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World War 3: Germany officially orders spying on the United States and British Empire! Old school typewriters make a big comeback, thanks to U.S. electronic spying!

26 July 2014 (00:32 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Ramadan 1435/04 Mordad 1393/30 Xin-Wei 4712

In retaliation for U.S. and U.K. spying on Germany, Angela Merkel has officially ordered spying operations against United States and British Empire, for the first time since the end of the Second World War (1945)!

German Chancellor Merkel has also ordered all U.S. spymasters out of Germany, if any are caught still in Germany they will go to prison!

Merkel grew up in East Germany during the Cold War, and knows first hand what it’s like to be spied on by your own trusted government.  It’d be an understatement to say she’s really pissed at the Obama and Cameron regimes!

The people of Germany are fighting back by dumping electronic forms of communications.  Germans are returning to old fashioned letter writing, and even using old school typewriters.

Typewriter maker Bandermann reports 2013 sales were up by one third, and started advertising that typewriters are “NSA Proof”.

Olympia reports they are selling more typewriters than they have in the past 20 years!  Sales are expected to double this year.  Even the Russian embassy is buying up Olympia typewriters!

German military contractor Diehl is dumping their computers for typewriters!

Germany is not the only country to switch back to older communication technologies, Russia is doing the same thing.

U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: U.S. Army creating new wireless spy system to be tested in Texas and New Mexico!

26 July 2014 (00:11 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Ramadan 1435/04 Mordad 1393/30 Xin-Wei 4712

It’s called Distributed Common Ground System-A (DCGS-A).  It’s supposed to integrate various electronic sources, biometric (human traits) data, spy satellites and other sources to spy on the enemy (you).  So far taxpayers have forked over $5-billion USD developing it!

Now some in the Army say it’s a failure, and “not survivable” on the battle field.  The Army even cancelled the planned 2014 testing of the system in Texas and New Mexcio, due to repeated “glitches”.

However, Army officers are pushing Congress to keep funding the project, because of the exponential increase in electronic intelligence that can be gathered: “A company commander today with DCGS-A has 20 times the capability I had as a division commander in 2003!”-General Raymond Odierno

A Company consists of about 100 to 200 personnel, depending on its mission.  A Division consists of 10-thousand to 18-thousand personnel!   Odinero claims that DCGS-A gives the Company commander the electronic spying power 20 times greater than what a Division commander had in 2003!

But for those U.S. citizens concerned about their privacy rights, rest easy for now, because the Associated Press got their hands on a 15 July 2014 Army memo which says the testing op in Texas and New Mexico was canceled due to continued “crashes” of the system.

U.S. Army officials claim they’ll have DCGS-A up and ready for testing in 2015,  of course after spending even more taxpayer money.

International

World War 3 Afghanistan, 17 – 20 July 2014: U.S. airstrikes increasing! Pakistan behind attack on airport? More proof the U.S. ain’t leaving!

Balkh Province: In Mazar-e-Sharif City, a bomb in a cart was left next to a police vehicle, and exploded.  Several people killed or wounded, dozens of vehicles damaged.

Herat Province: In Obe District, a U.S. led NATO drone airstrike killed 12 people.

Kabul Province: Six Mujahideen attacked the military side of the airport.  The attack lasted several hours, with all Mujahideen killed.  However, the Interior Ministry says attackers are actually from Pakistan, and blamed the government of Pakistan for the attack.   The Ministry of Transportation and Aviation reporting that all airlines operating out of the airport are planning to stop all flights.  Once again, the Interior Ministry reports hundreds of people killed or wounded in the past four days of country-wide battles.  The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has reluctantly started recounting all the votes in the so called “successful” elections (as declared by Obama and the UN).   The vote recount is being overseen by the United Nations and European Union, and also involves NATO/ISAF transporting fraudulent ballot boxes.  Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India have signed a deal to build a massive gas pipeline, known as TAPI.  The TAPI line could carry 33 billion cubic metres of gas, every year.

Kunar Province: In Chapa Dara District, an artillery round landed on a house, killing two children and wounding seven other family members.  Of course the government blames Mujahideen.  However, Kunar officials also claim Pakistan is shelling their province, most recently a ten years girl was wounded after ten artillery rounds from Pakistan impacted where she lives.  In Ghazibad District, local police report that a U.S. drone airstrike killed four people and wounded two.  It might be connected to U.S. airstrikes ongoing across the border in Pakistan.

Laghman Province: In Mehtarlam City, two people killed, 14 wounded by a motorcycle bomb.  Witnesses say it looked like a man was trying to use the motorcycle to transport a box, when it exploded.

Logar Province: U.S. led NATO aircraft bombed Pul-e-Alam City!  At least 16 people dead.  City cops said they called in the airstrike on the people simply because they “looked” suspicious!

Nimroz Province: In Chahar Boraj District, three people killed, three wounded after they drove over a landmine.

China has created a special envoy to Afghanistan, to handle ‘security’ issues.  Chinese officials are fearful of a full U.S./NATO pullout from Afghanistan, because they’ve invested a lot of money and manpower in developing petroleum operations in Afghanistan..

USMC General Joseph Dunford told the U.S. Senate that no U.S./NATO/Afghan military leader involved in the occupation of Afghanistan has ever called for full U.S. military pullout.

The U.S. state of Oregon is sending nearly 1-thousand National Guard militiamen and women to Afghanistan this year, but 25 militiamen were diverted to fight the wildfires spreading through the Beaver State.  What will happen once all the militiamen are in Afghanistan?

International

World War 3, more proof God is evil: Minutes away from supposed ceasefire & Israel continues to demolish the town of Beit Hanoun! UN gave IDF grid coordinates!

26 July 2014 (23:06 UTC-07 Tango 25 July 2014)/28 Ramadan 1435/04 Mordad 1393/30 Xin-Wei 4712

“Fuck, that was a direct hit on the hospital! That was a direct hit! I have to go now!”-Fred Ekblad, Swede trapped in Palestinian hospital being demolished by Israeli Merkavas

I’m watching live video from Gaza Strip of Israeli artillery shelling of Beit Hanoun, using U.S. built M109 self propelled 155mm guns (IDF is using U.S. made M109s, their own Merkava Battle Tanks and air-strikes to demolish entire neighborhoods).  They are literally targeting every residential building in the town!  It’s building demolition on a grand scale, and this is happening just a few minutes away from a supposed ceasefire!

Yesterday, the peace loving Israelis erased the Beit Hanoun hospital.  It’s at least the third Palestinian hospital the Chosen People of Israel destroyed.  Swedish national Fred Ekblad, who was trapped in the hospital, reported the Israeli attack to Mondoweiss as it happened: “I was standing watching TV, my friends were on the news holding a press conference and a shell from the tank hit the building and broke the glass from the window.  The glass shattered from the window and I got it on my head, not only glass but concrete.” 

Also, Beit Hanoun is where Israel blew up a UN school, being used as a shelter by Palestinians.  UN officials reported they gave Israel Defense Forces (IDF) the grid coordinates of the schools with the understanding they would not be attacked.  UN officials in Beit Hanoun told British empire news media that they called IDF trying to get time to evacuate the people, but the IDF refused to respond to the request!

“We were packing up to leave when the attack happened. We were standing outside when they started hitting us, some of the women holding their babies. My sister-in-law was one of the injured. There were bodies everywhere, most of them women and children!”-Nour Hamid, 17 years old victim of Israeli human sacrifice ritual

“All of us sat in one place when suddenly four shells landed on our heads…Bodies were on the ground, blood and screams!  My son is dead and all my relatives are wounded including my other kids!”-Laila al-Shinbari, victim of Israeli human sacrifice ritual

More proof God is evil: Israel kills 1 Palestinian child per hour! King’s Torah demands it! Israel demands U.S. taxpayers fork over $225-million to help them kill more Palestinians!

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 25 – 26 April 2014: “We can’t go any further!” No more 131 years old Ladies’ Home Journal! ObamaCare killing more healthcare & education jobs!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns.

U.S. based OfficeMax/Office Depot shutting down 19 Canadian OfficeMax Grand & Toy stores, at least 160 jobs lost!  One store in Toronto is 132 years old!  OfficeMax took over the Canadian company in 1996, then recently was taken over by Office Depot.  More store closures across Canada and United States are expected to come from the Office Depot/OfficeMax deal.

California: Since last year Alta Bates Summit Medical Center has killed hundreds of jobs in the Golden State, now it’s been revealed  that Obama Care is forcing them to kill off another 358 healthcare jobs in Berkeley and Oakland!  Becker’s Hospital Review ranks Alta Bates in 4th place on their top ten list of healthcare job killing hospital systems.  Sunnyvale based ClearEdge Power now bankrupt busted and will kill at least 39% of its jobs across the United States!

Colorado: In Delta, Dean Foods shutting down their Meadow Gold Milk plant, 38 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on the lost of a major grocery store customer.

Connecticut:  California based ClearEdge Power now bankrupt busted and shutting down their South Windsor operation, 280 jobs lost!  This is after Connecticut officials gave the company $1.4-million USD in taxpayer help!

Illinois: Obama Care forces Social Security disability insurance and Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance processor Allsup to kill 90 jobs.   Kraft Foods announced they are killing 285 jobs!  Most of those jobs will be in-house trucking jobs, which will now be contracted out.

Indiana: What automotive industry recovery? In Kokomo, General Motors (GM) revealed they laid off an undisclosed number of employees at their computer control module factory.

Iowa:  In Beardstown, after more than 30 years IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance) hometown grocery store shutdown, 27 jobs lost: “You know Walmart came to Beardstown about five years ago and the business climate, at least for us, has declined because of that big box store. It’s just deteriorated to the point that it’s not profitable to keep the store open.”-Steve Kremer, owner

Massachusetts: What housing market recovery?  Too Big to Jail mortgage/finance holding company State Street killing 400 U.S. jobs this year (145 just in the Bay State) despite $2.5-billion in revenues!   Despite the billions in revenues investors are not happy and said it wasn’t enough!  State Street laid off 700 Bay Staters last year!

Mississippi:  Chapter 11 bankrupt busted Senderson Plumbing Products laid off 100 employees!  The company is also on the auction block, threatening the remaining 130 employees!

New York:  After 131 years popular magazine Ladies’ Home Journal has been killed off by its Iowa based publisher Meredith Corporation! All editorial staff now unemployed, the final issue is the July issue.  After ten years the Beast Bar shutdown.

North Carolina:  In Gaston, after 42 years Mr. T’s Place restaurant shutting down in May.  The owners are demanding to know when the economic recovery is going to take place!   In Hendersonville, after 18 years Cypress Cellar restaurant shutdown.  The owner said it’s no longer worth the amount of time she puts into the business.

Pennsylvania:  In Hazel Township, after more than 20 years JCPenney shut down.  In Ambler, God refuses to stop the First Presbyterian Church from shutting down their 47 years old Weekday Nursery School (maybe God took them all to Heaven?).  It’s blamed on disappearing students.  Philadelphia School District warned of 1-thousand layoffs in September!  It’s blamed on massive funding cuts and massive insurance cost increases caused by Obama Care.  District officials said the combination causes them to be short $440-million for 2014-15 school year!  They are begging city, county and state officials to raise taxes in order to fund the district’s budget shortfall: “We cannot have another year where we’re cutting. We have to get stable…so we can fight for the future instead of worrying about every single year….We can’t go any further! We’ll be in the mud at the bottom of the hill, and it’s a very steep hill!”-Bill Green, School Reform Commission Chairman

Texas:  The El Paso Independent School District warned it could be killing 172 teaching positions!   It’s blamed on rising insurance costs caused by Obama Care, and the disappearance of 3300 students over the past four years!

Vermont: The Vermont Technical College eliminating six positions due to increased employee insurance costs caused by Obama Care, and three years of disappearing students.

Wisconsin: Rich man’s boat builder Marquis and Carver Yachts killing 53 jobs.  CEO Rob Parmentier says  production is being consolidated due to crappy sales blamed on Old Man Winter, saying it was the “worst winter in North America in 100 years.”  However, it could also be because the company has taken over production of rich man’s VanDutch Marine yachts.

23 – 24 April 2014: “It’s the end of an iconic American brand!”

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

International

World War 3: Hezbollah declares “Partnership in Jihad” with Palestinians against Israeli genocide!

25 July 2014 (09:36 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Ramadan 1435/03 Mordad 1393/29 Xin-Wei 4712

Hasan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, has just declared a partnership with Palestinian Mujahideen fighting the Israeli occupiers! 

He stated “unlimited support”!

Nasrallah also blasted back stabbing pro-Obama/pro-Nutjobyahoo (Netanyahu) Arab regimes, saying they are actually giving approval to Israel’s genocide against Palestinians!

U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: U.S. Army Captain in Afghanistan, your career is over! Obama regime culled nearly 2-thousand Army officers! More to come!

25 July 2014 (09:27 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Ramadan 1435/03 Mordad 1393/29 Xin-Wei 4712

It’s being revealed that the Obama regime is culling large numbers of U.S. Army Captains.  This is a significant move, because many Captains (O-3) control combat Companies or Batteries, with about 100 personnel each.

