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U.S.

USAF admits Reserve Airmen not getting paid!

10 August 2016 /21:12 UTC-07 Tango 01 (21 Mordad 1395/07 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/09 Bing-Shen 4714)

The U.S. Air Force has round-a-boutly admitted that Reserve unit personnel are not getting paid for travel expenses.  The revelation was made as the USAF boasted about a new voucher program that has significantly increased payouts.

The new program is being tested at Dover AFB in Delaware, by the 512th Airlift Wing.  According to the 512th Financial Management office, in August 2015 there were 113 Airmen who were owned money for travel expenses (this is just for Reserve Airmen who drill at Dover).  Under the new system that’s been dropped to 27 in July.

The new system has been so succesfull that Technical Sergeant Nathan Rivard wrote “Since August 2015, the office has seen a drastic increase in the amount of travel vouchers. The FM team of three has pushed through an average of 500 travel vouchers a month and regularly reviews approximately 650 vouchers a month….”

Remember, this new system is only being tested at one AFB. Who knows how many Reservists at other U.S. Air Force bases aren’t getting paid?  Of course senior level personnel have been accusing lower level personnel of not properly submitting payout requests, although finance managers admitted that it was a complicated process.

Technology

3rd self-drive crash for Tesla!

10 August 2016 /19:07 UTC-07 Tango 01 (21 Mordad 1395/07 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/09 Bing-Shen 4714)

For at least the third time a Tesla being operated on autopilot crashed, this time it was in China, and this time the driver lived.

The self-drive ‘Autosteer’ crash happened in Bejing, last week.  For some reason the Tesla sideswiped a car that pulled off the road.  Arrogant Tesla apparently blames the driver for not having his hands on the streering wheel.  However, the real reason for the crash is that the Autosteer did not identify the car on the side of the road.

Reuters reports that many people in China, including the driver involved in the latest crash, say Tesla sales staff are telling potential customers that the Autosteer is no longer experimental and is fully autonomous!

The main reason people who want an autopilot is so they can take their hands off the steering wheel, because they don’t really like driving a car!

Tesla caught directly importing illegal migrants to work in California!

Tesla will cut employee numbers in China by 30%, due to down sales

TESLAs spontaneously combust?

$$ TESLA $$ BITES THE ELECTRIC DUST ON RELIABILITY!

U.S.

More of your taxes going out-of-country: U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster!

10 August 2016 (09:39 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Mordad 1395/06 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/08 Bing-Shen 4714

Near Miami, Florida, there’s a warehouse full of food and even vehicles paid for with your tax dollars, but none of it’s for you!

This is a pic of USAID ops being directed through DoD’s U.S. AfriCom (Africa Command)

It’s USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) warehouse for Latin American countries.  But it’s not the only OFDA warehouse, the OFDA’s website boasts that during fiscal year 2015 your tax dollars were spent sending brand new products to 45 countries, including countries hit by wars instigated by the Obama-Bush regimes (like Iraq, Syria and Ukraine)!

In 2015, USAID-OFDA spent $717-million U.S. tax dollars on West African countries in the name of fighting ebola.   $303-million went to help refugees (supposedly) from Syria.  In total, USAID says its OFDA spent “more than $1.9 billion in assistance in FY 2015”, imagine if that money was spent here at home!

This video shows the Department of Defense’s U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom) inspecting the USAID-OFDA warehouse in Miami:

South Africa accuses Obama regime USAID of coup attempt!

USAID and Coca-Cola’s Africa Foundation spend millions on Nigerian Shadow Government?  

USAID global drug dealer?

U.S.

Republicans block your access to military bases!

09 August 2016 (12:46 UTC-07 Tango 01) 19 Mordad 1395/05 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/07 Bing-Shen 4714

According to a recent U.S. Air Force news report residents of three U.S. states, and one U.S. territory, can no longer use their locally issued drivers licesense as identification to enter a U.S. military base.

It’s because Minnesota, Missouri, Washington and American Samoa are considered non-compliant with the Orwellian police state Real ID act passed by Republican controlled Congress, and signed into law by Republican George W. Bush in 2005.

To access the military installations in those areas (where many people have to work) you need an Enhanced Drivers License, valid Passport or Department of Defense Common Access card.  To this date there is no proof that the Real ID law has prevented any crimes!

U.S.

Obama deploys Texas militia on historic Middle East dominating mission!

08 August 2016 (15:44 UTC-07 Tango 01) 18 Mordad 1395/04 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/06 Bing-Shen 4714

“It’s the first time that an engineer brigade headquarters has had this type of mission within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. We have had other engineer brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan other times but they have had different types of missions. This mission will be a pure engineer brigade headquarters mission where we will be overseeing and providing command and control for specific engineer missions throughout the theater…..    Our mission is so diverse and covers such a wide variety of sovereign countries, with each having its own set of rules, it will require us to stay on top of it and we have a process that will ensure we get to where we need to go.”-Colonel Charles M. Schoening, Texas National Guard 176th Engineer Brigade Commander

Over the next nine months, besides expanding the U.S. military presence in the Middle East through the construction of more permanent military installations, one of the historic missions of the 176th will be to track 1-thousand 7-hundred Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard personnel throughout the region.

