New York – More Trouble: Target Reveals Gift Card Snafu Today 02:00 PM New York – Target is getting hit with another lump of coal this holiday season. The nation’s second-largest discount retailer said Tuesday that an unidentified number of gift cards sold over the holidays wer[...]
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January 3rd, 2013 - 2:51 am § in The Ave Scene
Luring Aerobus to WASTATE
Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is beating Airbus A380 As the machinists vote: Despite a troubled birth a year ago, Boeing’s flagship plane has overtaken the larger A380 in terms of orders. Its fuel efficiency and range may help it defeat its rival but imagine the advantage locating an Aerobus p[...]
China: End of the Monroe Doctrine
In ten years we will celebrate the bicentennial of the Monroe Doctrine. When Monroe signed the Doctrine on this day in 1823, the imperial world was a lot like today’s imperium. The major European powers were dividing up the world using trading companies backed up by their military. Monroe [...]
Election 2012: China’s Choice: Romney
Which U.S. presidential candidate would be better for U.S.-China relations? Tuesday’s debate outed the real Mitt Romney … a modern incorporation of the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers. These men built the corporations that dominate today’s world and are now rivaled only by the s[...]
In Rove’s world, $10,000 is a small donor.
Karl Rove announces he’ll do more of the only thing he’s good at: Spending rich people’s money by Jed Lewison, Daily Kos Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads announced Wednesday they will spend a combined $4.6 million to run ads on broadcast and cable television in Missouri, Nort[...]
May 3rd, 2012 - 2:00 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
AFL CIO gives up landmark campus
from The Examiner In the latest sign of the fast-shrinking Big Labor movement, the National Labor College established in 1969 by AFL-CIO icon George Meany to teach new labor organizing tactics and management to new generations of activists is selling its sprawling Silver Spring, Md. campus. The reas[...]
April 1st, 2012 - 10:00 am § in America
APPLE’s new iBracelet stores info about health, contacts
Apple has today announced release of its much rumored iBracelet. Going even beyond Apple’s legendary sense of design, the iBracelet is much more than a fashion accessory! Combining a gold bracelt with Apple’s new “Goldfinger” pointing device, the iBracelet is the ultim[...]
ANNIVERSARY: Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Factory Fire’s Legacy Under Threat
from Huffington Post, Andrea Stone .. last year. “We have been legislated to death.” – James T. Hoyle, Secretary of the Manufacturers’ Association, explaining his opposition to new laws proposed in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. factory fire, May 19, 1914 “The [...]
When the US Runs Out of Water
In 40 years, US could face water crisis Global warming and climate change are likely to unfold a water crisis in the United States within the next 40 years, says a new report. It concluded that seven in 10 of the more than 3,100 US counties could face risk of fresh water shortages. The report [&hell[...]
Woz Disses the iPAD
Steve Wozniak disses iOS from engadget According to The Daily Beast, the Apple co-founder (and connoisseur of Segways) goes on record as preferring many aspects of Android’s fussier-but-deeper UI to iOS’ one size fits all, simplified approach. Citing improvements in voice command softwar[...]