Tag Archives: education

U.S.

Finally a scholarship that gives you “The Freedom to Get Stuff Done”!

07 July 2016 / 19:08 UTC-07 Tango 01 (18 Tir 1395/02 Shawwal 1437/05 Yi-Wei 4714)

Donald Trump supporter and co-founder of paypal (and other things) Peter Thiel is offering a two years $100-thousand USD scholarship to young adults, to stay out of college!

The Thiel Fellowship is supposedly meant to help young adults spend two years getting their head straight about what they really want to do with their life.  On CNN Thiel actually called a college diploma a modern day “dunce cap”!

And if you want more reason to stay out of school the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) discovered that unpaid college interns are less likely to find a paid job after graduating because employers do not considered unpaid internships as preparation for a real job!  Also, where you go to college also affects your employment chances; only 46% of graduates in the “Far West” find jobs compared to 68% in the north east!

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S. JUNE 2016 : “MORALE IS REALLY LOW.” “THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE.”

U.S.

“All the churches are experiencing this decline in attendance.” The Rapture? : U.S. Christian self-destruction 2nd Q 2016

Incomplete list of U.S. Christian shutdowns and layoffs 2nd Quarter 2016.

Mormon Glen Beck’s ‘news’ network The Blaze laid off at least 40 employees across the U.S.  This is at least the second round of layoffs for Glen Beck. Back in February a Daily Beast report basically said former employees accused ‘christian’ Beck of being a backstabber. It’s blamed on crashing ratings and the crashing numbers of people looking at Beck’s websites Glennbeck.com and TheBlaze.com.

Arizona: God powerless to stop his Illinois based Saint Xavier University from shutting down their Gilbert campus. Administrators say they are prepping for the possible halting of Illinois taxpayer funding for low income students.

Colorado:  In Colorado Springs, god powerless to stop ‘his’ British empire Salvation Army from shutting down the Cold Weather Shelter. Administrators said their shelter was a temporary short term fix requested by the county, but the homeless situation has become so bad that it “…needs to be addressed as a community.”  Also in Colorado Springs, after three years Curbside Cuisine shutting down multiple lots owned by god’s Young Men’s Christian Association and being rented to independent food trucks. YMCA administrators said Curbside Cuisine wasn’t making enough money off renting out the YMCA property so they’re being handed back to the YMCA. One food truck operator said he got three weeks notice of shutdown: “I don’t know where to move. We have been here all winter and didn’t make any money and now the weather is starting to get better and we have to move. It is not fair.”-Hayder Hassan, former U.S. Army translator now food truck operator

Connecticut: Despite surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ East Avenue United Methodist Church.  Church leaders adopted an “off the fence faith” policy by that failed to stop The Rapture, I mean massive loss of believers.

Florida: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Saint Leo University system from eliminating 30 jobs due to “restructuring”. Interestingly local news reports say administrators claim they’re actually creating new jobs. God powerless to stop ‘his’ church organ maker Tadlock Piano Company from shutting down their Dothan store. They’re consolidating ops to Panama City.

Georgia: In Savannah, god powerless to stop ‘his’ Young Men’s Christian Association from shutting down their 17 years old Southside YMCA. But get this, the YMCA is being shutdown by god’s own Saint Joseph Hospital, who owns the property the Southside YMCA is using.

Idaho: In Twin Falls, after 37 years god powerless to stop ‘unofficial’ Mormon Bell’s Family Books from being shutdown by ‘official’ Mormon bookstore Deseret Book! You read right! Local news reports say Bell’s Family Books was facing increasing competition, the final straw being when their own religion opened a bookstore down the street.

More charges of corruption in the ‘christian’ controlled Gem State: A city employee of 14 years has resigned from her job with Idaho City after being accused of taking taxpayer funding. Idaho State Police say she took about $47-thousand USD over a two years period, two other city employees were fired.  According to magicvalley.com in the past year and a half Idaho doctors were paid-off by drug companies, to the tune of $24-million USD of ‘incentives’! Now you know why so many ‘christians’ in The Gem State are wacked on evil prescription drugs!  ‘Suspect’ State Treasurer Ron Crane is now facing wrongful termination charges by a former employee, who was fired “in direct retaliation for communicating in good faith the existence of extensive waste of public funds/manpower and illegality”. In November 2015 five state employees reported to their superiors massive corruption in the Republican ‘christian’ controlled state government. Instead of being praised for revealing the waste of taxpayer funding, they were accused of insubordination! Two were fired!  Idaho state level ‘elected christian’ politicians have so far spent $136-thousand taxpayer dollars on travel expenses for just 75 days of their legislative session! The revelation was made after The Associated Press forced the release of data through a Freedom of Information demand. Not all reimbursement requests have been submitted, so expect the total tax dollars spent to go up.  It was revealed that state taxpayers were forced to pay outrageous three-fold increase in overtime pay to Idaho State Police (ISP) trainees. ‘Christian’ ISP administrators explained, without blinking an eye, that it was mainly for trainee commute times to the academy because there was No Room at the Inn, I mean the ISP’s academy dorms in Meridian, or at the National Guard barracks on Gowen Field! (how many civilian businesses pay their employees to commute?) The Idaho Housing and Finance Association reports that the number of homeless people in northern Idaho has increased 5% since 2015. Local true Christian charities say the homeless rate is actually higher than the official count because not all localities are included in the head-counting, and warned the homeless rate will go up: “Although the homeless number is always interesting, those living from paycheck to paycheck who are on the verge of losing their homes is far greater. That’s the bigger issue.”-Jeff Conroy, Saint Vincent de Paul of North Idaho

Despite boasting of a recovering economy the self proclaimed ‘christian’ leaders of Idaho have decided they must ration the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, incorrectly called Food Stamps). Starting in July instead of getting all their food assistance on a single day, it will be spread over a ten days period, affecting 82-thousand of Idaho’s 1.5-million residents. It was revealed that this rationing of food assistance was actually ordered by state ‘elected christian lawmakers’ back in 2014! The British empire created christian Salvation Army protested the SNAP rationing by pointing out that poor Idahoans have been screwed so much by state ‘christian lawmakers’ that up to 90% of people coming into Salvation Army food banks are there to supplement the meager scraps given to them by Idaho’s SNAP! (as a single healthy unemployed adult male I can confirm that there are plenty of poor people in Idaho who don’t qualify for ‘christian’ state manipulated social programs) This comes as Gem State ‘christian’ led Department of Labor sold its Right to Work Internet Unemployment System (ius) to the states of Iowa and Vermont!    In Boise, ‘christian’ healthcare scammer Saint Luke’s Regional Medical Center has been found in violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In 2015 an employee reported to the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) that Saint Luke’s was not ‘coding’ certain time off as FMLA. The DoL reviewed two years worth of “hundreds” of employee records and concluded that Saint Luke’s “…failed to ensure that all employees on FMLA-covered leave received all the protections…” Interestingly the DoL determination, and resulting Saint Luke’s resolution actually took place in November 2015, but only now is being made public! In February I reported how Saint Luke’s was caught stealing local property taxes!   The AFL-CIO’s annual Executive PayWatch survey reports that chief executive officers in ‘christian’ controlled Idaho are paid an average 277 times more than Idahoans earning minimum wage, and 149 times more than Idahoans earning a ‘living wage’!

