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“tough challenges that we can no longer ignore”: U.S. Hi-Tech/Communications breakdown, January 2018

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 January 2018:

Maybe the new Whore of Babylon is the Digital Bitch?:

California:  Who said sex sells? A little more than a year after being sold to a Florida based company, Chatsworth based adult magazine Penthouse now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, for the third time in its 52 year history.  World of Tanks maker Wargaming America issued a shutdown shutdown WARN for its Emeryville location, 117 jobs gone by the end of March!  San Francisco based women’s lifestyle online-zine Brit + Co suddenly eliminated 14 jobs, despite a 50% increase in revenues.  Wi-fi startup Eero suddenly laid off 30 people in order to “focus on our core business.”  San Jose based ebay reported a massive loss of $2.6-billion USD (not counting losses caused by the new U.S. tax laws), and that’s just for its 4th quarter of 2017!  Ebay also announced it will ditch paypal and offshore payments processing to a company based in Netherlands. Santa Clara based security-tech company Gigamon issued a layoff WARN, 74 people in Santa Clara jobless in March. Xerox eliminating 47 jobs in Cerritos, in March.  San Mateo based GoPro suddenly laid off 140 people due to major problems with its Karma drone, that’s according to the official WARN, but news media reports say it could end up being as many as 3-hundred!  Act-On Software issued a shutdown WARN for its Roseville location, 96 jobs gone in March.  E-commerce packaging service Smurfit Kappa North America suddenly eliminated 155 jobs in City of Industry!  It was revealed that British empire Canada based Creation Technologies suddenly shutdown ops in Milpitas, 177 jobs killed before Xmas 2017!   Mellanox Technologies Silicon Photonics issued a shutdown WARN for its Monterey Park ops, 98 jobs gone in March.  Iconic video game maker Activision suddenly laid off 194 people in Ventura!  David William Bell, the owner of UST Development-US Telecom, sentenced to nine years in federal prison after being convicted of $1-million USD in fraud schemes involving tricking third party payroll companies to issue paychecks to his employees using their money, plus sending out fake billing statements to ignorant ‘anies are not making customers’ who actually paid them!  VMware eliminating 169 jobs at its Palo Alto HQ!   Mountain View based non-profit Mozilla suddenly laid off more than 12 people in Republic of China (Taiwan) blaming “emerging markets across Asia”.   The Bay Area News Group warning of “significant” layoffs if employees don’t voluntarily quit (buyouts) in the next few months, and yes you can read their newspapers online.   Los Angeles based internet comedy site Funny or Die obviously isn’t funny because it’s dying. An undisclosed number of employees were suddenly laid off, reports say Funny or Die has been laying off employees since 2016.  CEO Mike Farah admitted most online companies are not making money, saying “Like a lot of other digital media companies, we’re facing tough challenges that we can no longer ignore, and so we must adapt.”

Connecticut: Norwalk based Xerox is in merger talks with Nippon’s (Japan) Fujifilm, which could result in 10-thousand jobs being killed globally!

Illinois:  Restaurant owners now joining customers in accusing Arlington Heights based restaurant.com of fraud.  The Better Business Bureau (BBB) gave the website an F grade.  In Chicago, predictive analytics startup Uptake suddenly laid off 51 people, despite raising approximately $260-million USD in funding.

Indiana: Nippon (Japan) based Sony DADC issued a shutdown WARN for its Terre Haute factory, 375 people jobless due to outsourcing to France based Technicolor Home Entertainment Services!

Iowa: Convergys shutting down its call center in Sergeant Bluff, 178 jobs gone in April!  Germany based Siemens issued a shutdown WARN for its 11 years old Gamesa Renewable Energy factory in Fort madison, 202 jobs gone by the end of March!

Kansas: Police body camera maker Digital Ally suddenly laid off 63 people due to a sudden 31% crash in revenue.

Kentucky:  In Louisville, online retailer of on-demand customized products CafePress laid off 12 people due to a sudden 32% crash in revenues.

Minnesota: Energy-tech company SheerWind now chapter 7 bankrupt dead with zero assets and $3.7-million USD in debts.  In Wadena, after 18 years Cyber Cafe shutdown.  It was revealed that only subsidies (funding) from the local community, and government, kept it in operation, sales alone are not enough to cover operating cost. The owner also revealed competition from ever advancing social media technology played a major role in killing them off.

New York: Florida based JPay supposedly giving prisoners of Department of Corrections and Community Supervision electronic tablets at no cost to taxpayers.  JPay is so desperate for sales they think prisoners who don’t have much, if any, money will make online purchases through their JPay system (prisoners aren’t normally allowed access to the internet).  Hearst Magazines issued shutdown WARN for its Rodale Payroll, between 55 and 2-hundred jobs affected due to the sale/relocation of the business!  Info-Tech solutions company ASM Research issued a shutdown WARN for its Batavia location, 36 jobs gone due to the loss of a taxpayer funded VA contract.

