Sony is dealing with yet another breach of data. This time a U.S. subsidiary of Sony has been hacked. Data for 2,500 U.S. customers have been accessed.
The information is related to a contest customers applied for, back in 2001.
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Chubu Electric refuses Prime Minister’s request to shut down nuke plant, for now
Prime Minister Naoto Kan had asked Chubu Electric Power Company to shut down their Hamaoka nuke plant, because it turns out that it is right over a convergence of fault lines, and scientists expect a magnitude 8+ quake.
Hamaoka is south west of Tokyo. Kan wants CEPCo to shut down the plant, and reinforce the reactors to withstand an 8+ quake.
CEPCo officials studied several options, including how to pay for the cost of reinforcing their nuclear plant. They decided they don’t have the money to reinforce the plant, and it would not be feasible to raise electric rates high enough to pay for it (because customers would refuse to pay the higher rates).
CEPCo also decided that shutting down the plant would make the already bad situation, for Japanese industries dealing with lack of power, even worse.
CEPCo is not ruling out shutting down the Hamaoka plant, if they can do it with out reducing electrical power, and find money to pay for the reinforcing.
Proof the housing market is still crashing; Fannie Mae wants another $8.5 billion bailout
The top mortgage lender in the United States, Fannie Mae, wants another $8.5 billion dollars to save its butt. This after reporting a loss of $6.5 billion during the first three months of 2011.
Fannie Mae blames the loss on credit expenses. They also blame falling home prices. If Fannie Mae gets the new bailout money (at taxpayer’s expense) it will make it the costliest government bailout, of a single company, in U.S. history; $99.7 billion.
China wants to move Cinese companies to U.S., but says U.S. blocking them
“As the U.S. government continues to request accessibility to the Chinese market for its firms, we now raise a similar request on behalf of Chinese firms.”-Zhu Guangyao, Vice Finance Minister
For decades U.S. companies have been shipping off factories, and jobs, to China. Now China says the United States is blocking their attempts to bring factories and jobs to the U.S.
“We have received many complaints from Chinese companies that have met discrimination as they try to invest in the United States, even though the U.S. side has repeatedly stated that Chinese companies are welcome.”- Zhu Guangyao, Vice Finance Minister
UN admits Haiti cholera may have come from Peacekeepers, it’s not over
United Nations health investigators say the strain of cholera, that killed more than 4,000 people in Haiti, came from south Asia.
The UN officials say they traced the strain back to a river near a UN peacekeeper camp, that was occupied by troops from Nepal. The UN admits that sanitation conditions at the camp were below standards.
The UN investigators refuse to blame the Nepalese, even though they say the evidence “overwhelmingly supports” that the Haiti cholera strain came from south Asia.
The cholera epidemic is not over for Haiti. The United Nations predicts another 800,000 Haitians could become sick this year.
Iran & Cuba join forces to counter Hillary Clinton’s U.S. media war
“In line with the imperialistic interests of the U.S. and Europe, the American and European media outlets don’t reflect the exact reality of what happens in our nations.”-Ramin Mehman-Parast, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman
Recently Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Congress to spend more money on increasing pro-U.S. international media organizations. She said the U.S. was losing out to foreign media.
Now the Iranians, and Cubans, have joined the international media war, by joining forces.
Besides wanting to show their side of the story, in Latin America, the Iranians say they need a more trustworthy source of Latin American news than the U.S. media.
Iran claims U.S. and Israel smuggling Crack & Meth into Iran from Afghanistan
Iranian investigator Majid Abhari, says he has proof that drugs being brought into Iran, through Afghanistan, are being run by the CIA and Mossad. He has some convincing evidence.
First, traditionally opium, and marijuana/hash, were the drugs that came through. Now, Iranian drug police are confiscating morphine, crack and meth. Those drugs are considered “western” drugs and are not normally used by addicts in the region.
Second, Iranian police have discovered that transactions connected to the “western” drugs are being made with credit cards. Traditional drug dealers operate “cash only” businesses.
Iran claims to be the most active anti-drug enforcers in the world. Last year they seized 85% of the world’s illegal opium. In the past five years Iran has spent $50 million to fight drug trafficking from just Afghanistan. Iran also claims thousands of their anti-drug police have been killed.
Iranian police say drug trafficking from Afghanistan has jumped 40 times higher after the U.S. invaded . According to the UN, Afghan opium production was at 185 metric tons (204 U.S. tons) per year, before the U.S. invaded. The United Nations says opium production is now at 3,400 tons (3748 U.S. tons) per year (in 2007 it hit a record of 8,200 metric tons [9039 U.S. tons]).
Iran should know how the CIA and Mossad operates, after all, during the reign of the pro-U.S. Shah the CIA, and Mossad, trained Iran’s intelligence agencies (especially the infamous SAVAK).
IRAN SAYS U.S. & ISRAEL BEHIND REGIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iranian clerics warning of European style Erhal Revolutions
“The European nations will certainly rise up against their politicians and leaders who made them submit to the cultural and economic policies of the U.S. and the Zionists.”-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
The West has been referring to the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa as “popular uprisings”, but in locally they’re known as “Erhal” (Irhal). Very loosely translated it means “throw the bums out!”.
For the past several days Iranian clerics have predicted that the Erhal movements will hit Europe. It’s not because of religion, but because of social/economic injustice brought upon the common people by their own leaders.
One cleric predicts revolutions for all the world’s countries: “They (the revolutions) will slowly cross all boarders.”-Hojjatoleslam Kazzem Sediqi
Mexico taking earthquake warning system social
Mexico City announced they are working on a way to put their earthquake warning system on social media.
The city’s residents have been complaining that the current quake warning system is not reliable. If Japan can have quake warning systems, and even Mexico City, why doesn’t the United States?
Paranoia increasing in U.S., two men kicked off plane after passing security checks
Two Muslim men were kicked off a Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight, in Memphis, Tennessee. They passed all security checks, but the pilots refused to fly with them on board.
TSA officials in Atlanta, Georgia, confirmed the incident.