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Technology

Minority Report: Your next job interview will be with a robot named NeoFace?

11 September 2016 (12:40 UTC-07 Tango 01) 21 Shahrivar 1395/08 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/11 Ding-You 4714

NEC (formerly known as Nippon Electric Company) created artificial intelligence software used to sort resumes, job applications and employment test results. Now the company wants to create a robot interviewer!

NEC claims their employee screening AI tech will reduce the chances of a person being hired simply because they know the employer/recruiter.

Their new robot interviewer will not only consider your answers to its questions, but your body movements as well, utilizing technology similar to NEC’s new NeoFace facial recognition program now being used for electronic payments in Tokyo, Japan.

It’s all part of the Japanese government’s FinTech (financial technologies) plan.  NEC conducted a large scale Walkthrough Facial Recognition System test on its own employees back in April.

NEC won the 2015 Gold Award, for using facial recognition AI to create a concert ticket ID system, from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.   Such facial recognition systems require that your image data is already stored in a corporate or government computer system.

In Australia, NEC recently won a contract to develop CrimTrac’s new biometric identification system: “The Biometric Identification System will not only integrate with existing law enforcement systems, but advance as our nation’s biometric capability advances. This is vital in the current national security landscape, because it is essential to have robust and efficient cross-border information sharing to support the law enforcement agencies that protect our communities.”-Michael Keenan, Minister for Justice-Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Counter Terrorism

TOTAL GUN BAN TOTAL FAILURE, AUSTRALIA: YET ANOTHER GUN RELATED INCIDENT IN COUNTRY THAT TOTALLY BANS GUNS!

FALSE FLAG BLOW BACK: IRAN WARNED AUSTRALIA FOR DECADES, YET AUSTRALIA PROTECTED KNOWN TERRORIST

AUSTRALIA CREATES G20 MARTIAL LAWS, like banning “a manually operated surf ski or surfboard, kayak, boat or canoe” or “a model of a vehicle, including, for example, any of the following operated by remote control— (a) a toy car (b) a model plane”! 

Technology

Human Big Data: Meet your new computer boss, same as the old human boss!

11 September 2016 (11:47 UTC-07 Tango 01) 21 Shahrivar 1395/08 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/11 Ding-You 4714

“….what does this mean about the employee and employer relationship that they need to be so closely monitored? What does it say about the sense of trust or respect?”-Elise Gould, Economic Policy Institute

Hitachi calls it Human Big Data

Soon your nagging first line supervisor could be replaced with a nagging AI boss, in the form of a name tag-dog tag worn around your neck.

Japan based Hitachi is testing a new artificial intelligence ‘boss’ under the guise of “tracking employee happiness”.  Hitachi is not the first company to do so, many companies are testing such big brotherisms all under the guise of making sure their employees are happy.  But news reports out of Japan reveal the truth behind these AI bosses; the tiny computers will be able to boss you around through your smartphone or tablet (apparently employees working for companies employing the big brother-sister technology will get “advice” on how to better do their jobs, sent to them in their off-time)!

Right now 6-hundred Hitachi employees are using the AI name tag ‘dog tags’ and are being commanded to do things like “you should talk to your colleagues more often.”  Here in the United States that command will most likely be changed to ‘you talk too much, get back to work!’  The Hitachi prototype works by tracking every little thing that you do while on the job, not one microsecond of privacy!

In 2015, WARABLE published an article questioning how Hitachi’s AI program would determine ‘happiness’ by tracking “…how much you sit, stand, nod, type and walk around at work. ….and collects data on your movements an incredible 50 times a second throughout the day.”  Back then Hitachi justified its efforts by claiming that sales at a test call center went up an incredible 34% on days that employees were “happy”.

U.S. farm equipment maker Deere is also testing similar devices, but they’ve been more accurately described as Motivation Metrics, in other words it’s not really about the happiness of the employee, but about how to get the employee to do more work.  It also means the end of first line supervisor positions for humans.

According to Springbuk Health Analytics, a promoter of electronic ‘wearables’ in the workplace, 54% of employers would love to track every little thing that you do on their time!

Software company Salesforce claims that 86% of U.S. employers will ‘invest’ more into AI wearables this year!  40% of employers admitted it was not about employee happines, but about managing employee time and communications!

And now for something as old as ‘civilization’: Lawsuits.  Already tracking device maker Fitbit has faced several lawsuits. In 2014 a lawsuit against Fitbit claimed that the wearable caused allergic skin reactions (many people have allergic reactions when certain metals are worn).  Two lawsuits filed this year claim the heart rate data collected by Fitbit trackers (the second lawsuit also targets Apple) is not accurate, about 20 beats per minute off.   Research by California State Polytechnic University-Pomona showed the fitness trackers actually became inaccurate once you started exercising (they were accurate when the person was at rest).  Gee, whatever happened to checking your pulse the old fashioned way, with your finger?

