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Japanese authorities have raised the severity rating of their nuclear crisis to the highest level, seven. Level seven previously only applied to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, where 10 times as much radiation was emitted.

Experts say due to the severity of the initial quake aftershocks exceeding 7 could continue in a wide area.

CBS leaves out Obama’s war on oil as a part of the cause of rising gas prices.

(WARNING – Some may find scenes in the video disturbing)
This dramatic footage shows children fleeing from a killer who shot 12 kids dead and wounded at least 12 others in Rio de Janeiro school shooting, Brazil. A 24-year old former student of the public school where the tragedy took place, entered the building and opened fire in two classrooms. He shot himself afterwards. The country’s President has declared 7-days of mourning for the victims. The massacre is the first of its kind in Brazil, mirroring school shootings in the U.S.

Nato refuses to apologise for an air strike that hit anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya, saying it had not been aware rebels had tanks.

Rep. Ros-Lehtinen was quick to point out the advantages of a treaty that had been held up by Democrats under pressure from American labor unions. “It is unfortunate that this job-creating agreement has been on hold for more than four years as the Obama Administration raised one obstacle after another due to politically-driven opposition by partisan special interest groups,” she added.

President Obama’s “kinetic military action”, swiftly passed off to NATO (which is another way of spelling USA), and currently a mess waiting for someone to kill Muammar Gadhafi (how’s that for a plan?) has simply confirmed what everyone suspected. So far as the Middle East is concerned, he has no foreign policy.

Reporting from Baghdad, Iraq yesterday, NBC’s Tom Brokaw said the Saudi Arabian monarchy is “so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak of Egypt” that it has sent senior officials to the Peoples’ Republic of China and Russia to seek expanded business opportunities with those countries.

The more strength the Chinese economy gains with each passing day, which it does, the weaker the American economy becomes, making it ever more impossible for China to keep the cost of pegging the currency to dollar at a comfortable level.

To all those who doubted if Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez was involved in drug-trafficking activities, doubt no more; the evidence is in.