Guest Post By 'Sage: TO BE in the LIE - "BELIEVE"

A very good friend of mine wrote this:  TO BE IN THE LIE "BELIEVE"  - It is excellent!  

Thank you, Sage for writing this and allowing me to put it on the blog. 

From 'Sage":

According to the few survivors of the ferry incident where so many died, they were told by those in authority to don life vests and patiently wait for help. The majority did just that. The only survivors were those that didn't obey those orders but jumped to safety instead. This has started me thinking back over my entire life of obeying and the reward/punish cycle that enforced it.

My God, how complicit we all have been for so long.... so many lifetimes to get where we are today. I cringe when I think over just my own lifetime. Most especially, how I enforced it on my own children that are now paying the price along with me. The excitement of participating in the sham of fake individuality which is such things as 'dress backwards day' or 'wear pajamas to school day'. Such blatant bullshit to make us believe (there's that word again!) that we have a legitimate outlet for our individuality when in reality it just indoctrinates us further into their program of 'obey' and 'believe' and conformity. All to lead us like cattle down the chute to our own destruction and enslavement. These images are flashing through my mind as pictures, photographs of the past. I cringe at each and every one of them and I want to tell my children that I was wrong..... always wrong. I was wrong to believe in the lie that those who call themselves our leaders care about us or our survival. I'm here to tell you that they don't. I'm here to tell you that they live lives so separate and apart from ours that we can't begin to imagine the chasm of differences. They are parasites that feed off of us and we mean no more to them than a cow or a chicken or a pig mean to us.

I became a vegetarian almost a year ago. I know that it's a label and I don't like to use them anymore, now that I know how the labeling system reinforces the 'obey' and 'believe' indoctrination agenda. Evidently, my decision upsets and offends others. They demand answers as to why. Then they're upset and offended when I tell them of the time that I worked and lived on a supposedly 'natural' farm where the animals were supposedly 'humanely raised and harvested' and of the time that I participated in this supposedly humane harvest, that I looked back at the lucky few that were too small for the harvest. That they were huddled together, burying their heads under the bodies of the others and I knew for a certainty that these poor beings were deeply traumatized and that the trauma would be there in their tissues for us to ingest. It changed me and I will never participate in that system again. I will never ingest the tissues of the desperate, traumatized, tortured-for-a-lifetime beings. I won't give my energy to the Satanic cult of the 1% that benefits both spiritually (negative) and financially (energy) by their system of cruelty and domination. Oh, and if I'm asked about my decision and I state my reasons, I'm told that I'm upsetting that person and ruining it all for them. No, that's not my intention..... you go right ahead and enjoy taking in the negative energy encapsulated within the tissues of the poor dead creature laying there on your plate. The other excuse, of course, is that "We need the protein. Our hair will fall out. We'll have spots and ridges on our nails that indicate a lack of protein. Our skin will look flacid and pallid. We'll be physically diminished." Well, my hair is falling out but not as much as it was when I was eating meat. Maybe that's because I'm ingesting less radiation by not eating meat. No way to know that for sure since everything concerning radiation is a big fat lie and coverup - especially since FUK-U-shima. I used to have dry ridges and spots on my fingernails when I was eating meat and now my nails are smooth and pink. The way they were when I was much younger - before the poisoning of our air, food and water was in full force as it is today. Hard to tell with the skin since I am getting older and the effects of the heavy metals raining down on us day after day, thanks to the dedication of the pilots and programmers that ensure our safety with massive chemtrailing, may be affecting my skin. As for energy levels..... well, I feel pretty danged good and I can walk farther and faster without getting winded than my own daughter. I just tell those with their objections and excuses for continuing to participate in the cruelty that it's a personal decision or a process. What a cop-out on my part. I admit to being a coward still. The truth is that we have to choose a side right now and I've chosen mine and any other choice is the wrong one. So sorry if that's not politically correct (PC - the new label to keep us afraid to wake up). Y'all just waddle on off to the natural farms and get yourselves some of that humanely harvested flesh and enjoy the hell out of it since your conscience is now properly and correctly assuaged. Enjoy.