Another lawsuit (filed in 2015) claims Fitbit’s sleep tracker is wrong as well.  Gee, are people so disconected and/or whacked on prescription drugs they can’t tell when they’re asleep and when they’re awake?

‘MINORITY REPORT’ PROGRAMING FOR INSURANCE POLICIES, AFTER JAPAN TAKES OVER U.S. COMPANIES!

XENOMA: JAPAN DEVELOPS PARASITIC E-SKIN THAT LETS OTHER PEOPLE KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING!

International

World War 3: NATO Germany & France form permanent EU military alliance!

10 September 2016 (17:50 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Shahrivar 1395/07 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/10 Ding-You 4714

“The security situation has changed.”-Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister of Deutschland, 02 September 2016

“I welcome…. the proposals by Minister Steinmeier….  …We need to avoid a new cold war, we need to avoid a new arms race…   …NATO and the European Union are faced with the same security challenges…  More than 90% of the population of the European Union live in a NATO country… …it’s good for the European Union, it’s good for NATO at the same time.”-Jens Stoltenberg, current Secretary General of NATO, 02 September 2016

“What we are looking for is to trigger EU operations more easily.”-unnamed assistant to the Defense Minister of République Française, 09 September 2016

The defense ministers of U.S. led NATO members Bundesrepublik Deutschland and République Française wrote a six page document outlining the creation of a permanent European Union military headquarters for future deployment of European NATO troops outside of Europe!

The plan (supposedly written in August) calls for synchronizing taxpayer funding to create joint recon, medical and logistical support units in preperations for a new War on Terror.  European military academies, and state run schools, will promote the idea of a unified EU military.  Article 44 of the EU Lisbon Treaty will be implemented.  New weapon systems will be jointly developed. It’s expected to be adopted at the upcoming EU summit in Slovenská Republika.

News media in Deutschland blame this latest martial development on the United Kingdom’s Brexit (Britain exits the European Union) plans.  Apparently past proposals for a unified EU military had been vetoed by the United Kingdom (which is also a member of NATO).

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Deutschland’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier discuss a new united European military, 02 September 2016:

This video compares the militaries of Française and Deutschland, but soon they will be one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwhL6e-acM&feature=player_detailpage

Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe, A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy

GERMANY ORDERS CITIZENS TO STOCKPILE 10 DAYS OF FOOD!

NEW COLD WAR: TINY LITHUANIA BUYS RECORD $437-MILLION OF TANKS FROM GERMANY AND ISRAEL!

GUN BAN FAIL: COP & WIFE STABBED TO DEATH IN FRANCE!

FRANCE: WI-FI ENCRYPTION TO BE OUTLAWED! WILL EXTEND MARTIAL LAW WELL INTO 2016!

SO MUCH FOR LIBERTÉ, 84% OF FRENCH PREFER A POLICE STATE!

WORLD WAR 3: GERMANY DEPLOYS TORNADOES TO SYRIA! SENDS 650 COMBAT TROOPS TO MALI!

GERMANY SAYS MIGRANT-REFUGEE FLOOD WILL PERMANENTLY CHANGE EUROPE!

World War 3: Operation Serval

U.S.

“Everything is on the table….No one is safe.” : August 2016 U.S. Federal State & Local Shenanigans

Incomplete list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for August 2016:

Bill & Hillary Clinton claim they paid 34.2% of their income to federal income taxes.  They also claim they paid 9.8% of their ‘adjusted’ income to charity, mostly to their own charity informally called Clinton Family Foundation (which, by the way, is how they keep their daughter Chelsea employed, it’s officially called the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation).

Flip-Flopper Hillary: According to The Washington Times, Hillary Clinton helped create the not-so-free Obama regime’s free trade deal known as Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), but now as a presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claims she will cancel TPP becasue it’s not free or fair to the working class!

The Washington Post revealed that despite Donald Trump claiming his golf courses are worth tens of millions of U.S. dollars his state tax filings are claiming otherwise, but only because Trump is trying to reduce paying his fair share of taxes.  

California: Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority laid off 13 people.  VVWRA is paid by how much sewage water flows into their privately run treatment plant, and sewage flows crashed by 22% (since 2010), forcing VVWRA to conduct across the board layoffs.  VVWRA blames the city of Victorville for diverting one-millions gallons of sewage into the city run treatment plant.  The city of Victorville counters by blaming delayed construction of a new pipeline on VVWRA.  That pipeline is supposedly functional now, and was 94% funded by taxes from the federal government (through FEMA).  Not only has Cupertino based Apple avoided paying its fair share of taxes to the not-so Golden State, as well as the United States, but apparently failed to pay the equivilant of $14-million USD in taxes to the European Union!  The Guardian reports that the Obama regime is threatening the European Union (an ally of the U.S.) for demanding U.S. companies like Apple pay their fair share in taxes!  And San Francisco based Uber failed to pay Taiwan the equivilant of $6.3-million in taxes!  The government of Taiwan (an ally of the U.S.) says Uber hasn’t paid taxes since 2013!