North Carolina: Singapore based Flex (formerly known as Flextronics) eliminating 138 jobs at its Morrisville electronics factory, in May!

North Dakota: After 50 years FM News shutdown, ignorantly blaming low sales of magazines and newspapers on internet competition.

Ohio: California based Rambus issued a shutdown WARN for its Brecksville light factory, 52 jobs gone as Rambus gets the hell outta the lighting business.

Oregon: Convergys issued a shutdown WARN for its Wilsonville call center, 208 jobs gone by the end of March!

Pennsylvania: France based Technicolor Home Entertainment Services issued a shutdown WARN for its CD factory in Olyphant, 160 jobs gone starting in March!   California based Autodesk vacating its Bakery Square 2.0 office, 40 jobs lost as the space is being subleased.   Hearst Magazines issued shutdown WARNs for its Rodale Payroll/Photo Studio/Test Kitchen/Iron Run Distribution Center, 145 jobs gone in March!   Convergys issued a shutdown WARN for its Coraopolis location, 52 jobs gone in March.  It was revealed that Philadelphia based Comcast secretly eliminated more than 5-hundred sales jobs two weeks before Xmas 2017!   Best Buy shutting down its Pittsburgh Mills store, 23 jobs gone in March.  New York based, but British empire Canada owned, department store Lord & Taylor suddenly killed 202 e-commerce fulfillment jobs in Wilkes Barre, due to e-commerce ops being moved elsewhere!

Texas: DISH Network suddenly laid off 90 people at its refurbishing factory in El Paso.  Austin based advertising agency GSD&M suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, saying “we are changing our operating rhythm and aligning to a new method”.

Virginia: Telvista shutting down its call center in Danville, 3-hundred jobs gone in March!  Local news media reported that some employees had just been hired.

Washington DC:  The Current Newspapers now chapter 11 bankrupt busted as part of a master plan to expand online services.

West Virginia: Gazette-Mail now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and laying off at least 50 people.

Wisconsin: New York based e-commerce company F+W Media eliminating 41 jobs in Iola, via outsourcing.

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, December 2017:“IN THE INTERESTS OF SECURITY AND EFFICIENCY”

War on Drugs: West Virginia 1st to activate Militia, Medical Martial law!

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“We are solving a problem in our country.”-Major General James Hoyer, West Virginia National Guard

“We have to stop this terrible drug epidemic. We have to. If we don’t, it will cannibalize us.”-Jim Justice, gov’na of West Virginia

Sky News: war on opioids is a win-win for Trump

Many ‘christians’ in Huntington, WV, doubting that there is a god after 26 people died over a four hours period!

24 hours after the U.S. Southern Command (SouthComm) held its Opioid Summit, the U.S. state of West Virginia has activated its National Guard to attack the drug abuse epidemic overwhelming the city of Huntington, aka The Overdose Capital of the United States: “I don’t think there is a police department in America that has all the resources they need. It is a complex problem and it needed a complex solution.”-Hank Dial, Huntington Police Chief

Already state militia units took part in a drug bust involving fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far more powerful than heroin.

The West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports that the opioid epidemic is causing the economy of West Virginia to lose $8.8-billion USD, every year!  

Washington Post: A West Virginia town of 3200 was flooded with nearly 21 million pain pills

In this video learn that one of the reasons for opioid addiction is skyrocketing unemployment, proving that the official government touted unemployment rate is Fake News:

In this video learn that opioid use is overwhelming the foster care system for children:

Keep in mind that the West Virginia national Guard is already stretched thin:  West Virginia leaders plan engagements with Peruvian forces

Budget impasse idles nearly 1000 WV National Guard employees

West Virginia National Guard provides support to Big Sandy River

Homeland Security/Emergency Management moving into West Virginia National Guard Headquarter

OBAMACARE ACA DEATH SPIRAL, JANUARY 2018:  Musician Tom Petty died from prescription opioid overdose.

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? 

U.S. JOB LOSSES & CLOSINGS 15 MARCH 2016:  HILLARY CLINTON MASTERMINDED DEATH OF COAL INDUSTRY

Proof that drug wars are False Flag ops by governments: The Opium Wars

GREAT RENEGER: OKLAHOMA MILITIA DEPLOYS TO AFGHANISTAN!

June 2017: ALASKA MILITIA PREPS FOR HEROIN EPIDEMIC!

Army Opioid Summit: Martial Law over U.S. drug addiction epidemic?

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“…President Trump declared a national health emergency…   The leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50 is drug overdose!”-Jeff Sessions, U.S. Attorney General, Opioid Summit

On 08FEB2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions attended the Opioid Summit, hosted by U.S. Southern Command (SouthComm).

The Department of Defense led Opioid Summit was trying to find a way to bring together healthcare organizations, local law enforcement and the military in an attempt to create a national ‘collective response’ to the record level of drug abuse in the United States, without the President having to declare Martial Law.

The pseudo-martial-law organization was referred to as the U.S. ‘interagency’.

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JANUARY 2018: SEX & DRUGS = THE AMERICAN WAY! 

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? 

U.S. tax reforms? Japan makes $7-billion off U.S. tax-losers!

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Nippon’s (Japan) Toyota, Honda and Nissan reported that together they expect to make a record profit $22-billion USD, not from sales of cars to ‘Mericans, but partly off the pro-corporate U.S. tax reforms.

Residents of many U.S. states are only now being informed that the federal tax reforms are going to actually cost them more money, some states even passing new state level tax rules to alleviate the burden.  Yet administrators of Toyota, Honda and Nissan told Japanese news media that their expected record profits include $7-billion coming directly from the U.S. 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act!

It’s just more evidence that America’s economy is dominated by foreigners.

GREAT RENEGER, 2017: OFF-SHORING OF U.S. JOBS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL INVESTOR MORALE IMPROVES!

BARBARIANS SACKING ROME: FOREIGN LANDLORDS NOW CONTROL THE ‘AMERICAN’ DREAM!

Sex & Drugs = The American Way! : U.S. government shenanigans, January 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for January 2018:

Ironic, isn’t it?

Alaska: State senator David Wilson in trouble not only for alleged sexual harassment, but for ‘retaliation’.

Alabama: After years of complaints and no action by the state Department of Public Health and Department of Environmental Management, researchers with Auburn University have declared the wellwater under Fruithurst in excess of federal EPA limits for radon and heavy metals.  It was noted that there are several illegal trash dumps in the area.   The state Attorney General ramping up training of law enforcers in how to deal with opioid overdoses.  

Arizona: State representative Don Shooter facing censure, and possible expulsion, over accusations of sexual harassment.  As a result of sexual harassment claims, state lawmakers are considering banning the consumption of alcohol within the state House.  The state militia is being attacked by the Regular Army!   The Arizona National Guard’s 1-285th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion is being shutdown by the end of 2018.

California:  Cities in the leftist liberal fascist Golden State have been passing anti-homeless people laws under the guise of fighting the Hep A outbreak.  The laws ban people from publicly sharing food!  In El Cajon 12 people were ticketed by cops for feeding homeless people! One man, interviewed by a San Diego TV station, asked the logical question ‘why doesn’t the city clean up the parks where the homeless live, instead of banning people from feeding them?’  The unAmerican Golden State will now automatically register illegal residents for the purpose of allowing them to vote, supposedly under a court order regarding driver’s licenses. Attorneys for illegal residents say anybody living in California, including those who got there illegally, are automatically “Californians”.  As many as 90% of students in the Twin Rivers Unified School District are living in poverty, now the federal government charging three taxpayer funded school workers with stealing taxpayer funded USDA food meant for those poor students!   In Orangevale, iconic Wild Sports shutting down, the owners forced to retire due to ‘big box’ and online competition coupled with California’s police-state anti-gun laws.

Colorado: Tax-sucker Northrop Grumman eliminating an additional 38 jobs (on top of the 1-hundred) due to losing a contract at Schriever Air Force Base.  In Denver, after 16 years Mile High Doggie Daycare shutdown and unable to refund money to customers who ‘pre-paid’ for services, the owners blame the lack of sales on the city’s ‘gentrification’ of the area.

This prophetic video proves the taxpayer funded War on Drugs failed a long time ago:

Delaware:  An independent review found that taxpayer funded Vaughn Correctional Center is a potential time bomb as there are not enough guards to manage the prisoners.  The prison guard union said guards are tired of working constant overtime and don’t feel safe.   New Castle County paid $1.4-million USD in overtime for emergency response calls, mainly due to opiod drug overdoses.

Florida:  The Sunshine State allows child marriages, but a new bill could stop that.  The bill was influenced by a woman who was forced to get married at age eleven!   And child marriage isn’t even one of many reasons why Florida is now considered The Worst State in the U.S.   Fluor Federal Solutions eliminating 140 taxpayer funded jobs on Naval Air Station Pensacola!

Georgia:  Mother Earth more powerful than taxpayer funded government as a rare winter storm shutdown state government offices, and local schools, across the southern Peach State.

Idaho: ‘Christian’ Gem State lawmakers supporting a bill that will expand the use of taxpayer funded prisoners in the agriculture industry!  According to Financial Condition of Idaho Agriculture federal taxpayer subsidies to Idaho farmers fell by 44% in 2017.  A study by Blue Review reveals that migrant farm workers in southwestern Idaho have a hard time getting food for their families, despite the high value of some of the crops they harvest. It also reveals Idaho’s true population growth (as I’ve been saying in other articles) is coming from migrant farm workers, U.S. citizens are actually leaving the state!  After resigning last year due to a sex crimes investigation, former state politician Brandon Hixon killed himself.

Illinois: Cook County laid off 328 people and eliminated more than 1-thousand vacant positions due to the new county budget!  As more stores are covertly shutdown under the guise of property redevelopment, dying Sears Holdings demands state taxpayers fork-over $14-million in corporate welfare ‘credits’!

Indiana: After getting $7-million USD in state tax incentives Trump’s buddy Carrier continues killing jobs, this time 215!  Supposedly it’s the last round of layoffs connected to Carrier moving some production to Mexico.

Iowa: The state Auditor and the Iowa League of Cities sounding an alarm over local government corruption and fraud affecting taxpayers in 942 cities!  

Maryland: A new survey says the piddly weekend federal government shutdown revealed that the people of Maryland are the second most dependent upon federal taxpayers.

Michigan:  West Shoreline Correctional Facility shutting down in March, 174 jobs gone due to a “significant decline in the prison population statewide”!  The implication is that either crime is way down in the economically depressed and corruptly run state, and/or residents are ‘getting the hell outta Dodge’.    In already-proven-in-court-to-be-run-by-criminals Flint“The Flint Community High School athletic department and upper level management does not have the students’ nor the student-athletes’ best interests in mind. Specifically, in the athletic department there has been criminal neglect and incompetence on multiple occasions.   I demand that … the entire Flint administration step down immediately for the greater good of Flint schools.”-Trace Fisher, high school football coach

Minnesota:  In Wadena, after 18 years Cyber Cafe shutdown.  It was revealed that only subsidies (funding) from the local community, and government, kept it in operation, sales alone are not enough to cover operating cost. The owner also revealed competition from ever advancing social media technology played a major role in killing them off.

Mississippi: Mother Earth more powerful than taxpayer funded government as a rare winter storm shutdown state government offices, and local schools, across the normally hot and humid Magnolia State.

Missouri: Taxpayers demanding ‘the swamp’ of their own state government to be drained. There’s growing momentum behind an organization called Clean Missouri, which is pushing for the creation of a law banning lobbyist ‘gifts’ to lawmakers that are more than $5 in value.

Montana: Gov’na Steve Bullock issued an executive order creating a state level ‘net neutrality’ law regarding internet service. 

New Jersey: The city of Hackensack challenging the non-profit tax exempt status of Hackensack University Medical Center, in an attempt to impose $19-million USD in property taxes.  Since 2015 cash strapped cities have challenged the tax exempt status of more than 35 non-profit hospitals! In some cases judges ruled some non-profit hospitals are actually for-profit enterprises.

New York: State taxpayers raped of more than $10-million USD by their own state lawmakers in order to settle at least 88 cases of sex-crimes by the state government!  Does settling a sex-crimes lawsuit turn the ‘victim’ into a ‘prostitute’: 

North Carolina: Taxpayer funded defense contractor ARMA Global eliminating 99 jobs by the end of March.   After getting $475-thousand local tax dollars in incentives Absolute Plastics issued a layoff WARN eliminating 1-hundred of its 150 jobs due to crashing sales! Local politicians claim they’re trying to get the money back.

Oklahoma: In Oklahoma City, Kaiser’s Grateful Bean Cafe shutdown due to the city’s $131-million USD public transportation project, which has killed 80% of the restaurant’s business.

Pennsylvania: More proof that Philadelphia’s job killing soda-pop tax is a failure; first year tax collections are $19-million USD below what was projected.   Capital Area Transit-Cumberland-Dauphin-Harrisburg Transit Authority laid off five people and is consolidating operations to cut costs.   The largest east coast refinery, Philadelphia Energy Solutions, now bankrupt busted due to federal government imposed Renewable Energy Credit (RIN) which cost the refinery $217-million USD in 2017.

Tennessee: Oak Ridge National Laboratory laying off at least 1-hundred people, this after 232 employees were convinced to voluntarily quit!

Texas:  In San Antonio a popular restaurant, Pollos Asados Los Nortenos, was shutdown by ass-hole health inspectors who said the smoke from the grill was polluting the air, even after the restaurant owner spent $250-thousand USD to upgrade the grill to be in compliance with state laws! 50 jobs gone due to the ass-holes TCEQ and the Attorney General’s Office.

Utah: In Lehi, after 47 years iconic Porter’s Place steak joint shutdown because the city is not willing to spend $30-thousand USD to repair corroded sewer lines (the restaurant was leasing the building)!

Virginia:  In Lynchburg, after more than 1-hundred years (surviving The Great Depressions and numerous recessions) Sheard’s Beauty Shopshutdown due to new city parking rules which drive away customers: “Why would they pay to park here when they can go to the mall?”-Mamie Branham, owner

Washington DC: Despite claiming to drain the swamp, under president Trump the federal government hired a net increase of 42-thousand people in 2017, no wonder government taxsuckers demand more money!  The U.S. Department of Labor also reported that state level governments, as a whole, actually reduced their number of workers by 19-thousand.  To back up the fact that federal employees are soaking U.S. taxpayers, a new survey says the piddly weekend federal government shutdown revealed that Washington DC is the most dependent upon federal taxpayers.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Government Shenanigans, December 2017: “IT’S NOT JUST A ONE-YEAR BLIP…DECLINES CONTINUE TO GET BIGGER…”

ObamaCare ACA Death Spiral, January 2018:“INADEQUATE MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES”

Dumbing Down the U.S. of A., January 2018:“LET’S PISS IN HIS MOUTH.” (teacher found dead in school toilet room, of drug overdose)

MOTHER EARTH SAYS ‘NO MORE DRUGS FOR YOU, HUMANS!’

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? 

United States is ‘THE’ drug lord in Mexico’s drug war 

U.S. Marines & sailors turn out to be drug dealers and gun runners! 

Employees at U.S. military helicopter factory doubled as prescription drug dealers 

BANKS & ILLEGAL DRUGS CAUSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO U.S.!

VONS INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS? 

U.S. CIVIL WAR CHICAGO, 16 – 20 JUNE 2014: AFGHAN HEROIN CONNECTION?

“monotonous”: Sears Kmart death spiral, February 2018

Sears Hometown/Appliance and Outlet stores got a $40-million USD loan from Gordon Brothers Finance Company.

ABC Action News: 5 months later family still waiting for their new Sears installed bathroom.

Chicago Tribune: Sears threatened to sue state over tax credit dispute

USA Today: Trump tax cut boosts Sears to profit, but sales slide continues

Finally, a mainstream news media source realizes that the excuse of blaming brick-n-mortar store shutdowns on internet competition might be bullshit, blame “the poverty rate”.

Canadian creditors demand to know what Eddie Lampert did with huge sums of money he got right before Sears Canada went bankrupt!

Yet again, Sears Holdings borrowed money from it’s leader, Eddie Lampert; $210-million USD this time. 

Arizona: The Show Low Kmart shutting down its pharmacy operations by the 12th of February, as part of the plan to shutdown the Show Low Kmart by April.

California: In Redding, the owner of Mount Shasta Mall (Rouse Properties) got approval from the city council to shutdown the Sears store (which is also owned by Rouse Properties) and split it up into six smaller store spaces.   

Florida: An Ocala Kmart employee was caught stealing $6-thousand USD in cash over several months.  She said she did it to feed her child.  The judge must’ve had sympathy because her bond was set lower than the amount of cash she stole, cops say she had a grand total of 70-dollars in her possession.

Idaho: It was revealed to me that Sears Holdings was still paying rent on its vacant (shutdown at the end of 2014) Pine Ridge Mall location, in Chubbuck.  However, the lease finally expired at the end of 2017 and now the mall owners are renting the huge space as a temporary storage unit for Walmart’s store remodeling ops taking place across eastern idaho.

Illinois: Despite never ending shutdowns and layoffs, Sears Holdings claims it is still eligible for $14.8-million USD in state taxpayer credits.  A fine example of corporate welfare!  As Catholic schools across the U.S. continue to be shutdown, the Catholic Church is doing something radical; they’re moving one of their existing schools inside a vacant Waukegan Kmart!  The Catholic school was slated to shutdown due to not being able to repair its crumbling building, but a local fundraiser generated $17-million USD to pay to move the school into the Kmart building.  To show you how miraculous that is, the residents of Waukegan make up 75% of Lake County’s poverty level population!

Indiana: The planned re-opening of the Kokomo Sears Auto Center is now canceled, local news media reported that no reason was given.

Nevada: In Reno, Sears Holdings spin-off Seritage Growth Properties has submitted a plan to city administrators to have the existing Meadowood Mall Sears store shutdown and split-up into three smaller store spaces.  The only reason given for the impending shutdown of the Sears store is that it is “monotonous”!

Utah: Taxpaying residents are pissed about what the West Valley City leadership want to do with the abandoned Kmart property; turn it into yet another apartment/housing development: “We have so many apartments already in the area. It feels like West Valley wants to see if they can pack more people in…  It’s hard to even get out of the neighborhood.”-Brittani Martin

Sears Kmart death spiral, January 2018: 103+ NEW STORE SHUTDOWNS ANNOUNCED!

Gun Bans = Oil Wars: Anti-gun DR Congo descends into hell!

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In the past 24 hours violence seemingly has escalated in the pro-U.S.-European oil rich and anti-gun country of ‘Democratic’ Republic of Congo (DR Congo, not to be confused with Republic of Congo).  In one case, news reports of stabbings by knife wielding rebels inside hospitals.

To show you that even Iran is anti-gun, the government run media outlet PressTV actually described the hospital slashers as “gunmen” (Gunmen stab 12 hospitalized patients in DR Congo), even though there are (so far) no news media reports describing the attackers as being armed with guns!

The official government of DR Congo bans the private ownership of guns.  The gun laws of DR Congo are described by international anti-gun organizations as “restrictive”.  To show you how anti-gun the United States government truly is, in 2013 the fake news, I mean propaganda (oh wait, propaganda is the original Fake News) Voice of America reported that rebel groups are conducting anti-anti-gun operations “forcing” families, in the areas under rebel control, to own at least one gun!

