Published: June 25th, 2014 at 8:34 am ET
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Asahi Shimbun, June 25, 2014: [Noboru Nakamura, a researcher at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology] has visited the riverbed [in Fukushima] 20 times [...] looking into whether the earthquake or the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant caused abnormal changes among wild birds. [...] [Researchers] first verified abnormal change [200 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi] in Niigata Prefecture [...] Oct. 24, 2011, a common reed bunting, a small migratory bird, was found with uneven tail feathers that had a moth-eaten appearance. The institute started emergency surveys [...] The most perplexing thing was the overly long feathers [...] Its feathers very reliably grow to a certain length [...] [Kiyoaki Ozaki, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology deputy director-general,] could not imagine a reason for them to be longer. By March 2012, the same abnormality was identified at all research sites across Japan, such as Tochigi, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Shizuoka, Shimane, Kagawa and Fukuoka [over 1,000 kilometers from Fukushima]. The proportion of birds with the abnormality was 13.8 percent. In at least one place, the ratio exceeded 25 percent. Birds born in 2011 account for 97.3 percent of the specimens with the abnormality. [...] Researchers have found feathers that already appear moth-eaten when they split open the sheath. Some birds even grew back feathers with the same deformity after the researchers plucked out older, misshapen feathers. [...] One thing is certain: The common reed [...] pass through or stop in the Tohoku region during their migration.
Noboru Nakamura, a researcher at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology: “In Iitate, I caught a Japanese bush warbler in the net yesterday. It had feathers missing from the back of its head, and its skin was dark on that part. I found the same thing last year and the year before in Minami-Soma. I don’t know the reason.”
Kiyoaki Ozaki, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology deputy director-general: “Bird banding surveys of the common reed bunting began in 1961, and nearly 480,000 of the birds have been examined [...] we monitor [their tail feathers] closely. But this sort of abnormality hasn’t been reported before. I’ve seen thousands of the birds, but it was the first time for me to see tail feathers like these. [...] There is something unusual occurring inside the birds’ bodies, perhaps with their genes or hormone secretion. [It's] in the realm of possibility [that it could be the effect of radioactive substances].”
Published: June 25th, 2014 at 8:34 am ET
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sending...
The horror…. We are gazing deep into it now…
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…Yes, the horror…
The Rutger-hauer-white-dove-let-go-moment…
…is here.
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Reviewing a recording from June 29, 2011 I noticed this bird's tail feathers looked severely damaged.
It made me think that if high exposure causes skin problems on humans, I wonder what it does to birds. Feather loss? hmm…?
My screen shot video:
Remembering the Birds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH1QEYxLZKg
–> There were many birds back then. NOT any more!
Fukushima… when there were birds.
The Hitchcock-Edition
- Fukushima 06292011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpYH4JEZcyQ#t=05m40s
[Filed in FORUM: Possible Fukushima-related Anomalies.]
[a re-post]
This has been easy to see for a long time. Similar to many other obvious observations and deductions that can be made about Fukushima.
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Anyone see the 'white spots' on the feathers?
Same white spots on the cattle?
There couldn't be a connection there….
no….
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Birds also take dust baths to kill skin parasites (I see this every week in my backyard), so the birds would also get hot particles on their skin and feathers. White spots would not be surprising at all.
I said some time ago that the radiation in food effects would start to be seen at the highest levels of the food chain (e.g., land, air and sea predators) and then work their way back down the food chain. These birds are eaten by other birds or animals, so the higher predators (and humans) must be in far worse shape. The birds themselves eat insects and seeds that bio-concentrated the Sr-90 and Cs-137, so they are somewhere in the middle to upper middle of the food chain. Everything is happening according to schedule. The Tohoku and upper Kanto should have been evacuated – now even more apparent to any honest person. But the winds year by year will spread the hot particles in any case.
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Any migrating birds that stop over in Eastern Japan would also be spreading radiation in their droppings in other areas some distance away. One picogram (a millionth of a microgram) of Sr-90 puts out almost 5.2 becquerels, and one picogram of Cs-137 puts out more than 3.2 becquerels, so their droppings should also have easily detectable radiation.
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Birds and Rings – birds banding – | Yamashina Institute for Ornithology
http://www.yamashina.or.jp/hp/english/banding/birds_rings.html
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NPWRC :: Migration of Birds
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/migratio/routes.htm
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North American Migration Flyways
http://www.birdnature.com/flyways.html
This has maps of the world that cover birds that travel over oceans as well
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Soon the feathers will become obsolete and the birds will no longer fly .
Feathers are very complex
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The insect population will be out of control too , as some of us know birds can consume twice their weight a day in insect food .
I guess we won't have to worry about invasive species of plants being spread around as well
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Correct!
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Don't know about anyone else but I am seeing less and less insects.
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I agree. I take macro photography of insects and am seeing way less this year then last. It could have something to do with the long harsh winter we has but somehow I don't think so.
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No insects down here. No mosquitoes despite all the standing water from last month's flood. The chilling part is what comes next..
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It's the beginning of July here in S E Michigan and we have tons of mosquitos…….and vicious one's at that! I normally swell, itch for a day, but it's day three and they're (bumps) the same as as first day!
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it is 'in the realm of possibilty.'
burp.
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6~27~5995 (out of 6000) in this "Twilight Zone Apocalypse"!
So true! Here in Orange County, CA about 6 miles inland I can now garden all day without seeing one. However, I was blessed to spot two worms while digging. I quickly adopted them to put in a planted area. The ants have taken a big hit. Today the only news I saw about Japan was that they have developed square water melons. Who is going to eat THEM???
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Here in Albuquerque I go for walks in the early morning before it gets too hot. I see: ants, cockroaches, bees, wasps, flies, gnats, moths, swallowtail butterflies, and many other insects, which is probably why we get a lot of birds who like to visit this time of year and eat these bugs. My fear is that the Kingbirds (voracious insect eaters) will leave in mid July like they did last year, before we had a huge storm on 7/27 that a few days later spawned a zillion flies — and my immediate area had no flycatchers! Yikes! But at least the hawks, crows and kestrels will enjoy not being scolded and attacked by the bossy kingbirds when they KBs go back south after raising a lot of chicks… So despite what others may have you believe, at least my part of New Mexico is doing okay when it comes to wildlife in the city.
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Drinking deeply of the wine of destruction PM Abe, President Obama, and all those supporting nuclear;
Drinking deeply… When will you have your fill?
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May the lying scum rot in a well of radionuclides…
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"Some birds even grew back feathers with the same deformity after the researchers plucked out older, misshapen feathers"
An indication ..of damage via radiation.
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I offer you this.
As usual, a hook at the end.
BIRD SONG
Once we were dinosaurs stomping around,
knocking big trees flat on the ground,
giving big rocks a boot for a mile
when Jurassic mosquitoes made us quite riled.
We had teeth as long as a cutlass
and toenails that could rip you gutless,
we could smell much in our big sinuses
and had lots of room in our skull cavities.
All in all, more pluses than minuses
with no one to question our depravities.
Stupid cosmic collisions and changing weather!
Now all we've got is evolved feathers!
We have to fight worms, for Goodness' sake
to feed our young their daily intake!
We're cute little birdies that chirp and tweet
and kids think it fun how we hop on our feet
and who can object as with song we sun greet?
Oh yum, we get seeds and bugs to eat
and sometimes, at feeders, we get a treat.
So, what's the problem? Why not let us live?
We help control insects and joy to you give.
Can't you leave us some homes, not poison our food?
What have we done lately that you find so rude
our habitat everywhere you must denude?
Why do you kill us by enfeebling our brood?
The Sea, the Land, the Air is a mess -
can't we even have Trees to build a few nests?
You'll know, when the Sky is empty and quiet,
we've gone extinct and by your own fiat
other species will follow us, even ones of your diet.
or-well, June 26, 2012.
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Very nice, Or well . It was a sad but beautiful poem. Sending everyone love, we're sure gonna need it.
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The birds
when intercepted in their paths,
are usually adept enough
(while we are not)
to avoid collision.
I have hit them,
but well within my sense of justice:
the fault was not my own.
Today my inattention
relied upon a bird
execise its relexive possession
solely as our paths crossed.
It was mortally unreliable,
and I left it fluttering alone in the street.
From an incident long ago for which I felt guilty and in need of confession and apology. Is what we witness here the clinical definition of psychopathic personality, pursuit of personal gratification and the inability to feel guilt? One has to ask if this the result of feeling that only humans have a worthy soul?
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Someday I may become a better proofreader…The word should have been 'reflexive'.
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I appreciate how poetry often helps to carry the discussion in a non-linear fashion without straying off topic.
Thanks to poets.
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Thank you, Shaker1, for your beautiful sensitivity which shows itself so clearly in your poem. I hope you found the writing of it–the creation of beauty out of destruction–healing.
Yes, I believe many psychopaths are running our world right now. If only we would listen to the aboriginal peoples of the world (or St. Francis of Assisi, for that matter), for whom all of creation is ensouled and sacred and wise.
In my meditations I have been told that everything that dies/disappears/goes extinct here exists elsewhere. If that is true, somewhere, those feathers are fluttering skyward again.
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Birds flying into everything due to feathers being mutated , but that will only be a few generation s at best
I do not have the words to say , everything is all so connected …
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"…and by your own fiat…" Wise words, or-well, and true.
In my back garden I have a pair of quail with a dozen babies, two pairs of doves drop by daily, bright yellow finches, black-capped chickadees, and the ubiquitous wrens.
I do what little I can…no chemicals on this land since 2000, when we moved here…space at the back left wild for the critters…
This is the reality I choose to create. It feels so small. But who knows? Maybe we who support the health of the planet and her inhabitants may yet tip the balance in her favor.
By our own fiat
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In being the change we would like to say I hope you are right
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Very worthy lunamaria, and I feel the way. It's the best hands on hope we have for any bright spots in the outcome. I've had a few spiders and flies come into my house now, after a very silent Spring, like they'd like to get out of the rain too. I look at them and worry over their health and check their wings or legs for abnormalities instead of automatically reaching for a fly swatter.
I've still only found a few worms way under matted tall grass or big piles of bark around the wood pile. No longer seeing a robin with a worm in it's beak, pausing to look around before it's flight back to it's nest. There are baby grasshoppers in the grass so I hope a robin can live on just those.
