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TEPCO Director Weeps After Disclosing Truth About Fukushima Disaster
The Daily Mail has released a dramatic picture showing the emotional exhaustion of TEPCO managing director Akio Komori who is openly weeping as he leaves a conference to brief journalists on the true situation at Fukushima, following his acknowledgment that the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors and fuel rods was enough to kill some citizens. "A senior Japanese minister also admitted that the country was overwhelmed by the scale of the tsunami and nuclear crisis. He said officials should have admitted earlier how serious the radiation leaks were. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said: 'The unprecedented scale of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, frankly speaking, were among many things that happened that had not been anticipated under our disaster management contingency plans." This is precisely as Zero Hedge had expected would happen all along, following our recurring allegations of a massive cover up by the Japanese government. And furthermore as we predicted a week ago when we said that continued government lies and subversions would make the situation untenable once the population loses faith in the government, this is precisely what has happened.
A contrite Komiri crying after he discloses the truth:
And for those who believe the lies that TEPCO and the government has any control over the situation we suggest you read the following:
Deputy director general of the NISA, Hideohiko Nishiyama, also admitted that they do not know if the reactors are coming under control.
He said: 'With the water-spraying operations, we are fighting a fire we cannot see. That fire is not spreading, but we cannot say yet that it is under control.'
And Yukiya Amano, the head of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency said workers were in a 'race against the clock' to cool the reactor.
Attempts to quell the overheating plant with waterbombs from helicopters yesterday failed and despite the army pelting the site with water cannon, radiation levels rose higher.
Engineers are also working to restore power to the coolant pumping system knocked out by the tsunami.
Also, the Mail shows a dramatic photo of a crane used to move spent fuel rodes into a now empty storage pond.
pictures emerged showing overheating fuel rods exposed to the elements through a huge hole in the wall of a reactor building at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.
Radiation is streaming into the atmosphere from the used uranium rods at reactor number four, after a 45ft-deep storage pool designed to keep them stable boiled dry in a fire.
And some of the radioactive material could reach Britain within a fortnight, according to experts.
However they say it will not be dangerous when it reaches our shores while low levels of radiation have already hit Southern California.
And while we descrbed the worst case scenario, i.e., the Chernobyl Solution, earlier, there is still hope for a last ditch deux ex machina over the weekend.
There was a potential breakthrough when engineers succeeded in connecting a power line to Reactor 2. This should enable them to restore electricity to the cooling pumps needed to prevent meltdown.
But it is not certain the system will work after suffering extensive damage.
Unfortunately, judging by how horrendously the government and the utility have handled the crisis so far, we are extremely skeptical any further attempts to improve the situation with fail spectacularly. In the meantime, the Japanese economy is slowing grinding to a halt as more people leave Tokyo, as factories lie dormant, and as high tech supply chains are suddenly halted. Out estimate, unlike that of an increasingly less than credible Bloomberg, is that the adverse impact to 2011 world GDP will be well at least 2% when all is said and done just factoring the events to date. Should the situation continue to stagnate it will get far worse.
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You can't. But you can predict that putting emergency diesel generators below sea level will guarantee their failure if a Tsunami hits. Why were these units not placed behind and above?
Where are you getting the information that the emergency backup generators were placed below sea level? I'm not defending the company. In fact I have been extremely critical of the company and the government. But I believe you are very incorrect about the placement of the generators below sea level.
I have not been able to find out where they are/were located, meaning if in front or behind the main turbine rooms and reactor buildings. But either way they would have been inundated. I have studied all the DigitalGlobe and Geoeye overhead shots of the plant after the tsunami and it appears the water reached a level of at least 5 feet all the way to the back of the plant, right up to where they cut out the hill to create level ground.
The real question is what and how did they come to certain assumptions about maximum height of a tsunami and why did they place all the generators at the same height or less, an assumption on my part since they all failed after the tsunami? As we have repeatedly heard no one ever expected things to get this bad. Of course if you had asked a geologist to study the land, in particular soil that has been laid down over hundreds of years, s/he would have been able to give you some history of past tsunami events.
I am certain this was a cost of project/worst case scenario decision. When I was protesting against several nuclear plants in the 70's I always pointed out that the worst case in a nuclear plant was always terribly catastrophic and thus the "normal" equation used for chemical plants or other electrical generating plants didn't apply because those worst cases didn't involve the potential for hundreds of thousands (or millions depending on wind direction) of lives impacted for decades afterwards.
This argument was always ignored because it was considered "hysterical". We now have seen hysterical in Japan. Not pretty.
"Where are you getting the information that the emergency backup generators were placed below sea level?"
One of the NHK graphics claimed the generators were in the basement of the turbine hall. And it filled with water. Also, on a 'before tsunami' view of the site there were two big white cylindrical tanks right on the waterfront, labelled 'generator fuel'. In the 'after' views those tanks are completely gone. Can make out the footing of one, not sure about the other. So, wave come, no generators.
Let me say it again. I am not defending the company.
I'll look at the photos, but being in a basement doesn't necessarily mean below sea level since the entire main level appears to be at least 25 feet above high tide based upon rough estimates. I was aware of the diesel tank locations and it was one of my main complaints. Even if the generators were 100 feet up, they can't run without fuel.
Look at my comment above. No matter where they placed them, if they were on the main level they would have been flooded. And that is my real complaint, that the entire process was a cost benefit analysis.
Thank you for directing me to more info.
You are correct about the "cost benefit analysis". However, what you didn't say (but probably know) is that "whose benefit" and "whose costs" were also considered by the executives and government regulators (actually, bought-and-paid-for rationalizers).
The fact is, they knew they would benefit by building these facilities, even if worst case scenarios happened.
That's right, their "cost benefit analysis" recognized that the "cost" of disaster would almost entirely fall upon others, not them. So those very real "costs" were not considered as "costs", because they were "costs to others", not them.
Of course, "costs" should read "consequences" in anything remotely resembling an honest, ethical world or analysis. But no, they did not care about "consequences", they cared about "costs"... and only their costs.
They knew they would enjoy prestige and collect their executive salaries for years or decades before anything huge went wrong. And even after it had, they would still retire rich.
Those executives and regulators would not be in the reactor buildings getting radiated to death. They would not be downwind breathing plutonium vapors. They would be in no danger at all, except possibly (since they are Japanese, not American executives) danger of heartfelt shame and sorrow.
Such is the nature of "cost benefit analysis" today.
I describe this with a different term: "consequences shifting".
Well, "consequences shifting" is what the predators-that-be in government and large corporations do today. This is their specialty and modus-operandi. They shift unearned wealth and prestige and power onto themselves. And they shift dishonesty, fraud, hardship and ultimately disaster onto everyone else... and most especially onto the honest, ethical, productive humans who keep them and everyone else alive.
That is the fulltime business of government and large corporations today. Today, the world is controlled and destroyed by:
predators DBA large corporations.
predators DBA government.
predators DBA regulators.
yup
There are a lot of things to learn here... The extreme is that maybe we should not use nuclear power in current design and, depending on how the wind blows, literally, we'll come to that. If it doesn't get cover protection, or at least a deep scrub, the typhoon season, still months away, may spread the leftovers.
If not that bad, well, we learned reactors should not be clustered so close together. And off-site backup equipment is a must, preferably in a size that can be airlifted with helicopters (I sense radiation shields for helicopters will be a hot topic).
nuclear power is ridiculously safe from a statistical risk perspective, but it has immense tail risk.
The biggest hindsight judgment from this will be the impropriety of colocation of SFPs and reactors, as well as the necessity of IMMEDIATE secondary generation capacity being available. I don't recall how long the "batteries" were supposed to have been powering this facility, but it's clear that standby generation has to be available within 6 hours of a SCRAM.
As a point of sort of perverse irony, Chernobyl was caused during a TEST in which they were going to be attempting to see if the turbines could function as emergency power in a rundown configuration, in case of the cessation of off-site and on-site power. In fact, Chernobyl got caused by trying to model the outcome of the exact situation that occasioned Fukushima.
In fact, engineers have already thought of how to solve this and it is why the newer lightwater plants feature passive cooling systems. It's critical that both SFPs and reactors have some kind of failsafe cooling system.
yes, forgot the pools... they should not be in the attic of buildings designed to blow its roof in case the core is damaged and leaking hydrogen. Maybe that used space was critical to blowing not just the roof but the walls too.
they should not be in the attic of buildings designed to blow its roof in case the core is damaged and leaking hydrogen
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chillingly so
And, I'll wager, that somewhere in the paperwork of approval for that approach, someone said "don't put the spare fuel inthe attic of buildings designed to blow its roof..."
depends (like most things) on the definition of risk. Statistically yes, but what about the amazing unique waste? or the current (american) system extending the life of aging plants, the regulatory agency / industry double head, the amazing up front cost (and time) that centralizes it and gives it that troubling power, the transition loss of electricity which argues for a very decentralized small unit system, the fuel source limit if we were to transition most of our (ever depleting oil) power source to nuclear. Would it take 10,000 plants to replace oil? And other stuff
http://alternativeenergy.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001270
>> The biggest hindsight judgment from this will be the impropriety of colocation of SFPs and reactors, as well as the necessity of IMMEDIATE secondary generation capacity being available.
Storage of spent fuel? Of course the anti-nuclear guys will go apeshit over it. Best defense for the US nuclear power guys?
"Hey we tried Yucca mountain and you asshats shut it down"
Not really as far as the secondary generation of power. More modern designs using passive cooling and some of them (Pebble Beds) literally will NEVER melt down. Micro reactors (Toshiba 4S, SSTAR) are there too that dont use water cooling.
I think the Monday morning QBs will be asking "Why didn't we retire the 40 year reactors and go with something safer??"
And ironically enough even though I think that Japan is pretty much fucked harder than a $2 Geisha, I'm still pro-nuclear power (just in geologically STABLE places)
You're kidding, right?
There have been multiple 8.8 to 9.0+ earthquakes in the last century.
Japan and Chile are the most active earthquake zones. This means nearby ~9.0+ earthquakes were probable within the lifetimes of those nuclear plants! And where ~9.0+ strike, tsunamis follow... a fact that was extremely well illustrated in the Indonesia area only a few years ago, when ~150,000 (if memory serves) people were killed by the tsunami.
They most definitely knew this.
Yet these reactors and their backup systems were all located directly on the oceanfront, precisely where a large tsunami would strike given an earthquake in the well known active offshore faults.
You should read a bit. A great many nuclear scientists and engineers warned about these problems decades ago. They were intimidated, edged-out, transferred, fired, and sometimes character-assassinated. They they were replaced by people willing to certify the safety of anything their bosses demanded --- in exchange for an impressive titles, healthy paychecks, and advancement.
Everyone who was honest was eliminated from the process. That's how it works in the completely corrupt world of government and large corporations today.
great post. This is the essence of the issue.
And as you say "Yet these reactors and their backup systems were all located directly on the oceanfront, precisely where a large tsunami would strike given an earthquake in the well known active offshore faults."
California we are talking to you.
Wait a minute, America the beautiful is way different. There are no earthquakes in Cali.......er...........never mind. :>)
(updated 18 March 2011)
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf18.html
Even for a nuclear plant situated very close to sea level, the robust sealed containment structure around the reactor itself would prevent any damage to the nuclear part from a tsunami, though other parts of the plant might be damaged. No radiological hazard would be likely.
Sources:
paper originally prepared by Nuclear Services Section, External Affairs, ANSTO;
Nuclear Safety Commission Sept 2006, Regulatory Guide for Reviewing Seismic Design of Nuclear Power Reactor Facilities < http://www.nsc.go.jp/english/taishin.pdf>
JAIF
Tepco
Well, obviously that was just a report, not honesty.
But the lies are "by indirection" and "by omission", as they often are.
They are completely correct that no tsunami is going to destroy an 8" thick vessel of specialty steel. But that is not the danger and they knew so when they wrote that totally disingenuous piece.
What they left out was the possible consequences of the safety systems being destroyed or rendered unworking by the tsunami.
What they also left out was the fact that the "spent" fuel rod storage ponds near the top of the facility were orders of magnitude less "bomb proof" than the nuclear reactor vessel containment. They also left out the fact that they knew full well that leaks in those unprotected ponds could lead to extreme heat, oxidation of the zirconium casings that both generates explosive hydrogen gas and makes the casings crumble.
They knew all that, and much more. But what they wrote was a blatant lie. Not because the statements were incorrect on their face, but because those statements were purposeful misdirection of attention to aspects of the design they knew full well were completely irresponsible and dangerous.
Notice their formulation, "no radiological hazard would be likely". So, is "likely" the appropriate safety standard? Slightly less than 50% chance of a massive widespread catastrophe is "okay"? Wow!
I assume that's why you copied that statement here... to show how disingenuous and irresponsible they have been. Thanks for posting that.
you are correct. the report could not be reviewed
at a worse time for them and their b.s. and at a better
time for those concerned about the real risk, not the
virtual or statistical risk but the real risk we see now and
will continue to see.
also see the greg pallast link
http://www.gregpalast.com/no-bs-info-on-japan-nuclearobama-invites-tokyo-electric-to-build-us-nukes-with-taxpayer-funds/#more-4497
you're on a roll here, honestann
keep goin'
At least the Japanese have feelings.
I can't imagine Barry Hussein Soetoro, Lloyd Blankfein or Rahm Emmanuel weeping after the economic disaster that will hit the world in months.
It just *looks* like they're laughing; they're really crying inside....
They certainly didn't weep after the last one they caused.
+++++
+10.
In their eyes the world is overpopulated anyways, for them it's time to break out the popcorn and watch the carnage.
Fereeings....noting more dan...Fereeings...
lol!
I'm sorry, that's funny.
Dude, you are not gonna see The Twinkie period in a crisis. Barry figures the Republicans lack a truly viable candidate, so the rest of his term will be avoiding everything so that he can get a second term. Do nothing is about how he got elected in the first place. The only one who hasn't jumped ship or announced plans to jump ship are Biden and Timmay; and neither of them knows any better.
Durden/Singer '12
People are starting to get sick.
Where?
Domino's Pizza...
There seems to be a problem with the baloney...
At Obummers press briefing.
Full encapsulation, creating a huge wasteland and cost prohibitive, seems the likely result. Even that leaves the Japanese vulnerable.....as the radiation will always be there (not in a rural disposal area) and make them vulnerable to military strike.
Long kleenex
The Prime Minister, Emperor, and other Chiefs in the tee pee are the ones that need to cry on TV too. This guy probably had no other choice to try and maintain his $hitty little poker face - now people are going to die in the street whom could have gotten out - disgusting
I understand your point. But we always have a choice to do the right thing. He could have resigned and then gone public. He could have just resigned and walked away, thus making the decision not to participate in the lies. He decided his status, stock, face.....whatever was more important.
Like I drilled into my children when they were young, we almost always (notice I said almost, there are no absolutes) know what the right decision is. The battle lay in doing it, of pushing aside self interest and ego and doing the right thing. This is where moral courage is found........or it isn't.
You're a good man, CD. Glad you are here..
Here here
Anyone know if the boric acid is likely to do any good? Also, why are there no infra-red shots of this puppy? That should help de-lie the situation.
I would guess, not a nuclear scientist, that if the infra-red shots showed anything good we'd have seen some by now....call me skeptical
Since they are classified, the only way you are going to see them is thru Wikileaks or Anon.
"Also, why are there no infra-red shots of this puppy?"
Yea, no shit. While they're at it, look at it with a spectrascope. You can deduce all the chemistry and physics.
I guess that's why the nuclear industry invented the "seivert" as a unit of measure.
The infrared shots are taped to the wall in the US Forces, Japan situation room. You don't pull 80,000 people out of a country on a whim.
The infrared shots are taped to the wall in the US Forces, Japan situation room. You don't pull 80,000 people out of a country on a whim.
Japanese men used to have a more manly way to atone for failure. Weeping was not part of it but a sharp blade was!
I would rather watch the tepco exces who falsified safety reports walk into #4 and turn some knobs and such for a couple hours in their underwear.
buzz,
"turn some knobs and such for a couple hours in their underwear"
Thats not Gay is it ?
sarc/
It's time like these I wish the transformers existed
Brilliant! Who better than to battle a radioactive catastrophe then our friends from Cybertron. 100% getting down to business, 0% crying.
1okby, Right it will be one big Nuke waste site. The entire Island.
Do you sell this pattern by the roll. My Final Redoubt needs some newer, fresher lookin wallpaper.
If think these is a wall paper company that will do it for you ;-)
OK, now do a graphic of the plant with the words "This is not a dirty bomb" across it in French....
That one went straight to my picture collection :)
Sorry folks, Junk this all you want...I have seen a long parade of fallen Japanese officials cry, grovel and whimper in public.
For me it's just not good enough.
It's deadly Bull Shit of the highest order. Deadlier than radiation.
And BTW, in case you are wondering why a guy like this will never go to jail, look no further than our own system. Crony capitalism and captive government are cross cultural phenomena.
duly noted.
William you are spot on. I just find is sad that most of the focus is on these clods and less on the poor people living through the damned nightmare. Have you posted something that I have missed in the last week which dramatizes their plight? I would love to see it!
I'm glad you mentioned your own system, I didn't see anything I can remember about the Japenese while watching Zeitgeist or Inside job to name a few. There will be alot of lessons learned about Nuclear Power from the mistakes that were made.
Banzai7 is an American of mixed heritage, just like I have French, English and American Indian (not enough to start a casino unfortunately) in my blood line. Thus he has his feet firmly planted in both the Eastern and Western worlds. Just thought you should know.
Banzai7 currently makes his home in Hong Kong, at least until he wears out his welcome there. Banzai7, there's always a room open at my house. I'll leave the light on. :>)
I really did not know about the long line of them weeping. Can you briefly tell me more? Is this a way to deflect attention from something? Are they still not telling the truth? What does your Bullshit meter tell you?
This particular company TEPCO has a long and storied history of falsifying reports and data provided to the government authorities. The whole nuclear power establishment in Japan is similarly tainted.
Several years ago their management had to resign in shame when they got caught red handed. There are plenty of pictures of them bowing profusely and begging for forgiveness at a public press conference.
This is standard behavior for massive failure by a Japanese institution. But this goes beyond massive failure. It is intentional/fraudulent circumvention of safety standards and warnings.
BTW, if you go to the Bloomberg Businessweek site you will see am article today summarizing decades of faked reports and accidents.
didnt want to pursue this angle since I didnt have enough info; however, that was my gut feel - corruption, crony-ism, cutting corners, over-charging, fudging, etc. etc., just like in Ameereka and elsewhere...
and now? faking remorse.
And to think, they were going to build in Texas...
A contract is a contract.
And word is bond.
And shit is shit.
And gold is gold.
WB...Bullshit? Really? I forgave him then cleared him & all involved of any wrong doing. He was crying after all.
I'm inclined to agree...fuck crying. When the facts come out as to the timeline of the crisis and steps where simply stupid decisions were made, heads should roll. The tsunami was an Act of God, but what happened afterwards was in the hands of men.
not preparing for "acts of god" which come with regularity (and denying that as a risk) is also an act of man
Noted williambanzai7 and given your relative proximity (HK) I would say your statement carries weight.
Wow, I've never seen you junked so much before.
I might not always agree, but I think you're great. Love your artwork.
This can be very upsetting to the liars and bull shit artists, seeing one of their own cry on TV
This can be very upsetting to the liars and bull shit artists, seeing one of their own cry on TV
So are we to anticipate an huge unmoderated "chain-cry" then. How sad that it 'upsets' them. Gosh My heart goes out to them... NOTPreach it.
I'm thinking Seppiku is in order. Save face like a Bushido warrior.
I do not think he has read the Hagacure lately.
Probably better if Tepco's boss, eschewing any protective gear, go to his nuclear power plant, take a fire house in hand and bravely walk into reactor number 4, up to the cooling pool and proceed to fill it.
++++++ 1 -- GENIUS idea
Excellent idea! Nuclear era Seppiku.
LOL ++++
+1500 RADs
I doubt if he would make it to the pool, protective gear or not.
They've already tried suicide attacks, and they have proven even less effective than in WWII.
Has anything been released in the press wrt radiant heat temperatures? I kinda figured this was 'hot suit' work.
Or were you suggesting that any physical approach would result in such a tremendous dose of radiation that one would collapse and expire on scene?
It would be more useful if he did wear protective gear. He'd still die, but might have some chance of actually getting the hose into place. Without the gear, no way.
There's no sense wasting anything in times like this.
Why not just let him go out to the site and start picking up all the fuel rods that were blown all over the place?
That guy is not a Bushido warrior. If he was he would be down there with the brave 50 fearlessly looking death in the eye.
I am afraid those 50 brave men are already gone like yesterday's news. We are up to the firefighter batch now.
Bushido is dead. It was replaced by Metrosexual-ido.
The Japanese do not deserve to survive.
You're a real piece of shit.
Aging, xenophobic, socialists who kill half their unborn in the womb, kill whales and beat dolphins to death just for kicks.
I don't see it.
They make lemmings look like hell raising individuals.
Didn't Obama said is all okay? sarcasm :/
Isn't he playing golf in Rio as Fukushima burns?
The Roman Empire ended something like this didn't it? Just a lot less technology...
He's actually boning up on Frolf.
It. Is. Awesome! Frolf!!!
Don't worry, he left Michelle in charge, little children.
"Didn't Obama said is all okay?"
I can't stand the guy. But all he said was that radiation reaching the US would not be dangerous. And on the current state of affairs, I don't think that is inaccurate.
Why is MOX a big deal? According to the Nuclear Information Resource Center (NIRS), this plutonium-uranium fuel mixture is far more dangerous than typical enriched uranium -- a single milligram (mg) of MOX is as deadly as 2,000,000 mg of normal enriched uranium.
Yet Japanese markets down 10%? What a sick joke.Japan Tragedy & Gulf of Mexico BP Spill Follow Similar News Cycle / Precious Metals Outlook @ http://rosenthalcapital.com/blog/2011/03/japan-tragedy-gulf-of-mexico-bp-spill-follow-similar-news-cycle-precious-metals-outlook/
Thanks for the carry trade explaination. Makes a whole lot more sense than what CNBC had been stating for a couple of days. Not exactly how Tyler explained the discrepancy regarding the yen.
"the Yen carry trade is a favorite of the leveraged fund manager. Said manager borrows Yen at extremely low interest rates and invests in other assets he feels will outperform the cost of the borrow. In a simple example, the manager invests borrowed Yen into Australian government bonds at an advantageous spread (let’s say he borrows at .25% and receives 5% clearing 4.75% on the investment if held for 12 months). He sells borrowed Yen, buys Aussi $s and buys Aussi bonds. The problem occurs when this overly crowded trade hits the speed bump of a rising Yen. If the Yen rises in value too quickly this highly leveraged trade begins to lose money at an alarming rate as the cost to buy back the borrowed Yen exceeds the 4.75% annual spread. The real world tsunami in Japan has created the financial tsunami described above. The leveraged carry trade manager has been forced to buy back Yen and unwind said trade due to the crisis."
this sort of disaster could happen anywhere
in Japan but not in the US or EU.
LEARN TO FINISH YOU'RE SENTENCES MAN!! I AM NOT ALWAYS ARROUND TO CORRECT THEM!
LMAO!!!
Japan Tragedy & Gulf of Mexico BP Spill Follow Similar News Cycle / Precious Metals Outlook @ http://rosenthalcapital.com/blog/2011/03/japan-tragedy-gulf-of-mexico-bp-spill-follow-similar-news-cycle-precious-metals-outlook/
Maybe he is crying because his combover is exposed on TV.
or the store where he buys his hair grease is out of stock...
I'd cry if I had that hairdo on TV.
What the hell happened to the japs? They've become pu$$ies just like americans!
Back in the day this dude would have had his sword sticking out of his gut 4-5 days ago!
After WW2 America wrote the 'new' Japanese constitution... based on the US Constitution.
Seems the Japanese Pols ignore their constitution just as US Pols ignore ours.
To do the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome... One definition of insanity.
I'll bet they left out that pesky "keep and bear arms" part, though, right?
What the hell happened to the japs? They've become pu$$ies just like americans!
Bullshit, by and large, the Japanese have been calm, and incredibly brave, in the face of utter devastation. I don't fault this man for crying when he's sending thousands of people to their grave. It just shows that he has a conscience, unlike so many US politicians/Wall Street execs.
That being said, he should "man up", grab a hose, and head to the front lines.
Conscience? Unlikely. Probably very sorry he got caught.
EWV ProShares UltraShort MSCI Japan are down 3.22% on this news. What up with that?
Japan Tragedy & Gulf of Mexico BP Spill Follow Similar News Cycle / Precious Metals Outlook @ http://rosenthalcapital.com/blog/2011/03/japan-tragedy-gulf-of-mexico-bp-spill-follow-similar-news-cycle-precious-metals-outlook/
Japan Tragedy & Gulf of Mexico BP Spill Follow Similar News Cycle / Precious Metals Outlook @ http://rosenthalcapital.com/blog/2011/03/japan-tragedy-gulf-of-mexico-bp-spill-follow-similar-news-cycle-precious-metals-outlook/Kudos to ZH on the Japanese disaster coverage.
Second to none.
None.
+1M
here, here.
Muir - you are going to have to change your avatar, I can't focus, it is like watching mobile spankervision!
Bite your tongue sir!
For those of you who have lost their sense of humor due to radiation fallout - I LOVE MUIRS avatar!
And to the "Junking" Cowards - You have tiny prick...
It's one of my favorites, for sure.
Indeed!
Tyler, Marla, George, everyone! You guys are so far ahead of anyone else (credible).
ZH is my new homepage.
marla been gone awhile fella
I miss the musical interludes.
Ditto for your avatar.
+ coordinated BOJ intervention (in yen)
No doubt. ZH is The place to go for news on this topic. They have consistently had this story right, while everyone else in the media has failed.
ZH is the place to go for any and all news that matters!
If that's true you're one of the crown jewels - right at the top. Big ole ruby or something else not semi-precious.
Absolutely...ahead of the curve by hours/days
I'm actually surprised the media is far behind. Its' probably the propoganda arm holding them back.
ZH is EPIC...and only getting better.Thank you Tyler.
PS.My Geiger counter is set up...if it gets "warmer" I will know!
Why is it that all us of "tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists" continue to be proven right, and yet our ranks never swell.
This is both extremely unfortunate and yet perfectly predictable.
The easiest way to make a disaster worse is to have a government in charge of remediation.
Katrina
BP Oil Spill
Now Fukushima
And as others here have already correctly pointed out, none of our leaders in this country feel any remorse whatsoever.
This is why each of them deserve long and painful deaths.
Because we are all in one place - .
We're just lucky we escaped the programming. The sheeple have been programmed to disregard facts and reality and only see what the masters want them to see.
How to brainwash a nation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMZGGQ0ERk
Ideological subversion: or getting people not to care about their country or to learn about it.
word to the herd.
..
While I love ZH and most of what it stands for, I don't think you, I, any of us can say any of this was perfectly predictable. Anyone with sight can see that the situation sure as fuck isn't under control while the damn plant is exploding every day. (except trav..lul)
But to infer that ZH holds all the right answers is self aggrandizing. We merely point out the obvious and likely outcome, but we surely aren’t all knowing fortune tellers. The situation in Japan would be shitty regardless.
Anyone with sight can see that the situation sure as fuck isn't under control
Actually I think this is the main thesis of ZH
And has been all along, I believe.
I wasn't saying the disaster was predictable.
Just the outcome of how the group of people in power would handle it.
Poorly.
Oh, but the ranks are swelling and doing so rapidly. Ive been lurking here for a long time before I even signed on, but dont say much and have directed a number of people here who do the same. Lack of new voices here does not necessarily mean lack of new eyes.
Im out in a very rural southern area but spread the "gospel" as it were here and there, there is more acceptance of the basic idea that our system and government are hopelessly lost and corrupt then you might imagine. Folks in my area are like forest creatures- they may not understand the techncial aspects of things like barometric pressure and weather patterns but they damn sure know that a storm is coming and many are preparing themselves quietly.
Of course where I am despising the Federal government is an honored multigenerational tradition so this helps a bit. I imagine its a tougher sell conceptually in other areas where people think that our government is or has ever been an honorable institution acting in the interests of its citizens instead of the Northeastern financial elite. Around here showing some things which indicate that the goddamned power hungry New York bankers are vampires in need of a stake isnt exactly seen as new or different- ol' Johnny Reb has known this for a very long time.
Anyhow, there are more out there then you may suspect.
Please don't come looking for us Yankees forced to live with the system imposed by these bankster scum. The War of Northern Agression continues.
It morphed into the War of Global Elitist Aggression long before we used the word 'morph' much.
Look no further than the town meetings for the silent majority's opinion... those things turned into bloodbaths... the topic of discussion was irrelevant... there was simply distrust and disgust of the government by the audience.
Aside from being armed to the teeth and pretty damn resourceful, rural folk typically don't like authority...
"Why is it that all us of "tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists" continue to be proven right, and yet our ranks never swell."
Because we are the only ones immune to the fluoridated water, aspartame, television subliminals and black helicopter rays?
Why is it that all us of "tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists" continue to be proven right, and yet our ranks never swell.
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Could it be the 'personnel rotations' into and out of those FEMA Y2K camps?
No, wait - that never happened ... I wonder if Alex Jones ever finished-off all his Y2K rations ...
128 pensioners deserted by medical staff at a hospital inside exclusion zone
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367473/Elderly-hospital-patients-left-die-Japans-nuclear-zone-400-000-fight-survive-tsunami-humanitarian-crisis.html#ixzz1GydsD56X
DELETED. It is too sad.