Category Archives: U.S.

Business/Economics, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Corporate America says ‘If you’re unemployed don’t bother applying’, some States pass laws making it illegal for Corporate America to discriminate aginst the unemployed

“But we have seen instances in which employers are explicitly saying we don’t want to take a look at folks who’ve been unemployed. Well, that makes absolutely no sense, and I know there’s legislation that I’m supportive of that says you cannot discriminate against folks because they’ve been unemployed, particularly when you’ve seen so many folks who, through no fault of their own, ended up being laid off because of the difficulty of this recession.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States

What irony, Corporate America are deliberately discriminating against unemployed people.  Many want adds state “Must be currently employed”!

How’s that going to turn around the economy?  More proof the economic depression/recession is the fault of Corporate America!

A couple of months ago the National Employment Law Project found 150 online job adds that specifically discriminated against unemployed people.  Those discriminatory employers included Universities!

Some states, like New Jersey, are fighting back by making it illegal to require job applicants to be already employed.  The U.S. Congress is considering a bill that would do the same: Fair Employment Opportunity Act 2011, HR 2501.

Even Monster.com is being sued for posting help wanted adds that require current employment.  Monster.com says they’re just the messenger.

Technology, U.S.

Medical Incompetence: Hospital injects children with high doses of radiation, on purpose

A hospital in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, admitted that children had been injected with too much radiation.

Since 1999, at least 84 kids were injected with high doses of radioactive technetium.  The isotope is used to help examine internal organs.

The doses were in excess of the limit set by the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine.  One boy was given 20 times the limit.

Radiological technicians admitted they intentionally gave the children the higher doses, because they were afraid the kids wouldn’t sit still long enough to get a good image of their internal organs!!!

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Global Economic War: British TESCO admits defeat, pulls out of Japan, the U.S. is next

“Having made considerable efforts in Japan, we have concluded we cannot build a sufficiently scaleable business. We have decided to sell our operations there and focus on our larger businesses in the region.”-Philip Clarke, TESCO

After eight years and 250 million pounds (U.S.$404.9 million), British retailer TESCO is quitting Japan.

The Japanese retail market proved to be too tough o’nut to crack.  TESCO has been successful almost everywhere else, especially other Asian countries.

Retail analysts say Japan’s retail culture is radically different than the U.S. or Europe: “The retail market is fragmented and there are many strong regional players, often family-owned. Convenience stores dominate, particularly in the city centers, and a culture of ‘immediacy’ supports large numbers of vending machines.”-Gavin Rothwell, retail analysts IGD

Another factor against foreign companies doing business in Japan is extremely high operating costs, and extremely demanding consumers.

However, TESCO is also losing money, big time, through its U.S. venture, Fresh & Easy.  The U.S. start up is based in Los Angeles, California.

TESCO’s Fresh & Easy operation has 176 stores in California, Nevada and Arizona.  Last year they lost $301 million, far more than what TESCO lost in Japan.

They’re spending even more money to remodel their Fresh & Easy stores, but if sales don’t pick up within the next two years, TESCO will pull out of the United States as well.

 

 

 

 

Business/Economics, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? U.S. Postal Service will default, begs to stop Saturday delivery

USPS announced they will default on the upcoming Federal Employees Retirement System payment (this after Congress essentially stole $75 billion from the Postal Service, supposedly to pay the FERS last year!).

Also, postal officials are now begging the U.S. Congress to approve the ending of Saturday delivery.  USPS officials also want to use retirement money to run daily operations.

Officials also say they will unveil a plan on September 15,  which could save up to $3 billion per year.

The United States Postal Service does not make money off taxpayers, they are solely funded by the postage they charge (prices are controlled by Congress, not the USPS), and other products they sell.  The cuts being made to the USPS will have no affect on U.S. government debt.

 

International, U.S.

What Global Warming? Typhoon Talas not Normal, showing signs of a cold weather storm!

Typhoon Talas is expected to hit Japan on August 2, but its path is hard to predict because it’s not your normal hurricane.

The U.S. Navy/Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center is saying that Talas is not a normal typhoon: “The upper-level analysis continues to reveal an unusual upper-level pattern with an upper low over the center and anticyclonic flow around the periphery.”

What’s not normal about that, is that anti-cyclonic storms normally form around high pressure systems.  Talas is showing low pressure.  Also, anti-cyclonic storms are associated with cold weather and often cause massive snowfall, it’s summer time in Japan.  (Can you say The Day After Tomorrow?)

Some predictions say the typhoon will drive up the middle of Honshu and Hokkaido, other predictions say it’ll keep driving north into the Sea of Japan.

U.S.

United Police States of America: County amusment park bans head scarves, dozens of American Muslims detained by cops

“I don’t give **** about your culture.”-comment attributed to Westchester County Park Ranger as he beat woman lying on the ground

New York media reporting that at least 15 men and women were detained by New York cops, after an amusement park banned head scarves.

Muslims went to the Westchester County amusement park to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, instead of getting on park rides, they got rides to jail.

