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Japan hit by 8.8 earthquake and tsunami; Why has no one posted about this yet?
Topic Started: Mar 12 2011, 04:26 AM (1,258 Views)
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Someone linked me to this from another site. I hope wherever she lives gets hit by a tsunami, too. That way, she can understand just how horrible this shit it...or she gets swept out to sea, either way.

Also, Capcom is taking all of its sales from Street Fighter IV for the iPhone and donating it to relief efforts in Japan. I feel kinda bad now, since I bought it almost a year ago. 3:
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Yeeeeaaaaaah, I don't buy it. >.>
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Eh, you never know.
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Along 600 miles of the Japanese sea borders are stone markings, indicating "DO NOT BUILD BEYOND THIS POINT: TSUNAMI DANGER!!"

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Every home that heeded this warning, and didn't go beyond the boundary received no damage from tsunamis last month.
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Blacklightning
Nov 14 2011, 02:48 AM
I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
game + gun = -gay
game + gun + Arem = ???


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Looks like they're getting another toonami... sorry tsunami.
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Australia's CBS exposed the "unspeakable" realities of the Japanese catastrophe in its 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is apparent throughout the new Australian report.

"In fact the whole world will be exposed from the radiation from Fukushima," Dr. Kaku told CBS reporter Liz Hayes.

"We are already getting radiation from Fukushima," Dr. Kaku said.

Just as Australia's SBS exposed in depth the reality of the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico catastrophe unlike any U.S. mainstream news station, Sunday, Australia's CBS has now exposed in depth the Fukushima catastrophe. (See embedded Youtube video of the program on this page left.)

"The Fukushima crisis is far from over. The crippled nuclear power plant is still leaking; and, judging from Chernobyl, recovery will not be measured in years, more like centuries," reported the Australian presenter Liz Hayes.

Best known in Australia for reporting on 60 Minutes, Hayes is also known as former co-host of Australia's Today, a position she held by popular demand for a decade.

As Hayes traveled through now deserted areas of rubble, that were once houses, toward Fukushima, the silence was shattered by the beeping of deadly gamma radiation fallout 40 kilometers from the crippled nuclear power plant.

"Gamma radiation is a stronger form of radiation and will go through most things apart from lead," warned Frank Jackson, refusing to to drive Hayes any further.

Hayes stated after the Fukushima assignment, "When I realised my only safety devices on my latest assignment were a couple of Geiger counters, some pretty flimsy pieces of protective clothing and a burly bloke named Frank, I must say I feared this was one of those times when the risks didn’t add up."

Introducing Dr. Kaku on the Fukushima 60 Minutes program, Hayes said, "If you thought nuclear power had been averted in Japan, then meet physicist Michio Kaku."

Dr. Kaku told Hayes, "If you've been exposed to Cesium because you're a nuclear power worker, even after your long dead and buried, your grave site will be radioactive."

"Your great grand kids can come to your grave site with a Geiger counter and see that great granddaddy still has radiation at his grave site."

Unimaginable humanitarian catastrophe: Nuclear refugees

So far, over 135,000 Japanese people have been forced to evacuate according to Hayes.

Riding toward Fukushima, through piles of rubble for stretches where homes once stood, documented in CBS program, Hayes said, "Streets and towns and villages are deserted."

"And locals have been told their food and water may be contaminated."

Stopping along the way, the Geiger showed that a head of cabbage registered as much radiation as an X-ray.

"So every time you have a cabbage, you have an X-ray," said Hayes.

Radiation refugees by the thousands, wearing masks, live in cardboard shelters, sleeping on the floors of public buildings, with few possessions and little to no privacy, as Hayes saw first-hand and was documented by CBS.

"People have gone to a lot of trouble to make cardboard box into their home."

Many Japanese people fear their country will never fully recover.

"Do you think you'll ever be able to take food, water and air you breathe for granted again?" Hayes asked Chia Maxamoto.

"Ah, knowingly? I don't think so."

Dr. Kaku asserted about the Japanese people, "These are guinea pigs, absolute human guinea pigs."

