A Chinese Group Plans To Construct A 200 Acre “China City” In Michigan

by Michael

A Chinese group known as “Sino-Michigan Properties LLC” has bought up 200 acres of land near the town of Milan, Michigan.  Their plan is to construct a “China City” with artificial lakes, a Chinese cultural center and hundreds of housing units for Chinese citizens.  Essentially, it would be a little slice of communist China dropped right into the heartland of America.  This “China City” would be located about 40 [...]

Why Is The Heartland Of America Being Ripped To Shreds By Gigantic Tornadoes That Are Becoming More Frequent And More Powerful?

by The Economic Collapse

 

What in the world is going on in the heartland of America?  Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes.  A lot of meteorologists claimed that the nightmarish tornado season of 2011 was an “anomaly”, but 2012 is shaping up to be just as bad or even worse.  These tornado outbreaks just seem to keep getting [...]

Commiserates with jobless, then off to the Vineyard

By Daniel Ruth, Times Columnist

It’s merely idle speculation, but this is one of those moments when Barack Obama misses Rahm Emanuel, who once held the role as the first, uh, chop buster in the White House.

Imagine sitting around the Oval Office discussing presidential travel plans and someone says: “Hey, I’ve got a great idea. Let’s have the president travel to the Midwest for several days [...]

Farmers worried about ethanol subsidy cuts

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/19/eveningnews/main20072428.shtml Farmers worried about ethanol subsidy cuts Cynthia Bowers June 19, 2011

The overwhelming U.S. senate vote last week to end massive annual subsidies to the ethanol industry wasn’t the final word on the issue, but it did show the program is in peril. The prospect is not going over well in the heartland of America, either.

CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers reports [...]