Netanyahu Puts the World on Alert - Terrorism from Islamic Militants

Benjamin Netanyahu , prime minister of Israel, spoke to the United Nations of Monday, September 29, 2014. His speech was on the subject of terrorism and the Islamic militants. The whole of his speech is printed below but important points are highlighted.

Most of us today did not experience World War II. It was a terrible time with countries such as France and England having major cities destroyed. Estimates are from fifty to eighty million people were killed in that war. And what caused this war? Fanaticism. Hitler decided his way was the best way and set out to conquer the world, leaving a swath of destruction behind him in terms of people and property.

Today we are faced with fanaticism from the Islamic Militants. Throw in the nuclear capabilities card and it is a grave danger we should not take lightly. They believe in killing to get their way. And they believe that "they are right", and use it as a validation to kill. Hitler was a psychopath. A psychopath is someone who does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, because this is what he wants... whether it harms others or not.

We saw the twin towers go down in New York with the Pentagon crashed into with another airplane on the same day. That took the lives of (according to Wikipedia) approximately 3000 people. That's a small start to what would happen in World War 3. You think the Islamic Militants wouldn't have been absolutely delighted to bring an atomic bomb on board each of those planes? Netanyahu's speech is stating that we must see what is ahead of us. Ignoring these facts, underestimating their strength, will lead to only our downfall.

Why am I writing about this...am I Jewish? No. I am agnostic from a christian background. But I do believe in the dangers of nuclear. There are positive aspects of nuclear...but there are many more dangerous aspects which might bring down humanity. Hitler was ignored for years by America before we finally joined World War II. Let us not ignore the dangers from the Islamic Militants as outlined by Netanyahu. I think it was one of the great speeches of the 21st century.

Transcript of Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the 2014 UN General Assembly

PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Thank you, Mr. President. Distinguished delegates, I come here from Jerusalem to speak on behalf of my people, the people of Israel. I've come here to speak about the dangers we face and about the opportunities we seek. I've come here to expose the brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country and against the brave soldiers who defend it.

Ladies and gentlemen, the people of Israel pray for peace, but our hopes and the world’s hopes for peace are in danger because everywhere we look militant Islam is on the march. It’s not militants. It’s not Islam. It’s militant Islam. And typically its first victims are other Muslims, but it spares no one: Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Kurds. No creed, no faith, no ethnic group is beyond its sights. And it’s rapidly spreading in every part of the world.

You know the famous American saying, all politics is local? For the militant Islamists, all politics is global, because their ultimate goal is to dominate the world. Now, that threat might seem exaggerated to some since it starts out small, like a cancer that attacks a particular part of the body. But left unchecked, the cancer grows, metastasizing over wider and wider areas. To protect the peace and security of the world, we must remove this cancer before it’s too late.

Last week, many of the countries represented here rightly applauded President Obama for leading the effort to confront ISIS, and yet weeks before, some of these same countries, the same countries that now support confronting ISIS, opposed Israel for confronting Hamas. They evidently don’t understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree.

ISIS and Hamas share a fanatical creed, which they both seek to impose well beyond the territory under their control. Listen to ISIS’ self-declared caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. This is what he said two months ago: A day will soon come when the Muslim will walk everywhere as a master. The Muslims will cause the world to hear and understand the meaning of terrorism and destroy the idol of democracy. Now listen to Khaled Mashal, the leader of Hamas. He proclaims a similar vision of the future: We say this to the West -- by Allah you will be defeated. Tomorrow our nation will sit on the throne of the world.

As Hamas’ charter makes clear, Hamas’ immediate goal is to destroy Israel, but Hamas has a broader objective. They also want a caliphate. Hamas shares the global ambitions of its fellow militant Islamists, and that’s why its supporters wildly cheered in the streets of Gaza as thousands of Americans were murdered in 9/11, and that’s why its leaders condemn the United States for killing Osama bin Laden whom they praised as a holy warrior.

So when it comes to their ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. And what they share in common all militant Islamists share in common. Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al-Shabab in Somalia, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Al-Nusra in Syria, the Mahdi army in Iraq, and the Al-Qaida branches in Yemen, Libya, the Philippines, India and elsewhere.

Some are radical Sunnis, some are radical Shiites, some want to restore a pre-medieval caliphate from the seventh century, others want to trigger the apocalyptic return of an imam from the ninth century. They operate in different lands, they target different victims and they even kill each other in their battle for supremacy. But they all share a fanatic ideology. They all seek to create ever-expanding enclaves of militant Islam where there is no freedom and no tolerance, where women are treated as chattel, Christians are decimated and minorities are subjugated, sometimes given the stark choice, convert or die. For them, anyone can be considered an infidel, including fellow Muslims.

Ladies and gentlemen, militant Islam’s ambition to dominate the world seems mad, but so too did the global ambitions of another fanatic ideology that swept into power eight decades ago. The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith. They just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith. That’s what they truly disagree about. And therefore, the question before us is whether militant Islam will have the power to realize its unbridled ambitions.

