“You’d better prepare to pay 40% of your home price as down payment, because commercial banks are going to ask more for a property loan.”-Gong Hang, bank official
First the Chinese government created a new income tax schedule that meant more people were excused from paying taxes, but left them potentially unable to […] Continue Reading…
One reason why the mainstream media is so into reporting the stock market; Rupert Murdoch owns the stock reporting company Dow Jones. Tonight, July 15 U.S. time, the CEO of the Dow Jones quit.
Les Hinton, the boss of Murdoch’s Dow Jones & Co stepped down, as the British phone hacking scandal surrounding Murdoch’s News […] Continue Reading…
For the third time this year, a volcano is erupting in Indonesia. This time it’s the Mount Lokon volcano, on the same island as two other volcanoes; Sulawesi island.
This time at least 4,600 people were forced to evacuate. In March, Mount Karangetang erupted, then on July 3 Mount Soputan erupted. Mount Lokon, Soputan and […] Continue Reading…
“It does highlight the fact that the Palace was trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes last week.”-Graham Smith, anti-monarchy organization know as ‘Republic’.
Despite the belief, in the U.S., that the Royal Family in the United Kingdom are just figure heads, the Royal Family commands true Royal Power, and it’s the British […] Continue Reading…
14 July 2011, officials from Fukushima Prefecture discovered that a second farm, in Asakawa Town, shipped off as many as 42 internally contaminated cows.
The discovery was made as local officials expanded their testing of locally grown feed for cows.
On top of the discovery that more contaminated cows, from other farms, were shipped off to […] Continue Reading…
On July 13, the International Monetary Fund issued a report in which they said Greece needed to cut even more public spending, and that it needs a third bailout. European officials are still hammering out the details of the second bailout.
The IMF says Greece needs a third bailout, consisting of at least 71 billion […] Continue Reading…
14 July 2011, I tried to access the Idaho Department of Environmental EPA RadNet site. All I got was a “Server Error” message.
I then tried accessing the Idaho Falls RadNet site, directly through the Environmental Protection Agency’s web site. I got an EPA page that said “The requested item was not found on the […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Department of Energy is using helicopters to take airborne radiation samples over Seattle, Washington. Officially this is to establish a “baseline” for any future nuclear “emergency”.
The operation is being paid for by the Department of Homeland Security.
The state of Washington is home to the controversial Hanford nuclear plant. Do a search for […] Continue Reading…
“Iodine level in the rain in Idaho in the United States were 130 times that standard… we are very concerned that radioactive cesium was many times above the standard as well.”-Gerry Pollet, Heart of America Northwest
When the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors exploded in Japan, U.S. officials ensured the public that they would increase radiation […] Continue Reading…
Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency is ordering Tokyo Electric Power Company to improve working standards for its contracted workers. There are about 3,000 workers struggling to control the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency recently inspected the working conditions at the damaged nuke plant, after continued concerns over protection […] Continue Reading…