It’s now official, for the first time since 1850 the number of people moving to California has declined! People are actually leaving! That’s according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
California is still the most populated state: 37 million.
According to the Public Policy Institute of California, 1.5 million middle class people left California in the past […] Continue Reading…
Citigroup is admitting that a May hack cost cardholders millions of dollars.
On May tenth 3,400 accounts had at least $2.7 million stolen from them. The total number of accounts that were hacked is more than 360,000.
Citi officials claim they notified customers quickly, yet those notices weren’t sent out until June 3. So far 200,000 […] Continue Reading…
The Los Angeles Dodgers are officially bankrupt. The team franchise tried to get a new television deal that could have kept it out of bankruptcy, but Major League Baseball blocked that deal.
This comes after a bitter court battle between the two owners. Frank McCourt was left as the owner, but he believes the blocked […] Continue Reading…
The Nature Genetics Journal reporting that the “lean gene” not only keeps people skinny but causes type 2 diabetes.
Conventional thinking by health officials is that obese (fat) and sedentary (lazy) people are the most at risk for type 2 diabetes (despite the fact that the majority of diabetics live in China and India, where […] Continue Reading…
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…