RACHEL CARSON

RACHEL CARSON

SPACESHIP EARTH

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all."

ADLAI STEVENSON, 1964

Saturday, May 26, 2012

"CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AXES NATIONAL OCEAN CONTAMINATION PROGRAM"

 DR. PETER ROSS
 DR. GARY STERN
DR. MICHAEL IKONOMOU
 DR. MICHEL LEBEUF
 MARLA CONE, EHN
 ORCAS AT RISK
 RAMPANT OFF-SHORE OIL DRILLING
 TSUNAMI DEBRIS WASHING UP
DRIVING = SUPPORTING OIL COMPANIES
 = CETACEAN GENOCIDE

NOTE FROM JEFF:  More casualties in the on-going war on nature and truth.  Who gave this order to Ottawa...BP or Chevron?  Anadarko maybe?  Or was it the Queen?  What does it really say when a country like Canada suddenly takes out its entire national program for monitoring ocean contaminants, just as offshore oil exploration is sky-rocketing, Fukushima radiation is spreading like wildfire, and debris from the tsunami is already washing up?  I knew from Fish & Wildlife people in America that the EPA was being systematically dismantled as of about three years ago.  The EPA mysteriously shut down their entire national network of radiation-monitoring stations in the early weeks of the Fukushima catastrophe.  What does THIS tell us?  Mussolini's definition of 'fascism' is 'a complete merger of state and corporate power.'  

THIS is what we are witnessing:  all forms of what used to be public and independent research and information are being systematically de-constructed/re-configured to prevent humanity as a whole from knowing what is REALLY going on in the world around us and to plug us into centrally-controlled and homogeneously sterilized channels of a pre-medicated psychic menu served up by globalization and technocracy.  Unlike the legion of marine biologists who have sold out to work for the U.S. Navy or 'big oil' in one way or another, these DFO researchers who got the sack are bound to be scientists with far too much personal integrity and love of life ever to succumb to such necrophilous disambition.  What will their next move be?


SINCE THE GLOBAL MILITARY APPARATUS FUNCTIONS AS 'MECHANICS' FOR THE MINING AND OIL INDUSTRIES, OWNED BY THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING CARTEL...WOULDN'T IT BE LOGICAL THAT THE SINGLE BIGGEST THING WE COULD ALL DO IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE WHALES, DOLPHINS AND MARINE LIFE IN GENERAL IS TO STOP DRIVING, STOP OUR ADDICTION TO THEIR HYDRO-CARBON SMACK?

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=68c288a0-7594-4259-a040-336dbc69eab0

Ottawa axes ocean pollution monitoring program

Canada's only marine mammal toxicologist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences on Vancouver Island is losing his job as the federal government cuts almost all employees who monitor ocean pollution across Canada.


Canada's only marine mammal toxicologist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences on Vancouver Island is losing his job as the federal government cuts almost all employees who monitor ocean pollution across Canada.
Peter Ross, an expert on killer whales and other marine mammals, was the lead author of a report 10 years ago that demonstrated Canada's killer whales are the most contaminated marine mammals on the planet. He has more than 100 published reports.
Now, he's a casualty of federal budget cuts, one of 75 people across Canada told Thurs-day his services will no longer be needed because the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is closing the nation's contaminants program.

The entire Department of Fisheries and Oceans contaminants program is being shut down effective April 1, 2013. Official letters are expected to be delivered in June, and Ross has been told he'll have a few months to wrap up his files.
"The entire pollution file for the government of Canada, and marine environment in Canada's three oceans, will be over-seen by five junior biologists scattered across the country - one of which will be stationed in B.C.," said environmental toxicologist Ross.
"I cannot think of another industrialized nation that has completely excised marine pollution from its radar," said Ross, who was informed in a letter Thursday that his position will be "affected."

