In a clear case of obsession, Tokyo Electric Power Company announced they will resume water injection in Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 1.
TEPCo officials say the water level is far too low, and they have confirmed that holes and cracks have formed in the reactor vessel, as a result of the meltdown.
A couple of days ago […] Continue Reading…
Japan has ordered the mandatory evacuations of two towns in Fukushima Prefecture, 15 May, almost three days after it was reveled that Reactor 1, of Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant, was melting down.
Families with children kindergarten age or younger, and pregnant women, are the first to be evacuated. At least 7,700 people will be evacuated […] Continue Reading…
Many U.S. media reports about President Obama’s push to increase U.S. oil production, blame it on the people’s demand for lower gas prices.
The problem with that argument is that world demand for oil products is so high that even if the U.S. can increase oil production, it will never be able to increase it […] Continue Reading…
Despite demands by the people of Egypt to be allowed to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Egyptian Army is blocking access to the Sinai Peninsula, in order to keep Egyptians from reaching the Israeli border at Gaza.
Some Egyptian politicians have stated that the Egyptian blockade against Gaza is being done to support […] Continue Reading…
At the beginning of 2011 a lawsuit was filed against Jimmy Carter, by Israelis upset by the facts in his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”. They wanted $5 million in damages.
They claimed that Carter’s facts were false, but, according to some reports, as of May 5 they have dropped their claims. I wounder if […] Continue Reading…
A murder/suicide in Ammon, Idaho, made news in Iran.
Iranian news outlet, Press TV, aired the story of the murder of two women, two children, and the suicide of the man who shot them. The man is from Iowa, and tried to set the house on fire before shooting himself.
Iranian media picked up the story […] Continue Reading…
New York Times reporting that former Blackwater founder, Erik Prince, has set up a mercenary force in U.A.E. The force is mainly made up of Colombians, but includes South Africans, Germans, British and U.S. citizens.
United States officials say if the mercenary group does not have U.S. approval then the U.S. citizens involved could face […] Continue Reading…
Jordanians are trying to get to the Israeli border, to protest the catastrophe of the loss of Palestinian land to Israelis.
Reports say that Jordanian government forces are turning the buses back from the border.
International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested just after he boarded an Air France flight at John F. Kennedy airport. He’s accused of assaulting a hotel maid.
Is it coincidence that Kahn was going to run against French President Sarkozy in next year’s French elections? Sarkozy is the puppet of the Untied States, the […] Continue Reading…
Protesters in Cairo were attacked in a drive by shooting. A car drove into the protesters, the occupants shooting into the crowd. Reports say two people were wounded. Crowds grabbed one of the shooters, who has ID cards for former president Mubarak’s political party. This suggests that the new government might be just a […] Continue Reading…