“If there is drastic plate movement, there is no guarantee that the scale of the quake will be in line with the government’s prediction of up to magnitude 7.3.”-Hirata Naoshi, Earthquake Research Committee
The University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute believes that major earthquakes are in the near future for Tokyo city, and Ibaraki Prefecture, […] Continue Reading…
14 fault lines in Japan, which were thought to be ‘safe’ are now considered dangerous, potentially producing a 7.6 earthquake.
The other problem is that they all run near nuclear power plants.
A survey of the fault lines were undertaken by nuclear power plant operators, like Tokyo Electric Power Company. They concluded that the fault lines […] Continue Reading…
Six towns in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, have soil that is contaminated with Cesium levels far higher than those at Chernobyl. The levels exceed that which forced mandatory evacuations around Chernobyl back in the 1980s. Some areas around Chernobyl are still off limits.
Japan’s Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry put together a soil contamination […] Continue Reading…
A hospital in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, admitted that children had been injected with too much radiation.
Since 1999, at least 84 kids were injected with high doses of radioactive technetium. The isotope is used to help examine internal organs.
The doses were in excess of the limit set by the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine. One […] Continue Reading…
“Having made considerable efforts in Japan, we have concluded we cannot build a sufficiently scaleable business. We have decided to sell our operations there and focus on our larger businesses in the region.”-Philip Clarke, TESCO
After eight years and 250 million pounds (U.S.$404.9 million), British retailer TESCO is quitting Japan.
The Japanese retail […] Continue Reading…
USPS announced they will default on the upcoming Federal Employees Retirement System payment (this after Congress essentially stole $75 billion from the Postal Service, supposedly to pay the FERS last year!).
Also, postal officials are now begging the U.S. Congress to approve the ending of Saturday delivery. USPS officials also want to use retirement money […] Continue Reading…
Typhoon Talas is expected to hit Japan on August 2, but its path is hard to predict because it’s not your normal hurricane.
The U.S. Navy/Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center is saying that Talas is not a normal typhoon: “The upper-level analysis continues to reveal an unusual upper-level pattern with an upper low […] Continue Reading…
“I don’t give **** about your culture.”-comment attributed to Westchester County Park Ranger as he beat woman lying on the ground
New York media reporting that at least 15 men and women were detained by New York cops, after an amusement park banned head scarves.
Muslims went to the Westchester County amusement park to celebrate Eid […] Continue Reading…
The New York Police have constantly denied being involved with any spy programs based on a person’s ethnicity. Yet here’s more proof: The Associated Press got their hands on a document attesting to a 16 man “Demographics Unit” that investigates people with “ancestries of interest”.
The NYDP Demographics Unit didn’t limit themselves to New York, […] Continue Reading…
Scotland Yard is demanding all media outlets in London turn over video of riots.
The bobbies say it will help them arrest even more people, as if the video from the thousands of city surveillance cameras isn’t enough. Even British Prime Minister David Cameron wants the media to give in.
The bobbies are asking for all […] Continue Reading…