Hobbes, "In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

Saturday Morning EDT/

Saturday Evening Japan Time
Hell in a Hand Basket Update

With the punctuation of the words of
Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679)

He was an English political philosopher and author of Leviathan (1651)

"My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear."

The former long time governor of Fukushima, Eisako Sato, who at first supported the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, turned against it as he learned about TEPCO's shoddy safety practices. He was rewarded with smears, and  accusations of criminal behavior, for which he was convicted of bribery. The Independent UK tells us his story today.

From the article:

"Those who say that nuclear power is dangerous, like myself, are treated as state enemies. This is a truly terrifying logic, is it not? Whoever it may be, be it a Diet [council] member or governor, no one has been able to fight such logic so far." -Eisako Sato

And the lesson? Replacing Tepco's management won't solve anything, he says, because the logic of Japan's energy policies is that nuclear power generation is absolutely necessary. "So nuclear power must be seen as absolutely safe." Ordinary people must "take democracy into their own hands", he added. "If they do not, in 10 years time we will see another disaster. It's almost as though we are in a fascist country where information is hidden from the public. This is time for Japan to wake up and see what the situation is."

"for even they that be perfectly awake, if they be timorous, and supperstitious, possessed with fearfull tales, and alone in the dark, are subject to the like fancies, and believe they see spirits and dead mens Ghosts walking in Churchyards; whereas it is either their Fancy onely, or els the knavery of such persons, as make use of such superstitious feare, to pass disguised in the night, to places they would not be known to haunt."-Leviathan 

TEPCO has a history of cover ups with 200 proven falsifications of safety inspection reports. Here is a short history of their sins found at Aliran.com. This company lies and cheats for profit.

"Private Bodies Regular, but Unlawfull, are those that unite themselves into one person Representative, without any publique Authority at all; such as are the Corporations of Beggars, Theeves and Gipsies, the better to order their trade of begging, and stealing; and the Corporations of men, that by Authority from any forraign Person, unite themselves in anothers Dominion, for easier propagation of Doctrines, and for making a party, against the Power of the Common-wealth."-Leviathan

Bloomberg is promoting the "out of sight, out of mind" to the Fukushima Daiichi problem with this article titled "Tepco Must End ‘Whack-a-Mole,’ Cover Fukushima Reactors as Typhoons Loom". There is some dispute whether just sealing up with concrete will solve the problem here. Meltdowns have occurred and continue to occur. Radiation is likely escaping into the groundwater underneath the reactor at this point. Covering up the site would be a massive construction project that will take years to complete. As I have said before, there is probably no neat answer to this mess. All nuclear energy reactors must be decommissioned before we are visited with another unanticipated consequence of taking gifts from the nuclear djinn. TEPCO has said that they plan to festoon the site with "temporary covers" within three months.

"And in these foure things, Opinion of Ghosts, Ignorance of second causes, Devotion towards what men fear, and Taking of things Casuall for Prognostiques, consisteth the Naturall seed of Religion; which by reason of the different Fancies, Judgements, and Passions of severall men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another."-Leviathan

Counterpunch's Gavan McCormack may be indulging in wishful thinking when he proposes that Japan may be embarking into a non-nuclear future. However, the article gives a good overview of the state of the Japanese nuclear industry in a historical context.

"Another infirmity of a Common-wealth, is the immoderate greatnesse of a Town, when it is able to furnish out of its own Circuit, the number, and expence of a great Army: As also the great number of Corporations; which are as it were many lesser Common-wealths in the bowels of a greater, like wormes in the entrayles of a naturall man."-Leviathan

It is still next to impossible to get accurate or any information about radiation in Japan, at Fukushima Daiichi or around the world.

"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things holy profane clean obscene grave and light without shame or blame."

Go to Forbidden Knowledge TV and watch Leuren Moret's lecture on the dangers we face from the activities of  the nuclear industry here in the United States. There is no such thing as safe radiation levels. Did you ever wonder why there seem to be so many more female babies born than before? 

Three Small Pieces, 1, John Bonanno

Three Small Pieces, 2, John Bonanno

Three Small Pieces, 3, John Bonanno

If the people of Japan were told the truth about what is happening to their country and the world, they would rise up and slaughter the corporate men and their government stooges who forced death dealing nuclear energy on a small earthquake prone nation.

