16 March 2016 (12:52 UTC-07 Tango 01) 26 Esfand 1394/06 Jumada t-Tania 1437/08 Xin Mao (2nd month) 4714
Here in Mormon dominated (according to the U.S. Census Bureau) eastern Idaho, Bingham County Sheriff Craig T. Rowland (also a local Mormon leader) straight up said Rape Kits were unnecessary because “…the majority of our rapes that are called in, are actually consensual sex.”
Notice he specifically said “our rapes”, is that a Freudian slip? In an interview with KIFI, Rowland actually implied that rape investigations hurt the victim: “…what does that do to her down the road [clears his throat], what does that do to her partner?”
Update; for some unexplained reason Idaho Falls based KIFI removed their interview of the sheriff, but I found that Newsy has posted it on their YouTube channel:
The ‘christian’ leader is opposed to new proposed laws regulating the tracking of Rape Kits in The Gem State. Currently local law enforcers are not required to use Rape Kits to collect DNA, the new proposed law would change that. Rowland is opposed to mandatory Rape Kits on the grounds that most ‘rapes’ in his area of operation are ‘legal’. Could it be that if the new rape law goes into effect dozens, maybe hundreds, of Mormons will be revealed as rapists?
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alaska: British Petroleum (BP) eliminating at least 84 oil jobs as it reduces Prudhoe Bay rig count from five to two by Summer. Oil industry BS has caused Alaska to have the second worst unemployment rate in the country; 6.6%. Remember, unemployed people who get severance are not counted in the unemployment numbers, and most unemployed people who worked for non-profits (especially those run by religions) are not counted in the unemployment numbers.
California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Sebastopol based Safari Books Online has laid off an undisclosed number of employees, including the CEO! The layoffs were revealed by the former CEO. The company, which does business on the internet, is consolidating operations.
Connecticut: Gov’na Dannel P. Malloy formally notified 45-thousand 7-hundred taxpayer funded employees of pending layoffs!
Delaware: Delaware State University eliminating 23 programs, claiming lack of student participation. Administrators also claim no jobs will be lost.
Florida: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; global electronic payment company First Data finally notified state employment administrators that it shutdown their Maitland office and laid off at least 129 people, last year! The late layoff notice could be because until October of 2015 it was a privately held company not subject to WARN rules.
Idaho: More twisty money scandals in the ‘Christian’ dominated Gem State, this time involving the Palouse Ice Rink-Happiest Place on the Palouse. A former accountant has been convicted of ripping off the Latah County operation of $34-thousand USD in 2015. She gets 60 days in jail and 14 years of probation for writing company checks to herself. However, it should be pointed out that her former boss apparently signed the checks, which he denied in court. It gets more complicated because in her defense she said he was paying her back for unpaid overtime, and even rent on her home! The former boss refused to deny that he had granted the accountant special ‘privileges’. It should also be noted that once the ‘unauthorized’ check writing was discovered by administrators the accountant’s boss and “Everybody else was fired.”
Illinois: If you’ve been following my Job Losses reports then it should be no surprise that Illinois now has one of the worst employment numbers in the U.S. of A., 6.3% compared to the national average of 4.9%. Remember, unemployed people who get severance are not counted in the unemployment numbers, and most unemployed people who worked for non-profits (especially those run by religions) are not counted in the unemployment numbers.
Massachusetts: Too Big to Jail Boston Weak based money changer in the temple State Street Corporation just added 252 employees to their previously announced 6-hundred layoffs, for a total of 852 jobs lost as part of their current cost cutting ops! Administrators warned more job cuts could occur.
Minnesota: In Saint Paul, after 38 years Bonnie’s Cafe being shutdown by the greedy landlord who refused to renew the lease: “We were never offered to renew the lease……I never thought it would end!”-Becky Moosbrugger
Mississippi: The Magnolia State currently has the worst unemployment rate at 6.9%. Remember, unemployed people who get severance are not counted in the unemployment numbers, and most unemployed people who worked for non-profits (especially those run by religions) are not counted in the unemployment numbers.
