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.
So what if Obama is actually going to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, they’re just going to be used somewhere else.
In response to continued attacks against Syrian police and army troops (three mass graves filled with hundreds of Syrian cops and soldiers have been found), and the fact that Turkey is allowing the build up […] Continue Reading…
A group of doctors tested people living in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. That’s where the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is. They discovered people living outside the evacuation zones are internally contaminated with radiation.
The doctors tested people in two cities; Iitate Village and Kawamata Town. They are about 40 kilometers (24 miles) from […] Continue Reading…
Reports say Alaska’s Aleutian Island have been hit by a 7.2 quake and a tsunami warning was issued by the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. The tsunami warning was later canceled.
All indicators are that global demand for oil is going down, despite the oil “experts” continuing to say it’s going up. The fact that oil and gas prices are going down is proof of the decrease in demand. One study says oil should be at $70.00, based on actual consumer demand.
Yet President Barack Obama, […] Continue Reading…