Tropical storm Roke stalled long enough over the warm water near Okinawa, to build into a Typhoon. Japan’s Meteorological Agency says Roke will track northeast over the seas south of the island of Kyushu, before heading for Honshu, then Hokkaido.
Already parts of Kyushu have been hit with massive rain. Since Thursday about 1,000 millimeters […] Continue Reading…
When typhoon Talas blasted Japan, it left behind several lakes created by huge landslides. Now, September 20 Japan time, one of those lakes is overflowing its mud dam, and could burst.
Japan’s Land Ministry says a lake created by a landslide rose to the top of its mud dam on Tuesday morning, and began overflowing […] Continue Reading…
September 19, gas prices in Idaho are about 70 cents above the national average. One local TV station tried to give the usual explanation by saying it’s a mix of regional demand and state taxes. FAIL!
I just checked on demand, and according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, demand for […] Continue Reading…
September 19, a change of contractors with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) resulted in a surprise announcement; 204 employees will be let go at the end of the month.
On September 30, the existing contract with AMWTP (Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project) ends. A new contract with Idaho Treatment Group begins on October 1. The […] Continue Reading…
“There are parts of Texas that are doing well. And there is a tremendous number of Texans, more than Perry has ever wanted to acknowledge, that are doing very, very poorly.”-Miguel Ferguson, University of Texas
Texas Governor Rick Perry likes to claim having created jobs for Texans, but he’s also to blame for […] Continue Reading…
No thanks to the melting ice caps, Polar Bears are getting desperate to survive.
In the Russian Chukotka region (directly across from Alaska), Polar Bears are forming packs, like wolves, and attacking villages. An unsuccessful attack on a woman was recorded and uploaded to YouTube, but there are reports that another woman was eaten alive, […] Continue Reading…
September 19, later this week the Group of 20 developed and developing economies will meet in Washington DC. The main issue, as always, the collapsing global economy.
Actually the main stream western media wants you to think the “global” economy is collapsing, in reality it’s just the ‘western/capitalist’ economies that are going down the toilet.
Demands […] Continue Reading…
September 19, three TSA guards quit, and the Transportation Security Administration fired 28 other guards, as well as suspending another 15.
This after an investigation was started back in 2010. TSA guards assigned to the morning shift allowed checked bags to be loaded onto flights without being screened for explosives, at Hawaii’s Honolulu […] Continue Reading…
On September 26 Oliver Stone will join his son Sean, in Iran. They are trying to get permission to shoot a movie there.
Stone’s last documentary was about anti-U.S. Latin American leaders: “South of the Border”.
Stone’s last big budget movie was “Alexander: Fortune Favors the Bold”, and yes like most people who saw it, Iranians […] Continue Reading…
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is calling on the Obama administration not to veto a UN Security Council vote for Palestinian statehood.
“If I were president, I’d be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations.”-Jimmy Carter, NPR interview
Carter does believe that if President Obama did not […] Continue Reading…