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Martial Law U.S.A.: “Kill the Police-2” California cops summarily execute mentally handicapped man, with three point-blank shots in the back!

15 August 2014 (20:17 UTC-07 Tango 14 August 2014)/18 Shawwal 1435/24 Mordad 1393/20 Ren-Shen 4712

“No, no, no, no! He was not armed! He was mentally challenged. This is not the person that’s lurking behind a corner with a gun. He’s not a gangbanger!…. I can’t think of more innocent circumstances. But to be set upon by these officers who absolutely lost control and went to deadly force. This young man, what kind of fight could he have put up. Really, this is as sickening as it is sad.”-Steven Lerman, attorney

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) are claiming they had to kill a mentally challenged 25 years old man because he was assaulting them after they stopped him from walking on a sidewalk, what they call an “investacative stop”.

A witness disputes that claim: “He wasn’t a gang banger at all!  I was sitting across the street when it happened.  So as he was walking down the street, the police approached him, whatever was said I couldn’t hear it, but the cops jumped out of the car and rushed him over here into this corner.  They had him in the corner and were beating him, busted him up, for what reason I don’t know he didn’t do nothing!  The next thing I know I hear a ‘pow!’ while he’s on the ground.  They got the knee on him. And then I hear another ‘pow!’  No hesitation. And then I hear another ‘pow!’  Three times!”-Leroy Hill, who also claims he heard one cop order the shooting by saying “Shoot him!”

The LAPD outright lied about the incident from day one, which was 11 August 2014.  Not only did they lie about the man attacking them, but they also claimed they did not know the identity of the man but that he was probably a gangbanger!   The mother of the victim contacted local news media right away and stated that her son was lying on the ground when the ass hole cops shot him three times!  Even on 13 August the NAZI LAPD still claimed they did not know the identity of their victim!

Other witnesses say the LAPD routinely harassed the mentally challenged man on purpose, just because he was mentally challenged:  “They laid him out and for whatever reason, they shot him in the back, knowing mentally he has complications. Every officer in this area, from the Newton Division, knows that, that this child has mental problems. The excessive force….there was no purpose for it. The multiple shootings in the back while he’s laying down?…..Then when the mom comes, they don’t try to console her….they pull the billy clubs out!”-unnamed witness

The LAPD did admit that they handcuffed the man after they killed him!

“KILL THE POLICE” BECOMING THE NEW BATTLE CRY FOR REVOLUTION?

U.S.

U.S. Civil War Chicago, 07 – 10 August 2014: More of the same in Obamaland!

Incomplete list:

9300 block of South Springfield Avenue:  31 years old man stabbed to death.  Police have arrested a suspect.

5900 block of South Justine Street: 16 years old boy shot and killed.  Police suspect the shooting was gang related.

2800 block of North Harding: 24 years old man shot and tazed by police.   Police say the man was blocking traffic with his car and appeared to be on illegal drugs.  He ignored their orders to move the car.  The cops then broke the car window in order to get at the man, but they claim he then drove the car into a civilian car and a police car.    That’s when the blasted him.

Martin Luther King Drive and Hervey Avenue: Three people shot and wounded. Local news reports say police locked down the area to search for the shooter, but gave up just a few hours later (a far cry from what happened in Boston Strong).  Local news sources also reported that police refuse to comment on the incident.

4200 block of South King Drive: 18 years old man shot and wounded in the arm, and a 17 years old boy shot in the hand and butt, during the South Side’s 85th Annual Bud Billiken Parade.   No arrests.

0-100 block of East 35th Street: 22 years old man shot and wounded in the leg.  He refused to talk to police.  Police now claim the guy shot himself.

5700 block of South Shields Avenue:  23 years old man shot and wounded while out walking.  He refused to go to a hospital.

500 block of East 42nd Place: Police say three women were fighting each other, then after the fight two men in their 40s began shooting at them.  Somehow one of the shooters got shot in the leg.  Police arrested the two shooters.

5500 block of South Carpenter Street: 28 years old man shot in the leg by drive by shooter.

7100 block of South Morgan Street: 28 years old man out walking was shot in the knee by two people who walked up to him.

6300 block of South Ashland Avenue: 20 years old man shot in the leg by drive by shooter.

6500 block of South Maryland: 19 years old man shot and wounded.  Police think it was a drive by shooter, even though the victim swears  he never saw who shot him.

1200 block of North Keeler: 17 years old boy shot and wounded by somebody standing between two buildings.

8900 block of South Oglesby: 24 years old man shot through the gut.  No other details available.

4600 block of South Paulina Street: 16 years old boy riding in a car was shot in the arm.  He took himself to a hospital.

900 block of North Drake Avenue: 20 years old man shot in the butt.

7400 block of North Ridge Avenue: 20 years old man shot in the arm.  He took himself to a hospital.

3900 block of South Indiana Avenue: 39 years old woman shot in the leg.  She never saw who shot her.

5300 block of South Aberdeen Street: 22 years old man says he was shot in the arm while playing craps.  Police say he refuses to talk to them.

12300 block of South Michigan Avenue: 35 years old man grazed in the head.  He said the shooter approached him and acted like he wanted to talk, then pulled a gun and shot him.

6700 block of South Champlain Avenue: 16 years old boy shot in the leg.

6700 block of South Langley Avenue:  27 years old man says he was shot by a man who fled in a black Dodge Charger.

8400 block of South Kilbourn Avenue: 21 years old man shot in the foot by somebody who acted like they wanted to axe a question.

100 block of West 117th Street: 16 years old boy shot in the foot, no other details.

1400 block of West 73rd Street: Two men shot and wounded by drive by shooter.

1500 block of South Christiana Avenue: 32 years old man shot and wounded.  He swears he does not know the shooter.

200 block of West 118th Street: 16 years old boy shot in the leg.  He told police he never saw who shot him.

It’s interesting that the police seem to know how most shootings went down, even though they weren’t present and most victims refuse to “cooperate”.  And yet, few arrests.

The majority of victims are male.  Police continue to insist most of the gun violence is caused by gangbangers, but have made few arrests. That’s because police believe most of the victims are also gangbangers. Realize that police in metropolitan areas keep records of whose who in the local gangs, this how they know if a victim is a “documented gang member”.  This also means police probably know who the assailants are.  So why no arrests?

Once again, shooting victims were not armed, it’s as if the shooters are deliberately targeting unarmed people.  It also questions the police claims that the victims are gang members.  Wouldn’t they be armed?

New anti-gun laws would not stop the shootings, because most guns used in Chicago shootings are already illegal!

Now here’s something interesting: Notice police claim most of the victims of the shootings are gangbangers, and realize that it’s the families of those victimized gangbangers demanding all out police state gun bans!  Is that irony?

“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, calls Chicagoland his homie town

Chicago, 03 – 06 August 2014

International

World War 3 Afghanistan, 07 – 10 August 2014: U.S.-NATO on defensive! War officially on with Pakistan! Obama regime backed police summarily executes prisoners, and brags about it! More taxpayer rip offs! More National Guardsmen found dead in the United States!

Bamyan Province: In Hajigak, the Steel Authority of India announced they are spending $1.14-billion USD on the Afghan Iron and Steel Consortium (AIFSCO).  This is on top of $2.9-billion spent by other mining operations since 2011!  At least three international mining companies are spending big bucks developing infrastructure so they can begin mining an estimated 1.5-million metric tons per year of iron ore!

Faryab Province: In Khawajah Sabz Posh District, the local government “intelligence” boss was assassinated supposedly by Mujahideen, along with his driver.  Interestingly another intelligence official was ‘allowed’ to live.

Helmand Province: In Marjah District, U.S.-NATO conducted an airstrike that killed 13 people.

Herat Province: A Soviet intelligence officer thought to have been killed during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan has been found alive and well.  Turns out he defected during the 1980s and became a Mujahid: “In Russia I lived in Moscow. I was deployed to Afghanistan. After fighting for two years, I was injured. I was shot in the head. I collapsed unconscious to the ground. A Mujahideen commander took me to his house. I don’t know how long I was unconscious for. When I finally opened my eyes, I saw I was being cared for by the Mujahideen commander’s family. The Mujahideen saved my life. I was unconscious so they could have easily killed me. They had the power and opportunity to kill me but they didn’t……My brother and sister still live in Russia. They have tried to contact me, but I will never go back there. They hate that I am a Muslim convert now.”-Sheikh Abdullah, formerly known as Bakhretdin Khakimov

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, the European Union announced they are sending another 100 vote count observers, as if that will make things better.  For the second time reporters were attacked by vote recount observers, for questioning the process of eliminating votes.  Outgoing President Hamid Karzai restated that there will be a new president by the end of August, as the Obama regime ordered.   The two opposing(?) candidates (yet both are Obama regime puppets) known as Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Abdullah Abdullah, have agreed to create a unity government at the urging of U.S. Secretary of failed State John Kerry.  The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) reported a unexpected 20% reduction in commercial exports. They suspect it has something to do with the “successful” elections.   An artillery rocket landed near a U.S.-NATO building on the Kabul airbase compound.  ISAF said there was “minor damage”, but apparently no casualties.  In the city’s 12th district an explosion wounded four Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel and three civilians.  In the city’s 1st district an explosion killed one person and wounded another.  It was a magnetic bomb stuck onto a government vehicle from the province of Maidan Wardak.   In the Alaudin area of the city a kamikaze car bomber rammed a NATO convoy.  Four people killed, at least 35 wounded.  The National Security Council of Afghanistan (NSC) has ordered Afghan military and police forces to respond to alleged Pakistani provocations in kind, in other words war is on between Afghanistan and Pakistan!

Kandahar Province: Police chief Abdul Raziq elected himself judge and jury and ordered the summary execution of prisoners.  His justification was that people released from prison are so pissed at the government that they join the Mujahideen.  Raziq’s illegal act comes after two weeks of battles with Mujahideen left more than 170 people dead and 70 wounded.  This authoritarian act by the prefectural police chief shows the Mujahideen are kicking his ass!  Police also report that almost all of the attempted kamikaze bombers they’ve recently captured are from Pakistan.   The government of India announced it will spend $1-million in taxpayer money to build a sports stadium in Aino Meena City.

Laghman Province: National Directorate of Security (NDS) claims they’ve captured a mini-truck full of explosives, as it crossed the border into Afghanistan from Pakistan.

Nangarhar Province:  In Khogyani and Shirzad districts, U.S. led NATO and ANA launched an offensive against Mujahideen.  So far 69 people killed.  Government officials claim several of the Mujahideen killed were from Pakistan.

Uruzgan Province: In Khas Uruzgan District, police officials report an offensive by at least 900 Mujahideen.  So far at least 45 people killed and 19 wounded.

More U.S. taxpayer waste: “Legitimate concerns remain about the ability of the U.S. and Afghan governments to jointly develop, undertake, and complete two new and ambitious infrastructure projects before the end of the year. Security risks associated with starting new high-profile infrastructure projects pose a particular concern.  In addition, I fear the initial cost estimates for the two projects may be overly optimistic. For example, the draft cost estimate for the Dahla Dam turbine project is only $10 million, while the cost of the Kajaki Dam Unit 2 Project, which has already received substantial assistance, is at least $75 million.”-John Sopko, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

In the U.S. state of Georgia, a 2nd Lieutenant of the Mississippi Army National Guard was found dead on the U.S. Army’s Fort Gordon property.  He had served as an enlisted-man/NCO in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a satellite communication systems operator.  An investigation into his death is supposedly underway.

25 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 37th Finance Detachment, 27th Finance Company (New York U.S.A.), departed for Afghanistan.

40 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 814th Medical Company Area Support (North Dakota U.S.A.) returned from Afghanistan.

Fukushima, Idaho

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: WIPP employee lawsuit! France & Idaho connection to Fukushima & WIPP! Cosmic rays to be used at Fukushima! Hows your underwear?

14 August 2014 (01:47 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Shawwal 1435/23 Mordad 1393/19 Ren-Shen 4712

Customs/Port officials in Korea, south, have discovered a shipment of scrap metal from Japan is highly radioactive.  20 kilograms (44 pounds) of scrap metal was found to be contaminated with cesium-137.  They’ve ordered the ship to return to Japan.

Officials with the district of Hong Kong, China, are refusing to lift the ban on food from five Japanese prefectures affected by the ongoing nuke disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.

In Japan‘s Fukui Prefecture nuclear power plant inspectors have discovered a new danger; seawater pumps at Takahama Nuclear Power Plant could be destroyed by tornadoes.  Kansai Electric Power Company is now trying to protect the pumps with steel plates and steel nets.

A Virginia U.S.A. company (Decision Sciences International Corporation aka DSIC) has been hired by Japan’s Toshiba to use cosmic rays to scan the melted down GE designed reactor units at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

What most people don’t understand is that nobody has been able to see what’s happening in the reactors, because the contamination levels are so high that it will kill humans, and even the electronics in robots get fried if they’re in the buildings for too long!  This is why this disaster is ongoing more than three years later (and why I believe China Syndrome is now in play).

DSIC will use two muon detectors to scan the reactors.  The detectors will be placed in a reactor building,  on opposite sides of the containment vessel.  Muons are considered harmless, but they can pass through just about anything, however their direction of travel can be altered by dense objects.  The scanners will create a 3D image that will hopefully show exactly where the mass of molten fuel rods are.   By the way, Toshiba openly refuses to say how much they’re paying DSIC for the work.

The neo-imperialist government of Japan has announced it will spend  $3-billion USD to help Fukushima Prefecture recover from the ongoing nuclear disaster, but there’s a catch.  In order to get the money the municipalities within the prefecture must agree to become nuclear waste storage sites!

The bribe comes after three years of utter failure in filtering radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi, prompting Tokyo Electric Power Company to call it quits, almost.

The experimental and expensive (TEPCo openly refuses to say how much it cost!) filtration system was only able to operate for three months before being repeatedly shutdown for multiple problems, mainly leaks.   TEPCo says there is another problem, radiation contamination.

The filtration system is so radioactive that it has become like the melted down reactors onsite; too ‘hot’ to literally handle.  This is the true reason for the abandonment of the Areva designed filtration system, because throwaway employees cannot get near the system just to perform maintenance!  A new ‘treatment’ system is being tried, and of course all the water that goes through these systems end up in the ocean.

Areva is a French company, and this brings us to Idaho, U.S.A.

Areva is a contractor at the United States’ Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and has just ben awarded a $34-million contract to turn the INL  into a low level nuclear waste storage site.  It involves building 200 concrete nuke waste trash cans (vaults) underground.

INL and Department of Energy also held a health conference in Idaho Falls, regarding the Radiation and Worker Health Program’s scheme (Special Exposure Cohort) in determining health problems caused by radiation: “If a person who worked at INL gets cancer and feels like their cancer is due to radiation exposure they received on the job, they could file a claim in this program and our job at NIOSH is (to) attempt to reconstruct the dose, that person received while they were here. You know how much dose they could have received. Once we have done that, the Department of Labor takes that information and determines whether their cancer was more likely or not caused by the radiation exposure.”-Stuart Hinnefeld, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

It turns out that INL was chosen for the public forum because several hundreds of claims of radiation caused cancer have been filed!

A live reporter with local TV station(s) KIDK-KIFI reported that several DoE employees, and former employees, say their cancer caused by contamination claims have gone unanswered!   (It’s interesting that KIDK-KIFI did not put that info in their text version of the story, it was relayed by their live reporter)

The INL is also one of the major suppliers of nuclear waste to New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).  And speaking of WIPP, the first of what could be many lawsuits by employees has been filed.

It turns out the lawsuit was actually filed in May!  The waste handler claims he suffered several types of injuries during the salt truck fire, including inhalation of toxins.   He is one of at least a dozen people hurt during the February fire.  He is now having to travel to Colorado for undisclosed respiratory treatments.  The DoE has admitted that one worker is still undergoing treatments.  The employee stated that he’s constantly tired, and coughs and vomits “all the time”.

In United Kingdom, entrepreneur Richard Branson announced he would market radiation proof underwear.  They’re made with silver thread.  Scientist scoffed at the idea, after all if you could make radiation proof underwear then you’ve solved the problem for humans undertaking long distance space flight (with all that lethal cosmic radiation floating about).

“We’re preparing for the worst day in America.”

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 01 – 03 June 2014: “…it started falling off the face of the Earth…” “We’re not…a cost effective producer anymore.” 1-thousand people secretly laid off in Ohio? Disney kills more jobs! Lots more ObamaCare job destruction!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Iconic U.S. Steel shutting down operations in Pennsylvania and Texas, at least 260 jobs lost!

British empire Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS, which operates in the United States as well) could totally fail.  It was discovered that the mega-bank is missing $168-billion USD!  The British taxpayers bailed out the bank, and are now the official owners.  The revelation was made in the new book Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain.

Alabama: In Birmingham, Athenahealth announced it will shutdown its Liberty Park  office by 2015, 64 jobs lost.

Alaska:  Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation eliminated 160 positions!  It’s blame on federal funding cuts for Indian Health Service, and Obama Care.  At the end of 2013 the hospital operator laid off 50 employees.

California: In Bakersfield, Kern Medical Center administrators once again made public statements that Obama Care is causing the county run hospital to lose millions of dollars every month!  The Kern County Board of Supervisors will decide if it’s worth it to keep the hospital open.  In Culver City, Disney’s takeover of the multichannel network Maker Studios resulted in at least 38 employees losing their jobs.  In Orange, business manager Service Response Partners announced they will layoff 78 people at the end of July.  In Chatsworth, Peerless Building Maintenance announced they will layoff 89 employees in August.  In Corona, legal drugs pusher Actavis continues to kill jobs, this time 58 employees will be let go in August.  In Los Angeles, Xerox announced they will kill 51 jobs in August.  In Modesto, SkyWest Airlines killed its Modesto City-County Airport flights, blaming government regulations.  SkyWest was the only airline with regular flights out of the airport.

Connecticut: Hartford HealthCare announced it has eliminated 350 positions!  Hospitals officials had to cut $200-million from their budget, blaming Obama Care for “massive reductions in government reimbursement” and creating a 25% reduction in people seeking care at hospitals.  In Bridgeport, Too Big to Jail Citizens Bank announced it will kill 125 jobs beginning in August!

Florida: British empire Canada based Potash Corporation laid off 56 employees at their Suwannee River Chemical Plant.  This is the company’s second round of layoffs, which began in December 2013.  When the culling is finally done, 248 jobs will have been destroyed! The Florida Panthers laid off at least 30 people, including a VP.  Team officials blame crashing ticket sales on the bad economy.   In Daytona Beach, gun parts maker AO Precision Manufacturing laid off 40 employees.  Company officials blame it on crashing gun sales: “The biggest year for gun business was 2013, but it started falling off the face of the Earth in October.”-Steve Koch, president

Georgia: Muscogee County School District eliminated 113 jobs (69 occupied positions and 44 vacant positions)!  It’s due to funding problems, but 19 teachers were fired specifically for poor performance.

Illinois: In Rockford, after 101 years, and surviving the Great Depression, Lundgren’s Camera and Video shutdown.  The owner blames digital.

Kansas: In Leawood, a Hy-Vee grocery store shutdown, however the pharmacy is still open.  Company officials wanted to remodel the store but blame city officials for playing games with permits and/or zoning laws.

Maryland:  Dimensions Healthcare System eliminated 62 positions at two hospitals.  Employees say they received at least three notices from hospital officials stating that as many as 500 healthcare workers could lose their jobs by the end of the year!  Hospital officials hope a partnership with University of Maryland Medical System will save them from Obama Care.  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC, a government mandated privately run company) shutdown Slavie Federal Savings Bank. Most of the assets were sold to Bay Bank, the FDIC gets stuck with the rest.

Massachusetts:  The Worcester Telegram & Gazette began laying off at least 20 employees as the Halifax Media Group took over.  In Holyoke, after 54 years the Mount Tom coal fired electricity maker shutting down this year.  28 jobs lost.  In Cambridge, video game maker Harmonix laid off 37 people.

Michigan: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 13.4% of Michiganians are unable to buy enough food.   In Genoa Township, reports that the Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples shutdown.  In failed state Detroit, it was revealed that a taxpayer funded job training program resulted in very few people getting hired.  Marathon Petroleum got a $175-million tax break from the city to put people through a job training program in conjunction with a community college.  But dozens of people who went through the program say they were never hired, even though they completed the training and an internship with the company.  To add insult to injury local news reports say it turns out that many of the positions supposedly open required no special training!  In Macomb County, reports say taxsucker General Dynamics and British empire company BAE (formerly known as British Aerospace) could kill 300+ jobs, due to federal spending cuts for the new Ground Combat Vehicle.

Missouri: In Kansas City, after only four years Pandolfi’s Deli shutdown.  The owner said he was ready for something different.

Mississippi: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 20.9% of Mississippians are unable to buy enough food.

New Mexico: Chevron shutting down their 100 years old Questa molybdenum mine, 300 jobs lost!  Company officials blame crashing market prices and skyrocketing operating costs: “We’re not in a position to be a cost effective producer anymore. In fact, we’re the highest cost producer in the world in terms of the global market.”-David Partridge, CEO

New York:  In a press conference out of NYC, Germany based Siemens announced they will kill 11600 jobs globally (including U.S. jobs) by the end of 2016!  It might have something to do with the company’s attempts to take over turbine maker Alstom.   In Henrietta, Kango Academy and Play Centre shutting down, apparently the cost of operations are so high that no customer could afford to pay a fee that truley reflected that cost.   In Niskayuna, Barnes & Noble continues shutting down bookstores.  Local news reports said the company refused to say how many people became unemployed.  In Brooklyn, God refused to stop Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School from shutting down in August, 83 jobs lost.  In NYC, Williams Lea Corporate Information Solutions shutting down in September, 51 jobs lost.  In Melville, Sbarro pizza restaurant shutting down in September, at least 43 jobs lost.

North Carolina:  In Morganton, furniture maker Heritage Home Group shutdown yet another factory, 87 jobs lost.  The company has been shutting down factories since the beginning of the year, a far cry from 2013 when they told a bankruptcy court they were “a well-capitalized company”!  That is until they took over the bankrupt Furniture Brands’ company, and that was all she wrote.  Local news reports stated that between Furniture Brands and Heritage Home Group North Carolina has lost 9113 furniture making jobs!  In Piedmont, the Obama Care medical device tax is forcing yet another company out of the country.  After 60 years Arrow International is killing 600 jobs and moving production to Mexico by 2016!  In Charlotte, after 15 years Miro Spanish Grille shutting down in July.  The property owner refused to renew the restaurant’s lease.

Ohio: Allen County Child Support Agency laid off three employees.  It has been revealed that Too Big to Jail Fifth Third Bank killed one thousand jobs over the past 15 months!  The revelation came at a stockholders meeting, to the delight of the ‘investors’.  Bank officials credit their secret job layoffs to going digital.

Pennsylvania: In Ellwood, Texas based steel fabricator Sabre Industries shutting down this summer, 80 jobs lost.  Company officials blamed the bad economy for crashing sales.

Texas: In Fort Worth, after only one year of operation Motorola Mobility shutting down their Moto X factory, 700 jobs lost by Xmas 2014!  Company officials blame it on crashing cell phone sales, but it was revealed that Moto X production is being offshored to China and Brazil.  In Austin, Paggi House restaurant shutdown, the owner blames “progress”.  Garrido’s restaurant shutdown, the owner wants to try something new.

Vermont: Switzerland based electronics maker TE Connectivity continues to kill jobs, this time 36 people let go.  The company is consolidating operations.

Virginia: In Chester, German eyeglass maker Carl Zeiss laying off 73 people and consolidating production.  The company will now make lenses in Oregon and Mexico.

West Virginia: McDowell County Commission laid off at least eight employees.  It’s blamed on crashing tax revenues, especially taxes collected on coal mining, due to the fact that coal mines have shut down.

Wisconsin: GE Healthcare announced it will kill at least 90 medical device manufacturing jobs by the end of the 1st quarter 2015.  Apparently Obama Care has reduced demand for such products.  Airadigm Communications-AirFire Mobile shutting down six stores across the state, 55 jobs lost.

27 – 31 May 2014: “the end of an era”

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

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

Business/Economics

Sears & Kmart closing update, 12 August 2014: 300 jobs being killed in time for Xmas! Sears becomes your new DMV! British empire taking over Kmart?

Sears Holdings announced it is shutting down two distribution centers by December, one in Nevada the other in Ohio.  Hundreds of jobs lost.  Merry Xmas!

Eddie Lampert used a store fire as an excuse to shutdown a Montana Kmart.  The store caught fire the night of 04 August, it is now closed “until further notice”.

In Minnesota, the Sears on Rice Street (in Saint Paul) not only sells you crappy products but is now your local DMV office.  It’s located on the second floor, hidden behind the drapery samples.

It was just announced that the new president of Kmart is Alasdair James.  Sounds English doesn’t it?  It is.  Alasdair James is the former commercial director for United Kingdom’s grocery chain store Tesco.

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).

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

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, recently revealed Milford Kmart (80 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).

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”.

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).

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?) recently 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). 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.

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).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Merriam Kmart-then Sears-then Kmart (jobs lost unknown).

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).

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).

Maryland: Ellicott Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Gaithersburg Sears/Great Indoors, Landover Sears (115 jobs lost).

Massachusetts: North Reading Sears Hardware store closed, lease not renewed.

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, Flint Kmart (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).

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!

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).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost), recently revealed Great Falls Kmart (closed “until further notice” due to fire, 63 jobs on hold).

Nebraska: Grand Island Kmart (55 jobs lost).

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

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

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

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

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).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost).

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), recently revealed Columbus Lockbourne Industrial Parkway Sears distribution center (200 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!).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 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 (no job loss info given), Fond du Lac Sears (42 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)

International

World War 3 Afghanistan, 02 – 06 August 2014: Soldier kills U.S. General! U.S. puppet government admits it forces children to go to war! British general says Afghanistan just testing ground for wars to come!

Badakhshan Province:  In Raghistan District, a religious leader out shopping was assassinated.  Police arrested two people, but an angry mob broke into the jail and killed the two suspects.

Herat Province: In Shindand District, U.S./NATO bombed a family’s house, killing four people.  The district’s government HQ was surrounded by protestors as a result.  There was no explanation of the airstrike and NATO/ISAF officials said they would investigate.

Kabul Province: At the British empire’s Sandhurst military academy extension just west of Kabul City (aka Camp Qargha, aka Marshal Fahim National Defense University) an Afghan soldier attacked NATO officers, from a bathroom.  15 people were wounded including a general from Germany.  A U.S. Army Major General was killed.  Afghan National Army (ANA) says they’ve killed the shooter.   Mujahideen claim it was one of their own who infiltrated the ANA, however they thought they had killed a British empire general.   The United Nations proved that the U.S. puppet Ministry of Interior is encouraging the Afghan National Police (ANP), as well as local police (ALP) to force children to act as soldiers.   This despite the 2011 Road Map Towards Compliance agreement ending such practices.   ANP and ALP officials swear that they will finally implement the Road Map Towards Compliance agreement.  The Ministry of Interior also reports that more than 200 people have been killed in the past few days of battles.   In the city’s Mosahi district, a bomb exploded killing four ANA personnel, and wounding four others.  A reporter was attacked in his home by unknown gunmen.  He was wounded in the hand.  It doesn’t sound like an attack by Mujahideen, because the reporter is known for criticizing the government.   In the city’s 10th district an explosion rocked the Iranian embassy.  Police say an artillery rocket might have impacted in the area, no casualties.   As far as the unsuccessful “successful” election vote recount is going,  recounts were restarted but then halted again after recount observers attacked reporters!  The observers were from the opposing presidential candidates (who’re both Obama regime puppets) and they claimed the reporters were interfering in the process.  The reporters say they were questioning the way the observers were eliminating votes!   If this is what Obama calls a “successful” election then I guess this is how it needs to be done in the U.S. of A.   U.S. taxpayers are paying to make Kabul City beautiful.  It’s called U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) Commander’s Emergency Response Fund.  A new city park was created and U.S. officials say it was necessary to help control flooding in the city.

Kunduz Province: In Chahar Dara District, government officials admitted that ten ALP switched sides and became Mujahideen.

Kunar Province: Once again provincial officials say Pakistan is firing artillery into their territory.  This time 135 rounds impacted Dangam District, no casualties reported.

Nangarhar Province: A U.S. Army Special Forces Staff Sergeant was killed while working at Jalalabad airbase.  The U.S. Department of Defense says he was hurt while on patrol, but claims it was not combat related.

Uruzgan Province: In Tarinkot City, an ANP shot and killed seven other cops.  One cop was wounded.  The renegade cop is on the loose.

A British empire general, Peter Wall, revealed that the occupation of Afghanistan is just a primer for things to come: “….we will leave Afghanistan with the most operationally experienced Army we have had for many decades, which means we are well prepared for whatever future challenges may come our way.  I believe the warrior spirit and experience the British Army has acquired during its long decade of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan means it is ready for the challenges it is likely to face in the years ahead.” 

U.S. Army General John F. Campbell is making an incredible claim: “99% of the Afghans want us to stay.”

More than 100 members of the Army National Guard’s 1100th Theater Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group (Maryland U.S.A.) arrived in Kuwait, to support operations in Afghanistan.

The Army National Guard’s 132nd Military Police Company (South Carolina U.S.A.) returned from Afghanistan.

A former U.S. Marine, who lost both legs in Afghanistan four years ago, died in California.  He was from Utah.  Local news reports say his family was “stunned” by his death.  Doctors say he died from heart problems and a stroke related to the loss of his legs.

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 27 – 31 May 2014: “the end of an era” No more Super Chevy or Import Tuner? No more Taco Bell or Pizza Huts? More proof housing crash is here! Thousands of job losses announced in California! More ObamaCare job destruction!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

The second largest magazine distributor/publisher in the country, Source Interlink Distribution, laid off employees in California, Florida and Michigan.  This includes the editor of Automobile magazine.  The company also publishes Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Camaro Performers, GM Hi-Tech, Super Chevy, Import Tuner, Honda Tuning  and Super Street.   Word is, all these iconic magazines will be consolidated into just a couple of publications!   Operations in Michigan will be moved to California.  There are rumors the company is actually shutting down due to the loss of their contract with Time Inc.   Six thousand jobs across the country could be affected!

Arizona:  What housing market recovery? Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Yuma County had the highest negative equity (homebuyers are paying way more than what the homes are really worth) in the state, 38%.  Pima and Cochise counties are close behind.

California: Too Big to Jail Bank of American announced more layoffs, this time 50 employees in Brea will be laid of in July.  In Oakland, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center warned of massive 1584 layoffs by the end of July!   In Montebello, Beverly Hospital laying off 17 people in July.  In Sylmar, God can’t stop the all powerful Obama Care from killing 274 jobs with Saint Jude Medical in July!   In Atwater, Mi Pueblo Foods shutting down in August, 279 jobs lost!  In San Francisco, Grand Cafe shutting down in July, 63 jobs lost.  CDIHS/OMI Head Start laying off 76 people in July.   In Sunnyvale, taxsucker Lockheed Martin warned of 62 layoffs to take place in July.   In Santa Anna, energy supplier AGR Group shutting down in August, 203 jobs lost!  The company is facing a lawsuit by employees over failure to pay for work performed.   In Mountain View, Symantec continues to kill jobs, this time 42 people will become unemployed in June.  In City of Jurupa Valley, QS Wholesale laying off 66 employees in July.  In West Covina, California Pizza Kitchen announced they are laying off 60 employees in August.  What housing market recovery? Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Lassen County had the highest negative equity, 43%!  Close behind is Imperial, Kern, Tulare, Lake, Merced, Madera, Yuba, Colusa and Del Norte counties, all with more than 30% of homeowners ‘underwater’!

Idaho:  What housing market recovery? Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Elmore County had the highest negative equity, 42%!  Bingham County came in second with 29%.   It must be noted that realty data from many Idaho counties are not being made public, such as Bannock County (which is the hardest hit economically)!

Illinois: Chicago based investor analyst company Morningstar announced it will no longer work for Sears Holdings.  Apparently the owner of Sears and Kmart stores is doing so bad that Morningstar is leaving the sinking ship now.

Kentucky: On of the largest advertising companies in Lexington, Meridian-Chiles, now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.

Massachusetts:   Zillow reports that the counties of Suffolk, Middlesex, Plymouth, Norfolk and Essex have 78,873 homes with underwater mortgages (homebuyers are paying way more than what the homes are really worth), at the end of March.

Michigan:  In Lansing, Cup of Dessert (aka Decker’s Coffee) shutdown.  What housing market recovery?  Wayne County announced 557 properties to be auctioned off just in the month of June!  These are properties that were seized for failure to pay taxes.  In 2013 Wayne County put up for auction nearly 20-thousand properties, the most in the whole World!  Not all sold, and the county came up short $182-million USD!  In the failed state city of Detroit: “…118,000 properties owe more than $500 million in unpaid property taxes. These properties are in addition to the more than 84,000 Detroit properties to which various public entities already hold title as a result of tax foreclosure.”-Detroit Blight Removal Task Force

Minnesota:  The epilepsy floor of the United Hospital was shutdown, due to cuts in payments and increased costs caused by Obama Care!  The operator of the hospital, Allina Health, revealed just how much Obama Care is killing the healthcare industry; in the 1st quarter of 2013 Allina Health had $22.3-million in operating income (profit after operating costs are subtracted, a little more specific than net profit).  For the 1st quarter 2014 operating income crashed to just $449-thousand!!! The owner of dozens of Minnesota Taco Bells and Pizza Huts is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted! 140 jobs threatened! Border Foods and Sky Ventures already sold off 54 Pizza Huts back in December.  They’ve already been sued for $8-million in back due rent!  The company is asking the bankruptcy court to allow them to sell off more restaurants.  Company officials cry ‘What economic recovery?’: “Sales have remained stagnant, costs have increased….The combination of the factors has led to a condition where the….margins have decreased and making additional capital investments….is not prudent.”-Barry Zelickson, VP   

Missouri: In Kansas City, after 83 years (and surviving the Great Depression) men’s clothing store Jack Henry shutdown, 25 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on “current trends” in clothing: “When the clothes are gone, the Jack Henry brand will be gone as well…the end of an era for a Kansas City icon.”-Spiro Arvanitakis, co-owner

Nevada: What housing market recovery? Zillow reports at least 30% of homeowners in Las Vegas have negative equity, in other words they’re paying way too much for their homes than what they’re worth.

North Carolina: High Point Regional UNC Health Care killed 115 jobs!  Hospital official, Greg Taylor, blames Obama Care for causing not just insurance reimbursement reductions, but “…admissions decrease….surgical procedures decrease, and we think that is part of where the market is headed. It’s been playing out all across the country.”

New York: In Buffalo, Main Court/Main Seneca announced they are shutting down in August, 82 jobs lost.  Canisius College warned it will layoff an undisclosed number of employees for the upcoming school year.   It’s blamed on decreasing students and increasing benefit costs caused by Obama Care.  In Farmingdale, environmental and disaster recovery consultant ProSource Technologies suddenly shutdown after losing their state contract, 366 jobs lost!  In Melville, employment staffing company Adecco Group announced it is shutting down in December, 154 jobs lost!  Who said internet companies are killing brick-n-mortar stores?  Once again an internet upscale clothing store killing jobs.  This time Fab will layoff 90 people, it’s the internet company’s third round of layoffs in the past ten months, and by the way all the layoffs are coming out of its New York operations only!

Ohio:  What economic recovery?  The new company created by the merger of Anchor Hocking and Oneida kitchen ware, EveryWare Global, is in big trouble.  Even with huge layoffs and factory shutdowns the company is reporting it lost $38.4-million in its first quarter of 2014!  In Beachwood, retail property owner/manager DDR revealed that the closure of 400 Office Depot stores will directly affect 50 of their properties.  However, DDR officials also revealed they’ve been cutting Office Depot a deal on rent (below-market value), and maybe they can jack up the rents once Office Depot vacates.  In Perrysburg Township, Ace Hardware announced they are killing 105 jobs in July!  They are shutting down their 40 years old Retail Support Center.  In Toledo, iconic The Blade newspaper announced they are killing 131 jobs!  The 179 years old newspaper is shutting down its Toledo production and mailing operations beginning in August.

Oregon: In Portland, MulvannyG2 Architecture shutdown.  They’re consolidating operations.  In Beaverton, Obama Care medical device tax forcing Greatbatch/Electrochem Solutions to move to Mexcio. 170 jobs lost by the end of 2015!

Pennsylvania: In Canonsburg, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Custom Fabrication Plant shutting down in October, 130 jobs lost!  GE (General Electric) is the same company that designed the disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, and Hitachi helped build them.

Tennessee: God can’t stop the all powerful Obama Care from killing 75 jobs at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare: “…the current healthcare environment is presenting financial challenges for hospitals across the country….As a result, we are examining ways to reduce costs from our system. We’re finding ways to save through measures such as standardizing medical devices and not filling open positions where it makes sense. But even after making those changes, we still need to find additional ways to reduce costs.”-Gary Shorb, CEO

Texas:  What housing market recovery?  Zillow reports that at least 31% of homebuyers in Bell County are paying for homes that are worth much much less than what the mortagages will end up costing the homebuyer!

20 – 26 May 2014: Massive education cuts!

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

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

U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: “Kill The Police” becoming the new battle cry for Revolution?

10 August 2014 (14:16 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Shawwal 1435/19 Mordad 1393/15 Ren-Shen 4712

“Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son!!!”-Louis Head, stepfather of latest homicide by cop victim

“Kill the police!”-chant heard shouted by at least 200 protestors in Ferguson, Missouri

Desiree Harris, the grandmother of the victim, said she was driving home when she saw her grandson running away from the apartment building where they lived, but when she got closer “…my grandson was lying on the pavement. I asked the police what happened. They didn’t tell me nothing!”

Witnesses say the 18 years old man, who was about to start college, was unarmed and running away from police when they blasted him multiple times: “He shot again and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and put his hands in the air.  He started to get down and the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots.”-Dorian Johnson

“I witnessed the police chase after the guy, full force.  He ran for his life.  They shot him and he fell.   He put his arms up to let them know that he was compliant and he was unarmed, and they shot him twice more and he fell to the ground and died.”-Piaget Crenshaw, who told other news sources that the killing shots were to his face and chest at point blank range

Police said that for some unknown reason a cop in a car stopped two males, who were standing near the street.  When the cop approached the friends he claims one of them attacked him and tried to grab his taxpayer funded gun.  They ended up in the cop car, when a gunshot went off.   It’s now known that it was the victim who was shot by the cop inside the car!  The victim and his friend ran.   The victim’s friend says it was the cop who grabbed and pulled the victim into the car, the victim was simply struggling to get  away.  The cop, still in possession of his gun, decided to finish off the man he shot, who was now running away from him.  Apparently the cop “feared for his life” due to the fact that the men were running away from him.  The victim was shot dead 10 meters (35 feet) away from the cop car.  It’s interesting that at this point the other man has not been arrested by police.

Multiple shell casings were found at the scene, police refuse to say how many times the victim was shot in the back.  The cop is on paid vacation until the Saint Louis County investigation is concluded.   Remember that the victim’s grandmother said the homicide by cop happened in front of their home, the police have yet to explain why an armed cop decided to harass two apparently unarmed men standing in front of the residence of one of the men.

U.S.

U.S. Civil War Chicago, 03 – 06 August 2014: More proof Police are letting the shootings happen, as a way of culling gangs!

Incomplete list:

1100 block of West 112th Place: 17 years old boy killed.  It was police who found him, and it was apparently only the police who“heard gunshots” which led them to the victim.

4100 block of West Jackson Boulevard: 33 years old man shot in the back and killed.

7600 block of South Hoyne: 39 years old man riding a bike was killed by drive by shooter in a red car.

5500 block of South Emerald: 26 years old man shot in the head and killed.

7300 block of South Kedzie Avenue: 21 years old man found dead in his car.  He was shot twice.  Police accuse the dead victim of being a gangbanger.

Lewis and Martin Luther King Drive: Police SWAT responded to calls of multiple shootings.  Three people were found wounded.  Police claim they were locking down the area in order to catch the shooter.

5900 block of South Justine: 23 years old man shot and wounded in the arm.

6100 block of South Elizabeth: 17 years old boy shot and wounded in the face.

700 block of South Western Avenue: 19 years old man shot in the elbow, but he’s in critical condition because he somehow suffered head trauma, according to police.  Police accuse him of being a gangbanger.

7100 block of South Damen: 22 years old man out walking when he was shot and wounded by a drive by shooter in a blue van.  Police accuse the victim of being a gangbanger.

7700 block of South South Shore: According to police, two men went to a house and started fighting with the man inside.  One man fled and then a woman came in and started fighting.  She and the other male invader got beat with a baseball bat.  A third male armed with a gun invaded the house and started shooting.  The man of the house was shot and wounded.

8600 block of South Colfax: 42 years old man shot and wounded in the leg.  Also, apparently in a separate shooting, three men were shot and wounded by drive by shooter in a blue car.

1115 N North Branch Street: Four men shot and wounded.  Local news reports said police did not provide anymore info.

The Illinois State Police has assigned 40 state troopers to help Chicago cops do nothing.  They will join Chicago’s Fugitive Unit.  The state assistance comes at the demand of Obama regime puppet Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

It’s interesting that the police seem to know how shootings went down, even though they weren’t present and most victims refuse to “cooperate”.  And yet, no arrests.

The majority of victims are male. Police continue to insist most of the gun violence is caused by gangbangers, but have made few arrests. That’s because police believe most of the victims are also gangbangers. Realize that police in metropolitan areas keep records of whose who in the local gangs, this how they know if a victim is a “documented gang member”. This also means police probably know who the assailants are. So why no arrests?

Once again, shooting victims were not armed, it’s as if the shooters are deliberately targeting unarmed people. It also questions the police claims that the victims are gang members. Wouldn’t they be armed?

New anti-gun laws would not stop the shootings, because most guns used in Chicago shootings are already illegal!

Now here’s something interesting: Notice police claim most of the victims of the shootings are gangbangers, and realize that it’s the families of those victimized gangbangers demanding all out police state gun bans! Is that irony?

“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, calls Chicagoland his homie town

Chicago, 31 July – 02 August 2014