September 9, Canada’s Vancouver Island felt a 6.7 quake, according to the USGS.
Many Canadians on the mainland said they didn’t notice. The epicenter was 175 miles (281.6 km) west of the city of Vancouver, and 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Port Alice, British Columbia.
The unincorporated U.S. territory of Puetro Rico, has one of the worst police violence records in the United States, that’s according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DoJ report accuses the Puerto Rico Police Department of regularly: “…using force, including deadly force, when no force or lesser force was called for.”
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“This was not a deliberate act. The employee was just switching out a piece of equipment that was problematic.”-Daniel Froetscher, Arizona Public Service
At least 2.5 million people in the U.S. and Mexico, lost power because of maintenance at a Yuma, Arizona, substation.
Around 15:30 September 8, monitoring equipment was replaced. That caused power to go […] Continue Reading…
“Turkish warships, in the first place, are authorized to protect our ships that carry humanitarian aid to Gaza. From now on, we will not let these ships to be attacked by Israel, as what happened with the Freedom Flotilla.”-Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey
Erdogan said that Turkey will boost its naval presence in […] Continue Reading…
A Kobe, Japan, private-sector group announced the results of their studies on sunflowers in the contaminated areas of Japan.
They grew sunflowers in 4 fields in Minamisoma City, within 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
They found that soil contamination was reduced between 20% and 50%. Radiation was absorbed by […] Continue Reading…
Researchers at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto University and other institutes say the actual radiation pouring into the Pacific Ocean, from Fukushima Daiichi, is at least three times what Tokyo Electric Power Company is officially reporting.
The researchers say that at least 15,000 terabecquerels (1 terabecquerel = 1.0 × 10+12 becquerels) of radioactive iodine-131 […] Continue Reading…
In less than a day after Japan’s new policy chief Seiji Maehara recommended changes to Japan’s military policies, Russia has declared a no fly zone north of Japan.
The no fly zone could be part of Russia’s planned war games in the Sea of Okhotsk, northeast of Hokkaido. Japan is asking for details from Russia.
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On September 7, moderator Brian Williams opened up a question for Governor Perry by first reminding him that his state has executed 234 men under his watch, a bodycount much greater than any other governor, but before Williams could get to his question, the crowd broke into applause to laud Perry for his […] Continue Reading…
A woman lay belly-down on the floor of the Pimlico Race Course, handcuffed and beaten bloody by Baltimore Police. A man recorded the scene on his cell phone camera. Immediately the police grabbed the phone and erased the recording, including months of family recordings.
Now, thanks to the 1st Circuit of the U. S. Court […] Continue Reading…
On August 26, the 1st Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals held that videotaping police in the course of their public duties is “unambiguously” a free speech right protected under the First Amendment!
However, that is not stopping the state of Illinois from trying a man charged with eavesdropping, after he […] Continue Reading…