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Arranging the Deck Chairs While Death Comes from Japan

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Everyone has issues. I have issues. People can find a million reasons to be dissatisfied with the government.  This is a good thing. Still, the people that believe they have the answer to everything that is going on should take their focus off of the shenanigans that the government is pulling on the people and focus on something that is happening now. Something that will eventually kill everyone that is living on the northern hemisphere of this planet.   

I'm talking about Fukushima. I'm talking about Cesium 137, a radioactive isotope pouring into the pacific:

"Radioactive water from Fukushima Is Systematically Poisoning The Entire Pacific Ocean" (*), which claimed that every day and for 750 days (now over 800) tons of toxic materials have been pouring into the Pacific Ocean"

Fukushima continues to leak, and leak at ever increasing rates and the latest prediction is that this contamination will continue until 2015,   at the earliest. Until then, will the Pacific Ocean be poisoned beyond repair (if this has not happened already)?  

That little tidbit was from Global Research. I'm sure they are just trying to scare us, right? I mean how can a little radioactive water do any damage?

Let me tell you a little about ionized radiation. I worked on a missile site that had radars for the fire control section I worked with. I went up to those radars and opened the back of those radars to make adjustments every day. Green hazy magnetrons would glow while I worked. Little did I know that ionized radiation from those radars would cause cancer in me 20 years later. I lost part of my tongue, some of my gums and the floor of my mouth to squamous cell cancer. I found out that there were many people that worked on those radars that developed cancer.

I found this information from a Turkish national that had worked on the same system I worked on. Turkey was one of the last countries that used this air defense system. He steered me straight to the Lawyers that brought the suit against the manufacturers that built the system. We won the suit. That is all I can tell you due to a non-discloser statement I had to sign.

So serving in the Army gave me cancer. I know about radioactive isotopes and it is not a pleasant thing to go through. I can only thank my surgeon who after two operations, saved my life.

Today is my 63rd birthday. I have three Grandchildren and some Nephews and Nieces. The situation for me is this, by the time the radiation from Fukushima reaches me, it will take some time to affect my wife and I. My Grandchildren and other young people will not be so lucky. Already on the West Coast the milk is radioactive. It is below the "safety threshold" right now so you don't really hear about it. Still, the plume from the contaminated reactors is still pouring out and I'm sure that the Geiger counter will show a rise in contamination as the months go by.

The problem here is that the entire Northern Hemisphere is being poisoned by the radiation coming from Japan. It is already showing up in Alaska fisheries. According to Global Research:

More than a year ago,   15 out of 15 bluefin tuna   tested in California waters were contaminated with radioactive cesium from Fukushima.

Bluefin tuna are a   wide-ranging fish , which can swim back and forth between Japan and North America in a year.

But what about other types of fish?

Sockeye salmon also have a range spanning all of the way from Japan to Alaska, Canada, Washington and Oregon:

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Tim Gatto is Ret. US Army and has been writing against the Duopoly for the last decade. He has two books on Amazon, Kimchee Days or Stoned Colds Warriors and Complicity to Contempt.

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