Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Florida: After 28 years Jacksonville’s Maritime Museum shutting down after Xmas. It’s blamed on crashing donations. In Palm Beach the owners of Blondies, a restaurant known for serving ‘breakfast’ for ‘dinner’, shut it down after four successful years blaming the greedy landlord. In Miami Beach, the operators of […] Continue Reading…
31 August 2015 (06:19 UTC-07 Tango 01)/09 Shahrivar 1394/16 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/18 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
The Health Ministry of Jordan reports three new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in less than a week. This is significant when you realize Jordan had a total of 14 MERS cases between 2012 and the week prior to […] Continue Reading…
31 August 2015 (05:17 UTC-07 Tango 01)/09 Shahrivar 1394/16 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/18 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
On 25 August 2015, the Central Bank of Syria (CBS) issued a sell order for $50-million USD.
The reason is that CBS administrators see signs of a rebounding Syrian economy and even growth in their exports, despite the evil U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: In San Francisco, restaurant Bugaloo’s shutdown by “whacked out Valencia Street rent”, the tiny location is now available to anybody who is stupid enough to shell out $17,500 per month. Too Big to Jail Bank of America essentially admitted to ripping off employees of overtime pay when […] Continue Reading…
30 August 2015 (11:26 UTC-07 Tango 01)/08 Shahrivar 1394/15 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/17 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713
“I think it’s dangerous and it’s immoral. It’s turning a national conflict into a religious war between the Judeo-Christian world and Islam, and a religious war is the most dangerous one.”-Rabbi Ehud Bandel, International Council of Christians and Jews
“Come and see […] Continue Reading…
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…