All posts by Hutchins AAron

Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport. My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front). Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42. Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3: The United States is the World’s Gas Station, U.S. government says so! The World needs to sanction U.S. petroleum!

18 March 2014 (22:48 UTC-07 Tango 17 March 2014)/16 Jumada l-Ula 1435/27 Esfand 1392/18 Ding-Mao 4712

Look, United States is a gas station masquerading as a country. It’s kleptocracy! It’s corruption! It’s a nation that’s really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy, and so economic sanctions are important.

In October 2013 the U.S. Energy Information Administration (USEIA) announced “…the United States will be the world’s top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2013, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia.”  This means the United States, with a crashing consumer economy and still off shoring jobs to other countries, is totally dependent on oil and gas exports to save it’s sorry economic ass!

The USEIA showed just how much leaders like John McCain are relying on the oil and gas industry to save their sorry political asses: “Since 2008, U.S. petroleum production has increased 7 quadrillion Btu, with dramatic growth in Texas and North Dakota. Natural gas production has increased by 3 quadrillion Btu over the same period, with much of this growth coming from the eastern United States. Russia and Saudi Arabia each increased their combined hydrocarbon output by about 1 quadrillion Btu over the past five years.”

John McCain is either a bold face liar, or woefully stupid when it comes to just who is the World’s Gas Station: “Look, Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It’s kleptocracy. It’s corruption. It’s a nation that’s really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy, and so economic sanctions are important.”-Statement made during appearance on CNN’s State of the Union

So what’s this coming war with Russia really about?  Not “freedom”!  It’s about returning and maintaining the United States in the position of the World’s number one Gas Station.

Business/Economics

More Sears & Kmart closings: Sears Canada bankrupt? Lands End kicked out? Beware Seritage?

18 March 2014 (21:43 UTC-07 Tango 17 March 2014)/16 Jumada l-Ula 1435/27 Esfand 1392/18 Ding-Mao 4712

Another Ohio Sears to close down, in July.  Louisiana joins the Sears shutdown in June.  After 32 years a Springfield, Missouri, Kmart closing in June.

One of three ‘Green-Future’ Kmarts in Illinois shutting down in April.  Sean O’Neil, White Lake Township’s planning director, says the store was allowed to go to pot after the ‘Green’ makeover 11 years ago: “The property was not kept up. It’s deteriorated and tired.”

In New Mexico, a gang of four burglars tried to take $38 to 40-thousand USD in merchandise, after they broke into a Deming Kmart. Local news report said all four burglars were arrested with the merchandise, because police had set up a trap due to past burglaries.  Police were in the process of serving search warrants in an attempt to find merchandise from prior burglaries.

In Pennsylvania, three men have been charged with stealing $2700 worth of jewelry from a Moorestown Kmart.

In Australia, the boss of operations Down Under admitted he was surprised at how bad Kmarts have gotten: “I went around to everyone at the Kmart family and I asked them what they thought was wrong. This was a business with a $4 billion [AUD] turnover and making zero profit!”-Guy Russo, CEO

Australian Kmarts are owned by Wesfarmers, not Sears Holdings.

In Canada, Sears Home Services (SHS) now bankrupt.  In February 2013 Sears Canada sold off their home repair service to a SHS company director by the name of Micheal Clements.   He kept the Sears name (aka SHS Services Management/SHS Services Limited Partnership).  But he soon went bankrupt, and screwed over hundreds of customers.

In British Columbia, Doreen and Frank Porta paid Sears Home Services $11-thousand CAD to put a new roof on their house.  SHS hired a contractor to do the job, but never paid them.  Now the contractor has placed a lean against the Porta home, even though they already paid SHS.  Sear Home Services went bankrupt in December 2013, saying they owe $17 million to nearly 600 companies/contractors!  The new owners of SHS somehow lost $14-million in nine months!  Get this, Michael Clements bought SHS because it was project to make $208 million per year!  What happened?

Sears Canada is not off the hook, they are ordered to back up warranty claims for work done by SHS, and to help customers facing liens against their properties.  Turns out the claim that SHS was going to make $208-million per year came from Sears Canada, so is this a case of Sears Canada ripping off one of their own directors?

