Whitey Grandad Posted 15 March, 2011 Share Posted 15 March, 2011 What has impressed me most is the quiet dignity of the people who have lost all that they possessed, and more. The lady on NHK describing how her teenage daughter was swept away from her and is still missing. Where do you begin to repair lives that have been washed out, cities that have been wiped from existence? You always like to think that in such circumstances you would do something different, something special that would save you, but in the face of such sudden and unstoppable force your fate is truly in the lap of the gods. My thoughts are with you in Tokyo, and with all of your compatriots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_D Posted 15 March, 2011 Share Posted 15 March, 2011 Deppo, come on. Normally you know just about where the line is, and that in itself annoys some people, but here you've crossed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingeletiss Posted 15 March, 2011 Share Posted 15 March, 2011 Deppo, you were out of order there this time, and I think you know it. Not for the first time, he gets away with Blue murder on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 15 March, 2011 Share Posted 15 March, 2011 Telegraph Blog 02:32 Peter Foster, one of our correspondents in Japan, reports from Sendai: "We're seeing long fuel queues, but also long queues at the supermarkets in Ichinoseki for rations. We've just stopped and managed to secure some food by getting a shop owner to open his vending machines. Everywhere else we've stopped they're not working because of power shortages." 02:05 Mr Kan say that radiation readings from the reactor is "very high" and everyone within the 12 mile radius of the No 2 plant must evacuate. Everyone within a 12 mile to 18 mile radius should remain indoors, he says. "We are making every effort so that if there's an explosion, no further leakage of nuclear material would happen. "I would like to ask the nation that, although this is a situation of great concern, that you act very calmly." 01:58 Naoto Kan, the prime minister, is due to hold a press conference shortly. 01:56 Japan's nuclear safety agency suspects the explosion may have damaged the reactor's suppression chamber, a water-filled tube at the bottom of the container that surrounds the nuclear core, said agency spokesman, Shinji Kinjo. He said that chamber is part of the container wall, so damage to it could allow radiation to escape. "A leak of nuclear material is feared," he said. He said the agency had no details of possible damage to the chamber. Also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8381437/Japan-nuclear-threat-families-flee-again-as-meltdown-risk-increases.html Things seem to have got much worse overnight on the Nuclear Plant front Several million people in the area with nowhere else to go as the winds change, unease now as to whether the Plant authorities tried to save face rather than ask for help in many articles & blogs Radiation levels up in Tokyo, Could cause many other problems, not least with global energy production plans and costs EU reviewing 150 Nuclear Reactors in Europe. This gets worse and worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 15 March, 2011 Share Posted 15 March, 2011 (edited) A CYNIC would say that some possible news editors have an anti Nuclear agenda and have pushed the coverage higher. The Yanks are more of a well this is our technology we know it will be alright but it is worrying. They DON'T lead with a "We're all doomed a Meltdown is coming" type tag line (exagerated for effect) Do you still believe this - after three major explosions in reactor buildings in four days? And the American coverage I've seen doesn't say anything like what you're suggesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16contain.html?_r=1&hp Edited 15 March, 2011 by Verbal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 15 March, 2011 Share Posted 15 March, 2011 Beware the scumbags have started sending fake e-mails pretending to be helping those poor poor people in Japan. It even has a btinternet.com address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 More on the gathering and unprecedented nuclear disaster in Japan, the eminent Japanese-American theoretical physicist Michio Kaku is now calling for the 'Chernobyl option' to be enacted immediately - encasing the runaway reactors in a sand and concrete sarcophagus. http://news.yahoo.com/video/tech-15749651/24532243 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 (edited) Every beach should have an earthquake detector Edited 16 March, 2011 by Dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 I watched Channel 4 news last night . I have to say they they gave an excellent report on the true aspects of what is happening over there. Well done Mr Snow. Sky and the BBC still **** though unbalanced and sensationalising the matters although they are now focussing more on the Nucleur exposure. Oh and did anybody see that stupid bint of a reporter in reading a report re midsummer murders and the lackof ethnic people in the episodes. Why the hell did she have to trivalise her report saying she had just found a candlestick and a rope on pinkeys green. Absolute stupidity. The Bill bloke thought it was amusing . lets get some serious news readers on BBC TV instead of these pratts spouting off their own self importance. Well done to Channel 4 news . I will be watching that in future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 Speaking to a client yesterday and she had an un-usual view. She thought it ironic that the sea has taken revenge on japan for the way they treat the whales and dolphins etc.!!! Not sure it is a correct way to look at it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenevaSaint Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 I watched Channel 4 news last night . I have to say they they gave an excellent report on the true aspects of what is happening over there. Well done Mr Snow. Sky and the BBC still **** though unbalanced and sensationalising the matters although they are now focussing more on the Nucleur exposure. Oh and did anybody see that stupid bint of a reporter in reading a report re midsummer murders and the lackof ethnic people in the episodes. Why the hell did she have to trivalise her report saying she had just found a candlestick and a rope on pinkeys green. Absolute stupidity. The Bill bloke thought it was amusing . lets get some serious news readers on BBC TV instead of these pratts spouting off their own self importance. Well done to Channel 4 news . I will be watching that in future Thank **** for that you dull budgie, please do stop moaning about the BBC and Sky now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 Speaking to a client yesterday and she had an un-usual view. She thought it ironic that the sea has taken revenge on japan for the way they treat the whales and dolphins etc.!!! Not sure it is a correct way to look at it though. Probably not, Nick. I'd have thought this kind of thinking went out, literally, with the ark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 Thanks for the accolade Geneva Thank **** for that you dull budgie I shall be tweeting ch 4 news in future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR2JYM1#a=2 Dear God. Nothing else to say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrey1saint Posted 16 March, 2011 Share Posted 16 March, 2011 Good god,poor buggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 19 March, 2011 Share Posted 19 March, 2011 My friends in Tokyo are reporting that things are getting back to normal. Kids playing football, bars full on a Friday night etc. Many of them have been volunteering at centres, packing up food parcels, Blankets and stuff like that. It's being reported on the Japanese news that one of their major baseball stars, Ichiro has donated 100 million yen to the relief effort (about £1,000,000). Would like to think that out footballers would do the same if such a disaster happened in England but I can't see John Terry doing it somehow. In the Real Madrid shop they are selling Japan shirts will all of the money going to the cause as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 19 March, 2011 Share Posted 19 March, 2011 Speaking to a client yesterday and she had an un-usual view. She thought it ironic that the sea has taken revenge on japan for the way they treat the whales and dolphins etc.!!! Not sure it is a correct way to look at it though. There's always one or two with nutty fluffy bunny ideas though isn't there.Sounds like one of the girls Bertie Wooster spent all of his time evading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingeletiss Posted 19 March, 2011 Share Posted 19 March, 2011 (edited) It was also reported, that those poor souls who remained at the stricken Nucular plant, do not expect to live, but stayed to prevent a disaster. Bl00dy hell!!!!! Edited 19 March, 2011 by Gingeletiss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 19 March, 2011 Share Posted 19 March, 2011 It was also reported, that those poor souls who remained at the stricken Nucular plant, doe not expect to live, but stayed to prevent a disaster. Bl00dy hell!!!!! That's the way of it in Japan though. Kamikaze lives on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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