Well, the Times is at it again, with a withering take on Japanese plans to reconstruct a breakwater that failed to withstand the tsunami that hit Japan last March: “As the story of Kamaishi’s breakwater suggests, the kind of cozy ties between government and industry that contributed to the Fukushima nuclear disaster are driving much of the reconstruction and the fight for a share of the $120 billion budget expected to be approved in a few weeks.”
You may remember that the Times refused to describe as “torture” the waterboarding and other enhanced forms of interrogation the CIA and its minions were wont to inflict on suspicious or at least quasi-suspicious characters back when Bush was king, because the administration refused to admit that torture is torture. Well, does the Japanese government describe its ties with industry as “cozy”? Does it refer to the Fukushima “incident” as a “nuclear disaster”? And, speaking of “cozy,” what about the ties in the U.S. between government and industry, not to mention Wall Street? Aren’t they pretty damn cozy as well? Why don’t you speak up about what’s happening in your own damn country, New York Times?
