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.
Incomplete list of publicly announced education layoffs & school shutdowns from October to December 2015:
Prestigious France based Le Cordon Bleu shutting down all […] Continue Reading…
The following is an incomplete list of healthcare job cuts that took place, or were announced, from October to December 2015, and were directly or indirectly blamed on Obama Care (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act).
On 19 December 2015, during a televised presidential candidate debate Hillary Clinton admitted that skyrocketing health insurance, and health care […] Continue Reading…
In 2015 dozens of evil U.S. cities, and even states, ‘declared war’ on homeless people despite the fact that the Failed State policies of ‘lawmakers’ are creating more and more homeless families: Portland, Oregon. Seattle, Washington. Boise, Idaho. Denver, Colorado. Hawaii. Etc.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently released their 33rd annual assessment of hunger […] Continue Reading…
27 December 2015, 19:38 UTC-07 Tango 01 (07 Dey 1394/14 Rabi’a’-Awwal 1437/18 Wu Zi 4713)
“The delay in operations in Ramadi and Fallujah in Anbar province is a result of the intervention of the United States of America. It seems that the U.S. intends to evacuate the leaders of the insurgent groups using helicopters in an unknown direction.”-Haidar […] Continue Reading…
27 December 2015, 19:13 UTC-07 Tango 01 (07 Dey 1394/14 Rabi’a’-Awwal 1437/18 Wu Zi 4713)
The Washington Post has updated their death by cop data for 2015; so far more than 960 people have been shot and killed by police across the U.S., that’s not a war on cops that’s genocide by the cops! (remember, this data is […] Continue Reading…
Japan based Toshiba concluded an internal investigation into book-cooking and discovered that past corrupt administrators ripped off the company by at least $1.3-billion USD. The result is that 7-thousand 8-hundred people around the world will lose their jobs! This affects Toshiba ops in the United States, such as the South Texas Project (Toshiba owns 87% […] Continue Reading…
Alaska: In Bethel, the non-profit Association of Village Council Presidents must eliminate 30 jobs blaming crashing revenues. Remaining employees will see pay cuts ranging from 5% to 10%. However, local news reports point out the jobs cuts come after the federal government paid the non-profit $9-million USD to settle a contract dispute!
Arkansas: Bentonville based Walmart announced it […] Continue Reading…
What housing market recovery? The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reports that sales of existing homes crashed in November, down 10.5% from October (which, by the way, were revised downward from previous reports), and down by 210-thousand sales compared to November 2014! By region: NorthEast down by 9.2%, South down by 6.2%, MidWest crashed by […] Continue Reading…
Alaska: Snow Goose Restaurant and Sleeping Lady Brewery shutting down after being sold to a competitor.
California: In Laguna Woods, the Albertsons-Safeway owned Vons grocery store shutting down in January 2016, officially blaming the greedy landlord. ITT issued a shutdown WARN for its Perris office, at least 18 jobs lost by February 2016. In Bakersfield, C&J Well Service issued a […] Continue Reading…
Prestigious France based Le Cordon Bleu shutting down all 16 schools in the United States! In the past decade graduates have been accusing the 115 years old cooking school of ripping them off, saying school recruiters lied about how much a cook can be paid after graduating. The U.S. Department of Education agrees and is […] Continue Reading…