Japanese media reporting that many areas of Japan, that were hit by typhoon Talas on Friday and Saturday, are still flooding.
The damage is the worst since typhoon Tokage hit in 2004.
At least 34 people were killed, and at least 55 are missing. In Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, rescuers found the body of Saki Teramoto, […] Continue Reading…
According to the Associated press, a preliminary Nuclear Regulatory Commission review says that most U.S. nuclear reactors are not as earthquake safe as first thought.
The NRC review was actually started before the recent east coast quake, and the March 11 quake in Japan.
Earthquake safety standards for nuclear reactors were set more than 20 years […] Continue Reading…
In a survey done by Ipsos Mora y Araujo, citizens of 24 countries were asked how they viewed immigrants. The United States did not lead the way with immigrant haters, still more than half of U.S. citizens hate immigrants.
The Ipsos survey asked various questions regarding immigrants, but basically most European and American residents don’t […] Continue Reading…
1,900 Costa Ricans were studied, those who ate a lot of white rice, and those who preferred beans to rice.
In Costa Rica there’s been a trend of increased white rice consumption, instead of beans, and there’s been an increase in diabetes. Researchers wanted to know if there is a connection between white rice and […] Continue Reading…
“Unfortunately, the (UN) resolutions have been used to justify a war of aggression aimed, ultimately at control of (Libya’s) natural resources.”-Ricardo Patino, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister
Ecuadorian officials say they can not recognize the Libyan rebel Trans National Council because they are a creation of foreign intervention. Ecuador believes this is a […] Continue Reading…
September 4, ICRC boss Jakob Kellenberger, announced that the International Committee of the Red Cross is satisfied with the Syrian government’s attempts to protect civilians. This comes after a Syrian military bus was ambushed by ‘democracy loving’ rebels.
There is plenty of evidence that there is an all out war against the Syrian government, not […] Continue Reading…
War is Peace
The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century. With the absorption of Europe by Russia and of the United States by the British Empire, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and […] Continue Reading…
Ignorance is Strength
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude […] Continue Reading…
The Finnish cell phone giant, Nokia, has laid off 170 employees in China. Chinese officials say Nokia broke Chinese law, by giving only a ten day notice to the employees.
“Nokia China’s layoff at least violates the labor law in terms of procedure and according to the number of employees to be laid off […] Continue Reading…
An NHK survey revealed that 70% of Japan’s prefectural governments can not hold nuclear disaster drills, because there are no national nuclear standards.
13 prefectures were surveyed. They’ve held nuclear disaster drills before. The problem is that the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi has literally erased previous guidelines concerning nuclear disasters.
Most of the prefectures […] Continue Reading…