In New Jersey, North Bergen recycling went bankrupt. Company officials pled guilty to illegal dumping and got hit with massive fines.
AM General laid off at least 350 people in Indiana! Company officials blame the bad global economy on crashing Hummer/Humvee orders! Yet, at the same time they claim there is a big demand for […] Continue Reading…
30 June 2013 (14:16 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Sha’ban 1434/09 Tir 1391/23 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
With concerns over the estimated millions of people traveling to Mecca in the Gregorian month of October, it turns out that women who wear face veils might be saving their own lives, and preventing the spread of MERS! That claim is […] Continue Reading…
Just one day after announcing 300 layoffs in California, Washington based (HQ now in Illinois) Boeing announced that 1700 engineering jobs will be eliminated by the end of the year! This affects Boeing’s Commercial Airplane unit. Boeing officials also revealed that they’ve laid off 700 people in other positions since October 2012, and […] Continue Reading…
29 June 2013 (02:52 UTC-07 Tango)/20 Sha’ban 1434/08 Tir 1391/22 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
The member countries of the United Nations (which includes the United States) have agreed to spend $7.5 billion of their taxpayers’ money on military ‘peacekeeping’ operations for 2014.
That’s an increase of $200 million USD from the 2013 budget, mainly because of […] Continue Reading…
Boeing laying off as many as 300 people in California! Boeing has come up with a way to make satellites more efficiently. The layoffs affect operations in El Segundo, Torrance, Seal Beach and Huntington Beach.
In New Jersey, the newest and most financially troubled Revel casino laid off 83 employees. Atlantic City’s bad economy just can’t support […] Continue Reading…
29 June 2013 (21:41 UTC-07 Tango 28 June 2013)/20 Sha’ban 1434/08 Tir 1391/22 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
The Idaho based women’s clothing retailer, Coldwater Creek, just keeps bleeding out cash! For its most recent quarter, which ended in May, Coldwater Creek lost $19.4 million USD.
Executives headquartered in Sandpoint blamed it on climate change and the […] Continue Reading…
28 June 2013 (12:54 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Sha’ban 1434/07 Tir 1391/21 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey told the Washington DC think tank, Brookings Institution, that the Army will spend $23 billion U.S. tax dollars training 4000 new cyber attack personnel over the next four years.
The new U.S. cyber attack program will also […] Continue Reading…
28 June 2013 (11:08 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Sha’ban 1434/07 Tir 1391/21 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“We have seized a large quantity of firearms simply because they were left by residents……We just want to make sure that all of those things are in a spot that we control, simply because of what they are….”-Brian Topham, RCMP
“When people […] Continue Reading…
28 June 2013 (10:51 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Sha’ban 1434/07 Tir 1391/21 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
In California, a Fairfield Kmart that opened in 1969 will close in September. Sears Holdings does not want to renew the lease.
In Honolulu, the building housing the first Kmart in Hawaii up for lease. The Kmart is still operating, but local […] Continue Reading…
28 June 2013 (10:07 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Sha’ban 1434/07 Tir 1391/21 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
The United Kingdom is about to legalize designer babies, under a fertilization program that will use the DNA from three parents.
The U.K.’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has approved mitochondria replacement using the three person in vitro fertilization process, but […] Continue Reading…