Midknight Review -- new and revised: Four news items out of Japan's recent national disaster.

In case you were wondering, it looks like the final death count is around 27,000, according to FoxNews reports. Midknight Review projected a count of between 20,000 and 30,000, four days into the disaster and, sadly, it turns out that we were spot-on. I want to point out that we were making our projection at the same time established news was talking about "five to ten thousand people." The difference between my amateur effort and establishment news (including Fox) is this: I kept track of reports that included the disappearance of 8,000 people from one community, the washing away of a 10,000 resident town, and the disturbing sights of trains washed away and cars being covered over in the 30 foot title wave that caused so much damage. I am saying this, the Established Media does not do its job. I did nothing in making my projection that could not have been done by the Establishment.

Moving on.

We have the terrible news of 27,000 dead. Coming in behind this revelation is the good news that the government of Japan has decided to build 100,000 homes for those who lost all their possessions/homes in the disaster. Japan is one of the most prosperous nations in the world, but hardly debt free. This decision will add to their financial problems but appears to be necessary.

My question is this: could we, the United States, get so far in debt that our ability to serve the people, in a similar disaster, would not be possible?

A third area of concern, in Japan, is the continuing matter of the four nuclear reactors involved in what appears to be some level of "meltdown." This has not been in the news, as of late, but the problem has only worsened over the past few weeks. At least one reactor has burned through its containment floor and, it is now believed that the 120 - 150 courageous technicians working in and around these reactors, may be so compromised, in terms of radioactive exposure, that they will not survive into the distant future.

Finally, there is the question of "collateral" damage. What will be the final effects of the nuclear component in the Japanese circumstance as to bordering nations, the Japanese citizenry, farmland and ocean food supplies and the exposure, if any, to our nation ?

It appears that this story will be "news" for sometime into the future.

There is a small but revealing photo gallery of the crisis here.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Four news items out of Japan's recent national disaster.

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