After missing the December 14 deadline to turn over accounting books to government prosecutors, Olympus’s offices, and the homes of Olympus executives have been raided by government prosecutors and police.
Weeks ago Olympus executives made promise after promise saying they would meet the December 14 deadline for making their accounting books public. Of course they […] Continue Reading…
In Netherlands, the aviation museum on Deelan air base had their huge model of an F-104 Starfighter stolen.
It’s made of aluminum and other metals, and the owners are fearful it will be sold for scrap.
Just how big is the model plane? It’s bigger than a small Fiat car, and could weigh more than 1,000 […] Continue Reading…
“The Syrians spoke very clearly, they don’t have anything to hide. They let those observers witness how the weapons smuggled from Turkey, from Lebanon, and from Jordan are coming into the country and how this weapon infiltration is feeding those terrorists and how they terrorize a certain area in Syria.”-Kamel Wazne, political analyst in […] Continue Reading…
“We are sending a team to the affected area to verify what the actual situation is to determine our next action. We are also liaising with the World Health Organization to gather enough data on the infections and soon information will be sent out to the public.”-Joseph Amankwa, Director of Public Health for Ghana
So far […] Continue Reading…
Israeli media reporting that one of Israel’s Dolphin class submarines has been upgraded to provide better range.
Israel claims to have spent U.S.$27 million on the project.
The Dolphin class submarine is made in Germany and can carry cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads. German taxpayer money was actually used to help Israel buy the submarines!
“Wow!”-Venkat Balasubramani, internet tech lawyer
“…the court is ordering the full transfer not just of websites, but of any funds being sent to a website.”-Eric Goldman, associate professor of law at Santa Clara University
The proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, has a lot of web users concerned, but what about what’s already taking place […] Continue Reading…
Just one day after most U.S. military personnel left Iraq, an arrest warrant has been issued for the Iraqi Vice President, Tariq al-Hashemi.
The Iraqi courts also released what they call video confessions from al-Hashemi’s body guards, stating he ordered them to plant bombs around Baghdad.
Hashemi’s supporters say the warrant is politically motivated because he is […] Continue Reading…
SAAB is now officially bankrupt. The company filed for bankruptcy after two Chinese companies changed their minds about buying the Swedish automaker.
There was talk that General Motors was concerned about the Chinese getting their hands on U.S. technologies, because GM supplied those parts to SAAB.
The demise of SAAB will now hurt GM’s parts sales.
“I don’t think there actually has been a revolution yet. I think that what’s happened is that the figurehead of the military regime has been deposed very dramatically. Certainly that was a hugely significant event, it was an earthquake….Until then I think the two sides are stuck in their current positions, fighting it out […] Continue Reading…
1. “The war in Iraq is finally over after nine years.”
Rothkopf notes the U.S. has been militarily engaged in Iraq since the early 1990 and this will likely be just the end of another installment in the long running series of U.S. warmongering policies in the region.
2. “America’s mission in Iraq was a success.”
He […] Continue Reading…