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“reduce staff…by 30%.” : U.S. Hi-Tech/Communications breakdown, February 2017

More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in February 2017:

China based Perfect World Entertainment (Star Trek Online) confirmed it suddenly eliminated jobs, including some with its Star Trek management team.

Non-profit web-browser Mozilla suddenly laid off 50 people, supposedly in an attempt to expand operations.

California: Google issued a WARN saying 104 people in Mountain View will become jobless in April (on top of the 94 jobs eliminated in March)! Also in Mountain View, Veritas Technologies finally notified the state that it eliminated 64 jobs back in November.  ‘Search engine for apps’ Quixey suddenly shutdown their Mountain View office, 48 jobs gone.  Culver city based, and Disney owned, Maker Studios yet again eliminated jobs.  This time at least 80 employees now unemployed.  Redwood Shores based video game maker Storm8 issued a WARN, 131 jobs lost by the end of April in an attempt to become more competitive!  Santa Monica based Activision suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of employees, despite reporting better than expected revenues for 2016.  Redwood City based Shutterfly warned of layoffs as it consolidates ops, blaming a 30% crash in its 4th quarter 2016 profits! Shutterfly will shutdown operations in Santa Clara, as well as in New York state.  In Palo Alto, tax-sucking Space Systems/Loral suddenly laid off 161 people! Tax-sucking Rockwell Collins issued a WARN, 44 jobs in Irvine lost by the end of April.  Internet based clothing seller Nasty Gal suddenly shutdown operations in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 98 jobs gone without warning.

Colorado: Denver based ReadyTalk no longer based in Denver as well as eliminating 46 jobs due to being taken over by rival Premier Global Services.  Missouri based prescription ‘benefits’ company Express Scripts shutting down its call center in Pueblo, 320 jobs lost by the end of April!  City leaders say Express Scripts still owes local taxpayers $2.8-million USD that was loaned to the prescription company, and never mind that Express Scripts also got about $3-million in tax incentives to build a call center in Pueblo!

Georgia: Alpharete based video game maker Kiz Studios confirmed it suddenly eliminated jobs, but refused to say how many.   Administrators said it was to restructure “…three of our gaming studios in order to focus on our new Global Services practice.”

Florida: Broadband Interactive eliminating 129 jobs by mid-March!

Idaho: For some reason the state Department of Labor sat on a WARN from Pocatello based call center operator Mountain West Research, until now.   The notice is dated October 2016 and reveals that 194 people lost their jobs (the state Dept. of Labor listing doesn’t say when the layoffs actually took place)!  Just in case I missed something I checked local news media reports and found nothing about this huge, and apparently sudden layoff.  It’s not the first time the company suddenly killed jobs, Mountain West Research did the same thing in Idaho Falls, back in 2012,  but that mass layoff got the attention of the local news media (I wonder why the Pokey layoffs were missed?).  The Pocatello Mountain West Research location on 675 Yellowstone Avenue is currently listed as available for rent by Premier Properties, however, its website is still up-and-running and lists an address of 1110 Yellowstone Avenue. 

Kentucky: Internet based clothing seller Nasty Gal shutting down its distribution center in Shepherdsville, 70 jobs lost.

New Jersey: Gannett Satelilite Information Network eliminating 141 jobs by the end of March!

New York: U.S. Army contractor L3 Technologies laid off 44 people, other employees are being transferred to Mississippi, due to cuts in taxpayer funding.  Less than a year after sending hundreds of jobs to China, Brooklyn-NYC based MakerBot commenced a ‘3rd round’ of layoffs, administrators admitted they intended to “reduce staff at MakerBot by 30%.”  NYC based web-publisher Slate laid off at least six people.   Jim Cramer founded TheStreet.com suddenly laid off about a dozen people, and also faces delisting from the stock market due to its low share pricing.  Digital media start-up Odyssey laid off 55 people despite raising $35-million USD in funding!  Administrators admitted they weren’t “able to scale” and stalled. British empire United Kingdom based Vodafone Americas issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC ops, 51 jobs gone by the end of June.  Unisys shutting down its Rochester call center, 178 jobs lost right after Xmas 2017!  ‘Women’s interests’ publisher Meredith suddenly laid off 40 people blaming crashing magazine advertising, however, it was revealed that Meredith’s TV revenues were up.