The truth. What is the truth? How the hell do I know??!!!!! They've stolen the truth and hidden it away. As far as they're concerned, the truth is only for them. Everything we see and hear on tell-lie-vision and even the internet is just to reinforce the lies. Speaking of upsetting people that don't want to know the truth of what is happening in our world..... get a load of this video. I should give one of those politically-correct (PC - again!!) 'disturbing and graphic' warnings about this video as it shows the end result of the radiation and other crap that is raining down on us and is being fed to us through our food and water supply. That way we can all avoid looking at the little bits of truth that somehow leak out and we won't be upset. Sheesh! We all say we want the truth and the few times we get a glimpse at it, we turn on the messenger for upsetting our fake-ass reality. So, no warning for you. Go ahead. Look at the deformities in the infants, the animals, the plants. Really look this time. Let the reality sink in for once.      Video is below..



I just want to tell my children that I was wrong. That I was indoctrinated and a screwed up believer. I was wrong to tell you that the key to a good life was a college education. I shake my head in disbelief at how that turned out. All those kids that paid so dearly and will pay for most of their lives just to be brainwashed and further indoctrinated into the debt based slavery of the top 1% - which I now call The Insanes. These kids get out of college loaded down with debt and yet haven't learned a damn thing. Then they can't find a job worth a damn and end up working for $10.00/hour - which goes to their loans - which goes to the Insane criminals at the top. What a fucked up system we've let happen to them. How we've let the next generation down by allowing this to happen to them.

I just want to tell my children.... JUMP!!!!! Don't listen to them. Don't listen to me. Follow your gut instinct. Follow your survival instinct. It's there for a reason so listen to it. Pray. Because there is a God and it's not the same one as theirs. Don't be good citizens. Stand up for yourselves because there is no savior coming. We've let you down and I'm sorry. Don't obey. Don't believe. Jump. I love you.

Only 2 MSM (very short) articles on New Mexico Nuclear Explosion. Says "No Radiation Leak" - which is a Lie. EPA radiation U.S. monitoring site taken off line yesterday. This should be Headline News everywhere!

New Mexico Nuclear Site of Explosion

This proves how MSM is totally in the pocket of the government and big corporations.

Instead of giving information of real news that matters and affects people they only broadcast bulls***!

Every news organization and T.V. station should have information about New Mexico's nuclear explosion as their lead and headline story, instead of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

I have done a search and found that only CBS had a few short sentences about the explosion and saying the DOE has said there was no radiation leak.

The U.S. Department of Energy stressed Sunday that no surface contamination has been found after airborne radiation was detected underground at a southeastern New Mexico site where the government stores low-grade nuclear waste.
The department says that tests were taken at several sites around the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant after a monitor found radiation on underground levels late Friday night.

Reuters has a few sentences about it too, written on the 16th when the explosion happened.  Only says "possible radiation".  They also put in the article "it may not be a real event but seems as one."  So they put doubt in people's mind for them to dismiss the explosion as possibly not being real.  They have not had a follow up article since then.

This is a major event yet MSM is silent about it.  It proves they protect the nuclear industry before they protect the people.

The government is protecting the industry before the people too, as the EPA has now taken their radiation monitoring system for the U.S. offline, as of yesterday.  (Sunday, 2/23/14)

The radiation network site doesn't have anything for the area either.   We know they are controlled due to them taking West Coast radiation monitoring systems offline after Fukushima.

Phys.org has the information about major radiation being found 1/2 mile from the site. 

Enews has information about it and a source says it was a major continuing and possible plutonium leak that is occurring and they have not experienced anything as this before.