The bankruptcy not only affects employees of SHS, but employees of Sears warehouses and Sears stores.  More than 600 Canadians now out-o-work as a result.

Back in the U.S.A., Sears Holdings has decided to spin off Lands End, in April.

A report has revealed that Seritage Real Estate (Seritage Realty Trust) is just another smoke & mirrors operation by Sears Holdings.  In Minnesota, it was revealed that Seritage was selling off three Sears Auto Centers; one in Minnetonka, one in Brooklyn Center, and one near the State Capitol in Saint Paul.

Here’s the updated list of U.S. Sears/Kmart store closings since the end of 2011:

Arizona: Scottsdale Sears/Great Indoors, Chandler Sears/Great Indoors.

Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Auburn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Anniston Kmart (no word yet on how many jobs lost), Birmingham Eastwood Kmart (70 jobs lost),  Decatur Mall Sears (91 jobs lost), Fort Payne Kmart.

California:   El Monte Sears (at least 40 jobs lost. Damien Arrula, El Monte’s economic development director, said the store manager had lied about what was going on: “The general manager of the store had just indicated to me that they were remodeling.”), two San Diego Sears (at least 80 jobs lost), Pleasant Hill Kmart (more than 50 jobs lost), Torrance Kmart,  Fairfield Kmart (63 jobs lost),  Lampert owned OSH taken over by Lowe’s home improvement in bankruptcy court, at least 17 of 99 stores to be closed down (935 jobs lost!), Rancho Cordova Kmart (97 jobs lost), San Clemente Kmart/Sears/Kmart on Camino de Estrella (58 jobs lost), placed on an official hit list in 2011 the Oceanside Kmart on College Boulevard finally being shut down, Banning Kmart (91 jobs lost).

Colorado:  Broomfield Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Glenwood Springs Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lone Tree Sears/Great Indoors, Longmont Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Pueblos’ South Side Kmart (52 jobs lost),  Denver Kmart (number of jobs lost have not been made public at this time, but could be at least 40), Colorado Springs Kmart at Powers and Palmer Park boulevards (57 jobs lost).

Connecticut:  Waterbury Big Kmart.

Georgia: Macon Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Buford Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Douglasville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Atlanta Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Columbus Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jonesboro Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Cartersville Kmart (74 jobs lost),  Hiram Kmart (53 jobs lost), Marietta-East Cobb Kmart.

Guam:  Sears Hometown Store.

Florida: Fernandina Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Callaway Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Orange City Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost),  Deland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Stuart Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), West Palm Beach Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Port St. Lucie Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Crystal River Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), New Smyrna Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint Augustine Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Pompano Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost),  Jacksonville Kmart on 5751 Beach Boulevard (71 jobs lost), second Kmart in Jacksonville on 4645 Blanding Boulevard (83 jobs lost), Ocoee Sears (102 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on Airport Boulevard closed in 2011, Pensacola Kmart on Mobile Highway closed in February 2013 (69 jobs lost),  Pensacola Kmart on East 9 Mile Road will close in May (73 jobs lost), Hialeah Kmart (67 jobs lost), Bonita Springs Kmart (67 jobs lost), Mount Dora Kmart (100 jobs lost), Lake Mary Kmart, Panama City Beach Kmart (54 jobs lost), Winter Park Kmart (100 jobs lost).

Hawaii: Honolulu Sears (owned by GGP, 372 jobs lost!!!),  Kauai Sears (41 jobs lost),  Iwilei-Honolulu Kmart for lease (no confirmation of store closing).

Vacant bedroom/bathroom section.

One corner of the half vacant Chubbuck, Idaho, Sears. No official closing announcement was made.

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost).  No official announcement, but it’s painfully obvious the Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down. Or, maybe it’s preps for Shop within a Shop, or one of those domestic spy data storage centers?  On 07 November 2013, GGP sold off the Pine Ridge Mall for a paltry $9 million USD.

Ever since the Kmart bankruptcy, this pad site for sale sign has been seen in the Pocatello, Idaho, Big Kmart parking lot. The Kmart is the only building on the lot.

Ever since the Kmart bankruptcy, this pad site for sale sign has been seen in the Pocatello, Idaho, Big Kmart parking lot. The Kmart is the only building on the lot.

Indiana:  Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Sears (49 jobs lost), South Anthony Kmart (70 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard (70 jobs lost), FairOaks Mall Kmart, Logansport Sears (43 jobs lost).

Illinois:  Alton Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Melrose Park Sears parts and repair center (50 jobs lost), Zion Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Lawn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), McHenry Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Peru Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lombard Sears/Great Indoors (at least 40 jobs lost), Fairview Heights Kmart (81 jobs lost), Freeport Kmart (45 jobs lost), Pontiac Kmart (more than 47 jobs lost), Homer Glen Kmart (82 jobs lost), Streator Kmart (45 jobs lost), Lombard Kmart (70 jobs lost), Naperville Kmart (98 jobs lost), Calumet Sears (164 jobs lost), two Sears stores in Grand Crossing area of Chicago (247 jobs lost!), Mount Vernon Sears (68 jobs lost), Moline Sears (at least 60 jobs lost),  Homewood Kmart (185 jobs lost),  Belvidere Kmart (91 jobs lost),  Champaign’s Market Place Mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (60 jobs lost), Montgomery Kmart (81 jobs lost), Mattoon Sears (more than 40 jobs lost), Chicago Sears on North State Street (160 jobs lost), Chicago Sears Craftsman Experience store, Galesburg Sears (46 jobs lost), recently revealed White Lake Township Kmart (42 jobs lost).   58 Chicago area stores up for lease or sale.  By the way, Illinois elected officials gave Sears Holdings/Hoffman Estates a $150 million USD tax break to keep their headquarters in the state.  The tax break was not tied to any promise not to close stores.

Iowa:  Cedar Rapids Kmart on 16th Ave (at least 40 jobs lost), Davenport Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Burlington Kmart (50 jobs lost), Coralville Sears (94 jobs lost, this is a store sold to GGP earlier in the year), Cedar Rapids Kmart on Collins Road NE (56 jobs lost),  Mason City Kmart (50 jobs lost).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost).

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears (in September 2012 the Sears store re-opened under independent ownership, official grand re-opening scheduled for November), Winchester Kmart (back in May, Rankin Paynter bought out what was left of the inventory and gave it to charity), Hazard Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lexington Fayette Mall Sears (114 jobs lost!),  Newport Kmart (81 jobs lost), Cannonsburg Sears and Sears Auto Center (no employee info given).

Louisiana: Recently revealed Slidell Sears (77 job lost).

Maine: Lewiston Sears (60 to 70 jobs lost), Presque Isle Sears (80 jobs lost).

Maryland: Ellicott Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Gaithersburg Sears/Great Indoors, Landover Sears (115 jobs lost).

Massachusetts: North Reading Sears Hardware store closed, lease not renewed.

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials,  Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Flint Kmart (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears, Bad Axe Kmart (61 jobs lost),  Ypsilanti Township Kmart (83 jobs lost), Petoskey Kmart (45 jobs lost).

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off, Fergus Falls Kmart (40 jobs lost), Fergus Falls Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Alexandria Kmart (46 jobs lost), Grand Rapids Kmart (61 jobs lost), recently revealed that Seritage is selling off three Sears Auto Centers in Minnetonka, Brooklyn Center and Saint Paul.

Mississippi: Jackson Sears Full line, McComb Sears Full line, Columbus Sears Full line, Gautier Sears (71 jobs lost), Waveland Gulfport Kmart (32 jobs lost), Pass Road Gulfport Kmart (52 jobs lost),  Pascagoula Sears at the Singing River Mall.

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line, High Ridge Kmart (59 jobs lost), Ellisville Kmart (55 jobs lost), recently revealed Springfield Kmart on South Campbell Avenue (60 jobs lost).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

Nebraska: Grand Island Kmart (55 jobs lost).

New Hampshire: Nashau Sears Grand/Essentials, Keene Sears Grand/Essentials,  Portsmouth Kmart (30 jobs lost).

New Jersey:  Lawnside Kmart (about 80 jobs lost), Howell Kmart (57 jobs lost), Berlin Kmart.

New Mexico: Las Cruces Kmart (58 jobs lost), Albuquerque Kmart on Central SW (80 jobs lost).

New York: Depew (Lancaster?) Kmart (68 jobs lost), Colonie Kmart (72 jobs lost),  Fulton Kmart (51 jobs lost), Clifton Park Kmart (74 jobs lost), Latham Kmart (61 jobs lost), East Greenbush-Rensselaer Kmart (70 jobs lost).

North Carolina: Cary Kmart (71 jobs lost), High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost), Asheville Kmart (53 jobs lost),  West Smithfield Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winston-Salem Kmart (69 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (58 jobs lost), South Ashville Kmart on Hendersonville Road, Raleigh Kmart (88 jobs lost), Garner Kmart, Cleveland County mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Charlotte Kmart (89 jobs lost), Conover Kmart (74 jobs lost), Raleigh Kmart on Capital Boulevard (53 jobs lost).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost).

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Columbus Sears/Great Indoors, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost), Austintown Sears auto parts and service on Interstate Boulevard,  London Kmart (no word on number of jobs lost),  Trotwood Sears (67 jobs lost),  Westlake Kmart/Sears (at least 57 jobs lost),  Xenia Kmart (at least 57 jobs lost), Norwalk Kmart (52 jobs lost), Blue Ash Kmart (77 jobs lost), recently revealed Northwood Sears.    Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Sears (98 jobs lost, GGP owned, GGP wants a $2 million sales tax rebate, claiming it’s needed to offset capital investments needed to bring the space up to the standards for potential new tenants), Shawnee Sears (31 jobs lost).

Oregon: Roseburg Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Tualatin Kmart Center (new property owner from California is tearing everything down for new shopping center, so far no indication the Kmart will be part of the new shopping center), Milwaukie Kmart (61 jobs lost), Coos Bay Kmart (25 jobs lost), Bend Sears (48 jobs lost), Klamath Falls Kmart (64 jobs lost).

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost), Philadelphia Gallery Mall Kmart (120 jobs lost), Philadelphia Kmart on Orthodox Street and Castor Avenue (169 jobs lost).

South Carolina: Sumter Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Orangeburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Columbia Kmart on Fort Jackson Boulevard in 2012, Columbia Kmart on Bush River Road in 2009, Columbia Kmart on St Andrews Road (66 jobs lost), Irmo Kmart (no info on how many jobs lost),  both Greenville Kmarts (140 jobs lost between the two),  Mount Pleasant Kmart (43 jobs lost), Harbison Sears & Sears Auto Center in the Columbiana Centre mall (97 jobs lost), Aiken Sears & Sears Auto Center (at least 54 jobs lost), Inlet Square Mall Kmart (50 jobs lost), West Ashely Kmart (69 jobs lost).

Tennessee: Antioch Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Cleveland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Ridge Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Morristown Sears (about 70 jobs lost), Clinton South Kmart, Franklin CoolSprings Galleria Sears (92 jobs lost), Memphis Hickory Ridge mall Sears (job loss data not revealed), 48 years old Nashville Kmart on Nolensville Pike to close by January 2014 (57 jobs lost), Franklin Kmart (33 jobs lost).

Texas: Two Sears parts and repair centers closing in The Woodlands (117 jobs lost), rebuild center in Garland (58 jobs lost), Farmers Branch Sears/Great Indoors, Houston Sears Great/Indoors.

Utah:  Murray Sears (for some reason Mormon control news media in Utah never reported the closure, but they’re reporting that the building has just been demolished), Orem Kmart (no details reported).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears (at least 40 jobs lost),  Midlothian Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost), Fairfax Kmart (no word on how many jobs lost), Christiansburg Sears (59 jobs lost), Norfolk Kmart on East Little Creek Road (77 jobs lost), Manassas Kmart (71 jobs lost), Stafford Sears Hometown, Newport News Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Wise Kmart (58 jobs lost), Harrisonburg Kmart (79 jobs lost), Wincester Kmart (91 jobs lost).

