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Japan Declares Level 3 Emergency, At Least One Dead After Volcano Erupts In Central Japan

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When one thinks of Japan and natural disaster, the things that usually come to mind are earthquakes, tsunamis, radioactive lizards, the occasional massive nuclear power plant explosion. Not volcanoes - those are usually delegated to the sole country that dared to give bankers the middle finger, Iceland. And yet, overnight Japan declared a level 3 alert (on a scale of 1 to 5) when a volcano in central Japan erupted, sending ash clouds down the mountain’s slope for more than 3 kilometers. According to RT, at least one person has died and 70 were injured, while aircraft have been forced to divert to avoid the dangerous area. Medics confirmed the death of at least one person, while 70 more were reported to be injured, NHK reported. Thirty of the injured have been sent to hospital in critical condition, health officials added. One can only hope there were no nuclear power plants in the immediate vicinity of the volcano.

According to Japan's NHK, the Ontake volcano on the border of Nagano and Gifu prefectures, 200 kilometers west of Tokyo, started erupting at about 11:53 local time (02:53 GMT). The Japanese TV outlet released the following video showing the volcano spewing thick, gray smoke into the air.

More from NBC:

The Meteorological Agency said the volcano 125 miles west of Tokyo erupted just before midday and sent ash pouring down the mountain's south slope for more than two miles. The eruption forced aircraft to divert their routes, but officials at Tokyo's Haneda airport and Japan Airlines said there were no disruptions to flights in and out of Tokyo. NHK quoted a Nagano prefectural official as telling a government meeting that seven people were unconscious and eight people were seriously wounded.

But while Tokyo may be safe for now, the immediate vicinity is in a air transit lockdown: "Airplanes are diverting their flying routes to avoid the ash cloud,"Makoto Hasegawa of the Nagano prefecture fire department told Reuters.

RT adds that a local eyewitness told NHK that small rocks were being hurled into the air along with the ash. "It was like thunder," she said. "I heard boom, boom – then everything went dark." Japan’s Meteorological Agency declared a level 3 volcano alert on a 1 to 5 scale, which means people are advised to stay away from the mountain. The agency warned that the debris from the volcano could fall as far as 4 kilometers away.

Stratovolcano Ontake (Ontake-san) is the second highest volcano in Japan at 3,067 meters. It is also a popular destination for religious pilgrimages.

It was inactive until 1979, but then it underwent a series of eruptions. The latest was in 2007.

Finally, some local reports "on the ground"

 

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Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:31 | 5262513 jaap
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Knowing the japanese, they would probably have built a nuclear reactor on that hill.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:51 | 5262545 Jumbotron
Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:12 | 5262569 duo
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This volcano is about 15 miles from Suwa city, and the region to the southeast which is home to most of Japan's apples and grapes.

I used to go to Suwa for business 3-4 times a year.  It is known for it's hot springs.  Lots of molten rock just below the surface.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:15 | 5262577 Stackers
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Those people in that 2nd video are amazingly calm for standing on the side of an erupting volcano watching the ash cloud rush down at you.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:28 | 5262589 toady
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I even heard one say 'doe-zo', which roughly means 'excuse me, you first'.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:52 | 5262618 Latina Lover
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How dare the volcano erupt and spew carbon pollution, LOL! The global warmists could line up and jump into the volcano, removing both the problem of carbon pollution and their excess population in one fell swoop.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:02 | 5262641 NoDebt
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I can't read Japanese but I suspect the Japanese characters in those tweets roughly translates to "holy shit!"

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:14 | 5262667 SafelyGraze
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1. send in the advisors (a.k.a. "spotters")

2. bombs away!

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:28 | 5262700 Wile-E-Coyote
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Yeah breath that shit in, full of microscopic glass particles.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 20:43 | 5263756 NoDecaf
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Japan getting whacked from all angles...

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 06:07 | 5264341 HolyfieldsOtherEar
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Nothing earth-shattering. The first one says, "Mt. Ondake erupts!"

The second one says, "Incredible eruption of Mt. Ondake!"

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:32 | 5262720 Anarchy 99
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superb idea

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 15:02 | 5262987 ebworthen
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Latina Lover - Mt. St. Helens put more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entire Industrial Revolution.

The global warmers blame cattle for methane production - but what about the millions of Buffalo roaming the Great Plains for eons?

They wring their hands about climate change and blame humanity because the majority are Godless narcissists who believe humanity is omniscient.

