The Louisiana Assumption Parish Bayou Corne sinkhole is truly unprecedented globally, according to geologists. It is a living breathing thing that broke the record for breaching and compromising a salt dome to the largest extent know in history, and the 3400 foot deep cavern that caused it is still collapsing. Moreover, this now 15 acre sinkhole is leaking methane gases and crude as it continues to bubble in the bayou. 350 individuals were/are under a mandatory evacuation order, as this monster sinkhole shows no signs of receding. These effected residents began receiving weekly checks in the amount of $875, and now Texas Brine is supposedly preparing to offer settlements to the evacuated residents.,
So, how does an historical event like this escape national media coverage? Better yet, why does the national media ignore this event? Could it be that Texas Brine, an Oil Field Service Company, which provides a broad range of service including Waste Water(Brine) disposal to all major drillers including Halliburton who serves BP, and who once mined this salt cavern, and owns the salt dome, does not want the publicity? Because this was no natural disaster; it was the consequence of mining activities conducted by Texas Brine. It's a well known fact that the media and the authorities have been bought out by the corporations. Take the BP Oil Spill. Facts are still hidden including the oil that has been "cleaned" with lethal Corexit, not to mention, the people suffering from its effects, some, or even many of whom have not survived.
“Bubbles were spotted in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in June 2012. Two months later, the ground opened up and left a nine-acre sinkhole. Residents were evacuated and have been for the past seven months. Most affected residents began receiving weekly checks from Texas-Brine in the amount of $875 per week.“
Another view of $2 million sinkhole in Washington D.C.
Sinkhole in NJ warehouse swallows man and forklift:
A forklift operator and his forklift were swallowed by an 8-foot-deep sinkhole (left) 40 feet by 40 feet wide when the floor of the New Jersey warehouse (May 23, 2013) where he was working gave way underneath him. He was rescued and taken to a hospital with back injuries after the fall into the hole in East Rutherford. The warehouse, which stores nonperishable food, was evacuated after the floor collapsed.
We don't hear too much about Fukushima; however, you can be fairly sure that the old cliche: "no news is good news" does not apply. Japanese officials are evacuating more towns as new "hot-spots" of radiation are discovered further and further away from the nuclear plant.
Fukushima residents' urine is now radioactive as over 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure. Although it was learned Sunday, the tests were taken six weeks ago.
And, what about the black smoke coming out of the #3 reactor, the most dangerous of the reactors because of the plutonium inside. TEPCO first reported that the black smoke was dwindling, but that it was still rising. What's the big deal? Well, the color of smoke is a major indicator of the type of fire that is burning. The containment building is mostly steel and concrete which does not account for the black smoke. However, a plutonium release at Fukushima, unit 3 Reactor Fukushima unit 3 reactor is currently
Last, but not least...an interesting analysis by freelance journalist Jim Stone, who, in addition to disputing the 9.0 Japanese earthquake, disputes Arne Gunderson's "prompt criticality", with regard to the massive explosion at #3, claiming that he is very poorly credentialed.
"Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important. - William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense, April 28, 1997
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The "historically ferocious twister" that destroyed a good part of Joplin, Missouri, leaving at least 125 dead and more than 900 people injured, with initial reports of a staggering 1,500 missing - recently whittled down to 232 missing - appears not to be the end of the nightmare for this tornado prone zone, as the ever-present threat of more tornadoes looms. The National Weather Service issued tornado watches and a series of warnings in a dozen states, stretching northwest from Texas though the Mississippi River valley to Ohio.
The sheer intensity and length of these storm fronts is unbelievable. Video captured in Joplin, Missouri appears to show the tornado triple in size in seconds. Is that normal? Or is something else going on?
Some are trying to blame human beings for this devastating extreme weather seen around the world. Isn't that convenient? Especially when so much profit is to be made. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) was formed to buy and sell carbon credits , the currency of cap-and-trade. Founder Richard Sandor estimates the climate trading market could be "a $10 trillion dollar market." Maurice Strong, Al Gore, GE, and many other 'global warming' profiteers will reap the enormous rewards should "cap and trade" legislation prevail. In fact, the United Nations is pushing Hollywood to promote this climate alarmist bullsh*t.
Moreover, guess who helped establish the market for, and became the major trader in, EPA’s $20 billion-per-year sulfur dioxide cap-and-trade program? Enron!
This cap and trade exchange of NOx and SO2 emission allowances caused Enron’s stock to rapidly rise. It was the forerunner of today’s CO2 trading, now taken up by CCX. Enron was a promoter of the Kyoto Protocol since it would increase their profits. Enron’s Ken Lay had meetings with Clinton and Gore to try to get Kyoto promoted: “Enron officials later expressed elation at the results of the Kyoto conference. An internal memo said the Kyoto agreement, if implemented, would "do more to promote Enron's business than almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States."”
Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just published “Forensic Meteorology Solves the Mystery of Record Snows” in which they conclude that there is no human "fingerprint" that implicates human involvement in global warming, or cooling or whatever the hell is happening to the climate.
“They found no evidence — no human “fingerprints” — to implicate our involvement in the snowstorms. If global warming was the culprit, the team would have expected to find a gradual increase in heavy snowstorms in the mid-Atlantic region as temperatures rose during the past century. But historical analysis revealed no such increase in snowfall. Nor did the CSI team find any indication of an upward trend in winter precipitation along the eastern seaboard.”
So, a $10 trillion dollar market is one hell of an incentive to interfere with Mother Nature. However, is weather modification possible...now?
Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally... It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to modify space weather, ... and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach, and power. (US Air Force. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/)
Well, according to Press Core World News, the US government ordered the HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) website down, three weeks ago, "to conceal US weather modification and earthquake inducing warfare activities against foreign states."
The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) prohibits the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques or weather warfare, "which is the use of weather modification techniques for the purposes of inducing damage or destruction."
Now, because HAARP is never mentioned by those in the mainstream media, too many people assume - that is, if they've even heard of HAARP - that HAARP is nothing more than a benign weather monitoring station ...just another crazy conspiracy theory cooked up by those who have too much time on their hands.
You see, time - and resources - is something the ruling class does not want you to have; because, then, clandestine operations can easily be passed off as wacky conspiracy theories of the deranged and demented, when, in fact, those operations are very real and very lethal.
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Over one month later, after a catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, Chernobyl levels of radiation, and liquefaction - the process whereby earthquake shaking causes poorly consolidated ground with high water content to behave like a liquid - the people of Japan, despite their country's earthquake history (approx 1,500 earthquakes strike the island nation every year) still has no idea what to expect. All they know is that things are not good.
Even, the normally cheerful and optimistic Physics Professor, Michio Kaku called Fukushima reactors "ticking time bombs.
Recent press reports have discussed the possibility that Fukushima Unit 1 may be having a nuclear chain reaction. Neutron bursts were detected 13 times, about a mile away from the reactor, as well as the presence of an “ethereal blue flash,” above the plant. Moreover, new data released by TEPCO indicates that even though Fukushima Unit 1 was shut down during the March 11 earthquake, it appears to have "gone critical" again.
In the video below, Arnie Gundersen, Chief Nuclear Engineer from Fairewinds Energy Associates, explains that the presence of neutrons inside a nuclear reactor means that a chain reaction is definitely occurring. The discovery of isotope Chlorine-38, not present in nature, in Fukushima #1 reactor, is more than likely, created by Chlorine-37, present in seawater, absorbing a neutron. This chain reaction must be responsible for turning on a portion of the nuclear core in reactor #1, without human intervention, considering it was shut down, at the same time as all of the other reactors, which do not show signs of the isotopes present in #1.
Over 11,000 people died and 16,500 are still missing from the triple disaster that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011. Moreover, millions...possibly billions of people, worldwide, will suffer consequences from this horrific event. So, I hope that what geoscientist and international radiation expert, Leuren Moret says about the Japanese earthquake and tectonic warfare is not true; however, she sure seems to know what she's talking about.
From March 20, 2011:
From March 27, 2011:
Two Flyovers shot in high definition on 24 March 2011 of the smoldering ruins of the Fukushima nuclear plant
If you listen to the mainstream media, regarding anything, really, you will probably hear what you want to hear: everything will be fine as long as you listen to us, but, everything will not be fine, especially if you listen to them. If you don't think so, research the 9/11 workers who are sick, dying or dead. Research the Gulf Coast residents and workers, that nearly a year after the oil disaster began,are sick, and dying from BP’s toxic chemicals. Where was/is the mainstream media?
Take "safe levels of radiation", or event better, “at levels far below the levels that would pose a risk to humans” that self-interested parties like to claim, exist, without putting it into context.
"We all get between 1 to 10 millisieverts a year - an average 2 to 3 millisieverts - from background radiation," says Burns.
Air travel and CT scans are other common sources.
Official limits for radiation in food and water are set in the context of such exposures.
For example, the limit for nuclear workers is much higher than for the general public.
Ruff says it's important to remember radiation limits like this are not levels below which there is no effect.
"They're just a practical compromise between what's achievable and what's deemed an acceptable risk," he says.
Ruff says it's also important to remember the impact of radiation is greater on the unborn, infants and children, especially girls, compared to adults.
Now, Physicians for Social Responsibilitysay there areno safe thresholds for radiation. However, once again, that means little without putting it into some sort of context. Nevertheless, you can be sure of one thing. Governments lie cover up. They always have and they always will...especially when profit is at stake. Moreover, every single government that has ever had a radiation problem covered up the extent of the danger.
