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The following is a copy of the email response thread that resulted from the failure to be able to view a video titled "Blast, smoke at Japanese nuclear plant".  Upon failure to play the video a pop-up box appeared requesting feedback on the nature of the problem, so their web techs can resolve the problem if it is on their end.  Being an email thread, the entries are in reverse order (newest on top - oldest at the bottom) so it may be easier to understand the flow if you start at the bottom of this post to see the feedback form and the first contact from the tech.

 

The bottom line is that different countries see different news.  Fine for local events, but things like Fukushima Daiichi, which affects the Global community shouldn't be tampered with.  But they are...

Mainstream Media decides for us what we will see depending on our location.

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Fw: RE: New Feedback: SMH video > Video issues (Video, Item ID: 11459)

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From: FD Video Queries videoqueries@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:57:21 +1000
Subject: RE: New Feedback: SMH video > Video issues (Video, Item ID: 11459)

The videos within the TV section are region locked and will only play within Australia. According to the below details, you're being identified as accessing the content from outside Australia.

The other videos on the site are not region locked – the videos embedded in articles and within media.smh.com.au will play no matter you location.

If the other videos aren't playing and you're just being presented with a black screen, then something could be blocking them. It could be an add-on installed on your browser or even a security program.

Regards,

Phillip

Fairfax Media digital support

From: rodinator

Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:02 AM
To: FD Video Queries
Subject: Re: New Feedback: SMH video > Video issues (Video, Item ID: 11459)

I shall try to answer your questions as best as I can. 

When I click on your link :   http://www.smh.com.au/environment/blast-smoke-at-japanese-nuclear-plant-20110312-1brv1.html It brings up the page and plays an advertisement video with a black bar across the lower portion that says "Video will begin in 5 seconds", and it counts down ie: 4,  3,  2,  1,  then the video frame goes black with the triangular shaped(? arrow facing right ) "PLAY" button in the center.  From this point on nothing changes and none of the controls related to the playing of the video have any effect, except the autoplay button, which seems to respond to the mouse-over but is stuck on "OFF".

   At:  http://www.smh.com.au/tv/Lifestyle/show/Fashion-Week-Internationale/Islamabad-Fashion-Week-3118096.html 

and other pages on the smh.com.au/tv site, I just get a black frame with the rotating circular "wait ?" icon in the middle.  I have not run across any other sites that I have this problem with and do not believe the problem is on my end.

Thank you for your response,

Rodinator

*   http://noimmediatedanger.blogspot.com/
*   Be who you are and say what you feel;  cause people who mind don't matter, and people who matter don't mind.

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Blast, smoke at Japanese nuclear plant

Hi Rodinator,

Thanks for your email.

Are you still unable to play the below clip now? If so, what happens when you attempt to view it? Do the other clips on the site (others embedded in articles, those on media.smh.com.au and smh.com.au/tv) play for you or do they perform similar to the below clip?

Regards,

Phillip

Fairfax Media digital support

From: Rodinator

Sent: Saturday, 12 May 2012 7:47 PM
To: FD Video Queries
Subject: New Feedback: SMH video > Video issues (Video, Item ID: 11459)

The following feedback item has been automatically forwarded to this address by Kampyle based on the rule(s): Video.

Respond to this user directly, using this email, by clicking the 'Reply' button.

From: rodinator Feedback Form: SMH feedback form - whole site (en) Category: SMH video > Video issues Description: vid won't play Grade: - URL: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/blast-smoke-at-japanese-nuclear-plant-20110312-1brv1.html Tags: Date: May 12, 12, 7:46 pm Contact Phone: Contact Name: rodinator Contact Address: Contact Subscription: AdWords: - Keywords: - Submission: Feedback Button Item ID: 11459 User Group: User: Priority: Medium Status: New

Browser: Internet Explorer 8 OS Platform: Windows XP IP Location: United States IP Address: 99.167.198.114 Browser Language: English Screen Resolution: 1152x864 Color Depth: 32 Flash Version: 11.0 r1 Cookies Enabled: Yes Mobile Device: No

This email was automatically forwarded to videoqueries@fairfaxmedia.com.au by Kampyle Ltd, as configured by the Kampyle account owner. If you would like to change the settings for this email, or if you would like to stop receiving alerts altogether, please contact the Kampyle account owner at fairfaxdigital@kampyle.com or click here. Copyright 2007-2012 Kampyle Ltd.

