Thursday, May 24, 2012

#Time4Hemp Fukushima Alert on American Freedom Radio



SPEND 6 DAYS AT FUKUSHIMA WHILE TAKING TIME 4 HEMP!

On May 25, 2012 'Time 4 Hemp - LIVE!' launches an every Friday segment for 6-weeks focused on the disaster at Fukushima with Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) as the first expert guest airing globally on http://www.AmericanFreedomRadio.com 10-11a.m. (PST) and on AM / FM stations across the USA.

The World Health Organization recently stated that the radiation affecting residents in Japan's Fukushimaprefecture since the nuclear plant disaster started is below the reference level for public exposure in all but two areas and the world is safe from any danger once thought to be looming from the area - yet, many experts in the field strongly disagree.  

Japanese Ambassador Murata is among those that have joined the growing chorus which  include US Senatorswho are warning the problems at Fukushima nuclear reactor 4 is now the single greatest short-term threat to humanity and has the potential to destroy our world and civilization as we know it.  Dr. Michio Kaku, nuclear physicist and professor of physics at the City University of New York states; "the whole world is being exposedto the radiation from Fukushima.  The still-ongoing catastrophe at the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi power plantin Japan has caused radioactivity to be circulating around the entire Earth.” 

After visiting Fukushima, Senator Ron Wyden warned that the situation was worse than reported and has encouraged Japan to accept international help.  Currently, an international coalition of nuclear scientists and non-profit groups are calling on the U.N. to coordinate a multinational effort to stabilize the fuel pools.

Evacuations are underway in Japan according to the BBC.  Other reliable news sources report that the fall out from 'black dust' could result in health complications and perhaps death for millions of people in Japan and around the world.

This topic might seem to be 'outside the box' for a M-F radio show that is focused on ending marijuana/hemp prohibition; yet current research - along with Human History - indicate that industrial hemp could very well beone of the most important aspects in solving the many different problems that continue grow from a nightmare that began with a tsunami. 

Hosting this presentation is Casper Leitch along with Joint-Host, Michale Krawitz.  For those who miss the live broadcast, each segment of the series is archived and free to download and share at:
http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/Time_4_Hemp_12.html

Please share this information with everyone you feel would enjoy knowing about it. 

Monday, May 14, 2012

Dial M For Mass Murder - Fukushima Nuclear Disaster In Process




Because of multi government lies, promoted by the main stream media and press, a lot of this information was washed under as the president and others lied about the dangers from Radiation coming from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.


(Update Reactor 4 is also in dangerous condition - Read Fukushima, Hanging By A Thread.)
Text below.

Dial M For Mass Murder


Fukushima Japan, March 2011

A 9.0 earthquake off the northern coast of Japan triggers a large Tsunami that slams into the Fukushima Diachi Nuclear Plant.

All cooling functions at the plant are lost and “3 GE Mark I Boiling Water Reactors” and 4 Spent Fuel Pools begin to enter an uncontrollable criticality.

Each Mark I Reactor contains 100 tons of fuel.

Unit 1’s, GE Mark 1! reactor, suffers a complete meltdown.  Hydrogen gas built up in the Containment Building.  It explodes and all containment is ruptured.

The Reactor’s Core and 8 Years worth of Spent Fuel melt down, are free to enter the atmosphere.

Two days later Unit 3’s GE Mark I Reactor suffers a hydrogen Explosion.  This explosion differs from the first because Weapons Grade Plutonium was also being used as a fuel in this reactor.

When the Hydrogen gas exploded it triggered a small nuclear explosion.  Ejecting the contents of Unit 3 into the Atmosphere.

(Images of Unit 1 – March 12, 2011 vs. Unit 3 March 14, 2011 explosions
Fukushima fission reactor vs. mini fission nuke)

Plutonium is the deadliest element known to man.

Man created Plutonium.  Ten pounds of Plutonium evenly distributed could kill-off the population 10 times over.

There were 10 tons of Plutonium in Unit 3.

Unit 4’s reactor is empty [ Since this piece was done it's ben discovered Reactor 4 is a danger also http://technorati.com/lifestyle/green/article/fukushima-reactor-4-release-would-doom/. ] Spent Fuel Pool has 8 years of Fuel cooling.

The water in the Spent Fuel Pool boils off and leaves the spent fuel rods exposed.  Hydrogen is released and another explosion occurs, rupturing containment.

What was once a sprawling trophy to commercial nuclear power…..Is now a smoldering nightmare.

(image Unit 3 fuel pool – gentle steam from it 11-03-27 10:18)

Some Facts About the Fukushima Diiachi Meltdown/Melt-Throughs:  In the first week of Meltdown, Fukushima released more radioactive Cessium than Chernobyl and all of the Nuclear Bombs detonated during atmospheric testing. The 100 ton fuel cores of Unites 1, 2 and 3 melted through containment and fell into the basements of the Reactor Buildings.  Tepco confirmed this July 6th, 2011. The cores most likely melted through the concrete and entered the ground and water tables.

Chernobyl was a 7 as rated by the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA). Fukushima should be an 8+ and still has not been contained. There are millions of people in Japan living in radiation levels higher than that of the No-Go Zones of Chernobyl. 34,000 Fukushima children between the ages of 4 and 15 are wearing radiation detectors to measure the bioaccumulation of radiation at their School Grounds.

Since mid-March 2011, large amounts of Radioactive Fallout and Hot Particles have made their way to North America.

The EPA stopped monitoring Fallout from Fukushima in late April, 2011. Before they stopped measuring radioactive fallout Radioactive Iodine, Cesium, Zeon, and Uranium were measured in the U.S. at hundreds of times the legal background limit.

Thousands of tons of Radioactive water have been released by Tokyo Power and Electric Co. (TEPCO) into the Pacific Ocean, contaminating water and sea life.  Elements like Cessium and Uranium have half lives of thousands of years.

TEPC and General Electric (GE) continue to obfuscate and hide the truth.  It took 3 months to admit that a meltdown occurred in Units 1-3 and close to four months until a melt-Through had been confirmed.

The Japanese Government and TEPCO have yet to begin entombing the reactors, because radiation levels are so high, that skilled technicians and engineers can only work for minutes at a time, before receiving their yearly dose of radiation.  A few hours on site would lead to death.

“Hot Particles” are microscopic radioactive particles that travel with weather and wind patterns.  When “Hot Particles” are ingested by humans they lodge in Lung and Bone tissues and create CANCERS in the surrounding cells.

Citizens in Tokyo, Japan are inhaling 40 hot particles a day.

Citizens in Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California are inhaling 5 hot particles a day.
After years of decline two large American cities, Philadelphia and Seattle have seen a 35% rise in Infant Mortality rates from the months of March 2011-July 2011.

Radiation levels that are multiple times above legal limits, as set by the environmental Protection Agency, have been detected in rain water, milk, fish, dairy products, vegetables, fruits and beef products in the United States.  This has not been covered by the mainstream media.

WHAT’S NEXT??? Video by Brian Rich  Special Thanks to Arnie and Maggie Gundersen for their generous truth telling in the last 130+ days.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Second Floor Of Reactor Building of Unit 4 at Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Site



When I started working on the Computer Underground Railroad back in the early 1990's I wrote that my mission was to use computers and other technology to help people be free.

With this crisis, I am shifting.

I am using computers and other technology to stay alive.

ALL HANDS ON DECK

Please pay attention and do what you can to solve the radiation crisis from the Fukushima nuclear plant that the government has been lying about.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Kevin Kamps On Fukushima Disaster In Process

(updated video)

Thank you Kevin Kamps and crew for the work you are doing in the field of the Fukushima nuclear disaster while the press and other media wants us to pay attention to the current celebrity match up or who the stars are dancing with. Folks better pay attention to the nuclear reality we have caused with our lazy energy policy that has safe clean energies either illegal or under-financed (i.e. hemp, solar, hydro, magnetic, algae, energies etc.)

There is a nuclear holocaust in process.  For a year the governments have said that the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant is under control.  The truth is it is far from under control and unless the people of the world unite to deal with this crisis now, it will be the most world changing event in humanity, possibly equal to the extinction of the dinosaurs.



Kevin Kamps Beyond Nuclear http://www.beyondnuclear.org



For live up to the minute rad readings per minute, visit the Radiation Network http://www.radiationnetwork.com/  They have geiger counters positioned in many places, including the US, that give radiation readings updated every minute.  The black boxes on the map, those are nuclear power stations.  


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Hemp Solution

We have many problems we are dealing with in these wild and modern times including, but not limited to the UN declared world food crisis, the excessive chronic radiation exposure from our Japan Fukushima nuclear plant, our shattered economies and health systems from industrial and government incompetency.

It is time to rethink everything. With a little bit of common sense, we can answer that call and save our lives.

I've put together with a lot of help from friends and family three research documents to assist our generations in fulfilling our responsibilities to seven generations ahead.  They include:

USE HEMP FOODS TO SOLVE THE UN DECLARED WORLD FOOD CRISIS  Hemp foods are versatile, delicious and full of nutrition. Hemp flours can make anything wheat or other flours can like pastas, textured vegetable proteins, cakes and breads.  Hemp leaves for salads, seasonings and soups. 

Hemp foods can even help with world peace.  For instance, last summer over 29,000 children died of hunger in Somalia...no mention of the adults who died of hunger before the children did.  If Somalia, a coastal country, had been growing sufficient amounts of hemp, those children would not have died from hunger.  Not mentioned in the report is the probability that the war lords, if they had smoked a peace pipe, probably would have been too relaxed to want to kill people. Of course if hemp food could be grown on the 1/3 of the continental US land that the federal government owns and is not using, that would be another source of international food.  Based on resources, there is no need for anybody to be hungry, save greed.
  
HEMP OIL MISSION - The many financial and health opportunities available in the medical, spiritual and recreational hemp oil fields.

Hemp oils offer us a plethora of healing opportunities.  Medical grade oils like Rick Simpson's cancer oil that sends cancers into remission, or hemp seed oil that assists in nourishing the body, are covered.  Also included are uses for recreational and spiritual grades of hemp oils too.  Small business and individual empowerment are the focus in this mission plan, parts of which are adaptable to many situations.

ACTIVIST ALERT! DO WHAT THEY DID IN CHERNOBYL, USE HEMP!!! The governments of the world are lying about the radiation coming off of our Japan.  It is highly radioactive and some of it has already reached US shores.  If we become pro active, we can save ourselves. Hemp is one of the main elements that can help.  

This quickly compiled report featuring full length reports from experts including the article from the AP in March, 2012 which revealed the melt down was not only still in process, but that the nuclear rods have 'less than 2' and not the yards of water covering them.  This report also covers hemp phytoremediation for cleaning soil, medicine for fighting the cancers and other illness from chronic radiation exposure, hemp construction materials to encase the Fukushima plant with a blend of hemp plastic which is 10 times stronger than steel according to Henry Ford, building materials and lead (with a magnetic powered cooling system).

Of course there are other things we can do. For instance, at Chernobyl scientists also found radiation eating mushrooms, as reported by Albert Einstein University in New York.  More on that soon.
  
By Scott Norris
for National Geographic News
May 22, 2007

Saturday, April 14, 2012

About That Men On The Moon Thing

For those who still believe the government's story about the men on the moon, ask why it's never been replicated, part of the definition of science, that made the claim.



9/11 - Time For Truth (2011)



9/11 - Time For Truth is a look at some of the incidents surrounding and on 9/11/2001.

Part 1 - Prior Knowledge
Who Knew ?

Part 2 - Osama Bin Laden
Who Created the Prince of Terror ?

Part 3 - Stand Down 
Where were the Fighter Jets ?

Part 4 - The Towers
Controlled Demolition ?

Part 5 - The Media
Media Coverup ?

by


rodder666

9/11 - Time For Truth 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ngF9oVY7I&feature=channel_video_title


9/11 - Time For Truth 3 - Official Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1GzWGNKhzk&feature=plcp&context=C4069...

Pilots For 9/11 Truth Presents "9/11 INTERCEPTED" - (Full Film) MUST WA...

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

WHY the USA is IGNORING Fukushima Japan Radiation Fallout, Campaign Cont...

60 Minutes Report: Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone: Will Impact All Of ...

April, 2011 - EPA Finds Radiation 300% Over Limits In Milk and Drinking Wa...




Uploaded by  on Apr 12, 2011
This is an upload of an interview with Alexander Higgins on the IntelHubradio show. The Corporate controlled media have been criminally negligent in covering up the truth about the horrific scale and scope of the Japanese nuclear disaster. Thanks to individuals like Alexander Higgins and alternative media sites like IntelHub, Jeff Rense and others, the truth about the Japanese nuclear disaster is being reported. The radioactive fallout is now in the air, water, milk, and the food supply across North America, Europe, and Asia, and it is getting worse every day. Do not believe the Corporate controlled media, THERE IS NO SAFE or HARMLESS Levels of radiation, period!

Here is some of the radiation data that the EPA has been collecting and suppressing.

•Little Rock milk radiation -- 3 times the EPA Maximum
•Radiation in Philly Drinking Water 73% of federal drinking water standards.

•Los Angeles milk radiation was above federal drinking water standards.
•Radiation found in Phoenix milk was almost at the federal drinking water standard.
•Radioactive Iodine in Boise Idaho rainwater was 130 times above Federal Drinking Water standards.
•Radioactive Caesium was 13.66 times above federal limit for Caesium-134, 2 year half-life.
•Radioactive Caesium was 12 times federal limit for Caesium-137, 30 year half-life.
•Tennessee drinking water was detected with radiation slightly above 1/2 the federal maximum.
•Radioactive Iodine has been detected in the drinking water across the entire US in the following states: California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Tennessee, Montana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, and Alabama, as well as in Canada.
•Cesium and Tellurium were found in Boise, Las Vegas, Nome and Dutch Harbor, Honolulu, Kauai and Oahu, Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco, and San Bernardino, Jacksonville and Orlando, Salt Lake City, Guam, and Saipan.
•Uranium-234, with a half-life of 245,500 years has been found in Hawaii, California, and Washington.

Here are some sites that contain information and research about the nuclear disaster and global radioactive fallout

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/

http://theintelhubradio.com/

http://enenews.com/

http://www.rense.com/

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling

Fukushima Japan Radiation Spreads Worldwide by Arnie Gundersen 8/22/11




Uploaded by  on Aug 22, 2011
New Data Supports Previous Fairewinds Analysis, as Contamination Spreads in Japan and Worldwide

Newly released neutron data from three University of California San Diego scientists confirms Fairewinds' April analysis that the nuclear core at Fukushima Daiichi turned on and off after TEPCO claimed its reactors had been shutdown. This periodic nuclear chain reaction (inadvertent criticality) continued to contaminate the surrounding environment and upper atmosphere with large doses of radioactivity.

In a second area of concern, Fairewinds disagrees the NRC's latest report claiming that all Fukushima spent fuel pools had no problems following the earthquake. In a new revelation, the NRC claims that the plutonium found more than 1 mile offsite actually came from inside the nuclear reactors. If such a statement were true, it indicates that the nuclear power plant containments failed and were breached with debris landing far from the power plants themselves. Such a failure of the containment system certainly necessitates a complete review of all US reactor containment design and industry assurances that containments will hold in radioactivity in the event of a nuclear accident. The evidence Fairewinds reviewed to date continues to support its April analysis that the detonation in the Unit 3 Spent Fuel pool was the cause of plutonium found off site.

Third, the burning of radioactive materials (building materials, trees, lawn grass, rice straw) by the Japanese government will cause radioactive Cesium to spread even further into areas within Japan that have been previously clean, and across the Pacific Ocean to North America.

And finally, the Japanese government has yet to grasp the severity of the contamination within Japan, and therefore has not developed a coherent plan mitigate the accident and remediate the environment. Without a cohesive plan to deal with this ongoing problem of large scale radioactive contamination, the radioactivity will continue to spread throughout Japan and around the globe further exacerbating the problem and raising costs astronomically.

http://www.fairewinds.com/content/new-data-supports-previous-fairewinds-analy...

US Government makes Strategic Decision to DOWNPLAY Fukushima (Arnie Gundersen) 8/14/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqmgLOzeKiM

Agenda 21, Read it.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/Agenda21.pdf



*Note: Single radiation dose of 2,000 millisieverts (200,000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below.
Half-life of some radioactive elements


[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.] * Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years


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Fukushima Japan One Year Later & update 3/11/12

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Crying Indian - full commercial - Keep America Beautiful



This Keep America Beautiful piece was produced and photographed by Bernie Hirschenson.  He said he and Iron Eyes threw out the agncy script and made the piece based on their shared vision.  It was a commercial that moved a nation.  Much of the modern environmental movement got its start in this series of scenes, sounds and souls.

Happy Birthday Bernmeister! And decades more.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Poverty Pimps On Parade - Election 2012



POVERTY PIMP ALERT: Poverty pimps need poverty to pimp or else they stop being rich. Their policies reflect their thumbs up position to maintaining the war on drugs. Based on results, these men, who are running for president, are classic poverty pimps taking over where Iran Contra left off. They must have prohibition in place to legally jail and murder people into manageable fear, the opposite of loving freedom. 


With initial presidential primary results in, I confess I don't mind that it is illegal for me to vote. I can finally be like George Carlin and have no responsibility for choosing the lesser of two evils.  


Mitt Romney has already said in public that he is not in favor of ending marijuana prohibition.




Instead of endorsing a modern Hemp For Victory program that could quickly crop finance over a half a million new or expanded businesses, creating over 5 million jobs quickly, both men, Black and Mexican, want to keep the largest Jim Crow system since slavery going. 


They would rather see us die from stress related illness or in prison for years for interacting with a plant, than be able to use hemp, proven to send cancer into remission.

Dissolving the international drug treaties and stopping the war on drugs by Jack Herer Executive Order 420 would turn poverty and fear into prosperity and joy. It would not cost the feds a dime and would save billions in state and federal dollars on prison and foster care costs, while increasing tax revenue because people in jail now for non-violent drug war offenses would be available to earn income and pay taxes.
How could the hemp plant, the foundation for this failed prohibitionist capitalism we are dying from, turn the world economy around? Let's do the math, US specific, yet can be translated into any country's economy.

Hemp can be easily made into over 50,000 products, many, like paper, medicine, building materials, plastics, foods, fabrics and other items have markets ripe for new product development. Each product, from planting the seed to the taxes paid on the income, will create at least 10 companies with 10 employees, especially in this job deprived market. So 50,000 products with 10 companies per product is 500,000 companies. 10 jobs per company is 5 million jobs. Products like medical marijuana already have more than 10 companies with 10 employees. 

Neither man running for the presidency is in favor of stopping the racist, evil, economically strangling, family destroying, murderous drug war. Blacks and Mexicans are the fodder for the drug war, the new Jim Crow. Insane from the membrane to the nucleus.' Non toxic hemp medicine is a federal offense while Medicine, Inc. remains a leading cause of death. Our economy remains in tatters as our number one cash crop remains illegal and untaxed by the federal government. 


Stop the insanity of the drug war and support FarmAid who can help people become hemp farmers. The government is not working for the good of the people. The system is corrupt and it is our responsibility to clean it up, get it working for the highest good, and keep it updated to meet the needs of the people.

We The People must non-violently take our power back. Like Gandhi making salt, it is time to implement the ancient solution of simply returning to nature for our needs. 



Waiting for the government could get us all murdered dramatically, not a reality I want. What about you? What do you want for your future?  What can we do today to make today and tomorrow better for everyone, including us? At least part of achieving your goal can involve the hemp solution from strong hemp paved roads, to nutritious hemp foods, to additional safety in building re-inforced with hemp plastic exteriors and interiors, according to Henry Ford, 10 times stronger than steel (that should be able to stand up to much that HAARP is dishing out.)


The energy I put into helping just another poverty pimp get into office in 2008, I’m concentrating to stopping the war on drugs.  This election is bull shit…back to the lesser of two evils.  Hell no, I won't go. 

Thanks God for rendering me without ID, my crime that disqualifies me from voting.

Lord, help us overcome government and corporate stupidity this and any other day it is needed. Based on almost a century of results, the White House is not the answer. Either one of them wins and it’s just a question of new ways to terrorize the people over the hemp plant.  Without radically positive change the presidency will be filled with an anti-citizen president again. Let's solve the problem at the root, international drug policy.

Peace.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

It's Time for The Sheeple to Wake The Hell Up!!



Pay attention to what Alex Jones is saying. It's truly time for the sheeple to wake the hell up.

Saturday, December 03, 2011

Cyber Reading Birthday Card for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2012






The directive from MLK Day 2012 is to be inspired.


Dr. King's Birthday card is being produced as a cyber reading of two books Computer Underground Railroad Enterprises helped publish. First is the dynamic Black history book that sets the record straight from Ancient Times to the 21st Century BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY by Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA, Historian and, further keeping with the economic theme to the 2012 celebration HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE TRILLION DOLLAR CROP by USA Hemp Museum founder and curator Richard M. Davis. 


The readings are scheduled on line for January 13-17, 2012, 10a-2p & 4p-8p PT. The structure is two four hour readings a day, one of each book, approximately 50 pages per session over a 5 day period concluding both books on Dr. King's birthday, January 17, 2011.


The idea for a cyber birthday card from the Computer Underground Railroad to Dr. King is in response to his conversation with Nichelle Nichols resulting in MLK's endorsement of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek.


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"Actress Nichelle Nichols, who first fleshed out communications officer Lt. Uhura, is the fascinating link between the two men. As one of the first African  American actresses to be cast in a major role on an American television series, Nichols was uniquely qualified to try to bring attention to the plight of Blacks in America. However, as an actress employed by the studio, she had to abide by the scripts of the show. Eventually, Nichols came to feel her part as Uhura was little more than routine, even boring. She felt the writers were more or less ignoring her, and she decided to leave Star Trek.
Soon after her decision to quit Star Trek, a fateful meeting arose between the civil rights leader and the actress. This would not only make Nichols keep her job, but it gave Gene Roddenberry's science fiction space show one of the most historic and important positive endorsements in TV history. Martin Luther King Jr. told Nichelle Nichols that she couldn't quit the show, because her being there on the bridge as Uhura made an inspirational statement about  African Americans playing an important role in the future of exploration and society. Nichols rethought her decision and remained on the show." 

Like Dr. King said, Black people made it to the future too. And along with the rest of the human family, are reading and shaping the information age. This is an experience in how.

Check back with this blog for updated postings.

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