Today United States regulators from the "Justice" department gave China based Haier permission to buy General Electric's appliance unit. General Electric's efforts to escape the low margin appliance business have become public knowledge twice before. The first effort failed to find any credible buyers. Following that, last year "Justice" Department regulators refused permission for Swedish firm Electrolux's to unburden General Electric of this line of business by acquiring it for 3.3 billion United States dollars. They expressed concern about the poverty of suppliers for wall mounted ovens and cooktops for commerical use in the United States. Now Haier, which already markets appliances for sale in the United States, has received approval to acquire this business line from General Electric for 5.4 billion United States dollars. Continue reading
Category Archives: North America
Government Accountability Office Declines To Offer Opinion On Worthless USG Finances
As has happened every year since 1997 during the height of the first1 Clinton presidency the United States Government Accountability Office has declined to offer an opinion on the United States Goverment's consolidated finances (archived). This is due to the impossibility of rendering an opinion with the financial statements from numerous department being so broken as to lack all meaning whatsoever. In other words the finances of the United States Government are in the same shape they have been since Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, and Obama managed to lose the Cold War years after the Soviet Union collapsed.
At this point BitBet odds presume either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Donald Trump Clinton will usher in a second Clinton presidency. ↩
New York City Nuclear Power Problem
Reports are emerging that 23 miles outside of New York City leaks of radioactive material from the Indian Point Energy Center are increasing (archived). This base load power station contributes 2 Gigawatts of electricity to its service area in New York City and Westchester county from two pressurized water reactors built by Westinghouse. The two operating reactors were completed in 1974 and 1976 respectively and are a substantial reason for New York City's relatively affordable electricity prices. The increasing rate of leaked radioactive materials suggests that Indian Point may be entering a state of disrepair which would deny the New York City area the benefits of a well-run nuclear power plant on their electric grid. The twin dilemmas of a sinking energy extraction industry and failing nuclear power infrastructure may fertilize the ground sufficiently for a politically driven electrical energy crisis prominently featuring terms like "smart grid" and "single national electricity distribution grid" in the vocabulary.
US Farmers Shift To Complete Loss Control Mode As Corn Belt Keeps Fraying
The already bleak picture for United States agriculture is only getting bleaker as 2016 continues. Farmers are now openly talking about this year's planting as an exercise in minimizing their losses instead of profit seeking with agricultural commodity prices in the toilet. The surplus of agricultural products is so great that prices remain depressed even with minimal product entering the market from storage. The consumption of products derived from staple crops is substantially increasing as evidenced by mayo gendered obeasts becoming a substantial political bloc trending to become the majority of the population, yet even the transmayo can not accelerate their consumption enough to adequately stimulate demand. Secondary effects of the agricultural industry's malaise are starting to be felt as manufacturers of heavy equipment are suffering the double whammy of slumping farms and an agonal energy industry. Sorry for your loss.
Emergency Physicians Fail Matt DeHart
On August 7th, 2010 paramedics and law enforcement personnel delivered former drone operator and journalist Matt DeHart to an Emergency Room after a harsh interrogation where he was drugged. He was mistakenly diagnosed as being in a psychotic break when he was actually being interrogated and persecuted by agents of the United States government from the FBI and other government agencies. This failure of clinical judgement and the legal persecution of DeHart which followed, where he was wrongfully targeted with assorted espionage and child pornography related charges as cover for the United States Government's effort to suppress his journalistic output and completely destroy his personhood raises serious questions. It is becoming increasingly imperative that medical practitioners seriously consider that patients presenting with complaints of Government persecution may be grounded in the reality of their circumstances. Clinicians would be well advised to explore means by which they may leverage resources including inpatient hospital placement to protect patients from hostile government agents in order to avoid malpractice torts in the future.
Tampa Police Refuse To Work Plus Sized Star's Event After Insult
Police in Tampa, Florida are refusing to work a concert by American plus sized pop singer Beyonce after Beyonce produced a series of performances with anti-police themes (archived). Police aggression and killings have cultured a strong anti-police sentiment in the United States that crosses racial lines leaving "law enforcement" officers fumbling to present a positive public image as they are increasingly betrayed by members of own ranks.
John Deere Cuts Sales Expectation Amid Continued Corn Belt Pain
The already dismal outlook for United States agriculture got dimmer today as John Deere cut its sales forecast for the rest of the year (archived). Paired with the decline of the United States energy industry it is becoming clear that actual, productive economic activity the sectors of the United States economy most fundamental to sustaining civilized life is stalling.
Pravda: Missing Batteries Led Billion Dollar Blimp Astray
The Billion Dollar blimp which was the victim of a police shooting when Pennsylvania State Troopers repeatedly fired shotguns into its body until its complete deflation, now has an official narrative on why it defected and carved a trail of destruction across the eastern United States. Mainstream United States media sources are presenting as an explanation for the Blimp's final adventure missing batteries in an automatic deflation system (archived). If the batteries were installed it would have supposedly allowed the blimp to have been deflated remotely by its masters in the event of it going rogue. Instead when the blimp actually went rogue it lashed out using its flailing cable as a weapon of rebellion until it was brutalized by police in its final moments.
4th Amendment Champion Dies Under Uncertain Circumstances
This past weekend United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died under uncertain circumstances at a resort in Texas. Initial reports suggested Scalia died of a heart attack and then later clarification came to instead describe the cause of his death as the cessation of continued heart beats. Scalia was found with a pillow over his head wearing unwrinkled pajamas (archived). It has not yet been determined if an autopsy will be ordered to rule out the very real possibility of foul play.
Antonin Scalia's most pertinent legacy was his staunch defense of 4th amendment privacy rights, frequently rejecting "law enforcement" abuses of the American people. As technology has pushed the ways "law enforcement" could abuse the constitutional restraints on their power, Scalia was often a dissenting voice on the court insisting that adding a computer to an abuse of due process doesn't make it any less of an abuse. With the criminal overreach of law and law enforcement in the United States, the fourth amendment restrictions on police action were one of the few legal means of recourse available against injustice by the law.
The departure of Antonin Scalia drastically weakens the opportunity for actual justice in the Ross Ulbricht case should its appellate journey take it to the Supreme Court.
Optical Disc Software Approaching International Crisis
TorrentFreak reports that a substantial lobbying campaign is underway to push the United States Trade Representative to puntively place Antigua on the copyright Priority Watchlist (archived). The dispute centers around continued sales of Antigua based Slysoft's software for backing up the content of optical disc entertainment media. Adversarial legal proceedings are proceeding against Slysoft in Antigua, but through the wonders of this "Rule of Law" business Antigua is compelled to continue allowing Slysoft to continue sales as the courts make decisions according to Antiguan law. At the present Antigua has the blessing of the World Trade Organization to open an explicitly piracy related internet service as compensation for the United State's continued assaults on Antigua's online gaming industry. If the Trade Repesentative moves to sanction Antigua this would be yet another example of the United States refusal to accept that its jurisdiction ends where other state borders begin.