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“These are challenging times…because of the uncertainty” Thousands more jobs killed!: U.S. Job Losses & Closings 24 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Alaska: In Juneau, the nine years old Holly’s Hallmark gift store shutting down. The owner said sales went south in 2013 and got worse in 2014.

Florida: 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 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:  More fraud in The Gem State.  The state Attorney General says a former Idaho boat builder owes customers several millions of USD after failing to deliver the boats.   The state and financier KeyBank have joined multiple customers in suing Christopher Bohenkamp, accusing him of taking customer’s money for pre-ordered boats, but then pulling stakes and moving to New York without building the boats!  It was revealed in 2015 that Bohenkamp was being sued by numerous customers for taking their money and running to The Empire State.   Fraud by hybrid and electric car owners in The Gem State as many are just now waking up to the fact that last year the state imposed additional vehicle registration fees for motorized vehicles that use very little or no petroleum based fuel.  There is now a push by the unfair tax avoiding environmentalist crooks to repeal the fees.  Here’s why owners of hybrids and electric cars are crooks; state road repair work is paid for mainly with the state tax on fuel, and partly by vehicle registration fees, if you’re driving a vehicle that doesn’t use fuel you are not paying your fair share of road maintenance tax!   The only way the state can fairly charge (pun intended) electric and hybrid car users for road maintenance is by greatly jacking up the vehicle registration fee.  As one commentator in the state of Georgia wrote “We now have a class of people (mostly well-off) who can choose to get around without having to pay the gas tax.”)   By the way, this why bicycle fanatics piss me off! They think they own the roads but they pay nothing towards maintaining the roads, especially their special ‘bike lanes’. And don’t give me your crap about ‘you drive cars too’, the roads were built for cars not pedestrians or bicycles.  In Boise, the Ada County Highway District responds to criticism about bike lanes by saying “…it’s fair to assume that bicyclists in and around downtown Boise are contributing some amount to the upkeep of Ada County roads.”  But they admit they have no way to prove that statement!  You know what they say about ass-u-me…..

Illinois:  In Alqonquin, the Stride Rite shoe store in Algonquin Commons shutting down by April.  It’s the third retailer to leave Algonquin Commons in the past 12 months.  Publisher Costar Group laying off 44 employees in Chicago, by mid-March.   God powerless to stop ‘his’ Lutheran Social Services from shutting down ‘his’ Chicago nursing home services, 109 job lost by the end of March!  Walmart shutting down two Chicago stores by mid-April, at least 110 jobs lost!  What automotive industry recovery? 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

  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

Missouri: Spain based bio-energy company Abengoa Bioenergy now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, affecting their administrative office in Chesterfield, and their ethanol production in the state of Illinois.  In Hannibal, after more than 50 years Kirlin’s Hallmark shutting down their Huck Finn Shopping Center gift store, blaming “today’s challenging economic climate”.

New York:  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!  General Electric (GE) updated their shutdown WARN for their Fort Edward operation, 128 jobs lost between now and the end of May!  Near Star Lake, the Padgett’s Hometown IGA shutting down after 35 years of grocery sales: “Sales keep going down, expenses keep going up and I’m having a hard time just paying my bills, so it’s just time.”-Mark Padgett

Ohio: Columbus based Bravo Brio Restaurant Group is warning it must shutdown Bravo Cucina Italiana and Brio Tuscan Grille restaurants after a third straight year of revenue losses!

Texas: In Houston, Cobalt International Energy issued a layoff WARN, 50 oil industry jobs lost by the end of April.  Pioneer Natural Resources shutting down their Victoria oil ops, 148 jobs lost by mid-April!  Transocean Offshore shutdown two Gulf of Mexico rigs, 180 jobs gone!  IPSCO Tubulars issued a layoff WARN for their Chambers oil pipe ops, 112 jobs lost by the beginning of April!  In Pleasanton, C&J Energy Services eliminating 78 oil industry jobs by the beginning of April.

West Virginia: Cabell County Schools eliminating 61 jobs and transferring another 97! It’s blamed on the loss of 2-hundred students since 2014!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

23 February 2016: “….a slowdown in the market, we can’t say for sure what will happen next.”

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

Proven, again: Islamic State uses parts supplied by U.S. & Japan to make their bombs!

25 February 2016 (02:51 UTC-07 Tango 01) 06 Esfand 1394/16 Jumada al-Ula 1437/18 Geng Yin 4714

“IS forces consistently employed the same electronic components in the construction of one type of remote-controlled IED used in Iraq. Companies headquartered in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States manufactured the microcontrollers and transistors used in the devices.”-Conflict Armament Research

A Swiss based group has proven that so called ‘Islamic State’ -ISIS-ISIL-DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]) is being supplied by the predominantly ‘christian’ businesses of the United States, predominantly ‘christian’ businesses of Europe, and ‘christian’, ‘shinto’ and ‘buddhist’ businesses of Japan!

 Conflict Armament Research (CAR) tracked 7-hundred weapons making components back to their source origins.  The parts were smuggled through U.S. led NATO Turkey and came from 51 companies in 20 ‘western’ countries.   Even the cell phone of choice, for bomb detonation, by ‘Islamic State’ is the Finnish made Nokia.
In previous investigations CAR personnel found the majority of bullets used by ‘Islamic State’ and other ‘Jihadist’ groups came from predominantly ‘christian’ Russia, however, a large amount of Russian ammo was actually shipped through the predominantly ‘christian’ United States, through a company called Wolf.

The latest report is called Tracing The Supply Of Components Used In Making Islamic State IEDs.  It shows that the entire world is using the false civil war in Syria to sell their products, which are being used to arbitrarily kill people.  It also shows that Islamic State is not ‘Muslim’ and is a tool of the ‘west’  proving that this is indeed a Crusade against true Muslims by the ‘non-Muslim west’.

https://youtu.be/pflsNhgrLLk

By the way, this isn’t the first time the world used a false civil war to sell weapons.  Research the Spanish Civil War, the precursor to the Second World War.

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

World War 3: United States rescues Islamic State leaders in Ramadi! 

CNN straight up lies about Arab nations not fighting Islamic State! 

World War 3: U.S. bombs Syrian government troops, not Islamic State! 

False Flag or Insanity: Christian Red Cross admits it wants “relationship” with Islamic State! 

Business/Economics, Technology

No more electronics maker Sharp! Foxconn beats out Samsung!

24 February 2016 /19:16 UTC-07 Tango 01 (06 Esfand 1394/16 Jumada al-Ula 1437/18 Geng Yin 4714)

Executives with one of Japan’s iconic electronics maker, Sharp, have decided to sell out to a Republic of China (Taiwan) company.

The nearly $6-billion USD sale puts a ‘major’ Japanese electronics maker under foreign ownership for the first time in Japan’s history.  Hon Hai Precision Industry, aka Foxconn, outbid Republic of Korea’s Samsung.  Sharp executives even rejected the offer from the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan.

Sharp has been dealing with crashing revenues for the past few years.  Analysts have criticized the offer by Foxconn as being absurdly high as there are other Japanese electronics makers who are financially secure, yet are considered worth less than unstable Sharp.

Foxconn is a major supplier to Apple, and in 2014 signed a joint venture deal with Hewlett Packard.

Japan Economic Front: Biggest ever loss for Sharp!

What Economic Recovery? Sharp projects record loss for 2012!

Sharp makes deeper cuts than originally planned, blame the Too Big to Fail banks! 

For the first time in 62 years, TV maker Sharp will layoff 5,000 workers!

Sharp blames the United States for lack of economic recovery

Sharp’s economic woes began with the 2011 quake-tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disasters: Sharp has announced that production of their Liquid Crystal Display TVs will be halted 

Idaho, U.S.

Food Crisis: Wake up, U.S. farmers caught selling modified seeds as ‘organic’!

24 February 2016 /18:36 UTC-07 Tango 01 (06 Esfand 1394/16 Jumada al-Ula 1437/18 Geng Yin 4714)

“Since May 5, 2015, I have been investigating what appears to be a scheme to defraud farms and seed companies that purchase organic alfalfa seed for use or resale.”-Drew McCandless, FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is about to search a southern Idaho farm after a state investigation caught the ‘farmer’ selling non-‘organic’ (conventional) alfalfa seed as ‘organic’.

The farmer in Buhl promoted his operation as organic, yet to boost his profits he sold less desired conventional seed as organic.  The FBI is also investigating how the farmer came up with $1.7-million USD to buy his farm.  Accounting books provided to state inspectors, in 2014, did not match with bank deposit records.  Another concern is that records show the ‘organic farm’ was selling for more seed than what could actually be grown on the farm’s 177 hectares (438 acres).   Interestingly, just days after the farm owner was interviewed by federal investigators he filed documents to have the farm transferred out of his name. However, investigators discovered the names listed on the transfer request are previously used aliases of the owner!

The federal investigation began last year, after an Idaho Department of Agriculture investigation.  The state was tipped off by a farm manager turned whistleblower.  The farm owner would buy conventional seed then sell it to ignorant buyers from out of state, mainly east of the Rocky Mountains.  The fake organic seed sales have taken place since at least 2010!

At this point nobody has been arrested.  If a federal judge approves the warrant to search the farm in Buhl, the FBI has implied that it expects to find evidence of illegal activity that will allow them to seize all property and assets of the owner.

Food Crisis: Deflation will cause 1 in 5 dairy farms to fail! 

International

United Failed States: Abe Shinzo openly disobey’s order from Barack Obama!

24 February 2016 (09:01 UTC-07 Tango 01) 05 Esfand 1394/15 Jumada al-Ula 1437/17 Geng Yin 4714

“Prime Minister Abe is planning an unofficial visit to Russia at an appropriate time before Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Japan.”-Suga Yoshihide, Chief Cabinet Secretary to Abe Shinzo

News reports out of Japan revealed that on 09 February 2016 U.S. regime leader Barack Obama ordered Japan’s neo-imperialist prime minister Abe Shinzo to stay away from Russian President Vladimir Putin!

Apparently the current Japanese government is eager to settle disputes over islands that Russia-Soviet Union and Japan fought over during the first half of the 20th century.  Russia and Japan have never signed a formal peace treaty.  This is probably neo-imperialist Japan positioning itself for war with China.

To have the prime minister of a country you’ve occupied since 1945 thumb his nose at your order not to do something is a sure sign you are a Failed State!

International

Covert Deforestation: Japan to help allergy sufferers by sterilizing the trees!

24 February 2016 (05:01 UTC-07 Tango 01) 05 Esfand 1394/15 Jumada al-Ula 1437/17 Geng Yin 4714

I hate airborne allergies, my nose runs and I have a heck of-a time trying to catch it.

Spring time is when many Japanese (1 in 4 according to publisher Shukan Gendai) suffer from cedar pollen, prompting huge sales of surgical masks.  But now a tree grower and some scientists have come up with two ways to end the allergy sufferer’s woes, and possibly end the life of the trees in the process.

The tree grower in Gunma Prefecture claims to have bred a cedar tree that produces 90% less pollen.  He already has greenhouses full of saplings ready to replace the ‘naturally’ occurring trees.

Scientists with Forestry and Forest Products Institute have created a way to use a dangerous bacteria.  They mix it with some liquid and then spray it on the cones of the trees.  It attacks the ‘male’ cones, killing them off so they won’t produce pollen.  They admitted they still need to test the bacterial spray effects on humans.

Now realize that pollen is how the Japanese Cedar tree reproduces, and the researches are effectivly proposing the sterilization of those trees in order to help people suffering from allergies!  If these plans go into effect then in the future the only Japanese Cedar trees left will be those literally created by humans in factory greenhouses.

But wait, did I say “naturally occurring” trees?  Just like in Europe it turns out that many of Japan’s forests are not naturally occurring, but were planted by humans. (“This boom in sugi allergies is the direct result of government policies implemented following World War II aimed at raising Japan’s domestic lumber production.”)

Charles Darwin’s rule of evolution is that a successful species is one that can produce the most surviving offspring, on its own.  (that’s what is meant by Survival of the Fittest)

By the way, articles published by Shukan Gendai blames the Japanese obsession with cleanliness for the high rates of allergies!

Anti-pollen glasses

Genetically altered rice could solve Japan’s pollen allergy problem

Fukushima

More TEPCo lies revealed! United States to blame!

24 February 2016 (03:43 UTC-07 Tango 01) 05 Esfand 1394/15 Jumada al-Ula 1437/17 Geng Yin 4714

Five years after the ongoing nuclear disaster known as Fukushima began more lies propogated by Tokyo Electric Power Company are being outed!

Originally TEPCo stated it had no corporate policy regarding the definition of a reactor core melt down.  They based their reasoning for not having melt down policies on lies from U.S. General Electric (who designed the disaster reactors), which literally said in writing that the reactors were “safe”.

It’s now been revealed that TEPCo did indeed have a definition of a reactor core emergency based on possible 5% damage to core.  Just days after the 11 March 2011 tsunami TEPCo employees documented 30% damage to several reactor cores!

A recent United Nations IAEA study concluded that the lack of response to the nuclear melt downs was because Japanese officials truly believed the bullshit spewed by U.S. nuclear industry, which said nuclear reactors were 100% safe!  Japanese officials have even produced letters from U.S. companies stating so!

Business/Economics

Overwhelming proof College benefits only the 1%! Capitalist using real slaves in California! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 23 February 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

“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!    I can attest to that; I’m from “low income” and I got a bachelors degree (later in life, after decades of working for the Man) and my income actually went down after I graduated. I’ve gotten numerous rejection letters, where as before I got the degree I could walk in anywhere and get hired!  What sup wit dat?

Arizona: In Tucson, Mexico based ANSARCO issued a WARN, 163 copper mining jobs lost due to low prices!

California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; San Francisco based interactive entertainment company Kabam eliminating an undisclosed number of jobs, as part of their plan to acquire major gaming platforms.  In San Jose, evil vulture capitalist investment company Fenox Venture Capital was caught employing slaves!  The U.S. Department of Labor charged the capitalists of “misclassifying” 56 employees as “unpaid interns”, when they were, in fact, full paid employees.  Fenox Vulture Capital must now pay out $331,269 USD in back wages: “A large number of employees worked for free providing hundreds of man hours for this company to make a profit. For them to not even pay minimum wage in [San Francisco] Bay is really appalling.”-Michael Eastwood, U.S. Department of Labor

Colorado: Taxsucking military contractor Jacobs Technology-ETASS laying off 70 people.  The Vail Cascade resort issued a layoff WARN, 2-hundred jobs being eliminated!   Honeywell eliminating at least eight jobs.  Sky Hotel 39 Degrees issued a shutdown WARN, 91 jobs lost. Texas based insurance referrer All Web Leads issued a shutdown WARN, 103 jobs lost! It might be connected to the November 2015 takeover of rival InsuranceQuotes.  After killing off 5-hundred jobs in Washington, California based Concentrix eliminating between 270 to 378 Boulder County jobs due to the loss of their IBM contract!

Georgia: Suwanee based telecommunications equipment maker Arris eliminating at least 8-hundred jobs, as part of their merger with British empire United Kingdom based company Pace!

Florida:  Wholesale soup maker Chef Creations is no more, they’ve sold out to a Massachusetts corporation, resulting in 110 Chef Creations HQ employees, in Orlando, becoming jobless between April and July!  Local news media made the sale sound like a surprise as Chef Creations had recently won new local tax breaks, and gotten approval for major financing, for expansion of their soup making operations.

Kentucky: Lexington based printer maker Lexmark eliminating 550 jobs on the advise of Goldman Sachs!  The company is even considering the option of selling itself off.

Massachusetts:  In Edgartown, women’s clothier hannah b shutting down, with the owner saying “it just happens”.

New York: CNN’s Manhattan Center Productions updated their WARN saying 222 people will now become unemployed by the end of April! CNN is moving its HeadLineNews (HLN) program from New York City to Atlanta, Georgia.   In Saratoga Springs, after 30 years Aggie Mullaney boutique shutting down on Monday, so the owner can focus on her new retail operation.

North Dakota:  State Department of Transportation announced it must eliminate all temporary jobs due to a $69-million USD decline in fuel tax, vehicle registration and other fee revenues.  Crashing government revenues caused by people with no money to spend is  overwhelming proof we are in a depression.

Virginia: In Bland, transformer maker ABB eliminating 30 jobs, blaming “….a slowdown in the market, we can’t say for sure what will happen next. It depends on demand.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

22 February 2016: “We’re being thrown out….”

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.”

Business/Economics

Perfect Storm: Low oil prices & investor exodus will kill-off oil industry?

23 February 2016 (07:34 UTC-07 Tango 01) 04 Esfand 1394/14 Jumada al-Ula 1437/16 Geng Yin 4714

“It is easy for consumers to be lulled into complacency by ample stocks and low prices today, but they should heed the writing on the wall: the historic investment cuts we are seeing raise the odds of unpleasant oil-security surprises in the not too distant future.”-Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency

A British oil industry group says not only are they dealing with low oil commodity prices, but investors are getting out fast.

The result could be that 43% of oil companies in the North Sea will cease to exist.   However, it should be noted that the Oil & Gas UK 2016 Activity Survey is making that claim to justify a permanent tax cut, even the elimination of the petroleum tax, for British oil companies!

Oil & Gas UK also clams that British oil companies cannot survive while their Brent Crude fetches only $30 per barrel.  In 2015, an estimated 65-thousands Britons lost their oil industry related jobs!

Recently several oil producing countries, including Russia and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, agreed to hold oil production at January levels.  I’ve written how Iranian oil ministers boasted that their oil industry can make a profit even if oil hits $10 per barrel.