Domestic Economic Indicators 2/2/15-2/6/15 Monday 2/2 Personal Income and Personal Spending Personal Spending fell 0.3% which miss expectations of a 0.2% decline Personal Income rose 0.3% which was better than expected For the full year personal income is up 2.5% which is the biggest increase since 2006 PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditure) […]
VIA “wsj.com” by Asa Fitch, Suha Ma’ayeh, Maria Abi-Habib AMMAN, Jordan—Jordan executed two convicted terrorists early Wednesday, hours after Islamic State jihadists released a video purporting to show them burning alive a captured Jordanian air-force pilot. The death of the pilot, First Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh, had spurred promises Tuesday evening of a severe response from […]
VIA “bbc.com”, author not specified Footage of the crash appeared to show the plane clipping a road bridge A plane carrying mostly Chinese tourists has crashed into a river in Taiwan, killing at least 23 people. Dramatic video footage emerged showing the TransAsia Airways plane clipping a bridge as it came down shortly after take-off […]
VIA “YouCar” youtube channel Behold, AeroMobil’s beautiful version of a flying car, 3.0! Developed and built in only 10 months by AeroMobil, the AeroMobil 3.0 made its debut at The Pioneers festival in Vienna, Austria this year. A gorgeous design, developed and built in only 10 months, The 3.0 has a top land speed of 124 mph/200 […]
VIA “washingtontimes.com” by Cheryl K. Chumley Yemen President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is being held captive by rebels who have attacked his compound, just as the U.S. military has moved the USS Iwo Jima and the USS Fort McHenry into the Red Sea, in position to take aboard evacuees from the U.S. Embassy in Yemen […]
VIA “washingtonpost.com” by Jackson Diehl As oil prices continued to plunge last week, it was instructive to watch the disparate reactions of three governments whose whopping losses are likely to produce some of the biggest international stories of 2015. There was the panicked scrambling of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who skipped his own state of […]
VIA “elitedaily.com” by Aaron Kaufman Global warming isn’t the only environmental nightmare that scientists are struggling to solve. Millions of tons of plastic waste litter the world’s oceans, converging together in rotating currents called gyres and blanketing the water’s surface. On average, these gyres now hold six times more plastic than plankton by dry weight. […]
The above is a video of what are considered to be the top 25 most polluted places on the planet. The damage is atrocious. Love the Earth, not the other way around. Video credit “List25” youtube channel.
VIA “themindunleashed.org” “AvMedia” author not specified Here are 25 life lessons from Albert Einstein: 1. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. 2. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. 3. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. 4. If people are good […]
VIA “TechCrunch.com” by Catherine Shu China’s government will launch a new 40 billion RMB (about $6.5 billion) venture capital fund to invest in seed-stage tech startups. The news comes as investor interest in Chinese VC firms recovers after several years of decline. The Chinese government said the fund will include capital from the government as […]
