Ismail Khan, former Afghan minister of water and energy, is warning of rapidly growing Islamic State presence inside his country. Khan says the U.S., U.K. and Saudi created Islamic State (aka Daesh) will result in a new world war.
Badghis Province: In Qadis District, a Madrasa was shutdown by government personnel and the headgear of the students and […] Continue Reading…
It’s been revealed that the Cherry Creek, Colorado, Sears will be replaced with apartments and smaller retail shops.
update 19 January 2015: Exodus?
Here’s the updated list of U.S. Sears/Kmart store closings that I’ve been compiling since the end of 2011:
Arizona: Scottsdale Sears/Great Indoors, Chandler Sears/Great Indoors.
Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Arkansas: Bentonville based Walmart revealed it eliminated 210 jobs at its Ontario, Canada, office! The latest round of layoffs are on top of 750 revealed earlier this Spring!
California: In Auberry, the Wish-I-Ah Healthcare & Wellness Center ordered shutdown by state health administrators who declared the nursing home to be […] Continue Reading…
Baghlan Province: In Markazi Baghlan District, six people were assassinated. Government administrators say the dead were construction workers, but Mujahideen say the dead were really working as spies.
Daykundi Province: In Gezab District, reports that artillery fire exchanged by U.S.-NATO trained government personnel and Mujahideen resulted in several people killed or wounded, including the death of […] Continue Reading…
A recent 24/7 Wall Street analysis of JCPenney store shutdowns says the announcement of a 40 store shutdown is too small: “J.C. Penney has not closed enough stores. So, the question is when it can afford to close more. Based on its financials, the total will need to be close to 200.”
In 2014, a […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Arizona: In Tucson, Bring Funeral Homes on Scott Avenue died. The owners had to consolidate ops to their Broadway location. The morbid owners actually blamed it on the lack of dying people near their Scott Avenue location!
California: In Calabasas, Microsoft controlled HERE North America (formerly Nokia Location & Commerce) […] Continue Reading…
For some reason Sears has discounted Nakamichi brand audio equipment by as much as 90%. Comments on the internet indicate the Japan based brand is “expensive”. But wait, it’s not really an upfront discount deal. It’s actually ‘credits’ through the online Shop Your Way Rewards scam. It’s been pointed out that the same items can […] Continue Reading…
More proof that the female 1% are just as corrupt as their male counterparts. The U.S. Office of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has reviewed U.S. taxpayer funded (mainly paid for by the middle and lower classes) Afghan Women Empowerment programs and suspects that the majority of the money is going to upper class and elite […] Continue Reading…
18 January 2015 (03:20 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rab al’Awwal 1436/28 Dey 1393/28 Yi-Chou 4712
A new study shows that even in U.S. states with no official state level income tax the less money you make the higher the percentage of taxes you pay: “Combining all state and local income, property, sales and excise taxes that Americans […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Illinois based Abbott Vascular issued several WARNs saying more than 100 Golden Staters will be laid off! Reports say just two years ago the medical device company had 4-thousand employees, but now has less than 17-hundred (is the job culling related to the new Obama Care medical device tax?)! In Silver […] Continue Reading…