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Post by stonecutter on Mar 15, 2011 22:21:52 GMT -7
I wish I could go to Japan and help. I really do. It's hard to turn on CNN, CTVNewsNet, BBC and watch the carnage as it's unfolded for the world to see. I wish the media could get past the sensation of it all and focus on helping the people who need the help right now. Does Anderson Cooper need to stand in the middle of it all and explain how there's a stack of cars that used to have dead bodies in them?
Then it turns from bad to worse with the nuclear power plant developments.
Will it ever end for the Japanese people?
I'd like to see some good news start rolling out of Japan about right now. They deserve it. They've been through so much so quickly.
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Post by cherylm on Mar 16, 2011 0:03:27 GMT -7
I agree! My sister and I were talking about the media coverage this evening...there's been so much emphasis on just repeating and repeating and repeating the same visuals on the disaster that it's just overwhelming, and there's still so little about the attempts to help or what we can do to assist in that effort. Even our local TV reporters are seemingly confused by the coverage...on more than one occasion, they've started to report on some "disaster visual" as being "new and happening now," only to realize that it's actually a repeat of something that may have been run days ago and is just back for "another look." I think it's just stirring everyone up into a panic, without necessarily doing anything to help the folks in Japan who are actually impacted by all this horror.
Some of the local businesses here on the west coast (where we have some major Japanese-American communities) are starting to get word out about relief drives and ways to donate...with luck we'll start hearing about more ways to help out soon.
I'm in awe of the 50 Japanese power-plant workers who have stayed to try and avert an even greater disaster!
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Post by stonecutter on Mar 16, 2011 7:59:28 GMT -7
I'm in awe of the 50 Japanese power-plant workers who have stayed to try and avert an even greater disaster! Like the workers who tried to help with the Chernobyl disaster, these workers will pay the price for their heroism. It's really sad. It must be hard to stay and work while you know that you've receive and are continuing to receive "life altering doses of radiation" (as explained on CNN last night). They're like soldiers sacrificing themselves. Makes you wonder what the future for nuclear power will be along fault lines though. If it can happen in such a technologically advanced country like Japan - it can (and eventually will) happen again anywhere... |
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Post by headoncollider on Apr 16, 2011 8:04:37 GMT -7
We here in Australia just had a 5.4 earthquake in the top end of Queensland. Im in Victoria (waaaaaaay off from QLD) but it does suggest to me that the "rim of fire", techtonic plates, in this part of the globe are becomming very active. My bet is all of southern Asia is about to see a LOT MORE quakes, and possibly some serious volcanic eruptions  |
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