The Environmental Deception Agency

The Environmental Deception Protection Agency is a federal agency that is charged with the responsibility of writing and enforcing legislation to protect human health and the environment.  Established under Nixon in 1970, the EPA is another one of those agencies that sounds like a good idea, until you peel off the shiny friendly top layer to discover the stench of corruption underneath.

Much like the leadership of the FDA, the most recent administrators have some very questionable ties.

·         Present: Lisa Jackson

If people are judged by the company they keep, then it’s very unfortunate for Lisa Jackson that she was most recently Governor Jon Corzine’s Chief of Staff. (I’m sure we all recall that nasty little scandal in which 1.2 BILLION dollars of other people’s money vanished out of Corzine’s sweaty little hands).  

Since taking the reins of the EPA, Jackson’s handling of the Gulf Oil spill has triggered numerous petitions for her removal from the office. Jackson allowed BP to use a toxic dispersal chemical in the contaminated waters, sparking local outrage. 

According to one petition, “Lisa Jackson failed to alert, or to seek approval from, the communities and people who would be most impacted by the dispersant. As has been noted in an open letter by leading scientists, the people of the Gulf are unwitting participants in scientific experimentation of a massive scale. This is unethical, immoral, illegal and goes against every scientific principle that Lisa Jackson would have learned in her training. … She was hired to enforce the environmental laws of our country but instead has knowingly and willfully violated them.”

We’ll discuss Jackson’s disappointing handling of the Fukushima disaster a little further down the page.

·         2005: Stephen L. Johnson

Johnson’s leadership of the EPA was punctuated by several moves so controversial that even the ethically questionable member of the US Congress called for his resignation. 

During his confirmation hearing, he cancelled a study he had previously supported – the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study – which, horrifyingly, studied the effect of household chemicals and pesticides on small children, and even worse, was partially sponsored by a lobbying group that worked for the large chemical companies.  (Don’t worry – the families were compensated up to $1000 AND a t-shirt for promising to expose their kids to potential toxins for three years.)

With that nasty study out of the way, Johnson continued to wreak environmental havoc by (illegally) hampering 17 states from making their own regulations regarding automotive emissions, bringing him before the Congress again amidst a cry for his resignation. Under Johnson, the EPA made flawed pro-industry regulations that were later overthrown in court.

After his tenure at the EPA, Johnson has been added to the boards of Miracle-Gro and FlexEnergy. 

·         2003: Mike Leavitt

Leavitt has no background in science whatsoever.  He earned a BS in economics and business. He worked on numerous political campaigns before he became the governor of Utah.  He became extremely wealthy by starting a large insurance company and also served on the board of directors for Utah Power and Light. Somehow, despite his lack of education or experience in environmental subjects, he was appointed to the EPA in 2003. Environmentalists protested his nomination, citing that he had allowed polluting industries to develop millions of acres of Utah wilderness. 

While in charge of the EPA, Leavitt drew fire for using memos written by coal industry lobbyists when issuing a proposed plan to regulate mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants (a plan that critics said was far too lax to have positive effect). Leavitt’s lethargic record for regulating the use of toxic chemicals for fracking was cause for a congressional hearing.

Leavitt subsequently became the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and is now the owner of a consulting group, Leavitt Partners, which assists states in implementing Obamacare.

The EPA and Industry

The EPA has been accused of covering up crimes committed by public health enemy #1, Monsanto, as well as Dow Chemicals.  The EPA’s investigation proved that Monsanto knowingly tainted Lysol (used by moms everywhere to sanitize babies’ toys) with dioxin.  However, no criminal charges have been forthcoming as of this publication. 

The EPA also quietly closed an investigation of Monsanto’s twisted cover-up in the Nitro, West Virginia herbicide plant accident that exposed hundreds of workers to deadly carcinogen dioxin, which can still be found in nearby streams and lakes. Despite the fact that this investigation simply disappeared, Monsanto agreed in February to pay $93 million dollars to residents of Nitro in order to settle a class action lawsuit.

The EPA has refused to ban a pesticide made by Dow Chemicals, the controversial 2,4-D, the same substance used in Agent Orange. This pesticide will be used on corn crops that have been genetically engineered to be resistant to the toxin.  Agent Orange causes cancer, hormone disruption, genetic mutations and neurotoxicity and will be soon be coming to a corn field near you.

The EPA has refused a petition to ban BPA in industry, citing a lack of scientific evidence of the negative effects of the chemical. BPA is commonly found tainting canned goods, especially soup, and bottled water that has been exposed to heat. (Author’s note:  It would probably be very expensive for industry to have to replace all those containers with BPA-free cans and bottles.)

The EPA and Radiation Sleight-of-Hand

Our country is currently being inundated with radiation from the Fukushima disaster.  The EPA is right on top of things with their response, of course. First, they promptly closed down 8 of 18 radiation measuring stations in the hardest hit area, California.  Then, to further calm the good people of the nation, the EPA magically changed the numbers.  They’ve raised the amount of radiation that we can safely absorb and ingest.  It wouldn’t do for the large factory farms to be unable to sell their tainted produce or for the huge dairies to be stuck with all that radioactive milk.

The radiation in our food supply is of so little concern to the EPA that they’ve actually begun to tell us that a little bit of radiation is good for us. According to a report citing the EPA, a bit of radiation can prevent cancer, instead of causing it.

Since our minds can be at ease now, the EPA has decided that they are no longer planning to monitor the radiation levels in our food supply.  They will return to their previous practice of only monitoring random samples every three months.  Yep.  Really.  The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States is no longer monitoring radiation levels in our food and water supplies as of April 14th.  That will definitely keep them from getting those inconveniently high readings that might affect Big Agri’s prosperity. 


“I really am horrified,” said Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “It’s quite staggering and it seems to be part of the pattern of the EPA trying to make sure that there are no measurements that could cause people to be concerned.” 


 In a very clear case of the wolves watching the baby lambs, the EPA is turning over monitoring decisions and responsibility to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.


The EPA: Just another instrument of government deceit


One controversy after another can be attributed to the EPA, an agency charged with protecting the air we breathe, the soil in which we grow our food and the water that we drink.  At the bottom of each of those controversies can be found ties to the conspiracies of the big businesses that really run the country.  Decisions are being auctioned off to industry lobbyists with the most money and influence.


Environmental protection is only the rule of thumb if it goes along with Agenda 21 – the EPA is all over the green agenda in cases that benefit the redistribution of wealth, but the agency completely ignores blatant crimes against the earth if it involves fracking for the benefit of a natural gas company.


I used to content myself in believing that if something wasn’t safe, it wouldn’t be used in America, that forward-thinking, technically brilliant land that supported life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Sadly, in the case of yet another federal agency, safety is in the eye of the highest bidder. 

Pardon Me, Your Food is Glowing

If the one-gallon jugs of milk in the dairy case seem to be glowing, it may not be just from the fluorescent lights  You won’t hear about this from the mainstream media, but the world’s food supply is becoming increasingly tainted by radiation emitted from the Fukushima disaster.

Recently, on the West Coast of the United States, radiation levels were found to be unsafe.  Thankfully, the Environmental Deception Protection Agency has responded quickly:  they’ve closed down 8 of their 18 radiation-testing facilities in California and upped the “safe amounts” of radiation that we can absorb.   I’m sure we can all now breathe a deep sigh of relief.

Just in case you don’t find the EPA’s response to the crisis to be reassuring, there are some things you can do to protect your family from radiation in the food and water supply.

First, it’s important to understand how food becomes tainted by radiation.

Produce can become tainted in two different ways.  First, radioactive particles can settle on the plant while it’s growing.  Secondly, when the soil becomes contaminated by “hot” rain, it can be taken up through the root system.   Broadleaf vegetables like spinach, arugula, cabbage, lettuce and kale are more susceptible to contamination from fallout.  If the soil is okay, then root vegetables like potatoes and carrots are safer than leafy vegetables.

Dairy products and meat become contaminated when the animals graze on radioactive grass or plants.  Samples of milk taken across the United States have shown radiation at levels 2000 percent higher than previous EPA maximums.  The reason that milk is so significant is that it is representative of the entire food supply.  According to an article published on Natural News, "Cows consume grass and are exposed to the same elements as food crops and water supplies. In other words, when cows' milk starts testing positive for high levels of radioactive elements, this is indicative of radioactive contamination of the entire food supply."

When a person consumes radioactive food, the radioactive substances are digested and absorbed into the bloodstream.  Different types of particles affect different tissues.  For example, radioactive iodine attaches itself to the thyroid gland, and cesium is stored in the bone marrow.

