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Business/Economics, Idaho

Idaho employees still behind the 8-Ball despite 3% pay raise! Nevada penalizes homeowners for going ‘Green’! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 25 – 27 December 2015

Japan based Toshiba concluded an internal investigation into book-cooking and discovered that past corrupt administrators ripped off the company by at least $1.3-billion USD.  The result is that 7-thousand 8-hundred people around the world will lose their jobs!  This affects Toshiba ops in the United States, such as the South Texas Project (Toshiba owns 87% of Pennsylvania based nuclear power plant maker Westinghouse).

California: In Newark, bio-company StemCells warned 25% of its employees of impending layoffs due to “restructuring” caused by legal tangles involving the state stem cell funding agency CIRM.    In South San Francisco, drugs maker Threshold Pharmaceuticals announced layoffs that would leave it with only 20 employees! It’s blamed on their Phase 3 failed drugs.  Another drugs maker, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, in big trouble after two of its administrators were arrested for frauding investors!  The company now faces NASDAQ de-listing.

Connecticut:  Failed golf TV network Back9Network now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Back9 went off the air in February and laid off most of its employees.

Georgia: In Decatur, after 39 years the 17 Steps gift shop shutting down by the end of January.

Idaho: State ‘lawmakers’ decided to give state employees a 3% pay raise, yet the Idaho Press-Tribune says state employees are still paid 22% below the ‘market average’ for state government employees across the U.S.  My own short experience working with state employees at Idaho State University revealed that the pay disparity gets even worse when you break it down by region, yes, state employees are not paid uniformly across The Gem State.  It was also revealed that the state Department of Health and Welfare experienced a 15% employee turnover rate in 2015, blamed mainly on low pay rates!  So much for Right to Work you over laws!  For more news on the sad state of Idaho, the U.S. Department of Education says Idaho’s High School graduation rate is 41st out of the 50 states and Washington DC!

Indiana: What automotive industry recovery?  New car parts maker Indiana Marujun (IML) shutting down its Winchester factory, 750 jobs lost by the end of 2016!  It’s blamed on the planned shutdown of the Honda factory.

Kansas: In Topeka, the non-profit health care Marian Clinic shutting down affecting at least 4-hundred low income patients.  Local news reports say the Shawnee County Health Agency is experiencing a steady increase in patient inquiries since the announcement that Marian Clinic was shutting down.

Maryland: In Westminster, after 25 years the Hickory Stick bangle shop shutdown: “Expenses are up, and the sales are not following suit.”-Sandy Scott, owner

Nevada: Proof government doesn’t want ‘green’ businesses and there is no such thing as ‘free market economics’ in the United States; California based solar panel maker SolarCity leaving The Silver State because the state Public Utilities Commission jacked up fees charged to people who put solar panels on their homes, and reduced how much electric power companies have to pay those home owners for extra power generated by the solar panels.  The net result is that people who put solar panels on their homes will actually see their electricity bill go up by about $40 per month!  Up till now analysts say Nevada homeowners with solar power panels had reduced their electricity bill by a measly $15 per month.  Evil utility companies demand that even people who go off the power grid should still have to pay to support that evil grid!  SolarCity’s exit from The Silver State could affect at least 2-thousand jobs!

New York:  In Manhattan, restaurant City Hall shutting down on New Year’s Eve.

North Carolina: Morrison Healthcare Food Service shutting down their Pinevale operations, 80 jobs affected by February 2016.   Morrison lost their contract with Carolinas Healthcare System.

Ohio: God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 1-hundred years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Mansfield.  Supposedly it’s being taken over by a competing version of christianity.

Oklahoma: The state Board of Equalization predicts $900.8-million USD less in tax revenues for next fiscal year due to the collapsing oil industry.

Texas: In Austin, it was revealed that Mijos Tex-Mex Cantina shutdown without warning, back in November.

Utah: In Orem, after 53 years the Vineyard Garden Center shutdown, the owner said “Too old, too tired.” 

Virginia: In Alexandria three local mom-n-pops shutdown; Bradlee Shoe Repair, Monroe’s Shoe Repair and Mancini’s Cafe & Bakery.

Wisconsin: In Wausau, after 51 years Hadley Office Products shutting down.  The retiring owners found a buyer for the business, hoping to keep the employees employed.    Reports say the new owner will keep on ten employees.

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

“cash flow negative” “…time to pack up.” “This is absolutely a trend.” No more Jamba Juice? Idaho schools get mean, fires people over $1.70 lunches! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 23 December 2015

What housing market recovery?  The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reports that sales of existing homes crashed in November, down 10.5% from October (which, by the way, were revised downward from previous reports), and down by 210-thousand sales compared to November 2014!  By region: NorthEast down by 9.2%, South down by 6.2%, MidWest crashed by 15.4% and the West also crashed by 13.9%.

California: Emeryville based Jamba Juice announced it is shutting down 30 stores in Illinois and New York, 104 jobs lost!  Administrators said the stores “are cash flow negative”.  The evil city of Oakland spent $72-thousand tax dollars evicting homeless people from 162 homeless camps!  That’s a lot of homeless people, gee I thought there was an economic recovery Barack Obama?   A famous ‘Hollywood’ junkyard that nobody knows about is shutting down.  The Aadlen Brothers Auto Wrecking (aka U Pick Parts) junkyard has been used in dozens of TV shows, especially police/crime shows, over the years but is now shutting down due to crashing revenues.  Another problem is that the junkyard is also an unofficial abandoned cat refuge estimated to have dozens of homeless cats.  Efforts are being made to capture the cats and find homes for them.  In Santa Monica, restaurant Cadet shutting down after the Gregorian New Year’s Day: “…it was not financially viable and will be doing their best to reposition the staff…”-official statement

Florida:  MV Transportation issued a WARN saying 80 people in Orlando will lose their jobs by mid-February 2016.

