Showing posts with label Mimi German. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mimi German. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 February 2017

Calling out the mayor of Portland

Mimi German on Nature Bats Last



We hosted activist Mimi German as she discussed how Portland is dealing with human beings living on its streets. We also touched upon the nuclear industry, poetry and took a few calls. One of our listeners is looking for partners in their film endeavor. 

More info by following the link here:http://vimeo.com/rgopalan




Portland in a Storm: A Case Study of Confronting the Human Impacts of Abrupt Climate Change


6 Febraury, 2017

The growing homelessness emergency represents a humanitarian crisis and I view it as a moral imperative that we make treating it a top priority. We cannot call ourselves a progressive community while so many people are living – and dying – on our streets…This unfolding crisis is not only catastrophic for people impacted by homelessness, but it also directly impacts our community’s livability, public health and safety, and our economy.”  - Ted Wheeler, mayoral candidate, February 2016 [1]

 “People think that the caste system is only in India, and we have our own caste system. And the lowest, the bottom of the caste system are the people who live on the streets.” – Mimi German, from this week’s interview

According to the Weather Channel, Portland, Oregon, may well be America’s most winter-fatigued city for the 2016-2017 season.[2]

During the period from December 8th to January 17th, five winter storms have buffeted the city resulting in power outages, tree damage, and closed highways. A particularly intense storm starting January 10 dumped 15.5 inches of snow on the metro area, prompting newly installed Mayor Ted Wheeler to declare a State of Emergency the following day.[3][4][5]

Portland, on average, experiences two days each winter with snow cover of 1 inch or more. [6]

Reinforcing the hardship faced by city residents is the unusually cold temperatures. The Weather Channel documents that the first 18 days of January, and all but 7 days between December 4th and January 31st, were colder than average.[7]

These weather conditions have taken a disproportionate toll on the city’s houseless population. Four people died of exposure in the first ten days of 2017, and an infant who perished within hours of its birth to a houseless mother, is likewise suspected of having been impacted by the harsh cold. [8]


A handful of city residents have stepped up to do what they can to assist this most vulnerable population. While some admirable initiatives have been undertaken, community members have reported on Mayor Wheeler’s failure to act urgently to confront the situation. They are pressing a number of urgent demands, chief among these being opening up emergency warming shelters.

One roadblock after another compelled Portland citizens to take desperate actions to get the Mayor to confront the crisis. The following video documents the January 25th shut down of Portland City Hall, which took place immediately after a memorial for the death of the houseless Portland infant.




Mimi German, the woman depicted above, happens to be a past guest of this program. A self-described Earth Activist, and founder of radcast.org with a history of involvement with the anti-nuclear movement, she is also a poet, and has been among those leading the charge in taking action to address the immediate needs of street-involved people abandoned to the elements.

In this week’s feature interview, German outlines how and why the city has failed to address the crisis appropriately, political indifference and denial, what can and should be done, and lessons in store for the broader population of the United States as they confront the human impacts of abrupt climate disruption, earthquakes and other looming natural disasters.

Bleeding On The Backs Of The Broken – a poem by Mimi German:

Standing in power on the backs of the broken
feigning shock and awe
the fifth class lies beneath your feet
under bridges, their stench a sewer’s scent,
the filth upon which these women stood,
blood dripping from their pussy snark,
down their legs to the street to the curb to the bridge to the edge
down on to restless scabbing bodies of the huddled masses below,
on lowlife, the lepers, the polluted, the meek,
the wretched refuse
the undone, the poor, the are-they-still-here, the outcasts,
the exiled, the downtrodden, the unknowns, the unnamed,
the homeless
the anonymous, the uncared for, the unloved,
the addicts, the whores, the mentally ill
yearning to breathe free
the untouched, the unwound, the wounded,
the disparaged, the threatened, the abused, the torn
the tired, the poor
the traumatized, the swept, the broken,
all drowning in the blood of one million women
whose calls for respect and intersectionality
rang hollow on the walls beneath the bridge
while dripping blood on the floor of the forgotten.

LISTEN TO THE SHOW HERE



Thursday, 26 May 2016

Mimi German on Hanford

Nuclear Hotseat #257: Radiation Spike from Hanford or CGS Nuke? Radcast’s Mimi German Explains



This Week’s Featured Interview: 

  • Mimi German is the founder of RadCast, which focuses on collecting and interpreting radiation data. It helps helping citizen activists learn how to take accurate radiation readings, which RadCast then compiles to figure out what’s going on – radiologically speaking – wherever the EPA has fallen down on the job… which is just about everywhere. Mimi walks us through the recent radiation spike(s) recorded by EPA in Richland, Washington, and parses out whether the blame rests with the Hanford site, as has been put out, or the Northwest’s only nuclear working nuclear reactor, the Columbia Generating Station.