Colorado: The Colorado Weekly Homebuyers List reports at least six property owners/businesses facing federal and state tax liens, just in Boulder County.

Delaware: Illinois based HVS Convention, Sports, and Entertainment Consulting ties Delaware with Idaho for the 8th highest hotel tax rate in the U.S.

Florida: Brevard County Court warning of layoffs due to state taxpayer funding cuts.  The county Clerk of Courts told local news that 28 jobs could be eliminated between now and January 2017.  Local news reports say Brevard County Court has been eliminating jobs since 2008; from 480 to now less than 3-hundred.

Idaho: A Fourth District Judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the 2014 law that heaps huge taxpayer funded incentives on companies moving to The Gem State.  Tens of millions in tax breaks (supposedly in the form of “reimbursements”) have already gone to companies like California based Amy’s Kitchen and Ireland’s Glanbia Foods. Agricultural news source Capital Press also revealed that an undisclosed food producer was recently given a $15-million tax credit for creating a piddly 80 jobs in Boise.  The state Depatment of Commerce claims that tax ‘reimbursments’ helped create 4,737 new jobs. But if companies aren’t paying their fair share of taxes how are the state and local governments going to make up for it?  By hitting Idaho residents with jacked up taxes and fees, of course.

If you’ve got a family and you’re thinking about moving to Idaho to get a job with one of those taxpayer subsidized companies, think again.  The Gem State is one of the worst when it comes to affordable child daycare, and the state government does nothing about it.  Economic Policy Institute says the average Idaho family spends $6-hundred per month per child on daycare.  Child Care Aware says from 2013 to 2014 childcare costs in Idaho skyrocketed by 19.9%!  Even a daycare operator says it’s not worth it to raise a family in Idaho: “Ultimately, when you do the math, and mom is only making X amount, how much of that money is going toward lunches out, and extra clothing, and taxes, and gas to get to and from? You have to look at all of that and see if it’s cost-effective.”-Megan MacCleary, Megan’s Munchkins Preschool, whose income from her daycare operation is so low she qualies for Medicaid (even though daycare rates have gone up Idaho still ranks third lowest for daycare operator/worker pay)

Indiana: Ball State University economist Michael Hicks warned that taxpayers are being raped in the name of saving the corporate retail industry: “We are in the fourth or fifth iteration of government subsidizing new development at the urging of property developers, consultant firms and bond attorneys. Each time a shiny new strip mall is opened, a small-business owner somewhere else is eventually put out of business. The cycle continues. Consultants get rich, local economic developers claim jobs and local taxpayers get struck with empty retail infrastructure they didn’t need, and not enough money to fix the schools…”

Kansas: More proof of Failed State-ism; yet again monthly state tax collections failed to cover state government expenses.  August tax collections were $10-million USD short of what was needed!  Blame unAmerican corporate America: “Individual income taxes beat estimates for the second month of the fiscal year, which is encouraging, but corporate, sale and use tax receipts continue to lag pulling down the overall totals.”-Nick Jordan,  Secretary of Revenue

Kentucky: Illinois based HVS Convention, Sports, and Entertainment Consulting says Kentucky experienced a 19.32% hotel tax revenue growth, the biggest growth in the U.S.

Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority warning of mass layoffs due to being ‘in the hole’ by $100-million USD!  At least 60 MBTA janitors are being laid off, for a start.

Michigan:  Proof of Failed State-ism; Montcalm County Sheriff Department warning deputies of possibly layoffs due to the county being in the financial hole by $1.5-million USD.  County administrators revealed that since 2012 tax collections have fallen behind expenses by an average of $2-million per year!  (if the private sector can’t pay people enough, then people can’t pay taxes)

New Jersey: More proof of Failed State-ism; The city of Paterson shutdown 36 taxpayer funded summer camps, warned of 250 layoffs, forced furlough days for remaining employees, and  intentionally increase police issued traffic tickets to generate cash!  Even with the layoffs, and forcing police to arbitrarily issue 30-thousand (80 per day) additional money generating traffic tickets, city administrators whine that they will still be short $2.1-million USD!  The New York Times revelaed that when Chris Christie became governor he reduced the $30-million in taxes owed by the now dead Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort to just $5-million!  Now we know the reason why Trump went from being a Democrat to being a Republican; bribery!

New Mexico: Cibola County prison shutting down by October, 3-hundred jobs affected!  The prison has been operated by the evil for profit Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) since 1998, CCA refused to say why they’re shutting the prison down.  It might be connected to the fact the federal government’s own study shows “They do not save substantially on costs and … they do not maintain the same level of safety and security.”

New York: The town of Oyster Bay is $700-million USD in debt, 103 employees have been retired early and another 150 will be laid off!    John Venditto, town supervisor for 18 years, warned “Everything is on the table. There will be a proportion between non-exempt employees and exempt employees. No one is safe.”

By the way, former Oyster Bay commissioner Frederick Ippolito had his federal court sentencing delayed. He pled guilty to failing to pay taxes on a $2-million consulting fee he was paid while serving as the town’s planning and development commissioner.

Ohio: According to Crain’s Cleveland Business the Internal Revenue Service has filed federal tax liens against 21 businesses.

South Carolina: Illinois based HVS Convention, Sports, and Entertainment Consulting says South Carolina experienced a negative 3.22% hotel tax revenue ‘growth’, the biggest decline in the U.S.

Washington DC: The Congressional Budget Office says within ten years taxpayer spending on military and civilian government jobs will hit a 53 years low, due to crashing tax revenues and skyrocketing costs of operations (especially due to ObamaCare).  Already the Internal Revenue Service has eliminated 17-thousand tax collecting jobs in the past six years!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

JULY 2016 U.S. FEDERAL/STATE/LOCAL GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS

Technology

“With such fast growth, we lost some focus…” : August 2016 U.S. TECH/COMMUNICATIONS LAYOFFS

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

California: San Francisco based internet ‘ride sharing service’ Uber lost $1.3-billion USD in the first half of 2016!  Uber pays its ‘contracted’ drivers a subsidy in order to keep ride fares low, and that’s supposedly what caused Uber’s massive loss. Uber now wants to shift to more dangerous driverless cars.  Digital comedy portal Funny or Die shutting down their San Mateo office and eliminating 37 tech jobs.    San Jose hit hard, starting with Cisco Systems which suddenly laid off 899 employees, as part of their new plan to eliminate 14-thousand jobs worldwide! Cisco administrators blame crashing sales of computer hardware.  Despite signing a contract to update San Jose city lights to L-E-D, Sweden based Ericsson issued a shutdown WARN for their San Jose operations, 435 jobs gone by Halloween!   Also in San Jose, computer chip maker Micrel issued a layoff WARN, 195 jobs gone by the end of September! San Jose based solar panel maker SunPower eliminated 1-thousand 2-hundred jobs due to crashing demand for solar power products!  SunEdison suddenly laid off 16 people.  Possibly due to Tesla’s take-over bid SolarCity eliminating 108 jobs in San Francisco and San Mateo!   For some unknown reason state employment administrators finally published the fact that Broadcom and Avago eliminated more than 1-thousand jobs back in March!  State employment admin records show Broadcom and Avago gave the state the mass layoff notices back in January!  Speaking of Broadcom, they just issued another WARN, this time 50 jobs in San Diego gone by mid-September.  It’s been revealed that maker of the new Ghostbusters video game, FireForge (not connected to FireForge Games), went chapter 7 bankrupt busted back in July!   Chapter 7 usually means they’re dead. In Milpitas, cyber security company FireEye laying off 80 employees in October, and the new CEO warned of another 4-hundred layoffs at a yet to be determined later date!  QLogic laying off 69 employees in Aliso Viejo, by mid-October.  In Los Angeles, Xerox laying off 11 people by mid-October.  Glendale based Disney Imagineering laid off an undisclosed number of employees: “Walt Disney Imagineering is a project-based organization, and we continually evaluate and adjust our resources to support the design and development of Disney theme parks, resorts and experiences around the globe.”-official vague explanation

Connecticut: France owned Altice USA-Cablevision Systems Corporation/Optimum shutting down a call center and a customer support center, eliminating more than 5-hundred jobs (some reports say 6-hundred) between October and December!

Georgia: Colorado based EchoStar Technologies shutting down their Atlanta metro area operations, 137 jobs lost by October due to “many factors”!  Internet based Ditech Financial laid off 80 people in the Atlanta area, and another 1-hundred people will lose their jobs in North Carolina and Texas!  Ditech’s parent company, Walter Investments, lost $232-million USD in its 2nd quarter.

Hawaii: Oahu Publications revealed it laid off eight people, there was also news that the owner of the building where Oahu Pubs is HQed has put the building up-for-sale.

Idaho: Idaho National Laboratory (INL) lost its attempt to become the site for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy, or FORGE: “Although our Idaho site was not selected, INL still has the opportunity to participate in the FORGE effort through our role as a member of the University of Utah-led team and in other funded proposals.”-Rob Podgorney, INL geothermal

Iowa: Iowa State University eliminated 30 InfoTech jobs. At the same time, university administrators claim their reorganization of their IT department actually created eight jobs.

Michigan: Dialog Direct (Novo1) shutting down their Grand Rapids call center, 106 jobs gone by mid-October!  According to local news reports, in 2014 Dialog Direct was promised $1.5-million USD in taxpayer funded “investments” to establish a call center in Grand Rapids and hire 287 people.  There was no explanation in the official WARN as to why they’re shutting it down, or why they hired only 106 people.

Missouri: The Kansas City Star laid off 12 people, local news reports say for the past few months there’s been non-stop layoffs at the struggling newspaper.

Mississippi: Another example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs; bankrupt e-Fitness & Wellness shutdown their Biloxi location.  The operators blame a payments collection company in Utah for going bust and as a result cutoff funding for e-Fitness.

New Jersey: Japan owned OKI Data Americas eliminating 38 jobs in Mount Laurel by the end of September.  In Red Bank, California based Qualcomm Atheros eliminating 76 jobs by the end of September.

New York: New York Life eliminating numerous in-house InfoTech jobs across The Empire State, between November 2016 and April 2017.  France based Altice USA laid off 1-hundred people in Bethpage, that’s where Altice took over Cablevision Systems!  News reports say news magazine Time Incorporated will eliminate 110 jobs in an attempt to “optimize” growth!  Advertiser MDC-KBS eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs while at the same time claimed “we’re growing and hiring too”.

Oregon: Software “localizer” Sykes issued a shutdown WARN for their Eugene ops, 418 jobs lost by the end of October!

Pennsylvania:  Thorley Industries-4moms, a company that prides itself on using computers and robots to design and build products for babies, revealed it laid off 53 people back in June. 

Texas: Austin based Revolve Solar now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Interestingly company administrators stated that their financial numbers filed for the bankruptcy were wrong, and that the company was “fine”.

Washington: In Seattle, advertising-analytics company Marchex laid off about 40 employees after a $68-million USD loss in its 2nd quarter.  And video game maker Z2 laid off an undisclosed number of marketing and administrative employees, probably in connection with being taken over by two differnet companies last year.  Still in Seattle, tech company QuoteWizard suddenly laid off 20 people after spending money on a new office in Colorado, administrators admitted “With such fast growth, we lost some focus…”.   Also in Seattle, software company Moz laid off 60 people after a failed attempt to increase its market diversity: “Increasing the breadth of the product suite added a lot of complexity to the business, but didn’t result in the growth we expected.”-Sara Bird, ceo

“WE’LL BE HIRING A TON OF PEOPLE!” SUDDENLY 70-THOUSAND AUTO WORKERS UNEMPLOYED!

U.S. Navy SAYS SOCIAL MEDIA IS NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT!

3RD SELF-DRIVE CRASH FOR TESLA!

July 2016: “IT’S BRUTAL…LIKE STANDING IN A LINE FOR A GUILLOTINE!”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

International

‘Minority Report’ programing for Insurance Policies, after Japan takes over U.S. companies!

07 September 2016 (03:58 UTC-07 Tango 01) 17 Shahrivar 1395/04 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/07 Ding-You 4714

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company announced plans to create an artificial inteligence (AI) program to predict a person’s likeliness to get sick and die.   Electronics company Hitachi is working on the ‘minority report’ program for the insurance company.

Japan’s Dai-ichi Life will use the AI program to analize the medical records of 10-million clients, and then adjust their policies!   Company administrators are promoting the new AI ‘minority report’ style program as a way to provide insurance coverage to people who currently don’t have insurance!

This news comes a couple of weeks after Dai-ichi Life (through its U.S. subsidary Protective Life, which Dai-ichi Life took over in 2015) took over Florida based United States Warranty Corporation.  USWC’s primary service is asset protection, specifically selling you insurance for unexpected car repairs:  “….our Asset Protection line of business has been performing well and this transaction is a great way to grow the line of business. The two companies both have a history of quality and success, so putting them together creates the potential for the business to grow even stronger and serve more dealerships with these important products. We are pleased to have the USWC team become part of Protective.”-Richard J. Bielen, president and coo of Protective Life

International

Japan & U.S. prep to evacuate Africa!

06 September 2016 (03:01 UTC-07 Tango 01) 16 Shahrivar 1395/03 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/06 Ding-You 4714

You might know that the United States has an Africa Command and you might know that U.S. puppet Japan has troops deployed in South Sudan, but did you know that neo-imperialist Japan has a base in the Republic of Djibouti?

It’s called Camp Lemonnier and is shared in conjunction with U.S. AFRICOM’s Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.  During the last weekend of August, Japanese and U.S. military leaders planned for mass evacuations of their personnel, and citizens, from the Horn of Africa.

This comes more than a month after civil war in the newly created oil rich country of South Sudan escalated.   

The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa evacuation planning focused on route planning, logistics, medical support and use of air and ground transportation.

JAPAN BUYS U.S. MADE V-22 UNDER GUISE OF DISASTER PREPAREDNESS!

International

U.S. AFRICOM: From War on Terror to War on Poaching

Video

06 September 2016 (02:40 UTC-07 Tango 01) 16 Shahrivar 1395/03 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/06 Ding-You 4714

U.S. Africa Command’s (AfriCom) Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa is fighting “violent extremist” terrorists by targeting an increasing source of revenue for those terrorist; poaching endangered wild animals.  The latest anti-poaching training took place in the Republic of Djibouti: 

OPERATION JUPITER: EBOLA COMES ROARING BACK IN USAFRICOM’S LIBERIA! DON’T EAT YOUR DOG!

JAPAN & U.S. PREP TO EVACUATE AFRICA!

WORLD WAR 3: U.S. BEHIND GENOCIDE AGAINST AFRICAN MUSLIMS?

AFRICA FRONT: THE U.S. EMPIRE BEAST GETS BIGGER! HOW IS THE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDING THIS?

WORLD WAR 3: PEACE PRIZE WINNER OBAMA INCREASES U.S. TROOPS IN AFRICA, KILL SO CALLED ‘CHRISTIAN’ MILITIA LEADER, IT’S REALLY ABOUT THE OIL

Business/Economics, Idaho

“We plan to sell it down to the bones.” 4,000 Radio Shack stores killed off by the UN? : August 2016 U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR LAYOFFS

Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss announcements and shutdowns for August 2016:

Public relations company Coyne PR (offices in California, New Jersey & New York) suddenly laid off 30 people and slashed employee benefits, blaming a now former chief financial officer for “overstating” financial facts, and warning that they’re only just beginning to discover the damage caused by the CFO.

Alabama: In Decatur, after 30 years Green’s Video shutdown due to online competition.  At one point there were several Green’s Video stores across northern Alabama.  The owner says he still has die-hard customers, just not enough: “Customers have asked me multiple times over the years, ‘You’re not planning to go out of business, are you?’ They really enjoyed having a video store. They are pretty upset the store’s going under.”-Dan Green

California: In San Bernardino, after 60 years of costume sales Fun Corner will shutdown in november, so the owners can retire.  After 30 years the adult book store Circus of Books, in Silver Lakes, shutdown to be replaced with a ganja shop.  In North Hollywood, the Laurel Plaza Macy’s shutting down, the property has been sold and will be turned into apartments, 193 jobs gone by the end of Autumn!  In Anaheim, Good Hope International laying off 60 hotel employees by October.  J. Brand clothier laying off 27 people in Los Angeles, by mid-November.  In Glendale, Disney Parks & Resorts laying off 74 people by October.  What car sales recovery? In Riverside, Davidson Motors Lexus eliminating 111 jobs by October!  Team AMVETS shutting down yet another thrift store, this time in Chula Vista, 16 jobs gone by October.  The Orange Y BMX track, the only BMX track in Orange County, shutdown after the property owners-Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) refused to renew the lease.  The operators of the popular and profitable Orange Y BMX even offered to pay as much as $8-thousand USD more per month in rent!  At the same time that Ashley Furniture suddenly shutdown their sofa factory (Without Warning: Ashely Furniture lays off 840 factory employees in five mintues, saying “…there’s no more jobs!”) the RoomsExpress/Ashley Home Furniture HomeStore in Arroyo Grande shutdown.  Local TV station KSBY reports that customers are pissed as they are still waiting for furiniture they’ve paid for to be delivered! 

Colorado: In Fort Collins, The Photo Shop shutdown, the owners will continue custom printing from their home.  In Denver, Guiness Book certified as the world’s largest model train store in 2014, Caboose Hobbies shutdown after 65 years because the owner wants to retire.  At one time the model train store employed 60 people!

Connecticut:  Tudor Investment laid off 15% of employees after ‘investors’ pulled millions out of the hedge fund.

Florida: After its sale to Staples was blocked, Boca Raton based Office Depot announced that it will shutdown 3-hundred additional stores by 2018!  ‘Christian’ Agnostic Warren Buffett eliminated 72 jobs with his Berkshire Hathaway Concierge in Fort Lauderdale.  Advanatage Rent-A-Car/EZ Rent-A-Car laying off 20 people in West Palm Beach, by the end of September.  Fort Meyers based clothing retailer Chico’s conducted a third round of mass layoffs since 2015, this time 2-hundred people were quietly fired!  Chico’s administrators told local news sources that they are still within the guidleines for keeping the taxpayer funded $1.79-million USD ‘investment’ by the county of Lee!  Yet again, Jacksonville based charity Wounded Warrior Project eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs, in the name of “growth”!

Georgia: In Buckhead, after 64 years Gretchen’s Children’s Shop shutting down after Xmas, so the owner can retire.

Idaho: In Pocatello, a divorce settlement forced the shutdown of 112 years old Town and Country Gardens, killing ten jobs: “We plan to sell it down to the bones.”-John Crook, owner, following the divorce court’s orders

Illinois: Chicago based unwanted gift card exchange service Raise laid off about 45 employees in an attempt to “sharpen our focus on the broader payments industry”.  Walmart shutting down its Aurora store due to the fact they’ve built six other Walmart stores within ten miles of the Aurora-West Plaza store!  Without warning Bed Bath & Beyond shutdown their store located in the Prairie Market shopping center.  Local news reports say it’s another blow to the village of Oswego, which has lost several ‘big box’ stores since 2011.

Indiana: After 81 years Lorey’s Ben Franklin in Jasper shutting down so the owners can retire.  Granger Hobby Stop shutdown after 18 years, the owner says he never recovered from the 2008 recession.  In Muncie, Dunham’s Sports suddenly shutdown their Bethel Avenue store.

Iowa: In Cedar Rapids, Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples shutting down its First Avenue South East store by mid-September.

Kansas: In Frontenac, after 62 years Moore Furniture shutting down in September.  In Emporia, after three years Junque Drawer Emporium shutdown because “competition was stiff” and “life events happen.”

Maine: Best Buy shutting down their retail store in Topsham by the end of October, blaming low sales and high rent.

Maryland: Best Buy shutting down two stores, one in Baltimore and one in Rosedale.  120 jobs lost due to the leases not being renewed!

Massachusetts: Framingham based Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples plans on shutting down at least 50 stores by the end of the year, due to losing $766-million USD in its 2nd quarter of 2016! 

Michigan: In Fort Gratiot, after 25 years Pet Supplies Plus shutting down by the end of September, the owners blame it on a 22% crash in sales after a ‘big box’ pet store moved into the area: “…you have to have growth and our growth has not climbed in years, probably five or six years since we last saw any growth, so we made that decision.”-Steve Britz

Minnesota:  After ten years Best Buy shutting down their store in Willmar by the end of September.  Apparently that’s when the lease expires, 34 jobs lost.

Missouri: After 70 years Davis Baskets “The Basket King” up for sale so the 91 years old owner can finally retire.

Montana: In Billings, Zig’s Building Materials (Ziggy’s) shutting down when everything is sold, the owner wants to retire.  Local news reports say the shutdown of Ziggy’s will add 200-thousand square feet (61-thousand square meters) of vacant retail space to the already 157-thousand square feet-plus of vacant space on the west side of the city as a result of Kmart, Hastings, Sports Authority and Hancock Fabrics leaving town!

Nebraska: In Scottsbluff, after 25 years Cornerstone Motors shutting down in September, the owner saying “I realized that I’ve never been this old before and it’s time to retire.” 

New Jersey: In Atlantic City, due to the crashing casino industry Trump Taj Mahal issued a shutdown WARN, 2-thousand 848 jobs gone by mid-October!  State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance issued a WARN saying 77 employees will become unemployed by the end of October.  In Wall, after three years ‘home improvement’ store Lowe’s shutting down their Express store.  The Lowe’s Express was opened in response to rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Sandy, but sales are not high enough! After 57 years men’s clothier The Style Shop shutdown: “Unfortunately the business climate has declined and has made it harder and harder to do business here…”-Joe Tolerico

New York: With its corporate HQ now located in the taxpayer funded NYC area known as Hudson Yards ‘megaproject’, up-scale department store Coach announced it will shutdown 250 stores in 2017, due to stagnating sales!  In Red Hook, car parts store Ruge’s Automotive shutting down by November, 40 jobs lost.  Rochester Action Sports Park shutting down due to the owner’s family health problems, there’s rumors that a group has formed to try and keep the skate park operating.  In NYC, Too Big to Jail Goldman Sachs laying off 15 people by Xmas.  Visium Asset Management WARNed it will begin laying off employees after October. Electronics retailer Best Buy issued a shutdown WARN for its Lawrence store, 60 jobs lost by mid-November.  After 111 years New York Central Art Supply shutting down at the beginning of September.  The operators said sales had slowed down, but the final straw was when the building was sold out from under them.  After 32 years sheet music seller Schenectady VanCurler Music shutdown due to the fact that the internet revealed that old sheet music isn’t that rare after all, and you can get it online for almost a song!  In Syracuse, after 90 years DeJulio’s Army and Navy Store (originally selling shoes starting in 1929) up for sale and shutting down when everything is gone.  The owner blames internet competition.  And the Mallard Tobacconist shutdown after 25 years.  The owner was trying to sell the shop to fund her retirement, but gave up.

North Carolina: M&F Bank laid off 11% of its employees in an effort to save money.  Matthews based Family Dollar Stores eliminating 370 corporate jobs, due to being taken over by competitor Dollar Tree!  After nearly 17 years music venue Amos’ Southend shutting down due to ongoing neighborhood property development “presenting many new challenges to successfully run a music venue.”  The Radio Shack in Wilson shutting down.  In Raleigh, after 70 years bike store Flythe Cyclery shutdown due to a death in the family.

North Dakota: In Grand Forks, appliance store Karl’s shutting down due to the greedy landlord selling the property, and apparently the new (and as yet unknown) property owner doesn’t want to renew the lease.

Ohio: After 37 years shoe store Head Over Heels shutdown in Hyde Park Square. Co-owner Tony Jagoditz blames the industry itself, saying “The whole industry has changed in the last five years. When we opened there was a lot of domestic and European production. A lot of those factories closed or moved production to China.”   In Akron, after nearly 30 years Dimitroff’s Furniture and Design shutting down by the end of October, the owners hope this time they can really retire (after a failed first retirement attempt 11 years ago).  After suffering bigger quarterly losses than expected (a $13-million USD loss), New Albany based clothier Abercrombie & Fitch announced they will shutdown an additional 60 stores! After already shutting down 40 stores this year, Cincinnati based Macy’s announced it will shutdown another 1-hundred stores between now and Spring 2017: “Nearly all of the stores to be closed are cash flow positive today, but their volume and profitability in most cases have been declining steadily in recent years.”-Jeff Gennette, president

And retailer Rocky Brands essentially said the main stream news media claims that the economy is good is BullShit: “In response to market conditions, Rocky Brands made the very difficult decision to lay off approximately 20 employees. We believe that the retail environment which has led to decreased sales over the past six months is systemic as we have seen our competitors experience similar financial results.”-David Sharp, ceo

Pennsylvania: In Shenandoah, after 116 years (making it the oldest surviving business in the city) Talerico’s shoe repair shop shutdown due to skyrocketing demand for shoe repairs, but the old owner couldn’t find any potential employees qualified to repair the shoes: “Somebody could’ve done real good, but I couldn’t get anyone to learn it!”-Tom Talerico

South Carolina: Radio Shack shutting down their West Main Street, Lexington, store.

South Dakota: In Sioux Falls, Alan Evans Bridal shutdown.

Tennessee: What housing market recovery? Home sale closings fell 3.3% from the previous year, it’s being blamed on skyrocketing prices of homes. In Knoxville, after more than 25 years of selling-trading records and CDs iconic The Disc Exchange shutdown, the owners say they can no longer compete with digital, even with the resurgance of vinyl.

Texas: Fort Worth based bankrupt Radio Shack plans to sell-off or shutdown all remaining 4-thousand stores across the U.S.!   The Hudson Institute blames the death of Radio Shack on the United Nations run international postal rates syndicate.   Dallas based high-end retailer Neiman Marcus laid off nearly 1-hundred people!   San Antonio based Too Big to Jail SWBC (SouthWest Business Corporation) warning of a third round of  layoffs after losing yet another major client.  Possibly an example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs as the oil industry BS hits The Lone Star State hard; after 11 years Houston’s only ‘professional’ theater shutdown.  The Texas Repertory Theatre Company (note the evil British empire way of spelling theater) forced to close after The Houston Endowment canceled two years worth of its funding (about $50-thousand USD), and ticket sales crashed (apparently down to just 30 tickets per show)!

Wisconsin: Five hhgregg appliance & electronics stores shutting down based on their evaluation of their “real estate positions”!  After 37 years Sauk Prairie’s Harley Davidson dealer shutting down by the end of September, due to the owners consolidating their multiple dealerships.  In Manitowoc, after more than 20 years Ramona’s Ladies Apparel shutdown, the now deceased owner decided to sell all her business ventures last year.  In Milwaukee, after five years music venue Hotel Foster shutdown.

SEARS KMART UPDATE, AUGUST 2016: BEWARE OF LAMPERTS ‘DONATING’ PROPERTY TO COLLEGES!

AUGUST 2016 OBAMACARE DESTRUCTION: “…WE’LL ALL HAVE TO DO MORE WITH LESS.”

AUGUST 2016 DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.: “IT’S AN INDECENT PRACTICE!” THROWING MONEY AT EDUCATION DOESN’T WORK, UNLESS IT’S TO HELP POLICE CHEAT!

July 2016: 1 COMPANY KILLS 40,000 JOBS IN 1 DAY!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Technology, U.S.

Operation Jupiter: Israel conducts Chemical, Biological warfare in U.S., controls National Guard?

04 September 2016 (13:22 UTC-07 Tango 01) 14 Shahrivar 1395/01 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/04 Ding-You 4714

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN, once known as NBC, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) administrators from Israel spent the last week of August in the United States. 

CBIRF demonstration in Maryland, 29 August 2016, for visiting Israeli Ministry of Defense administrators

For the past few years U.S. tax dollars have been used to help the Israeli military create a Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF).

National Guard Bureau General Joseph Lengyel with Israel’s assistant minister of defense Moshe Edri

Israel’s assistant minister of defense also made an ‘office call’ with the U.S. National Guard Bureau.

Also during the same time, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs Thomas Shannon went to Israel, where he went on an anti-Palestinian propaganda tour given by the Zionist government.  The tour actually proves that the Israeli government controls all access and exits points (meaning all food, medical supplies, fuel, access to employment, etc) around the world’s largest concentration camps known as West Bank and Gaza Strip.  Shannon also visited a factory inside a Kibbutz.  A Kibbutz is esentially a Communist Work Camp.

GOD IS EVIL: U.S. MILITARY LEADERS MEET WITH ZIONIST TERRORIST AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN!

FALSE FLAG: AIR FRESHENERS BLAMED FOR CHEMICAL ATTACK ON U.S. BASE?

OPERATION JUPITER: BIO-CHEMICAL ATTACK IN WASHINGTON STATE?