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Germany joins China to destroy U.S. dollar! Germany on witch hunt for U.S. spies! Germans demand alliance with Russia!

13 July 2014 (01:01 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Ramadan 1435/22 Tir 1393/17 Xin-Wei 4712

“China-Germany relations are at their best in history, strongly underpinned by the pragmatic cooperation between the two economic heavyweights.”-Xinhua News Agency

China has surpassed the United States as being the number three trading partner with Germany.  The number one position is held by other members of the European Union.  The number two trade partner with Germany is the entire Asian region.  The United States is now competing with the African continent and Australia for fourth place.

Germany, the largest economic power in the European Union, is now making even bigger business deals with China.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has overseen the signing of a $400-million USD deal between Airbus and China.

Lufthansa is joining with Air China.

Volkswagen reports huge gains in the Chinese automobile market, a 6% increase compared to the same time last year.  VW will spend $2.72-billion on building two new factories in China.   It has become obvious that Chinese car buyers prefer German designed cars.  VW’s Chinese partners are putting up $24.7-billion to help expand the German carmaker’s presence in China.

German government officials indicated more arrests of U.S. spies could take place.

A survey by TNS Global shows that 69% of Germans no longer  trust the United States, 57% want the U.S. occupiers (that’s right, when the Cold War ended in 1991 the Soviets left, but the U.S. remains) to get out and 40% want more interaction with Russia!

BRITISH EMPIRE …….ACCELERATING DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S. DOLLAR!

U.S.

U.S. Civil War Chicago, 07-11 July 2014: Christian leaders calling for Martial Law! Increase in women being killed!

Incomplete list:

5200 block of West Quincy Street: Near the Friendship Baptist Church, a 32 years old man (who owned several convenience stores and had a large family) was shot and killed.  Another man shot in the arm, but refused medical treatment and refused to cooperate with police.  A 30 years old woman shot multiple times and wounded.  She refused to cooperate with cops as well.  A 41 years old man shot and wounded, he also refused to cooperate with cops.

2200 block of West 69th Street: 19 years old woman shot and killed by man on a bicycle.

10900 block of South Throop Street: 44 years old woman shot and killed by a drive by shooter, in front of her 11 years old daughter.

Dan Ryan Expressway: 24 years old woman shot and killed.  She was pregnant and a mother of five.  Her brother was shot and killed last year, in the same area.

900 block of North Hamlin Avenue: 23 years old man shot and killed while he was riding his bicycle.  Witnesses say the shooter was inside a van.

9200 block of South Eggleston Avenue: Two boys shot by somebody in a white minivan.  The 15 years old was wounded, the 17 years old boy was killed.  This shooting sounds very similar to one that took place the prior week.

4900 block of North Lamon Avenue: A 26 years old man and a 20 years old woman shot and wounded.

9200 block of South Eggleston Avenue: A man and a 16 years old boy shot and wounded by somebody in a sedan.

6100 block of South Throop Street: 16 years old girl and 21 years old man shot and wounded by shooters in a van.

4400 block of West Gladys Avenue: 29 years old man shot in the foot by an unknown person who walked up to him.

800 block of East 74th Street: 22 years old man shot and wounded in the leg by drive by shooter.

300 block of West 57th Street: Two men shot and wounded while playing basketball.

3800 block of West 67th Place: 16 years old boy shot and wounded by somebody in a sedan.  Police don’t care because the victim is a gangbanger.

13200 block of South Forrestville Avenue: A man survived being shot multiple times.

East 89th Street and Stony Island Avenue: A 19 years old man was forced to crash his car by a pursuing car.  He was then shot and wounded.

900 block of East 83rd Street: 18 years old woman shot in the head, now in serious condition.

6800 block of South Ashland Avenue: 19 years old man shot in the arm by a drive by shooter.

Division and Rockwell streets: 31 years old man shot and wounded in the leg.

Rockwell and Evergreen streets: 38 years old man shot in the leg as he stood in his front yard.  He walked himself to a hospital.

100 block of West 104th Place:  Two men shot.  One wounded in the back the other in the arm.

10000 block of South Avenue M: Two teenaged boys shot and wounded by drive by shooter.  One boy is in critical condition.

