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More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in April 2018:

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California: Maker of “electromechanical and solid state switch gear for aircraft” Leach International-Esterline Power Systems suddenly eliminated 46 jobs in Buena Park. Social media camera company Snap suddenly eliminated 90 jobs in Venice and Santa Monica. In Rocklin, Germany based SMA Solar Technology eliminating 51 jobs by the end of June. Newspaper owner Tronc suddenly laid off more than 12 people at several major newspapers, including people who worked in the digital/online departments. McClatchy owned The Sacramento Bee laid off 23 people, one of the fired reporters warned “If people think they will continue to get the news for free, they have another thing coming.” It’s been revealed that Menlo Park based facebook is spending $20-thousand USD per day to provide Mark Zukerberg with security guards! Qualcomm eliminating 1-thousand-5-hundred jobs in San Diego, San Jose and Santa Clara, as part of its “cost reduction plan”, however, a financial adviser told local news media that it was really about boosting Qualcomm’s stock price! Also in San Diego, neurobiological computer fabric maker KnuEdge issued a shutdown WARN, 30 jobs gone by the end of May. San Diego based Daybreak Game Company suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people: “Daybreak confirms we are realigning our workforce to better position our company for the future.”

Connecticut: Konica Minolta Business Solutions issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Windsor, 431 jobs gone between July and September!

Florida: The Gulf Coast Voice (Pensacola Voice) halting publication after 54 years, due to the owner retiring and none of her relatives wanting to continue running the newspaper.

Georgia: More than 1-thousand jobs lost in Columbus (Midland/Corporate Ridge) as ATM maker NCR will shut down both factories (NCR is also shutting down a factory in China) between August and October! Politicians in Georgia say the announcement by NCR was sudden and means NCR violates the deal that gave it taxpayer money to move ops to Georgia, and now it must pay that money back. NCR administrators would only say that their decision to shutdown factories is to ensure NCR’s future survival.

Illinois: Online shopping service Swap.com issued a layoff WARN, 196 jobs in Bolingbrook gone due to “financial” reasons!

Iowa: In Coralville, taxpayer funded General Dynamics InfoTech (IT) eliminating 112 jobs by July!

Louisiana: Monroe based CenturyLink eliminating at least 1-thousand jobs across the U.S., saying the jobs are considered “redundant”!

Minnesota: SL Montevideo Technology Incorporated (MTI) issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Montevideo, 110 jobs gone as part of efforts to “help make MTI an even stronger company”!

Nebraska: Charter Communications shutting down its call center (formerly TimeWarner) in Lincoln, 55 jobs lost, possibly in connection to a recent service upgrade.

New York: NYC based Univision warned “…we have made the very difficult decision to reduce personnel across the company…” in order “…to thrive in the future.” Synaptics issued a shutdown WARN for its Rochester ops, 40 hardware/software jobs gone by mid-July. Newsday issued a phase six layoff WARN as part of its shutdown of ops in Melville, a total of 1-thousand-423 jobs affected when the shutdown is complete din October. Heidenhain shutting down its Electronics Precision Graduations factory in Jamestown, 40 jobs being consolidated to Illinois and Austria. Advertiser Prompt Direct shutting down its Staten Island ops, 49 jobs gone by July.

North Carolina: Germany based solar panel maker Schletter now chapter 11 bankrupt busted in the U.S. after halting production at its factory in Shelby. More than 1-hundred people suddenly unemployed after not being paid for several pay periods: “Something went wrong with their business, but they didn’t give anybody a heads up, and they left people with unpaid bills.”-Mel Lockhart, owner of janitorial service hired by Schletter

Ohio: Bankrupt Bon Ton’s internet order fulfillment center in West Jefferson shutting down, 330 jobs gone by June! Online estate sale company EBTH issued a massive layoff WARN for its distribution ops, 203 jobs gone in June!

Oregon: Software company Puppet suddenly laid off less than 20 people (exact number not given) in an attempt to ensure that “investments are focused on our most strategic priorities.”

Pennsylvania: Quad Graphics issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Hazleton, 167 jobs gone by June!

Vermont: Gray Television Group, the new owners of WCAX-TV, suddenly laid off six people in the name of efficiency.

Washington: Lionbridge Technologies issued a layoff WARN, 119 jobs gone by June, no reason given! Hearst owned online newspaper Seattle Post-Intelligencer (SeattlePi) continues killing jobs, through layoffs and resignations. At one time there were 160 employees, now there’s only seven!

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, March 2018: “HARD REALITIES”

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U.S. Air Force owns your GPS! U.S. Army warns ‘We know where you are’!

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How many silly-vilians know that the current Global Positioning System is a military operation controlled by the U.S. Air Force? Here’s the official USAF video explainer:

Official U.S. Army video (weak-ly done) warning about the dangers of using your silly-vilian so-called smart-phone GPS or Snap-chat:

It’s all part of the ever expanding military controlled Global Information Grid.

SATCOM upgrades to Wideband Enterprise Terminal, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, to further expand the Global Information Grid.

MAKING ZOMBIES: USAF SECRET SLEEP DEPRIVATION EXPERIMENT REVEALED!

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Making Zombies: USAF secret sleep deprivation experiment revealed!

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Despite decades of studies that say the human brain must get sufficient sleep (including U.S. Army experiments in which soldiers were given meth) or it will become paranoid, suicidal and homicidal, the U.S. Air Force is conducting experiments to force humans to stay awake for extended periods of time.

The 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is trying to find out if computer/electronic stimulation works better than drugs. An official video report was issued on 17APR2018:

In 2017 the U.S. Navy confirmed you must sleep, in response to increasing cases of personnel getting less and less sleep: “Sleep has been identified and prioritized as a leading Health and Wellness Department and disease prevention goal. Sleep is an important element of health and well-being just like nutrition and physical fitness. Adequate sleep is necessary to fight off infection, support the metabolism of sugar to prevent diabetes, perform well in school, and work effectively and safely. There were 37% of military members and 29% of civilian staff who reported they do not get enough restful sleep to function well on the job and in their personal life. Our department is focusing on the needs and benefits of adequate sleep with awareness, education and intervention techniques…”-Trish Skinner, Naval Hospital Bremerton Health and Wellness Department

“When we sleep our body goes through a very intricate process where it recovers and rebuilds. Short and long-term memories are allocated and stored. It (also) gives our physical body time to rest and rebuilt broken down muscle and tissue…. Chronic poor sleep can also result in cardiovascular disease, depression and obesity. When it comes to physical recovery, workouts can be totally wasted by not giving our body time to rest and recover.”-Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Christopher Stevens, NHB Mental Health

Also in 2017, U.S. Army’s Fort Belvoir Community Hospital opened a Sleep Medicine Clinic to deal with increased problems due to active duty service members not being able to sleep. It’s working in conjunction with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

“If that [service member] is not at his or her best, it could compromise that person’s safety, their teammates’ safety, it could compromise the mission … Sleep is a critical cog in maintaining optimal health.”-Melissa Mitravich, Belvoir Hospital Sleep Medicine Clinic

Why is the U.S. Air Force spending taxpayer money trying to deprive its own personnel from sleep?

Why Sleep Deprivation Is Torture | Psychology Today

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“hard realities”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, March 2018

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California: Snap (snapchat) conducting a second and third round of layoffs since January, this time 220 people (100 sales, 120 engineers) suddenly laid off! Pepperjam (for a short time called eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions) laying off 20% of its workers across the U.S. as part of a secret reorganization plan. In North Highlands, Pennsylvania based Advanced Call Center Technologies shutting down, 51 jobs gone. Movie production/promotion company Weinstein now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to its namesake’s sex scandals. Univision laid off 20 people as part of plans to take the company public (IPO, issue stocks, debt financing through investors). NettApp continues to kill jobs, this time more than 12 Sunnyvale HQ employees let go. San Francisco based tech company that promised to help brick-n-mortar mom-n-pop shops, and raised some big funding from sport and ‘Hollywood’ celebrities, Zenreach suddenly laid off 20% of its employees. Data-driven, technology-empowered customer support company iQor Holdings issued a layoff WARN for its Simi Valley location, 129 jobs gone by June! Symantec issued layoff WARNs for another 19 people. Johanson Dielectrics issued a shutdown WARN for its Sylmar location, 197 jobs gone by the end of May! Singapore based tech manufacturer Flextronics International finally told state employment officials that it killed 52 Alviso jobs back in February. Mountain View based cloud products designer Tintri issued a layoff WARN, 58 jobs gone in April.