Opinion: Canada's mass firing of ocean scientists brings 'silent summer'

Editor’s Note: Canada is dismantling the nation's entire ocean contaminants program as part of massive layoffs at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Among the scientists terminated are ones who have conducted landmark research about global pollutants for decades: Peter Ross, who is among the world’s leading experts on marine mammals and contaminants, Gary Stern, a mercury expert whose work focuses on the Arctic, Michel Lebeuf, who studies the highly contaminated St. Lawrence belugas and Michael Ikonomou, who researches flame retardants and other endocrine-disrupting contaminants in salmon and other ocean life. Ross told EHN that his main concern is the "wholesale axing of pollution research" that will leave Canada, and much of the world, without the scientific knowledge to protect whales, seals, fish and other marine life -- as well as the indigenous peoples who rely on them for their traditional foods. Many scientists say the purpose of the move by the Canadian government is not just cost-cutting but to eliminate environmental rules and protect the oil and gas industry. The following is an essay that Ross wrote Thursday for EHN. -- Marla Cone, Editor in Chief

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L. Mos/Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Peter Ross with young harbour seal.
Silent Summer
By Peter Ross
Since being hired 13 years ago as a Research Scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), I have been fortunate to conduct research on such magnificent creatures as killer whales, beluga whales, harbour seals and sea otters. I have visited some of the wildest parts of coastal British Columbia, Arctic Canada and further afield. I have been humbled by the power of Mother Nature as we deployed teams to explore and better understand the lives of creatures beneath the surface of the ocean. I have marveled at the evolutionary adaptations of marine mammals to an existence at the interface of land, sea and atmosphere. And as a scientist, I have come to learn that I possess but rudimentary powers of observation when it comes to the mystery and beauty of a vast ocean. For all of this, I remain eternally grateful.
A blend of challenging field work and cutting-edge laboratories has helped me to look into the lives of fish and marine mammals, and the ways in which some of the 25,000 contaminants on the domestic market affect their health. Our research has drawn on the combined expertise of dedicated technicians, biologists, vessel operators and aboriginal colleagues, ultimately leading to scientific publications now available around the world. This is knowledge that informs policies, regulations, and practices that enable us to protect the ocean and its resources, both for today’s users, and for future generations.

It is with apprehension that I ponder a Canada without any research or monitoring capacity for pollution in our three oceans... I am thankful for the rich array of opportunities aboard Canadian Coast Guard ships and small craft, alongside Fisheries Officers, chemists, habitat biologists and managers, together with colleagues, technicians, students and members of aboriginal communities. I have enjoyed weaving stories of wonder on such issues as the health of killer whales, effects of flame retardants on beluga whales, hydrocarbons in sea otter habitat, trends in priority pollutants in harbour seals, impacts of current use of pesticides on the health of salmon, the identification of emerging contaminants in endangered species and risk-benefit evaluation of traditional sea foods of First Nations and Inuit peoples.

...or any ability to manage its impacts on commercial fish stocks, traditional foods for over 300,000 aboriginal people and marine wildlife. Past scientific discoveries such as high levels of PCBs in Inuit foods, dioxins in pulp and paper mill effluent, and DDT-associated eggshell thinning in seabirds formed the basis for national regulations and an international treaty (the Stockholm Convention) that have led to cleaner oceans and safer aquatic foods for fish, wildlife and humans. Canada was a world leader in spearheading this profoundly important treaty, drawing on ground-breaking scientific research in tandem with the knowledge of aboriginal communities.
 
I am thankful to my friends, family, supporters and colleagues, who have always been there to converse, share, learn and teach – in the laboratory, in the field, in the cafeteria, in the hallway. These people have made it all worthwhile.
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Ingrid Visser/Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Orcas swim past an oil refinery.
It is with deep regret that I relay news of my termination of employment at Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the loss of my dream job. It is with even greater sadness that I learn of the demise of DFO’s entire contaminants research program – regionally and nationally. It is with apprehension that I ponder a Canada without any research or monitoring capacity for pollution in our three oceans, or any ability to manage its impacts on commercial fish stocks, traditional foods for over 300,000 aboriginal people and marine wildlife.
 
