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10,000 Believed Dead as Threat Mounts of Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns

10,000 Believed Dead as Threat Mounts of Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns
SENDAI, Japan (AP) – The estimated death toll from Japan’s disasters climbed past 10,000 Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns and hundreds of thousands of people struggled to find food and water. The prime minister said it was the nation’s worst crisis since World War II.
Nuclear plant operators worked frantically to try to keep temperatures down in several reactors crippled by the earthquake and tsunami, wrecking at least two by dumping sea water into them in last-ditch efforts to avoid meltdowns. Officials warned of a second explosion but said it would not pose a health threat.


Near-freezing temperatures compounded the misery of survivors along hundreds of miles (kilometers) of the northeastern coast battered by the tsunami that smashed inland with breathtaking fury. Rescuers pulled bodies from mud-covered jumbles of wrecked houses, shattered tree trunks, twisted cars and tangled power lines while survivors examined the ruined remains.

One rare bit of good news was the rescue of a 60-year-old man swept away by the tsunami who clung to the roof of his house for two days until a military vessel spotted him waving a red cloth about 10 miles (15 kilometers) offshore.

The death toll surged because of a report from Miyagi, one of the three hardest hit states. The police chief told disaster relief officials more than 10,000 people were killed, police spokesman Go Sugawara told The Associated Press. That was an estimate—only 400 people have been confirmed dead in Miyagi, which has a population of 2.3 million.

According to officials, more than 1,400 people were confirmed dead—including 200 people whose bodies were found Sunday along the coast—and more than 1,000 were missing in Friday’s disasters. Another 1,700 were injured.

For Japan, one of the world’s leading economies with ultramodern infrastructure, the disasters plunged ordinary life into nearly unimaginable deprivation.

Hundreds of thousands of hungry survivors huddled in darkened emergency centers that were cut off from rescuers, aid and electricity. At least 1.4 million households had gone without water since the quake struck and some 1.9 million households were without electricity.

While the government doubled the number of soldiers deployed in the aid effort to 100,000 and sent 120,000 blankets, 120,000 bottles of water and 29,000 gallons (110,000 liters) of gasoline plus food to the affected areas, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said electricity would take days to restore. In the meantime, he said, electricity would be rationed with rolling blackouts to several cities, including Tokyo.

“This is Japan’s most severe crisis since the war ended 65 years ago,” Kan told reporters, adding that Japan’s future would be decided by its response.

In Rikuzentakata, a port city of over 20,000 virtually wiped out by the tsunami, Etsuko Koyama escaped the water rushing through the third floor of her home but lost her grip on her daughter’s hand and has not found her.

“I haven’t given up hope yet,” Koyama told public broadcaster NHK, wiping tears from her eyes. “I saved myself, but I couldn’t save my daughter.”

10,000 Believed Dead as Threat Mounts of Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns

A young man described what ran through his mind before he escaped in a separate rescue. “I thought to myself, ah, this is how I will die,” Tatsuro Ishikawa, his face bruised and cut, told NHK as he sat in striped hospital pajamas.

Japanese officials raised their estimate Sunday of the quake’s magnitude to 9.0, a notch above the U.S. Geological Survey’s reading of 8.9. Either way, it was the strongest quake ever recorded in Japan, which lies on a seismically active arc. A volcano on the southern island of Kyushu—hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the quake’ epicenter—also resumed spewing ash and rock Sunday after a couple of quiet weeks, Japan’s weather agency said.

Dozens of countries have offered assistance. Two U.S. aircraft carrier groups were off Japan’s coast and ready to help. Helicopters were flying from one of the carriers, the USS Ronald Reagan, delivering food and water in Miyagi.

Two other U.S. rescue teams of 72 personnel each and rescue dogs arrived Sunday, as did a five-dog team from Singapore.

Still, large areas of the countryside remained surrounded by water and unreachable. Fuel stations were closed, though at some, cars waited in lines hundreds of vehicles long.

The United States and a several countries in Europe urged their citizens to avoid travel to Japan. France took the added step of suggesting people leave Tokyo in case radiation reached the city.

Community after community traced the vast extent of the devastation.

In the town of Minamisanrikucho, 10,000 people—nearly two-thirds of the population—have not been heard from since the tsunami wiped it out, a government spokesman said. NHK showed only a couple concrete structures still standing, and the bottom three floors of those buildings gutted. One of the few standing was a hospital, and a worker told NHK that hospital staff rescued about a third of the patients.

In the hard-hit port city of Sendai, firefighters with wooden picks dug through a devastated neighborhood. One of them yelled: “A corpse.” Inside a house, he had found the body of a gray-haired woman under a blanket.

A few minutes later, the firefighters spotted another—that of a man in black fleece jacket and pants, crumpled in a partial fetal position at the bottom of a wooden stairwell. From outside, while the top of the house seemed almost untouched, the first floor where the body was had been inundated. A minivan lay embedded in one outer wall, which had been ripped away, pulverized beside a mangled bicycle.

The man’s neighbor, 24-year-old Ayumi Osuga, dug through the remains of her own house, her white mittens covered by dark mud.

Osuga said she had been practicing origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into figures, with her three children when the quake stuck. She recalled her husband’s shouted warning from outside: “‘GET OUT OF THERE NOW!’”

She gathered her children—aged 2 to 6—and fled in her car to higher ground with her husband. They spent the night in a hilltop home belonging to her husband’s family about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away.

“My family, my children. We are lucky to be alive,” she said.

“I have come to realize what is important in life,” Osuga said, nervously flicking ashes from a cigarette onto the rubble at her feet as a giant column of black smoke billowed in the distance.

As night fell and temperatures dropped to freezing in Sendai, people who had slept in underpasses or offices the past two nights gathered for warmth in community centers, schools and City Hall.

At a large refinery on the outskirts of the city, 100-foot (30-meter) -high bright orange flames rose in the air, spitting out dark plumes of smoke. The facility has been burning since Friday. The fire’s roar could be heard from afar. Smoke burned the eyes and throat, and a gaseous stench hung in the air.

In the small town of Tagajo, also near Sendai, dazed residents roamed streets cluttered with smashed cars, broken homes and twisted metal.

Residents said the water surged in and quickly rose higher than the first floor of buildings. At Sengen General Hospital, the staff worked feverishly to haul bedridden patients up the stairs one at a time. With the halls now dark, those who can leave have gone to the local community center.

“There is still no water or power, and we’ve got some very sick people in here,” said hospital official Ikuro Matsumoto.

Police cars drove slowly through the town and warned residents through loudspeakers to seek higher ground, but most simply stood by and watched them pass.

In the town of Iwaki, there was no electricity, stores were closed and residents left as food and fuel supplies dwindled. Local police took in about 90 people and gave them blankets and rice balls, but there was no sign of government or military aid trucks.

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Todd Pitman reported from Sendai. Associated Press writers Eric Talmadge and Kelly Olsen in Koriyama and Malcolm J. Foster, Mari Yamaguchi, Tomoko A. Hosaka and Shino Yuasa in Tokyo contributed to this report.

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  • lizaz
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:48pm

    We pray for these poor people every day!!!

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    • Cesium
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:06pm

      what’s with all the praying? like that ever did anything… send some money!!! I did!

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  • Nations
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:49pm

    THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE ON A MUCH LARGER LEVEL…

    AND JOMON (ANCIENT JAPAN) SAID: “12,900 years ago, when I was in my youth, my father and I witnessed the first incoming shards of a massive comet called Dragona. It appeared as a feathered serpent as its first splintered pieces came slithering into our sector of the universe spewing its destruction thoroughly upon our beloved work. The massive comet twisted as it fragmented into numerous portions and those who saw it said it resembled a giant snake with a fiery head. Segments of it went into orbit to rain havoc down on the Earth for eons. The heaviest parts drilled deep within the planet causing massive earthquakes. Earlier, as we stood in awe watching it come to our world on our sensors at Home Base (Puma Punku). It was felt as a foreboding and deeply dreaded knowing that we must seek safety immediately. Massive fear swept over the assembled creators on assignment there for we had become accustomed to the good life. We knew all too well, that our time on Earth was about to be transformed by an act that would send massive tsunamis and earthquakes across the entire planet. Our works would be destroyed in an instant and a new test of our abilities was about to begin.

    We had already set up an outpost for our research team of geneticists in what is now biru or Peru in a place held in solid unmovable white granite stone in guarded hopes that we could survive with some of our works. We would weather the onslaught of this massive comet in the seclusion of these strong mountains. You now call it Machu Picchu. Immediately we began to build a base there amid those jagged, strong peaks. Tunnels were carved with our projected beams to provide hydra-tight facilities for research and survival. In fact the mountains were perfect as an impregnable base of operations. It still is such today. We were prepared technologically and psychologically but much of the rest of the planet would be caught by surprise. We knew we would have much to do after the onslaught of the event had devastated almost all of what we had accomplished over time: therefore, we set plans into motion for the entire planet. We designated future bases of operations and units that would help survivors and continue to restructure those who had lost their memory of who and what we were due to a psychological stress or trauma to the onboard mentality. It was a long-term plan and I would play a unifying role in its accomplishment as the time-catalyst. In essence, I had to live forever. One wishes we had detected the aberration earlier but no, some had already become complacent via selfishness. Perhaps it was this slovenly attitude that was to set us back due to our awakening negative sloth. Apparently we would face starting over in this sector of the universe. Now, a highly advanced civilization was about to gear up for catastrophe.”

    The ancient Egyptians or whomever gave them their tools and technology were even more advanced.

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  • Ashrak
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:37pm

    How long before the drum beat against nuclear energy ramps up here?
    Never let a good crisis go to waste……..

    I am so very sorry for the so many Japanese people who’s lives will never be the same. Unfortunately, this isn’t over for them. Many more will die before this passes. I look for Japan to move away from nuclear energy – that nation’s people have suffered incredibly over that thing called uranium. This happening is going to see an increase in coal and natural gas usage there over the next decade.

    The calls for electricity will be as great as the calls to dismantle the nuclear plants that remain and the destruction of those damaged. Wind mills and solar panels are going to be shown as unable to pick up the slack. The Kyoto mindset is officially overwhelmed in Japan.

    It is time to mine and it is time to drill. Japan is going to be grabbing up everything they can in their effort to rebuild. Augmenting oil, natural gas and coal supplies is something the world must now engage in to help all of us weather this storm and see the Japanese society able to pick itself up and see as many as possible survive this devastation.

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  • APatriotFirst
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:57pm

    Lets see now.

    1. A M9.0 earthquake [updated from the 8.9]
    2. A 23 foot tsunami
    3. Over 150 aftershocks of 6.? magnitude so far.
    4. Several nuclear power plants in deep trouble.
    5. No food or safe water for all that are left yet.
    6. Worries of radioactive problems.

    All of this in one very proud country with a very honorable people. I am betting on these people to make it and rebuild even better than before. They do have experience in rebuilding their country.

    My point is……..those of us who think we have problems…….think again.

    And you libs/commies…….just for once, try to think of others instead of yourselves for awhile.
    A possible nuclear meltdown just may be more important than who you can get to pay for your pension and benefits.

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  • sWampy
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:57pm

    I bet the nuclear meltdown threats in Japan are blown way, way out of proportion, just like the gulf oil spill. The liberals and the media wants high, high energy costs, because they hate this nation, the middle class, and everything our forefathers fought and died for, and will do anything to get their way.

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  • I SPY
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:44pm

    Al Gore’s mouth is watering right now.

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  • GEETAR
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:22pm

    This is a sad thing. The japanese are very proud people and to hear their embassador thanking all the countries that have came to help and keep a posative attitude even though the outcome of this disaster looks really bleak. is testament to to the loyalty and honor of the Japanese people.
    GOD BLESS ALL OF THEM!!!

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    • donh2
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:06pm

      I saw the Japanese Ambassador on Fox last night, and found him to be a very CREEPY character. He speeks with an English accent which reminded me of all those strange contemporary Hitler movies where all the Nazis speak with English accents…..Then I was reminded of how the Japanese Ambassador was giving us LIES in Washington DC while the bombs were dropping on Pearl Harbor….and here the reporter was pressing hard to get some information out of the Ambassador if a meltdown was in process….He nodded his head in a YES gesture as his mouth said NO.

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  • QuantumVerp
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:03pm

    “I sleep about 20 miles from a Holliday Inn Express every night!”

    SOLUTION SOLVED: Phase 1: How to tell a good ‘solution’ ANSWER: It will seem ‘cliche’.
    ANSWER: Pump some lead into it! (lead oxide powder)

    Hmmm… Pump some lead powder into it! Get some lead in it! The coolant water damn it! Fill it with lead! I’m printing the signs…spread the word!

    ALTERNATIVE DESTINY REQUEST: Allow molten radiation pool to drive water out of underground veins, melting it’s way down to the evacuated veins, lumping up and rolling down them veins… this is getting too deep… even for me!

    THAT CAN’T HAPPEN DESTINY REQUEST: Make a lot of fishing sinkers from all that lead and sell them at a flea market. You lose your job.

    DOWN TO EARTH REALITY: Clean up house before wife returns. Ascertain charitable abilities for Japan, our Friends.

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    • dcwu
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:31pm

      Good idea.
      Brainstorming.
      Everyone try it.
      Solutions will come.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:01pm

      If designed properly, that is exactly how a reactor should work, it should be designed to melt down deep into the ground where it will harm no body. Designing them where they can explode venting radiation into the atmosphere shows poor planning.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:27pm

      Hey Swampy, Ain’t Gravity Great!!! Just as good for cleaning up a meltdown as it is in picking up the kids toys every day at 5pm, before the wife gets home!

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:50pm

    Needless to say we all morn for and pray for the peoples of Japan. Looking at the agricultural fields that will be rendered useless with all the chemicals used by a modern society along with the sea salt, will I fear prevent those fields from being productive for generations.

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  • Susie
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:34pm

    Even though I love this web site, I am so disappointed in The Blaze and in Fox News. Of all the media outlets, I was sure that Fox and The Blaze would be putting out the truth !! Not only, are you trying to link these tragic deaths with a nuclear accident but you are lying about the dangers inherent in such an occurrence and the visual is something MSNBC would do. This is not up to Blaze standards of accuracy and I noticed that even Fox News is fear-mongering on this.
    First of all the old method of calculating radio-active tolerances known as the Linear Threshold or any radiation is too much, method, was discarded by real science long ago. Only the anti-nuclear eco-nazis green lobby and the complicit news media uses it. And in doing so they have waged a very successful campaign of lies and deceit , succeeding in crippling and/or shutting down the nuclear power industry which is the safest, cleanest most abundant source of power, known to man. And you are aiding and abetting. Under-Exposed, What if Radiation is Actually Good for You ? by Ed Hiserodt is a pretty good layman’s explanation of why the low dose radiation which Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and now these Japanese accidents are giving off is not harmful. And scientists don’t use the term melt-down. Contact The Heartland Institute, Jay Lehr or buy the book on Amazon and stop accepting the lies and start educating yourself so you – Blaze – can do what you do best, tell the truth .

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    • Wilma
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:04pm

      Susie, thank you for reminding us to question with boldness lest we become sheeple.

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    • QuantumVerp
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:23pm

      Yeah! Tell’em Susie!

      And if you take potassium iodide, then you will be ok. If you don’t, then a radioactive isotope of iodine will find your thyroid, and you’ll have yourself a teeny tiny little nuclear reactor going off in your thyroid!