Chernobyl plant and people still crippled and crippling

Hayes of CBS went to Chernobyl to document the scene there that is still "incredibly radioactive."

"It is a terrible reminder of the horrors those rescue workers faced of not just a fire, but an invisible enemy."

With what she called her "trusty producer, Phil Goyen, and crew, Scott Morelli and David Ballment, in toe," Hayes "headed into the exclusion zone of Chernobyl, the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster."

Hayes wrote about the Chernobyl dead zone, "where remnants of lives once lived can be seen everywhere. Homes and schools and playgrounds frozen in time from the day workers and their families were ordered out, never to return.

"We entered a hospital where the first fire fighters to attend the exploding nuclear plant were taken. Their uniforms are still in the basement, and still highly radioactive."

She said that entering the radiation hospital was a moment she will never forget, furthering, "For the first time I had a sense of the fear and horror those rescue workers must have felt. A terrible death from something they couldn’t see or touch or smell, but certainly felt."

Children born years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster still develop cancer from it, as documented by CBS when Hayes was at Kievis Radiation Hospital built specifically for Chernobyl victims, some of whom Hayes interviewed.

These children are "battling cancer and other illnesses believed to be caused by the contamination," she said.

Children over 32 miles from Fukushima ground zero are already suffering fatigue, diarrhea, and nosebleeds, the three most common of eight radiation sickness signs, the three in the earliest stage of the disease. Five hundred Fukushima children already have radiation in their thyroids.

Explaining that 5,000 tons of Boric acid, concrete and sand were used to bury Chernobyl's reactor, Dr. Kaku added, "It took years to do this and created a sarcophagus."

"We all have Chernobyl radiation in out bodies."

With the Chernobyl power plant in the background, Hayes said there "now a mere band aid over a molten core that is still hot and some still fear is still melting."

A new sarcophagus has to built because the original one is breaking down.

"The Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still far from over," said Hayes, reporting that to this day, there is still a 30 kilometer exclusion zone around the nuclear energy plant.

Since 1986, over 5 million people have been affected around Chernobyl according to scientist Iryna Lubunska, interviewed by Hayes.

"One of the things I feel I should know now is where a nuclear reactor is in any country, anywhere in the world, because it might affect me even if I don't live in that country," said Hayes.

Today, people as far away as in England are still being affected by Chernobyl.

Fukushima radiation is now combined in the U.S. with toxic radioactive tritium leaking from three-quarters of United States nuclear power plants, radiation from fracking, and radiation from the 2010 BP Gulf oil catastrophe.

Although a tight lid on Fukushima fallout information is keeping Americans in harms way after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a secret pact with Japan to continue importing its untested food, and government agreed to downplay the fallout lethality, the nuclear energy silent killer continues devouring its victims, now and will for generations, as CBS documented.


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A lower house committee of Japan's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to promote investment in solar and other renewable energy sources, marking an important step towards the country's goal of reducing its reliance on nuclear power.



The radiation crisis at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has shattered the public's confidence in the safety of atomic power, prompting an overhaul of energy policy centred on boosting generation from solar and wind.

The bill, which will require utilities to buy electricity from solar and other renewable sources, is now in line to be approved by the upper house as early as later this week. Related laws are due to take effect in July, 2012.

The bill's passage follows weeks of intense deliberations between ruling and opposition parties, and paves the way for the resignation of unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who had designated its passage as a condition of his departure.

"It is for certain that we are steering our wheels toward the promotion of the renewable sector," Yasutoshi Nishimura, a lawmaker in the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party who helped negotiate the bill, told Reuters in a recent interview.

The bill leaves key details unresolved that could ultimately dilute its impact on energy policy. These include the price to be paid by utilities for green energy, which will be decided by a parliament-appointed panel not set to meet until next year.

Japan's revolving-door governments is another concern given the mandatory review of the scheme after 3 years.

The new laws will require utilities to buy any amount of electricity generated from solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and small-sized hydro power plants at preset rates for up to 20 years, and allow utilities to pass the cost to end-users.

