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Business/Economics

Global Depression as China kills 1.8 million jobs & begins monetary easing! Blame ‘western’ led G20!

29 February 2016 (12:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Esfand 1394/20 Jumada al-Ula 1437/22 Geng Yin 4714

“…the G20 recognized that while the global recovery continues, it remains too weak and uneven–and falls short of our collective ambition for strong, sustainable and balanced growth. To confront this challenge, we need action now.”-Christine Lagarde, IMF

If Walmart is the canary in the coal mine for the U.S. economy, then China is the same for the entire world economy.  China’s Ministry of Human Resources says factory orders are so low there is no justification to keep 1.8-million steel and coal workers employed!  They gave no date for when the massive layoffs will begin.  Ministry of Human Resources calls the layoffs “resettlement”.

The announcement came after Premier Li Keqiang revealed that the equivilant of $15.27-million USD is being set aside for expected mass unemployment!

On top of that, the People’s Bank of China is dropping the amount of cash commercial banks must keep in the vaults, for the 5th time since February 2015!  Analysts say this 5th drop in the reserve ratio is meant to inject the equivilant of $100-billion USD into the Chinese economy.    This comes after members of the G20 revealed the global economy is actually crashing, not recovering.

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the U.S. based International Monetary Fund (IMF), blamed the lack of global recovery on the lack of implementation of past G20 agreements: “…bold multilateral actions. This requires following through on past G20 commitments and, in particular, renewed momentum this year to deliver on the goal of achieving 2 percent additional growth by 2018.”

International

Russian gun laws fail to stop beheading of children!

29 February 2016 (10:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Esfand 1394/20 Jumada al-Ula 1437/22 Geng Yin 4714

“The end of the world is coming in a second…I’m your death! I hate democracy. I’m a terrorist. I’m your suicide bomber… I’m going to die in a second…The end of the world!”-Immigrant nanny who chopped off the head of a little girl

Russian gun laws generally ban individual ownership of pistols, but shotguns are allowed, and after five years of legal possession of a shotgun you can buy a rifle.  However, those laws didn’t stop a nanny from chopping off the head of her ward, then setting the apartment on fire!

The nanny, who immigrated from Uzbekistan, failed to explode and was arrested by Moscow police.  The victim’s mother is in hospital due to fainting after being told about the murder of her child.

In an update: Russian investigators concluded that the immigrant is not a Muslim fanatic, but a clinically diagnosed schizophrenic from Uzbekistan.  She’s considered an illegal immigrant.  Her husband divorced her and her own children were placed with foster families in Uzbekistan, right before she moved to Russia.

By the way, Christians are best known for claiming the end of the world is nigh.

Germany posts record government surplus, again? Credit illegal immigrants! 

International

Gun Ban Failure: Yet more mass stabbings of children in total gun ban China!

29 February 2016 (10:08 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Esfand 1394/20 Jumada al-Ula 1437/22 Geng Yin 4714

In Haikou city, capital of Hainan Province, a man stabbed ten elementary aged children, then killed himself.  Police have no motive for the attack.  Mass stabbings are common in the total gun ban country of China.  The six boys and four girls are in hospital.

This is not the first time this year violence against youths has taken place in Hainan Provence.  In January, video of teen aged girls beating and stripping another girl in public were posted.  Nobody tried to intervene.   Nobody knows what happened to the victim.

In 2015, China Youth Research Center said 32.5% of China’s youth are bullied.  So much for total gun bans!

Gun Ban Failure: Near total gun ban India is 2nd only to U.S. in gun violence!

Anti-gun laws fail to stop Chinese being shot & killed by a woman in Philippines! 

Martial Law China: Cops start carrying guns despite outright gun ban! 

Martial Law China: Gun ban fails to stop record illegal gun running operations!  

Business/Economics

“took a knife and cut my heart out” Landlords stab tenants in the back! “wild swings in currency” killing shoe stores? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 28 – 29 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Alabama: ‘Elected lawmakers’ have shit-canned a proposal to increase minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.  The minimum wage increase was an attempt by the ‘lawmakers’ of the city of Birmingham to increase living standards for the residents, but state level ‘lawmakers’ stepped in and passed their own law forbidding cities from setting their own wage standards!

California: Ojai Unified School District is deciding the fate of five elementary schools due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome and (this is so typical of California) the school’s property values!  Local news reports say greedy school administrators have already met with local real estate agents about selling off the schools!  By the way, last year it was discovered that embezzlement was being conducted by some Ojai district employees.  A reader, and Kmart employee, says the City of Commerce Kmart is shutting down. Several district managers for California Kmarts have been laid off as well.

Colorado: A Kmart employee in California notified Blind Bat News that Sears Holdings plans on shutting down another Kmart in The Centennial State.  Yet another Denver restaurant shutdown.  After 12 years popular Gypsy House Cafe shutting down mid-March due to the greedy property owners selling out without warning the operators of the Cafe.

Connecticut:  Fairfield based federal tax dodger General Electric (GE) just admitted its mass U.S. job culling (through off-shoring of jobs, layoffs and selling their assets) has resulted in their lowest level of U.S. employment in more than two decades!   In 2015 alone GE eliminated 11-thousand U.S. jobs!  GE says it currently employs 125-thousand U.S. citizens, a number not see since 1993! And great news for investors; GE plans to continue to U.S. job destruction!

