A city 140 km (87 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is offering radiation checkups for residents.
Utsunomiya City, north of Tokyo, started the service because of demands from taxpayers.
The city says they can check up to five houses per day, inspecting up to three specific areas requested by the inhabitants, such as the entry way or bedroom, etc.
Inspections done so far show radiation levels below the official safe limits. This is a limited time offer ending in September.
Last year the Japanese government said all farm animals within the 20 kilometer (12.42 miles) radiation no go zone, around Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant, had to be killed (if they weren’t already dead).
Now the government says those animals that are still alive can live, provided the farmers do not ship them off to food markets.
This comes after farmers refused to follow through with the order to cull radioactive animals. Turns out about 700 farm animals are still alive within the no go zone.
Farmers must not breed the animals, or allow them to mingle with new animals that are not contaminated.
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April 5, 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Company is admitting that even more strontium 90 is pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
TEPCo officials say at least 12 tons of contaminated water poured into the ocean overnight. They blame it on the usual suspect; leaking pipes!
Around 02:00 the morning of April 5, workers found a joint in a waste water pipe had been disconnected, causing the huge leak. It took them half an hour to fix it.
This is the third major strontium leak reported by TEPCo, since December 2011.
About one year ago, Japanese government officials swore to the refugees fleeing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, that they’d be returning home soon.
Not only did that turn out to be a lie, but one official now says some towns will never be inhabitable.
On April 4, 2012, Japan’s reconstruction minister, Hirano Tatsuo, told the Governor of Fukushima Province, and the Mayor of Futaba Town, that because of the storage of highly radioactive waste coming from Fukushima Daiichi, the areas around that waste can never be lived in.
There are areas of Fukushima Province, being used to store hundreds of tons of contaminated water (left over from trying to keep the disaster reactors cool), that are being irradiated by the deadly levels of radiation in the water.
The Japanese media is pointing out that Hirano’s opinion runs counter to the official statements of the government. The Japanese government continues to promise the nuclear refugees that they will be able to return to all their homes.
Here’s a thought: It’s been proven that Fukushima Daiichi is worse than Chernobyl, and yet, how many people have been allowed to return to Prypiat, the town next to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 26 years later? Zero!
Prypiat had nearly 50,000 people prior to the Chernobyl explosion in 1986. Now it’s a city full of vacant and ghostly skyscrapers.
The Japanese government has set new cesium contamination limits for food, but even with the new limits hundreds of inspections have revealed highly contaminated food products.
The new limits on non-dairy food products will be allowed to contain up to 100 becquerels of cesium per kilogram, baby food and milk will be permitted to contain 50 becquerels, and drinking water 10 becquerels.
But wait, what most people don’t know is that immediately after the March 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese government temporarily raised the maximum cesium limit in food to 500 becquerels!!!
What that means is that it’s almost guaranteed that the people of Japan have been eating radioactive food!
Between January and March, 2012, a total of 600 cases have been found with more than the new 100 becquerels limit. That includes salmon, flounder and raw shiitake mushrooms. Local governments are supposed to stop the shipments of such contaminated food.
A company called Inovio Pharmaceuticals, has just received U.S. patent rights to new synthetic flu vaccines, and their new vaccine delivery system.
The vaccines are “DNA-driven”, and operate by “electroporation technology”.
“Electroporation, or electropermeabilization, is a significant increase in the electrical conductivity and permeability of the cell plasma membrane caused by an externally applied electrical field. It is usually used in molecular biology as a way of introducing some substance into a cell, such as loading it with a molecular probe, a drug that can change the cell’s function, or a piece of coding DNA.”–Wikipedia
DNA-driven reaction: “A lab technique to mark highly repeated DNA sequences with a radioactive RNA tracer, by having a much larger amount of complementary DNA molecules than radioactive RNA tracer molecules.”–Lexic
Inovio claims their vaccines increase immune response four times more than standard vaccines. This is due in part to their use of synthesized versions of various flu virus proteins, but mainly by introducing the vaccine at the DNA level.
The vaccine is coaxed into your cellular DNA through some form of electrical stimulation on your skin. Inovio claims that you get a better immune response when your body is threatened at the DNA level.
They have a universal influenza vaccine, called INO-3510, as well as a vaccine for H5N1, called VGX-3400X. INO is entering Phase 1 testing. Inovio claims VGX was successful in Phase 1 testing, with what they consider positive results for 72% of the test subjects.
This sounds good; vaccines that will finally stop the common cold, or flues? But think about the DNA-driven part of it. Scientists have come up with a way that could be used to alter your DNA!
Here’s something else to be suspicious about, Inovio is working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
The primary/official mission of the Plum Island Center is to prevent foreign diseases from entering the United States. Inovio has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Homeland Security to create synthetic DNA vaccines for animals.
The following quotes, made in December 2007, are from J. Craig Venter, a DNA pioneer:
“…I will argue that the future of life depends not only in our ability to understand and use DNA, but also, perhaps in creating new synthetic life forms, that is, life which is forged not by Darwinian evolution but created by human intelligence.”
“The genetic code will give us probabilities about disease risk and the ability to understand environmental factors linked to genetics. Will governments, businesses and insurance companies pay the smaller amount in advance to prevent disease?”
