One more question:

What effect will this have on our food supply? I haven't read the Japan threads here ('cept for this one) but is anyone even talking about the potential harm to the world's oceans and our food supply?

Spent $300 more on canned goods today...

Crazy, crazy, crazy!

An excellent set of questions... If we go with the idea that there are Those who would eliminate most of the Human race, however, what we see makes sense, n'est pas?

Originally posted by Amaterasu
An excellent set of questions... If we go with the idea that there are Those who would eliminate most of the Human race, however, what we see makes sense, n'est pas?

You are correct, is there a more sinister motive as to why the governments and corporations would like toxic radio active clouds sweeping the earth, that isn't as warm and fuzzy as the phoney non-answers they feed us minute by minute hour by hour while we are being endangered and imperriled through their actions?

Bit out of touch at present as am traveling thus limited to info from my mobile and radio news reports on an old am radio that the owner of the boat riding downriver with owns.. Thus cant make a full assesment.. But going by what pieced together thus far theres a few factors at work..
1. Translation errors as on radio the head of the fukushima reactor did say that it is an emergency situation ..
Which leads me to suspect the same for information sent to foriegn embassies in japan being translated wrongly.
2. The usual tendency of western media to exaggerate and fearmonger for ratings ..
3. Misinfo given by governments on all sides .. The usual politicians and their idiotic games..
4. The japanese are used to earthquakes its a fact of life in japan and growing up there learn to handle them with most keeping emergency kits on hand and buildings designed to withstand them.. Unfortuneatly this one was larger than normal along with the tsunami that followed.. Even so the japanese are remaining calm and doing all they can to help each other out.. The panic is coming mostly from foriegners in japan who arent familiar with earthquakes nor the way japan responds to them - thus the mass exodus at the airport all the people interviewed on radio at the airport were westerners..
The combination of factors leads me to similar questions .. Not sure what to make of it tbh other than something odd with the picture and not being familiar with reactor technology wont attempt a guess for an answer..
Excellent questions and great thread as always Proto S&F

Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
I just came into contact with the Zeitgeist movement via their film, and while I dont agree with every single thing they claim, (they claim there is no human nature, I disagree, natural selection HAS imbued us with some common drives, feelings, morals, etc.) they actually discuss this very topic. How do we move away from a profit driven society and all the problems and misery it causes human beings?

I offer a solution... I'm pretty sure you may have seen it... The End of Entropy (read first) is the foundational piece, The Ethical Planetarian Party Platform is the structure. Both are linked in my sig.

As to Human nature, yes. There is such a thing, but what we are TOLD it is and what it really is are two different things. Because we are twisted and confined in a system of money with Them in control, when They do bad things, They blame it on "Human nature," when They pull strings and we react, it's called Human nature, but Human nature is loving, caring and giving once the constraints of money are removed.

I recommend reading a book called A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit. In it she shows how we behave when money breaks down. Human nature is beautiful when freed to express itself fully.

Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler

Originally posted by Amaterasu
An excellent set of questions... If we go with the idea that there are Those who would eliminate most of the Human race, however, what we see makes sense, n'est pas?

You are correct, is there a more sinister motive as to why the governments and corporations would like toxic radio active clouds sweeping the earth, that isn't as warm and fuzzy as the phoney non-answers they feed us minute by minute hour by hour while we are being endangered and imperriled through their actions?

Yeah, it is sad to realize that we are being killed off - and mostly, there's nothing we can do about it... Except come together and "take over." Divided we are conquered.