Baby Namu now 11 months

 

Do any of the current leaders of the established Nichiren sects mirror the Life of the founder, Nichiren Daishonin?

 Does Daisaku Ikeda of the Soka Gakkai, Nichinyo "Shonin" of the Nichiren Shoshu, or the head bishop of the Nichiren Shu, mirror the life of Nichiren Daishonin? A resounding NO.

Tipping point in consciousness

Namu Myoho renge kyo

Anonymous' latest article, The State of the State

 

1. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2022 at 8:59 AM

   My latest article
   
   The mess that is the nuclear imperialist USa
   
   JPMORGAN SAYS OIL PRICES WILL AVERAGE $110 IN SECOND QUARTER. Wheat is peaking in Chicago at the prospect of war w Russia and
   
   From the Ukrainian fiasco.
   
   Most Americans are up to their necks in debtnl from covid, bad economy, 2008 banking bailouts and previous war. . the us govt is 30 trillion in debt . now the rightwingers and rightwing centrists and military industrial complex want a war, even it it is nuclear
   
   The Nazis and stupids in the USA want a civil war, which will lead to the same thing. Seems like the centrist Democrats do too.
   
   Propaganda wants total control. And those who believe it want 100% validation. They cannot tolerate one dissenting opinion.
   
   No one should trust Congress or biden or the trump naxis now the billionaire have spent over 30 billion dollars to own them.
   
   All bought and paid for by billionaire and dark money.. The media, Facebook, repuklicans and democraps and Nazi trumpists are all bought and paid for . Most people in America are going against their self interest. Many to the point, of dying from not being vaccinated. Many not giving a darned about the nuclear war threat and, many nuclear catastrophes that can and will occur in the Ukraine if total war starts. The trump Nazis want a civil war which will lead to the same thing.
   
   If the Biden right-centrist-media msnbc CNN, time newsweek were completely correct (they are not) there would be total war. they already have all the dummies and morons and media in the USA saying the stuff they want said. And the rest of crazy America goes w the trump Nazis and fox news. No mention of the Ukrainian being neo Nazis no mention of the old beat up nuclear power plants in Ukraine controlled by insane Nazis. The so-called independent liberal (billionaire controlled msnbc, CNN time Newsweek and all the rightwing bs media etc , Wal street liberal media) .
   
   The trump nazis use the most vicious divide and conquor techniques to leverage control in a dividing fashion
   
   The few rational people are stuk in the middle.
   
   The billionaire media misinforms for war and war profits and they seemingly don't care about the trump Nazis, anymore.
   
   Why is it like boiling water drops on their skin if they don't get their way that is the warmongers and media and nazis, what will happen if a few voices aren't saying this already maxed out message. What are these people, afraid will happen if all people don't start yelling all the same things.
   
   What will happen if some of the billionaire media outlets like msnbc , CNN, time, Newsweek, marching minions on Facebook and twitter the rightwing, and centrist warmonger blogosphere and propaganda outlets don't get their ways .
   
   What will happen if The trump nazis, the war mongers and know-it-alls don't get their way and truth comes out. They will start a civil war they say
   
   

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2. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2022 at 8:59 AM

3. People will stop watching bs tv news bullshit. Listening to superficial celebrity gossip, churning for civil war and more USA war. People will Stop reading bs Twitter and Facebook manipulations. the billionaires and warmongers won't keep getting richer off of the marching morons.
   
   The Nazi truckers are heavily armed and funded
   
   Biden is at war
   
   There will be a confrontation and shootout and probable state of emergency delcared from the trucker ralley. it will the the start of a civil war I'm almost a professional historian and I know it's true like I said about Jan 6
   
   Biden is at war . the old idiot Democrats will have to do something. I know several christian idiots who carry guns now
   
   Afclf hard money from the Beast
   
   A rowdy convoy of truckers is descending on the Beltway outside of Washington, D.C., presenting itself as an organic reaction to mask and vaccine mandates. But the official group bankrolling all that diesel is far from a grassroots organization devoted to truckers.
   
   As of Wednesday, the conservative dark-money organization American Foundation for Civil Liberties and Freedoms had raised $464,731 for “the People’s Convoy”—as the protesters have branded themselves. That amount has nearly tripled over the last few days, and is expected to climb significantly over the coming weeks.
   
   According to the AFCLF, which has also pushed false claims about the 2020 election and raised money for election deniers, “100% OF THE DONATIONS GO TO SUPPORTING THE CONVOY!”
   
   “Convoy up, America — the donate button is going toward the funding of the ride to Freedom: we are going to take back our country for ourselves and future generations!” the site says.
   
   
   The money will “reimburse fuel and hard costs of the trucker,” the group notes, adding that “the fund is being handled by volunteer accountants and overseen by a law firm.”
   
   

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4. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2022 at 9:00 AM

5. Better yet, because the group is a nonprofit organized under section 501(c)3 of the tax code, all gifts are tax-deductible—and donors can remain anonymous.
   
   Reached for comment, AFCLF chair Chris Marston did not explain how the funding would work, or how participants would qualify for and access money, saying everything came together too quickly to establish rules.
   
   “Trucker leaders are on finance committee to determine where needs are but methods depend on the nature of expense,” Marston said over text message. “This all came together too fast to have pre determined rules so we setup a committee with Lawyer, account, and trucker oversight.” [sic]
   
   Marston said the funds wouldn’t cover return trips after the rally, and inserted a flake of distance between his group and the event itself.
   
   “We don’t have agreements with truckers on destination plans,” Marston explained. “We are supporting fuel, food, signage and basics for their journey,” he said, adding that his group had also “coordinated with local authorities along the path to be cooperative.” He did not clarify which authorities they were, or their jurisdictions.
   
   In addition to the fundraising, Marston said, the AFCLF would also provide “guidance on how to stay peaceful and be unified in messaging,” and would coordinate volunteers.
   
   “That’s the gist,” he said.
   
   But in its first year of operation, AFCLF has already developed an ominous reputation.
   
   Last July, Marston’s group hosted a fundraiser to support Matt DePerno, a Michigan attorney who was referred to authorities just weeks earlier for allegedly scamming donors to his outlandish legal effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
   
   But while AFCLF self-identifies as “trans-partisan”—and Marston claims its membership includes many Democrats—the top issues on its website read like a MAGA voter’s dream platform: grievances about the 2020 election, critical race theory, cancel culture, big tech, school boards, and forced vaccinations.
   
   In an interview last summer Marston told The Daily Beast that the AFCLF had “probably 100” members, and had been seeking to convince local elections boards around the country to take steps against alleged voter fraud. He also suggested he knew of “game-changing” evidence that could delegitimize the 2020 election and have a “brain-splattering effect” on public trust.
   
   (After the election, Marston claimed on social media that he was a “liberal” and called ex-President Donald Trump “an asshole” multiple times.)
   
   Marston created AFCLF’s twin nonprofits last May, after the election denial movement had made clear on Jan. 6 that it has a tendency towards spasmodic political violence. And many extremism experts today warn that those same social and cultural forces are animating the convoy movement—a warning that recently proved true in Canada’s convoy protests.
   
   “This feels like the culmination of everything that’s happened since Jan. 6th,” one extremism researcher told NBC News, pointing to virulent anti-vaxxer and QAnon contingents within convoy groups.
   
   Trucker protests disrupting supply chain 'not good for anybody': Expert
   
   And thanks to that constituency, as well as the recent violence in Ottawa, the question of peacefulness will be at the top of the bill.
   
   

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6. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2022 at 9:00 AM

7. Truckers in the Canadian anti-vaccine mandate protest set the example for the People’s Convoy, creating economic havoc with their blockades. The demonstration also attracted white supremacists and anti-government groups, and turned violent. When the chaos dissolved, Canadian law enforcement had arrested nearly 200 protesters.
   
   But a People’s Convoy press release from Feb. 20 describes its mission as a “peaceful and law-abiding transcontinental journey” aimed at overturning the national vaccine mandate. The convoy departed from Adelanto, CA, on Wednesday afternoon, and plans to hit D.C. 10 days later, on March 5.
   
   The central grievance in the press release appears to be economic.
   
   “The average American worker needs to be able to end-run the economic hardships of the last two years, and get back to the business of making bread – so they can pay their rents and mortgages and help jumpstart this economy,” the release says, claiming that “COVID is well-in-hand now, and Americans need to get back to work in a free and unrestricted manner.”
   
   Neither of those last two claims appear to be strictly true.
   
   While the deadly Omicron wave has begun to subside in many parts of the country, the United States has still averaged nearly 2,100 daily deaths over the last two weeks, according to data from The New York Times.
   
   And as for Americans getting “back to work,” the country has over the last year posted record employment gains, adding another 467,000 new jobs in January. The unemployment rate has trended steadily downward since April 2020, and currently sits around 4 percent.
   
   But the convoy itself will strain the financial resources of its participants, especially with donor funds only available for the 10-day journey east, not the return trip.
   
   At today’s gas prices, an 18-wheeler averaging a generous eight miles per gallon would burn around $1,200 in diesel fuel along the 2,500-mile one-way trek from Adelanto to the Beltway—and that’s before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine increases gas prices more.
   

Kempon Hokke The Lotus Sutra

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Original Cause and Effect Part 2

 

Original Cause and Effect Part 1

 

"The nuke industry wants to paint itself green."

Nuke Power at the Brink of Bankruptcy, War, Apocalypse

Nuke Power at the Brink of Bankruptcy, War, Apocalypse  https://www.rsn.org/001/nuke-power-at-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-war-apocalypse.html?print=1 Harvey Wasserman/Reader Supported News 19 Feb 22,

Fifteen atomic reactors in Ukraine currently spew out massive quantities of radiation alongside the smoldering ruin of Chernobyl Unit 4.War could easily—-and soon!—-turn each into a nuke of mass destruction, blasting into the eco-sphere clouds of lethal fallout far in excess of actual A-Bombs, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Like the rest of the global fleet, Ukraine’s reactors are sitting ducks, set to explode. They symbolize an monumental technological failure, left in the radioactive dust by the rise of renewables. But a devious, deceitful industry is desperate to kill green power, even if its dirty, decayed rump reactors could mushroom as you read this.

The essential unity between atomic power and weapons has been set since birth. France’s Macron now explicitly argues that “peaceful” reactors are needed to sustain the French atomic weapons program.

Cesium fallout from the four exploded Fukushima reactors exceeds that from Hiroshima and Nagasaki by a factor of more than 100. A compendium of studies at Chernobyl indicates a human death toll of more than a million. People and animals died in droves at Three Mile Island. After six decades of development, no US “Peaceful” atomic reactors can get private insurance against the liabilities of a catastrophic accident.

But the 400 nukes operating worldwide (93 in the US) threaten just that.

They burn at 571 degrees Fahrenheit, heating the planet. They spew carbon 14 and other greenhouse gases as they gouge their fuel, burn their innards and plague us all with unmanageable wastes.

Construction began on ALL US nukes at least thirty years ago. They’re embrittled, cracked, under-maintained, obsolete, ticking time bombs. Many are operating far beyond original design specs. Their workforces are aging and retiring. They sit in earthquake zones and flood plains, vulnerable to hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, sabotage, war.

Attempts to build more of these old-style water-cooled clunkers have catastrophically failed at Olkiluoto in Finland, Flamanville in France, V.C. Summer in South Carolina (abandoned at a cost of $10 billion), Vogtle in Georgia…where two reactors that may never open have soared past $30 billion, potentially bankrupting the Peach State.

Powered with a mix of plutonium, the explosion at Fukushima Unit Three threw up a familiar mushroom cloud. Millions of gallons of radwaste there are poised to be poured into the Pacific.

Yet the nuke industry wants to paint itself green. It hides its massive carbon emissions…ignores the gargantuan quantities of heat and wastes each reactor pours into the eco-sphere….kills billions of land and sea creatures every day.

The reactor industry’s clearest present danger centers on its non-stop radiation releases and millions of tons of radioactive offal that can’t be managed.

But possible war in Ukraine (or elsewhere) could dwarf Chernobyl in a matter of moments. As both the Russians and the Ukrainians well know, these are pre-deployed Atomic Bombs, easily turned Apocalyptic by conventional weapons, advanced cyber-attack or simple incompetence.

The latest stab at reviving this zombie technology centers on “Small Modular Reactors.” Some models are meant to be cooled by liquid sodium, which has already caused an explosive 1959 radiation release at Santa Susana, north of Los Angeles, and a 1966 melt-down at Fermi I, south of Detroit.

All SMRs are years away from mass production. If built, they’ll emit huge quantities of heat and greenhouse gasses. They’ll divert enormous quantities of resources that could otherwise go for renewables that are cleaner, cheaper, safer, more reliable, more job-creating, more quickly deployed…and that that won’t explode, create radioactive waste or heat the planet.

SMRs today currently work primarily as scams grifting billions of public dollars into the pockets of the likes of Bill Gates. They’re virtually certain to fail. One or more are likely to explode.

They can never compete with the solar, wind, battery and LED/efficiency technologies revolutionizing global green energy. With an astonishing record of meteoric advances, these four pillars of Solartopia have pushed all fossil/nuclear technologies into history’s economic waste bin. As long as there are rooftops bare of solar panels, and offshore sites ready for wind turbines, the real market for any other form of new energy is marginal at best.

But the corporate nuke pushers don’t care. Their mainly theoretical new reactors can never compete. Their old ones are uninsured, falling apart, spewing heat, carbon, radiation and death while losing mega-tons of YOUR money.

AND they can blow up… as at Fukushima and Chernobyl.

With war coming right at them, ALL reactors need to be shut NOW…before they ignite the next Apocalypse…which YOU will pay for with your life, health, family, fortune and future.

The Opening of the Eyes with commentary serialized for Reverend Stephen Shonin Paine

http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-opening-of-eyes-translation-by.html

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Great rock song, great musical progression, not to mention, a one armed drummer (Armageddon by Def Leppard)

 

Veggie Eddie's at it again, "THE Buddha of the 21st century" on Reddit Nichiren

 He again posted his Manifesto and bad mouthed me

https://www.reddit.com/r/NichirenBuddhism/comments/sr6nv0/kasho_was_banished_from_the_sgi/

Again, I responded, adding...

Nichiren also teaches that men who call themselves "THE Buddha" in the specific sense are not unlike the Great Arrogant Brahman and they are no better than the Zen men... "Volume nine of The Annotations on The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra states, 'These two types of overbearing arrogance are not without difference in degree between them. One who supposes that ordinary human beings are the same as the Buddha is guilty of great shamelessness.'" -- Nichiren [1275]

"...and [they] boast that 'we ourselves surpass the Buddha!' Persons such as these are descendants of the Great Arrogant Brahman of southern India, in the class of those who “draw blood from the body of the Buddha.”

Bodhisattva Never Disparaging proclaimed to all he met, "you are a Buddha", never, "I am a Buddha."

"Volume nine of Great Perfection of Wisdom says: 'The major world systems in the ten directions, numerous as the sands of the Ganges, make up what is called the world of a single Buddha. There are no other Buddhas there. Truly it is the world of one Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha.'"

And

"In volume one of On The Words and Phrases, we read: 'There are not two Buddhas in the world, there are not two rulers in the nation. In the realm of one Buddha, there are not two Venerable Ones.' And The Treatise on the Upholding of the Stage states: 'In one world there are not two Buddhas, in one nation there are not two rulers. Within the realm of a single Buddha’s teachings, there are not two Venerable Ones.'”

https://markrogow.blogspot.com/2020/04/nichirens-one-original-eternal-buddha.html

STOP CALLING YOURSELF KASHO BUDDHA, "THE Buddha of the 21st century". Veggie Eddie is more like it.

The release of radiation of the three nuclear meltdowns (China Syndrome) including Unit 3 Mox reactor is thousands of times the radiation released from the relatively small Chenrnobyl reactor, not to mention the obliteration of millions of pounds of Unit 3 and 4 fuel pools and their used reactor cores

Chernobyl Heart (2003)

By: Jessica Pollesche

Published: 2018-06-01

Keywords: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

In 2003, HBO Original Programming released the documentary Chernobyl Heart. Maryann De Leo directed and produced the film, which is about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident and how the radiation from that accident has affected people living in the area. Side effects have included mental disabilities, physical disabilities, and genetic mutations. The documentary follows Adi Roche, the founder of Chernobyl Children International, a non-profit humanitarian organization headquartered in Cork, Ireland, as she interviews people who live in the areas that Chernobyl contaminated with radiation. Roche travels to mental asylums, hospitals, and orphanages to interview people who take care of the children affected by the radiation. Chernobyl Heart provided viewers with information about the side effects of radiation exposure and the long-term effects that this has on people, especially children exposed to radiation during their developmental years.

On 26 April 1986, a nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. A nuclear power plant is a facility that utilizes nuclear fission reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear fission produces nuclear energy through the splitting of uranium atoms. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute or NEI, a policy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. responsible for the nuclear technologies industry, the Chernobyl nuclear accident was caused by a flawed reactor and human error. When the power plant exploded, radioactive material at the plant covered much of the surrounding area, and exposed people who lived there to high levels of radiation.

Throughout Chernobyl Heart, Roche interviews people sixteen years after the accident at Chernobyl occurred. Roche began interviewing people in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. The exclusion zone is considered to be the most radioactive environment on earth and is located 81 miles north of Kiev, part of Ukraine as of 2018. After Roche’s visit to the exclusion zone, she travels to Belarus, a country bordering the Ukraine, where many children affected by the Chernobyl accident live. Roche travels to several places, such as mental asylums, hospitals, and orphanages, to interview caretakers of the children affected by the radiation and to interview the children themselves. Radiation exposure can kill cells and tissues, and because children are growing and constantly producing cells and tissues, they are especially vulnerable to mutations from radiation exposure. Furthermore, if children’s genes are damaged by radiation, their bodies may not form properly, which may lead to physical or mental disabilities. Some of the places Roche visits include the Vesnova Mental Asylum in Vesnova, Belarus, the Abandoned Babies Home in Gomel, Belarus, and the Gomel City Maternal Hospital in Gomel, Belarus.

The opening of Chernobyl Heart shows a presentation slide explaining that on 26 April 1986 one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents occurred. That day, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located in the northern part of Ukraine, exploded. Over 190 tons of radioactive uranium and graphite was sent into the air. Due to the large amount of radiation released into the air, thousands of individuals were at risk for side effects caused by high radiation exposure. Side effects can include genetic mutations, cancer, radiation sickness, and death. After the explosion, government officials conscripted over 600,000 liquidators, individuals who worked to clean up the remnants of the nuclear power plant. As the film shows liquidators shoveling pieces of material, a slide explains that the liquidators were exposed to massive doses of radiation and over 13,000 liquidators have died since the explosion. Another slide explains that the people affected by the Chernobyl explosion were exposed to radiation that was ninety times greater than the radiation from the explosion of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima in Japan during World War II. The film shows people putting their suitcases into vehicles in order to evacuate the area around Chernobyl due to the high levels of radiation. According to the documentary, over 400,000 people evacuated from the affected areas and more than 2,000 villages were demolished after the explosion to prevent people from living there.

After the film provides information about the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the film introduces Roche. Roche is the founder of Ireland’s Chernobyl Children’s Project, an organization that aims to alleviate the suffering that the Chernobyl accident has caused children. In the film, Roche travels along the Ukrainian border into an area known as the exclusion zone. The exclusion zone is a 30-kilometer area that surrounds the Chernobyl reactor. According to Roche, the Ukrainian government does not allow people to live in the exclusion zone. As Roche and the film crew arrive at the Ukrainian border patrol, they put on protective clothing and masks to avoid harmful radiation dust particles. Roche uses a radiation detector to monitor the levels of radiation. She notes that she is emotional about the Chernobyl explosion because it affected nine million lives, half of whom were children under five years old. Next, Roche explains that the radiation recorded is 1,000 times more than compared to normal background radiation, the radiation produced naturally by the earth and experienced by people every day.

The documentary continues to discuss the effects radiation had on people located in Chernobyl and the surrounding area. Although people evacuated Chernobyl and the surrounding area, many who were there during the explosion experienced high levels of radiation. As a result, many of them have developed cancer and other diseases. The film continues with Roche heading to Minsk, Belarus, and a thyroid cancer treatment center that treats many people from the Chernobyl area. As Roche arrives at the treatment center, she notes that the thyroid center located in Minsk is the biggest in Belarus, and it receives the largest number of thyroid cancer cases. After Roche enters the treatment center, she meets Alexander Zhilko, a physician. Zhilko explains that the children and adolescents he has as patients are in the age group that was highly affected by the Chernobyl explosion. Zhilko notes that children do not know their diagnoses, only the parents of the children do. He explains that the only way to know if the children are in good health is by performing multiple tests on the children such as biopsies. A biopsy involves the removal of tissue from the body to examine and discover the presence, cause, or the extent of a disease. The film explains that in Gomel, a city located fifty miles from Chernobyl with a population of 700,000 people, the rate of thyroid cancer diagnosis is 10,000 times higher than it was prior to the accident of Chernobyl.

Next, Roche travels to the outskirts of Minsk to the Novinki Mental Asylum, the largest asylum in Belarus, to meet children that suffer from mental and physical disabilities due to radiation exposure. During Roche’s visit to the asylum, she explains that the asylum is overcrowded, and the film shows children in cots. Roche explains that her task for the next few days will be to determine where the children came from and their diagnoses. While she shows affection towards a young child, she notes that the asylum is considered mixed, meaning some children have physical disabilities while other children have mental disabilities. Children in the asylum live in the cots until they are seventeen or eighteen years old, at which point they are transferred to the adult mental asylum. According to Roche, the adult mental asylum is a partial prison and is considered dangerous. While in the Novinki Mental Asylum, the documentary shows several children with spina bifida or an incomplete closure of the spinal column, cerebral palsy or a disability that affects posture, coordination, and movement, and malnourishment. As Roche leaves the asylum, she notes that even though she cannot definitely say whether a child has been affected by the Chernobyl disaster, she has seen the increases in defects, illnesses, and genetic mutations after the explosion. Roche adds that places like the mental asylum did not exist prior to Chernobyl. Since the Chernobyl accident, birth defects have increased by 250 percent in the Ukraine.

After visiting the Novinki Mental Asylum, Roche visits a contaminated village located 150 miles from Chernobyl, outside of the exclusion zone. During her visit to the village, Roche meets several locals who still live in the contaminated villages, which have high levels of radiation as shown in the film. Through a translator, the locals explain that they were born in the village and that is where they will die. Roche explains that though the health problems associated with radiation may not be present in the older generation, the younger generation will have health problems associated with the exposure to radiation, such as mental and physical disabilities. The locals explain that although they are worried about the exposure to radiation, they do not have other options. After that meeting, Roche meets other locals while she walks around the village. Roche enters the home of some locals, and shouting comes from inside the home. The translator explains that the adults in the household are intoxicated by alcohol. Roche sees a toddler inside the home and she notes it is illegal for young children to be in the radioactive environment and the girl should be sent to an orphanage.

Next, Roche travels to a contaminated village 125 miles from Chernobyl where two scientists from the Belarus Radiological Institute test school children for the levels of cesium, a radioactive element, in their bodies. After examining one boy, a scientist notes that his radiation levels have increased since his last exam. A translator asks the boy if he had any medical problems, and the boy responds he has an enlarged thyroid. Ingesting cesium can cause cancer and affect the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, lungs, and heart.

After examining the school children, Roche visits several places, including the Vesnova Mental Asylum, the Abandoned Babies Home number one, and the Gomel City Maternal Hospital. At the Vesnova Mental Asylum, Roche interviews an employee that has worked at the asylum for nineteen years through a translator. The employee notes that the children prior to Chernobyl were not as mentally deficient and there has been an increase in physical and mental disabilities since the Chernobyl disaster. Several children at the mental asylum were born with an abnormality, then abandoned by the parents.

Next, Roche travels to Gomel. According to the film, Gomel has cesium levels that are forty times higher than the recognized danger limit. Cesium is a radioactive compound. In Gomel, Roche arrives at the Abandoned Babies Home number one where she meets Irina Kolmanovich, a pediatrician. During an interview with Roche, Kolmanovich explains that there has been an increase of children suffering from hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus refers to an accumulation of too much cerebrospinal fluid in the brain and can cause impaired bladder control, balance problems, and progressive mental impairment. Roche notes that there is not enough money to provide the necessary medical procedures to treat the children.

After the meeting with Kolmanovich, Roche visits the Gomel City Maternity Hospital. Two women can be seen giving birth in the same room, while both women are surrounded by medical professionals. Roche meets Nikolar M. Burakovsky, a chief physician. Burakovsky explains to Roche that only 15 to 20 percent of infants at the hospital are born healthy. He notes the effect radiation has had on the number of illnesses the infants experienced and the increase of illnesses after the Chernobyl disaster. Though not mentioned in the film, radiation can have large impacts on children’s developing immune systems because radiation causes damage to tissues and cells. According to Burakovsky, the infants get sick after birth due to their weakened immune systems. Compared to Europe, the infant mortality rate in Belarus is 300 percent higher.

Following Roche’s multiple visits, she travels to the Children’s Hospital in Gomel and the First Children’s Hospital of Minsk to learn more about the effects radiation has on children. Roche visits the Children’s Hospital located in Gomel where she is introduced to Ina, a teenager who suffers from a heart defect she has had since birth. The translator explains to Roche that Ina is on a waiting list for cardiac surgery. According to the film, 7,000 children are on a waiting list to receive cardiac surgery and they will die without the operation.

After the meeting with Ina, the film cuts to two weeks later at the First Children’s Hospital of Minsk in the cardiac surgery unit. A slide states that a surgical team of fourteen volunteers from the US have come to Minsk to perform heart operations on the cases deemed most critical. Next, the film introduces the parents of a thirteen-year-old girl named Tanya. As Tanya is being prepared for cardiac surgery, Roche interviews the parents through a translator. The father discusses that he lives in the mildly contaminated region along with his wife and daughter. As the contaminated region is only considered mild, the Chernobyl aid money, money donated to provide necessities for those affected by the nuclear power plant explosion, was taken away. Towards the end of the interview with Roche, the father adds that many children in the neighborhood have heart disease.

Following the interview with Tanya’s father, Tanya is being taken to the operating room by medical professionals. In the operating room, the film introduces William M. Novick, a surgeon and the director of the International Children’s Heart Foundation. Novick explains that doctors saw Tanya at another institution but deemed her inoperable. During the cardiac surgery, Novick states that Tanya has two holes in her heart. According to Novick, the condition of multiple holes in the heart is known in Belarus as Chernobyl heart.

As the film concludes, several slides are shown that provide further information about the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. During his stay, Novick and his surgical team operated on a total of thirteen children. According to the film, fewer than 300 children a year receive the necessary heart operation and most children on the cardiac surgery waiting list die within two to five years. The United Nations estimates that over six million people still lived in the contaminated regions as of 2003. After the Chernobyl explosion occurred in 1986, a radioactive cloud formed over northern Ukraine, crossing into Belarus and Russia. In addition, excess radiation levels were recorded in Sweden, Ireland, Wales, Greece, and Alaska. According to the documentary, 99 percent of Belarus is contaminated with radiation.

Chernobyl Heart showed the side effects caused by radiation and the impacts it has on children. The documentary won the Best Documentary Short Subject Award at the 76th Academy Awards.

Sources

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HBO Original Programming. “Chernobyl Heart.” Filmed 2002. Posted July 14, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiP6K7klxuM (Accessed May 25, 2018).

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How to citePollesche, Jessica, "Chernobyl Heart (2003)". Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2018-06-01). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/13067.

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