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Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 16 – 18 August 2014: “…we’re tired of struggling.” USN to kill 8-thousand jobs! California court admits there is no recovery! More gun makers killing jobs!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Alabama: In Homewood, Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital controlled Babies “R” Us shutting down in September.  The property was sold off.

Arkansas: In Fort Smith, home appliance maker Whirlpool killing 850 jobs by the end of October!  Company officials blame crashing sales.   The layoffs are directly affecting a local supplier to Whirlpool; Southern Steel & Wire will kill 117 jobs by the end of December!  Rheem Manufacturing killing 100 jobs by October!

California: In San Jose, Imperium Security Specialists warned they will layoff 45 people in October.  In San Francisco, after 22 years Woodward’s Garden restaurant shutdown.  For an unknown reason the lease will not be renewed.  Superior Court of Shasta County killing 14 jobs in September.  That’s on top of 12 jobs already killed and 18 open jobs that are not being filled.  Court officials admit there is no recovery: “In the past two fiscal years, where we tried to set aside money to get through the recession, the ability to do that was eliminated as of June 30, 2014.”-Melissa Fowler-Bradley, Court Executive Officer

Connecticut: In Middletown, after 13 years clothing store Echo Trading shutting down in September.

Illinois: In Chicago one year after shutting down 50 schools, Chicago Public Schools has now put them up for auction!  The district is still shutting down schools due to what I call massive DSS (Disappearing Student Syndrome).  It turns out that it still costs taxpayers millions of dollars to maintain school buildings that are not in use.   In Hinsdale, after nine years Cosi restaurant shutdown by the property owner, with little notice.  News reports say property owner MDC Properties was shutting down all businesses on their Hinsdale properties: “They are de-emphasizing their corporate stores and focusing on their franchises. It’s panning out that way across the country.”-Tim Scott, Hinsdale economic development director

Indiana: In Muncie, packaging company DIY Group laying off 261 people by the end of the year!  They’re consolidating ops due to crashing sales.

Kansas: Overland Park based cell phone service provider Sprint warning of massive layoffs.  Company officials said they must radically restructure to remain competitive.

Massachusetts: In Westfield, Savage Arms announced it will layoff 95 gun makers in the U.S. and 25 gun makers in Canada.  Company officials blame crashing demand.   Cape Cod Healthcare laid off eight lab workers.  Many full time jobs are being cut back to part time.

Michigan: As an example of a failed state, Detroit’s bankruptcy expert sent the failed city a bill for $300-thousand USD!  Store vacancies are getting so bad in Detroit, that shoppers in the Royal Oak area are getting nervous.   Local news reports say there are more than a dozens empty retail spaces in Royal Oak, most having been vacated in the past seven months. Basically people are giving up: “Everybody’s kind of saying the same thing where we’re tired of struggling.”-Katrina Bray, store owner who is shutting down

Nebraska: What housing market recovery?  In Scottsbluff, Nationstar Mortgage laying off 90 employees by October.

New York:  Buffalo School District laid off 63 teachers.  The district is dealing with what I call DSS, so much so they’re consolidating school #115 with school #97, and they’ve eliminated an entire 9th grade class.

North Carolina: After 29 years Forbes Custom Cabinets of Apex now chapter 7 bankrupt busted, 37 jobs could be lost.

Ohio: In Dayton, after 27 years Patio & Hearth shutdown.  What housing market recovery?  RealtyTrac reports that Ohio’s foreclosure rate jumped 23% from July 2013 to July 2014.

Tennessee: In Kingsport, after 27 years non-profit Rascals Teen Center shutdown: “We just got to where we couldn’t really continue. Things had to change. We tried to work through the change, tried to do some things, but we got to where we couldn’t continue on…..No matter how much we advertised on the radio, the newspaper and Facebook, it’s like we still couldn’t contact everybody….I don’t know what happened.”-Amy McAtee, executive director

Texas: In San Antonio, after five years restaurant Tre Trattoria (aka Tre Downtown) shutdown.

Washington DC:  The U.S. Navy announced they will kill off 8-thousand Petty Officer positions in 2015 (in the USN enlisted ranks above E-2 are called “petty” officers)!  Most job destruction will be through discharging of POs who have misconduct problems, and forced early retirement of senior ranking Petty Officers.  USN officials claim they will review each and every PO personnel record to decide who goes and who stays.

14 – 15 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 14 – 15 August 2014: “We don’t need you…Go sign up for unemployment!” No more Georgia Pecans? More taxpayer swindles! Disney continues job killing!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: Disney announced they are selling off their 23 radio stations, at least 200 jobs lost!  San Jose based tech company Cisco Systems announced they are killing off another 6-thousand jobs!  Last year Cisco killed 4-thousand jobs!  In Folsom, reports that VPD laying off 50 employees.   The video distribution company was taken over by a competitor.   What automotive industry recovery?  In Vernon, maker of automotive batteries, Exide, laying off 137 employees!  73 employees will be kept on until ‘new equipment’ is installed, sounds like the humans are being replaced with robots.   The new owners of Orange County based 36 years old French restaurant chain Mimi’s Cafe announced they will kill 24 restaurants in Arizona, California, Utah and Florida!  Apparently the new hand cut French Fries (which Mimi’s chiefs spent 60 days in France learning how to make!) are so labor intensive that they’re losing money.  In Los Angeles, Amcor Rigid Plastics warned they will layoff 112 employees in September!  In El Segundo, taxsucker Raytheon warned they will layoff 28 people in October.

