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Business/Economics, Idaho

“I didn’t believe in my wildest dreams they would be shutting it all down!” “We are in the throes of a deep depression, and nothing is changing!” : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 16 – 17 October 2015

More proof of a growing food crisis in the U.S.: India based internet restaurant finding service Zomato eliminating 3-hundred jobs mainly within the United States!  The U.S. employees affected are those tasked with collecting data on U.S. restaurants.

Arkansas: Military subcontractor Actronix now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Administrators of the company that works for Lockheed Martin and British empire BAE say they have $2.3-million USD of debt versus $50-thousand in assets!

California: In Fresno, Club One casino now bankrupt busted with $9.5-million USD of debt!  It was revealed by an employee that storytelling app Flipagram laid off 17 people two weeks ago.

Colorado:  Even high tech can’t stop ObamaCare from killing healthcare services as Datu Health shutdown their Boulder HQ, 42 jobs lost.  It’s the result of its computer programs being consolidated under the control of Saint Joseph Health.

Florida:  In Naples, Estates Country Stores shutting down two of their Golden Gate Estates stores after selling the properties to convenience store giant 7-Eleven.

Failed State Hawaii: In Honolulu, after 30 years popular Bubbies Homemade Ice Cream & Desserts  (known for ‘R’ rated ice cream names) shutdown its Varsity Center store, shocked customers reacted with “Oh my Gaawwdd!”  The owner said they will now focus solely on wholesale production of mochi ice cream.

Homeless families in tent cities on Hawaii’s beaches, hurting tourism, the real reason for the state of emergency declaration.

For proof Hawaii has failed, the governor just declared a state of emergency due to rampant homelessness (the highest in the U.S. of A., per capita)!  The martial law governor admitted his plan is to round up the homeless: “We are making sure that we have options for those who are homeless to move into an emergency shelter….”-David Ige

Idaho: Local news media proudly boasted of Idaho’s personal income ‘growth’ making The Gem State number 8 in the country.  Hate to burst your bubble but 1.1% is not growth, it’s stagnation! And what does that say about the rest of the country?  Let’s break it down to reveal just who’s getting that 1.1% increase in personal income; utilities, landlords-property owners-property developers-real estate, banks and insurance companies.  Yep, if you’ve been paying attention to my Job Losses reports those are the very people jacking up costs to everybody! Gee, the 1% of Idaho are the ones getting the 1.1% increase in personal income, go figure.

Failed State Illinois: After 61 years Gillenberg’s Furniture shutting down because the owner said “I am tired, I want to do some traveling.”  Oak Brook based McDonald’s in deeper trouble than first thought.  According to Business Insider, franchise operators are fed up with corporate policies that include not offering financial help to 30% of franchise owners who admit they are broke: “We are in the throes of a deep depression, and nothing is changing!  Probably 30% of operators are insolvent.”-Mark Kalinowski, analyst

Louisiana:  CHI Aviation shutting down its Galliano operation after Xmas, 74 jobs lost due to the collapsing oil industry.

New York:  The Bon Ton shutting down their Syracuse store by February 2016, 43 jobs lost.  Due to the pending shutdown of New York Presbyterian Hospital Family Medicine Center (caused by ObamaCare) Hunter Ambulette-Ambulance lost their contract, 113 jobs lost after Xmas!  Watertown’s New York Air Brake laid off 20 people and warned more layoffs will take place if sales do not improve, no severance either.

Ohio: What construction industry recovery?  WestRock shutting down their Coshocton operation two days after Thanksgiving, 225 jobs lost!  It’s the result of two mergers in the past five years.

Pennsylvania: Allegheny Technologies warned of mass layoffs at it Pittsburgh HQ, no numbers given.

Tennessee:  Hutcheson Medical Center laid off 70 more employees and eliminated the Chickamauga clinic, the Battlefield Lung Specialists, and the Multi-Family Practice Clinic on Battlefield Parkway and the intensive care unit! Local news reports say the hospital with 179 beds now has a “skeleton crew”, an employee said don’t waist your time going there because you’ll be sent to another hospital.  So much for Affordable Care Act increasing access to healthcare!  Rail company CSX laid off an additional 3-hundred people as they suddenly shutdown their Erwin rail yard, Unicoi County Mayor Greg Lynch exclaimed “I knew Wednesday that something was going on, but I didn’t believe in my wildest dreams they would be shutting it all down! …it’s the worst thing that’s happened here in my nine years as mayor.”

Texas:  Oil company Schlumberger warned of even more layoffs, no number given.

