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Business/Economics

“It is not fair.” No more Ajax or Fab? Obama corrupting ObamaCare? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 23 May 2016

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

Former White House Counsel (and current attorney at law) Boyden Gray accuses the Obama regime of willfully subsidizing specific ObamaCare insurance companies with your tax dollars!  The accusation is titled Allocation Of Funds Collected Under The Affordable Care Act’s Transitional Reinsurance Program Between Treasury And Reinsurance-Eligible Issuers.  Gray basically says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is violating ObamaCare rules which say general fund money cannot be used to pay “reinsurance-eligible issuers”.  The HHS has been diverting money that’s supposed to go to the Department of the Treasury to ‘reinsurance’ companies: “….by the time the books close on TRP for the 2014 and 2015 benefit years at the end of 2016, reinsurance-eligible issuers will likely have received 98% of expected payments ($15.6 billion out of an expected $16 billion), whereas Treasury will likely have received only 12% of expected payments ($495 million out of an expected $4 billion).”

Colorado: In Longmont, after 42 years Miller Music shutting down due to crashing sales since 2008.  In Colorado Springs, after three years Curbside Cuisine shutting down multiple lots owned by god’s Young Men’s Christian Association and being rented to independent food trucks.  YMCA administrators said Curbside Cuisine wasn’t making enough money off renting out the YMCA property so they’re being handed back to the YMCA.  One food truck operator said he got three weeks notice of shutdown: “I don’t know where to move. We have been here all winter and didn’t make any money and now the weather is starting to get better and we have to move. It is not fair.”-Hayder Hassan, former U.S. Army translator now food truck operator

Connecticut: Stamford based Phoenix Brands (maker of cleaning products like Ajax and Fab) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and auctioning-off its name-brands.  Company administrators say there is no economic recovery, proven by their three years in a row of crashing sales!  The company even tried outsourcing most of its production work and selling-off several brands, like popular Rit!

Illinois:  Discount retailer Tuesday Morning shutting down its Fairview Heights location.  Thrift store Marklund Resale shutting down their Wood Dale location, saying sales aren’t good enough to support their mission to help disabled people.  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; Chicago based internet loan company Avant laid off 60 people.  CEO  Al Goldstein admitted the economy sucks: “Our biggest competitor [California based Lending Club] just fell down, and the whole space is at an inflection point.”

Iowa: After 95 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) AIB College of Business shutting down. Because of the bad economy it’s merging with the University of Iowa.  The president of the private college swears their merger with a taxpayer funded university isn’t about the bad economy, yeah right!

Kentucky: In Louisville, Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen shutting down their Frankfort Avenue restaurant, apparently they’ve been asked to relocate to Dixie Highway.

Maine: In Bangor, god powerless to stop ‘his’ addiction treatment Manna shutting down its last two treatment centers.  The “faith based” non-profit owes taxpayers at least $1-million USD!  Government administrators say the christian run addiction treatment center failed to report overpayments from taxpayers, but god’s Manna administrators say “Due to decreasing state funding and declining financial support as a result of recent negative media coverage, it is with great sorrow that we find we must close our faith-based drug and alcohol programs, Elijah’s House and Derek House, on June 15, 2016.” 

Massachusetts: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; Boston Weak tech start up Localytics admitted that its recent round of layoffs was an effort to maximize profits in a crashing economy.

Minnesota: In Moorhead, The Red River Valley Academy shutting down so the owner can deal with “changes in our family”. 

New Hampshire: In Lebanon, after 16 years Nouveaute Boutique suddenly shutdown due to the landlord jacking up the rent.

Oregon: The state Department of Environmental Equality and the Oregon Health Authority essentially shutdown Bullseye Glass, 150 jobs threatened: “The set of restrictions that the DEQ is putting on us are unnecessary. They’re causing us to have to lay employees off. This order came nearly 12 hours after DEQ learned of a reported one-time spike in lead levels May 9 in the air near Bullseye Glass.”-company statement

Pennsylvania: In Johnstown, after three years R.J.’s Café and Lounge shutdown, apparently without warning.  Local news media say the owners called it “a business decision”.  In West Hills-Pittsburgh, bowling alley Westmont Lanes shuts down tomorrow, the owner lamented “We used to be double-shifted every day. Now I’m not completely full any time.” 

South Dakota: The only licensed ‘extended hours’ daycare in Pierre shutting down.  The owners of Little Explorers blame it on high employee turnover.

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

Proven; Migrants taking jobs from citizens! Kraft Heinz gets taxpayer funding to kill jobs! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 22 May 2016

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

Beware of all the rosy job creation data, remember, people who get laid off but get a severance are not counted in official unemployment numbers.  In most states people who work for religious institutions and then lose their jobs are not counted in the official unemployment data.  Also, if you break down the official government data the majority of new jobs went to migrants/refugees, not U.S. citizens (read more in Washington DC below).  

Arizona: In Tempe, after 49 years the Student Book Center shutting down by the end of the month, the greedy property owner sold the property.

California: In Santa Monica, restaurant Aestus shutdown today.

Florida: After surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions, Florida Book Store in Gainsville shutting down on Wednesday.  It’s being consolidated with the University of Florida’s on-campus bookstore.

Idaho:  The state Department of Agriculture continues its dismal farm report by saying all but two types of crops will lose money this year.  The two money makers are sugar and barley.  Snake River Sugar Company-Amalgamated Sugar expects as much as $900-million USD in revenues for 2015.  But that increased revenue doesn’t translate into job creation, Mark Duffin of the Idaho Sugarbeet Growers Association says actual sugar production employment has been going down due to increased use of new technologies.

Kansas: State and federal data shows The Sunflower State lost a net 3-thousand 7-hundred nonfarm jobs in April, and for the past 12 months Kansas had a net 0% growth!  Kansas has been losing jobs since 2008.  Wichita Public Schools shutting down Metro-Meridian alternative high school (school for nonconformists) due to lack of taxpayer funding.

Massachusetts: After 59 years god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Presentation of Mary Early Childhood Program, due to the economy: “When we looked at all the resources available we realized we just didn’t have the resources to continue. We wanted to continue serving as long as we could, but realistically we can’t….”-Sister Janice Perrault

Ohio: “If there’s jobs out there, somebody ought to know about it.”-Frank Lamar, retired Ford employee commenting on claims that there are 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs available in Lima, yet (according to employment officials) very few people are applying for them.

