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GLOBAL NEWS March 2011, scientists detected that the plume of toxic fallout had arrived over American shores (see map at http://tinyurl.com/6uwb4pc). Subsequent measurements by the US Environmental Protection Agency found levels of radiation in air, water and milk hundreds of imes above normal across the US. Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, MPH, MBA, said: “This study of Fukushima health hazards is the first o be published in a scientific journal. It raises concerns and strongly suggests that health studies continue, to understand the rue impact of Fukushima in Japan and around the world. Findings are important to the current debate of whether to build new reactors, and ow long to keep ageing ones in operation." Mangano is Executive Director of he Radiation and Public Health Project and the author of 27 peer- reviewed medical journal articles and letters. Toxicologist Janette Sherman, MD, said: "Based on our continuing research, the actual death count here may be as high as 18,000, with influenza and pneumonia, which were up five-fold in the period in question as a cause of death. Deaths are seen across all ages, but we continue to find that infants are hardest hit because their tissues are rapidly multiplying, they have undeveloped immune systems, and the doses of radioisotopes are proportionally greater than for adults." Dr Sherman is an adjunct professor at Western Michigan University, a consulting editor of Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, published by the New York Academy of Sciences in 2009, and author of Chemical Exposure and Disease: Diagnostic and Investigative Techniques and Life's Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer. (Source: PRNewswire.com, 19 December 2on, http://tinyurl.com/7hg2r37; also see http://www. radiation.org) INDEFINITE DETENTION ACT STRIPS CIVIL RIGHTS that America is supposed to stand for, as the most essential of rights have been stripped away. State and local police, the Justice Department and FBI are no longer responsible on matters relating to alleged national security concerns. Henceforth, the US military may arrest and indefinitely detain anyone anywhere, including American citizens, based on suspicions, spurious allegations or none at all if the President so orders. Michel Chossudovsky wrote on Global Research that the NDAA "\.repeals the US Constitution. While the fagade of democracy prevails, supported by media propaganda, the American republic is fractured. The tendency is towards the establishment of a totalitarian state, a military government dressed in civilian clothes." Chossudovsky compared provisions of the NDAA to Germany's "Reichstag Fire Decree" of 27 February 1933, which was used to repeal civil liberties including the right of habeas corpus. (Sources: Crikey.com.au, 16 December 201, http://tinyurl.com/84k6tfz; Indian Country Today, 8 Dec, http://tinyurl.com/838hkof; BlackListedNews.com, 16 December 2on1, http://tinyurl.com/77ssptc; Global Research, 1 January 2012, http://tinyurl.com/88w7x3) bill that provides for indefinite detention of Americans within the USA, and determines that the entire world is a battlefield on which the "war on terror" is being waged, has now become law. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA), sponsored by Democrat Carl Levin and Republican John McCain, enables US military forces to collect and imprison anyone anywhere in the world and keep them confined within the US military system without access to civilian courts. The provisions form part of a USS662-billion defence appropriation or 2012. The NDAA was signed into aw by President Obama on 31 December 2011. In addition to funding America’s ongoing wars and the 900 military bases it maintains in 130 countries, he Act provides for the US President o have draconian worldwide authority to have the military seize anyone suspected of "terrorism" or providing aid to terrorists or “associated forces" anywhere in the world, including US citizens on American soil, and detain them without charge or trial indefinitely. The NDAA_ represents the complete destruction of everything We scratch x the new Sofes ot down, Pass On... \ fhe Sob tee Somerville NEXUS ¢ 7 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com