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Idaho, Influenza

Influenza: Two more prisoners die from H1N1! More U.S. prisoners sick! More grade school kids sick! Canadians say H1N1 kill rate higher than expected! Shutting down banks? Idaho hospital says stay out!

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As of today, at least 27 Canadians have died from H1N1, despite millions of vaccinations across the Great White North. Pharmacies continue to report lack of vaccines.  The Canadian Medical Association Journal is reporting increasing concern over H1N1 infections. Specifically health officials are concerned with the kill rate: “There are more deaths than what we expect for the regular H1N1 influenza.”-Pierre Lebel, McGill University Health Centre

New Brunswick, Canada: A woman described as “in her midlife” became the 27th Canadian to die from H1N1.

Singapore: Despite what is happening in North America, Ministry of Health officials are telling people there’s nothing to worry about.  Now, two Citibank employees in Singapore are confirmed sick with H1N1.  Eight other employees are sick and being tested: “We have informed all employees on the precautions they should take and have distributed face masks and antiseptic wipes to all staff sitting on the same floor as those who are affected.”-Citibank statement to local news media

Alabama, U.S.A.: The Decatur Morgan Hospital reports four influenza related deaths.  They’re not sure what type of flu the patients had.  They are isolating all people hospitalized with flu symptoms.

Arkansas, U.S.A.: A women’s prison has cancelled all visitation after a inmate died, possibly from H1N1.  At least two of the other 899 prisoners are confirmed sick with flu.  Prison officials claim they’ve called in more medical staff.

California, U.S.A.: In Fresno, the 61 years old County Jail prisoner who was sent to hospital with H1N1 last week, has died. Prison officials admit that three inmates have been placed into an isolation “pod” because they have H1N1, at least nine other inmates (8 men, 1 woman) are sick, possibly with H1N1. Kings County reports a new death.  Merced County reports a new death. Sonoma County reporting an H1N1 death. Santa Clara county reports two new deaths, and 13 new “severe” cases. San Mateo county reports one death.  State health officials told California news media they expect the death toll to increase by Friday.  As far as how many people died who did not get a flu shot, officials have admitted that only two of seven confirmed H1N1 deaths did not get the flu shot.  Health officials said they weren’t sure about the others.

Connecticut, U.S.A.: The Department of Public Health says there are more than 683 flu cases, and they expect it to get worse.

Idaho, U.S.A.:  A second man has died from H1N1 in the Gem State.  He lived in Bonner County.  The first Idahoan to die this flu season lived in Twin Falls County.  In Bannock County, the Portneuf Medical Center is asking people sick with mild flu symptoms to stay away (see below).

Illinois, U.S.A.: Hospitals in Chicago are asking people to stay away, unless they have severe symptoms (see below).   Loyola University Medical Center reporting at least 147 cases, 31 in the past week.

Indiana, U.S.A.:  Allen County Sheriff’s Department reporting county prisoners are being made to wear masks.  News sources say there is an outbreak of influenza in the prison, but county officials will not confirm the reports.  Unnamed county health officials reported they had given prison officials kits to test prisoners for flu.  Prisoners are also being vaccinated (which is a total waste if there’s already an outbreak).

Iowa, U.S.A.: Department of Health reports a healthy child died from flu.  They are also investigating the deaths of “several adults”.

Louisiana, U.S.A.: After an eight years old girl died from H1N1 last week, school officials today revealed that at least two other students have H1N1.  Two girls have been allowed back in school after a doctor said they were better.  School officials say janitors are doing “extra” disinfecting.

Mississippi, U.S.A.: Jackson County reports 13 new hospitalizations for H1N1.   The Jackson County Medical Care hospital is now closed to visitors and new patients.

Montana, U.S.A.: State health officials report at least 101 hospitalizations as of 04 January.

North Carolina, U.S.A.:  Health officials are reporting that the first infant to die in their state this flu season, did so yesterday.  This brings the state’s flu death toll to 22, the majority being young and middle aged adults.

Texas, U.S.A.: In Dallas, a pregnant woman lost her unborn child to an influenza infection. She’s hospitalized at Baylor Specialty Hospital.  She can barely talk and has been sick since before Xmas.  State health officials are begging people to get the flu shot.

Utah, U.S.A.: In the past week three people died of flu.  So far five people have died this flu season.