North Carolina: General Electric (GE) Hitachi Nuclear Energy laid off an undisclosed number of nuke plant workers in Wilmington.  Local news media reported that at the time of the announcement no WARN had been filed with the state.  Xerox spin-off Conduent eliminating 143 jobs in Charlotte, blaming the “changing business needs of a client”!

Oregon: Frontier Communications laid off 57 people due to the  shutdown of its Beaverton dispatch center as part of “significant restructuring and reorganization”.  The state’s oldest tech company, Electro Scientific Industries (ESI), warned of mass layoffs across North America in order to “deliver more consistent earnings”.

Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre based international internet marketer Pepperjam eliminating 19 jobs in the U.S.  Times Shamrock-Citizens’ Voice of Wilkes-Barre eliminated 25 jobs and is trying to get 36 people to voluntarily quit, due to crashing advertising sales ever since 2012.  This comes after years of changing ownership of the company through take-overs and mergers.

Texas: Teleperformance USA shutting down their Abilene call center, 274 jobs gone by April due to a “change in business circumstances”!  Cloud company Rackspace Hosting eliminating at least 275 U.S. jobs after being taken-over by New York vulture capitalist Apollo!  AT&T eliminating 54 jobs at its Richardson call center, by the end of March.

Virginia: Game Stop shutdown its Bristol Mall store. Despite the fact that BlindBatNews has been reporting GameStop shutdowns since January 2016, local news media reported that local customers were shocked that their favorite video game store was shutdown.  Charter Communications issued a layoff WARN for its Herndon ops, 59 jobs lost by the end of March.

Wisconsin: Texas based social media manager Spreadfast shutting down its Madison ops, 45 jobs lost.

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, January 2017:  “I FEEL LIKE WE ARE BEING BLED.” “AND IT’S GETTING WORSE.”

High-Tech Fail: USAF ADMITS F-22 STEALTH JET IS A PAIN TO MAINTAIN, AND THAT’S JUST THE ‘SKIN’!

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USAF admits F-22 stealth jet is a pain to maintain, and that’s just the ‘skin’!

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In this video the U.S. Air Force admits that maintaining the expensive F-22 Raptor’s stealth ‘skin’ (LO, or Low Observable surface) is a never ending expensive effort:

DRONE WARS: QF-4 TO QF-16

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U.S. Navy warns Loose Social Media Lips Sink U.S. Ships!

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28 March 2017 (12:30 UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Farvardin 1396/29 Jumada t-Tania 1438/01 Gui Mao (3rd month) 4715

OpSec=Operations Security

FALSE FLAG: MILITARY LOSES 1,000+ HIGH TECH DEVICES IN ONE YEAR!

PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE: USAF ADMITS IT MUST MAKE ITS OWN DRONE PARTS!

DON’T HAVE A HEART ATTACK, SOON ARMY ROBOTS WILL SAVE YOUR ASS!

U.S. MILITARY SAYS POKÉMON GO IS A NO GO FOR NATIONAL SECURITY!

International, Technology

Gun Ban Fail: ‘Terrorist’ strikes using low-tech weapons!

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23 March 2017 (02:00 UTC-07 Tango 06) 03 Farvardin 1396/24 Jumada t-Tania 1438/26 Gui Mao 4715

Despite a near total gun ban, and despite the recent electronic device ban imposed by United States and United Kingdom, a man being officially called a terrorist by London police caused mayhem in front of the world’s oldest parliament, using low-tech weapons.

The attacker used a Hyundai i40 and a knife (and yes, the U.K. even regulates the ownership of knives).  He literally plowed pedestrians off the Westminster Bridge before trying to ram through a gate outside the parliament building, where he stabbed an unarmed cop to death.

