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Idaho

Saudi Arabia cuts funding for Idaho State students!

09 February 2016 (14:24 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 20 Bahman 1394/29 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/02 Geng Yin 4714

Pocatello, Idaho, is home to Idaho State University (ISU) which readily admitted last year that the majority of their ‘international’ students come from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Kuwait.

ISU also revealed that it suffered a net decline of more than 6-hundred students, even with an increase in students from KSA.  Now the oil rich country of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is losing its financial ass, caused by crashing oil prices which are the result of Iran boosting oil production (on purpose, I recently wrote how Iranian oil administrators said they could make a profit even if oil sunk to $10 per barrel!), and as a result is slashing their higher education funding for Saudi students attending foreign universities.

CNN reports the 12% reduction in funding will force many Saudi students to end their studies in the U.S. as 90% of Saudis attending foreign schools are doing so on their government’s oil revenues.  Not good news for a struggling U.S. higher education system that’s been losing domestic students for the past several years.

Business/Economics, Idaho

“This agency has run amok!” Nebraska shuts down 160 restaurants! No more University of Phoenix! The Rapture shutters 100 Chicago churches! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 07 – 08 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Alabama: What real estate market recovery? Birmingham continues to crash & burn as news reports say an additional 6-thousand 5-hundred square feet of retail space is now available for rent or sale.  That’s because Cosi Restaurant and advertising agency Centigrade are refusing to renew their leases.

Arizona: In Tucson, after 38 years Navajo Rug Repair shutting down so the owners can retire.  They tried to sell the successful business but there were no buyers.  Phoenix based Apollo Education Group selling off its failing University of Phoenix after losing more than 50-thousand students in 2015!  The loss of students was the result of the U.S. Department of Education investigating claims of false promises of finding jobs after graduation, and the U.S. Department of Defense banning military personnel from taking University of Phoenix courses!

Florida:  Forever 21 issued a shutdown WARN for their Jacksonville store number 6002, about 63 jobs lost by mid-March.

Idaho: After jacking up the state fuel tax in 2015 (claiming there wasn’t enough money for never ending road work) state ‘lawmakers’ revealed the federal government increased 2016 federal funding for Idaho road repairs by $16-million USD!  Watchdog group Boise Guardian has revealed that the state Department of Corrections is short-changing county jails for housing state level prisoners.  The state pays counties about $45 per inmate per day, less than the cost of a cheap hotel/motel.  The result is that county level taxpayers are picking up the slack, on top of paying for their own county level prisoners!

Illinois:   Reports say Alliance Partners notified about 235 coal miners that they’ll be losing their jobs due to “Prolonged weak market conditions…”!   God seems oblivious as ‘his’ Archdiocese of Chicago threatens to shutdown at least 1-hundred churches (parishes) due to lack of money, lack of priests and The Rapture, I mean lack of church goers.

Indiana: In South Bend, after 20 years Top Notch Restaurant & Bakery shutdown.  News reports say it will be replaced with a grocery store.  But don’t get excited, the new grocery store is actually an old grocery store moving to a new location, so it’s a net loss of jobs.

Kansas: In Topeka, the Dillions grocery store on Huntoon Street shutting down this week.  City administrators are fearful of increased food insecurity based on U.S. Department of Agriculture data that says residents in the area around the Dillions are now living in a “food desert”.

Kentucky:  Reports say Alliance Partners notified at least 40 coal miners that they’ll be losing their jobs due to “Prolonged weak market conditions…”.

Massachusetts: Federally created ISO New England is warning of huge electricity rate increases for the ‘New England’ states; $3-billion USD in 2017 and $4-billion in 2018, due to shutdowns of outdated power plants.  In Lee, Wave Systems now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.  Administrators said they even tried to sell the data protection software company but nobody wanted to buy.  Chapter 7 usually means the company is officially dead.

Michigan:  In Kalamazoo,  after 40 years Van Sweden Jewelers shutting down in May.  The owner lost two primary employees at the end of last year and tried to sell the store, but nobody wants it.

Montana:  Washington based Puget Sound Energy (PSE) estimates that shutting down its coal fired Colstrip power plant will cost $200-million USD (of course the cost will be passed onto utility customers).  Reports say PSE want it shutdown by 2022, as well as wanting to sell off its newer power plants.  Environmentalists think the clean-up costs will hit $500-million.  There was no mention of the economic-employment impact to the small city of Colstrip.

