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Idaho, U.S.

My Immigrant Idaho : Crimes skyrocket partly due to domestic and foreign migration!

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I’ve lived in The Gem State for 20 years and since 2013 there’s been a crime wave like never seen before in Idaho (current official Idaho State Police records go up to 2013-14), yet most of our local news media won’t talk about it.  The crime wave coincides with skyrocketing immigration, from both domestic (from within the U.S.) and foreign (outside the U.S.) sources.

Between 2011 and 2013 immigration into the U.S. was actually declining (UNITED STATES IS NO LONGER THE PREFERED DESTINATION FOR IMMIGRANTS and MIGRANTS SEAKING WORK IN THE U.S. AT RECORD LOWS!).  2013 was the year the massive waves of economic migrants and war refugees began pouring out of North Africa and the Middle East, due to new U.S. and European Union instigated regime change wars.

As far as domestic migration into Idaho, 2011 is the year the U.S. Census Bureau first noticed U.S. citizens fleeing, literally in the hundreds of thousands, from metro areas on the east and west coasts of the country (CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ TURNED INTO HOTEL CALIFORNIA NIGHTMARE and NEW YORK & OBAMA’S HOMIE TOWN TOP CREATORS OF U.S. REFUGEES!), supposedly their destinations are more rural states like Idaho.

Idaho’s ‘christian’ lawmakers secretly welcome domestic and foreign migrants, mainly for the fact that since 2012 thousands of Idahoans fled The Gem State (IDAHO’S YOUTH GET THE HELL OUTTA DODGE! and THE UNEMPLOYED ARE LEAVING THE GEM STATE!  and 1400 PEOPLE LEAVE THE GEM STATE IN MARCH 2013!)  So many foreign migrants are being allowed into Idaho that the state Department of Education has created a special Migrant Education Program, which is at the insistence of the federal Department of Education and includes taxpayer funded grant money for college (ILLEGALS GET FREE U.S. COLLEGE! 43% U.S. CITIZENS CAN’T PAY STUDENT LOANS! and Community Council of Idaho provides education and federally funded healthcare to migrant workers while ‘yours truly’ taxpaying citizen since 1982 has been repeatedly denied free education and healthcare, even under Idaho’s version of ObamaCare, and not because my income wasn’t low enough, but because I’m a ‘white’ male [I was literally told that by an Idaho Department of Health & Welfare worker in 2001, and by an Arizona Department of Economic Security worker in 1996]!).  Idaho has even established a contractor (Jannus) run Office for Refugees. 

This mirrors the mass exodus of U.S. citizens from the United States (In 2015, ANOTHER RECORD RENOUNCE U.S. CITIZENSHIP! and ANOTHER 1.18 MILLION CITIZENS HAVE LEFT THE U.S. in 2013!), which is the true reason your ‘elected’ lawmakers don’t do anything about illegal immigration.

It starting to look like My Private Idaho heaven is becoming My Immigrant Idaho hell!

Incomplete list of recent news reports involving migrants in Idaho:

WFAA, Texas: Texas teen charged in Idaho locker room sexual assault

KIFI, Idaho Falls: Illegal alien sentenced to 30 months for threatening people with gun

Three people from New York caught in cell phone scam

KPVI, Pocatello: Bannock County requesting $300k to handle increase in murder cases

Bannock County warns of prison overcrowding after cash strapped taxpayers refuse to build a new county jail  (I must point out that it seems Bannock County is apparently [according to Idaho State Police] the only county dealing with prison overcrowding)

“Court officials tell KPVI in the month of March, 162 people were issued arrest warrants….. Since January of 2016 the county has issued more than 400 arrests warrants”

Female prisoners in Bannock County jail at max levels: “Women have really started committing a lot more violent crimes.”-Sheriff Lorin Nielsen

KIVI, Twin Falls: Witness claims five-year-old girl was covered in urine pleading for help

Families of boys involved in assault of 5-year-old served eviction notice

Alleged rape committed by boys of Iraqi/Sudanese descent

The Economist: In their report Twin Falls, a conservative city in Idaho, likes refugees, the LDS (Mormon) church is implicated in a massive immigrant/refugee operation going back to the 1970s, mainly to benefit Mormon farmers with cheap labor

Magicvalley.com: Saudi man runs over Twin Falls man

and from April 2015, College of Southern Idaho’s Refugee Center is expecting an influx of Syrian refugees

Idaho Statesman, Boise: Uzbek migrant convicted of supporting terrorists drops his appeal

Charles Carroll Society: Patriots in Sandpoint, Idaho defeat muslim migration resolution

The Common Sense Show: “…Idaho has been seeking to hire an ebola coordinator…In part, the recent floods of immigrants into Idaho, are from West Africa!” 

American Immigration Council:  The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in the Gem State, in 2013 more than 95-thousand people in Idaho were immigrants, and Idaho’s official population is only 1.5-million

The Washington Times: Barack Obama spares nearly 5 million living in the U.S. illegally, senator from Idaho Mike Crapo complained saying “The unilateral legal protections provided lawlessly to millions of illegal immigrants by the President…..pose a profound threat to our immigration system and rule of law.”

From December 2014, Boise State Public Radio: 46% of Idaho’s undocumented residents eligible for deportation protection under Obama’s executive action. A higher rate than any other state.

From March 2012, National Public Radio:  More than 4,000 refugees have found their way to Idaho….   “Three years ago, we were just seeing a few extreme cases of refugees that had consistent difficulty with integration, and then it really happened very suddenly, where there were 50, 60, 100 families really struggling.”-Marcia Munden, Catholic Charities of Idaho 

Assorted Blind Bat News reports going back to 2011: “IT’S NOT LIKE THEY’RE TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS” 5-MILLION MIGRANTS REFUSE TO LEAVE! 

DENMARK REPORTS 50,000 MIGRANTS “DISAPPEARING”!

APOCALYPTIC AUM SHINRIKYO BACK FROM THE DEAD! AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THEY’RE APPEARING ALL OVER THE WORLD!

SAUDI ARABIA CUTS FUNDING FOR IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS!

CRY ME A RIVER: CONFLICTING REPORTS ABOUT REFUGEES & MIGRANTS FLOODING INTO EUROPE!

“IT’S PART OF OUR NEW BUSINESS MODEL…” IDAHO HIT WITH SKYROCKETING POOR U.S. MIGRANTS!

CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS OFFICIAL SAFE HOUSES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!

SKYROCKETING RAPE IN DENMARK, BLAME IMMIGRANTS!

ANTI-GUN LAWS & EVEN ANTI-KNIFE LAWS FAIL TO STOP MURDER AT UPPER CLASS SCHOOL IN SCOTLAND! BLAME IMMIGRANTS?

BANKS & ILLEGAL DRUGS CAUSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO U.S.!

IDAHO BURDENED BY $187-MILLION WORTH OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!

IDAHO LOSES JOBS, RECORD NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN WORKFORCE, YET UNEMPLOYMENT RATE REMAINS THE SAME? BLAME IMMIGRANTS!

HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!

‘HOW TO’ GUIDES FOR ILLEGAL MIGRANTS!

790% INCREASE IN FEDERAL PRISONS POPULATION!!! IMMIGRANTS, DRUGS & GUNS MAIN TARGETS!!!

ARGENTINA MOVES TO DISCOURAGE IMMIGRANTS FROM THE UNITED STATES

TRY MOVING TO TINY BELGIUM!

Business/Economics

LDS kills Mormon bookstore! Churches killing churches! North Carolina kills 5,800 jobs in 3 months! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 08 – 09 April 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

California: Without warning, Los Angeles based bankrupt American Apparel began laying off employees in The (not so) Golden State.  By the end of next week 450 people will be jobless!  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech for your demise; San Francisco based health tech diagnostic company Counsyl laid off 27 people, despite boasting of “double digit” demand for their carrier screening services.

