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August 30, 2011
I just heard on public TV that "Japan is through!" If that does not send shock waves, I don't know what will! This gentleman in perfectly clear English pointed to this factors
1/ Japan will never recover
2/ Leading corporations are getting out of the country with their lives
3/ The Fukishima Power system failure affected the entire industrial base of Japan, putting up more cost to the consumer and manufacturer
4/ Radiation issue is a ominous political event that could close down Tokyo in the near future. New Prime Minister just came to power.
5/ the aging population indicates that the limited birth rate in Japan has put a end to growth curve for future employment potential for the country, suggesting that it would have to import labor.
Should give markets goose-flesh this week. China's banking system is setting up it's fortress bunkering down financially with more cash on hand and less in the red ink on balance sheets.
Originally posted by Ghost375
That looks highly suspect to me. Steve Quayle sounds a little loony if you ask me.
Either the Fukushima disaster is a little bit worse than the authorities are letting on, or all of Japan is going to die.
Seeing as there aren't massive illnesses already, I think there's a bunch of people creating a hoax for their own agenda. AKA anti-nuclear activists are blowing it out of proportion.
There's some truth in some statements, such as the population growth problem in Japan, which actually I don't think is such a big problem. The government has been giving some tax breaks to encourage families to have more children but that preceded the Fukushima incident.
Originally posted by Klassified
Can anyone reasonably verify or falsify this mans claims? It sounds a bit overboard to me, but Japan has been through hell. And we can be reasonably certain we're not getting the whole story, so maybe things are much worse than what we're being led to believe.
Originally posted by 11I11
No need for an insider, we already know its over for Japan.
Originally posted by Ghost375
That looks highly suspect to me. Steve Quayle sounds a little loony if you ask me.
Either the Fukushima disaster is a little bit worse than the authorities are letting on, or all of Japan is going to die.
Seeing as there aren't massive illnesses already, I think there's a bunch of people creating a hoax for their own agenda. AKA anti-nuclear activists are blowing it out of proportion.
Originally posted by SavedOne
Japan survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki and they will survive Fukushima. Yes it's a serious problem that will impact them for years (probably decades), but no, there's no indication that companies are fleeing Japan and that Tokyo is on the verge of being shut down, that's just crazy talk.
caesium-134 has a half-life of 2 years while that of caesium-137 is 30 years
The amount of radioactive cesium-137 that has so far been released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is equal to 168 Hiroshima atomic bombs, according to government estimates.
Cesium-137 is a radioactive isotope of cesium, and is the principal source of radiation in the dead zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
In a report on Thursday, the Japanese daily Tokyo Shimbun said the government calculated that the amount of cesium released in the six months since the three reactors were hit by the earthquake and tsunami is 15,000 tera becquerels.
In comparison, Little Boy, the World War II bomb dropped on the western Japanese city of Hiroshima, released 89 tera becquerels.
The figures were submitted by Prime Minister Naoto Kan's cabinet to a lower house committee.
But despite the estimate, nuclear experts say it is impossible to properly compare the reactor meltdowns at Fukushima with the dropping of an atomic bomb, which was designed to inflict damage.
Originally posted by Greensage
I think the rush is to try to find a new string to hang on to, but sadly we are all connected together. Japan will fail because we all will fail with the Almighty Dollar! It is just the icing melts first!
Poor Japan, they really are so brave to be first in line to what the World is about ready to face! The truth that we have a failed Nuclear system across the planet would have found us all one way or another; Fukushima was an accident by Nature (GOD) and one we should not dismiss so lightly because it is still happening!
Not only our failed Nuke plants across the planet (failed technology), but the fact that the Earth just happens to be ready to make a big change was something that no one will escape before long!
Bless Japan now, and then Bless ourselves! We will need it!
Maybe if Man had walked a more righteous path, one that included the Truth, we could all be there right now picking Japan up and saving her children for the Future. That is wishful thinking, maybe it was an option a long time ago, to be honest, to be fair, and to be ecologically and economically sound; sadly the "powers" had already put this failing to play the moment they began to steal, lie, and manipulate for selfish needs!
My guess is that Money is worth more than People! Shame! Shameful!