This is a new holiday in Russia.
It's purpose is to put the weak sister of the US/South Korea/Japan Pacific Military Alliance on notice.
Russia was already Japan's food supply before Japan started dumping Fukushima Nuclear Waste into the Pacific
🇷🇺 🇯🇵 Today Russia is celebrating Victory Day over militaristic Japan 🇷🇺 🎉
You know why so many people are concerned about the Fukushima radioactive wastewater release and how it could affect seafood, despite governments claiming it's all perfectly safe?
Why??? Because since the dawn of the nuclear industry, governments have routinely minimized and outright lied about risks to people from nuclear operations and waste. Governments in the East. Governments in the West. Russia. USA. Everywhere.
It's their own fault that so many people don't trust them about this now, and with damned good reason.
@lauren Japan isn't at fault. They bowed politely for the failure of the back up power, the failure of the sea wall, and the failure of the reactors to be cooling downed. They bowed politely for the release of the water in the sea, because its clean! Cleaner than drinking water!
Japanese managers get a lot of abuse from people, but they are doing what they do best, which is being Japanese
The Casio F-91W, the watch I wear, has transcended capitalism. It exists unchanged despite "better" watches flooding the market. Watches with "designer" faces. Radio time keeping. Fitness. Telephones. Steps. The F-91W exists despite capitalism. Somehow, by accident, capitalism created the good enough product and never changed it. You can't buy a Nokia 3310 now, or an iPod wheel.
But you can buy an F-91W. And it doesn't sell your data.
I initially went to #Indonesia, back in 2011, because of the country’s troubling history with deforestation, driven primarily, historically, by demand for tropical commodities including #palmoil#paperpulp & #rubber.
In the past decade, as I’ve covered these issues for numerous outlet, much has changed. In some ways there has been real progress in increasing traceability and stemming deforestation, but at the same time, much of the supply chain remains opaque.
On solid advice from @QueenOfCoffee I went to a nearby east Asian grocery store to find some potato starch and was successful. But it's from the Netherlands. Logically.
Today is the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on Earth, the Trinity Test in New Mexico in 1945, three weeks before the nuclear attacks on Japan.
There will be many images posted of the mushroom cloud today, but here is what mattered more, the fallout cloud. Dozens of homes and communities were blanketed with fallout, which which also contaminated fields as far away as Illinois and Indiana.