8 June 2012, NHK (nippon housou kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reporting that more than one year after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi began, the federal government of Japan still has no new official policy regarding nuclear disasters!
Last year most local governments, and individuals, learned of government evacuation instructions through media, not federal government channels. […] Continue Reading…
8 June 2012, Tokyo Electric (TEPCo) said that employees inspected the basements of Reactors 2 & 3, for the first time since the March 2011 nuclear disaster began!
Now, more than a year later, TEPCo officials say it is clear that the reactor vessels are damaged and still leaking! Really, after all this time?
The basement […] Continue Reading…
8 June 2012, The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is supposedly in financial trouble, no thanks to the U.S. Congress, but now there are reports that the USPS could give one of the countries largest junk mail distributor a cut rate deal!
Valassis Direct Mail has been negotiating with the USPS for a lower rate. But […] Continue Reading…
7 June 2012
“There’s been an increase in the attacks.”-Leon Panetta, U.S. Secretary of Defense
After threatening Pakistan, U.S. Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, arrived in Kabul to discuss the increased violence in Afghanistan (proving that recent reports that violence was down are wrong). If you’ve been following my posts, it’s obvious the violence has increased.
Panetta admitted, […] Continue Reading…
7 June 2012, the Greek statistics agency just put the official unemployment rate at 22%! A new record high.
That percent is for March! More than 50% of young adults, 25 years of age and younger, are unemployed!
“I’ve just had one fixed term account in dollars for some time, and I’ve decided to put it in pesos, it’s more profitable to have it in [Argentine] pesos.”-Cristina Fernandez, President of Argentina
7 June 2012, la Presidenta also urged “…any officials who’ve got a few little dollars to do the same thing.”
Argentina is the […] Continue Reading…
It turns out that a “massive” fire on a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine, on May 24, was caused by a vacuum cleaner! It burned for several hours and sent several personnel to the hospital. The sub was docked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, in the U.S. state of Maine.
Now comes the news that the fire […] Continue Reading…
“There is an urgent need for Best Buy to reinvigorate growth by reconnecting with today’s customers and building pathways to the next generation of consumers.”-Richard Schulze, founder of Best Buy
7 June 2012, founder and boss of Best Buy for 36 years, Richard Schulze, has resigned.
Best Buy has been struggling with falling sales, and accusations […] Continue Reading…
“We have gone a long way down the road of creating a situation where we are creating more enemies than we are removing from the battlefield. We are already there with regards to Pakistan and Afghanistan.”-Robert Grenier, former CIA official
5 June 2012, Robert Grenier, head of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counter terrorism center from […] Continue Reading…
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…