02 September 2016 (15:16 UTC-07 Tango 01) 12 Shahrivar 1395/29 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/02 Ding-You 4714
OPERATION JUPITER: GLOBAL WARMING NOT CAUSE OF FISH DIE-OFF, MYSTERY VIRUS DISCOVERED IN 2 SEPARATE LOCATIONS!
H1N1 ROARS BACK TO LIFE: HUNDREDS KILLED IN THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 2016! TARGETS VEGANS?
Maybe it’s because of the hurricanes, or Labor Day weekend, or that it’s National Preparedness Month, but if your going to be near the water wear a great old-school technological invention known as the life jacket:
02 September 2016 (14:43 UTC-07 Tango 01) 12 Shahrivar 1395/29 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/02 Ding-You 4714
Florida’s Camp Blanding is not only the base for state militia but as a staging area for Florida Power & Light as Hurricane Hermine comes ashore.
3/20th Special Forces preps Zodiac boat, and the Post commander says something:
GOES-13 infrared satellite image of Tropical Storm Hermine (now hurricane) on 01 Sep 2016
HOW TO PREP YOUR FIGHTER JET FOR A HURRICANE
02 September 2016 (14:21 UTC-07 Tango 01) 12 Shahrivar 1395/29 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/02 Ding-You 4714
Japan is ready to test a new automated legal (not illegal) immigration system. It’s hoped to speed up the ingress and egress of foreigners coming to vist, work or even live in Japan.
Legally registered foreigners will scan approved ID at electronic checkpoints located in major transportation centers. The test run will use electronic checkpoints at Japan’s international airports.
A new immigrant law goes into effect in November, allowing pre-registered foreigners from visa-free countries to use the electronic checkpoints to enter Japan.
U.S. electronic checkpoint in Houston, Texas
After 2-hundred years of not having to use a passport to cross the borders of Canada, United States and Mexico, the paranoid U.S. instituted the required use of passports. U.S. Customs and Border Protection also uses the Automated Passport Control (electronic checkpoint) system in an effort to speed processing of people who can legally cross the border. However, if you do your research the requirement to use passports, and even the use of electronic checkpoints, has done nothing to affect illegal immigration!
02 September 2016 (13:53 UTC-07 Tango 01) 12 Shahrivar 1395/29 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/02 Ding-You 4714
Tyndall AFB, Florida, has a simple solution for preparing for Hurricane Hermine; just cram all your aircraft into hanger buildings:
A bunch of F-22s, a T-38 (in foreground) and QF-16 drones crammed into one hanger on Tyndall AFB
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH: THE USAF HAS GONE TO THE DOGS, AND CATS!
Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss announcements and shutdowns for August 2016.
California: Without warning Ashley Furniture laid off 840 people at their factory/warehouse in Colton! Local news reports said the employees were lured to convention centers were the layoffs took place within a five minutes period, after which employees received a letter via FedEx telling them the Ashley Furniture sofa factory was shutdown: “They told us to go into a meeting, and all of a sudden they tried to feed us and they said, ‘You know what, there’s no more jobs!’”-Israel Naja, laid off without warning
Work at Total Terminals, one of the largest ports in Long Beach, now suspended “until further notice” as majority owner Hanjin (of Korea), now bankrupt busted: “Hanjin’s bankruptcy could very well spoil the holidays for anyone……Look for a financially ruinous game of musical chairs as cargo owners now hunt for space with other shipping lines.”-Jock O’Connell, Beacon Economics
In Hayward, Architectural Lighting Works shutting down, 55 jobs lost by October. Oil producer Rincon Islands now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. News reports say the bankruptcy is actually a way for the oil company to avoid complying with new California regulations. Boeing issued a Halloween layoff WARN for 57 people in El Segundo and Huntington Beach. In Burlingame, Alaska Air Group (aka Alaska Airlines-Horizin Airlines) issued a layoff WARN for 225 people, possibly in connection with its take-over of Virgin America! In San Francisco, SkyWest Airlines eliminating 325 jobs by the end of September! At Los Angeles International Airport, G2 Secure Staff laying off 90 people by mid-October. Silgan Containers issued several layoff WARNs, 267 jobs lost for Riverbank and Modesto between September and Halloween!