How was he stopped? By cops armed with guns.  At least five people dead, about 40 wounded.  Would this happen in a U.S. state that allows residents to carry guns openly and concealed (like Idaho)?

And in a possible False Flag moment, London cops admitted they knew who the attacker was, but refused to give out his name.

GUN BAN FAIL: ANOTHER MASS ATTACK WHERE GUNS ARE TOTALLY BANNED!

GUN BAN FAIL: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST U.S. GOVT. EMPLOYEE IN MEXICO!

GUN BAN FAIL: JAPAN HIT BY ARMY VETERAN KAMIKAZE BOMBER!

GUN BAN FAIL : ANTI-GUN NYC COPS CAUGHT TAKING BRIBES FROM JEWS FOR GUNS!

GUN CONTROL U.K.: STRICT GUN BAN DOESN’T STOP ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM OWNING OUTLAWED GUNS! 40 POLITICIANS ARRESTED!

International, Technology

Climate Change? The Nose Knows!

18 March 2017 (18:10 UTC-07 Tango 06) 28 Esfand 1395/19 Jumada t-Tania 1438/21 Gui Mao 4715

For a long time biologists (and other scientists) have known that the shape of a animal’s nose depends on what type of climate it lives in, now more proof that your nose knows when the climate is about to change.

Pennsylvania State University published a study which concludes that you can’t blame the shape of your ugly snot-and-hair-filled nose totally on your parents, the climate affects its shape as well.

After looking at noses all over the world, using 3D scanning, researchers proved that people in cold-dry climates tend to have skinnier noses, and people in hot-humid climates tend to have fatter noses. Interestingly they say people in colder climates breed like rabbits: “People with narrower nostrils probably fared better and had more offspring than people with wider nostrils, in colder climates. This lead to a gradual decrease in nose width in populations living far away from the equator.”

The research into nose shape is considered important because the nose is the first line of defense for your respiratory system.

Oh, and by the way this is more proof that pollution is not the cause of climate change.

GLOBAL WARMING ON EARTH STARTED 20-THOUSAND YEARS AGO!

CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSED BY TREE HUGGERS, NOT POLLUTION! NEW 260 YEARS STUDY BLAMES THE ENVIRONMENTALIST ELITE!

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“I feel like we are being bled.” “And it’s getting worse.” : U.S. Hi-Tech/Communications breakdown, January 2017

More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in January 2017:

Internet publisher Medium laid off 50 employees.  CEO Evan Williams (a Twitter co-founder) stated “Upon further reflection, it’s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet. It simply doesn’t serve people. In fact, it’s not designed to. The vast majority of articles, videos, and other ‘content’ we all consume on a daily basis is paid for — directly or indirectly — by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals. And it is measured, amplified, and rewarded based on its ability to do that. Period. As a result, we get …well, what we get. And it’s getting worse.”

Arkansas: Little Rock based communications company Windstream Holdings suddenly laid off 164 people! In November of last year the company merged with competitor EarthLink, but company administrators swear the sudden layoffs have nothing to do with that.

California: In Rancho Cordova, Verizon laid off 1-thousand 70 people, with only two weeks notice to the state Employment Development Department!  Verizon also eliminating 70 jobs in San Jose, by the end of March.  Verizon also laid off 55 Go90 employees as part of its plan to “consolidate offices in Los Angeles, San Jose and New York.”  Mobile game developer Glu Mobile issued a layoff WARN for Long Beach, 70 jobs lost in March.  The owner of anime streamer Crunchyroll, Ellation, laid off 17 engineers apparently because they have too many, despite claiming to be expanding their engineering ops.    In San Jose, Cisco Systems laid off 25 people without warning.  Semiconductor maker Atmel issued a layoff WARN for its San Jose ops.  Also in San Jose, AOL eliminating 80 jobs by the end of March.  France based drone (they used to be called RC aircraft before The War on Terror) maker Parrot warning of massive layoffs (at least 290), Parrot supposedly has operations in San Francisco. In San Francisco, software company DoubleDutch laid off 57 people without warning.   San Francisco based digital (online) mental health therapy op Joyable laid off 20 people as it shifts from targeting individuals with anxiety to providing employers with a service to treat their stressed out employees (is anybody going to treat the 20 people who lost their jobs with Joyable?).  San Francisco based Fitbit eliminating up to 160 jobs in an effort to reduce costs by $200-million USD! Japan based e-commerce company Rakuten issued a shutdown WARN, 73 people in Aliso Viejo jobless in March. iHeartMedia issued a shutdown WARN for their Aliso Viejo ops, 72 jobs gone by April.   Med-Tech company Theranos eliminating 150 jobs by March! Santa Monica based GSN Games laid off an additional 20 people in their ongoing restructuring (layoffs made six months before as well).   In Oakland, Pandora laid off 91 people without warning and despite getting 375-thousand new subscribers. Pandora admin claim that even with the big jump in customers the online music business is so competitive they’re having trouble making profits.   Solar power company Sungevity eliminating 66 jobs in Oakland by March. Cloud company Crownpeak issued a shutdown WARN for their operations in Los Angeles. In Santa Clara, Intel eliminating 54 jobs by the end of February.  Avaya is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to massive debts.  Also in Santa Clara, Oracle America issued a mass layoff WARN, 441 jobs gone by mid-March! Google eliminating 94 Mountain View jobs by March.  NBCUniversal warning of layoffs for its Esquire Network, apparently due to Esquire Network being switched to digital only format.  In San Diego, XETV-Bay City Television-CW6 eliminating 127 by the end of March!

Iowa: HGS (Hindjua Global Solutions) shutdown its 25 years old call center, killing 125 jobs! 

Kansas: Verizon shutdown its store in Atchison due to lack of sales.

Kentucky: Lexington based printer maker Lexmark eliminated 320 jobs “to reduce our costs to be more in line with our revenues”!

Massachusetts: Israel based medical rehab ReWalk Robotics warned of layoffs in Marlborough because of revenue loss caused by ObamaCare’s (ACA’s) “…national insurance reimbursement policies for all eligible spinal cord injury exoskeleton users and device development for stroke victims.”

Michigan: In Detroit, Android Robotics Glue laid off 120 people who were recently hired! It’s blamed on the cut-backs in the automotive industry.

New Jersey: France based driverless vehicle developer Transdev will kill 64 jobs in Union, by March. Comcast Cable issued a WARN for its West Deptford ops, 88 jobs gone by June.    Internet based printer Zoo Printing eliminating 65 West Deptford jobs due to being shutdown.  Virginia based news media giant Gannett killed an additional 130 jobs at The Record, just two months after killing 141 jobs!  It’s the result of Gannett’s massive takeover of smaller news operations back in Summer 2016.

New York: General Electric (GE) issued a shutdown WARN for their Industrial Automation Systems Department in Albany, 75 jobs lost between March and May.  GE also shutting down its Current Powered Storage Unit in Schenectady, 41 jobs gone by mid-April. Local news media also reported that GE laid off an undisclosed number of people at its Niskayuna Global Research Center. VaynerMedia suddenly laid off about 30 NYC employees, apparently in connection with its takeover of pro-female sexist digital media company PureWow.  Instant messenger service VSCO shutdown its NYC office as it consolidates ops to California.  In NYC, now bankrupt internet based auctioneer Paddle8 issued a layoff WARN, 24 people out-of-work by March.  Knowledge Systems issued a layoff WARN for their Syracuse call center, 60 jobs lost by mid-April due an increase in people refusing to take part in phone surveys.  In Brooklyn-NYC, US Mobile Phones issued a shutdown WARN, as many as 121 jobs affected as the company moves its distribution ops to New Jersey!  Optoelectronic company Meopta issued a shutdown WARN for their Hauppauge ops, 42 jobs moving to Florida by mid-April.  NYC based Wall Street Journal warning of massive layoffs at its European and Asian ops, due to crashing advertising revenues.  New York Times warned employees of yet more layoffs because “The world is changing really rapidly”.  In Utica, Alorica eliminated 2-hundred call center jobs as part of its plan to consolidate ops!

