Sears Holdings’ stock has been downgraded to CC (aka Deep Junk) by Fitch Ratings: “The magnitude of Sears’ decline in profitability and lack of visibility to turn operations around remains a significant concern. EBITDA for Sears Holdings Corporation is expected to be negative $1 billion in 2014 and potentially worse in 2015, after turning […] Continue Reading…
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California: Who said the internet is killing brick-n-mortar businesses? In San Francisco, ebay owned internet movie-concert ticket seller StubHub! killed 100 jobs! Company officials refused to comment to local news sources. In Orange, Children’s Hospital of Orange County killed another 89 jobs. This is on top of the 61 […] Continue Reading…
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4700 block of North Lawndale Avenue: 38 years old woman stabbed 22 times, and killed. A witness says the attacker threatened his life if he told police. The cops called it a domestic violence case, an arrest has been made.
10900 block of South Racine Avenue: 34 years old man shot in the gut. […] Continue Reading…
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The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced it will shutdown 82 distribution centers beginning in January 2015, thousands of jobs lost!
The USPS Gateway Station (aka CSMPC) in Pocatello, Idaho, survived past shutdown threats but made the 2015 Phase 2 shutdown list, 50+ jobs lost.It […] Continue Reading…
06 September 2014 (15:55 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu l-Qa’da 1435/15 Shahrivar 1393/13 Gui-You 4712
“Families at the bottom of the income distribution saw continued substantial declines in average real incomes between 2010 and 2013, continuing the trend observed between the 2007 and 2010 surveys.”-2013 Survey of Consumer Finances
Every three years the privately Jewish run U.S. central bank […] Continue Reading…
05 September 2014 (17:24 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Dhu l-Qa’da 1435/14 Shahrivar 1393/12 Gui-You 4712
“NATO need to step up and start to communicate that this is a dangerous world. There is a purpose to this alliance. It is not just a hangover from the Cold War, just a club. This alliance has a purpose for a […] Continue Reading…
Helmand Province: In Greshk District, five cops were killed by a fellow cop turned Mujahideen. The shooter got away with all their weapons and ammo. Near Lashkargah City, a Kamikaze bomber blew up his car after police started shooting at him. 16 people wounded.
Kabul Province: In Kabul City, two explosions rock the 12th District. The first […] Continue Reading…
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Arizona: The U.S. Army is proposing to kill 2700 jobs at Fort Huachuca, due to crashing tax revenues caused by the suck ass economy! Despite being home to a U.S. Marine Corps Air Station and a U.S. Army Proving Grounds, Yuma has the highest unemployment rate in the U.S. at […] Continue Reading…
02 September 2014 (00:41 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Dhu l-Qa’da 1435/11 Shahrivar 1393/09 Gui-You 4712
The European Union (EU) recently ‘banned’ vacuum cleaners that use more than 1600 watts or fail to pick up a specified amount of dirt or emit too much dust, all in the name of saving the Earth and reducing the EU’s reliance on electricity.
The EU is […] Continue Reading…
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Alaska: The Kake Gunnuk Creek hatchery shutdown.
Arkansas: God refused to stop all powerful Obama Care from forcing Catholic owned CHI Saint Vincent (aka Saint Vincent Health) to kill 157 healthcare jobs!
California: State employment officials said for the months of April, May and June they’d received layoff and shutdown notices affecting at […] Continue Reading…