Saturday, January 14, will be the last day you can get a Powerball Lottery ticket for $1.00. To “celebrate” the lottery’s 20th anniversary the price of one “play” will now cost $2.00.
Lottery officials claim the 100% increase in the price of a lottery ticket is worth it because they’ve increased the size of most […] Continue Reading…
Cash strapped U.S. Postal Service paid FedEx (called Federal Express until 1994) $1.4 billion in 2010, to send USPS packages!
It’s ironic because not only is FedEx a contractor with the USPS (one of the biggest), it’s also a rival of the USPS.
One consulting group, SJ Consulting, suggested the USPS stop sending so many airfreight packages […] 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.
On January 9, 2012, the U.S. Department of […] Continue Reading…
After an investigation, Finnish officials decided to let a British registered ship sail to South Korea, with it’s cargo of 69 Patriot missiles.
On December 21, Finnish port authorities discovered improperly packed, and labeled, Patriot missiles and explosive acid on the ship M/S Thor Liberty. The explosives were exposed to the elements, and the missiles […] Continue Reading…
“If we had published the story, the result for Yamaichi shareholders and people connected with the company might have been very different.”- Shigeo Abe, investigative journalist
Right now the Olympus scandal is still making headlines in Japan. Partly because many people find it hard to believe that a company could lose so much money on […] Continue Reading…
The Japanese government announced that 330 cats and dogs have been rescued from the no entry zone around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, just in the month of December.
The Environment Ministry, and government of Fukushima Prefecture, have conducted rescue operations for dogs and cats. However, citizens groups have been doing their own rescuing […] Continue Reading…
Private credit firm Teikoku Databank says Japan’s March 11 disasters forced 510 companies to fail by December 31, 2011. All together the companies had more than $9 billion in debt.
The construction sector had the most bankruptcies. But even though contracts for repairing disaster hit areas are finally increasing, the struggling economy is causing a […] Continue Reading…
Japan’s Meteorological Agency said 6,757 aftershocks, directly related to the March 11 quake, hit Japan right up to December 31, 2011.
But that’s just the aftershocks. Officials also said the total number of earthquakes to hit Japan in 2011 were 9,723. That’s seven times the number of quakes in 2010!
Officials with the Meteorological Agency told […] Continue Reading…
I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do […] Continue Reading…
“The missile threat from Iran is very real, and we must stay ahead of the threat… That’s why we’re working so hard with all our allies to put the most optimized, effective, anti-missile capabilities in place.”-Henry Obering, Lieutenant General, Pentagon Missile Defense Agency
U.S. European Command (EUCOM) has deployed to Israel an X-band radar system […] Continue Reading…