Nebraska:  Douglas County must have an economic suicide wish as they’re shutting down 160 food joints, for operating without a license!  Administrators with the county Health Department claim they do it every year as licenses lapse, however, the interim prosecutor for the city of Omaha says as far as he knows such an operation has never been “enforced”.  Chris Janicek, the owner of Cupcake Omaha and Cake Box, exclaimed “This agency has run amok!”

New Jersey: Moonachie based bankrupt clothier Joyce Leslie announced it will shutdown all 42 stores: “Unfortunately, our efforts to find a strategic partner to help save the business were not successful. We are saddened to say that we now have to close our doors after 65 years.”-Celia Clancy, ceo

New York:  Professional Transportation Incorporated (PTI) issued a WARN, however, at this point the state Department of Labor has failed to publish the details of the WARN.

Ohio: In West Chester, after 68 years bakery supplies maker Bakery Crafts shutting down, 119 jobs lost starting in April!

Virginia: In Richmond, Pier 1 Imports shutting down their store on West Broad Street, by March.  In Lynchburg, after less than three years locally made handicrafts store Pastiche shutting down.

West Virginia: For the third time in the past month bankrupt coal miner Alpha Natural Resources conducting more mass layoffs.  This time 230 people will loss their jobs!  Last week 93 people lost their jobs and last month 831 people were laid off!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

05-06 February 2016: 74 restaurants shutdown without warning! Another company admits it “over-hired” in 2015!

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.”

International

Iran rescues NATO member Greece!

08 February 2016 (02:28 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 19 Bahman 1394/28 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/01 Geng Yin 4714

“Greece will become an energy, economic and trade bridge between Iran and European Union.”-Alexis Tsipras, prime minister of Greece

After thousands of years the Iranian empire finally captures Greece!

In an historic visit to Iran, the prime minister of NATO and European Union member Greece will sign a ground breaking Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) with the government of Iran!

Alexis Tsipras wants deals that cover just about everything from oil to food to technology.  Obviously the European Union’s and the IMF’s and World Bank’s forced bailout loans and austerity measures have failed.

Iran rejects U.S. Dollar for oil payments!

Technology

Xenoma: Japan develops parasitic e-skin that lets other people know what you’re doing!

08 February 2016 (01:39 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 19 Bahman 1394/28 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/01 Geng Yin 4714

Scientists at University of Tokyo have successfully completed development of an electronic skin that allows other people to use their smartphones to view what you’re doing as you wear it.  Ominously the company that will make and sell the e-skin calls itself Xenoma, which is more commonly known as a xenoparasitic complex, in other words it’s a parasite that lives on your skin.

The University of Tokyo developers say their intent is to create clothing that can be worn by infants and old people who can’t care for themselves.  The developers claim the electronic clothing is meant to help caretakers take care of their charges, however, none of that is mentioned on the Xenoma website.  It just markets their e-skin shirts as the latest in coolness!  

It’s also obvious by pics and vid on the company’s website that they are not making shirts for babies or old people, but rather they are targeting young healthy adults.  Why would young healthy adults want to wear a shirt that lets other people monitor their movements on their smartphones?

Xenoma administrators say their e-shirt is washable and feels like any other shirt.  They hope to start selling it in about a year.

International

Cry Me a River: Conflicting reports about refugees & migrants flooding into Europe!

07 February 2016 (10:57 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 18 Bahman 1394/27 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/29 Wu Yin 4713

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) claims an ‘estimated’ 68,023 migrants and/or refugees flooded into Europe in January.  Some European news sources are claiming this to be an increase in migration, however, a German newspaper published a conflicting report.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reports that in January there was an actual decrease in the number of Syrians coming into Germany, and a slight increase of people seeking asylum from Afghanistan and Iraq.  Many other migrants are coming from the Balkans (in Europe) or North Africa.

The newspaper used data from the European Union’s own European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (aka FRONTEX).  Apparently as many as 40% of the people coming into Europe are not considered war refugees, but economic migrants and cannot qualify for political asylum.

Refugees flooding into Europe could increase as NATO member Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus warned that his country had “reached the limit of its capacity to absorb the refugees.”

However, as I’ve written before tiny Lebanon is ‘hosting’ an overwhelming majority of war refugees from Syria.  So the Europeans and Turks can go cry me a river!

Fukushima

65,000% explosion of radiation in New York!

07 February 2016 (09:08 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 18 Bahman 1394/27 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/29 Wu Yin 4713

Control freak governor Andrew Cuomo is really freaking out after the Indian Point nuclear power plant revealed a spike in radiation leaks of 65-thousand percent!

