The Journal of Glaciology, and NASA, says that 18 hours after the massive March 11 tsuanami hit Japan, it torn off huge chucks of ice at the South Pole.
Large pieces of the Sulzberger ice shelf, one the size of Manhattan, broke off between March 12 and 16. NASA scientists watched and took pictures of […] Continue Reading…
Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto has been working hard promoting Japanese food products to other countries, despite overwhelming evidence of radiation contamination. Now Takeaki has ordered his own ministry to stop vouching for the safety of Japanese food products.
Takeaki Matsumoto says his 1-80 is the result of increased demands for food safety information from other […] Continue Reading…
First Tokyo Electric Power Company said there were no melt downs, as they struggled to cool the Fukushima Daiichi reactors with salty sea water. Then TEPCo admitted there were melt downs in reactors 1 and 3, but said they were contained by the water at the bottom of the containment vessels. Now an independent […] Continue Reading…
“In my opinion, at this moment, the best strategy is no buy, no sell. At this moment, it’s very difficult to shift (investment), to change fundamentally, because we hold such a big amount.”-Cheng Siwei, former senior Chinese lawmaker
Cheng Siwei, is advising the Chinese government to take a “no buy, no sell” attitude towards U.S. […] Continue Reading…
In the latest Gallup Poll, Idaho takes number one position, in the disapproval of President Obama.
Only 27% of Idahoans approve of what Obama is doing. Idaho beat out Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Arkansas. Those states tied for the number two and three spots.
And, as no surprise, residents of Washington DC show the […] Continue Reading…
BBC is reporting that the city of Birmingham, England, has been hit by looting and violence.
According to the BBC: Cars were set on fire in Lewisham. A bus and shop were set alight in Peckham. Several fires broke out in Croydon, including one at a large furniture shop which spread to neighboring buildings […] Continue Reading…
“Officers responding to sporadic disorder in a number of boroughs made more than 100 arrests throughout last night and early this morning.” Scotland Yard statement, August 8
The violence that started in Tottenham has spread to Enfield and Brixton. The riots started on Friday August 5, after police shot and killed a man […] Continue Reading…
On Saturday, August 6, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, killing all on board, including members of the elite SEAL team. Now the Taliban claim they’ve shot down a 2nd Chinook.
Monday, August 8, a Chinook with 33 personnel onboard was shot down near Zarmat city, in Paktia Province in […] Continue Reading…
When the credit crisis hit in 2007/2008 the biggest mortgage lenders in the U.S., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, suddenly became too big to fail and were taken over by the U.S. government. The move had U.S. taxpayers providing the mortgage giants with almost consistent quarterly bailouts.
Now Standard & Poor’s has downgraded their credit […] Continue Reading…
The European Central Bank, and the Group of 7 top industrialized countries, decided to deal with the credit rating downgrade of the United States by flooding international markets with liquidity.
Liquidity=cash and bank deposits.
One of the problems with this recession is that banks, and other financial institutions as well as big corporations, have been money […] Continue Reading…