The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) granted Palestine full UN membership on October 31!
The United States quickly retaliated against the UN by refusing to pay the U.S. share of funding for UNESCO. Israel also ended its funding of UNESCO.
Palestine is now the 195th member of the U.S. created organization known as […] Continue Reading…
SAAB has new Chinese owners. The car maker was sold at a loss, after it filed for bankruptcy in September. SAAB hasn’t made any cars in its factory in Sweden, since April!
SAAB was originally offloaded by GM to Dutch company Spyker (now Swedish Automotive). Chinese distributor Pang Da Automobile Trade, and auto manufacturer […] Continue Reading…
“We got our hands on it and found it is doing much more than it is legally allowed to do.”- Frank Rieger, Chaos Computer Club
The German government allows cell phone conversations to be spied on, but hackers discovered that the software used actually violates the government’s own legal limits.
It’s called Bundestrojan. Germany’s Federal […] Continue Reading…
That’s right, it wasn’t just U.S. taxpayers and the U.S. central bank (Federal Reserve) that bailed out Corporate America’s big financial institutions in 2007/08. China Investment Corporation played a part and lost.
So when it comes to bailing out European governments, China’s financial sector is willing but cautious: “The $3 trillion in reserves are the […] Continue Reading…
“…recessionary demand levels in developed countries, a slowdown in emerging markets and high levels of inflation in material costs.”, that’s what Whirlpool Chief Executive Jeff Fettig says about the economy, basically it stinks!
As a result Whirlpool sales are down, and they have to layoff 5,000 employees, and shut down their Arkansas refrigerator factory!
Whirlpool […] Continue Reading…
“The top 1 percent of households took a bigger share of overall income in 2007 than they did at any time since 1928.”-Annie Lowrey, New York Times
Here’s a shocker; in New York City the top 1% average U.S.$3.7 million in income, according to Christopher Ketcham.
The IRS and the CBO have already proven with their […] Continue Reading…
October 25, in Oakland, California, police asked the live media coverage to shut down, right before they attacked protestors with tear gas and flash bang grenades. Later, after it got dark, police simply turned off the street lights so the media could not see the continuing attacks on the protestors. So far 140 people […] Continue Reading…
“The share of income going to higher-income households rose, while the share going to lower-income households fell.”-CBO Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office released data that showed the top 1% of the population saw their incomes jump 275% over 28 years: “For the […] Continue Reading…
“At first, we were excited about the prospect of bringing in new people and money … but it slammed us so hard, in such a little time that a lot of locals now are kind of resentful. Now we want our town back.”-Deone Lawlar, a 57 year old native of Watford […] Continue Reading…
For the second time this year, PJ Production has released three new PUR (polyurethane resin) cast figure kits. Philippe Jacques (PJ) has just recently issued a 1/32 scale Soviet or Modern Russian pilot, with optional helmets.
A new 1/48 scale modern U.S./NATO pilot joins the growing number of 1/48 PJ pilots.
Finally a set of four […] Continue Reading…