Earlier this year Netflix tested internet connection speeds in several countries, the United States sucked!
Apparently Netflix ranked the U.S. at 32. Countries like Canada did much better.
The thing is that much faster connection speeds are available in the United States, it’s just that most people can’t pay the outrageous fees. Also, most internet service […] Continue Reading…
“We have a guy here who was dropped into remote, isolated areas of Iraq to set up their telecommunications systems. He told me, ‘We had better communications in Iraq than you have in Central Idaho.’ ”-Christine L. Frei, Clearwater Economic Development Association
A recent survey listed Idaho with the slowest internet service. Now a new […] Continue Reading…
“TB is an old disease that never went away, and now it is evolving with a vengeance.”-Zsuzsanna Jakab, UNWHO
The United Nations World Health Organization is warning European countries to be alert against the extensively-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Estimates show 15 of the 27 countries with the highest burden […] Continue Reading…
“Since the democratic transition in Spain, we have not seen such a hard attack on social services and essential public services. This is an attack by Madrid’s regional government against employment and public education.”-Cayo Lara
Spain’s attempts to pay down its debt has seen huge cuts to education spending, at least 13,000 […] Continue Reading…
September 15, scores of protesters hurled smoke bombs and other objects, even a cow’s lung, at the police.
The riots took place outside the Italian Parliament. Italian politicians are trying to come up with a new debt reduction plan. The plan will be similar to the Greek plan, meaning Italian taxpayers, and the unemployed are […] Continue Reading…
“We came to Syria to express our support and solidarity with the Syrian people, and to express our resentment of the media war against Syria.”- Temir Porras, Deputy Foreign Minister of Venezuela
The South American country, who is a major oil supplier to the east coast of the U.S., said they support […] Continue Reading…
“The moment has not yet come to give details of what will happen. What I can say with the greatest confidence is that from the moment they pass a unilateral decision there will be harsh and grave consequences.”-Avigdor Lieberman, Foreign Minister of Israel
For the second time, Israel has officially hinted at […] Continue Reading…
“The participation rate in the strike is over 90%. The workers are striking to protest the looting of their income.”-Yiannis Grivas, head of the tax collectors’ union
You know things are bad when the government’s own tax collectors join the protestors. Not just tax collectors, but Customs officers joined the latest protests of the Greek […] Continue Reading…
“I had one year left on my mortgage, and it would have been paid off, I wanted to live here for as long as possible.”-Linda Hatchel
Linda Hatchel spent decades, and tens of thousands of dollars renovating her Chicago home.
What makes it all the more terrible is that more than twenty years ago she paid […] Continue Reading…
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Central Basin Municipal Water District, a taxpayer funded operation, with elected officials at the helm, essentially created their own ‘news agency’ to make them look good.
Coghlan Consulting Group is being paid $11,000 per month to write ‘news’ stories that make the elected officials look good, in the […] Continue Reading…