Category Archives: Idaho

Business/Economics, Idaho

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 16 January 2014. God can’t stop the oldest monastery in the U.S. from shutting down! Proof the economy sucks; major Employment Company Outsources its own jobs! Yes, ObamaCare continues killing hospitals!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

 United Continental airlines killing 685 airline jobs!  It’s the result of the merger of United, and Continental.

California:  Santa Ana based Freedom Communications laid off 39 The Press-Enterprise employees.  Last month 42 employees were fired.  In Seal Beach, Dendreon laid off 62 employees.  In San Francisco,  British empire based U.S. taxsucker BAE laid off 200 people!  In Irvine, Tracfone Wireless laid off seven employees.

Idaho:  In Garden City, after 54 years The Stagecoach Inn shutdown. The owners blame “not enough business” for their failure to pay taxes and the loss of their booze license.

Kansas:  In Topeka, after 34 years the vintage store J.E.Dickerson’s shutdown.   In Delano, after 27 years the Central Plains Novelty store shutdown.

Massachusetts: In the land of Romney Care (the precursor of Obama Care) the Marlborough Hospital laid off ten employees and cut working hours for 31 others.   Hospital officials admitted they “cannot continue to maintain financial sustainability” in the face of the worsening economy and government funding cuts.  Ellen Carlucci, vice president of development, marketing and communications, added that Obama Care is “…taking place throughout the commonwealth and throughout the country in terms of hospitals needing to initiate cost reduction strategies.”  UMass Memorial Medical Center killed 99 jobs.   Back in December the hospital laid off 40 employees.  This round of layoffs were revealed when local news media were tipped off, in other words the UMass hospital tried to keep the layoffs secret.  UMass hospital officials used the same excuse as other hospitals around the country, Obama Care is causing “ongoing restructuring” of the health care system.

Michigan:  In Troy, Too Big to Jail Flagstar Bancorp laid off 600 people!  Company officials say they need to save $40-million USD!

Nevada: In Reno, after 55 years Maytan Music Center shutdown: “The downturn in the economy, combined with increased competition, has dramatically changed the marketplace.”-Marianne Maytan

New Hampshire:  In New Hampton, SC Johnson announced it will close its Soy Basics candle factory in July.  60 jobs lost.

New York:  In Queens (NYC), after 66 years the Joe Abbracciamento’s Restaurant and Catering shutdown.  In NYC, TGI Friday’s restaurant will shutdown in April, 73 jobs lost.  Alcoa will permanently shutdown the two remaining aluminum potlines at its Massena East factory.  332 jobs affected!  In Far Rockaway, Bridge Leather shutdown, 81 jobs lost.

Pennsylvania:  In Saint Mary’s, after 161 years the Saint Joseph Monastery shutdown.  As a result the nuns had to find new homes of their own!  One blind faith nun blamed (credited?) the bad economy on her God: “Just as God calls a group of people into ministry, I think there’s a time when God says you have completed your ministry and it’s time to move on.”-Sister Rita Brink

Tennessee:  What automotive industry recovery?  Custom Transmission company Keisler Engineering now chapter 7 busted.  Company officials blame competitors for spreading rumors that the company was shutting down, but yet at the same time they confirmed the company is shutting down: “The order cancellations created a cash flow problem for KE, and placed new customer orders at risk. I took the initiative to refund all new order deposits going back to Thursday January 9 2014 once I realized the company was at risk of closure…”-Shafi Keisler

Virginia:  In Newport News, taxsucker Jefferson Laboratory laid off 46 employees. It’s blamed on funding cuts for the nuclear research facility.

Wisconsin:  Manpower laid off 100 IT employees.  One of the world’s biggest privately run employment service, Manpower is trying to save money by outsourcing its own jobs!  God can’t stop the 60 years old Holy Name Retreat House from shutting down.  Church officials blame it on declining use by church members and rising costs of operations.

15 January 2014: U.S. layoffs now blamed on Russia? 

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

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

Business/Economics, Idaho

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 10-12 January 2014. God can’t stop ObamaCare layoffs! Spy ballon layoffs! More government action killing local businesses! More refinery shutdowns!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Retail giant, Target, announced it will shutdown eight stores in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada and Tennessee.

Turbo engineering company, Concepts NREC, laid off nine employees across several New England states.

Alabama: Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital shutdown its labor and delivery unit, directly blaming Obama Care: “There’s a lot of good people that will lose their job due to no fault of their own……On a national level, we are dealing with the biggest change in the healthcare business since the implementation of Medicare in the 1960s!”-Mike Marshall, CEO

Arizona: In Scottsdale, the owner of the Searsucker restaurant decided to shut it down, with no warning.

Arkansas:  Marketing data collections and management company, Acxiom, laid off 50 employees throughout their operations.  The company is restructuring.  In Clarksville, the Hardwicke Funeral Home shutdown, because the owner died (no joke).

California:  Sutter Health Alta Bates Medical Center continued with its drastic Obama Care layoffs.  This time 120 health care workers lost their jobs in Berkeley and Oakland!  In South gate, Brookshire Tool laid off 90 employees.  In Ontario, Covidien Distribution laid off nine employees.  In Adelanto, Maork laid off 16 employees.  In San Bernardino, Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo laid off nine employees.  In San Diego, the owner of the Gaberdine restaurant decided to shut it down, with no warning.  In San Louis Opisbo,  the quirky store Kwirkworld shutdown.  The manager blamed the suck ass economy and the landlord: “We’re not making the money we used to make, and the rents are really high here.”-Pete Ray

Florida: In Brandon, the Babies “R” Us store shutdown.

Idaho:  In Boise, the Saint Luke’s affiliated non-profit Elk’s Rehab Hospital laid off “…less than 20 positions, all licensed practical nurses within the inpatient unit…” in an effort to adjust to reduced funding caused by Obama Care.   Elk’s Rehab Hospital began in 1947 to help victims of polio.

Illinois: In DeKalb, U.S. tax sucker GE (General Electric) warned it will be shutting down the factory by 2015, 94 jobs lost.

Indiana:   The German owned U.S. tax sucking British Rolls Royce killing 400 jobs in Indianapolis!  Company officials blame decreased U.S. military spending.

Iowa: In Marengo, Quad Graphics shutting down its printing presses. 138 jobs lost!  It’s blamed on a merger.

Kentucky: The Newport Kmart shutting down in April, 81 jobs lost!

Maryland:  U.S. tax sucker spy ballon maker, TCOM, laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  It’s blamed on decreased U.S. military spending.  In Annapolis, clothing store Chico’s shutdown.

Massachusetts:  In Malden, a Stop&Shop grocery store shutdown.  Basically company officials don’t think the suck ass economy can support all their stores.

Michigan: What automotive market recovery?  Five Suski’s used car lots across two counties shutdown!

Minnesota: The Elmore Academy and the Wildcat Cafe shutdown to assess “the programmatic needs”.  In Pine Island, Pine Cheese Mart shutdown after 44 years in business.   It’s blamed on local government planners who, in 2013, decided to implement new road construction that actually made it more difficult for customers to get to the shop!

Mississippi: In Ocean Springs, reports say the Salamundi Gifts store shutdown.

Nevada:  In Reno, after 41 years Reno Mountain Sports shutdown.  A co-owner told local TV news because of the suck ass economy the end came sooner than they expected.

New Mexico: In Santa Fe, after 28 years electronics store Baillio’s shutdown.  Company officials blamed the suck ass economy: “Due to current economic conditions we regretfully announce that the time has come to close Baillio’s Santa Fe and liquidate our entire Santa Fe inventory.”

New York:  The Schenectady City School District chief, Larry Spring, warned “We’re going to have staff layoffs, we’re going to have program cuts, absolutely.”  The District is short $10-million USD!  Employees were also laid off last school year.  In Olean, Advanced Monolythic Ceramics shutdown, 65 jobs lost.  In Long Island, fashion designer Carlisle Etcetera shutting down by June, 63 jobs lost.