North Carolina: Info-Tech company Pomeroy shutting down its Charlotte ops, 85 jobs lost by June due to the merger with Tolt creating “redundancies”.  California based Facebook forced its now former security contractor SIS to layoff 96 people in Forest City.  Facebook is now using the evil British empire founded torture specialists G4S! Ohio based Ameridial lost their Spindale call center contract, 160 jobs gone by March!  Cloud based ‘document outsourcer’ Novitex suddenly lost its contract and will eliminate 51 jobs in Charlotte.

Oregon: California based Facebook forced its now former security contractor SIS to layoff 85 people in Prineville.  Facebook is now using the evil British empire founded torture specialists G4S!

Pennsylvania: Technicolor Home Entertainment eliminating 96 jobs in Olyphant, by March.  Philadelphia Magazine suddenly shutdown a supposedly popular section on their website and laid off employees saying they’re “ceasing publication of new material on Birds 24/7, effective today” and blaming too much “competition and now there is a glut of coverage.”

Texas: Grapevine based GameStop shutdown all 50 brick-n-mortar Simply Mac stores! GameStop-Simply Mac store managers gave a variety of reasons to local news media, from corporate restructuring to crashing revenues to even blaming Apple for canceling the contract with GameStop.  Apple denied the last explanation.  CompuCom turns out to be a liar as it issued a WARN saying 144 Texans will soon become unemployed!  A month prior CompuCom revealed it was moving its Dallas HQ to South Carolina, but promised the move would not affect its jobs count in Texas!  Austin based on-demand delivery service Favor killed service in five U.S. states, and Canada, and is focusing on The Lone Star State only! Favor CEO Jag Bath said it was all about “profitability while still maintaining an impressive rate of growth” (Bath must’ve gone to the Orwellian school of public relations because drastically cutting back on service is not an impressive growth rate, unless the growth rate is all on paper and about profits only). Austin based National Instruments warning that it must cut back on labor costs after crashing earnings due mainly to the strong USD reducing international sales.  San Antonio based Mission Solar conducted more layoffs due to “current market conditions.”  They didn’t say how many people were laid off, but four months ago they laid off 87 workers.

Utah: Endurance International Group eliminating 440 Bluehost jobs as it shuts down its operations in Orem! Bluehost ops are being consolidated to Arizona.

Virginia: Internet based Relay Foods shutting down two distribution centers due to merger with a competitor. Local news media were only able to confirm that more than 48 people will lose their jobs.  McLean

Washington:  Redmond based Microsoft suddenly laid off 7-hundred people as part of their plan to kill more than 2-thousand jobs by the end of the year!  Redwood City based digital advertising company Rocket Fuel warned it must layoff 93 of its employees as part of its plan to shift to ‘the cloud’. Bellevue based digital advertising company AudienceScience warned it must eliminate 25% of its jobs to “…reflect our increasing shift towards better serving the agency side of the advertising business”.  Mobile game developer Glu Mobile issued a layoff WARN for Bellevue, 58 jobs lost in March.  Also in Bellevue, Voicebox suddenly laid off 115 people!  Seattle based environmental website Grist laid off 90% of its full-time writers, shifting to cheaper freelance writers. Local news media reporting that Seattle Times eliminated 23 jobs. Sinclair Broadcasting Group (SBG) suddenly laid off ten KOMO newsroom employees, despite advertising that they’re hiring.   SBG admin would only say that they needed to restructure, a unnamed KOMO employee told local news media “I feel like we are being bled.”

Washington DC: 21st Century Fox owned National Geographic conducting more layoffs due to an “evolving media environment”.

Tech/Communications shutdown December 2016: “…IS GRINCH MAKING THESE DECISIONS OR HUMAN BEINGS…?”

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Facebook joins forces with evil ‘christian’ inquisition machine G4S!

05 March 2017 (15:58 UTC-07 Tango 06) 15 Esfand 1395/06 Jumada t-Tania 1438/08 Gui Mao 4715

A G4S advertisement posted in Mexico says Facebook will let you know if the government is watching you, but who is watching Facebook-G4S?

In January 2017 Facebook suddenly switched to a new data collection contractor for all its data centers around the United States; evil G4S Security Solutions (aka Rent-A-Thug, aka Shadow CIA).

BlindBatNews has well documented how evil the so called christian founded and run G4S really is, from providing lax security at U.S. nuclear power plants to running covert prison torture operations at locations around the world!

The Canary: G4S lobbied the BBC to drop a damning documentary and it worked

The Electronic Intifada: Fourth UN agency in Jordan dumps G4S

MintPressNews: Shadowy Global Security Firm G4S Guarding Dakota Pipeline As Protesters Attacked By Dogs

Fox News: Former G4S employee “…complained to his superiors several times about Mateen [aka Orlando Shooter] but they refused to take action because….. Mateen was Muslim.”

Luxemburger Wort: “…heavily armed men attacked the headquarters of the security company G4S in Gasperich.”

OPERATION JUPITER: G4S CALLS JUPITER HOME, RIGHT NEXT TO ORLANDO SHOOTER’S NON-PROFIT!

FALSE FLAG: BOTH ‘CHRISTIAN’ PRIDE FESTIVAL ATTACKER & ‘MUSLIM’ ORLANDO SHOOTER WERE SECURITY GUARDS!

FALSE FLAG: ‘MUSLIM’ ORLANDO SHOOTER WORKING FOR ‘CHRISTIAN’ G4S!

BRITISH EMPIRE CONTROLS UNITED STATES….THROUGH EVIL CHRISTIAN G4S

International, Technology, U.S.

Obama Legacy: Who’s the biggest gunrunner of them all? Obama!

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“The U.S.A. supplies major arms to at least 100 countries around the world — significantly more than any other supplier state.”-Aude Fleurant, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

According to new data the past eight years of the Barack Obama regime saw global weapons sales increase by 8.4%, with the United States being the leader of the pack (despite claiming a reduction in arms sales).

On top of that, The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reports that during Obama’s last year as President of the U.S., weapons sales saw an increase that exceeded 2010 arms sales levels (again this is despite the U.S. claiming a reduction in weapons sales).  In fact, weapons sales during Obama’s last four years in office were the highest since the undeclared ‘Cold War’ ended in 1990, so much for Obama winning his now laughable Nobel Peace Prize.

You can tell who the real terrorists are by how many weapons they’re distributing throughout the world.  The top three international weapons sellers are United States (about 33% of sales), Russia (23%) and then China (6.2%).  The top three buyers of Obama regime weapons were Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Turkey.  Don’t get mad at Iran, that unfairly sanctioned country accounts for a piddly 1.2% of international weapons purchases.

OBAMA LEGACY: “…A SEVERE RECESSION…”

U.S. CIVIL WAR 2015: OBAMA REGIME HOMIE TOWN POLICE GENOCIDE 7,185 PEOPLE IN CHICAGO!

U.S. CIVIL WAR CHICAGO, 12 – 13 JULY 2014: MORE PROOF IT’S ALL ABOUT DRUG RUNNING!

U.S. CIVIL WAR CHICAGO, 16 – 20 JUNE 2014: AFGHAN HEROIN CONNECTION? MORE MYSTERY GUNMEN & WHITE MINIVANS!

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“…is Grinch making these decisions or human beings…?” : U.S. High Tech/Communications shutdown December 2016

More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete (especially because of my internet troubles) list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in December 2016:

Fairpoint Communications began their planned elimination of 153 jobs in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont!

Alabama: Sitel shutting down their 15 years old call center in Covington County, 4-hundred jobs gone by Spring 2017! Sitel execs gave no explanation which pissed off the mayors of two cities directly affected by the shutdown: “We were really shocked!”-Becky Bracke, Mayor of Opp

“…is Grinch making these decisions or human beings…?”-Earl Johnson, Mayor of Andalusia

Arizona: AT&T eliminated 50 jobs in Phoenix.

