“As of November 6, 2012, 48 states have reported West Nile virus infections in people, birds, or mosquitoes. A total of 5,054 cases of West Nile virus disease in people, including 228 deaths, have been reported to CDC.”-U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
In South Carolina, three people have died this year. State health […] Continue Reading…
08 November 2012, the closing of Kmarts and Sears continues. This time it includes a store in Australia!
The Kmart store in Katoomba, Australia, is being replaced with a Woolworths. This comes after the Australian owned Kmart reported increased sales (Kmarts in Australia and New Zealand are not owned by the U.S. based Sears Holdings).
In […] Continue Reading…
05 November 2012
ISAF said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died as a result of a non-battle related injury in southern Afghanistan today.”
In Kabul Province, the body guards of a government official got into a firefight with Afghan National Police. There is no official explanation, however a local police official says there might […] Continue Reading…
“Assuming a fully functioning marijuana market and the assumptions following in this summary, estimated total revenue generated to the state could be as high as $1,943,936,000 over five fiscal years.”-Washington OFM Fiscal Impact Statement (I-502)
On 06 November 2012, voters in the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana for […] Continue Reading…
“…a catastrophe and very bad news….We have a huge problem in the rest of the euro area that now seems to be reaching Germany and its labor market. For the coming quarters, the economic outlook is quite gloomy.”-Thomas Harjes, economist at Barclays
On 06 November 2012, Deutsche Bundesbank revealed that there is no let up […] Continue Reading…
“These are party loyalists. We don’t get into the ‘faithless electors’ scenario.”-Ben Ysursa, Idaho’s Secretary of State, referring to Idaho’s Electors
The evening of 06 November 2012, with some people still voting in Idaho, and 0% of “polls” reporting, the U.S. main stream media confidently “projected” that Mitt Romney won the Gem State!
Could it be […] Continue Reading…
Just a few days before the 06 November 2012 elections, officials in Oregon revealed that a Clackamas County ballot counter was altering submitted ballots!
On 05 November, the Willamette Week published an article in which the accused Oregon City woman admitted to them that she changed at least two ballots.
However, government officials say they’re not […] Continue Reading…
“I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don’t vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, ‘If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain,’ but […] Continue Reading…
06 November 2012, researchers in Japan claim they have found traces of a massive meteorite impact. The impact took place in Canada more than 215 million years ago!
Researchers from Kagoshima University are investigating soil from the bed of the Kiso River in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. They found unusually huge amounts of metal from […] Continue Reading…
06 November 2012, the Japanese Health Ministry decided to ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports. Seven years ago Japan banned U.S. beef from cows older than 20 months, because of the Mad Cow disease.
They will now take beef from cows as old as 30 months. There is one condition, the brain and spinal column […] Continue Reading…