The pictures are impressive, of ash columns rocketing into the sky, surrounded by lightning strikes. Believe or not it’s considered a moderate eruption. It’s enough to spread enough ash to shut down airports in Argentina and Chile.
The Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano complex erupted on Saturday, June 4, causing thousands of people to evacuate. Chile is […] Continue Reading…
The insolvent government of Greece has just discovered that 4,500 dead people have been receiving government retirement pay, for years.
The government is now investigating whether there was a slip up on their side, or the families never filed notifications of death. At least $23 million was paid out to dead people.
The Greek government is […] Continue Reading…
The nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi has resulted in hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive water being spilled into the Pacific Ocean, and it hasn’t stopped.
Greenpeace says they’ve found ocean species with unsafe levels of radiation, 50 km (31 miles) from the nuke plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency announced they will begin monitoring […] Continue Reading…
As proof that the Japanese government, and Tokyo Electric Power Company, were just wild ass guessing about the radiation levels being released from Fukushima Daiichi, a new report says the levels are more than double.
The governmental Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency is now saying the initial radiation release from the damaged nuke plant was […] Continue Reading…
The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Ministry maintains ‘off site centers’ near nuclear plants. The centers are government run emergency response units based ‘off site’ of the privately run nuclear plants.
The public news station, NHK, got hold of a NISA report that admitted that almost all of their off site centers were dysfunctional at […] Continue Reading…
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.