Numnutz of the Week:

US pro-nuke orgs plead with Obama administration not to do away with the “Nuclear Energy Policy Czar.”  Did you know we had a Nuclear Energy Policy Czar?  And where’s our “Alternative Energy Policy Czar?”  Our “Peace Czar?”  “Sustainability Czar?”  And why a czar?  Why not a hippie?

Listen to podcast HERE


Friday, 7 August 2015

Washington,Idaho, Canada - You are being nuked!


Comment from Mimi German

"It's really important for people to understand that while this info was collected during a Planned Refueling, this happens all the time!"

Leaks Documented at Columbia Generating Station


Mimi German has uploaded documents to prove that the Colombia Generating Station is leaking radiation and people are being exposed to radiation

Please view document HERE



Please view document HERE


Just when you realized you were being conned, they conned you again! Obama raises permissible levels of radiation in drinking water. Why? Because our nuke plants are all polluting our waters with radiation and if we are not going to raise levels, we will have to shut down the nuke plants and that, for a nuclear loving President, is not an option, regardless of what you think you know about his new bogus "environmental" plan which will allow SMRs to move in asap.

---Mimi German


EPA raises permissible levels of radiation in drinking water…



The White House has given final approval for dramatically raising permissible radioactive levels in drinking water and soil following “radiological incidents,” such as nuclear power-plant accidents and dirty bombs. The final version, slated for Federal Register publication as soon as today, is a win for the nuclear industry which seeks what its proponents call a “new normal” for radiation exposure among the U.S population, according Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).


Monday, 29 June 2015

Extinction Radio - Episode 14

Mimi German on Extinction Radio





00:00 Theme song -Gene Gibson
00:26 Mimi German song
05:25 Mike Ferrigan -Extreme Weather Update
25:43 Benjamin the Donkey
25:07 Gene’s Gems
31:10 In-depth Interview Mimi German
1:21 Benjamin the Donkey
1:21:44 Debba Kale Earnshaw poem
1:25:00 Carolyn Baker
1:39:24 Benjamin the Donkey
1:39:45 Guy McPherson Climate Change Update
1:56:30 Lexi poem
1:57:24 Straight & Miller “Alchohol & Pills”
2:01:00 Benjamin the Donkey
2:01:24 Sam Carana Editorial
/ 2:03:24 Jack Adam Weber poem
2:05:09 Vast Mandana “Overshoot”
2:05:57 Benjamin the Donkey
2:07:13 Seemorerocks & Pam from Down Under
2:16:30 John Compost Cossham
2:28:21 Benjamin the Donkey
2:28:36 Vast Mandana “Arctic Emergency”
2:32:46 Solomon Amuzu -Prepping with Permaculture



Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Nature Bats Last - 06/09/2015

Mimi German on Nature Bats Last



This week Guy engages in wide-ranging conversation with Mimi German, life-long anti-nuclear activist and musician. A brief climate-change update follows abundant information about three related topics: 

(1) the recently hacked blog, 
(2) an ex-promoter of Guy's message scared back onto the sidelines, and 
(3) Guy's response to these and similar threats.


Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Nature Bats Last


Tomorrow's NBL is not to be missed.

From Guy McPherson

This week on Nature Bats Last on the Progressive Radio Network I engage in wide-ranging conversation with Mimi German, life-long anti-nuclear activist and musician. A brief climate-change update follows abundant information about three related topics: (1) the recently hacked blog, (2) an ex-promoter of my message scared back onto the sidelines, and (3) my response to these and similar threats. Catch it all Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. Eastern on prn.fm.

Climate change deniers


Comments fom Pauline Panagiotou- Schneider


This past week the anti-freedom forces in this country took down Guy McPherson's website briefly. Luckily Guy has good friends covering his back.

He's back. For now.

At the same time as his site was hacked (not the 1st time btw) a gentleman with broad media reach offering his help to spread Guy's message was summarily warned by unknown agents to back off. His phone and computer were taken over as a hint that he had best heed their warning. The email communications were wiped from his account. He is for the first time truly aware what this govt is capable of.

For those who still like to deny that abrupt climate change either isn't happening or isn't man made, or can be fixed with some techno fantasy app, or solar panels, or divesting from fossil fuels, these agents attacking a messenger of truth tells me a lot; NTHE (near term human extinction) is on the horizon. It is unavoidable.

If people knew it, they would stop serving the corporate masters, get off their hamster-wheels and start living their lives. The Powers That Be know it, and they don't want you to know.

What are you going to do about it?





In the meantime I have discovered X-notes - Field notes from extinction.

They are two numerous to post here - but please go and have a look yourself.

In the meantime here is something about citizen journalism from myself.

Saturday, 6 June 2015

Mimi German on refuelling of Washington's Comumbia generating station

Mimi German is interviewed on KBOO exposing the mendacity of the psychopaths at C.G.S.

Only a lunatic would re-start an old nuclear plant with a crack in a critical piece of equipment.

Refueling the Columbia Generating Station




An active nuclear power plant in Washington state is being refueled.

Washington’s Columbia Generating Station, or C.G.S will be refueled using raw radioactive material.

The Environmental Protection Agency says that radiation levels in the area will increase significantly, but that the equipment used to measure that radiation will be completely shut down during the refueling process.


KBOO’s Nathan Behensky spoke with Miriam German of No Nukes Northwest about the plant’s current problems and the future of nuclear power in Oregon and Washington.

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  • Length: 15:49 minutes (14.48 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Fight the Real Killers


More great work by Mimi German calling out the pretenders to the throne and especially Bill McKibben from 350..org who thinks the solution to our carbon problem is nuclear when the low carbon footprint of nuclear is nothing but a lie.

Meet the Real Nuclear Terrorist Organization
Miriam German


26 November, 2014

The US Government has been using the actions of Radical Fundamentalists as the cause celebre for starting wars. Going backwards in time, just to name a few we have had ISIS, ISIL, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas, Hezbollah, the PLO, all of whom were used as targets by our government for the excuse of war. But there is one terrorist organization not on any list and they are responsible for the death of at least, by the accounts we can surmise, far greater than one million people and their name is the Nuclear Terrorist Organization or NTO.

The Nuclear Terrorist Organization has cells in many countries with the main branch and leaders in the United States. Each cell has a different name, each one unique to its own killings: TEPCO, Areva, Duke, GE, Dominion, Westinghouse, Energy NW, Sellafield, Cameco, Nukem (yes, their real name from Germany), and these are just a few. The Nuclear Terrorist Organization has cells in Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Namibia, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, Uzbekistan, Israel and of course, the USA.

Terrorism. Using violence to achieve political ends.

Radical: That which is new and different from the ordinary.

Never has there been a time when a terrorist group not only had enough ammunition to kill every living being on this planet, but was also using their ammunition to do just that! And they are still getting away with it! The Nuclear Terrorist Organization is making a grand attempt to kill the planet, to make our planet absolutely uninhabitable for millions of years to come. That is radical! This is not a religious war. This is however, a war of the zealots, cashing in the Earth for dominance, power and greed where there is such blindness as to not see that the end for one is the end for all.

Terrorism. Using violence to achieve political ends.

The Nuclear Terrorist Movement showed you how the weapons and war against all living beings on Earth would look like when their bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place. You saw it. And you applauded! Loudly, you praised the Nuclear Terrorists. You created names for your sports teams in honor of the Nuclear Terrorist Organization bombings. The Bombers are the football team over in Hanford, home of the makers of the bomb. In honor of the psychopathic creators of the NTO, you named the bomb that fell over Nagasaki, Fat Man and as for the plane that dropped the bomb over Hiroshima, you named it after the top Nuclear Terrorist’s mother, Enola Gay.

Radical is not just about some US paid Jihadist in the Middle-East, someone we created, to help the Cheneys and the Haliburtons and the Bechtels stay in war. No, the real radical IS the US Government and its role in creating the largest terrorist organization in the world, the NTO. And who pays for that movement? You do. You get cancers and you die. You pay to clean up their messes even thought their messes are intentionally made to be unattainable for any kind of cleanup imaginable. You pay the leaders of the Nuclear Terrorist Organization through your electrical bills and you pay them with your death. So clean. So easy. Or is it? The seriousness of the nuclear situation and NTO is far greater worth a discussion and a firm response than your desires to just call it ridiculous. I pose this one question to you: if nuclear power is so safe, why have an evacuation plan? The fact is even our so-called evacuation plans lack any real form of muster, their designations to narrow and the plans, a joke in the case of traffic in NYC needing to evacuate a disaster at Indian Point. Again, the NTO are fully aware of what they are doing. Greed. Hubris. Idiocy. Psychotic.

The Propaganda Campaign from the Nuclear Terrorist Organization was in full-tilt boogie following the bombings in Japan. The education put forward was Duck and Cover and Atoms for Peace. And you bought it. You were told that you were protected because the Atom Bomb is so effective at killing tens of thousands of people! Why would you feel protected by that? Yes, the NTO had you in the palm of their murderous hands. Like a victim of a hostage situation, you believed your were safe if you believed your victimizer. And as a gift for your loyalty, the NTO was going to give you nuclear power! Now you could read by the light of nuclear powered electricity to your two children and wish them sweet dreams as they drifted off to sleep.

Just a few decades later, Three Mile Island melted down. You blinked. But the Nuclear Terrorist Organization kept on keeping on. They didn’t tell you they had been experimenting with peoples lives during what they called The Green Run at Hanford in Washington State when they intentionally let radiation loose into the winds to see how sick people would get and later die due to the radiation released. They kept that their little secret. And people did get sick. And people did die. And you still don’t know of the Green Run.

Not too long after TMI, Chernobyl blew up and radiated the planet. Maybe the NTO thought that would be it and the game over. The accident was deemed a human mistake rather than seen as part of the terrorist plan to end all life on Earth via the Nuclear Terrorist Organization. These are terrorists who are on a mission. If they need you to feel safe in order to fulfill their mission, then they will do every thing under the sun to keep you feeling safe except of course, for harnessing the power of the sun. Chernobyl was a great notch on their belts. Over 1 million people and counting have died from that one.

When Fukushima had its triple meltdown in March of 2011, you blinked again but the NTO was even more ready for you this time. They threw you a safety blanket to keep you secure but made sure not to give you on the West Coast, Iodine Tablets. But no loss for you…just some thyroid cancer and leukemia for the most vulnerable among us; the children and the females would suffer first.

Was it not terrorism when the Japanese Government refused to evacuate all of the people who needed to be evacuated? Was it not terrorism when the Japanese Cell of the NTO refused to allow the international scientists and engineers in to help with the disaster on 3.11? Was it not terrorism when so many cancers among the young were going to grow? Was death to thousands not an act of terrorism? All of these examples were acts of terrorism by the Nuclear Terrorist Organization.

In the US, they gave you new leaders to listen to who would re-assure you that nuclear was the saving grace to all of climate change problems. Bill McKibben became your Guru. He is a leader in the Nuclear Terrorist Movement. You still can’t face the facts because you are cloaked in the robes the NTO gave you to wear. You use their language. They inhabit your minds. They feed you the lies you put forward and you pay them back both in your silence and ignorance and with your checkbooks and bank accounts. And let’s not forget, in death. The Nuclear Terrorist Organization is killing you and you are paying them to do so.

So you want a Revolution?

To create a revolution, you have to be a revolutionary. You have to think like someone who has nothing left to lose. Do you have what it takes to topple the Nuclear Terrorist Organization? Or would you prefer to do nothing? You’ve been doing nothing for a very long time, especially under the deceptive work of Bill McKibben steering you away from all thoughts of shutting down nuclear.

Who and what are we facing?

The Nuclear Terrorist Organization has already laid its hand down on the table. Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. Nuclear bombing of Nagasaki. Nuclear bombing in the Pacific Islands. Nuclear bombing in most of the oceans of the planet. Building the four hundred and thirty nuclear power plants in thirty-one countries of the world. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Fukushima-Daichi. Hanford. Sellafield.

A Nuclear Terrorist Organization that calls what it does peaceful while it doses you day in and day out with harmful ionizing rays of low-level radiation causing cancers and heart disease, leukemia and brain masses is really the devil in disguise. Are you up for the battle? Or should we continue to let them lead us into the valley of death? There is no gold at the end of plank, just the nuclear abyss. 

So when you follow Bill McKibben or any other so-called environmental leader, see if they are part of the Nuclear Terrorist Organization before you shake their hand. I’d just as soon spit on his.

And for those of you who still don’t understand why the Nuclear Terrorist Organization exists, it exists simply to get rich and to kill you. Can you really accept that your death is just an unintentional casualty of their profiteering? There is no punishment for the NTO. They made sure of that when they turned it into a law stating that they can’t be sued by you and by me. With each and every nuclear disaster they have caused, they have succeeded with their death mission and yet we drift more deeply into a somnambulist state egged on by their absolutely perfect propaganda campaign. WAKE UP!

We have been a society of somnambulists for too long and waking to the end game is beyond a drag. It is painful. But due to climate change, we are now witnessing a planetary devastation unlike anything we’ve ever seen and the last I looked, Noah is not knocking on doors to collect us two-by two for his great Ark.

