The Japanese government is considering drastic ways to increase government revenue to pay for rebuilding, due to the March 11 disasters.
They are considering raising utility fees, increasing existing taxes, and creating new taxes. In a recent NHK poll only 37% of people had no problem with paying higher taxes.
“I was in Tokyo when the earthquake hit, and everything stopped. Trains stopped, buses were in chaos and cars were jammed. Within that, you could just see bicycles swimming through. Some of our stores stayed open until 4 a.m. to meet the surge in demand.”-Susumu Shimoda, Asahi Co. President
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The United Kingdom (Britain), a member of NATO, and a United Nations coalition member supposedly enforcing UNSCR 1973, announced they are sending 20 commandos to train Libyan rebels.
UNSCR 1973 states that efforts should be made only to protect civilians.
Recently NATO members (including the United States) announced that their main objective is to get rid […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company says high radiation levels, and high humidity, is slowing up robots being used to inspected the reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi.
In Reactor 2 building the humidity was so high it fogged the robot’s camera lens.
In Reactor 3, there is too much debris from the hydrogen gas explosion. They will use […] Continue Reading…
Officials have decided it’s too dangerous to dig through the caved in roof of the Lucky Friday mine, near Mullan, Idaho.
They will now try digging two new shafts to get to Larry Marek. He and his brother were working in the mine on Friday, when the roof caved in.
Digging the new shafts could take […] Continue Reading…
Cuban President Raul Castro announced that Cubans can now sell, and buy homes. Up ’till now Cubans could only pass on their homes to children, or arrange complicated trades.
Raul Castro warned that Cubans will not be allowed to collected large amounts of property, under the new rules.
Fidel Castro approved of the communist party decision. […] Continue Reading…
Fire fighters in one part of Texas are reporting a strange phenomenon in their battle to control wildfires: ‘Ice capping’.
70 miles west of Fort Worth, embers from the fires have gone so high into the atmosphere that they’ve frozen and fallen back to the ground. It’s an indicator of how hot the fires are, […] Continue Reading…
Rescuers are bringing in more equipment to dig out Larry Marek. A section of roof caved in on him and his brother last Friday, his brother got out.
The latest info is that a large diamond drill will be used to drill a hole through the debris, to try and determine if Marek is alive. […] Continue Reading…
GM announced, on April 18, that they will increase the price of their vehicles, because of the rising cost of supplies.
GM said it is not related to the parts supply problem in Japan. Instead they blame it on commodities like oil and steel. GM’s price hike will take effect May 2. Toyota and Ford […] Continue Reading…
18 people were killed, and 155 injured after a major hail and wind storm hit southern China.
Most people were killed when 45 houses collapsed. The storm struck on April 17.
Many farms were destroyed, creating tens of millions of U.S. dollars in damage. It now adds to the growing concern over world food supply.