Rebuilding Japan: By the numbers
theweek.comJapan’s three-headed earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster has taken a terrible toll in human lives, injuries, and the general well-being of the Japanese people. It will, of course, carry a financial cost, too. And now, the first financial estimates of the damage are rolling in. “If ever there was a comeback-kid sort of country, this is surely it,” says E.J. Dionne in The Washington Post.
- $247 billion
Japanese Economy Minister Kaoru Yosano’s estimate of what it will cost to rebuild Japan - $235 billion
World Bank estimate of what it will cost to rebuild Japan - 390,000
Number of Japanese who remain homeless - 9,080
Official death toll from the disasters - 13,561
Number of Japanese still reported missing
More numbers here…
Rumson, Bolling & Associates Rebuilding The United States Construction Industry
articulturalland.comLos Angeles-Long Beach, CA - The United States construction industry has taken one of the largest blows in the past three to four years from the current recession.
"Good things fall apart so better things can fall together"
My life is falling apart right now. All of your good vibes, intentions, prayers, etc. are very much appreciated.
I sound so doomsday here. Allow me to rephrase: my life is under construction. It is getting bulldozed to shit to make space for something much better yet completely incomprehensible to me at the moment. Everything is changing and moving and I’m trying my best to roll with the punches and go with this flow, Heaven help me.
Please send your strength, I need it right now and know I have your back when you need mine.
Thanks,
Giulianna
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War is Good for Business: Rebuilding Libya with Stolen Money
globalresearch.ca“There is no tomorrow” under a NATO-sponsored Al Qaeda rebellion in Libya.
While a ”pro-democracy” rebel government has been instated, the country has been destroyed.
Against the backdrop of war propaganda, Libya’s economic and social achievements over the last thirty years have been brutally reversed:
The [Libyan Arab Jamahiriya] has had a high standard of living and a robust per capita daily caloric intake of 3144. The country has made strides in public health and, since 1980, child mortality rates have dropped from 70 per thousand live births to 19 in 2009. Life expectancy has risen from 61 to 74 years of age during the same span of years. (FAO, Rome, Libya, Country Profile)
According to sectors of the “Progressive Left” which have endorsed NATO’s R2P mandate: “The mood across Libya, particularly in Tripoli, is absolutely—like there’s just a feeling of euphoria everywhere. People are incredibly excited about starting afresh. There’s a real sense of rebirth, a feeling that their lives are starting anew. (DemocracyNow.org, September 14, 2011, emphasis added)
The rebels are casually presented as “liberators”. The central role of Al Qaeda-affilated terrorists within rebel ranks is not mentioned.
“Starting afresh” in the wake of destruction? Fear and Social Despair, Countless Deaths and Atrocities, amply documented by the independent media.
No euphoria…. A historical reversal in the country’s economic and social development has occurred. The achievements have been erased…
A nice idea to help Japan
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