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		<title>By: SDAI-Tech</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33664</link>
		<dc:creator>SDAI-Tech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://smithmicroaggressions.tumblr.com/

This is what is being taught - a new fascism. At this point we might be better of without our colleges. At Yale the other day a student went ballistic on a professor and he just pulled a Bernie Sanders.</description>
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<p>This is what is being taught &#8211; a new fascism. At this point we might be better of without our colleges. At Yale the other day a student went ballistic on a professor and he just pulled a Bernie Sanders.</p>
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		<title>By: SDAI-Tech</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33597</link>
		<dc:creator>SDAI-Tech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ironically, the Russian Times have been making a big deal about it. Melissa Click is an archetype of what&#039;s wrong in modern universities.

The insane truly run the asylum now. Arkham Asylum. home to the criminally insane, in the Batman comic franchise regularly gets emptied by some super villain who lets them free to wreck havoc on Gotham. 

In the US, almost each college class has these many villains teaching our kids and trying to make them as nuts as they are. It&#039;s not an anomaly, rather an epidemic.

PC dementia is an illness like so many others, caught in the crowded classrooms of our schools.
Unlike the flu, it can last decades longer in the infected.

But civilization is working on an inoculation. Future generations will hopefully be spared a lifetime wasted on false concepts like equality and privilege.

More fun reading:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/10/the-9-most-preposterous-parts-of-melissa-clicks-absurd-resume/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Melissa Click&#039;s Resume&lt;/A&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ironically, the Russian Times have been making a big deal about it. Melissa Click is an archetype of what&#8217;s wrong in modern universities.</p>
<p>The insane truly run the asylum now. Arkham Asylum. home to the criminally insane, in the Batman comic franchise regularly gets emptied by some super villain who lets them free to wreck havoc on Gotham. </p>
<p>In the US, almost each college class has these many villains teaching our kids and trying to make them as nuts as they are. It&#8217;s not an anomaly, rather an epidemic.</p>
<p>PC dementia is an illness like so many others, caught in the crowded classrooms of our schools.<br />
Unlike the flu, it can last decades longer in the infected.</p>
<p>But civilization is working on an inoculation. Future generations will hopefully be spared a lifetime wasted on false concepts like equality and privilege.</p>
<p>More fun reading:</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/10/the-9-most-preposterous-parts-of-melissa-clicks-absurd-resume/" rel="nofollow">Melissa Click&#8217;s Resume</a></p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33570</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You should see what&#039;s going on outside the shed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/09/unsafe-space-fascist-missouri-protesters-physically-remove-reporter-from-public-demonstrations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Universities: bastions of free thought&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You should see what&#8217;s going on outside the shed.</p>
<p><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/09/unsafe-space-fascist-missouri-protesters-physically-remove-reporter-from-public-demonstrations/" rel="nofollow">Universities: bastions of free thought</a></p>
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		<title>By: SDAI-Tech</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33566</link>
		<dc:creator>SDAI-Tech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know. Jesus. I just came from Community. I feel like I&#039;m in a TOS Trek episode and the Archons are living in their own robotized stupor - with brief moments of complete debauchery and destruction.

&quot;Peace, friend. Joy be with you. Are you of the HZ body?&quot;

&lt;img src=&quot;https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3e/dc/18/3edc18fde843198dc5b095f94d69a413.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;

From now on, I&#039;m just nodding my head.

&quot;Sure. The body is one. Blessed be the HZ body.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know. Jesus. I just came from Community. I feel like I&#8217;m in a TOS Trek episode and the Archons are living in their own robotized stupor &#8211; with brief moments of complete debauchery and destruction.</p>
<p>&#8220;Peace, friend. Joy be with you. Are you of the HZ body?&#8221;</p>
<p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3e/dc/18/3edc18fde843198dc5b095f94d69a413.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>From now on, I&#8217;m just nodding my head.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sure. The body is one. Blessed be the HZ body.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33536</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;One famous fish.&lt;/p&gt;

Look up anything related to radioactive fish off Japan, and you find this one 12,400 Bq fish, one of 37 caught by researchers 22 miles from the plant in the fall of 2013. The others had far lower readings, only two above the 100 Bq/kg limit Japan has set, and well below the 1,200 Bq/kg limit set by the U.S. FDA. For additional reference, 100 Bq/kg is the natural radioactivity of the normal human body.

If any hotter fish had been found since, it would be the example in all the stories.

Aren&#039;t there enough people making things nuts around here?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One famous fish.</p>
<p>Look up anything related to radioactive fish off Japan, and you find this one 12,400 Bq fish, one of 37 caught by researchers 22 miles from the plant in the fall of 2013. The others had far lower readings, only two above the 100 Bq/kg limit Japan has set, and well below the 1,200 Bq/kg limit set by the U.S. FDA. For additional reference, 100 Bq/kg is the natural radioactivity of the normal human body.</p>
<p>If any hotter fish had been found since, it would be the example in all the stories.</p>
<p>Aren&#8217;t there enough people making things nuts around here?</p>
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		<title>By: SDAI-Tech</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33535</link>
		<dc:creator>SDAI-Tech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 06:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The ecosystems around Japan are definitely messed up. Back in November 2013, a fish was caught and tested at 12,400 becquerels per kilogram. Eating that fish would be someone&#039;s final meal. How many thousands of fish are swimming the Pacific with lethal levels of radiation? How many will die from eating contaminated fish that go untested and unscreened? We can only guess.

The 1.6 and 2.6 Bq being found in samples from off the West coast seem like nothing. But most folks believe it will just keep climbing over time.

The clampdown on almost all data out of Japan is no accident. Lawsuits can best be avoided by the total media blackout. 

I don&#039;t think TEPCO or the Japanese government has done an adequate job. I think the Russian response to Chernobyl was more decisive and dedicated.

The FDA isn&#039;t radiation screening US harvested fish only fish imported from Japan:

&quot;What about fish that swim from the reactor site into U.S. fishing waters?

Japan to U.S. waters would take several days under the best of circumstances. Vessels fishing in waters far off U.S. shores must also travel several days to return to port. It is unlikely that a fish exposed to significant levels of radionuclides near the reactor could travel to U.S. waters and be caught and harvested. If this improbable trip did occur, the level of short-lived radionuclides such as I-131 would drop significantly through natural radioactive decay during the time needed to make the journey. At this time, Japanese tests have detected longer-lived radionuclides such as Cs-137 in only a few samples and at levels below FDA DILs. FDA’s testing of fish imported from Japan has not detected the presence of Cs-137.

In the unlikely scenario that pollutants could affect fish that have traveled to the U.S., FDA will work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)to test seafood caught in those areas. Together FDA and NOAA will also inspect facilities that process and sell seafood from those areas.&quot;

So at this moment, and for the past four years you could buy a can of Chicken of the Sea or Starkist Tuna and no one has screened it for excess radiation. That&#039;s INSANE.

Tuna do migrate from Japan to the US and other fish do too.  I understand the desire to protect the fishing industry, but, at best, it&#039;s reckless.  I wouldn&#039;t want my kid to be the one that gets thyroid cancer and no doctor &quot;knows&quot; why or how it could happen. 

It&#039;s the Ford Pinto all over again. Redesigning the car not to blow up would be more expensive than the lawsuits settled from those who die in the crashes. Maybe 1000 people die from radiation induced cancer from consuming contaminated fish? And how many hospitals will report or screen for it? They just don&#039;t care. It&#039;s not worth the time or money to screen all the fish being caught. 

That&#039;s why Chinese drivers back up their cars after they hit someone - to make sure they are dead. It&#039;s cheaper to pay a wrongful death claim than a lifetime of payments to someone injured.

Not exactly the high moral threshold I would like to see our scientific community or government maintain.
 
