“First, the City took the unusual position that Officers could not request to be credited with compensatory time for any overtime that they worked during the NATO Summit knowing that this was a clear violation of our contract. Now, after our Mayor, Superintendent, and the citizens of Chicago have heaped praise upon Chicago Police […] Continue Reading…
25 May 2012, the U.S. Postal Service is offering buyouts to 45,000 part time mail handlers.
It’s part of the USPS’s plans to layoff 150,000 employees by 2015. Postal officials had no comment about how they were going to do that.
You can blame the U.S. Congress for forcing the Postal Service to over pay into […] Continue Reading…
25 May 2012, Japan’s Fishery Ministry reports a huge decrease in fish catches. Blame the 11 March 2011 disasters.
The reports says the fishing industry in the northeast of Japan was hit hard by the disasters, and has not been able to recover enough to supply Japan with enough fish. Supplies of local fish to […] Continue Reading…
On 17 May 2012, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ filed a suit against the U.S. government’s sanctions on Iran.
25 May 2012, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ said they’ve officially restarted transactions with Iran, after a U.S. court decided in their favor.
The whole thing was because of a U.S. federal judge deciding that Iran was […] Continue Reading…
26 May 2012, Japan and China could begin using their own money for international transactions as early as June.
The two countries have been working on a plan to conduct business with each other using the yen and the yuan, and avoiding international banks requiring the U.S. dollar.
Japan’s Kyodo News said Japan and China need […] Continue Reading…
As the Japanese nuclear disaster continues on, with no end in sight, I discovered that a public radiation detector, or High Pressure Ion Chamber (HPIC)/gamma detector, in the middle of nowhere eastern Idaho, apparently is not working.
It’s part of the Idaho Environmental Monitoring Program (IEMP), which is actually run by a conglomeration of Federal […] Continue Reading…
“I can’t believe the government, I don’t believe the government! We have to protect ourselves, that’s what we’ve learned from Fukushima.”-Kubo Yuki, regularly tests her family’s store bought food for radiation
24 May 2012, CNN ran a short report chronicling the spread of radiation ever since the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began. CNN […] Continue Reading…
On 24 May 2012, two United Nations organizations released preliminary results of their so called studies of radiation exposure in Japan. The problem is that those “studies” relied on government provided data, which even now TEPCo says are wrong.
First, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, or UNSCEAR, claimed that six […] Continue Reading…
Due to the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake which occurred on 11 March 2011, TEPCo’s facilities including our nuclear power stations have been severely damaged. We deeply apologize for the anxiety and inconvenience caused.
With regard to the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, on 17 April 2011, we have compiled the roadmap towards restoration from the […] Continue Reading…
24 May 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) is now estimating that 900,000 terabecquerels of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137 have spewed from Reactor 1 and Reactor 3, from March to September, 2011!
That’s an estimate that’s as much as 80% higher than official Japanese government (Nuclear Safety Commission, and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency) estimates!
TEPCo […] Continue Reading…