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Fukushima: “No Go” Zone by Pierpaolo Mittica

On March 11, 2011 one of the worst earthquakes and tsunamis hit Japan and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, damaging its safety and cooling systems. In a few days the cores of nuclear power plants number 1, 2, and 3 started melting down, and releasing massive amounts of radioactive radionuclides into the air and the ocean water.

The Japanese government created an evacuated area of 20 km around the nuclear power plant of Fukushima Daiichi. Starting April 20th, the Japanese government refused the admittance to the “No-Go Zone” to everyone, especially to journalists and photographers. But… during the first days of July, I went inside the No-Go Zone several times to document the situation together with my friend Pio d’Emilia, correspondent of Sky TG 24.

Inside the exclusion zone (and also outside up to 100 km from the nuclear power plant) the contamination has a “leopard skin” diffusion. In front of the main gate of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant the geiger counter showed 300 times the normal level.

Empty cities were waiting for us. Only some abandoned dogs were wandering the streets, in desperate conditions. At the time of the evacuation, all the animals were abandoned. We encountered some cows away from their farms, enjoying total, if ephemeral, freedom.

The most physically repulsive sights were hundreds of decomposing carcasses of cows left unattended on farms. During the night several animal activists entered illegally inside the Exclusion Zone to rescue pets and other animals.

Most of the houses were locked, convenience stores full of goods, but some had been robbed, hospitals raided for drugs, and ATMs smashed and emptied. Stalkers started to rob inside the No-Go Zone, spreading radioactivity all around Japan.

Many people, most of them elderly, are still hiding out inside the zone, some of them with no visible protection. The most common thing I heard was: “Why should we bother leaving? We are old; there is no way that such radiation exposure could do us any harm. If I have to die, let me die on my own futon.”

One time per month, residents were allowed back to their houses to rescue their personal things. They wandered through their houses, shocked and traumatized among their memories.

Despite the massive contamination, life still goes on inside the “No-Go Zone” and many stories between life and death are still inside. The story is still ongoing…

— Pierpaolo Mittica

Inventors and Discoveries by Selman Hosgor

Historically Hardcore by Matt Kappler

PANTONE: The 20th Century in Color

(Source: The Atlantic)

19-Year-Old Isaac Newton’s List of Sins

BEFORE WHITSUNDAY 1662

  1. Using the word (God) openly
  2. Eating an apple at Thy house
  3. Making a feather while on Thy day
  4. Denying that I made it
  5. Making a mousetrap on Thy day
  6. Contriving of the chimes on Thy day
  7. Squirting water on Thy day
  8. Making pies on Sunday night
  9. Swimming in a kimnel on Thy day
  10. Putting a pin in Iohn Keys hat on Thy day to pick him
  11. Carelessly hearing and committing many sermons
  12. Refusing to go to the close at my mothers command
  13. Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them
  14. Wishing death and hoping it to some
  15. Striking many
  16. Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese
  17. Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer
  18. Denying that I did so
  19. Denying a crossbow to my mother and grandmother though I knew of it
  20. Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee
  21. A relapse
  22. A relapse
  23. A breaking again of my covenant renued in the Lords Supper
  24. Punching my sister
  25. Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
  26. Calling Dorothy Rose a jade
  27. Glutiny in my sickness
  28. Peevishness with my mother
  29. With my sister
  30. Falling out with the servants
  31. Divers commissions of alle my duties
  32. Idle discourse on Thy day and at other times
  33. Not turning nearer to Thee for my affections
  34. Not living according to my belief
  35. Not loving Thee for Thy self
  36. Not loving Thee for Thy goodness to us
  37. Not desiring Thy ordinances
  38. Not long {longing} for Thee in {illeg}
  39. Fearing man above Thee
  40. Using unlawful means to bring us out of distresses
  41. Caring for worldly things more than God
  42. Not craving a blessing from God on our honest endeavors
  43. Missing chapel
  44. Beating Arthur Storer
  45. Peevishness at Master Clarks for a piece of bread and butter
  46. Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne
  47. Twisting a cord on Sunday morning
  48. Reading the history of the Christian champions on Sunday

(via The Newton Project)

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolution List, 1942 1. Work more and better 2. Work by a schedule 3. Wash teeth if any 4. Shave 5. Take bath 6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk 7. Drink very scant if any 8. Write a song a day 9. Wear clean clothes — look good 10. Shine shoes 11. Change socks 12. Change bed cloths often 13. Read lots good books 14. Listen to radio a lot 15. Learn people better 16. Keep rancho clean 17. Dont get lonesome 18. Stay glad 19. Keep hoping machine running 20. Dream good 21. Bank all extra money 22. Save dough 23. Have company but dont waste time 24. Send Mary and kids money 25. Play and sing good 26. Dance better 27. Help win war — beat fascism 28. Love mama 29. Love papa 30. Love Pete 31. Love everybody 32. Make up your mind 33. Wake up and fight

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolution List, 1942

1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes — look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed cloths often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Dont get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money
22. Save dough
23. Have company but dont waste time
24. Send Mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war — beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love Pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight

Back in the 40s, “Batmen” joined California State Guard

by Agan Harahap

Top to bottom:

1. Formosa, 21 Jan 1945. US Navy War Photographs

2. Tiananmen. Beijing - China, September, 1976
On September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died. Mao’s image during the Cultural Revolution portrayed him as a larger-than-life figure who represented China’s revolutionary progress. Mao’s death symbolized the loss of the socialist foundation of China.

3. With picture of his Führer beside his clenched fist, a dead general of the Volkssturm lies on the floor of city hall, Leipzig, Germany. He committed suicide rather than face U.S. Army troops who captured the city on April 19. 1945.

4. During his coronation ceremony, dressed in the robes of the high priest of State Shinto, 10 Nov 1928


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