There is one place where that could soon happen -- the Islamic State of Iran. For 35 years, Iran has relentlessly pursued the global mission which was set forth by its founding ruler, Ayatollah Khomeini, in these words. “We will export our revolution to the entire world until the cry ‘there is no god but Allah’ will echo throughout the world over.” And ever since, the regime’s brutal enforcers, Iran’s revolutionary guards, have done exactly that.

Listen to its current commander, General Mohammad Ali Jafari. And he clearly stated his goal. He said “Our imam did not limit the Islamic revolution to this country, our duty is to prepare the way for an Islamic world government.”

Iran’s President Rohani stood here last week and shed crocodile tears over what he called the globalization of terrorism. Maybe he should spare us those phony tears and have a word instead with the commanders of Iran’s revolutionary guards. He could ask them to call off Iran’s global terror campaign, which has included attacks in two dozen countries on five continents since 2011 alone.

You know, to say that Iran doesn’t practice terrorism is like saying Derek Jeter never played shortstop for the New York Yankees. This is -- this bemoaning by the Iranian president of the spread of terrorism has got to be one of history’s greatest displays of doubletalk.

Now, some argue that Iran’s global terror campaign, its subversion of countries throughout the Middle East and well beyond the Middle East, some argue that this is the work of the extremists. They say things are changing. They point to last year’s election in Iran. They claim that Iran’s smooth-talking president and foreign minister, they’ve changed not only the tone of Iran’s foreign policy but also its substance. They believe that Rohani and Zarif (generally/genuinely ?) want to reconcile with the West, that they’ve abandoned the global mission of the Islamic Revolution. Really?

So let’s look at what Foreign Minister Zarif wrote in his book just a few years ago:

We have a fundamental problem with the West, and especially with America. This is because we are heirs to a global mission which is tied to our raison d'être, a global mission which is tied to our very reason for being.

And then Zarif asks a question -- I think an interesting one. He says: How come Malaysia -- he’s referring to an overwhelmingly Muslim country -- how come Malaysia doesn’t have similar problems? And he answers: Because Malaysia is not trying to change the international order.

That’s your moderate. So don’t be fooled by Iran’s manipulative charm offensive. It’s designed for one purpose and for one purpose only: to lift the sanctions and remove the obstacles to Iran’s path to the bomb. The Islamic Republic is now trying to bamboozle its way to an agreement that will remove the sanctions it still faces and leave it with a capacity of thousands of refugees -- of centrifuges, rather -- to enrich uranium. This would effectively cement Iran’s place as a threshold military nuclear power. And in the future, at the time of its choosing, Iran, the world’s most dangerous regime, in the world’s most dangerous region, would obtain the world’s most dangerous weapons. Allowing that to happen would pose the gravest threat to us all. It’s one thing to confront militant Islamists on pickup trucks armed with Kalashnikov rifles. It’s another thing to confront militant Islamists armed with weapons of mass destruction.

I remember that last year, everyone here was rightly concerned about thechemical weapons in Syria, including the possibility that they would fall into the hands of terrorists. Well, that didn’t happen, and President Obama deserves great credit for leading the diplomatic effort to dismantle virtually all of Syria’s chemical weapons capability. Imagine how much more dangerous the Islamic State, ISIS, would be if it possessed chemical weapons. Now imagine how much more dangerous the Islamic state of Iran would be if it possessed nuclear weapons.

Ladies and gentlemen, would you let ISIS enrich uranium? Would you let ISIS build a heavy water reactor? Would you let ISIS develop intercontinental ballistic missiles? Of course you wouldn’t. Then you mustn’t let the Islamic state of Iran do those things either, because here’s what will happen. Once Iran produces atomic bombs, all the charms and all the smiles will suddenly disappear. They’ll just vanish. And it’s then that the ayatollahs will show their true face and unleash their aggressive fanaticism on the entire world.

There’s only one responsible course of action to address this threat. Iran’s nuclear military capabilities must be fully dismantled. (Applause.) Make no mistake: ISIS must be defeated. But to defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war.

Ladies and gentlemen, the fight against militant Islam is indivisible. When militant Islam succeeds anywhere, it’s emboldened everywhere. When it suffers a blow in one place, it’s set back in every place. That’s why Israel’s fight against Hamas is not just our fight, it’s your fight. Israel is fighting a fanaticism today that your countries may be forced to fight tomorrow. For 50 days this past summer Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israel, many of them supplied by Iran. I want you to think about what your countries would do if thousands of rockets were fired at your cities. Imagine millions of your citizens having seconds at most to scramble to bomb shelters day after day. You wouldn’t let terrorists fire rockets at your cities with impunity, nor would you let terrorists dig dozens of terror tunnels under your borders to infiltrate your towns in order to murder and kidnap your citizens. Israel justly defended itself against both rocket attacks and terror tunnels. (Applause.)

