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According to Chinese news media, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a “substantial” statement regarding a new Sino-Russia pact.
Putin will visit China for the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia on 20-21 May.
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“I’m just dying to know why this happened and who approved it, because it was a dumb idea!”-Jim Conca, former WIPP employee
Investigators have discovered what might have created the chemical reaction explosion that “disturbed” one ton ballast/containment bags in New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP): organic kitty litter. This is one time that going ‘green’ was the wrong thing to do. However, it also reveals violations of federal laws!
According to a former WIPP scientist, Jim Conca, it looks like sometime after 2010 the inert clay type cat litter (absorbent) normally used was switched to organic cat litter. The problem is that the ‘organic’ cat litter is made from things like wheat, corn, paper, sawdust, and reacted with fumes coming from the 55 gallon mixed waste drums.
It turns out that kitty litter was being used to absorb and cover-up any liquid waste, because it is illegal for any liquid waste to be stored at WIPP!!! This also suggests officials knew the drums contained liquid waste. The fumes from the liquid waste escaped and mixed with the active organic kitty litter, possibly causing the “chemical reaction”.
Investigators also found melted metal and rubber in the Panel 7 area. Plutonium is one of the isotopes that was leaked into the air. WIPP accepts nuke waste from three sources: Los Alamos, Idaho National Laboratory and Savannah River. Investigators said they think they know who sent the illegal waste, but refused to name names.
Researchers in the United States claim they’ve discovered a drug that could prevent radiation poisoning. It involves a drug being tested for treatment of blood aliments. Doctors hope to use the drug on people undergoing radiation treatments. But wait, don’t get too excited. Turns out the drug only seems to prevent radiation absorption within the first 24 hours of exposure.
Speaking of drugs to prevent radiation contamination. In Japan the national government suddenly became concerned about the stockpile of iodide pills in Niigata Prefecture. Please note that news media continue to incorrectly call them iodine pills.
Niigata Prefecture is home to Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, which is run by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo, yep the same ones who run Fukushima Daiichi). Inspectors discovered that prefectural officials still haven’t stockpiled the required 1.3 million iodide pills, that were part of a national government order back in January of this Gregorian year!
It’s not just Niigata, 23 other prefectures are being investigated for compliance with the January iodide order!
Fukushima Prefecture has banned seven wild food crops from being harvested or sold, due to high levels of contamination! A total of 16 varieties of wild crops are contaminated!
Many wild plants are regular food sources in Japan, but now, three years after the Fukushima nuke disasters, at least three types of wild crops are totally soaked in radiation: 700 becquerels in fiddleheads, 430 becquerels in bracken and 460 becquerels in Japanese spikenard!
The official Japanese government safe limit is only 100 Bq per kilogram of radiation.
Fukushima government officials say most of the radiation contamination is in the forests to the west of Fukushima Daiichi. This is a dilemma, because the predominant winds are to the east or north, into the Pacific Ocean. So why do high levels of radiation continue to show up to the west of the melted out nuke plant?
Also, independent testing shows that the groundwater that flows under Fukushima Daiichi, from the west, is already contaminated despite what TEPCo says. I’ve postulated before that whatever is contaminating the mountains is contaminating the groundwater, before it hits the nuke plant.
Japan’s Environment Ministry says 16 municipalities have failed to meet decontamination deadlines. The main reason is that radiation contamination was much worse than originally reported!
Japan told people to take Iodide back on March 16
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200 block of West 116th Street: A 15 years old boy was shot at least twice, and killed.
4100 block of West 28th Street: A man was found shot dead, less than a block from his home.
4100 block of West Adams Street: A man was shot to death by a group of men who got out of a car and confronted him.
11400 block of South Aberdeen Street: A woman was shot dead as she sat in her front yard.
South South Shore Drive: A 25 years old man shot in the hand. He walked himself to a hospital.
300 block of East 136th Street: Two men shot. One was shot in the leg, the other in the chest. They are both in the hospital.
4500 block of South Wabash Avenue: 24 years old man shot in the butt, he’s in stable condition.
