By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--May 9, 2016
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"In response to an "expense challenge" in April, the department store cut payroll, froze overtime for its employees and took other cost-cutting measures, Reuters reported. Both full- and part-time employees saw their hours reduced, with those working about 25 hours a week seeing their shifts sashed to 10 or 15 hours. "This isn't the first time the department store has taken drastic measures to cut costs: In January 2015, it shuttered 40 stores. However, Penney can take some solace in the fact that it's not the only major retailer struggling to stay afloat. "Teen-apparel chain Aeropostale filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, and also plans to close more than 150 stores in the United States and Canada. The store has suffered from changing tastes and shopping habits, particularly as malls have experienced less foot traffic and "fast fashion" stores like H&M become more popular. "Even traditional giants like Macy's and Sears are feeling the pinch. Macy's announced in January that it would shutter more than 40 stores this spring, and Sears has closed more than 200 outlets over the past two years. Discount chains like T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, which offer low prices than can compete with only retailers, are taking up the real estate abandoned by mall anchors."Millions of Americans now out of work can add being smeared as breadwinner bigots to the profound worries they already have about how to put food on the table for their families. 'Breadwinner bigots' is how the government defines those out of work who dare mention that any available jobs are going to foreigners. The big governments of the day at home and abroad don't want their citizens to work. Work comes with dignity and dignity is what government needs to deprive from its citizens. They want outspoken citizens on the pogey. It's so much easier for governments to control populations demoralized by being out of work in a culture that has been seeking to scrap the 'work ethic' for decades. Even so, the chickens are now coming home to roost in an increasing number of nations whose leaders have allowed them to be overwhelmed by rivers of migrants. Governments want their citizens on welfare, where they will be too down at heart and down at heel, to fight off governments who seek to change the lifestyle to which they had become accustomed over generations. And before the masses get swallowed whole by saturation news coverage on who would make the best U.S. president and would England be better off without BREXIT, an era is passing by almost unnoticed. Faceless fat-cats -- recognized only by their playboy peers out on the golf links, or during the never-ending round of cocktail parties -- have been deliberately changing the world through undermining the "homogeneity" of its member states and, unbeknownst to world populations, have been at it for some time. "The EU should "do its best to undermine" the "homogeneity" of its member states, the UN's special representative for migration has said.() Peter Sutherland, who heads the Global Forum on Migration and Development, which brings together representatives of 160 nations to share policy ideas, made this statement four years ago--without disruptive challenges of any kind. Sutherland told peers flat out that the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural, a state adopted by the current leaders of the U.S. and Canada. "He also suggested the UK government's immigration policy had no basis in international law. (BBC, June 21 2012)
"He was being quizzed by the Lords EU home affairs sub-committee which is investigating global migration. "Sutherland is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former chairman of oil giant BP."He told the House of Lords committee migration was a "crucial dynamic for economic growth" in some EU nations "however difficult it may be to explain this to the citizens of those states". In other words, he and assorted global pooh-bah friends knew the citizens of existing states to be vastly overwhelmed by migrants would balk, but pressed ahead anyway. Globalists waited to make their move on unsuspecting societies by pressing forward at a time when their populations were aging. "An aging or declining native population in countries like Germany or southern EU states was the "key argument and, I hesitate to the use word because people have attacked it, for the development of multicultural states", he added. (BBC)
"It's impossible to consider that the degree of homogeneity which is implied by the other argument can survive because states have to become more open states, in terms of the people who inhabit them. Just as the United Kingdom has demonstrated." "The UN special representative on migration was also quizzed about what the EU should do about evidence from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that employment rates among migrants were higher in the US and Australia than EU countries. "He told the committee: "The United States, or Australia and New Zealand, are migrant societies and therefore they accommodate more readily those from other backgrounds than we do ourselves, who still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others. "And that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine." "Mr Sutherland recently argued, in a lecture to the London School of Economics, of which he is chairman, that there was a "shift from states selecting migrants to migrants selecting states" and the EU's ability to compete at a "global level" was at risk. 'In evidence to the Lords committee, he urged EU member states to work together more closely on migration policy and advocated a global approach to the issue - criticising the UK government's attempt to cut net migration from its current level to "tens of thousands" a year through visa restrictions. "British higher education chiefs want non-EU overseas students to be exempted from migration statistics and say visa restrictions brought in to help the government meet its target will damage Britain's economic competitiveness. "But immigration minister Damian Green has said exempting foreign students would amount to "fiddling" the figures and the current method of counting was approved by the UN. "Committee chairman Lord Hannay, a crossbench peer and a former British ambassador to the UN, said Mr Green's claim of UN backing for including students in migration figures "frankly doesn't hold water - this is not a piece of international law". "Mr Sutherland, a former Attorney General of Ireland, agreed, saying: "Absolutely not. it provides absolutely no justification at all for the position they are talking about." "He said the policy risked Britain's traditional status as "tolerant, open society" and would be "massively damaging" to its higher education sector both financially and intellectually. "It's very important that we should not send a signal from this country, either to potential students of the highest quality, or to academic staff, that this is in some way an unsympathetic environment in which to seek visas or whatever other permissions are required... and I would be fearful that that could be a signal.""Mr Sutherland, who has attended meetings of The Bilderberg Group , a top level international networking organisation often criticised for its alleged secrecy, called on EU states to stop targeting "highly skilled" migrants, arguing that "at the most basic level individuals should have a freedom of choice" about whether to come and study or work in another country."
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