Sinking Navy in sea of red ink
Friday, February 10th, 2012 | Post a comment
Obama’s deep budget cuts will leave sailors short of ships
Iran paying for grain with gold, oil: traders
Thursday, February 9th, 2012 | Post a comment
Iran is seeking to close grain purchases using gold and oil as payment, and has paid in yen for a large volume of wheat in its first deal since western sanctions against Tehran started choking imports of food staples, European wheat exporters said.
Posted by John under: Ishmael,Perplexity
Today We Saw This Chart Literally Make People’s Jaws Drop
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | One comment
We were just in the studios of GBTV (Glenn Beck’s online network) around a group of folks who were watching Glenn’s show, when he put up this chart from ZeroHedge of youth unemployment in Europe.
Jaws literally dropped around the room. The extent of how bad it is is not well known.
Posted by John under: Perplexity
Shutdown At Exelon Nuclear Plant Near Rockford
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | One comment
The Exelon Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Byron, Illinois, is one of 17 nuclear reactors at 10 sites in three US states. It is the nation’s largest operator of commercial nuclear power plants and third largest in the world. (Photo credit: JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images)
Exelon was working to restore operations at a nuclear reactor unit near Rockford, after a reactor went down Monday morning.
Posted by John under: Divided Nation,Perplexity
Forget global warming – it’s Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)
Monday, January 30th, 2012 | 2 comments
Posted by John under: Perplexity
2011 GDP: 1.7%
Friday, January 27th, 2012 | 3 comments
Posted by John under: Divided Nation,Perplexity
LA Military Exercises
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | 5 comments
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Posted by John under: Divided Nation,Perplexity
Supreme Court throws out Texas election maps
Friday, January 20th, 2012 | Post a comment
The Supreme Court handed Texas Republicans a partial victory in a partisan fight over election redistricting that has erupted after a huge increase in the state’s Hispanic population.
Posted by John under: Divided Nation,Perplexity
After Fukushima, fish tales
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 | Post a comment
Pieces of homes, buoys, a fishing boat and other debris from Japan is washing up on Vancouver Island’s Long Beach.
Photograph by: Christopher Pouget, Postmedia News
After the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, authorities in Canada said people living here were safe and faced no health risks from the fallout from Fukushima.
Posted by John under: Foretaste Of The Little Horn,Perplexity
MITT ROMNEY NOT A NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN?
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 | One comment
Some point to his father’s birth in Mexico, grandparents citizenship