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Stock Analyst Sozzi: Sears Could Disappear By 2017
SEARS
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Stock Analyst Sozzi:
Sears Could Disappear By 2017
Monday,
13 Jan 2014 11:03 AM
By Dan Weil
Sears
may go out of business by 2017, Brian Sozzi, CEO and chief equity analyst of
stock research firm Belus Capital Advisors, concluded after an extremely
negative earnings forecast from the retailer Thursday.
It predicted an adjusted loss of $811 million to $914 million for all of 2013.
"We got a dose of reality check from Sears," Sozzi told Yahoo, adding that the "company is in absolute crisis."
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"All the years of mass underinvestment. When you cut your capex by 50 to 60 percent in the third quarter year-to-date, you're going to see the negative sales you saw from Sears and Kmart, and it came home to roost."
Sears has liquidity issues, Sozzi says. "If they don't sell assets now, they could run out of money by holiday 2015."
The retailer isn't investing in its name brands, which would enable it to entice customers back to its stores, Sozzi says. And there's nothing it can do to recover now, he says.
"I view Sears in a slow death spiral. I originally viewed by 2020 that this company may not be in business. After that report [Thursday] night, I move that target up to 2017 to 2018."
Investors clearly didn't think too highly of Sears' forecast either, pushing its shares down 14 percent Friday.
"The [earnings] numbers are atrocious," Mary Ross Gilbert, an analyst at Imperial Capital, told Bloomberg. "A lot of apparel retailers were challenged in the [fourth] quarter. And those that executed well were able to come out ok."
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It predicted an adjusted loss of $811 million to $914 million for all of 2013.
"We got a dose of reality check from Sears," Sozzi told Yahoo, adding that the "company is in absolute crisis."
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"All the years of mass underinvestment. When you cut your capex by 50 to 60 percent in the third quarter year-to-date, you're going to see the negative sales you saw from Sears and Kmart, and it came home to roost."
Sears has liquidity issues, Sozzi says. "If they don't sell assets now, they could run out of money by holiday 2015."
The retailer isn't investing in its name brands, which would enable it to entice customers back to its stores, Sozzi says. And there's nothing it can do to recover now, he says.
"I view Sears in a slow death spiral. I originally viewed by 2020 that this company may not be in business. After that report [Thursday] night, I move that target up to 2017 to 2018."
Investors clearly didn't think too highly of Sears' forecast either, pushing its shares down 14 percent Friday.
"The [earnings] numbers are atrocious," Mary Ross Gilbert, an analyst at Imperial Capital, told Bloomberg. "A lot of apparel retailers were challenged in the [fourth] quarter. And those that executed well were able to come out ok."
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News 5 Guardians (CO): HOA bylaws cast doubt on legitimacy
This is happening in locales across the country, but if no
one with the authority, accountability and whose job it is to investigate and
prosecute the perpetrators will, what good are our laws and our systems of
justice for innocent people? I believe they are being made homeless
because some, so inclined, will break any law, file any knowingly false charge,
accuse innocent homeowners of anything they can make up (created conflict), for
money, even if it is extortion in the way of fabricated, unjustified
"collection costs," or liens and property! This homeowner
abuse and fraud closure needs to stop now, in my opinion, no matter the locale
and the innocent victims need to be rectified.
cs
From George Staropoli:
The homeowners association that recently foreclosed on a
family in Peyton may be operating in violation of state law. The News 5
Guardians sorted through the HOA bylaws, as well as property
and court records and found multiple violations. See my comment.
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HOA Constitutional Government (commentaries)
Constitutional Local Government (HOA information)
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CAN YOU TRUST WASH., D.C.? FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA - JAN. 13, 2014
CAN
YOU TRUST WASH., D.C.? FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA - JAN. 13, 2014
"Power
corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton, 1887
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Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:16 PM Subject: Warning: Gun confiscation coming
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From: David N
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:13 PM
Subject: FW: The electronic concentration camp
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:13 PM
Subject: FW: The electronic concentration camp
From: kdockery
Please
read this. John Whitehead is a reasonable and reliable man of God.
You may have heard of the Rutherford Institute, and its director John Whitehead. I like to call it the Christian version of the ACLU. Check out this important article on what America is becoming.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/life_in_the_electronic_concentration_camp_the_many_ways_that_youre_bei
II came up with
some interesting Bible quotes. Except for Exodus 23:25, I played "Bible
Roulette" and let the Bible open to where it would open which created an
interesting pattern in Bible teachings. I took the key Bible quotes from
where the Bible opened to. But before I cover that, just a brief capsule
version of why people should realize that God exists. Take the Catholic listing
of canonized saints along with their feast days which is a different one for
each day of the year. Being scientifically minded, I like to go to those
canonized saints well recorded in history with stunning Miracles of God. As
they have hearings using witnesses and credible evidence on the lives of
those being proposed to be canonized, almost all the reported Miracles
of God with these canonized saints were reliably verified as historically
true. A few come from early Christian stories and while they judge credible, it
is not totally verified always the accounts they accept as valid. Doesn't mean
that they are wrong, but trusted totally the early Christian accounts before
these more exhaustive means of investigation were used.
One
of the best Miracle of God workers in the Catholic side was St. Francis of
Paola (March
27, 1416 – April 2, 1507).
He never stopped having constant Miracles of God occur with him nearly or every
day of his life. There are others in the Catholic side who were spectacular in
Miracles of God including St. Padre Pio who was recently
canonized. In 1918 Padre Pio was kneeling
in front of a large crucifix when he received the visible marks of the
crucifixion, making him the first stigmatized priest
apparently in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. For 50 years he bore
the wounds of Christ on his body and had constant Miracles of God occur with
him. When I was a military cadet in military school and he was still alive, he sent
me a message from San Foggia, Italy and showed supernatural knowledge about me.
I was a Protestant and not Catholic, but he indicated I should push to give
Christianity back the true leadership of the world and heal the wounds of
Christianity so Christians could act united again to stop their enemies on
earth. He and one other who showed up later both had pretty much the same
message. The second source said I had strong Protestant tendencies but also had
strong respect for the Apostolic Christian part of the Catholic faith
dating back to first Christianity. Knowing both sides, I would understand
better than others how to help reform Christianity so both sides could come
together on common principles and not sell out in any way their integrity before
God. God wanted me to help heal the wounds of Christianity so it could serve
Jesus better than it was by reform turned into revolution, civil war between
Christians instead of pulling together so Christianity would not fall before
its enemies. Before Protestants, I have praised Catholics who were good
Christians all sides could respect. Before Catholics, I have praised
Protestants who were good Christians all sides could respect. As the Fourth
Council of Lateran of 1215 stated if I recall the correctt council here, you
could be saved outside of the Church, but not outside of Christ. Being
independent in thinking to all sides, I think that true saints in Christianity
have done more to uphold the true standards of Christianity than some Popes
have in the same ages. The saints both Catholic and Protestant have at times
been touched by inspirations from God all sides could appreciate. As a
historian, I judge that Peter was given the franchise for president of the
Catholic bishops, but still even the Apostle Paul corrected the Apostle Peter
on a policy between Jews and Gentiles. And when God wants some special ministry
set up and the Catholic leadership proves a stumbling block, the Will of God
will not be stopped and so some evangelist will appear on the Protestant side
who is a wonder in Miracles of God. For example, Ernest Angley of Akron, Ohio
now 90 years old or so has had likely up to 3 million Miracles of God occur
when he prayed for the sick and incurable. Many years ago my wife then had a
large cancer tumor on her face and a much larger tumor inside her maybe the
size of a baseball or grapefruit. Ernest Angley prayed for her in Atlanta, Ga
and put her in a line for cancer patients even though she had not said this and
prayed for her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Around 30 days later, the large
tumor on her face fell off and left no scar. And the big tumor inside her
disappeared into thin air as I told her it would when the large tumor on her
face disappeared. I knew in advance what was going to happen.
I think that Bishop Fulton J. Sheen who was as fine an intellectual the
Catholic Church could have in America at his time said it well when he was
asked why he had maybe 2,000 Protestant books in his library also. He commented
that the Catholics don't have a monopoly on inspiration from the Holy Spirit
and some Protestants are also inspired by the Holy Spirit in what they
write. And my comment. And both sides can be corrected back to the
early standards of Apostolic Christianity as recorded in the early Christian
writings if they forget their roots in first historic Christianity.
One Protestant minister had a clever religious joke which was serious in the
message behind it. He said that one Christian died and appeared before Peter at
the pearly gates of Heaven. Peter told him that he needed one thousand points
to enter Heaven with. This Christian began listing good things that he had done
when alive on earth. He was told that he earned two points for helping at soup
kitchens for the poor. He had earned three points for helping people who needed
help with finances, etc. As his list was not earning that many points to earn
his way to Heaven, finally he said in despair, "I guess that only the
Grace of Jesus can save me then!" With then Peter smiled and said, "You
just scored 1,000 points! Welcome now to Heaven!" We don't earn our
way to Heaven. Jesus supplied the New Covenant by His Grace, not our merits!
However, as Jesus also said, you are rewarded for you good deeds done on earth
when done for the right reasons and not the praise of men. We get 30 fold
rewards, 60 fold rewards, and 100 fold rewards when we do the right things for
the right reasons. Jesus knows our hearts!
Being the scientist by nature, I am impressed with the Miracle of Fatima in
Portugal which occured on Oct. 13, 1917. It was witnessed by maybe 70,000
to 100,000 people there including newspaper reporters. The three children who
had created all this excitement with their reports of seeing the Virgin Mary in
apparitions before then and said God would perform a great Miracle on Oct. 13,
had quite a message after the roughly 10 minute event even witnessed 22-32
miles away by people not there. The sun danced in the sky, sent out rainbow
shafts of light, plunged towards the earth and then returned to its spot in the
sky. The message from the three children then was that World War I was a
punishment from God for the sins of mankind on earth. If mankind did not repent
of his sins before God, there would be a World War II much more terrible than World
War I. If man did not return to God, then there would be a World War III
horrible beyond imagination and entire nations would be annihilated then. The
children also predicted the Communist Revolution in Russia just before it
happened! And Communist errors would be spread across the world. You can judge
that this Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Portugal on Oct. 13 was from God or
else a colossal deception from Satan, but the scientist in me points out to you
the following. It was scientifically a supernatural event and shows that God
and Satan are fighting for the hearts and minds of mankind on earth. I leave
the final judgment to you whether this came from God or else the other side.
Personally I think it came from God, but that is private judgment and going
beyond scientific standards. You are welcome to your own opinions either side!
I
said all this to give more credibility that the following Bible verses should
be taken seriously as the Miracles of God I have reported on are all based upon
the teachings and authority of the Bible! One quick final note. Pastor Dan of
Nigeria as widely witnessed was dead for 3 days in Nigeria, brought by his wife
to a Reinhard Bonnke Crusade in Nigera, he resurrected from the dead as
witnessed by many after he had been certified dead 3 days earlier by two
medical sources and had been held at a morgue until his incredible wife
inspired by a verse from Hebrews in the New Testament called upon God to honor
His promise there that the wives would be given back their dead as shown in
Hebrews. When once more alive, Pastor Dan said he had a message from Jesus
Christ in Paradise. Jesus was returning soon and the Christians were not ready
for His return. And the wealth of the wicked was stored up for the righteous
before the return of Jesus to earth. And would be transferred to them.
As Wash., D.C. loves only evil these days and not good, all the growth of the
federal government is growth in evil and not good as far as I can tell! Passage
of my proposed Omni Law will allow good to enter into the federal government
instead of evil pushed so hard by such as Obama in Wash., D.C. In the end good
can replace evil in Wash., D.C if my proposed Omni Law is passed. If not, the
bad Bible prophecies listed below will apply to Wash., D.C. and America
instead.
Ezekiel 14:13: "Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by
trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will
break the staff of the bread (its nutritional and health value) thereof, and
will send famine upon it, and will send famine upon it, as will cut off man and
beast from it."
Exodus 23:25: "And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless
thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of
thee." My father was given by "An Accident Of God" the
secret to milling the flour that makes the super health breads of mankind on
earth. And I have a few angles my father did not in the original industrial
food process to make it even better for your health than the first version
of it. And I have the secret water that gives life energy to your body and
health. Thus Exodus 23:25 is fulfilled when my Omni Law is passed in America
and my father's Vatican endorsed food process is reestablished in America
and this time not crushed by Washington intrigine! This also would help
skyrocket the American economy into a super industrial nation again as
leader of the world in food supplies.
Isaiah 54:17: "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and
every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thous shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of
me, saith the Lord." If America honors God as a nation again, then
America goes under the protection of God and America will stand when other
nations fall due to the Judgment of God against them.
Jeremiah 18:7: "At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and concerning a kingdom to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy
it; (position America is in today before God)
18:8: "If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from
their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them."
18:9: "And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;" (refers to the
blessing coming to a nation that turns to God)
18:10: if it do evil in my eye, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent
of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them." (a nation that
God was going to bless can be cursed by God instead if it decides to turn from
God and return to its prior evil!) All these Bible propecies say that God gives
nations free will to either choose to be a nation loyal to God or else a nation
which is the enemy of God. And God will either bless or else curse the nation
depending on what they decide by free will as their relation with God as a
nation either good or else bad.
If you trust that Wash., D.C. under evil leaders is a blessing for you, then do
not pass the Omni Law. But if you are a fool for such a stand before God, then
be prepared for when God decides to smash America and maybe even end it as a
nation on earth. But if you do not trust Wash., D.C. under evil leaders, then
pass the Omni Law to restore good leaders and leadership to Wash., D.C. And God
will then smile upon America and its future.
Pass this report all over America if you want to have God over America once
again! When youth and adults do not know any reasons why to believe in God,
then the churches are not doing their job and evangelizing America back to
belief and loyalty to God. This report will do the job the lazy Christian
leaders and their followers will not do in America which is win America back to
God in our modern age! It is a sad commentary when apparently I am the only
Christian leader in America standing for restoration of prayer and the Bible to
the schools of America and not one church yet anywhere in America has risen yet
to support me on this stand! Yet early U.S. Supreme Court decisions recogized
prayer and the Bible as legal for the schools to use. And President Thomas
Jefferson pushed for the Christian Bible and Watts Christian Hymnal to be the
two required textbooks to be used in all schools of America! So prayer and the
Bible was quite legal under the U.S. Bill of Rights for the schools to have and
practice! Independent Christians both Protestant and Catholics are supporting
me on this but not the churches yet hypnotized by tax exemption by Wash., D.C.
if they abandon Christianity to the leadership and authority of Obama and other
anti-Christian leaders running Wash., D.C. today.
By the way, a friend of mine and I are scheduled to be on a national radio talk
show next Saturday at 4:00 PM Eastern Standard time which is Wolf Spirit Radio.
We are told that we may cover any topics we want while on. I am not sure that
this time is posted yet as this was arranged over the weekend.
For the Omni Law Drive we use as our national website www.fastboomamericaneconomy.com
Our national email is fastboomamericaneconomy.com@gmail.com Our mailing address
for orders and support sent in by mail is NIFI, P.O. Box 1465, Seneca, SC 29679
. Make checks, etc. out to NIFI and tell us what any payment is for. All orders
and financial support help support the Omni Law Drive. We already have lined up
technology to give America world leadership in the food industry, coming water
supply worldwide so mankind does not end up dying of water shortage in as soon
as 15-16 years from now according to some scientific sources, and likely we
have a number of other world industries to supply America once our Omni Law is
passed. We don't have the only answer to the world energy crisis coming fast,
but we may have the best one available for the world. Obama wants to make
everyone poor in America. We want to make everyone well off to rich in America
once the Omni Law is passed which can be this year if the people seriously back
us now! China is planning to take over America soon piece by piece and Obama
has no plan how to stop the takeover of America by Chinese plan. We have the
plan and right answers to restore America effectively to the American people
and not Chinese, UN or other foreign takeover of America. Pass the Omni Law and
the American people have just regained control of the government and America as
a nation.
Under the Omni Law, if a doublecross is pulled where the leaders of Wash., D.C.
secretly get paid on an RV of foreign currencies or they a high rate and you
the American people a low rate or else not paid, then under the Omni Law, we
will investigate them and symbolically say as law used, "We will skin them
alive!" if we find them pulling tricks like this on the American people.
And if we find that an RV was supposed to have occurred and Obama and fellow
would-be rulers of America have blocked this in order to hurt the American
people, this is then technically high treason under law and will be so treated
under law once the Omni law is passed which it should be one way or another!
Some who have already had explained to them the secret strategy we were setting
up to maximize the factors why we should be able to pass the Omni Law,
they think our strategy is not dumb and very cunning as the other side has not
seen how we have made our hand very powerful by now. We wanted them to be
overconfident so they would make the mistakes that play into our hand. I lived
in and near Wash., D.C. for years and know how the game is played when you want
to win!
Pass this report all over America as it serves your personal and national
interests to do so! Those now ruling Wash., D.C. have only evil plans what they
want to do to you the American people. We of the Omni Law camp want good for
you whereas they want evil for you and using Wash., D.C. as their front to
inflict every type evil they can upon you since they control the
federal government until you take away their control by passage of the Omni
Law.
Yours For God And Country, Erasmus Of America (pen name for a Christian leader
who stands for return to the principles America was founded upon in 1776!)
Tony
Tony
There were announcements made in mosques about a
change in their currency. There was Marshall Law for 24 hours.
There are still no calls in or out of Iraq. Maliki made statements
he was supposed to, to people of Iraq. They were told they saved the
world. I received several emails saying how
folks were happy over there. Lots of departments, a whole lot of levels
including the 10th floor, saying it's done, just be patient. Nobody I've
talked to this morning knows any reason why your not standing at a bank right
now. Obviously their is one.
All has been accomplished, done, completed.
Things over there are done. US & UN representatives are in Iraq
right now & they're not there for Mohammad's birthday, they are there for
something else. [What about the CBI website having no numbers/rates?]
YES, it is a very big deal and excited a whole lot of people.
It should have happened at 2-3 am or by the time banks opened and here we
are still waiting. At this point I cannot tell you who is holding it
up...we just don't know. It can be anytime, any minute, this afternoon,
tomorrow, any time. I'm still happy and excited but we just don't know
the minute.
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FAMOUS NAME LEADS BOY SCOUTS IN 'GAY' CHANGE
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FAMOUS NAME LEADS BOY SCOUTS IN 'GAY' CHANGE
Also managed Obama's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates
The man who led the U.S. Defense Department through its transition to allowing openly acknowledged homosexuals to serve in the military is set to take over the Boy Scouts of America as the iconic youth organization undergoes a similar historic change.
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who made news last week with the released of a memoir in which he harshly criticizes President Obama’s leadership, was chosen last October to begin a two-year term as BSA president in May 2014.
The Boy Scouts of America began allowing openly “gay” scouts for the first time Jan. 1 after a controversial vote last May by its National Council.
Gates, as defense secretary, backed Obama’s withdrawal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Congress repealed the ban in 2010, and it was lifted in 2011.
Gates earned the BSA’s highest honor, Eagle Scout, as a teen.
In his new memoir, Gates, 70, criticizes Obama’s lack of commitment to the Afghanistan war. Gates writes that in 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his.”
“For him, it’s all about getting out,” Gates writes in “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”
Everybody must be on board
In June 2011, when the “Don’t Ask” policy was implemented, Gates declared all military personnel must accept the new rule.
“The reality is that you don’t all agree with each other on your politics, you don’t agree with each other on your religion, you don’t agree with each other on a lot of things,” he said. “But you still serve together. And you work together. And you look out for each other. And that’s all that matters.”
Zach Wahls, co-founder of the homosexual-rights group Scouts for Equality, told Reuters this month he saw Gates’ installment as BSA president “as another reason to be optimistic about the future of Scouting.”
“We know that change won’t happen overnight, and we’re ready to do the work,” Wahls said.
Gates was head of the CIA from 1991 to 1993 before George W. Bush appointed him as defense secretary in 2006. Obama retained Gates, making him the only defense secretary to be asked to remain in office by a newly elected president.
Gates also served as president of Texas A&M University.
In response to the Scouts rule-change, a Christian-based scouting organization, Trail Life USA, was launched last September.
Led by John Stemberger, an Eagle Scout who founded a coalition that opposed the BSA policy change, OnMyHonor.net, the new youth organization provides an outdoor-oriented, character-development, life-skills and leadership program based on the group’s biblical worldview.
The new organization honors traditional marriage and clearly defines the Boy Scout vows of “duty to God” and living lives that are “morally straight,” “clean” and “reverent.”
However, according to Stemberger, the new group also will “honor the BSA and respect the contributions they have made.”
Trail Life USA admits boys who are experiencing sexual-identity confusion or same-sex attraction. But it does not allow those who are “open and avowed” about their homosexuality.
Last May, a resolution to change the BSA membership policy was approved by 61 percent of the approximately 1,400 Boy Scout leaders from across the nation who voted.
In a statement issued after the vote, the BSA said the resolution “reinforces that Scouting is a youth program, and any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting.”
The new BSA policy, devised after an extensive survey of members, is a revision of a proposal issued in January 2013 that would have allowed local troops to decide whether or not to accept openly homosexual members and leaders. The approved BSA policy bars adults who opening declare they are homosexual from serving as Boy Scout leaders.
“Opening the Boy Scouts to boys who openly proclaim being sexually attracted to other boys and/or openly identify themselves as ‘gay’ will inevitably create an increase of boy-on-boy sexual contact,” said Stemberger in an open letter to the voting Scout leaders.
The policy change was made despite a thorough two-year study released in July 2012 by an 11-member committee of professional scout executives and adult volunteers who unanimously concluded the policy of not allowing open homosexuals should be maintained.
In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of the Scout organization to exclude homosexuals, because the behavior violated the core values of the private organization.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/famous-name-leads-boy-scouts-in-gay-change/#dyuUOTLLc1xUvuyG.99
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