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Major Earthquake In Japan Major Tsunamis

KharmaGirl

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Burma, not China. And for what it's worth there was one where I live last week. Life continued on....
 

SpasticGramps

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Fears rise that Japan could sell off U.S. debt Washington Times
Some lawmakers and market analysts are expressing rising concerns that a demand for capital by earthquake-ravaged Japan could lead it to sell off some of its huge holdings of U.S.-issued debt, leaving the federal government in an even tighter financial pinch.

Others say a major debt sell-off by Tokyo is unlikely, but noted that the mere fact that questions are being raised speaks volumes about the risks involved in relying so heavily on foreign investors to fund U.S. debt.

“This natural disaster in Japan concerns me that it could speed up what’s coming, because they are the second leading buyer of our debt,” Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, told The Washington Times. “Small degrees of differences in how much they buy of our debt, I think, can make a big difference in interest rates that we have to pay people to buy our debt.”

With the federal government having piled up $14.2 trillion in debt, budget experts are warning that the country is on an unsustainable fiscal path.

Black Swan spreading it's wings maybe?

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Mountain

Fears rise that Japan could sell off U.S. debt Washington Times


Black Swan spreading it's wings maybe?
Was watching Countdown to Zero about world nuclear stuff awhile back, great documentary BTW, and one interesting point was if there's the possibility that something could happen it's just a matter of when.

I thought about the 'Japan selling part of it's US debt thing' soon after the quake. I'm ignorant about that stuff really but at the least are they gonna continue to buy US debt the way they've been with what's going on?

And for what it's worth there was one where I live last week. Life continued on....
Yeah quakes have been going on for billions of years, some pretty bad though, just like a few specks falling from the sky all the time but every once in awhile an asteroid comes along. Just a matter of time but probably not in my life.
 

ion

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im no financier myself Mtn....but i doubt they'll be able to sell treasuries. nobody really wants to but them and the FedRes has been buying the bulk of them for a spell now. yes, you read that correctly, the Fed is buying the majority of u.s. debt now, funny eh?

the repercussions of this nuke debalce will be/are vast. everyday new doom/gloom is coimng out of there....and do not inform yourself about any issues dealing with japan from MSM, Ja.gov is actively/daily lying about the severity......gotta 'save face' ya know.

mass emigration of japanese citizens will probly come....to somewhere, major real estate clusterFck on an island thats pretty small, fishing industry down the tubes..(a good thing), MAJOR tech production/supply cuts that are just being felt now, toyota plants(lots in u.s.) getting ready for shutdown, ja.gov finances have been ready to shit the bed for years now and after this will sleep in a bed of shit, how about some radioactive iodine-131 coating your cali cannabis this summer?...........hemp/cannabis is a magnificent plant, it has the capability to purify landscapes naturally by absorbing toxins and radiation(i believe was used at chernobyl or at least experimented with...sorry no link)....through its roots. its used in various environmentally-friendly waste cleanup protocols. .......

lotta issues going on at the moment, one could say. what can you do? at the very least, know whats going on to the best of your ability. what i think i know is that this incident will start to impact my daily life soon and has the possibility to get worse. plus, unless the core melts thru the bldg and into the strata, i 'shouldnt' need to worry about airborne radiation in my neck of the hoods. i also know that if the Ja.gov issues any releases, whatever they are talking about is 5x worse than what they are saying.....its been SOP since 3.11

luckily, my coping skills are intact and the world crisis off switch is a puff away.
 
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Mountain

im no financier myself Mtn....but i doubt they'll be able to sell treasuries. nobody really wants to but them and the FedRes has been buying the bulk of them for a spell now./quote]
That's a good point but everything has it's price. What would happen if Japan could sell them below market price? Is that possible? Either way Japan's resources will be focused internally for quite awhile.

Haven't talked to my friend in Japan since the day after this happened and should check in. He's in Tokyo and must be pretty intense.
 
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e4ian

fukushima.why did they build a nuclear power plant so close to the sea ? [didnt they have earthquakes in 1971 or summat]
 
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Mountain

fukushima.why did they build a nuclear power plant so close to the sea ? [didnt they have earthquakes in 1971 or summat]

Heard they were ready for a big quake but just not for a tsunami...especially one that big. It was a massive wall of water. I mean how often have tsunamis anywhere near that size hit the planet in recorded history and even those were in limited areas. You can have large quakes but not many tsunamis produced...from my limited knowledge perspective. Hindsight being what it is...oh well.
 
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Mountain

Here's a wild pic. I guess they thought it was so safe there's a lot of agriculture land right around the facility. You think they'll be producing anything on that acreage anytime soon? Look at how that 'smoke' is settling in on the ocean. I don't see this as a Chernobyl but with the apparent reactor breach(es) what may this do to the ocean in the long run at least in that general area?

 
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e4ian

mother nature cant be harnesed [or predicted..]

mother nature cant be harnesed [or predicted..]

Heard they were ready for a big quake but just not for a tsunami...especially one that big. It was a massive wall of water. I mean how often have tsunamis anywhere near that size hit the planet in recorded history and even those were in limited areas. You can have large quakes but not many tsunamis produced...from my limited knowledge perspective. Hindsight being what it is...oh well.


a very long time ago 'attila the hun' and his hordes of mongels were on the verge of taking over japan [or maybe china],but a tsunami wave of dread came along and wiped them all out.
we all know from docu's etc that usually tsunami's follow quakes.
so what happened was inevitable imo and maybe now japan will relocate the 'plants' further inland. [they are NUCLEAR!! after all]. thx for pic 'mountain' i never realized the pp WAS THAT CLOSE to the water...
 
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Mountain

we all know from docu's etc that usually tsunami's follow quakes.
I'll disagree with the 'usually' thing meaning for clarification that tsunamis only follow quakes, unless you have a methane hydrate event down below possibly which I think happened at least once off the northernish European coast or an asteroid hitting the ocean, but not all quakes create tsunamis. Doesn't seem like many ocean based earthquakes actually create tsunamis. Do they? For sure there have been some major tsunamis even before recorded history that show up in geological history.

so what happened was inevitable imo
I agree. If there's the possibility something can happen at some point it will.
 

TruthOrLie

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They should build all nuke plants underwater?

How does radiation work? The super heated particle lands on you and creates a cancerous reaction?

How do those foil suits save you from radiation?
 
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e4ian

canary islands [which 1. ?]

canary islands [which 1. ?]

;). apparantly at some point the side of a mountain thats being corroded/pummeled by the sea is going to break off and create a colossal tsunami. eeeeeik
 
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Mountain

;). apparantly at some point the side of a mountain thats being corroded/pummeled by the sea is going to break off and create a colossal tsunami. eeeeeik
Dude...I remember seeing that info quite a few years back on some documentary and thx for the reminder! It's like there's some major fracture in the way that area is and a HUGE chuck will just slide into the sea at some point once it lets go.
 
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