Maybe your not old enough to remember when parents in the United States used to tell their kids, “Eat all your food, there’re starving people in China/Africa!” A new study by the United Nations proves that kind of reasoning correct.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization released findings of a study on wasting food. The […] Continue Reading…
Israeli ground troops have invaded the northern half of Gaza, Wednesday, May 11. Reports say troops, tanks and armored bulldozers are advancing towards Gaza City.
Israeli officials say they are destroying “possible tunnels”. Palestinians think the Israelis are trying to provoke action by Gazans, that would then be used to justify a larger military operation.
Recently […] Continue Reading…
One of the things pushed through by President Sarkozy, at the beginning of his term, was tax breaks for the French Elites. Four years later those breaks have proven to be an economic failure. Now Sarkozy’s own UMP political party wants to stop it: “This government has a tax policy which benefits only a […] Continue Reading…
Facebook officials are asking the Federal Election Commission to exempt them from U.S. election law. The law Facebook doesn’t like; disclosing who paid for political advertising on their website.
Facebook’s arguments are really weak. In a written explanation, Facebook says by disclosing who paid for the ad, it would make the ad bigger, and they […] Continue Reading…
Computer security firm Symantec, discovered a hole in Facebook’s security system, allowing third parties to access at least 100,000 accounts.
“We estimate that over the years, hundreds of thousands of applications may have inadvertently leaked millions of access tokens to third parties.”-Nishant Doshi, Symantec
Symantec says they contacted Facebook officials about the problem, and Facebook […] Continue Reading…
The agreement has a lot of strong sounding words and phrases, like “comprehensive” and “concrete plans”.
Here’s what the Obama administration said; China and the U.S. need “a cooperative partnership that is comprehensive in scope, cooperative in nature, and yields positive achievements that benefit our people.”
Basically China, and the U.S., spent a lot of […] Continue Reading…
Sony announced they plan to get the PlayStation network up and running by the end of May.
Of course, Sony officials say everything depends on their investigation into who hacked their systems in April. Officials will not talk about the details of their investigation.
The Brown’s Ferry nuke plant in Alabama, is under investigation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Investigators say a cooling system failure is of “high safety significance”.
Last October the plant had a cooling valve problem, in reactor 1, that cause it to shut down. Operators say the valve is fixed. But there are concerns especially […] Continue Reading…
Toyota has announced they have worked deals to secure, or substitute, 80% of the parts they are missing to build their cars.
The problem is that it’s not 100% of the parts they need. Last month Toyota officials said that it only took one missing part to shut down production.
On 17 April, Tokyo Electric Power Company issued a plan to control the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant. That plan involved 51 steps, so far as of 10 May, only one is being done; the continued pumping of water to try and cool the reactors and fuel pools.
TEPCo admitted they did not expect such high […] Continue Reading…