You have to remember that "Saint Judy of New Jersey" goes into high gear during times like these because she feels everyone else is "too stoopid" wastes a bunch of her time rounding up articles that a spin doctor for General Electric would be proud of. Everyone here just sees it as amusing entertainment. And I'm not saying she might pull up some worthwhile articles. It's just funny to see her go into this mode.
I live in the SF Bay Area I was indeed amazed that by Saturday supplies of potassium iodine were gone at the local health food store and that people had snatched up nuclear monitoring gear. It's going to be boom times for those folks because I suspect otherwise sales for those products are a bit slow most of the time. Nobody trusts the government around here nor the talking heads that get trotted out. They would rather have their own radiation detection gear (usually costing less than $200) on hand to know for themselves. Remember this is the same government that thought it was cool back in the 1950s and 60s to spread radiation over residents of eastern Washington, eastern Oregon and Idaho. In the 1980s when I was back in my home town in eastern Washington I hung out with a bunch of software engineers and nuclear techs and managers so got a lot of inside scoop so to say. In fact the retired manager of the N reactor told me a bunch of stuff about nuclear materials. I also watched them get depressed when they shut down the project that was to build about 6 reactors in the northwest. I wasn't around when funding went through for the cleanup which brought some boom times. BTW, hunters were advised not to bring home any deer that might have been ranging on the Hanford reservation. They were known as "the deer that glow in the dark." During WWII some of the folks in my community even worked at the Hanford project and had security clearances. That was about a 50 mile daily commute for them. Last night here in the Bay Area we had a helluva thunderstorm and little out of season. We usually get monsoons in January. Yesterday a tornado warning was up in the Bay Area and here's a video of the funnel cloud here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22nh5VglqkI The Republicans want to cut funding even more for tsunami warning systems and radiation monitoring. Ask them if they'll cut military spending and see what those two face bastards will say. They want a big army to protect all their pillaged dollars not that it will do any good for them with the military out of the country. They cheerleaders on the news are busy reassuring everyone that the amount of radiation is less than you'll get at the dentist except that I don't hang out the dentist for an hour every day. And what about the water reservoirs? Kids shouldn't play with matches and adults shouldn't play with nukes. On 03/19/2011 11:03 AM, m2smart4u2000 wrote: > Offering a few other opinions. I don't see how the radiation levels are being > reviewed when there are only a few spots around doing the monitoring. You can > tell that most of the West coast doesn't believe that the radiation is > insignificant. I don't think we've had it around long enough to really know, > kind of like vacinations. Who really knows the long term affects? > > > Here's one little part of the following article: > > FIRST WARNING SYSTEM: The first warning systems along North America's West > Coast are not properly equipped. They currently have no 'noble gas > monitoring' capability and have too little coverage. Washington State, for > example, has only 4 EPA stations. > > It is crucial to understanding this because official statements from experts > about your exposures in the following days and weeks will sound reassuring > and convincing but these statements are as weak as the deficiencies in > radiation warning systems. > > > http://www.idealist.ws/index.php#i131 > > If that doesn't scare you the following will. It's about the testing of back > up systems for nuclear disasters: > > http://www.truth-out.org/tokyo-electric-build-us-nuclear-plants-the-no-bs-info-japans-disastrous-nuclear-operators68457 > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"<jstein@...> wrote: >> Excellent resource for information about the >> Japan nuclear crisis at the Web site All Things >> Nuclear, the blog of the Global Security Program >> at the Union of Concerned Scientists (see more >> about UCS at the end of this post): >> >> http://allthingsnuclear.org/ >> >> Among other things, it has posted this statement >> by the Union of Concerned Scientists about >> potassium iodide pills: >> >> ----- >> The people of Japan should be given priority >> access to potassium iodide (KI) pills used to >> protect against thyroid cancer following >> inhalation of radioactive iodine. >> >> Given the fact that Japan is thousands of miles >> from the United States, it is highly unlikely >> that Americans would be exposed to radioactive >> iodine from direct inhalation of a plume from >> the Fukushima nuclear complex. Direct inhalation >> is the kind of exposure that potassium iodide >> pills would be most effective against. >> >> Regardless, there are reports that global >> supplies of potassium iodide pills are being >> depleted because Americans are buying them, >> prompting fears that there will not be adequate >> supplies in Japan in the event of a larger >> radiological release. >> >> Besides inhalation, another way Americans could >> be exposed to radioactive iodine is if >> agricultural products were contaminated. >> Radioactive iodine could be ingested by dairy >> cows, for example, and then would be >> concentrated in milk. Potassium iodide, however, >> would not be an effective countermeasure in that >> situation. Moreover, federal and state health >> authorities would test for such contamination >> and could take products off the market if >> necessary. >> ----- >> >> http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/Japan_nuclear >> >> If you're inclined to pooh-pooh the Union of >> Concerned Scientists as just another >> Establishment group, you might find what various >> critics have said about it of interest: >> >> "The most vocal critics of the Union of >> Concerned Scientists assert that the >> organization harbors a liberal 'pro-regulation, >> anti-business' agenda. In 2004, the conservative >> media watchdog Media Research Center called the >> UCS an 'unlabeled left-wing activist group'; in >> 2007, the watchdog's founder L. Brent Bozell >> reiterated this assertion. In 2009, the >> conservative website NewsMax described the UCS >> as a 'left-wing' organization that 'receives >> substantial donations from liberal-leaning >> foundations.' Libertarian author and television >> personality John Stossel has also accused the >> organization of having a 'left-wing' agenda. >> >> "In 2006, two physicists associated with the >> American Physical Society criticized the UCS for >> not supporting a government-run nuclear waste >> reprocessing program. The UCS has also been >> criticized by skeptics of global warming. In >> 2007, the conservative think tank Capital >> Research Center accused the UCS of waging a >> 'jihad against climate skeptics', and >> televangelist Jerry Falwell even cautioned >> Evangelical Christians against 'falling >> for...global warming hocus-pocus' propagated in >> the mass media, with the UCS 'leading the >> charge'." >> >> Dunno about anybody else, but any organization >> criticized by NewsMax as having a "liberal 'pro- >> regulation, anti-business' agenda" is OK with me. >> >> Another source I don't suspect of siding with >> the Establishment is Boing Boing, which has this >> thoroughly researched post on radiation levels >> in the U.S.: >> >> http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/17/four-questions-about.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 >> >> http://tinyurl.com/4bv8w7f >> > >
