“Canada is required by its international obligations to arrest and prosecute former president Bush given his responsibility for crimes under international law including torture. As the U.S. authorities have, so far, failed to bring former president Bush to justice, the international community must step in. A failure by […] Continue Reading…
On the night of October 11, the U.S. Senate blocked President Obama’s proposed Jobs creation bill.
In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 74% of people says the United States is going in the wrong direction. 32% said the economy will get worse. 45% said it will stay the same.
On October 11, the CBS […] Continue Reading…
October 13, there are protests planned for at least 90 college campuses across the United States today.
Also today, hundreds of janitors and security guards have joined the Wall Street protests in New York City.
Across the world, there have been anti-government, anti-corruption and anti-corporation protests in about 1,400 cities, so far.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll shows […] Continue Reading…
October 13, Reports out of New York City say that the mayor has ordered protestors out, so that city workers can clean Zucotti park.
Protestors will hold a meeting soon, to decide how they will respond.
Several War on Terror veterans were arrested, one a former U.S. Army interrogator in Iraq. At least eleven protestors in […] Continue Reading…
“Buk-M1 surface to air missile systems, modern communications systems and heavy armor, including a battalion of T-80 tanks, have already been delivered to the Kurils. The provision of modern weapons and hardware for the troops in the Kurils will continue.”-Russian Defense Ministry statement
On islands just north of Hokkaido, Russia is modernizing and […] Continue Reading…
The number of Japanese leaving their country, in one year, has hit a record 1.1 million. That’s according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, which counted the number of Japanese who’ve officially become permanent residents of foreign countries.
The country of choice for most Japanese expatriates is the United States, with more than 388,000 becoming residents […] Continue Reading…
Blaming the March 11 disasters, credit research firm Teikoku Databank says at least 373 companies have collapsed since then.
Construction firms topped the list with 63 bankruptcies (despite reconstruction opportunities), followed by hotels and inns with 32 (despite people who’ve lost their homes and need a place to stay) and clothing companies with 23 (despite […] Continue Reading…
October 12, Sony announced that over the weekend their computer files were hacked, again.
This time as many as 93,000 customer data files could have been stolen. Sony officials do not think credit card data was stolen.
Once again, Sony is asking their customers to change their passwords.
Yokohama City officials are testing their soil for strontium, after a private testing firm said they found high levels of strontium on some roof tops.
The company said they detected 195 becquerels of strontium per kilogram, more than six times the government safety limit. Yokohama has already suffered cesium levels at 80 times the government […] Continue Reading…
The following is a brief on research I did on how Revolutions actually work, because they don’t follow the predictions of Karl Marx; that revolutions are led by the lower classes. Three authors were read: Crane Brinton, James C. Davies and Ted Gurr.
James C. Davies (creator of the J-curve theory of revolutions) compared the […] Continue Reading…