Category Archives: U.S.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

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

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S.

Army National Guard 377 years old, older than the United States! Tool of the elites?

Gregorian calender date of 13 December is considered the birthday of the Army National Guard in the United States.  However, the ‘official’ creation of the National Guard predates the creation of the United States by more than one hundred years!

In 1636, the European colony in Salem, Massachusetts, decreed the creation of a militia requiring every male to be a member.  Of course elite politicians and judges were exempted.

377 years later members of the National Guard are still being ordered to war by the exempted elites of the United States!

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 17-20 November 2013: Police state contractors assassinated! Beheadings increase! UN makes big unproven claims againt Mujahideen! Another report says War on Terror a Cluster F–k!

Baghlan Province:  In Burka District, a provincial official for Kunduz Province was assassinated.  The Kunduz official actually lived in Baghlan Province.  He was kidnapped, and there were reports from his family that a ransom was demanded, but nobody ever made a public claim regarding the official’s disappearance.

Balkh Province: In Mazar-e-Sharif City, a suicide bomber tried to kill the deputy governor.  The deputy governor was not hurt, but at least one person was killed and four others wounded.

Ghazni Province: A suicide car bomber tried to attack an Afghan National Army convoy.  His car blew up before reaching the target.

Helmand Province: In Marja District, the local police chief was assassinated when Mujahideen ambushed his vehicle.  His bodyguard was wounded.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, two cops killed by “remote controlled improvised explosive device”.  Police say it was a set up because the cops were on their way to investigate a claim about a bomb, when they were hit with the homemade remote bomb.

Kandahar Province: A U.S. Army Staff Sergeant (E6) from Texas was killed by Mujahideen. ISAF officials say he was killed by a “improvised explosive device attack”.  Also, construction workers involved in building police state checkpoints are being assassinated.  The bodies of at least six contractors were found, minus their heads.  In Arghistan District, two children killed when the vehicle they were in ran over a landmine.  Local police did not give any details about the adult passengers.  In Kandahar City, a restaurant was bombed.  At least three people killed, 22 wounded.  Local cops say it was done by a suicide bomber.

Paktika Province: In Khair Kot District, this time it was government forces that planted explosives which killed children.  Several days prior Mujahideen forced government forces to retreat from their police state checkpoints.  During the retreat the government forces booby trapped their checkpoint with explosives. Days later seven children were killed and two wounded when they  entered the checkpoint compound to scavenge scrap metal.   Initially the Afghan government blamed the explosions on Mujahideen.

Zabul Province: Provincial police report that several cops were beheaded by unknown assailants.  Zabul officials say at first the dead cops were thought to be civilians, because they were in their civis (old U.S. military slang for civilian clothes, which comes from the Latin word for civilian).  Zabul officials also suspect that some of the beheaded victims found in Kandahar are Zabul cops, who are still missing.  Provincial officials also reported that an explosion killed two children, and wounded two adults.

The Afghan government claims to have killed at least 40 Mujahideen over this four day period.  That’s actually a big drop from past battle reports.

The United Nations is claiming that so far this year as many as 12-thousand Mujahideen have been killed or captured.  Mmmm, yet attacks by Mujahideen are only increasing.  UN officials admitted that their number of killed or captured was only an “estimate”.

A study by the Chatham House, in United Kingdom, concluded that the British empire’s role in the invasions and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq “….was of disorder and incoherence, informality and individuality.”  In U.S. military slang it is a “cluster fuck”!

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 13-15 September 2013. Even more Obama Care layoffs! Social Security shut downs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

National Public Radio laid off more employees.  This time 80 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on lack of funding.

California:  Japan based Sony laid off 70 people at their Online Entertainment HQ in San Diego.  Also in San Diego, Novatel Wireless laid off 80 people in California, Texas and Canada.  In Elk Grove, Mexico based Bimbo Bakeries shut down.  Company officials said the bakery was not competitive.  In Mountain View, Google laid off 80 employees.  In Milpitas, Lifescan laid off 76 people.  In Modesto, Memorial Medical Center laid off two people.

Connecticut: Government tax sucker Sikorsky laid off 200 people!  Company officials blamed increased competition and decreased government spending.  Too Big to Jail Webster Bank closed 30 offices across four states!  It’s part of their 20 year restructuring plan.

Florida: In Miami, Royal Caribbean cruise line laid off 100 people!  Company officials said they needed to restructure.

Georgia: Emmery Healthcare lays off 101 employees!  Local TV news interviewed an unnamed former employee who blamed Obamacare: “The saddest part is when during the announcement we were told our job loss is due to the new Affordable Care Act!”

Kansas: In Pittsburg, the federal Social Security office shut down!  It affects six counties.  It’s blamed on reduced operational funding.

Maine: In Bangor, 99 Restaurant shut down.  The owner said the age and location of the building his restaurant was in was not worth the rent.

Massachusetts: In Salem, after 80 years in business Bernard’s Jewelers shut down.  The owners said they need to retire.  In Amherst, Annie’s Garden & Gift Store closed down.  The owner blamed the bad economy.  In Hudson, computer chip maker Intel announced they will kill 700 jobs by the end of 2014!

New Jersey: The second largest private employer in the state, Barnabas Health, warned of huge layoffs due to Obama Care.  Company officials said Obama Care will cost hospitals $4.5 billion USD just through reduced Medicare funding.

New York: In New York City, law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel laying off employees through voluntary buyouts.  In Waterville the only grocery store in town, Food King, shut down.  The manager told local news media that they just couldn’t stay ahead of their rising operating costs.

Ohio: In Delphos, Reser’s Fine Foods closed down, 104 people out-o-work!

Oregon: In Tigard, Too Big to Jail Capital One laid off 66 call center employees.

Pennsylvania: In Allentown, the Pennsylvania School of Business shut down!  It’s blamed on loss of grants and other reduced funding.

Tennessee: What automotive industry recovery? In Loudon, after 30 years in operation car muffler maker Maremont shut down, laying off 150 workers!  In Adamsville, Masco Bath shut down.  216 jobs lost!

Utah: The Salt Lake Tribune laid off 19 employees.

Washington: Taiwan based smart phone maker, HTC, laid off at least 30 employees.

Washington DC: Law firm and lobby group, Arent Fox, laid off 20 people.

Wisconsin: In Milwaukee, the maker of large mining equipment, Joy Global, laid off 200 employees!  Company officials blame it on crashing international demand.

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, African Front: Obama regime backs UN invasion of C.A.R.! More proof False Flag War on Terror is really Christian ‘West’ trying to destroy Muslim ‘East’? Or, is it oil?

12 December 2013 (12:45 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Safar 1435/21 Azar 1392/10 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

The Obama regime has ordered the U.S. Air Force to begin flying in a United Nations invasion and occupation force into the Central African Republic.  The UN is using the excuse that C.A.R. is a failed state (so when is the UN going to invade Detroit?).

France and several African Union member countries have already invaded.

C.A.R. is supposedly in the midst of a civil war, Christians versus Muslims.  However, it’s starting to look like a false flag against Muslims.  Today, African Union troops said they rescued a group of Muslims who asked for asylum in a Christian church. The Christians wanted to kill the Muslims.

However, reports say the African Union troops actually arrested the Muslims, several were religious clerics.

Other reports say the French invaders have also been rounding up Muslims.  The explanation given by the ‘christian’ invaders, for the wholesale detention of Muslims in predominate Christian areas, is that they are arresting “Seleka” rebels.   However, there is no evidence that those being rounded up are rebels.

I’ve read some pro-Christian articles that claim that C.A.R. is 85% Christian.  Bold face lie!  At most 50% of people living in C.A.R. call themselves Christians.   The rest are indigenous beliefs or Muslims.

Currently, the only big export from C.A.R. are diamonds. Their biggest customers are Belgium and China.  So why is France, the African Union and United States invading and occupying C.A.R.?

