07 September 2015 (20:23 UTC-07 Tango 01, 06 September 2016)/16 Shahrivar 1394/23 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/25 Yi-You 4713
In a shock to Japan’s economy, Toshiba has done a one-eighty going from claiming $1-billion USD in profits for 2014 to now saying they lost at least $314-million!
But wait, there’s more! Toshiba administrators admit to cooking their accounting books […] Continue Reading…
It’s been about six months since my last Afghanistan update, and things have gone to hell in a hand basket!
“When millions of people around the world were taken aghast by the pictures of drowned three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi lying washed up on a Turkish beach…..they should see through the fact that the United […] Continue Reading…
05 September 2015 (11:19 UTC-07 Tango 01)/14 Shahrivar 1394/21 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/23 Yi-You 4713
A new study by the European country of Belgium blames city life for children developing asthma, but it’s not what’s in the city it’s what’s not in the city.
In farm/rural areas the researchers discovered a protein in the dirt that’s not found in […] Continue Reading…
05 September 2015 (11:09 UTC-07 Tango 01)/14 Shahrivar 1394/21 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/23 Yi-You 4713
The Binhua New Area Planning and Land Resources Administration announced it will build a 24-hectare (59 acre) park on the site of the thermobaric explosions in Tianjin Port. They also claim they will build new schools and 5-thousand apartments in the area.
Credit […] Continue Reading…
05 September 2015 (10:53 UTC-07 Tango 01)/14 Shahrivar 1394/21 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/23 Yi-You 4713
The east Asian People’s Bank of China has signed a three years deal with the central Asian National Bank of Tajikistan.
The deal means Tajikistan is giving up the equivalent of $500-million USD for 3.2-billion RMB (yuan).
Since 2008 the People’s Bank of China has signed direct […] Continue Reading…
05 September 2015 (04:33 UTC-07 Tango 01)/14 Shahrivar 1394/21 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/23 Yi-You 4713
“These repeated failures are eroding all confidence, and they have got to stop. Our nation’s bioterrorism response efforts are in jeopardy as we continue to uncover problems….”-joint statement from the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee
Secretary of the U.S. Army John McHugh ordered […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: San Jose based internet payment service paypal has notified users that after October they will no longer allow person to person money transfers in or out of Puerto Rico! Foster City based Marvel superhero video game maker Gazillion laid off an undisclosed number of employees, one […] Continue Reading…
03 September 2015 (10:29 UTC-07 Tango 01)/12 Shahrivar 1394/19 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/21 Yi-You 4713
Privately owned Cham Airlines has been increasing routes, the latest are two daily flights from Syria to Oman. And thanks to increased passenger volume the Syrian Ministry of Transport requested that ticket prices be greatly reduced to take into account the ongoing U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
A new study shows that low income people are making even less money now than in 2009! The National Employment Law Project says overall wages have been collapsing since 2009.
Another study shows that since 1973 all the benefits from increased worker productivity have gone to the 1%! The […] Continue Reading…
Civilian Lives Matter!
Incomplete list of news reports:
Unfair and unbalanced Fox News reports that police recruitment is crashing.
The British theguardian reports that U.S. police “fatally shot 30 people in moving vehicles this year, despite federal guidelines advising them not to.”
Arizona: Peoria police are investigating one of their own after video surfaced showing the cop beating […] Continue Reading…