Category Archives: U.S.

International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Obama regime to base nuke weapons in Japan! More proof U.S. claims against Iran are bogus!

15 February 2014 (13:48 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/26 Bahman 1392/16 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Kyodo News reports that neo-imperialist Foreign Minister Kishida Fumio announced Japan is willing to allow the Obama regime to base nuclear weapons in Japan.  This is a direct result of increasing tensions between Japan, China, Korea and several other east Asian countries over the oil rich areas in and around the South China Sea.

But wait, there’s more.  Turns out that Japan has had this ‘secret’ nuclear weapons deal with the United States since the Cold War, revealed in 2010 by then Foreign Minister Okada Katsuya:“We have never been able to categorically assert that no nuclear weapons were brought into Japan.”

It turns out there are U.S. nuke weapons on Okinawa, in direct violation of the Japanese signing of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as well as their own non-nuclear policies which state that no nuclear weapons are allowed in Japan.

I’ve written before that Japan is probably building nuke weapons, after the head of Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) admitted they were not ensuring that nuclear material was being used for “peaceful purposes”, saying the AEC was only a “formality”.

Japan has also made a deal with Turkey to reprocess nuclear fuel, allowing Turkey to extract weapons grade plutonium for Japan!  Nuclear analysts have surmised that if Japan openly went for building nuke weapons it could do it in less than 12 months.

Japan even wants to get involved with the Iranian nuclear program! So why is the United States all hot and bothered about Iran?

Remember, Japan is a puppet of the United States, and the Obama regime has repeatedly stated they will back up Japan even if it means war with China or North Korea.  Obama is not bringing the troops back home from the illegal War on Terror, he’s  shifting U.S. military power to Japan, and South Korea, for the coming war with China.

Japan wants UN to recognize slave labor industry as a “World Heritage”!

Japan wants UN to recognize suicide bombers as a “World Heritage”!

Japan to build nuclear power plants in Iran!

Official Orwellian Double-Speak pro-war propaganda program has begun 

Japanese leaders overheard talking about invading Korea!

Japanese news media is reporting that Hagel is planning to officially ask Japan to prepare to take over some U.S. military ops

Trilateral Commission member, Japan, to create new Homeland Security office!

Japan enters U.S. data collection/spying market!

Imperialist Japan to increase military spending by tens of billions 

TriLateral Imperialism as the U.S. mulls allowing Japan to invade Korea!!!

The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller in 1973.  The official goal is to foster economic and political co-operation between Japan, North American countries and European countries (notice these are the regions that are currently in big economic trouble).

In 2000, the Japan membership was expanded to include many other Asian countries, and is now called the Pacific Asian Group.

In April 2013, Japan became a member of NATO (which has become the Trilateral Commission’s military unit): “…..You might ask why the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should come to the Pacific region.  The answer is very simple.  Today’s NATO is a new NATO.  It’s a NATO with a global perspective.  It’s a NATO with global partners.  And Japan is our longest-standing global partner…..NATO and Japan are like-minded……we can help the United Nations and the international community to reinforce the rules-based international system……we need common approaches and responses…….To confront global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks, and proliferation…..And I am delighted that later today, Prime Minister Abe and I will sign a Joint Political Declaration to guide our future work.”-Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, from statement made on the morning of 15 April 2013, Japan National Press Club

Idaho, U.S.

Medical Martial Law: U.S. doctor with connections to Fort Hall, Idaho, convicted of torturing children!

14 February 2014 (12:55 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/25 Bahman 1392/15 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

A famous pediatrician, now in the U.S. state of Delaware, has been convicted by his peers of waterboarding his wife’s daughter.  The sick Christian doctor tried to claim he was washing the girl’s hair!  He had been charged with other tortures as well, such as starvation, force feeding, suffocation and forcing the girl to use her toy box as a toilet.

In 2012, the girl managed to runaway and get help.  Her mother pled guilty to endangering her daughter’s life, she said she was afraid of the loving Christian doctor and went along with whatever he said.

What made this sicko famous were his two books published in the 1990s, about near death experiences (NDE).  It should have been a warning because they focused on children who died and came back to life.  He also wrote magazine articles and even appeared on Oprah and Larry King.  How could a doctor have so many encounters with children who died and came back?

