After three years of hard work by Sears franchise owners Sears Canada told Spencer and Theresa Toepfer to take a hike as Sears Canada now wants to shutdown their Osoyoos Sears Hometown Store. The Toepfers swear their store is actually making a profit but Sears Canada refuses to renew the lease: “….we get another call two weeks […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Hawaii: Taxpayer funded Wahiawa General Hospital is begging for emergency funding to stop it from shutting down. Administrators revealed that since ObamaCare went into effect they’ve lost $9-million USD!
Idaho: National Basketball Association D-league team the Idaho Stampede announced they’re getting the hell-outta Boise and moving to Salt Lake City, […] Continue Reading…
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“Tilapia is one of the most important fish industries worldwide. Moreover, because they eat algae, they are ecological gatekeepers for freshwater and they are an inexpensive, important source of protein in poorer countries.”-Eran Bacharach, Tel Aviv University
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alaska: Oil drillers Parker Drilling and CH2M Hill both announced layoffs, 113 jobs being lost! The layoffs with Texas based Parker are what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs (REL) as it’s the result of British Petroleum cutbacks. Administrators with Parker revealed how short sighted they are when they […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: More layoffs for the Orange County Register, at least 71 people laid off without warning by new owner Digital First Media. In San Francisco, KGO Radio laid off as many as 30 people (almost all its newsroom staff) without warning, employees called it a “bloodbath”. The news came […] Continue Reading…
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“This is a wake-up call!”-Dominic DiGiulio, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Yesterday, Stanford University published the results of their study on drinking water in a Wyoming town afflicted by the oil industry’s fracking operations.
The Stanford case study points […] Continue Reading…
31 March 2016 /19:16 UTC-07 Tango 01 (13 Farvardin 1395/22 Jumada t-Tania 1437/24 Xin Mao 4714)
Idaho: The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently revealed their onsite radiation detectors don’t work! They discovered this a month after an ‘incident’ contaminated several employees!
INL glove boxLocal eastern Idaho newspapers got copy of a 43 […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Today is U.S. federal commemorative holiday Cesar Chavez Day.
Industry analysts Challenger, Gray & Christmas report that publicly announced corporate layoffs for the past 12 months are at a 4 years high.
California: In Berkeley, The Bone Room curiosity shop (selling preserved bones of animals, etc) shutting down their brick-n-mortar shop […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of March, 2016: 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.
Nation’s Restaurant News reports yet another perfect storm […] Continue Reading…
30 March 2016 /21:04 UTC-07 Tango 01 (12 Farvardin 1395/21 Jumada t-Tania 1437/23 Xin Mao 4714)
“The U.S. government has taken the opposite approach amid equally alarming cases of serious side effects. Not only does the Obama administration continue recommending the vaccine (Gardasil), it spends large sums of taxpayer dollars promoting it and works hard […] Continue Reading…