Virginia: In Williamsburg, The Inspired Bride shutdown ironically because the co-owners got divorced!

Washington:  Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center warned of job cuts in 2016, “because we anticipate a short-term reduction in patient volumes” caused by Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).  India based restaurant locating service Zomato shutdown their Seattle office without warning, it’s part of their plans to eliminate at least 150 U.S. jobs! 

Orwellian double speak for Think Like a Thief!

Wisconsin:  University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire laid off 11 people blaming state funding cuts.  More proof Apple is a hypocritical thief (after accusing Samsung of stealing their patents) as a jury of the U.S. District Court ruled that Apple ripped off the patents of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.  Apple must pay WARF $234-million USD in damages.

14 – 15 October 2015: Factory says America is broke, will move to Russia!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho

Idaho loses jobs, record number of people in workforce, yet unemployment rate remains the same? Blame immigrants!

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Local news media continue to be confused by conflicting data from the Department of Labor, thinking an unchanging unemployment rate is good.

Here are some reasons it’s bad: A net of 5-thousand jobs added in September but those were mainly the usual education jobs that happen at the start of every school year, so they can’t be counted as a sign of ‘growth’.  1-thousand construction jobs lost in September, this is interesting because at the same time the Dept. of Labor says job growth in the construction industry increased.  The Department also stated that the number of people in The Gem State’s workforce hit a record high of 800-thousand 800 (in a state that has a population between 1.5 million and 2 million), yet stated that only 1-hundred people were newly unemployed and yet also stated that the labor participation rate (as well as unemployment rate) was “unchanged” from the previous three months, and apparently 22% of unemployed people getting unemployment assistance dropped out!

The so called ‘Republican conservative’ Red State is among the most “welcoming” to migrants! Yet another reason why it’s a Right to Work (you citizens over) State!

This data comes after the University of Idaho reported a 6% increase in people moving to metro areas to look for work (basically the Boise area is the only metro area) because they can’t find any in the rural areas, and an admission by the Depart. of Education that the immigrant population has become so big that taxpayers will now pay for their English classes!  

Even the Catholic Church encourages immigration to Idaho!

Mmmm, immigrants, is that why there’s now a record number of people in The Gem State’s workforce and an unchanging unemployment rate despite the fact people are struggling to find jobs (Like me, in the past five months I’ve gotten five rejection emails saying I didn’t “have the qualifications” they were looking for, and they were all ‘entry level’ jobs! Is it my age or my ethnic status?  Way to go Bannock County! )?  (Blind Bat News does not make any money, I am not paid to write this stuff and I’m not the owner of Blind Bat News.  The owner has been paying out of their pocket to maintain this site because they believe in the ‘message’.  In the past advertisers have ripped the owner off, and now nobody wants to click on the relatively new Donate button and donate!)

Business/Economics, Idaho

Obama Homie Town Lottery Broke! Swiss company screws U.S. taxpayers! Another hospital openly blames Obama! Factory says America is broke, moving to Russia! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 14 – 15 October 2015

“No one should be surprised from soft numbers in the industrial economy, regional or national.  Just as the downshift in capex in the oil sector began to ease, the strong dollar and the slowdown in China’s industrial economy have bitten, hard, and likely will inflict more pain over the next few months.”-Ian Shepherdson, Pantheon Macroeconomics, reacting to the latest comments by the Federal Reserve

Failed State Alabama: Back in May, Walter Energy laid off 4-hundred people at its Brookwood Mine, now they will eliminate an additional 129 jobs!  The company went bankrupt in July.

Arizona: Washington DC based Living Social suddenly laid off 180 people at its Phoenix call center!

Ontario, California, Arrowhead water bottler. It doesn’t come from a mountain spring, it comes from the U.S. taxpayer!

California:  The U.S. Forest Service has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing it of illegally giving Switzerland based food producer Nestlé taxpayer owned water in the drought stricken state! It was used for the Arrowhead brand bottled water.  If you buy Arrowhead you’re contributing to the plight of California’s farmers!  In Costa Mesa, after 26 years Scott’s upscale restaurant shutting down in January because the owner decided it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease.  The only bank in the town of Upper Lake, Westamerica Bank, shutdown.  In Burbank, the Helping Hands for Animals Thrift Store shutdown due to a sudden increase in rent, the owner swore “I didn’t see it coming.”   The 8 Ball ‘retro shop’ shutting down due to losing its lease.   Not A Burger Stand eatery shutdown due to landlord issues.

