The Repentance of the Vatican Needed

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The Repentance of the Vatican

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The Repentance of the Vatican Needed

Speaking in front of 200 Russian Orthodox bishops, gathered from around the world, at the Episcopal Council in Moscow on Wednesday 2 February, His Holiness Patriarch Kyrill spoke of the problems caused by Roman Catholic aggression in the Ukraine. Here, he said, ‘as a result of the violent actions of Greek Catholics in the late 80s and early 90s Orthodox believers had been deprived of their churches and their rights are still trampled on to this day. This problem has not been resolved and requires practical and concrete steps by the Catholic side’.

However, on the very next day, Thursday 3 February, it was revealed in a recently-published book, The Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times, that Pope Benedict XVI hopes to meets Patriarch Kyrill. Nevertheless, he recognised that he may not live long enough to see this and that ‘many in Russia fear the Catholic Church, so, there must be patience, we must not do anything hastily’. Pope Benedict also believes that a rapprochement between Orthodox and Catholics is of great importance for ‘the future of world history’.

There is an interesting note of realism here, which refers indirectly to what Patriarch Kyrill said the day before – many in Russia do ‘fear the Catholic Church’. Already in the thirteenth century Russia was invaded by papally-sponsored crusaders, the Teutonic Knights, who came pillaging and raping. This effectively was a stab in the back, for Russia had been invaded at the same time from the east by the Mongols and Tartars. Indeed, their yoke proved to be much lighter than that of the Catholics. The papacy has still not apologised for this, which at least it recently did for the sack of the Christian Capital of Constantinople and the barbarian massacres perpetrated there by Catholic invaders in 1204.

Then Russia was invaded four times between 1812 and 1941 by Catholics, in 1854 by a Catholic-Protestant-Muslim alliance, preached by the French Catholic authorities as a crusade against the Church of God. After 1917 Catholic interventionists attacked the Orthodox Church in the Ukraine, forming an anti-Orthodox Uniat pact with the atheist and satanic Bolsheviks. The same Uniats provided recruits for the Waffen SS in the Second World War. In the 1940s, and again as recently as the 1990s, the Vatican also encouraged massacres of Orthodox in Serbia, with over 700,000 dead.

Many of the worst Catholic war criminals in the 1940s were Franciscan monks, who from 1945 on were protected by the Vatican through their ‘ratlines’, so that they could evade hanging with other war criminals. Their leader, Archbishop Stepinac, was actually recently canonised by the Vatican, joining other serial murderers among its ‘saints’, like ‘St’ Josaphat and ‘St’ Andrew Bobola, the robber of souls, canonised in 1938. Then, as mentioned above by the Patriarch, there is what the Catholic Church did in the west of the Ukraine less than twenty years ago.

‘Fear the Catholic Church’ – yes, of course, the facts of history mean that, like all Orthodox, Russian Orthodox do fear it. However, more correctly, we should say ‘fear the Vatican’, for relations with ordinary Catholics are good and indeed Orthodox find many Catholics very close to them in spirit, only lapsed in certain respects. Average Catholics generally have no idea of the atrocious crimes committed down the centuries in their name but behind their backs by their institutionalised Church. On discovering them, they find them horrific and obscene.

Let us suppose then that the Vatican, humbled by its present situation in the atheist European Union, which it helped to give birth to and form, can give up proselytism and arrogance, show humility and repent of its crimes committed in both the distant and recent past. Having done this, what next would it have to do in order to gain the confidence of the Orthodox Church, Her people and civilisation, and prove that it is actually Christian and will never repeat such obscenities? What deeds, and not mere words, are necessary?

We would state three areas of action:

1. Renounce the papal claims and papal infallibility, admitting in humility that these pretensions are anti-Scriptural and anti-Ecclesial. This would mean returning theologically to the situation of the popes in the first millennium, when they were bishops like all others.

2. Renounce the filioque heresy, reinstating the Christian Creed and accepting the authority of Universal Church Councils as superior to that of any bishop, including the bishop of Rome. This would mean returning to the theology of the Apostles and the Church Fathers, turning away from the scholasticism and rationalism of the second millennium, ceasing the veneration of scholastic and rationalist so-called ‘saints’, and renouncing such medieval and post-medieval inventions as communion of unleavened bread and under one kind, several masses per day on the same altar or by the same priest, instrumental music in church, purgatory, indulgences and the immaculate conception.

