More false predictions from Jucelino Nobrega da Luz
Last night, TV Tokyo aired a special warning viewers about disasters that are bound to hit Japan in the next few years. They included:
- A cholera outbreak will come from the sea and kill 5,000 Japanese between now and 2011
- Famine will hit Japan and thousands will die of starvation between now and 2011.
- In 2011, water shortages will lead to global war, and Japan will participate in the conflict.
The predictions were made by Jucelino Nobrega da Luz, a Brazilian con artist. Instead of giving viewers background information about how Jucelino is a fraud, TV Tokyo found experts and spun their explanations about there being “a possibility” that outbreaks of disease and famine could occur into supporting evidence for Jucelino’s claims.
They may have avoided mention of Jucelino’s history of forging documents and filing ridiculous lawsuits, but they did have to confront him about the false earthquake prediction he made last month:
Jucelino explains that he is happy that his dream about an earthquake in Japan did not come true, and thinks it is a good thing that Japanese people heard about his warning and became more prepared for earthquakes. Gravure idol Aki Hoshino admits she was one of the gullible individuals that believed the prediction and reacted with panic. Jucelino spins his false prediction as a “warning” to help viewers prepare for the worst. The program followed up this announcement from Jucelino with opinions from earthquake experts that believe that a huge earthquake will hit Japan very soon.
It’s fine to tell viewers about actions they can take to prepare for earthquakes or outbreaks of disease, but was it really necessary for the TV program to lend credibility to a fake psychic?
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stuff like this pisses me off sooooo much!
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I wonder if Jucelino knows Myrlyn Hogan?
Hear Myrlyn speak on the The Best Show on WFMU (RA File) –> http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=597&archive=501
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Here’s another fraud… Sylvia Browne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Browne
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This guy needs to get thrown down a well.
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They should unleash James Randi on this guy.
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Next week, his grand finale – He will predict his own death!
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he is so dumb.
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Do these style shows ever lend any credibility to anything? Maybe (semi) famous people eating parfaits ads credibility to the fact that cake is delicious.
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Never underestimate how gullible and easily-manipulated the general public can be.
I too find it rather despicable how much credibility Japanese TV and media are willing to lend to frauds posing as psychics and fortune tellers. It’s not great back here in the U.S. either, but I always got the strong impression that Japan was far more gung-ho in their promotion.
As for Ms. Hoshino, thank god she’s pretty because she sure isn’t the brightest bulb in the studio.
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I don’t think this is a “Japan” issue as such: TV around the world is very bad at this sort of thing. Just read James Randi’s columns when he mentions any random US or other Western programme. If Japanese TV seems more “gung-ho,” then that is because Japanese TV seems more gung-ho about everything.
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It’s a well-known fact that at precisely 12:46pm tomorrow afternoon, I will lay an absolutely stinking bum egg (of massive proportions) in the toilet of a well-known shredded beef randomly lobbed atop poorly cooked mercury laced rice eatery.
You are welcome to join me. I also accept credit cards and TV camera crews.
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Sure, this time it made people more prepared, but in the long run he’ll be wrong so many times he might actually make people less vigilant than they would be on their own.
Maybe they’re just being nice to him and won’t ask him for predictions anymore.
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Anyone here for the Y2K/Nostradamus phase? That was particularly embarrassing. Seeing as how, you know, not a friggin thing happened.
I smell deja vu. And BS.
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He looked into the future and saw he had to shorten his name to get famous:
Jucelino Nobrega da Luzer
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People on 2ch call him ガセリーノ (Gaselino, basically like “Fakelino”). I prefer this name for him
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I’m actually having an email debate with a believer of this guy.
It’s kinda sad.
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DEAR FRIENDS:
WE SEE THOSE WHOM COMMENTS OF PROF. JUCELINO DO NOT KNOW NOTHING
ABOUT HIM AND MAKE SOME PERSONAL OPINIONS WHICH IT IS NOT TRUE.
AND THIS MATTER CALL HIM OF ” FAKE ” WE SEE THE INTENTION OF THE
AUTHOR OF THIS UNSEFULL COMMENTS.MAYBE,HE WILL NOT APROVE THIS
BECAUSE I AM TELLING HIM THE REAL TRUE.
AND HE DOESN´T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT JUCELINO.
THE TV PROGRAM WAS VERY NICE AND SHOW THE REALITY OF OUR WORLD
AND IF WE DO NOT TAKE CARE OF IT WE WILL BE DESTROYED BY OURSELVES,AND BY OUR ACTIONS.
LET´S OPEN OUR EYES WHILE WE HAVE STILL TIME!!!
MESSIAS
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So someone who gets fame and fortune by making predictions that don’t come true is “the real true”? Surely the very definition of “fake” is not being able to do what you claim. You cannot disguise lies and deceit by pretending that it is for the sake of the planet: enough crap is spewed in the name of pseudo-ecological propaganda as it is. If anything can destroy the planet, it is actions taken based on lies and deception as we lull ourselves into a false sense of security by ignoring the warnings of real science – science that actually takes work to understand, not warm fuzzy feelings.
What is “unsefull”? The only possible word seems to be “uncivil”. In which case I suggest this person use a dictionary. However it looks a bit like “useful” which many of these comments indeed are.
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I am sorry, where was this guy before the tsunami in 2004? or the quake in indonisia last week, the floods in PI? hell what about my lottery numbers for the last year? cmon, there is always some one that thinks that they see the doom of the planet, I remember people came out of the wood work claiming that 2000 was going to be the end of the world, but know one warned us of 911? predication are like farts, any one can do them but they all stink!
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The only predection I concern my self with is the one from the Myian calender, but this one is vegue to, dose not say we will be destroyed, if just say there will be a great change, for good or worse, still unkown, but you cant change the what will happen, that is destiny, good or bad!
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A great change in the spelling of English, if you have your way, right?
Ignore the Mayans. They had no idea at all of what will happen in 2012.
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messias
as good as the message is, people will not listen, there is to much history of failed armagadon type proficies, preaching destruction is a scare tactic that has been used for almost as long as man has walke this planet, you may get to some but you will not get to all, if we are doomed, well we did it to our self, I beleive in preaching peace and harmony, kindnes and civility, but only 10% of the population of the earth really want to live like that, it is a shame, every one is caught up in what makes them bigger or better, I undestand that, it is our natural instinct to do so, there have been so many great men that walk this earth in seach of change the mind set of humanity, thus far every one has faild, so man has faild to keep his own speicies alive, once again that is our destiny, I see it all to much, read it all to much, and ask why? why? why does man do that, maybe it is in us to do so? I dont know, is it a shame? yes, can we control it? no! the muslims hate the jews, the protastats had the catholics and the catholics hate every that isnt, blacks hate whites, japanese hate koreans, and they both hate the chineses, polotics and hyprocities, put a black and a white on a island and say you need one another they most likely will learn to suvive together, leaning on each other, seperate them and put them in different place they may whant ot kill one another, I dont have the answers but just have the obersavtion of humanity, if we could live in peace in harmony, together side by side then that is what they call heaven. I just dont see how that could happen in this time or for all time.
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my girlfriend has been telling me for the past 4 years there will be a big earth quake in japan, mom my had been telling me that ther will be a big earth quake in San Fransico, she was right! she had been telling be this since I was 9, and it happended in 1989, during the world series, the only problem was I was now 23, I learend in school at a young age how the planet works, and will bet any thing that there will be a major earth quake in japan, a devistating one, when I dont know, where? I have know Idea, and there will be a big one agian in San fransico, why? we live on a fault line, just like japan, it will happen, every one should know this, cmon
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