On 07 December 2012, the Washington Post reported that President Barack Obama is planning to invade northern Mali, on the pretext that the northern half of Mali is being ruled by Islamists friendly to al Qaeda.
The invasion will be joined by France, but officially it will be an African led invasion. The Washington Post […] Continue Reading…
“Significant increases in flu activity in the U.S. in the last three weeks…”-U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
One hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, in just the past week confirmed 200 cases of flu, mostly kids: “Right now hundreds of kids in the emergency room this week. We’ve had over 200 diagnoses of flu. Eight […] Continue Reading…
10 December 2012, reports saying that Israeli armored vehicles and bulldozers had raided into the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
Israel has never honored the cease fire agreement brokered by Egypt last month. On 23 November Israeli ground troops shot and killed one Palestinian, and wounded seven others, in a village east of […] Continue Reading…
“All the intelligence existing in this drone has been completely decoded and extracted and we know each and every step it has taken…..The U.S. President had told the Israeli officials that the drone was tasked with spying on Iran’s nuclear program, but our experts found, after decoding the drone, that it had not performed […] Continue Reading…
04 December 2012
In Balkh Province, the people of Chahar Bolak district said U.S. led forces conducted an illegal night raid, which led to the men and women of 15 families being separated from each other, and then the women were raped!
Amnesty International says the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has resulted in at least half […] Continue Reading…
07 December 2012, Apple CEO, Tim Cook, revealed that some computer manufacturing will be brought back to the United States.
However, the actual assembly of a specific line of Macs will still be contracted out. Cook says they’re still figuring out where in the U.S. to assemble the computers.
Analysts say the move amounts to about […] Continue Reading…
“As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation.”-phrase usually associated with government regulations originating in California, but it also refers to the economy
Federal government austerity measures (whether it’s the automatic fiscal cliff, or those agreed to by the President and Congress), could go into effect in January 2013 and could result in […] Continue Reading…
06 December 2012, for awhile now U.S. President Barack Obama has been touting his desire that U.S. corporations start investing into research right here in the United States. Yet, a failing U.S. company has decided to spend money it supposedly doesn’t have outside the U.S.
Sears Holdings announced that they are bringing back their old […] Continue Reading…
06 December 2012, possibly because of the bad economy in Israel, but investigators now believe that Israeli Defense Force (IDF) personnel are involved in the theft of engines for F-15 and F-16 aircraft. The engines might have been sold to scrap metal dealers.
The theft of engines took place at Tel Nof air base, near […] Continue Reading…
05 December 2012, Fitch Ratings has dropped Sears Holdings to negative CCC. Fitch believes it is unlikely Sears/Kmart will recover, and even expects negative earnings in 2013. As other analysts have pointed out, Sears’ assets are still worth more than any expected revenues (one analyst said Sears was worth more dead than alive).
Executives of […] Continue Reading…