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Tyler Vandenberg
Once the found where the Vents open vaule was on the blueprints (they had never trained on how to open the Vents with out Electricity) they where able to open the Vents via jumpers (17 min in High radioactive areas) on Day 2 at 2pm. The Vents need to be open to let hydrogen out and allow water to be pumped in............. Venting is the first step in controlling a meltdown those crews that did 17min jumps to get the vents open saved Japan from a catastrophic explosion
Posted in: Japan declined U.S. offer to station nuclear experts in Kan's office: Edano
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Tyler Vandenberg
@ Zinchi
in the morning on Day 5, TEPCO evacuated all but a skeleton crew led by plant manager Yoshida. The remaining men were to become known as the Fukushima 50. they were locked down in the central control room.
“MURAKAMI ” A TEPCO plant woker and part of the Fukushima 50:[through interpreter] The radiation level was ridiculously high. We just didn’t know what to do. The reactors were unmanned. Unmanned.
A team of American nuclear specialists, who’d just arrived in Japan, were fearful that TEPCO and the government had run out of ideas.
CHUCK CASTO, Nuclear Regulatory Commission:We were given numbers, very low numbers of people who were on the site, and we knew that that wasn’t sufficient to do what needed to be done at that time.
NARRATOR:That day, frustrated at the lack of information the prime minister was giving them, the Americans decided to fly a surveillance drone over the plant. The data they got was disturbing.
A third hydrogen explosion had exposed pools of discarded radioactive fuel to the atmosphere. These spent fuel rods were still highly radioactive. If the pools boiled dry, they could catch fire, and the contamination could be even worse than from a reactor meltdown.
The Helos dropped water on Day 7 and the Tokyo firefighters got there on Day 8.....
Posted in: Japan declined U.S. offer to station nuclear experts in Kan's office: Edano
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Tyler Vandenberg
Tepco didn't even know how to manually vent their own reactor...... and then the gov't didn't know what was going on so people where still in the town so venting got delayed even more..... #1 has a explosion and then TEPCO finally says they need help, but the GSDF gets there too late and #3 explodes. After that TEPCO says its going to leave the site... Kan gets some of them to stay( the Fukushima 50) but the reactors are left unmanned.......... after Japan declined they did get the American team to come later after they saw that the situation was out of hand.
Frontline " Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/japans-nuclear-meltdown/?autoplay (you can watch it here)
Posted in: Japan declined U.S. offer to station nuclear experts in Kan's office: Edano
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Tyler Vandenberg
@ YuroOtani
tell that to the 3,000 people (Japanese that work on the Bases) out of jobs when these 9,000 go to Guam (the number the base said it would probably cut with the Marines to Guam plan). Also there little hope of replacement employment for these workers with most Companies cutting back..... so they will go from a great job (40-hour work week that includes Saturdays, Sundays and holidays off, plus bonuses.) to a temp worker if they are lucky.....
Posted in: U.S. to move 9,000 Marines from Okinawa; no change to Futenma plan
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Tyler Vandenberg
A very good point, At this point it is too late to try to get all the immigration Japan needs.
Posted in: Japan 'no longer a rich country' by 2050: think tank
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Tyler Vandenberg
Its not "workers" they need its more Working Tax payers......... so they need real people, a top heavy population pyramid is something you could research I don't think your on the same page when it comes to the population decline.
"There is always a chance the population trend will reverse."- it will after is hits the bottom of the valley, but its not doing it in 2030 or 2050...... its just too far behind
Please provide facts...... just saying "Japan has a unique culture and it would be drowned out (by Immigration)" by itself is xenophobic if you could back this up by some kind of study done then we could debate this issue.
Posted in: Japan 'no longer a rich country' by 2050: think tank
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Tyler Vandenberg
It is the responsibility of people to make elected officials accountable for their actions by criticizing the country when things are not heading in the right direction. You don't have to agree with everything the government of Japan does in order to love Japan. Criticism of the government is Loving Japan b/c you care enough to say something and do something about it. Putting your head in the sand and waiting to see what happens never works, but if everyone who read this told 2 people and they told 2 people and so on..... this would be the Major issue of the government...... rather then Tokyo trying to get joint ownerships of an island.
Posted in: Japan 'no longer a rich country' by 2050: think tank
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Tyler Vandenberg
Japan's poverty rate is at a record high of 16% in 2011. 1 in 3 women in Japan aged between 20 and 64 who live alone are living in poverty. Japan's population fell 259,000 in 2011 this is the most it has ever fallen in a year in Japanese History. the number of people aged 65 or higher is at the highest ever at 23.3 percent, 3% more then the second most in the world Germany at 20%.
People can't hide their heads in the sand on this problem and say Japan will still great place just smaller...... As it gets small the economy will get smaller, smaller economy= Less jobs+ More Poverty. More People over 65= more taxes on younger workforce to carry the load. Higher Taxes = less reasons for companies to have Factories in Japan. Less Factories= Less jobs+ More Poverty and it goes down and down from 1st world to 3rd world.
Posted in: Japan 'no longer a rich country' by 2050: think tank
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Tyler Vandenberg
I would love to see Japan join, but at this time I don't see it being possible. Even if they had 100% support of the people it would still be hard for them to meet everything that they need to do to join the TPP......... they are just a little late too the party...
Posted in: U.S. lawmaker has strong doubt on Japan's entry in TPP talks
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Tyler Vandenberg
Leave them out, We are asking the Japanese Government to Negotiate a true FTA.......... this is something they have never done and they will only delay the other (formally) Negotiating countries from joining quickly. Most of the Negotiaing TPP members have been in talks since 2008, and do we really think Japan can Formally join talks and have all tarifs gone by 2015....... please this is a joke they can't even get their own government behind it, let alone the people.
Posted in: U.S. lawmaker has strong doubt on Japan's entry in TPP talks
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Tyler Vandenberg
Shūkan Gendai................ yeah wouldn't expect anything less from them any..... this story on one page and nude photos on the next... ...articles of interest to middle-aged salarymen for entertainment purposes only.
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Tyler Vandenberg
@Nippon Nation (the display name, not the people)
Please thell us how many Civilians and Japanese soldiers died that day, that we can remember them too. We are not here to be disrespectful, how many people would have thought about the Doolitte Raid today and the people that died if this article wasn't here?
Posted in: Doolittle's Raid survivors hold 70th reunion in U.S.
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Tyler Vandenberg
@Nippon Nation (the display name, not the people)
Celebrate and honor the men not the attacks nor the Governments that sent them there. Us and Japanese Vets meet in Pearl Harbor every anniversary in peace to honor the fallen of both sides in that attack. The Doolittle's Raid survivors 70th reunion is to honor the men that where sent on a suicide mission and only made it back to their families by pure selfwill not to Honor the US government, the government sent them to die. When you base the loss of life only on Nationality only you are only disgracing those who died Japanese ,American, or any Nationality. When you see men standing side by side before enemies now at peace Honoring their fallen brothers together you will understand this. "Its not to Celebrate the attacks and how many "enemies" they killed, but to remember those that died and those that lived, and to make sure the next generations never forget, so that the world my never fall into darkness again" (what my Grandpa told me every memorial day as a child) . This is why these Men and Women will always be the Greatest Generation.
Posted in: Doolittle's Raid survivors hold 70th reunion in U.S.
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Tyler Vandenberg
Truly the greatest generation, we must never forget them. Men and Women of that time did more for the world then most today ever dream of doing, we live the life we have today because of their sacrifice.
Posted in: Doolittle's Raid survivors hold 70th reunion in U.S.
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Tyler Vandenberg
He wasn't charge with selling weapons illegally............. conspiring to sell arms to anti-U.S. guerrillas in Colombia and to kill American service personnel. Also he got the minimum possible sentence of 25 years not life so I doubt there is enough to charge him with anything more District Judge Shira Scheindlin said the minimum sentence was appropriate because there was no evidence that Bout would have committed the crimes for which he was convicted had it not been for the sting operation.
Bales is a Uniformed Service member (Military) falls under another set of International law........ not on topic so we don't need to debate this.
Yeah kind of makes International law a If we need it we will use it kind of thing......
and meets the criteria for the universality principle. But the universality principle has not been ratified by the US, because they say it impedes the 'sovereignty' of nations- very hypocritical for the US not to recognise territorial principle, but then apply the effects doctrine. So it can kidnap any one if wants, anywhere in the world, US citizen or no.
International law not looking so perfect after all..............
Yeah I know I'm not I'm just a Guy trying to hold a civilized debate.
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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Tyler Vandenberg
•Before 2008, the most high-profile target was Monzer al-Kassar, an arms dealer with a long history of supporting terrorists. The sting that nabbed him using false FARC representatives occurred in 2007, leading to his arrest in Spain and extradition. He eventually received a 30-year prison sentence. •In February 2010, the DEA worked another sting operation to capture Paul Mardirossian, a Swede who agreed to sell agents posing as FARC members grenades and AK-47 rifles -- weapons the false FARC members claimed were for the express purpose of attacking a U.S. military base. Mardirossian pleaded guilty and is expected to be sentenced this May. •Later that year, former Salvadoran army officer Hector Antonio Martinez-Guillen agreed to sell weaponry for an attack against Americans to a purported FARC representative he thought would supply him drugs in exchange for the arms -- and again, the man was working for the DEA. Martinez-Guillen was sentenced to 31 years in prison.
"We had used [the FARC sting] for al-Kassar and it worked fine," he recollects. "When it came to Bout I was concerned - why are we using the same scheme again? What's the risk here? But as I talked to the agents responsible for moving the initiative forward, it made perfect sense to go ahead and use it again."
Those 3 did the same thing as Viktor Bout (Actually the DEA used the same exact operation to get all of them)........ they are all still in US jail so........ I guess we will see what happens
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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Tyler Vandenberg
Vyatkin's comment was made after Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday in New York, called on the State Duma to file a lawsuit against the United States and Thailand.
"The Russian State Duma had no legal right to meet his request and this is not in our competence," Vyatkin was quoted as saying by the Itar-Tass news agency
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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Tyler Vandenberg
Russia's State Duma, or the lower house of parliament, has no jurisdiction to defend third person at international courts, Dmitry Vyatkin, deputy head of the Duma Committee for Constitutional Legislation and State Construction said Thursday.......................... really cause this is what I heard..
Again....."The Russian State Duma had no legal right to meet his request and this is not in our competence," Vyatkin was quoted as saying by the Itar-Tass news agency.
Seems like the not all of Russia...... just the Foreign Minister......... The only results I see is maybe he will be transfer to Russia to serve his 25 years in Jail..
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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Tyler Vandenberg
International Law is the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and nations. It differs from national legal systems in that it only concerns nations rather than private citizens. So what you are try to say is US violated Public international law......I was talking about Mechanism in public international law.................the effects doctrine is NOT IN US LAW it is in the Public international law that is a Statute of the International Court of Justice........ you know one of those International Courts you have been talking about so much.
The only reason the US can Police the World is b/c International Laws let it, If the International Court of Justice changed Public International LAW then then if the US did something like this it would be illegal.
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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Tyler Vandenberg
@ Olegek
I have shared no personal opinion on this matter, oginome said what the US did was illegal and he should of went to an International Court I was only seeking to prove how the US used international law to their advantage in this case. Oginome seems to think International Law is this perfect power to police the world... when it is far from it...... you can call it a nightmare and some people see as such just ask the parents of the U.K. Student Extradited (from the UK) To the U.S. for Piracy, the fact is since the Internet allows computers to instantly communicate across national boundaries which means none of us are safe from the long arm of the law....... France, Germany ,Russia, Austria, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Japan, forbid extradition of their own nationals so you will see a lot more of these citizens being extradited from 3rd party countries to face charges in another country. So you can either keep calling it illegal but someday when you take a vacation to a country that has an extradition treaty with the country trying to extradite you for downloading that illegal copy of a movie you will wish someone would have fought to change international law.
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer