If someone were to suggest that a natural catastrophe could cause a major period of planet-wide economic, and thence social, upheaval, most would consider this scenario highly unlikely, if not preposterous: perhaps conceivable only in the rejected script for a Hollywood disaster movie.
If pressed, the reader might bring to mind the unlikely event of a large meteorite striking the Earth. But the first part of such a natural catastrophe is already unfolding in Japan. I refer of course to the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 and the consequent triple partial nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The magnitude 9 earthquake that struck that day was the largest in Japan’s recorded history and one of the most powerful to have occurred on this planet. It shifted the earth four inches on its axis and raised the seabed 88 feet. It was also the most expensive natural disaster in human history. Estimates for the cost of rebuilding the pulverized coastline, and the towns and cities destroyed by the tsunami amount to $200 billion. Moreover, costs of decontaminating the four destroyed nuclear power stations and surrounding towns and farmland in Fukushima and other Japanese prefectures will be in the magnitude of $300 billion.
Caesium 137 and other radioactive isotopes have been spread over much of northern Japan, contaminating the food supply, threatening the health of hundreds of thousands of Japanese. As will be detailed within my book, the disaster at Fukushima came within a whisker of becoming a full triple meltdown. Despite the urgent need to replace oil as our principal source of energy it will henceforth be very difficult to construct new nuclear power stations in the industrialised countries, due to widespread visceral anti-nuclear sentiment. After Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear power is generally perceived as being far too dangerous a source of energy. Germany has now emphatically rejected nuclear power generation. Henceforth, Japan will give top future priority to generating energy from clean renewable resources. Of its 57 nuclear power stations only 2 are currently in operation.
As bad as the earthquake/tsunami/meltdown catastrophes have been for Japan, the country now faces the imminent prospect of even greater disaster: since the March 11 earthquake activity along tectonic plates nearer and under the Japanese capital has increased. Magnitude 3 earthquakes in the vicinity of the Kanto Plain have multiplied fourfold. Seismologists from the University of Tokyo now predict a major earthquake will strike the Japanese capital. The likelihood of a magnitude 7 or larger quake striking a conurbation inhabited by 33.5 million people is now 70% within the next four years.
Tokyo/Yokohama and its sprawling suburbs is both the most densely populated and also the most economically vital area of the Japanese archipelago. The headquarters of the vast majority of Japanese corporations are located in the capital. All political and bureaucratic power is centred there. The ports at Yokohama and Tokyo are essential for Japan’s trade with the rest of the world. In today’s globalised economy Western and Asian countries are critically dependent on high-tech products and components manufactured in Japan. Should these be cut off for even a limited time economic chaos will follow.
As mentioned above, the March 11 catastrophe was the most expensive natural disaster in history. Japan already had debts equivalent to 220% of GDP even before the tsunami struck. The country will somehow manage to finance reconstruction in the wake of this disaster without repatriating its nest egg invested in US Treasury bonds. But when the imminent major earthquake strikes the capital Japan will have no choice but to repatriate most or all of its holdings in foreign nest-eggs to pay for a colossal decade-long rebuilding project in its shattered capital. This will in turn have a hugely adverse effect on the US, and thence world, economy. A major earthquake striking Tokyo will affect every man, woman and child on the planet for years to come. With each passing week the odds on this scenario occurring become shorter.
T.S. Muffin Man has lived in Tokyo for three decades. He is a writer, an NLP and Hypnotherapy expert and at least fifty percent Mayan doomsday harbinger.
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It’s almost been a year since all hell broke loose and the end of times came to the residents of Northern Japan. Last March 11, when the Fukushima Nuclear Plant started to cook off acquaintances and friends started to leave in a panic. It honestly never even occurred to me to leave. (Read: Leaving Japan is Betrayal?)
Maybe I would have considered leaving if I knew what I know now about how close the plant came to melting down. How, according to reports just being released, Japanese Prime Minister Kan actually had to order TEPCO to stay and try and keep the plant under control. If TEPCO had its way and abandoned the plant Tokyo would have been evacuated. That’s Tokyo’s 30 million people, the population of Canada, all fleeing south.
He credited Mr. Kan with making the right decision in forcing Tepco not to abandon the plant.
“Prime Minister Kan had his minuses and he had his lapses,” Mr. Funabashi said, “but his decision to storm into Tepco and demand that it not give up saved Japan.”
–New York Times
But at the time I didn’t really understand how long it would take to shut down the nuclear plant and the amount of radiation that would be released. I guess I just trusted the Japanese government during the time of crisis. But as anyone who has read this blog for a while can attest GaijinAss is not a Japanese apologist site. The Japanese government is a regime that didn’t build dikes big enough to block the tsunami because if they did they would have to admit that the dikes that existed weren’t high enough and nuclear plants weren’t safe. This is a Japanese government famous for robotics yet prevented companies from developing nuclear disaster robots because the existence of nuclear disaster robots would have admitted that nuclear meltdown was possible.
experts claim the government was previously unwilling to finance projects to develop robots that could be used during a nuclear accident, fearing such a move might imply that a nuclear disaster was possible and cause the public to question the safety of atomic plants.
I live outside the nuclear sacrifice zone, 200km away in Tokyo, and I have no control over the nuclear plant and its radioactive emissions. I have friends and acquaintances that can’t handle this “threat” and are constantly stressed about it, willing to give up everything to get away. I honestly believe that the stress caused by radiation is many times more harmful than than any “threat” radiation actually causes. Already in one year over 1300 people have died due to stress related to 311 disaster. It really blows me away when I hear people talking about leaving Japan because they’re worried about either another earthquake or the radiation threat … Really?
I once read that scientists did a study on living next to a old hydrodam that had serious structural damage and had a high risk of breaking and killing everyone downstream. The scientists did a survey and found that the further away from the Dam they got the more people got stressed out. Those right next to the Dam had no fears while those hundreds of kilometers away stressed about it everyday. So maybe that is me always so close to something that I can’t see the danger.
And there is a danger. ”Experts in Japan have warned that the chances of a powerful earthquake striking Tokyo in the next four years could be as high as 70%.” (Read: 5 ways to survive the aftermath of the Great Tokyo earthquake) Yet I’m not planning my exit. If a quake hits Tokyo it would be devasting the last time a major quake hit the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake basically leveled the city. Obviously modern Tokyo, with its strict earthquake design codes, is much better position to handle an earthquake now than say Vancouver, Canada or San Francisco which both have a similar earthquake threats.
The total destruction after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
I live in a new building that will withstand a major quake but there is something else, I almost want to live through a major disaster. A part of me wants the earthquake to happen….
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THIS IS GAIJINASS!
This will be our 300th post here on GJS and we have done it all, pulled out all the stops, and we want to share both our accumulated knowledge while at the same time gloating about our new skill bonuses, since I am now an 18th level barbarian-necromancer, and Yosomono just found the ice key to the Amethyst dragons portal to the Zaekarean dimension. Suck it Thieves guild!
But in all seriousness…
When two men join forces and write 300 posts about the art of lunacy, it’s inevitable that they learn a secret about the unicorn that lives in your panty drawer and organizes your razor blade collection. While we won’t tell the world that particular bit of private, we can share with you now, 7 things that writing this website has taught us.
Now, I know what you might be thinking….
…but love us or hate us, read on and be enlightened.
7. Animals can teach us how to not get groped and raped.
Obviously, in nature there are symbiotic relationships. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. However, a helpless woman on a crowded train with some guys hand on her ass is considerably different from a little bird that pecks insects off a Rhino, or for example, Master Ruling Bartertown astride Blasters strong, firm, developmentally challenged back.
"Seriously though, who rules Batertown, Bitches?
Ideas have been proposed and discussed. It seems though, that when one is being felt up, be it by a man or a woman, the proper reaction can be somewhat elusive.