The only explanation for the total lack of information provided by those corporate men and their stooges  about radiation levels emanating from Fukushima Daiichi is fear.  Only a horror beyond belief would generate  such a massive cover up. Only the vaguest suggestions of radioactive iodine levels are mentioned in TEPCO and government public relations releases. Actual status reports on the broken reactors at Fukushima Daiichi read like the pronouncements of a soothsayer. The vacuum of information about an event of world wide significance speaks more to us than the vapid and vague apologies coming from Japanese politicians and businessmen. 

Are officials even daring to measure how much dangerous plutonium has been released? 

A plethora of radioactive substances that can be created during a melt down.
I want the ingredients of the radioactive soup being dumped into the Pacific revealed.
I want details about the various radiation emanating particles rising in the clouds spewing from these smashed monuments to men's faithlessness.

Nothing is being told to the public about specifics of each of those products of man's craven greed.
Crackpot stories about the storage of the millions of gallons of radioactive water created in the futile effort to prevent meltdowns and spontaneous ignition of radioactive waste material are just fairy tales.
That water is entering the environment as runoff or steam.
All who promote nuclear energy are enemies of Man.






Ozymandias

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

John Keats' Death Mask

Friday Morning EDT/
Friday Evening Japan Time
Calamity Update

With the words of the poet John Keats 
31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821

He died a poet's death,

In his quarters near the Spanish Steps,

Wracked with consumption, 

Coughing up his lungs,

Begging for withheld opium. 

Keats' epitaph:

"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."

TEPCO said it will build a 15 meter seawall around its Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear plant northeast of Tokyo. 

The idea is to protect the complex's seven nuclear plants from a future tsunami. Three of the seven reactors have been shut down since a 2007 earthquake caused damage which caused radiation leaks.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness.
-Endymion

Japan expanded the evacuation zone around Fukushima Daiichi beyond the original 20 kilometers to areas as  far as 50 kilometers today as former residents of previously evacuated areas demanded to return.

Masataka Shimizu, the president of the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), today apologized again to Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato for "causing great trouble". This was the first meeting between the two. Shimizu had twice before refused to see Sato. 

O magic sleep! 

O comfortable bird,

That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mind

Till it is hush’d and smooth! 
- Endymion

Japan proposed spending $50 billion to start building 100,000 temporary homes to house persons displaced by nuclear radiation, the tsunami and the earthquake. 

The Lamia, 1909, Herbert James Draper
In her more comely form. 

She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;
Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard,
Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,
Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed
Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries -
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
 -Lamia

Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited people in evacuation shelters today and found them reaching the limit of their patience. The Mainichi Daily News describes the scene:
"Kan first visited the Tamura city gymnasium where residents, mainly of Okuma, have been taking shelter. When he was about to leave the evacuation center after spending about 10 minutes there, some evacuees angrily shouted out, "Leaving already?" One evacuee told the prime minister, "You should try living here." "If you're going to visit evacuation centers, you should talk to everyone there," said another."

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- Ode To A Grecian Urn


There seems to be a difference of opinion on how much radioactivity is reaching the United States. This angry commentary from The Alameda Sun is an example of what happens when scientists put their interests before facts. People cease to believe scientists for good reason.

I don't know about Alameda Sun readers, but I think it is criminally irresponsible for Vetter, a nuclear scientist, to lie to us about the safety and amount of radiation he is measuring, and that the public is being exposed to. Radiation is cumulative, is much more dangerous when it is ingested than when it is outside of you, and Vetter's own tests have shown the levels to be 181 times the MCLs on March 23.
And no, the levels will not be going down, as the Fukushima plant is now a permanent hot spot on this planet that will continue to spew every form of isotope imaginable, including the deadliest of all, plutonium.





Helen says Fukushima Daiichi is  worse than you think.

Eric Hoffer,"What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist."

Wednesday Morning EDT/
Wednesday Evening Japan Time
Mixed Up Confusion Update

With the words of longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983
He made things seem so simple, pretty pretty simple,
Maybe a little too simple. 

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."-Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 141 (1973).

Finally admitting the obvious, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency reported officially to the government today that the nuclear fuel in reactors 1,2 and 3 had partially melted. The SeattlePI reports today that the Japanese government will begin strictly enforcing the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi complex. Former residents and visitors (reporters) will no longer be allowed to come and go freely as has been the case. Authorities are concerned over radiation risk and the possibility of looting in the area.

"Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. . . . The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it."-The Passionate State of Mind, aph. 41 (1955)


The Mainichi Daily News  reports that TEPCO was totally unprepared for the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi despite simulations in identical reactors that showed meltdown would begin one hour and forty minutes after cooling water was no longer available to the reactors.
Here is an idiotic statement from a nuclear engineer in an earthquake prone country. 

"No one, including myself, ever imagined all emergency power generators would be wiped out. We could not imagine this worse-case scenario. We should radically review the design guidelines and the state's screening process."-Tadashi Yoshida, a professor of reactor engineering at Tokyo City University

The Asahi Shimbun, April 19 offered some polite criticism of TEPCO's plan for stabilizing the Fukushima Daiichi plants by January. The newspaper wondered where TEPCO would get enough workers to safely carry out this ambitious project in such a highly radioactive area. 

"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."-The Passionate State of Mind, aph. 61 (1955)

On April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded hurling radiation all over the world and ultimately killing upwards of one million people before their time. The containment vault is now cracked. The Ukranian government held a conference in Kiev Tuesday to organize the collection of one billion dollars to repair this monstrosity reports International Business Times. 

"The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America."-Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 53 (1973)

The International Monetary Fund's Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard expressed concern today in the French journal Le Monde about the United States deficit. It looks like the international bankers who have facilitated the free spending of United States for so many years  are now ready to pull the plug on the USA and the dollar if their demands are not met. Of course, they will suggest that social programs be cut. They need the US military too much and make too much from those who profit from it to suggest that weapons and men under arms are a colossal waste of money.
Why do we not just honestly declare the US military a mercenary army available to the highest bidder?
That would resolve the deficit.
Or let's just surround the international banks, our and the world's greatest enemies, with tanks and let them know who is boss.
Or maybe I'm just looking at things a little too simply.

"There are reasons to be worried. The United States lacks a credible plan, for the medium term, to reduce its budget deficit.Concrete decisions have yet to be taken."-Olivier Blanchard


"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."-The Passionate State of Mind, aph. 70 (1955)

"Satan Bike" Misaki Kawai, 2007

Painting by John Everett Millais, of John Ruskin 1854.
Millais married Effie Gray who had annulled her marriage with Ruskin
after six years on the grounds that the it was never consummated. 

Tuesday Morning EDT/
Tuesday Evening Japan Time
Hell In A Handbasket Update


On this very interesting date in 1943 Dr. Albert Hoffman carried out his first planned LSD experiment, just as the  Warsaw Ghetto uprising began. 
The First Shot (Said to Have Been Heard "'Round the World") of the American Revolution Was  Fired At Lexington Common in Massachusetts on April 19, 1776
April 19, 1993- The Branch Davidian Compound Assault by the BATF
April 19, 1995- Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing


But First Let Us Take A Sports Break..
The First Boston Marathon Was Run in 1897 on this day.

John E. Holmy,  Finished 15th in the 1928 Boston Marathon, time 2:57:40
Notice the old Boston Athletic Association unicorn logo on Uncle John's shirt.
Click to expand.

Congratulations to Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai who finished first ahead of 24,000 others in yesterday's Boston Marathon while breaking the world record in a time of 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds just four seconds ahead of countryman Moses Mosop in a fantastic race.


Today's Update Is Prepared with the Assistance of Victorian art critic and essayist, John Ruskin


"There is a destiny before us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. We are still undegenerate in race, a race mingled of the best northern blood. We are not yet dissolute in temper, but still have the firmness to govern and the grace to obey.... And this is what she must either do, or perish: she [England] must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men; seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her foot on and there teaching these her colonists that their chief virtue is to be fidelity to their country, and that their first aim is to be to advance the power of England by land and sea: and that, though they live on a distant plot of ground, they are no more to consider themselves therefore disfranchised from their native land, than the sailors of her fleets do, because they float on distant waves.." -from Mr. Ruskin's inaugural lecture  at Oxford delivered in February 1870, heard and forever retained by the young Cecil Rhodes. Isn't this was a curious speech coming from a purported "Christian socialist" like Ruskin? Maybe John just didn't have an international socialist viewpoint. I guess that would make him a national socialist. 


