Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
The iconic Great Depression era Tennessee Valley Authority killing more than 2-thousand jobs! The multi-state federally funded utilities provider blames it on competition with for profit utility companies. The TVA also revealed they suffered a net lost of $81-million USD during the spring quarter.
California: In Oakland, Sutter Health/Alta […] Continue Reading…
Baghlan Province: In Baghlan District, religious leaders demanded a local radio station shutdown. Local police obliged the religious leaders and shutdown the radio station, in the name of security. Police also arrested 12 radio station employees, for their own ‘safety’!
Balkh Province: A group of men wearing brand new police uniforms attacked a police base. Two […] Continue Reading…
12 October 2014 (16:24 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/20 Mehr 1393/19 Jia-Xu 4712
“There’s an Ebola patient in the neighborhood!”-Lindsey Carpenter, Dallas, Texas, resident describing her roommate’s shocked announcement
“…you hear the helicopters overhead and see the news, and it makes you pay more attention.”-Dina Smith, Dallas, Texas, resident describing the swarm of cops and CDC […] Continue Reading…
12 October 2014 (01:56 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/20 Mehr 1393/19 Jia-Xu 4712
North Carolina reporting their first flu death. Department of Health and Human Services would only say it was a Wake County elementary school aged child.
A couple of days ago I wrote how the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated there […] Continue Reading…
11 October 2014 (16:40 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/19 Mehr 1393/18 Jia-Xu 4712
United States: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed that some radiation escaped into the air around the failed Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico, but claims “The public doses were well below EPA’s standards.”
EPA also criticized the Department of Energy’s […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: What housing market recovery? In Santa Monica, RMR Financial (aka Princeton Capital, Mortgage California) announced they are laying off 12 people in October. In Palo Alto, taxsucker Space Systems-Loral announced they will layoff 53 employees in October. In Rancho Cucamonga, personal loan maker Springleaf Finance announced […] Continue Reading…
Sears Holdings has revealed that for at least one month now, Kmart customer account data has been stolen! Kmart, along with Dairy Queen and Orange Julius, joins the dozens of retailers and Too Big to Jail banks that have had their customer accounts hacked, since the beginning of the year.
Kmart’s IT personnel didn’t detect the […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: Alabama Power announced it is switching its Greene County coal fired electricity factory to natural gas. It will also result in half the employees (about 60) becoming unemployed! Company officials blame new federal government regulations, which has forced them to spend more than $3-billion USD to […] Continue Reading…
10 October 2014 (03:08 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/18 Mehr 1393/17 Jia-Xu 4712
Iraq’s Ministry of Defense reports that one of their Russian made Mil Mi-35M Hind gunships was shot down by so called Islamic State insurgents, with guided missiles given to them by U.S. ally Qatar! Also, a U.S. made Bell 407 was shot […] Continue Reading…
10 October 2014 (00:35 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/18 Mehr 1393/17 Jia-Xu 4712
Idaho: In Kootenai County, a woman over the age of 60 died from “complications of the flu”. In Ada County, another woman over the age of 60 died from flu. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare officials are freaking out and demanding that […] Continue Reading…