When the Titanic initially struck an iceberg, as with the recent Italian cruise-liner to run aground, the crew told everyone on board that the jarring noise was "engine trouble". It was only when it was glaringly obvious that the ship was sinking did the crew sound the alarm. Well something similar is happening on board 'Spaceship Earth', we're capsized and rapidly taking on water while the crew is reassuring us that an economic recovery, "Green Shoots" are visible, that the unemployment figure is really under 10% when in reality a quarter of all able bodied Americans (including this author) are out of work and being pushed off their 99 weeks into non-person hood (this author is already a non-person, is ineligible for and not collecting unemployment insurance), and Corporate America is gearing up to do battle, pulling out all the stops -- thanks to the Citizens United ruling in favor of Corporate Personhood -- pitting Wall Street's representative: Barrack "Drone Strike" Obama against Mitt "Corporate Fiefdom" Romney for title of Arch-Moron.

A friend recently notified me of the following article, and I include it here lest visitors to this blog think I am a fear-mongering, "conspiracy theorist". I have done all I can to shed light on this issue, if you think this is just hysteria then as the old saying goes "you can lead a horse to water...", I am already in the planning stages of relocating south of the border, until now I have contemplated the move for purely political reasons. As expat Morris Berman elucidates here, America has become a theme park, with its citizenry trapped in a virtual realm of Facebook, American Idol, NASCAR, NFL, Vampires, Zombies, Superheroes, Disneyland and Fox News. Truly a Brave New World, America's descent into Totalitarianism was not accomplished by way of a charismatic leader, a Mao Tse-Tung or Joseph Stalin, Inverted Totalitarianism, as defined by Sheldon Wolin here, "finds its expression in the anonymity of the corporate state".

I was hopeful that, by joining a growing chorus of courageous social critics, journalists and scientists of every stripe that maybe, just maybe, I could help jog our collective conscience, averting the worst effects of our pending ecological and social nightmare, but I fear that the plan of "The Elites" to chemically poison "The Masses" with Sodium Fluoride and Chemtrails and all manner of chemical warfare intentionally placed in the environment for the purpose of pacification, coupled with sophisticated distractions, is proving to be too much of a barrier to collectively responding in any meaningful way to the crises that threaten not only our autonomy but our continued survival.

No you say? "Why I have been drinking Sodium Fluoride all my life and I consider myself to be quite intelligent!"

Oh really? I don't believe the destruction of one's home in the pursuit of ego fortification, the accumulation of perceived material wealth, hedonism nor the enslavement of one's brother and oneself to that end is intelligent behavior.

With cognitive impairment, from a subjective perspective, those impaired are unaware of their diminished cognitive capacity. Our collective mythos abounds with accounts of people exhibiting super-human abilities: telepathy, remote viewing, telekinesis even, what do you think the limits of the Human mind are? Well, if you think this is just nonsense then please explain that to the scientists who conducted a multitude of empirical studies confirming the existence of extrasensory phenomena at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) and elsewhere, to say nothing of government sponsored programs like the Stargate Project.

Chew on this, ~15 Billion Earth Years Ago there was the Big Bang, where everything in the Universe, which is expanding (what is it expanding into by the way?), and I am talking an estimated 500 Billion Galaxies worth of Mass and Energy, (just try to visualize our own solar system for a moment, much less the Galaxy in which it resides, let alone 500 Billion), was confined to the area of a pin-head. And from what we know now of Quantum Entanglement, that photons exhibit instantaneous communication with each other after being split in a laboratory, irrespective of distance to each other, in violation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity (that nothing travels faster than the speed of light), and that 95% of the Universe is comprised of something we call "Dark Matter" but do not understand, is it a stretch to consider the possibility that everything is interconnected? Would it be a further stretch to conclude that the many times you have had a psychic experience but rationalized it away (again, a further testament of successful programming on part of "The Elites" who want you to remain disempowered), say for example, the thought of someone, totally random and out of the blue, a moment before your phone rings and they are on the other end of the line would be an example of this interconnection, this Entanglement?

I am not a believer in this ability through intellectual inquiry, but through direct experience, so there is no way I am moving on the subject.

I will say this, and this is a historical fact, the Nazi's did put Sodium Fluoride into the drinking water of the Jewish captives to keep then docile. I can hear it already, "this is conspiracy theory nonsense, I am wasting time with this, I must return to change the order of my pictures on Facebook!"

Meanwhile, Rome burns...

(FYI, Reverse Osmosis will remove the Sodium Fluoride, normal carbon based water filters will not, and most bottled water is from municipal sources and has it)


More on this issue here: http://philosophersbunker.blogspot.com/2012/02/numbing-out-of-america-public-apathy.html


Mass Extinction or (r)Evolution of Consciousness?....Both? 


Onto the article:


Source: http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/u-s-army-general-the-whole-northern-hemisphere-is-at-risk-of-becoming-largely-uninhabitable_05252012

U.S. Army General: The Whole Northern Hemisphere is at Risk of Becoming Largely Uninhabitable

Mac Slavo May 25th, 2012 SHTFplan.com

You may have entertained the idea of an improbable civilization ending events such as a ‘global killer’ asteroid, earth crust displacement or massive solar storms, but what if there existed a situation right now that was so serious that it literally threatened our very existence?

According to a host of scientists, nuclear experts and researchers, were are facing exactly such a scenario – and current efforts may not be able to stop it.

When the Fukushima nuclear plants sustained structural damage and a catastrophic failure of their spent fuel cooling systems in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, it left the government of Japan, Tokyo Power and nuclear regulatory agencies around the world powerless to contain the release of deadly radiation. A year on, the battle for control of Fukushima continues to no avail.

It’s estimated that tens of thousands of people in Japan and the whole of North America have been affected, with reports indicating that children in Japan and the U.S. are already being born with birth defects, as well as thousands who have already succumbed to radiation related illness. As we initially followed the breaking news during the first thirty days of the accident, we suggested the Fukushima disaster would be worse than Chernobyl. Not even we could have imagined howmuch worse it would be.

If current estimates are correct, Fukushima has already released as much radiation into the atmosphere and Pacific Ocean as Chernobyl, and the potential for a disaster at least ten times worse is highly probable in the event of another earthquake or accident that leads to a collapse of the cooling structures which are above ground and have already suffered significant damage.

According to U.S. Army General Albert N. Stubblebine (ret.) of the Natural Solutions Foundation, the situation is extremely serious and poses a significant danger to our entire civilization. Since TEPCO and the Japanese government have refused the entombment option (as the Russians did with Chernobyl) the world is at the mercy of nature. A mistake here would cause the deaths of tens of millions of people across the globe.

If there ever existed a threat that could cause the end of the world as we know it, it’s the ongoing and unresolved nuclear saga in Japan:

When the highly radioactive Spent Fuel Rods are exposed to air, there will be massive explosions releasing many times the amount or radiation released thus far. Bizarrely, they are stored three stories above ground in open concrete storage pools. Whether through evaporation of the water in the pools, or due to the inevitable further collapse of the structure, there is a severe risk. United States public health authorities agree that tens of thousands of North Americans have already died from the Fukushima calamity. When the final cataclysm occurs, sooner rather than later, the whole Northern Hemisphere is at risk of becoming largely uninhabitable.
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Fact. On March 11, 2011, Fukushima Daichi nuclear power station with six nuclear reactors suffered cataclysmic damage that some believe was a man made event,and the resulting Tsunami. Hydrogen explosions…at least one nuclear explosion… and then subsequent deterioration of the visible plants at five of those reactors have created a threat situation unparalleled in human history.
Fact. Despite denial and cover-up, the reality has emerged, that enormous amounts of radioactive material has been spewing into the atmosphere, polluting the groundwater, and the food of Japan, and entering by the tens of millions of gallons the waters of the Pacific.
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There’s no way to sugarcoat these facts. Denying them, blocking them out, pretending that they are not real is of no help to you and your family, and it leaves you totally unprepared for a danger that the Natural Solutions Foundation has been warning about since the first day. As of three weeks ago the levels of radiation inside of the spent fuel pools of unit no. 2 are too high to measure. Get that… too high to measure. And, the water there is evaporating, meaning that heat and radiation could easily build to very high levels.
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Very simply put, if this much Cesium 137 is released, it will destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugulistic debate over nuclear power plants.
This is an issue of human survival.

We can play the denial game all day long and pretend that, because the mainstream media is not reporting on it, there is no threat, but the facts are quite clear.

This is, without a doubt, the most immediate threat faced by the world. It’s so serious, in fact, that the Japanese government has considered and put into place evacuation plans for the whole of Tokyo – some 40 million people. Reports are also emerging that suggest a collapse of the spent fuel pools would be so serious that the entire country of Japan may have to be evacuated. The entire country – that’s 125 million refugees that will cause an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.

Before you argue that these are the ravings of just alternative media conspiracy theorists and fearmongers, consider the assessment put forth by Robert Alvarez , a senior policy adviser to the Secretary for National Security and the Environment for the US Department of Energy:

The No. 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident.
The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors.  Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo.  In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks.. As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters.
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The total spent reactor fuel inventory at the Fukushima-Daichi site contains nearly half of  the total amount of Cs-137 estimated by the NCRP to have been released by all atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, Chernobyl, and world-wide reprocessing plants (~270 million curies or ~9.9 E+18 Becquerel).
It is important for the public to understand that reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site, have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet.

Regulatory agencies all over the world are warning of the potentiality of a further degradation of the Fukushima nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools, and the subsequent nuclear fallout that would follow.

If these reactors go – and they could at any moment for any number of reasons – we’re looking at a situation for which you simply cannot stock enough food, or water, or supplies. Radiation would spread across the entire northern hemisphere and would be impossible to contain.

While we’ve argued in the past that there is no place we’d rather be than in the United States of America in the event of a socio-economic collapse or global conflict, if these spent fuel pools collapse, then an international exit strategy may be the only option.

Because details are sparse and research limited, it is difficult to predict what nuclear fall out from Japan may look like. The following map may be of some help, as it details the estimated fallout pattern resulting from a nuclear war between Russia and the United States. You’ll note that, while most of the world would be irradiated, the southern hemisphere would be your best bet to avoid the brunt of it:

(via Where Do I Go If Fukushima Blows?)

Beachfront property in Antarctica sounds quite appealing right about now.

The splitting of the atom changed everything, save Man's mode of thinking - Albert Einstein