'Government shutdown' seems imminent as both parties can't agree on budget proposals. A federal government shutdown will require only the 'most essential' government personnel to show up to work i.e. if you happen to be a government worker and you're asking yourself "am I an essential part of the government personnel?", you're probably not. You won't get paid for the time you don't work and who knows when you'll start working again. And that isn't even the worst part of it, I mean you're talking about a government shutdown. The fucking U.S. government will 'shut down'!
The wave of revolutions/revolts against governments in the Middle East/Northern Africa, started in Morocco followed by Tunisia then Egypt, Libya, etc, seems to have moved even farther with new uprisings beginning to take place in Ivory Coast. The country has just went through elections and some are not content with the elected candidate. Will the whole Middle East/Northern Africa 'revolt'?
The effects of the nuclear crisis taking place in Japan seems to not weaken, but intensify, as levels of radiation seem to spread more and more around the affected areas. Japanese officials for some reason thought it'd be a good idea to dump radioactive water from the nuclear plants into the ocean and now fish that swim around that part of the ocean are radioactive. I really don't get it. They said something about the half life of radiation or something but still, it doesn't seem too sane to dump radioactive water on the ecosystem, because it will obviously affect it. It really seems like this nuclear crisis has 'gotten out of control'. It seems like nobody was ready for it and no security measures were ever taken into consideration. Will this be the first out of many other 'nuclear disasters' that will take place? Japan isn't the only country with nuclear plants, just the one more prone to disasters. But who knows.
The ozone layer over the Arctic has reached an "unprecedented" loss, due to hardcore chemicals, global warming and a cold winter. I don't 'exactly know' how these affect it but they said it was a 40 percent loss. Seems 'pretty alarming'. The ozone layer shelters the Earth and all its creatures from the dangerous ultraviolet rays of the sun. Without the ozone layer the Earth would be hot desert and no life would be able to exist.
Seems like nothing good happens anymore. There isn't any good news ever. The future seems bleak.
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