Colorado: At the Denver International Airport, ‘ground handler’ Swissport laying off 187 people in September due to “significant loss of business” caused by major airlines making drastic cuts!
Connecticut: A year after being taken over by Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky Aircraft is laying off at least 109 people!
Florida: In Winter Park, after 15 years wholesaler Coralia Leets Jewelry Design now chapter 7 bankrupt and dead.
Illinois: Industrial tool maker Rockford Products suddenly laid off about 150 employees due to lack of debt financing, and another 171 will be laid off by the end of September if nobody wants to buy the business! A fine example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs; American Electric Power warned of 22 layoffs at its Cook Coal Terminal due to the massive reduction of the coal industry. Peoria based mining vehicle maker Caterpillar continues to kill jobs, this time 155 employees in Pennsylvania and Texas will become unemployed! And another fine example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs; after six years farm equipment supplier German-Bliss Equipment suddenly shutdown, blaming mass layoffs by Caterpillar and crashing commodity prices for local crops.
Indiana: An example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs; in Evansville, Flanders Electric suddenly laid off 109 people, on top of the 80 employees let go a couple of months ago! It’s blamed on lack of sales to the mining-oil industry. Bankrupt Vertellus Specialties laying off up to 50 people at its Indianapolis chemical factory, in October. Gear maker Oerlikon Fairfield suddenly laid off 71 people due to “soft market conditions”. Another fine example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs; Canada owned Stanrail shutting down its boxcar factory in Gary, 1-hundred jobs lost between October 2016 and February 2017, due to the crashing rail industry! Also in Gary, US Steel suddenly (and apparently with no explanation) laid off 38 people, the employee’s union says it will fight the layoff decision. What home construction industry recovery? Laminate wood products maker VT Industries shutting down their New Albany factory, 120 jobs lost by the end of September! GE Appliances shutdown their factory in Bloomington, about 330 jobs lost! Interestingly, General Electric says it has enough money to pay the now unemployed employees a severance until June of 2017. The factory shutdown is blamed on a 76% crash (since 2008) in fridge sales!
Iowa: After two days of auctions, bankrupt Columbus Castings likely to shutdown after the bidder who wanted to keep it operating (according to bankruptcy documents) lost, 8-hundred jobs gone!
Kansas: Canada owned Bombadier Learjet notified the state of 30 layoffs due to crashing demand for the Learjet 70 and 75.
Kentucky: GE Lighting shutting down two factories, 210 jobs gone between now and August 2017! The ‘brilliant’ General Electric administrators admit its because they’ve been slow to switch to L-E-D production, as a result production is down to just 15% of factory capacity!
Louisiana: Stone Energy laid off about 45 people across Louisiana and Texas, as part of the ongoing oil industry BS. Stone Energy also halted deep-water oil drilling, at least until 2017.
Michigan: After 77 years, family owned maker of heat processing equipment Jensen Industries now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.
New Jersey: Graham Packaging issued a WARN, 71 jobs in Belvidere lost by the end of September.
New York: Asbestos removal company Precision Environmental Solutions now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Data shows the company made $7-million USD in revenue in the past two years, but so far this year has made a measly $175-thousand!
North Carolina: In Gastonia, Germany owned truck maker Daimler-Freightliner laid off 115 employees! This is apparently on top of the 2-hundred laid off in June? The custom fabric maker Spoonflower laid off 30 people and then a co-founder said the company was in “great shape”. What automotive industry recovery? Maker of glass for cars Ohio based Safelite announced it will shutdown its Enfield factory, killing 210 jobs: “…it is no longer feasible for us to sustain the continual investments needed to outfit the plant for complex future windshield designs.”-Tom Feeney, president
Ohio: Dow Chemical shutting down their polystyrene factory in Hanging Rock beginning in September, as part of their “growth” strategy.