Colorado:  After four years the Booknook in Louisville shutdown due to ever increasing costs of operations.

Connecticut: Fontana Bridal Shop shutdown without notice and now people are mad.  The owner says it’s because his wife suddenly went into a coma.

Delaware: In Wilmington, after ten years Black Lab Breads suddenly shutdown due to the lease not being renewed.  The owner is hoping he can find a new affordable location.

Florida: In Neptune Beach, after five years Lillie’s Coffee & Bar shutting down at the end of the month because of the greedy landlord.

Idaho:  The state Department of Education has revealed it is using taxpayer money to create a new department for migrants!  State Right to Work (you over) administrators admitted there are so many migrant workers who don’t speak English that they feel compelled to rape taxpayers in order to provide migrants English classes. 

Just last week I revealed that Idahoans are being forced to spend at least $187-million USD towards illegal migrant workers!  This comes as the University of Idaho’s McClure Center for Public Policy Research discovered that since 2009 the population in the metro areas of The Gem State increased by 6% while rural areas flatlined.  Researchers say it’s because it’s harder to find good paying jobs in the rural areas.   In Idaho Falls, presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has gained the support of the Mormon owned snake oil salesman, I mean personal care product maker Melaleuca, so much so that company administrators forced their mainly Mormon employees to attend a speech given by Fiorina!    The Idaho Supreme Court upheld Boise’s plan to use hotel room taxes to pay bondholders via a series of one-year leases to fund the expansion of the city’s convention center (for some reason they choose to use the British empire spelling of Centre).  Pumpkin farmers south of the Boise area reporting a shortage of pumpkins: “It’s been a rough year. It’s probably been the roughest year I’ve had with pumpkins since we’ve been doing it, and we’ve been doing it a long time.”-Fred Schreffler, owner of The Berry Ranch

NOT ANYMORE!

Failed State Illinois: Last month state Lottery administrators said they could not honor jackpots of $25-thousand USD or more, now they’ve announced they can’t pay jackpots of only $6-hundred or more, because they’re broke! Despite this Lottery tickets are still being sold!  Pumpkin farmers report massive losses, Illinois normally grows 90% of the pumpkins in the United States!  Peoria based heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar shutting down their Electro-Motive Diesel rail office in London, Ontario (Canada).  50 jobs lost right after Xmas.  Because of the crashing economy Caterpillar is consolidating all its operations.

Maryland:  Bethesda based taxsucker Lockheed Martin will eliminate 250 jobs in its Missiles and Fire Control division, right after Thanksgiving!  Umami Bistro of Pikesville shutting down due to landlord issues.

Massachusetts: Too Big to Jail evil British empire bank Barclays eliminating 25 jobs in Boston Weak.  The Boston Globe laying off ten employees, more than a dozen accepted voluntary quit bribes (buyouts).  And after 43 years iconic Medieval Manor restaurant theater shutdown due to crashed and burned sales.  A survey revealed many Bostonians thought the place had shutdown a long time ago!

Failed State Michigan: Oakdale based Imation warned of more job cuts, possibly due to its $7.5-million takeover of Connected Data.  The only movie theater in Newberry is shutting down.  The owner of Great Depression era TahquaLand Theatre says he can’t afford to convert to digital.

Minnesota: PM Beef is shutting down its Windom meat plant right before Xmas, 260 jobs lost!  Windom City administrators say they will lose almost half of their revenues from lost taxes and fees!   After 14 years Minneapolis French cuisine Vincent A Restaurant shutting down after Xmas, so the owner can “move on with my life”.

Mississippi:  In Fulton, after 58 years Bob Steele’s Flowers and Gifts shutting down after Xmas.

Missouri: East Saint Louis laid off eight cops and in a sign of a Failed State warned that local taxes will be increased.

New Hampshire: Keene base food supplier C&S Wholesale Grocers laid off an undisclosed number of employees due to the gigantic collapse of A & P (Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) grocery stores across the eastern U.S.  Monadnock Community Hospital laid off six people and eliminated vacant jobs, directly blaming ObamaCare: “This is largely as a result of the changes in the Affordable Care Act, which really got into full swing in 2014.”-Laura Gingras, vice president of philanthropy and community relations

New Mexico: In Albuquerque, Flying Star Cafe shutting down its ten years old restaurant on Silver and 8th Street.  It’s the third Flying Star to shutdown since the company went bankrupt.  It’s been revealed that Halliburton laid off an undisclosed number of people in Hobbs, last month.

