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Martial Law U.S.A.: California’s anti-gun laws fail to stop mom from killing her three children!

25 May 2014 (19:25 UTC-07 Tango 24 May 2014)/25 Rajab 1435/04 Khordad 1393/27 Ji-Si 4712

California has some of the toughest anti-gun laws in the United States, yet they didn’t stop a mother of three from stabbing to death all her children!

It happened earlier this week.  The dead children were found by their grandmother on 20 May 2014.

California also has laws regarding the use of knives to commit crimes, but that didn’t stop the killer mom.

The grandmother also found the mom laying naked next to her dead children.  Apparently the mom tried to kill herself.  Grandma then ran outside the house, throwing a bloody knife towards the father and exclaiming “You wife has gone crazy!”

“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, International

Iran executes Too Big to Jail bank fraudster!

25 May 2014 (19:13 UTC-07 Tango 24 May 2014)/25 Rajab 1435/04 Khordad 1393/27 Ji-Si 4712

A man accused of being the mastermind behind a $2.6-billion USD bank scam might be Too Big to Jail in the United States, but in Iran he’d be convicted, jailed and then executed!

The man behind the biggest bank fraud scam in Iran’s history (since the 1979 Revolution) was executed on 24 May 2014.  He was convicted of ripping off the state bank, since 2007, by forging loan documents.   Of course he had help, 39 people were convicted in connection with the scam.

The man built a business empire that spanned the world, including operations in South America.  According to his attorney with his execution the government of Iran now controls his empire’s assets.

Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. job losses & store closings 14 – 15 February 2014: More mom & pops saying “It’s not fun anymore!” More upscale stores going bust! More ObamaCare healthcare cuts!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Upscale gadget store Brookstone warned of pending bankruptcy.  Sales are so bad it also failed to make a $125-million USD interest payment on a loan!

California:  The Bellflower Medical Center killed 18 jobs.  Software company Adobe Systems killing 71 jobs by March.  In Tustin, long term inpatient care center, Newport Specialty Hospital in danger of shutting down.  Obama Care cuts funding for long term health care, and it’s being reported that Alta Hospitals System is taking over Newport Specialty,  147 jobs affected!  In Fresno, GAF continues to kill jobs, this time six employees let go.  In Los Angeles, Investors Business Daily laid off 2 people.  In Burbank, NBCUniversal continues to kill jobs, this time 162 jobs lost!  In Costa Mesa, Pacific Mercantile Bank laid off 92 employees.  In Carson, British empire Australia based asset manager Transfield Services killed 126 jobs!

Colorado: In Fort Collins, The Black Market Tavern shutdown without warning or explanation.

 Connecticut: Furniture store Casual Curtains shutdown, without warning or explanation.

Florida:  In Saint Petersburg,  Netherlands based Transamerica Life Insurance killing at least 70 jobs between now and 2015.  In Oakland Park, after 40 years family owned Danish Furniture Center shutdown.  Co-owner Andresen Peterson blamed the bad economy saying “It’s not fun anymore….it feels like we are playing catch-up.”

Idaho:  In Twin Falls, upscale home decor store Inspired Living shutdown.  The owner said she wanted to retire.

Maine: In Portland, the non-profit Health Care for Homeless Clinic shutdown because the Obama regime cut its federal funding!  The city run clinic served 2300 people per year!  City officials said costs are so high that you can’t run a clinic without federal funding.  In Bangor, Robert O Cupcakes Toys shutdown.  Turns out the owners made a bad move five years ago, when they switched from a party store to ‘intellectual’ toys: “We were hoping that it would be a viable business, but apparently it’s not.”-Nancy Roe, co-owner

Massachusetts: In Brookline, Jimmy’s Bar & Oven shutting down in March.

Michigan:  Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Delta Air Lines killing 741 jobs in April!  Delta wants to use cheap unreliable contractors in order to save money.

Missouri: What automotive industry recovery?  In Saint Joseph, car battery maker Johnson Controls laid off 29 employees.  They blame “technology advances”.

Montana: In Missoula, the Food for Thought college town restaurant shutdown.  The owner said she’s been trying to sell for the past four years, because she can’t afford necessary upgrades.   Students and employees say they were surprised by the shutdown.

New York:  After more than 20 years baby store Planet Kids NY shutting down two stores.  The company says it can no longer compete.  In NYC, insurer American International Group (AIG) warned it could kill 1900 jobs, if the economy doesn’t improve!  In Ticonderoga, Inter-Lakes Health laid off 13 healthcare workers and cut 10 full time jobs to part time.  Another ten positions will be eliminated through attrition.  Officials blamed Obama Care for drastically cutting funding for long term inpatient care, as well as other Obama Care reimbursement cuts: “The cumulative financial impact of these factors has resulted in a significant drop in revenue.”-Chip Holmes, CEO

Nevada: Mitt Romney/Bain Capital connected Toys R Us shut down their warehouse near Reno.  As many as 350 jobs affected!

Ohio: German products importer, Krause’s at Findlay Market, shutdown.  No reason given.

Pennsylvania: Rubbermaid announced they are shutting down their Pottsville factory by 2015, at least 100 jobs lost!

South Dakota:  In Sioux Falls,  God refuses to stop his Salvation Army Thrift Store from shutting down.  The Major says crashing sales are causing the thrift store to fall behind on debts by an average of $50-thousand per year!

Texas:  In Houston, after 37 years the Black Heritage Gallery shutdown, because the new property owner evicted the gallery owner!

13 February 2014: Bilderberger Bill Gates kills power plants! 

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.

U.S. Civil War 2014: Think it’s bad now? Get ready for the Summer of Violence! Hunger Games behind latest shootings? Anti-gun laws are a big fail!

24 May 2014 (00:52 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Rajab 1435/03 Khordad 1393/26 Ji-Si 4712

Please note that many law enforcement agencies across the United States are “gearing up” for a “summer of violence”.  Why for, if there’s no civil war?

California:  In Isle Vista, police responded to what one witness described as an “Old Western shoot out.”  Seven people killed (including lone gunman), 11 wounded.   A local news reporter is claiming that the gunman was shot by cops in a “rolling gun battle” (County deputies now say he shot himself)!  Cops call it a “retribution shooting” by the son of Paul Rodger, the assistant director on the first Hunger Games movie.  Elliot Rodger posted a pathetic video to the internet in which he states that he will kill people simply because women didn’t want to have sex with him!  New reports say he also stabbed to death three roommates before going on his shooting spree.  This happened in the UCSB college town of Isle Vista.  University of California Santa Barbara bans guns: “No person shall possess or have control of any firearm, deadly weapon, explosive device, or prohibited knife, as defined in the California Penal Code, except as required in the lawful course of business or as authorized by the UCSB Police Chief. Possession, storage, and use must comply with California law.”.   In Antioch, police investigating three separate shootings that wounded three people.   Hayward cops responded to five shootings in the past week.  One man was killed, seven wounded.  Police say none of the victims will cooperate with the investigation.    In Santa Anna, in the past two weeks shootings have killed three people.  Police say they’re gang related but they don’t think there is a gang war on.  In Salinas, Night of riots after three people killed by cops!  The NAZI Orange County DA cleared several cops of any wrong doing in the deaths of four people, including two “in custody deaths”.  One of those killed was shot about eight times by the cop, right in front of his mother! (there is a war goin’ on and the cops ain’t on your side, folks)

Maryland:  Baltimore City cops responded to five shootings in the past 24 hours.  Two men were killed, three wounded.   One man was shot in the chest and he walked himself to hospital.  Police have no suspects!  And in the 24 hours before that six people were shot, four men and two women.

Illinois:  Chicago update 18-23 May 2014.  In Aurora, police investigating two separate shootings.  One was the result of an argument, the other involved a hispanic man randomly shooting.

Indiana: In Indianapolis, four people killed three wounded (including a 10 years old girl).

Louisiana:  In New Orleans, police are looking for a gang banger in connection with three shootings and a car theft.

Missouri:  In Kennett, a couple of drive by shootings.  In one shooting a person in a car was wounded and a cop sitting in his car was almost hit.  Only one person has been arrested.

New York:  In Rochester, three men were shot in separate shootings, all are now in the hospital.  Despite new anti-gun laws in New York City the NYPD reports 410 shootings since January, a 7% increase over the same time last year.  Break it down to shootings at public housing projects and it increases by 32%!  City officials want to hire 1-thousand more NAZI cops, but say they don’t have the money.

Oregon:  Portland police responded to nine shootings in the past two weeks.  One shooting involved at least 21 rounds of ammo.  Another shooting was between people in two cars driving down I-84.  Cops blame gang bangers, several people wounded.

Tennessee:  In Memphis, three people wounded in two separate shootings.

Washington:  Seattle cops investigating two reported shootings.  Empty shell casings were found, but supposedly nobody got hit.

Wisconsin:  In Milwaukee, two separate shootings two people wounded.  No arrests made.  Days prior three people were shot and wounded in separate shootings, including a 15 years old boy and 11 years old girl. No suspects.

This is not a complete list of shootings for the first few weeks of the month of May, 2014.

Most shootings are blamed on gang bangers (Teen Crews), and the overwhelming majority of guns used by gang bangers are already illegal under current laws, so don’t waste our time calling for more anti-gun laws!

“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.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. voters prove they are insane!

24 May 2014 (23:24 UTC-07 Tango 23 May 2014)/24 Rajab 1435/03 Khordad 1393/26 Ji-Si 4712

This week voters in the United Failed States of America proved they are indeed insane.  Millions of people voted in state primaries and other local elections.

Election after election citizens vote (believing it’s their “duty” despite the fact that there is nothing in the Constitution mandating voting to prove you’re a loyal citizen), and, election after election most voters claim they didn’t get what they voted for!   Then why the hell do you keep voting ?

Some unknown/unconfirmed genius calls that insanity: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

“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

U.S. job losses & store closings 13 February 2014: Bilderberger Bill Gates kills power plants! More hospital shutdowns, accuse ObamaCare of turning the U.S. into a “third world nation”! No more John Deere?

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

The biggest cell phone company in the U.S., Verizon, shutting down five call centers and killing at least 3-thousand jobs!  Another 2200 employees will have to apply for other positions if they want to eat.  The shutdown will affect the states of California, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Too Big to Jail Bank of America warned of even more layoffs.  BofA has killed 40-thousand jobs since 2011!!!

California:  In Lompoc, after 13 years the Zona Seca drug treatment center shutdown. It’s blamed on loss of funding.  In Sacrament, Coca Cola laid off about 47 employees.  Last year they laid off 60 employees.

Florida:  United Electronics now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.   The manufacturer of power connectors and power distribution panels says they are more than $10-million USD in debt.

Georgia:  The Lower Oconee Community Hospital shutting down, at least 100 jobs lost!  Despite Obama Care 23% of Wheeler Country residents have no health insurance.  10% are unemployed.  41% of the children live in poverty!  Who said Obama Care was the answer?  Karen O’Neal, the hospital’s CEO, said Obama Care “will create a Third World nation” out of rural America!

Illinois: In Moline, after 22 years a Ben Franklin’s craft store shutdown.  The John Deere Harvester Works factory killed 120 jobs!  Company officials blame a crashing farm equipment market.

Indiana: In Avilla, lighting system maker Federal-Mogul shutting down, 95 jobs lost.  At its height the factory had 120 employees.

Massachusetts:  In Boston, video game maker Turbine laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  Amherst Regional School Committee eliminated 12 jobs, blamed “mainly to declining enrollment”.

Montana: Mountain West Bank being shutdown by its new Too Big to Jail owner First Interstate.

New York: What housing market recovery?  In Syracuse, Too Big to Jail First Niagara shutting down a mortgage office, 14 jobs lost.  In NYC, law firm Jones Hirsch Connors Miller & Bull P.C. now defunct,  50 jobs lost.

Oregon: Two Powell’s Books stores shutting down in June, because the Port of Portland wants to jack up the rent.

Texas:  Bill Gates owned Optim Energy now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The reason given is that the company has been blocked from getting loans for daily operations, apparently for failing to pay back other debt financing.  There are plans to start shutting down natural gas and coal plants around the country, get ready for higher energy prices!  In Houston, Finger Furniture shutdown their last two stores.  The company is now chapter 11 busted.   Gigi’s Asian Bistro & Dumpling Bar shutdown, the owner blamed “economic challenges and unforeseen circumstances”.

Utah:  In Salt Lake City, after 30 years JMR Chalk Garden shutdown.  Likewise, Lolabella Boutique shutting down.  Both clothing stores owned by the same people, and they operate one of each in two shopping malls.  The owners say they must close all four of their stores due to crashing sales, and pointed out that many other stores in the malls are also shutting down.   Yeah, what economic recovery?

Washington:   In Bellevue, Intellectual Ventures laid off an undisclosed number of employees.

11-12 February 2014: Property owners continue killing mom & pops! 

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.

U.S. Civil War: Chicago update 18-23 May 2014, 5 dead 30 wounded! “You can’t be safe anywhere!”

23 May 2014 (14:39 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Rajab 1435/02 Khordad 1393/25 Ji-Si 4712

Curie High School is on alert after six shootings.  The principal told students, and parents, that when the school day is over they need to get the hell out’a there!  One parent, Gabriela Perez, said “You can’t be safe anywhere!”

4600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue:  15 years old boy shot and killed by drive by shooters.

6400 block of South Francisco Avenue:  14 years old boy found on sidewalk, shot and killed.

63rd Street and Artesian Avenue: 17 years old boy shot in the ankle.

10700 block of South Indiana Avenue:  20 years old man shot in the hip and shoulder, he died.

6200 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive:  Two men shot, one in the face.  Police complained that residents interfered with their crime scene investigation.

Humboldt Park:  18 years old man shot multiple times, he’s now dead.  The irony is that his body was found under a gun ban sign.  38 years old man shot in the chest and killed.  40 years old man shot in the back, in serious condition.

0 to 50 block of East 53rd Street:  22 years old man shot in the leg.

9800 block of South Yates Avenue: A man was shot in the leg.

18th and Wood streets:  23 years old man shot in the leg.  He ran for a city block before neighbors came to his aid.

1200 block of West 97th Street:  32 years old man shot in the leg and back.

10000 block of South Princeton Avenue:  22 years old man shot in the right arm.  31 years old woman shot in the thigh.

5200 block of West Oakdale Avenue:  28 years old man heard gunshots and started running, but he was shot in the leg anyway.

8500 block of South Carpenter Street:  25 years old man heard gunshots, then realized he was the one who got shot.

8200 block of South Kedzie Avenue:  26 years old man shot in the thigh.

9900 block of South Wentworth Avenue:  21 years old man shot in the hand while sitting on his porch.

9100 block of South Throop Street:  32 years old man shot in the back and chest.  He’s in stable condition.

4400 block of West Palmer Street:  29 years old man shot in his left leg.

6900 block of South Eggleston Avenue:  31 years old man shot in his butt as he was walking.

6900 block of South South Shore Drive:  18 years old man shot multiple times while he was walking.  He’s in critical condition.

8100 block of South Paxton Avenue: 19 years old man shot in the leg.

8200 block of South Paxton Avenue:  44 years old man shot in the leg.

5900 block of West Washington Boulevard:  Two men shot while in their SUV.  Police say shooters in another SUV shot them.  One of the men was shot in the chest and is in serious condition.

4900 block of West Augusta Boulevard:  A 29 years old man started running when a man with a gun approached him.  He was shot in the end (butt).

10600 block of South Wentworth Avenue:  28 years old man shot in the left elbow, police suspect it was a domestic violence crime.

2200 block of West 72nd Street: 20 years old man shot in the leg and arm.

3900 block of West Polk Street:  18 years old man shot, in critical condition.

7000 block of South East End Avenue:  Three men shot in the legs.

West 65th Street and South Union Avenue:  26 years old man shot in the hand.

7400 block of South Harvard Avenue:  20 years old man shot in the arm, groin and hip.  He actually ran home before calling police!

No arrests, police blame gang bangers.  New anti-gun laws would not stop the shootings, because most guns used by gang bangers are already illegal!

Most victims took themselves to hospital, or were brought by neighbors.

“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 14-17 May 2014

International

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 11-14 May 2014: More proof the U.S. ain’t goin’ anywhere! Norway promises more of its taxpayer’s money! U.S. DoD still can’t explain what it does with your money!

Balkh Province: In Mazar E Sharif City, a U.S. Army CWO from California (raised in Iowa) died.  Officials with the U.S. Department of Defense would only say it was a “non-hostile” death.

Farah Province: In Gulistan District, major battles between Mujahideen and government forces resulted in at least 55 people killed.  At least 45 wounded.

Faryab Province: The Kingdom of Norway has promised more taxpayer funds, this time to help with development projects in the province.  Norway is promising 101-million euros per year!

Herat Province: Government officials confirmed that a counter-terrorism agent was assassinated by unknown gunmen.

Jawzjan Province: Government officials report that a police vehicle ran over a landmine.  Three cops killed, two wounded.

Kabul Province: Airport officials confirm that two artillery rockets impacted near the airport.  No damage or casualties reported.  In Kabul City, an exploding magnetic mine killed one Afghan National Army soldier, and wounded another.  Two civilians wounded.  Afghan government officials claim they’ve killed 380 Mujahideen all across the country, in the past week.

Ghazni Province: Mujahideen began Operation Khaibar, with attacks against police checkpoints all over the province.  Provincial officials confirm fighting lasted all day with at least one cop killed along with dozens of civilians.

Kandahar Province: In Daman District, a car bomb hit a Afghan National Army/NATO-ISAF convoy.  At least five people killed, 39 wounded.

Nangarhar Province: In Nazyan District, a U.S. drone strike killed at least three people.   In Jalalabad City, Mujahideen began Operation Khaibar by attacking the provincial justice directorate.  One cop, two civil servants and three civilians were killed.  10 people wounded.   Three Mujahideen killed.

Parwan Province:  International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)   confirmed that four artillery rockets hit Bagram airbase.  ISAF reported “minor damage” but “no fatalities”.

Zabul Province: In Qalat city, a suicide bomber attacked a military convoy.  He died and at least six people were wounded.

The Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan continues to delay the final vote tally from the “successful” election, due to investigations into massive fraud.

Pakistan reports they’ve arrested an Afghan National Army officer after they caught him inside Pakistan.

Afghan government officials confirm that they have made a prisoner swap with Iran.  14 Iranian prisoners were released by Afghanistan in exchange for 16 Afghan prisoners held in Iran.  The deal was actually agreed to back in 2006, but only now have they started to swap prisoners.  According to reports Iran has 5-thousand Afghans in prison mainly for the crime of drug smuggling.

According to a Stars and Stripes report, “Nearly three decades after U.S. taxpayers gasped over $640 toilet seats and other Cold War military waste, the Department of Defense remains the last federal department still unable to conduct a financial audit despite laws passed in the 1990s that require the accounting……….The DOD spends roughly $2 billion per day and has $1.5 trillion in physical assets. Various agencies inside the department have been considered at high risk for fraud and waste by the GAO since 1990……..The GAO said in its report issued Tuesday that the long-standing accounting weaknesses mean the defense department still cannot account for its total assets or estimate improper payments.”

75 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 349th Quartermaster Company (California, U.S.A.) returned from Afghanistan.

130 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 1223rd Engineer Company (South Carolina, U.S.A.) returned from Afghanistan.

15 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s Detachment 45 (Nevada, U.S.A.) deploying to Afghanistan.

The Army National Guard’s Detachment 1, F Company, 1/126th Aviation (Delaware, U.S.A.) deploying to Afghanistan.

U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, James Dobbins, says the U.S. led military presence in Afghanistan will remain “significant” despite the so called withdrawal from the country this year.

U.S.

U.S. Civil War: Californians finally fighting back? Night of riots after three people killed by cops!

22 May 2014 (17:12 UTC-07 Tango)/22 Rajab 1435/01 Khordad 1393/24 Ji-Si 4712

After weeks of hispanics being gun downed by cops, people living on Del Monte Avenue, in the California town of Salinas, had enough!

On the night of 21 May people rioted after a forth hispanic man was shot and killed.  So far there is no official police explanation as to who shot the man.  Police claim there are at least 100 witnesses but they all refuse to talk to police.

Those 100 witnesses where part of a protest group, protesting the third killing of a local hispanic man.  The protest broke out into a full blown anti-cop riot after the fourth man was shot, sometime during the protest.  Local news reports say Salinas Police Department called for help from Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.

Home video shows the third shooting victim walking away from several cops who have their guns trained on him.  They shot him multiple times.  The cops claim the man had threatened a woman and her dog with garden shears.   On the video you can hear, in Spanish, people asking the cops why they didn’t use their tazers. Cops claim they did but it had no effect.  Witnesses say the cops were actually stalking the man.

21 May 2014: Somebody shot and killed a man during a protest of the increasing killings by Salinas city cops.  The protest then turned into a riot as more cops showed up.  Police arrested one man for “inciting a riot”.  No info about who shot the deceased.

20 May 2014:  Several cops fire several shots and kill a man walking away from them.  Cops claim the man, who was walking calmly away from them, was “armed” with garden shears and “lunged” at them.  Many people have questioned why they didn’t wound the man.

09 May 2014:  A man holding a lettuce knife was shot and killed by the cops.  If you are holding anything cops think could be used as a weapon they will officially accuse you of being “armed”, and then use that as an excuse to kill you.

20 March 2014: A man “armed” with a non-lethal pellet gun was shot and killed by cops.

Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. job losses & store closings 11-12 February 2014: Property owners continue killing mom & pops! More healthcare cuts!

Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.

Alabama: In Vernon, a store that never replaced their 115 years old manually operated cash register is now shutting down.  God could not stop the owner, described as a “good church goin’ man”, from closing his family’s W. B. Clearman’s Store.  A local news reporter said they just want to “fade out of sight”.

California: In San Louis Obispo, after 15 years Cugini’s Pizzeria & Trattoria shutdown.  The restaurant owner said the greedy property owner jacked up the rent by adding on a monthly service charge as well as demanding 6% of her restaurant’s profits!  She tried complaining to the property management company but they blew her off, then suddenly she got evicted!  In Fresno, anti-2nd Amendment company, Pepsi, laid off 50 employees.

Florida: What housing market recovery?  Mortgage risk analysis firm, Digital Risk, killing 745 jobs!  “Due to substantial, abrupt and unforeseen residential mortgage events, including….improving credit quality, significant volume declines in refinance loan originations, etc., demand for Digital Risk services has materially decreased.”-Brandon Johnson, senior HR manager

Hawaii: Health care provider Kaiser Permanente killed 101 jobs!  Company officials say they must “restructure” to meet Obama Care funding.

Idaho:  In Meridian, cement/minerals engineering company FLSmidth laid off 46 employees.  Boise based computer chip maker Micron reported profits at the end of January, but it was revealed that they also killed 419 jobs in Italy!  It’s blamed on Micron’s take over of Italian chip maker Numonyx.  Layoffs could be coming for Idaho.

Iowa: In Galesburg, Cooke Elementary school being shutdown.  School district officials say student enrollment is so low the school can barley maintain 15 students per class, making it a waste of money to keep the school open.  It also doesn’t help that the district is in the hole by $4.4-million USD!

Maine: In Portland, despite being called Century Tire the company lasted only 88 years.  It was originally called Deering Tire Company, the current owners say they can no longer compete against the big boys.

Maryland: In Baltimore after 90 years Sun Products, maker of household cleaning products, shutting down their factory.  300 jobs lost!  Union employees say there was no reason for the shutdown but company officials say they can’t continue to pay union wages and remain competitive.  At one point in the distant past the factory employed 1500 people.

Massachusetts:  The last video store In Newburyport, Express Video, shutdown.

Michigan: Eastern Michigan University is laying off 10 of its 11 full time lecturers for the 2014/15 school year!  It’s blamed on declining student enrollment, which is making budget problems even worse.

Missouri: In Dutchtown, after 40 years Giuseppe’s Ristorante shutdown.  The owners will now focus on catering only.  The owners say their crashing restaurant revenues were caused by the temporary closure of Highway 40.

New Jersey: In Plainsboro, medical diagnostics company Abbott Point of Care to layoff 80  employees in March.  The company must restructure to meet Obama Care funding.

Pennsylvania: In Pittsburg, Macy’s killing corporate office jobs.  69 positions are being consolidated.  Not sure if this is part of the 2500 job cuts announced in January.  Health insurance company, Highmark Blue Shield, killed 132 jobs! Company officials said they are “restructuring to align resources”.

Texas: In North Richland Hills, Sealy Mattress shutting down their factory in May, 114 jobs lost!

Washington: Sprint laid off 91 employees.  It’s blamed on their $3.5-billion takeover of Clearwire.

West Virginia:  In Keyser, yet another victim of the ongoing Hallmark shutdowns.  After 39 years Linda’s Hallmark shutdown.

08-10 February 2014: More grocery store 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