      Other than that, the other ‘deadly’ ‘scary’ radioactive isotopes are heavy, as in, fall down to ground and be cleaned up… rain concentrates fall-outs…

      but the cesium isotopes? Who knows?

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    • CyberPro
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:01pm

      Susie,

      Hunh? Are you reading the same site I am? I have not seen anyone or any stories here hyping the issue with the nuclear plants. On the contrary, they are covering the efforts to get the plants under control, but I have not seen any hyped statistics about radiation clouds.

      There have been a few comments about how this would be blown out of purportion by the left to prevent building plants here. I for one, am all for building more nuclear facilities. I think it is a very safe way to build production capacity.

      If you look at the facts as we know them now, the area was hit by somewhere between a 8.9 and 9.0 force earthquake, which caused a Tsunami. This stopped the power and cooling ability at the plants. While they were trying to get that under control, a 6.0 quake happens UNDER the nuclear plant, and a hydrogen explosion fractured the walls of the containment building of one reactor. YET the reactor vessels have not been breached! This is a testimony to how well-built they are.

      God bless and keep those impacted in any way by this tragedy, and lift them up in body and spirit.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:19pm

      @Susie
      What if Radiation is Actually Good for You ? by Ed Hiserodt is a pretty good layman’s explanation of why the low dose radiation which Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and now these Japanese accidents are giving off is not harmful.
      —
      Hey, Susie, you think the nuclear fallout from Chernobyl was not harmful? Tell that to the kids who got thyroid cancer or to the pregnant women who had defective babies, or to the Scandinavian and UK farmers whose sheep and soil became radioactive and STILL show traces of caesium-137. You’re a complete fool, to put it mildly.

      ===>”…on 26 April 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what was then the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine exploded, sending a plume of radio- active particles – equivalent in toxicity to 400 Hiroshima bombs – more than seven kilometres up into the atmosphere and due east in the breeze. In the days that followed, as a fire raged unchecked inside the twisted, white-hot remains of the reactor, the wind direction reversed and the plume, now a kilometre tall, headed west towards north-western Europe. It wasn’t until workers at a nuclear reactor in Finland detected abnormally high doses of radioactivity on their clothes – up to 100 times normal background levels – that anyone outside the Soviet Union realised the true severity of the accident.

      On 2 May 1986, the plume finally passed over parts of the UK and, with fateful timing, so too did a column of cloud carrying heavy rain. The rain fell hardest where it always falls hardest – on the uplands. As the droplets of water fell from the sky, they carried with them the radionuclides – in particular, caesium-137, iodine-131 and strontium-90 – that had been dispersed from Chernobyl. It is estimated that 1% of the radiation released from the reactor fell on the UK. In an effort to prevent these radionuclides entering the food chain once they had settled on the upland soil, the ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food, as it was then known, ordered an immediate restriction on the movement and sale of sheep within the most affected areas – particularly north Wales, south-west Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Lake District, where the landscape is predominantly suited to grazing sheep. In total, almost 9,000 farms, and four million sheep, were placed under restriction.
      http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/29/sheep-farmers-chernobyl-meat-restricted

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 7:44am

      “Not only, are you trying to link these tragic deaths with a nuclear accident but you are lying about the dangers inherent in such an occurrence and the visual is something MSNBC would do. ”

      I think you mis-read something along the way. In fact, I think you’re the only one that missed what was being said. It’s okay, it happens to all of us at some point. But in no way are these deaths linked to a nuclear explosion. Everyone here knows that because of the prior destruction, with the 9.0 earthquake, followed shortly after the Tsunami, that these nuclear plants were bound to incur some damage. From the Tsunami alone, it’s estimated that 10,000 lives could be lost.

      Here’s where you seemed to have missed the point being made. With this number of lives already lost, now there’s a threat of a nuclear meltdown that threatens to do just as much harm to the surviors of the Tsunami and the earthquake. The Blaze didn’t lie about this.

