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Good Morning.
In the wake of the Japan earthquake and tsunami, i'll post this here in relation to your point about the moons effect on the earth.
Funny i read this just before the giant quake hit, and by the looks of it, there could be something else going to happen soon. March 19 looks interesting, or a few days afterwards.

From the source :http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/i-see-a-supermoon-rising-but-do-i-see-trouble-on-the-way-20110311-1bqrw.html

"I see a supermoon rising, but do I see trouble on the way?

A "supermoon" is coming and conspiracy theorists believe it will cause a moonageddon.

While astronomers and other scientists suggest everyone just take a chill pill and enjoy the prospect of a larger moon on March 19, US astrologist Richard Nolle believes it heralds disaster.

Supermoons are closer to Earth and occur every 10 to 20 years - the most recent being in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005.

On March 19, the moon will be 356,577 kilometres from Earth, the closest it has been since 1992.

The lunar perigee, or supermoon - a term that Mr Nolle said he coined in 1979 - takes place because the moon does not orbit the Earth in a perfect circle, but in a slightly elliptical manner.

"Supermoons, in fact, have a historical association with strong storms, very high tides, extreme tides and also earthquakes," Mr Nolle told ABC Radio this week.

"Supermoons are like eclipses. We have roughly five to six per year ... and so it can be very close to Earth but we don't have to have one at the maximum close approach to have a notable effect."

Mr Nolle said the most recent supermoon on February 18 had an impact on Earth from February 12 to 21. He drew a link between the lunar phenomenon and the Christchurch earthquake, which hit New Zealand on February 22." end snip

I haven't posted the whole article here, but i'm sure you get my drift.
Cheers A13

Hi Guys,
Do any of you also read Clif High, Half past Human? I occasionally look there but not often, yesterday i had a look and i found this.
He also mentions CME's .
http://halfpasthuman.com/alsoaintwhatitusedtobe.html
snip
"New cracks in Peru, and now major mudslides in Bolivia, large earthquakes off the coast of Japan....we all need to pay attention;

planetary change is upon us. In the up coming months, the progression of the solar cycle will let us know if and how these new levels of solar radiation will affect human life here on earth.

We can expect that more earthquakes will also be associated with more volcanic activity.

This could be very bad. It may be that we get all kinds of volcanic ash in air affect air travel, plants, and breathing...all vital things.....

but then, guess what, volcanic ash suspended in the air is almost as good as a magnetosphere for shedding radiation. " end snip

I added this snip into my blog post but the whole article is interesing, if you have time to read it. It's quite long.
Cheers A13

Hi James,
Yes with Clif High's writtings, i lose patience as well, they are drawn out and hard to read sometimes, as well as being ambiguous.
But like in this case, there are bits and pieces in there that are interesting, even though, as you say it is speculative.
But none the less, i thought i'd mention it as i only read it yesterday, before that quake struck, so i guess it had an impact on me.
Cheers A13

Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219
"A massive explosion has rocked a Japanese nuclear power plant after Friday's devastating earthquake.
A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured.
Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant's reactors but say the container housing it was not damaged."
...
"Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan declared a state of emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini (also known as Fukushima 1 and 2) power plants as engineers try to confirm whether a reactor at one of the stations has gone into meltdown."
...
"Japan's nuclear agency said on Saturday that radioactive caesium and iodine had been detected near the number one reactor of the power station.
The agency said this may indicate that containers of uranium fuel inside the reactor may have begun melting."

And now one or more Japanese nuclear reactors appear to be melting down.

What a horrible day for Japan, not to mention the rest of us.

Here is a live stream of a station broadcasting in Japan.

Live Broadcasting by Ustream

Official NHK WORLD TV live on USTREAM. NHK WORLD TV is an English language 24-hour international news and information channel.

Japanese volcano erupts
Mar 13, 2011 3:01 PM | By Sapa-AFP
A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres (two and a half miles) into the air, a local official says.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article965229.ece/Japanese-volcano-erupts
"It was not immediately clear if the eruption was a direct result of the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked northern areas Friday, unleashing a fierce tsunami and sparking fears that more than 10,000 may have been killed.
The 1,421-metre (4,689-feet) Shinmoedake volcano in the Kirishima range saw its first major eruption for 52 years in January. There had not been any major activity at the site since March 1.
Authorities have maintained a volcano warning at a level of three out of five, restricting access to the entire mountain.
In April last year, the eruption of the Eyjafjoell volcano in Iceland dispersed a vast cloud of ash, triggering a huge shutdown of airspace that affected more than 100,000 flights and eight million passengers."

Nuclear expert John Large says Japan is preparing for a 'worst case scenario', as workers there battle with damaged power plants.

I left you a long comment on your latest post.

Holy fuck
http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/2011/03/14/nuke-engineer-fuel-rod-f...
Nuke engineer: Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor “would be like Chernobyl on steroids”

"The Fukushima reactor building that exploded March 12 is one of a series of identical General Electric reactors constructed in Japan and the US. In this reactor design, the used nuclear fuel rods are stored in pools of water at the top of the reactor building. These “spent” rods are still highly radioactive: the radioactivity is so great the rods must be stored in water so they do not combust. The explosion at Fukushima Daiichi reactor unit 1 apparently destroyed at least one wall and the roof of the building: some reports stated the roof had collapsed into the building.
Two days later, the nearby building containing the plutonium-uranium (MOX) fueled Fuksuhima Daichii reactor unit 3 exploded. So why bother about the rubble of reactor No 1? The WaPo quotes a nuclear engineer who knows the answer:
Although Tokyo Electric said it also continued to deal with cooling system failures and high pressures at half a dozen of its 10 reactors in the two Fukushima complexes, fears mounted about the threat posed by the pools of water where years of spent fuel rods are stored.
At the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi unit 1, where an explosion Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, the spent fuel pool, in accordance with General Electric’s design, is placed above the reactor. Tokyo Electric said it was trying to figure out how to maintain water levels in the pools, indicating that the normal safety systems there had failed, too. Failure to keep adequate water levels in a pool would lead to a catastrophic fire, said nuclear experts, some of whom think that unit 1’s pool may now be outside.
“That would be like Chernobyl on steroids,” said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which is identical to the Fukushima Daiichi unit 1.
People familiar with the plant said there are seven spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi, many of them densely packed.
Gundersen said the unit 1 pool could have as much as 20 years of spent fuel rods, which are still radioactive.
We’d be lucky if we only had to worry about the spent fuel rods from a single holding pool. We’re not that lucky. The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools for spent fuel rods. Six of these are (or were) located at the top of six reactor buildings. One “common pool” is at ground level in a separate building. Each “reactor top” pool holds 3450 fuel rod assemblies. The common pool holds 6291 fuel rod assemblies. [The common pool has windows on one wall which were almost certainly destroyed by the tsunami.] Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. This means the Fukushima Daiichi plant may contain over 600,000 spent fuel rods.
The fuel rods must be kept submerged in water. Why? Outside of the water bath, the radioactivity in the used rods can cause them to become so hot they begin to catch fire. These fires can burn so hot the radioactive rod contents are carried into the atmosphere as vaporized material or as very small particles. Reactor no 3 burns MOX fuel that contains a mix of plutonium and uranium. Plutonium generates more heat than uranium, which means these rods have the greatest risk of burning. That’s bad news, because plutonium scattered into the atmosphere is even more dangerous that the combustion products of rods without plutonium.
Chernobyl on steroids. When the nuclear engineer from an identical plant states there’s any possibility of such a catastrophe, Washington, we have a problem. Chernobyl’s contamination settled upon people and nations thousands of miles from that reactor’s location. How far would “Chernobyl on steroids” travel? And where are the up to 20 years of reactor no 1 spent fuel rods that could cause such a problem, and the spent fuel rods held – until the building exploded – in the spent fuel rod pool atop reactor no 3?"

