On December 5, the U.S. Postmaster General will announce detailed austerity cuts for the USPS. This after the U.S. Congress decided to ‘delay’ any action on their part until after next year’s Presidential elections. The move guarantees the demise of the USPS, because President Barack Obama set the default date for the Postal Service […] Continue Reading…
Beginning December 31, no more SeaPort Airline flights from Idaho Falls to Boise.
SeaPort Airlines only started the route back in July, and of course local east Idaho officials touted it as a sign of local economic recovery. Airline officials say they will try to issue refunds for people with tickets for after the December […] Continue Reading…
On December 2, protestors in Washington DC temporarily shut down the Wells Fargo office. The reason is that Wells Fargo is a major player in financing corporate prisons.
The OWS protesters say banks like Wells Fargo are profiting from the contracted management of state ‘correctional’ institutes, such as GEO Group managing the Rivers Correctional Institution […] Continue Reading…
Despite what British officials, and U.S. and U.K. media have been saying, more and more governments are confirming that Iran did indeed officially apologize for Iranian university students attacking the British embassy in Iran.
Germany is the latest: Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle says Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi “…was deeply sorry for what has […] Continue Reading…
On December 4, U.S. forces began evacuating Pakistan’s Shamsi air base, after the Pakistani government, backed by China, gave them 15 days to get out or else.
Local Pakistani TV stations reported seeing U.S. forces leaving the air base. Their reporters observed U.S. transport aircraft landing at the base, and U.S. personnel loading luggage and […] Continue Reading…
“The argument that China should rescue Europe does not stand, as reserves are not managed that way…China’s purchases of European bonds, International Monetary Fund bonds and U.S. bonds are also based on those principles.”-Fu Yin, Vice Foreign Minister of China
Back on November 28, the Commerce Minister of China, Chen Deming, said they were more than willing […] Continue Reading…
A minivan blew up near the U.K.’s embassy in Bahrain. This happened after it was revealed that the pro-U.S. government of Bahrain was hiring U.S. and British security forces to come in and help squash the ongoing rebellion of the people of Bahrain.
The majority of the people of Bahrain are Shia Muslims, some ethnic […] Continue Reading…
“According the national office of statistics, there were 25,700 deaths relating to fuel poverty in 2010-11, this is shameful. And sadly is likely to rise in line with the fuel poverty figure increase.”-Mike Jeram, UNISON, the U.K.’s biggest public sector trade union
According to U.K. government reports, the number of people who can not afford to […] Continue Reading…
“It is a great way to give people the information they want about the road to independence and the kind of Scotland we can build when the Scottish Parliament has responsibility for all the decisions affecting Scotland.”-Nicola Sturgeon, SNP Deputy Leader and Member of Scottish Parliament
The Scottish National Party (SNP) is publishing 500,000 issues of […] Continue Reading…
Swiss reporters, who witnessed the take over of the British embassy in Iran, say British claims that the Iranian government did nothing to stop it, is a lie.
Also, British envoy to Iran, Dominick Chilcott, claimed he and his staff suffered an ordeal at the hands of Iranian college students who entered the embassy.
John Cattman […] Continue Reading…