      Nuclear meltdown is not a good thing, period. Ask the few remaining survivors of WWII what it was like dealing with radiation. Even exposure to a leak can cause health problems. If you think just taking a iodine pill will solve everything, you’re mistaken. The check ups afterward could last for quite some time. Unless you welcome the chance to have diarrhea every 30 mins, cancerous tumors and you know, bloody scarring on your body. In fact, in a few short words, I can debunk everything you mentioned. Look up: The Radium Girls.

      Take care.

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:27pm

    I hate the feeling of helplessness. Usually when something like this occurs, the U.S. manages to shine the brightest of all countries in the world. But with our economic situation, it hurts to give anymore. We have a lame duck leader having the time of his life, eying Mariah Carey’s backside (not that I blame him any, but I digress) while shaking his tail feather to Justin Beiber. Meanwhile the world around us is in chaos. How do I put this? He hasn‘t shown a bit of remorse or at least he hasn’t given any indication of concern for whats going on with Japan.

    I’ve managed to make a few friends on the net from Japan, have grown to love their brand of comedy shows, and through exposure on the net, have gained more knowledge of their life on a daily basis. If anything more should happen to Japan during this crisis, I’d be heartbroken. I couldn’t imagine this world without them as a country. They’re saying 10,000 believed to be dead, but that figure might be modest, if not it would be a miracle. The area this earthquake hit was heavily populated. If you took the population of California and put them on an island, that’s kind of what you get with Japan. My fingers are crossed, I hope their prayers and hopes are answered. But this has all the makings of being worse than we fear it to be.

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  • AnOregonian
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:24pm

    live feed http://jibtv.com/program/fullscreen.aspx?page=0

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  • wash1776
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:14pm

    Let us all remember that Jesus said “the prayers of the righteous availeth much. So let us all pray for the people in Japan. God bless them all and help them.

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    • Cesium
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:08pm

      I assume this means you’ve donated some money? I’m sure the praying is appreciated but..praying never got me through anything in life in my experience…

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  • Constitutional
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:11pm

    Suddenly the muslim temper tantrums, American Union thug protests, and worthless teachers with tenure are wiped off the front page and their plights pale by comparison.

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    • ForgivenWretch
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:20pm

      You forgot about the absurdity of the Football league strike. Waaaaa…. I’m fed up with the crying over entitlements. Cry me a river. People are have lost sight of what true devastation looks like. In this country we tend to change devastation into entitlements.

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  • Obamafool
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:11pm

    I pray that no meltdown occurs but have they actually said what caused the building to suddenly explode? This has the New World Order and Obama’s fingerprints all over it.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:31pm

      Hydrogen gas detonated when they were attempting to vent the main cooling area; this is always a risk in such an emergency with water cooled plants…a slim risk yes, yet here it did happen.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:47pm

      A slim risk in a seismic country? Give me a break!

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:47pm

      Yeah sure – blame it all on Obama and the lib – that’s the smart brain that does that!! Blame it on the lib and progressives – we cause everything!! Thanks so very much for treating libs as less than human – I do appreciate it so very much! Believe it or not – I have feelings also, and feel pain and want the best for my children just like all of you. And I pray also – gee just like all of you!! But you seem to think that libs are less than human!! All of you will have to spend time in hell for how you have treated some of us!
      http://wp.me/pYLB7-JM

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  • bert2020
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:10pm

    I was told Japan after WWII was completely devistated, flat and they built their country from nothing. I pray for God to give them strength again. They are a very proud industrous people.

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  • Tnredneck
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:09pm

    @dustyluv…. The left may end up blaming the quake on the nuclear reactors…. Whatever it takes. They are already blaming the rash of small earthquakes in Arkansas lately to natural gas exploration. When the lights go out and the libs get cold who will they blame? We need to help these people any way we can and shame on politicians who want to make policy out of ths disaster

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:04pm

    Aproximatlly 35,000 children starve to death every day, at least that’s what one web site says. Just to put things in perspective, 3rd world life vs 1st world life.

    Perhaps the dolphin spirits complained to the Gods about the Japanese treatment of them while they were alive. I think I read somewhere dolphins have bigger brains than humans.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:02pm

    This shows that NO GOVERNMENT can be the answer for all things.

    that is God’s position.

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  • ThomasUSA
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:51pm

    I’m not usually affected to the point of tears, but one can not help but feel the intense suffering that is happening now in Japan. My prayers to the people of Japan.

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  • BGR38
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:44pm

    I can’t watch it anymore or read about it anymore. I think the worst is yet to come and we will see it all!!!

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  • handloader
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:43pm

    Lord, watch over the victims of this disaster and send them your Holy Spirit to give them the strength to recover and rebuild. Believe it or not, the Japanese people are one of civilization’s hopes for the future. We need them to be strong and capable for democratic civilization to continue. Surely, this is one country which will never succumb to Sharia law or Islamic fundamentalism. We need to give them all the help that we can.

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:38pm

    Just more proof that mother nature is stronger than all of us.

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    • Its Gonna Getcha
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:13pm

      Actually, it’s stronger than us, but strongly believe we can better the energy of the world with our minds, hearts and intention. So she is not only strong, but can also be receptive to our energy.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:37pm

    Prayers for the people of Japan. Now is the time to put politics aside and reach out to our brothers and sisters.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:29pm

      I wish the politics would be put aside, yet I have already heard it beginning from the progressives and the left as well.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:46pm

      Yes, much prayers and help if you can, this far overshadows any political agendas.

      God is shaking, and that which can not be shaken will remain.

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  • jollylama
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:35pm

    praying…

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    • getperks
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:49pm

      Strange that it was only a very short time historically we were at war with Japan. Now I feel nothing but sorrow and compassion towards them.

      God help us all. May we never forget the value of human life.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:50pm

      You notice how the media is trying to link the death toll with the nuclear plants. There is NO connection, but they want to stop any discussion of building a nuke plant here in the US.

      There has not been one meltdown that has not been contained and there will not be. Even through all of the quakes and the sunami. the containment systems have worked 100%. Completely safe and effective. Shame on the media for the lies!!

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:08pm

      This is such a catastrophe of epic proportion……I wish the best for the Japanese people, what a magnificent culture and people.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:25pm

      The death toll will likely climb much higher, and honestly it may even come close to or exceed the levels of those lost from the 2004 Indonesian quake when all is tallied. God help them for the time ahead and provide for them, once they were the enemy and now we help them as the friends and fellow human beings we all are.

      Dustyluv:
      Agreed, the fact most media are trying to link the deaths to the nuclear accidents is horrendous and immoral to the highest degrees. They distort and fabricate the truth for their own agendas and ideals such as they are; honorless bandits are better than them, for these journalists seek destruction and profit upon the misery of a whole nation mourning.

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    • absolutely
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:43pm

      10,000………..10,000……….are they kidding. Who could have escaped that wall of water that crushed almost anything in its way? If it doesn’t go over 100,000 I will be shocked. Absolutely

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:09pm

      Praying too, O’Lord, how do we pray for such a thing, for all those people?! Give us the words and the Spirits, Please just be there with them and make Yourself known to them!

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • ForgivenWretch
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:13pm

      I lived in Japan for 2 years. Very gracious hosts. How devastating. They are, however, very resilient. I am praying for them.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:25pm

      I find it amazing from the fanatics of the left and progressives how they are starting to use the quake to meet their own agendas; one ‘scientist’ at the UN was on the radio now proclaiming the ‘climate change’ garbage was responsible for the quake…his words:

      “Obviously it is climate change causing the oceans to warm up and fracture the rocks on the bed of the oceans…”

      Others have been speaking of the “Political necessity” (their words), of putting seawater into the nuclear plants to cool them down.

      God help us now that the political maneuvering is beginning in full force while the tragedy it still yet to be fully accounted for.

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:35pm

      Snow, I frankly find it hard to believe that a “liberal scientist” tried to link this earthquake to global warming. Somebody could have said something like that I guess. People say all sorts of things. But it’s unimaginable that any “real” scientist would try to tie warmer oceans with increased tectonic activity. Perhaps you remember the guy’s name or can find a link.

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    • ForgivenWretch
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:43pm

      @SNOWLEOPARD

      Clearly you have forgotten the Progressive motto: Never let a good disaster/crisis go to waste. They truly are wicked. I, and am sure you agree, cannot understand how they can look at their behavior and be perfectly fine with it. I would laugh at it‘s absurdity if it wasn’t so disturbing.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:29pm

      Sorry, but I haven’t read all the articles this weekend…so you may already know this…But, the 8.9 (actually been rated up to a 9.1) was the quake that brought the tsunami! BUT…just before it, there was a 7.9 (or thereabouts) …they thought that that WAS the BIG earthquake until the 8.9…The 7.9 is what is known as a PRE-SHOCK…so, people are afraid that the 8.9 is NOT the end of it! This quake occurred in the NE and they are expecting the BIG ONE to hit in the SE and they have predicted and been planning on it for several years…but in the SE, not the NE…NOW, that’s scary!

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:43pm

      I’m still praying too.

      SNOWLEOPARD, This is horrible but the death toll won’t be anything like the quake and tsunami in Indonesia. The Japanese people are the most prepared in the world for this kind of disaster. I have very good friends who live in the worst hit area in who I am very worried about so this is very hard personally for me. Please continue to pray and help if you can. Thank you.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:57pm

      Dustyluv
      You notice how the media is trying to link the death toll with the nuclear plants. There is NO connection, but they want to stop any discussion of building a nuke plant here in the US.
      ————
      What has come over you guys? You are starting to sound as irrational as the left, reading your bias into the title. The headline depicts a nightmare scenario of a nuclear threat in the midst of the death toll left by an earthquake and tsunami. Two tragic events which have left thousands of victims are being followed by a third that is getting increasingly worse. Of course this huge tragedy is all interconnected, but the death toll is absolutely not being directly linked to the nuclear meltdown threats.

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    • audaxrex
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:20pm

      @um dustylove, most of the news stories mention the nuclear problem with the two others, the earthquake and the tsunami. What would you have them do – ignore it?
      Remember Chernobyl and all the flak the Russians caught for minimizing the danger? A lot of people died and a lot of damage was done.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:41pm

      Dustyluv, It doesn’t matter–ALL those people died AND they had a nuclear disaster! Thus, nuclear is BAD, BAD, BAD! If it fits on the same news page, it MUST be related!!! And, if it’s related, the BAD part caused the good part–sorry, I’m getting a little mixed-up here–from reading the news! Hmmm, maybe not NEWS at all, but AGENDA! Yes, replace NEWS with AGENDA and it ALL MAKES SENSE!!! (You know, there are a few problems that will be identified, that can EASILY AVERT such a nuclear mishap in the aftermath of such an ENORMOUS NATURAL DISASTER! I think the 40-year old GE BWR plants have performed EXACTLY as they should, EVEN with the destruction of the plant by the decision to flood with seawater, causing a CHEMICAL (not NUCLEAR) reaction and rendering the core so contaminated with chemical combusion and corrosion byproducts that it will NEVER be placed back in service! HOORAY for the plant operators and owners and government officials who have wrestled this mishap to a stop!!! Damage will be confined to the immediate area of the plant, and be minor in the grand scheme of things, compared to the Earthquake itself and subsequent Tsunami!

       
    • NotaLemming
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:09pm

      Live Streaming News for Japans News Agencies; coverage is in English: http://t.co/rSWjhz6 coverage is in English

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    • ManThong
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:09pm

      9.1 Earthquake, Tsunami, volcano, nuclear melt down — in the immortal words of Barack Hussein Obama : “Things could have been worse”

      At least an asteroid hasn’t hit.

      Yet.

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    • duce023
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:23pm

      I bet we won’t see any looting…The Japanese are respectful people and it would be dishonorable to do such an act of stealing…Even if they did loot for water and food, I bet a majority of them would leave money behind.

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