Toyota announced the premier of a new car, not in the United States, but India!
The new car is a small low priced car called the Etios Liva. It’s smaller than most Toyota sedans. The price is about U.S.$9,000.
Toyota also announced that India was becoming its fastest growing car market. The number of Toyotas sold […] Continue Reading…
Nissan/Renault announced they plan to expand their global market share by 8% (an increase of about 10 million cars by 2017). How are they going to do that? Definitely not by selling more cars in the United States.
Nissan/Renault says it will expand sales in China, India and Brazil. They will boost production in China […] Continue Reading…
According to a Fortune article, some counties across the United States are trying to save their budgets by jacking up property taxes. As a resident of Bannock County, Idaho, I can vouch for that! Recently Bannock County announced they were jacking up farmland property taxes by at least 90%!!!
The National Association of Counties found […] Continue Reading…
It’s now official, for the first time since 1850 the number of people moving to California has declined! People are actually leaving! That’s according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
California is still the most populated state: 37 million.
According to the Public Policy Institute of California, 1.5 million middle class people left California in the past […] Continue Reading…
Citigroup is admitting that a May hack cost cardholders millions of dollars.
On May tenth 3,400 accounts had at least $2.7 million stolen from them. The total number of accounts that were hacked is more than 360,000.
Citi officials claim they notified customers quickly, yet those notices weren’t sent out until June 3. So far 200,000 […] Continue Reading…
The Los Angeles Dodgers are officially bankrupt. The team franchise tried to get a new television deal that could have kept it out of bankruptcy, but Major League Baseball blocked that deal.
This comes after a bitter court battle between the two owners. Frank McCourt was left as the owner, but he believes the blocked […] Continue Reading…
The Nature Genetics Journal reporting that the “lean gene” not only keeps people skinny but causes type 2 diabetes.
Conventional thinking by health officials is that obese (fat) and sedentary (lazy) people are the most at risk for type 2 diabetes (despite the fact that the majority of diabetics live in China and India, where […] Continue Reading…
The Lancet Journal reporting that despite efforts to stop diabetes, world rates have only gone up. There are now 347 million people considered diabetic.
The United States and Russia clam 36 million of those diabetics, but China and India beat the U.S. and Russia by 100 million. China and India have 138 million diabetics.
UN World […] Continue Reading…
This has really gone too far! CNN reports Transportation Security Administration agents forced a cancer stricken 95 year old woman to remove her adult diaper.
“My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia. She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel.”-Jean […] Continue Reading…
Last week the Pentagon presented Congress with a plan to provide African countries with up to $145 million in military aid. The aid, in money and equipment, is for so called counter terrorism operations.
The $145 million, to be split between several African countries, doesn’t compare to what just one country got last year. Yemen, […] Continue Reading…