Ohio: In Cleveland, the Blind Pig restaurant shutdown.  Management refused to say why, but the co-owner of another restaurant blamed the suck ass economy: “People just aren’t coming to the Warehouse District in the numbers you used to have. You don’t see 5,000 people on a Friday or a Saturday and New Year’s Eve was a disaster down there because everyone was at Public Square. Places are struggling and it’s a shame to see a longtime place like the Blind Pig close.”-Hank LoConti

Pennsylvania: In West Chester live entertainment joint, The Note, shutdown.  The owner said he needed a break.

South Carolina: In Columbia, the Sears will close in April, 97 jobs lost.

South Dakota: After 74 years, nonprofit South Dakota CARES (aka South Dakota Society for Crippled Children) shutdown.  It’s blamed on lack of funding: “We stuck it out for as long as we could as a non-profit. We served a lot of great people and made a lot of amazing memories.”-Chad Miner-Ratigan

Tennessee: In Ooltewah, the Southern Burger Company shutdown.

Texas: In Sherman, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital-WNJ laid off 18 employees.  In Round Rock, Dell computers announced it will kill 20% of its U.S. jobs, along with 30% of its global workforce.  The suck ass economy has killed Dell sales for seven straight quarters!

Washington: In Bellingham, France based Zodiac Aerospace laid off an undisclosed amount of employees.  It’s blamed on a sudden decrease in orders for airliner interior upgrades.

Wyoming: In Rock Springs, oil giant Chevron shutting down their natural gas plant.  Chevron bought out the original owners in 2008.  Chevron officials say they are not happy with the natural gas refinery.

08-09 January 2014. More massive grocery store shutdowns!

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

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

Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Unexplained & increasing Idaho earthquakes caused by Fracking?

18 April 2014 (22:27 UTC-07 Tango 17 April 2014)/17 Jumada t-Tania 1435/29 Farvardin 1393/19 Wu-Chen 4712

For the past month the area around Challis, Idaho, has been hit with hundreds of earthquakes ranging from 2 to 4.9 magnitude, three happened within 40 minutes of each other, this is not normal.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is now installing a total of five portable seismograph machines in the area.   Even the University of Utah is sending a team of scientist.

Guess what people, I think I found the cause!  Since 2011, fracking and mini-fracking has been taking place all over Idaho!

In 2012, your asshole ‘elected’ state officials not only legalized fracking but banned your local governments from banning fracking! The new law was co-written by a lobby group called the Idaho Petroleum Council.  The law also legalized the use of caustic chemicals and allowed the fracking companies to keep their poisonous mixture secret, this stuff is going to end up in your water!

The fracking companies come from as far away as Arkansas.  Oh, by the way the USGS has stated numerous times that fracking causes the very type of quakes that are now taking place in the center of the Gem State: “…the seismicity rate changes described here are almost certainly manmade…”, due to “…oil and gas production.”

Go to DrillingMaps and look at all the drilling/fracking going on in Idaho.  You should notice the Salmon/Challis area is surrounded by fracking ops.

Why don’t you people vote these assholes out of office?  Oh, that’s right a new Princeton study says that officially there is no such thing as democracy in the United States!

Here’s some other fracking reports your bought off ‘elected’ officials didn’t care about: Fighting Fracking: Where Moral Outrage Fails, Earthquakes Prevail

Ohio cracks down on fracking over earthquake worries

Oklahoma Suffering From Huge Increase in Earthquakes as Fracking Intensifies

Ohio suffering mass earthquakes

Arkansas hit by dozens of earthquakes

Fracking Causes Earthquakes-Confirmed by Gas Company

How fracking caused earthquakes in the UK

Business/Economics, Idaho

Exceptional Failed State: Sears & Kmart closings in Idaho, Pennsylvania & Delaware!

17 April 2014 (09:36 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Jumada t-Tania 1435/28 Farvardin 1393/18 Wu-Chen 4712

An east Idaho Kmart shutting down in July.  A Sears by the sea shutting down in Delaware.  A 38 years old Pennsylvania Kmart shutting down in June.

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

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

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

Delaware:  Dover Kmart (72 jobs lost), recently revealed Seaford Sears (30 jobs lost).

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

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

Connecticut:  Waterbury Big Kmart.

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

Guam:  Sears Hometown Store.

