February 16, 2012, seven people connected to the scandal ridden Olympus have been arrested in Japan!
Those arrested include an adviser who instructed Olympus executives how to hide $1.2 billion in losses from investors and regulators, and it includes a former Olympus president, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa.
It also includes a former vice president, and a former auditor. […] Continue Reading…
“It provides further evidence for what we’ve really suspected for a long time, that in the management of patients with acute sinusitis, antibiotics do not convey any additional benefit.”-Jay Piccirilloof, senior author
A new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), says most antibiotics are useless in treating sinusitis.
Researchers at Washington […] Continue Reading…
A few days ago Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said he would reveal Iran’s latest nuclear achievements.
Today, it was revealed that Iran makes its own nuclear fuel rods, radio-pharmaceuticals, and has added 3,000 centrifuges to its program to produce enriched uranium.
Iranian made nuclear fuel rods were placed in the Tehran Research Reactor. The fuel rods […] Continue Reading…
February 15, 2012, confusing reports in the Iranian media. Unofficial sources (like PressTV, it is not an official Iranian media source) are saying that Iran has blocked oil shipments to six European countries.
However, official sources (like Islamic Republic News Agency [IRNA]) say only that ambassadors from six European countries have been summed to the […] Continue Reading…
Recently Idaho made it into the top ten for number of embezzlement cases. The study was done by Marquet International of Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Idaho ranks 7th for business related crimes committed by employees: “Small businesses are the ones at greatest risk because, typically, they have very little infrastructure or controls. There’s no budget for it. […] Continue Reading…
At the end of January 2012, the Christian Science Monitor published a story about a study done in the U.S. and Canada, which said, in a round-about way, that particulate matter in the air causes Ice Ages, not global warming.
A few days ago the Japanese Meteorological Agency reported the results of their a study, […] Continue Reading…
The earliest form of H5N1 was discovered in Scotland in 1959, where it killed off a couple of flocks of poultry. That’s the thing, H5N1 bird flu seems to target domesticated birds, poultry, not wild birds.
Since 1959 H5N1 has mutated into more than 700 versions (depending on your source), and the main target is […] Continue Reading…
Nepal’s poultry industry is being devastated by H5N1 bird flu. As of February 12, 2012, 8,353 chickens have been killed in just one district.
Jhapa, Nepal, has seen 3,500 chickens die from H5N1, and another 4,853 put down in an effort to stop the virus, in the past two weeks. Also, 2,400 eggs were destroyed […] Continue Reading…
On February 5, 2012, the official number of people infected with H3N2v, in Japan, hit 2.1 million! That’s more than the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. Now Australian media reporting that New Zealand health officials are getting a little worried.
On February 13, airline passengers, on a plane arriving from Japan, were met by New Zealand health […] Continue Reading…
“We are ready to help. But once again: we have and want only to help if there is something in return from the Greek side.”-Philipp Roesler, German Economy Minister
Early morning February 13, the Greek Parliament approved the latest round of social cuts, despite members of Parliament threatening to quit. The move comes after German Economy […] Continue Reading…