Anybody remember the KONY2012 video?  The propaganda effort by the Obama regime to gain public support for military action in C.A.R. earlier this year?   The U.S. Africa Command claim Christian rebel leader Joseph Kony ordered his Lord’s Resistance Army to murder, rape and kidnap tens of thousands of men, women and children.

The Obama regime’s efforts to go to war in Africa go back to 2010 when Barack Obama signed a law authorizing action against the Lord’s Resistance Army.

In March, Seleka rebels took over the government.  Some reports say unemployment in the capital city of Bangui is at least 23%.  Ironically the French and U.S. government initially supported the new Seleka government.

This was because the new leaders were willing to cancel oil deals made between the previous C.A.R. government and China.

C.A.R. is surrounded by oil rich countries, and is geographically a central transit point for oil transport from those countries.  The U.S. based World Bank financed a $3.5 billion USD ExxonMobile oil pipeline from southern Chad through C.A.R.  The deal also involved Chevron, Malaysia’s state Petronas, and China National Petroleum Corporation.

As of 2000, the estimated production output of the oil fields of southern Chad was put at 225-thousand barrels per day!

Since 2000, there has been oil exploration in the northern area of C.A.R. by the U.S. based RSM Production, an affiliate of Grynberg Petroleum.  Apparently there is oil there because in 2010 C.A.R. government officials announced they were working on oil deals with China.  The problem was that Grynberg Petroleum was legally challenging C.A.R. oil block concessions!  It’s interesting that as I write this Wikipedia still does not list petroleum as an industry in C.A.R.

My point is that this new UN-EU-U.S. invasion of C.A.R. is not about being a ‘failed state’ or Muslims versus Christians, it’s totally about the discovery and control of big oil!

Business/Economics, U.S.

Food Crisis: Dumb American industrial farmers still forcing unhealthy anti-biotics into animals! Only making people sicker, is this a False Flag to kill us off?

11 December 2013 (14:30 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Safar 1435/20 Azar 1392/09 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“Antibiotic use in animals is out of hand! We feed antibiotics to sick animals, which is completely appropriate, but we also put antibiotics in their feed and in their water to help them grow faster and to compensate for unhygienic conditions. If you have to keep the animals healthy with drugs, I would argue you need to re-examine the system.”-Gail Hansen, Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming

Despite decades of studies that show the use of anti-biotics in farm animals is not only bad for their health, but bad for us humans as well, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) reports that farmers are still abusing the use of  anti-biotics on animals!

Overuse of anti-biotics results in stronger germs that can kill us!

The FDA is so upset that it plans to outlaw certain anti-biotics.  This is based on the FDA’s earlier study (released in April) which showed massive drug use on animals we eat: 81% of ground Turkey meat contaminated with anti-biotic resistance bacteria!  69% of pork (Pig) chops contaminated!  55% of ground Cow (beef) meat contaminated!   39% of chicken contaminated!

In 2011, farmers used 29.9 million pounds of anti-biotics on the animals we eat.  Compare that to the 7.7 million pounds of anti-biotics used by humans to fight infections! Why such a disparity, especially when most of those farm animals are not sick?

Hello farmers, what are you doing?!

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 13-16 November 2013: Broke U.S. reneges on purchase of Russian helicopters! Cops gunning down civilians! Clinton wants more of your money for Afghanistan! More proof U.S. taxes fund Mujahideen!

Badakhshan Province:  In Jaram District, people reported a drone crashed.  No word from U.S./NATO/ISAF.

Baghlan Province: In Pul-e-Khumri City, a city cop turn his gun on civilians.  Two killed, three wounded.  City police officials say they’ve arrested the bad cop.  Apparently the evil control freak cop got frustrated when the civilians refused to do what he said.

Helmand Province: In Lashkargah City, a motorcycle bomb exploded, wounding four people.  In Nawzad District, local Mujahideen say a Georgian ISAF tank was blown up by a landmine.

