Japanese immigration officials say more than 161,000 foreigners have left Japan, via the Narita airport, between March 11 and March 22.
Compare that to the same time last year, of only 20,000, and that’s an increase of eight times.
Also, the number of foreigners coming into Japan, through Narita, has dropped by 60%.
TEPCo said radiation 10 million times the normal level was detected in water that leaked into Reactor 2’s turbine housing unit!
Workers were struggling to pump out water, but had to evacuate because of the high radiation levels.
Cabinet Secretary, Edano Yuki, announced that national police are being sent in to 20-30km evacuation/disaster zones.
Edano said that radiation levels are so high at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that work must be halted until the contamination can be removed. Soil samples around the area show rapidly increasing radiation contamination.
Japanese government will now evacuate those who want to voluntarily evacuate, but don’t have the means to do so. The national police will try to contact people who are still in the zones that have been designated “stay indoors” zones. All options open.
Medical teams from around the world are now being sent into the zones.
Japanese government expects more “difficulties”. Japanese government admitting that financing for any recovery from the nuclear disaster will be a problem.
“I call this year the ‘Year of Economic Jihad’ and I expect the officials of the country and also our dear nation to work in a jihadi way in the economic areas.” -Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, announced on March 21 (the beginning of the new year in the Iranian calendar) a year of Economic Jihad. This is the year 1390 under the Iranian calendar system.
His reasoning for declaring an Economic Jihad is the continued efforts by the “West” to place more economic sanctions against Iran.
OPEC has announced they will not increase oil production.
Currently Iran holds the presidency of OPEC. Iranian Oil Minister, Masoud Mir Kazemi, said there is no justification for OPEC to increase production, especially when OPEC supplies only 30 million barrels per day, compared to 55 million barrels from non-OPEC sources.
Last year a christian leader in Florida backed off the burning of a Quran. Even General Petraeus was against it.
Last week the same Florida christian leader, and his followers, burned the Quran anyway. He feels justified in that they held a 15 minute trial, and found the Quran “guilty”.
The christian leader lied about the burning, because, according to a 2010 Voice of America report, he said the Quran would “never” be burned at his church.
Iranian Red Crescent officials announced that 36 tons of relief aid has been sent to Libya.
Along with the aid, a medical team made up of 13 people arrived in Libya on March 26. Iranian official say they are prepared to send more help if needed.
President Obama, Prime Minister Cameron, President Sarkozy all say the military action against Libya is about protecting peaceful civilians. It interesting that those peaceful civilians are attacking OIL towns.
That’s right, those peaceful rebels are not trying to implement regime change, they’re trying to take over all the oil towns.
Here’s a list of the cities ‘peaceful’ rebels have taken, or are attacking: Ajdabiya, Ras Lanuf, As Sidra, Benghazi, Brega and Misratah. All these cities are connected to the oil industry in some way.
In Egypt, and Tunis, truly peaceful protesters focused their efforts in their country’s capitols. They wanted to be in the face of their unresponsive governments. Yet, almost from the start, what is happening in Libya is armed rebels attacking oil fields and oil cities. This is an all out military action, NOT peaceful protest!
In the last week of February China began evacuating their oil field workers from Libya, because they were being attacked by armed “gangs”. These gangs deliberately destroyed all the Chinese equipment. These are not ‘peaceful’ protesters.
Rebel leaders, and Libyan arms dealers working in Egypt, have admitted that from early on they were being armed by the West. President Obama, where are the peaceful Libyan protesters?
The coastal towns along the north east coast of Honshu, lost all official documentation regarding their cities, and residents.
Not only “hard copies”, but everything stored on computers. All computers were destroyed by Mother Earth. Basically you would’ve had to store everything of importance inside a old fashioned bank safe.
So much for high tech.
NHK reporting that after analysis of the range of destruction by the March 11 tsunami, plus the fact that most 10 meter tall sea walls failed, the tsunami must have been more than 20 meters high.
Here in the U.S. that’s 65.5 feet. To help understand how high that is, the average wooden telephone pole sticks out of the ground 30-40 feet high. So the tsunami was as high as two wooden telephone poles.