“We hope that the agency will gain a leading position in the global rating market within the next five years. We’re fully aware that a globally recognized organization can never be propped up by one agency, so we will bring in more countries.”-Guan Jianzhong, CEO of Dagong Global Credit Ratings
On September 4, Israeli security forces detained a group of Turkish tourists, and made them strip naked: “…they took us into changing rooms. (We) took off our clothes and shoes. (They) searched our bodies with their hands and then with a detector.”-Arif Cinar, Turkish citizen
On September 2 Turkey officially cut all military ties to Israel. On September 5 Turkey gave Israel two days to get their diplomats the hell out of Turkey!
This action is in retaliation for Israel refusing to apologize for killing nine Turkish peace activists back in May 2010. Turkey used to be Israel’s strongest ally […] Continue Reading…
In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Iranian channel, BBC Persian, Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi admitted they are conducting military action against Iran with the help of the United States.
Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi is the boss of the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist group.
Human Rights Watch has come across nearly 300 pages of documents, found in the offices of Libya’s external security services, along with ten of thousand of documents found in the abandoned British Embassy in Tripoli. The documents show how the United States and the United kingdom supported Gaddafi right up until sanctions were imposed.
Despite the rebels controlling most of Libya, the number of refugees fleeing into Tunis has increased!
Tunisian media reports that prior to the rebel take over of Libya there were about 7,000 Libyans fleeing into Tunis every day. Now that number has jumped to 9,000 per day!!! And just at the Tunisian-Libyan border post of […] Continue Reading…
The new Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa, and the new Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, both say they will push for the agreed to moving of USMC units from one part of Okinawa to a new location, also on Okinawa.
People living on Okinawa would like to see the USMC gone altogether, but Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba […] Continue Reading…
The new Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihiko Noda, is about to publish his national security policy in a Japanese magazine. Reportedly this will include plans to control territories that many Japanese believe inherently belong to Japan.
For several months now, Japan and China have had run ins involving disputes over territorial water, and islands. This […] Continue Reading…
Typhoon Talas, now Tropical Storm Talas, continues to slam Japan. On the Kii Peninsula, in west central Japan, rainfall has topped a record-breaking 1,800 millimeters (5.9 feet) in one village.
Even though the storm is over the Sea of Japan it continues to pummel land with rain as it moves north. Talas is expected to […] Continue Reading…
05 September 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company says it is growing concerned (finally) about the amount of radioactive water still building up in the basements of the reactor buildings.
TEPCo officials say even if they keep it from running off into the Pacific Ocean, it will eventually soak into the groundwater, which eventually runs into […] Continue Reading…