Archive for January, 2016
Missing U.S. Missile Shows Up in Cuba
January 8th, 2016Via: Wall Street Journal: An inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014, said people familiar with the matter, a loss of sensitive military technology that ranks among the worst-known incidents of its kind. The unintended delivery of the missile to Cuba has confounded […]
CHINA: STOCKS HALTED; SHANGHAI DOWN 7%
January 6th, 2016Via: CNBC: China’s stocks were suspended from all trade on Thursday after the CSI300 tumbled more than 7 percent in early trade, triggering the market’s circuit breaker for a second time this week. That drop-kicked stock markets across Asia, which were already wallowing after a weaker open amid concerns over China’s economic slowdown and its […]
Lily Tang Williams: “Common Core Is The Communist Core I Went Through In China”
January 6th, 2016Via: Lily Tang Williams:
Most Americans Are One Paycheck Away from the Street
January 6th, 2016Via: MarketWatch: Americans are starting 2016 with more job security, but most are still theoretically only one paycheck away from the street. Approximately 63% of Americans have no emergency savings for things such as a $1,000 emergency room visit or a $500 car repair, according to a survey released Wednesday of 1,000 adults by personal […]
Oil Hits 11-Year Low
January 6th, 2016Via: Reuters: Oil prices hit their lowest in over 11 years on Wednesday, as the row between Saudi Arabia and Iran was seen making any cooperation between major exporters to cut output even more unlikely. Evidence of slowing economic growth in China and India has fueled fears that even strong demand elsewhere may not be […]
North Korea Claims Test of Hydrogen Bomb
January 5th, 2016If that was a hydrogen bomb, it was a firecracker, relative to more normal yields of that class of weapon, or, it didn’t work properly. Via: Reuters: North Korea said it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday, claiming a significant advance in the isolated state’s strike capability and setting off alarm bells […]
Pentagon Prepares to Blow Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on New Nuclear Submarines
January 5th, 2016Via: Fiscal Times: The Defense Department has given the U.S. Navy the green light to begin entertaining proposals for the service’s next ballistic missile submarine, an effort that could cost nearly $350 billion over its lifetime. A Pentagon spokeswoman told Bloomberg on Tuesday that Frank Kendall, the agency’s top weapons buyer, told the Navy it […]
Swiss Army Chief Warns Of Social Unrest
January 5th, 2016Cryptogon reader luky writes: This is a bad translation. He calls on people to prepare themselves, not to arm themselves. Via: ZeroHedge: Swiss army chief André Blattmann warned, in a Swiss newspaper article on Sunday, the risks of social unrest in Europe are soaring. Recalling the experience of 1939/1945, Blattman fears the increasing aggression in […]
Authorities Plan to Cut Off Power to Militia at Occupied Oregon Refuge
January 5th, 2016Via: The Guardian: Federal authorities are planning to cut off the power of the wildlife refuge in Oregon that has been taken over by militia, exposing the armed occupiers to sub-zero temperatures in an effort to flush them out. Armed militants will begin their third day at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a remote federal […]
A Longevity Puzzle: Why Do Poor Costa Ricans Outlive Poor Americans?
January 5th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Why are the poor in one of the world’s wealthiest countries more likely to die at an earlier age than the poor in a small, middle-income country? Lifestyle factors have a lot to do with it. In the U.S., smoking and obesity are far more common at the bottom of the income scale. […]