Yet Israel faced another challenge. We faced a propaganda war because in an attempt to win the world sympathy, Hamas cynically used Palestinian civilians as human shields. It used schools -- not just schools; UN schools -- private homes, mosques, even hospitals to store and fire rockets at Israel. As Israel surgically struck at the rocket launchers and at the tunnels, Palestinian civilians were tragically but unintentionally killed. There are heartrending images that resulted, and these fueled libelous charges that Israel was deliberately targeting civilians. We were not. We deeply regret every single civilian casualties.

And the truth is this: Israel was doing everything to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties. Hamas was doing everything to maximize Israeli civilian casualties and Palestinian civilian casualties. Israel dropped flyers, made phone calls, sent text messages, broadcast warnings in Arabic on Palestinian television, all this to enable Palestinian civilians to evaluate targeted areas. No other country and no other army in history have gone to greater lengths to avoid casualties among the civilian population of their enemies. (Applause.)

Now, this concern for Palestinian life was all the more remarkable given that Israeli civilians were being bombarded by rockets day after day, night after night. And as their families were being rocketed by Hamas, Israel’s citizen army, the brave soldiers of the IDF, our young boys and girls, they upheld the highest moral values of any army in the world. (Applause.) Israel’s soldiers deserve not condemnation but admiration, admiration from decent people everywhere. (Applause.)

Now, here is what Hamas did. Here is what Hamas did. Hamas embedded its missile batteries in residential areas and told Palestinians to ignore Israel’s warnings to leave. And just in case people didn’t get the message, they executed Palestinian civilians in Gaza who dared to protest. And no less reprehensible, Hamas deliberately placed its rockets where Palestinian children live and play. Let me show you a photograph. It was taken by a France 24 crew during the recent conflict. It shows two Hamas rocket launchers, which were used to attack us. You see three children playing next to them. Hamas deliberately put its rockets in hundreds of residential areas like this -- hundreds of them.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a war crime. And I say to President Abbas, these are the crimes, the war crimes, committed by your Hamas partners in the national unity government which you head and you are responsible for. And these are the real war crimes you should have investigated or spoken out against from this podium last week. (Applause.)

Ladies and gentlemen, as Israel’s children huddle in bomb shelters and Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense knocked Hamas rockets out of the sky, the profound moral difference between Israel and Hamas couldn’t have been clearer. Israel was using its missiles to protect its children. Hamas was using its children to protect its missiles. (Applause.)

By investigating Israel rather than Hamas for war crimes, the UN Human Rights Council has betrayed its noble mission to protect the innocent. In fact, what it’s doing is to turn the laws of war upside down. Israel, which took unprecedented steps to minimize civilian casualties -- Israel is condemned. Hamas, which both targeted and hid behind civilians -- that’s a double war crime -- Hamas is given a pass.

The Human Rights Council is thus sending a clear message to terrorists everywhere: Use civilians as a human shield. Use them again and again and again. And you know why? Because, sadly, it works. By granting international legitimacy to the use of human shields, the UN Human Rights Council has thus become a terrorist rights council, and it will have repercussions -- it probably already has -- about the use of civilians as human shields. It’s not just our interests. It’s not just our values that are under attack. It’s your interests and your values.

Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a world steeped in tyranny and terror where gays are hanged from cranes in Tehran, political prisoners are executed in Gaza, young girls are abducted en masse in Nigeria, and hundreds of thousands are butchered in Syria, Libya and Iraq, yet nearly half -- nearly half of the UN Human Rights Council’s resolutions focusing on a single country have been directed against Israel, the one true democracy in the Middle East; Israel, where issues are openly debated in a boisterous parliament, where human rights are protected by the -- by independent courts, and where women, gays and minorities live in a genuinely free society.

The human rights -- that’s an oxymoron, the human -- UN Human Rights Council, but I’ll use it just the same. The council’s biased treatment of Israel is only one manifestation of the return of one of the world’s largest prejudices. We hear mobs today in Europe call for the gassing of Jews. We hear some national leaders compare Israel to the Nazis. This is not a function of Israel’s policies. It’s a function of diseased minds. and that disease has a name. It’s called anti-Semitism. It is now spreading in polite society where it masquerades as legitimate criticism of Israel.

For centuries the Jewish people have been demonized with blood libels and charges of deicide. Today the Jewish state is demonized with the apartheid libel and charges of genocide -- genocide. In what moral universe does genocide include warning the enemy civilian population to get out of harm's way, or ensuring that they receive tons -- tons of humanitarian aid each day even as thousands of rockets are being fired at us, or setting up a field hospital to aid their wounded?

Well, I suppose it's the same moral universe where a man who wrote a dissertation of lies about the Holocaust and who insists on a Palestine free of Jews -- Judenrein -- can stand at this podium and shamelessly accuse Israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing. In the past, outrageous lies against the Jews were the precursors to the wholesale slaughter of our people, but no more. Today, we, the Jewish people, have the power to defend ourselves. We will defend ourselves against our enemies on the battlefield -- (applause) -- we will expose their lies against us in the court of public opinion. Israel will continue to stand proud and unbowed. (Applause.)

Ladies and gentlemen, despite the enormous challenges facing Israel, I believe we have a historic opportunity. After decades of seeing Israel as their enemy, leading states in the Arab world increasingly recognize that together, we and they face many of the same dangers, and principally, this means a nuclear-armed Iran and militant Islamist movements gaining ground in the Sunni world. Our challenge is to transform these common interests to create a productive partnership, one that would build a more secure, peaceful and prosperous Middle East. Together, we can strengthen regional security, we can advance projects in water and agricultural, in transportation and health and energy in so many fields.

I believe the partnership between us can also help facilitate peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Now, many have long assumed that an Israeli-Palestinian peace can help facilitate a broader rapprochement between Israel and the Arab world. But these days, I think it may work the other way around, namely that a broader rapprochement between Israel and the Arab world may help facilitate an Israeli-Palestinian peace. And therefore, to achieve that peace, we must look not only to Jerusalem and Ramallah but also to Cairo, to Amman, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and elsewhere.

I believe peace can be realized with the active involvement of Arab countries -- those that are willing to provide political, material and other indispensable support. I'm ready to make a historic compromise, not because Israel occupies a foreign land. The people of Israel are not occupiers in the land of Israel. (Applause.) History, archaeology and common sense all make clear that we have had a singular attachment to this land for over 3,000 years.

I want peace because I want to create a better future for my people, but it must be a genuine peace -- one that is anchored in mutual recognition and enduring security arrangements -- rock solid security arrangements on the ground, because you see, Israeli withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza created two militant Islamic enclaves on our borders for which tens of thousands of rockets have been fired at Israel, and these sobering experiences heightens Israel's security concerns (regarding ?) potential territorial concessions in the future.

Now, those security concerns are even greater today. Just look around you. The Middle East is in chaos, states are disintegrating, and militant Islamists are filling the void. Israel cannot have territories from which it withdraws taken over by Islamic militants yet again, as happened in Gaza and Lebanon. That would place the likes of ISIS within mortar range, a few miles, of 80 percent of our population.

Now think about that. The distance between the 1967 lines and the suburbs of Tel Aviv is like the distance between the UN building here and Times Square. Israel is a tiny country. That’s why in any peace agreement, which will obviously necessitate a territorial compromise, I will always insist that Israel be able to defend itself by itself against any threat. (Applause.)

And yet despite everything that has happened, some still don’t take Israel’s security concerns seriously. But I do and I always will -- (applause) -- because as prime minister of Israel, I’m entrusted with the awesome responsibility of ensuring the future of the Jewish people and the future of the Jewish state. And no matter what pressure is brought to bear, I will never waiver in fulfilling that responsibility. (Applause.)

I believe that with a fresh approach from our neighbors, we can advance peace despite the difficulties we face. See, in Israel, we have a record of making the impossible possible. We’ve made a desolate land flourish, and with very few natural resources, we’ve used the fertile minds of our people to turn Israel into a global center of technology and innovation, and peace, of course, would enable Israel to realize its full potential and to bring a promising future not only for our people, not only for the Palestinian people, but for many, many others in our region.

But the old template for peace must be updated. It must take into account new realities and new roles and responsibilities for our Arab neighbors.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is a new Middle East. It presents new dangers but also new opportunities. Israel is prepared to work with Arab partners and the international community to confront those dangers and to seize those opportunities. Together, we must recognize the global threat of militant Islam, the primacy of dismantling Iran’s nuclear weapons capability and the indispensable role of Arab states in advancing peace with the Palestinians. All this may fly in the face of conventional wisdom, but it’s the truth, and the truth must always be spoken, especially here in the United Nations. (Applause.)

Isaiah, our great prophet of peace, taught us nearly 3,000 years ago in Jerusalem to speak truth to power. (Speaks in Hebrew.) For the sake of Zion, I will not be silent, for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not be still until her justice shines bright and her salvation glows like a flaming torch.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us light a torch of truth and justice to safeguard our common future. Thank you. (Applause.)

Fukushima is not a Japanese nuclear accident ....

Fukushima is not a Japanese nuclear accident - it is a nuclear accident That happened to occur in Japan. The problems that caused the Fukushima accident exist wherever these type reactors operate.

There are many reactors of this type in operation today - probably 45 out of the 104 reactors in the United States.

