Oh, lookie.. we haz new fenc.

Godzilla!

Edit: Christ on a bicycle.  I apologize for joking.

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FUCK YEAH ENGINEERS

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Sorry, if this is real, Partner™ and I will be among the hordes of refugees heading East.

Thanx Opie... The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!

Now a second reactor has lost coolant pumps, and has been filled with seawater. Goody!

opsec wrote:

It's interesting, the Japanese respond rationally to a situation that would have Americans lined up to blame whoever their political opposition was.

Ooh, I like that idea for a Jump to Conclusions type game;  whenever a natural disaster strikes the object of the game is to write up "spin" from both sides as to who on the other side is to blame.

Democrats:  Evil corporations and their thirst for greed and power have cause this tsunami from overfishing and angering mother nature.

Republicans:  God is lashing out at the evil human population and/or this is karmic retribution for Pearl Harbor.

Obviously I am not as good at this as some of you would be and I realize that the Pearl Harbor one is a current FB and internet meme.

A bit of perspective on the reactor situation by Dr. Josef Oehmen from MIT.

opsec wrote:

A bit of perspective on the reactor situation by Dr. Josef Oehmen from MIT.

Thank you for posting that.  I learned a lot (and mostly painlessly, although my fingers itch for a red pencil). 

I shall forward it to any friends or family who get overly frightened by the middle-schoolgirl-level hysteria we're getting from CNN et al.

opsec wrote:

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Granted, his expertise is 2nd hand.  The article states that his father worked extensively in the German nuclear industry.

That said, his explanation is far more comprehensive than most of the hysteria I'm hearing.

It's no sweat.
I haven't figured this completely out yet.  I once trained to be a NBC NCO; this is not within the scope of my ancient training.

I think the earthquake in Japan was done by the Pentago.

DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. CohenApril 28, 1997
. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.

http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/ … riptid=674

The purpose is to create a public panic on nuclear pullution that will justify the coming slaughter of "nuclear terror attack".

CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
Posted by EU Times on Feb 11th, 2011 // 218 Comments
While all eyes in the West are currently trained on the ongoing revolution taking place in Egypt, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on the sub-continent has turned “grave” as it appears open warfare is about to break out between Pakistan and the United States.

Fueling this crisis, that the SVR warns in their report has the potential to ignite a total Global War, was the apprehension by Pakistan of a 36-year-old American named Raymond Allen Davis (photo), whom the US claims is one of their diplomats, but Pakistani Intelligence Services (ISI) claim Raymond Davis is a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Davis was captured by Pakistani police after he shot and killed two men in the eastern city of Lahore on January 27th that the US claims were trying to rob him.

Pakistan, however, says that the two men Davis killed were ISI agents sent to follow him after it was discovered he had been making contact with al Qaeda after his cell phone was tracked to the Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan where the Pakistani Taliban and a dozen other militant groups have forged a safe haven and former CIA agent Tim Osman (also known as Osama bin Laden) is believed to be in hiding.

Of the actual gunfight itself we can read as reported by the Time News Service which, in part, says:

“The scene could have been scripted in a Hollywood action thriller: For two hours at the end of last month in Lahore, U.S. diplomat Raymond Davis was closely pursued by two visibly armed men on a motorbike. He noticed them tailing him from a restaurant to an ATM, and through the crowded streets of Pakistan’s second [largest] city. They were close by when, in a crowded intersection, Davis produced his own handgun and fired seven shots.

The diplomat was apparently a crack shot, and all seven bullets found their mark, killing his two pursuers. Davis then called for back-up, and a four-wheel-drive vehicle raced onto the scene, striking a Pakistani bystander who was killed by the impact. But the people in the vehicle, whose identities remain unknown, escaped from the scene having failed to retrieve Davis, who was later arrested nearby.”

The combat skills exhibited by Davis, along with documentation taken from him after his arrest, prove, according to this report, his being a member of the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) black operations unit currently operating in the Afghan War Theater and Pakistani tribal areas comprised of US Military Special Forces Soldiers, CIA spies and freelance mercenaries.

Further information about Davis discovered by the Times of India includes:
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http://www.eutimes.net/2011/02/cia-spy- … errorists/

http://video.l3.fbcdn.net/cfs-l3-snc6/8 … cd6dc12abf

Dmtdust wrote:

Stunning Footage.  Thanks Choad.  Amazing, simply amazing.

The camera work is superb, locked right on the holyfuckingmotherofjesus the moment it happens.

choad wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

Stunning Footage.  Thanks Choad.  Amazing, simply amazing.

The camera work is superb, locked right on the holyfuckingmotherofjesus the moment it happens.

And the water just kept getting higher and higher. Jesus H.

Three down, one to go.

Another thing that amazes me is how solid the buildings are. Very little stick built construction in that video, but what is there is off to the races too.

If this ever happened in the US I know you would see at least two distinct groups of people caught up in the flood water: Rednecks looting beer from the corner shop and yahoos trying to surf the standing waves.

Your arguments are invalid: San Onofre.

Scotty wrote:

Am I the only person who is getting extremely pissed at the knee-jerk leftist reaction to nuclear power in America?  Am I the only person who realizes none of our reactors are built on fucking fault lines that are capable of creating such massive headaches?  Am I the only one making the distinction between these 40 year old power plants and third and fourth generation technology that is going into reactors built "today" that have virtually eliminated the kinds of problems Japan is facing with regards to cooling abilities?

Are our elected officials really going to stand up and decry nuclear usage here in the states when this coupled with Middle East instability is all but creating the perfect scenario for so-called environmentalists to cripple the world economy?

As usual, even if you are largely correct on the facts, and you are also largely wrong on focus.  In fact, I haven’t heard all that much “leftist knee jerk reaction” as of yet.  I hear just as much, if not more, preemptive nuclear industry right wing defensiveness.  But then again, I have not been glued to Radio Pacifica or MSNBC.  Have you?

You should note that there are a few nuclear plants in risky locations in the US (e.g., Diablo Canyon in northern coastal CA and San Onofre in southern coastal CA) and there are many more nuclear storage sites in risky locations (e.g., the now mothballed Trojan plant near Portland, OR).

I take it that you are admitting mild sarcasm here) that US licensing requirements and risk analysis have provided us with pretty good protection against an earthquake and tsunami caused catastrophe.  Actually, it seems to me that the biggest concern has to be about other countries that have serious risk of major earthquakes, where they do not have regulatory barriers or any litigation risk analysis worries (imposed by the marketplace here), like Iran, China, Pakistan, Turkey. 

What is unfolding in Japan is not something we should just ignore.  Perhaps the pundits and profiteers will shut up for a while with their complaints about the obstacles that have stood in the path of some planned nuclear plants.  I doubt they will, however.  Remember how briefly broad public concern persisted about off-shore drilling after the recent Gulf spill.

Oh, I forgot to add, in honor of RT, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH GO TO DRUDGE, ETC.

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Latest news: FUCK!

Potassium Iodide has a shelf life of about 5 years.  Time to replace!

Yes, it's just the leftist knee-jerk liberals after all.

How the hell are these people going to deal with this devastation?





More amazing and humbling photos here.

phreddy wrote:

Boat looks good to go, and livable.

Damn, I had a nice houseboat joke but was beaten to posting the pic.