Normally the end of year holiday mailing rush generates the most revenue for the USPS, but not in 2011. Postal officials revealed that people in the U.S. cut back so much, because of bad economic times, that it even affected the shipping of holiday packages.
The huge drop in mailings cut expected revenues for […] Continue Reading…
The European Aviation Safety Agency is concerned about the strength of wing brackets in the superjumbo A380 airliner. This after routine inspections revealed that after numerous landings cracks have appeared in some of the 4,000 brackets used on the giant wings.
Safety checks have been ordered for the 68 superjumbos in use out of Europe. […] Continue Reading…
Despite claims of overall global warming, Europe and Japan are still getting hit with record low temps. In Japan record snowfall could actually help fight the radiation contamination from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster reactors.
The heavy snow would help sweep the air of radiation, and sweep the surfaces of buildings, plants, cars and the ground […] Continue Reading…
Norway’s Public Health Institute is warning of a possible H3N2 outbreak, after seeing an increase in cases since December 2011.
On the other side of the world, Japan is already dealing with at least 1.74 million cases!
H3N2 is an older type of “Swine Flu”, not to be confused with H1N1 swine flu (as the main […] Continue Reading…
After announcing a 75% drop in profits, due to the rising value of the Japanese Yen, Toyota announced it will move all Highlander production to the United States!
This is because the value of the dollar is so low that it’s now cheaper to make their SUV in the U.S., than in Japan. Those U.S. […] Continue Reading…
Japanese media reporting that a U.S. Navy electronic warfare aircraft, an EA-6B Prowler, began falling apart as it flew over Kanagawa Prefecture. A car on a freeway was actually hit by some of the parts.
Video shows some parts lying on the ground. Japan’s Defense Ministry says railroad workers witnessed the parts falling of the […] Continue Reading…
“Reality is complicated and messy…Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies.”-Brian Nosek, University of Virginia
Researchers at the Canadian Brock University confirm what past studies have implied; that a society with an overall […] Continue Reading…
The Southern Poverty Law Center says children, who are U.S. citizens, are being refused food because their low income parents are not U.S. citizens. Some parents are U.S. citizens, but are being told to “Go back to Mexico” because of their Latino origins.
The SPLC says this is taking place in the state of Alabama. […] Continue Reading…
“Many of the families with children are now homeless, having to live out of cars and things like that. We believe today that 40% of the homeless, in Washington [DC] are women with children, or families with children!”-David Treadwell, Central Union Mission
The National Law Center of Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP) says that more than […] Continue Reading…
The Canadian media has revealed that in December 2010, the Canadian government essentially legalized the use of torture in the name of “public safety”!
Canadian media sources obtained the info by using Canada’s freedom of information law. In other words the legalization of torture was not made public by public officials!
The December 2010 approval of […] Continue Reading…