Technology

“It’s brutal…like standing in a line for a guillotine!” 10,000+ jobs killed in one month! : July 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 July 2016:

Sweden based telecom company Ericsson warned of global layoffs, including in the United States, due to an 11% drop in sales and a 26% drop in profits.

Arizona: The Arizona Daily Star laid off nine poeple, reports say more newsroom employees could be let go.

California: Japan based Sony laid off as many as 1-hundred people in The Golden State, with insiders saying Sony’s Japan HQ is taking over direct control of their U.S. operations in an attempt to save money!  Once iconic Playboy magazine laid off employees at its Los Angeles operations as part of its plan to attract a “millennial audience”. Indie movie maker Broad Green Pictures laid off employees as part of its plan to become ‘mainstream’.   San Jose based ebay once again warned that its spin-off of paypal will result in at least 2-thousand 4-hundred jobs being killed, investors loved the news and jacked up the price of ebay stock!   ‘Christian’ Disney owned multi-channel network Maker Studios laid off 30 people.  Brisbane based digital lifestyle magazine Mode Media (Glam Media) laid off at least 30 people in the U.S.  It’s more proof that most tech startups are not truly successful with their product sales, as The Wall Street Journal said Mode Media is killing jobs due to a sudden decrease in investor funding.  Mountain View based Symantec issued yet another WARN, this time at least 77 people becoming jobless by mid-August.   Seagate also issued yet another layoff WARN, 70 people in Cupertino unemployed by September as part of their plan to eliminate 6-thousand 5-hundred jobs globally!   Maker of InfoTech systems and avionics Rockwell Collins issued a shutdown WARN for their Poway location.  Palo Alto based Google challenger Cyanogen (CyanogenMod) announced it will layoff some of its small staff.  The company raised a lot of money through foolhardy tech investors, but has failed to get smartphone makers to use its programing. In San Francisco, video game maker Kabam laid off at least 25 people. Mobile events company DoubleDutch 55 people despite raising a lot of money through crowdfunding, however, administrators admit that the layoffs are part of their plan to rely on profits instead of crowdfunding.

Delaware: Tech company SevOne announced massive layoff of 40% of its employees! Days later an unnamed employee was quoted by local news media as saying “It’s brutal! They are laying off so many people I had to wait hours to get my severance. It’s like standing in a line for a guillotine!”   In 2015 SevOne laid off 10% of its employees.

Florida: California founded but Tallahassee based fuel cell company Bing Energy now bankrupt dead due to former administrators spying and stealing data for a Chinese companies.  At one time the startup promised to employ more than 250 people within five years of production of fuel cells for cars, and even cell phone towers.  In Tampa, Convergys laying off 375 call center employees by the end of September!

Idaho: Boise based Micron announced it will eliminate 2-thousand 4-hundred jobs globally, due to crashing memory markets!  Micron’s 3rd quarter 2016 revenues were down 25% from the same quarter last year!

Massachusetts: Needham based video game maker Turbine forced by parent company Warner Brothers to layoff employees, as they shift to ‘free-to-play’ mobile gaming.

Minnesota: Minniapolis based Leadpages laid off 22 people despite claiming that sales were up.  Administrators say they must get smaller in order to continue growing, however, I believe the layoffs are actually the result of Leadpages’ take over of automation company Drip.

New York:  A leaked email revealed that for the first time Armonk based IBM will eliminate jobs with its Netherlands operations, the actual numbers will be made known in September.  NYC based Newsweek suddenly laid off “half a dozen” employees.  It’s connected to layoffs by parent company International Business Times.  Samson Technologies shutting down its Hauppauge operations, 26 jobs lost by October.  Another 55 jobs apparently being transfered to their Hicksville location. SHC Universal issued a shutdown WARN for their NYC call center, 508 jobs gone by Halloween!

North Carolina: Universal Cable-Suddenlink shutting down its Greenville call center, 81 jobs lost due to consolidation of ops.  Raleigh based WiFi company SignalShare now bankrupt busted due to lawsuits, including one by a former chief technology officer, and one by a major customer that claims “SignalShare would provide fake or forged invoices for the equipment it allegedly ordered, or provide fictitious serial numbers for items allegedly purchased and installed in the fraudulent contracts. Between May 20, 2014 and May 21, 2015, SignalShare conned NFS into advancing funds on 10 fraudulent lease transactions to the tune of $4.9 million.”

Pennsylvania:  LED light supplier Ledvance shutting down their Wellsboro operation, 64 jobs gone by the end of September.  Mobilex shutting down their Horsham location, 63 jobs gone by the end of September.

Utah: IM Flash (a joint venture between California’s Intel and Idaho’s Micron) eliminating 130 jobs in Lehi!   It’s blamed on crashing sales in the flash memory market.

Washington: Redmond based Microsoft announced it will eliminate 2-thousand 8-hundred jobs connected to smartphone hardware and international sales!  It was also revealed in SEC documents that Microsoft eliminated 1-thousand 850 jobs in connection to its take over of Finland based Nokia, which Microsoft administration now calls a mistake!  The take-over ‘mistake’ cost Microsoft at least $7.6-billion USD!  Seattle based ‘cloud’ company Socrata laid off 19 people and eliminated 10 vacant jobs.   It’s part of their Government 500 plan to focus sales on tax sucking federal, state and local governments.

June 2016: “IT’S LIKE A NEVER-ENDING FUNERAL.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

U.S.

What’s in a Prophecy? Mabus names warship after homosexual leader who lied!

08 August 2016 (01:24 UTC-07 Tango 01) 18 Mordad 1395/04 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/06 Bing-Shen 4714

For the first time in history a U.S. Navy ship has been knowingly named after a homesexual leader!

U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, broke with tradition (as he always does) and named a new ship after Harvey Milk.  What really makes this insulting is not that Milk was an assasinated homosexual politician, but that Milk lied about his time in the USN! According to one biography of the San Francisco politician, he lied about his USN service specifically to win votes!  The Washington Times says the U.S. Navy, itself, has yet to confirm which ship Milk served on and what his actual rank was!   

In 2015 I wrote how Nostradamus predicted that a man named Mabus would piss-off a lot a people and get assasinated. The assasination would be used as an excuse for the final war between civilized (which literally means ‘money loving’) nations (MABUS USHERS IN THE NEXT ANTI-CHRIST, MABUS WORKS FOR THE U.S. NAVY)

“We view our relationship with the Japanese navy as one of absolute equals.”-Ray Mabus, U.S. Secretary of the Navy

Business/Economics

1 company kills 40,000 jobs in 1 day! : July 2016 U.S. Retail/Banking/Service Sector Layoffs

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

After 23 years men’s clothing store Universal Gear shutdown its last two stores in New York and Washington DC!

California:   Team AMVETS Thrift Store forced to shutdown one of its Fresno locations saying “it was never a huge profit source for us.”  In Petaluma, after two years Toy B Ville shutdown due to sales not being enough to pay the rent.  At one time the owner had several toy stores spread through two counties, but now has only one store in Napa.  Tustin based direct seller Vivi Jewelry (Cookie Lee) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Comments on the company’s Facebook page indicate it has shutdown affecting 40-thousand people working as ‘direct sellers’ (6-thousand 4-hundred just in California)!  In Los Angeles, “legendary” stationary store Pulp Cards & Paper shutdown due to “We lost our lease!” In Stevenson Ranch after $2-million USD in remodeling costs, furniture seller Urban Home shutting down their  Westfield Valencia Town Center store by the end of August (they actually wanted to shut it down in July).

Colorado: In Grand Junction, after 31 years Crawford Boot & Western Wear shutting down by the end of August.

Connecticut: In Stamford, British empire based RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) laying off 21 people by mid-September.

Florida: Belk issued a shutdown WARN for their Jacksonville store, 52 jobs lost between Xmas and mid-January 2017.  Ameris Bank shutdown their Hawthorne office, local news media say it was the last bank office in the city and that the majority of residents are not willing to switch to electronic banking.  In Sarasota, clothier Brooks Brothers shutdown their Main Street store.

Idaho: After five years, the first locally franchised Flip Flop Shops (in Boise Towne Square Mall) shutdown, five jobs lost: “…we just had several years of decreasing sales, to the point where we can no longer finance the business.”-Dustin Preece, co-owner

Illinois:  Too Big to Jail Bank of America laying off 141 people in Rolling Meadows, due to consolidation ops!  In Ukrainian Village, Columbia Furniture shutdown due to selling the property: “Apparently our real estate is better than the furniture business.”-Wally Papciak, co-owner

In Chicago, National Opinion Research Center issued a shutdown WARN, 285 jobs gone in September!   After more than 20 years music venue Double Doors shutdown due to being evicted. Also in Chicago, the Ulta Beauty shop on South State Street shutdown permanently due to property damage caused by nearby construction projects.  Ulta administrators blame the property developer.  Convenience store Jiffi Stop shutting down multiple locations due to selling out to a competitor, at least 230 jobs lost by the end of September!  Management company Group O eliminating 48 jobs in Milan, no reason given.  ‘Christian’ Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples shutting down their Moline store by September. In Freeport, after 63 years DeGrote Television shutdown.  A co-owner lamented that at one time he was busy doing 20 repairs per day: “It’s time to close it down. In this day and age, nobody wants a business like this.”-Tom Moth

