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International

Gun Ban Fail: Man kills 84 people with truck full of fake guns!

15 July 2016 (12:07 UTC-07 Tango 01) 25 Tir 1395/09 Shawwal 1437/12 Yi-Wei 4714

Yet again, in the anti-gun European country known as France, people have been killed by a terrorist act, the main weapon was a delivery truck.

France has strict anti-gun laws, pistols and any gun labeled a “weapon of war” are banned. Rifles and shotguns (called Long Guns) are strictly regulated.

In the city of Nice a man drove a truck down a crowded pedestrian crowded street, killing at least 84 people and wounding 50.  French news sources claim the man was also shooting at people, that claim has not been verified by police.  The cops killed him, by blasting him through the truck’s windshield, with a bunch of guns.  Isn’t it interesting that pistols and “weapons of war” are banned for civilian ownership in France, yet cops are allowed to use them?

Also, there  are reports the delivery truck was full of guns and explosives, but unnamed police sources say those ‘guns’, and one grenade, turned out to be “fake”!  Police say the driver, who was a legal migrant worker from Tunis, had a short criminal record (charged with crimes but never convicted of a felony) but was never considered a terrorist threat.  News media interviews with the man’s neighbors say he never took part in religious activities.

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

GUN BAN FAIL: ANTIGUN LAWS FAIL TO STOP PRO-EU POLITICIAN FROM BEING ASSASSINATED!

ITALIAN COPS STOP MORMON DESIGNED SHOTGUNS BOUND FOR TERRORISTS!

FRANCE DEMANDS U.S. STEP DOWN FROM WAR ON TERROR LEADERSHIP!

HYPOCRISY 101: OBAMA USES PRO-GUN ARGUMENT TO JUSTIFY WAR ON TERROR!

HOW DID SO MANY PEOPLE GET SO MANY GUNS IN ANTI-GUN FRANCE?

Technology

Twice in one week Security Bot injures child! Christianity behind Rise of the Machines?

14 July 2016 (11:14 UTC-07 Tango 01) 24 Tir 1395/08 Shawwal 1437/11 Yi-Wei 4714

“What is that thing? What is that thing!”-mother of victim screaming as she tried to pull her child from under the 300 pound K5 security-bot

For the second time in one week, and at the same California shopping mall (Stanford Shopping Center), a 136kg (3-hundred pound) security guard job stealing security robot has injured a human.

Knightscope, the maker of the K5 Autonomous Data Machine (Machine Identification Number 13), claimed in the latest incident the child was running backwards, which somehow confused the bot, and got run over.  The angry parents call bullshit on that claim as their 16 months old is too young to know how to run backwards!  They say the security-bot drove straight for their child, without deviation, knocking him face-down.  Their child survived the accident with a long scratch on the back of his leg.

Unnamed mall employees said this was the second time there was an “incident” with the K5, mall management refused to confirm, or deny, the employee’s claim.  Knightscope claims the latest reported incident is the first and only incident.

Interestingly a Catholic news source published a report, last month, which stated that “Robots evolving to defend themselves as people prove dangerous” and concluded that “It’s important that humans respect robots…” !  The report documents how around the world robots are being attacked by humans.  It also promoted the use of the K5 Autonomous Data Machine.

Robot’s role in killing Dallas shooter is a first

International

Obama’s New War: Chinese soldier killed! Japan evacuates South Sudan! UN troops run for their lives!

11 July 2016 (07:24 UTC-07 Tango 01) 21 Tir 1395/05 Shawwal 1437/08 Yi-Wei 4714

Japan sending three C-130 transport aircraft to South Sudan to evacuate at least 70 Japanese working in the five years old oil rich country.   47 Japan International Cooperation Agency personnel are reported to be trapped by intense fighting in Juba City.

Since 2012 Japan has stationed about 350 military personnel in South Sudan (possibly in violation of their own constitution), as part of United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) ‘peacekeeping’ operations.  Those peacekeeping ops fell apart over the weekend as  full-on war between South Sudan’s president and South Sudan’s vice president began last Thursday (skirmishes have been ongoing since June), killing nearly 3-hundred people so far, including a Chinese soldier taking part in UNMISS ops.