Washington, U.S.A.: The Spokane Regional Health District reports that a woman with other health problems has died from flu.  Currently there are 135 people hospitalized with flu in the Spokane area.  Last year at the same time there were only 31 flu hospitalizations.

Many hospitals are telling sick people to stay away.  What they mean is that if you don’t have severe influenza symptoms stay away, because you’ll just spread the virus in the hospital.  Severe flu symptoms include the usual fever, coughing, aches, plus dehydration and difficulty breathing.  Especially difficulty breathing because that’s how H1N1 kills you.  Hospitals will isolate anyone with severe symptoms to try and keep the virus from spreading.

Anybody notice that H1N1 is targeting adults in their child bearing/rearing years?

Idaho, International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 26-29 December 2013: Crime rate increases under U.S. occupation! Idahoan killed! Afghan woman bitch slaps cop in public!!! Contractor sniped! National Guard gives away taxpayer paid for equipment!

Helmand Province: In Nad-e-Ali District, a motorcycle bomb exploded.  Two people wounded.  General Peter Wall, of the Red Coat Bilderberg British empire Army, said he expects the Mujahideen to take control of the province after 2014. Also, a U.S citizen and former Virginia cop, working for security contractor Pax Mondial (subcontractor for Black & Veatch), was sniped and killed while jogging.

Herat Province: In Shindand District, one border cop was killed, three others wounded when their vehicle ran over a landmine.

Kabul Province: Near Camp Phoenix, a car bomb impacted a U.S.-NATO-ISAF convoy, killing two Slovak-ISAF personnel and one U.S. Air Force Captain from Sandpoint, Idaho. At least nine Afghans were wounded.  Mujahideen say that 16 military vehicles were damaged or destroyed in the attack.  In Kabul City, police say the crime rate has skyrocketed under U.S. occupation.  Police held a press conference to report a record 100 kidnapping, robberies and murder cases in the past month.  More than 200 people have been arrested.  The cops blame it on people from other parts of Afghanistan flooding into the U.S. occupied capital city to look for jobs.  And what was that about Afghan women being oppressed?  Female politician, Human Sultani, publicly bitch slapped a male cop in front of the Pakistani Embassy! Reports say there is video of the incident.  Back to Camp Phoenix, the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, from the U.S. territory of Guam, gave away more than 120 pairs of boots to the Afghan National Army!  Don’t those Guam guys know that U.S. taxpayers are already giving the ANA billions in cash and material?

Kandahar Province: In Spin Boldak District, police report a explosion killed one child and wounded another.   The cops gave no further explanation.  In Maiwand District, a mini-bus ran over a landmine, killing two people and wounding at least seven.  In Ghorak District, reports that cops turned Mujahideen attacked and killed seven government personnel.  No comment from government officials.

Uruzgan Province: In Dehrawod District, reports that U.S. led Afghan government forces killed a mentally retarded man.  The man had a habit of wandering the desert at night, which caused the government forces to suspect him of planting bombs.  Also, a man claims he shot down a small U.S.-NATO-ISAF recon drone.  He says he recovered the UAV.

The U.S. Army’s 96th Transportation Company, 49th Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command, deployed to Afghanistan from Fort Hood, Texas.

The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is predicting that the Mujahideen will take control of many parts of Afghanistan by 2017.

The United Nations praise Angelia Jolie for her role as High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy for girls education.

Iran has opened up its Chabahar Port for Afghan shipping companies.  Afghan shipping companies will use it to make shipping runs to India.  The port is located between the Indian Ocean and Oman Sea.

Pakistan claims a rocket fired from Afghanistan’s Nangarahar Province, killed a Pakistani man in Hashim village of Bajaur tribal region.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 02 October 2013. More ObamaCare trouble! Hundreds of jobs lost!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

International news source, Thompson Reuters, warned of layoffs in the United States.

Video game maker Sega laid off an undisclosed amount of employees in the United States.

Alabama: In Jasper, the Christian god couldn’t stop non-profit Missions Unlimited from shutting down their thrift store.  Their main office is moving to Prattville.

Arizona: In Phoenix, Second Hand Rose antiques shutdown.

California: In Modesto, Save Mart grocery store shutdown. The family owners blamed it on the bad economy.  In Stockton, decades old La Maison women’s clothing store shutdown.  The owner blamed the bad economy.

Connecticut: In Brookfield, Germany based Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics closing down over the next two years.  256 jobs lost!  The company is consolidating its medical diagnostic device factories, possibly due to the new Obama Care tax on medical devices.

Georgia: Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital warned of more layoffs, on top of the 33 management personnel rendered unemployed! Hospital officials blamed it on Georgia refusing to expand medicaid payments under Obama Care.  In Albany, a Piggly Wiggly grocery store shutdown.  The company finally went bankrupt.  50 jobs lost.

Idaho: In Nampa, Farm and City Supply shutdown.  “There’s not enough sales to make it work right now. It’s been a struggle the whole time!”-Carl Woodburn, owner

Indiana: The Indiana University Hospital laid off another 100 people! That’s on top of the previously announced 800 layoffs!  It’s blamed on reduced reimbursements as a result of Obama Care.

Michigan: In Warren, Too Big to Jail Asset Acceptance laid off 73 people.

Minnesota: In Avon, Aunt Annie’s Quilts shutdown.

Kansas: Complete Landscaping Systems now bankrupt. Company owners blame it on the loss of a major contract with Too Big to Jail Bank of America.

New Jersey: Legal drug pusher, Warner Chilcott, laid off 88 employees.  It’s blamed on the takeover by Actavis.

New York: In Schenectady, tax sucker General Electric (GE) laid off 200 people!  This despite a $2.7-billion USD deal with Algeria!

North Carolina: Lenoir Memorial Hospital warned of layoffs if enough employees don’t voluntarily quit!  Officials blame it on North Carolina refusing to expand medicaid payments under Obama Care.  Locopops gourmet frozen treats shutdown several outlets statewide! Company officials said the economy is forcing them to change their marketing model.

Pennsylvania: In King of Prussia, Synergetics medical device maker shutdown. 24 jobs lost.  It’s consolidating production, possibly because of the new Obama Care tax.  In Montgomery Township, Pizzeria UNO Grill shutdown.

Tennessee: Legal drug maker GTx laid off 53 employees.  It’s having trouble with its lung cancer drug Enobosarm.

Texas: In Beaumont, PaceSetter Lounge shutdown.

Vermont: Tax sucker Dynapower laid off 33 workers.  It’s blamed on military spending cuts.

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.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 26-27 September 2013. More University layoffs, as more people refuse college, and fail High School! More publishers in trouble!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Alabama: Birmingham, Butler’s Grooming Club shutdown its downtown location.  Company owners have made a deal to open men’s salons in Saks Fifth Avenue stores.

California: Boeing laid off at least four people across the Golden State. Symantec laid off 80 people.  Palo Alto, business law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati laid off 35 people. A company press release said “…unfortunately, the job and the industry have changed, and we must make some changes to more efficiently serve our internal constituency and clients, and better position the firm for the future.”  West Hollywood, Koo Koo Roo chicken restaurant shut down.  Pico Rivera, Cablofil shutdown, 27 jobs lost.  San Clemente, Southern California Edison laid off 14 workers.  Burbank, Walt Disney Pictures laid off six employees.

Florida: Weston, Too Big to Jail American Express laid off 300 people!  Billing ops in Weston are being moved to California and Connecticut by the beginning of 2015.

Georgia: Central Georgia Health System laid off 50 health care workers. Company officials said it’s because of the expected crash in government and insurance industry reimbursements under Obama Care.

Idaho: Boise, Affinion Group kills 226 jobs!

Michigan: Musgekon, after 31 years Daniels Hair Styling Academy shutdown. The owner said she needs to retire.

Montana: Billings, the Montana Rescue Mission shutdown their downtown operation. The operators say they are moving employees to other operations where demand is higher.

New York:  Regional newspaper publisher, GateHouse Media, now bankrupt.  Company officials claim to be in debt by $1.3-billion USD!  United Airlines laid off 82 employees at the Greater Rochester International Airport and Albany International Airport. New York City, Condé Nast Traveler laid off 14 editors, including the entire ‘photo desk’. Reports say the magazine is shifting to digital formats.  Medina, medical device maker Baxter International laid off “less than 100 people”.  Company officials said that it was due to suspension of shipments of certain products (?due to new Obama Care taxes maybe?).  Buena Vista Books shutdown, 33 jobs lost.

