Yes, Cosmic cycles are a very real part of Earth Shan's life and of her present transition into fifth dimension. She creaks and groans, as her tectonic plates move to allow the rising of the continent of Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean, and the rising of the continent of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean.

Great areas of our present land mass will again be submerged under the salt waters for cleansing in exchange for the new lands rising from their ocean cleansing The lunar and solar effects on Shan are a constant that cannot be changed by man, nor can they be ignored. We need greater wisdom to understand our constantly changing planet and greater appreciation of her. For eons she has provided for our existence, while we have nearly killed her.

It is time, indeed, for her to do major cleansing to save her life. We are presently experiencing only the beginning of this cycle. I am sure the Darkside is trying many technologies to upset our planet, but nothing works. To cover these failures they use propaganda to continue the production of fear-energy by the people, for without negative energy they could not function.

A reader on FourWinds10 objected to Benjamin Fulford's claim that the 9.0 earthquake was caused by HAARP technology. Patrick Bellringer answered that the complaint is valid, because Fulford continues to overlook the Earth Shan cycles that are now changing everything.

I gather this would not be a good time to invest in a large globe.

Of all the grim headlines to have emerged from Japan in recent weeks, this one on the Kyodo newswire was particularly disturbing: "Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched near troubled nuke plant". It followed reports that police abandoned the corpse of a tsunami fatality in Fukushima because leaks from the broken reactors made it dangerously radioactive to carry. They bagged the body and left it in a building; a burial or cremation will have to wait until radioactivity diminishes. Their action was a gruesome illustration of how disaster victims are being put to one side while the world is gripped by fear of a meltdown.

The explosions and radiation leaks at the nuclear plant have dominated coverage of Japan's multiple catastrophe, although they have so far resulted in far fewer casualties than the earthquake and tsunami. This is frustrating to anyone who has seen the situation in the evacuation shelters, where the need for food, fuel and care is enormous.
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The shifts of the earth and ocean on 11 March reset the scales of modern catastrophe. The magnitude nine quake (one of the five most powerful ever recorded) and the 30m to 40m tsunami (the highest ever seen in Japan) caused more economic damage than any disaster man has known. They pulverised several hundred kilometres of coastline and left up to 400,000 people homeless. Fewer than a third are nuclear evacuees.

47 minutes ago 6.4 Near the east coast of Honshu, Japan Map
15 hours ago 6.6 Eastern Honshu, Japan Map

I think another just hit about 45 min ago or so.

6.4 near Tokyo.

Breaking News Alert: Japan to raise nuclear crisis rating to Chernobyl level
April 11, 2011 9:40:23 PM

The impression that I have is that Japan was not cognizant of the possibility of a nuclear emergency of this magnitude and nature and that things are likely to get worse before they get better. I also have the impression that Japan waited far too long before asking for help.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - April 12, 2011) - A century after Japan donated millions to help San Francisco recover from its deadliest earthquake, city leaders, celebrities, musicians and huge crowds will unite to help the Asian nation heal from its worst natural disaster in history. In a first of-its-kind ceremony this Saturday, April 16th, a 108-foot tribute flag to Japan, proudly supported and donated by Porsche USA, will be unveiled at exactly 5 PM PDT at Japan Town's Peace Plaza on Post Street (between Buchanan & Laguna Streets). The world's largest "Get Well" card designed to make the Guinness World Records book will also be presented as this year's Cherry Blossom Festival comes to an exciting end. Beach Boy's Al Jardine will provide the musical backdrop for the tribute who recently returned from Japan, and feels very close to the people there, he is releasing a 7" vinyl single to benefit the Japanese Red Cross to be offered at Amoeba and other record stores. The event will also feature inspiring speeches, Asian cuisine and spirits, a silent auction and opportunities for the public to have their personal photo included as part of the gigantic "Get Well Japan" card.

Modern sea walls failed to protect coastal towns from Japan's destructive tsunami last month. But in the hamlet of Aneyoshi, a single centuries-old tablet saved the day.

"High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants," the stone slab reads. "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."

It was advice the dozen or so households of Aneyoshi heeded, and their homes emerged unscathed from a disaster that flattened low-lying communities elsewhere and killed thousands along Japan's northeastern shore.
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"Everybody here knows about the markers. We studied them in school," said Yuto Kimura, 12, who guided a recent visitor to one near his home. "When the tsunami came, my mom got me from school and then the whole village climbed to higher ground."

"High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants," the stone slab reads. "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."

It was advice the dozen or so households of Aneyoshi heeded, and their homes emerged unscathed from a disaster that flattened low-lying communities elsewhere and killed thousands along Japan's northeastern shore.

Harrowing is right. But thank you.

The mind boggles. How do you accommodate those images, in a debate about energy, the economy, safety, technology... You can't. And yet we're obligated to think about such things.

I think about Bhopal. Katrina. Famine exacerbated by civil war, in Sudan, other places. Times and places when unintended consequences snowball so fast, extend so far, that nobody can compass them. And we know it's not enough to say "it was an accident."

Yeah. When it comes to energy needs, the big challenge is coming up with the least unsafe solution that still manages to meet legitimate demands for energy. It's a tough balance to strike, but it needs to happen.

A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone (BX.N) and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan.

It marks the latest fallout from a series of highly leveraged investments by Morgan Stanley (MS.N), one of the most aggressive investors in worldwide property markets before the global financial crisis.

The $4.2 billion MSREF V real estate fund missed its April 15 deadline to repay 278 billion yen($3.3 billion) worth of debt packaged in commercial mortgage-backed securities on the 32-storey Shinagawa Grand Central Tower, a property which has seen its value plunge, two people involved in the transaction said.

March 2011 is set to mark a caesura in Japanese history comparable to August 1945: the end of a particular model of state, economy and society, both marked by nuclear catastrophes that shook the world (even if the present one seems likely to be slightly muted and the meltdown kept to partial, the regional consequences may be broader, the number of people disastrously affected greater). Where the mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki signalled the end-point of the path chosen by the young officers of the Kwantung Army in the 1930s, the chaos and apocalyptic apprehension of post-quake and tsunami Fukushima in 2011 is the end-point of the path chosen by senior state bureaucrats and their corporate and political collaborators in the 1950s and steadily, incrementally, reinforced ever since then. Their legacy is today’s nuclear state Japan. 1945 was a purely human-caused disaster. 2011 differs in that it was occasioned by natural disaster, but human factors hugely exacerbated it.

Japan’s “Hiroshima syndrome” of fear and loathing for all things nuclear meant that cooperation with US nuclear war-fighting strategy had to be kept secret, in mitsuyaku or “secret treaties,” especially in the 1960s and 1970s that have only become public in the past two years. The nuclear energy commitment, also pressed by the US, had likewise to be concealed, never submitted to electoral scrutiny, and continually subject of manipulation (extensive advertising campaigns), cover-up (especially of successive incidents), and deception (as to risk and safety levels). The extent of that too is now laid bare.

The way forward out of the current disaster remains unclear. The debate over Japan’s energy and technology future will be long and hard, but what is now clear is that Japanese democracy has to rethink the frame within which this elite was able to overrun all opposition and push the country to its present brink. The crisis is not just one of radiation, failed energy supply, possible meltdown, the death of tens of thousands, health and environmental hazard, but of governability, of democracy. Civic democracy has to find a way to seize control over the great irresponsible centres of fused state-capital monopoly and open a new path towards sustainability and responsibility. A new mode of energy generation and of socio-economic organization has to be sought. Ultimately it has to be a new vision for a sustainable society.

I too believe that Fukushima represents the end of Japan Inc., but I am not at all sure that there are democratic institutions in Japan capable of seizing control "over the great irresponsible centres of fused state-capital monopoly."

Frankly, I doubt it. About a year after the Deepwater Horizon, BP does business as usual, even though their malicious and illegal behavior caused a catastrophe, which will kill people for decades, and was far worse and far more inexplicable than a nuclear disaster partly caused by a huge earthquake and tsunami. Statistically, nuclear power is safer. Coal-powered electrical plants cause an order of magnitude more death and health problems, because they constantly emit pollution, cause cancer, and people die in mines constantly.

The difference is that nuclear catastrophes, and even most educated people can probably name three, TMI, where no people were harmed, then Chernobyl and Fukushima, both of which should be rated 7. Using outmoded technology we should be replacing.

If carbon emissions are a huge problem, then we have to consider nuclear. If nuclear can't be considered, then we need more coal-fired electrical plants. As a pure matter of statistics, the nuclear plants are safer. However, continuing to use the water-cooled plants like the ones used at TMI and Fukushima is insane. There is no reason whatsoever to continue to use absolutely idiotic, risky technology where if the electricity goes out, the cooling system fails, and the reactor melts down. We use far too many of those archaic systems in the United States. For instance, the Indian Point reactors which use almost exactly the same system that failed horribly at TMI. On top of that, it has the worst possible location. If that ever failed, it would make TMI look like a firecracker accidentally exploding. Despite that, it provides 35% of the electricity to NYC.

Why are we so stupid? I have no goddamn clue. But we are. When you think about Fukushima, you should also think but for the grace of God, there go I.

The difference is that nuclear catastrophes, and even most educated people can probably name three, TMI, where no people were harmed, then Chernobyl and Fukushima, both of which should be rated 7. Using outmoded technology we should be replacing.

After reading this quoted in Tolland's reply, I am at a complete loss as to what the hell I was talking about, and nominate myself for the Bulwer-Lytton.

At home, the LDP and its corporate backers fought ferociously to suppress labor unions and civic groups that organized to protect workers, human rights and the environment. The end result was an LDP-created “Japan Inc.”—an undemocratic, corporatist state in which bureaucrats blessed and promoted nuclear power and other industries they were supposed to regulate, and then received lucrative jobs in those industries upon retirement—a system known as amakudari.

But during the ’90s the LDP-style of governing came crashing down. A key turning point—and the one that brought Naoto Kan to prominence—came in 1996 over a notorious scandal over tainted blood. The scandal began in the early ’80s, when the US government, warning that blood supplies were corrupted by HIV, licensed the production of heat-treated blood (which killed the virus) for use in transfusions. The Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare learned of the contamination problem as early as 1983 but publicly dismissed the threat to the public. As a result, hundreds of people, primarily hemophiliacs, received transfusions of unheated, corrupted blood; more than 500 died. The Japanese public later learned that the Health Ministry deliberately refused to license heated blood for several years, not out of health concerns but because it was available only from foreign companies (“To have licensed its use before domestic firms had set up production would have significantly affected market share,” the London Independent reported at the time). Worse, the ministry’s chief adviser on blood transfusions and HIV received large sums of money from Green Cross, one of the companies that supplied unheated blood. And, in a classic form of amakudari, Green Cross hired several former high-ranking ministry officials in senior positions while the tainted blood was still an issue.

These facts were unearthed in 1996 by Naoto Kan when he was minister of health and welfare in a brief coalition government of the LDP and several small parties. Outraged by the scandal, Kan forced ministry officials to release documents showing that they had allowed public use of HIV-tainted blood, and he publicly apologized to the victims. As a result, Kan became wildly popular and at one point was dubbed “the most honest man in Japanese politics.” I was working as a journalist in Tokyo at the time and vividly recall how his embrace of accountability and sharp critique of the bureaucracy surprised and delighted the Japanese public.
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