4700 block of South Wabash Avenue: A man was shot and didn’t even know it. Police claim the man walked for a couple of blocks before realizing he had been shot. It was a grazing wound on his back. The shooting happened as the man passed a funeral being held at a neighborhood church.
100 block of South Pulaski Road: 25 years old man shot by drive by shooter. He was hit in the arm and chest and is in serious condition.
9500 block of South Woodlawn Avenue: Three males shot and wounded by drive by shooters. They were taken to hospitals by friends.
1200 block of West Touhy Avenue: Two men in their 30s were eating BBQ in a city park when drive by shooters shot them. They are both in hospitals.
10400 block of South Wentworth Avenue: A male and female were shot and wounded, no other details.
11500 block of South Eggleston Avenue: A man reported to police that he’d been shot in the hand by a drive by shooter.
8200 block of South Coles Avenue: A man reported he’d been shot in the leg by a drive by shooter. Hospital officials said he’s in good condition.
0-100 block of East 100th Place: A 56 years old woman shot in the foot.
0-100 block of East 121st Street: Passengers in a car, a man and woman, both shot. The man is in critical condition.
400 block of West 126th Place: 31 years old man shot in the hip by drive by shooter.
5700 block of South Racine Avenue: After an argument on a Chicago Transit Authority bus, a 17 years old boy got shot in the leg. For some reason police originally said it was an adult in his 30s who got shot.
1400 block of South Keeler Avenue: A 28 years old man shot in the face and chest, now in serious condition. A 16 years old boy shot in the butt.
3300 block of West Maypole Avenue: A 16 years old boy brought into hospital with gunshot to the leg.
1400 block of South Kostner Avenue: Two men shot and wounded. Both in stable condition.
4800 block of South Loomis Boulevard: A 15 years old girl shot in the foot.
3400 block of West 24th Street: Four men attending a family cookout were shot by a single gunman. They are in stable condition. Chicago Tribune reports that one of the witnesses said the shootings “Ain’t nothing new.”
I did not list all shooting reports, because the details of shooting victims sound suspiciously similar, even though street locations are different.
The latest local news reports say police have made no arrests. Police say there is a gang war going on. Apparently the police aren’t going to take action, possibly hoping the gang bangers kill each other off, but a lot of unarmed people are getting shot.
Obama regime lackey and Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, announced the start of a new offensive called operation Put the Guns Down. Emanuel didn’t quite explain how it was supposed to work: “We do policing. We do prevention. We do penalties. We also need parenting. We’re going to add a fifth P today; pop culture.”
Apparently Put the Guns Down is a propaganda operation requiring Chicago radio show hosts to demand the population relinquish their guns. Please note that all the shooting victims were unarmed!
“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
Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.
It was revealed by inside sources that Radio Shack will shutdown at least 500 U.S. stores by the end of 2014!
Furr’s Fresh Buffet restaurant chain now chapter 11 busted. 2-thousand jobs affected! There are Furr’s restaurants in New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Company officials blamed lack of operating loans and even climate change: “….challenges facing our industry and the liquidity constraints due to our indebtedness and the recent ice storm, we need to explore options to restructure our debt, recapitalize and position ourselves for future growth.”-Barry M. Barron Sr, CEO
Andrew Carnegie founded United States Steel (USS) killed 175 jobs in Canada! Company officials said it was part of the plan to cut the costs of their operations around the world.
It’s been reported that U.S. Too Big to Jail banks shutdown more than 1400 offices in 2013! The fat cats blame slow revenue growth and the cost of complying with government regulations (complying with regulations, yeah right!). More shutdowns are planned for 2014.
Alabama: In Courtland, International Paper continues its shut down of their factory, 500 jobs being killed! When the shutdown is complete 1100 jobs in total will be lost!
California: In San Mateo, it’s being reported by inside sources that two years old digital media company Avos is shutting down its HQ and laying off 80% of employees.
Colorado: In Denver, a longtime Kazoo Toys store shutdown. The owner blamed it on greedy landlords and lack of parking for customers. The Kazoo Toys store at the International Airport is still open.
Florida: In Lauderdale by the Sea, after more than 30 years Jo-an’s Papers & More shutdown. The owner blamed paperless communications, although she admitted her sales didn’t start crashing until the ‘great recession’ began in 2008, so maybe it’s really the overall bad economy. In fact, Barbara Winston Hansen said her sales dropped 50% in 2008, and never recovered.
Hawaii: In Kailua, after 17 years the Alpha Video store shutdown. The owner blamed increasing rent and decreasing sales.
Illinois: In Monmoth, Olivia’s Cookie Jar and Kitchen announced it will shutdown this year. Owner, Rae Connolly, told local news media it was because of the suck ass economy. Kankakee County warned of layoffs. It’s blamed on controversial tax sharing deals with city officials. But even officials in the Chicago area are accusing the county of stealing their tax revenues.
Indiana: Hoosier Park Racing & Casino laid off 13 employees, due to a steady decline in revenues.
Iowa: In Bettendorf, another victim of the secret plan to shutdown all Hallmark gift stores: After 54 years Kile’s Hallmark shutdown, nine jobs lost.
Michigan: The troubled and possibly thieving Saginaw School District warned of school shutdowns in order to save money. The District is already being sued by one of its own board members, is already in the hole by $6.1-million USD, and last year it was forced by state officials to take over and shutdown the Buena Vista School District. And even though Buena Vista School District is dead, the local residents are still forking over local school taxes to pay off $6-million in District debt! I’ve written this before: Michigan is a failed state.
New York: Too Big to Jail M&T Bank shutting down ten offices. Key Bank warned of more closures. Key Bank already shutdown 81 offices in 2013. Its reported that publisher Time will kill 500 jobs this year (which is about how many jobs they killed last year)! Utica City School District killing 94 jobs. The District is in the hole by $6.4-million! And this is despite the fact that the District is one of the rare few that actually has increasing student enrollment! In Bronx, Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) CHOICE Community Care laid off 37 employees. In NYC, Visiting Nurse Service of New York Home Care laid off six employees.
North Carolina: In Charlotte, Kellogg shutting down its Famous Amos, Austin Sandwich Creme and Iced Animals factory, 195 jobs lost! Kellogg has been shutting down factories in Australia, Canada and United States, but shifting production to southeast Asian countries under a operation called Project K. After 48 years Arnold’s Family Restaurant shutdown, the co-owner said “It just feels like it’s time.”
Texas: Copperas Cove Independent School District killing 75 jobs. The district no longer qualifies for the federal Heavy Impact Aid, which equates to a $12-million loss. The aid is for schools located near federal installations like military bases. However, 35% of the student population must meet certain qualifications, and apparently declining enrollment has resulted in not enough students to meet that 35% requirement.
Washington: In Oak Harbor, the Kmart will be shutdown by April, 68 jobs lost.
Washington DC: Howard University laying off 200 employees over the next few months! The jobs are being outsourced. University employees protested, but of course they were ignored.
Wisconsin: A Kmart in Menomonie and a Kmart in Chippewa Falls to shutdown, at least 100 jobs lost! Product design and development firm Red Fusion Studios shutting down. 35 jobs lost, and many employees did not want their names made public because they believe it will prevent them from getting a new job! It’s blamed on the loss of their biggest client, who without warning pulled funding: “Koss is pulling its funding and as they pay on the first of the month, RFS will not have the funds to make payroll on the 3rd….I am truly sorry. This has been a complete surprise to me……..”-Michael Pelland, Red Fusion CEO
01-03 February 2014: Massive Dollar store shutdown blamed on ObamaCare!
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
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Eddie Lampert has announced more stores to be closed down, some reports say as many as 500 more! The Chicago Tribune reports that since 2010 at least 305 stores have been shutdown. Lampert stated “sometimes you need to go backwards to go forwards.”
Two more Michigan Kmarts shutting down, by mid-July.
