General Music Chat

Japan has a lot of money.
Good luck to ya Japan.

I was listening to the radio the other day and a guy called in to say that he worked for a Japanese co. and that as soon as the earthquake and Tsunami hit they had a company meeting. After the meeting he asked how can we Americans Help? His fellow co-workers told him we don't need your money, we don't need your rice, we prefer short grain rice (it sticks together better) and your rice is long grain. He went on to say that they need petroleum products (refined) petroleum as their refineing capabilities are obviously deminished.
I have said every since I woke up at 3:00am CST on 3/11/11 and realized what was actually happening. This is an Apocolyptic event! Again I say I just saw Humans Beings being affected I could see them in the cars and boats floating HELPLESSLY!
As an American I have at times been confused as to the reaction of our country to Global events. My frustrations (although VERY seldom) have been to stick our noses sometimes where they don't belong!
We are one of the youngest countries in HISTORY! Yet when folks need help we will borrow money from China to help a Country that tried to destroy us physically and economically TIME AND TIME again! I JUST WANT TO KNOW ONE THING? HOW MUCH IS THE INTEREST RATE ON THE MONEY CHINA IS GOING TO LOAN US TO GIVE TO JAPAN?

The radiation problem may be much worse than is being reported

http://www.infowars.com/alert-fukushima ... -sky-high/

You may be wise to have potassium iodine tablets and stored clean water and food just in case.

As far as the money goes, if you hand someone your money and the ability to spend it with no one's permission but their own... what do you expect to happen?
The international bankers have been milking the coffers of countries for centuries, but the free market economies carry the richest rewards for them.

This may be politically incorrect......... but have you noticed whenever there's a disaster somewhere in the world (Katrina, Haiti, Japan, etc.) the muslim countries are absent from donating to the recovery/assistance. Nothing from the Saudis, the UAE, nothing from the rest of the Arab world, Pakistan or the Muslim nations in Central Asia, nothing from Iraq............draw your own conclusions

This may be politically incorrect......... but have you noticed whenever there's a disaster somewhere in the world (Katrina, Haiti, Japan, etc.) the muslim countries are absent from donating to the recovery/assistance. Nothing from the Saudis, the UAE, nothing from the rest of the Arab world, Pakistan or the Muslim nations in Central Asia, nothing from Iraq............draw your own conclusions

You might want to check your facts.


Islam is a religion, not a country. So there are tons of Muslims, in countries all over the world contributing time and money.

The large majority of contributions from countries in the middle east are through the Red Crescent.

UAE: http://www.timeoutabudhabi.com/knowledg ... ke-victims

Turkey: http://www.todayszaman.com/news-238263- ... japan.html

Islamic Relief: http://www.islamicreliefusa.org/japan

Bosnia: http://www.kakanj-x.com/vijesti/bih/dru ... o-za-japan

Malaysia: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/wor ... 13133.html

Iran: http://tehraninformer.com/1797/ircs-is- ... ran-times/

Indonesia: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011 ... ister.html

So getting back to the thread...

#3 exploded. It is fueled by MOX = a mixture of oxidized uranium and plutonium... this fuel is so radioactive that if one dust particle that is exposed to it were inhaled by a dog, it would die within one day.

Here is a map showing current radiation levels in Amerika that automatically updates every minute.
Keep your eyes and ears open!

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/index.htm

Anything near or over 130 is cause for concern.

So getting back to the thread...

#3 exploded. It is fueled by MOX = a mixture of oxidized uranium and plutonium... this fuel is so radioactive that if one dust particle that is exposed to it were inhaled by a dog, it would die within one day.

Godzilla will live again!

Evidently the point was lost somewhere in these responses. Aside from feeling the need to help a people devastated by a natural event, which has nothing to do with the question I asked, Japan has bought up a lot of our debt.

Are we going to honor our debt if they wish to cash it in? If that happens, will we simply print more play money and depreciate the dollar in our wallets even more? Should we anger the world community by destroying their investments in America along the way by destroying the returns on their investments given in good faith? ? They invested in us while the dollar was worth more. Put yourself in that position.

There would be an immediate cry from every nation to remove the dollar as the standard immediately. Should that happen, we would be in a real mess. Or are we going to be deadbeats and renig on our word as some have suggested we should. It seems rather easy for some to confuse what is with what should be. They bought our debt. They paid good money for it so our irresponsible behavior in spending what we don't have wouldn't catch up with us. To consider someone you owe as owing you at some level, so that you really shouldn't fulfill your commitments, then why would you take their money under false pretense in the first place, unless your a con man or a thief? Rather like telling someone who trusted you and bailed you out to get screwed, because you feel they owe you. What a lack of morality.

So some of you say that there isn't a moral issue here in repaying what we owe? Great. Show that to your friends so they are forewarned before ever loaning you anything.
So why don't you put yourself in a such a position by being the one who bailed out a friend at your own expense, and hearing him tell you to f*&k off because you feel he owes you from somewhere in the past, and see if your viewpoint would be different.

I'm not trying to be a smart a$$, just trying to understand some of these responses.

So was the "Mr Slacker" supposed to be a smart a$$ response?

Is it not China, rather than Japan that has the U.S. over a barrel as far as debt goes?

And Slacker, no I didn't miss the original intent of your message. Japan wouldn't do that because . . . that's just f**k up. Ain't gonna happen.

When disasters happen, if I can spare it I donate to a reputable charity.

I just helped out a musician friend who's house burned down. I could have been an ass and told him to eat sh*t because he was living in a house with faulty electrical systems, should've had a fire extinguisher, etc. etc., but it's horrible, I dip in my pocket and helped.

I regularly give money and buy food and coffee for the homeless. It's not my business how they got there, I don't care. It's in my heart to help them and I do. I don't feel taken nor do I feel like a fool.

That's what I do, sh*t happens to people and I help them out of it the best way I can. That's the joy of being human.

Chaeya

What Chaeya just wrote is one of the most difficult lessons of life. WOW. You go lady. I wonder how many will really understand total significance of her words. Million fold back to you and Cisco.

Yes, China holds most of it. I guess the solution is that Japan is going to use their own printing presses, even though they are way further in debt than we are. That will cause financial ripples in the world economy. But if they cashed in the debt they own, it could further our demise down the financial abyss.

I don't trust any big charity's. Most of them have been corrupted. Perhaps Mothra is their only hope now.

I regularly give money and buy food and coffee for the homeless. It's not my business how they got there, I don't care. It's in my heart to help them and I do. I don't feel taken nor do I feel like a fool.

good on ya fer that lassie..

that's the spirit of Christ, even if you're not a follower

I don't put much salt by some dumbass that calls into a radio station. That doesn't even sound like something that would come out of an executive's mouth. I've worked in a corporate environment for over 25 years, and this sounds like some unemployed jackass just trying to get attention, some mailroom attendant.

I think people should be sitting around thinking less about the apocalypse and more about understanding the nature of this world. Earthquakes will happen and with the planetary alignment, there will undoubtedly be more. Outside of calling it God or whatnot, it's all about dealing with it. Every time the sh*t hits the fan somebody's out there with a sign "The End is Near." Whether it is or isn't, I'm all about surviving.

I don't trust big charities either. Here's a good place where you can rate charities or find rated charities. http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.c ... &cpid=1221

No, I'm not Christian, but as the Christians tell it in the Bible "Am I responsible for my brother." To a point, yes you should be. Money comes and it goes, but good will reigns forever!

Chaeya

Cheya the guy that dumbass called in to said there would probably be a false flag attack on the U.S. by a fraudulent terrorist group soon, and probably on the WTC... 6 months before it happened!
Ad he and others forecast these "under the radar" events with eerie regularity.

If you look around you the U.S. and the world is going basically insane right now. I think it's best to be aware and study your environment in any circumstance. But especially in times like these...

I've noticed the radiation levels steadily rising across the U.S.
Maybe it's bullshit, but I believe it's another piece o the puzzle. Whether it's God, Nature or Man, who knows. Certainly not me. But somethings up!

Hayden, that guy didn't say anything remotely as intelligent. Art Bell's radio show is far more interesting. Look around you Hayden, the world has been insane for some time now. Events come and go and people swear that the times they're living in are the worst we ever had, then twenty years later, they're reminiscing about how great it was. Everyone's predicting when the world will end hoping they'll get the lucky ticket of being correct. There's always gonna be a terrorist attack of some kind at some point. Damn scientists sit around jerking off as they figure out ways the world will take us out. Comets, Solar flares and so on. Earthquakes. We're all gonna die. Be very very afraid.

There's nothing I can do about it, a natural disaster or if some terrorist decides he wants to take us out. I can't walk around worrying about it. I worry more about some crazy white guy with a shotgun who wants to end it all and take a few people with him than I do a terrorist attack.

Crazy bitch on FB predicting California will have a big earthquake this weekend and how she's happy to be living in Arizona and all of her friends joking about how California will fall into the ocean. Yeah, if California falls into the ocean, the tsunami's coming right to Phoenix to take you all out, like Mother Nature follows state lines.

I'm busy. I'm not letting no apocalypse screw up my time, dammit.

Chaeya