Fukushima Nuclear Situation “Deteriorating”

Richard Wilcox
AP

Were it not for certain nuclear whistle blowers and outside, independent experts, the public would have to rely on the glib and technically inaccessible reports from Tokyo Electric PowerCompany (Tepco) or the Japanese government.

Not that those reports are entirely without substance, but due to the incomprehensible technical jargon most people simply throw up theirhands and hope for the best.

Luckily, in this day of the Internet we can learn a lot about what is going on thanks to independent researchers and writers.

To the extent that mainstream newspapers have covered the issue responsibly, and there has been substantive coverage, web sites like “enenews.com”; “fukushima-diary.com” and “rense.com” have served as information clearinghouses for mainstream news, academic studies and independent sources of journalism about the nuclear crisis in Japan.

Given this wide perspective, it is hard to see how any meaningful progress is being made at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP). This is the conclusion I drew, or anyone with reasonable skills of observation would have drawn, in April of 2011. The Japanese government kept telling us that “everything is under control” and there is “no immediate danger,” all the while, lying through their teeth about the reactor meltdowns.

Any intelligent layperson who considers the technical aspects of the disaster will be at a loss as to how the plant operators will be able to restore the cooling system, which may be badly damaged, to reactors that themselves may be unrepairable or in various states of melt-down. If the nuclear fuel in the reactors has melted through to the floor, what would be the point of setting up a cooling system to a dysfunctional reactor and a pool of melted fuel? No one in the government clearly answers these questions nor has the international community come forth with a possible solution. (1).

Credit must be given to the hard work of engineers and makeshift cooling systems were installed, but the state of the reactors is precarious–highly radioactive–and things have not gone smoothly for plant operators, Tepco. As for long term solutions, none are presented. We are supposed to believe that out of this gigantic mess of strewn rubble and constantly leaking pipes and cooling systems, progress is being made. At some level there is: as long as the melted fuel keeps cooling and there are no other major earthquakes, the level of radioactivity will naturally decrease. But this is a hypothetical, best-case scenario.

The fuel pools of Units three or four could collapse in another large earthquake and the highly radioactive fuel rods will not be removed until 2013 at the earliest– putting the entire world in grave peril every second that ticks by.

Nuclear expert, Arnie Gundersen, recently stated regarding units 1 – 3 that they will “get to the point where they throw some concrete down on the top of it and come back in 300 years.” Gundersen thinks this may not even be cleaned up in “500 years!” (2) This bears repetition:

FUKUSHIMA’S ENVIRONMENT WILL NOT EVEN BE RESTORED IN 500 YEARS

It’s no wonder nuclear watchdogs have created a special rating system for Fukushima– putting it in a new category, above Chernobyl, as a no. 8 level nuclear disaster. Fukushima is a “[m]ulti-source major nuclear accident requiring international assistance and monitoring” (3).

A Few Quadrillion Becquerals Here, A Few Quadrillion There…

Meanwhile in Tokyo the Japanese government admits that the incineration of radioactive debris shipped from the tsunami disaster zone, from 2011 to 2013, will emit at least 2 billion becquerals of radiation into the air (according to my calculations) (4; 5). Yes, you read that correctly: TWO BILLION. Compared to the FNPP disaster that is not much at all, that number could end up being lower, or even much higher, depending on how much debris is burned, how radioactive it is, whether the equipment malfunctions, and so on. The curious point is that the Japanese government admits they are intentionally emitting radiation into densely populated urban environments.

Nominally, this policy is “to help the people in the Northeast” (or more likely to help their buddies in the incineration business). This is sheer insanity, but these are the times we live in, when even Japaneseschool children are being given pamphlets “full of misleading information and half-truths” about the safety of burning radioactive debris (6).

The government’s heartfelt concern for the inhabitants of the northeast is touching. But after 17 months there are still evacuees living in classrooms partitioned with cardboard (7) and rumors of many people dying from cancer due to radioactive fallout. This has gone unreported in the establishment press (8).

Meanwhile, the situation at the FNPP is still unstable. Tepco has admitted that,

a total of about 10 million becquerals per hour of radioactive cesium was being emitted from the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors as of June. That is about one-80 millionths of the level that was being spewed immediately after the accident (9).

