

{"id":10085,"date":"2014-03-27T19:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2014-03-27T19:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T23:50:21","slug":"layoffs-at-sikorsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10085","title":{"rendered":"Layoffs at Sikorsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sikorsky Aircraft makes helicopters.  Very Expensive Helicopters for folks who don&#8217;t look at the price tag &#8211; the US Government in particular.   They were the major industrial employer still left in the area of Connecticut where I used to live.   Connecticut and fabrication of weapons of war have a long history.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/local\/article\/Sikorsky-announces-600-layoffs-5256633.php<\/p>\n<p>Business is not so good lately.  The reason for pointing this out is not that the US military is cutting its orders &#8211; but rather the bit about Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>A long standing theory of mine is the United States wants to resurrect the Ottoman Empire with Turkey and its &#8220;moderate&#8221; view of Islam dominating the Middle East.   Turkey is no Libya.   They have a substantial capacity to make their own weapons of war &#8211; airplanes, ships, tanks &#8211; and shortly &#8211; Sikorsky helicopters.  Turkey has steel making factories and has become dominant in the ship scrapping business.  They are a member of NATO and the US houses &#8220;NATO&#8221; nuclear weapons at the Incirlik air base. <\/p>\n<p>If Russia has territorial aims beyond Crimea, Turkey is holding important leverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sikorsky Aircraft makes helicopters. Very Expensive Helicopters for folks who don&#8217;t look at the price tag &#8211; the US Government in particular. They were the major industrial employer still left in the area of Connecticut where I used to live. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10085\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,13,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-finances","category-war-in-europe","category-war-in-sw-asia-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10088,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions\/10088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}