“This is a very rare condition in otherwise healthy individuals and is generally untreatable. We believe that it is caused by an inhalational exposure with which they have contact while in southwest Asia.”-Dr. Matthew S. King
The New England Journal of Medicine published a study, which was conducted by a team of […] Continue Reading…
On 22 July 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant lost external electrical power to reactors 3 and 4. This affected cooling operations, but they were able to get back up generators working.
Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that the power loss was due to an incorrectly wired circuit breaker. They say the circuit breaker was […] Continue Reading…
Brazil’s unemployment rate in June hit a low of 6.2%. Compare that to June of 2002 when Brazil’s unemployment rate was 11.6%.
Officials credit the drop in unemployment to new job creation. Last year alone half a million (512,000) new jobs were created in Brazil. Also, the average wage went up 4% since last year.
Take […] Continue Reading…
The Mexican Social Security Institute, in the state of Tabasco, issued new warnings about Dengue Fever. They are calling on people to prevent standing water during the rainy season, and avoidance of mosquitoes. Dengue is a human disease, but it’s spread by mosquitoes.
There are two types of Dengue, classic and hemorrhagic. The problem is […] Continue Reading…
The Idaho AARP (formerly known as American Association of Retired Persons) is sending 20,000 signatures to the U.S. Congress, demanding that Social Security and Medicare be left out of budget cuts.
Cuts to SS and Medicare would adversely affect hundreds of thousands of Idahoans who paid into the system for decades.
Idaho’s Interconnect Solar Development has hired Germany’s Siemens to build a solar power plant.
The 20 megawatt plant will be built in Owyhee County, and supply power to the utility company Idaho Power.
Siemens says it will use parts built in its Chicago, Illinois, plant. Some good news for the U.S. economy.
Even though Idaho’s unemployment rate is still 9.4% (for several months now) it actually edged up by 500 newly unemployed, for the month of June.
To make matters worse, the Idaho Department of Labor says most of the 15,000 people who found jobs in June, are filling existing positions. In other words almost no new […] Continue Reading…
Some idiot at CNN called the huge billion dollar car maker bailout loss for U.S. taxpayers “Excellent!”.
He justifies his statement by saying it’s better than the originally projected loss of $40 billion. What this idiot doesn’t seem to realize is that most taxpayers were against the bailouts, because they knew they would lose.
In total, […] Continue Reading…
Just like the U.S. government, the Canadian government has sold its shares of Chrysler stock to Fiat, at a loss.
Canada bailed out Chrysler’s operations in Canada, and it cost the Canadian taxpayers $810 million.
Canadian autoworkers union officials say their government should have held on to the stock a little longer, as a way of […] Continue Reading…
The city of Beijing is raising wages for people working in the city.
Already wages have gone up an average of 4.4%. City officials say their goal is to increase wages by 7%.