This is down from a peak of thousands of trillions of becquerals at the time of the reactor explosions (10; 11). Measured as quadrillions or as petabecquerals (10 to the 15th power) (12), the radiation emitted was comparable to Chernobyl, being well over half if not roughly equivalent in volume (13). While the worst Chernobyl had to offer was pretty much over once it had blown its lid, Fukushima could still release vastly greater amounts of harmful radiation due to the nuclear fuel at the site.

The Unimaginably Unimaginable Danger Of Being (Nuked)

Although the government continues to dismiss the idea that the quakes themselves were the main cause of the nuclear meltdowns, while attributing the entire crisis to the “unforeseen” natural phenomenon of the tidal wave, they admit the quake caused “a 3-square-centimeter rupture in the piping of the emergency cooling system for the No. 1 reactor.” In addition, they note “the possibility that tremors from the earthquake created a tiny rupture of 0.3 square centimeter or less, which later grew larger when the reactor temperature and pressure rose and radioactive substances leaked from there” (14).

This is controversial given that independent scientists are not allowed to inspect the facilities and that witnesses saw the Unit 1 building collapsing before the tsunami arrived.

One worker, a maintenance engineer in his late twenties who was at the Fukushima complex on March 11, recalls hissing and leaking pipes. ‘I personally saw pipes that came apart and I assume that there were many more that had been broken throughout the plant. There’s no doubt that the earthquake did a lot of damage inside the plant,’ he said. ‘There were definitely leaking pipes, but we don’t know which pipes – that has to be investigated. I also saw that part of the wall of the turbine building for Unit 1 had come away. That crack might have affected the reactor’ (15).

In addition to the accumulation of evidence that the earthquake itself was a primary cause of the meltdowns (16; 17) — something the industry does not want to admit — there are other inherent flaws in the way nuclear power plants are built and operate. Gundersen points out that the service pumps failed because they were flooded by the tidal wave on 311.

These pumps send water from the ocean to cool the back up diesel generators (18). Gundersen (at 19:00 mark in audio): “There could have been 14 meltdowns and not three. If you look at the data, there were six units at Fukushima Daiichi [power station no. 1], there are four at Fukushima Daini [station no. 2], three at Onagawa and one at Tokai. The net affect is that there were 37 diesel generators between those plants. 24 of those diesels were knocked out by the tsunami. You need the diesels to cool the plant.”

This occurred because at FNPP no. 1 the tsunami flooded the actual diesel generators, but at the other plants the “tsunami knocked out the cooling water to the diesels, something called service water. So, Japan narrowly missed 14 meltdowns and not three because the cooling water to 24 of the 37 diesels was destroyed.”

This bears repetition: JAPAN NARROWLY MISSED 14 NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS

Furthermore, it was sheer luck that there were not eight meltdowns, for another totally different, random, reason:

The plant manager at Fukushima Daini, which is six miles away from Daiichi, is quoted as saying that if the tidal wave happened on a Saturday his four units would have melted down too. He had a thousand people on site because it was a Friday, but if it happened on a weekend there would have been a skeleton crew there. The roads had been destroyed so nobody could have gotten in to help, and we would have had Fukushima Daiichi and Daini in meltdown conditions. What happened was almost unimaginably unimaginable.

To repeat: had the earthquake happened on a Saturday or Sunday there would have been eight instead of merely three meltdowns– you can’t make this stuff up, folks.

The FNPP site is fraught with danger, with constant reports of highly toxic water leaking from this pipe or that, or this reactor or that. For example, water in Unit 2 turbine basement was found to have 47 million becquerals per liter (19). These sorts of conditions are common. Many engineers are “highly suspicious” of government assurances that things are going well. For example,

“Takahashi Kei, a former cooling system worker at the plant now working as a radiation survey volunteer, said the utility company’s executives are portraying the situation in the best possible light. ‘There are leaks everywhere, wreckage too. It’s not as simple as they portray,’ he said.”

Japanese nuclear expert, Hiroaki Koide, recently said that “The state of the reactors is still deteriorating” (20). Let’s repeat that for the audience at home:

THE STATE OF THE REACTORS IS STILL DETERIORATING.

This hardly sounds like a successful “cold shutdown” and tends to support Gundersen’s idea that the units 1 – 3 will have to be entombed in concrete (if not with Japanese parliament member’s tempura, leftover from their extravagant taxpayer funded banquets). Recently there is talk from engineers who have intimate knowledge of the FNPP situation, and even from the government, that Japan needs to recruit help from the international community of scientists and engineers (21; 22; 23). Hey! Good idea, let’s hope they don’t wait too long. After all, this disaster is not only Japan’s fault, but an international issue from start to finish.

The lesson yet to be learned is that nuclear power is inherently dangerous and that the consequences for humanity and the environment continue to be “unimaginably, unimaginable” in their size.

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The Rapture is Imminent: Apocalyptic Extremes 14 Days of Global Cataclysm August 2012

Published on Aug 17, 2012 by IPREACH4

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Video credit to YouTube user: fidockave213
Original Video: http://youtu.be/rDcInLbAoiA

credit – Glacier footage - http://www.youtube.com/user/Barbecueengineer

Note this video does not imply the world is going to end in 2012
Extreme storms, flooding, lightning strikes and meteors coinciding currently across the world – Global earth changes August 2012

” And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Luke 21: 25-28
Praise The Lord ††† Amen!
Maranatha! Maranatha! Maranatha!

2011 earthquake cuts life expectancy rates in Japan

Posted by The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond

July 28, 2012 – JAPAN – Japanese women have fallen behind Hong Kong in global life expectancy rankings for the first time in 25 years. The death toll from last year’s earthquake and tsunami was high enough to reduce average life expectancy in Japan, officials say. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported men on average lived to be 79.44 in 2011, down 0.11 years from 2010, Kyodo News Service reported. The life expectancy for women was 85.9 years, down 0.40 years from 2010. Japanese women, for the first time in 26 years, were not the most long-lived in the world. Women in Hong Kong, with an average life expectancy of 86.7 years, were in first place. Hong Kong also had the longest-lived men at 80.5 years, followed by Switzerland and Iceland. Japan was in eighth place, as it was in 2010. The earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 is believed to have killed 18,000 people. The ministry said suicide also rose among women last year while continuing to decline among men, with the biggest increase among women in their late 20s. –BBC

The Rapture is Imminent:Apocalyptic Extremes For 2012 (5 Videos)

With so much going on in the world everyday, we soon forget how many disasters we are experiencing. These 5 videos do a good job of showing just how much has happened in the first 7 months of 2012. The purpose for reminding us how many disasters we have had this year so far is not to give the impression that the world will end on December 21, 2012. The Bible clearly shows the world will never end but it will be changed, and one day it will be once again perfect as it was in the beginning. No the purpose of reminding us what all has transpired as far as disasters this year is to remind us just how late the hour has become and that we truly live in the end of days that the Bible prophesied so many years ago. Only those who will never see can ignore what is happening and call it normal. For those who are watchmen on the wall we must stay busy and committed to get the message out that Jesus Christ is coming soon and time is running out for those to make the decision to come to Jesus and that they must do it now while they live in this world, fore to wait until you stand before the Lord after you die will be everlasting too late.

So please watch these videos and show them to someone you love who does not know the love of Jesus and pray it wakes them up from the sleep of this fallen world. These Extreme storms, flooding, drought, lightning strikes, wildfires and meteors coinciding currently across the world – The Global earth changes we are experiencing the world has never experienced all of these disasters at this level of intensity and magnitude before.

2012 BIBLE PROPHECY UNFOLDING before our very eyes, something the prophets could only dream of understanding as they wrote down what God wanted them to tell the generation that would live to see these things take place.

” And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”  
Luke 21: 25-28
Praise The Lord ††† Amen!
Maranatha! Maranatha! Maranatha!

Dangerous levels of Fukushima radiation headed for West Coast, say scientists

Posted by truther on July 25, 2012

Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews

In the immediate wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan last year, radioactive releases of epic proportions flooded the waters of thePacific Ocean, where they now flow adrift. And even though more than a year has passed since the time of the first releases, some scientists believe the worst is yet to come as these water-borne radioactive plumes head for the U.S. West Coast.

Russia Today (RT) reports that a team of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory recently constructed some models designed to assess the impact of Fukushima radiation over the longer term. To do this, they simulated ocean currents in the Pacific, and evaluated how radiation would both disperse and travel.