The bill includes provisions for energy-intensive industries, such as electric furnace steel makers, that will trim extra costs by at least 80 per cent in a bid to cushion the impact on the world's third-biggest economy.

The government has said it wants the feed-in tariff scheme to boost capacity of the five renewable energy types by more than 30,000 megawatts (MW) over a decade. That would add over 12 per cent to Japan's total generation capacity before the nuclear disaster of 240,000 MW.

But critics of the bill have argued that the mandatory review after 3 years may prevent companies and individuals from taking the risk of investing in renewable energy projects, some of which can take much longer to generate profits.


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Such a tragedy. I feel terrible for the people of Japan.
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I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
game + gun = -gay
game + gun + Arem = ???


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It's pathetic that this tsunami from months ago is going to affect Japan for generations, and probably a good portion of the world as well. It's more pathetic that it's only after a nuclear power plant goes down that they start clamoring for alternative energy.

Do you realize that France and the United States of America are the countries with the most nuclear power usage, what are supposedly advanced countries? France's plan is to bury all the nuclear waste in a glass prison miles underground and pray that people in the future will remember to maintain the lairs so that the encasement doesn't inevitably erode and leak nuclear waste into the ground and groundwater.

The United States' plan is to dunk the nuclear waste in giant vats of water for generations. Greatest terrorist act you can perform in the entire world is to drain the water from one of these facilities. The used fuel rods will quickly heat up, combust, and explode, leaving radioactivity to spread through the winds.

It's like everyone's too blind to see ten years ahead of themselves, never mind decades. If you're a bureaucrat, what the hell does it matter anyways? Money is good, money is great, am I right?
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Pathetic? Quite possibly. Foolish? Most certainly. Too little too late? Of a certain.

Yet my pity for those caught in the crossfire remains. Sadly, there's no good way to dispose of nuclear materials from the planet except hurl it into space.
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I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
game + gun = -gay
game + gun + Arem = ???


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Nuclear power isn't actually all that efficient lolol

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You'd think by now we'd have done something about alternate means of energy...
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Considering Brazil, which as I recall is considered a third world country to those that like labels, has been using ethanol extracted from sugar cane as car fuel forover three decades as well as prominently utilising hydroelectricity, I don't think anyone has an excuse, especially when they've made major oil discoveries and could very well be a large supplier of oil when the US is done having it's way with the Middle East the Middle East dries up.

Seriously, why ARE we still using nuclear energy? Not only is it not efficient, but it's more harmful than good. There's absolutely no basis for it considering the abundance of renewable fuel sources found plentifully in the US, especially considering they have no market for fossil fuels anyway. Nuclear power is an accident waiting to happen and now we've seen one really devastating example of it.
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Because the costs of constructing new power plants, developing lines for geothermal power, setting up solar panels, and creating fields of crops that need to be watered, harvested, and transformed into resources and materials, is way too high compared to just keep working with what we've got. Politicians and bureaucrats don't care about the future, they care about lining their pockets here and now.

We don't even need oil. We can get what we need from a simple plant like hemp. Hemp for fuel, hemp for plastics, hemp for paper, hemp oil, hemp wood for construction- So many uses from just one, easy to maintain, crop that it's baffling why we're still using oil. It's not cost-effective to drill oil, ship oil, tariff oil, distribute oil, and use oil, but everything we use requires oil. Oil will inevitably run out, plants won't (save for some sort of disease, but hemp has survived since forever anyways.) But we can't even consider something cheap and effective like hemp, because it's related to marijuana, and we all know that marijuana is more dangerous than cocaine and heroin. No, really, the government list of prohibited drugs says that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act

Just for the sake of it, Canada's list has marijuana slightly lower, but still more dangerous than LSD. Yeah.

Ass backwardsville, USA.
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Woah.

Edit: Also, this is way too optimistic, but at least they're trying xD
Edited by Daiyi, Aug 24 2011, 09:14 PM.

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