New York: Semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries warned of mass layoffs at its Luther Forest Technology Campus.  Administrators said they’d have more details about just how many people will be let go by the end of the month.  The California based company is also killing jobs in Germany.  Bankrupt busted Organic Avenue shutting down all its juice bars! Administrators refused to say how many people will become unemployed.  Local news reports say sales crashed and burned last year.

North Carolina:  Tin Tin Box and Noodles shutting down at the end of the month, apparently because of the greedy landlord because the owner of the Japanese restaurant said he’s looking for a new location.

Says the money is in China and Russia, will abandon U.S.A.

Ohio: TerraSource Global shutting down its Cuyahoga Falls machine factory right before Xmas, 53 jobs lost.  Administrators say their U.S. sales have crashed and they’re forced to move to where the money is; Russia and China!   Health insurance company Assurant shutting down their two years old Dayton call center, 150 jobs affected!  Two years ago the company promised to employ 2-hundred people, in anticipation of increased demand due to ObamaCare forcing people to buy health insurance, but guess what, it didn’t happen.  The overwhelming majority of people on ObamaCare are people who already had insurance, meaning the rest of us are flippin’ ObamaCare the ‘bird’!

Pennsylvania: Too Big to Jail evil British empire bank Barclays eliminating six jobs in Philadelphia, right after Xmas.  Iconic music venue North Star Bar shutdown, its being replaced with a restaurant.

Vermont: Semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries warned of mass layoffs at its Essex Junction and Hopewell Junction fabs.

Virginia: What automotive industry recovery?  In Sterling, after only two years Advance Auto Parts shutdown. Local news reports say it was the fifth auto parts store to try to set up shop in town.

Washington DC: Living Social suddenly laid off 30 people at its headquarters.  Administrators warned that another hundred employees will soon be let go, saying the bad economy is forcing them to reorganize their ‘daily deals’ offerings.

Wisconsin: Kimberly Clark laid off 70 IT employees, blaming the bad economy for forcing them to become even more efficient.  Texas based Hi-Crush Proppants shutting down its plant in the city of Augusta, 27 jobs lost.  Maryland based U.S. Silica laid off an additional 16 people in Sparta.

13 October 2015: Sales to students have crashed by 44% from last year! 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics

God abandons vets! ObamaCare kills entire school district! Food distributor kills 124 jobs 2 days before Thanksgiving! Orange Dino finally dies! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 13 October 2015

More proof that ObamaCare is a total failure as the Washington Examiner reports that “The federal government had given out $2.4 billion in loans to the 23 co-ops as of December 2014….” and that five have already been shutdown by ObamaCare itself.  The report goes on to say the remaining 18 insurance co-ops will not survive more than a year. 

California: In Marina del Rey, internet Snapchat shutting down Snap Channel, about 15 tech jobs lost.  San Francisco based internet ‘storefront’ Humble Bundle laid off 12 people admitting they were way “too ambitious” in their hiring practices.   In Oxnard, employment service Aerotek Staffing issued a shutdown WARN, 38 jobs lost after U.S. Thanksgiving.  Drug pusher Kythera Biopharmaceuticals issued a layoff WARN in Westlake Village, 117 jobs lost after Thanksgiving!  A GMRI owned Red Lobster restaurant in Los Angeles is shutting down, 83 jobs lost before Thanksgiving. The Marine Terminal is shutting down in Los Angeles and Oakland, 175 jobs lost before Xmas!  Ports America laying off 11 people before Xmas.  Insurance and finance company MullinTBG laying off 53 people in Irvine and El Segundo, before Xmas.  Drug pusher Onyx Pharmaceuticals shutdown without notice (shutdown on 25 September, gave official WARN on 08 October), 377 people now unemployed!  Food distribution company Triple B Corporation issued a shutdown WARN for their Irwindale operation, 124 jobs lost two days before Thanksgiving!

Florida:  Too Big to Jail evil British empire bank Barclays issued a WARN, at least 28 people becoming unemployed right after Xmas.  In Orlando, Southeastern Container issued a WARN saying 42 people will become unemployed right before Xmas.

Hawaii: Oahu, state health inspectors shutdown and then fined the Paalaa Kai Bakery.  The shutdown was for health code violations and the fine was for selling food after they were ordered to stop.  The inspections are part of new food martial laws under the new Hawaii Administrative Rules, Title 11, Chapter 50, Food Safety Code.

Failed State Illinois: In Cairo the only grocery store in town, Wonder Market, shutting down before Xmas. The nearest grocery store is over the border in Kentucky.  Local news said corporate officials did not respond to their questions.  Apparently the area is considered one of the poorest in the state.

Kentucky: Louisville based drug pusher PharMerica has ‘admitted’ to conspiracy with Abbott Laboratories in a drug promotion kickback scheme.  The company will pay federal and state governments $9.25 million USD, but when you realize it’s going to be spilt up among various federal programs, as well as dozens of states, it’s a slap on the wrist.

Louisiana: What hurricane recovery?  Desperate Tulane University is now bribing employees to quit (voluntary buyouts), and if that doesn’t work “…we will likely have to consider additional measures, such as non-voluntary layoffs.”

Massachusetts: In Saugus, after 57 years the home of the Orange T-Rex, Route 1 Mini Golf & Dairy Castle, shutdown.  The owners always kept their 1950s style operation looking brand new, unfortunately they had to sell out to greedy property developers who’ll tear everything down!

Failed State Michigan: Jackson Public Schools laid off seven teachers due to lack of money.

Missouri:  Battery maker Enr Sys laid of 66 employees, blaming not-recovered sales.

Nebraska: After only one year two eateries in the University of Nebraska’s student union shutting down after Xmas. The owner of Subway Pizza Express and Auntie Anne’s Pretzels says sales to students have crashed by 44% from last year!

New York: In Amagansett, after ten years Crossroads Music shutting down after Xmas, the owner blames the internet.   In Jericho, after 343 years (surviving a whole lotta crap) iconic Milleridge Village issued a shutdown WARN, at least 174 jobs lost the week after Xmas!  However, local news reports say 250 people actually work at the colonial times themed shopping center, which is also known as Milleridge Inn!  The whole thing was sold off back in May to an evil REIT (real estate investment trust).  Rochester based but now Texas owned Home Properties warned of an undetermined amount of layoffs.  This is what happens when one company takes over another, no matter what they tell their employees.  The new owner says the layoffs will start with forced retirements, “modifications” to job descriptions and the layoff of recently hired people.  God refuses to stop the shutdown of one of ‘his’ top hospitals in the U.S. of A.; New York Presbyterian Family Medicine Center by January 2016.  It’s directly blamed on Affordable Care Act, which is more proof that ObamaCare is more powerful than God! 

Ohio: In Niles, Lone Star Steakhouse shutdown saying it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease. In Hamilton, after 30 years Trimmer Hardware shutting down in November: “It’s a combination of declining sales over of the last ten years, coupled with rising costs….competition from the big-box stores and people’s buying habits are changing….. it leaves little room for the mom-and-pop stores.”-Doug Trimmer

Oregon: In Portland, it’s been revealed that the entire city block between South West 2nd and 3rd and Taylor will be demolished!  This includes the 110 years old Lotus Cardroom and Café.  

South Carolina: Retailer Belk shutting down their Union store in January 2016, 27 jobs lost.  The entire company is now up for sale.

Failed State Tennessee: Days ago I reported that the entire Clay County School District shutdown, news reports would only say it was due to lack of funding.  Now it’s been revealed that the lack of funding was caused by the implementation of Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare): “The straw that broke the camel’s back was really the Affordable Care Act for us and it has made it very difficult for us to have our employees properly covered and meet the mandates of the law. That was going to require new revenue and the commission felt like they couldn’t do that through a tax increase.”-Jerry Strong, director

Texas:  In El Paso, the non-profit Exploreum museum shutting down after Xmas: “…the museum can no longer cover all annual operating costs, according to its board. Attempts to secure adequate city, community, foundation and corporate support have failed.”-public statement

Utah:  Homeless military veterans left out in the cold because God is shutting down ‘his’ Saint Mary’s Center for Recovery due to lack of county taxpayer funding.  “And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.”-Mark 12:17

Washington: In Bellingham, after 32 years Michael’s Books shutting down after Xmas.  The owner is moving away to try something new.

12 October 2015: Target kills 3,100 jobs!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho

Idaho abandons California! Target kills 3,100 jobs! God reveals the true god is money! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 12 October 2015

Nielsen TDLinx reports that since 2004 more than 10-thousand bars/pubs have shutdown across the United States! 

Flagship Food Group’s Meridian, Idaho, HQ. They’re about to kill 123 jobs in California!

