Eddie Hobbs – TV3 – The Euro Collapse
Here’re the key points, in case you have trouble with that lovely Irish lilt. “At the moment, economics is being run by politicians”. Since when hasn’t it? “a global financial event which will dwarf what happened after Lehman Brothers” “If Italy fails, we’re looking at economic Krakatoa”. “What is shows us is that the the [...]
Japan nuke holdout resolved to stay – TwinCities.com
Update: YouTube video of interview with the man added. 2011.09.03. Amazingly, there is still one man living in the nuclear no-go area in Fukushima. Nearly six months after Japan’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, the 53-year-old believes he is the only inhabitant left in this town sandwiched between the doomed Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station to [...]
Fukushima rice tests show no contamination | The Japan Times Online
I wonder what percentage of consumers this will convince? I suspect fewer than a year ago, and fewer than even a couple of months ago. FUKUSHIMA — No radioactive substances were found in newly harvested rice in Fukushima Prefecture, prefectural officials said Thursday. Rice growers in the prefecture, which hosts the leaking Fukushima No. 1 [...]
Yakuza link undoes TV’s Shimada | The Japan Times Online
During the news conference announcing his retirement, Shimada said he hadn’t considered Watanabe a gangster and continued exchanges with him via phone and email. Although that doesn’t violate any laws and Shimada didn’t have any business relationship with the gangster, he offered to immediately retire to take responsibility, the agency said. “I did not feel [...]
A tale of two Japanese teenagers
Exhibit A: As the 20-year-old belts out the lyrics, “emancipate yourself from mental slavery”, he scans the gathering of 20 or so Japanese hipsters to be sure they’re getting the point. “There is no future in Japan for people like me,” Fukuda says. “Our leaders are useless, our economy is bad, there’s nuclear stuff in [...]
In Rare Tape, Fukushima Daiichi Chief Apologizes – Japan Real Time – WSJ
Twitter alerted me to JapanRealTime: Scenes from inside Fukushima Daiichi exist but are rare enough. But scenes from within the ravaged Tepco plant featuring its general manager, Masao Yoshida, making a direct apology for the consequences of the March 11 disasters, along with several bows, are even rarer. Non-existent until now, in fact. While TV [...]
“Please take this urine with you!”
A pingback led to this blog posting the video below. I’ve just watched it once and need more time to digest it and watch it again. Because the blogger Super Crazy Video World and all the commenters on YouTube (at least the ones I glanced at) seem to be taking the residents’ side against the [...]
Radioactive Rice to Come? Rice Growing in a Rice Paddy with 35,000 Becquerels/kg of Radioactive Cesium? | EX-SKF
The transfer factor from the soil to rice is considered to be about 0.1. 35,000 becquerels/kg in soil may result in 3,500 becquerels/kg of harvested rice, 7 times the provisional safety limit which is already far too loose for the staple like rice. I’ve found the video clip for this part. It’s the rice paddy [...]
Japan to sack top officials over nuclear disaster – Yahoo! News
Will this do any real good? Or is it just whitewash, to try and recover lost public trust? Will it work to do even that, I wonder? TOKYO Reuters – Japan will replace three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy, the minister overseeing energy policy said on Thursday, five months after the world’s [...]
Video with English Caption: Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama of Tokyo University Tells the Politicians: “What Are You Doing?” | EX-SKF
From EX-SKF. I make a brief comment below the videos. (If you don’t see the caption, click on the “cc” on the player menu bar to turn on the caption.) Please share the videos with your non-Japanese-speaking friends. Original written posts are here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Captioned Video Part 1 of 2 [...]
