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Fukushima's Fallout on My Soul

For two months now massive plumes of radiative particles have been spewing into the atmosphere from the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima. These particles have been carried through the jetstream across the northern Pacific ocean, to the west coast of north america, to the east coast and then finally across the Atlantic to Europe and eventually, if it hasn't already, the atmosphere of the entire global north will be contaminated by the radioactive particles produced by the multiple reactor meltdowns in Fukushima.

The Japanese government and the company responsible for managing the plant; Tepco, have been pouring massive amounts of water onto the nuclear reactors but have been unable to raise the water level at all within the reactors; which are designed to be full of water at all times. The coolant systems which have now failed were supposed to supply 1 million gallons of water per minute to each of Fukushima's six reactors [according to Dr. Helen Caldicott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITrXVJMKeQ&feature=player_embedded]; apparently they had no backup plan in case they were unable to permanently supply this preposterous amount of water to the reactors.

There has been no real progress made in Fukushima since the beginning of the accident; in fact things have only gotten much worse. Tepco and the government's attempts to raise the water levels in reactors 1 and 2 have totally failed either because there is massive leaking of radioactive water into the ground and surrounding environment, or because they are unable to provide water at the rate necessary to cool the reactors enough for water to exist in their vicinity. Either way, the reactors are still exposed to the air, still releasing massive amounts of radiation into the atmosphere, and still at risk of hydrogen explosions.

Additionally, we know that Tepco and the government have been intentionally dumping massive amounts of radioactive water directly into the ocean; because they simply have nowhere else to store it all. This radioactive water will travel the major ocean currents of the Pacific and eventually will flow down the west coast of North America. In the center will be the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre being bathed in radioactive rain. All ocean systems are ultimately connected and it is possible that the dumping of so much nuclear waste into the ocean could contaminate the seas worldwide.

And the radiation won't stop coming out of the reactors for an estimated 6 to 9 months according to Tepco and the government; a timetable which many scientists seem to think is extremely optimistic. So radiation will continue to pour out of the plant until then.

But wait a minute, I'm not sick yet. What does exposure to radiation actually do to the human body?

Well, radiation exposure can effect one in a few different ways depending on the type and amount of exposure. Let's explore what the future holds for our species.

First, there is Acute Radiation Syndrome. This occurs when a person is exposed to a source of ionizing radiation, and refers to health effects which appear quickly [within several months of exposure] rather than over the long term [years or decades after exposure]. This is when someone is exposed to an external source of radiation, rather than ingesting a radioactive particle into one's body through the lungs or digestive tract. In other words, this is what people in Japan and nearby the plant have to worry about. The speed of the onset of symptoms usually indicates the severity of the dose.

Acute radiation sickness normally indicates a large dose. The average dose of radiation administered to a person by a medical x-ray device is something like 0.1 Gy, and people begin to get acute radiation sickness at doses of 1-2 Gy. Though there have been exposures of more than 30Gy, 8 Gy is more than sufficient to kill 100% of those exposed, whether they receive medical care or not.

An exposure of 6-8 Gy kills between 95-100% of those who do not receive care, an between 50-100% of those who do. Exposures of 2-6 Gy kill between 5-50% of those who receive care and between 5-100% of those who do not.

Now the fun part; the symptoms!

1. Nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite
2. Bleeding from Orifices
3. Massive infections
4. Anemia
5. Loss of white blood cells (Leukopenia)
6. Hair loss
7. Central Nervous Systems ranging from cognitive impairment to seizures, tremor and ataxia (severe lack of coordination of muscle movements)
8. Etc.

Furthermore, if you are lucky enough to have a small enough exposure to survive the Acute Radiation Syndrome, you also have to deal with the long-term cancer risks associated with accumulated radiation exposure. Every particle of radioactive dust or fallout you breath in or ingest adds to your risk of getting cancer and will irradiate you from the inside out until it is removed, expelled or decays. This causes cancer. Exposures are cumulative; so every dose one gets adds to one's chance of getting cancer.

Fallout comes down in the rain. It has been raining where I live for six days, and at first I was mostly avoiding it and staying inside. I looked on in sadness as the radioactive rain fell down on the plants and animals and the soil outside. I have no Gieger counter, but I have a basic understanding of the interconnectedness of all things. I know the jetstream is bringing radioactive fallout down in the rain where I live. I know this will be happening for a very long time. They won't have the situation even remotely under control until next year at the earliest.

Sitting in the garden the day before yesterday I came to this realization; there are over 440 nuclear reactors in the world. There are over 100 in my own country; the majority of which seem to be concentrated in the Northeast, where I live. There will be more accidents. Eventually, as the grid comes down, there will be no one left with the ability to entomb reactors and there will be massive radiation leakage, almost certainly, whatever we do.

I sat down on the wet grass under a small peach tree and surrounded by flowers and plants yet to bloom. The pair of cardinals who've built their nest in an evergreen next to the house used the time in between rain showers to gather food. The robins who are moving in to an adjacent shrub shuttled in and out of their new home, each time returning to the nest with a beakful of small twigs. Pollinators swarm the flowers during the lull in the rain.

And then, the rain began to fall again. Lightly at first, and I did not move. Why should I. What is the point? I'm virtually guaranteed cancer at this point anyway, even before this accident. All this does is help me let go of the denial. If I live long enough, I will get cancer. I guess in my heart I've always sort of known we'd reach that point in my lifetime; the point at which the environment is so contaminated with carcinogens that virtually 100% of humans will get cancer in their lifetimes.

As it began to pour harder I looked at all of the living things around me. The living world in the place where I live and love enduring baptism by nuclear fallout. Large heavy drops fall on my head, my shoulders, my back, my arms, my legs. The robins continue shuttling. The male cardinal hops from branch to branch low to the ground in the woods, hunting. I do not see the female. I lift my face to the sky and open my mouth, and tears escape from the corners of my eyes to run down my cheeks and mix with the radioactive rain on their way down to the ground.

And there was peace. There was calm. This is where I live. This is my landbase. This is my rain. Our fates are fused. If there is fallout in the rain, and there may not be today but there certainly will be plenty of times before they get this disaster under control, then there will be fallout in my body. So be it. That makes it all the easier to fight for this place while there is still some fight left in me. The years go on; entire ecosystems die - last year the Gulf of Mexico. The year before the discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre. This year the entire north Pacific Ocean.

A personal future in this world becomes easier and easier to sacrifice. A personal future filled with low white blood cell counts, dying of massive infections in a similar manner to aids patients. Or a personal future with low platelet counts; which are responsible for the clotting of blood and without which the body may bleed profusely and unexpectedly from the nose, rectum or the simplest of skin abrasions. Or dying of bone cancer - or perhaps bone necrosis; where the bone inside a part of one's body dies; and the dead tissue decomposes and causes surrounding tissue to die. Tissue necrosis often leads to gangrene. A personal future watching everything I love die. That's what waiting leads to. That's what the kind of denial that would have me go hide inside from the rain leads to.

I'd rather a personal future spent fighting fiercely for that which is left of what I love; fighting fiercely for life. I don't want to witness the death of the world. I don't want to witness the total and complete unraveling of the web of life. I won't be one of those left at the end who can only leave the house in protective gear for ten minutes at a time to look at the last remaining tree in town before it too dies of radiation poisoning.

No, instead I'll fight for what's left of the web of life, while anything at all still remains of it. I will put everything I am into this fight while I still can. I will fight because there's no better future I'd rather hold out for. I will fight for the right of future generations not just of human beings but of all species to exist on this planet, our home, if we can defend it from those who would participate in omnicide in exchange for a little cash in their pocket. It's time to wake up to reality, time to wake up to responsibility and time to kick the rabid, psychopathic leaders of government and industry off of the planet once and for all.

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Thoughts around the bin laden events

 A  thing I noticed in the global rush for blood; how everyone is so happy that he is dead. Sure, who aren't, but where is the justice? Even the great freedom loving Ban Kai Moon went out pleased with Laden's death and how the world is so safe now when one man who's been in hiding for a decade is dead. Where's the trial? The questions about the Muhajedin group in the 1980s? How the western world funded what we  today call "terrorist activities"? No, it's just good with him dead - and buried at sea. They say he is, so he is.

So in practice, as soon as you've been targeted for termination, then the whole "world community" will celebrate your death. To hell with justice, trials, defendants, proof and even history. We don't need all that, just shoot the damn thing and get it over with! Just like all those computer games. I mean, try reason with the monsters there, right?

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PSN down,Plan for Summer of 2011 and tibetanian singing bowls

It was almost like I thought that Sony wanted us to play "find the hidden easter egg and PSN will unlock" but it wasn't so. Hacker attacks, sony says. Well I guess so but which group is behind it? I mean this is a huge achivement in the hacker world to bring something down for this long time and stil noone is standing behind this "attack" makes me wonder how much Sony is telling here.

Anyhow, what to do when online services are down? Besides playing on the 360 or something else, I guess people around the world have witnessed that summer of 2011 is comming faster than a speeding train.

So what is the to plan for this summer? Oh alot of things, traveling for a while bringing along the mighty 3DS and of course the travel partner, a tibetanian singing bowl,     

   
Always nice to relax with one of those, preferable a smaller one that fits easy into a traveling bag.
But where to travel?
But I think switzerland needs a visit, maybe England aswell. I guess I will stop by good 'ol Amsterdam for a weekend too.

Where would you go? Or want to go?
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Why the lazyness in the industry?

I don't like the gaming industry that much right now, the ps3 are capable of handling more powerfull stuff than the 360, there are games out there that prooves it, and IM getting tired of hearing ppl "well u know.. the hardware is more tricky to handle" ok, maybe it is, but if u can't handle the hardware then don't bother to release the game at all OR lower the price, don't expect me to pay fullprice when YOU as a developer haven't used the hardware all the way, if you have problems learning, then ask those that KNOW how it works. There are games out that proves that many many talented man and women knows how to handle the hardware on both the 360 and ps3 as much as possible! Learn from them, I want the best for each console as a console gamer, I don't care what the gaming industry has to say about that; I buy their games, and I expect them to actually USE the hardware on eachconsole as much as possible or dont make the game at all! 

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random thoughts of summer 2010

Summer heat , drinking games and beach hang-outs! Summer time is for many not that connected to gaming, unless u bring along the PSP to the beach or DS but why do that? :P (To play games of course)
 
Oh well, This summer Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be out, and at least for me, it seems like Im gonna miss out the summer at least if the reviwers around the globe is telling the truth!  
Aiiight, I guess I will try and find some sort of balance between enjoying the hot summernights outside AND inside in some form of solution.  Im figures it now, play galazy on the mornings, hang out with friends in the afternoon, and enjoy the romance and parties at night! Sleep, hmm.. Let's sleep when we are dead.

 
 
Beer, Galaxy 2, beach

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Gaming Food

Despite which console/consoles you play on what kind of food is the one that is best served to a certain type of game? 
Street Fighter IV for example or any other well made beat 'em up game what goes good to a game like that? its intense, you don't spend much time in menus; its more damn let's go!
 I say to a game like that, a bucket  easy-to-reach full of snacks. 
 
hmm going on, RPG's now that is a style of games I persoanlly like to spend hours upon hours with and to RPGs, which takes time you can spend 3-4 hrs leveling up or running around catacombs searching for treausre or better weapson.. a good hot lasagne with tex-mex falvoured taste goes well for me and served along with a fresh salad to drink a good redwine OR coca cola for those who are minors nor doesn't like wine =)
 
Adventure games then Uncharted or Gears Of War (if I can call that adveture, but I wanto to so I am)  to Adventure games hot food can be made but should be more easy like  macaroni and cheese or something like that.. combined with a bucket of snacks hehe. 
 
so well, there you go..
 
The only thing I mentioned here that was like a full worthy dinner was with RPGs but I guess RPGs are games that can give you the most time to enjoy a good meal and play at the same time... I know that trying to eath and playing like Street Figher IV aint the best idea of you wanna win.
 
so the verdict with this post is
 
Figthing Games: an easy-to-reach bucket full of snacks 
RPGs: Hot meals, tips: lasagne with tex-mex flavour served togheter with a salad and redwine (or coca-cola for the minors, or wine haters)
Adventure Games: either hot or cold food. macaroni and cheese is good and after that bucket full of snacks.
 
of course there are other type of games out there so if you have an idea or just am as bored as I am to actually write a blog like this one.. fill in with more types of awsome stuff to eat..

adios amigos(500)

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2009 the year of the PS3

Ok, For 2009, PS3 will be the console of the year!

2008 was going out to the 360 no doubt, very good exlusive titles was out on the 360 during 2008! Yeah so the PS3 had Uncharted and MGS4 but it was like those two that really stood out if you ask me.

but now in 2009 hey baberiba!

First out is Killzone 2! Hey, FPS has never been better I guess! Closly followed by a double deal RE5 (it will play so good on the ps3 though so I will get it for that system) then we just marches on in the year of the ps3: Uncharted 2, God Of War III, Heavy Rain, MAG which I don't know so much about but from what Ive read if it comes even close to what the developers are talking about this gonna be awsome! andlast but not least on my "looking forward list" for me EyePet which seems so silly yet awsome!

so well.. this are just some of the more big names for 2009 only for the PS3 so 2008 the year of the 360 2009 the year of the ps3!

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Still playing 2008 games but 2009 has just begun

As I wrote.. its just begun. Are still playing Valkyria Chronicles on the PS3 (amasing game), burnout paradise runs on now and then anOblivion along with the released extension packs are still being played.

Now 2009 has just begun and of course this will be a very good year for me as a gamer on the ps3.. X360 had its year 2008, 2009 is Sonys for sure.
Killzone 2, God Of  War 3, Uncharted 2 are three games Im really looking forward to this year.
Resident Evil 5 is another one.

so 2009 will be better than 2008 if you ask me

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