NHK World (English-Language)
Says coldwarrior:
For actual earthquake reporting, and to bypass the western media spin on the reactor story (just in case some of yinz don’t have the link):
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/index.html
They stream the news and news conferences with instant English translation.
No spin, just news and interviews with people that are actually qualified to answer reactor questions.
Depending on your browser settings, you may need to authorize it to run an ActiveX process in order to see and hear the streaming video.
While I was listening to the streaming video, the announcer suggested that those wishing to donate search for the Japanese Red Cross website. Here it is:
Japanese Red Cross Society – Earthquake Donations
NHK World mobile phone site: http://k.nhk.jp/daily/
Tags: earthquake, mobile web, NHK, nuclear reactors, Open thread, tsunami
Nice to see ‘Earthquake Aid’ instead of ‘Is it safe to report from here?’ or ‘Got iodide?’
The media is really making this nuke stuff more than it is.
Harry Reid and the earth first kooks etal forced the non use of the $5 Billion dollar complete and ready to use Yucca Mountanin Nuke Material Storage facility.
The same type of deal is forced by this as in Japan, spent nuke fuel rods are stored in open water storage at the nuke plants all over the U.S.A. now.
Any event you can name as in Japan would cause problems with this type of storage. Terrorist, earth quakes, hurricanes, floods, tornados, air plane crashes or forced air plane crash by terrorist.
Democrats and the Earth First loon cult are going to get U.S. all killed.
A great article. Another Conservative against intervention in Libya.
Against a No-Fly Zone
Rodan wrote:
Yeah well the Japanese start growing to be 8 feet tall and dominate the NBA, your tune is gonna change
http://robomonkey.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/its-all-fun-and-games-until-gojira-arrives/
I found a cartoon made by someone in Japan (with English translation) describing the whole situation with the Fukushima reactor as only they can do…
Hey 40 people in Yemen. No ‘No Fly Zone”? Why?
The only thing that should come out of this are designs for SAFER nuclear power plants, not the banning of them. The world cannot rely on wind or hydro or solar for the enormous energy needs of modern civilization.
The Japanese plants were scheduled to be de-commissioned soon anyway but the earthquake scuttled that schedule.
One of the safer designs I see that need to be installed in all nuclear power plants are passive cooling systems. Relying totally on active (powered) systems brings up the rare chance of failure. That rare chance was thrown into a sure thing by a monster earthquake and tsunami.
I live a couple of miles from a nuke plant, Waterford 3, so I should have a few pennies of criticism here. This is the real world, with about 6,000,000,000 people who have insatiable energy appetites; I’m just one of them.
SAFER nuclear is the only way to go!
Peter wrote:
One word: thorium.
New leftist tactic to prevent the Wisconsin union law: Get it struck down in court because there wasn’t 24 hours notice!
Is it really even necessary to say anything about this? Not enough notice? Is weeks upon weeks not enough for you? These people really are desperate. Just give it in already!
Emperor wrote:
They are like cornered rats, and everyone knows how vicious a cornered rat is. We need to crush these people completely. The moves in Wisconsin and other states are hopefully just the opening moves. Rand Paul is pushing a National Right to Work law. That would drive these fuckers over the edge…
@ RoboMonkey:
Funny.
Nevergiveup wrote:
It’s really your anogenital distance
@ RoboMonkey:
Absolutely. We need nuclear energy if we are to continue to grow and (hopefully) thrive as a nation. The Greens know this, therefore they fight it. The intent of the Green movement is not “Saving Mother Earth™”. It is the reduction of the standard of living of the peasants to a Third World level. Al Gore and Michael Moore, of course, won’t have to have a dung fire, but you will if you want to stay warm…
@ RoboMonkey:
I worked for 34 years around radioactive sources and generators all the while accumulating radiation that was monitored by my badges. When I retired I was give my TOTAL exposure count and had to sign off the acceptance sheet. My total exposure after all those years was a lot less than what one would get at one chemo session.
The oil service industry uses radiation routinely in oil field exploration. All types of sources. Cesium, Americium, Radium, Thorium, etc., along with neutron generators (extremely dangerous if turned on at the surface).
One exposure I remember was when someone had an antique wristwatch on in the shop. I couldn’t figure out where the excessive Gamma Ray counts were coming from when trying to calibrate a Gamma Ray tool. When I asked my co-worker to come see, the rates jumped up. The watch he was wearing came from his dad’s stuff and he wore it that day. The luminous dial was radioactive!
RoboMonkey wrote:
that was excellent!
Nevergiveup wrote:
Iron Fist wrote:
Ooh, I bet you’re wondering how I knew
That 9/11 was planned by a Jew
And Bush stole the White House from Al Gore
To drown all the blacks
And start a muslim war
And in Wisconsin they all know
Scott Walker’s owned by right-wing dough
Don’t you know that I heard it from the networks
Not FOX News, because they’re all jerks
Oh I heard it from the networks
And Iran is peaceful like the Turks
Obama-rama, yeah
I know that Japan is gonna live and learn
Those of them who do not fry and burn
Using nukes is bad for energy
Why can’t they be as green as me?
I still might tell it to them yet
If I fly there in my jet
Instead, they’ll hear it on the networks.
Not FOX News, because they’re all jerks
Oh I heard it from the networks
And Iran is peaceful like the Turks
Obama-rama, yeah
I always believe news from NPR
They ain’t never been wrong so far
I can’t help if you’re confused
Not getting the approved news
Let Rush Limbaugh shake his fist
If Olbie don’t say it, it don’t exist
Don’t you know that I heard it from the networks
Not FOX News, because they’re all jerks
Oh I heard it from the networks
And Iran is peaceful like the Turks
Obama-rama, yeah
@ RoboMonkey:
@ coldwarrior:
Excellent, Indeed!
@ Peter:
i’m 10 miles downwind from 2 reactors (my father worked there for 30 years)
nuke power is clean and safe. the fact that there was no ‘chernobyl’ (to use the phrase) in japan after an earth quake and tsunami is testament to the safety of western designed reactors.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I’m not going to try to measure mine. Certainly not while I’m here at work.
Nevergiveup wrote:
the still wont be able to play in the paint.
@ Emperor:
they wanna play hardball?
fine, then write a tougher law, giove 24 hrs and pass that one!
coldwarrior wrote:
And see if the Dems run like babies back to Illinois!
@ coldwarrior:
I’d write a tougher law and pass it anyway. The Public Employees Unions have to be broken completely. All they serve to do is fleece the taxpayer and guarantee that we do not get as high a quality service as we should from our government. Witness the Police Union thuggery that we had the thread on yesterday.
Iron Fist wrote:
And the police unions weren’t even affected by this bill!
The police unions need to be smacked down hardest of all. If police officers can’t be trusted to enforce the law uniformly, they don’t belong in uniform. Before passing that even tougher law, surround the capitol with the freaking National Guard.
@ RoboMonkey:
100%. This is real gangland behavior from the cops. That is one sure path to becoming a failed state: a complete breakdown of law enforcement into rule for the priviledged.
RoboMonkey wrote:
Police Unions…are PIGS.
Iron Fist wrote:
When cops as a whole (not just corrupt individuals but the entire union, by omission or commission) ignore the law and their civilian leadership and start acting on their own to subvert, threaten, and attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government, that goes beyond gangland behavior and approaches “coup d’etat”. That’s where this is headed.
coldwarrior wrote:
Chernobyl is a special case. There the design was totally non-safe. That is an example of a SOVIET design (socialism, public be damned).
After the East-West Unification (Wende) of Germany a similar nuclear plant was shut down in the state of Mecklenberg-Vorpommern, a few miles from my cousin’s house. She had a sigh of relief.
Even she realizes the need for clean, safe energy and not those “damn windmills” as she describes them.
coldwarrior wrote:
It sure was!
O/T: I have some posts in the review queue, including tomorrow’s post for Caturday. The Japanese YouTube cat Maru is safe and sound – I have his video set for tomorrow.
This is about what I expected:
I’d be hiding my aircraft, but I’d push forward with my tanks. Miss Lindsey Graham may be all fired to go in and take out the armor to better help the Muslim Brotherhood, but I don’t know that Britain and France are going to be so keen on that. And you know neither one of them is going to be putting in any ground forces any time soon. Kadaffy has the opposition bottled up. If it takes him two weeks to reduce them, I am sure he will just have to cope…
NPR: Vital source for dog racing news…
Are we going to go to war with Yemen too?
What about Saudi Arabia? People aren’t thinking through the consequences of their actions here. War is a matter of vital interest to the state. It is imperative that it be given careful consideration. That isn’t going on here.
@ lobo91:
Well, we can’t live without that…
@ Iron Fist:
Notice that there has been no attempt to get Congressional approval for any of this, either.
A UN Security Council resolution is not a substitute for Congressional authorization for the use of military force.
@ lobo91:
Yeah this is unconstitutional, am I correct?
@ lobo91:
Light workers do not need no stinking congressional approval…
@ 1389AD:
I liked that cat.
Rodan wrote:
Nobody’s ever ruled on it, but the president has the authority to direct limited military operations lasting up to 90 days without getting authorization from Congress.
@ lobo91:
Noticed that. I don’t know that he Could get congressional approval for a war in Libya. Between isolationists on the Right and anti-War freaks on the Left there might be enough opposition to kill it. It’d certainly be pissing in the face of his anti-War base, but I don’t know why that should stop him. He hasn’t minded doing that so far.
@ Rodan:
One real problem is that without Congressional authorization, there’s no money to pay for it. They have to take the money out of the Operations & Maintenace (O&M) budget.
@ Iron Fist:
I doubt that he could.
Rodan wrote:
He’s safe and sound, according to a YouTube commenter. Do you have time to put him up for sometime tomorrow, or is the world situation too unstable to schedule much of anything?
Socialists and open borders nuts come together for a protest in Chicago:
Nevergiveup wrote:
Male Japanese porn stars can only hope./
@ Poteen:
Nah,those regions will shrivel from radiation exposure.
Maru is all set with his special radiation gear.
vagabond trader wrote:
We should get Shep one of those…
@ lobo91:
A full body one.Squatch and zer0 too.
vagabond trader wrote:
Shep needs one made out of a platic bag, not paper.
And sealed with duct tape around his neck, just to make sure no radiation gets in…
Peter wrote:
Yes, because she knows from the Uckermark – which is on the border to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – how it looks like if the whole landscape is literally plastered with windmills.
@ lobo91:
Or one of those things you attach the vacum to and suck all the baaaad air out with.
@ lobo91:
MSNBC: And You Thought We Couldn’t Do Any Worse than Keith Olbermann!
Emperor wrote:
MSNBC: The short bus of TV networks.
Rodan wrote:
No, not really, as Commander and Chief he can order the US Marines to take military action anywhere in the world for up 90 days without congressional approval, but anything beyond that requires a congressional resolution to use military force.
@ vagabond trader:
Shep, like other anerobic bacteria (like botulism, for example), doesn’t need air…
Bamster’s talking tough. How many fouls has he got left?
What I got out of the event.
1. Old nuclear power plants are risky
2. The governments didn’t know what was going on even though they said dont worry dont worry.
3. The experts made a lot of mistakes. There seem to be a few smart people among them that know how to solve a disaster like this but their voices weren’t heard.
Poteen wrote:
I think his Race Card is over the limit…
lobo91 wrote:
But since most of the Republicans are in favor of the UN SC resolution it can’t be that hard to get the authorization after the 90 days, can it ?
(How was your interview today ?)
@ Poteen:
I was reading something yesterday that was warning that Obama was a wimp and God help us if he decided to prove he was tough. I can see the fucking Muslim Brotherhood declaring Jihad on us the moment we put them in power in Libya. It’d almost serve us right. We should have learned our lesson about aiding the Muzz by now.
@ Guggi:
I’d be interested in seeing a head count on the issue.
I think it went pretty well. I guess I’ll find out in a few days.
Iron Fist wrote:
Obama does not have anything to learn with. He is an empty suit.
vagabond trader wrote:
I went ahead and added this to the Caturday post, with h/t to you.
Those who are able may prefer donating via the Salvation Army.
@ 1389AD:
Maybe someone could insert some new programming into his teleprompter…
lobo91 wrote:
Well, here’s crossing some fingers for you…
doriangrey wrote:
Thanks.
@ 1389AD:
That boy is one of G-ds silliest critters.
lobo91 wrote:
You mean kind of like… “Ummm, let be be, ummm perfectly clear, I just pooped my pants, and so I ummm, am going to resign the office ummm, of the Presidency of Umm, the United State’s ummm, effective today”…
lobo91 wrote:
(I’ll keep my fingers crossed)
@ Iron Fist:
Obama suffers from what many half starved devout radical men do;an overabundance of soy in his meager diet. It feminizes men with an OD of phytoestrogen.
Now for the really important news. Michigan is putting a 30 point lead hurt on Tennessee with one minute left in the game.
Bruce Pearl should update his resume.
doriangrey wrote:
Substitute “Vice Presidency” and the same text would work equally well for Joe Biden.
Guggi wrote:
Thanks.
@ 1389AD:
Are we sure that Biden can actually read?
@ vagabond trader:
Tofu is evil. I won’t eat the shit…
Iron Fist wrote:
I wonder if Leia would eat it?
1389AD wrote:
No Joe Biden would say something like this…
“Oh shit, Japan tipped over and we’re next, I am so out of here, I quit… Opps wait, have been informed that Japan hasn’t tipped over and neither will we, so I have decided to resign from the office of beer summit co-chairman, err I mean Vice- Presidency, effective three days ago”…
@ lobo91:
No way,dogs are too smart,especially after they’ve had the real deal.
Woah! This is harsh! They even manage to call the people of Dubai “towelheads”, albeit subtlely. In Vanity Fair. What they say isn’t surprising, but the Left never criticize the
towelheadsMuslims…@ Iron Fist:
Well it sounds like a hint that old school Arabs ought to stay in their tents and ride camels as opposed to being filthy rich and decadent.A green existence,you see.Guarantee they would never criticize the sianted palis this way.
Iron Fist wrote:
The difference between Dubai and Singapore is that Singapore had a thriving manufacturing base before becoming the financial capitol of Asia. Dubai, had Muslims, they build nothing of significance, invent nothing at all and cant even maintain on their won the technology which their oil money allows them to purchase. In short everyone with 2 functional brain cells saw this coming from a 1000 miles out.
@ lobo91:
Excellent video.
Two words; Mental. Patients.
Iron Fist wrote:
Agreed.
Urban Infidel wrote:
That is insulting to mental patients, those imbeciles make mental patients look sane and rational.
Iron Fist wrote:
That is an orgy of adjectives, a tsunami of snark, and an exercise in bloviating bilge. And he insulted the head towel.
Wow.
It probably took him 2 weeks to write what with all the trips to dictionary.com
That just sounds dumb.
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