05 April 2013 (05:05 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
“If there were something to happen in Korea, it’s going to effect our entire industry, not just General Motors.”-Dan Akerson, GM CEO
In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, it was revealed that GM is considering alternative plans to its Korean […] Continue Reading…
05 April 2013 (04:40 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
In an announcement that is initially surprising to many analysts, The U.K.’s Prime Minister David Cameron said the DPRK can hit Britain with nukes: “North Korea does now have missile technology that is able to reach, as they put it, […] Continue Reading…
05 April 2013 (04:23 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases is now focusing on making a vaccine to fight the new H7N9 flu.
A sixth person has been confirmed to die from H7N9. And a teenager has died from unexplained pneumonia, but tests have failed […] Continue Reading…
04 April 2013/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Officials with the U.S. states of Oregon and Georgia, say their National Guard units are still on standby to be deployed to Afghanistan in 2014! The state military officials were responding to local media questions regarding rumors the state militias were told they’ve […] Continue Reading…
05 April 2013 (03:02 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
“We’re not aware of any capability by North Korea, even with weapons they’ve identified…being able to conduct a strike in Australia.”-Jeffry Bleich, U.S. Ambassador to Australia
The U.S. is lying to Aussies, because Australia is closer to Korea than North America, […] Continue Reading…
05 April 2013 (02:28 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
An estimated 53000 DPRK workers have not shown up for work at the Kaesŏng Industrial Region (KIR). Some analysts say it might be because of a North Korean holiday, however, they also said it was common for the capitalist ROK […] Continue Reading…
05 April 2013 (01:55 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
A Chinese farmer has died only one day after being brought to hospital. He’s the sixth person in China to die since the end of March.
The farmer lived in Zhejiang Province, which borders Shanghai. Four of the six deaths were […] Continue Reading…
04 April 2013 (15:40 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
British Petroleum (the company behind the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon disaster) is getting out of the wind power business, including its eastern Idaho U.S.A. Goshen North operation near Idaho Falls.
BP will also abandon wind farms in California, Texas, Kansas, […] Continue Reading…
04 April 2013 (13:56 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
“We can’t tell you for sure the models or the number of the cars to be mobilized. That’s confidential.”-unnamed government official
POV, Privately Owned Vehicle (aka car, truck, SUV, mini-van), could become property of the government if full blown Second Korean […] Continue Reading…
04 April 2013 (13:35 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
After days of reports that China was building up forces near the Korean border, and after a Chinese official denied such reports, we now get a better explanation; China has been building up forces since 2009: “Whenever the crisis deepened […] Continue Reading…