May 9, 2012, Postmaster General, Patrick Donahoe, is trying to alleviate concerns over the possible closing of 3,700 post offices, which were to begin in May. Now the USPS will try to keep as many open as possible, by drastically reducing their operating hours.
The reduction of operating hours would also take place in post […] Continue Reading…
“The price hike will definitely pressure us a lot. The tendency towards cultivation will grow, it will create resistance, law and order issues, and it will raise the casualty rate.”-Zarar Ahmad Muqbel Osmani, Counter Narcotics Minister of Afghanistan
Anti-opium officials in Afghanistan report that a double whammy of poppy field burning by police, and a […] Continue Reading…
May 5, 2012, U.S. drone strike kills at least eight people in Pakistan.
May 2, 2012, U.S. drone strikes kill at least 15 people in Yemen.
From April 30 to May 6, the U.S./NATO increased airstrikes in Afghanistan. They include the use of drones. The result is an increasing number of civilians deaths.
May 3, 2012: U.S. […] Continue Reading…
May 8, 2012, U.S. led ISAF admitted they killed a family of civilians: “At this point in the investigation we are able to confirm the incident and will be formally apologizing in the next couple of days…”-Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Upton, USMC, ISAF
The attack was reported by local Afghan officials on May 7, but the U.S./NATO […] Continue Reading…
May 6, 2012, Tornadoes hit the Kanto region of Japan.
At least one person was killed, 52 injured and 900 homes destroyed.
Japan’s National Defense Academy says the tornadoes were the result of highly unstable conditions, caused when sunny, warm air clashed with a cold air mass.
Officials are warning that such unstable conditions are expected to […] Continue Reading…
May 7, 2012, the right wing Zionists in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) are about to push through a motion to dissolve the current government.
New elections will be held on September 4. Polls are showing that political parties that are not warmongers would lose if elections were held soon.
On May 6, Prime Minister Binyamin (Benjamin) […] Continue Reading…
May 7, 2012, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said at least three U.S./NATO personnel were killed in eastern Afghanistan, by an explosion.
Around 147 NATO service members have been killed in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2012.
In Helmand Province local officials say a U.S./NATO airstrike killed a woman and her five children. In Badghis Province […] Continue Reading…
It seems the usual ISAF/Afghan 24 hour report for May 5 was a little lacking in detail, much more is being reported by other Afghan officials, and other countries.
Sebghatullah Sanjar, Afghanistan’s Chief of the Policy Department at the Afghan presidential palace, was killed in a car accident. The Kabul police chief said Sanjar’s car […] Continue Reading…
05 May 2012, on the northern big island of Hokkaido, Japan’s last operating nuclear reactor is being shut down.
By Saturday night (Japan time), and after 42 years, the country will be free of electricity produced by nuclear reactors.
The Hokkaido Electric Power Company is shutting down Reactor 3 of the Tomari Nuclear Power Plant. The […] Continue Reading…
May 5, 2012, United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed that two British soldiers were killed in Helmand Province.
They were killed on May 4, when Mujahideen attacked FOB (Forward Operating Base) Ouellette with indirect fire. Afghan media say it was mortars, but the U.K.’s MoD did not specify.
And now for another 24 hour seek, […] Continue Reading…