The tissues affected by the radioactive materials are at increased risk for cancer as time passes.  Children and pregnant women face the highest risks from radioactive food because of constant cellular growth and division.

According to the U.S.-based group of medical doctors Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), “There is no safe level of radionuclide exposure, whether from food, water or other sources, period,” said Jeff Patterson, DO, immediate past president of PSR, in late March.

Without a lot of very expensive equipment, there is not a lot you can do to test your food for radiation. There are a few steps you can take to limit your exposure, however.

WATER

First, you need access to pure drinking water.  Water that comes from an underground source, like a spring or a covered well, is likely to be safe.  Water can also be filtered for radioactive particles. The most effective way to remove the particles from water is a double process.  First, water should go through a “reverse osmosis” filter, and then, a deionization resin filter. This double process removes 95% or more of radioactive particles.

If levels of radiation are high, this double-filtered water should be used for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing dishes. This purified water would also be the water you would use to wash your produce.

PRODUCE

Despite arguments to the contrary, you CAN wash radioactive particles off of produce.  Clearly if the plant has taken in the radiation through the roots, it is irrevocably tainted.  Fallout, however, can be dealt with.

Calcium Bentonite clay is a natural substance that actually absorbs radiation.  According to the website, About Clay, “Calcium Bentonite Clay has a uniquely strong negative ionic charge. When activated with water it works like a strong magnet, adsorbing and absorbing anything
with a positive ionic charge (i.e., toxins, pesticides, radiation). The clay captures these substances and removes them as it is eliminated or washed off.”

To wash produce with Bentonite Clay:  Mix 1 part Calcium Bentonite Clay to 8 parts of purified water in a large non-metallic bowl. Toss your produce in this clay water, making certain the produce is completely covered, and let it sit for 10 minutes.  Rinse well with more purified water.

For additional protection, peel thin-skinned fruits like peaches and apples after washing them.

Growing Your Own Food

According to “Health Ranger” Mike Adams, even growing your own organic produce is no longer enough to guarantee food safety.  “Your own gardens are just as susceptible to radiation fallout as commercial crop lands,” states Adams. “Only those who grow food in greenhouses will be largely protected from the fallout. Maybe it's a good time to buy some sprouting seeds, too, because you can sprout seeds in your own kitchen and grow them free of radiation.”

Hydroponic and aquaponic systems, greenhouses, hoop houses and kitchen gardens watered with radiation-free water will provide the safest food. Sadly, free-range meats will soon be less safe than factory-farmed meats because of the potential for radiation exposure.

Country of Origin

Another step to avoiding radiation in your food is to note the origin of the food.  Anything produced or harvested south of the equator is safer than foods that originate in the Northern hemisphere.  Along the same lines, items procured from the Eastern half of the United States are safer than items from the West Coast (at this time).  As the fallout increases, the entire Northern hemisphere may become irrevocably tainted for generations. 

Be alert to the meager amount of news coming from Japan: the damaged reactors are NOT under control and further disastrous output could occur at any point in time. Be aware that the media and the world’s governments are NOT looking out for our best interests.  The lives of hundreds of thousands of future cancer victims could be saved if the agencies in charge of food testing, environmental disasters and public safety were issuing truthful warnings and disseminating accurate information.

Instead the party line has been to “avoid panic” through false benevolence, patronizing public statements, sleight-of-hand safety level changes, and other outright LIES. Much-needed food safety testing is not being done, or, if it is, the information is not being released to the public.  Without access to the necessary equipment to test foods for ourselves, we must locate own solutions and resources.

I urge you to do your own research in order to protect yourself and your family.  Don’t trust the mass media or government officials regarding this issue.  They are complicit in the most deadly deceit ever perpetrated on the American people.

Sources

Q&A About Radiation and Food Safety

Could Radioactive Fallout From Japan Affect the US Water Supply?

Remove Radiation from Your Produce with Calcium Bentonite Clay

Radioactive Danger: It's Not Just Coming from Japan

by Daisy and NinaO

Fukushima is not the only source of the deadly radiation threatening Americans.  The danger is much closer to home than you might think, and it's endorsed, subsidized and cloaked in secrecy by our own government.

The United States is being poisoned by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, to name two of the culprits.  Depleted uranium, a dangerous material prohibited by the United Nations General assembly, is seeping into our soil, water and air.  It is being transported by ship, truck and train.  Across the country, depleted uranium is being used, stored, processed or buried. 

This map shows the locations of depleted uranium facilities in the United States.. If you are unfortunate enough to be downwind of any of these places, radioactive "hot rain" could be in your future.  If you are in the continental United States, then you are likely to be in the proximity of one or more sources of DU.  Not pictured on this map are Honolulu, Hawaii and Vieques, Puerto Rico.  This map is from 1995 - since then we've spent 10 years at war using unlimited DU ammunition and weapons.

Source:  US Army Environmental Policy Institute

1	Aerojet Ordnance Company	Chino, California
2	Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee	Jonesboro, Tennessee
3	Detroit Army Tank Plant	Warren, Michigan
4	Lima Army Tank Plant	Lima, Ohio
5	Martin Marrietta Energy Systems Milan Army Ammunition Plant	Milan, Tennessee
6	Mason and Hanger at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant	Middletown, Iowa
7	National Manufacturing Corporation	St. Louis, Missouri
8	Starmet Corporation, formerly known as Nuclear Metals, Inc.	Concord, Massachusetts
9	Olin Ordnance Corporation	Red Lion, Pennsylvania
10	Specific Manufacturing Capability Facility Idaho National Engineering Laboratory	Idaho Falls, Idaho
11	Tank Automotive Command	Warren, Michigan
12	Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, Alliant Tech Systems	New Brighton, Minnesota
13	White Sands Missile Range	Green River, Utah
14	White Sands Missile Range	White Sands, New Mexico
R & D and Test Firing Sitesback to map
15	Army Research Laboratory	APG, Maryland
16	Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs	Richland, Washington
17	Energetic Materials Research and Technology Center, formerly known as the Terminal Effects Research and Analysis(TERA) facility	Socorro, New Mexico
18	Ethan Allen Firing Range (General Electric)	Burlington, Vermont
19	Jefferson Proving Ground	Madison, Indiana
20	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Los Alamos, New Mexico
21	Manufacturing Sciences Corp.	Oak Ridge, Tennessee
22	Nevada Test Site	Mercury, Nevada
23	Picatinny Arsenal	Dover, New Jersey
24	Sandia National Laboratories	Albuquerque, New Mexico
25	Tonopah Test Range	Tonopah, Nevada
26	US Army Combat Systems Test Activity	APG, Maryland
27	Yuma Proving Ground	Yuma, Arizona
Storage and Storage/Demilitarization Sitesback to map
28	Defense Consolidation Facility	Snelling, South Carolina
29	Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant	Hawthorne, Nevada
30	Hunter Army Airfield	Savanna, Georgia
31	Letterkenny Army Depot	Chambersberg, Pennsylvania
32	McAlester Army Ammunition Plant	McAlester, Oklahoma
33	Savanna Army Depot	Savanna, Illinois
34	Seneca Army Depot Activity	Romulus, New York
35	Sierra Army Depot	Herlong, California
36	Tooele Army Depot	Tooele, Utah
37	US Army Armament Munitions and Chemical Command	Rock Island, Illinois
38	Watervliet Arsenal	Albany, New York
Processing Sitesback to map
39	Carolina Metals	Barnwell, South Carolina
40	Sequoyah Fuels Corporation	Gore, Oklahoma
Waste Disposal Sitesback to map
41	Chem-Nuclear Systems Waste Management Facility	Barnwell, South Carolina
42	Envirocare of Utah, Inc.	Clive, Utah
43	US Ecology	Hanford, Washington
Former DU Use or Storage Sites, and Sites Being Decommissionedback to map
44	Alliant Tech Systems, Inc.	Elk river, Minnesota
45	Army Research Laboratory	Watertown, Massachusetts
46	Camp Roberts Military Reservation	Bradley, California
47	Chamberlain Manufacturing	Waterloo, Iowa
48	China Lake Naval Weapons Center Alliant Tech Systems	Ridgecrest, California
49	Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp.	San Juan Capistrano, California
50	Fort Hood	Killeen, Texas
51	Fort Riley	Junction City, Kansas
52	Fort Stewart	Hinesville, Georgia
53	Lake City Army Ammunition Plant	Independence, Missouri
54	National Lead Industries	Colonie, New York
Otherback to map
55	Nellis Air Force Firing Range *Not mentioned in the Army Technical Report, but still in use	Nevada

Another processing facility is being built in Hobbs, New Mexico. This will be the first commercially owned processing facility.

