30 August 2015 (10:52 UTC-07 Tango 01)/08 Shahrivar 1394/15 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/17 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
Unarmed Palestinian girls, and women, ‘man upped’ and kicked the ass of an armed Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldier who was in the process of kidnapping a boy with a broken arm!
Many humanitarian organizations have documented decades of kidnappings […] Continue Reading…
30 August 2015 (10:28 UTC-07 Tango 01)/08 Shahrivar 1394/15 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/17 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
A new skin-colorist (‘racist’) study wanted to see how young ‘white’ men handled dark chocolate (actually cocoa flavanols) as opposed to old ‘white’ men.
It found “relatively small differences” in the way old and young ‘white’ men “absorbed, metabolized, and […] Continue Reading…
30 August 2015 (10:12 UTC-07 Tango 01)/08 Shahrivar 1394/15 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/17 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
“A lot of us are just not getting as much vitamin D as we ought to be, we’re being much more conscious….about sunlight exposure, but that’s our main source of vitamin D.”-Lynnette Ferguson, University Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
A […] Continue Reading…
30 August 2015 (09:46 UTC-07 Tango 01)/08 Shahrivar 1394/15 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/17 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
Petróleos Mexicanos (PeMex) is about to take possession of the latest offshore gas compression rig, built in China. The rig will be used in the Gulf of Mexico to compress gas at a rate of 61 million cubic meters […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of August, 2015: 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.
Warren Buffett co-owned Kraft-Heinz announced it will eliminate […] Continue Reading…
29 August 2015 (06:10 UTC-07 Tango 01)/07 Shahrivar 1394/14 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/16 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
What U.S. economic sanctions? It’s been revealed that the true reason for inflation in Iran is due to lack of food, not U.S. sanctions: “Between 38 to 40% of the Iranian families’ economy is related to food which requires […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Arizona: Copper miner Asarco shutting down Pinal County mining operations, 211 jobs lost by the end of October! It’s blamed on copper prices crashing by 40% since 2011.
California: Washington based Starbucks is shutting down about 22 “popular” La Boulange bakery stores across The Golden State, in September. One San Francisco TV news source […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: The non-profit animal rescue operation Humane Society of West Alabama shutting down its main source of funding, the Humane Society Flea Market: “We don’t get any local or government funding at all so everything we have is 100% through fundraising and donations, so this is going to be […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Washington based Boeing laying off another eight people in Long Beach, by October. CGR/Thompson Industries issued a shutdown WARN for their Fulerton operation, 102 jobs lost by October! Lyris Technologies laying off 79 people by the end of September. Oil giant Chevron issued more mass layoff WARNs, this […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Washington based Haggen Foods issued mass shutdown WARNs for the following locations; 2 stores in Simi Valley, 2 stores in Tustin, 2 stores in Chula Vista, Irvine, Mission Viejo, Santa Clarita Valley (I previously reported on), La Mesa, San Marcos, San Ysidro, Bakersfield (I previously reported) […] Continue Reading…