There are no warning signs anywhere along the coast. People walk on this shoreline with their dogs and children. The dogs take the contaminated mud back home on their hair. The children carry it on their shoes. It then dries and can be breathed in. The deeper you dig down into the mud, the more poisonous the levels become because of the accumulation of waste over the years.
Fortunately, for us, we have the Internet, and the technology available to check them out. Unfortunately, the news is not good.
More signs of serious radiation contamination in and near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were detected Thursday, with the latest data finding groundwater containing radioactive iodine 10,000 times the legal threshold and the concentration of radioactive iodine-131 in nearby seawater rising to the highest level yet.
It appears that the core of No. 2 reactor- the one that Dr. Chris Busby said has a 5% of creating a nuclear explosion - "has melted through the bottom of the pressure vessel and at least some of it is down on the concrete floor beneath".
One nuclear expert warned that it might be another100 yearsbefore melting fuel rods can be safely removed.
The following video took place in Stockholm, April 22, 2009. The recently resigned Scientific Secretary of the ICRP, Dr Jack Valentin (icrp.org), concedes to Pr. Chris Busby, ECRR (euradcom.org) , that the ICRP model cannot be used to predict the health effects of exposures and that for certain internal exposures it is insecure by up to two orders of magnitude. He also said that as he was no longer employed by ICRP he could agree that the ICRP and the United Nations committee on radiation protection (UNSCEAR) had been wrong in not examining the evidence from the Chernobyl accident, and other evidence outlined below, which shows large errors in the ICRP risk model.
Notes left behind by Japanese evacuees looking for loved ones inside a shelter in the earthquake and tsunami-destroyed town of Rikuzentakata, Japan on March 21. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Japan has proven to be resilient when it comes to surviving and reversing natural disasters, because it has a culture and mentality that facilitates rebounds and recovery, especially regarding earthquakes. However, this earth-changing quake may render Japanese efforts, less effective, in the long run, mainly because of the enormity of the catastrophe, the invisible threat of radiation, and most importantly, the lack of trust in the institutions with all of the crucial information needed to navigate this calamitous event.
"Japan is in a highly active tectonic zone where the Eurasian, Philippine Sea, Okhotsk and Pacific Plates converge. The unexpectedly strong quake took place where the Pacific Plate sinks under the Okhotsk Plate (subduction). In the affected region, the submerging Pacific Plate is very old and heavy and is sinking into the Earth’s core at a relatively high speed of 8 to 10 centimeters per year."
The western mainstream media's coverage of Japan's post-earthquake and post-tsunami activity is already fading into the background, and was/is not giving a fully accurate picture. On top of that, supposedly, Japan's "bureaucracy-media complex" is even worse, according to freelance journalist Takashi Uesugi, even though, since 2009, the Japanese press has become more aggressive after the end of 54 years of Liberal Democratic Party rule that shattered many of the cozy relationships between the ruling elite and the big media outlets.
So, what do you do when you can't trust the official word, or the accuracy of official radioactivity measurements. Well, DIY. Create a croudsourced map of Geiger counter readings that contains a distributed network of 215 Geiger counter.
A photograph is seen in the rubble of a destroyed house in Otsuchi, Japan, on March 22. (Reuters/Damir Sagolj)
A car sits on headstones in a cemetery in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Tayo Kitamura, 40, touches the covered body of her mother Kuniko Kitamura, 69, after Japanese firemen discovered the dead woman inside the ruins of her home in Onagawa, northeastern Japan, on March 19. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
Family members and relatives transfer the bones of Masaichi Oyama, who was killed by the tsunami, by chopsticks into an urn during a cremation ceremony on March 24 in Kurihara , Japan. The family lost three family members from the earthquake and tsunami. Under Japanese Buddhist practice, a cremation is the expected traditional way of dealing with the dead, but now with the death toll so high, crematoriums are overwhelmed and there is a shortage of fuel to burn them. Local municipalities are forced to dig mass graves as a temporary solution. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
A traditional Japanese sandal, worn with formal kimono dress, lies in the rubble in the earthquake and tsunami destroyed town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on Sunday, March 20. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
A house rests upside down in an open field along the coast near Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Friday, March 25. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
A person walks under snow through the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, on March 23. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Tetsuya Kikumasa)
As Japan continues to come to grips with the devastating toll exacted by the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear meltdown that seems unavoidable, Japan's culture that emphasizes taking care of the other, contributes to the remarkable resilience of the Japanese in this horrific disaster, providing them with the moral courage that makes heros out of ordinary citizens.
