Violent Anti-Japan protests break out across China

(Mad Jewess)Over the past 48 hours there has been a fervent nationalist surge and anti-Japanese sentiment that resulted in the death of the Japanese ambassador in China, just one week after he took his post.

Long-standing historical and geopolitical tensions between Japan and China are coming to a head over a group of islands in the East China Sea. Japan’s GDP is now declining in real terms, its economy crippled by years of deflation, whose infrastructure is impaired due to anti-nuclear power sentiment, and one which generally can NOT afford an all out diplomatic, political and economic conflict with China.
The popular mood in China is for war. While Japan faces crucial elections, massive protests against Japan erupted in dozens of Chinese cities. In some places, anger was vented against Japanese products and brands. Protesters overturned Japanese-brand cars, set fire to buildings, and smashed Japanese-made electronics.
China has sent six “ocean surveillance” ships to the disputed waters for the purpose of “law enforcement”. The struggle for sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands (called Senkaku Islands in Japan) is heating up at a dangerous time for both countries.
Yu Zhirong, a high-ranking official in the Chinese State Oceanic Administration, upped the ante in a recent interview, saying: “We will have to chase off Japan Coast Guard vessels from Chinese territorial waters. We are not fearful of risking a minor conflict.” While the leadership in both nations might not fear a small symbolic confrontation, the repercussions of such a move would be felt around the world. No one can guarantee that any conflict in the East China Sea would remain “minor”. Japan’s close security ties with the United States would likely drag America into any clash.
Who is prompting the escalating, and why now?

Truman grandson visits Hiroshima memorial

(American Thinker)Harry Truman went to his grave insisting he made the right decision to use the atomic bomb to end the war. He never wavered, never questioned, and, as he said many times, he never lost any sleep over the decision.

Now, one of his grandsons has taken it upon himself to show solidarity with the Japanese who were victims of their government's intransigience as much as they were of the atomic bomb.

AP:

Clifton Truman Daniel visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Saturday and laid a wreath for the 140,000 people killed by the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing authorized by his grandfather. Another atomic blast in Nagasaki three days later killed 70,000 more.

"I think this cenotaph says it all - to honor the dead to not forget and to make sure that we never let this happen again," Daniel said after offering a silent prayer.

Daniel, 55, is in Japan to attend ceremonies next week in Hiroshima and Nagasaki marking the 67th anniversary of the bombings. His visit, the first by a member of the Truman family, is sponsored by the peace group Sadako Legacy, named after Sadako Sasaki, an A-bomb victim who died of leukemia at age 12. While in the hospital, Sadako folded hundreds of paper cranes after hearing a legend that people who make 1,000 origami cranes can be granted a wish. Origami cranes have since become a symbol of peace.

Daniel, a former journalist, met Sadako's 71-year-old brother, Masahiro Sasaki, who survived the bombing, at a peace event in New York in 2010. They agreed to work together to deepen understanding between the two countries, which are still divided over the question of the legitimacy of the atomic attacks.

By April of 1945, the Japanese situation was hopeless. The battle for Okinawa -- the last major Japanese held Island before the mainland - had gotten underway and the Japanese military were under no illusions that they could stop the Americans, only make the price so high they would seek peace. It was fool's belief and the Japanese people paid for it with round the clock bombings of the wood and paper cities of Japan and the eventual use of the atomic bomb to knock some sense into the Japanese government.

Also in April, the first tentative peace feelers from Japan came via Sweden. But the Japanese idea of "peace" was a cessation of hostilities, keeping 2 million Japanese troops in place in Manchuria and other islands as well as denying the allies occupation and the disarming of the military. It was a recipe for a continuation of the war in 10 years or less.

The anti-nuclear bomb absolutists would rather have seen a million American casualties in an invasion (and many millions more Japanese civilians) than the end of the war prior to that by using nuclear weapons. Their case is based on the notion that we didn't have to occupy Japan and that any terms were acceptable when compared to using the bomb. Leaving the militarists in power and allowing Japanese troops to continue to occupy large areas of Asia was better than bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those are the only terms that Japan would have accepted prior to the use of a nuclear weapon -- and they would have been unacceptable to the American people, much less the government.