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Fukushima disaster spawns mutant butterflies

By David Worthington | August 14, 2012, 8:29 PM PDT

Fukushima nuclear disaster has mutated a domestic butterfly species. It may not have morphed into Mothra, but the pale glass blue butterfly has displayed genetic and physiological changes.
The biological effects of Fukushima are just now being realized. A radioactive tuna caught international headlines in May, and at the same time, scientists from the University of Ryukyus were quietly monitoring mutations among samples of butterflies.
A paper was published in the journal Nature last Thursday detailing the findings. The study was conducted by academics who declared no competing financial interest, which means there are no red flags about any sponsor’s involvement with the research.
“Although epigenetic effects cannot be entirely excluded, it is most likely that the abnormal phenotypes observed are produced by random mutations caused by the exposure to radiation,” the report says. Mutations affected the insects’ appendages, which were frequently malformed.
Other abnormalities were observed in antennae, palpi, eyes, abdomen, and wings; an uncommon wing spot patterns was also noticed in many of the samples. The authors concluded that their findings were consistent with previous field studies near Chernobyl, and concluded that the butterfly was the “best indicator species for radionuclide contamination in Japan.”
Aerial contamination was widespread, but the Pacific Ocean bore the brunt of it. During the Fukushima disaster, levels of radioactive cesium peaked at 50 million times normal levels, becoming the largest accidental release of radiation into the ocean in history. Strontium, which has an even longer half-life, also leaked out.
“Our demonstration of heritable germ-line genetic damage caused by low-dose exposure due to radioactive contamination in a species of butterfly has invaluable implications for the possible future effects of radiation on animals,” the study concluded.
It also suggested that more investigations on Fukushima’s biological aftermath are warranted. Elevated levels of radiation have been found in Japanese school children that live in communities near the Fukushima site, rice crops, and even cattle.
(Image credit: handout)

Related on SmartPlanet:

• What the NRC really knew about Fukushima
• Fukushima ocean radiation could pose sleeper threat
• Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable
• Do we need to worry about radiation in our milk?
• Elevated radiation levels widespread in eastern Japan
• Test show Japanese child exposed to radiation
• Rice crops threatened by radiation
• Radioactive tuna found in Pacific Ocean

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

Follow these links for information on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster

Radiation effects from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster

Fukushima radiation now detected in the U.S. food supply http://www.naturalnews.com/036022_Fukushima_radiation_food_supply.html

Radioactive buckyballs from Fukushima invade California beaches

http://www.naturalnews.com/036204_Fukushima_radiation_California.html

Dangerous levels of Fukushima radiation headed for West Coast, say scientists
http://www.naturalnews.com/036571_Fukushima_radiation_West_Coast.html

As truth about Fukushima radiation emerges, Japanese authorities struggle to maintain cover-up
http://www.naturalnews.com/036639_Fukushima_radiation_cover-up.html

Fukushima Update

http://fukushimaupdate.com/

http://www.naturalnews.com/Fukushima.html

Invasive species from Fukushima tsunami washing up on U.S. shores
http://www.naturalnews.com/036268_Fukushima_beaches_invasive_species.html

mutant butterflies

Fukushima disaster spawns mutant butterflies

By David Worthington | August 14, 2012, 8:29 PM PDT

Japanese scientists have found that radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has mutated a domestic butterfly species. It may not have morphed into Mothra, but the pale glass blue butterfly has displayed genetic and physiological changes.