Austin and Fullerton avenues:  Three people shot and wounded. Two men and a 15 years old boy.

7000 block of South Damen Avenue: 15 years old boy shot and wounded by somebody who approached him while he was out walking.

900 block of South Springfield Avenue: 22 years old man critically wounded, no other details.

2800 block of West Pershing Road: Two men shot multiple times by a drive by shooter.

11500 block of South Prairie Avenue: 23 years old man shot in the foot.  Police say they’ve arrested two suspects.

1000 block of West 89th Street: 19 years old man shot and wounded in the butt, by a drive by shooter.

Anti-constitution Christian leaders (like Jesse Jackson) are demanding the federal government move in a declare martial law!

Once again, shooting victims were not armed. You would think that if this was gang violence there would be gun battles, but until now there were no reports of gun battles. It’s as if the shooters are deliberately targeting unarmed people.

Police continue to insist most of the gun violence is caused by gang bangers, but have made few arrests.  New anti-gun laws would not stop the shootings, because most guns used by gang bangers are already illegal!

“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

U.S. Civil War Chicago, 05-06 July 2014

Business/Economics, U.S.

Fracking blamed for record 5000% increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma, surpassing quake prone California!

13 July 2014 (23:22 UTC-07 Tango 12 July 2014)/16 Ramadan 1435/22 Tir 1393/17 Xin-Wei 4712

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports Oklahoma has now surpassed California for number of earthquakes so far this year.  On Saturday four more quakes struck, in the past week the USGS recored 26 quakes, in the past month 106.

There’s been more than a 5-thousand percent increase in quakes since oil and natural gas fracking began just over five years ago!

Back in June Oklahoma was in second place for earthquakes, behind California, now it’s the top spot for tremors.  According to Oklahoma Geological Survey 80% of the state is within nine miles of a fracking (injection) well.  The Oklahoma Corporation Commission says there are 4500 active disposal wells.

Despite the fact that the USGS has repeatedly linked fracking to increased earthquakes, most Oklahomans blow it off saying it’s “speculation”.  1 in 6 Oklahomans work for the oil industry.

Proof Fracking uses radioactive material!

International

World War 3 Afghanistan, 05 – 08 July 2014: Secret “parallel government” revealed? Proof of civil war with increase in cops killing cops! U.S. taxpayers paying for Afghan fruit sales to Russia! Philippines orders migrant workers to stop working for human trafficking U.S. contractors!

Badakhshan Province: In Jurm District, the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) claims they assassinated 14 members of a “shadow government”.  The NDS says a Pakistani and a Tajik were among those running the shadow government.

Balkh Province: The governor of Balkh, General Atta Mohammad Noor, said the sham of the recent ‘successful’ elections (as declared by the Obama regime) reveals there is a “parallel government” at work in Afghanistan.  U.S. Secretary of failed State, John Kerry, denied the accusation and went even further by warning Afghan leaders not to try anything foolish, like a military coup (never mind the fact that the Obama regime supported the military coup in Egypt and Thailand).

Helmand Province: Frustrated government officials, who’ve been getting their asses kicked by Mujahideen, are now blaming the successful Mujahideen offensive on Pakistan and Iran!  However, NDS boss, Rahmatulllah Nabil, presented no evidence to Afghan news media when he made his claim.  In Lashkargah City, days after the NDS made their claims against Pakistan and Iran, the NDS assassinated a Afghan Mujahideen leader.

