A tornado hit St. Louis airport. It damaged a terminal and parts of the airport’s Concourse C, which is used by American Airlines, AirTran and Cape Air.
The tornado was last seen heading towards Ferguson, Missouri.
Earlier this week a tornado hit a Virginia nuclear power plant. It’s shut down while they repair a switchyard.
“Crews have been progressing safely and quickly. However, as the crew advances closer (to where Marek may be), the work involved will become much more difficult, time consuming with new materials, equipment and supplies in order to advance the tunnel into potentially unstable ground.”-Hecla press release
So far 163 feet (49.6 meters) of […] Continue Reading…
A senior Pakistani intelligence official says U.S. personnel operating drones from a Pakistan base, have quietly left the country.
Officially the U.S. is not operating drones out of Pakistani bases, but Pakistani intelligence has been saying, for a while now, they the U.S. is indeed using Pakistani bases for drone attacks.
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“So, you are coming to protest against an imaginary threat that doesn’t exist in our community. Not in our courts, not at our City Hall, not on our streets and not in any of our places of worship. Our commitment to the Constitution is unwavering, not merely convenient, which makes […] Continue Reading…
22 April 2011
“Nobody will stand against you! Subaru!”In a response to complaints about an Israeli ad that shows Palestinian teens being hit by an Israeli driving a Subaru (made by Fuji Heavy Industries), U.S. Subaru officials claim Subaru had nothing to do with the ad.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce are investigating claims by U.S. companies, that China is dumping steel wheels on the U.S. market.
The claim was filed by the U.S. wheel makers, Accuride Corp and Hayes Lemmerz International Inc.
16 Chinese companies are being investigated for selling their wheels in the United States, […] Continue Reading…
Japan has gone through a lot in the past month. But typhoon season is on it’s way. Nishiyama Hidehiko, of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said nuke plant operators are now preparing for typhoon season.
They believe preparations will be complete by the end of the month. Officials say the nuke plants are designed […] Continue Reading…
Terry Jones now has a $1 million bounty for his arrest. He’s one of the ‘christians’ that burned the Quran in March. He, and his followers (doesn’t that make it a cult?) are in Dearborn, Michigan, to launch a Good Friday protest in front of the largest mosque in the U.S.
The problem is that […] Continue Reading…
If you’re coming back from Canada with a handful, or even just one, Kinder Egg, you’re breaking the law. It’s against U.S. law to bring chocolate Kinder Eggs into the U.S., and can result in a $300.00 fine, per egg.
Several people have already had their collectible eggs, with a toy inside, taken by U.S. […] Continue Reading…
At least two nuclear plants in the United States have been automatically shut down this week. A nuclear plant in Virgina, and a nuclear plant in Georgia.
In Surry, Virginia, a nuke plant was hit by tornadoes. It shut down automatically, and is now undergoing repairs to its electrical switchyard.
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