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World War 3 Afghanistan, 19 – 21 June 2014: Mujahideen kickin’ ass! Massive weapons issue to civilians, hell about to break loose?

Baghlan Province: In Poli Khomri District, villagers reporting a massive Israeli style raid by government/contractor forces resulting in at least ten of their neighbors being kidnapped.

Balkh Province: The Paktia provincial governor’s own security guards got into a firefight with Balkh police! It happened as his convoy was driving through Balkh Province on its way to Kabul Province.  The Balkh police commander says dozens of people were killed or wounded.  Paktia officials confirmed they lost four guards, three were wounded.  Balkh officials swear the men wearing police uniforms (that started the attack) were impersonators.  In Chaci District, an agent of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) was assassinated.  In Sholgar District, a firefight between Mujahdieen and local cops.  Three cops killed, one Mujahid killed.

Helmand Province: In Nad Ali District, Mujahideen report that one of their kamikaze bombers rammed a NATO convoy, causing massive casualties.   Mujahideen also reported detonating a remote controlled landmine as a U.S.-NATO APC drove over it, but they didn’t give the location.  Mujahideen say six NATO personnel killed or wounded.  NATO/ISAF confirmed that three U.S. Marines assigned to ISAF were killed when the vehicle they were in was hit by a bomb. So far ISAF and the U.S. Department of Defense are not giving out anymore details about how or where it happened.  In Sangin District, Mujahideen say they’ve captured four FOBs (Forward Operating Base, aka outposts).  20 government forces killed or wounded.

Kabul Province: There are social media reports that massive numbers of man portable weapons are being issued by unknown groups to civilians around the country.  The reports say it has to do with the so called ‘successful’ elections (as declared by Obama and the UN).  The Afghan NDS says they cannot confirm the reports.   The runoff election results are not being released and the United Nations is now mediating those ‘succesful’ election results!  If there’s anything you can count on from the Obama regime is that anything Obama says the opposite is the truth!  The Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Defense report hundreds of casualties from battles around the country with Mujahideen, in the past couple of days.  In Kabul City, 5th District, a kamikaze bomber exploded killing at least one person beside himself.  Three people wounded.

Kunar Province: In Nari District, Mujahideen captured a FOB and claim 23 government personnel joined with them, after their U.S.-NATO trained commanders were killed.

Maidan Wardak Province: In Syed Abad District, an Israeli style raid by government/contractor forces resulted in the local religious elder and another person being kidnapped, and three motorcycles being burned.

Nangarhar Province: In Torkahm, a NATO parking lot was blown up by three Mujahideen kamikaze bombers.  At least one civilian killed, dozens of NATO logistics vehicles destroyed.  There are reports that several Afghan border cops were killed.   In Jalalabad City, Mujahideen attacked the NATO airbase.  Eight explosions reported.  Some news reports said the attack was done with artillery rockets.

Parwan Province: Bagram airbase, it’s been revealed that the expensive Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene panels of the arrestor hook system on the runway has been failing.  USAF 455th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron and the 577th Expeditionary Prime Base Engineer Squadron recently completed repairs.  During testing 502 of the 992 hold down bolts for the panels failed, that’s more than a 50% failure rate!  Until the repairs were recently complete the busiest military airbase in Afghanistan was not fully operational.  As soon as the repairs were complete, Mujahideen launched two artillery rockets at the base.  No word on damage.

Sar-e-Pul Province: In Shiram District, reports that Mujahideen booby-trapped a FOB they had captured from government forces.  They left the FOB, making sure their departure was made public.  As expected government forces returned.  The capture of the FOB, and the booby-trap explosions killed or wounded at least 41 government personnel.  Mujahideen claim they captured a dozen weapons with ammo, and several vehicles including an old fashioned horse.

More than 100 militiamen of the National Guard’s 150th Engineer Company (New Jersey & Delaware) returned form Afghanistan.

U.S.

U.S. Civil War: Chicago update 16 – 20 June 2014: Afghan heroin connection? More mystery gunmen & white minivans! Vigilantes attacking the wrong people! Women targeting men? Cop kills neighbor over dirt?

Incomplete list.

10400 block of South Morgan Street: 56 years old man stabbed to death, apparently by his niece.  She’s been charged with murder. The victim was in a car with his neighbor of 30 years, when his niece attacked him.  The neighbor is demanding answers from the ugly bitch: “Someone got murdered in my car and for what?”

Reports say the ugly bitch was bitchy about how her uncle spent his time!!!  This is not the first time a Chicago man was killed by a Chicago woman.

1400 block of South Drake Avenue: 14 years old boy out walking was shot and killed.

2800 block of West 71st Street: 18 years old man shot in the face, chest and legs as he was walking.  He was killed.

400 block of West 15th Place: 38 years old man found shot to death in front of his home.  Apparently nobody witnessed it.

400 block of West 17th Street: 19 years old man shot in the head and killed.

3700 block of South Langley Avenue: 30 years old man, sitting in his car, shot in the head and killed by a man nobody in the area has seen before.  However, NAZI Chicagoland cops claim it was a gang shooting and blew it off!

Three men, and one woman, relaxing in a park were shot and wounded by a man they say they’ve never seen before.   They all took themselves to hospitals.

22 years old man shot multiple times and wounded. He says the shooter was in a white minivan. He is in critical condition.

3300 block of South Leavitt Street: 18 years old man shot in the leg and wounded by a drive by shooter.  A 15 years old boy standing in the same area pulled out a pistol in an attempt to shoot back, but was foiled by the dip shit father of the victim.  The father of the victim came running outside when he heard gunshots, he saw the boy with a gun and thought he was the one who shot his son.  He attacked the 15 years old.  Police confirmed the victim was shot by somebody else because the spent ammo casings did not match the type used by the boy’s gun.

500 block of North Lawler Avenue: 21 years old man shot in the leg and wounded, he drove himself to a hospital.  The shooter was in a white minivan.

5400 block of West Walton Street: 23 years old man standing in an alley grazed in the head.  Police say it was a drive by shooting.

6800 block of South Paulina Street: 17 years old boy shot in the butt and wounded.

9800 block of South Avenue J: 25 years old man shot in the chest, now in critical condition.  Police “suspect” it was a drive by shooting.

800 block of North Leclaire Avenue: 36 years old man was running for his life because somebody with a gun was after him.  He got shot and wounded anyway.

6500 block of North Ashland Avenue: 14 years old boy shot, now in serious condition.  People will only say that bullets started flying.

112th Street and Indiana Avenue: 35 years old man gut shot, he drove himself to a hospital.

7200 block of South Harvard Avenue: 35 years old man driving down the street was stopped by drive by shooter who blasted into his car.  He got shot in the arm and wounded.

500 block of West 81st Street: 16 years old boy shot in the leg and wounded.

118th and La Salle streets: Two men standing on a sidewalk shot and wounded.  They never saw the shooter.

4500 block of North Damen Avenue: 18 years old woman claims to have been raped in a parking garage.  She was treated at a hospital, but police said her claim was “unfounded”.

800 block of Central Avenue: A 22 years old woman claimed she was raped.  A chiropractor turned himself in for the crime, when he learned cops had gotten a warrant for his arrest.

Back in April an off duty cop shot and killed his 86 years old male neighbor, and then shot and wounded the man’s 91 years old wife.  This past week the recording of the cop’s own 911 call was released (thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Chicago Tribune).  After he kills the old man, and shoots the old woman.  After he shoots her you can hear her screaming and he’s telling her to get away from the gun!   The cop claims he came home to find his neighbors attacking his wife with handfuls of dirt and a broom.  But wait there’s more!  Turns out the Chicago police have known for a long time about the cop and his wife conducting their own little war against their aged and fragile neighbors, because chicago police have been recording it on written documents!

But wait there’s more!  There are 911 calls from other people, and they dispute what the evil cop claims.  Relatives of the victims say the whole thing sounds bogus: “I don’t understand how he can be on the phone at the same time as he is shooting my dad. There is no indication of how this all happened. My dad would not just shoot someone over some dirt. He had to have taunted my dad or provoked him.”-victim’s son

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed they recently arrested 59 illegal immigrants (55 men, 4 women) in Chicago, who were wanted for various crimes.  It was part of Operation Cross Check, held throughout the mid-western states.  The illegals are from not just Latin American countries but from European countries as well.

National Public Radio (NPR) revealed that most of the heroin coming from the U.S. controlled Afghanistan runs right through Chicago.  According to their report the Interstate-290 Eisenhower Expressway is also known as the Heroin Highway.  In response there is a new DEA led paramilitary multi-government task force called Chicago Strike Force.  More proof that the illegal drugs industry is nothing more than job security for control freak law enforcers!

Notice that most shooting victims are males.

Once again, most of the shooting victims were not armed. You would think that if this was gang violence there would be gun battles, but there are no 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

Chicago update 14 – 15 June 2014

Business/Economics

U.S. job losses & store closings 12 March 2014: More small business owners quit, saying “It’s not fun anymore!” God continues to kill Christian college jobs! ObamaCare kills another hospital!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Alabama: In Gadsden, after more than 70 years Hicks Family Shoes shutdown.

Arizona: Sunnyside Unified School District eliminated seven full time librarians.  Six librarians now forced to work at two different school libraries.

California: In Berkeley, after 80 years Pacific Steel Castings now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  410 jobs threatened!  In Santa Clara, a leaked company memo revealed that computer chip maker Intel will kill 400 jobs by April!  In Burbank, after 13 years Art Wave art warehouse shutdown.

Connecticut: After only six years Mitchell’s Fish Market shutdown, no reason made public.

Louisiana: In Slidell, Sears shutting down, 77 jobs lost.

Michigan: Lakeland Specialty Hospital Berrien Center shutting down on 01 June 2014!  Hospital officials blamed Obama Care for forcing people out of hospitals and into managed home care.

New Jersey:  After 75 years Calumet Photo chain store now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.  All U.S. stores being shut down, employees given no notice (which is actually typical)!  God refuses to stop the killing of 17 professor positions at the Christian women’s College of Saint Elizabeth.

New York: Spain based hotel intelligence and reputation service company ReviewPro killed 10% of its U.S. jobs, and is trying to get more debt financing.   In Brooklyn, Tufaro Transit laying off 46 school bus employees in June, due to loss of contract.  School Days also warned of 45 school bus employee layoffs, due to loss of contract.

Ohio: Marietta College killed 20 jobs.

Pennsylvania: In Garden, after 20 years Youngsville Home and Garden shutdown.

Virginia: The 3rd largest privately held foodservice company in the U.S. killing jobs. Reinhart Foodservice laying off 49 employees by April.  Company officials refused to explain why.  In Bristol, after ten years Inari Wines shutdown: “It’s been slowing down and slowing down. Sales have been flat.…It’s not fun anymore!”-Paul Brandt, co-owner

Washington:  In Kent, Berry Plastics killed 118 jobs, as they end operations!  48 employees were laid off prior to this announcement.  Berry Plastics has killed hundreds of jobs since it started shutting down operations across the U.S. in 2013.

Wisconsin: Because the wimp ass Air National Guard won’t stand up to the Obama regime, 39 Guard jobs being killed.

11 March 2014: More jobs going to Mexico & China! 

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.: MIT analyst tells PBS “Mass incarcerations” for the purpose of destroying families will continue!

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The exceptional failed city of New York is now paying the families of five falsely convicted people a record $40-million USD!  In 1989 five teenaged boys were tortured into confessing to the crime of rape and murder.   In 2002, the claims of their false confessions by torture were confirmed when the real rapist-killer was found.  A man already in prison, for raping and killing women, confessed to the Central Park murder/rape and DNA evidence proved his confession true.

In an interview with PBS Newshour, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Craig Steven Wilder explained that New York has a long history of police criminality: “…New Yorkers, white and black, had by the 1980s certainly come to fear that the police, and the prosecutors were unable to protect them. In a three-month period in 1984, there was a horrific police brutality case……the vigilante subway shooter, emerged on the scene, and both of those events……captured the extent to which New Yorkers feared both crime and also doubted the capacity of the police and the prosecutors to protect them…..” 

But don’t think this latest multi-million dollar settlement for wrongful imprisonment will change things, Wilder had this warning at the end of the interview: “…..the era of aggressive policing, extensive incarceration periods, et cetera, is not over. Mass incarceration is actually continuing to destroy families and communities.” 

U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: Why are police and civilians turning on ‘Man’s Best Friend’? Police shoot dog they already killed? Military member’s dogs being targeted?

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Incomplete list of dog killings (mainly by cops) from 30 May – 20 June 2014.

“You could hear the dog screaming and crying in pain. I did see one officer that had been extremely aggressive that did have his knee into her chest that was tightening the noose. It seemed they were doing it relentlessly and unnecessarily.”-Sandy Fleischer, neighbor who reported a loose Shar-Pei to police, only to witness the a-hole cops summarily torture and execute the dog (see more below)

Studies involving the University of Illinois, non-profits including the National Canine Research Council, and the U.S. Department of Justice say local cops killing dogs is not only rampant, but in the majority of cases not justified!  “There will be times when police need to defend themselves because they are being attacked by a dog and don’t have a choice, but that is the minority of cases.”-Brian Kilcommons, dog trainer

Indiana: It is now ‘legal’ for South Bend Common Council cops to openly kill certain breeds of dogs.  And just one week after those restrictions were lifted cops have done just that.  A pit bull was shot and killed, cops claim it bit their pistol!  Police claim the dog was terrorizing the neighborhood after it escaped from its owner’s yard.  They claim a family had locked themselves in their minivan out of fear of the dog.  Cops also revealed they were whacking the dog with a rake in an attempt to make it back off and heard it into the yard they thought it belonged in!  Dip shits, that’s a sure way to really piss off a dog!  It also turns out that the residence where police thought the dog belonged to might be incorrect, which would explain why the cop’s attempts to put the dog into that yard were being met with growing anger from the dog!  In other words, this is a clear case where the cops created and escalated the situation!

Louisiana: A cop killed a dog by shooting it between the eyes, and now that cop has been indicted by a grand jury. Witnesses say the dog did nothing to justify its execution.  The dog belonged to some hobos traveling the country.  The cop handcuffed the hobos and started rummaging through their possessions.  Court records say he shot the dog because it nipped at his foot.

Maryland: A Baltimore policeman is facing felony animal cruelty charges after stabbing a restrained Shar-Pei in the throat, killing it.   He and other officers had just restrained the dog with a dog control pole.   There is now suspicion that Baltimore police are actively ‘culling’ stray dogs and cats, based on the statements of the policemen involved who said they thought the dog they had just caught was a stray (in other words that was their excuse for killing the dog).  However, the owner showed up looking for it.

The owner is also claiming the police bold faced lied to her about the circumstances surrounding her dog’s death, not ever mentioning that a cop slit its throat after it had been restrained.  Court documents show the a-hole cop said “I’m going to (expletive) gut this thing!”  The a-hole cop’s own co-cops admitted the dog was no threat!   It also turns out that a-hole cops lied to their own boss about the incident, and now a second cop has been suspended for holding the Shar-Pei down while the other cop slit its throat!  The dog’s owner says the cops are the true criminals: “This is so criminal what’s happened! It makes me sick.”-Sarah Gossard

But wait, there’s more from the sick NAZI cop city of Baltimore!  Three months prior to this incident another a-hole cop choked his girlfriend’s cute little puppy to death then took a pic of it and sent it to her cell phone!

New York: An Avoca man is charged with the felony killing of his own pit bull by choking it.  He is undergoing a psych evaluation.

Ohio: Early this week, police arrived too late to save a dog seen hanging by its neck in a cage in a residential backyard. The barking of another dog in the same cage alerted neighbors. Investigators say there was no food or water for the dogs.  Animal control officers are seeking a warrant to enter the home because they could hear the sounds of puppies.  But wait, there’s more! According to the Montgomery County Animal Resource Center, the people who live at the residence have a long track record of their dogs dying!

So why haven’t the cops done anything to stop these sick people? Especially since (also this week) the same Montgomery County Animal Resource Center was called to deal with an emaciated dog, living in a room that “….was covered in three inches of feces.” In this case the dog’s owner was charged with animal cruelty. The house is so bad it might be condemned.

In Cincinnati, dip shit cops killed a pit bull after they aggravated the crap out it by corralling it and tazing it, twice!  In a no shit Sherlock moment, after the second tazing the dog lunged at the cops.  To add insult to injury the dog’s owner is being fined for not locking up the dog.

In Bond Hill, Cincinnati cops killed what they think is a stray pit bull.  NAZIcops admit the dog did not attack anybody, but they killed it for ‘menacing’ a man who was mowing his lawn!  You know, I think most cops are ‘menacing’, don’t you?

But wait, there’s more in NAZI cop land Ohio!  In Toledo, K-9 cops are undergoing new training because their police dogs are attacking civilians!  The most recent case involves a nine years old boy bitten by a police dog.   So you see, if it’s a police dog then its OK for it to attack civilians.  But if it’s your dog,  the cop can decide that your dog is ‘vicious’ or ‘menacing’, without any evidence, and can kill it.

Oklahoma: In Tulsa cops killed two dogs.  They claim the dogs were “terrorizing” the neighborhood, saying “a man had been bitten”.  However, some residents call BS on that: “I’ve never seen the dog attack anybody. He was in my yard.”-Peggy Farrell

In fact, local Fox23 TV news checked with Tulsa Animal Control and found that only two complaints of barking dogs had ever been filed for that neighborhood!  No complaints of dog bites or dog terrorists!

But wait, there’s more! Tulsa cops also killed a dog at an apartment complex, in front of children.  Police claim they got a vicious dog call, but the apartment residents call BS on that: “My kids were playing with it earlier in the day. My kids were outside when it was outside and it never once tried to attack any of my kids.”-Tawny Glenn, witnessed shooting with her kids

“They [children] hear three to four shots and they bust out crying, wondering why it’s happening.”-Daniel Bass, witness

Here’s how the NAZI cops justified it: “The dog might have been a friendly dog at one point but again, we were called to that location for a vicious dog.”-Leland Ashley, Tulsa Police

But wait, there’s more from the dog killing state of Oklahoma!  At the end of May, a Logan County Sheriff’s deputy burst into the yard of a home, claiming he was there because of reports of “screaming”.   The woman warned the cop that there were dogs on the property and to hold on.  The a-hole cop came onto the property anyway, no warrant!  A dog approached the cop sniffing him, the NAZI cop pissed himself and pulled his pistol, pointing it at the dog, the woman and two children present, then he shot and killed the dog: “I said, ‘Don’t come in,’ and he just went ahead and went in. It just happened so fast that I couldn’t do nothing, I couldn’t prevent it. The only thing I could do was put my nephews behind my back.”-Cindy Wickham

Here’s what a witness said: “I could see him waving the gun back and forth at her and the dog.”-Kaci Malicoat, neighbor

Wickham said the deputy exclaimed “The motherfucking dog bit me!”, but she says that’s a lie.

Oregon: In the All-America City Award winning Independence, there is a mysterious dog killer. Somebody is using rat poison to kill neighborhood dogs. The most recent dog death involved a dog belonging to a Naval Reservist now in San Diego awaiting deployment to Africa. Family members taking care of the dog noticed that somebody threw pieces of bread into their yard. The dog ate some of the pieces before the family took the rest away, they did so because it was obvious the pieces had “something clear and sticky on them”. The dog died slow and painfully.

Pennsylvania: Pittsburg cops shot and killed a homeless man’s dog.  Apparently the homeless man was drunk, and the dog attacked the cops in an attempt to protect him.  One cop claims he was bit, and that’s why he shot the dog.

Rhode Island: Suspicion over the cop killing of a pit bull. Police showed up at a motor home to serve an arrest warrant for failure to pay housing fines against a homeless man. However, the homeless man was not in the motor home, but his pit bull was. Police say that somehow the pit bull got out of the locked motor home, and they shot it. Witnesses say they shot it once bringing the dog down, but then 15 minutes later they shot it again. The homeless man was out working to collect money to pay the fines. His daughter says he’s the victim, not the cops: “I feel like the dog is a victim, and I feel like my dad’s a victim!”-Ashley Vien

Tennessee: Milan cops shot a pit bull who had no record of being a “vicious dog”.  Police say they shot the dog because it was “showing its teeth” and “growling”.  They claim the dog had rushed somebody walking by the house.  Witnesses say the dog was protecting its territory.  To add insult to injury the owner has been fined for owning a ‘vicious dog’ even though there’s no record of prior incidents.

In Dyersburg, a man who claims to be a veteran has been charged with sneaking into a neighbor’s yard and killing their chained up  German Shepherd by slitting it’s throat.  Police say the dog died a slow death.  The suspect is also a pit bull owner.  Police became suspicious of the ‘veteran’ because he had blood on him, and he was making claims that the chained up German Shepherd was somehow terrorizing the neighborhood and deserved to die.  It took several cops to arrest the veteran, and during the arrest he claimed he was being targeted just because he was a veteran.  I wonder if he’s on those evil prescription drugs they like to give veterans?

Texas: In Springtown, a woman shot a mother dog in the head, then dumped the body and ten puppies on the side of the road. A school bus driver found them, and said the puppies were still nursing from the blood soaked body of their mother! The sick woman is out on bond, and faces only misdemeanor charges! Police say the mother dog was also emaciated.

Utah: In Salt Lake City, police barged into a man’s backyard (while he was away), startling his dog.  So of course a startled dog is going to bark, but that scared the shit out of the cop who then shot the dog point blank in the head!  But wait there’s more to this NAZI cop BS!  The cops had no warrant to go into the yard.  They claim they needed none because they were searching for a lost three years old boy.   On top of that the a-hole cop just left the dead dog in the yard.  The owner returned home to find his dog with a bullet hole in his head: “My dog has never lunged or attacked anybody.  And besides the fact of what my dog did or did not do, why was the officer in my backyard? Why didn’t he identify himself, announce his presence? Why didn’t he knock on the gate?”-Sean Kendal, victim of NAZI cop

But wait there’s even more NAZI cop Bullshit!  The missing boy was found, in his parents own home!   An attorney says the cop’s claim to have the right to break and enter your property during a missing persons search is Bullshit, because they would have to actually witness the missing person enter the property: “Going into the backyard, a fenced backyard, it’s like walking in someone’s home without a warrant: It’s illegal, it’s a violation of the Fourth Amendment rights!…..if that were OK, that there’s a kid’s missing, why couldn’t they go in everybody’s home on the block? Why couldn’t they actually open the door and go in? I think very few people would say that’s OK.”-Robert Sykes

Wisconsin: Lawsuits say Milwaukee cops killed 434 dogs between 2000 and 2008 (48 dogs per year).  City officials imposed extra training for cops to reduce their urges to kill man’s best friend.   Police admitted that in 2009 they killed 41 dogs, and seized another 569.   One woman is suing the city because cops killed her two Mastiffs, and she has yet to be given an explanation as to why!

Side note: In Alberta, Canada, somebody is going around throwing engine coolant soaked sausages into the yards of dog owners.  Two dogs have died slow painful deaths.  Engine coolant/anti-freeze poisoning causes renal failure (kidney shutdown), which is a slow painful death (about 24 hours depending on how much is ingested. If you survive you could have permanent kidney damage and even blindness.).

Business/Economics

U.S. job losses & store closings 11 March 2014: Chemical spill kills restaurants! More jobs going to Mexico & China! Thousands more healthcare workers to become unemployed!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

California: In Temecula “a global leader in cardiac and vascular care”, Abbott Vascular (Sevo Site), laid off 13 people.  In Fair Oaks, after more than 50 years Sam’s Kosher Style Restaurant & Deli shutdown.

Colorado: In Manitou Springs, the Craftwood Inn shutdown without notice. The owners blame it on the many wildfires and flooding in recent years: “I just found out yesterday. I don’t know what I’m going to do.  I’m pretty sure that they could not recover from the last two summers. The fires and floods hurt business so much the last few years that Dave and wife Kathy could not keep up.”-Matt Schee, hotel chef

Maryland: The city of Annapolis laid off 13 employees and placed 20 vacant positions in limbo, in an attempt to create a budget that does not raise taxes.

Massachusetts: Cambridge research center, The Broad Institute, laid off 22 researchers due to lack of funding.  The town of Shirley warned it will layoff employees, and cut work hours due to a $300-thousand dollar hole in the city budget.

Michigan: In Genesee County, Too Big to Jail FirstMerit Bank shutting down three branches in April.  Bank officials say the branch offices lack customers.

Minnesota: The Willmar School District laid off 87 teachers and administrators.  They hope it will be temporary.

New Jersey: In Jersey City, iconic Casa Dante restaurant shutdown without warning.  A finance company stated that the restaurant owners hadn’t paid rent since October 2013!  News reports say it was a court order that shutdown the Italian eatery & music joint.  Bankrupt busted Ashley Stewart now says they will shutdown 27 women’s clothing stores. Company officials say their sales have been crashing since 2012.

New York: God refuses to stop Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers from shutting down.  Officials say they will cease all operations in May, 1141 jobs lost!  A major hotel operator, Morgan Hotel Group, laid off more than 20 HQ employees.  Company officials say the economy is forcing them to reduce costs.

Pennsylvania: In Bethlehem, after 80 years postal machine maker Bell & Howell shutting down their factory.  More than 60 jobs lost.  The company is consolidating operations.  In Scranton, gift store The Crazy Pineapple shutdown without notice.   The Southern Lehigh School Board tearing down the Lower Milford Elementary School.  Lower Milford parents are pissed, saying the K-5 school is not only the only school in the area, but doubles as a community center! School board officials say they cannot afford the $15-million USD needed to renovate the school.

Washington: What housing market recovery?  After 35 years Chamber’s Bay Realty shutdown.

West Virginia: In Charleston, Thelma Fay’s Cafe shutdown, it’s blamed on that massive chemical spill by Freedom Industries: “Sadly we have been unable to recover our losses during the water crisis……”

Wisconsin: Ice machine maker Manitowoc Company killing 150 U.S. jobs!  The patriotic ‘American’ company is moving production to Mexico and China.

10 March 2014: U.S. Army behind massive school shutdowns? 

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

Exceptional Failed State: Kmart turns into Grinch & steals charity’s Xmas gifts? More closings!

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Louisiana losing another Kmart in September.  North Carolina Kmart closing in September.

In California, the San Diego Kmart that shutdown without notice refused to give a charity its layaway items!  The non-profit Skate Everyday was paying for xmas gifts for their yearly Breakfast With Santa event.  Kmart not only failed to give warning about the store closing, but never warned customers who had items on layaway: “We had hats, beanies, scarves, school supplies, backpacks actually on layaway at this Kmart. This Kmart closed its doors on us, they did not give us a call!  At this point in time our event is in jeopardy because a lot of our products were going to come from this Kmart. We pretty much need help. We’re a small organization but we like to do big events for the actual public.  Hoping Kmart will give us a call and a miracle can happen.”-Aaron Reynolds, Skate Everyday

Sears/Kmart officials say the best they can do is refund layaway customers their money.

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:  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).

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.

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), 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, recently revealed 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).

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), recently revealed 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), recently revealed Grand Blanc Kmart (49 jobs lost), Lapeer Kmart (56 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).

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), recently revealed 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). 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).

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).

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).

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, 16 – 18 June 2014: Australia decides to stay! U.S. Army medical study says Guard units suffer more than Active Duty personnel! Pakistan wants Afghanistan to join in the fight!

Ghazni Province: Afghan government officials now say the dozens of teachers and students kidnapped from the Kandahar University were taken to Pakistan.

Helmand Province: Camp Bastion/Leatherneck, a USMC H-53 Super Stallion helicopter crashed.  An unnamed source with HMH-466 The Wolfpack said the ‘copter ran out of fuel while in high hover.  More than 14 Marines were onboard, officials claim none were hurt.

Kabul Province: Ahmad Zia Massoud has been declared the winner in the second round of the presidential election.  Obama regime puppet Abdullah Abdullah has vowed not to recognize the democratic results!   Government officials continue to report non-stop battles with Mujahideen all across the country, hundreds killed, hundreds wounded, including civilians and government personnel.  Indian news media reporting that ever since Pakistan began its massive offensive against Pakistani Mujahideen, more than 2-thousand people have fled across the border into Afghanistan.   Afghan officials told Indian news sources that at first they thought the refugees were militants: “The government is conducting a survey and our people are helping them with food and shelter.”-Sahira Sharif, female Afghan MP

Kapisa Province: In Tagab District, Mujahideen claim they killed two U.S.-NATO-ISAF personnel in a firefight, and destroyed one armored vehicle.

Kunar Province: In Asadabad District, one child killed, five family members wounded.  A Mujahideen mortar round landed on a residence, it was intended for a police check point.   Pakistan is now asking for Afghanistan to join its own war against Pakistani Mujahideen. Pakistan says most of the cross border attacks in Kunar Province were the result of Pakistani troops chasing Pakistani Mujahideen.

Maiden Wardak Province: In Syed Abad District, Mujahideen ambushed the provincial governor’s convoy. Three armored vehicles destroyed, two Toyota technicals destroyed, four security guards killed.  After some time of fighting U.S.-NATO aircraft were called in, this allowed the governor to escape.

Back in February the British empire member Australia announced they were finished with the “active” part of the Afghanistan occupation.  Now Aussie Defence Force boss, General David Hurley, has confirmed that at least 400 Diggers will stay in Afghanistan until the end of 2016!

A study “…funded and conducted under a protocol (USAISR Protocol no.: H-11-037) that was reviewed and approved by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Institutional Review Board…” concluded that Reserve Component (RC, aka federal Army Reserve and state National Guard) suffer more medical/dental non-battle field problems, in Afghanistan (OEF) and Iraq (OIF), than did Active Duty (AD, aka U.S. Army): “The data from this study suggest that RC Soldiers have higher rates of D-DNBI [dental disease and nonbattle injury] when compared to their AD counterparts. However, given the significant differences found in D-DNBI rates between the ARNG, USAR, and AD in both campaigns, future studies should be conducted to identify potential risk factors to determine if the higher rates are due to an inequality……”-The Incidence of Dental Disease Nonbattle Injuries in Deployed U.S. Army Personnel

Idaho, U.S.

False Flag U.S.A.: Eastern Idaho Sheriffs train under I-RAPTER for coming nuclear disaster!

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Idaho’s Bonneville County Sheriff’s Department took part in the International Radiological Assistance Program Training for Emergency Response (I-RAPTER) radiological response training put on by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Idaho National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy.

The main scenario was an incident involving the transportation of nuclear waste, but Bonneville County Sheriff spokesman Jeff Edwards explained they also trained for the theft of radioactive materials from hospitals.

Most people don’t know that medical testing devices, like x-ray machines, use radioactive material.

According to the NationalJournal this I-RAPTER nuclear disaster training was a joint training exercise that took place not just in eastern Idaho, but in a recent NATO exercise held in Czech Republic: “The course focused on procedures for first responders, law enforcement and specialists in detecting and responding to emergencies involving nuclear and radiological material. The participants received classroom instruction on radiation concepts, radiation detection, mission planning, alarm adjudication and response/recovery. The field exercises were designed to provide hands-on training using radiation detection technology to localize radiation hotspots, measure dose rates, and identify the radioactive material. Participants gained real-world experience when they located and identified radiation sources at the local air museum using a Spectral Advanced Radiological Computer System (SPARCS) mounted in a van.”

Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, and the Remote Sensing Laboratory at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, also assist with I-RAPTER training.

In 2010 the U.S. Department of Energy was tasked by Homeland Security with picking a nuclear disaster training site for ‘first responders’, and ended up choosing the Idaho National Laboratory.

Business/Economics

U.S. job losses & store closings 10 March 2014: U.S. Army behind massive school shutdowns? Another women’s clothing store going down!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Alaska: In Fairbanks, after 48 years Carr’s Men’s Clothing Store shutdown.

California: In Pomona, Future Foam laid off 40 employees.  In Irvine, Too Big to Jail JPMorganChase killed 168 jobs!  In Mountain View, Palo Alto Medical Foundation-Summit Health laid off two employees.

Florida:  After 61 years Pensacola Photo Supply shutdown.  In Broward, after 73 years Carls Furniture shutdown.  In Tampa, Too Big to Jail accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers laid off 19 IT employees.

Iowa: West Des Moines says they must shutdown the Phenix Early Childhood Center in order to deal with education funding cuts.  180 students and 12 teachers affected!  After 18 years Carlos O’Kelly’s Mexican Cafe shutdown three restaurants!

Kentucky: Fort Knox to shutdown four schools; Kingsolver Elementary, Mudge Elementary, Pierce Elementary and Walker Intermediate School.  That’s half their schools!  130 jobs will be lost! It’s blamed on the de-activation of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Brigade.

Maryland: In Cambridge, after 76 years Lednum’s Jewelers shutdown.

Michigan: In Royal Oak, a Barnes & Nobel bookstore shutdown.  It’s part of the massive Barnes & Noble shutdown across the country.  Some news reports blame competition with the internet, but that doesn’t hold water because Barnes & Noble also sells over the internet.

Minnesota: In Saint Cloud, after 27 years The Electric Fetus music store shutdown.  The owners said sales didn’t justify renewing the lease.

New Jersey:  Large women’s clothing retailer Ashley Stewart now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Company officials say their sales have been crashing since 2012.

New York: In Sherrill, the Oneida Company Store shutting down in April.  It’s part of the Oneida-Anchor Hocking merger creating a new company called Everyware.  The Wappingers Central School District  warned they might be forced to shutdown Vassar Road Elementary School.  Long Island College Hospital killing 350 healthcare jobs!   The hospital is for sale.  If it is not sold by May it will shutdown, affecting 1400 jobs!

Ohio: In Norton, after 52 years Gainer’s Barbershop shutdown.  The owner said the economy is “beginning to take its toll”.  In Columbus, after 60 years the last Cord Camera store shutdown.

Oregon: In The Dalles, Anana’s Boutique and Copa Cabaña shutdown.

Texas: Too Big to Jail Bank of America killing 156 mortgage industry jobs in Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties!  It’s blamed on the coming housing market collapse!

Virginia: Debt collector NCO Financial Systems killed 107 call center jobs! The evil debt collector has been unable to force unemployed people from paying up and as a result they’ve lost millions of dollars every quarter.

Washington DC: International law and lobbying firm Patton Bogs laid off about 20 employees.

06 – 09 March 2014: “2013 was an awful, awful year for us!” 

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