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US: Large Number Of Dead Carp Reported At Kensington Metropark, Michigan

06/22/2011 1 comment

“A large number of carp have died at Kent Lake in Kensington Metropark. Kensington is part of the Huron-Clinton Metropark system and park patrons and local listeners have reported seeing large numbers of dead carp floating in the water and all over the shores. Officials tell WHMI that they are working with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources on the issue. Communication Specialist Denise Semion says the fish kill could be from spawning stress and a rapid rise in water temperature or from other causes, such a virus that affects mostly carp. Semion says they will be meeting with the DNR and will provide more information once that happens but in the meantime, visitors may see dead carp in the lake.” Source.

Categories: Mass Animal Deaths

Michio Kaku: ‘This Could be the World’s Record Holder for an Industrial Accident’

06/22/2011 Leave a comment

Physicist Michio Kaku on Fukushima:  “If they have another aftershock … the accident could start all over again … In the last two weeks, everything we knew about that accident has been turned upside down.  We were told three partial meltdowns, ‘don’t worry about it.’   Now we know it was 100% core-melt in all three reactors.  ‘Radiation minimal that was released’.  Now we know it was comparable to the radiation at Chernobyl.  And as far as evacuation, ‘yeah 12 miles that’s it.  You don’t have to evacuate beyond 12 miles.’  Now they find hot-spots.  Four hot-spots outside the evacuation zone.  34,000 school children now have radiation badges when they go to school, down to 4 years of age!  Could you imagine that, kindergarten kids with radiation badges going to school?  So all the mythology of the accident has been turned upside down because utility has finally fessed up to how severe this accident really was…

We tried to reconstruct the accident in our computers given the feeble amount of information they gave us.  We knew it was much more severe than they were saying because radiation was coming out left and right.  So, in other words, they lied to us.  They knew how much radiation was coming out.  They knew the danger.  They knew how much core melting was taking place, but they tried to put a ‘happy face’ on it…

As you know workers are being sent in and they’re getting like a year’s dose of radiation just within, like, 10 minutes at a time…  [This will take] 50 to 100 years [to clean up]… cleanup hasn’t even started yet.  They’re not in cold shutdown until next year…

This could be the grand-daddy of all industrial accidents … this could be the world’s record holder for an industrial accident … Realize that at Chernobyl, it was just one core’s worth of radiation causing a $200 billion accident, and it’s still ongoing.  Here was have 20 core’s worth of radiation — 3 totally melted, one damaged, and the rest in spent fuel ponds…”

Categories: Man-Made Disasters

Solomon Islands: More Sea Creatures Continue to Die in Marovo, ‘The Sea Has Turned Into a Sea of Death’

06/22/2011 Leave a comment

“FEAR have continued to grip people residing in the central part of the Marovo lagoon in the Western province as they witness the death of marine species and sea creatures daily.

Yesterday further reports reaching Solomon Star have revealed that other sea creatures such as crocodile, dolphins and other marine species were affected.

A man from central Marovo Loyley Nonga said the sea has turned into a sea of death for most species of marine creatures in the lagoon.

‘The smell is really bad with the sea turning dark as a result,’ he said.

He also confirmed that a crocodile was found dead yesterday.

‘Yes, I can confirm that a crocodile was found dead,’ he said.

He adds every day they saw schools of fishing dying along the seashore.” Read more.

Categories: Mass Animal Deaths

US: Mass Fish Kill in Ridley Park Lake, Pennsylvania Remains a Mystery

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By Alex Rose – “A spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Environment Protection said initial testing at Ridley Park Lake has so far produced no clues to the cause of a mass fish kill discovered there late Saturday.

‘The field tests that (DEP agent Michael McAdams) did showed nothing abnormal,’ said DEP spokesperson Deborah Fries. ‘The Ph, the acid level, the dissolved oxygen – all were normal (and) tests for chlorine and solvents were negative.’

Ridley Park Borough President Bob Berger said he and state Rep. Nick Miccarelli, R-162, of Ridley Park, were notified by a resident of dead fish floating in the lake at about 8 p.m. Saturday.

They contacted the DEP and other state agencies, and McAdams arrived on the scene about 9:45 p.m. Saturday to take some initial samples. Fries said more thorough lab testing in Harrisburg would likely be completed by next week, but she is not confident the cause will ever be identified.” Read more.

Categories: Mass Animal Deaths

US: Hundreds Of Dead Fish In River Des Peres, Missouri

06/22/2011 Leave a comment

By Roche Madden – “ST. LOUIS, MO (KPLR)—Hundreds of dead fish are floating in the river Des Peres in South St. Louis. The state has investigated to determine if it was caused by man or nature.

Neighbors who live around the river told News 11 they first spotted the dead fish floating in the river on Wednesday. Hundreds of dead fish stretch for more than a half mile North of Gravois. MSD owns the section of the river. They say they hired crews to spray weed killer and they double checked today and say the crews did use a chemical that does not threaten wildlife. Conservation experts say when the rising Mississippi backs up into the river Des Peres the water can stagnate, lose the oxygen and the fish die, a disturbing sight to people who live nearby.

‘I think something’s wrong something disturbing because there shouldn’t be dead fish floating everywhere.’ said Kathy Shaver.” Read more.

Bali: Volcanic Lake Batur Suddenly Changes Color, Massive Fish Die Off Ensues

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“A unusual natural phenomenon is causing concern for communities living around the edge of Bali’s Lake Batur at Kintamani.

On Sunday, June 19, 2011, the waters of the lake that sits in a volcanioc crater suddenly changed colors to a whitish-blue shade followed by the sudden death of thousands of fish (tilapia) living in the lake.

According to NusaBali, villagers for the lakeside community of Lintang Danu recount that the lake suddenly changed color on Sunday (June 19) morning in the areas surrounding the villages of Songan. Batur, Kedisan and Buahan. Shortly after the color change, thousands of freshwater fish floated to the surface and begin washing up on the lake’s shore. Fish farmed by villages in the shallows of the lake also died with the changing color of the lake.

Local fisherman, who traditionally plant local freshwater majiar fish (tilapia) in the lake, scrambled to the location to rescue fish in distress but still alive to place them in fresh water pools ashore.

The head of the Wildlife and Fisheries Service for the regency of Bangli, A.A. Ngurah Shamba, said his office was still surveying the situation and trying to understand the natural phenomenon that change the water color and caused the fish die-off. Samples of dead fish have been collected for laboratory analysis.” Read more.

Germany: Salafist Islamists Threat Growing, Interior Ministers Say

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“German state interior ministers are warning of a rise in radical Salafist Islam that poses a risk of home-grown terrorism, with one politician calling for changes to residency laws so ‘hate preachers’ can be more easily deported.

Hesse Interior Minister Boris Rhein of the conservative Christian Democratic Union told daily Die Welt that Salafism was a ‘centre and pivot for those who want to participate in so-called holy war.’

‘Salafism can in this way lay the path to Islamist terrorism,’ he said, adding that the law needed to be changed so that ‘hate preachers’ can be more easily thrown out of the country.

‘In future, this should be possible when someone spreads material that goes against the liberal democratic basic order or that fosters radicalisation or, as the case may be, terrorism recruitment.

‘We should also change the corresponding laws covering the right to assembly and paragraphs of the sedition law.’

Interior ministers from Germany’s 16 federal states plan to discuss the issue when they hold a regular meeting on Tuesday. The Financial Times Deutschland reported Tuesday that the Verfassungsschutz domestic intelligence agencies would be intensifying their monitoring of the Salafist scene.

‘Salafism is seen both in Germany and on the international level as the dynamic Islamist movement at the moment,’ a Verfassungsschutz expert, who was not named, told the FTD.” Read more.

Peru: ‘Very Aggressive’ Dengue Strain Has Killed at Least 14 and Affected Thousands

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“The Ministry of Health has declared a yellow alert for 60 days for the health centers in the departments of Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín and Amazonas, due to the persistence and extent of dengue fever.

According to the technical report, the prevalence of dengue may be due to climate factors, as well as difficulty in controlling the virus.

The General Bureau of National Defense, through the Regional Directorates of Health, will disseminate, monitor and evaluate the implementation of this resolution, Andina reports.

Dengue is transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti and among its symptoms are high fever and headaches, as well as muscle and bone aches. In some cases, when the disease is severe, there may be bruising and bleeding.

In February health authorities declared a red alert in Peru’s northern Amazon jungle region following the outbreak of an ‘very aggressive’ dengue strain that lead to the death of 14 people and affected thousands.” Read more.

Categories: Pestilence

‘I No Longer Trust Fox News … I Never Said That’: Fox News Expert Denies He Claimed Birth Certificate Was Legitimate

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By Jerome R. Corsi – “NEW YORK – The computer graphics expert Fox News relied upon to claim the birth certificate the White House released April 27 was legitimate insists that the network must retract the story, claiming it deliberately misquoted him and continues to ignore his repeated requests.

Jean Claude Tremblay told WND that that none of his comments would permit the conclusion that the Obama birth certificate is an authentic document.