California: Once Los Angeles based but now Idaho based Flagship Food Group issued a shutdown WARN for their Chatsworth food factory, 123 jobs lost before the U.S. Thanksgiving! To show you that corporate America sees no recovery in the near future, in Los Angeles Packaging Advance issued a shutdown WARN for May 2016, 192 jobs lost!  Menzies Aviation continues to eliminate jobs, this time 51 jobs lost before Xmas.  San Diego Sports shutting down right after Thanksgiving, 123 jobs lost!  In Emeryville, MobiTV laying off 57 people right after Thanksgiving.  China owned solar power company SunEdision issued layoff WARNs for 62 Californians beginning right after Thanksgiving.  Fireman’s Fund Insurance issued a layoff WARN for their Novato office, 73 jobs lost before Xmas.  Khol’s department store shutting down their huge store in Santa Clara, 119 jobs lost by the end of January 2016!  In Palo Alto, British empire Canada owned U.S. tax-sucker Space Systems Loral (SSL) laid off 90 people without warning, notifying state employment administrators five days after the fact.

Georgia: Suddenly restaurant Rosebud shutdown “effective immediately” because of “unforeseen circumstances”.

A busy loading dock, yet mail handlers were told they were let go "Due to lack of work"!

A busy USPS Pocatello Gateway loading dock, yet we Mail Handlers were told we were let go “Due to lack of work”! (that’s what it says on my written layoff notice)

Idaho: Six months after I lost my job at the Pocatello Gateway Postal Processing Center, due to plant shutdown, the ‘elected’ officials of Pocatello and Chubbuck are pushing the USPS to re-open the center.  I posted many articles in the last few weeks of my USPS Mail Handling job (and afterwards, I even tracked a package to see how long it now takes for mail to come into east Idaho) primarily because I was shocked at how many east Idahoans were unaware there was a mail processing center here.  Now the mail gets processed out of state in Utah.  The local johnny come lately public administrators want public input regarding the efforts to re-open the Gateway processing center on Flandro Drive in Pocatello (go to www.oldtownpocatello.com).

Idaho Power’s gas fired Langley Gulch Power Plant, built in 2011, now to be run by Germany’s Siemens.

 Major electricity supplier Idaho Power has signed a 20 year deal to contract out maintenance work on its gas fired plants to Germany based Siemens.  But get this, Idaho Power refuses to say how much the contract is worth, and, is selling $21.9-million USD of equipment to Siemens as part of the deal, sounds like Idaho Power is hurting for cash.

Failed State Illinois: In Gary, the 21st Century Charter School laid off seven employees due to crashing enrollments.  News reports said one pissed-off teacher “destroyed” her classroom before leaving.   That Which Cannot Be Named refuses to stop the shutdown of the Mayer Kaplan Jewish Community Center.  The strange thing is they’re still registering children for next year’s programs and claim they will be setting up shop in a new undetermined location.
Maryland: In Baltimore, the Sports Legends Museum shutting down due to a lease dispute with the property owner.

Target HQ in Minnesota, job killing has become their forte!

 Minnesota: More proof corporations don’t see any future recovery as Minneapolis based retailer Target announced it will kill-off 3-thousand 1-hundred jobs (layoff 1,700 people and eliminate 1,400 vacant jobs) over the next two years!  

Oklahoma:  Oil industry company Continental Resources announced it is cutting pay for employees under the guise of trying to prevent mass layoffs.

Pennsylvania: Philadelphia based FMC announced it will eliminate 850 jobs blaming currency wars!  God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Joseph the Worker Church due to lack of money, proving that the real god is money!  After three years non-profit ‘tech incubator’ Seed Philly being forced to shutdown due to the new property owner terminating the lease early.

Failed State Tennessee: In Nashville, Khan’s Desserts shutting down because “…the rent has gone up greatly, and without partnership or investment, we are unable to move to another location.”

Texas: In Tyler, busy bug killer Center Chemical shutting down by the end of the month. The owners say they want more time with their grandchildren.   Round Rock based Dell just made the biggest tech takeover deal ever ($67-billion USD).  Now the administrators of Dell/EMC hinted at mass layoffs: “Of course when we do this we want to make sure we do this in a way that’s very attractive to the EMC shareholders and a fair deal…”-Joe Tucci, EMC ceo

11 October 2015: Entire school district shuts down!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics

To Destroy U.S. Dollar: European Central Bank tells U.S. Federal Reserve ‘Go take a hike!’

11 October 2015 (10:01 UTC-07 Tango 01)/19 Mehr 1394/27 Dhu l-Hijja 1436/29 Bing-Xu 4713

“Our monetary policies do present paths that are very different. I would say fundamentally diverging paths for the future.”-Mario Draghi, European Central Bank, 10 October 2015

“The capital market in the EU is relatively less developed compared with the U.S.A…   ….we must manage our European common house, not only on the basis of national interests, but by adopting a systemic, common vision.”-Pier Carlo Padoan, Minister of Economy and Finances of Italy, 09 October 2015

“We are following our own formula…  ….In the European Union, we have to act differently than in the union that makes up the United States.”-Wolfgang Schäuble, Finance Minister of Germany, September 2015

Australia & Singapore first to use Chinese Yuan in major transactions! 

Business/Economics, Idaho

Idaho burdened by $187-million worth of illegal immigrants! Entire school district shuts down! Chicago asks Obama to declare martial law, even the Boy Scouts are leaving! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 11 October 2015

HP has definitely become hazardous to your tech career!

California: Business Insider is reporting that Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard (HP) laid off yet more employees, last week, and is estimating that HP could increase its total number of job cuts to 85-thousand (since 2012)!  Sacramento based publishing company McClatchy rumored that it’s about to collapse!  One of McClatchy’s respected reporters has gone public and stated they are shutting down all their foreign news bureaus!  If that doesn’t stop the financial hemorrhaging then the company which publishes 30 newspapers is going bust.  After nine years foster home Sonoma County Children’s Village shutting down next week due to lack of money.

Iconic Post Register sold off, will probably be chopped up.

Idaho: Reports say illegal immigration to The Gem State  skyrocketed 30% from 2009 to 2012, and is costing legal state taxpayers $187.4-million USD per year!  (read my article Immigration a False Flag op to make corporations richer!)   In Idaho Falls, troubled family-employee owned Post Register has managed to find a buyer.  Minnesota based Adams Publishing Group buying the Idaho Falls Post Register and weekly newspapers Challis Messenger, Jefferson Star and Shelly Pioneer.  Adams Publishing Group has been buying up troubled newspaper ops across the country, don’t be surprised by massive layoffs and shutdowns as a results, guaranteed they’re going to consolidate (like everybody else).

Failed State Illinois shuts down Operation CeaseFire!

Failed State Illinois: In Obama’s homie town of Chicago, despite a 20% increase in violence since last year Operation CeaseFire was shutdown. Local news says Chicago is experiencing a “financial meltdown”!   And if that’s not bad enough, administrators of Operation PUSH are demanding that Obama declare a federal State of Emergency (martial law, essentially)!   Even the Boy Scouts are getting the hell outta Dodge, the Chicago area Pathway to Adventure Scout Council is reporting crashing enrollment and as a result they’re shutting down there scout camps in neighboring Wisconsin!  It’s been revealed that the true reason Chicago restaurant Japonais by Morimoto is shutting down is due to a massive lawsuit because the owners haven’t paid any rent for the past year!  More proof Obama’s homie town is a failed state!

Missouri:   J Buck’s restaurant and its twin Joe Buck’s both shutting down at the end of the month, the owner blaming jacked up rents and other “rising operational costs”!  At one point there were five J Buck’s-Joe Buck’s restaurants!

Ohio: In Dayton, Olive an urban dive restaurant shutdown due to difficulties with the property owner: “We tried everything we could to find another feasible way to keep Olive in Dayton, but now that the decision is made, we’re announcing the close….” 

Pennsylvania:  In Media, after 65 years restaurant D’Ignazio’s Towne House shutting down after Xmas.  The property is being sold to speculators.

Entire school district shuts down!

Failed State Tennessee: The entire Clay County School District shutdown due to lack of money!!!  The exalted school board failed to create a required budget!

Washington DC: More proof Obama is a liar.  After stating in a speech back in August that there should be no cuts to federal alternative energy research, it’s been revealed by the Washington Post that 15 U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory employees were laid off last week.  The Washington Post article went on to say that job cuts had become routine as Congress cuts the funding for the program every year.

Wisconsin: The American Red Cross shutting down nine of their 19 offices across the state, by 2017.  Some buildings have been sold while others will be leased to companies that can make the greedy property owners more money.

09 – 10 October 2015: “we haven’t been making money”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics

“we haven’t been making money” No more Aaron’s Rents? Muslims & Jews rounded up, proof is pork now forbidden in federal prisons! Gun control cuts? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 09 – 10 October 2015

Arizona: Small Planet Bakery shutting down their Tucson shop right before Thanksgiving after 41 years: “…we haven’t been making money… At one point back in the late ’80s, we were in 36 grocery stores … In May we cut it down to five stores…”-Lucy Mitchell, co-owner

California: San Francisco based Twitter warned of mass layoffs in the next week, according to “unnamed sources”.   In South Lake Tahoe, The Cork and More wine store shutdown after 39 years due to nobody wanting to buy the business.

Florida: Paper products mill WestRock laid off 131 people, blaming crashing sales!

Failed State Illinois:  In Bloomington, God refuses to stop the shutdown of his Catholic Workers created food pantry for low income families Clair House. After almost 37 years their last meal will be the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.  As an example of the dumbing down of America, the director claims the food pantry has been serving the poor for “five decades”, yet also said Clair House was created in December 1978, do the math that’s not five decades.

Indiana: Aaron’s Rent-A-Center quietly shutdown four rental stores last week! No reason was given, but in the 3rd quarter of 2014 they shutdown 44 stores due to “lack of performance”.  In April of this year Reuters revealed that Aaron’s administrators have fought off several takeover attempts since 2014.  Could these latest store shutdowns have anything to due with the recently revealed fact that Aaron’s just spent $700-thousand USD buying new property in Pennsylvania?

Iowa:  In Grimes, after 26 years family owned Longview Golf Center forced to shutdown due to “new development”.

Maryland: In Elkton, after 12 years Terrapin Station Winery shutdown: “Mother Nature took her toll on our vineyards and we were not able to generate enough investment to get us rolling again.”-Janet and Morris Zwick, owners

Minnesota: The privately owned Moorehead Sears Hometown shutting down by Wednesday.  The owner gave up trying to sell the franchise store.

Missouri: In Columbia, Children’s Orchard used clothing store shutdown.  After 20 years the franchise owner decided not to renew her contract due to the company being under new ownership.

New Jersey:  After 18 years Sears Holdings shutting down their Roselle Sears Hardware store due to “landlord issues”.  Apparently all employees will be offered transfers.

New Mexico: University of New Mexico eliminating 1-hundred jobs, blaming non-stop DSS (what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome)!

New York:  Troubled NYC based law firm Milberg laid off 32 employees. The law firm has been struggling ever since its co-founders pled guilty to an illegal kickback scheme.

North Carolina: Iconic gun maker Remington laid off 41 people and warned of 21 more job cuts soon.  The job cuts took place in tiny Rockingham County, which is dealing with more than 3-hundred surprise job losses in the past month!

Pennsylvania: What building construction recovery?  McKees Rocks based insulation maker Geo V. Hamilton now chapter 11 bankrupt busted blaming years of lawsuits over cancer causing asbestos.  And industrial wire maker Wire Company Holdings-New York Wire also chapter 11 bankrupt busted, blaming almost $16-million USD in debts.

Vermont: Bankrupt busted Massachusetts based City Sports shutting down their Burlington store, 20 jobs lost. 

 

Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Prisons will stop offering pig products to prisoners, directly impacting the pork industry in the United States.  Realize that the United States has more people in prisons than any other country and you’ll understand how this will adversely affect the industrial pig killers.  Prison administrators say prisoners are refusing to eat pork.  Is this a sign that the majority of prisoners are Jews and Muslims, or maybe the prison kitchens don’t know how to cook it?  Prisons administrators were asked if there’s been an increase in incarceration of Jews or Muslims and the administrators refused to comment!  The pork industry is demanding a better explanation than prisoners just don’t like pork.

08 October 2015: “I hate it!”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics

I knew it, immigration a False Flag op to make corporations richer!

09 October 2015 (04:37 UTC-07 Tango 01)/17 Mehr 1394/25 Dhu l-Hijja 1436/27 Bing-Xu 4713

“With the right set of policies, this era of demographic change can be an engine of economic growth……migrants will work hard and contribute more in taxes than they consume in social services.”-Jim Yong Kim, president of U.S. based World Bank, insinuating that world wars without end are good for providing cheap desperate labor for the 1%

The World Bank released a report praising immigration for providing cheap labor all over the world!

World Bank HQ in New York City.

The report is called Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016: Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change.  

According to an official World Bank press release “…the world is undergoing a major population shift that will reshape economic development for decades and, while posing challenges, offers a path to ending extreme poverty and shared prosperity…”  Note that they stated mass forced immigration would end “extreme poverty and shared prosperity”!!!

The way the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will end extreme poverty is by “reclassifying” their definition of extreme poverty!  It ends shared prosperity by revising “world economic growth projections” downward!

This explains why ‘elected lawmakers’ have done nothing to stop illegal immigration.  There is a difference between legal and illegal immigration and if you notice all the demonstrations in favor of immigration are about illegal immigration!