Things that make you go… arrrrggghh

VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

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Grant Williams writes a regular piece entitled Things that make you go… Hmmm, which is always thought provoking and comes with a weekly round-up of things that rarely reach the MSM.

I feel the time has come to raise the noise level to at least Defcon 3, hence the title of this latest View.  The first subject driving me to despair is Japan and I do not mean the fact its debt levels make Greece’s look trivial (they are to the Greeks, but not to the rest of Europe) or that its deflationary tendencies are an issue, but that Fukushima is still a nuclear disaster waiting for another earthquake.  As radio activity is ‘invisible’ the reporting of it in the press has remarkably similar properties. Just in case you missed it, here is TEPCO’s (Tokyo Electric Power Co) plan ...

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