Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns.
Arkansas: In Hot Springs, the Lake Catherine Footwear factory laying off 56 employees over the next six months. Company officials say the layoffs are permanent. The suck ass company is joining other unAmerican companies in moving jobs outside of the country: “Economic forces in the international shoe industry […] Continue Reading…
“Closing stores is going to be part of our future. I’d rather do fewer closures rather than more, but the world has shifted.”-Eddie Lampert, Sears Holdings
Another 100+ jobs lost in Detroit, Michigan, come October!
200 jobs lost in Ohio as another Kmart shuts down! The store will permanently close in early October.
A 48 years old Washington Kmart shutting […] Continue Reading…
16 July 2014 (00:22 UTC-07 Tango)/18 Ramadan 1435/25 Tir 1393/20 Xin-Wei 4712
Cars coming out of Japan are still radioactive, according to government officials in Russia and the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan.
This year Kyrgyzstan has impounded at least 70 cars from Japan, for being radioactive. Russia has impounded 132 Japanese cars at the port of Vladivostok, […] Continue Reading…
16 July 2014 (20:18 UTC-07 Tango 15 July 2014)/18 Ramadan 1435/25 Tir 1393/20 Xin-Wei 4712
Years after Gottschalks went bankrupt busted, a new tenant is moving into the vacant building in Pocatello, Idaho: Sportsman’s Warehouse. Sportsman’s Warehouse is not new to Pocatello, but it is a victim of the Too Big to Jail banks.
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns.
California: Southern California Edison killed more Golden State jobs, this time 500 in-house employees and 500 contracted employees! Utility company officials admitted to state officials that they hired way more employees than their revenues can support! These job cuts are on top of the 600 jobs lost […] Continue Reading…
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1300 block of West Devon Avenue: 28 years old man waiting for a bus shot and killed by shooter who walked up behind him and shot him in the back. Police don’t care, they call it a gang shooting even though they admit the victim might not be a gangbanger. No arrest made.
6200 block […] Continue Reading…
15 July 2014 (13:14 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Ramadan 1435/24 Tir 1393/19 Xin-Wei 4712
At the start of the sixth meeting of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) the members agreed to the creation of their own world bank, currently being called the BRICS Development Bank ( officially called the New Development Bank or […] Continue Reading…
14 July 2014 (03:03 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Ramadan 1435/23 Tir 1393/18 Xin-Wei 4712
“Your tyranny I was part of is now cracking on every side. And your own life is in danger, your empire is on fire!”-Gripped by Fear by Front 242, 1991
“The Chinese side will continue to support Greece on sovereign debt issues and efforts […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns.
Arizona: In Phoenix, Pennsylvania based PaperWorks box maker shutting down. The company is consolidating production. 100 jobs to be lost by the end of July!
California: Too Big to Jail Bank of America killed more Golden State jobs, this time 358 people will be joining the ranks of […] Continue Reading…
13 July 2014 (01:01 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Ramadan 1435/22 Tir 1393/17 Xin-Wei 4712
“China-Germany relations are at their best in history, strongly underpinned by the pragmatic cooperation between the two economic heavyweights.”-Xinhua News Agency
China has surpassed the United States as being the number three trading partner with Germany. The number one position is held by other members of […] Continue Reading…