Florida: Troubled Aramark issued a shutdown WARN for its Florida Gulf Coast University ops, 288 jobs lost by May!  Aramark has been downgraded by investment analysts, and an Aramark prison food service supervisor in Michigan was sentenced to prison time for hiring a prisoner to attack another prisoner!   

Illinois: Local news reports say Chicago Public Schools is expected to begin ‘mid-year’ mass layoffs, today.  Western Illinois University eliminating an additional 1-hundred jobs!  They laid off 30 people in January.  Unconfirmed reports to Blind Bat News that Hoffman Estates based Sears Holdings is shifting most full time employees to part time, calling it a necessary “realignment”!  Also, district and regional management jobs across the country are being consolidated, hundreds of managers will become unemployed!  Without warning, Chicago based Starcom MediaVest Group laid off 80 people.  Administrators called the layoff ‘routine’, implying it had nothing to due with the loss of a major client; Walmart.

Indiana: Traderbakers flea-market in Evansville shutdown after the building they were in was sold out from under their feet.  Yes, even their lease was sold to a major corporation who then said ‘get out’!

Maryland: In Arlington, after five years Tweet Tweet toy store shutting down for “personal reasons”.

Michigan: Battle Creek based shoe seller Wolverine Worldwide announced they must shutdown 1-hundred stores in 2016, that’s on top of the 104 stores they shutdown in 2015!  Their brands include Stride Rite, Merrell, Sperry, and Saucony, and now dead Patagonia Footwear and Cushe.  They also sell the Sebago brand of shoes loved by British empire princess Kate, and their CAT brand shoes are even promoted by the false working class spokesman Mike Rowe.  Interestingly Wolverine Worldwide reported “Performance of our retail stores has improved significantly…”, but blamed the mass store shutdowns on currency wars for “wild swings in currency” that they think will adversely affect their revenues. This is because of where their shoes are made versus where they sell them.  What automotive industry recovery? In what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs, Grand Rapids Plastics eliminating 85 jobs due to the loss of a major customer; Fiat Chrysler.

New Jersey: Enclara Health issued a WARN for their West Deptford operations, at least 1-hundred jobs lost by May!

New York: What automotive industry recovery? In Massena Hamilton’s Automotive Service Center shutting down due to a greedy landlord: “Our building was sold from under us that we faithfully paid and kept up for the past 8 years. It saddens me cause of the loyal and faithful friends and customers we have grown to know and like. It feels like someone took a knife and cut my heart out…”-Kevin Hamilton

North Carolina: In Durham, after 12 years restaurant City Beverage shutdown. Local news reports say the owners have failed to pay $1-million USD in state & federal taxes!  

Two Hawk Employment Services being sued, accused of illegal pre-employment medical inquiries and then using the information to destroy job applications and deny employment!  The accusation comes from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Two Hawk Employment is a privately owned company.

Ohio: The city of Niles eliminated 12 jobs, including most of its police detective positions.

South Dakota: God powerless to stop the shutdown-consolidation of 41 of ‘his’ churches!!!   The Catholic Diocese of Sioux City will begin the drastic operation in Summer 2017, blaming The Rapture, I mean declining membership which results in declining revenues, inadvertently revealing their true god is money.  Some of the surviving consolidated churches won’t even operate on a weekly bases!

Texas: In Dallas, after less than a year restaurant Hickory & Fry shutdown.  Apparently residents of Dallas-Fort worth can’t handle the concept of a tapas bar (reports say it was the only one).  Houston base food distribution giant Sysco says they have to kill more jobs, this time 1-thousand 2-hundred employees will become unemployed over the next 15 months!  Administrators say the economic environment is forcing them to find ways to increase profits without relying on sales (because sales suck).

Virginia: After 137 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions), more proof the true god is money as the Belle Haven Presbyterian Church announced it will shutdown after the ‘pagan’ Ishtar inspired holiday of Easter: “It’s for sale, someone can turn it into a restaurant if they want to.”-Nancy Bunce, church treasurer

Washington: Maslow Media Group shutting down their Seattle ops by the end of April.

Washington DC: Proof we’re in a deflationary depression?  The U.S. Postal Service is dropping the price of a postage stamp for the first time in 97 years, or is it?  In April the cost of a Forever stamp might drop from 49 cents to 47 cents.  I must point out that the last price increase was only temporary and that time has expired, which is why it should be coming down. However, postal officials are actually begging Congress not to go forward with the price drop.        The president of the United States, Barack Obama, claims his first ‘real’ job was scooping ice cream in Hawaii: “…it taught me some valuable lessons: Responsibility. Hard work. Balancing a job with friends, family, and school.”  My first real jobs (after graduating High School a year early) were part time as a 12F (MOS no longer exists, consolidated with 12B) in the California Army National Guard and as a full time civilian contracted bombing range technician at Edwards AFB!  So Obama becomes president and now I’m unemployed! What does that teach me?

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

27 February 2016: “They are laying off workers, cutting out their hours, their pay and their rights, and now they can no longer afford living!”-Stephanie Padilha, American Apparel employee 

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

International

Nigeria admits Shadow Government, taxpayers screwed over by $12-million monthly!

29 February 2016 (07:33 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Esfand 1394/20 Jumada al-Ula 1437/22 Geng Yin 4714

The largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa (thanks to oil and GMO crops) has admitted to a shadow government operation!  However, the  Nigerian lawmaker’s shadow government wasn’t created to spread False Flag attacks or anything like that, instead it was meant to ripoff taxpayers to the tune of $12-million USD per month!

 

The new Nigerian  President Muhammadu Buhari launched a corruption investigation, which so far has revealed 24-thousand shadow, or ghost, employees who existed only on paper yet were being issued government paychecks!

The election of the anti-corruption Buhari, in 2015, is a direct result of crashing oil prices and skyrocketing inflation.  Investigators said it was easy to find the fake employees because the government paychecks were going to bank accounts that didn’t match the names on the checks.  This should also mean it’ll be easy to find the government crooks.

But wait, there’s more!  Nigeria receives millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year through the terrorist organization USAID.  On top of that Nigeria gets millions of U.S. consumer/investor dollars through the Coca-Cola operated Africa Foundation!   Combine that with the oil revenues from the past decade and you have to ask, “Where is all that money really going?”

Nigeria: Targeted for Destruction

Idaho

Idaho Mormon ‘lawmaker’ says Rape & Incest won’t get you pregnant!

28 February 2016 /22:15 UTC-07 Tango 01 (10 Esfand 1394/20 Jumada al-Ula 1437/22 Geng Yin 4714)

The true ‘beast’ is Christianity!

A highly rated Right to Work (you over) ‘christian lawmaker’, from southern Idaho, straight up said rape and incest will not get the victim pregnant “because of the trauma of the situation”!   Pete Nielsen then explained he read that claim years ago, but can’t remember we’re it came from.  I can tell you where he read that bullshit!  It’s an old Mormon belief, I’ve heard it from frustrated ex-Mormon co-workers when I worked at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck.

Those co-workers were discussing how they are the creation of adultery and were “shipped off” to eastern Idaho Mormon families  by their adulterous Utah parents.  It was part of an LDS program decades ago in which babies born in Utah, as a result of incest or adultery, were adopted out to Mormon families in eastern Idaho.  My co-workers also said it is why the per capita rate of people with genetic problems is so high in eastern Idaho.

The ‘honorable’ Pete Nielsen voted to ban local municipalities for raising the minimum wage.  He abstained from voting on the Girl Scout cookie tax repeal.  Increased fuel tax and vehicle registration fees.  He is endorsed by a ‘christian’ group called Idaho Chooses Life.      The American Conservative Union rates him 83%.  Idaho State Independent Living Council rates him 80%.  Idaho Freedom Foundation rates him 91%.

For more proof of Mormon sexual bullshit, here’s some links to stuff I didn’t write:

Utah Mormon Missionaries Rape 12 Years Old Girl

For College-Age Mormons, Sexual Violence Is a Religious Problem

In the Fundamentalist Mormon Church Rape Is the Only Path to Childbirth

“THE LORD’S STANDARD OF MORALITY” PROMOTES LDS RAPE CULTURE

“When there is abuse and incest and the Bishop is told and does nothing, it feels like being abused all over again. My now ex husband(by the way who is a current temple card carrying member)was removed from the house for domestic violence. That following day my bishop at the time called me to hear my side(he was friendly with my ex). Later the bishop had me interviewed in his office and told me that he could not do anything until the court made a decision and basically his hands were tied. Well, I later told him my ex plead no contest and was ordered to do the domestic violence classes. The bishop said that he was no longer a member of his ward and nothing could be done about it.
Then my daughter was doing visitations with him per Utah parent time codes. My ex was sexually abusing her during his parent time. At four years old she told me that her daddy was licking her private parts and peeing on her. DCFS found him guilty, and the whole court system is messed up in regards to them more worried about parent time than the welfare of the child. As a mom, because there are sick people out for revenge against their ex’s, it makes validation extremely difficult and I was constantly treated as if I was out for revenge because of the divorce etc…My ex’s other daughter from a previous marriage tried to commit suicide when my daughters abuse came into the open. This other daughter of his was finding it hard to live with the sexual assaults by her father and the effect it was having on her life. In Utah you can basically have sexual relations with your child as long as you don’t leave DNA or tear up the child who is under the age of 6 because they are to young to put into the court setup. To this day, not one action has been done within the Mormon church against this man, and it is just another way to abuse the victim. I am having my records removed and am on my way to another state. I am snubbed because I don’t go to church since all of this has occured, and the more I have found sick and wrong within this church. My ex is doing all he can to push his parental rights, my daughter vomits every time she finds out she has to see him for supervised parent time. And I am having to mess with the court system to move.“

Heavenly Incest believed by older generations of LDS men  

“Joseph Smith always publicly condemned polygamy (calling it ‘a false and damnable doctrine’), and denied he was a polygamist. But secretly he married his own foster-daughters; the Lawrence sisters, Maria and Sarah, ages 16 and 14. He secretly married women already married to other men….When a ‘wife’ got pregnant he quickly married them off to another man.“

“…Jim Bob failed to hold his son Josh accountable for sexually assaulting four of his underage sisters….plus an additional underage female victim…” 

But don’t worry, it’ not just Mormons:

Christian U.S. military behind child porn and sex abuse! 

