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Mutation Nation
When something sounds too good to be true, or a story sounds too outrageous to be believed I know that there are many people that go to a website called Snopes.com to find out if it is an urban legend or a hoax. Well there are at least two real urban legends that I either know firsthand how they started and one originated on the Ground Zero show in 1995. I knew this guy named Richard Rounds who was crazier than I was at the time, and he and I would try to scare each other with horror stories on the radio.
One night I was talking about how creepy I thought Cabbage Patch Dolls were and we got to talking about how these babies looked like mutants from a nuclear facility. We were talking about how they were still everywhere and wondering when the fad was going to wear off and we exchanged a theory that perhaps these dolls were being made by the government in order to prepare young girls for motherhood in the nuclear age.
We were frightened at the idea that these dolls were being made to desensitize us into accepting mutant children as the norm because some 20 or 30 years into the future babies will be born and they would look like cabbage patch kids and they would be exceptionally intelligent.
We, of course, just laughed about it and thought no one would believe us. In 2001, I was working as a producer for a national talk show hosted by Liz Wilde. She was talking about babies and all kinds of other offensive stuff when a caller to the show said that Ronald Reagan had ordered that the Cabbage Patch Dolls were to be made and adopted like real children so that people would be used to parenting mutant children after the nuclear bomb is dropped in America.
I started laughing and asked the caller, “Is this Richard Rounds?” It wasn’t, but I later told Liz that I had a part in starting that urban legend when I talked about it on my show with Richard Rounds, an old friend.
It has been nearly 20 years since that idea was started on my radio show and while we are not raising children as ugly as the Cabbage Patch Kids (let alone the Garbage Pail Kids!), we are beginning to see child mutations taking place. While science says they are baffled as to why it may not be too far of a stretch to understand that with radiation threats due to nuclear power plants like Fukushima and other lesser known problems we may wind up as a nation rife with mutation.
As Collective-Evolution.com wrote: “A study published in the peer-reviewed Open Journal of Pediatrics has found that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California. Even though Japan is 5000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, the study found that elevated airborne beta levels on the West Coast are directly correlated with this common trend among newborn babies after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.”
And now, “A rare birth defect is on the rise in Washington State, and the bizarre trend has health officials stumped, Fox News reported.
“The odd development was brought to light in 2012 by Sara Barron, who was working a nurse at Prosser Medical Hospital in rural Washington at the time.
That year, Barron encountered two cases of babies born with anencephaly – a neural tube birth defect that causes infants to be born without certain areas of the brain and skull. A devastating condition that affects only one or two babies out of every 10,000 pregnancies, anencephaly occurs when the upper part of the neural tube doesn’t close all the way during the first month of pregnancy. Almost all babies born with this condition die shortly after pregnancy.”
This is happening in a three county area near Yakima, Washington.
As NBC reports that, “as of January 2013, officials with the Washington state health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had counted nearly two dozen cases in three years, a rate four times the national average.”
I have been seeing on my Facebook page these reports with the comment that this must be something that we can blame on the Fukushima disaster. However, to those who are unaware, there is another possibility that is far more frightening than Fukushima and that is the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington.
There are many horror stories that continue to come from Yakima, Washington and the Hanford facility. Accounts of little lambs that have been born without eyes or mouths. Some had legs that had fused together; some had no legs at all. Many were stillborn.
It would not be out of the ordinary to look over at an adjacent pasture and find a few dead cows, bloated and stiff all four hooves stretched upward. Yakima tribesmen said they pulled a three-eyed salmon outf the Columbia. There were other trout that were covered in cancerous ulcers. Babies were also getting sick and some would die, there were also reports of still born babies as well.
However, these new incidents are baffling because authorities are saying that the areas affected have no ties to the Hanford facility and that this may have to do with pesticides and other chemicals used for agriculture in the area.
If we reach back into our radioactive history, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer published a paper entitled, “The Rights of the Unborn and the Peril Today.” In his paper, Schweitzer spoke out against the “campaign of assurance” that used crunched numbers and the typically homogenized denials to convince people that exposure to radioactivity was of little or no danger.
In July of 1963, the US and USSR signed an agreement partially banning atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. President Kennedy announced that, “the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards, but this is not a natural health hazard — and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby — who may be born long after we are gone — should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.”
Again, Fox News reports: “Health experts believe that many factors including genes, behaviors and the environment may contribute to incidences of anencephaly. According to the CDC, a low intake of folic acid in the first month of pregnancy can increase a woman’s risk of having a baby with neural tube defects – including anencephaly.
The question is: Should we be satisfied with their hypothesis?
Hanford does not get much press but it is quite literally the American Fukushima. Or, as Der Spiegel put it back in 2011 in their article, ‘ America’s Atomic Time Bomb: Hanford Nuclear Waste Still Poses Serious Risks‘:
“Hanford is America’s original atomic sin. At this giant facility sprawled over 586 square miles (1,517 square kilometers), a four-hour drive southeast of Seattle into the vast emptiness of Eastern Washington, the United States once produced most of its nuclear raw materials for the Cold War. Though it was decommissioned in 1988, it remains the most contaminated location in the entire Western Hemisphere.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently revised its timetable for Hanford’s decontamination, the biggest environmental cleanup in American history. The end date was moved back, once again. It now hopes to finally wrap up this Herculean task by September 2052 — more than 108 years after Hanford was opened.”
Now, federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a deadly concoction of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking, raising concerns about delays for emptying the aging tanks. Once again we are told that there is no immediate danger because according to officials it would take years for the chemicals to reach groundwater.
Coincidentally, the mothers who gave birth to the babies with brain deformities may have harmed their fetuses from drinking contaminated water.
Now, while babies are dying in the area that is near Hanford and authorities are not pointing to Hanford or the possible contaminated water, about a week ago there was a very chilling report about the Wanapum Dam that is 10 miles from the Columbia generator stations that cool the rods at the Hanford site.
Fishermen in the area had found a huge crack in the damn. Water levels have been backed off from the damn as it is feared that if the damn were to break it would send of wall of water to the cooling tanks, causing them to explode and release high levels of radioactivity – much like what happened at the Fukushima power planet in Japan.
Coincidentally, after the Fukushima disaster, authorities were very concerned about a same type of disaster happening at Hanford if any of the damns were to fail on the Columbia River.
Back in November of 2013, the Eugene Weekly, an online news site out of Eugene, Oregon, published an article called, ‘The Nuclear Option‘.
““It’s always tough to say with certainly that a facility is 100 percent prepared for an unknown disaster,” says Geoff Tyree of the Department of Energy. He says the DOE has looked at the possibility of the worst-case scenario where the Grand Coulee Dam partially fails on the Columbia River. He says that flooding could result in the release of radioactive material from portions of Hanford into the water, but he says that same water would dilute the radiation to a very low level off site, and Hanford would have about 40 hours of warning to prepare.
Pollet says CGS is the only nuclear reactor in the country built in the vicinity of a nuclear waste site. He calls having a reactor located at Hanford “an insane and stupid thing to do.””
Want to know how to kill a lot of people? Have a dam break and flood Hanford. Not only would the CGS tanks explode causing the threat of meltdown but the release of atmospheric radiation and some 57,000,000 gallons of radiation contamination that would shut down the ecosystem.
The clean up would be absolutely impossible and so there would be no choice but to send the toxic waste and sludge down the Columbia River into the Pacific Ocean. The current would send it all to California.
As of March 5th, 2014, the Register Guard reports that, “The crack in a spillway pier at the Wanapum Dam has been downgraded to a “non-failure emergency,” meaning the pier is no longer considered at risk of collapsing…”
Some people say the danger has been averted for now, but that makes you wonder why whistleblowers are being fired. This should be considered a ticking time bomb and – with an earthquake or some other disaster – we could see a horrifying scenario similar to what happened in Japan.
Source: http://www.groundzeromedia.org/mutation-nation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mutation-nation
Why do Americans persist with worrying about Fukushima when they have their own nuclear disaster site at Hanford, made by their own hands? Hanford is the perfect example of when production pressure lead to turning a blind eye as to what your actions are doing to the environment.