2:40 PM EST on June 13th, 2014 - Enenews Japan Official: Bottom of reactor vessel Suspected to have "broken off" at Fukushima Unit 2 after the explosion, called "catastrophic development ... very grave" - ​​Top U.S. Expert: It's inconceivable how melted fuel could be extracted 5:25 PM EST on June 12th, 2014 - Enenews Japanese Nuclear Expert: Melted reactor cores not in one piece at Fukushima, as gov't claims - I think nuclear fuel scattered everywhere, stuck to walls - Chernobyl-like sarcophagus may be needed - Nothing has been done, by time They dealwith this I'll be long dead

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PROLOGUE

The white walls and the white linens surrounded her. The bareness of the room was overwhelming, not cozy and comforting. For the moment she was alone. Sara watched the clock click away and wondered if These were the last moments of her life. She wanted some more morphine but was afraid if she Increased the dosage she would not wake up again. She fingered the pump. The pain hit her with an intense wave.

As the relaxing drug flooded her body she floated away. Help, she was too young for this! And she thought back ... Sara thought back to her first baby who had been born after the devastating San Mirado nuclear catastrophe. When her child was delivered They had wrapped it in a towel and given it to her to hold. They thought she did not notice. But she did - she could feel it was too small and too thin. Ben's baby - their son. Delivered in the presence of Dr.. Bernard Parsons.

It had been the nuclear catastrophe thatcould never happen. Her then husband, Ben, had been the supervisor of the local nuclear power plant. He never failed to assure her how safe the nuclear plants were, They had thought of everything in the planning. They were fail-safe. They had thought of everything except the earthquake That had frozen the control rods. The control rods That could not be lowered into the core of the nuclear reactor to slow down the speed of the atom splitting. The control rods whichwere for incidental keep the reactor from overheating. The reaction kept Increasing in speed, releasing more and more heat as more and more atoms split, until a terrible explosion of pent up energy and overheated gases blew the place apart, Causing a meltdown and a tremendous release of radiation.

People panicked and drove in the wrong directions, clogging the streets, trying to flee. They could not believe their precious phones no longer worked, or the bank automated teller would not give them any money. The things They took for Granted disappeared in an instant And they were not prepared.

And now years had passed. She was married to Dr.. Bernard Parsons. And now They had Fukushima. The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe That said everyone could never happen. Just as it had been said the nuclear catastrophe could never happen in San Mirado. They would never learn?

CHAPTER ONE

Dr.. Bernard Parsons sat at his desk in his suite of medical offices adjacent to the hospital. His white lab jack hung open over his open collared dress shirt and neatly pressed pants. He was a handsome man, but the past years involve wing the San Mirado nuclear disaster had aged him somewhat. He had alreadycreated donated his morning rounds for his patient. He had visited with Sara, his wife, in her private hospital suite, and made sure she was as comfortable as possible. Once again he had been reassuring to her. He was hoping for a miracle. The phone ranked Several times before Bernard could reach it. It was his directline Which bypassed his secretary and receptionist. "Hello, Bernard Parsons here," he spoke into the telephone.

" Bernard, how are you? Just calling to see what's happening? "Sam Baxter said. Sam, of Baxter Investments, was a successful businessman in the real estate and investment experience market. He was the 'go to' person for getting ahead with your money. He had five sons from his first wife, who were in business with him. His second wife, Elise, had no children. But it was Because he was insistent about her not having a child. And secretly, just to make sure he had his way, he had, as insurance, had a vasectomy. That served two functions. One, he could cheat without the fear of getting stuck with one more kid, blackmail, and / or a divorce. And two, Elise - who was incapable of taking care of anything - was prevented from having the child she constantly Talked about wanting. She worried obsessively about who was going to take care of her When She was older.

" You'll have over $ 50,000 cash in your investment account, "Sam said." One of your bonds was called at par and you have not been spending as much Lately, so You should put this to work. We have a good bond, in-house from a trust. The kids who are now in control want to cash everything out now since the father has died. They will sell it below market. The smell of money is driving them to get this done quickly. You can buy it for eighty cents on the dollar - 50,000 in the block. "

" So who's behind the farmers? What's it rated "asked Bernard.

" Oh, you know I'm going to go through all the particulars with you. Just wanted to let you stop me dead in the water if you had other plans for the cash, "Sam responded. "It's a bond for the Moorpark, Ca. school systems, rated AA, and insured by Ambac. Moorpark's a very upscale city, very healthy financially. Yield is 5% tax free. "

" As long as it's not Sacramento, "Bernard said." Go ahead. "Then he paused slightly, not knowing Whether he wanted to broach the subject or not. "How are the kids?"

With a sigh, Sam Answered, "Doing well. I'll have to monitor Their transactions and since there are five of them it takes a lot of my time. They've brought in a lot of business, got to give them that. But they just do not believe That things can go wrong. And they resent my looking over Their Shoulder. "

" We will have to have dinner one of These evenings When things settle down at my house, "Bernard said.

" How is Sarah doing? "Sam asked.

" Realistically, not so well. But I'm always hopeful for a remission or a miracle. Listen, gotta run, my nurse has buzzed me Several times ... patient are waiting. Thanks for calling, Sam. "Bernard hung up the phone and pressed his nurse's intercom button.

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Fuji woke up hungry. The drab concrete block walls around him had no decoration and stared back at him silently. He blinked to clear out the sleep from his eyes. Other people were starting to move around, up fromtheir cots. Soon the noise level would move to high decibel Such people would gladly go outside to get away from it. But it was cold outside and almost as cold inside.

The government had been giving them rations since They had been evacuated from Fukushima, but They were hardly edible. First the Authorities had said it was no problem for them to stay in the area. Then after two weeks They were told the area was very radioactive and therewere mandatory orders to evacuate. He wondered how much radiation They had been exposed to.

Fuji thought about what he would do today. They needed a place to live. They had a home near Fukushima, Japan, but now They were no longer allowed to go there. They overpriced needed clothes. Now he had no job. His wife and two children were Alternately scared, hungry, bored, angry, and confused. They were sleeping on cots with hundreds of other families in a big warehouse. There were two bathrooms inside, outside were portable toilets, and one makeshift outside shower with only cold water.

" Fuji ..., "his wife said," are you awake? I'm going to get the children up and go stand in the food line. "

" Got it. I'm going to see if it is possible to shower. "

" Have you heard anything? About what's happening? "Shisa asked.

" I'll try and find out, "he replied. Slowly rising, he got off his cot in his rumpled, soiled clothes and Began making his way to a door leading to the outside. A government agency would be there later he had overheard. Possibly They would have some clothing to give out. It Meant standing in line again for hours to take your turn. Some people had money or had relatives They could stay with. Fuji and his family were poor. They had no nearby relatives. They had no money. And now They had no possessions.

He stopped to pee on the way by competetive hugging the wall and hoping no one would notice. At the show there were only a few but as most people were in the food line. He took his place in line, hoping They would not run out of soap in the dispenser, or the paper towels, before his turn came. He hoped the sun would warm the cold air. Maybe he could get an extra shirt since there were no coats.

" Did you hear anything? "he asked the man in front of him.

" No one seems to know anything except we can not go back now. The earthquake and tidal wave wiped out most of the area, the radiation from nuclear plants contaminated the rest. "

" But we can go back? "Fuji said hopefully.

" Who knows? There's not a lot left there. Where did you work? "

" I worked at the power plant, "Fuji said.

" The nuclear plant? The One That blew up? "

" Yes, the Fukushima nuclear plant. "

The other man shook his head and left Fuji standing there as he walked quickly away.

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Bernard was sitting in his offices after the last patient had left and the employees had gone. There was not much of a push to get home since Sarah was in the hospital located beside his medical offices. He would get dinner from the hospital cafeteria and take it up to eat with her. It could not be any worse than what she was being served. Hospitals were famous For their bad food.

Bernard sat and looked over the latest offering from Sam's company. His kids were pushing second loans on houses secured by real estate. Supposedly it could never go wrong with real estate is constantly pushing upward in price. He thought back to the last catastrophe, When The nuclear plant in San Mirado, California, had blown up. Real estate values ​​went to nothing in the area after all the radiation contamination. Did not make any difference Whether you held the first loan or the second - you were out of luck. The lenders lost theirmoney, the homeowners lost Their houses. Insurance did not cover radiation disasters.

But, as the kids pointed out, These were not in Southern California, but in the suburbs outside San Francisco. He and Sara had moved there after getting married to start a new life together. And the government obviously believed nuclear was clean, safe energy or They wouldhave closed the plants down. Just because there had been an accident in Fukushima did not Affect the values ​​here.

Bernard pondered Whether he believed all this. He and Sara had been in the middle of the last disaster.

Bernard thought about the fact the United States was Organisations recognized as a world leader, a world power, perhaps the strongest of all the nations with the most modern technologies. Yet, as a doctor he contemplated why the United States did not lead the world in having the lowest mortality rate Among infants. And it was not even a close race. With Approximately 188 countries reporting, the U.S. was only number 34. And a lot of the countries ahead of the U.S. had no nuclear power.

In fact it had been theorized That the health of the United States population had been compromised by all the aboveground nuclear testing starting in the 1940's, then the underground tests Which Followed, and the massive leaks of radioactive material. Australia, with no nuclear industry, was ranked 18 in the report.

Interestingly, the Japanese, who had been subjected to two massive nuclear bombs and had 55 operating nuclear plants in a small country, was number 3 in lowest mortality rating. It would be revealing to see what happened to Their rating over the next ten to twenty years after Their massive Fukushima nuclear accident. But the documentation Showed the United States, in those years of testing nuclear bombs in the atmosphere and oceans, had DETONATED over one hundred million times the bombs Which had been dropped on Japan. The U.S. was first in the production of radioactive pollution.

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Bernard opened the hospital room door softly, to see if Sara was awake. He hoped she was, but if she were sleeping he would return later. Her eyes were closed. Even with no makeup she was still beautiful, her features perfect. She had naturally blond hair and big dark eyes. The lashes were Heavily fringed and surrounded those eyes, giving her a dramatic look. Slowly They opened and a smile came to her face. She lifted her arms to him, to touch him. He bent over and kissed her cheek.

" I have good news, Sara, "he said quietly.

" And what is that? "she asked still smiling.

" Well, you'll have improved in how you are feeling, so we must Assume the chemo and radiation have done some good. The tumor doing now? Grown. You could very well be in remission at the moment. But the tumor is inoperable and is still there in your brain. There is a new experimental procedure available. A doctor with your same tumor tried it. He figured it was his only chance to survive. His tumor Began to shrink. Duke University has begun a larger study with good results for These glioblastomas.

" Is it painful? "she asked.

" No, not really. It stay connected an injection into the tumor, but it's done with anesthesia. You would have some soreness in the scalp area after, but that's about it. "

" What is being injected? "

" poliovirus. They have shown in mice the injection of the live virus into tumors shrinks them. First we would get your polio vaccination updated so you did not get polio. Then we would do an injection of the live virus into the tumor in your brain. Hopefully it will work for you as well as it has for this doctor. "

" What kind of doctor is he? "

" Interestingly enough he is a cardiac surgeon. When he got this brain tumor and was Diagnosed with only six months to live he started doing research. This guy was not a smoker; he only dregs minimally and kept his health an important part of his life. So why did he get this tumor? He found a medical paper published wherein twenty-two doctors had all gotten this same type tumor in the same side of the head and the same placement. They were all doctors who had radiological studies going on while They were doing surgery. "

" That's rather scary, Bernard, you being a surgeon. "

" Does make you think. But anyway, he then found the study with the polio virus injection and DECIDED to make a try. For him, it seems to be working. "

" Well, can I have a little break from the hospital before we try something else? "

" Why not. I'll ask your doctor to make a final determination and sign you out. I will discuss this with him and perhaps you can even leave today. "

Sara's eyes lit up and then tears formed in them. She squeezed Bernard's hand tightly. "I can not wait to get out of here."

****

Sara stared out at the view from the back deck of theirhome. They lived high in the hills north of San Francisco. She had missed looking out at the bay, the boats coming and going, the sunrises and sunsets. Bernard was close enough to his hospital so commuting was not a problem. And there was no nuclear plant close to them. That had been a factor in theirchoice of where to live.

She overpriced missed the activities she had shared with her friends. When she Became ill, first with the headaches, then nausea, vomiting finally, Bernard had insisted she have a MRI. It had shown the tumor, an aggressive malignant type, located in her brain in an inoperable location. It was hard to talk with her friends about this.

They had called and she had simply chosen not to discuss it. "Let's not dwell on this," she said. If Bernard wanted to tell them he could. But Their questions were depressing, and certainly she had no answer to the one Which was repeated over and over - what are you going to do? Even though the doctors said radiation and chemotherapy had little effect on These tumors she and Bernard DECIDED They would start With That route. Since his offices were at the hospital, it was Easier to check in for a stay there while she received treatment. They had no children and had DECIDED They did not want to take a chance on Bringing a damaged child into the world after Their radiation exposure from the San Mirado nuclear catastrophe Which had occurred while They were living in Southern California. She thought about All Those young Japanese women now Heavily exposed to the radiation released When The Fukushima nuclear reactors melted down in 2011 ... and sighed Heavily, thinking back on her own experiences.

But if she were going to continue her life, she had to rise above These thoughts and move on to what she enjoyed. She picked up her tablet and Began to type an email to her friends. "I'm out of jail! I'm coming down to visit next week. Call me if you can go out to play. Sara "

This is the end of the first chapter. Thereafter:

The United Nations decrees That an independent team will be late to Japan to evaluate this situation That threatens to contaminate the world. Bryce Anderson's company in southern California is selected .. He finds That he is not welcomed with open arms by the country of Japan. In fact someone seems to be trying to kill him.

Bryce hires a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, John Taguchi to gather stories from nuclear refugees. Fuji, a forms nuclear power plant worker, and Mr.. Nouchi, a farmer and their Families are displaced fromtheir homes and work by this accident. The Japanese Mafia, known as the Yakuza, have money Invested In These now ruined nuclear plants. They are making threats and demands. Mr. Tanaka, Japanese Minister of Public Affairs is pulled in many directions as he tries to satisfy everyone. Their lives all intertwine in this tale of betrayal. Lies, murder, greed, and power. Whom would you trust?  

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GUNS, DEATH, AND ANSWERS – a response to The Connecticut Elementary School Shooting

The tragedy of death to innocent children, and adults who were their caregivers, is overwhelming. So what is to be done to prevent this irrational taking of life that seems to be occurring again and again?

Gun proponents seemed to be lacking on national television to defend their views. The other elected officials who were interviewed said something has to be done. I agree. And I am a licensed, concealed carry, gun advocate.

Prohibition of alcohol (and drugs) has not worked in the United States. Prohibition was tried in the Al Capone days and was a miserable failure. Illegal speakeasies and bootleggers were everywhere. Alcohol was eventually made legal again. Marijuana is slowly working its way into our culture, state by state. Just as these previous controls failed, I am predicting that gun legislation will not be able to effectively ban guns. Illinois is the only state where it is illegal for individuals to carry concealed weapons for protection in public, and the federal court of appeals struck down that ban this week. The state must appeal to the US Supreme Court or put a new law in place within 180 days. Even if it were passed – people are afraid.

What are they afraid of? Other people. In one affluent neighborhood there have been 11 home invasion robberies in the last 2 months. Men dressed in ski masks with guns are simply breaking into the homes and demanding cash and jewelry. Because they CAN. They are in and out very quickly. They have neighborhood watch, local meetings, email alerts......and the break in gangs are still prevailing. But there are jails for those people when they are caught. In the meantime people want the protection of having a gun. But the shooters who select large groups to kill, rather than a home to rob, seem to be a growing problem.

So what do we address if we cannot get rid of the guns?

Answer: what makes guns safer to the public. Cars kill and maim. We don't get rid of cars. We make them safer and make stricter rules for the drivers.

FEDERAL legislation should cover:

Guns cannot be purchased over the internet or at gun shows without background checks. (They can be now.) All gun stores would also be included in this. Said background checks would be expanded to a federal database that includes medical records of mental illness.

Guns should be required to be locked up with formidable combination locks that others, especially those under 21 and/or mentally challenged, do not have access to. Guns come in parts. Guns should be stored disassembled to some degree and the parts kept separately when non-permit holders are living on or visiting the premises.. Permits for guns should include training, testing, and an assessment of family medical and social history.

People in charge of gathering students or people in groups should be instructed as to defensive measures and use of guns, and required to pass tests in these areas. They should be provided with an appropriate defensive weapon after proper instruction and testing. The Connecticut school principal of the elementary school was shot to death as she, unarmed, charged the gunman who was armed. If she had a weapon, and knew how to use it, it might have ended then and there. Airplane pilots are now armed in the cockpit. Arizona allows concealed weapon carry. When the Gabby Gifford shooting incident occurred in Arizona, one of the bystanders had a gun but did not use it because of the number of people that he might have hit. But he was gun educated and when the shooter ran out of ammo and stopped to load again, he jumped him.

Schools and other large gathering areas need to be able to effectively sweep and scan large areas for large metal objects or even for ammunition. We have the technology for computers, smart phones, travel to outer planets, complex video games – silent alarm scanners that protect our entrances and exits to movie theaters, malls, commercial buildings, and other public places is lagging because no one has presented an interest in purchasing such on a large scale. So they have not been developed. But with the number of mentally ill people who are using killing to express their unhappiness in the world, the time has come for change and prevention. We need immediate notification to police and the people controlling an area when a gun/and or ammunition has entered an area. Police and security can be provided with a chip that bypasses the alarm with a universal code. This should be a challenge presented to our programmers of today with a large reward for the technology selected.

More people have mental illness in the United States than have cancer or heart disease. Our systems for treating mental illness and containing it have broken down. One psychological expert featured on television said you can never predict who is going to be violent. I wonder about that statement. The shooter of these children and teachers was written up by the Los Angeles Times as a troubled, but bright, youngster who was removed from the school system by his Mother and home schooled. He, at 20 and still living with her, shot her and used her guns to commit these horrendous crimes. Could this not have been foreseen in some way? Do these shooters share some particular profile that is not yet recognized? It seems that medical records have become so private that we are prohibited for getting answers that are needed.

All children are tested for IQ, abilities, etc. Tests for violent propensity should be developed, administered and noted in private medical records but reported to a federal database that is used for gun permits. Those people should not be allowed guns. Medical people treating mental illness must be mandated to inform of danger (they are now, but not to the degree that prevents mentally ill persons from buying weapons). Awareness in parents should be raised from the testing of the children. Those that are withdrawn from society by homeschooling, should be required to pass a socialization test to obtain a gun.

Is this a terrible deprivation of rights and invasion of our privacy? Or is this protecting our society? Again, if you can't get rid of the guns, then keep the mentally ill people and criminals from obtaining guns. Have federal programs for gun education, use, safety, and permitting. Have federal grants for development of new technology for better protecting our public gathering areas from guns by silent alarm scanners. Have federal legislation on gun purchase, private home storage, public detection, background checks and data banks, that are stricter. It's time to stop this senseless slaughter.