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An earthquake, a tsunami and now with multiple nuclear catastrophes, Japan is suffering unlike any other nation before. The release of radioactivity across the country  is an environmental disaster several magnitudes above the Gulf oil spill.

Renown physicist Dr. Michio Kaku said this could be a “Chernobyl in the making” and it is something that makes you start “thinking the unthinkable” because “they don’t know what the core damage is.”  If there is core damage, then God help us all.

If left unchecked, and we’ve seen how long it took to stop the leak in the Gulf and to rescue the men from the Chilean mine, this release of various forms of radiation, which is already emptying one of the largest cities in the world, will rise to the jet stream and inevitably come stateside and while much of it will dissipate, it will begin to cover the country and then the rest of the world in an inescapable cloud with health consequences for generations to come.

As of Wednesday, they have had six nuclear releasing incidents at this plant.  When you think the unthinkable, and I’ll bet that’s what Obama is being advised on now, then you know that stopping this radiation plume dwarfs all other priorities, because the future of mankind as we currently know it, and more specifically my grandchildren, cannot be left to the Tokyo Electric and Power Company and their remaining courageous staff at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility on the Northeastern coast of Japan.
Attempts to get water to cool and cover exposed pile of spent rods have failed, as the radiation levels were too high to do it safely.  The U.S. Navy fleet is already positioning itself defensively based on how the wind is blowing with particles from the plant.

If all of the facility’s systems have been compromised to the point where the workers cannot bring any cooling water to the reactors and onto the spent fuel rods,
Like working on the sea floor, capping technicians will be relying on what was once science fiction, multiple robotic capabilities, perhaps even including robotic helicopters equipped to heavy-lift water tanks with a solution that is antithetical to the nuclear reaction of those damn fuel rods.

This could be a good time to revisit the Gaia hypothesis and view the earth as a common organism, and be as a living part of it, getting our energy from the sun, wind, tide and inner core.  We have been warned three times in a year that this constant seeking of carbon and nuclear energy will not be tolerated.   There is a reason coal and oil are sequestered.  There is a reason elements like cesium are rare.   They are toxic, we’ve known it, now we’re paying the price.  In the future, we’re going to learn to live within our natural energy means.

People Didn’t Believe This was The Big One

By Rachel Pratt and Garry Pierre-Pierre
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Marjorie Louis was sitting in her kitchen eating dinner when she felt the house shaking but she didn’t get up.

“I didn’t think it wasn’t going to be serious…and was waiting for it to stop. But I noticed it wasn’t stopping and finally tried to get up off the table but just couldn’t get up,” said Louis, a banker who lives in Delmas. “I looked outside the window and saw a large cloud of dust and started to hear my children screaming.”

Louis was considered among the lucky, having survived an earthquake that killed thousands of her countrymen. A few days after the seismic tremors, stories of survival, death and destruction continue to engulf this mountainous Caribbean nation of roughly 9 million people.

Her story is similar to those of millions of others after Haiti’s capital was hit with this seismic disaster. Thousands of people were killed and caught under the rubble for the same reason. They didn’t believe this was “the one” and were completely caught off guard. Haitians explained how miniearthquakes had become the norm in recent years. But they never imagined that this catastrophe would happen in their lifetime.
“Now I know that not leaving the house and making my family leave was a mistake. I feel so empty and helpless, ” Louis said. Six others in the house never left. Fortunately, they made it out alive.

According to a Haitian doctor, “There is a five-second rule. If you count to five and it keeps shaking, that’s when it’s serious.” Unfortunately …this one lasted longer than five seconds. But by the time a person finished counting, it was too late to escape.

Lyvee Memon had just arrived home from a funeral at Sacred Heart Church – a historical landmark completely destroyed- was in her living room when the tremors began. She couldn’t believe it was the real thing and planned to wait for it to stop until the walls fell all around her. She survived and was pinned under the rubble. “I was able to find a small little hole that only a child could fit through, to make it out,” Memon said days later.

Herold Guillaume was driving along Nazon Road when his green Toyota sedan began bouncing off, thinking that someone was hitting his car. He looked up to see buildings falling all around him. Debris falling all around him as the sky was quickly covered with a powdered substance.
“I left the car and walked home all the while thinking about my father who was home alone,” Guillaume said.

Emmanuel Jean was on the top floor of his three-story home and his father was in the study on the first floor. The robust building crumbled like matchsticks and Jean said he barely escaped.

“I ran downstairs and looked for my father and got him out,” said Jean, an electrical engineer. Since then, Jean has been living in his backyard while making arrangements to join his mother and sisters who live in Long Island.
“I’m still in shock,” he said. “I never expected this would come. Now we have to start our lives from nothing. I don’t know what we’re going to do.”