Multinational Corporations Are Hiring....Abroad That Is

U.S. multinational corporations are hiring. The problem is most of that hiring is happening abroad. In an updated BEA summary on sales, investment and employment by Multinational Corporations for 2010, we have a 0.1% increase in hiring for jobs in the United States while MNCs increased their hiring abroad by 1.5%.

All eyes remain on Florida jail as neighborhood watch volunteer awaits release on bail

 SANFORD, Fla. — All eyes remain on the Florida town where George Zimmerman is awaiting release on bail.

Sunday marked the second day after a Florida judge agreed to let the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin out on $150,000 bail.

Suu Kyi party refuses to attend Burma's opening session

YANGON, Burma (AP) – Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and the rest of her party's newly elected lawmakers will not attend Monday's opening session of parliament in Burma, also known as Myanmar, because they object to wording in their oath of office which says they must "safeguard" the constitution, party officials said Sunday.

Nor'easter to bring heavy rain and snow to U.S. East

 Heavy rains and snow will soon pound the eastern United States, possibly leading to downed trees, power outages and flight delays as a low pressure system from the Gulf of Mexico moves through the region, meteorologists said on Saturday.
 
Intense precipitation from the Nor'easter storm will start on Sunday, with two to four inches (5 to 10 cm) of downpour expected along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, which will make for soggy conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

"It's going to a very, very intense Nor'easter," said Michael Eckert, senior branch forecaster with the National Weather Service based in Camp Springs, Maryland.

Bee Gee Robin Gibb came close to death: doctors

Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb is conscious and able to speak to his wife and family after waking from a coma caused by a combination of illnesses that nearly cost him his life, his doctors said on Sunday.

Paying tribute to his "iron will", Gibb's medical team said the singer had defied the odds to regain consciousness more than a week after he went into a coma.




More firings expected in Secret Service scandal

he chairman of a House committee investigating an alleged Secret Service prostitution scandal predicted more firings as key lawmakers and a top adviser to President Barack Obama expressed confidence Sunday that the agency will effectively deal with the incident.

"Every possible lead is being examined," said Rep. Peter King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee. King, R-N.Y., said he expected that in the "near future, several other" members of the Secret Service will leave.

"What they were thinking is beyond me," King told NBC's "Meet the Press."

Wal-Mart silenced Mexican bribe inquiry

Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, squelched an internal investigation into allegations of bribery at its Mexican subsidiary instead of broadening the probe, the New York Times reported on Saturday.