Canada's silence on these issues will be deafening this summer and beyond.
For more information about Ross' work:

Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic, by Marla Cone, published by Grove/Atlantic 







Friday, May 25, 2012

'NEW ZEALAND UNDER ATTACK: 'THINK GLOBALLY, KILL LOCALLY' " Jeff Phillips

 RACHEL CARSON
 RACHEL CARSON
 DR. THEO COLBORN
 CLYDE & STEVE GRAF
 TERMINATORS
 "Breaks down into salt & vinegar"
 DEAD LITTLE MOREPORK AFTER 1080 DROP
 THE MAC-DADDY OF CHEMICAL TOXINS
 CANNOT BE LEGALLY DUMPED INTO THE OCEAN BUT...
 ...IT'S PERFECTLY SAFE FOR PUBLIC DRINKING WATER
 SCAPEGOAT OF AOTEAROA
 THE WORST INVASIVE SPECIES BESIDES HUMANS
(10 million cattle in NZ)
 "100% CLEAN AND GREEN"
 DIOXIN, INC.,  NEW PLYMOUTH
 
 KARMA OF COAL MINING
 THIS IS NOT AUSTRALIA BUT ATHENREE NZ
FRACKING CONTAMINATES GROUND WATER
 NOTE SIGNS POINTED AT CAMERA NOT SHIP!
 OCEAN ALLIANCE/ODYSSEY RESEARCH VESSEL
 CREW OF ODYSSEY W/PAINTED ROCKS WE SENT!
 THE FUTURE OF NEW ZEALAND MARINE LIFE
 THE KAIKOURA COAST IN A COUPLE YEARS
 VOTED TOP PUBLICATION IN NEW ZEALAND
http://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/
 "40 MILLION OF US CAN'T BE WRONG!"
 from the MINISTRY of ENLIGHTENMENT

"In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world—the very nature of its life."  

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

DOWNLOAD SILENT SPRING HERE:


http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/ss.pdf
 

NOTE FROM JEFF:  Soon I'll be writing what I hope to be the state-of-the-art article on the fluorine/1080/pesticide issue focusing on New Zealand but looking at it as a global issue.  For now, here is an updated version of a message I sent to Peter Phillips, founder of Project Censored a couple years ago. Note the rough estimate of the total amount of fluorine that has been added to the NZ biosphere since 1080 deployment began in the early 1960's:  approx. 60,000 kgs.  It's still there, in meat, bones, plants, timber, lakes and the ocean.   

A high % of all New Zealand's agricultural exports could be seriously contaminated but going conveniently unnoticed due to the absence of sensitive testing procedures.  Elemental fluorine cannot 'break down' into anything simpler, but has the potential to combine with almost anything in unpredictable and disastrous ways.

Note also that 'clean and green' New Zealand boasts the highest per capita use of pesticides of any country in the world.  A few years ago I read a newspaper article about a new company called 'Certified Organic' that sold pesticides.

New Zealand is also home to one of the world's most polluted rivers, the Manawatu:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/3097651/Manawatu-River-among-worst-in-the-West


New Zealand Drops to 43 out of 132 Countries for Water Eco-system Vitality


Note also that logically and gravitationally, a lot of run-off from the land flows directly into the ocean, which is, of course, down-hill from everywhere.  Massachusetts-based Ocean Alliance, for whom I am the 'southern hemisphere correspondent', recently concluded a five-year survey of global ocean toxicity.  The executive summary of their findings are available here.

http://www.oceanalliance.org/research/2000-2005-voyage-of-the-odyssey/

As well, New Zealand is not magically immune to the extreme levels of synthetic radio-nuclides spewing out of Fukushima.  The Pacific Ocean is contaminated beyond comprehension already.

I've expanded the scope of this update to include not only chemical but threats from GE, radio-nuclides, EMR, military and geophysical exploration/extraction.

MESSAGE TO PETER PHILLIPS of PROJECT CENSORED

I've been piecing together a story of immense proportion, beginning with the ongoing deployment of a 'super-toxin' pesticide called 1080 here in NZ.  It's banned in almost every country in the world because of its extreme danger to human health, yet NZ currently uses 4 tons per year, which is approx. 85% of all that is manufactured in the world.  I'd known about it for many years, but a few weeks ago I got in touch with film-maker Clyde Graf who with his brother Steve produced an excellent and powerful doco Poisoning Paradise.  It has lots of field footage, as they were deer hunters before realizing what was going on, and shows in gruesome detail the carnage wrought by this stuff.  They interview top scientific people, too, and two things emerge:  1080 is astronomically more dangerous than DOC lets on, AND almost every piece of "scientific" evidence that DOC uses to support their actions is either so flawed as not to be taken seriously by real scientists, or is a total lie. 

The 1080's purpose is supposed to be to kill the possums and other 'non-native invasives' which were imported from Australia over 100 yrs ago, who now supposedly threaten the foliage and forests of tourist-hungry "clean green New Zealand." 

"New Zealand is probably one of the most toxic destinations for tourism in the world."

http://msrb.wordpress.com/indigens/truth-about-100-pure-new-zealand-advertising-campaign/

"New Zealand's 'Love Canal" New Plymouth = Dioxin Capital

http://open.salon.com/blog/stuartbramhall/2012/04/09/new_zealands_love_canal

The problem is, one, that according to a LOT of people who are out in the bush, the possums aren't THAT big of a problem...certainly not big enough to risk poisoning the whole environment with such a lethal substance;  and, two, that, according to DOC themselves, all the 1080 isn't even killing the possums!  It's all a crock of tox.

Clyde Graf ends up by, without even knowing it, quoting Rachel Carson word for word out of pure common sense:  what kind of sense does it make to poison everything when you're just after one target species?

Here's where the plot thickens:  my background is in science and I've been 'on the trail of reality' for a long time now.  You should even be receiving some of the emails I send out.  When I saw Poisoning Paradise, a lot of wheels started turning and I started doing some research.  What I've learned since then is really scary...

The central active ingredient in 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate) is fluorine.  DOC tells the public that "1080 breaks down into 'salt and vinegar.' "  The truth is that even if it broke down as simply as possible, approx. 30% remains as fluorine residue...THE most reactive element on the chart and extremely toxic/mutagenic in its own right.  it is bio-accumulative and eventually ends up in bones;  it is highly neurotoxic and causes CNS damage.

Graf's rough figures have helped me to estimate that since 1965 at least 180,000 kgs of 1080 have been deployed over NZ;  this would leave roughly 60,000 kgs of fluorine residue in the soil and water, up-taken by plants and animals all along the food chain, and concentrating in human tissue.

1080 is known/believed to be an endocrine disruptor (cf. Our Stolen Future, Theo Colborn) that causes infertility/sterility in humans;  right now, male fertility levels in NZ men is at less than 50% of normal.  Cancer rates here are soaring as well.

New Zealand:  Fourth-Highest Cancer Rate in World

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/4591266/NZ-fourth-in-world-in-rate-of-cancer

Dr. Theo Colborn, "Where did all those pesticides come from?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1uwn9ZgMLE
 

Endocrine Disruptors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqtu8ZQIPM&feature=related

Then, when you start looking at flourine and its history since WW2, it gets even scarier.  The Nazis added it to drinking water at concentration camps to make the prisoners more docile;  chemist Charles Perkins writes about how Nazi chemists told him about this.

The Manhattan Project had Project 'F' which studied fluorine....they were generating massive amounts of HF as a uranium processing waste and when a cloud escaped the Oak Ridge facility in 1943 and did massive damage to people and livestock, they saw its potential as a weapon as well as the necessity of spinning its real nature.

Hence the fabrications from Charles Hodge, Alcoa people and Edward Bernays, that fluoride is 'good for your teeth'.

Rachel Carson told us in Silent Spring that pesticides were born from nerve gas research...they are really the same substances only with different names.  When you connect the dots with the fluorine thing, it looks like it's actually sort of THE universal toxin...it's EVERYWHERE in EVERYTHING.

EXCERPTS FROM SILENT SPRING:

http://rachels-carson-of-today.blogspot.co.nz/2009/11/silent-spring-rachel-carson-1962.html


"Over 60% of public drinking water is fluoridated in NZ as well as ib America;  fluorosis is epidemic all over Australia.  Flourine compounds are in 30% of ALL pharmaceutical drugs, 30% of ALL agricultural products, is a massive waste product from the mfg. of aluminum and the processing of uranium;  it's in Teflon and CFC's.

The EPA has declared that it's illegal to dump fluorine compounds into the ocean because they are too toxic, BUT it's legal to place these exact same wastes into public drinking water supplies.

Christopher Bryson, 'The Fluoride Deception"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJhMxTJVyo

 
In Poisoning Paradise, the Graf's show that when someone put 1080 into the public water supply of a small NZ town, it was decried as an 'act of terrorism', yet when DOC dumps massive amounts of 1080 into the water-catchment of Wellington, it's 'safe and clean.'

I won't go on, but to me it looks a lot like there's a hidden agenda at work here...to get as much fluorine as possible into the human environment.  As far as I am aware, NO DOC or Ministry of Health  'research' has ever even mentioned flourine as a toxin or component of 1080.

Also, the New South Wales DEC who manages Lord Howe Island (world's most southerly coral reef, east of Brisbane) now wants to 'nuke' the whole island with brodifacoum, another 'super-toxin' with a central atom bromine (another halogen), whose effects are supposedly even worse than 1080.  A lot of people on LHI don't want it...there it's supposedly to kill the rats...but a man there I talked with, who's lived there for 77 years, is the original family there, and directs the Port Authority...says the rats aren't that bad...certainly not bad enough to nuke the whole island with a super-toxin.  He brought up the resistance thing...then I learned that indeed brodifacoum was developed in 1975 to replace warfarin, to which rats had become immune.  DEC plans to 'collect' ALL ANIMALS on LHI and put them into 'safe houses' while the brodifacoum is deployed, but THE PEOPLE have been told that it's 'safe and clean' so they can stay.

In a CBS doco on Silent Spring from 1963 (sent to me by the Fish and Wildlife Service who employed Carson for many years) a top genetics researcher of the day, Arnold Lehman, is interviewed..he states that NO substance can be declared 'safe for humans until at least 25 generations of people have been studied...that's 500 years!

The Legacy of Rachel Carson

http://video.pbs.org/video/1442629512

 
It's like flourine is THE mac-daddy of all toxins, surpassing even uranium/radioactive substances in terms of how much is out there, in how many things, and affecting how many people, and other life-forms?

Finally, to put it all in perspective, I am also in touch with researcher William Engdahl, who authorized me to post extensive excerpts from chapter 6 of Seeds of Destruction, "The Brotherhood of Death", in which he outlines the history of eugenics and goes into gruesome detail about mentalities such as Dr. Cornelius Roads (who infected prisoners with cancer, was then employed by the Army, then went on to direct the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Institute) and Paul Bowman Popenoe, who advocated the outright killing of 'inferior' peoples...all financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.

"The Brotherhood of Death" William Engdahl

http://rachels-carson-of-today.blogspot.co.nz/2009/11/brotherhood-of-death-william-engdahl.html

Dr. Matthias Rath, "The Pharmaceutical 'Business with Disease'"

 
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/history_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm


Could departments within the UN be manipulating Ministries of Health and Environment around the world to accomplish hidden agendas like depopulation?  Easily.

Exactly how much fluorine IS in our human environment...what is it doing and why?


Another misconception is that somehow New Zealand is 'GE Free.'  Charles Drace, editor of The Genetic Engineering Resource Book has this to say:

"New Zealand touts itself as being Clean and Green but that's far from the truth. We call a river or lake 'clean' if it is only 15% polluted and a study in the early 1990's found that no river in the South Island met that standard and only one significant river in the North Island. Pollution has only become worse since then.


Our successive government's have never funded the departments responsible for policing containment of genetic engineering field trials or imports of food or grains that might be genetically engineered. The 'policing' has been left to organisations like Greenpeace and GE Free New Zealand. Every GE field trial application has been approved by the government even though all have been failures so far. Several field trials have breached containment and/or left contaminated soil. Some have been abandoned and left to the elements.

The government's labelling rules require all foods with more than 1% genetically engineered content to be labelled UNLESS they are processed. Therefore if a food product is cooked or has mixed ingredients it doesn't have to be labelled at all. Estimates suggest that over 70% of all processed food available in New Zealand supermarkets contain GE ingredients.

There are no restrictions on the import of GE feed for stock, poultry and pet food. Yet scientific studies have shown since the early 1990's that genetically engineered DNA does not break down in the digestion process and builds up in organs and tissue. It thus passes into the tissues of animals fed GE grains [mainly] and those who eat the animals.

Successive New Zealand governments have readily acquiesced to the demands and propaganda of the agri-chemical companies in spite of all the studies proving that GE food is dangerous to health as well as soil and does not improve yields nor nutrition and results in more chemicals being used rather than the agri-chemical companies propaganda of less chemical usage. How anyone would believe that chemical companies would come out with products to reduce the use of chemicals defies my imagination."

On a final note, New Zealand has in recent months and years begun to experience first-hand the scourge of the Earth-raping greed and devastation of trans-national extraction industries like mining and hydro-carbon exploration.  Contamination of ground water from fracking, contamination of the ocean from oil spills, and decimation of marine life, specifically the whales and dolphins, from off-shore seismic testing, military sonar, and anomalous 'research' vessel activity, not to mention the mining of any and all national parks is just the beginning of the end of the 'land of the long white chem-trail.'

For more information on 'POISONING PARADISE':

http://www.thegrafboys.org/poisoning-paradise.html
 

WATCH IT HERE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlPM1zVb3Lk

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/nu-flir-2012-1-increasing-frequency-of_23.html

 
"New Zealand is a 'battle ground' of global importance right now: Aotearoa is experiencing the latest in full-spectrum imperial mobilization and 'friendly take-over' operations since the Christchurch quakes have enabled a '9-11' type response on the parts of government and industry.

Transnational mining and energy extraction entities are salivating over her previously untapped 'resources' which have suddenly been made available, thanks to the Key administration. An intensive 'green-washing' public relations campaign will ensue in which the powers that be will do their best to persuade everyone in New Zealand that mining...using new 'eco-friendly environmental mining techniques'...is a good thing, that off-shore drilling is a good thing, that using 30% of south island rivers for dairy irrigation is a good thing, that even more tons per year of 1080 deployment is a good thing.

See, New Zealand is 100% CLEAN AND GREEN, just like those glossy spreads in National Geographic tell us! The money from mining and oil drilling can pay for THOUSANDS of National Geographic ad-verts, to make sure that no one loses track of this very convenient 'truth'.

'Global warming' is the problem...not mining, not oil-drilling, not radiation from Fukushima! Follow the lead of Australia...and look at how they're benefiting from mining! SHUT UP AND PAY YOUR CARBON TAX.

I personally have witnessed a massive transformation of New Zealand over the past decade, and it's quite scary. Many kiwis think that Lord of the Rings put Aotearoa on the map as it were; the explosion of fracking, mining and oil drilling is guaranteed to take New Zealand OFF the map as a global tourism destination, in spite of National Geographic.

Case in point: look at what is happening with Broome, Western Australia...formerly a remote and tranquil highly-rated tourist destination now being transformed into yet another derelict 'mining town' like so many others in Australia because of the new 'gas hub' being built...in humpback whale birthing waters...at James Price Point. 


Broome is an analog of what is happening to New Zealand on a much vaster scale. Do the people of New Zealand REALLY WANT thousands of drilling platforms polluting their EEZ and coastal waters and endangering the marine life they claim to love? Once they're built, they will be MUCH harder to get rid of."

"Broome: Dubai Down Under"

  
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/broome-dubai-down-under-6271583.html

"The far north-west of Australia is a sparsely populated oasis where ancient Aboriginal beliefs still prevail. The trouble is, there's gas there – and developers who want to turn it into a new Emirate."

"Thyroid Cancer, Fracking and Nuclear Power"

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/thyroid-cancer-fracking-and-nuclear.html

 
Fracking a ‘Dirty Bomb’

"Radiation isn’t released into the environment only via nuclear plants and bombs. Geologist Tracy Bank found that fracking mobilizes rock-bound uranium, posing a further radiation risk to our groundwater...Because of some 65 hazardous chemicals used in fracking operations, former industry insider, James Northrup, calls it a “dirty bomb.”

'The volume of fluid in a hydrofrack can exceed three million gallons, or almost 24 million pounds of fluid, about the same weight as 7,500 automobiles. The fracking fluid contains chemicals that would be illegal to use in warfare under the rules of the Geneva Convention.
' "


GOVERNMENT PLANS TO MAKE MINERAL EXPLORATION EASIER

NOTE THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY BIO-DIESEL BULLDOZER
The Government is 'very conscious' of environmental obligations, says Energy and Resources Minister Phil Heatley. Photo / NZPA

The Government is 'very conscious' of environmental obligations, says Energy and Resources Minister Phil Heatley. Photo / NZPA

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10778983

Proposed Oil Drilling 2012 – Kaikoura, New Zealand

http://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/proposed-oil-drilling-2012-kaikoura-new-zealand-nodrillkaikoura/

"PERU DOLPHIN STRANDINGS:  REPEAT OF NEW ZEALAND SCENARIO"

http://tutunui-wananga.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/peru-dolphin-strandings-exact-repeat-of.html


Christchurch has one of the highest densities of mobile phone masts of any city in the world. This coupled with what are known to be excessive power levels from radio transmitters at Sugarloaf contributes not only to mental and biological disease in any living organism in the area, but is also implicated in the extremely anomalous and on-going earthquake scenario there.

Watch this video that shows ALL 10,000+ quakes since September 2010 and TELL ME THIS IS MOTHER EARTH DOING THIS?


http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON NEW ZEALAND REALITY SEE ALSO:

'GENERATION F:  HOW HUMANITY IS WINNING THE WAR ON ITSELF" Jeff Phillips 


http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/generation-f-how-humanity-is-winning.html


'THE CHRISTCHURCH QUAKE:  OPPORTUNITY FOR RE-NAVIGATION' Jeff Phillips


http://www.synthaissance.blogspot.co.nz/2011/03/christchurch-quake-by-jeff-phillips.html

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

"NUCLEAR CHEER-LEADERS USE VOODOO SCIENCE TO PRETEND LOW LEVELS OF RADIATION ARE SAFE...OR EVEN GOOD FOR YOU" DR. PETER KARAMOSKOS

 


The Petkau Effect:  Why Low-Level Radiation is Dangerous

Nuclear Cheerleaders Use Voodoo Science to Pretend Low Levels of Radiation Are Safe … Or Even Good For You

Department of Energy Pretends that Low Levels of Radiation Are Safe

Dr. Peter Karamoskos – a nuclear radiologist and a public representative on the radiation health committee of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency – wrote in the Sydey Herald last year:
You have to hand it to the nuclear industry and its acolytes. In the middle of the second-worst nuclear power disaster in history at Fukushima, and with still no end in sight, you would think they would respond with contrition, humility and profuse mea culpas. Not on your life. The industry representatives and its acolytes came out swinging in full denial attire.
***
But more insidious and objectionable is the creeping misinformation that the nuclear industry has fed into the public sphere over the years. There seems to be a never-ending cabal of paid industry scientific ”consultants” who are more than willing to state the fringe view that low doses of ionising radiation do not cause cancer and, indeed, that low doses are actually good for you and lessen the incidence of cancer.
It is not only the nuclear companies who are pushing this junk science.
The Department of Energy is responsible for the design, testing and production of all U.S. nuclear weapons.  DOE also promotes nuclear energy as one of its core functions.  As such, it might not be surprising that DOE has been covering up nuclear accidents for decades.
DOE is also trying to replace the widely-accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley Labs recently used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that everyone is immune to low doses of radiation:

Another DOE-funded study published yesterday – which is being widely publicized in both the mainstream and alternative media – found that mice exposed to low-level radiation suffered no “apparent” genetic damage.  Sounds impressive, until you realize 3 basic facts.
First, the mice were only studied for 5 weeks.  The whole danger of low-level radiation is from repeated exposure over a long period.   A 5-week study is therefore scientifically meaningless.
Second, the study didn’t distinguish between radiation coming from outside the body and particles of radiation ingested into the body: what are known as “internal emitters”.   Internal emitters – say airborne radioactive dust which we breathe in or radioactive fish which we eat – are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this.
For example, the head of a Tokyo-area medical clinic – Dr. Junro Fuse, Internist and head of Kosugi Medical Clinic- said this month:
Risk from internal exposure is 200-600 times greater than risk from external exposure.
This is not some abstract, theoretical issue. For example, radioactive dust from Fukushima hit the West Coast of North America days after the accident.
Third, the DOE-funded researchers only:
Tested for several types of DNA damage, using the most sensitive techniques available.
However, DNA damage is only one of the two primary ways in which low level radiation causes damage.  The second – and perhaps more important – way that low level radiation causes damage is through lipid peroxidation.  Specifically, several studies have shown that the main culprit for the damaging effect of low-level radiation is its ability to cause radiolysis of water and formation of reactive oxygen species, resulting in lipid peroxidation in the body.   The DOE-funded study didn’t test for this mechanism at all.
As such, the new study is garbage and junk science.

Real Scientists: Low Levels of Radiation Can Cause Cancer, Genetic Damage and Other Serious Illness

The overwhelming consensus among radiation scientists is that repeated exposure to low doses of radiation can cause cancer, genetic mutations and other severe health problems.
A major new study of atomic bomb data by the official joint U.S.-Japanese government study of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors found that low dose radiation causes cancer and genetic damage, and debunks the radiation “hormesis” claim (the ridiculous claim that a little radiation is good for you) once and for all:
As Dr. Karamoskos notes:
Ionising radiation is a known carcinogen. This is based on almost 100 years of cumulative research including 60 years of follow-up of the Japanese atom bomb survivors. The International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC, linked to the World Health Organisation) classifies it as a Class 1 carcinogen, the highest classification indicative of certainty of its carcinogenic effects.In 2006, the US National Academy of Sciences released its Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation (VII) report, which focused on the health effects of radiation doses at below 100 millisieverts. This was a consensus review that assessed the world’s scientific literature on the subject at that time. It concluded: “. . . there is a linear dose-response relationship between exposure to ionising radiation and the development of solid cancers in humans. It is unlikely that there is a threshold below which cancers are not induced.”
The most comprehensive study of nuclear workers by the IARC, involving 600,000 workers exposed to an average cumulative dose of 19mSv, showed a cancer risk consistent with that of the A-bomb survivors.
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IARC states that ”by 2065, predictions based on these models indicate that about 16,000 cases of thyroid cancer and 25,000 cases of other cancers may be expected due to radiation from the accident and that about 16,000 deaths from these cancers may occur”. Whether we will be able to detect them when there will also be more than 1 million other cases of cancer over this period is debatable. But every one of these excess cancers is a tragedy for each victim and their family, and is no less so simply because cancer is a common disease.
Many studies have shown that repeated exposures to low levels of ionizing radiation from CT scans and x-rays can cause cancer. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.  (Remember, the radiation from CT scans and x-rays are external emitters – the radiation emanates from outside the body.)
Research from the University of Iowa cconcluded:
 Cumulative radon exposure is a significant risk factor for lung cancer in women.
And see these studies on the health effects cumulative doses of radioactive cesium.
As the European Committee on Radiation Risk notes:
Cumulative impacts of chronic irradiation in low doses are … important for the comprehension, assessment and prognosis of the late effects of irradiation on human beings …
And see this.
A military briefing written by the U.S. Army for commanders in Iraq states:
Hazards from low level radiation are long-term, not acute effects… Every exposure increases risk of cancer.
(Military briefings for commanders often contain less propaganda than literature aimed at civilians, as the commanders have to know the basic facts to be able to assess risk to their soldiers.)
The briefing states that doses are cumulative, citing the following military studies and reports:
  • ACE Directive 80-63, ACE Policy for Defensive Measures against Low Level Radiological Hazards during Military Operations, 2 AUG 96
  • AR 11-9, The Army Radiation Program, 28 MAY 99
  • FM 4-02.283, Treatment of Nuclear and Radiological Casualties, 20 DEC 01
  • JP 3-11, Joint Doctrine for Operations in NBC Environments, 11 JUL 00
  • NATO STANAG 2473, Command Guidance on Low Level Radiation Exposure in Military Operations, 3 MAY 00
  • USACHPPM TG 244, The NBC Battle Book, AUG 02
Why was the military advising commanders on radiation in Iraq? Presumably because the American military used depleted uranium in Iraq (see this, this, this, this, this and this).
Indeed, the top government radiation experts – like Karl Morgan, John Goffman and Arthur Tamplin – and scientific luminaries such as Ernest Sternglass and Alice Stewart, concluded that low level radiation can cause serious health effects.
Low levels of radiation cause not only cancer, but heart disease, stroke and other serious illness.
And it’s not just humans:  scientists have found that animals receiving low doses of radiation from Chernobyl are sick as well.

Nuclear Cheerleaders Just Trying to “Keep People Calm While They’re Being Poisoned”?

This is actually part of the trend of governments worldwide raising acceptable radiation levels based upon politics.
No wonder one medical doctor asks whether acceptable radiation levels are being raised “to keep people calm while they’re being poisoned”.
Indeed, while counter-intuitive, many preeminent scientists believe that repeated doses to low level radiation can cause more illness than short, high-dose exposures.  And see this.