Category Archives: U.S.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 02-05 December 2013: More proof Obama wants to stay in Afghanistan! U.S. Militiamen get awards for valor, and prison time? Security deal part of Title 10!

Badghis Province: In Bala Morghab District, a major battle between Afghan National Army (ANA) and Mujahideen lasted three days, and killed at least 100 people.

Ghazni Province: In Deh Yak District, a tribal elder was assassinated as he left a Mosque.  The cops have no idea who did it.

Helmand Province: In Marjah District, two people killed, 10 wounded after a bomb exploded.  Nobody is taking credit for the bombing.  Then a second explosion in the same district killed one cop and wounded one cop.  Also in the same district, villagers report that U.S. led forces kidnapped two people during an Israeli style home invasion.

Kandahar Province: In Panjwai District, four people killed after a motorcycle ran over a landmine.  In Maiwand District, a massive suicide attack on a U.S.-NATO-ISAF convoy.  Local cops report as many as 30 people killed.  The convoy was stopped at a busy market place when the attack took place. No comment from NATO-ISAF.

Kunar Province: In Manogi District, a U.S.-NATO-ISAF drone strike killed at least five people. Of course U.S.-NATO-ISAF officials say those killed were “militants”.

Maidan Wardak Province: In Nerkh District, four cops killed, 19 wounded by suicide bomber.  The bomber targeted the district’s police HQ.

Nangarhar Province: A motorcycle bomb exploded near a local university, wounding seven people.  Police arrested the owner of the motorcycle, who is also a student at the university.  In Ghani Khail District, Mujahideen claim they killed two U.S.-NATO-ISAF personnel in an ambush on a military convoy.  In Bati Kot District, villagers say an Israeli style home invasion resulted in three brothers being shot and killed.

Zabul Province: In Arghandab District, the district police chief and six cops were wounded by an explosion.  Three cops were killed.

Transparency International (TI) list Afghanistan as being tied for first place for corruption.  North Korea and Somalia are also tied for top places for corruption.  Officials with TI point out that Afghanistan is a major failure as the U.S. led West has poured trillions in taxpayer money, and military domination into a country with a thousand year history of anarchy (localized self rule, no centralized government system).

The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) blames the U.S. Department of Defense for failing to provide oversight for the billions in lost taxpayer dollars sent to Afghanistan!

NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said NATO would withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan if President Hamid Karzai does not sign the Obama regime’s bilateral security agreement.  But wait, isn’t that what most people in Afghanistan want?  Isn’t that what most people in the United States and Europe want?   Why is Obama pushing to stay when he promised to leave?

The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, said the Obama regime will except the signature of the Afghan Defense Minister on the Obama regime’s so called security deal.  This is because President Karzai continues to complain about the details of the deal, and he has repeatedly stated he would rather the U.S. forces would leave Afghanistan!  However, Kerry’s ploy backfired when Karzai banned any minister from signing the deal: “President Karzai wants an absolute end to the military operations on Afghan homes and a meaningful start to the peace process, and we are certain that the Americans can practically do that within days or weeks. As long as these demands are not accepted, President Karzai will not authorize any minister to sign it!”-Aimal Faizi, spokesman for President Hamid Karzai

The Obama regime’s security deal with Afghanistan is actually part of the new Title 10.  This involves the role of the U.S. military with NATO members, and affiliated non-members. The New Jersey National Guard has already gone through Title 10 training in Germany.  This training is planned for every month through to the end of 2014 (when U.S.-NATO is supposedly going to leave Afghanistan).  Title 10 is all part of creating a greater NATO: “They are mainly concerned with Title 10 training……to make sure U.S. Army units are well integrated with our NATO and multinational partners….The training is exactly in harmony with what we want to attain in the whole of NATO.”-Colonel Thomas S. Matsel, Joint Multinational Training Command

Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, from the U.S. territory of Guam, were told they will be going home one month early.  At least three Guam militiamen were killed in Afghanistan.

Army National Guard’s 141st Military History Detachment, from the U.S. state of Washington, are in Afghanistan to compile an official history for the Center for Military History in Washington DC.

In the U.S. state of North Dakota, four militiamen from the 1919th Contingency Contracting Team returned from Afghanistan and Qatar.  Also, 40 militiamen with the 814th Medical Company deployed to Afghanistan.

A member of the Oklahoma Army National Guard, now serving in Afghanistan, is asking the Tulsa courts to hold off on a grand jury trial until he gets back from combat!  The militiaman used to be a Owasso City councilman, but along with other city officials is being accused of malfeasance.  The former councilman says he is involved with top secret heliborne ops and there is no way he can end his tour early.  Attempts to use the internet or social media to get his testimony in court have failed.

A member of the Maryland Army National Guard is wanted by the FBI.  The militiaman is in Afghanistan, but his civilian job is being a Baltimore City police officer.  The FBI says the cop by day, and militiaman on weekend drills, is connected to the Black Guerrilla Family gang.  It’s all part of the FBI’s investigation of mass cop corruption at the Baltimore Jail!  The FBI is working to have the militiaman extradited back to Baltimore.

The National Guard from the U.S. states of Mississippi and Montana, are taking part in so called anti-drug ops with the government of Kyrgyzstan.  They claim they are stopping the drugs coming out of U.S. controlled Afghanistan.  It’s part of the 2011 DOD Counternarcotics and Global Terrorism Strategy.

Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing, 103rd Rescue Squadron, from the U.S. state of New York, presented six militia-airmen with medals of valor: “On Dec. 10, 2012 the six 103rd Rescue Squadron Airmen were the Guardian Angel team assigned to man two HH-60 Pavehawk rescue helicopters….A friendly platoon (about 25 Soldiers) had been ambushed and the four Soldiers….were very badly injured.The friendly unit was still under Taliban fire…..the Air Guardsmen…..treated three patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds and also stabilized a gravely wounded American Soldier who was missing his legs and an arm….called in support from the HH-60 Pavehawk helicopters and a pair of Army Kiowa Warrior OH-58 helicopter gunships….evacuated back to the combat surgical hospital at Kandahar Airfield. Unfortunately the triple amputee….died…”

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 20-22 September 2013. Papa John’s going down? Obama Care killing home health care services! Yet again, thousands of people losing their jobs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Blackberry now says at least 45-hundred jobs will be killed!  Blackberry is being forced to restructure due to crashing sales.

Alabama: More coal mine shut downs.  Rocky Mountain Mining and Twin Pines laid off a combined 113 people!

California: Tax sucker Boeing laid off 51 people across the not so Golden State. In San Francisco, John Muir Health begging 212 employees to voluntarily quit! This is on top of the 540 employees that are being laid off!!!  CEO, Cal Knight, referred to Obama Care when he said “In this new health care environment, our current costs are not sustainable in the long run.”  In San Jose, Tico’s Tacos shut down after 56 years in business.  In Sacramento, eight Papa John’s take-n-bake pizza places shut down without notice!  50+ employees will not get their final paychecks (I’ve experienced that). Company officials said only that it was due to “…circumstances beyond our control…”  (In my case the circumstances beyond my employer’s control was the state of Idaho seizing all her assets, for failure to pay taxes/fines, then telling we employees there was nothing left over to pay us with. In other words the state killed our jobs and took our money! And conveniently none of us qualified for unemployment under the state’s draconian Right to Work you over unemployment compensation program) In El Centro, International Paper shut down.  110 jobs lost!  

Florida: In Jacksonville, cigar maker Swisher International laid off 250 people!  Company officials blamed government regulations for their decision to move ops to Dominican Republic.  In Orlando, Darden Restaurants laid off 85 people at the HQ.  Company officials said they need to save $50-million USD per year!

Illinois: In Kewanee, Charitable Resource Foundation shut down. 60 jobs lost.

Indiana: In Carmel, Frontier Communications laid off 54 employees.

Massachusetts: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care laid off 65 employees. CEO Eric Schultz blamed Obama Care for “….the changing health care environment.”  Say, isn’t Obama Care based on Romney Care, and Romney Care was created for Massachusetts?

Michigan: In Berkley, Hiller’s grocery store shut down. Company officials blamed “…many factors…” including the cost of renovation and lack of parking. Basically, the bad economy doesn’t make it worth putting more money into the store.

Minnesota: Crystal Care Home Health Services now bankrupt.  Local news reports said employees are working without pay! The health care provider is accused of ripping off Medicaid.  800 employees affected!

Missouri: Bankrupt furniture maker, Furniture Brands/Thomasville, announced they will shut down all corporate owned stores!

New Jersey: The South Brunswick YMCA shut down.

New York: In Wappingers Falls, Southeastern Container shut down. 31 jobs lost.

North Carolina: In Smithfield, electronics maker AB Interconnect shutting down a factory.  70 jobs lost.

Oklahoma: In Tulsa, Steve’s Sundry Books & Magazines shutting down on 31 December 2013.  The owner said the timing of the lease expiring and declining book sales seems to indicate she needs “…to begin the next chapter in my life.”

Rhode Island: The Providence Journal laid off about 30 employees. Revenues continue to drop.

South Carolina: In York, Stacy’s Garden Center shut down after 39 years of business.  It’s blamed on ‘big box’ competition.

South Dakota: In Huron, tax sucker Raven Aerostar shutting down.  75 jobs lost.  Their contracts to supply U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan ended.

Texas: In Edinburg, International Paper-Edinburg East Container Plant shut down.  105 jobs lost!

Utah: In Ogden, after 40 years Gardiner’s Sew & Quilt shut down. “We just gotta retire. The years have caught up with us.”-Kurt Gardiner, 80 something years old owner

Washington: Sprint laying off 161 people! Company officials blame it on their takeover of Clearwire.  Saint John Medical Center has reduced the hours of its nursing staff.  No, it’s not to make the working conditions better, it’s blamed on declining customers and reduced reimbursements from Obama Care.  Saint John is owned by PeaceHealth Columbia Network, which recently eliminated 500 jobs at its various hospitals!

West Virginia: In Moundsville, TeleTech shut down.  258 jobs lost!

Wisconsin: In Waunakee, Owens & Minor Distribution shut down. 70 jobs lost.

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, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Sears and Kmart closing in Michigan! Disney disses Pakistan, could affect Sears & Kmart!

30 December 2013 (12:22 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Safar 1435/09 Dey 1392/28 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

Somehow I missed this one: According to a report out of Bloomfield Township (Bloomfield Hills), Michigan, the local Kmart and Sears are closing.

The Kmart had a name change at the beginning of the year, to KDollar.  Sears Holdings’ experiment into ‘dollar’ stores failed, because the store shut down this month.   Reports said the closing sale discounts were being mirrored at the Bloomfield Township Sears, which implies it is shutting down too.  The Sears and KDollar share the same retail property address.

The Disney corporation has decided to stop buying clothing made in Pakistan.  Disney’s subsidiary, Marvel, is expected to do the same.  The Walt Disney Company has adopted a new Permitted Sourcing Countries list for its slave wage labor made products, and decided Pakistan doesn’t meet their new guidelines.

Pakistani officials believe the new Disney created Permitted Sourcing Countries list will be adopted by U.S. retailers like Sears and Kmart, which could mean a crash in cheap exports from Pakistan by as much as $200-million USD per year.

I find this hypocritical of Disney, and maybe even political, as when you view Disney’s list of “permitted” sources you’ll find countries that are far worse than Pakistan.  Also, Pakistan has been spending billions of dollars, and thousands of lives, helping the U.S. fight the so called War on Terror.  Yet, U.S. officials and U.S. news media are constantly making Pakistan to look like the bad guy.  Is this move by Disney under the guise of “…safe, inclusive, and respectful workplaces…” (soon to be adopted by many other U.S. companies) just a false flag op to crash Pakistan’s economy?   After all, where are the most problematic clothing factories right now?  Bangladesh, not Pakistan.  (Disney swears it does not do business in Bangladesh, yet after every major clothing factory fire there investigators always find clothing with Disney labels on them)

Maybe the real reason Disney is cutting off Pakistan, as a source of products, is that the U.S. (and European) retail economy sucks so bad they just can’t sell all those slave wage labor made products?

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

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

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

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

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

Connecticut:  Waterbury Big Kmart.

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

Guam:  Sears Hometown Store.

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

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

Vacant bedroom/bathroom section.

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

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

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

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

Indiana:  Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Sears (49 jobs lost), South Anthony Kmart (70 jobs lost).

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

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

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

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears (in September 2012 the Sears store re-opened under independent ownership, official grand re-opening scheduled for November), Winchester Kmart (back in May, Rankin Paynter bought out what was left of the inventory and gave it to charity), Hazard Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lexington Fayette Mall Sears (114 jobs lost!).

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

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

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

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials,  Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Flint Kmart (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), recently revealed Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears.

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off.

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

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line, High Ridge Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

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

North Carolina: Cary Kmart (71 jobs lost), High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost), Asheville Kmart (53 jobs lost),  West Smithfield Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winston-Salem Kmart (69 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (58 jobs lost), South Ashville Kmart on Hendersonville Road, Raleigh Kmart (88 jobs lost), Garner Kmart.

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost).

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

New Mexico: Las Cruces Kmart (58 jobs lost).

New York: Depew (Lancaster?) Kmart (68 jobs lost), Colonie Kmart (72 jobs lost),  Fulton Kmart (51 jobs lost).

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

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

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

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost).

South Carolina: Sumter Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Orangeburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Columbia Kmart on Fort Jackson Boulevard in 2012, Columbia Kmart on Bush River Road in 2009, Columbia Kmart on St Andrews Road (66 jobs lost), Irmo Kmart (no info on how many jobs lost),  both Greenville Kmarts (140 jobs lost between the two),  Mount Pleasant Kmart (43 jobs lost).

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

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

Utah:  Orem Kmart (no details reported).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears (at least 40 jobs lost),  Midlothian Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost), Fairfax Kmart (no word on how many jobs lost), Christiansburg Sears (59 jobs lost), Norfolk Kmart on East Little Creek Road (77 jobs lost), Manassas Kmart (71 jobs lost).

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

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

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears (at least 40 jobs lost, local village officials say the store generated 3% of local tax collections), Rice Lake Kmart (about 71 jobs lost),  Brookfield Kmart (56 jobs lost), Racine’s Regency Mall Sears (52 jobs lost), Fort Atkinson Kmart (51 jobs lost).

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

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

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

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

Florida: West Oaks Mall

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

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

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

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

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

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

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 29 November-01 December 2013: Toyota car of the year in Afghanistan, again! U.S. forces kill Mother and Child! Shadow governor assassinated! U.S. stops fuel supply for ANA! U.S. military personnel are drug addicts!

Helmand Province: An explosion at the local National Security Directorate (NDS) compound killed one NDS agent, and wounded two others.   In Faqiran village, a U.S.-NATO drone blew up a house, killing a child and two women, one was the mother of the child.  President Hamid Karzai says this is proof the United States has “no respect” for others. Officials with U.S. led ISAF claims they were trying to target a “…known insurgent riding a motorbike…”  USMC General Dunford officially apologized to Karzai.  In Musa Qala District, five people were killed when the vehicle they were in ran over a landmine.

Herat Province: In Shindand District, Afghan National Army forces claim they assassinated a “shadow governor”, along with seven other Mujahideen.  ANA says the Mujahideen are running a shadow government in Shindand.

Jowzjan Province: In Aqcha District, villagers claim the local Madrasa was raided by U.S. backed government troops.  Three students kidnapped.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, a political representative was wounded after a suicide bomber ran into the politician’s house and blew up.  Two others were wounded.  The politician representing Zabul Province is in critical condition.

Kandahar Province: In Daman District, a suicide bomber attacked a dismounted patrol of U.S.-ISAF and ANA personnel. Government officials say the only people killed were the attacker and a child.  Two people wounded.  Mujahideen say at least 15 people killed.

Kunar Province: In Shegal District, reports that Pakistani artillery fired 20 rounds into the province.  Villagers claim property damage, but no casualties.

Nangarhar Province: In Chaparahar District, provincial officials confirm a U.S. drone crashed.  Mujahideen confirm they watched the drone crash, but did not claim they shot it down.

Uruzgan Province: Army National Guard 184th Security Force Assistance Team, from the U.S. state of California, claims they’ve properly trained up the provincial police forces.

Afghan defense and interior officials claim the United States has stopped fuel supply and other support for ANA and Afghan National Police forces.

More evil committed by the U.S. Obama regime: The Guardian news source reporting that Afghan men, who marry female U.S. military personnel, are being denied by the U.S. government travel rights to the United States to be with their wives and children.

In the U.S. state of Ohio, the family of a National Guard militia man began a campaign to raise awareness of the massive problem of military personnel being addicted to opiates and opiate related pain killers (opium, heroin, morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone,  oxymorphone).  Their militia man son killed himself with heroin.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Afghanistan, India and Iran have agreed to create a trilateral transportation deal to boost their economies.

The Health Ministry reports that there has been a 38% increase in AIDS cases from 2012 to 2013, under U.S. occupation.

Once again, the Toyota Corolla was picked as the favorite car in Afghanistan.  The reason why are: Price, practicality, availability of parts, reliability and fuel economy.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3, North American Front: Tens of thousand of mostly Christians killed in the name of U.S. instigated False Flag Drug War in Mexico! Migrants seaking work in the U.S. at record lows! More deaths in Mexico than in Syria?

25 December 2013 (15:52 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Safar 1435/04 Dey 1392/23 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“The case of Anastacio Hernandez Rojas is emblematic of a disease that runs to the cold heart of the Obama administration’s immigration policy. The administration’s silence before the killing of innocents is enabling the Border Patrol to continue to kill and abuse with utter impunity. This is an agency that refuses to be accountable to anyone.”-Roberto Lovato, co-founder of Presente

The U.S. backed Drug War in Mexico is getting a lot of people killed, and they’re not even Mexicans!  As I’ve written before, most of the people killed in the so called Drug War, are people from Central American countries!

But of course Mexicans are being killed.  The latest case involves five Mexican teenagers who were ran over by a pickup truck as they left a Christmas party in Reynosa, Tamaulipas.  Officials say it was intentional, and that the occupants of the truck were “gunmen”, although no gun shots were reported.

Most people in Mexico and Central America say they’re Catholic Christians, with a growing number switching to other christian ideologies.  It was the Christian George Bush Jr who pushed Mexico into the Drug War, and Christian Barack Obama is continuing it. On the U.S. side of the border U.S. government officials have been busy killing anybody they want, seemingly at random.

Another report revealed that U.S. government agents are also killing U.S. citizens: “Since 2005, on-duty Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers have killed at least 42 people, including at least 13 Americans.”

The Institute for Women in Migration reports that their research confirms that 47-thousand migrant workers have been killed in the so called Drug War in Mexico, since the Bush Jr regime started it.

Mexican newspapers are reporting that between 10-thousand and 70-thousand migrants from Central American countries have gone missing inside Mexico!  Even the UN suggests that U.S. backed Mexican officials are intentionally looking the other way when it comes to Central American migrants trying to reach the U.S.

The Swiss based Academy of International Humanitarian Law says they’ve confirmed that in 2012  nine thousand people were killed in Mexico, as a result of the Drug War, putting Mexico in second place after Syria.  More people were killed in Mexico than in Afghanistan.

The Swiss study also pointed out that many more unsolved and unreported killings in Mexico could be directly attributed to the Drug War, which means Mexico could actually beat out Syria for the most people killed in 2012!

Oh, and for all those ‘mericans that’re sick of those dern Mexicans stealing the very jobs that most ‘mericans wouldn’t take, the study by the Institute for Women in Migration shows that migrant workers going to the U.S. has crashed.  In 2007 Latin American migrants heading to the United States, through Mexico, peaked at a record 682-thousand+.  By the end of 2012 the number of migrants heading to the U.S. hit a record low of 181-thousand!  (that’s a drop of just over half a million migrant workers, for those of you who can’t do the math)

It’s a sign that the U.S. instigated Drug War in Mexico is really targeting migrants, and it’s also a sign of how bad the U.S. economy really is.   So shove that up your red neck Estados Unidos Christian asses!

(don’t forget about radioactive material being stolen in broad daylight)

Mexico losing U.S. instigated drug war to Knights Templar! 

Mexico kicks out U.S. ‘law enforcement’ agencies, blames them for drug war! 

U.S. supported Mexican Generals connected to Drug violence in so called Drug War.

13,000 people killed in the first 9 months of 2011.

U.S. citizens smuggling drugs in and out of Mexico

drug gangs are actually Mexican NAZIs

Mexico’s Drug War, another front in the Control through Chaos

 

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 19 September 2013. More Obama Care crap! Major contraction in banking industry continues! More greedy property owners!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

What housing market recovery? Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo bank is warning that they will probably layoff 18-hundred more employees!  Bank officials blame it on crashing demand for home loans.

Another video game/computer graphics maker going down?  Machinima laid off 22 employees.  Company officials said layoffs were necessary for their “growth”.

California: In Bakersfield, after 20 years the Baskin-Robbins ice cream store shut down.  The store owner blames the property owner (who is also a property developer), who refused to offer a new lease to the ice cream seller.  In Long Beach, tax sucker Boeing announced they will shut down their last major assembly factory in California by 2015.  Boeing ended production of expensive C-17 military transport aircraft.  In Escondido, Palomar Health laid off another 35 employees.  At the beginning of September Palomar Health laid off 122 employees in Escondido!

Connecticut: In Windsor, tax sucker Westinghouse shutting down their nuclear fuel parts factory in 2014.  66 jobs will be lost.

Iowa: The last Kmart store in Cedar Rapids will be closed down.

Maine: In Cape Elizabeth, Too Big to Jail KeyBank shut down the town’s last bank!  It’s part of a nationwide banking industry consolidation (contraction) of operations.

Massachusetts: Global medical device maker, Coviden, announced they are being forced to restructure to meet the Obama Care law, meaning massive layoffs due to shutting down medical device factories.  Obama Care created a new tax on medical device companies, many have decided to end operations rather than pay the tax.

Michigan: In Novi, a Blockbuster video store shut down.  It’s part of plans to shut down all Blockbuster stores. In Wyoming, after 62 years in business, Leatherman Hardware shut down.  The family owners blame an ever worsening economy: “It seemed like our piece of the pie got smaller and smaller each year. The city has changed so much over the years, and things just kept getting harder and harder.”-Dave Leatherman junior

Montana: In butte, Netflix shut down its DVD distribution center.  It’s blamed on crashing sales.

North Carolina: Seven BI-LO stores shut down! It’s blamed on the takeover by a company called Publix.

Ohio: In Jackson, Masco Cabinetry will close its Merillat factory.  200 jobs lost! Local news reports say the company gave no reason.

Oklahoma: In Tulsa, union workers were told by American Airlines that as many as 400 could lose their jobs! It’s blamed on the merger with USAirways.

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

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 25-28 November 2013: Two million drug addicts under U.S. occupation! More free money from World Bank! National Guard heading back to Afghanistan! Guardsmen return home to no jobs!

Badakhshan Province: In Yamgan District, an entire Afghan National Army unit joined the Mujahideen to protest the Obama regime’s post 2014 occupation deal (aka bilateral security deal).  At least 25 U.S.-NATO-ISAF trained soldiers switched sides.  The ANA commander, known as Ashoor, called the security deal a slavery pact with America.

Faryab Province: Six employees of the French NGO, Agency for Technical Co-operation and Development, were shot and killed.  Cops claim they don’t know who did it, but Mujahideen proudly claimed responsibility.

Helmand Province: In Nad Ali District, a Georgian-ISAF tank was blown up.  Witnesses say the crewmen were killed.  Rescuers were hit with another explosion, killing three and wounding two.

Herat Province: In Shindand District, over a two day period government forces stole 200 motorcycles, 50 cars and trucks, and kidnapped two people!  Witnesses say the government forces gave no reason for their actions.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, an explosion was heard.  Cops say it was a trash can bomb, and nobody was hurt.

Kandahar Province: In Panjwai District, a vehicle carrying a family was blown up by a landmine. Three people killed, one child wounded.

Nangarhar Province: In Shirzad District, a Afghan helicopter (most likely paid for with U.S. tax dollars) crashed during anti-opium ops, according to government officials.  However, Mujahideen say the ‘copter was part of a seven ship heliborne assault led by U.S. forces.  Mujahideen say they shot down the ‘copter.  They claim the battle resulted in five U.S.-NATO-ISAF troops killed, seven ANA troops killed and 10 wounded.

Nuristan Province: In Kamdish District, the Afghan National Army called in a U.S.-NATO drone strike.  Two people killed.  ANA officials claim the two people were Mujahideen.

The Pubilc Health Ministry says the U.S. occupation has created more than two million drug addicts in Afghanistan!

The Afghan Ministry of Justice is considering reinstating the Death by Stoning law for people who commit adultery, or have sex without being married.  President Hamid Karzai says he is against such a law.

The U.S. based World Bank is pledging even more free money to Afghanistan.  This time the $50-million USD grant is for making it easier for Afghans to get loans!  It’s called the Afghanistan Access to Finance Project.

The U.S. National Guard Bureau met with Lithuanian military leaders, one of the topics of discussion was the continued occupation of Afghanistan: “We have been tackling with the multinational mission in Afghanistan and training in joint military exercises. We hope that our military cooperation in multinational exercises and operations will not run out and more joint projects will facilitate its further development.”-Juozas Olekas, Lithuanian Minister of National Defense

200 Army National Guard 48th Infantry Brigade militia personnel, from the U.S. state of Georgia, departed for training to prepare for their deployment to Afghanistan in January 2014.

In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a Army National Guard militia man returned from Afghanistan was denied his civilian job.  Sherman Crandle spent a year in Afghanistan.  He left his Best Buy job when he was deployed, but when he returned home Best Buy told him to take a hike!  This violates U.S. law!  But Crandle did not give up: “Throughout the rehiring process it took me about a month and a half to get my job back…[however]…I’ve worked a total like six days so far out of the last three weeks.”

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 18 September 2013. Several thousands more lose their jobs! More Obama Care layoffs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

BlackBerry announced 5-thousand people will lose their jobs!  Company officials blame crashing sales.   In June, BlackBerry reported a loss of $84-million USD.

Arizona: In Tucson, after 23 years the El Mezon del Cobre restaurant shut down.  The owner, a single mother of three, said it was getting too hard to continue operations.

Connecticut:  What automotive industry recovery? In Cheshire, Willow’s Motorsports shut down.  The motorcycle dealer blamed the high price of new motorcycles (who wants to pay more than 10-thousand dollars for a new motorcycle, anybody remember when they were just a couple of hundred?) and internet competition for their declining sales of motorcycle parts.

Florida: In Clearwater, Ruth Eckerd Hall laid off 13 employees. Officials with the non-profit performing arts organization blamed it on declining donations.

Iowa: What automotive industry recovery? In Creston, after 103 years of manufacturing automotive parts and engines, Gits will shut down in 2014! 95 jobs lost.  The company is consolidating manufacturing to other factories.

Kentucky: In Louisville, at least five Swifty gas stations shut down, without notice!  Speculation is that the company lost too much money, because they were an old fashioned gas station selling mainly gas, which generates only pennies in profits on every gallon sold. (that’s pennies on every gallon, not pennies on every dollar.  more proof that you can’t blame the gas stations for the high prices, they’re getting ripped off too)

Maine: In New Bedford, Southcoast Health System laid off 60 people.  Southcoast President and CEO, Keith Hovan, directly blamed Obama Care.

Maryland: In Salisbury, the Peninsula Regional Medical Center laid off 58 people.  That brings this year’s layoffs to 101.  Hospital officials blame declining demand for care and declining reimbursements caused by Obama Care.

Michigan: Too Big to Jail, Flagstar Bank, shut down in Troy, according to a WARN filing.  At least 299 jobs lost!

Missouri: In Saint Louis, tax sucker Boeing laid off 300 people!  Boeing ended production of their expensive C-17 military transport aircraft.

New York: Tax sucker General Electric to shut down its Fort Edward factory.  200 jobs lost!  Company officials moved production to Florida, with little notice to New York employees.

Ohio: Non-profit Summa Health System being killed by Obama Care. 30 more employees were laid off.  Back in January Summa Health laid off 54 employees.  Summa officials are hoping a deal with the Christian God’s Catholic Health Partners will save them.  The largest employer in the region, Cleveland Clinic, laying off as many as 3-thousand people!  Hospital officials blame Obama Care: “To prepare for healthcare reform, Cleveland Clinic is transforming the way care is delivered to patients.…..we need to further reduce costs to the organization by $330 million in 2014.”-Cleveland Clinic press release

Pennsylvania: In Wyomissing, Play It Again Sports shut down. The operators blame declining sales. In Waynesburg, Southwest Regional Medical Center laid off 29 employees.  Hospital officials blame reduced payments caused by Obama Care.  The hospital can no longer offer high level services: “The key change to services available locally is that we will only be performing scheduled surgical procedures and we will not be offering the highest intensity level of services as in the past.”-Cindy Cowie, CEO

South Carolina: A West Ashley Piggly Wiggly grocery store shut down. 14 other Piggy Wiggly stores were sold off!

Washington DC: Education software maker, Blackboard Incorporated, laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  Company officials refuted claims it was 140 employees. Company officials said they needed to reduce operating costs.

West Virginia: Theatre West Virginia shut down after 53 seasons! It’s blamed on the bad economy.  In Morgantown, the Kmart will be shut down. 100 jobs lost!

Wisconsin: OEM Fabricators laid off 45 employees. They blame a slow down in construction, oil and gas industries.

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

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

Fukushima, U.S.

More Fukushima Fallout: Strontium reaches deep aquifer! USN personnel suffering radiation poisoning! Government to sell off TEPCo to pay for decontamination! Still no nuke evac plan!

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“I get so angry. They said as long as the plume was avoided we would be fine!”-Jamie Plym, USN

U.S. sailors who served aboard the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Essex, during efforts to help the Japanese at the beginning of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, are reporting illness linked to radiation contamination.  At least 51 sailors are attempting to sue Tokyo Electric Power Company (they should also sue GE, Hitachi and Toshiba).  The U.S. military personnel are suffering from strange growths on their bodies, thyroid and testicular cancers, leukemia, bronchitis and even unexplained and uncontrollable bleeding.  They claim medical testing confirm the symptoms are radiation poisoning.

For the first time, TEPCo is reporting that cesium and strontium is contaminating the aquifer under Fukushima Daiichi, 25 meters (82 feet) underground!  The contamination is coming from the GE designed, Hitachi built Reactor 4.  6.7 becquerels per liter of cesium 137, and 89 becquerels per liter of strontium were detected.

The Japanese government announced it will sell its shares of TEPCo stocks to raise cash to pay for decontamination efforts.  Lack of capitalist funding is the main reason for why the decontamination is being held up.   However, who wants to buy into a company that’s proven to be incompetent?

But wait, there’s more! The Japanese government is also increasing interest free loans to TEPCo.  About $87-billion USD worth!

TEPCo has agreed to decommission reactors 5 and 6 at Fukushima Daiichi.  Supposedly they suffered only cooling problems, and were shut down, but the Japanese government insisted they needed to be decommissioned before tackling the decommissioning of reactors 1 through 4.

The Japanese government says it will increase its paltry financial help for residents forced to leave the radiation contamination area.   The money is not coming from taxpayers, but supposedly from TEPCo.  Money will be used to rebuild homes.  People suffering mental stress have one year after evac orders are lifted to apply for a lump sum payment.  (lump?)

Remember, this disaster has been ongoing for three years!

And three years later, 60% of Japanese cities located within 30km (18.6 miles) of a nuclear power plant still have no evacuation plans in case of nuke disaster!  Local government officials within 30km of nuke plants are blaming local governments outside the 30km zone.  Officials within the 30km zones say they need places to evacuate to, outside of the evac zones, and that cities outside the zones are not set up to handle mass evacuees or casualties pouring in from other areas.  Yet another reason to dump nuke power!

Here’s another reason:  Researchers have been studying the forests around Fukushima Daiichi.  They’ve found high levels radiation at the root level of trees, about 1.8 microsieverts per hour.  Also, 50-thousand becquerels of radiation per kilogram is being found in the leaf fall and soil!  When it rains the radiation is washed downhill into streams and water supply for people. Currently there are no official efforts to clean up radiation contamination in the forests.

International, U.S.

The New Great Opium War Game: Myanmar now second largest producer of opium! Interesting correlations between opium production in Afghanistan and Myanmar (called the United States)!

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In May 2012 the Obama regime lifted all economic sanctions against Myanmar.  The now ‘open for business’ south Asian country has become the World’s second largest producer of illegal opium.  Realize that back in 1999 the government of Myanmar said they would be opium free by 2014!

The evil British empire, as well as the U.S. government, still calls Myanmar, Burma.

The U.S. government supported Myanmar/Burma from the end of the second World War to 1997.  U.S. taxpayers sent lots-o-money and even military equipment to Myanmar/Burma in the name of fighting opium production.  By 1990 Myanmar/Burma had become the largest opium producer in the World, despite all the anti-drugs war help from the United States.

Then the government of Myanmar really cracked down hard on opium production.  In 1997 the United States began imposing sanctions against Myanmar on the grounds the government was undemocratic and repressing its own people.  By 1998, opium production in the Golden Triangle, which includes Myanmar, was cut down by 33%.  In 1999 the Myanmar government declared they would eradicate opium by 2014.

As opium production decreased in Myanmar, the U.S. government increased sanctions.

Now enter Afghanistan.  Opium production in Afghanistan did not become a problem until the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.  But it wasn’t the Soviets who were behind it.  The Russians continue to say they have evidence that the U.S. CIA instigated opium production in Afghanistan to help pay for a covert war against the Soviet Union (and don’t forget the Iran Contra scandal led by the U.S. ‘hero’ Oliver North).

However, opium production in Afghanistan did not explode until the 1990s, that just happens to be the time Myanmar was cracking down on opium production.  By 1999 Afghanistan produced a record crop of opium, the same year Myanmar officials said their country would be free of opium by 2014.

Between 1990 and 1996 Afghanistan was under the control of U.S. backed warlords.

In comes Taliban.  The Taliban took over Afghanistan in 1996.  The U.S. government, under George Bush Jr, misled the people of the United States, saying the Taliban were behind the record opium production.  Fact: From 2000 to 2002, under the Taliban government opium production in Afghanistan was cut down by an incredible 99%, in less than two years!  That stat is backed up by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

In 2002 the United States invaded Afghanistan, and now under U.S. occupation Afghanistan is the World’s top producer of opium, producing more opium than they ever did in the 1990s.

But wait, what about Myanmar?  The U.S. government actually returned to funding Myanmar/Burma in 2000, under the Bush Jr regime.  It was done under the guise of the evil U.S. AID.  In 2008 U.S. AID funding was increased.

By 2012, under the Obama regime, the U.S. AID mission to Myanmar became official, and Obama pledged $170-million in taxpayer funding to the country formerly known as Burma.  The Obama regime claimed it was because Myanmar had become democratic, despite outright open genocide against Muslims living in Myanmar.

Also in 2012, opium production in Myanmar had not only returned to record levels, but actually surpassed the production levels of the 1980s.  Now, in 2013 U.S./British empire controlled Myanmar is considered the second largest opium producer, after U.S./British empire controlled Afghanistan.

Russia claims most of the opium being produced in Afghanistan is being smuggled into Russia.  Iran claims to have lost thousands of border cops fighting illegal drugs smugglers from U.S./British empire controlled Afghanistan.  Iran even says some of those smugglers they’ve captured had U.S. issued documents on them.  China reports that most of the opium being produced in U.S./British empire controlled Myanmar is ending up in their country.

Now go study the history of the Opium Wars against China, and the history of The Great Game against Russia.  They’re still happening more than two hundred years later!