The following is the official Cuban declaration against U.S. led NATO activities in Libya, loosely translated from Spanish:
“The Foreign Ministry has withdrawn its diplomatic staff in Libya, where foreign intervention and military aggression of NATO have exacerbated the conflict and the Libyan people have impeded progress towards a negotiated and peaceful solution, in the […] Continue Reading…
“We cannot remain indifferent to the way Resolutions Number 1970 and 1973 of the UN Security Council are being fulfilled. The attaining of the main goal, proclaimed by the UN Security Council, should be started, which is the protection of the civilian population.”-Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Foreign Minister
September 4, the countries with […] Continue Reading…
NHK reported 9 people dead and more than 30 others missing. Russian media reporting more than 20 dead and 50 missing. Canadian media, citing Reuters, reporting at least 17 dead.
The south western portion of the big island of Honshu, and the island Shikoku, suffered major flooding and landslides. Many homes were hit, or swept […] Continue Reading…
As the nuclear disaster continues in Japan, more tea leaves have been found with extremely high levels of cesium.
The Japanese health ministry says radioactive cesium has been detected in harvested tea leaves in Chiba and Saitama prefectures, near Tokyo (about 297km or 185 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant).
One type of tea from […] Continue Reading…
“Without the revival of Fukushima, there will be no revival of Japan.”-Noda Yoshihiko, Prime Minister of Japan
The new Japanese Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko, said there will be no recovery for Japan, without the recovery of Fukushima Prefecture.
Hello, Fukushima is contaminated with radiation! The Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant is still out of control! Latest cesium […] Continue Reading…
“The last time the government reported exactly zero jobs added in a month was in February 1945.”-CNN
“We expected a weak report, and what we got was even weaker…” and “It’s still a skunk and it still stinks.”-Patrick O’Keefe, economic researcher at J.H. Cohn
The United States Department of Labor says Corporate America has let the […] Continue Reading…
Typhoon Talas is coming ashore between Shikoku and Hiroshima. Heavy rain, flooding and landslides being reported from Tokyo area, and several hundreds of miles north east to the island of Hokkaido.
Rain warnings for the hardest hit areas: Tokai (Nagoya) and Kinki (Osaka, Kobe, & Kyoto), may get drenched with 800mm (31 inches) of rain […] Continue Reading…
“A seasonal drop in exports to China was expected…But the magnitude of the fall has been greater than anticipated.”-U.S. Department of Agriculture
According to a September 1 report by Agrimoney, China has slashed its purchasing of U.S. farm products. Not by a little, by a whole lot.
Up until three months ago China was spending […] Continue Reading…
August 31, a Philadelphia police officer was charged with raping a woman after offering her a lift, while he was on duty.
Instead of driving her to her destination he allegedly raped her in the back of the police car, then dropped her off at a bus station. The woman reported the crime […] Continue Reading…
According to a report by Agrimoney, Argentina has replaced the U.S. as the main supplier of corn to Colombia, and probably in the near future Canada will do the same with wheat.
U.S. corn exports to Columbia have crashed: In 2007 the U.S. supplied 96% of Columbia’s corn. In 2010, the United States supplied a […] Continue Reading…