A robot entered plant 2 today and found warm (41C, 106F) wet (99% humidity) conditions. Radiation was 4.1 millisieverts per hour, about 10% of the dangerous radiation levels found by iRobot PackBots Sunday in reactors 1 and 3. This level will allow workers to enter the plant for short periods of time.

Workers will not be entering plants 1 and 3.

“What robots can do is limited” -TEPCO official Takeshi Makigami
The basement and tunnels surrounding plant 2 are believed to be full of radioactive water. Some of this water is leaking out of the plant to parts unknown. Crews have started pumping some of the estimated 70,000 tons of highly radioactive water out of these tunnels to a  30,000 ton holding tank for "purification".
"The plan is to install a purification device so that we can purify the water and then free up some space to store the additional contaminated water."-Hidehiko Nishiyama, the chief spokesman for Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency

The French nuclear engineering company Areva will set up a water decontamination plant at the Fukushima Daiichi site as soon as possible. The French government owns 83% of Areva. 

Officials for the first time Monday described in some detail the partial meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi.
According to its own disaster preparedness plans The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan is supposed to dispatch a team of designated nuclear disaster experts to the site of a nuclear accident to investigate and make recommendations. Only members of Japan's NSC secretariat have been to Fukushima Daiichi according to the Mainichi Daily News. 

"But mercantile economy, the economy of 'merces' or of 'pay,' signifies the accumulation, in the hands of individuals, of legal or moral claims upon, or power over, the labour of others; every such claim implying precisely as much poverty and debt on one side, as it implies riches or right on the other.
If, in the exchange, one man is able to give what cost him little labour for what has cost the other much, he 'acquires' a certain quantity of the produce of the other's labour. And precisely what he acquires, the other loses. In mercantile language, the person who thus acquires is commonly said to have 'made a profit'; and I believe that many of our merchants are seriously under the impression that it is possible for everybody, somehow, to make a profit in this manner. Whereas, by the unfortunate constitution of the world we live in, the laws both of matter and motion have quite rigorously forbidden universal acquisition of this kind. Profit, by exchange. Whenever material gain follows exchange, for every plus there is a precisely equal minus."-Unto the Last, 1860

The World Championship Triathlon Race scheduled to take place in Yokohama May 14 has been postponed for obvious reasons. Yokohama is located 300 miles south of Fukushima Daiichi. Athletes had expressed reluctance to participate, especially the portion of the contest that involves a 1.5 km swim in Yokohama Harbor.

"There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision."-Cestus of Aglaia, 1865-66

The Honolulu Star Advocate quotes Lynn Nakasone, administrator of the Health Department's Environmental Health Services Division today:

"I know people are thinking, ‘Oh, a little bit [of radiation] here, a little bit there [adds up],' But think of it as calories. What if milk had 0.000004 calories and produce had 0.000003 calories and so on? So you add up all these little calories, but then you probably won't get to even one calorie.[The radiation from Japan] is kind of like that. We're talking about so minute amounts. Even if you took all the cumulative doses for everything, you are still way below any kind of action level and it's not a health risk at all."

I prophecy a long and great career as a bureaucrat for Mr. Nakasone. 

"In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children." Mornings in Florence, 1875


"These organizations [The World Bank and other multilateral development banks] are vital for addressing the challenges of today and those that lie beyond the horizon. The World Bank and the regional development banks have demonstrated time and again that our investment provides unparalleled returns, stretching the impact of our dollars around the world. With domestic resources constrained, no other institutions so effectively leverage our limited resources and provide such a positive impact on the ground in service of our national and global interests.​"-final words of his speech, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group Development Committee Meeting this past Saturday

"No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself."-Pre-Raphaelitism, 1851


Word of the nefarious activities of the Federal Reserve are beginning to bubble up in establishment media like this piece by David Indiviglio in the Atlantic.  Now these are rumors, rumors, mind you, in the financial community that the Fed is actually manipulating United States security prices!

Tomoko Shioyasu, "blessing wall" 2006, cut paper

Alfred Adler

Sunday Morning EDT/
Sunday Evening Japan Time Unthinkable Disasters Update

Edmund-This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity; fools by
heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the charge of a star!
-King Lear, I,ii, Wm. Shakespeare

 With the Assistance of Medical Doctor, Psychotherapist and founder of Individual Psychology,
Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937)

Striving For Perfection Through Feelings of Inferiority 

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."

Perhaps there was a tiny little smidgen of truth in Lysenkoism. Some traits can be inherited without specific changes in DNA sequencing. The study of this phenomena is called Epigenetics. This story tells of Professor Eva Jablonka who studies how such life events such as stress and cancer can cause epigenetic inheritence.

"I am a story teller. I read a lot of information and develop theories about evolution. For the last 25 years, before it became a fad, I was interested in the transmission of information not dependent on DNA variations," Dr. Jablonka says. "Epigenetic inheritance is information about us that is not explicitly encoded in our genes. Two individuals may have identical genes, but the genes present very different characteristics. They can be genetically identical but different epigenetically."

"Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing others to a condition of slavery."

TEPCO revealed their plan for solving the Fukushima Daiichi problem: Reduce radiation leaks in three months to cool the reactors within nine months. Meanwhile radiation spiked to 6,500 times the safe level yesterday in the seawater at Fukushima Daiichi. Obviously new radiation leaks are appearing, or attempts to plug old leaks have failed, or radiation is increasing inside the plant. No one can tell which is the problem and how does anyone create a plan when the exact problem is still unknown?

Tsunehisa Katsumata, the chairman of TEPCO apologized again, "We sincerely apologise for causing troubles. We are doing our utmost to prevent the crisis from further worsening."

"To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations."

Hard information on radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi complex and beyond continues to be withheld by TEPCO and the Japanese government. 

Despite the catastrophe in Japan, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not intend to retreat from that country's investment in a huge nuclear energy program. The Hindu quotes Singh:

“I am convinced that when all is said and done, when cool headed discussions take place about the future of energy, what are the problems with coal, what are the problems of with other hydrocarbons, in terms of their impact on climate change, there would be no reconsideration about the role of nuclear energy."

The Hindu also reported that Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh would not reconsider the clearance for the Jaitapur nuclear project. Ramesh was quoted so:

“Jaitapur stays and a ‘deeper think,' and not rethink, is required on nuclear energy and safety issues."

"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."

Repeating a pattern, rebels in Libya ran away again today when troops loyal to Muammar al-Gaddafi went on the offensive in Ajdabiya according to the New York Times.  The rebels were said to be wondering where NATO and the western countries were. It looks like the west almost doesn't care who wins  and will be content to watch the country destroy itself in battle.

"Defiant individuals will always persecute others, yet will always consider themselves persecuted."

Tornadoes that ripped mostly through the Bible Belt killed at least 35 people Friday and Saturday according to the Associated Press. Boone's Chapel Baptist Church was destroyed in Boone's Chapel, Alabama, in Autauga County Friday night. Another tornado collapsed the Refuge Temple Church in St. Stephen, South Carolina, injuring six worshippers. A tornado in Georgia touched down on Fort Benning's Harmony Church. In Bladen County, North Carolina the Elizabethtown Baptist Church was partially destroyed. Bethlehem Church in Monroe County, Alabama was destroyed. Amity Missionary Baptist Church in Tunnel Springs, Alabama was destroyed. On Saturday the sanctuary of Zoar Baptist Church in Deltaville, Virginia was destroyed. Last weekend a tornado shredded the town of Varina, Iowa but spared the St. Columbkille Church, although the parish hall was destroyed. God moves in mysterious ways. 

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

Nicolas Cage had some good news to ponder yesterday in his New Orleans cell after being arrested for domestic abuse battery, disturbing the peace and public drunkenness. His copy of Action Comics #1 which was stolen from him ten years ago was recovered after it turned up in the auctioned contents of  a storage locker earlier in the week. He can give it to his son Kal-El if the IRS doesn't seize it first. A copy sold at auction for $1 million last year. 

"All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest" 

Serial killers are forty times more likely to target prostitutes. Since Jack the Ripper and probably since the beginning of urban civilization this has been true. Prostitutes are available. They put themselves in the vulnerable position of being  alone with strangers. There may be a misguided impression among law enforcement that they are getting what they deserve or that they are not as high value a case as the murdered housewife or businessman. 

The Los Angeles Times turns to the opposite coast today to give us an overview of the grisly discoveries on Long Island. The Daily Mail in the UK also has a report. The Daily Beast tells the story of one young woman.

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." 

Streamside, South Hiram, Maine, John Bonanno photo

Rowboats at Rest, John Bonanno photograph