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4/13/2016 4:38:02 PM

Japan prepares for release of tritium from Fukushima plant

By YURI KAGEYAMA

NATIONAL

TOKYO —

To dump or not to dump a little-discussed substance is the question brewing in Japan as it grapples with the aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago. The substance is tritium.

The radioactive material is nearly impossible to remove from the huge quantities of water used to cool melted-down reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which was wrecked by the massive tsunami in northeastern Japan in March 2011.

The water is still accumulating since 300 tons are needed every day to keep the reactors chilled. Some is leaking into the ocean.

Huge tanks lined up around the plant, at last count 1,000 of them, each hold hundreds of tons of water that have been cleansed of radioactive cesium and strontium but not of tritium.

Ridding water of tritium has been carried out in laboratories. But it’s an effort that would be extremely costly at the scale required for the Fukushima plant, which sits on the Pacific coast. Many scientists argue it isn’t worth it and say the risks of dumping the tritium-laced water into the sea are minimal.

Their calls to simply release the water into the Pacific Ocean are alarming many in Japan and elsewhere.

Rosa Yang, a nuclear expert at the Electric Power Research Institute, based in Palo Alto, California, who advises Japan on decommissioning reactors, believes the public angst is uncalled for. She says a Japanese government official should simply get up in public and drink water from one of the tanks to convince people it’s safe.

But the line between safe and unsafe radiation is murky, and children are more susceptible to radiation-linked illness. Tritium goes directly into soft tissues and organs of the human body, potentially increasing the risks of cancer and other sicknesses.

“Any exposure to tritium radiation could pose some health risk. This risk increases with prolonged exposure, and health risks include increased occurrence of cancer,” said Robert Daguillard, a spokesman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The agency is trying to minimize the tritium from U.S. nuclear facilities that escapes into drinking water.

Right after the March 2011 disaster, many in Japan panicked, some even moving overseas although they lived hundreds of miles (kilometers) away from the Fukushima no-go zone. By now, concern has settled to the extent that some worry the lessons from the disaster are being forgotten.

Tritium may be the least of Japan’s worries. Much hazardous work remains to keep the plant stabilized, and new technology is needed for decommissioning the plant’s reactors and containing massive radioactive contamination.

The ranks of Japan’s anti-nuclear activists have been growing since the March 2011 accident, and many oppose releasing water with tritium into the sea. They argue that even if tritium’s radiation is weaker than strontium or cesium, it should be removed, and that good methods should be devised to do that.

Japan’s fisheries organization has repeatedly expressed concerns over the issue. News of a release of the water could devastate local fisheries just as communities in northeastern Japan struggle to recover from the 2011 disasters.

An isotope of hydrogen, or radioactive hydrogen, tritium exists in water form, and so like water can evaporate, although it is not known how much tritium escaped into the atmosphere from Fukushima as gas from explosions.

The amount of tritium in the contaminated water stored at Fukushima Dai-ichi is estimated at 3.4 peta becquerels, or 34 with a mind-boggling 14 zeros after it.

But theoretically collected in one place, it would amount to just 57 milliliters, or about the amount of liquid in a couple of espresso cups - a minuscule quantity in the overall masses of water.

To illustrate that point, Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, showed reporters a small bottle half-filled with blue water that was the equivalent of 57 milliliters.

Public distrust is running so high after the Fukushima accident that Tokyo Electric Power Co, or TEPCO, the utility that operates the Fukushima plant and oversees its decommissioning, has mostly kept quiet about the tritium, pending a political decision on releasing the water.

Privately, they say it will have to be released, but they can’t say that outright.

What will be released from Fukushima will be well below the global standard allowed for tritium in the water, say Tanaka and others favoring its release, which is likely to come gradually later this year, not all at once.

Proponents of releasing the tritium water argue that tritium already is in the natural environment, coming from the sun and from water containing tritium that is routinely released at nuclear plants around the world.

“Tritium is so weak in its radioactivity it won’t penetrate plastic wrapping,” said Tanaka.

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4/13/2016 5:02:27 PM

WND EXCLUSIVE

SYRIAN SURGE! 'REFUGEES' FLOOD INTO U.S. AT RATE OF 358 PER WEEK


'Obama is doing everything within his power to advance an Islamic invasion'


Published: 16 hours ago



Syrian refugees have poured into Europe over the past two years and now are beginning to arrive in the U.S. at an average rate of 358 per week.


A flood of Muslim refugees from Syria, an average of 358 per week to be exact, is expected to arrive in the United States between now and the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

The Obama administration has decided to implement a “surge” in Syrian refugees, fast-tracking the arrival of those fleeing civil war in that country to make good on its commitment of bringing 10,000 by the end of fiscal 2016.

The “surge” is needed because the administration has delivered only 1,411 in the first six-and-a-half months of the year.

The Obama administration’s scripted answer for anyone who questioned its ability to screen Syrian “refugees” was that they are the “most thoroughly vetted” of all immigrants, going through an arduous process that takes 18 to 24 months to complete.

But that process was taking longer than expected and making it impossible for Obama to make good on his promise to the United Nations to admit at least 10,000 Syrians in fiscal 2016.

To fulfill its promise, the administration has now decided to expedite the process, cutting the screening period from 18-24 months down to three months.

Administration officials have set up special screening centers in Jordan, where they will be interviewing potential Syrian refugees at a rate of 600 per day.

To realize the goal of 10,000 Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. by Sept. 30, the government will need to deliver 8,589 by that date, or an average of 358 per week.

As WND has previously reported, more than 98 percent of the Syrian “refugees” have been Sunni Muslims while only 1 percent have been Christians. Yet, it’s the Christians who are being systematically exterminated in what even the United Nations has termed a “genocide” by ISIS and other Sunni rebel groups operating in Syria and Iraq.

FBI Director James Comey has testified before Congress that even with the longer 18-24 months of vetting, it was impossible to verify the identities of the vast majority of Syrian refugees.

“Whenever unilateral political actions are taken to ‘speed up’ a complex program, which is already known to be fraught with uncertainty, it becomes virtually impossible for officials to conduct a reliable vetting process,” Philip Haney, a former Homeland Security investigator who retired last year, told WND. “And, the figure of (nearly) 9,000 is a ‘floor,’ not a final number.”

Several GOP congressmen held hearings and sent letters to Obama voicing their opposition to the Syrian refugee program. But in the end, Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., put together an omnibus spending bill that fully funded Obama’s expanded refugee program.

The program will bring 85,000 refugees to the U.S. from all countries in fiscal 2016, about half of them coming from Muslim-majority nations such as Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. The total is scheduled to increase again in fiscal 2017 to 100,000.

The top states for Syrian refugee resettlement over the first six months of the fiscal year have been Michigan with 173, California with 138, Pennsylvania with 126 and Illinois with 98.

But those numbers are now expected to balloon quickly.

Michigan alone is in line to receive at least 5,000 Syrians this year.

Just in the last 10 days, Missouri has received 16 Syrians, Ohio has received 14, Arizona 12, Illinois 11, Pennsylvania nine, Michigan seven and Indiana five.

Michigan is receiving the largest number this year even though GOP Gov. Rick Snyder has informed Obama he doesn’t want any Syrian refugees, citing the security risks.

See map below showing the number of Syrian refugees each state has received in first six months of fiscal 2016. The numbers are expected to grow much faster in the second half of the year due a White House-ordered “surge.”

By expediting the vetting period, the administration hopes to increase by nearly 10-fold the number of Syrians it brings to the U.S. in the second half of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.

Gina Kassem, the regional refugee coordinator at the U.S. embassy in Amman, Jordan, told the Associated Press that while the 10,000 target applies to Syrian refugees living around the world, the majority of those being resettled in America will be coming from refugee camps in Jordan.

And the number of Syrians delivered to the United States could go above the target of 10,000.

“The 10,000 is a floor and not a ceiling, and it is possible to increase the number,” she told reporters.

More than two dozen mostly GOP governors informed Obama after the Paris terror attacks last November they didn’t want any Syrian refugees delivered to their states, but the administration said the states have no authority to stop the program from being carried out.

At least two of the eight Islamic terrorists who killed 130 Parisians entered Europe as “refugees” from Syria.

Former Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose home district in Minnesota has been flooded with Somali refugees over the past 20 years, was one of the first lawmakers to warn of the security risks associated with the importation of refugees from jihadist hotbeds in the Middle East and Africa.

Dozens of refugees have been arrested for providing material support to overseas terrorists over the past few years.

Former Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.


“President Obama is doing everything within his power to advance an Islamic invasion of the U.S., primarily made up of Muslims emanating from global terror hotspots,” Bachmann told WND.

“We on the House Intelligence Committee warned a year ago that Syria is incapable of vetting people for terrorism detection,” Bachmann said. “It is impossible because Syria has no database of records for the U.S. to peruse, and the U.S. has no embedded human intelligence in Syria.

ISIS, meanwhile, has accumulated a cache of fake passports. They have used these passports to infiltrate Europe, and critics of the administration like Bachmann warn they will duplicate the same successful strategy to infiltrate the United States.

“We also know ISIS captured actual Syrian passports and the actual machines used to create Syrian passports,” Bachmann said. “The terrorists have the means within their control to create legitimate passports for fellow terrorists.

“This should be sufficient information to stop any migration to the U.S. from Islamic terror dominated nations.”

ISIS operatives have bragged they have already embedded 4,000 refugee terrorists in Europe.

“The same will be true for the U.S.,” Bachmann told WND. “We U.S. taxpayers are paying dearly for our own destruction.

“Why isn’t Obama singling out persecuted Christians for a ‘surge’ mission of mercy?” she asked.

“Christians are the true Middle East victims of Islamic genocide. Instead, Obama chooses likely terrorist aggressors to bring to America,” she said.

Also troubling is the fact that most Syrian Muslims hate Jews and the state of Israel, Bachmann said.

“They are people who are dedicated to overthrowing American laws in favor of 7th century Islamic laws of oppression,” she added. “They seek to destroy Judaism and Christianity. They seek to destroy America. Europe is our preview, and Europe’s fate, under Obama will be our own.

“Will we soon witness on our TVs American first-responders cleaning up the blood and flesh carnage of Obama’s obviously dangerous decision?”

Canada’s new Liberal government has taken 25,000 Syrians so far this year and has a goal of taking 50,000 by the end of the year. Many of them have been fast-tracked and some in Congress have openly worried about the risks of a Syrian traveling from Canada to the U.S. through the porous northern border to carry out terror attacks.

Don’t sit back and watch Shariah law creep into your community. Get Pamela Geller’s field manual for activists, “Stop the Islamization of America.”


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/syrian-surge-refugees-flood-into-u-s-at-rate-of-358-per-week/#g8OxoVQu4d4kFAp5.99


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RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?
4/13/2016 5:06:38 PM
Now this is TRULY a dilemma.

I personally believe 'life is a gift' that should not be rejected; however, I would not 'judge those who want to reject the gift'

I rather protest 'wars' that destroys "LIFE"

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WND EXCLUSIVE

JUDGE: CAN'T FORCE CATHOLIC HOSPITALS TO ABORT BABIES


'Faith-based medical workers went into profession to save lives, not take them'


Published: 23 hours ago



St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City



A federal judge has rejected an ACLU demand that he order Catholic hospitals to perform abortions in violation of church teaching.

The victory for religious rights was announced by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which intervened on behalf of the Catholic Medical Association, the Christian Medical and Dental Associations and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

“No American should be forced to commit an abortion – least of all faith-based medical workers who went into the profession to follow their faith and save lives, not take them,” said ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot.

“No law requires religious hospitals and medical personnel to commit abortions against their faith and conscience, and, in fact, federal law directly prohibits the government from engaging in any such coercion. As we argued in our brief to the court, the ACLU had no standing to bring this suit and demand this kind of government coercion.”

Read the tested and proven strategies to defeat the abortion cartel, in “Abortion Free: Your Manual for Building a Pro-Life America One Community at a Time.”

ADF Senior Counsel Matt Bowman added: “Those who doubt that anyone would ever try to force someone to commit an abortion need only look at this case. This is precisely what the ACLU sought to do. The court came to the right conclusion in putting an end to their quest. The ruling relies on important case law that our pro-life medical group clients cited showing that the ACLU’s case was based on pure speculation.”

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, in its dismissal order in American Civil Liberties Union v. Trinity Health Corporation called the ACLU’s claims of harm from the hospital system’s pro-life position “dubious.”

The ethical guidelines of Trinity Health Corporation for Catholic Health Ministries, which runs dozens of hospitals around the country, forbids abortion.

The court, ruling in favor of the Catholic hospitals, argued, “Pregnancy alone is not a ‘particular condition’ that requires the termination of said pregnancy.”

Judge Gershwin Drain explained why the ACLU didn’t have a valid case.

“To find the claim to be ripe for review on the facts pleaded before this court would be to grant a cause of action to every pregnant woman in the state of Michigan upon the date of conception,” he said. “Accordingly, the alleged harm has not risen beyond a speculative nature and is not ripe for review.”

Read the tested and proven strategies to defeat the abortion cartel, in “Abortion Free: Your Manual for Building a Pro-Life America One Community at a Time.”

The ACLU wanted the judge to order the Catholic facilities to do the abortions, claiming any resistance to doing an abortion would violate the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

But the judge said: “Plaintiffs cannot guarantee that their pregnant member will experience complications, choose to get treated at defendants’ hospitals, or even require hospitalization. They have (pled) no facts, nor brought any supplemental evidence to explain why this member in particular faces a substantial risk of having pregnancy complications. Given the events that must materialize, her risk of harm, as currently (pled), cannot be characterized as ‘certainly impending.'”


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/judge-cant-force-catholic-hospitals-to-abort-babies/#uRxeOCHjz7reCZls.99


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4/13/2016 5:30:12 PM

Report: Senator Bob Graham Receives Word From White House That Declassification Of Secret 9/11 Documents Is Underway

APRIL 12, 2016


By Joseph Jankowski

The White House may finally be folding under pressure to reveal 28 secret pages of a report on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Senator Bob Graham told the Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday that he received a call from the White House informing him that the declassification review of the documents withheld from a report issued by a Joint Congressional Commission in 2003 will soon be completed.

Graham, who has been calling for the declassification of the secret pages since 2011, says that the release may occur within “one or two months.”

The Senator believes recent news reports on the secrecy surrounding the 28 pages, including a report Sunday on 60 Minutes, prompted the White House to react, reports the Tampa Bay Times.

“The decisionmakers at the White House have realized the public cares about it and there is an urgency to come to a decision,’’ Graham said.

The pages, made classified under the Bush administration, document indications of foreign government support of the 9/11 hijackers.

Specifically, it points out that Saudi Arabian officials provided financial aid and other help to the 19 hijackers who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center buildings.

According to 28pages.org, concealing the 28 pages:

  • Shields state sponsors of extremism from accountability—which encourages their continued sponsorship and endangers countless lives around the world
  • Prevents the American people from making informed judgments about the nation’s counter-terror strategy and foreign policy—past, present and future
  • Undermines 9/11 family members working to achieve courtroom justice against those who aided and abetted the deaths of their loved ones

The reveal of these secret documents could have huge implications on Washington’s war on terror narrative, as 9/11 was the spark which started the conquest.

Joseph Jankowski is a contributor for Planet Free Will.com. His works have been published by recognizable alternative news sites like GlobalResearch.ca, ActivistPost.com, andIntellihub.com. Follow Planet Free Will on Twitter @ twitter.com/PlanetFreeWill

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4/13/2016 5:53:44 PM

Why Are Thousands Of Millionaires Fleeing Chicago And Other Major Cities Around The World?

APRIL 12, 2016


By Michael Snyder

The elite are fleeing major cities around the globe at a staggering rate. In fact, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that approximately 3,000 millionaires left the city of Chicago alone during 2015. The same study discussed in that Chicago Tribune article found that 7,000 millionaires left Paris, France last year. So why is this happening? Why are thousands of millionaires suddenly packing up and moving away from the big cities? Could it be possible that they have many of the same concerns that “preppers” do about what is coming?

For quite a while, I have been writing about how the elite have been preparing for the coming collapse. But I had no idea that literally thousands of them are packing up and permanently leaving our major cities. As I mentioned above, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that about 3,000 of them left the city of Chicago alone during the previous calendar year…

Millionaires are leaving Chicago more than any other city in the United States on a net basis, according to a new report.

About 3,000 individuals with net assets of $1 million or more, not including their primary residence, moved from the city last year, with many citing rising racial tensions and worries about crime as factors in the decision, according to research firm New World Wealth.

But of course this is not just happening in Chicago, nor is it just an American phenomenon.

Actually, the two cities that lost the most millionaires last year
are both located over in Europe

Paris saw the largest exodus.

The French city lost 7,000, or 6 percent, of its millionaires, followed by Rome, which lost 5,000, or 7 percent.

It is true that some of these millionaires are moving for tax reasons, but many others are quite concerned that humanity is hurtling toward a deeply apocalyptic future, and they want to get prepared for what is about to happen while they still have time.

In eastern Germany, one company known as “Vivos” has spent an enormous amount of money converting an underground facility built by the Soviets during the Cold War into the largest private shelter on the planet. It is called “Europa One,” and it is being billed as an ultra-luxury survival bunker for the elite.

The following comes from their official website

Located in the heart of Europe is one of the most fortified and massive underground survival shelters on Earth, deep below a limestone mountain. Built by the Soviets during the Cold War, this shelter was a fortress for military equipment and munitions. Now privately owned, this 76 acre above and below ground hardened facility is capable of withstanding a substantial close range nuclear blast, a direct airliner crash, biological and chemical agents, massive shock waves, earthquakes, electro-magnetic pulses, and virtually any armed attack.

This irreplaceable complex is now being re-tasked as Vivos Europa One, becoming the world’s largest and most fortified underground shelter for long-term, uncompromising protection of high net worth individuals, their families, and most precious assets when no other above-ground exfiltration solution will suffice.

The complex includes over 21,108 square meters (227,904 square feet) of secured, blast proof living areas; and, an additional 4,079 square meters (43,906 square feet) of above-ground office, apartments, warehouse buildings, and its own train depot. Collectively there are over 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) of continuous tunnel chambers.


An RT report that was posted on YouTube right here contains some stunning visuals from the inside of this facility. Personally, I was quite stunned when I saw the extent of their preparations for the first time…



This is something that I could go on and on about, but I won’t. If you are interested in reading more, please see my previous article entitled “
Superyacht Getaway Subs And Luxury Bomb Shelters: The Elite Are The Most Paranoid Preppers Of All.”

As I was preparing for this article, I remembered something that Zero Hedge just reported that I think relates to this subject. It turns out that “the smart money” have been net sellers of U.S. stocks for 11 weeks in a row…

Last week, during which the S&P 500 was down 1.2%, BofAML clients were net sellers of US equities for the 11th consecutive week. Net sales of $1.7bn were smaller than in the prior week, but all three client groups (hedge funds, institutional clients, private clients) remained net sellers, led by institutional clients.

So why are the elite dumping stocks like crazy right now?

Don’t they realize that the stock market has been going up?

Could it be possible that they have information that the rest of us do not?

Most people have absolutely no idea how vulnerable our society truly is, or how very easy it would be to plunge the general population into a state of utter chaos.

That is why I am so glad that Mike Norris (the son of Chuck Norris) is coming out with his new movie entitled AmeriGEDDON. This film imagines a time when a global terror organization disables the U.S. power grid and martial law is instituted. Rioting, looting and civil unrest break out, and the government moves in to disarm the citizens and “restore order.” You can watch the official trailer for this new film right here



Could we actually witness such a scenario in our future?

Well, I don’t expect to see anything like this next month, but in my new book I explain why I believe that America is heading for a future that is even more apocalyptic than the one portrayed in AmeriGEDDON.

Everywhere you turn, our world is becoming increasingly unstable. Economic collapse has already gripped some areas of the planet, there is tremendous geopolitical instability in the Middle East, Islamic terror is on the rise, there have been outbursts of civil unrest all around the world, and just this week we have seen a series of very alarming earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Many people believe that we are entering a period of time when an unprecedented confluence of events will combine to create a “perfect storm” which will shake the world to the core.

And it isn’t just “preppers” that feel this way. As you have just seen, thousands of millionaires are so concerned about changing conditions that they are fleeing the major cities.

So before you dismiss all of this apocalyptic talk as “nonsense,” perhaps you may want to consider what the elite may know that you do not.

*About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.*


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