NHK's TickerTapeNews for April 6th, 2011
It's been a while but I needed to extract myself from all the negative energy flowing out of this very negative tragedy. It was wearing my positive spirit down.
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* Tokyo Electric Power Company says highly radioactive water stopped leaking into the sea from a concrete pit at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on Wednesday morning. (Cam: Nobody here seems to be talking about this topic any longer... but it's still hard to buy staples in the supermarket, so they must be 'thinking' about it... (or the next "big one"))
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* Tokyo Electric Power Company says it will inject nitrogen into the containment vessel of one of its reactors at the Fukushima power plant as early as Wednesday evening to prevent a possible hydrogen explosion. (Cam: Ho hum....)
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* Most fishery cooperatives in Ibaraki Prefecture are suspending all activities after small fish caught in local waters were found to contain radioactive cesium above the legal limit. (Cam: There goes another industry... I wonder if Japan will become a country of ... meat eaters? Oh, wait! They already ARE eating tons more meat than they used to do.)
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* Many members of the International Renewable Energy Agency say Japan's nuclear crisis will lead to increased promotion of alternative energy sources. (Cam: In Japanese we say "fukouchuu no saiwai", or "happiness comes from disaster". This is in harmony with The Universe's teachings. We humans often learn the most through the biggest hardships. This hardship is a doozy, so let' s hope what we learn from it is exponentially highly rewarding as well.)
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* The official death toll from the March 11th earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan has risen to 12,468, with 15,091 people still listed as missing. (Cam: Let's hope that the "listed as missing", is eventually reported as "zero".)
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* The environment ministry says the massive March 11th earthquake and tsunami has left 24.9 million tons of debris in its wake in the 3 hardest-hit prefectures. (Cam: Want to start a new garbage collection company?)
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* The minutes of a US Federal Reserve meeting show policymakers plan to keep a close watch on the effect of Japan's earthquake on the US economy. (Cam: As are all the other countries around the world.... Today there was some news that said a Japanese person was traveling in Europe, and was sitting beside a European. The European asked the Japanese if he was Japanese. When he responded, yes, the European got up and moved away from the Japanese person. Could there be some overly hysterical fear of "spreading nuclear radiation"? Methinks so.)
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* Anti-government forces in Libya have rejected Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi's proposal to hand over power to one of his sons. (Cam: It's time to close the books on this character. Where's the CIA assassination team when you need them?)
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* Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo may soon be forced to give up power after opposition forces backed by the UN launched a major attack to close in on his stronghold in Abidjan. (Cam: More war crimes trials at the Hague coming soon, to a theatre near you...)
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* China's central bank says it will raise its key interest rates by 0.25% starting Wednesday. (Cam: What goes up, must come down. Eventually.)
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Have a great day!
I love you!!
Cam
duly noted in all respects.
ReplyDeleteMousie here... I really hope Japan doesn't become an international pariah, that would be SO sad. The Japanese are such a proud, innovative people with a cultural history as long as your arm... I'd hate to see them floundering in the future.
ReplyDeletehermit sez....they have a future~and i don't see it looking too bad long term.
ReplyDeleteMousie - Everything comes with a cost, and that which Japan accepts now, it will have to pay back in spades in the future, in some way.
ReplyDeleteYou would be amazed at how fast things are getting done here. The infrastructure is being rebuilt at an amazing speed that would stun other countries. The only problem is that the local governments and the federal government (though we don't call it that here, and Japanese for some reason don't like it when I call it that), have not been able to allocate ANY of the billions of dollars of donations to people, businesses, local governments, etc. because they haven't figured out HOW to do the allocation in a fair way. So, in a nutshell, your donation, and my donation are sitting in limbo. Damn them.
i was just saying to one of my friends,that the speed and breadth with which global aid is now delivered is going to turn this mountain of disaster into a molehill in a hurry...the only pain left will be the loss of loved ones.
ReplyDeleteextra governmental organizations already responded~we helped fund That cam ;)
ReplyDeleteaid to national governments is more problematic,,,first the insurance industry has to pay up~then you have to bail them out because this is Way outside the normal risk tables~then government has to try and pick up part of the tab for everything that's left over.
yeah...if yellowstone ever blows we're going to need some serious help :|
ReplyDeleteAt least they don't blame volcano activity and earthquakes on global warming... or do they?
ReplyDeletelike evacuating the entire midwest....
ReplyDeleteone thing Japan may want to consider for a long term project is to build a new dump on the tsunami plains and add stone from the mountains to make some high ground for people who lost their lives because there wasn't any to run to
in general no
ReplyDeletehydrological effects from rainfall can't be discounted as a contributing factor to 'when' a fault slips~but a fault will always slip eventually regardless
ReplyDeleteand it's the other way around~volcanic activity affects the atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteCam, good to see you. I searched 17 pages of "I've Replied" just to track you down.
ReplyDeleteHope you're doing well. And again, be careful.