He is still talking back to heretics, hirelings, and the Antichrist Pope. This is one of several blogs associated with Blessed Quietness Journal at www.blessedquietness.com See a list of other blogs down the right of the page.
Wild Bill of America deals with this news story very well:
Any sinner can be forgiven of his sin, repent, and confess faith in Jesus Christ. Any sinner can also use that fact to infiltrate a Bible believing church. Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. Love the repentant sinner, and slap the serpents up side of the head at once.
Well, what if you read the following on Drudge tomorrow?
San Diego County Sheriff’s Department officials arrested a “middle-aged Caucasian man” after he allegedly attempted to bless a large group of people in public late Sunday evening.
Fr. Richard Whitaker of San Diego was arrested on suspicion of attempted blessing, sheriff sergeant Roger Burgess told EOTT, and deputies are now confirming that the 31-year-old man had traveled to Rome years prior to becoming a priest.
“A Bible and other items were located inside the suspect’s residence, leading investigators to believe Whitaker may have been a radicalized Catholic,” Burgess said at a press conference earlier today. “Among other things found in his apartment was an arsenal of sacramentals, a Vatican flag, as well as a copy of The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, suggesting that Fr. Whitaker may also have been lazy.
Authorities began surveillance of Whitaker’s rectory shortly after the public blessing, and Whitaker was taken into custody when he returned to his apartment shortly after morning Mass.
A cousin of Whitaker, Donald Powell, told EOTT that his cousin began acting odd after returning from a pilgrimage to Rome.
“He just seemed different when he got back,” Powell said. “He began to frequent churches for Holy Hour and visiting monasteries and stuff. All weird, zealot kinda stuff. Within a year of returning he had entered seminary.”
Powell admitted that he may have missed signs that his cousin was being radicalized, pointing out that he had once found what looked to be “bits and pieces” of human remains held in reliquaries in his Whitaker’s bedroom.
Impossible?
All over talk shows, from Atheists and media hate mongers, there is talk about restraining religion. President Obama has stopped talking about "freedom of religion" preferring to use the term "freedom of worship." This is the classic Fascist and Communist term for restraining religion, registering religious groups, and forcing Christians to only practice their religion in officially approved places of worship.
As the Muslim attack on America increases, the flight from Christian salt and truth is also increasing. The only thing that restrains Islam is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So, Islam may very well force America to its knees.
So, are you running away from Christ and his Church? If so, stop whining when Islam comes and tells your wife to put on a Hijab or die.
The Young Turks have done a report on this. You will find my first report on it HERE.
HERE ARE THE YOUNG TURKS ON THE METHANE LEAK
Methane is created by the breakdown of organic matter and by inefficient burning. Methane is highly flammable, and this is said to be one of the panic responses by the gas company. A no fly zone has been designated, reportedly anywhere below 2000 feet over the leak. This is possibly because a jet plane sucking the methane into the engines would experience the engine exploding from being over charged with additional gaseous fuel. The main health hazard associated with methane is that it is highly combustible. Mixtures of 5 to 15 percent methane in air can be explosive. Also, large concentrations of methane in enclosed areas can lead to suffocation as large amounts of methane will decrease the amount of available oxygen in the air. The effects of oxygen deficiency are nausea, headaches, dizziness, and unconsciousness.
Methane gas or vapor is heavier than air and may travel a considerable distance to a source of ignition and flash back to a leak or open container. Gas or vapor may accumulate in hazardous amounts in low-lying areas especially inside confined spaces, resulting in a health hazard. Can displace oxygen in the air, causing suffocation. Can be ignited by a static charge. This could start a real holocaust in the upscale community of Porter Ranch if lightning were to strike the area of the leak.
However, the Environmental Protection Agency admitted in 1998 that methane and other such organic gases have not been well tested as to health risk, to the assurances of methane having no long term health effects are probably a case of governmental whistling in the dark.
Based on current data, methane does not seem to have any long-term, or chronic, health effects. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health lists no effects of long-term or repeated exposure to methane, but states that no information about its potential to cause cancer or birth defects is available. No Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards or regulations are listed regarding methane exposure.
If methane were a long term risk where exposure is repeated, we would all be dead by now. Why?