The violence in DR Congo got worse after an Israeli oil tycoon (Dan Gertler) discovered massive amounts of oil in the central African country, in 2014.  A similar amount of oil was discovered in neighboring Uganda.  The so called rebels who conducted the hospital knife attack in DR Congo are assumed to be from Uganda, and United Nations peacekeepers in DR Congo believe the violence that has taken place since the discovery of oil is not about civil war, but control of the oil in both DR Congo and Uganda.  ‘Western’ oil companies want to build an oil pipeline from Uganda, through DR Congo, to the Atlantic Ocean.

The recent FitBit fiasco, involving dumb U.S. military personnel allowing a silly-vilian designed electronic device to publicly track their movements, reveals slight U.S. military ops along the Atlantic coastline of Africa, but more U.S. activity is seen on the Indian Ocean side, including in DR Congo’s violent neighbor Uganda.

Here’s some real news reports about what’s happened in DR Congo in the past 24 hours:

DR Congo’s Kabila may finally be stepping down

UNHCR sounds alert as fresh violence in DR Congo’s Ituri province

Renegade DR Congo colonel extradited 

Militia chief turns himself in to Kasai authorities in DR Congo

Burundi extradites more than 30 rebels to DR Congo

DR Congo tells Brussels Airlines to cut flights 

US sanctions four involved in DR Congo violence

The Democratic Republic of Congo deserves a better mining law

02FEB2018: Why Are Ugandan Troops Amassed At the Congo Border 

14JAN2018: DR Congo army launches new operation against Ugandan rebels

2017: US demands cuts to UN’s DRC troop deployment

U.S. COMPANIES TO BEGIN DRILLING IN EGYPT!

PACIFIC ANGEL & OIL, YOUR TAX DOLLARS SPENT ON EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE IN VIETNAM AND PHILIPPINES!

IDAHO MILITIA RETURNS FROM MALAYSIA, IS IT ABOUT THE OIL?

NEW OIL WAR, TRUMP DEPLOYS COMBAT TROOPS TO PHILIPPINES?

OLD OIL WAR, U.S. FORCES KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN, DAY AFTER U.S. FORCES KILLED AFGHAN POLICE!

GUN BAN FAIL, CALIFORNIA ANTI-GUN LAWS FAIL TO STOP COP FROM HAVING HIS OWN GUNS STOLEN!

2015: US troops support DR Congo’s Logistics School

PROOF IT’S ABOUT LEVIATHAN AS ISRAEL DISCOVERS OIL IN SYRIA!

2013: MORE PROOF THE WAR IN SYRIA, AND IN LEBANON, IS ABOUT LEVIATHAN’S PETROLEUM! PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST RUSSIA!

WHAT THE ISRAELIS SAID IN 2012 ABOUT THE EVER EXPANDING LEVIATHAN/LEVANT!

2012: RED HORSE, LEVIATHAN & WORLD WAR 3, IT’S ABOUT THE NEW FOUND OIL! 

2011: FORMER U.S. OFFICIAL SUPPORTS MY EARLIER POSTS, SAYING LIBYA IS ABOUT OIL & CHINA

PRESIDENT OBAMA WANTS WAR WITH SYRIA, EU LEADERS WANT WAR WITH SYRIA, CANADA WANTS WAR WITH SYRIA, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE OIL BABY!

U.S. AfriCom, 2009: U.S. Military will Continue Supporting Security Assistance Activities in DR Congo

 

More Economic Decline: Idaho mall loses yet another anchor store! Lazy ‘Experts’ continue to blame online sales!

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Chubbuck Herberger's

Bon Ton owned Herberger’s announced it will exit its Pine Ridge Mall location, in Chubbuck, when the inventory runs out.  The official reason is crashing sales, including declining online sales. However, and as usual, local news media turned to so called experts who lazily blamed it on internet competition and people supposedly spending big bucks on gas to drive to the state of Utah to do their shopping!

First of all, Bon Ton and Herberger’s have their own websites where you can buy their crap!

Back in November 2017 Bon Ton announced it would shutdown 40 stores, including some Herberger’s, across the U.S. in 2018. Despite also selling online, Bon Ton’s family of department stores revealed they had lost $44.9-million USD in Bon Ton’s 3rd quarter of 2017! 

Today, Bon Ton published its shutdown list for 2018, and the Chubbuck Herberger’s is at the top of the list.

Also today, internet selling site ebay reported a massive loss of $2.6-billion USD (not counting losses caused by the new U.S. tax laws), and that’s just for its 4th quarter of 2017!  

Secondly, I’ve been hearing the old “people are driving to Salt Lake” excuse since 2001.  It’s a bullshit excuse mainly because why the hell would people drive their gas guzzling SUV and pickups out-of-state to go shopping?  The majority of jobs in eastern Idaho don’t pay their employees well enough to afford such a luxurious shopping trip! (approximate round-trip driving distance from Pocatello, Idaho, to Salt Lake City, Utah, is 336miles/540km)

Guess what? Retailers in Salt Lake City have been shutting down!

