Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Alternative Olympic Sports: Japanese Splits Racing
CONTINUING our look at Alternative Olympic Sports, we journey to Japan to check out the Splits Races. To any budding sportsters feeling inspired to take up the sport, here’s a tip: it’s all in the arms.
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Posted: 6th, June 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)
The Nuclear Rabbit Of Fukushima (Video)
EVER hear tell fo the nuclear rabbit of Fukushima, Japan? They say it doen’t need carrots to see in teh dark, navigating instead by the lights of its paws and tail…
A nuclear rabbit has sparked online panic in Japan. Amateur footage shows an earless mutant rabbit, and the person who made the video claims it was shot just outside the exclusion zone near Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant. The clip has given rise to fears the radiation threat in the area is far worse than previously thought. The funny bunny has caused an online frenzy, with predictions that babies in Japan may soon be born with mutations.
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Liam Gallagher’s Help Japan Benefit Concert: Grandstanding Photos
THE Help Japan benefit concert at the O2 Academy Brixton featured event organiser Liam Gallagher, Paul Weller, Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics, Richard Ashcroft, The Coral and Primal Scream. This was a one-off gig last night in aid of relief efforts for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami.
Said Gallagher:
“Whenever that kind of stuff happens, it’s not good, is it? It’s not just because we’re popular in Japan. As a human, you just think it’s heavy. We’ve always had close ties with Japan and great affection for our fans out there. Our hope is that this benefit concert can help the people of Japan.”
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Fukushima: How The Media Learnt To Love Nuclear Power
THE media plutonium lovers are out in force as the Fukushima nuclear plant sizzles on – plainly an awful lot of people have skipped the brain-enriching spinach diet. The Sun’s Jeremy Clarkson would be happy to have a nuke built in his underpants (plenty of space available for it, then) while the Guardian columnist and secular goddess (in a personal capacity) Suzanne Moore dismisses concerns about the nuclear option by lamenting the number of deaths in mines.
To this point I would just say: one is local, the other potentially global, in its effects. We all know this. And I for one am not prepared to take that risk just so I can bung oven chips in the microwave.
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Japan’s Media Apocalypse: Can Slate Readers Avert Nuclear Disaster?
JAPAN’S Media Apocalypse: Slate’s Chris’s Wilson needs to know:
Help Wanted: Save Japan From Nuclear Disaster
Slate wants your ideas on how to avoid a complete meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
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Japan’s Media Apocalypse: Susie Boniface Goes Large On Chernobyl
JAPAN’S Media Apocalypse: As told buy the Mirror’s Susie Boniface. From her desk, Boniface senses terrible danger and great loss of life in Japan:
One expert predicted that the death toll in the years ahead could top the 500,000 attributed to the Chernobyl accident of 1986 and warned that panicked repair attempts could lead to an even greater disaster.
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How Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown Saved The World: Greens Routed
READING the press you might have formed a belief that the Fukushima nuclear reactors were going to kill everyone in Japan and then everyone in the US and Ireland. The Irish Independent thundered:
Explosion could send contamination to Ireland
Paul Melia told us:
Not until last year did the UK Food Standards Agency declare that the Scottish sheep industry was free of radioactive material from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Despite being more than 2,000km away…
Two points to note: Ireland is 10,000 miles from Japan; Chernobyl has little in common with Fukushima.
No-one has died from the nuclear power plant bing hit by the 5th largest earthquake of the past century and a 44 foot tsunami. You can thank great engineering and Japan’s mastery of technology for that.
If you want to look at the perils of power, look at coal:
52 feared dead in Pakistan coal mine explosion
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Posted: 22nd, March 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comments (4)
Japan: After Fukushima Tokyo’s SHIBUYA EGGMAN Reactor Explodes
JAPAN’S Media Apocalypse: In the rush to make the Fukushima crisis into a still bigger deal – perhaps even bigger than the tsunami that killed thousands – FOX News produced a map of atomic sites. But there weren’t enough so it added another: SHIBUYA EGGMAN. Only, that’s a club in Tokyo.
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How Did The Disaster In Japan Become All About Us?
IT is difficult to get one’s head around just how immense the destruction caused by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan has been. But that is no excuse for how quickly international observers shifted their focus from the devastation and suffering on the ground to self-obsessive panicking about what the consequences might be for the rest of the world.