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Congress singing Kumbaya was definitely a trumpet or something. Oh God forgive us. We knew not what we were doing. I want off this crazy train. We truly are dancing with the devil. What were they thinking? There's no safe way to store that waste yet we keep making more. There's no way to contain a disaster, yet they March blindly on. We are an unfathomable species. Did any of these people think to look at the thousands of studies done on Chernobyl. No, are we completely unable to learn from the past as a species? And Kumbaya was so creepy.
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I agree melting mermaid, creepy. The insanity never stops.
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The security service people will be having problems, too, when they jump into the MRAPs and tanks and stuff only to be surrounded by DU shielding/shells/bullets. And, weren't a majority of police departments around the U.S. sent these to control the unruly People and to serve warrants? So, then they will be getting a share of the radiation to take home.
Any way they can think to spread this stuff around- they then do. I wouldn't want to be around ANY of that stuff!
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Think about the TSA and those x-ray machines, it's crazy.
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Being ON a plane these days may be crazier still, though people need to fly. Radiation is degrading metal, and thin metal parts breaking are forcing planes into unscheduled landings. Christina Consolo, also Leuren Moret have looked into that. Moret talked recently to a German pilot and read him the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome (caused by depleted uranium.) She asked does he have any of the symptoms and he said, "All of them." The skies can be a way more dangerous place than even the ground as radiation concentrates there.
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We Not They Finally. Yes, I am driving back to FL from MA, starting sometime this weekend because it is too dangerous to fly. Geez. A thousand miles alone…daunting. But I plan to make stops. Any suggestions for good sight seeing along the way?
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http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=575
cherty and the scanners
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Please note the author of the Asahi article downplaying and ignoring the known health effects of radiation exposure in the last two paragraphs.
Total propaganda from a "senior staff writer".
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Ack… So many astoundingly stupid scientists
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Long feathers? Big ocean lizards? Hell yes! Don't you know Atoms for Peace promised 200 pound atomic watermelons in every farmer's garden?
Free food for all!
Disclaimer: Cancer removals at a small extra fee.
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Apparently, we're being criminal now:
Scaring The Japanese People With Radiation Is Criminal
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/06/25/scaring-the-japanese-people-with-radiation-is-criminal/
"I realize many journals and on-line publications need sensational headlines to attract readers. It seems necessary in these times of social media and 24-hour news cycles.
But it becomes unethical to push bad science without doing at least a little due diligence. I understand anti-nuke ideology cares little about science and is never held to any technical standard, but in some cases reporting bad science hurts people who need good science to make personal decisions for themselves and their families.
A recent textbook case of this malfeasance is the Fukushima-induced thyroid scare in Japanese children. There is no increase in thyroid health problems in Japanese children living in and around the Prefectures of Fukushima and it is unlikely there ever will be (UN Report; Nuclear News; J. of Am. Phys. and Surg.; CBCnews; Hiroshima Syndrome; National Geographic; Asahi Shimbun)."
Perhaps Forbes.com should take a look at:
llrc.org
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I thought
"Sounds like that lying MF'er Conca."
Sure enough, it is.
I can't safely say what should happen to him.
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This will come down to civil lawsuits.. eventually.
As the effects of Fukushima become more evident ..and the fact that those that are participating are the one's performing a criminal act…litigations will surely follow.
Names are being sullied.
Accusations of hate talk ..accusations of criminality…
'They' are getting surly and desperate.
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And when the time comes..I'm in ..in a real way.
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I doubt those such as Conca – the lying, complicit shills, deniers, enabling propagandists – will ever be prosecuted.
Not by this system.
Not unless there emerges an anti-nuclear Gov't that is prepared to conduct round-ups backed by the power implicit in being the Gov't.
Mutant rats writing articles!
Round them up and apply hot particles!
Apply nuker justice – drumhead and summary!
No wasting time on litigious flummery!
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Civil lawsuit..
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Personal damages for have one's name sullied in the public. Suffering..etc.
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Litigation? To go on forever, or just until the litigants are already dead?
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I drove around ..today doing errands ..and thinking about how Conca is calling truth tellers criminals.
Not all things can benefit the cause .. nor are the monetary rewards the objective.
That's exactly what they want.
They want people to assume it all to time consuming and frivolous ..therefore they get away with it ..and a person has no opportunity to defend name and honor.
Perhaps that will have to change.
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Conca: " There is no increase in thyroid health problems in Japanese children living in and around the Prefectures of Fukushima and it is unlikely there ever will be.."
SP: A paid fanatic for the nuclear industry. And that's the kindest remark I can write here. I have lost all respect for your human decency in making that kind of ridiculous assertion.
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Even the Japanese admit there are massive endemic thyroid problems there now. Conca is one sick bastard. He needs to be kept away from anything to do with WIPP, but the opposite is happening.
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Note:
This is all they say about the other 200-odd isotopes:
"Cs-137 and Sr-90 don’t affect the thyroid. They have a different biochemistry."
Also, their "science" doesn't mention the interaction and daughter products of those isotopes.
Like the Russian lady says: "Run like the wind." – and be wary of the "criminal" under-reaction of people like Forbes.com.
