As an intuitive often I will see the hammer in the air in mid swing, and so either I or those I'm with or if I'm really lucky those who read my blog can get out of the way of the Hammer of individual, or group
(karma, accidents, or whatever you want to call it) if I become aware of something before it happens or even as it is happening. Because often something can even be in progress can be going on and I and others can see the likely result before it happens. What I've found in regard to all kinds of calamities is that often some people can sense them coming.
For example, on TV I watched an interview of the Victims of the tsunami in Sendai and one old Japanese man said, "I can see the radiation and I'm afraid." Most of the time you wouldn't hear that from an American. But in many Asian countries having full access to all your senses and intuitive abilities is treasured. So, do I personally believe he sees the radiation? Of course. For example, when the radiation started to get worse here in California I found the end of my tongue got raw and got sores on it. Eventually I came to realize that this was my body's reaction to increased radiation levels. It wasn't that I was going to die or anything, it was just that my body was telling me that the environment had changed a lot. So, the sores on my tongue were my body telling me that the environment had changed significantly and I needed to be aware of the changes. Hopefully, the Potassium Iodide pills arrive soon so I can fill my body's and my family's bodies with good iodine so they cannot be filled with radioactive Iodine in the air. However, what do you do about Cesium, or is that not carried by the air? And what do you do about plutonium which it is said is 2 million times more toxic to all life than any of the other components at a nuclear power plant?
What people are not talking about is the actual fact that (as far as I know) plutonium was not present at all in Chernobyl. So, from my point of view this is already more serious than Chernobyl simply because of the unknown effects of this much plutonium outside of nuclear bomb test facilities in places like Nevada in the U.S., and Russia and China.
Also, say if you are in the kitchen and you accidentally drop a knife from the counter and it sticks in the floor right next to your foot (I've done this) you say, "Thank God!" So for example, if I say to someone "You really shouldn't drive your car today!" and my 2nd wife says, "Forget you, I need to make a business delivery and our daughter has orchestra practice. So, since I foresaw a fatal accident I prayed the next hour as hard as I could so it at least wouldn't be fatal. So, I felt sick when my wife and stepdaughter drove away. 10 minutes later my 12 year old stepdaughter ran up the driveway and yelled to me and said, "We had a head on collision. Get in one of the other cars and come quick." That day in 1985 I was grateful not only that I had seen this coming but that I had had time to pray for an hour when my wife told me to "Forget it!". My wife had cracked ribs and my stepdaughter's head had hit the windshield hard but not hard enough to break the windshield so her life was saved. My wife had trouble breathing the next month but wrapped her ribs and decided not to go to the hospital. One of our family cars was totaled and the insurance company paid us off for the loss. This is a real life experience. I have a thousand more just in my own family over the years.
So, just the same as in the kitchen when the sharp knife sticks in the floor rather going through your foot, you say, "Thank God." My Dad used to say that even if the danger misses you by 1/4 inch you need to go on like nothing happened. But be aware if it is one of many dangers in the same area. Then react but still don't freak out. Just get out of the way. He would say, "A miss is as good as a mile."
The people of Japan had nowhere to go. Because to completely escape they would have had to leave their country. Likewise, the people of the world cannot escape the plutonium now either. One particle ingested as food or into the lungs anywhere on earth will eventually be fatal if it stays in one's body long enough. How many particles are now loose in Japan and on the land, in the water table and in the ocean and possibly in the air already? How many will die of cancer and not know the real cause over the next 100 years or more on earth? Because this plutonium has a half life of hundreds of thousands of years. And this is all over the earth and not just in Japan. As air, water, food, electronics, fish who swim through the ocean away from Japan or even predator fish who eat many Japanese radiated fish then swim to another area of the Pacific and Atlantic and are caught with the condensed radiation of that area in their flesh from their consumption of radiated fish, what then? This radiation will slowly spread all over the earth just like the radiation did from Chernobyl. People are just making less about this nuclear tragedy than they did Chernobyl because Japan's future is at stake. And besides, Chernobyl is one of many events that brought down the old Soviet Union. What this present crisis will do to Japan is anyone's guess. Yes. I agree. This is the worst crisis for Japan since World War II. It also may be the worst crisis since then for the rest of the world as well if the full truth is ever told.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Obama Strategy
No one told me this. This is just what I think is actually going on.
First of all, Obama is a Democrat. If he actually sent U.S. Armed Forces into Libya he would be lynched as a Democrat beyond what he has already done.
However, the reality on the ground in the middle East is this: Iraq is a democracy after spending 1 trillion dollars there by the U.S. Government since our troops went there. Egypt's government fell and is now run by the army until there are elections there. Tunisia's government collapsed and is also fragile like Egypt. Syria may collapse next and be a very bloody place like Libya now is.
However, everyone knows that unless troops are sent into Libya that this still might be a place when all is said and done that reminds people more of the Rwanda massacres than the Bosnian massacres which will be horrific as the evidence is gathered in the future. Even if it is all the people that are now just missing and presumed dead.
So, I think at this point Obama knows he can't put U.S. troops on the ground by himself. So he will let the Republicans get the blame for it. It is the only way Obama will be re-elected. And no one ever said Obama was a fool.
So, if U.S. troops are sent in likely the Republicans will demand it, because of a Republican sense of military and American honor. And likely in the end it is the right thing to do. However, can we afford it financially? But on an honor level of the nation now, can we afford not to send in Ground troops eventually, even if it is only to send Qaddhafi to the World Court in the Hague?
First of all, Obama is a Democrat. If he actually sent U.S. Armed Forces into Libya he would be lynched as a Democrat beyond what he has already done.
However, the reality on the ground in the middle East is this: Iraq is a democracy after spending 1 trillion dollars there by the U.S. Government since our troops went there. Egypt's government fell and is now run by the army until there are elections there. Tunisia's government collapsed and is also fragile like Egypt. Syria may collapse next and be a very bloody place like Libya now is.
However, everyone knows that unless troops are sent into Libya that this still might be a place when all is said and done that reminds people more of the Rwanda massacres than the Bosnian massacres which will be horrific as the evidence is gathered in the future. Even if it is all the people that are now just missing and presumed dead.
So, I think at this point Obama knows he can't put U.S. troops on the ground by himself. So he will let the Republicans get the blame for it. It is the only way Obama will be re-elected. And no one ever said Obama was a fool.
So, if U.S. troops are sent in likely the Republicans will demand it, because of a Republican sense of military and American honor. And likely in the end it is the right thing to do. However, can we afford it financially? But on an honor level of the nation now, can we afford not to send in Ground troops eventually, even if it is only to send Qaddhafi to the World Court in the Hague?
11 Trillion Dollars: GDP of China, Brazil, Russia and India
While the U.S. and Europe and Japan are dealing with Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan's quake and tsunami and nuclear meltdowns (or at least partial nuclear meltdowns at present), China, Brazil, Russia and India have raised their GDP collectively to 11 trillion dollars. There is a saying "money is power". There is another saying, "If you've got it flaunt it." I think the world is changing in ways no one is really ready for now.
Begin quote from page 20 of the Economy section of the latest Time Magazine of April 4th 2011:
With all the focus on Japan and the Middle East in recent weeks, an important economic milestone has gone relatively unnoticed: Brazil has surpassed France and the United Kingdom to become the world's Fifth largest economy, worth about 2.2 trillion dollars in 2010. Brazil is the second emerging market nation to join the top five. Last year China surpassed Japan to take the number 2 spot, right behind the U.S. The result of this hypergrowth is that Goldman Sachs is now predicting that the largest developing economies---Brazil, Russia, India and China (a.k.a. the BRICs) ---will overtake the G7 in size by 2018. That's much sooner than Goldman's original prediction of 2040, made just 10 years ago. end quote.
If one contemplates this it is just a sea change of new thoughts, actualities and downright serious changes to the world. No wonder, Obama just visited Brazil recently.
Begin quote from page 20 of the Economy section of the latest Time Magazine of April 4th 2011:
With all the focus on Japan and the Middle East in recent weeks, an important economic milestone has gone relatively unnoticed: Brazil has surpassed France and the United Kingdom to become the world's Fifth largest economy, worth about 2.2 trillion dollars in 2010. Brazil is the second emerging market nation to join the top five. Last year China surpassed Japan to take the number 2 spot, right behind the U.S. The result of this hypergrowth is that Goldman Sachs is now predicting that the largest developing economies---Brazil, Russia, India and China (a.k.a. the BRICs) ---will overtake the G7 in size by 2018. That's much sooner than Goldman's original prediction of 2040, made just 10 years ago. end quote.
If one contemplates this it is just a sea change of new thoughts, actualities and downright serious changes to the world. No wonder, Obama just visited Brazil recently.
The Gods and Goddesses of Mercy
As the symbolic writer being (representing all mankind) listened to the female Diety(who could be conceived of as (Mother Mary, Tara of Tibet and Asia, or simply Earth Mother or another suitable female Diety like Quan Yin, The Goddess of Mercy) came to the symbolic writer being and said, "As one writes of the truth out of compassion for mankind, one gives truth and hope to those who have none. By bringing useful facts to bear, people are given useful choices instead of lies or untruths or half truths. With these more useful choices, decisions can be made that save lives, hearts, and minds. Those who help in this way in these times now are like Gods and Goddesses of Mercy bestowing that mercy upon all mankind and all those who choose to listen to these truths."
The Bad thing about Plutonium
One of the bad things about plutonium is that it stays radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. So, anyplace radiated seriously with plutonium won't be safe for hundreds of thousands of years.
The second bad thing about plutonium is that it is 2 million times more toxic to all life on earth than uranium is.
So when plutonium is found in the soil and water and sea around Reactor number three and the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant it is very very serious. It is one of the many reasons that the Japanese Government is considering nationalizing the Fukushima Nuclear plant and Tepco and now considers this the most serious situation since World War II in Japan.
Begin Quote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/business/global/30tepco.html?src=busln
“If you were the government, would you let it (Tepco) go bust?” said Paul J. Scalise, a former financial analyst who is writing a book on Japan’s electric power system. “I think the answer is no. The effect on the larger economy at a critical time would be too great.”
Estimates in the Japanese news media had already put the damage from the radiation leak to local homes, businesses and farms in the trillions of yen, even without knowing if anyone would suffer health damage. But it is impossible to calculate what the ultimate cost to the company will be. That is partly because the crisis appears to be far from over, and partly because it is not clear how much of the liability will actually be Tepco’s to bear.end quote.
So, if the liability from Tepco is already in the trillions, there is likely no way any insurance company or even group of insurance companies could realistically cover these losses. So, the likelihood of the government stepping in to save the company is likely for sure at this point or in the near future. Also, I'm not sure just how many (or even all) of the 55 nuclear plants in Japan are owned by Tepco. So, if Japan wants to keep using the other nuclear power plants and to restart them soon after all the large earthquakes over 6.0 stop within the next year or two(or at least slow down) they would have to keep Tepco financially solvent as well in order to keep those nuclear plants solvent and working properly. Tepco Stocks have already suffered pretty heavy losses so this might be an important consideration. Likely stock in nuclear companies could now or eventually suffer worldwide as this nuclear disaster drags on.
Begin quote from second article:
Mr. Scalise said that under Japanese law governing compensation for nuclear damage, companies are liable for the cost of all nuclear accidents resulting from reactor operations except when the accidents are provoked by a “grave natural disaster of an exceptional nature or by an insurrection.” The company might plausibly seek to avoid liability altogether within that definition, he said. end quote.
So, given this aspect of Japanese law it is possible that Tepco can escape ANY liability unless negligence could be established. I think this could all get extremely complicated since this event affects businesses all around the world as big as Ford, General Motors, Chrysler even here in the U.S. because almost all cars built on earth use some Japanese electronic or other components. So, many production lines of cars are stalled around the world right now because of the rolling blackouts in regard to large Japanese companies so they cannot produce very much if at all depending upon the area. The alternative for these large companies in Japan likely would be to purchase really large diesel powered generators or purchasing the new type of fuel cells like Google uses in Silicon Valley. However, if you are using really large amounts of electricity like a factory production line fuel cells likely wouldn't generate enough for this. Even large diesel powered or natural gas powered electrical generators might not be cost effective and might interfere with the production companies bottom line. So, how all this will be resolved is anyone's guess. It will likely be a hodgepodge of solutions in the short term. What the long term solution will be we will all have to just wait and see.
Correction: I found that whatever the losses may be that private insurance companies together with the Japanese government likely will be able to cover the losses. Please read the following quote from the same above article:
Nicholas Benes, head of the Board Director Training Institute of Japan, said Tepco’s legal liability related to the Fukushima Daiichi plant would be covered by private and government insurance up to 120 billion yen, and even over that amount the government had wide latitude to provide financial assistance.end quote.
However, since the losses might reach into the trillions of yen, we still have to see how it all is handled.
The second bad thing about plutonium is that it is 2 million times more toxic to all life on earth than uranium is.
So when plutonium is found in the soil and water and sea around Reactor number three and the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant it is very very serious. It is one of the many reasons that the Japanese Government is considering nationalizing the Fukushima Nuclear plant and Tepco and now considers this the most serious situation since World War II in Japan.
Begin Quote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/business/global/30tepco.html?src=busln
“If you were the government, would you let it (Tepco) go bust?” said Paul J. Scalise, a former financial analyst who is writing a book on Japan’s electric power system. “I think the answer is no. The effect on the larger economy at a critical time would be too great.”
Estimates in the Japanese news media had already put the damage from the radiation leak to local homes, businesses and farms in the trillions of yen, even without knowing if anyone would suffer health damage. But it is impossible to calculate what the ultimate cost to the company will be. That is partly because the crisis appears to be far from over, and partly because it is not clear how much of the liability will actually be Tepco’s to bear.end quote.
So, if the liability from Tepco is already in the trillions, there is likely no way any insurance company or even group of insurance companies could realistically cover these losses. So, the likelihood of the government stepping in to save the company is likely for sure at this point or in the near future. Also, I'm not sure just how many (or even all) of the 55 nuclear plants in Japan are owned by Tepco. So, if Japan wants to keep using the other nuclear power plants and to restart them soon after all the large earthquakes over 6.0 stop within the next year or two(or at least slow down) they would have to keep Tepco financially solvent as well in order to keep those nuclear plants solvent and working properly. Tepco Stocks have already suffered pretty heavy losses so this might be an important consideration. Likely stock in nuclear companies could now or eventually suffer worldwide as this nuclear disaster drags on.
Begin quote from second article:
Mr. Scalise said that under Japanese law governing compensation for nuclear damage, companies are liable for the cost of all nuclear accidents resulting from reactor operations except when the accidents are provoked by a “grave natural disaster of an exceptional nature or by an insurrection.” The company might plausibly seek to avoid liability altogether within that definition, he said. end quote.
So, given this aspect of Japanese law it is possible that Tepco can escape ANY liability unless negligence could be established. I think this could all get extremely complicated since this event affects businesses all around the world as big as Ford, General Motors, Chrysler even here in the U.S. because almost all cars built on earth use some Japanese electronic or other components. So, many production lines of cars are stalled around the world right now because of the rolling blackouts in regard to large Japanese companies so they cannot produce very much if at all depending upon the area. The alternative for these large companies in Japan likely would be to purchase really large diesel powered generators or purchasing the new type of fuel cells like Google uses in Silicon Valley. However, if you are using really large amounts of electricity like a factory production line fuel cells likely wouldn't generate enough for this. Even large diesel powered or natural gas powered electrical generators might not be cost effective and might interfere with the production companies bottom line. So, how all this will be resolved is anyone's guess. It will likely be a hodgepodge of solutions in the short term. What the long term solution will be we will all have to just wait and see.
Correction: I found that whatever the losses may be that private insurance companies together with the Japanese government likely will be able to cover the losses. Please read the following quote from the same above article:
Nicholas Benes, head of the Board Director Training Institute of Japan, said Tepco’s legal liability related to the Fukushima Daiichi plant would be covered by private and government insurance up to 120 billion yen, and even over that amount the government had wide latitude to provide financial assistance.end quote.
However, since the losses might reach into the trillions of yen, we still have to see how it all is handled.
Obama says he will Aid Libyan Opposition
I think it was Wolf Blitzer that caught this little Gem during Obama's Speech. Obama alluded to the fact that we were going to help the Libyan Opposition. This position is likely agreed to openly or secretly by Britain, France and possibly Italy and Spain as well. Help usually comes in situations like this as arms, food, fuel and logistics. In this way Obama, the U.K., France, Italy and Spain and possibly Denmark most likely assures the end of the Qaddhafi regime in actuality. However, what it will actually be replaced with in the end is anyone's guess.
a Fox knows many things
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/books/review/book-review-future-babble-by-dan-gardner.html
begin quote from above article
The most generous conclusion Tetlock could draw was that some experts were less awful than others. Isaiah Berlin once quoted the Greek poet Archilochus to distinguish between two types of thinkers: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Berlin admired both ways of thinking, but Tetlock borrowed the metaphor to account for why some experts fared better. The least accurate forecasters, he found, were hedgehogs: “thinkers who ‘know one big thing,’ aggressively extend the explanatory reach of that one big thing into new domains” and “display bristly impatience with those who ‘do not get it,’ ” he wrote. Better experts “look like foxes: thinkers who know many small things,” “are skeptical of grand schemes” and are “diffident about their own forecasting prowess.” end quote.
I agree with the above statement in regard to predicting the future. I have long been suspicious of specialists. For example, I have had the biggest problem with people in religion that only want to look at the universe one way. Whereas one of my favorite statements is that, "In any given moment there are millions of points of view as to what exactly is taking place". And in addition to that, "They all may be considered correct" if one had the time to take (or desire) to see if they all rang true. So, if there are a relatively infinite amount of versions of any one moment or reality, and all of them might be considered correct and not erroneous in any major way, then having only one point of view on any given subject is to demonstrate a lack of intelligence at best.
begin quote from above article
The most generous conclusion Tetlock could draw was that some experts were less awful than others. Isaiah Berlin once quoted the Greek poet Archilochus to distinguish between two types of thinkers: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Berlin admired both ways of thinking, but Tetlock borrowed the metaphor to account for why some experts fared better. The least accurate forecasters, he found, were hedgehogs: “thinkers who ‘know one big thing,’ aggressively extend the explanatory reach of that one big thing into new domains” and “display bristly impatience with those who ‘do not get it,’ ” he wrote. Better experts “look like foxes: thinkers who know many small things,” “are skeptical of grand schemes” and are “diffident about their own forecasting prowess.” end quote.
I agree with the above statement in regard to predicting the future. I have long been suspicious of specialists. For example, I have had the biggest problem with people in religion that only want to look at the universe one way. Whereas one of my favorite statements is that, "In any given moment there are millions of points of view as to what exactly is taking place". And in addition to that, "They all may be considered correct" if one had the time to take (or desire) to see if they all rang true. So, if there are a relatively infinite amount of versions of any one moment or reality, and all of them might be considered correct and not erroneous in any major way, then having only one point of view on any given subject is to demonstrate a lack of intelligence at best.
Partial Meltdowns in 3 of 6 reactors Believed now
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/japan.nuclear.reactors/
Japanese officials and international experts have said they believe there's been a partial meltdown at three of the plants six reactors.
"The high radiation levels on site seem to support that idea. There is no visual proof yet, but it's increasingly likely there was partial fuel melting," said Gary Was, a nuclear engineering expert at the University of Michigan.
And water runoff isn't the only potential threat complicating efforts to contain the crisis.
Plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company announced late Monday that tests detected low levels of plutonium in soil near the plant. The radioactive element is a reactor byproduct and part of the fuel mix in the No. 3 reactor.
The plutonium likely came from the plant, Edano said Tuesday.
"If we detect higher levels of plutonium, we have to take additional measures, so our intention for now is to carry on with the monitoring on-site," he said. end quote.
So, now both Japanese officials and International representatives believe that there are at least 3 partial meltdowns at Fukushima Nuclear power plant. So, the likely partial meltdowns are Reactors 1, 2 and 3.
Reactor 3 is the Uranium and Plutonium power reactor which uses Mox fuel:
Mixed oxide fuel, commonly referred to as MOX fuel, is nuclear fuel that contains more than one oxide of fissile material. MOX fuel contains plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. MOX fuel is an alternative to the low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel used in the light water reactors that predominate nuclear power generation. For example, a mixture of 7% plutonium and 93% uranium reacts similarly, although not identically, to LEU fuel. quote from Wikipedia under the heading "MOX Fuel".
The term depleted Uranium is often used in conjunction with anti-tank weapons that with this depleted uranium tend to melt tanks when they hit them. (Some of the tanks hit in Libya are likely melted from this type of weapon). It was used on tanks also in Iraq and before that in Desert Storm. But plutonium is used more with Thermonuclear weapons. So when nuclear weapons are reprocessed they are put into MOX fuel sometimes as one of the components. However, plutonium tends to be 2 million times more toxic to all life than uranium.
next quote from top of page article:
Plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company announced late Monday that tests detected low levels of plutonium in soil near the plant. The radioactive element is a reactor byproduct and part of the fuel mix in the No. 3 reactor.
The plutonium likely came from the plant, Edano said Tuesday.
"If we detect higher levels of plutonium, we have to take additional measures, so our intention for now is to carry on with the monitoring on-site," he said.
The power company said it would increase monitoring in the area, but noted that the amount detected was equivalent to the amounts that fell on Japan following above-ground nuclear weapons tests by other countries in past decades, and posed no health risk to humans.
The element can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested, but external exposure poses little health risk, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. end quote.
So, paraphrased, "The element(plutonium) can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested---"
So, for example if you breathe in one particle of plutonium or eat one particle of plutonium or more it likely eventually will be fatal (If) any one or more particles stay in your body in your lungs or intestines or if the radiation it taken into your thyroids,Aureola or sexual organs (in the case of radioactive thyroid). However, plutonium anywhere inside your body if it stays there (even one particle) will likely be fatal within 20 to 30 years and sooner if there is more than one particle present.
next quote same top article:
he 1,000 millisievert per hour reading was more than 330 times the dose an average person in a developed country receives per year and can result in vomiting and up to a 30 percent higher risk of cancer, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The level is also four times the top dose Japan's Health Ministry has set for emergency workers struggling to control further emission of radioactive material from the damaged plant. end quote:
1,000 millisieverts is considered a potentially fatal dose by U.S. Nuclear officials. 50 millisieverts is the most any U.S. nuclear worker is allowed without being sent home from work. And the 1,000 millisieverts per hour means that if one stayed near that 24 hours they would receive 24,000 millisieverts which is considered a fatal dose by everyone in the nuclear industry on earth.
Japanese officials and international experts have said they believe there's been a partial meltdown at three of the plants six reactors.
"The high radiation levels on site seem to support that idea. There is no visual proof yet, but it's increasingly likely there was partial fuel melting," said Gary Was, a nuclear engineering expert at the University of Michigan.
And water runoff isn't the only potential threat complicating efforts to contain the crisis.
Plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company announced late Monday that tests detected low levels of plutonium in soil near the plant. The radioactive element is a reactor byproduct and part of the fuel mix in the No. 3 reactor.
The plutonium likely came from the plant, Edano said Tuesday.
"If we detect higher levels of plutonium, we have to take additional measures, so our intention for now is to carry on with the monitoring on-site," he said. end quote.
So, now both Japanese officials and International representatives believe that there are at least 3 partial meltdowns at Fukushima Nuclear power plant. So, the likely partial meltdowns are Reactors 1, 2 and 3.
Reactor 3 is the Uranium and Plutonium power reactor which uses Mox fuel:
Mixed oxide fuel, commonly referred to as MOX fuel, is nuclear fuel that contains more than one oxide of fissile material. MOX fuel contains plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. MOX fuel is an alternative to the low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel used in the light water reactors that predominate nuclear power generation. For example, a mixture of 7% plutonium and 93% uranium reacts similarly, although not identically, to LEU fuel. quote from Wikipedia under the heading "MOX Fuel".
The term depleted Uranium is often used in conjunction with anti-tank weapons that with this depleted uranium tend to melt tanks when they hit them. (Some of the tanks hit in Libya are likely melted from this type of weapon). It was used on tanks also in Iraq and before that in Desert Storm. But plutonium is used more with Thermonuclear weapons. So when nuclear weapons are reprocessed they are put into MOX fuel sometimes as one of the components. However, plutonium tends to be 2 million times more toxic to all life than uranium.
next quote from top of page article:
Plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company announced late Monday that tests detected low levels of plutonium in soil near the plant. The radioactive element is a reactor byproduct and part of the fuel mix in the No. 3 reactor.
The plutonium likely came from the plant, Edano said Tuesday.
"If we detect higher levels of plutonium, we have to take additional measures, so our intention for now is to carry on with the monitoring on-site," he said.
The power company said it would increase monitoring in the area, but noted that the amount detected was equivalent to the amounts that fell on Japan following above-ground nuclear weapons tests by other countries in past decades, and posed no health risk to humans.
The element can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested, but external exposure poses little health risk, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. end quote.
So, paraphrased, "The element(plutonium) can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested---"
So, for example if you breathe in one particle of plutonium or eat one particle of plutonium or more it likely eventually will be fatal (If) any one or more particles stay in your body in your lungs or intestines or if the radiation it taken into your thyroids,Aureola or sexual organs (in the case of radioactive thyroid). However, plutonium anywhere inside your body if it stays there (even one particle) will likely be fatal within 20 to 30 years and sooner if there is more than one particle present.
next quote same top article:
he 1,000 millisievert per hour reading was more than 330 times the dose an average person in a developed country receives per year and can result in vomiting and up to a 30 percent higher risk of cancer, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The level is also four times the top dose Japan's Health Ministry has set for emergency workers struggling to control further emission of radioactive material from the damaged plant. end quote:
1,000 millisieverts is considered a potentially fatal dose by U.S. Nuclear officials. 50 millisieverts is the most any U.S. nuclear worker is allowed without being sent home from work. And the 1,000 millisieverts per hour means that if one stayed near that 24 hours they would receive 24,000 millisieverts which is considered a fatal dose by everyone in the nuclear industry on earth.
Fingers of God
When I saw God in my early 20s one of the things he said to me was, "Every person, every being is like one of the fingers of God".
At the time this was a revelation to me as I didn't really know what to think about it all. But after God showing me this and then telling me that when people kill each other it is like cutting off one of God's fingers. It really makes God angry in a very serious way. So, God said to me, "Don't take another life or your own. All beings belong to me as I created them all."
I asked, "What is the purpose of life?"
God said, "The purpose of Life is to love and Bless life."
More was also said at this time but most of the rest was kind of personal. However, what I shared here is universal in regard to all beings.
At the time I shook after this experience and was incredibly shaken up inside for several weeks. It could be said that I died but my body went on living. Just like it says in the Bible, "No man may see God and Live!" Because if you do you die even though your body goes on living. This was true of me as well. I was never the same person as before ever again. However, after that experience if someone told me something that I knew from meeting God that wasn't true, sometimes I just laughed in people's faces because no one could lie to me about who God was anymore. Even though "No man can see God and Live!" If your body goes on living in a very profound way you are no longer like most people internally because there is no longer any way that you are separate from God.
So, if you want to meet God prepare to die and have your body live on. Because that is one of the things that can happen. Or, I suppose you might just have a heart attack or stroke from it and die.
So, if you are going to meet God make sure you are young enough to survive the experience unless you just don't care whether you do or not.
At the time this was a revelation to me as I didn't really know what to think about it all. But after God showing me this and then telling me that when people kill each other it is like cutting off one of God's fingers. It really makes God angry in a very serious way. So, God said to me, "Don't take another life or your own. All beings belong to me as I created them all."
I asked, "What is the purpose of life?"
God said, "The purpose of Life is to love and Bless life."
More was also said at this time but most of the rest was kind of personal. However, what I shared here is universal in regard to all beings.
At the time I shook after this experience and was incredibly shaken up inside for several weeks. It could be said that I died but my body went on living. Just like it says in the Bible, "No man may see God and Live!" Because if you do you die even though your body goes on living. This was true of me as well. I was never the same person as before ever again. However, after that experience if someone told me something that I knew from meeting God that wasn't true, sometimes I just laughed in people's faces because no one could lie to me about who God was anymore. Even though "No man can see God and Live!" If your body goes on living in a very profound way you are no longer like most people internally because there is no longer any way that you are separate from God.
So, if you want to meet God prepare to die and have your body live on. Because that is one of the things that can happen. Or, I suppose you might just have a heart attack or stroke from it and die.
So, if you are going to meet God make sure you are young enough to survive the experience unless you just don't care whether you do or not.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Women don't feel they need to have sex with their husbands after they are married
What? then laughter. laughter laughter.
This was something my wife said to me and then we laughed. It wasn't in regard to the two of us. It was in regard to women in general. I thought to myself, "Why Yes. This is actually true. A woman might feel having sex with her boyfriend in order to get him to marry her might be necessary. But after marriage she might also feel she doesn't have to because she now owns him. My wife said it has always been this way. and then we laughed again because we don't feel that way and never have but many still do. It's traditional for thousands of years now. And the birth control pill only complicated matters.
My wife was telling me how in Victorian times around the turn of the early 1900s or so that there were many women's articles about this and how to break this to your husband. She spoke of relatives who used this method to prevent any more children. They just cut their husbands off permanently. And the husbands were just supposed to accept this and find their outlet elsewhere any way they could. And they did. Boy. Wasn't 1900 a lot different than today? Or was it?
This was something my wife said to me and then we laughed. It wasn't in regard to the two of us. It was in regard to women in general. I thought to myself, "Why Yes. This is actually true. A woman might feel having sex with her boyfriend in order to get him to marry her might be necessary. But after marriage she might also feel she doesn't have to because she now owns him. My wife said it has always been this way. and then we laughed again because we don't feel that way and never have but many still do. It's traditional for thousands of years now. And the birth control pill only complicated matters.
My wife was telling me how in Victorian times around the turn of the early 1900s or so that there were many women's articles about this and how to break this to your husband. She spoke of relatives who used this method to prevent any more children. They just cut their husbands off permanently. And the husbands were just supposed to accept this and find their outlet elsewhere any way they could. And they did. Boy. Wasn't 1900 a lot different than today? Or was it?
What is a Tulku or Trulku?
The following is a quote from Wikipedia under the heading "tulku"
In Tibetan Buddhism, a tulku (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ; Wylie: sprul sku; ZWPY: Zhügu, also tülku, trulku) is a particular high-ranking lama, of whom the Dalai Lama is one, who can choose the manner of his (or her) rebirth. Normally the lama would be reincarnated as a human, and of the same sex as his (or her) predecessor. However, discussing his own successor, the Dalai Lama has been quoted as saying that "if a woman reveals herself as more useful the lama could very well be reincarnated in this form".[1] The Dalai Lama has also said (when speculating about the possibility that his people might have no use for a Dalai Lama after he dies) that he "might take rebirth as an insect, or an animal...".[2] In contrast to a tulku, all other sentient beings including other lamas, have no choice as to the manner of their rebirth.
In addition to choosing the manner of their rebirth, tulkus are able, on their deathbed, to make known the place of their next birth, sometimes adding various details about their future parents, the situation of their house and so on. If such details are lacking, the monks whose duty is to locate his reincarnation, resort to a lama-tulku astrologer (or tsispa) for directions.[3]
Presently, there are over two thousand tulkus known, although in Tibet before the Chinese invasion there were probably a few thousand. Each tulku has a distinct lineage of rebirths. For example, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is held to be the reincarnation of each of the previous thirteen Dalai Lamas of Tibet, who are in turn considered to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig, Bodhisattva of Compassion, holder of the White Lotus.[4] The vast majority of tulkus (and lamas) are men although there are some women. end quote.
Since women are presently being educated on earth about the same as men (theoretically) it is now possible for women (because of being exposed to real ideas as opposed to being treated like children)
even the Dalai Lama is saying the next Dalai Lama could be a woman. I think this is true as well. What a woman is now in the United States is not at all in any way, shape or form the same as women that were adults when I grew up in the United States. When I grew up women were just so very repressed and pigeonholed in some way that self destruction as well as the destruction of their mates and lovers was much more common than today. Today, (at least in the United States) a woman is free to choose who she will marry, whether or not she will bear any child or to never have a child ever and whether she will take lovers, get married, travel the world or not. And even though this has helped women be free in many many ways, now they have almost all the same problems as a result that men have always had since before recorded history.
This wasn't really true when I grew up in the 1950s in the U.S. It may have appeared to be true from the outside, however. There were many many invisible constraints that were blown to bits by the birth control pill, the 1960s and 1970s, the Viet Nam War and every thing that has happened ever since.
So, even though there is much more confusion between men and women as to "Who's on First?" and what gender am I? There is still much more truth and less lies than there once was. Many more women can actually stay alive and create their own lives rather than live a living hell of someone else's making or just commit suicide directly or by accident. So, I agree now it is possible for a woman in the U.S. or Europe or many other places on earth to be told enough actual difficult truths to become a Tulku in actuality. Becoming a Tulku, one must die a thousand deaths as one is murdered, over and over again by the awful truths of life. But having survived those awful truths somehow, one can then become compassionate to all beings and live and speak the truth to all in all ways and become an elder statesman or stateswoman to all mankind as well as all beings on earth and throughout the universe.
Further on the subject of what a Tulku actually is, it appears that a tulku often is aware of many things that most other people might not be. I only say "might not be" because I find that most people who survive to adulthood have "very good hunches" about all aspects of their lives. These hunches I call "Common sense" or "Intuition". In the end though it all depends upon what you choose to do with common sense or intuition. Do you actually use it for something actually good for yourself and all life? Or does it just make you so sensitive that you find yourself just "Too sensitive" to want to continue to survive?
Motivation and how you actually feel about yourself and all life in the universe will decide whether you self destruct or become a Tulku or Mahasiddha and dedicate your life to saving both yourself and mankind from further unnecessary suffering and to helping bring all life to a state of the end of suffering and the beginnings of enlightenment. So, whether you dedicate yourself to the end of all suffering including your own is entirely up to you.
In Tibetan Buddhism, a tulku (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ; Wylie: sprul sku; ZWPY: Zhügu, also tülku, trulku) is a particular high-ranking lama, of whom the Dalai Lama is one, who can choose the manner of his (or her) rebirth. Normally the lama would be reincarnated as a human, and of the same sex as his (or her) predecessor. However, discussing his own successor, the Dalai Lama has been quoted as saying that "if a woman reveals herself as more useful the lama could very well be reincarnated in this form".[1] The Dalai Lama has also said (when speculating about the possibility that his people might have no use for a Dalai Lama after he dies) that he "might take rebirth as an insect, or an animal...".[2] In contrast to a tulku, all other sentient beings including other lamas, have no choice as to the manner of their rebirth.
In addition to choosing the manner of their rebirth, tulkus are able, on their deathbed, to make known the place of their next birth, sometimes adding various details about their future parents, the situation of their house and so on. If such details are lacking, the monks whose duty is to locate his reincarnation, resort to a lama-tulku astrologer (or tsispa) for directions.[3]
Presently, there are over two thousand tulkus known, although in Tibet before the Chinese invasion there were probably a few thousand. Each tulku has a distinct lineage of rebirths. For example, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is held to be the reincarnation of each of the previous thirteen Dalai Lamas of Tibet, who are in turn considered to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig, Bodhisattva of Compassion, holder of the White Lotus.[4] The vast majority of tulkus (and lamas) are men although there are some women. end quote.
Since women are presently being educated on earth about the same as men (theoretically) it is now possible for women (because of being exposed to real ideas as opposed to being treated like children)
even the Dalai Lama is saying the next Dalai Lama could be a woman. I think this is true as well. What a woman is now in the United States is not at all in any way, shape or form the same as women that were adults when I grew up in the United States. When I grew up women were just so very repressed and pigeonholed in some way that self destruction as well as the destruction of their mates and lovers was much more common than today. Today, (at least in the United States) a woman is free to choose who she will marry, whether or not she will bear any child or to never have a child ever and whether she will take lovers, get married, travel the world or not. And even though this has helped women be free in many many ways, now they have almost all the same problems as a result that men have always had since before recorded history.
This wasn't really true when I grew up in the 1950s in the U.S. It may have appeared to be true from the outside, however. There were many many invisible constraints that were blown to bits by the birth control pill, the 1960s and 1970s, the Viet Nam War and every thing that has happened ever since.
So, even though there is much more confusion between men and women as to "Who's on First?" and what gender am I? There is still much more truth and less lies than there once was. Many more women can actually stay alive and create their own lives rather than live a living hell of someone else's making or just commit suicide directly or by accident. So, I agree now it is possible for a woman in the U.S. or Europe or many other places on earth to be told enough actual difficult truths to become a Tulku in actuality. Becoming a Tulku, one must die a thousand deaths as one is murdered, over and over again by the awful truths of life. But having survived those awful truths somehow, one can then become compassionate to all beings and live and speak the truth to all in all ways and become an elder statesman or stateswoman to all mankind as well as all beings on earth and throughout the universe.
Further on the subject of what a Tulku actually is, it appears that a tulku often is aware of many things that most other people might not be. I only say "might not be" because I find that most people who survive to adulthood have "very good hunches" about all aspects of their lives. These hunches I call "Common sense" or "Intuition". In the end though it all depends upon what you choose to do with common sense or intuition. Do you actually use it for something actually good for yourself and all life? Or does it just make you so sensitive that you find yourself just "Too sensitive" to want to continue to survive?
Motivation and how you actually feel about yourself and all life in the universe will decide whether you self destruct or become a Tulku or Mahasiddha and dedicate your life to saving both yourself and mankind from further unnecessary suffering and to helping bring all life to a state of the end of suffering and the beginnings of enlightenment. So, whether you dedicate yourself to the end of all suffering including your own is entirely up to you.
30%
This appears to be the dividing line between middle eastern (and other nations) who have or will revolt. If any nation's people pays more than 30% on average for food of their yearly income based upon average wages within that country and if over 50% of the people are under 30 then you have the recipe for revolt.
If you are young and educated or uneducated and there are no jobs, no hope for a good marriage because of no jobs in a country, the threat of force means relatively nothing to such a person because they are dead if they don't try something. They have no hope at all for any future at all without revolt. So, force will not stop young people under 30 under these circumstances. This is a given almost no matter where these statistics arise on earth no matter the nation.
Here in the U.S. we only pay about 7% average for food based upon the average income. We are not in this category but about half the nations on earth or more are. The world is changing and likely will continue to.
If you are young and educated or uneducated and there are no jobs, no hope for a good marriage because of no jobs in a country, the threat of force means relatively nothing to such a person because they are dead if they don't try something. They have no hope at all for any future at all without revolt. So, force will not stop young people under 30 under these circumstances. This is a given almost no matter where these statistics arise on earth no matter the nation.
Here in the U.S. we only pay about 7% average for food based upon the average income. We are not in this category but about half the nations on earth or more are. The world is changing and likely will continue to.
Plutonium from Reactor 3 found in water and soil near plant
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110328/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
TOKYO – Workers discovered new pools of radioactive water leaking from Japan's crippled nuclear complex, officials said Monday, as emergency crews struggled to pump out hundreds of tons of contaminated water and bring the plant back under control.
Officials believe the contaminated water has sent radioactivity levels soaring at the coastal complex and caused more radiation to seep into soil and seawater. Crews also found traces of plutonium in the soil outside of the complex on Monday, but officials insisted there was no threat to public health.
Plutonium — a key ingredient in nuclear weapons — is present in the fuel at the complex, which has been leaking radiation for over two weeks, so experts had expected some to be found once crews began searching for evidence of it this week. end quote.
There are some key words here that should be noted. One is "Hundreds of tons of contaminated water" which would be a euphemism for hundreds of tons of severely radiated water. Since one Gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds we can divide a ton by 8.34 pounds and get our answer. However, there are many different tons:
1 long (or gross) ton = 2240 pounds (UK)
1 short (or net) ton = 2000 pounds (US)
1 tonne (i.e., a metric ton) = 2204.6 pounds
In the United States, when people say "a ton," they're thin.king the short ton, or 2000 pounds.
TOKYO – Workers discovered new pools of radioactive water leaking from Japan's crippled nuclear complex, officials said Monday, as emergency crews struggled to pump out hundreds of tons of contaminated water and bring the plant back under control.
Officials believe the contaminated water has sent radioactivity levels soaring at the coastal complex and caused more radiation to seep into soil and seawater. Crews also found traces of plutonium in the soil outside of the complex on Monday, but officials insisted there was no threat to public health.
Plutonium — a key ingredient in nuclear weapons — is present in the fuel at the complex, which has been leaking radiation for over two weeks, so experts had expected some to be found once crews began searching for evidence of it this week. end quote.
There are some key words here that should be noted. One is "Hundreds of tons of contaminated water" which would be a euphemism for hundreds of tons of severely radiated water. Since one Gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds we can divide a ton by 8.34 pounds and get our answer. However, there are many different tons:
1 long (or gross) ton = 2240 pounds (UK)
1 short (or net) ton = 2000 pounds (US)
1 tonne (i.e., a metric ton) = 2204.6 pounds
In the United States, when people say "a ton," they're thin.king the short ton, or 2000 pounds.
Writing in a Science Fiction type of Format
L. Ron Hubbard is reported to have bet someone that he could create a religion while writing Science Fiction. Some say he did and Scientology is the result. Whether that is true or not I don't know in the end.
However, what I do know is that if you are an intuitive like me, and also a possible reincarnated Tulku like me, if you are in an enlightened place when you write, you change the past, the present, as well as the future to a better outcome than it would have been otherwise.
Enlightenment could be described best as something like seeing the whole human race lost in the dark in a cave. An enlightened person simply lights a candle and leads the group out of the cave and into the light of day. Light your candles everyone!
However, what I do know is that if you are an intuitive like me, and also a possible reincarnated Tulku like me, if you are in an enlightened place when you write, you change the past, the present, as well as the future to a better outcome than it would have been otherwise.
Enlightenment could be described best as something like seeing the whole human race lost in the dark in a cave. An enlightened person simply lights a candle and leads the group out of the cave and into the light of day. Light your candles everyone!
The Lost City of Chernobyl
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2006/09/13/lost-city-of-chernobyl/
begin quote.
Lost City of Chernobyl
“In matters nuclear one thing is certain: there is no protection in an iron curtain.” A letter in The Times May 3rd, 1986.On the 26th of April 1986 shortly after midnight, to be precise, at 1:23 GMT, there occurred near the Ukrainian town of Chornobyl a tremendous explosion at a huge nuclear power plant, followed by a gradual meltdown of the reactor No. 4.
Chornobyl is situated 80 miles north-west of Kiev, the ancient capital of Ukraine and the Soviet Union’s third largest city.
It was by far the worst nuclear reactor accident ever, which immediately sent a radioactive cloud across neighbouring Byelorussia, Poland and the Baltic Republics towards Scandinavia.
Within days, borne by shifting winds, radioactive mists wafted beyond Soviet borders and spread across most of Europe causing anxiety, apprehension and fear.
The most badly affected were the Republics of Ukraine and Byelorussia. They suffered large scale involuntary irradiation, due to extensive secrecy, and great economic damage. Furthermore the contaminated air mass passed over large areas of Poland and also over parts of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia and a number of West European countries.
Till now the land is abandoned, thousands of houses, thousands acres of the land, everything is now stays almost the same as it was 20 years ago. end quote.
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