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…
“I can’t stand him!”-Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
“You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
Who are these two presidents talking about, why Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of course.
On November 7, at the G20 meeting in Cannes, a microphone between Sarkozy and […] 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.
By […] Continue Reading…
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…
“The 99% movement is all about finding ways for people to change the economy that is benefiting only the 1%. Bank Transfer Day is about the power of individuals to take their money out of institutions whose profits go almost entirely to Wall Street and keep that money in our community, […] Continue Reading…
“…just the tip of the iceberg.”-Carl Levin, U.S. Senator from Michigan
The Washington Post reporting that counterfeit parts have been found in weapons used by the U.S. military.
A Senate Armed Services Committee investigation found 1,800 cases of more than one million fake parts in U.S. weapon systems!
70% of the parts have been traced to Chinese […] Continue Reading…
November8, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will begin monitoring for at least three million tons of tsunami debris, due to hit Hawaii by March 2012.
Debris has already reached 900 kilometers (559 miles) west of the Midway Islands. Scientists are warning that the debris (not to mention […] Continue Reading…