“Buk-M1 surface to air missile systems, modern communications systems and heavy armor, including a battalion of T-80 tanks, have already been delivered to the Kurils. The provision of modern weapons and hardware for the troops in the Kurils will continue.”-Russian Defense Ministry statement
On islands just north of Hokkaido, Russia is modernizing and […] Continue Reading…
The number of Japanese leaving their country, in one year, has hit a record 1.1 million. That’s according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, which counted the number of Japanese who’ve officially become permanent residents of foreign countries.
The country of choice for most Japanese expatriates is the United States, with more than 388,000 becoming residents […] Continue Reading…
Blaming the March 11 disasters, credit research firm Teikoku Databank says at least 373 companies have collapsed since then.
Construction firms topped the list with 63 bankruptcies (despite reconstruction opportunities), followed by hotels and inns with 32 (despite people who’ve lost their homes and need a place to stay) and clothing companies with 23 (despite […] Continue Reading…
October 12, Sony announced that over the weekend their computer files were hacked, again.
This time as many as 93,000 customer data files could have been stolen. Sony officials do not think credit card data was stolen.
Once again, Sony is asking their customers to change their passwords.
Yokohama City officials are testing their soil for strontium, after a private testing firm said they found high levels of strontium on some roof tops.
The company said they detected 195 becquerels of strontium per kilogram, more than six times the government safety limit. Yokohama has already suffered cesium levels at 80 times the government […] Continue Reading…
The following is a brief on research I did on how Revolutions actually work, because they don’t follow the predictions of Karl Marx; that revolutions are led by the lower classes. Three authors were read: Crane Brinton, James C. Davies and Ted Gurr.
James C. Davies (creator of the J-curve theory of revolutions) compared the […] Continue Reading…
“The standard planet formation theory assumes that Uranus, Neptune and the cores of Jupiter and Saturn formed by accreting only small objects in the proto-planetary disk. They should have suffered no giant collisions. The fact that Uranus was hit at least twice suggests that significant impacts were typical in the formation of giant planets. […] Continue Reading…
Iran intends to boost the volume of its oil swaps to 200,000 barrels per day by March 20, 2012.
Iranian officials say that by using newly devised mechanisms, the demand for trading oil through barter deals, rather than using cash, is climbing.
The barters involve swapping oil related products, such as crude oil for refined […] Continue Reading…
Britain is not the place to live if you value your human rights. According to European Court of Human Rights, Britain has 107 guilty verdicts against it.
The findings range from violations of the rights of mental health patients to the failure to protect children from unlawful corporal punishment in the home.
The United […] Continue Reading…
So much for the Rule of Law. How many times has George Bush Jr used that phrase during one of his many speeches justifying the War on Terror? Well the Obama administration proves that the U.S. government operates without due process, without regard for the law, they make up secret laws as they go.
“The […] Continue Reading…