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U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 11 – 12 August 2014: Illinois gets slammed, again! 84% increase in rent killing off small shops! Disney continues to kill jobs! No more Jelly Belly?

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Despite increased package deliveries, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reported a $2-billion USD loss for their fiscal 3rd quarter!

California: In Glendale, Disney killed off 16 jobs at their Disney Toons studios.  In San Francisco, Therapy Home thrift store killed off by an 84% hike in their rent!  British empire military contractor and U.S. taxsucker BAE laid off another employee.  Freight company RAD Harvest killing 81 jobs in October.

Illinois: In Romeoville, cable TV company Comcast announced they will kill 112 jobs in September!  In Arlington Heights, tech company Intuit killing 104 jobs in September!  What housing market recovery?   In Chicago, real estate company Equity Office Management laying off 48 employees in September.  We Clean Maintenance & Supplies killing 107 jobs!  Geralex Janitorial Services laying off 67 workers.  RJB Properties making 41 employees unemployed.  After 100 years (and surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Jelly Belly Candy laying off 66 employees as the company moves its Illinois operations to California.  In Champaign, Kraft Foods laid off an additional 56 employees.  In East Moline, Jacobson Warehouse laying off 137 people in September!

Indiana:  Obama Care killed off yet another hospital.  This time Monroe Hospital is chapter 11 bankrupt busted and up for sale!  But it’s not all Obama Care’s fault, hospital officials also blame the greedy property owners.

Maine: Great Northern Paper announced that their “temporary” job layoffs are now “permanent”, 212 jobs lost!  Great Northern Paper shutdown their East Millinocket factory in February, and city officials say the company still owes them $700-thousand in taxes!   And in Bath, USN ship builder and taxsucker Bath Iron Works continues to kill jobs, this time 40 people now unemployed.

Maryland: What housing market recovery?  In Rockville, RoundPoint Mortgage laid off 68 employees.

New Jersey: In Washington, after 60 years McCormick’s Bicycle shutdown.

New Mexico: What housing market recovery?  The Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors says July 2014 homes sale crashed 12.35% from July 2013!  However, the average sale price went up by 3.7%.

New York: In Vestal, Obama Care forcing Practicare Medical Management to kill 76 healthcare jobs in November.

Oklahoma: In Oklahoma City, Homeland grocery store shutting down a second store, this time 55 jobs will be lost: “…we could not justify expending capital in this store.”

Texas: In Austin, tech start up facilitator Conjunctured warning it could shutdown.  It might have something to do with their rent.   El Lago Mexican Foods canceled their plans to expand operations and shutdown, even though they were offered tax incentives: “…since we had to move from our old time location in central Austin, we are having big issues to go back in business. We are still trying to get the company up and running again soon. Thank you again and keep your fingers cross.”-company statement

Virginia: Reston based cell phone service provider NII about to be chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The company offers Nextel service in Latin American countries, but is losing its ass to competition simply because it can’t (or wont) upgrade its download speeds.

08-10 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

International, U.S.

Ebola Update: Airline pilots in quarantine? Ohio schools locked down! Nurses continue to reveal conspiracy (incompetency) by CDC! Military personnel now in quarantine! Dallas nurses did not ‘suit up’ for at least two days, meaning they’re all infected!

16 October 2014 (04:54 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/24 Mehr 1393/23 Jia-Xu 4712

“There is the potential for many more Dallases if hospitals are not mandated and do not commit to more vigorous standards. We see potential gaping holes for this to spread!”-Bonnie Castillo,  Registered Nurse Response Network

United States: National Nurses United has come out and revealed that U.S. hospital officials are deliberately violating CDC ‘protocols’ regarding the disposal of hazardous waste infected with ebola, saying the hospital in Dallas, Texas, had waste from the man who died “piled to the ceiling”!

The 2nd Dallas nurse to be confirmed infected with ebola was authorized to fly on a crowded passenger plane!   Just like the ‘black’ skinned man who was initially refused help by a Texas hospital, even though he had a fever and said he was from Liberia and might have ebola, this ‘black’ skinned nurse had reported to health officials about her fever, and they told her it was not high enough to be of concern and she could fly to and from Ohio!

She had treated the ‘black’ skinned man who died, now she’s in Medical Martial Law quarantine.  There are now potentially hundreds of people from the U.S. states of Texas to Ohio infected with ebola (besides the 76 healthcare workers who tried to help the man who died)!

Another issue is this is the second nurse who is infected who doesn’t think she broke any CDC protocols about protecting herself from infection, but it has been revealed by the release of hospital records that nobody in the hospital wore protective clothing for the first two days that the infected man from Liberia was in the hospital!

Hospital officials said this was because they still didn’t think he was infected with ebola, and the test results were not in yet.  It was only after the tests came back positive that medical personnel donned protective clothing.  Well that’s too late you idiots!  It’s now highly likely all 76 medical personnel (if not more) are infected with ebola as a result!

Keep that in mind, an ebola test (as most infection tests) takes several days to get results!  And now CDC says this new strain of ebola apparently becomes infectious much earlier on than first thought (before a person’s temperature hits 104 fahrenheit).  This means infected people could be spreading it before they themselves begin to feel sick!

Some news reports said the CDC doesn’t consider you to have a fever/be infectious until your temp hits 104!  I remember when I was a kid you were considered to have a fever and be infectious at 101, why did the CDC change that standard?

And in Ohio, three schools, Cranwood School, Solon Middle School and Parkside Elementary School, have been shutdown over rumors of an ebola outbreak.  It turns out a school official and a teacher were on the plane as the infected nurse from Texas!  The teacher from Cranwood was on the same flight as the infected nurse, but the school official was on the same plane, just not at the same flight as the infected nurse.  Should that be a concern?  Hell yes! Numerous studies have shown the air circulation systems on airliners are notorious for acting as disease spreading petri dishes!   So, let’s now say that potentially thousands of people in the U.S. are now infected!

The plane’s registration is N220FR and is reportedly being cleaned for the fourth time now, and Frontier Airlines has ordered the six crew members, of the flight that the infected nurse was on, to take mandatory time off just in case: “We take today’s events seriously as your safety and that of our customers is always at the forefront of everything we do. This was over and above CDC guidance that stated that our flight crews were safe to fly.”-company statement (interesting that the CDC apparently has no guidelines for handling outbreaks that could be spread by mass transit!)

Back in Texas, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has issued a Medical Martial Law order banning the 76 healthcare workers from travel: “I’m not happy about the lack of direction on travel restrictions. If restrictions aren’t put in place immediately we’ll put them in place on a local level.  We can’t have people out on public conveyances, on airplanes.”

The Obama regime’s lackeys in the U.S. Department of Defense are now saying that the combat troops Obama ordered to go fight ebola in Africa will now be quarantined!

CNN (Cable News Network) got hold of a DoD memo dated 10 October 2014, that revealed the true purpose of the U.S. military hospitals being built in Africa: To quarantine U.S. personnel who get infected.

Besides personnel who are showing signs of infection, all personnel deployed to west Africa could be quarantined for ten days prior to returning to the U.S.

Barack Obama is now holding an emergency meeting in Washington DC.

Around the world the bad economic outlook presented by the IMF and World Bank, because of a potential ebola pandemic, is causing stock markets to crash and burn!

Since this new strain of ebola began its attack in December 2013, 400 healthcare workers have gotten sick and 230 have died.  UN World Health Organization officials now say this new strain of ebola has a 70% kill rate (seven out of ten people who get sick will die).

United Kingdom: Reports that landlords are refusing to rent apartments to anybody from Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone: United Nations reports that at least 40% of farms have been abandoned!  Surrounding countries reliant on the crops are reporting food shortages.

