Japanese officials say they support the U.S. & European attacks on Libya, and it shows in Japanese media reports.
National Japanese media has been toning down their coverage of the quake/tsunami/nuclear power plant disasters, and are shifting to reporting the attacks on Libyan government forces.
Earlier TEPCO officials were worried about pressure building in reactor 3 containment chamber.
There were concerns that they would have release radioactive air from the chamber.
Now they say simpler attempts to relieve pressure is working, and pressure has dropped.
Russia has fired its ambassador to Libya. No official reason given so far.
A Russian newspaper speculates the ambassador was fired for failing to understand Russia’s interests in Libya.
Russia is against the UNSCR 1973.
A Libyan government official said they will discuss oil contracts with China, India, Russia and Brazil.
This is to gain support against “neo-crusaders”, taking military action against Libya, through the UN resolution.
China has already condemned the military operation against Libya. 20,000+ Chinese were evacuated from Libya at the end of February.
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh […] Continue Reading…
WikiLeaks reveal documents that showed U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, had criticized Mexico’s handling of the Drug War.
Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon, retaliated by pointing out that the various U.S. security forces, in Mexico, repeatedly fail to coordinate with each other and actually view each other as competitors. This makes them useless to Mexican […] Continue Reading…
Japanese officials are now saying the height of the tsunami was at least 13 meters (43 feet).
Originally officials put the waves between 4 & 10 meters high. It became clear the tsunami was higher than 10 meters when sea walls, all along the coast line at ground zero, had been crested and destroyed. The […] Continue Reading…
Many people in ground zero areas of Japan’s state of Honshu, who have not been able to evacuate, are using cars as shelter. There are no shelters available for them.
One woman said the cars do not have enough fuel to drive, so they are running the engines periodically to use the vehicle’s heaters to […] Continue Reading…
When Japan got hit by the massive quake/tsunami, and then the nuclear power plant disaster, world oil prices dropped. By a lot.
Prior to the Japan event, on March 10th, Brent crude oil closed at $115.60 per barrel. U.S. light sweet crude closed at $104.25. Oil prices had been going up, and the “Libyan crisis” […] Continue Reading…
Reactor 3 has been sprayed for several hours, before spraying switched to reactor 4. Holes had been drilled into the outer walls of reactor 4. Water sprayed into holes for about an hour.
Radiation levels lower (officials saying it is not a “dramatic” reduction). Water spraying throughout the night.
Spraying operations include one truck from the […] Continue Reading…
Since the turn of the 20th Century there have been only 5 monster quakes registering 9.0 or higher.
1952 Soviet Kamchatka 9.0
1960 Chile 9.5
1964 Alaska 9.4
2004 Sumatra/Indonesia 9.1
2011 Japan 9.0
They are all related; they are all on, or connected to, the Pacific Ring of Fire.
The time between each quake is not equally spaced so it’s […] Continue Reading…