More Decline: No more Xmas lights for Chubbuck? The truth about Gentrification

25 DEC 2017 (05:37 UTC-07 Tango 06) 04 Dey 1396/06 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1439/08 Ren-Zi (11th month) 4715

Xmas morn, Tahoe Place, Chubbuck, Idaho

What’s wrong with this pic? Where are all the Xmas lights in the Cotant Park area of ‘christian’ dominated Chubbuck, Idaho?

About 15 years ago 90-95% of the homes around Cotant Park […] Continue Reading…

“THE DREAM HAS ENDED….The good guys don’t always win.”: U.S. Retail/Banking/Service sector collapse, November 2017

Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss WARNings and store shutdowns made or announced in November 2017:

Department store Bon-Ton (with HQ operations in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania) announced it will shutdown a minimum of 40 stores by the end of 2018, affecting hundreds of jobs, supposedly due to never ending crashing sales.  But wait, somehow the […] Continue Reading…

“Our effort to find a financial future…has not succeeded.”: U.S. Industrial/Mining/Logistics layoffs, November 2017

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in November 2017.

U.S. layoffs as of May 2017

 California:  APS West Coast issued a shutdown WARN for Oxnard, 46 jobs gone by the end of January 2018. Clothing maker Burleigh Point  shutting down its Billabong operations in Irvine, 50 jobs gone by August 2018. Clothing maker United […] Continue Reading…

Philip J. Fry should’ve kept those space-worms! Exercise is also good for your…parasites?

06 DEC 2017 (01:44 UTC-07 Tango 06) 15 Azar 1396/17 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1439/19 Ren-Zi 4715

Another study showing just how dependant we are on those stomach bugs!

Researchers at the University of Illinois discovered that not only does your health improve when you exercise, so does the health of those micro-parasites in your tummy tum-tum!

The researchers studied Of […] Continue Reading…

“The last thing we want to see is the mall fail and this thing go south!”: Sears Kmart death spiral, December 2017

KTNV Las Vegas: Kmart sold a mom a used electric scooter, but charged her for a new one.

Reuters: “Kmart…has agreed to pay $32.3 million to settle allegations that its pharmacies failed to report discounted prescription drug prices to federal health programs…”

It’s been revealed that the maker of DieHard batteries, EnerSys Energy Products, failed to reimburse […] Continue Reading…

“an unforeseen change”: U.S. Hi-Tech/Communications breakdown, November 2017

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 November 2017:

Internet based WebMD laid off about 170 people after being taken over by vulture capitalist KKR-Internet Brands!

Online news media outlets Washington DC focused DCist, New York City & Chicago focused DNAinfo and eight city focused Gothamist suddenly […] Continue Reading…

“sorry folks the end has come for the pig.”: U.S. Food Crisis, November 2017

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of November, 2017: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.

A new study says rain spreads diseases to crops: […] Continue Reading…

“The people…will never, never find a better job…”: U.S. government shenanigans, November 2017

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for November 2017:

Alligations of sexcrimes by your ‘elected’ officials not only revealed a now no longer secret federal taxpayer funded hush fund (Congress paid $17 million in settlements. Here’s why we know so little about that money), but even State’s have their own […] Continue Reading…

“It’ll eat your eye out!” Don’t play at the amusement park!

02 DEC 2017 (03:54 UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Azar 1396/13 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1439/15 Ren-Zi 4715

At a Pennsylvania amusement park people’s eye are apparently being eaten by a parasite!

A lawsuit filed against Kennywood Park claims that a man’s eye was eaten by microsporidia keratitis found in the water used in the park’s Raging Rapids ride.  The lawsuit says the man […] Continue Reading…

“It shook my entire house!” Explosions in the sky as more minor quakes hit Idaho!

01 DEC 2017 (01:55 UTC-07 Tango 06) 10 Azar 1396/12 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1439/14 Ren-Zi 4715

On 30 NOV 2017, just before 13 hours after midnight (that’s just before 1pm for those of you who insist on using a 12 hours clock to track the 24 hours in a day) the area around Soda Springs, Idaho, was hit by yet another 3 […] Continue Reading…

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