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U.S.

Japan media says Orlando shooter was brainwashed!

13 June 2016 (15:50 UTC-07 Tango 01) 24 Khordad 1395/07 Ramadan 1437/09 Jia-Wu 4714

I’ve already written that one sign that somebody has been recruited for a False Flag operation is that they disappear from family and friends before the ‘event’.

Japan’s NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has interviewed a 56 year old man who attends the same Florida Mosque as the alleged Orlando shooter.  That man says the alleged shooter grew up in the area and was very social until about five years ago when he suddenly left.  When the alleged shooter returned several months ago he was a changed man, avoiding talking to people who knew him.

CONTROL THROUGH CHAOS : USING THE BIBLE AS YOUR GUIDE TO DESTROY SOCIETY!

FALSE FLAG: BOTH ‘CHRISTIAN’ PRIDE FESTIVAL ATTACKER & ‘MUSLIM’ ORLANDO SHOOTER WERE SECURITY GUARDS!

Business/Economics

“financial position is extremely perilous” Hastings dead! 122% ObamaCare insurance cost increase for Idaho! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 13 June 2016

Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Arizona: Walgreens shutting down all 40 of their Grand Canyon State Theranos Wellness Centers and ending its partnership with California based blood testing lab Theranos.  It’s connected to Medicare and Medicaid rejecting numerous test results from Theranos.

California: In Fresno, after 66 years Sunnyside Department Store shutting down, local news media say its the last of ten family owned stores on Butler Avenue.   Blood tester Theranos facing shutdown after Medicare-Medicaid declared their test results invalid, and losing their major contract with Walgreens.

Delaware: Draw Another Circle has made it official and placed Hastings into bankruptcy, as part of their plan to try and sell-off the dying entertainment chain.

Idaho: ObamaCare insurance providers are demanding premium increases from anywhere between 27% and an insane 122% for Blue Cross’s ObamaCare Gold Plan!  The Idaho Public Charter School Commission warning Syringa Mountain School of financial peril because state funding can’t come close to covering the charter school’s outrageous operating costs: “SMS’s financial position is extremely perilous. While fundraising efforts have met current cash flow needs, SMS has struggled with lack of funds periodically throughout its years in operation.”

Illinois: Lake Land College eliminating jobs due to “significant reduction” in state taxpayer funding.  Desperate Lake Zurich considering raping taxpayers to fund a new tax district for the abandoned Kmart property! And they’re spending $40-thousand tax dollars to study the feasibility of the Kmart tax district!

Kentucky: ValuMarket shutting down their Louisville store on Hurstbourne, by July.  Local news media says the property owner is redeveloping the property.

Maryland: It’s revealed that taxpayers are being forced to pay more than $320-million each year to shore up the state’s failed retirement system that is now tied to the volatile stock markets!

Michigan: In Ann Arbor, after 70 years G&H Barbers shutting down due to the new property owner wanting to redevelop the property.

New York: In Potsdam, after more than 25 years The Cheshire Cat clothing store shutting down by mid-July.  In Jamaica, Ultimate Aircraft issued a mass layoff WARN, 145 employees unemployed by August.

Ohio: The city of Lorain notified 23 firefighters they will become unemployed due to the city being short $3.6-million USD.  City administrators are trying to get a taxpayer funded grant from the federal government.

Oklahoma: Kimray laying off 120 people by Friday, blaming the oil industry BS!

Pennsylvania: After surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Holy Innocents Catholic Church: “We can’t afford to keep it open. We don’t get enough money in the collections to maintain it.”-Medio Mercolini, loyal member

Texas: Draw Another Circle owned Hastings told 375 distribution and HQ employees in Amarillo they will become jobless within 60 days!

Washington: Redmond based Microsoft is buying LinkdIn for $26.2-billion USD, expect mass layoffs.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

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, Opinion

Control Through Chaos : Using the Bible as your guide to destroy society!

13 June 2016 (04:09 UTC-07 Tango 01) 24 Khordad 1395/07 Ramadan 1437/09 Jia-Wu 4714

I’ve heard a lot of ‘right wing christians’ ranting that attacking unarmed, innocent people is cowardly, but not only does it work it’s commanded by your own ‘god’ in your own Bible!

If  you’re a Christian you should remember the story of the statue with the feet of clay.  This story in Daniel 2 says the statue was a representation of various empires; the golden head being Babylon, the silver shoulders & chest Persian, the brass/bronze mid-section Greek, the iron legs Roman, the iron & clay feet Christian Rome (meaning the Western World today), or something like that.  But look at it from a military point of view.  The head is gold and symbolizes the elite. The silver upper body represents the upper class which supports the elite and delegates the orders of the elites.  The brass/bronze mid-section represent the middle class, the people who actually hold the empire together, just like with real humans having a strong mid-section is key to overall strength.  The iron legs represent the lower classes, the ones who actually propel the empire with their highly efficient labor (meaning they work for peanuts).  The feet are made of iron and clay, they represent the impoverished and outcast people of any society, people who actually support empires through their unfairly compensated efforts (meaning slaves or wage slaves).

The impoverished of society are never united, hence the iron and clay mix.   A society that has strong social services to support the impoverished will have ‘feet’ leaning more to the iron side, weak social programs result in ‘feet’ more of clay than iron.  A society that does not support the poor has a larger iron & clay footprint and is setting itself up for a takedown by outside enemies.  Essentially the dream of Nebuchadnezzar was showing him how to bring down his enemies; attack the poor people of your enemy’s territory.

“Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished….   …..When their substance is drained away, the peasantry will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and three-tenths of their income will be dissipated….  ….We can form a single united body, while the enemy must split up into fractions…..   So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.“-Sun Tzu (aka Sun Zi, Sun Bin, Sun Wu) at least 7-hundred years before the Bible was ‘compiled’ from older writings

MEXICO’S DRUG WAR: ANOTHER FRONT IN THE U.S. LED CONTROL THROUGH CHAOS WAR

U.S.

False Flag: Both ‘christian’ Pride Festival attacker & ‘muslim’ Orlando shooter were security guards!

13 June 2016 (02:50 UTC-07 Tango 01) 24 Khordad 1395/07 Ramadan 1437/09 Jia-Wu 4714

The main stream news media, and the right wing ‘christian’ media, are  rabid about pointing out that the Orlando shooter was a ‘muslim’, but why aren’t they talking about the ‘christian’ who was arrested with a car full of ammo and potential explosives while on his way to a homosexual Pride Festival in California?

The ‘christian’ is also a classic case of somebody being recruited for a False Flag event: Young adult, disgruntled, ideological (Orlando shooter could be considered left wing since he was a registered democrat and Pride Festival attacker is being called right wing since he publicly ranted against democrats), criminal history or history of violent behavior (this also means law enforcement was aware of individual), disappears from family and friends before ‘event’.

But here’s something more specific and connected to the shooting in Florida: Both the Orlando shooter and the attempted Pride Festival attacker were security guards!

The Orlando shooter worked for evil G4S, the Pride Festival attacker worked for Universal Protection Services and Geek Squad City, he was arrested with his security badge.

Universal Protection Services is a division of Universal Services of America.  Universal Protection Services has been video-ed providing security against anticipated civil disorder in southern California. Universal Services of America’s HQ is in Santa Ana, California, the alleged homosexual Pride Festival attacker was arrested in Santa Monica, a 57 minutes drive (if traffic is good) from Santa Ana.

According to Universal Services of America’s website they provide security not only for commercial operations but for the U.S. National Park system.  In 2010, Security Systems News posted an article that hinted at a possible connection to G4S and a growing security industry trend: “Universal Protection Services was in early on the emerging trend of guard firms increasing their abilities in electronic security. As G4S…and Andrews, for example, have both lately emphasized their desires to better coordinate their guarding and electronic security operation….”

Geek Squad City is a computer repair operation run by Best Buy.  The company has been sued for using copyrighted software illegally. Geek Squad City employees have been caught on numerous occasions using customer’s computers to spy on them (especially female customers).  Unconfirmed reports say the alleged attempted Pride Festival attacker likened his job at Geek Squad City to working for the CIA.

Main stream news reports say he disappeared several days before he showed up in Santa Monica, even his parents in Indiana began calling his friends to find out where he went.  What’s interesting is how police caught him; reports say he was knocking on doors and windows in the early morning hours in a Santa Monica neighborhood, and concerned residents called police.  He said he was looking for a friend, he was officially arrested at 04:59 hours.

Another point that makes this a False Flag is that at the first official police conference the Santa Monica Police Chief straight up said the guy was going to “harm” the Pride Festival.  At the next conference she said she was mistaken, that the guy with a car full of ammo and explosives (five pounds of mixed Tannerite) was only on his way to the Pride Festival.

U.S.

Operation Jupiter: G4S calls Jupiter home, right next to shooter’s non-profit!

12 June 2016 (14:51 UTC-07 Tango 01) 23 Khordad 1395/06 Ramadan 1437/08 Jia-Wu 4714

The FBI made a vague statement saying there were 911 calls which mentioned Islamic State.

The alleged shooter worked for G4S.  G4S has its U.S. HQ at Jupiter, Florida.  It’s about a 35 minute drive from a pro-Afghan non-profit known as Durand Jirga.  Durand Jirga is owned and operated by the alleged shooter’s father, established in 2010 in Port Saint Lucie.  2010-11 is the year G4S Wackenhut became G4S Secure Solutions and set up its new HQ next door in Jupiter, Florida.

Operation Jupiter is a term I came up with to refer to False Flag NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) warfare operations, after I discovered the U.S. Army’s JUPITR program while investigating the anthrax fiasco, and outbreaks of MERS and a new form of ebola.  It’s interesting that G4S has its U.S. HQ in a city called Jupiter.

OPERATION JUPITER: MYSTERY VIRUS DISCOVERED IN 2 SEPARATE LOCATIONS!

OPERATION JUPITER: ANTHRAX IS THE ZOMBIE DISEASE LAZARUS!

U.S.

False Flag: FBI admits it knew about Orlando shooter since 2013! ATF says gun purchase was legal!

12 June 2016 (13:23 UTC-07 Tango 01) 23 Khordad 1395/06 Ramadan 1437/08 Jia-Wu 4714

At press conference in Orlando, FBI reps admitted they had interviewed the alleged nightclub shooter several times since 2013!  They said it was because he was associated with other ‘terror’ suspects, and made threats against people, but for some reason they always concluded he was not a threat!

Outraged reporters at conference demanded to know why the shooter was not considered a threat, FBI rep would only comment that their investigation into the suspect had been officially closed and suspect was no longer “under surveillance”!

The ATF rep said the alleged shooter and employee of G4S legally purchased his weapons.

Los Angeles Times: Man with weapons and explosives arrested, was going to L.A. gay pride parade

U.S.

False Flag: Orlando shooter working for ‘christian’ G4S!

12 June 2016 (12:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 23 Khordad 1395/06 Ramadan 1437/08 Jia-Wu 4714

Confirmed reports that the alleged shooter at the homosexual dance club in Florida was employed by the evil British empire ‘christian’ run global security corporation known as G4S, (aka Rent-A-Thug, aka Shadow CIA).

I’ve written before about G4S and its connections to not only for-profit prison torture operations, but False Flag events around the world: ‘CHRISTIAN’ G4S “SHADOW CIA” CONNECTED TO INDIAN POINT NUKE MELTDOWN?

In Tampa, British empire run child prison G4S Youth Services/Riverside Academy shutdown, 130 jobs lost!

Evil British empire private prison operator, G4S, laid off at least 74 employees across California.

G4S Government Solutions laid of 13 people at the Oakland Airport.

BRITISH EMPIRE CONTROLS UNITED STATES, AND IDAHO, THROUGH EVIL CHRISTIAN G4S? SOUTH AFRICA ACCUSES CHRISTIAN G4S OF TORTURING PRISONERS!

NBC 6 Miami: Miami-Dade police officer assassinated for blowing whistle on Wackenhut (Wakenhut was later absorbed by G4S)

WFTS Florida: G4S hires employees with troubling pasts

American Thinker: “A security company contracted by the U.S. government is driving the OTMs from the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector where they were in custody to Phoenix, sources said. The firm is called G4S and claims to be the world’s leading security solutions group with operations in more than 100 countries and 610,000 employees. G4S has more than 50,000 employees in the U.S. and its domestic headquarters is in Jupiter, Florida. Judicial Watch is filing a number of public records requests to get more information involving the arrangement between G4S and the government, specifically the transport of illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to other parts of the country.”

PR Newswire: G4S Regional Vice President selected as Vice President of the Florida Association of Security Companies

Financial Times: “In the dark recesses of the Pentagon, and at 100 US Marine bases in countries spanning Afghanistan to South Korea, G4S is using new iris and fingerprinting technologies to monitor incoming traffic.  Even as the US shrinks its military force….. ..At G4S, the world’s biggest security group, sales in America are growing at twice the rate of the rest of its business.”

The Sentinel: It’s been revealed that in 2015 Renown Regional Medical Center began using armed security guards from G4S 

National Post: “The three dead, two men and one woman, were security guards from G4S Canada, a spokesperson confirmed.”

HuffPost Alberta: It was a G4S security guard that killed fellow G4S security guards 

Blind Bat News related: SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTER’S CELL PASSWORD CHANGED, AFTER THEY’RE KILLED! PROOF SHOOTING WAS A FALSE FLAG!

Fukushima

Hawaiian cows bombed by Fukushima radiation! Highest skin cancer rate & government lies connected to Idaho?

11 June 2016 / 23:30 UTC-07 Tango 01 (23 Khordad 1395/06 Ramadan 1437/08 Jia-Wu 4714)

Belgium: Yet more problems with troubled Tihanga 2 nuke plant (which was supposed to be shutdown in 2015): “An electrical motor that turns a steam turbine in a non-nuclear part of the site broke down.”-Serge Dauby

Canada: Reports say the Canadian government has reversed course on shutting down the Whiteshell/Pinawa nuclear site in Manatoba. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories has frozen the decommissioning and has apparently decided to leave underground reactors in place and simply pour concrete over everything: “Essentially, it has become too difficult and expensive to dismantle and dig up the radioactive waste at the Pinawa site, and the result is the province will wind up with a de facto nuclear waste facility.”

Finland: In 2020 the northern country will begin burying nuke waste for the first time.  They plan to bury 5-thousand tons of nuke waste for at least 100-thousand years.  The initial cost to taxpayers to build The Hollow is $4-billion USD!  Imagine the cost to maintain it, they must expect their economy to boom in order to provide the tax revenues to support The Hollow.

India: The U.S. Obama regime is supporting India’s plan to join the international Nuclear Suppliers Group: “In practical terms, there is nothing extra that the NSG will give India other than a seat at the nuclear high table.”-Rakesh Sood

Italy: The prime minister of the the U.S. led NATO member revealed plans for Italy to abandon its anti-nuclear weapons policy, and will allow the U.S. Obama regime to maintaining a nuclear arsenal in the Latin country (despite Obama’s promise seven years ago that the U.S. would stop exporting nukes), all in the ironic name of nuclear security: “Thank you President Obama. Italy is fully determined to follow through with its commitment for nuclear security.”-Matteo Renzi, Italian prime minister commenting on the basing of new U.S. B-61-12 nuclear bombs in Italy

Japan:  Five years later several people are breaking the news media silence on cancers caused by the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi disaster. A 21 years old woman with thyroid cancer is begging the rest of her neighbors to get screened for cancer. She’s one of 173 young people to reveal they have cancer that according to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation says can only be caused by a nuclear disaster.  News reports say the 21 years old woman is hiding her identity because victims of Fukushima Daiichi who go public are actually attacked by supporters of the nuke industry!  In the nuclear disaster areas skyrocketing cases of children with thyroid cancer are making local news, however, the neo-imperialist ‘hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil’ government of Japan blames the increased child cancer rates on increased cancer screenings, not radiation! Even the Fukushima Medical Association flat denies the increased cases of thyroid cancer in children could be caused by radiation contamination!   News media revealed that the government is actually dragging its feet on cancer screenings, at least 38% of the victims of Fukushima Daiichi have yet to be tested for radiation contamination!

Micronesia: 70 years after the U.S. nuked the shit out of Bikini Atoll its still too radioactive for people to return: “People dream of going back to Bikini Island, but there’s an ugly history of people returning too early and getting sick. I couldn’t get clear answers, even in scientific literature, on whether these islands were, in fact, radioactive or not.”–Emlyn Hughes, Columbia University

Sweden: Government administrators have voted to build ten new nuclear power plants. At least four will be built to replace four of Sweden’s nine older nuke factories: “This is a traditional Swedish compromise.”-Ibrahim Baylan, Ministry of Energy

United States: A shipment of plutonium and weapons grade uranium from Japan was delivered to Savannah River Site in South Carolina and weapons lab Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee.  So far nobody has explained why Japan had been storing massive quantities of weapons grade material in violation of its own laws and international laws.  It was revealed that Japan was convinced to hand it over due to its lax security of nuclear facilities: “The removal of the material from Japan represents a significant accomplishment in our broader global nuclear security efforts to secure highly enriched uranium and plutonium worldwide.”-Lieutenant General Frank G. Klotz, U.S. Department of Energy

In California “There is 89 times the amount of radiation at San Onofre as was released at Chernobyl, [Southern California Edison] spends millions of dollars each year distorting the truth. It’s a smoke-and-mirrors show they put on for the public while they cut costs to increase their profits.”-Rita Conn of Secure Nuclear Waste commenting on spent nuclear fuel at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)

Reports out of The Aloha State reveal that only one week after Fukushima Daiichi blew up radiation was detected in the air over Hawaii.  That same year the University of Hawaii at Manoa began collecting water samples to establish a baseline cesium level.  Researchers say since then elevated cesium levels have been detected around Midway Island and the west coast of North America.  But what’s more worrisome is that cesium is showing up in the milk of dairy cows on Hawaii: “The Department of Health monitored precipitation and the atmosphere and also milk. They found positive hits in all of these.”–Henrietta Dulai, University of Hawaii researcher who admitted her own cesium testing conflicts with the state Department of Health’s test results

The Idaho state Attorney General Lawrence Wasden claims he will defend the 1995 nuclear waste agreement between The Gem State and Washington DC, despite the fact that ‘elected’ state and federal lawmakers are pushing to bring more nuke waste into Idaho. The Idaho Statesman revealed that the federal government repeatedly violates the 1995 agreement. This comes as it’s been revealed that since November 2015 clean up crews from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have been investigating why a Snake River Plain Aquifer monitoring well, near Highway 20, is contaminated with tetrachloroethylene. Efforts are now underway to clean up the contamination. And of course that news arrived as news that between 2001 and 2005 Idaho had the most people die from skin cancer than any other U.S. state!
Idaho’s neighbor The Evergreen State had the highest rate of skin cancer in 2008! Both Idaho and Washington are home to huge nuclear laboratories.

“About 700,000 people drink water from the Kentucky River, which runs through the city of Irvine. Last year, Irvine received 4 million to 10 million pounds of concentrated, radioactive fracking residue from Advanced TENORM Services LLC, which further concentrated waste from Virginia-based Fairmont Brine Processing.”-Leslie Bruner

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rates Massachusetts’ Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station as one of the three worst in the U.S. (all three are operated by the same company, Entergy).   Pilgrim is supposed to be decommissioned starting in 2019, however local news media revealed “Entergy does not have enough money to decommission now. Entergy has about $900 million in Pilgrim’s Decommissioning Trust Fund (DTF). Entergy estimated that the total cost (if the work started in 2014) to clean-up Vermont Yankee, a smaller reactor than Pilgrim, would be about 1.243 billion dollars. Pilgrim’s DTF is about 350 million dollars short, even if work started today. By the time that the work is actually done, the shortfall likely will be in the billions.”

The fat-ass Christie regime in New Jersey is allowing the aged Artificial Island nuclear power plant to continue operations for another five years, and interestingly is not requiring the construction of cooling towers.  It’s all about the politics of global warming and taxpayer funded (socialist) job creation: “Nuclear plays a key role today and also in the future in meeting New Jersey and America’s clean air goals. These goals can’t be achieved without carbon free nuclear power. Just as important is the economic impact of the 1,800 jobs we supply and the millions of dollars we spend each year on goods and services right here in New Jersey.”-Joe Delmar, PSEG Nuclear

The Department of Energy (DoE) gave the green light to restart ‘cold operations’ at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico,  more than two years after the mixed-nuke waste explosion.  The DoE is paying the Land of Enchantment $74-million USD compensation for the WIPP disaster.

In Washington DC “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly issued proposals …to allow radioactive contamination in drinking water ….equivalent to 250 chest X-rays a year.” Yet another study saying cell phones cause brain cancer, this time it’s the federal government.  After spending $25-million taxpayer dollars funding the study through the National Toxicology Program it was concluded that “radiofrequency radiation (RFR) at frequencies and modulations used in the US telecommunications industry” was connected to “…RFR exposure and the neoplastic lesions…”

Business/Economics

$15 hour to kill 40,000 jobs in just one state? Migrants kill Summer jobs for teens? 46% college grads unemployed! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 12 June 2016

Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.

The Navajo Nation Council spending an additional $2-million USD to hire teenagers for the Summer.  It’s an effort to combat crashing employment of teenagers across the U.S.

California: Amazingly, and despite my continued reporting of massive layoffs across the Golden State, including the Bay Area, the UCLA Anderson Forecast claims that employment in the Bay Area is at full capacity!   But wait, the term Full Employment is misleading, it does not mean everybody literally has a job, it means that everybody who wants a job and is willing to take whatever slave wage pay level is offered can potentially become employed.

Illinois: Chicago based job analyst Challenger, Gray & Christmas is blaming crashing teenager employment on the bad economy: “The general trend in summer employment among teens has been downward and that trend has been going on since the late 1970s. …..Restaurants and retail outlets are still hiring teens, but not as many as in the past…… …summer camps, neighborhood pools, amusement parks…the number of these jobs is not really growing.”

Iowa: The city of Des Moines threatening to shutdown Hagar’s Manhattan Deli and the Greenwood Lounge if owner Lee Family Properties fails to make necessary upgrades. The battle between the property owner and the city is years in the making: “He is the worst property owner I have encountered in my entire political career. We can’t get him to do anything, so this is our last resort.”-Christine Hensley, authoritarian city council member

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? Detroit based General Motors (GM) is creating 7-hundred new jobs, not in the United States but across the northern border in Toronto, Canada!

New York:  NYC based Too Big to Jail Goldman Sachs reports that the Affordable Care Act is forcing people who normally didn’t have to work to go back to work just to afford their new ObamaCare mandated insurance!  It’s called Involuntary Part Time Employment, and the number of people working because they have to (due to ObamaCare) and not because they want to has remained high ever since ObamaCare went into effect. Now realize that for every person forced to go to work means another person who really wants to work, can’t.   The city of New York is spending $34-million USD creating 60-thousand busy work jobs for their Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in an effort to combat crashing employment of teenagers.   The city of Birmingham is using a measly $10-thousand USD in federal taxpayer grant money to combat crashing employment of teenagers considered ‘at risk’. The program is called Citizen U.

Ohio: The Mahoning County Children Services Board laying off 22 employees and shutting down the Glenwood group home due to lack of teenaged residents.

Oregon:  Raising wages during good economic times can actually boost revenues, but during bad times it could kill the economy.  The state Office of Economic Analysis is warning that the soon to be increased state minimum wage (to $15 per hour) will end up killing 40-thousand jobs!  Oregon has an official population of about 4-million, it’s a geographically large state with a population that’s half that of the evil Big Apple city of New York!     Local news reports said that Oregon’s democrat controlled government passed the wage increase before the Office of Economic Analysis published their report: “While the impact is relatively small when compared to the size of the Oregon economy, it does result in approximately 40,000 fewer jobs in 2025 than would have been the case absent the legislation. Our office is not predicting outright job losses, however we are expecting somewhat slower growth. Low-wage workers receiving raises in the near term boost incomes. Over time, however, employers will adjust by increasing worker productivity, possibly via capital for labor substitutions.”–Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast, June 2016

Pennsylvania: After 29 years Hanover Home & Garden shutting down in July, the owners saying “it’s time to retire”.  Bethlehem based National Association of Colleges and Employers revealed that only 54% of  recent college grads found full time jobs six months after graduating!

Texas: In northern Texas there appears to be an exodus of teenagers as the number of kids on their Summer break, and looking for a job, has been halved from their peak in the 1970-80s, Texas job analysts blame it on a rise in low paying back breaking jobs usually reserved for migrants: ” Most jobs involve more grunt work, more low level work and Generation Z doesn’t find those jobs appealing…. …There is no such thing as a kid job anymore because companies are reliant on every level of labor they have.”-Ron Newton

However, down south in Houston TV station CW39 conducted an unscientific survey and found that many U.S. teenagers are looking for a job, but can’t find any jobs: “I’m looking for a job right now which is kind of hard.  This is like the fourth place I’ve gone, but most places are sort of slow in the summer so it’s a lot harder to find a job.”-Sanitago Navarrete

“I couldn’t find a job or an internship and I thought I could be useful in some other way. I’m volunteering at a wildlife sanctuary.”-Alexis Acevedo

“What the numbers show for Houston is that, they’re not interested in kicking back this summer. We’ve had over 4,000 applications for 1,500 opportunities.“-Vanessa Ramirez, SER Jobs for Progress

Washington DC: More proof the economy has not recovered; the Pew Research Center reports that Summer jobs for teenagers on break from school are getting harder to find, the main reason is due to crashing sales for the employers who usually hire teens for the Summer.  In 1978 summertime teen employment hit its high at 58%, but ever since 2010 it’s hovered around 30%.  The Brookings Institution reports “Employment rates fell most dramatically among teens, and large disparities between whites and blacks persist, particularly among teens and young adults.”

And for more proof ObamaCare is killing the economy, even the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the Affordable Care Act is the main driver behind skyrocketing costs of operations for employers.  Over the past 12 months healthcare benefit costs rose 3.3%, in the previous 12 months they rose 2.5%.  Wage costs are also blamed, not because employees are actually being paid more but because their productivity is going down (of course, who wants to continue busting their ass for some employer who won’t give them a decent raise or who could kill their jobs without warning?).

Wisconsin: Restaurant Pastiche shutting down their Bay View-Milwaukee location in August.  The owners are focusing on their other restaurants.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

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 a teacher famine!” Mass exodus of teachers, blame ObamaCare! No more Hastings? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 11 June 2016

Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.

California: Save Mart issued a shutdown WARN for their Vacaville distribution center, 325 jobs gone by mid-August!  Alcoa issued a layoff WARN for their Fontana operations, 189 jobs gone by August! Also in Fontana, Ryder laying off 47 people by August. CVS Pharmacy consolidating its Coram financial ops, resulting in 152 people in Rancho Cordova becoming jobless in September!  Corizon Health eliminating 156 jobs in two locations by the end of the month!  In Corona, Switzerland based drugs maker Actavis issued a layoff WARN, 31 jobs gone by August.  In Modesto, American Medical Response-Centrex laying off eight people by Xmas.  StemCells shutting down its Newark and Sunnyvale locations, 53 jobs lost by August.  Prometheus Laboratories laying off 55 San Diegans by August. What automotive industry recovery? In Chowchilla, Brake Parts continues its shutdown, 65 people laid off by the end of July.  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; United Technologies shuts down their San Diego office at the end of July.  Software company Veritas Technologies revealed they laid off 128 people in Mountain View, back in May!  Steiner eOptics (aka Laser Devices) shutting down their Monterey location, 69 jobs gone by August. Connecticut based Xerox shutting down their Cerritos location, 39 jobs lost by August.

Delaware: Two years ago Hastings entertainment stores were sold to Draw Another Circle, now it’s up for sale again.  Administrators with Draw Another Circle say if nobody buys it then all remaining 126 Hastings stores will be shutdown affecting at least 1-thousand jobs! It’s blamed on crashing sales.

Idaho: It’s been revealed that a major buyer of Idaho potatoes, Japan, has banned the ‘fresh’ version of the iconic food product since 2006.  That’s the year that the pale cyst nematode showed up in east Idaho farms.    Japan has imported fresh potatoes from other U.S. states since then.  Mining companies from Canada and China have signed a $700-million USD deal to open a molybdenum mine near Boise.  Administrators with American CuMo Mining and MCC8 Group say Idaho has the largest moly-b deposits in the world!  $100-million of the $700-million deal will be used to study the viability of the mining ops before any mining takes place.  In Boise, an Oregon woman pled guilty to stealing $850-thousand USD from corrupt ‘christian’ run Saint Luke’s Health System.  The woman ran the scam through her Boise employer Pinnacle Pension Services.  Saint Luke’s itself has been caught ‘stealing’ local tax dollars.  

The economy is so bad that there is an official teacher “famine” in eastern Idaho schools.  According to numbers presented by east Idaho school districts, between 2009 and 2014 at least 9-thousand 569 teachers fled eastern Idaho schools!  Statewide only 11 of Idaho’s 70 school districts were able to fill vacant positions, at the same time there is and exodus of education students as well. Between 2009 and 2013 there was a 35% drop in college students entering a teacher training program (what happened to Idaho’s free tuition if somebody became a teacher in Idaho?).  Idaho Education News revealed that the state Department of Education does not keep track of such data, it’s coming from local districts and the universities themselves, implying that exalted state ‘lawmakers’ are ignoring the situation.  Local school district administrators admit low pay for teachers is the main reason for the exodus, but say ObamaCare has jacked up the cost of employee benefits so high that they can’t afford to pay teachers mo-money: “I would not say it’s a teacher shortage we are experiencing, it’s a teacher famine!”-Randy Lords, Madison School District

Mississippi: The Walnut Grove state prison being shut down due to the “budget is lower than what we anticipated”.

Missouri: In Saint Louis, the Luna Lounge shutting down, the owner saying “a lot of factors” were responsible with the deciding factor being “I don’t want to be working until 1:30 a.m. any more.”

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh base for-profit Brown Mackie College shutting down all U.S. 22 campuses by 2018!   Layoffs begin now, enrollments halted.  It’s directly connected to Brown Mackie owner Education Management’s problems with meeting tougher U.S. Department of Education rules.

Texas: University of Texas asking employees to voluntarily quit (buyouts) and eliminated 50 vacant positions.  40 academic programs threatened.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

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.”