Pennsylvania: Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett owned Kraft-Heinz moving its Lehigh Valley Grey Poupon production to Michigan, because it’s being paid half-a-million dollars by Michigan taxpayers and $17-million USD by private investors.  Also, Kraft-Heinz is moving its Lehigh Valley Tassimo coffee production to Canada, claiming that the majority of Tassimo customers live in Canada.  The moves will cost Pennsylvania more than 450 jobs!

Texas: That which cannot be named powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘its’ Temple Beth El in San Antonio. Services are being consolidated with other Reform Jewish operations due to crashing attendance.  However, local news media says membership at almost all Reform Jewish temples is declining.

Washington DC: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 65.2% of foreign born people (which includes refugees and illegal immigrants) have jobs in the U.S., compared to 62.2% of native born people. In other words, it’s the migrants/refugees that are driving up positive employment numbers.  After 12 years Domku Bar & Cafe shutting down next month, the owner blames the greedy landlord for jacking up the rent by 66%!

Idaho Department of Labor inadvertently revealed the true reason The Gem State is welcoming ‘war’ refugees/migrants…… 

Obama regime spending tens of millions of your dollars to provide busy work jobs for migrants/refugees, all in the name of preventing terrorism! 

130,000 migrants ‘disappeared’ from Germany!

Germany posts record government surplus…..Credit illegal immigrants!

Germany admits to ‘creating’ jobs for illegal immigrants, beggars taxpayers for more money! 

Conflicting reports about refugees & migrants flooding into Europe! 

California schools become official safe houses for illegal immigrants!

“It’s part of our new business model…” Idaho hit with skyrocketing poor migrants! 

Obama to give jobs to thousands of immigrants!

Banks & illegal drugs cause illegal immigration to U.S.! 

immigration a False Flag op to make corporations richer!

Idaho loses jobs, record number of people in workforce, yet unemployment rate remains the same? Blame immigrants! 

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 was a nice ride, but it’s over.” Idaho exports crash-n-burn! Tech companies cash hoarding! Boeing chastised for trying to sell to Iran! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 20 – 21 May 2016

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

Once again, five tech companies are leading the way in corporate cash hoarding: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Cisco Systems and Oracle.  For the past several years these very same tech companies have dominated corporate cash hoarding.  In 2015 they hoarded a combined total of $504-billion USD, or 30% of the cash available in the U.S. economy.  Basic economics courses will tell you that cash hoarding is a major drain on economies, pulling money out of the cash flow system which drives economies.  And these are the same tech companies that are killing tens of thousands of jobs!

Connecticut:  So far, the ongoing state jobs destruction has resulted in more than 980 people becoming unemployed! The state agencies affected are Children and Families, Developmental Services, Social Services, Mental Health and Addiction Services, University of Connecticut, Department of Correction (reports that prison guards now working 18 hour shifts as a result!), Department of Economic and Community Development, Military Department, Office of Governmental Accountability and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Somewhere in South East Idaho

Idaho cattle ranch within the Caribou National Forest

Idaho: Despite years of boasting how great their farm economy was, even boasting of the Ag industry’s relationship with Mexico, the Department of Agriculture admitted that in 2015 Idaho’s farm exports crashed by 22%!  Idaho dairy exports crashed and burned by 43%! It’s blamed on the ‘strong’ USD, which makes U.S. products more expensive overseas: “It was a nice ride, but it’s over.”-Laura Johnson, Idaho Department of Agriculture

Indiana: In Mishawaka, USA Skate Center shutting down in June, the owner wants to do something new.  What automotive industry recovery? Chassix shutting down their Diversified Machine Bristol factory, 5-hundred jobs lost starting Monday!  Administrators say their “largest customer” canceled a major contract.

Nebraska:  In Omaha, Hy-Vee shutting down its 33 years old Stockyards Plaza grocery store by June, 174 jobs supposedly being transfered to other stores!  Of note, the lease on the property will remain in effect until 2018 (meaning Hy-Vee will still pay the rent on an empty store, until a new tenant can be found).

New York:  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; The Wall Street journal reporting that Armonk based IBM is conducting yet another round of massive job cuts in Colorado, New York and North Carolina.  Those jobs are being off-shored to Costa Rica and India.  Analysts think that when IBM is done killing U.S. jobs, this year, that as many as 14-thousand people could be unemployed!

North Dakota: Intervention Energy Holdings now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

Oregon: ObamaCare insurance companies plan to jack up ObamaCare rates for Oregonians by as much as 30% in 2017!

Rhode Island: Westerly School Committee laid off 18 people due to not getting the anticipated increase in taxpayer funding, and due to jacked up ObamaCare costs: “Healthcare is going up $300-thousand, we have to pay that, we have no choice, but we only got about $130-thousand in our allocation from the town, so that is not even covering the healthcare cost, much less anything else!”-David Patten

Tennessee: Local news reports say Sears Holdings has posted “Going out of business!” signs on the North Knoxville Kmart, however they could not get any confirmation of shutdown from corporate administrators.

Iran wants to buy these new Boeing aircraft, thereby saving Boeing’s ass, but your ‘elected’ officials say “Never!”

Washington:  The Washington Free Beacon reports that Boeing administrators have been chastised for meeting with Iranian officials.  Boeing is losing its financial ass, shedding thousands of jobs, and Iran is willing to spend billions buying Boeing aircraft.  However, U.S. politicians, both in Congress and the Obama regime, have imposed new sanctions on doing business with Iran. Your ‘elected’ politicians now consider doing business with Iran immoral, saying “..consider the profound moral implications of engaging a nation that has proven time and time again that it cannot be trusted.”  (It’s the U.S. that has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted)  Broadspectrum shutting down their Anacortes location, 57 jobs gone by June.

Washington DC:  The Federal Reserve Bank says credit card debt is now at $1-trillion USD!  That’s the same amount of credit card debt at the start of the ‘recession’ in 2008.  Don’t expect any bailouts this time.  The DC Metro has fired 20 managers and warns more layoffs are in the works as part of efforts to “reform” the system.

Wisconsin: In Steven’s Point, after 42 years Ella’s bar shutting down on Wednesday.

