March 16, 2012, a Turkish helicopter crashed outside the city of Kabul. 12 Turkish personnel and two Afghan civilians were killed. Witness say the helicopter was having technical problems.
There are about 1,800 Turkish troops helping the U.S./NATO/ISAF forces in Afghanistan.
Last week “Taliban” claimed they shot down a U.S. helicopter, but no confirmation came from […] Continue Reading…
A few weeks ago Subaru announced they were ending decades of minicar production in Japan. They said they just weren’t profitable.
Now that minicar factory is being used to produce a sports car jointly designed by Toyota and Fuji Heavy Industries (owner of Subaru).
It’s called the Toyota 86, or Subaru BRZ. It’s reported to have […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company has finally looked inside GE designed reactor 4, using an underwater camera.
All they could see was “wreckage” and strange “floating white objects”.
Those same “floating white objects” have been observed in reactor 4’s spent fuel pool. TEPCo said visibility in the spent fuel pool has decreased in the past month.
Visibility is […] Continue Reading…
An international telecommunication symposium was held in the quake/tsunami hit Japanese city of Sendai. The goal was to discover which form of telecommunications works best in a tsunami disaster.
Cells phones proved to be useless, as there was no way to charge the batteries. Use of pay phones was limited because of tsunami damage.
It turns […] Continue Reading…
Early March 16, 2012, six Arab countries announced they were closing their embassies in Syria.
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait, have also expelled Syrian ambassadors from their capitals.
Only a few days after Chevron announced it was hopeful in restating oil production in Brazil, ooops, there goes another one!
March 15, 2012, Chevron reported another oil spill, just 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from last November’s spill. The spill was actually noticed on March 4, but Chevron didn’t report it until now because they […] Continue Reading…
“Hungarians will not live as foreigners dictate, will not give up their independence or their freedom, therefore they will not give up their constitution either!”-Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary
March 15, 2012, Hungary’s Prime Minister told the European Union to basically F Off!
On March 13, 2012, EU finance ministers suspended half a billion […] Continue Reading…
At the end of February the European Union said it was sending in tax collection forces to help the new, unelected Greek government take money from the people.
On March 15, 2012, the EU tax collection task force (including 160 German tax man troops!) said Greece has already collected about U.S.$1.2 billion.
On March 14, 2012, New Democracy […] Continue Reading…
“A strategic pact is going to be signed between German Chancellor and Afghan president Hamid Karzai in the near future, but Germany is a close friend of Afghanistan besides the strategic pact and will continue to its cooperation. Germany remains committed to support Afghanistan economically and technically beyond 2014.”-Thomas de Maiziére, German Defense Minister
Without giving […] Continue Reading…
“I’m shocked that this is America. Because it seems like you’re in some third world country, in a gulag, like in the movie Midnight Express, where you’re absolutely just tortured. That was the experience I had. Your mind goes, how can this be? This is America?”-James Stewart, victim of Los Angeles County Sherrif’s Department
If […] Continue Reading…