Examples of Loonies on Japan's Nuclear Accident

You just can't make this stuff up:


First off something I already posted about before, but let's go into more depth today. This stuff is funny. It's from that reputable tabloid know as the Sun UK so you just know it's got to be the truth! Everyone knows, if it's in the Sun, then it's got to be the gospel.... I mean, if it weren't true, they couldn't print it, right?

The shocking headline says it all:  

Starving Brit Keely: My nightmare trapped in City of Ghosts – Tokyo

I'm just going to print most of the story from the Sun and comment here and there. After this nonsense, there is a really fantastic video that you simply must watch at the bottom of this post.... Wait a minute! Her name is Keely Fujiyama? That's not real! Are you kidding me? I'm sure it isn't totally impossible but I've never heard of anyone actually named Fujiyama.

OK. But I'm a sport. I'll play along. After all we are talking about nonsense in the media. But allow me to indulge myself too, okay? Before we go into this craziness here's a little musical interlude to warm you up for this. I do hope you'll grab an drink and start on that before proceeding with the rest of this blog post:

WANDA JACKSON - FUJIYAMA MAMA

From the Sun: 

A BRITISH mum told last night of her terror trapped and starving in the eerie ghost town that is Tokyo after the tsunami.

Keely Fujiyama, 37, phoned The Sun to describe a city in fear of nuclear catastrophe - with streets deserted and food, water and fuel running out.

And she slammed the British Embassy for failing to help expats desperate to escape - after radiation levels from Japan's stricken nuclear reactors reached ten times normal.

The mum of two said: "They fled and left us here to fry. I'm ashamed to call myself British." 


(Ashamed to call yourself British? I know that there's a lot of Aussies, Canadians, Kiwis and Americans here in Japan that can totally understand your feelings there- Mike)

Keely, from Croydon, South London, has lived in Tokyo for ten years after marrying Japanese Ryu Fujiyama.


She said: "I'm stuck inside a third-floor apartment in a part of the city that resembles a ghost-town. Normally the streets bustle like nowhere else on earth. 

(Ghost town!? - Mike)


"But I look outside now and they're completely deserted. It's like London in the zombie movie 28 Days Later. 

Scene from the movie 28 Days Later. Yep. That looks like my neighborhood in Tokyo! - Mike

"The streets are silent. We live near the centre of Tokyo and yet there is no movement at all.
"I'm scared, and shaky with hunger and really, really tired. I've got two hungry children and just a few crisps, oranges and a can of tuna. 

(What? You have potato chips but no beer in the fridge? This is a total disaster! - Mike)


"I've had some juice today but I'm saving the rest for the children. There is no petrol, no water, no food.

(If you mean the convenience stores are all sold out of Cup O Noodle, that's true. - Mike)


"On Tuesday, the radiation levels in Tokyo were ten times above normal and people started to panic. 

(No, lady, the people didn't start to panic you started to panic. That's all. - Mike)


"What if, every day, radiation continues to double? 

(And, what if, every day, my telescopic electronic nipplets grow more tender? - Mike)


"But with all this, the Prime Minister comes on television, telling us to be calm. There are constant aftershocks and I'm not taking my children on the Metro when the roof could fall in.

"My children are already starving. I found three riceballs and some seaweed this morning in a local convenience store and took the last couple of water canisters." 

(You've lived in Japan for more than ten years... We have earthquakes all the time, and you don't have at least a week's worth of food & water stored up? Not a very fast learner are you? Thank god for the corner convenience store. If it weren't for them, you might have to walk two hundred meters for food and water! - Mike)


Mainly, Keely stays in her apartment in Tokyo's Nerima Ku suburb with Alex, four, and Nina, eight. 

(It's good that she stays indoors. This lady sounds like she could be a danger to herself if she were not constantly under surveillance... What with the lions and tigers and bears, oh my! - Mike)


She said: "We stay indoors, with the windows shut, except when my husband goes out to work or to try and find food. 

(Great to see that here are still families living the primitive hunter-gatherer lifestyle even in Tokyo - Mike)

The Fujiyama family in Tokyo during happier times

"At night the streets are dark and eerily quiet. The TV news has told us to take a shower when we've been outside, because of radiation worries. But the water is a funny colour and smells of bleach. There's sometimes a live feed on TV from the nuclear plant.

"But mostly there's just a test card with gentle music and children making origami dragons."

(Origami dragons? What channel is this on? It's just nonstop news on all the channels lady! Take the TV off the kiddies educational channel... You at least know how to work a TV remote control, don't you? - Mike)

Although food shops are empty, Keely and her husband found a car dealership doing a roaring trade as people sought transport to flee the radiation threat. 

(Looking to trade canned food for 2009 Toyota Camry or later model! - Mike)

She said: "We went on Sunday to buy a 4x4. Nobody needs a car in Tokyo - it's not that sort of city - but we figured it might be the only way to get out.

(Oh goody! The family gets to go out car shopping! I get to ride in the front! How fun! - Mike)


"The garage was packed with people who'd had the same thought. The amazing thing is though, that the Japanese are trying their best to help each other.

(Yeah, weird, eh? Just a few paragraphs back you said there was no petrol. Now you say people are dying to buy a car! Go figure. - Mike) 


"The old lady at the corner store gave me a hug. And there's no looting. Nobody's tried to take our water or the little food we have.

(She probably wanted to slap you silly but figured that just a hug might be enough calm you down... I hope you also picked up adult diapers, Keely... Sounds like you must be going through those fast. - Mike)


She said: "The first to flee Tokyo have been British Embassy staff. I repeatedly rang the Tokyo number for our embassy - but there's just a recorded message saying, 'We are not taking calls'.

"I then rang the Foreign Office and got patched through to a crisis line man, who just told me to try and get on a plane.


"I kept telling him we can't even get to the airport but he didn't seem concerned.

"I begged the Foreign Office man, 'Please help me'. But he told me if I raised my voice one more time he was terminating the call. 

(Damned useless bureaucrats. You should have asked to be switched to the department of psychotic disorders...Yes, well... If I had some hysterical woman screaming about not having enough chips on the other end of the phone, I might hang up on her too. - Mike) 


"In desperation, I rang the US embassy and immediately a human voice asked, 'How can I help?' They can't do much as I'm British. 

(Yes, as an American, I can honestly say that we have enough loonies from our own country to deal with in Japan without having to help the Brits with theirs. The "Special Relationship" only goes so far! - Mike)


"If I get out of Tokyo I want to go to America, Australia, anywhere. I have no faith in Britain any more. I don't want to see my country ever again."

Message to US embassy: No matter what you do, don't give this woman a visa!


Thanks so much to the Sun and Keely "Fujiyama" for that invigorating tale of human suffering and that very typically dry British humor. 

Incredibly, hidden underneath this men's fashion store is a

nuclear nightmare in Shibuya just waiting to happen!

And speaking of humor, the Brits don't have all of it as an award must go out to Fox News also for reporting on Shibuya having a nuclear power plant located in a popular disco that has been a Shibuya landmark for decades. Who could have suspected a nuclear power plant inside Shibuya Eggman? 

And now ladies and gentlemen, the plat de resistance of ridiculous nonsense. Did you know that the earthquake and tsunami were not an earthquake and tsunami but actually a US plot to detonate a nuclear weapon under the sea to get Japan to fall in line with the New World Order? Yep. Don't believe me. Let this guy tell you. (Warning: Viewer is advised to wear special protective visors and tin hats before viewing this video):

Yes. Yes. I see. Riiiiiiiight! Earthquake weapon? Turn Canada into a tropical paradise? No tsunami in other countries? Really? I'm sure those people in Hawaii and Oceania will sure be happy to hear that those increased waves were simply figments on their imaginations. 


Well, anyway. Don't look now, but someone sure has a good imagination... How about staying away from the sake for a few days, eh?


Now, someone asked me a while back why I am hesitant to associate with too many foreigners in Japan....


Anymore questions?

The Japanese Government Continues to Mess Up the Nuclear Accident

Ever wonder how the Keystone Cops or the Three Stooges would handle a nuclear nightmare? Look no further than the Japanese government for what it might look like. For more on that, read, Nuclear Meltdown here or Power Plant Scandal and Coverup here.

To the rescue!

They keep changing the story from "no problem" and nothing to worry about to "slight problem" and nothing to worry about.


Now they are talking about a second explosion at another nuclear facility and still, you guessed it; no problem.


How about these comments, though, from reports:


"Radiation has increased 400 fold in the region of Miyagi"


Here's a good video from RT. Listen from about the 40 second mark: 


"The government claimed that the radiation released so far does not pose a threat to human health. Well, having said that the number of people admitted to hospitals suffering from exposure is said to be rising."

Japan Nuclear Power Plant Scandal and Now Coverup?

SHOCKING UPDATE BELOW


In a bit of news concerning my most recent blog entry about Japanese government responsibility for the nuclear accident at Fukushima (read that blog here), it has now been reported in the German press that the plant at Fukushima was allegedly scheduled for shut-down this month.


This is the second nuclear accident at this plant in 29 years.

Brief comment from What Really Happened:

In the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant, an explosion occurred. The fear of a worst-case scenario is there. What kind of nuclear power plant? Who owns it? It is a company that wanted to cover up several affairs. The complex of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is one of the largest in Japan. The power plant consists of a total of six reactors, Two more are planned. The Fukushima nuclear power plant 1, which was seriously damaged in the earthquake is 40 years old. The problem reactor was about to be closed down according to a database of the Nuclear Research Centre Training Centre (ICJT) in Slovenia. It shows as the "expected date of closure," March 2011. 

Well, I can answer the question as to "who owns this power plant?" It is TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company). Read about the previous shut-downs and scandals here at Wikipedia. Here is also a short list of accidents so far in Japan. TEPCO is in very tight with the Japanese government and owns a virtual monopoly on electrical power in Japan.


Here is the information in German about the alleged planned closure:

Original text from Sueddeutsche: 
Der Problemreaktor stand nach Angaben aus einer internationalen AKW-Datenbank kurz vor der Stilllegung. Der Reaktor 1 des Meilers Fukushima Eins sollte in diesem Monat den Betrieb einstellen; eine Datenbank des Forschungszentrums Nuclear Training Centre (ICJT) in Slowenien nennt als "erwartetes Datum der Stilllegung" den März 2011. Der Bau des Reaktorblocks begann nach Angaben der World Nuclear Association bereits am 31. Juli 1967, die Leitung der Arbeiten lag beim US-Konzern General Electric. Am 17. November 1970 ging der Siedewasserreaktor ans Netz.

Babelfish translation: 

The problem reactor stood according to data from an international nuclear power plant data base shortly before the shutdown. The reactor 1 of the Meilers Fukushima unity should stop the enterprise in this month; a data base of the research center Nuclear training Centre (ICJT) in Slovenia calls as " expected date of the Stilllegung" March 2011. The building of the reactor block began the line of the work according to data of the World Nuclear Association already on 31 July 1967, lay with the US group General Electric. On 17 November 1970 the boiling water reactor went to the net.

There's a scandal in there not too far from the surface here, 
especially concerning government announcements that things 
were safe and under control when they obviously weren't. 


Heads must roll.


UPDATE:


THIS JUST IN: "The Daiichi site is located in Onahama city, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo. The 460-megawatt Unit 1 began operating in 1971 and is the oldest at the site. It is a boiling water reactor that drives the turbine with radioactive water, unlike pressurized water reactors usually found in the United States. Japanese regulators decided in February to allow it to run another 10 years."

I wonder if Tokyo Electric Power Co. would request a plant closure postponement if it were to be directly liable for any accident...

Nuclear Meltdown? - The Japan Syndrome

IMPORTANT UPDATE BELOW!


As of now, the earthquake in Northern Japan has caused extensive damage and over 1,300 people have died from the earthquake and the tsunami that followed. The situation seemingly keeps getting worse as it has also been reported that a nuclear power plant near Fukushima has cracked and is now experiencing a nuclear meltdown. My heart goes out to those who have suffered in this disaster and I thank you all for the messages worrying about our safety.


I'd like to comment briefly on one aspect of this tragedy that is not being reported in the news; government mistakes and responsibility - personal and otherwise.

Only a fool would sit around, listening to government announcements on whether or not to evacuate or what to do for their own safety.


Reuters Reports:

Radiation leaked from
a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor north of Tokyo on Saturday,
the government said, after an explosion blew the roof off the
facility in the wake of a massive earthquake. 

 The developments raised fears of a meltdown at the plant as
officials scrambled to contain what could be the worst nuclear
disaster since the Chernobyl explosion in 1986 that shocked the
world.    

 The Japanese plant was damaged by Friday's 8.9-magnitude
earthquake, which sent a 10-metre (33-foot) tsunami ripping
through towns and cities across the northeast coast. Japanese
media estimate that at least 1,300 people were killed. 

 "We are looking into the cause and the situation and we'll
make that public when we have further information," Chief
Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said after confirming the
explosion and radiation leak at the plant. 

 Edano said an evacuation radius of 10 km (6 miles) from the
stricken 40-year-old Daiichi 1 reactor plant in Fukushima
prefecture was adequate, but an hour later the boundary was
extended to 20 km (13 miles). TV footage showed vapour rising
from the plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.


This is a terrible situation indeed, but there is a very important lesson 
in life for all of us in this mess. I believe that this is a lesson that is 
teaching us personal responsibility and it is also teaching us to be 
leery of the state and its proclamations.

I won't go into all of the facets of this argument, but let's just examine 
one piece of this situation.


Consider: On Friday, soon after the earthquake struck, it was reported 
that the Japanese electrical company that was running the nuclear 
power plant was experiencing difficulties. The reports said that even 
though they had shut down the reactor, for fear of damage, the 
temperature of the inner core was still rising. The company said they 
were making all efforts to contain the problem. I believe that.

The Japanese government claimed that there was minimal danger of 
a radiation leak and that engineers were getting the situation under 
control.  They also said, as a precaution, they were evacuating people 
within a three mile radius of the power plant. I see that most of these 
reports have disappeared into the memory hole, but here's one. 
This report was released at about 1 pm on Saturday March 12, 2011.

From Reuters:

Evacuation underway in the area surrounding Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Underscoring grave concerns about the Fukushima plant some 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. air force had delivered coolant to avert a rise in the temperature of the facility’s nuclear rods.
Pressure building in the plant was set to be released soon, a move that could result in a radiation leak, officials said. Some 3,000 people who live within a 3 km radius of the plant had been evacuated, Kyodo news agency said.
“It’s possible that radioactive material in the reactor vessel could leak outside but the amount is expected to be small and the wind blowing towards the sea will be considered,” Chief Cabinet Yukio Edano told a news conference.

Possible.. Small amount... No big deal, right? But then, a few hours 
later, the government changes its report to a 10 kilometer (6 miles) 
radius... Then, not 1 hour later, the danger zone is extended to a 20 
kilometer (12 miles) radius. Only a fool would believe that 12 miles
is a safe distance.

(By the way, as of now, it is confirmed 9 people with radiation 
poisoning with 
at least 160 more are suspected of it. So much
for government announcements that it was safe. 
- Mike 3/13/11 9:30 am).

My entire point here is that the government screws up constantly and, 
if you take what they say for god-given truth, then you deserve what 
you get. If anyone should know the truth in that statement it should 
be the Japanese. They had a government who lied them into World 
War II and then, a decade of so after the war, they had a government 
who lied to them about a similar disaster to today called Minamata.

Now, before you dear reader go on to protest and defend the statist 
position in that, "The government must report something!" Let me 
say that as broadcaster with over 30 years experience, it's an 
argument that I 
completely disagree with and I will save for 
another day. The government will make their announcements, 
the point of this article is whether you should believe them at face 
value or not. 

Let me 
point out to you one more critical factor in my argument:
These nuclear power plants need a license to operate. Who grants 
these licenses? The government, that's who. This means that 
citizens who are damaged by any errors of that power plant only have 
recourse in taking action against that government in court should 
anything go wrong. Think about that. It was the government who gave
 the approval for that plant to be built where it is built. It was the 
government who gave the approval for the safety precautions of 
that plant. The free market was no where to be seen in these events.

I wonder, if a power comany were liable in civil and criminal court for 
damages - which, because of Japanese law, they are not - would 
they 
be building government approved-nuclear power plants on 
earthquake fault lines? I doubt it.

It took over 50 years for the government to admit that they lied in 
the case 
of Minamata.

So the government created this situation and, as usual, the 
government 
must cover up and spin the results of this mess.

Now, dear reader, I ask you, do you still believe that you should 
believe 
government pronouncements as to whether or not it's 
safe to go 
outside or drink the water or breathe the air?

Who knows what's best for you and your families safety more 
than you do? Gather all the available information you can -
remembering that there are those who have certain motivations
for what they pronounce - and judge for yourself.

Your life and your children's lives depend upon it. Take this 
opportunity to teach your children well... If you don't teach them, 
the government will. 

IMPORTANT UPDATE
: 
it has now been reported in the German press that the 
problem nuclear power plant was scheduled for decommissioning
this month since it is 40 years old. Once again, government 
interference raises its ugly head. This is the second time in 29 
years that this power plant has had an accident. If the 
government 
would get out of the way and allow the free 
market to work, 
competitiion would allow companies to build 
better and safer 
plants. Now? 

The results of the system are easy to see for everyone.


MORE VIDEOS AT YOUTUBE: (If you wish to see more reports - 
in Japanese - double click on the video below and you'll 
be taken to Youtube page. On the right are many videos 
available):