29 DEC 2017 (13:11 UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Dey 1396/10 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1439/12 Ren-Zi (11th month) 4715
“Is the fate of banks that they will eventually disappear? Yes. The answer is yes. Does it need to happen tomorrow? And do we need to do it through Bitcoin? That’s a question mark.”-Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel
According to […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of healthcare related layoffs and shutdowns, announced in December 2017:
Israel based drugs pusher Teva Pharmaceuticals confirmed leaked reports that 14-thousand of its employees, including thousands in the U.S., are about to be laid off. Investors loved the news and drove up Teva stock prices.
More proof ‘Mericans are druggies; opioid related hospital deaths quadrupled from 1993 to 2014: “Mortality […] Continue Reading…
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
There’s been a lot of focus on graduation rates for schools across the U.S. This focus seems to be missing a major […] Continue Reading…
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, IdahoWhat’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…
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…
Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in November 2017.
U.S. layoffs as of May 2017California: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…