Keep ’em Flying unveiling, […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of Walmart-Sam’s Club notices of store shutdowns and job slaughtering, most taking place between January and mid-April 2018, note that not all closing stores reported job loss numbers:
Alaska: Two Anchorage Sam’s Clubs, 348 jobs gone! Fairbanks Sam’s Club, 177 jobs gone!
Alabama: Irondale Sam’s Club, 136 jobs gone!
Arkansas: Bentonville based Walmart eliminating at least 1-thousand corporate level jobs between […] Continue Reading…
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“Every year, since we’ve been doing the National Take Back, the DEA and the National Guard have worked side-by-side with collection and transportation of the prescriptions. The National Guard is a huge help in collecting a lot of pills in a […] Continue Reading…
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“People are addicted to this idea that you have to use tough love, let people hit rock bottom, kick it cold turkey. That works for some people. It kills others.”-Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in January 2018:
Maybe the new Whore of Babylon is the Digital Bitch?:
California: Who said sex sells? A little more than a year after being sold to a Florida based company, Chatsworth based adult magazine Penthouse […] Continue Reading…
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“We are solving a problem in our country.”-Major General James Hoyer, West Virginia National Guard
“We have to stop this terrible drug epidemic. We have to. If we don’t, it will cannibalize us.”-Jim Justice, gov’na of West Virginia
Sky News: war on opioids is a win-win for […] Continue Reading…
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“…President Trump declared a national health emergency… The leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50 is drug overdose!”-Jeff Sessions, U.S. Attorney General, Opioid Summit
On 08FEB2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions attended the Opioid Summit, hosted by U.S. […] Continue Reading…
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Nippon’s (Japan) Toyota, Honda and Nissan reported that together they expect to make a record profit $22-billion USD, not from sales of cars to ‘Mericans, but partly off the pro-corporate U.S. tax reforms.
Residents of many U.S. states are only now being informed […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for January 2018:
Ironic, isn’t it?Alaska: State senator David Wilson in trouble not only for alleged sexual harassment, but for ‘retaliation’.
Alabama: After years of complaints and no action by the state Department of Public Health and Department of Environmental Management, researchers with Auburn […] Continue Reading…
Sears Hometown/Appliance and Outlet stores got a $40-million USD loan from Gordon Brothers Finance Company.
ABC Action News: 5 months later family still waiting for their new Sears installed bathroom.
Chicago Tribune: Sears threatened to sue state over tax credit dispute
USA Today: Trump tax cut boosts Sears to profit, but sales slide continues
Finally, a mainstream news media source realizes that the […] Continue Reading…