TagsTagsTonight's insanity break is a beautifully done video for a track from the Japanese electronica group Go-qualia, produced by World's End Girlfriend.
Music, Video, Go-qualia, World's End Girlfriend, Japan, Electronica
As we noted a few days ago, the entire right wing media and blogosphere -- all of them -- fell for yet another fake outrage: the false claim that President Obama had offered to apologize to Japan for the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII. Fox News, of course, quickly spread the ...
Fake, Outrageous Outrage, Japan, President Obama, Hiroshima, Idiocy
Here we go again. Based on a (probably deliberate) misreading of a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, the right wing media are having yet another attack of the vapors. Linked at Drudge Report: Apologies Not Accepted - Investors.com. Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
Fake, Outrageous Outrage, Japan, President Obama, Hiroshima, Idiocy
Photographer Michael Levin working in Japan, in a film by Brad Kremer. Absolutely gorgeous in full screen high definition.
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This qualifies as real bad news from Japan, where the severity rating of the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant has been raised to the highest level: Japan nuclear crisis on same level as Chernobyl.
It's a battle of dimwits, as Ann Coulter goes on the Bill O'Reilly show to argue that anyone exposed to radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plants is actually much less likely to get cancer. That's right; Coulter actually says radiation is good for you. Scientists agree! (h/t: SanFranciscoZionist.) UPDATE at 3/18/11 11:19:45 ...
Fox News, Right Wing, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Japan, Nuclear Power, Meltdown, Idiocy
There's no good news from Japan tonight: Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster as Radiation Levels Rise. TOKYO — Japan faced the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear accident Tuesday morning, as an explosion at the most crippled of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station damaged its crucial steel ...
Another horrifying amateur video from Japan shows the giant waves striking the Japanese coastal town of Noda. At least 500 people died here. Video
Boing Boing has a great informative post if you need a refresher course in how nuclear power plants work: Nuclear energy 101: Inside the 'black box' of power plants.
Japan, Tsunami, disaster, Nuclear Power, Meltdown, Nuclear Power
According to experts, Japan's nuclear nightmare may just be beginning. WASHINGTON — As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from ...
Here's some new footage from BBC News, showing the first moments of the massive tsunami disaster. Video
The New York Times reports on the spreading nuclear crisis in Japan, where a state of emergency has now been declared at a fourth reactor. The government confirmed that radiation had escaped from the worst-hit plant, and local officials said that 22 people outside the plant showed signs of radiation ...
Uh oh. [5:48 p.m. ET, 7:48 a.m. Tokyo] A meltdown may be under way at one of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear power reactors, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency told CNN Sunday. A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release. ...
The good news is that a major meltdown has apparently been averted at the Fukushima power plant in northern Japan, after the reactor was flooded with seawater. Also good news: the explosion that was seen yesterday was not inside the reactor itself. TOKYO — Japanese officials took the extraordinary step ...
The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research in Seattle posted this computer model of the 2011 Honshu tsunami, as it propagated across the Pacific Ocean.
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Click to enlarge The tsunami from Japan's enormous earthquake struck the west coast of the United States this morning, damaging boats and killing at least one man who was swept out to sea when he tried to photograph the incoming wave. There is great concern about the nuclear power plants damaged in ...
Here's some absolutely horrific video of the tsunami that followed today's 8.9 earthquake in northern Japan, sweeping away everything in its path. Video Please note that just last month, as part of their attack on scientific organizations that study global warming, House Republicans voted to gut funding for the Pacific Tsunami Center. ...
On his first visit to Japan, one of America’s most valued allies, President Obama greets Emperor Akihito with a traditional bow and the right wing blogosphere completely loses it. Some of this stuff is blatantly racist too. A commenter at Hot Air gives his perspective: Someone needs to give this half white ...
Barack Obama, Bowgate, Japan, Emperor, Nontroversy, silliness, Right Wing, Racism
Instead of getting really, really upset that Barack Obama bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito while visiting Japan where bowing is a custom that goes back thousands of years, I’ve been working on some pieces of The Blog’s back-end code, playing Batman: Arkham Asylum, going for a short bike ride, taking ...
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And now for a pig rodeo! (I’ve spent a lot of time in Japan, and really love the country and the people. However, no one can deny that in some ways, the Japanese are a little ... odd. And I mean that as a compliment.) [Video]
If you know the classic Brecker Brothers tune “Some Skunk Funk,” you might not recognize it in this insanely fast version performed in Nagoya, Japan, in 1993. Michael Brecker’s tenor solo is mind-boggling. [Video]
Bill Whittle takes Jon Stewart to school: Jon Stewart, War Criminals & The True Story of the Atomic Bombs.
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Japan. Robots. The moon. Need I say more? TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is considering putting a robot on the moon by 2020 and an astronaut by 2030, a report from a government office showed on Friday, amid fears that the country will be left behind in Asia’s space race. The plans ...
One of Todd Rundgren’s coolest (I won’t say “best” because they’re all great) bands at its tightest, with a song titled Unloved Children. [Video] Must be a factory somewhere Keeps on cranking them out Seems like they travel in pairs Not worth the trouble but too full of clout Somebody must play his game They get ...