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Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 30-31 October 2013. Thousands of bank layoffs! More health care job cuts! ObamaCare killing insurance company!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Health insurance company, Assurant Health, laid off 108 people in Idaho, Minnesota and Wisconsin! Company officials directly blame Obama Care, saying the job losses are mandated by the government: “…due to the elimination of underwriting for major medical policies effective in January 2014, as required under the Affordable Care Act.”-Robert Pollock, CEO

Solstas Lab Partners blamed Obama Care for its layoff of 76 employees across the country.  Company officials said Obama Care is reducing how much they get paid, and is forcing people to rely on independent doctors for medical help, rather than hospitals.

California: Concord’s Panama Red Coffee Company cafe shutdown.  Company officials blame high rent and operating costs for causing them to run “…out of gas, ideas, and time.”  In Redondo Beach, Shark Attack gift shop on the Redondo Beach pier shutdown.  The owners had operated stores for 41 years, many had been destroyed in pier fires.  But this time city officials are administering the coup de grâce.  The city owns the pier and Judy Milner says the rent is now too high to pay, because city officials are trying “….to make it too upscale. It’s not Laguna Beach. It’s a pier. People come here to fish….”  In Santa Clarita, Spectrum Athletic Club laid off 88 employees. Berkeley Heartlab continued to layoff employees, this time four people were let go.  According to a WARN filing, the San Leandro Hospital shutdown, at least 464 health care jobs lost!  In Carson, British empire Australia based construction company Transfield Services laid off 90 employees.

Idaho: Sandpoint based women’s clothing retailer, Coldwater Creek, warned it will layoff at least 20% of its employees in 2014.

Louisiana: In Monroe, the 70 years old Keene’s Shoe Store shutdown.  The current owner said the impending rent increase was a sign to retire!

Maryland: In Baltimore, Too Big to Jail investment company Legg Mason laid off 20 auditors.  They were replaced with contracted workers.

Massachusetts:  University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care warned of massive layoffs, due to a $57-million USD loss, and reduced payments by Obama Care.   In Worchester, the Spirit of Knowledge Charter School shutdown despite protests from families. Board members blamed each other for the school’s failure. The official reason for the shutdown is that there is no more money to continue operations.

Michigan: In Battle Creek, ClydeUnion Pumps shutdown its factory, 175 jobs lost! Taxsucker Metaviation shutdown, 113 jobs lost!

Missouri: In Saint Charles, after 25 years The Columns Banquet Center shutdown.  The property was sold off.

New York: BorgWarner Morse TEC closed its Cortland Powdered Metal Operation, 30 jobs lost.  In West Henrietta, Tyco Integrated Security shutdown, 132 jobs lost!

North Carolina:  The Christian god is slowly killing off Johnson C. Smith University.  51 jobs eliminated due to crashing student enrollment.  On Fort Bragg, the Womack Army Medical Center laid off 200 personnel!  Officials admitted that they’ve been ripping off taxpayers by employing more people than what their budget allows. In Elkin, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital laid off 31 employees.  Hospital officials blame it on less people seeking medical care, and reduced payments from Obama Care.

Ohio: What housing market recovery?  Too Big to Jail Bank of America laid off 1149 people in their mortgage division!  In Hannibal, aluminum company Ormet shutdown its factory, 901 jobs lost!

Oregon: In Albany, the Mongolian Grill shutdown. The owners blamed the bad economy for crashing revenues.  In Portland, health care provider Kaiser Permanente eliminated 111 jobs by shutting down a call center!

South Carolina: In Greenville, 25 years old John Paul’s Armadillo Oil Company restaurant shutdown.  The owner said it was time to retire because business was crashing.

Tennessee: Two Sweet Pepper Delis shutdown.  50 jobs lost. The franchise owners refused to give a reason.  In Memphis, Concentra Advance Toxicology Network was sold off to competitor Quest Diagnostics, 185 jobs lost!

Texas: In El Paso, Sweden based Electrolux shutdown their distribution center, 72 jobs lost.  Connecticut based Precision Camera laid off 32 people at their repair shop.  What automotive industry recovery?  Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar shutdown their Kilgore factory.  100 jobs lost!  Company officials blame it on crashing sales.

Virginia: In Hampton, Alcoa Howmet laid off another 70 employees.  This is on top of the 70 jobs cuts made in August.  The factory makes parts for electricity generating turbines.  Company officials blame the job cuts on the bad economy.  What housing market recovery? In Christiansburg, home building products maker CraftMaster is playing mind games with its 138 employees.  There has been a back and forth of factory shut down announcements, and then retractions of such statements.   The Farm Fresh Supermarket in Virginia Beach shutdown. Company officials blamed the greedy property owner.  Too Big to Jail StellarOne Bank shutting down 13 banks in 2014.  It’s blamed on the takeover by Union First Market Bank.

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, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 13-16 February 2014: Internal refugees on the rise under U.S. occupation! Karzai orders Obama to “respect us”! India backs Karzai! Another U.S. helicopter down!

Balk Province: In Shortapa District, 13 U.S.-NATO-ISAF  trained Afghan National Army troops joined the Mujahideen.

Farah Province: In Bala Baluk District, reports that a ten years old boy was killed by government troops.

Faryab Province: In Qisar District, 25 cops and military personnel joined the Mujahideen.

Helmand Province:  A USMC special ops Master Sergeant from Kentucky was killed by explosion.  In Marjah District, reports that a man riding a motorcycle was killed by a missile strike from a U.S. drone (UAV).   In Musa Kala District, reports that Mujahideen repelled a U.S. led heliborne operation.  Reports also say the invaders began taking civilians as human shields once the Mujahideen started kicking their asses.  In Babaji District, reports that Afghan National Army troops killed three people in an Israeli style home invasion.

Kandahar Province: In Shahwali Kot District, yet another U.S.-NATO-ISAF helicopter made an “emergency landing”, according to ISAF.  However, yet again Mujahideen say the helicopter went down after they attacked it.  Mujahideen say the ‘copter was a OH-58D Kiowa.  In Kandahar City, a city employee was killed while he was watering shrubbery along the city street.  Apparently someone put a landmine in among the bushes the gardener was watering.  The new National Agriculture Science and Technology University was opened. It was built with funding from the taxpayers of India.  In Hisarak District, 16 U.S.-NATO-ISAF  trained Afghan National Army troops joined the Mujahideen.

Kapisa Province: In Tagab District, reports that U.S. special ops forces kidnapped the district governor and the local police chief.  It might be in connection to a recent Green on Blue attack, which left two U.S. Special Forces soldiers dead.

Khost Province: In Mosa Khel District, cops shot and killed a teenager.  They claimed he was a suicide bomber.

Kunduz Province: In Khanabad District, an Afghan National Police convoy was hit by an explosion.  Cops say they suffered no casualties, but two civilians were killed, and eight wounded.

Maidan Wardak Province:  In Syed Abad District, reports that government forces destroyed people’s motorcycles.  In the same district reports that a U.S. drone (UAV) killed two people.

The United Nations reports that there are at least 630-thousand Afghans being forced to live as “internal” refugees under the U.S. occupation.  UN High Commissioner for Refugees also reports that every year there is a 22% increase in Internally-Displaced Persons.  It’s blamed on the fact that despite 12+ years of occupation by the United States the average Afghan is suffering from increased insecurity and lack of employment.

President Hamid Karzai demanded that the Obama regime “stop harassing Afghanistan’s procedures and judicial authority” and “respect Afghanistan’s sovereignty”.

The Indian government has expressed support for President Karzai, in refusing to sign the Obama regime’s so called “security” deal.  India has invested at least $2-billion USD in Afghanistan.  The External Affairs Minister of India, Salman Khurshid, also reported that “We are giving them helicopters and we will be supplying them very soon…….will be able to upgrade and refurbish their transport aircraft…..Afghanistan is very special….”

150 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 1710th Transportation Company, 529th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 329th Regional Support Group (Virginia) returned home from Afghanistan.

190 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 226th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (Alabama) returning home from Afghanistan.

More than 200 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 437th Military Police Battalion (Ohio) returning home from Afghanistan.

110 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 144th Infantry Regiment (Texas) returned home from Afghanistan.

About 15 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 168th Aviation Regiment (California) returned home from Afghanistan.

154 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 276th Engineer Company (Missouri) deploying to Afghanistan.

The Army National Guard’s 1/230th Air Cavalry Squadron (Tennessee) deploying to Afghanistan.

USAToday revealed that the Obama regime was going to spend more U.S. taxes on propaganda promoting USAID ops in Afghanistan.  The propaganda was going to be aimed at Afghans, to convince they are better off under U.S. occupation.  An unnamed government source said it’s been put on hold because “The wording of the (request) did not appropriately articulate that purpose and is being re-evaluated.”  USAID has already spent more than $1-billion in Afghanistan.

 

Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: It’s now obvious that Kmart is being slowly sacrificed on the Sears altar! Shoplifters flock!

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A 104 years old Sears shutting down in Washington.  A 24 years old California Kmart will close in April.  A North Carolina Kmart shutting down in June. Another New York Kmart closing , in June.  The Blue Ash Kmart in Ohio shutting down in June.  A Nebraska Kmart going down, despite local news reports saying the store has a lot of business.  Another Michigan Kmart going down.  An Oregon Kmart closing in June.  Virginia Kmart shutting down in April.  A Georgia Kmart closing in March.  Alabama losing the Fort Payne Kmart, just one week after Sears Holdings officials officially denied to local news media that they were going to shut it down!

Snow collapsed a Kmart roof in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  In Michigan, snow collapsed the roof of a Saginaw Township Kmart.

In Indiana, a female shoplifter was finally caught after at least six months of robbing the same Kmart store.  She admitted it was an obsession, she stole whatever she could, nothing specific, she didn’t know why.  This as Obama Care kills funding of in-house psych treatment at medical centers.

In Massachusetts, a woman charged with shoplifting at a Kmart.

In Florida, a team of three women arrested for shoplifting at the Boca Raton Sears.

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), recently revealed Fort Payne Kmart.

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 (at least 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, recently revealed Banning Kmart (91 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), recently revealed 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).

Hawaii: Honolulu Sears (owned by GGP, 372 jobs lost!!!),  Kauai Sears (41 jobs lost),  Iwilei-Honolulu Kmart for lease (no confirmation of store closing).

Vacant bedroom/bathroom section.

One corner of the half vacant Chubbuck, Idaho, Sears. No official closing announcement was made.

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 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.

Ever since the Kmart bankruptcy, this pad site for sale sign has been seen in the Pocatello, Idaho, Big Kmart parking lot. The Kmart is the only building on the lot.

Ever since the Kmart bankruptcy, this pad site for sale sign has been seen in the Pocatello, Idaho, Big Kmart parking lot. The Kmart is the only building on the lot.

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).  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).

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), recently revealed Petoskey Kmart (45 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).

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).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

Nebraska: Recently revealed 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).

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), recently revealed East Greenbush-Rensselaer Kmart (70 jobs lost).

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), recently revealed Conover Kmart (74 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), recently revealed Blue Ash Kmart (77 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), recently revealed Klamath Falls Kmart (64 jobs lost).

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).

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).

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 control 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), recently revealed Wise Kmart (58 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 (about 50 jobs lost), recently revealed 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).

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)

Influenza

Influenza: Medical Martial Law as U.S. CDC issues H1N1 flu shot warning? Blame horses? H1N1 season to last until 2015? More proof of high failure rate for flu vaccines! Virus and Bacteria working together?

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“North America’s response to the H1N1 pandemic in 2009 remains an example of timely and effective cooperation. We will build upon the North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza (NAPAPI) to strengthen our preparedness and response to future public health events.”-Barack Obama, President of United States, and Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, and Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada

Canada:  The UN’s World Health Organization has been warned by U.S. and Canadian health officials that H1N1 will stick around until 2015, and as a result the vaccine will not be changed for the 2014-15 flu season.  This despite a Canadian study saying the vaccine has a 39% failure rate!

European Union:  A Influenza Monitoring Vaccine Effectiveness in Europe study concluded that the vaccine used during the 2012-13 flu season had a 50% to 58% failure rate!  The study looked at records from France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Spain.

Ireland, EU:  Health officials reporting outbreaks of influenza A(H1) and A(H3).  Five deaths in the first week of February. They are also outright lying to the public, saying vaccines “…provide 70-90% protection.” (see studies above)

Mexico: As of 18 February 2014, 510 H1N1 deaths despite tens of millions of Mexicans being vaccinated. 46 people died from other types of influenza.  More than 5-thousand influenza cases, including H3N2, fluB and “other”.  By the way, health care in Mexico has no upfront costs to most patients, so stop saying they’re coming to ‘merica for the “free welfare” health care! (those people coming to U.S.A. for health care are most likely immigrants from Central American countries, not Mexico)

United States: Is Obama’s evil Global Health Security Agenda being implemented already?  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just issued a ‘warning’ about not getting the questionable H1N1 flu vaccination.  The CDC says this flu season is resulting in 61% of victims being between the ages of 18 and 64, almost double a ‘normal’ flu season.  Government officials warned that this flu “…season is likely to continue for some time…” demanding people get the bilderberger vaccination.  However the director of the CDC, Tom Frieden, admitted the vaccine is not 100% effective: “It’s not working as well as we wish it would.”

Arizona, U.S.A.: A new University of Arizona study says the massive 1918 influenza pandemic originated in horses, not birds.  This makes sense as global militaries still relied on horses, and the first people to get sick were veterans returning from the First World War.

California, U.S.A.: More than 243 people killed by H1N1, so far, 41 new deaths being investigated.  In Romona County, the Christian god decided to end the life of the Senior Pastor at the Mountain View Community Church, by infecting him with H1N1.  The virus killed him in less than a week. Families across the Golden State are getting promises of prayers for their sick loved ones, from around the world.  An El Dorado County woman says she survived a 35 day battle with H1N1, because of a simple x-ray.  She was actually dead for two minutes, doctors were stumped until the chest x-ray revealed a telltale sign of H1N1; lungs filling with fluid.  They drained three liters of fluid and put her on dialysis: “My liver failed, my kidneys failed, my pancreas failed and my heart.”-Renate Cooper

Michigan, U.S.A: The entire Millington School District shutdown due to a H1N1 outbreak!  The Genesee County Health Department reports that as of 16 January at least 156 people have been hospitalized, and that’s before the school outbreak.

Montana, U.S.A.: Seven deaths, 250 hospitalizations.  State health officials are warning of a deadly trend: “This year for the first time anybody can recall, I’ve spoken to my other infectious disease colleagues in the state, we’re seeing that bacterial pneumonia immediately on the heels of the influenza symptoms. There’s no delay, there’s no time gap between the flu symptoms and the bacterial pneumonia.“-Donald Skillman, Saint Peter’s Medical Group

Skillman also said normally influenza does not cause renal failure: “…kidney failure and kidney problems aren’t typically part of the influenza problem.”

If bacteria are working together with viruses, then that could render vaccines even less effective.

Nebraska, U.S.A.: A 43 years old cop died from H1N1. He was in the hospital for a week.

North Carolina, U.S.A.:  An Alamance County woman is still fighting H1N1, after almost two months of hospitalization.  Ashley Allen said she always gets the flu shot, except this season she forgot and H1N1 hit her hard: “In a matter of five days I went from cough and fever to life support.”    The latest North Carolina H1N1 case is a eight month old baby.  The parents say he’s been sick at least three weeks.  Giving the baby antibiotics didn’t work: “He started vomiting up the antibiotics and his color changed.”-Evan Galvanek, father

Wisconsin, U.S.A.: A 43 years old man, with other health problems, died two weeks after getting H1N1. In this case a chest x-ray showed there was no problems with his lungs, and doctors sent him home.  Two days later that all changed, with his lungs filling with fluid.  His wife is still shocked that he was killed by flu: “I was worried about a heart attack. Never in my wildest dreams did I think he’d get the flu and die!”-Renae Whipps

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 27-29 October 2013. Obama kills British empire helicopter company! Bush is Burning in Bankruptcy! The ObamaCare job killer on the loose!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Alabama: In Birmingham, it was announced a Kmart was shutting down.  At least 70 jobs lost.

Arkansas: 87 years old canned and frozen veggie producer, Allens, now bankrupt.  The company survived the Great Depression and Second World War, but has to “reorganize” because of the current economic situation.  What automotive industry recovery? In Heber Springs, France based Saint Jean Industries laid off 300 people!  It was only in 2012 that the automotive sub assembly company said it was expanding ops in Heber Springs.  The suck ass world economy resulted in “a need for fewer employees.”

California: Tax sucker Boeing laid off more employees, this time 80 jobs killed.  In Cerritos, Revcycle laid off 26 employees.  In Riverbank, more layoffs from Silgan Containers, this time 21 jobs lost.  In Northridge, Obama Care kills 138 jobs at the Northridge Hospital Medical Center!  In San Diego, Sony Entertainment laid off 70 people. In Moutain View, Symantec fired one guy.  Obama Care killed 62 jobs with First Medical Management.  In Long Beach, Obama Care killed 704 jobs at the Pacific Hospital!  You love your Obama Care don’t you?

Connecticut: In Newington, Mortensen’s ice cream restaurant shutdown.  The family will focus on wholesale orders only.

Florida: In West Palm Beach, iconic Adam & Eve Architectural Salvage shutdown.  The owner said she is “tired”.

Illinois: In East Saint Louis, the operators of the Katherine Dunham Museum are warning that despite state taxpayer grants they can’t pay their utility bills, and could shutdown.

Kentucky: In Lexington, the 82 years old Miller & Woodward Jewelers shutdown.  The owner wants to retire, and nobody wanted to take over the business.

Louisiana: Once considered the country’s fastest growing health care providers, Schumacher Group is now being cut down by Obama Care.  Originally it had plans to hire 600 new people by 2017, instead it has started laying people off!  At least 42 employees let go in this first round, company officials squarely blame Obama Care: “The Affordable Care Act brings with it the biggest changes in our industry’s history. Additionally, reductions in hospital reimbursements by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies all affect our clients, and thus our company.”-Gary Keller, president

Massachusetts: The Brayton Point Power Station laid off 40 employees.  The coal fired electricity generator will be shutdown in 2017.  Vertex Pharmaceuticals lays off 175 people in the Bay State.  It’s part of a larger layoff of 370 people around the world.  It’s blamed on crashing sales of their hepC drug.  In Attleboro, Hearth ‘n’ Kettle restaurant was shutdown by evil property developers.

Michigan: In Flint, Ohio based Too Big to Jail FirstMerit Bank killed 135 jobs! It’s the result of the takeover of Citizen’s Bank.

Missouri: In Richmound Heights and in University City, EJ’s Shoes shutdown.  The owners will focus on internet sales only.

Nevada: Heli USA Airways is now hella bankrupt.  The British empire owner blames it on the road to his operations being blocked and the federal Obama regime government reneging on a contract!

New Jersey: In Clifton, British empire based GlaxoSmithKline shutting down their dental care products factory.  165 U.S. jobs killed by Red Coats!

New York: Obama Care killing an undisclosed amount of jobs at Glens Falls Hospital.  This after 95 employees already “voluntarily” quit!  One of the biggest international news agencies is now slashing jobs big!  Thomson Reuters killing 4500 jobs in 2014!!!  That’s on top of the 2500 jobs Reuters killed in its fiscal year 2013!  Company officials blamed it on lack of financing from the Too Big to Jail Banks!

North Carolina: A state janitor contractor, Mundy Maintenance, laid off 100 people!  The contract ended.

Pennsylvania: Clarion University destroyed 36 jobs.  It’s blamed on crashing taxpayer funding and student enrollments.  In Royersford, Lucky Lab Tavern shutdown after only two years.  A reason was not given.

South Carolina: In Columbia a Barnes & Noble bookstore shutdown.

Virginia: Burning Bush Day Care & Learning Center now bankrupt.  Daycare center officials refused to comment to news media.

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. 2014: Native Americans try to excommunicate one of their own, get an uprising instead! Who said women aren’t violent?

21 February 2014 (00:12 UTC-07 Tango)/20 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/02 Esfand 1392/22 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

In northern California, a small native tribe tried to kick out a former female tribal leader and her son.  However, the 44 years old woman resisted by shooting and stabbing to death four Cedarville Rancheria Paiute tribal elders, and wounding two others.

Alturas Police officials say they captured the renegade female elder running from the scene, still clutching a butcher knife.  Some news media sources are leaving out the fact that the woman also used a knife, mentioning only the gun as part of their anti-gun agenda.

It was a wounded victim that ran for help, notifying the Alturas Police Department.  Current news reports do not explain why the former tribal leader was being ousted.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Trilateral Commission’s Cobra Gold 14 conducts Obama regime Global Health Security Agenda op!

21 February 2014 (23:38 UTC-07 Tango 22 February 2014)/20 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/02 Esfand 1392/22 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Talk about false flag ops, while Thailand is descending into U.S. sponsored civil war, Trilateral Commission members United States, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and China conducted Cobra Gold 14 (14-16 February 2014).

Cobra Gold is the largest U.S. led war game in Southeast Asia, and this was the 33rd event.  For some participants the operations are still ongoing.

Besides the now normal amphibious assault beach taking operations, Japanese news media revealed that this year’s Cobra Gold games involved Japanese units conducting military medical rescue missions, in line with Barack Obama’s Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA).

The GHSA operation saw Japanese “Self Defense Forces” ‘rescue’ a school full of children in central Thailand.  And for reals, the Japanese are now building an actual medical clinic at the school.

Neo-imperialist Japan is now requiring that any country that requests Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan, such as medical help (part of GHSA plan), must also allow Japan to bring in military forces!

The Chinese are doing the same thing!  They took part in Cobra Gold for the first time and also conducted Obama regime GHSA ops, and now are building a real school.  China is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Of course this Cobra Gold 14 is taking place after months of U.S. instigated riots against the socialist, yet democratically elected government of Thailand.  Protestors involve middle and upper class people who want to pay less taxes, as well as farmers who’re claiming they have yet to be paid the government subsidy for their rice crops.  The latest news is that the farmers are blocking roads into Bangkok with their tractors.  There are reports that the farmer subsidies have bankrupted the government.   Yeah, a socialist anti-U.S. anti-Trilateral Commission government, now you know the reason why Obama is backing the rebels.

Obama is not bringing the troops back home from the illegal War on Terror, he’s  shifting U.S. military power to Japan, and South Korea, for the coming war with China over who will control the vast economic resources in the South China Sea (aka Asian Meridian).

Obama regime Ukraine insurgents show Modus Operandi

For second time Japan invades California in Trilateral Commission war game

Trilateral Commission patsies try to occupy Kiev!

Obama regime to base nuke weapons in Japan!

Japan wants UN to recognize slave labor industry as a “World Heritage”!

Japan wants UN to recognize suicide bombers as a “World Heritage”!

Japan to build nuclear power plants in Iran!

Official Orwellian Double-Speak pro-war propaganda program has begun 

Japanese leaders overheard talking about invading Korea!

Japanese news media is reporting that Hagel is planning to officially ask Japan to prepare to take over some U.S. military ops

Trilateral Commission member, Japan, to create new Homeland Security office!

Japan enters U.S. data collection/spying market!

Imperialist Japan to increase military spending by tens of billions 

TriLateral Imperialism as the U.S. mulls allowing Japan to invade Korea!!!

The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller in 1973.  The official goal is to foster economic and political co-operation between Pacific Asian countries, North American countries and European countries (notice these are the regions that are currently in big economic trouble).

In 2000, the Japan membership was expanded to include many other Asian countries, and is now called the Pacific Asian Group.

In April 2013, Japan became a member of NATO (which has become the Trilateral Commission’s military unit): “…..You might ask why the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should come to the Pacific region.  The answer is very simple.  Today’s NATO is a new NATO.  It’s a NATO with a global perspective.  It’s a NATO with global partners.  And Japan is our longest-standing global partner…..NATO and Japan are like-minded……we can help the United Nations and the international community to reinforce the rules-based international system……we need common approaches and responses…….To confront global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks, and proliferation…..And I am delighted that later today, Prime Minister Abe and I will sign a Joint Political Declaration to guide our future work.”-Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, from statement made on the morning of 15 April 2013, Japan National Press Club

 

U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Obama regime cop kills High School ROTC student, for playing Nintendo!!! U.S. cops afraid of BB guns are mentally disturbed!

20 February 2014 (10:31 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/01 Esfand 1392/21 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

As a father this incident outrages me!  In the U.S. state of Georgia a dip schitck Obama sucking cop shot and killed a teenaged ROTC student, because she mistook his Wii controller for a gun!!!

Cops showed up to conduct a probation warrant on the boy’s father.  They knocked on the door, the teen was about to play Nintendo Wii, and/or watch a movie, and was holding the controller in his hand when he opened the door.  Without question the female NAZI cop shot him dead!

The ass hole fucking Euharlee City Police Department insists the ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) student was holding a BB gun! There are witnesses that say bullshit on that NAZI cop claim, pointing out that the teen asked who it was when the cops knocked on the door, and the evil martial law cops refused to respond: “The eyewitnesses on the scene clearly state that he had a Wii controller in his hand. He heard a knock at the door. He asked who it was, there was no response so he opened the door and upon opening the door he was immediately shot in the chest!”-Cole Law, attorney

A neighbor said the female cop even began crying once she realized what she did: “She put her head in her hands and she was sobbing. Supposedly, he opened the door with a BB gun and in my opinion I think he was playing a game with his neighborhood buddies.”-Ken Yates, witness

Oh, the Euharlee City Police Department’s excuse that the teen was holding a BB gun is bullshit!  Here’s why: A BB gun can’t kill you!  At most the worst injury is you lose your eye if you get shot in the eye at close range.  When I was in elementary school, back in the mid 1970s, one of my friends got shot at point blank range with a BB gun.  We used tweezers to get the BB out of his skin.  As expected his mother went ballistic when he explained that the hole in the top layer of his skin was from a BB gun, and he was never allowed to play with us again (it was his fault, he grabbed the BB gun by the barrel while it was being shot, because he was impatient and wanted his turn at shooting it).

So, if you notice, many killer cops use the excuse that their victim was holding a BB gun.  If cops think wimpy BB guns justify extrajudicial executions then they must have some kind of paranoid psychosis (hallucinations, delusions accompanied by intense fear).

You sick in the head cops go to hell, go to hell and die!

Crazy Californians want to ban BB guns, after Cop murders child holding BB gun! 

Grade school students punished by school officials for playing with toy guns at home!!! 

International, U.S.

World War 3, East European Front: Obama regime Ukraine insurgents show same Modus Operandi as Obama regime insurgents in Libya, Syria and Egypt! Wearing U.S. military camo body armor!

20 February 2014 (08:23 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/01 Esfand 1392/21 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Ass hole Obama continues to call his insurgents in Ukraine “peaceful protesters”, and has warned the Ukrainian government to keep their hands off them!  Obama’s peaceful protestors have now killed one reporter and wounded 28 other journalists!

Hardcore Obama regime insurgents are the ones who broke the Ukrainian truce, as I watched it happen live on Russian TV.  They stated they do not recognize any ‘protest’ group claiming to represent rebels.  If you paid attention to the overthrow of Qaddafi in Libya, the coup against democratically elected Morsi in Egypt and the ongoing civil war in Syria, that’s exactly the Modus Operandi of Obama backed insurgents there: Government officials offered a truce and it was the hardcore Obama regime insurgents who refused and continued fighting, while the U.S.-British empire controlled news media reported it was the governments that broke the truce!

Video from reporters caught in Kiev show the Obama regime lackeys wearing U.S. Army digital style camo body armor, armed with Glock pistols, sniper rifles and assault rifles.  Remember that Ukraine has strict anti-gun laws, so how did they get all those weapons and ammo so fast?  In Libya and Syria insurgents openly stated, in videos posted on the internet, that they were getting their weapons and cash from the United States. I never noticed this fact being reported by main streamer U.S.-British empire controlled media.  In Egypt, the U.S. backed military did the dirty work.

Journalists are reporting that the insurgents (Obama’s peaceful protesters) are targeting them.  Reporters are now afraid to point their cameras towards the fighting because they get shot at immediately.  At the time of this writing one reporter has been killed and 28 wounded!  This is also the same Modus Operandi of Obama lackeys in Libya, Syria and Egypt.

Journalists also reported that insurgents have occupied churches, turning them into hospitals.  The same thing happened in Libya, Syria and Egypt where the insurgents took over Mosques.  Journalists also report that captured cops are being tortured and then denied medical care by insurgents.  Also, civilians are being randomly targeted by the insurgents. Hey, isn’t that what the Obama insurgents did in Libya, Egypt and are still doing in Syria?

Trilateral Commission patsies try to occupy Kiev!

International, U.S.

World War 3: For second time Japan invades California in Trilateral Commission war game in prep for war with China!

20 February 2014 (07:58 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/01 Esfand 1392/21 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Japanese news media revealed that for the second time, since June 2013, Japanese Self Defense Forces have invaded California.

On 19 February 2014, 270 troops of the Western Army Infantry Regiment from Nagasaki joined 500 U.S. Marines in a beach landing war game in southern California.  Back in June 2013 Japan, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. Marines conducted island hopping exercises off the coast of California.  Most Californians didn’t even know about it!

The Western Army Infantry Regiment will be used to create a new amphibious landing brigade for the neo-imperialist Japanese government.

Remember, Japan is a puppet of the United States, and the Obama regime has repeatedly stated they will back up Japan even if it means war with China or North Korea.  Obama is not bringing the troops back home from the illegal War on Terror, he’s  shifting U.S. military power to Japan, and South Korea, for the coming war with China.

Trilateral Commission patsies try to occupy Kiev!

Obama regime to base nuke weapons in Japan!

Japan wants UN to recognize slave labor industry as a “World Heritage”!

Japan wants UN to recognize suicide bombers as a “World Heritage”!

Japan to build nuclear power plants in Iran!

Official Orwellian Double-Speak pro-war propaganda program has begun 

Japanese leaders overheard talking about invading Korea!

Japanese news media is reporting that Hagel is planning to officially ask Japan to prepare to take over some U.S. military ops

Trilateral Commission member, Japan, to create new Homeland Security office!

Japan enters U.S. data collection/spying market!

Imperialist Japan to increase military spending by tens of billions 

TriLateral Imperialism as the U.S. mulls allowing Japan to invade Korea!!!

The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller in 1973.  The official goal is to foster economic and political co-operation between Japan, North American countries and European countries (notice these are the regions that are currently in big economic trouble).

In 2000, the Japan membership was expanded to include many other Asian countries, and is now called the Pacific Asian Group.

In April 2013, Japan became a member of NATO (which has become the Trilateral Commission’s military unit): “…..You might ask why the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should come to the Pacific region.  The answer is very simple.  Today’s NATO is a new NATO.  It’s a NATO with a global perspective.  It’s a NATO with global partners.  And Japan is our longest-standing global partner…..NATO and Japan are like-minded……we can help the United Nations and the international community to reinforce the rules-based international system……we need common approaches and responses…….To confront global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks, and proliferation…..And I am delighted that later today, Prime Minister Abe and I will sign a Joint Political Declaration to guide our future work.”-Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, from statement made on the morning of 15 April 2013, Japan National Press Club