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Coast Guard’s New Tsunami Vid Shows Catastrophic Aftermath

Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:48pm by Jonathon M. Seidl
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The Japanese Coast Guard has released a new video showing the extent of the damage from last month’s tsunami. In it, helicopters, cars, and airplanes can be seen bobbing in the destructive water flow:

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onejimharris
Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:08am
Pop quiz: What political party, in what state, this week passed a bill in the dead of night stripping public-sector unions of their collective- bargaining powers? Republicans in Wisconsin? The GOP in Ohio or Indiana?

Try Democrats in Massachusetts. Maybe the debate over public-sector benefits isn’t all that ideological after all.

That would be the view of Massachusetts Democratic Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, who late Tuesday led an overwhelming majority of his House in passing a bill divesting policemen, firefighters, teachers and other municipal employees of the power to collectively bargain most health-care benefits. The 111-42 vote took place at .
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ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 7:50pm
America is next for the big one! Turn in advance to the Lord and seek his face!
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svedka
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 6:47pm
Ads are just that; ADs. You don’t have to pay attention to them, you don’t have to buy the stuff they talk about. They can be totally ignored. I don’t remember when the last time was that I saw an ad for a product or service I needed or wanted. Just ignore them.
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Salamander
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 5:27pm
I used to sail with an old salt who reminded me “Don’t ever forget-we’re a guest of Mother Nature out here!” It seems to me to apply everywhere, and not just at sea!
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BBGunn
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 3:22pm
re: advertising: Firefox + Adblock Plus. I haven’t seen or heard an ad in several years. My feeling is if I don‘t rush out and buy some product after the first or second time I see it’s ad, it’s fruitless to show it to me one hundred and twelve times. I quit watching most TV for that very reason.
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- Psychosis
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 6:42pm
  shhhhhh
  
  dont tell them our secret…………..they may ruin it for us
  
  lol
  
  yes everyone complaining about adds can only point to themselves firefox with adblockplus will remove that pesky problem, all without needing the users intelligence, or lack thereof
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Gypsy123
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:46pm
Did you see the people in these
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trueblueday
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:10pm
It’s amazing how this administration speaks very little of the heartache that continues in Japan and the fires in Texas, along with the tornado outbreak which has taken many lives. Are they asleep? What’s the deal?
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- bassist237
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:15pm
  Apparently there was some wedding today..?
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- attleboro
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 4:32pm
  Apparently you’re not listening
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Mapache
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:24pm
In spite of the devastation, it would seem that the Japanese responded with dignity, courage and class….New Orleans, TAKE NOTICE!
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- chuck_wagon
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:32pm
  What’s the difference between New Orleans and the people of Japan? I leave that for everyone to decide for themselves.
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- bassist237
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:05pm
  The difference is culture. American’s (a lot, but not all) think they are entitled to things, and that they deserve the right to happiness… The problem is the right they refer to, is the right to the “PURSUIT” of happiness. Japanese people, work very hard – they pursue and don’t wait for things to happen. Theirs my argument, and you are all more than entitled to disagree, if you live in America.
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- bassist237
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:06pm
  I spelled theirs wrong, sorry. = there’s
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MONEY_FOR_NOTHING
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:21pm
The early days of this site were enjoyable. Now, several of the vids are prefaced by ads.

It’s always about the money.

Why does every portal of info become yet another chance to sell me somthing I don’t want?

Why must I continually sit through ads?

Glenn, are you not making enough money yet?

Why not put a few eBay and Craigslist links in the stories, too?

Wait! There’s some white space to the right. FILL IT UP WITH AN AD!!

Sheesh!
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- chuck_wagon
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:31pm
  Without the FOX segment he’s going to need the extra money. He has a lot of employees to feed.
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- Dale
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:45pm
  I don’t mind the ads so much, however; I really dislike, after viewing a video and then reviewing comments to have an unexpected and UNWANTED commercial begin through the speakers. That is just a little too much.
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- Hisemiester
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:10pm
  Yep said that very thing. There doesn’t appear to be enough commercials on TV and/or radio now. They have saturated the internet with crap.
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- Alvin
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:10pm
  The attached ads are there due to the site the video comes from. They cannot be removed and theblaze makes nothing from them.
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- SingerGuy
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:12pm
  Why do you assume the ads are placed there by The Blaze? (They’re not.) Each provider of the video feed has their own way of distributing content. What you see here are links to the data. If CNN puts an ad at the beginning of their clips then Glenn Beck and Co. can’t change that fact.
  
  By the way, web sites with streaming content use a boatload of bandwidth that is not free. The ads let you see the videos for free because someone else is paying for the bandwidth you are consuming when you watch them. It’s called THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM.
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- Psychosis
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 6:38pm
  use firefox ………………..or a different video player
  
  i never get adds
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- Immiceelf
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 7:50pm
  Right on my fellow patriot. If I wanted ads, I’d turn on my pop up blocker. They make pop up blockers for a reason, but this just shows that there are ways around everything.
  It should be about the truth, not about the money.
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TheGreyPiper
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:07pm
Read up sometime on the profound effect this sort of thing has had on the development of the Japanese culture and psyche and why they have such an ambiguous love/hate relationship with Mother Nature. Some of their most distinctive art reflects it, such as the Zen garden, where Nature is perfectly reproduced, but in a nice, tame little sanctuary; same thing for bonsai trees (nature potted in your den) and entire groves of pine trees not bonsai, but deliberately stunted and sculpted the same way.

Watch some of the good old Godzilla movies, and listen to how many times they refer to Godzilla as an unstoppable force of nature – not good or evil, just . . . .there.
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etecs
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:00pm
All that debris swept out to sea will be a hazard to ships throughout the pacific for a long time
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J.C. McGlynn
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:56pm
And without the water the south of US.
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bassist237
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:53pm
That is just horrific.. :(
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fixer
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:52pm
WOW…almost biblical.
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- walkwithme1966
  Posted on April 30, 2011 at 4:54pm
  Has anyone noted that a lot of “almost Biblical” environmental incidents have happened in the last year – quakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, tsunami – all worse ever or near the worse ever. Drought in Texas – is this the beginning of the end? http://wp.me/pYLB7-VK
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unsalvageable.org
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:51pm
The power of nature should never be underestimated! http://www.unsalvageable.org
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- concealled9mms
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:59pm
  i wish a wave bigger then that would hit d.c.
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:02pm
  Unbelievable
  Saw a show on Nova RE: Mt St Helens and how fast it came back. from the 1980 eruption. The Experts?? mostly the biologists were “surprised” at every turn at how fast life returned. Bet most of them subscribe to the Al Gore Hoax.Haven’t heard much lately re the Nuclear Plant in Japan. How about an update Blaze
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- midcoastmainepatriot
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:05pm
  This represents what Obama The Destroyer ( may peace be upon him) has done to our economy and the constitution….. WE NEED HIM OUT!!!!!!
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:08pm
  Shows how fragile Humans are, against Mother Nature..
  and some seem to think they can control HER..
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- ozchambers
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 4:12pm
  Incomprehensible.
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- poverty.sucks
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 7:15pm
  God is creator of all things, his presence is impressive.
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on April 29, 2011 at 7:48pm
  @concealed9mm
  
  You sir are an idiot!
  
  You may hate the current administration but thats no excuse to wish mass killing on everyone there and destroy our national heritage. Whose side are you on? Jerk!
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- sarcasticus
  Posted on April 30, 2011 at 12:37pm
  As well as the power of a majority of stupid people who don’t know a Marxist from a hole in the ground!
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