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“We need more time to regroup & heal…” Yet another layoff where employees also lost their final paychecks! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 20 – 21 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

‘Wall Street’ analysts are finally admitting we could be in a Depression: Chilling ways the global economy echoes 1930s Great Depression era

Arkansas: Bentonville based Walmart reported yet another quarterly decline in profits.  This time, for the 2015 end of year holiday season their profits fell 8%.  Ho ho ho, Merry Xmas everyone!  Administrators blame currency wars and their own plans to shutdown at least 2-hundred stores (which they included in their 4th quarter 2015 report even though the shutdowns didn’t start until 2016, mmmm, more bookkeeping shell games).

Connecticut: Germany based drugs maker Boehringer Ingelheim conducting more layoffs, management at their Danbury plant refused to say how many people will lose their jobs.  And an update to the employee relocation contractor Cartus Corporation layoffs,  unnamed employees told local news that at least 1-hundred people were let go last week!

Florida: Best Wishes of Boca shutting down.  Local news reports say the gift shop lasted 40 years because of its competitive prices, but failed to explain why it’s shutting down.  In Jacksonville, wholesaler CEVA Logistics issued a WARN saying 93 people will lose their jobs in April.

The owner of Big City Coffee threatening to sue Boise and Delaware North

Idaho: The city of Boise being sued by some of the tenants at the Boise International Airport.  Tenants also suing the New York based food service management contractor hired by the city, Delaware North.  Owners of airport eateries accuse Delaware North, and the city, of running them into the ground, primarily by substituting their products with lower quality items and providing terrible customer service, resulting in decreased sales.  Boise area news sources say Delaware North refuses to responded to their questions.

Illinois: Moline based farm equipment maker Deere (aka John Deere) revised its 2016 profit expectations downward.  Originally administrators thought 2016 sales would drop by 7%, but now they say things are so bad they expect a 10% drop in sales.

Mississippi:  New York based Saks Fifth Avenue shutting down their Outlets of Mississippi mall store by mid-March.  Local news reports gave no reason.  In Oxford, after nine years Holli’s Sweet Tooth shutting down in April, the owner blames non-stop increasing costs of operation that now exceed sales.

Missouri:  What auto industry recovery?  Discount Auto Protection shocked 60 employees by sending them a text message saying they were now unemployed and there would be no final paychecks!  That final paycheck was three weeks worth of work!  I’ve said it before; been there, experienced that.  Except in my case my employer didn’t even notify us and we lost four weeks of pay (we were paid once per month).  Still, most people still refuse to believe you can be laid off and lose your final paycheck, especially if your employer legally ceases to exist.

New Jersey:  Sears Holdings confirmed the Lodi Kmart will shutdown in April, 75 jobs lost. 

New York:   Palio shutting down their Saratoga Springs office.  No word on how many jobs will be lost, but one news report said at one time the advertising agency had at least 1-hundred employees.    H.P. Neun shutting down their packaging ops in Lyons and Seneca Falls, 93 jobs lost by the end of May.  The WARN said the company was forced to sell their assets.

North Carolina:  Durham based ad agency McKinney laid off 34 full time employees, due to the loss of a major client.  In Winston-Salem, after 4 decades iconic Ziggy’s nightclub shutdown due to the greedy landlord.  The owners of Ziggy’s swear they even offered to pay a full years worth of rent in advance, but the landlord refused!

Ohio: Anti-gun laws failed to stop a man from attacking customers at the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, with a machette!  Four people were wounded.  The restaurant has shutdown for an undetermined amount of time: “We need more time to regroup and heal as a team.”-Facebook post

Oregon: After ending service in January, Portland based SeaPort Airlines is now officially chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

Pennsylvania: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; West Chester based shopping channel QVC eliminating at least 1-hundred jobs in the U.S. by the end of the year, as it off-shores them to Poland!  It was also revealed that QVC eliminated 147 U.S. jobs in November 2015!  What automotive industry recovery?  Aluminum maker Alcoa is about to split off its car parts operations, but before it does at least 90 people will lose their jobs in New Kensington.  Last year 50 people were laid off.  Reports say Alcoa is shifting to a new 3-D parts printing operation elsewhere in the state.  God powerless to stop the Diocese of Erie from shutting down four of ‘his’ grade schools; Venango Catholic high school and Saint Boniface, Saint Peter Cathedral and Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary schools.  Church leaders blame The Rapture, I mean low enrollment.  What construction industry recovery?  In Ambridge, SBC Building Systems shutting down, 80 jobs gone by April.

Washington DC: The U.S. Department of Labor reports that ObamaCare (Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act) health insurance costs jumped by at least 4.8% in 2015.  That’s faster than the official rate of inflation in 2015.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.”

