"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" April 2011 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

April 2011 - Posts

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Are 'enviros' evil,or trying to protect property + reassert control over behemoths? New Zealand Navy + Petrobras vs. Maori fishermen by TokyoTom

A quick show of hands: How many of you think that the recent protests by New Zealand "greens" and Maori fishermen against Government-licensed oil exploration activities by PetroBras is evidence of a blind envirofascist hatred of mankind? How...
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On Feel Sorry for BP Day, Coast Guard reports blasts Transocean's Deepwater Horizon, a Marshall Islands flagship. Somehow role of Govt as irresponsible resource owner is overlooked by TokyoTom

Yesterday, on Feel Sorry for BP Day ( we all know that BP is just another victim of fishermen,other purported victims and Government, right? ), the WSJ provided coverage of a Coast Guard report blasting Transocean , owner of Deepwater Horizon , a Marshall...
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WSJ article makes clear that dealing with nuclear power plants in crisis mode is very much experimental by TokyoTom

I ran across an interesting WSJ piece today that I Tweeted as follows : #Nuclear =EXPERIMENT: Tepco Let #Fukushima Pressure Soar to Twice Design Limit Before Venting that then Exploded WSJ http://on.wsj.com/fwKNXC Here are some excerpts of the WSJ article...
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Ayn Rand Center promises to have fun with man-hating enviros for Earth Day, so for fun I sent them a note by TokyoTom

A little birdy Tweet by the Ayn Rand Center for Corporate Individual Rights told me that the ARCs Voices for Rent-Seekers Reason blog is "Gearing up for Earth Day", so of course I had to go take a look. Here's some of what I found : As Earth...
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A guest post by investigative reporter & Three-Mile Island gadfly Bill Keisling on "The Fukushima Experiment" by TokyoTom

I've run across a very interesting post on problems with nuclear power and the "crony capitalist" nuclear power industry and government interface, by a veteran freelance Pennsylvania journalist/gadfly who started writing about ConEd's...
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Post-tsunami radio clip of Jerry Taylor/Cato discussing the past and future of US nuclear power by TokyoTom

In the wake of the troubles at TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power plants, on March 18, 2011, Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute discussed the past and future of U.S. nuclear power on WOR's The John Gambling Show. I note that Taylor has really only...
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Jerry Taylor/Cato at Forbes: "Nuclear power quite simply doesn't make economic sense." by TokyoTom

I'm a fan of Jerry Taylor, an even-handed, level-headed guy working out of the Cato Institute who sometimes almost (but not quite) comes across as a radical envirofascist. (My earlier posts referencing him are here .) Jerry's Cato bio says he...
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A guest blogger on 'black swans' and Japan: tsunamis of bad news and ill winds for the US? by TokyoTom

Via an email from "OathKeepers", I've just come across an interesting essay by one Brandon Smith (blogging as "Giordano Bruno"). Smith is the head writer and co-founder of neithercorp.us , a website which "specializes in alternative...
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A precis of David Stockman's Apocalyptic views about our rotten monetary/fiscal/government situation by TokyoTom

I just ran across David Stockman 's July 31, 2010 Four Deformations of the Apocalypse piece at the New York Times, and post a few excerpts here. I like what Stockman says, but he is far too kind to the GOP, the Fed and the Wall Street and other elites...
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A great David Stockman interview at Reason on TARP, the Fed, tax cuts, crony capitalism and our casino economy by TokyoTom

It's 42 minutes long, but well worth a listen. (A short version is here .] It 's nice to see Stockman become an Austrian economics thinker, but I must say that I think he really pulled his punches by failing to cooment on the fact that most of...
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Yes, the Economist was right in 1999 that industrial capitalism was built on limited liability. But were the resulting statism, bubbles and risk-shifting really necessary? by TokyoTom

Here is another piece of my dialogue on the comment thread to Matt Ridley 's " Nuclear crony capitalism " post that I blogged on earlier . Posted by, Robin Guenier (not verified) (emphasis added) Tom: I disagree. I’m sure that limited...
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For the disastrous failure of 'Disaster Memory' at Fukushima, we must thank - surprise! - nuclear crony capitalism by TokyoTom

Science reporter Andrew Revkin , writing at NYT's Dot Earth blog, can't seem to get his head around the complete failure of Tokyo Electric, its suppliers (GE, Westinghouse, Hitachi etc.) and the Japanese government to consider the possibility...
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Do contributions by corporations to 'progress' mean we should ignore sick dynamics set in motion by limited liability? by TokyoTom

I post here some of my further dialogue on the comment thread to Matt Ridley 's " Nuclear crony capitalism " post that I blogged on earlier . Posted by, Robin Guenier (not verified) Tom: Yes, I agree with much you say. But, nonetheless,...
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A glossary of double-speak: The brave old world of TEPCO, BigGov + coopted Japanese establishment media by TokyoTom

Further to my earlier cross-post of an interview with Japanese freelance journalist Takahashi Uesugi , today I stumbled across a blog post where someone had put together a tongue-in-cheek explanation of the lingo used in press conferences by TEPCO executives...
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Interview with Takashi Uesugi, truth-telling former NYT journalist now hated and frozen out by TEPCO, Japanese government and MSM by TokyoTom

With permission from the bilingual online journal Time Out Tokyo , I bring to you in its entirety an interview by their reporter James Hadfield with Japanese freelance journalist Takahashi Uesugi , a critic of the Japanese news reporting establishment...