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Business/Economics, Idaho

“…an absolute nightmare!” 9,000+ new layoffs! Small town Soda Springs hit with big time layoffs, Idaho Dept. of Labor sits on WARN notice! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 20 – 22 October 2015

Texas founded but Ireland based oil service company Weatherford International just jacked up the number of their layoffs (again) by 3-thousand! Reports say 11-thousand people have already become jobless, now the ‘planned’ total will hit 14-thousand before the end of 2015! Most of those jobs were in Canada and United States.

California: What housing market recovery?  Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo announced 6-hundred additional job cuts to its countrywide mortgage ops, blaming declining demand for mortgage services!  The grocery chain store known as Fresh & Easy is now being shutdown by its current owners Yucaipa Companies, which is known for chopping up and selling off businesses (Mormon Mitt Romney style).  The shutdown of 97 grocery stores will result in 3-thousand people across the U.S. desert southwest becoming jobless starting now!  Yucaipa has been trying to sell the grocery chain but nobody is interested in buying.

Colorado: Another Great Harvest Bread store shuts down, this time in Montrose.

Connecticut:  In Stamford, Too Big to Jail British empire RBS eliminating an additional 64 jobs to the 186 layoffs currently underway!

Florida: Affordable Care Act forcing ResCare to layoff 79 employees in Homestead before Thanksgiving.   After 42 years the WACO gift shop shutdown in Marianna.

Iconic geyser of Soda Springs, Idaho, population about 3,000. They just lost 100 jobs!

Idaho: What construction industry recovery?  The small southeast Idaho town of Soda Springs got hit with at least 1-hundred layoffs when apparently Mark III Plant Construction shutdown! I could not find any local news reports about it, I only found the WARN notice conspicuously publicly posted by the state Department of Labor after the fact (about 20 October, the layoffs took place on 11 October), even though they got the notice back at the beginning of September!   Another WARN that Dept. of Labor dragged its feet on publicly posting is architecture, design, engineering, and construction company AECOM laying off 85 people in Boise right before Thanksgiving.  Depart. of Labor got the WARN on 21 September, but just posted it to their website this week!  Last year AECOM merged with rival URS.

Indiana:  Food maker Sonoco shutting down their New Albany dough packaging plant by August 2016, at least 76 jobs lost.  In Evansville, Penny Lane Coffeehouse shutdown, the owner blamed ongoing construction that’s blocking access to his shop: “Very, very frustrated, I don’t feel like we’ve gotten any support from the City of Evansville. We’ve had our entrances blocked, which I know is a fire hazard, it’s just been an absolute nightmare!”-Brian Bennett, owner

Iowa: In Ames, after 31 years The Ark pet store shutting down, the property has been sold.

Kentucky:  In Louisville, Fabulous Finds second hand store shutdown because “…we felt the time was right to focus on our other philanthropic endeavors to benefit Heuser.”

Louisiana: Oil industry company Frank’s International announced it will eliminate an additional 1-hundred jobs, on top of the 6-hundred they got rid of during the first half of the year!

Massachusetts:  Boston Weak based Cabot Corporation eliminating 3-hundred jobs blaming the not so recovered global economy!  Cambridge based drugs pusher Biogen eliminating 880 jobs, saying it needs to save $250-million per year!

Minnesota: Saint Paul based 3M announced they’re killing 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs due to crashing sales caused by global currency wars!   In 2012 I wrote how 3M execs warned there was no economic recovery taking place.

Mississippi: In Jackson, after 62 years Lamar Restaurant shutdown: “The last four to five years it has really gone down. People just aren’t eating as many plate lunches as they were…..They want what I call plastic food.”-Chris Grillis, owner

Missouri: Saint Louis based iconic beer maker Anheuser-Busch offshoring less than 40 U.S. jobs to India, blaming crashing sales in the United States.

New York:  Grocery store Drew’s Food issued a shutdown WARN for their Brooklyn 4511-8th Avenue store, 51 jobs lost in January 2016 because it’s not worth it to renew the lease due to skyrocketing rents.  That Which Cannot Be Named refuses to stop Affordable Care Act from forcing Jewish Board of Family and Children Services from shutting down their Hempstead Mental Health Clinic & Nassau County Care Coordination Programs, 72 jobs lost at the end of the year.  Hillstone Restaurant Group shutting down its Houston’s Restaurant in Garden City, 71 jobs lost after Xmas because it’s not worth it to renew the lease due to skyrocketing rents.  Too Big to Jail British empire Barclays issued a mass layoff WARN saying more than 3-hundred New Yorkers will begin losing their jobs right after Xmas!

Ohio: Vallourec Star eliminated an additional 1-hundred jobs in Youngstown, on top of the 60 jobs killed off back in July!  It’s blamed on ‘low’ oil prices.  The Bon Ton shutting down their Lima Mall Elder Beerman store by the end of January 2016.

Texas: County of Zapata warned there will be even more layoffs as the size of the County’s budget has gone from $22-million USD per year down to just $12-million in the past five years! Local news reports say the County has eliminated jobs every year for five years.  What construction industry recovery?  In Gregory layoffs hit a factory under construction.  12 people working on a Chinese owned pipe factory laid off by TPCO due to bad “market conditions”.  In Orange, Invista shutting down one of its factories and eliminating 110 jobs due to crashing demand in the United States!  The factory they will shutdown makes oil based ingredients for the clothing and plastics industries.  Harland Clarke Holdings issued a shutdown WARN for its San Antonio financial forms factory, 107 jobs lost!

Vermont: In Stowe, Phoenix Table and Bar shutdown due to lack of money: “Here’s what happened. A big undertaking with hard-working staff doing twice the work that was needed to keep it going; an off-season looming without much cash; an exhausted ownership that needed a breather. Sorry, everyone!”-Julie Pickett

Washington: In Renton, Graphic Packaging issued a shutdown WARN, 108 people jobless before Xmas!  Colorado based oil and gas engineering company CH2M made it official and issued a shutdown WARN for their Bellingham operations, 128 jobs lost before Xmas! After 126 years (surviving the great Depression and numerous recessions) Fairhaven Pharmacy shutdown, the owner Rob Johansen blamed ObamaCare saying “Financially it is almost impossible to run an independent pharmacy. It’s a frustrating field to be in right now.” Redmond based Microsoft just announced yet another round of mass job destruction, this time 1-thousand more people will join the already 25-thousand 8-hundred people who’ve lost their jobs due to Microsoft!

West Virginia:  The Bon Ton shutting down their Huntington Mall Elder Beerman store by the end of January 2016.

Wisconsin: Affordable Care Act medical device tax killing yet another medical device maker. Cardiac Science now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, 190 jobs threatened!  The company has failed to make payments on $80-million USD of debt.  Milwaukee based iconic Harley Davidson motorcycles in big trouble after big losses in global sales, 250 people will become jobless as a result!  God refuses to stop ObamaCare from forcing ‘his’ Ministry Health Care from eliminating 5-hundred jobs from their hospital system!  Administrators say the Affordable Care Act does not cover the actual costs of providing healthcare!  In Whitewater, grocery store Daniel’s Sentry shutting down after Xmas, 53 jobs lost.

18 – 19 October 2015:“Once again…been dealt a severe financial blow…”

U.S. Pay TV loses nearly half million customers in 3 months!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Business/Economics

U.S. Pay TV crashing & burning, loses nearly half million customers in 3 months!

According to the Multiscreen Index: DIRECTV, AT&T, DISH Network, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter, Cablevision, Mediacom and Suddenlink lost a combined 400-thousand customers in the 2nd Quarter of 2015!  That’s nearly half a million customers in three months!!!  And that’s after several years of losses, so much for economic recovery!

18 – 19 October 2015: “Once again…been dealt a severe financial blow…”

 

Business/Economics, Idaho

“Once again…been dealt a severe financial blow…” Idaho taxpayers pay extra for not making ObamaCare available for everybody! Major healthcare ObamaCare shutdowns! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 18 – 19 October 2015

California: San Luis Obispo losing yet another mom-n-pop,  after 25 years Bali’s Yogurt shutdown, the owners admitted they were shutting down sooner than they thought, due to increasing competition.  In Los Angeles, iconic Los Chavos Restaurant shutting down in November. Local news reports say the owner sold-out, and the buyer refuses to comment.

Connecticut:  ObamaCare forcing the state to cut Medicare, which in turn forcing Day Kimball Healthcare to eliminate 23 jobs: “Once again, our organization has been dealt a severe financial blow from the state that has far-reaching repercussions. We have no choice but to be proactive in cutting costs…”-Robert Smanik, president and CEO

Idaho: Kaiser Family Foundation study says Idaho is one of dozens of states keeping low income people from affordable ObamaCare (called the Coverage Gap), and that it’s actually costing taxpayers more money as a result, saying the cost of healthcare in The Gem State went up 6.9%!  

Washington based electricity supplier Avista has won a settlement that will result in electric rates going up for Idahoan customers of Avista starting in January 2016.    

Potato growers are warning of lower crop yields this year, even though acreage is way up.   Analysts say this year’s spud harvest will be below the five year average: “We’ve had some unusual weather this year. Some growers were hit by cold, some by heat and some had a lot of water. And with the water came late blight.”-Frank Muir, Idaho Potato Commission

Now for some good news (hopefully), a 20 year lease to create a large solar power project on the property of the Pocatello Airport has been approved.  It will be run by Energy Partners-Pocatello Solar One and will sell the electricity to Idaho Power.   

Indiana: In Gary, charter school Thea Bowman Leadership Academy laid off seven people due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome, which caused a drop in federal taxpayer funding.

Iowa: In Davenport, Hancock Fabrics shutdown due to the greedy landlord selling out to a greedy property developer.

Kansas:  After 17 years Robuck Jewelers shutdown because the owners can make more money off their property management business.  It’s been revealed that 1-hundred years old (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Mercy Hospital shutdown last week, admitting they’ve lost a lot of money since Affordable Care Act went into effect. It’s proof that ObamaCare actually prevents access to healthcare in less densely populated areas (known as small town syndrome).

Kentucky:  AK Steel shutting down its Ashland plant, starting in December 940 people will be laid off over a six months period!  They blame cheap imported steel (which is an excuse I’ve heard since the 1980s).

Louisiana:  A surprise announcement; South Beauregard Health Center in Longville shutting down by the end of the month, blaming crashing patient volume caused by Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)!

Minnesota:  In Knife River, the Lighthouse at Emily’s restaurant shutdown when a potential sale to non-profit North Shore Scenic Railroad fell through.   After only 26 months Lake State Credit Union shutting down their Duluth Technology Village fully automated office on 01 November.  It’s blamed on the merger with Members Cooperative Credit Union.  Cliffs Natural Resources threatening to shutdown due to future competition: “…if they [Essar Steel] go online, I will shut down a plant up there the same day.”-Lourenco Goncalves, ceo

New Hampshire: Valley Regional Hospital eliminated eight jobs in an effort to be “not quite break-even but…sustainable”, no thanks to ObamaCare.

New Jersey:  Japan based drug pusher Daiichi Sankyo eliminating 1-thousand 2-hundred jobs across the U.S. but mainly at their Parsippany operations!   It’s part of their global cutbacks begun earlier this year.  Cherry Hill based Too Big to Jail TD Bank began eliminating jobs across United States and Canada, in an effort “push efficiencies”.

New York:  County taxpayer funded Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center shutting down after Xmas, due to a potential buyer backing out of the $32-million USD sale.  4-hundred jobs lost! 

Oregon:  In Newberg the more than 1-hundred years old (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) SP Fiber paper mill shutting down, 2-hundred jobs lost before Thanksgiving!   The paper mill was recently taken over by WestRock, which is shutting down operations around the country.  ObamaCare killing off yet another affordable insurance co-op, this time it’s non-profit Health Republic.  The forced shutdown will affect 8-hundred Oregon businesses and 15-thousand individuals!

Pennsylvania: God refusing to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 166 years old Saint Mary of the Assumption Church due to the loss of $142-thousand USD.  “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

16 – 17 October 2015:“We are in the throes of a deep depression, and nothing is changing!” 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Business/Economics, Idaho

Obama Homie Town Lottery Broke! Swiss company screws U.S. taxpayers! Another hospital openly blames Obama! Factory says America is broke, moving to Russia! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 14 – 15 October 2015

“No one should be surprised from soft numbers in the industrial economy, regional or national.  Just as the downshift in capex in the oil sector began to ease, the strong dollar and the slowdown in China’s industrial economy have bitten, hard, and likely will inflict more pain over the next few months.”-Ian Shepherdson, Pantheon Macroeconomics, reacting to the latest comments by the Federal Reserve

Failed State Alabama: Back in May, Walter Energy laid off 4-hundred people at its Brookwood Mine, now they will eliminate an additional 129 jobs!  The company went bankrupt in July.

Arizona: Washington DC based Living Social suddenly laid off 180 people at its Phoenix call center!

Ontario, California, Arrowhead water bottler. It doesn’t come from a mountain spring, it comes from the U.S. taxpayer!

California:  The U.S. Forest Service has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing it of illegally giving Switzerland based food producer Nestlé taxpayer owned water in the drought stricken state! It was used for the Arrowhead brand bottled water.  If you buy Arrowhead you’re contributing to the plight of California’s farmers!  In Costa Mesa, after 26 years Scott’s upscale restaurant shutting down in January because the owner decided it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease.  The only bank in the town of Upper Lake, Westamerica Bank, shutdown.  In Burbank, the Helping Hands for Animals Thrift Store shutdown due to a sudden increase in rent, the owner swore “I didn’t see it coming.”   The 8 Ball ‘retro shop’ shutting down due to losing its lease.   Not A Burger Stand eatery shutdown due to landlord issues.

Colorado:  After four years the Booknook in Louisville shutdown due to ever increasing costs of operations.

Connecticut: Fontana Bridal Shop shutdown without notice and now people are mad.  The owner says it’s because his wife suddenly went into a coma.

Delaware: In Wilmington, after ten years Black Lab Breads suddenly shutdown due to the lease not being renewed.  The owner is hoping he can find a new affordable location.

Florida: In Neptune Beach, after five years Lillie’s Coffee & Bar shutting down at the end of the month because of the greedy landlord.

Idaho:  The state Department of Education has revealed it is using taxpayer money to create a new department for migrants!  State Right to Work (you over) administrators admitted there are so many migrant workers who don’t speak English that they feel compelled to rape taxpayers in order to provide migrants English classes. 