So why not make the journey into the sixth extinction less painful? Why not shut down nuclear power to prevent nuclear meltdowns in the process of our demise? Are you rendered immovable because you see this as David v. Goliath? There’s no time for fear, people. Goliath is the terrorist and the terrorist can be defeated. 

Let him continue and he defeats us. He is winning. Walk with those of us who are working at shutting down nuclear power. Just by reducing your household energy consumption you ARE fighting these Nuclear Terrorists! Don’t you see? They want you to think they are invincible. They are not. Let us join together to annihilate the Nuclear Terrorist Movement. Death to the Nuclear Terrorist Organization comes when you simply unplug from their main artery and make the switch to the real alternatives in green energies. We can do that today but not until you are ready to say goodbye to your Terrorist leaders.

In the days to come, we will see many more nuclear power reactors around the world freeze out, dry out, burn out, flood out and crack out of the safety net you have been led to believe exists. We will see in the dawn of wakefulness, a recognition that the cancers of your family members and friends does have a cause and that cause is in large part, due to man-made ionizing radiation. In that moment of rubbing sleep from your eyes, you will see that even many of your environmental leaders have marched you out on the plank in their own search for gold, feeding you to the gods of death as they picked your pockets clean.

To the environmentalists reading this, if you think I sound mad, think again. I AM mad. Mad as hell that you think you get a pass on nuclear when you argue your case for the environment. I’m mad as hell that you think you get to sleep through the nuclear crises we are in. I’m mad as hell that you think that because your environmental leaders tell you that nuclear is “green” that you believe them. I’m mad as hell that you are ignorant, stupid and blind. I’m mad as hell that you think that coal and oil are the only things to talk about regarding protection for our Mother Earth. I’m mad as hell that you gullible. I’m mad as hell that you don’t understand how nuclear waste will be a part of our Mother Earth for millions of years to come. I’m mad as hell that you haven’t taken the time to understand that nuclear power comes from uranium mining, the killing of indigenous peoples, that it needs coal to be fired into useable product from nuclear power plants and that somehow, somehow, you think this is green! I’m mad as hell that I have to write this just to purge this from my body, in hopes that maybe, maybe you will wake the hell up and see that nukes are killing all of us and that the terrorists in charge will NOT stop until they have succeeded with the death of Mother Earth. Yes, I am mad as hell. Before you call me crazy, take a look at the nuclear reality. Now, who’s crazy?

Revolution. As in the spinning of a disc. As in the movement of the earth around the sun. To every thing, turn, turn, turn.

Miriam German is the director of RadCast.org. She founded No Nukes NW in 2012.




Sunday, 11 January 2015

Partial shutdown at Indian Point NPP due to cold weather

This story came to me via Mimi German.

What strikes me is - climate change meets the ageing nuclear infrastructure of the US - part of the Great Unravelling

Here are Mimi's comments

"The issue here is WATER. Drought. Floods. Ice. 

"California still has Diablo Canyon NPP up and running. It needs water. And there is an enormous drought in CA. 

"How long will the water last? 

"With freezing temperatures in the midwest and along the entire east coast, we will see many more issues w/ freezing pipes in npps causing shutdowns and at some point, meltdowns. 

"Indian Point had a very big problem with the freezing lines. 

"We saw floods in the MidWest not long ago causing a shutdown of another NPP. 

"To say that at Indian Point it was good news that they found the problem in time, is a wrong thought. It is a very bad thing that Indian Point is still online. Period.

The good news is the company was able to identify this quickly, get one of those lines unfrozen, and restore the alarm capabilities,” says Sheehan."


You can catch Mimi in a radio interview from yesterday

To hear the podcast GO HERE



Cold Weather Leads To Indian Point 3 Alarm Failure


8 January, 2015

The extreme cold weather has had an impact on New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant. Indicators for a refueling water tank were not working early Thursday, causing a temporary, partial shutdown.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan says operators at Indian Point Unit 3 discovered that the two sets of low-low water level indicators, or alarms, for the plant’s refueling water storage tank were not functioning. He says the cause of the lines freezing was a failed strip heater.

The good news is the company was able to identify this quickly, get one of those lines unfrozen, and restore the alarm capabilities,” says Sheehan.

He says the Buchanan-based plant has within seven days to restore the other alarm or else the unit would have to be shut down. Sheehan points out the issue is a matter of safety, as water would be pumped from the storage tank into the reactor coolant system if there were an accident.


Just earlier this week, Pauline Schneider, taking over from Guy McPherson,  was talking to nuclear activist, Marilyn Elle, on the Indian Point nuclear power plent






And I found this, from 7 months ago, on You Tube, from Thom Hartmann.