Idaho:  More proof public school systems are covert Concentration Camps! The evil and corrupt School District 25 (aka Pocatello/Chubbuck school district) fired a food service worker for giving a starving child a free lunch valued at a measly one dollar and 70 cents!  On top of that the A-hole District 25 administrators sent the good samaritan (now former) employee a letter stating they consider her act of charity “theft”!  The former food service employee told new sources she offered to pay for the meal herself but that offer was rejected by her supervisor: “…what are you supposed to do when the kids tell you they are hungry and they don’t have any money?”-Dalene Bowden, hero District 25 food service worker fired for trying to feed starving children

More proof Idaho’s version of ObamaCare is meant to kill you.  The state Department of Health and Welfare is slashing Medicaid payments for in-home care of mentally disabled people.  Already, in-home care operation A New Leaf, in Meridian, is shutting down and eliminating 39 jobs as a result.  Many more in-home care operations will be shutdown as the draconian state ‘lawmakers’ want to warehouse disabled people in institutions.  (better do your research to find out what happened the last time people were warehoused in institutions, it not pretty)

For more proof your Gem State ‘lawmakers’ are out to get you, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court judge ruled that your ‘elected’ lawmakers act with extreme hatred (“animus”) regarding things like animal rights: “The overwhelming evidence gleaned from the legislative history indicates that (the statute) was intended to silence animal welfare activists, or other whistleblowers, who seek to publish speech critical of the agricultural production industry….a review of the (statute’s) legislative history leads to the inevitable conclusion that the law’s primary purpose is to protect agricultural facility owners by, in effect, suppressing speech critical of animal-agriculture practices.”-B. Lynn Winmill

Wild turkeys seen near Inkom, Idaho

Did you pay too much for your holiday turkey?  Producers blame a shortage of the big birds for high store prices but the state Department of Fish and Game claims there are so many wild turkeys in eastern Idaho that they’re asking for a special “expanded” hunting season.  Turkeys are not native to Idaho and their growing population is considered a threat to native game birds.

Now to northern Idaho where the city of Dalton Gardens wants to spend local taxpayer funding on birth control, not for humans but for deer!   Despite the fact the deer were there first city administrators say there are too many and they’re destroying property values, so they want to spend tax dollars on a vaccine that will prevent pregnancies for at least two years.   This is the same animal-people hating city that gave us politician “…Vito Barbieri, who famously asked a physician during a February House committee hearing if doctors could perform gynecological exams remotely by having patients swallow tiny cameras.”

Indiana: The girls prison called Muskegon River Youth Center, in Ladoga, shutting down 20 jobs threatened.  News reports gave this ominous reason; “….will close for a few months and will re-open as a slightly different type of facility.”

Kansas: News reports say Overland Park based cell phone company Sprint has begun its planned $2-billion USD in layoffs/cost cutting a month early!    The layoffs were originally to take place by the end of January 2016, now Sprint administrators say the undisclosed number of massive layoffs will be “largely completed” by the end of January.  Don’t forget, Sprint administrators claim they’re hurting for money so much that for employees laid off after January 2016 the severance package will be cut in half!

Montana: State ‘lawmakers’ are shutting down the Montana Developmental Center.  State representative Denise Hayman (who is opposed to shutting MDC down) says mentally handicapped patients are already being transferred to prisons!     

New Jersey:  The Tenafly Swim Club chapter 7 bankrupt busted.  The New Jersey Pool Manager’s Association says it’s proof there ain’t no economic recovery: “This is absolutely a trend.  We’ve gone from having 54 pool clubs to 45 in our association in about 10 years.”-Ray Roig

New Mexico: In Farmington, after five years the SNS Skate Shop shutting down when the inventory is gone: “The year’s been very slow for everyone that I’ve talked to. I just decided that it was time to pack up.”-Daniel Diswood, owner

Ohio: Forrester’s on the River shutdown after a quagmire of lost business and legal battles.   Railroad operator Norfolk Southern shutting down one of its coal docks, blaming crashing demand for coal, 30 jobs lost as soon as the coal is gotten rid of.

Pennsylvania:  After 43 years of feeding hundreds of hungry families every week the Chester County Food Kitchen shutdown.  The operators blame crashing donations and skyrocketing costs of operation.

Texas: In Fort Worth, after 25 years Shelton’s Barber Shop shutdown.

Virginia: In Fredericksburg, after 11 years Hop & Wine shutting down in January 2016.  The owner blamed many factors including state booze laws.

Wisconsin: Chieftain Sand & Proppant Barron revealed it laid off 63 people.  It’s connected to the oil industry’s fracking operations.

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 screws over firefighters! Scott Walker reigns supreme as layoff king! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 21 – 22 December 2015

Alaska:  Snow Goose Restaurant and Sleeping Lady Brewery shutting down after being sold to a competitor.