"Idaho Falls-based International Isotopes Inc. is in the licensing and design phase of an environmentally friendly, green technology, uranium de-conversion and fluorine extraction processing facility near Hobbs, N.M."

                                                                          ~ Idaho Statesman

(Well, of course, if it's an environmentally friendly plant to process deadly toxic waste, then that's a different story.)

So, what is depleted uranium and why is it so bad?

Depleted Uranium 101

Depleted Uranium (DU) is nuclear waste. Uranium naturally occurs as three different isotopes: U234, U235 and U238. U235 is fissionable, which means that U235 is so unstable that firing neutrons at it can produce a self-sustaining series of nuclear reactions, releasing huge amounts of energy. This is the basis of nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

Before U235 can be used, it must be concentrated as it only makes up a small proportion of naturally occurring uranium - around 0.7%.  After natural uranium has had most of the U235 removed from it, it is called ‘depleted uranium’.

Depleted Uranium is both chemically toxic and radioactive.  When DU burns it becomes a dust made of two oxides.  The distribution of particle sizes includes sub-micron particles that are readily inhaled into and retained by the lungs. From the lungs, uranium compounds are deposited in the lymph nodes, bones, brain and testes. Hard targets hit by DU penetrators are surrounded by this dust and surveys suggest that it can travel many kilometres when re-suspended, as is likely in arid climates. The dust can then be inhaled or ingested by civilians and the military alike.

Source:  International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons

Complicit with the United States government, local leaders are allowing the FOR-PROFIT storage, use and processing of these deadly toxins.

Depleted uranium processing is a big business.  A toxic waste product, due to it's extreme density (twice that of lead) it can be processed to be used in many ways:

munitions
defense armor plating
armour penetrating military ordnance
material for the nuclear fuel industry
aircraft ballast
shielding
oil well drilling equipment
radiation shields in medical radiation therapy machines

The DOE has also proposed using DU to reinforce concrete and other building materials. 

Not only do we need to worry about the high levels of radiation from the Fukushima disaster - we must also worry about the radiation being quietly emitted from our own soil.  We must worry about radioactive rain that has originated from within our borders.  Our water is being poisoned, our crops are growing in tainted soil and the very air we breathe contains radioactive particles.

Radiation poisoning can have a wide variety of effects on the human body.  According to the ICBUW, "In one day, one microgram, (one millionth of a gram), of pure DU can release 1000 alpha particles. Each particle is charged with more than four million electron volts of energy; this goes directly into whichever organ or tissue it is lodged in. It only requires 6 to 10 electron volts to break a DNA strand in a cell....radiation damaged cells show increased rates of mutations: the precursor to cancer growth. Ionizing radiation is a human carcinogen at every dose-level, not just at high doses; there is no threshold dose and any alpha particle can cause irreparable genetic damage."  Loosely translated, if it doesn't kill you with cancer before you reproduce, the children you conceive may be born with either serious genetic mutations or cancer.

Chemical toxicity occurs when depleted uranium is exposed to moisture in the air.  It reacts to create hydrogen fluoride and uranyl fluoride gas. Uranium is a heavy metal that can be toxic to the kidneys when taken internally. Hydrogen fluoride is a corrosive acid that can be very dangerous if inhaled.

Radiation sickness can either be acute or chronic.  Acute radiation sickness occurs after a large one-time exposure.  Chronic radiation sickness occurs from a build-up of low-level radiation that accumulates in the body.

According to the Mayo Clinic website:

"The absorbed dose of radiation is measured in a unit called a gray (Gy). Diagnostic tests that use radiation, such as an X-ray, result in a small dose of radiation — typically well below 0.1 Gy, focused on a few organs or small amount of tissue.

Signs and symptoms of radiation sickness usually appear when the entire body receives an absorbed dose of at least 1 Gy. Doses greater than 6 Gy to the whole body are generally not treatable and usually lead to death within two days to two weeks, depending on the dose and duration of the exposure.

The initial signs and symptoms of treatable radiation sickness are usually nausea and vomiting. The amount of time between exposure and when these symptoms develop is an indicator of how much radiation a person has absorbed.

After the first round of signs and symptoms, a person with radiation sickness may have a brief period with no apparent illness, followed by the onset of new, more serious symptoms."