Herat Province: In Farsi District, the district police chief was assassinated with a remote detonated bomb. Four other cops were killed as well.   Near the Herat airport, three Mujahideen ambushed a convoy of Afghan National Army troops.  Three ANA troops wounded.  In Injil District, a Kamikaze bomber shot at an ANA bus causing it to crash.  He then ran onto the bus and blew himself up.  Mujahideen claim 18 U.S.-NATO trained ANA troops were killed or wounded.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, The former Independent Election Commission boss, Ziaulhaq Amarkhil, stated that the ‘evidence’ of election fraud provided by Obama regime puppet Abdullah Abdullah is fake.  Recently Abdullah demanded Amarkhil resign, which he did.  But now, even with Amarkhil’s resignation Abdullah says he still will not recognize the results of the runoff election, because it shows his opponent won.  Abdullah is so arrogant that he even declared himself the new president of Afghanistan and ordered his supporters to tear down pictures of Hamid Karzai!  Also, when the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission held a public forum on the supposed election fraud, Abdullah refused to attend.  A government vehicle blew up, killing the driver.  Police are blaming it on the recent conversion of government vehicles to run on LPG (called propane in the United States).  They suspect the new high pressure tank was not installed correctly and ruptured.   The Afghan Interior Ministry reports hundreds of people killed and hundreds wounded by ongoing battles all across Afghanistan, since 05 July.

Kandahar Province: In Maiwand District, a motorcycle bomb exploded killing one ANA soldier, and wounding one cop and three civilians.  Provincial officials report their provincial cops got in to a gun battle with cops from Nangarhar Province.  Three police killed, one wounded.

Kunduz Province: In Aliabad District, during heavy fighting between Mujahideen and government forces a mortar round landed on a house, killing three children and wounding eight family members.  Of course government forces blame Mujahideen.

Nimroz Province: NDS officials admit they kidnapped two men, whom they accuse of being terrorist masterminds along with five other men.

Nuristan Province: NDS officials admit they kidnapped a man they accuse of being terrorist mastermind.

Parwan Province:  In Bagram District, Charikar City, the Czech Republic revealed that four of their NATO soldiers were killed by a kamikaze bomber on a bicycle.  Two Afghan cops and 10 civilians were also killed.  Eight people wounded.

Uruzgan Province:  In Chora District, provincial police tried to draft villagers in the Kunj area to patrol the local highway.  The villagers refused.  The cops then made an example of one of the villagers by killing him.

Zabul Province: Police are using the excuse of stopping suicide bombers to explain why they shot and killed three men in one truck on the Kabul-Kandahar highway.

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration will reimpose a ban on U.S. military contractors sending Filipinos to work in Afghanistan.  The ban was first imposed in 2002, but lifted last year.   The Filipino Department of Foreign Affairs has declared Afghanistan to be at crisis alert level 3 and asked all Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) to return home.    Despite the 2002-12 ban on OFWs working in Afghanistan it was revealed that U.S. military contractors managed to get more than 8-thousand Filipinos into Afghanistan (which suggests human trafficking ops by U.S. contractors)!

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) paid for the growing, picking and shipping of 22.5 metric tons of  Afghan pomegranates to Russia.  It’s a U.S. taxpayer funded operation called Commercial Horticulture and Marketing Program (CHAMP).   U.S. taxpayers have also helped Afghan farmers ship grapes to India and United Arab Emirates, the most recent shipment weighed in at 170 metric tons!  The U.S. taxpayer funded program paid for a cold storage process to allow Afghan growers to ship their agricultural produce outside their country.   USAID estimates that the U.S. taxes have helped Afghan farmers make $15-million USD from exporting their fruit.

International

More Proof God is Evil: Israel tells civilians to run to safe place, then bombs the safe place!

12 July 2014 (12:21 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Ramadan 1435/21 Tir 1393/16 Xin-Wei 4712

A live reporter for a Middle Eastern news source (reporting from  Gaza Strip) stated that recently Israeli Defense Forces warned Palestinian residents of an apartment complex to flee to a  ‘safe pace’ as their apartment building was going to be bombed.

The reporter stated that once the residents arrived at the safe place the IDF actually dropped bombs near the very safe place they told the Palestinians to run to.

FBI insinuates False Flag op by Zionists!

U.S.

U.S. Civil War, Indianapolis 04 – 11 July 2014: Afghan heroin driving insurgency! Man kills cop in vengeance attack! Martial law sneaking in!

“You don’t know what he been through with IMPD [Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department], we do! He wasn’t a bad person. His father was killed by IMPD . That is enough to hurt a person and scar him for life! I imagine he figured they were going to try and kill him. I mean cause look what they did to his father!”-Pam Moornan, grandmother of cop killer

34th Street and Forest Manor Avenue: In what looks like a vengeance attack on cops, a 25 years old man blasted a cop to death.   Other responding cops then blasted the shooter, critically wounding him.  The shooter’s grandmother stated to news media that her son has been pissed off ever since his father died while in police custody, and yes the cop killed was one of the cops involved in the detention and death of the shooter’s father.  An investigation ruled the death was not the fault of the cops.  The family of the shooter has a history of run-ins with police.  A police report said the weapon used by the shooter was bought by his mother (the widow of the man who died in police custody).  City officials and news media have gone out of their way to gush condolences on the family of the dead cop, but nobody did that for the family that lost their father in police custody!  Police are barring the shooter’s family from visiting him in the hospital. There is a saying that police state-ists never seem to understand, but is so true: No justice, no peace!

3600 block of North Brentwood Avenue: Police reported finding two people shot.  No other details given.

56th Street between Moeller and Georgetown Roads:  One man drove after another man in his car, and shot and wounded him.  Police  suspect the two men know each other, but admitted they have little information on who the shooter is (no arrest made).  Witnesses came to the rescue of the victim.

Broad Ripple Village:  On the street in the popular bar area, one woman and six men were shot and wounded.  Police arrested a man, but it turns out he was not the shooter and they let him go.   Police admitted they “…don’t know who the shooter was, yet.”   Witnesses say two men bumped into each other and that’s what started the shooting.  As a result paranoid city officials have decided to close the streets (College to Guilford avenues) to vehicle traffic beginning at zero hour (midnight) until 04:00 hours, for the rest of summer.

There is an Afghanistan/Obama-Bush regime connection to all this (the same as in Chicago): Heroin.

Back in June, Indiana news media reported a surge in heroin use.  Drug Free Marion County has identified Indianapolis as the state’s heroin center, with the Afghan heroin being brought in by Mexican drug lords.  A 2013 college survey revealed that heroin use by Indiana college students is three times the national average!

Most heroin users in Indiana report starting at age 12.   The number one reason given by Indianans for doing heroin; it makes them feel good.  Indiana State Police report massive abuse of opioid based legal prescription drugs as well.

That’s a sad statement on the American Dream; it sucks so bad that people are turning to drugs to make them fell good about the reality of the American Nightmare!

How bad has it gotten in Indianapolis?  “I don’t think there’s one investigation where we don’t arrest traffickers, where we don’t recover firearms. We didn’t see that five years ago. You see it now.”-Jack Riley, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 08 – 10 April 2014: “No more ventures for me!” “I have no role, no power, no control, no nothing!”

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns.

California: In Brawley, Packers Sanitation Service shutdown, killing 111 jobs!  Coachella Valley Unified School Board killing 96 jobs this year.  Employees and taxpayers are confused because the district was able to give students 18-thousand iPads last year.  On top of that the state government is supposed to be giving schools extra money for next school year.  Local news reports said district officials made the layoff decision without public discussion.   In Long Beach, taxsucker Boeing announced it will shutdown C-17 production three months earlier than previously planned.  In Fremont, Phoenix Big Cinemas laid off eight employees.

Connecticut: After 30 years, God refuses to stop Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center from drastically reducing the staff in their pediatric unit.  Since October last year the hospital has been eliminating positions, by the end of June there will be only two support staffers on hand.  It’s blamed on reduced customers as Obama Care insurance pushes people away from hospitals.

Georgia: In Newnan, Mexico based Bimbo Bakeries shutdown their  Colonial Bread Store.  The wimp ass company officials delegated the authority of making the announcement to the store’s cashier!

Illinois: In Champaign, after less than two years Prairie Fire restaurant shutdown without notice: “If we had days like Sunday every day, we’d still be open.  But you will not be a success if your biggest day of the week is Sunday……No more ventures for me!”-Dave Block, burned out restaurant investor

Indiana: In Terre Haute, maker of aluminum products Novelis laid off at least 11 employees.  It’s blamed on declining sales.

Kansas: In Shawnee, marketing company Harte Hanks laid off 93 employees.  It’s blamed on declining sales.

Kentucky: In Louisville, after only 18 months the relish restaurant shutdown without notice.  The owner blamed the small fire safety dictated maximum seating capacity, saying serving a maximum of 53 people at a time wasn’t enough to pay even for overhead.

Massachusetts:  Cenveo Envelope Group shutting down their Westfield factory in June, more than 200 jobs lost!  Boston based law firm Edwards Wildman Palmer laid off 52 employees: “Advances in technology have resulted in a need for fewer support staff and related services in law firms. In addition, we are positioning our firm to reflect the industries and markets we serve.” 

Michigan: One of the largest charity telemarketers, Associated Community Services, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The operation agreed to pay a $45-thousand USD settlement after being accused of tricking at least 430 old people out of their money.  The company also owes $15.5-million in federal taxes and $1.1-million in state taxes!  Here’s a recent complaint about ACS: “This company calls on a regular basis asking for a pledge on behalf of the Foundation for American Veterans, as well as several other charitable organizations. I recently discovered that only about 30% of the money they receive goes to the organization. I am notifying them that I will no longer donate to any organization they ‘are calling on behalf of ‘, and to remove my name and phone number from their list.”–Eleanor Riley

Minnesota:  Pharmaceuticals and medical device supplier Cardinal Health killing more healthcare jobs.  This time 68 people will become unemployed by the end of the year.  The company is trying to save money for its planned $320-million takeover of AccessClosure.

Mississippi: In McComb, God refused to stop the shutdown of Saint Alphonsus Catholic School, 22 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on a the steady disappearance of students over the past seven years.

Nevada: Reno Fire Department laid off 35 employees.  It’s blamed on the loss of FEMA funding.  On top of that, Reno is ‘browning out’ three fire stations.  This means all personnel and equipment have been removed.  The Southern Nevada Water Authority killed more than 100 jobs!  The agency says it’s short $14-million!

New York: In Niskayuna, Barnes & Noble shutting down in June.  Rome City School District warned 60 teachers of layoff, and is asking another 40 to retire early.  Lockport City School District laid off five employees and eliminated six vacant positions.   District officials warned the job cuts could have been worse.  Vice President David M. Nemi admitted that balancing the budget is “…becoming more and more difficult every year.”  In Brewster, Stanley Black & Decker laying off 35 employees in July.  The tool company is consolidating operations.  In Rouses Point, legal drugs pusher Pfizer said they are shutting down in December, and will begin layoffs in July.

North Carolina: Charlotte based Too Big to Jail Bank of America announced it will kill another 3-thousand jobs, this time mostly tech jobs in other countries.  BoA has killed 46-thousand jobs since the end of 2010!  And Charlotte based Family Dollar announced they will shutdown 370 to 400 stores across the country!  It’s blamed on crashing sales.

Ohio: In North Olmsted, after 26 years Royal Garden Records shutdown.

Pennsylvania:  All three Lehigh Valley Racquet and Fitness Clubs shutdown without notice.  The former founder, John F. Brinson, blamed the Too Big to Jail Banks that took over when the company went bankrupt saying  “I’ve been out of it for two years. I’ve had nothing to do with this…I have no role, no power, no control, no nothing …There is no way I would have done this!”   State College, after 74 years Mr. Charles Shop shutting down in May.  The owner blames the “Sandusky problem”.  In Philadelphia, after 60 years Chestnut Hill Bootery shutdown: “I don’t want to close, but my accountant says I have to make a profit.”-Bruce Freedman

South Carolina: In Blythewood, Amcor Rigid Plastics laid off 40 employees.  It’s blamed on the loss of their main customer.

Texas:  In Houston, after 15 years Dirk’s Coffee (aka Diedrich Coffee) shutdown without notice.

Wisconsin: In Waunakee, Techline USA shutting down in June, 93 jobs lost: “…the company is no longer economically viable in light of industrywide economic conditions over the last decade…”-John Lasky, GM

05 – 07 April 2014: More U.S. job destruction by British empire! 

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

More Proof God is Evil: Israel’s continuation war on Palestinian Muslims, Christians & Jews! FBI insinuates False Flag op by Zionists!

10 July 2014 (14:21 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Ramadan 1435/19 Tir 1393/14 Xin-Wei 4712

Three Israeli teens killed, and the Israeli government right away blamed Hamas, without any evidence.  Israeli Zionists said Hamas was going to use the teens as bargaining chips to free Palestinians in Israeli prisons, but the teens were killed trying to escape (again without any evidence to back up that claim).

Now the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that’s not the case, in fact the FBI insinuates that the killing of the three Israeli teens was the plan from the start, a plan that was meant to rile the Israeli population to want full-on war with the Palestinians Muslims, Christians and Jews trapped in the World’s largest concentration camps known as West Bank and Gaza Strip.

I saw a live TV interview with an IDF officer who said they know who killed the Israeli teens, yet he failed to explain why no arrests had been made.

Does anybody wonder why three Israeli teens were kidnapped, with no demands for ransom or prisoner release, and then their bodies are suddenly found in extremely shallow graves in West Bank, and from the beginning Israeli officials blamed Hamas (by the way Hamas’s AO is in Gaza Strip, not West Bank)?

In response to the deaths of the three teens (one of which had U.S. citizenship) Israeli vigilantes kidnapped two Palestinian boys (one of which is a U.S. citizen) and brutally beat one and burned alive another.   An autopsy conducted by Israeli doctors in Tel Aviv showed the Palestinian boy who died was alive long enough to inhale the burning fuel that was poured over him.

Six Israelis were arrested, but then, just as quick, three of them were ordered by Israeli court to be released.  But wait, there’s more to this False Flag op!  Turns out the three so called vigilantes that were released are actually Israeli cops, the cops seen in the video beating the U.S.-Palestinian boy who survived.

This whole thing has played right into the Zionist plan to justify an all out final battle to erase the Palestinian Muslims, Christians and Jews forced to live in Gaza Strip.  It comes after Hamas and Palestinian Authority (whose AO is in West Bank) left Obama regime peace talks and declared they were uniting.

Despite new calls for peace talks by several countries and the United Nations, Israeli leader Benyamin Nut-Job-Yahoo has stated publicly that peace talks with Hamas is “not even on the agenda”.  Active duty IDF are being moved en masse to Gaza Strip.  40-thousand IDF reserves are being mobilized.

There are reports that Israelis living near Gaza Strip were watching and celebrating the Israeli airstrikes from their rooftops, that is until Palestinians began launching their ineffective rockets.

Muslims, Christians and Jews claim to worship the same god.  That has to be one screwed up evil god.

It’s a god who prevents the Palestinians from rising up and launching massive human wave attacks against the zionists, despite the fact they outnumber the zionist.  It seems the Palestinians would rather sit in the world’s largest concentration camps and be slowly killed off by the zionists.  Think about it, your oppressors are going to kill you eventually so why not go on the offensive and try to take as many of them down as you can before you die?

It’s a god that’s worshiped by western ‘christians’ who support Israel, even though Israel is slow deathing Palestinian Christians in West Bank and Gaza Strip.

It’s a god (whom can’t be named) worshiped by Jews around the World who support Israel, but don’t give a shit about the Palestinian Jews forced into Gaza Strip and West Bank by a zionist government.  The same zionist government that throws black Jewish refugees from the horn of Africa into prisons, then deports them back to the countries they were trying to escape.

It’s a god worshipped by Muslims around the World, yet who refuse to help their fellow Palestinian Muslims.  This is a direct violation of Quranic commandments!  Even the terror groups al Qaeda and ISIS-ISIL, who claim to be true followers of the Quran, refuse to help Palestinian Muslims!

JEWS CAUGHT IN SCAPEGOAT BLOOD SACRIFICE!

GOD IS PURE EVIL!!!

Business/Economics

Sears & Kmart closing update 10 July 2014: Occupied Kmart store quietly sold off, at a loss!

Michigan losing a Kmart in October, 155 jobs lost!

Minnesota losing another Kmart.

Georgia losing a 39 years old Kmart.

Oklahoma losing a Kmart, and the arrogant and ignorant Sand Springs chamber of commerce blames the local residents for not spending their rarified cash at the Kmart!

In Hesperia, California, the Kmart building just sold for $5.25-million in cash.  According to the real estate agency that made the sale, a private California based Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) bought the former Kmart “…at substantially below replacement cost…”, in other words it was sold at a loss.   There are no reports about what is going to happen to the Kmart store.

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), Laguna Hills Mall Sears, San Diego Mid-City Kmart (73 jobs lost), Hemet Kmart (77 jobs lost), Oakland Sears (jobs lost unknown), recently revealed 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).

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, recently revealed 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).

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.

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), recently revealed Southgate Kmart (155 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), recently revealed Winona Kmart (67 jobs lost).

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

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

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). 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), recently revealed 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).

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)

U.S.

U.S. Civil War Chicago, 05-06 July 2014: Police behind skyrocketing bloodshed? Unarmed boy shot 20 times by cops as he hid under a car!

“Going into the holiday weekend we had a plan, including putting hundreds more officers on the streets and what were the results? The results were a lot of shootings, a lot of murders, unfortunately.”-Garry McCarthy, Police Superintendent

Despite the panic over the civil war in Chicago, police spokesman Martin Maloney admitted murders are actually down: “…to date we have had the fewest murders since 1963….”

Incomplete list:

8700 block of South Sangamon Avenue: 16 years old boy shot 20 times by NAZI-land cops.  Initially the police reported the boy turned and pointed a gun at them.  The truth is that the boy was hiding under a car, and police blasted him as he tried to follow their orders to get out from under the car: “They shot him over twenty times! They are trying to say he had a gun on him and he didn’t have a gun on him!”-Georgiana Utendahl, mother of victim

63rd Street and Austin Avenue: 30 years old man gut shot in a Walgreens park lot. He died. Police don’t give a shit ’cause they say the victim is a gangbanger.

5200 block of West Lake Street: One man shot and killed, another wounded as they sat in their car.

Montrose Avenue and Malden Street: 20 years old man shot and killed as he sat in his car.

6500 block of South Seeley Avenue: Police found an 18 years old man who had been shot and killed.

West Englewood: A man was shot and wounded by cops, as he left a party.   Police claim the man pointed a gun at them.

Exchange Avenue, Escanaba Avenue, Muskegon Avenue and surrounding areeas: A man and woman shot and wounded as they left a store.  Another man was shot and wounded as he sat on his porch.  Witnesses say men on the street were shooting at each other, then ran into a vacant lot where they continued to blast away.  Police responded to a shots fired report to find spent casings on a porch.  Then police panicked as they heard dozens of gunshots all around the neighborhood.  They issued an “officer in distress” call.  Tactical ground and heli-borne teams surrounded the neighborhood. The ‘copter crew reported being shot at.  No arrests were made.

9600 block of South Avenue L: 26 years old man riding in a car somehow shot in the butt.

5200 block of West Washington Boulevard: 33 years old man shot and wounded in the leg.  Police are angry because he won’t “cooperate” with them, as if he’s the suspect!

700 block of North Lavergne Avenue: A man who got into an argument with people in a van was shot and wounded in the neck and back.

2800 block of South Homan Avenue: 35 years old man in critical condition after being shot multiple times.

1800 block of South Allport Street: 31 years old man shot and wounded in the shoulder by a drive by shooter.

4400 block of South Fairfield Avenue: 17 years old boy shot in the ankle by drive by shooter.

Notice that most of the shooting victims are males.

Once again, most shooting victims were not armed. You would think that if this was gang violence there would be gun battles, but until now there were no reports of gun battles. It’s as if the shooters are deliberately targeting unarmed people.

Police continue to insist most of the gun violence is caused by gang bangers, but have made few arrests, yet police spokesman Martin Maloney says the answer is even more anti-gun laws: “…without better state and federal laws to keep guns off the streets and out of the hands of dangerous criminals, we’ll continue to face an uphill battle.”   Hello Maloney! New anti-gun laws would not stop the shootings, because most guns used by gang bangers are already illegal!

I’d like to point out that in every case where a cop shot somebody, the cops claim to be “fearing for their lives”, even though they are the ones chasing their victims down. Sounds like the cops are a bunch of paranoid psychos to me!

“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 update 30 June – 04 July 2014