Florida:  What housing market recovery?  Once again, RealtyTrac reports that southern Florida leads the country in foreclosures; 5853 foreclosure filings in July!  More proof the internet is not killing brick-n-mortar business: Internet based music mixing company Myxer now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and being liquidated.

Georgia: 55 years old logistics company Drug Transport now chapter 11  bankrupt busted.  The company supplied critical shipments to hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics.  In Fort Valley, after 90 years (and surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) the Jolly Nut pecan company shutdown.  Apparently none of the adult children wanted to take over the family business.

Hawaii: The JW Marriott Ihilani Resort shutting down in 2016, 500+ jobs lost!  The new owners (Four Seasons) claim they are renovating the iconic hotel.

Illinois: In Alton, American Water told 244 call center employees not to make any big purchases, because mass layoffs were coming!  Company officials would only say they were crunching numbers.  What automotive industry recovery? Moline based farm equipment maker Deere (formerly known as John Deere) announced they will kill more than 600 jobs in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas!   Some inside reports say it’s more like 1-thousand jobs killed!  Company officials blame crashing sales.

Indiana: In Indianapolis, the Incredible Buffet and Fun Center shutdown.  In Terre Haute, legal drugs pusher Eli Lilly shutting down their operations by 2016, 23 jobs lost.

Iowa: In Urbandale, the Incredible Buffet and Fun Center shutdown, 75 jobs lost.

Maine:  Old Town Fuel & Fiber shutdown without notice: “Effective immediately all Old Town mill operations will be indefinitely suspended. All employees not needed for securing the facility will be furloughed.”-Patriarch Partners statement

180 employees affected: “We don’t need you to come in tomorrow. Go sign up for unemployment!”-unnamed employee relating what they were told to local news media

Local news reports say the new owners of the mill shut it down to address environmental problems caused by the dilapidated former Georgia Pacific mill and “We shut down to make repairs to our biomass boilers and ended up finding more work than we expected.”, said HR director Dan Bird.  Bird also blamed competition from mills using low grade eucalyptus trees.

The mill also owes $1-million USD in back due local taxes!

Maryland: In Hampden, Breathe Bookstore and Cafe shutting down by early October.  The owner is selling the operation so she can “get back to my roots”.

Massachusetts:  In Cambridge, after 39 years the Dolphin Seafood restaurant shutdown.

Minnesota:  Food producer Cargill continues to kill U.S. jobs, this time 169 IT jobs will be outsourced to a company in India!

New Mexico: Just nine months after getting $635-thousand taxpayer dollars to hire 100 employees, Eclipse Aerospace announced it will be killing an undisclosed number of jobs instead!  Apparently they can’t sell enough of their Eclipse 550 personal aircraft (only ten, so far).

New York: In Jamaica, British Airways announced they will shutdown and layoff 15 Customer Relations Reps and 76 Baggage Services workers in November.  In NYC, janitorial company Eurest Services announced they’re shutting down in September, 47 jobs lost.

Pennsylvania: In Plymouth Meeting, after 20 years Kansas based Houlihan’s Restaurant and Bar shutdown.  Company officials basically said their Plymouth Meeting location wasn’t worth it anymore.

Wisconsin: In Fon du Lac, Sears and Auto Center announced they were shutting down in November, at least 34 jobs lost.  In 3rd Ward, after 10 years the Cranston furniture store shutting down in September.  The owners said they never recovered from the 2008 crash.

13 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

International, U.S.

Ebola Update, 20 October 2014: “I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel” U.S. DoD forms special Medical Martial Law teams! ObamaCare insurance reforms forcing sick people to go to ill equipped clinics! Medical Martial Law as cops start killing ebola victim’s pets!

Despite China having hundreds of medical personnel in western Africa, sending 10-thousand experimental vaccines and giving three western African countries $6-million in food aid, the evil UN World Health Organization just accused the people of China of not doing enough!

Liberia: Daniel Lucey, medical doctor and professor from Washington DC’s Georgetown University serving a tour with Medecins Sans Frontieres, backs up independent journalist claims that things are snowballing downhill: “I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, the epidemic is still getting worse.”

United Kingdom: Oxford based international terror group disguised as charity Oxfam declared that ebola filovirus is the “definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation”, and then demanded more taxpayer funding from the European Union.

United States: In Texas, the Carnival cruise ship, with the Dallas nurse onboard, docked in Galveston.

Galveston is also were the medical waste of ebola victims are being incinerated.

It’s been revealed that Obama Care (Affordable Care Act) insurance reforms are forcing sick people, who’ve been in contact with ebola victims, to go to ill equipped clinics instead of hospitals.

Recently a Dallas County deputy, who inspected the apartment of the man who died from ebola, got sick and rushed himself to an urgent care clinic.  Insurance industry written Obama Care actually penalizes people for going to a hospital.

A similar thing happened in Boston Strong, Massachusetts.  David Weber, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina’s hospital, says sending people with potentially infectious diseases to clinics is the wrong thing to do because clinics are “…an even less controlled situation.”