He was a pediatrician who worked in the states of Washington, Delaware, California and even for the Fort Hall Indian Health Service in Idaho.  In 2007 he created The Spiritual Scientific Research Foundation, and has been praised for his NDE research by several ‘Christian’ organizations.  Is it possible he actually instigated the NDE in the helpless children under his control?   His name; Melvin Morse.

 

International, U.S.

Proof medical radiation equals cancer! Nix chemo, x-ray and even mammograms! Cell phones do cause cancer, because they emit radiation, get rid of 4G! International conspiracy? Wake up people!

14 February 2014 (02:10 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/25 Bahman 1392/15 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

“We are silently irradiating ourselves to death.” Doctors Rita Redberg and Rebecca Smith-Bedman, of the University of California, went on to basically say the entire U.S. medical industry is incompetent: “A recent study at one New York hospital found that nearly a third of its patients undergoing multiple cardiac imaging tests were getting a cumulative effective dose of more than 100 millisieverts of radiation — equivalent to 5,000 chest X-rays. And last year, a survey of nuclear cardiologists found that only 7 percent of stress tests were done using a “stress first” protocol (examining an image of the heart after exercise before deciding whether it was necessary to take one of it at rest), which can decrease radiation exposure by up to 75 percent.”

“Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma have a 20-fold increased risk of mesothelioma after radiotherapy.”–Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Malignant Mesotheliomas Arising in Patients With a History of Radiation for Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

A new study (see quote above) has surprising results, saying most new cases of mesothelioma are not caused by asbestos, but by exposure to radiation!  Specifically, in the case of lymphoma people who got radiation treatment ended up getting mesothelioma, sarcomas of soft tissue and bone, stomach, breast and/or thyroid cancers!  By the way, the study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital was published back in November 2013, where was the main stream news media?

If you think about it, cancer cases have been increasing as more and more stupid people are duped into undergoing medical radiation treatments for a variety of things.  ‘Simple’ x-rays, MRIs and even angeoplasty are bombarding you with radiation!

In Tennessee, former and current employees at the incompetent Methodist Medical Center are suing after being exposed to excessive levels of radiation put out by the hospital’s CT scanner.  Here’s what happened: CT scan operators and recording equipment are supposed to be protected by a radiation proof wall. Employees knew something wasn’t right when the recording equipment was failing.  Turns out the wall between the CT scanner and recording/observation room was not radiation proof!  Now realize that people are put into these massive electromagnetic radiation generators!  (Mmmm, now what was that about all those TSA scanners at the airports?)

In Washington DC, the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has issued new rules for the use of medical radiation, admitting that previous treatments are dangerous: “….this standard will…..reduce normal tissue irradiation so patients can reap the benefits of this treatment without the risk of damaging adjacent healthy tissue. The RT-1 standard defines specific technical ‘fail safe’ provisions…..in a safe and effective manner”

The California Dental Association (CDA) has changed its rules for taking x-rays of people’s teeth.  It’s all about reducing medical radiation risks: “Dentists have a responsibility to protect their patients and staff, and to make sure necessary exposures are kept as low as reasonably achievable.”-James Stephens, CDA

Out of Canada, a study warns that treating prostate cancer with radiation causes other cancers: “Cancers of the rectum, for example, cancers of the bladder, cancers of the bloodstream that occurred…we think due to the radiation exposure.”-Robert Nam, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Also out of Canada, researchers are saying radioactive mammograms do nothing to prevent cancer deaths in women!!!

Back at the beginning of 2013, researchers from United Kingdom reported that radiation treatment for breast cancer resulted in increased risk of heart problems for women.

Researchers in New Zealand are now warning that a skin protectant should be used during all medical radiation treatment.  The University of Otago Wellington’s Department of Radiation Therapy says from day one of radiation therapy people must protect their skin.  In the past five years, five hospitals were randomly studied.  The Kiwi researchers also point out that the international medical community is grossly ignorant about the effects of radiation treatments!

I’ve always asked this question since I was a kid: “If radiation causes cancer, why do doctors treat cancer with radiation?”

In Japan, the Fukushima prefectural Dental Association, along with Tohoku University and Ohu University, has begun a five year study of the effects of the ongoing nuclear disaster there, on children’s teeth.  Radiation collects in baby teeth.  Researchers hope to collect 4-thousand teeth per year, as they fall out when the adult teeth come in.  The baby teeth will be definitive proof as to how much strontium and cesium people are being exposed to.