The Fukushima Fiftyand all of the other courageous souls willingly put the needs of others above their own needs. Greed is almost non-existent in Japan. There is no price gauging or looting, as it would not be tolerated in such an other-centered culture.
If Japan shows us anything, it's the transience of worldy goods. Maybe, it's time we take a page from their book, try to put aside the "greed is good" philosophy that has so permeated our culture over the last 30-years.
These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under which the brave men work to save their nation from full nuclear meltdown.
The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to cool overheating reactors and spent fuel rods since the disaster on March 11.
Outside the men connect transmission lines to restore electric power supply to Unit 3 and Unit 4
Workers in protective suits work on a transmission tower to restore electricity to Units 5 and 6
Geologist Jim Berkland, who predicted the 8.9 "World Series" earthquake, four days before it hit the San Francisco Bay area in 1989, said there is a high probability of another big earthquake hitting North America (Pacific-Northwest), this month (a top seismic window is developing between the 19th and 26th of March).
This is due to the coinciding of three of the maximum tide-raising forces: a full moon on the 19th; the closest approach of the moon, within an hour of the full moon, to the earth until 2016; and the very next day, an equinoctial tide. Not only that, the massive fish-kills near Redondo Beach and Mexico and the beaching of whales in San Diego point to changes in the magnetic field that often predict larger earthquakes.
The "official" word from former Department of Homeland Security inspector general Richard Skinner is that we're not prepared as as we should be for an earthquake on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan."
According to the Institute for Science and International Security, the situation in Japan has considerably worsened. Japan was hit by a 5.7-magnitude aftershock and a second fire at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant as at least three of the four reactors are in a meltdown process. Japan has reported that radiation is being released directly into the air. At this time, it is reported that there is very little chance of ratiation reaching the United States. However, it's also reported that Tokyo Electric and the Japanese government are under-stating or withholding information, both regarding the situation at the nuclear plant as well as radiological readings.
The amount of destruction, death, and suffering in Japan from the earthquake, tsunami and radioactive fallout is beyond comprehension. Here's the thing: Japan is probably the best prepared for this type of disaster. And even here, safety took a backseat to profits. So, will this be a wake-up call to the rest of us? Of course, earthquakes and tsunamis are beyond our control (unless they aren't, eco-terrorism may be alive and well). However, the safety of nuclear reactors is. But, our current paradigm of never ending growth and ever increasing consumption requires ever increasing amounts of energy and which, encourages profit over people.
Anyway, unfortunately, as much as, I'm sure, we would all like to alleviate the suffering of the Japanese, most of us, other than donating money or time, can do little to help. Nevertheless, we do have the power to manage as individuals or groups within our local sphere to possibly alleviate the potential suffering of ourselves and others.
Below is snapshot of the map that depicts environmental radiation levels across the USA, updated in real time every minute at Radiation Network. . You can see where all of the nuclear reactors are located.
So, what's that old boyscouot motto, again? Ah yes, "Be prepared".
Well, maybe it might be a good idea to have some inkling of what to do should we experience radioactive fallout, especially considering that both sides of the American political spectrum are controlled by corporate interests with mandates to increase profits at the total expense of humanity. And thanks to Citizens United, our fully corporate owned election process.
In Fukushima city, capital of the prefecture where Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers are battling to contain fires and radiation leaks at nuclear reactors, about 200 people lined up at the Co-op supermarket to buy provisions. The queue at a local gasoline station stretched for more than a kilometer, there was no running water and portable toilets were overflowing.
Earlier this week, in response to the devastation from the Haiti earthquake, the Obama administration temporarily suspended deportations of illegal immigrants from that country.
The temporary legal status is an act of compassion....Temporary protected status is granted to foreigners who may not be able to return safely to their country because of a natural disaster, armed conflict or other reasons. -- Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano
Now, President Obama has extended a special immigration status to Haitians living illegally in the U.S. This ruling protects them from deportation for 18 months and allows them to work here. This is only available to Haitians already in the country as January 12, 2010. This temporary protection status could affect 100,000 to 200,000 Haitians in the U.S. as well as about 30,000 Haitians who had been ordered deported.
The administration’s decision followed a rising chorus of calls for the temporary status after the earthquake on Tuesday. On Friday, 80 representatives and 18 senators, including Democrats and Republicans, sent appeals to the administration to grant the status, as did the conference of Roman Catholic bishops.
However, this is not the first request for temporary protected status. The Haitian government and advocates in the U.S. have been asking Washington to grant this status, since late 2008, after a series of natural disasters, starting with floods in 2004 that left more than 5,000 people dead or missing to four big storms that killed at least 800 people and destroyed most of Haiti’s food crops in 2008.
The Bush administration decided against granting Haitians the temporary status in December 2008, and the Obama administration, in March 2009, continued deporting Haitians.
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