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Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: Renovations reveal U.S. park is nuke disaster area! Woods Hole confirms Fukushima radiation heading to North America!

22 October 2014 (14:22 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/30 Mehr 1393/29 Jia-Xu 4712

United States: What does a 1994 U.S. Department of Energy memo say is the best treatment for tritium exposure?  Water, lots and lots of water.  Is that the real reason the U.S. military suddenly (in the mid-1990s) adopted a policy of “Drink water!” for ground troops?

In Louisiana, a nuclear disaster drill was held (one of dozens that have been held across the U.S. this year) and it involved a nuke waste truck heading to New Mexico’s WIPP, and a school bus.  The area was chosen because WIPP waste trucks actually drive that route: “We actually transport radiation. It’s materials left over from the production of nuclear weapons. So it’s how to respond to radiation should it occur. And it’s different in the chemical aspect because you can’t see it taste it or smell it.”-Bobby St. John, Waste Isolation Pilot Project

In Seattle, Washington, residents near Magnuson Park are outraged after learning the popular park is actually contaminated with radiation left over from the Second World War.   Renovations of two buildings revealed radium contamination.  When some local news sources heard the rumor, and then went to the park, they found  Washington State Department of Ecology employees with geiger counters.  The state employees said the radiation levels were OK for a person to be in the area for two hours per day, five days per week.  One politician is pissed: “Totally unacceptable. It’s a gross injustice to say we’re going to call this safe and cleaned up when future children using the park will be at risk of getting cancer.

…..How many of you have children or high school students who use the park more than two hours a day?”-Gerry Pollet, state representative

Canada: U.S. based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is now warning that Fukushima radiation, still flooding into the Pacific Ocean, is about to come ashore on North America.

On 02 August 2014, a water sample taken off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, showed cesium-134 and 137 originating from the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.  Woods Hole officials will reveal more at a public announcement in November: “There is definitely offshore Fukushima cesium now. It’s not on the beaches, but it’s offshore.”– Ken Buesseler

Japan: Continuos tropical storms and cyclones are flooding contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.  Phanfone and Vongfong have increased leaked cesium levels to 251-thousand becquerels per liter, tritium as high as 150-thousand bq, and strontium to 1.2-million bq!

And soon they’ll be even more, as Tokyo Electric Power Company has begun controlled demolition of reactor building 1.  The problem is TEPCo tried that last year with reactor building 3 and the result was massive contamination of rice fields due to radioactive dust being spread by the demolition.

This time TEPCo officials say before they remove the protective canopy from reactor 1 building they will spray down the interior with chemicals to try and reduce the amount of dust.

A former news anchor for Japanese state TV revealed he was fired for reporting the truth about Fukushima Daiichi: “I am a newscaster, but I couldn’t tell the true story on my news program.  I was on the ground in Fukushima, and a lot of people kept asking me, why didn’t you tell us earlier about what is happening? ….then my superiors said the NHK was getting complaints from politicians about what I was saying. They told me I had to stop.”-Hori Jun, former anchor-reporter for NHK

Russia: Studies aboard the International Space Station are showing that cosmic radiation is not as big a threat to astronauts as first thought: “This finding is crucial to the planning of protracted space flights. It means in practical terms we can fly longer and go further.”-Vyacheslav Shurshakov, Institute of Medical-Biological Problems

Why does Rudolph’s nose glow?

Business/Economics

Sears & Kmart closing update, 22 October 2014: NFL kills Kmart? Catholics, Mormons & Jews conspiring or is it just about the money?

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”-1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version

Jewish Eddie Lampert is credited with creating Sears Holdings in 2005.   But in 2011 I wrote how Vornado Realty Trust (connected to Catholic/Mormon created Bain Capital, connected to Coldwell Banker and Carlyle Group) was really behind the creation of Sears Holdings.  All these ‘holding’ companies and ‘trusts’ act more like  Real Estate Invetment Trusts (REITS) in that they seem more concerned about shutting down the retailers they take over, then selling off or renting out the property.

The claims to religion made by the founders and managers of these ‘investment’ companies probably have nothing to do with their wanton job killing, it’s more about the money.  Remember, Bain Capital co-founder Mitt Romney once posed for a photo that was titled Greed is Good.  (the original Greek version of the Bible quote above says “Greed is the root of all evil…”)

In Louisiana, the currently open Kmart in Metairie was quietly sold for $16.5-million USD to property speculators in Hawaii.   Nobody knows if the Kmart will be shutdown.

In Wisconsin, NFL football team Green Bay Packers now owns an abandoned Kmart, and will tear it down.  The football team is also shutting down other businesses on property they’ve recently taken over.  It appears the Green Bay Packers are looking to make money by become a REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust).

Florida losing another Kmart!

Ohio losing a Sears in time for Xmas!

Michigan losing a Sears and a Kmart in January!

update 20 October 2014

Here’s the updated list of U.S. Sears/Kmart store closings since the end of 2011:

Arizona: Scottsdale Sears/Great Indoors, Chandler Sears/Great Indoors.

Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Auburn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Anniston Kmart (no word yet on how many jobs lost), Birmingham Eastwood Kmart (70 jobs lost), Decatur Mall Sears (91 jobs lost), Fort Payne Kmart, Northport Kmart (68 jobs lost), Dothan Sears (68 jobs lost), recently revealed Huntsville Kmart (73 jobs lost).

California: El Monte Sears (at least 40 jobs lost. Damien Arrula, El Monte’s economic development director, said the store manager had lied about what was going on: “The general manager of the store had just indicated to me that they were remodeling.”), two San Diego Sears (more than 80 jobs lost), Pleasant Hill Kmart (more than 50 jobs lost), Torrance Kmart, Fairfield Kmart (63 jobs lost), Lampert owned OSH taken over by Lowe’s home improvement in bankruptcy court, at least 17 of 99 stores to be closed down (935 jobs lost!), Rancho Cordova Kmart (97 jobs lost), San Clemente Kmart/Sears/Kmart on Camino de Estrella (58 jobs lost), placed on an official hit list in 2011 the Oceanside Kmart on College Boulevard finally being shut down, Banning Kmart (91 jobs lost) recently revealed that Sears Holdings is still paying rent on the abandoned property, Laguna Hills Mall Sears, San Diego Mid-City Kmart (73 jobs lost), Hemet Kmart (77 jobs lost), Oakland Sears repair center (75 jobs lost), San Mateo Kmart (82 jobs lost to an apartment building connected to public transportation), Hesperia Kmart building sold at a loss to a vulture capitalist REIT, no word on if the Kmart will be shutdown. Customers complain that the Kmart employees have a bad attitude, gee I wonder why? Yuba City Kmart (63 jobs lost), Rocklin Kmart (at least 63 jobs lost, the store had just posted “Now Hiring” signs).

Colorado: Broomfield Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Glenwood Springs Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lone Tree Sears/Great Indoors, Longmont Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Pueblos’ South Side Kmart (52 jobs lost), Denver Kmart (number of jobs lost have not been made public at this time, but could be at least 40), Colorado Springs Kmart at Powers and Palmer Park boulevards (57 jobs lost), Fort Collins Sears (67 jobs lost).

Connecticut: Waterbury Big Kmart, Torrington Kmart (73 jobs lost), Enfield Sears Optical (no word on jobs lost).

Delaware: Dover Kmart (at least 72 jobs lost, some reports said 100), Seaford Sears (30 jobs lost).

Florida: Fernandina Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Callaway Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Orange City Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Deland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Stuart Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), West Palm Beach Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Port St. Lucie Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Crystal River Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), New Smyrna Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint Augustine Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Pompano Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jacksonville Kmart on 5751 Beach Boulevard (71 jobs lost), second Kmart in Jacksonville on 4645 Blanding Boulevard (83 jobs lost), Ocoee Sears (102 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on Airport Boulevard closed in 2011, Pensacola Kmart on Mobile Highway closed in February 2013 (69 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on East 9 Mile Road will close in May (73 jobs lost), Hialeah Kmart (67 jobs lost), Bonita Springs Kmart (67 jobs lost), Mount Dora Kmart (100 jobs lost), Lake Mary Kmart, Panama City Beach Kmart (54 jobs lost), Winter Park Kmart (100 jobs lost), Niceville Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winter Haven Kmart (92 jobs lost), Palm Bay Kmart, Oakland Park Kmart (112 jobs lost), Clearwater Sears Auto Center (21 jobs lost), Zephyrhills Kmart (70 jobs lost), Winter Springs Kmart (69 jobs lost), recently revealed Naples Kmart (72 jobs lost).

Georgia: Macon Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Buford Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Douglasville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Atlanta Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Columbus Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jonesboro Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Cartersville Kmart (74 jobs lost), Hiram Kmart (53 jobs lost), Marietta-East Cobb Kmart, Warner Robins Kmart (77 jobs lost).

Guam: Sears Hometown Store.

Hawaii: Honolulu Sears (owned by GGP, 372 jobs lost!), Kauai Sears (41 jobs lost), Iwilei-Honolulu Kmart for lease (no confirmation of store closing).

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), Rexburg Kmart (63 jobs lost), Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down in November (the remaining 28 jobs lost). Across the street, in Pocatello, the property where the Kmart is located has a “pad site available” sign, posted ever since the Kmart bankruptcy. The Kmart building takes up most of the “pad”. Latest news from inside sources say Sears Holdings will not comment on any plans to expand the small amount of Craftsman products already being sold at the Kmart, or shift the Kenmore products line, from the closing Chubbuck Sears to the Pocatello Kmart. In fact all plans for the Pokey Kmart are in a ‘holding pattern’.

Illinois: Alton Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Melrose Park Sears parts and repair center (50 jobs lost), Zion Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Lawn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), McHenry Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Peru Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lombard Sears/Great Indoors (at least 40 jobs lost), Fairview Heights Kmart (81 jobs lost), Freeport Kmart (45 jobs lost), Pontiac Kmart (more than 47 jobs lost), Homer Glen Kmart (82 jobs lost), Streator Kmart (45 jobs lost), Lombard Kmart (70 jobs lost), Naperville Kmart (98 jobs lost), Calumet Sears (164 jobs lost), two Sears stores in Grand Crossing area of Chicago (247 jobs lost!), Mount Vernon Sears (68 jobs lost), Moline Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), Homewood Kmart (185 jobs lost), Belvidere Kmart (91 jobs lost?) revealed is now a perpetual closing sale Kmart At A Discount store, Champaign’s Market Place Mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (60 jobs lost), Montgomery Kmart (81 jobs lost), Mattoon Sears (more than 40 jobs lost), Chicago Sears on North State Street (160 jobs lost), Chicago Sears Craftsman Experience store, Galesburg Sears (46 jobs lost), White Lake Township Kmart (42 jobs lost), Orland Park Sears Appliance, Collinsville Kmart (84 jobs lost), Crystal Lake Kmart (at least 77 jobs lost), Danville Sears store & Auto Center (63 jobs lost), Forsyth Sears store & Auto Center (45 jobs lost), Peoria Kmart (73 jobs lost), Forest Park Kmart (107 jobs lost), Chicago Sears on North and Harlem avenues, supposedly it’s being replaced (most likely at taxpayer expense) with a new building and it will become a Sears-Mariano’s store, Bloomington Kmart (79 jobs lost). 58 Chicago area stores up for lease or sale. By the way, Illinois elected officials gave Sears Holdings/Hoffman Estates a $150 million USD tax break to keep their headquarters in the state. The tax break was not tied to any promise not to close stores.

Indiana: Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Sears (49 jobs lost), South Anthony Kmart (70 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard (70 jobs lost), FairOaks Mall Kmart, Logansport Sears (43 jobs lost), Muncie Kmart (59 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on Coliseum Boulevard North (69 jobs lost), Decatur Kmart (49 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart on Madison Avenue (131 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart on Washington Street (139 jobs lost), Bedford Kmart (62 jobs lost), Indianapolis Sears at Washington Square Mall (91 jobs lost), Greenwood Kmart (78 jobs lost).

Iowa: Cedar Rapids Kmart on 16th Ave (at least 40 jobs lost), Davenport Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Burlington Kmart (50 jobs lost), Coralville Sears (94 jobs lost, this is a store sold to GGP earlier in the year), Cedar Rapids Kmart on Collins Road NE (56 jobs lost), Mason City Kmart (50 jobs lost), Clive Kmart (at least 49 jobs lost), Ames Kmart (44 jobs lost), Fort Dodge Sears (no job loss numbers made public, yet. The Auto Center was secretly shutdown in September).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Merriam Kmart-then Sears-then Kmart (jobs lost unknown), Wichita Sears store & Auto Center (103 jobs lost).

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears (in September 2012 the Sears store re-opened under independent ownership, official grand re-opening scheduled for November), Winchester Kmart (back in May, Rankin Paynter bought out what was left of the inventory and gave it to charity), Hazard Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lexington Fayette Mall Sears (114 jobs lost!), Newport Kmart (81 jobs lost), Cannonsburg Sears and Sears Auto Center (no employee info given), Louisville Dixie Highway Kmart/Sears/Kmart, Madisonville Kmart (39 jobs lost), Owensboro Sears store & Auto Center (52 jobs lost).

Louisiana: Slidell Sears (77 job lost), Gretna Kmart (94 jobs lost), recently revealed Metairie Kmart secretly sold off, no word if it will be shutdown.

Maine: Lewiston Sears (60 to 70 jobs lost),  Presque Isle Sears (63 jobs lost).

Maryland: Ellicott Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Gaithersburg Sears/Great Indoors, Landover Sears rebuild & call center (115 jobs lost), Baltimore Kmart on Wabash Avenue (107 jobs lost).

Massachusetts: North Reading Sears Hardware store closed, lease not renewed, Milford Kmart (80 jobs lost).

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials, Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Saginaw Kmart on Bay Road, Flint Kmart on Dort Highway (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears, Bad Axe Kmart (61 jobs lost), Ypsilanti Township Kmart (83 jobs lost), Petoskey Kmart (45 jobs lost), Saint John’s Kmart (48 jobs lost), White Lake Township “Store of the Future” Kmart (42 jobs lost), Grand Blanc Kmart (49 jobs lost), Lapeer Kmart (56 jobs lost), Southgate Kmart (155 jobs lost), Detroit’s Telegraph Road Kmart (115 jobs lost), Waterford Township Sears (no word on how many jobs lost), Rochester Hills Kmart (77 jobs lost), ‘perfect Kmart town’ of Port Huron Kmart (188 jobs lost), Flint Kmart on Miller Road (81 jobs lost), Burton Kmart (85 jobs lost), Madison Heights Kmart (179 jobs lost), it’s now obvious the last remaining Saginaw Kmart on Gratiot will remain shutdown after its roof collapsed during a snowstorm back in January, Ann Arbor Kmart (59 jobs lost), recently revealed Iron Mountain Kmart (54 jobs lost), recently revealed Bangor Township Sears (47 jobs lost).

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off, Fergus Falls Kmart (40 jobs lost), Fergus Falls Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Alexandria Kmart (46 jobs lost), Grand Rapids Kmart (61 jobs lost), Seritage is selling off three Sears Auto Centers in Minnetonka, Brooklyn Center and Saint Paul, Marshall Kmart (57 jobs lost), Oakdale Kmart (77 hourly wage employees losing their jobs, unknown how many salaried employees will become unemployed), Winona Kmart (67 jobs lost), Minneapolis city officials trying to shutdown profit making Nicollet Avenue Kmart, to make way for a new road. Anoka Kmart (47 jobs lost), Blaine Kmart (60 jobs lost), Burnsville Kmart (62 jobs lost), Waite Park Kmart (57 jobs lost).

Mississippi: Jackson Sears Full line, McComb Sears Full line, Columbus Sears Full line, Gautier Sears (71 jobs lost), Waveland Gulfport Kmart (32 jobs lost), Pass Road Gulfport Kmart (52 jobs lost), Pascagoula Sears at the Singing River Mall.

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line, High Ridge Kmart (59 jobs lost), Ellisville Kmart (55 jobs lost), Springfield Kmart on South Campbell Avenue (60 jobs lost), South Belt Kmart (64 jobs lost), Florissant Kmart (100 jobs lost).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost), Great Falls Kmart (closed “until further notice” due to fire, 63 jobs on hold), Great Falls Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost), Bozeman Kmart (37 jobs lost).

Nebraska: Grand Island Kmart (55 jobs lost), Omaha Kmart near West Maple Road (50 jobs lost).

Nevada: Sparks Kmart distribution center (100 jobs lost).

New Hampshire: Nashau Sears Grand/Essentials, Keene Sears Grand/Essentials, Portsmouth Kmart (30 jobs lost), Claremont Kmart (59 jobs lost).

New Jersey: Lawnside Kmart (about 80 jobs lost), Howell Kmart (57 jobs lost), Berlin Kmart, Dover Kmart (92 jobs lost), Randolf Kmart (91 jobs lost), Paramus Kmart (74 jobs lost).

New Mexico: Las Cruces Kmart (58 jobs lost), Albuquerque Kmart on Central SW (80 jobs lost), Rio Rancho Kmart (59 jobs lost).

New York: Depew (Lancaster?) Kmart (68 jobs lost), Colonie Kmart (72 jobs lost), Fulton Kmart (51 jobs lost), Clifton Park Kmart (74 jobs lost), Latham Kmart (61 jobs lost), East Greenbush-Rensselaer Kmart (70 jobs lost), Tonawanda Sears Appliance and Hardware, Bronx Sears (91 jobs lost), BBN reader reported that the Ithaca Sears and Auto Center shutdown and one month later it’s been officially confirmed (at least 37 jobs lost), DeWitt Kmart (92 jobs lost), Auburn Sears (51 jobs lost), Massena Sears and Auto Center (51 jobs lost).

North Carolina: Cary Kmart (71 jobs lost), High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost), Asheville Kmart (53 jobs lost), West Smithfield Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winston-Salem Kmart (69 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (58 jobs lost), South Ashville Kmart on Hendersonville Road, Raleigh Kmart (88 jobs lost), Garner Kmart, Cleveland County mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Charlotte Kmart (89 jobs lost), Conover Kmart (74 jobs lost), Raleigh Kmart on Capital Boulevard (53 jobs lost), High Point Kmart (71 jobs lost), Boone Kmart (41 jobs lost), Greensboro Kmart (96 jobs lost), Gastonia Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost), Kinston Kmart (64 jobs lost), Cary Sears (66 jobs lost).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost), Dickinson Kmart (41 jobs lost, despite a “Now Hiring” sign on the front of the store).

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Columbus Sears/Great Indoors, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost), Austintown Sears auto parts and service on Interstate Boulevard, London Kmart (no word on number of jobs lost), Trotwood Sears (67 jobs lost), Westlake Kmart/Sears (at least 57 jobs lost), Xenia Kmart (at least 57 jobs lost), Norwalk Kmart (52 jobs lost), Blue Ash Kmart (77 jobs lost), Northwood Sears at Woodville Mall (36 jobs lost), Conneaut Kmart (43 jobs lost), Anderson Township Kmart (71 jobs lost), Brooklyn Kmart (200 jobs lost), Columbus Sears distribution center (200 jobs lost), also in Columbus Sears Product Rebuild Center (112 jobs lost), Marion Sears Auto Center (at least nine jobs lost), Springfield Kmart (68 jobs lost), Fairborn Kmart (66 jobs lost), recently revealed Solon Sears & Auto Center (at least 53 jobs lost). Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Sears (98 jobs lost, GGP owned, GGP wants a $2 million sales tax rebate, claiming it’s needed to offset capital investments needed to bring the space up to the standards for potential new tenants), Shawnee Sears (31 jobs lost), Sand Springs Kmart (52 jobs lost), Muskogee Sears (60 jobs lost),  Enid Sears and Auto Center (at least 38 jobs lost).

Oregon: Roseburg Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Tualatin Kmart Center (new property owner from California is tearing everything down for new shopping center, so far no indication the Kmart will be part of the new shopping center), Milwaukie Kmart (61 jobs lost), Coos Bay Kmart (25 jobs lost), Bend Sears (48 jobs lost), Klamath Falls Kmart (64 jobs lost), Albany Kmart (64 jobs lost), Portland Sears Homes Services (no notice), Albany Sears (57 jobs lost), BBN reader warns that Oregon City Kmart quietly shutting down.

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost), Philadelphia Gallery Mall Kmart (120 jobs lost), Philadelphia Kmart on Orthodox Street and Castor Avenue (169 jobs lost), Levittown/Middle Township Kmart (87 jobs lost), Waynesboro Kmart (43 jobs lost), Sanatoga-Lower Pottsgrove Kmart (65 jobs lost, the store was also advertising for new hires!), West Mifflin Sears store & Auto Center (88 jobs lost), Rochester Kmart (78 jobs lost), Frazer (Pittsburg Mills Mall) Sears and Auto Center (97 jobs lost), Bloomsburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Frackville Sears and Auto Center (84 jobs lost), North Cornwall Township Sears (51 jobs lost), King of Prussia Sears and Auto Center (no word on number of jobs lost), Lebanon Sears (51 jobs lost),  Chambersburg Sears and Auto Center (62 jobs lost).

South Carolina: Sumter Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Orangeburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Columbia Kmart on Fort Jackson Boulevard in 2012, Columbia Kmart on Bush River Road in 2009, Columbia Kmart on St Andrews Road (66 jobs lost), Irmo Kmart (no info on how many jobs lost), both Greenville Kmarts (140 jobs lost between the two), Mount Pleasant Kmart (43 jobs lost), Harbison Sears & Sears Auto Center in the Columbiana Centre mall (97 jobs lost), Aiken Sears & Sears Auto Center (at least 54 jobs lost), Inlet Square Mall Kmart (50 jobs lost), West Ashely Kmart (69 jobs lost), Myrtle Beach Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Tennessee: Antioch Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Cleveland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Ridge Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Morristown Sears (about 70 jobs lost), Clinton South Kmart, Franklin CoolSprings Galleria Sears (92 jobs lost), Memphis Hickory Ridge mall Sears (job loss data not revealed), 48 years old Nashville Kmart on Nolensville Pike to close by January 2014 (57 jobs lost), Franklin Kmart (33 jobs lost), Dickson Kmart (65 jobs lost).

Texas: Two Sears parts and repair centers closing in The Woodlands (117 jobs lost), rebuild center in Garland (58 jobs lost), Farmers Branch Sears/Great Indoors, Houston Sears Great/Indoors.

Utah: Murray Sears (for some reason Mormon controlled news media in Utah never reported the closure, but they reported that the building was demolished), Orem Kmart (no details reported), Woods Cross Kmart (54 jobs lost).

Vermont: Rutland Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Midlothian Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost), Fairfax Kmart (no word on how many jobs lost), Christiansburg Sears (59 jobs lost), Norfolk Kmart on East Little Creek Road (77 jobs lost), Manassas Kmart (71 jobs lost), Stafford Sears Hometown, Newport News Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Wise Kmart (58 jobs lost), Harrisonburg Kmart (79 jobs lost), Wincester Kmart (91 jobs lost), Dale City Kmart (69 jobs lost), Chesapeake Sears and Auto Center (82 jobs lost), Front Royal Kmart (88 jobs lost).

Washington: Walla Walla Sears Full line (in August 2012, it was reported that an independent owner of Sears Hometown stores will open a store in Walla Walla), Lacey Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Kelso Sears (47 jobs lost), Lakewood Kmart (59 jobs lost), Bellingham Sears (92 jobs lost), Seattle Kmart (85 jobs lost), East Wenatchee Sears (59 jobs lost), Puyallup Kmart (51 jobs lost), Oak Harbor Kmart (68 jobs lost), Sodo Sears and Sears Auto Center (79 jobs lost), Everett Kmart (65 jobs lost), Marysville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost).

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 jobs lost), Bluefield Sears store & Auto Center (64 jobs lost).

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears (at least 40 jobs lost, local village officials say the store generated 3% of local tax collections), Rice Lake Kmart (about 71 jobs lost), Brookfield Kmart (56 jobs lost), Racine’s Regency Mall Sears (52 jobs lost), Fort Atkinson Kmart (51 jobs lost), Greenfield Kmart (107 jobs lost), Portage Kmart (78 jobs lost) and Hales Corner (129 jobs lost), Chippewa Falls Kmart (79 jobs lost), Menomonie Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Ashwaubenon Kmart recently revealed now owned by Green Bay Packers, will be torn down (80 jobs lost), Shawano Kmart (55 jobs lost), Fond du Lac Sears (42 jobs lost), Glendale Sears store & Auto Center (86 jobs lost), Janesville Kmart (70 jobs lost), Glendale Sears Rebuild center (67 jobs lost).

On top of that, Sears Holdings sold stores to General Growth Properties (GGP), of which it has been reported that most of those stores will be closed.

Here’s the list of 11 Sears stores now owned by GGP:

Iowa: Coral Ridge Mall (it’s official the Sears is closing, see above), and Mall of the Bluffs

Texas: The Woodlands Mall (this does not involve the two repair centers being closed by Sears)

Florida: West Oaks Mall

Utah: Fashion Place, and Provo Towne Centre (note the evil British empire way of spelling town & center. Due to a favorable lease agreement the GGP owned Provo Sears will continue to stay open under Sears Holdings management)

Oklahoma: Quail Springs Mall (it’s official, the Sears closed, see above)

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

Washington: Bellis Fair Mall (Bellingham store, see above)

Minnesota: Apache Mall (see update above, GGP will close Sears store by 2014)

Illinois: Market Place Shopping Center (see update above, GGP closing store)

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 14 – 15 August 2014: “We don’t need you…Go sign up for unemployment!” No more Georgia Pecans? More taxpayer swindles! Disney continues job killing!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: Disney announced they are selling off their 23 radio stations, at least 200 jobs lost!  San Jose based tech company Cisco Systems announced they are killing off another 6-thousand jobs!  Last year Cisco killed 4-thousand jobs!  In Folsom, reports that VPD laying off 50 employees.   The video distribution company was taken over by a competitor.   What automotive industry recovery?  In Vernon, maker of automotive batteries, Exide, laying off 137 employees!  73 employees will be kept on until ‘new equipment’ is installed, sounds like the humans are being replaced with robots.   The new owners of Orange County based 36 years old French restaurant chain Mimi’s Cafe announced they will kill 24 restaurants in Arizona, California, Utah and Florida!  Apparently the new hand cut French Fries (which Mimi’s chiefs spent 60 days in France learning how to make!) are so labor intensive that they’re losing money.  In Los Angeles, Amcor Rigid Plastics warned they will layoff 112 employees in September!  In El Segundo, taxsucker Raytheon warned they will layoff 28 people in October.

Florida:  What housing market recovery?  Once again, RealtyTrac reports that southern Florida leads the country in foreclosures; 5853 foreclosure filings in July!  More proof the internet is not killing brick-n-mortar business: Internet based music mixing company Myxer now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and being liquidated.

Georgia: 55 years old logistics company Drug Transport now chapter 11  bankrupt busted.  The company supplied critical shipments to hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics.  In Fort Valley, after 90 years (and surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) the Jolly Nut pecan company shutdown.  Apparently none of the adult children wanted to take over the family business.

Hawaii: The JW Marriott Ihilani Resort shutting down in 2016, 500+ jobs lost!  The new owners (Four Seasons) claim they are renovating the iconic hotel.

Illinois: In Alton, American Water told 244 call center employees not to make any big purchases, because mass layoffs were coming!  Company officials would only say they were crunching numbers.  What automotive industry recovery? Moline based farm equipment maker Deere (formerly known as John Deere) announced they will kill more than 600 jobs in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas!   Some inside reports say it’s more like 1-thousand jobs killed!  Company officials blame crashing sales.

Indiana: In Indianapolis, the Incredible Buffet and Fun Center shutdown.  In Terre Haute, legal drugs pusher Eli Lilly shutting down their operations by 2016, 23 jobs lost.

Iowa: In Urbandale, the Incredible Buffet and Fun Center shutdown, 75 jobs lost.

Maine:  Old Town Fuel & Fiber shutdown without notice: “Effective immediately all Old Town mill operations will be indefinitely suspended. All employees not needed for securing the facility will be furloughed.”-Patriarch Partners statement

180 employees affected: “We don’t need you to come in tomorrow. Go sign up for unemployment!”-unnamed employee relating what they were told to local news media

Local news reports say the new owners of the mill shut it down to address environmental problems caused by the dilapidated former Georgia Pacific mill and “We shut down to make repairs to our biomass boilers and ended up finding more work than we expected.”, said HR director Dan Bird.  Bird also blamed competition from mills using low grade eucalyptus trees.

The mill also owes $1-million USD in back due local taxes!

Maryland: In Hampden, Breathe Bookstore and Cafe shutting down by early October.  The owner is selling the operation so she can “get back to my roots”.

Massachusetts:  In Cambridge, after 39 years the Dolphin Seafood restaurant shutdown.

Minnesota:  Food producer Cargill continues to kill U.S. jobs, this time 169 IT jobs will be outsourced to a company in India!

New Mexico: Just nine months after getting $635-thousand taxpayer dollars to hire 100 employees, Eclipse Aerospace announced it will be killing an undisclosed number of jobs instead!  Apparently they can’t sell enough of their Eclipse 550 personal aircraft (only ten, so far).

New York: In Jamaica, British Airways announced they will shutdown and layoff 15 Customer Relations Reps and 76 Baggage Services workers in November.  In NYC, janitorial company Eurest Services announced they’re shutting down in September, 47 jobs lost.

Pennsylvania: In Plymouth Meeting, after 20 years Kansas based Houlihan’s Restaurant and Bar shutdown.  Company officials basically said their Plymouth Meeting location wasn’t worth it anymore.

Wisconsin: In Fon du Lac, Sears and Auto Center announced they were shutting down in November, at least 34 jobs lost.  In 3rd Ward, after 10 years the Cranston furniture store shutting down in September.  The owners said they never recovered from the 2008 crash.

13 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security…That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Influenza

Influenza Update, 21 October 2014: “We’ve reached the tipping point …” Why is there a push to get vaccinated by the end of November? Santa Barbara County orders mandatory vaccinations! Mass vaccinations in Minnesota! Obama regime halts funding for flu research!

Canada: The Public Health Agency of Canada is warning that this flu season could be as bad as last season.  H3N2 is so far the most common type of flu hitting the Great White North right now, and one health official is warning that H3N2 is showing signs of “drifting”: “The emergence of a new drift strain means that we may have more intense H3 activity this year. And we’re also starting to pick up early H3s emerging as the dominant player very early on in the season.  H3 is particularly harsh on the elderly.”-Danuta Skowronski, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control

The province of Alberta has spent $12.5-million CAD on flu shots. Last flu season 30 people in the western province died.  This flu season Alberta already has the most reported influenza cases in all of Canada.  47 confirmed cases, 25 hospitalized.

Prime Minister of the British empire island of Barbados is in Canada, recovering from influenza.  Apparently he got infected while attending the UN Climate Change Summit in New York City.

Mexico: The state of Querétaro has ordered 420-thousand vaccinations.  They will be available not only at clinics but at shopping malls.

The Mexican government is spending 400-million pesos buying 32-million vaccinations (that’s 6-million more than last flu season).  Health officials requested vaccines to fight H1N1, H3N2 and flu B.

Health officials claim that nine out of ten Mexicans who died from flu last season were not vaccinated.  Of interest is that those ‘nine out of ten’ Mexicans were also considered to be people in the low risk of infection category, meaning getting vaccinated was not considered important for them.

Health officials are predicting H3N2 to be the dominant strain this flu season.

United Kingdom: An experimental vaccine for two to four years olds is being distributed.  A promoter of vaccines admitted that government officials frightening people into getting flu shots is good for business: “Public awareness and attention on vaccines help boost the market. The commitment of a significant world healthcare market will drive the need for more vaccine production….”-Bruce Carlson, Publisher of Kalorama Information

United States: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging U.S. residents to get vaccinated now.  So far four people have died; two in Idaho, one in Illinois and one in North Carolina.

In California, Santa Barbara County has ordered all county healthcare employees to get mandatory flu shots: “We’ve reached the tipping point where this has become the standard practice.”-Charity Thoman, Public Health Officer

Those healthcare workers refusing to get vaccinated must ‘suit up’ when they come to work, or become unemployed.

In Minnesota, a local TV station and the Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency have created a novel way of carrying out mass vaccinations; upon invitation, they will show up at any public event to dispense vaccines.  It’s being called Flu Fighter To-Go.

In Utah, the Salt Lake City Fire Department is demanding that everybody get vaccinated before the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday!

In Massachusetts, the city of Newburyport is pushing a vaccination clinic on 30 October.  They’re charging a $5 fee, or you can donate food.

Here is a list of flu vaccines If you’re going to get vaccinated.  They are not for everybody, so do your homework: Trivalent inactivated vaccine, Quadrivalent inactivated vaccine, Intradermal inactivated vaccine, High-dose inactivated vaccine, Live attenuated vaccine and Recombinant vaccine.

It takes at least two weeks for the vaccine to take effect, you can still get sick during that time.  Another factor is which version of flu will be the dominant flu this season, if it’s a strain that is not covered in any of the new vaccines (like a new H3 strain) then you just wasted your time getting vaccinated.

Mississippi is reporting their first confirmed case of influenza.

The Obama regime has ordered a temporary halt to funding of influenza research.  The funding halt also affects research on SARS and MERS.  The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy  says it’s a matter of national security as the info made public as a result of the studies could be used by terrorists.  Or is it really that government officials are questioning the direction of the research?  In other words, if the research is not coming up with results that the Obama regime wants, then no mo money fo you mister scientist.

a 4th death!

Business/Economics

Sears & Kmart closing update, 20 October 2014: No more Sears Optical! Mass shutdowns continue to hit Pennsylvania! Former Sears stores leased to Ireland!

Sears Holdings revealed they’ve leased at least seven former Sears locations to a retailer based in Ireland, called Primark.

A 30 years old Kmart shutting down in January: “I’d noticed fewer and fewer cars, but every time I came in, I prayed they aren’t closing…..I don’t know where I’m going to take my prescriptions to.”-Greta Moore, loyal customer

A BBN reader warning that another Oregon Kmart is quietly shutting down.

Connecticut losing a Sears Optical store, “soon”!  The announcement revealed that Sears Holdings officials will begin shutting down Sears Optical stores across the United States!

Three more Pennsylvania Sears & Auto Centers shutting down in January!  The upper floor of the King of Prussia store has been leased to Dick’s Sporting Goods.

Oklahoma losing a Sears & Auto Center in January!

update 18 October 2014

Here’s the updated list of U.S. Sears/Kmart store closings since the end of 2011:

Arizona: Scottsdale Sears/Great Indoors, Chandler Sears/Great Indoors.

Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Auburn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Anniston Kmart (no word yet on how many jobs lost), Birmingham Eastwood Kmart (70 jobs lost), Decatur Mall Sears (91 jobs lost), Fort Payne Kmart, Northport Kmart (68 jobs lost), Dothan Sears (68 jobs lost), recently revealed Huntsville Kmart (73 jobs lost).

California: El Monte Sears (at least 40 jobs lost. Damien Arrula, El Monte’s economic development director, said the store manager had lied about what was going on: “The general manager of the store had just indicated to me that they were remodeling.”), two San Diego Sears (more than 80 jobs lost), Pleasant Hill Kmart (more than 50 jobs lost), Torrance Kmart, Fairfield Kmart (63 jobs lost), Lampert owned OSH taken over by Lowe’s home improvement in bankruptcy court, at least 17 of 99 stores to be closed down (935 jobs lost!), Rancho Cordova Kmart (97 jobs lost), San Clemente Kmart/Sears/Kmart on Camino de Estrella (58 jobs lost), placed on an official hit list in 2011 the Oceanside Kmart on College Boulevard finally being shut down, Banning Kmart (91 jobs lost) recently revealed that Sears Holdings is still paying rent on the abandoned property, Laguna Hills Mall Sears, San Diego Mid-City Kmart (73 jobs lost), Hemet Kmart (77 jobs lost), Oakland Sears repair center (75 jobs lost), San Mateo Kmart (82 jobs lost to an apartment building connected to public transportation), Hesperia Kmart building sold at a loss to a vulture capitalist REIT, no word on if the Kmart will be shutdown. Customers complain that the Kmart employees have a bad attitude, gee I wonder why? Yuba City Kmart (63 jobs lost), Rocklin Kmart (at least 63 jobs lost, the store had just posted “Now Hiring” signs).

Colorado: Broomfield Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Glenwood Springs Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lone Tree Sears/Great Indoors, Longmont Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Pueblos’ South Side Kmart (52 jobs lost), Denver Kmart (number of jobs lost have not been made public at this time, but could be at least 40), Colorado Springs Kmart at Powers and Palmer Park boulevards (57 jobs lost), Fort Collins Sears (67 jobs lost).

Connecticut: Waterbury Big Kmart,  Torrington Kmart (73 jobs lost), recently revealed Enfield Sears Optical (no word on jobs lost).

Delaware: Dover Kmart (at least 72 jobs lost, some reports said 100), Seaford Sears (30 jobs lost).

Florida: Fernandina Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Callaway Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Orange City Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Deland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Stuart Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), West Palm Beach Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Port St. Lucie Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Crystal River Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), New Smyrna Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint Augustine Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Pompano Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jacksonville Kmart on 5751 Beach Boulevard (71 jobs lost), second Kmart in Jacksonville on 4645 Blanding Boulevard (83 jobs lost), Ocoee Sears (102 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on Airport Boulevard closed in 2011, Pensacola Kmart on Mobile Highway closed in February 2013 (69 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on East 9 Mile Road will close in May (73 jobs lost), Hialeah Kmart (67 jobs lost), Bonita Springs Kmart (67 jobs lost), Mount Dora Kmart (100 jobs lost), Lake Mary Kmart, Panama City Beach Kmart (54 jobs lost), Winter Park Kmart (100 jobs lost), Niceville Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winter Haven Kmart (92 jobs lost), Palm Bay Kmart, Oakland Park Kmart (112 jobs lost), Clearwater Sears Auto Center (21 jobs lost), Zephyrhills Kmart (70 jobs lost), Winter Springs Kmart (69 jobs lost).

Georgia: Macon Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Buford Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Douglasville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Atlanta Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Columbus Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jonesboro Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Cartersville Kmart (74 jobs lost), Hiram Kmart (53 jobs lost), Marietta-East Cobb Kmart, Warner Robins Kmart (77 jobs lost).

Guam: Sears Hometown Store.

Hawaii: Honolulu Sears (owned by GGP, 372 jobs lost!), Kauai Sears (41 jobs lost), Iwilei-Honolulu Kmart for lease (no confirmation of store closing).

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), Rexburg Kmart (63 jobs lost), Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down in November (the remaining 28 jobs lost). Across the street, in Pocatello, the property where the Kmart is located has a “pad site available” sign, posted ever since the Kmart bankruptcy. The Kmart building takes up most of the “pad”. Latest news from inside sources say Sears Holdings will not comment on any plans to expand the small amount of Craftsman products already being sold at the Kmart, or shift the Kenmore products line, from the closing Chubbuck Sears to the Pocatello Kmart. In fact all plans for the Pokey Kmart are in a ‘holding pattern’.

Illinois: Alton Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Melrose Park Sears parts and repair center (50 jobs lost), Zion Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Lawn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), McHenry Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Peru Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lombard Sears/Great Indoors (at least 40 jobs lost), Fairview Heights Kmart (81 jobs lost), Freeport Kmart (45 jobs lost), Pontiac Kmart (more than 47 jobs lost), Homer Glen Kmart (82 jobs lost), Streator Kmart (45 jobs lost), Lombard Kmart (70 jobs lost), Naperville Kmart (98 jobs lost), Calumet Sears (164 jobs lost), two Sears stores in Grand Crossing area of Chicago (247 jobs lost!), Mount Vernon Sears (68 jobs lost), Moline Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), Homewood Kmart (185 jobs lost), Belvidere Kmart (91 jobs lost?) revealed is now a perpetual closing sale Kmart At A Discount store, Champaign’s Market Place Mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (60 jobs lost), Montgomery Kmart (81 jobs lost), Mattoon Sears (more than 40 jobs lost), Chicago Sears on North State Street (160 jobs lost), Chicago Sears Craftsman Experience store, Galesburg Sears (46 jobs lost), White Lake Township Kmart (42 jobs lost), Orland Park Sears Appliance, Collinsville Kmart (84 jobs lost), Crystal Lake Kmart (at least 77 jobs lost), Danville Sears store & Auto Center (63 jobs lost), Forsyth Sears store & Auto Center (45 jobs lost), Peoria Kmart (73 jobs lost), Forest Park Kmart (107 jobs lost), Chicago Sears on North and Harlem avenues, supposedly it’s being replaced (most likely at taxpayer expense) with a new building and it will become a Sears-Mariano’s store, Bloomington Kmart (79 jobs lost). 58 Chicago area stores up for lease or sale. By the way, Illinois elected officials gave Sears Holdings/Hoffman Estates a $150 million USD tax break to keep their headquarters in the state. The tax break was not tied to any promise not to close stores.

Indiana: Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Sears (49 jobs lost), South Anthony Kmart (70 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard (70 jobs lost), FairOaks Mall Kmart, Logansport Sears (43 jobs lost), Muncie Kmart (59 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on Coliseum Boulevard North (69 jobs lost), Decatur Kmart (49 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart on Madison Avenue (131 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart on Washington Street (139 jobs lost), Bedford Kmart (62 jobs lost), Indianapolis Sears at Washington Square Mall (91 jobs lost),  Greenwood Kmart (78 jobs lost).

Iowa: Cedar Rapids Kmart on 16th Ave (at least 40 jobs lost), Davenport Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Burlington Kmart (50 jobs lost), Coralville Sears (94 jobs lost, this is a store sold to GGP earlier in the year), Cedar Rapids Kmart on Collins Road NE (56 jobs lost), Mason City Kmart (50 jobs lost), Clive Kmart (at least 49 jobs lost), Ames Kmart (44 jobs lost), Fort Dodge Sears (no job loss numbers made public, yet. The Auto Center was secretly shutdown in September).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Merriam Kmart-then Sears-then Kmart (jobs lost unknown), Wichita Sears store & Auto Center (103 jobs lost).

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears (in September 2012 the Sears store re-opened under independent ownership, official grand re-opening scheduled for November), Winchester Kmart (back in May, Rankin Paynter bought out what was left of the inventory and gave it to charity), Hazard Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lexington Fayette Mall Sears (114 jobs lost!), Newport Kmart (81 jobs lost), Cannonsburg Sears and Sears Auto Center (no employee info given), Louisville Dixie Highway Kmart/Sears/Kmart, Madisonville Kmart (39 jobs lost), Owensboro Sears store & Auto Center (52 jobs lost).

Louisiana: Slidell Sears (77 job lost), Gretna Kmart (94 jobs lost).

Maine: Lewiston Sears (60 to 70 jobs lost),  Presque Isle Sears (63 jobs lost).

Maryland: Ellicott Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Gaithersburg Sears/Great Indoors, Landover Sears rebuild & call center (115 jobs lost), Baltimore Kmart on Wabash Avenue (107 jobs lost).

Massachusetts: North Reading Sears Hardware store closed, lease not renewed, Milford Kmart (80 jobs lost).

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials, Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Saginaw Kmart on Bay Road, Flint Kmart on Dort Highway (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears, Bad Axe Kmart (61 jobs lost), Ypsilanti Township Kmart (83 jobs lost), Petoskey Kmart (45 jobs lost), Saint John’s Kmart (48 jobs lost), White Lake Township “Store of the Future” Kmart (42 jobs lost), Grand Blanc Kmart (49 jobs lost), Lapeer Kmart (56 jobs lost), Southgate Kmart (155 jobs lost), Detroit’s Telegraph Road Kmart (115 jobs lost), Waterford Township Sears (no word on how many jobs lost), Rochester Hills Kmart (77 jobs lost), ‘perfect Kmart town’ of Port Huron Kmart (188 jobs lost), Flint Kmart on Miller Road (81 jobs lost), Burton Kmart (85 jobs lost), Madison Heights Kmart (179 jobs lost), it’s now obvious the last remaining Saginaw Kmart on Gratiot will remain shutdown after its roof collapsed during a snowstorm back in January, Ann Arbor Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off, Fergus Falls Kmart (40 jobs lost), Fergus Falls Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Alexandria Kmart (46 jobs lost), Grand Rapids Kmart (61 jobs lost), Seritage is selling off three Sears Auto Centers in Minnetonka, Brooklyn Center and Saint Paul, Marshall Kmart (57 jobs lost), Oakdale Kmart (77 hourly wage employees losing their jobs, unknown how many salaried employees will become unemployed), Winona Kmart (67 jobs lost), Minneapolis city officials trying to shutdown profit making Nicollet Avenue Kmart, to make way for a new road. Anoka Kmart (47 jobs lost), Blaine Kmart (60 jobs lost), Burnsville Kmart (62 jobs lost), Waite Park Kmart (57 jobs lost).

Mississippi: Jackson Sears Full line, McComb Sears Full line, Columbus Sears Full line, Gautier Sears (71 jobs lost), Waveland Gulfport Kmart (32 jobs lost), Pass Road Gulfport Kmart (52 jobs lost), Pascagoula Sears at the Singing River Mall.

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line, High Ridge Kmart (59 jobs lost), Ellisville Kmart (55 jobs lost), Springfield Kmart on South Campbell Avenue (60 jobs lost), South Belt Kmart (64 jobs lost), Florissant Kmart (100 jobs lost).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost), Great Falls Kmart (closed “until further notice” due to fire, 63 jobs on hold), Great Falls Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost),  Bozeman Kmart (37 jobs lost).

Nebraska: Grand Island Kmart (55 jobs lost), Omaha Kmart near West Maple Road (50 jobs lost).

Nevada: Sparks Kmart distribution center (100 jobs lost).

New Hampshire: Nashau Sears Grand/Essentials, Keene Sears Grand/Essentials, Portsmouth Kmart (30 jobs lost), Claremont Kmart (59 jobs lost).

New Jersey: Lawnside Kmart (about 80 jobs lost), Howell Kmart (57 jobs lost), Berlin Kmart, Dover Kmart (92 jobs lost), Randolf Kmart (91 jobs lost), Paramus Kmart (74 jobs lost).

New Mexico: Las Cruces Kmart (58 jobs lost), Albuquerque Kmart on Central SW (80 jobs lost), Rio Rancho Kmart (59 jobs lost).

New York: Depew (Lancaster?) Kmart (68 jobs lost), Colonie Kmart (72 jobs lost), Fulton Kmart (51 jobs lost), Clifton Park Kmart (74 jobs lost), Latham Kmart (61 jobs lost), East Greenbush-Rensselaer Kmart (70 jobs lost), Tonawanda Sears Appliance and Hardware, Bronx Sears (91 jobs lost), BBN reader reported that the Ithaca Sears and Auto Center shutdown and one month later it’s been officially confirmed (at least 37 jobs lost), DeWitt Kmart (92 jobs lost), Auburn Sears (51 jobs lost), Massena Sears and Auto Center (51 jobs lost).

North Carolina: Cary Kmart (71 jobs lost), High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost), Asheville Kmart (53 jobs lost), West Smithfield Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winston-Salem Kmart (69 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (58 jobs lost), South Ashville Kmart on Hendersonville Road, Raleigh Kmart (88 jobs lost), Garner Kmart, Cleveland County mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Charlotte Kmart (89 jobs lost), Conover Kmart (74 jobs lost), Raleigh Kmart on Capital Boulevard (53 jobs lost), High Point Kmart (71 jobs lost), Boone Kmart (41 jobs lost), Greensboro Kmart (96 jobs lost), Gastonia Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost), Kinston Kmart (64 jobs lost), Cary Sears (66 jobs lost).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost), Dickinson Kmart (41 jobs lost, despite a “Now Hiring” sign on the front of the store).

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Columbus Sears/Great Indoors, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost), Austintown Sears auto parts and service on Interstate Boulevard, London Kmart (no word on number of jobs lost), Trotwood Sears (67 jobs lost), Westlake Kmart/Sears (at least 57 jobs lost), Xenia Kmart (at least 57 jobs lost), Norwalk Kmart (52 jobs lost), Blue Ash Kmart (77 jobs lost), Northwood Sears at Woodville Mall (36 jobs lost), Conneaut Kmart (43 jobs lost), Anderson Township Kmart (71 jobs lost), Brooklyn Kmart (200 jobs lost), Columbus Sears distribution center (200 jobs lost), also in Columbus Sears Product Rebuild Center (112 jobs lost), Marion Sears Auto Center (at least nine jobs lost), Springfield Kmart (68 jobs lost), Fairborn Kmart (66 jobs lost). Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Sears (98 jobs lost, GGP owned, GGP wants a $2 million sales tax rebate, claiming it’s needed to offset capital investments needed to bring the space up to the standards for potential new tenants), Shawnee Sears (31 jobs lost), Sand Springs Kmart (52 jobs lost), Muskogee Sears (60 jobs lost), recently revealed Enid Sears and Auto Center (at least 38 jobs lost).

Oregon: Roseburg Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Tualatin Kmart Center (new property owner from California is tearing everything down for new shopping center, so far no indication the Kmart will be part of the new shopping center), Milwaukie Kmart (61 jobs lost), Coos Bay Kmart (25 jobs lost), Bend Sears (48 jobs lost), Klamath Falls Kmart (64 jobs lost), Albany Kmart (64 jobs lost), Portland Sears Homes Services (no notice), Albany Sears (57 jobs lost), BBN reader warns that Oregon City Kmart quietly shutting down.

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost), Philadelphia Gallery Mall Kmart (120 jobs lost), Philadelphia Kmart on Orthodox Street and Castor Avenue (169 jobs lost), Levittown/Middle Township Kmart (87 jobs lost), Waynesboro Kmart (43 jobs lost), Sanatoga-Lower Pottsgrove Kmart (65 jobs lost, the store was also advertising for new hires!), West Mifflin Sears store & Auto Center (88 jobs lost), Rochester Kmart (78 jobs lost), Frazer (Pittsburg Mills Mall) Sears and Auto Center (97 jobs lost), Bloomsburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Frackville Sears and Auto Center (84 jobs lost), North Cornwall Township Sears (51 jobs lost), recently revealed King of Prussia Sears and Auto Center (no word on number of jobs lost), recently revealed Lebanon Sears (51 jobs lost), recently revealed Chambersburg Sears and Auto Center (62 jobs lost).

South Carolina: Sumter Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Orangeburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Columbia Kmart on Fort Jackson Boulevard in 2012, Columbia Kmart on Bush River Road in 2009, Columbia Kmart on St Andrews Road (66 jobs lost), Irmo Kmart (no info on how many jobs lost), both Greenville Kmarts (140 jobs lost between the two), Mount Pleasant Kmart (43 jobs lost), Harbison Sears & Sears Auto Center in the Columbiana Centre mall (97 jobs lost), Aiken Sears & Sears Auto Center (at least 54 jobs lost), Inlet Square Mall Kmart (50 jobs lost), West Ashely Kmart (69 jobs lost), Myrtle Beach Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Tennessee: Antioch Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Cleveland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Ridge Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Morristown Sears (about 70 jobs lost), Clinton South Kmart, Franklin CoolSprings Galleria Sears (92 jobs lost), Memphis Hickory Ridge mall Sears (job loss data not revealed), 48 years old Nashville Kmart on Nolensville Pike to close by January 2014 (57 jobs lost), Franklin Kmart (33 jobs lost), Dickson Kmart (65 jobs lost).

Texas: Two Sears parts and repair centers closing in The Woodlands (117 jobs lost), rebuild center in Garland (58 jobs lost), Farmers Branch Sears/Great Indoors, Houston Sears Great/Indoors.

Utah: Murray Sears (for some reason Mormon controlled news media in Utah never reported the closure, but they reported that the building was demolished), Orem Kmart (no details reported), Woods Cross Kmart (54 jobs lost).

Vermont: Rutland Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Midlothian Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost), Fairfax Kmart (no word on how many jobs lost), Christiansburg Sears (59 jobs lost), Norfolk Kmart on East Little Creek Road (77 jobs lost), Manassas Kmart (71 jobs lost), Stafford Sears Hometown, Newport News Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Wise Kmart (58 jobs lost), Harrisonburg Kmart (79 jobs lost), Wincester Kmart (91 jobs lost), Dale City Kmart (69 jobs lost), Chesapeake Sears and Auto Center (82 jobs lost), Front Royal Kmart (88 jobs lost).

Washington: Walla Walla Sears Full line (in August 2012, it was reported that an independent owner of Sears Hometown stores will open a store in Walla Walla), Lacey Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Kelso Sears (47 jobs lost), Lakewood Kmart (59 jobs lost), Bellingham Sears (92 jobs lost), Seattle Kmart (85 jobs lost), East Wenatchee Sears (59 jobs lost), Puyallup Kmart (51 jobs lost), Oak Harbor Kmart (68 jobs lost), Sodo Sears and Sears Auto Center (79 jobs lost), Everett Kmart (65 jobs lost), Marysville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost).

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 jobs lost), Bluefield Sears store & Auto Center (64 jobs lost).

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears (at least 40 jobs lost, local village officials say the store generated 3% of local tax collections), Rice Lake Kmart (about 71 jobs lost), Brookfield Kmart (56 jobs lost), Racine’s Regency Mall Sears (52 jobs lost), Fort Atkinson Kmart (51 jobs lost), Greenfield Kmart (107 jobs lost), Portage Kmart (78 jobs lost) and Hales Corner (129 jobs lost), Chippewa Falls Kmart (79 jobs lost), Menomonie Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Ashwaubenon Kmart (80 jobs lost), Shawano Kmart (55 jobs lost), Fond du Lac Sears (42 jobs lost), Glendale Sears store & Auto Center (86 jobs lost), Janesville Kmart (70 jobs lost), Glendale Sears Rebuild center (67 jobs lost).

On top of that, Sears Holdings sold stores to General Growth Properties (GGP), of which it has been reported that most of those stores will be closed.

Here’s the list of 11 Sears stores now owned by GGP:

Iowa: Coral Ridge Mall (it’s official the Sears is closing, see above), and Mall of the Bluffs

Texas: The Woodlands Mall (this does not involve the two repair centers being closed by Sears)

Florida: West Oaks Mall

Utah: Fashion Place, and Provo Towne Centre (note the evil British empire way of spelling town & center. Due to a favorable lease agreement the GGP owned Provo Sears will continue to stay open under Sears Holdings management)

Oklahoma: Quail Springs Mall (it’s official, the Sears closed, see above)

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

Washington: Bellis Fair Mall (Bellingham store, see above)

Minnesota: Apache Mall (see update above, GGP will close Sears store by 2014)

Illinois: Market Place Shopping Center (see update above, GGP closing store)

International

U.S. female reporter who revealed Islamic State is tool of U.S.-NATO assassinated by Turkish-NATO agents! Obama regime says nothing!

20 October 2014 (06:41 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/28 Mehr 1393/27 Jia-Xu 4712

“I have nothing to hide and I have never done anything aside my job.”-Serena Shim, days before she was killed

U.S. citizen Serena Shim, and her camera operator, recently video recorded Islamic State insurgents leaving NATO member Turkey driving United Nations trucks, and western NGO food aid trucks, that were actually filled with insurgents and U.S. made weapons.

Shim, wife and mother of two children, then told her employer that she was being harassed and followed by Turkish security agents.  Turkish officials openly accused her of being a spy for Kurdish rebels.  Days later she’s dead, in a freak car accident that also left her camera operator in critical condition.

This is not the first time a U.S. journalist was killed in a freak car accident after revealing damning information about the U.S. government.

Shim’s car was hit by what witnesses describe as a “heavy vehicle”, which sped away.  Other reports say it was a cement mixer truck, which no police official has been able to track down.

So far there’s been no comment from the Obama regime about the death of a U.S. citizen who was covering the war against Islamic State (specifically she was covering the current siege of Kobane, Syria).

Iraq has proof Islamic State issued Chinese guided anti-aircraft missiles from U.S. backed Qatar!

International, U.S.

Operation Climate Change: “Politics or ideology must not get in the way…” U.S. DoD reveals ‘climate change’ is all part of a plan for global domination!

20 October 2014 (06:17 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/28 Mehr 1393/27 Jia-Xu 4712

“In our defense strategy, we refer to climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ because it has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we are dealing with today – from infectious disease to terrorism. We are already beginning to see some of these impacts.”-2014 Climate Change Adaption Raodmap

The U.S. Department of Defense announced new plans to use ‘climate change’ for domestic martial law and to expand the U.S. empire.

The DoD issued a 2014 Climate Change Adaption Roadmap report stating that climate change is now a threat to U.S. national security and that U.S. officials must be prepared to invade and occupy other countries under the guise of saving them from the wrath of Mother Earth, and the DoD issued a warning to ‘elected’ officials: “Politics or ideology must not get in the way…”

The immediate goals of the DoD are:  “….enhance collaboration within the Department itself, across the Federal Government, and with external entities that include partner nations, non-­‐government organizations, and the private sector.”  

“…to train and test…”

“…collaboration with internal and external stakeholders will be required…”

“Collaboration with the private sector, including major manufacturing, supply, and transportation corporations…”

International, U.S.

Ebola Update, 20 October 2014: “I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel” U.S. DoD forms special Medical Martial Law teams! ObamaCare insurance reforms forcing sick people to go to ill equipped clinics! Medical Martial Law as cops start killing ebola victim’s pets!

Despite China having hundreds of medical personnel in western Africa, sending 10-thousand experimental vaccines and giving three western African countries $6-million in food aid, the evil UN World Health Organization just accused the people of China of not doing enough!

Liberia: Daniel Lucey, medical doctor and professor from Washington DC’s Georgetown University serving a tour with Medecins Sans Frontieres, backs up independent journalist claims that things are snowballing downhill: “I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, the epidemic is still getting worse.”

United Kingdom: Oxford based international terror group disguised as charity Oxfam declared that ebola filovirus is the “definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation”, and then demanded more taxpayer funding from the European Union.

United States: In Texas, the Carnival cruise ship, with the Dallas nurse onboard, docked in Galveston.

Galveston is also were the medical waste of ebola victims are being incinerated.

It’s been revealed that Obama Care (Affordable Care Act) insurance reforms are forcing sick people, who’ve been in contact with ebola victims, to go to ill equipped clinics instead of hospitals.

Recently a Dallas County deputy, who inspected the apartment of the man who died from ebola, got sick and rushed himself to an urgent care clinic.  Insurance industry written Obama Care actually penalizes people for going to a hospital.

A similar thing happened in Boston Strong, Massachusetts.  David Weber, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina’s hospital, says sending people with potentially infectious diseases to clinics is the wrong thing to do because clinics are “…an even less controlled situation.”

In Mississippi, ignorant parents pulled their kids out of school after they learned a teacher had been to Zambia.  So far there is no ebola outbreak in Zambia, but for some reason many Mississippians think all of Africa is a giant EVD hot zone!

The incompetent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have announced their ‘new’ ebola protocols, now saying absolutely no skin should be exposed on medical personnel treating ebola victims.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced they are creating special 30 person medical martial law teams, that will be deployed inside the United States to ‘aid’ civilian authorities!

Spain: A nurse who survived ebola is now outraged, because while she was in the hospital paranoid police state officials killed her dog, out of an unconfirmed fear that the dog was infected.  Almost a decade ago doctors in central Africa claimed that dogs were getting infected by eating the dead bodies of ebola victims.  However, Spanish officials didn’t bother to quarantine or test the nurse’s dog before killing it.

Her husband posted a video to the internet saying the Spanish government’s response to ebola is “lousy”!  At least 390-thousand Spanish people are protesting the dog’s death at the hands of a police state.

Update, 19 October 2014:….it’s a bio-weapon 

hemorrhagic disease killing dogs in United States!

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World War 3 Afghanistan, 13 – 16 October 2014: Nevada governor must eat his words as Afghan government admits Afghans fighting for Islamic State! France spending tens of millions more in taxpayer’s money!

Baghlan Province: In Baghlan City, a bomb exploded near a courthouse, killing two judges.  The bomb was planted inside the vehicle they entered.

Helmand Province: In Nad-e-Ali District, somebody assassinated the  district administrator (county commissioner).  One of his body guards was killed, as well as a cop.  Six people were also wounded in the assassination attack that involved dozens of militants.

Herat Province: In Obe District, a U.S.-NATO airstrike killed five people.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, a Kamikaze car bomber is blamed for an explosion that targeted a U.S.-NATO convoy.  At least one person killed, three wounded.   In another part of the city, a bomb exploded in a market wounding at least 22 people.  In the city’s 5th district, another explosion killed two people and wounded three.  It was discovered the top officials with the scandalous New Kabul Bank have fled the country.

The Afghan National Army revealed another ANA soldier has attacked U.S.-NATO forces.  This time the ANA and NATO-ISAF is refusing to give out any details.

After first denying that Afghans were fighting in Syria, despite Iranian border police capturing dozens of Afghans trying to join Islamic State, the Afghan government now admits there are at least 3-thousand Afghans fighting on the side of the United States against the Syrian government.  This also makes statements made by U.S. state of Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, at the end of September,  ‘famous last words’ as he stated that he was “100% confident” that U.S.-NATO forces in Afghanistan would prevent Islamic State from becoming an issue in Afghanistan!

An Afghan security guard has received an award for bare handily stopping a Kamikaze bomber.  The 15+ years gate guard (meaning he was there before the U.S. invaded) refused his U.S. supplied weapon: “My name is Rambo and I guard the front gate at Camp Phoenix. I’ve done this job for over 13 years now. Even before the coalition arrived here, I was working in this same spot for 15 years as a guard. When they arrived and built a base here, they asked me if I wanted to continue working as a guard. They told me that they would be giving me a rifle but I didn’t accept it. I have a knife and some other small weapons which I carry. As you know this is Afghanistan and tension can arise between people, especially in this role.  Sometimes you can become angry over small things. So for this reason I prefer to just carry my bat for my self defense.  When we saw the car coming towards us, I asked him to stop. He didn’t so I pulled open his door. When I opened the door, I saw two wires coming out of the dashboard. I quickly grabbed them. He was trying to connect the wires to detonate a bomb so I wrestled with him.  I managed to turn off the car. I shouted to the other guard that the driver was a suicide bomber. He pulled him out of the car and we arrested him.  Lots of people congratulated me after what I did. I was invited to Bagram Air Base to receive medals from an American four star general.” 

Kandahar Province: In Kandahar City, despite vaccination programs pushed by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation three children now have polio.

Kunar Province: In Sarkano District, police say Mujahideen assassinated a woman for being a government spy.

Kunduz Province: In Kunduz City, a senior government finance official was wounded when a bomb planted in his car exploded.  His three body guards were critically wounded as well.

Logar Province: In Baraki Barak District, Mujahideen attacked a police base killing at least six cops.

Nangarahar Province: In Ghani Khel District, a Kamikaze car bomber targeted an Afghan National Army (ANA) convoy.  At least one person killed, eight wounded.

Paktia Province: U.S.-NATO claims their airstrike killed eight militants.  However, not only do the villagers say the victims were not militants, the provincial officials say there were seven, including children, killed: “From the evidence it seems that all seven who have been killed in the airstrike of the coalition forces are civilians!”-Abdul Wali Sahee, deputy provincial governor

Sar-e-Pul Province:  In Kohistanat District, two days of battles caused big losses for government forces.  Government officials admit Mujahideen killed 26 ANA soldiers and Afghan National Police (ANP) and wounded 35.  At least six soldiers/cops are missing.  At least seven U.S. supplied vehicles destroyed.  Government officials say running battles are ongoing.

Takhar Province: In Eshkemesh District, a U.S.-NATO airstrike killed two men.  Government officials claim one of the men was behind numerous assassinations.

Zabul Province: Local government officials are blaming Mujahideen for blowing up a strategic bridge on the Kabul-Kandahar highway.

France announced it will spend an additional $12.7-million USD on agricultural development in Maidan Wardak and Bamyan provinces.

Seven militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 142nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Utah) made an early return from Afghanistan.  There was no explanation why they returned early.   About 32 Utah militiamen remain in Afghanistan.

15 air-militiamen of the Air National Guard 219th Security Forces Squadron (North Dakota) returned from duty with CentCom.

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Ebola Update, 19 October 2014: Queen reveals it’s a bio-weapon, and a Pandemic in 2015 for sure! Cuba offers to help U.S.! Cruise ship becomes living nightmare for passengers! West African reporter says it’s far worse than what western officials are admitting! Hospital avoided like the plague!

“People are scared. I’ve seen people crying. You’re using the same buffet line as someone else….It’s really difficult to control any type of virus that’s on a cruise ship. It’s like a floating petri dish. It spreads very rapidly.”-Jon Malone, Carnival Magic passenger

The cruise ship that became the unfortunate carrier of a female nurse that was involved in handling the medical samples of the man that died in Dallas, Texas, is now being described as a “floating petri dish” by passengers.

A British empire news report has revealed that the ship has been essentially quarantined in the western Caribbean.  The report says passengers knew something was up when the ship apparently wasn’t moving for about four days.

The nurse was, for some reason, allowed to go on the Carnival cruise to Belize just days after the ebola victim died.

On 18 October, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched to the cruise ship, to pick up a sample of blood from the nurse.  Cruise line officials claim the nurse is not showing any signs of infection.   This goes against early reports that said the Obama regime tried to get the woman off the ship in Belize, because she was sick, only to be rebuffed by the Belizean government.

On 17 October, Mexico refused to allow the the ship to dock at Cozumel.

Canada: The British empire’s Great White North claims they have an anti-ebola vaccine.  Health officials say the vaccine is ten years in the making (and involves U.S. companies), and seems to work on non-human animals: “Canada views this experimental Ebola vaccine as a global resource and in the interest of global public health, we are sharing it with our international partners to help address the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.”-Rona Ambrose, Canadian Health Minister

China: Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of failed State John Kerry agreed to enhance cooperation on fighting ebola filovirus.

China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission has ordered all health districts to prepare for EVD in China.

China is in the middle of a dengue fever epidemic.  More than 36-thousand cases, so far. The worst form of dengue is like ebola; hemorrhagic.

Cuba: “We will gladly cooperate with American personnel in that task (the fight against Ebola), and not in search of peace between the two states that have been adversaries for so many years but, in any case, for peace in the world, a goal that can and should be attempted. The medical personnel who heads anywhere to save lives, even at the risk of losing theirs, are the greatest example of solidarity that a human being can offer, especially when one is not driven by material interest.”-Fidel Castro

United Kingdom: A report by thegaurdian’s globaldevelopment byline (which just happens to be funded by the population control freaks known as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) says a former Sierra Leone journalist just returned from Liberia, and he says the death toll is far worse than what’s being reported by Liberian officials.

He also said that cremation of dead infected bodies has been ordered, but the families are refusing to follow through as it goes against their culture.  The in-depth report will air on Al Jazeera English on 12 November.

The queen’s Royal Army is sending 3-thousand Red Coats to Sierra Leone.  General Nick Carter says the combat troops will be used to help enforce a military lockdown of the entire country (Martial Law), if necessary!  An unnamed Ministry of Defence official slipped up and intimated biological warfare was afoot: “From a military perspective ebola is like a biological warfare attack and should be countered accordingly. There needs to be a clampdown on human movement inside Sierra Leone and possibly to and from the country between now and late 2015 when it is hoped that an antidote will have been developed.”

United States: Frontier Airlines officials have now released a list of 800 passengers who rode on the same aircraft that a infected nurse rode on. That nurse is now in quarantine in Atlanta, Georgia. The 800 airline passengers are being told to contact the incompetent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Christian Texas Presbyterian Hospital is reportedly now a “ghost town”. The death of a man infected with ebola, after his seemingly incompetent handling by hospital staff, has resulted in people avoiding the hospital like the plague.

In Dallas, a bus and train station was locked down an decontaminated after a sick woman apparently spit and threw up. She was reported to have lived in the same apartment building as one of the infected nurses. Amazingly, after all the panic, Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials then said the woman was not a threat because she is not on the official ebola watch list.

There are reports that more and more U.S. hospitals are taking it upon themselves to impose their own protocols for handling ebola.

At New York’s JFK Airport you to can become an ebola screener, for only $19 per hour!

The Wall Street Journal reporting that many of your favorite food flavorings are going to get expensive, because they come from the very western African countries being shutdown by ebola: “There is no ‘Ebola clause’ that will easily cover companies in the supply chain. It’s a real gray area right now.”-Adam Rekerdres, Rekerdres & Sons Insurance Agency, which offers insurance for commodity suppliers and users

The man appointed by Barack Obama to be the Ebola Czar (with the authority to declare Medical Martial Law) is not experienced in medicine, Ron Klain is a Washington DC lawyer! It just goes from bad to worse.

update 18 October 2014