Sony announced on May 12, that its PlayStation blog was hacked. On top of that, their new security system is actually blocking users from the United States.
Sony apologizes for inconveniencing their customers, but they admit that everytime they planned to restart their online services they discover another hack job.
Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 3 is still pouring massive amounts of contamination into the Pacific Ocean.
Since Friday, cesium-134 and 137 have being detected at levels thousands of times above government safe limits.
So far Tokyo Electric Power Company says they can only monitor the radiation levels coming from Reactor 3. It seems their hands are full with the meltdown of Reactor 1.
In a clear case of obsession, Tokyo Electric Power Company announced they will resume water injection in Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 1.
TEPCo officials say the water level is far too low, and they have confirmed that holes and cracks have formed in the reactor vessel, as a result of the meltdown.
A couple of days ago the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told TEPCo that it’s a waste of time to keep pumping in massive amounts of water, now that the reactor has melted down. TEPCo continues to insist that if they pump in enough water, and connect a new cooling system, they can control the situation.
TEPCo will monitor their water injection plan for the next two days.
Japan has ordered the mandatory evacuations of two towns in Fukushima Prefecture, 15 May, almost three days after it was reveled that Reactor 1, of Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant, was melting down.
Families with children kindergarten age or younger, and pregnant women, are the first to be evacuated. At least 7,700 people will be evacuated from the small towns. Local officials claim they have secured places for the families to stay.
Farmers are being given extra time so they can move their livestock. The evacuation was ordered because of increased radiation levels in the towns.
Many U.S. media reports about President Obama’s push to increase U.S. oil production, blame it on the people’s demand for lower gas prices.
The problem with that argument is that world demand for oil products is so high that even if the U.S. can increase oil production, it will never be able to increase it enough to bring down prices. That means the real reason for increasing U.S. oil production is to take advantage of high oil prices.
Is it possible that Obama is going back on his clean energy promise, because the United States is in so much debt, that he’s had to make a deal with the oil companies to give them access to oil rich areas, in exchange for bailing out the U.S. government?
Despite demands by the people of Egypt to be allowed to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Egyptian Army is blocking access to the Sinai Peninsula, in order to keep Egyptians from reaching the Israeli border at Gaza.
Some Egyptian politicians have stated that the Egyptian blockade against Gaza is being done to support Israel and the United States, and have asked for its end. But the fact that the Egyptian Army is stopping people from protesting the blockade, and Israel, is proof the so called “new” Egyptian government is still being controlled by the U.S. and Israel.
At the beginning of 2011 a lawsuit was filed against Jimmy Carter, by Israelis upset by the facts in his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”. They wanted $5 million in damages.
They claimed that Carter’s facts were false, but, according to some reports, as of May 5 they have dropped their claims. I wounder if they realized Carter’s book is factual regarding Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians?
A murder/suicide in Ammon, Idaho, made news in Iran.
Iranian news outlet, Press TV, aired the story of the murder of two women, two children, and the suicide of the man who shot them. The man is from Iowa, and tried to set the house on fire before shooting himself.
Iranian media picked up the story after the British news outlet, Reuters, ran the story.
New York Times reporting that former Blackwater founder, Erik Prince, has set up a mercenary force in U.A.E. The force is mainly made up of Colombians, but includes South Africans, Germans, British and U.S. citizens.
United States officials say if the mercenary group does not have U.S. approval then the U.S. citizens involved could face criminal charges.
Reports say United Arab Emirates is using the mercenary force to build up its own military, in preparation for possible war with Iran.
Jordanians are trying to get to the Israeli border, to protest the catastrophe of the loss of Palestinian land to Israelis.
Reports say that Jordanian government forces are turning the buses back from the border.