UNMISS says the Chinese soldier was killed (independent news reports say two Chinese killed) when Jebel ‘House’ was attacked. Chinese government reports say the soldier was killed, and several wounded, when their vehicle was blown up.  Several Rwandan soldiers were wounded at Tomping House, witnesses described a “massive explosion”.   Unnamed UN workers at a refugee camp say South Sudan’s president ordered helicopters to bomb the refugee camp.  Hundreds of civilians are being killed.  The paranoid U.S. Obama regime backed president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, has always accused refugees of being covert terrorists. 

UNMISS officials report Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites are being overrun by people fleeing the fighting.   The impotent UN Security Council is demanding the fighting between South Sudan’s president and vice president stop.

JAPAN TO INVADE SOUTH SUDAN UNDER NEW LAW! IT’S ALL ABOUT THE OIL

WORLD WAR 3, AFRICAN FRONT: JAPAN INCREASING TROOPS IN SUDAN, U.K. INCREASING TROOPS IN MALI!

SUDAN BOMBS OIL RICH SOUTH SUDAN

PRO-U.S. SOUTH SUDAN STOPPED ALL OIL EXPORTS.

U.S. GREED FOR OIL SHUTS DOWN HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN. 

THE CREATION OF SOUTH SUDAN IS ALL ABOUT THE OIL….HILLARY CLINTON TELLS U.S. OIL COMPANIES TO GO FOR IT!

U.S.

False Flag : Cop ‘watcher’ says “Something didn’t seem right” about police presence at Dallas BLM demo!

08 July 2016 / 20:20 UTC-07 Tango 01 (19 Tir 1395/03 Shawwal 1437/06 Yi-Wei 4714)

Idaho TV station KIFI interviewed a man in Dallas who is part of a citizen’s police watchdog group called Dallas Cop Block.  Jose Vela first said “At first I thought maybe the police were corralling people and then all of I sudden I heard ‘they’re shooting they’re shooting.'”

On KIFI’s 6pm newscast they ran a part of their interview with Vela in which he stated “I think the Dallas police were caught with their pants down….  I didn’t see any heavily armed police… something didn’t seem right…” at the Black Lives Matter demonstration because he said it looked like they were not prepared in the usual way for protest deployment, meaning they were wearing standard uniforms and armed with standard issue pistols.

At the time I write this KIFI has not posted that part of their interview with Vela on their website.  They have a politically correct version currently posted in which Vela says he feels sorry for the police.

U.S.

False Flag : Dallas police now say it was a “lone shooter”! Are the cops on drugs?

08 July 2016 (17:39 UTC-07 Tango 01)18 Tir 1395/02 Shawwal 1437/05 Yi-Wei 4714

16 hours after what’s called the deadliest attack since 9/11, the police chief of Dallas, Texas, now says the shooting of more than a dozen police and civilians was the work of a “lone shooter”.

But from the beginning it was the police who told local news media that there was at least four shooters!  After about eight hours they changed it to two shooters, with the police chief saying he wasn’t going to comment on the people they had arrested for being suspects.  There’s even video of a suspect on the ground shooting a cop at point blank range, supposedly while a sniper is picking off cops from a parking garage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQ25Hj0hdc&feature=player_embedded

Police chief David Brown stated that police were confused by the situation as it unfolded, but now they’re sure it was a lone shooter; a 25 years old ‘black’ U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who “wanted to kill white police” in retaliation for police killing ‘black’ people.  Police say they killed the lone shooter using a robot to sneak a small bomb to the shooter’s location, it’s considered a ‘first’ in police operations.  The point is, police chief Brown admitted that even cops get confused in stressful situations, that’s his excuse for why they publicly stated at the beginning there were at least four shooters.  Now think about all those killings of civilians by police.  If you watch the videos of those killings it’s obvious the cops are freaking out.

Are people who want to be a cop required to prove they can ‘maintain’ under stressful situations?  Many cops are on prescription psychoactive drugs (for anxieties, which proves they can’t handle stressful situations), even illegal drugs (Boston Globe: 75 officers failed city drug tests, Cocaine use most prevalent. Drug Policy Alliance: The GAO reported that from 1993 to 1998 the FBI opened at least 400 state and local police corruption cases that were drug-related, leading to the conviction of over 300 officers. Federal Bureau of Investigation: Nine Law Enforcement Officers Sentenced for Protecting Drug Dealers.).  Realize what we have in the U.S. is a lot of people who can’t handle stress, whacked out on prescription and/or illegal drugs, and employed as gun armed police who have the authority to kill you!

POLICE CAUSE GUN VIOLENCE: OBAMA HOMIE TOWN COPS SHOOT ONE VICTIM PER WEEK!

“You have to wonder if there would have been charges if there wasn’t video evidence.”–Philip Stinson, former policeman now Bowling Green State University criminologist who compiles data about criminal cops

IDAHO NEWS MEDIA LIE ABOUT CRIMINAL POLICE RECORDS!

IDAHO PRISONERS DIE IN 1 DAY! DRUGS & EVIL MORMON MTC INVOLVED?

POLICE CAUSE GUN VIOLENCE: CALIFORNIA MAN GUNNED DOWN BY HALF DOZEN FAT-ASS COPS!

49% OF AMERICANS SAY GOVERNMENT IS TRUE ENEMY OF THE STATE!

POLICE SHOOT DOG THEY ALREADY KILLED: “You could hear the dog screaming and crying in pain. I did see one officer that had been extremely aggressive that did have his knee into her chest that was tightening the noose. It seemed they were doing it relentlessly and unnecessarily.”-Sandy Fleischer, neighbor who reported a loose Shar-Pei to police

POLICE ADMIT THEY HAVE VAULTS FULL OF GUNS!

BULLIED HIGH SCHOOL GIRL NOW IN PRISON, BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE WROTE IN HER DIARY! PRESCRIPTION DRUGS INVOLVED!

AFGHANISTAN FALSE FLAG ALERT: DRUGS USED TO TURN PEOPLE INTO SUICIDE BOMBERS!

AFGHANISTAN JUNE 2013: The U.S. Department of State has ordered all U.S. contractors to undergo drug testing for opiates, amphetamines, steroids, cocaine and other hard drugs. 

AUTOPSY SHOWS TEXAS COPS NOT JUSTIFIED IN KILLING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT.

VIDEO SHOWS RICH GUN ARMED WHITE COPS HUNTING POOR UNARMED BLACK MAN IN NEW YORK

Technology

“It’s like a never-ending funeral.” : June 2016 U.S. tech/communications destruction

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 June 2016:

Arizona: California based internet health insurance management company YourPeople-Zenefits shutting down their Grand Canyon State sales office, at least 1-hundred jobs lost!

California: Ebay posted a mass layoff WARN saying they laid off 538 people, back in February 2015!   Cupertino based hard disk maker Seagate Technology announced it will kill off 1-thousand 6-hundred jobs by the end of its third quarter!  Renewable energy company SunEdison continues killing jobs, this time 121 people in three locations were laid off at the end of May!  Once touted as one of the fastest growing women owned companies, military InfoTech contractor Xtreme Solutions issued a layoff WARN for their Ontario location, 80 jobs lost by the end of August.  San Jose based Apple computer “human interface” parts supplier Synaptics eliminating 160 jobs! In a round-a-bout way administrators blamed crashing sales. United Technologies shutting down their San Diego office at the end of July. Software company Veritas Technologies revealed they laid off 128 people in Mountain View, back in May! Steiner eOptics (aka Laser Devices) shutting down their Monterey location, 69 jobs gone by August. Connecticut based Xerox shutting down their Cerritos location, 39 jobs lost by August. Internet slots website Playtika eliminating 111 Santa Monica jobs by August!  In Los Angeles, ad agency 72andSunny announced it laid off “2%” of its employees in an attempt to maintain the “long term health” of the company.  San Jose based electronic payments company VeriFone Systems reports a surprise decline in revenue and will layoff an undisclosed number of people, blaming it on “difficult market dynamics”.   Solar Link eliminating 169 jobs in Ontario by mid-July! L-3 Communications revealed it shutdown its San Carlos operations back in April, 69 jobs lost. Video game maker Disney Interactive revealed they laid off 55 people, back in mid-May. In San Jose, Western Digital issued a mass layoff WARN, 232 jobs gone by July! Network and content control freak Lightspeed Systems issued a layoff WARN for their Bakersfield ops, 80 jobs gone by Xmas.  Jacobs Technology issued a WARN, 65 jobs gone by mid-August. VSE Corporation issued a layoff WARN, nine Barstow jobs gone by the end of July.  Resistor maker Caddock Electronics issued a shutdown WARN for their Riverside ops, 60 jobs gone by mid-August.

Florida:  News-Press/Gannett Publishing eliminating 79 jobs in Marco Island and Fort Myers, between July and August.  Xerox issued a WARN for their Orlando ops, 95 jobs gone by the end of August.  Call center operator Convergys issued a WARN for their AT&T Jacksonville ops, 163 jobs gone by mid-August! Call center operator Vertex issued a WARN, 1-hundred Sarasota jobs gone between August and Xmas!  Jacobs Technology issued a WARN, 257 jobs in Fort Walton Beach gone between now and the end of August!

Illinois:   Cellular One issued shutdown WARNs for multiple locations, 91 jobs gone by September, no reason was given to state employment administrators. In Vernon Hills, custom computer programer Zebra Tech issued a shutdown WARN, 66 jobs lost by August due to “relocation”.  British empire United Kingdom based electronics company Laird Technologies shutting down their Schaumburg factory, eliminated 53 jobs.

Indiana: CTS Electric Components shutting down their Elkhart factory and moving production to Mexico and China. 230 U.S. jobs gone by mid-2018!

Maryland:  Missouri based finance and healthcare software maker DST Systems shutdown its Baltimore office. Georgia based payment processor Global Payments shutting down their Owings Mills ops, 334 jobs lost between July 2016 and March 2017! Local news media say administrators refused to say why. Global Payments recently reported big profits, and in 2007 said they would expand their Ownings Mills operations. It might have to do with the $3.8-billion USD spent on taking over rivals!

Massachusetts: Braintree based radio station owner Greater Media eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs across the U.S.  In the state of Boston Weak, MassMutual Financial Group laying off at least 1-hundred U.S. citizen InfoTech employees, replacing them with H-1B migrants! Local news media reporting that U.S. citizen employees are being threatened with the loss of their two weeks severance if they go public with the plan to replace U.S. employees with migrants: “It’s like a never-ending funeral.”–unnamed U.S. citizen employee to Computerworld reporter

Minnesota: The Post Bulletin laid off 11 people due to declining advertising revenue.

Missouri: Finance and healthcare software maker DST Systems eliminating 150 jobs in Kansas City!  Bankrupt solar panel and windmill maker SunEdison eliminating at least 43 jobs.

New Jersey: VALID USA laid off 144 South Plainfield data center employees!

New York: New York Life Insurance issued multiple WARNs, dozens of in-house InfoTech and Finance jobs being lost to cheap-o contractors.   NYC based animator Frederator Networks laid off 15 people, calling it “a fairly typical restructuring”. NYC based internet publisher Gawker Media now chapter 11 bankrupt busted after losing a $140-million USD lawsuit brought against them by Hulk Hogan.  In NYC, telecommunications company Charter Communications eliminating at least 36 jobs due to their merger with Time Warner.  Computer seller Tekserve shutting down their NYC computer store, 79 jobs gone by mid-September.  Connecticut based Xerox in the final stages of shutting down their Webster distribution operation, the remaining 48 employees becoming unemployed in August.

Ohio: In Lockbourne, IntelliSource eliminating 235 jobs by mid-August, apparently due to losing its contract at the Zulily Fulfillment Center.

Oklahoma: Newspaper The Oklahoman shutting down its packaging and printing ops in Oklahoma City, 130 jobs gone by September! The Oklahoman was Oklahoma’s largest newspaper but will now contract out work to rival Tulsa World.

