01 January 2014 (04:34 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Safar 1435/11 Dey 1392/01 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
The western new year has arrived. A common graphical depiction is that of old Father Time turning things over to a baby New Year. This is nothing more than the most ancient Grain King sacrifice ritual.
Thousands of years ago small agricultural […] Continue Reading…
Badghis Province: In Bala Morghab District, a major battle between Afghan National Army (ANA) and Mujahideen lasted three days, and killed at least 100 people.
Ghazni Province: In Deh Yak District, a tribal elder was assassinated as he left a Mosque. The cops have no idea who did it.
Helmand Province: In Marjah District, two people […] Continue Reading…
31 December 2013 (01:40 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Safar 1435/10 Dey 1392/29 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711
U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention says influenza is now widespread in the states of Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Four children have died.
Alabama, U.S.A.: Health officials in Madison County report spiking cases. They […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:
Blackberry now says at least 45-hundred jobs will be killed! Blackberry is being forced to restructure due to crashing sales.
Alabama: More coal mine shut downs. Rocky Mountain Mining and Twin Pines laid off a combined 113 people!
California: Tax sucker Boeing laid off 51 people across the not so […] Continue Reading…
30 December 2013 (12:22 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Safar 1435/09 Dey 1392/28 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711
Somehow I missed this one: According to a report out of Bloomfield Township (Bloomfield Hills), Michigan, the local Kmart and Sears are closing.
The Kmart had a name change at the beginning of the year, to KDollar. Sears Holdings’ experiment into ‘dollar’ […] Continue Reading…
30 December 2013 (04:15 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Safar 1435/09 Dey 1392/28 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711
“The construction industry is 90% run by gangs.”-Hayashi Fuminori, construction employment manager who recently paid a $5-thousand USD fine for skimming wages
“Many homeless people are just put into dormitories, and the fees for lodging and food are automatically docked from their […] Continue Reading…
Helmand Province: An explosion at the local National Security Directorate (NDS) compound killed one NDS agent, and wounded two others. In Faqiran village, a U.S.-NATO drone blew up a house, killing a child and two women, one was the mother of the child. President Hamid Karzai says this is proof the United States has […] Continue Reading…
25 December 2013 (15:52 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Safar 1435/04 Dey 1392/23 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711
“The case of Anastacio Hernandez Rojas is emblematic of a disease that runs to the cold heart of the Obama administration’s immigration policy. The administration’s silence before the killing of innocents is enabling the Border Patrol to continue to kill and […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:
What housing market recovery? Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo bank is warning that they will probably layoff 18-hundred more employees! Bank officials blame it on crashing demand for home loans.
Another video game/computer graphics maker going down? Machinima laid off 22 employees. Company officials said layoffs were necessary […] Continue Reading…
25 December 2013 (23:11 UTC-07 Tango 24 December 2013)/21 Safar 1435/04 Dey 1392/23 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711
Illinois, U.S.A.: 15 hospitals in Chicago report increasing cases of flu, especially H1N1.
Florida, U.S.A.: I’ve been hearing reports of growing numbers of people dying, and public health officials giving no explanation why. Some cases sound much like […] Continue Reading…