3. Renounce medieval and post-medieval innovations such as, on the one hand, obligatory clerical celibacy and its pedophilia, and, on the other hand, the anti-ascetic, worldly and secular ethos of its services, reinstating confession and fasting.

Today, 4 February 2011, 144 Catholic theologians have signed a petition calling for reform of the Catholic Church. Above, we have just done the same. Only when the radical overhaul and indeed, complete abolition, of the Vatican machine has taken place can there be any meaningful meeting between Pope and Patriarch. We Orthodox also believe that a rapprochement of the Vatican through repentance for its millennial errors and its acceptance of Orthodoxy is of great importance for ‘the future of world history’. However, for this, fine words are not enough, deeds are required. Read more at frmilovan.wordpress.com

 

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Lawyer states case for abuse victims

Lawyer states case for clergy sex abuse victims

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Lawyer states case for clergy sex abuse victims

Gary Porter

Jeff Anderson isn’t shy about publicizing his abuse cases.

Anderson calls his effort public, moral imperatives

e-mail print By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel

St. Paul, Minn — . - Jeff Anderson has heard it all.

He's been called a scourge. A parasite. A media-monger hellbent on bringing down the Catholic Church.

But the Minnesota lawyer who's made a career of suing the most powerful religious institution in the world over its handling of clergy sex abuse cases pays no mind.

"I don't care what people think, and I don't try to control it," said Anderson, the lead attorney in civil fraud cases pending against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee who is now representing those victims in the archdiocese's bankruptcy.

"I'm answering what I believe to be a public imperative - a moral imperative - to make what we have come to know public," he said.

"I make no apologies for this, and I never will. I'm not doing this to promote me. I'm doing this to protect the kids."

Anderson is, by all accounts, the nation's most prolific and successful litigator in sex-abuse cases against the church.

He is responsible for the release of thousands of pages of church documents illuminating the scope of the crisis. And he's pushed in recent years to implicate not just bishops but the Vatican and the pope himself in what Anderson alleges - and the church steadfastly denies - is a global conspiracy to cover up decades of sexual abuse of children.

Though he's yet to win a case in Wisconsin, where the Milwaukee bankruptcy filing has stalled pending lawsuits against it, Anderson and his team of lawyers have scored significant victories elsewhere.

In separate rulings over the last year, federal courts have paved the way for Anderson to sue the Vatican in Oregon, and to use a 200-year-old human-rights law to bring a Mexican abuse case into the U.S. courts - both first-of-their-kind cases.

"He has certainly been the driving force in this large movement," said Jason Berry, a New Orleans writer and practicing Catholic who has documented the crisis since the 1980s and profiles Anderson in his upcoming book, "Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church."

"He's a warrior," Berry said of Anderson. "He fights aggressively for his clients and has a very deep passion for people who have been abused."

Critics offer a different view. Bill Donohue of the New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights accuses Anderson of waging a vendetta against the church, at the exclusion of other offenders.

Critics also suggest he's in it for the money, or harboring some anti-Christian bias. And they argue that his continued focus on litigation is undermining the good works of the church.

"You have to ask how much litigation is too much, when it diverts so many resources from programs and makes everybody adversaries," said Mark Chopko, a Washington, D.C., attorney and former chief counsel to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Anderson's story

Anderson, 63, is an unlikely millionaire whose own story of failure and redemption - and of abuse in his own family - informs his life and work.

A recovering alcoholic and college dropout who once flunked out of law school (he disliked its "arcane" rules about attendance), Anderson honed his outrage in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s.

He spent his early career in the Ramsey County public defender's office and built a private practice representing clients at the margins, including many in the African-American community and homosexuals arrested in raids on bathhouses in St. Paul in the 1970s.

His first case against the Catholic Church involved Father Thomas Adamson, a Minnesota priest who was accused of molesting several boys in the 1970s and '80s.

In 1983, almost two decades before the sex abuse crisis would erupt in Boston, John and Janet Riedle walked into Anderson's St. Paul office seeking his advice. The couple had just learned that their adult son, Greg, had been sexually assaulted years earlier by Adamson, who was still in their parish.

Distraught, they said they reported it to then-Bishop Robert Carlson, now archbishop of St. Louis, who told them there wasn't much he could do about it. And days later, they said, they received a $1,600 check in the mail.

"They had the check in their hands and they were crying, saying, 'Mr. Anderson, what should we do?' "

Anderson took their son's case and spent the next few years interviewing witnesses and deposing bishops in two dioceses. When church lawyers offered to settle for $1 million, he said, he was shocked that they would ask for his client's silence with "the usual confidentiality agreement."

"I said, 'Usual? What do you mean usual?' " Anderson said, his voice rising with indignation. "Then I said, 'Wait a minute. You've done this before? How many times?' "

Anderson said he took the offer to Greg Riedle, hoping he'd reject it.

"I started crying, saying Greg, they've done this before and they're going to do it again, and I can't be part of it," said Anderson, who's been known to weep when telling the story, including on this occasion.

He says Riedle told him: "Do what you have to do. But do it quick before I change my mind."

Anderson filed the lawsuit, walked back to his office and called local news outlets, kicking off what would become a media frenzy.

"All of a sudden, more victims of Adamson and other priests started to come forward. It was a tipping point," Anderson said.

"When I went public with it and saw the magnitude of the problem, I realized that this is what I needed to do. It lit me up, and it still does."

Anderson would later come to understand the Riedles' anguish in a more personal way. Fifteen years later, he said, he learned his adult daughter had been molested by a former priest-turned-psychologist she'd seen during her parents' divorce when she was 8.

"Learning about (his daughter) brought me to another layer of understanding of the magnitude of this kind of betrayal," Anderson said. "I've always had a deep connection to the pain of the survivors. . . .  But this brought me even closer in a way that makes me part of who I am."

Questioned beliefs

The Riedle case would shake Anderson's own spiritual foundation.

Raised Lutheran, Anderson had married a Catholic and brought his first three children up in the faith.

He was never truly devout in either. But, as he uncovered the crimes and deceptions in the Adamson case, he began to seriously question his beliefs in organized religion of any kind.

"I went through a crisis of faith . . .  and a period of time in where I would have described myself as an atheist. Looking back, I think I confused faith and religions," he said.

Today, Anderson belongs to Trinity Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minn., where his second wife and three youngest children are active. He supports it financially, especially its missionary work, but attends only for sacraments or special occasions.

Anderson espouses a deep spirituality, born of his recovery from alcoholism, that draws from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and other traditions.

"I'm a deist, I believe in a higher power, in God, and it's a very important part of my life," he said.

Anderson's own hardships and journey are part of what draws many victims to him, said Jeffrey Lena, a California attorney who represents the Vatican.

"He has a sort of missionary zeal," he said.

"And on some level he's managed to intertwine a salvation story about his own life with the salvation narratives of survivors of abuse."

Thousands of clients

Since the Riedles' case, Anderson has represented what he says has been thousands of victims across the country, including creditors in several church bankruptcies. He has never, he says, agreed to a confidentiality clause.

Anderson heads an 18-member firm in an ornately appointed historic building in downtown St. Paul, and has opened offices in Milwaukee, Los Angeles and London, where new cases are just beginning to be filed.

Wiry and fit, he's known for his long days and 4 a.m. e-mails, and he's frequently on the road for court appearances or news conferences.

A measure of his prominence, and political contributions, can be found in an out-of-the-way corridor of his two-story offices. There, framed photographs of Anderson and his family with presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama share space with legal accolades and a note from then-California Gov. Gray Davis thanking Anderson for his work in helping pass legislation that made it easier for sex abuse victims to bring their cases in court.

Among Anderson's most high-profile clients is Raul Gonzalez, the son of the late Marciel Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, who alleges his father sexually abused him, abetted by his order. But he's also known for taking cases other lawyers won't, because they're too expensive to pursue or unlikely to succeed.

"He has spent a great deal of money representing clients whose cases never got into the system," said Berry, who estimates more than a third of Anderson's cases have been lost to lapsed statutes of limitations.

Anderson won't discuss compensation, except to say that contingencies range from 25% to 40% of judgments. He claims not to know how many cases he has pending or how much he's earned for victims over the years, though it's been estimated by some as high as $60 million.

His single largest verdict was $30 million, in the 1998 case of Father Oliver O'Grady, the California priest whose crimes were detailed in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated documentary "Deliver us From Evil." The judgment was later reduced to about $7 million.

Sex abuse victims are notoriously mercurial and difficult to work with, and Anderson's longevity speaks to his commitment, said David Clohessy, executive director of the Chicago-based advocacy group Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests, which works closely with Anderson.

"If it was about the money, he could have retired 20 years ago," Clohessy said. "Jeff genuinely cares about children, about injustice and about exposing corruption."

'Sees the big picture'

Lawyers who work with him, on both sides of the bar, describe Anderson as tenacious; a visionary; an adroit legal mind who, while bombastic in news conferences, is deferential in court.

