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Continue reading here: China Manufacturing PMI in Contraction: New Orders and Operating Conditions Decline at Strongest Rate in a Year
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Via translation from Les Echos, May 2, 2015: Poll shows 75% of French Do Not Expect Improvement in Unemployment until 2017 .
Now that we have the backdrop out of the way, please consider Twinkie’s Miracle Comeback: The Untold, Inside Story of a $2 Billion Feast Walk in the door of Hostess Brands’ flagship bakery in Emporia, Kansas and your first thought is: What a dump.
Links US Nominates War College Grad as Ambassador to Thailand May 2, 2015 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – There are two kinds of "ambassadors" the US employs across the globe to project its unwarranted power and influence beyond its borders. One is a friendly face covert subversion and manipulation can hide behind, the other is a strong voice that subversion and manipulation can openly rally around
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional
Tweet Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, aka coal in WVa, has a Nixon problem. Â Turns out the Don recorded his phone calls and now the prosecutors have them. Â How they have them is one of those stories.
Read the article: ISM Disappoints, Led by Decline in Employment