War is Peace
The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century. With the absorption of Europe by Russia and of the United States by the British Empire, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and […] Continue Reading…
Ignorance is Strength
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude […] Continue Reading…
The Finnish cell phone giant, Nokia, has laid off 170 employees in China. Chinese officials say Nokia broke Chinese law, by giving only a ten day notice to the employees.
“Nokia China’s layoff at least violates the labor law in terms of procedure and according to the number of employees to be laid off […] Continue Reading…
An NHK survey revealed that 70% of Japan’s prefectural governments can not hold nuclear disaster drills, because there are no national nuclear standards.
13 prefectures were surveyed. They’ve held nuclear disaster drills before. The problem is that the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi has literally erased previous guidelines concerning nuclear disasters.
Most of the prefectures […] Continue Reading…
August 3, The Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said the Bushehr nuclear plant is up and running, and connected to Iran’s power grid.
It is sending out low amounts of electricity for now. It’s scheduled for full operation by the end of the year.
The plant was built with Russian help. Russia will deliver nuclear fuel […] Continue Reading…
Labor Day to be replaced by Prison Labor Day???
“Honda has paid inmates $2 an hour for doing the same work an auto worker would get paid $20 to $30 an hour to do. Konica has used prisoners to repair copiers for less than 50 cents an hour. Toys R Us used […] Continue Reading…
“In interviews, 20 judges across the nation said the number of borrowers threatened with arrest in their courtrooms has surged since the financial crisis began.”-The Wall Street Journal
Maybe the push to get so many U.S. citizens in debt was part of an evil plan to create a multitude of cheap prison labor […] Continue Reading…
According to the British International Centre of Prison Studies, the United States is truly number one, in locking up its people: As of 2009, 743 people out of every 100,000 in the U.S. were being imprisoned. That’s far higher than so called repressive communist China at 120 per 100,000.
Why so many people being locked […] Continue Reading…
On September 2, PBS’s News Hour interviewed Mark Zandi, lead economist with Moody’s Analytics. His normally optimistic tone has become quite pessimistic, in fact he’s now saying that any U.S. economic recovery will take a long time, specifically when it comes to jobs.
Regarding unemployment caused by government layoffs: “The government, state, local, federal, is […] Continue Reading…
The Associated Press reported on August 31, that “…$60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and payoffs to warlords and insurgents…”
According to a 2009 update of a study by the Political […] Continue Reading…