“Our ability to read the genetic code is changing even faster than changes predicted by Moore’s Law.”
“…we described the ability to take a chromosome from one bacterium and place it into a second bacterial cell. The result was astonishing, the new DNA that we added changed the species completely from the original one into the species defined by the added DNA. You could describe this as the ultimate in identity theft.”
“Now they can happen not just by random chance but by deliberate human design and selection. Human thought and design and specific selection is now replacing Darwinian evolution.”
“Right now extensively modified bacteria are being used to make food additives and industrial chemicals.”
On March 1 and March 2, 2012, in the U.S. state of Maryland, three people died from H3N2 influenza. They were members of the same family. Two other family members are recovering.
Calvert County Health officials say those who died did not get vaccinated. Two of those who died also had complications due to MRSA. U.S. health officials say the flu season is off to a late start.
Health officials in Hong Kong are reporting a sudden jump in H3N2 cases.
At the end of January, 2012, they reported 196 total flu cases. At the end of February they reported 465 cases. Now, for the end of March they have 579 new cases! At least 50 people have died.
H3N2 is the dominate influenza in Hong Kong, accounting for 48% of all flu cases! Health officials say it is similar to influenza A/Perth/16/2009, which is a sign that current vaccines should help prevent it.
Here are some tips from Hong Kong health officials: “Build up good body immunity by having a proper diet, regular exercise and adequate rest, reducing stress and avoiding smoking. Maintain good personal and environmental hygiene. Wash hands after sneezing, coughing or cleaning the nose. Maintain good indoor ventilation. Avoid visiting crowded places with poor ventilation.”
Also: “Members of the public, particularly young children, elderly people and those with chronic diseases, should wear face masks [hopefully you won’t violate any Homeland Security rules] and consult their doctors promptly if they develop influenza-like symptoms.”
In the United Kingdom, old folks homes are getting hit hard. In just one care center six people died within days of each other. Officials are seeing a jump in H3N2 cases: “We have been getting outbreaks involving 20 to 30 people at a time. When this happens local health protection unit staff go into the homes and take swabs.”-Nick Phin, U.K.’s Health Protection Agency
The same official said flu deaths that occur in nursing homes are not required to be reported to the public: “…a mandatory scheme whereby anyone admitted to a hospital intensive care unit who dies from flu is reported to the Department of Health. But we don’t formally record flu deaths of people dying in care homes.”
In other words it could be worse than what has been reported! The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is admitting that nursing homes have the highest cases of influenza A (which includes H3N2). Schools are the next hardest hit, with hospitals coming in third.
British health officials confirm what U.S. health officials are saying: “Flu has circulated late this season….The most common flu strain we are currently seeing circulate this season is H3N2, which can cause more severe illness particularly in older people….”
While some of us in the Northern Hemisphere are getting a late start to the flu season, Australia is reporting an early start.
Officials in New South Wales, Australia, are reporting that Australians returning from vacations in Europe and the United States are bringing H3N2 with them: “…people shouldn’t be complacent! We’ve had two confirmed cases in the Hunter from people who have been overseas.”-David Durrheim, Hunter New England Local Health District
Normally the flu season starts in April in the land Down Under. Officials there are actually telling people with symptoms to stay away from hospitals, as well as nursing homes, schools and other crowded areas, in order to prevent spreading the virus.
28 March 2012, finally, after one year, Tokyo Electric Power Company is taking radiation readings from Fukushima Daiichi disaster Reactor 2.
They placed a dosimeter into Reactor 2’s containment vessel. It is emitting 72.9 sieverts, or 72,900 millisieverts, or 72,900,000 microsieverts of radiation per hour!!!
At that rate the radiation will kill a human in seven minutes!
TEPCo admits that the lethal radiation levels, and the recently discovered lack of cooling water indicating a huge leak, are setbacks for their plans to decommission the reactor.
200 kilometers (124 miles) away from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuke factory, bamboo plants grown for food are turning up radioactive!
On bamboo shoot farms in Chiba Prefecture, samples have turned out to be contaminated with as much as 250 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram!
Not only that, the latest samples are higher in cesium than samples taken more than one week ago. Officials think cesium absorbed by the parent bamboo plants is being passed on to the young bamboo shoots.
Bamboo farmers have been told not to ship their product to market.
ONE YEAR LATER: FINALLY, JAPANESE OFFICIALS SAY SEA BASS ARE TOO RADIOACTIVE, FISHING BAN NOW IN PLACE!
March 28, 2012, one year after the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant melted down, Japanese fisherman are now being told their catches are indeed contaminated.
For the first time, Miyagi Prefecture has banned Sea Bass fishing, because of radiation contamination!
Prefectural officials say cesium levels are so high, they’re higher than the new stricter limits due to go into effect next month. As much as 360 becquerels of cesium is being found in Sea Bass catches! The new stricter limit is 100 becquerels.
Officials say two other types of fish are also exceeding the 100 becquerels limit! This backs up what Russian and South Korean fish inspectors have been saying all along about contaminated fish from Japan!
The scary thing is that up ’till now fishing has been allowed near the disaster reactors of Fukushima Daiichi!
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