They are blaming us little primates for what we have no control over - instead of focusing on things we do have control over that really matter - such as pollution of land, water, and sea with plastic crap, toxic chemicals, and radiation.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 23:57 | 5264113 Lore
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Somebody please smack these Rothschild-manipulated patsies upside the head:

Leonardo DiCaprio and Sting at New York climate change march (Telegraph, 21-Sep)

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 10:16 | 5264611 Eyeroller
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And surprise, surprise:  I bet the "statistics" will show a "spike" in the carbon content in the atmosphere for 2014, and this will be attributed to auto emmissions from the evil US.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 22:15 | 5263962 IronForge
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Govt-owned NHK's Main Channel even moved its Live Sumo Tournament Broadcast to the Education Channel to broadcast the Volcano.  ROTFL!!!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 10:19 | 5264615 NotGrokkingIt
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Mother Nature is crying out against humanities treatment of her delicate sensibilities!

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:36 | 5262597 MeMongo
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Paging Mr. Banzai......Mr Banzai? Hopefully all is well!

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:43 | 5262603 kaiserhoff
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Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:43 | 5262608 kaiserhoff
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Wild Bill's in Hong Kong.

Alles ist gute.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:48 | 5262614 williambanzai7
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Did someone say interruptus?

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:55 | 5263020 ebworthen
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Nice thoughts MeMongo.

I'm worried about WB7 if China cracks down on those students protesting in Hong Kong who want to vote.

There and Taiwan are going to be Flash Points for finding out China's long term intentions.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:59 | 5262633 Kprime
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they built it down in the crater where it would be protected from the elements.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:31 | 5262960 Cautiously Pess...
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>>General Electric Mark I Reactor<<

 

GE .. We Bring Good Things to Life!

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:34 | 5262519 Duc888
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That's a lot of greenhouse gases there.  O-Bomb-A need to do an Executive Order and sue Japan.  Call Al Gore in on it too.

 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:08 | 5262565 nmewn
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Methane! CO2! Particulate matter for gawds sake!

Its an AGW catastrophe!!! ;-)

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:02 | 5262643 NoDebt
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Between this and the California wildfires, Al Gore is out of carbon credits.  Prepare to die.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 13:36 | 5262837 Ariadne
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The long valley & yellowstone calderas are just tingling with... ... ... anticipation

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 00:00 | 5264119 Lore
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God is the biggest emitter by far. TAX GOD. 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:22 | 5262690 Wile-E-Coyote
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How much SO2 in that cloud, it causes global cooling don't you know. Reflects sun light back into space.

I'm waiting for that big one in Iceland to blow...Bardarbunga.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 01:02 | 5264122 Lore
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Notice the lack of discussion about high altitude volcanic particulate during last winter's hysterics over the POLAR VORTEX.  "The warming of the globe causes the cooling of the weather." Groan.

Polar Vortex to Return This Winter Thanks to Massive Volcanic Eruptions? (Silverdoctor, 22-Sep)

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:38 | 5262520 alexcojones
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    "Not volcanoes - those are usually delegated to the sole country that dared to give bankers the middle finger -"

Huh? I thought Libya dared to give Ziobankers the middle finger? Gold dinar? Soon after, Gadaffi be dead.

I also thought Venezuela with president Hugo Chavez dared to give CBs the middle finger. Hugo demanded his gold back. Soon after, Hugo be dead too.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:00 | 5262550 SilverIsKing
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While reading this article, all I could think of, "shouldn't it be relegated, not delegated?"

- a concerned citizen

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 15:22 | 5263075 Tall Tom
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ICELAND gave the bankers the middle finger after the Global Meltdown.

 

ICELAND had a volcanic eruption a couple of weeks ago.

 

There is no large OIL Fields in ICELAND or off the coast of ICELAND that we currently know about. (They do have a wonderful Geothermal Reserves which are not EXPORTABLE.) If there was OIL then we'd have stopped them and invaded.

 

Libya has OIL RESERVES.

Venezula has OIL RESERVES.

 

The time frames are shrinking even on ZH. Amazing.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:35 | 5262523 beavertails
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The Chinese must have set this off.  Print more ABE

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:40 | 5262529 NYPoke
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Somewhere, Keynes is smiling.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:03 | 5262893 StormShadow
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Krugman: "How many windows did it break?"

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:40 | 5262530 world_debt_slave
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boom boom, out go the lights

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4XbV3gCm2Y

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:41 | 5262531 stinkhammer
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GODZILLA!