In California, the owner of Laguna Hills Mall has bought out remaining portion of the lease for Sears. The Sears has been there since 1973, but will now shutdown in July. The mall owner wants to tear everything down and build a “promenade-style urban village”.
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.
Delaware: Dover Kmart (72 jobs lost), recently revealed 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 (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, Banning Kmart (91 jobs lost), recently revealed Laguna Hills Mall Sears.
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.
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. 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).
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), recently revealed 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.
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).
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).
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).
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 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), 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).
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)
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“The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionizing radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial. The health risks – particularly the development of solid cancers in organs, rise proportionally with exposure. At low doses of radiation, the risk of inducing solid cancers is very small. As the overall lifetime exposure increases, so does the risk.”-Richard R. Monson, Harvard School of Public Health
“A preponderance of scientific evidence shows that even low doses of ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are likely to pose some risk of adverse health effects….”-National Academy of Sciences, 2005 press release
In Massachusetts, U.S.A., near the Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station the Massachusetts Cancer Registry confirms dense levels of cancer. Between 2002 and 2009 there was a 95% chance of developing leukemia, if you lived in the towns of Carver, Duxbury, Kingston, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth, and Plympton.
The Registry also revealed the majority of cancer cases in the Bay State can be found in the above mentioned seven towns, which reside in the shadow of the Pilgrim Nuclear facility. Contamination has been a problem for awhile now. A 1982 survey showed cesium-137 levels in local milk was 1-million times higher than expected! The nuclear power plant operator blamed it on Chinese nuclear bomb tests on the other side of the world.
The Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station was designed by GE (General Electric) and built by Bechtel. It uses boiling water reactors (BWR) similar to those used at Fukushima Daiichi.
In Missouri, U.S.A., after residents paid for their own radiological testing of soil around a landfill containing nuclear waste, the U.S. EPA is now going to conduct their own testing.
The Boston Chemical Data Group says soil samples showed the Bridgeton Athletic Complex, and a nearby ditch, are highly contaminated. The laboratory also warned that nobody should use the park until the EPA gets involved. The EPA and the nut-less city of Bridgeton (which has repeatedly told concerned residents to blow off) will conduct testing on 19 May.
In New Mexico, U.S.A., the state’s Environment Department Secretary, Ryan Flynn, is calling for the total shutdown of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Flynn made the statement after Jim Blankenhorn, the Nuclear Waste Partnership Recovery Manager, said WIPP will be closed for at least three years. Flynn says so far the federal investigators are making their claims based on pure guess work, kind of like what’s been happening in Japan: “We need to know what happened. We absolutely need to know. But we need to make decisions based on facts!”
In Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, yet another study that says Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) is flat lying about radiation contamination levels! Fukushima University’s Institute of Environmental Radioactivity reporting that actual cesium-137 levels are at least 50% higher than what TEPCo has reported!
Last week the TEPCo’s manager of the clean up at Fukushima Daiichi, Ono Akira, revealed that all efforts to stop ongoing contaminated water leaks have failed: “It’s embarrassing to admit, but there are certain parts of the site where we don’t have full control.”
3-thousand people dead & dying
Fukushima evacuations false flag op to destroy families?
FUKUSHIMA “MELT-OUTS”, IT ONLY GETS WORSE!
Campbell Avenue: A woman was shot in the back as she was driving her car. She drove away before calling for help.
43rd and Honore streets: A 22 years old man shot and wounded.
North Lamon Avenue: A 24 years old man grazed in the side. Police report he refused medical treatment and is being “uncooperative” with cops.
North Racine Avenue: A 20 years old man was shot multiple times. Now in stable condition.
West Evergreen Avenue: A decomposed body was found in a car parked in a garage.
East 136th Street: Police reported two people shot, and rifle casings found at the scene. Police gave no other details.
South Vincennes Avenue: A couple of armed men entered a restaurant and shot two men. One man died, the other is in the hospital.
South Puaski Road: 24 years old man shot multiple times. Now in hospital in serious condition.
South Prairie Avenue: A 16 years old boy shot in the hand.
South Cottage Grove Avenue: A 26 years old man shot in the foot by drive by shooter.
South Wabash Avenue: 24 years old man shot in his butt.
South Woodlawn Avenue: Three people shot. A 16 years old boy and a 27 years old man both shot in the legs. Another man was shot in the back and legs, and was driven to a hospital by a resident.
Touhy Avenue: Two people shot by drive by shooters. A 37 years old man was hit multiple times and is in serious condition. A 36 years old man was shot in the leg.
South Wentworth Avenue: A man was shot in the butt, and walked himself to the hospital. A 35 years old woman was shot in the back. She apparently refused to be taken to the hospital, but was treated at the scene.
South Eggleston Avenue: A 31 years old man shot in the hand.
South Coles Avenue: 20 years old man shot by drive by shooters.
East 100th Place: A 56 years old woman sitting on her porch was shot in the foot. She said a group of people on the other side of the street started shooting at a passing car, that’s when she was hit. Also, a 36 years old woman was shot in the leg by a walk by shooter.
Police in the city of Evanston now reporting that the Chicago civil war has spread into their territory. They now believe weekend shootings in Evanston are the actions of Chicago gangs.
Note: There was a report of a woman being shot and killed, but it sounded too much like a shooting that actually happened this past weekend.
Local news reports indicated that police did not have any suspects or made any arrests, and that police are refusing to give details of shootings!
The federal government is already investigating massive corruption by city officials, and now more complaints about the failed covert gun confiscation program known as Neighborhood Recovery Initiative. There are accusations that the program’s executive director, Toni Irving, is intentionally “delaying” grant money to true non-profits groups. One of the groups who was affected by Irving’s delaying of funding was the Obama regime’s own BAM (Becoming a Man) program! Irving was given a raise for taking over Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, she reportedly makes $250-thousand per year for sitting on grant money!
“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 war update 05-06 May 2014
Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.
Yet another oil company claims to be in trouble. Canada based Tuscany International Drilling filed chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States. The oil company claims to have lost a crap load of money last year, and is now $237-million USD in debt!
For profit college Bridgepoint killing 117 jobs due to crashing student enrollment! The cuts will take place on campuses in California, Colorado and Iowa.
After 25 years Yankee One Dollar stores have failed and will close its remaining 25 stores in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. About 200 jobs lost! Company officials admitted they started losing sales five years ago, but the final straw is Obama Care forcing the company to pay for expensive insurance: “I’m the only retailer in 25 years that hasn’t raised their prices. We were one of the few regional players left in the industry.”-Keith Flike, president
Swiss based legal drugs pusher Novartis announced 4-thousand more job cuts around the world, on top of those recently announced! Novartis has been getting into trouble around the world, because most of its drugs do not work! In Japan whistleblowers revealed that so called independent university studies on Novartis drugs were actually done by Novartis employees!
Alabama: In Montgomery, after 20 years of food and car shows Flip’s restaurant shutdown. The owner blames skyrocketing insurance rates after an arson fire.
California: In Glendale, video game maker Disney Interactive laid off several hundreds of employees! It’s blamed on the company’s inability to generate big profits. In Carlsbad, the Hot Dog On A Stick restaurant chain is now bankrupt, 93 restaurants affected. In Chula Vista, Target shutdown, 117 jobs lost! In Cypress, Time Warner Cable laid off 72 employees. In Panorama City, Ricon laid off 42 employees. In Norwalk, Asplundh Construction laid off 83 employees. In San Diego, Karl Strauss Brewing laid off 67 employees. In Los Angeles, NBCUniversal laid off another four employees. In Sunnyvale, Bayer Health Care laid off 34 employees. At Camp Pendleton, tax sucker PKL Services laid off 37 employees.
Connecticut: In Mashantucket, Craftsteak Foxwoods shutdown, 54 jobs lost.
Florida: White Springs Agricultural Chemicals shutdown, 350 jobs lost! God refused to stop the shutdown of Wellington Christian School, 50 jobs lost. The Christian parents are pissed saying “Terrible. Out of the blue. Nothing. Just an e-mail to everybody. It was very upsetting.” Another parent says they just busted their butts raising donations to save the school, and now they want that money back: “Sure, well, I don’t know about that honestly in terms of the last few days, but if the money was designated to save our high school that money should be returned to our families!” However, greedy church officials now say that money is staying with the church! The “interim” pastor says he wants to sell off the school property! In Clearwater, the largest paintball maker in the world, KEE Action Sports, shutdown U.S. production. 109 jobs lost as the company outsources its work to other countries! In Leesburg, Target shutdown, 82 jobs lost. In Boca Raton, Global Tower Partners killed 62 jobs. In Tampa, British empire run child prison G4S Youth Services/Riverside Academy shutdown, 130 jobs lost!
Illinois: In Galesburg, Sears will shutdown in May, 46 jobs lost. In Franklin Park, Philips Lighting Company laid off 81 employees.
Indiana: In Mishawaka, the Save A Lot grocery store shutdown. Company officials blame the bad economy: “After having invested significant marketing and promotional support for the store, as well as fielding a great management and staff team, we’ve come to the realization we cannot anticipate a time when we will generate adequate sales to justify continuing operations.”
Michigan: In Ann Arbor, after at least 64 years Blue Front party store shutdown. The owners gave no reason for why they went out of business, perplexed city officials said the store was up to date on tax payments. In Detroit, American Red Cross Detroit National Testing Lab shutdown, 118 jobs lost!
Missouri: What automotive industry recovery? The Dave Sinclair Lincoln Mercury dealerships now bankrupt. It’s blamed on legal disputes with a Texas company.
New Hampshire: In Exeter, after 16 years the Jai Anlyn clothing store shutdown. The owner said she realized that expensive clothes don’t sell fast enough, or in large enough quantities to pay the bills.
New York: Two more Kmarts shutting down. The CEO of Kaleida Health and Great Lakes Health Systems quit his job, as other company officials warned of massive job cuts. Hospital officials said they must make drastic changes, because of Obama Care, that will affect its five hospitals and 13-thousand employees! Already in December they killed 100 jobs! In Rochester, Adecco Group shutdown, 75 jobs lost. In Binghamton, SOURCECORP shutting down, 171 jobs lost!
New Jersey: In Westfield, after only two months upscale Grädde Swedish Restaurant shutdown! The owners said screw this and are moving back to Sweden!
North Carolina: Elizabeth City State University wants to kill 65 jobs. The interim chancellor says the university must cut costs by $3.7-million USD per year!
Ohio: In Cleveland, United Airlines will shutdown operations and kill 470 jobs: “Our hub in Cleveland hasn’t been profitable for over a decade, and has generated tens of millions of dollars of annual losses in recent years. We simply cannot continue to bear these losses.”-Jeff Smisek, CEO
Texas: In Round Rock, computer giant Dell announced it will kill 15-thousand employees around the world, on top of on going job cuts! Its being blamed on the new owners of Dell, who took the company ‘private’. Those new owners apparently feel the computer market is crashing and Dell must radically downsize (“restructure”).
Washington: Upscale Madison Park Conservatory restaurant shutdown.
Wisconsin: In Racine, God refused to stop the shutdown of Christian bookseller Treasures Media. The owner says he will try selling on the internet. In Milwaukee, Diversified Machine shutdown, 218 jobs lost!
Wyoming: In Gillett, after 40 years Mike’s Hardware shutdown. The owners blame it on road construction that killed customer traffic.
31 January 2014: Homicide by cop is killing jobs in New Mexico!
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
08 May 2014 (18:28 UTC-07 Tango 07 May 2014)/08 Rajab 1435/16 Ordibehesht 1393/10 Ji-Si 4712
The New York Times has published detailed research that proves the evil corporate elitist 1% have been ripping off what was once the most wealthy Middle Class in the world, the U.S. Middle Class. And it all started with the Reagan regime in 1981!
One of the tricks Ronald Reagan used to steal money from the Middle Class was to convince everybody that gambling your retirement income on the world’s largest slot machines, the stock markets, was a good idea. During the 1980s millions of workers shifted their retirement money into what’s known as 401K, and they still do it today!
The research by New York Times Upshot shows that the crash of the U.S. Middle Class begins in the 1980s (by the way, the federal tax collector Internal Revenue Service has been saying this for years now). So don’t blame 9/11 or even the 2007/08 “recession”. In fact you could blame the “recession” on the decades of financial rape of the Middle Class, and the rapists are still getting away with it!
There’s something else that the Reagan regime began, they began a destructive relationship by cozying up to the mortal enemy of the United States: The British empire.
I’ve already explained in past postings that the British empire is the one controlling unAmerican Corporate America, through FDI, and this Foreign Direct Investment by the true “evil empire” can be traced back to the Reagan regime. The new New York Times Upshot research indicates that the crash of the U.S. Middle Class coincides with the skyrocketing Middle Class in the United Kingdom. Yes, despite all those subjects of the Queen of England constantly whining about their economic condition, the numbers show the Middle Class of the United Kingdom is now the world’s richest Middle Class!
The coinciding crash of U.S. Middle Class, and skyrocketing U.K. Middle Class indicates a shift in wealth, away from the U.S. and into the empire, accomplished by takeovers of U.S. companies. The British empire is actually a type of corporation known as a “commonwealth”.
I’ve even written about how the British empire has taken over school textbook publishers in the U.S., which could explain the shift from the use of U.S. grammar to Queen’s English grammar. In fact, in one of my Job Losses articles I wrote how New Jersey govna Christie gave a British empire company a massive tax deal to move their textbook publishing operation to his state, only to have the company close its doors and move to New York after they took the tax deal money! The British empire has also taken over many U.S. news media outlets.
New York Times Upshot looked at Median Middle Class after tax income, and even threw in those who were getting things like Social Security, and of course they adjusted for inflation. In 1981 the U.S. Middle Class led the world, but since then has grown only by 19.1%. Who leads the world in the growth of their Middle Class? The United Kingdom (aka Britain, the capitol of the British empire) with 83.3% growth! In fact Norway, Sweden and Canada all beat out the United States, and it’s interesting that they are all indirect or direct members of the British Commonwealth!
But wait, it gets worse! If you look at data just from 2000 to present, the U.S. Middle Class is losing its ass! The United Kingdom’s Median Middle Class grew by 19.7%, as did the empire’s realm known as Canada. Ireland, who recently made it public that they are officially re-joined the empire (heresy!) grew at 16.2%. Since 2000 the U.S. Median Middle Class is stagnating at 0.3%!!!
The very detailed and complex to read New York Times Upshot report points out that this is a snapshot of the demise of the U.S. Middle Class. They admit that overall income growth in the U.S. is doing just as good as the British empire, but it’s all going to the 1% (who’ve made evil backroom alliances with the British empire, Bilderberg anyone?).
Hey all you ‘mericans, I’ve written this before: Stop blaming China for your economic demise!
07 May 2014 (01:47 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Rajab 1435/15 Ordibehesht 1393/09 Ji-Si 4712
“We found that this virus was unlike anything else detected in the world!”-Aeron Hurt, UN World Health Organization
Researchers are reporting they’ve found a new type of bird flu in Antarctic Penguins, known as H11N2.
However, I did some quick research and discovered H11N2 was also found in chickens in Nanjing, China, in 2009.
A/chicken/Nanjing/908/2009(H11N2) consists of genes from H9N2, H7N7, H5N2, H11N8, H3N6, H6N2, H1N1, and H5N1.
Research published in 2012 concluded that H11 influenzas are very likely to cross species, and called for “enhanced surveillance”.
So what’s the big deal about the H11N2 in the Penguins? UN researches say this is the first time ever that “live influenza” was found in birds of the Antarctic. Interesting, how did a flu first found in China end up at the bottom of the world? Apparently the Penguins are not showing any signs of being sick.