Liberia: UN says the price of food has skyrocketed 75%!

Countries like Canada and Japan continue to make more and more pledges of money to fight ebola.   I’ll believe it when I see it!

CDC shit-cans ‘protocols’!

Business/Economics

Sears & Kmart closing update 16 October 2014: “Can we stop it?” Shutdowns create Layaway blackhole! Another Kmart “now hiring” shuts down! More Sears shutdowns after Americans shit themselves over Hakenkruez ring!

“It’s terribly wrong for them to not have anything in place to give us more time. I asked them to transfer my layaway to another K-Mart. I would drive to another town.”-Kmart layaway customer who apparently had her request to have the laid away items transfered to another store denied

There are more reports that people who put items on layaway in a Kmart that then announced it was shutting down, could not only lose that item but any money they put down on it.   Layaway users report that Kmart suddenly demands full payment on the laid away item, and that’s how the customers find out the store is closing.

After a massive credit and debit card data breach, Kmart is now offering customers free data protection service.  Mmmm, didn’t Kmart just fail at that?

Another California Kmart shutting down, local news reports say the store was still advertising that it was “now hiring”.   Loyal California Kmart customer Paul Fallon asked “Can we stop it? Can we do anything about it?”

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kmart shutting down in January.  Another New York Kmart and a Sears going down, in January.

Maine losing a Sears in January: “It was a surprise to us, yeah. I don’t think it’s really sunk in yet.”-Don Gibson, assistant manager

What is strange about the Maine Sears shutdown is that it was first reported to shutdown back in July 2013!  So it’s strange the assistant manager claims it’s a “surprise”.

A 50 years old Sears store is getting the hell outta Dodge, Fort Dodge, Iowa, that is.  The store is shutting down in January, they quietly shutdown the Auto Center back in September.

Remember those Japanese Pokemon cards that got Americans in an uproar, because they had ‘swastikas’ on them?  The Japanese were confused because the symbol is an official part of their Shinto and Buddhism religions.  Sears just got an earful for selling a ring that has a so called swastika on it.

The swastika is not illegal in the United States, but you’ll catch social hell for displaying it, even if it’s part of your Shinto, Buddhism, Hindi, Janism, Taoism, Celtic, Aryan (Indo-European) or even Native American religions.  Even the New York based Jewish Theosophical Society use versions of it.  It’s illegal in Europe, which means Europeans are violating the UN’s right to religious freedom declaration.

U.S. citizens who volunteered to fight for the French against the Germans in World War 1 used the swastika.  British Royal Air Corps pilots also used it.  Even Jewish German pilots used it during World War 1!

The National Socialist German Workers Party (correctly known as NationalSozialistische Deutsche ArbeiterPartei or NSDAP, not as Nazi as the British call them) adopted it before World War 2.  But the word swastika is not German, it comes from the ancient Hindu sanskrit svastika (meaning lucky), and the term swastika was actually put into use by the British empire in 1871.  The Germans actually call it Hakenkruez (hook cross).

Because so many ignorant British empire and Zionist controlled false Christian U.S. citizens shit themselves when they saw the Hakenkruez ring, Sears Holdings has stopped selling it.

update 10 October 2014

Here’s the updated list of U.S. Sears/Kmart store closings since the end of 2011:

Arizona: Scottsdale Sears/Great Indoors, Chandler Sears/Great Indoors.

Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Auburn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Anniston Kmart (no word yet on how many jobs lost), Birmingham Eastwood Kmart (70 jobs lost), Decatur Mall Sears (91 jobs lost), Fort Payne Kmart, Northport Kmart (68 jobs lost), Dothan Sears (68 jobs lost).

California: El Monte Sears (at least 40 jobs lost. Damien Arrula, El Monte’s economic development director, said the store manager had lied about what was going on: “The general manager of the store had just indicated to me that they were remodeling.”), two San Diego Sears (more than 80 jobs lost), Pleasant Hill Kmart (more than 50 jobs lost), Torrance Kmart, Fairfield Kmart (63 jobs lost), Lampert owned OSH taken over by Lowe’s home improvement in bankruptcy court, at least 17 of 99 stores to be closed down (935 jobs lost!), Rancho Cordova Kmart (97 jobs lost), San Clemente Kmart/Sears/Kmart on Camino de Estrella (58 jobs lost), placed on an official hit list in 2011 the Oceanside Kmart on College Boulevard finally being shut down, Banning Kmart (91 jobs lost) recently revealed that Sears Holdings is still paying rent on the abandoned property, Laguna Hills Mall Sears, San Diego Mid-City Kmart (73 jobs lost), Hemet Kmart (77 jobs lost), Oakland Sears repair center (75 jobs lost), San Mateo Kmart (82 jobs lost to an apartment building connected to public transportation), Hesperia Kmart building sold at a loss to a vulture capitalist REIT, no word on if the Kmart will be shutdown. Customers complain that the Kmart employees have a bad attitude, gee I wonder why? Yuba City Kmart (63 jobs lost), recently revealed Rocklin Kmart (at least 63 jobs lost).

Colorado: Broomfield Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Glenwood Springs Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lone Tree Sears/Great Indoors, Longmont Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Pueblos’ South Side Kmart (52 jobs lost), Denver Kmart (number of jobs lost have not been made public at this time, but could be at least 40), Colorado Springs Kmart at Powers and Palmer Park boulevards (57 jobs lost), Fort Collins Sears (67 jobs lost).

Connecticut: Waterbury Big Kmart, Torrington Kmart (73 jobs lost).

Delaware: Dover Kmart (at least 72 jobs lost, some reports said 100), Seaford Sears (30 jobs lost).

Georgia: Macon Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Buford Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Douglasville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Atlanta Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Columbus Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jonesboro Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Cartersville Kmart (74 jobs lost), Hiram Kmart (53 jobs lost), Marietta-East Cobb Kmart, Warner Robins Kmart (77 jobs lost).

Guam: Sears Hometown Store.

Florida: Fernandina Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Callaway Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Orange City Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Deland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Stuart Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), West Palm Beach Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Port St. Lucie Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Crystal River Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), New Smyrna Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint Augustine Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Pompano Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jacksonville Kmart on 5751 Beach Boulevard (71 jobs lost), second Kmart in Jacksonville on 4645 Blanding Boulevard (83 jobs lost), Ocoee Sears (102 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on Airport Boulevard closed in 2011, Pensacola Kmart on Mobile Highway closed in February 2013 (69 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on East 9 Mile Road will close in May (73 jobs lost), Hialeah Kmart (67 jobs lost), Bonita Springs Kmart (67 jobs lost), Mount Dora Kmart (100 jobs lost), Lake Mary Kmart, Panama City Beach Kmart (54 jobs lost), Winter Park Kmart (100 jobs lost), Niceville Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winter Haven Kmart (92 jobs lost), Palm Bay Kmart, Oakland Park Kmart (112 jobs lost), Clearwater Sears Auto Center (21 jobs lost), Zephyrhills Kmart (70 jobs lost).

Hawaii: Honolulu Sears (owned by GGP, 372 jobs lost!), Kauai Sears (41 jobs lost), Iwilei-Honolulu Kmart for lease (no confirmation of store closing).

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), Rexburg Kmart (63 jobs lost), Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down in November (the remaining 28 jobs lost). Across the street, in Pocatello, the property where the Kmart is located has a “pad site available” sign, posted ever since the Kmart bankruptcy. The Kmart building takes up most of the “pad”. Latest news from inside sources say Sears Holdings will not comment on any plans to expand the small amount of Craftsman products already being sold at the Kmart, or shift the Kenmore products line, from the closing Chubbuck Sears to the Pocatello Kmart. In fact all plans for the Pokey Kmart are in a ‘holding pattern’.

Illinois: Alton Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Melrose Park Sears parts and repair center (50 jobs lost), Zion Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Lawn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), McHenry Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Peru Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lombard Sears/Great Indoors (at least 40 jobs lost), Fairview Heights Kmart (81 jobs lost), Freeport Kmart (45 jobs lost), Pontiac Kmart (more than 47 jobs lost), Homer Glen Kmart (82 jobs lost), Streator Kmart (45 jobs lost), Lombard Kmart (70 jobs lost), Naperville Kmart (98 jobs lost), Calumet Sears (164 jobs lost), two Sears stores in Grand Crossing area of Chicago (247 jobs lost!), Mount Vernon Sears (68 jobs lost), Moline Sears (at least 60 jobs lost), Homewood Kmart (185 jobs lost), Belvidere Kmart (91 jobs lost?) revealed is now a perpetual closing sale Kmart At A Discount store, Champaign’s Market Place Mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (60 jobs lost), Montgomery Kmart (81 jobs lost), Mattoon Sears (more than 40 jobs lost), Chicago Sears on North State Street (160 jobs lost), Chicago Sears Craftsman Experience store, Galesburg Sears (46 jobs lost), White Lake Township Kmart (42 jobs lost), Orland Park Sears Appliance, Collinsville Kmart (84 jobs lost), Crystal Lake Kmart (at least 77 jobs lost), Danville Sears store & Auto Center (63 jobs lost), Forsyth Sears store & Auto Center (45 jobs lost), Peoria Kmart (73 jobs lost), Forest Park Kmart (107 jobs lost), Chicago Sears on North and Harlem avenues, supposedly it’s being replaced (most likely at taxpayer expense) with a new building and it will become a Sears-Mariano’s store. 58 Chicago area stores up for lease or sale. By the way, Illinois elected officials gave Sears Holdings/Hoffman Estates a $150 million USD tax break to keep their headquarters in the state. The tax break was not tied to any promise not to close stores.

Indiana: Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Sears (49 jobs lost), South Anthony Kmart (70 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard (70 jobs lost), FairOaks Mall Kmart, Logansport Sears (43 jobs lost), Muncie Kmart (59 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on Coliseum Boulevard North (69 jobs lost), Decatur Kmart (49 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart on Madison Avenue (131 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart on Washington Street (139 jobs lost), Bedford Kmart (62 jobs lost), Indianapolis Sears at Washington Square Mall (91 jobs lost).

Iowa: Cedar Rapids Kmart on 16th Ave (at least 40 jobs lost), Davenport Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Burlington Kmart (50 jobs lost), Coralville Sears (94 jobs lost, this is a store sold to GGP earlier in the year), Cedar Rapids Kmart on Collins Road NE (56 jobs lost), Mason City Kmart (50 jobs lost), Clive Kmart (at least 49 jobs lost), Ames Kmart (44 jobs lost), recently revealed Fort Dodge Sears (no job loss numbers made public, yet.  The Auto Center was secretly shutdown in September).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Merriam Kmart-then Sears-then Kmart (jobs lost unknown), Wichita Sears store & Auto Center (103 jobs lost).

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears (in September 2012 the Sears store re-opened under independent ownership, official grand re-opening scheduled for November), Winchester Kmart (back in May, Rankin Paynter bought out what was left of the inventory and gave it to charity), Hazard Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lexington Fayette Mall Sears (114 jobs lost!), Newport Kmart (81 jobs lost), Cannonsburg Sears and Sears Auto Center (no employee info given), Louisville Dixie Highway Kmart/Sears/Kmart, Madisonville Kmart (39 jobs lost), Owensboro Sears store & Auto Center (52 jobs lost).

Louisiana: Slidell Sears (77 job lost), Gretna Kmart (94 jobs lost).

Maine: Lewiston Sears (60 to 70 jobs lost), Presque Isle Sears (80 jobs lost, this announcement was made back in July 2013), new recently revealed Presque Isle Sears (63 jobs lost).

Maryland: Ellicott Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Gaithersburg Sears/Great Indoors, Landover Sears rebuild & call center (115 jobs lost), Baltimore Kmart on Wabash Avenue (107 jobs lost).

Massachusetts: North Reading Sears Hardware store closed, lease not renewed, Milford Kmart (80 jobs lost).

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials, Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Saginaw Kmart on Bay Road, Flint Kmart on Dort Highway (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears, Bad Axe Kmart (61 jobs lost), Ypsilanti Township Kmart (83 jobs lost), Petoskey Kmart (45 jobs lost), Saint John’s Kmart (48 jobs lost), White Lake Township “Store of the Future” Kmart (42 jobs lost), Grand Blanc Kmart (49 jobs lost), Lapeer Kmart (56 jobs lost), Southgate Kmart (155 jobs lost), Detroit’s Telegraph Road Kmart (115 jobs lost), Waterford Township Sears (no word on how many jobs lost), Rochester Hills Kmart (77 jobs lost), ‘perfect Kmart town’ of Port Huron Kmart (188 jobs lost), Flint Kmart on Miller Road (81 jobs lost), Burton Kmart (85 jobs lost), Madison Heights Kmart (179 jobs lost), it’s now obvious the last remaining Saginaw Kmart on Gratiot will remain shutdown after its roof collapsed during a snowstorm back in January, recently revealed Ann Arbor Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off, Fergus Falls Kmart (40 jobs lost), Fergus Falls Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Alexandria Kmart (46 jobs lost), Grand Rapids Kmart (61 jobs lost), Seritage is selling off three Sears Auto Centers in Minnetonka, Brooklyn Center and Saint Paul, Marshall Kmart (57 jobs lost), Oakdale Kmart (77 hourly wage employees losing their jobs, unknown how many salaried employees will become unemployed), Winona Kmart (67 jobs lost), Minneapolis city officials trying to shutdown profit making Nicollet Avenue Kmart, to make way for a new road. Anoka Kmart (47 jobs lost), Blaine Kmart (60 jobs lost), Burnsville Kmart (62 jobs lost), Waite Park Kmart (57 jobs lost).

Mississippi: Jackson Sears Full line, McComb Sears Full line, Columbus Sears Full line, Gautier Sears (71 jobs lost), Waveland Gulfport Kmart (32 jobs lost), Pass Road Gulfport Kmart (52 jobs lost), Pascagoula Sears at the Singing River Mall.

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line, High Ridge Kmart (59 jobs lost), Ellisville Kmart (55 jobs lost), Springfield Kmart on South Campbell Avenue (60 jobs lost), South Belt Kmart (64 jobs lost), Florissant Kmart (100 jobs lost).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost), Great Falls Kmart (closed “until further notice” due to fire, 63 jobs on hold), Great Falls Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost).

Nebraska: Grand Island Kmart (55 jobs lost), Omaha Kmart near West Maple Road (50 jobs lost).

Nevada: Sparks Kmart distribution center (100 jobs lost).

New Hampshire: Nashau Sears Grand/Essentials, Keene Sears Grand/Essentials, Portsmouth Kmart (30 jobs lost), Claremont Kmart (59 jobs lost).

New Jersey: Lawnside Kmart (about 80 jobs lost), Howell Kmart (57 jobs lost), Berlin Kmart, Dover Kmart (92 jobs lost), Randolf Kmart (91 jobs lost), Paramus Kmart (74 jobs lost).

New Mexico: Las Cruces Kmart (58 jobs lost), Albuquerque Kmart on Central SW (80 jobs lost), Rio Rancho Kmart (59 jobs lost).

New York: Depew (Lancaster?) Kmart (68 jobs lost), Colonie Kmart (72 jobs lost), Fulton Kmart (51 jobs lost), Clifton Park Kmart (74 jobs lost), Latham Kmart (61 jobs lost), East Greenbush-Rensselaer Kmart (70 jobs lost), Tonawanda Sears Appliance and Hardware, Bronx Sears (91 jobs lost), BBN reader indicates Ithaca Sears Auto Center shutdown, recently revealed DeWitt Kmart (92 jobs lost), recently revealed Auburn Sears (51 jobs lost).

North Carolina: Cary Kmart (71 jobs lost), High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost), Asheville Kmart (53 jobs lost), West Smithfield Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winston-Salem Kmart (69 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (58 jobs lost), South Ashville Kmart on Hendersonville Road, Raleigh Kmart (88 jobs lost), Garner Kmart, Cleveland County mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Charlotte Kmart (89 jobs lost), Conover Kmart (74 jobs lost), Raleigh Kmart on Capital Boulevard (53 jobs lost), High Point Kmart (71 jobs lost), Boone Kmart (41 jobs lost), Greensboro Kmart (96 jobs lost), Gastonia Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost), Kinston Kmart (64 jobs lost).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost), Dickinson Kmart (41 jobs lost, despite a “Now Hiring” sign on the front of the store).

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Columbus Sears/Great Indoors, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost), Austintown Sears auto parts and service on Interstate Boulevard, London Kmart (no word on number of jobs lost), Trotwood Sears (67 jobs lost), Westlake Kmart/Sears (at least 57 jobs lost), Xenia Kmart (at least 57 jobs lost), Norwalk Kmart (52 jobs lost), Blue Ash Kmart (77 jobs lost), Northwood Sears at Woodville Mall (36 jobs lost), Conneaut Kmart (43 jobs lost), Anderson Township Kmart (71 jobs lost), Brooklyn Kmart (200 jobs lost), Columbus Sears distribution center (200 jobs lost), also in Columbus Sears Product Rebuild Center (112 jobs lost), Marion Sears Auto Center (at least nine jobs lost), Springfield Kmart (68 jobs lost), Fairborn Kmart (66 jobs lost). Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Sears (98 jobs lost, GGP owned, GGP wants a $2 million sales tax rebate, claiming it’s needed to offset capital investments needed to bring the space up to the standards for potential new tenants), Shawnee Sears (31 jobs lost), Sand Springs Kmart (52 jobs lost), Muskogee Sears (60 jobs lost).

Oregon: Roseburg Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Tualatin Kmart Center (new property owner from California is tearing everything down for new shopping center, so far no indication the Kmart will be part of the new shopping center), Milwaukie Kmart (61 jobs lost), Coos Bay Kmart (25 jobs lost), Bend Sears (48 jobs lost), Klamath Falls Kmart (64 jobs lost), Albany Kmart (64 jobs lost), Portland Sears Homes Services (no notice).

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost), Philadelphia Gallery Mall Kmart (120 jobs lost), Philadelphia Kmart on Orthodox Street and Castor Avenue (169 jobs lost), Levittown/Middle Township Kmart (87 jobs lost), Waynesboro Kmart (43 jobs lost), Sanatoga-Lower Pottsgrove Kmart (65 jobs lost, the store was also advertising for new hires!), West Mifflin Sears store & Auto Center (88 jobs lost), Rochester Kmart (78 jobs lost).

South Carolina: Sumter Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Orangeburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Columbia Kmart on Fort Jackson Boulevard in 2012, Columbia Kmart on Bush River Road in 2009, Columbia Kmart on St Andrews Road (66 jobs lost), Irmo Kmart (no info on how many jobs lost), both Greenville Kmarts (140 jobs lost between the two), Mount Pleasant Kmart (43 jobs lost), Harbison Sears & Sears Auto Center in the Columbiana Centre mall (97 jobs lost), Aiken Sears & Sears Auto Center (at least 54 jobs lost), Inlet Square Mall Kmart (50 jobs lost), West Ashely Kmart (69 jobs lost), Myrtle Beach Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Tennessee: Antioch Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Cleveland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Ridge Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Morristown Sears (about 70 jobs lost), Clinton South Kmart, Franklin CoolSprings Galleria Sears (92 jobs lost), Memphis Hickory Ridge mall Sears (job loss data not revealed), 48 years old Nashville Kmart on Nolensville Pike to close by January 2014 (57 jobs lost), Franklin Kmart (33 jobs lost), Dickson Kmart (65 jobs lost).

Texas: Two Sears parts and repair centers closing in The Woodlands (117 jobs lost), rebuild center in Garland (58 jobs lost), Farmers Branch Sears/Great Indoors, Houston Sears Great/Indoors.

Utah: Murray Sears (for some reason Mormon controlled news media in Utah never reported the closure, but they’re reporting that the building has just been demolished), Orem Kmart (no details reported), Woods Cross Kmart (54 jobs lost).

Vermont: Rutland Sears store & Auto Center (65 jobs lost).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Midlothian Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost), Fairfax Kmart (no word on how many jobs lost), Christiansburg Sears (59 jobs lost), Norfolk Kmart on East Little Creek Road (77 jobs lost), Manassas Kmart (71 jobs lost), Stafford Sears Hometown, Newport News Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Wise Kmart (58 jobs lost), Harrisonburg Kmart (79 jobs lost), Wincester Kmart (91 jobs lost), Dale City Kmart (69 jobs lost).

Washington: Walla Walla Sears Full line (in August 2012, it was reported that an independent owner of Sears Hometown stores will open a store in Walla Walla), Lacey Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Kelso Sears (47 jobs lost), Lakewood Kmart (59 jobs lost), Bellingham Sears (92 jobs lost), Seattle Kmart (85 jobs lost), East Wenatchee Sears (59 jobs lost), Puyallup Kmart (51 jobs lost), Oak Harbor Kmart (68 jobs lost), Sodo Sears and Sears Auto Center (79 jobs lost), Everett Kmart (65 jobs lost), Marysville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost).

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 jobs lost), Bluefield Sears store & Auto Center (64 jobs lost).

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears (at least 40 jobs lost, local village officials say the store generated 3% of local tax collections), Rice Lake Kmart (about 71 jobs lost), Brookfield Kmart (56 jobs lost), Racine’s Regency Mall Sears (52 jobs lost), Fort Atkinson Kmart (51 jobs lost), Greenfield Kmart (107 jobs lost), Portage Kmart (78 jobs lost) and Hales Corner (129 jobs lost), Chippewa Falls Kmart (79 jobs lost), Menomonie Kmart (at least 50 jobs lost), Ashwaubenon Kmart (80 jobs lost), Shawano Kmart (55 jobs lost), Fond du Lac Sears (42 jobs lost), Glendale Sears store & Auto Center (86 jobs lost), Janesville Kmart (70 jobs lost), Glendale Sears Rebuild center (67 jobs lost).

On top of that, Sears Holdings sold stores to General Growth Properties (GGP), of which it has been reported that most of those stores will be closed.

Here’s the list of 11 Sears stores now owned by GGP:

Iowa: Coral Ridge Mall (it’s official the Sears is closing, see above), and Mall of the Bluffs

Texas: The Woodlands Mall (this does not involve the two repair centers being closed by Sears)

Florida: West Oaks Mall

Utah: Fashion Place, and Provo Towne Centre (note the evil British empire way of spelling town & center. Due to a favorable lease agreement the GGP owned Provo Sears will continue to stay open under Sears Holdings management)

Oklahoma: Quail Springs Mall (it’s official, the Sears closed, see above)

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

Washington: Bellis Fair Mall (Bellingham store, see above)

Minnesota: Apache Mall (see update above, GGP will close Sears store by 2014)

Illinois: Market Place Shopping Center (see update above, GGP closing store)

Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 08 – 10 August 2014: “It was…impossible to continue.” High cost of living tarnishing employment in the Golden State! Chicago Bears can’t pay their taxes!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

“They can’t afford to pay me what I’m worth; they can’t even match the pay at my last job. It makes me sad. I always thought that, in 10 years, I was going to be awesome. Now here I am, just trying to survive.”-Valerie Colter, typical Californian

California: Southern California Edison laying off 410 people in October! In San Francisco, iconic Candlestick Park being torn down, its fixtures being auctioned off!  Los Angeles County reports a 57% drop in manufacturing jobs since 1990!  Esmael Adibi, of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, said companies can’t handle the high cost of doing business in the Golden State: “They look at stuff like taxation, energy costs and housing costs, and it becomes a business decision.”

Connecticut: In Stamford, after 24 years Littlejohn’s children clothing store shutdown.  The co-owner blamed a lot of factors that have crashed their sales since 2008, but she said the final straw was when the greedy landlord jacked up the rent: “…an unattainable rent increase. It was honestly too much of an increase. It would be very difficult, really, or impossible to continue.”-Anda Weyher

Florida: In Polk County, Chapters Health System killing 89 healthcare jobs at their LifePath Hospice, Good Shepherd and Chapters’ palliative care and pharmacy programs.  Hospital officials directly blamed Obama Care (Affordable Care Act) for drastically reducing payments for people on Medicare and Medicaid, which make up 92% of Chapters Health System’s clients!  In Miami, reports that the Portugal based Too Big to Jail Espirito Santo Bank will be sold off.  The bank was bailed out by the Bank of Portugal, but is still a failure.  The ADP Regional Employment Report says new job creation fell 40% from July 2013 to July 2014!

Moved from Pocatello to Chubbuck in 1999, this Sears is finally dead!

Idaho: In Chubbuck, Sears Holdings finally decided to put their dying Sears store, at the Pine Ridge Mall, to death.  The store will close in October.  Also in Chubbuck, the 24 years old Carmike Cinema 7 was sold off to property developers and will be torn down.  Word is that the owner does not think it’s worth it to convert the theater over to digital.

Illinois: In Libertyville, the owner of Encore Theater group announced this is the last year of performances.  He took a job with another theater group.  The Chicago Bears American style football team have failed to pay Cook County $4.1-million USD in ticket sales tax!  The back due taxes go all the way back to 2003!

Indiana: In Summit City, after 40 years Rustic Hutch shutdown two furniture stores.  What housing market recovery?  In Evansville, Springleaf Finance announced they are shutting down their mortgage operation, 170 jobs lost!

Massachusetts: Tewksburry based Market Basket grocery stores killing jobs in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.  Any striking worker that refuses to come back to work is now fired.

Michigan: In Minnesota, reports say a Office Depot is closing, but corporate officials refuse to comment.  In Ann Arbor, law school Thomas M. Cooley’s warned it could shutdown, blaming an 11% drop in enrollment (DSS, Disapearing Student Syndrome).  Who said the internet is killing brick-n-mortar ops?  After six years internet news source AnnArborChronicle.com to stop regular publishing in September.  United Airlines killing 109 jobs at the Detroit Metro Airport, in October!

New York: Cargo ship operator Eagle Bulk Shipping now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Company officials blame their financial dire straights on a crash in import/exports ever since 2008.

North Carolina: United Airlines announced they will kill 71 jobs at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, in October.  In Greensboro, Kmart announced it is shutting down in November, 69 jobs lost.

Texas: What construction market recovery?  BidClerk reports 2nd quarter 2014 construction funding crashed by $12.2-billion  compared to 1st quarter 2014.

Virginia: In Roanoke, First & Sixth Restaurant shutdown.

Washington: In Seattle, 15 businesses forced to shutdown because of construction of the Elliott Bay Seawall.  City officials swear it will only take nine months to complete, but history shows construction projects almost always take longer than stated.  However, city officials are paying the business owners compensation to ensure they can come back once the construction is done.

06-07 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

International, U.S.

Ebola Update: IMF & World Bank involved! More proof of Medical Martial Law racism in United States! Nurses go public accuse CDC of Medical Martial Law conspiracy! CDC shit-cans ‘protocols’!

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“That hospital has issued a directive to all hospital staff not to speak to press. That is a grave concern because we need to hear from those front line workers. We need to hear what happened there…They have them on real lockdown!  ……I am angry because it was preventable in this country! We should be able to contain and eradicate it, but hospitals are not providing adequate training!”-Bonnie Castillo, Registered Nurse Response Network

The unproven accusation by U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s incompetent Tom Frieden, that the infected nurse in Texas got herself contaminated with ebola by not following “protocols”, has got nursing unions in an uproar: “…and we have seen in our hospitals in this country that they have not given us this information [ebola protocols issued by CDC].  And then, when nurses become infected they are blamed for not following ‘protocols’!  That is not going to work!”-Katy Roemer, National Nurses Union

So much for Obama Care making healthcare better!

Now for the racism.

The Dallas, Texas United States, nurse now infected has been given a transfusion of blood from a survivor of ebola, less than 24 hours after being confirmed to have ebola!  Compare that to the evil treatment the man who died got.

Again, the obvious difference between the survivors in the U.S. and the one man that died; skin color!

The dead ‘black’ victim was rebuffed by hospital staff the first time he tried to get help.  Then, once in the hospital, it was six days before he got an experimental drug that was designed for pox viruses, not ebola!

The Dallas nurse, a ‘white’ skinned Asian, gets a proven treatment (blood transfusion from survivor) for ebola immediately?   The infected ‘white’ NBC news cameraman gets a blood transfusion once he’s brought back from Africa?  But the poor ‘black’ man visiting his U.S. citizen son, and who repeatedly told health officials he might have ebola, is put on hold until it’s too late?

So much for Obama Care making healthcare better!

As for that moron Tom Frieden and many of his earlier claims about how well prepared the U.S. healthcare system is for ebola, the Associated Press got a hold of medical records from the Dallas hospital and discovered that 70 healthcare workers could be affected (other news sources say 76)!

On 13 October 2014, CDC director Tom Frieden admitted they have to shit-can all they assumed about preventing the spread of ebola: “We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control….this one individual was infected, and we don’t know how…” 

In Germany, a United Nations WHO worker has died from ebola.  The German health officials claim they used “intensive medical procedures” to try and save him.  (The last dose of ZMapp was given to a woman in Norway.)

The UN health worker got infected in Liberia, and was sent to Germany for treatment.  The UN now has 41 of their healthcare and military personnel in observation (basically quarantined).

Now money is involved.  The U.S. based International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are sounding a financial alarm over a possible ebola pandemic (which I warned about).

World Bank bean counters estimate that a 2015 ebola epidemic in Africa will cost the World’s taxpayers $32.6-billion USD.   This is just for Africa, at the yearly meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Washington DC analysts admitted calculating the costs of fighting a global pandemic was overwhelming.

Analysts warned that an ebola pandemic could destroy the already fragile international airlines industry, meaning no more flying anywhere.  This would create an economic domino effect on economies globally, causing an economic isolationism effect (this might be a good thing for millions of unemployed workers wishing a return of domestic industries that were off shored).

