THE NEWS has been rumored for weeks. Caroline Kennedy has been asked to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan and is being vetted for the post, a Democrat familiar with the discussions told CNN on Monday. [CNN]
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News Desk: U.S., China and Japan Condemn North Korea Nuclear Test
North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions, drawing condemnation from around the world, including from its only major ally, China, which summoned the North Korean ambassador to protest. [Reuters] IT’S BEING described as having “greater explosive force” than the 2006 and 2009 tests, according to Reuters. China’s [...]
News Desk: China Versus Japan on Senkaku Islands, As SecDef Panetta Lands in Region
The latest, dangerous standoff between Japan and China, which brought violent protests across China, was sparked by Tokyo’s decision to “nationalise” a chain of disputed, gas-rich islands in the East China Sea. But the row is just one manifestation of a deeper, multi-faceted, and almost institutionalised confrontation pre-dating the second world war. Coincidentally, Tuesday marks [...]
Harry Truman’s Grandson at 67th Commemoration of Hiroshima
“I’m two generations down the line. It’s now my responsibility to do all I can to make sure we never use nuclear weapons again.” – Clifton Truman Daniel, Pres. Harry Truman’s grandson [Atlantic Journal Constitution] PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN gave the order, with Hiroshima being wiped out on this day in 1945.
Amelia Earheart, and Sally Ride
RESEARCHES KEEP SEARCHING, but so far to no avail to find the exact spot where Amelia Earheart went down. Christian Science Monitor talks to both sides and commemorates her life and death and the mysteries that led to wondering where her crash happened so long ago. TIGHAR researchers say that significant finds on Nikumaroro lead [...]
Pearl Harbor and the Memo Detailing the ‘Japanese espionage effort’
This film, narrated by Tom Brokaw for National Geographic, was produced in 2001. You’ll have to get through about a minute of advertising, but it’s worth it, especially for those of you who don’t know the history and the legacy. Today, it’s the 70 year commemoration of that fateful day. A new book publishes a [...]
Secretary Clinton: ‘Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights’
The United States will begin using American foreign aid to promote gay rights abroad, Obama administration officials said on Tuesday. President Obama issued a memorandum directing American agencies to look for ways to combat efforts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality. – U.S. to Use Foreign Aid to Promote Gay Rights Abroad What Pres. Obama [...]
Ron Paul Calls Central Banks’ Action ‘a panicky-type reaction’
The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are today announcing coordinated actions to enhance their capacity to provide liquidity support to the global financial system. The purpose of these actions is to ease strains in financial markets and [...]
FT: Obama’s Planned Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security **UPDATED**
The Financial Times lays out what has been talked about for months and months, with Pres. Obama set to deliver a speech on deficit reduction on Monday. It begins with the way the U.S. government measures inflation, which would deliver “a less generous chained-consumer price index,” to quote FT. This decision alone would devastate elderly [...]
Headline of the Week
or… The Daily Mail story is deeply depressing. David Sanger has been a must read during this unfolding nightmare. The decision to raise the level came two days after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission warned publicly that the situation at the crippled plant was much bleaker than Japanese officials had indicated, either because they [...]
Trivial Pursuits in Times of Peril
“For my Dad, America was the land of opportunity, where the circumstances of birth are no barrier to achieving one’s dreams,” Romney said in a high-profile New Hampshire speech earlier this month. He added: “The spirit of enterprise, innovation, pioneering and derring-do propelled our standard of living and economy past every other nation on earth. [...]
Japan: Fourth Reactor ‘Spewing’ Radiation
(CBS/AP) SOMA, Japan – A Japanese spokesman says a fourth reactor at a quake-damaged nuclear plant is on fire following an earlier explosion, and radiation is now spewing from it. The radiation level is now elevated to a point that may damage health, the spokesman said. – New explosion leads to spewing radiation The third [...]
Nuclear Politics in the Wake of Japan’s Catastrophe
Senior Obama administration officials said Monday that Obama remains committed to nuclear power, and that U.S. nuclear plants had been built to withstand the strain of strong storms and earthquakes. [...] Carney said Monday that although the crisis in Japan is still unfolding, the White House isn’t backing away from the proposed “clean” standard. He [...]
Sunday Politics and Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe
[...] Tokyo Electric Power Co., owner of the two heavily damaged complexes, took the unprecedented step of pumping seawater mixed with boric acid into the core of another reactor, Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 1 reactor, to tame ultra-high temperatures from fuel rods that had been partially exposed. In keeping with the natural as well as mechanical [...]
The Japan Syndrome
**UPDATED** IWAKI, Japan AP (Mar 12, 10:42 PM EST) — A partial meltdown was likely under way at a second nuclear reactor, a top Japanese official said Sunday, as authorities frantically tried to prevent a similar threat from nearby unit following a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Some 170,000 people have been ordered to evacuate the [...]
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