This is where our good friends, the animals, come in. As Yosomono has proven through exhaustive field work and university research using “computers”, many animals simply do not give a fuck. This is instructive for a variety of reasons. While whoever is fondling your goodies in the number 7 car on the Chuo line, and your self-respect is running away from you faster than a Republican from Black Excellence month, an animal in your situation might choose a more simplistic approach to curtailing this behavior i.e. Rip the persons goddamn face off.
There it is; train groping problem solved, people. You feel that cheeky rub-rub in a crowded train car, simply growl, then screech at the top of your lungs as you bite the offenders mug off.
"Yeah, it works for me. Never been groped, not once."
6. Teaching in Japan, the Art of not Losing ones Mind.
Teaching anything, anywhere, can be a rewarding yet challenging experience; just ask David Koresh. However, working as a teacher in Japan can present unique and often unforeseeable ways to drive you completely mad.
Besides ones very livelihood being threatened by robots that have a secret, human hating agenda programmed into their fully self-aware, mechanical hearts, the day-to-day grind of existing within a system that likes to pretend you don’t exist within said system, can lead to all manner of whackyness.
Buy the ticket and ride that little pony all the way to very edge of your fragile sensibilities.
A lot of people villanize English teachers in Japan too. We get that in the comments from time to time. I find it funny that the majority of these comments are full of grammatical mistakes/homo-erotica and personify what the English language might look like if it were actually a group of retards trying to fuck a doorknob in a Calvin Klein Commercial. Someone must be bitter about a bad experience in their past.
Maybe, the pony hurt them, hurt them someplace secret.
"Occasionally, when I write a joke about a Killer robot, I can tell it's watching me."
5. Japanese celebrities are a dying breed.
It’s a well-known international fact, proven by things like Science, that Japan invented “Weird”. Japanese television is the hybrid love child of a robotic tentacle monster driven by an angry chimpanzee and an omni-lingual dolphin ,named “Mikey”, that manages AKB48 and sells Methamphetamine’s to school children because, according to its therapist, “Mikey has abandonment issues”.
It just makes absolutely no sense what-so-ever.
In resent years, sure, Japan has tried to clean up its act, but that’s really simply been a token gesture. A lot like child pornography finally being curtailed. No, TV here is as bizarre as ever and the celebrities on it are complete maniacs, morons or people who practice Sorcery.
We covered the manhunt for the “uber-criminal” Noriko Sakai after her loving husband ratted her out to the police once he was arrested on drug charges.
If you want a country of able-bodied men that are willing to sky dive from 25,000 feet on supplemental Oxygen, assassinate a foreign dignitary with his own lunch box and then play a no limit game of Texas Hold’em on his bloody, prone-position corpse, you need to teach them how to be hard as coffin nails. The best way to do this is movie magic and regular beatings. However, the following simply does not engender much in the way of HARD-ness:
"...this inspires me to wish I had a little dress to wear to a lovely tea party."
No, it takes something unique to completely squelch any kind of humanity that might stop someone from kicking some haji in the face when he/she doesn’t obey your commands at a water distribution point in Baghdad.
Something like this…
"Your first mistake was bringing your arms to a bone snapping contest."
…but this is also acceptable…
"SAY IT!" "I'm a...faaaaag."
But oh how far the mighty have fallen. Now, action movies are largely based around Computer graphics instead of good ole fashioned stunt-man-hurting. People like Channing Tatum are allowed to mouth diarrhea all over everyone, and the gods of the past can’t make movies unless the story revolves around a cyborg on the loose in Eastern Europe.
2011 did everything in its power to not only destroy the super-soldier program known as Gaijinass.com, but it also tried to totally obliterate the very country of Japan at the same time.
We aren’t making any of this up. This really is a Super-Soldier program.
Lions, Tigers and Bears- OH MY! The gods really pulled all the stops out with massive earthquakes, a colossal tsunami and just general mayhem and carnage in Northern Japan. Anyone who was in Japan at that time will never forget March 11th 2011, and we talked about some of the things we learned when the world started shaking and baking.
In the end, with so much excellence and knowledge having been bestowed upon Earth by us, we finally turned to the only thing left: Japanese Porn Myths.
Yep, we even shot holes in your fantasies, fantasies.
And since you brought up sex, lets move on to our final lesson learned.
1. The World loves Japanese Sex Things
China basically hates Japan, and despite all the talk about “Nanking” or “Imperial Aggression” or “China not sucking”, in reality it’s more basic. If you put two Japanese female tourists on a beach in Bali, and then you put two Chinese female tourists on the beach in Bali, and all four of them order margaritas, guess who is getting their drinks first? Correct- Not the Commies.
See, the world over, Japan has developed, alongside its weirdo-ness, a sexy-ness spawned by an obsession with cuteness, that has become pretty well-known. It shows in our stats every day, and although it was a big surprise to me that “Sex Sells!“, who would have imagined (?!), it’s definitely helped put Gaijinass.com on the map.
Basic right?
"Can I get that Margarita Frozen?"
It’s been interesting to learn just how many people want to read about a Japanese Dominatrix. The terms used in search engines tell us a lot about our readership, and apparently “Pain yes demand Japan Queen” is an actual thing.
No big surprise that Porno is popular, but when people really start paying attention to tongue in cheek directions regarding the finding of a “woman of the night” to help service your needs, it leads one to think a bit. It hasn’t just been the Japanese that people have been interested either, but stories of foreign women making their way in the world today as well.
If we were to put a finer point on things though, not just “Sex”, but get more detailed, it saddens yet fails to surprise me that insane computer games, and in particular the infamous game devoted to a mission of raping and impregnating women purely in the name of vengeance, gets so much attention. But on the other hand, how else does an aspiring sex offender practice this sort of thing? Because you can’t just go around raping people, unless they want you to, and use the secret signal or dressing like a slut to clearly let you know what they really want. I’m no anthropologist, but I think it says someplace in the Bill of rights that “No means Yes.” Or have people got that mixed up? Either way, watch out for the face biting, though.
In conclusion…
Japan, a peaceful place. And a place that really likes boning.
Hope you have learned as much about Japan as we have about all your dark, filthy secrets. Send this article on to someone cooler than yourself!
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The “Death of Japan” is obviously, very sensational, but when it comes to an earthquake potentially much bigger than that of March 11 2011, SENSATIONAL! makes all the sense in the world to me.
Just to keep us all on the same page, in the below diagram I define SENSATIONAL!
"Sensational! You know it, I know it, the Government knows it."
That’s right, there is a possibility, supported by very demonstrative empirical data, that there are more big earthquakes to come, and Japan is sitting on the most dangerous fault line in the world, known as the “Ring of Fire” (Sensational!)
C/2010 X1
If you haven’t heard of Comet Elenin, you probably will soon. Also known as C/2010X1 (I had a pair of sneakers with the same name in 1985) or simply Elenin named after the Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin, is a “long-period comet” that is basically headed in our general direction.
"Please, say hello to Elenin, the harbinger of your doom."
Now, in case you grew up in a cave (or a government laboratory; Sensational!) then you probably learned years ago in junior high that comets are pretty normal. They are flying around space wonderful and carefree, a lot like my homosexual friend after his HIV test came back negative (I lost 5,000 yen on that bet, but so did he). I even had a “Haley’s comet” T-shirt at one point in my childhood. Elenin however has popped up on all the “alternative” blogs with a vengeance in the last few months for some very disturbing reasons.
Elenin and Earthquakes
Is there a connection between Comet Elenin and the increased seismic activity that has been rattling the world recently? According to Dr. Mensur Omerbashich PhD there sure is.
