U.S NAVY PREPARES TO DEPLOY LASER “DEATH RAY” IN PERSIAN GULF After years of speculation that the Pentagon was working on a secret laser weapon project, euphemistically described as a “death ray” by observers, the Navy revealed the finished product this week. It’s a curious device that can shoot lethal laser rays at objects, [...]
GLOBAL WATER CRISIS GETS SCANT MEDIA OR POLITICAL ATTENTION…AND THAT CAN LITERALLY BE DEADLY. Long thought of as solely and environmental issue, access to clean water can no longer be stereotyped as the domain of “tree hugging” activists. With a shrinking supply, climate change and rampant pollution affecting this quite invaluable resource, water is [...]
ARE ELDERLY AMERICANS THE “PICTURE OF AFFLUENCE?” Thatfflu is the picture drawn in a new Pew Research study of the “net worth” of American households. The average net worth of seniors of $170,500 seems “affluent” only by contrast with the almost non-existent amount of $ 3,700 for those under 35. With many older people now [...]
IT’S NOT EASY BEING A PELICAN IN COSTA RICA—NOR A PORPOISE NOR AN ALLIGATOR EITHER. These animals, among others, are given protection in a Marine Park in Puntarenas from the hazards of their life styles (like water dives of pelicans) and of the human animals who sometimes harass them. A gated park provides a [...]
The percentage of American workers belonging to labor unions has sunk to a nearly century-old low, representing the changing dynamics of the nation’s workforce and the consequences of a headlong rush by lawmakers to adopt “pro-business” economic polices. Organized labor has come under assault by legislators from Capitol Hill to statehouses across the country [...]
HOT TIME AT THE OLD BYRD RESEARCH STATION. Temperature readings at this oceanographic station in southwest Antarctica indicates that the ice cap is heating at twice the rate that climatologists had predicted, raising the image of likely melting that could raise ocean levels by a disastrous ten feet within a few years. (Common Dreams) [...]
Just over a month after an election in which the role of Corporate America in the nation’s governing philosophy played a key role, champions of the “pro-business” and anti-labor agenda are shrugging off defeat with swift action in the heart of the American manufacturing center. Quite literally the home of organized labor in the United [...]
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS: ISLAMOPHOBIA TAKES A SET-BACK. Irving school officials, responding to a rash of complaints that school children were being “indoctrinated” with pro-Islamic propaganda, hired a “socially conservative” educator to evaluate these claims. What he found, instead, was that the school curriculum in fact lacked such propaganda, and that pro-CHRISTIAN [...]
DON’T WORRY. THOSE PESKY AGGRIEVED WALMART EMPLOYEES WON’T HAMPER YOUR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING SPREE… ` The mega-retailer faces its largest labor protest to date as union groups and frustrated current employees vow to organize a nationwide walkout at Walmart stores on the day after Thanksgiving. So-called “Black Friday” is the most important day of [...]
The maker of Twinkies, perhaps the senior statesman of American junk food, along with other sweet snacks and breads halted production last week and announced that it would seek liquidation through bankruptcy and lay off all of its more than 18,000 employees. Despite years of dismal sales and being virtually forgotten by most of the [...]
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