Lady Gaga Is Shaming Those Spending $309 Billion: William Pesek

You know things are bad when pop stars a world away get more fired up about a humanitarian crisis than a nation’s own leaders.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan would no doubt take umbrage at this assertion. Many of Japan’s 126 million residents wouldn’t, as television cameras that had been fixed on the nuclear fiasco in Fukushima turn further north. We are getting an eyeful of millions in earthquake-devastated areas living without power, heat, water, adequate food or medicine.