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Business/Economics

“We need our money and we need it now!” The ‘Redman’ imposes sanctions on Michigan! HP kills 30-thousand more jobs! More proof being ‘green’ puts you in the ‘red’! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 16 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: More proof being ‘green’ puts you in the ‘red’!  In San Francisco, city bus service contractor Leap now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and auctioning-off its natural gas powered busses.   Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard (HP) announced that 30-thousand people will become jobless in November!  That’s when the new HP Enterprise company will be spunoff: “Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be smaller and more focused than HP is today. As a separate company, we are better positioned than ever to meet the evolving needs of our customers around the world.”-Meg Whitman  (HP has already eliminated 50-thousand+ jobs!)

Colorado:  State tax collectors revealed they underestimated tax revenues off marijuana sales. As a result they’ll be one tax free day on marijuana sales.  The state collected $70-million USD in marijuana taxes, more than the $42-million in alcohol taxes (and that was an increase from the previous year).   In Broomfield, Best Buy shutting down by the end of October.  City administrators admitted that taxpayer dollars will be spent “to redevelop the site”.

Florida: Wellington based B/E Aerospace eliminating 450 jobs as it joins the rest of unAmerican corporate America and consolidates its aircraft interior manufacturing!

Georgia: In Athens, Mama Bird’s Granola and Shared Kitchen shutting down by the end of the month.  They were going to shutdown in July, due to lack of sales, but an ‘investor’ promised to pay their rent for a year, however that ‘investor’ has flown the coup.

Hawaii: In Honolulu, after 35 years retail store Hilo Hattie shutting down their Nimitz Highway location in October.  As with other unAmerican corporate American business, Hilo Hattie is consolidating operations.

Idaho: The Idaho Land Board is using the excuse of wildfires to speed up the clear cutting of forests.  Areas up to 40.5 hectares (1-hundred acres) of ‘burned’ trees will now be cut down for the logging industry: “We’re talking 70 to 80 million board feet, so you could have a fairly large number of administrative packages that would have to come to the Land Board and be scheduled.”-Tom Schultz, Idaho Department of Lands

This year has not been as big a fire season for Idaho (compared to recent years), most of the smoke comes from Washington and California, yet Right to Work (you over) govn’a Otter says firefighting will cost taxpayers close to $70-million USD!

Illinois: Morton Salt shutting down its Chicago packaging ops in October, at least 23 jobs lost.  When asked what they will do with the property, administrators said “We have not made any decisions with respect to our buildings and the property there.” What automotive industry recovery?  Titan Wheel warned of a second round of layoffs.  In May they laid off 60 people.  It’s blamed on crashing orders from the farm, mining and military industries.

Indiana: In Elkhart, after less than four years ModMex restaurant shutting down by the end of the month, due to “opportunities”.  Madison Township shutting down Fire Station 31.   In Fort Wayne, after 34 years Delmar Video shutdown: “We can compete against another video store, but it’s hard to compete against a sofa and a remote control. The trend it is going so digital that we’d like to get out while we’re still on top.”-Caroline Davis, owner

Kentucky: Pipe maker Dura-Line shutting down their Middlesboro factory, more than 1-hundred people out of work before Xmas!  The factory will be sold-off.  As with the rest of unAmerican corporate America Dura-Line is consolidating operations.

Louisiana: Lafayette based IberiaBank shutting down eight offices in Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida before Thanksgiving.

Massachusetts: Boston Globe owned boston.com laid off 12 people.  

“A recent unpublished decision by the Massachusetts Appeals Court found that an employee could not establish a case for age discrimination under Massachusetts law when his entire job class was eliminated as part of a reduction in force. See Richard A. Porio v. Department of Revenue, 13-P-1621, (memorandum and order pursuant to Rule 1:28, August 27, 2015). Plaintiff is an employee who was laid off when his job class was eliminated, while other, younger members of his same job classification were “provisionally promoted” to a higher job class prior to the cuts.” 

Maryland:  Home Depot killing 315 jobs at its Hagerstown distribution center! The layoffs should take place in time for Thanksgiving.  Like many other unAmerican corporations Home Depot is consolidating the work, to Ohio.  The USPS used the excuse of mold to shutdown the Princess Anne Post Office.  This is the second time I’ve read about the excuse of mold being used to shutdown a post office (Nemacolin Post Office in Pennsylvania).

Michigan: The Michigan Economic Development Corporation eliminated 65 jobs.  It’s blamed on economic sanctions launched by native Americans!

New Hampshire:  It was revealed that tax-sucker Timken laid off 16 people from its Keene military parts factory, last week.  It’s blamed on expected decline in production.

New York: In Norwich, Esterline Norwich Aero Products shutting down their aircraft parts factory by March 2016, at least 78 jobs lost starting right after Xmas.  For the first time in eight years Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center will not open this Winter, but don’t blame ‘global warming’.  Two different news reports give two different reasons for the shutdown.  News12 blames it on a lack of revenue to maintain the facilities, however, Times Herald Record blames it on a lawsuit.  In Herkimer Brian’s Roast Beef Deli shutdown, the owner is battling cancer.

Ohio: In Cleveland, Americano Bistro shutting down by the end of the month due to an “inability to secure a lease”.  In Lancaster, after 70 years Colonial Heights Furniture shutdown.

South Carolina: In Old Town Bluffton, The Sippin Cow and the Vinyard 55 restaurants shutdown.   The owners of the restaurants say they’re forced to find new locations.

Tennessee: Three Bojangles restaurants shutdown by the state tax agency who seized the franchise owner’s assets.  Employees will not be paid (been there experienced that in 2012 here in Idaho, but nobody believes me): “We need our money and we need it now, ’cause ain’t nobody got time for that! Bills are still rolling!”-unnamed pissed-off employee who just found out the state can shutdown your job and take your final paycheck

Virginia:  The women’s only (isn’t that sexist, I wonder why it’s women’s only? you mean men and women are different?) Amethyst Health Center shutting down after 27 years due to a change in the zoning of the property.