The biological effects of Fukushima are just now being realized. A radioactive tuna caught international headlines in May, and at the same time, scientists from the University of Ryukyus were quietly monitoring mutations among samples of butterflies.

A paper was published in the journal Nature last Thursday detailing the findings. The study was conducted by academics who declared no competing financial interest, which means there are no red flags about any sponsor’s involvement with the research.

“Although epigenetic effects cannot be entirely excluded, it is most likely that the abnormal phenotypes observed are produced by random mutations caused by the exposure to radiation,” the report says. Mutations affected the insects’ appendages, which were frequently malformed.

Other abnormalities were observed in antennae, palpi, eyes, abdomen, and wings; an uncommon wing spot patterns was also noticed in many of the samples. The authors concluded that their findings were consistent with previous field studies near Chernobyl, and concluded that the butterfly was the “best indicator species for radionuclide contamination in Japan.”

Aerial contamination was widespread, but the Pacific Ocean bore the brunt of it. During the Fukushima disaster, levels of radioactive cesium peaked at 50 million times normal levels, becoming the largest accidental release of radiation into the ocean in history. Strontium, which has an even longer half-life, also leaked out.

“Our demonstration of heritable germ-line genetic damage caused by low-dose exposure due to radioactive contamination in a species of butterfly has invaluable implications for the possible future effects of radiation on animals,” the study concluded.

It also suggested that more investigations on Fukushima’s biological aftermath are warranted. Elevated levels of radiation have been found in Japanese school children that live in communities near the Fukushima site, rice crops, and even cattle.

(Image credit: handout)

Related on SmartPlanet:

• What the NRC really knew about Fukushima
• Fukushima ocean radiation could pose sleeper threat
• Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable
• Do we need to worry about radiation in our milk?
• Elevated radiation levels widespread in eastern Japan
• Test show Japanese child exposed to radiation
• Rice crops threatened by radiation
• Radioactive tuna found in Pacific Ocean

Original article can be found here:
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/fukushima-disaster-spawns-mutant-butterflies/18391

Immediate Danger

   The following was written before the March 18, 2011 global media blackout on radiation related information.  If you read nothing else, Read this!

INTO ETERNITY A FILM FOR THE FUTURE

Posvia corporate promo animation describing the project of building Onkalo

Into Eternity (with French Subtitles) is viewable on YouTube in 6 segments:

• Part 1 (12:43)
• Part 2 (12:32)
• Part 3 (12:35)
• Part 4 (12:43)
• Part 5 (12:27)
• Part 6 (12:34)

Into Eternity   © Magic Hour Films

Japan - after the BIG earthquake

Here is a link you need to check out. Japan - after the BIG earthquake

http://japan-afterthebigearthquake.blogspot.com/2011/07/radiation-problems-info.html

Many thanks to Dr. Greve. 
Reporting since March 11, 2011 . . .

Dr. Gabi Greve, Japan
Daruma Museum, World Kigo Database

Here are some highlights of that blog:

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

quoteUnderstanding the Ongoing Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima:
A “Two-Headed Dragon” Descends into the Earth’s Biosphere
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From Meltdown to Melt-Through
The Tōhoku earthquake made a direct hit on the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. At 3:00 p.m. on the following day, March 12, a hydrogen explosion took place in the No. 1 reactor, followed by similar explosions in the No. 3 reactor on March 14 and in the No. 2 and No. 4 reactors on March 15. On March 21, there was another mysterious explosion in the No. 3 reactor.