But the debate will continue because Japanese children are not taught the history of that time. The teaching doesn't include the fact that their military literally raped their way across Asia, that they routinely executed large numbers of men, women, and children in captured cities (400,000 in Nanking alone), that they treated prisoners of war so brutally that most of them died, and most importantly, that they started the war by attacking us without warning. (Note: Even if Nomura had delivererd the ultimatum on time, the attack was scheduled to begin 1 hour after the note was in Secretary Simpson's hands - hardly enough time to warn our Pacific commands that war was going to break out).

If Daniel feels guilty about what his grandfather did, that's fine. But President Truman would no doubt have had a few choice expletives for his grandson if he were alive today.

Water which is too pure has no fish

In popular culture the quote “Water Which is Too Pure Has No Fish” comes from the movie Bulletproof Monk with Chow Yun-Fat. But it originates from the Ts’ai Ken T’an (Vegetable Roots Discourses) compiled by Hong Zicheng during the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644) in China. There are elements of Taoism, Confucianism and Chan (later to be called Zen in Japan) Buddhism to these writings. The section that contains this quote is:Soil that is dirty grows the countless things. Water that is clear has no fish. Thus as a mature person you properly include and retain a measure of grime. You can’t just go along enjoying your own private purity and restraint. (Robert Aitken trans.) via enlightenmentward.wordpress.com and image via wackydoodler.com

I know this is supposed to be one of those Jewish Neo Con blogs, but this comes to mind. I get a lot of criticism online... and it annoys me. I'm a person who is interested in learning and while political correction is irksome... so are people who insist on everything coming out of the Torah. Also I would like to note that I did not realize that most people in our country got this passage from a mainstream martial arts film. I had a free market Republican Buddhist principle in high school and he was very Zen... and while I found his tolerance for man hating feminists who wouldn't date me to be stunting to my mental health... he did have some wisdom as well.

Sorry this had nothing to do with Israel or right wing politics. Those who think I'm a narrow minded twit, don't understand me at all.

Shit Steak

At least we are not at Soylent Green yet. Steak Made from Human Excrement: Is It Safe? Should it be the first question one should ask when offered one of these? Japan has synthesized meat from proteins found in human waste, according to news reports. While the concept of chowing down on steak derived from poop may not exactly be appetizing, we wondered: is this meat safe? h/t Simply Jews and via Live Science.

These futuristic distopia movies have Heston in a society without guns. Progressive society is just SHIT!

Fukushima Sabotaged by Stuxnet Virus?

Now we know who caused the Nuclear Meltdown in Japan  ...the Joooooooooooos!.. ......I could of predicted this...

that's_offensive!

become a fake Truther and make these libels before everyone else. Then I could be bigger then Charlie Sheen! oh... and btw this Starbuck's Latte Bitch is wrong. All six nuclear generators were made by G.E. not Siemens. 

here is the truth:Hours after a 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami struck Japan, Jewish and Israeli humanitarian groups pledged help - jpost.com

Stuxnet:_It's_the_real_thing!!!!! to those who are annoyed that I am giving exposure to a complete lunatic.... don't blame me... This was already going viral.  just sit back and laugh at this bimbo.

Japan's Bonds Fall on Cost of Quake Recovery; Futures Rise as Stocks Slide

Crack leaks radioactive water into sea off Japan

that's_offensive!.

Manholes poke out from the ground in Urayasu, Japan,

due to the liquefaction triggered by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
The phenomenon, which allows sand and water

to rise following ground shaking,

was particularly pronounced in this area as a result of the

long duration of the March 11 quake. via npr.org

Highly radioactive water was leaking into the sea Saturday from a crack discovered at a nuclear power plant destabilized by last month's earthquake and tsunami, a new setback as frustrated survivors of the disasters complained that Japan's government was paying too much attention to the nuclear crisis.

"Hell In A Bottle" 1986 Japan via doppelganger

 The contaminated water will quickly dissipate into the sea and is not expected to cause any health hazard. Nevertheless, the disturbing discovery points at the unexpected problems that can crop up and continue to hamper technicians trying to control the crisis.

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Nuclear FALLOUT West Coast of America

Increases in radiation from sources that are likely from troubled nuclear energy reactors in Japan.

