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…
29 November 2016 (11:43 UTC-07 Tango 01) 09 Azar 1395/28 Safar 1438/01 Ji Hai (11th month) 4714
An Idaho man is facing charges of vote fraud, in two states, using his dead wife’s name. The FBI is now investigating.
Nez Perce County and Asotin County election auditors were told that a man was bragging that he voted twice […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of November, 2016: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.
Expect anything made with soy to go up […] Continue Reading…
28 November 2016 / 23:28 UTC-07 Tango 01 (09 Azar 1395/28 Safar 1438/01 Ji Hai [11th month] 4714)
Typically police warn you about scammers pretending to be raising money for fake police charities, but this time a cop is charged doing the same thing.
A former Boise, Idaho, cop and his wife are charged with stealing thousands […] Continue Reading…