24 August 2013 (12:47 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Shawwal 1434/02 Shahrivar 1391/18 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
“An army unit is surrounding a sector of Jobar where terrorists used chemical weapons…..the army found barrels marked ’made in Saudi Arabia’ and gas masks.”-Syrian news media report
Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Al-Muallem, says the United Nations inspection team is welcome to […] Continue Reading…
The non-profit Sesame Workshop, producer of PBS’s Sesame Street, laid off 30 employees. It’s blamed on reduced funding due to the bad economy.
Cactus Grill in Twin Falls, Idaho, closed despite seven years of booming business. The eatery operation located on the property of Home Depot was shut down by the very same Home Depot […] Continue Reading…
24 August 2013 (19:27 UTC-07 Tango 23 August 2013)/17 Shawwal 1434/02 Shahrivar 1391/18 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
Officially, Idaho has been in a drought since 2000. Has it finally ended for Bannock County?
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There were many other streets flooded, including residential streets that had water up to the axles of the […] Continue Reading…
23 August 2013 (15:51 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Shawwal 1434/01 Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
“We want officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company to have the courage to admit the limits of their efforts, instead of simply repeating ‘they are doing their best’.”-Fuketa Toyoshi, Nuclear Regulation Authority
NRA Commissioner, Fuketa Toyoshi, took an inspection tour of Fukushima Daiichi. […] Continue Reading…
The Afghan Ministry of Education says at least 100 teachers/education officials have been killed since the beginning of the Afghan year!
In Paktiya Province, three U.S. personnel were killed as the outpost they were based at came under artillery attack. Several U.S. soldiers were wounded. The three killed were from Arkansas, Idaho and Texas. They […] Continue Reading…
Evil mortgage foreclosure company EC Closing/Cal-Western Reconveyance now bankrupt. No tears shed!
In Tennessee, a judge has ruled that the state government can proceed with axing 200 jobs! The Tennessee State Employees Association said the state failed to give proper notice.
The Germany based JK Products & Services factory in Arkansas is closing. 123 employees affected, […] Continue Reading…
23 August 2013 (00:07 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Shawwal 1434/01 Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
“We are currently experiencing some of the most severe supply shortages that the tuna industry has ever faced.”-Unnamed fish supplier in a memo to a Rhode Island restaurant in 2012, trying to explain why prices are going up
On 22 August 2013, […] Continue Reading…
23 August 2013 (20:35 UTC-07 Tango 22 August 2013)/16 Shawwal 1434/01 Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
Two and a half years ago I wrote about radioactive water flooding into tunnels under the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. I wrote about it because Tokyo Electric Power Company officials publicized it. Turns out they […] Continue Reading…
22 August 2013 (11:09 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1391/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
Japan’s National Police Agency warning of new emails delivering viruses to your computer, viruses that grab all your digital info.
In Japan 210 incidents targeting 5-thousand companies involved in the defense, aerospace and nuclear power industries have been reported, so far this year.
Individuals […] Continue Reading…
22 August 2013 (09:45 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1392/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
“The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic. What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else, not just from the tanks. It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all […] Continue Reading…