Indiana: In Clarksville, after 53 years Granpa’s Outdoor hardware store shutdown.  In Muncie, MC Sports shutting down by the end of Summer.  In Michigan City, after more than $90-thousand USD in high-tech upgrades Lakeshore Lanes (formerly Suburban Lanes) shutdown: “We tried our best but financially it just didn’t work out.”-Dave Backstrom, frustrated owner

Kansas:  Genesis Health Clubs shutdown three locations in Kansas City.  It’s connected to their takeover of rival 24 Hour Fitness last month.

Kentucky: In Bardstown, after 30 years Plantation Furniture shutdown.

Massachusetts: In Boston Weak, Boston Grand Prix now chapter 7 bankrupt busted due to IndyCar canceling the race, after ticket sales had already begun. The state Attorney General could file charges because ticket sales are not being refunded. IndyCar pulled out of the Boston race back in April because “The relationship between us and the city is not working.”, however Boston Grand Prix kept selling tickets in the hopes they could start a “Plan B” race.  In Cambridge, Stellabella Toys shutdown, the owner blamed competition from “iPods and iPads”. 

Michigan:  In Bay City, after 61 years Fabric Fair shutdown, the store is for sale as well as the property.

Minnesota: After 43 years Ganite City Pawn Shop shutting down in October.  The owner is selling the property so he can finally retire.

Mississippi: Jackson based All American Check Cashing shutting down stores in Alabama and Louisiana due to losing battles with state and federal regulators!

Missouri: Total Hockey now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and being sold-off due to crashing sales, 32 stores affected.  One of the last true variety stores Nagel’s shutting down after 44 years, the tired owners say they need to retire.  Too Big to Jail lender of rigged home loans NovaStar Financial getting what it deserves, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

Montana: In Billings, after 23 years the once profitable Bead Depot shutting down due to internet competition.

Nebraska: The last roller rink in Lincoln shutting down in 2017, after 63 years the owners of Skate Zone said “It’s just too expensive a piece of property to operate as a roller skating rink” and are selling-out to a property developer.

New Hampshire: In Rochester the Starlite Cinemas shutdown due to crashing sales.

New Jersey: After 20 years Somerville Antiques Center shutdown due to crashing sales.  In Norwood, after 35 years successful Colonial Inn shutdown because the 70 years old owner’s children didn’t want to take over the business.

New Mexico: In Los Alamos, Nu2U Consignment and Gift Store shutting down by the end of September.

New York:  In Getzville, a shutdown WARN issued for University-Ramada Hotel & Conference Center, 72 jobs lost by the end of September.  Too Big to Jail KeyCorp (Keybank) eliminating 250 jobs and shutting down 18 offices as part of its take over of First Niagara Bank!  CRT Capital finally notified state employment administrators that they shutdown their NYC location, 84 jobs suddenly gone.   Visium Asset Management laying off at least 24 employees starting in October.   Too Big to Jail Goldman Sachs issued yet another WARN (the evil money temple calling it a “4th round of layoffs”), 55 people becoming jobless in time for Xmas.  What housing market recovery?  In Elma, Seneca Mortgage laying off 43 people due to the sale of their mortgage ops to a competitor.  Direct marketer Trusted Media Brands (Reader’s Digest) issued a shutdown WARN for their White Plains location, 31 jobs gone starting in October. They’ll also shutdown their Studio Fun International operations.  In Brooklyn NYC, The Big Apple Circus laid off dozens of employees due to “insufficient funding”.

North Carolina: Charlotte based Too Big to Jail Bank of America revealed it eliminated 2-thousand 667 jobs in its 2nd quarter!   Since its 2nd quarter of 2015 Bank of America has killed more than 6-thousand 1-hundred jobs!  In Winston Salem, after only two years Camel City News & Gifts shutdown due to the landlord not renewing the lease.

Ohio: In Trotwood, the Hara Arena shopping center shutdown.  Local politicians, and property developers, are pushing cash strapped taxpayers to fund revitalization of the 1-hundred acre site.  What housing market recovery? Forest City Realty Trust eliminated an additional 25 jobs. Local news media say the realty company killed 150 jobs since the end of 2015!  In Aurora, after 34 years Chet Edwards General Home Refurnishings shutting down, the owners blame multiple factors.  In Mount Vernon, after 20 years antique seller Farley and Moore shutdown, after four failed years of trying to sell the business.

Oregon: North Carolina based Too Big to Jail Bank of America issued a mass layoff WARN for their Hillsboro location, 109 jobs lost by September!  In Medford after surviving The Great Depression, Ead’s Furniture shutting down in August.  The owner said with the bad economy it was the only thing that “made sense”.  In Portland, yarn seller Yarnia announced it will shutdown its eight years old brick-n-mortar store and sell on the internet only.

Pennsylvania: In Palmyra, Royer’s Flowers and Gifts shutdown due to losing their lease.  In Dunmore, dress boutique Head To Toe shutdown, the owner saying “It’s time to have a life.”   Hippie and the Hound Vapor Store shutting down by September due to new tobacco taxes.  In East Vandergrift, after more than 44 years Henry’s TV & Appliance shutdown due to family illness.  In Chambersburg, after 32 years Elite Tattoo shutdown, due to the owner’s health problems.  In Bethlehem, after 35 years the owner of Play It Again music store shutting it down after being made an ‘un-refusable’ offer for the property. The owner of 1-hundred-plus years old West Washington Hardware announced they will shutdown by October, blaming the Big Box stores: “All mom-and-pop stores have been run out. There are no small businesses left in this town.”-Tom Rogers

Rhode Island: GUESS shutdown their clothing store in the Providence Place Mall.

Tennessee: What housing market recovery? In Nashville, Georgia based SunTrustBank shutdown their mortgage loan center, 83 jobs lost.  Like the rest of unAmerican corporate America, SunTrustBank is consolidating operations.

Texas: Too Big to Jail Comerica Bank eliminating 8-hundred jobs and shutting down 40 offices because “We are fundamentally changing the way we operate…”!  Amarillo based bankrupt video/music/bookstore chain Hastings announced “All Hastings stores, our e-Commerce business and our corporate office will all discontinue operations….”, thousands of jobs lost! 

Virginia: Too Big to Jail BB&T laying off 61 bank employees, but did not say when.  In Portsmouth, after more than 60 years Dail’s Hardware shutdown. Too Big to Jail Genworth Financial eliminated 27 jobs. According to local news media Genworth Financial has killed at least 6-hundred jobs since 2011!  After 32 years Lilies of Gent clothing store shutdown.

Washington: Too Big to Jail Capital One eliminating 187 internet based ING Online jobs by 2017!  Capital One is consolidating “nondigital product management” jobs.

Wisconsin: Saint Clair’s Menswear shutting down their Wausau store in August, blaming “A shift in clientele….”

“NO SIGNS OF FUTURE IMPROVEMENT” : JULY 2016 U.S. MINING/INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS LAYOFFS

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

June 2016: “People….never returned.”

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.”

Business/Economics

Slow death spiral since 1961, “with no signs of future improvement”! : July 2016 U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics Layoffs

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss announcements and shutdowns for July 2016.

California:  Coty shutting down its OPI Products nail polish factory in North Hollywood, 408 jobs gone by September!   Warehouse leaser Brookvale International issued a shutdown WARN for its Carson ops, 107 jobs gone by September!  Ryder issued a shutdown WARN for its Fontana location.  Medical products distributor Owens & Minor issued layoff WARNs for Ontario and Tracy, 189 jobs gone by the end of August! Skywest Airlines issued a mass layoff WARN for their LAX ops, 325 jobs gone by the end of August! In Pittsburg, metal maker USS-POSCO issued a mass layoff WARN, 643 jobs gone by September (supposedly temporarily)!  Orange County based sunglass maker Oakely warned of layoffs due to consolidation of retail operations to Ohio.  Impact Logistics issued a shutdown WARN for the City of Industry, 61 jobs gone by the end of August.

Florida: A “leader in technology-enabled customer service, utilizing in-person and automated service delivery” Faneuil issued two WARNs, 426 jobs in Orlando and Boca Raton gone by the end of August!  Petroleum industry gas supplier Air Products laid off 30 people, despite getting taxpayer incentives to create new jobs.   WestRock Jax shutting down their Jacksonville paper & box factory, 127 jobs lost by September! 

Illinois:  It was revealed that Chicago based aerospace company Boeing eliminated 4-thousand 5-hundred jobs by the end of June!  Boeing administrators are warning of even more job cuts.  Peoria based maker of heavy vehicles, mainly for the mining industry, Caterpillar says their crashing sales continue and warned of even more layoffs for the second half of 2016.  To give you an example of how bad sales for Caterpillar are; in 2012 they made 1-thousand 7-hundred mining trucks, this year they’ll make less than 1-hundred!  Car parts maker Bergstrom issued a layoff WARN for its Joliet factory, 50 jobs lost due to relocation of production.   In Centralia, American Machine Company warned city government administrators that 30 jobs could be lost in connection with parent company Murray Energy’s massive country wide layoffs.  WSIL reported that massive coal industry layoffs are killing mom&pop businesses: “Clientele that we were seeing two and three times a week has dropped to once a week.”-Tyson Cummins, restaurant owner

“It just seems like, Saline County, we just hang on down here, that’s about all we do.”-Mike McKinnies, county board member

Indiana: Audio equipment maker Harman International shipping 125 Elkhart jobs to California and Mexico!  What housing market recovery? Door & window maker VT Industries shutting down their New Albany factory, 120 jobs gone by the end of October!

Iowa: What automotive industry recovery? Commercial Vehicle Group shutting down its factory in Monona by March 2017, and moving 146 U.S. jobs to Mexico!  Terex shutdown their crane factory in Waverly, 175 jobs lost to consolidation.

Kentucky: After surviving The Great Depression CAT Whayne Supply (one of the oldest Caterpillar service companies) laying off 87 employees “Due to deterioration in our traditional markets in the eastern Kentucky area and coal industry with no signs of future improvement for some time…”

Louisiana: Oil industry contractor Blue Sky Innovations issued a WARN, at least 58 jobs lost between now and Xmas, due to loss of a contract.  GE (General Electric) Oil & Gas issued a shutdown WARN, almost all of its Pineville employees will be laid off, that’s 269 people unemployed by Xmas!

Maryland:  What housing market recovery? Baltimore based Development Design Group chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to the yet to be recovered housing market.  Administrators say for the first half of this year they’ve lost at least $500-thousand USD, 85 people have been laid off, so far.

Michigan: Dow Corning issued shutdown WARNs for two factories, 348 employees unemployed by the end of September!   PAE lost its USPS Postal Operations Mail Transport Equipment Service Centers contract, 58 jobs lost by November.  What automotive industry recovery? In Detroit, Martinrea Hot Stampings issued several WARNs with layoffs ranging from 32 to 122!   Commercial Vehicle Group shutting down its administrative office in Wixom by September 2016.  After being caught lying about car sales, Fiat-Chrysler announced it will halt all U.S. production of cars!  Chrysler brand cars will be made outside of the U.S.  Administrators claim they’ll shift U.S. car factories to SUVs and trucks production.  Here’s why; it costs about the same to build a truck as it does a car, yet stupid U.S. consumers are willing to pay out-the-ass for a truck, meaning the profit margin on a truck, or SUV, is much higher than a car.  Canada based Martinrea International laying off 68 people by the end of August, due to Fiat Chrysler halting production of the Chrysler 200 and Dodge Dart.   Ford shocked ‘investors’ when it reported that its 2nd quarter pre-tax profits fell by $400-million USD from the same time last year!  Administrators admitted the U.S. vehicle market is going down, and blamed part of their lower profits on increased customer incentives used to trick, I mean convince people to buy a new car they can’t afford.

Minnesota: Essar Steel Minnesota chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to the gov’na canceling the company’s lease on a taconite project. Gov’na Mark Dayton claims the steel company has repeatedly failed to pay sub-contractors.

New Jersey: Kenco Logistic Services shutting down in Robbinsville, 415 jobs gone by mid-September!  Morristown based aerospace company Honeywell says it will eliminate an undisclosed number of jobs due to declining demand.  Perfume maker Chanel eliminating 75 jobs in Piscataway, by the end of September.  Heyco Products eliminating 107 jobs in Toms River, by the end of September!   Jordan Transportation eliminating 81 jobs in Parsippany, by the end of August.

New York: Charter bus service Schoolman Transportation System (Classic Coach) chapter 11 bankrupt busted and shutting down their Bohemia location, 56 jobs lost by the end of September.  In Dunkirk, Berry Plastics issued a shutdown WARN, 54 jobs gone due to consolidation of operations, by the end of October.  Sodium/lithium refiner Chemours issued a shutdown WARN for their Niagara Falls operation, 145 jobs gone by 2017!  Berry Plastics issued a shutdown WARN for their Dunkirk packaging ops, 54 jobs gone by Halloween.

North Carolina: FedEx owned reverse shipper Genco issued a WARN for their Charlotte location, 53 jobs gone by the end of August!

North Dakota: Great River Energy shutting down their 50 years old Stanton coal fired power plant, by 2017, saying they’re not being paid enough for the electricity they create.  At least 65 jobs lost.

Ohio: Saint Clairsville based coal giant Murray Energy is warning that it could layoff 4-thousand 4-hundred employees across six states in September! Administrators blame the Obama regime’s anti-coal policy, coal prices and deteriorating negotiations with employee’s union.  Newspaper The Blade revealed that Cleveland’s factory jobs have been in a slow death spiral since 1961!   What automotive industry recovery? Commercial Vehicle Group shutting down its stamping and assembly factory in Shadyside, 172 jobs gone by June 2017!  Belmont County Commissioner Ginny Favede warned the commercial Vehicle Group shutdown cause “a ripple effect from losing the jobs and the taxes.”

Oregon: Upper Columbia Mill in Boardman shutting down, 67 jobs gone by September. 