H1N1 roars back to life: Hundreds killed in the first two months of 2016! Targets vegans?

20 February 2016 /20:28 UTC-07 Tango 01 (02 Esfand 1394/12 Jumada al-Ula 1437/14 Geng Yin 4714)

European Center for Disease Prevention and Control reports half of its 50 member countries are dealing with a sudden increase in flu cases.

Armenia: 18 deaths caused by H1N1, so far.

Canada: In Saskatchewan an H1N1 outbreak was reported at a potash mine.  At least five case at the K+S Potash Legacy Camp, two people hospitalized.

Cyprus: The island country reports a father of two died from H1N1 a week after being admitted to hospital. He was admitted to a privately run hospital, which failed to take X-rays or detect a secondary infection in time to stop his death.  He was the second person to die from H1N1, dozens of people are hospitalized.

Belarus: Despite the UN World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. CDC and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) claiming the eastern European country is hard hit by H1N1, the government says ’tis not so.  President Alexander Lukashenko says the WHO, CDC and ECDC are assuming there’s an epidemic only because Belarus is sandwiched between Russia and Ukraine which are suffering a flu epidemic.  Health administrators report fewer influenza cases than in January 2015, saying so far only 30 people have been confirmed to have the flu!

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Two women killed by H1N1, six people hospitalized.

Finland:  19 people have died from H1N1-pdm09 since the beginning of the Gregorian year 2016. At least 146 people hospitalized.  Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare expects a tripling of influenza cases this year.

Georgia: At least three people dead from H1N1.  292 people confirmed infected with H1N1.

Greece: Five people died from H1N1 in the past 24 hours.  115 people have died from H1N1 since the beginning of the year!  356 people have been hospitalized. Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention says the majority of people who’ve died had other health problems and were not vaccinated, however, they admitted that at least 5% of those who died were vaccinated.

India: Health administrators are reporting fewer cases and deaths by H1N1, compared to the same time last year.    A study by the Civil Hospital concluded that one of the best ways to protect yourself from influenza (besides vaccinations) was a high animal protein diet (makes sense because your anti-bodies are 100% animal protein, they can’t use veggie protien).  Such a diet is even more important for moms who breast feed their children: “These days even mother’s breast feed to infants has to be supplemented with trace nutrients and iron for the well-being of the infant and his increased immunity. The immunity comes from the food, habits and lifestyle of breast-feeding mothers.”-Mona Desai, pediatrician

Iran:  Health administrators report the biggest outbreak of H1N1 in their country, ever.  112 people dead since November 2015.

Ireland:  15 people have died from flu, 11 from H1N1.  460 people hospitalized, at least half with H1N1-pdm09.  Health Protection Surveillance Centre reports 757 cases of flu last month, compared to only 312 cases in January 2015.  The Irish Medical Organization has declared Ireland’s healthcare system in danger of collapse, caused by reduced taxpayer funding and an exodus of doctors from The Emerald Isle: “Five years ago, we moved heaven and earth to rescue failed Irish banks; surely we can now do the same to rescue the Irish health service on which all of us ultimately depend. What we need now is an immediate investment programme, followed by a period of sustained funding so that we can repair the damage done.”-Ray Walley, doctor

Jamaica: The island country reports one person died after getting infected with H1N1, but doctors implied there were other complications.  At least nine people hospitalized with H1N1.

Lebanon: After four people died of H1N1 panic buying of medical supplies resulted, now there is a shortage of Flumivir and Tamilflu treatments.  The Ministry of Health reports a 20% increase in flu cases compared to last flu season.

Libya: In the U.S.-EU-NATO destabilized country health administrators are urging people to get vaccinated, but at the same time say reports of an epidemic are just rumors.

Lithuania: Heath administrators report a fourfold increase in flu cases compared to the same time last year.  22 municipalities have declared epidemics, last year only five municipalities were dealing with epidemics of influenza.  So far three people killed by H1N1.

Malta: The island country reports 97 H1N1 cases in January 2016 (double the number of flu cases for all of 2015), with two prisoners dying.  Health administrators noted that 72,835 people have been vaccinated so far this year. 

Northern Ireland:  In the British colony, seven people died from H1N1 since September 2015.  At least 150 cases of H1N1.

Pakistan:  At least 33 people died from H1N1, since 01 January 2016.  More than 1-thousand people infected.

Palestine: Four people in the West Bank confirmed dead by H1N1.  So far 355 cases. H1N1 first appeared in Palestine in 2010.

Russia: ‘Lawmakers’ are blaming U.S. Operation Jupiter (JUPITR) for an epidemic of H1N1 in their country.  At least 126 people dead since December.  At the end of January, the city of Yekaterinburg shutdown the schools to try and prevent the spread of the virus.

Trinidad & Tobago: Health administrators ordered 50-thousand doses of influenza vaccine.  They say they need at least 116-thousand doses to fight the expected H1N1 outbreak.  46-thousand people have already been vaccinated.  Eight people have died of H1N1.  Health administrators say their battle with Zika virus is making the situation more difficult.

Ukraine: In the U.S.-EU-NATO destabilized country at least 315 people have died since the influenza season officially started, mainly from H1N1.  In January an epidemic was declared.  Schools have been shutdown.  Health administrators claim none of the people who’ve died were vaccinated.

United Kingdom:  Leicester Royal Infirmary reports at least 14 cancer patients are now infected with H1N1. Glenfield Hospital reports three people hospitalized with H1N1.  Royal Berkshire Hospital has four people in isolation with H1N1.

A teenager who was vaccinated for influenza when he was ten was recently awarded $173-thousand USD in damages because the Pandemrix vaccine gave him narcolepsy.  He now falls asleep even when eating, walking and swimming. 

United States:  Fresno County, in California, reports two deaths caused by H1N1.  County health administrators are concerned, calling the deaths “unusual” in that the victims might have been vaccinated for H1N1.  No other details about the victims were released.

San Diego County, California, reports one death by H1N1.  The man did not have any other health problems.  Doctors claim he was not vaccinated.

In the U.S. state of Indiana, the Putnamville prison hit by H1N1.  At least 40 prisoners infected, one died.  Health administrators admitted that at least three of the infected had been vaccinated. They admitted that vaccination rates for prisoners was higher than normal, but those getting sick are young and healthy.  They describe a lethal mix of infection with the H1N1 virus and the MRSA bacteria.  Watch the video of the press conference for more info.

https://youtu.be/xSU4V4sTzGA

Currently there are no vaccines approved for children less than 6 months old.  The majority of flu vaccines for children are for children three years or older, and usually need more than one shot before they’re considered effective.

Operation Jupiter?: U.S. hit by new stealth Dog Flu!

proof vaccines are overrated & all about the money as British empire takes control of U.S. flu shot supply

H1N1 …..Blame globalization! 

San Bernardino shooter’s cell password changed, after they’re killed! Proof shooting was a False Flag!

20 February 2016 (04:46 UTC-07 Tango 01)/01 Esfand 1394/11 Jumada al-Ula 1437/13 Geng Yin 4714

“…in an attempt to gain access to some information in the hours after the attack, was able to reset the password remotely, but that had the effect of eliminating the possibility of an auto-backup.”-admission by the U.S. Department of Justice

The U.S. FBI has been trying to get Apple technicians to hack into a cell phone supposedly belonging to one of the alleged San Bernardino, California, shooters.  Apple is resisting that ‘request’, now the FBI demands the federal court order Apple to assist in hacking the phone.

Court documents revealed Apple data records on the specific cell phone show its iCloud password was changed, within 24 hours after the owner was shot and killed by police!  The U.S. Department of Justice admitted in court that the password change was done by a San Bernardino County employee, supposedly in an attempt to protect the data.  Apple techs say the password change effectively makes it impossible to retrieve any data from the phone.  

Apple reps say what happened was that the iCloud password was reset in a Wi-Fi network that was not recognized as the owner’s network, thus automatically implementing an auto-reset security program which basically results in the phone’s history data being lost.

Is this a case of gross incompetence by government goons, or a deliberate coverup?

More proof San Bernardino shooting False Flag by your government! Yemen shoots down Arizona National Guard F-16?

News media continually described black GMC, innocents in black Ford sacrificed! Witnesses swear shooters were 3 men, not 1 man and 1 woman!

Corporate Communism while workers suffer! ObamaCare hospitals Wage War on each other! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 19 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

California:  Independent movie distributor Alchemy laid off 40 people due to the poor ticket sales of its most recent movie releases.  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Sunnyvale based NetApp confirmed it will eliminate 1-thousand 476 jobs around the world (including hundred of jobs in North Carolina)!  It’s blamed on steadily declining revenues.  

Recycling doesn’t pay anymore! Low prices (deflation) for recyclables are killing off 2-hundred rePlanet recycling centers across The (not so) Golden State. At least 278 jobs lost: “Over the last five years, there’s this steady decline in the market value of recyclable materials, and it’s been about a 20 percent decline.”-Mark Oldfield, CalRecycle

Colorado:  In Fort Collins, after 30 years restaurant South China shutting down due to a significant increase in rent.

Florida:  Lee Roy Selmon’s shutting down their 10 years old Saint Petersburg restaurant. The corporate owners said it needed extensive remodeling, and it wasn’t worth it.  They also blamed lack of parking and increased competition.

Indiana: MC Sports shutting down their store in Highland by the end of May.

Iowa:  What was that about the United States being ‘free market’ and anti-communist? State taxpayers are about to be raped for an undisclosed amount of money to keep DuPont Pioneer in Johnston.  No details have been released, yet.

Kentucky: The Village 8 movie house shutting down by the end of the year because its home, the Village Center mall, is being sold to KentuckyOne Health.  Local news reports say the hospital operator refuses to say what it’ll do with the property, yet for some reason is buying up land in the area.  Speculation is that KentuckyOne Health is trying to prevent competing hospital operators from moving in.  So much for your healthcare, see what Obamacare is doing!

Montana: More job killing at University of Montana; 27 jobs gone by the end of June, due to  what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS).

New Jersey: CarePoint Health eliminated an undisclosed number of employees at three hospitals in Hudson County.  Union reps said 49 nurses at just one hospital were laid off last week.  Another hospital is slashing hours for employees. The union is demanding CarePoint Health release financial data to prove the sudden layoffs and cuts in hours were justified.

New Mexico: In Albuquerque, the Satellite Coffee shop shutting down their Nob Hill location this weekend.  It’s being consolidated with a restaurant across the street.  It should be noted that the restaurant, Flying Star, is currently chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

New York:  In NYC, Novitex Enterprise Solutions lost their contract with Schulte Roth & Zabel, 28 jobs gone by April.  ReEnergy could shutdown their Lyonsdale biomass electricity generating power plant within 90 days due to no contract. They blame the lack of a new contract for their wood-chip generated electricity on the low prices of oil.  22 ReEnergy jobs could be lost, and at least 1-hundred local logging jobs in what I call a Ripple Effect Layoff (REL).

North Carolina: The MERCI Clinic in New Bern halting free medical services due to running out of grant money, and so far no new donations have come in.

Ohio: In Columbus, eateries Till Dynamic Fare and Izzy & Mo’s Luncheonette both shutting down.  The owners said they’re leaving the area.

Oregon: Missouri based SunEdison is “reengineering” its Portland solar panel ops, meaning 40 people are about to be laid off.  Administrators blame competition with low oil prices.

South Carolina: The Cash Wise halting their video rentals in Waite Park grocery store next week.  The good news is they will expand their ‘natural foods’ section into the video rental space.

South Dakota:  Grant-Deuel School District shutting down the school in Revillo, due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): “You talk to any smaller school, smaller town and they are basically losing enrollment…..”-Paulette Grube, Dean of Students

Texas:  SunEdison is shutting down its more than 20 years old solar panel factory in Pasadena, admitting it can’t compete with the low oil prices (however, they failed to mention the 2015 explosion at their Pasadena factory, that injured at least four people).  180 jobs lost!  SunEdison lost nearly $1-billion USD in the first nine months of 2015, they have yet to report their 4th quarter results (which won’t be good ’cause that’s when the explosion happend).

Washington: In Seattle, after 40 years Don’s Daughter Donna’s Barber Shop shutting down next week, due to a tripling of rent!  Reports say it’ll be replaced with a five story apartment complex.

West Virginia: Kanawha County School Board eliminating 25 jobs due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS).  Local news reports say DSS is the number one reason for education layoffs in southern West Virginia.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

18 February 2016: Canada kills U.S. jobs despite getting millions in U.S. tax breaks!

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.”

Canada kills U.S. jobs despite millions in U.S. tax breaks! Disney warns economy will worsen, kills 100 jobs! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 18 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Sunnyvale based Yahoo eliminated 3-hundred jobs in The Golden State and New York!  This first round of layoffs are connected to Yahoo’s digital magazines ops.  In Berkeley,  after two years the Off the Grid food truck giving up and shutting down its Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) location.  Prior to this the Off the Grid food truck was run out of its original location in the Gourmet Ghetto, by city A-Hole administrators, when brick-n-mortar restaurants complained.

Colorado: Sports Authority shutting down three Sports Castle stores, as part of their plan to shutdown 140 stores across the U.S.

Connecticut: Employee relocation contractor Cartus Corporation eliminating an undisclosed number of its Danbury HQ jobs as it subcontracts them to a British empire United Kingdom contractor!  In Wallingford, after 56 years banquet host Villa Capri shutting down in July.  The family owners are in the process of selling the property, they need to focus on their other business ops.

Florida: In Lake City, trash management company Sitel issued a WARN saying 34 people will lose their jobs in April.  CVS Pharmacy issued a shutdown WARN for their Medley distribution center, 117 jobs lost between April and September!   Walt Disney World laid off at least 1-hundred painters!  The layoff was revealed by the painter’s union.  Despite Disney reporting record profits for 2015, local news reports say Disney World management has been told to tighten their purse strings as the economy is expected to get worse!  Tampa based Bloomin’ Brands confirmed it will shutdown 14 Bonefish Grill restaurants by the end of the year, due to crashing sales.

Misleading taxpayer funded Republican party primary billboard

Idaho:  Once again, the Right to Work (you over) Republicans are using taxpayer money to fund their March primary elections, which don’t allow non-Republicans to take part!  On top of that Republicans are advertising their primary as if its the only ‘party’ election in the state.  The Democrats have a ‘party’ election, also in March, but on a different day.

Illinois: In Chicago, after seven years concert venue Shrine shutting down due to the greedy landlord selling the property to a greedy property developer.

Iowa: In Dubuque, after ten years MC Sports shutting down by the end of the year, 11 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on the greedy landlord.  In Johnston, state regulators confirmed DuPont recently eliminated 175 jobs in connection to the merger with Dow!   

Kansas:  British empire Canada based aircraft maker Bombardier eliminating 7-thousand jobs across North America, impacting 220 jobs at their Wichita factory!  City and county taxpayers are pissed as local news reports say Bombardier got huge local tax breaks between 2011 and 2014.   The approximately $60-million USD in local tax deals were tied to job creation, which Bombardier met by 2014, but then almost immediately after reaching those employment goals Bombardier eliminated 1-thousand 420 jobs between mid-2014 and the end of 2015! 

Missouri: In Florissant, local news reports are questioning why restaurant Deaver’s suddenly shutdown after 13 years.  No explanation was given.

New Jersey: In Vineland, Inspira Health Network issued a WARN, 105 jobs lost by mid-April!  In Rockville Center, Airway Cleaners issued a WARN saying 81 people will become unemployed in April.  Upper Saddle River based Pearson Education finally revealed plans to eliminate 4-thousand jobs across the U.S.!  Administrators refused to give specifics about where those layoffs will impact: “Out of respect for all of our employees, it wouldn’t be appropriate to discuss the number of job cuts in a specific location before we inform our employees across the rest of our workforce.”

New York:  In NYC, Too Big to Jail Goldman Sachs issued a layoff WARN, 43 people laid off between May and July.   After 80 years, reports say iconic Fairway market is in so much financial trouble it can’t pay its debts, and will default. The news comes from credit rating company Moody’s.  A&G Realty Partners predicting the next big wave of store shutdowns will be the luxury shops targeting elites.  Analysts base that prediction on the increasing number of Empire State luxury stores holding 40% to 50% off sales.

North Carolina:  In Greensboro, cigarette maker ITG Brands warning that it will layoff employees in the near future due to an expected decline in production.  The factory used to be owned by Lorillard Cigarettes, but in 2015 Lorillard was merged with RJ Reynolds.  RJ Reynolds then quickly sold Lorillard to ITG.  The sudden decline in production is due to the end of a production contract in June, which apparently will not be renewed.  Local news reports say 1-thousand 1-hundred jobs could be affected!   In Jacksonville, after 42 years Crist Clinic for Women shutting down by the end of the month due to “unforeseen circumstances”.   In Raleigh, after 20 years Ornamentea Fine Beads & Jewelry Supply shutting down this weekend.  The owner will focus on her more successful Pop Up Sunday shop.

Oklahoma:  In Duncan, Texas based oil drilling company Halliburton eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs.  At first the mass layoffs were just rumors, then Halliburton confirmed with a press release.

Pennsylvania:  Maker of baby strollers and car seats, 4moms, furloughed 24 employees as part of its plan to restructure towards internet sales in China.  In Allentown, Tony Luke’s shutdown their Hamilton Street sandwich shop.  Local news reports say it’s the 5th business inside the city’s Neighborhood Improvement Zone to shutdown within the past three months!

Texas: Sports Authority shutting down all 25 stores in the Lone Star State, as part of their plan to shutdown 140 stores across the U.S.!  In Pleasanton, oil drilling company FTS International eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs.  Local news reports say employees were threatened with the loss of their severance if they went public about the layoffs!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

17 February 2016: “losing their jobs due to circumstances they didn’t create” 

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.”

Climate change caused by Tree Huggers, not pollution! New 260 years study blames the environmentalist elite!

17 February 2016 /18:24 UTC-07 Tango 01 (29 Bahman 1394/09 Jumada al-Ula 1437/11 Geng Yin 4714)

“Our study shows that historical land-cover changes and forest management in Europe did not mitigate climate warming. This is surprising as it goes against the current assumption that all forests and all sustainable forest management cool the climate.– Chen Yiying, National University of Singapore

The researchers of a study at the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, in France, (published in the journal Science) concluded that human managed forest projects in Europe had absolutely no effect on preventing ‘global warming’!

They used 260 years of human managed forest land data (yes, Europeans have been managing their so called wild lands far longer than people in the U.S., in fact the U.S. federal land management system was influenced by the Germanic forestry model).

Sorry elitist Time magazine, but you’re flat wrong!

The result of deliberately planting more trees causes global warming: “Over the past 260 years, a lot of broadleaf forests have been converted into conifer forests which resulted in large scale tree species changes….as a result…the surface energy budget and traps heat in the near surface atmosphere…..  ….we should be careful when planning large-scale changes in land-use because the net effects may be different than the anticipated outcome.”-Chen Yiying

In other words; if you notice in the past environmentalist would use satellite imagery to show heat escaping from the surface of the Earth where there are relatively few trees as proof that trees cool the surrounding climate, however, this new study shows that the more trees you have the more heat is trapped near the surface of the planet, which is exactly why the satellite imagery shows the upper atmosphere over forested areas as being cool.  I’ve got a ‘no shit Sherlock’ moment for you; densely packed vegetation is a reason why the jungles of the Earth are freaking hot & humid!

As an historian I can tell you that European forestry wasn’t started to ‘save the climate’, instead it was started due to the realization that most of the European forest had been chopped down by the mid-1700s and the lack of trees threatened multiple industries from food preparation to metal working to building construction to shipbuilding, etc.  But by the 20th century, Europeans saw their forestry efforts as a way to save the planet’s climate (with no empirical evidence to back up their claims) and they greatly increased the planting of trees (many of which were not native to the areas they were planted in), and greatly reduced harvesting of trees.  This new study shows those 20th century arrogant elitist tree huggers were not only wrong, but suggests they actually made the climate worse!

Now let me remind you that it’s been proven that the 20th century forestry management practices of the tree hugging ‘western world’ also led to the massive forest fires experienced over the first decade of the 21st century, which pumped massive amounts of smoke into the upper atmosphere making climate change worse.

Want more proof?  Read journal Science: Europe’s forest management did not mitigate climate warming

Climate change caused by people, not pollution! Time to kill all humans! 

Did ancient Native Americans ride horse sized T-Rex & Killer Chickens?

17 February 2016 (03:09 UTC-07 Tango 01)/28 Bahman 1394/08 Jumada al-Ula 1437/10 Geng Yin 4714

In the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, east of Pocatello, Idaho, lurks a new Tyrannosaur born 95-million years ago!

Of course there were no Native Americans 95-millions years ago (neither was there an America), and that new T-Rex is nothing but a fossil now, but today we call the home of the new T-Rex, Idaho, United States. 

Montana State University reported the discovery.  In fact the MSU paleontologists say there are three new types of T-Rex calling Idaho home.  But these are not your Hollywood giants, they range in size from a Golden Retriever canine to a horse.

Also found are eggs from the ancient Killer Chicken, Oviraptorosaur.

The new fossil finds are curated in Pocatello’s Idaho Museum of Natural History.

For a more long-in-the-tooth ‘scientific’ explanation read Theropod dinosaurs from the Albian–Cenomanian Wayan Formation of eastern Idaho

“losing their jobs due to circumstances they didn’t create” “criminal and juvenile dockets will grind to a halt” : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 17 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Alabama: In Huntsville, 20 years old non-profit Sci-Quest hands-on science museum shutting down, due to lack of revenues which caused them to miss their January & February rent payments.

California: In Dinuba, Coca-Cola announced they will shutdown their Odwalla juice bottling op in April, 164 jobs lost!  Local news reports indicate employees are shocked, many saying they heard about a possible shutdown but, like typical sheeple employees, put it off to rumor & innuendo.   Coca-Cola is consolidating bottling operations to cut costs.  Save Mart shutting down two grocery stores next month; one in Orangevale and one in Sacramento.  No word on how many jobs lost, administrators say it’s the only way they can “reinvest” in their company.

Florida: In Saint Augustine, after 47 years Donna’s dress store shutting down due to the death of the owner.

Georgia: Giant Food grocery store, off Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, shutdown by greedy property owners who foreclosed!  Local ‘lawmakers’ and charities say the area is now an official ‘food desert’, meaning most residents no longer have easy access to food.

Idaho:  State Department of Lands is selling off failed commercial properties it took over at taxpayer expense.   Boise news reports say one reason for the sell-off is that the taxpayer ownership of failed private sector properties have “become a political liability”, however, a consultant told state administrators they need to sell the properties to take advantage of higher property values (make a profit).  The state plans to sell 12 taxpayer own commercial properties in Boise, three in Idaho Falls and one in Heyburn, in the hopes of raising $25-million USD.  

Illinois:  After 16 years in Park Ridge, Annika Shoes shutting down by the end of the month.  The owners say they need “time to rest”.

Kansas: Non-profit mental healthcare provider Wyandot eliminated 26 jobs blaming “a number of revenue losses we experienced due to state policy changes and reductions from managed care organizations”.  Essentially its the fault of Kansas’s version of ObamaCare.

Kentucky: TMK IPSCO Tubulars issued a WARN for their Wilder steel factory, 83 jobs lost by the first week of March.  Like other steel makers in the U.S. (including Russia’s EVRAZ) they blame foreign competition for causing metal prices to crash.

Louisiana: Despite claiming “Equal Justice For All” state ‘lawmakers’ shutdown the Public Defenders Office in Plaquemines Parish, claiming lack of taxpayer funding.  A public defender has a dire warning: “Much of criminal and juvenile dockets will grind to a halt. At some point this scenario also becomes a clear constitutional violation, the courts will be left in a position of having to decide whether to release those persons in custody whose cases have not been able to proceed.”-Matt Robnett

Massachusetts: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Waltham based internet marketing company Constant Contact was sold off, at least 210 of the company’s employees across the country were laid off last week!

Michigan:  Another example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs (REL); Bronson Precision Products shutting down in March, 125 jobs lost! The company hit with a trifecta of crashing orders from federal government, healthcare and petroleum industries.

New Jersey: City National Bank announced it will shutdown its Paterson office mid-April.  Local news reports say its the last City National Bank office in that area.

New York:  Sex and the City costume designer Patricia Field shutting down her boutique, claiming she will “pursue other career interests”.

Ohio: In Youngstown, the Lincoln Knolls IGA grocery store shutting down by mid-March.  The owners blame low sales despite years of effort to boost business.

Oklahoma: OKC based oil driller Devon Energy claims it lost $14-billion USD during 2015!  CEO Dave Hager is using the excuse to eliminate at least 1-thousand jobs because “Devon’s top priority in 2016 is to protect the balance sheet…”  I wonder how much of Devon’s losses are connected to the construction of their gigantic OKC skyscraper?

Oregon: For the third time in two months,  Aequitas Capital Management announced layoffs.  This time 80 employees let go by the end of March.  Local news media are confused as during the last round of layoffs they reported there were only 80 employees left, but company administrators said a “skeleton crew” will continue operations until problems with their student loan ‘assets’ are straightened out.

Pennsylvania:  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Philadelphia based software company RJMetrics eliminating 25 jobs after promising to create new jobs.  News reports blame it on the company implementing a new program that requires less employees.  CEO Bob Moore admitted they made a mistake in hiring the people to begin with: “We didn’t do the right thing for these people. We recruited them onto our team and, now that the situation has changed, they are losing their jobs due to circumstances they didn’t create. We’re truly sorry to everyone affected.” 

Wisconsin: Yet another law firm bites the dust.  Milwaukee based multi-state corporation defender Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan shutting down by the end of the month, at least 127 jobs lost!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.”

“We have no plans to cut or furlough staff…” Then without warning 150 workers fired! No more Freightliner trucks? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 16 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Palo Alto based software company Palantir just took over two years old Kimono Labs, and as a result Kimono’s public ‘cloud’ service will end, affecting 125-thousand users!

Colorado: CB & Pott’s shutting down their 42 years old West Campus restaurant.  The operators are opening a new restaurant in a new location “to be closer to our core guests.”

Idaho:  Albertsons-Safeway is doing it again, killing off an independently owned grocery store chain, this time on the west side of The Gem State.  Paul’s Market has sold out to the evil corporate giant (who caused the demise of Washington’s Haggen grocery chain last year, killing off thousands of jobs!).  Reports are just coming in, but it sounds like three Paul’s Markets will be shutdown and four will be rebranded as Albertsons stores.  Idaho’s Department of Labor has yet to publish any required WARN regarding the shutdowns.

Michigan:  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; California based video game maker Activision just revealed it eliminated jobs at its Minneapolis ops, without giving numbers.  Administrators blame declining interest in their Guitar Hero and Skylanders brands.  What automotive industry recovery?  Close tolerance diesel & gas motor machining company Royal Oak Boring just announced it will eliminate 125 jobs between now and the end of March!  They are shutting down their Port Huron operation due to being unable to get debt financing.

Missouri: In Saint Louis, yet another restaurant shutdown.  After ten years bistro Soulard shutting down this weekend.       

New York: Revere Copper Products eliminating 40 jobs due to low prices for metals.  In NYC, after six years Little Shoe Store shutting down their brick-n-mortar shop by the end of March.  High rent and utilities forcing the operator to switch to internet sales only.

North Carolina: For the second time since January, Germany owned Daimler-Freightliner is conducting mass layoffs, by the end of this week!  This time an additional 1-thousand 250 people will be let go from the Mount Holly and Cleveland factories!     In January Daimler-Freightliner laid off 936 people from their Cleveland factory!  Local news reports say local charities stated that this latest layoff round was “unexpected” and they are not prepared.  Daimler administrators are now admitting that their sales of Freightliner trucks are ‘crashing & burning’!

North Dakota: In Fargo, the Uptown Gallery shutting down after efforts to bring in a business partner with cash failed.  Last year the owner tried to sell the gallery, but nobody was interested.

Oregon: Japan based Panasonic issued a layoff WARN for their Salem operations, 50 jobs lost by mid-April.

Pennsylvania: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; administrators for the second largest cyber charter school in the state, Agora, revealed they suddenly eliminated jobs last week, but they refuse to say how many.  Local news reports say former employees report between 1-hundred and 150 people were fired without warning!  Cyber school administrators blame lack of state taxpayer funding due to ‘lawmakers’ failing to pass a budget.   However, local news media also published a direct quote from an Agora chairwoman, made back in December: “We have no plans to cut or furlough staff due to the lack of funds we are currently receiving. Please do not fear for your position here at Agora.”-Mary Steffey

After six years Pittsburgh Public Market shutting down by the end of March.  The eatery owner blames lack of customer traffic due to the recent shutdown of Marty’s Market, and the Firehouse farmer’s market.

Tennessee: Knoxville based Cancer Fund of America finally shutdown by federal regulators, two years after national news investigations blew the lid off their scam!  Federal and state government investigators discovered that the majority of donations went to buying “luxury” items for the administrators of the so called cancer charities, not to cancer treatments or research.  Watch the CNN report and stop trowing your money away on medical research ‘charities’!  Apparently there are other scam charities refusing to shutdown despite overwhelming evidence brought against them, so watch out.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

15 February 2016: Death of the Middle Class!

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.”

Death of the Middle Class! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 15 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

“…income growth among the very well-to-do is rising.  Among the middle class in the United States it’s actually stagnant….   ….GDP is driven by 70% consumer spending…there is a real threat to the GDP going forward.”Doug McIntyre, ceo of 24/7 Wall Street

Arkansas: Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Natural State as the 10th biggest killer of the Middle Class.

California:  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Golden State as the 7th biggest killer of the Middle Class.

Florida: In Palm Beach, after 35 years the Jupiter Academy private school shutting down, they can’t afford to renew the lease.

Georgia: Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Peach State as the 2nd biggest killer of the Middle Class.  And for proof, look no further than Atlanta based CNN: “CNN staffers are hopping mad that bosses are building anchor Robin Meade an expensive private toilet while employees are being laid off…”

Illinois:  Fifth Third Bank shutting down its 15 years old Clarendon Hills office in April.

Maine: Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Pine Tree State as the 3rd biggest killer of the Middle Class.

Montana:  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Treasure State as the 8th biggest killer of the Middle Class.   

New York: Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Empire State as the 9th biggest killer of the Middle Class.  For proof, in NYC the owner of the 28 years old Cafe Lalo told  Community Board 7’s Business and Consumer Issues Committee “business is terrible and he may have to close”.

North Carolina: Data from the U.S. Census and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Tar Heel State as the 4th biggest killer of the Middle Class.

Rhode Island: Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Ocean State as the number one killer of the Middle Class.

South Carolina:  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Palmetto State as the 6th biggest killer of the Middle Class.

Tennessee:  Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Economic Policy Institute rank The Volunteer State as the 5th biggest killer of the Middle Class.

Texas:  Houston based Paragon Offshore oil driller is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, claiming it can’t pay its $1.1-billion USD of debt due to the low oil prices.  Makes you wonder what it was doing with all the cash when oil was $70+ per barrel.

Virginia:  Urban Farmhouse shutting down their three years old Church Hill restaurant by the end of the month.  Sounds like they couldn’t afford the rent as they claim they’re looking for a new location.

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

13-14 February 2016: Christian hospitals stealing from taxpayers!

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.”