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- Stolen Babies? Immigrant Mother Loses Four Kids (ABC News, Feb. 2, 2012):

The scars of childbirth were still healing on Amelia Reyes Jimenez’s stomach in 2008 when police came to her Phoenix apartment and took her three-month-old daughter from her arms.

Three and a half years later, Reyes Jimenez and her four children have become statistics in the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigration. Each year thousands of children of undocumented immigrants, like Amelia’s kids, wind up in foster care when their parents are arrested for immigration violations. Some are even adopted by U.S. citizens while their parents are held in federal detention centers or deported back to their native countries.

Reyes Jimenez’s son and three daughters are now living in foster care in Phoenix, and are awaiting possible adoption. Reyes Jimenez is back in Mexico, her parental rights terminated by an Arizona judge, and she cries when she remembers the raid that began it all.

“My daughters were calling, ‘Mommy, my Mommy,’” said Reyes Jimenez. “I felt destroyed. I felt like I would never see my girls, even worse [the baby] was so small. I had just bought her cradle and her stroller.”

A new study by the human rights group Applied Research Center estimates that as of summer 2011 there were at least 5,100 children of detained immigrants in foster care in 22 states.

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Tags: Babies, Children, Global News, Government, Illegal Alien, Immigration, Politics, Society, U.S.

- Japanese government is going to raise the safety limit for infant

Councilor of radiation belonging to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare returned the report to allow them to raise the safety limit of infant food, which is from 50 Bq/Kg to 100 Bq/Kg.

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been asking the councilor for the opinion which is more friendly to agricultural industry.

As the reason, the councilor states even if an infant takes 100 Bq/Kg of food everyday, the yearly internal dose would be less than 1 mSv.

However, even this limit may be raised because some of the stakeholder of fishing and agricultural industry claim it is still too strict, it’s harmful for the reconstruction of the disaster area.

The councilor mentioned variety of stakeholders should be involved in making the new safety rule. Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is going to effectuate the new rule as of April.

Source

- Japan’s Ministry of Education Radiation Council: No Need to Have Stricter Standard for Radiation for Food for Infants (EX-SKF, Feb. 2, 2012):

Because “we have to make sure producers are not inconvenienced”.

The Radiation Council of the Ministry of Education and Science issued its response after deliberating on the new safety standard for radioactive cesium in food submitted by the Ministry of Health and Labor.

First, from Mainichi Shinbun (2/2/2012):

セシウム新基準値：乳児用食品１００ベクレルに…答申案

Report on new standard for radioactive cesium: 100 becquerels/kg for infant food

厚生労働省の諮問を受け、食品の放射性セシウムの新基準値案を審議していた文部科学省の放射線審議会（会長・丹羽太貫京都大名誉教授）は２日、乳児用食品 と牛乳について、１キロあたり５０ベクレルを１００ベクレルに緩めてもよいとする答申案をまとめた。次回に最終案を厚労省に答申する。

The Radiation Council of the Ministry of Education and Science has been deliberating on the new safety standards for radioactive cesium in food set by the Ministry of Health and Labor. On February 2, the council compiled its report that said it would be OK to loosen the standards for food and milk for infants from 50 becquerels/kg to 100 becquerels/kg. In the next meeting, the council will submit its final report to the Ministry of Health and Labor.

審議会では「乳児も含めどの年齢層でも、１キロあたり１００ベクレルの食品を摂取し続けても、年間被ばく限度の１ミリシーベルト以内に収まる」との意見が 大勢を占め、子供の健康は十分に守られるとの見解で一致した。新基準値案は農漁業生産者に厳しすぎ、被災地の復興にも影響を与える可能性があるとの意見も 出た。答申案には「基準値の決定にさまざまな関係者が関与すべきだ」と記された。

The majority of the council expressed the view that “for all age groups including infants, the annual [internal] radiation exposure would be within 1 millisievert even if they continue to consume food with 100 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium”, and all agreed that the health of children would be well protected. Some said the new standards would be too harsh for fishermen and farmers, and the standards might negatively affect the recovery of the disaster-affected areas. The council’s report also says “all stakeholders should participate in deciding the new standards”.

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Tags: Babies, Children, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Goshi Hosono, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society

Related info:

– Over 30% Of Tested Fukushima Children Have Thyroid Lumps

- Tokyo Assemblyman To School Children: Don’t Be an Egoist, Eat Your School Lunch To Share The Pain Of Tohoku

- Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen: Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima Daiichi Underestimated (Video)

- Totally Insane Japan: 10 Tokyo Elementary Schools Send Children Skiing In Fukushima Prefecture

- Radiation in Japan: Saitama Forces School Children To Gargle With Sayama Tea to Prevent Flu

- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Employees To Concerned Citizens On The Phone Regarding Radioactive Disaster Debris: ‘There’s Nothing You Can Do About It, Ha-Ha’ – ‘It Is A Fate For Children To Accept Radiation Contamination’

- Evacuate FUKUSHIMA: Japanese Journalist Takashi Hirose: ‘It’s Like Killing Our Own Children, I Cannot Allow It To Happen’ – Teachers Force School Children To Eat Food That Their Parents Told Them Not To Eat

- Fukushima Children Forced To Drink Radioactive Milk At School (Upper House Budget Committee, Sep. 29, 2011 – Video)

- Cesium beef has been eaten by 180,000 students (Fukushima Diary, Feb. 3, 2012):

A member of the House of Representatives from Communist Party, Miyamoto Takeshi commented on his blog that about 180,000 students have eaten cesium beef.

