“No, things don’t work that way. The TNC has reassured us regarding African workers in Libya. We will wait and see.”- Jean Ping, African Union Chairperson
The AU is refusing to recognize the U.S. supported Libyan rebel TNC. Partly because the African Union was never consulted regarding UN resolutions against Libya, and NATO attacks on […] Continue Reading…
“In attempting to combat crimes attributed to terrorists, countless further crimes have been committed in the course of the U.S.-led ‘global war on terror’. Many of those crimes have been carefully and deliberately covered up.”-Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe’s Rights Commissioner
Europe’s Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg, said Europe is “deeply complicit” in […] Continue Reading…
“But we have seen instances in which employers are explicitly saying we don’t want to take a look at folks who’ve been unemployed. Well, that makes absolutely no sense, and I know there’s legislation that I’m supportive of that says you cannot discriminate against folks because they’ve been unemployed, particularly when […] Continue Reading…
In Japan some of the fastest selling books are how to books that show you how to get out’a town in case of a natural disaster.
The 9.0 quake of March 11 was the motivator for such books. Even though Tokyo was at least a hundred miles from the epicenter of the quake, the public […] Continue Reading…
“If there is drastic plate movement, there is no guarantee that the scale of the quake will be in line with the government’s prediction of up to magnitude 7.3.”-Hirata Naoshi, Earthquake Research Committee
The University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute believes that major earthquakes are in the near future for Tokyo city, and Ibaraki Prefecture, […] Continue Reading…
14 fault lines in Japan, which were thought to be ‘safe’ are now considered dangerous, potentially producing a 7.6 earthquake.
The other problem is that they all run near nuclear power plants.
A survey of the fault lines were undertaken by nuclear power plant operators, like Tokyo Electric Power Company. They concluded that the fault lines […] Continue Reading…
Six towns in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, have soil that is contaminated with Cesium levels far higher than those at Chernobyl. The levels exceed that which forced mandatory evacuations around Chernobyl back in the 1980s. Some areas around Chernobyl are still off limits.
Japan’s Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry put together a soil contamination […] Continue Reading…
A hospital in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, admitted that children had been injected with too much radiation.
Since 1999, at least 84 kids were injected with high doses of radioactive technetium. The isotope is used to help examine internal organs.
The doses were in excess of the limit set by the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine. One […] Continue Reading…
“Having made considerable efforts in Japan, we have concluded we cannot build a sufficiently scaleable business. We have decided to sell our operations there and focus on our larger businesses in the region.”-Philip Clarke, TESCO
After eight years and 250 million pounds (U.S.$404.9 million), British retailer TESCO is quitting Japan.
The Japanese retail […] Continue Reading…
USPS announced they will default on the upcoming Federal Employees Retirement System payment (this after Congress essentially stole $75 billion from the Postal Service, supposedly to pay the FERS last year!).
Also, postal officials are now begging the U.S. Congress to approve the ending of Saturday delivery. USPS officials also want to use retirement money […] Continue Reading…