In May 2011, the UN’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) declared cell phones a Group 2B human carcinogen, because they emit radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs).   Then, in 2013 a new study backed up the UN’s claim.   The researchers surveyed Swedish people, with brain cancer, about their cell phone use.  They also compared land line phone users to 2G and 3G cell phone users.  Land line phone users had an incredibly small rate of brain cancer, while users of 3G phones had the highest rate of brain cancer.  This could be because the more powerful your cell phone is the more RF-EMF it puts out!

In India, the mayor of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Sunil Prabhu, is refusing to allow the installation of 4G cell phone towers saying “…we don’t know up to what level the towers will emanate radiation. Hence, we have instructed the administration to find out the possible effects of the same on residents’ health.”

Landlords in the United Arab Emirates have revealed that people are refusing to live in apartments near cell phone towers.

By the way, a study out of U.K. says wearing tinfoil, or aluminum foil hats (sorry Number 9 from Futurama), does not block radiation from cell phones! However, they also said cell phones are safe!

 

International, U.S.

Medical Martial Law: Obama regime conducts operation Global Health Security Agenda to force vaccinations, at gun point?

14 February 2014 (22:56 UTC-07 Tango 13 February 2014)/13 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/25 Bahman 1392/15 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

“We’ll also work to strengthen immunization programs to prevent deaths today but also to establish the infrastructure if it were needed in the future.”–Thomas Frieden, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

For fiscal year 2015 (which begins in October 2014) the Obama regime is asking Congress to fork over $45-million U.S. tax dollars to fund the CDC’s new international medical martial law op known as Global Health Security Agenda.

Barack Obama announced “Today, I joined Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and representatives of more than 25 nations, the World Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to launch the Global Health Security Agenda.”

Chinese news media reporting 26 nations have joined the Obama regime’s international medical martial law: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom and Vietnam.

Other news sources reported as many as 30 nations involved with the Trojan Horse operation.

“To achieve these goals is important to coordinate the many departments and agencies that will play a role in the Global Health Security agenda, including the Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, State, Defense, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.”-DHHS, GlobalHealth.gov

Note that this new “agenda” involves using the U.S. military.

It’s also interesting to note that the GlobalHealth.gov website, were you can find the pro-Global Health Security Agenda propaganda, lists people who are “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender” as a separate health problem.

Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Idaho politicians give away more than $1-million in Idaho taxes, to France!

12 February 2014 (14:43 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/23 Bahman 1392/13 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Time and time again, Idaho’s ‘elected’ officials (the same ones who keep getting re-elected for more than a decade now) give away the taxes paid by struggling Idahoan’s in the hopes of creating jobs.  Most of the time the efforts fail, big.

This time, at least $1-million USD in tax breaks and straight up cash in their pockets is being given to a company called Materne North America.  Materne North America is controlled by Materne, a fruit products company based in France.  (it’s known for its GoGoSqueeze products in the U.S.)

Politicians are hoping Materne will operate a $85-million apple sauce factory in Nampa.

The Idaho Department of Commerce revealed they are giving Materne $350-thousand to help with renovations of the abandoned Micron computer chip factory.

The Idaho Department of Labor is giving Materne $500-thousand to train up the new employees.

Canyon County is giving Materne a five year exemption from paying local property taxes.

An unnamed city official admitted that the city of Nampa is waving more than $100-thousand in permit fees.

Talk to the people of Pocatello and Chubbuck (in Bannock County) about what happened when their ‘elected’ officials threw away millions to help a now defunct company called Hoku Materials.   Here’s an idea; if the government of the state of Idaho is so willing to spend big taxpayer bucks on attracting foreign companies to set up shop in the Gem State, then why not create state run enterprises instead?

Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Idaho’s Coldwater Creek fails to find buyer, now looking for massive bail out loan! Bankruptcy next?

11 February 2014 (12:45 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/22 Bahman 1392/13 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Reports say Idaho based women’s clothing seller, Coldwater Creek, failed to find a hoped for buyer.

Perella Weinberg Partners was hired to help company officials find a way to save the business.  According to Richard Collings, unnamed company sources say they are now desperate for a bail out loan.