California: San Jose headquartered but France based SunPower announced it will shutdown a solar power panel factory and layoff 2-thousand 5-hundred people in 2017! It’s blamed on crashing retail prices for solar panels, SunPower is considered the second largest solar power panel maker in the United States.  San Francisco advertising company AdRoll ‘rolled’ 29 of its employees by suddenly laying them off, despite reporting record level revenues.  AdRoll execs claim the layoffs were needed to expand the company.  Once again, DreamWorks Animation eliminating jobs, this time 170 people in Glendale to be pushed to the curb (on top of 2-hundred jobs eliminated elsewhere)! Blame it on DreamWorks new owner NBCUniversal.  Semiconductor maker Atmel issued a layoff WARN for its San Jose ops, 45 jobs gone by February 2017.

Connecticut: Danbury based maker of power plant fuel cells FuelCell Energy eliminated 96 jobs due to lack of sales.

Florida: Tennessee based marketer, call center operator and job outsourcer Sitel issued a shutdown WARN for their Pompano Beach operations, 804 jobs gone by the end of February 2017!  Orlando based maker of lasers for the healthcare industry Lensar now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

Georgia: Atlanta based social network YikYak laid off about 30 people due to “strategic changes”.

Illinois: Chicago based jobs company Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that employers increased job killing by 25% compared to November.

Kentucky: Louisville based internet selling site CafePress confirmed it laid off more employees due to a “strategic” shift in policy.  Back in August CafePress eliminated jobs at its California ops.

Massachusetts: For the second time this year Boston based bar management software developer BevSpot laid off employees.  Reports say BevSpot’s entire ‘outbound’ sales department was canned due to low sales to restaurants and bars.

Minnesota: Seagate suddenly laid off 155 people in Shakopee, due to crashing demand for hard drives!

New York: NYC based Associated Press laid off 25 people. 

Pennsylvania: Comcast issued a WARN for their Lancaster operations, 78 jobs gone by May 2017.

Washington: Spokane based internet retailer etailz eliminating at least 8% of its positions due to selling out to New York based Trans World Entertainment.  Seattle Times warned employees of layoffs due to crashing advertising revenue.

Tech/Communications shutdown November 2016: GRINCH CONDUCTS MASSIVE “ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING”, MERRY XMAS!

U.S. Banking/Retail/Service sector destruction December 2016: “I AM FIGHTING….AN UNWINNABLE FIGHT.”

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High Tech Fail: Idaho’s low tech paper ballots ranked one of most trustworthy for U.S. elections!

08 January 2017 (13:51 UTC-07 Tango 06) 19 Dey 1395/09 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1438/11 Ji Chou 4714

The University of Sydney, in Australia, recently published their study of the U.S. voting system (done with the cooperation of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University), or systems since there is no standardized system of voting across the United States.

The latest and greatest electronic voting systems failed to boost the election integrity of the more populous U.S. states.

In fact, Idaho’s old fashioned mainly paper ballot system helped The Gem State earn the second highest ranking for election integrity in the United States (behind tiny Vermont)!  Keep in mind that the logistics of casting and counting votes in Idaho is delegated down to the county level, also realize that even though Idaho is considered one of the best for election integrity there were several cases of documented vote fraud.

And time for another reality check, the United States as a whole (once considered the leader in world democratic ideals) is still ranked among the lowest for election integrity in the ‘western’ europeanized world (once known as Christendom), along with the United Kingdom.

RIGHT TO VOTE? YEAH RIGHT! CLINTON CASTS ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE FOR CLINTON!

PROOF VOTING IS NOT A RIGHT: IDAHO CODE 34-435

IDAHO MAKES IT HARDER TO GET A LIBRARY CARD THAN TO VOTE!

WHAT DEMOCRACY? IDAHO VOTERS FOOLED, LAP TOP PROPOSITION A DONE DEAL TO HELP SAVE HEWLETT PACKARD!