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As I remember it, the hypothalamus gets a very high concentration of Cs-137 according to the autopsy work of Bandashevsky. This would definitely affect the thyroid gland, because the hypothalamus monitors the levels of T3 and T4 and makes the TRH hormone that activates the anterior pituitary to produce TSH to activate the thyroid gland. If Cs-137 goofs up the hypothalamus, it will goof up the pituitary and thyroid glands too.
The bottom line – Cs-137 will definitely adversely affect the thyroid gland.
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On man… Better not tag Abe in twitter anymore I guess. … lol
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The universe never forgets and always says yes…..they will pay and pay dearly.
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How does one conduct "emergency research."?
No one in Japan wants to admit that the homeland is forever blessed with the decaying atoms spewed from one of the world's largest nuclear plants.
I mean, didn't someone tell the birds to smile?
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To do emergency research, you simply apply to GE CEO Jeff Immelt's office for "funds to further their atrocious lies and crimes of ommission …"
General Electric clearly wants this all swept under the rug.
They are not rushing to stop the emissions of the fission daughter isotopes; they are not telling the people that nuclear power is no longer necessary (and never, ever was;)
General Electric is the Chairman of the global, criminal nuclear cabal. All attempts at honesty are silenced by character assassination, brutality, big money cover ups, and propaganda.
General Electric (Big Nuke) is too big to govern, and this corporation has had its way with the Congress, the Executive branch and even the Supreme Court for over sixty years …
The Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit "challenging the validity of the permit to build Fermi One fast breeder reactor, by deferring a definitive safety finding until construction was finished …"
From the dissenting opinion of Justices Douglas and Black:
"Plainly these are not findings that safety standards have been met. They presuppose … that safety findings can be made after the construction is finished. But when that point is reached, when millions (now billions) have been invested, the momentum is on the side of the applicant and not … the public. The momentum is not only generated by the desire to salvage an investment. No agency wants to be the architect of a white elephant …"
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This opinion dates from 1961 … and although GE was not the promoter behind Fermi One, their finger prints are all over the push for nuclear power.
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And Jeffrey Immelt became the head of economic advisers for Obama, I believe. Corruption blankets all. "Determine if it's safe after it's already built"? That in and of itself defines the rubber-stamping of corporate corruption. I guess they've gotten to self-determine the "safety" as well.
Used to be a political junkie. Now can barely look. Want to be somewhere that will make a difference.
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Fukushima, Chernobyl, TMI Radiation Caused Deformed Butterflies And Other Insects; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/10/mutant-deformed-butterflies-and.html
Chernobyl, TMI, Fukushima, US Bird Radiation Studies Plus Results; Via @AGreenRoad http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/bird-studies-and-chernobyl-tmi-and.html
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The most perplexing thing was the overly long feathers…..
And in TEPCO officials, the most perplexing thing was the overly long noses. It seems everytime researchers do an emergency survey of TEPCO officials, they find that their noses are growing longer.
More study is needed to see if the Pinocchio Effect has any thing to do with radiation…….
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Thanks, Nick, I needed that
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Nick, great!
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"And what will the birdies do then?
The poor things.
Cover their heads with their wings.
The poor things."
From an old summer camp song.
Prolly hard to cover both your heads with your wing, eh, little birdie?
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I vote that the US Congress and executive office officials investigate the situation at Fukushima right away. Create a two to three weeks political junket for all of them to personally investigate the clean up.
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Rumour has it birds, and Japanese soccer players, eat fish:
Fukushima chef exports Japanese fish to feed World Cup team in Brazil
by STEPHEN HUI on JUN 23, 2014 at 2:55 PM
http://www.straight.com/blogra/671226/fukushima-chef-exports-japanese-fish-feed-world-cup-team-brazil
"While some diners as far from Fukushima as, well, Vancouver are worried about the effect of radiation leaks on seafood, members of Japan's national soccer team apparently aren't among them.
The chef for the Japanese squad at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil also runs a restaurant back home that feeds workers from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Chef Yoshiteru Nishi planned to fly a "few hundred kilograms" of fish, including sablefish and mackerel, from Japan to Brazil for his team, according to a story posted earlier this month by the Japan News."
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Someone posted that these scientists are stupid. Believe me they are not stupid and know exactly what they are doing.
What is stupid are the massive numbers of people that take as gospel whatever they are told and question nothing.
What is the mystery is how they must believe that they will not be affected by all of this.
I find it very surreal listening to people who must be insane the way they talk about Fukushima as not being serious and the rush to build more.
The only idea I can come up with to mentally wrap my mind around their behavior is that they are aliens or they really are clinically insane.
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How many nuclear scientists or engineers do you know that are also medical doctors or epidemiologists?
Therein lies part of the problem.
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And the scientific community is corrupted by corporate control and propaganda campaigns. But not everyone is evoid of conscience. Dane Wigington (geoengineeringwatch.org — a VERY good guy) says that many scientists at NOAA are alarmed, but they are silenced and threatened.
What will change the public climate? What?
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Maybe the emergency research will be focused on why the birds, the insects and the fish are not smiling enough…
And how radiation increases their health.
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Birds spreading radiation from migration from japan
Route of migrating shearwaters across the Pacific shows just how far any nuclear contamination could be carried by them around the Pacific Rim.
Migratory seabirds that spend part of the year around New Zealand after flying in from Japan’s coastal waters are being checked for contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
A study by the University of Auckland is investigating whether radioactive cesium has entered the New Zealand ecosystem or food chain via the shearwaters, known in New Zealand as muttonbirds.
Physicist David Krofcheck told NZ Newswire that the “detection of gamma rays would tell us whether the birds spend sufficient time near Fukushima to accumulate cesium-134 from nuclear fission.”
Vast amounts of contaminated water from the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Daiichi plant have poured into the Pacific since the disaster began in March 2011.
Fish have since been measured with unsafe levels of nuclear contamination.
Because the shearwaters feed on seafood, it is feared the long-haul birds could be carrying radioactive debris for many thousands of miles around the Pacific Rim.
Photo: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NZ)
http://www.earthweek.com/2014/ew140404/ew140404b.html
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Muttonbirds pursue endless summer across Pacific | NIWA
http://www.niwa.co.nz/news/muttonbirds-pursue-endless-summer-across-pacific
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the birds, hmm. This may not be imformative or educational but this is where I think the world is going. if you do not think you can handle these views, please do read them. The next decade will see catastrophic changes of such scale and magnitude that this decade of human history will be remembered as the 'times of troubles'. Many of us will probably be dead by 2025. Root causes will be energy collapse, enviromental and resource collapse, and financial collapse affecting every country of the world. All have been widely abused and depleted. Technology will have become our 'Achilles heel'….We are far, far into overshoot on planetary capacity to support humanity. It is not possible for the world to grow much further without severe and debilitating impacts. Enviromental collapse will accelerate. Species extinction will occur faster and faster then at any time in earth's history…. Many of the promises of science and medicine simply will not happen-ever, being unaffordable for the masses and simply unavailable. This will worsen in the decades to come as civilization continues to devolve…. Despair and desperation will take it's toll. Millions will die in wars. Nations will hoard resources, primarily water and food as the climate spirals wildly. Rage and riots will be replaced with despair…. We are now only in the "beginings" of trouble in reality. There will be, in fact little the world can do. "Decadal prediction": 2015-2025
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Yep.
Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/environment-in-crisis-we-are-past-the-point-of-no-return-523192.html
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I see Lovelock is dubbed the "green guru" with 'pessimistic' ideas. I will follow up on him as his thoughts align with mine. Thanks.
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GOM, Dane Wigington (geoengineeringwatch.org) says that 200 species are going extinct now each day! He recognizes Fukushima as an ELE, but sees the ecology as already so pre-wrecked by destroying every balance of nature (weather control, chemtrails, releasing methane, depleting oxygen, massive dangerous UV-B radiation, Gulf Stream broken, etc., etc.,) that Fukushima is "just" accelerating a destruction of the world's eco-systems. He's a powerful "act before it's too late" activist, but he seems to see that as a dim hope. A VERY good guy. Worth looking up.
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Thanks. I knew instantly when the BP rig blew, it was an ELE. Then came Fukushima, ELE-2. We, as humans, are given the gift of insight. Rarely I see it used. All one has to do is look at what I call "the big picture". It doesn't take much thought to understand that BP had just murdered the entire GOM region and beyond, or that Fukushima WILL eventually destroy and mutate all living things. The notion of "pre-wrecked" eco-systems is something to be taken seriously. I hadn't given it much thought. But certainly the Pacific part of the world ocean is already a 'wreck' which makes this disaster even more terrifing. And I am very sad to say there is nothing that can be done.
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Speaking of "the big picture"…where has s/he been lately?!
I've not been one of defeatism really ever, but I think you're right- I don't see any way out of what's to come in the next few decades. And I send hugs your way!
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I'm not sure why, but none of what you wrote disturbed me that much. I think I have reached the "acceptance" part of earth grieving. That said, Me and mine aren't going down without a fight.
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Match – Conceal
[fc2.com] [atlantictattooremoval.com]
I was asked in the comments the results of field survey by readers of malformation dandelion below.
Road side of Kusano-Itoi district of Idate, so the site of sampling we also investigated the incidence of malformations might have fallen a little. Whatever the case may be, the incidence of malformations dandelion
Normal area (0.10μSV / h or less) 0.1%
(10-15μSV / h) 3% radioactive contamination area
It is that.
This T. M. Mr. seems to be in the study of radioactive contamination area, since such would have to investigate the malformation dandelion as close a face to the ground, and those exposed fairly. Yours truly was 37μS exposure survey of the day.
I have received detailed reports from readers of four so far. It is welcome, reports from many readers further.
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Care is like. It is a thing you have commented before.
Feedback difficult terrain Idate village admitted to take the permission, we have investigated. However, it was a study of only dandelion side of the road on the condition that it does not enter the private property. It is the result, but in the sample survey of approximately 300 shares, that found abnormal (stem binding) and is the incidence 9 strains, of about 3% in each zone of the village. And, 4 strains Nagadoro district in (15μSV or more), is a 5 strain Kusano, Itoi District (10μSV below).
Near his home, others in (0.10μSV below), it is abnormal development of one share, of 0.1% to 700 shares. I think as being affect the radiation, but it is thought also does not appear to be proportional to the dose. I do not know how to research whether my bad, sampling method of the teacher is right. I would appreciate the good advice. T. M. "
(MoriSatoshi)
In addition:
In western Japan
Dandelion investigation Executive Committee
[ne.jp]
Was introduced from the readers of that.
I think it is great all regions investigated these people, such as has been done is if possible.
Distribution chart below but it is distribution map of the West and Japan dandelion dandelion which is reproduced from this website
I think it is great malformation dandelion distribution similar to this is if it is plotted on the national map.
What about the transition of dandelion will come into view from there
Distribution Chart
[fc2.com]
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sorry
fc2.com
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http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/100291569.html
Idekawa estuary pollution object, such as a black substance, whether in the form fell what what exactly
If you are writing object attached of beta-ray source flew to Kanto or not a thing light, I wanted to know the results of the analysis of "black substance" of Minamisoma Come to think of it.
I looked on the net, but detailed data is missing. 's The most detailed, in the paper of Yamamoto and his colleagues of Kanazawa University, and have been published in 132, June 2014 Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volume. I posted a Abstract of paper at the end of this article.
Mr. Yamauchi of Kobe University, Mr. Koide of Kyoto University has also been analyzed, but there is only measurements of cesium in the public information.
Report of Kobe University Mr. Yamauchi
The blog post for the * PDF link loss for contaminated soil very high level of
Pollution of the high level of bioaccumulation in the Tokyo metropolitan area produces *
Mr. Koide measurements
I think my guess, scholars said to have measured more. When you measure, it will not put out.
It was not so much a new fact, but was allowed to look at the next image which appeared in the identity of the black powder that was falling to [shock] Minami Soma.
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Oh thanks! this one is very revealing… and I also went to the home page of the Japanese man's blog you linked and looks like many good charts, comments, blog pages to read there about his worries of mutations and observations.
http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/
(It took awhile for the goooogle translator to kick in and finish.)
The "Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ! Cheer eat Invitation to death. " It does not prevent the health damage caused by radioactive contamination of food in the national standards.
I'm afraid genuinely health damage caused by radioactivity becomes unimaginable thing. Medicine is powerless to exposure.
Such as graph listed here, vital statistics of municipal government and presentations, soil survey results, food inspection result, we have created using the measurement data of the monitoring post. We analyze information obtained tweet of individuals we consider reliable, and from blogs to accumulate.<
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I do not know the results that measured a is itself what of, but this is the stringent high radioactivity, it means that radioactive material released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident had taken a lot more form.
Remarks of Mr. Oyama in (2012/2/20) press conference by Minamisoma Oyama and his colleagues had to link on-site.
It only gamma rays roughly. Once you measure it with, is. 901cpm 2.416 micro sievert.. 39.58 microsieverts to remove the plate, we measured, including beta-ray, also alpha line (the Inspector) "If you are wearing plate this So I started the know I was up at a stretch belt, to 13,380 cpm. it's, it 's such not only Koryaa gamma rays. "
Because cesium also give a beta-ray decay in time, the value is higher than when only gamma lines appear if can measure in beta alpha radiation included, but the gap is large.
Summary
I was told recently, that there is radioactive waste significant amount of Hirono thermal power plant. That 's just what sheet and net with contaminated, it is seen as a contamination by very fine deposits.
Positional relationship of each. Pieces of wood about 6.9g is flying up to about 17km Idekawa estuary. Found radioactive material of fine dust-like flew in Hirono thermal power plant 21km, but large debris might not fly much.
The area around the Hirono thermal power plant, flexible containers are lined up along the road decontamination is performed. Even aware of a high dose rate, but may also be…
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referred to as tourist Ordinance.
In that earlier, things like dust and very fine debris have been found. Consider the black substance, and should not only blue-green algae, which flew directly from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant also it includes.
And, very, very small thing is, it comes to flew to Nagoya.
More than "black substance" is found in Tokyo, it is not considered the same object is not dropped to close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant more. If you find a field or fields, you will find. However, it can not be guaranteed like I encountered, or come across on the location of more than
10 000 CPM.
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Even assuming translations are poor…this is some interesting *inside conversation* stuff. Much wordsmithing seems to be going on.
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Wordsmithing according to Webster: word games.
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consider yourself reported
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RE: Machomaker
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This appears to be a post by Zukunashi no Hiyamizu from his blog.
from the primary page in Japanese http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/
if you scroll down to about mid page you'll see he posts items from ENENews
It seems hes responding to a question about dandelion mutations from a commenter on his blog.
Here's his intro page in English | http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/92061521.html and this page is an index of the topics in English | http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/99593598.html which links to other entries in English.
This entry from Apr 13, 2014 is a report of his finding a hotspot along with a pic of it | http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/87473204.html
heres the ending comment of this posting
" We need reliable information
There is a lot of conflicting information published on alpha and beta radiation sources which makes it difficult for individuals to get an accurate idea of the contamination. For instance, I once learned that some soil samples in Kanagawa prefecture had a high dose of strontium, but this was denied later. Since it is technically difficult the government should collect samples and conduct the measurements, but I haven’t heard of anything of that nature being done.
