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Post by cutter on Mar 14, 2011 17:37:55 GMT -4
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Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Mar 14, 2011 18:00:00 GMT -4
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Post by leatherneckpa on Mar 14, 2011 19:10:56 GMT -4
Wow. I know this is admitting to some sort of primal sin amongst this group but I generally don't bother watching the national news. I figure they are all lying to me from the "company" script anyway.
I did tonight 'cause the wife wanted a Japan update. Saw one cit of 17,000 people wiped out and reporting over 10,000 missing. They showed their hospital, five stories tall. It had been clobbered by the tsunami all the way through the fourth floor. I am staggered. I am numb. I am so grateful to be here and alive.
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Post by capecmom on Mar 14, 2011 19:12:21 GMT -4
Very sobering pictures and video for sure.
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Post by capecmom on Mar 14, 2011 19:28:13 GMT -4
3rd reactor just blew up
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Post by capecmom on Mar 14, 2011 19:35:07 GMT -4
This one is REALLY bad-NHK (Japan) having a special news conference-they are saying the containment dome may have been breached. Radiation 10 thousand times normal level-plant being evacuated.......
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Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Mar 14, 2011 19:46:35 GMT -4
Mike I havent watched tha national news in a year and a half. I dont know if they are all lying, or if they are all guilty by omission of knowledge. THAT is why I shot that idiot box. I dont want Katie Couric or whoever deciding what news I get to see, or what part they care to show us and what parts to leave out. This IS being downplayed. Has been since day 1. Almost everything of importance is. Thank God we still have the internet, and can seek out the truth as we see fit. Thats why I think its days are numbered. Then, and only then will you see the public wake up and get mad, if the hunger pains dont do it first. I feel so bad for those people. Its unbelievable and inconcievable to me what they must be going through. But, WTH, Japan is half a world away, right?
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Post by capecmom on Mar 14, 2011 21:17:12 GMT -4
Yeah it is-but they are our fellow man and you have to feel badly. That being said, IF this ends up being like Chernobyl x3-....well you get the picture. It will effect us one way or another. Even if it's only through our economy.
Don't for get that Japan owns even more of our debt than China does. They may have to liquify it to get cash flowing in their country because their debt situation is as bad as ours and some say worse. I know if I were them I would do it.
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Post by azlonerider on Mar 14, 2011 21:41:08 GMT -4
I feel for the utter devastation the Japanese people experienced. This natural disaster has changed life forever in many ways. We are going to see the stag flation we're now beginning deepen, we're going to see food shortages in many parts of the world (including Japan and the US). Nuclear power is now something that will be even harder to move toward in the US, thus making energy more expensive over time.
The point is in one aspect it doesn't affect me one bit, but because a bunch of idiots in Washington decided to move us with the rest of the world toward a global economy I am affected in ways that I don't even know yet.
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Post by rAcErRicK on Mar 14, 2011 22:23:16 GMT -4
Well said Rick, Jules and Andy. The effects of this, even at this point will be felt for many many years to come, and it may very well not be over yet. If the meltdowns actually happen, and it is very possible there will be more earthquakes, it could easily compound itself.
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Post by leatherneckpa on Mar 15, 2011 10:13:54 GMT -4
I have to agree with most everything said so far. A part of me does sympathize for the people, not the government. I learned a long time ago that people are just people all around the world, it takes a either a government or a religion to really screw things up. And if you want to do it double quick, combine the two!!
There is no doubt that there will be other quakes. It's just a geologic fact that the Japanese islands grew up out of oceanic volcanoes over a subduction zone. That's not going to change. And that brings me to an interesting thought, in what Rick calls a "morbid train wreck kind of way". Will a true melt-down of a nuclear reactor result in an increase of seismic activity in an already unstable region? We've never had a chance to observe this possibility before.
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Post by rAcErRicK on Mar 17, 2011 21:32:14 GMT -4
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Post by rAcErRicK on Mar 17, 2011 22:01:39 GMT -4
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Post by rAcErRicK on Mar 18, 2011 8:23:05 GMT -4
Just for the record, This guy is a retired U.S. Geological expert, with multiple qualifications, AND a very successful reputation of predicting seismic activity, and he agrees with the astroligers, and mentioned the very same things that could likely trigger such a thing. Sooo again, we shall see.
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Post by capecmom on Mar 18, 2011 8:46:34 GMT -4
I had heard of this guy before and his accuracy in predicting things. I had not seen the interview with Cavuto-Thanks Rick!
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