North Carolina: Durham, unconfirmed reports say The Herald-Sun newspaper laid off as many as six employees.  The newspaper recently started charging people to see their internet articles.   Greensboro, after 53 years of cooking Anton’s Restaurant shut down. Owner Tom Anton says “It’s been a struggle for awhile what with the economy and competition.”

Ohio: Columbus, TimberTech shutdown, 58 jobs lost.  Salon, Arrow Electronics shutdown, 54 jobs lost.  Palmerton, after 40 years iconic Spillane’s Variety Store shutdown.  The 71 years old owner, Bill Spillane, said business was good but “…it’s time to go and enjoy things. I’ve been working all those years since I got out of high school, and I just feel I missed out on a lot of things. I worked six days, sometimes seven a week!”   Youngstown State University $6.6-million in the hole! Nine employees laid off, expect more: “Three consecutive years of enrollment declines, combined with consistent reductions in state operating appropriations, has resulted in a significant structural budget deficit that requires us to immediately implement cost savings measures.”-Randy J. Dunn, YSU President

Pennsylvania: 156 years old Mansfield University laid off at least 54 employees. They are short at least $14.3-million! University officials blame their crashing enrollment numbers on the crashing High School graduation rate in the region! Apollo, Sprankle’s Neighborhood Market shutdown. The grocery store was only five years old.  Company officials now realize the small population of Apollo could not support a third grocery store.

Tennessee: The owner of two drive in movie cinemas says he has to shut one down in order to afford the digital upgrade for the other.  His Midtown Drive-In in Harriman was sacrificed to update his Parkway Drive-In in Maryville.

Texas: Houston, Too Big to Jail Pentagroup Financial shutdown, 123 jobs lost!  Xerox laid off 81 people.

Washington: Richland, Fluor Federal Services laid off 150 people!

Washington DC: In Obama’s current back yard, HandsOn Greater DC Care now bankrupt and dissolved, after 24 years of non-profit unpaid volunteer programs to help the poor. No reasonable explanation given.

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, Influenza

Influenza H1N1: Suddenly, more people dying, more people on life support! H1N1 killing healthy people! Hundreds flooding ERs! Mass immunizations fail in Canada? Medical incompetence kills boy! Government study says vaccines making people sick!

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Back in August 2013, a study was released that warned that influenza vaccinations can cause severe infection known as enhanced respiratory disease.  The study was conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.  Basically your immune system turns against you and works with the H1N1 virus: “…..cross-reactive anti-HA2 antibodies enhanced pH1N1 infection of Madin-Darby canine kidney cells by promoting virus membrane fusion activity. The enhanced fusion activity correlated with lung pathology in pigs. This study suggests a role for fusion-enhancing anti-HA2 antibodies….” –Vaccine-Induced Anti-HA2 Antibodies Promote Virus Fusion and Enhance Influenza Virus Respiratory Disease.

Despite the USDA study and the BC, Canada, study (see below) health officials in both Canada and the United States are pushing people to get flu vaccines!

California, U.S.A.:  In Santa Clara County, a 41 years old woman died from H1N1.  She died on 23 December, but only now is it being reported.  State health officials insist the number of flu cases in the Golden State, so far, are considered “normal”.

Georgia, U.S.A.: Department of Health reports four deaths.

Idaho, U.S.A.: Department of Health and Welfare says a man died from H1N1 “related illness”.

Indiana, U.S.A.: At least four people have died.

Michigan, U.S.A.: University of Michigan Health System reporting that a dozen adults and children are on life support in their hospital.  University hospital officials say the people had no prior health problems and have been hit hard by H1N1.  University officials are also reporting that hospital ERs are being flooded with hundreds of people sick with H1N1!   Michigan Department of Community Health reports that three adults and one infant are the latest people to die from H1N1.  Health officials are asking people to start wearing masks! State health official, Matt Davis, warned that “These deaths are among previously healthy individuals. This is not the group that the public usually thinks about as being susceptible to serious illness with influenza.”

Minnesota, U.S.A.:  Department of Health reporting 71 hospitalizations, double the number from the previous week.

Nebraska, U.S.A.: Lab tests say 98% of cases are H1N1.

New Mexico, U.S.A.: UNM Hospital reporting its first H1N1 case of 2014.  The University hospital saw 12 H1N1 cases in December 2013.

Oregon, U.S.A: A five years old boy died from H1N1.  He got sick a few days before Xmas.  The parents first though it was whooping cough because of the sound of his coughs.  Local hospital officials thought the boy was well enough to be sent home.  On Xmas day he collapsed and stopped breathing.  Local hospital officials told the family they could not handle his case, he was transferred to Portland.  He died in Portland because his brain went too long without oxygen.

A Lincoln, Oregon, family also says their 53 years old sister died of H1N1 after being admitted to the Adventist Medical Center.  Officials with the Adventist Medical Center, as well as other Oregon health officials, are reporting skyrocketing H1N1 cases.

Texas, U.S.A.:  Hidalgo County Health and Human Services reports six new deaths. Denton County Health Department reporting 265 confirmed cases by the end of December.  Saint Joseph Hospital reporting that nurses are getting sick.

Utah, U.S.A.: At least 237 people hospitalized, two people died.  One family talked about how their mother kept getting worse even with all the doctor prescribed treatments, until she had to be hospitalized.

Washington, U.S.A.: A Thurston County man died from flu infection. He was the second person in the Evergreen State to die from this season’s flu.

Almost every U.S. state reporting increasing cases of H1N1, the same can be said for Canada.

Alberta, Canada:  Five people are now dead, with 965 confirmed H1N1 cases. 270 people hospitalized, health officials declaring Alberta under an H1N1 outbreak.  This despite their mass immunizations program.  Health clinics in Calgary City are reporting hours long lines of people wanting to get the flu shot!  Health officials claim one in five Albertans have been vaccinated. The Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton closed one ward, due to an outbreak.

British Columbia, Canada:  BC Centre for Disease Control reminding people of a study conducted during the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic.  That study concluded that people who got the H1N1 vaccine were almost guaranteed to get sick!  The study was dismissed by Bilderberg (Bill Gates) controlled international vaccination organizations. A second study was done using ferrets, and it backs up the 2009 BC-CDC study. The British Columbia studies concluded the same thing as the USDA study; basically the H1N1 vaccine is adversely affecting your anti-bodies’ ability to fight off the H1N1 virus.

Ontario, Canada: Toronto Public Health reports two deaths.  Three other people are confirmed to have died in the province.  York Region public health confirms 14 cases.  The Regional Municipality of Peel confirms the majority of flu cases are H1N1.  The Middlesex-London Health Unit reporting that a third of infected people being hospitalized.

Saskatchewan, Canada: In the Prairie Province, H1N1 is being blamed for three deaths.  So far, 161 confirmed cases, seven people hospitalized.  Prince Albert Parkland Health Region confirms 18 cases.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Unpaid contractor is winning bidder for abandoned Hoku Materials factory, again! 1-thousand jobs on the way, by a company with questionable history?

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After a federal court judge ruled the November auction of the massive, and unused, Hoku Materials factory in Pocatello, Idaho, illegal, JH Kelly wins again.

This time JH Kelly bid $8.3 million, which is still a paltry sum when you realize the polysilicon factory is said to be worth about $700-million (but then again, JH Kelly is the one owed the money for building it). Reports say this time the federal bankruptcy court approved the auction.  However, JH Kelly has 72 hours to pay up.

There are reports by a local east Idaho TV news program (KIFI) that a local silica mining operation has made a deal to operate the factory.  Officials with Idaho based Arco Hills Silica Company (AHSC), and Nevada based JCF Funding, claim as many as one thousand jobs will be created!

However, back in August JH Kelly’s attorney said this about AHSC and JCF Funding: “It just seems difficult to conceive these people are serious if they haven’t made a written offer and haven’t engaged capable counsel.  The first thing a bankruptcy judge asks is: ‘Show me the money.’”-Ford Elsaesser

JH Kelly is also the biggest creditor to the bankrupt Hoku Materials factory, and they want their money.

There are some scandals with Arco Hills Silica Company; back in June a former CEO pled guilty to wire fraud, involving the theft of $5-million.

Also, there is court documents showing AHSC was sued by Beco Construction Company.  A “Judgment By Default” for more than $30-thousand was levied against Arco Hills Silica Company in 2004, and renewed in 2009.

