17 February 2016 (05:28 UTC-07 Tango 01)/28 Bahman 1394/08 Jumada al-Ula 1437/10 Geng Yin 4714
“What we want is to create a secure strip, including Azaz, 10km deep inside Syria and this zone should be free from clashes.”-Yalcin Akdogan, deputy prime minister of Turkey
“We are asking coalition partners that there should be a ground operation….We […] Continue Reading…
17 February 2016 (03:09 UTC-07 Tango 01)/28 Bahman 1394/08 Jumada al-Ula 1437/10 Geng Yin 4714
In the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, east of Pocatello, Idaho, lurks a new Tyrannosaur born 95-million years ago!
Of course there were no Native Americans 95-millions years ago (neither was there an America), and that new T-Rex is nothing but a fossil now, […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: In Huntsville, 20 years old non-profit Sci-Quest hands-on science museum shutting down, due to lack of revenues which caused them to miss their January & February rent payments.
California: In Dinuba, Coca-Cola announced they will shutdown their Odwalla juice bottling op in April, 164 jobs lost! Local news […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Palo Alto based software company Palantir just took over two years old Kimono Labs, and as a result Kimono’s public ‘cloud’ service will end, affecting 125-thousand users!
Colorado: CB & Pott’s shutting down their 42 […] Continue Reading…
16 February 2016 (00:12 UTC-07 Tango 01)/27 Bahman 1394/07 Jumada al-Ula 1437/09 Geng Yin 4714
For the first time in this 21st Century ‘western’ central banks are taking the interest rate they charge to the Too Big to Jail commercial banks into negative territory, basically paying the Too Big to Jails to take on more cash […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
“…income growth among the very well-to-do is rising. Among the middle class in the United States it’s actually stagnant…. ….GDP is driven by 70% consumer spending…there is a real threat to the GDP going forward.”-Doug McIntyre, ceo of 24/7 Wall Street
Arkansas: Data from the U.S. Census Bureau […] Continue Reading…
15 February 2016 (03:38 UTC-07 Tango 01) /26 Bahman 1394/06 Jumada al-Ula 1437/08 Geng Yin 4714
“Market players should stop singling out China as the major cause for the global market turmoil…..
….it is not true…that China is the major problem.
The Chinese stock markets have been closed for the entire week, during which Chinese authorities did […] Continue Reading…
14 February 2016 /20:02 UTC-07 Tango 01 (26 Bahman 1394/06 Jumada al-Ula 1437/08 Geng Yin 4714)
Japan’s economists are surprised at their nation’s 4th quarter 2015 GDP results, a negative 1.4%! For the past year Japan’s GDP hit a stagnant 0.4%. It should be noted that mainstreamer news sources call this “growth”, but anything below […] Continue Reading…
14 February 2016 /19:25 UTC-07 Tango 01 (26 Bahman 1394/06 Jumada al-Ula 1437/08 Geng Yin 4714)
A Virgin Atlantic pilot was physically blinded by a laser being pointed into the cockpit of his Airbus 340.
Radio comm:
The plane had left Heathrow Airport in United Kingdom and was heading towards New York, U.S.A.
News reports say the pilot […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Mountain View based blabbing application (chat app) Tango laid off about 50 employees. Tango administrators also said they will rent out office space at its HQ to other companies, in an effort to […] Continue Reading…