I guess that they just don't want to do it. For it will likely lead to a big scandal if they do."
Someone else may be editing the English versions. This gentleman could be a valuable resource if we can bridge the language barrier.
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Hi freebywill, it was just the regular google robo program translating from the original Japanese characters when I re-loaded the 2 pages. So I don't think it's edited by an actual editor. I'm going to read some of his earlier blogs.
I really feel for him…sounds like he's heartbroken.
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Not long ago, in Kagoshima, a city on the southern island of Kyushu, in Japan, a booming crow population went on the offensive: destroying power lines and fiber optic cable, being markedly more aggressive with people, and outwitting human “crow patrols” by building decoy nests. In recent years, crows have been filmed using tools in sequence and exhibiting complex reasoning as well.
http://loudcanary.com/2012/04/04/birds-attack/
This was in 2008, but I wonder what affect radiation is having on behavior.
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If the body can't be found there is no murder…
Aborting deformed babies in Japan? Sure.
We probably won't see the mutants we have seen from Chernobyl either because if their extermination or due to the new secrecy laws…
These people are psychotic.
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I have been watching documentaries [you tube] with survivors of Hiroshima/Nag. These people were basically silenced in regard to "talking about it". You are verbally attacked for bringing it up. It is 'shameful' you are seen as a troublemaker. Imagine a whole culture led to believe it is 'shameful' to discuss murder and death. Yeh, their murdering babies…
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The first twelve years of health stats following the bombings were also apparently suppressed. Models of what is radioactively harmful, many of them, wrongly based on incomplete stats from back then. They did not even start revealing stats at all until large numbers of survivors had already died.
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That would be psychopathic instead of psychotic.
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Probably both. People causing the harm being psychopathic, but those having to cope with it amidst lies — that's enough to turn humans psychotic. Once extreme ongoing trauma becomes the norm, people can turn psychotic just to protect themselves psychologically enough to survive.
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"Aborting deformed babies in Japan? Sure."
This claim is highly dubious. As one quite famous example to the contrary:
http://www.shvoong.com/books/guidance-self-improvement/618400-perfect-gotai-fumanzoku-japanese/
NO ONE'S PERFECT (Gotai Fumanzoku in Japanese), a relentlessly upbeat memoir by Hirotada Ototake, has become best-seller in Japan. In this first-person account, The 24-year-old Japanese youth born in 1976, without arms and legs recollects the day-to-day challenges of living without arms or legs. He recounts the story of his life and explains how he coped with disability and adversity: buoyed by his parents' generosity and love, he adopted an optimistic attitude and challenged himself to try anything. His parents determined that he would live a "normal" life so that he was given no special treatment either at home or at school, and ended up participating in schooling and sports. His education at regular schools, where he gained acceptance of classmates and how he overcame the skepticism of the teaching staff etc are narrated in an easily understandable language. Author describes the creative rules his schoolmates formed so that he could join their soccer games and basketball on his stumps. He describes how, in high school, his active athletic life almost jeopardized his academic career. At Waseda University, he became an activist, who spoke and wrote about the necessity to create a barrier free environment. . .
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You may enjoy this parody. Yet. Sigh. It's all too real. http://topekasnews.com/japanese-scientists-combine-dog-bird-create-fukushima-dird-mutant/
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Sorry, couldn't resist. Everly Bros. Bird Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWW6JXohTGY
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This shit is right around the corner and I think I have a few these Dirds flying through my back yard!
Bark, bark ,bark, flap, flap, bark, flap, flap
Dird food will be a big seller..
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I guess they hide the babies with deformities.
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Do 'they' hide deformed babies?
See above r.e. 'No One's Perfect.'
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Birds here in S NV have declined in numbers. There used to be hundreds of them in the trees near the roadways here in the planted pine trees along them, They called and squawked so loud you could here them inside your car with windows closed. Now the silence is deafening.
My wife while at lunch asked one of her friends about the lack of birds testing her observational skills (my wife was her manager before her disability), her answer was, "Well there in no people here to attract them." Meaning there wasn't anyone but them at their lunch together. Business here is BAD everywhere. My wife just got quiet knowing how the people she used to work with are. Rich stupid money slaves. Shame the birds are dying folks, the bugs like Asian mosquitoes that are resistant to the toxic wasteland the Earth has become, will overpopulate and become mutant from all the CE/PU/U etc. in their breeding water. Life will get gnarly for everything here. ELitE mass buying of food products, along with future supply shortages will soon force Marshall law into full effect.
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"There are no people here to attract them". So much for critical thinking skills…
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Well, pigeons and doves hang around humans, seeking food (though they don't need to). Hawks catch and eat pigeons and doves (even in the city, as I've seen a lot this year). Birds also use human-made buildings to nest in (see barn swallows, for example). Humans also dam rivers to make ponds and lakes in the desert, which attract water birds (see Tingley Beach in Albuquerque, which attracts Canada geese, ducks, egrets, eagles, osprey, etc.). So while birds can get along perfectly fine without humans, they aren't above taking advantage of the water, fruit trees, and other things human settlements can provide. However, GOM, I doubt the woman making the "no people" observation thought this deeply about it.
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Biggest difference between birds and humans is that birds' life cycle is short, humans a lot longer. It's not like the birds mutated and humans won't. We just see it quicker in the birds. Apparently, it was even quicker in the Japanese butterflies, with a very short life cycle.
The birds aren't a curiosity piece. They are a pre-cursor.
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Yes they are precursors
I have been doing some research on birds by going to some of the internet birding associations of late due to having fuku on the mind
I have not seen any chatter about changes being observed .
I want so very bad to ask specific questions to them or at least plant a seed so if anything is out of the ordinary that they will make the connection and ask questions .
I struggle with how to ask .
Birders are a happy lot . If anyone is interested in some of the sites that I have found better than others let me know and I will post them here for further purview.
And maybe someone here can better frame the questions
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Little flying dirty bombs. Sure the National Audubon Society here is watching this nuke fallout situation closely when it comes to migration patterns.
Remember the bird watcher who had bird nest watching monitors all over the West Coast and couldn't understand the drop off in birth rates and nesting until he focused on Chernobyl fallout during the time period in question. But that only affected a few months to a year until nesting returned to normal. And that was caused from fallout coming from halfway around the world before being capped. Daiichi is ongoing.
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My dad used to use chlordane and DDT after it was banned in this country to fog for Mosquitos ..while I was flipping out on him .
He did stop when the birds started dropping dead on the property .
So chemicals are playing into this but the mutations and so many birds are a wake up call to scientist everywhere .
That cannot stay quiet and follow the party line too much more when it comes to radiation ..
And I'm sure there are good people that are in these fields that are going to step up to the plate ..
And soon I hope
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They should check the amphibian population. They are the greatest at risk species and I bet the results will be startling. Just like the Tree Frogs in SA which died off dramatically due to a two degree average temperature increase in the surrounding forest. This is much worse because their skin is thin and porous.
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Here's some studies on the effects of radiation on amphibians
Uv radiation
amphibians and radiation damage
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=amphibians+and+radiation+damage&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=DSWrU8HbD4OyyAS8x4GYCQ&ved=0CBwQgQMwAA
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Determinants of interspecific variation in population declines of birds after exposure to radiation at Chernobyl – MØLLER – 2007 – Journal of Applied Ecology – Wiley Online Library
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01353.x/full
World-wide, thousands of square kilometres of land are radioactively contaminated, mainly as a result of the Chernobyl disaster but also as a result of tests with nuclear bombs. Furthermore, there is considerable natural variation in background radiation, with many areas reaching non-negligible levels. Yet the ecological and evolutionary consequences of human-induced and natural variation in radiation remain poorly known (Zakharov & Krysanov 1996; Møller & Mousseau 2006).
Radiation and antioxidants interact in a number of different ways, making them key biochemicals for understanding the interactions between radiation on one hand and ecology and evolution on the other. First, a deficiency of antioxidants such as carotenoids and vitamins A and E can increase the DNA damage caused by free radicals (Ames 1983; Edge, McGarvey & Truscott 1997; Rice-Evans et al. 1997; Bast et al. 1998; Krinsky 1998; Møller et al. 2000), which might in particular be the case in the presence of high levels of radiation. Secondly, radiation produces free radicals that are removed by antioxidants, resulting in depletion of antioxidants in the presence of high levels of radiation, leaving few reserves for scavenging the free radicals produced
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"First, a deficiency of antioxidants such as carotenoids and vitamins A and E can increase the DNA damage caused by free radicals (Ames 1983; Edge"
I am particularly interested in this statement and how this could change the colors of birds .
I'm depressed as by the time this damage is on the radar , the damage is done ..
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At Chernobyl, Hints of Nature’s Adaptation – NYTimes.com
Dr. Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, has been coming to the contaminated area around Chernobyl, known as the exclusion zone, since 1999. The list of creatures he has studied is long: chiffchaffs, blackcaps, barn swallows and other birds; insects, including bumblebees, butterflies and cicadas; spiders and bats; and mice, voles and other small rodents. After the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, Japan, three years ago he has conducted similar research there, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/science/nature-adapts-to-chernobyl.html?ref=world&_r=2
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This article is another example of how pervasive the contamination has become. In Chernobyl they talk of animals recovering but generally those are the lower life forms.
After Chernobyl's nuclear accident, the EU financed R&D on a product to remove radiation form the body. Vitapect, which is concentrated apple pectin, removes 62.6% of Cesium from the body according to independent peer reviewed journals. It is still distributed to children in Belarus who sufffer from contamination and Vitapect is sold in Japan.
North Americans can visit http://www.vitapect.org
Its not certain the human race will survive this, but if there is a chance to reduce the suffering we should pursue it.
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The blueprints for viable life, are decaying…
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It certainly can not be bird lice which is the universal well known cause of this problem, can it? No, it has to be something else, right?
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Any change in the age old and perfected symmetry of the feathering on a bird ..indicates damage beyond pathological.
Tail feather are crucial..for landings..take- off ..etc.
The capability of the birds to escape predators decreases.
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True, but the predators will be affected by the same radiation that had redesigned the birds' feathers, so it may be likely that, in time, we will not see either any longer.
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