Idaho Christians call cops to arrest girl exercising her 1st Amendment Rights! 

Muslim mother of 5 children stabbed to death, California Christian killer left note 

Texas Christians murder U.S. soldier for refusing Christianity! 

Christian Audience cheers Christian governor Rick Perry’s Texas execution record 

Christian Mennonites used animal drugs to gang rape their own women 

More reasons why Christianity is The Beast:

call for Christian Unification & Crusade Against Muslims 2016

Pope & Patriarch officially call for new Christian Crusade against Muslims!!! 

Catholic & Orthodox churches to unite, thanks to Islamic State!

BYU Idaho bans men’s hairstyle! Proof of false Christians! 

French Christians ban Syrian Christians!

‘Christians’ tempting Fate by tempting their God!

Christians continue to throw their cash to the Money Changers in the Temple! 

poll shows most U.S. Christians support genocide by Jew! 

Christians join cops demanding gun owners “giveback” their guns, in exchange for a gottdamned flower!

Idaho Christians ban book about Native Americans!

Tens of thousand of mostly Christians killed in the name of ‘christian’ U.S. instigated False Flag Drug War in Mexico!

Pope Francis says ideological Christians are sick in the head!

Radical Christians controling U.S. nuke arsenal?

Even Egyptian Christians denounce the United States!

International

Gun Ban Failure: Mass killing of 14 people despite laws! This anti-gun country is 2nd only to U.S. in gun violence!

28 February 2016 (10:42 UTC-07 Tango 01) 09 Esfand 1394/19 Jumada al-Ula 1437/21 Geng Yin 4714

“The attacker, Hasnin Anwar Warekar, hung himself after slitting the throats of all other family members including his parents.”-police statement

“We came running. His sister was shouting from the window for help. We saved her by breaking the window. When we tried to break through the door she asked us not to as her brother was holding a knife. My elder brother and I went to call the police.”-neighbor

A man killed 14 members of his family, with a knife, then killed himself! It happened in the total gun ban country of India.

Police say the murder-suicide took place while the extended family was about to eat dinner.  The woman who survived the attack is hospitalized and not yet in a condition to answer questions.

Home made gun in near total gun ban India, if there’s a will there’s a way

India totally bans individual gun ownership, unless an individual can meet strict rules (and pay high fees) to get a government issued license.  The license must be renewed every three years.  However, even with a gun license there are types of guns totally banned from ownership: Basically any “bored” gun that can fire the most popular pistol or rifle ammo (which just happens to be ammo used by police & military) is banned, even shotguns with a barrel of less than 20 inches are banned.  Legal guns are limited to how much ammo they can hold.

This is one of the few legal for civilians to own (with gun license) guns in India. The sexist manufacturer claims they designed it just for women.

Despite the near total gun ban and tougher gun laws, India’s gun ownership, and gun violence rate, has been going up.  In 2010, Time magazine claimed that India was second highest in the world for gun ownership.  Accidental shootings have increased to the point where several lndian states have banned the traditional use of guns in celebrations.   What the anti-gun Time article failed to point out is that most of the increase in gun ownership involves the owning of the very guns that are totally banned (the “bored” guns using ammo similar to police & military guns), which also implies the owners don’t have a legal gun ownership license.

This chart differentiates between illegal and legally owned guns. Note the overwhelming dominance of murders by gun with illegally owned guns, proving the near total gun ban is a total failure!

Last year the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) published the conclusions of their investigations into India’s rising gun violence.  They reported that near total gun-ban India now has the second highest homicide by gun rate in the world!   Of course the IDS study is a biased anti-gun report, calling for more guns for cops!

United Police States of America: Cops about to openly take your guns, no reason needed! 

Total Gun Ban Total Failure, Australia: Yet another gun related incident in country that totally bans guns!

Total Gun Ban Total Failure: Mexico!

U.S.

Dumbing Down the United States, February 2016: Schools being used as sex torture prisons!

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

“If you grow up low income and manage to get higher education, which few people manage to do, the potential for that to lift you solidly up into the middle-class and upper-middle class is more limited than we thought.”-Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment

A Brookings Institute study (A college degree is worth less if you are raised poor) revealed some surprising data about what is now obviously the ‘lie’ of higher education: Using decades worth of data the researchers discovered that having a four year college degree does absolutely nothing to help low income people get out of poverty! It seems only people from wealthy families benefit from a college degree!

Incomplete list of publicly announced education layoffs & school shutdowns, and crimes, February 2016:

Arizona: Phoenix based Apollo Education Group selling off its failing University of Phoenix after losing more than 50-thousand students in 2015! The loss of students was the result of the U.S. Department of Education investigating claims of false promises of finding jobs after graduation, and the U.S. Department of Defense banning military personnel from taking University of Phoenix courses!

California: Inland Early Steps issued a shutdown WARN for their Corona operation, 79 jobs lost by April. B&H Education shutdown their Whittier ops, 73 jobs gone.  After four years the Malibu Bank of Books shutting down in April. The owner blames lack of sales and points out that the landlord actually tried to helped the bookstore.   In San Francisco, Pearson Education eliminated 34 jobs.  UTi shutting down their automotive school in Long Beach, 64 jobs gone by April.  Pinecrest Schools finally revealed how many jobs will be lost by their mass shutdown of campuses; 176 by June! Greedy Ojai Unified School District is deciding the fate of five elementary schools due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome and (this is so typical of California) the school’s property values! Local news reports say school administrators have already met with local real estate agents about selling off the schools!

Florida: In Palm Beach, after 35 years the Jupiter Academy private school shutting down, they can’t afford to renew the lease.  For profit Mattia College shutting down, 1-hundred jobs lost and more than 7-hundred nursing students looking for a new home. No word on an official shutdown date, but local news says pay for teachers has been cut off! This is the second nursing school in The Sunshine State, in the past two years, to shutdown. The top administrator of that other nursing school, Dade Medical, was recently arrested. This is all part of the U.S. Department of Education’s crackdown on schools that promise their students ‘The Moon’.

Idaho: State Senate Education Committee rejecting science education standards for K thru 12 students, saying they’re too hard!  However, some local news reports suggested that the ‘christian lawmakers’ rejected the new standards (without any discussion by-the-way) because they include evolutionary concepts like the Big Bang (never mind that scientists have just proven Big Bang with discovery of gravitational waves).  As I’ve written before looks like we’re entering a new Dark Age.  I remember when my kids were attending junior high school in District 25 (just a decade ago) and their science books opened with the statement “One day man will walk on the moon.”  You ‘christians’ are so dumb, no wonder it’s so easy for ‘The Good Shepard’ to lead you ‘lambs’ to your slaughter!

Illinois: Western Illinois University eliminating an additional 1-hundred jobs! They laid off 30 people in January.  Eastern Illinois University quietly issuing layoff notices to non-instructional staff (latest reports say as many as 2-hundred!). It’s blamed on the state ‘lawmakers’ failing to come up with a budget. The layoffs will start in March, university administrators say the state owes them at least $40-million USD.  In connection, the Test Center had to shut down temporarily “in order to train the remaining staff in the building to assume the duties of the lost positions”.  Chicago State University has warned all 9-hundred employees of impending layoffs due to ‘lawmakers’ failing to create a new budget! Chicago Public Schools (CPS) warning of even more layoffs after the teacher union rejected their latest offer. The Failed State system CPS claims it is lacking $500-million for its latest budget, but they’re actually $1-billion ‘in the hole’, structurally!  Danville Area Community College eliminating at least four jobs, offering early retirement and eliminating their Automotive and Sustainability programs: “These are challenging times, and it’s challenging because of the uncertainty”-Alice Jacobs, DACC President

School District 205 eliminating stipends for club sponsors and eliminating 109 jobs! The district is short $2.6-million USD, blaming lack of taxpayer funding caused by what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome. For the first time in 25 years Parkland College eliminating jobs, administrators blame the state ‘lawmakers’ for dragging their feet on taxpayer funding for the next school year.  Sycamore School District 427 eliminating at least 56 jobs: “We see other businesses where employees are just being told to do more with less, and unfortunately, that seems to be the mentality of our state government when incomes to education.”-Jim Dombek, District 427

Iowa: In Keokuk, the local Sheriff’s Department, and even the federal FBI, have shutdown the so called ‘therapeutic’ Midwest Academy after at least 80 cases of torture, including starvation, isolation and sex abuse.   Get this, police raided the torture chamber in January, but are only now telling the public about it.  Female victims told the Associated Press the ‘school’ was “hell”, with many students trying to kill themselves.  One girl was tortured for having a belly button ring!  Don’t confuse the Keokuk Midwest Academy with several others of the same name.  Midwest Academy is a privately funded “therapeutic boarding school”, which refers to its torture tactics as a “powerful, proven and unique system”.

Mississippi: Hattiesburg Public Schools cutting pay and eliminating jobs “immediately”. No details about how many jobs will be lost, local news reports say employees have not been notified.

Montana: More job killing at University of Montana; 27 jobs gone by the end of June, due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS).

New Jersey: Sussex County Community College eliminating 20 full time jobs due to crashing enrollments.   Upper Saddle River based Pearson Education finally revealed plans to eliminate 4-thousand jobs across the U.S.!  Administrators refused to give specifics about where those layoffs will impact: “Out of respect for all of our employees, it wouldn’t be appropriate to discuss the number of job cuts in a specific location before we inform our employees across the rest of our workforce.” 

