08 November 2012, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda canceled his trip to Russia. However, he claims it was due to scheduling problems on the Russian side. Analysts suspect it’s actually over growing territorial disputes.
To add to that, Japan’s Foreign Minister, Koichiro Gemba, told reporters on 07 November, that the prime minister will avoid talking to […] Continue Reading…
On 06 November 2012, Japan’s Nissan Motors reduced its expected profits for the Japanese fiscal year (ending in March 2013), by 20%!
Nissan, like Mazda, is blaming most of it on crashing sales in China. Nissan also blames the bad economy in Europe, and the increasing value of the Japanese yen (which makes Japanese cars […] Continue Reading…
08 November 2012, Japan’s Science Ministry discovered that 675 radiation detectors, placed around Fukushima Daiichi, are reading at least 10% below actual radiation levels!
Since April 2011 the monitors have been uploading radiation readings to the internet, in real time.
The Science Ministry investigated their devices because independent radiation detection by local governments, and individuals, were […] Continue Reading…
08 November 2012, just hours after I posted and updated closing list, yet another Kmart was revealed to be closing!
It’s a Kmart in Homer Glen, Illinois. The store originally was a Sears, but was remodeled and turned into a Kmart just last year!
The 82 employees were told on 07 November that they were losing […] Continue Reading…
07 November 2012, the day after the main stream U.S. media prematurely declared Barack Obama the new President (the Shadow Voters, aka Electoral College, vote to elect the President on 17 December 2012), investors are driving up stock prices for gun makers and those chain stores that sell guns.
Investment analysts say it because investors […] Continue Reading…
“As of November 6, 2012, 48 states have reported West Nile virus infections in people, birds, or mosquitoes. A total of 5,054 cases of West Nile virus disease in people, including 228 deaths, have been reported to CDC.”-U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
In South Carolina, three people have died this year. State health […] Continue Reading…
08 November 2012, the closing of Kmarts and Sears continues. This time it includes a store in Australia!
The Kmart store in Katoomba, Australia, is being replaced with a Woolworths. This comes after the Australian owned Kmart reported increased sales (Kmarts in Australia and New Zealand are not owned by the U.S. based Sears Holdings).
In […] Continue Reading…
05 November 2012
ISAF said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died as a result of a non-battle related injury in southern Afghanistan today.”
In Kabul Province, the body guards of a government official got into a firefight with Afghan National Police. There is no official explanation, however a local police official says there might […] Continue Reading…
“Assuming a fully functioning marijuana market and the assumptions following in this summary, estimated total revenue generated to the state could be as high as $1,943,936,000 over five fiscal years.”-Washington OFM Fiscal Impact Statement (I-502)
On 06 November 2012, voters in the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana for […] Continue Reading…
“…a catastrophe and very bad news….We have a huge problem in the rest of the euro area that now seems to be reaching Germany and its labor market. For the coming quarters, the economic outlook is quite gloomy.”-Thomas Harjes, economist at Barclays
On 06 November 2012, Deutsche Bundesbank revealed that there is no let up […] Continue Reading…