California: In Laguna Woods, the Albertsons-Safeway owned Vons grocery store shutting down in January 2016, officially blaming the greedy landlord.  ITT issued a shutdown WARN for its Perris office, at least 18 jobs lost by February 2016. In Bakersfield, C&J Well Service issued a layoff WARN, 161 people jobless by February 2016! KVS Transportation issued a layoff WARN, 111 people jobless by February 2016! In Foothill Ranch, clothier The Wet Seal laying off 20 employees by February 2016.  In Santa Clara, Marvell Semiconductor eliminating 13 jobs by February 2016.  In San Mateo, Sony Mobile eliminating 80 jobs in February 2016.  Medical vascular care company Abbott Vascular shutdown their Redwood City ops, 144 people now jobless!   In Sonoma, El Darado Hotel & Kitchen issued a shutdown WARN, 113 employees will become unemployed in February 2016!   Sun Edison eliminating 20 jobs by February 2016.

Connecticut:  In Wallingford, after 25 years Furniture Solutions shutting down after Xmas, blaming radically changing buying trends.

Idaho:  Avista Utilities jacking up both electricity and natural gas rates for its Gem State customers.  The increase was approved by the evil Idaho Public Utilities Commission.  It’s been revealed that the incompetent Idaho ‘lawmakers’ spent $715-thousand of your tax dollars fighting legal cases to prevent ‘gay marriage’!  Guess what, don’t fight a fire if you’re expecting to be paid by the state! It’s been revealed that The Gem State lawmakers do not normally pay firefighters hired at the last minute to fight wildfires! This year state ‘lawmakers’ have agreed to pay last minute local fire fighting hirees 65% of what is considered “standard rate” for contracted firefighters!  The rip off artist known as Your Health Idaho ObamaCare enforcer is being cut loose from federal funding. For 2016 Your Health Idaho is expected to fund itself, which guarantees rates will go up.  And for more proof Idaho lawmaker’s version of ObamaCare is evil: “Students and their families are also facing steep increases in prices for policies offered on the state exchange, with average prices for a minimal coverage ‘bronze’ plan exceeding $200 per month.”-from staff report recently presented to Idaho Board of Education

Illinois: In Chicago, the 25 years old event center Redmoon Theater shutdown without warning saying “There is no funding model for this civic and social artistic vision…..” 

Massachusetts:  Brockton based office furniture supplier W.B. Mason laying off 2-hundred people right before Xmas!  Administrators admitted it was the result of their takeover of 13 competitors!

New Jersey:  After 140 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Kirby Bros animal feed and supply store shutting down after Xmas.  The owners blame ‘Global Warming’ saying the warmer weather allows farmers to graze their livestock longer, obviating the need for feed.  Japan based drugs pusher Daiichi Sankyo issued a WARN saying 24 people will be laid off in February 2016.

New York:  In New Dorp, a 16 years old Wendy’s burger joint shutdown without warning.  News reports say employees were telling customers the greedy landlord would not agree to a new affordable lease.  NRG Energy issued a shutdown WARN for their Huntley Generating Station, 72 jobs lost by June 2016.  Switzerland based Credit Suisse Securities issued a mass layoff WARN for their NYC employees, 307 jobs affected by March 2016!

North Carolina:  Legal software company LexisNexis is eliminating at least 2-hundred jobs over the next five years!  How many of those job losses will take place in North Carolina is important because in 2012 state ‘lawmakers’ gave LexisNexis $9-million USD in tax breaks in exchange for creating 350 new jobs by 2017.

Ohio: Lakewood Hospital being shutdown in favor of a smaller clinic operation.

Pennsylvania: The GAP and GAP Kids shutting down their Palmer Park Mall clothing stores in January 2016.  In Montgomery, Conair issued a WARN saying 44 people will become jobless by the end of February 2016. What automotive industry recovery?  In Lehigh, Westport Axle issued a WARN saying 50 people will be laid off by February 2016.  In Lackawanna, Master Halco issued a WARN saying 50 people to become unemployed in February 2016.

South Carolina: In Simpsonville, JB’s Barbeque forced to shutdown due to the owner’s head injuries.

Texas:  In Atascocita, after 24 years Gifts & Silver shutting down in January 2016.

Washington: What construction industry recovery?  Omak Wood Products issued a shutdown WARN, 184 employees unemployed in February 2016!   Hoquiam Plywood Products issued a layoff WARN, 90 people jobless in February 2016.

West Virginia: In Charleston, after 51 years the Fas-Chek grocery store shutdown, blaming competition.

Wisconsin:  Manitowoc Cranes shutting down its Port Washington operations, 80 jobs lost by August 2016.  2015 is on its way to being the biggest year for layoffs under Right to Work you over govna Scott Walker’s reign of terror, more than 12-thousand jobs lost, and that’s going just by the official WARNs!

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.”

Fukushima, Idaho

Idaho National Lab kills 471 Idahoans!

14 December 2015 (01:41 UTC-07 Tango 01)/23 Azar 1394/02 Rabi’a’-Awwal 1437/04 Wu Zi (11th month) 4713

“My dad’s dying wish was don’t let them get away with this and don’t ever work out there.”–Steve Bailey, son of INL worker who died of radiation

Days after news source McClatchy and the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute revealed the U.S. nuclear industry has killed off at least 33-thousand 480 nuclear employees, the data wrested from the hands of the U.S. Department of Labor shows at least 471 Idahoans were killed by radiation they were exposed to at the Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne West.

That number is just for those families the federal government compensated,  it’s just 37% of all Idaho families who filed a claim for the death of a relative who died from possible radiation contamination!

INL admits “nobody really knows what’s going on.”

Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigating a company called International Isotopes after an employee was sent to an Idaho Falls hospital for being exposed to more than a year’s worth of radiation.

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has been accused of contributing to the WIPP disaster. 

Whistleblower reveals INL violates its own rules!

France & Idaho connection to Fukushima & WIPP!

