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What i found telling is that one of the main angles the press seems to see in their Tsunami coverage is "what will it do to the stock market".
The press are vulture-like assholes. Then they wonder why nobody wants to talk to them.
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The Wall Street Journal is doing a spectacular job of blogging this live.
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/11/live-blog-japan-earthquake/
Repeating some of what they've posted so far:
2:20 amby Brittany Hite - Philippine officials are ordering an evacuation of coastal communities along the country?s eastern seaboard in expectation of a tsunami following a 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan, the Associated Press reported.
Philippine Volcanology and Seismology Institute director Renato Solidum told the AP that the first 3-foot (1-meter) high waves are expected to hit the northernmost Batanes islands by 5 p.m. local time Friday.
2:16 amby Brittany Hite - NHK reported that a ceiling collapsed at a Honda Motor plant in Tochigi, and a female worker has been confirmed dead.
2:16 amby Miho Inada - Reported damage in the Tokyo area includes the following:
Two injured at a Tokyo outlet of U.S. wholesale store Costoco due to the collapse of slope of car parking.
Four houses have caught fire in the Tokyo Adachi ward, burning down the floor area of 200 square meters.
Land liquefaction is detected in the water front area in Chiba.
25 injured?5 of them seriously injured?due to a collapse of the ceiling of the Tokyo Kudan Kaikan, where 600 people were gathering for a college graduation party
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