- Gundersen: Breaking news… Officials say U.S. nuclear plant operator “was going to do an experiment on the people of Southern California” — “That’s their words; they said it was an experiment” (AUDIO) (ENENews, May 16, 2013)
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, California, Global News, Government, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Society, Technology, U.S.
- Study: 28% Increase In Thyroid Problems In Babies Born After Fukushima in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington (ZeroHedge, April 3, 2013):
Infants are much more vulnerable to radiation than adults. And see this.However, radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that everyone in the world is a healthy man in his 20s.
Now, a medical doctor (Janette D. Sherman, M. D.) and epidemiologist (Joseph Mangano) have released a study showing a 28% increase in thyroid problems in babies born in Hawaii and America’s West Coast after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Janette Sherman, M.D. worked for the Atomic Energy Commission (forerunner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) at the University of California in Berkeley, and for the U.S. Navy Radiation Defense Laboratory in San Francisco. She served on the EPA’s advisory board for 6 years, and has been an advisor to the National Cancer Institute on breast cancer. Dr. Sherman specializes in internal medicine and toxicology with an emphasis on chemicals and nuclear radiation.
Joseph J. Mangano is a public health administrator and researcher who has studied the connection between low-dose radiation exposure and subsequent risk of diseases such as cancer and damage to newborns. He has published numerous articles and letters in medical and other journals in addition to books, including Low Level Radiation and Immune System Disorders: An Atomic Era Legacy.
Their new study – published in the Open Journal of Pediatrics – is entitled “Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.”
Common Dreams notes:
[The study found that] children born in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington between one week and 16 weeks after the meltdown began are 28 percent more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism (CH) than were kids born in those states during the same period one year earlier.
Tags: Alaska, Babies, California, Children, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Hawaii, Iodine-131, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Radiation, Thyroid
- Stockton Becomes Biggest US City To Declare Bankruptcy (It’s Official) (ZeroHedge, April 1, 2013):
A mere nine months after we first discussed the inevitability of Stockton, CA.’s bankruptcy, a judge has ordered today that the city will now become the most populous in the US to be declared bankrupt.
- *STOCKTON CREDITORS DIDN’T NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH, JUDGE SAYS
Creditors are pushing to get the city out of bankruptcy but the judge states that “by any measure” the city was insolvent. So, in summary, yeah, it was broke years ago, it still is broke – despite the best efforts by the Central Planning Reserve to reflate the same housing bubble that was the primary reason for the city’s insolvency in the first place. Only this time, it’s official!
Via Reuters:
Tags: Bankruptcy, California, Collapse, Debt, Economy, Global News, Government, Politics, Society, Stockton, U.S.
Fukushima, anyone?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of starving sea lion pups are washing up on beaches from San Diego to Santa Barbara, overwhelming rescue centers and leaving scientists scrambling to figure out why.
At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die.
It’s gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event.” That will allow more scientists to join the search for the cause, Melin said.
Pups are normally weaned from their mothers in April.
Even the pups that are making it are markedly underweight, Melin said.
The most recent pups weighed at the breeding area on San Miguel Island were around 37 pounds, Melin said. They should weigh between 55 and 59 pounds by now, she said.
Tags: animals, California, Environment, Global News, NOAA, Oceans, Sea Lions
- “Boomerang Foreclosures” Are Back As Bernanke’s Second Housing Bubble Begins To Pop (ZeroHedge, Feb 14, 2013)
Tags: Ben Bernanke, Bubble, California, Economy, Fed, Federal Reserve, Florida, Foreclosures, Global News, Real Estate
- Panic In California As Thousands Of Food Stamps Cards Suffer Brief Outage (ZeroHedge, Jan 9, 2013):
This past weekend, as part of a system update to the CalWIN software of California’s Social Services department, HP accidentally cancelled EBT cards for some 37,000 Californians. We can only imagine the resulting panic and the scramble by all these Californians who suddenly could not live within their means to print trillion, and other denomination, coins, in the shining example of their government. The OC Register reports that eighteen counties were affected in the CalFresh chaos (the ‘friendly’ name given to California’s food stamp program – also formerly known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP). While we worry for the strippers and liquor stores, CalWIN and Xerox (the state’s primary contractor for administering CalFresh) developed a process to reactivate the cards by Tuesday morning. While this must have been a tough day or two for many, we wonder if Geithner’s ‘extraordinary’ efforts to extend the debt ceiling deadline have perhaps gone a little too far?Finally, instead of minting coins, perhaps Hewlett Packard can remotely update its software in the Fed printers, which can then proceed to print a few cool extra trillion unsupervised, and voila: all of America’s problems are gone.
Tags: California, Collapse, Food stamps, Global News, Society
- California’s Newest Business Craze: Homemade Food (Bloomberg, Jan 2, 2013):
Granola makers, homemade vinegar producers, and other foodies in California have cause to rejoice today. As of Jan. 1, a new state law allows people who make food at home to sell it to restaurants and grocery stores.
Leave it to California to upend decades of public health consensus that food businesses need commercial licenses to ensure their food is safe and free of harmful contaminants. The California Homemade Food Act creates a new category of food production called a “cottage food operation.”
Tags: California, Economy, Food, Global News, Government, Law, Politics, Society, U.S.
- CA lawmakers take aim at guns (CalWatchDog, Dec 24, 2012):
SACRAMENTO – It took only days before California’s legislators reacted to the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy with a fusillade of bills designed to take California closer to Democratic leaders’ unstated but obvious goal: making it essentially illegal for Californians to own firearms.
I write “essentially” because the strategy isn’t to ban guns outright, but to mire ownership in so many layers of regulation that owning a gun becomes even more frustrating and costly than operating a business in this state. Legislators aren’t stupid. Direct assaults on gun ownership generate pushback, but killing this constitutional right through a thousand cuts is less confrontational.
Tags: California, Global News, Government, Guns, Law, Politics, Society, U.S.
- 55 Reasons Why California Is The Worst State In America (Economic, Collapse, Dec 12, 2012):
Why in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at this point? The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining example of everything that is wrong with America. It is so sad to watch our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes. Like millions of Americans, I was quite enamored with the state of California when I was younger. The warm weather, the beaches, the great natural beauty of the state and the mystique of Hollywood all really appealed to me. At one point I even thought that I wanted to move there. But today, hordes of Californians are racing to get out of the state because it has become a total nightmare. It is the worst state in the country in which to do business, taxes were just raised even higher, unemployment is more than 20 percent higher than the national average and the state government is drowning in debt. Meanwhile, poverty, gang activity and crime just seem to get worse with each passing year. On top of everything else, the insane politicians in Sacramento just keep on passing more laws that make the problems that the state is facing even worse. Unfortunately, what is happening in California may be a preview of what is coming to the entire nation. The old adage, “as California goes, so goes the nation”, has been proven to be true way too many times.
In dozens of different ways, the state of California is showing the rest of us what not to do. Will we learn from their mistakes, or will we follow them into oblivion? Please share the list below with as many people as you can. In addition to a large amount of new research, this list also pulled heavily from one of my previous articles and from outstanding research done by Richard Rider.
The following are 55 reasons why California is the worst state in America… Continue reading »
Tags: California, Collapse, Economy, Global News, Government, Law, Politics, U.S.
- Mutated Kiwifruit On Sale: Five For A Dollar (VIDEO) (Ah, Mephistophelis, Dec 1, 2012):
What gets me still is that five kiwifruit looked more like twelve — but they were on sale, five for a dollar, and still cost me only one dollar.
YouTube Added: 01.12.2012
From my Afterword:
Kiwifruit, with described mutations matching what you have just seen, were, according to one recipient, being given to the needy at a local food bank in early November 2012; unfortunately all of the evidence was eaten before this came to my attention(tasted “a little bland”).
I have in fact learned where the kiwi were grown: central California. Specifically, a small farm, approximately between Fresno and Bakersfield.
Tags: California, Environment, Food, Global News, Oakland, U.S.
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