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Hospital Official in Fukushima: “Extremely scary data” — Stroke rate spiking in people ages 35 to 64 — 3.4 times higher than before (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/hospital-official-in-fukushima-extremely-scary-data-stroke-rate-spiking-in-people-ages-35-to-64-3-4-times-higher-than-before-video

Published: May 8th, 2013 at 4:44 pm ET
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Statement from the Vice President of Minamisoma City General Hospital, a neurologist, on May 8, 2013 before the disaster restoration committee at the House of Representatives, with summary translation by Fukushima Diary:

He’s collaborating to collect the data about the crisis rate of cerebral apoplexy with Tokyo University.

The provisional data says the crisis rate of cerebral apoplexy among 35 ~ 64 years old people in Minamisoma area is 3.4 times much as before. […]

He said this is an extremely scary data.

See also: Not Just Cancer: “How Low Doses Of Radiation Can Cause Heart Disease And Stroke”

南相馬の医療の現況2/4脳卒中増加のレセプトデータ

Published on 7 May 2013 (Japanese language only)

衆議院5/8震災復興特別委員会参考人
南相馬市立総合病院:副院長 及川友好(脳神経外科)
レセプトデータで 脳卒中増加のデータが出ている

May 8, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

BP: Criminality Immunity | Brainwash Update

breakingtheset

Published on 8 May 2013

Abby Martin talks about BP’s license to pollute, highlighting irresponsible practices that have led to massive oil spill and resulted in only minor penalties against the company. All the while, BP receives new government contracts and is reporting record profits.

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UN Report March 2013 – Japanese delegation to The UN spreads Lies and Deception!

 Published by nuclear-news.net
9 May 2013
Edited by Arclight2011

Editors note: As an introduction to this post I would like to say that finding this report was difficult.. the link on the UN website search would not allow me there.. However, I found a way!

I will post a short video up of the fun I had getting the link maybe, but the important and relevant bits are here below!

At the bottom I will leave a link to the issues brought up by the rapporteur to Japan in November 2012.. Were those issues just brushed aside here? WHO is responsible? You decide!

Image source ; courtesy of the err IAEA 🙂

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Regarding those that survived the atomic bombing, their medical needs related to their exposure was subsidised and this would allow them to maintain a suitable level of living. 

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On a more technical point, it was explained that annual exposure to radiation was at the level advised by the International Commission on Radiological Protection.

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On another point, the delegation said there was financial support available for refugees as they waited for their file to be processed.

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In case of the loss of a head of household as a result of Fukushima, there was a 5 million yen compensation payment – and for the loss of a female, the compensation was half as much.

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Policies to realise public policies on the promotion of science and technology were in place, as well as awareness raising on the ability of technology to improve quality of life.

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More information was now being disclosed through information materials and press conferences on Fukushima, said a member of the delegation, and this was to make decision making more transparent. 

Continued reviews were required on the part of operators of nuclear power plants to ensure operations were as safe as possible.

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On science and technology, the country was trying to connect it to the overall development of Japan, as their greatest resource was the people.  The idea was to use this knowledge for the benefit of the whole world. 

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The concluding remarks of the Committee would be adopted on 17 May, and as a group they looked forward to the follow-up.

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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights considers Report of Japan

Committee on Economic, Social
  and Cultural Rights

30 April 2013

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today considered the third periodic report of Japan on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Introducing the report of Japan, Hideaki Ueda, Ambassador in charge of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Japan, said Japan had a target for increasing the number of women in leadership positions and an action plan to combat human trafficking.  The number of persons with disabilities in employment had risen and persons with disabilities were offered vocational guidance carefully tailored to their abilities and aptitudes. The Government had implemented emergency support measures in the wake of the financial crisis, and support for employment for youth had been strengthened.  An integrated reform of the social security system had taken place and insurance payment requirements for pension payments had been relaxed.

The Committee asked about the labour force supply and demand structure, working hours, labour agreements, the National Wage Council, the linkage between the minimum wage and the benefit programme, the health insurance system, social security, nuclear accidents and how the comments of the Committee were considered in Japan.  Also issues concerning the impact of the financial situation on Japan’s ability to implement the provisions of the Covenant, austerity measures, the Fukushima nuclear power station accident and alternative forms of energy were raised.

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Chiens de garde au travail – Watchdogs at work attacking bloggers

MOST WEIRD !! THE VIDEO WILL NOT LINK EITHER AS A LINK OR AS AN EMBED!!

WAIT A MO WHILE I SORT IT OUT- BE SURE TO VISIT LATER! SORRY ABOUT THAT!

THE FRENCH SECRET SERVICE ARE VERY THOROUGH! IMO!

😉 Third time lucky! Its a creative commons licence now and on another link so download and share away! Arclight2011

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GET USED TO THE BBC AND CNN!!

 

kna60·

Published on 17 May 2012

On May 10, 2012, YouTube closes the account of Tokyobrowntabby.

Tokyobrowntabby is certainly a respectable lady , who lives in Tokyo. Like many others, since the disaster in March 2011, she decided to publish some videos, adding an English and / or Japanese translation to inform and draw attention to the dangers that threaten its citizens, because of the status of Fukushima nuclear power plant that was destroyed and crisis management by the authorities of this country.

Her crime,was to use some videos extracts published by Asahi, Yomiuri, NHK, BBC, etc. ..
And therefore protected by copyright. Several complaints have been filed by these companies to YouTube, which obviously have better things to do than risk losing money in costly litigation,so they close the account of offenders to the third claim.

No matter that it is “criminal” it represents hours and hours of volunteer work lost, without trying to hurt anyone or derive any personal profit.
Regardless of whether this work was costing absolutely nothing to shamefully injured victimsbut rather minimised the scope and accessibility of their message.
Guard dogs have done their job. Injustice prevails.

And should these famous copyrights excuses be an excuse?

It’s up to you to make up your own mind. Be curious and objectives.
Learn to think for yourself, otherwise someone else will do it for you.

Suivez Tokyobrowntabby :
Dailymotion : http://www.dailymotion.com/tokyobrown…
YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/user/tokyobrow…
Blog (Jp) : http://torajiyama.blog.fc2.com/

Pour une information indépendante :
http://lesveilleursdefukushima.blogsp…
http://bistrobarblog.blogspot.fr/ (traductions Fr de Ex-SKF, merci Helios)
http://fukunuke.blogspot.fr/ (Français-Arabe)

http://fairewinds.com (A. & M. Gundersen)
http://enenews.com/category/location/…
http://ex-skf.blogspot.fr/
http://fukushima-diary.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/007bratsche (En-De)

Bande son, musique libre de droits :
Consortium, Return to The Urban Tale – OST2, the Urban Tale – Xcyril & Nabru Elat – Eissyk
http://altermusique.org/Consortium/Re…

Traduction montage & sous-titrage par mes soins

May 8, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Anti nuclear blogger in Japan responds to recent death threats!

freedomwv

Published on 7 May 2013

It appears someone wants to threaten my life. We don`t do that; EVER!

You Tube should ban this person now!

preventingextinction

http://www.youtube.com/user/PreventingExtinction

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Fukushima – A Young Girl Died of Leukemia and others from heart attacks!

 

WorldNetworkChildren

Published on 7 May 2013

From a weekly protest gathering outside the Prime Minister’s official residence.
On April 12, 2013.

Filmed by Koki Kiyose
http://www.youtube.com/user/starslife…

Translated by Fukushima Voice
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.co…

Edited by the Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team
http://fukushima-evacuation-e.blogspo…

Nastya, from Belarus was only three years old when she was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus and lungs. According to local doctors the region has seen a huge increase in childhood cancer cases since the Chernobyl disaster.

 

End the nuclear age

Greenpeace

We need an energy system that can fight climate change, based on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Nuclear power already delivers less energy globally than renewable energy, and the share will continue to decrease in the coming years.

Despite what the nuclear industry tells us, building enough nuclear power stations to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of lethal high-level radioactive waste, contribute to further proliferation of nuclear weapons materials, and result in a Chernobyl-scale accident once every decade. Perhaps most significantly, it will squander the resources necessary to implement meaningful climate change solutions.  (Briefing: Climate change – Nuclear not the answer.)

 

The Nuclear Age began in July 1945 when the US tested their first nuclear bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A few years later, in 1953, President Eisenhower launched his “Atoms for Peace” Programme at the UN amid a wave of unbridled atomic optimism.

But as we know there is nothing “peaceful” about all things nuclear. More than half a century after Eisenhower’s speech the planet is left with the legacy of nuclear waste. This legacy is beginning to be recognised for what it truly is.

Things are moving slowly in the right direction. In November 2000 the world recognised nuclear power as a dirty, dangerous and unnecessary technology by refusing to give it greenhouse gas credits during the UN Climate Change talks in The Hague. Nuclear power was dealt a further blow when a UN Sustainable Development Conference refused to label nuclear a sustainable technology in April 2001.

The risks from nuclear energy are real, inherent and long-lasting.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear/

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A terrible silent tragedy is happening in Fukushima! The lone horseman of Itate speaks out!

I would like to welcome anybody who is concerned to contact me. I request vets and radiation specialists to come and investigate my horses.”

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/rainbowgarnet1/e/6d51ec6ae9dd6c4314d2175bb18e4005

(Abstract)

(Translated by Mia)

7 May 2013

写真

Iitate village (In Fukushima Prefecture) is surrounded by beautiful mountains and forests. And the village and setting still looks beautiful, even after being heavily contaminated by the fallout from the Fukushima disaster.

Mr. Tokuei Hosokawa (60 years old), a third-generation livestock dealer working in the family business, is one of a few who has remained at this village since the disaster.

He has kept quiet about the condition of his horses up until now, but as the condition of his horses has been deteriorating, he has decided to warn others that there is something terribly wrong going on, by making people aware of what has been happening to his horses.

He kept a carcass of one of his horse that died a month ago, he said;

I want to bury it, but I preserved it so that I could show it as proof to Tepco”.

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I hear that lots of cows have been dying of hunger in 20k radius of the crippled plant. My horses have been looked after and fed well but four out of thirty two horses are getting very weak, unable to stand up well, with weakness in their knees.”

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One of them, a little white pony, has been in the worst condition with its coat in a very poor condition.

The vet came to look at the little pony and diagnosed that it developed jaundice with a malfunctioning liver.

Also, 14 out of 15 foals died within 1 week to 1 month.

He asked a health care-centre for blood tests for his horses.

And there was no evidence of contagious disease or malnutrition found in the test results.

He was told that the blood test were not enough to find out the reasons behind his horses getting weak. He said;

I think that it is to with the fallout from the Fukushima disaster. I can’t prove it scientifically, but I know it from my many years of experience in working with my horses. “

While he was running his family farm, he was also involved in various volunteering activities using these horses.

Various shrine ritual events such as “Soma Nomaoi”, the most famous traditional war game using horses.He even appeared on some TV period dramas such as 水戸黄門”, the Tokugawa Shogun Mito Mitsukuni, a historical drama loved by all generations in Japan.

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He was also actively involved with local primary school events and also held horse therapy sessions at an educational facility for the blind.

He evacuated with his family out of the village, but couldn’t bare to leave his horses behind, so he returned on his own to look after them.

He has been helping to save other cows and horses owned by other people in the same situation. So far, he saved 87 horses by himself and found a second home for them in different places in Japan.

He asked Tepco for the compensation of the cost of re-housing and caring for these horses but Tepco has rejected his appeals with the reason that there is no proof he looked after them.

He has been rejecting all personal health checks including the radiation “whole body counter”. For him it doesn’t seem to be an important issue to check his health because he has made the decision to stay, for the rest of his life, with these horses.

And although he feels that he is getting to the end of his tether, he still cannot bring himself to kill them. They have been in his family for generations, so he feels honour bound to return to return the help the horses have provided his family. He feels he should show gratitude and give respect to these wonderful creatures for their many years of work by keeping them company until they die, no matter the personal cost.

A week after this interview, as he had guessed, the little white  pony had died (at the end of March 2013.)

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During the interview Mr. Hosokawa kept saying;

Japan is in a mad situation! From now on, even more terrible things will happen!”.

A personal plea by Mr. Hosokawa:

*A personal pleas by Mr. Hosokawa:
“I would like to make public about the situation of my horses, my name, address and telephone numbers are below.  I would like to welcome anybody who is concerned to contact me.  I request vets and radiation specialists to come and investigate my horses.”
細川牧場 細川徳栄さん
福島県相馬群飯舘村臼石字町123-1
090-9742-3141
Tokuei Hosokawa
Hosokawa Farm,
123-1, Usui Aza-machi,
Iitate village,
Soma-gun, Fukushima prefecture
Tel: 090-9742-3141

h/t ;http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-terrible-silent-tragedy-is-happening.html

May 8, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | 14 Comments

Shortages in supply of Medical Radioisotopes -The lobby to stop alternative technologies and price fixing and Iran?

The continued fragility of the supply chain has been demonstrated by the unplanned and ongoing (for the foreseeable future) outage at the HFR reactor in Petten. …… some partial provision of outage reserve capacity have alleviated the negative impact of the HFR loss, but difficult times lie ahead, when other reactors enter maintenance periods.
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The situation will deteriorate further with the expected permanent shutdown of the NRU (for 99Mo production) in 2016 and OSIRIS around the same time, …… This clearly demonstrates the urgent need for governments to remove subsidies from the market and for supply chain participants to fully implement the HLG-MR policy principles in a timely and consistent manner.
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There are also other new projects for 99Mo/99Tc production capacity (e.g.Australia, Canada, People’s Republic of China,Republic of Korea,Russian Federation, and the US) that could help create future global irradiation supply
Nuclear Iran, North Korea A Threat To Earth
However, this capacity must bebased on full-cost recovery to avoid over-capacity, which can only act to drive down prices to levels at which some producers will not be able to recover their costs.’
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However, without a (small) increase in the price for end-users, there is a risk that medical isotopes will continue to be undervalued, with negative economic consequences for the upstream segment of the supply chain as well. Again, little has been done by governments to address the issue of appropriate reimbursement, with the exception of Belgium and the US.More broadly, governments should continue to redefine the “social contract” with the medical isotope industry and help it move to sustainability, through appropriate incentives and effective regulation.

In addition, they should cease subsidising Mo production at existing reactors and refrain from doing that at planned new/replacement reactors or for alternative technologies, as this endangers the universal implementation of full-cost recovery and could create undesirable additional capacity in the supply chain.

Finally, judging by the few responses from generator manufacturers and end-users to the self-assessment questionnaires, there appears to be a disconnection between the upstream and downstream segments of theMo/Tc supply chain and uncertainty in terms of their commitment to applying the HLG-MR policy approach. The HLG-MR and its stakeholders need to engage downstream supply chain participants more effectively in the process of moving towards economic sustainability in the market. Otherwise, the future security of supply could be in danger.

NEA report – The Supply of Medical Radioisotopes

20 February 2013

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) and its High-level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes (HLG-M) have issued the final report of the HLG-MR and a summary of the report.  This report provides the findings and the analysis of two years of extensive examination of the molybndenum-99/technetium-99m (99Mo/99mTc) supply chain by the HLG-MR and key stakeholders.  In addition, it includes a comprehensive policy approach to ensure the long-term supply security of these important medical radioisotopes, detailing the essential steps taken by governments, industry and the health community.

These documents are available here on the OECD/NEA website.

Medical radioisotopes

The use of medical radioisotopes is an important part of modern medical practices. Each year, over 40 million people around the world benefit from nuclear medicine testing. Medical radioisotopes are used in non-invasive nuclear diagnostic imaging techniques to help identify common illnesses such as heart disease and cancer at an early stage. They are used to track disease progression and provide predictive information about the likely success of alternative therapy. This information helps health care professionals to accurately manage diseases and to make informed medical decisions on treatment options such as surgical intervention.

Supply shortages

Disruptions in the radioisotope supply chain can interrupt the availability of medical testing for millions of patients around world. Over the last few years there have been a number of supply shortages of the most widely used medical radioisotope, molybdenum-99 (99Mo), and its decay product, technetium-99m (99mTc). With a half-life of 66 hours for 99Mo and 6 hours for 99mTc, these isotopes must be produced continually and used efficiently in order to meet demand. Until recently, five multipurpose research reactors, all over 45 years old, have been producing over 95 percent of the world’s supply of 99Mo. These aging facilities face challenges in maintaining a consistent supply to the health community and will likely be retired from service within the next 15 years.

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As Price of Nuclear Energy Drops, a Wisconsin Plant Is Shut

“Once these old nuclear reactors shut down — as we’re seeing now — it will take 60 years and hundreds of millions of dollars to decontaminate them,” Mr. Markey said in a statement. “Taxpayers should have assurances that these nuclear relics don’t outlive their corporate owners and their ability to fund nuclear cleanup costs, leaving ordinary Americans to foot the bill.”

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Published: May 7, 2013

Image source ; http://paulflynnmp.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/nuclear-insanity.html

WASHINGTON — The Kewaunee nuclear power plant in Wisconsin shut down for the last time on Tuesday, but it is preparing to break new ground for the American nuclear industry.

It may go to sleep, Snow White-style, for 50 years, to be awakened when its radioactivity has subsided. Or it may be dismantled in the next decade or so. In either case, the responsibility and the expense, probably near $1 billion, will be borne for the first time by a for-profit company, not a regulated utility.

The Kewaunee plant, which opened in 1974, was sold in 2005 to Dominion, based in Richmond, Va., by its owners, the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation and Wisconsin Power and Light. In the past, the lengthy decommissioning process that nuclear power requires was in the hands of local companies, which have had the option to go to a public service commission and ask for a rate increase to pay for the job if it proved unexpectedly difficult.

But Kewaunee was a “merchant” plant, a sort of free agent on the grid, selling its electricity on contract, at a price set by the market, not by the government.

Dominion says it has reserved enough money to do the job, and a big enough bank account if the reserve fund does not suffice. So far, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agrees, although a commission expert said the actual budget was open to question. But “when you try to do any of these calculations beyond seven years, I’ll be frank with you,” said Michael Dusaniwskyj, an economist with the commission. “It’s a shot in the dark.”

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