Truly appalling events in Japan this morning - I know many boarders have family and friends in Japan and around the Pacific, and I sincerely hope that they have escaped the worst of this disaster.
It's horrendous. Luckily my wife's direct family members are okay but some of her relatives/friends live in the worst-hit area and so far nobody can make contact with them.
There's a flyover motorway just beside where my father-in-law lives and he said it was shaking so bad he thought it was going to come down.... jeeeeeeeeez....
My wife's family don't live too near the affected areas but she has friends near Fukushima. Haven't heard from anyone yet as we're both at work.
Looks awful on the news though.
Shocking pictures coming through on tv of the wave spreading inland.
Friends of ours were due to land in Tokyo a few hours ago. Just been diverted to Osaka. They'd previously been in New Zealand during that quake...
Horrible.
Terrible footage of the tsunami racing across the Japanese countryside, it's difficult to comprehend the destructive horror. I really hope everyone's loved ones in the area are OK.
We've been watching the footage open-mouthed today. Even my eldest, who finds news unwatchably boring, was heard to utter 'oh my god' at the shots of the tsunami racing inland. Have we ever had footage of that kind before? Shocking, and as said above, i know there are many boarders with friends and family in japan, i hope everyone's okay.
SBT
I'm a bit freaked out by this terrible event because...
Two or three days ago I was on the BBC News website while in bed before getting up for work and I'm sure I saw on the news ticker thing near the top of the page that there had been an "earthquake in Japan, measuring 7.9"
I told my girlfriend about this but there was nothing on the news.
When I got to work that day I told my boss about it, as he is going there for a month in August, but still there was nothing on the news.
And now it happens! Bizarre.
The footage on the bbc website is just beyond belief. Massive, huge amounts of rubble just eating up the landscape with no stopping it. There's fires burning in this floating mass that is just washing over everything. You can see cars on the roads moving along as this is rushing towards them...can you just imagine driving along and seeing that coming at you?? I don't know about the fatality rate but the damage is going to be astronomical and its going to take a hell of a long time to clean up after it...
Utterly terrible. My thoughts are with the Japanese people and anyone with friends or loved one in the affected areas.
M.
One of my uni friends teaches English in Ibaraki, pretty close to the affected area and right on the coast. He's not an especially close friend of mine, but he is in my social circle - I was just talking to him on facebook yesterday in fact.
Very much hope he's able to get online soon and put everyone's minds at ease.
Quote from: Albion on 11 March, 2011, 11:41:07 AM
I'm a bit freaked out by this terrible event because...
Two or three days ago I was on the BBC News website while in bed before getting up for work and I'm sure I saw on the news ticker thing near the top of the page that there had been an "earthquake in Japan, measuring 7.9"
I told my girlfriend about this but there was nothing on the news.
When I got to work that day I told my boss about it, as he is going there for a month in August, but still there was nothing on the news.
And now it happens! Bizarre.
There had indeed been another earthquake earlier in the week measuring about 7.9. No damage was reported as a result of that one though.
Quote from: Lee Bates on 11 March, 2011, 11:56:19 AM
There had indeed been another earthquake earlier in the week measuring about 7.9. No damage was reported as a result of that one though.
Ahhh, strange I couldn't find any reports about it at the time as that is still a large quake. I guess no damage means it doesn't make the news.
Only just saw the pics, frighting. Glad to hear your family is Ok Van.
The aerial footage is just horrific.
Terrible.
Well, it turns out my wife has a couple of friends living in Fukushima who lived in England until recently with English husbands. We used to meet up every now and then and have Japanese food and let all the kids play with each other. We don't know if they're alright at this stage.
Also, my sister in law's husband has family living there, including his father.
Horrible.
Still can't contact my wife's relatives in Aomori - which isn't too far from the epicentre of the quake. She's freaking out about it now.
The daughter of one of my work colleagues was over there for some presentation in a bank, she's trapped on the 22nd floor of a building and they can't get down. The building is still shaking. She could be there for a few days!
That's really terrible, Dirk and Lee. Hope later news is better.
My colleague decided to land in Japan last night. Of all the timings. Not sure if it's Osakha or Okinawa she's gone too. In fact no one is quite sure what part she was going to. Okinawa's an island far to the south so might not be too bad. Still no one's heard from her. I hope she's okay, she's a lovely lady and I 'd hate anything to have happened.
God that black wave of death just chilled me. So remorseless like some huge fucking amoeba.
Hope boarders Japanese chums/family are okay.
Truly shocking imagery coming from Japan, my thoughts are with everyone affected by this.
Have we heard from Floyd yet?
Awful.
And the parasitic way the news revels it makes me feel sullied.
I'n sure how useful it is, but Google has some resources available for those who are affected by the earthquake.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html (http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html)
I have a friend out there who is a teacher so everyone is trying to get in touch via phone and facebook :(
Bad times indeed!
I hope that any of the bord memberes relitives and friends are ok im still trying to find out if a cople of my modle makeing contacts are ok theyve not been on facebook today for me to ask. and an not so important note my favorit shoping website hlj is now closed for benises as the earth quake has hit them bad
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 11 March, 2011, 09:49:04 PM
Awful.
And the parasitic way the news revels it makes me feel sullied.
Particularly our old friend, Sky News, who added sinister music as they cut to commercial- presumably so that we all know that something terrible is going on.
Awful, awful pictures coming in that, more than anything else, just make me feel really sad.
CNN have it over their footage montage too. I'm watching people die, and I'm hearing theme music - you couldn't make it up. 24hr TV news is a vile fucking thing.
I don't watch these exotic news channels. So far I've only seen BBC News 24. I missed Channel 4 news last night. All the coverage I've seen has been quite sober.
It's horrific seeing the farmland inundated and houses crumpling or else being carried along by the flood. I'm appalled at the way superstitious doom-mongers have latched onto this as evidence to support their crackpot theories of divine retribution, the Mayan calendar, etc.
Watching this on CNN yesterday was horrific.
Not least because they had reporters in Hawaii waiting for a "six meter tsunami" to hit the islands. They had all their cameras ready, graphics and music standing by - then somebody said that the tsunami would be 6ft, not 6m. Then six inches. As the saner humans of the world cried "thank God!" the CNN "reporters" were very disappointed to be showing a few languid waves rolling up and down a beach rather than a scene of Aquatic Armageddon.
It's at times like this that I think all the military forces of the world should be re-purposed into a kind of global International Rescue. Imagine all the good that could be done with just half the money spent on bombing peasants into oblivion.
9.20am - the desperation of BBC News 24 to fill air time becomes apparent as they interview any English speaker living in Japan they can get in touch with, but they don't really know what questions to ask. Awkwardness all round.
Bit of good news here, my wife's missing relatives got in touch with her dad during the night and they are okay....their house is gone and they've got a shedload of crap ahead of them but nobody lost their life, and that's the main thing. Hope everybody else waiting to get in touch with people have similar good news awaiting them.
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 March, 2011, 09:09:42 AM
It's at times like this that I think all the military forces of the world should be re-purposed into a kind of global International Rescue. Imagine all the good that could be done with just half the money spent on bombing peasants into oblivion.
There's a lot we could do in the world if the people in charge would only put their minds to it.
Quote from: Van Dom on 12 March, 2011, 09:52:16 AM
Bit of good news here, my wife's missing relatives got in touch with her dad during the night and they are okay....their house is gone and they've got a shedload of crap ahead of them but nobody lost their life, and that's the main thing. Hope everybody else waiting to get in touch with people have similar good news awaiting them.
Good news.
Great news Van. Thank goodness they're OK.
The whole thing is truly horrific and then on top of that there's the possible disaster brewing at the Nuclear plant in Fukushima. I had to stop watching the BBC news channel after a while yesterday because even though the casualty figures were initially low, you only had to watch the footage a couple of times to realise you were seeing people die in their hundreds. Terrible.
You're not wrong Sharky.
Its just so awful watching all this devastation unfold. Just watched on skynews that a radiation leak is confirmed. bad times ahead there then.
Glad you got good news about your family Van Dom.
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this disaster.
Good news there Dirk, however awful their situation is.
Quite a hefty explosion at that Japanese Nuclear Plant. You can see it on the news.
Probably caused quite a lot of damage and some of the Nuclear experts appear to be saying that a release of a Radioactive cloud of steam is almost inevitable. Eeek!
The news this morning became too upsetting to watch, really. My alarms are shrieking at the emergency at the nuclear power plant, and the thought of a radiation cloud... This is very much not good, and I had to take the kids out onto the hill to play frisbee to distract us all from the unfurling catastrophe. I'm glad that those who have heard from loved ones have done so, and sincerely hope thaose who haven't do so soon.
SBT
People disgust me
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Quote from: johnnystress on 12 March, 2011, 12:36:47 PM
People disgust me
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Oh holy shit, that's
unbelievable, it actually made me nauseous to read it. Dropping two nukes on civilian populations wasn't enough like revenge? I don't fancy this God bloke of theirs much.
Yeah lot of Hiroshima denial, not mention Nagasaki(oops I just did)). Very much like neo-nazis holocaust denial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
or the mounting FOIA evidence strongly suggesting foreknowledge of Pearl harbour?
Idiocy throughout the ages, just like it was yesterday, THE FUCKIN' WAR'S OVER JOHNNY!!!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Avenge_december_7.jpg)
Quote from: johnnystress on 12 March, 2011, 12:36:47 PM
People disgust me
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Evil fucking pigs
Quote from: johnnystress on 12 March, 2011, 12:36:47 PM
People disgust me
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How I pity people like this. Their minds will never be free, their hearts will never be at peace and their souls will never be clean.
Stupidity knows no bounds:
Quote...when a particularly tasteless tweet started rolling around the web last night, and I found out it had been written by Family Guy scriptwriter Alec Sulkin, I wasn't too surprised. Here's what he said:
If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google "Pearl Harbor death toll".
This world view, that the citizens of a nation are somehow statistics to be tallied in a historical spreadsheet of deaths, and that there's somehow a desirable, karmic distribution to be had is absolutely disgusting.
Maybe he'll say it was "only" a joke, as though jokes were meaningless.
An interesting thing about Twitter's free-flow of retweets is that many people will have read Sulkin's comment, somewhere along the line, and not know of his association with Family Guy. I just wanted to join those dots.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/12/family-guy-writer-tweets-pearl-harbor-joke-in-response-to-japanese-earthquake/
My oldest friend is living and working in Yokohama. I just got an email from him to confirm that he and his family are all safe and well. They're literally a bit shook up after a frightening experience but otherwise unharmed. I'm just relieved to know that they're okay. Hope that other boarders with family and friends in Japan get equally good news. Cheers!
Quote from: johnnystress on 12 March, 2011, 12:36:47 PM
People disgust me
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However, thinking about it I've just remembered something I read a couple of weeks ago: "US Air Force Orders Software To Create & Manage FAKE People On The Internet: Social Control Anyone?"
http://iqxs.posterous.com/us-air-force-orders-software-to-create-manage
Of all those people that have it in for Japan , I wonder how may are watching the news on their Hitachi televisions , or playing their Sony PS3's?
Hypocrites.
I am truly very depressed by the events in Japan.
I really do not know what else to say it's so upsetting.
My sympathy to those who have lost loved ones and I hope those still waiting to hear do so soon.
Much love.
Paul
I swear, if one more person sends me the "joke" about the Japanese waiter on a coffee table, I'll make the papers...
Don't wanna know.
I hope all the forum members who have loved ones over there have managed to make contact with them.
Can't really say much else about it!
Quote from: johnnystress on 12 March, 2011, 12:36:47 PM
People disgust me
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Only made it half way through those comments before I had to turn away in absolute disgust, some people eh?
Hopefully everyone here will be able to get in touch with there loved ones and there friends.
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 March, 2011, 02:47:43 PMHowever, thinking about it I've just remembered something I read a couple of weeks ago: "US Air Force Orders Software To Create & Manage FAKE People On The Internet: Social Control Anyone?"
I don't see why they would need to bother with 'social-control' for a situation like this. Japan is an ally and I don't see the military wanting a war either. It's more likely, believable, that it's a certain insular attitude amongst certain dumb Americans.
Quote from: strontium71 on 12 March, 2011, 02:53:36 PMOf all those people that have it in for Japan , I wonder how may are watching the news on their Hitachi televisions , or playing their Sony PS3's?
Hypocrites.
That kind of logic is beyond them as they probably believe the only reason those companies exist is because America hauled-their-asses-out-of-the-war. Thankfully not all Americans are like that.
"I don't see why they would need to bother with 'social-control' for a situation like this. Japan is an ally and I don't see the military wanting a war either. It's more likely, believable, that it's a certain insular attitude amongst certain dumb Americans."
Divide and rule. They got you thinking "dumb Americans" after all, when Americans are really no dumber than anyone else. The powers that be never let a good crisis go to waste. How long, for example, before the World Bank turns up to kindly offer interest bearing loans to Japan for rebuilding? Loans made by creating money out of thin air?
I am saddened to the core by this disaster as I believe the overwhelming majority of human beings around the world are. There are always a few, though, who turn disasters like this to their advantage - and these few are the kind of sociopathic people we vote for and borrow money from. You don't get to be a multi-trillionaire through being nice.
This may not be the place for the above views and I apologise for any distress or anger caused. Mods please feel free to remove this post should it be deemed in bad taste.
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 March, 2011, 07:31:19 PM
"I don't see why they would need to bother with 'social-control' for a situation like this. Japan is an ally and I don't see the military wanting a war either. It's more likely, believable, that it's a certain insular attitude amongst certain dumb Americans."
Divide and rule. They got you thinking "dumb Americans" after all, when Americans are really no dumber than anyone else.
I could say that they got you thinking they're in-charge and and Americans are no dumber than anyone else too but that's
still conjecture and giving them too much credit.
Plus you misread, notice I said 'certain' dumb Americans. There are plenty of dumb Americans as well as smart ones, some will always be dumb, the same as any other country, saing 'no dumber than anyone else' is a cop-out; incompetence/stupidity/racism are everywhere, no point making excuses for it or blaming 'the-powers-that-be' either. Stupid travels.
The comments are very much like any you'd find on any forum where there's stupid opinions flying around, it's not always about social control, we do enough of that ourselves.
I still don't see how 'divide and rule' applies to American 'attitudes' towards people suffering a disaster in Japan or why the military would target them at this specific time to create the attitude. They aren't at war, it's a different country, and what any 'World Bank disaster relief/debt slavery' that happens, has to do with the creation of those 'attitudes' doesn't really ring through either.
It sounds like too many conspiracy sound bytes,
false flag,
divide and rule,
problem-reaction-solution are applied and bandied around these days to whatever new event or disaster comes to pass so other conspiracists can communicate with each other and understand them in their own terms rather than looking for any 'factual' truth; it's a rather limited perspective, lazy, and just not always the case.
Yes there are power-agendas constantly but trying to tie up any event or twitter into those agendas without logic is basically paranoid.
SHocking events and I hope all loved ones are accounted for from all board members.
I was disgusted at that facebook link and it takes a lot to do that to me. I am quite surprised the idiots didn't mention Iwo Jima.
V
Well, I'm ashamed to say that my hectic schedule has meant I only just today saw anything of the horrific events that have befallen Japan. This is truly a tragedy of gut-wrenching, mind-numbing proportions.
I've had to communicate with a lot of folks online over the last day or two (not in relation to this awful disaster, I should state) and I am astonished at the dreadful amount of cruel, racist and utterly vile, tasteless bullshit that some dysfunctional individuals are spreading on the net. If those folks can't grasp the weight of the human tragedy that is unfolding right now, it's surely a testament to their own moral deficit.
Let's not give these sub-human filth the satisfaction of any further reaction to their nonsense. The people of Japan are where our thoughts and attention should be focused right now. While the dmage is obviously very great, let's hope our neighbours over there can recover and rebuild in the wake of it.
Joe, I've responded to your last post on "The Political Thread" as I don't want to hi-jack this one (er, any more than I already have, that is).
Apologies to everyone still awaiting news from friends and family in Japan for politicizing here. Sometimes I get carried away and I hope you'll forgive me.
My thoughts and prayers are with you, and with all the Japanese people.
Funny how one of the Facebook trolls used Sulkin's exact quote, Maybe they can get him for inciting hatred.
And RIP to the dead. I expect the numbers floating around are paltry compared to what the final death toll will be.
Quote from: Stan on 13 March, 2011, 12:54:45 AM
Funny how one of the Facebook trolls used Sulkin's exact quote, Maybe they can get him for inciting hatred.
That's a bit
Patriot Act isn't it?
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 13 March, 2011, 01:00:14 AM
Quote from: Stan on 13 March, 2011, 12:54:45 AM
Funny how one of the Facebook trolls used Sulkin's exact quote, Maybe they can get him for inciting hatred.
That's a bit Patriot Act isn't it?
I was being a tad facetious, but I wouldn't shed a tear if people randomly slapped him in the street. Along with that surgeon-looking guy on the Facebook link. I hope he's a vet. He's definitely not a brain surgeon.
Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth's axis
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html?hpt=T1
http://tinyurl.com/6hng4cu
Red cross donations - I suggest people stop getting angry at like, twenty individuals and donate to some thousands.
Also something slightly lighter
Professor Brian Cox on Twitter: "Stop asking about the bloody so-called Megamoon. It has nob all to do with anything!"
A bad image came across my mind, I can see Hollywood producers and directors rubbing their hands on how a Tsunami on a grand scale acts thus in the next few years I feel a deluge of Tsunami related movies coming through.
If a percentage of profits go to rebuild and rehabilitation then it would be a good thing, but with the industry full of leeches I can't see it myself.
V
Quote from: vzzbux on 13 March, 2011, 09:40:21 AM
A bad image came across my mind, I can see Hollywood producers and directors rubbing their hands on how a Tsunami on a grand scale acts thus in the next few years I feel a deluge of Tsunami related movies coming through.
I wouldn't say you're far off there, V. On the other hand, it was ever thus - just look at Hiroshima and Godzilla.
While I appreciate that it's utterly trivial, I saw a TV spot for
Battle: LA this morning, complete with devastated cityscapes, terrified civilians and helicopter evacs, something I'd been looking really forward to going to, and thought 'feck, no'.
If I can just say that from what I've read, displacement was 2.4m and it appears to have occurred in a splay fault not the main thrust. Fuckin hell!
M.
Quote from: Mikey on 13 March, 2011, 06:08:15 PM
If I can just say that from what I've read, displacement was 2.4m and it appears to have occurred in a splay fault not the main thrust. Fuckin hell!
That does seem to be the current conclusion - New Scientist are suggesting it's a previously unknown splay fault too, so who knows whether this has actually added to stresses rather than relieving them. Almost unbelievable - more displacement than the Sagami Bay quake, nearly heading for the Prince William Sound level. It's very scary stuff.
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 March, 2011, 09:48:47 AM
I wouldn't say you're far off there, V. On the other hand, it was ever thus - just look at Hiroshima and Godzilla.
But that was made by a Japanese person, and it was intended to subtly reference a horrific event which could not be discussed publicly at that time.
Anyway, I don't think we'll any tsunami movies any time soon. It's mainly American disasters (i.e. Iraq war) that are popular subjects for Hollywood.
Well despite all the bad news, nuclear power stations going awry etc, my colleague has turned up safe and well and was on the southern island of Japan when the tsunami hit which hasn't been so badly affected.
That said it looks like a real mega disaster along the northern coast.
I hope the Japanese get through it somehow.
Pretty idiotic comments from that US mob. It's like saying a California quake is in response to Vietnam. How utterly ridiculous.
Saw a newspaper headline this morning (think it was either the Telegraph or the Times) that read "JAPAN FIGHTS FOR IT'S SURVIVAL".
Isn't that more than a little alarmist and scaremongering, even by the press' usual standards? The very idea that the entire population of Japan - or indeed Japan as a country - is in some way hanging in the balance is insane. Groteque exaggerations and obscene scare-tactics like that make me glad that the newspapers are fucked!
My friend in Hitachi is fine, thankfully.
As shocking as the previously released videos were....this is still hard to fathom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vZR0Rq1Rfw&feature=player_embedded
Doesn't happen often , but this time words fail me