The situation is so financially daunting that the World Bank officials promised the UN World Health Organization that finding a way to finance the fight against ebola would be their number one priority for 2015, as opposed to finding a way to fund global economic recovery!

Already ebola has caused a U.S. based tourism company to pullout of their surf camp resort in Liberia.  The successful Kwepunha Retreat surf camp was opened two years ago by graduates of University of California San Diego, but they’ve been forced to shut it down, due to ebola.

Could lack of money cause the viral genocide of many of the World’s societies?

Speaking of money.  Many Liberian medical personnel threaten to go on strike, because their government has not come through with promised danger pay to care for people infected with ebola.  After all, most of the people getting sick are those treating the infected.   Liberian medical workers are also stating that their government has imposed a Martial Law restriction on the reporting of ebola cases in their news media.

On top of that, it was revealed that burial teams (who’re supposedly under the direction of the terror group USAID) have not been cremating the dead, instead have been using mass graves.  Some reports say when they show up to a house where a person has died, the family pays them off so that they can bury the body near their home, and not in a mass grave.  (I’ve already pointed out in past postings that the U.S. CDC is recommending that people in the U.S. be cremated, so why is the USAID directing the use of mass graves in Liberia?)

Why aren’t the Cubans & Chinese getting sick? Australia questions protective protocols! 

Ebola Update, October 9th: Racism & conspiracy in United States? ObamaCare blamed!

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 06 – 07 August 2014: “The potential effect on the economy….is huge!” Where’s the beef? as another meat plant shuts down! School sacrifices hourly paid employees to give big salaries to lazy people with college degrees! Yet another coal plant goes down! Office Depot caught ripping off California taxpayers!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

The iconic Great Depression era Tennessee Valley Authority killing more than 2-thousand jobs!  The multi-state federally funded utilities provider blames it on competition with for profit utility companies.  The TVA also revealed they suffered a net lost of $81-million USD during the spring quarter.

California: In Oakland, Sutter Health/Alta Bates Summit Medical Center laid off four more healthcare workers.  In San Francisco, British empire military contractor BAE laid off two employees.

Florida: In Oakland Park, Kmart announced they’re shutting down in November, 112 jobs lost!  Boca Raton based Office Depot announced they are shutting down an additional 165 stores by the end of 2014!  400 stores will be shutdown by the end of 2016!  This affects stores in the U.S. and Canada.  This announcement comes as Office Depot settle a lawsuit for $80-million.  The state of California sued Office Depot for overcharging state government buyers.

Hawaii: In Honolulu, after only five months Meatball Hawaii restaurant shutdown with little warning by the greedy property owner,  the restaurant owner said “Our lease has been bought out.  Today is our last day.”  Also in Honolulu,  Haleakala Solar shutdown and consolidated operations to its warehouse in Halawa, no word on jobs lost.

Illinois: New Jersey based NGR Energy announced they’re shutting down one of their newly acquired Illinois coal fired electricity generating power plants, 250 jobs lost!

Kansas: U.S. Army’s Fort Leavenworth warned of 25-hundred civilian and military personnel job cuts!   Mark Preisinger, the mayor of the city of Leavenworth, cried out “The potential effect on the economy, not only in Leavenworth but across the entire metro area, is huge!”  One commerce analyst said 25-hundred job losses at the Army base would cause a domino effect, killing off 4944 additional regional jobs!

Kentucky: In Louisville, five people lost their jobs with the weekly newspaper LEO (Louisville Eccentric Observer), after it was taken over by the founder’s son.

Massachusetts: Peabody based medical imaging company Analogic announced they’re laying off 50 employees.  As a portent of the worsening economy to come, company officials said they need to reduce costs by $6-million starting in 2015.

Michigan:  The Flint School District laid off 36 non-teaching employees, but then turned around and hired on 10 people to salaried positions, all making more than $67-thousand per year!

Minnesota: The owners of well liked Santorini restaurant shut it down with out notice.  Local news speculated the family owners where in deep debt.  The only official statement from the family indicated they were forced to sell out.

New Mexico:  Santa Fe Community College revealed they’re short $5-million!  The temporary president of the school blames prior administrations for grossly overestimating revenues and handing out raises when the revenues could not support pay increases.  Now the school must cut back.

New York: In Buffalo, God refuses to stop the shutdown of the Buffalo Christian Center.  Greedy religious leaders are selling out to a property developer, claiming it will help them to better do ‘God’s work’.   The sale price was not revealed, but Coldwell Banker said it was well more than $1.44-million!   In Tea Neck, after 86 years Panettieri Brothers Manor Shoes shutdown.  In Amsterdam, Fiber Glass Industries announced they are shutting down in November, 66 jobs lost.  In Jericho, telemarketer CSC Holdings announced it is laying off 86 employees in November.  South Brookhaven Health Center West announced they will kill 93 healthcare jobs at their two hospitals in Shirley and Patchogue.

Oklahoma: In Muskogee, Sears announced they are shutting down in November, 60 jobs lost.

Pennsylvania: The Emerald coal mine being shutdown in 2015, due to crashing demand for coal (not those idiot environmentalist climate change freaks), 500 jobs will be lost!

Tennessee: In Jackson, after 43 years Market Fresh grocery store shutdown.

Texas: In San Antonio, after 50 years meat packer L&H Packing shutdown, 325 jobs lost!  Company officials blame it on the lack of beef cows, caused by ongoing drought.    In Houston, Haven restaurant shutdown.  The owner sold out to competitors, blaming the outrageous rent he was paying.

Wisconsin: In Fond Du Lac, Sears announced they are shutting down in  November, 42 jobs lost.

04-05 August 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

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

Idaho, International

World War 3 Afghanistan, 09 – 12 October 2014: Taxis are terrorists? Cops blowing themselves up! U.S. taxpayer funded aircraft abandoned then turned into scrap metal! Police arresting journalists in the name of safety!

Baghlan Province: In Baghlan District, religious leaders demanded a local radio station shutdown.  Local police obliged the religious leaders and shutdown the radio station, in the name of security.  Police also arrested 12 radio station employees, for their own ‘safety’!

Balkh Province: A group of men wearing brand new police uniforms attacked a police base.  Two blew themselves up and at least three were shot and killed.  At least 17 cops wounded in the battle.  A report by Chinese news media made no mention of Kamikaze bombers, but did say 18 cops were wounded by at least two men dressed in police unifroms.

Ghazni Province: In Giro District, yet another claim by government officials that Mujahideen blew themselves up while planting bombs, four killed this time.

Helmand Province: In Lashkargah City, a policeman turned Kamikaze bomber blew himself up at the local police base.  At least one cop and one Afghan National Army soldier killed, two people wounded.

Herat Province: In Obe District, a U.S. drone strike killed at least one person.  Local government officials say it was a Mujahideen leader.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, a magnetic bomb stuck to a Toyota exploded, but police claim nobody was hurt.  More than 500 Afghans protested against Islamic State, NATO and the United States.  They believe IS, NATO and U.S. are all working together!  The Attorney General announced that seven more arrests have been made regarding the massive Kabul Bank scandal.  Warrants for 21 former bank employees have been issued.   Several Afghan senators said the parliament will reject the Obama regime security deal.

Kandahar Province: U.S. Central Command and U.S. Forces Afghanistan have placed a help wanted ad; they need a new mercenary contractor. The want 600 security guards to patrol the Kandahar airbase. “Only expatriates from the FVEY (Five Eyes) International Intelligence Sharing Network Nations (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) will be permitted to perform work…”

Khost Province: In Khost City, two people killed, seven wounded after a remote detonated bomb, that was attached to a bicycle, went off.

Kunar Province: Local government officials claim Pakistan fired 103 artillery rounds into Afghanistan.

Maidan Wardak Province: In Syedabad District, three Afghan National Army soldiers and three civilians killed when a Kamikaze bomber rammed his bomb laden vehicle into the ANA convoy.  Eight people wounded.

Paktika Province: In Barmal District, reports that a U.S.-NATO drone blew up a taxi, killing one person and wounding another.

Uruzgan Province: In Chora District, a mini-bus full of passengers ran over a landmine.  Five people killed, 14 wounded.

The British empire country of United Kingdom has stripped one of its Red Coats of his bravery medal.  A former Major in her majesty’s Royal Army had the award revoked by the queen after an investigation by the Ministry of Defense.  MoD officials refuse to reveal the results of that investigation.

The European Union announced they will give Afghanistan even more taxpayer money!  This time $1.7-billion USD going to fund even more “development” projects!

This comes as German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the reason the occupation of Afghanistan failed was because not enough tax money was spent: “Many things indicate that our biggest mistake has been to pin big hopes on this mission, without investing significant funds.”

The Philippines government announced that the new Obama regime security deal will end the jobs of about 4-thousand Filipinos working on U.S.-NATO bases in Afghanistan. At one time there were 6-thousand Filipinos being paid by U.S. taxpayers to work in Afghanistan.

U.S. taxpayers shelled out $486-million for 20 brand new Italian made C-27 transport aircraft (known as G-222 in Italy) for the Afghan Air Force.  Now 16 of those planes have been sold as scrap metal for $32-thousand!  Before that they sat abandoned at the Kabul Airport.  The remaining four are in storage at the USAF Ramstein AFB in Germany.  The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) is demanding the U.S. Department of Defense explain why brand new planes were abandonded and then scrapped, instead of selling them off to another air force.

The U.S. Army has concluded their investigation into the 2009 capture of a U.S. Army soldier from Idaho.  He was released this year, however, U.S. Army officials say they are not going to make their investigation results public (pending further review)!

33 air-militiamen and women of the Air National Guard 104th Air Wing Special Security Forces (Massachusetts U.S.A.) deployed to Afghanistan.

International, U.S.

Ebola update: Medical Martial Law as Dallas neighborhood under lockdown threat! Boston Strong hit! U.S. healthcare worker infected, 17 others on hit list! Why aren’t the Cubans & Chinese getting sick? Australia questions protective protocols! No more ZMapp!

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“There’s an Ebola patient in the neighborhood!”-Lindsey Carpenter, Dallas, Texas, resident describing her roommate’s shocked announcement

“…you hear the helicopters overhead and see the news, and it makes you pay more attention.”-Dina Smith, Dallas, Texas, resident describing the swarm of cops and CDC in her neighborhood

“….it was 5am and I was asleep. I said ‘Who is it?’ And they said ‘Dallas police!'”-Carleen Guerrero, Dallas, Texas resident describing Medical Martial Law police banging on her door

In Texas, a nurse who took care of the 1st person to die of ebola in the United States, is now infected.   But get this, like may healthcare workers who’ve gotten sick, she was ‘fully MOPPed up’ (Cold War era U.S. military term for protective gear).

It was revealed that the nurse was considered by hospital officials to be at low risk of getting infected, because of the protective gear, but was also one of 18 hospital staff that had, since the death of their patient, been ordered to take their own fever readings twice per day. It was during one of those checks that the nurse showed a sudden spike in body temperature.

Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings told news media that the entire apartment building where the nurse lived was evacuated and decontaminated, and is now off limits. He also stated that police “knocked on every door in that block”, but several families in that neighborhood refuted that claim to local news media.  To show you how bad this ebola is, the mayor said even vehicles belonging to sick people must be decontaminated and isolated.  This is an indication that ebola can live for a very long time outside a animal host.

The mayor was not able to pronounce the word decontaminant.

People living in the same neighborhood as the female nurse reported that police said the woman’s dog might have to be put down, although the mayor said it doesn’t look like the dog is sick, but it’s now in the care of the city.  Many residents were upset about that, but I’ve written before that dogs have been documented, in prior African ebola outbreaks, catching and spreading ebola by eating the dead humans who weren’t buried.

The fact that many healthcare workers in full protective protocol are getting sick implies that it only takes one micro-meter of your skin being exposed to ebola to become infected, and indicates this is an extremely virulent strain of ebola.  A nurse in Spain, who became the first person in the European Union to get infected, was also wearing protective gear.  However, she thinks she may have made a mistake in removing the gear, touching her exposed face with her not yet decontaminated hand.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now accusing the Texas nurse of failing to follow protective gear protocols, but at the same time stated they interviewed the nurse and she could not “remember” ever failing to follow standard operating procedures (SOP) for protective suits.  In other words the CDC is making an unjustified accusation (an assumption) against the nurse!

It could also mean that this strain of ebola is airborne.  Most healthcare workers are using the standard paper surgical mask, sometimes with a clear face shield.  If ebola is airborne it might be too small for your standard surgical/dust mask to filter out.

In Braintree, Massachusetts, Harvard Vanguard Medical is now in lockdown after a man arrived complaining of head and muscle aches. He had been to Liberia: “Out of an abundance of caution we immediately notified authorities and the patient was securely removed from the building and put into an ambulance now headed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The building was closed briefly but has now re-opened. We are working closely with the Department of Public Health who will determine next steps.”-hospital statement

I’ve been tracking this new strain of ebola outbreak since the end of 2013 when Guinea reported the first cases.  100% of the people who are getting infected are those caring for the sick; family members, friends or healthcare workers.  It seems that a random encounter with an infected person won’t get you infected (unless you get splashed with body fluids), but repeated exposure to an infected person does the job.

Here’s a question: Why hasn’t the Cuban and Chinese healthcare workers in Africa gotten sick?  After all they’ve been on the front lines of this fight longer than any U.S. healthcare workers.

Cuba currently has the largest amount of medical personnel in Africa, at least 15-hundred.  460 of the Cubans are specialists in fighting ebola.  The U.S. responds to ebola by sending combat troops!

Some news reports say Cuba has sent only male healthcare workers to west Africa, do they know a secret about ebola?  So far I have not seen any reports of Cubans getting sick with ebola, but they’re prepared for it: “We have the conviction that perhaps a few will fall ill but the majority will not.”-Jorge Perez Avila, Pedro Kouri Institute for Tropical Medicine

China has about 20-thousand citizens living in Africa.  China has medical teams fighting ebola and is spending record amount of cash to fight the disease in Africa.  So far I’ve not seen any reports of Chinese infected with ebola.

Drug company Sihuan Pharmaceutical (part owned by China, part owned by Morgan Stanley) claims it has an ebola treatment that was originally developed for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army!

In the former(?) U.S. colony of Liberia, the United Nations reports that 41 of its employees are now under quarantine.  20 are UN military personnel.  This action came after two UN medical personnel got infected.  This is another example of how medical personnel using protective gear still got sick.

Because there are so many cases of healthcare workers getting sick, the government of Australia has decided against sending their own healthcare workers to west Africa: “We aren’t going to send Australian doctors and nurses into harm’s way without being absolutely confident that all of the risks are being properly managed. And at the moment we cannot be confident that that is the case.”-Tony Abbott, prime minister

By the way, there is no more of the experimental GMO tobacco based anti-ebola drug ZMapp!  The final dose was given to an infected person in Norway.

Racism & conspiracy in United States?

The U.S. directing Islamic State for future biological attack!

Influenza

3rd U.S. citizen to die of flu! Paranoids swarm new vaccination station! Days after CDC says there’s plenty of vaccines, doctors ask ‘Where are the shots?’ Teachers shot up with insulin, not vaccine! News media warn flu could be a big killer this year!

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North Carolina reporting their first flu death.  Department of Health and Human Services would only say it was a Wake County elementary school aged child.

A couple of days ago I wrote how the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated there were hundreds of millions of vaccine doses already shipped out, or under production.  Now pediatricians are demanding to know where they are.

“Several companies experienced slower yields than expected. Their flu vaccine is being produced, but it’s coming out slower than anticipated. Deliveries are a little bit behind schedule but they anticipate getting most of it out by the end of October, when most was promised by mid-September.”-Andy Pavia, University of Utah

“This year they’re having trouble developing enough to get the flu vaccine supply going as early as they want. We’re told our supply will be delayed by two weeks to a month, but we really don’t know when we’ll get it!”-Greg Finn, Blue Fish Pediatrics, Missouri

A Missouri TV news report told its audience that this year’s influenza is “as dangerous as it has ever been”, but gave no explanation or citation, except for “Doctors say”.

Perhaps the reports of lack of vaccines and unsubstantiated reports that influenza will be worse than ever is the cause for the Muskingum County fairgrounds, in Ohio, being swamped by paranoids trying out the new ‘drive thru’ vaccination station.

The Zanesville-Muskingum County Health Department says at least 19-hundred people showed up for the one day free flu shot event.  But it wasn’t just a free drive thru flu shot event, it was also a covert biological disaster training event!

Health officials say the free flu shot event was done with the cooperation of several different organizations, in an attempt to prepare for a future ‘health’ event that would require such cooperation.

Riverton, Wyoming, held a similar drive thru vaccination event: “I come here every year and let them shoot me.”-Norma Tatman

Washington’s WSU Spokane’s College of Pharmacy, along with Walgreens, conducted a free vaccination day as well.  About 300 vaccinations were administered.

In Utah, a lawsuit charges that five Parkway Elementary teachers were given insulin shots instead of flu shots last month.  Yes, two  teachers ended up in the hospital, three others were sick!

School officials say the shots were offered through the school’s health insurance provider.  The school nurse who administered the shots has resigned.

Just because the official flu season in the U.S. is from October to May doesn’t mean it goes away during summer. The U.S. CDC admitted there were influenza cases in at least 47 U.S. states during summer. However, the CDC doesn’t post summer flu cases on its influenza tracking site. Also keep in mind that any info the CDC posts on its flu “surveillance” site during flu ‘season’ is at least one week old.

Influenza has already killed two people in Idaho!

Fukushima, Idaho

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: Why does Rudolph’s nose glow? Because Santa’s Reindeer are radioactive! Why is Japan getting hit with so many hurricanes + earthquakes? EPA confirms airborne radiation at the WIPP! Nuke waste shipments on hold for two more years, or more!

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United States: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed that some radiation escaped into the air around the failed Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico, but claims “The public doses were well below EPA’s standards.”

EPA also criticized the Department of Energy’s (DoE) air monitoring system: “EPA identified a number of areas needing improvement regarding DOE’s ambient environmental air sampling network, laboratory procedures and incident response protocols.”

More revelations out of WIPP.  DoE has revealed that one reason why the investigation and clean up is taking so long is that the main means of transportation down the 655 meter (2150 feet) shaft is broken!   DoE officials are trying to make it sound like it had nothing to do with the salt truck fire back on 05 February 2014, but that just happens to be the day the massive elevator stopped working.

DoE officials claim the hoist system stopped working because of soot accumulation on the electrical components.  Just more proof it was a massive fire.

WIPP is now affecting the state of South Carolina.  The Savannah River Site (SRS) has been told that nuclear waste shipments to the WIPP are on hold until at least 2016, or even longer: “Resumption of full scale operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant may not occur until 2019 and could cost up to $551 million, though initial operations are slated for resumption in early 2016 at a cost of about $242 million.”-DoE report

I assume this delay in nuke waste shipments also applies to LANL in New Mexico, INL in Idaho and other nuclear laboratories around the United States.

Japan:  I’ve written many times before about how heavy rain floods through the failed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy factory, getting contaminated and then flooding into the Pacific Ocean.  Anybody notice how many typhoons have hit Japan this year?  So far there have been 19 western Pacific typhoons, at least four hit Japan directly, and at least two came close enough to cause flooding in Japan.

Now, this years largest typhoon Vongfong (now rated category 6 supertyphoon) is heading to the big islands of Japan.  The current expected track of the supertyphoon will take it right over Fukushima Daiichi, it is expected to be downgraded by then.  On top of that, northeastern Japan was just hit by yet another 6.3 earthquake (followed by a 5.5 quake), in Amoroi Prefecture 400km (248.5 miles) north of Fukushima Daiichi!

About a week prior, Iwate Prefecture (also north of Fukushima Daiichi) got hit with a 5.3 quake.  About two weeks ago Fukushima Prefecture got hit with 5 and 5.1 quakes. About one month ago Iwate Prefecture got hit with a 5.1 quake.  That same month Fukushima Prefecture got hit with multiple 4 magnitude quakes.  About two months ago Fukushima and Iwate prefectures got hit with multiple 4 magnitude quakes.  Three months ago Fukushima Prefecture suffered a 6.5 quake and Iwate a 5.7 quake, on top of numerous 4 magnitude quakes.    There hasn’t been a month in 2014 when Fukushima or Iwate prefectures hadn’t experienced a single 4 to 6 magnitude earthquake.   In fact, the big island of Honshu has been racked by 4 to 6 magnitude quakes all year.

The German news source DW interviewed Michael Maqua, who works for pro-nuke GRS (Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit).  He gave typical assurances that nothing will happen at Fukushima Daiichi when Vanfong hits, but gave this warning: “Apart from physical damages to construction equipment, we could expect radioactive isotopes from contaminated surfaces being washed away and transported into the groundwater or the sea. Over the past days, the concentration of radioactive substances in the groundwater has increased significantly at some of the plant’s measuring points and, according to TEPCo, this was caused by the recent heavy rains.” 

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) has run out its latest unsecured debt financing, and hasn’t paid it off.  No problem, the Japanese government convinced the three banks to simply refinance TEPCo for another six months.  Those Too Big to Jail banks are Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking.

It was revealed that not only has TEPCo failed to pay many of their throwaway workers promised hazard pay, but some of those that did get paid got a whopping $36 USD!  TEPCo had promised $180 per day in hazard pay.

Canada: The Canadian national government has ordered nuclear power plant operators to provide all residences, businesses and institutions living within 16km (10 miles) radius of nuke factories potassium iodide pills.   The decision was made by the Nuclear Safety Commission.  Back in June the NSC advised Canadians to stockpile iodide pills.

Norway: Scientists are alarmed over a sudden 5 times increase in radiation levels contaminating reindeer!

In September the reindeer had 82-hundred becquerels of celsium-137 per kilo.  Compare that to 2012 when they had 1500bq.

It’s not just reindeer but sheep as well, some have tested out at 4500bq!  600bq is the max limit considered safe to eat.  But Norway isn’t blaming Fukushima Daiichi, they’re blaming the 30 years old Chernobyl disaster.

Scientists claim that the gypsy mushroom is soaking up radiation contamination caused by Chernobyl after the 1986 meltdown: “This year, there has been extreme amounts of mushroom. In addition, the mushroom season has lasted for a long time. And the mushroom has grown very high up on the mountains.”-Lavrans Skuterud

Norway is 1686.5km (1048 miles) by air from Chernobyl.  This proves that nuclear accidents never go away!

“…you are killing us…!”