Fukushima (and other Tohoku) doctors are falling ill much more frequently than before 2011

The FRCSR (Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research) Newsletter reports that:

[...] 19.4% of Fukushima physicians answered that their “physical state isn’t well.” 14.1% of Miyagi physicians and 12.8% of Iwate physicians answered similarly. In particular, the percentage of Fukushima physician, 19.4%, is 3.5 times more than pre-311. [...]

Fukushima Diary summarizes the findings of the Japan Medical Association Research Institute as follows:

According to Japan Medical Association Research Institute, 19.4 % of Fukushima doctors answered “Their health condition is not good” for the questionnaire. The ratio used to be 5.6% before 311. [...]

Even the doctors in charge of administering the disaster are falling down, slowly but steadily. Still, this is the junk that Japanese citizens had to swallow from their politicians: "don't worry, be happy":

Source: Fukushima Emergency... 

Of course this is not just affecting Japan, at lower but clearly worrying level, also the USA and other parts of the World.

Cyprus: bank run begins, who's next?

As the new conservative Cypriot government announced a 9.9% tax on deposits exceeding €100,000 and of 6.7% in all other deposits, tax destinied to bail out the rotten banks, citizens rushed to cash machines and bank offices to remove their deposits or at least as much as they can. The bill has not yet bee approved but the President's right-wing party can get majority with the help of the Center-Right DYKOS party. 

The plan was decided by the Eurozone meeting of Finance Ministers, aka Eurogroup, who are obviously out of their minds. In exchange for this self-defeating move, the Eurogroup agreed to a bail-out (for the private banks, not the citizens nor the state) of €17 billion, to which Russia and the IMF could add some €3.5 billions.

It is notable that nothing of this was imposed while Cyprus had a Communist President, probably because Brussels feared that Cyprus might run away "in the wrong direction", i.e. towards increased socialism and out of the Eurozone or the EU altogether.

Anyhow, considering that Cyprus financial system has been working until now as a tax heaven of sorts, this decision seems totally suicidal and ill-thought, being the only logical result that banks end up completely empty. 

Besides the logical worries about Cypriot citizens and Cypriot economy, the true question floating around is who's next?

Refs. Irish Times, Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Automatic Earth.

Radioactive debris kills: Japanese mayor dies few days after suicidal pro-nuclear act

The mayor of Hidaka, Japan, was hospitalized yesterday, just two days after he was present in a radioactive debris incineration performance, designed to sell nuclear waste as "safe" against all common sense. He died hours later.

Source: Fukushima Diary (link 1, link 2).