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3 Nuclear Reactors Meltdown In Post-quake Japan

As if the rest of the world didn’t know it already, the Japanese now admit that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant did indeed have not one but three meltdowns at the three reactors there. This was disclosed by their Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters. According to the agency the 1,2 and 3 reactors had full [...]

Violence At Israeli Border

In response to Arab demonstrators that were marching from the Syrian border toward the Golan Heights that Israel controls, Israel opened fire on the protestors. The protestors were out in force for the anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Israel’s response, have a reported four protestors killed with over 30 injured. However, conflicting reports say [...]

US House Price Still Sliding

Houses are falling faster than on witches in the Land of Oz. That’s houses in the US that is. The house prices are falling at a rate that is beating the slide of the Great Depression and that doesn’t look good at all. The first quarter of this year has seen the housing market fall [...]

Police Shot Lawn Ornament Thinking It’s An Alligator

See ya’ later alligator! That is the title to a popular song of the 1950s and is appropriate to the situation cops found themselves in Independence, Missouri when they opened fire on what they thought was a dangerous alligator lurking in weeds. Officers showed up and saw the menacing creature and opened fire. The creature [...]

Toshiba Thrive Tablet Out In July

Toshiba is now in the arena to develop their own tablet that is supposed to go on sale in July. Toshiba’s device is called Thrive and is about 10 inches with a price tag a bit lower than the industry leader, Apple’s iPad 2. The device is a WiFi only thing that runs on Google [...]

ACLU Backs Porn For South Carolina Inmates

Leave it to the American Civil Liberties Union to come up with the idea that porn should be allowed at a detention center in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. As it turns out the detention center reportedly only allows inmates to read the Bible. The officials there contradict that and say they have a variety of [...]

Bombs At Ikea Stores in Belgium, France & The Netherlands

Like something out of a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, it’s reported that alarm clocks at the Ikea stores in several European countries are blowing up! Belgium, France, and the Netherlands report that small explosives were concealed in the alarm clocks and then detonated at the stores. Fortunately no injuries nor deaths were reported from [...]

South Beach Uneasy Memorial Day

More public unrest during the Memorial Day holiday as in the popular South Beach section of Florida, so far one has been killed and seven injured during some police involved shootings. The annual popular hangout saw so far two officer involved related shootings and some officers were sent to the Mount Sinai Medical Center with [...]

Shale Boom in Texas

A stunning discovery in Texas may lead to an increase of US oil production by 25% within the next ten years as oil companies start drilling in Carrizo Springs. The Texas oil field is called Eagle Ford which is now home to 20 new onshore oil fields that experts say could increase the oil production [...]

Italian Seismologists Charged

It looks like you can get sued or thrown in jail for just about anything nowadays and that’s what’s happened to an Italian seismologist who has been accused of manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake in 2009 that killed 308 people. Enzo Boschi who is the President of the country’s National Institute of Geophysics [...]