- America can't stand intellectuals. I know I can't.
But we still still respect intelligence combined with knoweldge and experience.
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- In college (Lake Forest) I completed a year of physics,
courses in chemsitry, biology, math, logic, philosophy of science, psychology,
sociology etc. I majored in economics. In graduate school I plodded through
courses in experimental psychology, linquistics, six courses in statistics,
econometrics, and courses in the doctoral program in economics at Texas
A & M -- so much education I never was any good at honest work --
however I did learn a few things about sampling and statistical inference.
I tell you this in the hope that you will put a little weight in what
I am about to say about radiation testing in this country following the
sabotage of the Fukushima atomic energy complex that amounts to a nuclear
dirty bomb attack against us. So here we go:
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- We have gotten single individual samplings from several
parts of the country. We all know that radiation was found in milk in
Spokane Washington. Merely a trace, they told us. Nothing to worry about.
But let me point out:
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- 1. At Chernobyl it was found that very strong radiation
could be found right next to a place with no signs of radiation at all.
In other words radioactive contaminants carried by wind did not disribute
evenly in the countries where the wind carried it. This fact means that
a few spot checks of sampling is worthless in telling us how serious the
problem of contamination of milk really is.
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- 2. Eastman's Point: Taking adequate samples each showing
zero radiation is way the heck not the same thing as taking zero samples
in order to arrive at zero samples showing radiation.
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- When the state tested sample cows or dairies for radiation
and got a postiive reading they stopped taking samples and no more was
heard about it. They said this was just a trace and nothing to worry about,
"see you next year." Way wrong! Given the fact of the way Chernobyl
radiation was distributed in Eastern Europe (and Sweden where Plutonium
reached) it was imperative that a thousand of samples (three or four per
location) be taken throughout the Pacific Northwest by this time following
the Spokane reading. Bu twhat was imperative for our welfare never happened.
Homeland Security did absolutley nothing - even though Fukushima is exactly
a dirty bomb directed at the US.
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- There have been no more tests around Spokane -- and
the media seems to be treating it just as if the thousand tests had been
made and they all came up zero. Homeland Security, the Obama Administration,
the Department of Engery, the Department of the Interior, the Agriculture
Department HAVE NOT conducted the necessary tests. The Governor of Washington
HAS NOT ordered the required testing. And people are let to believe that
"no news is good news" == that not taking the samples is to be
viewed with the same relief and satisfaction as if a thousand samples were
taken and all ended up negative.
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- Is government that stupid? Are the specialists in toxicity,
pollution, public health, agriculture etc. all shy, or afraid to speak
up, or busy with more important matters? I don't think so.
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- In every country in the world there is a government of
puppets , each with a central bank, an army, a police force and an anti-terrorism
program -- and each of these governments does what it is told by the international
banking interests who are hostile to the common people of eacdh of those
nations -- and does it look like our government is any different? If
they gave a darn about Americans do you think they would be deliberately
avoiding taking the necessary steps to determine the extent and shape of
our nuclear contamination problem?
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- There has been no follow-up on the Spokane finding --
or if there has it has been too small and two under-reported because no
one can find any anywhere on the internet in any news stories.
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- 3. Yes, it causes trouble and people may panic and it
is unpleasant to the theater management when someone yells, "Fire!"
in a crowded theater. And yes, people may get hurt in a stampede. But
what if the building really is on fire and people really will burn to death
if they don't get out?
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- 4. They know the building with us in it is on fire,
and they have turned off the fire alarms and are not allowing the theater
ushers to tell what they know about the flames in the projector room.
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- The politicans and those who own them-- those behind
the 3-11 tsunami and the dirty bomb, the economic meltdown and 9-11 --
know that in the US the deaths will not come fast as radiation sickness,
but will manifest in cancers and birth defects and all of those human health
problems and environmental problems (animals and vegetation all have genes
that can be modified by neutron bombardment -- "Chernobly AIDS"
for example. This governance class knows that when cancer appears or a
birth defect no one will be able to say for sure whether the defect was
just the result of a roll of the genetic dice that the parents carried
with them in their inherited gene pool or whether some stray cosmic ray
did the deed rather than plutonium or cesium from Fukushima. They can
make sure there will always be plausible deniability -- be ensuring that
there will always be inadequate sampling.
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- As usual, I am going to close with an exhortation that
Americans start right away talking this over-- explaining the situation
to each other and then -- some great saints I am praying for -- take to
the streets and demand what we really need -- massive sampling, raqdiation
detectors avbailable to the general public, fast analysis and reporting
from different independent agencies -- a national emergency -- why the
heck even have the concept of national emergency if you cannot call on
an occasion like this? Then take to the streets and -- like the great
Egyptian people -- stay in the streets until you get what you are asking
for or the governance crowd is driven from the country. (And ask for paper
ballots in every state - going into locked ballot boxes with poll watchers
and public video cameras on the box and the counters the whole time --
etc. - you'll find it amazing what good things you can think of to demand
once you are out there with everhyone walkiing up and down main street.
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- There. Class is over. You have completed the course.
(Now I can tell you that I can't remember 90 percent of what I learned
in college -- and a lot of my grades were "C's" -- but at least
I got a respectful hearing from you. Now let's each think for himself.
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- Dick Eastman
- Yakima, Washington
- Every man is responsible to every other man
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- From: bigbucks
- To: minlab@xxxxxxx
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- Hello Minlab,
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- Thanks for you best efforts and your radiation mapping
informaton.
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- I have been following much of the radiation release discourse
and per Mr. Eastman's attached article, I would ask what types of radiation
your participating monitors are measuring? Are they--as Eastman [and many
others] suggest--only measuring Iodine radioactive isotopes--and/or are
the monitoring GeigerCounters actually capable differentiating and
measuring one type of radiation isotope from another [let's say
iodine from plutonium]?
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- It is also my limited understanding that Mox fuel radiation
output [one of the most dangerous] cannot be measured unless
one has a very expensive and sophisticated measuring instrument. Is
there anyone within your monotoring network who has access to one of these
devices?
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- In brief - does your radiation network http://www.radiationnetwork.com/ provide
meaningful information as it relates to all relevant types of dangerous
radiation releases from the Fukushima Power Plant--or are we [USA] subject
to an unknown type and quantity of radiation--which may have significant
ill health effects both in the near term and long term time frames?
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- Sincerely,
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- Gary Schofield
- I have included the above concerned global citizens to
help in this important dialogue.
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