The establishment mainstream media continue to parrot the same hysteria
regarding the Zika virus – that it's causing birth defects – but there
is so much information intentionally being left out. The mainstream media's false narrative
is causing the public to fear a benign, asymptomatic viral infection,
as the true origins of birth defects and brain damage go unstudied.
Also, the mainstream media fails to tell the whole story of why Zika has
become such a big problem in Brazil in recent years and how the
outbreak is connected to the release of genetically modified mosquitoes
in 2012.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Okunoshima
Ōkunoshima is a small island located in the Inland Sea of Japan between
Hiroshima and Shikoku. During World War II the island used to be a
top-secret military site manufacturing poison gas for chemical warfare.
Today, it’s completely overrun with cute, fluffy bunnies who are the
island’s main inhabitants.
Between 1929 and 1945, Okunoshima Island was a chemical warfare
production site for the Imperial Japanese Army that produced over six
kilotons of mustard gas. The island was chosen for its isolation,
conducive to security, and because it was far enough from Tokyo and
other areas in case of disaster. The program was shrouded in secrecy and
during its 16 years of operation, Okunoshima was even erased from maps.
Residents and potential employees were not told what the plant was
manufacturing and everything was kept secret.
With the end of the war, documents concerning the plant were burned
and Allied Occupation Forces disposed of the gas either by dumping,
burning, or burying it, and people were told to be silent about the
project.
According to some sources, the
rabbits were brought to Okunoshima to test the effects of the poison and
released by workers when World War II ended. Others sources claim that a
group of schoolchildren were on a field trip, when they released eight
rabbits in 1971. Regardless, the original bunnies of Okunoshima and
their successive generations of offspring thrived in their predator-free
environment.
Today the 700,000
square-meter island is home to more than 300 rabbits that roam freely,
earning the nickname of Usagi Shima, or Rabbit Island. Though wild, the
rabbits on the island are used to humans and will approach visitors in
search of a snack, and hop on to laps. Visitors are allowed to pet and
feed the animals, but in an effort to preserve the bunny population,
dogs and cats are not allowed on the island. Pellets of rabbit food are
sold for ¥100 a cup at the Kyukamura Okunoshima resort hotel located on
the island. The hotel has recently seen a steep increase in visitors to
the island since knowledge of the island’s furry residents spread on the
Internet.
Although most visitors to the island come here to see
the bunnies, Rabbit Island’s poison gas legacy isn’t over. Okunoshima
is also home to the Poison Gas Museum opened in 1988, in order to alert
as many people as possible to the dreadful truths about poison gas.
Some
argue the island might not be completely safe as there has never been
any major decontamination of the whole island. It’s rumoured that there
are several sealed locations on the island where workers reportedly
buried gas when the war ended.
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