It must be noted that I started documenting these ObamaCare/healthcare related shutdowns at the beginning of 2014. In that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 ObamaCare cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past 11 months of 2016 there have been so many ObamaCare […] Continue Reading…
12 December 2016 / 20:57 UTC-07 Tango 06 (23 Azar 1395/13 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/15 Geng Zi 4714)
It’s long been known that pets, especially dogs, react negatively to the breath of people with cancer. In China scientists have succesfully detected cancer ions in the breath of cancer victims using a mass spectrometer.
Experimental breathalizer […] Continue Reading…
12 December 2016 / 20:17 UTC-07 Tango 06 (23 Azar 1395/13 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/15 Geng Zi 4714)
“If someone is designing a method for automated vehicle handover, there will need to be detailed research on that specific method. This study is tip of an iceberg.”-Lene Harbott, Revs Program at Stanford
A new study published by the new Science Robotics journal […] Continue Reading…
12 December 2016 / 18:56 UTC-07 Tango 06 (23 Azar 1395/13 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/15 Geng Zi 4714)
“While attempts were made in the past, those news shows were translated from Spanish. But here, the entire team is composed of Quechua speakers.”-Hugo Coya, National Institute of Radio and Television
In the Americas there is a first of its kind national […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss announcements and shutdowns for November 2016:
Switzerland based owner of several ‘luxury’ brands sold in the U.S., Compagnie Financière Richemont, eliminating an additional 250 jobs due to crashing sales! That’s on top of 250 jobs killed since May.
Alabama: Bon Ton Hatters Shoe Repair shutdown after 110 years, the owner […] Continue Reading…
11 December 2016 / 20:40 UTC-07 Tango 06 (22 Azar 1395/12 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/14 Geng Zi 4714)
In 2010 I wrote about recycling your plastic grocery bags, recently Kroger owned (but Oregon based) retailer Fred Meyer completed a million dollar remodel of their Pocatello, Idaho store, including their recycling bin.
You can see a pic of their old […] Continue Reading…
07 December 2016 (04:20 UTC-07 Tango 01) 17 Azar 1395/07 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/09 Geng Zi 4714
Despite a reputation for high tech, and being the birth place of internationally popular Manga, Japanese high schoolers are increasingly dumbing down precisely because of their high tech infatuations!
A survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shows that only 35% […] Continue Reading…
07 December 2016 (03:44 UTC-07 Tango 01) 17 Azar 1395/07 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/09 Geng Zi 4714
The deaths of expensive Black Swans at a Japanese zoo has revealed a bird flu epidemic sweeping the island nation.
The Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya confirmed that one Black Swan died from bird flu, and two others died but tested negative. More testing […] Continue Reading…
06 December 2016 (13:39 UTC-07 Tango 01) 16 Azar 1395/06 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/08 Geng Zi 4714
“This is a proud moment for the Turkish people.”-Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey, supposedly on the day he signed the lease deal with Barack Obama
NATO member Turkey has begun landing KC-135 tanker planes in Texas, possibly in preperation to […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list (there’s just too much government BS to be able to keep up with all of it) of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for November 2016:
Alabama: ‘Elected’ administrators are freaking out over skyrocketing taxpayer funded healthcare costs, so much so that they’re warning that current tax collections cannot support state Medicaid operations in the […] Continue Reading…