After the magnitude-9 earthquake struck off the north-east coast of Japan on 11 March, pushing the island of Honshu 2.4 metres to the east and triggering a 23meter-high tsunami that flooded at least 400 square kilometres of land, the destruction is colossal. The latest figures show that the death toll is likely to top 18,000. Thousands more have been injured and nearly half a million are homeless. In large areas of Japan, people are still contending with a lack of electricity, water and transportation. The World Bank estimates that it could take Japan five years to overcome the catastrophe, at a cost of between £75billion and £145billion.
Yet reporting of the tragedy has shown that concerns about the earthquake’s consequences over there very quickly became submerged by fears of what it all means for us, over here.
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Posted: 21st, March 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)
Japan’s Media Apocalypse: The UN’s Deadly Nuclear Plume
JAPAN’S Media Apocalypse: The overworked “Daily Mail Reporter” delivers the headline:
UN predicts nuclear plume could hit U.S. by FRIDAY
That was March 17th 2011. On Friday, no nuclear plume hit the US.
Readers all got:
Japanese have 48 hours to avoid ‘another Chernobyl’.
This is what might have happened at Fukushima:
The United Nations has predicted that a nuclear plume from a crisis-hit reactor in Japan could drift across the Pacific and over the U.S. by Friday.
Who at the UN made that “chilling forecast” about the “quake-ravaged country” faced with a “catastrophic meltdown”?
Some experts say the county has 48 hours to avoid ‘another Chernoblyl’.
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Posted: 20th, March 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Japan’s Media Apocalypse: Deadly Nuclear Rain Threatens Australians
JAPAN’S Media Apocalypse: Paul Tatnell, Padraic Murphy see “nuclear rain”:
Nuclear crisis: Australians stranded in Japan as lethal rain looms
The article features the line:
Tokyo was in gridlock with reports thousands were trying to flee amid fears the wind would bring downpours of nuclear rain.
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Japan’s Media Apocalypse: British Chamber of Commerce Appeals Against Lies
JAPAN’S Media Apocalypse: Lori Henderson of the British Chamber of Commerce:
“Journalists Of The World: Might you be so kind as to oblige the people of Japan by donating $10,000 each time you make use of words such as ‘nuclear meltdown’, ‘apocalypse’ and ‘panic’ in your fine publications? We could then get back to focusing on what really matters here: how to help the hundreds of thousands of survivors who require disaster relief in the worst affected areas.”
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Japan’s Media Apocalypse: Daily Mail’s Richard Shears Sees Cowardly Japanese And Brave British Hookers
JAPAN’S Media Apocalypse: Tokyo is dead. Well, it is according to the Daily Mail’s Richard Shears, who headlines his insight into life in the huge metropolis:
Dark days in ghost town of Tokyo: The deserted streets of a once vibrant capital now crippled by power cuts
The streets are not deserted. The Mail uses photos of a man walking down a street with mobile phones press to his ear. He wears no mask. It is night or very early in the morning? We are not told. The man looks calm.
Shears says “nobody wants to risk breathing the air“. (Best buy the canned stuff, then.)
Now Tokyo, usually so full of life by day and night, has the aura of death about it.
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Posted: 19th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)
Japan’s Media Apocalypse: As Told By The Sun’s Virginia Wheeler
JAPAN’S Media Apocalypse: Fear mongering with the Sun’s Virginia Wheeler.
The story is populated with photos of a few people wearing masks over their mouths. No date for the photos is given. The Japanese do wear masks to protect themselves from pollution and pollen. The suggestion is that the nuclear particles are the cause. But we can’t be certain why those in the photos are wearing masks. But we are told:
The Japanese news tells us radiation in Tokyo isn’t at harmful levels. But why would they tell us to wear masks otherwise?
Wheeler begins her story:
A BRITISH mum told last night of her terror trapped and starving in the eerie ghost town that is Tokyo after the tsunami.
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Tokyo Is Melting: Foreign Press Spread Fear Of Panic
TOKYO is melting! Paul Cunningham, Europe Correspondent for RTE, Ireland’s national tv and radio, tweets:
“Is fear stalking the streets of Tokyo? No. But there is a lot of anger being directed at the int media for scaring the public.”
