Paracelsus

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THEOPHRASTUS BAUMBAST VON HOHENHEIM,
Commonly known as Paracelsus, Swiss
Physician, Alchemist and Occultist of the sixteenth century,
Born on the 10th November, 1493, at Sihlbrücke,
Near Einsiedeln, Canton Schwyz,
Died on the 24th September, 1541, at Salzburg.

"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven."

Japan's cavalier approach to its nuclear crisis has forced one government official to give up his post. Bloomberg reports that Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan accepted the resignation of  a nuclear advisor today.


The government accepted the resignation of Toshiso Kosako, a professor at the University of Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a press conference in the capital today. The adviser disagreed with the maximum annual radiation exposure allowed in elementary schools, Edano said, adding there was a “misunderstanding.”...
Kosako resigned in protest against the government’s “impromptu” handling of the crisis and delays in bringing the situation under control, Kyodo News reported, citing comments made by the adviser at a press conference yesterday. Kosako disagreed with the maximum annual radiation exposure of 20 millisieverts allowed by the government in elementary schools, according to Edano.
“We’re not saying it’s OK for children to get exposed up to 20 millisieverts,” he said. “We’re trying to reduce children’s radiation exposure as much as possible. Our plan would be much lower than 20 millisieverts a year.”

It was only a misunderstanding. Ignoring laws and prolonging the crisis is a "misunderstanding." What I do not understand is why the Japanese government has been so stingy with information on radiation emanating from the wreck at Fukushima Daiichi. What I do not understand is why the government of Japan has not frog-walked TEPCO executives to jail for falsifying information and ignoring safety rules. But I suppose their reasons are the same reasons no Wall Street crooks have been arrested here in the United States. Governments are now wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporations. Our politicians have no sympathy or empathy with the people, they only obey their Masters in the hidden mansions and  board rooms of the world. 

"The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars."

The Mainichi Daily News reports that a member of a panel advising the government on earthquake reconstruction plans does not want Fukushima prefect to continue to produce nuclear power. 

"I want Fukushima to make the decision to abandon nuclear power, independent from government policy discussion," the 57-year-old panel member, Norio Akasaka, told the Mainichi.

Watch your back, Norio.

Bloomberg reported this week that radiation readings inside the reactors are the highest yet. I suppose that means radiation escaping the reactors must be pretty pretty high. But it is difficult to come by such information.

"It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians."

The New York Times tells us that old nuclear plants are "cash cows" because they can be bought much more cheaply than new ones can be built. I might ad that these buyers of nukes have no liability for damages they inflict on the people or the planet since the government has hoodwinked the people into indemnifying these dangerous monstrosities for free. Let's start sending insurance bills to the nuclear industry based on real potential for damage, death and loss. Or, the people could simply stop indemnifying any nuclear plant, or at least those operating after their posted lifespans. The market for old nuclear plants will then collapse.

Meanwhile, there is no investor sentiment to invest in new nuclear plants. Only the United States government seems enthusiastic about pouring billions of dollars it does not have into the nuclear industry for construction. Someone ask our President at his next press conference about this. Please. 

The 19th Figure

'Thou art leaping about in thy garden and art well pleased with thyself; but giving up thy wisdom and following thy pleasure thou makest bad use of thy leapings. Therefore shall it happen to thee even as thou art lying there, and those that should be thy peace will hunt thee and force thee to leap high. But take thought with thyself and consider that human things are vain. Then wouldst thou become altogether changed and wouldest be safe from the misfortune into which thou doest daily walk. Bethink thyself that pride and ill-manners never ended well.'-The Nineteenth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Euthanization of animals starving and neglected in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone has begun.

The 16th Figure

'A child that goes to school and learns, when it arrives at years of discretion is ashamed of its childish work and destroys it. Thus shall it also happen to thee. As thou writest in such a manner thine own work shall be nought. For which reason there will be much labour for nought and in vain. For the time teacheth and giveth knowledge that not every pearl is a true pearl that is alleged so to be. Therefore a hand shall fall upon thee that will tear thee to shreds.'-The Sixteenth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Two senior Japanese officials stated that four of the six reactors at Fukushima Daiichi  have a chance of further catastrophic events and are remain volatile. 

The 2nd Figure

'A flower groweth to the destined height. He that causeth her to grow also causeth her to fade. This happens to thee, for Magic hath therewith adorned thee, that thy coming up should be known, and also how thou has come to nought. For before thou wast, Magic hath known thee and therefore compared thee to a flower, that to-day is in bloom and to-morrow is withered. Wisdom and Fear of God would have preserved thee, but thou has overlooked it, thine own wisdom hath seduced thee.'-The Second Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Information about the spread of radioactivity in Japan is being suppressed. 


The chief of the Meteorological Society of Japan has drawn flak from within the academic society over a request for member specialists to refrain from releasing forecasts on the spread of radioactive substances from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
In the request posted March 18 on the society's website, Hiroshi Niino, professor at the University of Tokyo, said such forecasts, which he says carry some uncertainty, ''could jumble up information about the government's antidisaster countermeasures unnecessarily.''.....
Niino later said in commenting on the intention he had in issuing the statement, ''If (society members') forecasts were announced, it would have carried the risk that ordinary people may panic.''

But Toshio Yamagata, another University of Tokyo professor who is a member of the society, said meteorological scientists have the responsibility to encourage the government to take the right course of action by announcing their forecasts ''especially when a country is going through a critical situation.''
''Our society has degenerated into a bureaucratic entity,'' he warned.

That says it all. 

The Japanese bureaucracy has relaxed hair cutting laws to allow barbers to cut hair in evacuation shelters instead of approved barber shops.

The 11th Figure

'Although the sun did once shine upon thee, and thou hast glutted thyself with food and plunder, and wast sitting among the honeycombs, yet thou hast not wisely considered the end, and hast forgotten the winter; therefore he taketh away thy pleasure, and will compel thee to suck thine own paws. For as thou art bear-like, and has no further reason, Magic hath driven thee into the toils that thou shouldst be known. But if the wit of man had been thine, the winter would not have overtaken thee.'- The 11th Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus


Back home more tornadoes have continued to kill more people (339 at last count)  and destroy more churches of those who strongly believe in Jesus and disbelieve in climate change in a part of the country run by politicians who hate the federal government but are now asking for its help. 

Reports of looting are widespread in the afflicted areas. 

'Thou hast divided duty into left and right, as if it were oppressing thee. Both sides will cause thee anxiety and hatred shall altogether overcome thee. For a harlot divideth her wantonness and for a while she hath her way, but woe to her when her deceit is discovered. Then cometh true the saying, "no love without pain." Although thou didst mightily rejoice that thou art without a head, a head shall be placed upon thee and thou shall become a limb, though thou art not accustomed to it. But against thy will shalt thou swallow and eat what is not thy natural food.'- The Fourth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

The 4th Figure

Links: The Prophecies of Paracelsus

Oliver Cromwell, attributed to Anthony Van Dyck

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Presented with the assistance of Oliver Cromwell 
b.25 April 1599 – d.3 September 1658
Called "Old Ironsides" he was a Puritan and a Roundhead soldier in the Civil War,
who brought down the Monarchy,
oversaw the execution of Charles I,
which he called a "cruel necessity" and,

Became Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Within two years of his death the Monarchy was restored, 
His body was disinterred from Westminster Abbey, 
Hung on the gallows then beheaded by Charles II.
His head was publicly displayed on Westminster Hall for 25 years. 

Ollie's Wax Death Mask in the British Museum

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

The death toll is now 178 and rising [now at 292 at 7PM EDT Thursday]  in the wake of the latest round of tornadoes to rip through the South this week.
155 tornadoes were reported in the United States  yesterday by the Storm Prediction Center, bringing the number to over 800 this month.
Monday in Pulaski County Arkansas the Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church was destroyed.
The Mamre Baptist Church near Peek's Hill, Alabama was destroyed and a man was found dead in the debris, one of 65 who died in the storms in the state.
The Ford Chapel United Methodist Church in Harvest, Alabama, the oldest of that denomination in the state was destroyed yesterday.

The New Bethel Baptist Church in Cherokee County, Alabama lost its roof and steeple. 

In Mississippi the Smithville Baptist Church and neighboring Smithville United Methodist Church were both destroyed.

The First Baptist Church in Cullman, Alabama was heavily damaged. 

In Autaga County Alabama the Boone's Chapel Baptist Church was heavily damaged. 

Last week's tornadoes damaged or destroyed many other churches throughout the South including the Zoar Baptist Church in Deltaville, Virginia. The destruction did not deter Easter worshipers who held outdoor services. 

Christ Church in Wetumpka Alabama was destroyed April 24 last year on Easter Day. This Easter the church broke ground for a new nave and sanctuary. 

"No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."

Slate Magazine asks the question "Did industry-government collusion contribute to Japan's nuclear disaster?" in an article title "Nuclear Incest" today which relies heavily on a report in yesterday's New York Times. "Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant"

"A 10-year extension for the oldest of Daiichi’s reactors suggests that the regulatory system was allowed to remain lax by politicians, bureaucrats and industry executives single-mindedly focused on expanding nuclear power. Regulators approved the extension beyond the reactor’s 40-year statutory limit just weeks before the tsunami despite warnings about its safety and subsequent admissions by Tokyo Electric, often called Tepco, that it had failed to carry out proper inspections of critical equipment." -The New York Times

Meanwhile, the latest scheme to prevent radiation from seeping into the sea at Fukushima Daiichi is to build a gigantic holding tank at the site to hold all the radioactive water being created from the frantic cooling activities going on at several locations at the complex. There is no word on how long it will take to build such a huge tank or whether it will be engineered to be earthquake proof. 

TEPCO reports that one of their woman employees was exposed to high radiation at the site but she has not displayed any symptoms of radiation poisoning so far.

Meanwhile Goshi Hosono, Prime Minister Naoto Kan's special advisor on management of the nuclear crisis. said "There is no way Tokyo or Kyoto will come into harm's way." and that the crisis was receding.

"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."

General Electric has its best profit outlook  in a decade despite the uncertainty in the nuclear industry which is an important part of its business. All the plants at Fukushima Daiichi are of GE design and two were built by the company. 

Afterward..

"I have seen in this revolution a circular motion of the sovereign power through two usurpers, father and son, to the late King to this his son. For ... it moved from King Charles I to the Long Parliament; from thence to the Rump; from the Rump to Oliver Cromwell; and then back again from Richard Cromwell to the Rump; then to the Long Parliament; and thence to King Charles, where long may it remain."- Thomas Hobbes

Ambrose Bierce, as he appeared in 1892
 born June 24, 1842, disappeared December 26, 1913, 

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Assisted today by Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.

Authorities continue to withhold accurate radiation reading emanating from Fukushima Daiichi and spreading around the world. Only radioactive iodine is being somewhat monitored, which, with its relatively short half life,  is the least of our worries.

HEAVEN, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.


EX-SKF blogger gives us the fantastic story today that the symbol or mascot of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant 1  is the ostrich. He is not kidding. The Yomiuri Shinbun reports today, so far only in the Japanese edition as far as I can tell, that there is an ostrich farm with thirty of the pathetic creatures that have been left to die for lack of care in the evacuated area near the plant. Why the ostrich? Fukushima Daiichi public relations states:
"Just like an ostrich that grow big on small feed, the nuclear power plant that generates large amount of electricity with small amount of uranium"

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

The Wall Street Journal tells us that officials are inspecting wrecked Plant 1 for leaks today with robots.  I suspect this attempt to discover the location of leaks that must be patched before continuing with a scheme to fill the damaged and cracked plants with water in an attempt to stall the continuing meltdowns of reactor cores will unfortunately be futile. There are also leaks in the spent fuel rod pool at Plant 4 that must be repaired unless they are happy with a situation that requires constant addition of water to prevent waste fuel ignition, which creates tons and tons of new radioactive water which will end up in the Pacific Ocean. The more I think about it, the more I believe that this huge mangled beast will never be tamed. This mess is going its own way no matter what the authorities say. 

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

Protesters in the UK are complaining about the Prince Charles' guest list for the upcoming nuptials of his son. They are upset that some of the royal attendees include various princes and kings from countries mostly in the Middle East and dictators from Commonwealth nations which are not quite up to their standards in granting civil rights to their people. 

Don't these people understand that their Royals created those Royals and dictators? 

From bad comes bad. 

Protest the fact that you have your Own Parasitical Royals, not the fact that they tend to hang out with their spiritual offspring. 

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

The Huffington Post presents to us a handy interactive map that shows the location of nuclear plants around the world. It makes it easy to check how close you live to a death dealing device from Hell and how old and dangerous it is. They try to suggest that "legal costs" helped prevent plants being built since Chernobyl, which is relatively insignificant in a totally subsidized industry.  Ignore the BS about how much greenhouse gas has been prevented by these plants. That is pure propaganda from the nuclear industry akin to telling someone he  has fortunately avoided further leg injuries since having that double amputation.

MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic. It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't.

TEPCO released a vague, poorly labeled and confusing radiation map of Fukushima Daiichi on April 23. 

OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.

The India Express quotes the determined Srikumar Banerjee, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) who says there is "no substitute" for nuclear energy and that the country is going forward with the Jaitapur project: 

“Around 40 per cent of the country’s population does not have access to electricity. If providing power to those deprived of it is important for growth, then there is no substitute to nuclear energy. Coal, for instance, won’t last forever. Also, if we consider coal as the option to produce energy, then we would be increasing the carbon dioxide emission by 50 per cent, which, on the backdrop of depleting environmental conditions is not feasible. Nuclear energy is thus sustainable energy, not for decades but for centuries. Also the volume of nuclear waste is very small.” 

Of course, they are doing it for the people. 

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Yesterday Emperor Akihito ate fish caught at the town of Kitaibaraki forty miles from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. "I felt calm when I saw His Majesty's face. Tear came to my eyes." said a 74 year old survivor at a shelter he was visiting yesterday. 

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

Young Mr. Crowley

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With Verbal Punctuation 
From the "Wickedest Man In the World" 
Aleister Crowley 1875 - 1947

"It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; a secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother's God, or the Rite that invokes Him."
Book 4, One Star in Sight

Hidden, hidden, hidden away in a small little story today in the Daily Yomiuri Online  we find the information that radiation from plant 1 alone is leaking into the atmosphere at 154 terabecquerels per day. Previously, on April 5,  authorities from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission had assured the world that radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi complex was "less than 1 terabecquerel per hour."  Our imagination flies to the stars meditating on the nature of the occult knowledge the nuclear priests are guarding from the eyes of the uninitiated. 
Garnered from Japanese blogger EX-SKF via Natural News. 

"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach." 

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is under pressure to step down after his Japan Democratic Party suffered defeats in local elections Sunday. A new puppet may be pulled out of the trunk but the Wizards behind the curtain will continue to pull the strings. 

“‘All in this kind are but shadows’ says Shakespeare, referring to actors. The Universe is a Puppet-Play for the amusement of Nuit and Hadit in their Nuptials; a very Midsummer Night’s Dream. So then we laugh at the mock woes of Pyramus and Thisbe, the clumsy gambols of Bottom; for we understand the Truth of Things, how all is a Dance of Ecstasy.”
-Commentary to the Book of the Law, II:9

High resolution photographs reveal in all its splendour the nuclear plant complex at Fukushima Daiichi. Blogger Lucas Whitfield Hixson walks us through the photographic evidence which reveals the extremely dangerous nature of the damage at the MOX fueled reactor at plant 3. He deduces that the top of the reactor and the containment vessel itself was blown off by the hydrogen explosion that occurred within the reactor itself, releasing plutonium and spent fuel into the atmosphere. 

"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

The fishing industry in Japan may have been dealt a fatal blow by the tsunami and its related issues reports the San Francisco chronicle:
"Thirty years ago we used to think Japan was the number one fishing country in the world, with the best catching and processing methods, but that's really no longer the case," Ryosuke Sato, chairman of the Kesennuma Fisheries Cooperative Association, said in an interview in the town, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Tokyo. "We've been in terminal decline."


"Every serious or spiritual thought is made a jest; poets are thought "soft" and "cowardly," apparently because they are the only boys with a will of their own and courage to hold out against the whole school, boys and masters in league as once were Pilate and Herod; honour is replaced by expediency, holiness by hypocrisy. Even where we find thoroughly good seed sprouting in favourable ground, too often is there a frittering away of the forces. Facile encouragement of a poet or painter is far worse for him than any amount of opposition."

- Energized Enthusiasm


The market for silver has taken off. The $1500 per ounce price of gold is at an all-time high in our magick fiat dollars, yet many have just realized that the price of silver related to the price of gold is at a historical low, despite the fact that at $44 an ounce, silver is also at an all time high. This reveals about a 34:1 gold to silver price ratio. Over the centuries this ratio has coursed around 14:1. This fact alone tells us that silver has a long way to go before it reaches its natural value. (The cynic might say that gold has a long way to fall.) Silver is more important industrially than gold in our day and it is required for many of our electronic toys, your high definition TV and cell phone being two of them.
Silver has also been the precious metal whose value has been repressed for a hundred and fifty years by the teeter-tottering modern banking system headquartered in the City of London.
$100 an ounce silver is a very reasonable expectation.
Some are predicting much higher prices. 

There, in that sanctuary of silences,

There is a Word,

The Word that built the city, never heard

By any of those archangel phalanxes,

Unuttered even in the holy heart

Of God, or breathed by its own lightning breath,

Since from all being it stands ever apart,

Its name being Life, and that name's echo Death.

 The City of God

We find out that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and his colleagues proposed in 2010  that the early universe had one dimension and acquired more as the universe developed and expanded until it reached the three dimensional nature we are familiar with today. The Universe may assume a four dimensional nature in an expanded future. 

"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."

Authorities in Malaysia are sending boys with feminine mannerisms to a boot camp designed to train them in proper masculine behaviour reports OnIslam.net

"This is a character-building program,” Daud was quoted by The New Straits Times as saying.
“We hope the students will emerge stronger, physically and mentally, after attending the camp.
The minister said that the camp is the first of many series in the program.
“The first batch is made up of boys, aged between 13 and 17, who happen to display some feminine characteristics."
Daud said the camp does not aim to change the students' sexual preferences and has nothing to do with anti-gay sentiments.
"These boys were without many friends before but chances are, after the camp, they will be much stronger and emerge with a higher level of self-confidence." The minister denied that the camp was a military-style, adding that students only march in unison every morning.
"But the rest of the day would be filled with activities such as jungle trekking, paintball, aerobic workouts and several other fun activities," [State education department director Razali] Daud said.
The program also includes religious lectures, visits to local mosques and interaction with local residents.
"They would be divided into groups and each group would be assigned tasks, including hoisting the national flag and reciting the Rukun Negara (a national ideology which is supportive of religion),” the minister said.


 This is a heartwarming tale. The boys will make friends for life at this camp. 

SWEET, sweet are May and June, dear,
        The loves of lambent spring,
      Our lamp the drooping moon, dear,
        Our roof, the stars that sing;
      The bed, of moss and roses;
        The night, as long as death!
        Still, breath!
      Life wakens and reposes,
        Love ever quickeneth!

Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden,
        The motley months of gold,
      Swoop down with sunlight laden,
        And eyes are bright and bold.
      Life-swelling breasts uncover
        Their warm involving deep --
        Love, sleep! --
      And love lies with lover
        On air's substantial steep.  

  Venus, TANNHAUSER

"Lam" 1918, portrait by Aleister Crowley of the extra-dimensional entity he invoked, used as the frontispiece to his commentary on Blavatsky's, The Voice of the Silence, with this description: "LAM is the Tibetan word for Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical value is 71, the number of this book."

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

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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