Captains who’ve just arrived in Afghanistan are being fired by the Department of Defense (DoD).  So far 48 Captains have been fired, they’re not even being allowed to serve out their tour of duty in Afghanistan.

But wait, there’s more!  Reports say this is part of a larger culling of 1188 Captains Army-wide!

DoD officials told Washington Post it was about saving money, yet according to Military.com News many of the Captains are not just being ‘laid off’, their careers are being terminated permanently because the DoD is using any infraction, including sexual affairs and intoxicated driving, to permanently fire the Captains.

More ‘firings’ will take place in August!

International

World War 3 Afghanistan, 13 – 16 July 2014: Afghanistan backs Palestine! Obama regime election scheme declared illegal! More National Guard members turning up dead after returning from Afghanistan! More U.S. taxes wasted!

Balkh Province: In Mazar-e-Sharif City, a radio show host was assassinated.  Local police say they have no clues as to who did it.

Faryab Province: In Bandar District, Mujahideen report they’ve liberated 95% of the district.  Afghan government forces, and contracted security guards have holed up in the fortress of a local pro-government warlord.

Ghazni Province: In Gilan District, Mujahideen say they repelled a large U.S.-NATO/Afghan National Army (ANA) offensive.  11 occupyiers/ANA killed.  One Mujahid killed and five Mujahideen wounded during an airstrike.   Civilians were also killed and wounded.  In Zana Khan District, reports that a recon UAV (drone) crashed.  Mujahideen claim they captured the wreckage.

Herat Province: In Gozara District, four employees of a U.S. based NGO was captured.  So far nobody is demanding any ransom.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, two rockets detonated in the Khair Khana area, but nobody was hurt.  Another rocket exploded near the Kabul airport.  In the 5th district of the city, an apparent car bomb exploded, wounding five people.  Mujahideen say they placed a magnetic bomb on a military bus.  In the 12th district a vehicle belonging to the Presidential Palace exploded, killing two people inside.  Once  again, the Interior Ministry reports hundreds of people killed or wounded in the past few days of battles between government forces and Mujahideen.  The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says it cannot move forward with the Obama regime brokered election scheme because it violates Afghan law!   In a unanimous decision, the Afghan government voted to send Gaza Strip $500-thousand USD to help them fight the anti-semitic Israelis (Arabs are Semites too, you dumb-ass Goyim)! Despite billions in tax money from other countries being spent in Afghanistan to supposedly improve life, hospitals still lack proper facilities for prenatal and infant care, resulting in continued high death rates.

Kunar Province: Government officials say Pakistan fired 61 artillery rounds into their province.  They also say Pakistani aircraft bombed areas in the province.  Five people killed, 11 wounded.

Nangarhar Province: In Jalalabad City, a kamikaze bomber used his Toyota Corolla to attack a NATO convoy.  Local government officials reported an undisclosed number of people killed and wounded.  There are reports that a second explosion took place a few minutes after the first.

Paktia Province:  ANA troops killed 19 people, they claim they were all kamikaze bombers.

Paktika Province:  In Orgun District, a kamikaze bomber blew up his massive car bomb, killing 89 people and wounding at least 110!   Mujahideen say they had nothing to do with it, suggesting it was a government False Flag op.

The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reveals even more waste of U.S. tax dollars.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spent $1.57-billion constructing buildings for the ANA.  Many are not being used because they’ve been declared fire traps, because of the flammable foam insulation used.  Two buildings have already burned to the ground.  It will cost U.S. taxpayers $60-million to fix!  The Department of Defense is spending billions giving the ANA four large C-130 transport aircraft.  Two have already been delivered, but SIGAR determined they are not being used, so why give them two more?

The Army National Guard’s 1103rd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (Alabama U.S.A.) returned from Afghanistan.

In the U.S. state of Maryland, a member of the Air National Guard, who served twice in Afghanistan, was found dead by Aberdeen Proving Grounds police.  He had been missing for several days.  Supposedly he had gone fishing, but his boat turned up abandoned in the Chesapeake Bay.

Business/Economics

Sears & Kmart closing update, 24 July 2014: Rent still being paid on abandoned properties! Sears security cams used to post pics of women’s boobs! City officials want to kill profit making Kmart store, to build a road!

First there were six, soon they’ll be none!  The last Kmart in Brevard County, Florida, shutting down in September.

Sears surprises Colorado with unexpected shutdown.  Plans were to replace the Fort Collins Sears store and Auto Center with a smaller operation, but that plan has been killed as well.   The fiasco involves Alberta Development Partners, who will be getting $53-million USD in local tax money once it leases out 50% of tenant space in the rebuilt Foothills Mall.  The property developer/speculator admits the economy is so bad they can’t get the required 50% of available space leased out (as of April they were at 17%), so they want the tax money now.

A small Kmart in Madisonville, Kentucky, shutting down in October.  Many local yokels bemoaning the fact that Walmart is now the only store left in town!

It’s been revealed that the Banning, California, Kmart did not shutdown due to expired lease.  In fact, Sears Holdings is still paying rent for the property, and with 10 five year lease options Sears Holdings remains technically in charge of the property until 2065!  Banning city officials say the situation is making it almost impossible to find a new tenant for the property.

The city of Minneapolis wants to shutdown a successful 30 years old Kmart store.  Sears Holdings wants it kept open because it makes huge profits.  The city wants to tear down the store to make way for a new road (they claim they’ll be re-opening an old road that existed before the Kmart was built)!  City officials are pushing the New York based property owner to kick out Kmart.  There are other retail operations on the successful property that could be shutdown as well.

And now for something completely different:  A teenaged loss prevention employee, at a Sears store, was fired for using in-store security cams to capture zoomed in pics of women breastfeeding their infants, then posting them to his now deleted Twitter account.  Seems he had a lot of time on his hands keeping that Sears store safe.

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.

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), recently revealed Fort Collins Sears (67 jobs lost).

Connecticut: Waterbury Big Kmart.

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), recently revealed Palm Bay Kmart.

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). No official announcement, but it’s painfully obvious the Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down. Or, maybe it’s preps for Shop within a Shop, or one of those domestic spy data storage centers? On 07 November 2013, GGP sold off the Pine Ridge Mall for a paltry $9 million USD. 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, recently revealed 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), recently revealed 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).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

Nebraska: Grand Island Kmart (55 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).

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). 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).

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 Kmart (jobs lost unknown, but the store was advertising for new hires!), Lower Pottsgrove Kmart (65 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).

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).

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

Exceptional Failed State: I’ve been warning, revised data shows there ain’t no U.S. Housing Market recovery! Welcome to the Death Spiral!

24 July 2014 (10:46 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Ramadan 1435/02 Mordad 1393/28 Xin-Wei 4712

If you’ve been following my U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings reports you’d have noticed that since 2013 I’ve been warning of a coming housing market crash, based on the fact that the Too Big to Jail bank/mortgage industry has been laying off thousands of their employees due to “declining mortgage applications”.

That can only mean declining home sales, and today’s newly released revised data proves it!  New homes sales are down, as is the median price for a new home, contrary to what all those main streamer news media ‘experts’ have been reporting.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has revised economic data for the first six months of 2014.  Month to month new home sales in January were revised to a plus 3.4%,  February was a minus 5.5%, March a minus 5.1%, April plus 3.7%, May plus 8.3%.

The month of June is still an estimate that will be revised in August, but at this point shows a minus 8.1% (when you compare to June 2013 it’s a minus 11.5%!).  The way things are going don’t be surprised if the June data is revised downward.

The net result is declining new home sales for the first half of 2014.  The biggest drop in sales was in the north eastern U.S.; a 20% crash just for June!  To make things worse, the supply of new homes for sale went up from the first six months of last year!

The biggest news is the drastic revision for May.  Originally it was ‘estimated’ that 504-thousand new homes were sold in May.  Turns out the actual number is 442-thousand.

June sales of existing homes went up only 2.6% (remember this is an ‘estimate’ to be revised with more hard-n-fast data, for August release), however prices for existing homes barely went up because the supply of available existing homes for sale hit a two high.  Basically there’s more supply than demand.

While the Too Big to Jail banks blame their mortgage industry job layoffs on crashing home loan demand, the Commerce Department blames crashing home sales on the Too Big to Jail banks making it harder for people to get home loans!  This is what’s called a vicious downward spiral, aka Death Spiral.

By the way, anybody who thinks the housing market has returned to pre-‘recession’ levels, think again.  In 2005 new home sales peaked at a monthly rate of nearly 1.4-million!  By 2010 new home sales were around 300-thousand per month.  Compare that to this June’s 406-thousand and then ask your exalted leaders “What economic recovery?”

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