“We have asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
“I don’t expect that that will happen.”-Leon Panetta, U.S. Secretary of Defense
“We submitted a formal request for the return of our lost equipment as we would in any situation to any government around the world.”-Hillary Clinton, U.S. […] Continue Reading…
“The leaders have not yet proposed fundamental solutions such as euro bond issuance or the European Central Bank’s intervention.”-Kwon Hyouk-se, Financial Supervisory Service, South Korea
“The EU summit was widely seen as a new step in the right direction, but the summit deal has many obvious flaws and lacks operational details in many […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Senate and House have rejected funding for moving the USMC off Okinawa and onto Guam.
For decades the people on Okinawa have complained of criminal activity by U.S. Marines, including rape and murder. The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2012 does not include the needed $150 million for the move.
U.S. and Japanese […] Continue Reading…
“The Kyoto Protocol does not include the world’s two largest emitters, the United States and China, therefore it can not work!”-Peter Kent, Environment Minister of Canada
Canada is the first country to officially exit from the Kyoto environmental protocols. This follows the end of the second round of ‘Kyoto’ (aka COP 17) talks in South […] Continue Reading…
“…the [Obama] administration asked us to remove the language which says that U.S. citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”-Carl Levin, U.S. Senator from Michigan
There is now speculation that President Barack Obama will sign into law S.1253.RS, a bill he said he would veto. The reasoning behind that is based […] Continue Reading…
A video stream from the Port of Long Beach, in California, shows that it’s raining, and you can also hear what Occupiers say are police helicopters circling low.
California media reporting that Occupiers have moved onto several important shipping port; Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Portland in Oregon and Seattle in Washington.
Occupiers were hoping the […] Continue Reading…
“…in many areas around the country, not only for federal operators, but also for state and local law enforcement and emergency responders in times of crisis.”-Michael C. Kostelnik, retired Air Force general who heads the office that supervises the use of UAVs
It has been revealed that police in North Dakota have been using […] Continue Reading…
Just days after the the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunamis, several Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors went critical, melted down, and some even exploded. But to date (11 December 2011) no decontamination efforts have been carried out by the prefectural or national governments!
A couple of cities, and even neighborhood committees have attempted decontamination of […] Continue Reading…
“This recent string of sub-par showings has raised concerns whether the sales tax will be able to recover enough to meet its targets during the important holiday shopping season.”-Derek Santos, Chief Economist for Idaho
After years of being ‘optimistic’ in his rhetoric regarding the local economy, Idaho’s Butch Otter is finally sounding more realistic: “…for […] Continue Reading…
On March 11, a massive tsunami hit Minamisanriku. If it wasn’t for a young woman, Miki Endo, as well as her boss ordering the residents to escape, many thousands more would have been killed.
Endo and her boss did not survive. They stayed at their posts on the second floor of the town hall building. […] Continue Reading…