Kabul Province: In Kabul city, a car bomb exploded killing ten people near the Burhanuddin Rabbani University.  Witnesses said there was a gun battle after the explosion.  One of those killed was an Afghan National Army soldier.  Three ANA soldiers wounded.  The university is were the Loya Jirga is being held to decide the fate of the Obama regime’s 2014 ‘security deal’.

Kandahar Province: In Registan District, Mujahideen ambushed the convoy of the district police chief.  Government officials say the police boss survived.  No mention of the attack by Mujahideen groups.  In Panjwai, a U.S. Army Special Forces Staff Sergeant (E6) from Texas was killed during an attack by Mujahideen.  In Zhiri District, a Mujahid infiltrated a police check point.  He attacked the cops, capturing weapons and ammo.

Kunar Province:  In Khas Kunar District, district police officials claim 20 local cops had their houses set on fire by Mujahideen.  The police families had already fled their homes due to battles.  No comment by Mujahideen groups.

Laghman Province: In Qarghayee District, 10 ANA soldiers switched sides and joined local Mujahideen.

Nangarhar Province: In Maulawi Khales town, the provincial governor reported an explosion that wounded ten people, including cops.  No word on what caused the explosion.

The Afghan Interior Ministry reports that at least 37 people killed, 17 wounded in battles in the provinces of Helmand, Kunar, Nooristan, Maidan Wardak, Laghman, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Ghazni, Herat and Nimroz.

The U.S. Department of Defense has canceled the purchase of Russian helicopters for Afghanistan.  The United States can no longer pay for them!  The total cost to buy 63 Russian made ‘copters would have seen U.S. military officials stealing $1.1 billion USD from taxpayers!

Evil U.S. political leaders, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Laura Bush, are campaigning to convince U.S. taxpayers to spend more money on Afghanistan. Clinton admitted that it was her personal agenda to “…try to make that argument to the Congress and to the American public” to justify spending tax money the U.S. government doesn’t really have.  This while the U.S. economy continues to crash and burn!

U.S. tax dollar funded Zurmat Material Testing Laboratory, affiliated with the Zurmat Group, is actually a Mujahideen financing group.   The U.S. Special Investigator  General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) discovered that Zurmat, an Afghan company, was actually identified by U.S. Department of Defense officials as being a supporter of Mujahideen, two months before paying the company billions in U.S. tax dollars!

More than 100 Army National Guard soldiers, from the U.S. state of Michigan’s 1460th Transportation Company, deployed to Afghanistan.

National Geographic reports that Afghanistan National Parks has hired the country’s first female park rangers, at the Band-e Amir National Park.  But even the United States did not hire female rangers until 1969.

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 12 September 2013. Entire school district to shutdown? Big Churches laying off staff! Obama Care killing Christian hospitals! Thousands laid off in one day!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Alaska: In Kodiak, a Blockbuster video rental store closed down.  It’s part of plans to shut down all U.S. Blockbuster stores.

California: In Santa Rosa, optical communications company JDSU Uniphase laid off 126 employees!

Colorado:  In Colorado Springs, the Christian God doesn’t feel like stopping the layoffs of 69 of ‘His/Hers’ employees!  Focus on the Family ministry laying off 40 people, and NavPress (publishing arm of The Navigators ministry) laid off 29 people.  Both ministries said more layoffs could be in the works as their revenues are crashing.

Florida: PSS World Medical laid off 124 people!  It’s blamed on a merger with McKesson Group.

Georgia: Savannah River Remedi­ation laid off 465 people!  The operation manages the U.S. Department of Energy’s radioactive waste site as well as the Defense Waste Processing Facility.  The layoffs are blamed on federal funding cuts.

Indiana:  Indiana University Health eliminating 800 positions through layoffs and forced early retirement!  This is on top of jobs cuts made last school year.  It’s partly blamed on “declining reimbursement rates” caused by Obama Care (ACA).

Kansas: In Wichita, Spirit AeroSystems laying off additional 150 people!  The company laid off 350 people back in July!  They are also asking employees to retire early.  This is strange because local news reports say the company is advertising for hundreds of available positions due to “record demand”.  The company builds major sub-assemblies for aircraft industry giants like Boeing.

Maryland: In Canton, the Bay Cafe being sold off.  The longtime owner hasn’t been able to pay his rent or taxes, he says there is no way the economy has recovered: “Business has been horrible!”-David Naumann

Missouri: The Normandy School District warning of layoffs, and even shut down? The school district lost its accreditation, and so far 449 students have transferred to other school districts.  Those districts are now billing Normandy at least $424-thousand USD for the transfers, which could be the nail in the coffin for Normandy.

New Jersey: Community Medical Center warns of another major round of layoffs.  Hospital officials partly blame Obama Care for “rapidly shifting” the business environment.

New Mexico:  The Christian God won’t stop Obama Care from killing 44 jobs at the Taos Health Systems’ Holy Cross Hospital: “Given the changes in reimbursement and our losses of the last few years this becomes a bit tenuous.”-Peter Hofstetter, CEO.

New York: In Syracuse, France based (U.S. HQ in Texas) GDF SUEZ Energy North America ended operations, 24 people unemployed.

Oklahoma: Natural gas giant, Chesapeake Energy, laying off 2-thousand people! Company officials say they have to “reorganize”.

Washington: In Redmond, Pacific Music store closed down, for good?  The store was forced to move from a better location, because city officials wanted the property for condos!  Store owners say being forced to move to a lesser location along with the bad economy did them in.  In Liberty Lake, utility meter maker Itron laying off 750 people!  This despite the fact that Itron won a contract to supply India with hundreds of thousands of utility meters.

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, 09-12 November 2013: Illegal drugs set new records under U.S. watch! Big bank gives away $220-million! U.S. Spec Ops interferes with investigations into their crimes! Afghans want U.S. zero option! U.S. vets suffer lung damage!

Ghazni Province: In Moqor District, four National Directorate of Security (NDS) agents were captured by Mujahideen.  Mujahideen will let the spies go if the Afghan government releases people held in prisons.

Helmand Province: In Greshk District, battles between Afghan government forces and Mujahideen left at least five people dead and dozens wounded.

Kabul Province:  On the west side of Kabul City, the evil British empire inaugurated the official opening of the largest military academy in Afghanistan.  It’s also known as the Sandhurst of Afghanistan. It will employ 120 trainers mainly from United Kingdom, and it cost British taxpayers about $42-million USD.  Also in Kabul City, the Ministry of Interior Affairs reported that 20 metric tons of illegal drugs were destroyed.  Ministry officials admit that Kabul City, where U.S. military leaders are headquartered, is now the main transit hub for illegal drugs trafficking.

Kunar Province: The NGO Integrity Watch Afghanistan is accusing local police of stealing valuable Chromite from mining operations.  The Ministry of Interior Affairs denies such a thing is happening, yet also revealed that some local cops have been arrested for that very crime!

Maidan Wardak Provence:  The NDS has ended its investigation into U.S. special forces involvement in the torture deaths of at least 17 men.  NDS officials said they could not proceed because U.S. special forces are actively interfering with the investigation! (and these special forces ass holes will probably be turned loose on the U.S. population when the shit finally hits the fan in the United States)

The Asian Development Bank is giving Afghanistan $220-million USD, supposedly for road construction.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports massive increases in the seizure of illegal drugs in 2012: Heroin 250.4%, opium 212.6% and hashish 328%.   This corresponds to the increase in opium production.  It’s obvious that the U.S. is behind such drugs production since opium production skyrocketed after the U.S. invasion.  However, dumb UNODC ignorantly said “…this report will serve as an effective step in capacity building of national institutions in the country in order to address the drivers of poppy cultivation, trafficking and drug use.”   Gee, you’d think after a hundred years of fighting illegal drugs the Western World would have that figured out by now!

Evil British empire Defense Secretary, Philip Hammond, warned the government of Afghanistan that the United Kingdom will end relations if Afghanistan does not sign onto the Obama regime’s so called “security” deal for 2014 and beyond.

