“This is a giant step, this should be the biggest news going right now, literally legalizing martial law…This is big. This step where they can literally arrest American citizens and put them away without trial….is arrogant and bold and dangerous.”-Ron Paul, U.S. Representative for Texas
On the evening of December 14, the U.S. House of […] Continue Reading…
We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.
We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We […] Continue Reading…
The ongoing nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, and a bad mine operation deal in Africa, is bringing down a major player in international nuclear power; Areva. The result will mean job losses all over the world, and possibly here in Idaho.
French government owned Areva recently announced that their revenues have crashed since the Japanese […] Continue Reading…
“The bottomline is that about 7.7% of U.S. households have no account in an insured financial institution and an additional 17.9% are underbanked, meaning they have an account but they utilize high cost financial service providers.”- Martin Gruenberg, FDIC
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 17 million people in the United States do not have […] Continue Reading…
“It’s gone up in a period of ten years from about $300 connection fees to about $5,000!”-Al Tetz, BCASE
The Building Contractors Association of Southeast Idaho (BCASE) says the city of Pocatello is charging outrageous, and illegal hook up fees. And they believe it’s one of the main reasons for the drop in local construction […] Continue Reading…
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is warning that the U.S. housing market collapse is even worse than first thought. On December 21, NAR will release new/revised data on the housing collapse going back to 2007.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist for NAR, said that real estate analysts have made incorrect assumptions when they counted existing […] Continue Reading…
“If you don’t like what the postal service has put forward (to cut costs) by closing processing facilities and post offices and eliminating jobs, then come up with a better approach. It’s a challenge we need to accept, and this agreement with the postal service gives us that opportunity.”-Richard Durbin, U.S. Senator for Illinois
The […] Continue Reading…
“I don’t regret leaving the States one bit!”-Matt Landau, left the U.S. six years ago
The U.S. State Department is admitting that at least 6.3 million U.S. citizens have left the Untied States, officially to find jobs or go to cheaper universities!
“There’s a feeling among more entrepreneurial Americans that if you really want to get […] Continue Reading…
“…I think that at the time the Constitution was written it was pretty clear that marriage is between a man and a woman…”-Mitt Romney, candidate for the office of President of the United States
Even if the personal opinions of the founders of the United States were against homosexual marriage, there is nothing in the […] Continue Reading…
‘Hollywood’ isn’t merry this holiday season. That’s ’cause the past two weekends have seen the least amount of revenues since the two weekends after September 11, 2001.
Also, this past weekend (December 10-11) was the lowest money making weekend since Labor Day in 2008.
The past two weekends combined saw only 19.8 million customers! To put it […] Continue Reading…