The Radiation Will Not Be Televised

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
--Gary Snyder




Fukushima Daiichi Open Air Nuclear Power Plant Reactor 3...3/14/11


NATIONAL RADIATION MAP ...(updated every minute)



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.
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.
Live sea lion strandings are nearly three times higher than the historical average, said Jim Milbury of the National Marine Fisheries Service, part of NOAA.
Between Jan. 1 and March 24, 948 pups were rescued, Milbury said. The bulk of those were in Los Angeles County, which had 395, followed by San Diego, Orange, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, he said. Last year, only about 100 pups needed saving during the same period.
At the Pacific Marine Mammal Care Center in Laguna Beach, there were 139 animals being cared for Friday. Of those, 131 were sea lion pups, said spokeswoman Melissa Sciacca. She said the center has treated more than 220 sea lion pups so far this year, while the center treated 118 in all of 2012.
Routine testing of seafood is being done by state and federal agencies and consumer safety experts are working with NOAA to find the problem.
"No link has been established at this time between these sea lion strandings and any potential seafood safety issues," NOAA said in a statement.



A CRIMINAL IS A PERSON WITH PREDATORY INSTINCTS
WITHOUT SUFFICIENT CAPITAL TO FORM A CORPORATION.
--CLARENCE DARROW





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