Washington: Walla Walla Sears Full line (in August 2012, it was reported that an independent owner of Sears Hometown stores will open a store in Walla Walla), Lacey Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Kelso Sears (47 jobs lost), Lakewood Kmart (59 jobs lost), Bellingham Sears (92 jobs lost),  Seattle Kmart (85 jobs lost), East Wenatchee Sears (59 jobs lost), Puyallup Kmart (51 jobs lost), Oak Harbor Kmart (68 jobs lost), Sodo Sears and Sears Auto Center (79 jobs lost).

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 jobs lost).

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears (at least 40 jobs lost, local village officials say the store generated 3% of local tax collections), Rice Lake Kmart (about 71 jobs lost),  Brookfield Kmart (56 jobs lost), Racine’s Regency Mall Sears (52 jobs lost), Fort Atkinson Kmart (51 jobs lost), Greenfield Kmart (107 jobs lost), Portage Kmart (78 jobs lost) and Hales Corner (129 jobs lost),  Chippewa Falls Kmart (79 jobs lost), Menomonie Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost).

On top of that, Sears Holdings sold stores to General Growth Properties (GGP), of which it has been reported that most of those stores will be closed.

Here’s the list of 11 Sears stores now owned by GGP:

Iowa: Coral Ridge Mall (it’s official the Sears is closing, see above), and Mall of the Bluffs

Texas: The Woodlands Mall (this does not involve the two repair centers being closed by Sears)

Florida: West Oaks Mall

Utah: Fashion Place, and Provo Towne Centre (note the evil British empire way of spelling town & center. Due to a favorable lease agreement the GGP owned Provo Sears will continue to stay open under Sears Holdings management)

Oklahoma: Quail Springs Mall (it’s official, the Sears closed, see above)

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

Washington: Bellis Fair Mall (Bellingham store, see above)

Minnesota: Apache Mall  (see update above, GGP will close Sears store by 2014)

Illinois: Market Place Shopping Center (see update above, GGP closing store)

International

False Flag MH370 update: Military pilot took control? Search area becomes ridiculously huge! Mujahideen deny involment but wish they had hijacked the plane!

17 March 2014 (14:14 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Jumada l-Ula 1435/26 Esfand 1392/17 Ding-Mao 4712

“It happened outside Afghanistan and you can see that even countries with very advanced equipment and facilities cannot figure out where it went. So we also do not have any information as it is an external issue.”-Zabihullah Mujahid, member of a Afghan Mujahideen group

“We wish we had an opportunity to hijack such a plane!”-attributed to Pakistani Mujahideen

“No, this plane did not fly over Kyrgyzstan’s territory. We have two military air bases, a U.S. and a Russian one, deployed in our country and equipped with pretty serious radar equipment, so they would have detected this plane.”-Dair Tokobayev, Kyrgyzstan’s main civilian airport Manas

Greek news sources report that a Greek oil barge was told to avoid the Malacca Straight because of a possible debris field.  It was spotted by an internet crowd sourcing op, but has not been confirmed.

There are now unconfirmed reports that MH370/CZ748 was hijacked by a military pilot: “The person who had control over the aircraft has a solid knowledge of avionics and navigation, and left a clean track. It passed low over Kelantan……It’s possible that the aircraft had hugged the terrain in some areas, that are mountainous to avoid radar detection…..While the ongoing search is divided into two massive areas, the data that the investigating team is collating is leading us more towards the north.”-unnamed investigator quoted by Malaysian news media

Wall Street Journal Southeast Asia reports that the search area has widened so much it now includes a route all the way to the Caspian Sea north of Iran, and all the way south to the west coast of Australia!

Australia and France have now joined the search: “We are not at liberty to reveal information from specific countries. As the coordinating authority we are gathering all information as part of the on-going search and rescue operation……The number of countries involved in the search and rescue operation has increased to 26.”-Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Defense Minister and acting Transportation Minister

Flight re-enacted

International

World War 3, European Front: State of Veneto declares independence from Italy?

