20 March 2013/08 Jumada l-Ula 1434/30 Esfand 1391/09 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The Cypriot Parliament has rejected the privately funded bailout plan. 36 politicians voted against it, 19 abstained. Not one politician voted for it!
The bailout would have placed a high tax on bank accounts, and would have affected individuals and large investors. Russian officials […] Continue Reading…
20 March 2013/08 Jumada l-Ula 1434/30 Esfand 1391/09 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company claims they’ve restored cooling to spent fuel pools. They still are not sure what caused the outside electric supply to stop. They suspect a surge tripped three high voltage distribution panels. After replacement and inspection they could find no […] Continue Reading…
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
A report in the Japanese media suggests that for the first time ever, and despite increasing economic sanctions, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is actually making money off its exports!
The Japan Times says U.S. based economists, Marcus Noland and Stephen Haggard, think […] Continue Reading…
Westinghouse Electric eliminating 665 jobs worldwide! It will include layoffs at its Pennsylvania HQ. The company blames it on a decreased demand for nuclear power, caused by the March 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan, which is still not resolved.
Corporate information provider, Thomson Reuters, announced 2500 layoffs! Company officials blame about half the layoffs on […] Continue Reading…
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The hundreds of killed and wounded in the U.S., European and Israeli backed gas attack in Syria, includes government soldiers, but mainly civilian men, women and children.
Independent reports say some insurgent groups had been warning they were going to use WMDs. Yesterday a […] Continue Reading…
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company says they’ve restored cooling of spent fuel pools on the number 1, 2 and 4 reactors. This is the first time TEPCo mentioned Reactor 2 as being affected by the power outage. Cooling for Reactor 4 pool is being […] Continue Reading…
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Russian officials say they have documented that the chemical weapons attack in Aleppo province was launched by U.S., European and Israeli backed insurgents. Russian intelligence believe the insurgents captured the chemical armed rockets from the Syrian military.
The Syrian government says the insurgents got […] Continue Reading…
“I saw mostly women and children. Witnesses said that people were suffocating in the streets and the air smelt strongly of chlorine. People were dying in the streets and in their houses.”-Reuters photographer
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
U.S., European and Israeli backed insurgents in Syria attacked the province […] Continue Reading…
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
For the second day now, cooling of spent fuel pools on the General Electric designed reactors 1, 3 and 4 is not taking place (1, 3 and 4 are the ones that exploded). Another spent fuel rod pool and a water decontamination […] Continue Reading…
18 March 2013/06 Jumada l-Ula 1434/28 Esfand 1391/07 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Indonesia’s Lion Air has always been a big customer of the U.S. company Boeing, but not anymore.
With the ongoing problems with Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, Lion Air has just signed a huge contract with Europe’s Airbus. Lion Air just bought 234 A320 airliners, they […] Continue Reading…