Illinois: God powerless to stop ‘his’ University of Saint Francis from revealing they laid off 21 employees. Local news media pointed out that the ‘christian’ university is spending big bucks constructing new buildings. God powerless to stop ‘his’ Seton Academy (Elizabeth Seton High School) from shutting down. In 2003 the all-girls schools went co-ed in an attempt to keep itself alive. Local news media said back in 2014 the Archdiocese of Chicago gave the school two years to increase student enrollment and decrease operational costs, it didn’t happen.  In Elgin, god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 50 years old Messiah Lutheran Church. The property was sold to competitor Greek Orthodox Church.  God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, 65 jobs gone.

Kansas: God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 46 years old Shawnee Presbyterian Preschool. The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome is forcing them to shutdown by the end of the year.  In Topeka, god powerless to stop the shutdown and sell-off of ‘his’ 130 years old (surviving The Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Central Congregational United Church Of Christ. Church leaders say the costs to maintain the old building far exceeds revenues.

Kentucky: God powerless to stop the federal government from shutting down ‘his’ Saint Catherine College. The ‘christian’ school was caught withholding taxpayer funded financial aid for students! Accusations imply the ‘christian’ school was using the taxpayer funding for students to pay-down school debt.  After 122 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god powerless to stop ‘his’ Westminster Presbyterian Church from shutdown after cash strapped members voted to sell the property to Baptist competitors.

Maine: The British empire’s christian Salvation Army shutting down their 102 years old (surviving The Great [deflationary] Depression and numerous recessions) Alder Street Family Thrift in Portland, calling the shutdown “the most responsible choice.”

Maryland: Despite surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions, god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Visitation Academy sexist girls only school. Enrollment dropped to just 89 students, below the Catholic church’s new 100 minimum enrollment standard for keeping their schools open. However, local news reports implied the church actually wants to sell the property, because it’s worth $3.7-million USD.

Massachusetts: WWLP created a map showing Catholic church closings for the past ten years.  After 59 years god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Presentation of Mary Early Childhood Program, due to the economy: “When we looked at all the resources available we realized we just didn’t have the resources to continue. We wanted to continue serving as long as we could, but realistically we can’t….”-Sister Janice Perrault

Michigan: In Midland, god refuses to stop ‘his’ Lutheran church owned Journeys Coffee House, on Main Street, from shutting down in June.  Senior pastor Ed Doerner revealed god was powerless against “…substantial rent increases and other stipulations from our landlord.”

New Jersey: In South Amboy, after more than 1-hundred years (surviving The Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Sacred Heart Elementary School because “…enrollment has decreased by 40 students and the subsidy required to sustain the school’s operation has risen to over a half-million dollars annually…”

New York:  God powerless to stop ‘his’ Catholic Charities of Buffalo from shutting down their social services operations within taxpayer funded public schools (hey, isn’t that a violation of the 1st Amendment, government shall not recognize a religion?), at least 65 jobs lost by the end of June.  In Bronx NYC, Saint Barnabas Rehabilitation & Continuing Care Center has been sold to a vulture capitalist, a shutdown WARN has been issued, 254 jobs lost in July! Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett controlled NYC based American Express began massive layoffs as part of plans to cut $1-billion USD in operating costs!   In Ogdensburg, god powerless to stop the shutdown of 60 years old Wesleyan Church due to active membership dropping to 30 people. In Albany, god powerless to stop ‘his’ girls only Academy of the Holy Names from shutting down its elementary school, due to crashing enrollment (Rapture?).  In Brooklyn, god powerless to stop ‘his’ Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services from shutting down their Outreach & Integration Program, by the end of August. God powerless to stop ‘his’ Webster Christian School from shutting down due to The Rapture, I mean lack of students: “The road to transition had been paved with honest assessment, strategic planning, and fresh initiatives….. Notwithstanding all these….Webster Christian School will be closing at the end of this current school year….we simply do not have the number of students….to provide a standard of excellence in Christian education.”-school statement

North Dakota: Propane tank maker Trinity Containers shutting down their West Fargo operations, 91 jobs lost in June.

Ohio: In Hubbard, god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Patrick School. The Bishop of Youngstown blames it on ten years of Rapture, I mean declining enrollment.

Oklahoma: After 18 years ‘christian’ owned Owasso Fitness Center shutting down. Local news reports say “the most Christian” owner is switching to private fitness lessons only. In Lawton, after 53 years the J. Roy Dunning Children’s Shelter shutting down due to being $122-thousand USD in the hole. In Tishomingo, country music singer ‘christian’ Miranda Lambert ‘flipped the bird’ at her own The Pink Pistol employees when she secretly sold the property to her ex-husband, and then without warning shutdown the clothing store. However, Miranda crazed former employees tried to hide their anger about not being warned: “This ‘rumor’ is real and my sister and Kay lost their jobs.”-Morgan Cribbs

“Yes, Pink Pistol Tishomingo is closed as of today. Blake bought it and we don’t know much more. I’ve loved my job there and I love the town!”-Kayleigh

Pennsylvania: Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett owned Kraft-Heinz moving its Lehigh Valley Grey Poupon production to Michigan, because it’s being paid half-a-million dollars by Michigan taxpayers and $17-million USD by private investors. Also, Kraft-Heinz is moving its Lehigh Valley Tassimo coffee production to Canada, claiming that the majority of Tassimo customers live in Canada. Both moves will cost Pennsylvania as many as 7-hundred jobs! On top of that, in Pittsburgh Warren Buffett eliminating 40 in-house Heinz-Kraft jobs in favor of cheap-o contractors (bet they’re H-1B migrants).  In Lansford, Our Lady of Angels Academy has gone from 8-hundred students to just more than 1-hundred, and god is powerless to stop the shutdown in July. Administrators said the only way they could stay open was to jack up the fees, but christian parents can’t afford to pay more fees.  In Freeland, Despite surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Park United Methodist Church: “It’s unfortunate. All the churches are experiencing this decline in attendance. It’s a shame.”-Barbara Haraschak, church chairwoman

South Dakota: In Howard, after 134 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Belleview Lutheran Church shutdown. Due to The Rapture, I mean declining membership local Lutheran churches are merging in an attempt to stay alive. Local news media says the Belleview church was averaging only 14 people every Sunday (Sun-day, as in Star-day, now you know who their real god is: Apollo).

Tennessee: Utah based ‘christian’ owned Capstone Nutrition shutdown their Spring Hill factory-warehouse, 125 jobs gone! It’s blamed on legal problems with client MusclePharm, which supposedly hasn’t paid for $22-million USD worth of Capstone products!  In Limestone, ‘god’ powerless to stop nursing home John M. Reed Health & Rehabilitation shutting down due to the federal government ending Medicare/Medicaid payments. The board members include members of the Church of the Brethren. In 2015 the nursing home was accused of having so called “deficiencies” that could threaten the health of patients, mainly a lack of competent employees.  After 42 years god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Bible distributor Send the Light Distribution. Administrators blame it on competition with Amazon!

