“You cannot serve both God and Money.”- Jesus of Nazareth
“Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”-Mitt Romney opinion piece blasting the auto industry bailout by the federal government, 18 November 2008
You might have heard how, only this year, Mitt Romney took credit for the government bailout of the auto industry, seemingly forgetting about his New York Times […] Continue Reading…
12 September 2012
“Large fires Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho made significant acreage gains over the past 24 hours. In Washington, the Barker Canyon Complex burned more than 75,000 acres, and the Apache Pass fire burned 10,000. The Dutch fire in Montana grew by nearly 16,000 acres, and the Mustang fire in Idaho burned an […] Continue Reading…
12 September 2012, Fujifilm says it’s no longer profitable to make film for movies, so they’re stopping production.
Fujifilm was the last Japanese film maker still producing old fashioned film.
“Desecration is not part of freedom of expression but a criminal act that has now greatly hurt the righteous sentiments of 1.5 billion Muslims all over the globe.”-Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
12 September 2012, a day after the U.S. consulate in Libya was attacked, the U.S. government revealed that U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens was […] Continue Reading…
12 September 2012, in a survey conducted with the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC, an unregulated/independent government agency) discovered that by June 2011 nearly 10 million people quit using banks! 24 million have reduced their use of banks!
The survey is called the second National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households. The […] Continue Reading…
11 September 2012
UN Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Jan Kubiš, announced that United Nations’ offices in Kunar Province will be closed. This is part of the closing of at least nine UN offices throughout Afghanistan. The official reason is lack of money!
In Parwan Province, Bagram airfield was hit by several rockets. One Chinook helicopter was […] Continue Reading…
11 September 2012, Libyans attacked the U.S. consulate, killing one staff person and wounding several others. Other U.S. employees have been evacuated.
In Egypt, Egyptians stormed the U.S. embassy, tearing down and burning the U.S. flag. Egyptian government forces have pushed the protestors back, but reports say there as many as 2,000 people surrounding the […] Continue Reading…
11 September 2012, a large and new firefighting aircraft has been seen flying in and out of Pocatello airport (Pocatello Tanker Base) the past few days. It’s a British Aerospace (BAe) 146 flown by Neptune Aviation of Montana (leased from Tronos in Canada).
Click pics (by AAron B. Hutchins) to make bigger:
The use of the […] Continue Reading…
11 September 2012
“The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history…….They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where […] Continue Reading…
11 September 2012, Japan’s Sharp Corporation revealed that the economic situation is worse than they first thought. They are now cutting wages, salaries and bonuses even more than they first planned.
Sharp will now layoff 5,000 employees by March 2013, the first time since the 1950s!
Workers will get a 5% cut in pay, up from […] Continue Reading…