March 18, 2012, California has notified at least 20,000 teachers that they will not be coming back to work.
Tom Torlakson, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, says the notices reflect a financial emergency: “Though the very future of our state depends on California’s teachers …(they) will now spend months in limbo, worrying about their futures […] Continue Reading…
March 13, two U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, one in North Waziristan, one in South Waziristan, killed 15 people. Two of those killed were pro-government militants!
March 11, Israeli drone hits family as mother walked her children home. All ended up in the hospital with cuts and fractures. One 15 year old boy died.
“We were […] Continue Reading…
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters, all connected to the next generation internet using abundant, low cost, and high power computing. The latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater […] Continue Reading…
This is a 2011 photo of the National Security Agency’s $340-million Gordon Regional Security Operations Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and it wasn’t big enough so they’re building a bigger one in Utah.
“this is more than just a data center….Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication […] Continue Reading…
Despite being under house arrest in United Kingdom, Assange is getting a new TV show, and running for political office in Australia.
Assange is scheduled to host The World of Tomorrow for RT (Russia Today): “Assange to record TV series for RT while under house arrest – I am sure it will be an amazing show!” -Margarita […] Continue Reading…
30 years ago, 1,600 hectares (3,953.6 acres) of farmland in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, was contaminated with cadmium. The cadmium came from a mine.
What happened was that the mine was dumping cadmium into the river, the local farms used the river for irrigation. The contamination caused a debilitating condition among local residents, called “itai-itai disease”.
A […] Continue Reading…
“Peoples of the world demand the freedom for Jerusalem… People of the world demand to end the occupation of Palestine”-Global March on Al Quds
In February Afghans announced a Global March on Al Quds (aka 30th of March Operation). Today those taking part in the march have rendezvoused in Terhan, Iran.
Organizers had hoped to be […] Continue Reading…
The visit of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, to Canada this year, is expected to cost the Canadian taxpayers more than $500,000.
The travel expenses documents were published by the Department of Canadian Heritage. The published costs do not reveal the costs by federal departments and agencies, nor do they take […] Continue Reading…
“Obviously Israel is an independent country, and they’ll make whatever decisions they make on their own based on what they think is in their national interests….If they should make that decision, then obviously the United States would take action.”-Leon Panette, U.S. Secretary of Defense
“What’s coming now is increasing evidence that everything the U.S. Army has said is a lie!”-Gordon Duff, Veterans Today, USMC Vietnam veteran
The investigation made by a Afghan Parliament group, gave details of what they found regarding the “lone” U.S. shooting genocide in Panjwaii.
The investigators say there were between 15 and 20 U.S. troops, operating […] Continue Reading…