The official U.S. unemployment rate is currently 9.1%, but that does not count those unemployed who dropped off the official lists, or those who are discouraged job seekers.
Fadhel Kaboub, an economics professor at Denison University in Ohio, says when you take into account people who are no longer counted by official sources, the actual […] Continue Reading…
According to NHK(Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation), there has not been any official soil sampling since the nuclear disasters following the 11 March 2011 quake/tsunami. Tokyo Electric Power Company has done periodic samples, but only within the area of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear compound.
The Japanese Science Ministry is now taking actual soil samples outside the […] Continue Reading…
University students, concerned with the fact that there is no official government soil testing around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant, took some samples of their own.
They found plutonium-239 and 240, making up a total of 0.078 becquerels per kilogram. The samples were taken on 21 April 2011. Immediately after they took the samples […] Continue Reading…
The city of Pocatello, in eastern Idaho, is trying to figure out how to cut $2 million from its budget. The mayor says they’ve already trimmed all the fat: “What fat there was we’ve cut and now we’re starting to cut into muscle.”-Brian Blad, Pocatello Mayor
So far city officials have decided to cut $150,000 […] Continue Reading…
Idaho based women’s apparel retailer, Coldwater Creek, lost another $30 million. That’s their loss for the quarter ending April 2011. They also lost $37 million in the previous quarter.
Coldwater Creek has 371 stores, with 9,400 employees, across the U.S.
Women in Japan were asked to post online, strange rules that their employers have.
“In our company, women are forbidden from putting on makeup. On top of that, the only underwear we are allowed to wear is white or beige. We are also not allowed to date guys under 23. If they catch […] Continue Reading…
The beginning of June and eastern Idaho is under a frost warning. Temperatures could get down to 30 Fahrenheit.
On top of that the rivers are still flooding. We might be experiencing Climate Change, but there’s no Global Warming here.
Mazda announced that it will stop production of its Mazda6, at a Ford plant in Michigan. Mazda will move production of the Mazda6 back to Japan.
The Michigan plant is a joint venture between Ford and Mazda, known as AutoAlliance International. The joint venture has been losing money ever since the ‘credit crisis’.
Mazda also plans […] Continue Reading…
“We usually consider that a rare complication, and to have 470 is absolutely extraordinary. This is a new public health problem.”-Robert Tauxe, CDC
Center for Disease Control believes three people in the U.S. have picked up the latest deadliest form of e-coli. They had returned from Germany.
Michael Osterholm, at the University of Minnesota, says the […] Continue Reading…
Someone, or some group, calling itself Lulz Security has hacked Sony again.
They claim they’ve “compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures (including passwords) along with 75,000 ‘music codes’ and 3.5 million ‘music coupons.'”
Lulz Security also claims to have acquired unencrypted passwords, names, addresses and birth dates for thousands of Sony customers.