NHK reported 9 people dead and more than 30 others missing. Russian media reporting more than 20 dead and 50 missing. Canadian media, citing Reuters, reporting at least 17 dead.
The south western portion of the big island of Honshu, and the island Shikoku, suffered major flooding and landslides. Many homes were hit, or swept […] Continue Reading…
As the nuclear disaster continues in Japan, more tea leaves have been found with extremely high levels of cesium.
The Japanese health ministry says radioactive cesium has been detected in harvested tea leaves in Chiba and Saitama prefectures, near Tokyo (about 297km or 185 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant).
One type of tea from […] Continue Reading…
“Without the revival of Fukushima, there will be no revival of Japan.”-Noda Yoshihiko, Prime Minister of Japan
The new Japanese Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko, said there will be no recovery for Japan, without the recovery of Fukushima Prefecture.
Hello, Fukushima is contaminated with radiation! The Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant is still out of control! Latest cesium […] Continue Reading…
“The last time the government reported exactly zero jobs added in a month was in February 1945.”-CNN
“We expected a weak report, and what we got was even weaker…” and “It’s still a skunk and it still stinks.”-Patrick O’Keefe, economic researcher at J.H. Cohn
The United States Department of Labor says Corporate America has let the […] Continue Reading…
Typhoon Talas is coming ashore between Shikoku and Hiroshima. Heavy rain, flooding and landslides being reported from Tokyo area, and several hundreds of miles north east to the island of Hokkaido.
Rain warnings for the hardest hit areas: Tokai (Nagoya) and Kinki (Osaka, Kobe, & Kyoto), may get drenched with 800mm (31 inches) of rain […] Continue Reading…
“A seasonal drop in exports to China was expected…But the magnitude of the fall has been greater than anticipated.”-U.S. Department of Agriculture
According to a September 1 report by Agrimoney, China has slashed its purchasing of U.S. farm products. Not by a little, by a whole lot.
Up until three months ago China was spending […] Continue Reading…
August 31, a Philadelphia police officer was charged with raping a woman after offering her a lift, while he was on duty.
Instead of driving her to her destination he allegedly raped her in the back of the police car, then dropped her off at a bus station. The woman reported the crime […] Continue Reading…
According to a report by Agrimoney, Argentina has replaced the U.S. as the main supplier of corn to Colombia, and probably in the near future Canada will do the same with wheat.
U.S. corn exports to Columbia have crashed: In 2007 the U.S. supplied 96% of Columbia’s corn. In 2010, the United States supplied a […] Continue Reading…
“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…