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.
25 years after the deadly nuclear accident at the Chernobyl plant, the Ukraine is still struggling to deal with the disaster.
This week is Black Week, the official anniversary of the nuclear accident, which happened on 26 April 1986. 31 people were killed, as a direct result of the disaster, and many more have suffered […] Continue Reading…
So you voted for Barack Obama because you’re hoping to go to college, but can’t afford the skyrocketing costs. You thought Obama was going to help you pay for college? You’re right, if your going to college in China!
Last week Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, announced that the U.S. State Department will spend U.S.$3 […] Continue Reading…