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:42 | 5262532 pocomotion
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Our Planet is self-regulated.  It's time to cool things down a bit via volcanoes erupting throughout...  But, please pay your carbon credits to the king.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:06 | 5262650 NoDebt
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Exactly right.  If it wasn't, you would think it would have accidentally veered permanently off course somewhere in the BILLIONS of years it has existed before man came along to "save" it.  

The arrogance and hubris around this lie of global warming is breath taking.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 00:50 | 5264136 Lore
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Perceptive. It is all about ego, giving even the lowest schmuck a sense of self-importance and community as he bends over.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 13:34 | 5262831 Ariadne
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King don't say please.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:43 | 5262533 John_Donkey_Keynes
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Long lava

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:49 | 5262542 q99x2
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Carbon tax that F'kr.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:51 | 5262546 lindaamick
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Uh Oh.  They're after James Corbett

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:58 | 5262547 socalbeach
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Japanese can't catch a break.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:40 | 5262604 max2205
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Bullish!

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:07 | 5262655 NoDebt
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Waiting for the hoardes of locusts.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 10:58 | 5262548 1929agin
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Ponzi Scheme, money printing has now been "Trumped"! in Japan ( earthquake, tsunami, Radiation cover up ) earth is angry... now active volcano 155 miles west of Tokyo.

Times are changing rapidly, hundreds of earthquakes at Mammoth Lake area, California ongoing in last day, something is brewing there, are we ready?

QE go full max...

 

 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:06 | 5262559 MsCreant
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My post is along a similar thread...

Great minds and all.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 00:54 | 5264176 Lore
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Earthquake Swarm Rattles California's Mammoth Lakes (NBC, 26-Sep)

Dozens of small earthquakes over the past few days have rattled the area around Mammoth Lakes, Calif., but that's not unusual, a geophysicist said Friday.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:05 | 5262557 MsCreant
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Volcano: "Must eat central bankers, give them to me now or feel my wrath."

People: "Why them oh mighty one? Janet is probably a virgin, but won't she give you indigestion?"

Volcano: "The printing is heating up the system beyond what Mother Earth can handle, the system must be cooled off. Give me Yellen NOW! I'll take the Bernank and the Greenscam too. Take no chances, bring them to me NOW! Do not question me, feed me."

 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:33 | 5262970 All is chosen
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That is very very naughty MsCreant. You should be ashamed of yourself ...

 

for missing dear Blythe off the list :)

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 16:28 | 5263214 MsCreant
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You are so right, give me a chance to recover here.... ah hem!

 

...There are appetizers, and then there are main courses. The mighty Lord Volcanosan is just getting started.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 02:05 | 5264236 All is chosen
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Masters is British, so a caning from my old headmistress would an excellent appetiser imho. All girls are welcome to watch. Repeated every week with menial hard labour in between. 

I don't subscribe to the spectacular &  rapid demise school. One can't be sure that it deals adequately with sin.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:05 | 5262558 All is chosen
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Burying out of control nuclear plants under lava is a great idea. Don't mossad have a control system for provoking volcanos yet?

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:22 | 5262583 skbull44
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Black swans everywhere...but aren't they all priced into the market and contained??

 

http://olduvai.ca

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:30 | 5262590 Infinite QE
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Sunset Blvd was shutdown yesterday due to a water main break.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:33 | 5262592 BustainMovealota
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And that one volcano just pumped out more C02/carbon emissions than mankind ever has or ever will.  And that's a fact.  Stick that up your ass you climate change/global warming idiots.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:34 | 5262594 Bell's 2 hearted
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how long a stick do i need for marshmallows?

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:36 | 5262599 Sid James
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Boy have they got some fucking karma to work through.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:37 | 5262600 Global Hunter
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Some bankers are breathing a sigh of relief.  In a few months when their economic indicators miss consensus they'll have a great excuse.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:55 | 5262621 Bell's 2 hearted
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i already sense a shifting in the Force

 

(FDIC and OCC have warned on subprime auto lending turning sour)

 

on a micro level.  I own a small business geared toward discretionary spending.  About a month ago talked to a trade delivery driver.  I asked how things going in "our world" ... expected the usual "it is what it is" ... instead he admitted that quite a few businesses have said that if things don't turn around in a few months ... they are out of business.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:29 | 5262711 AdvancingTime
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We may be drifting off subject, but In the city where I live last week the favorite ice cream parlor surprised everyone and closed its doors, they opened back in 1922.  Small business failures should receive a lot more attention then they do, we will see a lot of these in the near future as people have started down this path when unable to find a job.

Small business is hard, going into business is risky, and many people are not up to the task.As a property owner that leases space to many start-ups I have a keen interest and knowledge of the microeconomics that occur. Just as important is the effect, long and short term on the economy. With most business start-ups having a very short lifespan of just months or around a year, the short term burst of spending is quickly followed by the longer term negatives. More on the toll taken on all of us when a small business fails in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/03/small-business-failures.html

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:08 | 5262905 StormShadow
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Moochelle sees this as a win-win. Alinsky playbook in motion and nutrition improves

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 16:12 | 5263185 Not Too Important
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I know of an independent toy store at a mall (the only 'toy store' in town) that's in the final days of closing. Couldn't even make it through the Xmas season, where she makes the majority of her money.

Bleak.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:44 | 5262610 Think Like A Crook
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Japan is the Bad News Bears of countries.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:53 | 5262622 Sid James
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The Japanese seem to have lucked out this time as I can only find SEVEN nuclear power stations within about 100 miles. Mount Ontake is pretty much slap bang in the middle of these:

Tsuruga Nuclear Power Station
Chubu Nuclear Power Station
Tokai Nuclear Power Station
Shika Nuclear Power Station
Mihama Nuclear Power Station
Ohi Nuclear Power Station
Takahama Nuclear Power Station
Shimane Nuclear Power Station

http://www.nucleartourist.com/world/japan.jpg

 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 11:54 | 5262623 Anglo Hondo
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Now THAT one was NOT on my social calendar.  I can add it just after the Singapore F1.  This is great!

 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:15 | 5262665 Haager
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Strange, these events currently happen regularly when stock markets are at or near the top (Nikkei in this case). 164x0 is one of these.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:16 | 5262670 AdvancingTime
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As others have said this is the last thing that Japan needed. Regardless of what some people think natural disasters are not wealth creating. money spent to replace what is dagaged and lost could be better spent elsewhere. Japan is already stuck with an aging and shrinking population that is evermore expensive for the government to provide for.

Adding to its woes the Fukushima nuclear disaster has shuttered its nuclear power plants and forced the country to import more expensive energy alternatives. Neither monetary nor fiscal policy will adequately solve Japan's problems. Continuing to run fiscal deficits only means that government debt is pushed onward and upwards leading to a variety of possible scenarios as to the what the end game will be. Simply put, the fundamentals for Japan are lousy. More on the downward path that Japan is on in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/05/japan-sliding-towards-abyss.html

 

 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:59 | 5262777 insanelysane
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They aren't wealth creating but when I worked for Stanley-Bostitch management would be hoping that hurricanes came ashore fully loaded.  Some companies do well but it is a zero sum game for the economy as a whole.  *(unless people have savings but no one has savings)

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 16:27 | 5263210 trader1
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you're missing the big picture.

Environmental migrant refers to people who are forced to migrate from or flee their home region due to sudden or long-term changes to their local environment which compromise their well being or secure livelihood, such changes are held to include increased droughtsdesertification,sea level rise, and disruption of seasonal weather patterns such as monsoons.[1] Environmental migrants may flee to or migrate to another country or they may migrate internally within their own country.[2] However, the term 'environmental migrant' is used somewhat interchangeably with a range of similar terms, such as 'environmental refugee', 'climate refugee', 'climate migrant', although the distinction between these terms is contested. Despite problems in formulating a uniform and clear-cut definition of 'environmental migration', such a concept has increased as an issue of concern in the 2000s as policy-makers, environmental and social scientists attempt to conceptualise the potential societal effects of climate change and general environmental degradation.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:57 | 5262774 yellowsub
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No coincidence why the west coast is experience earthquakes too.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 13:15 | 5262804 yogibear
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Let's see some action! A couple of volcanoes erupting  should calm the global warmers with it cooling the planet, 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 13:28 | 5262824 Ariadne
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When many Japanese emigrate to California it will significantly raise the IQ, bring the foreground racism up to east coast levels & incite a race war sufficient to depose that Manchurian Governor's syndicate.

They will all vote Republican too. =)

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 22:43 | 5264011 IronForge
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Old news.

They're NOT Emigrating like the old days.  Save for the recent round of QE and the Bubble Bursting, Quality of Life is generally good or better than some places in the USA.

Even the Transients (Key Employees here for Overseas Exp) are shrinking in number.  Nissan left CA after it was bought out by Renault; and now Toyota is leaving CA for TX.  Honda probably won't be around for much longer now, since the 3 pretty much backed the JPN Emigres and Gen2+ Japanese Americans.  Not anymore.

Now, CHN was establishing Bureaucrat/Businessmen's Escape Villas and buying out/building small Anchor Baby Villages around City of Industry (East of LA - off rte 60) and Laundered their presence here in SoCal (check out Palos Verdes/Lomita/Torrance), covering up for their Illegals while harassing people who don't kiss up to them or the Pope.   KOR are here since QOL isn't there yet, they're still at War with PRK (hence the Anchor Babies and Draft Dodging Families***), they're the "Last Christians to go through the Colonization via Proselytization Protocols of the Five-Eyes" - fillng up Bible Colleges,  and the Moonies have made some inroads to the Political Scene via Bribery and their Washington Times.

Still, the KOR and CHN emigres aren't enough in number.  IQ stats won't go up, since all the Sub-100 Groups in the Demographic are the Majority; and many more come from abroad and South of the Border.

Sorry to disappoint.

***My Late Father and I - together served in the US Navy with KOR as a Protectorate for periods involving 1945-1984, 1987-1989.  We probably have more "Father-Son" time defending KOR than MOST SOUTH KOREANS have, can, or ever amount to.  This is why I consider them to be Draft Dodgers - as long as we're sending OUR YOUNG TROOPS to Stand Guard along THEIR DMZ,  they shouldn't be allowed to come here until they've served their Conscriptions.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:00 | 5262886 gmak
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Great. Just great. Now we'll have to listen to the alarmists spin this as another symptom of global warming.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:10 | 5262909 GrinandBearit
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I know... let's build a nuclear plant on top of it!

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 16:33 | 5263228 MsCreant
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Amateur.

Let's build a nuclear plant in it.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:27 | 5262949 fishwharf
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And a little closer to home:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/09/27/usgs-closely-monitoring-quak...

Folks in SoCal don't worry.  USGS says the quakes "pose no immediate hazard."

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:27 | 5262953 MagicMoney
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May be Shino Abe is hoping this volcano was blow a big one for much more needed Keynesian stimulus.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 21:13 | 5263802 Village-idiot
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Yeah, one broken window won't help much, we need a couple of cities destroyed.

Gotta reduce the population of the Earth somhow; Fukushima and AIDS just aren't working fast enough.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:31 | 5262963 limacon
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http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=282080

A friendly reminder that one of the four super volcanos on the planet ( the others are Yellowstone , Toba and Taupo ) are at a 3/5 alert for a major eruption .

In July 2014 , USGS had no up to date data due To "lack of personnel over the US holidays"

Armageddon creeps on in this petty pace.
Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:46 | 5262995 All is chosen
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Q: would this be a good moment for dumping nuclear waste down the hole, or is it best to wait a while?

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 17:32 | 5263336 Sid James
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If you want to disperse the radiation even more widely, yes, it's a great time.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 01:39 | 5264221 All is chosen
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A tricky one isn't it?

Leave it until the volcano has become bored and it might seal the radioactivity in for a generation or three; or chuck it in now and bring the final agony forward.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:47 | 5263018 HardlyZero
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Tokyo surrounded: Ontake Volcano (125 miles West), Fukushima (150 miles North/NE), Pacific Ocean immediately to South and East.

2020 Summer Olympics in 6 years.

and 1 of 4 super caldera's Showa Crater at Aira Caldera Skurajima volcano....thanks, see post earlier by LIMACON !

Insurance cost rising.

 

 

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 14:59 | 5263032 besnook
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let's see. the icon of japan is mt. fuji(fujiyama) a volcano. whoever is not aware japan is one big series of volcanoes has no idea what japan is. in the grand scheme of things in japan this eruption is just a coupla days of video for the networks and internet.....and i am sure the local onsens are extra hot this week.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 16:28 | 5263218 Dazman
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Damn Nature. You Scary!

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 16:55 | 5263261 CHX
Sat, 09/27/2014 - 17:12 | 5263291 Fuku Ben
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Flight canceled

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 18:30 | 5263433 MsCreant
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Was that a helicopter drop you were planning Ben?

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 14:55 | 5267872 Fuku Ben
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Bravo! Someone got it

I'm out of fiat and Thanksgiving is approaching so I was going to drop turkeys instead

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 21:08 | 5263791 Village-idiot
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A little more ash and smoke in the air should help with global cooling.

This means that this winter will be even colder than expected in the Northern Hemisphere (maybe colder than last winter).

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 07:59 | 5264413 T-NUTZ
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Japan IS a volcano.

the only question, Explosion or Implosion?

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 16:18 | 5268133 Fuku Ben
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Both

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