“I believe it’s important to declare the city of Detroit in financial emergency…..There is no city that is more financially challenged….”-Rick Snyder, Governor of Michigan
01 March 2013/18 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/11 Esfand 1391
The Governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, announced he is taking over the management of the city of Detroit. City officials have ten days […] Continue Reading…
01 March 2013/18 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/11 Esfand 1391
Best Buy reported a measly 0.9% increase in 4th Quarter sales in the United States. Best Buy calls it the end of their Fiscal Year 2013, I guess they’re living in the future. There is no standardized Fiscal Year (FY), so it can get confusing for us […] Continue Reading…
28 February 2013/17 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/10 Esfand 1391
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo), operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi General Electric reactors, revealed that rock trout caught in the Pacific Ocean near the nuclear power plant, contain 510000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram!!!
Holy crap retiring Popeman, the official safe limit is only 100 becquerels per kilogram!!!
The […] Continue Reading…
28 February 2013/17 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/10 Esfand 1391
The main stream media is trying to make Sears Holdings’ 2012 earnings sound good, by saying that it wasn’t as bad as expected. It is still bad!
Sears claimed their comparable store sales were up in its 4th Quarter 2012, by a measly 0.8%. However, sales for the […] Continue Reading…
Arts cable channel, Ovation, began laying off employees in California. So far 25 people have lost their jobs, but company officials say this is the beginning of layoffs that will affect other employees in Illinois and New York. Time Warner dropped Ovation from its cable lineup at the end of 2012.
Another California based company, […] Continue Reading…
27 February 2013/16 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/09 Esfand 1391
Company officials reported 4th Quarter 2012 results for J.C. Penney, and it’s really bad! It’s so bad one retail analysts, Brian Sozzi, asked “Where is the rest of J.C. Penney’s quarter?”
Not only were holiday sales down in the dumps, but so were sales for the whole year.
J.C. […] Continue Reading…
On 24 February 2013/14 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/07 Esfand 1391
Two men were injured when the Beloit Kmart they were chopping up, let them down hard.
The two men were cutting up a second story concrete floor when it collapsed. They fell 12 feet (3.6 meters). One has leg injuries the other has back injuries.
The new […] Continue Reading…
19 February 2013/08 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/01 Esfand 1391
A United Nations report suggests the Mujahideen are getting more accurate in their attacks. The Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict report shows a decrease in civilian casualties, by 12% from 2011 to 2012. The UN blames most of the civilian deaths on Mujahideen, but while civilian […] Continue Reading…
Telecommunications company, Tellabs, will have to layoff at least 300 employees in 2013! That’s because of $172 millin USD in losses for 2012. The Illinois based company already laid off 730 people in 2012!
Also in Illinois, two video rental stores shut down. The owner of Video Villager said she got a sign: “Business has […] Continue Reading…
27 February 2013/16 Raby’ ath-Thani 1434/09 Esfand 1391
More proof the main streamers were lying about the “increased” holiday sales. Today, Sears CAnada reported that their 2012 4th Quarter (which ended for Sears CA on 02 February 2013) holiday profits were down 5% from 4th Q 2011 (which ended on 28 January 2012). Notice that […] Continue Reading…