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

“Idaho…lost about 14,200 residents” NFL is taxpayer funded tool of War! Tech layoffs accelerate! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 19 May 2016

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

California: In Los Alamitos, after 35 years Ovation Flower Gallery shutting down by the end of June.

Florida:  Alachua County Public Schools eliminating 1-hundred non-teacher jobs!  Administrators say it’s the only way they can afford to hire more behavioral teachers, as there seems to be skyrocketing instances of behavior problems with students!  ObamaCare insurance companies plan to jack up ObamaCare rates for Floridians by another 17.7% in 2017! 

Idaho:  In Pocatello, the Subway sandwich shop on Garrett Way is now dead and vacated.

According to the Idaho Business Review the state Department of Labor has inadvertently revealed the true reason The Gem State is welcoming ‘war’ refugees/migrants; there is an mass exodus of U.S. residents from Idaho!  In fact, the number of U.S. families leaving Idaho outpace the number of refugee/migrant families being brought in. Jerome County alone lost more than 830 U.S. residents in a five years period, and realize that Idaho has an official population of about 1.5-million: “The 16 counties in eastern and southeastern Idaho have lost about 14,200 residents since 2010. Every county experienced a net loss in migration, and the businesses in those communities are finding it hard to grow. Many are considering moving out of the state, Regional Economist Chris St. Jeor said.”

Kentucky: Kentucky Community and Technical College eliminated 506 jobs, blaming it on what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome and $26-million USD in taxpayer funding cuts!

Nebraska: In Imperial, after 23 years Steve’s Video shutting down due to the owner’s health problems.

New Mexico:  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; California based Intel accelerating layoffs at its Rio Rancho ops, employees told local news media that the layoffs were supposed to take place two years from now, not by December of this year.  Not only are hundreds of people being laid off by Xmas, but the Rio Rancho plant is being shutdown as well!  Here’s what Intel said about accelerating layoffs across the world : “The majority of changes will be communicated worldwide over the next 60 days with some actions stretching into 2017, through site consolidations, a combination of voluntary and involuntary departures, reevaluation of projects, and an increased focus on efficiency in a variety of programs. We are not providing further site-specific information at this time.”

New York: NYC based National Football League (NFL) revealed that it’s being used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to promote war.  It’s the result of research launched last year by Arizona’s senators John McCain and Jeff Flake.  Because of the investigation the NFL returned $724-thousand “paid patriotism” taxpayer dollars to the DoD, which McCain said “is the right thing to do.”  In Hornell, France based rail road car maker Alstom laying off 25 people on Friday, due to contract changes.  ObamaCare insurance companies plan to jack up ObamaCare rates for New Yorkers by another 17.3% in 2017! 

North Carolina: Delta Apparel shutting down their Maiden clothing factory, 159 people jobless starting in July!  The unAmerican company is moving production to Honduras.

Ohio: American Modern Insurance Group issued a WARN saying at least 68 employees would become unemployed by the end of June.  It’s the result of American Modern shutting down their Amelia Financial Institutions Division.

Oklahoma: American Energy Partners shutting down by June, already 1-hundred people have been laid off!  Local news reports blames this oil industry BS on the sudden death of the company’s founder.

Pennsylvania:  In Allentown, Black Rose Antiques and Collectibles shutting down next week, apparently they’re moving to a new location but refuse to say when.

Tennessee: In Limestone, ‘god’ powerless to stop nursing home John M. Reed Health & Rehabilitation shutting down due to the federal government ending Medicare/Medicaid payments.  The board members include members of the Church of the Brethren.   In 2015 the nursing home was accused of having so called “deficiencies” that could threaten the health of patients, mainly a lack of competent employees.

Texas:  Sears holdings revealed the Brownsville Kmart is shutting down by August.

Washington: Spectrum Glass shutting down their factory in Woodinville, 124 jobs lost starting in July!  ObamaCare insurance companies plan to jack up ObamaCare rates for Washingtonians by another 13.5% in 2017! 

Washington DC: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; the software/internet security contractor hired by failed U.S. Office of Personnel Management (responsible for the data hacking theft of more than 20-million employees, including yours truly, it took OPM a year to discover that my data had been hacked and it prevented me from getting unemployment after my layoff from the USPS because they couldn’t confirm I was a government employee) is now out of business. Imperatis Corporation suddenly halted operations and laid off employees, claiming to be cash broke.  To add insult to injury Imperatis demanded another $37-million taxpayer dollars to fix the problem, after already spending $67-million!  News reports say Imperatis has a history of screwing-up government contracts.

 

18 May 2016: “Competition has increased unbelievably!”

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

God is Evil : NATO officially invites Israel to join! Targets U.S. civil servants? Holocaust against Palestine ramps up!

18 May 2016 / 21:38 UTC-07 Tango 01 (29 Ordibehesht 1395/10 Sha-ban 1437/12 Giu-Si 4714)

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night spoke by telephone with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, thanked him for the invitation and said that Israel accepts the invitation.”–Israel’s Office of the Prime Minister revealed that the U.S. led NATO has officially offered Israel a place within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization!

NATO administrators said they finally agreed to allow Israel to join after decades of haranguing by Israeli diplomats.  This change of heart comes as the zionist-nazi Avigdor Lieberman is reported to become Israel’s new Minister of Defense.

Israel’s Benjamin nut-job-yahoo, I mean Netanyahu is in the process of replacing all his ‘moderate’ cabinet members with right wing hardliners who openly advocate for the genocide of non-zionists.  Another report, by Israeli news media, has revealed that the Israeli controlled U.S. Congress is about to targeting U.S. military personnel who are not supporters of Israel!

A politician from New York, named Frank Israel (yep, Israel), introduced a bill that would ban the U.S. Department of Defense from  witholding security clearances for U.S. military civil service personnel who have direct ties to Israel (the country): “We need to better understand why so many applicants with ties to an important ally like Israel have been denied in recent years.”-Frank Israel  (and I’d like to know why so many Israelis are applying for U.S. security clearances)

The news of Israel’s membership in NATO comes at the same time the United Nations condemned Israel for not only blocking humanitarian aid, but destroying that aid: “Despite the obligation on Israel under international law to facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of relief to those who need it, humanitarian relief to vulnerable communities like Jabal al Baba is increasingly under attack.”-Robert Piper, UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities for the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The UN also condemns the continued land stealing by Israel, so far this year at least 6-hundred homes have been stolen and destroyed by Israel, forcing at least 9-hundred people to flee:  “The destruction of homes and of livelihoods creates pressures on households to move, exacerbating the risk of forcible transfer which would be considered a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”

God is Evil : 94 years of hell on Earth!

