A visit from the International Atomic Energy Agency seems to have put a vote by Iranian lawmakers, to stop oil shipments, on hold.
On Sunday, January 29, the vote was postponed. One factor is debate over how long Iran should block sales of oil to Europe; some lawmakers want a five year block, while others […] Continue Reading…
A team of researchers from University of Tokyo, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), have discovered that southern Honshu will get hit by a much larger tsunami, than the one that hit north eastern Honshu in March, 2011.
Their reason is that they’ve discovered, off the Kii Peninsula, a deep ocean fault […] Continue Reading…
Japan is facing a major shortage of health care workers. Partly because millions of Japanese have left the country due to the ongoing nuclear disaster, but also because Japan’s national qualification test for health care workers is too tough.
Most foreign health care workers, in Japan, come from Philippines and Indonesia. For the latest exam […] Continue Reading…
I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Japan’s food industry is being required to install […] Continue Reading…
Apparently officials with Tokyo Electric Power Company (which has recently been nationalized by the Japanese government, because TEPCo is broke) never thought to protect all the exposed pipes from freezing weather. Maybe they thought global warming would protect them?
Japan is being hit with their usual freezing winter temps, along with record snow fall in […] Continue Reading…
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
The following are comments made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on January 26, 2012.
“The West must be aware that the Iranian nation….does not need them. You […] Continue Reading…
“According to one of the main clauses, the Islamic Republic of Iran will halt all oil exports to European countries as long as they continue to ban oil imports from Iran. Another clause obliges the government to forbid imports of all goods from countries which have imposed sanctions on our country.”-Nasser Soudani, Majlis (parliament) […] Continue Reading…
A small study was done on women who drank beverages with caffeine. The results showed that it mattered if the woman was Caucasian, black-African, or Asian.
Regarding coffee, Asian women had a jump in estrogen levels. Caucasian women had a huge drop in estrogen, and black-African women had very little change.
The study also suggested that […] Continue Reading…
Dona Ana County officials have some ‘splaining to do, after they kept a mentally ill man in solitary for 22 months, even though he was never convicted of a crime! The same prison, in New Mexico, also has a history of untreatable Staph infections, and it houses child prisoners as well as adults.
On January […] Continue Reading…
Europe is dependent on foreign oil. The European Union was pushed into joining the United States in placing an embargo on Iranian oil (in exchange for exempting British Petroleum). Now Iran says, so what, we’ll voluntarily cut off European oil supplies!
Lawmakers in the Iranian Majlis (similar to a parliament or congress) will decide a […] Continue Reading…