Dr. Omerbashich’s paper “Astronomical Alignments as the cause of – M6+ seismicity” has been referenced and referred to often of late by those who predict cataclysmic levels of increased seismic activity, particularly in September around the 25th to the 27th as Comet Elenin passes very near to Earth when apparently the Sun, Earth and the comet all align.
You can actually check that out here, on this very cool “rocket projection super display ultra” that NASA boringly refers to as the “JPL small body database browers. Jesus NASA, it sounds like a Hmong hooker online catalog when you say it like that.
The following video explains a popular theory that has been adopted by many people online.
The video is well done and the science seems well founded. Until you actually learn about science. The following figures however, “clearly” display a correlation between astrological bodies aligning, including Elenin and our increase in earthquakes.
Past Alignments
Date
Location
Magnitude
Elenin – Earth – Sun
Feb 20 2008
Indonesia
7.4
Elenin – Earth – Sun
Feb 25 2008
Indonesia
7.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune
May 12 2008
China
7.9
Elenin – Earth – Sun
Feb 18 2009
Kermadec Islands
7.0
Elenin – Earth -Jupiter
May 18 2009
Los Angeles, US
4.7
Elenin – Mercury- Earth
July 15 2009
New Zealand
7.8
Elenin – Mercury – Earth
Aug 09 2009
Japan
7.1
Elenin – Sun – Earth
Sept 09 2009
Sunola islands
8.1
Elenin – Earth – Venus
Feb 18 2010
China/RU/N.Korea
6.9
Elenin – Earth-Sun
Feb 25 2010
China
5.2
Elenin – Earth-Sun
Feb 26 2010
Japan
7.0
Elenin – Earth- Sun
Feb 27 2010
Chile
8.8 [Earth knocked off axis]
Elenin – Earth- Sun
Feb 27 2010
Argentina
6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury
Mar 04 2010
Taiwan
6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury
Mar 04 2010
Vanuatu
6.5
Elenin – Earth – Mercury
Mar 05 2010
Chile
6.6
Elenin – Earth – Mercury
Mar 05 2010
Indonesia
6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury
Mar 08 2010
Turkey
6.1
Elenin – Earth – Neptune
May 05 2010
Indonesia
6.6
Elenin – Earth – Neptune
May 06 2010
Chile
6.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune
May 09 2010
Indonesia
7.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune
May 14 2010
Algeria
5.2
Elenin – Earth – Jupiter
Jan 03 2011
Chile
7.0
Elenin – Earth – Sun
March 11 2011
Japan
9.0 [Earth knocked off axis]
If you don’t have the “time” to watch the video, allow me to sum it up. There is a comet heading toward our area and based on the theories postulated by Dr. Omerbashich (The “Rogue Warrior” of the Geophysics community), the theory being that astrological alignments can cause changes in our atmospheric pressure, tidal activity and seismicity also referred to as the Hyperresonation, as comet Elenin gets closer and aligns on September 26th, there will be a huge bloody earthquake, likely somewhere around the pacific fault area. Also discussed in the video, is that Comet Elenin is not a comet at all but in fact, a Dwarf Star (Dark star) and for it to have any effect on our planet its mass would have to be much larger than that of a faggy flying space snowball, unless it’s actually an asteroid and is totally going to hit Earth and NASA is hiding that fact….??? Yup! SENSATIONAL!
1+1= Wrong
Are the theories being put forward by Dr. Omerbashich revolutionary? Yes and without any doubt. If he is correct then essentially, Einsteins theory of relativity is wrong, and subsequently the entire field of quantum psychics would be wrong. Trillions of dollars and innumerable man hours would go whizzing down the toilet based on one mans, rather simple, theory (Overly simple? Insanely simple even?).
Now does this mean his theory is incorrect? Not at all. Science is constantly evolving and moving and just because the majority believes one thing does not mean that they are not wrong. Also, based on the data, it would seem that his theory of georesonator, or Earth as a forced Mechanical Oscillator is potent. Is his supporting data potent? It is if you think our solar system consists on only maybe, 9 major bodies. Otherwise it’s ridiculous, but I digress.
"Never go up against a Jew-hating Bosnian Geophysicist when DEATH is on the LINE!"
Trouble in Paradise. That’s right, there always is isn’t there. The trouble is as follows: If one prescribes to and accepts my boy Omerbashich’s theories, then by default you have to negate many of Einsteins. They simply are not compatible. This is my problem with Terral’s video. He is quoting data and science from two opposing teams of thought and throwing them together into his D&D collage alongside a Fairy Princess with +5 cold crit. Shield of Frost and a Berserker with a Broad Sword of +10 strength bonus (except against Snow dwarves and hill wargs, respectively.)
You can’t have your magical- fantasy- pseudoscience cake and eat it too. That isn’t how this works. IF our jew-hating doctors theories are correct, and he really does hate Jews, than the MASS of the object known as Elenin will not apply. If it IS a dwarf star will it raise hell? Of course it will, but NOT based on the georesonator or hyperresonator theories.
Also, clearly explained both in his published papers as well as in interviews, Omerbashich makes it clear that TIME is the most vitally important component regarding increased seismic activity, complications in our ionosphere (birds and fish just up and dying all over), tidal irregularities etc. As one can observe on his paper, about 3 days is the beginning of a “long alignment” in which other celestial bodies can affect Earth. As Elenin gets closer to the sun and hence Earth, it will speed up, and the time it has to be aligned with earth will actually decrease, hence the likelihood of enhanced seismic activity on our planet will decrease.
However, it will increase again slightly in October and November as Elenin moves away and slows down and there is more time for celestial alignments.
What’s my Point?
IF Dr. Omarbashich is right, then there will be no big-bang super death earthquake on September 26th. If he’s wrong, then that whole video upstairs is bullshit anyway. So it’s a moot point and there very well might be a super earthquake but for reasons totally undiscussed in “TerralO3′s” video.
I encourage anyone interested in this to read the Doc’s paper and check out his website. The theories he puts forth are ingenious, very Tesla-esque and sublime in their simplicity and reasoning (EXTREME SIMPLICITY. Makes you go Hmmm). It is put well on his site, when addressing Einstein’s physics, which although I am not a physicist, yet, I have often wondered about…
If you can’t put it into layman’s terms, then it’s probably bullshit.
"Waaa-hahaha...I fooled you all!"
What this post DIDN’T discuss
Alien invasion. SENSATIONAL!
During the above video it is mentioned that the space craft seems to be “intelligently” piloted. There is an article on Russia building 5,000 new bomb shelters because (cough-bullshit!) the comet Elenin seems to be “controlled”.
The “European Union Times” is about as dependable a news source as a pedophile in a confession booth – “what happens at Disney Land stays at Disney land” (Until I find out, and dig my chain saw out of storage.) It’s all Bullshit. It’s just a wordpress account and they copy and paste news from where-ever, combining anything and everything at will.
Terral (maker of the above video) you challenged us to check facts and I have. I apologize, but it is unlikely that Elenin is an intelligent Dwarf Star coming to rain down havoc and despair in late September.
I have also ignored anything and everything about this being “Planet-X” or Niribu or whatever. I did this because to me, watching G.I. Joe, The Rise of Cobra is more productive and rational. If you know me or this blog, you will then know that I give myself spur of the moment circumcisions with my old key chain before I watch anything with Channing “A Dildo on wheels” Tatum in it.
SENSATIONAL!
In closing, a wonderful and very clear-headed video featuring Michio Kaku, a world renowned astrophysicist. His views on potential Alien life and why they do not contact us seem far more rational and well thought out to me.
Everyone…just try and remember sure, Star Trek was a cool show, and Uhura wore the shortest little booty skirt this side of Pattaya, but it isn’t REAL (the show, not her booty, or Pattaya which I can assure you is very real). It’s just T.V.
If you want real, it’s all about X-files. Everyone knows that.
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