All this talk about Asia makes me hungry

I guess this is their response to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A RadNet radiation monitor is seen on the roof of the Bay Area Air
Quality District offices on
March 16, 2011 in San Francisco.
In the wake of the nuclear
disaster in Japan,
the Environmental Protection
Agency is deploying additional radiation
detectors in areas on the
West Coast to compliment
the existing RadNet system,
which measures radition levels in air.
RadNet is a nationwide network
of monitoring stations in each state
that collect samples of air, rain,
drinking water, and milk
for analysis of radioactivity. 
  via sacbee.com

For our friends on the left coast you have time to flee to one of those red states you hate so much and here is a little more information for you.

Exposure from x-rays or gamma rays is measured in units of roentgens. For example:

* Total body exposure of 100 roentgens (or 1 Gy) causes radiation sickness.
* Total body exposure of 400 roentgens (or 4 Gy) causes radiation sickness and death in half the individuals. Without medical treatment, nearly everyone who receives more than this amount of radiation will die within 30 days.
* 100,000 rads causes almost immediate unconsciousness and death within an hour

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looting in Japan

Inside Story - Japan's Nuclear Crisis ...Is this the nightmare scenario of nuclear meltdown becoming real? And what can be done to contain the nuclear threat while at the same time dealing with the widespread destruction caused by Japan's largest recorded earthquake?

A monitor in Sacramento maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today showed slight increases in radiation from sources that are likely from troubled nuclear energy reactors in Japan.
The "beta" category picks up strontium, while the "gamma" category picks up cesium and iodine. All three are constituents typically associated with nuclear energy production.
The recent increases remain within normal background levels, the EPA said, which vary according to atmospheric conditions.
The numbers are recorded in "counts per minute," which is a way of measuring radiation levels over time and cannot be easily compared to dose levels, such as those experienced by medical patients undergoing X-ray examination.

Another monitor in Sacramento, maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, also picked up elevated radiation levels. This monitor, which is far more sensitive, detected "miniscule quantities" of the radioactive isotope xenon-133, the agency stated.
The origin was determined to be consistent with a release from the Fukushima reactors in northern Japan. The levels detected were at 0.1 disintegrations per second per cubic meter of air, which results in a dose rate about one-millionth of the dose rate a person normally receives from rocks, bricks, the sun and other natural background sources. This coincides with a similar reading March 16 through 17 in Washington state.
Xenon-133 is a radioactive noble gas produced during nuclear fission that poses no concern at the detected level, according to the Department of Energy. via sacbee.com

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Japanese Scramble to Avert Meltdowns as Nuclear Crisis Deepens After Quake: TOKYO — Japanese officials struggled on Sunday to contain a widening nuclear crisis in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, saying they presumed that partial meltdowns had occurred at two crippled reactors and that they were bracing for a second explosion, even as they faced serious cooling problems at four more reactors. >>> Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew L. Wald | Sunday, March 13, 2011

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Russia says it will double oil exports to Japan this year, invites Tokyo to join gas projects

MOSCOW (AP) - A senior Cabinet official says Russia will double its oil exports to Japan to 18 million tons this year to help its neighbor through the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said Tuesday that Japanese companies could join Russia's Gazprom in exploring two massive gas fields, Russian news agencies reported. That includes Kovykta which contains 2 trillion cubic meters of gas.
Amid relief efforts to help the tsunami-stricken nation, Moscow has been eager to use the opportunity to boost its energy sales to Japan.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin earlier suggested that Russia could redirect some of the liquiefied natural gas it planned to sell to Europe to Japan instead.

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Rebuilding JAPAN is CHEAP compared to U.S. debt

FUKUSHIMA, Japan – The toll of Japan's triple disaster came into clearer focus Monday after police estimates showed more than 18,000 people died, the World Bank said rebuilding may cost $235 billion and more cases of radiation-tainted vegetables and tap water turned up.

via news.yahoo.com

images of Godzilla as seen in One Crazy Summer via angelfire.com

U.S. NATIONAL
DEBT
CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 21 Mar 2011 at 03:30:18 PM GMT is:



The estimated population of the United States is 310,241,378

so each citizen's share of this debt is
$45,896.83.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of

$4.12 billion per day since September 28, 2007!

Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!

Japan's Bonds Fall on Cost of Quake Recovery; Futures Rise as Stocks Slide

Bond futures jumped for a second day after Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the danger of further radiation leaks from a damaged nuclear power station is rising. The cost to protect against Japan’s nonpayment soared to a record and stocks tumbled as the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant was rocked by two further explosions today. The Ministry of Finance will sell 1.1 trillion yen ($13.5 billion) of 20-year bonds tomorrow.

“It remains unclear whether the stance of investors can remain the same in this difficult situation with few clues to the scale of damage” caused by the earthquake, said Keiko Onogi, a fixed-income strategist at Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. in Tokyo. “I’ve been looking for a positive catalyst for the auction but can find little at this moment.”  via bloomberg.com
It seems that Godzilla is getting the remake treatment yet again. Just 10 years after the latest reboot.  release in 2012. via sequelbuzz.blogspot.com
this is the real Godzilla.  As Beck noted on FOX NEWS. not a NUCLEAR meltdown, but a financial one. Japan will sell American bonds to recover. So who will buy our debt?

Looting in Japan... not what you think! You would too... DON'T LIE!

MMMM.... Beer...When a tsunami blasted through Kirin Brewery's seaside facilities here, it tipped over giant beer-storage tanks and spread a blanket of beer bottles, barrels and other goods across the port. The beverages that spilled out were then hit a second time: by a surge of thirsty residents.  Witnesses say hundreds of people carted off beer, coffee, juice and other goods that had escaped Kirin's massive warehouse when the tsunami waters receded. "All kinds of people came and were taking things away, they kept coming until everything was gone," on Saturday, said Makoto Igarashi, who manages a gas station

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Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium

Thorium could be a much safer option for China which has been unsettled by the nuclear crisis in Japan where fears over radiation levels are rising

via telegraph.co.uk

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Israel to dispatch medical delegation to Japan

The Israeli medical delegation
will establish a medical clinic
geared to handle the casualties and refugees
concentrated in the Miyagi prefecture,
six hours north of Tokyo

The field hospital Israel is establishing in Japan is the first to be set up by any nation offering outside assistance, Israel’s Ambassador to Japan Nissim Ben Shitrit said Monday, and the Japanese are extremely appreciative. via mfa.gov.il

Ben Shitrit said the hospital was being established at Minamisanriko, a fishing city 290 miles north of Tokyo, that was utterly overwhelmed by the quake and tsunami and where some 10,000 people are dead or missing. A five-strong Israeli team “is setting up the surgery right now,” the ambassador said. “They are evaluating the needs today, so that a larger team can be dispatched.”

via jpost.com

Nuclear Boy

Japan nuclear safety agency says aware of Chernobyl solution

Japan's Bonds Fall
on Cost of Quake Recovery;
Futures Rise as Stocks Slide

Nuclear FALLOUT
West Coast of America

Get Well Soon Japan

Japan's nuclear safety agency said on Friday that it was aware of the ultimate "Chernobyl solution" to contain the nuclear disaster at its quake-hit nuclear plant by covering it in sand and encasing it in concrete, but added that it was currently focusing on efforts to restore power and cool down the reactors.

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Radiation Fears Threaten Relief Effort

Reuters

Soldiers and a rescue worker carry the body of a resident through Kesennuma City on March 15.

TOKYO—An evolving nuclear crisis in quake-hit Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, could add misery to hundreds of thousands of quake victims by possibly forcing relief organizations to withdraw their operations.
"The Japanese Red Cross Society is committed to rescue any victims, including those of nuclear radiation," JRCS spokesman Mutsuhiko Owaki said. "But we cannot send rescue workers to places where there is a clear risk of radiation exposure," he added, indicating that the group will have to limit its operations to areas where such risks are low.

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Japan asks U.S. for help cooling nuclear reactors

By Ayesha Rascoe and Phil Stewart

The No.3 nuclear reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is seen burning after a blast following an earthquake and tsunami in this handout satellite image taken March 14, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Digital Globe/Handout

WASHINGTON

(Reuters) - The United States is ramping up assistance to help Japan avert a major nuclear meltdown, U.S. officials said on Monday, as Washington wrestled with the risks of radiation exposure to aid workers.
The Japanese government has asked for more equipment to cool down three reactors damaged by last week's massive earthquake and tsunami, which triggered the worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.

The Fukushima complex, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, is trying to avoid a major radiation leak. Explosions at two reactors on Saturday and Monday sent a huge plume of smoke billowing above the plant.

"We continue to provide assistance where we can," Gregory Jaczko, head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said at a White House press briefing.

"In particular, they have asked for additional types of equipment that will help provide water and other resources to ensure that the reactors continue to be cool."

The commission has already sent two experts to Japan, and Jaczko said it plans to send out another team of experts soon.

RADIATION EXPOSURE

The nuclear crisis has posed some risk for workers attempting to battle the crisis. The Pentagon was trying to take precautions while moving ahead with relief efforts.

It was forced to reposition eight U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, after they got caught 115 miles downwind of the Fukushima nuclear complex.

Seventeen Americans on helicopter missions were exposed to the equivalent of a month's worth of normal radiation, even though they were 60 miles away from the nuclear plant.

"The immediate action was to get out of the area," said Commander Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the Seventh Fleet.

Asked about what steps the military was taking to avoid any more exposure, Davis said: "We're keeping a very close eye on which way the wind is moving."

He said the radiation risk would not stop rescue efforts.

"It's something we have to take into account -- it complicates things. But it's absolutely something we can mitigate," Davis said.

The ships in the area were the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group, which includes the cruiser USS Chancellorsville, the destroyer USS Preble and the combat support ship USNS Bridge.

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third explosion at Japan's nuclear plant

How To Avoid Talking Politic

From the BBC:

Technicians are battling to stabilise a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant that has been rocked by a second blast in three days.

Sea water is being pumped into reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant after its fuel rods were fully exposed twice.

International nuclear watchdogs said there was no sign of a meltdown but one minister said a melting of rods was "highly likely" to be happening.

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The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked a stricken Japanese nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive cloud of smoke into the air and injuring 11 workers. Hours later, the U.S. said it had shifted its offshore forces away from the plant after detecting low levels of radiation.

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was about 100 miles offshore when it detected the radiation, which U.S. officials said was about the same as one month's normal exposure to natural background radiation in the environment.
It was not clear if the leak happened during Monday's explosion. That blast was felt 25 miles away, but the plant's operator said radiation levels at the reactor were still within legal limits.
The explosion at the plant's Unit 3, which authorities have been trying to cool with sea water after a system failure in the wake of Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami, triggered an order for hundreds of people to stay indoors, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. The two disasters left at least 10,000 people dead.
Operators knew the sea water flooding would cause a pressure buildup in the reactor containment vessel -- and potentially lead to an explosion -- but felt they had no choice if they wanted to avoid a complete meltdown. In the end, the hydrogen in the released steam mixed with oxygen in the atmosphere and set off the blast.
The inner containment shell surrounding the Unit 3 reactor was intact, Edano said, allaying some fears of the risk to the environment and public. But the outer building around the reactor appeared to have been devastated, with only a skeletal frame remaining.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the plant, said radiation levels at Unit 3 were well under the levels where a nuclear operator must file a report to the government.
A similar explosion occurred Saturday at the plant's Unit 1, injuring four workers, causing mass evacuations and destroying much of the outer building.
Shortly after Monday's explosion, Tokyo Electric warned it had lost the ability to cool another reactor, the plant's Unit 2. Takako Kitajima, a company official, said plant workers were preparing to inject sea water into the unit to cool the reactor, a move that could lead to an explosion there as well.
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Jewish and Israeli Groups Mobilizing Response to Japan Quake and Tsunamis | Jewish Internet Defense Force

The Japanese consul in Israel, Mitoshiko Shinomya, told the Israeli news website Ynet that he was heartened by the Israeli government's offer of assistance. "Israel officially offered its help an hour after the earthquake struck,” Shinomya said.

Jewish organizations are mobilizing responses to the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on Friday.
IsraAid, an Israel-based coordinating organization for 17 Israeli and Jewish humanitarian groups, said Friday that it has two teams of rescue personnel, emergency medical officers and water pollution specialists ready to deploy to Japan but was looking for ways to reach the affected area.
Because the airports in the affected area are flooded and Tokyo-area airports closed on Friday, IsraAid said it was exploring the possibility of flying to a nearby country and then trying to make it to northeast Japan, where the tsunami has killed hundreds and devastated cities and towns.

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Japan Insults Islam