Idaho, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Idaho cop joins dumb ass dog killer club! If a cop can kill a dog for barking then why can’t one person kill another for playing Thug Music?

11 February 2014 (12:18 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/22 Bahman 1392/13 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

“It was right outside my son’s bedroom. What if it had ricocheted through the window?”-Rick Clubb

A dumb ass Obama licking Idaho cop from the city of Filer (in Twin Falls County), killed a Black Lab after he aggressed it by kicking it, screaming at it and shoving a gun in its face, multiple times.

A cop was called by neighbors simply complaining that two dogs were running loose.  The Filer police department says their wimp ass cop was being “aggressed” by the Labs.

Video posted on the internet shows that the responding dip schtick cop got the dogs riled up when he aggressed them by screaming at the dogs even before he got out of the car. He began kicking at the dogs, pulled his gun and started shoving it in their faces, screaming “Get back!” as if dogs can understand human talk!  (I’ve put some of my dogs through obedience training and don’t ever recall “Get back!” being part of the verbal command training)

If you can kick a dog away from you, while screaming at it and shoving a gun in its face, then two things are possible:  1; the dog is not that aggressive and will probably keep its distance if you keep yours, 2; the dog will eventually attack if you continue to harass and ‘aggress’ the dog in such a manner!

It looks to me that the dogs are only protecting their owner’s property, and the aggressive behavior of the Obama regime cop makes them more upset (but oh,  this is exactly how Obama regime cops are trained to respond to any situation; with aggression)!

The Black Lab that was killed was a service dog for the man of the house, who has Parkinson’s disease: “I’m going to sue them, I’m going to sue the City of Filer and the police chief and officer!”-Rick Clubb

By the way, the owners of the dogs were holding a birthday party for their nine years old son while the evil cop was outside killing their dog.

Everyday I witness the same dumb ass cop behavior in our neighborhood kids as they walk home from the school bus stop.  They like to scream, and thrown sticks and rocks at dogs that are behind six foot tall fences.  Many times when I go outside and tell the kids to stop, they tell me it’s the dogs that are ‘aggressing’ them!  So if in the minds of dog phobic people all it takes is for a dog to bark at them in order to feel justified in causing it harm (even when it’s behind a fence), then maybe that guy who’s on trial for killing people because they played “thug music” is justified as well!  He says he feels threatened by thug music.

Better yet, I feel threatened by dog phobic people, as well as by people who are against the U.S. Bill of Rights, and people who push their religion on me…………If simply feeling threatened is not a legal excuse for violence, why do cops not only get away with it all the time, but are actually trained to respond to ‘threats’ with lethal violence?

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 05-08 February 2014: Government officials behind mass starvation? Germany decides to stay! National Guard reveals deployments for 2015! Obama regime steals Apaches from North Carolina! U.S. plans to increase opium running ops?

Jowzjan Province: In Darzab District a snow storm cut off 550 villages.  10 people were killed when they got lost in the four days long blizzard.

Nangarhar Province: In Jalalabad City, a bomb exploded near a school.  Hospital officials reported two children killed, 11 wounded.  In Chaprihar District, villagers reported that U.S. led forces (possibly Obama’s new Presidential Guards?) conducted night time Israeli style home invasions, kidnapping seven people.  In Rodat District, Mujahideen claim they ambushed a group of police trainees as they were waiting for their transportation.  Mujahideen say they caused dozens of casualties, including two NATO-ISAF (possibly contracted U.S. cops) military trainers.

Nuristan Province:  The governor and two other provincial officials were fired after being accused of stealing foreign food aid.  The food aid consisted of more than 3-thousand tons of wheat.  This comes after UN reports of unexplained skyrocketing cases of starvation of children.  The two other officials fired held the positions of Disaster Management and Rural Rehabilitation and Development.

The German government has approved an extension of Bundeswehr personnel deployments to Afghanistan past the 2014 ‘pullout’ date.  There is a catch, the Afghan government must sign the Obama regime’s ‘security’ pact. For some odd reason Germany has been pushing President Hamid Karzai to sign the imperialist deal.