In Mississippi, ignorant parents pulled their kids out of school after they learned a teacher had been to Zambia.  So far there is no ebola outbreak in Zambia, but for some reason many Mississippians think all of Africa is a giant EVD hot zone!

The incompetent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have announced their ‘new’ ebola protocols, now saying absolutely no skin should be exposed on medical personnel treating ebola victims.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced they are creating special 30 person medical martial law teams, that will be deployed inside the United States to ‘aid’ civilian authorities!

Spain: A nurse who survived ebola is now outraged, because while she was in the hospital paranoid police state officials killed her dog, out of an unconfirmed fear that the dog was infected.  Almost a decade ago doctors in central Africa claimed that dogs were getting infected by eating the dead bodies of ebola victims.  However, Spanish officials didn’t bother to quarantine or test the nurse’s dog before killing it.

Her husband posted a video to the internet saying the Spanish government’s response to ebola is “lousy”!  At least 390-thousand Spanish people are protesting the dog’s death at the hands of a police state.

Update, 19 October 2014:….it’s a bio-weapon 

hemorrhagic disease killing dogs in United States!

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 13 August 2014: VA clinics shutting down! More coal mine shutdowns! Casino kills 3-thousand+ jobs!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Switzerland based Too Big to Jail UBS Wealth Americas (formerly known as PaineWebber) announced they will kill 75 jobs in the United States.  It’s blamed on the demise of Switzerland as a tax haven for the filthy rich.

Speaking of UBS, they declared that there’s no way Radio Shack can prevent itself from going bust.

Connecticut: After 15 years Anna Donte Italian Restaurant shutdown.  After 41 years consignment shop The Silk Purse shutdown.

Florida: Miami-Dade County reminded everybody that  400 cops will lose their jobs in the Autumn!  Of course the tax loving Police Benevolent Association union claims county law enforcement is already short staffed.  County officials need to reduce next year’s payroll by $9.5-million USD, due to crashing tax revenues and increased insurance costs caused by Obama Care.  In Pasco County, military optical systems maker (federal taxsucker) VLOC shutting down and laying off at least 70 employees.  Local analysts said the county will lose $5.7-million when the company shuts down.

Hawaii: Simply Organized shutdown its first store located in Kapolei.

Kentucky: In Louisville, Incredible Dave’s arcade finally shutdown.  Apparently the owner just couldn’t pay his back due taxes.  In 2012 he made this ‘famous last words’ statement: “We’re back on our two feet, and we will be here long term.”  

Michigan: After five years cooking school Ann Arbor Cooks shutdown.  DPM Manufacturing chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  eTel-Rx chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Hard Luck Candy vodka company ceasing operations.  Detroit Zen Center restaurant stopped serving lunch due “to lack of interest”.

Missouri: In Mount Vernon, the Missouri Rehabilitation Center and VA Clinic shutting down!  It’s run by greedy Missouri University Health System, who basically said they’re losing money on the veteran care op.  Veteran Larry Hilburn accused them of constantly short changing veterans: “There’s a lot of veterans that need more help than they’re getting!”

New Jersey: Revel Casino makes it official and will shutdown in September, nobody turned out for the bankruptcy sale!  31-hundred jobs lost!

New York: In NYC, Hotel Bedford announced they’re shutting down by November, 47 jobs lost.

North Carolina: Penguin Drive-In restaurant now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The owners owe a lot of money to a lot of people including state and federal governments.  It should be noted that bankruptcy doesn’t get rid of your debts to the government, but you can negotiate them down.  This is the third attempt to file bankruptcy for the restaurant since last year, the first two attempts were thrown out of court.  Lowes Food shutting down four grocery stores!  Company officials said it’s necessary in order for them to build a fancy new store.   Obama Care killing off the Women’s Hospital in Greensboro.  The operator, Cone Health, says cost cutting forced by Obama Care means they must consolidate healthcare services into fewer hospitals.

Ohio: Dayton based Standard Register is using the U.S. Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 to slash employee retirement funding by $33-million!

Oklahoma: In Tulsa, Folks Urban Market shutdown.  The owner implied it was the greedy property owner saying “…some bad circumstances beyond our control….I’m very upset!”

Pennsylvania: Near Lewisburg, after 42 years Colonial Candlecrafters shutdown.

Texas: In Houston, Xerox shutting down their call center in September, 468 jobs lost!  They lost their contract with Sprint.

Washington: Seattle based tech company RealNetwork killed 85 jobs.   Taxsucker Boeing announced it will cut $6-billion from its military contract suppliers, which means big job losses for the contractors.

West Virginia: Yet another coal mine shuts down.  Coal River Mining and Coal River Processing laying off 280 people in October!  Company officials warned of more layoffs, because they’re shutting down their warehouse and business ops also.  They blame a crash in the coal market and new government laws.

Wisconsin: ‘Professional’ education service Lorman Education Services killing 42 jobs in October.  Company officials blame it on what I call DSS (Disappearing Student Syndrome).  The privately funded education company has been laying off employees since 2009.

11-12 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 11 – 12 August 2014: Illinois gets slammed, again! 84% increase in rent killing off small shops! Disney continues to kill jobs! No more Jelly Belly?

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Despite increased package deliveries, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reported a $2-billion USD loss for their fiscal 3rd quarter!

California: In Glendale, Disney killed off 16 jobs at their Disney Toons studios.  In San Francisco, Therapy Home thrift store killed off by an 84% hike in their rent!  British empire military contractor and U.S. taxsucker BAE laid off another employee.  Freight company RAD Harvest killing 81 jobs in October.

Illinois: In Romeoville, cable TV company Comcast announced they will kill 112 jobs in September!  In Arlington Heights, tech company Intuit killing 104 jobs in September!  What housing market recovery?   In Chicago, real estate company Equity Office Management laying off 48 employees in September.  We Clean Maintenance & Supplies killing 107 jobs!  Geralex Janitorial Services laying off 67 workers.  RJB Properties making 41 employees unemployed.  After 100 years (and surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Jelly Belly Candy laying off 66 employees as the company moves its Illinois operations to California.  In Champaign, Kraft Foods laid off an additional 56 employees.  In East Moline, Jacobson Warehouse laying off 137 people in September!

Indiana:  Obama Care killed off yet another hospital.  This time Monroe Hospital is chapter 11 bankrupt busted and up for sale!  But it’s not all Obama Care’s fault, hospital officials also blame the greedy property owners.

Maine: Great Northern Paper announced that their “temporary” job layoffs are now “permanent”, 212 jobs lost!  Great Northern Paper shutdown their East Millinocket factory in February, and city officials say the company still owes them $700-thousand in taxes!   And in Bath, USN ship builder and taxsucker Bath Iron Works continues to kill jobs, this time 40 people now unemployed.

Maryland: What housing market recovery?  In Rockville, RoundPoint Mortgage laid off 68 employees.

New Jersey: In Washington, after 60 years McCormick’s Bicycle shutdown.

New Mexico: What housing market recovery?  The Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors says July 2014 homes sale crashed 12.35% from July 2013!  However, the average sale price went up by 3.7%.

New York: In Vestal, Obama Care forcing Practicare Medical Management to kill 76 healthcare jobs in November.

Oklahoma: In Oklahoma City, Homeland grocery store shutting down a second store, this time 55 jobs will be lost: “…we could not justify expending capital in this store.”

Texas: In Austin, tech start up facilitator Conjunctured warning it could shutdown.  It might have something to do with their rent.   El Lago Mexican Foods canceled their plans to expand operations and shutdown, even though they were offered tax incentives: “…since we had to move from our old time location in central Austin, we are having big issues to go back in business. We are still trying to get the company up and running again soon. Thank you again and keep your fingers cross.”-company statement

Virginia: Reston based cell phone service provider NII about to be chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The company offers Nextel service in Latin American countries, but is losing its ass to competition simply because it can’t (or wont) upgrade its download speeds.

08-10 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 08 – 10 August 2014: “It was…impossible to continue.” High cost of living tarnishing employment in the Golden State! Chicago Bears can’t pay their taxes!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

“They can’t afford to pay me what I’m worth; they can’t even match the pay at my last job. It makes me sad. I always thought that, in 10 years, I was going to be awesome. Now here I am, just trying to survive.”-Valerie Colter, typical Californian

California: Southern California Edison laying off 410 people in October! In San Francisco, iconic Candlestick Park being torn down, its fixtures being auctioned off!  Los Angeles County reports a 57% drop in manufacturing jobs since 1990!  Esmael Adibi, of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, said companies can’t handle the high cost of doing business in the Golden State: “They look at stuff like taxation, energy costs and housing costs, and it becomes a business decision.”

Connecticut: In Stamford, after 24 years Littlejohn’s children clothing store shutdown.  The co-owner blamed a lot of factors that have crashed their sales since 2008, but she said the final straw was when the greedy landlord jacked up the rent: “…an unattainable rent increase. It was honestly too much of an increase. It would be very difficult, really, or impossible to continue.”-Anda Weyher

Florida: In Polk County, Chapters Health System killing 89 healthcare jobs at their LifePath Hospice, Good Shepherd and Chapters’ palliative care and pharmacy programs.  Hospital officials directly blamed Obama Care (Affordable Care Act) for drastically reducing payments for people on Medicare and Medicaid, which make up 92% of Chapters Health System’s clients!  In Miami, reports that the Portugal based Too Big to Jail Espirito Santo Bank will be sold off.  The bank was bailed out by the Bank of Portugal, but is still a failure.  The ADP Regional Employment Report says new job creation fell 40% from July 2013 to July 2014!

Moved from Pocatello to Chubbuck in 1999, this Sears is finally dead!

Idaho: In Chubbuck, Sears Holdings finally decided to put their dying Sears store, at the Pine Ridge Mall, to death.  The store will close in October.  Also in Chubbuck, the 24 years old Carmike Cinema 7 was sold off to property developers and will be torn down.  Word is that the owner does not think it’s worth it to convert the theater over to digital.

Illinois: In Libertyville, the owner of Encore Theater group announced this is the last year of performances.  He took a job with another theater group.  The Chicago Bears American style football team have failed to pay Cook County $4.1-million USD in ticket sales tax!  The back due taxes go all the way back to 2003!

Indiana: In Summit City, after 40 years Rustic Hutch shutdown two furniture stores.  What housing market recovery?  In Evansville, Springleaf Finance announced they are shutting down their mortgage operation, 170 jobs lost!

Massachusetts: Tewksburry based Market Basket grocery stores killing jobs in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.  Any striking worker that refuses to come back to work is now fired.

Michigan: In Minnesota, reports say a Office Depot is closing, but corporate officials refuse to comment.  In Ann Arbor, law school Thomas M. Cooley’s warned it could shutdown, blaming an 11% drop in enrollment (DSS, Disapearing Student Syndrome).  Who said the internet is killing brick-n-mortar ops?  After six years internet news source AnnArborChronicle.com to stop regular publishing in September.  United Airlines killing 109 jobs at the Detroit Metro Airport, in October!

New York: Cargo ship operator Eagle Bulk Shipping now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Company officials blame their financial dire straights on a crash in import/exports ever since 2008.

North Carolina: United Airlines announced they will kill 71 jobs at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, in October.  In Greensboro, Kmart announced it is shutting down in November, 69 jobs lost.

Texas: What construction market recovery?  BidClerk reports 2nd quarter 2014 construction funding crashed by $12.2-billion  compared to 1st quarter 2014.

Virginia: In Roanoke, First & Sixth Restaurant shutdown.

Washington: In Seattle, 15 businesses forced to shutdown because of construction of the Elliott Bay Seawall.  City officials swear it will only take nine months to complete, but history shows construction projects almost always take longer than stated.  However, city officials are paying the business owners compensation to ensure they can come back once the construction is done.

06-07 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

International, U.S.

Ebola Update: IMF & World Bank involved! More proof of Medical Martial Law racism in United States! Nurses go public accuse CDC of Medical Martial Law conspiracy! CDC shit-cans ‘protocols’!

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“That hospital has issued a directive to all hospital staff not to speak to press. That is a grave concern because we need to hear from those front line workers. We need to hear what happened there…They have them on real lockdown!  ……I am angry because it was preventable in this country! We should be able to contain and eradicate it, but hospitals are not providing adequate training!”-Bonnie Castillo, Registered Nurse Response Network

The unproven accusation by U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s incompetent Tom Frieden, that the infected nurse in Texas got herself contaminated with ebola by not following “protocols”, has got nursing unions in an uproar: “…and we have seen in our hospitals in this country that they have not given us this information [ebola protocols issued by CDC].  And then, when nurses become infected they are blamed for not following ‘protocols’!  That is not going to work!”-Katy Roemer, National Nurses Union

So much for Obama Care making healthcare better!

Now for the racism.

The Dallas, Texas United States, nurse now infected has been given a transfusion of blood from a survivor of ebola, less than 24 hours after being confirmed to have ebola!  Compare that to the evil treatment the man who died got.

Again, the obvious difference between the survivors in the U.S. and the one man that died; skin color!

The dead ‘black’ victim was rebuffed by hospital staff the first time he tried to get help.  Then, once in the hospital, it was six days before he got an experimental drug that was designed for pox viruses, not ebola!

The Dallas nurse, a ‘white’ skinned Asian, gets a proven treatment (blood transfusion from survivor) for ebola immediately?   The infected ‘white’ NBC news cameraman gets a blood transfusion once he’s brought back from Africa?  But the poor ‘black’ man visiting his U.S. citizen son, and who repeatedly told health officials he might have ebola, is put on hold until it’s too late?

So much for Obama Care making healthcare better!

As for that moron Tom Frieden and many of his earlier claims about how well prepared the U.S. healthcare system is for ebola, the Associated Press got a hold of medical records from the Dallas hospital and discovered that 70 healthcare workers could be affected (other news sources say 76)!

On 13 October 2014, CDC director Tom Frieden admitted they have to shit-can all they assumed about preventing the spread of ebola: “We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control….this one individual was infected, and we don’t know how…” 

In Germany, a United Nations WHO worker has died from ebola.  The German health officials claim they used “intensive medical procedures” to try and save him.  (The last dose of ZMapp was given to a woman in Norway.)

The UN health worker got infected in Liberia, and was sent to Germany for treatment.  The UN now has 41 of their healthcare and military personnel in observation (basically quarantined).

Now money is involved.  The U.S. based International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are sounding a financial alarm over a possible ebola pandemic (which I warned about).

World Bank bean counters estimate that a 2015 ebola epidemic in Africa will cost the World’s taxpayers $32.6-billion USD.   This is just for Africa, at the yearly meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Washington DC analysts admitted calculating the costs of fighting a global pandemic was overwhelming.

Analysts warned that an ebola pandemic could destroy the already fragile international airlines industry, meaning no more flying anywhere.  This would create an economic domino effect on economies globally, causing an economic isolationism effect (this might be a good thing for millions of unemployed workers wishing a return of domestic industries that were off shored).

The situation is so financially daunting that the World Bank officials promised the UN World Health Organization that finding a way to finance the fight against ebola would be their number one priority for 2015, as opposed to finding a way to fund global economic recovery!

Already ebola has caused a U.S. based tourism company to pullout of their surf camp resort in Liberia.  The successful Kwepunha Retreat surf camp was opened two years ago by graduates of University of California San Diego, but they’ve been forced to shut it down, due to ebola.

Could lack of money cause the viral genocide of many of the World’s societies?

Speaking of money.  Many Liberian medical personnel threaten to go on strike, because their government has not come through with promised danger pay to care for people infected with ebola.  After all, most of the people getting sick are those treating the infected.   Liberian medical workers are also stating that their government has imposed a Martial Law restriction on the reporting of ebola cases in their news media.

On top of that, it was revealed that burial teams (who’re supposedly under the direction of the terror group USAID) have not been burying the dead in prescribed mass graves.  Some reports say when they show up to a house where a person has died, the family pays them off so that they can bury the body near their home, and not in a mass grave.  (I’ve already pointed out in past postings that the U.S. CDC is recommending that people in the U.S. be cremated, so why is the USAID directing the use of mass graves in Liberia?)

Why aren’t the Cubans & Chinese getting sick? Australia questions protective protocols! 

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 06 – 07 August 2014: “The potential effect on the economy….is huge!” Where’s the beef? as another meat plant shuts down! School sacrifices hourly paid employees to give big salaries to lazy people with college degrees! Yet another coal plant goes down! Office Depot caught ripping off California taxpayers!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

The iconic Great Depression era Tennessee Valley Authority killing more than 2-thousand jobs!  The multi-state federally funded utilities provider blames it on competition with for profit utility companies.  The TVA also revealed they suffered a net lost of $81-million USD during the spring quarter.

California: In Oakland, Sutter Health/Alta Bates Summit Medical Center laid off four more healthcare workers.  In San Francisco, British empire military contractor BAE laid off two employees.

Florida: In Oakland Park, Kmart announced they’re shutting down in November, 112 jobs lost!  Boca Raton based Office Depot announced they are shutting down an additional 165 stores by the end of 2014!  400 stores will be shutdown by the end of 2016!  This affects stores in the U.S. and Canada.  This announcement comes as Office Depot settle a lawsuit for $80-million.  The state of California sued Office Depot for overcharging state government buyers.

Hawaii: In Honolulu, after only five months Meatball Hawaii restaurant shutdown with little warning by the greedy property owner,  the restaurant owner said “Our lease has been bought out.  Today is our last day.”  Also in Honolulu,  Haleakala Solar shutdown and consolidated operations to its warehouse in Halawa, no word on jobs lost.

Illinois: New Jersey based NGR Energy announced they’re shutting down one of their newly acquired Illinois coal fired electricity generating power plants, 250 jobs lost!

Kansas: U.S. Army’s Fort Leavenworth warned of 25-hundred civilian and military personnel job cuts!   Mark Preisinger, the mayor of the city of Leavenworth, cried out “The potential effect on the economy, not only in Leavenworth but across the entire metro area, is huge!”  One commerce analyst said 25-hundred job losses at the Army base would cause a domino effect, killing off 4944 additional regional jobs!

Kentucky: In Louisville, five people lost their jobs with the weekly newspaper LEO (Louisville Eccentric Observer), after it was taken over by the founder’s son.

Massachusetts: Peabody based medical imaging company Analogic announced they’re laying off 50 employees.  As a portent of the worsening economy to come, company officials said they need to reduce costs by $6-million starting in 2015.

Michigan:  The Flint School District laid off 36 non-teaching employees, but then turned around and hired on 10 people to salaried positions, all making more than $67-thousand per year!

Minnesota: The owners of well liked Santorini restaurant shut it down with out notice.  Local news speculated the family owners where in deep debt.  The only official statement from the family indicated they were forced to sell out.

New Mexico:  Santa Fe Community College revealed they’re short $5-million!  The temporary president of the school blames prior administrations for grossly overestimating revenues and handing out raises when the revenues could not support pay increases.  Now the school must cut back.

New York: In Buffalo, God refuses to stop the shutdown of the Buffalo Christian Center.  Greedy religious leaders are selling out to a property developer, claiming it will help them to better do ‘God’s work’.   The sale price was not revealed, but Coldwell Banker said it was well more than $1.44-million!   In Tea Neck, after 86 years Panettieri Brothers Manor Shoes shutdown.  In Amsterdam, Fiber Glass Industries announced they are shutting down in November, 66 jobs lost.  In Jericho, telemarketer CSC Holdings announced it is laying off 86 employees in November.  South Brookhaven Health Center West announced they will kill 93 healthcare jobs at their two hospitals in Shirley and Patchogue.

Oklahoma: In Muskogee, Sears announced they are shutting down in November, 60 jobs lost.

Pennsylvania: The Emerald coal mine being shutdown in 2015, due to crashing demand for coal (not those idiot environmentalist climate change freaks), 500 jobs will be lost!

Tennessee: In Jackson, after 43 years Market Fresh grocery store shutdown.

Texas: In San Antonio, after 50 years meat packer L&H Packing shutdown, 325 jobs lost!  Company officials blame it on the lack of beef cows, caused by ongoing drought.    In Houston, Haven restaurant shutdown.  The owner sold out to competitors, blaming the outrageous rent he was paying.

Wisconsin: In Fond Du Lac, Sears announced they are shutting down in  November, 42 jobs lost.

04-05 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 01 – 03 August 2014: “We’re simply burned out.” Christian leaders caught ripping off Christian school funding! WWE body slams employees! No more Circle Bar B! More job destruction by greedy property owners!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Alabama: Alabama Power announced it is switching its Greene County coal fired electricity factory to natural gas.  It will also result in half the employees (about 60) becoming unemployed!  Company officials blame new federal government regulations, which has forced them to spend more than $3-billion USD to change over to natural gas!

California: In Santa Barbara, after 40 years the iconic Circle Bar B dinner theater horse ranch shutdown.  I went to one show (in the late 1980s), it was fun, but the owners of the property say expenses have gone up so much that revenues from the dinner theater aren’t enough, they are looking at other income generating possibilities.   In San Louis Obispo, the state prison known as the Men’s Colony announced they are laying off 66 psychiatric technicians over the next six months.  This comes after accusation that the state prison psyc system ordered technicians to falsify prisoner records.  But the real reason could be that the state is now sending prisoners to contracted mental health care, because the federal government is paying for it.  In Chatsworth, Switzerland based food producer Nestle issued a WARN saying they were killing 353 jobs in October!  State employment officials did not relay a reason, saying “not known at this time”.  In Long Beach, taxsucker Boeing issued a WARN saying 158 people will become unemployed in September!  In Sacramento, after three years doughnut shop Doughbot shutdown.  The two owner-operators said “…these last few years have been…..incredibly difficult. We’re simply burned out.”

Connecticut: Stamford based World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) killed off 60 jobs. WWE claims their revenue remains “strong” but it sounds like investors pushed for the job cuts.

Florida: In Miami Beach, another restaurant done in by a greedy landowner.  Andreas Schreiner of Pubbelly Restaurant Group said their PB Steak restaurant shutdown because “…the rising costs of real estate would not have allowed us to continue to operate PB Steak without raising our prices, which would go against our commitment to our customers, to be a local, everyday eating establishment.” What housing market recovery?  All across southern Florida the federal government seized 21 houses, accusing the Massachusetts (Boston Strong, actually based in Marlborough) based owner, TelexFREE, of scamming immigrants from Brazil and Dominican Republic to the tune of $1-billion USD!  By the way, Too Big to Jail Boston Strong (Fitchburg) Fidelity Bank just agreed to pay $3.5-million for their role in the TelexFREE scam.

Hawaii: In Kakaako, after only eight months the interior design eStyle Hawaii store shutdown!  The greedy landowner kicked them out!  The property is being redeveloped.

Idaho: In Blackfoot, after 15 years Tweedy’s Music shutdown.  The owners revealed there are two speculators competing to buy their property.

Illinois: In Chicago, Forever Yogurt shutdown two brand new stores!  Company officials blame lawsuits from property owners like General Growth Properties (GGP, I used to work for those jerk wads in Idaho).  The lawsuits claims Forever Yogurt owes backdue rent (I know how much GGP likes to charge in rent, and I wouldn’t pay either!).  What automotive industry recovery?  In Freeport, another round of layoffs with troubled Titan Tire, this time 48 employees let go.  Titan Tire supplies tires to farm and heavy equipment makers, and orders have crashed.  Freeport’s mayor is worried: “This is disappointing news at a time when we’ve already had our share of disappointing news.  We are deeply interested in the fate of this plant and its workers, and we’re willing to do anything we can to help because it’s important not only to the area but the entire state.”-Jim Gitz

Iowa:  In Cedar Rapids, British empire United kingdom based internet services company Hibu initiated a second round of layoffs. This time 44 U.S. citizens became unemployed.  Back in April of this year, Hibu killed 184 jobs!  Six of Hibu’s U.S. subsidiaries are already in chapter 15 bankruptcy protection.

Kansas: Virtual network company Chit Chat now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Company officials blame Sprint for questionable billings.

Louisiana: In Marrero, the Christian God refused to stop the Reverend Mansfield Thompson Educational Foundation from shutting down their Faith Christian Academy, with only a five day notice to “vacate”: “It was like unreal, unbelievable, that they would let us prepare to open and then send us a letter to close.”-Joycelyn Robinson, school administrator

But this shutdown is not about raptured students (what I call DSS or Disappearing Student Syndrome), but about evil Christian leaders caught stealing money.  At the end of 2013 a state investigation revealed Reverend Mansfield Thompson Educational Foundation was probably absconding with the money paid by struggling Christian parents: “At this point, I just want my money back. I paid $400 for registration and I’m getting the run around with that. I just want my money back!”-Ramira Williams

Michigan: In Taylor, Fitness USA shutdown the last of its three Taylor locations.  It might have to do with a discrimination lawsuit filed last year.

New York: In Carle Place, 1-800-Flowers announced it is restructuring, and killing off 220 jobs in October!  In NYC, Bloomberg Media killed about 25 jobs, and killed a TV show.  Company officials said they are “…shifting resources to regions outside of New York.”

Ohio: In Youngstown, the Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Partnership (MYCAP) warned it will kill 10 jobs with its Head Start education program.  They blame the federal government for cutting off their federal food service funding.  MYCAO is also going away and Development Institute of Denver will take over the Head Start program temporarily.   The World’s largest household products maker (like diapers and detergent), Cincinnati based Procter & Gamble, announced they are killing 100 brands over the next two years, which will equate to job destruction.  Company officials say those 100 brands make up only 5% of their profits.  What housing market recovery?  In Solon, mortgage company ServiceLink announced they’re shutting down in December and killing 211 jobs!

Pennsylvania: Edinboro University warned of more layoffs by the end of this school year.  However, they hinted that if they can stay within budget, and don’t lose anymore funding, then the layoffs will be canceled.  In Lancaster, after three years Fork-n-Spoon Cafe shutdown.

Vermont: The State College system warned that budget cuts wanted by the governor will result in job losses.  The governor wants to cut $1-million in funding.  In May this year, Johnson State College laid off five employees and blamed it on DSS.

Washington: The budget cutting of Redmond based Microsoft will also affected hundreds (if not more) supply vendors/contractors.  Microsoft is suspending vendor access for six months every 18 months.  During those six months vendors/contractors will have to find employment elsewhere.  Local news reports say local vendors are already talking about abandoning Microsoft altogether!

31 July 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

International, U.S.

Ebola Update: Racism & conspiracy in United States? ObamaCare blamed!

09 October 2014 (16:11 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/17 Mehr 1393/16 Jia-Xu 4712

“I said at the outset, Presbyterian is a boutique hospital next to a little Ellis Island. If you don’t have insurance, you’re not going to get treated! That’s the elephant in the room.”-John Wiley Price, Dallas County commissioner

“Clinicians on the front lines have been one key to our safety: identifying patients with both a history of travel and symptoms indicating they might have Ebola, immediately isolating them, consulting their local or state health departments, and getting the patients tested as needed.”-Tom Frieden, famous last words from the Obama regime U.S. CDC director, 02 october 2014

The first person to die of EVD in the United States is a person with ‘black’ skin.  Two ‘white’ skinned people who survived ebola were given top class medical treatment, while the ‘black’ skinned victim was initially turned away from a Texas hospital, even though he and his family swear they told medical personnel he had just returned from helping ebola victims in Liberia!  (the ‘white’ skinned hospital officials deny that he told them of being in contact with ebola victims)

To show how evil the medical personnel were at the Christian Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, when he first went in they sent him home with antibiotics.  Yet they had conducted no testing that would have indicated he had a bacterial infection and antibiotics do not work on viruses.  He had a fever of 101.1 fahrenheit and abdominal pain.

Compare the U.S. news media coverage of the ‘black’ victim to the coverage of the infected ‘white’ skinned victims.

After the ‘black’ skinned victim got worse and was sent to the hospital by ambulance, he was declared to have ebola.  What followed was days of U.S. news media reports that actually demonized the victim.  They implied that he snuck into the U.S. from Liberia.  Even the Liberian government threatened to bring criminal charges against the man on the grounds he knew he was infected when he left the country, those threats were based on what they were being told by U.S. news media.

Now compare the treatments: ‘Black’ versus ‘White’.

The first two ‘white’ U.S. citizens were handled with kid gloves by U.S. health officials starting in Liberia, then flown at taxpayer expense to the United States, where they underwent immediate and intensive treatment with an experimental drug made with GMO tobacco.  There is a third ‘white’ victim, not even a medical technician, but a NBC news cameraman, and he’s getting the same ‘kid gloves’ treatment as the first two ‘white’ victims (in fact one of the first ‘white’ survivors of ebola has just donated his blood to this third ‘white’ ebola victim).

The ‘black’ victim was first blown off by the Christian medical personnel and sent home with inappropriate medication on 25 September 2014.  Keep in mind when you take antibiotics they not only attack bacteria but they shut down your immune system, this is why it’s so wrong to take antibiotics for a viral infection!  Once hospitalized (28 September 2014) it wasn’t until 04 October 2014 before hospital officials announced they were finally giving him an “experimental” drug (Brincidofovir, which was developed for pox viruses not ebola).  The drug was not the same one given to the first two ‘white’ victims, (they were given the GMO tobacco based ZMapp, which was developed specifically to fight ebola)!  On top of that, some relatives and friends of the family claim they were told the only treatment the man was being given were “saline drops and oxygen”!

Dallas County commissioner John Wiley Price says the Christian hospital’s ill treatment of the ‘black’ victim was the result of his lack of healthcare insurance!  Where’s Obamacare on this one?  Do the ‘white’ victims have insurance?  If they do, will their insurance pay back U.S. taxpayers?

Is it because the ‘black’ victim was not a U.S. citizen?  He was in the U.S. to reunite with his estranged U.S. citizen son and his son’s U.S. citizen mom (who is now in medical quarantine).  Some reports say the victim was engaged to marry a U.S. citizen.

What about treatment after death?  The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered that Thomas Eric Duncan’s body be cremated.  Makes sense to me, except that the CDC and the terror group known as USAID are not cremating the dead in Liberia.  I’ve written before about how USAID is directing the mass burial of Liberians killed by ebola.  It is possible to burn infected bodies in Liberia, so why aren’t they doing it?

The Obama regime has sworn over and over that they’re doing everything in their power to help the people of Liberia, yet it’s obvious the treatment for the Liberian citizen in the U.S. was inadequate (possibly intentionally) compared to treatment given to U.S. citizens.  Now realize that despite U.S. aid to Liberia (which many Liberians say is non-existent) the ebola situation there is totally out of control.  Compare that to the control of ebola outbreaks in other African countries that are getting help from China and Cuba, and it seems the U.S. has an evil agenda.

Remember, Obama is half ‘white’.

“…we want them to be scared!”