Oklahoma: Maker of thermal combustible products for the oil industry Callidus Technologies laid off 30 people in Tulsa.
Oregon: At the Portland International Airport, Menzies Aviation eliminating 186 jobs by Halloween, due to losing a contract with Alaska Air! Despite a busy wildfire season, helicopter fire bomber operator Erickson Air Crane laid off 1-hundred people! Company administrators admitted that despite years of busy wildfire seasons they’re being burned by massive debt (they owe Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo $140-million USD, the evil Wells Fargo is owned by ‘christian’ agnostic Warren Buffett). Allegheny Technologies warned it must consolidate its Oregon operations due to low titaniuim prices!
Pennsylvania: After merging with Colorado based Imprints Wholesale, sportswear maker Broder Brothers issued a shutdown WARN for their Philadelphia operations, 143 jobs gone by mid-October! American Air Filter shutting down its Elizabethtown ops, 90 jobs gone by mid-September. In Lewistown, packaging maker Rorher Corporation issued a shutdown WARN, 55 jobs gone by mid October. Latrobe based industrial tool maker Kennametal eliminating 1-thousand jobs worldwide due to a second year of bad sales! Because of the mining industry BS, Caterpillar issued a shutdown WARN for its Houston operations, 155 jobs gone by mid-October! Harley Davidson motorcycles announced that 2-hundred people will lose their jobs at three of its factories in the state! Company administrators revealed that sales are crashing-n-burning due to an unrecoverd economy (a $19-million USD drop in sales from the same time last year, some Harley dealers are shutting down). Another fine example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs; FrieghtCar America shutting down its Johnstown administrative offices sometime next year, blaming it on crashing rail shipments.
Texas: Houston based ConocoPhillips announced more layoffs, this time about 9-hundred people will become jobless due to the oil industry BS! Bankrupt Sherwin Alumina Company shutting down its factory in Gregory by October, news reports say it might be sold to a competitor. Another fine example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs; Caterpillar eliminating 40 jobs at its factory in Denison, due to the crashing mining industry.
Utah: Allegheny Technologies shutting down its raw materials operations in Rowley, 140 jobs lost due to low titaniuim prices!
Virginia: UPS (United Parcel Service) laying off at least 115 people at its corporate HQ, in the name of “streamlining”! Unnamed employees told local news sources that those laid-off were “escorted out of the building”.
Washington: Boeing continues killing jobs, this time 1-hundred people in The Evergreen State becoming unemployed! News reports say the layoffs are connected to Boeing’s commercial airliner and military divisions.
West Virginia: In Huntington, Oregon based Special Metals conducted yet another round of layoffs, but refused to say how many people are now unemployed. Last year they laid off at least 1-hundred employees. DeepWell Energy Services eliminating 177 jobs due to not winning a new contract!
Wisconsin: What automotive industry recovery? Milwaukee based Jason Industries, maker of new car interior parts, has lost so much money ($2.4-million loss compared to the same time last year) due to crashing orders that it will shutdown factories around the world! Administrators blamed their losses on “change in the manufacturing environment.” Manitowoc elminating 528 jobs when it moves its crane factory to Pennsylvania!
July 2016 : “NO SIGNS OF FUTURE IMPROVEMENT”
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!
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.”
18 September is the official birthday of the U.S. Air Force, created in 1947 when the U.S. Congress seperated it from the U.S. Army. Prior to that it was known as
U.S. Army Air Forces (1941-47),
U.S. Army Air Corps (1926-41),
U.S. Army Air Service (1918-26), Division of Military Aeronautics (1918), Signal Corps Aviation (1914-18), and Signal Corps Aeronautics (1907-14).
U.S. COAST GUARD, 226 YEARS OLD!
News Cat and Scoop Dog were seen warning USAF and USN personnel at Goodfellow AFB, Texas, of National Preparedness Month (September 2016):
633rd ABW at Joint Base Langley, Virginia:
VEHICLE I-D: A-29B SUPER TUCANO, GREEN FLAG EAST
B-1, B-2 & B-52 NEW ‘INTEGRATED BOMBER FORCE’, B-B-B-B-BAAD TO THE BONE!
It must be noted that I started documenting these ObamaCare/healthcare related shutdowns at the beginning of 2014. In that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 ObamaCare cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past eight months of 2016 there have been so many ObamaCare cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!
Incomplete list of healthcare related layoffs and shutdowns, August 2016:
Alabama: Tennessee based Crestwood Medical Center laid off 13 people, directly blaming ObamaCare for lower patient volumes.
California: Menlo Park based Kaiser Health News reporting on a new ‘surprise’ healthcare billing that patients are unaware of, called Observation Care. Not only can a hospital hit you with the surprise charge of a supposed visit by a doctor you never saw, but they’re also charging for the nurse to “observe” you. More and more of these Observation Care charges are being rejected by Medicare because such service is now considered outpatient care, thus patients are being billed directly. Sonoma West Medical Center (previously Palm Drive Hospital) laid off 25 administration staff after signing a management contract with Pipeline Health, they claim they’ll hire more nurses. Germany owned Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals announced they will layoff an undisclosed number of employees in Mission Bay. Medical products maker Balda C. Brewer issued a shutdown WARN for their Anaheim ops, 130 jobs gone by Halloween! In Corona, Israeli based drugs maker Teva laying off 19 people by October. MedRisk shutting down their Calabasas location by mid-October. Bankrupt Gardens Regional Hospital (Tri-City Regional) issued a mass layoff WARN for their city of Hawaiian Gardens hospital (which provides service for low income people), 318 jobs gone by November! Last year the city of Los Angeles sued Gardens Regional for ‘dumping’ homeless patients. Gardens Regional administrators blame ObamaCare for their economic destruction saying in federal bankruptcy court “The debtor loses money every month it operates, and would soon be unable to pay its employees for the next pay period.”
Florida: In Hialeah, eyeglass maker Insight Optical Manufacturing sending 63 in-house jobs to cheap-o contractors by mid-October. Nephron Pharmaceuticals eliminating 60 Orlando jobs by the end of October.
Georgia: WellStar Health Systems outsourced 521 jobs to a contractor! Atlanta based Cable News Network (CNN) continues airing reports that swear “there is no proof that ObamaCare has cost jobs.” I assume they don’t read Blind Bat News. DeKalb County based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports at least 2-thousand 517 casesof Zika in the U.S. So far only the states of Wyoming and Alaska have escaped the virus.
Idaho: Non-profit Project Access Northwest testified before The Gem State legislature, blasting them for their version of ObamaCare saying 40% of the patients they see have no insurance! State Representative Fred Wood, from Burley, stated that Idaho’s version of ObamaCare is a “system where if you’re poor you have to rely on charity care, versus what everybody else gets.”
Illinois: After trying to get employees to retire early, NorthShore University HealthSystem now laying off at least 1-hundred people due to “redundancies”! In East Alton, the Walgreens on West Saint Louis Avenue shutdown without warning. The town’s mayor said Walgreens administrators told him the store wasn’t making enough money. Walgreens is also shutting down a store in Decatur.
Iowa: New Links Genetics laid off 1-hundred employees after one of its new cancer treatment drugs failed in testing!
Kentucky: King’s Daughters Medical Center killed 148 jobs! It’s directly blamed on ObamaCare for reducing patient volumes, and cost reimbursements.
Maine: Eastern Maine Healthcare System laid off 35 people. 13 employees accepted early retirement deals. It’s blamed on a $3-million USD shortfall caused by ObamaCare.
Massachusets: Nonprofit Baystate Health continues killing jobs, this time 3-hundred jobs gone due to a $75-million USD shortfall caused by reduced Medicaid payments, as a result of ObamaCare! Employees at Fresenius Medical Care locked up and left an 86 years old dialysis patient inside the clinic! The grand daughter of the patient had to call firefighters to get her grandma out, employees admitted they never noticed the patient!
New York: NYC based insurance company MetLife announced yet more job killing, this time the insurer wants to cut $1-billion USD in costs, and part of that will be the outsourcing of more than 1-thousand MetLife InfoTech/call center jobs in the U.S. and India! U.S. Security Associates lost their contract with North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital, 97 jobs lost by September. Chapter 11 bankrupt Hebrew Hospital Senior Housing shutting down their Westhester Meadows retirement home, 89 jobs gone by the end of September. God can’t stop Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Elmira from eliminating 83 jobs by September. In Troy, god couldn’t stop ‘his’ Samaritan Hospital from eliminating 22 nursing positions. Israel based drugs maker Teva issued a shutdown WARN for their Pomona location, 236 jobs lost between now and February 2017! Phoenix Houses shutting down their Brooklyn addiction treatment center on J Street, at least 42 of the 109 employees will become unemployed in time for Thanksgiving.
North Carolina: Columbus Regional Healthcare System eliminated 28 jobs. In Ashville, after 19 years Skyland Behavioral Health Associates shutdown due to “a confluence of unpredicted events”. Non-profit Mission Health eliminated three executive positions, cut executive pay between 13% and 25%, and is laying off 70 employees. It’s directly blamed on federal taxpayer funding cuts and North Carolina’s version of ObamaCare.
Pennsylvania: Drugs maker Merk issued a shutdown WARN for their North Wales operations, 148 jobs gone by mid September! Canonsburg based drugs maker Mylan jacked up the price of its life saving EpiPen by 548%, to $608 USD for a package of two injectors! Mylan says it’s making a cheaper ‘generic’ version, to retail at $304! In 2007 the EpiPen cost $98!
Tennessee: Tennova Healthcare laying off 75 people in October. God powerless to stop ‘his’ Baptist Memorial Health Care from laying off 23 people. Another 61 employees will be let go sometime in the near future. Administrators directly blame ObamaCare for reduced costs reimbursements: “Healthcare is going through unprecedented change, and we’ll all have to do more with less. These changes will help position Baptist to provide the very best care for all of the mid-South.”-Jason Little, executive vice president and COO
Texas: In Waco, Missouri owned Providence Health Center is outsourcing their office and billing operations to a company in Illinois. In Lubbuck, god powerless to stop Covenant Health from laying off 49 employees, administrators directly blame ObamaCare: “Covenant Health is financially stable, but the changes we’ve experienced thus far and will continue to undergo are the direct result of reduced reimbursements….”-Richard Parks, executive vice president and CEO
Virginia: Ohio based grocer Kroger is shutting down its The Little Clinic urgent care ops at four Hampton Roads locations. News reports didn’t explain why. Lynchburg’s Centra Health will eliminate 124 jobs between now and Xmas! Administrators blame the bad economy and ObamaCare for reducing patient volumes and cost reimbursements.
Washington: Vancouver based non-profit PeaceHealth announced they will layoff 5-hundred employees at two hospitals! PeaceHealth recently lost a major contract with California based Kaiser Permanente. Interestingly this mass layoff has yet to be reported to state employment adminstrators (WARN).
Washington DC: The Congressional Budget Office predicts that only 12-million people will sign up for ObamaCare in 2017, far less than the 24-million predicted back in 2013. Analysts say low enrollment in 2017 will mean the death of ObamaCare.
Wisconsin: God can’t stop ‘his’ employees from blowing the whistle on massive layoffs at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare and Columbia Saint Mary’s. When confronted by news media the administrators of the ‘christian’ hospitals refused to give numbers, but admitted its part of parent company Ascention Health’s consolidation plans.
OBAMACARE FAIL: U.S. ARMY PROVIDES FREE CARE FOR DESPERATE TEXANS!
OBAMACARE FAIL: U.S. MILITARY DEPLOYED TO RENDER FREE MEDICAL HELP TO 13-THOUSAND U.S. CITIZENS!
July 2016: “…NO AMBULANCE SERVICE.”
ObamaCare = Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification