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Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 01 October 2013. Another data storage spy company bankrupt! Honey maker turns out to bee a big fraud! Thousands more lose their jobs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

U.S. legal drug pusher, Merck, laying off 8500 people, and that’s on top of the 7500 jobs they’ve already eliminated!!!

JCPenney shutting down at least 15 JC’s Five Star Outlet stores across the U.S., 1400 jobs lost!!!

Northeast Utilities laid off 160 people in its IT ops!  The job cuts are connected to the merger with NStar.

Cloud data storage company, Nirvanix, now bankrupt “…to preserve its assets and to pursue all potential options to maximize value for its creditors….”.

Groeb Farms now bankrupt.  U.S. Department of Justice says the honey maker is bee-hind the biggest case of food fraud in U.S. history!  It involves illegally  importing Chinese honey.

Alabama: What automotive industry recovery? In Tuscaloosa, tire maker BF Goodrich laid off as many as 110 people! The local union boss says tire sales have been going down.

California: Paramount Pictures laid off 110 people!  Company officials blamed it on “..an increasingly competitive environment…” NBC Digital laid off four employees, and refused to explain why.  In Corona, Activis laid off 19 employees.  In Los Angeles, DTT laid off 64 people.  In Santa Clara, French-Italian STMicroelectronics laid off 52 workers.

Illinois: What automotive industry recovery? Once again, Caterpillar laying off more employees.  This time Caterpillar officials are not saying how many are going to become unemployed. In Machesney Park, JC’s Five Star Outlet (formerly known as JCPenney) shutdown (see above).

Indiana: In Fort Wayne, Nyloncraft shutdown.  111 jobs lost! Company officials blame a shrinking “customer base”.

Kansas: LaRocca’s Pizza shutdown.

Kentucky: In Madisonville, Goldenrod Dairy shutdown after 80 years in business. 140 jobs lost!  Company officials are consolidating operations.

Mississippi: Non-profit United Blood Services shutdown in Meridian.  It’s part of their adjustments to Obama Care, which they warned about back in 2012!

New York: The State Thruway laid off another four employees. Officials would only say it was a personnel matter.  In Buffalo, Will Poultry on William Street shutdown, ending 113 jobs!  In Wappingers Falls, Southeastern Container finally shutdown, letting go the last 15 employees.

North Carolina: What automotive industry recovery? In Salisbury, Performance Fibers laid off 16 workers, and blamed it on crashing sales.  The company makes fibers used in products like vehicle seat belts.

Ohio: In Marietta, the Christian god can’t stop the Salvation Army from shutting down their thrift store.  Salvation Army officials said sales at the thrift store had crashed so much they couldn’t pay the utilities!  In Salon, Aclara shutdown, 79 jobs lost.  The electronics company is up for sale.

Pennsylvania: Beiter’s shutdown its furniture, appliances and electronics store in Wilkes-Barre.  Store owners said because of the bad economy they were hoping for a break in the rent from the landlord, but the landlord refused.

Tennessee: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is asking 475 employees to voluntarily quit!  It’s blamed on federal spending cuts.  Sears announced it will close its Hickory Ridge Mall Towne Centre store.

South Carolina: In Berea, after 42 years the Apollo King Restaurant shutdown. It’s blamed on family health problems.

Wisconsin: In Portage, PolyOne shutdown, 86 jobs lost.

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 shut down.

“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

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Proof the rich are getting richer, and your paying for it! After decades of throwing money at education, don’t blame it on lack of education!

09 January 2014 (15:17 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/19 Dey 1392/09 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Several newly released studies and books show what many in the main streamer news media have discounted for decades: The rich just keep getting richer, and the poor stay poor.

The City University of New York’s Graduate Center says their research shows people who live in New York City are fools, at least the ones who aren’t rich are fools.

The bottom 20% of people working in the Big Rotten Apple saw a pathetic $1,028 USD increase in the average incomes from 1990 to 2010.  In the same 20 years time period the top 1% saw an increase of $264,210!!!

The study also showed the Middle Class continues to lose ground to the elites.

Steve Murdock, a former state of Texas demographer and former director of the U.S. Census Bureau and current director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University, has published a book called Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge.

Murdock warns of a growing income gap between those who got a good education and those who did not.  He predicts by 2050 the poverty rate in Texas will be at 17.7%.  As of 2010 it was 14.4%.

Once again the academic and socio-politcal elites harp on lack of education.  That’s bullcrap after decades of ever increasing spending at the expense of taxpayers, resulting in a decrepit educational system!

It’s been proven that since the 1980s most tax money has gone to the administrative side of public education, and then to bogus school security programs.  But I know (after helping my three kids to navigate the joke of an education system) that the actual quality of education went down since I graduated in 1982!  And I thought it was bad when I was in grade school, having to actually correct some of my High School teachers and realizing at least half of them knew nothing about the subjects they were supposed to be teaching!

By the way, I attended both public tax funded schools, and private parent funded Christian schools, and I found the quality of education lacking in both!  Most of my grade school education was done at the local library in Hesperia, California, and every now and then at the library in Victorville when my mom took us there.

My parents actually had two sets of encyclopedias (remember, this before the invention of personal computers and the internet), Britannica and World Book.   They probably don’t know it but I actually read those books, and when I wasn’t satisfied with those expensive investments my parents made, I rode my bike the few miles to the library. Self taught I was!  That’s how I knew, by the time I hit High School, that most of the teachers were BS artists! And that’s how I knew that my most of my children’s teachers were BS artists! And now I’m even college edumacated with a BA in International Studies from Idaho State University.

Here’s another story: In the late 1990s I knew a Junior High school coach and math teacher who taught at a now closed down Junior High school in Pocatello, Idaho.  He admitted to me that he knew nothing about Algebra.  He said he was forced to become a math teacher or lose his coaching job when the Administration decided all teachers had to teacher two different subjects.  The only position open at that particular Junior High was Algebra.  He admitted he winged it for years before actually learning Algebra from the students.  He did it like this; he would pose questions to the class to find out which student seemed to know the subject.  Then he would have that student demonstrate solving Algebra problems (meaning the smart student actually taught the class).

Unfortunately for me I never had a smart student in my grade school math classes, let alone a smart teacher. I remember having many problems with the math books because the answers in the back of the book didn’t jive with the formulations in the main part of the book, and when I asked my teachers about it they always responded “read the book” (that’s clue number one that your teacher is a dipschtick).  I latter found out from a competent math teacher at ISU that most math books are wrong, and he was right as I discovered while helping one of my daughters with her math class at Highland High school. I used his tips to see if the book was wrong and it was.  It left important steps out of the Algebraic formulas.  When I pointed it out to her math teacher he was stupefied.  Her mother and I immediately transferred her to Pocatello High school where, at the time, they had a very competent math teacher.  By the way, that math teacher at ISU was the best math teacher I ever had, and he got fired that same semester!  The dean of the math department said his teaching style went against her philosophy regarding math.    Her philosophy is “If you don’t understand math, it’s because you don’t love it!” 

Until the quality of education is addressed, which means getting rid of massive tax sucking administrative bodies, getting rid of tax sucking Orwellian police state school security systems, and make the teachers prove they know what they are teaching and can teach it, it’s only going to get worse!

But those changes aren’t going to happen because the administrative bodies have become too powerful, the incompetent teachers protect themselves with corrupt and powerful unions, they also find political support in the politicians who spout the need for education improvement, and as long as the general public is kept in a paranoid schizophrenic state the police state school prisons are here to stay.

It’s almost like a conspiracy to dumb down the average worker of the United States so the 1% elites can get richer by creating a slave wage labor state?

“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

PS: When I was a student at ISU, in one of the many history classes I took there was gaggle of education students.  One of them was going on about how she failed her Teacher Certification test, for the third time!  She said ‘no worries because I’ll just get my husband to pay for another one. I’ll eventually pass’.  Yeah, there’s no hope for our education system when education students have that attitude!

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

High blood pressure drug maker, Novartis, in trouble for lying about its products and bribes! Novartis wants out of vaccine business?

09 January 2014 (07:20 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/19 Dey 1392/09 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Swiss based Novartis is being sued by the United States, and under investigation for criminal charges in Japan!

Novartis makes Diovan (aka Valsartan  or Angiotan), and Exjade.

The U.S. state of New York accuses Novartis of bribing pharmacy company BioScrip regarding patent rights on the drug Exjade.  BioScript has already agreed to pay a fine regarding the patent fraud case.

In Japan, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor say Novartis bribed Japanese universities to doctor studies on Diovan.  The university studies actually concluded that Diovan does not do what Novartis claims it does.

Novartis admitted they had a corporate spy at one university, working to falsify one study.  Japanese hospitals stopped using the drug.

All this comes as the U.S. FDA is considering approving the Novartis drug Serelaxin.  Also, U.S. drug pusher, Merck, is in talks with Novartis to make a $5-billion USD ‘swap’.

The swap involves trading Novatis’ animal/human vaccine program for Merck’s over-the-counter health-products unit at the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 18-21 December 2013: India begins training Afghan commandos. Obama spends $25-million more in taxes on women only voting! Economic conditions true cause of increased crimes against women!

Farah Province: In Posht-e-Rod District, three construction workers were kidnapped by Mujahideen.  The workers are actually part of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, that makes them government employees, which the Mujahideen view as enemies. In Daranj village of Khak Safid District, six U.S.-NATO-ISAF Chinook helicopters were used in a massive raid that resulted in seven people being kidnapped.

Logar Province: Unconfirmed reports that a U.S.-NATO-ISAF recon drone crashed near Pul-i-Alam City.

Nangarhar Province: A U.S.-NATO-ISAF supply compound near Torkham was bombed by four suicide bombers.  At least five people killed and five wounded.  In Bati Kot District, villagers report a U.S.-NATO-ISAF drone crashed near their village.  No comment from occupying forces.  In Chaprihar District, the district HQ was hit with mortar rounds.  Several vehicles destroyed, two people wounded. There are also reports that a home was hit, killing four people.  In Khogiyani District, reports that Afghan border police randomly shot at vehicles. Three people wounded.

Uruzgan Province: In Terrinkot City, four women were strangled and shot to death. One woman was a cop, another was a school principal. Local cops have no clues but automatically blame Mujahideen.

Farkhunda Zahra Naderi, a female member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, says despite the U.S. occupation women are being forced to look for jobs because of the bad economy.  However, the result is that men are now competing against women for jobs, making it harder for men to find good paying jobs.  She believes this is the real reason for increased crimes against women: “We forgot that the struggle for empowerment has to be done with men. Otherwise there won’t be any common language in families between men and women.”

It’s been revealed that the Obama regime, and the U.S. Congress, will spend an additional $25-million U.S. taxes to maintain the security of women-only voting sites!

India has agreed to train at least 60 Afghans to be commandos.

Army National Guard’s 1220th Engineering Company, from the U.S. state of Oklahoma, returned home from Afghanistan.

The U.S. DoD auctioned off billions of dollars worth of “supplies and materials that were used for facilities management (construction services), billeting, electrical power, water, sewage and waste management, laundry operations, food services, maintenance services for non-tactical vehicles, and transportation motor pool operations….”  Some of those items included Mercedes Benz trucks, all paid for with your taxes.  It was called the Afghanistan White Goods Sale.

U.S.

Martial Law, United Police States of America: Christian Nebraska cops violate U.S. Constitution & kidnap family’s children because of “immoral” choice of words used on home video!

09 January 2014 (04:54 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/19 Dey 1392/09 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution

The mostly white Christian Omaha Police Officers Association’s Child Victim Unit, and the Nebraska Child Protective Services, shot themselves in the foot when they revealed they kidnapped four children from a black family (who likely claim to be Christians just as well as the cops), for posting a video of ‘thug talk’ involving an infant.

Basically family members were talking ‘smack’, using ‘swear words’, and getting a toddler to take part.  The martial law cops admit there is no law against it, but they kidnapped the children purely because the video was “offensive”, adding: “….we didn’t see anything in this video that is blatantly illegal, we sure did see a lot that is flat out immoral…..”-Omaha Police Officers Association, Facebook posting

But wait, even the Omaha police chief, Todd Schmaderer, has condemned the Omaha Police Officers Association for their anti-Constitutional actions:“…I want to make it explicit and clear that the views expressed on the OPOA Facebook page do not necessarily reflect the official stance of the Omaha Police Department…”   This means the cops took it upon themselves to not only be judge and jury, but they ignored their boss!

After the kidnapping the Orwellian morality police stated they found ‘safety issues’ in the house. How convenient.  Mmmmm, I wonder if this is just another excuse for Child Victim Units and Child Protective Services to take part in the growing business of human slave trafficking?  By the way, this kind of bullshit has been taking place for more than ten decades in Palestine by the U.S. backed Israelis against the Palestinians, and in Afghanistan by U.S. led forces against Afghans!

Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: Kmart starts 2014 by killing 505+ jobs! Sears starts 2014 killing 171+ jobs! Even Mother Nature closes Kmart!

08 January 2014 (09:50 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/18 Dey 1392/08 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Sears Holdings announced three Wisconsin Kmart stores will shutdown by April 2014.  At least 314 jobs lost!  The stores are in Hales Corner, Portage and Greenfield.

The Montgomery, Illinois, Kmart will close in mid-March.

In Minnesota, the Fergus Falls Kmart shutting down by mid-March.  The store first opened in 1979.

In North Carolina, Cleveland County’s East Dixon Boulevard Mall Sears shutting down in April.  It will mark the end of 60 years of Sears in Cleveland County.

The Sears and Sears Auto Center will close in Landover, Maryland, by mid-March.

The Fort Wayne, Indiana, Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard closing by mid-January.

In Hawaii, reports that the Maui Kmart is for sale, and any new owner could terminate the lease after five years.

In Stafford, Virginia, a Sears Hometown store is being closed, although local news media said no closing date was given.

In Michigan, the Saginaw Township Kmart closed “until further notice”.  This time Mother Nature is too blame (and maybe poor building construction) as the roof collapsed from the recent snow storms.

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).

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 (at least 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.

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).

Connecticut:  Waterbury Big Kmart.

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).

Guam:  Sears Hometown Store.

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).

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

Vacant bedroom/bathroom section.

One corner of the half vacant Chubbuck, Idaho, Sears. No official closing announcement was made.

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost).  No official announcement, but it’s painfully obvious the Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down. Or, maybe it’s preps for Shop within a Shop, or one of those domestic spy data storage centers?  On 07 November 2013, GGP sold off the Pine Ridge Mall for a paltry $9 million USD.

Ever since the Kmart bankruptcy, this pad site for sale sign has been seen in the Pocatello, Idaho, Big Kmart parking lot. The Kmart is the only building on the lot.

Ever since the Kmart bankruptcy, this pad site for sale sign has been seen in the Pocatello, Idaho, Big Kmart parking lot. The Kmart is the only building on the lot.

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), recently revealed Fort Wayne Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard (70 jobs lost).

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),  Champaign’s Market Place Mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (60 jobs lost), recently revealed Montgomery Kmart (81 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.

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).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 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!).

Maine: Lewiston Sears (60 to 70 jobs lost), Presque Isle Sears (80 jobs lost).

Maryland: Ellicott Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Gaithersburg Sears/Great Indoors, recently revealed Landover Sears (115 jobs lost).

Massachusetts: North Reading Sears Hardware store closed, lease not renewed.

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, Flint Kmart (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears.

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, recently revealed Fergus Falls Kmart (40 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).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

New Hampshire: Nashau Sears Grand/Essentials, Keene Sears Grand/Essentials,  Portsmouth Kmart (30 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, recently revealed Cleveland County mall Sears (56 jobs lost).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost).

New Jersey:  Lawnside Kmart (about 80 jobs lost), Howell Kmart (57 jobs lost).

New Mexico: Las Cruces Kmart (58 jobs lost).

New York: Depew (Lancaster?) Kmart (68 jobs lost), Colonie Kmart (72 jobs lost),  Fulton Kmart (51 jobs lost).

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).   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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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:  Orem Kmart (no details reported).

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), recently revealed Stafford Sears Hometown.

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).

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 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), recently revealed Greenfield Kmart (107 jobs lost), Portage Kmart (78 jobs lost) and Hales Corner (129 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, International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Don’t blame China, blame the ones who spend the most money on War Mongering! Blame those who control FDI into the U.S.A.!

08 January 2014 (03:50 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/18 Dey 1392/08 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

There’s a coming war between Trilateral Commission members within the Pacific Asian Group, and with the North American Group and European Group, but if you go by military spending you can’t blame it on China.  Blame it on the United States (and the British empire)!

China announced that they spent only $106-billion USD on their military in 2013.  Independent sources say it was $166-billion.

U.S. puppet Japan spent $59.3-billion, but the neo-imperialist government of Japan has ordered an increase in military spending. Japan’s new ‘pro-active pacificst’ military spending plan will see an increase of at least $230-billion USD over the next five years. War monger leaders point to disputes over islands and control of resource rich areas (such as the South China Sea) as reasons for increasing military spending.

Another U.S. puppet, the Republic of Korea (aka South Korea) spent about $37-billion USD in 2013.  South Korea is a small country and they spent at least $5-billion more than the much larger country of Australia, which has been taking part in the illegal occupation of Afghanistan.

Bilderberg British empire country of Australia (Pacific Asian Group) supposedly spent $26.2-billion.

Bilderberg British empire country Canada (North American Group) spent $22.5-billion.

Bilderberg British empire country (and Trilateral Commission member within the European Group, aka European Union) United Kingdom spent $60.8-billion.

Bilderberg Germany (European Union) spent $45.8-billion.

Bilderberg France (European Union) spent $58.9-billion.

Bilderberg Italy (European Union) spent $34-billion.

The Bilderberg United States (North American Group) spent at least $682-billion (at least that’s what was actually made public)!  The top spender on war mongering in the World!

The U.S. Department of Defense’s FY2013 Defense Budget report stated, back in February 2012, that the fiscal year 2013 spending plan had a “Base Budget” of $525.4-billion.  “Base Budget” is code for the bare minimum that was going to be spent. By the way, the DoD’s FY2013 report states that the report itself cost taxpayers $34-thousand to compile and publish!

Also realize that it is not China who is the biggest foreign direct investor (FDI) in the United States.  According to the Organization for International Investment’s (OII) 2012 data it is the British empire’s United Kingdom (wake up Patriots!).

China doesn’t even come in second place.  That position goes to neo-imperialist Japan (Pacific Asian Group leader)!

The British empire country of Canada takes 4th place for FDI into the U.S. (again, wake up Patriots!).   3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th places got to other members of the European Union (remember, the EU is the European branch of the Trilateral Commission)!  Notice China is not anywhere in the top nine list of countries who control the United States through FDI!

The OII says 83% of FDI into the U.S. is controlled by those top nine countries!  Those top nine countries are not only members of the Trilateral Commission, but are directly or indirectly connected to the British empire, or Bilderberg society (wake up Patriots!).  The remaining 27% of FDI into the U.S. comes from 150 other countries!

Stop blaming China!

Now realize that the military spending of North American Group and European Union, along with the U.S. puppets of Japan and South Korea (in the Pacific Asian Group) is $900-billion more than what China spends, then you should realize that China is outnumbered and outspent when it comes to military power.

And it should be blindingly obvious that the other members of the Trilateral Commission (actually led by the British empire) is ganging up on China, in order to seize control of what could be the Earth’s last great petroleum resources located in the South China Sea (remember the Vietnam War?).

Stop blaming China!

By the way, even the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, aka North Korea, is a member of the Pacific Asian Group.   And if you find it hard to believe members of the same international ‘club’ would go to war with each other, killing off millions of their citizens, then you need to go back to school and study the political socio/economic climate of the ‘western’ world, and its spider web of crony capitalist business/banking intrigues, prior to the First and Second World Wars!

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3, South East Asian Front: U.S., South Korea & China behind bloody crack down on protesting slave wage workers in Cambodia! All in the name of Old Navy & Walmart!

08 January 2014 (00:58 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/18 Dey 1392/08 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Most people in the United States are unaware that for weeks slave wage workers in Cambodia have been demonstrating for better pay, some reports say the average garment factory worker makes $40 USD per month.

Recently Cambodian government minions cracked down violently on the demonstrators, using Chinese made weapons and killing at least five people, wounding dozens.

A GlobalPost report shows pics of Cambodian soldiers wearing uniforms with South Korean flags on them!

Now, amazingly, the South Korean government admitted publicly that the crackdown was actually ordered by them!  Specifically it was ordered by Republic of Korea/United States clothing corporations, such as Yakjin, who says it supplies cheap clothing to Gap, Old Navy, American Eagle and Walmart.

“As a practical measure, military forces and police have been cooperating closely with us to protect Korean companies since we visited the capital defense command headquarters with Korean businessmen to tell them about the situation, and as a result, to prevent any arson attempt or looting, military forces are directly guarding only Korean companies among many factories in the Canadia complex.”-Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Kingdom of Cambodia

United States, China and South Korea are members of the Trilateral Commission (China and South Korea belong to the Pacific Asian Group branch, U.S. belongs to the North American Group).  “Membership in The Trilateral Commission is by invitation only.”-Trilateral Commission statement

(I tried accessing the South Korean embassy in Cambodia website but all I got was a blank page,  the GlobalPost report has a screenshot of the embassy statement in Cambodian)

International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Obama regime deploying more troops to South Korea! More proof of coming war with China?

08 January 2014 (00:20 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/18 Dey 1392/08 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“This addition is part of the re-balance to the Pacific. It’s been long planned….”-Colonel Steve Warren, U.S. Army

The U.S. Department of the Army announced they are increasing troop strength in the Republic of Korea by 800 personnel, and about 40 M1A2 tanks, and 40 M2 Bradley IFVs (by the way, the Bradley is no longer made by an ‘American’ company, it’s made by the Bilderberg British empire company known as BAE).

The armored battalion (from the 1st CAV Division)  is deploying from Fort Hood, Texas.

DoD officials say they will begin rotating new troops in and out of South Korea about every nine months, as part of the Obama regime’s U.S. national defense strategy ordered in 2012.   That strategy shifts focus from the War on Terror being waged on innocent oil rich countries, to China and North Korea who have claims on the even more oil rich South China Sea.

Obama lackie, Secretary of State John Kerry, used the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s nuclear program as the excuse for the deployment: “The United States and the Republic of Korea stand very firmly united, without an inch of daylight between us, not a sliver of daylight, on the subject of opposition to North Korea’s destabilizing nuclear and ballistic missile programs and proliferation activities.”

U.S.

Fluoride Wars: Studies show your pets are being poisoned by fluoridated water & Grapes!

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“A recently published Harvard study concluded that there was a seven-fold risk in osteosarcoma, or bone cancer, among young boys after exposure to fluoridated water………..Dogs have a significantly higher rate of osteosarcoma than humans. Researchers at Colorado State University recently conducted a large study on osteosarcoma and dogs. In their abstract they state that the osteosarcoma rate in dogs is 8 in 100,000, approximately 8 times greater than that in humans.”–Linda Joy, WA Action for Safe Water

“Fluoride is a Class 2 environmental toxin, second only to arsenic in its danger as a biochemically reactive poison. Fluoride’s primary use is as a rat and cockroach poison and it is a known carcinogen. Historically, fluoride was also used in Nazi Germany ghettos and prison camps to sterilize the human inmates…..98% of Europe is now free of fluoridated water…..Racetracks in Southern CA such as Santa Anita, Del Mar and Hollywood Park have reported significant rises in bone breakage in horses….Since the San Diego Wild Animal Park began using fluoridated water, the elephant show has been permanently cancelled with one animal reportedly having mental derangement. Their zebras were also isolated in a separate pen for sudden and unusually aggressive behavior. The Australian state of Victoria announced the recent euthanization of hundreds of Kangaroos due to acute fluoride poisoning……Municipalities throughout North America are practicing medicine without a license by injecting this toxic substance into the public water supply without the consent of the people drinking the water.“-Joanne Suresh, DogsNaturally magazine

“.….rare occurrences of ‘grape poisoning’ have resulted from pets consuming an unusually large number of grapes or raisins……Grapes are one of the plants that concentrate fluoride, which can originate from the soil or the air. And today’s environment is much richer in fluoride than that of the past due to fluoride-based chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides), factory emissions (e.g. coal burning and metal production), and the use of fluoridated water for irrigation and rinsing of newly purchased produce…….The deaths in these rare cases of grape or raisin intoxication can be easily explained as fluoride intoxication……fluoride is also a cumulative toxin and over time can cause serious problems such as thyroid dysfunction and bone cancer when long-term exposure is excessive…..there is nothing innately wrong with the grapes or raisins themselves………[but] they concentrate fluoride…”–John B. Symes, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

“….a study of 10 brands of manufactured dog foods analyzed for fluoride content. Eight had levels that could put dogs at risk from developing bone cancer, thyroid disease and other health problems……contain ground bone that is the source of fluoride that farmed animals accumulate……Cats may also be at risk from chronic fluoride poisoning when similar cheap ingredients are included in their manufactured dry and canned foods……Cooking with fluoridated water simply concentrates fluoride in the food….”–Michael W. Fox, DSc, PhD, BVet Med

7th Heaven Animal Trust, in the Bilderberg British empire territory of occupied northern Ireland, has a list of studies, going back to the early 1990s, concerning the effects of fluoride on animals.

Do your own research, there is a plethora of studies concerning the effects of fluoride on farm animals and pets, and they’re not good.  And if your live in the United States or Canada, you’re drinking and eating it!

Fluoride is poison!