Nebraska: In Lincoln, after 34 years consignment shop Fashion II shutting down. Unlike other brick-n-mortar operators the owner is not blaming the internet, but blames increasing competition from other brick-n-mortar operations!
Nevada: In Mesquite, the Redd Hills Cinema shutdown today, no explanation.
New Jersey: God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Mother Teresa Regional School in Atlantic Highlands, 24 jobs lost by the end of June.
New Mexico: Tied with the country’s capitol unemployment rate of 6.5%. Remember, unemployed people who get severance are not counted in the unemployment numbers, and most unemployed people who worked for non-profits (especially those run by religions) are not counted in the unemployment numbers. In Santa Fe, iconic Santa Fe Baking Company and Cafe shutdown this morning without warning due to “new ownership”. Loyal customer Kerth Lundell bemoaned “I came for a breakfast burrito…This is the go-to place….” A local radio host who does her morning shows from the restaurant, Mary-Charlotte Domandi, is pissed: “I have no idea what is going on. My equipment is still in there!”
New York: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; global electronic payment company First Data shutting down their Melville data processing center, 641 jobs lost between now and December 2017!That Which Cannot Be Named powerless stop the shutdown of ‘its’ Rosenthal Jewish Community Center of Northern Westchester, 72 jobs lost by the end of June.In Cicero, Burlington (Coat Factory) suddenly shutdown their 23 years old Driver’s Village/Penn Can Mall store, no warning or explanation, but is probably related to the death of the entire mall! In SoHo, pub Puck Fair shutting down due to the property owner tearing down the building. British empire owned Chartwells lost their food service contract with Nazareth College, 90 jobs lost by May (Chartwells is owned by British empire Compass Group, which runs food ops for the military and prisons, and owns other food servers that’ve been involved in scandals such as lying about meat product ingredients in Europe and underpaying U.S. employees!). Iconic U.S. cosmetics seller Avon not only joining the mass exodus from The Empire State, but fleeing the United States as well! 2-thousand 5-hundred U.S. jobs lost as Avon execs move their NYC headquarters to the British empire country of United Kingdom!
North Carolina: In Raleigh, after four years ‘night life’ jointand former restaurant Zinda shutting down this weekend, no explanation.
North Dakota: God powerless to stop ObamaCare from forcing ‘his’ Saint Alexius Health hospital to layoff 23 people and re-classify another 39. Inpatient rehab and child care services have been shutdown! They referred to ObamaCare as “Industry trends and other circumstances”.
Ohio: Meijer shutting down their big Columbus store, 250 jobs threatened by Summer! Administrators claim the building needs upgrades which are too expensive to justify (this has become a common excuse across the retail sector). News reports say the building is being torn down.
Oklahoma: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Switzerland based oil industry automation tech supplier ABB Totalflow laid off 13 people in Bartlesville.
Oregon: Mary’s River Lumber shutdown yesterday, no warning, but blaming lack of trees: “After 42 years in the cedar lumber business, Mary’s River Lumber Company has made the very difficult decision to cease its operations effective March 14, 2016. Unfortunately, the extremely limited availability of suitable cedar logs has led us to this point….”-Brad D. Kirkbride, president
Pennsylvania: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has taken credit for the destruction of the U.S. coal industry saying “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” And on que Blaschak Coal announced it’ll layoff 27 employees this Friday. Local news reports say Blaschak has been conducting layoffs since 2013.
South Carolina: Pickens County School Board approved the shutdown of two elementary schools due to lack of taxpayer funding. Obviously uneducated taxpayers protested the decision. If you can’t generate the tax revenues you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Texas: Popular ‘free’ but privately owned park operations at the retail pavilion The Beach at The Village at Fairview shutdown, to be replaced by a hotel. Those who’ve been using the privately owned parks (playgrounds, water fountain, dog park) for free filed an injunction.
Virginia: British empire based-U.S. tax sucking BAE issued a mass layoff WARN at the Norfolk shipyards. Another 530 jobs gone by this Friday! BAE laid off 345 employees in November and December last year.
Washington DC: Unemployment rate of 6.5%. Remember, unemployed people who get severance are not counted in the unemployment numbers, and most unemployed people who worked for non-profits (especially those run by religions) are not counted in the unemployment numbers. Restaurant GDB(Golden Brown Delicious) shutdown suddenly.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
It’s been revealed that Donald Trump, the presidential candidate that wants to end the J-1 foreign student work visa, made big bucks using the very same J-1 student workers at the hotels he created. (Trump no longer owns the hotels which still use his name) And on the British empire island country of Jamaica, a 33 years old man has been arrested for scamming many of those student workers. While working for a legitimate employment agency, which supplies students for the U.S. J-1/hospitality & farm industry program, he also pretended to be an unemployment agent forcing students to pay him an ‘unemployment’ fee to ‘protect’ them if they ever lost their job in the United States!
California: In Oakland, after 47 years restaurant Francesco’s shutting down: “There’s nobody to pick it up. So it’s going into history.”-Theresa Erwin, 3rd generation family owner
Florida: In Miami, Noven Pharmaceuticals issued a WARN, 80 jobs lost in May.
Illinois: Commuter train service Metra suddenly shutdown two ticket offices due to lack of customers. The Rock Island Beverly Branch Line’s 95th and 99th Street ticket offices are closed, riders at those stations have to buy their tickets from the conductor. Administrators blame low ticket sales on “technology”.
Maine: The Madison Paper Industries mill shutting down, 214 jobs lost by the end of May, due to a crash in demand for paper used to print magazines! Administrators say they expect demand for magazines to continue to crash.
New York: Too Big to Jail Switzerland based Credit Suisse Securities issued a WARN saying 163 NYC-ers will lose their jobs between now and May!
Oregon: Bankrupt Washington based Haggen (assassinated by Albertsons-Safeway) issued a shutdown WARN for their Oregon City grocery store, 70 jobs lost by mid-May.
Tennessee: The Great Depression era TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) shutting down coal ash storage units at ten power plants. TVA administrators say they still haven’t worked out the details about how to clean their ash.
Texas: In Robstown, C&J Energy issued a layoff WARN, 87 jobs lost by May. In San Antonio, CalFrac Well Services issued a layoff WARN, 87 jobs lost by May. In Houston, Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling eliminated 80 jobs this past Friday. Also in Houston, bar Hughes Hangar suddenly shutdown, owners won’t explain, but there’s speculation that a recent electrical fire might have something to do with it. In Baytown, National Oilwell Varco issued a layoff WARN, 107 jobs lost by the end of April!
Washington: Bankrupt Haggen issued more shutdown WARNs for its grocery stores; Puyallup and Port Angeles, 145 jobs lost by mid-May!
Wisconsin: God powerless to stop 45 years old ‘Black owned’ North Milwaukee State Bank from being shutdown by state Department of Financial Institutions, assets are being turned over to First-Citizens Bank & Trust. The federally mandated, but privately run, FDIC is overseeing the transfer. Black Enterprise Wealth for Life stated that most of North Milwaukee State Bank’s customer base were Christian “Church congregations…”.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: Yet another video game maker killing jobs, this time Aliso Viejo based Carbine Studios laid off about 70 people as the performance of their latest game didn’t live up to expectations. The launch of that game, WildStar, has been canceled for China and administrators say they are re-focusing efforts on the U.S. and European markets. And San Francisco based software maker Optimizely laid off about 40 employees blaming the devaluation of the tech industry: “This being the right decision shifted on February 5. The impact of that day on public SaaS [Software as a Service] companies, in some cases cutting their value in half, was a wake up call for me personally to realize that ultimately if we want to build a business that can endure and be impactful, we need to make ourselves resilient…”-Dan Siroker, ceo during interview with Forbes
Colorado: Oklahoma based WPX Energy issued a shutdown WARN for its Parachute ops (that’s the name of the town), 208 jobs affected due to sale of the operations to Texas based Terra Energy Partners.
Connecticut: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Archdiocese from shutting down 89 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Augustine School, the last Catholic elementary school in Hartford. It’s blamed on what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (some Christians call it The Rapture).
Florida: An employer who constantly makes Fortune’s list of best places to work has conducted mass layoffs. Law firm of Baker Donelson eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs in its Consumer Finance Litigation and Compliance offices in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale.
Illinois: In Park Ridge, clothier Talbots Outlet Store shutting down their 30 years old Village Green Shopping Center location, by the end of April. Company administrators said they spent two years evaluating which stores to shutdown, local news reports say loyal customers consider the shutdown fallacious as the store was “really busy”.
Kansas: In Emporia, after 68 years Stanely Jewelry shutting down on Tuesday. The owner has health problems and nobody in the family want’s to take over the business.
Louisiana: In Baton Rouge, after 49 years the elitist private membership only eatery Camelot Club suddenly shutdown due to “declining membership and a dramatic increase in rent”.
New Jersey: Mercer County Community College eliminating IT jobs as it will now use a cheap contractor. Some in-house Information Tech employees will be laid off while others will be shifted to other departments.
Oklahoma: Tulsa based Williams Companies announced job culling beginning as soon as the end of this month. About 670 people across North America will be laid off due to the oil industry BS!
Texas: In Houston, Fiesta Mart shutting down their 40 years old North Shepard grocery store for “business reasons”. Basically the store needed upgrades and the company administrators believe it’s not worth it. 1-hundred jobs lost!
Virginia: In Clarendon, after four years Grateful Red Wine & Gifts suddenly shutdown. The owners decided the rent for their brick-n-mortar op was too expensive and they will continue sales on the internet only.
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”
13 March 2016 (14:51 UTC-07 Tango 01) 23 Esfand 1394/03 Jumada t-Tania 1437/05 Xin Mao (2nd month) 4714
An investigation by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) revealed that farmers, and colluding local politicians, across Japan have been lying about the contamination levels in their crops, and hiding the evidence!
The Japanese national government requires farmers and ranchers to self-test their products for radiation contamination due to the ongoing meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi. Anything with more than 8-thousand becquerels of radioactive materials per kilogram must be reported and stored as nuclear waste. This self-regulation of industries is standard practice and a major reason why Japan is a Failed State.
NHK investigators found several farmers in seven prefectures were literally hiding at least 3,114 tonnes of contaminated rice straw and farm soil in giant warehouses. Farmers are refusing to report the contamination due to fears it would reduce sales of their harvests. Apparently the local city governments are involved as well as NHK found at least 30 municipalities were storing the undeclared farm nuke waste, and that’s even within the prefecture of Tokyo which is about 240km (150 miles) south of Fukushima!
NHK says local government administrators admitted they were acting in collusion with the farmers to prevent the spread of “false rumors”, while other local officials pointed out that Japan has yet to create a designated site for nuclear waste storage!
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: City administrators of Stanton are suing to shutdown a thriving coffee shop. What’s the problem? GZ Cafe employs waitresses that wear bikinis (and even just pasties), however, there are reports that several customers complained to the city claiming some of the waitresses were showing off their ‘hardware’ to other customers. A next door barber shop owner praises GZ Cafe for greatly increasing his business! Barnes & Noble shutting down their Mountain View College Bookstore, 40 jobs lost by May. City National Bank shutting down an office in Los Angeles, five jobs lost by mid-May. In San Jose, TiVo laid off 52 people. In Sunnyvale, Imagine Communications issued a shutdown WARN, 50 jobs lost by April. Investors Business Daily issued multiple layoff WARNs, at least 49 jobs lost in several cities by the end of April. Sutter Central Valley Hospitals issued multiple layoff WARNs, at least 96 jobs lost in several locations by the end of April. In Bakersfield, Xerox eliminating 15 jobs by the end of April. Direct Energy issued a shutdown WARN for their Corona ops, 47 jobs lost by the end of April. Massachusetts based valve maker Circor shutting down their Corona ops, 64 jobs lost by mid-April. Envoy Air flying outta Palm Springs, 52 jobs lost by May. In San Francisco, internet/tech company YourPeople-Zenefits officially revealed how many jobs they eliminated last month, 83. In Tustin, Pacific Bell Telephone eliminating 121 jobs by May! Southern Home Care Services shutting down their San Leandro ops, 123 employees unemployed by May! Memorial Health Services shutting down their San Clemente operations, 194 jobs lost by the end of May! In Orange, National Oilwell Varco issued a mass layoff WARN, 232 people laid off by the end of April! Illinois based drugs maker Baxalta issued several layoff WARNs, 239 jobs in three cities gone by May, due to being taken over by an Irish company! Back in Sunnyvale, internet/tech company NetApp eliminating 376 jobs by the end of April!
Illinois: Starting next week 1-thousand Northeastern Illinois University employees must take one day off without pay, due to the Failed State ‘lawmakers’. All Illinois universities are warning of massive layoffs if the Govna’s proposed budget is adopted.
Missouri: State ‘lawmakers’ have pledged $1.7-million in taxpayer funding to help the 850 people who lost their jobs when Tennessee based Noranda Aluminum went bankrupt. In Saint Joseph, after 70 years wire maker WireCo laying off 49 people and halting production, blaming the oil industry for crashing sales. 14 employees will remain to close up shop over the next 12 months. Local news reports say at one time WireCo (Wire Rope Co.) employed 1-thousand 5-hundred people! After two years of booze and coloring books, ArtBar St. Louis shutdown without warning due to “circumstances beyond my control.”
New York: Phillips Hardware shutting down their Colonie store, will focus on expanding their Altamonte store (which still needs approval from the city). NYC based research company Nielsen says the bar industry is now in an official Death Spiral. Every month an average of 334 new bars open across the U.S., but, that pales in comparison to the 609 per month that shutdown (and that’s why it’s a death spiral, more deaths than births)! It’s blamed on jacked up rents, increasing competition from restaurants serving booze and increasingly restrictive laws.
Oregon: Bankrupt Washington based Haggen (assassinated by Albertsons-Safeway) shutting down two grocery stores, in Clackamas and West Linn, 138 jobs lost by May!
Pennsylvania: Last month SBC Building Systems WARNed they were shutting down two locations, today they revised that WARN to say “No longer closing”. No explanation.
Virginia: In Norfolk, Empire Little Bar Bistro shutting down next month, can’t renew the lease. The owners blame never ending construction and city trash dumpsters taking up precious space in the parking lot.
Washington DC: The U.S. Navy planning on shutting down its remaining 20 voluntary education program College offices saying they can no longer afford to offer courses ‘on base’. Civilian employees will be relocated to a central call center. Administrators say they’re trying to save everybody some money: “For every dollar I get to spend on college education for our sailors, I would like to see it go to their tuition assistance pot and not paying for overhead.”– Rear Admiral Mike White, Naval Education and Training Command
Wyoming: Kiewit Mining Group laid off 38 coal miners at their Buckskin mine last week. Peabody Energy eliminated an undisclosed number of coal mine jobs in the Powder River Basin: “In response to market conditions and customer needs, Peabody has implemented a small number of job reductions at its Caballo and Rawhide mines…”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: After 20 years Birmingham based healthcare diagnostics lab Atherotech suddenly shutdown at the end of February, now chapter 7 bankrupt busted directly blaming ObamaCare for its death: “…Atherotech has worked hard to overcome numerous business challenges that resulted from adverse changes in the regulatory environment, increased pressure from commercial insurance payors and continued compression of profit margins…. ….we have been unsuccessful in convincing our lenders to cooperate so that we can extend the financing necessary to allow us to continue operations. As a result, we are now forced to close permanently.”
California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Santa Barbara based wireless company Sonos announced it will eliminate jobs (but refuses to say how many) as they shift focus from WiFi to Streaming. And in Los Angeles, Fox Sports-digital suddenly eliminated more than 20 internet writer jobs through a loophole in their contracts.Basically Fox Sports blaming low ratings of their internet ‘team news-letters’ on the writers. After 22 years the Chula Vista Kmart shutting down, 103 jobs lost!
Colorado: Texas based Anadarko Petroleum confirmed it already eliminated dozens of jobs in The Centennial State, as it announced it will eliminate 1-thousand more jobs across the U.S. of A! British empire Canada based Encana Oil & Gas also announce mass layoffs, which will affect jobs with their Colorado operations.
Connecticut:“We are going to be closing state facilities, I’m sure. We are going to be laying off state employees, I’m quite certain.”-Dannel P. Malloy, governor talking about the 1-thousand state jobs ‘lawmakers’ are about to kill, by June
Iowa: A couple of weeks after eliminating 1-hundred jobs, farm vehicle maker Deere (John Deere) eliminating an additional 125 jobs at factories in Ankeny and Dubuque!
Kentucky: Morehead State University notified employees of a pending furlough of five days without pay. It’ll happen before the end of June and is the result of governor Matt Bevin’s $1.95-million USD in funding cuts. More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; e-commerce and logistics company Innotrac shutting down their Hebron operation, 338 jobs lost by July! There was no official reason given, but local news sources suspect it’s connected to a deal with Amazon.
Massachusetts: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Aspect Software now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, admitting it’s a “pre-arranged restructuring” to reduce its massive debt by 40%. In Fairhaven, Sears Appliance & Hardware shutting down by mid-April. Local news reports said the ignorant employees actually thought the shutdown notice was a joke! I guess they don’t read Blind Bat News.
New York: Investor’s Business Daily eliminating a handful of jobs at their NYC publishing ops, by the end of April. Food service company HMS Host issued a layoff WARN for their JFK Airport ops, 134 jobs lost due to loss of contract! NYC based Colgate-Palmolive announced that sales are so bad they’ll extend their ongoing job culling into 2017, and increase the layoffs to a new total of 3-thousand 8-hundred!
North Carolina: In Winston-Salem, non-profit Community Care Center forced to shutdown their Med-Aid Pharmacy due to crashing donations and state taxpayer funding. Yep, even with ObamaCare there are still at least 530 low income people not covered by insurance, who rely on Med-Aid, in the Novant Health Medical Park area!
Ohio: Huntington Bancshares about to takeover First Merit and will shutdown 107 bank offices across Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Pennsylvania as a result! The shutdowns will take place in the 1st quarter of 2017, if the takeover is approved.
Texas: In Abilene, Kids Village furniture store shutting down in May, the owner doesn’t want to renew her lease. She indirectly blames the oil industry layoffs for slowing sales. Houston based Tailored Brands-Men’s Warehouse-Jos A. Bank clothier announced it will shutdown 250 stores after 4th quarter 2015 holiday sales went down the crapper!
Washington: Bankrupt Haggen (assassinated by Albertsons-Safeway) shutdown two grocery stores, in Federal Way and Burein, 125 jobs gone! Despite being killed off by Albertsons-Safeway, by being tricked into buying more than 1-hundred money losing Albertsons stores, Haggen is now attempting to sell 33 of its remaining stores to Albertsons-Safeway! More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; a week after Seattle based retailer Nordstrom eliminated ten IT jobs, they laid off an additional 1-hundred tech employees!
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”
10 March 2016 (03:53 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Esfand 1394/30 Jumada al-Ula 1437/02 Xin Mao (2nd month) 4714
For years there’s been advise for cancer sufferers to drop cows milk and start drinking unpasteurized goat’s milk. Now a study out of New Zealand says goat’s milk really can fight cancer, and it’s far cheaper and effective that those expensive corporate drugs.
But wait, the Kiwi scientists aren’t talking about natural unpasteurized goat’s milk, but GMOed milk. They claim their genetically modified goat’s milk produces mono-clonal antibodies (MCA), which are known to fight cancer. The MCAs can then be extracted and used to make cheap anti-cancer drugs.
MCAs are known to prevent cancerous cells from growing bigger and help your immune system better identify a cancerous cell. They also starve cancer tumors of oxygen and other nutrients.
09 March 2016 /18:42 UTC-07 Tango 01 (20 Esfand 1394/30 Jumada al-Ula 1437/02 Xin Mao [2nd month] 4714)
“Our child would never have taken his life if the school’s data management had not been sloppy and the school had not made the mistake.”-Parents of suicide school victim
If the earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear melt downs don’t kill you then Japan’s Jisatsu Junior Highs will!
In Hiroshima Prefecture, a junior high school principal was no pal when he admitted he and his staff’s incompetence might have caused a 15 years old boy to kill himself in December!
Sakamoto Hiroshi, the junior high principal who is no pal of students
The boy thought he was moving on to high school when school administrators denied it on the grounds he was a criminal, and that he wasn’t smart enough for high school entrance exams. It turns out he was not a criminal, he was being confused for another student, but school A-hole officials didn’t realize it until after the wrongly accused boy committed Jisatsu!
But wait there’s more! Up until now school A-hole administrators kept the suicide a secret, telling fellow students and parents that the boy died of “heart failure”. The boy’s father finally went public with the scandal on 08 March 2016. Now school ‘officials’ say they lied about the suicide at the father’s request!
And what about that accusation of the boy being a criminal? Turns out it was totally word of mouth, spread from teacher to teacher until one of them officially entered it in the boy’s school computer records. An investigation after his death revealed the truth, found in the hard copy school records, whom ever entered the data into the computer mixed up the students.
09 March 2016 (12:49 UTC-07 Tango 01) 19 Esfand 1394/29 Jumada al-Ula 1437/01 Xin Mao (2nd month) 4714
In an unexpected development a Japanese court has agreed with petitioners and ordered the shutdown of Kansai Electric Power Company’s Takahama nuclear power plant, in Fukui Prefecture!
Petitioners argued that the nuclear reactors are unsafe and on the verge of a “major accident”. The Otsu District Court agreed. Reactors 3 and 4 were restarted in the past few months, however, reactor 4 shut itself down just three days after startup. Operators still don’t know why.
The pro-nuke governor of Fukui Prefecture, Nishikawa Issei, called the court order “inconsistent”.
And the national government has admitted failure in trying to find storage sites for all the nuke waste building up in Fukushima Prefecture. Their original plan was to pay property owners to store the waste, however, of the 2-thousand 3-hundred property owners approached (in Futaba and Okuma towns) so far only 69 have agreed to the deal.
Iconic U.S. cosmetics seller Avon not only joining the mass exodus from The Empire State, but fleeing the United States as well! 2-thousand 5-hundred U.S. jobs lost as Avon execs move their NYC headquarters to the British empire country of United Kingdom!
And on the British empire island country of Jamaica, a 33 years old man has been arrested for scamming many of those student workers. While working for a legitimate employment agency, which supplies students for the U.S. J-1/hospitality & farm industry program, he also pretended to be an unemployment agent forcing students to pay him an ‘unemployment’ fee to ‘protect’ them if they ever lost their job in the United States!
In Saint Joseph, after 70 years wire maker WireCo laying off 49 people and halting production, blaming the oil industry for crashing sales. 14 employees will remain to close up shop over the next 12 months. Local news reports say at one time WireCo (Wire Rope Co.) employed 1-thousand 5-hundred people! After two years of booze and coloring books, ArtBar St. Louis shutdown without warning due to “circumstances beyond my control.”
NYC based research company Nielsen says the bar industry is now in an official Death Spiral. Every month an average of 334 new bars open across the U.S., but, that pales in comparison to the 609 per month that shutdown (and that’s why it’s a death spiral, more deaths than births)! It’s blamed on jacked up rents, increasing competition from restaurants serving booze and increasingly restrictive laws.
NYC based Colgate-Palmolive announced that sales are so bad they’ll extend their ongoing job culling into 2017, and increase the layoffs to a new total of 3-thousand 8-hundred!
Houston based Tailored Brands-Men’s Warehouse-Jos A. Bank clothier announced it will shutdown 250 stores after 4th quarter 2015 holiday sales went down the crapper!
