“There’s no doubt all arrested today are drug dealers.”-Steven McGee, TCU Police Chief
After a six month investigation 17 ‘christian’ students were arrested for selling drugs. Several athletes were among those arrested.
The drugs include Xanax, Oxycotin, hydrocodone, as well as marijuana and a powdered form of ecstasy.
Police investigated after getting complaints from […] Continue Reading…
“The budget cuts are weighing it down…The conditions for a recovery in consumption are not there since unemployment hit a new record.”-Chiara Corsa, UniCredit bank
February 16, 2012, for the second month in a row, Italy’s economy shrank. Two months in a row of contraction, that’s the official sign of recession.
Belgium was the first European […] Continue Reading…
February 16, 2012, a former Israeli intelligence chief told Japan’s NHK news that the loss of the current Syrian government would actually be bad for Israel.
Efraim Halevy, who served as Mossad director from 1998 to 2002, is warning of chaos in the Middle East should the current Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad fall.
He […] Continue Reading…
“This is the biggest trial in the world, and in history, as far as safety at work is concerned.”-Raffaele Guariniello, prosecutor
In a precedent setting trial in Italy, two former executives of a company that made fiber cement (cement made with asbestos), were found guilty in the deaths of more than 2,000 of their employees!
Another […] Continue Reading…
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…