May 22, the day after the Queen of England left Ireland, a Northern Ireland bank was hit by a small bomb. Three masked men burst into the bank, warning customers they had one hour to leave before the bomb went off. Police say people could have been killed if they were still in the […] Continue Reading…
“We support a set of universal rights. Those rights include free speech…”-President Barak Obama, May 19 Middle East speech
Obama talks about freedom of speech, while at the same time bans reporters from being present at White House press briefings.
Reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Herald, are the latest to be […] Continue Reading…
French environment minister, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, declared a “crisis situation” because of the ongoing drought. She explained that current water levels are the same as if it was July, instead of May.
She has ordered a third of all French administrative departments to cut back on water use. Two-thirds of the country’s groundwater reserves are reported […] Continue Reading…
Korean media reporting the three U.S. Army veterans have testified that they were ordered to dump 250 55-gallon barrels of Agent Orange on a U.S. base in South Korea.
“They just told us it was going to be used for disposal.”-Steve House, veteran
South Korea’s environment ministry will take soil samples at Camp Carroll in Chilgok […] Continue Reading…
While British Petroleum fights to pin blame on others for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, they somehow have convinced one of its Japanese business partners to pay for part of it.
MOEX, a unit of Japanese trading firm Mitsui and Company, will pay just over $1 billion to cover damages and clean up. […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company president, Shimizu Masataka, has resigned, and will step down in June.
TEPCo has lost $15 billion. $12 billion of that is directly due to dealing with the ongoing nuclear disaster at their Fukushima Daiichi plant.
In order to pay compensation to people affected by the radiation disaster, TEPCo will sell off $7 […] Continue Reading…
20 May 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company says they will resume nitrogen injection in Fukushima Daiichi’s reactors 2 and 3. There is a fear that hydrogen gas is building to explosive levels.
The explosions of the reactor buildings, back in March, is blamed on hydrogen gas build up. TEPCo also said they were installing lead […] Continue Reading…
Scotland has oil, lots of it. And the Scottish people say they’re tired of the English controlling it. After all they were told they would benefit, but they haven’t. Scottish rebels point to Norway as an example: “Scotland and Norway discovered oil at the same time. Some years ago, Scotland was turned into […] Continue Reading…
President Barak Obama wants to write off $1 billion in debts that Egypt owes the U.S. Then he wants to give Egypt another $1 billion in credit!
Here’s two reasons taxpayers of the United States should be pissed off: According to the U.S. Department of State: “U.S. military aid to Egypt totals over $1.3 billion […] Continue Reading…
Canadian Imperial Oil (a subsidiary Exxon Mobil Corp) has massive equipment, called modules, stuck in Lewiston, Idaho. They need to get it to their Kearl oil sands project in northern Alberta, Canada.
The problem is their size. Idaho Transportation Department has yet to approve transportation of the equipment through Idaho, one of the problems is […] Continue Reading…