More and more political groups in Afghanistan are openly opposed to any “security” deal with the Obama regime.  Obama threatens a “zero option”, meaning all U.S. personnel will be pulled out if a deal is not signed.  Mmmm, isn’t that what Obama led the people of the U.S. to believe would happen in 2014?   Today the Afghan National Unity Front, made up of religious clerics, tribal elders and university students, said bring on the Zero Option you Obama biyatch!

The U.S. Department of State continues to refuse visa applications from Afghans who work as interpreters for U.S. forces, even though it is public knowledge they will be assassinated if the U.S. ever leaves Afghanistan.

The U.S. Department of Defense might require mandatory lung testing for personnel returning from Iraq or Afghanistan.  That’s because there’s a huge increase in the number of veterans developing lung disorders.  Even U.S. government contractors are developing lung problems and are filing lawsuits against their employers.  Don’t blame depleted uranium as the only cause.  It turns out that military personnel are burning not just ordinary trash in their burn pits, but highly toxic plastics and even heavy metal laden batteries, and this is done without respirators!

Six National Guard soldiers returned home to the U.S. state of North Dakota.

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 11 September 2013. Thousands more laid off in one day! More Obama Care hospital shut downs? More greedy landlords!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs.

Too Big to Jail Citigroup announced it will layoff 2-thousand 2-hundred more of its own evil minions!  They blame it own declining demand in home loans.  That’s what you get for robo-signing my perfect credit into the shitter, you SOBs!

Alabama: In Courtland, International Paper shut down one of their paper mills.  1-thousand 1-hundred people out-o-work!  Company officials blame crashing demand for paper.

Arkansas: In Little Rock, Arkansas Heart Hospital eliminated an undisclosed amount of jobs.  Rumors say at least 50 people were axed.

California:  Just one day after announcing that six evil British empire owned Fresh & Easy grocery stores would close, an announcement that another 50 will close!  The 50 stores being closed are those that were not taken over by evil Mitt Romney style vulture capitalist Yucaipa Companies.  Yucaipa owner, Ron Burkle, claims he will actually expand those Fresh & Easy stores he bought from Tesco.

Florida: What housing market recovery? In Kissimmee, landscaper Proscape laid off 127 employees! It’s blamed on the loss of a major housing contract.

Hawaii: The Kona Village Resort laid off the last of its employees.  The resort was heavily damaged by the 11 March 2011 tsunami from Japan, and the contractor that was hired to do repairs walked away from the job.

Illinois: The Chicago Transit Authority laying off 149 people!  It’s blamed on crashing revenues.  It’s also because CTA is about to implement a new payment system.  In Frankfort, Dan McGee Restaurant shut down.

Kansas: PostRock Energy laid off 17 people.  The natural gas company is being “reorganized”.

Michigan: In Lansing, reports that Sparrow Hospital is laying off employees.  In Port Huron, ITW moving ops to other states.  50 employees affected.

New Mexico:  In Albuquerque, after “30 years of blood, sweat and tears down here” Nick’s Crossroads Cafe shut down.  The owner said it was ’bout time he retired!

New York: In East Syracuse, after 50 years in business Sacks department store closed down.  In Brooklyn, Central Laundry Service shut down, 207 people unemployed!

Pennsylvania: Edinboro University warned that at least 40 jobs could be eliminated.  Courses will also be cut.  They blame declining student enrollment and state funding.  In West Chester, Bella & Betty gift store shut down.  Store owners blame the greedy landlord!  After 125 years of hoity toityness, the landmark Pottsville Club shut down.  It’s blamed on the loss of 500 members since 1998, and 100 of those just since 2012!  The club is being foreclosed by Too Big to Jail banks.

Texas: In Houston, a Landry’s Seafood restaurant closed.  The greedy property owner revoked the lease, so all the buildings can be torn down for new retail shops!

Virginia: The Roanoke Times reported they laid off 31 employees. It’s blamed on declining sales.

West Virginia:  Patriot Coal shutting down their Logan County mines.  250 employees affected!  Logan County officials fear it could kill off the local economy.

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