Florida: Fernandina Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Callaway Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Orange City Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost),  Deland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Stuart Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), West Palm Beach Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Port St. Lucie Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Crystal River Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), New Smyrna Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint Augustine Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Pompano Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost),  Jacksonville Kmart on 5751 Beach Boulevard (71 jobs lost), second Kmart in Jacksonville on 4645 Blanding Boulevard (83 jobs lost), Ocoee Sears (102 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on Airport Boulevard closed in 2011, Pensacola Kmart on Mobile Highway closed in February 2013 (69 jobs lost),  Pensacola Kmart on East 9 Mile Road will close in May (73 jobs lost), Hialeah Kmart (67 jobs lost), Bonita Springs Kmart (67 jobs lost), Mount Dora Kmart (100 jobs lost), Lake Mary Kmart, Panama City Beach Kmart (54 jobs lost), Winter Park Kmart (100 jobs lost), Niceville Kmart (59 jobs lost).

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

Vacant bedroom/bathroom section.

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

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), recently revealed Rexburg Kmart (63 jobs lost).  No official announcement, but it’s painfully obvious the Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down. Or, maybe it’s preps for Shop within a Shop, or one of those domestic spy data storage centers?  On 07 November 2013, GGP sold off the Pine Ridge Mall for a paltry $9 million USD.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Louisiana: Slidell Sears (77 job lost).

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

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

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

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials,  Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Flint Kmart (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears, Bad Axe Kmart (61 jobs lost),  Ypsilanti Township Kmart (83 jobs lost), Petoskey Kmart (45 jobs lost), Saint John’s Kmart (48 jobs lost), White Lake Township “Store of the Future” Kmart (42 jobs lost).

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off, Fergus Falls Kmart (40 jobs lost), Fergus Falls Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Alexandria Kmart (46 jobs lost), Grand Rapids Kmart (61 jobs lost),  Seritage is selling off three Sears Auto Centers in Minnetonka, Brooklyn Center and Saint Paul, Marshall Kmart (57 jobs lost).

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

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

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

Nebraska: Grand Island Kmart (55 jobs lost).

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

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

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

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

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

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost).

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Columbus Sears/Great Indoors, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost), Austintown Sears auto parts and service on Interstate Boulevard,  London Kmart (no word on number of jobs lost),  Trotwood Sears (67 jobs lost),  Westlake Kmart/Sears (at least 57 jobs lost),  Xenia Kmart (at least 57 jobs lost), Norwalk Kmart (52 jobs lost), Blue Ash Kmart (77 jobs lost), Northwood Sears (36 jobs lost), Conneaut Kmart (43 jobs lost).    Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

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

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

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost), Philadelphia Gallery Mall Kmart (120 jobs lost), Philadelphia Kmart on Orthodox Street and Castor Avenue (169 jobs lost),  Levittown/Middle Township Kmart (87 jobs lost), recently revealed Waynesboro Kmart (43 jobs lost).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Florida: West Oaks Mall

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

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

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

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

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

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

Business/Economics, Idaho

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 03-04 January 2014. “Economic uncertainty” rules the day! More healthcare cuts!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Alabama:  International Paper continues massive job cuts, this time in Lawrence County where up to 700 people lost their jobs!  This on top of hundreds already laid off.  The factory wants to shutdown in February, 1100 jobs lost!

Arizona: In Camp Verde, employees of the ALCO store were told they would lose their jobs by April.  At least 20 jobs lost in the shutdown.  What economic recovery?  The company lost $16.6-million USD (net) at the end of the 3rd quarter 2013!

California: Software company Intuit laid off nine people across the state. In Castaic, employees with Ralph’s grocery store notified the store is shutting down in March.  In Pittsburg, steel maker USS-POSCO warned of 690 layoffs “…due to economic uncertainty……We have had periodic layoffs for the last several years.” What housing market recovery?  Mortgage servicer CoreLogic continues to kill jobs, this time 81 jobs in Simi Valley, as well as 50 jobs in Lancaster.  In Corona, legal drugs pusher Actavis laid off 56 employees.  In Valentia, Germany based customer/financial service provider Arvato laid off three people. In San Jose, software company Cadence Design laid off 60 employees.

Florida:  In Ocala, after 35 years Abio’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria shutdown by the landlord. The greedy property owner said he’s been offered more rent by another business.

The only Middle Eastern restaurant in the Pocatello area shutdown.

The only Middle Eastern restaurant in the Pocatello area shutdown.

Property once owned by NBC affiliate KPVI channel 6 in Pocatello, quietly put up for sale.

Property once owned by NBC affiliate KPVI channel 6 in Pocatello, quietly put up for sale.

Idaho: In Pocatello, the short lived Marhaba restaurant shutdown.  The building auctioned off at the end of the month.  Property that acted as construction storage for the owners of NBC affiliate KPVI channel 6 was abandoned and put up for sale.

Maine:  Amato’s restaurants shutdown in Houlton and Presque Isle: “Its the economy, I am experiencing some health issues, and it is tough to be in two locations at once.”-Micah Desmond, co-owner

Maryland: In Aberdeen, Saks 5th Avenue shutdown, 191 jobs lost!

Michigan: In Bad Axe, Kmart announced it will shutdown in April.  61 jobs lost.

Minnesota:  In Fergus Falls, Kmart announced it will shutdown in March.  At least 40 jobs lost.

Mississippi: In Gautier, JCPenney called it quits.  Their store in the Singing River Mall to close at the end of March.

New Hampshire: Gorham Paper & Tissue killed up to 50 jobs.  Company officials blame the cost of gas: “This is a temporary move to get us through the winter, until natural gas prices come back down to their seasonal norms in the spring.”-Mike Cummings, CEO

New York:  In Medina, Baxter Healthcare laid off 91 healthcare workers.

Tennessee: In Green Hill, Nero’s Grill shutdown.

01-02 January 2014. More housing market shutdowns! 

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

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

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic decline for Idaho: Coldwater Creek now busted! All remaining stores to shutdown!

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On 11 April 2014 (and as I warned back on 11 February 2014) Idaho based women’s clothing retailer Coldwater Creek went Chapter 11, meaning it is now toast, the show is over, all stores to close down!  6-thousand jobs across the United States lost!

It’s blamed on the suck ass economy: “While we are extremely disappointed with this outcome, the company’s declining liquidity position and the challenging retail environment, together with the fact that we have exhausted all other possibilities, requires that we take this action.”-Jill Dean, CEO

More from the slow crash-n-burn of Coldwater Creek:

shuts down first store in 2014!

Coldwater Creek up for sale!

Blames it on climate change

stores to be closed, bankruptcy near

Store closings will continue!

and on and on and on…….just search BBN for Coldwater Creek.

Business/Economics, Idaho

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 26-31 December 2013. Massive shutdowns in New York! Massive fuel refinery shutdowns! Massive healthcare job cuts!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

California: What housing market recovery?  Property management company Topa laid off at least 13 employees.  Fuel refiner Philips 66 continued its refinery shutdowns, this time 222 people laid off!  School bus contractor Atlantic Express laid off 467 people!  Berkeley Heartlab laid off nine people.  RAS Medical laid off 43 employees.  In San Diego, Phil’s BBQ shutdown, 144 jobs lost!  Moondoggies laid off 52 employees.  Legal drugs pusher Optimer laid off 10 employees.  In Playa Vista, video game maker Electronic Arts (EA) laid off 59 employees.   In Thousand Oaks, biopharmaceutical company Amgen laid off 68 employees.  In Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Convention Center laid off 621 people! Delaware Hospitality laid off 42 employees.  Shoedazzle.com laid off 52 employees.  In San Francisco, Goodby Silverstein & Partners laid off 47 employees.  In Simi Valley, Avnet Integrated laid off 68 employees.  In Gardena, Chromalloy shutdown, 108 jobs lost!  In Burbank, health insurance company Kaiser Foundation laid off 31 employees.  In Irvine, Labcorp laid off six employees.  Insurance company Metlife laid off 53 employees.  Rushmore Loans shutdown, 101 jobs lost!  Suntrust Morgage laid off 89 employees.  In Sunnyvale, taxsucker Lockheed Martin laid off 70 employees.   In Loma Linda, ObamaCare killed 177 jobs with Loma Linda University Medical!  In Rosemead, Monterey Care Center laid off 100 people!  In Pacoima, Natural Balance Pet Foods laid off 92 employees.  In Vacaville, legal drugs pusher Novartis laid off 36 employees.  In South San Francisco, legal drugs pusher Onyx laid off 58 employees.

 Connecticut: In Bridgeport, KGI laid off 98 employees.

Florida: In Boca Raton, Global Tower Partners laid off 15 employees. In Orlando, Bostwick Laboratories laid off 19 employees.   In Kissimmee, Arabian Nights dinner show shutdown, 224 jobs lost!

Idaho: In Meridian, taxsucker pistol holster maker ATK/Blackhawk! laid off 75 employees.  Their biggest customers were the U.S. military and cops.  In Caldwell, food company Simplot shutdown, 262 jobs lost!

Indiana: New Age Healthcare shutdown, 100 jobs lost!  In Terre Haute, Multi Packing Solutions shutdown, 150 jobs lost!

New York:  In Buffalo, Will Poultry shutdown, 113 jobs lost!  In Gouverneur, ObamaCare shutdown E.J. Noble Hospital, 210 jobs lost!  In NYC, Focus Features shutdown, 42 jobs lost. Bloomberg Law also shutdown, 95 jobs lost.  Kaye Scholer also shutdown, 48 jobs lost.  In Rouses Point, legal drugs maker Pfizer shutdown, 47 jobs lost. In Utica, Xerox shutdown, 31 jobs lost.  In Vestal, Eco International shutdown, 82 jobs lost.  In Walden, Circor Flow Technologies shutdown, 55 jobs lost.  In Brentwood, Too Big to Jail Capital One shutdown, 26 jobs lost.  In Skaneateles Falls, Clear Edge Filtration shutdown, 79 jobs lost.

Ohio: In Bedford, medical supply company Boehringer Ingelheim/Ben Venue Laboratories shutdown, 1500 jobs lost!  The company is now ranked 7th out of the top ten biggest job killers in the U.S.!  company officials blame crashing sales.

South Carolina: In Walterboro, South Carolina Electric & Gas shutdown, 67 jobs lost.

Tennessee: In Chattanooga, Team Centers shutdown.  In Knoxville, Luxottica Optical shutdown, 303 jobs lost!  In Martin, IFCO shutdown, 40 jobs lost.  In Memphis, Pinnacle Airlines laid off 491 people!  In Lenior City, SECO Tools shutdown, 72 jobs lost.  Also, ObamaCare shutdown Odyssey Medical.

Virginia: In Grundy, Minova laid off 65 employees.  What automotive industry recovery?  In Radford, metal maker for the automotive industry, Grede, laid off 264 people!   This after years of taking over competitors and expanding operations.  It’s blamed on declining revenues and a destructive furnace fire.  In Petersburg, medical device maker Boehringer Ingelheim laid off 63 employees.

Washington: In Bellevue, Pacific Construction Systems shutdown, 103 jobs lost!

Wisconsin: In Green Bay, APAC Customer Services shutdown, 282 jobs lost!

Challenger, Gray, and Christmas reports 30,623 “planned” job cuts were announced in December 2013.

21-25 December 2013. Largest nursing home in Wisconsin shutdown by ObamaCare!

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

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

Fukushima, Idaho, U.S.

More Fukushima WIPP Fallout: Radiation monitors at WIPP in doubt by EPA! Jamaican nuke monitoring part of false flag nuke attack? Beware belts & bras!

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The U.S. EPA is installing more air samplers around the shutdown Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.  According to local news reports, the EPA now questions the reliability of air sampling radiation monitors around WIPP, so they are installing redundant monitors “to identify any needed improvements and ensure adequate monitoring.”

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The special investigation team has made two descents into WIPP, and a third is planned for 10 April.  They set up a command base near the plutonium and americium leak, they claim they detected no high radiation levels.  Samples have been sent to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in eastern Idaho. The INL is also the site of the World’s first deadly nuclear reactor accident (EBR-1).

In Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Company has revealed that there is not enough storage space for all the nuclear waste that will be generated while ‘decommissioning’ the melted down Fukushima Daiichi!

TEPCo estimates 560-thousand cubic meters of waste over the next 13 years.  They plan to burn about 340-thousand cubic meters of the nuke waste!  But that will leave 220-thousand cubic meters with nowhere to go.  TEPCo says all the storage being built now will hold only 160-thousand cubic meters, or about 200 olympic sized swimming pools worth.

Japan’s fishermen have agreed to TEPCo’s plan to reroute groundwater into the ocean, but now they’ve issued demands.  The National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations is demanding an independent third party to monitor the water release, and that the national government of Japan must finally take responsibility for what happens to the fishing industry.

More investigation into the U.S. taxpayer funded Department of Energy (DoE)/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) radiation monitoring in Jamaica and Bahamas revealed that the program actually started between 2006-09, years before Fukushima Daiichi blew up!

At the Port of Kingston, in Jamaica, it is called the Radiation Detection Program, and it is actually part of the larger War on Terror known as Megaports Initiative: “President Obama has made an unprecedented commitment to preventing the threat of nuclear terrorism by securing dangerous nuclear and other radioactive materials and keeping those materials out of the hands of proliferators and terrorist organizations.  This cooperation increases our capability to identify illicit shipments of special nuclear and other radioactive materials and bolsters the worldwide effort to prevent nuclear proliferation and terrorism.”-Ken Baker, NNSA

The Megaports Initiative involves at least 42 ports throughout Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East and Africa.  The NNSA came to life after President Bill Clinton reluctantly approved it at the end of his term as regime leader (more than one year prior to the 11 September 2001 terror attacks in the U.S.).

In 2013 the NNSA, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency, began training ‘first responders’ from Armenia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, under the Radiological Assistance Program Training for Emergency Response (I-RAPTER): “….joint training to ensure that more first responders have the capability to locate, characterize, identify and control nuclear and radioactive material.”-Joseph Krol, NNSA

Clearly your fearless leaders are expecting a some kind of nuclear attack! (was it on the missing MH370?)

Already companies are producing new dubious products to protect you from radiation.

An Israeli company is marketing a belt they claim can protect your entire body from gamma radiation!  Company officials admitted that for their gamma radiation blocking material to really be effective they’d have to make a full body suit, however, it would weigh 200 kilos (441 pounds)!

The next dubious product is a bra made by a U.S. hazmat suit maker  in Florida.  They claim that by covering your boobs with their $69 bra your boobs are totally protected from radiation.  The rest of your body is screwed!  I guess vain women want their boobs to look good even if the rest of their body is ravaged by radiation contamination.  By the way, the company refuses to guarantee that your boobs will not be irradiated while wearing the expensive bra.

Idaho, U.S.

Skyrocketing U.S. gun sales results in record funding for wildlife conservation programs!

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Perhaps one reason that the U.S. federal government hasn’t yet begun outright suppression of the 2nd Amendment is taxes!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has received billions in tax revenues from gun and ammo sales, just this past year.  As a result it will distribute to the States a record $1.1-billion for wildlife conservation!

One of the federal taxes on gun/ammo sales, known as Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration, has been in effect since 1937.

Here’s an example of just how record setting the tax revenues are:  The state of Washington will receive $14.4-million just from the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration tax.  That’s $10-million more than in 2013!

Idaho will get a record $14.6-million from the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration tax.

The record levels of taxes collected on gun/ammo sales shows you that anti-gun, anti-American efforts are failing!

Idaho, Opinion, U.S.

Martial Law 2014 U.S.A.: Idaho Christians ban book about Native Americans!

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School District 2, the largest in Idaho, has banned a fictional book about a Native American’s experience in an all white Christian environment.

White Christian parents are upset about the truthful depiction of white Christians in the book, calling it racist and anti-Christian (like the guy said in the movie A Few Good Men “You can’t handle the truth!”).

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian will not be allowed for use in mandatory reading programs, but is still available in school libraries.

If those gottdamned white Christians think a novel is bad, wait ’till they read actual factual history about how Christians enslaved, tortured and killed Native Americans (in the process of stealing their land ‘Israeli style’, actually that’s how the Israelis learned to steal land from Palestinians) ever since that asshole Columbus arrived!