Idaho INL Official statements ominously similar to statements made by Japanese Nuclear Officials 

Idaho National Laboratory sending Radiation Robots to Japan

INL Nuclear Jet Engines, EBR-1, and Lead-lined Train

Business/Economics, Idaho

“It’s going to be devastating…” Federal court rules Idaho hospital illegal! “I hate to close….but what can you do?” : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 11 December 2015

Alabama:  In Tuscaloosa, after 24 years Rug Gallery shutting down, the owner said under these economic conditions “…it’s the right thing to do.”  

California:  Los Angeles based clothier Kitson shutting down all 17 stores in California, Nevada and Oregon!  Also in Los Angeles, Runway Two Five claims they’re temporarily shutting down in January 2016, 73 jobs lost.    In Costa Mesa, 3M division Ceradyne shutting down in February 2016, 65 jobs lost.  In City of Industry, Bay Valley Foods issued a shutdown WARN, 62 jobs lost in February 2016.  In Pleasanton, YP Advertising issued a layoff WARN, 68 jobs lost in February 2016.  Oil service company Brinderson revealed it eliminated 207 jobs last week!

Delaware: In Newark, after 65 years Abbott’s Shoe Repair up for sale.  The owner lamented none of his heirs wanted to learn the craft, he also joked about being a slave laborer for his father: “Back then, there were no child labor laws about a father paying his son. He could pay me whatever he wanted, and if you weren’t his son, you made a dollar an hour.”-Phil Abbott

Florida:  34 years old Miami based gun dealer Samco Global Arms now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating.  Too Big to Jail American Express issued a WARN for its Saint Petersburg insurance ops, 124 jobs lost in February 2016!

Idaho: College of Southern Idaho revealed that 30% of its student body are still in High School!  The imbecilic Idaho Board of Education realizes that it’s a sign of a ‘significant’ change in college student body demographics (you think?).  What this really shows is a mass exodus of traditional college age students from Idaho!  A federal court has ordered the sale of Saltzer Medical Group.  Corrupt Boise based Saint Luke’s Health System took over Nampa based Saltzer, but a federal judge ruled the takeover violated anti-trust laws.  Saint Luke’s has 12 months to sell-off Saltzer.   New York (get a rope!) based New Media Investment Group has taken over the Idaho Business Review.

Illinois: US Steel eliminating 2-thousand jobs as it idles its Granite City foundry after Xmas!  Administrators blame unfair competition in the global economy.  Food giant General Mills shutting down their West Chicago factory, 444 jobs lost by Summer 2016!  Gate Gourmet lost its contract with United Airlines at O’Hare International Airport, 821 jobs affected!  Black Hawk College warned it must eliminate jobs to cover a $1.5-million shortfall.

Maryland: Calvert Investments eliminating 41 jobs just so it can double its assets over the next five years.

New York:  God refuses to stop ‘his’ College of Saint Rose from laying off 23 people after Xmas.  NYC based Allure magazine warning its employees of pending layoffs. Publics New York (formerly Kaplan Thaler) warned employees of layoffs to hit right before Xmas. Administrators said they’ve had a “good year” but admitted they think the U.S. economy is only getting worse, thus the layoffs.  In Utica, Too Big to Jail Bank of America issued a WARN for its Shared Service Operations Unit, 234 jobs lost by July 2016!  Too Big to Jail Morgan Stanley issued a mass layoff WARN for all its New York locations, 358 jobs lost starting in March 2016!  Capsys issued a shutdown WARN for its
Brooklyn Navy Yard ops, 54 jobs lost in March 2016. In Batavia, the Müller Quaker Dairy shutdown and sold-off, 2-hundred people laid off!  Local news sources hope the new owner (Dairy Farmers of America) will get operations going again soon.

Pennsylvania: In Pottstown, after 94 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) The Very Best hot dogs-hamburgers-steaks  joint shutdown.  In Sharon, after 70 years the Army-Navy surplus store shutdown.  In Carmichaels, oil company Halliburton laid off 21 people.  FMC eliminating 74 jobs in Erie, administrators blame the petroleum industry.  After 20 years, Mapes Manoa Hardware shutting down by the end of January 2016: “I hate to close. It’s a nice area, nice people. I was happy, but what can you do? It’s not profitable.”-J. Raymond Benner

Utah: In Logan, Sports Authority shutting down the day before Xmas.  It’s part of the company’s plans to shutdown dozens of stores across the U.S.

Virginia:  In Bluefield, Mitt Romney co-creation Staples shutting down, mayor Don Harris bemoaned “It’s certainly going to make an impact on the whole area. It’s going to be devastating for us. Hopefully, somebody else might move in.”

Washington: In Seattle, Aramark Sports & Entertainment issued a shutdown WARN, 71 jobs lost after Xmas.

Wisconsin: Iconic Harley Davidson motorcycles laying off 250 people by the end of the month!  It’s blamed on the suck-ass economy.  Mil-3 Precision Machining being liquidated, the last of the employees were laid off in November.  Owner Rich McNett blames the suck-ass economy: “There was just no way I could even make break even anymore…It just got slower and slower and slower…”

09 -10 December 2015: “We’re leaving because we have to.” Internet company loses “90% of our revenue”! 

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.”

Idaho, International

World War 3, 11 December 2015: Mass cell phone purchases sign of attack? Idaho POW accuses U.S. of “leadership failure”! Canada investigates 1980s-2013 genocide of Native American women!

Afghanistan: The death toll from the attack on U.S. led NATO’s Kandahar air base, is now at 50.  It was revealed that only 11 Mujahideen attacked the base.  Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security has resigned citing policy differences with President Ashraf Ghani.  Mujahideen have liberated the Khanashin District of Helmand Province.  14 government forces killed , 11 wounded.  Government forces claim they killed 50 Mujahideen.

Australia: The British empire False Flaggers have arrested a 20 year old man and a 15 years old boy for being terrorists.  Australia’s Federal Police claim their evidence against the two was collected in December 2014!

Canada: British empire False Flaggers have ordered their security forces on alert after somebody claimed False Flag U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli created terrorists were going to bomb Toronto.  This comes after Canadian administrators finally agreed to investigate the genocide of thousands of Native American women, which took place from 1980 to 2013!

China: People’s Liberation Army Air Force says the U.S. deployment of spy planes to Singapore threatens peace.  The PLAAF will now spy on the U.S. spy planes.

Egypt:  In Cairo, two insurgents riding a motorcycle assassinated an undercover cop.   The policeman was not wearing a uniform, so the insurgents obviously discovered he was a cop.  To prove the current Egyptian government is a puppet regime, they released a convicted Israeli-Arab spy from prison.

Finland:  Police arrested two Iraqis and accused them of being members of False Flag U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli created Islamic State-ISIS-ISIL-DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]), and of killing 11 Iraqi civilians in 2014.

Iraq:  U.S. NATO member Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan is refusing to comply with Iraq’s demands to vacate the premises. As a result Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has ordered “no mercy” to any country that violates Iraq’s sovereignty.   A Iraqi Kurd won $6.4-million USD in the Powerball Megabucks lottery in the U.S.  He bought the ticket, legally, from the state of Oregon through the internet.

Japan: The neo-imperialist government accuses China of sending two warships into Japanese water around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.  China claims the islands.  Tokyo police claim the ‘terrorist’ who blew up a public toilet (at the evil Yasukuni Shrine) is a Korean, based on DNA testing.  The Yasukuni Shrine honors Japan’s convicted war criminals, as far as I know no other country has a shrine that honors convicted war criminals (so who’s the real terrorists?).

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: The U.S. ally is approaching a new record for number of people executed.  So far in the Gregorian year 2015, 151 people have had their heads chopped off, many were not even Arabs!  The majority were accused of being drug smugglers, because the drug smuggling Saudi princes don’t like competition.  In 1995 KSA executed a record 192 people!

Kaesong Joint Industrial Zone

Korea:  Republic of Korea (RoK) arrested a labor leader on charges of illegal public demonstrations.  The U.S. ally RoK is under martial law, since the 1970s.  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) revealed they now have Hydrogen bombs. The DPRK is demanding a full blown peace treaty to replace the 1950s cease fire, so far the United States refuses, but today the DPRK and Republic of Korea (RoK) began talking peace at the Kaesong Joint Industrial Zone on the DPRK side of the border.  These peace talks come as dip-noodle U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power stated that the U.S. and Japan will work together against DPRK.

Lebanese forces near the town of Arsal, in their ongoing battles with U.S. backed Nusra Front

Lebanon: Lebanese Resistance Forces Hezbollah reports killing nine False Flag U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli created Nusra Front insurgents near the town of Arsal.

Palestine:  U.S. taxpayers are funding a new Israeli anti-ballistic missile system called Arrow 3.  Israel claims they conducted a successful launch today, the missile is jointly developed by IAI and Boeing.   A known Israeli terrorist, and his wife, were hit by bullets from a drive by shooter.  The member of the Jewish Underground, along with his wife, were only wounded.  Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian in al-Khalil.   Israel’s National Insurance Institute has revealed their Zionist system is a failure; 1.7-million Jews, or 22% of their population, are poverty stricken due to austerity measures!

Switzerland: The once secure, and neutral, country where every adult male is required by law to have a machine gun in their house (unless they claim pacifism) is now pissing themselves over claims that False Flag U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli created terrorists are going to bomb their precious cities.

Syria: Syrian Arab Army liberated the towns of al-Hamra and Zeitan from the control of the False Flag U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli created Nusra Front.  At least 50 insurgents killed.  More than 20 “strategic” locations in Latakia Governorate liberated.  More than 150 insurgents killed in Hama Governorate.  In Daraa Governorate, Syria Arab Army liberated 14 city blocks of al-Balad, and eight blocks of al-Mahata.   U.S. led NATO backed insurgents continue to retreat into Turkey.  Kurdish and Arab allies formed the new political party Syrian Democratic Council and the militia Syrian Democratic Forces.  In Hasaka Governorate, Social Affairs began distributing 40-thousand pieces of winter clothing thanks to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), as well as 1,800 food items and 17-thousand non-food items.

http://twitter.com/R_D_Kurdistan/status/675038052243398657/photo/1

According to initial reports at least 15 people killed in Tal Tamer (Til Temir) town after U.S. NATO backed DAIISH insurgents blew up three truck bombs.  Russian news reports say 60 people were killed and more than 80 wounded, and that in typical U.S.-Israeli style the truck bombers targeted a hospital.

Video of Kurdish YPG (male) and YPJ (female) forces repelling attacks by False Flag U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli created Islamic State-ISIS-ISIL-DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]) :

The Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava is condemning the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for banning them from taking part in the so called Riyadh Syria Peace Talks.  Iran has revealed that KSA is allowing DAIISH and other ‘western’ insurgent groups to attend the so called peace talks.  It was discovered when one of the insurgent groups, Ahrar al-Sham, walked out of the meeting in protest.  The Riyadh Syria Peace Talks are preliminary to UN brokered talks sometime in January 2016.

Tunisia:  This North African country won yet another Nobel Peace Prize (this time awarded by the Royal Family of Norway themselves) despite the fact that it’s been revealed that more than 7-hundred Tunisian women are members of False Flag U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli created Islamic State-ISIS-ISIL-DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]).

Turkey: Fellow NATO member Germany began landing their Tornado recon planes in Turkey, along with other support planes and even ships in the Mediterranean Sea.

Ukraine/Novorossia:  The Washington DC based International Monetary Fund (IMF) violated its own rules about debt repayment, they made special changes for the financially broke U.S. Nato backed Ukrainian puppet government.  Russia will counter by taking legal actions that could cost the IMF a lot of money.  The United Nations estimates that 9-thousand people have been killed since the U.S.-EU-NATO instigated ‘revolution’ began in April 2014.

United Kingdom: British empire cops in London say they shot and killed a man during an “intelligence” operation.  Initially they said they wounded him.

United States of America:  The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was forced to shutdown their Washington DC office after getting a letter containing white powder.  It also read  “Die a painful death, Muslims!”  Idahoan Bowe Bergahl broke his silence years after being released by Mujahideen in Afghanistan.  He stated unequivocally that he left his U.S. Army post to protest “leadership failure” within the U.S. military! A former Oklahoma cop was found guilty on 18 counts of raping women.  The wimp-ass officer began crying hysterically when the verdicts were read, he could face life in prison (then he’ll know what rape is).  In Arkansas, police say a man showed up at Arkansas State University with a shotgun, gasoline and propane (LPG).  He apparently warned of his planned attacked on facebook. In New Jersey, police locked down a transit bus after a “suspicious” package was found. Witnesses say police took a suitcase from the bus, no other info.  In California, protesters are demanding the San Francisco police boss resign after a man was killed by fat-ass cops who shot him 26 times!  In Missouri, the Sparta police boss resigned after shooting a caged dog!  He admitted he killed the dog because he didn’t want to babysit it, and instead wanted to respond to a car crash!   Also in Missouri, state police are investigating the mass purchase of cell phones, saying 150 cell phones were bought at three Walmarts by the same men using cash only.  Also, and possibly connected to what happened in Arkansas, as many as three dozen propane tanks were stolen. It’s been revealed that propane tanks have been reported stolen starting at the beginning of November.   In New York, the former Suffolk County police chief was arrested on charges of assaulting a detainee and then ordering his personnel to cover it up.  In Boston Weak, Northeastern University Police Department will now issue M4 assault rifles to campus cops.   The New England Police Benevolent Association now endorses Donald Trump for president because of Trump’s anti-Muslim comments.   The Louisiana Attorney General has released damning evidence against two cops accused of killing an unarmed man and his six years old son: “The body camera video is approximately 13 minutes and 47 seconds long. At approximately 26 seconds into the video, the driver, Christopher Few’s empty hands are raised and visible when gunfire becomes audible…”-released documents

U.S. Boeing built KSA operated F-15 Strike Eagles

Yemen: Amnesty International accuses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) of intentionally bombing children: “In some of the attacks….the schools were struck more than once, suggesting the strikes were deliberately targeted.”  Yemen news sources report multiple KSA airstrikes today.  In Hamdan District, Saudis bombed a communications tower.  In Dahmar Province, a Saudi plane bombed a house, then after paramedics arrived they bombed it again, four people killed, 12 wounded.  In Taiz Province, Yemeni forces killed 11 U.S. Academi (Xe, Blackwater) mercenaries.   In Sana’a City, a kamikaze bomber blew himself up, apparently he was the only victim.

CNN straight up lies about Arab nations not fighting Islamic State! 

Business/Economics, Idaho

“We’re leaving because we have to.” Internet company loses “90% of our revenue”! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 09 – 10 December 2015

According to industry analyst Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 2015 will be the worst year for mass layoffs since 2009!  They blame the petroleum industry.

Arizona: American Meat Company shutting down their 62 years old Tucson store after Xmas.  Administrators blamed a “combination” of issues.  Sierrita Mining shutting down in 2016. Conflicting news reports say between 450 and 1-thousand jobs lost! They blame crashing and burning copper prices, but hope there’s a price rebound by 2018.

California:  More proof you Brick-n-Mortar ops can’t blame the internet for your problems; it’s been revealed that Palo Alto based internet advertising company PubMatic eliminated 150 jobs since October! Administrators blame crashing ad sales, in fact they admitted they lost “90% of our revenue”!    More mass layoffs for San Jose based networking computer maker Cisco.  An unnamed inside source revealed to FierceEnterpriseCommunications that Cisco laid off an additional 120 people last week!  In El Paseo, after 30 years DeLuca Jewelers shutdown due to the death of both owners in 2014.  None of the heirs thought it was worth it to continue the business.

Florida:  In Gainesville, Swift Cycle shutting down on Xmas Eve.  The owner said he’s moving out west, hoping to work in the residential construction industry.

Georgia: In Jonesboro, after 68 years Dean’s Barbeque shutting down after Xmas due to skyrocketing pig meat prices and a family feud.  In Columbus, after 20 years a Hallmark gift store shutting down as soon as everything is sold.

Idaho: Kevin Settles, the owner of three successful Bardenay restaurant and distillery operations, decided to exodus The Gem State with his fourth op.  Why? “I would like to operate in a state that doesn’t have a state control system. I have three licenses in three areas and even then it isn’t a stable investment. There is always the chance you lose it to a violation and then who knows when you will get another.”  Gee, and our exalted ‘conservative’ republican ‘lawmakers’ have always led us to believe they’re against such state controls.  Settles is moving to Colorado.  In Ammon, the optimistic city leaders went running to the local news media with “the biggest booming” business news ever!  They’re getting a Kneaders cafe, Popeyes chicken (there’s already at least one nearby in next door Idaho Falls) and a  Rita’s Custard and Ice.  Yep, the same ol same ol, service sector jobs that are totally reliant on manufacturing sector jobs, which they don’t got.

Illinois: Hagel Metal Fabrication shutdown last week, without warning, 80 jobs lost.  No explanation was given, state regulators investigating.

Indiana: In Bloomington, after 12 years award winning Restaurant Tallent shutting down, the owner wants more time with his family.  Clothier Gap shutting down their Eastland Mall store in January 2016.   In the Circle Centre Mall, Gap and GapKids shutting down in January.  Also, the American Greetings gift store shutting down, no date given.

Maine: Clothier Gap shutting down their Maine Mall store in January 2016.

Missouri:  God refuses to stop ‘his’ Evangel University from using attrition to eliminate 44 jobs by next school year.  33 faculty and staff have already been forced into early retirement.

New York:  Evil Switzerland based drugs pusher Novartis issues a 7th phase shutdown WARN for its Suffern factory.  The final 60 employees to be laid off between March and September 2016.    Briarcliffe College issued a shutdown WARN, 294 jobs lost by December 2018!  What real estate industry recovery? In NYC, RCS Capital (Realty Capital Securities) issued a shutdown WARN, 79 jobs lost by March 2016.

North Carolina:  College apartment complex operator Campus Crest shutting down their HQ and eliminating 70 jobs by February 2016. Campus Crest is being sold-off.   In Weaverville, Arvato Digital services shutting down their 32 years old CD-DVD ops, 120 jobs lost!  Administrators said “We still have customers, but not enough….”

North Dakota:  Despite selling-off its oil operations, MDU Resources says it must continue to cut costs, including eliminating a total of 24 jobs.  They warned of more layoffs after January 2016.  In Fargo, Abode Decor & Gift shutting down after Xmas.  News reports made it sound like they were being kicked out in favor of a business that’s willing to pay more rent.

Ohio: What automotive industry recovery? After announcing the end of 734 jobs in Virginia, Volvo Trucks to eliminate about 3-hundred jobs when it shuts down its parts warehouse near Lewis Center!  The plant shutdown was planned back in 2013, but won’t be completed until March 2016.

Pennsylvania: Univest, “growing company with deep ties to its local communities”, has admitted that jobs will be lost once they’ve completed selling their soul to Fox Chase Bancorp.

Vermont: Pottery Barn shutting down its Burlington Town Center store, in January 2016.  Administrators would only say “A number of factors…” forced them to shutdown.

Virginia:  Gas company Range Resources laying off 55 employees, and revealed it is in the process of selling-off its assets.  Paisley Gifts shutdown: “Our lease is up in January and right now we don’t have a place that’s a good fit for our business to go to. We’re not leaving here because of a negative response…. We’re leaving because we have to.”-Cheryl Paisley

Wisconsin:  Gas company Chart Industries eliminating 105 jobs at its La Crosse operations, after Xmas!

07 -08 December 2015: God bankrupt! Charities forcing taxpayers to ‘donate’! ObamaCare fails to rape-in the profits!

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.”

Idaho

United Police States: Idaho news media lie about criminal police records!

09 December 2015 (00:00 UTC-07 Tango 01)/18 Azar 1394/26 Safar 1437/28 Wu Zi 4713

Just days ago Idaho mainstream news media reported that no Gem State cop has been charged with killing a civilian, in the past 16 years.  Wrong!

At least two cops were charged with killing people in 2011.  What’s amazing is that the mainstreamer news reported those charges when they first happened, but apparently totally forgot about them when they published their recent story praising local cops for not killing anybody!  (the Idaho Statesman blames their new database system)

But here’s some interesting info, those two cops are actually federal Native American Reservation cops.  A judge threw out charges against one of the Reservation cops and the other cop was acquitted of lying to the FBI by a jury.

Over the past decade there have been dozens of cop shootings of civilians in Idaho, however in most cases it was obvious the cop was justified.  But that doesn’t excuse mainstream news sources in The Gem State for lying about such things!

2 Idaho prisoners die in 1 day! Evil Mormon MTC & drugs involved?

Business/Economics, Idaho

God bankrupt! Charities forcing taxpayers to ‘donate’! ObamaCare fails to rape-in the profits! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 07 – 08 December 2015

California: El Segundo based children’s computer tablet maker Fuhu now bankrupt busted and being sold-off to rival Mattel.

Florida:  Fast food chain Bojangles shutdown all eight Sunshine State locations!  Local news reports say the franchise owner suddenly ‘bailed’!  In West Palm Beach, non-profit Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League Thrift Store shutting down because next door construction is consuming the only parking lot!  In Miami, PCH Communications (formerly Commonground/MGS) laid off at least 62 employees without warning.  The Illinois based company was forced to shutdown by “…Circumstances beyond the agency’s control, namely the adversarial relationship between the holding company, PCH Communications, and their lender Fifth Third Bank have caused this major disruption. The entire agency was completely surprised by the bank’s actions.”

Idaho:  Some good news that’s actually bad news; Corporation for National and Community Service ranks Idaho in 2nd place in the country for volunteerism.  Why is that bad?  Because it’s a freakin’ sign of how many people are suffering you Gem State rock heads! 68% of Idahoans help their struggling neighbors through ‘informal volunteering’!   (Blind Bat News is brought to you by such informal charity by a tiny number of Idahoans, because Blind Bat News makes no money from advertising, and nobody wants to use the ‘donate’ button for some reason. If you guys donate maybe Blind Bat News could become a real threat to mainstreamer news sources.)

Illinois: Rock Valley College eliminating 30 jobs due to the failed state ‘lawmakers’ failing to come up with a budget.  In Quincy, after 12 years Roly Poly sandwich shop shutting down after Xmas, no reason given.

Iowa: Insurance company Transamerica warned of mass layoffs in 2016.  It’s part of their ongoing consolidation operations.  They’ve already consolidated 14 division into two, eventually there will be only one!

Michigan:  Health insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield warned of massive layoffs across the state.  The insurance industry created ObamaCare is failing to rape-in the profits because smart and healthy ‘Mericans who don’t need health insurance know it’s a fucking ripoff and are protesting with their wallets by refusing to sign up!  Blue Cross Blue Shield says as a result they must cut $300-million USD in Michigan jobs by 2018! 

Minnesota: The Christian God is weaker than the God known as Money as the Catholic Diocese of Duluth now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Of course it doesn’t help that its godly priests were caught raping children!!!  The Christian God must now fork over $8.4-million USD to settle sex crimes lawsuits, and of course that money is actually coming from the stupid blind faith sheeple of the wolf in sheep’s clothing church.

Montana: After 62 years Hi Line Cleaners in Chester shutdown.

New York: Too Big to Jail Morgan Stanley killing at least 1-thousand 2-hundred jobs in 2016!  Also in NYC, ancient internet company AOL eliminated 1-hundred jobs due to its takeover of evil cell phone company Verizon!  Reports say more AOL-Verizon layoffs are in the works.  PCH Communications (formerly Commonground/MGS) laid off at least 28 employees without warning.  The Illinois based company was forced to shutdown by “…Circumstances beyond the agency’s control, namely the adversarial relationship between the holding company, PCH Communications, and their lender Fifth Third Bank have caused this major disruption. The entire agency was completely surprised by the bank’s actions.”

North Carolina:  Philips shutting down their Henderson light bulb factory, 50 jobs lost by September 2016. Local news reports say it’ll be the second Philips factory to be shutdown in North Carolina.

Ohio: In Columbus, after 28 years the Wall Street Nightclub shutting down after Xmas, blaming “Financial stress from declining business and deteriorating building conditions were compounded by the loss of parking with condo development in the neighborhood and the loss of third party production companies.”

Pennsylvania: Another false ‘charity’ in money trouble, Easter Seals laid off 22 HQ employees because the state ‘lawmakers’ failed yet again to come up with a taxpayer funded budget.  A true charity doesn’t rely on forcing taxpayers to ‘donate’ by asking ‘lawmakers’ to rape taxpayer funding!  In Richland Township, Concurrent Technologies laying off 30 people after Xmas.  Company administrators say it’s the only way they can stay “competitive” in this suck-ass global economy.

Tennessee:  An eight years old tax-sucking company with an evil sounding name that might possibly be involved in smuggling Afghan heroin, Vanquish Worldwide, eliminated ten administrative jobs. They blame the loss of a major government contract (U.S. Central Command’s National Afghan Trucking [NAT] logistical support contract, now you see the heroin trafficking connection).  Vanquish administrators admitted they were billing U.S. taxpayers $25-million USD every year for their Afghan trucking ops: “This is part of the government contracting process…..especially with large contracts and NAT is the largest ever in Afghanistan….!”-Dawn White, marketing manager

In Nashville, after 19 years Noshville Delicatessen shutting down after Hanukkah. The entire city block has been taken over by an evil property developer.

Washington:  Seattle Weekly laid off six people.  Because of the suck-ass economy they’re contracting out (freelancing) their jobs.

West Virginia: In Morgantown, after 20 years Jane V. Jewelers shutting down after Xmas.

Wisconsin:  The Gap clothing store in the Fox  River Mall shutting down in January 2016.  After 55 years Edwardo’s Ristorante di Pizza shutdown, when asked why he gave no explanation the owner would only say “I didn’t want to discuss night after night why we were closing.” 

05 -06 December 2015: “…sales are down to 2005 levels…costs are at 2015 levels.” 

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.”

Idaho

United Police States: 2 Idaho prisoners die in 1 day! Evil Mormon MTC involved?

07 December 2015 (08:20 UTC-07 Tango 01)/16 Azar 1394/24 Safar 1437/26 Wu Zi 4713

Two people being held in two Idaho jails died on the same day, one at the Bonneville County Jail in Idaho Falls, the other at the Correctional Alternative Placement Program facility near Boise.  There is a connection; both of the ‘victims’ are from Bingham County.

On 05 December, guards at Bonneville County Jail claim they found an 18 years old murder suspect dead in the cell.  He had been in the county jail since August, waiting for his murder trial (so much for speedy trial as the Constitution dictates).  County prison administrators claim they’re investigating the cause of death.

On 29 November, guards at the Correctional Alternative Placement Program claim a 47 years old prisoner went into seizure after taking an overdose of prescription drugs.   He died in hospital on 05 December.  What the hell are prisoners doing being allowed to control their own medication?  Here’s a clue; the Correctional Alternative Placement Program is run by the proven to be evil (or at least incompetent) Mormon owned Management & Training Corporation!  The Idaho Department of Corrections claim they will investigate the MTC related death.

Evil Mormon MTC kicked out of Washington?

‘Christian’ Mormon MTC behind privately run concentration camp in Mississippi? Same company behind Abu Ghraib?