Ever since Tokyo Electric Power Company installed a water decontamination and recirculation system, they’ve had problems after problems. Now the entire system has crashed.
The system includes filters and pumps designed in the United States and France. The idea is to decontaminate the massive amount of radioactive water flooding into the basements of the reactor […] Continue Reading…
In the state of Oaxaca, cases of Dengue have been reduced by 80%, compared to 2010. Last year, at the same time, there were more than 1,000 cases, this year 255 so far.
How’d they do it? Oaxaca officials are praising various efforts, including mosquito eradication.
State officials are not only overseeing vector control in cities, […] Continue Reading…
The Mexican government says Mexican police arrested a woman after they discovered her shopping cart filled with 3,500 rounds of ammo.
The woman, a U.S. citizen, was heading from El Paso, Texas, to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. Police say she admitted to being part of the gun running from the United States: “The woman said she […] Continue Reading…
Der Spiegel is reporting that German government officials doubt any more bailout money can save Italy, even if the current European Financial Stability Fund was tripled in size.
German officials have consistently said government finance reforms must come through spending cuts, and tax reform, not taking on more loans.
Currently the European Financial Stability Fund has […] Continue Reading…
“The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone.”-Chinese government/media commentary
The European Central Bank will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday, August 7. The issue; the credit […] Continue Reading…
German drug and chemical giant, Bayer, says high utility cost in Germany could force it to move all its German operations to a new location outside of Europe.
The most likely new home for Bayer, China.
Bayer blames the German government, and in a round about way the German people, for their decision to end the […] Continue Reading…
“In order to increase the political pressure on Damascus and to give a signal to Syrian society, I would welcome the withdrawal of European politicians.”-Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the German parliament’s foreign affairs committee
“I do not believe that there can be a political future for Assad that would be supported by the […] Continue Reading…
U.S. Army Reserve specialist, Charles Graner, led a six member team at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Maybe you’ve forgotten all those pics of prisoners being terrorized by U.S. soldiers?
Graner was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison. Now he’s being released after only 6 and a half years. Iraqis have […] Continue Reading…
“Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable.”-James W. Hughes, School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University
If you want proof that the housing market still hasn’t hit bottom, just look at what Bank of America is doing, they’re bulldozing all those homes they foreclosed on. Why? “There is way too much supply, […] Continue Reading…
Now that it’s become clear that most of Japan’s upcoming rice harvests are most likely to be contaminated with cesium, Japanese are holding onto last years rice like it was gold.
Japanese retailers are reporting that bags of last year’s rice are flying off the shelves, because consumers don’t think there will be any rice […] Continue Reading…