“To me, it’s not an issue. To me it’s like car insurance. If you have a car, you pay insurance. If you want protection, you pay the price.”-Benny McGuire, Obion County Mayor
If you listen to Mayor McGuire’s statement it sure sounds like extortion.
For the second time this year, Tennessee firefighters stood by and watched […] Continue Reading…
I’ve already criticized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its handling of radiation contamination, now there’s evidence they’re ignoring arsenic poisoning of apples, rice, and other food due to farm chemicals.
In one study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S. women who ate half a cup of cooked rice, ingested […] Continue Reading…
Russia and China have said they will not join any embargo of Iranian oil. For Russia the reason is simple: “…we are not consuming Iranian oil at all!”-Sergei Shmatko, Energy Minister of Russia
You’d think the leaders of Canada, the U.K. and U.S. (the countries pushing for an embargo of Iranian oil) would already know that.
For […] Continue Reading…
On December 6, a Texas mom shot her two kids, and then herself inside a Laredo social services office, after being denied food stamps. She had been applying since July!
Officials say she didn’t provide enough documentation! Her two kids, a 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, are in critical condition, she’s dead. The woman had […] Continue Reading…
On December 4, an east Idaho TV station reported that an airline route from Idaho Falls to Boise will stop service on December 31.
On December 5, the same east Idaho TV station did an update, after they talked to the President of Oregon based SeaPort Airlines. Rob McKinney said that ticket sales in east […] Continue Reading…
Russia now says two Russian diplomats were also injured by Qatari security forces, when Russian Ambassador to Qatar, Vladimir Titorenko, was assaulted upon his return from Jordan. Titorenko is currently in the hospital.
On November 30, Russia “…demanded that the Qatari side immediately offer a formal apology and take all necessary measures to establish and […] Continue Reading…
“The U.S., the most democratic country in the world, has the infrastructure to arrest Bush if he is charged with human rights abuses. Why don’t they ask the Obama administration to arrest that guy?”-Mikael Atsbeha, Ethiopian cameraman
Last week Amnesty International naively asked three pro-U.S. African countries to arrest George W. Bush.
Bush, along with the […] Continue Reading…
On December 3, all Latin American and Caribbean countries came together under CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, or Community of Latin American and Caribbean States).
The United States and Canada were intentionally left out. China has expressed support for CELAC, and so has Russia.
However, in the official Russian statement there is an ominous […] Continue Reading…
Rutgers’ Heldrich Center for Workforce Development has been following people who lost their jobs at the beginning of the Great Recession (2008-2010). They found that the overwhelming majority have not recovered!
The ongoing study is called Categorizing the Unemployed by the Impact of the Recession.
They have five categories they ask people to describe their situation […] Continue Reading…
The independent commission investigating Olympus has submitted their report. The optic company began losing money, and covering it up in 1998.
Losses totaled more than 100 billion yen (about U.S.$1 trillion by today’s exchange rate)!!!
Olympus accountants began covering up the losses after the Japanese government introduced stricter accounting rules. The report also named Hideo Yamada and […] Continue Reading…