Pennsylvania: FedEx issued a shutdown WARN, 139 Pittsburgh jobs gone by August!  “Reclamation” service company Clover eliminating 65 jobs by the end of August.  In Monessen, Murray American Transportation eliminating 63 jobs by the end of August.  In Black Lick, C&J Well Services laying off 73 people in September.  British empire based aircraft interior maker Triumph Industries shutting down their Oakdale operations, 53 jobs lost by March 2017.

South Carolina:  The new owner of battery maker Duracell , agnostic Warren Buffet, shutting down their AA battery factory in Lancaster killing at least 430 local jobs!  Buffett is consolidating Duracell production.

Tennessee:  FedEx owned reverse shipper Genco issued a shutdown WARN for their Memphis location, 160 jobs gone by the end of August!

Texas: Houston based oil company Halcón Resources now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, blaming oil prices.  The bankrupt Sherwin Alumina Company being sold to a competitor and its factory in Gregory shutting down.  Houston based ConocoPhillips announced it will eliminate 1-thousand oil jobs by the end of the year!  Oilfield service company C&J Energy Services now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. DuPont shutting down its La Porte operations, local news media say at one time the factory employed 5-hundred people!

Virginia: Sweden based truck maker Volvo rendering 3-hundred people unemployed by September!  In February Volvo laid off 5-hundred employees, then warned in May that a second round of layoffs would take place.    Ongoing crashing demand for new trucks is blamed.  HVAC company Bristol Compressors laid off and additional 60 people due to crashing international sales.  In May, administrators laid off 120 people.

Washington: Electrical hardware company Minerallac issued a shutdown WARN for a Seattle location.  Triumph Group shutting down their decades old Triumph Structures ops in Everett, at least 99 jobs gone by the end of September. Spectrum Glass shutting down their Woodinville location in September.  In Tukwila, Jorgensen Forge shutting down, 111 jobs gone in September!

West Virginia: 66 years old CAT Walker Machinery laying off 78 people due to crashing demand for service.

Wisconsin:  Cascade Purchase Holdings-New Hampshire Industries issued a shutdown WARN for their Horicon hardware factory, 39 jobs gone by the end of September.  Hydraulic controls maker HUSCO International issued a layoff WARN, 97 Waukesha jobs gone by mid-September.

Wyoming: Ammonia nitrate (you know, fertilizer and bombs) maker Dyno Nobel laying off 15 people due to the coal industry BS.

Food Crisis July 2016: “VIRTUALLY NO SMALL BUSINESSES WILL BE LEFT”

Sears Kmart July 2016: “WE ARE IN A BURNING BUILDING RIGHT NOW…”

Dumbing Down July 2016: “WE ARE GOING DOWN…”

JUNE 2016 : 76% CRASH IN FRIDGE SALES! NO MORE BIKES?

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!

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.”

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July 2016 U.S. Federal/State/Local Government Shenanigans

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

Arizona:  Due to crashing tax funding the state Health Care Cost Containment System denied Medicaid to 3-thousand 5-hundred refugees and immigrants, as far back as October 2015!  The city of Scottsdale just spent $4-million tax-dollars buying a man’s property, then asking the man to continue living there rent free!  It’s all part of the city’s plan to ‘protect’ the world’s largest urban nature preserve.  The man who sold out is now basically a park ranger in exchange for somewhere to live.  The city of Tempe is being pushed to considering changing laws, and possibly spending tax dollars, to create a ‘tiny home community’.  The idea is to cram 11 living spaces on two thirds of an acre.  The tiny homes are tiny versions of mobile homes which, ironically, are being promoted in response to Tempe’s growing mobile home eviction rate!

California:  The Golden State’s Cap-n-Trade program is praised for reducing pollution, criticized for killing jobs, and now the courts want to know what the ‘elected’ lawmakers are doing with the money!  The program forces industries to bid on auctioned ‘permits’ to produce pollution. Whistleblowers revealed that revenues are far short of what was expected, but nobody is saying what’s being done with the money.

Connecticut: More proof of Failed State-ism, after already eliminating 825 taxpayer funded jobs the ‘elected’ government announced more layoffs.  Apparently the layoffs will continue until 2-thousand 5-hundred taxpayer funded jobs have been eliminated! However, local news media report that state agencies might be rebelling against the gov’na’s plans, by re-hiring laid off employees into newly created lower paying positions!

Florida: At MacDill Air Force Base, IAP Worldwide laying off 45 people by the end of September. At Kennedy Space Center, Chenga Security & Support Solutions eliminating 272 jobs by the end of September!  At Eglin AFB, InDyne eliminating 641 jobs by the end of September!

Georgia: In Atlanta, after 35 years privately funded homeless shelter Open Door Community shutdown due to the cost of keeping the aged building open. Local news reports said this will burden the city run homeless ops, which are already being cut due to crashing taxpayer funding.

Idaho: The Idaho Statesman revealed that a plurality of ‘elected’ christian lawmakers are covered under taxpayer funded healthcare for full time employees.  The reasons this is a scandal are that Idaho’s lawmakers are legally considered part time employees, and the fact that at least 78-thousand Idahoans are not covered by ObamaCare insurance.  According to InsideGov.com, Congressman Raul Labrador claims his net worth is negative $216-thousand USD!   A ranch family is suing Adams County after two deputies shot and killed Jack Yantis.   Admas County Sheriff claims his deputies were about to put down one of Yantis’ bulls, after it had been hit by a car, when Yantis showed up and threatened them with a gun.  All deputies on scene blasted Yantis to death. The family disputes the Sheriff’s version of what happened.  A Deputy Fire Chief in Nampa was fired after revealing that two apartment complexes weren’t safe for disabled people.  A federal court judge now says there’s enough evidence for Doug Strosnider, the now former Deputy Fire Chief, to file a ‘whistleblower’ lawsuit against Nampa.   The ongoing drought is forcing the state Water Resource Board to spend $7.2 million tax-dollars to boost water recharge of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer.

Illinois: A prime example of Failed State; Winnebago County will conduct layoffs due to multimillion-dollar budget shortfalls.  The county is short nearly $1.6-million USD on just personnel expenses, and sales tax funding for 2017 are expected to be short by as much as $8.8-million!  The Madden Shelter/Residential Program shutting down in Chicago, Bartlett and Des Plaines, 145 jobs gone starting now!

Louisiana: For profit prison operator GEO eliminating 80 prison jobs at Allen Correctional Center.   To save money the Louisiana Department of Corrections wants to downgrade the ‘correctional center’ to a simple jail.

Michigan: The number of tax-sucking state employees charged with the city of Flint’s water catastrophe now numbers nine.   All are basically charged with covering up what they knew was criminal action by contractors.  The state administrators charged worked for the state Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Environmental Quality.  Flint’s former utilities manager has also been charged.

New Jersey: “Gov. Chris Christie’s executive order to freeze transportation projects could wind up costing construction contractors millions in additional expenses and force layoffs to thousands of construction workers…”-Burlington County times

The U.S. Justice Department now suing two former executives of New Jersey based military contractor Louis Berger Group.  Those executives pled guilty to ripping off $50-million tax-dollars for work not done in Afghanistan,  Iraq and other parts of the world the U.S. is occupying.

New York: “The Campaign for One New York, the now-defunct nonprofit dedicated to promoting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s agenda, raised $60,000 during the first six months of 2016… …the mayor decided to shut down amid federal and state investigations into……..whether the mayor traded government action in return for donations…”–The Wall Street Journal 

Also,  federal investigators are looking into current ‘elected’ mayor Bill de Blasio’s connection to the sale of Long Island College Hospital. Supposedly the buyer of the hospital is a property developer with direct connections to de Blasio’s assistants.  The city of New York paying more than $2-million tax dollars for the death of an autistic boy.  The death happened in 2013, after the Queens school somehow failed to notice the autistic boy left the campus.  He was found three months later (in January 2014) in the East River.   The state Department of Financial services now investigating foreclosure actions against people with reverse mortgages. In The Empire State there are escalating cases where old people who got reverse mortgages (you know, those home equity loans that claim you can live in your home for the rest of your life) are being foreclosed on by those very reverse mortgage lenders!

North Carolina: Between January and July, state employment administrators received notice of the elimination of more than 8-thousand 5-hundred jobs in the private sector!

Oregon: The city of Portland is pushing ahead with the shutdown of a homeless camp, despite not providing a viable alternative for the increasing number of homeless people (an estimated 5-hundred people now live in the Springwater Corridor).

Texas: Taxsucking Lockheed Martin eliminating more than 1-hundred jobs at Randolph Air Force Base, by September!  Despite many Texas leaders claiming to be ‘christians’, the city of Dallas is pushing ahead with shutting down homeless camps despite threats of lawsuits by the ACLU.  Local news reports say the number of homeless people has doubled since May!    “Yeshua [Jesus of Nazareth] said to him, ‘Foxes have lairs and birds of the sky have shelters, but The Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’”-Matthew 8:20, Aramaic Bible

Virginia: Arlington based Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is offering $4-million tax-dollars to any company that can meet its Cyber Grand Challenges for 2016.  That includes creating an automated computer hacking system!

Washington: At the Hanford nuclear vitrification plant U.S. Department of Energy contractor Bechtel eliminating 45 jobs, but in another report claimed they will continue to fill 3-hundred positions! Company administrators basically said 45 eliminated positions were found to be “inefficient”.

Washington DC: Taxsucking military contractor Lockheed Martin announced that 350 jobs will be eliminated from their Mission Systems and Training operations!

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!

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.”