11 January 2013
Blockbuster video store closed in Greensburg, Indiana.
Ironically, Illinois Department of Employment Security announced they are closing seven offices and laying off 192 people!
SAC Capital closing its Chicago, Illinois, office. Company officials said it didn’t make sense to maintain an office in Chicago. (I have no pity for investment companies or their employees).
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“This store is being closed because the lease was not renewed.”-Howard Riefs, Sears Holdings
A news report on 22 January 2013, revealed that Seattle, Washington, Bitter Lake neighborhood Kmart will be closed by March. The going out-o-business sale started on 17 January. 85 people are losing their jobs.
A Kmart in Milwaukie, Oregon, will also close […] Continue Reading…
14 January 2013
Afghan National Army (ANA) conducted military operations in Helmand, Baghlan, Nangarhar and Maidan Wardak provinces. The ANA says four Mujahideen were killed, and eight wounded. Three ANA troops were killed, two wounded.
President Hamid Karzai stated that Afghanistan will be “…more secure and a better place…” without U.S. led occupying troops. Karzai also […] Continue Reading…
“This virus is just unbelievably contagious.”-Paul Cieslak, Oregon Public Health Division
Health officials in Oregon are reporting a spike in norovirus cases in the past two weeks. Also, an outbreak that hit a girl’s soccer team has been linked to those so called environmentally friendly reusable shopping bags. It happened in 2010. Last year researchers […] Continue Reading…
10 January 2013
ISAF said: “A U.S. Forces-Afghanistan service member died today following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan.”
Independent truck drivers went on strike, protesting a new Pakistan law requiring them to give up their independence and become part of authorized companies contracted to deliver supplies to U.S./NATO/ISAF forces in Afghanistan.
09 January 2013
Four Polish NATO […] Continue Reading…
“If the vaccine does not prove to be effective the way it is professed to perform, then maybe the risk of the getting the flu shot is not worth the non-existent benefit of the vaccine.”-Peter Hanson, Everett, Washington doctor
On 17 January 2013, Minnesota state health officials reported 60 deaths, 33 in just the past […] Continue Reading…
06 January 2013
A new Afghan Defense Ministry report backs up claims that U.S. forces are instigating Green on Blue attacks by mistreating their Afghan counterparts. The latest report says U.S. personnel, with the help of some of their Afghan interpreters, are harassing and humiliating villagers in Maidan Wardak Province. Also, the report says U.S. […] Continue Reading…
“We must not allow, nor shall we tolerate, the actions of criminals, no matter how heinous the crimes, to prompt politicians to enact laws that will infringe upon the liberties of responsible citizens who have broken no laws.”-Tim Mueller, Linn County Sheriff
Read the rest of his letter here. Crook County Sheriff, Jim Hensley, said he […] Continue Reading…
07 January 2013
New York based internet wine seller, Lot18, is laying off 25 people. Company officials say it’s the only way they can be more profitable (greed factor).
Switzerland’s biggest bank, UBS, said it might end up laying off 10,000 employees worldwide, including in the United States, by the end of 2013.
Despite reporting record earnings, […] Continue Reading…
“It seems as if Sycamore is doing at the local level what the Cayman Islands does at the federal level.”-Brian Imus, Illinois Public Interest Research Group
16 January 2013, the Regional Transportation Agency (RTA) is now charging United Airlines and American Airlines with tax fraud!
It says the airlines ripped off the city of Chicago, and […] Continue Reading…