But that&#039;s the level of morality we&#039;ve got.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ecosystems around Japan are definitely messed up. Back in November 2013, a fish was caught and tested at 12,400 becquerels per kilogram. Eating that fish would be someone&#8217;s final meal. How many thousands of fish are swimming the Pacific with lethal levels of radiation? How many will die from eating contaminated fish that go untested and unscreened? We can only guess.</p>
<p>The 1.6 and 2.6 Bq being found in samples from off the West coast seem like nothing. But most folks believe it will just keep climbing over time.</p>
<p>The clampdown on almost all data out of Japan is no accident. Lawsuits can best be avoided by the total media blackout. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think TEPCO or the Japanese government has done an adequate job. I think the Russian response to Chernobyl was more decisive and dedicated.</p>
<p>The FDA isn&#8217;t radiation screening US harvested fish only fish imported from Japan:</p>
<p>&#8220;What about fish that swim from the reactor site into U.S. fishing waters?</p>
<p>Japan to U.S. waters would take several days under the best of circumstances. Vessels fishing in waters far off U.S. shores must also travel several days to return to port. It is unlikely that a fish exposed to significant levels of radionuclides near the reactor could travel to U.S. waters and be caught and harvested. If this improbable trip did occur, the level of short-lived radionuclides such as I-131 would drop significantly through natural radioactive decay during the time needed to make the journey. At this time, Japanese tests have detected longer-lived radionuclides such as Cs-137 in only a few samples and at levels below FDA DILs. FDA’s testing of fish imported from Japan has not detected the presence of Cs-137.</p>
<p>In the unlikely scenario that pollutants could affect fish that have traveled to the U.S., FDA will work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)to test seafood caught in those areas. Together FDA and NOAA will also inspect facilities that process and sell seafood from those areas.&#8221;</p>
<p>So at this moment, and for the past four years you could buy a can of Chicken of the Sea or Starkist Tuna and no one has screened it for excess radiation. That&#8217;s INSANE.</p>
<p>Tuna do migrate from Japan to the US and other fish do too.  I understand the desire to protect the fishing industry, but, at best, it&#8217;s reckless.  I wouldn&#8217;t want my kid to be the one that gets thyroid cancer and no doctor &#8220;knows&#8221; why or how it could happen. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s the Ford Pinto all over again. Redesigning the car not to blow up would be more expensive than the lawsuits settled from those who die in the crashes. Maybe 1000 people die from radiation induced cancer from consuming contaminated fish? And how many hospitals will report or screen for it? They just don&#8217;t care. It&#8217;s not worth the time or money to screen all the fish being caught. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s why Chinese drivers back up their cars after they hit someone &#8211; to make sure they are dead. It&#8217;s cheaper to pay a wrongful death claim than a lifetime of payments to someone injured.</p>
<p>Not exactly the high moral threshold I would like to see our scientific community or government maintain.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s the level of morality we&#8217;ve got.</p>
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		<title>By: mcfly</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33529</link>
		<dc:creator>mcfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gotcha. In that case, RL&#039;s sure been posting lots of Flames lately!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gotcha. In that case, RL&#8217;s sure been posting lots of Flames lately!</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33528</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shoving facts in someone&#039;s face around here IS a Flame.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shoving facts in someone&#8217;s face around here IS a Flame.</p>
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		<title>By: mcfly</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33527</link>
		<dc:creator>mcfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2015 23:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Knock some teeth out. This is Flame.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Knock some teeth out. This is Flame.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2015/11/06/fukushima/#comment-33522</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You can pull their chain. Don&#039;t try to pull mine. :)&lt;/p&gt;

Look up &quot;The Blob&quot; and &quot;Pacific decadal oscillation.&quot;

Fun fact: Maximum EPA safe level for Cesium-137 in drinking water is 7,400 Bq/cubic meter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can pull their chain. Don&#8217;t try to pull mine. <img src='https://habitablezone.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Look up &#8220;The Blob&#8221; and &#8220;Pacific decadal oscillation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fun fact: Maximum EPA safe level for Cesium-137 in drinking water is 7,400 Bq/cubic meter.</p>
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