September 21, Iraqi Vice President Khudair al-Khuzaie (apparently Iraq has three VPs) said U.S. forces need to withdraw from Iraq as scheduled by the end of 2011.
Khuzaie met with the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey. Khuzaie said the United States needs to focus on “cooperation and partnership with Iraq in the fields of […] Continue Reading…
“So long as the Libyan people are being threatened, the NATO led mission to protect them will continue. And those still holding out must understand the old regime is over, and it is time to lay down your arms and join the new Libya.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
September 21, U.S. led […] Continue Reading…
21 September 2011, Typhoon Roke is moving up the Pacific coastline of Japan, after coming ashore south of Tokyo at Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Sustanted winds are 144 km (89.4 miles) per hour, with gusts up to 155 km (96 miles) per hour recorded at Hachioji City, near Tokyo.
During the past 24 hours, more than […] Continue Reading…
Nine months later, and the radiation just keeps pouring from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Now its Mother Earth who’s to blame.
Tokyo Electric Power Company admitted that the heavy rains from typhoons and tropical storms are flooding reactor buildings, greatly increasing the chance of massive flooding of highly contaminated water into the Pacific […] Continue Reading…
Typhoon Roke is about to hit land, near Tokyo, but has already killed two people, and two people are missing.
A man was killed trying to fix a drain on his roof, and another man was killed when he went to look at a rising river. A 4th grade boy, and an 84 year old […] Continue Reading…
“There’s a major divide between the rich and the poor in this country. One in 10 people are unemployed and my vote is nullified by corporate lobbyists.”-Alexander Holmes, from Oakland, California
People from main street U.S.A. are protesting on corporate America’s Wall Street. They started on September 17, and they’re still going!
New York Times […] Continue Reading…
The Indian car maker, Tata, unveiled what it claims is the world’s first Jewelry car.
It has about 80 kg (176 pounds) of 22 karat gold, approximately 15 kg (33 pounds) of silver and 10,000 gemstones. Gold is about U.S. $1,700 per ounce! Silver is about U.S. $40.00 per ounce. 16 ounces in one pound. […] Continue Reading…
“Wall Street is energized about its profits, and it makes its profits by arbitraging labor. So if you lay off an American worker who makes $20.00 an hour, and you hire a Chinese or Indian worker who earns $1.00 and hour, you can put $19.00 an hour in your profit pocket! And that is […] Continue Reading…
Lawyers in France accuse President Nicolas Sarkozy, of committing crimes against humanity. The attorneys say they witnessed it with their own eyes in Libya: “They are using missiles with depleted uranium, which cause cancer. In Tripoli I saw people crippled by NATO attacks, office workers who have nothing to do with the fighting. That […] Continue Reading…
Since the beginning of the year, tensions have grown over territorial rights to oil fields in the South China Sea. Now Vietnam is making a deal with India, to counter China’s military might.
India and Vietnam agreed in Hanoi, on September 16, to strengthen security ties and jointly develop oil fields in the South China […] Continue Reading…