“It really doesn’t do much good if the money goes back to repairing the irrigation system. I can’t use it. I’m paying for a service I have no choice to pay for, but I have no access to the benefits.”-Mary Fullmer, 77 year old school bus driver
The city of Gooding, Idaho, is […] Continue Reading…
The USPS lost $8.5 billion in 2010. It lost $3.8 billion in 2009. So far this year the USPS has lost $2.2 billion. The result; the United States Postal Service will make public a list of post offices that could be closed this year, as many as 3,653.
The United States Postal Service does not […] Continue Reading…
Anders Behring Breivik, the man who confessed to blowing up and shooting people in Norway (but plead not guilty to charges of terrorism), says he is part of a network of at least 80 pro-Christian/anti-Islam terror cells in Europe.
Breivik says their goal is to overthrow any European government that tolerates Islam. He published his […] Continue Reading…
“If you were admitted to hospital tomorrow in any country … your chances of being subjected to an error in your care would be something like 1 in 10. Your chances of dying due to an error in health care would be 1 in 300.”-Professor Liam Donaldson, World Health Organization […] Continue Reading…
An organization called Project on Government Oversight discovered the U.S. Treasury Department is letting big banks, and corporations, pay off their taxpayer funded loans with new taxpayer funded loans meant for small banks.
On paper it looks like big banks who took out TARP bailout loans are paying those loans off. It turns out […] Continue Reading…
“The FAA employees who will be furloughed perform critical work for our nation’s aviation system and our economy. These are real people with families who do not deserve to be put out of work during these tough economic times.”-Randy Babbitt, FAA Administrator
Because the U.S. Senate failed to approve the House […] Continue Reading…
“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…