“Samuel, notify your men: the British are coming.”-General Oliver Prescott, 19APR1775
Washington (state) National Guard train-up on their new M777, 12APR2017
The U.S. Army’s Watervliet Arsenal is making parts for the M777A2 artillery system, as part of a $50-million USD sale to India. But it’s not the United States that is profiting. The company raking in the profits from the M777 sale to India is BAE Systems, based in the capitol of The Commonwealth of Nations, the United Kingdom.
U.S. Marine Corps video report by Sergeant Mathew Callahan, ‘When the M777 becomes a direct fire gun’:
The Indian M777 deal is worth $50-million, but at one point the Indian Army wanted about $800-million worth of the high-tech cannons, the Indian taxpayers said no to that. Contrary to the decades of lies about India gaining independence from the British empire, India is actually an autonomous (self-governing) member of The Commonwealth of Nations (the official term for the British empire since the 1926 Balfour Declaration).
But India is not the only Commonwealth member to get BAE’s profitable M777 cannon; Australia starting in 2010, and Canada starting in 2005 (initially through the U.S. Marine Corps).
Canadian Forces show you how to fire the M777, video by Master Corporal Kurt Visser, Wainwright, Alberta, May 2017:
BAE (formerly British Aerospace BAe, and GEC-Marconi/Marconi Electronic Systems MES) designs and builds anything from submarines to killer A-I robots. Nothing but death and destruction, for the profit of Queen and Country.
Revolutionaries attack BAE’s Australia office with paint and sledgehammers, December 2015
In the late 1990s, under the Bill Clinton regime, MES began taking over U.S. defense contractors. In 1999, MES and BAe merged to create BAE Systems, apparently to stop a U.S. defense contractor from taking over MES. In 2001, the same year the False Flag War on Terror began, BAE Systems aggressively invaded the U.S. defense industry, taking over many U.S. companies, including cyber security companies. Prior to World War Two, the U.S. government was officially anti-monarchist, anti-imperialist. Unfortunately for American War for Independence General Oliver Prescott, the British are here!
Incomplete list of Walmart-Sam’s Club notices of store shutdowns and job slaughtering, most taking place between January and mid-April 2018, note that not all closing stores reported job loss numbers:
Alaska: Two Anchorage Sam’s Clubs, 348 jobs gone!Fairbanks Sam’s Club, 177 jobs gone!
Alabama: Irondale Sam’s Club, 136 jobs gone!
Arkansas: Bentonville based Walmart eliminating at least 1-thousand corporate level jobs between now and the end of 2019!
Arizona: Casa Grande Sam’s Club. Chandler Sam’s Club. Scottsdale Sam’s Club. Prescott Valley Walmart.
California: City of Industry Sam’s Club. Rowland Heights Sam’s Club, 158 jobs gone! San Fernando Sam’s Club, 178 jobs gone!Stanton Sam’s Club, 158 jobs gone! Sylmar Sam’s Club. Sacramento Sam’s Club and Walmart, 521 jobs gone!
Connecticut: Orange Sam’s Club, 155 jobs gone! Manchester Sam’s Club, 151 jobs gone!
Florida: Fern Park Sam’s Club, 173 jobs gone! Lantana Sam’s Club, 191 jobs gone! Tampa Sam’s Club, 148 jobs gone!
Georgia: Marietta Walmart, 69 jobs gone. Lithonia Walmart, 83 jobs gone. Dekalb Sam’s Club, 196 jobs gone!
Illinois: Batavia Sam’s Club, 150 jobs gone! Matteson Sam’s Club, 166 jobs gone! Moline Sam’s Club, 155 jobs gone! Naperville Sam’s Club, 170 jobs gone! Romeoville Sam’s Club, 167 jobs gone! Streamwood Sam’s Club, 191 jobs gone! Wheeling Sam’s Club, 138 jobs gone!
Indiana: Rushville Walmart, 95 jobs gone. Goshen Sam’s Club, 110 jobs gone! Two Indianapolis Sam’s Clubs, 309 jobs gone!
Kansas: Walmart shutting down its ‘health and wellness’ service center in Derby, 104 jobs gone by August!
Louisiana: Baton Rouge Sam’s Club.
Maryland: Owings Mills Sam’s Club, 169 jobs gone!
Massachusetts: Worcester Sam’s Club.
Michigan: Farmington Hills Sam’s Club, 158 jobs gone! Lansing Sam’s Club, 172 jobs gone!
Minnesota: Moorhead Sam’s Club. Saint Louis Park Sam’s Club. Edna based Regis owned SmartStyle Salonsshutting down 6-hundred stores located inside Walmarts across the U.S.
New Hampshire: Seabrook Sam’s Club.
New Jersey: Budd Lake Sam’s Club,144 jobs gone! Linden Sam’s Club, 187 jobs gone! Princeton Sam’s Club, 196 jobs gone! Branchburg Walmart, 149 jobs gone by April!
New York: Jamestown Sam’s Club, 114 jobs gone! Two Rochester Sam’s Clubs, 292 jobs gone! Syracuse Sam’s Club, 151 jobs gone!
North Carolina: Lumberton Sam’s Club, 149 jobs gone! Morrisville Sam’s Club, 187 jobs gone!
Ohio:Cincinnati/Hamilton Sam’s Club, 143 jobs gone! Loveland/Clermont Sam’s Club, 142 jobs gone!
“Every year, since we’ve been doing the National Take Back, the DEA and the National Guard have worked side-by-side with collection and transportation of the prescriptions. The National Guard is a huge help in collecting a lot of pills in a short amount of time and then getting them to the destruction point.”– Timothy McMahon, DEA
Ever notice that local police, and now National Guard, conduct “drug take back” days? The problem with this phrase, Prescription Drug Take Back Day, and the fact that it is conducted by government law enforcers, implies your doctor issued prescription drugs came from the government.
Prescription Drug Take Back Day is an operation of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). As an example of how much prescription drugs are out there, in October 2017, under the guidance of the DEA the New Jersey National Guard Counterdrug Task Force incinerated seven tons of prescription drugs during a Drug Take Back op!
Ohio National Guard conducts Drug Take Back Day, 01May2017
You don’t have to take my word that government and corporations (employees of at least) are involved in drugs dealing, read the following Real News sources from the past month.
In December 2017 Hanscom Air Force Base, in Massachusetts, became the first U.S. Air Force installation to arm its police with naloxone, in an attempt to prevent opioid overdoses.
Also towards the end of 2017, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department began research on a new, potentially weaponized, opioid drug threat called carfentanil. One poppy seed sized amount of carfentanil (aka Elephant Tranquilizer) can potentially kill you. The U.S. Department of Defense is so sure that carfentanil is being weaponized (they didn’t say by whom) that efforts are being made to find antidotes for military personnel, and eventually silly-vilians.
Official video attempting to explain why Nevada National Guard Counterdrug Task Force was sent to Kingdom of Tonga:
Another sign of the growing prescription drug problem is that the military health insurance TriCare just jacked up the out-of-pocket cost of drugs for military families. USAF Lieutenant t. Colonel Ann McManis, of the Defense Health Agency Pharmacy Operations Division, revealed it’s part of a plan to force military families to do their drugs shopping solely on military based: “Military pharmacies and TriCare Pharmacy Home Delivery will remain the lowest cost pharmacy option for TriCare beneficiaries.”
02FEB2018, signing a pledge not to drink booze while watching the Super Bowl
Even drinking booze has apparently become a major problem for the military (despite decades of taxpayer funded anti-booze policies) as before Super Bowl weekend the Naval Medical Center San Diego intimidated personnel to sign a pledge promising they wouldn’t drink booze on Super Bowl Sunday!
Last month Cristina Howe, with the Marine Corps’ Substance Abuse Counseling Center, intimated an increase in cases saying “We have a lot of command referrals that come in, but we also have a lot of self-referrals….”
It was also revealed, at the end of January, that the Defense Logistics Agency has connections with about 1-thousand manufacturers/distributors of more than 25-thousand types of drugs: “If we can’t get drugs to our overseas bases, then it affects our ability to project air power, deploy forces….The fact that they have the ability to push our vendors to make things happen is critical to the warfighting mission….”-Major Rohin Kasudia, USAF Misawa Air Base, Nippon
Militarizing the Police; official National Guard Counterdrug Schools for cops video which claims that drugs cause violence (not people, kinda like the anti-gun argument that guns, and not people, kill people) and that drug dealers are better armed than local cops (after decades of hearing that claim I have yet to see evidence of that, I remember in Junior High in late 1970s southern California we got a visit from a San Bernardino County Sheriff deputy who opened the trunk of his cop-car to reveal a footlocker type box filled with shotguns, M16s, ammo, and various types of grenades, for a short time in the 1980s my father was a San Bernardino County Reserve Sheriff deputy and confirmed that the cops, at least in San Bernardino County, out-gun any criminals or silly-vilians), where even cops from Boise, Idaho, learn how to bash in your door:
Counterdrugs schools operators (usually a local college, with counterdrugs program names varying from region to region) claims to offer free counterdrugs training to local law enforcers across the country. Specifically it is ‘free’ to local law enforcement agencies because it is 100% funded by your taxes paid to the federal government. Such counterdrugs schools are overwatched by the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Guard Bureau.
“People are addicted to this idea that you have to use tough love, let people hit rock bottom, kick it cold turkey. That works for some people. It kills others.”-Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance
25JAN2018, U.S. Coast Guard & Royal Canadian Navy proudly displays more than 47,000 pounds of cocaine in California!
U.S. Department of Transportation revealed a 77% increase in drug use by people working in the transportation industry, since 2006! USDoT administrators admitted the numbers could be higher because their drug testing requirements have “significant gaps . . . that should be addressed.”
02FEB2018, U.S. Coast Guard offloads two tons of cocaine captured off Florida!
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revealed that ‘offshored’ U.S. airlines maintenance facilities are exempt from drug testing for their U.S. employees.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) reported that random drug testing revealed that the number of railroad employees addicted to drugs jumped by 43% from 2015 to 2016! Since 2014 there’s been a sudden increase of railroad accidents involving railroad workers whacked on drugs.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that at least 10.9-million people in the United States were addicted to opioids in 2016!
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the number of opioid deaths in 2016 at a record 42-thousand!
In California, a National Guard sergeant blames the capitalist system for the growing number of homeless people whacked on smack: “…these people are being pushed out not because of laziness, not because they couldn’t try hard enough, but because the system is stacked against them.”-Jason Carney, Vets for the 99%
Last month the New York National Guard Counterdrug Task Force hosted a forum to come up with ideas about how to end the opioid crisis in The Empire State. Even representatives of the New York Police Department blamed the current situation on the decades old War on Drugs: “I’m the living history of the failure of the drug war. The fact that I’m here dealing with the same problems that I’ve been dealing with for the past 35 years is no accident. If we attack this in a more policy-oriented way, to prevent the involvement of the criminal justice system, not only would more treatments be available…”-Jeff Kauffman, former police officer and attorney with the New York Police Department
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in January 2018:
Maybe the new Whore of Babylon is the Digital Bitch?:
California: Who said sex sells? A little more than a year after being sold to a Florida based company, Chatsworth based adult magazine Penthouse now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, for the third time in its 52 year history. World of Tanks maker Wargaming America issued a shutdown shutdown WARN for its Emeryville location, 117 jobs gone by the end of March! San Francisco based women’s lifestyle online-zine Brit + Co suddenly eliminated 14 jobs, despite a 50% increase in revenues. Wi-fi startup Eero suddenly laid off 30 people in order to “focus on our core business.” San Jose based ebayreported a massive loss of $2.6-billion USD (not counting losses caused by the new U.S. tax laws), and that’s just for its 4th quarter of 2017! Ebay also announced it will ditch paypal and offshore payments processing to a company based in Netherlands. Santa Clara based security-tech company Gigamon issued a layoff WARN, 74 people in Santa Clara jobless in March. Xerox eliminating 47 jobs in Cerritos, in March. San Mateo based GoPro suddenly laid off 140 people due to major problems with its Karma drone, that’s according to the official WARN, but news media reports say it could end up being as many as 3-hundred! Act-On Software issued a shutdown WARN for its Roseville location, 96 jobs gone in March. E-commerce packaging service Smurfit Kappa North America suddenly eliminated 155 jobs in City of Industry! It was revealed that British empire Canada based Creation Technologies suddenly shutdown ops in Milpitas, 177 jobs killed before Xmas 2017! Mellanox Technologies Silicon Photonics issued a shutdown WARN for its Monterey Park ops, 98 jobs gone in March. Iconic video game maker Activision suddenly laid off 194 people in Ventura! David William Bell, the owner of UST Development-US Telecom, sentenced to nine years in federal prison after being convicted of $1-million USD in fraud schemes involving tricking third party payroll companies to issue paychecks to his employees using their money, plus sending out fake billing statements to ignorant ‘anies are not making customers’ who actually paid them! VMware eliminating 169 jobs at its Palo Alto HQ! Mountain View based non-profit Mozilla suddenly laid off more than 12 people in Republic of China (Taiwan) blaming “emerging markets across Asia”. The Bay Area News Group warning of “significant” layoffs if employees don’t voluntarily quit (buyouts) in the next few months, and yes you can read their newspapers online. Los Angeles based internet comedy site Funny or Die obviously isn’t funny because it’s dying. An undisclosed number of employees were suddenly laid off, reports say Funny or Die has been laying off employees since 2016. CEO Mike Farah admitted most online companies are not making money, saying “Like a lot of other digital media companies, we’re facing tough challenges that we can no longer ignore, and so we must adapt.”
Connecticut: Norwalk based Xerox is in merger talks with Nippon’s (Japan) Fujifilm, which could result in 10-thousand jobs being killed globally!
Illinois: Restaurant owners now joining customers in accusing Arlington Heights based restaurant.com of fraud. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) gave the website an F grade. In Chicago, predictive analytics startup Uptake suddenly laid off 51 people, despite raising approximately $260-million USD in funding.
Indiana: Nippon (Japan) based Sony DADC issued a shutdown WARN for its Terre Haute factory, 375 people jobless due to outsourcing to France based Technicolor Home Entertainment Services!
Iowa: Convergys shutting down its call center in Sergeant Bluff, 178 jobs gone in April! Germany based Siemens issued a shutdown WARN for its 11 years old Gamesa Renewable Energy factory in Fort madison, 202 jobs gone by the end of March!
Kansas: Police body camera maker Digital Ally suddenly laid off 63 people due to a sudden 31% crash in revenue.
Kentucky: In Louisville, online retailer of on-demand customized products CafePress laid off 12 people due to a sudden 32% crash in revenues.
Minnesota: Energy-tech company SheerWind now chapter 7 bankrupt dead with zero assets and $3.7-million USD in debts. In Wadena, after 18 years Cyber Cafe shutdown. It was revealed that only subsidies (funding) from the local community, and government, kept it in operation, sales alone are not enough to cover operating cost. The owner also revealed competition from ever advancing social media technology played a major role in killing them off.
New York: Florida based JPay supposedly giving prisoners of Department of Corrections and Community Supervision electronic tablets at no cost to taxpayers. JPay is so desperate for sales they think prisoners who don’t have much, if any, money will make online purchases through their JPay system (prisoners aren’t normally allowed access to the internet). Hearst Magazines issued shutdown WARN for its Rodale Payroll, between 55 and 2-hundred jobs affected due to the sale/relocation of the business! Info-Tech solutions company ASM Research issued a shutdown WARN for its Batavia location, 36 jobs gone due to the loss of a taxpayer funded VA contract.
North Carolina: Singapore based Flex (formerly known as Flextronics) eliminating 138 jobs at its Morrisville electronics factory, in May!
North Dakota: After 50 years FM News shutdown, ignorantly blaming low sales of magazines and newspapers on internet competition.
Ohio: California based Rambus issued a shutdown WARN for its Brecksville light factory, 52 jobs gone as Rambus gets the hell outta the lighting business.
Oregon: Convergys issued a shutdown WARN for its Wilsonville call center, 208 jobs gone by the end of March!
Pennsylvania: France based Technicolor Home Entertainment Services issued a shutdown WARN for its CD factory in Olyphant, 160 jobs gone starting in March! California based Autodesk vacating its Bakery Square 2.0 office, 40 jobs lost as the space is being subleased. Hearst Magazines issued shutdown WARNs for its Rodale Payroll/Photo Studio/Test Kitchen/Iron Run Distribution Center, 145 jobs gone in March! Convergys issued a shutdown WARN for its Coraopolis location, 52 jobs gone in March. It was revealed that Philadelphia based Comcast secretly eliminated more than 5-hundred sales jobstwo weeks before Xmas 2017! Best Buy shutting down its Pittsburgh Mills store, 23 jobs gone in March. New York based, but British empire Canada owned, department store Lord & Taylor suddenly killed 202 e-commerce fulfillment jobs in Wilkes Barre, due to e-commerce ops being moved elsewhere!
Texas: DISH Network suddenly laid off 90 people at its refurbishing factory in El Paso. Austin based advertising agency GSD&M suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, saying “we are changing our operating rhythm and aligning to a new method”.
Virginia: Telvista shutting down its call center in Danville, 3-hundred jobs gone in March! Local news media reported that some employees had just been hired.
Washington DC: The Current Newspapers now chapter 11 bankrupt busted as part of a master plan to expand online services.
West Virginia: Gazette-Mail now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and laying off at least 50 people.
Wisconsin: New York based e-commerce company F+W Media eliminating 41 jobs in Iola, via outsourcing.
In this video learn that one of the reasons for opioid addiction is skyrocketing unemployment, proving that the official government touted unemployment rate is Fake News:
In this video learn that opioid use is overwhelming the foster care system for children:
“…President Trump declared a national health emergency… The leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50 is drug overdose!”-Jeff Sessions, U.S. Attorney General, Opioid Summit
On 08FEB2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions attended the Opioid Summit, hosted by U.S. Southern Command (SouthComm).
The Department of Defense led Opioid Summit was trying to find a way to bring together healthcare organizations, local law enforcement and the military in an attempt to create a national ‘collective response’ to the record level of drug abuse in the United States, without the President having to declare Martial Law.
The pseudo-martial-law organization was referred to as the U.S. ‘interagency’.
Nippon’s (Japan) Toyota, Honda and Nissan reported that together they expect to make a record profit $22-billion USD, not from sales of cars to ‘Mericans, but partly off the pro-corporate U.S. tax reforms.
Residents of many U.S. states are only now being informed that the federal tax reforms are going to actually cost them more money, some states even passing new state level tax rules to alleviate the burden. Yet administrators of Toyota, Honda and Nissan told Japanese news media that their expected record profits include $7-billion coming directly from the U.S. 2017Tax Cuts and Jobs Act!
It’s just more evidence that America’s economy is dominated by foreigners.
Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for January 2018:
Ironic, isn’t it?
Alaska: State senator David Wilson in trouble not only for alleged sexual harassment, but for ‘retaliation’.
Alabama: After years of complaints and no action by the state Department of Public Health and Department of Environmental Management, researchers with Auburn University have declared the wellwater under Fruithurst in excess of federal EPA limits for radon and heavy metals. It was noted that there are several illegal trash dumps in the area. The state Attorney General ramping up training of law enforcers in how to deal with opioid overdoses.
Arizona: State representative Don Shooter facing censure, and possible expulsion, over accusations of sexual harassment. As a result of sexual harassment claims, state lawmakers are considering banning the consumption of alcohol within the state House. The state militia is being attacked by the Regular Army! The Arizona National Guard’s 1-285th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion is being shutdown by the end of 2018.
Colorado: Tax-sucker Northrop Grumman eliminating an additional 38 jobs (on top of the 1-hundred) due to losing a contract at Schriever Air Force Base. In Denver, after 16 years Mile High Doggie Daycare shutdown and unable to refund money to customers who ‘pre-paid’ for services, the owners blame the lack of sales on the city’s ‘gentrification’ of the area.
This prophetic video proves the taxpayer funded War on Drugs failed a long time ago:
Delaware:An independent review found that taxpayer funded Vaughn Correctional Center is a potential time bomb as there are not enough guards to manage the prisoners. The prison guard union said guards are tired of working constant overtime and don’t feel safe. New Castle County paid $1.4-million USD in overtime for emergency response calls, mainly due to opiod drug overdoses.
Georgia: Mother Earth more powerful than taxpayer funded government as a rare winter storm shutdown state government offices, and local schools, across the southern Peach State.
Indiana: After getting $7-million USD in state tax incentives Trump’s buddy Carrier continues killing jobs, this time 215! Supposedly it’s the last round of layoffs connected to Carrier moving some production to Mexico.
Maryland: A new survey says the piddly weekend federal government shutdown revealed that the people of Maryland are the second most dependent upon federal taxpayers.
Michigan: West Shoreline Correctional Facility shutting down in March, 174 jobs gone due to a “significant decline in the prison population statewide”! The implication is that either crime is way down in the economically depressed and corruptly run state, and/or residents are ‘getting the hell outta Dodge’. In already-proven-in-court-to-be-run-by-criminalsFlint: “The Flint Community High School athletic department and upper level management does not have the students’ nor the student-athletes’ best interests in mind. Specifically, in the athletic department there has been criminal neglect and incompetence on multiple occasions. I demand that … the entire Flint administration step down immediately for the greater good of Flint schools.”-Trace Fisher, high school football coach
Minnesota: In Wadena, after 18 years Cyber Cafe shutdown. It was revealed that only subsidies (funding) from the local community, and government, kept it in operation, sales alone are not enough to cover operating cost. The owner also revealed competition from ever advancing social media technology played a major role in killing them off.
Mississippi: Mother Earth more powerful than taxpayer funded government as a rare winter storm shutdown state government offices, and local schools, across the normally hot and humid Magnolia State.
Missouri: Taxpayers demanding ‘the swamp’ of their own state government to be drained. There’s growing momentum behind an organization called Clean Missouri, which is pushing for the creation of a law banning lobbyist ‘gifts’ to lawmakers that are more than $5 in value.
Montana: Gov’na Steve Bullock issued an executive order creating a state level ‘net neutrality’ law regarding internet service.
New Jersey: The city of Hackensack challenging the non-profit tax exempt status of Hackensack University Medical Center, in an attempt to impose $19-million USD in property taxes. Since 2015 cash strapped cities have challenged the tax exempt status of more than 35 non-profit hospitals! In some cases judges ruled some non-profit hospitals are actually for-profit enterprises.
New York: State taxpayers raped of more than $10-million USD by their own state lawmakers in order to settle at least 88 cases of sex-crimes by the state government! Does settling a sex-crimes lawsuit turn the ‘victim’ into a ‘prostitute’:
North Carolina: Taxpayer funded defense contractor ARMA Global eliminating 99 jobs by the end of March. After getting $475-thousand local tax dollars in incentives Absolute Plastics issued a layoff WARN eliminating 1-hundred of its 150 jobs due to crashing sales! Local politicians claim they’re trying to get the money back.
Oklahoma: In Oklahoma City, Kaiser’s Grateful Bean Cafe shutdown due to the city’s $131-million USD public transportation project, which has killed 80% of the restaurant’s business.
Pennsylvania: More proof that Philadelphia’s job killing soda-pop tax is a failure; first year tax collections are $19-million USD below what was projected. Capital Area Transit-Cumberland-Dauphin-Harrisburg Transit Authority laid off five people and is consolidating operations to cut costs. The largest east coast refinery, Philadelphia Energy Solutions, now bankrupt busted due to federal government imposed Renewable Energy Credit (RIN) which cost the refinery $217-million USD in 2017.
Tennessee: Oak Ridge National Laboratory laying off at least 1-hundred people, this after 232 employees were convinced to voluntarily quit!
Texas: In San Antonio a popular restaurant, Pollos Asados Los Nortenos, was shutdown by ass-hole health inspectors who said the smoke from the grill was polluting the air, even after the restaurant owner spent $250-thousand USD to upgrade the grill to be in compliance with state laws! 50 jobs gone due to the ass-holes TCEQ and the Attorney General’s Office.
Utah: In Lehi, after 47 years iconic Porter’s Place steak joint shutdown because the city is not willing to spend $30-thousand USD to repair corroded sewer lines (the restaurant was leasing the building)!
Virginia: In Lynchburg, after more than 1-hundred years (surviving The Great Depressions and numerous recessions) Sheard’s Beauty Shopshutdown due to new city parking rules which drive away customers: “Why would they pay to park here when they can go to the mall?”-Mamie Branham, owner
Washington DC: Despite claiming to drain the swamp, under president Trump the federal government hired a net increase of 42-thousand people in 2017, no wonder government taxsuckers demand more money! The U.S. Department of Labor also reported that state level governments, as a whole, actually reduced their number of workers by 19-thousand. To back up the fact that federal employees are soaking U.S. taxpayers, a new survey says the piddly weekend federal government shutdown revealed that Washington DC is the most dependent upon federal taxpayers.
Finally, a mainstream news media source realizes that the excuse of blaming brick-n-mortar store shutdowns on internet competition might be bullshit, blame “the poverty rate”.
Arizona: The Show Low Kmart shutting down its pharmacy operations by the 12th of February, as part of the plan to shutdown the Show Low Kmart by April.
California: In Redding, the owner of Mount Shasta Mall (Rouse Properties)got approval from the city council toshutdown the Sears store (which is also owned by Rouse Properties) and split it up into six smaller store spaces.
Idaho: It was revealed to me that Sears Holdings was still paying rent on its vacant (shutdown at the end of 2014) Pine Ridge Mall location, in Chubbuck. However, the lease finally expired at the end of 2017 and now the mall owners are renting the huge space as a temporary storage unit for Walmart’s store remodeling ops taking place across eastern idaho.
Utah: Taxpaying residents are pissed about what the West Valley City leadership want to do with the abandoned Kmart property; turn it into yet another apartment/housing development: “We have so many apartments already in the area. It feels like West Valley wants to see if they can pack more people in… It’s hard to even get out of the neighborhood.”-Brittani Martin
