24 May 2012, Japan’s National Police Agency reports that their own study finds that at least 4% of police who responded to the disasters that began on 11 March 2011, are showing signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The study followed cops in the three hardest hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. The study […] Continue Reading…
23 May 2012, after losing it’s former supporter, Ford, Mazda is now desperate for help from a bigger car maker. In steps Fiat.
Fiat already owns most Italian brands, like Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Mazarati, and they’re majority owner of Chrysler.
NHK reporting that a deal between Mazda and Fiat would see the two seat Mazda […] Continue Reading…
23 May 2012, the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization has confirmed that two reactor containment vessels at the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, are breached and leaking radioactive materials.
Back in March Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) assumed that one containment vessel was cracked, because they found that after months of injecting tons of […] Continue Reading…
23 May 2012. Back in March local level governments in Japan set up a help hotline for refugees from Iwate, Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures. Supposedly this was to insure that refugees were able to be heard by local government officials.
So far only about 10% of those who call are getting through. Out of the 370,000 […] Continue Reading…
23 May 2012, two parliamentary committees have rejected the military pact signed in a midnight meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and U.S. President Barack Obama.
One of those committees is the Judicial Committee, which ruled that the military pact violates the national interests of Afghans. The pact must be approved by the Afghan parliament.
Qorban-Ali […] Continue Reading…
The following is ISAF commander, U.S. General John R. Allen’s 21 May 2012 statement following the NATO/Afghanistan summit in Chicago. It shows that not only will the U.S. stay in Afghanistan, but considers the whole region vital to U.S. national interest.
I am grateful for the overwhelming commitment from the international community to support Afghanistan […] Continue Reading…
23 May 2012, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to layoff another 25,000 employees according to an unnamed source, reported in a CNN/Fortune article.
The original report of the 25,000 job cuts came from Bloomberg on 17 May 2012. It includes about “…10,000 to 15,000 from Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise services group.” HP’s enterprise services is headquartered in Plano, […] Continue Reading…
Preamble
We, the nations contributing to ISAF, and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, met today in Chicago to renew our firm commitment to a sovereign, secure and democratic Afghanistan. In line with the strategy which we agreed at the Lisbon Summit, ISAF’s mission will be concluded by the end of 2014. But […] Continue Reading…
22 May 2012, U.S. led NATO has agreed to hand over combat command to the puppet government of Afghanistan by mid 2013, and withdraw the majority of U.S./NATO and other occupying forces by the end of 2014.
And to prove that your tax money will still be hard at work in the Central Asian country, […] Continue Reading…
“Nobody had an inkling of the serious problem of false confessions until we had this data.”-Rob Warden, Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University
“We know there are many more that we haven’t found…It’s clear that the exonerations we found are the tip of the iceberg.” -Samuel Gross, University of Michigan
So much for the U.S. […] Continue Reading…