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 […] Continue Reading…
“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 […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
In Japan, in order to cut back on the usage of electricity, many retail stores are cutting back on operating hours, and on lighting.
Japanese consumers have less time to shop, and in some stores, are shopping in the dark. Stores are keeping most of their lights turned off.
Consumers say they don’t mind, especially because […] Continue Reading…
Even in the areas that are on the periphery of the natural disaster areas, in north east Honshu, trash collection has come to a near stand still.
Temporary trash dumps have been set up in parks and baseball fields.