26 July 2012, Japan’s Nissan Motor has reported an increase in sales for the April to June quarter, but decreased profits.
Nissan officials said sales were up in China and North America, but, because of the rising value of the Japanese yen, and increasingly stiff competition, the overall profits fell 19.7%. Their profit was still […] Continue Reading…
“It is clear that Britain is in the midst of the most prolonged period of stagnation it has faced in decades.”-John Longworth, British Chambers of Commerce
25 July 2012, Office for National Statistics announced another drop in GDP, for the third month in a row, officially putting the United Kingdom back into a recession.
U.K. economic […] Continue Reading…
25 July 2012, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States will no longer use the United Nations Security Council, instead it has formed an alliance with the Arab League and the new French led group called Friends of Syria (which is made up of the European Union and Japan).
Clinton also said […] Continue Reading…
25 July 2012, after a final government initiated, independent investigation report was filed, NHK (nippon housou kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) is reporting that Japanese prosecutors will now accept and investigate criminal complaints regarding the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
The final report basically said that it is not clear that the nuclear disaster was caused by […] Continue Reading…
“The research conducted in the United States shows that the hazardous nature of dichloromethane had been pointed out some time ago. The warning of the health hazard to humans was issued more than 20 years ago!”-Shinji Kumagai, University of Occupational and Environmental Health
Back at the end of June 2012, the Japanese Ministry of Health, […] Continue Reading…
Israeli officials confirmed that U.S. envoys are working with their Israeli counterparts to come up with a plan to manage a Syrian government collapse.
War Pig Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said that if Syrian WMDs make it out of the country “We will act decisively and without hesitation or restraint.”
The Syrian government recently said […] Continue Reading…
“These kinds of schemes are where we are focusing our efforts, and they are all, to borrow a phrase from the chancellor, ‘morally repugnant’. These schemes damage our ability to fund public services and provide support to those who need it. They harm businesses by distorting competition. They damage public confidence. And they undermine […] Continue Reading…
“These estimates reveal a staggering failure: inequality is much, much worse than official statistics show, but politicians are still relying on trickle down to transfer wealth to poorer people. People on the street have no illusions about how unfair the situation has become.”-John Christensen, Tax Justice Network
According to a recent report by the Tax […] Continue Reading…
“If the Arab nations who met in Doha were honest about wanting to stop the bloodshed, they would have stopped supplying arms…All their statements are hypocritical.”-Jihad Makdissi, spokesman for Syria’s Foreign Ministry
“This call is not appropriate at this time because it is interfering in the sovereignty of another country.”-Labid Abbawi, Deputy Foreign Minister of […] Continue Reading…
23 July 2012, Yemen security officials say they’ve diffused a bomb at their intelligence headquarters. This comes a day after unconfirmed reports said a Saudi Arabian deputy intelligence official was assassinated by an explosion at their intelligence HQ in Riyadh.
Yemen shares a border with Saudi Arabia, and the Yemen government is supported by the […] Continue Reading…