Boeing Needed International Help to Build New Training Jet BY MARCUS WEISGERBER DEFENSE ONE A decade of layoffs forced the US giant to seek engineering and manufacturing talent from partner Saab. It seemed so all-American: a U.S. aviation giant unveiling its newest military jet to flashing lights an[...]
Archive for the ‘The Ave Scene’ Category
September 14th, 2016 - 6:41 pm § in The Ave Scene
First They Moved Management to Chicago and Then Manufacturing to South Carolina, Now Boeing is Outsourcing Engineering to Sweden!
September 14th, 2016 - 8:48 am § in The Ave Scene
Baby Nurses On Strike
Nurses at Children’s Hospital need our support. Give a wave, honk or join their line and rally on Sandpoint Way NE today. We’re talking about maternity leave for the nurses who care for the highest need infants, staffing levels, forced overtime, cost of living.[...]
September 13th, 2016 - 9:37 am § in The Ave Scene
Paul Allen’s Octopus Featured in The Guardian
The ultra rich are getting poorer! They control only $19.3tn in assets, down from $22tn the year before. But sales of super-yachts rose 40% last year! (abstracted from Julia Kollewe The Guardian) The global super rich continued to splash out on super-yachts and luxury goods last year, despite[...]
September 11th, 2016 - 7:46 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
David Preston: Under the Bridge
. This muh man, Lantz. He lives under a bridge somewhere in Seattle. Which bridge? Doesn’t matter, does it? Could be any bridge, really. We got hundreds of ’em. . Lantz is treasurer of an organization that’s gotten millions of dollars in grants from Seattle over the years. Or at le[...]
August 30th, 2016 - 12:45 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Why, What, How, Where, When?
Why have me read, Ellison, Baldwin, Parks, and Wright as a kid, if at the end of the day, I was supposed to simply accept the cards I was dealt. What was the point of learning and studying about Malcolm, Toure, Seale and Huey, if all we are going to do in response to police […][...]
August 23rd, 2016 - 10:10 am § in The Ave Scene
David Brewster: The Corporate Industrial Foundation Axi
David Brewster NYTimes does an expose of the Brookings Institution, showing how corporate donations result in brand-building favors. Disturbing (and long) article. Seattle has connections with some of the programs mentioned in the story, with mentions of Boeing, Microsoft, Vulcan, and Hitachi. The M[...]
August 18th, 2016 - 1:46 am § in The Ave Scene
Its Back! Raineer Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Cost money to make money
A homeless man finally gets a job after months of searching. He was accused of not wanting to work, and even worse he was more or less exiled from his family due to his lack of employment. This is despite the fact that he has been looking for some time. More than willing to work, […][...]