They discovered that, within the next few years, the worst of Fukushima’s radiation releases will make its way across the Pacific and hit the American coastline. So-called “packets” of radiation are also expected to continue forming as the larger plumes travel via the ocean currents, which could result in highly radioactive waves of ocean water striking West Coast beaches in the very near future.

“Within one year, it will have spread over the entire western half of the North Pacific, and in five years we predict it will reach the U.S. West Coast,” says Claus Boning, co-author of the study, about the Fukushima radiation releases. “The levels of radiation that hit the U.S. coast will be small relative to the levels released by Fukushima. But we cannot accurately estimate what those levels will be because we do not know for certain what was released by Fukushima.”

Leaked – Fukushima clean-up crews covered up true radiation readings

And the world may never know just how much radiation was, and potentially continues to be, released by Fukushima, as a recently leaked recording verifies that Fukushima plant workers were encouraged to lie about radiation readings at the plant. According to RT, clean-up workers were given lead boxes which they were told to use as “shields” to block radiation readings in order to make them appear lower than they really were.

This obviously insinuates that radiation readings were far higher at the Fukushima plant than the world was told they were, and that these levels more than likely far exceeded the maximum exposure levels considered to be safe for plant workers. The company accused of the cover-up, Build-up, later admitted that workers were encouraged to wear these deceptive radiation shields.

Radiation readings at Reactor 1 reach record levels

The situation at the Fukushima plant itself appears to still be highly problematic as well, as reports indicate that radiation levels at Reactor 1, the fuel rod of which sustained 70 percent damage as a result of the disaster, are the highest they have ever been. According to the Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO), which owns the Fukushima plant, levels of radiation at Reactor 1 reached 10 times higher than levels recorded at Reactors 2 and 3.

“Workers cannot enter the site and we must use robots for the demolition,” said TEPCO officials about the severity of the situation. According to reports, levels of radiation in the basement water of Reactor 1 reached 10,300 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr), which is the equivalent of receiving the maximum annual dose of radiation in just 20 seconds, or enough to become gravely ill in just a few minutes.

Sources for this article include:

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-coast-levels-fukushima-412/

http://www.rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation-fake-readings-763/

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120629a7.html

Fukushima contractor forced workers to fake radiation readings

Posted by truther on July 23, 2012

RT

A company charged with decontaminating the devastated FukushimaNuclear Power Plant encouraged its workers to falsely lower their radiation dosimeter readings by covering the devices with lead, according to a leaked tape of an internal meeting.

Nuclear plant workers are not allowed to be exposed to more than 50 millisieverts of radiation a year. But managers at Build-up, a company that provided insulation on the pipes that would pump irradiated water out of the plant, believed that doses experienced inside the plant, which suffered a meltdown, meant workers would quickly reach their limit.

A senior executive gave the team at the site lead boxes that they were told to make into shields.

The workers were then told to place these over the dosimeters. Lead effectively blocks radiation, and produces a significantly lower reading.

When some of them refused, the executive called a meeting.

The executive cajoled the workers by saying, “You can no longer make a living when the dose runs out,”according to a tape that was given by somebody present at the meeting to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

“I think this is almost a crime,” retorted one of the workers.

An argument broke out, and while the executive said the decision was voluntary, the rhetoric became threatening.

“Perhaps you are not cut out for working at nuclear plants,” he said. “Go back to your hometown and do some other job.”

Three of the workers resigned immediately, while at least nine agreed to wear the shields.

Fukushima was severely damaged during a tsunami and earthquake last March. Three of its reactors suffered full meltdowns, releasing potentially fatal doses of radiation exceeding the normal levels by a factor of thousands.

Official logs list one of the workers who agreed to wear the shield among those exposed to the highest dose of radiation out of all 5,000 clean-up operatives at the plant. His real exposure is likely to have been exponentially higher.

Build-up worked at the site from November 2011 until March 2012. The company has admitted that workers used the shields on at least one occasion.

The government says it will launch an investigation.

TEPCO, the much-maligned plant operator who hired Build-up, say they were aware of the existence of the shields, but believed they were never used by workers. It is not clear if shields were also used by other contractors.

A parliamentary investigation called the meltdown, which was one of the worst accidents in the history of nuclear energy, “a profoundly man-made disaster” and “the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and TEPCO, and the lack of governance by said parties.”

A newly-published Stanford University study says that between 15 and 1,300 people could die as a result of exposure to radiation from Fukushima.

A thousand small fish found dead in Kasumi River, Tokyo

Posted by The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond

July 19, 2012 – JAPAN – On 7/17/2012, around one thousand of small fish such as Japanese dace were found dead for 500m of Kasumi river Aoume city Tokyo. A citizen reported it to the city office at 17:15 of 7/17/2012. According to their water-quality test, oxygen concentration is normal, chlorine or cyanogen were not detected. Tokyo metropolitan government is going to check if a factory dumped waste water or agricultural chemical in the upper stream. Last November, about 5000 of small fish such as Japanese dace were found dead at the same location too, but they could not identify the cause either. –Fukushima Diary

      

                Deformed plants are found in a contaminated area of Southern Ibaraki – (Map below)

US West Coast to receive dangerous levels of Fukushima radiation

Published by RT

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen in Fukushima prefecture, in this aerial view photo taken by Kyodo (Reuters/Kyodo)

TRENDS:Fukushima nuclear disaster

TAGS: Nuclear, Accident, Biology, USA, Japan

It’s been over a year since natural disaster ravaged a nuclear plant in Fukushima and interrupted the lives of millions of Japanese. Scientists now fear though that contaminated water is on course to America, and it could be more toxic than thought.

Researchers have released the findings of an intense study into the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and warn that the United States isn’t exactly spared just yet. In fact, scientists now fear that incredibly contaminated ocean waters could be reaching the West Coast of the US in a matter of only five years, and the toxicity of those waves could eventually be worse than what was seen in Japan.

A team of scientists led by Joke F Lübbecke of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory have published the findings of an experiment recently conducted to measure the impact of last year’s nuclear disaster and the results are eye-opening to say the least. By simulating the spreading of contaminated ocean waters and seeing how currents could carry them across the Pacific from Japan to the US, scientists believe that the worst might be still on the way.

“Within one year it will have spread over the entire western half of the North Pacific and in five years we predict it will reach the US West Coast.” Claus Böning, co-author of the study, tells the website Environmentalresearchweb.

Böning adds that “The levels of radiation that hit the US coast will be small relative to the levels released by Fukushima,” yet fails to exactly stand by that statement in the fullest. “But we cannot estimate accurately what those levels will be because we do not know for certain what was released by Fukushima,” the doctor adds.

In fact, others fear that contaminated ocean waters may collect in packets and produce waves of highly concentrated nuclear toxins that could pose a dangerous toll to Americans.

The paper itself reads, “After 10 years the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast with a maximum (~1 × 10−4) off Baja California.”

“The magnitude of additional peak radioactivity should drop to values comparable to the pre-Fukushima levels after 6–9 years (i.e. total peak concentrations would then have declined below twice pre-Fukushima levels),” it continues. “By then the tracer cloud will span almost the entire North Pacific, with peak concentrations off the North American coast an order-of-magnitude higher than in the western Pacific.”

“The total peak radioactivity levels would then still be about twice the pre-Fukushima values,” the paper’s abstract reveals, discussing what long-term impacts could come to America’s West Coast.

Getting ready for the Big One: Japan chooses disaster-alternative capital

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The skyline of Osaka, Japan (Reuters / Kimimasa Mayama)

TRENDS:Earthquake in JapanFukushima nuclear disaster

TAGS: Meeting, Natural disasters, Nuclear, Japan

The Japanese government is considering unparalleled counter-measures to withstand the inevitable earthquakes and tsunamis awaiting Japan in the future. Experts propose preparation of emergency government offices in the country’s five major cities.

One of the main anti-earthquake emergency measures proposed by the Central Disaster Prevention Council is a recommendation to be ready to transfer central government offices, as well as the Bank of Japan and other facilities, in case Tokyo is devastated by a tsunami. The country’s major cities, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo and Sendai are recommended as suitable substitutes because they already have some governmental facilities and branches of the Bank of Japan, Kyodo reports.

A draft report prepared by the Council says a natural disaster damaging administrative, economic and political functions of the central government would “affect our country’s future.”

As of now, the alternative headquarters of Japanese government and the Prime Minister’s office are located in the Tachikawa district in western Tokyo. The emergency residence is ready, but since it is located a mere 30 kilometers from central Tokyo, it would also be affected by a serious earthquake should one shatter Tokyo.

The panel’s recommendations also include preparing temporary public and private shelter facilities for those commuting to work from different regions. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 revealed that commuters working in Tokyo became stuck in the city after transport communications went out of order, making it impossible for them to return home.

The panel is expected to present the final report on anti-earthquake measures by next spring.

In the meantime, it has become evident that the Japanese nuclear power engineering experts largely ignored the threat of an above-average tsunami.

Almost a quarter of a century ago, Nobuo Shuto, a professor emeritus of tsunami engineering at Tohoku University, warned that an unanticipated large-scale tsunami could destroy safety barriers and reach a nuclear reactor.

“One thing that is often overlooked is functional disorder due to flooding,” Shuto wrote. “The possibility of flooding cannot be ruled out totally even if calculations show that a given location will not be flooded.”

The reaction to that report at the time was largely negative, with Shuto ostracized and blacklisted by many.

However, the report now proves to have been based on sound reasoning, as Japanese Disaster Prevention Minister Masaharu Nakagawa admitted Saturday that the breakwater around nuclear power plants was not high enough. For example, the breakwater of the Hamaoka nuclear plant is prepared for a tsunami of up to 18 meters high, whereas according to latest calculations, a 21-meter tsunami could hit the region.

The major danger threatening Japanese shores might come from the Nankai Trough in the Pacific, a zone of the Pacific Ocean seabed located off central and eastern Japan.

According to old estimates, a powerful quake in that zone could potentially create a tsunami over 20 meters high. But summing up the data obtained after the devastating earthquake in March 2011, an expert panel under Japan’s Cabinet Office came to a conclusion this April that a magnitude-9 earthquake could cause a 35-meter tsunami that might eventually hit Tokyo. Some districts of the Japanese capital would face a 30 meter wave, whereas urban areas of the city would be hit with 3-meter waves.

The panel also re-calculated the possibility of a tsunami wave for various parts of Japan’s eastern shore, particularly those that host the now offline nuclear power plants. The conclusions are unfavorable: the height of the anti-tsunami concrete breakwaters around the stations is not enough to withstand high-magnitude earthquakes.

The situation is exacerbated by the country’s continued reliance on nuclear power. Last year, the government decided to reduce the nation’s dependence on nuclear power, and had all of its nuclear reactors shut down by this May. Nevertheless, the resource-scant country restarted the southwestern Ohi nuclear power plant just over a month later, despite protests and public wariness towards nuclear energy. This means that a catastrophe similar to the Fukushima tragedy could happen yet again.

Can You Answer 25 Difficult Questions That The Mainstream Media Does Not Seem To Have Answers To?

Posted by The American Dream The mainstream news just seems to get sillier and shallower with each passing day.  Our world is becoming incredibly unstable, corruption is everywhere, we are on the verge of another massive economic crisis, government debt is absolutely exploding, war could erupt in the Middle East at any time and signs of deep social decay are everywhere and yet the mainstream media seems absolutely obsessed with reporting on celebrities and scandals.  It would be nice if the mainstream media would do a lot more true investigative reporting and would actually try to answer some of the difficult questions that we are being faced with.  Unfortunately, most of what passes for “news” these days is essentially just “infotainment”.  That is one of the reasons why we have seen such a surge in the popularity of alternative news outlets in recent years.  People are searching for the truth, and they know that they are not getting much of it from the mainstream media these days. One thing that I enjoy doing is pointing out some of the really silly stories that pass for “news” these days.  Let’s take a quick look at some of the headlines on the front pages of some of the biggest news sites on the Internet right now…. CNN “Is this baby doll really saying b****?” “Toddler accidentally served vodka” “Elton John frets over Gaga” MSNBC “Zimmerman stocks up on Cheetos in jail” “Axl Rose robbed of $200,000 worth of jewelry” “Taco Bell may take on Chipotle with ‘Cantina’ menu” Fox News “Custom Car Builder Claims Hot Wheels Stole His Truck” “Lighter Side of ‘Tanning Mom’” “Nudist expo bares all in naked tourist industry” It must be a slow news day, right? Wrong. Our world is changing faster than ever before and bombshell stories are breaking at a pace that is really hard to keep up with. Sadly, the mainstream media in the United States is pretty much a total joke at this point. But that doesn’t mean that the rest of us can’t ask the important questions and search for the important answers. Can you answer these 25 questions that the mainstream media in the United States does not seem to have answers to?…. 1 - What in the world was Mitt Romney doing at the Bilderberg Group conference?  Reporter Charlie Skelton claims that he has four different eyewitnesses that saw Romney there…. Four eyewitnesses on the hotel staff told me Willard Mitt Romney was here at Bilderberg 2012. My four eyewitnesses place him inside. That’s one more than Woodward and Bernstein used. Romney’s office initially refused to confirm or deny his attendance as Bilderberg is “not public”. They later said it was not him. 2 - Is the financial crisis in Europe ultimately going to result in the creation of a new “European superstate” dominated by Germany? 3 - Shouldn’t we be alarmed that a thousand tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is being poured into the Pacific Ocean every single day? 4 - Why is the mainstream media in the United States so silent about the grave threat that Fukushima reactor number 4 poses to the entire northern hemisphere? 5 - Why are radiation levels in the rain falling in southern California five times above normal? 6 - The CDC is located in Atlanta, Georgia.  A number of people down in Georgia have recently been attacked by flesh-eating bacteria.  Is there any connection? 7 - Why is the EPA now using drones to spy on farmers in Nebraska and Iowa? 8 - Is the Obama administration actually going to take military action against Syria before the November election? 9 - Are we on the verge of seeing World War III erupt in the Middle East? 10 - Why has Citigroup been put in charge of issuing “digital-identity badges” to individuals that work for Defense Department contractors? 11 - Why are “pre-crime” cameras being installed in mass transit locations all over the United States? Just check out the following example…. A new breed of security cameras can supposedly detect terrorism and crime without a human judgment call–and mass transit agencies are shelling out big bucks for the product. San Francisco’s Municipal Transit Authority, which oversees the city’s MUNI trains, has signed a contract with security firm BRS Labs to deploy cameras to 12 subway stations that use algorithms and machine learning techniques to spot anomalous behavior. 12 - Why is the Department of Homeland Security monitoring the use of hundreds of different keywords on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? 13 - Why are smart meters being aggressively pushed down the throats of American consumers when most people don’t want them in their homes? 14 - What does the fact that “organized shoplifting” is rapidly rising in America say about the level of social decay in our nation? 15 - Why has the U.S. Congress been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on printing costs related to meaningless declarations?  The following is from a recent Daily Caller article…. The U.S. Senate has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on printing costs associated with passing simple resolutions declaring observances such as “National Chess Day,” “National Safe Digging Month” and the “Year of Water.” 16 - Why was the U.S. government spending 20 million dollars to develop a Pakistani version of Sesame Street? 17 - Why aren’t Americans being warned that the share of the U.S. national debt per person is on pace to triple by the year 2037? 18 - Why are parents being arrested for cheering at high school graduation ceremonies? 19 - Why did swarms of large spiders suddenly attack large numbers of people attending a religious festival in one town in India recently?…. It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported. Over the next few days two people — a man, Purnakanta Buragohain, and an unnamed school boy — died after being bitten by the spiders. Scores more turned up at the town’s hospital with spider bites. 20 - Why have there been so many “cannibalism incidents” in the United States lately? 21 - Why does the United Nations want to govern the Internet?  Why aren’t more people getting upset about their attempted power grab? 22 - Why has Planned Parenthood been allowed to set up a clinic inside a high school in Los Angeles? 23 - Why is the U.S. military developing a plan to implant microchips into our soldiers? 24 - Why are some schools in Texas planning to use RFID tracking chips to monitor the movement of their students?  Just check out what one school district down in the San Antonio area has planned…. Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students. 25 - Why have TSA agents been caught committing so many crimes?  The following is what one member of Congress recently had to sayabout a new report detailing dozens of serious crimes that TSA agents have committed in recent years…. “TSA needs to immediately remove themselves from the human resource business. This report details highly disturbing cases where pedophiles and child pornographers wearing federal law enforcement uniforms are not only patting down unsuspecting travelers, but in many cases stealing valuables from their bags. Enough is enough. It’s time for Congress to step in and demand accountability from Administrator Pistole” Do you have any other difficult questions that should be added to this list? 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