Let’s see. Here’s The Diplomat, a magazine based in Tokyo:
Central Tokyo is quiet, more like a Sunday than a Thursday. But there are multiple reasons why people might be keeping staff at home, including the erratic blackouts and the risk of an aftershock. If there is tension I didn’t notice it. I saw no evidence of panic. – March 17
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Japan’s Nuclear Reactor Joins Twitter: Tepco Armageddon Will Be Live
TEPCO, the Japanese owner of a nuclear reactor is now on Twitter. So far: (Everything is better with Google translate):
TEPCO official account. Today is quite a lot of demand forelectricity could somehow overcome With your help everyone.Thank you. Thank you from tomorrow. Click here for rolling blackouts.
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Posted: 17th, March 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Daily Mail Insults Japan With City Traders’ ‘Perfect Storm’
ALEX Brummer, the Mail’s City Editor, is showing readers that the death and destruction in Japan might hurt the British. To compare the risk felt by a loss of cash to the loss of life and home is disrespectful to the Japanese. The City pages have no place amid photos of massive destruction. They only serve to make British readers part of the story. But they are not.
But worse than that is the sub-editor who has headlined Brummer’s words with:
ALEX BRUMMER: Tsunami adds a new wave of global risk
MONDAY VIEW: Global economies will be rocked by Japan aftershock
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Twitter Tw*ts: Paloma Faith Muses On Nuclear Energy And Japan
PALOMA Faith reacts on Twitter to the Japanese disaster and that nuclear issue:
Just saw the photos of japan disaster in the metro. Its just shocking. And what a worry all that nuclear energy. Why was it even invented?
Let us pray…
Posted: 16th, March 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Japan Earthquake Photos: The Cat Survives
JAPAN Earthquake photos: Is this is most pathetic / touching / inane photo of the disaster..?
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Japan’s Nuclear Armageddon: The Truth About Fukushima Daiichi
JAPAN’S nuclear issue is making headlines. The Fukushima Daiichi plants is going to blow! Or not. Anorak rounds-up the views:
Daily Mail (front page): “A NATION IN THE GRIP OF NUCLEAR PANIC”
No. not the UK. Japan.
Fears of ‘an apocalypse’ were raised as radiation levels soared – and experts warned the crippled Fukushima plant had become a nuclear risk second only to the Chernobyl disaster.
The scale of the alarm is the remarkable thing: how it has gone round the world (Angela Merkel has imposed a moratorium on nuclear energy; in France, there are calls for a referendum); how it’s even displaced the terrible story of Japan’s tsunami itself from the front-page headlines. But then, public alarm about nuclear safety, as the Fukushima emergency proves, is very easy to raise – and, as the Japanese authorities are now discovering, very hard to calm.
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Posted: 16th, March 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Profit From Japan’s Nuclear Horror With Potassium Iodide Pills
JAPAN is in the grip of a nuclear apocalypse (see all papers). But how can you make money from the fear? This mob have an idea for residents of Seattle:
Radioactive fallout released from the catastrophically-damaged Fukushima reactor in Japan, is heading to the West Coast (WA, OR & CA & B.C.) via the Jet Stream.
You can protect yourself & loved ones from the potentially lethal effects of Iodine 131 radiation poisoning with Potassium Iodide (KI), which is the standard defense against this radiation poisoning …
Cost: 130mg capsule = $10
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Japan Earthquake Aftershocks Lose Power To Shock
MATT Miller writes from Japan:
“…these Aftershocks are tiresome, they no longer shock after a while…”
Japan Earthquake: Millions Saved By Good Engineering And Technology
JAPAN Earthquake news headlines focus on the doom. But what about the wonder of humanity that created buildings able to withstand a tsunami? What about that, warmists? What about thinking how much worse it would have been without human ingenuity?
As Dave Ewing Tweets:
“The headline you won’t see: ‘Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and government building codes’. But it’s the truth.”
Posted: 14th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (3)
Japan Earthquake Was Written In The Stars
ASK not what the Japan earthquake means for those destroyed by it but what the Japan Earthquake can do for your pet cause, whether that be money, global warming or whaling. In this video, the expert looks to the stars:
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Posted: 14th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Larry Kudlow Says Japanese Earthquake Could Be Worse: Could Hurt Your Wallet
CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow makes his play for the Most Offensive Remarks about the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Following the Green Shirts assertion that it was a product of global warming, and the champions for dumb animals stating that it was the whales, Kudlow says:
“The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that. And the human toll is a tragedy, we know that.”
Cue a huge media shitstorm. And that’s because:
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