Business/Economics

“Competition has increased unbelievably.” Bankruptcy = Growth? Idaho Panama Papers connection! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 18 May 2016

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

Alabama: Shaw Industries shutting down their Plant 14, 183 jobs lost due to the company’s ongoing consolidations (160 jobs eliminated last year)!  In Birmingham, after 42 years McMillan’s Big & Tall clothier shutting down in June. The building will be torn down.

California: In Stockton, after three years restaurant French 25 shutting down by June due to the greedy landlord: “We tried to negotiate a new lease. It didn’t happen.”-Bruce Davis, restaurant owner

Connecticut: In Stamford, British empire Too Big to Jail RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) laying off 33 people by the end of June.

Florida: Saks Fifth Avenue shutting down their Fort Myers store, on Cleveland Avenue, 50 jobs gone by the end of October.

Idaho: More corruption news out of the ‘christian’ dominated Gem State.  A month after the Panama Papers were made public by whistleblowers “…a number of Idaho shareholders were listed under Accelonic Ltd., an offshore company with more than 1,000 officers around the world.” Another sham offshore company reportedly involves an Idaho company that makes chemicals to preserve potatoes.  Some other sham companies involving Idaho investors are Uluwatu Holdings and DocDoc.  “First, where did the money being held in these entities come from? Second, why was the money held in these entities and hidden from view?”-John Miller, University of Idaho

Also, the AFL-CIO’s annual Executive PayWatch survey reports that chief executive officers in Idaho are paid an average 277 times more than Idahoans earning minimum wage, and 149 times more than Idahoans earning a ‘living wage’!

Illinois:  In Chicago, elitist diner Baffo shutting down by the end of the month, the owners admitted their “very expensive” eatery “is not capturing the Chicago diner as intended.”

Indiana: In Lafayette, after 37 years Aardvark Furniture shutdown, the owner says its time to retire because “The community has dramatically changed in the last 15 years. Competition has increased unbelievably.”

Kansas: In Wichita, at least three adult learning centers were shutdown due to taxpayer funding cuts.

Kentucky:  Mega grocery store owner Kroger refuses to renew the lease for the Bristol Bar and Grille, which has been located at the Kroger owned Prospect Village Shopping Center for the past ten years.  Kroger administrators admitted to local news media that they found a new tenant who is willing to pay much higher rent.

Maine: Franklin Community Health Network eliminating 40 jobs and halting any planned pay raises.  Administrators blame it on Maine’s version of ObamaCare.

Massachusetts: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; Boston Weak based electronic payment processor Merchant Customer eXchange (MCX) laid off 30 people and is once again delaying the release of its new payment processing software.

Michigan: McLaren Flint outsourcing its food service jobs, at least 83 in-house employees unemployed by July.

Minnesota: Globe University-Minnesota School of Business  shutting down four campuses due to the state attorney general charging them with frauding students, at least 45 jobs lost.

Mississippi: Merit Health Natchez laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  Merit Health Natchez was created when Natchez Regional Medical Center and Natchez Community Hospital merged in an attempt to deal with reduced customer traffic caused by ObamaCare.  Administrators said ObamaCare has reduced customer traffic so much that even their new merged hospital ops are still too big!

New Jersey: Paterson School District conducting a second round of layoffs, local news media say administrators are not willing to disclose how many people are becoming unemployed.  In Closter, after 13 years the owners of Harvest Bistro and Bar suddenly announced they were shutting down this weekend.

New Mexico: Albuquerque Public Schools eliminating 82 jobs due to being short $9.5-million USD!

New York: In NYC, concert producer SFX Entertainment-Beatport chapter 11 bankrupt busted, at least 60 people losing their jobs. Clothier The Limited shutting down their NYC Lafayette Street store, 39 jobs lost by August. Sears Holdings issued yet another WARN, this time for their Rotterdam Square Mall store, 67 jobs gone by August.  The new owner of mattress seller Sleepy’s announced they will eliminate an undisclosed number of jobs, despite building a new warehouse-office in Hicksville.   More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise;  IBM shutting down its Somers operations by March 2017.  Local news reports say at one time the IBM Somers campus employed 3-thousand people!

North Carolina: Medical device maker Arrow International eliminating 456 jobs in Ashboro, between now and sometime in 2017!

Pennsylvania: Too Big to Jail ‘financial services holdings’ company BB&T issued mass layoff WARN, 241 jobs gone by mid-July!  Pocono Medical Center laid off 55 people.

Tennessee: In Chattanooga, after more than two years Brash Coffee shutting down by the end of the month.  The owners blame their employees “for moving on with their careers……..Brash Chattanooga cannot continue without these amazing people…” 

Texas: Three years after emerging from bankruptcy, Dallas based phone number publisher dexmedia.com now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Administrators said it’s part of their “new strategy” for growth.

West Virginia: In Chester, River Islands Collectibles shutdown.

Wisconsin: Globe University-Minnesota School of Business shutting down two of its four Wisconsin campuses due to the Minnesota state attorney general charging them with frauding students.

17 May 2016: “There’s no reason to be here!”

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

“There’s no reason to be here!” Blame China for jacked-up rents! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 17 May 2016

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

Investigation by the Rosen Consulting Group and the Asia Society has discovered that from 2010-15 Chinese ‘investors’ have bought more than $300-billion USD worth of commercial and residential U.S. properties and real estate securities.  This can explain the sudden and unjustified skyrocketing rents (which coincide with the same time period) that are making U.S. families homeless and shutting down mom-n-pop businesses!

California: Los Angeles based ‘old oil well restorer’ BreitBurn Energy Partners now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

Mississippi: A federal court ordered the Cleveland School District to merge its still segregated junior highs and high schools.  This proves to you liberal law loving weenie heads that just because its one of your beloved laws on paper doesn’t mean its being complied with.   The consolidation of segregated schools will result in layoffs.

Nebraska: In Lincoln, after 55 years Four Star Drug suddenly announced it was shutting down three stores! The owner blames a combination of jacked up rents (blame China) and ObamaCare.  He pointed out that in 1980 only 30% of prescription drug costs were covered by insurance or government, 70% of customers paid in cash.  Today he says 97% of drug costs are covered by insurance-government plans and under ObamaCare the insurance companies dictate the price, which is too low for small independent pharmacies to exist on.

Ohio: In Cincinnati, after two years happy belly On Vine shutting down their Over-the-Rhine ‘healthy foods’ location by the end of the month.  It sounds like the owner is too busy with another restaurant and a “growing family”.

South Carolina: It was revealed that Frank Theatres CineBowl in Inlet Square Mall suddenly shutdown last Saturday. There was no comment by the theater operator or the mall owner.  Local news reports say many theater customers are pissed, saying it was their only reason to go to the mall: “There’s no reason to be here! the only reason to come here was the movie theater. The only.”-John Chiesa

Tennessee:  Automotive parts maker Leroy-Somer laying off 180 people at its Lexington factory, due to “a drop in demand for our industrial alternator products and the impact of the weakened economy”!

Texas: The city of Navasota eliminating 17 city jobs blaming crashing tax revenues due to the petroleum industry BS: “We have postponed projects, we have had a hiring freeze, we tried everything. Unfortunately, sales of natural gas and other utilities have not picked up.”-Brad Stafford, city manager

Virginia: Bristol Compressors eliminating 120 jobs, blaming the oil industry BS!

Washington DC: Reports that Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University laid off ten professors, while at the same time hiring-on a new “visiting” professor.  It’s connected to plans to merge with Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.

West Virginia: In Charleston, after 82 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) clothier Kelly’s on Bridge shutting down by the end of the month.

Wisconsin: Graphic Packaging International shutting down their 70 years old Menasha industrial paper products factory, 228 jobs gone by Xmas 2016!  Administrators admitted “We have acquired other facilities recently that have state-of-the-art capabilities.”

Wyoming: Due to incompetent doctors, which are now resulting in “a flood of litigation”, Powell Valley Healthcare now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

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

“600,000 additional job losses” ObamaCare to shutdown cancer clinics? Taxpayers fund prison labor! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 16 May 2016

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

California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; Palo Alto based Jive Software laying off 1-hundred people by the end of June, in an attempt to reach “sustainable profitability.”  In San Francisco, after 20 years OK Corral Western and Work Wear shutting down, despite the fact they’re also on the internet: “We are closing because the whole demographic has changed a lot.”-Juan Carlos Mora, owner

Colorado: British empire Canada based petroleum services company Sanjel sold-off their Colorado operations, 155 jobs lost by the end of the month!  The new owner of the oil field ops, Liberty Oilfield Services, says it will not hire-on the former Sanjel employees.

Idaho:  More corruption in the ‘christian’ dominated Gem State; Olympus Healthcare agrees to pay Idaho $107,219 in restitution after getting caught bribing (kickbacks) Idaho healthcare providers!

Illinois: Dynegy shutting down two of three of its coal fired generators at the Baldwin Energy Complex, 122 jobs lost!  Administrators blame the Midcontinent Independent Service Operator for setting electric rates so low it guaranteed they would financially fail.

Kentucky: Gateway Community and Technical College laid off ten people and halted four programs, due to massive state taxpayer funding cuts.

Minnesota: Local news reports revealed a new Obama regime plan to fight terrorism; give them jobs!  The new ‘anti-radicalism’ program is through the U.S. Department of Justice and is focused on preventing refugee/immigrants from going all terrorist on your ass by using your tax dollars to create busy-work programs for them.  For some reason the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota (CSCM) is getting the lion’s share of the busy-work funding.  Local news reports say the local Somali population suspects the ‘anti-radicalism’ program is just another way to illegally spy on them.

Missouri: After 20 years the Campbell 16 movie theater shutting down by the end of July: “I will tell you that attendance has been declining, and it’s made it impossible to keep the doors open.”-Kelly Hoskins, Wehrenberg Theatres

New York: Local news sources revealed that the Obama regime is spending more of your tax dollars on busy-work programs for refugees settling in Utica.   It’s part of a $21-million USD federal grant spread across 11 U.S. cities, under the guise of providing refugee ‘students’ with summer jobs. 

Oklahoma: Petroleum explorer SandRidge Energy now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.

The state Department of Corrections shutting down 15 prisoner work camps, local news reports say slave loving municipalities are crying in their ‘christian’ beer about how they’re going to replace their cheap prison workers.  State administrators revealed the prisoner work camps were actually costing taxpayers $18-million USD to operate! 

Vermont: Burlington College shutting down by the end of the month!  Administrators blame it on their 2010 decision to buy property once owned by the ‘christian’ god, saying the college “struggled under the crushing weight of the debt incurred by the purchase of the Archdiocese property on North Avenue.”

Washington: In Blaine, after more than ten years Dakota Creek Winery shutting down so the owner can enjoy a “true retirement”.  

Washington DC: After 40 years the U.S. Department of Treasury finally revealed by how much the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) owns your sorry taxpaying ass; $117-billion USD! That puts KSA in 13th place (China and Japan are currently tied for the #1 position).  The revelation was forced by a Freedom of Information Act demand by Bloomberg.   U.S. Representative Peter J. Visclosky, of Indiana, and Congressional Steel Caucus Chairman Tim Murphy stated “Recognition of China as a market economy by the WTO would be devastating to the American steel market and its supply chain costing upwards of 600,000 additional job losses and sending catastrophic shockwaves across the entire United States economy.”   Utah based cancer doctor William E. Nibley is warning that the Obama regime is about to institute an Medicare Part B ‘experiment’ which could result in the shutdown of 75% of cancer treatment providers!  In 2013 the Obama regime slashed Part B reimbursements and under this new cancer treatment experiment will slash and burn payments to doctors/clinics even more!  Obama regime cronies (with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) say the ‘experiment’ is meant to see if reducing payments will actually reduce the level of care for people dealing with cancer! 

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

50% of new jobs pay poverty wages! Idaho fires tax saving employees! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 14 – 15 May 2016

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

California: Despite Kroger’s claim that they plan to hire 14-thousand people this year, and after Kroger issued a shutdown WARN for their Indian Wells grocery store,  and revelations of the shutdown of their Rialto Ralphs, local news reports say the Arcadia Ralphs in the Rancho Santa Anita Shopping Center is also being shutdown. A spokesman for Ralphs claims that between 80 and 1-hundred Arcadia Ralphs employees have been transfered to other stores.  In Paso Robles, after 11 years Faultline Music shutting down next month.    The ignorant owner blames internet competition, even saying that “Even the big guys like Walmart, Target…” are suffering despite the fact that Walmart and Target sell on the internet!

Connecticut: The failed ‘elected’ state lawmakers finally passed a budget; state agencies, and private non-profits getting taxpayer funding, will lose a total of $821-million USD, resulting in massive shutdowns and layoffs!

Idaho: ‘Suspect’ State Treasurer Ron Crane is now facing wrongful termination charges by a former employee, who was fired “in direct retaliation for communicating in good faith the existence of extensive waste of public funds/manpower and illegality”.  In November 2015 five state employees reported to their superiors massive corruption in the Republican ‘christian’ controlled state government. Instead of being praised for revealing the waste of taxpayer funding, they were accused of insubordination!  Two were fired!     The Idaho Housing and Finance Association reports that the number of homeless people in northern Idaho has increased 5% since 2015.  Local charities say the homeless rate is actually higher than the official count because not all localities are included in the head-counting, and warned the homeless rate will go up: “Although the homeless number is always interesting, those living from paycheck to paycheck who are on the verge of losing their homes is far greater. That’s the bigger issue.”-Jeff Conroy, Saint Vincent de Paul of North Idaho

New Hampshire: Teledyne PCT was sold-off and local news reports say the new owner, FTC Circuts, plans to shut it down, 80 jobs lost. 

New Jersey: Sussex County Community College eliminated 47 jobs.

New Mexico: Albuquerque Public Schools shutting down 57 years old Acoma Elementary, due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (low enrollment).

New York:  New York City’s own Quarterly Economic Update admits that almost 50% of all new jobs in The Big Apple pay poverty level wages.  This is proven by the fact that the number of people finding jobs have increased, yet city level personal income tax collections are crashing due to the low wages: “New York City’s private sector added 41,700 jobs, or 4.6 percent (seasonally adjusted annualized rate), in 1Q16, after adding a moderate 8,800 jobs in 4Q15….           ….NYC personal income tax (PIT) revenues, a proxy for personal income, fell 0.3 percent on a year-over-year basis to over $3 billion in 1Q16, due to weak collections and a higher volume of refunds.”

North Carolina: Without waring Vertex Railcar laid off 60 people, but then turned around and said a new order for railcars came in so they’ll rehire some of those laid off: “…market conditions and commodity prices change all the time. Because of our global footprint, Vertex understands the challenges that come with the ever-changing nature of the industry.”-Donald Croteau, ceo

Ohio: In Harrison Township, after 46 years Barnsider restaurant shutdown on Saturday, the building was sold-off three days prior.

Oklahoma: Despite surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions, Lyon’s Indian Store shutting down after 1-hundred years in Tusla. 40% of sales went to tourists. The owners are dealing with health problems and tried to sell the iconic novelty store, but nobody made a “true offer”.

Tennessee: In Chattanooga, after two years Harvest Grocery suddenly announced it was shutting down.  An arrogant loyal customer blamed “the community” for not “supporting” the ‘natural foods’ store.  Personally, my lack of income is enough to prevent me from “supporting” such expensive ‘natural foods’ ops.  The economy sucks because the ‘99%’ don’t have any cash because the ‘1%’ are sucking it up.  99-percenters stop blaming each other!

Virginia: In Waynesboro, after 60 years McCoy’s Furniture shutting down when the inventory is gone.  The store was sold to a guy in Texas because the original owner’s adult children did not want to take over the business.  The ‘new’ Texas owner refused to say why he was shutting down the supposedly successful store.

West Virginia: In Belle, Walker Machinery issued a WARN, saying an undisclosed number of employees will become unemployed in July.  I’ve repeatedly pointed out that a sure sign your ‘system’ has failed is the jack-up of taxes and/or creation of new taxes.  Gov’na Earl Ray Tomblin has called a special legislative session to do just that!  On the agenda is increasing the state sales and tobacco taxes and creating a telecommunications tax.  The gov’na says it’s the only way to prevent funding cuts.

Wyoming:  What housing market recovery? In another example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs (REL), in Gillette local news reports say residential vacancies have skyrocketed due to the oil-mining industry BS: “About 18 months ago, finding an apartment to rent was difficult, with a stingy vacancy rate of only 0.7 percent. By the end of March, the vacancy rate has jumped to 12 percent.”

“It was costing us more to keep it open.” : 13 MAY 2016

 

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.”

Technology

Google demands “economic assistance funds”! IBM in death spiral? : 3rd Q 2015, brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame internet/high-tech comp for their demise

Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech job destruction announcements from July to September 2015

“For all you people who got RAed [laid off]. I pray for you. For all you people who found out you have not been RAed (yet) and have not joined the Alliance, and still will not join, I pity you…when are you gonna fight for your job and paycheck??? Doing nothing doesn’t do anything.”-anonymous IBM (International Business Machine) employee

After raising $5.5-million USD, and in a span of 24 hours “the secret weapon of successful people” Zirtual shutdown and told 4-hundred employees they were not needed, then Startups.com announced “We’ve acquired Zirtual and we’re excited to bring it to new levels. With that being said, we’d like to invite you back.”  Some news reports said work for Zirtual suddenly slowed down with no explanation.

Recently merged France owned Razorfish-Rosetta laid off an undisclosed number of U.S. employees, mainly in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia.

Japan based Nintendo ending its three years old TVii service in North America in August. Administrators say they must focus resources (code for money) “on other projects.”

Alabama: Audio-visual company MindGear Labs ending their ops in Madison, saying they are focusing on their educational services. They are also reducing their membership rates in September, however new memberships won’t be accepted until next year. Administrators added that “Our online products will go on hiatus until the latter part of 2015. However, we will continue to work small and large projects for individuals and companies.”

California:   In Camarillo, Semtech laying off 8% of employees. Back in 2014 they eliminated 6% of their jobs. It’s blamed on crashing sales: “Given our recent revenue decline driven primarily by weak Korean smartphone demand, we have made the very difficult decision to reduce our headcount and operating expenses across a majority of Semtech’s locations.”-Mohan Maheswaran, CEO

San Jose based electronic payment service Paypal has shutdown all Paypal users in Greece! This means that people in Greece are not able to access their money in Paypal accounts. This also directly affects people trying to sell items on ebay! Apparently this is because the Greek government has frozen all bank transfers to Paypal, and other e-payment services. Speaking of Paypal, they just spent $890-million USD to buy rival Xoom.  Monterey based CTB/McGraw-Hill laid off at least 33 Ryan Ranch HQ employees, due to selling off ‘key assets’ to Minnesota’s Data Recognition Corporation.  Aliso Viejo based data storage company QLogic warned 2-hundred employees of mass layoffs, due to unexpected crashing sales.  Santa Rosa based Keysight Technologies eliminating at least 1-hundred jobs in an attempt to cut costs by $25-million USD! Administrators claim that by killing jobs now it will somehow result in new jobs later.  Santa Ana based Ingram Micro lost $34.3-million USD in its 2nd quarter, prompting administrators to warn of $100-million worth of mass layoffs!  Burbank based visual effects company Stereo D laid off about 225 people! Work is being shifted to Canada.  Los Gatos based Netflix announced it will shutdown its last brick-n-mortar data center. Netflix will now put customers’ data on the publicly accessed ‘cloud’.  No mention of how many humans (jobs) will be lost.  Redwood City based Evernote said it will eliminate 13% of its jobs (about 47) and shutdown three offices, saying the economy is forcing them to downsize.   Western Digital issued a mass layoff WARNs saying 280 people will become jobless right before Thanksgiving!   Cupertino based (but incorporated in Ireland as a tax dodge) Seagate laying off 1-thousand 112 people between T-giving and Xmas!  In San Ramon, AT&T issued a mass layoff WARN saying 219 people will lose their jobs! Santa Clara based Marvell Tech announced it will eliminate 17% of its global jobs, and immediately investors drove the price of the company’s stock skyward!  Expected mass layoffs by Qualcomm will be nearly 5-thousand! Qualcomm employs about 12-thousand people in San Diego.  Also in San Diego, Soitec Solar Industries shutting down in October, 1-hundred jobs lost! And United Technologies issued a shutdown WARN for September, 21 San Diego jobs lost.  Again in San Diego, Washington based Microsoft laying off 129 people by September! Cisco Systems revealed they laid off 192 people in San Diego, and halted its Invicta Appliance and its Scaling Systems development, and eliminated 50% of positions at their United Kingdom cell phone ops known as Ubiquisys!   Japan based GREE International finally revealed they laid off 114 people in San Francisco, back in July! San Francisco based video game maker Kixeye laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  In Berkeley, reports say biotech company XOMA eliminating 58 jobs in order to “lower operating expenses and preserve capital”.  In San Jose, Maxim Integrated eliminated 161 jobs in September!  Email marketer Lyris Technologies laying off 79 people by the end of September.  In Sunnyvale, Illinois based Motorola laying off 213 people by the end of October! (Does it have anything to do with the merger with China’s Lenovo?) Tax-sucker Raytheon Intelligence issued a shutdown WARN for their Chula Vista ops, 41 jobs lost in October.  Mountain View based tech company Intuit eliminating more jobs, this time 249 laid off!  Mountain View based Symantec continues to eliminate jobs, this time 60 people will become jobless by the beginning of August. 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: Switzerland owned solar power parts supplier Diamond Materials Tech laid off 46 people in Colorado Springs in order to “further optimizing the cost structure and production capacity.” They laid off 43 people in January, and 105 people in October 2014!   California software company Intuit shutdown their Denver call center, 59 jobs lost.  In Denver, anonymous IBM (International Business Machine) employee reported “11 people on my team RA’d today, including our boss. Worked 12 years for IBM and recently received special awards from my VP for customer service. Our India team does not have the training or background required to support our customer’s specialized applications. This will result in GTS loosing more accounts. My spouse thinks that IBM Senior Mgmt is so tight, they will want to be buried with their money!” In Boulder, anonymous IBM (International Business Machine) employee reported “21 years with the company. Good reviews. Same as all the others. Finally got my call this morning for the RA. It’s finally my turn. My main customer requires US workers, but it hasn’t stopped IBM from trying to secretly send the work to India before (until the customer found out). Not sure if they will try again, or if they will just transfer it to another US team. I know that my team is too overloaded to be able to pick it up. Last RA hurt us bad, this one will likely drive my department under. So sad to watch IBM implode like this, as it used to be such a great company to work for. Looking forward to what the future holds for me!” Another Boulder employee said “Got ra’d today after 36 and 1/2 years. I was told it was not because of my performance. I asked them why they are keeping the girl who calls in an average of 60 days a year. All he said was ‘I know’” 

Connecticut: Norwalk based Xerox announced 3-thousand more job cuts, due to the never ending crashing-n-burning sales!

Georgia: Anonymous reports say IBM (International Business Machine) contracting out their in-house Recovery Management and Help Desk functions in Sandy Springs, by the end of August.

Idaho: Reports that Boise based micro chip maker Micron is about to be sold-off. The potential buyer is China’s Tsinghua Unigroup, which is offering $23-billion for the troubled company. If Micron agrees the deal must be accepted by the Committee on Foreign Investment.   Education Networks of America and Qwest Communications are demanding at least $6-million tax dollars for unpaid work they did on the the failed Idaho Education Network! Boise based Syringa Networks announced it is ending its Syringa Wireless service after Xmas: “….Syringa Wireless has fought hard to maintain low prices and high quality service for our Idaho communities…..Over the last 3 years we have made extensive financial investments [of which $930-thousand is still owed to Syringa by the ‘elected’ officials of Idaho, for the failed Idaho Education Network]…..As a small, locally owned and operated provider, we have arrived at a point where it’s simply not feasible to continue to operate.” 

Illinois: Chicago based internet couponing company Groupon announced it will kill 1-thousand 1-hundred jobs over the next year, as it ends operations in six countries! Groupon is also selling-off 45% of its Republic of Korea ops.  In Chicago, Motorola laid off 5-hundred people! At one time Obama regime stooge Rahm Emanuel called Motorola Chicago’s “major economic engine”.  Rip-off DeVry Education Group announced they will eliminate 95 DeVry Online Services jobs by September.   Northfield based insurance giant Allstate laid off an undisclosed number of InfoTech employees, according to unnamed employees. Allstate administrators confirmed by saying “As a result of a recent review, positions have been eliminated in some of Allstate’s technology areas.” Local news reports revealed that while Allstate has been eliminating jobs in the U.S. they’ve been creating jobs elsewhere, like India.

Kentucky: Lexington based printer maker Lexmark will eliminate at least 5-hundred jobs! It’s the result of Lexmark taking over companies like Kofax and ReadSoft.

Louisiana:  After promising to hire 8-hundred people in exchange for $20-million USD in state tax breaks, Monroe based cable-phone-internet service provider CenturyLink announced they will eliminate 1-thousand jobs across the U.S., administrators blame crashing profits, partly caused by ObamaCare: “CenturyLink’s results for the second quarter were below our forecast and Street consensus, primarily due to continued pressure on wholesale revenues and higher employee and benefit costs.”

Maryland: British empire United Kingdom owned high tech antenna maker Lorch Microwave eliminated 10% of its Salisbury employees due to crashing sales.

Massachusetts:  Intel selling off their shuttered Hudson chip factory. Intel shut it down after 2013, killing 7-hundred jobs!

Michigan:  In Ann Arbor, tech company ForeSee conducted a second round of layoffs, refusing to confirm how many people are now jobless. Local news reports say as many as 37 employees were laid off. Back in January as many as 70 people were laid off. It’s blamed on ForeSee being taken over by Answers Corporation.

Minnesota: Imation notified local news media that it had just conducted a “mass layoff” at its World Headquarters in Oakdale, but refused to say how many people lost their jobs.  Maker of cabs for heavy vehicles and consoles for computers, Crenlo announced 30 people will be laid off by the end of the month. It’s blamed on crashing sales.  In Hutchinson, after seven years video game store GameStop shutdown with little warning.

Missouri: Local news reports say IBM (International Business Machine) has been secretly laying off employees in Columbia. The info comes from unnamed IBM employees. It also turns out that IBM lost a Missouri taxpayer funded deal because IBM failed to meet the employment requirements in that deal. Given the mass layoffs IBM has conducted since January, it’s not a surprise.  Software company Answers Corporation eliminated 1-hundred jobs! It was revealed by former employees. It’s the result of Answers’ takeover of Michigan tech company ForeSee.

New Mexico: The administrators of Google aren’t that smart after all, they just have too much money to play with. Google suddenly pulled its Titan Aerospace solar powered drone program from Moriarty Airport, right after state taxpayers shelled out $955-thousand USD to upgrade the airport just for Titan Aerospace! State administrators claim they’ve successfully forced Google to pay back the “economic assistance funds”. Yeah, like Google needs economic assistance?

New York: New York Life Insurance Company laying off eight InfoTech employees after Xmas.   E-book operator Oyster killed-off as Google hired away most of the talent.  After many financial troubles internet based invention company Quirky now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, after laying off at least 111 people! Reports say Flextronics wants to take over Quirky’s Wink division.  In White Plains, AT&T issued a layoff WARN saying 42 people will be laid off right before Thanksgiving.  Honeywell Scanning and Mobility issued a layoff WARN for their Skaneateles Falls location, to take place on 31 December 2015.    Korea based Samsung issued a WARN saying they’ve terminated their NYC based “PX Project Research and Development Team”, 42 jobs lost.    Dozens of ‘Work at Home’ employees of Armonk based IBM (International Business Machine) reporting they’ve been given notice that they are now unemployed, saying they’ve been RAed (Resource Action, IBM’s term for layoffs). One RAed employee says IBM is secretly outsourcing jobs to India, despite contracts that require those jobs to remain in the United States! However, IBM employees in Australia say IBM is outsourcing their jobs as well: “Blood bath happening in Australia at the moment. L1 manger got hit. The L2 had a conference call to let us all know, when questioned as to the rationale behind the RA he replied ‘have you seen the share price today??!’ At least he told the truth for a change.”-anonymous employee called Over It In Oz 

North Carolina: IBM announced they will eliminate jobs at the Research Triangle Park, as part of their ongoing “workforce rebalancing”. It’s blamed on non-stop crashing sales. However, cfo Martin Schroeter admitted IBM spent $700-million USD taking over at least five small companies in 2015.

Tennessee: Electronic company TS3 Technology suddenly shutdown, 81 jobs lost. 

Texas: Singapore based Flextronics laying off 168 people at its Fort Worth factory by the end of 2015! In 2014 they laid off 223 people at their newly opened Motorola factory, also in Fort Worth!

Utah: California based Fairchild Semiconductor shutdown and eliminated 361 jobs in Salt Lake City! It’s part of the company’s 2014 plan to eliminate 1,350 jobs! Back in August 2014 Fairchild Semiconductor claimed it had 5-hundred employees in Salt Lake City, but their WARN to state administrators says they were down to 361 by April 2015.

Washington: Seattle based Amazon laid off “dozens of engineers” at its California located Lab126, blaming it on their failed Fire Phone.  China (Taiwan) based tech company HTC killing more jobs in the U.S., this time 132 people were laid off in The Evergreen State!  After losing another $3.2-billion USD, Redmond based Microsoft announced it will eliminate an additional 7-thousand to 9-thousand jobs worldwide!  Microsoft even sold-off its bing mapping service to Uber, as well as bing-ads to AOL (which caused 1-thousand 2-hundred people to lose their jobs)!   From July 2014 to June 2015 Microsoft eliminated at least 18-thousand jobs!  The 3-thousand employees of shopping network Zulily are demanding to know what’s going on as their boss announced the surprise sale of Seattle based Zulily to Pennsylvania based QVC (who is itself in financial trouble). The CEO of five years old Zulily bold faced lied and said “This acquisition is not about cost savings”.  My decades of experience with unAmerican corporate America is that such sales or mergers are precisely about “cost savings” (job cuts), and that managers are not above bold face lying about job security to the faces of their employees!

“all companies need to create real business.”: 4th Q 2015

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed