On 4 June 2012, an official representative of the Queen Elizabeth II’s Royal Military, criticized the plans of the United States, to send 60% of U.S. naval forces to the Asia Pacific region by 2020.
Armed Forces Minister, Nick Harvey, stated that the Royal Navy, let alone other European navies, will not be ready to […] Continue Reading…
5 June 2012, the government of United Kingdom has been slashing and burning social programs, yet charges the taxpayers for the Queen’s Jubilee!
While the people of Britain have been told that austerity measures are necessary, they were forced to pay at least $1.5 million USD so that the Queen could celebrate 60 years of […] Continue Reading…
6 June 2012, Tokyo Electric revealed that a cooling pump for the spent fuel pool, above Reactor 4, failed on Monday, 4 June. Japanese media says the pump was burnt.
A back up pump was used the next day, but it failed as well. TEPCo finally got it working today, however, temps in the spent […] Continue Reading…
“You stand convicted of crimes that demean the sanctity of all we do as lawyers…the sin is overborne by the deflection; the crime overshadowed by the cover up.”-Jeffrey A. Manning, Judge
On 4 June 2012, former Pennsylvania Republican Senator, Jane Clare Orie, was sentenced to as many as 10 years in state prison. She was convicted […] Continue Reading…
“It is really hard in Spain to get a job right now because there are no jobs, and if somewhere you might have a chance, they do not want to pay what is more or less normal. Plus, everything is so expensive: supermarkets, food… Everything is really difficult now.”-Ada Adon, unemployed in Madrid, Spain
It […] Continue Reading…
4 June 2012, Pakistan’s Dunya News reporting that police stopped a car only to discover it was being used by U.S. diplomats, and they were carrying guns and ammo!
It happened at toll plaza on Peshawar Motorway. The Pakistani driver of the car was arrested. Dunya News had said the U.S. citizens were let go […] Continue Reading…
4 June 2012, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory of Nagoya University has been studying amounts of radioactive carbon contained in rings of a 1,900 years old cedar tree. The tree is on Yakushima Island.
When they got to the rings which represent the year 775 AD, they discovered 20 times the normal level of radioactive carbon!
Associate Professor Kimiaki […] Continue Reading…
Canadian news media reporting that there have been at least 42 drone crashes since 2000, and that they’ve been increasing every year.
It was also revealed that Canada will buy U.S. Air Force (USAF) unarmed Global Hawks for use over the Arctic. A report said the USAF needed to sell them due to budget cuts.
“You […] Continue Reading…
“If you go to the village of Al-Majalah in Yemen, where I was, and you see the unexploded cluster bombs and you have the list and photographic evidence, as I do, of the women and children that represented the vast majority of the deaths in this first strike that Obama authorized on Yemen, those […] Continue Reading…
3 June 2012
U.S. drone (aka UAV) attack in Pakistan kills at least 10 people. Of course the U.S. claims that they were all militants, but that’s only because official U.S. policy dictates that any male killed in the area of a drone strike (or any military attack) is assumed to be an “enemy”: “It […] Continue Reading…