Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Germany Repatriating Gold
January 15th, 2013Via: Deutsche Welle: The “Handelsblatt” newspaper has said Germany’s central bank is planning to deposit more gold reserves at home in Frankfurt. It will reportedly withdraw part of the bullions currently stored at various facilities abroad. Germany’s business daily “Handelsblatt” reported on Tuesday the Bundesbank was planning to bring home some of its gold reserves […]
After You’ve Been All You Could Be Serving The Empire, Walmart Is Hiring
January 15th, 2013.mil should really talk this one up during the recruitment process. Via: Reuters: Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT), the world’s largest retailer, said it plans to hire more than 100,000 veterans in the United States over the next five years, a move supported by First Lady Michelle Obama. Most of the veterans will be placed in […]
Number of Working Poor Families Grows as Wealth Gap Widens
January 15th, 2013Via: Reuters: The number of U.S. families struggling with poverty despite parents being employed continued to grow in 2011 as more people returned to work but mostly at lower-paying service jobs, an analysis released on Tuesday shows. More working parents have taken jobs as cashiers, maids, waiters and other low-wage jobs in fast growing sectors […]
Bankers Die in Texas Plane Crash
January 14th, 2013Via: Daily Mail: A private plane carrying three men working for a Utah bank crashed in mysterious circumstances shortly after takeoff in Texas on Saturday, killing all three aboard, according to authorities. The Piper PA-46 aircraft had just taken off from an airport near Paris, Texas, around 8 a.m. when it came crashing down outside […]
And Now… Bookless Libraries
January 14th, 2013Via: My San Antonio: Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff is an unabashed book lover with 1,000 first editions in his private collection, but even he sees the writing on the wall. Paper books have lost their allure, and future generations may have little use for them, Wolff contends. So when he embarked on a mission […]
Air Pollution in Beijing Goes Off the Index
January 13th, 2013Via: AP: People refused to venture outdoors and buildings disappeared into Beijing’s murky skyline on Sunday as the capital’s air quality went off the index. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said on its website that the density of PM2.5 particulates had surpassed 700 micrograms per cubic meter in many parts of the city. The […]
USDA: Drought Cut Corn Crop by About One-Fourth
January 12th, 2013Via: AP: For farmers like Earl Williams, last year couldn’t have started out better or ended much worse as a warm, sunny spring that let him plant early gave way to record heat and drought that devastated his corn. Williams ended up with about two-thirds of the crop he expected, and a U.S. Department of […]
U.S. Funds Lab to Look for Solutions to Rare Earth Mineral Shortages
January 10th, 2013Via: Network World: With China once again playing games with the rare earth materials it largely holds sway over, the US Department of Energy today said it would set up a research and development hub that will bring together all manner of experts to help address the situation. The DOE awarded $120 million to Ames […]
Secrets and Lies of the Bailout
January 10th, 2013Via: Rolling Stone: It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it, you’d think […]
Secret Government Documents Reveal Vaccines to be a Total Hoax
January 9th, 2013Via: Natural News: Through several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Dr. Tomljenovic was able to obtain transcripts of private meetings that were held between the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), a so-called “independent expert advisory committee” that makes recommendations to the government about vaccine policy, and various British health ministers over the […]
