In another sign of who’s got the money, for the second year Chinese tourists have topped the list of biggest spenders in France.
The study was done by the UN World Tourism Organization. Recently the Japanese, in their own study, found that Chinese tourist were the biggest spenders there.
The study showed a 60% increase in […] Continue Reading…
It’s interesting how the main stream U.S. media reported the number of Drugs War protesters, over the weekend, as in the “hundreds”. It was tens of thousands!
Reports out of Mexico vary from 20,000 to 85,000. The latest protests took place from May 5-8, in several Mexican cities. The people were not only protesting drug […] Continue Reading…
Iran is joining China in blaming the U.S. bank, Federal Reserve, for destroying the world economy.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says the “paper money” policy of the Federal Reserve is playing a part in the increase of poverty around the world, by forcing most international trades to use U.S. dollars. He says the Federal Reserve […] Continue Reading…
Polish media reporting that President Obama will be announcing a deal made with the Polish government that will allow a permanent U.S. base on Poland’s territory.
The new U.S. air base, at Lask air field, would replace the Aviano air base in Italy. The USAF has F-16s based on Aviano, and they might be transferred […] Continue Reading…
The home video released by the U.S. Department of Defense is pathetic. The decrepit man in the video, supposedly Osama bin Laden, was so much a threat to the world that we had to expend such great effort to kill him?
What I see in the video, is a really old man who spends his […] Continue Reading…
Italian media is claiming that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is dead. They point out that it’s been nine days since he was seen in public, since the time a NATO airstrike killed one of his sons.
Several foreign envoys are also spreading the rumor by saying there is talk within the Libyan government about who […] Continue Reading…
Talk about taxation without representation, Israel collects most of the customs fees, and taxes for the Palestinian territories. It’s another way the Israelis make life hell for the Palestinians.
Now Israel says they will not turn that tax money over to the Palestinian government, in retribution for Fatah and Hamas unifying. The money Israel is […] Continue Reading…
“If the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus have really arrested or killed bin Laden, why don’t they shown him (his dead body), why have they thrown his corpse into the sea?”-Heidar Moslehi, Iran’s Intelligence Minister
Iran’s Intelligence Minister, Heidar Moslehi, claims Osama bin Laden died from disease years ago. Pakistani officials made a similar claim […] Continue Reading…
Japan Atomic Power Company said its Tsuruga nuclear plant leaked a small amount of radiation on Sunday, 08 May 2011. But this is not the first time.
On 02 May radiation was detected outside the reactors. JAPCo officials think the radiation leak is coming from the cooling water for the fuel rods. They are shutting […] Continue Reading…
Radioactive strontium continues to be spewed from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Soil samples taken at the plant, on 18 April, tested positive for strontium 89 and strontium 90.
Strontium collects in your bones and can cause various bone cancers. You get contaminated by breathing it.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says April’s strontium 90 levels […] Continue Reading…