Hi Mc J...Apologies for my delay in seeing your comments, and They are awesome mind you...alot of work there and info to go on, I had an online interuption by anklebiters so i am now finally able to sit and do some research.
Stuxnet is a huge possibility in this case, and it's an obvious if you want to capitalise on the situation in japan, and muck up their industries...ie; remebmber the toyota faulty "electrics" fiasco?? and create general fear and panic..seems familiar now, out of a "play book"..I value those comments and i'm sorry they went into spam and sat there all night..untill i blurry eyed posted them this morning..
Cheers and regards.
A13

Hi James, Yes i have speculated about the stuxnet worm, thanks to you and McJ i got some info together quickly, mind you, and put it up as a post on my blog.
It seems to be a part of the "plan"/Plans.. i can sureley see the connection, as we have had experts here saying that there were/ should be failsafe procedures during quakes etc...
here
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/14/3163293.htm?section=justin

""It strikes me as an unsatisfactory explanation," he said.
"These reactors have so many levels of back-up that the loss of primary power and then the loss of secondary power shouldn't have been enough to compromise the most critical element of a reactor, which is the cooling system." end snip

i need more time to think about all this, but i'm sure the worm scenario is doable..
A13

Hi Guys,
Maybe, the stuxnet worm, has infiltrated many reactors around the world and sitting dormant..
speculating now that this is why some countries are shutting down/ stress testing their reactors as they might have a "hidden" threat.
just a thought but plausable, considering the "rush" to test facilities.
Cheers A13

Who was the EFing nutbag that thought up this kind of energy and thought it was a good idea??and who were the dispicable idiodic morons that went along with nulear energy and thought it was safe ...and us in idiot land down under DIG this shit out of the ground and send it everywhere to become potential catastrophes...what a world of dickheads.....I suppose they made a "killing" out of it all $$$$$$.
anyway, enough rant.
it doesn't look good does it?
and In Canada? holy hell, you'd think the shit was more together than that hey.
I'm glad we have no Nuke power here, but we are responsible for mining the crap..so we have our share of the shit then too.
Cheers A13

Well my spidy antennas went up re: Stuxnet as soon as I heard earlier tonight that the Canadian reactor had a problem with leaking water from one of their pools because all the problems in Japan are stemming from a failure in the cooling system and a loss of water either through steam or from leaking.

Slow moving solar flare erupts from the Sun on Wednesday

(TheWeatherSpace.com) -- A slow moving CME came off the Sun today, one of the slowest in quiet some time.

The satellites measuring the Sun measured a C3-class solar flare. The speed of this flare was unusually slow. The flare had a lot of density to it and likely came from sunspot number 1169 as it rotates near the edge of the solar disk.

It is not known whether it was Earth directed, however this flare had a wide range as it slowly came off the Sun.

A screen clip I took of an NHK broadcast showing this satellite picture of the roofs (where the spent fuel rods are stored) of Reactors 3 and 4.

Well, look at the screen shot you took Mc J..
What a shocking state that building is in..and thereabouts where those "spent" rods would be lurking..What a horrible situation, maybe the japanese nuclear people and government are trying to save face a s well as to stave panic???? maybe the situation is FAR worse that they are saying.
Cheers A13

Penny from Penny For Your Thoughts has a good post on the situation at the Fukushima reactors.
At the link... http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-ge-design-fl...

Is it possible to predict the next big earthquake on the west coast of America...
David Nabhan
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/the-san-andreas-...
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Seismology, therefore, is a very young science, a science too young to have any business using the words “never” and “impossible”. Yet that is just how many seismologists will respond when the unspeakable topic of earthquake prediction is broached.
Seismology will not touch the subject, which makes for a very incongruous situation. It is as if aviation engineers only existed to catalogue the reasons that make flying impossible, or doctors who do nothing more than chronicle the many ways people can die. Indeed, one almost wonders if an amnesia bug has bitten the world’s seismologists.
In truth, there is a long list of scientific abstracts that point to at least one very solid clue to how quakes might be triggered: lunar and solar gravitational tides acting in tandem. Los Angeles at Dawn and Dusk If I were to list the ponderous catalogue of studies that point directly to tidal triggering of earthquakes, starting as far back as the 1840s and continuing unabated in every decade since to the present, I should wind up with a tome that would rival “War and Peace” in length — something the editors of the Naked Scientists have asked me to avoid.
So, having given the reader some historic background as to why every nay-saying syllable uttered by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and others, about earthquake prediction might not be considered as infallible as holy writ, let me put forth a dissenting view. It is a strong case, and one that does not require alacrity in tensor calculus so much as open-minded common sense to understand.
The history of disastrous quakes in Southern California fairly screams an important clue to the “impossible” problem of trying to forecast seismic events on the West Coast. Regarding the good-sized tremors that have rocked Southern California from Long Beach (1933) to Northridge (1994) approximately 16 large (6.0+ on the Richter scale) quakes were evidenced during that 61 year period. Here are some unassailable facts about them: The Sylmar quake hit at 6:00am. The Whittier Narrows and Sierra Madre quakes both struck one minute apart (7:42am and 7:43am) while the Big Bear quake (7:50am) followed them by only a few minutes. The Landers quake, the Gorman quake of ’52, and the Northridge tremor all occurred within a seven minute window (4:57am, 4:51am, and 4:50am respectively), with Gorman and Northridge just a few seconds apart. The pattern of quakes also striking at dusk can be evidenced going back all the way to the disastrous Long Beach shaker of 1933 which struck at 5:54pm. The earthquake that rocked San Bernardino on New Year’s Eve 1948 clocked in at 5:18pm.
Here we have nine of the greatest seismic events to rock Southern California over six decades and every single one occurred at dawn or dusk. And the earthquakes that occur on the fault line north of Los Angeles also echo eerie matches. The two greatest seismic disasters in the history of San Francisco battered that city in 1906 and 1989. Separated by almost a century, those two catastrophes nonetheless occurred almost exactly twelve hours apart: 4:50am and 5:04pm respectively. The earthquake that devastated Coalinga rolled into town in 1983, 120 miles south of the Bay Area, and only seven minutes away from sharing the same moment of doom as old San Francisco had in 1906: 4:43am.
Any cogent observer should count this all as very odd, to say the least. What is so special about dawn and dusk? The most obvious events are that the Sun rises over one horizon and sets behind another. When we talk about dawn and dusk, we are really talking about the Sun. Here, then is the first clue: a regular, solar metronome, beating perfectly timed disasters into the cities of the West Coast.
However, to take this idea out of the realm of coincidence and put it firmly into that of plausible scientific periodicity, eight of these quakes also struck during a new or full Moon phase. New Moon PositionsThe tremendous gravitational strength of the Moon (when new or full), combined with the solar tides exerted on the San Andreas at dawn and dusk, is a force to be reckoned with. With the fault line running almost directly north and south and the tidal pressures pulling laterally, the hypothesis is that the Pacific and North American plates tend to slip more easily past each other. One is hard pressed to imagine any other dynamic for such a stunning scenario as that which the historic record provides. For hard-bitten sceptics, not only did those eight quakes transpire at dawn or at dusk, not only was the Moon either almost perfectly full or new, but moreover, the alignment in each of them was extremely tight insofar as the celestial mechanics is concerned. They were all near-syzygy events; the three bodies (Earth, Moon and Sun) all in a line, a focused vector of forces no more than 2.5 degrees in error (outside of perfect eclipse).

well, i ain't conjecturin anymore now guys......

read it and weep...

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-firm-which-secured-jap...

please see it for yourselves.
Not good for breakfast though..i feel a bit sick now.
Cheers A13

Did anyone else find it ironic that the reason the power plant overheated was that they didn't have enough power? Too bad they couldn't hook the reactors to power their own pumps to keep the reactors from blowing high sky...

I also wonder why they didn't float in some massive generators on ships and just run long extensions to run the pumps for a week?

But here's the real sick thing about nuclear power; those spent fuel rods have a half life something like 24,000 years (or maybe 10X that for MOX), well how many generations of humans are going to have to babysit or avoid those suckers (or get sick and die horrible deaths, perhaps completely mysteriously if they lose some knowledge over those hundreds of lifetimes...), just so one generation could enjoy relatively cheap electricity?

I mean if these companies can't put forth a practical real-world plan for dealing with this LOOOONG term mess, they really ought to just bring the plants offline for good RIGHT NOW.

thanks for listening.

Hi Guys, thanks for all the informative comments on my blog.
just wanted to drop in and say thanks again, it's a wealth of knowledge and alot of research there.

Cheers and regards A13

Practically Perfect Person ???

See the link for PPP - http://www.winterpatriot.com/node/557#comment-15410

Israeli firm’s cameras recording Japanese nuclear core
By YAAKOV LAPPIN
03/15/2011 01:43

Security cameras installed by Israeli defense company at Fukushima plant have ability to detect presence of radioactive clouds in air.
As the world continues to gaze with concern at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, hi-tech security cameras installed by an Israeli defense firm are recording events at the troubled core from an insider’s vantage point.
The Arava-based Magna BSP company, which specializes in producing and installing stereoscopic sensory and thermal imaging cameras, had been contracted to place cameras around one of the plant’s six cores – the core that has been experiencing explosions and overheating.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Monday, Magna’s head, Haim Siboni, said the thermal cameras also had the ability to detect the presence of radioactive clouds in the air, but added that Magna had not been able to gain access to the images recorded by the cameras at this time.
“Because we are using these special cameras, we can also identify radioactive clouds, due to the spectrum that our cameras can sense,” Siboni said.
Although Magna is able to gain remote access to its computer system, which receives the cameras’ images, Siboni said his company had not yet been authorized to do so.
“We have not been allowed to take control remotely yet,” Siboni said.
Magna has been asked to secure a second core at the Fukushima plant in the near future.

That's scary about the shelf that Japan is sitting on top of breaking up. More tsunamis on the way? It just keeps getting worse. What must people be thinking in Japan?

Here's your link, McJ, (unearthed from the chat room) on the ten German technicians who left the fukushima plant as soon as the earthquake hit.
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110313-33685.html
some interesting comments on that article too. Someone claims to know who 5 of the ten were but not the other 5

The ten were flown out of Japan as 38 other technicians were flown in. They worked for Areva, the state owned French Nuclear company.
However, Areva has a subsidiary Areva NP that is their reactor company and Siemens (the company whose controllers were hacked by the Stuxnet worm) is a part owner of it with Areva (as of 18mths ago anyway).
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i7L4s3lyWXxYV0rTTNpBo...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Areva

Siemens still owns the Areva NP shares (34%). It has been claimed that the designers of the Stuxnet worm must have had access to Siemens documents together with an intimate knowledge of the design of the S7 controllers. This alludes to insider co-operation in the making of Stuxnet.

So we have a chain of connections.

Caribbean and Pacific TSUNAMI - National Level Excercise (NLE) - TOMORROW (03/21/11)

Caribbean "simulation" pdf
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/pdf/CaribeWave11Final.pdf

Pacific "simulation" pdf
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/pdf/PACIFEX11Final.pdf

the earthquakes are release of pressure. When they stop, the pressure builds then lets go with a big one (assuming the tectonic plates are on teh move that is)

This is 1 min clip of a super massive CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) which happened 2011-04-03. NASA says it may give us a glancing blow and should reach us in the next 2 to 3 days. Also note that 2011-04-04 is the date of the new moon.
http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases_calendar.phtml

Hello MCJ

Just heard you are having an election in Canada next monday. What do you think of the NDP left wing coalition possibility and Jack Layton. Is this likely and will it be much better than Harper.

Sally