Washington: In Seattle, Anderson’s Books shutting down in October, all books now only $1!  The owner is moving to Colorado.

Wisconsin: In Madison, after 30 years Steep & Brew shutting down by the end of the month.  The owner said he had an ‘opportunity’ to sell-out, so he did.

15 September 2015: “…we are in a yellow for a caution…”

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.” 

International

Syria, 15 September 2015: More civilians killed by U.S. backed insurgent car bombs! France bans Syrian Christians!

“It’s necessary to think about political reforms in Syria, and we know that President Bashar al-Assad is ready to involve constructive opposition in the state administration.”-Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

No ‘Sound of Music’ here: False Christian France banned the Christian Saint Ignatius Choir of Damascus from performing in the Strasbourg Sacred Days festival. 

Aleppo Province: Most of the day’s battles took place in this province.  Reports from the Syrian Arab Army say battles took place in almost every town and even Aleppo City.  At least 20 civilians killed, 104 wounded by insurgent artillery attacks.  For days now insurgents have been launching attacks near the Syrian Arab Army Air Force Academy.  Al-Neirab Airport is also being targeted by U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed insurgents.  Apparently insurgents tried to attack the Scientific Research Facility in Aleppo City.  Airstrikes launched against an insurgent convoy near Khan al-Assal, and Syrian Arab Army personnel blew up an armored vehicle boobytrapped with explosives.

Damascus Province:  Three U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed insurgents were killed in battles in the Tal Kurdi farm area. Near the Abbassyeen Hospital two civilians wounded by an insurgent artillery attack. U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed Jaish al-Islam insurgents conducted an artillery mortar strike on al-Wafideen Camp, wounding two children.

In Damascus City, the Education Ministry told school administrators to relax school uniform and dress codes.  The Council of Ministers also agreed to exempt all imports from Iran from customs taxation, even if the origin of the items actually came from outside Iran.  Russia’s Story Gas Company held discussions concerning the development of gas fields in northern Syria.

The Syrian Arab Army engaged Jaish al-Islam insurgents across the province.

Daraa Province:  Syrian Arab Army & Air Force units hit Jabhat al-Nusra (al Nusra Front) insurgents across the province.  They claim they killed dozens of insurgents and destroyed dozens of Toyota ‘technical’ gun-trucks.

A battle took place in Daraa al-Balad residential area, the Syrian Arab Army liberated at least nine blocks of the al-Manshiya neighborhood.   

The Syrian Arab Army Air Force stopped Jabhat al-Nusra insurgents from crossing the Ghazaleh Bridge.

The Syrian Arab Army blew up a bulldozer being used by insurgents who were building fortifications north of Daraa City.

Hama Province: 15 insurgents killed in al-Bahsa village.  The Syrian Arab Army ambushed Jaish al-Fateh insurgents as they were about to invade the village of Kherbet al-Naqous.  Airstrikes hit an insurgent convoy north of Hama City.

Hasakah Province:  In Hasakah City yet another vehicle bomb killed seven civilians and wounded 21.  City police say an insurgent driving a truck blew it up near the Water Resources building in Ma’aishia neighborhood.  U.S. CentCom claims NATO partner Australia launched airstrikes against their own DAESH (Islamic State) vehicles in the province, however there was no mention in Syrian news reports of such airstrikes.

Homs Province:  Syrian Arab Army & Air Force units and local militias engaged U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed DAESH (Islamic State) insurgents across the province, including near Palmyra.  Dozens of insurgents killed and many of their Toyota ‘technical’ gun-trucks destroyed.

Idleb Province:  Seven Jaish al-Islam insurgents killed in Kafr Oueid village.  The Syrian Army Air Force says they conducted airstrikes all across the province.  Click here to watch a 360 degree video of the U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli destruction of cities in northern Syria.

Quneitra Province: The Syrian Arab Army and local militia engaged insurgents near the city of al-Baath, destroying a vehicle carrying weapons and ammo.

Sweida Province: The Syrian Arab Army says they engaged numerous U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed DAESH (Islamic State) insurgent groups, killing dozens.

United States sends in Chechens?

Business/Economics

“…we are in a yellow for a caution…” Unemployment fund almost bankrupt! Mexican exodus? Texans declare War on Walmart! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 15 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

“Donald Trump is right: America’s real unemployment rate is 40%!”-Fortune

California: What automotive industry recovery? In San Francisco, after only eight years electric motorcycle maker Mission Motors now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.  The motorcycles were praised by critics, but apparently a lawsuit stopped them from getting to market.

Connecticut: GE (General Electric) blaming U.S. Congress for forcing it to ship 6-hundred U.S. jobs overseas! The exalted ‘lawmakers’ refused to fund the most important Export-Import Bank which helps U.S. companies compete globally.

Idaho: “Special Olympics Idaho is experiencing a revenue shortfall due to the statewide increased demands of our program services and athlete growth, higher cost of putting on competitions and training, coupled with the unexpected cancellation of some benefit events conducted on the organization’s behalf which were in the budget for over $60,0000.”-Laurie La Follette

For more on the confusing and corrupted Idaho Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) insurance scams read: What You Need to Know about Idaho Health Insurance

The Gem State has experienced a 30% increase in illegal immigration!  Read more: Illegal Immigration Numbers in Idaho

Illinois: In Algonquin, the Gordmans store is shutting down, corporate weenies refuse to say why, other than it was the result of an “assessment”.  Chicago based Tribune Media warned of massive layoffs at all its media outlets, including California’s Los Angeles Times which is reported to be hit by $10-million USD in cuts!

Indiana: In Evansville, mental health and addiction treatment center Mulberry Center shutting down by Xmas.  News reports say the center has a couple hundred patients, yet only seven employees.  Sounds very efficient, yet the owners of Mulberry Center, Southwestern Healthcare, say they have to consolidate healthcare services into fewer centers in order to save money because Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) greatly reduces payments.

Massachusetts: Boston Weak spoiled brats elitist students at Harvard are crying in their yogurt after learning that the two years old self serve Yogurtland shutdown: “I was actually devastated. I was genuinely devastated. Yogurtland for me as a freshman, was a place of solace.”-Lulu S. Chua-Rubenfeld

“Yogurtland was the holy place for me. My temple….”-Jon D. Young

Maryland: DC based Colonial Parking eliminating 60 jobs at the National Institutes of Health due to expired contract.

Minnesota: In Duluth, Master Bakery Outlet shutting down.  It’s part of a plan by parent company, Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo, to drastically cut back on the number of operations in the United States.  Grupo Bimbo (aka Bimbo Bakeries USA) has become the largest bakery op in the U.S.

New York: After 17 years eclectic (junky? claustrophobic?) Rainbow Music shutting down by the end of the month.  In Brooklyn, Healthy Crush Juice Hugger Cafe shutting down to be replaced with a five story building.  In NYC, after two years Luca & Bosco ice cream shop shutdown without warning. The owners told local newsies that they’re forced to look for new location, but will continue catering and wholesale ops.

North Carolina: After 65 years the Colony furniture store on Providence Road shutdown.

Ohio: The second largest salty snack food maker in the U.S., North Carolina’s Snyder’s-Lance, shutting down three factories in Columbus! Snyder’s-Lance is joining the consolidation trend and moving production closer to North Carolina.  In Frazeysburg, the Ross IGA grocery store shutdown due to crashing sales. Local news reports say customers will have to drive 20 minutes to the nearest grocery store.  About a week after it was revealed that Piketon American Centrifuge Plant uranium enrichment factory was being shutdown by the Obama regime, local unions are now reporting that more than 7-hundred people will lose their jobs!

Texas: In Texas City, British empire’s BP (British Petroleum) announced 36 layoffs at their paraxylene operations.  In Naples, the only local grocery store, Pruett’s Food, announced it was shutting down due to Walmart moving into town.  But after the announcement sales at Pruett’s skyrocketed, news reports say the residents of Naples have declared war on Walmart!  The owner of Pruett’s said if the sales can stay up then he’ll stay open.

Virginia: Newport News Shipbuilding laid off 480 salaried employees!  It’s part of their plan to eliminate 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs by the end of 2016!

West Virginia: State administrators report that their unemployment assistance fund is almost broke, due to massive layoffs in the coal mining industry: “We have seen a decrease in the Trust Fund balance and we are watching this extremely closely.  I would say we are in a yellow for a caution light on the trust fund.”-Beth Carenbauer, WorkForce West Virginia

13-14 September 2015: “Dear customers…we have closed our doors…”

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.” 

U.S.

U.S. Civil War, 03 – 14 September 2015: Professors assassinated! Cop assassinates himself! 150% increase in murders! Illinois steals victim’s homes!

Civilian Lives Matter!

“In my rural red state police academy, instructors preach about ‘officers dying left and right’—even though the numbers show this isn’t happening….

The War on Cops is a grossly inaccurate response to recent police killings which are on track for another year that will rival the safest on record. Gunfire deaths by police officers are down 27 percent this year, according to the Officer Down memorial page, and police killings in general are at a 20-year low…”–unnamed Iraq occupation veteran now undergoing police training

Despite a ban by the U.S. Supreme Court, local governments are sending people to prison for being penniless! 

Incomplete list of news reports:

Alabama: A Talladega County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a prison escapee.  News reports say cops are refusing to say what happened. 

Arizona:  Three teenagers arrested for slingshotting rocks at cars on the highway.  Police called them “copycats” to the unknown shooter targeting cars.

Arkansas:  A Dumas cop has been arrested on drug conspiracy charges. 

California: Los Angeles politicians a crying for help fighting the civil war, admitting “We can’t police our way out of this, can we?”  The number of silly-vilians killed in the city has increased 4.4% since last year.  But this didn’t stop LA cops from storming a BBQ diner and killing a suspected carjacker.   By the way, the city of Los Angeles just spent lots-o-tax dollars on new silly looking BMW electric cop cars.  The Pasadena police have been trying to cover up a deadly 2012 cop shooting by preventing the public release of an independent investigation, but a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge just shot their efforts down.  In Rialto, a silly-vilian was blasted into the air by a cop car.  The cop driving the car swore he was responding to an emergency call, however, it’s been shown the cop failed to turn on his siren and lights.   The victim, who had his shoes blown off, landed on the trunk of the cop car, no word on his condition.  In Rancho Cordova, police responding to a call about a machine gun being fired into a house, killing a dog, shot and wounded a neighbor because they thought the cell phone he was holding was a gun!   San Quentin State Prison hit with outbreak of deadly Legionnaires’ disease.

Colorado:  Three Adams County schools were on lockdown because police were looking for an armed carjacker.  The Aurora police department got a threatening 911 call: “It’s time that you guys know we are no longer playing around with the police departments. Aurora and Denver, we are about to start striking fear, shooting down all cops that we see by theirselves.”

Delaware:  Prison administrators claim a 48 years old inmate died from suicide. 

Florida:  A Miami Herald investigation revealed that men are being ritually beaten and raped in prisons!  It’s a ritual that even the guards are involved in and it’s called the “Test of Hearts”.  Boy, this country is sick!

Georgia: A transgender person says they were raped in five different prisons.

Idaho: At the Idaho State Correctional Institution (formerly run by CCA which gave it the nickname Gladiator School) a prisoner died, it was ruled suicide.  A former female prisoner has filed a complaint against the Jerome County Jail.  Among the numerous rights violations she claims that men were provided plenty of Bibles, yet women had to share one Bible.   “…written complaint by a Canyon County employee … involving allegations that the sheriff has misused his official position in support of a private nonprofit ‘Man Up’ campaign.  We have received similar complaints about the sheriff from local taxpayers on several occasions these past years. … We have encouraged them to contact law enforcement if they felt a crime had been committed.”–Steve Rule and Craig Hanson, Canyon County commissioners

Illinois:  In Obama’s homie-town of Chicago, two weeks of news reports indicated that at least 15 people had been killed (including people killed by cops) and 64 wounded.  It involved shootings, stabbings and beatings.  Try preventing the stabbings and beatings with your anti-2nd Amendment laws.  It’s not just Chicago that’s being hit hard by the civil war; Peoria reports a 150% increase in ‘murders’.  But the cities of Rockford, Springfield and Champaign still have more violence than Peoria.  It’s been revealed that victims of domestic violence have been doubly abused by local governments.  Victims who are sent to shelters for their protection find out later that they’ve been evicted from their residences.  It’s part of Nazi laws that require landlords to evict anybody who’s involved in some type of crime, whether they’re the perpetrator or the victim!  

Indiana: Five humans in the hospital after a cop car chase.  Police say they were chasing a car for failing to stop for a traffic violation, the chase ended in a crash.  

Kentucky:  A state trooper was shot and killed by a man from Missouri, who was then chased by other troopers who shot and killed him. 

Louisiana: A man was shot and killed while driving on Interstate 10.  Police have no suspects or leads.

Massachusetts: A former Hadley cop now accused of armed robbery and assaulting a cop!  False Flag at Massachusetts Institute of Technology?  Cambridge cops issued an “active shooter” warning for MIT, then later retracted it.  A woman had been shot in the leg by an unknown shooter.  Police did not explain why they retracted the active shooter warning.   Mills police now admit the cop who claimed he was shot at by people in a pickup truck, causing him to crash and burn his cop car, outright lied. The cop was the one who actually shot his own car!  Local news discovered that even though the cops admitted they lied local sheeple refused to believe the cop would lie! 

Michigan: In Lansing, a man arrested for deliberately running down and killing a firefighter.   A 29 years old prisoner was stabbed in the courtyard of the Saginaw Regional Correctional Facility.  The Michigan Department of Corrections admitted their contracted prison food service is so bad they have to change contractors!  News reports accuse the crappy food service contractor of also smuggling drugs and engaging in sex with prisoners! 

Mississippi: A Delta State University professor has been assassinated.  The campus is locked down, and police are searching for the assassin.  An illegal immigrant says female prison guards made fun of his penis and secretly watched him change clothes. 

New Mexico: A man arrested by Bernalillo cops died in custody.  Witnesses say the man was screaming that the cops were going to kill him and he was begging for help.   

New York: A Suffolk County cop truck crashed into a pickup truck, one person injured.  In Manhattan, a stupid plain clothes cop viciously tackled and arrested tennis star James Blake without ever announcing he was a cop or that Blake was being arrested. Blake slammed the pathetic apology from city administrators saying “You wonder how many times it’s happened without anyone knowing. I’ve gotten emails and texts from people that tell me, ‘This happened to me. This happened to my friend, my father, my brother’. None of them get public apologies. They deserve the same treatment I’m getting. You’ve got the badge and supposed to treat that with honour. I don’t think he deserves to ever have a badge again.”

 The Fishkill Correctional Facility killed an inmate and now the family wants justice. Another inmate says he was threatened by prison guards to keep quiet about the murder, and from that point on “The rest of my time in jail was hell!”   Police on police violence! The city of Yonkers is considering to offer a NYC cop who was beaten by Yonkers cops, $198-thousand USD to make the ugly incident go away.  Despite the cop on cop violence a female New York cop admits they are pissing themselves because they’re more scared of silly-vilians with guns: “There’s a total lack of respect out there for the police. The perps feel more empowered to carry guns because they know that we are running scared.”

Nevada: In Las Vegas two cops were ambushed, shot and wounded, at a stop light. 

North Carolina: Raleigh police reported that a man they arrested mysteriously died in custody.  911 recordings reveal that the man had become violent and even stated “I can’t help it!”  Relatives of the man said he had just taken his blood pressure meds. 

Ohio: In Cincinnati, cops tased to death a man trying to rob the Over the Rhine fuel station.  A local news investigation found the fuel station had 2-thousand police calls in the past two years!  In related news, the Cincinnati police chief Jeffrey Blackwell was fired, in part  for retaliating against his own cops.  In Springfield, a “delirious” man was tased by cops, and then died.  Police claim they found the naked bleeding man corralled by bystanders in a car. They say they tased him because he bit one cop on the leg. 

Oklahoma:  A 67 years old man shot the Pond Creek police chief, a sheriff’s deputy then shot and killed the 67 years old man.   A prison riot at the Cimarron Correctional Facility left four people dead.  The prison is operated by evil for profit Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which has a history of turning prisons into “Gladiator Schools”.   See also, “Corrections Corporation of America is getting rich from jailing children and pregnant women—and no one seems to care.”

Oregon:  In Hillsboro, a man was found shot dead near the police department’s parking lot.  A cop says he was eating lunch when he heard several gunshots. 

Pennsylvania: The Bessemer Borough police chief assassinated himself, while cleaning his gun!   Philadelphia SWAT responding to a barricade situation.  EMTs have been called as well.  Six prison guards facing charges of smuggling drugs into prison, after a sting operation.

Rhode Island: A Rhode Island Public Transit Authority bus driver arrested for refusing to obey a cop!  

Virginia: Prison video has been released showing cops tasering a naked female inmate five times, she died.  An Augusta Correctional Center guard pled guilty to taking a $1,500 bribe to smuggle tobacco into prison.

Washington: Three Pasco cops who shot, dozens of times, and killed a Mexican citizen for throwing rocks will not face criminal charges.  In Milton, a cop car chase resulted in a crash that killed one person: “I’ve never heard a car flipping before other than on TV, but it was just like what you would have seen on TV. Just flip, flip, crash, crash, bang, bang, bang, crunch, and a skid. It lasted seconds, but it seemed so much longer.”   For the second time this year a prisoner was found dead in the Franklin County Jail.  The first time was ruled negligence because the prisoner was somehow pumped full of meth, but no charges were filed!   A female prisoner died in the Pierce County Jail, guards say she was found unconcious.

Washington DC:  A security guard shot and killed a man at Union Station. The guard said the man had just stabbed a woman.  The mayor of DC has ordered cops to collect political pledge signatures in support of homeless housing!  When questioned by local news the mayor denied the report.

Being a cop is safer than being a silly-vilian

California admits 6-thousand 156 civilians killed by law enforcement in a nine years period!

Egyptian police kill Mexican tourists

Elitist Aussie cops get McLaren and Aston Martin supercars

Business/Economics, Idaho

“Dear customers…we have closed our doors…” Corporate America uses Fed debt financing to buy their own stocks & each other! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 13 – 14 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

“….over the past three years, we’ve seen more than a trillion dollars of issuance each year. And it’s accelerated each year as they try to take advantage of cheap borrowing costs.  They’ve used that money to fund buybacks and also to purchase other companies in what’s been a record wave of mergers and acquisitions.”-Eric Platt, Financial Times explaining to PBS Newshour how unAmerican Corporate America has been using the zero interest rate debt financing they’ve been getting from the Federal Reserve, none of it used to create jobs!

Arkansas: Energex is halting hollow steel structure manufacturing at their Atlas Tube factory, again: “We did idle the plant in April but we did not expect to be down more than 30 days. We expect this to be longer. We will idle the equipment by the end of September.”

California: In San Francisco, British empire U.S. tax-sucking military contractor BAE revealed they laid off 134 people!  Solar energy parts supplier MiaSolé Hi-Tech issued multiple WARNs saying 79 people will be unemployed before November.  Japan owned convenience store chain FAMIMA issued multiple layoff WARNs saying 94 jobs lost by the end of October.  In Menlo Park, Affordable Care Act medical device tax forcing medical device maker Acclarent to layoff 114 people by November!  Off-airport parking operator Park-N-Fly eliminating 71 jobs at two California locations by the end of October.  In Pismo Beach, after at least 33 years Pismo Bob’s hardware store shutdown.

Colorado:  In Fort Collins, two yogurt shops shutdown, Mahalo Yogurt and a TCBY.   The owners of Mahalo Yogurt blamed high rent and the owner of the TCBY admitted there are too many yogurt shops in the area.

Historic and iconic, after 89 years no more Green T in Idaho!

Historic and iconic, after 89 years no more Green T in Idaho!

Idaho:  After 89 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Chubbuck’s iconic Green T Bar & Grill (aka Green Triangle) shutdown suddenly.  The property, which has been in operation as the Green T decades before the city of Chubbuck was even created and included customers like U.S. President Harry Truman (the guy who nuked Japan), Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Willie Nelson, was sold and supposedly will be turned into three fast-casual restaurants.  Green T memorabilia will be auctioned-off on 01 October.  Mayor Kevin England views the destruction of the last of Chubbuck’s historic landmarks (to be replaced by yet more restaurants) as “…the beginning of some real good things coming in.”   Yeah that’s what we need to save our local economy, more restaurants.

Illinois: Lack of a state budget forced healthcare provider  Home Care Personal Services to shutdown without warning.   After 12 years, upscale restaurant Japonais by Morimoto shutting down in October.  In East Alton, after 62 years Hon’s Barber Shop shutdown.

Iowa: Animal food maker US Feeds shutting down their Eldora factory, 29 jobs affected.  It’s connected to the recent takeover of their rival Hubbard Feed.

Louisiana: It’s been revealed that Bronco Oilfield Services laid off 52 employees last week.  

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? Car parts maker Stant shutting down their Romeo factory in time for Thanksgiving, 167 jobs lost!  The company is consolidating operations. 

New Jersey:  Nazi state administrators forced Just in Time Moving & Delivery Service to shutdown after ten years of problem free business.  State nazi weenie heads boasted “Through enforcement actions like this, we’re working to protect consumers…”, yet the owner’s only crime was failing to renew his business license.  The owner says the state continually “sabotaged” his attempts to renew his license because of racism:  “A lot of companies do horrendous things in the moving business, and they get away with it. I believe this has to do with my national origin.”-Haliru Gusau

Gusau’s only ‘crime’ was doing business in New Jersey.  Who in their right mind would want to do business in New Jersey and have to pay outrageous license to operate fees when there are states that have little or no license requirements for most businesses?

New York: The family owned Sanborn Marketplace grocery store is being forced to shutdown by their landlord and a greedy property developer.  They have to vacate the building by the end of October, and guess what the property developer wants to do with the property, build a grocery store!

North Carolina: No more beer as MillerCoors announced they’re shutting down their 39 years old Eden ops by September 2016, about 520 jobs lost!  Crashing sales are forcing MillerCoors to consolidate operations along the east coast.

Tennessee: After 26 years The New Moon Gallery and Tea Room shutting down due to the death of one of the co-owners.

Texas: In Austin, the operator of 41 years old music venue Hole in the Wall says he’ll have to shutdown in January 2016 because that’s when his rent jumps to $20-thousand USD per month!

Virginia: “Dear customers, we are sad to inform you that after several months of negotiations with the landlord, Pane e Vino Ristorante e Pizzeria has been unable to reach a new lease agreement. Consequently we have closed our doors for business….”

Wisconsin: In Wisconsin Rapids, after 30 years Gremler’s Bakery shutting down by the end of the month.

11-12 September 2015: “They’re leaving me out to dry!”

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.” 

U.S.

New Red Scare as paranoid Obama sees Chinese communist under his hotel bed!

13 September 2015 (12:26 UTC-07 Tango 01)/22 Shahrivar 1394/29 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/01 Yi-You (8th month) 4713

Barack Obama has canceled his traditional stay at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, supposedly because it is now owned by China!

The hotel has been the residence for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations since 1947 but that’s gonna change: “The decision about the location of the U.S. Ambassador’s residence must necessarily take into account numerous factors, including costs, the needs of the United States government and the U.S. Mission to the UN, as well as any possible security concerns.”-Mark Toner, U.S. Department of State

Red Scare

Business/Economics

“I am…losing my dream…” “They’re leaving me out to dry!” Greedy property developers killing United States! Airline maintainer dies, right after president! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 11 – 12 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: Tax-sucker Boeing issued yet more mass layoff WARNs, this time 288 people to be unemployed by the end of October! In Santa Rosa, Mesa Beverage eliminating 137 jobs by the end of October! In Los Angeles, due to losing big food service contracts Patina Restaurant Group eliminating 317 jobs by the end of October!  Tech company Intuit issued mass layoff WARNs saying 110 Californians losing their jobs by the end of October!   Hotel operator Sheraton laying off 734 people in Palm Desert and Dana Point, supposedly temporarily!  In San Francisco, the Kor Hotel shutting down by November, 107 jobs lost!  The San Jose Airport Garden Hotel shutting down by November, 123 jobs lost!  Also in San Jose, beer distributor M.E. Fox & Company eliminating 127 jobs by November!  What housing construction industry recovery? In La Mirada, countertop and door maker VT West laid off 68 people.  Now bankrupt Huntington Beach based (but co-owned by British empire’s Australia) surf clothier Quicksilver shutting down 27 brick-n-mortar stores.  In Costa Mesa, after 27 years the Cat Clinic of Orange County shutdown.  The owner is pissed, she says she never made a profit, in fact she’s been losing money and it’s killed her dream: “I am just sick about losing my dream, my cats, my clients.”-Kelly Wright, veterinarian

Connecticut:  It was revealed that GreatWave Communications laid off about six employees, administrators call it “cyclical”.  In Westport, Villarina Pasta shutting down by the end of the week: “The rent has gone way, way up! Westport is not a good town for small businesses. The rent now is four times more than our limit……we should have moved five or six years ago.”-Lynn Sclafani, co-owner

Florida: Switzerland owned Melbourne based MidAir USA airline maintainer is now chapter 7 bankrupt busted, following the death of its president in April.  At the beginning of the month MidAir warned of its demise due to crashing airliner maintenance contracts. It owes one New York airport more than half a million dollars in rent and fees.  In Saint Petersburg,  Georgie’s Alibi shutdown.  Local news reports didn’t explain why but said the owners were major donors to local charities and were politically active.

Illinois: A Bellevue Quiznos sandwich shop shutdown after 20 years.  The franchise owner blames to evil corporate weenie heads: “They’re leaving me out to dry! They don’t want to help. I thought if I stuck around I would reap the rewards of it all. Everything would come my way, but my sales went down.”-Mike Barron

Louisiana: Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forcing Baton Rouge General hospital to eliminate 60 jobs and shutdown its Mid City emergency room!

Maine: After 53 years Ballard Meats & Seafood shutdown blaming skyrocketing costs of operation, especially the electricity bill which has been hitting as much as $2-thousand USD per month!  Affordable Care Act forced Southern Maine Health Care to layoff 13 people and halt their overnight care in Sanford.

Massachusetts: Affordable Care Act forced Worcester based Reliant Medical Group to eliminate 78 jobs.

Michigan: Is Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) responsible for Powerlink janitorial contractor losing their contract with Henry Ford Health System?  190 jobs lost in time for Xmas!  What automotive industry recovery?   Leon Automotive Interiors has been sold off and will shutdown its Wyoming factory, 125 jobs lost (75 jobs eliminated last year)!  The new owners blame lack of new contracts, and it was revealed they’re moving employment to Mexico.

New York: In Skaneateles Falls, medical device maker Welch Allyn taken over by Hill-Rom, at least 80 jobs will now be eliminated.  

Ohio: The Piketon American Centrifuge Plant uranium enrichment factory has been ordered to stop by the Obama regime.  Tax-sucking contractor Centrus Energy now warning employees of mass layoffs.  Reports say 145 people have been laid off!

Pennsylvania: The Please Touch Museum now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The issuing of bonds has resulted in the museum being $60-million USD in debt.  Those bonds aren’t free.  In Moosic, the Mickey D’s (McDonald’s) shutting down after 40 years serving billions of burgers with questionable meat.  The franchise owners would not explain why they’re calling it quits.

Texas:  Tarrant County permanently shutdown six passport offices claiming the U.S. Department of State is waging “an element of retaliation” over a rules dispute.

10 September 2015: “We just cannot continue on this road.”

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

False Flag or Incompetence? 3rd time in 4 months massive loss of industrial bees in Idaho!

12 September 2015 (14:54 UTC-07 Tango 01)/21 Shahrivar 1394/28 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/30 Yi-You 4713

For the third time in four months, millions of bees used by farmers were lost when a tractor-trailer rig flipped while driving through Idaho.  (the first two times happened in June)

A pollen encrusted bee on a sunflower in Chubbuck, Idaho.

A pollen encrusted bee on a sunflower in Chubbuck, Idaho.

This time it happened near where I live,  on Interstate 15.  The bees swarmed and caused drivers in other vehicles to crash.  A motorcyclist was stung on the head, causing him to crash.  Then a tanker truck hauling sulfuric acid crashed into a car.

I find it interesting that as bees are so important to agriculture that three major accidents involving trucks hauling bees through Idaho happened in a four months period (one in Coeur d’Alene, northern Idaho. One near Arco, eastern Idaho, and now this latest one in Pocatello also in eastern Idaho).

The owner of the bees says most will die due to their hives being destroyed.

Mother Nature killing off Bees, Chickens & Turkeys! 

U.S. West Nile virus: No more bees? 

West Nile update: Bees dying by the thousands! 

Corn syrup + GMO corn crops + Pesticides = Honey Bee Colony Collapse! 

Honey Bees dying in China, lack of water

Business/Economics, Idaho

“We just cannot continue on this road.” California city admits goal of destroying 2nd Amendment Rights! Idaho ignores its own beer/wine sales laws! Pocatello leaders lie about jobs! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 10 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Alabama: Richland Golf Course shutdown: “It is with heavy and broken hearts that we announce we have put Richland Golf Center up for sale.  The past fourteen years at Richland have been a true blessing…..The past few years have been rough.  Our rent has more than tripled over the last several years and it has killed us.  We just cannot continue on this road……We have met with banks, private investors, City officials, and more trying to work something out.  Our prayer is to sell the facility.”

California: In San Luis Obispo, after 30 years the owners of Costume Capers say they must shutdown after Halloween due to competition from internet and the seasonal Halloween costume shops.  Cupertino based (but incorporated in Ireland as a tax dodge) hard-disk maker Seagate announced it’s killing off 1-thousand and 50 jobs in time for Xmas!  It’s blamed on crashing computer sales.  In San Francisco, the owner of the last gun store in the city, High Bridge Arms, says the city is about to pass an unconstitutional law that will shutdown his business.  City administrators boasted that they were openly attacking the 2nd Amendment: “What we are doing is essentially closing what amounts to a loophole between federal and state law and making sure that San Francisco continues to stay at the forefront of gun control legislation in our country.”-Mark Farrell

Florida: Avon Park Fire Department laid off 11 firefighters due to local taxpayers demanding an end to the Fire Assessment Fee.

Georgia: Atlanta based NBC owned Weather Channel laying off an undisclosed number of employees due to a radical change in programming.

Idaho: The Idaho Statesman revealed that Idaho police have not been enforcing state laws regarding the sale of beer and wine.  One rule says all brands of beer/wine must be available to all retailers who want to sell it, no “private label” sales.

In Bannock County the Mormon dominated Bannock Development Corporation outright lied about jobs saying “The demand is here but the workforce isn’t.”  Bullshit!  I’ve been unemployed since April (when I got laid off after the USPS shutdown their postal processing center in Pocatello on Flandro Drive).  I got no severance and the Idaho Department of Labor gave me no unemployment assistance.  I’ve got 13 years military experience, decades in retail/warehousing/delivery and six years in television, yet in the past few months I got three rejection notices for entry level jobs say I “didn’t have the qualifications they were looking for”!  Where are these jobs Bannock Development Corporation?  I’ve been told my problem is my age, I’m over 45 years old which seems to be the unwritten cutoff for hiring workers.  Most of the young adults in the area flee due to the lack of good paying jobs, so is what the Bannock Development Corporation really saying is that ‘the demand is here but the YOUNG MORMON workforce isn’t.’?

Illinois: In Washington, Tractor Supply Company shutting down its Washington Road location in October, due to “many business factors”.  The Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon shutdown after 18 years on Route 50, at least 50 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on the property owner who wants to redevelop the land.  The Top of the Hill Bait Shop in Murphysboro shutdown.

Iowa: In Shell Rock, farm equipment maker Unverferth Manufacturing joins the downsizing club: “As commodity prices have plummeted over the last year and investment tax credits have subsided, so has the demand for farm equipment. As such, we have had to make the hard choice of laying off workers to better meet current demand. Being family owned, we keep any specific numbers private.”

Louisiana: Too Big to Jail Capital One announced major changes for its Pelican State operations that will result in shutdowns and hundreds of layoffs: “We are transforming the bank with a focus on efficiency and simplifying our organization. We notified assistant branch managers in Louisiana that their roles are being eliminated.”

Maryland:  Bethesda based tax-sucker Lockheed Martin announced they will eliminate 5-hundred IT jobs! It’s connected to their $9-billion USD takeover of Sikorsky Aircraft.  Lockheed Martin has already eliminated hundreds of jobs this year.

Michigan: After 35 years The Lark restaurant shutting down by Xmas in West Bloomfield Township.  The owners said it’s getting harder to run a business and the returns continue to fall.

New Jersey: In Toms River, Harris’ clothing store shutdown after 87 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions).   After 100 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Metzler’s Sporting Goods shutdown: “We made it to 100 years and that was very important to me. I’m going to be 65, it makes sense. Now is a good time for me to pack it in while everything is still OK and to go out on my terms.”-Billy Meltzer

New York: In Orchard Park, after 80 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Eckl’s Restaurant shutting down by the end of the month.  It’s up for sale.

North Carolina: Duke Energy shutting down their Allen Steam Station coal fired electricity factory by 2024, due to a federal lawsuit.

Oklahoma: In Tulsa, Lil’ Reasor’s convenience store on 15th Street and Lewis Avenue shutdown.

Pennsylvania: Too Big to Jail BB&T (Branch Banking & Trust) laid off 89 people at its new Lititz location.  It’s part of BB&T’s $2.5-billion takeover of Susquehanna Bancshares.  More layoffs could happen once more redundancies are identified.

South Dakota: Wyndham Hotel Group shutting down their Aberdeen call center, 250 jobs lost by January 2016!

Texas: In Austin, after 34 years Cozzoli’s Pizza shutdown.

Washington: The state Charter School Commission forced to shutdown after the state Supreme Court ruled charter schools “unconstitutional”!

Wyoming: In Pavillion, Miss Ginny’s Roost Steak House shutting down: “Yes, Saturday lunch will be our last day of operation. There is no one to blame but myself: I made very bad business decisions, based on bad information. I take full responsibility for the demise of my once proud Roost.”

09 September 2015: It’s official, Albertsons killed Haggen!

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

It’s official, Albertsons killed Haggen! Investment corp can’t locate 25% of its assets! 2,000+ railroad jobs gone! Yet again, taxpayers pay for shutdowns! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 09 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

RestarauntNews.com has decided to charge for what Blind Bat News has been doing for free for the past few years; issue reports on how many restaurants have shutdown!

A Moneyball Economics article explains that mass layoffs continue because inventories are still too high, which means people are not spending what little money they have, which means the economy has not recovered.

Alabama: In Albertville, after 43 years the Plasticraft factory finally shutdown and will be auctioned off next week. At one time the plastics factory employed 150 people!

California: Newport Beach based Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) warned of mass layoffs after an inventory count revealed they are missing 25% of their assets, and they’re experiencing a mass exodus of investors!  Huntington Beach based (but co-owned by British empire’s Australia) surf clothier Quicksilver about to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy.  At least 80 people in California losing their jobs. The company is now in the evil hands of Oaktree Capital Management.   In Chula Vista, after almost five decades the Fun4All mini-amusement park shutdown.  The property was sold to a storage unit company.

Florida: Yet another Sunshine State restaurant shutdown for health code violations, this time the Seffner Cracker Barrel was shutdown after inspectors found raw cow meat stored over cheese sauce and at least 50 roaches.  Those are just two of the 37 violations discovered.

Illinois: Southern Illinois University (SIU) reporting what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS).  Administrators say enrollment is down 3.9% and they’ll have to layoff employees.  Because of the DSS of 697 students SIU is short $5.2-million USD.  In Streator, Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forcing the Saint Mary’s Hospital to be shutdown by 2016 and replaced with a smaller outpatient clinic.  Most of the hospital’s 3-hundred jobs will be lost!  In Rockford, the PK Diner shutdown, the owner saying “It’s not going as well as we’d like it to.”

Kansas: Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) done in hospital Mercy Independence.  They tried to merge with another hospital chain but that failed.  2-hundred healthcare jobs now lost!   Administrators warn that they might have to shutdown their Mercy Fort Scott hospital as well.  Local news reports indicate that since ObamaCare went into effect at least 50 small town/rural hospitals have shutdown.

Kentucky: Cave City administrators killed off all hope to resurrect the Funtown Mountain amusement park, saying the owner failed to address numerous safety code violations.

Louisiana: The Gift Shoppe and The Kids Shoppe at Teche Drugs & Gifts shutdown, due to the death of one of the owners.

Maryland:  Affordable Car Act (ObamaCare) forcing taxpayer funded Dimensions Healthcare System’s non-profit Laurel Regional Hospital to end maternity care, at least 38 jobs lost. It’s part of a bigger plan to turn the hospital into a smaller outpatient clinic (which means even more job losses).

Montana: In Red Lodge, Bridge Creek Backcountry Kitchen and Wine Bar (and only server of Starbucks coffee in the town) shutting down by the end of the month.  The owners said they’re moving back to their home state of Minnesota.

Nebraska: Omaha based Union Pacific (UP) railway admitted that the number of their layoffs have increased, to 2-thousand 3-hundred!  This is a far cry from the “several hundred” UP originally announced.  It’s blamed on declining freight shipments.

Nevada: Former employees of the Hycroft gold mine told local news they had no warning about their layoffs.  Local news revealed that 230 people were laid off back in July, and that number does not include the contractors!  Local news also pointed out that the company failed to file a WARN.   Hycroft administrators say they’re planning to go chapter 11 bankrupt.  State taxpayers are being forced to shell out $52,062 USD to “temporarily” shutdown the Nevada office of tourism in China!  State ‘lawmakers’ blame a contractor.

New Hampshire:  The Vision Processing Technologies factory in Litchfield was taken over by Ireland based Kerry Group at the end of 2014, now it’s being shutdown, 45 jobs affected.  Interestingly, Kerry Group donated a paltry $5-thousand USD to the city.  

Ohio: Cincinnati based retailer Macy’s announced it will shutdown  40 stores by early 2016! Compare that to the 52 stores Macy’s shutdown over the past five years.  Administrators blame increased competition from both brick-n-mortar ops and the internet.  In Piqua, the El Sombrero restaurant shutdown due to “circumstances beyond our control.”  In Burlington, after 15 years Look What I Found antique store shutdown due to property owner selling the property.

South Carolina: In Myrtle Beach, after 35 years music venue Harold’s shutdown.   After 19 years the Planet Hollywood restaurant shutdown.  After ten years live role playing game venue MagiQuest shutdown.  Milliken & Company shutting down the former Springfield textile factory in Lyman, 125 jobs lost!  Milliken recently took over Springfield and is eliminating now redundant operations.

Tennessee: Local news media declaring East Chattanooga a “food desert” as the last fruit-n-veg grocery store, Scarbrough’s Produce,  shutdown.  Even the property owner wants to see another plants only grocery store move in saying “I can buy the product. I need them to bring in their people to run it.”  Some people blamed convenience stores that sell fried chicken (hell yeah, we humans are carnivores not rabbits, I’ll take fried chicken over veggies any day).

Texas: In Austin, after seven years with a high turnover rate in chefs, the Mulberry wine bar shutdown.  In Italy, long time Uptown Café shutting down due to the property owner selling the property.

Virginia: In Christiansburg, clothier Sherman & Smithmans shutting down after 47 years of service.  The owners blame changing clothing trends.

Washington: Bellingham based Haggen Foods has already shutdown dozens of grocery stores and eliminated hundreds of jobs and now they’re  chapter 11 bankrupt busted, no thanks to being tricked into buying 146 failing Albertsons-Safeway stores: “They were just clueless from the very beginning. You couldn’t do worse than what they’re doing.”-David J. Livingston,  DJL Research

08 September 2015: “the numbers just didn’t add up”

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.”