FROM: EXAMINER.COM
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Tuesday, Michael Snyder published a startling collection of evidence showing that the West Coast is being bombarded with Fukushima radiation impacting sea and human life in this ongoing mega human rights violation anticipated to result in preventable deaths.
The following is Snyder's list, edited for brevity.
#1 Independent researchers have measured alarmingly high radiation levels on West Coast beaches. [See video on this page dated Dec. 23rd, 2013 at Pacifica State Beach showing radiation levels near the water are up to five times higher than normal background radiation.]
#2 According to
Oceanus Magazine, the total amount of cesium-137 released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima is
10,000 to 100,000 times greater than Chernobyl released into oceans or 1960s atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.
I was on MSNBC at the time when this happened, I said, “Don’t trust what the Japanese government is saying, they’ll say trust what the electric power company is saying. Go, go, go, get outta there. Get as far away from that plant as you can. It’s literally a core meltdown.” And they always don’t want people to panic, so they were always like, “Oh it’s going to be okay.” [...] I’m like, “You’re crazy man, don’t be anywhere near that reactor.” And I remember at the time, of course not at The Young Turks, but on cable news, people were like, “Hey Cenk, you know, I don’t know that you want to say that, because the official government position is that it’s safe.” Oh, is that the official government position? Now go explain that to the people who served on the USS Ronald Reagan.
#4 71 U.S. sailors who assisted with initial Fukushima relief efforts have developed testicular cancer, thyroid cancer, Leukemia, “unremitting gynecological bleeding,” brain tumors and other serious diseases.
#5 Starfish all along the U.S. West Coast are literally disintegrating into piles of "white goo."
Researchers say nuclear pollution from the 2011 earthquake in Japan that damaged the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant could be partially to blame for a disease wiping out starfish along the West Coast. Dr. Peter Raimondi of University of Santa Cruz says something is making starfish susceptible to what's believed to be a bacteria coined 'Wasting Disease.' It essentially disintegrates the marine invertebrates into white goo, after the starfish loses its legs.
#6 Bald eagles are dying
in unprecedented numbers in Utah - 20 in the past few weeks alone — and
nobody can figure out why.
Hundreds of the majestic birds — many with wing spans of 7 feet or more — migrate here each winter, gathering along the Great Salt Lake and feasting on carp and other fish that swim in the nearby freshwater bays.
Earlier this month, however, hunters and farmers across five counties in northern and central Utah began finding the normally skittish raptors lying listless on the ground. Many suffered from seizures, head tremors and paralysis in the legs, feet and wings.
#7 Huge numbers of dead birds are dropping dead, washing up
along Alaska's coastlines, and many of the carcasses are “broken open and bleeding”.
#8 Recent deaths of thousands of birds
in Oregon is absolutely
baffling scientists.
#9 Something is causing large numbers
of seals and walruses up in Alaska to lose hair and develop “oozing sores”.
#12 Sockeye salmon population along the coastlines of Alaska is at a
“historic low”.
#15 According to
an absolutely shocking report by National Academy of Sciences, it has been proven that Pacific Bluefin tuna have transported radioactive material “across the entire North Pacific Ocean.
#18 A California test found
15 out of 15 Bluefin tuna were contaminated with Fukushima radiation.
#19 In 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported cesium-137 was found in
a very high percentage of fish Japan was selling to Canada:
• 73 percent of the mackerel
• 91 percent of the halibut
• 92 percent of the sardines
• 93 percent of the tuna and eel
• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
#20 An
EU-funded study concluded Fukushima released up to 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 into the atmosphere.
#21 One very experienced Australian adventurer has stated he felt as though
“the ocean itself was dead” as he recently journeyed from Japan to San Francisco: "The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a degree of fear.
“After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead,” Macfadyen said.
“We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening.
“I’ve done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I’m used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen.”
In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes.
“Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it’s still out there, everywhere you look.”
#22 Projections are that radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coast
could double within five to six years.
#23 Russia’s State Duma Committee for Natural Resources deputy chairman
Maxim Shingarkin says seafood captured off the US northwest coast is so radioactive, it represents a “danger for mankind.”
Currents in the world ocean are so structured that the areas of seafood capture near the U.S. northwest coast are more likely to contain radioactive nuclides than even the Sea of Okhotsk, which is much closer to Japan. These products are the main danger for mankind because they can find their way to people’s tables on a massive scale.
#24 According to a
recent scientific report, Fukushima's radiation could affect our seafood for “many generations” and ultimately kill over a million people…
This cycle will last for many generations, because of the food chain of fish and other marine fauna, and the radioactivity will be recycled and in fact the meat content will increase rather than decreasing by decay. Even if only one one-hundredth of the radioactivity (more than 1e15 Bq of CS137) were to enter this recirculation pattern, the collective whole body ingestion dose over many generations would exceed 1e7 Sv, sufficient to kill more than 1,000,000 people.
#25 Japan's government estimates approximately
300 tons of highly radioactive water pours into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day.
#26 A senior researcher of marine chemistry at the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute says, “30 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and 30 billion becquerels of radioactive strontium” are released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima
every single day.
#28 According to a professor at Tokyo University, 3 gigabecquerels of cesium-137 are flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi
every single day.
#29 Projections are that significant levels of cesium-137 will reach every corner of the Pacific Ocean
by the year 2020.
#31 The immense amount of Fukushima radioactive material released into the Pacific Ocean from caused environmentalist Joe Martino to issue
the following warning: “Your days of eating Pacific Ocean fish are over.”