Colorado: For the third year in a row The Denver Post eliminating jobs, this time 30 people laid off.

Florida: EFT software maker M2 Systems now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, blaming a lawsuit in Connecticut. The lawsuit says M2 frauded investors. In Tallahassee, Conduent Commercial Solutions issued a WARN, 194 jobs gone by mid-May! New York based TV ratings company Nielsen issued a massive layoff WARN, 724 Sunshine State jobs gone between the end of March and the end of May!

Illinois: Motorola laid off as many as 35% of its workers in Chicago.

Iowa: Too Big to Jail Goldman Sachs shutting down its Cedar Rapids call center, 40 jobs gone in April.

Kansas: Sprint eliminating 5-hundred jobs at its Overland Park HQ, but claims it will create more jobs by opening more stores!

Kentucky: Louisville based online retailer CafePress conducted a second round of layoffs due to a 22% drop in profits in 2017.

Michigan: Ann Arbor based video goggles maker Avegant admitted it laid off less than 20 people last month. Hutchinson Technology suddenly laid off 25 people.

Minnesota: Best Buy shutting down 250 of its smart phone stores by the end of May. Online based lender Ditech laying off 116 people as it moves more of its Saint Paul operations out-of-state: “Presently we have no definite plans to close the St. Paul site. However, the transition of work from St. Paul to other company locations is anticipated to result in jobs losses at the St. Paul site throughout 2018.”

New Jersey: Washington based Amazon issued a WARN, 77 Jersey City jobs gone by the end of May.

New Mexico: Convergys eliminating 151 jobs at its Rio Rancho call center by the end of April, due to a ‘client change’!

New York: A new report says iconic Armonk based IBM (International Business Machines) laid off 20-thousand U.S. workers over the age of 40, only to systematically replace them with younger, cheaper millennials and foreign workers! On top of that, as many as 1-thousand IBM employees were suddenly laid off in March, it was revealed by massive social media postings by many of those laid off! Many of the layoffs hit IBM’s cloud and Watson ops, two operations that employees thought were considered safe from job cuts. Software maker Aptos issued a shutdown WARN for its Newburg location, 117 jobs affected starting at the end of June! Publisher Merideth continues killing jobs, this time 3-hundred people will become jobless as a result of the $1.8-billion USD take-over of Time magazine. Newsday issued a “phase 4” and “phase 5” shutdown WARNs for its Melville ops, 1-thousand-423 jobs affected when it’s all said and done (sometime in October)!

Ohio: South Carolina based CompuCom shutting down its Cincinnati area ops, 61 jobs lost. Science and technology development company Battelle suddenly laid off 260 people in Ohio and 90 people across the U.S.!

Oklahoma: Colorado based Dish Network began laying off an undisclosed number of employees in Tulsa, due to “changes in technology and enhanced online resources”.

Pennsylvania: Radio station owner Steel City Media now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, however administrators swear “The Company remains very profitable and expects to be able to generate sufficient cash from operations to meet the expenses of running our business…. softness in our markets has resulted in non-compliance with certain technical covenants. We believe that Chapter 11 is the appropriate venue to seek to resolve these issues.”

Texas: The Dallas Morning News suddenly laid off five people in what could be never ending job cuts to save money, administrators blame “hard realities”. San Antonio based radio station owner iHeartMedia now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to $10-billion USD of debt. What automotive industry recovery? San Antonio based wearable tech company WiseWear now bankrupt busted and blaming Apple. Grand Prairie based Vroom (AutoAmerica) suddenly laid of 25% of employees as it shutdown ops in the city of Dallas and the state of Indiana! One reports says that despite raising $300-million in venture funding, the online car seller has eliminated 50% of its jobs since January!

Virginia:The Herald-Progress suddenly shutdown because it is “no longer commercially viable.” The Caroline Progress also suddenly shutdown. Colorado based Dish Network issued a shutdown WARN for its Christiansburg ops, 570 jobs gone by mid-May! Amazon issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Sterling, 67 jobs gone in May. InfoTech company Leidos issued a layoff WARN for ops in Charlottesville, 52 jobs gone by the end of April. InfoTech solutions company NJVC issued a layoff WARN for its Chantilly location, 113 jobs gone by the end of April!

Washington: Amazon owned online education software maker TenMarks “…will no longer be available after the 2018-2019 school year.” Amazon owned live stream video op Twitch suddenly laid off as many as 30 people. Employees said the sudden layoff was ordered by the new cowardly VP via Google Hangouts, and the guy wasn’t even at work when he ordered the layoffs! Japan based Hitachi issued a shutdown WARN for its Bellevue location, 61 jobs gone by May.

Market Watch: Amazon is going to kill more American jobs than China did

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, February 2018: “I DIDN’T MAKE A LOT OF MONEY….”

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Vehicle ID: That’s not a C-130J, it’s still the old C-130H!

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“When we add these modifications to all of our aircraft, we will greatly increase the reliability and performance of the C-130H, and the overall lethality of the United States Air Force.”-Colonel Justin Walrath, Wyoming Air National Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing

You can’t count on those six bladed props to tell you that you’re looking at a C-130J Super Hercules anymore. The following pics are an old school C-130H upgraded with new engines and props that might make it look like a C-130J to the casual observer, along with a few other things.

The Wyoming Air National Guard is proud to be the first operator of the first C-130H upgraded with ‘J-like’ components. Wyoming was chosen in 2008 to get and try out upgraded C-130Hs.

The C-130J has six bladed props.

C-130J Super Hercules. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Harry Brexel, 03FEB2017.

Most obvious change for upgraded C-130H are the turbines and eight bladed air-screws (evil British empire Rolls-Royce T56 series 3.5 with NP2000 props). The modifications took place over 18 months at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.

Upgraded C-130H Hercules. U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Junior, 11JAN2018.

Initial testing took place at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Supposedly the C-130H modifications mean various state National Guard units will save taxpayer money versus buying the C-130J.

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USAF declares climate-change-war on your lawn!

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In 2016 the U.S. Air Force and the Central State University in Ohio revealed project Global Neighbor (ostensibly to fight climate change by fighting unwanted plants) and unveiled a directed energy/distributed array weapon for use against your lawn.

Global Neighbor is taxpayer funded through SBIR/STTR (Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer).

Official video explainer:

In 2017, an ‘inventor’ in Ohio unveiled his silly-vilian version which is incorporated into your standard walk-behind lawn mower.

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USAF SPEEDS UP WEATHER COURSE, BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE?

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‘Microwave’ beam weapon aiming to heat you up!

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From 19 to 22 March 2018 the so called Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate revealed their latest so called non-lethal weapons in Washington DC. They included Laser-Induced Plasma Effect (a so called non-lethal laser beam to shoot you with), electronic devices that can shutdown your vehicle (what I call vehicle electro-cutioners) and Solid-State Active Denial Technology (SSADT) which is essentially a microwave weapon that can ‘burn’ the surface of your skin.

Detailed official promotional video:

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Snoopy RC-135S Cobra Ball Nose Art

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“The ball represents the Earth, the purple part with the star is the missile coming up from the earth and the snake, which represents the aircraft, is protecting the Earth.”-Rick Brown, retired U.S. Air Force

Jerrica Skipper, from Mississippi, designed The Ball. U.S. Air Force photo by Delanie Stafford, 23JAN2018.

RC-135S Cobra Ball, invasion of Iraq, April 2003. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Stan Parker.

C-17 NOSE ART

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Idaho militia preps firefighters for climate change disasters!

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“It’s easier to train a fire fighter that has swift water training to ride on the hoist than it is to train an Army hoist operator to become swift water qualified.”-Mike Barbero, Boise firefighter and Army National Guard pilot

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Captain Robert Taylor, 03APR2018.

The Idaho Army National Guard spent the first week of April conducting joint rescue training with the city of Boise’s fire department. The helicopter hoist training event was the result of a February 2017 rescue of a man stranded by flooding in the town of Weiser, in which the National Guard and Boise Fire Department cooperated.

That 2017 rescue revealed the Boise Fire Department dive/swift water rescue team did not have helicopter hoist training and as a result National Guard personnel conducted the hoist rescue.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Captain Robert Taylor, 03APR2018.

“This joint training that the Guard provides Boise Fire with is highly specialized and it provides the unique opportunity to learn techniques that could save a life. This training solidifies what we need to know to be successful in helicopter rescue scenarios.”-Paul Roberts, Boise Fire Department

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