Posts Tagged ‘japan’

The Nobel Prize for good intentions

October 12th, 2009 | No Comments

President Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize.  Although some are scratching their heads over why, I’m not.  It’s quite obvious and the Nobel peeps even said why: “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” Some were somewhat dubious of his accomplishments: “Frankly to be nominated after he has been in [...]

Cash for clunkers redux

August 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Quick question, how many people think the cash for clunkers program fixed the auto industry’s problems? A $300 million cash-for-clunkers-type federal program to boost sales of energy-efficient home appliances provides a glimmer of hope for beleaguered makers of washing machines and dishwashers, but it’s probably not enough to lift companies such as Whirlpool (WHR) and [...]

How the cash for clunker program saves the USA?

August 5th, 2009 | 2 Comments

All I’ve heard since last week was how the woefully underfunded Cash for Clunkers program needed another $2 billion to keep it going.  This had to be done RIGHT NOW since it was such a wildly successful program.  I heard more than one analyst tell me it was a key cog to kicking the economy [...]

Clinton condemns the Clinton China Trade Agreement

April 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Here’s what Hillary Clinton said: “A Chinese company bought Magnequench,” she said in a speech in Pittsburgh on April 14. “The people of Indiana, the company and the elected officials begged the Bush administration to block the Chinese company from moving the jobs to China…. Not only did the jobs go to China, but so [...]

Obama is Buddhist!

March 4th, 2008 | No Comments

Hah!  Now the secret is finally out.  Much speculation has been made about Barack Obama’s religion.  It has been implied, since he was born in Hawaii, that he is a closet extremist Muslem.  However, yesterday he let the cat out of the bag.  This whole race, he has been secretly courting radical Buddhists in Japan!  [...]

Major earthquake hits Japan Nuke site

July 16th, 2007 | 1 Comment

I have argued here a long time that most of the fears of nuclear energy are based on fear itself. Fear of the unknown as people don’t easily comprehend how nuclear energy works and don’t want to look into enough to sate those fears. People like Helen Caldicott and a lot of the media fan [...]

North Korea declares war on the entire planet

October 17th, 2006 | No Comments

North Korea blasted U.N. sanctions Tuesday aimed at punishing the country for its atomic test, saying the measures were a declaration of war and that the nation wouldn’t yield to such pressure now that it’s a nuclear weapons power. "The resolution cannot be construed otherwise than a declaration of a war" against the North, also [...]

Population Bomb

August 29th, 2004 | No Comments

Remember the population bomb, the fertility explosion set to devour the world’s food and suck up or pollute all its air and water? Its fuse has by no means been plucked. But over the last three decades, much of its Malthusian detonation power has leaked out….. Half the world’s population growth is in six countries: [...]