Here’s how pathetic the NAZI United States is getting:  Muslim women wanted to go to a county run amusement park.  They were met by insults, and even people trying to rip their head scarves from their head.  When the husbands of the women tried to defend them riot police were called in.  One man says police grabbed his daughter’s head scarf and slammed her to the ground!

“There seems to have been a disproportionate response in which police used excessive strength and force to subdue female protesters, that had a snowball effect on the antagonism and aggression that ensued.”-Cyrus McGoldrick, Council on American Islamic Relations

It could be considered a violation of Constitutional rights to ban head scarves, but park officials say head scarves are banned on certain rides for safety reasons.  Park officials claim they tried to explain to the women why they could not wear the scarves on certain rides.  The Muslims say no explaination was given, they were just ordered to take off their scarves, and when the women asked why that’s when the beatings started.

One things for sure, a lot of people got upset ’cause there were Muslims trying to ride the amusement park rides.  Eight surrounding law enforcement agencies were called in, including police dogs and a helicopter.

Watch a local Fox news report with home video.

 

U.S.

United Police States of America: NYPD really the KKK? New evidence to support such a claim, do you have ‘Ancestors of Interest’ to cops?

The New York Police have constantly denied being involved with any spy programs based on a person’s ethnicity.  Yet here’s more proof: The Associated Press got their hands on a document attesting to a 16 man “Demographics Unit” that investigates people with “ancestries of interest”.

The NYDP Demographics Unit didn’t limit themselves to New York, they also took action in Connecticut, New Jersey and Philadelphia.  The Demographics Unit was led by a former CIA agent (I wonder if he’ll turn out to be a fraud, like that Hiller guy?).

The latest documents show that the NYPD targeted 28 ethnic groups, including those of Somalian, Albanian and Turkish descent, as well as the “American Black Muslim.”   Remember people, officially the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia (15), Egypt (1), Lebanon (1) and United Arab Emirates (2), and as far as  I know none of them were black.  So why are we always targeting people who did not come from those countries? 


 

International, U.S.

War on Terror: The United States is the biggest terrorist, handcuffs then executes Iraqi children, United Nations makes threats wants answers

“…a State party can be held responsible for violations of rights under the Covenant where the violations are perpetrated by authorized agents of the State on foreign territory…”-2006 UN memo to Secretary of State Rice, concerning execution of Iraqi children

A 2006 United Nations memo to then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has been made public by Wikileaks.

In the memo the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, demands an explanation as to why, on 15 March 2006, an entire Iraqi family was handcuffed and executed by U.S. forces.  That included two children aged five years, two children aged three years and one five month old baby!

After the executions the house was bombed, Iraqi TV has video of the aftermath.

The memo suspects that it was done in retaliation for two U.S. multi-national forces (MNF) troops being killed the week before.

Officially the U.S. claims the family was killed in a gunbattle.  The U.S. led MNF were attempting to arrest one suspect.

The problem is that autopsies showed all the family members had been handcuffed and shot in the head.

The United Nations asked Secretary of State Rice four questions: 1; “On what basis was it decided to kill, rather than capture, members of the Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee’s family.” 2; “What rules of international law does your Excellency’s Government consider to govern these incidents?” 3; “What procedural safeguards, if any, were employed to ensure that these killings complied with international law?” 4; “Does your Excellency’s Government intend to provide compensation…”

The UN memo mentions that this isn’t the only case of summary executions at the hands of U.S. forces.

Secretary Rice was also reminded of UN resolution 59/191: “States must ensure that any measure to combat terrorism complies with their obligation under international law, in particular international human right, refugee and humanitarian law.”

After all, the United States is a shining example of the Rule of Law, is it not?

U.S.

Government Incompetence: U.S. Taxpayer funded counter terrorist experts are frauds

“It’s very difficult to admit to myself that I’m a fraud.”-William G. Hiller, convicted counter terrorist scamer

At least $171,415 of taxpayer money went to a man who was training federal agents and local police.  William G. Hiller even claimed the movie Taken, is based on his life.

Hiller was found out after a student became suspicious and asked a real U.S. Army Special Forces major to check him out.  Turned out that all of Hiller’s claims, including claiming to be a 28 year veteran of Special Forces, was a lie.

Hiller taught counter terrorist class all over the country including the FBI Command College, FBI field offices in Salt Lake City and Chicago, the Illinois State Police and the University of Oregon.

During the trial it was implied that some deaths suffered by U.S. personnel, since 9/11, might be due to Hiller’s fraudulent training.

 

 

Business/Economics, U.S.

New York Mets: Madoff Ponzi Scheme Partners?

The owners of the New York Mets baseball team are in big trouble, financially anyway.  They just struck out on a much needed injection of cash from potential investor David Einhorn.  To the tune of $200 million.

The Mets owners lost money when ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff was finally caught.  But don’t shed a tear for the owners of the Mets, turns out they were making big profits under Madoff’s illegal investment pyramid.

Irving Picard, a lawyer, doesn’t believe claims by Mets owners, that they were ignorant of Madoff’s ponzi scheme.  He’s suing them for a grand total of $1 billion.

Out of that $1 billion, $300 million covers the profits the Mets owners made off Madoff’s illegal scheme, and the other $700 million is the total amount the Mets invested with Bernie Madoff.