A typical fart is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane and 4 percent oxygen. Only about one percent of a fart contains hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans, which contain sulfur, and the sulfur is what makes farts stink. Because of the content of hydrogen and methane, human farts are flammable.
So, unless there are other chemical gases laced into the leak the long term effects are nil. But, the short term effects can be deadly from both fry explosions head ache and nausea and suffocation.
What is the prognosis for San Fernando?
Pray that the methane leak site does not catch fire. Methane produces loads of carbon monoxide when it burns, and THAT is deadly and DOES have long term health effects.
It is very clear from official responses that the leak at Porter Ranch in San Fernando, California may very well continue for years, or until the gas runs out in the ground. The effect must be, then, that San Fernando, and possibly other areas, will suffer issues from health to depopulation to real estate collapse from this leak. Also, as the Young Tuks video shows, there are other very deadly gases in this gas plume. The officials want to only talk about methane because it is the least deadly.
SoCal Gas is still “not sure of the exact location of the leak,” a spokesman said, “but suspects it is within a shallow level — within the first several hundred feet of the 8,700-foot well.” With the goal of stopping the leak as quickly as possible, the company is creating a secondary relief well as backup to its ongoing drilling operation.
All they need now is to break into the same reservoir of gas and have a second leak.
Here is another longer earlier report on the nuclear disaster above San Fernando Valley. DO NOT WATCH THIS JUST BEFORE GOING TO BED PLEASE.
If you watched the whole video you now know that you live in a very corrupt nation of wicked fools who kill on a regular basis and have ways to lie and cover up. Whether or not you and your kids suffer horribly is nothing to these creeps. This is why I keep telling you that the best thing that could happen to America would be to see God destroy the national structure as we know it and return us to some form of simple life. You people in Southern California need to understand that you are in peril. This is not only from methane leaks and nuclear contamination. You are in grave peril of government officials and agencies who lie lie lie, and they do so knowing people will die and suffer because they lied. California is dangerous for your health. They are presently covering up the radioactivity in Southern California from the ocean which was derived from Fukushima, which is ongoing and will not go away for many years.
This also applies to the whole United States of America. We are not living under a government which lies all the time, sometimes when the truth would serve them better. Their instinct in the face of dangers to Americans is to lie at once. So, what state has the best record for telling the truth? Who knows, but I sure hope it is Texas. If you live in California I would suggest you at once make arrangements to move to some other part of the USA, or leave the nation entirely. California has many other issues which you who live there know well. If you come to Texas, please leave your fair haired feely feely social consciousness at the border, and bring your gun. In Texas you are expected to participate in your own sustenance and self-defense. If you come here looking for welfare, you will starve. If you want a job and pay your own way in life, Texas is a great opportunity. LINKS:
Suggestion: If you have a friend living anywhere in the USA downwind from a nuclear plant, you need to send them the link for this blog post. No one should live near a nuclear plant under any circumstances.
Coat and tie integration works.
Anglo Saxon, Black American, Hispanic and Cajun below:
Have a good day in your cube, Bunkie.
I am sitting here in the Texas Hill Country watching my American bull / Bull Mastiff chase squirrels in the woods outside my office window.
When she thinks it is time to eat, or when we come home and roll up to the gate, she races off in any direction chasing an imaginary victim. This is to convince us she is definitely worth feeding.
"Office" is a much too formal word, actually, for where I am sitting. This is my play area, and I thank my Lord for giving Elizabeth and I such a great life in Texas.
It is cold today. High of 45 degrees. Go ahead and laugh up in Michigan. We are spoiled rotten, I admit it.
So, to warm you up a bit I found 52 minutes of Wynton Marsalis, his three valve horn and his friends playing a concert. At minute 37 the guys go Barrel House, and that is when you want to go get the well deserved cup of coffee and dance a jig on the way.
Keep warm my friends, and keep praising the Lord please.
So, FedEx could not deliver all the orders for Christmas..... DEAL WITH IT. THE STORY IS HERE 1. We all knew deliveries were up this Christmas. That was in the news. If you had to have it suddenly, as usual, you should have bought your kid a toy from WalMart. Brick and mortar stores are NOT up in sales this year, but Amazon and all other online mail orders are. You could have paid attention better and saved yourself all the belly aching. 2. Long ago, when dinosaurs like me were little kids, Dad and Mom had to order way ahead from the Sears and Robuck catalog if they wanted mail order. UPS was hardly getting started nationwide, so the US Mail delivered the toy. This was done, as it is today, "when we get around to it." We all learned to deal with reality. 3. It is a wicked and ungodly generation that goes to Twitter and rants and rages because their toys are late. Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. You babies are not thankful. You are totally self-centered. You diddle heads think the sun rises, circles three times around your shoulders, and sets, and that is a perfect day.
SO WHAT DOES GOD WAY TO THE UNTHANKFUL?
1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
With all the things God has done for you, America, you are ending your national history belly aching that your toys are late. Well, God will not be late. This nation will soon be delivered to you burned to a crisp, penniless, and diseased and poisoned by all the chemicals your wicked government serves you up daily.
YOU ARE WORTHY
We at Balaam's Ass Speaks wish to award the Dead Skunk Award to all the grown up babies of America who rage and roar when they do not get their toys right on schedule.
We are one breath away from WW III if the USA ignores Russia, which Barak Obama likes to do. Russian jets could escort Assad on Iran trip: reports Paper says Moscow proposed sending jets to protect Syrian president and warned coalition against "getting close".
Russian warplanes began bombarding opposition targets in Syria on September 30 [Reuters] Russia has proposed sending four fighter jets to escort the plane carrying Syrian President Bashar al-Assad when he makes a visit to the Iranian capital, regional media outlets have reported.
Al-Diyar, a Lebanese newspaper close to the regime of Assad, said on Monday that Moscow had alerted the US-led coalition not to "get close to Assad's plane in order to avoid an aerial battle".
It is expected that Assad's plane will fly to Iran through Iraqi airspace, al-Diyar reported.
Iran's official news agency, Fars, said on Friday that Assad was expected to visit Iran in late December or early January. Al-Diyar reported that the exact date would not be disclosed, citing Syrian intelligence sources.
The embattled president in October flew to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in what was believed to be his first foreign trip since the start of an uprising against him in 2011.
Fars said on Sunday that the scheduled trip would come as the Syrian army secured victories against "terrorist groups". Tehran, an ally of Assad, adopts the Syrian regime's language and labels most opposition groups as terrorists.
Russian jets began bombing Syrian opposition targets in September.
Russia warns US-led coalition not to get close to Assad’s flight to Tehran
DEBKAfile December 22, 2015, 9:24 AM (IDT)
Four Russian warplanes will guard the aircraft carrying Syrian ruler Bashar Assad flying
to Tehran for a visit in late December or early January, Iran’s official news agency Fars
reported Tuesday. Moscow has warned the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State
“not to get close to Assad’s plane in order to avoid an aerial battle,” according to a
Lebanese newspaper closet to the Assad regime. On its way to Iran, Assad’s plane is
expected to fly over Iraq, where the US maintains a military presence.
EDITOR COMMENTS:
The point is, this whole Middle Eastern theater of war making is coalescing into a classic two sided confrontation. This is historic. The leaders of the world tend to want two sides so that a war can be clearly delineated and be a lot more fun and emotional.
So, it would seem that Russia, that is, Putin, are up to the contest. Putin has been aching for action ever since he was President his first term in office. He has a massive grudge against the US leaders who trashed the USSR's whole industrial base after Reagan and Gorbachev terminated the USSR. It may be that Putin has found a way to secure absolute power in the Middle East. If he convinced Assad to go into exile in Iran, the whole stated purpose of the US in trashing Syria would be gone. Obama has harped on and on about how Assad must go. On the other hand, Assad may be making a complete sale of Syria to Iran in the hope that Syria can piggy back on the brash arrogance of Iran against the USA. Iran has made a complete donkey of Obama with the nuclear treaty, and Iran and Assad know who won that round. Assad might be shopping for Iran's help in some permanent bilateral agreement.
The Bible has history left for Russia and Iran, but there is nothing in the Bible about the USA having any future destiny. The prospects are grim for the USA.
These videos tell a story of suspense, that is, waiting for events to start ramping up to a crescendo of horror and destruction. The only thing human activity contributes is fracking. But, nature is also moving beneath our feet. Taken together, Fukushima, the fracking, the Yellowstone volcano, the core of the earth expanding, and the solar weather seriously acting up............. Something is coming, and America is worthy.
Los Angeles Channel Five report on the methane leak at Porter Ranch It is very clear that the California Government will do nothing by cover up this methane/fracking event, AND they are now covering up the radiation effects on Californians. This is because, once people in CA learn the peril they are in, they will flee, and only the welfare and indigent population will be left. So, let the people suffer, maybe even die of these things, let the children suffer......... the tax base must be protected at all costs.
FOR MORE ON FUKUSHIMA AND CALIFORNIA, READ MY BLOG POST FOR THE RECORD: These discussions are not meant to cause panic and fear. Knowledge is needed to plan our lives, and if there are threats of natural disaster, and if we can detect clues of when or when, then information is needed. Otherwise, the following applies to all things: 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
It is a rare moment in one's life that he sees a prophecy from the Bible, maybe given 2500 years ago by one of the prophets of God in Israel........... come to pass. I was five years old when the western nations arranged for the Jews to return to Israel and when President Harry S Truman recognized the state of Israel. I was alive, but I do not remember it of course. I was on my way across the USA to see if my friend in Kalamazoo would marry me while Israel was taking Sinai, trashing Egypt, and taking Jerusalem finally, as prophesied in the Bible. By the way, the lady DID marry me, and I am still delighted. Now, here we are in 2015, and Vladimir Putin, the Prince of Meshech has moved into the Middle East and is showing no sign or leaving, as prophesied in Ezekiel 38. He must subdue President Erdogon, or eliminate him somehow, and bring Turkey (Gomer) into the happy family of nations he is told to guard by God in the text. Now, I have told you several times that there is unfinished business in Damascus, and here it is. Remember, Damascus is literally the oldest continuously occupied city in the world up to this war with ISIS etc. Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. Jeremiah 49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
The prophecy of Isaiah has never been fulfilled. Damascus has been continuously prosperous for 2500 years since Isaiah's day.
The prophecy of Jeremiah is added because some prophecies of the Old Testament have an immediate fulfillment, which has happened long ago, and they have a ditto in the future. This would coincide with the Isaiah prophecy.
So, will this ever be fulfilled?
Watch the video, and you tell me if we are literally watching prophecy being fulfilled:
Apocalyptic Scenes: Drone footage shows destruction in Jobar, Damascus
There is little if anything now to prevent Christ from removing his Church, and little to prevent the presentation of the Antichrist by the False Prophet. Pope Francis is waiting patiently to either BE the Antichrist, or to be the False Prophet. Are you ready to go Christian friend? Who do you need to talk to about their soul's destiny, and whoever it is, what are you waiting for? Footnote: God often uses one nation to chastise another nation. So, the USA has entered Syria, taken the side of lawless rebels, and the US has tried to destroy President Assad. Syria is on a list of nations the Pentagon is supposed to trash so the USA and other Western nations can take over the whole Middle East. So, this destruction of Damascus must be laid at the feet of President Obama and the creeps behind the curtain who pull his strings. God's pattern in Bible history is to destroy the destroyer when they go way beyond what is needed to do his will. The USA is not on the bull's eye with God, and we can most certainly expect destruction in one form or another soon.
Miss universe, er than again, Miss Universe. Steve Harvey with a bad case of foot in mouth disease READ AND WATCH THE VIDEO So, once again, and possibly for the last time in 2015, Balaam's Ass Speaks awards the Dead Skunk award to Steve Harvey. He is worthy.
Climate Change solutions and damnations descend on us all from Pope Pancho..... Right from the Vatican toilet. This lady doing the video below has done her research, and the Pope is playing into the hands of the New World Order. He obviously is tossing his hat into the ring to be one of the world leaders, that is, once all national identity is erased by the elite. Also, you will see that he damns America and other larger nations as the devils of Climate Change. He calls for total cultural indoctrination, and he includes churches as mind change centers. This implies that the day may come when you cannot be a registered church unless you preach Climate Change. He attacks consumerism, and this is the damnable beast who rules over the Roman Catholic hierarchy which consumes billions in good life things. The absolute limit in blasphemy is that he says the Christian conversion is not complete until you declare your total faith and love of the doctrine of Climate Change. The part on the Pope comes after some discussion of the Climate Change conference. PANCHO, BABY, GET YOUR ECCLESIASTICAL POSTERIOR OUT OF OUR FACES. IF YOU HAVE TO GO TO HELL, SIR, COULD YOU POSSIBLY GO QUIETLY?
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
All of the above text applies to Pope Francis. But, I draw your attention to verse 16. Anyone, like me, and I hope you, who talks back to heretics and rank pedophiles like Pope Francis, will be called an ass by the New World Order. We will be beaten like an ass by the Pope and the scum in high places. So, let us be faithful, like Balaam's ass was, to rebuke the false prophets of Satan. We must pound on them with extreme sarcasm and fierce speech in the market place and in our editorial. Nothing else will do.
I would like to issue Poopal Bull on Climate Change"
From this day and forward, all Roman Catholic Popes, Bishops, and Cardinals are forbidden to eat beans.
Journalist: “Nobody even talks about Fukushima anymore… there’s almost no more fish… the ocean is dying, it’s terrifying” — Gov’t warns public to expect alarming increase in deaths on West Coast — “Fish… are just too hard to find” — “Chaos below the surface” — Official: “We are preparing for worst”
NOAA, Dec 10, 2015 (emphasis added): Scientists observed another year of low pup weights during their annual survey… off California… “If last year is any indication of what to expect this year, we’re probably going to see a lot of pups strand unless many die at the rookeries,” said Sharon Melin, wildlife biologist, NOAA Fisheries. “Only this time it is not just going to be California sea lion pups. We’re already seeing unusual numbers of northern fur seal pups stranding in California and we may even see some adults for both species.” Melin predicts that the geographic extent of the strandings will also expand… “Three-month old female California sea lion pups had… the lowest weights we’ve seen at this rookery in 41 years since monitoring began,” said Melin… For northern fur seal pups, the news is equally grim… The poor condition of pups means that their mothers are not finding sufficient prey… The lack of prey near the rookery is linked to the anomalous ocean conditions… NOAA Fisheries scientist Nate Mantua sees struggling California sea lions as indicators for lots of changes taking place in the marine environment.
AP, Dec 11, 2015: Scientists forecast another year of high death rates for sea lions, seals off California coast… “Based on the condition of the pups we saw in September and October, we would anticipatethere will be at least as many strandings this winter,” Melin said… The main problem appears to be a lack of food.
San Francisco Weekly, Dec 11, 2015: California’s Sea Lions areStarving… It’s shaping up to be another terrible year for California sea lions… [They] are having trouble keeping themselves fed… and end up malnourished and sick. When they’re too unhealthy to swim anymore they flop onto shore… The number of distressed sea lions… on our beaches has exploded in recent years.
Courthouse News Service, Dec 14, 2015: A dramatic decrease in California sea lion pups’ average weight… caused [NOAA] scientists… to predict another brutal winter… Lack of available prey has sent the average weight of sea lion pups plummeting to its lowest level in 41 years of records, Melin said… NOAA scientists say struggling sea lions are a sign ofchaos below the surface.
San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 10, 2015: [F]ederal scientists [are] warning beachgoers and marine mammal lovers to expect another alarming increase in pinniped strandings and deaths along the California coast… “For California sea lions, this is the worst, and by far,” said Melin, who studies West Coast pinnipeds for the NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center. “The poor condition of pups from both species indicates the problems are widespread.” The situation isdisturbing for marine biologists who have been documenting unprecedented changes this year in the ocean ecosystem, including… die-offs of Northern California birds, fish and mammals. Low weights last year were responsible for a huge death toll this year, said Melin…. “Based on the condition of the pups we saw in September and October, we would anticipate there will be at least as many strandings this winter,” Melin said… Melin said a lack of foodappears to be the chief problem. The core diet of most pinnipeds is sardine, anchovy, Pacific hake, rock fish and squid, all of which have been impacted by changing sea conditions.
Orange County Register, Dec 10, 2015: After record year, even more sea lions and fur seals expected to end up stranded on Southern California beaches — Even more sea lions could end up stranded on Southern California beaches because of record low weights among yearlings… thousands of sea lions [are expected to] wash ashore this winter and early spring… This summer and fall, Melin observed an all-time low pup weight – the lowest since records of sea lions have been kept in 41 years… When sea lions converged on the island in 2012, there was no sign of a problem. A year later, nearly 70 percent of the newborns had died… In 2014, sea lions produced just half the number of pups… “We are preparing for the worst,” [NOAA's Justin] Viezbicke said.
KCBX, Dec 10, 2015: Starving pups have been and still are showing up in record numbers… fish species that sea lions feed on… are just too hard to find currently.
LINK TV, Nov 1, 2015 — Anne Keala Kelly, journalist/filmmaker: Americans think the Pacific is a toilet. Nobody even talks about Fukushima anymore. You know, when you’re in the Pacific, you actually care about the fact that there’s almost no more fish — that the ocean is dying. It’s terrifying to be on the receiving end of this society, this culture. It is terrifying, every day.
In January 2013, with my 4-year-old child, I evacuated from Fukushima to Niigata.
Where I grew up is about 60 km [~40 miles] from Fukushima Daiichi… it is now one of the most contaminated areas.
I still regret thinking why I didn’t move right then. I feel guilty thinking I wouldn’t have had my child exposed to radiation if I moved then.
After we moved, our health recovered tremendously… I try to behave cheerfully, but I feel totally hopeless when I think about our future.
Child’s Health Problems
My child started to become sick. When I took my child to a hospital, the diagnosis was a cold. But the coughs didn’t stop and, looking sluggish, my child seemed to be worse.
[My family] gave my child peaches, tomatoes, corn, bamboo shoots, and huge shiitake [they harvested]. They fed us dried persimmons, too.
At the kindergarten they encouraged children to go out to play and to my disbelief,they used local food for school lunch.
My child had cold symptoms all the time. He had frequent nose bleeding. He was always scratching his itchy body.
I found that something was wrong with my child’s eyesight. The doctor diagnosed it as ametropic amblyopi.
Personal Health Problems
On Christmas day, I was feeling dizzy and [at the hospital] I was told I had gastroenteritis.
I felt weak and couldn’t get up. I felt very sleepy when I worked. I had nausea. I found myself spaced out sitting in my car at a parking lot.
It felt as if a little electricity was running in my body all the time and I couldn’t figure out how to do simple tasks.
I went shopping and I couldn’t remember what I was doing, and stood in the store for hours… I couldn’t make decisions. I didn’t know what I was doing.
I took one month off from work, but my symptoms just got worse.
Community’s Health Problems
My friend who works at the water company told me that they detected cesium in beef stew in May, and all the children who drank milk threw up in September, and so on. They are told not to tell those stories.
I’m certain that the number of people who got sick rose. The number of funerals rose, too — totally healthy people suddenly died of heart attack and so on.
Plants and Wildlife
From the 15th to the 25th of March [2011], I evacuated to my relative’s house in Gunma prefecture. I remember the eerie feeling I had when I saw Mt. Akagi was yellow. Later I heard that cedar pollen grows big when exposed to radiation.
My family grows all the vegetables we eat at home and they love to feed them to my child. I saw disfigured dandelions around our fields. 50 to 60 plants grew at one spot and their stems were all put together into one gigantic wide stem, with huge, huge flowers. It was very weird. I had never seen anything like that. Tons of millet suddenly grew in the fields. It never happened before. Disfigured vegetables appeared.
I brought our disfigured vegetables to the municipal office for radiation testing. I was yelled at there, “Don’t you understand? We say it’s safe! Mothers must not act like that!”They never tested my vegetables.
A person who hatches beetle larvae every year said all the beetles were disfigured and died.
(NaturalNews) The alarming findings that levels of Fukushima radiation off the North American coast are higher now than they have ever been, is being spun by the press as an issue of no concern.
In March 2011, Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered multiple meltdowns following a massive earthquake and tsunami. The exploding reactors sprayed massive amounts of radioactive material into the air, most of which settled into the Pacific Ocean. Since then, more radioactive material has continued to pour from the coastal plant into the ocean.
In a study presented at the conference of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco on Dec. 14, researchers found that radiation levels from Alaska to California have increased since samples were last taken. The highest levels yet of radiation from the disaster were found in a sample taken 2,500 kilometers (approx. 1,550 miles) west of San Francisco.
“Safe” according to whom?
Lead researcher Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was one of the first people to begin monitoring Fukushima radiation in the Pacific Ocean, with his first samples taken three months after the disaster started. In 2014, he launched a citizen monitoring effort – Our Radioactive Ocean – to help collect more data on ocean-borne radioactivity.
The researchers track Fukushima radiation by focusing on the isotope Cesium-134, which has a half-life of only two years. All Cesium-134 in the ocean likely comes from theFukushimadisaster. In contrast, Cesium-137 – also released in huge quantities from Fukushima – has a half-life of 30 years, and persists in the ocean, not just from Fukushima, but also from nuclear tests conducted as far back as the 1950s.
The most recent study added 110 new Cesium-134 samples to the ongoing studies. These samples were an average of 11 Becquerels per cubic meter of sea water, a level 50 percent higher than other samples taken so far.
Instead of presenting the findings as an alarming sign of growing radiation, however, Buesseler emphasizes that the Cesium-134 levels detected are still 500 times lower than the drinking water limits set by the U.S. government. The news site The Big Wobblequestions whether Buesseler and Woods Hole’s heavy financial reliance on the U.S. government – Woods Hole has received nearly $8 million in research funding from several government agencies – plays any role in this emphasis.
Situation still worsening
The reality, however, is that radiation along the West Coast is expected to keep getting worse. According to a 2013 study by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, the oceanic radiation plume released by Fukushima is likely to hit the North American West Coast in force in 2017, with levels peaking in 2018. Most of the radioactive material from the disaster is likely to stay concentrated on the western coast through at least 2026.
According to professor Michio Aoyama of Japan’s Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, the amount of radiation from Fukushima that has now reached North America is probably nearly as much as was spread over Japan during the initial disaster.
The recent Woods Hole study also confirmed that radioactive material is still leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima plant. Cesium-134 levels off the Japanese coast are between 10 and 100 times higher than those detected off the coast of California.
Without directly challenging the U.S. government’s “safe” radiation limits, Buesseler obliquely references the fact that any radioactive contamination of the ocean is cause for concern.
“Despite the fact that the levels of contamination off our shores remain well below government-established safety limits for human health or to marine life,” he said, “the changing values underscore the need to more closely monitor contamination levels across the Pacific.”
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The following video is highly instructive:
What will happen when Washington, Oregon, and California are heavily contaminated with radioactivity? I am not a prophet, but common sense tells me that Californians will panic and stampede east. Where will they go? The major cities to the east are Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Tucson, and the next destination will be Texas. Millions of Californians from the middle income and welfare communities will join the stampede, and the USA will be overwhelmed at least as far as Chicago and Ohio. Californians with relatives in eastern states will "go home," and the consequences will be serious to say the least. So, the radioactivity NOW in California is building rapidly, and 2017 will be a crescendo. Then, if an earthquake or simple entropy causes Plant 4 to blow, we go up exponentially in radioactivity in California. This is the sort of crisis that kings and presidents of history cannot solve, so they deny it exists. When the peasants finally stampede, the kings and presidents become absolutely helpless. In past history it was the Black Plague and massive earthquakes etc. The Fukushima crisis is another one which no one can solve. The net result will be that various states in the USA will secede and close their borders. The leaders in Washington will panic and flee the country. The US Military will rage in circles for a while, and when the tax base no longer pays their wages, they too will run for cover. So, what to the candidates talk about in the CNN debate? They all try to sound tough and deadly and ready to wage monstrous war in the Middle East. Meanwhile, California, Oregon, and Washington sate are about the fry. AND, Obama rages on and on about climate change. Face it, friends, the USA no longer has leaders. These men in high places are complete lunatics with little of no concept of real issues facing America. Even Donald Trump has never mentioned Fukushima. He is clueless. I shall not be going near the Pacific Ocean, and we already have stopped eating Pacific fish. We also buy only Texas oranges and grapes from Chile. You need to understand that dealing with the massive cloud of fall out over the USA and in the Pacific is your responsibility. I would strongly suggest you order several bottles of Lugal's Solution (iodine), and dose five to six drops the first three days, and then one to two drops in water per day from then on. The amount of iodine you get from food is far too little to protect your thyroid. If you wait for some official to tell you what to do, you will slowly die as your thyroid shuts down.
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