The truth is that ‘wise christian’ leaders in Bannock County began driving off all the good paying jobs from the Pocatello/Chubbuck area in the late 1990s (with Union Pacific suffering the biggest loss of jobs, in the thousands) and that trend has never been reversed (death spiral).     I remember in the late 1990s, one local official (a member of the dominant ‘christian’ sect) stated that industrial jobs were bad because they were the cause of local crime.  Last laugh’s on that exalted politician of god, because crime is so bad now that the Bannock County Sheriff repeatedly begs cash strapped taxpayers to approve funding a new county prison to deal with prison overcrowding!

KPVI interviewed a local labor force ‘expert’ who actually said Herberger’s shutdown could “be a blessing in disguise” for the 46 soon-to-be-unemployed-employees, because he believes the local economy is so good they’re sure to find better jobs!

Herbergers moved into the two story anchor location at Pine Ridge Mall, which was former home to ZCMI, May Company and Dillards.  They were true two story operations, but Herberger’s is a single story operation.  Apparently the top floor is being used for storage and office space.

IDAHO’S CONTINUED ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION, 2017: “CLOSED INDEFINITELY”

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, DECEMBER 2017:“IN THE INTERESTS OF SECURITY AND EFFICIENCY”

MORE DECLINE: NO MORE XMAS LIGHTS FOR CHUBBUCK? THE TRUTH ABOUT GENTRIFICATION

THE LIES OF ECONOMIC DECLINE: Mitt Romney’s POCATELLO STAPLES SHUTDOWN BLAMED ON THE INTERNET!

Don’t blame the Internet: Idaho internet sales tax collections flat-line!

Pine Ridge Mall: Mitt Romney….Destroyed jobs in Chubbuck 

Operation Snow Bash: Idaho trains-up the children, for war!

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“A lot of this is teaching resiliency training to military kids so they know how to cope with deployments and know that there’s a support system always there for them.”-Katie Kohlbecker, father is member of Idaho State Militia

Idaho National Guard has a Child and Youth Services program which held a four day Beyond Camp Wonderland-Snow Bash 2018 to instill team building and leadership skills, and build resiliency for tough times ahead, in the children that took part.

Beyond Camp Wonderland-Snow Bash 2018, Cascade, Idaho. Idaho National Guard photo via Captain Robert Taylor, 13JAN2018.

One participant gave ominous Orwellian sounding praise for the program: Everyone is the same because we all have parents in the military. It’s different than interacting with kids at school because most kids at school don’t have parents in the military and don’t know what it’s like to have a parent gone.”-Elijah Maisey

Keep in mind that Idaho is one of only 11 U.S. states that have the highest per capita participation rate in the U.S. military system! (IDAHO ONE OF ONLY 11 STATES SUPPLYING MOST OF THE HUMAN CANNON FODDER FOR THE OBAMA REGIME)

Children can join the Idaho National Guard Child and Youth Services when they turn ten years old.  They can even gain rank: “It’s rewarding to see the development of the older kids who have transitioned from campers, to counselors to chaperons.”-Colonel Farin Schwartz

Beyond Camp Wonderland-Snow Bash 2018, Cascade, Idaho. Idaho National Guard photo via Captain Robert Taylor, 13JAN2018.

Beyond Camp Wonderland is held every six months.

POCATELLO MILITIA RETURNS FROM MALAYSIA, IS IT ABOUT THE OIL?

GREAT RENEGER TRUMP: IDAHO MILITIA has RECORD NUMBER OF DEPLOYMENTS IN ONE YEAR?

IDAHO AIR NATIONAL GUARD SURROUNDED BY TURKISH TROOPS!

“THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING!

WIMP ASS IDAHO GOVERNOR BEGS OBAMA REGIME NOT TO STEAL ARMY NATIONAL GUARD’S AIR ASSETS!

U.S. OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN, 04 JUNE – 07 JUNE: IDAHO GUARDSMAN SHOT. 

Operation Jupiter: Military’s secret flu imitating virus exposed, vaccinations for military only!

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“On the basis of the severity of the clinical presentation of some cases in this study, the vaccine currently licensed for military use should be considered a potentially valuable resource to prevent disease in susceptible populations living in closed communities, such as college settings, summer camps, and long-term care facilities.”-Adriana Kajon, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that a previously secret viral infection is spreading, and it mimics influenza.  It’s called adenovirus and was first identified in the 1950s, specifically infecting U.S. Army personnel.

Initial U.S. Army experiments with vaccines seemed successful, but after a few years the adenovirus resurfaced stronger than before, even re-infecting personnel that had been vaccinated.   One study showed that two damaged adenovirus cells will join together to form a new healthier, stronger cell (a process known as multiplicity reactivation).

In August 2017, the Naval Health Research Center revealed a vaccine that supposedly works against five version of adenovirus: “In the mid-1990s, the adenovirus vaccine was discontinued at military recruit training commands throughout the Department of Defense (DoD), resulting in frequent respiratory illness outbreaks. Adenovirus was the most prevalent and widely spread virus in military training environments, infecting up to 80 percent of recruits and resulting in lost training time and increased medical care. 

In 2011, the adenovirus vaccine was reinstated for military recruits after NHRC and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research conducted a clinical trial that demonstrated its safety and efficacy. According to researchers with NHRC’s operational infectious diseases team, after the live, oral vaccine for adenovirus types 4 and 7 was resumed, rates of adenovirus among recruits declined dramatically—cases went from 250 each week to two, on average. To date, other adenovirus serotypes—3, 14, and 21—that had previously caused illness in recruits have not reemerged.”  

(also read Naval Medical R&D News, August 27-30 Special Edition)

The virus mimics influenza and is so unheard of in the silly-vilian world that most clinics and hospitals don’t have the test to identify it.  Many silly-vilians are incorrectly diagnosed with having the flu.

Human adenovirus is a cause of Acute Respiratory Disease (ARD) and can also cause gastroenteritis (often incorrectly called stomach flu), even tonsillitis (my adult son just had a tonsillectomy due to a mystery infection which ‘shredded’ his left tonsil, literally nothing remaining but shreds, uh oh, I used the word literally guess I’m gonna be kicked outta that NYC bar).  There are more than 50 versions of adenovirus.  Transmission is thought to be through the air and in your crap, but adenoviruses are also resistant to cleaning chemicals and other liquids, so washing your hands all day long won’t get rid of them.  There is no treatment for it.

There are also adenoviruses that attack seals, bats, canines, reptiles, birds, monkeys and all domesticated farm animals.   I didn’t see any mention of felines being affected.

Here’s where what I call Operation Jupiter comes in; adenoviruses are used by scientists to genetically modify organisms, under the guise of gene therapy!  Adenoviruses are used as ‘delivery platforms’ for externally created (GMOed) antigens into humans suffering from things like cystic fibrosis or cancer.

CDC Reports: “In May 1997, a large, persistent epidemic of adenovirus type 4-associated acute respiratory disease began at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the largest army basic training center. The epidemic lasted until December and declined when vaccine administration resumed. More than 1,000 male and female trainees were hospitalized; 66.1% of those hospitalized had an adenovirus type 4 isolate.”

Adenoviruses are frequent causes of respiratory disease in the US military population. A successful immunization program against adenovirus types 4 and 7 was terminated in 1999. Review of records in the Mortality Surveillance Division, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, identified 8 deaths attributed to adenovirus infections in service members during 1999–2010.

“An outbreak of respiratory illness occurred in a long-term care facility in New York City. Investigation of the outbreak identified confirmed or suspected adenoviral infection in 84% of the residents from October 19 to December 18, 1999. Further identification by type-specific neutralization and restriction analysis identified a new genomic variant of adenovirus type 7.”

“Antibodies were more common in humans residing in sub-Saharan Africa…..This finding suggests cross-species transmission of chimpanzee adenoviruses.”

“In mid-May 2007, a respiratory disease outbreak associated with adenovirus, serotype B14 (Ad14), was recognized at a large military basic training facility in Texas. The affected population was highly mobile…………Ad14 was identified at 8 sites in California, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, and South Korea. Ad14 spread readily to secondary sites after the initial outbreak. Military and civilian planners must consider how best to control the spread of infectious respiratory diseases in highly mobile populations traveling between diverse geographic locations.”

“…isolates collected in Iowa from 1992 to 2002 and found that genome type Ad7d2 became increasingly prevalent. By 2002, it had supplanted all other Ad7 genome types. The association of Ad7d2 with severe illness and death calls for heightened public health concern.”

“In March 2011, an outbreak of acute respiratory disease was reported at the Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Police Training Centre. Approximately 100 trainees were hospitalized and 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit. Three of these 5 trainees died.”

“During April 2011–March 2012, we retrospectively reviewed medical records for South Korea soldiers to assess the etiology and epidemiology of acute viral lower respiratory tract infections. Adenovirus was the most commonly identified virus (63.2%) and the most common cause of pneumonia (79.3%) and hospitalization (76.6%); 3 soldiers died of adenovirus-related illness.”

“During October 2013–July 2014, Oregon health authorities identified 198 persons with respiratory symptoms and an HAdV-positive respiratory tract specimen. Among 136 (69%) hospitalized persons, 31% were admitted to the intensive care unit and 18% required mechanical ventilation; 5 patients died.”

OPERATION JUPITER: CASH REGISTER RECEIPTS LACED WITH CHEMICAL WEAPON?

OPERATION JUPITER: U.S. NAVY HIT BY H7N9 FLU PANDEMIC!

OPERATION JUPITER: CDC STUDY ADMITS FLU VACCINE CAN KILL!

OPERATION JUPITER: A SMALL PART OF A LARGER MILITARY OPERATION SPREADING DISEASE AT A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU