According to a May 3, 2012, Associated Press report, Microsoft is moving 30 to 40 jobs from Boise, Idaho, to Washington state.
Microsoft officials say it’s part of their efforts to cut costs by consolidating similar positions.
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Employment Evil: Even with nearly 100 million American’s out of work, work place deaths & injuries increase! Actual reason for exploding health care costs?
“We’re actually trending upward, which is not a good sign, particularly in an economy when the hours of work are down, especially in construction. If construction was running full bore, it’s likely the numbers would be higher.”–Bill Kojola, industrial hygienist with AFL-CIO
The yearly Death on the Job report has been issued, it’s not good. The report uses data from the U.S. Department of Labor and state governments.
According to federal government data, 13 U.S. workers die on the job everyday!
Also, in 2010 an estimated 50,000 U.S. workers died from diseases related to their jobs!
West Virginia leads the country in worker deaths!
As many as 11.4 million U.S. workers become injured or sick directly because of their jobs!
As a result unAmerican Corporate America is costing the health care industry as much as $300 billion USD per year! Maybe this is the real reason health insurance rates continue to go up?
Is it any wonder that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently admitted that at least 86 million unofficially unemployed people are refusing to look for work?
To read the Death on the Job report, click here.
What Economic Recovery? Corporate America’s (and state & local governments’) planned layoffs increase for 2012
Don’t blame Obama for the bad labor market, the U.S. Labor Department just revealed that the bad labor market (people unable to find good jobs) began in 2000, under Bush Jr’s watch!
Blame Corporate America! For more proof, Chicago based Challenger, Gray & Christmas released the results of their study of recent planned layoff announcements coming from unAmerican Corporate America, and state & local governments.
Announced layoffs have gone up 11% since last year! Education, government, consumer goods and transportation industries had the most planned layoffs, with the education sector leading the way.
According to Business Week, Michigan leads the country with the most planned layoffs: 5,094 announced just last month!
California is next with 4,070, Washington state with 3,329 and Pennsylvania takes fourth with 3,292!
What Economic Recovery? Official ‘Unofficial’ unemployment numbers way up. Nearly 100 million Americans unemployed! Record number of people who refuse to work slave wage jobs!
“At this point, the labor market is worse than people realize because people are discouraged. Certainly, a large number of workers have given up on the job market.”-Keith Hall, former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Believe it or not the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics actually attempts to track those people who’re unofficially unemployed.
The “official” unemployment numbers count those who’ve been looking for work for the last four weeks, and people who already have jobs but are looking for better work. The fact that “official” unemployment numbers includes people that are actually employed should be enough for you to doubt them.
But it turns out the Bureau of Labor Statistics does try to count people who’ve been out of work longer than four weeks, or who have just stopped looking for work, they just don’t include those people in the “official” unemployment reports.
One way they look at it is what they call labor force participation. According to their latest numbers, the labor force participation rate in the United States is at it’s lowest level since 1984. There are 86 million U.S. citizens who gave up looking for work! That’s 86 million “unofficially” employed on top of the 12.7 million “officially” unemployed!
That means there’s actually 98.7 million people known by the federal government to be unemployed in the United States!
Department of Labor officials say that at least 6 million unofficially unemployed have stopped looking for work because most jobs available are not worth taking (from the unemployed’s point of view).
Labor officials also admitted that they didn’t know why about 36 million of the unofficially unemployed refuse to look for work. In fact the labor force participation rate has been steadily dropping since 2000, years before the credit crisis began!
To make matters worse, the Chicago Federal Reserve bank expects labor force participation rate to continue to fall.
Why is the Labor Department coming forth with this dismal unemployment announcement? Because federal government officials and politicians have realized that with nearly 100 million people out of work, and signs that it’s going to get worse, the money the federal government steals through income taxes will continue to be less and less (don’t be surprised when they start jackin’ up taxes on those who are employed).
China sets Yuan at new record versus the U.S. dollar
The People’s Bank of China set the yuan’s midpoint at 6.267, meaning it could take 6.267 yuan to equal one U.S. dollar. The more valuable the yuan is, the less it takes to equal one USD.
That’s a new record, and proof the Chinese are increasing the value of their money. May 2, 2012, currency trading in China ended with the yuan at 6.30 for every one U.S. dollar.
The downside is that the more valuable the yuan is, the more expensive anything made in China becomes. Better bring those jobs back in the U.S.S.A.
Oil & Gas Prices: Iran 100% increase in shipments! Nigeria oil & gas boom. North Dakota oil jobs draining Idaho & Washington. Ohio’s oil industry refuses to hire locals? Chevron big profits. Texas is proof that Obama is an oil man.
Despite U.S. oil sanctions against Iran, Iran experienced a 100% increase in refined petrol (gasoline) exports in 2011!
Iranian officials say their gasoline sales in 2011 hit a record $134 million USD! Some of the countries buying Iranian petrol are Armenia, Afghanistan, the UAE, Iraq and Oman (some are U.S. puppet states).
By the end of 2010 Iran became self supporting in petrol production, ending years of dependance on foreign suppliers of refined gasoline. Iran is now a major exporter of refined fuels.
Officials in Nigeria announced plans to increase oil production to 4 million bpd by the year 2020. They are also close to increasing liquefied natural gas production by an additional 20 million metric tons a year, from the current level of 26 million tons. Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa.
Texas oil and gas surplus equipment supplier, Jhump & Associates, is reporting a 117% increase in sales in 2011! But that’s nothing compared to the 300% increase they had in 2010!!!
The Texas based company started in human resource solutions, but has seen a huge boost after they moved into surplus oil equipment sales. They now plan to move into off shore drilling technology. They say their increased sales is due to a huge increase in oil and gas exploration and drilling in the United States. What was that about Obama not doing enough to increase oil production?
In the panhandle of Idaho, and eastern Washington, people are leaving for oil jobs in North Dakota: “I’ve had guys come running through the door, saying, ‘I need my CDL [commercial drivers license] now! I’ve got a job lined up in North Dakota!’ .”-Tina Sykes, Sage Truck Driving Schools
Sage Truck Driving Schools now offers a shortened course for those Idahoans and Washingtonians heading for North Dakota.
North Idaho College is experiencing a jump in enrollment for electrical and plumbing programs that end with apprenticeships in North Dakota.
While educators are warning job seekers to do their homework before heading for North Dakota, there seems to be more than enough jobs available: “We’ve had both types of people, those who jumped in the car and left, and others who did prior research on companies. We’ve never had anyone who didn’t get employment.”-Tina Sykes, Sage Truck Driving Schools
In contrast, Ohio is seeing a seeming rejection of local people for consideration of employment in the oil and gas industry there.
One union member claimed that not a single contractor in Coshocton County, Ohio, has been hired by the shale oil and gas industry: “…I have been a local construction laborer for more than 30 years. I have talked with other construction laborers living in the Carroll, Harrison and Jefferson county areas. They are totally discouraged on the lack of, or in other words zero percent, work they are getting from this construction based shale gas industry.”-Timothy Mulford, Business Manager Laborers Local 134
Chevron reported a $6.5 billion USD profit for the first quarter of 2012. High oil prices driven by speculators was one of many reasons for the huge profits.
According to Visiongain, all oil refineries around the world are now worth a combined total of $46.64 billion USD. Visiongain expects huge investments and developments will be made in refineries until 2022.
World War 3: More U.S./NATO deaths, more leaders captured, more battles, more money to be spent.
April 29, 2012, International Security Assistance Force announced that two U.S./NATO personnel were killed in separate explosions.
One soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan, the other in eastern Afghanistan.
At least 135 NATO service members have died since the beginning of 2012.
Yet another 24 hour seek and destroy/capture mission report from the Afghan officials. This time they claim they killed five Mujahideen and captured 21.
They also claim the usual capture of “leaders”, weapons and drugs. The battles took place in Nangarhar, Kunar, Kapisa, Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Ghazni, Logar, Zabul and Farah provinces. The report was backed up by ISAF officials.
Chairman of U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Senator John Kerry, met with President Hamid Karzai. They came up with preliminary agreements on U.S. troop draw down in 2014.
They agreed the main focus should be spending more money to build up Afghanistan’s civil service. They also agreed not to reduce spending on the Afghan military until it was clear the “security situation” improves, after 2015.
Global Economic War: Grocery store chain refuses to buy Israeli products
“Following an audit of the Group’s supply chain, it will no longer do business with four companies, accounting for £350,000 [$569,380 USD] worth of sales, as there is evidence that they source from the Israeli settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories. The Group will also continue to actively work to increase trade links with Palestinian businesses in the occupied territories.”-Co-operative Group statement
A U.K. based food retailer, Co-operative Group, is continuing a ban on Israeli food products coming from illegally occupied West Bank.
Co-operative Group stopped buying products from Israeli West Bank settlements in 2009. Four Israeli companies are affected: Agrexco, Arava Export Growers, Adafresh, and Mehadrin which is Israel’s largest agricultural export company.
“We strongly urge other retailers to take similar action.”-Hilary Smith, Boycott Israel Network
What Economic Recovery? Spain hits record unemployment, highest in Europe!
April 27, 2012, Spain’s National Statistics Institute announced that Spain’s unemployment rate is officially at 24.4%, the highest ever for Spain, and currently the highest in Europe!
That’s 5.6 million people out of work in a country with a population of 46 million people!
The 24.4% rate is for the first quarter of 2012. It’s a 370,000 increase from the last quarter of 2011!
Now realize that Spain is considered the fourth largest economy in Europe!
The government of Spain plans on enacting even more spending cuts, and increases in taxes. Mmmm, I think that’s whats actually making things worse?
War on Terror shifts to War on Flu. Politicians opposed were removed before votes were cast! New law says who will get help and who won’t!
April 27, 2012, Japan’s Diet (parliament) has passed a bill that allows near martial law like conditions in response to a major epidemic.
The Japanese government can now set up a special task force to deal with an outbreak of unusually virulent influenza. A state of emergency can be declared if the epidemic threatens the economy.
The special task force can decide who will be given priority for medical help! Education can be suspended, and public gatherings and events restricted.
Something else to be concerned about, this law was passed only because all those politicians that opposed it were not present in the parliament, including members of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Japanese media says the law passed with a majority of the votes, but that’s a given when all those opposed were not present.
The committee that debated the bill warned that provisions should be added that protected individual liberties, and that the special task force should be required to heed the advise of medical experts.
Note: Japan is part of the Trilateral Commission (Europe, North America, Japan/Asia)