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Tags: Beef, Children, Environment, Food, Fukushima, Global News, Goshi Hosono, Government, Health, Japan, Meat, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Schools, Society

- Hercules Family Battles Sex Assault Claim Against 6-Year-Old (CBS 5, Jan. 27, 2012):

HERCULES (CBS 5) – An East Bay dad claims a game of tag on the playground resulted in his 6-year-old son being accused of sexual assault – a decision he said was an overreaction by school officials.

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Tags: Children, Crime, Education, Global News, Government, Schools, Society

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- The water supply facility was left open, and school doesn’t know since when (Fukushima Diary, Jan. 28, 2012):

The father to have 2 children go to elementary school tweeted about the management ability of a school in Japan.

They live in Tamaku Kawasaki shi Kanagawa.

@suzusuzu9527
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小学校が水道水のむな水筒持参と言ってきた。屋上の給水設備の蓋が開いていたらしい。しかもいつから開いていたか分からないらしい。ちょっとちょっとちょっと！！！（大汗）Source

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Elementary school of my children told us to bring water bottle because they can’t allow students to drink tap water. They found the lid of water supply facility opened by chance and they don’t know since when. The facility is on the roof of school.

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From snow and rain, and even from the air, Iodine-131 and cesium-134,137 are measured constantly. School force children to have school lunch for no reason but they don’t even take care about the tap water.

This father is strongly doubting the management ability of school.

Tags: Children, Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, school, Society, Water

A lot of ‘baseless rumors’ are growing inside your children.

See also:

- Tepco: Fukushima Releases 70 MILLION BEQUERELS PER HOUR, Up 12 Million Bq From December

- Prof. Dr. Chris Busby: ‘You Shouldn’t Go On A Business Trip To Japan’ – ‘Get Out Of Japan’ – ‘Run!’ – ‘I Would Get Out Of Tokyo’ (Video)

Prof. Hayakawa of Gunma University:

‘If you don’t educate yourself now and fast, you’ll die.’

- 1143 Children (Over 30%) of 3765 Tested for Thyroid Abnormalities in Fukushima Had Lumps or Cysts (Updated) (EX-SKF, Jan. 25, 2012):

(UPDATE: The document issued by the Fukushima Prefecture’s expert committee is here (PDF, in Japanese).

Total number of children tested: 3765
No. of children found with lumps 5.1 millimeter or larger: 26
No. of children found with lumps less than 5.1 millimeter: 56
No. of children found with cysts 20.1 millimeter or larger: 0
No. of children found with cyst less than 20.1 millimeter: 1086
No. of children with no lumps, cysts: 2622

There are children who have both lump and cyst.

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Waaaiiit a minute…

I was looking for more information on the post I wrote about the lumps on the thyroid 5.1 millimeters or bigger in diameter found in 0.7% or 26 children out of 3765 children tested in Fukushima Prefecture. I was specifically looking for information on the number of children who had any lump at all.

I’ve just found it in an unlikely place: Fukushima Minpo, local Fukushima newspaper. I thought they would obfuscate, but they have the details. The article looks like it is a part of a longer article; it is possible it is abbreviated from the article in the print version of the newspaper.

It turns out,

Total number of children tested: 3765
No. of children found with lumps 5.1 millimeters and larger: 26 (0.7% of total)
No. of children found with lumps smaller than 5.1 millimeters: 1117 (29.7% of total)

1143 children, or 30.4% of children tested, were found with lumps of varying sizes.

From Fukushima Minpo (1/25/2012):

検討委員会では、浪江、飯舘両町村、川俣町山木屋地区の１８歳以下を対象にした甲状腺検査の結果が報告された。３７６５人のうち、「直ちに二次検査を要する」と判断された県民はいなかった。

At the expert commission, the result of the thyroid test was reported. The test was done on the children below the age of 18 in Namie-machi, Iitate-mura, and Yamakiya District of Kawamata-machi [all planned evacuation zone]. Of 3765 children, there was no one who was deemed necessary to immediately go through further testing.

直径５・１ミリ以上のし こりなどが確認され、二次検査の対象となったのは２６人（０・７％）だったが、検討委座長の山下俊一福島医大副学長は「原発事故に伴う悪性の変化はみられ ない」と説明している。二次検査が不要の３７３９人（９９・３％）のうち、１１１７人（２９・７％）は５・０ミリ以下のしこりなどが確認されたが、県は 「良性」と判断している。

26 children (0.7%) have been found with lumps with 5.1 millimeters or larger in diameter, and will go through further testing [at some time]. However, Shunichi Yamashita, the head of the commission and the vice president of Fukushima Medical University explains, “There is no malignant change due to the nuclear plant accident”. Of 3739 children who will not need further testing (99.3% of children tested), 1117 children (29.7%) have been found with lumps 5.0 millimeters or less in diameter. But the prefectural government has decided they are “benign”.

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Tags: Children, Environment, Food, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society, Thyroid

Don’t miss:

- Over 30% Of Fukushima Children Have Thyroid Abnormalities, Test Positive For Lumps And Cysts

- City Assemblyman in Tokyo to School Children: Don’t Be an Egoist, Eat Your School Lunch to Share the Pain of Tohoku (EX-SKF, Jan. 25, 2012):

An assemblyman in Itabashi-ku, one of the 23 Special Wards in Tokyo, writes in his official blog that egoism fostered by the post-World War II education system is the root cause of this unscientific, rumor-based hysteria of the parents who want their children not to eat school lunch and instead want them to bring their own lunch boxes and water for fear of internal radiation exposure from contaminated food items used in school lunch.

45-year-old Assemblyman Yoshiyuki Motoyama‘s main message: “Those of us, who have been spared of the damage from the disaster, must share the pain of Tohoku people.”

Japan toward the end of the World War II had a national slogan: All citizens of Japan to die rather than allow surrender – 一億玉砕. Some people seem to want to re-start that campaign.

From the blog post by Yoshiyuki Motoyama, assemblyman from Itabashi-ku, Tokyo on 1/23/2012:

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Tags: Children, Environment, Food, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society, TOKYO, Yoshiyuki Motoyama

What are they doing in Japan … besides intentionally finishing of all Japanese?

Prof. Hayakawa of Gunma University:

‘If you don’t educate yourself now and fast, you’ll die.’

- Prof. Dr. Chris Busby: ‘You Shouldn’t Go On A Business Trip To Japan’ – ‘Get Out Of Japan’ – ‘Run!’ – ‘I Would Get Out Of Tokyo’ (Video)

- (Complete English Translation) Dr. Dörte Siedentopf, MD: ‘The Worst Thing Is That Authorities Haven’t Learned Anything From Chernobyl’ – ‘I Am Speechless About The Handling Of The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster’ – ‘The People Have Been Systematically Lied To’ – ‘One Can Only Feel Helpless Rage’

-  Studies Prove: Fukushima Safety Level NOT SAFE! (Video)

- Prof. Yury Bandazhevsky: Over 50 Bq/Kg In Humans Leads To Irreversible Lesions In Vital Organs – CRIMINAL WHO And IAEA EXPOSED (Video)

- Japanese TV Program In 1993: What Happened to Chernobyl Children 7 Years after the Accident? ‘Truly Terrible Things Emerged Several Years After The Accident’ – THE CRIMINAL IAEA EXPOSED

- Silent Death – Horror Scenario Awaits Japan (The Low-Level Radiation Myth Exposed)

Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima Daiichi Underestimated from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.

- Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima Daiichi Underestimated

Fairewinds analyzes cancer rates for young children near Fukushima using the National Academy of Science’s BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) VII Report. Based on BEIR VII, Fairewinds determines that at least one in every 100 young girls will develop cancer for every year they are exposed to 20 millisieverts [millisievert (1 mSv = 0.001 Sv)] of radiation. The 20-millisievert/ year figure is what the Japanese government is currently calculating as the legal limit of radiological exposure to allow habitation of contaminated areas near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In this video, Fairewinds introduces additional analysis by Ian Goddard showing that the BEIR VII report underestimates the true cancer rates to young children living near Fukushima Daiichi. Looking at the scientific data presented by Mr. Goddard, Fairewinds has determined that at least one out of every 20 young girls (5%) living in an area where the radiological exposure is 20 millisieverts for five years will develop cancer in their lifetime.

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Prof. Hayakawa of Gunma University:

‘If you don’t educate yourself now and fast, you’ll die.’

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Prof. Hayakawa of Gunma University:

‘If you don’t educate yourself now and fast, you’ll die.’

Related info:

- Radioactive Cesium Levels Rising Southern Miyagi Raw Milk

- Fukushima Promotes Safe Fukushima Milk for School Lunches (EX-SKF, Jan. 13, 2012):

For your weekend entertainment, here’s the promotional pamphlet by the Fukushima prefectural government telling the consumers it is so safe to drink Fukushima milk in school lunches. It uses the word “safe” so many times that many suspect they have something to hide, while others are simply scared of the cow in the pamphlet.

From Fukushima Prefecture’s website:

On the second page, it brags that no radioactive materials have been detected in milk in Fukushima since April 25, 2011. In fine print, it says the detection limit is 5 becquerels/kg, but just above that line it also says “ND means the level is so low that the equipment cannot even measure”. The equipment in Fukushima Prefecture may not be able to measure, but in other prefectures they have no problem measuring radioactive cesium in milk to one decimal point.

Remember in Fukushima that some school teachers excoriate students who are reluctant to drink milk in school lunches in front of the class, telling them they are “unpatriotic”. I’ve heard similar anecdotal stories about wearing masks to school. Some teachers berate students wearing masks and order them to take the masks off. I’m sure it is just a baseless rumor. They wouldn’t do such a thing, teachers, would they? Continue reading »

Tags: Children, Food, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Milk, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation