Japan Continues To Be Hammered By Catastrophes

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As Japan is hammered by yet another natural disaster, 1 dead, 2 missing, over 1 million urged to evacuate as typhoon nears.  Gov’t warns of partial collapse of landslide dams in Nara, Wakayama prefectures.  This reminds me of the floods we had here.  I feel sorry for the Japanese people!  But not the Japanese government.  It continues to try to expand its imperial reach using US power while at the same time, trying to restart its old trade surplus relationship with the US via desperate attempts at making the yen weaker vis a vis the dollar.

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The nuclear power plant disaster has pretty much exited the mainstream news in the US.  Just like in the 1950′s and 1960′s, we are to simply ignore the silent killers.  That is, nuclear pollution is invisible and quite insidious and spreads tremendous distances extremely easily and then lodges itself within all life systems.

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Because you can’t see, smell or touch it, it is easy to ignore.  But it is a long term peril as we learned during the long years of the great cancer epidemic that plagues us still.  Here is yet another You Tube video trying to explain all of this from Al Jazeera:  Japan’s Fukushima ‘worst in history’ – YouTube

Protesters voice distrust, concern in huge anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo – The Mainichi Daily News which, like the ongoing attempts at demonstrating against Wall Street has been dropped by our news media here in the US.  The anti-nuclear protests in Japan have just begun!  The people of Tokyo have daily reminders, they sit on the edge of the abyss.  What if the contamination spreads even thicker over time?  It builds up relentlessly.

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The US media mentioned today, in one story at the NYT, for example, that the leaks out of Fukushima are now ‘small’.  But this ‘small’ leak is insidious, constant and above all, unstoppable.  Over time, it makes things relentlessly worse.  And it is no mere pin prick, either!

.Groundwater flowing into Fukushima nuclear plant

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“The suspected groundwater inflow is now unlikely to cause problems as the plant is capable of treating nearly 1,000 tons of radiation-contaminated water,” said an official at the company known as TEPCO.

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But the inflow is expected to affect efforts to contain the Fukushima nuclear crisis. “We should assess the groundwater inflow and readjust an overall plan for treating contaminated water,” said an official of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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They have no idea how much of this radiation poison is infiltrating the groundwater around this very wet part of Japan.  And the typhoons make this all much worse.  As water saturates the ground, the infiltration of water from the crippled plant will co-mingle even more under increased hydraulic pressure.

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Nuclear crisis drives down land prices in disaster areas: the wealth held by the citizens in this section of Japan is rapidly collapsing.  The ones who held lands near the nuclear power plant have fallen to zero value.  Anger about this is rising, of course.  The famous Japanese patience is fading as they realize this is forever, not a short evacuation with things resuming normality later.  This is forever.

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Embarrassed experts who assured us that a huge number of nuclear power plants would save us from being warmer in winter are now apologizing for misleading people:  Members of nuclear academic society voice repentance over Fukushima disaster

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When tens of thousands of people marched through central Tokyo on Sept. 19 in the country’s largest anti-nuclear demonstration since the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, there were a variety of reasons for people to be there — fear, anger, loneliness, longing for home, and distrust just a few of them.

Hisashi Ninokata, a professor with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, said, “A myth that nuclear plants were completely safe took on a life of its own and delayed efforts to improve their safety. We experts, too, were overconfident that a nuclear disaster of such magnitude would never happen.”

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They wring their hands in despair yet still say, this is necessary since Japan needs nuclear energy no matter what.  Many Japanese have volunteered to cut energy use even more than previously and they use, per capita, far less than US citizens.  But the problem isn’t domestic.  The energy has to be produced in greatest excess to fuel the manufacturing export businesses!

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That is, Japan will eventually, over time, become totally uninhabitable due to one nuclear power accident and then another over the next 100 years, all for exporting cars to the US.  That is, Japan is one of the most geologically active and tsunami-prone nations on earth and it also is hit by wars and mega-typhoons.  This used to permeate the culture where art and poetry focused on the failure of things to exist.  This metaphysical sadness for the short lives of things is expressed in the nature of the cherry blossoms that bloom and then the pedals fall in a shower upon the damp earth.

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Meanwhile, Japan steps into South China Sea territorial feud ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

 

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Philippine and Japanese diplomats recently discussed in Tokyo the need to ensure that the disputes are resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law. The Philippines proposed that the two countries set up a “permanent working group” that would regularly tackle the disputes and other Asian maritime concerns, a Philippine official said Tuesday.

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Japan is not a party to the conflicting claims in the vast South China Sea and its entry into the debate is likely to anger Beijing. China claims the entire potentially oil-rich region, which is also claimed in part by five other countries or territories.

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China has called for bilateral negotiations on the disputes, a strategy that would effectively shut out other countries like the United States or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, to which the Philippines and three other claimants belong.

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So, Japan bravely pokes its nose into areas where there is great likelihood of war!  Yes, the peaceful Japanese are not so peaceful.  This is a looming war over oil and gas rights.  The US doesn’t want China to have this while we invade Libya, seeking oil and gas.  The US is very, very willing to go to war with any oil nation we can target.  China wants to claim some tiny islands as an excuse for territoriality but then, so does Europe and the US!

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This is normal.  What isn’t normal is Japan forming alliances with other countries to thwart China while at the same time, China is Japan’s biggest trade partner.  Japan is frantically moving its factories to the very unstable and confusing venues in India.  Japan liked the way China was run, it is draconian.  India is pure chaos.

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The Japanese plan of using US power to expand influence is doomed to failure since the US is a sovereign poverty country, basically, the poorest on earth.  Our days of grand schemes to control events via military might is falling fast which is why we are relying on robot assassins more and more.

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Here is some goofy news about US desires to attack an oil-rich nation:  US Condemns Iran for Making Civilian Nuclear Sites Harder to Bomb — News from Antiwar.com

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Iranian nuclear chief Fereidoun Abbasi responded by saying that the only reason the move was made was because the US is constantly threatening to attack their civilian infrastructure, and that they decided to “make the Americans and their allies work tougher” in bombing the sites.

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As usual, we demand everyone who has oil and is on our hit list, disarm, first.  They may not protect themselves.  It is painfully obvious, the minute anyone complies with these demands is killed.  So of course, the Iranians refuse.

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The US has finally gotten France to join Canada in condemning Palestinian attempts at going to the UN for help.  The US wants to attack Iran and eliminate the Palestinians.  This is all about oil and religion which shouldn’t mix but are very mixed these days.  I am betting Japan will also attack the Palestinians in the UN for the same reason France is doing this: so they can piggy back ride the Pentagon in many oil wars and also keep a trade surplus running with the US.

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And this is going to destroy us long after we wreck all our target enemies.  We will have the ultimate Pyrrhic victory.

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