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Global Food Crisis: Out of desperation Japanese Grocery stores turn to Chinese Rice!

No thanks to the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, Japanese rice prices have skyrocketed.  This is because the amount of Japanese rice that is not contaminated with radiation is getting smaller every month.

That fact has caused wholesale prices for Japanese rice to rise 20% since March 2011. Traditionally Japanese grocery stores will sell only Japanese rice, but now they are turning to rice from China.

Some stores are offering free samples to get their customers to buy it. Major supermarket operator, Seiyu, says they will try a test sale this coming weekend.  If it’s successful then Chinese rice could become the main food staple of Japan!

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Government & Corporate Incompetence: 80% of people near Fukushima contaminated with Iodine!

This is the result of the Japanese government, and the power company TEPCo,  dragging their feet regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: 80% of the people that used to live near the General Electric designed disaster reactors are contaminated with iodine!

The contamination was discovered after researchers tested their thyroids.  At least five people have 50 millisieverts of contamination, and one person has 87 millisieverts.  This study looked specifically at iodine contamination.

In February the government of Fukushima released their study, which looked at over all radiation contamination, it wasn’t good.

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Global Food Crisis: Increase in number of Fish from Japan testing positive for Radiation Contamination, proof that Fukushima is spewing even more radiation!

“The frequency of radiation detection appears to be rising as two reactors at the Fukushima plant are currently leaking radiation.”-unnamed South Korean official

March 8, 2012, South Korea’s Animal, Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency says fish from Japan are still contaminated with radiation, almost one year after the March 2011 nuclear disaster.

Korean officials say they’ve detected cesium in 32 recent shipments of fish from Japan.  They say that’s a 50% increase from tests done on 21 prior shipments!

South Korea has been constantly monitoring fish shipments from Japan, ever since the March nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.  They say radiation levels are still under international “safe” limit guidelines, however, it has increased in the past few months of 2011!

 

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Government Incompetence: Japan finally starts decontamination of roads!

Almost a year after the March 11, 2011, Mega Quake that led up to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese government has finally started decontamination of roads around the GE designed disaster reactors!

On March 8, workers began spraying down a road around Naraha Town Hall.  Observers say the radiation levels immediately dropped by 80%!

So why did the government wait so long to do it?  IDK, but probably the real reason why they finally started the decontamination was to stop the exodus of people from that area.  Japanese media reports say the government is hoping their late in coming decontamination efforts will convince people to return to their homes!

Last year, out of desperation several local governments tried to decontaminate on their own, but ran into funding and staffing issues.  They appealed to the national government for help.

 

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Japan Modern Day Atlantis round 11: More than 10,000 earthquakes hit Japan in the past year! Japan Islands shift Eastward!

Japan’s Meteorological Agency reporting that in the past 12 months, Japan has been hit with 10,119 earthquakes!

70% are considered aftershocks to the March 11, 2011 Mega Quake.  The agency includes quakes that are weak but can still be felt by humans.

Japan’s Geospatial Information Authority reported that the main islands of Japan have shifted eastward. Yamada Town, in northeastern Iwate Prefecture, moved about 76 centimeters (more than 2 & half feet) to the east.

The scientists say massive crust movements are still taking place, and they warn people to be prepared for more big quakes!

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 10: NEW MEGA QUAKE PREDICTED FOR TOKYO BAY

 

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Japan Modern Day Atlantis round 10: New Mega Quake predicted for Tokyo Bay

After five years of research, a team of scientist, some from the University of Tokyo, have concluded that Tokyo Bay is set to experience a Mega Quake.

The research caused the geologists to realize the fault line, running under the Kanto area of Japan, is actually 10 km (6 miles) closer to the land’s surface, than first thought.  They have upped the expected earthquake on the fault from a Japanese magnitude 6 to magnitude 7.  Magnitude 7 is the maximum on the Japanese quake intensity scale!

But wait, there’s more!  The research does not include any data for the March 11, 2011, Mega Quake. The researchers say they are now updating their five year study with that data.

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 9: MARCH 11, 2011 MEGA QUAKE CAUSED 80 SEPERATE EARTHQUAKES WITHIN 15 MINUTES

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Japan Modern Day Atlantis round 9: March 11, 2011 mega quake caused 80 seperate earthquakes within 15 minutes

Masatoshi Miyazawa, an associate professor at Kyoto University’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute, says that after almost a year of study, he has concluded the March 11 Mega Quake caused a record number of  ‘induced’ earthquakes.

He says that within 15 minutes of the magnitude 9 earthquake, at least 80 quakes were triggered on different fault lines all over Japan.  From islands north of Hokkaido to islands south of Kyushu.  One quake was 1,300 km (807.8 miles) away from the magnitude 9 Mega Quake.

The magnitudes of the 80 earthquakes ranged from 2 to 4.7.

Miyazawa says many of the induced earthquakes occurred near volcanoes, and he suspects the record number of ‘induced’ quakes was the result of a radical shift in the power balance between tectonic plates.

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 8: NEW STUDY SAYS FUTURE TSUNAMIS A BIGGER THREAT THAN FIRST THOUGHT

Influenza

Pale Green Horse & H1N1: Mexico has 166 deaths so far for 2012, Costa Rica says flu “unusual” this year

Mexican health officials are reporting a 23% increase in H1N1 deaths, just in the past week!

So far 166 people have died from H1N1 swine flu, since January 1, 2012!  Mexican officials claim that 89% of the deaths involve people who did not get vaccinated.

U.S. health officials are encouraging people to get vaccinated.

In Costa Rica, officials there say they are seeing an increase in all kinds of flu cases.  At the end of January more than 419 people were hospitalized. At least three have died specifically from H1N1.

The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (Costa Rican Social Security) said the behavior of the various flu viruses has been “unusual in recent weeks”.

  I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him.  They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

PALE GREEN HORSE & H5N1: ANOTHER DEATH IN INDONESIA, MORE CASES IN VIETNAM AND BANGLADESH

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Pale Green Horse & H5N1: Another death in Indonesia, more cases in Vietnam and Bangladesh

05 March 2012, Indonesian officials announced the death of the fifth 2012 victim of H5N1 bird flu.

A 48 year old man died on 03 March, after being treated at a local hospital.  Doctors at the hospital say the man died from multiple organ failure. They are conducting tests to confirm the H5N1 infection.  The man had already been to two other hospitals.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health says another man is sick with H5N1.  He got sick on 17 February, went into the hospital on February 21.  The H5N1 was confirmed on 25 February.  The 22 year old man is still in the hospital.

Vietnamese officials confirmed the man worked with domesticated ducks.

In Bangladesh, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) said it confirmed three more H5N1 cases. The three people both work in poultry markets. They say one of the workers has already recovered.

Bangladeshi officials say that you should not only fully cook poultry meat and eggs, but wash off the egg shells (and your hands) before cracking them open.

I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him.  They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

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Japan Modern Day Atlantis round 8: New study says future Tsunamis a bigger threat than first thought

Officials with Japan’s Land Ministry have issued new warnings about the dangers of tsunamis.  They revised their estimations of tsunami damage, based on what happened on March 11, 2011.

They concluded that earthquakes of magnitude 8.4 or greater, just off Japan’s Pacific coastline, could generate huge tsunamis.

On the Pacific side of Japan, tsunamis could reach 12 meters (39 feet) high, and destroy eight of Japan’s 19 Pacific ports. Officials say the existing tsunami walls are not sufficient to protect the ports.

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 7 & WHAT ECONOMIC RECOVERY? PEOPLE FLEEING NUCLEAR DISASTER IN JAPAN DESTROYING THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS