Eddie Lampert (Sears Holdings) controled Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) now bankrupt. The California based company has $261 million USD in debt. Over the past two years OSH has lost $132.8 million! Apparently the attempt to sell OSH to Lowes fell through. OSH is now being parted out, which means lots-o-people will be out-o-work!
Also in […] Continue Reading…
12 August 2013 (13:28 UTC-07 Tango)/05 Shawwal 1434/21 Mordad 1392/06 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
Confusing reports about ten workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. The workers were tested for contamination after radiation sensors at a bus stop went off. Their hands and heads were contaminated with 19 becquerels per square centimeter of […] Continue Reading…
IBM is ending operations and laying off as many as 8000 employees in Vermont and North Carolina!!! A company press release basically blamed it on tough competition.
British empire owned Kearfott laid off 96 employees in North Carolina. Kearfott makes guidance systems for UAVs (recon and assassination drones) for the military. The report of layoffs […] Continue Reading…
11 August 2013 (00:28 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Shawwal 1434/20 Mordad 1391/05 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
According to the U.S. Department of State, 6.38 million U.S. citizens are now living outside the United States! That’s 1.18 million more than what the State Department reported in 2012! (that does not include government or military personnel)
But wait, the 6.38 […] Continue Reading…
In Parwan Province, U.S. News & World Report stated that three USAF airmen were wounded in a explosion at Bagram airbase. The airman are part of the 755th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. The explosion ripped through the airmen’s outrageously expensive Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle.
In Paktia Province, reports that three villages were bombed […] Continue Reading…
10 August 2013 (15:46 UTC-07 Tango)/03 Shawwal 1434/19 Mordad 1391/04 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
The following was posted by Silent Circle:
To Our Customers
We designed our phone, video, and text services (Silent Phone and Silent Text) to be completely end-to-end secure with all cryptography done on the clients and our exposure to your data to be […] Continue Reading…
10 August 2013 (15:34 UTC-07 Tango)/03 Shawwal 1434/19 Mordad 1391/04 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
The following was posted by the operator of a secure email service that was bullied by the U.S. government:
My Fellow Users,
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away […] Continue Reading…
What automotive industry recovery? Georgia based lead acid battery maker, Exide, bankrupt. Company officials blame higher production costs, increased competition and a crashing market in Europe.
Texas based National Envelope (aka NE Opco) went through on their threat of bankruptcy. They blame crashing envelope sales on electronic communications. In Dallas, the 100 years old non-profit, […] Continue Reading…
10 August 2013 (19:51 UTC-07 Tango 09 August 2013)/03 Shawwal 1434/19 Mordad 1391/04 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
“WinCo arguably may be the best retailer in the Western U.S……WinCo is really unstoppable….They’re Walmart’s worst nightmare!”-Burt Flickinger III, New York based retail analyst
The Idaho Statesman published an article showing that employee owned WinCo is being used as a […] Continue Reading…
In Helmand, Kunar and Paktia provinces, reports that 60 people killed by U.S./NATO air strikes.
In Helmand, provincial government officials say a NATO air strike killed Mujahideen returning from a battle in Nimroz Province, however, NATO/ISAF officials deny any airstrikes were launched in Helmand. Also in Helmand, the U.K. Red Coats have been conducting secret […] Continue Reading…