September 21, 2010
Everyone knows, or at least has heard, that Wal-Mart is the greatest enemy of retailing across the globe. They try to throttle the competition, are now planning their own cell phone service, and have even tried to open their own banks so they can control your money from the time you're paid to when they've got it all. Their latest ploy is now under way as the giant company is aggressively buying up small urban properties, about 20,000 square feet each, in urban areas for the creation of "baby Wal-Marts", larger than the average drug store but smaller than the typical supermarket. These stores are set to kill off more of our local stores as they will concentrate on food, pharmaceuticals, stationery, and pet supplies. The overall plan for Wal-Mart is to use its lowball pricing to drive everyone out of business, and when they become the only source for everything they will ratchet up prices since if you don't pay their price, you won't be able to get anything. 
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Business
September 21, 2010
More trouble for the Vatican, but this time it's a financial matter, not a sexual one. Italian officials have siezed a bit over $30 million from the Vatican Bank's funds early this morning as part of an investigation of its two most powerful people into moey laundering. Police seized the money from the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano Spa and relocated it to JP Morgan in Frankfurt, Germany and Italy's Banca del Fucino. It appears that the Vatican can't supply the source of the money to inv... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Business
September 17, 2010
Fox TV says its panel of judges for the tenth season of American Idol is in place, but is refusing to divulge who it is. Our sources tell us that the network is still trying to figure out how to handle my petition for joining the show's judges in light of how many of you wrote in to have me be on the panel. It appears that while most of the network execs had no idea who I am, their research backed up my 41-plus year in the business, and they are worried about a scandal if Mohawk Radio fans ... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Television
September 17, 2010
One of the world's rarest animals was recently captured, but unfortunately died while in captivity. Members of a small village in Laos caught a soala, a gazelle-like creature with a grayish coat and lond horns, and photographed it a few days before it died. It was the first photo of a soala taken since one triggered an automatic camera in 1999. No scientist has ever seen one of these elusive creatures in the wild, and the species is considered critically endangered, with possibly only a few... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Animals
September 17, 2010
Jordin Sparks, like several more recent American Idol winners, keeps popping up just when we're on the verge of forgetting who they are. The thing is, she's more solidly cemented into our consciousness because she keeps on working and has had a couple of CDs and top 40 songs since winning Idol. Sparks is currently appearing on Broadway in the 2008 Tony Award winning musical "In The Heights" at the Richard Rogers Theater in New York City. The bubbly 20-year old plays 19-year old Nina Rosari... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Music
September 17, 2010
Space tourism may be just around he corner, according to Boeing executives, but their just announced partnership with Space Adventures Ltd. is unlikely to bring prices down. It currently costs about $35 million to go in space via the seats Space Adventures is selling aboard Russian built Soyuz craft, and Boeing doesn't have any ships built yet. The proposed craft, called CST-100, won't even be ready until 2015. Once they are availale, the CST-100 will have one advantage. The time spent on... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Technology
September 15, 2010
Updating our breaking story on Edwin Newman's death: NBC announced that Mr. Newman died of pneumonia in Oxford, England on August 13. Newman and his wife had moved to Oxford in 2007 in order to be closer to their daughter. NBC further added that the family delayed the report of his passing in order to give them time to grieve privately. Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Celebrities
September 15, 2010
Oprah Winfrey's announcement on the opening show of her 25th season that she would take all 300 of her audience members to Australia wasn't exactly welcome in the Land Down Under. The Aussie federal government and the state of New South Wales are footing part of the bill to the tune of three million dollars, and many people think that with the country's current economy, it's a waste. The Australian Tourism Minister, however, believes that this could be money well spent since Oprah's show is... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Celebrities
September 15, 2010
Think Americans have a love affair with their cell phones? Move over, friend, because South Korea has us beat. In a country with 48.8 million people, South Korea's Communications Commission reports that there are over 50 million cell phones in use. This means, theoretically, that there are some 1.2 million people wandering around with at least two phones, but if you factor in young children and people without a cell phone, the number is greater. Just like in some Arab nations and Japan, m... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Technology
September 15, 2010
It was announced at 8:30 AM on Sept. 15, and we were first to report on it, that Edwin Newman, long a mainstay of NBC's news and documentary programming, has died. NBC has yet to announce where and when he died and what the cause of death was. Natural causes should be a suspect since Mr. Newman was 91. He was in the Navy during World War II, then began a career in jounalism. After a stint with CBS in New York, Newman switched to NBC in 1952 in London and remained with the Peacock Network... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Television
Chief Jack has hosted The Mohawk Radio Show since August 1969. He is a champion for the cause of Indie artists, and many Indies have had great success since having their music played on the station. He is a Mohawk chief who played with a Canadian band for about 10 years. He publishes articles under the name Jacques Boulerice for Yahoo! Voices and is working on a new movie script.
