Mazda announced that their latest generation Demio (aka Mazda 2) gets much better fuel economy than hybrids. That mean no more expensive batteries to replace.
The Demio’s engine has uniquely shaped pistons to increase combustion efficiency, and, it has a computer that will shut off the engine when it’s idling beyond a certain time limit.
The […] Continue Reading…
A group of concerned parents, not happy with government response, formed an organization called The Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation. They took urine samples from 10 kids, from elementary to high school age, and had a French company test them.
The result showed that all the kids are internally contaminated with cesium 134. […] Continue Reading…
“As far as we know, Hezbollah has now accumulated around 45,000 missiles of various ranges. There is one of them with a range which goes beyond 350 kilometers, which, according to them at least, can reach all of Israel till Eilat in the south of the country.”-Dr. Yoram Kahati, Israel’s International […] Continue Reading…
A Kuwaiti newspaper reports that Israel has threatened to kill Syrian President Bashar Assad. The threat was delivered via Turkish officials to Syria.
Israelis are concerned over the mass movements of Syrian military forces, including ballistic missiles aimed at Israel. Israeli officials fear President Assad might attack Israel as a diversion for the internal fighting […] Continue Reading…
French military spokesman, Colonel Thierry Burkhard, admits France is violating the UN resolutions by arming Libyan rebels. He says they’ve been airdropping weapons to the rebels.
In 2009 Nicolas Sarkozy made France a member of the U.S. led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Four decades ago Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of NATO, citing […] Continue Reading…
June 30, Japan: In an exclusive interview, NHK discovered that the Iraqi government might let U.S. troops stay. For months U.S. officials have been pushing Iraq to ‘request’ that U.S. troops be kept past the current withdraw date.
Under the terms of the last agreement, the only way that U.S. forces would stay, is if […] Continue Reading…
“We have told them (US officials) to leave the air base.”-Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar, Pakistan Defense Minister
June 29, Mukhtar orders the CIA to vacate the once secret Shamsi air base. That’s where the Central Intelligence Agency has been launching drone attacks against supposed terrorists in Pakistan. The reality is that many hundreds of civilians have […] Continue Reading…
Nishiyama Hidehiko, spokesman for Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, has been removed from his job. It turns out that while the Japanese people were looking to the government for information on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Nishiyama was having an affair with a young woman.
A Japanese magazine broke the story. The woman said […] Continue Reading…
About 90 households have been told they need to leave, because of increasing radiation levels. The evacuation affects three districts in the city of Date. The city is 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The Japanese government is trying to minimize mass evacuations by testing each residential property when radiation levels near […] Continue Reading…
Mount Shinmoe has erupted again, June 29. It’s been erupting since January 2011. Another ash cloud has been blasted one kilometer (0.6 miles) into the sky.
Shinmoe is on the island of Kyushu, at the south end of Japan. If you’re a Sean Connery/James Bond fan you can see it in the movie “You Only […] Continue Reading…