“Arco Hills Silica Company is the exclusive mining and manufacturing Company for one of the world’s largest and most pure silica deposits in the world. It is presently in the early stages of development of these assets with anticipation that production will begin during 2011. This company is also actively in beginning construction on a major silicon processing plant, solar panel manufacturing and research facility and various polysilicon plants all to be located in Southeastern Idaho.”-AHSC company statement

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 16-17 September 2013. More companies unable to pay their federal taxes! Christian petroleum company fires their own preachers! More mom & pops say ‘get out now’!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Assisted living service provider, Chatsworth PGA, now bankrupt.  The company is in debt by as much as $500-million USD!

Video game maker, Red 5 Studios, announced they will layoff 10% of their employees.

Arizona: In Tucson, Dee’s Shoes shut down after 60 years of business.  The owners said they need to retire.  The oldest shoe store in Tucson offered custom shoe making and was the first to sell wide width shoes.

California: In San Francisco, maker of charging stations for electric cars, Ecotality, now bankrupt.  The company is now being sold off.  In San Bernardino, Herrick (aka San Bernardino Steel) laid off 140 steel workers!  In El Segundo, Raytheon laid off 54 employees.

Florida: Even the sex industry going down because of the bad economy.  FriendFinder internet dating site (which is also the owner of Penthouse adult magazine) now bankrupt. Company officials blame seven straight years of revenue losses!

Idaho: In Wallace, U.S. Silver & Gold mine laid off 130 people!  The company calls itself “…the second largest primary silver producer in the United States.”  Company officials blamed the layoffs on falling silver prices.

Illinois: In Chicago, Vulpes (the owner of gourmet food store Fox & Obel) now bankrupt.  It’s blamed on increased competition resulting in massive debts to food suppliers and unpaid federal taxes.  Anti-violence non-profit, CeaseFire, shut down due to lack of donations.  What automotive industry recovery? In Fairfield maker of fuel pumps for cars, Airtex Products, laid off 240 employees, with little notice!  The unionized workers had just approved a new one year contract.  In Niles, Grainger Industrial Supply shut down, 94 people unemployed.  It’s part of the 2011 announcement of the closing of at least 25 locations across the United States, which is blamed on crashing sales.

Indiana: Community Howard Regional Health laid off at least 50 employees.  It’s blamed on decreased hospital customers, and an expected decrease in federal government payments as a result of Obama Care.

Iowa: In Mason City, River City Bagel store closed down. The owner said his research shows that the economy is not going to recover: “We looked at it long term, whether it was going to work out or not. We decided now is a good time to get out!”-Marcus Lunning

Kentucky: Another coal miner going down.  James River Coal shut down, laying off 525 people!

New Jersey: In Montclair, Aunt Jean’s Toys & Treats shut down. The owner wants to move onto new “…re-inventions of Aunt Jean.”

New York: Israeli based computer graphics and special effects maker, Gravity International Group, now bankrupt.  Gravity has offices in Canada, Connecticut, New York and California.  The U.S. bankruptcy was filed to stop the company from being evicted from its New York office.  They have not been paying their rent.   Patricia Lynch Associates (PLA) laid off at least two employees. PLA is a crony state government lobbying company.

Minnesota: In Kenyon, legal drugs pusher Bergh Pharmacy closed down.  They were bought out by Walgreens.

North Carolina: What housing market recovery? Construction contractor Dutch Barns bankrupt and out-o-business.  A total of 40 jobs lost. An attorney representing the company blames the bad economy.

Oklahoma: The Christian God can’t stop the ‘christian’ natural gas company, Chesapeake Energy, from firing their chaplains and one bee keeper.  The arrogant ‘christian’ company apparently thought of itself as a church and provided chaplains to marry employees!  The firing of their in-house preachers comes a few days after announcing that 2-thousand employees will become unemployed!

Oregon: What automotive industry recovery? In Clackamas, Indiana based Dutchmen Manufacturing shut down their travel trailer and camper factory.  163 people unemployed!  Since 2011, Oregon has lost almost one thousand Recreational Vehicle manufacturing jobs!

Texas: Private police state contractor, U.S. Security Associates, laid off 352 employees throughout the Lone Star State!  It’s blamed on the loss of a major contract.  The Walmart-Laredo Distribution Center shut down. 53 people out-o-work.

Washington: In Seattle, internet music service Rhapsody International cut 15% of its employees.  It’s blamed on declining revenues and a management change.

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, Technology, U.S.

More pleas for help from Idaho company that wants to save Pocatello’s Hoku polysilicon factory! 1-thousand new jobs to be created?

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The following was sent by Francis W Kreais III of JCF Funding:

Gordon Jenkins has been working closely with Francis Kreais who is the founder and CEO of JCF Funding-who has been the front man for Arco Hills Silica Company making this deal work.

Gordon Jenkins is the president of Arco Hills Silica Company. This company owns some very large and very pure silica located in Butte County, Idaho. (About 20 Billion tons) When we heard of the bankruptcy auction of Hoku, we became extremely interested in acquiring that polysilicon plant because it fits in so well with what we are trying to do with our silica mine located near Arco Idaho.

We plan to purchase the entire plant at this upcoming auction because it would make it possible for us to go into operation without having to build our own processing plant. We also would benefit the local community because we would not only bring back the some 160 jobs related to the shutting down of the Hoku plant, but at least another 500 to 1000 jobs related to the development of our silica mine and related to the companies that are willing to move their plants out here to Idaho just so they can decrease the transportation costs of hauling the silica back to where they are already located.

Contact Francis W Kreais III at [email protected] to express your support!

Read More about the Hoku Materials saga:

JH Kelley blocked by federal court

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Who is the new owner of Chubbuck’s Pine Ridge Mall? It’s not the “family” company you think it is! GGP connection?

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A couple of days ago the Idaho State Journal reported that the Pine Ridge Mall, in Chubbuck, was bought by a company called Farmer Holding Company.  The local newspaper quoted Rob Kingsbury as saying the company is a “family business”.

Farmer Holding started as Farmer Concrete back in 1948.  There are members of the board with the family name of Farmer (and employees related but not with the name Farmer), but today’s Farmer Holding Company Incorporated is a full fledged corporation created in Missouri in December 2000.  The incorporation has a “Permanent” (no expiration date) registration according to the Missouri Secretary of State.

According to the Missouri Ethics Commission, Farmer Holding employs at least three political lobbyists at the state level.

Farmer Holding Company branched out to mall properties in December 2012 when they paid a measly $11-million USD for the Capital Mall in Jefferson City, Missouri.  Farmer holding just paid a paltry $9-million for the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho.  And there is a connection; both malls were owned by GGP (General Growth Properties)!

Here’s another twist, according to Missouri’s News Tribune, ‘family owned’ Farmer Holding is a subsidiary of F&F Development.

At last report Farmer Holding was proposing a plan to improve the Capital Mall by combining it with an events center.  Farmer Holding told the Jefferson City council they would expand the property, and the city promised to give Farmer Holding $9-million collected from hotel taxes to help pay for $36-million expansion!

Interestingly Farmer Holding admitted that event/conference centers are money losing propositions.  Their own independently conducted economic survey said they would lose $250-thousand per year on the deal!  Yet, on 12 November 2013, the Jefferson City conference center facilitator told the city council to go with Farmer Holding’s plan.

On 18 November 2013, this is what city council member Carrie Carroll had to say about two competing convention center proposals: “At this point, neither one is right. Neither one is outstanding. Until they’re outstanding, they’re not going to be capable of getting our $9-million until we are enthused that this is right.”

On top of this Farmer Holding told city officials they had only $12-million of their own “investment” money to pay for the project, so even with the city’s $9-million they have to come up with $15-million from somewhere!  (thin air?)

A Jefferson City resident, Charles Gaskin, conducted his own research and warned city officials that Farmer Holding’s plan was a bad deal for the city.  He said city officials have become so desperate for developers that they now have the audacious hope that ‘if we build it customers will come’.  Gaskin says his research shows the economy is so bad that nobody will show up.  Remember, even Farmer Holding said they would lose money on the plan. (the Idaho cities of Chubbuck and Pocatello have adopted that same ‘built it they will come’ attitude)

In November 2013, Jefferson City council member Ken Hussey even warned “There’s a potential for super TIFs.”  TIF means Tax Increment Financing.

Farmer Holding was created out of a successful, truly family owned construction business.  The heirs decided to take their construction business to the next level and become fully incorporated.  In other words what they are doing is really all about making profits for their original construction ops.

And who is F&F Development?  At this point I don’t know!  Internet searches come up with many different companies that specialize in things like property development to things like direct selling.  Every listing for an F&F Development, whether it was a company in Florida or Connecticut, showed it to be a privately held company, which makes it hard to find info on them (they are not a publicly traded company).  There are several of these ‘development’ companies who list their forte as hotel and event/conference center developers.   If the News Tribune is correct about F&F being the parent company of Farmer Holding, it could explain why Farmer Holding is pushing Jefferson City to help pay for a new hotel and event/conference center in the Capital Mall.

Here’s another connection: GGP is an Illinois based corporation, Farmer Holding supposedly bought the Capital Mall but isn’t involved in operating it, another Illinois based company called Covington Realty Partners is actually running the mall (gee, it’s like an onion, so many layers).   Coldwell Banker Commercial Intermountain is managing the leasing of spaces at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho.

I’m beginning to suspect that Farmer Holding always approaches city officials with the claim that they want to “rejuvenate” the local economy.  It could be that their true plan of action is to buy up distressed commercial properties for dirt cheap, build them up with the help of local taxes, then sell them off to the first sucker that comes along.  It’s like house flipping, but with commercial properties.

2017 Update:  In 2015 Caldwell Banker revealed that Farmer Holding-F&F Development took-over the once independently owned Carmike 7 theater in Chubbuck, Idaho.  The property was demolished and replaced with spaces for restaurants, currently occupied by Panera and Red Robin. The demolition of the Carmike 7 actually began in December 2014, as documented by Blind Bat News.

Also in 2015 Farmer Holding Company-F&F Development began buying vacant healthcare facilities when it took over Jefferson City, Missouri, Saint Mary’s Hospital.  Officially the plan is to redevelop the property (as part of the nationwide REIT conspiracy),  and at the beginning of 2017 Farmer Holding-F&F Development asked for taxpayer ‘incentives’ to finance the hospital redevelopment, which would allow Farmer Holding-F&F Development to cash-in on 50% of local sales tax revenues, and the imposition of an additional 1% sales tax on locals!  The city also granted easements for two parcels associated with the hospital property, blocking ‘right-of-way’ so that Farmer Holding-F&F Development could start redevelopment.

At the end of 2016, Farmer Holding asked Jefferson City to not only continue the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for the Capital Mall project, but to increase it, as well as create a new TIF for their convention center project!

2018 Capital Mall Update: New signs and paint is all taxpayers got? 

Investment companies dump GGP & J.C. Penney!

Grand Teton Mall, in Idaho Falls, for sale! GGP dumping malls en masse! 

East Idaho’s Pine Ridge Mall, in Chubbuck, sells for paltry $9 million!

East Idaho shopping malls….quietly put up to be auctioned off….Merry Xmas!

A History Lesson in Economic Decline

All part of REIT plan to change the way you shop, and they blame you the shopper!

Mitt Romney….Destroyed jobs in Chubbuck 

Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Obama on drugs? Says 100-million people now have Obama Care insurance!

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There are about 314-million citizens in the United States, the Obama regime was recorded during a phone conference telling his NAZI Organizing for Action operatives that 100-million citizens now have Obama Care insurance: “In the first month alone we’ve seen more than 100 million Americans successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.”

That’s even 99.9-million more than what the Obama regime predicted!

But guess what?  Obama was including an estimated million citizens that applied but so far haven’t actually signed up, and citizens that supposedly will now qualify under expanded Medicaid.  In other words, Obama’s claim that 100-million now have insurance is a total guesstimation, it’s not fact!

I’m one of those citizens that should qualify for expanded Medicaid, except I live in one of about two dozen U.S. states that are refusing to expand Medicaid coverage!  You here that Obama?  About half of the 50 U.S. states are refusing to expand Medicaid coverage!

Even the main streamer pro-Obama regime news media says about 100-thousand people have signed up, or applied for Obama Care!  Is Obama on drugs?

Obama also told his NAZI followers that Obama Care insurance would cost less than a cable TV bill!  Guess what I can’t even afford cable or satellite TV, I use the old fashioned free TV antenna!  How the hell can I afford Obama Care?

“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

Prepare for permanent economic terrorism

Idaho’s Obama Care Christian corruption covered up

 More Obama Care job cuts!

Obama Care shuts down yet another Christian nursing home!

Hundreds more laid off due to Obama Care

Obama Care being blamed for 61 people becoming unemployed

Former mainstreamer news man gets screwed by Obama Care!