The Lancet Journal reporting that despite efforts to stop diabetes, world rates have only gone up. There are now 347 million people considered diabetic.
The United States and Russia clam 36 million of those diabetics, but China and India beat the U.S. and Russia by 100 million. China and India have 138 million diabetics.
UN World […] Continue Reading…
This has really gone too far! CNN reports Transportation Security Administration agents forced a cancer stricken 95 year old woman to remove her adult diaper.
“My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia. She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel.”-Jean […] Continue Reading…
Last week the Pentagon presented Congress with a plan to provide African countries with up to $145 million in military aid. The aid, in money and equipment, is for so called counter terrorism operations.
The $145 million, to be split between several African countries, doesn’t compare to what just one country got last year. Yemen, […] Continue Reading…
26 June 2011, an accident at the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant resulting in the expanding Missouri River flooding into the compound. The water hit the nuke plant’s electrical transformers, cutting off power.
Electricity is still needed to keep the spent fuel pools cool. Plant officials say they are now running on back up generators.
Forth […] Continue Reading…
An independent panel, investigating the Japanese government’s policies, regarding natural disasters, has found many faults that actually made things worse after the March 11 disasters.
Two primary faults were pointed out at a press conference.
One was the lack of an evacuation policy. It seems the government never expected to have to evacuate survivors. The panel […] Continue Reading…
Efforts to find the origins of a deadly e.coli strain (that some scientist say was engineered in a lab) continues, as more people get sick.
France has eight people in the hospital. Seven of them ate sprouts at an open house party. The sprouts were not grown in Germany, but in France. The seeds for […] Continue Reading…
On Saturday, June 25, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announced that all major international banks, and central banks (like the U.S. Federal Reserve) are going to increase their capital reserves.
This means they are going to hold onto more money and issue less loans. Some banks refer to capital reserves as putting their money […] Continue Reading…
After several months of spewing radiation all over northern Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Company is finally going to use boric acid on one of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors.
Actually TEPCo is pouring a borci acid/water mix into the spent fuel pool above Reactor 3. By Monday evening, 27 June 2011, they will have used 90 […] Continue Reading…
Idaho based Micron is reporting a drop in demand for computer chips. One semiconductor analyst calls it “anemic”.
Micron reports sales are down, even though profits are up 4%, from the previous quarter. How did they make a profit? Officially Micron calls it ‘reduction in manufacturing costs’. That means workers got laid off, in fact […] Continue Reading…
Puyehue volcano, in Chile, continues to spew ash. Now several airports in Argentina are shut down, some until July 1.
Puyehue erupted June 4. The last time the volcano erupted was in 1960. Flights to Australia and New Zealand are still being grounded.