The Japanese government released details of their plan to tear down the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
From 2012 to 2015 they hope to remove the hundreds of spent fuel rods stored in the facility’s spent fuel pools.
Then from 2015 to 2021 they will work to repair and fill up the highly radioactive reactor containment vessels […] Continue Reading…
“We think we are going to avoid war by moving toward compulsion. But the more you lean toward compulsion, the more the choice becomes war if it doesn’t work.”-Zbignew Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Adviser
Brzezinski worked for President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s. At a meeting of the Atlantic Council, on December 14, […] Continue Reading…
“U.S. vehicles benefiting from subsidies and dumping on the China market have substantially damaged China’s auto industry.”-statement from Chinese Ministry of Commerce
General Motors and Chrysler will suffer the most from Chinese economic action against vehicles made in the United States.
Anti-dumping duties on GM vehicles are 8.9%, and 8.8% for Chrysler vehicles.
GM vehicles will also face […] Continue Reading…
“The income inequality level of the United States ranks only after Chile, Mexico and Turkey in the 29 OECD countries. Inequality among working age people has risen steadily since 1980, in total by 25%.”-John Martin, OECD
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its latest report on income disparity, and the United States […] Continue Reading…
“This is a giant step, this should be the biggest news going right now, literally legalizing martial law…This is big. This step where they can literally arrest American citizens and put them away without trial….is arrogant and bold and dangerous.”-Ron Paul, U.S. Representative for Texas
On the evening of December 14, the U.S. House of […] Continue Reading…
We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.
We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We […] Continue Reading…
The ongoing nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, and a bad mine operation deal in Africa, is bringing down a major player in international nuclear power; Areva. The result will mean job losses all over the world, and possibly here in Idaho.
French government owned Areva recently announced that their revenues have crashed since the Japanese […] Continue Reading…
“The bottomline is that about 7.7% of U.S. households have no account in an insured financial institution and an additional 17.9% are underbanked, meaning they have an account but they utilize high cost financial service providers.”- Martin Gruenberg, FDIC
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 17 million people in the United States do not have […] Continue Reading…
“It’s gone up in a period of ten years from about $300 connection fees to about $5,000!”-Al Tetz, BCASE
The Building Contractors Association of Southeast Idaho (BCASE) says the city of Pocatello is charging outrageous, and illegal hook up fees. And they believe it’s one of the main reasons for the drop in local construction […] Continue Reading…
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is warning that the U.S. housing market collapse is even worse than first thought. On December 21, NAR will release new/revised data on the housing collapse going back to 2007.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist for NAR, said that real estate analysts have made incorrect assumptions when they counted existing […] Continue Reading…