17 March 2014 (12:04 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Jumada l-Ula 1435/26 Esfand 1392/17 Ding-Mao 4712

“We have to fight for it! ………We do strongly believe that when the majority wants to be independent there is nothing they can do.”-Giovanni Dalla Valle, Veneto Independence Movement

Since 16 March 2014, residents of the state of Veneto have been voting in an referendum that could see Veneto declare independence from the U.S. led Trilateral Commission NATO member country of Italy.

The referendum ends 21 March 2014.

International law says “….all peoples have an inalienable right to complete freedom, the exercise of their sovereignty and the integrity of their national territory, and that, by virtue of that right, they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”-UN resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960

Idaho, U.S.

Civil War U.S.A. 2014: Idaho about to recognize False Flag Christian take over group known as Patriot Academy!

17 March 2014 (11:23 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Jumada l-Ula 1435/26 Esfand 1392/17 Ding-Mao 4712

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion……”–1st Amendment U.S. Constitution

“Train students to understand and influence government policy with a Biblical worldview….”-Patriot Academy statement

The Gem State of Idaho is about to violate the U.S. Constitution (again) by passing SCR 141, which would governmentally recognize the Idaho branch of Patriot Academy.

The Idaho Patriot Academy was established in August 2013, at an event at the Gem State’s capitol in Boise.  Crony govna Butch Otter proclaimed August 13-16 as Patriot Academy week.  This violates the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, because Patriot Academy is a Christian organization posing as a “premier political bootcamp for students”.

The Patriot Academy has also been fomenting anti-Russian sentiment among the false Christians of the United States.

The Patriot Academy has taken over state governments in Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Idaho and Texas.

Do not confuse the “biblical” Patriot Academy with the Army National Guard Bureau’s Patriot Academy.  The National Guard’s Patriot Academy was located in Indiana, and “….was a pilot program of the National Guard Bureau from 2009-2013 that gave qualified recruits without high school diplomas the opportunity to join the National Guard, earn their diploma, and give back to the community. The last class graduated in November, 2012 and the program was terminated on January 12, 2013.”

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Israeli style night time home invasions of 250 families in New York City! Gas turned off for next two months!

17 March 2014 (10:31 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Jumada l-Ula 1435/26 Esfand 1392/17 Ding-Mao 4712

“At like 1:30 in the morning, Housing knocked on our door really loud, and when I opened the door, they gave us a hot plate and said, ‘Your gas is off’.”-woman interviewed by CBS 2 New York

“We didn’t know anything. They shut the gas off. They came after one o’clock in the morning and gave us little counter stoves to use, and that was it.”-‘Kim’, interviewed by CBS 2 New York

Starting at about 01:00 hours, 14 March 2014, as 250 families were sleeping, New York City government Housing Authority officials banged on the doors and told the families ‘no more gas’!

NYC Housing Authority says there is a major gas leak in the apartments, but residents interviewed by local news media said they never smelled any gas.  Natural gas does not stink, so gas companies are supposed to add an odor to the gas so people can tell if there is a leak.

Is this just paranoia after the massive explosion in Harlem?  “I guess because of the sensitivity of what happened in Harlem they wanted to be on the ball and not have the same outcome of what happened in uptown New York.”-Monica Corbett, Pomonok Houses Association

Corbett also said the gas was actually turned off at 22:00 hours on 13 March 2014, so why did NYC Housing Authority decide to wake people up at 01:00 the next morning to tell them they turned off the gas? Sounds like BS to me.

Apartment tenants were told they will be without gas for heat and cooking for at least two months!  And this as the Obama regime wants to ban wood burning stoves!

Business/Economics, Technology, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: 50% increase in old fashioned wood for heating in Northeastern United States, as Obama regime moves to join Mormon dominated Utah and ban wood burning stoves! PM2.5 is bullshit!

17 March 2014 (09:58 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Jumada l-Ula 1435/26 Esfand 1392/17 Ding-Mao 4712

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports “All nine states in the New England and the Middle Atlantic Census divisions saw at least a 50% jump from 2005 to 2012 in the number of households that rely on wood as the main heating source.”

“In total, about 2.5 million households (2.1%) across the country use wood as the main fuel for home heating, up from 1.9 million households (1.7%) in 2005. An additional 9 million households (7.7%) use wood as a secondary heating fuel. This combination of main and secondary heating accounts for about 500 trillion British thermal units (Btu) of wood consumption per year in the residential sector, or about the same as propane consumption and slightly less than fuel oil consumption.”

The USEIA also stated that while low income families use the most wood (to avoid expensive propane, oil or natural gas) it’s actually higher income families who “are more likely to use wood”.

This data comes as the Obama regime, through the EPA, is trying to eventually ban the use of wood for heating altogether.

In December 2013, the state of Utah banned the use of wood burning stoves in five counties.  It’s blamed on a trendy new pollutant called PM2.5.  This trendy new term is the same term that’s been used to describe China’s growing pollution problem, but there PM2.5 is blamed on factories and cars.

PM2.5 is also being blamed for growing levels of pollution all over the world.

Now realize that the United States has imposed strict pollution control measures and devices on cars and factories for several decades (since 1974 for cars in California), yet pollution is still a problem?  From the 1960s through the 1990s we never heard of PM2.5!

In January 2014, the U.S. Environment Protection Agency proposed an eventual ban on wood burning stoves and even charcoal burning BBQs.  Without going into details, starting in 2015 such “devices” must burn 80% cleaner than they do now, and it gets ridiculously stricter over the next five to years, with the net effect of rendering wood burning stoves, heaters and charcoal BBQs illegal!

What the hell is PM2.5?   PM stands for Particulate Matter.  2.5 is a measurement in micrometers, it is not a tangible substance.   It could be 2.5 micrometers of household dust, or 2.5 micrometers of bullshit coming from the mouths of the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberger, left wing environmental NAZI nut jobs who’ve taken over your governments! (and “officially” you voted for most of them)

Studies done in the U.S. and U.K. (and published in the past couple of years) blame 13% of heart attacks on PM2.5!  That’s right, for 13% of heart attack victims air pollution, not fatty foods, caused plaque build up in their arteries!

The UN World Health Organization says PM2.5 “….causes about 3% of mortality from cardiopulmonary disease, about 5% of mortality from cancer of the trachea, bronchus, and lung, and about 1% of mortality from acute respiratory infections in children…”

Pay attention, most of these studies do not identify a specific Particulate Matter, it’s any PM that’s 2.5 micrometers in size!

The idea you can put an end to PM that’s 2.5 micrometers in size is insane.  Go back one thousand years, what did people use to heat their homes and cook food and boil water?  Wood and coal and even dried bones and bovine crap!  The whole of humanity around the world burning wood, coal, bones and crap, and you think air pollution is bad now?!

Here’s an conspiracy: This is all part of the U.S. gas station, I mean  petroleum (oil, gas) industry’s evil plot to force you to buy their expensive products.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 06 December 2013. No more deodorant, no more Ben & Jerry’s, no more Lipton? British empire kills U.S. jobs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

The British empire owner of Lipton Tea, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and many body care products, Unilever, has announced that the economy sucks so bad they’re going to layoff 2-thousand employees in 2014!  They are also drastically cutting back on production.  Company officials blame the economy and themselves: “The global economy has calibrated down about 1-1.5% and we probably should’ve done a better job seeing it coming!”-Paul Polman, CEO

Alabama: The Alabama Pain Center laid off 80 employees.

California: In Los Angeles, the House of Props shutdown after 65 years in the movie business. Investor’s Business Daily laid off another six employees.  In Temecula, The Outdoor Channel laid off five employees.

Indiana:  Too Big to Jail First Merchants Bank laid off at least 84 employees state wide.

Maine: Taxsucker Bath Iron Works laid off another 118 employees.  It’s blamed on reduced military spending.  They laid off 39 employees in November.

Minnesota: State University Moorhead laid off six people, and cut five majors.  More layoffs are expected.  It’s blamed on decreasing revenues.

Montana:  After nearly 50 years O-Toole’s Bar shutdown: “The economy just doesn’t support the bar anymore.”-Rose Wiseman, owner

New York:  NYC based legal drugs pusher, Pfizer, laid off 150 people in Ireland.  The company will shutdown their Irish factory in 2015.