The nuke disaster reactors are being man-handled by a company called Entergy.  Administrators admitted that water contaminated with tritium has been flooding out of the nuke plant!  The 65-thousand% increase in radiation was found in one of three monitoring wells near the facility.

Indian Point is 25 miles north of New York City and generates 30% of NYC’s electricity.  It sits along the Hudson River.  Inept Entergy administrators claim they don’t know where the leak is coming from!

Idaho National Lab kills 471 Idahoans!

International

Operation Jupiter: Honey Bee Colony Collapse caused by Human Globalization!

07 February 2016 (08:55 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 18 Bahman 1394/27 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/29 Wu Yin 4713

“This is the first study to conclude that Europe is the backbone of the global spread of the bee-killing… ….We must now maintain strict limits on the movement of bees, whether they are known to carry Varroa or not. It’s also really important that beekeepers at all levels take steps to control Varroa in their hives, as this viral disease can also affect wild pollinators.”-Lena Wilfert, senior researcher

A study by the University of Exeter, in United Kingdom, says that the global honey bee Colony Collapse is caused by international trade.

Bee suffering from Deformed Wing Virus

It’s called the Deformed Wings Virus (DMV) and is spread by Varroa mites found in Europe.  The study concluded that Globalization, or international trade, spread the DMV carrying mite around the world, infecting bees that had no immunity to the European virus.   The mites themselves also eat bees.

Researchers used genetic data to trace the spread of the mites and virus to 17 countries.

Operation Jupiter: For past 40 years a major Vaccine maker lied about how they make vaccines! 

Corn syrup + GMO corn crops + Pesticides = Honey Bee Colony Collapse! Human collapse next! 

U.S.

Yet again, another record renounce U.S. citizenship!

07 February 2016 (08:28 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 18 Bahman 1394/27 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/29 Wu Yin 4713

According to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, 2015 saw yet another record number of ‘mericans renounce their U.S. citizenship.  Note that this is not a count of how many ‘mericans fled their country, but of those who officially renounced their citizenship (the number of ‘mericans fleeing the United States of America is much higher, but there’s no official government tracking of it, however, in 2013 the U.S. Department of State reported that 6.38-million U.S. citizens had fled the country).

4,279 people renounced their U.S. citizenship in 2015, that’s 864 more than in 2014 (which was also a record year).  It’s being blamed mainly on the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) which unfairly taxes U.S. citizens living outside the U.S. at a much higher rate than those of us trapped within the U.S.

The IRS publicizes the Expatriate list every quarter through the Federal Registry. 

Where are they going? U.S. citizens invading Palestine!

Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship to skyrocket

Where are they going? South of the border is the number one destination, just ask Jesse Ventura!

Business/Economics

74 restaurants shutdown without warning! Another company admits it “over-hired” in 2015! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 05 – 06 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

According to some reports, 70% of the jobs ‘created’ in January were minimum wage, temp jobs!   The so called increase in wages was a piddly-ass half a percent (0.05%) compared to December!

California:  More proof the internet is not recession resistant; San Francisco based Indiegogo admitted it eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs “A few weeks ago…..to invest in growth.” (it used to be that layoffs were not seen as a sign of growth)  And San Francisco based Marinello School of Beauty shutting down its 56 schools across the U.S., due to it being caught ripping off the U.S. Department of Education!  In Oxnard, after 27 years frozen veggie food maker Coastal Green Vegetable shutting down, 137 jobs lost by March!  The owners blamed currency wars, crashing sales and gave out a list of increasing costs; water, regulations, wages and ObamaCare health care.  In Malibu, expensive clothier Banana Republic shutting down, the general manager said the high rent is not justified.  In Redding, God refuses to stop ‘his’ Simpson University from laying off ten people.  Administrators blame The Rapture, I mean crashing enrollment of students which I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.

Delaware: What housing market recovery? Without warning, Too Big to Jail Capital One eliminated more than 1-hundred jobs at its mortgage operations in Wilmington.

Georgia: Fayette County Schools laying off 18 people. Administrators say the layoffs are not connected to the fact the school system is lacking money, but that student enrollment has declined by 1-hundred!  God refusing to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ British empire based Salvation Army second hand Family Store in Decatur.  But it’s not due to lack of sales, instead the heating system in the building never works so they’re looking for a new location.

Hawaii: In Honolulu, Tsukiji Fish Market and Restaurant shutdown due to the landlord demanding the keys to the store by Monday.  The landlord is one of my former evil employers, GGP (General Growth Properties).  A rep for the operator of the restaurant said there were three years left on the lease.

Illinois: Sycamore School District 427 says it must eliminate a yet to be determined number of teaching jobs, as part of their three year plan to reduce expenses.  Administrators blame “financial constraints and unknown enrollment”.  TFC Bank replacing 33 offices with ATM machines.  Number of jobs being killed was not disclosed.

Kentucky:  Delta Airlines eliminating 120 jobs and reducing hours for another 185 at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport!  Administrators claim they “over-hired” in 2015.  Alliance Coal warning of another 75 layoffs at several of its mines.

Louisiana: California based Chevron eliminating 385 jobs between April and June!  Chevron revealed it is selling off its oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico.  While The Empire State of New York bribed Alcoa to stop mass layoffs there, the cash strapped state of Louisiana isn’t so lucky.  Alcoa eliminating dozens of jobs at its Lake Charles operations, on top of the 130 job cuts announced back in September!

Michigan:  The Bradley Kmart has a new owner who is shutting it down.  Retailer Meijer bought the Kmart property for $5-million USD. The Kmart will be shutdown in May, but the new Meijer store won’t be ready until 2018.

Minnesota: Egan based Ovation Brands suddenly shutdown 74 restaurants!  Apparently the only warning was given back in August when company administrators warned they were about to begin shutting down ‘underperforming’ restaurants (August is also when Ovation Brands was taken over by Food Management Partners).  The shutdown restaurants include Home Town Buffet (three just in the San Francisco area of California), Old Country Buffet, Ryan’s, Fire Mountain and Country Buffet (as opposed to Old Country Buffet?).

New Jersey:  New York Life Insurance issued a WARN, 70 people in Lebanon and Parsippany losing their jobs by April.

New York: Despite a massive taxpayer funded bribe to stop the mass layoffs at Alcoa’s Massena operations (as I reported back in November), Alcoa will still layoff 37 unlucky employees by the end of the month.

Oklahoma:  Without warning oil exploration company Helmerich & Payne laid off about 40 employees in Tusla.

Ohio:  The 28 years old Sears and its Auto Center in New Philadelphia shutting down by mid-April, 46 jobs lost.

Oregon: Perfect example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs (REL); in Springfield, after 32 years Thurston Book Exchange shutting down.  The owner blames loss of customer traffic on the shutdown of the next door Haggen grocery store (which was caused by Haggen being tricked into buying up hundreds of failing Albertsons grocery stores).

Pennsylvania: In Heidelberg, after 63 years Target Cleaners shutting down.  The owners say their business is great, but they need to retire.  Customers (including schools and churches) are upset because Target Cleaners is one of the last dry cleaners in the area.

Texas:  Houston based natural gas company Ryckman Creek Resources and its sibling company Peregrine Rocky Mountains both chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Operations in Colorado and Wyoming could be affected.

Virginia: Genworth has halted its life insurance operations and as a result 330 employees  will become unemployed starting within 60 days of now!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

04 February 2016: “…deteriorating beyond repair for…several years.” Layoffs skyrocket 218%! 

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.”

International

Takes One to Know One: Government anti-terrorism advisor turns out to be a Terrorist?

06 February 2016 (14:28 UTC-07 Tango 01) / 17 Bahman 1394/26 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/28 Wu Yin 4713

A man who advised several United Kingdom prime ministers, and even George W. Bush, about fighting terrorism has made an elitist list of potential terrorists himself!

Liberal Democrat Maajid Nawaz advised Tony Blair (convicted war criminal), Gordon Brown and the current PM of U.K. David Cameron.  He co-founded a group known as Quilliam Foundation which is supposedly anti-radical Islam, however, Nawaz is himself on the privately managed terrorist watch-list-to-the-elites known as World-Check.

World-Check was started in 1999 (yes, two years before 9-11) by U.K. based news media outlet Thomson Reuters to provide wealthy clients with a ‘risk managment’ tool to identify possible ‘risky’ individuals or organizations.

This revelation was revealed by U.K. internet news source VICE News.  Their investigation actually focused on the perviously secret World-Check list. 

Nawaz even thanked VICE News on his Twitter account for revealing the list with his name on it.  It turns out that in Nawaz’s distant past he was a member of a group that became labeled as a terrorist organization, but he swears he is no longer part of it.

VICE News says World-Check now lists at least 2.7-million terror suspects, and that since 2007 the number of individuals and groups being accused by Thomson Reuters of being terrorists jumped five-fold.

The World-Check list is not just used by the elites and their Too Big to Jail banks, but by your government.  Did you make the list?

African countries refuse to arrest Convicted War Criminals Bush Jr & Blair