINS."

TRUTH...HOWEVER SAD IT MAY BE, MUST BE TOLD.
AT THE OTHER END OF THE SPECTRUM, FOR A REAL 'STUDY' IN SCIENTIFIC PROPAGANDA-BABBLE AND DOUBLE-SPEAK, FEW SITES CAN MATCH   <THIS ONE>.

IT OFFERS AN ARTICLE FROM 2011 THAT STATES "MOST OF THE FUKUSHIMA RADIATION FELL INTO THE SEA" (LOOK OUT MARINE LIFE!) AND THEN THE "REVELATION" IN JUNE, 2016 THAT, NO, HOLD ON, MOST FELL ON LAND  IN "GLASS MICROPARTICLES THAT ARE WATER INSOLUBLE".

The airborne Cs nanoparticles were condensed along with the Fe-Zn nanoparticles and the gas from the molten concrete, to form the SiO2 glass nanoparticles, which were then dispersed.
Analysis from several air filters collected in Tokyo on 15 March 2011 showed that 89% of the total radioactivity was present as a result of these caesium-rich microparticles, rather than the soluble Cs, as had originally been supposed.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-radioactive-cesium-fallout-tokyo-fukushima.html#jCp

"The airborne Cs nanoparticles were condensed along with the Fe-Zn nanoparticles and the gas from the molten concrete, to form the SiO2 glass nanoparticles, which were then dispersed.

Analysis from several air filters collected in Tokyo on 15 March 2011 showed that 89% of the total radioactivity was present as a result of these caesium-rich microparticles, rather than the soluble Cs, as had originally been supposed.
[OOPS! DID THEY JUST LET IT SLIP THAT THEY KNEW THIS IN 2011? I BELIEVE SO.]

The airborne Cs nanoparticles were condensed along with the Fe-Zn nanoparticles and the gas from the molten concrete, to form the SiO2 glass nanoparticles, which were then dispersed.
Analysis from several air filters collected in Tokyo on 15 March 2011 showed that 89% of the total radioactivity was present as a result of these caesium-rich microparticles, rather than the soluble Cs, as had originally been supposed.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-radioactive-cesium-fallout-tokyo-fukushima.html#jCp

According to Dr Satoshi Utsunomiya: "This work changes some of our assumptions about the Fukushima fallout. It looks like the clean-up procedure, which consisted of washing and removal of top soils, was the correct thing to do.
However, the concentration of radioactive caesium in microparticles means that, at an extremely localised and focused level, the radioactive fallout may have been more (or less) concentrated than anticipated. This may mean that our ideas of the health implications should be modified"."

HANG ON RIGHT THERE!
WE WERE JUST TOLD THAT THESE MICROPARTICLES ARE NOT WATER SOLUBLE, BUT WASHING THINGS OFF HELPED?
HOW?

NO!
IT WASHED THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE, MAYBE, BUT IT DID NOT WASH THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE.
THIS IS THE SAME ABE/TEPCO GAME OF "MOVE THE NUCLEAR RADIATION AROUND SO EVERYONE THINKS IT'S GONE"!

BACK IN 2012, THE IMPECCABLE MICHAEL COLLINS OFFERED AN ARTICLE ABOUT A SIMILAR ODDITY....THE URANIUM "BUCKYBALLS".
THIS DISPELLED THE STANDARDIZED MYTH THAT ALL THAT LEAKING RADIATION INTO OUR PACIFIC OCEAN WOULD JUST BE "DILUTED" AND WE'D ALL BE JUST FINE.

OLD KENNY BUESSELER OF WOODS HOLE, DESIGNATED CALMER OF THE SHEEPFOLD, IN ONE OF HIS FAIRY TALES FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, EVEN SAID HE'D SWIM IN THAT OCEAN.

I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT!

COLLINS KNOWS BETTER.

FROM ENVIROREPORTER, JULY 5, 2012:
"According to a recent UC Davis study, these uranium-filled nanospheres were created from the millions of tons of fresh and salt water used to try to cool down three molten cores of the stricken reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The tiny and tough buckyballs are shaped like soccer balls.

Water hitting the incredibly hot and radioactive, primarily uranium-oxide fuel turns it into peroxide. In this goo mix, buckyballs are formed, loaded with uranium and able to move quickly through water without disintegrating."
AND AS COLLINS SAID AT THE END OF THAT INCREDIBLE ARTICLE, "We are on our own in this Fukushima nightmare.

In April of 2013, the "situation" attracted the attention of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which sent a team of experts to review the decommissioning effort. They warned "Japan may need longer than the projected 40 years to clean up the site".

IT ONLY TOOK TWO YEARS FOR THE BOYS AT IAEA TO RUN IN THERE, LOOK AROUND FOR A VERY BRIEF TIME, THEN TELL US IT'LL TAKE LONGER TO CLEAN UP?
JUST LIKE OUR NUCLEAR REGULATORY BOYS, THE IAEA WORKS FOR THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, NOT US.

BUT JAPAN CAN'T CLEAN UP THE SITE AND THEY HAVE ADMITTED THAT THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO SO MAY TAKE 40 TO OVER 100 YEARS TO DEVELOP, IMPLEMENT AND COMPLETE.

AND EVERY DAY THAT PLUME SPREADS AND THE WASTEWATER POISONS THE PACIFIC.

The contamination is found in the food chain, both in the sea and on land. HUMANS are at the top of that food chain.
What we consume that has been affected by Fukushima radiation affects us.
The more of it we eat, unknowingly, the more we're affected.
What blew sky-high in those explosions and was sent into the atmosphere by indiscriminate CHEAP burning of waste and "normal venting", plus a LOT of ABNORMAL, roof-off "venting", leaks into the air above those reactors, cannot be measured.

TEPCO, et al over there, those in charge of "monitoring radiation levels", have been caught in so many LIES no one can keep count of them.

Every week we've learned about coverups, about "misreadings", about "mistakes", about failures at every turn.

Who do we trust...those who CARE about the health of all of us, about the health of millions of Japanese citizens being endangered by all these lies and half-truths, or the Abe government and TEPCO people who have demonstrated their disregard for human lives and have repeatedly chosen what's best for the Japanese ECONOMY, PROFIT OVER HUMAN LIVES?
FISH IS A STAPLE FOOD FOR MANY, BOTH IN JAPAN AND GLOBALLY.
MANY OF THOSE FISH ARE MIGRATORY AND HAVE A FAR RANGE.
WHICH FOOD FISH SWIM IN THE WORST RADIOACTIVE WATERS AND THEN ARE CAUGHT HUNDREDS, EVEN THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY BY FISHERMEN?
Bottom-dwelling fish in the Fukushima area STILL show radioactivity above the limit of 100 becquerels per kg set by the Japanese government.

Greenlings have been found with levels as high as 25,000 bq per kg.

WHAT ABOUT THE TUNA, SALMON, SHELLFISH, KELP OFF THE WEST COAST THAT HAVE SHOWN CESIUM-134,RADIATION, RADIATION SPECIFIC TO THE DAI'ICH PLANT?

TUNA AND SALMON  AREN'T "BOTTOM-DWELLING...BUT THEY ARE MIGRATORY...AS IN FROM NEAR JAPAN TO OUR PACIFIC COAST.

IT'S THE SAME FOR FOOD CROPS GROWN IN ANY CONTAMINATED SOIL.

ABOUT THAT "CLEANED" SOIL, WELL, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN RAINS COME AND WASH ALL THAT RADIATION FROM "UNCLEANED" HILLSIDES BACK DOWN ONTO FARMLANDS?

THE JAPANESE FARMERS KNOW.
IN THE VIDEO LINKED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS POST, THEY SAY THEY WON'T EAT THEIR OWN FOOD CROPS, THAT THEY FEEL GUILTY SELLING IT OUTSIDE THEIR LANDS, KNOWING THE TRUTH, THAT IT IS CONTAMINATED, BUT THEY SAY, "WE HAVE TO MAKE A LIVING".

I'M NOT THEM, SO I CAN'T SAY WHAT I WOULD DO IN THEIR SHOES, BUT, FOR ME, NO, NO, I COULD NOT SELL THAT TAINTED FOOD, NOR SELL TAINTED FISH.

THINKING ABOUT CHILDREN EATING THAT WOULD NEVER ALLOW ME TO DO SO.
I DO RESPECT THEM FOR SPEAKING OUT, HOWEVER.

WHAT ABOUT AMERICAN FARMERS, RANCHERS, FISHERMEN?  
They don't have to monitor, don't have to report radiation. 
After all, the FDA, EPA, NRC and our Congress tells us everything is just fine, rosy, wonderful.

LIARS.

Milk from California to Wisconsin as well as drinking water sources have all shown signs of Fukushima radiation, as have some areas of food crops, rain run-off from roofs, roadside water in puddles, rain that fell at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
ONCE UPON A TIME, institutions like Berkeley and other universities with monitoring equipment reported these high readings.

While NASA reported the polonium, americium, Iodine-131, xenon, krypton, etc, found at their facility, I challenge you to find even three mainstream media who passed that on to the American public.

Local news teams were out in force with Geiger counters making readings, reporting to us, ONCE UPON A TIME.

Then...a sudden silence...
Monitoring equipment was pulled, turned off, reported as "broken", and our press fell quiet on the topic of Fukushima.

From coast-to-coast and border-to-border on BOTH sides of the Pacific people have reported higher numbers of mutations in just about everything these past 5+ years.
THAT hasn't made mainstream news either, has it?

IN JAPAN, EXPECTANT MOTHERS WHO DID NOT ELECT, AS MANY DID, TO ABORT THEIR PREGNANCIES ARE SEEING ALARMINGLY HIGH NUMBERS OF BIRTH DEFECTS, STILLBIRTHS, THYROID NODULES, OTHER TROUBLING SYMPTOMS WHICH WOULD TERRIFY ANY MOTHER TO DISCOVER IN A CHILD.

AS MANY PHYSICIANS HAVE NOW COME FORWARD AND SAID, THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TOLD THEM TO NEVER SAY SUCH THINGS WERE THE RESULT OF RADIATION. 
THE ABE REGIME EVEN TRIED TO FORCE A GAG ORDER ON THE MEDIA THERE, THREATENED TO JAIL THOSE WHO SPOKE OUT ABOUT HOW BAD IT IS THERE.

THE TEA ROOM HAS DONE MANY ARTICLES ON THIS, WITH VIDEO AND WRITTEN PROOF OF ALL I MENTION NOW.

[NOTE HERE TO WORDPRESS READERS. THE WORDPRESS SITE IS A 'MIRROR' TO MY MUCH OLDER MAIN SITE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE HEMLOCK TEA ROOM, WHICH CAN BE FOUND AT http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/.]

HERE, IN AMERICA, pediatricians initially sounded the alarm less than 4 weeks after the disaster happened, warned parents of newborns who were hit with that first radioactive plume that their babies should have thyroid screenings because of the radiation spikes they were subjected to in utero.


And then it all just went silent.

The initial warnings and cautions and heavy monitoring and reporting those high levels and all those news media headlines just faded away.
People were told, soon after the silence, that there was really nothing to be concerned about.

That was when everyone thought the Fukushima mess could be cleaned up quickly.


Now we know...they can't even BEGIN to fix it, the technology does not exist, and won't for at least 40 years, but now they're saying closer to 100 years.

And much that is leaking from Fukushima will continue to be present in our air, seas and lands for 100,000 to millions of years.

Those are the "half-lives" of some of the more deadly radioisotopes emitted from Dai'ichi.

THAT'S HOW LONG THE CURRENT RADIATION WILL BE WITH US ALL, EVEN IF WE STOPPED THE LEAKS TODAY, BUT WE CAN'T.
WE CAN'T AND JAPAN WON'T.

It's not "okay", nor is it going to be taken care of even as well as Chernobyl was, which is also still leaking, though by NO means as much as that cursed Dai'ichi plant.

We can't forget Fukushima, or the people of Japan, the people of America, the people anywhere and everywhere who are DAILY being 'touched' by this uncontrolled catastrophe, this ongoing insane nightmare.




More than thirty million tons of contaminated soil are stacked in open-air sites in plastic bags, unguarded, unmonitored, leaking...even in school yards...even beside streams and rivers that provide water to communities, that are used for irrigation, for livestock, that are home to fish consumed by human beings.
The radiation didn't disappear, nor, as we now know, was it "diluted" by the vast Pacific as we were TOLD it would be.

It's with us every day in increasing amounts because of those 3 gaping reactor buildings and a Japanese government that allows open-air burning of radioactive waste being picked up by thousands of workers there.


AS ONE OF THE MEN IN THE VIDEO STATED, THEY CAN'T DECONTAMINATE THE FORESTS, STREAMS, ROCKS, WELLS, OR THEMSELVES.


NEITHER CAN WE.

Shinzo Abe is also okay with "recycling" radioactive soil, the soil once placed in those silly plastic bags that never really "contained" even a wee bit of the radiation in its contents.

Will that soil be used to grow food in, be used in any building project, spread on any lawns, played on by children?

Abe and his minions don't care, they just want it GONE so those coming to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics don't see the ugly high stacks of radioactive soil sitting everywhere, unmonitored.
All metals that were hit hard or "mildly" by radiation is now treated as any other metal, reused, recycled, distributed throughout the world, just like Japanese foods, teas, everything, no matter what part of Japan they come from. 

Other nations still have a BAN on such, but NOT AMERICA!

AT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE, A PHOTO SHOWS HOW HIGH RADIATION STILL IS THERE TODAYt.
356 microsieverts / hr radiation level, Feb. 9, 2016 at Reactor #3

THE IDIOTIC PLAN OF AN ICE WALL TO BLOCK FLOW INTO THE PACIFIC IS MAKING MATTERS WORSE AND HAS FAILED.
WELLS NEARBY ARE CONTAMINATED.
THEY CAN'T STOP IT.
A panel of experts that is advising Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has declared the effort to construct a frozen wall of earth around the four reactors to stop additional ground water leaking into the site to be a FAILURE, ANOTHER FAILURE.
IT WAS A COSTLY (34.5 billion yen (307 million euros), STUPID, TIME-WASTING MISTAKE, AS EXPERTS WARNED BEFORE CONSTRUCTION BEGAN.
THE ABE REGIME WANTS THE WORLD TO BELIEVE JAPAN IS DOING "SOMETHING" WHEN JAPAN IS DOING NOTHING TO STOP THE RADIATION FROM POISONING THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE PLANET.
ABE IS STILL PUTTING HOLDING THE 2020 OLYMPICS ABOVE THE WELFARE OF THE JAPANESE CITIZENS, AND THEY'RE ONTO HIM!
TWO FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTERS HAVE CALLED HIM OUT ON LYING TO THE WORLD.

THE CITIZENS THERE ALSO KNOW THE FUTILITY OF THIS INSANE "ICE WALL".
"The plan to block ground water with a frozen wall of earth is failing," Yoshinori Kitsuaka, a professor of engineering at Tokyo Metropolitan University and a member of the panel, said in a report. "They need to come up with another solution."


IT WOULD TAKE REMOVING ALL THE FUEL RODS FROM THE REACTORS TO STOP THE NEED FOR HUNDREDS OF TONS OF COOLING WATER PER DAY FOR THE 3 REACTORS.

BUT THE RADIATION LEVELS ARE TOO HIGH FOR WORKERS OR ROBOTS TO DO THAT, AND AS LONG AS THE FUEL RODS ARE THERE, THE RADIATION WILL REMAIN TOO HIGH TO REMOVE THE RODS OR EVEN ATTEMPT TO BUILD A SARCOPHAGUS OVER THE PLACE, WHICH, AS WE WILL SEE, IS ANOTHER FUTILE POSSIBILITY.

IT'S A VICIOUS, UNENDING CYCLE.

IT'S BEEN ALMOST 6 YEARS NOW, BUT TEPCO ADMITS IT IS NO CLOSER TO A SOLUTION:

"We anticipate that it will take 30 to 40 years to reach that point as we are trying to do all the clean-up work at the same time as developing the technology to remove the fuel debris," a Tepco official said, YESTERDAY.

"YESTERDAY", BEFORE THE NEW TYPHOON HIT THE ISLAND NEAR FUKUSHIMA....
YESTERDAY, BEFORE YET OTHER EARTHQUAKES RATTLED THE CRUMBLING BUILDINGS AND STORAGE TANKS THERE....
YESTERDAY, AS THE EMPTY PROMISE OF THAT LUDICROUS "ICE WALL" STOPPING THE LEAKS INTO THE PACIFIC WAS SPOTLIGHTED.

YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW, NOTHING CHANGED FOR THE BETTER THERE!

Aileen Mioko-Smith, with Kyoto-based Green Action Japan, told Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster, "They are running out of space at the site to put these tanks, the water that is being generated on a daily basis means they have to keep constructing more, and the ones that are not welded have a history of leaking."

'Ticking time bomb'
"The situation with contaminated water at the site is a ticking time bomb and they don't seem to know what they can do - other than to construct more tanks," she said.

Environmental groups are calling for TEPCO and Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), which oversees the industry here, to come up with a clear plan of action so that they do not simply run out of space and believe there is no option but to release contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.

[THEY ARE ALREADY DOING THAT!]

TEPCO ADMITS THAT THE LEAKS ARE ENORMOUS AND ONGOING:
TEPCO confirmed earlier this month that an estimated 10,000 tons of radioactive water had collected in underground trenches around the buildings that house reactors one, two, three and four.

That was in addition to about 60,000 tons of water that had flooded the basement of the reactor and turbine buildings, according to an official at TEPCO.

"It is accumulating because around 100 tons of water are injected every day in order to keep the reactors in units one, two and three cool," the official told DW.

"But we are also seeing about 150 tons of ground water seeping into those same areas each day."

AND IT IS ALL EXTREMELY HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE....SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN ROBOTS CAN'T SURVIVE BUT A SHORT TIME IN THAT AREA.
THE "MINISTRY" IS FINALLY HAVING TO ADMIT THAT THE RADIATION HAS CAUSED DEATHS AND CANCERS, BUT THEY TRY TO COERCE THE RESIDENTS INTO GOING BACK INTO KNOWN HIGH-RADIATION TOWNS?
WHY?

On August 20, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare confirmed that it would provide compensation to a man who developed leukemia after taking part in emergency decontamination efforts at Fukushima immediately after the disaster struck.
The ministry recognized that the man, who is in his 50s but who has not been named, developed cancer due to exposure to radiation at the site, where he worked between April 2011 and January 2015.

The ministry is considering the cases of five additional workers who have applied for compensation to cover their health costs, while a former worker at the site was granted financial assistance in October of last year after contracting leukemia.

BUT THEY HAVE DENIED COMPENSATION TO THOUSANDS, HAVE REFUSED TO HEAR CASES BROUGHT BY HUNDREDS.

Yet at the same time, the national government is effectively forcing people who were evacuated from their homes close to the plant to return, saying that radioactivity levels are within permissible limits and that housing subsidies and other payments that they have been receiving while unable to work will be terminated.

"Many of these people - especially those with children - do not want to go back to areas that they have been told are safe," said Mioko-Smith, adding that there was a lack of trust in the government's promises.

"They feel that everything is being driven by the upcoming Olympic Games and that the government has to live up to its promise to the world that everything will be back to normal by 2020 and the Tokyo Games," she said."
BINGO! NAIL ON THE HEAD!

SOME NEWS MEDIA, EVEN IN JAPAN, ARE CALLING ABE AND TEPCO WHAT THEY
ARE....LIARS...BUT HARDLY A ONE IN THE U.S. DARES TO.

"4 biggest lies about the Fukushima disaster"

MARCH 12, 2016
"If hindsight is 20/20, we have a clear picture of the lies told throughout the Fukushima disaster.

Five years on, we now know which assurances from authorities turned out to be dangerously false.

LIE #1: No radiation casualties

It took more than four years for the Japanese government to acknowledge that radiation had played a factor in bringing about casualties in the Fukushima prefecture.

The true effect on workers and residents in the area won’t be known for some time. It took between six and eight years for survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the United States to develop acute leukemia.


LIE #2: Not as bad as Chernobyl  
Fukushima is described as the “worst since Chernobyl,” but in reality, it may turn out to be a lot worse [than Chernobyl].

Both disasters were rated seven on the International Nuclear Event Scale, categorizing them as a “Major Accident.”

Perhaps they need to turn the scale 'up to eleven' in order to reflect the severity of the Japanese disaster.

The final consequences may be far more damaging due to groundwater contamination and the number of reactors involved.

In 1986, Chernobyl had four operating reactors, one of which melted down. The remaining reactors were eventually shut down. Fukushima, on the other hand, had six operating reactors, of which three entered meltdown, and a fourth was left in an unstable condition. Only two were successfully shut down.

Fukushima’s location, situated along the sea and a former riverbed, also meant that the potential for harm in the event of a meltdown was greater than that for Chernobyl, which had no problems involving groundwater.

The cleanup operation could take up to a hundred years, according to a former nuclear industry executive.

[AND ACCORDING TO TEPCO'S OWN ADMISSION, AS WE'VE SEEN IN PREVIOUS ARTICLES OUT OF JAPAN.]


LIE #3: Not poisoning children
Toshihide Tsuda, a professor of environmental epidemiology at Okayama University, found that thyroid cancer rates in the prefecture were from 20 to 50 times higher than the national level, according to The Japan Times.

The findings were based on a screening of 370,000 residents, which “is unlikely to be explained by a screening surge,” according to Tsuda, who cited radiation exposure as a factor.

[READ MORE: Fukushima medical survey confirms 16 NEW child thyroid cancer cases]


A citizens’ group with parents of children whose thyroid cancers were detected because of Prefecture’s thyroid exams requests Fukushima Prefecture to expand the exams.

DID THEY EXPAND THEM AS PARENTS REQUESTED?
NO, THEY ARE STOPPING THE EXAMS!
FROM THE BEGINNING, JAPANESE MOTHERS HAVE BEEN BEGGING FOR HELP AS THEY SAW THEIR CHILDREN WITH WHAT APPEARED TO BE RADIATION BURNS AND RADIATION SICKNESS, AS THEY'VE WATCHED THEM DEVELOP THYROID NODULES, SKIN ERUPTIONS, SEEN CHILDREN BORN WITH BIRTH DEFECTS, SEEN THEM STILLBORN.

LIE #4: It’s not poisoning the land, ocean, air.
Fish containing 258 times the level of radiation deemed safe for consumption have been found in Japanese markets.
[The SAME was found in rice, mushrooms, vegetables, milk.]

“Deformed” daisies, trees, vegetables, insects, reptiles, amphibians, farm animals, offspring of abandoned pets are found near the site.

Radioactive Boar Causing Havoc Near The Fukushima Power Plant

NO SAFE WATER.
Almost every river within 100 miles of the Dai'ichi plant is now known to be high in radiation, dangerously high, as are wells near there ( as the Tea Room previously showed via well readings taken there not long ago).

Tokyo is still seeing areas with unsafe levels of radiation, but no one can explain why.

School yards, parking lots, country roads are lined and stacked with huge plastic bags containing waste material scraped up and cut down from highly radiated areas, and those stacks are leaking.

Forests, entire forests, that have NOT been "cleaned" are dying, and the hillsides allow water from those areas to run down onto farmlands below.


HOW CAN THE ABE REGIME CLEAN THE RAIN, THE TREES, THE AIR, THE SOIL?
IT CAN'T DO IT!
WHAT ABOUT REPORTS THAT MALE INFERTILITY IN JAPAN HAS RISEN SINCE THE "ACCIDENT"?
WE KNOW THAT IS ONE SIDE EFFECT OF RADIATION.

The ultimate long-term effect of this disaster is still immeasurable, with even the government estimating that the cleanup will take at least another 50 years.
Nancy Foust from the Fukushima Project has warned that it would be premature to allow people to return to their homes in the area.

“They have a lot of complicated, very risky work that they need to do over the next couple of decades to remove the melted fuel,” Foust said.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to restart as many reactors as possible, believing that nuclear energy should remain a key power source for Japan."

IF ABE REALLY BELIEVES THAT, LET HIM MOVE HIS QUARTERS, HIS HOME, HIS ENTIRE FAMILY TO FUKUSHIMA.
LET HIM LIVE NEAR ANY NUCLEAR REACTOR TO SHOW US HOW "SAFE" IT IS.

LET HIM DRINK ONLY WATER FROM THOSE RADIATED RIVERS, EAT FOOD GROWN ONLY IN THE FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, AND SEND HIS FAMILY'S CHILDREN TO SCHOOL IN ONE OF THOSE TOWNS THAT HE'S PUSHING RESIDENTS BACK INTO!

LET ABE PUT UP OR SHUT UP AND ADMIT WHAT A LIE THIS ALL HAS BEEN, IS NOW, WILL BE TOMORROW, BUT LET HIM DO SO BEFORE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FLOCK TO JAPAN FOR THE 2020 OLYMPICS AND GO HOME TO GET CANCER A YEAR, 2 YEARS, 10 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.

IF HE HAD ONE HONORABLE CELL IN HIS BODY, HE'D CALL OFF THE OLYMPICS AND EVACUATE JAPAN UNTIL THIS MESS IS CLEANED UP.

“Normalizing” Nuclear Catastrophe: Japan's Abe Government  
"A plan to force 6,000 residents back into the evacuated zone in 2017."

Did Abe Lie To Olympic Committee About Fukushima Safety

YES, YES HE DID, SAY MANY.   

Japan Times Herald: Abe Lied In Pitch To Olympic Committee


AS ONE RATHER CALLOUS INDIVIDUAL PUT IT IN A CERTAIN FORUM I VISITED, "THE ONLY REALISTIC SOLUTION IS TO EVACUATE JAPAN AND THEN APPLY THE HIROSHIMA SOLUTION. NUKE IT, LET IT COOL OFF, MOVE THE PEOPLE BACK."

THAT'S HARSH, COLD, A BIT STUPID, BUT WITH TIME RUNNING OUT FOR EVERYONE, WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE AFFECTED BY ANOTHER 40 TO 100 YEARS OF THIS CONSTANT RADIOACTIVE  CONTAMINATION, THAT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING MUST SOMEHOW SUFFER THROUGH IT, "LIKE GOOD LITTLE SOLDIERS", IT MAY TAKE SOMETHING "STUPID" TO FIX THE "STUPID" THAT TEPCO AND THE ABE REGIME HAVE HANDED US SO FAR.

WHEN, AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, YET ANOTHER MEGA-QUAKE AND ANOTHER TSUNAMI OR A STRONG TYPHOON COULD DO WHAT WAS DONE 5 1/2 YEARS AGO, BLOW ALL THOSE REACTORS SKY-HIGH, WHAT, REALLY, ARE THE OPTIONS?

Typhoon Lionrock Might Land On Fukushima Daiichi

MAY IT ALL HOLD TOGETHER...AGAIN...
BTW, WHEN YOU READ IN THE MEDIA OR WHEN SOMEONE ARGUES WITH YOU THAT "RADIATION LEVELS ARE NOT THAT HIGH IN JAPAN", ASK, "DO YOU MEAN IN THE AIR, OR ON THE GROUND, IN WATER OR IN FOOD?"

AS THIS VIDEO SHOWS <HERE> , A FEW INCHES, A FEW FEET, A MORE EXPENSIVE METER THAT CAN MEASURE ALPHA, BETA AND GAMMA MAKES A LOT OF DIFFERENCE IN THOSE "LOW" READINGS, SAME AS HERE IN AMERICA.

AFTER ALL, TEPCO WAS CAUGHT SHIELDING THEIR METERS MORE THAN ONCE SO THE LEVELS DIDN'T LOOK QUITE SO BAD.
THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN DISCOVERED USING METERS THAT WON'T MEASURE ABOVE 100 MILLISIEVERTS.

WHEN WILL THE LIES AND COVERUPS AND COMPLICITY END? 

IT CAN'T...JAPAN MUST CONTINUE DOWN THE PATH THE ABE REGIME HAS CHOSEN.

AND WE, MY FRIENDS?

WE CAN HOPE AND WE CAN CONTINUE THE FIGHT TO ENLIGHTEN THOSE WHO JUST DON'T KNOW THE REALITY OF THIS NIGHTMARE. 

MAY SOMEONE FIND SOME WAY TO TRULY END IT.





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FURTHER READING:


~10,000 tons of toxic water pools in Fukushima nuclear plant trenches ...


~ JAPAN TIMES IS A BRAVE LITTLE THING, USUALLY, SO TRY THEIR NEWS NOW AND THEN.

~TEPCO apologizes to Niigata for meltdown cover-up~Film focuses on ‘irradiated’ cattle kept alive in Fukushima

~Fukushima’s surfers riding on radioactive waves


~IT'S STILL CONTAMINATED!
Aug 19, 2016 ... The Japanese government plans to use state funds for radiation cleanup activities in evacuation areas most seriously contaminated...

~Court upholds Takahama reactor shutdown order


~Number of new cancer patients reaches record high ‹ Japan Today ...
JUNE 30, 2016


~Fukushima's ground zero: No place for man or robot ‹ Japan Today ...



~Do you support Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympics in view of the ...

~May 15, 2016 ... Bob Sneider May. 18, 2016 - 02:02AM JST. I have zero confidence Japan will be able to contain Fukushima radiation before it invites all these people....


Japan prepares for release of tritium from Fukushima plant

~FAIRLY FREQUENT UPDATES RE: FUKUSHIMA, GOOD 'HISTORICAL' ARTICLES FROM THE BEGINNING, WHEN MAJOR MEDIA ALSO SEEMED TO CARE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT DAI'ICHI.  IT'S WORTH A READ.
http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/crisis.htm

~TEPCO HAS PETITIONED THE ABE REGIME TO LEVY A NEW TAX ON JAPANESE CITIZENS TO PAY FOR THE CONTINUED CLEANUP, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE NOT CLEANING UP ANYTHING!

Public cost of Fukushima nuclear accident cleanup topped ¥4.2 trillion as of end of March

WHY AMERICANS SAY BOTH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SUCK: THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

I WATCHED THE NIGHTLY NEWS AS ALWAYS, THOUGH I KNOW WHAT SPIN ARTISTS, MANIPULATORS, PROPAGANDA PUSHERS AND OVER-PAID BAD ACTORS NEWS ANCHORS ON TV ARE.

SURELY THOSE OLD REPORTERS LIKE WALTER WINCHELL ARE SPINNING IN THEIR GRAVES IF THEY CAN SEE WHAT I SEE.

THE OTHER NIGHT, ALL THE OLD REPORTERS WOULD HAVE BEEN AS SHOCKED AS I WAS TO HEAR ONE OF THE FOUR CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ASK HIS INTERVIEWER WHAT ALEPPO WAS.

WHAT WOULD HE DO ABOUT ALEPPO WAS THE QUESTION ASKED ON MSNBC'S PROGRAM "MORNING JOE"..
"AND WHAT IS ALEPPO?" ASKED LIBERTARIAN PARTY CANDIDATE, EX-GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO, GARY JOHNSON .
"YOU'RE KIDDING," NEWS COMMENTATOR MIKE BARNICLE REPLIED, EYES WIDE.
NO, FOLKS, JOHNSON WAS NOT KIDDING.
HE HAD NO CLUE.

"After Barnicle explained that Aleppo was the center of Syria’s refugee crisis, Mr. Johnson struggled to recover.

“O.K., got it,” he said, explaining that he thinks that the United States must partner with Russia to diplomatically improve the situation there. “With regard to Syria, I do think that it’s a mess.”

The stumble could be a serious blow to Mr. Johnson’s campaign, just as he is making a final push to improve his standing in the polls. His support needs to reach 15 percent in a series of major national polls to be included in the presidential debates.

Mr. Johnson’s support has been hovering around 10 percent. He and his running mate, former Gov. Bill Weld of Massachusetts, have been aggressively making the case that they represent a viable alternative for voters who are not happy with the major party nominees, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Johnson and Mr. Weld are both former two-term Republican governors who are socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

While Libertarians are very free-trade oriented, they are often criticized for being isolationist and lacking interest in foreign policy.

Some leading Republicans (LIKE MITT ROMNEY) who oppose Mr. Trump have said openly that they are giving the Libertarian ticket a serious look.

The stumble could derail such hopes and it was widely mocked on social media.
Some even attributed the flub to Mr. Johnson’s acknowledged use of marijuana.
He is a proponent of legalizing the drug and he was previously the chief executive of a business that marketed and sold recreational marijuana products. 

Thursday was not the first time that Mr. Johnson has faced such a situation.
After speaking at a Politico convention in June, he was being directed to a room that was named after Harriet Tubman, the former slave and abolitionist.
According to a report in The New Yorker, Mr. Johnson asked, “Who’s Harriet Tubman?”

Mr. Johnson expressed disappointment about the Aleppo lapse in a brief follow-up interview that was broadcast on MSNBC and he canceled some of his other scheduled interviews that had been planned for later in the day.

“I’m incredibly frustrated with myself,” Mr. Johnson said. “I have to get smarter and that’s just part of the process.”

NATURALLY, AS ALL PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS DO, HE TRIED TO RECOVER FROM THE "DUH, HUH?" MOMENT....NO WAY... AMERICANS DON'T FORGET SUCH THINGS....

THAT IS, UNLESS IT'S THE DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES WHO SCREW UP.

IF THE TWO TOP-RUNNERS MAKE SUCH A WELL-PUBLICIZED FLUB, THEY HAVE "CLEANING TEAMS" THAT SCURRY TO MAKE THINGS SEEM LIKE THE OTHER GUY'S FAULT, OR SAY THAT THEY WERE "MISCONSTRUED" AND HERE'S WHAT THEY REALLY, REALLY MEANT.
THEIR SUPPORTERS SWALLOW THE "FIX" AND VOTE FOR THEM ANYWAY. 
NOT SO FOR THIRD-PARTY FOLKS.
THEY AREN'T SEEN AS "REAL CANDIDATES".

BUT JOHNSON CLEARLY DIDN'T NOW WHAT ALEPPO WAS, NOR WHO HARRIET TUBMAN WAS AND NOW AMERICA KNOWS THAT, OF THE FOUR CANDIDATES SLATED FOR THE NOVEMBER BALLOTS, ALL OF THEM SUCK, NONE OF THEM ARE PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL, AT LEAST HALF OF THEM ARE CRIMINALS AND THE OTHER HALF ....WELL, BESIDES IGNORANT?
THEY REALLY, REALLY SUCK.

I HOPE ALL OF MY READERS FROM AFAR KNOW WHAT THAT HORRID AMERICAN PHRASE, "THAT SUCKS" MEANS.
I LOATHE IT, BUT, SOMETIMES, NO OTHER PHRASE QUITE DESCRIBES THINGS LIKE IT MANAGES TO DO.

IT'S RATHER LIKE THE "F-BOMB"....
IF YOU WANT THE IMMEDIATE, ALMOST UNDIVIDED  ATTENTION OF ALMOST ANY GROUP IN AMERICA, JUST DROP THE F-BOMB.
PEOPLE LOOK UP FROM WHATEVER THEY'RE DOING EITHER TO SEE WHO WAS CRASS ENOUGH TO SAY THAT OR TO WATCH THE FIGHT THAT GENERALLY ENSUES.

WE SAY "THAT SUCKS" FAIRLY CASUALLY, SOMETIMES IN SYMPATHY FOR A FELLOW'S MISFORTUNE, AND WE SAY IT WHEN SOMETHING IS TOTALLY WORTHLESS, OR SHODDY, OR SIGNIFIES A BAD OUTCOME.
I THINK, FOR MOST, IT'S EQUATED WITH THE OLD PHRASES, "THAT'S BAD" OR "THAT'S TERRIBLE"...MAYBE.

IN THE CASE OF OUR IGNOBLE FOUR CANDIDATES, GREEN PARTY, LIBERTARIAN PARTY, DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND REPUBLICAN PARTY, EACH ONE HAS CHOSEN THE WORST CANDIDATE ANYONE CAN IMAGINE.

THE OLD ADAGE STATES THAT "THE CREAM ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP", BUT AMERICA IS OUT OF CREAM.
WHAT'S RISING SEEMS TO BE THE SAME THING THAT FLOATS IN A SEPTIC TANK.

I HEAR PEOPLE SAY EVERY DAY, "IF THEY'D WORKED HARD AT IT, THEY COULDN'T HAVE HAND-PICKED ANYONE WHO SUCKS THIS BAD." [BECAUSE MOST AMERICANS DON'T USE "BADLY", YOU SEE. WE DO NOT SPEAK "THE KING'S ENGLISH", BUT A QUITE CORRUPTED, MANGLED, AMERICANIZED VERSION.]

BUT....BUT, WE VOTE THIS TIME FOR WHAT EVERYONE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ONGOING AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ARE CALLING "THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS", NEGLECTING TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS IS STILL AN EVIL.
NEVER MIND THAT!
JUST MAKE SURE TO VOTE AND KEEP THE OTHER WACKOS FROM GETTING THE UPPER HAND!
VOTE, DAMNIT!
WE CAN'T LET "THEM" WIN!

THIS IS OUR CURRENT QUANDARY, ALAS FOR US.

ONWARD...
SOME OF YOU FROM OTHER NATIONS MAY BE UNAWARE THAT BEING AMERICAN REALLY COMES SECOND TO WHICH PARTY YOU VOTE FOR.

HONESTLY, AMERICANS LOVE TO BE AMERICANS, BUT NEVER DISPARAGE A MAN'S CHOSEN PARTY....THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

AMERICANS MAY NOT KICK YOUR TEETH OUT FOR BURNING OUR FLAG OR SPITTING ON THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, BUT, BY ALL THE GODS THAT EVER WERE, DON'T YOU TELL AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT THAT HE/SHE SHOULD VOTE REPUBLICAN...AND VICE VERSA.
DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT YOUR PARTY IS THE ONLY HOPE AMERICA HAS.

PARTY LOYALTY TOPS HANGING OUT THE STARS AND STRIPES AND OFTEN GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS:
"AMERICAN BY BIRTH, REPUBLICAN (OR DEMOCRAT) BY THE GRACE OF GOD!"

[YES, AMERICANS SAY THE SAME THING ABOUT THEIR FAVORITE SPORTS TEAMS, COLLEGES, BIRTH STATES, ETC, BUT NOT WITH THE MISTY EYES THAT STATING ONE'S PARTY AFFILIATION ELICITS.
YOU SEE, EACH PARTY HAS A BIT OF A "SAVIOR COMPLEX"...EACH WILL SAVE THE WORLD, IF YOU VOTE FOR THEM, THEY PROMISE.]

IN AMERICA, THE VAST MAJORITY, ABOUT 80-90%, DEPENDING ON THE YEAR, ARE EITHER DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS AND THE NATION IS SO NEARLY EQUALLY DIVIDED IT'S A LITTLE SPOOKY.
.
ANY OTHER PARTY IS SEEN AS A WAY TO "THROW AWAY YOUR VOTE".
ANYONE VOTING A "THIRD-PARTY" IS SEEN BY BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS AS "CRAZY AND STUPID".

EACH PARTY DUBS ALL OTHER PARTY MEMBERSS AS "UN-AMERICAN".

WELL, IT'S MUCH WORSE THIS YEAR THAN IN TIMES PAST, AND I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS ALL PLAY OUT FOR SEVEN DECADES NOW....SO, TRUST ME?

"A Pew Research Center report released this year concluded that “Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines—and partisan antipathy is deeper and more extensive—than at any point in the last two decades.”
As anyone who has ever looked through comments on a political blog can attest, this polarization often translates into venomous language, with Republicans and Democrats slinging political insults at each other over the partisan divide.

But there may be a ray of hope: partisans on both sides of the aisle accuse each other of being racists and bigots, demonstrating a consensus that intolerance and discrimination are universally reprehensible.

And while there may not be much common ground between Democrats and Republicans, at least we can all agree on calling each other “idiots”."

AND THOSE ARE THE NICE LABELS.


SO WE SEE TRUMP AS GOP NOMINEE.

DONALD JOHN TRUMP, AGE 70.... LONG SEEN AS AN OVERBEARING CLOWN, LONG SEEN AS BAT GUANO LOCO, AS SOME SAY, AND THEY ARE CORRECT, AND YET HE IS APPARENTLY THE "PEOPLE'S CHOICE".

WHY?

HE IS A BIGOT AND AN ELITIST WITHOUT EQUAL.
THAT'S PERHAPS THE MAIN REASON HE GOT THE NOMINATION.
MOST AMERICANS LIKE TO SEE THEMSELVES AS ELITE, BUT DENY BIGOTRY, WITH A WINK AND A SMILE AND A KNOWING NOD.

AND MAYBE, BUT MAYBE NOT, MOST AMERICANS PREFER TO BE SEEN AS THE "GOOD GUYS", THE "CREAM OF THE CROP", THE VERY TOP LIMB OF THE OLD TREE WHERE HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS ROOSTS, BEST OF THE BEST, BETTER THAN ALL THE REST, ETC.

IT'S THE "GOOD OLD BOYS" NATION, THE RESULT OF THAT 'MANIFEST DESTINY', THAT GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO DOMINATE AND CONQUER AND SUBJECT THE REST OF THE WORLD TO AMERICA'S AGENDA, SHIFTING AND CONTORTING AS THAT IS.

"DON'T TREAD ON ME" SAID THE OLD AMERICAN COILED RATTLESNAKE BATTLE FLAG THAT STILL SELLS LIKE HOTCAKES HERE. IT'S A FAVORITE OF THE GOP "TEA PARTY" PEOPLE AND WHAT IS CALLED "RIGHT-WING LIBERTARIANS"

[AS A HISTORICAL ASIDE: 
"Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit:

"'I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of stepping on her.—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?]

YEAH, THAT'S THE AMERICAN TRAIN OF THOUGHT....WE'RE THE SUPER-POWER, AFTER ALL, THE KING OF THE HILL, THE BADDEST DOG IN THE JUNKYARD PACK.

AND TO THAT MINDSET, ENTER DONALD TRUMP.

LET ME BEGIN WITH TRUMP BECAUSE OF ALL THE CANDIDATES, THE GOP CHOICE IS MOST UNFATHOMABLE.

[AND, IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T READ MUCH HERE IN THE TEA ROOM, BE AWARE THAT I AM NOT A MEMBER OF ANY 'PARTY', LOATHE THEM ALL EQUALLY, SEE THEM AS MERELY A CONTINUATION OF THE CIVIL WAR.]
JUST A SHORT LOOK INTO TRUMP'S EYES SHOULD REVEAL TO ANYONE THAT, WELL, NOBODY'S HOME.
TRUMP HAS LEFT THE BUILDING, SHALL WE SAY?
THERE ARE A FEW THINGS YOU WHO DO NOT LIVE HERE AND YOU WHO DO MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE "SUCCESSFUL" TRUMP....

HE MAY HAVE LIED ABOUT HIS WEALTH.

According to public records, Trump received a $302 New York tax rebate in 2013  (THAT IS A PDF LINK) and in two other recent years which is only given to couples earning less than $500,000 per year, who submit as proof their federal tax returns. 

THAT'S A FAR CRY FROM THE $362 MILLION TRUMP CLAIMED TO HAVE MADE IN 2014.

An analysis of Trump's business career by The Economist in 2016, concludes that his "...performance [from 1985 to 2016] has been mediocre compared with the stock market and property in New York", noting both his successes and bankruptcies.
Any such analysis is difficult because, as the newspaper observed, "Information about Mr Trump's business is sketchy. He doesn't run a publicly listed firm."


HE'S IN COURT A LOT....FREQUENTLY AS DEFENDANT AND FOUR TIMES FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY.
Because Trump's businesses used Chapter 11 bankruptcy, they were allowed to operate while negotiations proceeded.
Trump was quoted by Newsweek in 2011 saying, "I do play with the bankruptcy laws—they're very good for me" as a tool for trimming debt. 

An analysis by USA Today, published in June 2016, found that over the previous three decades, Trump and his businesses have been involved in 3,500 legal cases in U.S. federal courts and state courts, an unprecedented number for a U.S. presidential candidate.
[SEE "Exclusive: Trump's 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee"]

Of the 3,500 suits, mostly in the casino industry, Trump or one of his companies was the plaintiff in 1,900; defendant in 1,450; and third party, filer of bankruptcy, or other in 150.

In 1988, Trump paid $750,000 to settle the civil penalties in an antitrust lawsuit stemming from stock purchases.

In 2000, Trump was charged with lobbying for government rejection of proposed casinos that would compete with his casinos, and he paid $250,000 to settle resulting fines.

"The Donald" sued the town of Ossining, New York over the property tax valuation on his golf course there, after separately being sued for modifying a drainage system that allegedly damaged a library, public pool, and park facilities.

[TRUMP HAS SUED SEVERAL U.S. TOWNS.]

According to a New York state report, Trump circumvented corporate and personal campaign donation limits in the 1980s by donating money to candidates from 18 of his different business subsidiaries, rather than donating primarily in his own name.

This was one of the times Trump's connection to the Mafia came into question. it was not the first time, nor the last. The Mafia has long been in the casino business.

Trump told investigators he made all contributions on the advice of his lawyers.
He also said the contributions were not to curry favor with business-friendly candidates, but simply to satisfy requests from friends.

[THAT IS NOT THE SONG HE SANG WHEN HE PUBLICLY BOASTED ABOUT BUYING POLITICIANS. SEE: "For months, the Republican nominee bragged that he had often paid officeholders for favors". ALSO SEE ABC's REPORT ON TRUMP'S BOASTS <HERE>]


TRUMP HAS ALIASES AND HAS USED THEM OFTEN.

Trump used the pseudonym "John Barron" (sometimes "John Baron") and "John Miller", especially throughout the 1980s. The Washington Post said that "John Barron" was a "go-to alias when [Trump] was under scrutiny, in need of a tough front man or otherwise wanting to convey a message without attaching his own name to it".
Barron would be introduced as a spokesperson for Trump.

IS IT A BIT ODD TO CREATE ALTER EGOS AND USE THEM AS TRUMP HAS WHEN DEALING WITH THE AMERICAN PRESS?
HIS FANS DON'T SEEM TO MIND.


TRUMP, LIKE HOWARD HUSHES, IS 'GERMAPHOBIC', ALMOST NEVER SHAKES HANDS.

HE HAD DESIGNS ON PRINCESS DIANA.
Trump was said to have "bombarded" Princess Diana with expensive flowers after her 1996 divorce from Prince Charles, and has said that he would have liked to have courted that "genuine princess".

TRUMP ACCUSED POPE FRANCIS OF BEING A PAWN FOR THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SO THAT MEXICO COULD CONTINUE TO RIP OFF THE UNITED STATES.


IS TRUMP'S "CHRISTIANITY" IN QUESTION AS HE SAID THE POPE INSINUATED?
WELL, YES, ACTUALLY AND HERE'S WHY...
Trump told a 2015 South Carolina campaign audience he attends Marble Collegiate Church, where he married his first wife Ivana in 1977.
Marble has said that, though Trump has a longstanding history with the church, he is a Presbyterian and not an active member of Marble. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE.
Trump has said that although he participates in Holy Communion, he has NOT asked God for forgiveness for his sins.

He stated, "I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture." 
 WHEN ASKED TO STATE HIS FAVORITE BIBLE VERSE, TRUMP REFUSED.
Declining to name his favorite Bible verse, Trump said "I don't like giving that out to people that you hardly know."

HUH?
WELL, TRUMP'S PROFESSED CHRISTIAN SUPPORTERS SEEM ABLE TO IGNORE ALL THAT, SO IGNORE IT.

TRUMP HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT ON A MINOR, OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, ATTEMPTED RAPE, AND OF SPOUSE ABUSE.

The third case against Trump comes via a recent federal lawsuit filed in June 2016 in the State of New York by “Jane Doe.”

In the suit, Doe alleges that Trump raped her back in 1994, when she was just 13 years old.

According to legal documents, Doe says she attended parties with Trump and his friend Jeffrey Epstein—a registered sex offender known in the media as the “billionaire pedophile.”

Doe, who was trying to become a model, says it was during these parties that Trump initiated sexual contact with her on several occasions and on one occasion allegedly raped her. 
The lawsuit also includes a witness statement from a “Tiffany Doe,” who says that, in the ’90s, she was in charge of recruiting adolescent women to entertain guests at Epstein’s parties—and she personally saw the incident occur.  

THAT YOUNG LADY IS NOT THE ONLY ACCUSER, BUT WHO'S KEEPING COUNT?
NOT TRUMP'S FANS.

HE MAY HAVE WRANGLED HIS OLDER BROTHER'S INHERITANCE AWAY FROM HIM AND HIS SURVIVORS.

"Trump helped draft will that excluded his brother's children" read the headlines.

TRUMP'S OLDER BROTHER, FRED JR (FREDDY), BORN IN 1905 AND APPARENT HEIR TO THEIR FATHER'S BUSINESS, DIED FROM ALCOHOLISM IN 1981.
TRUMP'S FATHER DIED IN 1999.
"Fred Sr. left $20 million when he died in 1999, but his will specifically excluded Freddy’s children, said The Hill.

Freddy Trump’s children sued, arguing that Trump and his siblings were responsible for excluding them from the will and arguing that Fred Sr. had dementia and didn’t know what he was doing, the Hill said.

Trump has said the suit was settled “amicably” but not before he withheld medical care from his brother’s sick child, according to The Daily Mail.

(Fred Sr. freely provided medical coverage to his family through his company for decades.) According to The New Yorker, Trump “cut off benefits from the family health plan that were paying for the medical care of his nephew’s seriously ill young son.”


TRUMP UNIVERSITY STILL FACING LAWSUITS.
In 2013 the state of New York filed a $40 million civil suit claiming that Trump University made false claims and defrauded consumers; the lawsuit is ongoing as of 2016.

In addition, two class-action civil lawsuits are pending in federal court relating to Trump University; they name Donald Trump personally as well as his companies.

One of the cases, Low v. Trump, is set for trial on November 28, 2016.

 
WE'VE BEEN TOLD BY EX-EMPLOYEES AND AN EX-WIFE, BY EX-FRIENDS AND SOME WHO HAVE DEALT WITH THE MAN INSIDE HIS CAMPAIGN CIRCLE THAT TRUMP IS AN ABUSIVE,  SELF-CENTERED, EGO-MANIACAL BULLY.

"Ted Cruz has called Trump  a “pathological liar,” “utterly amoral,” “a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen,” and “a serial philanderer.”

Maybe someone should look into those accusations more closely?

HE OBVIOUSLY, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PUBLIC COMMENTS, SEES MOST OF AMERICA AS "PARASITES" AND 'MORONS', CALLING OTHERS "SCUM" AND "GARBAGE".

IN A PIECE THAT FOCUSED ON "Trump's epic rant in Iowa last night", US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT WROTE THAT TRUMP CALLED FOR ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WITH A KNIFE TO COME ONSTAGE AND TRY TO STAB HIM.
HE THEN RANTED:
"How stupid are the people of Iowa?" he asked. "How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?"

WATCH, IF YOU HAVE A VERY STRONG STOMACH, HIS FULL-BLOWN RANT <HERE> BY SCROLLING DOWN JUST A BIT ON THAT PAGE.

HE HAS REPEATEDLY, AND, USUALLY UNAPOLOGETICALLY, MADE RACIALLY INSENSITIVE AND DEMEANING REMARKS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS ALIKE, HAS MADE DISPARAGING AND OFTEN CRUDE REMARKS ABOUT WOMEN, HAS MANAGED TO ANGER JUST ABOUT EVERY AGE GROUP, EVERY RACE, EVERY GENDER IN AMERICA, HAS INFURIATED THOUSANDS OF HIGH-RANKING REPUBLICANS, EVEN THE TWO FORMER PRESIDENTS NAMED BUSH, THE PAST AND CURRENT SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE RNC, AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER MAJOR REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS, BUT HE IS THE GOP NOMINEE.

THE HAPHAZARD, GENERALIZED, OFTEN UNINTELLIGIBLE WAY HE HANDLES INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE PRESS OR FROM "TOWN HALL MEETINGS" AND RALLIES, THE MANNER IN WHICH HE CONDUCTED HIMSELF DURING THE GOP DEBATES....I MEAN, PLEASE, JUST WATCH THOSE....THE MAN IS A LOOSE CANNON AND HE IS SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE FOOT...WHILE IT IS PLANTED FIRMLY IN HIS PERPETUALLY OVAL-SHAPED MOUTH.

HE EXAGGERATES SO PROFUSELY, FANTASIZES SO OFTEN (UNLESS ONE WANTS TO CALL THOSE LIES) AND IS SO UNABLE TO ADDRESS SPECIFIC TOPICS THAT ONE MIGHT WONDER IF HE HAS EVER WATCHED VIDEOS OF WHAT HE SAYS, IF HE NEVER ONCE HAS HAD TO SHAKE HIS OWN HEAD (CAREFUL OF THAT HAIR!) AND SAY,"WOW! THAT WAS SO WRONG!"

QUITE RECENTLY, AS I WROTE BEFORE, THOSE AT THE TOP OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TEAM TRIED AN "INTERVENTION", TRIED TO GET HIM TO SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF AT LEAST "LOOKING PRESIDENTIAL", TRIED TO GET HIM TO STOP WITH THE PERSONAL ATTACKS, ASKED HIM AGAIN TO RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS, ASKED HIM WHAT HE'D DO IF THOSE RETURNS WERE LEAKED BY SOMEONE WHO WANTED TO SEE HIM LOSE THE ELECTION.

WHAT HE TOLD THE MAN WHO ASKED HIM THIS SHOULD TELL US WHAT WE CAN EXPECT IF/WHEN THOSE RETURNS ARE RELEASED....

HE SAID, "I'D DENY THEY WERE MY RETURNS."

THE DONALD IS GREAT AT DENIAL.

17 times Donald Trump said one thing and then denied it

LIKE HILLARY, DONALD IS "FRUMPY".
HE IS NOT THAT "MAN'S MAN" IMAGE THAT MOST AMERICANS SWOON OVER.

TRUMP AND MRS. CLINTON ARE THE OLDEST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR THAT OFFICE. 
OBVIOUSLY NEITHER IS IN GREAT SHAPE OR EVEN IN FAIR SHAPE PHYICALLY.

TRUMP HAS "LET HIMSELF GO", AS MANY SAY IN THE SOUTH.
HE IS PROOF POSITIVE THAT CLOTHES DO NOT MAKE THE MAN.
NOR DOES BEING WEALTHY.

AND ABOUT THAT WEALTH.... IT WAS HANDED TO HIM, INITIALLY, AND HIS TRIPS TO BANKRUPTCY COURT SHOULD SHOW HOW GRAND A BUSINESSMAN HE REALLY IS.

IT'S TRUE THAT THE TOP TIER REPUBLICANS DO DETEST HIM, WISH HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN, WOULD RATHER HAVE SATAN AS A CANDIDATE, ETC, BUT THE CONVENTION WAS HELD AND THE DELEGATES CHOSE TRUMP, BECAUSE OF OUR WARPED, TWISTED, LUDICROUS PROCESSES BY WHICH EACH PARTY, EACH STATE, EACH DISTRICT, ETC, CHOOSES WHOM THEIR 'DELEGATES' WILL VOTE FOR ON THE "BIG DAY" AT CONVENTIONS. 

I WILL NOT TRY TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU, MAINLY BECAUSE THERE IS NO VIABLE, LOGICAL, SANE EXPLANATION.
AMERICA IS BECOME A VERY LARGE ASYLUM AND THE MOST AFFLICTED INMATES ARE IN CONTROL.
TRUST ME ON THIS.

CANDIDATE #2...

AS FOR HILLARY CLINTON....WHERE DO WE BEGIN?
THERE IS SO MUCH THAT GOES BACK SO FAR AND IS SO DARK THAT I HONESTLY DREAD THE TELLING OF THE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TALE. 

ALL OF THOSE 'GHOSTS' THAT HAUNT HER ELECTION MAY BECOME MOOT POINTS BECAUSE I DON'T THINK SHE CAN SURVIVE, PHYSICALLY, UNTIL NOVEMBER.
MRS. CLINTON VERY OBVIOUSLY HAS SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES.

IT WAS ANNOUNCED JUST HOURS AGO ( ON SEPTEMBER 11) THAT SHE HAS PNEUMONIA, AFTER SHE APPEARED TO FAINT, THEN APPEARED TO STUMBLE TWICE AND THEN ALMOST  FALL INTO THE LIMO AS SHE WAS RUSHED FROM A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR 9/11 VICTIMS IN NEW YORK.  
SHE HAS CALLED OFF HER PLANNED CAMPAIGN TRIP TO CALIFORNIA.
I TRULY FEAR WE WILL HEAR OF HER DEMISE SOON.
IT'S NOT "CONSPIRACY THEORY", IT'S NOT A LIE THE REPUBLICANS WANT YOU TO BELIEVE, IT'S SIMPLY MEDICAL FACT.

SHE HAS ADMITTED TO MANY OF THE HEALTH ISSUES THE GOP WANTS TO HIGHLIGHT....HYPOTHYROIDISM, DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS, TRANSVERSE SINUS THROMBOSIS ('BLOOD CLOT' IN THE BRAIN), AND THE NEED FOR THE BLOOD THINNER COUMADIN, WHICH IS ALSO A 'RAT POISON' AND CARRIES SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS IF USED LONG-TERM.

IF HILLARY CLINTON LIVES, BY SOME MIRACLE, THROUGH THE GENERAL ELECTION, SHE WILL NOT POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO SERVE A FOUR-YEAR TERM. 

Clinton’s close confidant Huma Abedin commented in an email, “She’s often confused,” referring to Clinton.

ANYONE WATCHING HER TESTIMONIES TO CONGRESS, HER CAMPAIGN SPEECHES, HER DEBATE FOOTAGE CAN SEE THE WOMAN IS INDEED OFTEN CONFUSED AND A LITTLE SLOW TO RESPOND MANY TIMES. ABOUT THAT CONCUSSION AND ENSUING CLOT IN THE BRAIN....

“A transverse sinus thrombosis [blood clot] is a rare condition of a clot forming in the venous sinus cavities surrounding the brain,” Kassicieh told Breitbart News, referencing an ABC News report from 2012 that detailed Clinton’s head injury and blood clot following a fall. He explained:

These venous sinuses drain blood out of the brain. The [injury] incidence is only about 3 per 1,000,000 adults. The transverse sinus is less commonly affected than the main sagittal venous sinus. The cause of transverse sinus clots is not well understood although trauma and dehydration have been described as risk factors. Mrs. Clinton suffered from both.

"Mrs. Clinton’s blood clot formed in a large vein along the side of her head, behind her right ear, between the brain and the skull," The New York Times reported, noting that Clinton also had a blood clot in her leg in 1998.
The concussion supposedly was a result of a fall after fainting in 2012.
That fall also resulted in the blood clot in her brain.
Secretary Clinton fell previous to this in 2011 while boarding a plane to Oman, but did not sustain injury.

Clinton fell in a senate parking garage in 2009 and fractured her right elbow.

The rather odd corrective lenses we sometimes see Mrs. Clinton wear are for double vision problems.
The double vision may be from the concussion, the blood clot, or....???

Clinton likely has a Fresnel prism placed on her glasses.  The vertical lines we see in the lens make it obvious.

In a 2014 interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, Clinton said she was "probably" on blood thinners for life.

Blood thinners can and do cause a plethora of serious side effects, some life-threatening, and require constant monitoring by medical specialists with frequent lab tests.

Along with her blood thinner, Clinton takes Armour Thyroid, a thyroid hormone replacement, antihistamines, and vitamin B12, the AP reported.

Fox News reported in May of 2014 that "Bill Clinton said earlier this week there's 'nothing to' the [Hillary] health questions — though at the same time, he revealed her recovery from the  fall (and concussion) took about six months, which is much longer than the State Department had indicated." 

CLINTON'S COUGH COULD BE A SIGN OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, NOT PNEUMONIA, BUT NO ONE IS MENTIONING THIS POSSIBILITY.
WHEN ONE ALSO NOTICES VISIBLE EDEMA AND BREATHLESSNESS, A GENERAL WEAKNESS IN THE WOMAN, THE POSSIBILITY OF HEART FAILURE ALMOST DOUBLES.

In February 2016, presidential candidate Clinton suffered her third public coughing fit during a speech in Harlem. "Clinton had to dig out a lozenge at last year's Benghazi hearings," noted the Daily Mail, and "also suffered a coughing fit in Iowa back in January, something she attributed to speaking a lot on her campaign tour." The coughing fits prompted many to speculate as to what could be causing them.

The New York Times reported, noting that Clinton also had a blood clot in her leg in 1998.

“Factors predisposing to clots include air travel, dehydration, hormones, immobilization as during surgery, blood abnormalities, cancer,” Dr. Jane Orient, the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons said.

“Concussions can cause long-term damage including cognitive problems, even when standard studies including CT or MRI look normal.”

BACK IN APRIL, WE SAW MRS.CLINTON ASSISTED ON BOTH SIDES IN CLIMBING A VERY SHORT FLIGHT OF STEPS, WHEN SHE ALMOST FELL AGAIN.

WE SAW HER BREATHLESS AND BEING HELPED TO WALK WHEN SHE TRIED TO PARTICIPATE IN A 'GAY PRIDE' PARADE BACK IN JUNE THIS YEAR. SHE COULDN'T MAKE IT FOR EVEN 4 BLOCKS.
BOTH CLINTONS HAVE A LONG, LONG HISTORY OF POLITICAL AND PERSONAL SCANDALS.
The Clintons have kept reporters busy for decades, with an almost endless string of scandals following them around since Bill Clinton was first elected to public office in 1977 as Arkansas’ Attorney General.

Norman Hsu was a prominent Democratic fundraiser in the early 2000s, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the party and candidates, as well as contributing to the Clinton Global Initiative, an arm of the Clinton Foundation. During Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign, Hsu was a so-called bundler, someone who collects campaign contributions from multiple people and delivers the cash to one candidate. But when it was discovered that Hsu was a fugitive, wanted for fraud charges from 1992, Clinton returned $850,000 in donations that were somehow tied to him.

During her first campaign for the the White House in 2008, Hillary Clinton spoke about a trip abroad as the first lady, describing “landing under sniper fire” at an airport in Bosnia. A week after the comments, her campaign said she “misspoke,” and a few days after that, Clinton said she “made a mistake” in her recounting of the events.

SHE DIDN'T "MISSPEAK", SHE LIED.
Within a few months of former President Bill Clinton’s first term, his team was rocked by its first ethics scandal: Travelgate. In May 1993, seven employees in the White House Travel Office were fired and the FBI was called in to investigate the department’s management and accounting practices.

Clinton’s distant cousin, Billy Dale, was brought in to handle travel arrangements and an Arkansas-based travel company was initially expected to take over the White House account.
According to a White House report, first lady Hillary Clinton was very interested in the goings-on inside the travel office and knew about the firings two days before they happened.
Dale was indicted on charges of embezzling $88,000 from the office. Jurors took only two hours to acquit him of all charges.
Hillary Clinton refused an interview request from the General Accounting Office about her role in the affair.
The late New York Times columnist Bill Safire concluded after Travelgate that Hillary Clinton was “a congenital liar.”

A Government Accountability Office report found that “damage, theft, vandalism and pranks” occurred at the White House in the transition between the Clinton and Bush administrations, to the tune of more than $13,000.
Questions also arose about whether or not items that the Clintons moved from the White House to their new home in Chappaqua, N.Y., were gifts to them personally or were intended to remain at the White House.
The Clintons ultimately returned the items, but Hillary Clinton, at the time a freshman senator, caught flack from her new colleagues for accepting gifts totaling $190,000.
In the late 1970s, Hillary Clinton made close to $100,000 on cattle futures trading based on advice from a personal friend who was, at the time, a top legal adviser to Tyson Foods Inc.
During that time, Tyson was one of the largest employers in Arkansas.
According to a 1994 New York Times article investigating the Clintons’ finances, while Bill Clinton was the governor, Tyson did well, receiving, for example, $9 million in government loans and appointments to important state boards.

Whitewater has become shorthand for the string of scandals that have dogged the Clintons since their years in Arkansas. Bill and Hillary Clinton joined their friends Jim and Susan McDougal in purchasing a few hundred acres of land along the White River in the Ozarks, with the long-term plan to turn a profit by sectioning off lots for vacation homes.
The land deal was a failure, and investigations into the labyrinth of business arrangements revealed a string of shady transactions and questionable practices. But the biggest consequence of Whitewater – a fairly dry legal scandal – was that it ultimately led to Kenneth Starr’s investigations.

After Bill Clinton left the White House, he kicked off his post-presidency with the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit with a ballooning list of issue areas, ranging from global health to climate change to women’s rights.
But with both Bill and Hillary Clinton’s wide-ranging political connections and deep involvement in multiple government sectors, questions of conflicts of interest came up early and often.
When Hillary Clinton became the Secretary of State in 2009, the former president said he would disclose his foundation’s donors, among other agreed-upon stipulations. But in spring 2015, a blockbuster book titled “Clinton Cash” investigated donations from foreign entities to the foundation, claiming the State Department (under Hillary Clinton’s tenure) doled out favors to the donors.

Former President Bill Clinton handed out many pardons during his time in office, including 140 on his last day in the White House, but few were as controversial as the one he delivered to Marc Rich.
The fugitive fled to Switzerland in the ’80s when he learned he would be indicted on 65 criminal counts, including tax evasion, fraud and working with Iran during the hostage crisis.
Rich’s pardon was among Clinton’s last-day sprint, and came under much scrutiny after it was found that Rich’s first wife, Denise, had contributed $450,000 to the foundation for the Clinton Presidential Library and $100,000 to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign.

While serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton worked off of a private email server at her New York home.
Since her emails were not archived on official, government-run servers, Clinton aides decided which emails to hand over to the State Department – and opted to delete notes they labeled as personal (the FBI reportedly has been able to retrieve the deleted emails).
The FBI is investigating the security of the server, not Clinton herself, especially since classified information had been found in some of the correspondence.

Not only did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton maintain an email server at her Chappaqua home, she also used a personal email account to conduct official business. Clinton never had a traditional “@state.gov” address, and although other government officials have used private accounts in the past, Clinton’s sole use of a personal account for work is unprecedented, according to a lawyer who worked at the National Archives and Records Administration. In July, Clinton said she is “confident” she never sent or received classified information on the personal account.

NOW WE KNOW THAT SHE DID, IN FACT, SEND AND RECEIVE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION OVER THIS UNSECURED SERVER.

THE TRUMP TEAM IS BUSY TRYING TO DIG UP ANY 'DIRT' IT CAN FIND ON HILLARY AS SHE HOLDS TRUMP'S UNRELEASED TAX RETURNS OVER HIS HEAD AND THAT ACCUSATION THAT HE RAPED AND/OR MOLESTED UNDERAGE GIRLS .

TRUMP BEING TRUMP, IT SEEMS THEY MAY HAVE HIT ON THE RUMOR, SUPPORTED BY HEARSAY, THAT HILLARY WAS OR IS BISEXUAL.

There have always been rumors about Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the wife of former Congressman Anthony Wiener (D-NY), Huma Abedin.

And that’s when Gennifer Flowers, Bill Clinton's mistress for 12 years, dropped THIS:
Gennifer said: ‘I don’t know Huma or the Weiners. I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn’t care. He should know.' 
Many in the Trump camp have "mentioned" the article that begins:
"Eleanor Roosevelt Had Her ‘Hick’…And Hillary Has Her ‘Eldie’ "

In that 'article', Hillary's roommate from Wellesley College is said to be Hillary's past lover.
WHY anyone on the Trump team would mention this is beyond understanding.

Eleanor “Eldie” Acheson, the first openly gay member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, former assistant attorney general under Bill Clinton, and frequent guest of the Clinton's at Camp David, has indeed been friends with Hillary and advisor to her for several decades now.

In the article  "Hillary’s Girlfriends: Out of the Closet and Into the Rumor Mill", other possibilities of Hillary's rumored lesbian lovers are explored....and summarily dismissed.
Huma Abedin, 39,  first worked for Hillary Clinton as a college intern in the White House in 1996 when Bill was president. She is now so close to the former secretary of state that she is regularly­ referred to as Clinton’s “shadow­”, “secret weapon” and “surrogate daughter”.
And it was Abedin who acted as Clinton’s minder when, while travelling the globe as America’s chief diplomat, the older woman was too jet-lagged to know whether it was night or day.
In short, Abedin is the ultimate Clinton loyalist, a devoted­ political operative.
“It is increasingly unclear whether Abedin is Clinton’s secret weapon or her next big problem,” said Vanity Fair.
Any attempt by the Trump campaign to promulgate these rumors will create a backlash for Trump that will cost him every vote from the LGBT community.   

Filegate:
The confidential FBI files of up to 900 former Reagan and Bush appointees were sent over to White House security chief Craig Livingstone. Deputy White House counsel William Kennedy, a close friend of Hillary Clinton’s from their days at the Rose Law Firm, would frequently call up the FBI and have someone’s files sent over on his say-so.
Then–FBI director Louis Freeh called it “an egregious violation of privacy.”



CLINTON AS AN UNETHICAL LAWYER?
In March 2008, as Hillary Clinton was running for president, Jerry Zeifman — the chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee at the time of Nixon’s impeachment and a lifelong Democrat — expressed his profound disappointment with her work on the committee.
Among her transgressions were lying, removing files from the committee offices without permission, and arguing that Nixon shouldn’t be allowed any legal counsel before the committee.

“I terminated her employment on the Nixon impeachment staff,” he said.
“My only regret was I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations. I could not recommend her for any subsequent position of public or private trust.” (Source – National Review)

WHAT AMERICANS SHOULD PERHAPS TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION  MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE WHEN VOTING FOR ONE OF THESE CANDIDATES IS THIS:
WHAT IF EITHER HILLARY GETS INDICTED BY A CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY'S INCESSANT DIGGING FOR A WAY TO CHARGE HER WITH A FEDERAL CRIME... SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, THOSE EMAILS?

WHAT IF TRUMP IS INDICTED FOR RAPE OR FOR THAT TRUMP UNIVERSITY THING, OR A DOZEN OTHER "WHAT-IFS" PERTAINING TO THE REAL POSSIBILITY THAT, NO MATTER WHICH GETS "ELECTED", THAT 'WINNER' CAN TURN INTO A LOSER ON HIS OR HER WAY TO A FEDERAL PRISON.... WHAT THEN?

SECONDLY, SINCE BOTH CANDIDATES ARE THE OLDEST TO EVER RUN FOR PREZ, WHAT IF WHOMEVER GETS ELECTED DIES EITHER BEFORE INAUGURATION OR SOON AFTER?


WHAT IF....WHAT IF BOTH ARE INDICTED, GO TO JAIL, OR DIE?
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THEN?

THIS IS, INDEED, A FIRST IN AMERICA.... AND IT SUCKS AS MUCH AS THE CANDIDATES.