Texas: Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett owned BNSF railway revealed it eliminated 4-thousand 6-hundred jobs in past months! The layoffs exceed the job cuts BNSF made when the ‘recession’ officially began in 2007! A hiring freeze is in effect, it’s blamed on the oil industry BS! 

Vermont:  Burlington College shutdown, administrators blame it on their 2010 decision to buy property once owned by the ‘christian’ god, saying the college “struggled under the crushing weight of the debt incurred by the purchase of the Archdiocese property on North Avenue.”

Washington DC: In the ‘christian’ controlled U.S. Navy three more officers have been arrested and charged with bribery. It’s part of investigations into USN bribery and contractor overcharging problems going back many years and involving more than $34-million USD!   The tax-draining U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is asking for permission to conduct yet another round of base shutdowns. Christian leadership with the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force now claim they have more posts (bases) than they really need! But wait, don’t think this is going to save taxpayers money, the DoD wants to use the money saved by shutting down bases, and laying off thousands more personnel, on buying even more outrageously expensive high-tech weapons (like robots to replace human personnel).

1st Q 2016: Christianity “It’s for sale, someone can turn it into a restaurant if they want to.” 

FALSE FLAG: BOTH ‘CHRISTIAN’ PRIDE FESTIVAL ATTACKER & ‘MUSLIM’ ORLANDO SHOOTER WERE SECURITY GUARDS!

“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible

“And Yeshua entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible

“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

U.S.

Dumbing Down the U.S. June 2016 : “Morale is really low.” “The numbers don’t lie.”

It must be noted that I started documenting these education shutdowns at the beginning of 2014, in that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 education cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past six months of 2016 there have been so many education cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, June 2016:

The Institute of College Access and Success reports that one out of ten community colleges stopped offering federal student loans.

Alabama: In Northport, after 22 years educational supply store Learning Experience shutting down, the owners want “more time for ourselves…and our grandchildren.”

Alaska: The University of Alaska continues with cutbacks, nine programs halted and 209 jobs eliminated due to $19-million USD in state funding cuts for the 2016-17 school year!

California:  Bienvenidos Children Center eliminated seven jobs.

Connecticut: School bus contractor First Student issued a WARN for their Brooklyn operations, 19 jobs gone.

Idaho: In Bannock County, corrupt School District 25 jacked up fees for lunches, despite getting an increase in their budget!  In response, a federal lawsuit has been filed on the grounds that charging additional out-of-pocket school fees violates the state constitution.  I reported last November that an Ada County court ruled school fees were unconstitutional, and some school administrators actually admitted it was!   The Idaho Public Charter School Commission warning Syringa Mountain School of financial peril because state funding can’t come close to covering the charter school’s outrageous operating costs: “SMS’s financial position is extremely perilous. While fundraising efforts have met current cash flow needs, SMS has struggled with lack of funds periodically throughout its years in operation.”  The economy is so bad that there is an official teacher ‘famine’ in eastern Idaho schools. According to numbers presented by local school districts, between 2009 and 2014 at least 9-thousand 569 teachers fled eastern Idaho schools! Statewide only 11 of Idaho’s 70 school districts were able to fill vacant positions, at the same time there is and exodus of education students as well. Between 2009 and 2013 there was a 35% drop in college students entering a teacher training program (what happened to Idaho’s free tuition if somebody became a teacher in Idaho?). Idaho Education News revealed that the state Department of Education does not keep track of such data, it’s coming from local districts and the universities themselves, implying that exalted state ‘lawmakers’ are ignoring the situation. Local school district administrators admit low pay for teachers is the main reason for the exodus, but say ObamaCare has jacked up the cost of employee benefits so high that they can’t afford to pay teachers mo-money: “I would not say it’s a teacher shortage we are experiencing, it’s a teacher famine!”-Randy Lords, Madison School District

Illinois: Elgin Community College eliminating at least 20 jobs for next school year due to crashing taxpayer funding. God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Florian School and Notre Dame High School for Girls schools by July. It’s blamed on declining enrollment.  Lake Land College eliminating jobs due to “significant reduction” in state taxpayer funding.  Aramark Educational Services laid off 297 people after the University of Chicago canceled the food service contract! In Orland Park, Positive Connections lost a school bus contract, 77 jobs lost. Aurora Public Library eliminating a total of 31 jobs due to being in the hole by as much as $2-million USD. The library system will also reduce operating hours and shutdown their Express Center: “… if you don’t use it, you lose it! The numbers don’t lie.”-Tina Bohman, 1st Ward Alderman

Indiana:  Muncie Community Schools laid off five teachers and eliminated 37 vacant jobs.  Almost 1-hundred students left the district last year, exacerbating crashing taxpayer funding.

Iowa: British empire United Kingdom owned textbook and test publisher Pearson conducted a third round of layoffs, bring the total number of people laid off in Iowa City to 166! Local news media say the Red Coat company blames the job cuts on fewer and fewer ‘Americans’ going to college. Yes, most of your ‘American’ textbooks are actually made by the British empire! Is it part of the dumbing down of the United States conspiracy?

Kansas: After surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions Varney’s Book Store shutting down all locations after an 80% drop in sales, due to losing contracts with K-State Student Union bookstore and K-State athletics.  At Kansas University the Jayhawk Bookstore shutdown: “The landscape of retail in general has been changing, in particular college text books. It’s not just traditional text books. There are obviously e-books and rental books. There’s also more a drive towards using course packets….”-Jeff Levin, co-owner

Kentucky: God powerless to stop the federal government from shutting down ‘his’ Saint Catherine College. The ‘christian’ school was caught withholding taxpayer funded financial aid for students! Accusations imply the ‘christian’ school was using the taxpayer funding for students to pay-down school debt.

Maryland:  After 55 years the Conococheague Elementary School shutdown due to age, low student enrollment and upcoming ‘re-districting’ in August. Local news media reporting that Baltimore City Schools layoffs have hit 171!  New Windsor junior high and three other Carrol County schools shutting down now, due to crashing enrollments and taxpayer funding.  Despite surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions, god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Visitation Academy sexist girls only school.  Enrollment dropped to just 89 students, below the Catholic churches new 100 minimum enrollment standard for keeping their schools open.  However, local news reports implied the church will put the property is for sale, because it’s worth $3.7-million USD.

Massachusetts:  UMass Boston warning 4-hundred non-tenured professors that they could lose their jobs by the end of August: “Morale is really low. People are very upset and worried financially.”-Marlene Kim, UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union

The Granby School Committee will layoff at least 12 teachers, along with a number of other employees: “State Aid to Granby is projected to decrease for the coming fiscal year by $60,667. In three of the last nine years, Granby has received more State Aid than it will in FY 2017. State Aid pays for about 32.7% of Granby’s operating budgets. State Aid for Schools, including School Choice funds, is projected to decrease by $107,088. At $5,290,801, State Aid for Schools represents over 84% of Granby’s total State Aid.”

Michigan: Michigan Association of Public School Academies shutting down five charter schools affecting about 1-thousand 7-hundred students. State administrators blame it on lack of academic performance and declining enrollment.   Utica Community Schools eliminating 35 teaching jobs due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome; a massive drop of 440 students in one school year, and 1-thousand 132 in the previous four years! Utica Community Schools is the second largest school district in the Failed State.   Port Huron School Board eliminating 12 teaching positions. It’s blamed on a loss of student body, but could it also be because their parking lot improvement project is costing them way more than they thought it would?  Benton Harbor Area Schools eliminating 43 jobs in an effort to save $1.4-million USD. However, local news sources say the district is also planning on creating 12 new positions.

Minnesota: In Saint Paul, the Community School of Excellence eliminating 19 jobs and changing academic programs. Local news media say the charter school is in danger of shutdown due to lack of “performance”.

New Hampshire: Green Mountain Children’s Center shutting down its Lebanon campus by the end of September, at least 17 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on years of no money: “For years, GMCC chose to operate this campus at a loss, but the organization can no longer support a campus that continues to run such a deficit.”-Caroline Christie, executive director

New Jersey: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Saint Virgil Academy elementary school from shutting down. Local news media says the Catholic church has decided that any school whose enrollment drops below 1-hundred students will be shutdown.

“Luna luna luna luna
Illuminate”-Underworld

New Mexico: Luna Community College quietly began laying off staff last month, at least nine people unemployed due to the college being short $400-thousand USD.

New York:  Montauk Student Transport issued a layoff WARN for their Bronx-NYC and Weschester ops, 268 jobs lost by September! School bus contractor First Student issued a shutdown WARN for their Center Moriches operations, 4-hundred jobs gone!  God powerless to stop ‘his’ Webster Christian School from shutting down due to The Rapture, I mean lack of students: “The road to transition had been paved with honest assessment, strategic planning, and fresh initiatives….. Notwithstanding all these….Webster Christian School will be closing at the end of this current school year….we simply do not have the number of students….to provide a standard of excellence in Christian education.”-school statement

Dowling College suddenly shutdown all its campuses due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome, 443 jobs instantly gone! Local news media reported that students are literally screwed over as they scramble to find other colleges to accept their transfers: “This painful decision is a reflection of the unprecedented financial challenges facing countless private educational institutions across the nation and the difficult choices that many must now face.”-Albert Inserra, college president

North Carolina: Craven County Schools eliminating more than 20 jobs due to being short $3.5-million USD for the 2016-17 school year. In Fayetteville, Edward McKay Used Books and More shutdown: “We will be selling our property in Fayetteville and closing our store there. We know this is going to be a big disappointment to you, but the economy in Fayetteville is just too challenging.”-owners

Ohio: Terra State Community College laid off at least six people due to half a million dollars in budget cuts.

Oklahoma: Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College eliminating three programs, raising tuition by 9% and eliminating 27 jobs, blaming reduced taxpayer funding.

Oregon: Illinois based Durham School Services eliminating 67 jobs in Roseburg.

Pennsylvania: Chestnut Hill College reduced pay, canceled raises and reduced work hours for employees in an attempt to deal with a $2-million USD shortfall. If it doesn’t work then mass layoffs are next.  Pittsburgh base for-profit Brown Mackie College shutting down all U.S. 22 campuses by 2018! Layoffs begin now, enrollments halted. It’s directly connected to Brown Mackie owner Education Management’s problems with meeting tougher U.S. Department of Education rules.  Bethlehem based National Association of Colleges and Employers revealed that only 54% of recent college grads found full time jobs six months after graduating!

South Carolina: Holly Springs Elementary and A.R. Lewis Elementary shutting down as Pickens County School District consolidates operations due to a lack of “millions of dollars”.

Tennessee: Shelby County Schools ordered the 60 years old Carver High School shuttered. It’s been ‘temporarily’ closed since 2013. School administrators say the combination of crashing enrollment, funding and student achievement requires them to permanently shutdown schools.

Texas: University of Texas asking employees to voluntarily quit (buyouts) and eliminated 50 vacant positions. 40 academic programs threatened.

Vermont: Vermont Student Assistance Corporation exiting the federal student loan program, eliminating a total of 75 jobs in the process. Administrators say they realized the federal student loan program was not benefitting residents of Vermont.

Virginia: Radford University shutdown its 20 years old non-profit Small Business Development Center, basically the university was losing money on the non-profit operation.

Dumbing Down the United States, May 2016: “WE WANTED TO CONTINUE…REALISTICALLY WE CAN’T”

Kit Bashing, Reviews

1:48 F-105G Wild Weasel showdown, HobbyBoss vs Monogram

Image

When it comes to the new high tech produced Hobby Boss F-105G Thunderchief Wild Weasel, versus the old-but-gold classic Monogram kit, price is the deciding factor.

I swear I had some 1:48 scale drawings for the F-105, but, despite tearing apart my decades old collection of modeling and aircraft magazines, I can’t find them.  Oh well, I did discover with my F-104s that scale drawings can be inaccurate, as well.  

Click on the gallery pics to make them bigger and read the comparisons of the kits:

Monogram first issued their F-105 series of 1:48 kits in the late 1970s early 1980s.  Believe it or not they’re still viable and available today, currently issued by Revell (which took over Monogram in the 1990s).

Monogram Plus: Generally accurate, good details. Price buster; if you shop on the internet, and are patient, you can get one for as little as ten bucks (or less, not counting shipping cost)! I once saw Revell’s new Thunderstick version in a brick-n-mortar shop for $15! The Hobby Boss kit will cost you anywhere from $35 to $65 USD depending on where you get it (also not counting shipping cost if purchased on the internet or old fashioned mail order).

Hobby Boss Plus:  Generally accurate, good details.  Extra parts like an engine, radar, 20mm Vulcan and an extended inflight refueling probe (F-105s had both refueling probe and receptacle. Oh no, not a hermaphrodite!?).  More decals.

Cold War: GOING ‘GANGBUSTERS’ WITH TEXAS F-4C & GEORGIA F-105G!

1:72 SHOCK & AWE LOCKHEED F-104 STARFIGHTER, OR, WHY YOU CAN’T TRUST SCALE DRAWINGS! PLUS MASSIVE HISTORICAL CONFUSION ABOUT REVELL-MONOGRAM!

1:72 COMPARISON F-86 SABER FUJIMI VS HELLER, OR, NOBODY IS PERFECT!

1/48 SCALE COMPARISON A-7 CORSAIR 2: AURORA, REVELL-MONOGRAM, ESCI, HASEGAWA & HOBBY BOSS.

1/72 REVISED COMPARISON A-7 CORSAIR 2: FUJIMI, ESCI, AIRFIX, HASEGAWA, MATCHBOX, REVELL & HOBBY BOSS. MORE REASON NOT TO TRUST SCALE DRAWINGS?

HOBBY BOSS F-5E TIGER II, NOT ONE OF THEIR “EASY ASSEMBLY” KITs, BUT WELL WORTH THE LITTLE BIT-O-MONEY IT COSTS!

Model kit politics: IRAN TO DISPLAY LIFE SIZE MODEL OF CAPTURED U.S. STEALTH DRONE, SENDS OBAMA A SMALLER HOT PINK VERSION

Review out of box:  ITALERI P-51 MUSTANG 1 OUT OF BOX REVIEW

KIT BASHING & EDUCATION REFORM: IDAHO STUDENTS BUILDING MODEL KITS

Out of box: HELLER, FUJIMI & HOBBYCRAFT F-86 SABRE KITS COMPARED

Idaho, U.S.

My Immigrant Idaho : Crimes skyrocket partly due to domestic and foreign migration!

23 June 2016 / 18:26 UTC-07 Tango 01 (04 Tir 1395/18 Ramadan 1437/20 Jia-Wu 4714)

I’ve lived in The Gem State for 20 years and since 2013 there’s been a crime wave like never seen before in Idaho (current official Idaho State Police records go up to 2013-14), yet most of our local news media won’t talk about it.  The crime wave coincides with skyrocketing immigration, from both domestic (from within the U.S.) and foreign (outside the U.S.) sources.

Between 2011 and 2013 immigration into the U.S. was actually declining (UNITED STATES IS NO LONGER THE PREFERED DESTINATION FOR IMMIGRANTS and MIGRANTS SEAKING WORK IN THE U.S. AT RECORD LOWS!).  2013 was the year the massive waves of economic migrants and war refugees began pouring out of North Africa and the Middle East, due to new U.S. and European Union instigated regime change wars.

As far as domestic migration into Idaho, 2011 is the year the U.S. Census Bureau first noticed U.S. citizens fleeing, literally in the hundreds of thousands, from metro areas on the east and west coasts of the country (CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ TURNED INTO HOTEL CALIFORNIA NIGHTMARE and NEW YORK & OBAMA’S HOMIE TOWN TOP CREATORS OF U.S. REFUGEES!), supposedly their destinations are more rural states like Idaho.

Idaho’s ‘christian’ lawmakers secretly welcome domestic and foreign migrants, mainly for the fact that since 2012 thousands of Idahoans fled The Gem State (IDAHO’S YOUTH GET THE HELL OUTTA DODGE! and THE UNEMPLOYED ARE LEAVING THE GEM STATE!  and 1400 PEOPLE LEAVE THE GEM STATE IN MARCH 2013!)  So many foreign migrants are being allowed into Idaho that the state Department of Education has created a special Migrant Education Program, which is at the insistence of the federal Department of Education and includes taxpayer funded grant money for college (ILLEGALS GET FREE U.S. COLLEGE! 43% U.S. CITIZENS CAN’T PAY STUDENT LOANS! and Community Council of Idaho provides education and federally funded healthcare to migrant workers while ‘yours truly’ taxpaying citizen since 1982 has been repeatedly denied free education and healthcare, even under Idaho’s version of ObamaCare, and not because my income wasn’t low enough, but because I’m a ‘white’ male [I was literally told that by an Idaho Department of Health & Welfare worker in 2001, and by an Arizona Department of Economic Security worker in 1996]!).  Idaho has even established a contractor (Jannus) run Office for Refugees. 

This mirrors the mass exodus of U.S. citizens from the United States (In 2015, ANOTHER RECORD RENOUNCE U.S. CITIZENSHIP! and ANOTHER 1.18 MILLION CITIZENS HAVE LEFT THE U.S. in 2013!), which is the true reason your ‘elected’ lawmakers don’t do anything about illegal immigration.

It starting to look like My Private Idaho heaven is becoming My Immigrant Idaho hell!

Incomplete list of recent news reports involving migrants in Idaho:

WFAA, Texas: Texas teen charged in Idaho locker room sexual assault

KIFI, Idaho Falls: Illegal alien sentenced to 30 months for threatening people with gun

Three people from New York caught in cell phone scam

KPVI, Pocatello: Bannock County requesting $300k to handle increase in murder cases

Bannock County warns of prison overcrowding after cash strapped taxpayers refuse to build a new county jail  (I must point out that it seems Bannock County is apparently [according to Idaho State Police] the only county dealing with prison overcrowding)

“Court officials tell KPVI in the month of March, 162 people were issued arrest warrants….. Since January of 2016 the county has issued more than 400 arrests warrants”

Female prisoners in Bannock County jail at max levels: “Women have really started committing a lot more violent crimes.”-Sheriff Lorin Nielsen

KIVI, Twin Falls: Witness claims five-year-old girl was covered in urine pleading for help

Families of boys involved in assault of 5-year-old served eviction notice

Alleged rape committed by boys of Iraqi/Sudanese descent

The Economist: In their report Twin Falls, a conservative city in Idaho, likes refugees, the LDS (Mormon) church is implicated in a massive immigrant/refugee operation going back to the 1970s, mainly to benefit Mormon farmers with cheap labor

Magicvalley.com: Saudi man runs over Twin Falls man

and from April 2015, College of Southern Idaho’s Refugee Center is expecting an influx of Syrian refugees

Idaho Statesman, Boise: Uzbek migrant convicted of supporting terrorists drops his appeal

Charles Carroll Society: Patriots in Sandpoint, Idaho defeat muslim migration resolution

The Common Sense Show: “…Idaho has been seeking to hire an ebola coordinator…In part, the recent floods of immigrants into Idaho, are from West Africa!” 

American Immigration Council:  The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in the Gem State, in 2013 more than 95-thousand people in Idaho were immigrants, and Idaho’s official population is only 1.5-million

The Washington Times: Barack Obama spares nearly 5 million living in the U.S. illegally, senator from Idaho Mike Crapo complained saying “The unilateral legal protections provided lawlessly to millions of illegal immigrants by the President…..pose a profound threat to our immigration system and rule of law.”

From December 2014, Boise State Public Radio: 46% of Idaho’s undocumented residents eligible for deportation protection under Obama’s executive action. A higher rate than any other state.

From March 2012, National Public Radio:  More than 4,000 refugees have found their way to Idaho….   “Three years ago, we were just seeing a few extreme cases of refugees that had consistent difficulty with integration, and then it really happened very suddenly, where there were 50, 60, 100 families really struggling.”-Marcia Munden, Catholic Charities of Idaho 

Assorted Blind Bat News reports going back to 2011: “IT’S NOT LIKE THEY’RE TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS” 5-MILLION MIGRANTS REFUSE TO LEAVE! 

DENMARK REPORTS 50,000 MIGRANTS “DISAPPEARING”!

APOCALYPTIC AUM SHINRIKYO BACK FROM THE DEAD! AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THEY’RE APPEARING ALL OVER THE WORLD!

SAUDI ARABIA CUTS FUNDING FOR IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS!

CRY ME A RIVER: CONFLICTING REPORTS ABOUT REFUGEES & MIGRANTS FLOODING INTO EUROPE!

“IT’S PART OF OUR NEW BUSINESS MODEL…” IDAHO HIT WITH SKYROCKETING POOR U.S. MIGRANTS!

CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS OFFICIAL SAFE HOUSES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!

SKYROCKETING RAPE IN DENMARK, BLAME IMMIGRANTS!

ANTI-GUN LAWS & EVEN ANTI-KNIFE LAWS FAIL TO STOP MURDER AT UPPER CLASS SCHOOL IN SCOTLAND! BLAME IMMIGRANTS?

BANKS & ILLEGAL DRUGS CAUSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO U.S.!

IDAHO BURDENED BY $187-MILLION WORTH OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!

IDAHO LOSES JOBS, RECORD NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN WORKFORCE, YET UNEMPLOYMENT RATE REMAINS THE SAME? BLAME IMMIGRANTS!

HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!

‘HOW TO’ GUIDES FOR ILLEGAL MIGRANTS!

790% INCREASE IN FEDERAL PRISONS POPULATION!!! IMMIGRANTS, DRUGS & GUNS MAIN TARGETS!!!

ARGENTINA MOVES TO DISCOURAGE IMMIGRANTS FROM THE UNITED STATES

TRY MOVING TO TINY BELGIUM!

U.S.

Roaring back with a vengeance, U.S. High School Gun Clubs!

15 June 2016 (16:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 26 Khordad 1395/09 Ramadan 1437/11 Jia-Wu 4714

“I grew up in a small Idaho town and we frequently had guns at school. In the year books there are pictures of us as a club with our guns. We just competed among ourselves and not with other schools. No one was outraged, no one went crazy, it was a normal part of life.

I also carried a knife every day of my life from the age 8 up until 9/11. Because I fly so frequently, I don’t carry knives as frequent. The TSA has taken more than one of mine, it took me a while to break that habit.”

“I am the same age and remember shooting at two of my local high schools, La Sierra and El Camino (Both in Sacramento) which both had rifle teams. And this was in California in the late 70’s. I took hunters safety at one of them to get my hunting license.

El Camino’s range was indoors but La Sierra was outdoors and both were on the same property as the high school.”

“I made a new stock for my Ruger 10/22 out of a 2” thick blank of black walnut in my high school woodworking class for my class project back in the mid 1980s. I never brought the complete firearm to school, but just the barrel and empty receiver so I could do the inletting. Imagine me doing that today!

Oh, and BTW I got an A+ on it.”–conversations on 1911Forum.com

High school gun courses can be traced back to World War 1, then during World War 2 the federal government actually sponsored high school shooting clubs, but between the late 1970s-90s (November 1999 Chicago Schools abolishes JROTC gun courses), almost all U.S. high schools ended their Marksmanship training courses. False Flag alert: Note that the rise of gun violence in schools coincide with the ending of scholastic gun training courses.  But since the 11 September 2001 attacks, many local high schools returned to gun training for teenagers.

“2,000-plus high school teams (including JROTC programs) enrolled in the Civilian Marksmanship Program”-The Washington Post

13 boarding schools offering Marksmanship

Incomplete list

Alabama: Thompson High School Air Force JROTC Marksmanship Team.  Civilian Marksmanship Program unveiled the $20-million USD Talladega Marksmanship Park, last year. 

Arizona: In 2005 state lawmakers made gun training for teenagers eligible for high school credit towards graduation. 

California: In the anti-gun Golden State Mountain Empire High School offers course for shotgun training.  Only two years after bringing back high school gun courses in 2007, the San Diego Board of Education shutdown Mission Bay High School’s marksmanship program.  The vote was 3 to 2 and was influenced by the False Flag group called Education Not Arms Coalition.  

Colorado: Project Appleseed.

Florida: The Port Saint Lucie High School conducts U.S. Army JROTC gun courses.  Port Saint Lucie was the home of the alleged Orlando shooter.  Oviedo High School “All Girl” team wins Navy Nationals Marksmanship Competition.

Georgia: North Atlanta High School unveiled a new an indoor shooting range.

Idaho: Rocky Mountain High School joins the Scholastic Marksmanship Club.

Indiana: Ben Davis High School Marksmanship. 

Kansas: Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 considering high school marksmanship program.

Maryland: Dave Ward Memorial Scholarship for college available through the Monumental Rifle and Pistol Club.

Massachusetts: Revere High School runs a Civilian Marksmanship Program.

New Hampshire: West High School requesting approval from the district administrators to build an indoor shooting range for their U.S. Navy JROTC gun course.

North Carolina: Smithfield-Selma High School unveiled a a 1,200-square-foot, six-lane, indoor shooting range.  Charlotte High School begins Leadership Academy for Young Men shooting course.  Local news media tried to downplay it saying it was “one if the few marksmanship programs in a public high school”.

Pennsylvania: Williamsport Area High School hosts Marksmanship Expo,  “a one-of-a-kind event where members of every imaginable shooting discipline will be on hand to showcase their guns and gear for the students to admire.”

Texas: J.H. Reagan High School Rough Riders Marksmanship team.   

Washington: South Kitsap High School marksmanship program to be expanded to junior high. 

Washington DC: Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) promotes Civilian Marksmanship Program.

FALSE FLAG: AR-15 IS NOT “HIGH POWER” OR “HIGH VELOCITY”! IT’S A “PLINKER”!

Business/Economics

“It’s not like they’re taking jobs from Americans” 5-million migrants refuse to leave! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 15 June 2016

Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Alabama: What construction industry recovery? In Decatur, after 24 years Marvin’s Building Materials shutting down by July.

California: In Salinas, Foothill Packing has been fined $235-thousand USD for falsely firing U.S. citizens and replacing them with H-1B migrants: “The employer claimed the workers — who were U.S. citizens — had failed to meet production standards. Investigators found that many of them had consistently exceeded the production of many of the foreign workers doing the same jobs, yet Foothill did not terminate these foreign workers.“-U.S. Department of Labor press release

Electric car maker Tesla has been caught directly importing migrants to work in The Golden State!  The San Jose Mercury News reports that the migrants are not legal H-1B workers but are illegal immigrants.  The newspaper tracked an immigrant from Slovenia who worked for Tesla.  When confronted Tesla administrators flat denied employing the immigrant. Watch the video:

Idaho: The Fire Chief of Chubbuck resigned in connection to the planned merger of the city of Chubbuck’s fire department with the city of Pocatello (both cities are dealing with cash problems despite continually telling the taxpayers the economy is good): “Whether the consolidation goes forward or not it’s not going to be affected by whom the chief is at the time.”-Joshua Ellis, Chubbuck city councilman

Speaking of Chubbuck and Pocatello, the county of Bannock made an appeal to property owners to pay their property taxes, warning of fines and interest charges.  It sounded like the county is having problems with property tax collections, which would not be happening if the economy was good.  I gotta message for Bannock County: “You can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.”

Kansas: In Wichita, Via Christi Health eliminating 70 more jobs on top of the 80 they’ve already cut!  Yet, at the same time hospital administrators told local news that they plan to hire 80 people!

Massachusetts: The city of Boston Weak and the college of Babson announced they will create their own migrant ‘visa’ program to get around the federal H-1B!   An unnamed ‘official’ connected to the scam flat out lied and said “It’s not like they’re taking jobs from Americans, they’re giving jobs to Americans.”

Michigan: Benton Harbor Area Schools eliminating 43 jobs in an effort to save $1.4-million USD.  However, local news sources say the district is also planning on creating 12 new positions.

New Jersey: Inspira Medical Center eliminating at least 67 jobs at two locations by August.  Saks Fifth Avenue eliminating 137 Short Hills jobs by September!

New York: Old Country Buffet issued a shutdown WARN for their Bay Shore operation, 42 jobs gone by mid-September.  Unnamed sources say the Daily News laid off 22 people, after attempts to sell the newspaper failed.

North Carolina: Charlotte based Too Big to Jail Bank of America announced it will ‘accelerate’ its job destruction by 8-thousand jobs as part of its “digital banking” plan!  It’s blamed on a sudden 15% increase in people using digital banks instead of brick-n-mortar banks (never mind the fact that increase was forced by BoA shutting down 23% of its offices since 2009).

Oregon: Law firms (American Immigration Lawyers Association and  American Immigration Council) in Oregon are suing the federal government over the H-1B program,  not because H-1B is taking jobs from U.S. citizens but because their foreign clients were turned down for H-1B visas!

Texas: Big 5 Sporting Goods shutting down five of its eight Texas stores!  Local news media say administrators refused to talk about it.    Recently two people were convicted and sentenced to federal prison for seven years, for running an H-1B scam.  They were falsifying H-1B documents to bring in migrants from India.  An Indian news source stated the H-1B program was created “to create a low-cost workforce in the US.”  This news came at the same time it was revealed the oil industry in Texas was employing thousands of people from around the world.  The recent oil industry BS hit one Texas town hard as it was home to many of the migrants: “80 to 100 families have relocated to their home country primarily because of job changes and changes in the economy.”-Richard Rowell, business owner in Katy City

Washington DC:  More proof U.S. jobs are going to immigrants; during a Congressional hearing it was revealed that at least 5-million migrants violated their H-1B visas and now refuse to leave the United States!  This means they’re now illegal immigrants but the federal government isn’t doing anything about it, a grand total of 10-thousand visa violation cases were investigated out of the now 5-million violators known to be in the U.S.!   Despite the latest revelations, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a  new Visa Waiver Program which allows immigrants to enter the United States without getting visas from U.S. consular officers!

Indian news media revealed that the U.S. government is making bank on its H-1B visa program.  At the end of last year the Obama regime jacked up the fees paid by foreigners for H-1Bs by $4-thousand USD!  The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services handles the H-1B applications.

FALSE FLAG: DENMARK REPORTS 50,000 MIGRANTS “DISAPPEARING”!

14 June 2016: “We are announcing that we have decided to close down our operations effective today.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Business/Economics

Amazon caught shipping chemical weapons? Drone laws kill R/C company? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 14 June 2016

Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Alabama: After 55 years McCollum’s Catfish and Seafood Restaurant shutting down next week, the owner saying “Food cost have gone up, and we just don’t have the business to keep it open.”

Arizona: In Phoenix, Sir Veza’s Taco Garage suddenly shutdown its Speedway location because “It just didn’t fit our needs anymore.”   California based internet health insurance management company YourPeople-Zenefits shutting down their Grand Canyon State sales office, at least 1-hundred jobs lost!

Arkansas: Bentonville based Walmart is ending the acceptance of Visa credit cards in Canada, due to jacked up credit card fees for Canadian retailers.

California: Irvine based hobby industry remote controlled vehicle maker Novak Electronics (aka TeamNovak) suddenly shutdown after 38 years: “We are announcing that we have decided to close down our operations effective today. This decision was difficult to make, as this has been a family business spanning two generations.”-Novak family statement

In Bell, critically praised restaurant Corazon y Miel shutting down next week, however the owners swear they will resurrect their popular eatery in the future, somewhere in Los Angeles.  Oxnard based Mandalay Berry Farms shutting down, 565 jobs gone by the end of July! The Farm Bureau of Ventura County did not blamed it on the drought, but on three years of crashing prices for berries.

Indiana: Despite surviving The Great Depression and numerous recession, god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Mark’s Catholic Church.  In White Township, after 17 years Ironwood Grill shutting down by the end of the month.  It’s blamed on a combination of unaffordable upgrades and a disagreement with the landlord.  What automotive industry recovery? In Middlebury, motor-home builder Evergreen RV suddenly shutdown last week, employees were simply told not to come to work this week, 4-hundred jobs lost!  Local news reports say up until the sudden shutdown employees were told the company was doing well financially, and was actually in ‘growth mode’.  Some employees had just been hired.  Motor-home dealers confirmed they were told the company is dead, because when a company goes out of business the product’s warranty is void.   So far company administrators have refused to explain what is going on.

Kentucky: Blackhawk Mining issued a shutdown WARN, more than 2-hundred jobs gone between now and August!

Maryland: New Windsor junior high and three other Carrol County schools shutting down now, due to crashing enrollments and taxpayer funding.

Michigan: In Midland, Oscar’s Bar & Grill shutting down on Wednesday, according to employees.  The owners refused to talk to local news media.

New York: In NYC, Ansonia Laundromat shutdown this past Sunday, blaming crashing revenues. NYC based animator Frederator Networks laid off 15 people, calling it “a fairly typical restructuring”.

Oklahoma: Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College eliminating three programs, raising tuition by 9% and eliminating 27 jobs, blaming reduced taxpayer funding.

Pennsylvania: In Chadds Ford, Chef Anthony’s Italian Market shutting down this Sunday, due to competition from larger operations.

Tennessee: Shelby County Schools ordered the 60 years old Carver High School shuttered.  It’s been ‘temporarily’ closed since 2013. School administrators say the combination of crashing enrollment, funding and student achievement requires them to permanently shutdown schools.

Texas: What automotive industry recovery?  In Houston, Too Big to Jail JP Morgan Chase eliminating 90 car loan jobs.

Virginia: In Reston, after five years Baby Blossom supply and gifts shutting down next week because the property has been sold by the greedy landlord.

 

Washington: Once again Seattle based Amazon is in trouble.  This time it’s being fined $350-thousand USD by the FAA after United Parcel Service employees were sickened by a chemical reaction in some packages from Amazon.  Those packages were filled with chemical cleaners, which are banned in the U.S. from being shipped by air.    The chemical cleaning product is called Amazing Liquid Fire, and the UPS employees said they felt like they were burning after fumes came from the package.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Business/Economics

“financial position is extremely perilous” Hastings dead! 122% ObamaCare insurance cost increase for Idaho! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 13 June 2016

Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Arizona: Walgreens shutting down all 40 of their Grand Canyon State Theranos Wellness Centers and ending its partnership with California based blood testing lab Theranos.  It’s connected to Medicare and Medicaid rejecting numerous test results from Theranos.

California: In Fresno, after 66 years Sunnyside Department Store shutting down, local news media say its the last of ten family owned stores on Butler Avenue.   Blood tester Theranos facing shutdown after Medicare-Medicaid declared their test results invalid, and losing their major contract with Walgreens.

Delaware: Draw Another Circle has made it official and placed Hastings into bankruptcy, as part of their plan to try and sell-off the dying entertainment chain.

Idaho: ObamaCare insurance providers are demanding premium increases from anywhere between 27% and an insane 122% for Blue Cross’s ObamaCare Gold Plan!  The Idaho Public Charter School Commission warning Syringa Mountain School of financial peril because state funding can’t come close to covering the charter school’s outrageous operating costs: “SMS’s financial position is extremely perilous. While fundraising efforts have met current cash flow needs, SMS has struggled with lack of funds periodically throughout its years in operation.”

Illinois: Lake Land College eliminating jobs due to “significant reduction” in state taxpayer funding.  Desperate Lake Zurich considering raping taxpayers to fund a new tax district for the abandoned Kmart property! And they’re spending $40-thousand tax dollars to study the feasibility of the Kmart tax district!

Kentucky: ValuMarket shutting down their Louisville store on Hurstbourne, by July.  Local news media says the property owner is redeveloping the property.

Maryland: It’s revealed that taxpayers are being forced to pay more than $320-million each year to shore up the state’s failed retirement system that is now tied to the volatile stock markets!

Michigan: In Ann Arbor, after 70 years G&H Barbers shutting down due to the new property owner wanting to redevelop the property.

New York: In Potsdam, after more than 25 years The Cheshire Cat clothing store shutting down by mid-July.  In Jamaica, Ultimate Aircraft issued a mass layoff WARN, 145 employees unemployed by August.

Ohio: The city of Lorain notified 23 firefighters they will become unemployed due to the city being short $3.6-million USD.  City administrators are trying to get a taxpayer funded grant from the federal government.

Oklahoma: Kimray laying off 120 people by Friday, blaming the oil industry BS!

Pennsylvania: After surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Holy Innocents Catholic Church: “We can’t afford to keep it open. We don’t get enough money in the collections to maintain it.”-Medio Mercolini, loyal member

Texas: Draw Another Circle owned Hastings told 375 distribution and HQ employees in Amarillo they will become jobless within 60 days!

Washington: Redmond based Microsoft is buying LinkdIn for $26.2-billion USD, expect mass layoffs.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Business/Economics

$15 hour to kill 40,000 jobs in just one state? Migrants kill Summer jobs for teens? 46% college grads unemployed! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 12 June 2016

Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.

The Navajo Nation Council spending an additional $2-million USD to hire teenagers for the Summer.  It’s an effort to combat crashing employment of teenagers across the U.S.

California: Amazingly, and despite my continued reporting of massive layoffs across the Golden State, including the Bay Area, the UCLA Anderson Forecast claims that employment in the Bay Area is at full capacity!   But wait, the term Full Employment is misleading, it does not mean everybody literally has a job, it means that everybody who wants a job and is willing to take whatever slave wage pay level is offered can potentially become employed.

Illinois: Chicago based job analyst Challenger, Gray & Christmas is blaming crashing teenager employment on the bad economy: “The general trend in summer employment among teens has been downward and that trend has been going on since the late 1970s. …..Restaurants and retail outlets are still hiring teens, but not as many as in the past…… …summer camps, neighborhood pools, amusement parks…the number of these jobs is not really growing.”

Iowa: The city of Des Moines threatening to shutdown Hagar’s Manhattan Deli and the Greenwood Lounge if owner Lee Family Properties fails to make necessary upgrades. The battle between the property owner and the city is years in the making: “He is the worst property owner I have encountered in my entire political career. We can’t get him to do anything, so this is our last resort.”-Christine Hensley, authoritarian city council member

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? Detroit based General Motors (GM) is creating 7-hundred new jobs, not in the United States but across the northern border in Toronto, Canada!

New York:  NYC based Too Big to Jail Goldman Sachs reports that the Affordable Care Act is forcing people who normally didn’t have to work to go back to work just to afford their new ObamaCare mandated insurance!  It’s called Involuntary Part Time Employment, and the number of people working because they have to (due to ObamaCare) and not because they want to has remained high ever since ObamaCare went into effect. Now realize that for every person forced to go to work means another person who really wants to work, can’t.   The city of New York is spending $34-million USD creating 60-thousand busy work jobs for their Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in an effort to combat crashing employment of teenagers.   The city of Birmingham is using a measly $10-thousand USD in federal taxpayer grant money to combat crashing employment of teenagers considered ‘at risk’. The program is called Citizen U.

Ohio: The Mahoning County Children Services Board laying off 22 employees and shutting down the Glenwood group home due to lack of teenaged residents.

Oregon:  Raising wages during good economic times can actually boost revenues, but during bad times it could kill the economy.  The state Office of Economic Analysis is warning that the soon to be increased state minimum wage (to $15 per hour) will end up killing 40-thousand jobs!  Oregon has an official population of about 4-million, it’s a geographically large state with a population that’s half that of the evil Big Apple city of New York!     Local news reports said that Oregon’s democrat controlled government passed the wage increase before the Office of Economic Analysis published their report: “While the impact is relatively small when compared to the size of the Oregon economy, it does result in approximately 40,000 fewer jobs in 2025 than would have been the case absent the legislation. Our office is not predicting outright job losses, however we are expecting somewhat slower growth. Low-wage workers receiving raises in the near term boost incomes. Over time, however, employers will adjust by increasing worker productivity, possibly via capital for labor substitutions.”–Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast, June 2016

Pennsylvania: After 29 years Hanover Home & Garden shutting down in July, the owners saying “it’s time to retire”.  Bethlehem based National Association of Colleges and Employers revealed that only 54% of  recent college grads found full time jobs six months after graduating!

Texas: In northern Texas there appears to be an exodus of teenagers as the number of kids on their Summer break, and looking for a job, has been halved from their peak in the 1970-80s, Texas job analysts blame it on a rise in low paying back breaking jobs usually reserved for migrants: ” Most jobs involve more grunt work, more low level work and Generation Z doesn’t find those jobs appealing…. …There is no such thing as a kid job anymore because companies are reliant on every level of labor they have.”-Ron Newton

However, down south in Houston TV station CW39 conducted an unscientific survey and found that many U.S. teenagers are looking for a job, but can’t find any jobs: “I’m looking for a job right now which is kind of hard.  This is like the fourth place I’ve gone, but most places are sort of slow in the summer so it’s a lot harder to find a job.”-Sanitago Navarrete

“I couldn’t find a job or an internship and I thought I could be useful in some other way. I’m volunteering at a wildlife sanctuary.”-Alexis Acevedo

“What the numbers show for Houston is that, they’re not interested in kicking back this summer. We’ve had over 4,000 applications for 1,500 opportunities.“-Vanessa Ramirez, SER Jobs for Progress

Washington DC: More proof the economy has not recovered; the Pew Research Center reports that Summer jobs for teenagers on break from school are getting harder to find, the main reason is due to crashing sales for the employers who usually hire teens for the Summer.  In 1978 summertime teen employment hit its high at 58%, but ever since 2010 it’s hovered around 30%.  The Brookings Institution reports “Employment rates fell most dramatically among teens, and large disparities between whites and blacks persist, particularly among teens and young adults.”

And for more proof ObamaCare is killing the economy, even the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the Affordable Care Act is the main driver behind skyrocketing costs of operations for employers.  Over the past 12 months healthcare benefit costs rose 3.3%, in the previous 12 months they rose 2.5%.  Wage costs are also blamed, not because employees are actually being paid more but because their productivity is going down (of course, who wants to continue busting their ass for some employer who won’t give them a decent raise or who could kill their jobs without warning?).

Wisconsin: Restaurant Pastiche shutting down their Bay View-Milwaukee location in August.  The owners are focusing on their other restaurants.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”