... March 15: The Largest Release of Radiation
March 21: A Second Massive Release of Radiation
From evening to nighttime of the same day, an “evil wind” struck the village of Iitate and Fukushima City, located northwest of the nuclear plant.
...
March 21: A Second Massive Release of Radiation
On the morning of March 21 the wind was blowing from the north.
On March 23, a new plume formed, moving southwest from the coastal areas of Ibaraki through Chiba prefecture.
...
The Formation of Contaminated “Hot Spots”
Hot spots were discovered in many parts of the capital city, too, with its population of thirty million.
...
The Amount of Radiation Released from Fukushima Daiichi
MORE
source : Fujioka Atsushi

Lethal radiation detected inside Fukushima reactor
Tokyo Electric Power Company has detected extremely high levels of radiation inside one of the crippled reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
TEPCO was able to place monitoring equipment directly inside the reactor for the first time since last year's accident.
A dosimeter lowered into the containment vessel of the No.2 reactor registered 72.9 sieverts, or 72,900 millisieverts per hour at maximum -- a level where a human is certain to die within about 7 minutes of exposure.
The utility hopes to determine the state of the vessels as it moves to decommission the reactors.
It says radiation levels increased as the dosimeter was lowered inside the reactor. This suggests the nuclear fuel melted down and collected at the bottom of the vessel.
The utility also learned the water level inside the vessel was only 60 centimeters, compared to the original estimate of about 3 meters.
TEPCO suspects the suppression chamber at the bottom of the vessel may have been destroyed.
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Reactor 2 radiation too high for access
Radiation inside the reactor 2 containment vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has reached a lethal 73 sieverts per hour and any attempt to send robots in to accurately gauge the situation will require them to have greater resistance than currently available, experts say.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120329a1.html

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Strontium at Fukushima plant flows into sea
Tokyo Electric Power Company says more radioactive wastewater has leaked from its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and flowed into the sea. The water contained high levels of strontium.
Workers at the plant discovered water leaking from a pipe connected to a wastewater tank, at around 1:00 AM on Thursday.
Workers shut valves, and the flow stopped about an hour later.
TEPCO says about 12 tons of wastewater leaked from a disconnected joint in the pipe. The company also says it believes that a large portion of the water has flowed into the ocean through a nearby drainage ditch.
The utility is trying to determine how the joint became disconnected, and how much water poured into the sea.
Radioactive wastewater also leaked on March 26th from a different section of the same piping.
Last December, water leaked from another device within the plant compound.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

quoteFukushima air to stay radioactive in 2022

FUKUSHIMA —
A decade from now, airborne radiation levels in some parts of Fukushima Prefecture are still expected to be dangerous at above 50 millisieverts a year, a government report says.
The report, which contains projections through March 2032, was presented by trade minister Yukio Edano Sunday to leaders of Futaba, one of the towns that host the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
The report includes radiation forecasts for 2012 to 2014, and for 2017, 2022 and 2032, based on the results of monitoring in November last year. It was compiled to help municipalities draw up recovery and repopulation programs for the nuclear disaster.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Cesium contaminated fish found in Tone river
Radioactive cesium exceeding the new legal limit has been found in fish in the Tone River, which passes north of Tokyo. Authorities have taken measures to stop the shipment of fish caught in the river.
Chiba prefectural officials say a silver crucian carp caught in the river contained 110 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram. The new limit is 100 becquerels per kilogram.
The Tone River is the river with the largest drainage area in Japan. The town where the contaminated fish was caught is located about 180 kilometers from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The prefecture has asked 10 municipalities along the river and 6 fishery cooperatives not to ship fish from the river to market.
Last month, fish and shellfish pulled from a pond near the river were removed from circulation because of radiation levels above the legal limit.
Prefectural officials say they will check other types of freshwater fish for radioactivity.

Also check out :

Fukushima Power Plant - Meltdown

. Daily Radiation Levels . 　
Since March 18, 2011, from the Japan Times

. Fukushima, radiation . . . 　

. Daily Radiation Levels . 　
Since March 18, 2011, from the Japan Times

. My Daily Report, NHK news and more 　
. . . . .


Again Many thanks to Dr. Greve. 
Reporting since March 11, 2011 . . .

Dr. Gabi Greve, Japan
Daruma Museum, World Kigo Database