Yes Virginia, there are other candidates, besides Obama and Romney, running for U.S. President, but they’re being arrested!
Jill Stein, candidate for the Green Party, was arrested in he merry old red neck states of Texas, again.
She was arrested for trespassing after she brought food to protestors, who are demonstrating against the construction of a […] Continue Reading…
“The threat of criminal sanctions against observers is unacceptable. The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”-Janez Lenarcic, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Officials and organizations in the U.S. have always pushed for international election observers (which include election observers […] Continue Reading…
“We will continue our Hefei project, which includes 12 big buildings. I believe, as a clean and stable energy, solar must be promising in the future. I don’t think the behavior of the EU and the U.S. is proper.”-Kenneth Yu, 3M China operations
31 October 2012, U.S. based 3M expects its U.S. sales to fall […] Continue Reading…
01 November 2012, yet another Japanese electronics maker announced they are losing money big time, and for the second year in a row. Sharp predicts it will lose at least $5.6 billion USD by March 2013 (the end of the Japanese fiscal year)!
From April to September 2012 Sharp lost nearly $5 billion, 80% more […] Continue Reading…
31 October 2012, just because a business has interruption insurance doesn’t mean they’ll get paid: “There has to be direct physical damage to the building in order for business interruption insurance to come into play.”-Loretta Worters, Insurance Information Institute
Thousands of small businesses were forced to close shop because of hurricane Sandy, but they did not suffer […] Continue Reading…
“We shouldn’t create at will a political vacuum that would cause policies to stall.”-Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan, 29 October 2012
The “political vacuum” the Prime Minister is talking about concerns his loss of political power: “Noda wants to delay the day of reckoning as long as possible. Who would call an election now […] Continue Reading…
31 October 2012, one of Japan’s electronics giants, Panasonic, announced massive losses by the end of their fiscal year.
Panasonic officials say they expect to have suffered a net loss of more than $9 billion USD by March 2013! They already lost $8.6 billion from April to September 2012!
For the first time in 62 years […] Continue Reading…
29 October 2012
In Wardak Province, Mujahideen ambushed U.S. and Afghan National Army troops. The U.S. and ANA personnel were conducting assessments of local police checkpoints. They were attacked with assault rifles and RPGs. U.S. officials claim they killed three Mujahideen.
In Helmand Province, at least two ANA soldiers were killed (some reports say four) when […] Continue Reading…
“There could be at least three explanations. One is the public discourse about a possible Israeli or American operation deterred them from trying to come closer. It could probably be a diplomatic gambit that they have launched in order to avoid this issue culminating before the American election, just to gain some time. It […] Continue Reading…
“We are talking about the things that still need to be solved and here it became clear that the global economy’s risks are very evident, as is clearly stated in the communiqué. The economic growth outlooks are not as good as we would hope.”-Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
The German leader made the statement on 30 […] Continue Reading…