Just last week I revealed that Idahoans are being forced to spend at least $187-million USD towards illegal migrant workers!  This comes as the University of Idaho’s McClure Center for Public Policy Research discovered that since 2009 the population in the metro areas of The Gem State increased by 6% while rural areas flatlined.  Researchers say it’s because it’s harder to find good paying jobs in the rural areas.   In Idaho Falls, presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has gained the support of the Mormon owned snake oil salesman, I mean personal care product maker Melaleuca, so much so that company administrators forced their mainly Mormon employees to attend a speech given by Fiorina!    The Idaho Supreme Court upheld Boise’s plan to use hotel room taxes to pay bondholders via a series of one-year leases to fund the expansion of the city’s convention center (for some reason they choose to use the British empire spelling of Centre).  Pumpkin farmers south of the Boise area reporting a shortage of pumpkins: “It’s been a rough year. It’s probably been the roughest year I’ve had with pumpkins since we’ve been doing it, and we’ve been doing it a long time.”-Fred Schreffler, owner of The Berry Ranch

NOT ANYMORE!

Failed State Illinois: Last month state Lottery administrators said they could not honor jackpots of $25-thousand USD or more, now they’ve announced they can’t pay jackpots of only $6-hundred or more, because they’re broke! Despite this Lottery tickets are still being sold!  Pumpkin farmers report massive losses, Illinois normally grows 90% of the pumpkins in the United States!  Peoria based heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar shutting down their Electro-Motive Diesel rail office in London, Ontario (Canada).  50 jobs lost right after Xmas.  Because of the crashing economy Caterpillar is consolidating all its operations.

Maryland:  Bethesda based taxsucker Lockheed Martin will eliminate 250 jobs in its Missiles and Fire Control division, right after Thanksgiving!  Umami Bistro of Pikesville shutting down due to landlord issues.

Massachusetts: Too Big to Jail evil British empire bank Barclays eliminating 25 jobs in Boston Weak.  The Boston Globe laying off ten employees, more than a dozen accepted voluntary quit bribes (buyouts).  And after 43 years iconic Medieval Manor restaurant theater shutdown due to crashed and burned sales.  A survey revealed many Bostonians thought the place had shutdown a long time ago!

Failed State Michigan: Oakdale based Imation warned of more job cuts, possibly due to its $7.5-million takeover of Connected Data.  The only movie theater in Newberry is shutting down.  The owner of Great Depression era TahquaLand Theatre says he can’t afford to convert to digital.

Minnesota: PM Beef is shutting down its Windom meat plant right before Xmas, 260 jobs lost!  Windom City administrators say they will lose almost half of their revenues from lost taxes and fees!   After 14 years Minneapolis French cuisine Vincent A Restaurant shutting down after Xmas, so the owner can “move on with my life”.

Mississippi:  In Fulton, after 58 years Bob Steele’s Flowers and Gifts shutting down after Xmas.

Missouri: East Saint Louis laid off eight cops and in a sign of a Failed State warned that local taxes will be increased.

New Hampshire: Keene base food supplier C&S Wholesale Grocers laid off an undisclosed number of employees due to the gigantic collapse of A & P (Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) grocery stores across the eastern U.S.  Monadnock Community Hospital laid off six people and eliminated vacant jobs, directly blaming ObamaCare: “This is largely as a result of the changes in the Affordable Care Act, which really got into full swing in 2014.”-Laura Gingras, vice president of philanthropy and community relations

New Mexico: In Albuquerque, Flying Star Cafe shutting down its ten years old restaurant on Silver and 8th Street.  It’s the third Flying Star to shutdown since the company went bankrupt.  It’s been revealed that Halliburton laid off an undisclosed number of people in Hobbs, last month.

New York: Semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries warned of mass layoffs at its Luther Forest Technology Campus.  Administrators said they’d have more details about just how many people will be let go by the end of the month.  The California based company is also killing jobs in Germany.  Bankrupt busted Organic Avenue shutting down all its juice bars! Administrators refused to say how many people will become unemployed.  Local news reports say sales crashed and burned last year.

North Carolina:  Tin Tin Box and Noodles shutting down at the end of the month, apparently because of the greedy landlord because the owner of the Japanese restaurant said he’s looking for a new location.

Says the money is in China and Russia, will abandon U.S.A.

Ohio: TerraSource Global shutting down its Cuyahoga Falls machine factory right before Xmas, 53 jobs lost.  Administrators say their U.S. sales have crashed and they’re forced to move to where the money is; Russia and China!   Health insurance company Assurant shutting down their two years old Dayton call center, 150 jobs affected!  Two years ago the company promised to employ 2-hundred people, in anticipation of increased demand due to ObamaCare forcing people to buy health insurance, but guess what, it didn’t happen.  The overwhelming majority of people on ObamaCare are people who already had insurance, meaning the rest of us are flippin’ ObamaCare the ‘bird’!

Pennsylvania: Too Big to Jail evil British empire bank Barclays eliminating six jobs in Philadelphia, right after Xmas.  Iconic music venue North Star Bar shutdown, its being replaced with a restaurant.

