Is Fukushima fear mongering elite inspired
or do truthers have a perverse desire
to believe the worst?
(Editor’s Note: I reserve judgment and post this for purposes of education and discussion.)
by James Farganne
(henrymakow.com)
Fear
about Fukushima and its “poisoning of the Pacific” is rampant
these days. On Facebook, some of my “truther” friends get angry
if I dare to question the reality of a nuclear apocalypse looming in
and over the Pacific.
The
term “fear porn” has gained a lot of traction, and in this
instance I can see why: intelligent people have become so addicted to
their Pacific Ocean horror fixation, they refuse to evaluate data
that might contradict it.
Are
there dying animal populations? Should residents of the Pacific
Northwest be concerned? Does the Pacific Ocean contain large amounts
of radioactive material? While the answer to all these questions is
“Yes”, there is, as usual, a lot more to know.
Mainstream
media outlets peddle the lie that all four obliterated reactor
containments at Fukushima remain unbreached. Meanwhile, the so-called
“alternative media” has been hammering truth seekers with dire
claims that are equally misleading.
These
two false scenarios – one, everything is under control, and two,
the Pacific Ocean has been destroyed – constitute the usual
goalposts by which people are routinely deceived, manipulated, and
distracted from reality.
Usually,
the goalpost dialectic leads the public down a predetermined path of
brainwashed opinion, and reality is somewhere outside the confines of
the posts. In this case, however, reality is not only outside the
goalposts, but in between them as well.
Let’s
look at the latter reality first.
ANIMAL DIE-OFFS
Yes,
there was a starfish apocalypse. Dead starfish by the millions
littered the ocean floor off the British Columbian coast. Their arms
were falling off. Their guts were gooshing out. When marine
biologists collected them in tanks for analysis, they sometimes
turned to jelly before they reached the laboratory.
“Alternative
news” sites such as ENEnews.com promptly attributed the die-off to
radiation from Fukushima. Droves of truthers, already terrified by
reports of radioactive tuna and Google Maps images showing the killer
radiation overtaking the Pacific like a psychedelic oil slick, fell
for this bit of disinformation hook, line, and sinker.
The
truth is that die-offs are a regular occurrence in nature. Die-offs
happen when populations outstrip food supply; malnourishment leads to
starvation and, more importantly, disease, which quickly propagates,
effecting a population crash.
After
the crash, the survivors, presumably the fittest, enjoy less
competition for a recovering food supply, and the population
rebounds.
Dr.
Craig McClain, Assistant Director of Science for the National
Evolutionary Synthesis Center, identifies the syndrome that caused
the die-off, and gives
three reasons
why it had nothing to do with Fukushima: (1) as an observed
phenomenon, it predates Fukushima by 3 – 15 years; (2) it also
occurs on the East Coast; and (3), other forms of life in the region
remained unaffected.
Far
from being unusual events, animal die-offs happen all the time, and
normally go unremarked by all but the scientists who monitor them.
Unscrupulous outlets ENEnews.com and Rense.com, among many others,
are now hauling reports of them into the alternative media limelight
and attributing them to Fukushima fallout without presenting a shred
of evidence.
In
doing so, they spread not only disinformation, but needless fear.
ATMOSPHERIC FALLOUT
There
have been claims of high Geiger counter readings in the Pacific
Northwest.
According
to Jim Stone, the engineer and ex-NSA analyst who proved that
Fukushima was an act of environmental terrorism, the nuke that
destroyed Reactor 3 did indeed produce particles that were blown
eastward and are most likely to end up in North American riverbeds.
That
isn’t good, but neither is it the end of the world, when one
considers the many Cold War nuclear test detonations, which are one factor in
the cancer rate explosion of the 20th century.
This
article
from Geigercounter.com traces high readings in California to
naturally radioactive sand. How many amateurs with Geiger counters
are erroneously jumping to Fukushima conclusions?
Background
radiation is not uniform. Naturally occurring hot spots vary widely
in intensity. In some
parts of Iran,
people thrive in radioactive norms much higher than any in the United
States.
It
makes sense to take the Geiger counter reports with several grains of
salt.
Stone
makes another good point. In Washington State, police cars are
equipped with Geiger counters, which still
sometimes detect
radiotherapy patients. The background radiation in that region has
not spiked because of Fukushima; otherwise, the cops’ Geiger
counters would be jammed and useless for detecting cancer patients.
Some
particles from the obliterated core of Reactor 3 have found their way
to North America, but the reality does not begin to approach the
hype.
This
is where people have been getting most emotional, and understandably
so. We love whales and dolphins, and a whole lot of us enjoy seafood
too. How much more catastrophic can you get, short of a planetary
mass extinction event?
But
this claim, that “The Pacific Ocean is dying”, is the most
tenuous of them all.
The
Pacific took its worst hit when Reactor 3 exploded, sending a portion
of its fuel downwind over the waters. The rest will sit on Japanese
land, making much of it uninhabitable for as long as Japan remains
above sea level.
Water
happens to be an ideal radiation sink. Even gamma rays cannot
penetrate more than two and a half feet of seawater. It takes only a
fuel pool with a little water to soak up all the radiation from many
reactor cores. Meanwhile, the Pacific Ocean occupies fully 30% of
Earth’s surface.
Consider
also the many nuclear tests conducted in the Pacific during the Cold
War. In that context, are we to believe that a bit of fuel from one
reactor core could destroy the entire ocean?
Even
had Reactor 3’s entire core been ejected into the water, the idea
that it could poison the entire ocean is ludicrous.
CONCLUSION
If
you are freaked out by the hype, I suggest that you consider the
possibility that you are getting roped in by a fear porn campaign
designed to … do what?
Now
we come to the reality outside the goalposts.
Stone
thinks that the disinformation is to divert truthers’ attention
from the real issues surrounding Fukushima: that (1) the disaster on
3/11/11 was a coordinated attack on Japan, (2) the majority of
environmental damage outside Japan came in the immediate wake of that
attack, and (3) the most serious issue is all the expelled fuel still
strewn around Reactor 3’s destroyed containment. So lethal is that
debris that not even robots can survive proximity to it. Safe
disposal remains untenable.
I
think the “elites” enjoy scaring the masses. In a sense, they
feed on it. Fear is an excellent tool for keeping people’s minds in
chains, especially when they happen to be a demographic (frequenters
of “alternative” media) who are consciously trying to shake off
those chains and become mentally free.
————
Stone’s
report proving that 3/11/11 was an act of war is available in PDF
format here.
jimstonefreelance.com
farganne.wordpress.com
http://311truth.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/spreading-fear-garbage-charts-misrepresentation/
The Nuclear Scare Scam (Lecture by physicist) Thanks Peter
First Comment from Stephen Quayle
IT’S HARDLY FEAR MONGERING-I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT NUCLEAR EFFECTS FOR DECADES AND THE CPM IN BOZEMAN MONTANA IS 120- NORMALLY .18 LAST YEAR-I OWN MY OWN SOPHISTICATED RADIATION MONITORS. -JUST BECAUSE LYING PAID HACKS HAVE TAKEN OVER 60 YEARS WORTH OF RADIO ACTIVITY STUDIES AND RE WRITTEN THE LAWS OF PHYSICS DOESN’T CHANGE THE LETHALITY OF IONIZING RADIATION OR THE DANGER OF THE VARIOUS ISOTOPES-NO ANCHOVIES AND THE REPORTS I GET FROM ALSKAN FISHERMAN ARE HORRIFIC NOT TO MENTION THE NAVY SAILORS WHO WERE EXPOSED TO LETHAL DOSES ON OUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS-I HAVE ALOT OF RESPECT FOR YOU BUT YOU ARE WRONG ON THIS ONE AND GROSSLY MISINFORMED!
Richard weighs in:
People can waste a lot of precious energy reacting to fear mongering. I lost track of the dozens of dire predictions that came and went. How about “Y2K”? That one had about a seven year run. On New Year’s Eve 1999, people stripped the shelves of canned goods, dry goods, flashlight batteries, etc, across the nation. Nothing happened – except the ‘disaster industry’ had to come up with a new scam.
Real disasters happen in moments and are basically over. An exception was the 2010 oil rig leak in the Gulf of Mexico. I’m sure everybody remembers fear mongering such as Lindsey Williams:
Gulf Coast Alert! Lindsey Williams on Coast to Coast 2010
I live 40 miles from the Texas/Louisiana coast. I questioned oil workers, Gulf fishermen. People on the coast were angry at the fear mongerers for three reasons.
First, the oil leak never showed up on coast. Second, the fear mongers were killing the Gulf tourist season upon with millions people depend for their livelihood, and finally, because it was a load of crap.
I devised a rule. If you have to debate whether a disaster is affecting you or not, do yourself a favor and forget about it until it does. “Survey’s say taking fear mongering too seriously can cause heart attacks, strokes, ulcers, and hair loss….”
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