Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Fukushima Engineer Says He Covered Up Flaw at Shut Reactor
March 23rd, 2011Via: Bloomberg: One of the reactors in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have been relying on flawed steel to hold the radiation in its core, according to an engineer who helped build its containment vessel four decades ago. Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect in the $250 million steel vessel installed […]
Outside It’s America
March 22nd, 2011Woman Killed by Monster Truck at Dallas Strip Club Man Went on Shooting Rampage After Price of Taco Bell Beefy Crunch Burrito Increased from 99 Cents to $1.49 38 Percent of Americans Fail U.S. Citizenship Test
Switzerland Moves Embassy from Tokyo to Osaka
March 21st, 2011Via: Swiss Info: Switzerland has announced that its embassy in Tokyo has been transferred to Osaka, 600 km south of the Japanese capital. A foreign ministry statement said the temporary move had been made because of the “uncertain situation” in Tokyo, and in particular around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. The ministry said the embassy […]
Automakers Feel Worsening Effects of Japan Crisis
March 19th, 2011Just in time… Your what hurts? Via: AP: A week after the disaster in Japan erupted, its impact on automakers around the world is worsening. Most of Japan’s auto industry is shut down. Factories from Louisiana to Thailand are low on Japanese-made parts. Idled plants are costing companies hundreds of millions of dollars. And U.S. […]
Commander of U.S. Military Forces in the Pacific On Prospect of Reactors Being Abandoned to Melt Down: ‘That Can’t Happen’
March 18th, 2011Reminder: Voice of America is the official propaganda outlet of the U.S. Government. Via: Voice of America: The commander of U.S. military forces in the Pacific says he is sending his troops into the danger zone near the Japan’s crippled nuclear power plants as needed, and if necessary he will send more to help prevent […]
JAPAN WEIGHS NEED TO BURY NUCLEAR PLANT
March 18th, 2011Via: Reuters: Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be a last resort to prevent a catastrophic radiation release, the method used to seal huge leakages from Chernobyl in 1986. But they still hoped to solve the crisis by fixing a power cable to two reactors […]
G7 Intervention on Yen
March 18th, 2011It had to happen. Anyway, there’s the “free market” for you. There’s a lot of mythology about free markets in mainstream texts books and corporate media, but when the wheels come off the cart in Fiat Currency Hell (and have no doubt about it, the wheels came off the cart with this Yen thing), the […]
GM Closing Pickup Plant for Lack of Japanese Parts
March 18th, 2011Via: USA Today: General Motors plans to halt production Monday of the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon compact pickups made at Shreveport, La., because some parts come from Japan and aren’t available now. The GM move is the first production halt directly linked to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that wiped out portions of […]
UN APPROVES NO-FLY ZONE OVER LIBYA
March 17th, 2011Update: UN Approves No-Fly Zone Over Libya Via: Los Angeles Times: The U.N. Security Council has voted to authorize a no-fly zone and other military action against the regime of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi. The vote was 10 to 0, with five abstentions. The five were China, Russia, Brazil, India and Germany. Military officials in […]
Big Picture Gallery: Japan: Hopes Fade for Finding More Survivors
March 17th, 2011Via: Boston Globe / Big Picture: As officials desperately tried to prevent disaster at a damaged nuclear facility, hopes faded for finding survivors amid the rubble as snow and cold blanketed the areas most affected by the earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan. Residents were allowed back into damaged areas for the first time since […]