‘I no longer trust Fox News,’ he said, expressing anger verging on disdain for the way he feels the network treated him. ‘Despite my protests, Fox News will not allow me to correct their story.’

The controversy traces to a Web story by Fox News reporter Jana Winter two days after the White House released the birth certificate, titled ‘Expert: No Doubt Obama’s Birth Certificate is Legit.’

Noting that Obama doubters were claiming the birth certificate was a fake, Winter wrote, ‘But a leading software expert says there’s no doubt about its authenticity, and he dismisses claims of fraud as flat-out wrong.’

‘I never said that,’ Tremblay insists. ‘Winter called me and talked to me for about five minutes on the telephone, and she never said she was going to quote me. Then she misrepresented what I said.'” Read more.

Canadian Government, Companies, Universities All Refuse to Conduct Radiation Tests Despite Concerns

06/22/2011 7 comments

By Stephanie Stein – “In the June 2 edition of, The Beacon, it was discussed how the release of radiation from the Fukushima plant in Japan could potentially be poisoning Canadian soil, and possibly central Newfoundland. Evidence from various radiation monitors and news reports have shown that it has become a worldwide issue, and given that the airspace is shared, Canada and the U.S. have been directly affected as well…

Even though central Newfoundland is considered safe, reports by numerous media establishments have shown that radiation saturation has doubled recently. According to a CNN report, Arnie Gundersen, Chief Nuclear Engineer, said hot particles are showing up in North America. The radiation, he explained, emits a big cloud of gases, which can be measured with the Geiger counter. Nuclear engineers have also been finding hot particles or fuel fleas, which can cause cancer around the world. In Tokyo in April, measurements indicated that there are about 10 hot particles a day, which is a high level of concern in what a normal person would breathe. In Seattle, for instance, it went down to about five hot particles a day, which can lodge into lung tissue, the digestive tract or bone, and over time can cause cancer. As a safeguard, it has been strongly advised by Mr. Gundersen to wash all fruits and vegetables before consuming them.” Read more.

Fukushima is the greatest nuclear and environmental disaster in human history – “To give one an example of how lethal radiation is, one pound of plutonium evenly distributed into everyone’s lungs would kill every man, woman and child on Earth. There are literally ‘tons’ of radioactive plutonium (among other radioactive elements) that have been released into the air and ocean environments since March 11th. Another critical fact to remember is that radioactive plutonium, for example, remains lethal (killing life) for thousands years as it has a half-life of 24,000 years. Some other radioactive elements such as uranium have a half-life of 4.47 billion years.” Read more.

Categories: Man-Made Disasters

China: Massive Floods Now Affecting 36 Million People, Scores Killed, Nearly 600 Thousand Acres of Farmland Destroyed

06/21/2011 Leave a comment

By Subodh S. Lal – “Floods caused by torrential rains in southern and eastern China since the beginning of the month have left at least 175 people dead and another 86 missing, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Monday.

Heavy bouts of rain since June 3 have affected over 36 million people and left 1.6 million displaced in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chongqing Municipality, the ministry said in a statement.

In Zhejiang province alone, about 8,400 houses collapsed and many highways were closed, Xinhua news agency reported.

A total of 241,600 hectares (597,000 acres) of farmland have been destroyed and 1,846 factories have suspended operations in the province – one of China’s leading manufacturing centers – incurring 7.69 billion yuan ($1.18 billion) in direct economic losses, the agency reported.” Read more.

660 reservoirs at risk of overflowing in China – “An official at the media department of the Anhui Water Resource Department said water levels at more than 660 reservoirs in the province were above the warning level. Like most Chinese officials, she would give only her surname, Zhao.” Read more.

China braces for tropical storm amid floods – “China, already hit by torrential downpours that have left more than 260 dead or missing, braced Tuesday for more rains and wind as a tropical storm neared its southern coast, weather authorities said.” Read more.

Madagascar: New Build-Up of Locusts Threatens Crops, ‘The Livelihoods of 13 Million People Could be Affected’

06/21/2011 Leave a comment

By Joe DeCapua – “Madagascar is again facing a locust threat. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says there’s another build-up of locusts in southwestern Madagascar that could become a ‘plague’ if no action is taken. If unchecked, the FAO says, the livelihoods of 13 million people could be affected.

It’s the same area of the country where operations were conducted from last October through April to control the insects. Some 200 thousand infested hectares were sprayed.

‘The current situation is very serious because it’s what we call an upsurge. The locust infestations are still contained in the southwestern part of Madagascar. [It was the biggest] success of all operations we carried out during the locust campaign [of] 2010 / 2011. But there is still a high risk to have a worse situation during the next rainy season,’ said FAO locust officer Annie Monard.” Read more.