Vermont: Semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries warned of mass layoffs at its Essex Junction and Hopewell Junction fabs.

Virginia: What automotive industry recovery?  In Sterling, after only two years Advance Auto Parts shutdown. Local news reports say it was the fifth auto parts store to try to set up shop in town.

Washington DC: Living Social suddenly laid off 30 people at its headquarters.  Administrators warned that another hundred employees will soon be let go, saying the bad economy is forcing them to reorganize their ‘daily deals’ offerings.

Wisconsin: Kimberly Clark laid off 70 IT employees, blaming the bad economy for forcing them to become even more efficient.  Texas based Hi-Crush Proppants shutting down its plant in the city of Augusta, 27 jobs lost.  Maryland based U.S. Silica laid off an additional 16 people in Sparta.

13 October 2015: Sales to students have crashed by 44% from last year! 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.” 

Business/Economics

God abandons vets! ObamaCare kills entire school district! Food distributor kills 124 jobs 2 days before Thanksgiving! Orange Dino finally dies! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 13 October 2015

More proof that ObamaCare is a total failure as the Washington Examiner reports that “The federal government had given out $2.4 billion in loans to the 23 co-ops as of December 2014….” and that five have already been shutdown by ObamaCare itself.  The report goes on to say the remaining 18 insurance co-ops will not survive more than a year. 

California: In Marina del Rey, internet Snapchat shutting down Snap Channel, about 15 tech jobs lost.  San Francisco based internet ‘storefront’ Humble Bundle laid off 12 people admitting they were way “too ambitious” in their hiring practices.   In Oxnard, employment service Aerotek Staffing issued a shutdown WARN, 38 jobs lost after U.S. Thanksgiving.  Drug pusher Kythera Biopharmaceuticals issued a layoff WARN in Westlake Village, 117 jobs lost after Thanksgiving!  A GMRI owned Red Lobster restaurant in Los Angeles is shutting down, 83 jobs lost before Thanksgiving. The Marine Terminal is shutting down in Los Angeles and Oakland, 175 jobs lost before Xmas!  Ports America laying off 11 people before Xmas.  Insurance and finance company MullinTBG laying off 53 people in Irvine and El Segundo, before Xmas.  Drug pusher Onyx Pharmaceuticals shutdown without notice (shutdown on 25 September, gave official WARN on 08 October), 377 people now unemployed!  Food distribution company Triple B Corporation issued a shutdown WARN for their Irwindale operation, 124 jobs lost two days before Thanksgiving!

Florida:  Too Big to Jail evil British empire bank Barclays issued a WARN, at least 28 people becoming unemployed right after Xmas.  In Orlando, Southeastern Container issued a WARN saying 42 people will become unemployed right before Xmas.

Hawaii: Oahu, state health inspectors shutdown and then fined the Paalaa Kai Bakery.  The shutdown was for health code violations and the fine was for selling food after they were ordered to stop.  The inspections are part of new food martial laws under the new Hawaii Administrative Rules, Title 11, Chapter 50, Food Safety Code.

Failed State Illinois: In Cairo the only grocery store in town, Wonder Market, shutting down before Xmas. The nearest grocery store is over the border in Kentucky.  Local news said corporate officials did not respond to their questions.  Apparently the area is considered one of the poorest in the state.

Kentucky: Louisville based drug pusher PharMerica has ‘admitted’ to conspiracy with Abbott Laboratories in a drug promotion kickback scheme.  The company will pay federal and state governments $9.25 million USD, but when you realize it’s going to be spilt up among various federal programs, as well as dozens of states, it’s a slap on the wrist.

Louisiana: What hurricane recovery?  Desperate Tulane University is now bribing employees to quit (voluntary buyouts), and if that doesn’t work “…we will likely have to consider additional measures, such as non-voluntary layoffs.”

Massachusetts: In Saugus, after 57 years the home of the Orange T-Rex, Route 1 Mini Golf & Dairy Castle, shutdown.  The owners always kept their 1950s style operation looking brand new, unfortunately they had to sell out to greedy property developers who’ll tear everything down!

Failed State Michigan: Jackson Public Schools laid off seven teachers due to lack of money.

Missouri:  Battery maker Enr Sys laid of 66 employees, blaming not-recovered sales.

Nebraska: After only one year two eateries in the University of Nebraska’s student union shutting down after Xmas. The owner of Subway Pizza Express and Auntie Anne’s Pretzels says sales to students have crashed by 44% from last year!

New York: In Amagansett, after ten years Crossroads Music shutting down after Xmas, the owner blames the internet.   In Jericho, after 343 years (surviving a whole lotta crap) iconic Milleridge Village issued a shutdown WARN, at least 174 jobs lost the week after Xmas!  However, local news reports say 250 people actually work at the colonial times themed shopping center, which is also known as Milleridge Inn!  The whole thing was sold off back in May to an evil REIT (real estate investment trust).  Rochester based but now Texas owned Home Properties warned of an undetermined amount of layoffs.  This is what happens when one company takes over another, no matter what they tell their employees.  The new owner says the layoffs will start with forced retirements, “modifications” to job descriptions and the layoff of recently hired people.  God refuses to stop the shutdown of one of ‘his’ top hospitals in the U.S. of A.; New York Presbyterian Family Medicine Center by January 2016.  It’s directly blamed on Affordable Care Act, which is more proof that ObamaCare is more powerful than God! 

Ohio: In Niles, Lone Star Steakhouse shutdown saying it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease. In Hamilton, after 30 years Trimmer Hardware shutting down in November: “It’s a combination of declining sales over of the last ten years, coupled with rising costs….competition from the big-box stores and people’s buying habits are changing….. it leaves little room for the mom-and-pop stores.”-Doug Trimmer

Oregon: In Portland, it’s been revealed that the entire city block between South West 2nd and 3rd and Taylor will be demolished!  This includes the 110 years old Lotus Cardroom and Café.  

South Carolina: Retailer Belk shutting down their Union store in January 2016, 27 jobs lost.  The entire company is now up for sale.

Failed State Tennessee: Days ago I reported that the entire Clay County School District shutdown, news reports would only say it was due to lack of funding.  Now it’s been revealed that the lack of funding was caused by the implementation of Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare): “The straw that broke the camel’s back was really the Affordable Care Act for us and it has made it very difficult for us to have our employees properly covered and meet the mandates of the law. That was going to require new revenue and the commission felt like they couldn’t do that through a tax increase.”-Jerry Strong, director

Texas:  In El Paso, the non-profit Exploreum museum shutting down after Xmas: “…the museum can no longer cover all annual operating costs, according to its board. Attempts to secure adequate city, community, foundation and corporate support have failed.”-public statement

Utah:  Homeless military veterans left out in the cold because God is shutting down ‘his’ Saint Mary’s Center for Recovery due to lack of county taxpayer funding.  “And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.”-Mark 12:17

Washington: In Bellingham, after 32 years Michael’s Books shutting down after Xmas.  The owner is moving away to try something new.

12 October 2015: Target kills 3,100 jobs!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho

Idaho abandons California! Target kills 3,100 jobs! God reveals the true god is money! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 12 October 2015

Nielsen TDLinx reports that since 2004 more than 10-thousand bars/pubs have shutdown across the United States! 

Flagship Food Group’s Meridian, Idaho, HQ. They’re about to kill 123 jobs in California!

California: Once Los Angeles based but now Idaho based Flagship Food Group issued a shutdown WARN for their Chatsworth food factory, 123 jobs lost before the U.S. Thanksgiving! To show you that corporate America sees no recovery in the near future, in Los Angeles Packaging Advance issued a shutdown WARN for May 2016, 192 jobs lost!  Menzies Aviation continues to eliminate jobs, this time 51 jobs lost before Xmas.  San Diego Sports shutting down right after Thanksgiving, 123 jobs lost!  In Emeryville, MobiTV laying off 57 people right after Thanksgiving.  China owned solar power company SunEdision issued layoff WARNs for 62 Californians beginning right after Thanksgiving.  Fireman’s Fund Insurance issued a layoff WARN for their Novato office, 73 jobs lost before Xmas.  Khol’s department store shutting down their huge store in Santa Clara, 119 jobs lost by the end of January 2016!  In Palo Alto, British empire Canada owned U.S. tax-sucker Space Systems Loral (SSL) laid off 90 people without warning, notifying state employment administrators five days after the fact.

Georgia: Suddenly restaurant Rosebud shutdown “effective immediately” because of “unforeseen circumstances”.

A busy loading dock, yet mail handlers were told they were let go "Due to lack of work"!

A busy USPS Pocatello Gateway loading dock, yet we Mail Handlers were told we were let go “Due to lack of work”! (that’s what it says on my written layoff notice)

Idaho: Six months after I lost my job at the Pocatello Gateway Postal Processing Center, due to plant shutdown, the ‘elected’ officials of Pocatello and Chubbuck are pushing the USPS to re-open the center.  I posted many articles in the last few weeks of my USPS Mail Handling job (and afterwards, I even tracked a package to see how long it now takes for mail to come into east Idaho) primarily because I was shocked at how many east Idahoans were unaware there was a mail processing center here.  Now the mail gets processed out of state in Utah.  The local johnny come lately public administrators want public input regarding the efforts to re-open the Gateway processing center on Flandro Drive in Pocatello (go to www.oldtownpocatello.com).

Idaho Power’s gas fired Langley Gulch Power Plant, built in 2011, now to be run by Germany’s Siemens.

 Major electricity supplier Idaho Power has signed a 20 year deal to contract out maintenance work on its gas fired plants to Germany based Siemens.  But get this, Idaho Power refuses to say how much the contract is worth, and, is selling $21.9-million USD of equipment to Siemens as part of the deal, sounds like Idaho Power is hurting for cash.

Failed State Illinois: In Gary, the 21st Century Charter School laid off seven employees due to crashing enrollments.  News reports said one pissed-off teacher “destroyed” her classroom before leaving.   That Which Cannot Be Named refuses to stop the shutdown of the Mayer Kaplan Jewish Community Center.  The strange thing is they’re still registering children for next year’s programs and claim they will be setting up shop in a new undetermined location.
Maryland: In Baltimore, the Sports Legends Museum shutting down due to a lease dispute with the property owner.

Target HQ in Minnesota, job killing has become their forte!

 Minnesota: More proof corporations don’t see any future recovery as Minneapolis based retailer Target announced it will kill-off 3-thousand 1-hundred jobs (layoff 1,700 people and eliminate 1,400 vacant jobs) over the next two years!  

Oklahoma:  Oil industry company Continental Resources announced it is cutting pay for employees under the guise of trying to prevent mass layoffs.

Pennsylvania: Philadelphia based FMC announced it will eliminate 850 jobs blaming currency wars!  God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Joseph the Worker Church due to lack of money, proving that the real god is money!  After three years non-profit ‘tech incubator’ Seed Philly being forced to shutdown due to the new property owner terminating the lease early.

Failed State Tennessee: In Nashville, Khan’s Desserts shutting down because “…the rent has gone up greatly, and without partnership or investment, we are unable to move to another location.”

Texas: In Tyler, busy bug killer Center Chemical shutting down by the end of the month. The owners say they want more time with their grandchildren.   Round Rock based Dell just made the biggest tech takeover deal ever ($67-billion USD).  Now the administrators of Dell/EMC hinted at mass layoffs: “Of course when we do this we want to make sure we do this in a way that’s very attractive to the EMC shareholders and a fair deal…”-Joe Tucci, EMC ceo

11 October 2015: Entire school district shuts down!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.” 

Business/Economics

To Destroy U.S. Dollar: European Central Bank tells U.S. Federal Reserve ‘Go take a hike!’

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“Our monetary policies do present paths that are very different. I would say fundamentally diverging paths for the future.”-Mario Draghi, European Central Bank, 10 October 2015

“The capital market in the EU is relatively less developed compared with the U.S.A…   ….we must manage our European common house, not only on the basis of national interests, but by adopting a systemic, common vision.”-Pier Carlo Padoan, Minister of Economy and Finances of Italy, 09 October 2015

“We are following our own formula…  ….In the European Union, we have to act differently than in the union that makes up the United States.”-Wolfgang Schäuble, Finance Minister of Germany, September 2015

Australia & Singapore first to use Chinese Yuan in major transactions! 

Business/Economics, Idaho

Idaho burdened by $187-million worth of illegal immigrants! Entire school district shuts down! Chicago asks Obama to declare martial law, even the Boy Scouts are leaving! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 11 October 2015

HP has definitely become hazardous to your tech career!

California: Business Insider is reporting that Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard (HP) laid off yet more employees, last week, and is estimating that HP could increase its total number of job cuts to 85-thousand (since 2012)!  Sacramento based publishing company McClatchy rumored that it’s about to collapse!  One of McClatchy’s respected reporters has gone public and stated they are shutting down all their foreign news bureaus!  If that doesn’t stop the financial hemorrhaging then the company which publishes 30 newspapers is going bust.  After nine years foster home Sonoma County Children’s Village shutting down next week due to lack of money.

Iconic Post Register sold off, will probably be chopped up.

Idaho: Reports say illegal immigration to The Gem State  skyrocketed 30% from 2009 to 2012, and is costing legal state taxpayers $187.4-million USD per year!  (read my article Immigration a False Flag op to make corporations richer!)   In Idaho Falls, troubled family-employee owned Post Register has managed to find a buyer.  Minnesota based Adams Publishing Group buying the Idaho Falls Post Register and weekly newspapers Challis Messenger, Jefferson Star and Shelly Pioneer.  Adams Publishing Group has been buying up troubled newspaper ops across the country, don’t be surprised by massive layoffs and shutdowns as a results, guaranteed they’re going to consolidate (like everybody else).

Failed State Illinois shuts down Operation CeaseFire!

Failed State Illinois: In Obama’s homie town of Chicago, despite a 20% increase in violence since last year Operation CeaseFire was shutdown. Local news says Chicago is experiencing a “financial meltdown”!   And if that’s not bad enough, administrators of Operation PUSH are demanding that Obama declare a federal State of Emergency (martial law, essentially)!   Even the Boy Scouts are getting the hell outta Dodge, the Chicago area Pathway to Adventure Scout Council is reporting crashing enrollment and as a result they’re shutting down there scout camps in neighboring Wisconsin!  It’s been revealed that the true reason Chicago restaurant Japonais by Morimoto is shutting down is due to a massive lawsuit because the owners haven’t paid any rent for the past year!  More proof Obama’s homie town is a failed state!

Missouri:   J Buck’s restaurant and its twin Joe Buck’s both shutting down at the end of the month, the owner blaming jacked up rents and other “rising operational costs”!  At one point there were five J Buck’s-Joe Buck’s restaurants!

Ohio: In Dayton, Olive an urban dive restaurant shutdown due to difficulties with the property owner: “We tried everything we could to find another feasible way to keep Olive in Dayton, but now that the decision is made, we’re announcing the close….” 

Pennsylvania:  In Media, after 65 years restaurant D’Ignazio’s Towne House shutting down after Xmas.  The property is being sold to speculators.

Entire school district shuts down!

Failed State Tennessee: The entire Clay County School District shutdown due to lack of money!!!  The exalted school board failed to create a required budget!

Washington DC: More proof Obama is a liar.  After stating in a speech back in August that there should be no cuts to federal alternative energy research, it’s been revealed by the Washington Post that 15 U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory employees were laid off last week.  The Washington Post article went on to say that job cuts had become routine as Congress cuts the funding for the program every year.

Wisconsin: The American Red Cross shutting down nine of their 19 offices across the state, by 2017.  Some buildings have been sold while others will be leased to companies that can make the greedy property owners more money.

09 – 10 October 2015: “we haven’t been making money”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.” 

Business/Economics

“we haven’t been making money” No more Aaron’s Rents? Muslims & Jews rounded up, proof is pork now forbidden in federal prisons! Gun control cuts? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 09 – 10 October 2015

Arizona: Small Planet Bakery shutting down their Tucson shop right before Thanksgiving after 41 years: “…we haven’t been making money… At one point back in the late ’80s, we were in 36 grocery stores … In May we cut it down to five stores…”-Lucy Mitchell, co-owner

California: San Francisco based Twitter warned of mass layoffs in the next week, according to “unnamed sources”.   In South Lake Tahoe, The Cork and More wine store shutdown after 39 years due to nobody wanting to buy the business.

Florida: Paper products mill WestRock laid off 131 people, blaming crashing sales!

Failed State Illinois:  In Bloomington, God refuses to stop the shutdown of his Catholic Workers created food pantry for low income families Clair House. After almost 37 years their last meal will be the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.  As an example of the dumbing down of America, the director claims the food pantry has been serving the poor for “five decades”, yet also said Clair House was created in December 1978, do the math that’s not five decades.

Indiana: Aaron’s Rent-A-Center quietly shutdown four rental stores last week! No reason was given, but in the 3rd quarter of 2014 they shutdown 44 stores due to “lack of performance”.  In April of this year Reuters revealed that Aaron’s administrators have fought off several takeover attempts since 2014.  Could these latest store shutdowns have anything to due with the recently revealed fact that Aaron’s just spent $700-thousand USD buying new property in Pennsylvania?

Iowa:  In Grimes, after 26 years family owned Longview Golf Center forced to shutdown due to “new development”.

Maryland: In Elkton, after 12 years Terrapin Station Winery shutdown: “Mother Nature took her toll on our vineyards and we were not able to generate enough investment to get us rolling again.”-Janet and Morris Zwick, owners

Minnesota: The privately owned Moorehead Sears Hometown shutting down by Wednesday.  The owner gave up trying to sell the franchise store.

Missouri: In Columbia, Children’s Orchard used clothing store shutdown.  After 20 years the franchise owner decided not to renew her contract due to the company being under new ownership.

New Jersey:  After 18 years Sears Holdings shutting down their Roselle Sears Hardware store due to “landlord issues”.  Apparently all employees will be offered transfers.

New Mexico: University of New Mexico eliminating 1-hundred jobs, blaming non-stop DSS (what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome)!

New York:  Troubled NYC based law firm Milberg laid off 32 employees. The law firm has been struggling ever since its co-founders pled guilty to an illegal kickback scheme.

North Carolina: Iconic gun maker Remington laid off 41 people and warned of 21 more job cuts soon.  The job cuts took place in tiny Rockingham County, which is dealing with more than 3-hundred surprise job losses in the past month!

Pennsylvania: What building construction recovery?  McKees Rocks based insulation maker Geo V. Hamilton now chapter 11 bankrupt busted blaming years of lawsuits over cancer causing asbestos.  And industrial wire maker Wire Company Holdings-New York Wire also chapter 11 bankrupt busted, blaming almost $16-million USD in debts.

Vermont: Bankrupt busted Massachusetts based City Sports shutting down their Burlington store, 20 jobs lost. 

 

Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Prisons will stop offering pig products to prisoners, directly impacting the pork industry in the United States.  Realize that the United States has more people in prisons than any other country and you’ll understand how this will adversely affect the industrial pig killers.  Prison administrators say prisoners are refusing to eat pork.  Is this a sign that the majority of prisoners are Jews and Muslims, or maybe the prison kitchens don’t know how to cook it?  Prisons administrators were asked if there’s been an increase in incarceration of Jews or Muslims and the administrators refused to comment!  The pork industry is demanding a better explanation than prisoners just don’t like pork.

08 October 2015: “I hate it!”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”