On November 8, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, answered 20 critical questions about Iran’s nuclear program.
Question 1: Has the IAEA detected, after 4000 days of most intensive inspection in the agency’s history, even one gram of uranium being diverted for military purposes?
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report says Iran has built test sites for nuclear weapons.
The IAEA says Iran conducted high explosives testing aimed at simulating the detonation of nuclear weapons. Iran is also accused of conducting research that is relevant only to nuclear weapons.
IAEA officials are demanding Iran provide an explanation.
The number of people in Japan, who need help with basic needs keeps going up month after month. The Japanese Welfare Ministry reports that in July welfare recipients hit a record 2.05 million.
A big jump is in ‘working age households’ (people who’re less than 65 years of age). That category receiving welfare is now […] Continue Reading…
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) announced that on November 8, seventeen employees were exposed to plutonium. At least six show signs of contamination.
It happened inside the decommissioned Zero Power Physics Reactor. A container containing plutonium was opened by the workers.
The employees went through decontamination procedures, and are being checked at the INL’s Central Facilities […] Continue Reading…
On November 2 the U.S. Senate presented a plan to “save” the USPS.
That plan would pay back U.S.$7 billion of the funds Congress stole, I mean, that Congress forced the USPS to overpay in retirement funds. However, the $7 billion is to be used to buy out employees (a nice way of laying people […] Continue Reading…
Ron Paul posted on his RonPaul.com site that President Barack Obama’s seeming inability to get anything done is a result of Obama’s ignorance for how our government works.
Paul says the founders of this country meant for it to be that way, they didn’t want any one person to wield too much power: “Getting something […] Continue Reading…
“For them to be a threat to us and to anyone in the region, I think it’s blown out of proportion.”-Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman from Texas
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is scheduled to come out on November 8 with a new report on Iran. Some sources say it will accuse Iran of making […] Continue Reading…
The Center for College Affordability and Productivity recently released the latest rankings of U.S. colleges and universities.
They include the 2011 rankings by Forbes/CCAP, using the Carnegie Classification (by geographic region). Idaho State University ranked 111, out of 112!
Portland State, in Oregon, came in dead last. Who’s number one in the West? Stanford, in California.
The Idaho Division of Financial Management reported that October tax revenues were $1.6 million short of what was needed.
State officials were hoping for $210.6 million. So far for the fiscal year 2012, overall tax revenues are $10.8 million below what’s hoped for! Amazingly officials still think they’ll finish the 2012 fiscal year with a […] Continue Reading…