"The genius of Jeff is that he sees the big picture, he sees what needs to be done and brings the team together to get it done," said Marci Hamilton, a First Amendment scholar at Cardozo Law School in New York, who's worked with Anderson in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

His persistence has been evident in Wisconsin, where the courts first blocked church cases in 1995 on First Amendment grounds, then opened the door in 2007 for victims who could show they were defrauded.

"He just kept coming, to the side door, the back door, then down the chimney until finally he was able to get a lot of those cases into the courts that might otherwise not have been brought," said Berry.

Some adversaries question his tactics: the frequent press releases and news conferences, the labeling of priests as "pedophiles" before investigations are completed.

"He's never met a mic he didn't like," said Lena, who stressed he was talking only about Vatican cases.

"Jeff has done important work to bring this problem to the attention of the public, but he at times takes exaggerated and outrageous positions," he said.

Critics have long questioned Anderson's financial relationship with SNAP, which collaborates with Anderson - and other attorneys, it points out - on the release of documents and media events. Neither Anderson nor SNAP would say how much he gives.

Anderson rejects the criticism, saying he donates to many child-protection groups and charities, and considers SNAP "one of the most outspoken and powerful voices for survivors."

He denies any anti-Catholic sentiment - he's pursued cases against many denominations, he says. But litigation, Anderson insists, has been the only way to get the church to divulge its secrets and begin to reform itself.

"All I want them to do is clean it up. This isn't about their theology. It isn't about any agenda that was ever anti-Catholic," he said. "It's all about their failures to protect the kids, and their decisions to protect themselves at the great peril of the kids."

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Chile: Priest Sex Abuse Case Re-Opened

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Chile: Priest Sex Abuse Case Re-Opened

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO

An appeals court voted unanimously on Monday to reopen a criminal case into charges of the sexual abuse of minors by the Rev. Fernando Karadima, a Roman Catholic priest. A Vatican investigation found Father Karadima guilty last month of abusing minors and ordered him to retire to a “life of prayer and penitence.” A judge in Santiago closed a criminal case late last year, ruling there was not enough evidence to charge him. The appeals court ruled that the case should be reopened because the “events, time and circumstances of the punishable acts had not been sufficiently investigated.” Read more at www.nytimes.com

 

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Violence in God's Name of Antichrist

Pope: Violence in God's Name Is Instrument of the Antichrist

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Pope: Violence in God's Name Is Instrument of the Antichrist

By Edward Pentin

In his new book on Jesus, Pope Benedict XVI has spoken forcefully against religiously motivated violence, saying it is a “favorite instrument of the Antichrist” that serves “not humanity, but inhumanity.” “The cruel consequences of religiously motivated violence,” he writes in the second volume of his book on Jesus of Nazareth, “are only too evident to us all.” Rather than building up the kingdom of God, he says “it is a favorite instrument of the Antichrist, however idealistic its religious motivation may be. It serves, not humanity, but inhumanity.” Benedict XVI's words follow those he said at a Vatican synod last fall, in which he condemned those fighting in the name of God as serving a false god which must ultimately fall. The Pope's new book is entitled “Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week — From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the Resurrection,” an analysis of Jesus' last days. It was published worldwide in seven languages on March 10. A scholarly account of the momentous events leading up to Easter, the Pope has wanted to convey in this book “the real Jesus” who, he insists, was not a political revolutionary, nor a mere moralist, but the son of God who changed history and saved mankind based on the power of love. The Pope stresses Jesus was not a zealot, or a fanatic. “Violent revolution, killing others in God’s name, was not his way,” he writes. “His 'zeal' for the kingdom of God took quite a different form.” The nine-chapter book charts Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem, when his followers proclaimed him as the Messiah. It takes the reader through Jesus' cleansing of the temple, an action that attracted enemies among the temple authorities, and it concludes with the Last Supper, Jesus' trial, crucifixion, and resurrection. As well as explaining how Jesus was not a political agitator, the book shows how Jesus used the nonviolent power of love rather than the usual channels of power in fulfilling his mission. And the Pope draws on a broad base of research to argue that Jesus truly lived on the earth, and the resurrection really took place. Some media reports have focused on one excerpted passage in the book in which Benedict says no basis in Scripture for the accusation that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for Jesus’ death. This is not an innovation of Catholic Church teaching; it has existed since 1965 and has long been taken for granted by most Catholics. But it is the first time that a pontiff has made such a categorical statement. “Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week” has already been warmly praised by many Church leaders and scholars. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, a senior Vatican official who presided over the book's Vatican launch, said the Pope's new work could herald a new theological era for the Church, and that through the book, the Pope is helping others to better come to know Jesus. The cardinal said he was impressed that the Pope had found the time to write it when the Church was going through some "painful experiences" — an oblique reference to the clerical sex abuse cases of recent years. Referring to the Gospel passage in which Peter reaches out to Jesus to save him from drowning, the cardinal said: “It is as if, in the middle of the waves that shake the boat of the Church, Peter has once again grabbed the hand of the Lord who comes to meet us on the water, to save us.” The Pope, he added, “holds the hand of Jesus on the stormy waves, and takes us along with the other hand.” The Canadian cardinal also said he saw the book as a “great call” for dialogue, not only between Christians but members of other religions, too. Professor Scott Hahn, who teaches theology and scripture at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, praised the work for its depth and clarity. He said that although scholarly, it is not a difficult read as long as it is read slowly and patiently. Its “breakthrough,” he tells Newsmax, is that it will better equip Catholics to explain the true meaning of the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Mark Brumley, CEO of Ignatius Press, the book's American publishers, said he felt this volume would be easier to read as it covers the compelling events of Jesus' last week on the earth. He recommended it as a “good Lenten read.” This 384-page book is part of a series the Pope has wanted to write since the 1950s. He started writing it in 2003, before he was elected Pope, and hoped to finish it in retirement. He says he has spent almost all his free time writing its contents — all put down on paper by longhand and without a computer. Last summer the Vatican revealed Benedict had already started the third volume, which will focus on Jesus' infancy. Read more at www.newsmax.com

 

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Bishop blesses Pilsner beer for Vatican

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Czech bishop blesses Pilsner beer for Vatican

Plzen, West Bohemia, March 11 (CTK) - Plzen Bishop Frantisek Radkovsky blessed the Czech Pilsner Urquell beer specially brewed Friday for Easter holidays in the Vatican.

The beer will be offered in the Giovanni Paolo II church restaurant in Rome, Vladimir Jurina from the Pilsner brewery said.

Radkovsky said he hoped his blessing would help the beer be as successful as the blessing of the first Pilsner Urquell beer brewed in 1842.

The first blessed beer was served on November 11, 1842.

Jurina said the pope received the Pilsner beer as a gift last December when representatives of the Plzen town hall presented Plzen as the 2015 European Capital of Culture in the Vatican.

The beer will be sent to the restaurant operated by the Vatican on April 20. It is not yet known how much beer will be sent. This will be discussed with Pavel Vosalik, Czech ambassador to the Vatican, shortly before Easter.

This special Easter beer will be symbolically maturing for nearly the whole 40-day Christian fasting period, beginning with Ash Wednesday.

"We would like to hand the beer also directly to Vatican church dignitaries as our Easter present," brewer Vaclav Berka said.

Samples of the blessed Easter beer will be kept in the Brewery Museum in Plzen.

The blessing of beer is relatively rare. There is a traditional form of the blessing because old monasteries had their own breweries.

The purpose of the blessing is not the beer itself but the person whom the beer should benefit.

Radkovsky said pope John Paul II heard of Plzen thanks to its good beer. He recalled that Pope Benedict XVI comes from Bavaria, which is well known for beer production. Read more at praguemonitor.com

 

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Japan abandons nuke plant over radiation

Japan abandons stricken nuke plant over radiation

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Japan abandons stricken nuke plant over radiation

By ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA Associated Press

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FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Japan suspended operations to prevent a stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain at the facility.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said work on dousing reactors with water was disrupted by the need to withdraw.

Earlier officials said 70 percent of fuel rods at one of the six reactors at the plant were significantly damaged in the aftermath of Friday's calamitous earthquake and tsunami.

News reports said 33 percent of fuel rods were also damaged at another reactor. Officials said they would use helicopters and fire trucks to spray water in a desperate effort to prevent further radiation leaks and to cool down the reactors.

The nuclear crisis has triggered international alarm and partly overshadowed the human tragedy caused by Friday's double disaster, which pulverized Japan's northeastern coastline, killing an estimated 10,000 people.

Authorities have tried frantically since last Friday's earthquake and tsunami to avert an environmental catastrophe at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex in northeastern Japan, 170 miles (270 kilometers) north Tokyo.

The government has ordered some 140,000 people in the vicinity to stay indoors. A little radiation was also detected in Tokyo, 150 miles (240 kilometers) to the south and triggered panic buying of food and water.

There are six reactors at the plant, and three that were operating at the time have been rocked by explosions. The one still on fire was offline at the time of the magnitude 9.0 quake, Japan's most powerful on record.

The Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency estimated that 70 percent of the rods have been damaged at the No. 1 reactor.

Japan's national news agency, Kyodo, said that 33 percent of the fuel rods at the No. 2 reactor were damaged and that the cores of both reactors were believed to have partially melted.

"We don't know the nature of the damage," said Minoru Ohgoda, spokesman for the country's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency. "It could be either melting, or there might be some holes in them."

Meanwhile, the outer housing of the containment vessel at the No. 4 unit erupted in flames early Wednesday, said Hajimi Motujuku, a spokesman for the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Japan's nuclear safety agency said fire and smoke could no longer be seen at Unit 4, but that it was unable to confirm that the blaze had been put out.

Yuasa reported from Tokyo. Associated Press writers Elaine Kurtenbach in Tokyo and David Stringer in Ofunato contributed to this report.

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Radiation: 7 Days To Reach U.S.

Radiation From Fukushima Would Take 7 Days To Reach U.S.

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Radiation From Fukushima Would Take 7 Days To Reach U.S.

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 14, 2011

Radioactive particles from the stricken Fukushima nuclear facility would take around a week to reach Alaska and eleven days to reach Los Angeles, according to an Accuweather.com analysis, which highlights the fact that prevailing winds over the region would send any potential fallout from the crisis-hit plant drifting towards west coast cities in the United States.

Given the fact that many analysts believe the Japanese government is grossly understating the amount of radioactive particles released by the two separate explosions to affect the Fukushima plant, one which occurred Saturday and one earlier today, monitoring stations in Alaska will not know if there is a threat from such radiation until Saturday at the earliest.

“Radiation detected at the Fukushima plant on Monday is twice the maximum seen so far,” the BBC is reporting, citing Kyodo News.

An Accuweather.com analysis highlights how prevailing wind trajectories would take the radiation from a westerly direction towards the west coast of the United States.

“A typical wind trajectory across the Pacific is westerly, since there is often a large dome of high pressure over the central Pacific and an area of low pressure in the Gulf of Alaska,” writes meteorologist Meghan Evans.

Today’s localized winds are set to carry any radiation out into the Pacific from a north westerly to south easterly direction. However, “The wind direction will switch to an onshore direction Monday night into Tuesday, threatening to send the radiation toward the population,” writes Evans.

“This is not good news, since an onshore direction would blow most of the radiation toward populated areas. An added threat is that with higher elevations just about 4 miles inland from the power plants, if a temperature inversion sets up in the atmosphere, radiation could be trapped.”

The worst case scenario is that localized winds could take the fallout south to Tokyo, and the prevailing westerly winds could also carry upper atmosphere particles towards the U.S.

It would take roughly seven days for the radiation to reach Anchorage, eight days until it reached Honolulu, ten days for Seattle and eleven days before it hit Los Angeles, according to figures calculated by Expert Senior Global Meteorologist Jim Andrews.

Assurances from officials that any radiation would dissipate over the Pacific Ocean before reaching the United States are tenuous given the fact that pollution from Chinese coal factories, traveling significantly greater distances, routinely hits California.

“Previous studies have documented that dust from Asia — especially from deserts and industrial regions of China — routinely crosses the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds to sully the air over the western U.S.,” highlights Massie Santos Ballon, a student in the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has also studied how, “About a third of the airborne lead particles recently collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia.”

Weather conditions will hugely influence where any potential radiation falls. If there is a significant amount of rainfall, which has been forecast for the next few days, the majority of the radiation will fall in a localized area. However, drier conditions will allow any radiation to travel much further.

As we featured in our earlier report, nuclear expert Joe Cirincione also fears that radiation from the Japanese nuclear plant could also reach the west coast.

When Fox News host Chris Wallace questioned whether radioactivity could travel thousands of miles across the Pacific, Cirincione responded, “Oh, absolutely. Chernobyl, which happened about 25 years ago, the radioactivity spread around the entire northern hemisphere. It depends how many of these cores melt down and how successful they are on containing it once this disaster happens.”

Concern surrounding the likely path of any radiation is emphasized by the fact that the French embassy is now, “Advising its citizens to leave Tokyo and its surroundings in case a cloud of radiation heads to the city.”

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos and a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Read more at www.infowars.com

 

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