Early symptoms of radiation sickness
	Mild exposure (1-2 Gy)	Moderate exposure (2-6 Gy)	Severe exposure (6-8 Gy)	Very severe exposure (8-10 Gy or higher)
Nausea and vomiting	Within 6 hours	Within 2 hours	Within 1 hour	Within 10 minutes
Diarrhea	--	Within 8 hours	Within 3 hours	Within 1 hour
Headache	--	Within 24 hours	Within 4 hours	Within 2 hours
Fever	--	Within 3 hours	Within 1 hour	Within 1 hour
Later symptoms of radiation sickness
Dizziness and disorientation	--	--	Within 1 week	Immediate
Weakness, fatigue	Within 4 weeks	Within 1-4 weeks	Within 1 week	Immediate
Hair loss, bloody vomit and stools, infections, poor wound healing, low blood pressure	--	Within 1-4 weeks	Within 1 week	Immediate

Source: Adapted from "Bushberg JT. Radiation exposure and contamination. The Merck Manuals: The Merck Manual for Healthcare Professionals" and "Upton AC. Radiation injury. In: Goldman L, et al., eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2007."

Treatment for radiation sickness depends upon the exposure.

For acute exposure, the initial treatment is "decontamination".  According to the Mayo Clinic website, removing your clothing and shoes reduces your exposure by up to 90%.  The skin is then washed with soap and water. The length of time between exposure and decontamination is directly proportionate to the amount of radiation exposure. 

When seeking medical care, preventative treatment will focus on reducing the damage to blood-producing bone marrow.

Internal contamination is caused by particles being inhaled or eaten.  Treatments include medication to shield the thyroid as well as medications that "bind" to the radioactive particles to help remove them from the body.

Even after death, the human body retains "hot particles" - ionized particles of radiation.  Cremation of the body leads to a high risk of environmental contamination.  Remains should be decontaminated and then buried in a sealed metal casket, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.

It was very difficult to find information when researching depleted uranium on US soil.  If Google (allegedly allied with the NSA) could be trusted, we would be led to believe that no one, in any of the locations above, has ever protested the location of these facilities near their homes or their children's schools.  We'd also believe that no viable studies have been performed in areas around these facilities and toxic waste dumps.

This leaves us with only hypotheses and a lot of question marks.  We, as concerned citizens, can summarize the following information:

1. There are numerous facilities across the United States that possess depleted uranium.
2. Depleted uranium is both chemically toxic and radioactive.
3. Radioactive isotopes cause genetic mutations and cancer when inhaled, consumed or absorbed through the skin.
4. There is big money being made from the processing and storage of depleted uranium.
5. The mainstream media is not talking about depleted uranium (another media blackout)
6. The use of depleted uranium in weapons is prohibited by Draft Convention on the prohibition of development, production, stockpiling, transfer and use of uranium weapons and on their destruction. It is considered a violation of the UN Convention on Human Rights. 

There must be an awakening of the social conscience.  A toxin that is recognized as deadly, environmentally disastrous and inhumane in use as a weapon by the vast majority of the world has no place being produced, used and stored in our country. We must hold our politicians and captains of industry accountable for the poisons they pour into our environment.   We must hold them responsible for harming the ecosystem and quite literally mutating the DNA structures of humans, plants and animals.

We must look closer to home than Fukushima for the sources of deadly radiation in the United States.  The danger is within our own borders, stamped with a seal of approval and heartily endorsed by our own government.

Co-author:  NinaO

sources and information:

Depleted Uranium: Uses and Hazards

6700 Tons of Radioactive Material Shipped from Kuwait to Idaho

International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons

Depleted Uranium and the Poisoning of Humanity

Radiation Sickness

Depleted Uranium Storage and Processing Facilities

Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War

The Radiation Warnings You Won't Get from the Mainstream Propaganda Machine

by Daisy and NinaO

The mainstream media and the federal government will soon have the blood of the world on its hands.

Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster in Japan is now actively in the ecosystem all along the North American west coast... even the sea weed is now radiated.  The Vancouver Sun reported one year ago that the seaweed tested from waters off the coast of British Columbia were 4 times the amount considered safe.  No further test results were released after the initial report. 

The governments of the United States and Canada are not conducting tests for radioactivity - at least not to the knowledge of the public.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to continue purchasing seafood from Japan, despite the fact that the food is not being tested for radioactive contamination.  Last November, independent testing in Japan showed 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material).  Instead of refusing to purchase the poisoned fish, food safety agencies in both the United States and Canada have simply raised the "acceptable level of radiation."  We can't go offending the Japanese after promising to buy their tainted goods, now can we?

After the North American governments refused to fund testing, oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass, along with Nicholas Fisher, a marine sciences professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and other concerned scientists, managed to secure private funding for a Pacific research voyage.  The results?

Cesium levels in the Pacific had initially gone up an astonishing 45 million times above pre-accident levels. The levels then declined rapidly for a while, but after that, they unexpectedly levelled off.

In July, cesium levels stopped declining and remained stuck at 10,000 times above pre-accident levels.

This means the ocean isn’t diluting the radiation as expected. If it had been, cesium levels would have kept falling.

The finding suggests that radiation is still being released into the ocean long after the accident in March, 2011.

Less than two weeks after the tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster, Michael Kane, an investigative journalist, reported, "In the wake of the continuing nuclear tragedy in Japan, the United States government is still moving quickly to increase the amounts of radiation the population can “safely” absorb by raising the safe zone for exposure to levels designed to protect the government and nuclear industry more than human life."

The radiation has absolutely reached the shores of North America.  Water samples from across the continent have tested positive for unsafe levels of radioactivity.  The levels exceeded federal drinking water thresholds, known as maximum contaminant levels, or MCL, by as much as 181 times."This means that the complete ecosystem of the Pacific Ocean is now poisoned with radiation and we aren't being warned. 

Samples of milk taken across the United States have shown radiation at levels 2000 percent higher than EPA maximums.  The reason that milk is so significant is that it it representative of the entire food supply.  According to an article published on Natural News, "Cows consume grass and are exposed to the same elements as food crops and water supplies. In other words, when cows' milk starts testing positive for high levels of radioactive elements, this is indicative of radioactive contamination of the entire food supply."

The GMO Food and Drug Pushers Administration and the Environmental Deception Protection Agency, instead of refusing to prohibit the sale of tainted foods and mandatory testing of foods produced and harvested from the Pacific Coast, have simply raised the "acceptable levels"  of radioactive material in foods.

Clearly, the "it's-all-for-your-own-good" government will not protect us, or even inform us of the dangers so we can protect ourselves, because it might dip into the pockets of the global elite, the nuclear energy industry, and the food industries.  There is big money behind this cover-up. Refusing to purchase and consume their tainted goods is the best way to fight back, while keeping our families safe and healthy.

How can we protect ourselves? First, be aware of what items are likely to be highly tainted.

1.)  SEAFOOD:  Question the origin of ALL seafood.  Fish and crustaceans from the Pacific Ocean should all be considered to be poisoned with radiation. 

2.)  WATER:  The rainfall and snowfall are all radiated.  Do not drink any water that has not been filtered.   The tap water that flows from your faucet has NOT been treated to rid it of radioactive particles. A recent report from the NY Times stated, "A rooftop water monitoring program managed by UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering detected substantial spikes in rain-borne iodine-131 during torrential downpours …

3.) DAIRY PRODUCTS:  Milk and milk products from the West Coast states currently have the highest levels of radiation in North America.

4.)  PRODUCE:  Leafy Vegetables, Wines, Tomatoes, Strawberries....all produce from California or any other West Coast State are also likely to be tainted.

5.)  MEAT:  If a animal eats any leafy vegetable all along the West Coast, that animal has consumed radiation, and is poisoned.  This is any animal from cows, pigs, goats, sheep to wild deer and other game.

If you eat the above foods from areas with high radiation levels, you are eating radiation and feeding it to your children. Slowly the radiation levels within your body will build up.  This is PERMANENT.

Infant mortality rates across the United States have increased by more than 35% since the nuclear disaster, according to a court statement by Dr. with independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD.  A study published in The International Journal of Medicine indicates that more than 20,000 deaths right here in North America can be directly attributed to the release of radioactive material from Fukushima.  

Radioactive isotopes of the type released from Fukushima have a half life of 30,000 years.  This means that we must permanently change the way we prepare our food. 

• Wash your food with soap and rinse it in filtered water. 
• Be aware of the origins of your vegetables, fish, game and seafood.
• Keep abreast of radiation levels to help monitor where your food is acquired.
• Use only filtered water for drinking, cooking and ice.        

Co-author: NinaO 

Sources:

"Fallout" - CollapseNet

Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide - Washington Blog

Nuclear Genocide of Babies and Children in Japan, the US and Canada

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