Initial ENE report from Sunday: Alarm after 'unusually high' radiation levels at U.S. nuclear site -- Gov't: "We've never seen a level like we are seeing... I can't tell you the amount" -- Could be Plutonium -- 'Unclear' how much radiation released -- Unprecedented event 

Here is a video that was released about it...

All of this absolutely proves those of us in the alternative news are ones with real information that needs to get out to those who only listen to MSM.  This proves MSM and the government does not look out after the well fare of the people but only big business!  This proves we are the ones who get the real news out.
The MSM watchers are clueless about the news that impacts their life and health.  This also shows why the government and media are so worried about the internet and the truth that gets out to others.

TEPCO in Press Conference "Situation at Fukushima is Bleak" No idea how to stop it.

UPDPATE- 8/10/13 - The water has now gone over the barrier and is freely leaking into the Pacific ocean and they can not stop it.


TEPCO finally admitted today (Japan time) that the situation at Fukushima is bleak and they have no idea how to contain and stop what is happening there.

Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is facing yet another emergency as highly radioactive groundwater appears to have risen above an underground barrier meant to contain it.The head of the country's Nuclear Regulatory Authority task force Shinji Kinjo told Reuters on Monday that the leak was an emergency, but he was worried the plant's operator, TEPCO, had no sense of how to deal with it.He went on to say the highly radioactive groundwater is likely seeping into the sea.In a recent news conference, TEPCO General manager Masayuki Ono said the situation was bleak.

"We understand that this discharge is beyond our control and we do not think the current situation is good."

They had lied in the beginning about the situation and I believe they are only partly giving what the whole situation is.

Last week they admitted the Pacific was becoming radiated to a major extent:

Just last week, TEPCO estimated a cumulative 20 to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium may have leaked into the sea since the nuclear disaster some two-and-a-half years ago.

I have been watching the TEPCO camera  and can (you can right now too) see a glowing from Reactor 3 and I see smoke/fog coming from that area.

How can anyone still say Nuclear power is a "Clean" energy?  How can anyone say that it is a "Safe" energy?  Give me Coal!

What is interesting too is the Radiation Network site has dropped many monitors and in Japan there is only one that is active now.  In the U.S. monitors have been dropped all around the country, especially at Nuclear power facilities.   Check out the above link and you will see a lot less monitors now and go to Japan and you will see only one monitor on and that is all the way up North.

Why?  What are they hiding?



When I hear Gore, the UN and other elected officials calling for "Carbon taxes" to be put in place due to all the Earth killing carbon the "people" are releasing and blaming the world population for Earth's problems... I laugh.  It is NOT the people of the Earth that is making the world toxic, it is the governments and big business.  They have made our oceans toxic around the world, from the Gulf of Mexico with Corexit to Japan with radiation.   Our oceans are the life blood of our Earth and they are being killed.

The whole climate change problem is Bullshit too.... All they have to do is stop spraying the Earth with toxins via Chemtrails, stop HAARPING the Earth thus causing drought or more rain in certain areas.  In other words those in the government need to stop playing with mother nature and we wouldn't have the problems.  It is not the people causing the Earth's problems, it is those who want to control nature along with the people.

What can we do???

Literally it seems all we can do is Pray for the Earth and ask for a miracle at this point.

Fukushima Reactor 3 on fire and smoking besides Gulf Oil Platform burning

The media of course is silent and most people believe Fukushima problems are history.

Here is a video from overnight at Fukushima. You can see the glowing fire and smoke coming from Reactor 3. That is of course the MOX fuel reactor. Here is my original post about MOX fuel.

A huge amount of radiation has been detected on the West Coast and other areas. Also the amount of radiated water that has gone into the Pacific has been in the millions of gallons.



Here is the live camera for the reactors. It does not show a fire any more.

Besides this there is a platform in the Gulf on fire and leaking oil at an estimated 6000 gallons a day besides natural gas.

OH... the media is all over that one too... informing everyone.

Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland, Mitsuhei Murata - Fukushima Reactor 4 world wide castasrophe. Japan lack of ethics

WOW Truth from a high Japanese official about Fukushima!

Says nuclear energy needs to end throughout the world.  Japan started theirs for unethical reasons and money.   He says Fukushima is a catastrophe for the world not just Japan.   Full transcript of the video below.


Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland participated in Coalition Against Nuke's Sep. 20th Congressional Briefing, which Dennis Kucinich held.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is for me a great honor and a real pleasure to participate in this memorable event.

In 1956 the cold war was at its height, nuclear war was menacing mankind and my prize essay alleged that the world was "on the verge of total destruction."Today the consequences of Fukushima threaten the world. Unit 4 contains 10 times more cesium 137 than Chernobyl. A strong earthquake could mean collapse.

The Japanese people realize from experience that nuclear energy generates unacceptable calamities. The collapse of unit 4 could be one. Japan must assume the historic role of promoting denuclearization, both civilian and military. Ignoring the conditions of the Fukushima nuclear reactors continue to be promoted at home and abroad. Fukushima must not be forgotten. In the name of the victims and 170,000 refugees, I call for a total ban of nuclear energy. The world must realize that any radioactive contamination creates immense and permanent harm for mankind and the earth.

1. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima are no less dreadful thanatomic bombs. Nuclear reactors are potential “super bombs." No single weapon can compete with the potential damage that can be caused by Fukushima unit 4 or reprocessing plants.

2. The Fukushima accident could have been more catastrophic for Japan and the world. The still present danger of a collapse of unit 4 after an intensity 7 earthquake must be broadcast the world over.

3.Sound judgment would not have permitted construction of 54 nuclearreactors in a Japan menaced by frequent earthquakes and tsunamis.Only the lack of ethics and responsibility made it possible. Money and thecorruption of power plant management sow the seeds of catastrophe. This is not limited to Japan.

4.The same technology that produces nuclear energy produces nuclear weapons. The proliferation of nuclear power plants leads to the proliferationof nuclear weapons, as we are seeing today in North Korea and Iran. There is no way to ensure the safety of future generations except to eliminate the use of nuclear fission technology across the planet.

5. The lack of ethics and responsibility is highlighted by the absence of a solution for nuclear waste that threatens future generations. The Japanese “nuclear village" or nuclear dictatorship envisions the restarting and export of nuclear reactors, thus regaining the offensive for the Japanese nuclear industry. This is immoral. It shows no sense of international or inter-generational responsibility. Alas, I fear it will last.

6. Japan should warn the world of the consequences of not heading towardsdenuclearization. Eight years ago, I predicted that Japanese electriccompanies would decide Japan's fate. Two years ago at the World Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War ( IPPNW) in Basel, I pleaded for mobilizing human wisdom to avert the ultimate catastrophe a nuclear calamity could produce. Sadly, these warnings did not deter my fears.

7. Considering the worldwide consequences of a nuclear accident, countries not possessing nuclear reactors should urge denuclearization, be it military or civilian. Countries already opting for nuclear energy should do so as well.

8. Originally, Japan had a maternal culture characterized by harmony and solidarity. After the Meiji Restoration was introduced to Japan, a paternal culture characterized by competition and confrontation in military form. History shows that paternal cultures end in catastrophe. Fukushima is the result of the supremacy of economy, another form of paternal culture introduced after WW2. The Maternal culture of harmony is the remedy forthe paternal culture of power.

9. Nuclear accidents cause limitless consequences unacceptable to human society. Fukushima is a reminder that the possibility of such a disaster should be completely zero. The great principle of a world without nuclear weapons and reactors should not be forgotten. The transition to maternalcivilization is a prerequisite for this vision.

10. Today mankind faces a crisis of civilization. The true cause is lack of ethics. Fundamental ethics would prohibit the abuse and exhaustion of natural resources leaving, permanently poisonous waste and enormous debt in its wake. Global ethics requires maternal culture, respecting the environment and interests of future generations. 3 transitions are necessary: Turn selfishness to solidarity, greed to contentment and materialism to spiritualism. Natural and renewable energies could amply supply the needs of such a civilization with a transitional period supplemented by fossil fuels. We must prepare to make the short term sacrifices in our lifestyles for the long term safety of mankind and the earth without nuclear energy.

11. The proposal to hold a UN Ethics Summit now draws more global attention. The trinity of global ethics, maternal civilization and true denuclearization should become a reality. President Obama's vision of the 'World without Nuclear Weapons’ needs to become the 'World without Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Reactors." The UN Ethics Summit is the first concrete step. I ardently hope that President Obama takes the initiative to realize this Summit and create an International Day of Global Ethics to serve as a yearly reminder. Initially, controversy over content should be carefully avoided.

Conclusion:

In concluding, let me say the following.

The critical situation at Fukushima requires the mobilization of human wisdom on the widest possible scale. The pressing need for setting up a neutral assessment team as well as an international technical cooperation team is evident.

The fuel rods in the decaying cooling pool of unit 4 must be moved to another place as soon as possible. It is a global security issue requiring maximum efforts which regrettably are not being made.

More and more Japanese are awakening to the real dangers of nuclear accidents and nuclear reactors. Japan is thus heading steadily towards establishing zero dependency on nuclear energy.

"The will of heaven and earth" is my translation of "Providence as philosophy,"protecting mankind and the earth. It will help achieve true denuclearization, civil and military, in due course. The rage of those who lost all will continue to enliven anti-nuclear movements in Japan and eventually abroad.

Japan must now contribute to the realization of true denuclearization. Then the victims of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima will not have suffered in vain.

TEPCO has just announced - Radiation being emitted from Fukushima is 70 million becquerels per hour - It is increasing - Up 12 million from last month .

January 7 2012 Picture - Reactor 4 in fore ground - Reactor 3 (Mox Fuel) 2nd

UPDATE - 1/24/12 - Multiple Quakes at Fukushima and video showing Fire and Quake on 1/23/12

All the explosions (quakes) people have been feeling around Fukushima that are listed as earthquakes on the Japan sensors.  The fact that they could not find the fuel rods when they looked in Reactor 2, was obvious something big is going on at Fukushima.

Now TEPCO has announced 70 million becquerels per hour of radiation is being leaked into the air.

[Tepco] on Monday reported an increase in radioactive materials leaking from damaged nuclear reactors [...]
The total amount of radioactive cesium that leaked from the containment vessels of the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors reached 70 million becquerels per hour, up 12 million becquerels from the December level [...]
It seems that radioactive dusts were stirred up because plant workers went inside reactor buildings and removed rubble [...]
Last month, the leaked amount was put at 10 million becquerels each for the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors and 40 million becquerels for the No. 3 reactor.

You notice reactor 3 (Mox fuel) has been releasing the most radiation in TEPCO's announcement?

I posted about reactor 3 last week and it being in  trouble.

We also know from a Fukushima insider that reactor 4 has been boiling.

Oh, I am sure they will tell everyone that there is no real radiation problem.  But they don't give a damn at TEPCO, because as they see it and are telling the courts, once the radiation leaves their plant, it is no longer theirs.  When it lands on people's property it is then the owner of that property's radiation.  They don't have to clean it up or anything.  One court in Japan thought that argument was correct the the person that brought the lawsuit against TEPCO lost in court for his land being made toxic.

Let's face it Japan's government will never stand up for the people.  They are going to let their people die horrible deaths.  They hide the radiation and they ridicule the people who are concerned about it.

The U.S. and Canada are no better.  They have shut down radiation sensors in California.  They have lied about the radiation saying it did not make it over to the U.S., the media is ignoring Fukushima.

Radiation is being found all over the globe from Fukushima.  Even down in Australia they have had radiation fall out from it.

The situation at Fukushima seems to be the fuel rods have melted the containment vessels and are under them.  Are the rods spreading in the Earth around there?   Is it going to reach the ocean at some point?  Besides of course TEPCO dumping radiated water in the ocean and contaminating it.  That seems to have spread up to Alaska already as the sea life there has begun dying. 

If only governments were honest with the people.  So much death could be avoided.  People could take precautions, like taking iodine pills and doing other things to protect themselves from radiation exposure.

I have above on the tabs - a Radiation protection tab.  It has information in there for people to help get radiation out of their body naturally.

This is one of those situations we have no control over.  I try not to get really upset as there is nothing I can do.  It saddens me beyond words that I can express.  All I can do is keep praying that some how this situation will be controlled.  I pray for humanity and the Earth.

Here is a link for the real time radiation Geigermap of Japan. 

Look at Reno Nevada and the radiation they are getting from Fukushima.

Arte Gundersen Video Update on Fukushima - Japan is deliberately putting radiation into the air, that had settled down. Charts showing radiation throughout Tokyo

 Arte Gundersen Update  from August 21 2011

He mentions Japan is deliberately around 8:50 mark, putting back into the air the radiation that had settled down on the ground.   Japan is handling the situation all wrong and making it worse.



New Data Supports Previous Fairewinds Analysis, as Contamination Spreads in Japan and Worldwide from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

How is it, they would not know they are disturbing all the radiation on the ground and now redistributing it?! They have to have monitors, they have to know what they are doing! WHY? Why are they purposely making things worse and getting the radiation to go places it had not already?

Alexander Higgins has information and charts showing how Tokyo is radioactive everywhere around it. It has very good information and I would advice everyone to look at the information. Of course MSM is not touching this. It is up to all of us bloggers and alternative news sites to get the information out. What is happening is a killing of the Japanese people by their government. It is going to be a horrible and for some a slow and painful death, directly attributed to TEPCO and the Japanese government. But all governments and the NRC are also to blame as they are accomplices in covering what is happening up and keeping it quiet. The propaganda press is not touching it, due to the governments control of the media.

Australia 60 Minutes - Fukushima Radiating Everyone on Earth - Unspeakable impact upon all of humanity and Earth!

Australia 60 minutes episode about Fukushima.  The Japanese people are human guinea pigs.  Radiation is covering the Earth and an Unspeakable impact will be felt upon all humanity and the Earth.

How can anyone in this world say Nuclear energy is clean?  One accident makes the whole world toxic and kills people and the Earth.  

It is so hard to comprehend this is really happening.  I applaud Australia's 60 minutes for discussing this especially since it seems most media around the world has made Fukushima a forbidden subject and it is never spoken by name any more in MSM.







Update 8/23/11 6am est - Arte Gundersen Update- Japan is deliberately making radiation airborne again that had settled on the ground. Handling the whole thing wrong and making it worse.

EPA is raising Radiation Standards for drinking water by 100000% - I Called EPA's Office and Spoke to an Engineer ...Unbelievable!

The EPA is about to raise the standards for radiation in drinking water by 100,000%!  Yeah, you are reading it correctly One Hundred Thousand Percent!  By their own standards at this time that means one in 4 people will get cancer.  Also they will do it as a guidance instead of a regulation so they will not need a public discourse or notification to the public to do so.

Of course the EPA is a government agency to protect the people corporations.

I decided to call the EPA head office in the state of Tennessee and ask them if they are testing the rain water now due to the Japanese Fukushima Nuclear Plant meltdown happening and considering the fact other states around Tennessee have been reporting radiation in their rain water.

I spoke to the head engineer of EPA in Nashville today 3/30/11.  I asked him if the Tennessee EPA is going to test the rain water.  He said the EPA will keep their standards of testing which is a once a year test.

I proceeded to ask, even though the EPA does this once a year, don't they think it should be done now since the Japanese nuclear meltdown?  What if the water was just tested on March the 10th does that mean they won't test it again until next year?  He said that is correct.

I pressed the subject and gave him a scenario of an event.... I said "What if the EPA had tested a stream that is a once a year event, two weeks ago.  Then a corporation had a contamination/environmental spill into it, would you still wait to test the stream until the next year or would you go out and test it right away to see if there are contaminates in it?"  He said "We would go out and test it for contaminates".   I then asked "isn't that the same thing that  is happening now with Japan, there is radiation fallout that is happening and don't they want to know if the rain has radiation in it?"

He kept with the government line that they will keep their normal EPA standards and test once a year for radiation contaminates in the rainwater.

He was not aware of the EPA raising the radiation standards of drinking water, I read him the article and then asked him for his email address and emailed it to him.  He also said he was not aware of radiation being found in the rain water in  Pa. and Ma., I told him he could find those articles online.  I also told him about Berkeley finding a huge amount of radiation in the water there. 

From the Berkeley information:

General discussion about radiation levels in California:  - UPDATE: a Berkeley lab's results from testing rainwater on March 23rd suggests that 1 liter of rain-harvested drinking water in Berkeley, Calif., would have an iodine-131 concentration of 542.7 picocuries and consuming one liter of this water would provide a radiation dose to the thyroid of an infant of 7.54 millirems.  About 132 liters of water contaminated at these levels would provide 1 Rem dose to the infant thyroid. (Per NRC NUREG 1.109 rev. 1 Oct. '77).  At these levels, a Bay Area adult would have to breath for 425 days to receive the same iodine-131 exposure as drinking 1 liter of rain-harvested drinking water.  Also, the cesium-137 levels in rain water for March 23-24 broke a new high record peak since analyses begin on March 17 at the Berkeley lab - it's now at 16 picoCuries of Cesium-137 per liter of rain-harvested water.  Boil down a liter of this rainwater, or ash in an oven a rain-soaked 'sticky' film filter, and it would measure on an advanced gamma counter 1,344 clicks per minute (CPM) *above* normal background levels  - that doesn't even include the beta or alpha particles, including the beta energies of the Iodine-131 and Cesium-137! The high levels of iodine-131 in Berkeley rainwater that initially alarmed Idealist are detailed in the following section.

He gave me labs to call to get the rain water tested if I wanted to.

I have called those labs but they send the water away and they did not seem the least bit interested in testing the water in the first place.

I am absolutely amazed that the EPA is taking the attitude they are with possible radiation fallout in our rain.  I talked to the person for about 10 minutes from the EPA - trying to get him to understand why the EPA should be testing the rain everywhere.   He stood by the government line of "Once a year is enough and our standards"!

It is up to all the individuals of this country to test our rain and to test our water and be diligent because the U.S. government obviously could not care less and will just raise the radiation standards as they need to and as the radiation goes up.

The article about the EPA raising the standards of radiation in our drinking water:

The EPA is preparing to dramatically increase permissible radioactive releases in drinking water, food and soil after “radiological incidents,” according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

What is termed a guidance that EPA is considering - as opposed to a regulation - does not require public airing before it’s decided upon.

EPA officials contacted today in the Atlanta and D.C. offices had no response on the issue as of 6 p.m.

The radiation guides called Protective Action Guides or PAGs are protocols for responding to radiological events ranging from nuclear power-plant accidents to dirty bombs.

Drinking water, for example, would have a huge increase in allowable public exposure to radioactivity, the group says, that would include:

A nearly 1000-fold increase in strontium-90

A 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for iodine-131

An almost 25,000 rise for nickel-63 

The new radiation guidance would also allow long-term cleanup standards thousands of times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted, permitting doses to the public that EPA itself estimates would cause a cancer in as much as every fourth person exposed, the group says.

These relaxed standards are opposed by public health professionals inside EPA, according to documents PEER said it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

PEER is a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals