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Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 06 December 2013. No more deodorant, no more Ben & Jerry’s, no more Lipton? British empire kills U.S. jobs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

The British empire owner of Lipton Tea, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and many body care products, Unilever, has announced that the economy sucks so bad they’re going to layoff 2-thousand employees in 2014!  They are also drastically cutting back on production.  Company officials blame the economy and themselves: “The global economy has calibrated down about 1-1.5% and we probably should’ve done a better job seeing it coming!”-Paul Polman, CEO

Alabama: The Alabama Pain Center laid off 80 employees.

California: In Los Angeles, the House of Props shutdown after 65 years in the movie business. Investor’s Business Daily laid off another six employees.  In Temecula, The Outdoor Channel laid off five employees.

Indiana:  Too Big to Jail First Merchants Bank laid off at least 84 employees state wide.

Maine: Taxsucker Bath Iron Works laid off another 118 employees.  It’s blamed on reduced military spending.  They laid off 39 employees in November.

Minnesota: State University Moorhead laid off six people, and cut five majors.  More layoffs are expected.  It’s blamed on decreasing revenues.

Montana:  After nearly 50 years O-Toole’s Bar shutdown: “The economy just doesn’t support the bar anymore.”-Rose Wiseman, owner

New York:  NYC based legal drugs pusher, Pfizer, laid off 150 people in Ireland.  The company will shutdown their Irish factory in 2015.

North Carolina: Xerox continues layoffs, this time 168 call center jobs killed in Cary!  In Blakeney, Encore Bistro shutdown, no reason given.

Pennsylvania: In Lehigh County, Avantor laid off “fewer than 20 employees”.  It’s blamed on the bad economy.  In Pittsburgh,  Doug’s Market shutdown.

South Carolina:   In Columbia, Taboo Adult Superstore finally shutdown after losing its business license.

Texas: In Spring, British empire owned (Cadbury Schweppes) Dr Pepper Snapple bottling plant shutdown, 112 jobs lost!

Virginia: In Winchester, TV3 shutdown.  Employees said they were given no warning.  The owner, Gray Television, basically said it wasn’t worth it anymore.

West Virginia:  80 employees of Consol Energy were let go.  The company sold off five of its coal mines.

05 December 2013: Walgreens kills 175 jobs!

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

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

International

False Flag MH370 update: Relatives of passengers being interviewed! Flight re-enacted! Indian SAR put on hold?

16 March 2014 (08:34 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Jumada l-Ula 1435/25 Esfand 1392/16 Ding-Mao 4712

“The search was already a highly complex, multinational effort. It has now become even more difficult……we are now looking at large tracts of land, crossing 11 countries, as well as deep and remote oceans. The number of countries involved in the search and rescue operation has increased from 14 to 25, which brings new challenges of co-ordination and diplomacy to the search effort.

Yesterday, officers from the Royal Malaysia Police visited the home of the pilot. They spoke to family members of the pilot and experts are examining the pilot’s flight simulator. The police also visited the home of the co-pilot. According to Malaysian Airlines, the pilot and co-pilot did not ask to fly together on MH370.

The Inmarsat team arrived yesterday and will support the investigations….”-Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Defense Minister and acting Transportation Minister

Malaysian Inspector General of Police, Khalid Abu Bakar, said they’ve confiscated the home built flight simulator belonging to the MH370 pilot: “We went to the house and took the…simulator and everything that would help us. We dismantled it at the house and we’ve assembled it at our office.”

People who knew the pilot said it was like him to build his own flight simulator.  He also posted helpful hints for homeowners on the internet.  He seemed to be an engineering nut.  As a pilot he has been described as “text book perfect”.

Relatives of passengers are now being questioned: “Medan police contacted me yesterday as they wanted to see me. So I have to go back to Medan to meet the police.”-Robinhood Simanjuntak, brother of one of the passengers, he also said many relatives of passengers are being contacted by police

Despite saying dozens more countries have been asked to get involved, it turns out Malaysia asked India to hold off on its search efforts.  India’s Eastern Naval Command says Malaysian officials requested time to consolidate and coordinate international forces for the new search effort.

Agence France-Presse reports that unnamed Malaysian military officials report that a Boeing 777 was flown in a re-enactment.  This re-enactment flight resulted in the conclusion that MH370/CZ748 flew towards Kazakhstan or the Indian Ocean.

Regarding reports that the plane flew radically varying altitudes  after turning west; once the aircraft’s transponder is turned off it becomes difficult for ground radar to know exactly where the plane is on the horizontal.

Business/Economics, International

World War 3, Southeast Asian Front: Vietnam bans the U.S. dollar in order to stop money laundering!

16 March 2014 (07:35 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Jumada l-Ula 1435/25 Esfand 1392/16 Ding-Mao 4712

State Bank of Vietnam Circular No 05/2014/TT-NHNN goes into effect in April 2014, it says that all Foreign Indirect Investments (FII) into Vietnam must be made in Vietnamese  Dong, not U.S. dollars (or any other currency).

FII is when somebody from outside your country invests in ‘properties on paper’ in your country, without actually buying land/buildings.  Those properties could be held as securities, funds or private equity.  Vietnam also considers investments into businesses without owning or controlling them as FII.

The new law is specifically for investors living outside Vietnam.  The FII will also be non-transferable to foreign credit institutions or foreign banks.  This is an attempt to stop money laundering (as well as keep most of those FII in-country).

International

Dengue Fever 2014: Bill Gates involved! New strain! Tens of thousands infected, dozens of deaths! Mecca affected! Stay away from the car wash?

16 March 2014 (00:43 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Jumada l-Ula 1435/25 Esfand 1392/16 Ding-Mao 4712

The UN World Health Organization says the epidemic of Dengue Fever is under reported by main streamer news media.  They call the under reporting a “problem”.

Australia:  The international quarantine system in the Land Down Under has failed, the specific mosquitoes that spread the deadly dengue and yellow fever viruses have arrived at Melbourne Airport, as well as the airports in Adelaide and Perth.  The Department of Agriculture discovered the blood suckers in water filled plastic road traffic barriers around the airports.  They were also found in tunnels under the Melbourne Airport.

At least four regions of Queensland are experiencing outbreaks.  The majority of cases are in suburbs.

The state of Victoria is reporting 79 human cases since the beginning of the year.

Fiji:  Since mid-December, 12 people have died, 12-thousand are infected with dengue type3!  A campaign to clean up areas that are prone to mosquitoes, involving the general public, is underway.  The Red Cross is involved and Australia has pledged $750-thousand AUD to help fight the mosquitoes.

India: On 11 March 2014 a joint private-publicly funded campaign was launched to eradicate dengue mosquitoes in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad.  10 cases where doctors got infected (and one hospital barber) were traced to a mosquito breeding area inside one hostel room, on the BYL Nair Hospital campus, used by one of the doctors.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: In the city of Jeddah, 48 people have become sick with dengue in the past two weeks.  The city of Jazan reports 10 cases.

Malaysia:  The Deputy Health Minister, Hilmi Yahaya, reports 44 deaths and more than 20-thousand human infections as of 08 March 2014!  Most took place in February.  Yahaya blames it on a new more virulent version of the type2 dengue virus.  Doctors are now trying Chinese herbs to fight infections: “This Chinese herb contains Baicalein compounds……..It hasn’t been proven to be able to treat dengue fever but at least it is able to lower the replication rate of the dengue virus.”-Sazaly Abu Bakar,  University Malaya

New Zealand:  Officials are preparing for dengue invasion due to their country’s proximity to Fiji.  In December 2013 there was a 41% increase in dengue cases, mostly in Auckland.  Cook Island reports more than 50 cases.  It’s been five years since the last dengue outbreak on Cook Island.

Pakistan:  135 cases reported, mostly in Karachi but new cases are showing up in other cities and villages.  Rawalpindi (aka Pindi) health officials warn that the poorly maintained car washes have become breeding grounds of dengue carrying mosquitoes.  Most are part of  gas stations, and are right next to restaurants.  Fear of dengue is so high that a new law will punish government officials: “Criminal cases will be registered against government officials if their offices are found infested with dengue larvae.”-Noorul Amin Mengal, District Coordination Officer

Philippines:  Davao City made it to the top of the list for human infections in 2013; 6283.  As of the end of February 2014 the city reported 214 cases. In Central Visayas, since January 2014 three deaths and 677 cases reported.  In Eastern Samar 221 cases reported, since December 2013.

Samoa:  The Ministry of Health reports that dengue has spread from neighboring Fiji.

Singapore: More than 2535 cases reported since January 2014.

United States: The U.S. territory of American Samoa is warning travelers going to Samoa about the spread of dengue from Fiji.

There is no drug or vaccines to fight dengue fever. However, the Bilderberger Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted the University of Notre Dame $23-million USD to find ways to fight the virus.

Currently there are four known types of dengue.  A new study says that targeting protein “hinges” could not only develop a vaccine for dengue but for hep C, influenza and HIV/AIDS.

Dengue fever (aka breakbone fever) causes fever, headache, joint and muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and in worst cases hemorrhagic fever, shock syndrome and death.  It can be spread by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes.

 

Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 05 December 2013. Walgreens kills 175 jobs! More ObamaCare job cuts! Canada kills U.S. jobs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Who said the internet is stealing all the business? AOL laid off 20 employees.  America OnLine’s official policy is not to explain why they fire people.

McGraw-Hill Education laid off 60 employees in four locations across the U.S.  Company officials said they need to become more efficient.

Alaska: In Chugiak, 30 years old Rural Discount Center shutdown.  The owners blame it on policy changes by their suppliers.

California: The Corona Regional Medical Center laid off 40 nurses. Hospital officials said the layoffs were necessary in order to adapt to Obama Care imposed reimbursement cuts.  In San Diego, Peregrine Semiconductor laid off 20 employees.

Florida: In Largo, Rocky’s Diner shutdown without notice.  The owner blamed it on a worsening health problem.  In Lakeland, 20 years old Lakeland Sports Cards shutdown.

Illinois: In Lake Zurich, MC Sports shutdown after losing its lease.

Kentucky:  In Louisville fresh food seller, Grasshoppers Distribution, shutdown due to “lack of financial sustainability”.

Maine: Restaurant company Tim Hortons shutdown five operations in the Pine Tree State.  It’s blamed on the bad economy.

Maryland: In Aberdeen, Saks Fifth Avenue laid off another 191 people at its distribution center!  Saks laid off 200 people back in May 2012.  Saks was taken over by Canadian company Hudson Bay.

Massachusetts:  Medical instruments maker, Harvard Bioscience, warned of massive layoffs.  It’s part of the company’s plan to offshore U.S. jobs to China.

New Mexico: In Farmington, 20 years old Golf USA shutdown.

New York: Medical device maker, AngioDynamics, laying off 100 people over the next three years.  They are consolidating operations in response to Obama Care taxes on medical devices.  In West Islip, a King Kullen grocery store shutdown.  In Maspeth, Walgreens pharmacy laid off 175 Duane Reade employees!  Another 45 employees will be let go in 2014. Walgreens took over Duane Reade.

Ohio: In Heath, arts and crafts store Michaels shutdown.

Pennsylvania: In Cumberland, 40 years old Coakley’s Restaurant & Irish Pub now bankrupt.  Company officials say they need to reorganize.

Wisconsin:  In Milwaukee, Diversified Machine shutdown, 218 job lost!  It’s blamed on a merger.

04 December 2013: 2-thousand teachers will be laid off, in one state! 

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

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

U.S.

False Flag(?) U.S.A. New York: Gas still building up! Explosion video released. More contradictions!

15 March 2014 (08:52 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada l-Ula 1435/24 Esfand 1392/15 Ding-Mao 4712

U.S. NTSB officials investigating the explosion that took down two six story buildings in Harlem, New York, say gas was building up in the area even after the explosion. Consolidated Edison found a 20% concentration of gas, suggesting the in-ground gas line to 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue is leaking.

ConEd also revealed that the line was repaired in 2004, after complaints of strong smell of gas was reported.  This contradicts earlier reports from ConEd, and New York City agencies, claiming there were no problems or complaints documented for that area.

ConEd also stated that they did respond to recent complaints of gas smell in the area, and found nothing.  This is significant, because one of the building owners said they were forced to replace lines in their building, because ConEd blamed the smell of gas on the lines in the building.  Occupants had complained that they could still smell gas afterwards, and that it was outside the buildings.

The Daily News said ConEd refuses to comment to them about the latest NTSB findings.  Many New Yorkers are now concerned about the condition of the thousands of miles of gas lines under the city.

Security camera video of the explosion has been made public. The explosion itself doesn’t look that big, just blowing out windows, but apparently it was enough to take down two buildings.

Eight people now dead.

It’s hoped all debris will be removed by Saturday, so that investigators can look for the source of the explosion.

Preliminary evidence doesn’t match

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 08-11 March 2014: UN wants investigation into U.S. drone strikes! U.S. backed warlord dies! Attacks continue against Obama regime puppet presidential candidate! More proof the U.S. occupation is about resources!

Baghlan Province: In Puli Khumri City, a moneychanger was assassinated by unknown gunmen.  Locals suspect extortion by U.S. puppet Afghan government forces.

Helmand Province: In Musa Qala District, seven civilians killed, eight wounded, when the bus they were in drove over a landmine.  In Sangin District, three polio vaccination workers were assassinated by explosion.  In Washir District, people report that U.S./U.K.-NATO forces kidnapped a shopkeeper.

Herat Province: In Keshk Rabat-Sangi District, a motorcycle bomb exploded, killing two cops and wounding four employees of the U.S. backed presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah.

Kabul Province: U.S. occupied Afghanistan’s first vice president and U.S. backed Northern Alliance warlord, Mohammad Qasim Fahim, died from long term health problems.  In Kabul City, a Swedish reporter was assassinated by a single gunshot.  The attackers got away.

Kandahar Province: In Maiwand District, two Afghan National Army troops killed by explosion.

Khost Province: Pakistan says Afghan border police fired 25 mortar rounds from Tarkhobi camp into Pakistan.  No casualties reported.

Kunduz Province: In Kunduz City, a man walking home from work was shot and killed by U.S. puppet Afghan government personnel.  No explanation given.

Laghman Province: In Mehtarlam City, six Afghan National Army and Police were killed when the bomb they were trying to defuse exploded.  Six were wounded.

Nangarhar Province: In Chaprihar District, a heliborne U.S./U.K.-NATO led Israeli style home invasions resulted in at least seven people kidnapped, homes destroyed.

China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said China will support Afghanistan (after the U.S. supposedly leaves) to fight ‘terrorism’.

The United Nations Human Rights Council is calling for an investigation into the Obama regime’s drone (UAV) strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Army National Guard’s 1/82 Cavalry Squadron (Oregon) prepping for deployment to Afghanistan.

Militiamen of the Army National Guard (Pennsylvania) deployed to Kuwait to support ops in Afghanistan and seven other locations.

The Air National Guard’s 187th Fighter Wing F-16 “Red Tails” (Alabama) deploying to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is estimated to have $3-Trillion USD worth of gold, iron ore, copper ore, emeralds, lapis, rubies as well as oil and natural gas.  The U.S. Task Force for Business and Stability Operations is training the Afghanistan Geological Survey on how to conduct massive extraction ops to get at all that money, I mean natural resources.

International

False Flag MH370 update: It’s official, the plane was hijacked! Kazakhstan or Indian Ocean?

15 March 2014 (06:23 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada l-Ula 1435/24 Esfand 1392/15 Ding-Mao 4712

“Early this morning I was briefed by the investigation team, which includes the [U.S.] FAA, NTSB and [U.K.] AAIB……..on new information….Based on new satellite communication we can say with a high degree of certainty that the aircraft communication Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, was disabled just before the aircraft reached the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia.  Shortly afterwards near the border between Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic control the aircraft’s transponder was switched off…….radar data showed that from this point onwards an aircraft which was believed, but not confirmed, to be MH370 did indeed turn back.  It then flew in a westerly direction…….before turning north west……….these movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. Today, based on raw satellite data, which was obtained from the satellite data service provider, we can confirm that the aircraft shown in the primary radar data was flight MH370……the last communication between the plane and the satellite was at 08:11 Malaysian time [seven hours after disappearing from radar]…..“-Najib Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia

Razak went on to say two possible routes were deduced from the last satellite communication: One ending on the  Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan border in Central Asia, or the other ending in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

My question is why does it seem the Obama regime/U.S. officials and news media (and the U.K. officials/news media) seemed to push this “hijacking” scenario from the beginning?  Did they know something, and failed to share the intel with Malaysia?

Pings

International

False Flag(?) MH370 update: ‘Pings’ did not come from Radar! Earthquake? More oil slicks! Beware Malware!

14 March 2014 (11:51 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Jumada l-Ula 1435/23 Esfand 1392/14 Ding-Mao 4712

“….a source says satellites continued to receive pings from the plane’s communication addressing and reporting system throughout the night.”-Frank Langfitt, National Public Radio

“Routine, automated signals were registered on the Inmarsat network from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 during its flight from Kuala Lumpur.”–Inmarsat statement

For awhile main streamer news media have been reporting the mysterious pings as “radar pings”,  but could they have been satellite pings?  This would explain the confusion with Malaysian officials who insisted they lost radar contact supposedly hours before the satellites lost ping contact: “As is standard procedure, the investigation team will not publicly release information until it has been properly verified and corroborated with the relevant authorities. Nor do we want to be drawn into specific remarks that unnamed officials have reportedly made the media.”-Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, Malaysian Defence Minister and acting Transportation Minister

Hussein is getting tired of the BS about engine data coming from the U.S. news media: “Yesterday, we rejected a media report in which unnamed officials said that engine data showed the plane had kept flying for hours after last contact. We checked with Boeing and Rolls Royce, who said the reports were not true. Today, Rolls Royce released a statement saying, and I quote, ‘Rolls Royce continues to provide its full support to the authorities and Malaysia Airlines.  Rolls Royce concurs with the statement made on Thursday 13th March by Malaysia s Transport Minister regarding engine health monitoring data received from the aircraft.’“

Hussein explained the sighting of two more oil slicks: “Yesterday, authorities sighted two oil slicks in the South China Sea, 60 nautical miles south of the last point of contact with MH370.  The first slick was investigated and analysed and found to contain tiny traces of jet fuel. No debris was found in the vicinity. We do not believe the slick is linked to MH370.  Samples from the second slick were investigated and analyzed and did not contain jet fuel.”

The Indian Navy is searching more than 500 islands across the  archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar: “This operation is like finding a needle in a haystack.”-Harmeet Singh, Indian Armed Forces

Scientist with the University of Science and Technology of China report hat there was a “seafloor event” 116km (72 miles) from the last known position of MH370/CZ748.  The area is considered “non-seismic”, meaning there shouldn’t be any earthquakes.   However, the small quake was detected more than one hour after airline officials lost contact with the plane.

There are reports of a Facebook page that claims MH370/CZ748 was found.  It even shows a boat approaching a crashed plane.  Reports say when you click on it your computer gets hit with malware.  The pic is of a plane that went into the ocean after overrunning the runway in Bali, last year.

Reuters claims sabotage!

International

False Flag(?) MH370 update: Why is Obama regime insisting the plane is in the Indian Ocean? Reuters claims sabotage! Nuclear investigation will be a big fail! 14 minute gap theory? Call from the dead, or a bad joke?

14 March 2014 (03:17 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Jumada l-Ula 1435/23 Esfand 1392/14 Ding-Mao 4712

“What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards.”-Unnamed senior Malaysian police official, quoted by Reuters

“It’s my understanding that based on some new information that’s not necessarily conclusive, but new information, an additional search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean.”-Jay Carney, Obama regime mouthpiece

Many U.S. politicians, who are not experts in the aviation, have been pushing the idea that flight MH370/CZ748 ended up in the Indian Ocean.  The only clue they are giving is that ‘pings’ were traced that far.  They give no detailed explanations for their reason to shift U.S. search efforts far west into the Indian Ocean.

The USN is taking their new orders to deploy to the Indian Ocean seriously, Commander William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet said the Navy was “not out here freelancing”.

Reuters claims they’ve received “exclusive” information that military radar did track MH370 all the way to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal!  The track was consistent with airliners flying to the Middle East.   Investigators are now asking for military radar data from Indonesia, Thailand and India.  The problem with this new route is that MH370/CZ748 did not have enough fuel to reach the Middle East.

“We are here on invitation by the Search and Rescue officials to help coordinate efforts for a technical meeting. As of now, our focus is on the Straits of Malacca, we have 11 assets combing the area…we are constantly coordinating with the Malaysian officials.”-Colonel Yudhy Chandra Jaya, Indonesian National Armed Forces

The U.S. news media has also reported that there is information saying that the data reporting system and the transponder shutdown separately, with a 14 minute gap.  Analysts say this suggest the systems were turned off manually.  However, anybody who’s experienced electronic systems failures will tell you that it can happen in stages, not always all at once.

A Chinese family of one of the passengers said they got a call from their missing loved one.  This report caused a stir, of course, but investigations revealed that the cell number that the family was called from is based in the United States, not China.

About that investigation by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization investigation using infrasound to detect the echo of any possible explosion, don’t expect any results: “A few incidents involving planes have been registered in the past such as the crash of the FedEx cargo plane at Narita International Airport, Japan, in March 2009 or the crash of two F16 figthers at an air show in Belgium, in 2003. In those cases, regional IMS infrasound arrays were located within few tens to few hundreds of kilometers……The 7 closest certified and operational IMS infrasound stations (green icons) are located over 2000km (I06AU, Cocos Island) from the last known position of the plane [MH370/CZ748].”–CTBTO statement 

Fly By Wire gone bad?