Oregon: Data center Peak Hosting laid off 135 people and declared bankruptcy after losing a major internet video gaming client!   It was revealed that last month’s 784 layoffs by computer chip maker Intel were the largest ever mass layoff in Oregon’s history! Local news media says several hundreds more are expected to lose their jobs by the end of the year.

Texas:  ‘Tech distributor’ Ingram Micro eliminating 937 jobs in Fort Worth, as part of its $6-billion USD sell-out to Chinese company Tianjin Tianhai-HNA Group!  In Austin, former drivers for California based internet companies Uber and Lyft filed multiple lawsuits over their sudden dismissal in May. The sudden halt to Uber and Lyft operations is the result of Austin residents approving a new law requiring Uber and Lyft to conduct background checks on ‘independent’ drivers. Apparently Uber and Lyft didn’t want to comply, so they laid off hundreds (possibly thousands) of people without warning. (Uber has already agreed to settle a lawsuit by 350-thousand drivers in California and Massachusetts who say Uber never reimbursed them for fuel expenses! Lyft is offering to pay California drivers $27-million USD to settle their legal action!)  Also in Austin, once praised as one of the “best funded startups” 10 years old Spiceworks announced it must layoff 12% of its hundreds of employees, the CEO would only say “…new efforts and strategies require us to reconsider our own organization…”  

Washington: Redmond based Microsoft is buying LinkdIn for $26.2-billion USD, expect mass layoffs.  Seattle based Amazon will invest $3-billion USD in creating new jobs, but not here in the United States, the money is going to India! By the way, that’s on top of the $2-billion Amazon has already pumped into India!

Wisconsin: Texas based InfoTech company Compucom issued a shutdown WARN for its Waukesha operations, at least 16 jobs gone by the end of August.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

U.S.

U.S. Civil War: “Deadliest attack since 9/11!” 11 cops shot, 5 dead!

08 July 2016  (01:12 UTC-07 Tango 01)18 Tir 1395/02 Shawwal 1437/05 Yi-Wei 4714)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SZFxoQVDwFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qinVm4ar3RM&feature=player_detailpage

Texas news media calling it the “deadliest attack since 9/11!”  11 cops shot, five now dead!  

Police tried using explosives to dislodge a sniper from the El Centro College parking garage, now a robot is being used to see if the sniper is still alive.  People are trapped in the Bank of America parking garage due to being locked down by cops.  News media reporting that SWAT cops are escorting people out of the federal building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQ25Hj0hdc&feature=player_detailpage

Three other alleged snipers arrested, police say the suspects are refusing to cooperate.

The shootings started at 21:00 hours on 07 July, during a Black lives Matter demonstration.  The demonstration was the result of two days of cops killing ‘black’ people, caught on videos.  The videos prove the ‘black’ people who were shot did not threaten the cops!  On one of the videos you can hear a cop screaming in a way that makes it sound like it didn’t even know he had pulled the trigger, multiple times, on his gun!

Dallas DFW TV hosting retired police officer who implied that police need to be armed as full blown military units!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7h2j0n18jg&feature=player_detailpage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1Lll3rXYE&feature=player_detailpage

CANADIANS DEMAND GUN RIGHTS AFTER POLICE ADMIT TO STEALING LEGALLY OWNED GUNS!

FALSE FLAG: POLITICIANS ADMIT POLICE ‘LET IT HAPPEN’! POLICE CALL IT “JEU POLITIQUE”!

UNITED POLICE STATES: OBAMA APPROVES EXTRA FUNDING FOR PRISONS!

PARANOID U.S. COP COUPLE KILL THEIR OWN DAUGHTER!

FALSE FLAG: DALLAS POLICE HQ ATTACK WITNESS SAYS NO COPS PRESENT UNTIL AFTER GUNSHOTS!

Technology

Layoffs are attempt to find “sustainable profitability.” : May 2016, U.S. tech/communications industry job destruction

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 May 2016:

Once again, five tech companies are leading the way in corporate cash hoarding: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Cisco Systems and Oracle. For the past several years these very same tech companies have dominated corporate cash hoarding. In 2015 they hoarded a combined total of $504-billion USD, or 30% of the cash available in the U.S. economy. Basic economics courses will tell you that cash hoarding is a major drain on economies, pulling money out of the cash flow system which drives economies. And these are the same tech companies that are killing tens of thousands of jobs!

After three years website The Toast will cease new postings by July. The owners revealed they’ve been discussing shutting it down altogether for the past six months. They also admitted it’s actually difficult to finance such a website.

California: Palo Alto based Jive Software laying off 1-hundred people by the end of June, in an attempt to reach “sustainable profitability.” Mountain View based software company Symantec announced a restructuring plan that will eliminate 1-thousand 2-hundred jobs and shutdown some operations!  Data storage contractor Western Digital issued multiple layoff WARNs, 204 jobs gone between June and July! Sacramento based newspaper owner The McClatchy Company off-shoring 150 U.S. InfoTech jobs to India! Xerox laying off 55 people in Riverside, by the end of June. Cisco Systems killed yet more jobs, this time 83 people in San Jose rendered jobless. In San Francisco, Roof Diagnostics Solar and Electric issued a WARN, 48 jobs gone by July. Video game maker Glu Mobile warning of mass layoffs after losing $8.6-million USD during its last quarter.

Connecticut: Roof Diagnostics Solar and Electric issued a shutdown WARN for their Middletown operation, 46 jobs lost by mid-July. Norwalk based internet travel company Priceline warning of bad results for its upcoming quarterly report.

Idaho: The Idaho Technology Council reports that from 2014 to 2015 business investments into The Gem State tripled ($3.47 billion to $16.29 billion)! However, when you break it down by region all the big increases in investments went to the Boise area (aka southern sector of the state), north and east sectors saw little change in investments. And 60% went to the service sector (retail).

Illinois: Chicago based internet loan company Avant laid off 60 people. CEO Al Goldstein admitted the economy sucks: “Our biggest competitor [California based Lending Club] just fell down, and the whole space is at an inflection point.” Chicago based e-coupon company Groupon laid off 30 people as part of their larger plan to eliminate 1-thousand 1-hundred jobs! Sports analytics provider to news media Stats eliminating 50 jobs, on top of the 30 jobs eliminated back in October.

Louisiana: In Baton Rouge, Xerox eliminated 84 data collection jobs with its State & Local Solutions ops.

Maine: Tennessee based Sitel eliminating 120 jobs at its Caribou call center, by mid-July! It’s blamed on lack of contracts.

Maryland: Silver Spring based Discovery Communications warning of impending employee buyouts and mass layoffs, this after the CEO took a 79% pay-cut last year! The job cuts are expected to be finalized by 3rd quarter 2016.

Massachusetts:  Boston Weak tech start up Localytics admitted that its recent round of layoffs was an effort to maximize profits in a crashing economy. Boston Weak based electronic payment processor Merchant Customer eXchange (MCX) laid off 30 people and is once again delaying the release of its new payment processing software.

Missouri: Two years after re-entering the home loan market internet based Ditech Financial eliminating 103 jobs by September, as it shuts down its debt collects ops in Earth City!

New Hampshire: Teledyne PCT was sold-off and local news reports say the new owner FTC Circuts plans to shut it down, 80 jobs lost.

New Jersey: NGR Solar announced it is streamlining its home solar division, meaning 5-hundred employees becoming unemployed!

New Mexico:  California based Intel accelerating layoffs at its Rio Rancho ops,  hundreds of people being laid off by Xmas and the Rio Rancho plant is being shutdown as well! Here’s what Intel said about accelerating layoffs across the world : “The majority of changes will be communicated worldwide over the next 60 days with some actions stretching into 2017, through site consolidations, a combination of voluntary and involuntary departures, reevaluation of projects, and an increased focus on efficiency in a variety of programs. We are not providing further site-specific information at this time.”

