Category Archives: Japan

IT’S CHERNOBYL ALL OVER AGAIN!

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The BBC have gone nuclear over…erm, the nuclear problems at Fukushima. Today has been busy constructing  an agenda that the Japanese Government “lies” (according to Roger Harradin) and is “blase” (according to James Naughtie) about nuclear problems. Undoubtedly the crisis at Fukushima has gotten worse and that is fair comment but the BBC seems determined to extend this into some sort of general attack on nuclear energy. I have to say that one’s natural sympathy with the Japanese victims of the tsunami is now being eclipsed by anger about the BBC’s overt manipulation of the Nuclear power plant issue. Not reporting – editorialising and always following a clear agenda.

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THE SUN SETS IN THE EAST

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I noticed the BBC reporting the latest shockingly bad economic figures from Japan. The first three months of 2009 saw the Japanese economy shrink at its quickest pace since records began. Output in the world’s second largest economy contracted by 4% during this period, or by 15.2% on an annualised basis. Given that Britain under Prudence Brown is following the same disastrous path of “quantitative easing” and “stimulus” that is failing in Japan, I look forward to Robert Peston and the rest of the BBC’s crack economic experts flagging this up.

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