Colorado: In Cameo, after 58 years Eagles Nest Family Dining shutdown.  The restaurant was sold to a Texas based corporation in 2015, and they’ve decided it wasn’t making enough money.

Connecticut: Immucor Transplant Diagnostics issued a shutdown WARN for its Stamford location, 59 jobs lost by the beginning of June.

Florida: In Doral, ‘entertainment developer’ DLA laying off 92 people between May and November.  The Ritz Carlton issued a WARN for their Bal Harbor food service ops in Miami, 89 jobs lost by mid-June.

Idaho: In Twin Falls, after 37 years God powerless to stop ‘unofficial’ Mormon Bell’s Family Books from being shutdown by ‘official’ Mormon bookstore Deseret Book! You read right!  Local news reports say Bell’s Family Books was facing increasing competition, the final straw being when their own religion opened a bookstore down the street.

Illinois:  Highland Community College eliminating six jobs, blaming the failed ‘law makers’ for failing to come up with a state budget. Highland Community College is also jacking up tuition!  In Elgin, God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 50 years old Messiah Lutheran Church.  The property was sold to competitor Greek Orthodox Church.  After 34 years thrift store Kenneth Young Center Resale Shop shutting down when the previously owned inventory is gone, as well as halting their funding of programs for children with mental health problems.  The operator blames the failed state ‘lawmakers’: “…Illinois is the only state in the nation without a budget, decisions are being made where the most vulnerable people are suffering.”– Susan Cowan, CEO

Kentucky: Beauty First shutting down both its Louisville stores by the end of May, blaming crashed sales on competition from the internet, and jacked up rent by greedy property owners.

Maine: Gov’na Paul LePage warned that 9-hundred people in York County will become unemployed, due to their employer getting the hell outta Dodge! LePage refused to say which un-American corporation was fleeing the state.

North Carolina:  Local news reports say that since January 5-thousand 8-hundred people in North Carolina have been laid off!  New York based Croscill Home-Ex-Cell Home Fashions-Glenoit issued a layoff WARN, 50 distribution jobs gone by June.

Ohio:  Pilot Thomas Logistics issued a layoff WARN for their Fracking support (aka Frac) ops, 58 jobs gone by April.

Oklahoma: In Tulsa, when pressured by local news Chart Cooler Service admitted they laid off employees, but still refused to say how many.   They blamed it on the oil industry BS.

Pennsylvania: NHS Youth Services issued a WARN for their
Northwestern Academy, but failed to say how many people were losing their jobs.

South Dakota: Southeast Technical Institute warned of layoffs due to crashing student enrollment.

Texas:  In Dallas, Select Medical issued a WARN, 77 jobs gone by the end of May.  In El Paso, Schenker Logistics laying off nine employees by July.  DuPont issued a layoff WARN for its La Porte ops, 17 jobs lost by the end of May.  Denmark based Maersk Drilling revealed it  laid off an additional 57 people in Houston, just a few weeks after laying off 35.

California based Chevron laid off 655 people at its Houston ops!  The former employees are getting severance, which means they will not be counted as unemployed in the ‘official’ unemployment reports.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

07 April 2016: “it’s time to move on”

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Fukushima

McDonald’s so desperate for employees they turn to Anime!

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Five years after the 11 March 2011 disasters began in Japan McDonald’s has been struggling, first with lack of food due to supply cutoff caused by the quake-tsunami-nuke meltdowns, then with fleeing customers caused by contaminated meat from U.S. suppliers using Chinese slaughter houses, now they can’t find anybody to work for them!

https://youtu.be/5e-zAljAgqs

McDonald’s Japan has turned to Anime (cartoons) and the J-Pop group AKB48 Team 8 to recruit high schoolers.  Miyazawa Yasunari, in charge of hiring for McDonald’s, admitted that every year fewer and fewer people apply for a job with the so-called burger joint.  Their new employee recruitment campaign is called Join The Crew.

It’s not just McDonald’s, apparently all U.S. style fast food restaurants in Japan are having trouble finding employees.  Mos Burger has established a call center specifically to recruit potential employees, and

Skylark (sold to evil Mitt Romney co-created vulture capitalist Bain Capital in 2011) is now targeting people over 50 years of age for employment!

Oh, by the way, in January McDonald’s Japan introduced a new version of French Fries covered with chocolate, called McChoco.  Hope you don’t choke on it like the people who ate burgers with human teeth in them!

Currency Wars force foreign investors to flee Japan!

Japan intentionally suiciding teenagers? Or just more gross incompetence by officials!

No more McDonald’s, Japan style? 131 restaurants shutting down due to lack of food? 

Sabotage as McDonald’s investigates food contaminated with metal & even human teeth? 

Report shows that Japanese contracted nuclear plant workers are paid the same wage as McDonald’s! 

McDonald’s, Subway & Starbucks struggle in Japan

Idaho

Idaho Mormon ‘Sheriff’ insists “our” Rape is “Consensual”! Opposes new law that could out Mormon rapists?

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Here in Mormon dominated (according to the U.S. Census Bureau) eastern Idaho, Bingham County Sheriff Craig T. Rowland (also a local Mormon leader) straight up said Rape Kits were unnecessary because “…the majority of our rapes that are called in, are actually consensual sex.”

Notice he specifically said “our rapes”, is that a Freudian slip?  In an interview with KIFI, Rowland actually implied that rape investigations hurt the victim: “…what does that do to her down the road [clears his throat], what does that do to her partner?”

https://youtu.be/T5ykTAVRJ2o

Update; for some unexplained reason Idaho Falls based KIFI removed their interview of the sheriff, but I found that Newsy has posted it on their YouTube channel:

The ‘christian’ leader is opposed to new proposed laws regulating the tracking of Rape Kits in The Gem State.  Currently local law enforcers are not required to use Rape Kits to collect DNA, the new proposed law would change that. Rowland is opposed to mandatory Rape Kits on the grounds that most ‘rapes’ in his area of operation are ‘legal’.  Could it be that if the new rape law goes into effect dozens, maybe hundreds, of Mormons will be revealed as rapists?

Idaho Mormon ‘lawmaker’ says Rape & Incest won’t get you pregnant! 

Christian U.S. military behind child porn and sex abuse! 

Christian Mennonites used animal drugs to gang rape their own women 

Idaho

United Police States: 2 Idaho prisoners die in 1 day! Evil Mormon MTC involved?

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Two people being held in two Idaho jails died on the same day, one at the Bonneville County Jail in Idaho Falls, the other at the Correctional Alternative Placement Program facility near Boise.  There is a connection; both of the ‘victims’ are from Bingham County.

On 05 December, guards at Bonneville County Jail claim they found an 18 years old murder suspect dead in the cell.  He had been in the county jail since August, waiting for his murder trial (so much for speedy trial as the Constitution dictates).  County prison administrators claim they’re investigating the cause of death.

On 29 November, guards at the Correctional Alternative Placement Program claim a 47 years old prisoner went into seizure after taking an overdose of prescription drugs.   He died in hospital on 05 December.  What the hell are prisoners doing being allowed to control their own medication?  Here’s a clue; the Correctional Alternative Placement Program is run by the proven to be evil (or at least incompetent) Mormon owned Management & Training Corporation!  The Idaho Department of Corrections claim they will investigate the MTC related death.

Evil Mormon MTC kicked out of Washington?

‘Christian’ Mormon MTC behind privately run concentration camp in Mississippi? Same company behind Abu Ghraib?

Idaho, U.S.

Idaho Walmart quietly settles discrimination lawsuits! Mormon managers accused of employing Whipping Boys?

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Here in Chubbuck, Idaho, the local Walmart has quietly settled discrimination lawsuits over the years, mostly about work environment connected to ethnic and religious discrimination.

Chubbuck, Idaho, Walmart

According to the U.S. Census Bureau the overwhelming majority of eastern Idahoans surveyed claim to be Mormons.  I’ve had problems maintaining steady employment here since 2006 (I moved here in 1996).  One day, around 2002, I was told by Jack-Mormon co-workers at the Pine Ridge Mall “You have no right to say anything bad about the Mormon Church”, even though they were constantly ‘bad mouthing’ the very same ‘Mormon Church’ they refused to attend!   That was when the mall was still under the original ownership of J. Price Realty.

For a short time in 2004 I worked at the Mormon owned Don Aslett’s Cleaning Center warehouse and was constantly asked about “Why don’t we see you at Ward?”  (for those who are not Mormon and never dealt with Mormons, Ward is their term for Church). Once I told them I wasn’t Mormon they literally cut my work schedual down to zero hours saying “we just don’t have the work to keep you busy”, but as the female Mormon manager was telling me this I could clearly see at least three new employees in loading dock area.

One of the current local former front line managers now suing Walmart told me he believed that non-white and non-mormon low level managers were being used as the old fashioned British empire whipping boys (Whipping boys were established in the English court during the monarchies of the 16th and 17th centuries).  In other words, all problems in the store were not only dumped on them but were also blamed on them.  He told me this before the lawsuit was filed.

But don’t take my word for these claims;  the Wal-Mart Litigation Project has documented at least 99 court judgements (final judgements in cases where the retailer did not settle out of court) against the retailer, but, according to Walmart defender Forbes the retailer is hit with an average of 5-thousand lawsuits every year!  That’s a lot of cases Walmart is settling out of court.

2015:  “The three plaintiffs all worked at Wal-Mart’s Chubbuck store. They allege that they were either fired or forced to quit due to the conduct of defendant Robert Pearson. Their complaint contains six counts against defendants Wal-Mart and Robert Pearson: (1) Race Discrimination; (2) Hostile Work Environment; (3) Retaliation; (4) Family Medical Leave Act Violation; (5) Wrongful Termination; and (6) Americans With Disabilities Act violation.”  In this case attorneys are citing examples involving the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).

2014:  “Alleging racial and disability discrimination, violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act, retaliation and a hostile work environment, three former assistant managers at the Chubbuck Wal-Mart store have filed suit against the company and the store’s manager.

    Two of those former employees are also claiming constructive discharge or that conditions were made so intolerable that they were forced to quit.”

2013: (this isn’t about a lawsuit, but…)“If Walmart welcomes truck drivers they forgot to send that memo to the Idaho stores. None I been to in a 200 mile radius allows truck parking and have signs at all of them saying as much. The Pocatello/Chubbuck store has waged a war on trucks in their lots and have tow services on speed dial.”-‘Haight’ comment on Meet The Employee-Centered Company That Could Eventually Take Down Wal-Mart

2011: “A local man was awarded $1.6 million in his lawsuit against Wal-Mart last week after a jury found the retailer, and specifically its Chubbuck store, to be negligent for an incident that left him with a ‘significant physical impairment’”  

2010:  “Wal-Mart announced its agreement to settle In re: Wal-Mart Stores Inc Wage and Hour Litigation, a class action lawsuit filed in a California federal court. In the suit, thousands of former employees claimed Wal-Mart didn’t pay them vacation pay and wages as required by California law.”

2009: “Pamela and Donald Ahnemiller, of Florida, are filing suit against Wal-Mart, alleging she was hit in the leg by her shopping cart as a fight ensued in the store between security guards and a shoplifter.”

2004: (not about lawsuits, but low pay for employees affecting taxpayers) “Employment practices at Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer with relatively lower labor costs in the retail sector, cost California taxpayers about $86 million annually in public assistance to company workers, according to a study by a University of California-Berkeley research institute.”

(this one is about 25-thousand labor violations discovered by an in-house Walmart investigation, the investigation was done in 2000 but not made public until 2004) “An audit by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of about 25,000 employees uncovered thousands of labor violations.… detailed 1,371 violations of child-labor laws, including minors working too late, too many hours in a day or during school hours. On more than 60,000 occasions, workers missed breaks and on 16,000 they skipped meal times, in violation of most state labor regulations.”

2002:  “Several hundred current or former employees at 18 Oregon Wal-Marts claim they routinely were forced to work unpaid overtime….Managers knew of the unpaid overtime and even ‘edited’ employees’ timecards…” 

Mormon Martial Law: Fascist BYU Idaho bans men’s hairstyle! Proof of false Christians! 

Mormons are biggest ‘donors’ to Idaho politicians!

Amy’s-Gate: Mormon leaders of Idaho keep screwing over taxpayers!

Mormon dominated Idaho makes big money off Beer!

New deadlier anthrax spreads across the U.S. from Mormon Utah! 

Catholics, Mormons & Jews conspiring or is it just about the money? 

A History Lesson in Economic Decline: Pocatello’s Old Fred Meyer & Albertsons on Yellowstone Ave, did not close down in the 1990s

Business/Economics, Idaho

“the numbers just didn’t add up” Mormons biggest ‘donors’ to Idaho politicians! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 08 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: After 40 years the Big Sur Coast Gallery up for sale, asking price $3.7-million USD!  In Fresno, after 75 years Martin’s Flowers shutting down: “If someone wanted to buy the business that would be great because that would make a lot of people happy.”–Catherine Soligian

Florida: The Jacksonville Day Resource Center for homeless people shutting down after two years of operations.  Administrators blame lack of taxpayer funding.

Idaho:  The Idaho Statesman investigated which companies and organizations are ‘bribing’ (political ‘donations’) failed-false-conservative Right-to-Work (you over) Idaho politicians.  The top three ‘bribers’ are major utility company Idaho Power (so that’s where a lot of our utility payments go), east Idaho based Mormon owned “wellness company” Melaleuca, and out-o-state Washington DC based ‘conservative’ lobbyists Club for Growth.  

Mississippi: In Vicksburg, reports that Texas based oil service company Schlumberger is about to layoff 222 people after selling off their recently acquired Cameron ops to a rival: “Due to the current declining business conditions, the company has decided to substantially reduce its operations at the Vicksburg facility. As a result, we anticipate that we could potentially permanently layoff up to as many as 222 employees, beginning as early a November, 2, 2015.”

Missouri: In Springfield, Price Cutter shutting down its Grand Street grocery store.  Local news reports say no official explanation was given.

New York:  NYC Parks shutdown city pools after Labor Day blaming lack of taxpayer funding.   After more than 100 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions, and even a fire in the 1960s) the Wanakena General Store shutting down in October because “the numbers just didn’t add up”.

Texas:  Goodrich Petroleum sold-off $116-million USD worth of its Eagle Ford Shale oil stake in order to pay down its debts!

06 – 07 September 2015: “…members haven’t been paid at all this year…”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Red State Idaho ripped off by Blue Blood Washington DC? Or is it that Red State politicians got caught cheating? Idaho schools shorted by $7-million & growing!

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“All contracts made in violation of these statutes are void and any money advanced by the state, must be repaid.”-Justice Jim Jones, Idaho Supreme Court

Old mister poopy diaper pants supposedly for improving education, Barack Obama, is once again living up to his lying liar reputation!  Or is it the lying liar Republican officials in Idaho?

The Idaho legislature has just been informed that the Obama regime’s FCC (Federal Communication Commission) has withheld $7-million in tax dollars from Idaho’s high speed internet system for the Gem State’s High Schools!

It took Idaho’s Department of Administration’s Teresa Luna (a Mormon) this long to tell ‘elected’ officials about the missing funding!

Luna has known that the primary contractors, CenturyLink and Education Networks of America have not been paid, by the Obama regime, since March 2013!  Teresa Luna just happens to be the sister of Tom Luna (a Mormon), former George W. Bush regime official and Idaho’s current State Department of Education boss!

Oh but wait, there’s more to this story:  Turns out that Syringa Networks is suing the Gem State on the grounds the CenturyLink contract for the Idaho Education Network is illegal!  The case has been stuck in the Idaho Supreme Court since last year, and the Obama regime’s FCC says they are not going to pay their share of the funding until the case is settled! (it’s expected that Idaho schools will lose another $7-million during the 2014-15 school year)

So maybe this is actually another case of corrupt Idaho ‘elected’ officials screwing things up by playing favoritism and awarding contracts under the table?  It wouldn’t be the first time.

By the way, Teresa Luna was appointed to her position by corrupt governor Butch Otter in 2011, to replace the guy that suspiciously awarded the contract to CenturyLink.   Tom Luna miraculously won elections after the fact in 2007 (and suddenly Tom Luna has announced he won’t run for re-election!).  I could’ve sworn that Tom Luna was initially appointed to the position by Otter, but everything on the internet says he was ‘elected’.  Like George Carlin said, “You voted them in. You caused the problem.”

Idaho, U.S.

Ann Romney pissing off U.S. women?

The following was posted in the Tuscola County Advertiser in Michigan:

Ann Romney made a concerted effort to paint a picture of her husband and herself as supporters of women in her talk at the Republican National Convention. She was definitely out of her element when she tried to show empathy for women and families struggling to pay bills, to buy gas and fuel, and coping with daily personal tensions.

Unlike most families with moms working outside the home, or a single parent without a partner to assist and support them, Ann has had cooks, maids and nannies. While her battles with cancer and M.S. were trying, she was able to afford top-notch treatment and emotional support.

She has neither the personal or professional authority to talk about the difficulties of poor, working class or even middle class Americans. Her remark about women doing more and doing it happily made many women cringe. She must not be aware that with working women making 80 percent of what men do, women have to do more just to break even. And her husband has been a proponent for such unfairness.

It’s important to know that the Romneys’ LDS church (Latter Day Saints or Mormon) opposed the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment which would have guaranteed women equal rights. In addition, the southern Bible Belt states plus those states with a strong Mormon presence (Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Arizona) opposed the passage of the ERA amendment. The church even ex-communicated Sonia Johnson, a part-time school teacher and mother for her role in organizing Mormon support for this amendment.

The LDS is a male dominated hierarchy. Women are not allowed to hold the priesthood or serve as elders in their church. They cannot reach as high a ranking in heaven as their husbands. Mothers stay home and are primarily responsible for the nurturing of their children. Women’s “sacred” and “divinely” sanctioned job description as homemaker, wife and mother is heavily emphasized. Large families are encouraged.

Since LDS couples marry so young, women must forfeit their own education and careers. Without college degrees or marketable job skills, most women are financially dependent on their husbands, with few options should their marriage not last “into the eternities”. They believe only women who are married in a church temple will have eternal life and parents are unable to attend the ceremony if not Mormon. (Of course they believe any non-Mormon will go to hell.)

A majority of our population is not aware of the LDS church’s impact on its members. Their beliefs aren’t in agreement with what most women want and need. While living in Idaho among LDS neighbors, working in professional fields for seven years, and our sons attendance at Boise State University, our family learned about this church’s insidious domination of and influence on state government policies, public schools and lifestyles.

Don’t let Ann’s sweetness and charm overshadow the Romneys’ true beliefs and motives.

Bonnie Johnson

Business/Economics, Opinion, U.S.

Religious & Corporate Hypocrisy: Mormons, like Mitt Romney, say they hate government bailouts, but Mormon owned bank has yet to payback taxpayers for $1.4 billion TARP bailout!!!

“You cannot serve both God and Money.”– Jesus of Nazareth

“Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”-Mitt Romney opinion piece blasting the auto industry bailout by the federal government, 18 November 2008

You might have heard how, only this year, Mitt Romney took credit for the government bailout of the auto industry, seemingly forgetting about his New York Times editorial from 2008, blasting the bailout.  I wonder what he thinks about a Mormon owned bank, Zions Bank, firstly taking a $1.4 billion USD government loan, and, secondly being the only bank that got more than one billion taxpayer dollars that has failed to pay back the taxpayers?

Zions Bank branch in Pocatello, Idaho.

“…..people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.”-1 Timothy 6:5, New International Version of the Bible

Mormon (aka Latter Day Saints [LDS], but their holy book is called Book of Mormon, not Book of Latter Day Saints) Brigham Young started Zion’s Savings Bank and Trust Company in 1873.  It was owned directly by the LDS church until 1960, when a group of Mormon investors (Keystone Insurance and Investment) bought controlling interest in the bank.  The bank became a full fledged corporation and the name was changed to Zions Bancorporation.

“For the love of money is a root of all evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith….”-1 Timothy 6:10-12, Bible

Since then the Mormon run bank has been taking over other banks (gee kinda similar to what Mitt Romney did with Bain Capital).  It’s still run by family members of the original Mormon investors that took over in 1960.

Principal Subsidiaries: California Bank & Trust; The Commerce Bank of Washington; National Bank of Arizona; Nevada State Bank; Vectra Bank Colorado; Zions First National Bank.

“Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.”-Ecclesiastes 5:10, New International Version of the Bible

In 2008 (in fact it was the same month that Mitt Romney wrote his New York Times editorial) Zions Bankcorp was one of the first in line to apply for, and get, a $1.4 billion TARP (aka Too Big to Fail bank bailout) loan from the federal government, in direct contradiction to what many Mormons think about ‘hand outs’ from the government.  The latest reports say Zions Bankcorp has paid back only half of the taxpayers’ money, and that it is one of only three banks which still owe taxpayers more than half a billion dollars!

But wait, there’s more!

In classic Mitt Romney/Bain Capital tactics (or is it now clear that it’s really Mormon tactics), the banks have been paying back their government loans with more government loans! (Mitt Romney at Bain Capital did not use his own money, but used money from investors and loans to buy up, cut up and sell off U.S. companies that were seen as competitors to his pet corporations, like Staples vs American Pen & Paper, Toys r Us vs KB Toys, and now Kmart vs Sears)

An October 2011 Wall Street Journal report showed that banks were using money meant for small business loans to pay back TARP.  This is one reason why banks cut back on issuing those small business loans to small businesses!

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that banks were also using money from different versions of TARP, to pay back their original Capital Purchase Program (CPP) version of TARP.

Under the CCP the U.S. Department of Treasury bought huge numbers of stocks in the Too Big to Fail banks.  Banks pay back the Treasury when they buy back their stocks, at a much higher price of course.  So far the Treasury (and technically the taxpayers) has been making huge profits off the bank buy backs.  Except for Zions.  The Treasury Department is getting antsy about those banks that have not bought their stocks back.

The GAO also suggested that the banks that have yet to pay off their loans, like Zions, are on the verge of going down the toilet.  The GAO suggested that these banks were on a ‘secret troubled banks list’ used by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the FDIC has denied they keep such a list).

Mitt Romney, and the Mormon owners of Zions Bank are perfect examples of “Do as I say, not as I do.”  Do we really want that kind of person as President of the United States?  Oh wait, it’s too late, we’ve had dozens (and they all claimed to be christians)!

“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”– Jesus of Nazareth