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Story Here from the LA Times.

A ray of light – Greenpeace is there taking its own readings because TOPEC is so untrustworthy.

Followup on the radiation levels in Japan and the world at the Greenpeace International website –

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/

On RADIATION TRAVELING VIA THE JET STREAM –

There are tons of articles relating radiation readings in western US & Canada all the way across the mid-US and Canada to New England.  You can find them with Google News search term “radiation in jet stream“.

But don’t worry! Radiation in the rain and soil and sea is totally HARMLESS.

Global Research sets the record straight –

The government says there is no danger, as these levels (even levels in rainwater above drinking water standards) are “safe”. Specifically, they explain that the exposure is only short-term, while federal drinking water standards assume a constant level of radiation over the course of a year. . . .

Physicians for Social Responsibility notes:

According to the National Academy of Sciences, there are no safe doses of radiation. Decades of research show clearly that any dose of radiation increases an individual’s risk for the development of cancer.

“There is no safe level of radionuclide exposure, whether from food, water or other sources. Period,” said Jeff Patterson, DO, immediate past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. “Exposure to radionuclides, such as iodine-131 and cesium-137, increases the incidence of cancer. For this reason, every effort must be taken to minimize the radionuclide content in food and water.”
“Consuming food containing radionuclides is particularly dangerous. If an individual ingests or inhales a radioactive particle, it continues to irradiate the body as long as it remains radioactive and stays in the body,”said Alan H. Lockwood, MD, a member of the Board of Physicians for Social Responsibility. . . (more)

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24147

This Monday we notice the news media is goofing around again.

• They are using the word “Meltdown” and hundreds of news headlines that are trivia, unrelated to the Japan-global catastrophe. This is obviously intended to defuse the story.
• They are  dropping the story or moving it to the back burner.
• They are spamming the leads with industry puff pieces promoting nuke power.
• They repeat the corporate fiction that environmentalists back nuclear power. They ban discussion of carbon emmission pollution until now.
• They aren’t fooling anyone.