“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…
Bonneville Power Administration has been shutting down their Oregon wind power farms, because of the late melting snowpacks in the local mountains.
Rivers that power hydroelectric dams have been full thanks to a wet winter and spring. Now the late melting of snow in the mountains is keeping the rivers fuller than normal, keeping the […] Continue Reading…
According to surveyors from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, June 1 had Idaho breaking record snowpack levels. Normally most of Idaho’s mountain snowpack melts off by the end of May. This year’s cold wet spring has delayed that, and actually added to some the mountain snowpacks.
In eastern Idaho, Two Ocean Plateau’s snowpack is at […] Continue Reading…
Swedish officials announced that they have at least one case of the deadly e.coli that can not be connected to Germany or France. Sweden does have 53 cases where a link has been established.
The problem with this latest case is that they can’t trace it. The Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control says there […] Continue Reading…
A survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shows which countries are the top for computer/internet skills among teenagers.
Japan did not come in first. South Korean teenagers are number one in computer/internet skills, followed by New Zealand, Australia, then Japan and Hong Kong/China.
The OECD study looked at the digital reading comprehension and […] Continue Reading…
“The silos are a part of the swift reaction unit of the [IRGC] missile brigade; missiles are stored vertically, ready to be launched against pre-determined targets.”-General Asghar Qelich-Khani
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials revealed, on June 27, that not only does Iran have underground missile silos, but they’ve had underground silos for […] Continue Reading…
A surprise announcement, China says local governments (cities, provinces and autonomous regions) have racked up $1.65 trillion in debt, threatening a new credit crisis.
The revelation came after the Chinese government conducted audits of local governments. It seems the local governments are playing the same financing games that got the United States (and Europe) into […] Continue Reading…