New York:  God powerless to stop ‘his’ Albany Roman Catholic Diocese from shutting down ‘his’ Saint Augustine school in Lansingburgh. Church leaders blamed the state government for refusing to give them taxpayer funding (which would be a violation of the U.S. 1st Amendment). In Hamburg, God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Immaculate Academy. It’s blamed on lack of students, “changing realities within the congregation” and only one Nun on staff.   The Smithtown Board of Education forced to shutdown Branch Brook Elementary School by 2017. Administrators revealed that student enrollment has been declining since 2009.   NYC Department of Education shutting down three charter schools; Beginning with Children, Lefferts Garden and Staten Island Community.  “The Department of Education overturned a principal’s firing and gave her more than a year’s back pay so she wouldn’t file ­legal actions charging ethics violations by the DOE’s new top lawyer, sources say.”–New York Post, Education officials ‘bought off’ principal… 

Pennsylvania: Penn State University warned all 1-thousand 1-hundred Ag Ex employees of mass layoffs, due to state ‘lawmakers’ failing to pay the 2015-16 agricultural extension subsidies! News sources reporting that some ‘lawmakers’ have revealed that tax revenues are so tight they must choose between funding higher education and grade schools! God powerless to stop the Diocese of Erie from shutting down four of ‘his’ grade schools; Venango Catholic high school and Saint Boniface, Saint Peter Cathedral and Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary schools. Church leaders blame The Rapture, I mean low enrollment.  Pennsylvania University School of Nursing shutting down, 96 jobs lost by the end of March.  Administrators for the second largest cyber charter school in the state, Agora, admitted they eliminated jobs at the beginning of the month, but they refuse to say how many.  Local news reports say former employees report between 1-hundred and 150 people were fired without warning!  Cyber school administrators blame lack of state taxpayer funding due to ‘lawmakers’ failing to pass a budget.   However, local news media also published a direct quote from an Agora chairwoman, made back in December: “We have no plans to cut or furlough staff due to the lack of funds we are currently receiving. Please do not fear for your position here at Agora.”-Mary Steffey

South Dakota:  The editors of the Rapid City Journal are calling for a hike in state taxes to support the governor’s proposed education funding plan.  This shows you how uneducated the Rapid City Journal is.  Tax revenues are down across the board, across the country, due to the bad economy.  Many political scientist will tell you that jacking up taxes during a down economy is a sign of a Fail State.  Many economist will tell you that jacking up taxes during a down economy will only snowball the downward spiral.  There is no ‘return’ on more education spending when fewer and fewer people are able to find a job that pays a ‘living wage’, and the small business environment is such that it’s not worth it to even try and start a small business.  (I’ve heard the mo-funding, mo-funding mantra for education for more than 30 years now and it’s plain to see that overall education has only gotten worse as more money is spent)   Grant-Deuel School District shutting down the school in Revillo, due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): “You talk to any smaller school, smaller town and they are basically losing enrollment…..”-Paulette Grube, Dean of Students

Tennessee: More proof the real ‘god’ is money; God refuses to stop the shutdown of three of ‘his’ LifeWay Christian Store on Southern Baptist seminary campuses.  It’s blamed on the sale of Southern Baptist Convention property and changing spending habits of Christian students.

Utah: A fine example of no matter how much money ‘lawmakers’ promise to spend on education, if there ain’t no tax revenues (due to a bad economy) it ain’t gonna happen:  “A committee of lawmakers settled last week on a preliminary funding proposal ….with more than $266 million of it as ongoing funding…..   …..But dollar amounts in the final education budget could likely fall short….Revised income tax revenue estimates won’t be available until the end of February, and they’re projected to produce less than the $266 million of ongoing funds included in the subcommittee’s proposal.”–Deseret News, Slicing and dicing money for your child’s education 

Virginia: In Woodbridge, C&W Books shutdown: “After 25 years in your community, C & W Used Books will be closing on Feb. 29. Our lease is up and we cannot afford the rent increase.” 

Washington: In Gig Harbor, after 47 years Mostly Books shutting down due to the property owner wanting to sell.

West Virginia:  Cabell County Schools eliminating 61 jobs and transferring another 97! It’s blamed on the loss of 2-hundred students since 2014!  Kanawha County School Board eliminating 25 jobs due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS). Local news reports say DSS is the number one reason for education layoffs in southern West Virginia. McDowell County Board of Education eliminating 30 jobs due to loosing $1.5-million in state and local tax funding, caused by loosing an average of 1-hundred students per year (that’s what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome)!  Boone County Schools eliminating 77 jobs after the bad economy caused tax revenues to be cut by more than half: “There were signs that it was happening….just didn’t expect it all at once…came on very quickly….we just didn’t realize the enormity of it.”-Jerry Pcholinsky, Boone County Education president

Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin System-Extension eliminating 80 jobs due to a sudden and unexpected budget cut by Right to Work (you over) Scott Walker.  40 of the jobs were already vacant.

Dumbing Down the United States, January 2016: “…in the end, you have to say ‘it’s not working.’” 

Business/Economics

Shit hitting the fan! Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania economic Failed States! HP accelerates mass layoffs! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 27 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

California: Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard (HP) changed its plan to eliminate 3-thousand jobs!  Originally they were going to spread the job culling over three years, but now the economy is so bad they will dump all 3-thousand jobs by the end of this year!!! In Modesto, Memorial Medical Center eliminating 96 jobs by the end of April claiming lack of money, and despite advertising that they have 1-hundred vacant positions to fill!   In Los Angeles, employees of bankrupt American Apparel walked off the job: “They are laying off workers, cutting out their hours, their pay and their rights, and now they can no longer afford living!”-Stephanie Padilha, employee

Colorado: Englewood based Sports Authority adding their Denver warehouse to recent store shutdown announcements.  72 distribution jobs lost by the end of April.  Sports Authority recently defaulted on a massive interest payment and announced it must shutdown 140 stores!

Connecticut:  Without warning two Shoreline Health & Fitness gyms shutdown last night!  The owners would only say they’ve “sold off their assets” and to contact state authorities for refunds!

Florida: U.S. Department of Justice accusing Herard Tax Services of preparing fraudulent tax returns.  Investigators say the false tax filings have cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars since 2009.

Georgia: Duluth based computer company NCR moving jobs out of Peachtree City, to Ohio and Texas.  Local news reports say as many as 1-thousand 2-hundred Peach State jobs affected!

Illinois: Chicago State University has warned all 9-hundred employees of impending layoffs due to ‘lawmakers’ failing to create a new budget!

Michigan: After 45 years Bacchus Wine & Spirits shutdown: “We were given an offer to buy the license, the building and the land that was enough to make it worth it.”-Dean Caplan

Mississippi: United Artists Clinton Center 10  in Clinton and  United Artists Northpark 14 in Ridgeland being shutdown by the owner.  Local news reports gave no reason, but it should be noted that the owner is a property developer.

New York: The state ‘lawmakers’ have failed to come up with a new budget, but promise to somehow pay SolarCity GigaFactory contractors $80-million USD!  Contractors Quakenbush just laid off 122 people, and Mader Construction laid off at least 75,  due to not being paid by the Failed Empire State!  The Riverbend site in Buffalo was employing 1-thousand people, but local news sources say failed ‘lawmakers’ haven’t paid the contractors since November 2015!!!  NYC based Too Big to Jail JPMorgan Chase revealed they expect their investment-banking revenues to crash by 25% just in their 1st quarter of 2016! In Hamburg, God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Immaculate Academy.  It’s blamed on lack of students, “changing realities within the congregation” and only one Nun on staff.  The Smithtown Board of Education forced to shutdown Branch Brook Elementary School by 2017.  Administrators revealed that student enrollment has been declining since 2009.   The restaurant known for having its walls plastered with autographed dollar bills, 69 Bayard Restaurant, shutdown with no explanation.  Local news said the restaurant has a history of changing owners frequently.

North Carolina: News reports out of India say Too Big to Jail Charlotte based Bank of America is preparing for “significant” job cuts around the world, more than 5% of its workforce.

North Dakota: In Bismark, Box Office Video shutting down by mid-March.  However, don’t blame internet streaming, the owner said in the past year rentals actually increased, but her rent is about to increase as well (that’s why she’s shutting down).

Ohio: Wood basket maker Longaberger shutting down their iconic basket shaped Newark HQ.   The company can no longer afford the property tax and is moving to a cheaper location.  News reports say the company hasn’t paid their property tax and the county is about to foreclose.  Also, the basket shaped HQ once employed 5-hundred people but as of last year there were only 68 employees left! 

Oregon: In Portland, after 23 years The Celtic Corner shutting down, the 83 years old owner says he’s finally ready to retire!

Pennsylvania: Penn State University warned all 1-thousand 1-hundred Ag Ex employees of mass layoffs, due to the failed state ‘lawmakers’ failing to pay the 2015-16 agricultural extension subsidies!  For proof of Failed State-ism, news sources are reporting that some ‘lawmakers’ have revealed that tax revenues are so tight they must choose between funding higher education and grade schools!

Virginia: After 64 years Nationwide Insurance about to complete its exodus from Lynchburg, a total of 340 jobs lost!  The property was sold to Liberty University, who claims they will set up a internet based ‘distance learning’ operation in the former insurance building.

West Virginia: The Cross Lanes Fruth Pharmacy shutting down by the end of April, 14 jobs lost due to lack of drug sales.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

26 February 2016: “That’s a lot of people getting hurt!”

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

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.”

U.S.

ObamaCare job destruction, Febuary 2016: “…how could this be?” Doctors say Idaho’s ObamaCare killed 1-thousand people, so far!

Incomplete list of healthcare related layoffs and shutdowns, February 2016.

California:   EXP Pharmaceuticals shutting down their Fremont operations, 111 jobs lost by the end of March!  In San Francisco, electronic health records keeping company Practice Fusion issued a layoff WARN, 74 jobs lost by the beginning of April.  Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California issued several layoff WARNs, 460 jobs lost across the state by mid-March!  Cardinal Health issued a layoff WARN, 73 jobs lost by the end of March.  Visiting Nurse Association shutting down their Victorville ops, 178 jobs lost by April!  In Modesto, Memorial Medical Center eliminating 96 jobs by the end of April claiming lack of money, and despite advertising that they have 1-hundred vacant positions to fill!

Connecticut: Hartford based health insurance giant Aetna is now accusing the federal government of not enforcing ObamaCare with martial law, saying current enforcement is “not sufficient”! Greedy Aetna administrators blame low ObamaCare participation rates for their loss of revenues.  Germany based drugs maker Boehringer Ingelheim conducting more layoffs, management at their Danbury plant refused to say how many people will lose their jobs.

Florida: Preferred Medical Plan eliminating 18 jobs in Coral Gables, by the beginning of April.  CVS Pharmacy issued a shutdown WARN for their Medley distribution center, 117 jobs lost between April and September!   For profit nursing school Mattia College shutting down, 1-hundred jobs lost and more than 7-hundred nursing students looking for a new home. No word on an official shutdown date, but local news says pay for teachers has been cut off! This is the second nursing school in The Sunshine State, in the past two years, to shutdown.

Idaho: More proof the real ‘christian god’ is money; ‘christian’ run Saint Luke’s Health has agreed to return revenues from two hospitals to the respective tax districts.  The privately funded hospital system took over management of the taxpayer funded McCall and Mountain Home hospitals over the past six years and, according to the state Attorney General, was keeping the tax revenues for themselves in violation of the law.    An Idaho Statesman investigation also revealed that the two dominant ‘christian’ run hospital chains, Saint Alphonsus and Saint Luke’s, control $793-million USD worth of property that are tax-exempt, and that’s just the 1-hundred properties they own in Ada County!  (more in The truth about Idaho hospital taxes)  The Gem State’s version of ObamaCare is being directly blamed for the deaths of 1-thousand Idahoans since 2013! That accusation came from Kenneth Krell, director of Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. He targeted the claim at state Right to Work (you over) ‘lawmakers’: “And I kept asking myself, how could this be? How, in a state like Idaho where we care about each other, could I be seeing deaths and really damaging illness on a nearly daily basis as a result of failure to expand Medicaid that cost tangible lives? It’s difficult to understand.” 

Illinois:  In Belleville, God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital.  Administrators blame ObamaCare for “increased utilization of outpatient services”.  26 non-nursing jobs eliminated, nurses will supposedly be transferred to smaller healthcare operations.

Indiana: In Fort Wayne, drugs pusher Walgreens shutting down their 20 years old store on Pettit Avenue.  But don’t cry, local news reports say Walgreens has a monopoly on the Fort Wayne market, with at least 15 other drug pushing stores in the city.

Kentucky: The Village 8 movie house shutting down by the end of the year because its home, the Village Center mall, is being sold to KentuckyOne Health. Local news reports say the hospital operator refuses to say what it’ll do with the property, yet for some reason is buying up land in the area. Speculation is that KentuckyOne Health is trying to prevent competing hospital operators from moving in. So much for your healthcare, see what Obamacare is doing!

Michigan: Flint based McLaren Medical Group eliminating 89 jobs by April. The layoffs will hit medical operations in four cities.

New Jersey:  New York Life Insurance issued two layoff WARNs,  at least 68 jobs gone by the end of April.  In Vineland, Inspira Health Network issued a WARN, 105 jobs lost by mid-April!  CarePoint Health eliminated an undisclosed number of employees at three hospitals in Hudson County. Union reps said 49 nurses at just one hospital were laid off. Another hospital is slashing hours for employees. The union is demanding CarePoint Health release financial data to prove the sudden layoffs and cuts in hours were justified.  Enclara Health issued a WARN for their West Deptford operations, at least 1-hundred jobs lost by May!

New York: New York Life Insurance is shutting down their IT & Finance office in Sleepy Hollow, layoffs will take place between April and December. Administrators indicated they were moving the jobs elsewhere, but didn’t say where.   That Which Cannot Be Named powerless to stop Jewish Home Lifecare from shutting down and selling out to a competitor, 997 jobs lost by the end of May!  TransCare Ambulance service now chapter 7 bankrupt busted. News reports out of The Empire State are confusing as some say TransCare will continue operations, yet other reports say employees have been “locked out”!  Channel 4 interviewed dozens of employees who were told they had 30 days notice before their jobs would end, yet the very next day their job site was shutdown, and company administrators are not allowing employees to collect their personal items in the building and administrators are (so far) refusing to issue final paychecks!

North Carolina:  The MERCI Clinic in New Bern halting free medical services due to running out of grant money, and so far no new donations have come in.  In Jacksonville, after 42 years Crist Clinic for Women shutting down by the end of the month due to “unforeseen circumstances”.

Oklahoma: Non-profit Sayre Memorial Hospital shutdown without warning, due to “continual financial strain” caused by declining Medicare reimbursements, and the crashing-n-burning of the local economy.

Pennsylvania: North Philadelphia Health System shutting down in mid-March, 7-hundred jobs lost!  Pennsylvania University School of Nursing shutting down, 96 jobs lost by the end of March.  Prudential Insurance eliminating 91 jobs in Montgomery County, by the end of April.  In Pittsburgh, cancer treatment center Helomics issued a mass layoff WARN, 125 jobs gone by the beginning of March!

Virginia: Catabwa Hospital shutting down as part of the governor’s plan to shutdown mental health hospitals.  Genworth has halted its life insurance operations and as a result 330 employees will become unemployed!

Washington: Cardinal Health issued a WARN for its Auburn ops, 59 jobs lost by the end of March.

Washington DC: The U.S. Department of Labor reports that ObamaCare (Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act) health insurance costs jumped by at least 4.8% in 2015. That’s faster than the official rate of inflation in 2015.

West Virginia: The Cross Lanes Fruth Pharmacy shutting down by the end of April, 14 jobs lost due to lack of drug sales.

ObamaCare job destruction, January 2016: “This is health care today. This is an ongoing thing.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification