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EPA On Radiation Alert As Fires Reach 50 Feet From Los Alamos Nuke Plant

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Paul Joseph Watson
GCN Live.com
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The wildfire that threatens to consume the Los Alamos nuclear lab in New Mexico is now approaching the perimeter of the facility, with the Environmental Protection Agency on radiation alert for the deadly consequences of 20,000 barrels of nuclear waste going up in flames.

Having been miles away from the nuclear lab just yesterday, the fires have now reached to within 50 feet of the facility, with officials fearing a “major calamity” because the nuclear waste is not securely contained in a concrete structure, but is unbelievably stored “in a sort of fabric-type building that a fire could easily consume,” according to former top security official Glen Walp.

“The concern is that these drums will get so hot that they’ll burst. That would put this toxic material into the plume. It’s a concern for everybody,” said Joni Arends, executive director of the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, an anti-nuclear group.

The EPA has responded by bringing in “air monitors, along with a special airplane that checks for radiation levels,” reports ABC News.

The 95-square-mile fire has turned the city of Los Alamos into a ghost town, with 12,000 residents evacuating on Monday.

The EPA’s trustworthiness on reassuring Americans that there is no danger from radiation released into the atmosphere is likely to be somewhat lessened by what happened following the Fukushima disaster earlier this year.

As the Fukushima radiation plume took just days to arrive in the U.S., instead of advising Americans to take weaker forms of potassium iodine to build up their immunity to certain types of radioactivity, the EPA simply increased the allowable levels of the radioactive isotope iodine-131 by many thousands of times, despite the fact that within just two weeks of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that crippled the nuclear plant, the amount of radiation released from Fukushima already rivaled that of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster up until that point.

Within weeks of the Fukushima crisis, levels of radioactive Iodine-131 found in rainwater in California, Idaho, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, was already 181 times the U.S. federal standard for drinking water.

However, the EPA reacted by encouraging Americans not to take potassium iodide or any protective measures whatsoever. Indeed, Barack Obama all but insulted Americans who had responded by buying up supplies of potassium iodide pills as a precaution.

It’s little surprise that huge numbers of Americans responded to Fukushima by creating a run on potassium iodide pills and geiger counters. As the sustained cover-up by the Japanese government has once again proven, governments cannot be trusted to tell the truth about public health threats.

Nowhere was this more evident in the case of the EPA than in the days following 9/11, when ground zero workers were told that the air was “safe to breathe,” a contrived cover-up on behalf of the EPA and the White House that led to thousands of crippling illnesses and deaths of firefighters, police and first responders.

Despite official assurances that residents in surrounding areas were safe, the 3 Mile Island accident, which was miniscule compared to Fukushima, also led to a dramatic rise in cancer rates.

Should wildfires consume the nuclear waste stored at Los Alamos, the U.S. government will not be able to protect its citizens. As CNN highlighted during the height of the Fukushima crisis, the federal government has never purchased enough potassium iodide pills to meet that standard.

“There is currently only enough of the medication available for populations living within 10 miles of nuclear reactors in the United States, according to U.S. officials,” stated the report.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.

Posted in Featured News/Exclusives, The Environment

Gaga For GABA: Love Nutrient For the Endocrine System

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

By Ben Fuchs
GCN Live.com

Like many nutrients, with the exception of the essential ones, GABA is a chemical component that is produced by the body, but one that can be taken as a supplement for maximum benefit.

GABA is technically a neurotransmitter, which simply means it is a chemical that affects nerves; in the case of GABA, the effects are inhibitory, which means it’s got some nice anti-stress effects. There are prescription drugs such as the benzodiazepines (diazepam for example) that induce relaxing effects by exploiting the GABA neurological system.

GABA can be taken as a sleep aid and it has been used by anxiety sufferers to improve their sense of well-being. Body-builders have a special fondness for GABA because it can help improve growth hormone levels. According to well-known study done at The University Of Milan, Italy, 90 minutes after supplementation with 5000mg of GABA, levels of growth hormone increased by 5 times.

GABA may help improve concentration and also can be used for its soporific effects to help alleviate insomnia. Try taking one or two grams before going to bed, it may help you get a good night’s sleep and you’ll be helping support the nighttime growth hormone surge that occurs as part of normal endocrine functioning.

Ben Fuchs, R.Ph (“Pharmacist Ben”) is the talk radio host of The Bright Side on the GCN Radio Network. The program airs live Monday – Friday, from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. CST. Or listen On Demand anytime.

Tags: endocrine, GABA
Posted in Featured News/Exclusives, Health News

Kissinger’s Marching Orders: Buy Out, Dismember, Destroy America

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

By George Butler & Charlotte Littlefield
GCN Live.com

Henry Kissinger is taken as a credible and influential presidential adviser, despite the fact that there is an abundance of legal evidence that he is a war criminal. He is also being pursued by Spanish and French authorities. When viewed from purely legal stand point, author Christopher Hitchens, in his book “The Trial of Henry Kissinger”, points out that Kissinger was responsible for acts of genocide, assassination, and unlawfully interfering with government operations both in the United States and in foreign countries.

Buy Out

His criminal resume spans the globe and includes the mass murder of civilians in East Timor, Pakistan, Greece, Cyprus, Chile, Argentina, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. In places such as Chile and Argentina, Kissinger supervised the assassination of democratically-elected heads of state and the establishment of brutally repressive and murderous military dictatorships. Some defend Kissinger, arguing he did what had to be done, practicing a brutal but necessary variant of real politics. While Kissinger’s actions personally benefited him and his patrons, they in no way helped the United States. Yet, somehow he remains a credible adviser?

Henry Kissinger does not represent the citizenry of the United States of America but the Bilderberg Group. He recently attended the Bilderberg Steering Committee from June 9-12, 2011 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. This steering committee, it is fair to say, likely includes North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the king of Norway, all the other monarchs of Europe and other kingdoms of significance, sovereign wealth funds, international corporatists, world financiers and bankers, their families and their associates. This includes members of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Naturally, infrequent attendees, or pre-selected people of interest, are heavily indoctrinated, even pressured, into pursuing and supporting Public Private Partnerships (PPP), which effectively transfer public assets and resources into private hands. The PPPs are promoted on the premise of creating more efficient organizations that will provide goods at lower costs and provide more efficient services. In some cases, the outcomes initially do effectively create good results, but the ownership transfer from public to private has significant legal consequences.

Despite his potential apprehension and conviction as a war criminal, Kissinger was honored June 15, 2011 at The Asia Society annual awards dinner at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington D.C. Kissinger appeared on stage in front of an Asia Society audience with Orville Schell, a preeminent China scholar, and Arthur Ross, director of the Asia Society’s Center on the U.S.

Kissinger made these comments during the dinner: that the United States and China must “adjust their traditional thinking” and “move toward a sense of community” in order to avoid conflict. “We are now in an international situation for which there is no precedent in history.” … “On the one hand, there is turmoil in many parts of the world. At the same time, there are a series of problems that can only be dealt with on a global basis. … And that makes it imperative for the two strongest nations that are existing in the world today to move in a cooperative manner.”

In this video, “Henry Kissinger: Toward a China U.S. Community”, he makes a case for facilitating the investment, acquisition and buy out with the Chinese-Communists of the United States so they will own all of America, via Public Private Partnerships.

Dismember

The dismemberment of America is proceeding. “Divide and conquer” has been the internationalist and monarchical battle cry. Victory is assimilation, not division or separatism on our primary principles of liberty, justice and freedom. American heritage is to be the great “melting pot”, not the great “salad bowl”. We no longer have Americans, but African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Anglo-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and so on and so forth.

America is being dismembered. United we stand with our Federal Constitution, Bill of Rights and our righteous Declaration of Independence which proclaims with the greatest of authority “all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with inalienable rights”. In this equation is the sacred requirement of state, individual and minority rights. Both dictatorial theocracy and monarchy blocked under our collection of founding documents and contracts. To be American means it is self-evident that we are created equal, and we proclaim our inalienable rights provided by natural law of our Creator.

Tragically, our taxpayer-funded Public Broadcast Systems, along with Aspen Institute vultures, are looking upon us from their perches. Presumably, they have bestowed a great gift upon America: the concept of multiculturalism. But what is needed is an America enlivened and united to defend the principles of our founding document, not separatist division by ethnicity, religion or creed. United we stand, divided we fall.

Destroy

Destroy America’s founding principles and those who still profess those principles and presumably the country will be destroyed. Stalin and Antonio Gramsci differed in their strategy in spreading Communism. Gramsci believed that the first priority was to culturally defeat the west’s institutions, and than the nations would fall to the Communists. Sadly, that is what the old monarchies and international bankers have done in destroying our institutions with money-based systems. These money-based systems have no heart and no soul, but consist of corporate structures that seemingly garner the same rights of a flesh-and-blood natural person.

Corporate law has to be seriously reconsidered, major revisions applied, and profound principle changed. The Uniformed Commercial Code (UCC), contrary to the power elite, is not what rules the United States of America, nor are any of our principles of government to be taken from it. However, the erosion and conversion is obvious and nearly complete.

If the Constitution is a living breathing document, then that implies that it can also die. Contracts do not live or die. They are amended by agreement of all parties to the contract; hence why the concept of the Constitution being a “living, breathing” document is illogical and dangerous. What is required today is an unburdening of ourselves from unconstitutional legislation, executive orders, and the subversive influence of Uniformed Commercial Code.

Further, we must not only recognize, but reverse, the very real transfer of power that has occurred from the legislative branch to the judicial; but more dangerously, the executive branch as with the power to wage war or the supposed nullification of the great Posse Comitatus Act of June 18, 1878. We must change the laws concerning what rights international and local corporations have in our land and nullify the cumbersome liberty-stealing UCC (and other Uniform Codes) as required. Last but not least, we must no longer tolerate the over-empowered Federalists, backed by big money, dictating to us, the grassroots (and State political parties) who we will or will not endorse for either party’s Presidential candidate via the Electoral College.

Solutions

1. Unburden the U.S. Constitution by repealing damaging legislation.
2. Uphold protection of state, individual and minority groups’ rights.
3. Step back from tyrannical federalism and collectivism.
4. Demand an audit of – and an end to – the privately-owned Federal Reserve.
5. Uphold man’s freedom from theocracy and monarchy.
6. Demand an end to public-private partnerships.
7. Support nullification movement.
8. End the top-down dictatorial nature of the two-party system.
9. People use the Electoral College, not the federalist top-down approach.

George Butler and Charlotte Littlefield are the talk radio co-hosts of The Secret Truth, which airs every Saturday evening, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. CST on GCN. Or listen On Demand anytime. Butler is also a playwright, having written the musical drama Give Them A Chance, which debuted in Austin, Texas in June 2007.

Posted in Featured News/Exclusives, U.S. News

Can The Fed Stop Quantitative Easing?

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Paul Craig Roberts
GCN Live.com
June 28, 2011

If the Fed stops QE, confidence in the US dollar would rise. Money would flow into US investments, both supporting the US stock market and helping to finance the large US budget deficit. Gold and silver prices would decline. Negative dollar expectations would be squeezed out of oil and grain prices, although drought, flood, and supply factors would continue to impact grain prices and the administration’s wars can impact oil prices.

If a halt to QE coincided with more European sovereign debt problems, the dollar might regain a lot of the ground that it has lost.

Looked at from this perspective, the Fed should halt its bond purchases, and people should bail out of their bullion investments and commodity speculations.

But there are other factors in play–the economy and continuing solvency worries about financial institutions. At a June 22 news conference, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said: “Some of the headwinds that have been concerning us, like the weakness in the financial sector, problems in the housing sector, balance sheet and deleveraging issues, may be stronger and more persistent than we thought.”

Despite the fiscal stimulus of the large federal budget deficit and Obama’s $700 billion stimulus program, the economy’s growth and employment performance is not up to expectations. Indeed, as John Williams says, if inflation were fully measured, the economy’s growth could be negative, and if unemployment were correctly reported, the current rate would be over 22%.

An economy this weak offers no support to US-derived corporate profits or to the outlook for financial organizations. US corporations have made large investments abroad in the production of goods and services to sell to US consumers who have neither the income nor borrowing capacity to purchase. People without jobs and those with the low paid jobs provided by domestic service, such as hospital orderlies, bartenders, and waitresses, cannot afford to buy a house even at the depressed current prices. To the extent that financial institutions’ books remain filled with real estate paper, the financial crisis is not over.

Moreover, it is unlikely that the Dow Jones average can be sustained without growth in employment and GDP.

Can the Fed afford to sacrifice recovery, employment, and Obama’s reelection to save the dollar and price stability? This is the unasked and unanswered question.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously an editor for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating.

Posted in Economy

Cancer Surges In Body Scanner Operators; TSA Launches Cover-Up

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Paul Joseph Watson
GCN Live.com
June 28, 2011

Fearful of provoking further public resistance to naked airport body scanners, the TSA has been caught covering up a surge in cases of TSA workers developing cancer as a result of their close proximity to radiation-firing devices, perhaps the most shocking revelation to emerge from the latest FOIA documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

After Union representatives in Boston discovered a “cancer cluster” amongst TSA workers linked with radiation from the body scanners, the TSA sought to downplay the matter and refused to issue employees with dosimeters to measure levels of exposure.

The documents indicate how, “A large number of workers have been falling victim to cancer, strokes and heart disease.”

“The Department, rather than acting on it, or explaining its position seems to have just dismissed. I don’t think that’s the way most other agencies would have acted in a similar situation if they were confronted with that question,” EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg said.

Of course, if TSA workers who are merely standing near the scanners are already developing cancer, frequent flyers are also putting themselves in harm’s way by standing directly inside the radiation-firing machines.

As we reported yesterday, newly released internal government documents, obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, reveal that the TSA, and specifically the head of the Department of Homeland Security, “publicly mischaracterized” the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in stating that NIST had positively confirmed the safety of full body scanners in tests.

In erroneously citing both NIST and the Johns Hopkins school of medicine to claim that the body scanners are safe, the TSA has also deliberately misled the public on the dangers posed by the devices.

Documents obtained by EPIC show that, far from affirming their safety, NIST warned that airport screeners should avoid standing next to full body scanners in order to keep exposure to harmful radiation “as low as reasonably achievable.”

Further documents illustrate how a Johns Hopkins study actually revealed that radiation zones around body scanners could exceed the “General Public Dose Limit,” contradicting repeated claims by the TSA that Johns Hopkins had validated the safety of the devices.

At the time we pointed out that Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray lab at the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at the Johns Hopkins school of medicine had publicly stated two days previously that “statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays”.

TSA workers complained about the radiation dangers of the scanners back in December, saying they were being kept in the dark by their employers, despite repeated requests for information.

“We don’t think the agency is sharing enough information,” said Milly Rodriguez, occupational health and safety specialist at the American Federation of Government Employees, the union that represents TSA workers.

A study conducted last year by Dr David Brenner, head of Columbia University’s center for radiological research, found that the body scanners are likely to lead to an increase in a common type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma, which affects the head and neck.

Following the study, Brenner urged medical authorities to look at his work, pointing to the dangerous notion of mass scanning millions of people without proper oversight.

“There really is no other technology around where we’re planning to X-ray such an enormous number of individuals. It’s really unprecedented in the radiation world,” said Brenner.

Similar concerns to those explored in the Columbia University study were voiced in February 2010 by the influential Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety, who warned in a report that the scanners increase the risk of cancer and birth defects and should not be used on pregnant women or children.

Despite governments claiming that backscatter x-ray systems produce radiation too low to pose a threat, the organization concluded in their report that governments must justify the use of the scanners and that a more accurate assessment of the health risks is needed.

Pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, according to the report, adding that governments should consider “other techniques to achieve the same end without the use of ionizing radiation.”

“The Committee cited the IAEA’s 1996 Basic Safety Standards agreement, drafted over three decades, that protects people from radiation. Frequent exposure to low doses of radiation can lead to cancer and birth defects, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” reported Bloomberg.

In a recent letter to President Obama’s Science Advisor, several University of California professors also complained of how, “There is still no rigorous, hard, data for the safety of x-ray airport passenger scanners.” The scientists noted how the safety tests for the scanners were carried out exclusively by manufacturers, and recommended an immediate moratorium on use of the devices until the health risks can be independently studied.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.

Posted in Technology