The U.S. Department of Defense revealed that more than $2-billion USD in taxpayer money has been spent supposedly fighting the record levels of opium production, since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.  The record level of U.S. citizens now addicted to heroin proves the $2-billion counternarcotics ops in Afghanistan is a big ass fail!  However, the Defense Department’s principal director for counternarcotics and global threats, Erin M. Logan, told Congress otherwise: “We believe that $2 billion has been well spent in developing specialized units and capabilities that have begun to achieve concrete results.”

Logan also revealed, using Orwellian double speak, that the U.S. government will increase its opium drug running ops: “DOD plans to continue its successful and effective partnership with the interagency and international partners to disrupt the sources of revenue for terrorists and insurgents, and reduce the corrosive, corruptive, and destabilizing impact of illicit narcotics.”

The Army National Guard’s 242nd Engineer Detachment (Connecticut) is deploying to Afghanistan.  Major General Thaddeus J. Martin revealed that National Guard personnel from across the U.S. are already scheduled for deployments in 2015!

The Army National Guard’s 829th Engineer Company (Wisconsin) is deploying to Afghanistan. “They’ll be involved with deconstructing facilities that have been used by the military in Afghanistan….”-1st Lieutenant Joe Trovato

The U.S. Department of Defense revealed they will confiscate the Army National Guard’s 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion’s (North Carolina) AH-64 Apache gun ships, as well as their UH-72 Lakotas.

The Army National Guard’s 1-135th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion (Missouri) has returned from Afghanistan.  The Obama regime will now confiscate their Apaches and Lakotas.

A federal court in the U.S. has sent 12 U.S. citizens to prison (for 15 days) and fined them $250 each for protesting UAV (drone) strikes.  The Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars had demonstrated on the Hancock Air National Guard Base, in New York, back in 2012.

International, U.S.

Norovirus: The Shining scares off hotel guests! Texas news media reveal how stupid they are, calling it a new bug! New Mexico tired of media & even doctors getting it wrong!

08 February 2014 (15:27 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/19 Bahman 1392/09 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Japan: Health officials confirmed 17632 people infected with norovirus in 2013.  They also report that every year, for the past ten years, the infection rate increased.  Four people died from norovirus in December.  In one case a person got sick with symptoms a full ten days after actually getting infected.  This belies many news media and even doctors’ claims that it’s a 48 hours bug.

New Zealand:  In Auckland, Middlemore hospital reports a norovirus outbreak. 14 people, including employees, are sick.

United Kingdom:  In London, famous Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner restaurant shutdown for one week of cleaning over norovirus outbreak. Several U.S. citizens got sick after they visited the U.K., and it was traced back to the restaurant.  Health officials in Sudbury reporting increase cases of gastrointestinal illness, likely to be caused by norovirus.

The U.S. CDC revealed that over the past 20 years norovirus caused 67% of cruise ship gastrointestinal illness outbreaks!  By the way the stupid U.S. main streamer news media continues to call it stomach flu.  Hey dumb shits, it is not influenza! Stop confusing your audience!

Arkansas, U.S.A.: In Pine Bluff, Trinity Village Nursing Home on lockdown after 50 people got sick with norovirus.

Colorado, U.S.A.: Outbreak reported at Legacy High School. 100 students out sick with suspected norovirus.

Kansas, U.S.A.: Reports that the Riverview Elementary School was “…hit with some sort of gastrointestinal virus.”

New Hampshire, U.S.A.: In Claremont, dumb ass local news media reported outbreaks of stomach “flu”, after officials at the Valley Regional Hospital reported increased cases of acute gastroenteritis. Influenza does not cause gastroenteritis dumb ass Valley News, stop confusing people!

New Mexico, U.S.A.: Officials with the Albuquerque Environmental Health Department are so tired of the news media, and even health professionals(!), not understanding what norovirus is that they’ve hosted a 2nd free norovirus training seminar!

New York, U.S.A.: Evil spirits return to The Shining hotel!  Mohonk Mountain House forced to close for a week of exorcism, I mean deep cleaning after a gastrointestinal outbreak, suspected to be norovirus.

Oregon, U.S.A.: In Tigard, a woman sickened by norovirus after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant, sued because she was forced to have an unplanned for C-section as a result of the infection.

Tennessee, U.S.A.: Sullivan County Health Department reporting an outbreak of norovirus. At least 27 cases from mid-January to 01 February.  They seemed to be connected to birthday parties held at a local business.

Texas, U.S.A.: In Richardson, over a seven day period 1400 Richardson High School students called in sick, with suspected norovirus.  Dumb ass KETK TV reported norovirus as “….a new virus…..making its rounds around East Texas.”  Jesus Christ people where have you been, in a hole?  Here, you obviously oblivious KETK, is a little history lesson about norovirus: The first norovirus case occurred in 1968 in Norwalk, Ohio U.S.A. This is why it is sometimes called the Norwalk virus. However, the 1968 outbreak was not confirmed until 1972, when researchers were finally able to identify the virus. Ever since then, year after year, there are more and more cases, and stronger and stronger versions of the virus.

The U.S. CDC says norovirus accounts for as many as 800 deaths in the United States, every year.

Norovirus (aka Norwalk Virus), is a surface contact bug, meaning you pick it up by touching or eating it.  It is not influenza and there is still no vaccine for fast evolving RNA norovirus.  The only ‘treatment’ is to keep the sick person hydrated.

Exotic anti-biotic soaps can’t kill norovirus, or any other virus for that matter, because anti-biotics are only for bacteria.  Despite that, even hand ‘sanitizers’ made with alcohol can’t totally get rid of norovirus.   Guess what apparently works?  According to the U.S. CDC old fashioned hand soap is best.  Consumer Reports says to leave the soap on your hands for a minimum of 20 seconds.  Also, in public restrooms use a paper towel to turn off the faucet and to open the door, do not touch surfaces with your bare hands after washing them.

Wash household surfaces with bleach.

The worse thing is that you can be infected and not have any symptoms.  An infected person can spread norovirus, yet not feel sick themselves. If you think you might be infected do not cook food for other people. People recovering from traditional symptoms of norovirus can continue spreading the bug for days after feeling better (some reports say weeks).

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 24 October 2013. More massive mortgage industry layoffs! Dollar store goes down? More ObamaCare job cuts & service cuts to the poor!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

What housing market recovery?  Too Big to Jail Bank of America laid off  3-thousand people in their mortgage division! 1200 were direct BoA employees, the others were contracted employees.

California: The 99 Cents Only Store chain laid off 160 people!  Company officials blamed it on increased competition among dollar stores. In San Clemente, Treasures Discovered antique store shutdown.  The owners said they were forced to sell their business to raise money for treatment for their daughter’s health problems.

Colorado: In Loveland, Anthology Book Company shutdown after 25 years in business.  It was blamed on the bad economy, “just not generating enough revenue to sustain a presence”.

Florida: In Pensacola, after 38 years Addie’s House of Flowers shutdown.

Georgia: Phoebe Putney Health System laid off 124 people! Other jobs will be contracted out. Joel Wernick, president and CEO, blamed Obama Care: “Like other hospitals and health systems throughout the United States, Phoebe is facing a tidal wave of economic change. We’re dealing with an economy and a change in the healthcare industry over which we have limited control.”

Illinois: In West Frankfort, Coleman-Rhoads Furniture shutdown after 33 years in business. The property is now up for sale.

Indiana: The International School of Columbus shutdown. School officials blame the bad economy: “We’ve had to fund raise for the past four years and it’s just a never ending process for charter schools.”-Jonah Sims

Michigan: In Port Huron, tax sucker GMA Cover Corporation shutdown.  It’s blamed on military spending cuts.  175 job lost!

New York: In Albany, DeJohn’s Restaurant & Pub shutdown.  Legends Sports Lounge shutdown.  The owner of the bars said cops were harassing him, forcing him to close two hours before other bars.

Pennsylvania: In Ligonier, Rosary Acres grocery store shutdown.  The owners blame the bad economy: “After two and a half years, we did not make a profit. At some point we had to face reality.”-Rick Adams

Virginia: In Carytown, Moshi Moshi restaurant shutdown. In Woodbridge, Daks Grill shutdown.

Washington: Non-profit Visiting Nurse Home Care ended operations.  150 jobs lost!  It’s blamed on government cuts to funding for the poor: “We were serving the poorest of the poor and there’s just not enough money in those programs to cover our overhead, to provide the administration of the program.”-Barry Meyers

West Virginia: Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races laid off an undisclosed number of employees: “It’s an unfortunate consequence of the economy.”-Al Britton, general manager

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