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Idaho, International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 26-29 December 2013: Crime rate increases under U.S. occupation! Idahoan killed! Afghan woman bitch slaps cop in public!!! Contractor sniped! National Guard gives away taxpayer paid for equipment!

Helmand Province: In Nad-e-Ali District, a motorcycle bomb exploded.  Two people wounded.  General Peter Wall, of the Red Coat Bilderberg British empire Army, said he expects the Mujahideen to take control of the province after 2014. Also, a U.S citizen and former Virginia cop, working for security contractor Pax Mondial (subcontractor for Black & Veatch), was sniped and killed while jogging.

Herat Province: In Shindand District, one border cop was killed, three others wounded when their vehicle ran over a landmine.

Kabul Province: Near Camp Phoenix, a car bomb impacted a U.S.-NATO-ISAF convoy, killing two Slovak-ISAF personnel and one U.S. Air Force Captain from Sandpoint, Idaho. At least nine Afghans were wounded.  Mujahideen say that 16 military vehicles were damaged or destroyed in the attack.  In Kabul City, police say the crime rate has skyrocketed under U.S. occupation.  Police held a press conference to report a record 100 kidnapping, robberies and murder cases in the past month.  More than 200 people have been arrested.  The cops blame it on people from other parts of Afghanistan flooding into the U.S. occupied capital city to look for jobs.  And what was that about Afghan women being oppressed?  Female politician, Human Sultani, publicly bitch slapped a male cop in front of the Pakistani Embassy! Reports say there is video of the incident.  Back to Camp Phoenix, the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, from the U.S. territory of Guam, gave away more than 120 pairs of boots to the Afghan National Army!  Don’t those Guam guys know that U.S. taxpayers are already giving the ANA billions in cash and material?

Kandahar Province: In Spin Boldak District, police report a explosion killed one child and wounded another.   The cops gave no further explanation.  In Maiwand District, a mini-bus ran over a landmine, killing two people and wounding at least seven.  In Ghorak District, reports that cops turned Mujahideen attacked and killed seven government personnel.  No comment from government officials.

Uruzgan Province: In Dehrawod District, reports that U.S. led Afghan government forces killed a mentally retarded man.  The man had a habit of wandering the desert at night, which caused the government forces to suspect him of planting bombs.  Also, a man claims he shot down a small U.S.-NATO-ISAF recon drone.  He says he recovered the UAV.

The U.S. Army’s 96th Transportation Company, 49th Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command, deployed to Afghanistan from Fort Hood, Texas.

The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is predicting that the Mujahideen will take control of many parts of Afghanistan by 2017.

The United Nations praise Angelia Jolie for her role as High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy for girls education.

Iran has opened up its Chabahar Port for Afghan shipping companies.  Afghan shipping companies will use it to make shipping runs to India.  The port is located between the Indian Ocean and Oman Sea.

Pakistan claims a rocket fired from Afghanistan’s Nangarahar Province, killed a Pakistani man in Hashim village of Bajaur tribal region.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 22-25 December 2013: Russia wants U.S. to stay (and die?) in Afghanistan!

Helmand Province: A USMC Sergeant from Massachusetts was killed by “direct fire”.  His family said it was his third tour in Afghanistan, and he served in Iraq.

Kabul Province:  A Red Coat British Army captain was shot and killed.  In Kabul City, four cops were wounded while trying to diffuse rockets. Apparently the rockets were just a trap as a remote detonated bomb exploded in the same area.  In Qarabagh District, Mujahideen say they fired rockets at a helicopter that landed in the area.  Also, two rockets hit the U.S. Embassy compound, but Mujahideen say they launched four rockets in total: “All Americans are accounted for and no injuries were sustained.”-U.S. Embassy statement

Laghman Province: In Alingar District, Mujahideen say they ambushed a U.S. led Afghan National Army Israeli style home invasion, killing eight people.  Mujahideen say the battle lasted five hours and two Mujahideen were also wounded.

Logar Province: In Pul-i-Alam City, a bicycle bomb exploded killing six people and wounded at least 13.

Russia’s Lower House Speaker, Sergey Naryshkin, told Afghan officials that U.S. led forces were still needed for the security of Afghanistan.

Army National Guard’s 819th Engineer Company, from the U.S. state of Arizona, returned home from Afghanistan.  They were based in Zabul Province.

Army National Guard’s 198th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, from the U.S. state of Delaware, returned home from Afghanistan.  They kept their return a secret to surprise their families.

Army National Guard’s Detachment 47, from the U.S. state of Oregon, returned home from Afghanistan.  However, it was revealed that in Spring 2014 Oregon’s 41st Infantry Brigade Combat will deploy to Afghanistan. (But wait, back in November 2013 the 41st was told they would not be deploying to Afghanistan! Maybe the local news media is confused?)

Army National Guard’s 850th Horizontal Engineer Company, from the U.S. state of Minnesota, returned home from Afghanistan.

Army National Guard’s 235th Military Police Company, from the U.S. state of South Dakota, returned home from Afghanistan.

Army National Guard’s 149th Vertical Construction Company, from the U.S. state of Kentucky, returned home from Afghanistan.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Radioactive cars showing up in…Jamaica, mahn! United States secretly monitoring radiation levels in Caribbean?

10 January 2014 (15:05 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/20 Dey 1392/10 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Not only has Russia rejected another shipment of used cars from Japan, because they are emitting radiation, but all the way on the other side of the World Jamaican officials are reporting radioactive cars showing up in their ports!

Russian officials announced that for 2013 they rejected 165 used cars and spare parts from Japan, because they are radioactive!  When it comes to fish from Japan, officials say so far they pass muster.

Now, officials with the Caribbean country of Jamaica say they have quarantined at least two shipments of Japanese cars because of radiation contamination.

The first shipment was in November 2013, and involved second hand mini-buses for sale in Jamaica.  The second case was in December 2013, and involved used car parts destined for Guyana.  Both shipments are now detained by the Jamaica Customs Agency.

Jamaican officials are now demanding urgent meetings with Japanese officials.

Jamaican Customs officials also revealed they were able to detect the radiation because the United States Department of Energy has quietly begun monitoring radiation levels in the Caribbean, and is training various Caribbean governments in how to conduct radiation checks on products coming from Japan!

Velma Ricketts, Assistant Commissioner of Jamaican Customs revealed that her country’s radiation checks are being done in participation with the U.S. DoE, and that the U.S. DoE also provided the detection equipment (at U.S. taxpayer expense) as well as the training.

 

U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Proof your elected officials are getting richer, and your paying for it! Record number of millionaires in Congress, slashing services and jacking up your taxes!

10 January 2014 (14:33 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/20 Dey 1392/10 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Reports of a decreasing U.S. unemployment rate are being tempered with the fact that not only did the number of people applying for first time unemployment assistance (IT IS NOT A BENEFIT!) go down, but so did the number of people finding jobs, and so did the number of people still looking for jobs.

That’s the real reason for the unemployment rate going down; yet again hundreds of thousands of people quit looking for work!

In December 2013, 347-thousand unemployed people gave up on finding a job!  That is represented by the Participation Rate, which hit 62.8% the lowest since 1978! When you factor the Participation Rate just for men, it hits the record low set back in 1948!

Compare the 347-thousand people who gave up finding a job to the measly number of people who found a job; only 74-thousand in December!  And that’s way down from what job ‘experts’ expected.

A CNNMoney survey of employment ‘experts’ said 193-thousand jobs were going to be created in December.  USA Today said their 37 ‘experts’ predicted 205-thousand to 238-thousand new jobs would be created in December.  Now those USA Today experts say the bad news is just an “aberration”, and blamed bad weather (damn that climate change).  Those silly ‘experts’!

Oh yeah, out of that 74-thousand jobs created in December, most of them were end of year temporary holiday/seasonal jobs!!!!

There’s good reason for long term unemployed (who are mainly men) to quit wasting their time and money looking for a job.  According to U.S. Bureau of Labor March 2013 data, if you’ve been unemployed for more than one year your chances of getting hired drops to 9%!!!!!!!!!!

Now comes your friendly neighborhood political representative, who seems to be making big money despite the suck ass economy.  According to Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), they are making big money!

For the first time in U.S. history, more than half of your elected officials in the U.S. Congress are net millionaires!

Now realize those ‘elected’ officials voted to end unemployment assistance for 1.3 million people, and are slashing and burning government services, and are stealing money from Social Security, Medicaid/Medicare and the U.S. Postal Service, and they keep jacking up the taxes you pay!

Officials at the CRP blame you the dumb voters for the situation: “Despite the fact that polls show how dissatisfied Americans are with Congress overall, there’s been no change in our appetite to elect affluent politicians to represent our concerns in Washington…”-Sheila Krumholz, executive director CRP

And don’t forget the 1.3 million unemployed who lost their federal assistance this month!  That’ll probably make the unemployment rate for January 2014 go down too, makes things look real gooood!

It’s almost like a conspiracy to rip off the average worker of the United States so the 1% elites can get richer by cutting government services while raising taxes?

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

Business/Economics, U.S.

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

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kansas: LaRocca’s Pizza shutdown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

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

Business/Economics, U.S.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International, U.S.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Business/Economics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Auburn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Anniston Kmart (no word yet on how many jobs lost), Birmingham Eastwood Kmart (70 jobs lost).

California:   El Monte Sears (at least 40 jobs lost. Damien Arrula, El Monte’s economic development director, said the store manager had lied about what was going on: “The general manager of the store had just indicated to me that they were remodeling.”), two San Diego Sears (at least 80 jobs lost), Pleasant Hill Kmart (more than 50 jobs lost), Torrance Kmart,  Fairfield Kmart (63 jobs lost),  Lampert owned OSH taken over by Lowe’s home improvement in bankruptcy court, at least 17 of 99 stores to be closed down (935 jobs lost!), Rancho Cordova Kmart (97 jobs lost), San Clemente Kmart/Sears/Kmart on Camino de Estrella (58 jobs lost), placed on an official hit list in 2011 the Oceanside Kmart on College Boulevard finally being shut down.

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

Connecticut:  Waterbury Big Kmart.

Georgia: Macon Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Buford Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Douglasville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Atlanta Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Columbus Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jonesboro Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Cartersville Kmart (74 jobs lost),  Hiram Kmart (53 jobs lost).

Guam:  Sears Hometown Store.

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

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

Vacant bedroom/bathroom section.

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

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

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

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

Indiana:  Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Sears (49 jobs lost), South Anthony Kmart (70 jobs lost), recently revealed Fort Wayne Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard (70 jobs lost).

Illinois:  Alton Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Melrose Park Sears parts and repair center (50 jobs lost), Zion Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Lawn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), McHenry Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Peru Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lombard Sears/Great Indoors (at least 40 jobs lost), Fairview Heights Kmart (81 jobs lost), Freeport Kmart (45 jobs lost), Pontiac Kmart (more than 47 jobs lost), Homer Glen Kmart (82 jobs lost), Streator Kmart (45 jobs lost), Lombard Kmart (70 jobs lost), Naperville Kmart (98 jobs lost), Calumet Sears (164 jobs lost), two Sears stores in Grand Crossing area of Chicago (247 jobs lost!), Mount Vernon Sears (68 jobs lost), Moline Sears (at least 60 jobs lost),  Homewood Kmart (185 jobs lost),  Belvidere Kmart (91 jobs lost),  Champaign’s Market Place Mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (60 jobs lost), recently revealed Montgomery Kmart (81 jobs lost).  58 Chicago area stores up for lease or sale.  By the way, Illinois elected officials gave Sears Holdings/Hoffman Estates a $150 million USD tax break to keep their headquarters in the state.  The tax break was not tied to any promise not to close stores.

Iowa:  Cedar Rapids Kmart on 16th Ave (at least 40 jobs lost), Davenport Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Burlington Kmart (50 jobs lost), Coralville Sears (94 jobs lost, this is a store sold to GGP earlier in the year), Cedar Rapids Kmart on Collins Road NE (56 jobs lost).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost).

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears (in September 2012 the Sears store re-opened under independent ownership, official grand re-opening scheduled for November), Winchester Kmart (back in May, Rankin Paynter bought out what was left of the inventory and gave it to charity), Hazard Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lexington Fayette Mall Sears (114 jobs lost!).

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

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

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

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials,  Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Flint Kmart (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears.

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off, recently revealed Fergus Falls Kmart (40 jobs lost).

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

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line, High Ridge Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

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

North Carolina: Cary Kmart (71 jobs lost), High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost), Asheville Kmart (53 jobs lost),  West Smithfield Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winston-Salem Kmart (69 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (58 jobs lost), South Ashville Kmart on Hendersonville Road, Raleigh Kmart (88 jobs lost), Garner Kmart, recently revealed Cleveland County mall Sears (56 jobs lost).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost).

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

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

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

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Columbus Sears/Great Indoors, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost), Austintown Sears auto parts and service on Interstate Boulevard,  London Kmart (no word on number of jobs lost),  Trotwood Sears (67 jobs lost).   Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Sears (98 jobs lost, GGP owned, GGP wants a $2 million sales tax rebate, claiming it’s needed to offset capital investments needed to bring the space up to the standards for potential new tenants).

Oregon: Roseburg Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Tualatin Kmart Center (new property owner from California is tearing everything down for new shopping center, so far no indication the Kmart will be part of the new shopping center), Milwaukie Kmart (61 jobs lost), Coos Bay Kmart (25 jobs lost), Bend Sears (48 jobs lost).

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost).

South Carolina: Sumter Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Orangeburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Columbia Kmart on Fort Jackson Boulevard in 2012, Columbia Kmart on Bush River Road in 2009, Columbia Kmart on St Andrews Road (66 jobs lost), Irmo Kmart (no info on how many jobs lost),  both Greenville Kmarts (140 jobs lost between the two),  Mount Pleasant Kmart (43 jobs lost).

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

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

Utah:  Orem Kmart (no details reported).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears (at least 40 jobs lost),  Midlothian Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost), Fairfax Kmart (no word on how many jobs lost), Christiansburg Sears (59 jobs lost), Norfolk Kmart on East Little Creek Road (77 jobs lost), Manassas Kmart (71 jobs lost), recently revealed Stafford Sears Hometown.

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

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 jobs lost).

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears (at least 40 jobs lost, local village officials say the store generated 3% of local tax collections), Rice Lake Kmart (about 71 jobs lost),  Brookfield Kmart (56 jobs lost), Racine’s Regency Mall Sears (52 jobs lost), Fort Atkinson Kmart (51 jobs lost), recently revealed Greenfield Kmart (107 jobs lost), Portage Kmart (78 jobs lost) and Hales Corner (129 jobs lost).

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

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

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

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

Florida: West Oaks Mall

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

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

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

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

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

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

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stop blaming China!

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

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

Stop blaming China!

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

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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