North Carolina: Xerox continues layoffs, this time 168 call center jobs killed in Cary!  In Blakeney, Encore Bistro shutdown, no reason given.

Pennsylvania: In Lehigh County, Avantor laid off “fewer than 20 employees”.  It’s blamed on the bad economy.  In Pittsburgh,  Doug’s Market shutdown.

South Carolina:   In Columbia, Taboo Adult Superstore finally shutdown after losing its business license.

Texas: In Spring, British empire owned (Cadbury Schweppes) Dr Pepper Snapple bottling plant shutdown, 112 jobs lost!

Virginia: In Winchester, TV3 shutdown.  Employees said they were given no warning.  The owner, Gray Television, basically said it wasn’t worth it anymore.

West Virginia:  80 employees of Consol Energy were let go.  The company sold off five of its coal mines.

05 December 2013: Walgreens kills 175 jobs!

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

International

False Flag MH370 update: Relatives of passengers being interviewed! Flight re-enacted! Indian SAR put on hold?

16 March 2014 (08:34 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Jumada l-Ula 1435/25 Esfand 1392/16 Ding-Mao 4712

“The search was already a highly complex, multinational effort. It has now become even more difficult……we are now looking at large tracts of land, crossing 11 countries, as well as deep and remote oceans. The number of countries involved in the search and rescue operation has increased from 14 to 25, which brings new challenges of co-ordination and diplomacy to the search effort.

Yesterday, officers from the Royal Malaysia Police visited the home of the pilot. They spoke to family members of the pilot and experts are examining the pilot’s flight simulator. The police also visited the home of the co-pilot. According to Malaysian Airlines, the pilot and co-pilot did not ask to fly together on MH370.

The Inmarsat team arrived yesterday and will support the investigations….”-Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Defense Minister and acting Transportation Minister

Malaysian Inspector General of Police, Khalid Abu Bakar, said they’ve confiscated the home built flight simulator belonging to the MH370 pilot: “We went to the house and took the…simulator and everything that would help us. We dismantled it at the house and we’ve assembled it at our office.”

People who knew the pilot said it was like him to build his own flight simulator.  He also posted helpful hints for homeowners on the internet.  He seemed to be an engineering nut.  As a pilot he has been described as “text book perfect”.

Relatives of passengers are now being questioned: “Medan police contacted me yesterday as they wanted to see me. So I have to go back to Medan to meet the police.”-Robinhood Simanjuntak, brother of one of the passengers, he also said many relatives of passengers are being contacted by police

Despite saying dozens more countries have been asked to get involved, it turns out Malaysia asked India to hold off on its search efforts.  India’s Eastern Naval Command says Malaysian officials requested time to consolidate and coordinate international forces for the new search effort.

Agence France-Presse reports that unnamed Malaysian military officials report that a Boeing 777 was flown in a re-enactment.  This re-enactment flight resulted in the conclusion that MH370/CZ748 flew towards Kazakhstan or the Indian Ocean.

Regarding reports that the plane flew radically varying altitudes  after turning west; once the aircraft’s transponder is turned off it becomes difficult for ground radar to know exactly where the plane is on the horizontal.

Business/Economics, International

World War 3, Southeast Asian Front: Vietnam bans the U.S. dollar in order to stop money laundering!

16 March 2014 (07:35 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Jumada l-Ula 1435/25 Esfand 1392/16 Ding-Mao 4712

State Bank of Vietnam Circular No 05/2014/TT-NHNN goes into effect in April 2014, it says that all Foreign Indirect Investments (FII) into Vietnam must be made in Vietnamese  Dong, not U.S. dollars (or any other currency).

FII is when somebody from outside your country invests in ‘properties on paper’ in your country, without actually buying land/buildings.  Those properties could be held as securities, funds or private equity.  Vietnam also considers investments into businesses without owning or controlling them as FII.

The new law is specifically for investors living outside Vietnam.  The FII will also be non-transferable to foreign credit institutions or foreign banks.  This is an attempt to stop money laundering (as well as keep most of those FII in-country).