New York: NYC based internet auction site Paddle8 laid off at least 16 people as a direct result of their merger with Auctionata. And British empire Canada founded but NYC based Vice News laid off at least 15 digital media employees in California and New York, and began eliminating jobs in Europe. The Wall Street journal reporting that Armonk based IBM is conducting yet another round of massive job cuts in Colorado, New York and North Carolina. Those jobs are being off-shored to Costa Rica and India.  Analysts think that when IBM is done killing U.S. jobs, this year, that as many as 14-thousand people could be unemployed!   3D printer maker MakerBot issued a layoff WARN for their Brooklyn location, at least 80 people jobless by mid-July.  Roof Diagnostics Solar and Electric issued a shutdown WARN for its Henrietta operations, 38 jobs gone by mid-August.   Insurance company New York Life issued a WARN saying 104 InfoTech employees in NYC and Sleepy Hollow will become unemployed by January 2017! The jobs are being “outsourced”.  It’s finally been revealed that NYC based EmblemHealth eliminated 250 Information Technology (IT) jobs! They’re switching to a contractor.

North Carolina: Sitel shutting down its Ashville call center, 189 jobs gone starting in July!

Texas: Austin based video game maker Wizard101-KingIsle Entertainment revealed they laid off an undisclosed number of employees, after canceling the release of some new smart phone video games.

Utah: In Salt Lake City, without warning Disney Infinity killed 3-hundred jobs as Disney halted production and design of Star Wars related toys and video games! Disney administrators revealed how bad the future economy still is by saying “…we did not have enough confidence in the business in terms of it being stable enough to stay in it.”

Washington: Redmond based Microsoft laying off 1-thousand 850 cell phone employees worldwide, in direct connection to Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia. (Nokia itself took over Alcatel Lucent and announced that 15-thousand people globally will become unemployed as a result!)  And Seattle based Amazon ended its Price Matching Refunds on everything by TVs. Amazon administrators swear they didn’t change their policy, but customers are venting on Reddit: “What pisses me off the most is amazon is pretending like they never did this and if it happened before it was a ‘one time exception.’ I have price adjusted at least 50 times in the last 3 years, so that’s bulls**t if it was just an ‘exception’ this was the policy that amazon had.”

TechCrunch posted conflicting emails it got from Amazon: “If the item is shipped and sold by Amazon we have a 7 days price match from the time of delivery.”-28 April 2016

“With the exception of TVs, Amazon.com doesn’t offer post-purchase adjustments.”-02 May 2016

April 2016: “BLOODBATH”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

U.S.

Finally a scholarship that gives you “The Freedom to Get Stuff Done”!

07 July 2016 / 19:08 UTC-07 Tango 01 (18 Tir 1395/02 Shawwal 1437/05 Yi-Wei 4714)

Donald Trump supporter and co-founder of paypal (and other things) Peter Thiel is offering a two years $100-thousand USD scholarship to young adults, to stay out of college!

The Thiel Fellowship is supposedly meant to help young adults spend two years getting their head straight about what they really want to do with their life.  On CNN Thiel actually called a college diploma a modern day “dunce cap”!

And if you want more reason to stay out of school the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) discovered that unpaid college interns are less likely to find a paid job after graduating because employers do not considered unpaid internships as preparation for a real job!  Also, where you go to college also affects your employment chances; only 46% of graduates in the “Far West” find jobs compared to 68% in the north east!

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S. JUNE 2016 : “MORALE IS REALLY LOW.” “THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE.”

Technology

“bloodbath” : April 2016, U.S. tech/communications industry job destruction

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 April 2016:

Mormon Glen Beck’s ‘news’ network The Blaze warned at least 40 employees across the U.S. that they will lose their jobs. This is at least the second round of layoffs for Glen Beck. Back in February a Daily Beast report basically said former employees accused ‘christian’ Beck of being a backstabber. It’s blamed on crashing ratings and the crashing numbers of people looking at Beck’s websites Glennbeck.com and TheBlaze.com.

Arizona: California based Intel eliminating 560 jobs in Chandler, by the end of May!

California: Insiders are reporting that Apple has laid off all its employee recruiters, more than 1-hundred employees! Recruiting bonuses were also slashed from 40% to only 10%.  In Irvine, Sage Software eliminating 26 jobs by the end of June. In San Jose, Western Digital Technology eliminating 71 jobs by mid-June.   San Louis Obispo based e-commerce company Kibo (Shopatron) suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people (reports vary from eight to 25), blaming it on Kibo’s merger with two other e-commerce companies.   After 57 years La Cañada Flintridge based Sport Chalet announced it is dead! Not only are they shutting down all 67 brick-n-mortar stores across nine states, but they’re halting all internet sales! New York based IBM laying off 109 people at its San Jose ops, by the end of May!  In Oakland software maker APN (Ask Partner Network) issued a layoff WARN, 19 employees unemployed by the end of May. Mindspark Interactive Network revealed it too will eliminate jobs. Internet company IAC (InterActiveCorp) issued layoff WARNs for 15 employees, effective at the end of May. In San Francisco, KGO Radio laid off as many as 30 people (almost all its newsroom staff) without warning, employees called it a “bloodbath”. The news came from employees who refused to give their names on account they’ve been threatened with losing their jobs as well.   Santa Clara based Intel confirmed it is about to eliminate 12-thousand jobs, blaming it on crashing computer sales!

Connecticut: Norwalk based Xerox revealed it eliminated 4-thousand 8-hundred jobs in the first quarter of 2016! Xerox has been slashing jobs since 1991.

Idaho: ‘Christian’ led state Department of Labor making money off its own software by selling its Right to Work Internet Unemployment System (ius) to the states of Iowa and Vermont!

Kansas: In Overland Park, Sprint revealed it eliminated an additional 113 jobs at its HQ!

Missouri: Solar panel and windmill maker SunEdison now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. The company was called the fastest growing green energy company in the U.S., but that was because it was using debt to finance its growth, now it can’t pay up.

New York: The company behind those crappy entertainment shows like American Idol, NYC based CORE Media, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Despite years of high ratings the company was not able to pay off massive debts, and now ratings for those BS shows are crashin’-n-burnin’.  Iconic New York Times announced it will shutdown its Paris, France, printing ops. On top of that, insiders and union members are reporting that New York Times will eliminate “hundreds” of jobs by November! This comes after the CEO of New York Times saw his income skyrocket to $8.7-million USD last year!  Amazon halting its clothing line, 94 MyHabit jobs lost in NYC and Brooklyn, in July.     In Staten Island NYC, telecommunications company Midtown Express shutting down, 45 jobs gone in May.  NYC based digital news service Mashable Studios announced will begin eliminating jobs because “…to keep our voice consistent across every platform, it’s clear that all our video producers should live on the same team.”

North Carolina: Germany based BASF laying off 190 highly educated employees at its Research Triangle Park ops by the end of Summer! It’s part of BASF’s plans to eliminate 350 local jobs in total! Connecticut based Xerox laying off 139 people at its State Healthcare operation “due to a business decision of a single client”. This might be what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs (REL) as many healthcare providers are drastically cutting back on spending due to ObamaCare.

Oregon: Veritas Software issued a WARN for their Springfield ops, 50 jobs lost by mid-June.  California based Intel issued a mass layoff WARN, 784 jobs gone by the end of May!  California based software company Symantec resumed mass layoffs at its Springfield operations. Exact numbers were not released.

Texas: in Austin internet based business education service Amazing Academy (amazing.com) laid off 50% of its employees without warning! The news came from the former employees.  Dallas based AT&T is now offering poor families internet service for as little as $5 per month! This is because the federal government (FCC Lifeline program) is finally recognizing that there are now more poor people than ever before and that the overwhelming majority of employers now do hiring through the internet only.  San Antonio based iHeartMedia warning of bankruptcy due to ongoing lawsuit by creditors. If they lose the lawsuit they could be required to make an immediate payment of $15-billion USD!  Arlington based software company Opower laid off 25 U.S. employees as “…part of an effort to cut back on our overall spending….”

Washington: California based Intel shutting down its DuPont location (according to the mayor of DuPont), killing 350 jobs! DuPont Mayor Michael Courts says Intel administrators did not tell him when the plant would shutdown. Connecticut based Xerox issued a layoff WARN for their Kent operations, 98 jobs lost by the end of May.

March 2016: “TO RECEIVE SEVERANCE…EMPLOYEES…SIGN AWAY THEIR RIGHT TO SUE.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed